skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If students expect that the university will provide accommodation, the university needs enough staff to run a small city and all associated services.

No doubt you need admin to help accommodate students learning needs but I've come around to thinking that they should change the parameters around testing and give every student the opportunity to use "accommodations" rather than making them prove their disability. Everyone is being granted the same degree, if a significant number of the students in your program need accommodations, like extra time on the exam, why not grant it to everybody who asks? Or better yet, just give everyone the time they need. It seems silly to me that you need to prove your need before you can get things like extra time - I think it should be opened up to everybody
Sounds like we need to hire more federal employees to read the email responses from federal employees.

We also need more federal employees to ensure that the remaining federal employees remain "loyal and true" to the monarch.

Don't you love the direction our democracy is heading?
> not feel dirty

What is the dirty part referring to? MacOS, Windows or Linux?
It's as fool proof as you can get though.

If your data is well encrypted they practically don't have any access to any of the information except how much of it there is
You're missing a "W" but in case you didn't know, Pepsi once had a navy:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pepsi+navy
Lookup "well to wheel" efficiency.

However many overlook the other benefit, which as software devs we should easily recognize. Powering your car with electricity abstracts the fuel from the use of the fuel. An electric car doesn't run on any one single type of fuel, it runs on whatever is available in the area.
Windows UI is just unattractive to me. You can be a trillion dollar company and have no recourse on fixing your design quality.
We've started to swing back towards visual and geometrical models with common core/new math.

But I have a big collection of math textbooks from all over the world, and math 6, pre-algebra and algebra texts in the US have far less geometrical content and pictures than the non-US equivalents that I have. I also think that the increased emphasis on getting students through standardized tests ended up dedicating a lot of class time towards rote with short term benefits.
As a software engineer I generally can help little when a non-trivial incident occurs whether it is via war rooms or deep investigations. I do have some kind of access to some logs, traces and metrics (datadog, for instance), but at the end only the SREs or platform engineers are the one who determine the root cause of any incident because they have 100% observability.
Maybe because graduate students directly contribute to the university’s mission by teaching undergrads and “producing” research (both of which bring in $$$), while administrators seem to be purely a cost center, many of whom serve no useful purpose?
probably more like number of job posts that include at least one programming language for conditioning. (if you want to look at relative trends). distribution over job class as well as an accurate count of actual jobs per post here also probably makes sense for measures of overall activity and longitudinal analysis. could maybe skip the deep counting if you can show that it's static across the dataset.
That was the security guarantee: having the presence of US mining companies there. Honestly, I don't really think US really needs Ukraine's mineral resources. US has plenty of its own to extract. But it was a pretext to invest and increase US presence there.

At some point Ukraine will run out of men. As much as I want to, I don't see US troops deployed to Ukraine, maybe EU can send its troops? Biden said as much at the start of the war, too, and it's still true.

At this point I don't see a Ukrainian victory over Russia and going back to 1992 borders. They will have to give a lot of things up and the longer it waits, the worse its negotiate position will be.
//Process file in chunks
while (file.read(reinterpret_cast<char\*>(buffer.data()), buffer.size()) || file.gcount() > 0) {
size_t bytesRead = file.gcount();
for (size_t i = 0; i < bytesRead; i++) {
//Encrypt
if (choice == 1)
buffer[i] = buffer[i] + key;
//Decrypt
if (choice == 2)
buffer[i] = buffer[i] - key;

Might be OK for a CS 101 course, but a Caeser cipher is a rather bad encryption algorithm.
I would add here that bespoke actually means custom. The other disciplines you mentioned are commodities. You can get them everywhere. If you are starting a film studio, you must have a director first because every film is bespoke. You would farm out the commodities like accounting, lighting, etc.

All software is new and bespoke, otherwise we're not writing software we're just integrating existing parts, and that's the difference between IT (and CI/CD) and architecture/programming. You can hire for all of those, of course, but you cannot be at the helm of a company that depends on bespoke architecture and programming without being that person yourself.
So join a startup where someone is already working to make the product.
There's the classic “four fours”, which I learned as a child in the book “The Man Who Counted”.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Counted
Is it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUg-cLVhv-4
Adding an additional layer also means that layer needs to be managed at all times, and additional setup is required to use it. This starts at installing docker related tooling, having to do extra work to access logs inside containers, additional infrastructure management/maintenance (eg private repository), Docker compatibility between versions (it's not very good at maintaining that) etc.

The build/deployment time difference is maybe the least relevant, but also there most of the time, because Docker performs more work than simple zip+scp and an scp copy of the version to archive somewhere. Docker needs to copy far more than just the application files. Avoiding an extra copy of 100MB data (OS + required env) during deployment, if application files are only ~1-2MB tends to add quite a few seconds to the process, although how much it matters depends on network speed of course. For example on my modest connection it'd be ~8-10 seconds vs <1 second.

There are of course great reasons to use Docker such as a larger team that needs a common environment setup or when using languages that don't have great dependency management system (eg they have non-transferrable builds between systems), but it is something "extra" to maintain.
I can do it for one dollar per hour. We'll teach her how to do some scripting and browser extensions. And at the end she will be a basic coder. However, I will only teach if your girlfriend actually wants to learn to program.
Open source post quantum cryptography is already being used at scale.
I know nothing about diving. Why can't you pee in a dry suit (except that one might find it gross)? I assumed that you could just rinse the suit afterwards. Or is being underwater a factor, because it gets too cold or the pressure does something with it or...?
Looks cool. I loved Ultima II and III as a kid. Even wrote some text walk-throughs back then. Played them on Apple //e and //c, the last Apple products I ever owned (or ever will). I also ditched all Windows about 25 years ago.

I suppose to play on Linux though, I would need to run some Wine setup huh?
That’s not the purpose. The purpose is for people to age in place. Not have to move out of state at 75 because taxes on your home skyrocketed. Which is what happened and the population voted in a proposition to stop it. Yes, it had unintended consequences like all government things.
Recently, Imogen Heap -- likely your favorite pop singer's favorite pop singer -- charted for the very first time with her song Headlock -- which was written and recorded twenty years ago. The driver for Headlock's success was a trend of using it as background music for streaming the video game Mouthwashing.

We are truly in a weird time. A time when social media has led to increased need for social proof, much like Japan, where hits hit HARD and the thing you need to be into is the thing that everyone else is into. But hits can come from anywhere and have weird paths to success.
I was knee-deep working as a technical game designer + engine programmer on Soldier of Fortune when Half-Life came out. I can't put into words the impression that the opening that game left on me; I still remember very distinctly experiencing the tram ride, just being utterly entranced, and then being deeply irritated when an artist walked over to my cubicle, saw the game, and jokily asked what was going on, pulling me out of the experience. For me, it was one of those singular experiences you only have a very, very rarely in gaming.

It's funny, though - I would say in retrospect that Half-Life had the typical vexed impact of a truly revolutionary game made by a truly revolutionary team. In terms of design, the Half-Life team was asking and exploring a hundred different interesting questions about first person gaming and design, very close to the transition from 2d to 3d. And their influence, a few years later, often reduced down to a small handful of big ideas for later games influenced by them. After Half-Life, because of the impact of their scripted sequences, FPS games shifted to much more linear level designs to support that kind of roller coaster experience (despite many of Half-Life's levels actually harkening back to older, less linear FPS design). The role of Barneys and other AI character also really marked the shift to AI buddies being a focus in shooters. And the aesthetic experience of the aggressive AI from the marines as enemies also cast a long shadow, too, highlighting the idea of enemy AI being a priority in single player FPS games.

Certainly, those were the biggest features of Half-Life that impacted our design in Soldier of Fortune, which did go on to shift to much more linear levels, much more focus on scripted events, and would have resulted in much more emphasis on AI buddies too if I hadn't really put my foot down as a game programmer (and in my defense, if you go back to FPS games from that era, poorly implemented AI buddies are often, by a wide margin, the most frustrating aspect of that era of games, along with forced poorly done stealth missions or poorly implemented drivable vehicles - the fact that Barneys were non-essential is why they worked well in the original Half-Life). You can see this shadow pretty clearly if you compare Half-Life to, afterwards, the single player aspects of Call of Duty and Halo. Both are series that, in their single player form, are a lot more focused and a lot less varied than Half-Life was, but they clearly emphasize those aspects of Half-Life I just mentioned. And in practice, those were the single player FPS games that were in practice actually copied for quite a while.
This is Hacker News, where the rich must be taxed and penalized, CEOs, politicians and management thrown into prison for malfeasance, and there oughta be laws about everything, and HOAs are harshing our mellow.

So a "crime-ridden" neighborhood or "slightly bad" people perhaps relies on defining crime narrowly as things that poor people do
None of this is about efficiency. They have been very public in stating their goals prior to taking power.

This is more in line with their goals:

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
Yes.
As a more common example, fiber optic cabling is known to transmit information significantly faster then copper.
More like "Year of the EU computing independence" this time, totally for real guys!
Clinical psychology is mainly concerned with diagnosing and treating people's psychological problems. The clinical psychologists I know don't know much about AI, but might be able to research problems stemming from its use.
Political parties in Germany don’t have the same power as the president in the US.
For groceries: local government liaises with various NGOs that provide meals to older people living alone. The programs go by various names; "Meals on Wheels" is the one Americans likely recognize the most. But most counties or states have some kind of "agency on aging" that will connect to the program and uses the program volunteers as additional community eyes-and-ears.

Meals on Wheels served 2.2 million Americans in 2022.
Perhaps the use cases are different (heavily data-parallel), but FWIW I do not remember many cases where we were frontend bound, so icache hasn't been a concern.
The nice thing about going back to those old toy driven shows is that you can’t get them anymore.
This sounds like a faulty CGM which is very common. With these values normal A1C, <5.7% doesn't sound plausible.
This is nonsense. Money supply is related to inflation, but not the same, and the graph you showed is the clearest proof of that - money supply shot up in the wake of the GFC, while inflation reared its ugly head only in the wake of supply side shocks due to war and pandemic.

Any savings beyond a few months worth of cushion should not be held in cash anyway, but in equity and debt, which support productive investments. These have yielded positive results over these timeframes. (And BTW, both US equity and US corporate debt have outperformed gold over the last century or so.)

Even if you go for risk-free treasuries: long term real rates have mostly been positive [0], while short real rates have been hovering around, but in the last decade and a half below, zero [1], granted. But these rates are determined by economy wide equilibrium processes that can't be overcome by some magic beans and a bad database.

(Note that there are some 10,000 coins with strictly limited supply. They will not ipso facto outperform the dollar.)

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT10Y

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT1MO
If this was a private company, how do you think this would go over?

Almost anyone afraid of losing their job or without immediate prospects, would reply and stay.

Almost anyone with prospects elsewhere would say "fuck this shit", not reply, and reach out to competing firms for positions.

The result? You lose your best performing workers.

If that's intentional, then Musk is fucking with our government in ways that will be highly detrimental to all of us citizens.

If that's unintentional, then we have a fucking idiot in charge.

Either way, it's pretty bad.

* excuse the language but I'm pretty angry
It’s a secondary point, but sure,

It’s a widely common practice:

France had kill switches in its export Exocet missiles - why wouldn’t the US have also kill switches in its export equipment?

It would actually be strange if they were absent.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ui54r7/france_urged...
Here's one:
"AI Minecraft Is Beautifully Bizarre"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJ9jJh0udc
But surely this impacts share price? If the government can't own EVs that makes the addressable market smaller.
It shows the stoplight-style close widgets on the right in the first screenshot and the left on the later ones. Is that configurable?

It looks like the apps in the example are designed to use the space all the way up to y=0, so I didn't expect to be able to move them to the left, but it looks uncanny on the right.

There's a difference between convention and brand infringement. I'd be down to try a theme that moved the widgets to a familiar place, but showing the Apple menu on a non-Apple system is a bridge too far.
Wow it even has achievements :)
The Secret Society Raising Your Electricity Bills
Well, while sphalerons theoretically break B+L in the non-perturbative regime, they are exponentially suppressed at the energy level of our colliders. At the same time, irrelevant operators that also violate it are suppressed by the GUT scale. So even if you take the minimal Standard Model at face value, you're out of luck finding any sign of the violation either way. But if Neutrinos get Majorana masses, that would be an additional explicit violation at the perturbative level. That would be something we can directly observe, as in neutrinoless double beta decay.
Stop. They don't care. They want you to exhaust yourself over this and everything they are doing. They want to instill Russian style malaise by flooding crisis and making you defend all this stupid shit. They don't care the outcome. If you win you lose because you are exhausted and they just do the next thing. They have stated their goals prior to coming into power and none of it was efficiency. Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and steelmanning a position they don't have. They want to destroy the American administrative state.

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
Many people in wheelchairs cannot navigate entering a transport vehicle and self-securing to the vehicle safely. And that's before we get into the question of who's making van-transport-style SDCs (or SDCs that navigate driveways, for that matter).

There's a lot of the process of elder care that robots can't do yet (and won't be able to do in the next five years) while America's median population age continues to increase. These are human problems best solved by human interaction.

> That is an entirely different service

Personal experience suggests otherwise. A "soft wellness check" is something Meals On Wheels specifically does; they can notify an out-of-state loved one if they notice the client isn't coming to the door or picking up the meals. They can also make the human-being call to say "Everything's mostly fine but your uncle seems kind of... out of it? Not sure if anything's up."
I believe the expectation is that congress will officially deallocate spending that was deemed wasteful. We shall see.
> All it takes is 2% fraud, as you yourself admit, for a victory.

Barely gets to 0.0001% fraud[0] (and the only 0.0001% finding is an estimate.) Even if you add up all the frauds on the link, I think you'd barely get past 0.002% fraud and that's over a multi-decade period.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud_in_the_United_...
As a point of fact, China is not, in fact, a fascist dictatorship. North Korea is not a fascist dictatorship either. Neither is or was Cuba, or medieval kingdoms with actual kings and warlords.

Fascism is a right-wing ideology was widespread throughout all of Europe before WWII, and especially took hold in Germany, Austria, and Italy. It was at the opposite end of the political spectrum from e.g. Stalinist Russia.

It is not a synonym for "bad government," "dictatorship," "violent government," or similar.
Maybe, maybe not.

People underestimate how fast the Government moves when there is consensus. The issue with Americans is that we have rarely any true concensus.

I definitely feel bad for the career civil servants and fear for the loss of their expertise. It will take decades before indiviuals can replicate their job at any level of efficiency. But Government could hire more workers to do the jobs of the old experts, or maybe hire them back or even contract to them as consultants (at grossly worse prices but I don't think any of these experts are dead. Just distrustful and maybe a bit vengeful about the loss of their work environments).

Nothing going on here is permanent loss. Its 'only' a gross level of inefficiency and waste. But if we all agree that 2024 was a better year than 2025, it isn't a big deal to rebuild to the status quo.

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What is truly gone is out soft power across the world. Europe won't have a damn reason to trust us for decades.
This is far from actual applications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43106687
> If that's intentional, then Musk is fucking with our government in ways that will be highly detrimental to all of us citizens.

It is intentional. The oligarchs will be more than happy to sell us solutions to the problems they're creating.
Yes:

https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc
The US no longer playing world police isn't what's disturbing, it's understandable that they want EU to take care of its defense. The disturbing thing is how the current administration blamed Ukraine for the war, sees Putin's Russia as an ally, and actively wants to destabilize EU by supporting pro-Russian forces inside it.

All this is not so hilarious for me, living next to Russia and wondering if they will invade us within next 5-10 years, and whether we will receive any help from abroad when Europe seems to become increasingly pro-Russian. What is happening now is potentially a matter of life and death to us.
> Giving all your data to foreign states though may be a bridge too far.

Does it really matter?

If large Western countries want to spy on each other, there are so many ways via so many devices.

That's why I'm talking about safeguards -- why not just focus on ensuring everything is encrypted in rest and in transit, so you can use anybody's cloud anywhere?
Good article. I think this issue is a major reason why there are relatively few women diving in cold water, especially when it comes to technical diving that involves long exposures.
DC Housing Market in Chaos as Federal Employees Panic
Because of our standard notation for those
> And 2 is just S(S(0))

This is a good example of why you need rules on which functions are allowed. Repeated application of the successor function makes the entire exercise trivial
I honestly wish that all the ATCs would agree together not to respond, and publicly dare Musk to fire them. Or just walk out on the job and dare Musk to replace them with Tesla and SpaceX employees.

They might be the only group of people who have that kind of leverage.
What kind of partnership is this that one side wants to boss around its only-good-if-wimp partner?
Great, now pull up a geo-map of originated commits per country....
I would definitely shit my pants frequently if it wasn’t for the discomfort. Practical concerns aside. Smart, yet stinky parenting technique.

Wouldn’t they just start pissing literally anywhere, though?
For most these days, it's "stuff liberal love that I hate".

The redefining it from the original "awareness to systemic racism" should go on the books of Propaganda's Greatest Hits.
Only if you're able to reinstall the OS, and only if you gave your money directly to Google (to buy a Pixel).
It was originally an “on your way” sort of ride share. Going into the city? Pick someone up and it’s like getting free gas. Those that make it a full time job and think it’s going to be anything but the cabbies of old (or likely worse) are delusional. The more workers there are the lower the wage too. It’s pretty obvious…
I wonder how hard it would be to reverse engineer it, if it really came to that.
LinuxScoop has been working on macOS-like themes for KDE, Gnome, and XFCE over the years and versions:

https://invidious.baczek.me/channel/UCNnUnr4gwyNmzx_Bbzvt29g...
> I wondered how the dog could be so obviously excited, despite the lack of attention.

I don't know how strong your prey drive is, but for me, chasing a thrown stick and returning it to the boss is good fun.