skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Plus, we know that Google knew I wouldn't like this because they didn't tell me they were going to do it. They didn't update their docs when they did it, meaning all my help documentation searching was pointless because they kept pointing me to when Gemini was a per-user subscription, not a UI nightmare that they decided to force everyone to use.

These are paying customers. This isn't a case of "you're the product." Yet Google chooses not to be good stewards of their customer base. The level of contempt big tech has for users really is something.
> I think LLMs are getting better (well better trained) on dealing with basic math questions but you still need to help them

I feel like that's a fools errand. You could already in GPT3 days get the LLM to return JSON and make it call your own calculator, way more efficient way of dealing with it, than to get a language model to also be a "basic calculator" model.

Luckily, tools usage is easier than ever, and adding a `calc()` function ends up being really simple and precise way of letting the model focus on text+general tool usage instead of combining many different domains.

Add a tool for executing Python code, and suddenly it gets way broader capabilities, without having to retrain and refine the model itself.
A "quick question" from non-engineers (and even fresh engineers not yet used to the idea of focusing on work at work, or in general people who don't understand they're not the centre of the world) is usually carrying within it a request (or demand) to do something for the other person. A genuine "quick question" is one to which a quick "I don't know" or "not now!" is an acceptable answer. Those are easy to navigate - if you feel like considering it fully will break your focus, you can just decline answering it. If you can't, it means the question is really a disguised attempt to offload work onto you; engaging with it is giving permission to the other party to pull you in and try to keep you there.
There are just a few left. Enums are definitely the most common to find in the wild. The next most common (and a lot further down) is probably `namespace` (fka "inner modules").
It’s obviously the UK. Lots of UK expats buying and retiring to Spain. At least that’s the story I hear.
Centralized moderation is a big thing.

Usenet was a very open system, where iirc moderation sometimes happened per discussion group but otherwise everyone individually had to ignore bad actors (add to killfile). It scaled badly with more people and spammers. Arguably it started going downhill 30 years ago. Found a decade old discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987679
The options are limited (H-1B, L-1, and O-1, typically) but oftentimes there's a solution; this will depend on your qualifications and the company's profile.
Btw, I used “you” as a reference to the sovereign democracy society, not the government.
> but I don't think people really want to pay for anything

People don't like subscriptions.
Thats not an entirely fair comparison because GDP/capita is different, and the base assumption would be that millionaires/capita increases with GDP.

That assumption appears to hold in general (Luxembourg and Switzerland have higher GDP and significantly higher millionaire percentages than the US), but there are a LOT of exceptions, like Ireland/Norway (way less millionaires than you would expect from GDP).

This is very interesting, I would not have expected to see such significant differences between countries...
Of course, the eventual monarchy didn't solve Israel's problems either:

> When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the Lord. But the Lord told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king....
> When that day comes, [the people asking for a king] will cry out because of the king you’ve chosen for yourselves...
> — 1 Samuel

No mere human is deserving of being "believed in," whether it's a king, politician, religious leader, or even one's own self. We're simply not good enough (or powerful enough, or...) to be able to truly fix the world's problems on our own.
Even most of the world right now doesn’t care about wokeness and never has. India, the Middle East, Africa, China, Russia etc. never caught on to most woke stuff that came out of the west in the past 20 years.
> awk grep ping biff ip yum du curl sed

Not to offend anyone, but ip yum and curl are neologisms introduced in later translations.

Wars have been fought over this disagreement!
> He's just a guy. A guy who entered into business transactions with a number of people

Unfortunately, that's not true. He is also a well-read and influential essayist. He wields power and influence through his words as well as his money.
Feels the same. Moved to UK a couple of years ago, can’t find a £25k job. Found some outsourced work at American companies and now suddenly I’m going to hit the higher tax bracket
Also worth noting that the eslint rules for what `erasableSyntaxOnly` might be are already well established, for those looking to do it today.
> I don't think you can say people don't want AI just because they don't want to pay 20/month or w/e for it.

But do people want AI that's rigged to constantly recommend Shopping Like A Billionaire at Temu™, either? Because that's the alternative if people won't pay.
Debugging an Undebuggable iOS App
I thought this was Donald’s Knuth Mix computer at first
Algorithmic? I think simply checking like the US law "ID 18 U.S.C. 2257" already does is a much better solution than having algorithms guess the age based on a photo or video.

Though I have to say I sometimes wonder how sites like Onlyfans do this with male actors. Often the only thing you see is their dick and I can't remember having to submit a dickpic for my passport :D So how do they know a submitted passport matches the dick in question?

But really I think it's better to know for sure than to guess.
The USSR was consistently 10-15 years behind in semiconductor fabrication ability and this did matter. China is closer, but still…

BTW the ASML technology is based in part on research that was funded by the USA; which is why the USA has a say in who gets it.
> There are real questions about bathrooms, women's sports, and when medical interventions are called for.

Yes there are real questions, but there are also real answers. Currently, 99% of people asking questions have literally zero interest in answers. They do not care about what research say or whether there is harm or not. They ask questions to convince the audience about their political project.

They do not care about whether medical interventions are good, bad, safe or unsafe. They want to convince you that that they are unsafe. They want to stop the interventions regardless of their impact. They do not care about safety of bathrooms, they want you to punish transgender people in the wrong bathroom. They do not care about women sports either, in fact they are the same people arguing against women sports whereever it matters.

> People can think poorly of you for whatever reason they want.

And it should be my god give right to call them sexist and racists if they think of me poorly because of those reasons. But somehow that is supposed to be a taboo. We are all supposed to pretend there is no sexism, that there was no historical sexism, so that someone feels good about themselves. Again and again, sjws pointed out someone is sexist/racist, there was an outrage in response, they were painted crazy stupid exaggerating. And I actually believe the response, multiple times. Except that it turned out, multiple times, that they were right all along.
this means we are going to get o3 level open source models in a few months. So exciting !
It astounds me that anyone is capable of sincerely believing this.
You get more heat out of using a given quantity of gas to generate electricity which is used to to power a heat pump than you do by burning the gas directly for heat, even when considering generation and transmission losses etc.

Given that even during a time of low output from renewables we still only rely on 53% gas for electricity generation it's still much more beneficial environmentally to use a heat pump.

The monetary cost is another story though, and I agree we do need to work on weaning ourselves off gas.
Thanks for this explanation -- I guess I really had things wrong.
How is this at all related to what the person was saying? They made no mention of financial corruption. They're explicitly talking about speech and press.
When I was a kid (80s) I knew old boys with lathes and mills and pillar drills at the bottom of the garden. They were the last generation, I think, of a tradition rooted in the Victorian era which informally transferred a lot of knowledge from one generation to the next.

My pet theory is that their disappearance is tied closely to the cost of land. I see US-based hardware hobbyists' shops on YouTube, and I think "I couldn't even afford to build a shed that big". The tools themselves are often actually pretty cheap second hand at auction, because the demand is so low, but I live on the back of a postage stamp in comparison with those guys.

(Another possibility is simply that software ate the world.)
> if there are any MechE programs where a fresh graduate would have ever heard the term "feeds & speeds".

This was an extracurricular activity, and the MechE's were in their fifth year or so. I was in my first year (semester, really) and I was suggested I take the course because I was already a reasonable programmer and there was very little materials in the course, but it was more about programming the machines (simple loops, no real decisions, etc).

I was doing 0.1mm increments in my code because I "felt" steel wouldn't be soft enough for more, but I never got any real training on that before second year.
I think good leaders recognize people like the author simply have an additional life burden that they both choose and need to fight against and uphill. Additionally, those fights will ebb and flow unpredictably, possibly becoming too much of a burden for them at unpredictable times. If this is what you mean by negative opinion, then I agree. But I really don't think good leaders will take it out on them personally or hold them back to the point where they choose fighting inner trans issues over their business and success.
Most promising by what definition? And what subset of applications/markets are you considering?
In the microcontroller space, China is leading on RISC-V. EspressIf, WCH, et.c are already shipping units at scale. Of course these are low value chips, but the volumes are large. The combined shipments for microcontrollers are in tens of billions of units annually. The technology choices in the space changes slowly (32 bit over 8/16bit is quite recent...), but over the next 10 years RISC-V looks poised to take a decent chunk.
> I can't believe how ignorant some people could be.

Wow, it goes deeeeeeep.
I'm so tired of hearing "both sides" though.
Why exactly are they half the price? What are the externalities of Chinese EV manufacturing. They may be half the price, but I doubt they are half the cost.
Where you launch in a place where the government actually controls your company, well, that's a decision you made.
If the answer is supposed to be logically rigorous, o1 is incomplete for the reason you say.

If I was treating this as a lateral thinking puzzle (does anyone still do those for interview questions?) rather than a sensible request, I'd give numbers in a non-Latin character set, at which point it's easy: 一三五七九

(But even this only works for silly games, IMO).
After 40 years of research and self-discovery I discovered I have this condition

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

that affects at least 5% of the population but never gets diagnosed.

Three times I followed lines of research that could have led to this conclusion but I missed it. I received several good quality psych evals and looking back I can go over them with a highlighter and see the diagnostic criteria in the first paragraph. There is this construct

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

which I think is just a bit wrong which is one reason I skipped past it many times, I know I could walk in now and get that diagnosis but between being a good amateur psychodiagnostician and a bad actor I think I could get any diagnosis I want. (e.g. on the ADHD screen I just have to say "always" when they ask "how often do you space it?" as opposed to "some of the time")

ADHD and high-functioning autism strike me as fads, just like gluten intolerance, I'm sure that a lot of people who feel a bit out of sync with other people have what I've got.

ADHD is associated with drug seeking behavior, amphetamines will help anybody sit in a chair, do repetitive tasks, drive for 10 hours at exactly the speed limit. They tried to drug me as a kid and I'm glad they didn't because a friend of mine who was an early adopter lost all his teeth and will suffer from osteoporosis if he lives that long. Autism has a whole "autism industrial complex" that makes it a business that, like ADHD, promotes itself.
Chinese RedNote App Exposes Sensitive User Data
I want the nuclear future with practically emission free power that's 'too cheap to meter'. I want to stop caring about SEER ratings and be able to leave windows cracked all seasons to bring in fresh air. I want power companies that keep brush and trees away from their lines.

Until that happens, I'll hang onto my gas furnace and water heaters.
LiveCodingBench has DeepSeekR1 at #3 after O1-high and O1-medium https://livecodebench.github.io/leaderboard.html
> I find taking mini breaks, whether visiting the restroom or being interrupted by my kids to be quite beneficial actually.

For me, it depends. When working at home with kids around, I actually dread the restroom break or making myself a cup of tea, because in those two minutes I'm out of the home office, it's virtually guaranteed they'll drag me into whatever is happening at home at the given moment, wiping my focus entirely.

Sometimes this does break me out of being fixated on doing the wrong thing, but more often than not, it just plain prevents me from doing any thing at all.
I didn't mean FAANG companies - these days I work for a boring 500 person SaaS company (outside London) and we have at least 50-100 engineers at £100k+, excluding equity.

I get a lot of recruiter spam on Linkedin for roles at retail banks, outsourcers, consultancies, SaaS companies, startups, etc. etc. in the £90-110k bracket. I do also get a lot of recruiter spam for laughably underpaid jobs, in particular hardware/embedded roles, which is why I switched out of embedded.
Check with the AV supplier for the venue and you will find that most conference projectors are intentionally lower native resolution than entertainment projectors. They are different types of hardware for different markets.

I like to prepare the presentation using a laptop or monitor having the exact same native resolution as the projector will have from the beginning.
This is lacking a lot of nuance though isn't it? You're basically saying hate the player not the game, and that isn't really useful. When you step up to the arena and decide to play a competitive sport, because of game dynamics you can only know so much about who you are playing against, so you should play. The whole philosophical theory behind capitalism is literally progress emerges from the conflict and tension created between it's functional systems. If you want to get down to blaming humans, you're going to hav to go over to Adam Smiths or Joseph Schumpeter.
YC in-group fixation on "Roman stuff."
I just tried Claude Sonnet with the Pelican & Walrus setup, but asked it for something in style of Norm Macdonald's humor, which would seem a potentially good fit for this type of idea. It got the idea of a rambling story (cf Macdonald's moth joke) that mostly ignored them being a Pelican and Walrus, which seemed promising, but still failed to deliver. I'm guessing with some more guidance and iteration it could have come up with something.
> Undemocratically, performatively, anointing behind closed doors a weak but social justice signaling candidate to run on the democratic ticket

You’re just stringing together bingo-card words. I don’t think this is going to be a productive exchange, so I’ll leave things where they stand.
Podcasts, blogs, posts matter little and talks are only marginally helpful. The lowest hanging criteria are essential roles for distinguished organization, high compensation, press, and judging (either serving as a reviewer for an academic journal or conference or serving as a judge at a competition or event, such as a hackathon or startup/business competition). By the way, your gut is right; USCIS is sensitive to fake/manufactured press and this can undermine an otherwise strong petition.
This is a really personal article and I'm really grateful the author shared it. I think too often conceptual terms like "wokeness" and "identity politics" get thrown around without really considering the people underlying those ideas.

It's easy to make snap judgements along the lines of "the world is too woke these days", but a lot harder to argue against peoples ability to live as they choose with basic dignity.
How do you know it didn't catch on? It depends on Lisp! The fraction of programmers using parinfer is bounded by the fraction of Lisp programmers. (I think I might have seen some fledgling experiment with parinfer for other languages, though.)

I'm highly resistant to novelty in this area, yet even I am using parinfer. A crappy implementation in Vim, at that, which only works in One direction: indent -> parens, and can get into an infinite loop fighting with Vim's undo.
Why would there be no contract with a local app? At the company scales you're talking about, enterprise, there absolutely will be. These aren't going to be standalone 100 dollar apps for that level of scale.
I also did from some American Olympic athlete. I still don’t go running though.
> Are you sure? There's a pretty good overlap these days in globally supported bands on at least a baseline level.

Most Chinese imported phones have really poor band support in the US. Lucky to get band 2 and band 5 at best.

> In some countries (the US included), providers restrict the ability of devices not capable of e.g. VoIP to connect on certain bands (as there is no circuit switched fallback available there, and there's an FCC mandate that calls, in particular 911 calls, have to work wherever data works), but that's usually not applied to inbound roaming guests.

US all circuit switched data is basically gone except for a few rural carriers and maybe a few pockets of 2G left on T-Mobile (was shut down on my local towers in past few weeks). Unsure of the 911 IMS carrier profile support on models not intended for US market.
Aaaaaaand, its gone. "We can't seem to find the page you're looking for."

Archived: https://archive.ph/UEDWh
"Content" is narrower than "speech". In that case the restriction was described as "content-neutral". Hence it didn't require strict scrutiny, only intermediate scrutiny. Which seems like the blueprint for how they wrote the TikTok law.
Who flagged this??? Angry Next.js devs?
Also works great with my Traktor mixer. Traktor doesn't have linux support for their software, so I was glad my mixer didn't brick after the switch
Slightly related "What kind of uncle am I?" by Reymond Chen https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20090427-01/?p=18...
Without technical alternatives EU treats are worthless
i'm gonna say the author mistakenly held their knife upside down at lunch, and then instead of just saying "haha that was dumb" like a normal person, wrote a whole article to explain how it was actually the knife's fault.
*SEO, not SSO
Link to the essay in question:
https://paulgraham.com/woke.html
He was at least Muslim-adjacent, I think we can agree. Does it matter? Immigrant with ties to Al Qaida plots terror attack and actually murders people, comment section screaming "Ackshually he was not proven to be a Muslim" for real...

>The people who were jailed were generally jailed for rioting and incitement to riot

And I'm sure that given that officials gave many of them a year in prison, just a week after arrest, and after letting real criminals out to make room in the prisons, and after promising to make examples of them, means justice was served. Give me a break. Obviously the authorities can claim that anything calmly painting immigrants or even known criminals in a bad light is inciting a riot. It means nothing when laws are as screwed up as they are in the UK.
I have to say that this is a very well written piece. The story in the first half does a good job of showing the author's personality and making him seem very relatable, at least if you are a typical HN reader. And it's a good story and didn't have me thinking "get to the point", especially since the title doesn't make you expect anything more than a good story.

Then halfway down, he drops the words "I'm transgender now" and you start to realize what he/she is really writing about.

If the article started there it would have lost a lot of people. Instead with the first half it gets you invested and you stick around to read the rest of it.

PG's essay about wokeness, on the other hand, didn't really accomplish this. In fact it kind of did the opposite: came on strong and imprecise at the beginning and became more measured and precise towards the end. And thus it probably lost a lot of readers toward the more "woke" end of the spectrum like this author.
I tried making a random text adventure generator a while ago, where the idea was I would fill it with items and item combinations, and ask it to look for the most crazy/interesting chain of item manipulation puzzles e.g. key opens chest, to get the matchbook, to light the dynamite, to blow open the safe, to get the money, to buy the ticket.

I thought the idea was really promising at first but my finding was there's just not that many interesting puzzles based around real-life item interactions, so it wasn't fun to play (without going further by adding a plot, NPCs and graphics).

If the item interaction is too everyday, it's too obvious and boring (like a key to open a door), and if it's too obscure it feels unfair (like a blowtorch to the neck of a wine bottle to open it), so it has to be somewhere in between and there's only maybe a few hundred types of interactions like this. When you look into it, you'll notice the same item interactions reused in lots of adventure games too e.g. bolt cutters + chain, torch + batteries, spade + ground.

Maybe sounds obvious when you think about it, but it wasn't obvious when I was prototyping.

I think this is one of the reasons escape room games devolve into obscure logic puzzles. And also why adventure games got criticised for having super obscure (moon logic) puzzles. And also why a lot of adventure games feature things like time travel and magic and NPCs, as it lets you introduce new rules for item interactions.

Another aspect is filling the game world with lots of items, locations and general red herrings so that the connection between items that is usually obvious isn't immediately obvious because you can't keep them all in your head.

The bugs were funny though. Like you had to tell it you can't put a car in a tree, that you shouldn't bury bread in the dirt, and a vending machine can't dispense vending machines.
No, it's not a lost battle. Unfortunately, their ESTA applications likely will be rejected outright because of their past B-1/B-2 visa application denials. But it's still possible that they could get B-1/B-2 visas. They should apply again but given their previous denials, they should consult an immigration attorney.