skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are the marriage ages for US and the world for context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriageable_age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_Sta...

The US doesn't seem to particularly stand out. I feel this article is manipulative and just tries to antagonize people. Manipulative because it says some marriages were for children aged 10, while the minimum age is usually 15/16. So how is this even possible? Those 10 year child cases should definitely be investigated, but I'm sceptical that's anything more of a small fraction of underage marriages and they are probably illegal to begin with. The antagonizing part is simple: It's all Republicans. Don't mention that California has technically no official age defined. This would break the narrative.
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"Just" is a fine word to use when a solution is not technically complicated, and it's important that people with technical understanding express that it really is "just" that simple. That way, if the reason they don't do that is that they and their business partners don't want to, citizens know it's reasonable to ask their governments to make those companies release driver/firmware source code and/or hardware documentation as part of consumer protection laws.
I think that's a very explicit, intentional reference.
> I’ve hired excellent engineers through this channel though.

Before my post gets downvoted to oblivion, I'll take your word for it and thanks for the response. Hiring is genuinely hard. Good to hear there is actually some conversions.
Do I understand correctly, this solution focuses on producing documentation, but not consuming it. Is this correct understanding?
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Agree. This could be easily done in org. I feel that if org was more popular, a lot of these solutions would disappear, or would be a small project that just reads some org properties.
I guess it would be key to have better support for easier editors, like vscode and maybe even a dedicated editor
Is it too early to start a first print of paulgraham.com? I want mine signed.

I hope the cover is orange.
And by "are generally switching" you're really trying to say "generally switched a decade ago".
You joke, but the media-to-leadership pipeline is coming for US business.
And what about homoiconity in Lisp vs. other lanaguages? In Lisp it means that programs are "lists" and so is "data". Programs in lisp are more than strings, like in most other languages, they are "nested lists". Lisps let us write prograssm as lists, adn store data as lists. JavaScript only allows us to write programs as (structureless) strings.

Of course that is well-known but I think it is a big deal, that you have such homo-iconicity in Lisp but no in most other languages. Prolog maybe?
My recollection was that the old Prisma was in Scala, not TypeScript.
It is likely to turn out like you say. The back end is PIL, I don't know if it's fast enough that I'd want to redraw the image while you drag and drop the QR code but I'm sure it can redraw the thing fast enough to keep up with the arrow keys and if I did want D+D I could have an outlined box stand in for the QR code.

I am not so much thinking about this one but the long game that I might want to make 20 things like this in the next year. I might want to pound out 3 in the next month and then I won't think about it for 6 months and then pound out another 7 over the weekend. I don't want to spend another 2 weeks figuring out how to do it again.

At work I am used to the "we use so many widget sets that there are seven ways that something might be styled that you need to know about it so management thinks it is pixel perfect" (although it isn't) and that's just one of the traps you can get into to replace fast development with slow development.

I'm looking for some plan to eliminate everything slow in developing a bunch of little random apps similar in scope to that QR app.

(A similar application I have in mind is a "builder" that can run git and mvn and npm to automatically sync up and build a collection of Java and Javascript projects that comprise a web application. It works great but the output is just as hard to read as the output of "mvn install" and I'd like to be able to simultaneously see THE PROJECT BUILT SUCCESSFULLY despite THESE HARMLESS MESSAGES THAT LOOK LIKE THE SYSTEM LOG FOR A NUCLEAR MELTDOWN. So some kind of UI that lets you from detailed log to various levels of synopsis would be great...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Lindberg
This is similar to the four types of software documentation: https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/
I agree complex conditional LangGraph setups get pretty tedious after a certain point - though you claim to not use graphs here, but isn't that essentially what returning the "next task" does? The graph isn't explicitly defined but it still exists implicitly if you trace through all the tasks and next tasks.

Would be interesting to see a complex agent implementation in both Flow and regular LangGraph to compare maintainability.
We already have something similar in terms of HW accelerators for AI workloads in recent CPU designs but that's not enough.

LLM inference workloads are bound by the compute power, sure, but that's not insurmountable IMO. Much bigger challenge is memory. Not even the bandwidth but just a sheer amount of RAM you need to just load the LLM weights.

Specifically, even a single H100 will hardly suffice to host a mid-sized LLM such as llama3.1-70B. And H100 is ~50k.

If that memory amount requirement is there to stay, and with current LLM transformer architecture it is, then what is really left as an only option for affordable consumer HW are only the smallest and least powerful LLMs. I can't imagine having a built-in GPGPU with 80G of on-die memory. IMHO.
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Yes. Intel might have a GPU, and maybe even a phone SOC, if they tried hard enough. Intel's integrated GPU cores are quite decent; I had high hopes on Arc eventually becoming the third major discrete offering. Alas.

Intel indeed rested too long on their laurels from early 2000s. It's one of the most dangerous things for a company to do.
Yeah, I think it's actually hard to write something that quick moving and action packed.

It's perhaps a different skill then character development or world building or prose polishing, but it's how you get these books people blaze through.

( Now sometimes I blaze thru something and hate it at the end, but thats a different problem ... )
On an Etch-a-Sketch I can tell it that it's aware of itself...doesn't mean it actually is.
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This was 2012. There was still hope and optimism in the tech space. The Internet had helped overturn powerful regimes and given voice to the disenfranchised. There was the idea that person to person public discourse could resolve many societal problems. Smartphones had exploded just 6 years prior and they were already making inroads into traditionally underserved and neglected communities around the world, helping farmers improve yields and young women become self sufficient so they could escape forced marriages.

The idea that we could join together and share ideas and make the world a better place isn't a wrong idea, it is just one that got subverted once it was realized that inciting anger in users lead to more usage and thus more ad impressions.
I know a few folks who tend towards hypochondria, curious what changed for you? I feel like the people I know who I'd consider hypochondriacs^, are going to be like that forever.

^I'm not a doctor
I loved my tiny little NES manuals (the artwork!) and big-ass PC RPG manuals like the one for Fallout 2.
Extreme outsider perspective but they seemed like dilettantes. They'd dip their toe into doing GPUs and then cancel the project every couple years.

A few weeks ago Gelsinger even commented he saw "less need for discrete graphics in the market going forward" - just seemed like a very Intel thing to say
Le cose ti fier conte quando noi fermerem li nostri passi su la trista riviera d'Acheronte.
I think in 2012, SV startups (and especially social media startups) were still getting high on their own supply: there was a seemingly genuine groundswell belief that unilaterally connecting the world would be a force for good, rather than a mere reconfiguration of powers.

(I don't think Zuckerberg himself is a true believer, but I do think that the people who wrote and read this book in 2012 probably believed it. This was the same year as the Arab Spring, after all.)
page 17. android operating system on an iphone 4. i'm crying right now, particularly the way this is juxtaposed with so many critical moments in history.
> But a warning: you will spend years in the weeds, focusing on things that don't matter.

That sums up anyone's college experience.

The hard part is telling apart what doesn't matter from what does. More often than not, what dictates which is which is the project you find yourself working on.
That cars are such a slow mover is the reason that we need to focus on it now, rather than later.

I don't think you hypothetical would change even a tiny fraction of phone replacements, but even if it did, legislative bandwidth in the US is extremely low and should be reserved for the high impact changes. Anything that distracts from the must-do messages is quite likely to be harmful.

We make people jump through all sorts of hoops for plastic straws and plastic bags that have approximately zero environmental win compared to far smaller changes to their car use.

The real problem is the social attitude that cars can not be touched or criticized. That needs to start changing.

Our phones are not the core of climate change, our cars and all the massive environmental damage from mining the necessary minerals for them really are.
Interesting. Seems to be coming from a standpoint of mere common sense. Though a conservative, I would be happy to learn that the author skews to the left, like most educators; that would be an indication that America is past peak nuttiness and is recovering its senses.
Apple's foldable iPhone is expected to save a surprisingly declining market
>> How do I connect my Bluesky account?
>> Create an app password inside Bluesky settings and enter it inside the dashboard.

That's an interesting idea. It looks like the ‘App Passwords’ function was created for such a service.
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what "PIL" and "D+D" mean. (Edit: oh, a python img lib and drag and drop).

The whole point of doing this clientside is that you're not redrawing anything on the server or sending anything over the wire (while laying out). An image overlay operation is a trivial thing to do in clientside JS, in Canvas, and then once you have it positioned right you just send back the params in a fetch to the server.

It makes no sense to redraw the thing every time on the server; that's going to be super janky compared to an interactive canvas. I think this is a perfect case for separating the server and clientside logic.

(Edit: Sorry, I edited my previous reply after you already replied. Basically the client would just let the user set the params, and then you'd send it to the backend similar to how you would to imgix: https://sandbox.imgix.com/view?hasAgreedToUploadTerms=1&url=.... It wouldn't matter how you rendered the image in the backend, that's up to you, but it frees the user from having to wait for a network roundtrip after every minor adjustment.)

And yes, you can easily make this modular enough, especially with a lib, to easily create similar use cases in the future.
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We are at the perfect moment to re-embrace software rasterizers because CPU manufacturers are starting to add HBM and v-cache.

An 8K 32bpp framebuffer is ... omg 126MB for a single copy. I was going to argue that a software rasterizer running on vcache would be doable, but not for 8k.

For 4k, with 32MB per display buffer, it could be possible but heavy compositing will require going out to main memory. 1440p would be even better at only 15MB per display buffer.

For 1440p at 144Hz and 2TB/s (vcache max), best case is an overdraw of 984 frames/frame
Feels like the wrong move. Turning a chip company around has timescales of a decade. Getting rid of a CEO 3 years in simply means no turnaround is going to happen.
TSO might be slower than ARM’s memory ordering, but implementing it in hardware is considered faster than implementing it in software.
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It really has gotten to the point that different coffee should be treated as different teas. Nobody expect that the different teas should taste the same. For some reason, the expectation is largely that coffee should be coffee.

And, it is mind bending for some folks to hear that I abhor the taste of arabica coffee. It is so so bad.
> You can learn from everyone around you, regardless of their status. There is no "universal developer experience curve", everyone has more or less knowledge on a field or with a specific tool/framework.

There's a big difference between learning from someone and having someone teach you something. The latter expedites your progress and clarifies learning path, whereas the former can even waste your time with political fights pulling you into dead-ends.
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Ask HN: Why are there so many AI software engineer companies?
The latest one I saw is called lovable.dev (I think they used to be called gptengineer) but it just looks totally the same as all the competitors so I don't really get it. There was so much hype when Devin raised, whatever a bajillion dollars, but all the products suck?

Why are VCs still pouring money into this?
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Well, sometimes I want to start a WiFi connection without opening a webpage at all.

So an AI that can fill in the WiFi login page should be able to do it without opening a browser.
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I traded wicker.com for a 1544 edition of La Comedia.
absolutely! better than murderbot imo, especially the first two books.
Starbucks problem isn’t consistency it’s their roast is too dark,
I am fully self taught, was a Senior Dev at Amazon (got it after 2 years of the L5 Standard Dev), and prior to that, spent about 4 years in the industry.

The last thing you want to do is learn from a senior. Any worthwhile mentor that actually is worth listening to will usually tell you to go try stuff and figure it out.

If you have a laptop, you have all the information and environment to learn. The only thing that you need to have is a framework of learning, which is very simply this:

Chose a feature to work on -> Write some code -> something doesn't work -> research the error, figure out why it doesn't work -> try various solutions until it works.

Rinse and repeat.
I want to shout out my favorite author, who, in my opinion, espouses all of the correct opinions on the subject matter of the article. Jim Stiles. He passed away this year.

His website, https://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/, is a treasure of the American West; it's not clear how long the site will remain.

His book, "Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed" is a metaphoric eulogy of the town of Moab, Utah. His opinions are very much in the vein of his contemporary, Ed Abbey, who is more famously known as an outspoken opponent of development in the American West. Stiles' book presents a critical look at the "discovery" and "capitalization" of Moab and the surrounding desert landscape, particularly by mountain bikers and off-road vehicles.

Reading the BBC article, I can see the similarities. The inevitable entrepreneur-colonists are likely already there ("We have a lot of cyclists here," he [the mountain hut caretaker] told me, and a few hours later, two American couples entered the hut asking if they could charge their e-bikes.")
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The that reminds me a bit of the "protomolecule" from The Expanse, which has a similar meta-algorithmic nature. Perhaps moreso, in that it's suggested it relied partly on transcendental magic-math where molecules were just a way to carry it.

It differs a bit in intent though: Its eldritch designers seem to have intended it as a high-reliability remote construction drone.
I cannot begin to express my frustration with rulebooks. At this point, I basically assume that we will always get some rule wrong.

There was a trend 10ish years ago where the best games actually came with two rulebooks. One was a book designed to walk you through your first game, and the other was a reference book. They worked really well, but I can imagine they were a pain to develop.

The hallmark of a good rulebook is that there is a section in the back that has commonly missed rules or details. Besides being extremely helpful, it's a good signal that the rulebook has actually been tested.

Another "green flag" is if the rules include strategy tips - vomiting rules on me doesn't necessarily help me understand how I am supposed to experience the game.
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