skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your struggle. I have worked with US and non-US orgs that are in similar boat.

In my experience this is often and at least in part a self-inflicted wound. As you describe your side of the business, it should not restricted, but it is. Maybe? Not enough detail to be certain.

What I see time and time again is business not willing to implement proper DLP, labeling and isolation of restricted things. Instead, they just throw everything into a single bucket, because it is quicker, faster, some of the risk and compliance is shifted to third party, and initially cheaper.

In short, a US, UK, Aus company that does government contracts will just force everyone into NOFORN, on-prem requirements (because DFARS, CMMC, CE+, Essential 8, or whatever). It is way quicker to do this for entire company than actually label data, isolate environment and resources, and so on.
I hear this argument often times when relating to gun laws in the US as a defense for the status quo, and yet the US continues to have the second highest gun deaths per capita. I can’t say that this argument is fallacious because of that parallel, but it does end up being a weaker argument in my eyes because of it.

There has to be another option besides letting the arms race continue unchecked. That’s the only option that, in my opinion, ensures that we all lose.
some mice can have the config saved onboard, then don't require a driver.
Like my phone, or those used by US military?

I love your identity with .NET ecosystem, to the point of nothing else being in the way.

See latest JetBrains Developer Surrey about platforms.

.NET is a great ecosystem, but lets be real where it stands outside Microsoft shops, across everything that has a CPU on them, and the various ecosystem where sadly it doesn't even get a tier 1 support.

Programming languages are tools, a toolbox has space for plenty of them.
> lend itself to making a team productive over making the individual productive

That's a really insightful way of presenting this. I think if that's how I'd been introduced to Java I might even have tolerated it.
Really Java has always been kinda okay - the really horrible part of Java was always the "enterprise OOP" programming patterns that were basically a given in any commercial codebase - little things like pointing out the verbosity of a basic single file project are just shorthand for "look at all this shit people have written".

As the adage goes - Java programmers can write Java in any language.
Thanks for the tip. There might be two issues with that particular model:

(1) It's out of production AFAICT, and (2) one thing I really appreciate about the MX Keys is the indented key caps.

IIUC, if I'm willing to put together my own keyboard, I can ensure it's wired-only and I can have the key caps that I like.

The only remaining challenge at that point (I think) is finding switches with a similar feel. This is the part that's tripped me up in the past:

I've bought a few switch testers (e.g., [0]), but all of the switches I tried were way more clicky than I wanted. I really like the travel-distance, gentle landing, and relatively quiet action of the MX Keys.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZK6LKZL
I think you misunderstood my point...

There are so many things in programming that are hard to grasp at a deep level, but don't look scary to beginners (who misuse them without realizing). Monads look scary so they take all the blame. I'm not really proposing this, but I guess if monads were called something like "flatmappable", the focus would perhaps shift to the more difficult parts of Haskell: at the root, immutability and purity, and on top of that, the deluge of abstractions and ways to compose them. It wouldn't make Haskell any easier... it would just save the poor monad all the bad rap.
Thank you for the gracious reply, it’s very much appreciated.

The reason I have strong feelings about this topic is that I want America to continue succeeding, and I wanted to be part of it but it didn’t make practical sense for me.

When I was a child in the 1980s living next door to the Soviet Union, the USA was a beacon of hope to us. It sounds corny but it’s true. (Reagan and Clinton were politicians who seemed to intuitively understand this global mood and were able to leverage it. I disagree with them on many specifics, but they excelled at this.)

I know Americans always feel like there’s too much going on at home to care about the rest of the world. But often in history the solutions at home have appeared by opening up, not closing in.
We don’t support h1b, of the last 3000 applicants we had only 1 was qualified. It’s super hard to hire strong swe.
I mean, this is basic VC logic: because the returns are power law distributed, and it's very hard to know in advance which ones are going to hit, you should probably invest at least a little bit in anyone who seems basically plausible. Imagine having denied a visa to Sergey Brin!
Most of the folks on modern AI/robotics paper have Asian names.

It seems Asian tiger countries may lead the next century. They are very hungry to win the solar, battery, EV, robotics race.

Impressive results.
Not parent, but yes.

A switch that must be turned on (opt-in), rather than a switch that must be turned off (opt-out).
yes, this is true. I was talking more about the UX of how to use them, which in both cases is quite painful without type inference.
some people believe that mere presence of the program itself is driving the wages down which is… funny…
Name an unselfish person, and I'll show you a selfish person.
Thank you.

CalDAV and CardDAV are wonderful cross-platform protocols that I use every day (including on Apple Watch) and I hope they continue to be supported in the future.
Garmin has incident detection and will send a message within fifteen seconds unless you cancel.
Apps need an OS to run on.
filtering and _acting_ on this condensed information.

For example: lighting strucks a tree, a fire starts. Man is scared but that night is very cold and near the tree is warmer. This happens a few times, und a branch falls and it is collected , incidentally is thrown on another pile of wood , starts burning -> idea of fire is formulated and since them man keeps warm.

Or: man finds shiny things in a river bed, collects them, one day the whole shack burns from lighting, and discovers that the shiny thigs are now in a different shape -> metal working is born.
I'm actually impressed they haven't killed anyone yet - move fast and break things has been very successful so far in getting to space.
It's not terrifying.
It's how people are, and it's destressing to me that so few people seem to be aware of it.
No amount of explaining what confirmation bias is will convince people that drones in the sky aren't aliens.

The people who have looked behind the curtain and come to this realization about people and their behavior tend to be the ones who make the skeptic community, so we have that going for us at least.
> That you find them compelling as evidence of extraterrestrials is not a great sign.

That I post here a few easily accessible videos of interest on what is an enormous history that I have spent the past few years reading about tells me more about the lack of respect you immediately have for anyone on the topic.

> to lonely farmers.

That the public's UFO hysteria of the 1940s and 50s was originated entirely within the US military is similarly a fact of history I wouldn't expect you to know.

I think the thing watching the UFO topic has taught more more than any other is how aggressively and reflexively people of all levels of intelligence will hug their worldview.
A path needn't exist.
Any competent Java IDE automatically generates you a variable declaration from the expression you want to assign to it. It’s actually less keystrokes than having to type “var”. Unless you only use a simple editor that doesn’t perform static analysis, less typing is not a good excuse for using “var”.

Conversely, in Java you often use the diamond operator like in:

List<String> items = new ArrayList<>();

(Half of which, again, is code completion in your IDE.)

That doesn’t work with “var”. You’d have to write:

var items = new ArrayList<String>();

while losing the ability to constrain your variable to a narrower type.

The loss of directly seeing the type information in statements of the form

var foo = bar(x, y);

should meet a very high bar, IMO.
People noticing lights in the night sky is timely, with the darkest weeks of the year.
Haha thank you. But really, his message was full of very concrete remarks that help us get better at presenting what we do.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42430565 - your comment is just fine, there's nothing wrong with posting 'thank you'! But I wanted to pin the other link to the top, where real estate is expensive.
Each second of listening we're perceiving the speaker's identity, what accent they are using, how fast they are talking, and what emotions they are showing. Those should count for the bit rate dealt with by the conscious brain.
AI generated code could be argued it violates GPL licenses (need to redistribute code motifications) and NC licenses if used downstream for profit.
You're still trying to imply that the list as a whole is as inaccurate as that one particular example.

And I think that's quite obviously not the case, most, probably every other example on the list is just fine.
Microsoft already has access to all of your code on Github.
I mean my conclusion is people just plain don't want to eat in moderation, and really don't want to weigh things since it might hold their own habits accountable to them.

If fats are good and carbs are bad, it's the message people want to hear: do not moderate or change your habits, just eat as much as you want of the "good" thing because it's good!
Sounds great.

Does this run with VSCode and how hard is it to set this up?
Apple halts effort to build iPhone hardware subscription service
I’d be curious to hear more about how you’re using F#? I’ve previously used Python for scripting, but just started developing for a company pretty deeply entrenched in .NET. Currently they’re migrating a lot from VB to C#, but I’ve missed having a handy scripting language like Python for small tools or test applications. Do you think F# could fill that roll?
In my experience investors are actually too nice and don't tell you what they think.

I'm European (French), I like folks that are direct and whom with we can discuss
> On a market with free pricing there are, pretty much by definition, no shortages or surpluses.

Remember the "chip shortage" all throughout the pandemic? It's not like the whole world switched to a Soviet style command economy between 2020 and 2022 yet we still had it.
This last point is a big one.

I've seen more than one shop that would use contract houses as a way to 'paper over' their internal turnover issues.

After all, even if the internal resource at the body shop asks for and gets a transfer, they've got another body in to finish the contract.

Plus the fringe benefits. That h1b is a sword of damocles, contractor will work 6/10+ even if the main shop is doing 45 on average for engineers.

Which, doesn't get you better code typically, but it let's suits say people are working long hours to get the task done.
> When I say the FAA light patterns were off, what I mean is that it had two red lights on the outside, and two green lights on the inside. AFAIK, the only type of aircraft that might have that configuration is a trans-wing drone.

What? How do you get from a specific kind of lighting to „trans-wing drone“? What prevents me from lighting a regular-wing RC plane with the same lighting configuration?
True. Notwithstanding, I can verify that the technology stack is too complex to secure.
Spring boot is itself also very different than Spring, so depending on what was your last experience with these frameworks, you might be surprised.

Given, they are still quite reflection-heavy and full of POJOs and annotations, it supports compile-time resolution for many things now.

Also, you would be hard-pressed to find a more productive developer than a well-versed Spring boot guru for typical backend jobs. You might dislike the framework, but credit where it's due, it is a workhorse and the amount of time someone makes a POC, you can make it with spring properly, in a way that you can build your prod app on top. Like, it's easily as productive as RoR and similar.
1st severe case in US. ~27 days prior , report of mutated bird flu case in Canada [1]

getting some early COVID vibes rn.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/bird-flu-cases...
Why linear algebra? Honest question, i have not seen this as a specific requirement before.
The large card networks have so many proprietary behaviors and extensions that I really doubt whether any common standard would even make sense at this point.

And if you look at how "modern" ISO 8583 is evolving, almost all changes and extensions are already happening in TLV-like subfields (where a new field unexpectedly appearing doesn't make existing parsers explode spectacularly), and the top-level structure is essentially irrelevant.

Of course, it's a significant hurdle to newcomers to get familiar with that outer layer, but I don't get the sense that catering to these is a particular focus by either network. ISO 8583 is also a great moat (one of many in the industry, really) for existing processors, which have no buy-in to switch to a new standard and the networks need to at least somewhat keep happy.
Thanks for the tip about PerfectStroke keys, btw.

Based on [0], it sounds like what I'm looking for is something like "fake PerfectStroke" keys.

[0] https://deskthority.net/wiki/Logitech_PerfectStroke
Put simply: It is in the national interest to have the world's most talented technologists here. It is yet more in the national interest that they work here, for us, and not for our enemies. One of the best ways we can compete with China is to attract their best and brightest with our free society and high wages.
Anyone know if eggs are officially good or bad for us this year? I lost track.
Probably depends where. There's certainly been jobs growth in some on the big cities in particular.
I'll bite. Explain, please.
I'd like to see this kind of analysis applied towards a practical question resembling:

"If I let kids=4 play each starting with chocolates=10 for minutes=30 before terminating the game, what kinds of outcomes should I expect and will any of them involve a loser throwing a tantrum?"
Most of what I've read points to the pandemic plant closure and his child's transgenderism as what sparked the decisive turn to the right. But it's not sufficient to fully explain his deep plunge into conspiracy thinking.
> I don’t understand how people underestimate it so badly when we have so much history we are taught that demonstrates it.

It is the tendency to think that people in the past were dumb, and we aren't.
Like, there always has to be some explanation involved when we learn that people did something unintuitive in the past -- people learned how to make beer by accidentally leaving leftover bread in liquid and then drank it when they were starving. Maybe? Or maybe they figured out that things ferment and played with it until it worked, like we would have done it? Why does it always have to be an accident?

People may have had less access to information and technology, but that didn't make them any dumber than we are now.
"Free market" folks tend to ignore the ladder-pulls and existing regulations that make it a non-free market.
Meanwhile Desantis in Florida is spending $15M of taxpayer money to ensure books don’t say gay.

That 100 or so trans folks in prison can’t access the bathroom of their choice or get healthcare they need.

Millions spent on supposed woke war to show the Dems they are “anti-woke”.

Senator Rick Scott who was caught with pants down embezzling billions in insurance fraud was voted again.

Florida did this to themselves.
> I myself saw a drone, and tried to paint it as a plane or helicopter at first, but it was too close to the ground (seemed a few hundred feet up at most), had the mismatched light pattern characteristic of trans-wing drones, and moved too slowly for other types of aircraft. And most damningly it didn’t make any noise audible from the ground, something not even stealth bombers can accomplish.

That’s exactly what you would expect from a regular airplane though. You can’t accurately differentiate „low and slow“ vs „high and fast“ at night. And quiet operation is what high flying planes seem to do regularly.
I love to hear this as the PM for Copilot code review at GitHub!

We’re running a preview of the code review feature right now, and are looking forward to opening it to all paid subscribers soon.

If you’d like to try it sooner, I can hook you up - just email my HN username @github.com :)
My company isn't. Apparently, "We've heard of Microsoft" == "They won't do anything wrong with our data" in the minds of non-technical lawyer types.
There are two big news items about H5N1 and this article talks about both of them. The CDC announced the first severe case in Louisiana and California declared a state of emergency because of bird flu detected in cows (which is mostly just a bureaucratic formality to release funds and enable agencies to cooperate with less red tape).
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442454.
Archive link - https://web.archive.org/web/20241202230304/https://wiki.arch...
They use a lot of custom models and logic chaining, so I think this is more search and retrieval optimization or similar problems, I guess maybe some Anthropic API issues as well. I’ve seen the variance too and was wondering if was load related. Overall, still loving it, even if there’s some bleeding edge bumpiness.
I was learning to code again, and I built this backroom simulator(https://simulator.rnikhil.com/) which you can use to simulate conversations between different LLMs(optionally give a character to each LLM too). I think its quite similar to what you have.

On a side note, I am quite interested to watch LLMs play games based on game theory. Would be a fun experiment and I will probably setup something for the donor game as well.
Re compliance for scaling

It could be true. They sold it to us as a way to teach them. If it’s not teaching them, then they would be wasting the money of taxpayers to do something different. If parents wanted what you describe, or just a babysitter / teacher, then they might still support it. We need honesty, though, so parents can make tradeoffs among various systems.

Also, the capitalists that originally funding and benefited from the public model also send their own kids to schools with different models. Those models consistently work better to produce future professionals, executives, and leaders.

So, the question is: “Do none of the components of those private schools scale in a public model? Or do they have different goals for students of public schools and students of elite schools like their own kids?” Maybe we’re overly paranoid, though.

Re good outcomes

Well, there’s maybe two things going on. Made in God’s image, we’re imbued with free will, emotional motivations, the ability to learn, to adapt, to dream. Even in the hood, some kids I went to school with pushed themselves to do great things. If public school is decent or good, then our own nature will produce some amount of capable people.

The real question is what percentage of people acquire fundamental abilities we want. Also, what percentage is successful? A worrying trend is how most teachers I know are pulling their hair out about how students can’t read, do math, anything. Examples from both people I know in real life and teachers I see online:

“Young people in our college classes are currently reading at a sixth grade level. They don’t understand the materials. I have to re-write or explain them so they can follow along.”

“I get my college students to do a phonics program. It doesn’t get them to a college level. It does usually increase their ability by a year or two level.” (Many seconded that online comment.)

“I hate to say it but they’re just dumb now. If they learn anything, I feel like I accomplished something.”

“My goal is to get them to focus on even one lesson for a few minutes and tell me even one word or character in the lesson. If they do that, we’re making progress.”

Whatever system (and culture) that is doing this on a large scale is not educating people. Our professors should never have to give people Hooked on Phonics on college to get them past sixth grade level. This is so disasterous that ditching it for something else entirely or trying all kinds of local experiments makes a lot of sense.
Respect is earned. If I claim to be able to fly, and send you several links to me flying that are easily explicable, conclusions can be drawn.

> That the public's UFO hysteria of the 1940s and 50s was originated entirely within the US military is similarly a fact of history I wouldn't expect you to know.

The 1940s military had a hell of a lot of former farmers in it. The days of fighter pilots needing college degrees came in the 70s/80s; Chuck Yeager was a farm (!) kid who became a mechanic with the war.

That the UFO hysteria coincides with the rise of commercial air travel is both known to me and entirely unsurprising, and no more compelling to me than witch hysteria in the 1600s, which often came with similarly compelling witness testimony.
You said:

when modern populations are so genetically diverse.

They are not. Humans as a species (in case you're not understanding what I mean by "species," I mean all the bipedal primates generally referred to as "Homo Sapiens") are not very genetically diverse.

And I provided documentation to support that assertion.

I didn't even get into the genetic evidence that variation within human population groups is greater than the variation between such groups.

That you made some sort of assumption as to the reason for my assertion, is on you and not me.

I merely pointed out that your assertion is not supported by the genetic evidence. Full stop.
Who decides if the price is high or low? That should be the market. High salaries -> more people decide to pursue it as a career -> more competition -> lower salaries. They are trying to force salaries down quicker
> It’s almost certain that they are military drones, and if I had to guess they’re searching for something that would cause real mass hysteria if told to the public.

Why is that almost certain?
So you don't have to pay the yearly fee? Also did anyone get the email and Outlook picked up the link as harmful?
Because it shows that it's perfectly plausible for people ages 50 plus to appreciate the value out of these technologies every bit as much as us whippersnappers. Some of them are writing books about it, after all
Razer and Cherry both have low profile switches, apparently Kailh are also low profile.
Still way overblown. Can't think of any other business trading on so much hypothetical value.
I don't consider what the parent comment listed as "minimal". The alternative I described is literally in my initial comment; using only 200 for APIs is "minimal".
That is part of a solution but that emulation still has to run on something. Getting that emulation hardware certified for the application could be prohibitive. Are there drop-in replacements for the hardware that perform equally to the HP boxes?
I wonder how many people are promoting it correctly. You can’t just query it like you might for google or something. It works best with lots of context and back and forth. And yeah, for many things you are going to get directional answers not exact ones (esp with “rote memory” like exact quotes from a book or something.)
Faster is not necessarily better, and if 2/3 of your value comes from LLMs, that doesn’t bode well for job security.

There’s a lot that engineers can due that are well beyond the limits of LLMs. If you really want to keep your day job, I would really commit yourself to that gap when you can!