skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now try BQN (Advent of Code 2020 Problem 2):

Split ←((⊢-˜+`×¬)∘=⊔⊢)
input2←' 'Split¨•file.Lines "../2020/2.txt" # change string to your file location

Day2←{
f←⊑{(⊑)+↕1+|-´}‿{-1} # Select the [I]ndex generator [F]unction
I←{F •BQN¨ '-' Split ⊑} # [I]ndices used to determine if the
C←{⊑1⊑} # [C]haracter appears in the
P←{⊑⌽} # [P]assword either
Part1←(I∊˜·+´C= P)¨ # a given number of times
Part2←(1= ·+´C=I⊏P)¨ # or at one of a pair of indices
⊑+´◶Part1‿Part2
}

•Show { Day2 input2}¨↕2
I might agree that investigation is a bit unneeded. Overfishing is about to do that way before climate change: like the Chinese deep-water fishing fleet illegally fishing in other nations' waters.
What’s happening to the contractor-run DOE labs such as los alamos? Are these being reduced or unfunded as well? Hell of a lot of good work and yes, software, comes from these places.
You’re assuming that if the US tried a serious wealth distribution tax hike, a country like China, India, South Korea, Japan, you name it, would not immediately offer sweetheart deals. The UK is currently learning this the hard way relative to the US with talent fleeing.
I think what you mean is the MUC1-20 (ish, numbering is a bit sloppy but hopefully we can clean it up in near future) genes encode for mucins, that are synthesised on a ribosome, threaded into ER, shuffled off into the Golgi and then enzymatically modified by the enzymes encoded by the genes GALNT2, 7 & 10 (at least).

There are a further 20-30 ish enzymes that can modify the mucins as they are traversing the Golgi, and depending on the cell type, it can get packaged into vesicles (alongside calcium) for secretion.

So, they meet a lot of enzymes along the way, but harbour no catalytic activity themselves (as far as we know!).
Another long-timeline story from http://localroger.com/ --
https://web.archive.org/web/20030228183419/https://www.kuro5...
It's starting to get a bit old that whenever I see Moore's law mentioned, I'll usually also run into a spiel about how people have the wrong idea about what it actually refers to, and that it's holding up just fine. This is despite the gen-on-gen and year-on-year performance improvements of computer hardware very clearly tapering off in recent memory.

Maybe debating what always-somehow-wrong law to cite should not be the focus? Like it's very clear to me that being technically correct about what Moore's law or the Dennard scaling refers to is leaps and bounds less important than the actual, practical computing performance trends that have been observable in the market.
> Wouldn't extracting too much energy from the earth's core cool it down, at least a little bit?

The earth generates ~50 terawatts of energy through radiation/other processes, while global energy consumption over the last year was 0.003 terawatts. I think we're fine.
With the caveat that it's imperfect and not packaged correctly, you can check out music2json.ts at https://github.com/CharlesWiltgen/music2json to get the idea. In short, I just dump a JSON of artists, albums (with genres), and tracks, feed that to an LLM, and then ask it to recommend other artists and albums I might like (e.g. "Please recommend additional compilations, artists, and albums I may like based on this music library"). The biggest problem at the moment is that it will often recommend things that are already in my library.
You're assuming they won't make any money on licensing or investments. Which they most certainly will.
I’m 50 and he sounds like the prototypical boomer. It’s like the old people who can’t fathom why new grads would spend months “grinding leetCode” to make $170K+ right out of college when the boomer bought their first house in 2002 for $170k (like I did).
The question would be why isn't it 4x - 1x?
As you highlight with the "VSCode over RDP" story later on the post, it doesn't stop on Git. Some people just don't care about learning their tools. RTFM? Hell no. There is no care for the "craft". Once they learn the very basic for their current need, they're done with it.
We can also observe this behavior during coding, once "it works", they just push all changes and move forward to the next thing. No second thoughts if it could be simpler/there were unnecessary changes, no double check if there is missing cases, etc. "Someone will spot my wrongings during review".

From the outside, it feels like "low effort" all around. But to be honest, I can't really blame who does this. For some, it is just a 9-5 job anyway and they prefer not think about these stuff outside that 9-5 space. Deep diving into their tools might look like "wasted time" on their view.

A friend refered me to this great post a few days ago that touches on this subject: https://josvisser.substack.com/p/you-cant-teach-caring
Well, what if you run a complete test suite?
The article doesn't demonstrate Obama stealing Congress's power of the purse. Can you show me an example?

I'm quibbling with implications of "there's nothing new, they're both the same".

In the article he can sign an executive order to make college more affordable, but this is using Congress's budget allocation, and powers provided for the department of education though is it not?

Trump is literally dismantling departments approved by Congress, and using the budget in completely different areas as far as I can tell. He's not simply redirecting what X department should be doing, as compared to Obama.

Can you expand on this?
I didn't care about English or Geometry either, but I still wish somebody had taught me about quarterly tax estimates for independent contractors.

Baking cookies and learning to sew was at least a nice break from studying books.
> In a not for profit healthcare insurance system, every dollar not spent on patient care is considered waste, so we give it to ourselves and find a way to call it patient care.

Can you share some significant real-world examples of this happening?
Maybe it's just because I have to work with the HR department a lot, but I know plenty of straight guys in HR. HR attracts gregarious people, sexual orientation doesn't play much of a role.
Why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
I usually use Unknown / Other as 0.
LOL another business exec or MBA bro trying to flood the cybersecurity market, you guys are seriously reaching here.
Show HN: Fully On-Premises Inference Server for Open-Source LLMs
If the hallucinated code doesn't compile (or in an interpreted language, immediately throws exceptions), then yes, that isn't risky because that code won't be used. I'm more concerned about code that appears to work for some test cases but solves the wrong problem or inadequately solves the problem, and whether we have anyone on the team who can maintain that code long-term or document it well enough so others can.
Data show Tesla sales declined sharply in Europe
How about 3 + a fortified DMZ like in Korea?
this wont have much effect, as the origins of "shop class" was to introduce kids to power tools and modern equipment, who were living with all kinds of basic hand tools and work shops as the basic backgound of a world with a large percentage of hand made things.
That background is gone, and with it the ability to tinker and practice, scrounge, and build stuff.
Out in the country, you might still find plenty of that, but they dont need shop class, as there is any amount of tools, for free, or cheap, cheap ,cheap, building cars or anything from parts.
bumper sticker says "built not bought"
old timer told me that you used to have to watch your tools, and put them away, lest they go missing, now they are perfectly safe anywhere, presumably because tools have a negative conotation
If X, AWS, Meta, and Google would just dump their code into a ML training set we could really get on with disrupting things.
It is a big mistake to think that most computability theory applies to AI, including Gödel’s Theorem. People start off wrong by talking about AI “algorithms.” The term applies more correctly to concepts like gradient descent. But the inferences of the resulting neural nets is not an algorithm. It is not a defined sequence of operations that produces a defined result. It is better described as a heuristic, a procedure that approximates a correct result but provides no mathematical guarantees.

Other aspects of ANN that show that Gödel doesn’t apply is that they are not formal systems. Formal system is a collection of defined operations. The building blocks of ANN could perhaps be built into a formal system. Petri nets have been demonstrated to be computationally equivalent to Turing machines. But this is really an indictment on the implementation. It’s the same as using your PC, implementing a formal system like its instruction set to run a heuristic computation. Formal system can implement informal systems.

I don’t think you have to look at humans very hard to see that humans don’t implement any kind of formal system and are not equivalent to Turing machines.
18f built but did not then manage login.gov. It was handed off elsewhere. The implication of them managing it was that disbanding 18f left login.gov ownerless (or at least handed off to some group that knows nothing about it) which does not seem to be the case.
Yeah I agree, I would like to know how much money changed hands, not some imaginary value.
Ahh, the data-in-XML argument is indeed very convincing from a historic perspective.
This sounds like a canonical example of the reason to hire a consulting firm.
I mean, if you tack on a hospital to a university, the correct denominator to compare against is "patients served," not "students educated," at least for the portion of the headcount you're sticking in the numerator.
For every fun thing there is a boring version someone will pay you for that has none of the real reasons or joy in it.
This is not the way to come to know.

Regardless, much of this was known already if you would just look. The idea that Elon is discovering anything other than for himself, to say the least of being in a position to decide what to do about what is "found", is laughable. They can't even tell the difference between millions and billions of dollars, or who is vital to nuclear safety.

It's like Chesterton's fence, but where the fence turns out to be vital, where you could find out what the fence is for by just asking the farmer, and where the person tearing down the fence knows nothing about fences or farming, and happens to run an animal and wildlife control company.
That is one of the purposes of USAID, but that’s been defunded too.
I don't really understand struggles with git. I learned ~10 commands 15 years ago which have worked fine for me. I don't think I deeply understand git internals but it does what I need so not compelled to dig deeper.
What you remember (that wasn't mind-blowing) was what you thought, would be a reminder to the first sign post along a trail of thoughts that led to the much bigger idea, which was the thing that was mind-blowing. But of course, it's too big of a thought to communicate via words, so all you're left with is a feeling of reminiscent awe and a trudge of disappointment.
I think you may misunderstand how endowments work.

An endowment is a collection of funds that have been donated. Generally each donation is for furtherance of some specific aim that the donor wanted to promote.

Usually the terms of the donation are that the money should be managed to support the purpose for which it was donated in perpetuity. To implement that the managers of the endowment invest the money for long term growth, and use the earnings to go toward the purpose of the donation.

Cornell currently spends each year around 5% from their endowment, as do most other top schools.

Endowments are usually not used to make up unexpected shortfalls for at least 2 reasons:

1. They are already spending all they can consistent with supporting the various causes the donors donated in perpetuity.

2. Because the endowment is a collection of individual donations that were donated for different purposes there might not actually be anything in the endowment that can be used towards a particular shortfall.
You're not actually responding to the comment by immediately drawing a comparison and saying nothing else. It's a lazy way of making comments.

On quick glance, the article you're citing doesn't support the equivalence of cutting already awarded funding as the current American executive is doing now. It talks about calling meetings.
not sure that human reasoning actually beats testing when checking for correctness
The WARN act dictates that you need to provide 60 days notice for certain mass layoffs. Typically this means you are laid off, but remain on payroll for 60 days.
There's definitely a local "current state". Its just that there's no inherent concept of a central repository or source of truth.

In practice most people use it as if it does - the remote is "preferred". Which isn't such a bad thing if you know how to use branches and resolve conflicts properly.

Best practice is to create a new branch for each feature, then create a PR into the proper branch.

Early on in development it can be very chaotic as so much code is changing so quickly. No revision system is going make up for a lack of communication and division of responsibilities.
from the article you linked:

> Stanford also has unique characteristics that create high staff headcount, former Provost Persis Drell told the Faculty Senate during a May 2023 meeting: Unlike other institutions, Stanford requires more staff to maintain Stanford Research Park, a large housing portfolio and other facilities.

from one of the sources [0] that paragraph linked to:

> It’s also important to understand how Stanford defines terms used in headcount growth since those definitions vary widely among research universities, Drell noted. For example, clinician educators, which have grown significantly in number, are categorized as “staff” at Stanford, while at other universities they are often counted as “faculty.” In addition, and in contrast to many other institutions, Stanford has chosen to focus more on hiring staff in many areas rather than using outside contractors whose employees would not count as Stanford staff.

and from [1] also linked in the above paragraph:

> We recognize that stable, affordable housing is critical for student success. Stanford guarantees housing for undergraduates for all four years and provides housing for over 70% of graduate students. We also provide as much as three times more student housing than large universities across California in similarly constrained housing markets.

given the context, it seems perfectly reasonable that Stanford would have more "staff" employees than the University of Southwestern North Dakota, even normalized for different numbers of student enrollment.

0: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2023/05/provost-provides-d...

1: https://housinginfo.stanford.edu/by-the-numbers
2 of my big safety lessons from elders when I was growing up:

- my Nana always wore her hair up when in the kitchen, she had worked somewhere she saw a woman get scalped by having her long hair pulled into a mixer

- my Dad was wary of synthetic clothing after having seen people in fires have synthetics melt onto their skin (not sure if this was in the Army or growing up in St. Louis)
Impacts of workplace bullying on sleep can be 'contagious' between partners
This is a great argument for why we should find ways, as a society, to prevent people from reaching such a level of ultra-wealth in the first place.
In the US, many Medical schools are schools only in the technical definition of schools. In reality they are more like research and medical centers that also do a bit of teaching on the side. Staff to students ratio could easily be in excess of 10:1

A little over a decade ago, I remember Dean of a top medical school I attended showing the budget of the medical school. Tuition was like 5% or of the entire med school revenue and budget. I remember raising my hand and asking the Dean if tuition was so little, why not just make it free. He gave me a death stare and just danced around the question.
Start with ls -a -w1 > .gitignore, then edit it and delete everything you want to track.
fwiw this problem already exists with my more junior co-workers. and also my own code that I write when exhausted!

if you have trusted processes for review and aren't always rushing out changes without triple checking your work (plus a review from another set of eyes), then I think you catch a lot of the subtler bugs that are emitted from an LLM.
Also, chip fabs keep getting more expensive and taping out a chip design for those new fabs keeps getting more expensive. That makes today's semiconductor industry work quite differently from how things worked 30 years ago and means some segments see reduced or delayed benefits from the continued progression of Moore's Law. See eg. the surprisingly long-lasting commercial relevance of 28nm, 14nm, and 7nm nodes, all of which were used in leading products like desktop GPUs and CPUs for more years than Moore's Law would lead you to expect.
That only really works if you control the clients, or can force them to update.
> Obama’s defense secretary

Obama wasn’t president in 2008, not sure why you are mentioning him.
Sometimes simply because the japanese Text is shorter, taking less time to display. And there are also games that run at different speeds on NTSC vs PAL versions.
For most assembly, I'm not sure how this has an advantage over two adds.
Yet another shallow dismissal of an entire branch of science, brought to you by random internet guy!
Those things are gone now because the only reason people were doing them downtown is because they had to be there for work.

It's odd to suggest that people spending their money closer to home means shopping at large chain businesses, but spending downtown doesn't. Just because there isn't a Walmart in the city's corporate center doesn't mean you're patronizing Mom and Pop small businesses. You think that trendy gastropub with its gourmet hamburgers, cute waitresses that all share a suspiciously similar alt aesthetic, and tables full of people clad in business casual isn't a line item in some investment firm's portfolio?

Guess where the Mom and Pops are? They're in that "stripmall place" near your house.
Every nuclear power has hinted at using them if necessary, that's why they're developed
Note: there is also the Mullvad browser which is based on the Tor browser (with the Tor bit removed). It works fine without a VPN.

https://mullvad.net/en/browser
I think the return on investment is underplayed, it's not just what skills you graduate with, it's whether you find going to school at all rewarding. I was bored stiff in most of my classes, but having marching band to look forward to and the reward of traveling to different cities on the band bus kept me from completely checking out of school.

Maybe another aspect missing from schools lacking shop is the sense that you're trustworthy enough to put in front of a potentially lethal machine, a little bit of self worth goes a long way.
Honest question: this looks like a library others can use to build websites. It contains features related to authentication and security. If it's 90% LLM generated, how do you sleep at night? I'd be dead scared someone would use this, hit a bug that leaks PII (or worse) and then sue me into oblivion.
> ... and that you might want to pay people to study when and how that has happened and predict when and where it may happen again.

Unless of course you happen to be one of the people actively and directly causing the problem they're studying. Then it might seem like a smart idea to put those people out of work.
How come the ratio was so much lower before? Could it be the (mostly useless) administrative positions?
This implies an API where the server has a single shared implementation. Imagine for instance that the server implements a shim for each version of the interface, then there isn't a need for the null in the API. Imagine another alternative, that the same API never adds a field, but you add a new method which takes the new type. Imagine yet again an API where you are able to version the clients in lockstep. So, it's a decision about how the API is used and evolves that recommends the API encoding or having a null default. However in a different environment or with different practices, you can avoid the null. Of course the reason to avoid the null is so that you can statically enforce this value is provided in new clients, though this also assumes your client language is typed. So in the end, protobuf teaches us, but it's not always the best in every situation.
> They're not coming out of the same budget

Federal budget is federal budget.
If I may attempt to summarize:

CORS is a mechanism for servers to explicitly tell browsers which cross-origin requests can read responses. By default, browsers block cross-origin scripts from reading responses. Unless explicitly permitted, the response cannot be read by the requesting domain.

For example, a script on evil.com might send a request to bank.com/transactions to try and read the victim's transaction history. The browser allows the request to reach bank.com, but blocks evil.com from reading the response.

CSRF protection prevents malicious cross-origin requests from performing unauthorized actions on behalf of an authenticated user. If a script on evil.com sends a request to perform actions on bank.com (e.g., transferring money by requesting bank.com/transfer?from=victim&to=hacker), the server-side CSRF protection at bank.com rejects it (likely because the request because it doesn’t contains a secret CSRF token).

In other words, CSRF protection is about write protection, preventing unauthorized cross-origin actions, while CORS is about read protection, controlling who can read cross-origin responses.
"in 2008" means during the Bush administration. The fact that Gates was selected as Obama's defense secretary as a bipartisan pick later means very little.
Broughton Suspension Bridge
Or accept, and recognize, that things kind of go both ways:

The rich can be exploitative of the poor relative to themselves and heavily motivated by greed;

But it can be equally true that the poor hate the rich with motivations based on greed and envy themselves. Poor people, ironically, can be extremely greedy, more greedy than many wealthy people - they aren’t incompatible.

I’m not taking sides on this one.
I guess it'd be nice to have some research to try and find out the real reason and challenge our own hypothesis, rather than always fall back on "I thought X was the reason". This is why the defunding of these programs is so frustrating, because especially around the social sciences, Americans tend to value their own gut rather than empirical studies.