skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right that it does not "need to be a %" - it could be a la carte, for example.

Our physics group had access to the shared LN2 tank. It was no fee, so if you needed a few liters you could just grab it. That could be replaced with a debit system which goes directly to the account. (Hmm, and who decides how much to charge?)

We got hazmat training, and the environmental safety officer was paid by the university through overhead. That could instead be billed directly to the grant. (Hmm, and who decides how much to charge, and how much training is needed?)

When we installed a projector on the ceiling we were able to get building services to install the mount through the air plenum. That service could instead be billed directly against the grant. (Hmm, and who decides how much to charge?)

We could book time in the sound studio to record voice-overs for one of our projects. That was free, but could be billed directly against the grant. (Hmm, and who decides how much to charge?)

Some relevant materials, believe it or not, are not yet digitized, but are available in the library stacks. I could just walk there and read it, because library support was part of the overhead, but you're right - it doesn't need to be that way. The library could charge per entry and book. (Hmm, and who decides how much to charge?)

I'm sure other departments have their own needs, like maintaining the herds for the ag school, or the instruments for the music department.

I don't know how you could have dealt with this all first hand and not see just how much more the university provides than "space, utilities, and IT."
Endless links here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42977160
Discussion on the source paper (57 points, 1 day ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42963934
This was quite a time! Hotline, Delta Tao's Clan Lord, mp3s. All on a 33.6k modem (or similar). Someone sent me a graphics library, Think Pascal and a few other things and I got tinkering with graphics way back then too. I believe it was this https://www.lysator.liu.se/~ingemar/sat.html
Any trending language will attract some not so great people who make their choice of a shiny language their whole personality. It's really a pity for rust to be in that position now, as those people are there for the feeling of superiority and will cause drama to get it

If rust ends up being mainstream successful, those people will move on to something else and start attacking rust for whatever they feel their new language is superior in

Someone should have hugged them when they were kids
It is more relevant than ever with all the blantant openwashing occurring everywhere.
C# has a fork of the official plugin which uses NetCodeDbg by Samsung. And the language server itself is a part of the SDK anyway. It works in VSCodium without any additional effort required.
Actual projects to showcase. Open source/Github helps but is not a strict must.
Yeah, mostly Golang and Zig I think.
China has a demographic collapse coming so there is probably baked in inflation coming in the 2030s. The era of cheap chinese junk might go away. It doesn't just mean Aliexpress/Temu junk. It means a lot of fun things we take for granted may not make sense in a more inflationary environment so they dont get made.

If you watch manufacturing videos, its crazy how many people actually come together to make the cheap mundane things we take for granted: For example, count the number of people who touch this random RGB bluetooth speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFYxSX6xP2U

Maybe you could automate that, but it really would be more effort than its worth to set up robots to make what I assume is a fairly cheap product.
> “Adult Social Care”, which is basically paying for carers to go to wealthy old people and look after them because while they own a million pound house it would be unfair to expect them to pay for their own care.

That's BS. Adult social care is comically underfunded, needs-assessed, and not to a standard or timeliness that you would choose if you could afford private.
I've worked in data extraction from documents for a decade and have developed algorithms in the space. I've developed a product using LLMs for this purpose too.

This article is essentially correct.
Other than spew words at each other on a little niche web site (HN), nobody here can actually "do anything" about Musk, DOGE, or the tech elite.

If you want to talk about those things, there are lots of other web sites - bigger and more important ones - where they are being discussed. Go for it.

From the flagging, I'd assume that plenty of people here want a refuge from all that useless talk and arguments and unhappiness.
The weird thing with the subways is you can ride around on them all day as long as you have a ticket that covers the fare from where you entered to where you leave.

A lot of the stations didn’t have shops, and a lot of those were outside the “turnstiles”, but there are some places where for lulls you could change trains to get a drink or a snack then backtrack to where you were “supposed” to get out.

So someone chasing you down is just lost time, not lost money.
CDC + Study = very sceptical

Must be a new drug being developed from Ozempic or some other fake drug that cures long covid

Long COVID most often occurs in people who had severe illness, but anyone can develop the condition, according to the CDC.

yep. they are talking about children with no previous history of illness or disease.

Its the poor folks who's parents earn under $100,000 per annum.

Here we go again!!!!

People who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 are at higher risk of developing long COVID, the agency says.

What a load of bollocks
Or don't put gold in your food?
Something like this happened to me once on a bus, not because I fell asleep, but due to the line I was on changing its route, which I didn't know about. I just assumed it would go to my stop like it always did, so I didn't even bother checking. It turned out that this was the last bus of the day, in winter.

I eventually ended up at the "loop", AKA the last stop where buses turn around, and waited around an hour for a night bus that could get me back to where I wanted to be. Doing this as a blind person, with nobody else around to help just in case, was quite scary.
I wonder what the use case is for this given the security implications. Staging instances that are sufficiently isolated from other environments?
With all else being equal, I'm willing to believe that more intelligence would lead to greater income. But if you're claiming that IQ is the sole/main predictor for income that'd be a hard [citation needed] in my opinion.
I agree that Tramp is not great, but there's a simpler solution that works much better: `watchexec` + `rsync`.

I can set it up to watch specific file paths, and sync exactly what I need. I'm still working on the local FS, so there's no editing delay, I can use all my local tooling, and the syncing takes milliseconds. I can also make it delete files remotely when they're deleted locally. And finally, I always have a local copy once I stop working on the remote machine, which is something I always needed to sync manually with Tramp. Plus, it's editor agnostic.

This VS Code feature would make me nervous, especially now that I know what it does.
"The underlying protocol on that connection can:

Wander around the filesystem
Edit arbitrary files
Launch its own shell PTY processes
Persist itself"

Given that this was the solution, what was the goal?
It's not without merit. Two languages is an extreme cost in complexity compared to one, and you have to be a deep expert in both to fully figure out anything on the boundary.

Perhaps rusts potential benefits are worth it, but it's certainly possible to disagree with that
Untapped resource: Homeschoolers and self-tought people. Of course that entails that you have to be willing to look at more than what school they went to in the résumé and your company is on board with non-accademic hires, but that's partly your job if you want a change.
Because they are ruthless crazy murderers? Because they want to turn us into radioactive ash (basically every day on Russian state TV)?
If there were a criminal prosecution for willful copyright infringement in some non-US country an extradition request for the relevant people is not an impossibility though, and there would be no legal reason to deny it.
silly hector, everyone knows that bullying, screaming at people in public and insulting them online is a privilege of long-term maintainers who can do no wrong
My wife was in a flat in Wandsworth for a bit, through which I learnt they're not actually required to do recycling collection. Landlord provided a communal refuse bin, but no recycling. Wandsworth won't collect bags on street from residents above businesses (but those businesses can put bags on street twice a week, that's no problem).

I think they suggested a couple of recycling centres it could be taken to, but who really is doing that, especially without a car.
You could try but you might find it/you get "disappeared" like Truecrypt.
IMO: Writing, extending and fixing bugs in nontrivial programs, collaborating with others, reading a lot of documentation of the things you use, discussing programming with other interested people. The scientific part is usually not at the fore in practice and your courses will be plenty for that.

Working on some large FOSS project will teach you most of the skills, though maybe don't specialize too much. Some people seem to mostly fix bugs, others design and half-finish stuff before switching to something else, etc. It's best to know the full lifecycle in order to have relevant experience for all situations.
There is a lot of doubt as to weather that story is real. The story supposedly happened in 2009 when the online Target store was hosted and run by Amazon. Even now Amazon's (or anyone else's) recommendations are not anywhere close to that despite having a decade more experience building recommendations systems. (Yes, Amazon, I want to buy another TV after ordering one yesterday)

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/target-predict-teen-pregnan...
Not OP, but I've been trying to get remote development working for years but to no avail. The official response on the GitHub issue [0] in 2019 was:

> The "remote" functionality (SSH/WSL/Docker) is currently only available for VS Code proper, not 3rd party builds.

> [...] /cc @joaomoreno

Last time I checked, Arch Linux users who have the Arch Linux build of VS Code installed still cannot use remote SSH development nor dev containers. I definitely can't get it working on my own development machines.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/17...
> The Rust drama is an uncommon failure of leadership for Torvalds. Instead of decisively saying "no, never" or "yes, make it so," [...]

It feels like over the year he has been sort of beaten into submission both for his outbursts (which I've always found more funny than offensive) and the lobbying of the zealots of a certain relatively young programming language (which sometimes has a little taste of propaganda) against "memory unsafe languages".
Another commenter mentioned that a longer study window would have been more meaningful. I agree, but for very different reasons.

Instead of making this all about "intelligence," I'd argue that, even when something is understood deeply, most people (both kids and adults) are very slow and unsteady when they think about how to apply what they know in a novel context. In other words: you can understand something deeply and fluently and STILL not have this second skill set for transfering between contexts.

So, in summary, if you want to study how able people are at transferring skills, I think you need to lengthen your study window and give people both a lot more time and space to explore and adapt to the new context.

Also, I think the ability to transfer your skills between contexts _is a separate skill_ that you need to learn, in large part, through experience. However, both work experiences and school experiences tend to stress siloing topics and skill sets to make 'test acers' and 'experts,' so very few people get to experience building a deep skill set and then transferring it to a new context early in life, if ever. As a result, honestly, I think almost everyone has a brittle understanding of almost everything they know. The exceptions are outliers. And, when you watch people (or yourself) try to do something new, usually success is, first order, a matter of how comfortable you feel trying things, failing for a bit, and slowly learning how what you know applies to the new context.

___

Source: mostly first person experience. I've been teaching math for about half of my life: ~18 of ~36 years, and I still love it. :)

Also, I didn't read through all of the comments, so apologies if someone else already contributed this idea!
If the whole Twitter -> X transition and DOGE has taught us anything, those costs don't magically disappear, they add up over time and get passed down as inflation. Are you really measuring an engineer's time properly? There is an implicit assumption that an engineers time is at 100% utilization which is never true. This mentality you described allows people to get sloppy with costs. At some point you need to do a form of Zero Based Budgeting.
> For halogen and incandescent, we use PWM,

Must be fancy cars then. All I've ever owned used relays to switch the lights, just straight 12v onto it no pwm whatsoever.
I’m not sure how you could have worse grip when braking (caused by lower friction) while simultaneously increase tire wear (caused by higher friction), unless I’m misunderstanding something.
But the thing here distinguishing it from the windshield thing is that there are so many possible texts that you choosing their particular text is to choose the work they've done.

You think of choosing somebody's particular text as the way of contracting him. Just as it isn't a restriction of your freedom of speech that going into restaurant and ordering a meal creates a contract to pay, so it isn't a restriction of your freedom of speech when you choose to seek out and repeat somebody's very particular text.

Why Harry Potter when you have any of hundreds of million of stories of similar sort that you could easily write yourself? When you choose that one, you choose it because it's already been prepared by somebody else, just as you choose restaurant because they've done work and have food ready for you. By choosing the one that's already written you accept that the author has done work for you.
The USA strongarming us after 9/11 didn't help. You don't have to look beyond the borders of the US to answer "what's up with the UK" when it comes to eg terrorism legislation

But yes historically we have been pretty brutal. Look up history the past 600 years. We didn't get a huge empire by asking nicely for their land and resources
I like rainbow brackets as well.

But yes, I’d like to see some semantic highlighting.

Variable declarations in bold.

Mutating function calls / operators in a different colour.

Colour variables according to their type or scope.

Can that function call throw? It should look different.
I think it’s a cultural issue. The British have an inflated sense of national self worth as a result of being the world’s largest power during the British empire. While this has not been the case for some time now (since Suez in 1948? Longer?) the people still carry the memory and national myth of great importance. This is likely what drives a sense of entitlement that British demands should bypass the laws of every other country in the world and give them unfettered access to everyone’s data. Think about that, literally everyone who has an Apple device!

Frankly, the arrogance is appalling.
> As a result of my occupation, I think I know a bit about where
operating
> >are going in the next decade or so

I’m not sure one necessarily qualifies you to know the other… there always seems to be a lot of arrogance in these circles.
That's what makes this blog post worthy
> ”hallucination” is what we call it when LLMs get code wrong; “engineering” is what we call it when people do.

I should print this out, frame it and hang it on the office walls omg
Jurisdiction arbitrage
Nah you have a supernintendo or maintenance for that.
SilverBullet – note-taking Git-friendly alternative to Logseq and Obsidian
Webapp that you can run locally, backed by a folder with plain Markdown files. Uses code mirror as WYSIWYG monospace editor.
Skimmed little bits: "on policy" RL means the model has generated output and received feedback from sort of dynamic environment, which might not be scalable. Value-based off-policy means the model is trained with data that wasn't generated from the model itself exploring a dynamic environment. Instead it can be recordings. They then ask the question; how does that scale?
… In the 1980s, Ireland was _extremely_ homogenous. This was not a place that people came to, it was a place that people left. Today, 20% of the population was born outside the state, and Ireland has one of the highest immigration rates in the world.

Spoiler: The education and health systems in 1980 were _far_ worse than today. Like, really, there’s no comparison. They’re not exactly world leading now (in particular the health service has a constant staffing crisis) but they were really quite bad by European standards back then. When I started primary school in 1989 or so, there were more than 40 kids in my class; today there’s a cap of 30 and the average is 22 or so. Health, education, and social services were bad because we didn’t spend enough money on them.

Organisation and resourcing seem like more obvious causes of problems with US healthcare and education than _demographics_, tbh.
The difference is that code designed to be easy to read is not the same as code written to aesthetic principles. The easiest example of this I can think of is the difference between code that follows formal whitespace rules and code that gives variables long names so that it is easier to understand them. Or the difference between ensuring that none of the declarations at the top of a file are redundant vs ordering all of the function definitions such that they tell some kind of narrative.

Code can be aesthetic and yet hard to understand or ugly but obvious.
9 out of 10 times it's ragebait, the whole point is to get media attention. Don't waste your time on that. The discussions that follow are low quality.
They broke Enigma code, and since then their spy agencies have overweight influence?
Interesting attempt, however:

1. There was no need to implement Set interface to support foreach loop. Iterable would be sufficient. Set is too specific and is not an obvious choice (for return type interoperability in subclasses sometimes it would be more convenient to have List).

2. Moving from isPresent/get to try/catch checked exception will produce worse result. Either you wrap ‘get’ immediately and get more verbose code, or you catch somewhere else and loose the context and readability. In “throws Exception” methods absence of stack trace will be painful.

3. Renaming ‘map’ to ‘then’ is too late. “Then” was used in functional style libraries more than 15 years ago, Java 8 settled the naming convention and it’s better to follow it.

4. What Optional is often missing is the context of empty state. It would be cool to have an implementation of None with a Throwable cause (and orElseThrow throwing it wrapped).
So cool to load HN and see this.

I was on Hotline's founding team in the 90s that joined with Adam Hinkley to promote and grow Hotline -- here's a press release I wrote for Hotline's appearance at Macworld Expo SF '98: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Hotline_MacWorld_Expo_1998
(That site has lots more Hotline related archival stuff at https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Category:Hotline )

Fun memories. We of course on the Hotline team used Hotline itself to keep in touch with each other around the world -- at that point, Adam in Australia and the rest of us across the US and Canada. Fun antics in the group chat. =)

It was a really fun time. At its peak Hotline went on to be used by millions, and even by companies like Apple, GM, and Avid. I particularly loved the Toronto Star quote that called Hotline "a major force in the online world" at the time.

These days I work for the Computer History Museum and have lots of Hotline stuff adorning my cubicle :) )
> That's also not what he said; it's "no Rust in kernel/dma". He pretty much explicitly said it's okay for drivers to do their thing in Rust, but with their own wrappers. You can consider that dumb, but you can't shorten that to "no Rust in the kernel".

Have you actually taken a look at the patch?

There was NO RUST CODE ADDED TO kernel/dma, they wanted to add a dma wrapper to a rust/ folder.
I’m surprised things like Uber haven’t solved this.

You’re a young person with a car, and insomnia. Good time to make some extra cash.
They made a whole show about this called Yes Minister
I had some administrative experience at a peripheral university and a "good" project was one generating big administrative costs - and bonuses for administrators.
Defense spending keeps coming up as a point on this site, usually in an argument along the lines of, "So what if you cite malfeasance by USAID. It doesn't matter anyway. Defense spending and entitlements are the biggest items..."

Yet, here we see that partisans are similarly inflamed by the prospect of the Defense Dept. facing scrutiny. There's truly nothing which can satisfy some of these extreme voices.
> It was perfectly clear what Hellwig meant by "cancer".

No, it is not perfectly clear.

The generous interpretation is that they meant it is "viral", spreading through dependencies across the codebase (which I don't think is technically accurate as long as CONFIG_RUST=n exists).

The less generous way to interpret it is "harmful". The later messages in the thread suggests that this is more likely.

But I'm left guessing here, and I'm willing to give some some benefit of doubt here.

That said, the response to this comment was incredibly bad as well.
Last I checked, browsers basically wrap ICU's word-break iterator: https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/boundaryanalysis...
Came here to ask the same thing. I started on Hotline and ended up on Carracho in the late 1990s. That orange icon!!! I used to tie up our house's phone line trying to chat with people and download things.
Emacs doesn't ship with them or nag you to install them.
DPRUK
I had a weird sixth sense about sleeping too long on the bus/train and rarely went more than a couple stops too far. I think my record was an extra half mile on a quiet night with nowhere to be but bed.
> that it didn't refer to Rust as a language.

No, he didnt refer to Rust as cancer, but to Rust in the Linux kernel / the R4L project.
If you're planning to do local GenAI, the biggest factor is VRAM, not just GPU power. Even smaller LLMs (e.g., 13B-30B) require a lot of VRAM to run efficiently, and 8GB is borderline for anything beyond toy use. If you’re serious about local GenAI, a second-hand RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM) or a 4070 Ti (16GB VRAM) would be a much better investment than an NPU, which currently isn't widely supported for local inference.
Have you been to Japan? I can't say that Krakow made an impression on me of being "close" to Tokyo in cleanliness TBH.