skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abysmal? You think that Meta is going to compromise its quality of work to meet a statistic they knew would only be temporary? If they had changed the demographic to 30%+ they would have had to hire subpar people and bypassed people in the top of their field who truly deserved and had the experience to qualify for the job. This whole DEI bs never should have been started.

What should have happened is we should have started to support the early childhood development of underprivileged single mothers. And mandated all of them to have home visits to make sure they are being good mothers. The issue with specifically black American culture is one that has to start in early development. Once they have grown up in a broken household they are essentially unsavable at the macro level. You can’t reverse the neglect, trauma and core belief structure once they enter the criminal justice system. And all this DEI bs simply pampers the deluded belief that people are not being treated fairly. People are treated according to how they act and behave. The disproportionate number of black people in jail is not a misalignment of justice. It’s a misalignment with morals and culture.
Yeah that sounds about like what I expected. Thanks!
Largely the same choices, pens, photos, text from the 2024 copy of this: (168 points, 154 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38867708

https://web.archive.org/web/20240104200853/https://www.jetpe...
Right, it was GitHub that made this change to much eye rolling and consternation
What do you think teenagers discussed over MSN Messenger exactly? The finer points of botanical knowledge?
Kimmerer: The Serviceberry and Braiding Sweetgrass
Because MISRA is also insane and has long bled into a middle managers dream of a style guide? It would make for a terrible language (that ironically isn't much more "secure" "safe" "reliable")
Typescript is great! Except the JavaScript below it which is terrible, but the static analysis and constraints I can express in typescript are amazing.

It’s actually surprising that there’s no typing discussion in this thread.
A person who added some of the text on the page said on their User Talk page that they used an LLM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LuxembourgLover/Arch...
If an adult told you they believed Santa was real, you'd call them mentally ill and yet..
I'm just getting started, thanks this was super helpful!
This will be horrendously slow on Windows.
Please don't do this here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

(yes, the same applies to anyone else)
Calfair will certainly need to be bailed out. The plans has over 5B in exposure in palisades alone, and only a few hundred million in reserves.
It's about the company's recent course change, which includes Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview from last week. IMO this has a lot to do with the younger generations. Gen Z were heavily supporting Trump in the recent election, and Zuck has probably realised that he needs to align Meta with them if they want to remain a relevant player in the social media space.
The art at the Getty is not sealed.
Sorry for the offtopic, but I wonder what Salesforce does in AI at all, because isn’t it a boring CRM company from the previous century? Like they just wanted to do AI two years ago and nike’d it.
I was really excited to read this, but it's very shallow and barely presents any data at all.

It's main and mostly meaningless conclusion is that there are more skus in the Walmart catalog for sugar-dominated products than for any protein- or fat-dominated ones, and that online reviewers generally tend to leave better reviews for those.

Nothing about actual sales volume, promotional actions by Walmart, or monetary or nuyitional share of food consumed (or even purchased), etc -- any of which might say something more impactful.
Not the gp, but I guess I'm surprised at how innocent I've remained among all my LGBT friends for all these decades. You can admire me, too.
Novak Djokovic accused Australian covid hotels of poisoning him with heavy metals in 2022.

I'm wondering if he uses supplement powders or has a thing for protein boosted chocolate milkshakes.
By "rust docs" you seem to mean "docs.rs, the website that hosts documentation for all crates in the Rust ecosystem", which is a little bit different than the impression you give.

It's a whole web services with crates.io webhooks to build and update new documentation every time a crates gets updated, tracks state in a database and stores data on S3, etc. Obviously if you just want to build some docs for one crate yourself you don't need any of that. The "rustdoc" command has a much smaller list of dependencies.
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Thanks, that's the best explanation!
> Your theory of how addiction and homelessness work conflicts with what I've heard from many experts I've spoken to and that I've read. That doesn't make you wrong, but look up the research.

It is telling that your opinion isn't based on talking with addicted and/or homeless people.

> How disappointing that you are resorting to the ad hominem attacks; we could have learned from each other; we could have connected.

I think you should still consider learning from what Boogie_Man said.
Both Vim and Emacs have GUIs. Emacs can even render your PDFs and webpages, you can have svg icons displayed while browsing directories.
Surely the problem here is one of policy and political will. In terms of cost I can't imagine that the damage done by unplanned firestorms leveling cities is less than retrofitting or controlled burns.
I'm in this camp, perhaps a little more extreme: my daily driver laptop is a ThinkPad X230T, which I think is from 2011 or 2012. It is separate from a home lab - which I don't currently have, but which I'll use hardware from a few years ago if I ever need again. The only thing that can kill older hardware is software bloat - honestly, the web is the biggest culprit here.
The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience
There is a very important reason why "decision tree" is both a deductive inference procedure and the "model" (really, a propositional logic theory) learned by decision tree learners.

The reason is that the way decision trees, well, make decisions, is the way that expert systems of the '80s made decisions. The first expert system was called DENDRAL (capitals mandatory), derived from the Greek word for "tree", "dendron" (also see: "dendrite"; little tree). DENDRAL and similar systems implement deductive inference procedures that traverse a tree (either bottom-up or top-down, with backward or forward chaining). In traditional expert systems the edges in the tree are production rules of the form IF-THEN-ELSE and the nodes are intermediary goals of what is essentially a proof of a propositional logic formula (the decision tree; it's a boolean formula).

Expert systems' Achilles heel was the so-called "knowledge acquisition bottleneck" which refers, in short, to the difficulty of constructing and maintaining a huge rule-base as needed for an expert system that can do something more interesting than play 20 questions like the animal identification system above. Because of this difficulty, expert systems never quite fulfilled their promises and they suffered from the brittleness that is one of the first thing anyone hears about expert systems today.

And what did people come up with in order to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck? Why, machine learning, of course. The early days of machine learning as a field --remember, we're back in the '80s, a bit before the AI winter hits-- were exactly systems that tried to learn the IF-THEN-ELSE rules for expert systems' rule bases.

Decision tree learners, like ID3 and C4.5 by J. Ross Quinlan, and similar algorithms, that were wildly popular even well after the ImageNet moment of deep neural nets come from that era. Instead of learning only the rules though, decision tree learners, learn an entire decision tree; in short, an entire expert system, from top to bottom.
Does anyone remember how Steve Jobs kind of hated video games? Even though him and woz worked on 'breakout' which I thought was kind of funny. I guess John Carmack was a huge fan of NeXT, having developed Doom on that platform, which is wild because he wanted the branding of that OS right on the title screen and the request was denied (Would have been a tiny thing that could have changed the regard of that system alot) [1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2146412825...
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I think this was also true 50 years ago. I’m unconvinced that we’re working harder today compared to the past.

I do agree society overall is higher stress mainly due to the internet and constant attention grabbing in all directions.
Of course, and you're free to ignore the emails from whoever they assign to you as an account exec. Half the time, the account exec didn't even write the cold email themselves, it was some service that blasts the cold emails for them.
Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
UBI has less friction as far as implementation since we don't need qualify anyone. With AI, we can afford to have that extra step (nuance) and be able to make sure its a needs based approach. The future requires various combinations of changes. Fix the tax system and then UBI (in this specific order) OR !UBI (needs based distribution).
Not the same poster, but I am using Axum (webserver) + Maud (templating engine) + SeaORM (db adapter) + HTMX and I'm finding the end-result highly productive.

Even though Rust is more verbose, and SeaORM has a few quirks, I am making faster progress in Rust than my existing mature Typescript + Node + apollo-graphql + ReactJS setup. Once I was over the initial setup & learning curve (about a week), I find myself able to spend more time on business logic and less time hunting runtime bugs and random test failures. There's something almost magical about being able to refactor code and getting it up and running in a matter of minutes/hours, compared to days for similar operations in Typescript.

It's definitely still a young ecosystem that desperately needs a Django equivalent (loco.rs is worth keeping an eye out, but it's not there yet.) But I'm willing to tackle a bit of immaturity & contribute upstream to avoid the constant needless churn of the js world.
> They can be a bad choice for a 10,000-file monster

Whether they are a bad choice really depends on what are the alternatives though
yeah they are tuned to give auto based stuff, so great for anti car-truck (kinda)

The hard part is the sensor fusion, blending wide angle imprecise sensors with precise but narrow field of view sensors. I mean its possible to do in opensource (I'm doing it currently, and I don't really have a computer vision background) However I'm only using cameras, as radar is too far removed from my knowledge base to productive.
PhotoDemon has now been updated to 64 bit using the twinBASIC programming language.
twinBASIC is backwards compatible with VB6 (and VBA) and can import VB6 source code and forms.
[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-022-00434-9
Glassdoor is very problematic. They pull negative reviews all the time and tend to side with employers on almost all feedback disputes.
Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
The T420 keyboard is far better than the chicklet T430s. It’s a proper mechanical keyboard.

I’ve got both, have used both for webdev work, but compared to a modern laptop, the screens suck, the video is underpowered for 4k monitors, and the ssd interface is slow, and the trackpads are awful. On the bright side, trackpoints. (But I’m using a M13 w/ trackpoint so…. ) They’re also heavy and battery life is almost long enough to work the whole way on my bus commute, one way.
Either way, bike shedding. The serial console doesn't have "native" scrollback either - it must be provided by your own terminal emulator.
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Procedural Content Generation Space
For web? Django.
Not yet... they're not profitable still, but will be in the future (those who survive).
Nvidia is making all the money from the eager investors who subsidize the "free" chatGPT & related tools.
A lot of informative historical detail in this article, but the title is pretty much completely disconnected from the content of the text.

There is almost no discussion of why, or how, letting natural fire processes go unchecked would help the situation.

It may very well be the case that this would be a good idea (or not), but this article really doesn't talk much about it in any case.

But still, some detailed historical context of fires in LA...
Technically, but nothing miles away caught on fire. The ignition zone is likely only a few hundred yards even in intense Santa Ana winds. So that means only homes in fire prone areas (or adjacent) would need to be made very defensible.
Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to clarify.
The 2020 Australia Royal Commission on bushfire prevention is a good resource, too.

There are tons of things that could be done. Virtually none are being done nowadays, much less retrofitted to existing structures.

Bushfire prevention via design is essentially in its infancy, much like earthquake safe designs took decades to become widespread in California after the 1933 quake. It wasn't like structures built in the 40s had "learned the lessons" and were earthquake proof. It has taken the better part of a century to get there.
> 11. KeyserSosa, initially memamp but joined reddit not long after (I forget his real name)

Chris Slowe

Clickfacts had 3 founders so probably that's 3 of your ?s.

The photo has no 13 btw.
Do you know of a way to convert a measured speaker model into a spice model that can be simulated with the rest of the circuit?
See also:

Harnessing weedy rice as functional food and source of novel traits for crop improvement (2024) https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14868

'Dry fallowing' ground may aid in weedy rice control (2021) https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4641...
I'm reminded of the missing stair / metoo discourse, where it gradually emerges that lots of people knew that X was sexually assaulting employees, but they'd not dared to go public about it for fear of reprisal. And of course the "proper channels" is often the worse of both worlds: you get the reprisals, but without the help of your fellow victims or the public.
Yeah podman on linux is so old it's not even a news anymore.

My question was about podman on FreeBSD.
Government doesn't pick up bills, taxpayers do. And it introduces moral hazard when the people engaging in risky behaviors (buying homes in high fire-risk areas) don't bear the costs of those risks.

This creates larger, systemic risks and is simply unfair. Someone in Montana should not have to pay to rebuild homes in California.
It's certainly slower than on Linux, but horrendous is a little bit of an overstatement. For many real-world test suites, process creation is a small part of overall time, and nextest still ends up being overall faster due to better handling of long-pole tests. The issues around thread termination and stuff are quite relevant on Windows. (And maybe posts like mine are going to get Microsoft and AV vendors to pay more attention to process creation performance! It really doesn't have to be slow, it just is in practice.)

Measured by weekly downloads (around 120k a week total last I checked), Windows is actually the number two platform nextest is used on, ahead of macOS. It's mostly CI, but clearly a lot of people are getting value out of nextest on Windows.
As somebody who wrote maybe half a million lines of python code, I still must say that it is Rails that became a model.

Django was (is?) the default tool for python, but i don't remember it being discussed as widely.
Wall Werror is a nice idea that university professors will tell you about that collides at first contact with the real world where you are including 3rdparty headers that then spit 50 pages of incomprehensible GCC "overflow analysis" warnings.
Really hard to make the argument for this politically when the state is also facing a housing crisis. Unfortunately, a lot of undeveloped land is also prone to wildfire. The solution is zoning relaxation and building dense but there's also a lot of resistance to that.
The guy had issue with iproute2 replacing ifconfig? I mean, the first time I've learned about iproute2 I've switched and never looked back. It's so much better.

And SystemD again? Oh noes.

Reminds me of a guy who was stuck on GRUB and used LILO about the time grub2 was released.

Some people are weird. No idea why is this on HN.
Of course you think that. You(r family) would monetarily benefit from it. Not to mention you’d get to double dip and enjoy the perks of the neighborhood as well as get your free money. Completely bonkers that you were able to type that without seeing the blatant hypocrisy.
I kept rewriting my reply until I started just looking up research. I should go do something else with my day hah but it seems the affect of speculation on price is unsurprisingly complex.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24058...
Good news, the cosmological principle is almost certainly false since it leads to absurd results like dark matter and dark energy!

Or if it was true once (CMB-era) it sure as shit ain't true now.
Fix Bayonets! (1927)
it's probably my single favorite trick for making a prototype performant enough! I'm delighted every time that it works.

but agree that it can be really hard to take a step back and realize that you can employ it instead of writing something "perfect"
I found myself working on a CGI script just last week. Last year I was asked to patch a production CMS that was just a giant collection of CGI scripts.

This stuff is still out there and when it's done well, it "just works". I'm not saying CGI is the future, but I did find it refreshing to edit a script and then have the change immediately available without waiting for some daemon to restart/reload.
Glad it helped, I just now see you are talking beamforming.

Beamforming is achieved using phased arrays. I'm not sure if all beam forming uses phased arrays, but one of the terms is just talking about the wave itself (beamforming), while phased array is talking about how the beamforming is achieved.

That being said, I don't want to presuppose that you can't beamform form without phased arrays.
LinkedIn is full of PR nonsense. It's hard to believe. It's a medium for expression; the intelligent way to express is to self-promote subtly, the unintelligent is to express your feelings.

I've seen a number of people I used to work with, who are suddenly CTO's, or some C-level position, although I truly doubt it. Someone I used to work who can barely communicate in sentences and has a fairly heavy autism, and never managed anyone, is now listed as 'IT Director' on LinkedIn. I had to laugh.

And let's not forget the recruiters, who are always described like this: "Getter-Doner-of-Things; Enterpreneur; Executive Headhunter; author; Thought Leader; and Father"

Sorry, now it's me expressing my feelings.
An alternative of "now everyone who uses a linked list has their own mostly-the-same, but-just-different-enough" list.c and list.h files that need separate auditing (if you care) isn't better.
Important to note is that when arsenic is in rice, a lot of it is organic arsenic and therefore not easily picked up by the body like inorganic arsenic.
So every single student is then physically expected to go to a library to be able to complete their homework? You’d have to have computer labs in those libraries capable of handling over a thousand students for some areas. Not a very practical solution.

At this point, it’s more an acceptance that AI is here and students are going to use it. You can control for it during monitored tests, but there’s next to nothing you’ll do to stop its usage once the students go home.
> The statement "These Wildfires are Caused by California’s Mismanagement of Forest Lands" is qualitative, there is no true or false to that.

There is absolutely a true or false with that.

Did the fires start in an area that is considered forest? If so, was it on publicly managed land?

The statement wholly puts blame into the hands of the government, and that can be true or false.

Personally, I don't know the details to say if it is true or false. I'm just pointing out that there is a factual element to the statement.
And a good writeup by Rodney Brooks:

http://rodneybrooks.com/forai-machine-learning-explained/

(Full disclosure: Donald Michie, inventor of MENACE and RL was my grand-advisor :beams with pride:).
Also, older homes that are not up to date with the latest defensible technologies.
Well as long as we can't guarantee that fact checking is so secure with such a low error rate, we shouldn't call it fact checking.

That's already a great reason why Community Notes are better, just because of the name.

Aside from that, if the community is making notes, and the government censors or modifies it, the community would be able to find it out. With an internal fact checking department, the community wouldn't know.

Of course the government will still try to take as much control as they can. So this news should also make us aware of the fact that such huge global networks are not a safe place anyway for independent thinking.
I did the same thing for ECOOP 2024:
https://2024.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2024-papers#program

Claude estimates 10 papers related programming languages and its features and 27 related to theory, verification etc.
To be honest - the great thing is that even if a small percentage of people choose the LinkedIn/Social Media shame route, it benefits everyone. Just the threat of this will probably make employers/managers think about the potential consequences of such actions.

That said - it'd be recommended that the employee have a pretty air tight story since there internet can easily turn the other way.
I don't buy it, Gen Z hasnt swung right, but the young left has swung apathetic. Zuck has his own reasons for sucking up to Trump and it's not to stay popular with the kids, who have already moved on from Meta properties.
Previous discussion on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42625193
If true, isn't this setup to fail? In cloud infrastructure, we build redundancy because humans can't really solve such problems in 5 minutes. And here in real world, that's our margin? Not talking about uprooting established habitats, but it appears that such risk should not be allowed.
As long as this is an arm of the company and there is no disinterested third party the incentive will always dictate that HR will place the interest of the company over the employee. As the old adage goes (paraphrased): “It’s difficult to make someone believe something when their salary depends on them not believing it”.
> Almost all big companies are doing this now.

Source?
financially better? source?
Blinding lasers are prohibited by treaty similar to chemical weapons so probably not soon.
Legislating the lessons most medieval cities learnt in dark ages only in 2007 is still wild.
Note that this can also be distances in time, rather than just space.
I'm hearing it's actually interpolated frames, not extrapolated.. I would like better confirmation of that though.