skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same technique as he uses here for synchronizing the receivers would work. Common reception and triangulation of a strong local beacon would enable positioning at much better than GNSS precision, both because of the SNR advantage itself and because you'd have more options for dealing with carrier phase ambiguity.
I think wind is not like a sound, it's the bulk movement of the air itself instead of the propagation of a pressure wave (where there could be no average bulk movement). That's why wind can be different speeds and sounds are always the same speed (in the same air...)
Overall, the whole logic "A is written in X, but B is written in Y, hence it is faster" is so deeply flawed, that one has to consider a possibility that the author doesn't understand the mere basics of computer program engineering. There are so much nuances that I don't even want to start untangling it.
Is there an implicit assumption that secretary suitability is fixed and the secretary or you do not change or evolve? What if having a few worse secretaries early on gets you in a much better shape? How are these dynamics accounted for?
How is their API priced? I checked a few months ago and remembered it being expensive.
By the way, if the authors see this discussion: As an alternative to the 3D view and/or the rectangular hue/chroma view could you add a constant-value slice through the color space that shows hue/chroma in polar coordinates, with gray at the center? That view is quite helpful context, especially for viewers who are new to the topic.
>> This news cycle is going beyond anxiogenic like it was around 2017-18. I never know if I am witnessing something absurd or if it's the beginning of something serious.

It's weird though because it feels like with all the really "anxiogenic" stuff, I'm learning about it from HN, reddit, etc instead of actual legacy media.

For instance, they're doing the largest layoff in HISTORY right now with federal employees and the Eric Adams thing is the top story I'm seeing, etc.

It almost feels like ""MSM"" is glossing over the details to go more high-level "policy" news to make it seem like politics as "slightly" usual.

It's kinda wild that the most in-depth reporting on the DOGE takeover is coming from outlets like Wired and 404 when it seems like this SHOULD be an anxiogenic, huge, all-caps headline-style news cycle when it really doesn't read that way on any mainstream news outlet.
I don't trust LLMs with the truth. I think they are an amazing tool for !!!generating!!! text; but they're wholly untethered from any sort of ground truth. Unfortunately what will happen, and I hate being right about, is that LLMs on everyone's phones will give dumbasses their own personal conspiracy/radicalization machine. You can generate all the text and images you'd ever want to give yourself the thrill of hate without any tether to reality.
True for many other distros as well, such as Debian.
Imo this problem would be fine in either Go or Rust. I've done both. For extreme cases you can, i imagine, make Rust parallelism faster than Gos, but by default if you just design them similarly -- eg: throwing Tokio at the problem and not hyper optimizing Rust -- i imagine they'd perform quite similarly.

As much as i'm a proponent of Rust, Go is very capable and is generally a great language. Its warts (as i see them) are not going to be apparent in the parallelism needed for a Git hook manager lol.
Nowhere did I suggest that housing homeless in general purpose hotels is a good idea. If that’s the housing that’s available, then the staff need to be trained and capable of handling such issues. And since density might be higher than normal, you need lots of people around who can help deescalate situations before they reach violence and to council the people who have such needs on how to better manage their anger. But all of that costs money to run well, money most people aren’t willing to spend because “eww homeless” or “it’s their mess, I shouldn’t be paying for it”. So you end up spending a lot on half measures that helps no one.
Sometimes there were reasons, but they were not necessarily good ones. Like these:

- time pressure, leading to just making it work and not caring about edge cases, which were bolted on later. Or maybe never at all. And naturally, there is no useful testsuite.

- the prototype ended up in production

- a refactoring happened, but there was no follow-up into other areas of the code base

- features changed, but the code is still influenced by the necessities of the old way it worked. Similarly, for changing technical circumstances

- code was copy-pasted or was worked on by too many people

- code was herded too long by the same person and now, to put it nicely, bears traces of their bespoke coding style

Chesterton's Fence is still very relevant, therefore I'd still err on the side of writing a lot of high-level tests before touching anything.
> The father of five children under 10, who made his living from fixing, building and digging, can no longer work and so his children no longer go to school.

Was this the sentence you were referring to?

What a sad situation, I can't imagine the stress of being disabled and unable to provide for my young children.
A business can become more efficient by focusing on the most profitable customers. The government is not a business, nor should it be.

There is plenty of pressure on the organizations to be efficient, the American people never saw a tax cut they didn't like.
Human interpretation of RFC's could be a lot better. Example would be agreed upon interpretations of handshake standards among network card OEM's or NVME to USB standards among different OEM's and so on. There are standards but everyone has their own interpretation of them and it's sometimes just pure luck that devices manage to inter-operate. I have no idea how this could be improved.
And yet millions still do. People believe what the WANT to believe, and that frequently is something other than facts.
https://rjp.is/experiments/days.html

Definitely needs some web-tweaking because initial load seems to confuse/upset Safari somehow. https://git.rjp.is/rjp/daysgo does all the hard work.
It's absolutely willfully omitted. I guarantee 0 evidence of anything will ever come out, just shock headlines to make it seem like they're doing something.
Tell me more. I live here and have never encountered a situation where I was not allowed to express my opinions in a systematic way. So I don't know but would be delighted to
Obviously you need to get some practice to learn what the numbers mean, but because they are related to human visual perception rather than to the physical details of the display device, they are much easier to learn than RGB coordinates. You should give it a shot; you should be able to get the basic idea with just a few minutes of effort, and if you try working with these seriously for a few days you'll be set.
> they have the most influence and can get to #1 most of the time

Not when all the other P1 tickets are from other sales guys.

But at least now they're all fighting with each other, via your manager, so they're out of your hair.
> So why should they care about the long term of a project?

Because your future networking potential—and therefore future job prospects—depends on being liked by your peers, who may not choose the same moment of departure as you would. Follow standards and work towards long-term maintainability not because you see yourself at the same company in 2 years but because your coworkers might see themselves there and you want them to like you and feel good about recommending you to their network.
Never thought of that in the context of software projects. It works really well!
> I think that's already the case, isn't it?

afaik, only the stack height is regulated. Specific technologies like foam, carbon plates etc. are not.

> I don't understand why you would in the first place, what would be the reasoning here?

Personally I'd love to see more shoe development, but I image that if you feel that using supershoes during races is cheating, you'd feel the same about using them while training.
That's subjective.

I'll make it objective.

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Everyone, please encourage NYU to expel Barron Trump as the Trump family is terrible.

Here is where he goes to school.

https://apnews.com/article/barron-trump-nyu-stern-business-s...

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Is that doxxing now?
One very recent anecdote about this we tasked a new graduate with the task of extracting some tabular data from a relatively small worksheet and processing it. This is something you'd use a dataframe or alternative for.

Because he used the words 'Google Worksheet' in his prompting, the LLM spit out some code using the Google Sheets API. This was less than helpful, and it took some time to realize why he was struggling.
Slow teams don't survive. Just ask Blockbuster
Incredible engineering. Thanks for sharing it.
> unless Al Qaida suddenly showed up in Greenland

If invading Greenland was an actual real goal, something like this would definitely "happen", to manufacture the necessary pretext. Way cheaper than the alternatives.
Oh sorry, yes I have a browser extension that always adds that parameter to any wikipedia page. I usually strip it when posting a link, but I forgot (and since it's a long link, it doesn't display in its entirety so I didn't catch it).
This is just a crappy ChatGPT-generated site ripping off the SOMA FM _Groove Salad_ stream (https://somafm.com/player24/station/groovesalad). What's the matter, is creating something original too much work for you? Have to go rip off someone else's work because you're too damn lazy to put in the effort?
I usually copy and paste my bash history to a LLM and ask questions. But I also use Ctrl (Cmd) + R for a exact keyword search.
The providence of the SBOM is important. If you can't say "I made this" in reference to the SBOM then it's pretty much worthless.

Or, flip the script, if you're concerned enough about supply chain security to mandate an SBOM, you probably don't trust the supplier anyway.

There's the "but I signed it" crowd, but the wheels fall off when they've signed compromised artifacts too.

I just don't see a scenario where an SBOM that cannot be inspected and verified would be useful. If you have the infrastructure to do it, you're generating SBOMs anyway.
The page is hosted on GitHub Pages and all compute is in your browser, so no bills! It will happily evaluate many billions of possibilities if you give it a few hours.

Anagrams are already sorted primarily by decreasing commonness of the least common word. I guess I could also do insultingness if you can point me to a data set for that!

Thanks for the anagrammer.com link.
Also, some companies and teams do versions of this, officially or unofficially.

One pre-FAANG tech company I worked had a policy (known among the local schools) that each new hire has to "pay your dues" on grunt work, before you get to do fun/glamorous work. That kinda worked for them.

A problem they had was that they were doing desktop development in C and C++, which, among other purposes, had to ship software bundled with new brand-name PCs (so not necessarily able to bugfix over Web later). The real problem was that very few new grads are minimally competent at production-grade C or C++. But, in early Web years, the company couldn't hire enough experienced software engineers to relocate to a college town. So they had to try to train and retain local grads of a top CS program. That might've been part of the thinking behind "pay your dues"... before you get to make rookie mistakes with greenfield.
I had a GF who worked for an HVAC sub on Stata and she said it was a nightmare to work on as they were pretty much working off a model rather than prints.

I don't necessarily buy the fetishism of Building 20 (old "temporary" WW2 era structure--for everyone) whose footprint was largely replaced by Stata which, for a lot of reasons, seemed an architectural indulgence. I like Gehry in general. Really liked the Guggenheim in Bilbao which I was at a couple of years ago and it was a really big factor in revitalizing the city. But I'm not sure MIT got a great return from that particular structure.
People already widely use the +1 (555) 123-0987 phone number format, so making that a standard wouldn't be as bad as trying to get people to use ISO8601 (though I do use that date format in file names for sorting).
I've played them all in order and also think 1503 is the stand-out
>'m sure part of the longing is just due to the fact that I was in my 20s, living in my own nice on-campus apartment, and was hopeful that I had a bright future. Many people probably have a longing to be 23 again for similar reasons. However I think that what makes the feeling especially strong for me is that being at MIT added a feeling of privilege to every day. It created a sense of fulfillment, that I had done everything right and had succeeded.

I feel literally the same about my 20s (not at MIT, but thereabouts).
I mean, if you have 1 mil usd + of eth or bitcoin, you have a pretty decent pile of cash that is vaguely stable (not massively different to gold), and that government cannot touch or (if you do a good job) even know about.

From a personal perspective, that absolutely has value. From a public perspective, is the existence of that a good thing? Whole different kettle of fish (and then you're back on the whole "is end to end encryption bad" argument).
... just don't make the mistake of documenting too well :-)

Developers need to realize that AI means that a lot of coddling our profession used to get is going away. Employment has always been a tenuous relationship with a fundamentally sociopathic entity, but things will be getting a lot worse in the future.
He tried hard to make an impression. Look, the prosperity grows, "Russia is rising from its knees", or what was the slogan by then. A political assassination here and there? Well, these were the enemies of the prosperity and order. Large demonstrations against his rule? They came, they went, nobody even got shot. "Re-election" for the third, fourth, fifth, whatever next presidential term? Well, everyone just somehow acquiesced to the notion that the "controlled democracy" is a game, the price of the "white glove" dictatorship; who did not, left the country.

It looked sort of "benevolent", even though the rot under the surface was exposed time and again, with murders, multiple attacks on neighboring countries, and eventually a large-scale war in Europe.

Those who think that Chairman Xi is benevolent and is doing good for China with his long-term wise planning may be up for a very rude awakening. They prefer to somehow push away from their picture of China things like people disappearing, businesses crushed, political commissars at every large business, the whole Xinjiang thing, and the battle dances around Taiwan. When they realize that these are integral parts of the "benevolence", and have been all along, it may be a bit late.
I find this to be true in many aspects of life. Just watching how other people do things is often a huge self-esteem boost for myself.
I'm not worried about the data, and even losing the servers would be a hiccup. But whatever site is at www.wikipedia.org is, in the minds of the general public, Wikipedia.

Domain names have been seized in the past.
I think outrage from that movie and the conditions of the Asylums around that time period was why many of the public asylums were shuttered.
They might, but that's irrelevant in a way. If they're 150 years old, they're dead, and if you claim the OASDI benefit of someone who is dead, you're committing a crime.
Would love to hear thoughts on this. I believe 40% of companies—even in industries like retail, fashion, and manufacturing, where tech might traditionally seem less important—will die in the next decade to startups who innovate software faster than their teams can.
Fascinating read!

> Theophrastus closes by asking whether human consciousness is a ‘stumbling’ on the way to ‘unconscious perfection’.

This reminds me of a line from the scifi novel Echopraxia where one of the characters explains that as AIs become more intelligent, they 'wake up' and become conscious like humans. But then as they continue to grow, they eventually go back to sleep - and those are the machines to be afraid of.
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I had a lot of problems with getting Umami to work with Vercel, in the end I abandoned it and used Vercel Analytics.

First Umami was being blocked by all ad blockers and it caused my web app to crash, then I had to use some workaround which allowed it to work with ad blockers but stopped my Express app from sending responses back to the frontend.

It irritated me so much, because there is not enough documentation for it, although I did find multiple people reporting something similar like me. I just called quits on it, analytics shouldn't be that complex to setup if you are not self-hosting, the Vercel one is serving me okayish for now.
The SSA OIG has done a couple of investigations into this the past decade. In 2023 [0], it agreed with the SSA that "almost none of the numberholders discussed in the report [people aged 100 or older] currently receive SSA payments" (while disagreeing that the costs and risks of a mass correction effort outweigh the benefits)

> While we agree that adding presumed death information to these records will result in incorrect dates of death appearing on these Numident records, we do not agree it poses a significant risk of erroneously recording death information on living numberholders’ records. For example, we see little risk in adding presumed death information to the millions of Numident records belonging to individuals born in the 1800s who haven’t worked or received SSA payments in more than 50 years.

> SSA determined the estimated $5.5 to $9.7 million in expenditures to correct these errors was too costly to implement and that the effort would have limited benefit to the administration of SSA programs. We acknowledge that almost none of the numberholders discussed in the report currently receive SSA payments. However, SSA issued each of these individuals a valid SSN and these SSNs could allow for a wide range of potential abuse.

[0] https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf#page10
A "war" was fought over this 0.5 sqmi island!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
Uh, reminds me of C-Robots! Will definitely give it a try <3
It really isn't about taxes, and more about trust and collective faith. The USD isn't backed by cold economic calculation, it's... a big dream we all agree to keep dreaming. And that's mostly fine.
> shortly after the acquisition

I would expect this to be a particularly low point. Can you link some data?
There are two kinds of MIT students: those who spend their time at MIT feeling they're not working enough, and those who spend their time after MIT feeling they haven't worked enough back at MIT.

The intellectual atmosphere is really something -- I don't know any other place in the world where so many interesting ideas will be whooshing past you, vying for your time. If you get too used to it, wherever you go next will feel like a backwater.
You'll be waiting a long time.

Rule #1 of the new American oligarch: never admit a mistake
Trump thinks the same way. So far he has not disobeyed court orders, but if he does he will do so for the same reason you would disobey him: because he thinks he's doing right for the country.

That's the thing, everyone who disobeys thinks they're doing the right thing.
> There are a lot of command line tools that are written in JS and other scripting languages.

???

Also, this tool replaces another which was written in Go, which I would put in a similar performance category as Rust. It shouldn't make a difference in this scenario
There is plenty of pressure on the organizations to be efficient

What you say may be true in certain parts of the US. But we're talking about San Francisco. I've lived here for over 5 years, and my observations during that time do not tell me there's any pressure on governmental organizations here to be efficient, let alone 'plenty of pressure'.
I started my career working on a large legacy project. It was the best learning experience, and super interesting. It certainly did not make me hate legacy projects. Work was like an investigation into who did this weird thing and when and for what reason - and there was usually a good reason. Then detangling if that reason is still valid today, or if we have time to refactor the thing appropriately to rewrite it in a different/better way, or how we can solve this obscure bug without breaking five other usages, etc. And doing all that as elegantly and non-disruptively as possible with hundreds of people on a tight timeline relying on the codebase. It was an extremely satisfying challenge.
> I wonder why they grouped languages from the Middle East and South Asia together

Geography
The more salient question is whether there are other places where people, political bodies, and businesses mistreat each other, through malice and incompetence, so often and so dramatically. Lawsuits are a second-order result of that.
Lines of Code Could Cut Data Center Power Use by 30%
I think no change across 40 years of life is not what either of us meant. But How does 2020 Biden hold up to this test you came up with?
I love it too! So much to see / do / improve
Interesting - I wonder if the author was gesturing at Erewhon which was published a few years earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
Huh! My apologies, you are absolutely right.
From the article it sounds more like they want to introduce paid communities... which is not a bad idea.

Many content creators have some sort of paid community, so if Reddit can take some of that market it could out work well for them.
care to elaborate ?

Saba: input $0.2/M tokens / Output $0.6 /M tokens

GPT-4o Input: $0.15/M tokens Cached input:$0.075/M tokens Output:$0.6/1M tokens

sources:
https://openai.com/api/pricing/ and https://mistral.ai/en/products/la-plateforme#pricing
How big are the kalshi markets anyway?
I assume they just use the Gregorian calendar throughout - roughly what is called "proleptic Gregorian" [1], although since the Gregorian calendar started on 15 October 1582, which is before 1601, it's not really proleptic. Just barely retroleptic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar
I marked my transition to senior engineer when my net lines of code flipped to negative.

Not that I game that obviously, it just occurred naturally for a ~4 month period
It’s disturbing how much of the current US political landscape—the fundamental social/perceived-historical identities of the two parties, which are one of two things that determine how people actually vote, the other being “does it seem like (seem like) bad things are happening right now?”, see Democracy for Realists—is based on straight-up fiction. A lot of it from the Nixon and Reagan administrations and associated propaganda efforts, but extending into the Clinton (lies about local work-requirement experiments for benefits being amplified and driving policy, on top of a bunch of 70s and 80s era lies about how those programs work that are to this day considered true by tons of people) and of course Bush II admins. It’s impossible to even start to talk about serious policy with a mixed and representative group of people in the US because you have to start with trying to de-program all the horse shit and wild misconceptions most of them have internalized, and that’s a tall order all on its own.
For me the issue to be solved is how to easily get the team to run the tool.
Some focus should be on integrating build tools.

When I or a team member do gradle build, npm build or cargo build or similar on a fresh checkout the tool should ask to be installed.