skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buffet loves making money, is may be the wrong guy to give it away.

Based on his article, his children seem very locally oriented rather than global visionaries.

If I was him, I would not leave this to my kids, who may never agree on much, and then there is zero impact and the pile of cash just sits there doing nothing.

The Scottish billionaire Tom Hunter (who go rich from selling shoes) hired
a team of 30 who spent a decade working of charitable giving (spending Tom's one billion pounds donation, which if I remember correctly was at least at the time the largest one in UK history).
Trying to house the people we have is in no way a "drive for growth".
100% agree. You have hit the nail on the head. I went from Common Lisp to Go to now Rust and find that Rust devs are the best so far on average.

There are fewer of them, they ask for more money, but they really are exceptional. Especially Rust devs right now because there are not a lot of jobs you only find the most passionate and the most brilliant in that space. A short window though which will close as Rust gets more popular to startups, take advantage of it now.
The "good old boys" network is a problem. But given how hard we all agree it is to interview effectively and determine who is a great fit for the role in a matter of a few hours, there's a lot of good sense in hiring people already widely known to be excellent by your team from years of past experience working together.
it mostly matters for video conferencing and gaming. i think everything else can more or less buffer no problem. :)
It’s a schooner!
They should have written Dogecoin in VB, then it would have been even sillier.
Second this.

I used to log large apps using kibana and elastic search. Also using the clusterfuck that are all AWS tries at this (cloud watch, log insights.amd whatnot).

Nothing compares to what DD give you in observability.

Having said that, DD should only be an AWS feature. They should buy them for a couple of billions and integrate it as a service for all of AWS infrastructure.
But the point is, removing all those comments is still work. Not too many people are sad that a terrorist isn't getting attribution for his SO posts. Personally, if it save the moderation team just 10 man-hours of work I'd consider it a positive tradeoff.
Thank you for making my point on my behalf :)
I think you may have misunderstood what those numbers represent. They aren't saying that there are more foreign-born STEM workers than US-born STEM workers.

They are saying that among all the foreign-born workers in the US, 26% of those workers are working in STEM. Among all the US-born workers, 24% are working in STEM.

There are around 29 million foreign-born workers in the US, and around 131 million US-born workers (if Google has given me correct numbers). In percentages 18.1% of workers in the US are foreign-born and 81.9% are US-born.

With 26% of the foreign-born workers in STEM and 24% of the US-born workers in STEM that would be about 7.5 million foreign-born STEM workers in the US and 31 million US-born STEM workers in the US.

Among STEM workers in the US then it would 19.5% are foreign-born and 80.5% are US-born.
Have you guys recently checked the assets on the Balance Sheets of Corporations?
I think it would be more like RPN if it used a stack, and operands were specified as relative offsets (i.e., stack offsets). In the version I wrote, operands are still represented as absolute offsets in the expression table.
With Moonbit and Wolfram Language, it feels like a renaissance of paid programming languages.
> talent shortages are not acceptable - and I don't buy the argument that "smart people are attracted to non mainstream languages which is how we find smart people", it is simply not true that "most smart people program with Scala/Haskell/Elixir/whatever" - there's smart and smarter working on the mainstream languages.

Smart people can be trained in any language and become effective in a reasonably short period of time. I remember one company I worked at, we hired a couple of fresh grads who'd only worked with Java at school based on how promising they seemed; they were contributing meaningfully to our C++ code base within months. If you work in Lisp or Haskell or Smalltalk or maybe even Ruby, chances are pretty good you've an interesting enough code base to attract and retain this kind of programmer. Smart people paired with the right language can be effective in far smaller numbers as well.

The major drawback, however, is that programmers who are this intelligent and this interested in the work itself (rather than the money or career advancement opportunities) are likely to be prickly individualists who have cultivated within themselves Larry Wall's three programmer virtues: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. So either you know how to support the needs of such a programmer, or you want to hire from a slightly less intelligent and insightful, though still capable, segment of the talent pool which means no, you're not going to be targeting those powerful languages off the beaten track. (But you are going to have to do a bit more chucklehead filtering.)

> if you are using a language that the AI knows little about then there's little productivity related benefits coming to your development team.

This is vacuously true because the consequent is always true. The wheels are kind of falling off "Dissociated Press on steroids" as a massive productivity booster over the long haul. I think that by the time you have an AI capable of making decisions and crystallizing intent the way a human programmer can, then you really have to consider whether to give that AI the kind of rights we currently only afford humans.
Easy, fellas. . .
Eko – Build Production-Ready Agentic Workflow with Natural Language
Eko (pronounced like ‘echo’) is a production-ready JavaScript framework that enables developers to create reliable agents, from simple commands to complex workflows. It provides a unified interface for running agents in both computer and browser environments.
I think in order of average dev quality (highest to lowest) I recently found:

Rust
Common Lisp
Go
Ruby/Elixir
C++
Python
C#
Typescript
Java
Javascript
What part of the org were you interviewing in?
Japanese. If you try to write it in Unicode you get (in the overwhelming majority of applications) Chinese and some vaporware excuses about font regions.
I have had the opposite experience. Sales has been really respectful of our time.
I've used ORMs extensively in my career, and I've seen it trotted out as a Boogeyman here a million times. Why do I still prefer writing queries with a good ORM over awkwardly composing SQL by conditionally concatenating strings? Is buggy, error prone string concatenation with a bunch of if statements the true way? What am I missing?
I used XYPlorer for about 5-6 years until I made the switch to using Linux on all my machines last year. The scripting, speed, dual panes, customization, portability between machines (i used Syncthing to sync my configs between 3 machines) on XyPlorer are phenomenal and I've sadly not been able to find a Linux native file manager that's at the same level. Dolphin comes close but even with qdbus commands it sadly not as customizable as XYPlorer. I think it's the one thing I miss the most about Windows.
Thoughts appear spontaneously (at least some of the time) as far as one's consciousness is concerned, sure. But language and sentences don't. That's all I'm claiming.
James Damore spoke up then. What did Google then do to him?
Aaron Greenspan's "The Social Network" Emails
Could you point to some good resources for either, that enables quick application?
> This was already apparent

On edge? We're just talking here. I'm not trying to hold up MS Basic as some awesome programming environment, just describing how I experienced it
There are examples of such an ambiguity in the ISO C library itself.

In those situations, the application must begin by clearing errno to zero.

Then, it checks for a certain error value or values from the function which are ambiguous: they could be legit or indicate an error.

If one of those values occurs, and if errno is nonzero, then the error occurred.

This is how you deal with, for instance the strtol (string to long int) function. If there is a range error, strtol returns LONG_MIN or LONG_MAX. Those are also valid values in the range of long, but when no error has occurred, they are produced without errno being touched.

strtol can also return 0 in another error case, when the input is such that no conversion can be performed. ISO C doesn't require errno to be set to anything in this case, unfortunately. The case is distinguished from a legitimate zero by the original pointer to the string being stored in *endptr (if the caller specifies endptr that is not null).

ISO C and POSIX library functions do not reset errno to zero. They either leave it alone or set it to a nonzero value.

If you need to use the above trick and are working inside a C library function, you have to save the original errno value before storing a zero in it, and then put that value back if no error has happened.
> Today, we're building Vade Studio with just three developers – myself and two developers who joined as interns when in college. (...) Here's what we've accomplished: (...)

In how many man-hours/days? It's hard to know if the list is long or short only knowing that calendar time should be multiplied by three for calculating people time spent...
i like how condescending this post is while just casually asserting multiple ridiculous things. ie: nobody ever acts decadently, all meth addicts actually have adhd, staying up for 4 days smoking meth is actually "self medicating", that the healthcare in usa (one of the most lenient places to be prescribed stims in the world) is somehow the reason why they cant get a stimulant prescription. just ridiculous.
> But the report's broader analysis paints a far more nuanced picture than CNN's headline suggests: It finds that AI could create 170 million new jobs globally while eliminating 92 million positions, resulting in a net increase of 78 million jobs by 2030.

As the comments also suggest, what are those "new jobs" specifically? Who funds UBI when tens of millions of workers are replaced? Even if they are there, AI systems are already set to automate them meaning there will be certainly less jobs altogether.

This article isn't doing a good job in reassuring anyone into believing that there will be more jobs after AI has made hundreds of millions obsolete. The fact that UBI is even mentioned in the article without a plan on who funds it in the long term makes me believe that there is no plan whatsoever after the so-called "AGI" displaces jobs anyway.

> To address employment challenges from the development of these new automation technologies, Altman has been a proponent of exploring solutions like universal basic income (UBI), which could provide a base level of money to every American citizen to supplement or replace job-related income.

Like all the other UBI programmes which attempted to do this in the long term (which have ultimately failed in the long term) this one is no different and it is economically unsustainable even for the mass population of the United States to be a viable solution against people losing their income to job automation.
I knew about this cross-eyed trick, I've tried it with a finger too, I just cannot do it. I've only ever succeeded in one "magic eye" picture in my life as well.

I have otherwise good vision, I can read small text from farther than most people (I didn't realize not everyone could read all the small letters on an eye test), I don't have a problem seeing things up close either, etc. but I lack the ability to properly cross my eyes for some reason.

It's too bad because I've spent a decent amount of time at bars with those spot the difference machines lol
We have a natural experiment: Minneapolis vs. Madison.

Minneapolis abolished the single-family zoning and parking requirements in 2018. And it worked, developers swarmed the city like vultures attracted to carrion.

Madison did no such nonsense.

Can you guess the impact of these policies on housing costs?

The house price growth in Minneapolis _accelerated_, just like in the nearby Madison. Here are the price growth charts: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1COwL
What RSS reader do you use, may I ask? Mine (readrops for Android) doesn't render the images. It is probably quicker to just review the XML but I'm committed to this comment now.
Both VB6 and FreePascal/Delphi are highly capable tools even in today's context, they just need more marketing.
I use this for quick comparison of minor differences in code / data (e.g. tables, DNA sequences).
Variations in indentation are highlighted also, by standing out of the plane.

It's good to hear reports of successful viewing.
I've got a 3d / stereogram photo gallery app on the back burner; sounds like a reasonable number of people would be able to view it.
There are plenty of guides on how to learn this; some are linked here https://www.reddit.com/r/CrossView/wiki/index/.
You-tube used to have support for this; there are still videos tagged yt3d - just regular videos now, not interlaced.
Cookpad.

Generally speaking you will find Rails being used more in Business or SaaS rather than consumer.
Fantastic links. The same thing has come to mind when thinking about my home town. They amalgamated all the suburbs back in the 70s, and they're just these sprawling desolate rural towns still, which almost certainly cost the overall city an unsustainable multiple of what they contribute, and they're still building new cul-de-sac laden hellscapes, that sometimes don't even have sidewalks, and who's only supply of services are provided by the largest big box stores you see everywhere. It's brutal.

I have the sense that if these suburbs had to figure out they're own shorter term scaling strategy, especially without being able to infinitely kick the infrastructure can down the road, things would be required to change a bit more rapidly. What they have instead are these miserable little cabin-esque bungalows with deer running about, concrete that is literally crumbling to gravel, and a very weird thread of prejudice against apartments of any kind.
I wish it worked on more sites.
> edit: I should mention that I've seen fairly convincing cross-sectional evidence that homelessness is more related to the housing market than mental illness: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/homelessness-is-a-housing-prob... , https://www.nahro.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NAHRO-Summi...

The problem is that there are very different groups of people we're talking about, so much so that throwing them all under the "homeless" umbrella doesn't make sense. It's like saying car accidents are a traffic design problem, not an alcohol problem. Sure, both things can lead to traffic accidents, but they're pretty different problems.

People who temporarily need some assistance to get back on there feet are in a categorically different group than the people who are currently unable to function in society. These are fundamentally different problems.

I've seen how D.C. has tried housing first. It's given thousands of individuals free apartments, for life as far as I can tell, some in very expensive areas. It's been an enormous failure, since housing doesn't actually solve the very serious underlying problems that many of these people have. A lot of long-term residents to flee places that were once (comparatively) affordable because of rising crime and violence. The Washington Post has occasionally covered this [1][2].

I watched a neighborhood meeting recently about the issue. The city does wellness checks on the people in the program - but they can just completely ignore them, and nothing happens. Long term residents have been forced out after people in the program have attacked them or threatened to kill them and the city doesn't do anything, and doesn't even remove them from the program. A councilmember was taking part in the meeting, and had nothing to say other than he was looking into ways that the city could provide more help to people in the program.

The linked article is bordering on misinformation by not mentioning Finland's compulsory commitment, and also ignoring the failures of housing first in the U.S. like D.C.'s that haven't included that aspect. That's why a lot of these programs end up failing - people try to pick and choose the elements that they want, and ignore necessary elements that they find inconvenient. In the end, that doesn't help anyone.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-housed-t...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/08/dc-paid-h...
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- In the case for CA if the companies are forced to charge a real price for the risk, costs would go up. Maybe the millionaires can afford it, but in a crunched housing market the average person will feel the strain.

- If they are forced to not up their prices (or their increases are capped) and provide polices even though their risk calculations says they will lose money. The insurance company will then look to get the profits elsewhere, ie raise rates for those who are not effected.

- If the insurance company goes under then the government might bail them out, which means effectively every tax payer will be forced to pay for that policy.

If the state provided this insurance, then they would be incentivized to properly assess and mitigate the risk. Where in today's market insurance companies just put a yearly amount on the risk of a home. They have no direct levers to reduce the risk.
Descent used portals
you should carefully reread what he wrote and reread what you linked
My understanding of the ECPA and other acts is that you can't intercept, decode, or receive by other intentional means any information or communications that aren't "generally accessible" without permission. It's pretty broad and doesn't care about the "how".

Private keys are not "generally accessible" and my concern is that the authorities will see cracking the key itself as issue enough, and unlawful. If a security researcher triggers painful breach notifications, which could well happen for a compromised private key, I don't think it's unthinkable at all that an upset target will find a DA who is happy to take this interpretation.

I don't think this specific DKIM case is particularly high-risk, but I still wouldn't do it without permission from the key holder.
> There were articles for example in the Byte magazine.

And they were stupid. Even "good" Lisp references didn't cover the important things like hashes and arrays. Everybody covered the recursive crap over and over and over ad nauseam while people who actually used Lisp almost always sidestepped those parts of the language.

> I had a Lisp on an Apple II. It was a useless toy. I was using UCSD Pascal and Modula 2 on it. Much better.

And yet UCSD Pascal was using a P-machine. So, the problem was the implementation and not the concept. Which was exactly my point.

> At least there were people willing to pay for it.

Temporarily. But then it died when the big money went away and left Lisp all but dead. All the while all the people using languages on those "toys" kept right on going.
qw is open source so you can continue to use the foss-licensed software as it is
Am I the only one who cant do that? Or does me having aphantasia has anything to do with it?
And yet when you do a join because you need to actually use that data, the resulting table will have a column with nulls in it. Any way you squeeze it, you need a way to represent empty values for your database to be useful.
Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan [video]
Thanks for those recommendations. From a few minutes of searching, looks like they would cost 1.5x to 2x that in USA.

We decided to start very small, because we couldn't figure out from the websites of various backup energy installers who was least likely to grossly inflate specs and prices. So, we recently bought a low-end expandable Anker Solix C1000 for around $500 USD as manual reserve power, mainly for the fridge. It seems to be intended more for "glamping", but Anker has good reputation for various unrelated products.
> Moravec’s paradox is the observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources. The principle was articulated by Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, Marvin Minsky, and others in the 1980s.

I have a name for it now!

I've said over and over that there are only two really hard problems in robotics: Perception and funding. A perfectly perceived system and world can be trivially planned for and (at least proprio-)controlled. Imagine having a perfect intuition about other actors such that you know their paths (in self driving cars), or your map is a perfect voxel + trajectory + classification. How divine!

It's limited information and difficulties in reducing signal to concise representation that always get ya. This is why the perfect lab demos always fail - there's a corner case not in your training data, or the sensor stuttered or became misaligned, or etc etc.
This is true. I know the change wasn't just DEI, but I thought it might have been the biggest push. And yeah, after it's gone we will see how much it helped (or not), or other influences will muddy the data and we'll never really know (unless it's a really big trend). shrug
I don’t think that’s true. It looks like the US has pretty similar spending to European countries at least as a percentage of GDP: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...
Early in my career, I worked in support for a company which made developer tooling.

Male programmers would call in and do a bit of intro so you knew they were not dumb, just busy.

VB6 programmers would say things like "I am a very senior VB developer". They were the only "very senior" programmers who did not seem to understand things about OS stuff. Like exported functions and their different calling conventions, why you need to "register" COM .dlls, environment blocks, handles, etc.
MLK was a communist who was killed for his views by the US Government.

He was not the harmony flowers and rainbows he was white washed into.

Rights are never given, they have to be taken by force.
I taught myself how to free-view stereo side-by-side images on my phone but after I did so I found that I would get strong stereo impressions involuntarily just looking at certain repeating patterns in normal circumstances like watching TV with side-by-side images or when looking at patterned wallpaper.

My visual system is pretty weird in general so I don’t know how common an experience this is with others. It’s not bothersome at all because I know what it is but it was a little startling the first few times.
GPT tells me (take it or leave it) that books published before 1963 only had a copyright of 28 years generally, and it wasn't until 1978 that the "author life + 70 years" started
Dwarkesh Patel's 4th Podcast with Tyler Cowen
That's fascinating because those percentages almost match exactly the incarceration rates of those two states. Florida imprisons away its problems at double the rate (if they can't just bus them to Oregon).
There is an entire industry for planning cities, yes. And public housing bypasses most of that industry.

It's just a simple fact that if you have a large population center, and market demand for it, basic things like grocery stores and convenience stores will pop up. Not every grocery store and convenience store is run by a large chain that negotiates with the government for a location, if you believe that's the case you are missing knowledge of that industry.

This isn't a hypothetical, things like this have been done. Just because we are overcomplicating it doesn't mean it has to be.
Why Greenland is of growing strategic significance