skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason Hoare used the word billion was to emphasize how costly it was compared to other things. That was certainly true in C code 40 years ago and more. Those bugs were hard to find and hard to fix. In java you get a full stack trace, it's quick to fix and it doesn't come up often. Like the OP said - In practice it's not really an issue. "Worrying about nulls" is not something that most programmers do.
The Future of Mainframe Development: Lowering Barriers with Zowe and VS Code
Some creatures are really weird too. Cutting up urchins for uni made me think what is really alive or what animals really are
Building Reddit's Front End with Vite
> developing problem solving and intuition early.

There's no reason why these things couldn't be developed in a more "structured" approach than the default (avoiding the overshooting you mention). The quick feedback cycle for every answer is really the most critical point.
I think the rub is actually here:

"The participants received either ultra-processed or minimally processed foods for two weeks before swapping diet for the next fortnight. Participants in both diets had access to the same amount of calories and nutrients like sugars, fibre and fat. People were free to eat as much or as little as they wanted.
The results were striking. People on the ultra-processed diet ate about 500 more calories per day than those on the unprocessed one"

My understanding is that caloric intake is king.
Ask HN: Why isn't having two or three careers the norm?
Wouldn't this allow you to maximize your happiness by taking into account what you learned as you try different careers?
WHO says "eat 30 grams of fibre every day". Which is a lot, unless you use whole grains without sweeteners, fat or meat on top (which reduces fibre per calorie).
Or eat lots of roots or cabbage, and salads.
Especially since you have to think of eating until 30 grams of pure fibre content is reached every. Single. Day. Of. A. Year.
I’m sure you’re right. I find it fascinating how people here, initiate their relationships with others, in a public professional forum, by insulting them.

Must be interesting team dynamics, and sort of proves my point. Thanks for that.

BTW: I’m sure that an “online musical storefront” has no tech involved.
Fair enough. I agree with the sentiment that we need diversity in languages.

Personally, when I'm solving a problem, I like to reach for the pre-established universally understood pattern that's built into my language. Rather than using a language that doesn't have any of those things and requires me to create my own, worse, implementation that's unique to my program (or use a random 3rd-party module of dubious quality for something basic).
> shape’s volume dwindles to zero, while its surface area grows infinitely large

I think it's easy to grok when you get it, but that's certainly counter-intuitive on the surface, no?
Maybe I'm just complicating unsupervised reinforcement learning, and adding central authorities for domain specific models.
I grew up going through a gifted program (in the 80s) and it was the gifted program that was the subculture i fell into that really pushed me.

Before that I was isolated and flunking out. Maybe I would eventually have found my people, but at least for me the gifted program found me, and got me on the right path at an early enough age to matter.

Btw, this was in a region where intellectual capability and success was not as celebrated as it is in the Bay area.
I went from a java job to a python job and some days I really miss the Java.
There was a interesting thought raised. Unpaid internships used to exist to make sure only graduates who could afford to work for a year (aka in the socio/economic in group) could take them. You then make all your positions require experience and whala, you ensure only the 'right group' of people could enter your field.
So this is an automated foreman for the customer's own employees, like a call center controller? Or does HumanLayer provide the human labor, like Mechanical Turk?

The API contains a "human_as_tool" function. That's so like Marshall Brain's "Manna".

"Machines should think. People should work." Less of a joke every day.
You could just use a for-statement, you know. I feel like there's a reactionary avoidance to iteration to the point that it doesn't really make sense.

I feel like we've jumped out of the frying pan of the 90s' OOP craze, directly into the fire of doing the same cargo cult behavior with functional programming. Always avoid loops, always use higher-order functions. It just makes sense. If you are not provided with the shotgun spread of higher-order functions out of the box, be frustrated.

I vaguely recall reactions to Haskell in the late 90s where vitriol was spewed over the lack of inheritance and classes.
It's not suboptimal, it's a geopolitical disaster that people in 50 years will look back on and ask "how did this happen?"
> I wonder which architecture requires all pointers to have an alignment of 8.

Many bytecode VMs in 64-bit mode do this by default! They may not be forced to align pointers by the CPU hardware, but they do it anyway for various reasons. Many (non-x86) CPUs require aligned pointers to either 32- or 64-bit boundaries.
I Built a Connected Artificial Nose
I love quanta so much. I wish there were a print version.
Step-by-Step Guide to Installing PHP 8.4 on Ubuntu 24.04 with Nginx and MySQL
> Plants are alive. Why is a carrot’s life less important than a rabbit’s?

Some have indeed wondered about plant rights. There is even a vegetable rights protest song, "Carrot Juice is Murder" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM
Is it inefficient? Would it be more worthy to have two chassis designs, one for ICE and one for EV, to make it more efficient for the gas version? Would any hybrid drivetrain provide higher efficiency for similar build costs on the same chassis?

My point would be that they weighed a lot of design considerations and I assume this is the best they could get that meets all of them. Like others said, other commercial delivery vehicles don't have the same use case as this. Who cares about range when the use case for this vehicle is ~20 miles a day?

Everyone else isn't "doing it wrong", they're doing it differently, for different needs.
And adding a bit more info, because I hate seeing people get misled about what equity is arguing for.

The key difference of equity with equal opportunity is that equal opportunity provides the same resources/treatment to everyone, while equity recognizes that people start from different positions and may need different levels or types of support to reach the same opportunities.

Equity is about ensuring everyone has a fair chance to succeed according to their own potential and efforts, not about guaranteeing identical outcomes.
From what I understand, technically yes.

I think there’s a lot of work to be done on categorisation but the underlying principle tends to be fairly decent: the more stuff you do to your raw ingredients, the less healthy they become.
Just Wonderful. Though it looks a bit less like a sombrero this time. Might need to think about changing the name.
> the language insists that anybody can conjure one into existence despite having no basis for doing so

You can have a goose (unepxorted) that is created via NewGoose() (exported - really a constructor). Of course within a package there is nothing to stop you doing the wrong thing. I really like Go. But I do find myself occasionally writing overly verbose types just to avoid this issue. Which, if I’m honest with myself, is a bit
silly.

There’s a good counter argument to using to unepxorted types like this below.

Shortcut: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42250614
Oh yeah, i definitely hate it when uninformed people try to make podcasts on specialized topics they obviously know nothing about. I went searching for niche physics podcasts (anything besides space stuff please!) And the amount of literal high schoolers and undergraduates attempting to explain things they're years away from even seeing in class is painful, most admit that they know nothing and are literally free-associating over a Wikipedia article. I give them a pass though since they have no listeners and are usually young but...

I exclusively listen to domain expert podcasts. History experts, policy/economics experts, aforementioned physics experts. Literally event i listen to is hosted by at least one person who is a domain expert. They can branch out and interview experts in other domains but there's always an expert. I honestly can't say (besides the high schoolers which i searched out) the last time i've even test listened to a podcast hosted by semi-charismatic article readers.

I'd recommend you search reddit for lists of podcasts in your desired area. App recommendations are all shit and there's many posts out there
The whole grain bread is definitely preferable, but it is still very likely to have added oils, gums, and/or preservatives. I think their main point is that supermarket bread is rarely made of just bread. There are exceptions but that requires one to first take the time to identify them and then fork up the extra dough (punintended).
> Speaking as someone who attended a public high school with competitive admissions, the students are much more important than the teachers or the education itself. Being around a group of talented and driven people motivates you to do well.

Which ultimately means it's up to the parents more than anything. I suspect that's why magnet schools perform well. The parents interested and capable of going out of their way to put their child into a good school district are more likely to also be invested in their child's educational outcomes which can make all the difference.
> There's no reason why these things couldn't be developed in a more "structured" approach than the default (avoiding the overshooting you mention). The quick feedback cycle for every answer is really the most critical point.

Again, citations for the efficacy of scripting and recitation would be appreciated.

> The quick feedback cycle for every answer is really the most critical point.

I agree that quick feedback improves performance and morale. We close that loop pretty quickly in my classroom most of the time.
oh, martin desktop is finally here! I use Martin to manage my todo list while i'm coding (on an hourly basis) - having it aside VSC is so handy! but i do want the todo list to be hanging somewhere on the martin screen, and i can interact with the todos by clicks (on top of asking martin to manage it). It's very nice to have a cloud-based agent that can access my todo whichever device/app i'm on - slack, text, whats-app!
Wonder if some even more authoritarian places than America currently is will start revoking people's internet access for social media posts the government is unhappy about?
Similar here. I was mostly As with some Bs. I didn't see the point in trying to be a straight A student and despised what I saw as busy work. If I can understand and apply the concepts, that should be enough. I also tended to come up with creative answers or reasoning that the teachers hadn't thought of, which usually meant a lower grade.
He will do it nevertheless. Plausibility is irrelevant to his base and he’ll gladly throw his party under the bus in order to secure more power.
This resonates for me. I really, really did not like being in GATE in the 1980s for the same reasons.

Also, now as a college instructor, I really like flipped classrooms.
If it turned the inner loop into a closed form expression, I would expect the outer loop to go through 10k iterations a lot faster than needing half a second.
You can process wheat into flour at home. You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.
>There are legitimate criticisms of Musk and Tesla. "I don't like how someone else's car looks" is not one of them.

I like how it looks. Its the everything else thats an issue.
I think I’m pretty good at productivity, and to me it’s the opposite. You don’t let the outside events poison the day. You know how to get things done despite all that. If your day is controlling you, you’ll never control your destiny.
It doesn't matter with `error` because it's returned everywhere, both functions and from packages by proxy.

I'm not arguing that the tenet should be held true, to be clear. I'm saying that this tenet is misleading. If you can, return a concrete type. If several packages consume the same interface, then you it's not reasonable to define the interface at the consumer because you'd just have to copypaste it.
So? Any video generation model must necessarily be able to do this. (consider the case of generating a pan-over of a chess board where the starting input frame is only the first pawn and rook, the model should know to generate the rest of the pieces in the style of input pieces)
I think you're vastly overstating the case saying these languages will die..

The majority of code we write runs on servers, even if its ultimately in service of a mobile/web client. Even if mobiles didn't support them, that doesn't mean these languages will die. The servers still have to run.

Creating the tools to run them on mobile is a solvable problem. Rust is already supported in the Android platform [1]. It takes more work to write an application in a non-standard language but its doable. Just saying don't worry about every other language dying out because of mobile, that won't happen :P

[1] https://source.android.com/docs/setup/build/rust/building-ru...
That's why I won't even consider a Tesla. Test drove a few vehicles and it's amazing how many do touch screen everything now. Will -not- buy.

The one I ended up buying is all tactile except changing the radio stations. Even that gets really annoying, as you have to take your eyes off the road to change stations. I end up just poking it in random places blind until something happens.
Well according to biological taxonomy, viruses aren't "life", so the terms "alive" and "dead" don't quite apply to them
Pronoia and Purpose
I had the thought that 90% of folks never try to build anything for fear of failure and 90% who do give up too early, so if you think about it:

1. Pessimism is the mother of all scarcity.
2. Optimism is the elixir of life.
3. Pronoia is the Sorceror's stone.

Purpose is doing everything you can to stoke your optimism, which is another way of saying align your unique self/soul with a problem you want to solve (market) and a community you want to share the upside with: users, team, collaborators, etc.
I find it as listenable as the podcasts the people I'm around play in their cars during roadtrips

To me that's absolutely unlistenable, but to them its interesting and engaging. I find NotebookLM replicates that perfectly. Its not at all the issue that the OP encountered with the Hawaii news service, as those lacked tone and pronounciation, which NotebookLM would not.

Regarding the outcome being a long winded summary, yeah thats what I see about the aforementioned 2 hour podcasts as well. They take the intro paragraph of a wikipedia article, pretend that the topic is a novel mystery they just discovered through hours of scouring microfilm at a municipal library, and then interject each other every other word with nonsense, before getting back to the point for just one sentence.
Do releases contain anything that wasn't in experimental branch? If I follow experimental branch, can I expect a different experience?
> it’s pointless to just avoid participating in a meat grinder that life itself is naturally.

We've revolutionized human life over a few generations, and even more over a few hundred years. One outcome is that you can communicate freely - politically and technologically - with people all over the world. And you use that to say how pointless it is to try to improve.

Think bigger and better. People did all that work to get us to this point; what will we do? How will we pull our weight?

The only thing you have to fear is trendy contempt itself.
People are forgetting we had famines a few centuries ago in the west, and still have famines in many places. Sure, they are also usually associated with governing issues and other complicating factors, but still. The number of peoole being alive is my answer to whether food manufacturing is a net negative or not.

While the pendulum has swung way past the equilibrium for us, rejecting whole categories of food that tend to be nutrious, easily preserved is just not realistic.

To me there are dozens of other levers we can pull to deal with health improvement. As pointed out in the other threads, not all OECD countries are facing what the US are facing.

PS: do I get all my points accepted as truth if I can prove a BMI that satisfies you ? Would 22 do it ?
Do you know of any good write-ups on how this works? I've often thought I was crazy for noticing weird "glitches" when around some of the newest projectors.

I'll see "sparkles" or flashes of a solid color out of the corner of my eye, but never if I try to look directly at the screen to catch it. I chocked it up to some sort of PWM based lighting or something that's more detectable in my periphery because of how cones and rods work. Sounds like I might be close, but not quite?
I usually press the TAB button!
> Equity isn't about holding back high-achieving students or bringing everyone to the same level. Instead, it's about ensuring everyone has access to the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential, while recognizing that different people might need different levels or types of support to get there.

Isn't this equal opportunity, which means equality, which I also support?

> The goal is to lift everyone up, not to hold anyone back.

I thought California, or at least SFUSD, did exactly the opposite. For instance, they pushed the algebra to Grade 8 (or grade 9?) and geometry to grade 9, in the name of equity. That is, they try to restrict the access from even the ordinary kids (many kids have no problems studying algebra before grade 8) in the name of helping the challenged.
Swift Vision: Improving the Approachability of Data-Race Safety
As far as I know, the creator of Deno, Ryan Dahl, posted on his personal website about that trademark two years ago: <https://tinyclouds.org/trademark>.

Oracle remains silent.
Google is not attempting to prove that they should be regulated, they are attempting to prove the that regulation the EU is imposing is not having the effect that EU claims it has. Whether they can be trusted or not will be up to the court in the EU whenever they present evidence.
I wonder, who are the people applying for unpaid internships at a random e-commerce company?
The only thing I can imagine is that people pretend to work at these positions to fulfill some degree requirement.
Go feels like a giant hack and it's opinionated approach to modules and libraries and where source files can live and embedding git urls in imports..... :-( Little bits of it are joyous - like goroutines and channels..and binaries that run on almost any distro without one needing to install something else first. I don't need to use them often enough though. At certain points you have to do things that feel ugly.

Java is just the perfect home for type enthusiasts. You sit down to prototype some idea and you need to debate what kind of class structure it's going to need for the first 25 minutes - something really abstract or something more short term...are you really going to develop this idea into something big with all sorts of generic high level classes or are you going to be cheap and short about it? Are cats and dogs the same from the point of view of this system or not?

In both of them people love writing the kind of code that jumps all over the place and injects all sorts of dependencies and just looking at it, it's almost impossible to understand what anything is doing. There's no such thing as "TOO SOLID"

I admit I have a very jaded view. C/C++ have the freedom to put your source code wherever you like, compile it in parallel on a cluster or not and so on but then they are cursed to hell with the C preprocessor. Perhaps Turbo Pascal is nice?
My son figured it out in college. He quickly realized a BS degree wasn't going to allow him to do what he wanted to do and he knew he had to get into grad school. Then he realized grad school is a whole different ballgame from college and so his high school shenanigans weren't going to cut it.

Here's the key - he set the goal for himself. All I did was as I'd been doing, if that's your goal then I'll help you figure out what you need to do to achieve it. He ended up going to a grad school that was ranked in his field and got a stipend to boot. I can't take much credit for any of it because he largely figured it out himself and executed on it.
What's an example of the use cases you're seeing with agents in your day-to-day?
Think of a 3-dimensional object (unlike a surface, which is 2-dimensional, regardless of the shape), with the volume zero. That's not easy to wrap your head around.
Is there an open source GPT? I have LM studio and Qwen 2.5 which is basically as good as leading models in Nov 2024, but haven't found the software to run audio or video generation.
I thought it was going to be about duck typing.
But commits exists even this year: https://sourceforge.net/p/lush/activity/
Right, looking again I understand better. Instead of a bunch of shaky YAML in a md file, you have properly structured data.

Isn't this what Gatsby tries to do with GraphQL?
While it's not (necessarily) indicative of the languages as a whole, it looks pretty apples to apples to me.

These are very simple programs with no fancy tricks going on.
No, not to a person. There can be some stupendously dumb billionaires, especially since inheritance is a thing. I would however expect the average intelligence however-measured of the 100 richest "self-made" (lets just say who didn't themself inherit a generational amount of wealth) individuals in the US to be higher than a 100-person random sample of the population.
>the social/emotional maturity of kids these days far exceeds generations past.

I thought they were plagued by anxiety?
Well said a carrot and a rabbit are equal you can eat both.
The chips not satiating you is more likely to be the effect of the obligatory seed oils in chips; IIRC the linoleic acid that they are high in impedes satiety (and also promotes inflammation).
SQL can actually scale if you use the CQRS architecture which consists of two SQL instances. The first instance is an append only SQL instance. That is you are doing nothing but inserts into a table. You then use database replication to create a second read only instance. You use the second instance for reports, long running transactions, and other queries that take massive locks.

You could use NOSQL for the first instance but then you have to write your own integration sync.
Surprisingly, you have to sit on the opening screen for a second or so before starting every run to get the best speedrun cycle for level 3. So I would say also with fast resets, it would be enough marketing even in the speedrun lol. (Coming from someone has spent hours speedrunning it so far)
Warren Buffett on distributing his wealth after he passes away
I simply didn't realize he had ever run a restaurant.
To your point, it's worked so far so why not try it again? May as well keep doing it until it no longer works and then figure something else out, I guess.
You can find more information on some design questions like these in https://spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/specification, which is a much more "implementors" focused guide than the user documentation at https://modelcontextprotocol.io
Generative music live, algorithms for sound and VJing, live-coding,
upcoming UK events and more.
You go down to the bottom of the pay scale every time you change career. If that means you won’t be able to afford your current lifestyle, then unless you have a good reason for walking away from that career, that’s going to make you unhappy.