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I was an engineering manager back in the day (Java). People would get lost in the sauce with bracket placement, number of tabs, etc., etc. In order to avoid religious battles, I instituted a code formatter/beautifier. It would format all code upon commit.

Problem solved.

Although another conversation, people did not want to document their code. So I took the carrot / stick approach. I had to approve all commits and if code did not have javadoc, I did not approve the commit. If your commit was not on time, then that impacted your performance which, in turn, impacted your pay. People bitched at first but whatever. At this particular place, we were trying to get bought. Having documentation and other IP made us more valuable. It forced devs to put actual thought into how to manage their time.
it would be really cool if I can hook a portable 15" LCD to my pixel 8, run a debian and use some bluetooth keyboard/mouse to do serious work without carrying a laptop. the LCD though has to be externally powered otherwise the phone battery will run dry quickly.
AI didn't take my job – I took someone else's with AI
Nonsense - Android's userland does not use GNU, at all; or Linux display servers; or the POSIX standard; or anything but the kernel. Apps on Android have no access, or ability, to directly call kernel functions. Android is deliberately designed so the kernel could, hypothetically, even be replaced one day without breaking anything.

Forcing apps into an abstraction layer from the kernel is good design, preventing kernel quirks from being permanent features. Not using GNU is another design choice which can be debated, but it's completely valid, there's no requirement (moral or otherwise) to use the GNU userland with the Linux kernel. Most embedded devices also eschew the GNU userland by instead using Busybox.
No, and that wasn't the case under prior administrations either. Remember Dual_EC_DRBG[0]?

NIST is an untrustworthy government agency that occasionally produces useful encryption standards. The answer to "should we use a NIST standard" is to look at what the wider academic cryptography community is talking about. Dual_EC_DRBG was complained about immediately (for various strange statistical properties that made it impractical) and people found the ability to hide a backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG in 2004.

If anything, the biggest issue is that the security experts pointing out the obvious and glaring flaws with NIST standards don't get listened to enough.

[0] A random number generator standard designed specifically with a back door that only the creator of its curve constants could make use of or even prove had been inserted. It was pushed by NIST during the Bush Jr. administration.
Maemo is/was based on Debian, with full compatibility with dpkg and apt.
I'm more partial to the first one because it keeps a linear flow downwards, and a uniform structure. The second one kind of drifts off, and reshuffling parts of it is going to be … annoying. IME the dot style lends itself much better to restructuring.

Depending on language you might also have some `.flat_map` option available to drop the `.reduce`.
60% of adults will be overweight or obese by 2050, study says
I don't know but you'll probably find a better answer here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/

Using the search gave me a bunch of threads, but here's one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ip6c9e/looking...
The problem is that it's easy to overdo it. When you are writing the code, you already know what it's supposed to do, and adding a few more things to the chain is convenient and attractive. But when you are reading unfamiliar code, you often wish that the author was more explicit with their code. Not just with what the code is actually doing, but what it's trying to do and what are the key waypoints to get there.

With procedural code, it's widely accepted that you should not do too many things in a single statement. But in functional code, the entire chain is a single statement. There are no natural breakpoints where the reader could expect to find justifications for the code.
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I think that there are definitely people who have been on welfare and used it to better themselves and there are people who thrive in the face of adversity, overcoming the worst situations.

I also think that there are a large number of people who ended up lost without direction or purpose.

People are weird and different.
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> Apps on Android have no access, or ability, to directly call kernel functions.

That is nonsense.
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For cheap storage at hetzner you could add a storagebox (not fast, but fine), or now even objecstorage.
Often well pumps and sump pumps can be wired for either 230 or 120V, so Pila could be an option with some added effort and a conversation with an electrician. But in any case, looking forward to building the 230/240V version!
I‘m not so sure YC is really targeting industry experts in their fields who are doing startups, or?
The metal masses over a styrofoam bar look as a serius problem because they may collect static electricity. Perhaps a thin coorer wire that connect them to the aluminium foil in the water may solve that.
I agree that any system claiming general intelligence must be able to form and modify a model of the world. A fundamental part of this is being able to ask counterfactual questions on its own understanding or knowledge of the world. The history of science is full of countless such examples. As of right now I'm not aware of any LLMs or indeed any AI system being able to do so.
Technically, it's true, as far as I am aware. Android has low level functions which themselves then directly call Linux, but you are not allowed to make a direct Linux call.

I could easily be completely wrong though.
The problem is the "you" in question is not always able to. When "you" write code it makes sense and so you don't need to assign many names. The you in six months will want more names, and in 6 years that will be different again (how many depends - if this code is changed often then you know it much better than if it has been stable). The worse case will be after you "get hit by a bus" and the "you" in question is some poor person who has never seen this code before.
Will TS v7 only support erasable syntax? e.g. no enums?
>we’re not here to teach proper form

My friend, the title of this post suggests that the app can correct your form.

Do you use this app when you work out?
All of the leading code samples look _fine_. This whole article is the kind of superficial bikeshedding feedback one gets from code-reviewers who are just phoning it in and don't care about the substance of the problem or solution.
Rsync-over-gRPC: demo program: rsync file transfer (with the gokrazy/rsync modu
Congrat on the announcement, this is a great achievement!
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The Kuwahara filter in graphics (2023)
> That does not indicate that it's thought to be a quote

So you are indicating that a summons is necessary? That makes even less sense...

> [Citation Needed] indicates that it needs a supporting source to validate the statement.

But, logically, the person making the comment is the supporting source. That is, after all, why you are taking time to speak to them instead of some other source. If you find another source is more valid to what you seek, why not go directly to it instead? A middleman offers nothing of value.

> It is commonly used on Wikipedia to denote statements on a page that do not have proper supporting information

Sure. The entire purpose of Wikipedia is to aggregate information about topics from external sources. Citations are needed. It would not serve its intended purpose without them. But a wiki is quite unlike a discussion forum. A discussion forum is a venue to speak with the primary source...

...which is what ended up happening anyway, making the "[Citation Needed]" of any interpretation even stranger.
so the tar perfectly mediates the balance of polonium and cyanide
I consider syntax highlighting to be a part of the _visual_ structure. Visibility is more than just whitespace and placement!
At least one banking app I know will crash if it detects something as normal as a remote desktop app like TeamViewer installed. Banks are insane!
What's behind the recent string of failures and delays at SpaceX?
Firefox reborn will be a tough turnaround job —- Ladybird could be the better path.
Off-grid capable, yes. In my experience having redundant systems is a great approach for off-gridding. Pila will happily work alongside a whole-home battery system to add extra capacity wherever you need it most.
Chances are it was just personal preference of the team and decades of arguing about language design have worn out Anders Hejlsberg. I don't think structural typing alone is enough of an argument to justify the choice over Rust. Maybe the TS team thought choosing Go would have better optics. Well, they won't have it both ways because clearly this decision in my opinion is short-sighted and as someone aptly pointed on twitter they will be now beholden to Google's control over Go should they ever need compiler to support a new platform or evolve in a particular way. Something they would've gotten easily with .NET.
asked claude, said it didn’t do it :)
I think the power parent was referring to is to impeach the president
When was the last time you encountered this? I remember getting nags up until around the end of last year, but not lately. I like to think they dropped the program because I expressed concerns about it to so many reps, but more likely I've just been dialing in on a different number.
The S20 Ultra is pretty powerful.
I've worked on dozens of Excel to ERP migrations. Excel is way more common as the primary data source including financial data. If you only look at financial data by volume (and not count) maybe ERP win, but I wouldn't be sure.
Can it? That’s awesome.

Mostly these days I’m only aware of C# when it inconveniences me.
Right now I think it's hard to count on Trump giving up the office in 4 years.
ok, different libraries have different use cases, the type of data we work with absolutely necessitates dynamic visualization. You wouldn't view a video with imshow would you?
This. I teach this with Pandas (and Polars) all the time. You don't really care about the intermediate values. You build up the chain operation by operation (validating that it works). At the end you have a recipe for processing the data.

Most professional Pandas users realize that working with chains makes their lives much easier.

By the way, debugging chains isn't hard. I have a chapter in my book that shows you how to do it.
That would be an incredible modern analogue to the Arecibo message or Golden Record. Imagine being on the receiving end of such an artifact and not knowing how to operate it and being worried about breaking it.

Makes you also wonder if the future of long-range communication between planets or galaxies would involve LLM-based compression, embeddings, etc.

We definitely need to fix the hallucination problem though, or a receiving civilization might be extremely confused about our nature.
> You're claiming landlords have the ability to set rents directly based on a tenant's income.

I'm a landlord. My agent figures out the rent to charge on my behalf. They do this by making an informed guess as to what the market can bear — sometimes they've been wrong, and had to reduce the asking rate.

That is, mechanistically, how they discover what the market can bear.

If everyone gets £1000 UBI money each month, everyone can afford to pay £1000 more rent than before. Some agents will guess this means everyone can afford £500 more rent, some will guess higher, some will guess lower. They'll discover through this process of guessing and seeing what happens, how much people can actually pay.

This is complicated by all the other concurrent changes, including:

(1) the scenario of no-more-work-needed suggests that some of the tenants will move to wherever the rent is lowest rather than where their previous commute was shortest

(2) no-more-work-possible meaning money supply goes down rather than up

(3) people won't need to spend a huge amount of money commuting, not just time, which may increase personal money supply (just not by as much as the loss of income from not working)

(4) if they actually like the homes enough to want to spend all day in them, rather 5 hours awake and inside because the other 19 hours of the day are 8 asleep, 2 commuting, 8 working, and 1 lunch break; UBI being claimed by 500 people who all officially live in the same 1 bed flat in a Norfolk village, but they're all actually spending their money on living in relatively cheap safari cabins in Botswana or whatever, is a very different dynamic than everyone staying put to keep close to friends and family.

(On the plus side, if we have robot workers so cheap there's no point hiring humans any more, then we may also get a lot more high-quality housing for a price of next-to-nothing).
It's also harder to write and debug with the intermediate steps.
Thanks. Yeah I've been baffled as to why just interactive Matplotlib with a Colab kernel is so slow. The Colab CPU is fast (enough), the network is fast, I haven't been able to figure out where the bottleneck is either.
>If you look at the linked “functional unemployment” chart (https://www.lisep.org/tru) the numbers in the past three years are the lowest on record. It has been on a consistent downward trajectory, minus 2008 crash plus COVID, so that does not seem worth highlighting.

Agreed. It's dishonest to take one headline metric (ie. U3 unemployment), redefine it to mean something entirely different (ie. U6 unemployment or whatever), and then conclude things are much worse than initially thought because the redefined metric is much worse than the original

Suppose that there was a "sickness" metric that measured how many people are in hospital. Then someone comes along and claims the country is much sicker than people thought, citing a "functional sickness" metric that measured anyone who called in sick, and that's "horrifying". They'd be laughed out of the room.
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I built Predicto, an app that helps improve forecasting accuracy by focusing on probability distributions rather than binary outcomes. The core insight is that real-world predictions are rarely binary - like a dice roll has six equally probable outcomes, most predictions have multiple possible outcomes with varying probabilities.

Technical features:
- Probability distribution modeling for predictions
- Built-in black swan event accounting
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- Visualization tools for analyzing prediction performance
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The goal is to help people develop more nuanced mental models for prediction-making and improve their calibration over time through systematic tracking.

Try it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yourcompan...

Tech stack details and feedback welcome!
I appreciate the warning and if it's not by claude I apologize, but I do think we should be allowed to express scepticism if things posted are just AI slop (and if we have to fear getting banned or what-have-you as a consequence I genuinely think that's worse for HN long term than the alternative).
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Folks don't seem to have a problem when SQL does it. Only when code like Pandas does it...
I take it you haven't seen any Chinese cars lately. Particularly in the EV space they're demolishing the competition in price and quality, and a huge part of that is thanks to automation with the robots described here.

Check out eg the Xpeng G6, which delivers an Audi ride but undercuts the Tesla Model Y on price:

https://www.xpeng.com/g6
The 90-9-1 rule, which is common across many mass-participation media modalities, not just online.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=90-9-1_rule>
There are indeed tools like this available for Excel. And there are also whole practices within the big accountancy firms, and independent firms which focus on providing "audit" of Excel files like this, which are used commonly where there are financial firms involved in a project with big money at stake (lenders, financial investors, etc). But in my experience these tools and services aren't often used for the spreadsheets which are used for day to day corporate-type management (I would count government as part of that).
some time ago i mentored a team in Ireland, and one mid-age guy was switching professions - from construction... and he approached programming (entry level python mostly) as puzzle solving. Match the pieces in (sufficiently) proper places.

Coding seems very close to puzzle solving in this regard.
And those people are using the word "literally" to mean "very".

They are not using the word "literally" to remind you that they did not in fact die.

It is often used figuratively. It never means figuratively.
So they're basically pivoting from selling text by the ounce to selling web searches and cloud storage? I like it, it's a bold move. When the slow people at Google finally catch up it might be too late for Google?
AI fakers are far less common than agency molested resumes and bait and switch with interviewees. I'd say 60% of the interviews I conduct are clearly not with the person who's resume I'm looking at. They're real people just not good candidates.
> For that to be true, the wealthy would have to have a lower percentage of their net worth in non-cash assets than the middle class. That sure doesn’t seem true. Is it?

It’s not about percentage it’s about real dollars. Your question is exactly why I included the bit about Elon’s net worth vs yours. If you lose 90% you’re destitute. If Elon loses 90% he’s still poised to win. Don’t forget the wealthy have an easy time borrowing against their non liquid assets.

Then there’s companies like Berkshire Hathaway who’ve been planning for an event like this:
https://companiesmarketcap.com/berkshire-hathaway/cash-on-ha...
Though it wasn't directly mentioned in the article, the relevant context is that the Trump administration is in the process of cutting foreign aid by the US; see the link below for a few details.

Looks to me like the OWID article is saying that the aid from the US is a good investment.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/how-trump-s-di...
I'm familiar with the smells of sulfur (at least memories from decades ago), natural gas additives (mercaptan) and having chickens that like to lay in random hidden places, rotten eggs.

I don't think that there's much overlap in the scent profiles. Maybe a diluted rotten egg is similar to that smell of making black powder as a child, but not much.
What do you imagine happens when you call fopen()? At some point there's a transition from user mode into kernel mode. What can the system do to prevent normal "app" code from making the transition but not "low level" code, when it's all user mode stuff running in the same process?
Instead of petition, people should wake up and vote better for their representatives...
You mean like expert witness polygraphers that were treated as fact by the courts for years and still used to re-incarcerate people on parole/probation?

Or gun matching (ballistics) that are no longer considered conclusive but subjective?
https://www.mdcourts.gov/data/opinions/coa/2023/10a22.pdf

Hair and Fiber expert analysis that was wrong?
https://innocenceproject.org/fbi-agents-gave-erroneous-testi...

Or do you mean bite mark analysis that was again wrong?

Many of these forensic methods were used for decades and presented/treated as conclusive evidence before being challenged leading to wrongful convictions. But yes, let's have 'certified' voice experts whose living is based on being hired by the government and giving testimony to convict people. Surely this time it will be altruistic and scientific.
You also have places like Boston with very sub-regional accents. Southie accents are not really pervasive nor are Beacon Hill Brahmin accents. And, as you suggest, many of the residents are from all over the place.
...And that was how a bunch of very enthusiastic HN factorio fans inadvertantly started the exponentially expanding intelligence that consumed the universe to make more science cubes.
Legged landers have also been proven to work on the moon many times. I suspect the reason for this thinking is that engineers like to find technical solutions to problems but when the only information you have is "it fell over", the only apparent technical solutions are to use different concepts that can't fall over. Once you know more specifics of why it failed, you'd be thinking of ways to prevent those, like maybe correct the software bug or implement redundant sensors or whatever. The troubles with these landers won't be something as difficult as "Reliably balancing a slender object upright is beyond the cutting edge of technology" since that problem has been thoroughly solved in other contexts like Falcon 9 and Segway.
Is this AOSP stuff, or is this only in the Google's proprietary parts?
> my point is that it's not a very good talking point when you try to sell stuff to European governments

The European smallsat market already exists. The global launch market already exists. This isn’t build it and they’ll come, it’s they built it and they’re going there.

> Before that, they had a sugar daddy billionaire. Obviously, Arianespace doesn't have that

The ESA has poured more money into Arianespace than NASA and Elon combined have put into SpaceX.

Again, Europe is running the track America would have it NASA hadn’t done COTS. That path would have precluded NASA SpaceX and left ULA with a monopoly where they could argue there was no other choice and no market for cheap, frequent launch. Again: Arianespace underwrites SpaceX’s transatlantic dominance. For all the things Elon rails at, notice his silence on Ariane.
Even if they do, they've broken practically all agreements they've entered.

I'm sure they'll break it and lie about it and yell that Ukraine broke it first. Should be fairly easy for the west to verify though.
Microsoft also has Power BI which occupies this "database which looks like a spreadsheet" space. But it's not well known.
The fact that indicators of decision-making have to be indirect, speaks to the risk environment of public health officials. Post Fauci, it's huge.

Is this problem also a function of both devolution of power to states and the environment post animal activism? Or just the "don't ask don't tell" of US policy these days? A bunch of laws got passed about revealing inner truths of animal husbandry in the wake of activist filming in chicken houses and piggeries.

We depend on the massive herds of food animals. We depend on clear information sharing about their health. They aren't just tasty beef and cheese, they are disease vectors and storage grounds of infection. This information policy nightmare isn't good.
Beat me to it and you're absolutely right. There's no need to guess what's going to happen here, we've already seen what happens elsewhere when the government injects a lot of money.
Leaving aside that older people aren't as enthused about FT work they've known for 30 years, many of them keep jobs or get bored and lonely without them. Not everyone wants to sit around crafting useless projects, or consuming. Creating value for others and connecting (and status signaling) can provide meaning, and granted in retirement there are other vectors for that made available such as volunteering.

It's not a good argument against UBI, but there are better arguments against UBI.