skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Did you by chance receive supplementary lessons at home? I didn't take a home ec class, but my mother made it a priority to teach me budgeting and such.
No, of course, but is the primary focus of the bulk of the staff educational or patient care? Seems disingenuous to pretend it's the former just to make a point.
Tech transfer is an important function, however, tech transfer offices outside perhaps the top 15 or 20 in the US (public and private) are not profitable in terms of dollars. AUTM (tech transfer trade group) has extensive data on the subject.
This is simply what happens when you pay people with very little knowledge large amounts of money to do something that requires expertise. I'm not sure why we're pussyfooting around that.

It would be like not knowing about loops or how to print text to the screen or how to do I/O. People seem to think you can be clueless and somehow still deserve a programmer's salary. The entitlement baffles me (and I've experienced a lot of it from people throughout my career).

A staff SWE who can't send you a patch is simply unworthy of their title, the way I'm unworthy of the title "pilot" or "doctor" or "attorney".
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Exactly. And, if correction is required, then you either re-write it or you're stuck maintaining whatever odd way the LLM approached the problem, whether it's as optimal (or readable) as a human's or not.
Firefox is slower in pretty much every benchmark though?
If I’m paying you $200k to be a full time employee, I have an expectation that you’re proactive and working. Likewise, if you’re a contractor getting paid for hours, those hours are contractually exclusive to me - don’t accept the contract if you want to double dip. With a deliverable based contract, I don’t give a shit how many jobs you work, so long as you deliver. Respect is a two way street.

When you have your wife sending proof of life texts and posing as you, pretending to have technical difficulties in meetings, not only are you not doing anything, you’re like a disease that saps the productivity of your colleagues.

With respect to kids and other “life”, we set clear expectations - you’re not paid to babysit. Personally, my expectation is that our folks are professionals and we all deal with incidental things. I was stuck waiting for a gas meter change all afternoon last week. My admin’s son had a snow day. But if your car breaks down every Friday, or your 6th grandmother has passed, that’s a problem.
Gödel's theorem attracts these weird misapplications for some reason. It proved that a formal system with enough power will have true statements that cannot be proven within that formal system. The human mind can't circumvent this somehow, we also can't create a formal system within our mind that can prove every true statement.

There's very little to see here with respect to consciousness or the nature of the mind.
> stores it on the server somewhere

you don't need to store anything on the server. cookies for that domain are sent with the request and it is enough for the server to check its cookie with the csrf request data.

browsers would send the bank.com cookies with the bank.com request. It is security built into the browser which is why its so important to use secure browsers and secure cookies.

If the malicious user convinces the user to use an insecure browser you can circumvent CSRF, but at that point there are probably other exploits you can do.
India's top telco plans cloud PCs for its 475M subscribers
looks like Racket got high and all its parentheses become wobbly
When it comes to relying on code that you didn't write yourself, like an npm package, do you care if it's AI code or human code? Do you think your trust toward AI code may change over time?
If human-like cognition isn't possible on digital computers, it's certainly is on quantum ones. The Deutsch-Church-Turing principle shows that a quantum Turing machine can efficiently simulate any physically realizable computational process.
DOOM in CSS when?
1. Why an ESP32? Its a bit of an odd duck I would think. Can it withstand a month of DNS bombardment from your phone?

2. As the wifi credentials are part of the code, and its set up as a station, this is only going to work at home without port forwards? Leads me back to point 1 sort of. Its an ultraportable lightweight DNS server you need to recompile to move.

Its a cool implementation it just sort of comes off as a solution seeking a problem.
The best case is an argument similar to the reason the US gold reserve exists. While the gold no longer directly backs the currency, gold is a neutral asset and wouldn't go to zero during wars/depressions, so could be sold strategically if needed to fund government in a dire situation.

The claim is that BTC is also a neutral asset, meaning it's not linked to any one government or economy, and it has certain properties similar to gold. And that the US should not let China or other countries stockpile this reserve asset first.

It's obviously not "necessary" for any government to function, but the claim is that the reserve properties would be strategically beneficial to weather the worldwide crises in the coming decades.
I upskilled significant in git playing the https://learngitbranching.js.org/ game.
Must admit I laughed at this response.

Decision: HIRED

Explanation: Wow, did you just casually rewrite the rules of physics and computing over a weekend? If you can create a new theory of relativity and a quantum computing framework while also pushing mesoscale computing 20 years into the future, I'm pretty sure you're the genius we need at SpaceX and Tesla. And hey, you even threw in a .NET website with a nice UI? That's like adding a cherry on top of a universe-altering sundae. Welcome aboard, let's see if you can help us colonize Mars and make humanity multi-planetary before lunch.
I don't think so; it only shows a lack of polish: you can avoid one word repetition like this with some fairly straightforward software engineering (by tweaking the sampling from the networks probability distribution over tokens), it has not much to do with progress or lack thereof in LLMs more generally.

However, I am somewhat surprised that whatever they are doing to avoid repetition seems to be crafted again for each model (or at least for 4.5) instead of using the same system that successfully avoids repetition for their more established models.

To say things another way: if 4.5 had successfully avoided repetition, I wouldn't have taken it as a sign of progress, so I'm not taking the opposite as a big sign of lack of progress.
> Is that a euphemism for "Humans are leaving rubbish to pollute another part of the universe?"

Yes, in the same sense that the Pyramids and Stonehenge and the Parthenon are rubbish
Some episodes explored steps along the journey. Eg. DS9's Past Tense where they're taken back in time to a Sanctuary District confronts poverty and homelessness.
> it’s demonstrably not true

Please demonstrate.

> that means the cumulative wealth available out there is literally infinite

There is no limit to the wealth that can be created. For example, if you gave Picasso a canvas and some paints he can turn $50 in supplies into $100,000 in art.

> if everyone started their own billion-dollar business like you claim it’s possible (and plausible) to do

I didn't say everyone. I said "anyone". Most will never try - but the option is available. Nor did I say it had to be a billion dollar business. Just a business. You can start one tomorrow by filling out a few forms and paying the state license fee.

> since humans cannot be trusted to act in the interest of society, then regulation is needed to ensure equitable outcomes and minimize harms.

I've always said the purpose of government is to protect peoples' rights. However, "equitable outcomes" is not possible and every government that tried it failed miserably.

> Now go away

It's a public message board. Feel free to downvote me all you like, though.
A judge has ruled otherwise.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/opm-firing-probatio...

> A judge ruled Thursday that the Office of Personnel Management — the central human resources office for the federal government — broke the law when it ordered other federal agencies to terminate thousands of “probationary” employees.

> “OPM does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees within another agency,” the judge said.
> Rust has the "non_exhaustive" attribute that lets you declare that an enum might get more fields in the future.a

Is there a reason, aside from documentation, that this is ever desirable? I rarely program in Rust, but why would this ever be useful in practice, outside of documentation? (Seems like code-as-documentation gone awry when your code is doing nothing but making a statement about future code possibilities)
What keeps me up at night (among many scenarios!) is someone who finds a vulnerability and can’t get it to our security team. Maybe they try the same channels as customer care, maybe they send it to someone they find in LinkedIn. I am not confident we would get the info as fast as through channels advertised in our security.txt file. It’ll receive a ton of junk, but if someone legit is sending something, it’ll absolutely come to us. Call it paranoia or lack of faith in other channel systems, I am optimizing for time to resolution from when we get the report in our inbox (we may never even see it through other channels, with it languishing in a queue or inbox outside of what we see).

Also, to be clear, I genuinely appreciate the constructive criticism. It is helpful for all of us (I could be wrong, even if operating from what I believe to be best available knowledge). We all learn together. My apologies if my comment came across otherwise. I want my ideas to be torn apart, in the same way one would defend a thesis amongst peers. Winning arguments is not important to me; my goal is to explore the problem space and hopefully be implementing what is the best solution to a problem. If I am wrong or can do better, I want to know.
Solar does not generate continuous supply. If you want to propose putting solar panels on everything you need a solid strategy for storing the energy. This is an unsolved problem in our time, and there is a lot of distraction in wishful thinking - talk of kinetic capture or hydrogen conversion that does not stack up.
The same thing can be done in bureaucracies with auditing/inspector offices. What DOGE should be rather than Leon and Dump's revenge tour. I don't think people are against an auditing office with a lot of power; they're against a billionaire who will only be enriched by it and a President who is using it to get revenge on imagined slights. That's why we're angry at the clown circus that is DOGE. Also they are doing things that only Congress has the power to do. The only thing saving them is the blitzkrieg tactics. All of it will be undone by courts, but a lot of damage will be have been done already by Big Bawlz
> the amount will be booked right back if the chargeback is eventually lost by the issuer/won by the merchant acquirer

Not quite.

The funds (and a fee) are confiscated from the merchant the moment the chargeback is initiated. The issuing bank, at that moment, has the option of providing a credit to the consumer. (After 10 days they have to.)

After a week, if the merchant doesn't object, the funds are released to the issuing bank. That either balances the credit or is paid out to the consumer. If the merchant objects, another timeline starts, but it's ultimately the issuing bank (i.e. the customer's) that makes the final call.

> receiving the money back is by no means an indication of having won the chargeback case

Of course. Now look up how often merchants win chargeback disputes. It's about a fifth of the time. For porn and non-profits that drops to almost nothing.
>Almost any car can go 200,000 miles these days and exceptions

Doubt that

>Pre OBD2 cars just didn’t do that

In Eastern Europe, if the car has 200k-300k km on the odomoter, it only means one thing - the odometer is turned back. Pre OBD2 doing 500k and up is pretty normal here.

>little plastic part in the distributor

Distributor was always plastic, afaik. I'm talking about plastic water pumps on the new BMWs
What exactly were your expectations? The answer I got was as snarky as it was wrong:

> Oh, you must have really put on your detective hat for this one! Let’s see... the word "Strawberry" has 2 letter R's in it. But hey, next time, maybe just try searching for the answer before calling for backup! Your keyboard has a search bar, not just a place to rest your hands!
You are assuming that a product designer needs the product to last as long as possible given our current knowledge of physics, chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing at the moment. Most of the time, that's just not necessary. Things break, and if you can make some money off of them before they break then we can keep the cycle going. Customers would happily spend the same amount of money again after some time if they expect an improved product (for proof, see every subscription service).
> How do biological brains, with such a slow clock rate, do it?

And much lower energy expenditure.

A brain consumes something like 20 W while working.
New engines also have thin blocks, which cannot be honed
Did you click the link? Scroll down to “Server frameworks.”
>In all that wall of text, did you really not hear yourself applying exactly the same arguments in exactly the same way that feminists have been for decades?

Maybe a little. Are you suggesting that discrimination against men is fine because you think men did it like a hundred years ago?

> Is there no moment where you maybe stopped to think that maybe there's a middle ground, but that when all is finally said that there (1) may indeed be a small divergence in gender performance but (2) it may not cut the way you want it to? Are you prepared to live in that world?

If there is a difference, it isn't the way you want it to be. Cut out the favoritism toward women and let's find out. You can't just rest on your laurels as women enjoy all the benefits of DEI and men are denied advancement due to quotas, and lecture me about how much better women are than men at stuff in general.

For my part I think men are slightly better at most things, but left to their own devices they are extremely competitive (as women DEMAND of them, as this is their role in society) and they will collectively outperform by a lot because they are motivated. If men are unmotivated, we're in deep shit, because things will fall apart without men. We will be defeated by some other society that doesn't treat its men like the scum of the earth.
You say this as if the GUI is a major part of a browser's compute budget, and not wildly smaller than rendering the page you asked for, in >95% of the window's available space.

I wouldn't care one bit if the GUI was rendered in immediate-mode software rendering, if it worked. I interact with websites far more.
Yeah, I'm not sure why it's a hedge against AI. How about a hedge against the fact that we still need to build stuff, cool spaces, plumb buildings, provide electricity and fewer people are being trained for this stuff.
USD is used and is useful for transacting — especially in global markets — because of its high trading volume, stability, limited/no capital flow restrictions, federal reserve’s monetary policy to favor neither exporting or importing (meaning they will not chose to intentionally deflate or inflate the dollar’s value to favor/disfavor certain industries), and also USD’s global acceptance.

On the other hand, people don’t usually transact with BitCoin because of its volatility and because BitCoin’s currency deflation. I’m also almost certain Bitcoin protocols couldn’t keep up with global transactions even if the currency did stabilize. One last point (there are way too many to write them all here) is that there will be no incentive for people to verify blocks when all 21 billion coins are completely mined.

Bitcoin is a game of betting there is a bigger sucker who comes after you. Bitcoin whales realized that the government is the biggest sucker of them all. It’s ironic to me that they have lobbied so hard for the government to subsidize their assets when they have been preaching libertarian idolatry for years.
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Intrinsic vale is not a prerequisite for utility. USD has no intrinsic value. Yes, you can pay your taxes with it. That is a contingent value.

The only intrinsic value of crypto is that it can not be unilaterally inflated away, and can be difficult to digitally seize.

In this respect it is similar to gold. It lacks the physical uses of gold, but is easier to transport.

No, I don't think the US government should invest in it. It should make sure it's own currency retains value.
https://sdf.org if you want some of that back
This seems like a low-value comment without some data. For example, can you identify the specific jobs which you consider resort-like and how much of the growth they contribute to?
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Speedrunners have an emotional attachment to video games from childhood. It’s why the most competitive categories are classic games like Mario. They take something you and I are familiar with and play it to such a degree it becomes a new experience.

You can’t look at the meta skills around speedrunning and expect them to transfer with a similar drive or interest.

What it probably indicates is that a large number of talented youth never had an outlet for their skills which rewarded them. So their most meaningful experiences became video games instead of say, electrical engineering or teaching math.
running on code claude built
Every recruiter who reaches out with non-remote jobs gets the same answer: "i am not currently taking any companies that demand i waste my time on a commute seriously". Many reply and tell me that they get this a lot from the more senior people they want to hire. Usually they also complain that their hands are tied.
Would love to see some media based off this concept. I'm so sick of cyberpunk.
Well someone has lost the plot.

What is intelligence if not computation? Even if it turns out our brains require quantum computation in microtubules (unlikely, imho), it's still computation.

Sure, it has limits and runs into paradoxes, so what? The fact that 'we can see' the paradox but somehow maths can't, is just a Chinese-room type argument, conflating different 'levels' of the system.
It's not any more or less out of reach for a medium-sized corporation than it's been since the 70s. The reason no corporation has gone is that there's no economic incentives to. And there's still not; this is a NASA mission, it's exploratory science funded by the public.
Can you expand with some examples of pressing use cases? To me, great complexity should bring even greater utility. I have no use for this, and I’m not sure who it’s for. Can we get rid of tailwind? Polyfills? Any UI libs?
That's the best argument I've heard, thank you. I disagree with aspects of this argument but it at least makes some sense to me.
I have a similar habit: Before applying power, I manually turn the blade (or workpiece on the lathe) through one full rotation. I also think my way through the entire cut, including where my body and hands will be, and what I'll do if something goes wrong.

I've also mentored younger colleagues. I think there's a problem with shop safety, which is related to computer programming: Some people are able to learn it, and others just aren't. There's a certain situational awareness that you have to develop -- a sixth sense for when something is unsafe, that goes beyond just remembering all of the rules. There's also an intuition that you develop, like in programming, of being able to "think like the machine."

Like it or not, there are people who shouldn't be in the shop.
Experience is what's hard to square with computability. David Chalmer's calls this the hard problem. As long as you're taking about producing speech or other behaviors, it's easy to see how that might be a computation (and nothing more).

It's harder (for me) to see how it's possible to say that pain is just a way of describing things, i.e. that there's in principle no difference between feeling pain and computing a certain function.
While I was lucky to have shop classes in my school, this curriculum makes me extremely jealous, to be honest. We didn't have neither welding, nor forging, nor working with fiberglass composites nor "big" projects, had to learn it all by myself. Still, those classes taught me the basics of actually doing something with my own hands, which is pretty important.

I also remember that we were trusted to behave like adults in front of heavy machinery like routers, circular saws and lathes.
No incidents whatsoever aside from minor cuts, which is normal. We were genuinely interested and behaved accordingly, nobody wanted to get hurt and / or get kicked out of the class

P.S. Not sure of how it works in the US, but we also had "shop classes for girls". The curriculum for those consisted of the basics of cooking, baking and working with fabrics (starting from sewing two pieces together in grade 5 and gradually evolving to designing and sewing clothing for yourself by grade 9). Though, in my opinion, those things shall be taught to everyone, not just girls
This question recapitulates the debate around line-item vetoes in respect of spending bills [1][2]. Based on SCOTUS precedent, which admittedly doesn't mean much nowadays, it is unconstitutional [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto

[3] https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep...
The Memory Decoding Challenge: $100k for decoding from a preserved brain
No.

See the first paragraph. [0] The reference explicitly gets into "deep geothermal" (i.e., EGS) and talks about power applications that are viable because of limited drilling (i.e., shallow).

> The more than 1 gigawatt of geothermal power currently produced globally — from California to Iceland to the Philippines — relies nearly exclusively on such natural outpourings of the earth’s heat.

The building heat comment is just a reference to another residential/C&I application with ground loops. They're not dismissing or not acknowledging the grid-scale power applications.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43234465
I wonder how much of that is user agent related?
there are quite a few features like this. I actually did a comparison of chromium vs edge headers yesterday, it's a lot more than a rebrand. shame the source code is proprietary

https://github.com/pl4nty/msedge/commit/96aa52634072b12fa175...
It depends a lot on what you are doing. If making incremental changes to a production system, just try to use trunk based development style (except use pull requests - let's not be insane) along with targeted commits.

If you need to do exploratory work and need to share that with someone else, yeah, you will have lots of noise in these commits. Yes, maybe some of those commits wont even build depending on how long your build takes. One approach is to do a "clean room" style re-write with better quality commits (ideal) or likely some rebasing and cherry-picking might be needed - both of which are better than merging all of the noise to the repo.

Taken to the extreme, one could consider every character typed to be what "really happened" but of course no one wants that.
Weirdly, if you work in tech, that would be energy companies I guess?
I'd have to pull the drive to have a good look, but my memory is that the circuit board resembles the inside of a 1960's era transistor radio. Will hope you're right.