skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other institutions are also following the lead: MIT [0], Stanford [1], North Carolina State [2], UCSD [3], and perhaps there will be many others.

[0]: https://hr.mit.edu/jobs

[1]: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/staff-hiring

[2]: https://www.wral.com/news/education/nc-state-hiring-freeze-f...

[3]: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/20/uc-san-diego...
The best way to harness this is to offer what companies don't: unlimited time off, no return-to-office, health insurance and savings plans that don't kick-back to the company, flat(ter) management, no all-hands meetings...
Maybe we should stop referring to undesired output (confabulation? Bullshit? Making stuff up? Creativity?) as some kind of input delusion. Hallucination is already a meaningful word and this is just gibberish in that context.

As best I can tell, the only reason this term stuck is because early image generation looked super trippy.
If you search “Harvard research fraud” at least three distinct cases come up.
Yeah, I'm sure there are some holes (poor attempt at a pun), but you already know you can get arbitrarily close to whatever bound with rationals, much less computables, so it seems like someone better educated than me could shore that up.

Anyways, the computables have unfortunate properties too (not knowing if you'll eventually need to carry for addition, or when to stop testing for equality), so I'm left wondering if some genius in the future will come up with a new way to build the numbers which are more satisfying.

Thank you for the Reddit link.
The video I posted is an excerpt for this over 2 hour video.(1)
It is an amazing view into the mindset of a musical genius. He is extremely good at explaining how he thinks and how he explores the world of music.
There is some audio issue with the video, but it is worth watching.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_xXiDMndQU
Is there some document somewhere that lists all the potential ways of doing stuff like this?
I learned from 2016 and didn't discount the idea of Trump winning again. I just didn't think he'd enact it. He'd be blocked by properly smart people who realize across the board that "this will impact my money".

And to be fair some smart people (in the courts) are blocking it. I just didn't think so many illegal actions in the course of a month would escalate this far without. It makes Nixon look like the Dali Lhama.
You don’t spent an endowment, you spend the interest. The entire research budget comes from outside funding. In Cornell’s case, the research funding amounts to $1B a year.
The fabs propped up the corpse of Moore's Law by throwing mountains of cash at expanding transistors into the third dimension: finFET, GAA, CFET, etc. That has kept the party going a little while longer than it would have lasted but it's a one-time deal since are no more dimensions to expand into.
Too often I see urgency as false, as projected around. By people not actually close to the problem at hand, but who have big emotional feelings about it anyhow.
> Increased footfall is beneficial for the economy. People generally spend more when they're outside than they would if they were at home.

It sounds like the broken window fallacy.
Iceland sits on an active volcano.
virtually every sector of the economy has 'excess staff;' it is not confined to higher ed. It's the obvious conclusion of decades of automation not being realized as less working hours, but in the dilution of responsibilities into more complicated and larger corporate apparatuses. Some of them are called "bullshit jobs" some of them are given credibility, while being utterly purposeless ultimately. This is largely ignored as a general trend because it is usually contextualized to a narrative within each company (as is the case here) rather than seen as a larger phenomenon.

This is the inevitable conclusion of unprecedented concentration of capital, which is not new but only being revealed during a time of seemingly limitless automation potential.
you know it’s funny, the first time I ever read a book about compiled languages- I think it might have even been K&R C… it talked about the fact that code is run significantly more often than it’s compiled, and read more often than it’s written. Thus we should optimise for runtime speed and afterwards readability.

Yet on hacker news, the exact opposite sentiment is true.

Employee hours are expensive, so optimise as much as you possibly can and push as much time onto the user as they will tolerate. Focus primarily on readability to the detriment of all other factors. Heck, even don’t bother compiling your program. Use an interpreter on the server.

Keep your local cost down, your remote cost up… after all remote cost are not your cost, especially if every company is doing the same thing.

It’s ironic that I could read a book and it be so wrong, yet that book is the foundation Bible for many people’s programming journey.
Are these special recruiters or will most do that deal?
I mean, the steinbeck quote is from 1960.. You will need probably ~$30 million dollars at retirement if you are 30yo today to retire as a 1960s millionaire.
The Nov 2024 release, which is due to be deprecated in Nov 2025, I was told has degraded performance compared to the Aug 2024 release. In fact, OpenAI Models page says their current GPT4o API is serving the Aug release. https://platform.openai.com/docs/models#gpt-4o

So I'm still on the Aug 24 release, which, with your reminding me, is not to be deprecated till Aug 2025, but that's less than 5 months from now, and we're skipping the Nov 2024 release just as OpenAI themselves have chosen to do.
Fervo isn't just trying, they are succeeding in bringing the drilling advances used in fracking, along with other innovation to get through the harder rocks typically encountered when not drilling for fossil fuels, to deliver dispatchable and storable energy. It's actually much better quality of power plant than nuclear because it can be scaled up and down throughout the day economically, whereas nuclear becomes even more uneconomic if it is forced to match the needs of the grid, and the reactors typically require far different designs than what is usually built (France has done a bit with this).

I would bet on geothermal over nuclear in a second for future electricity generation. Its so much more promising, has a tech curve, and has far more innovation and advanced tech adoption.
Interesting choice of radix-8 booth multiplier that needs the x3 circuit. Seems like a area/perf tradeoff in order to push the fmax which means they had a latency cycles constraint since the same could be achieved via more pipelining.
TS does have sum types, so you can already do something like:

type Color = "red" | "green";

What GP is doing is some scaffolding on top to make the values more discoverable and allow associating arbitrary Color-specific metadata with them.
"New?" Things like RFID tags have been doing so for several decades, and prominent companies like Analog and TI have a whole range of energy-harvesting ICs.
Mozilla is sooo fucked here. On one hand, it would take them approx ~1 sentence of blog to say "We won't sell your input info to anyone" and this drama goes away.

OTOH: if the currently pending court case on anti-monopoly bars google from making payments to mozilla (which is about ~90%++ of their revenue), mozilla truly, and well is fucked. Meaning -they need to diversify, and they know it; they can't sell browsers, related services are heavily competed for, so ads & selling user data is broadly the only viable strat that can underwrite their existence.

Of course, the community won't have it. And therein lies the rub: by going with google's bribe, on this long term, they wrote themselves into a corner they can't exit.
In many places it makes sense to heat the earth (yes) in summer using the heat pump (using electricity from photovoltaics) so that efficiency in winter is better.
That’s different than firing people outright.
> The internal pull-downs don't work.

They don't work at all? How the heck did something that important get past testing?

Guess I'm not moving on from the RP2040 anytime soon...
100 billion multiples of world energy use in 2010, according to an old IPCC estimate.
if you can explain it wel in css you might as well write it yourself :)
It's all about the choices. Post secondary schools had easy money (student loans, grants, expanding endowments) and rapidly expanding enrollment for decades. It seems many schools thought that would continue, but we saw enrollment plateau and even decrease. Ivy schools have options - lower prestige to increase enrollment, or lean on prestige and endowments to raise prices. Other schools will likely cut staff/services and increase class sizes. I went to a state school and their enrollment has dropped 25% since I was there. It seems tuition went up, state funding per student is higher (not sure if total is the same or higher), some upgrades were put off, and some services seem to have been scaled back.
I can buy timers that stay in the room on Amazon for $6 for a two pack. Physical timers. Timers already exist as a standalone product.

I just have this hilarious picture in my mind of all these smart speaker users constantly balancing random objects in their arms as if they are not allowed to have their hands free or else they'll melt. Setting a timer on the microwave or stove you already own is fucking impossible. No way I can do that! I gotta install an Internet-connected microphone and speaker in my house for that!
It’s never free. People in Europe say it is when they want to take a jab at the USA. But the reality is that earning potential is severely limited in Europe. And let’s not pretend that every degree obtained is beneficial to society. People get degrees with no marketable skills all the time. And the losses are distributed among all the taxpayers.
>We've had capitalism for centuries with no AI production.

But it was capitalism that ended up producing AI. And if that's how things have ended up, then that must've been where things had been going all along, no? (Ask the Cheshire Cat for the opposite statement.) That's teleology for you, it's a thing that's usually obvious in hindsight, but, as you demonstrate, even that not always.

And if you and your ancestors have never lived under any other social system besides the one that evolved into contemporary capitalism, how would you even be able to make the distinction between the telos of capitalism and the telos of any other global process? What would be your point of reference, experientially speaking? Do you even know any other dreams besides the ones that capitalism dreams throughout your waking hours?

Back to Plato's cave with you it seems, and don't, I repeat, please don't think about limited liability corporations, the construct of "personhood" that the legal system ascribes them, and how the only thing that can even attempt to kill a corporation is a government (which is just another kind of "corporation", in the sense of rule-based meta-entity which uses human intelligence as a replaceable building block). And governments have been largely captured (outsmarted) by the corporations. For decades at this point. Qui bono? You Bono?

On your way there allow me to guess, you believe that there's least one school of economics which is not "mumbo jumbo" (a term, besides the tastelessness of dismissiveness, also bearing subtle racist connotations), don't you?

EDIT: Check this shit out:

>Mungo Park's travel journal Travels in the Interior of Africa (1795) describes 'Mumbo Jumbo' as a character, complete with "masquerade habit", whom Mandinka males would dress up as in order to resolve domestic disputes

From Wikipedia, emphasis mine. Consider!
> (check France if you don't believe it works)

France's nuclear provider has incredibly high debts, which is only possibly because they are state backed. So no, nuclear energy does not work economically.
> Why is everyone trying to check for things they don't have to?

I forgot where I read it (maybe something about testing or DDD), but an idea I like much is to not validate stuff coming from an external system other than for your internal constraints. You don't control an email account and how it was created and the specification is messy, so if you want to check for its existence, you query the other system. Same for other identifiers.
Yesterday on HN there was a piece about Flash and the explosion of creativity as people started making things and uploading them to a whole bunch of sites. Then there was Geocities and friends. The 90s and 2000s were a time of optimism online; anyone could make a thing and get people to look at it. Eventually Facebook & other similar platforms worked out how to pull everyone into walled gardens and then they pulled up the drawbridges.

To make web publishing happen at scale and keep it decentralized beyond a honeymoon phase, incentives need to be right.

Chiefly it must be just as easy to self host as it is to make an account and produce content for someone else’s platform. It needs to be just as easy to reach an audience on your own platform as someone else’s.

Those challenges are both social AND technical. OP should look around for other spaces where they’ve been solved in the past. See what the patterns are. See where we (collective we, not you HN crowd who are better informed and highly skilled) have not fallen into the centralization trap.

My suspicion is it’ll be offline spaces as they are harder for a platform owner to overtake all at once and monopolize.

But if there are good examples, there may well be a pattern!

One thing that works well is email. There’s a high chance the CAN-SPAM act played a part here - a well designed compromise, requiring unsubscribe buttons - thus preventing marketers from spamming so badly that your email inbox becomes useless and you’re forced onto a commercial alternative. It’s an example of thoughtful, light-touch regulation keeping a thing healthy.

So we could run a thought experiment “what would light-touch regulation of self-publishing on the web look like”. Is there a way?
Russia is not a significant cyber threat to the U.S. anymore
I agree that an explicit grant of a license is probably not necessary. I don’t grant `cat` or `less` a license, they just do what I tell them to do. I think an implicit grant is sufficient. If you use the software, you grant it the license to store and reproduce your copyrighted creations.

Note that the MPL grants you the user many permissions, but does not grant Mozilla any. If Mozilla feels that they need to be explicitly granted more permissions then they have to add that somewhere else. They cannot easily change the text of the MPL.
Perhaps a stupid question, but... what are the risks? Wolndn't extracting too much energy from the earth's core cool it down, at least a little bit? Or does it contain so much energy that extracting it to replace all of 'surface generation' won't make even a little difference?
In many cases, you are not experiencing compatibility issues precisely because Firefox is still being actively maintained.

For new web technologies, the consequences of Firefox not supporting them is obvious. But even for existing sites, Mozilla is maintaining a long list of "Web Compatibility" patches that can be updated outside of regular browser updates (which is important for long-term support versions and managed environments): https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/07/firefox-68-bigints-contras...

That's exactly the type of thankless but essential work that I fear people are always underestimating when talking about "just developing a new web engine". It's probably difficult but still feasible to become "standards complete"; becoming and remaining compatible with HTML/JS as it's actually written in the real world seems much harder.
there's perhaps something to be said for this argument: if you paid a lot of money for something you might be more motivated to use it wisely.

Also I can now get on the Internet and research jet engines or kidney transplants, but unless someone makes me learn the whole curriculum around it and then tests me to check if I understand, it's not worth much.
The irony here is that the iPod was literally made redundant by the smartphone.
Putting content in the right order and hitting the right abstraction level.

Keeping the reader/user in the zone between being bored and overwhelmed while you teaching them, without knowing something about them (only data as feedback if they are using a tool that you built,rather than them raising eyebrows or nodding in a classroom).

I think it's hard but also fun. For the EV stuff that I look at there are a few problems compounding this:

+ Overwhelming buzzwords and complexity

+ Wrong intuition for HV systems

+ Unclear where to start

+ Capital requirements are high

+ Dangerous tech
I completely disagree that [$_] looks nicer than <'_>.
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how bad another comment is or you feel it is. That only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you're correct that WFH is more efficient than work in the office, over time the work in the office companies will be replaced by the WFH ones.

Forcing things through collective action that prevent market forces from working are deleterious in the long run. See Europe's moribund economy.

> They have their own agendas that have no concern for their workers' needs or goals.

That's right.

> The solution will be collective action, rather than bargaining for basic empathy.

A business is not a jobs program. It's there to create wealth, and if it does not, it goes bankrupt and everyone loses their job.

You are always free to quit and join another company more to your liking, or you can quit and start your own business and run it as you please. It happens all the time, and this message board is run by a venture capital firm, looking for startups to fund.
So now we have people inspecting women's genitals to see if they are really female, women being called out because they don't look feminine enough, and all the worst misogynistic instincts on full display.

The thing is, the best athletes frequently have genetic privilege that others don't have, whether it be extra long or extra short limbs, being extra tall, having higher than average testosterone levels, etc. There is no level playing field.

I don't know what the best answer is, but what we are seeing now is pretty ugly.
Was Mark Zuckerberg an AOL add-on developer? (2013)
The other insane thing is 10 students to one teacher? I don't understand that because when I went to SJSU, I was almost always in a class with 60+. For CS, it was around 30 people in the room.
I totally agree with you that this is stupid. But apparently they feel that implicit permission isn’t enough.
Universities use the interest and dividends to pay for operating expenses.

Actually drawing down the fund would just ruin future finances.
What stops you from cooling down the area around the borehole to the point where you are conduction-limited again?
Passkeys are still very much work in progress but there will be standard ways of transferring passkeys between password managers at least https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/15/24270875/password-manage...

I'm not working specifically on passkeys lately so I don't know exactly what is already available to the public, I'll ask around
My pet hate is when folks start doing math on enums or assuming ranges of values within an enum have meaning.
"Probably my favorite argument in steelmanning enums"

Whatever that's supposed to mean.
> the CEO of this company is prancing around doing Nazi salutes _right now_

> Like, seriously, can you not see that?

If you see him heil, you're reading into it.

Just because you don't like someone, you can't make up stuff about them.

This is what's wrong with American politics. Truth doesn't matter.

I'd expect more from fellow engineers.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43228029
The problem, as I understand it, is that one has to drill and hit the pocket where the geothermal power comes from. Now, here in Eifel, every drilling requires a permit (€€€), every drilling costs about €20k, you may have to drill more than once to hit the pocket. And Eifel sits on an old mega volcano.
Frameworks / ORM are just specilized database user interface front ends designed to simplify how data can be used (displayed/inputted/manipulated). They can also display known databases/table, such that the user just has to select what's needed (or doesn't have to worry about tables/field -- just the display/forms to get results.

Database management systems usually provide a way of importing/exporting 'raw' data via sql statement(s) results. aka cvs, comma delimited, html formatted, json formatted.

Outside of a framework/ORM from command line / operating system shell; can do a command line sql query with 'html formatted output' and open results of file in a brower. Obvious catch of not using 'tools/environment' is gotta do all the data input cleanup/checks; output formatting for display/printing, such as only want 4 lines of output per printed page.
Note: will have to provide database(s) to access information from via databases specific method!

example programs that provide access to sql via command line:

postgres psql provides an interactive 'cli' environment for using sql

windows sql server - sqlcmd;

usql[1] provides something similar to psql for no-sql databases.

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sqlc is sorta the equivalent of combining the command line shell & sql queries. The 'c' portion of sql, is c language. So, outside of sql, on own to write what ever 'shell' functionality needed using c.

SQLx rust is rust extention for handling 'sql from command line, just via rust language, instead of going through command line shell.'
except, rust language also handles the internet protocols/language extentions for doing rest crud / sql / rust in a single app.

There are program(s) usable from a command line shell (cli) that would provide 'rest crud'.

Different levels of packaging provide differing levels of control/amount of hoops have to jump through. (just raw data, data & usage, just usage)

Unlike databases, spreadsheets provide an interactive gui up front, with 'embedded language' providing the 'data manipulations' aka visual, python, etc. spreadsheet data can be retreived from / sent to a database.

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[1] : https://github.com/xo/usql