skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with calling people out.

> This was a racial equity policy. Like a lot of them, it was designed by idiots and/or racists.

So a policy can be labeled an 'equity policy' and have nothing to do with equity in either intent or result, which is what I would expect from an 'equity policy' written by a racist.

Call it corruption, call it fraudulent activity, but it does it seems like there was only lip service to equity. So why would you call it DEI or equity or anything similar?

Company A: Our equity policy is to only hire white men! We are proud of how we are striving towards equity with our new DEI policy.

observer: Damn those DEI policies ruining everything.

To me it is obvious you do not blame 'DEI policies' but the leadership and corruption in Company A.
Hope we get the Nick Land the younger, and not Nick Land the elder, set of outcomes. Somewhere, sometime, along the way, it seems like everything from CCRU and Duginism leapt out of the page into the real. Maybe it's just the beginning of the Baudrilliardian millennium.
$280,475,260 of total contributions was from individuals. AKA Elon Musk.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary?id=D000029147
60% reduction of a small number is a small number.

Go look at how much the numbers dropped from 2022 to 2024. The problem was effectively solved already.
Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby
Strong disagree. The RV32E subset of the RISC-V spec is even simpler than 6502 and has good modern support in cheap microcontrollers (CH32V003 etcetera) and widely available simulators.
I created a negotiation book for big tech
This tracks. I just read through all the notes in my daughter's medical file for the last few visits and couldn't fathom where the doctor had time for it. It looked to be automatically transcribed.
It's not a "lawful direction" if the order is illegal.
Agreed. Imagine if tech hiring worked like that. Entry-level positions could be moved to WV or the Dakotas, optimize for low salary and cost-of-living and ignore retention/burnout/washout rates since you figure they're going to be high anyway.

FYI the states(/districts) with lowest ATC pay are DC, IA, MS, MT, SD, VT, WV :
See third plot: "Annual mean wage for air traffic controllers, by state, May 2023" and lots of other useful stats in https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes532021.htm
I hope I never need to use this tool but I can see how it would be helpful.
Context: Moncton is built on a swamp. It has _a lot_ of mosquitoes during summer and 3 to 5 ft of snow during winter. It had (has?) the lowest home prices in all of Canada because of this. NB also has the lowest income per family (or next to lowest, Nunavut might be lower).

MS is more common in northern climates as well, but afaik it's not higher than average in NB.

Source: I have spent quite a bit of time in Moncton.
Maybe instead of punching down("everyone should have to live as bad as I do/did") you should be raising people up("everyone should live as good as they do/did")?

Why not ask yourself what is stopping yourself from having those protections in the private industry(hint: some people do have those protections in private industry) instead of focusing on taking them away from others?
Society is not going off the rails nor a crime ridden cesspool. It's thriving and doing well. We just seem drawn to when it does go off the rails and notice it more imo.
I don't think this is really a good comparison. Matlab is a $150 for a personal license for the language itself ($1000/year for commercial), and if you want any packages, all the packages are extra on top of that. Julia is fully open source, and has a strong open source package ecosystem (I think we're up to 10k packages by now). Juliahub provides some enterprise systems like JuliaSim, but the language itself is totally free.
Yes, and the presence of cameras would presumably mean that if the parent commenter's prediction comes true, the crime rate would go down even more as crimes of opportunity vanish and crimes from people who are disturbed enough to do things like that are still quite rare.
ICYMI there has been a ongoing 20+ year epidemic of kidney disease in Central American manual laborers, no one has pinned down an exact cause yet but it definitely seems to be heat exposure related. Not quite as scary as something that resembles CJD but lots of researchers looking into for a long time without finding definitive cause.

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2019/central-american-k...

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/26/7538343...
Check out Assembly Language for x86 Processors by Kip Irvine. It’s probably one of the best books on x86. The older editions are way cheaper.
I feel like there's some famous quote about facts and feelings not caring about one another...
Traffic cone nailed to a tree.
Bench burned through $135M before shutting down
> Which means, if every kid has an equal opportunity (in an absolute sense or on average) to develop the requisite skills to be an air traffic controller and if every kid was equally inclined to apply, and the application process were fair, then eventually around 1/8 of air traffic controllers would be black.

It doesn't mean that at all.

Well, depending on what you mean. It could just be that your premise is known to be false.
Look up Etruscan shrew. They weigh less than 2g on avg.
I started with BASIC on a Vic 20 in 1979 in a computer class for kids. Then I got my own Atari 400 at home, so I learned BASIC on that. Then around 1984 I got a Commodore 64 and it was amazing. I quickly got past the BASIC part of the C64 manual and in the back of the manual they had a memory map, all the hardware registers for all the chips, and then all the 6502/6510 opcodes. There was even an entire schematic for the C64 in the back of the book as a fold-out poster. 14 year old me was hooked. I got into assembly when I was about 15 and never looked back to BASIC. I wrote a lot of assembly code for many years, creating "crack intros" for cracking groups and demos on the C64. I then moved on to Amiga and 68000 assembly, and I even got into SNES 65C816 (16 bit version of 6502) assembly coding using a 30th generation photocopy of the pirated SNES developer manual and a floppy disk game copier, which also had a parallel port that I managed to connect to my Amiga and use that as the development system uploading the compiled program to the SNES via parallel port. I would make "crack intros" for SNES games being traded on pirate BBS's. It was a lot of fun. Many years later, I'm still doing some 8-bit assembly code for microcontroller projects where I'm trying to use the smallest possible CPU to do interesting things. Everything I learned about Assembly on the C64 still applies to the modern microcontrollers (PIC/AVR) that I use today.

In so many of these years I had not learned C. I went from assembly to scripting languages, and was a very early adopter of Javascript since the same month it first came out. Only in the last 10 years have I learned C, and it was so easy! After learning Assembly and Javascript, C was right in the middle.

I've programmed in over a dozen languages through the years, but I'm really happy with Assembly, C, and Javascript as my stack depending on the project.
>We're currently working on a version where we send the document to two different LLMs, and use a 3rd if they don't match to increase confidence.

I’m interested to hear more about the validation process here.
In my limited experience, I’ve sent the same “document” to multiple LLMs and gotten differing results. But sometimes the “right” answer was in the minority of responses. But over a large sample (same general intent of document, but very different possible formats of the information within), there was no definitive winner. We’re still working on this.
What are these riders called? Pork or something?
The more polite term is "sealioning."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
I noted in a different comment in this thread that we teach all first-year compsci and software engineering students at my university MIPS assembly. They may then specialise into other areas, security, operating systems, embedded, etc., and in those specialties may need assembly for more modern CPUs.

We have found that when needed, students pick up the newer/more advanced assembly languages (e.g. ARM, x86) fairly well, so we believe the early and universal introduction to MIPS does provide benefits.
Thanks for correcting me.

The page I linked is confusing. (Why attribute it to SpaceX, but not X or Tesla?)
BCrypt should loudly fail if more than 72 bytes are sent to its input.
RISC-V has a simple instruction encoding, but the 6502 has 151 instructions total.
Sure, it's the rule that multiplies all the weights of matrix C1, with your transformed inputs. It's right there. What part of that rule don't you understand?
Testing for ability is exactly what they were originally doing before the NBCFAE got involved in the FAA's well established hiring process.

I get your point, but to be clear this is already what they were doing since 1989 up until 2013.
ah darn, maybe bill_duckduckgo can put in a referral for us? ;)
One thing to consider is that there's a whole world of 8, 16, and 32-bit microcontrollers out there being used in new products every day. They are all readily programmable in assembly language, and if you have the basics down then the learning curve isn't terribly steep.
SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big – Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model
I don't know, I compulsively read Wikivoyage pages and pretty much every page I read says "don't talk politics with the locals".
On this particular topic, yes, absolutely. Just read the ruling.
So what you mean is that if the current train of thought is going in a direction we find to be not optimal, we could just interrupt it and hint it into the right direction?

That sounds very useful, albeit a bit different than how current "chat" implementations would work, as in you could control both ways of the conversation.
I was an employee of a company providing security services. I can attest to that company being filled with generalist programmers.

None were trained in security principles. None were security experts. And there was no security review.
I like the analogy of compression, in that a distilled model of an LLM is like a JPEG of a photo. Pretty good, maybe very good, but still lossy.

The question I hear you raising seems to be along the lines of, can we use a new compression method to get better resolution (reproducibility of the original) in a much smaller size.
I moved from 6502 assembly to PowerPC assembly. I found 6502 assembly easy to understand because of the limited number of registers, instructions and addressing modes. You didn't have to learn very many.

And as it turned out, I didn't have any problems adapting to the expanded PPC ISA. Being on the 6502 already taught me how to chop problems down into tiny bits and now the bits didn't have to be so tiny. I certainly wasn't trying to do 8-bit chained adds for bigger quantities anymore; it didn't make sense to when I had 32-bit registers and an FPU.
I could still get a job but it would require more effort. I keep my network updated on what I'm doing and new opportunities, not just jobs, present themselves to me. People who avoid LinkedIn remind of those who scoff at the stock market. Yes, it sucks if you hold it wrong.
> eventually criminals will understand that cameras now make escaping from a crime impossible.

In NYC most of the time the cameras are such low resolution that when they post a photo of someone wanted for a crime it's impossible to make them out at all.
I believe that the existence of DOGE and the EO is legal. I don't believe that what they are actually doing (according to reports) is legal. I believe they are doing illegal things based upon Musk's own tweets, however, I do actually hope he is just trolling and it's not actually happening as he says it is.

That said, even if it's just trolling, trolling has no place in government. We all deserve better and we need to trust that what is said is the truth.
I think this happens in London too. Crime is so normalised that both the residents and police see a creep in their threshold for what is a "serious" crime.

My apartment block sees package theft almost daily and there was a parking spot that was getting hit by smash and grabs almost daily at one point. We have up reporting them because the police were pretty nonchalant about doing anything about it. The only reason I think most crime at this level ever gets filed is for insurance claims. But if people are so squeezed they don't have insurance they wouldn't report them
Man Elon himself said his plan is to crash the economy. When people tell you who they are, listen!

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
Nutrition consensus notoriously flipflops between "eggs are healthy" and "eggs are unhealthy" every year or two.
In the case of supervised problem domains, you implicitly make a decision about what is signal, and what is noise, and sure, in that closed setting, supervised learning is much more sample efficient. But I think what we're learning now is that with strong enough base models, 'aha' moments in RL training show that it might be possible to essentially 'squeeze out signal from language itself', giving you far greater breadth of latent knowledge than supervised examples, and letting you train to generalize to far greater horizons than a fixed dataset might allow. In a fascinating way it is rather reminiscent of, well, abiogenesis. This might sound like speculative claptrap if you look at the things the current generation of models are still weak at, but... there's a real chance that there is a very heavy tail to the set of outcomes in the limit.
Have you determined that you aren't seeing edge effects that appear as oscillations? Just a thought.
You don't know many Christians then. Some of the more religious folks I know are 100% in favor of sending Palestinian kids through woodchippers. As are both wings of the US government. And people who aren't in favor of that can always be brought to heel if they are in position of any authority, as illustrated by Musk's recent forced conversion to the cause, and anti-1st amendment bipartisan legislation currently sailing through Congress. "Rules based world order" is not what people think it is.
When I was in Europe people I spoke to thought it was strange that Americans even ask each other what they do for work. Work to live, not live to work.
Yep, hmmm. It just sucks that this data which should be easy to find is not and FAA clearly has since they put out the report with it.
Spotify Price History since 2009
I agree it's always amazing that FOSS can be so smart, but so dumb as to not understand basic marketing.
It really is wild. I don't know how your recovery is going, but for anyone worried about this kind of thibg, I will say, that the body does seem to have some kind of memory for prior use snd development generally. For those of us who have worked out moderately to intensely only to suffer an injury or life getting in the way of maintaining consistent practice at the same level, you will find that when you return to working out, you tend to return to fairly close to your prior peak in far less time than it took to get there. Similar to how muscle memory can lead to very quick progression back to your prior level of skill in something that you haven't done in years.

You won't be back to your prior peak, but you'll close 70-90% of the gap shockingly quick.

EDIT: One thing to look out for in situations like GP though, in which development becomes lopsided, is your body will develop lopsided compensation for the disaprity. A lot of physiotherapy often involves learning to force your body to not engage in these compensatory measures so that the diminished or injured part of your body can rebuild its strength and stability correctly.
My brother in law is a pilot, and has colleagues who were impacted by this. What surprised me is that he blames Obama for this. I typically ignore his blame of Obama as some racist tirade, but this seems to point to Obama pushing these changes?
Money Saved by Canceling Programs Does Not Flow to the Best Possible
It uses a hard fork of Firefox's Gecko engine called Goanna, and is independently developed other than a few security patches from upstream. It has considerably diverged from contemporary Firefox so is not comparable.
Megacryometeor
Note that the CFAA may make Musk personally and civilly liable (i.e. not pardonable) if he causes enough monetary damage to someone with unauthorized access.

Then again, he can probably pay the costs if it's just a few individual lawsuits.
I bet the average person hasn't downloaded an MP3 (or AAC for that mater) in probably a decade. Everyone streams music now.
What's your source for the assertion that it's not a buyout and it's up to the individual agency if the employee is required to continue working? You might be right that it's not a buyout, but the official Office of Personnel Management FAQ seems to clearly describe it as one:

Q: Am I expected to work at my government job during the deferred resignation period?
A: No.

Q: Am I allowed to get a second job during the deferred resignation period?
A: Absolutely! We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so. The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.

Q: Will I really get my full pay and benefits during the entire period through September 30, even if I get a second job?
A: Yes. You will also continue to accrue annual leave and sick leave during the deferred resignation period until you separate. You will be paid a lump sum for accrued but unused annual leave upon separation.

Q: Can I take an extended vacation while on administrative leave?
A: You are most welcome to stay at home and relax or to travel to your dream destination. Whatever you would like.

https://www.opm.gov/fork/faq

Is there an explanation for this apparent discrepancy?
It has static types because the compiler won't let you change a variable's type.

It's exactly as statically typed as C#. Both allow explicitly-declared dynamic variables, but they're disabled by default.

=== is incidental syntax required to maintain the goal of being a superset of JS.
I can't imagine identifying myself on a forum...much less reddit.
Almost all our food waste goes into a small metal bowl that gets dumped in the coop every night. I used to bury it in the compost pile, but since the hens have picked through it all, theres not much left. They happily eat the scraps and I happily collect their eggs.
Fascinating: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6184083
I started programming in AppleSoft BASIC in 1986. But quickly became fascinated with 65C02 assembly. By the time I got to college and started taking different programming language classes, I quickly fell in love C. My knowing assembly helped me understand C and even though I haven’t learned any other assembly language since then, when I read articles about low level architecture of processors, I can follow along.

Let me take that back, I did learn 16 bit x86 assembly and the int21 DOS commands in college.
More different than the normal differences webdevs need to handle, safari vs chrome vs firefox vs edge?
When you collect data if it doesn't reflect what you know about reality, check again how you are collecting data.

If citizens no longer think reporting a crime will lead to justice, will they still report crimes?

My lived experience is that London is not as safe as it used to be. If the data tells me otherwise I will tell you a KPI driven org is gaslighting me
Unrelated; I just wanted to say that I learned programming from your socket tutorials when I was a kid. Everything was so well written that I used it from highschool, to varsity to my day2day job.

Without your tutorials I’m not even sure if I would have chosen the carreer I did- thank you for all the love and effort you put into your posts; Im sure that there are many other people who you’ve touched in a similar way
I doubt they are using exponential time algorithms. They appear to be using Opus, which appears to be O(NlogN) worst case. Opus is also well known to be computationally cheap, like most (all?) audio codecs. It should run fine on the Pentium II.

I would be more concerned about modern video codecs. None of them are exponential time, but they need so much compute that it is unlikely that a Pentium II could handle them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the copyright statement actually has any legal effect anymore (Berne Convention of 1886 / 1989 for the US) so it doesn't really matter if there's a year or not. I think it's just informative.
Same, learned as a kid. What was your motivation?

Mine was wanting to make games and hitting the performance wall in basic.
6502-based microcomputers like the Apple II shipped with BASIC and a 6502 monitor.

The reason is that BASIC and low-level monitors can fit into tiny amounts of memory.
There are two distinct but related phenomena, both called muscle memory: the motor learning you're talking about, and strength training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory_(strength_traini...
How long does the checklist need to be? Can I check three boxes if I an interview a gay black jew or do I only get one?
> modern RISC architectures such as ARM, MIPS or RISC-V. At some point, a serious assembly programmer should definitely learn some of them.

Yes.

> However, they are not ideal to start with: the “S” in RISC stands for “simple”, but the simplicity is more about internal implementation of the chips than the instruction set.

That is in fact a much better description of the 6502, which is not even a RISC but rather something almost prehistoric, where you figure out how much circuitry you could fit on a chip (or board) and then figured out what instruction set you could fit to that hardware.

Note that 6502 was the first machine code I learned as a 17 year old in 1980, after I got bored with BASIC after two days. I learned z80 on a ZX81 the year after and PDP-11 the same year. VAX in 1982, 6809 in 1983, and 68000 in 1984.

> Modern microprocessors are almost exclusively programmed with high-level languages and the direct usage of assembly instruction is not high on the list of priorities for CPU designers nowadays.

That's just absolutely not true.

They might be in some way "harder" than a CISC instruction set such as VAX but any of the above are far simpler to program than 6502, especially the base RISC-V RV32I instruction set.

> To illustrate this point, loading a 64-bit constant to a register on ARM64 can take 4 instructions with bit shifting.

Whereas you can't do it at all on a 6502! Loading a 64 bit constant into 8 zero page locations takes 16 instructions and 32 bytes of code on a 6502.

Let's not even talk about adding or comparing or multiplying two such values.

The GNU assembler for ARM64 doesn't help you out, but on RISC-V you can just type ...

li x10,0xfedcba9876543210

... and the assembler will generate the multiple instructions for you.
So that's another 20k people who are now unemployed. Kind of hard to really count that as a victory.
I have OCD and sadly one of the ways I've dealt with it is to drown it out by being on social media and, before that, just playing NPR nonstop all day. I basically chose a new, louder voice to drown out the other voices in my head.

Unfortunately, in this day and age it's like choosing between two different forms of torture. Social media is so toxic and fries the nervous system so much - it's awful. The news is awful. And being alone with OCD is awful. (And yes I've tried various treatments - so far, nothing's worked great. B12 shots did help a bit and so did prednisone accidentally, but I can't stay on that long term.)
I think you can just ask DeepSeek to create a coin for you at this point, and with the recent elimination of any oversight, you can automate your rug pulls...
Likewise! At least there are still some venues online where partisan sloganeering hasn't totally overwhelmed discourse.