skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>However, it's in the university's interest to make sure the students it confers the degrees upon are have met the bar to be qualified to recieve it.

Absolutely correct. Unfortunately that ship has sailed a log time ago. When I was in college in the 1990s, the program was laid out where you could learn a hell of a lot and get a great base of knowledge. You could also do just enough to get a C without really learning much. C's get degrees as we used to say.

Another thing is when I was in school, cheating would get you expelled, so there was a pretty good deterrent.

>Otherwise, they risk losing accreditation for the program (ABET, etc.). Part of your job, or the university's job, is to provide that evaluation.
Whether or not that accreditation matters at all is another question...

I haven't been paying attention, but I don't recall any state schools losing accreditation. Based on the number of candidates I get with degrees that don't know shit, this should be more common. It's definitely degraded the value of the paper, which sucks because I worked hard to get that paper.
No, I think the poster's notion of cognitive dissonance is more correct than yours. Cognitive dissonance refers to the anxiety caused by attempting to embrace two different convictions or beliefs that are incompatible with each other.
Show HN: I built an agent to write personalized cold email opener
For cold email, the first few sentences are make-or-break - they determine whether someone keeps reading or hits delete. I built a small LLM app that:

1. Takes a person’s name + a few keywords
2. Does a Google search to find relevant info about them
3. Identifies personalization opportunities, such as:
Personal connections (same alma mater)
Recent achievements (promotions, awards)
Content they've created (talks, articles)
Hobbies and interests
4. Crafts a personalized opener based on your preferred tone (friendly, professional, etc.)

You can check out the repo here: https://github.com/cold-outreach/Tutorial-Cold-Email-Persona...
And here’s a live demo if you want to see it in action: https://pocket-opener-851564657364.us-east1.run.app/

This is built with Pocket Flow, a 100-line LLM framework: https://github.com/The-Pocket/PocketFlow
Everyone is confused by extreme libertarians/anarchocapatilists
The cache hitrate is effectively 0 for LLMs since the datasets are so huge.
His supporters and allies certainly like to claim they are, and that he is their champion.
> there are no oracles

If you mean "guessing without grounds", that is exactly the phenomenon which is expressed by bad thinkers in both the carbon and the silicon realms, and that is what we are countering.

> predict[ing] "facts"

It's called "Science". In a broader way, it's called "intelligence" ("Intelligence is being able to predict the outcomes of an experience you never had" ~~ Prof. Patrick Winston)

> Getting facts right is a matter of

It is a matter of procedurally adhering to an attitude of iterative quality refinement of ideas, and LLMs seem to be dramatically bad at "procedures".
Purdue tried this strategy with oxycodone in the US, and it really did not work out well. Removing the activity from the criminal underworld provides massive incentives for unscrupulous doctors to become pill pushers.
> had learned how to make myself learn

Someone told me ~30y ago, that the purpose of the higher education is: so you learn how to learn. (okay, ought to be). Not the memorizing, or the get-drunk parties :) Now, whether the system-as-is actually even targets that, is a separate question.

So if one achieves that earlier, yeah, no need to waste further years there.

Although as with most institutional artefacts.. , these diplomas - let's call them <tags> - are still used across the institutions, to prove institution-"tax" has been paid.
yay, a racist reply! i dunno come to check by yourself whether we are overrun by refugees
Hey, I’m the creator of Lanet (https://github.com/davidesantangelo/lanet), a Ruby gem for lightweight LAN communication. It’s built to make peer-to-peer messaging on local networks dead simple—think secure device-to-device comms with AES-256 encryption, network scanning, and both targeted and broadcast messaging.

You can ping hosts, discover devices (TCP, ICMP, ARP, etc.), or listen for messages, all through a clean API or CLI. Perfect for small office setups or tinkering with network tools. Been a blast to build—would love your thoughts or PRs!
You're being downvoted, but I agree with you.

I obviously don't want politicians to be habitually slacking off, but everyone has good days and bad days. There are days where I spend half my time on HN instead of working (hello today), but I typically make up for it shortly afterwards by having a super productive day. The important fact is that, on average, I'm productive and deliver on my job duties.

Politicians should absolutely be held accountable, it's an important job, but I don't think they should be held to standards that we hold no one else to.
Manufacturing small % of value add. Spend $100 on keyboard, $20 goes to PRC, $80 goes to brand country. You pick whether $80 to goes to US company or Swiss company.
Here’s something else we could try instead of grading written essays: video-recorded oral exams conducted by LLMs. Wouldn’t that be a twist. The teacher would need to watch each recording and grade them, and I suppose the lazy ones might use AI to do that step instead.
Ah yes the industrial revolution, which had no far reaching negative consequences at all. What a great metaphor to go along with your LLM promotion.
Good luck with the Blade, seven out of seven Blades between my friends and I got dangerously bloated batteries.

Sacrificing some of the Blade aesthetics for better thermals with Asus laptops was a game changer for me.
Indeed, and so has dartos' point. Not even hardware support is a sure thing on windows any longer. And I'm not talking exotic things, just your random enterprise HP laptop.
Thank you! And thanks for the support!
Louisiana doesn't have counties, either. I live in Louisiana, and when i said "counties" i included the parishes in my state, and any other geographically distinct entity of the same legal merit.

there are 3300 counties in the US. People live in all of those counties.
Working as a freelance writer on Fiverr for the last ten years, I would receive daily inquiries from students asking me to write their papers. I always turned them down. It was explicitly against Fiverr's rules, and I wasn't going to help them cheat anyway. I often wondered whether or not they ended up finding someone else to do it for them. Those inquiries don't find their way into my inbox anymore, so I guess I have my answer.

A little self-promotion here. I'm building a tool to help combat this issue. If you're a teacher, I'd love to talk to you about it. Give it a look: https://itypedmypaper.com
You can thank windows modern suspend for that one
> Creative Commons for establishing a legal framework to choose how you wanted your stuff to be shared

I'll disagree a bit on this. Absolutely nothing against the broader spirit of Creative Comments but I'm pretty against the Chinese menu of no derivatives and, especially, non-commercial with even CC basically threw its hands up about defining in CC 4.x.

I'm also not sure why setting up a personal website is still a relative headache. I suspect that a lot of the designers who put together templates overly prioritize glitz over simplicity.
Today this simplifies to: Forget Twitter.
> Not only they kidnaped men, they kidnapped foreign workers.[0]

From your source:

> were lured by agents with the promise of money and jobs, sometimes as "helpers" in the Russian army.

So where's the kidnapping? Seems like you lie just as much as this "russian propaganda". There is no kidnapping.

> Oh please do show the records of hundreds of thousands of men fleeing a country just upon the announcement of mobilization

How about the millions in Europe? I see Ukrainian men everyday in my country.

> In an analysis of figures from EU statistics agency Eurostat in November, BBC Ukrainian found that some 768,000 Ukrainian men aged 18-64 had left the country for the EU alone since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67787173
Playwright Goes Polyglot: control a browser from 2 scripts at once
I've written a bunch of k8s operators in go (and rust more recently). That's how basically everyone working with k8s does once you reach a certain level of complexity.

I don't really understand, in fact, why you'd use yoke instead of just writing an operator with kubebuilder or kube-rs.
I've been where you are, once about four months ago and once six years ago. Both times I stayed longer than I should have. Both times I hit the same burn out symptoms you describe: hating my daily grind, barely limping through the day. Both times I ended up quitting and eventually landing on my feet at a new job. It can be really hard to walk away, but the damage you do to yourself can really hard to walk back if you let it go too long.

It can be hard to find a fulfilling/challenging/engaging job and it's equally hard to find companies with a culture that doesn't slowly eat away at your sanity. If you can find the latter, it makes a menial/less interesting job better. It's a great deal if you can find both, but it seems like a cultural fit is more likely to help you through what sounds like a very tough personal stretch.

Getting some advice/support is always a solid option in circumstances like this. It might be a former co-worker, a former boss, a family member; whatever works to give you a positive nudge in the right direction.

Another thing I'd recommend: try to find some solace in hobbies or personal interests. If it's a physical engaging activity, so much the better: hiking, climbing, biking, lifting weights etc...It has served me very well over the years and helped me through some rough patches in my own life.

Good luck out there fellow traveler.
How to quickly show you have no sense of humor.
This is really cool, but, who's asking for this? UI framework developers? The CSS spec is getting wild.
You absolutely can.

https://www.crossplane.io/

I'm managing a few dozen cloud accounts on azure and aws with nothing but crossplane and a very small terraform script that bootstraps the control plane account.
Better article (imo) on similar topic: https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/p/is-apache-iceberg-th...
Obfuscation tools like these only slow down attackers, they can never stop them. Even the best in the game, where there are strong financial incentives on the line, fall to attackers typically in a matter of months.

As such, you should never use them to protect data that needs to stay secret indefinitely (or for a long time), such as keys.
> Speaking as a Canadian, China is no friend of Canada:

You need to put things in perspective here. I am no fan of China but we have to turn away from the US.

US tariffs are expected to cut our GDP by 3% / $63B [1], enter us into a recession, and increase unemployment by 2% / 440K jobs [2].

[1] https://www.edwardjones.ca/ca-en/market-news-insights/stock-...

[2] https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/u-s-tariffs-on-canada-take...

These are serious economic effects. And if Trump stays focused on annexation, it is likely to get worse if he really does want to bring us to our knees.
Agreed, but maybe the goal is to drive awareness that this is a dick move in the people best positioned to enact change?
>Part of our immune defences - a white blood cell called a T-cell - can swoop in and destroy the spreading cancer as it tries to take root.

>But the study showed that another part of our blood - the platelets that normally stop bleeding - were suppressing the T-cells and making it harder for them to take out the cancer.

>Aspirin disrupts the platelets and removes their influence over the T-cells so they can hunt out the cancer.
I suppose the reuse wasn't accidental, but they mistakenly thought the key doesn't matter for CMAC.
you didn't watch it either, huh? Nice.

also what bias? I didn't make the stats up. Statements of fact cannot be insolent. If you disagree with the facts, then let's talk about that, and look for more data. However, what has happened in this thread is thinking i have an agenda, other than i think people need to hear what they were talking about - in that clip

The mentality that "it was real close to 50-50 and trump didn't get a majority of the vote and therefore we can keep on doing what we're doing" is what the video clip was talking to. It didn't work, and the tactics need to change if anyone wants to see change.

I don't care that people want to argue with me personally. But it's not doing themselves any favors, as it pertains to getting people elected they want to see in office.
VW (group) should do something about their sick prices. In my case model y was simply cheaper by €15k compared to Škoda Enyaq and ID.4. It’s a lot of money. Plus these drum brakes and low maximal speed in first generation cars. ID.7 is super cool car, but way to expensive. ID.Buzz as expensive as Tesla model X. VW should investigate why their cars are that expensive. Plus Tesla’s 4 year warranty with ranger coming to your parking lot. I remember all the drama with VW Autohaus and begging for the time to service a car there. Endless arrogance. Plus unbeatable electricity price at Tesla‘s supercharger network. Volkswagen and others have some homework to do. There is not really many cars that can match entry level model 3 at 41000€, just look how expensive the ID.3s are: https://www.volkswagen.de/de/konfigurator.html/__app/id-3.ap...
Lenovo laptops are seriously overhyped.

I spent weeks last year trying to decide what to get to replace a MBP M2, and while Lenovo's offering was good for enterprise consumers, there was very few laptops with decent perfs and HiDPI screen in a practical form factor.

I think for anyone not caring about gaming perf, the Microsoft Surface line is way ahead of anything Lenovo has to offer.

For better perf Asus had a better lineup, and we get form factors like the X13 or Z13 which are just excelent in day to day use (now if only they made 32 or 64G a standard option for all their "gaming" machines I'd have no notes).

I kept a mac for backup, but am seriously waiting for Apple to make more drastic moves (finally a real iPad computer ?) before ever going back.
There are risks to taking aspirin everyday, including an increased risk of hemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke, so it's important to weigh the pros and cons. That is difficult before sufficient research has been done to identify who benefits and how much, but it's certainly something to consider.
Show HN: Are you vibe coding? Add your tool
Please have a baby and report back first-hand observations. Yes, they're far, far more sophisticated than most (all?) humans can comprehend, but they're also completely incapable for multiple months after birth. This isn't unexpected, human babies are born at what would still be mid-late gestation in almost any other mammal.

That quote about how "the only intuitive interface ever devised was the nipple"? Turns out there's still a fair bit of active training required all around to even get that going. There's no such thing as intuitive, only familiar.
On a separate note it's sad to see Phoronix so poorly represented. More than half my screen is fixed on page ads and popover. This is 1999 levels of dumb.
Do you think us Brits just calmly accepted our loss in the war of independence?
User A: forced conscription of men is authoritarian and should be critiqued.

User B: that is russian propaganda!!

What am I misunderstanding, or dishonestly representing? If you don't want to have a discussion, you don't have to participate, but those cheap takes contribute nothing to a discussion.
> Many Americans exist that do not carry the opinion of their government, as do many Russians.

Their taxes still support their governments and so do your purchases if you buy there.
We used to have these thing called a Certificate of Authenticity that came with memorabilia, no blockchain required!
I'm sure that works for some, but others use drugs to escape their outward situation. If their outward situation improves, there's less impetus for escape. There's maybe no one-size-fits-all.
I understand this is not intended to be of double blind official study it's just someone's own attempts to quantify the impact on stress levels, but it is important to note that vitamin d is not a neutral substance in the body. Also the amount of vitamin d taken is above the recommended daily allowance. Although the recommended daily allowance is quite small compared to the amount of vitamin d your body would produce just spending some time in the sun.

Specifically there is enough research to link vitamin d deficiencies with stress and anxiety. So supplementing vitamin d, even in such small quantities, can skew the results. Since this occurred over a period of 16 months Sun exposure which results in your body producing vitamin d is changing up the "placebo control" variable.

This is the difficult problem when trying to study the effect of any supplement. Many times they're effects are quite subtle and it's difficult to control for all of the other variables that may produce similar outcomes. Without accounting for all of the other variables that are part of it it's difficult to see if there is a correlation to the supplements or potentially to something else.
I don't agree with this assertion. Back in those days, most people in my friend group were using MSN Messenger. The steps to get onto that were probably easier than signing up for Facebook/Insta nowadays. The same was true for yahoo, AOL or a whole bunch of other messenger services. But these all had open protocols that clients could implement, and they did - Adium for Mac was a great example, and it worked brilliantly. The only thing missing there was an open protocol for group video calls, which is why Skype came along. If we had continued on that path of open protocols (not even standards) vs. proprietary & locked down services, we'd be in a much different place now.
They don't support imperialism, but they also don't care enough to be against imperialism. They care about egg prices or their favorite culture wars more than about people dying elsewhere.

It's egoism, simple as that.
This paper is 50+ years old and yet programmers are still making the same mistake of defining modules based on a flowchart, instead of modules that hide design decisions. I think that shows the youth (and perhaps lack of foundational training) of software engineering as a field.

But also the progress of the last 50 years: the KWIC index went from “a small system [that] could be produced by a good programmer within a week or two” to a tiny system that can be written in a couple lines using the standard library of Java (as I once saw a demo of).

Also: I recently wrote a blog post related to this paper and all of the initial test readers told me they had no idea what a KWIC index was and it needed more explanation. Instant full-text search really changes things.
I feel like the inevitable conclusion to a lot of philosophies is the tendency to be misinterpreted, usually pigeonholed and then often the creator feels the need to clarify "please be more open minded about thing X". Agile is like endlessly flopped this way.

The contrarian in me sometimes likes to consider, no, let's stay literal, don't be open-minded, we mean Infrastructure as Computer Code. Partially, because I think there's benefit to atomizing a bit. Here's this thing over here that's IaC, and instead of essentially saying, anything can be IaC, let's call other things something else. It's hard to compare and contrast two different ideas (literal code vs principles) if you start from the place of "Everything can be IaC"

In some ways I think I see Mitchell's clarification as a distinction without a difference. I have some issues with IaC, and I think I would have the same (or similar) issues with "Infrastructure as a system of principles or rules"
And join US with infinity debt and in declined as well?

Gosh darn that's just like two bad choices from the recent election no?
Yeah I'm not saying its a good replacement, it's actually atrocious but its already replaced reddit and is where the actual users are now.

Reddit doesn't know it yet but they're already very deep in the twilight phase of their site and it's going to start accelerating.
I indeed was not aware, thanks
The article you linked says it's a myth.
Nothing stiffles my creativity so quickly as intrusive thoughts of marketability. I can follow the muse or the outcome, not both. I wonder how much of a role this played in the displacement of painting here and if writing may be subject to a similar fate.
This is a great policy.

Ironically, it can also be used to justify "cheating"... but not in a bad way. If a university course is a requirement and I have no interest in learning the material, it makes sense for me to speedrun the material using all the tools I have at my disposal.

Maybe I'm missing out, but I'm an adult that's being "forced" to (pay to) take a class I have no interest/motivation for, which seems like being treated like an child.

I like your approach because you treat your students like adults.
Cancel culture == ye olde time honored practice of blacklisting which is specifically called out as a form of unfair labor practice. Welcome back to the days of the Gilded Age; repeat and relearn. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Learn aider.chat or Claude code or the other big AI coding systems. The world is changing https://andrewarrow.dev/faq
Nope, Matrix has been pushing interop for years (since the late teens).
> . Some developers never fully embrace automation, especially if they are reliant on certain tools versus original solution discovery.

can you expand on that for clarity ?
I strongly doubt this. It’s rare and we have all sorts of credible theories about why it’s rare, but the decline of so-called fluid intelligence is mostly Flynn Effect: people are getting better at taking tests.
The American Enterprise Institute published a notecard-sized piece they call the "success sequence", which I think would fit your bill. [1]

1. Finish high school.

2. Get (and keep) a full-time job once you finish school.

3. Get married before you have children (if you have children).

Their analysis concluded that 97% of millennials in the US who follow this three step sequence are not poor by the time they reach 31 or so.

There isn't anything specific in that sequence about drugs, but I imagine the subgroups for whom drug use would be problematic would also find it hard to follow that sequence while using them.

[1]: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IFS-Millennia...
So an int has nothing to do with an Int32 or Int64.

Thanks for your patient elucidation.

This means the semantics for Int32 and Int64 are COMPLETELY different than that of an int. My problem is that I come from the C world, where an int is simply derived from either a 32- or 64-bit integer, depending on the target architecture.

OCaml's runtime is not a system designed for systems-level programming.

Thanks again.

Now I know why the F# guys rewrote OCaml's fundamental int types from the get-go.
The point is that this is a big piece of the puzzle of why “Housing First” does not seem to fully solve homelessness in other places that try it. Often people speculate that it’s because the policy is being applied incorrectly. But if there’s some people with mental illnesses that make it impossible to house them normally, and Finland helps them through an entirely different program, that could explain the gap.
Finland, part of the EU's Schengen zone, doesn't precisely have strong borders.

It does lack the climate which might appeal to border-crossers, however, unlike, say, Southern California which has a long-standing homeless situation.
268 billion per year. I wonder how much of that goes directly to boots on the ground staff vs. bureaucracy.