skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesing.[1] Looks like governance (better water supply, sanitation, lower density, a "polluted" caste[2]), intensive agriculture making night soil valuable fertilizer instead of city-as-cesspit waste, and domestic culture (cooking/boiling, cleanliness). The night soil diversion seems to have kept toilets out of sewers/water into the 1900s.

[1] https://wjsmith.faculty.unlv.edu/smithtest/Urban-Sanitation_... (1987)
[2] off topic but interesting https://www.academia.edu/download/34028214/The_Creation_of_t...
Pathfinding is a profoundly interesting problem. I think it is very impressive that Starcraft II still has amazing lag-free pathfinding that beats or matches basically every game out there, including very recent RTS games like Stormgate and Zerospace that have a specific emphasis on smooth mechanics for competitive play. Like you can build all kinds of buildings and a zillion zerglings will instantly go around them.
Honestly I'm tired of people who are more focused on 'debunking the hype' than figuring out how to make things work.

Yes, robotics is hard, and it's still hard despite big breakthroughs in other parts of AI like computer vision and NLP. But deep learning is still the most promising avenue for general-purpose robots, and it's hard to imagine a way to handle the open-ended complexity of the real world other than learning.

Just let them cook.
How the use of AI in legal proceedings might be the herald of AGI
It got kicked from near the top of the homepage well before it had the flag status. Maybe something to do with that.

I've heard superusers have the ability to kick stories off the homepage, but not sure if that is true.
And then people wonder why Asians are overrepresented in high-paying careers in the US. Surely, it might be because of lack of DEI programs.
Practically a given outcome, then; we could knock their Managed Prometheus offering off the Internet on the regular. It was just laughable for a company that prides itself in one trillion IAM transactions to 429 some metric ingest
I'm confused about how you haven't been able to find a job. I'm a student in Ontario and have received multiple job offers. They're not great jobs (fast food, warehouse work, etc.), but it's better than having no job at all. Everyone I know has also been able to get offers for low skill jobs as well.

How have you not been able to get even a low-skill minimum wage job despite searching since May? I'm not trying to insult you or anything, just trying to understand your situation.
You might put "they/them" next to your name if you prefer not to be referred to by a gendered pronoun.
Takeshi Kitano , AKA Vic Romano of Takeshi's Castle ("MxC" in US cable networks).

For anyone that misses that jewel of japanese game show, they have rebooted the franchise and the new series are available in Amazon prime.
Is your router configured to serve both 2.4ghz and 5ghz on the same SSID? Does the laptop support 5ghz? Is your local RF env particularly noisy/congested? What does the noise floor look like?
I think the only "dei" hire i saw was an administrative assistant that got fired ultimately.
Let's not pretend eng hasn't had a massive gap in available hires for a very long time.
Developing defence capacity is a basic responsibility. Humans can scream foul if they lose out to machine hybrids or extraterrestrials.
And then other problems would perhaps turn up down the track that would call for "discovering new ways to discover new ways of discovery" and so on.
Btw he's back ! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663063
VB3 was my first real intro to programming. Well, I started with C++ but abandoned it as an impatient child as describing a window in code wasn't fun.

I wish we had a new drag and drop WYSIWYG to get people interested. Put Python or Go or even Basic behind it. QT maybe? Heck make it Electron.

I'm not sure I would be where I am today without VB having existed, and it's a shame kids today don't have the same tools available.
Can home-educated teenagers with government issued ID join? Throughout the site, high school student and teenager seem to be used interchangeably.
At https://hack.club/high-seas-faq: "Who can participate in High Seas?" "Anyone 18 or under can participate in High Seas![...]" "Why do I have to verify?" "We need to make sure that you’re a high school student.[...]" "What form of ID is accepted?" "A government issued ID (eg. drivers license or passport), or A dated school ID[...]"
The ultra wealthy have (correctly) read the room in the U.S. and realized the the oligarchy has won and fully completed it's metamorphosis; there is no longer any reason to play pretend about it.
Partitioned convolution algorithms for real-time auralization
With a REPL-connected editor (and most have a way to do this), you can simply hover over it in your editor as well. Even though most languages can have a REPL today, few integrate it in the development experience the way lisps do.
Yes that top reddit comment is right. Years ago those magic eye pictures came out and at first I struggled to see the 3d pictures. Eventually it became trivial. Then somewhere I noticed it worked really well for those spot the difference puzzles. They often come on kids menus at some restaurants. I could spot all ten differences in seconds and my kids would be amazed. I finally tried to teach them but they found it hard to do. But ya in reality what this girl did was super easy and not challenging in the slightest. When you do it and cross your eyes inwards you cross your eyes until the pictures line up in the middle. The majority of the picture will be clear but any spots that are different will seem blurry. The trick is just not focus on anything in particular and just cross images until they clear up. Then make note of where it seems blurry. Cool trick but definitely ruined spot the difference puzzles for me.
> Why would they not scale?

Due to the complexity and diversity in economic, cultural, and social value networks.
For example, the approach which is working for Modesto will probably not work for San Francisco.
We need one title one owner. Shared ownership is confusion. Governmens shouldn't run interference between managers and stockholders.
Game where you build a subway network
> if it was really that helpful, more people would be applying it and the benefits would speak for themselves

Well... that's not a good logic on any area, and on software development it's twice as bad.

Most software projects still fail. And that's not "market failure", it's just "didn't manage to build it".
Confirming Google did this.
It's a sailboat
The only issue I see with this is that as a classic physics trope, we've approximated the earth as a sphere.

If, instead we approximate it as a fractal... then the distance is infinite, or at least highly dependent on the thickness of the rope!

The error in the original is assuming that the radius is proportional to the height above the earth (Earthradius=0?).
> The negative effect of "fake diversity" is that it leaves everyone else wondering if the minority employees actually know what they're doing or if they were hired to make the company look good.

This is the most insidious thing, in my opinion. If you're already a hater, now you can unabashedly claim the moral high ground. "Did she interview well, or was she a diversity hire?"
Corporate needs you to find the differences between theses two images
Repo Men is the 2010 film; Repo Man is the 1984 one.

To stay on topic, Repo! The Generic Opera (2008) is another film - a musical, even! - that covers a very similiar topic.

Zydrate comes in a little glass vial...
Sadly I was never able to gain anything from this trick other than my kids admiration. Often times kids menus at restaurants will have a spot the difference and I can see everything instantly doing this. Impressive to a kid but this girl in the video was obviously doing the same thing and does not impress me.
My understanding is that it keeps everyone connected. Like, you as a family member may be a caregiver or you may have a nurse or someone else as a caregiver and it can help keep family, caregiver, the person being cared for all in the know on what is happening.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42658095#:~:text=favori... and then https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=PeterCorless&comme...
Your story reminds me of my friend, also Black, went to engineering college with an overwhelmingly white population (me included). He was in more than half of the pamphlets pitching the school they give out to prospective students. It was so blatant.
Couldn’t be worse then a YouTube short that has writing in the video but is covered by the subscribe button and some description of the video you wish were not there
> Equality of outcome is implied by equality of opportunity.

Only if you assume that group-level differences can’t exist.
"Clojure and Rust were the only two which had real staying power"

rephrase in generic terms

"Lisp and SML were the only two which had real staying power"

These two languages are the pillars of high-level programming languages, period.
Longitude
Docker released solutions for how to fix this: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/cert-revoke-solution/

I do not like the way they have written their commands on this page

sudo rm /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.docker.socket || true

ps aux | grep -i docker | awk '{print $2}' | sudo xargs kill -9 2>/dev/null

Why hide the error messages from the users? Be more transparent
The CEOs you identified are all associated with for-profit companies (with the notable exception of OpenAI lol). Investors expect them to "make nice" with the current regime; this is a part of being a CEO of a public company worth billions.
Longitude dava sobel
None of that is combatting sexism, but reality.
> Formal methods are a large investment, too. No two ways around it.

My issue with the entire discussion, and lots of the community is that formal methods are not all the same.

Some are expensive, yes. If you insist on doing them all, you'll never finish anything. But that's not a reason to dump the entire set.
Typed Clojure is available as a library.
A wchar_t "native" libc implementation would be an interesting thing.
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Is the business perspective the right one to go with?

Let's say it's legal to discriminate on race in hiring in the US. Then a Japanese restaurant hires only Japanese workers because they find customers prefer it. Do we want to have this?
Origins of Uno
A lot of what you say here I agree with. I'm not sure that I'd define maintenance of infrastructure as growth though, and I too hate sprawl.
Growing the economy is great, but only if done in such a way that it's sustainable. Growth or death is too simplistic, perfectly captured by the grandparent comment. Bringing in immigrants to generate growth when you can't house the current population seems crazy. Things don't have to get bigger to be successful. You could make a business and have zero employees and make a living. Does it need to be a massive company that's growing? There is always a limit, and something will eventually prevent growth, so why does it have to be an external force?

Where I am we are trashing the waterways and the land in pursuit of money. You can't swim in most our rivers anymore - the recent numbers look good though, as the government redefined 'swimmable' and now it's 'safe', despite the contaminants.
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/explainer-new-swimmable-water-...
The Toyota Bird's Eye View/BMW Surround View/etc makes it much, much easier.
> counteract systemic bias

What is the bias and causes it?

Because I don't think it's a systemic bias in the hiring system, so why not solve the problem rather than trying to patch the effect.
Or it could be a parallel vs serial compute thing.

Perception tasks involve relatively simple operations across very large amounts of data, which is very easy if you have a lot of parallel processors.

Abstract thought is mostly a serial task, applying very complex operations to a small amount of data. Many abstract tasks like evaluating logical expressions cannot be done in parallel - they are in the complexity class P-complete.

Your brain is mostly a parallel processor (80 billion neurons operating asynchronously), so logical reasoning is hard and perception is easy. Your CPU is mostly a serial processor, so logical reasoning is easy and perception is hard.
Interesting. I've the same observation in Vietnam where I grew up. Maybe this is more universal than I thought.
5:30 AM in the same place, or different places? If same place, I'd assume some environmental/technical reason. Some machine somewhere near starting up, producing infra- or ultrasonics, a manifest freight train rumbling by far away, doing the same, some other thing (electro-/static/magnetic fields changing), and so on. 'Technical' because nature would vary that with the seasons because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time
So they renamed the game from PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (thus why everybody called it PUBG) to PUBG: Battlegrounds. So what does the BG in PUBG stand for? The game is a real example of a PIN number!
Aside from what others have mentioned (being interop on the send and receive side of things) I find a great deal of value in the interop schema, so you don't have to re-learn what every joker wants to name their special unicorn flavor of kubernetes pod name or container id or http response code when exploring metrics or making dashboards

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/general/attribut...

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/hardware/common/

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/system/container...

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/system/k8s-metri...

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/http/http-metric...

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/cloud-providers/...
> VB6 highly capable

> VB6 only available in 32-bit
Yes. That's part of the semantics of outer joins.

But there is no stored null representing 'no value'.
For those living in countries that don't have majority white people (eg asian or african countries), do they have any DEI programs to hire more white people and all that?
Was it true Meta had tampons in the men's room https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/meta-orders-removal-tampon...

Were they ever used and or how much?
If you've ever been Indian or Chinese in the US, you know the US is racist against you, just not in a way that excludes you from programming work. And, yeah, there's quite a bit of Indian-American senior leadership in Silicon Valley.

I live in Latin America now, and the universities almost all suck. Latin America culturally has the idea that universities are for job training and are basically all equivalent. China and, generally speaking, India instead place very high value on education and on good universities, and China also has a massive research budget. Latin America, broadly speaking, has zilch. The result is that in lists like https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin... the top 100 universities include 11 in China, 4 in Singapore (which is largely Chinese), and 0 in Latin America. Most of India's IITs don't appear on that list for some reason, but they should — and the ones that do appear are the wrong ones.

Here in Buenos Aires, the University of Buenos Aires was badly damaged by Perón demanding loyalty oaths from the professors, driving those who valued their intellectual freedom out of the university and often out of Argentina entirely. A few years later, it was damaged further by an anti-Peronist military dictatorship attempting to purge it of Peronists https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noche_de_los_Bastones_Largos. The first computer in Latin America was lost in the shuffle. Decades of such intermittent political violence disproportionately affected the intellectual classes; the last dictatorship, backed by the US in its secret mass murders of political dissidents, notoriously blamed society's drug problems on "an excess of thinking" among students: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Bardi#Ministro Those intellectuals who could move abroad often did so, including Favaloro, who invented heart bypass surgery after refusing to swear loyalty to Perón, and Chaitin, the discoverer of the random number omega at the heart of computability and the graph-coloring formulation of the compiler register allocation problem.

Despite all that, the University of Buenos Aires is still one of the best five or so universities in Latin America. That may give you a clue as to how bad the situation is in places like Ecuador, Venezuela, and Honduras, or even the poorer provinces of Argentina.
>historical inequalities that are highly correlated with race

Highly correlated with one race for a particular moment in history. New immigrants from Africa don't share the same disadvantage.

Is targeting a divisive proxy for disadvantage worth targeting when you can just target poverty itself?
Microsoft has open sourced so much, I wish they would work on an effort to fully open source VB6 at least the bits they fully own and control. I have a feeling the community might rally to fill in the gaps, even if its over a few years.

I mean, look at EverQuest Online, insanely old MMO client, still has people building private servers, and even clients.
Acknowledge splitgate 2
A video discussing how close the ports got to the original: https://youtu.be/um3f2XrC-MY
If somebody is not a white man, you probably don't have to pay them more than if they were a white man.

If somebody is older, then you probably DO have to pay them more than if they were younger, because older candidates likely have more experience and have correspondingly higher salary expectations.

So there's that. Now suppose you have an older candidate who is not demanding high seniority pay. In that case they should be on equal footing with the younger candidates, right? Well, no. There's the double standard of "if you're so old, why aren't you above our pay grade? Shouldn't you be a manager or something?" That I don't know how to fix. Then there is the more overtly discriminatory "I'd rather hire the young candidate because old people are slow." Maybe what it really comes down to is "I don't want to work with my dad."
I currently use this remote and love it!
At least it's not all the time.

Plus this is probably a good time for me to recall that there are plenty of people who actually think some of us are from another planet, so there is that.

Wherever I go I'm always curious how did things get to be the way they are?

And what next?
> infinite, or at least highly dependent on the thickness of the rope

The latter. But that's only if it's not somewhat taut. Some tension brings it closer to a circle and makes the actual thickness pretty unimportant.

But I like the idea overall. It means that lifting up the string makes it smoother and it actually needs less length. How's that for being unintuitive?
Homeless people want to live in cities, for all the reasons other people want to live in cities. In cities, affordable housing is extremely expensive. For example, in Santa Monica, California, an affordable housing project can cost over $1 million per unit.

https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/Ne...
I've built a few systems using msgpack-rpc - serves really well as a transport format in my experience!
Lol once I 3d printed my daughter a “Rocktopus”. It was a model of Dwane Johnson “the Rock” head with articulating octopus arms a cool 3d print that was funny. Anyways she took it and painted it all up and then glued on fake eye lashes and makeup on it. She then made a video to TikTok or snap I forget and it went viral getting like a million views. I could see that made her happy like a dopamine hit so told her that it was fun but to just be careful and that she is awesome and not to stress if random people on the internet don’t validate her feelings. She has me beat though I think my highest upvoted post was like 15k or so on reddit for something satirical and dumb. Feels good in the moment.
And if you were in a large corporate environment, you could see through the bullshit as well. It is just a CLM (career limiting move) to call it out, so everyone gives it lip service.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-says-biden-p...

I guess we know the real reason now.
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I was extremely puzzled by that statement too. I would hate to work with someone like that.
Too long didn't read
Marathon 2 by Bungie also had weird non-euclidean maps with overlapping sections in the late 90s I think.

I miss the customizability of that game. Early bungie works were up there with early blizzard or early valve. They sold a tool for fun instead of casting a bait for profit.
Who are pushed by the government to censor vaccine side effects:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-says-biden-p...
Every change came with pros and crons, I believe that you can't employ people based on personal characteristics, genre, race, and etc. But if person fit the requirements of the open job, what important is the skill.

I know that world ins't fair, and some people (like me by example) have to put more efforts that others, but this is life, we have to conquer our space and be pride by our achievements.
I think it's always conscious one way or the other. With or without DEI.

It could be close to blind if communication were only done through writing and the candidate names were not known.
Those kinds of puzzles are part of the CCAT test (annoying test for "cognitive aptitude") and I used this trick.
https://archive.ph/xrfDj
Yeah, a Vector dev that is now at Datadog told me that Vector is essentially deprecated.
I don't think being written in VB6 is actually a good reason not to use XYPlorer, which seems like a capable tool, but this page doesn't seem really reassuring? What would reassure me is knowing that there is a maintained version of VB6 for modern systems. Luckily, there apparently is such an implementation, twinBasic, and they are already using it for 64-bit releases.
I too would not want to accept nature's constraints in all cases, it's just the "get the word out" case where I think it's a well placed boundary.

One could still put a lot of work into crafting their message, but if propagation beyond earshot could only be achieved with the unpaidfor consent of the propagator... I think we'd find that the human way of doing it for a million years actually outperforms the internet in most areas that matter (that is, supposing that once the issue authentically had your attention you could then use the internet to confirm/correct whatever memetic mutations accrued and get the story straight--word of mouth for notification, computers for replication).

I don't expect it to solve greed, I just want to be able to hear myself think so that I can more clearly think about how I'll interfere with greed in non-advertising dimensions.
My one thing was “Everything by Voidtools”. It piggy backed on the NTFS index, something no tool does for Linux-native filesystems.

Does XYPlorer work with Wine?
That's actually not true. E.g. Nintendo fans vs Palworld / Pocket Pair.
Meshtastic let's you select different compromises between throughput and range. The main limitation is that everybody has to agree on the same setting up front to be able to communicate with each other within a network.

The default (and most widely used, including on the de facto public channel) setting is one of the longer range options and gives you around 1 kbps, and it's quite usable on the default for normal texting and positioning telemetry with a handful of active users in my experience. The fastest setting is over 20 kbps and still gets ok range, the slowest is a mere 0.09 kbps and is only useful in some limited scenarios.

It's legitimately useful, and I actually use it regularly. Mostly for hiking, as I do a lot of hikes where we split and meet up. It's also far cheaper than commercial options, and getting close to being as polished as the commercial options like Beartooth or GoTenna.

https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/radio-settings/