skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at the form. I don’t know the Indian job market and the typical process, but I wouldn’t apply to that place. Invasive questions, woo woo culture vibes, and then a big multihour homework assignment with a warning about rejection. Looks like a waste of time to apply, at least for anyone who has other options. Maybe that’s where those self directed learners are.
As I recall, my old Nokia 1616-2 would last over 3 weeks between charges if not used. Only somewhat less if only used for texts, say 2.5 to 3 weeks.

It was actually making calls which cut in to the battery, but still it could last 7-10 days with the pattern of usage I had.

That is really what is needed for simple "feature phones"
General-purpose genotypes and high plasticity clonality enable knotweed invasion
Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk's companies
Hard to pull off! But I imagine the wave of Bryan Johnson fans would be game.
I should've been clearer. I just want to fantastic terminal escape sequences. It's probably as straightforward as I've imagined.
For Europe you could use easy trick - 4 centers (Germany, France, Italy, UK) divided by large mountains or large water. Only exception is west Germany land border.

It become early obvious, battle on mountains or coast battle are ineffective.
So, most European battles happen on flat land.
Perhaps they’ve learned not to waste their time and energy on initial applications.
This is related to the libor rigging case, not the 2008 financial crisis.

Thankfully in some cases, people do actually go to jail.
It's influencer culture. It's like when people watch those "software developer" youtubers and pretend it's educational. It's reality television for computer people.
have you tried a pre-workout style dose (it’s about 8-10 coffees in one)? The first time should give you a pretty good idea of what the “jittery” feeling is.
As someone who occasionally swears at my computer when it doesn't do what I want, I guess it's nice that the computer can hear me now.
https://archive.is/NUw7C
Proprietary software? "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
Can you go into a bit more detail about what became challenging and what Astro helped you solve?
A skim of the overall post has me sympathetic, but I almost closed the browser tab with the opening:

> Fewer than 100 filled a form with open-ended questions. About 15 went on to complete a reasonably simple real-world challenge. We are a nation with the cheapest internet and a billion internet users. Where are all the self-directed learners? The eclectic ekalavyas?

Apparently not jumping through corporate drone hoops, for a chance to talk with your company.

> And then to make it worse, our exam system is fundamentally broken. It’s like forcing Serena Williams and Magnus Carlsen (and Gukesh) to compete in 400m hurdles to figure out if they are fit for their respective sports.

Exactly.
A huge part of the cost of developing a WiFi chip is in the firmware. WiFi is a complex set of protocols, and is especially tricky to implement in a low ram, low compute, power constrained device.

There is perhaps a 50/50 effort split between firmware and hardware design. Open source the firmware and suddenly an upstart competitor has only half the cost to market, and therefore could undercut you in price.
Many C compilers accepted this as non-standard extension already before C99 though (along with winged comments, and `for (int...)`).

There is a lot of useful harmonization happening between the two languages (and mostly from the direction of C++ to C)

From the perspective of a C coder, the one good thing about C++ is that it is basically the testing ground for new potential C features to figure out what works and doesn't work in realworld scenarios before the C standard is polluted too much with the ideas that don't work ;)
It's hyperbole to the level that obfuscates, unfortunately. 50% of psych findings being wrong doesn't mean "right all the time except in exotic edge cases" like pre-quantum physics, it means they have no value at all and can't be salvaged. And very often the cause turns out to be fraud, which is why there is such a high rate of refusing to share the raw data from experiments - even when they signed agreements saying they'd do so on demand.
> (...) with every major version of Android, all the basic, essential functions take increasingly more screen tap counts in different places on the digitizer as they get buried deeper into submenus

The one thing that struck me configuring my spare Samsung first time was this approach of hiding setting under sub-screens. For example how you can handle Wifi in One UI: you go to settings, in connections section you have Wifi entry with switcher. An entry that look like static combines 2 options. Tapping on text opens sub-screen with another on/off toggle and advanced setting hidden under three-dotted menu. Then, once you connect to a network editing its settings doesn't open by tapping on network name but by sprocket on right. And if you want to change ip, dns settings that's another tap below under drop-down section. Of course this is all approach for demanding users and regular ones will handle stuff from pulled-down notifications widgets but still - mos of the stuff is indeed deeply hidden.
All I really care about is the end result and, so far, LLMs are nice for code completion, but basically useless for anything else.

They write as much code as you want, and it often sorta works, but it’s a bug filled mess. It’s painstaking work to fix everything, on part with writing it yourself. Now, you can just leave it as-is, but what’s the use of releasing software that crappy?

I suppose it’s a revolution for that in-house crapware company IT groups create and foist on everyone who works there. But the software isn’t better, it just takes a day rather than 6 months (or 2 years or 5 years) to create. Come to think of it, it may not be useful for that either… I think the end-purpose is probably some kind of brag for the IT manger/exec, and once people realize how little effort is involved it won’t serve that purpose.
>> Yes, obviously, but poorly designed or failed equipment does not absolve you of your responsibility to drive safely.

I agree with you on this -- but that is not how people behave. Just because people should behave that way, doesnt mean they do. People have a natural inclination to try and fix the problem by giving up a bit of attention -- that is bad for all of us who are affected by these decisions -- and this means -- fix the design.
They used to be a once a decade "save the company during a recession" move. Now they seem to be a quarterly "manage earnings per share" move.
One problem I run into somewhat frequently with Cursor in agent mode: instead of trying to augment the current version of code, it will try to work on top of what it generated last, overriding my manual edits since then in the process. I have to abort and revert, and try again with explicitly attached context, or start a new chat. I have something like “always read the current version of the code before making edits” in Cursor rules but that hasn’t helped much.

Anyone else running into this and/or have a solution?
> t this cocktail gives me great dreams and increase the quality of my sleep where 6-7 hours is very much enough for me compared to the usual 8-9.

You take it for sleep but you sleep less? I think you mean you take it for "fun sleep".

Theanine is excitatory, that is wht it acts like ritalin for you, which is also excitatory. Period. Which is why at higher doses your mind races. Theanine brings me into psychois becasue I am sensitive to glutamate and I have Bipolar Disorder. Drinking tea give me paranoia and the "fun sleep" you have I have every night.
Not that I have anything concrete in my mind yet. I'm learning as we all do. But after some usage I've developed a little bit of a hunch which prompt works and which not.

For example, I have mindlessly asked Claude Code over a large codebase "where is desktop app version stored and how is it presented on site". I have expected useless answer given how vague the questions was. Instead I have got a truly exceptional and extremely clear report that fully covers the question.

Another example. I have asked Claude Code to come up with a script to figure out funding rate time intervals on a given exchange and Code ended up in an almost endless loop running small test scripts in node.js to figure this out and came up with a super suboptimal and complicated solution. Turns out my prompt was too verbose and detailed and I have specifically asked Claude Code to figure out time intervals, not just get them. So it did. Instead of just querying the exchange via API and printing the list on terminal (3 lines script) it actually, truly tried to figure them out in various ways.
I saw or read an interview with Terry once where he said something like: "If at 16 you don't think LotR is the best story in the world then there's probably something wrong with you, and if at 45 you still think it's the best story in the world then there's definitely something wrong with you." (Quotation marks, but not verbatim I'm sure)

I don't think he meant it as a criticism of LotR, more pointing to the wealth of other literature that you might need a bit of maturity to get into.

It's funny how some people idolise "the classics" and yet if you actually read them then mostly they're just the popular fun stuff from an earlier era. Poor old Terry, he'll probably be a question on an A-level English exam one of these days.
I made this, it’s a lot less than $25/mo. Happy to take suggestions. It’s called Reflect.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
The US would not start a nuclear war with Russia over an attack on Ukraine, nuclear or otherwise. Do you really think it would?
Rising tide lifts all the boats and all that.

Claude Code didn't feel that different to me, and maybe they have something that is better and when they do release it they can say hey look, we pushed hard and have something that's better than even Claude Code.
> end the war

Why is it that Ukraine needs to end the war but not Russia?
The author may not know C. As OP said, it's definitely the case that people interested in Zig may not have any interest in going through C first. They may eventually have to, as Zig interfaces heavily with C code and libs, but there's nothing wrong with going Zig first.
Funny that you don't call for elections in Russia because we didn't have any for 20 years.
I think you might be overthinking it. Kids learn to prevent bad things from happening. They learn it so well that sometimes they also learn much helplessness.
How can you even begin to hold a fair election when about 20% of your nation is occupied by a foreign power?
Beyond sanity. The US breaking trust with the world will have repercussions for generations. This is a stupid decision
I have a sensitive stomach, and I’ve found peppermint oil to be a fairly good supplement to help. I’ve also noticed that my stomach is more irritated when I’m anxious and stressed. The act of taking the peppermint oil, whether my stomach is acting up or not seems to be one of the biggest anxiety relievers to me.
We need a lot more details to make sense of this benchmark.
I did a default Next.js install and performed an Apache benchmark, yielding a 2586 RPS for me on a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 (a low-budget laptop).
Are we benchmarking the cache implementation, the JSON parser, or maybe the proxy configuration?
> That would mean the death of at a minimum Meta (market cap $1.5 trln), most of Google (market cap $2.1 trln, lets say half would die).

And nothing of value was lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFv1O4dbqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ

> So what, a couple trillion haircut on the US stock market, and more of a GDP hit than if the entire US military suddenly stopped getting funded.

Not even.

Market Cap is more like net worth than like GDP, GDP is more like annual revenue (both are still somewhat different, hence "more like") — Meta's global revenue is $164.5 billion, Alphabet's is $350.02 billion, so even if that's entirely in the USA (it isn't), and the money spent was purely positive-sum (it isn't), even combined that's less than the US military budget of $849.8 billion.
Influencer would be another term...
> And people may not remember much about the launch of Chrome

And remember -- the original browser engine that Chrome (+ Safari) came from was KHTML + KJS from the KDE folks, which was doing pretty good at the time considering the development resources available to it
> In the 'old' days it was basically up yo you. Assignments during the academic year were few and far between. Each course resulted in an exam at the end of the year. How you passed that was up to you.

Interestingly I think is exactly what the article is arguing against and is saying India is too much like.

> You could use the university as a knowledge buffet attending interesting lectures outside of your own field of study, get straight into the specialization topics that were the real reason you were attracted to field in the first place (AI in my case which was a very niche subject in those days) instead of just slogging through the generalist foundation courses (80% math in those days, physics, economics and some CS).

This sounds great for making academics, but terrible for educating a work force. Sadly, university is now the latter due to it being seen as a way to get ahead. One of the worst things to happen UK in my lifetime is tuition fees.
1. That would unconstitutional

2. Every elected politician in the Verkovna Rada voted in support for Zelensky, including his opponents

3. The only ones who wants an election right now are Putin and his allies
The answer to no more ads is you can't be independent. You have to have service aggregation.

The fundamental problem is that you can't grow an audience all your content is behind a paywall. So you have to offer some content for free, but if you're an independent comic artist like smbc, no one is going to visit your site if only 1 comic per week is free.

But if a lot of creators are behind a single paywall, and that paywall was able to feature 10 random free webcomics every day, then you pull in lots of visitors and have more opportunity to convert them into paying customers.

Now the harder question, how do you convince a bunch of independent content creators to band together behind a single paywall.
Don’t forget holding an election during wartime is against the constitution of Ukraine. Also, even the opposition is against it.
The Russian army can decide to leave and go to their side of the border at any time. It's more complicated than that (war crimes, reparations, all the people that have been abducted) but I still wonder why this is not being discussed at more often - it is totally clear who is the agressor here.
I made an app for this called Reflect [1]. There aren’t templates yet but you can run self guided experiments for anything you can model as a metric in the app. I just wrote about an experiment I did with nootropic coffee [2]. I think you have a point about sense of direction and premade templates being targeted and useful. Reflect is very much generic and untargeted.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

[2] https://open.substack.com/pub/reflectapp/p/my-experience-wit...
> My favorite place to start is Autostrada : https://autostrada.dev/

It's nice but they could make it even nicer by adding succint descriptions and/or pros and cons to alternatives. Choosing a database probably needs no explaining, but choosing a http router is different.

Also "Read configuration settings from env vars or command line switches". Both. Both is good.
A zillion buttons aren’t really necessary in cars. Niche functions you use once in a blue moon can stay on screens. But the basic functions of a car, like turning signals, lights, or gear shifting, require tactile, obvious, well-known interfaces. I was taught to drive on a Toyota, and my dad’s car at that time was a Ford. I did not need to re-learn how to control the basic functions of the car; even though there were some differences as to where some things are located, the controls are immediately obvious. If I get a rental Kia or Volkswagen or Nissan, I’ll be able to immediately drive it even if I’ve never driven one. But if I get a rental stalkless stickless Tesla, I’d be completely lost and need extra training.
Correction: Andrew Lacy appears to have zero medical credentials and nearly zero scientific background; he once spent 9 whole months secondment from McKinsey identifying and commercializing scientific research "which meant talking to hundreds of scientists and then trying to figure out if and how their research could lead to commercial applications... drive over $1 billion in annual sales of R&D services.".
Beside the fact that it isn't practical, they would need to amend their constitution before they could hold an election during wartime. This is all also ignoring the question begging that the original poster was engaged in with the assumption that holding an election would end the war.
>AI does not really think, it just seems like it does.

Neither does humans.

Sorry to disappoint the super-AGI hopeful: we're already past that point, because the average human is only a 3B parameter LLM there's nothing magic that comes with an AGI.

The first time GPT2 autocompleted a sentence involving admitting a previous fault of output we were in the post-human era.

Everything we've seen since then have been us living through the legendary post-AGI AI bootstraps launch, but living the future isn't exactly living up to the hype huh?

That GTP-4.5 model that had the Samaltmanists wriggle on the floor in rapturous ecstatic orgasms just last year? Today it's an embarrassment, like the seed-stained lesswrong posters of yore.

The singularity was a star trek plot device.

What we see today is the real deal and I re-iterate my 2015 predictions: by the time an actually scary god like AI is created(say in 2050). We'll have so many thousands or millions of demi-god AI around that the god itself will have to have the good graces to shut up, get a queue ticket in the bare-metal immigration zone with the rest of the rabble. The prospect of true AI divinity will be a (hype-burned) washed out gray with a trace sprinkle of glitter on the already existing background of demi-divine AI.
Thanks for the post, I just updated to 30.0.6 and have now turned off the settings as described here https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/51335#issuecommen... until a fix is out.
I am fully aware of it, however most recent revisions tend not to be adopted by all compilers, and honestly the large majority only cares about keeping existing code running.

A bit like C23 and C++23 are here, and the large majority is a mix of C89, C99, C++11, and C++17, as what folks in the trenches care about.

Or Java 8 versus Java 24, and so on.

Fortran is in a similar position.
I thought this was going to be about all the physics rules in the discwolrd, like how light travels, the rule of the one chance in a million, or that cats can see the eight color or Death etc. I'd love to see a list of all of them, I haven't noticed any inconsistencies so far but I haven't read that many novels yet.
For one, the revenue model for lynkmi is user subscriptions rather than ads. I'm taking a hard stance on never doing ads as that distorts the incentives. I want the money to come from people who like the product.

Also tags are more personal like "tmoravec/cryptozoology" rather than a global "cryptozoology", so intentionally focused on keeping social circles smaller.
This is top of mind for all European countries that bought the F-35. They are painfully aware of this. So is the US defense industry which will notice softening sales kicking in a few years down the line as European countries are less inclined to buy US arms.

This was predictable though. The markets have already rewarded those who saw this coming.
I read that mites can't survive temperatures above 60C, and wondered then about just a big plastic bag around the item then fill it from a hot air source (hair dryer, fan heater)?

I think the problem would be temperature control, as you don't want to damage the item, but need to maintain an even, specific air temperature, you'd need turbulence. Then vacuum clean afterwards.

Maybe a wallpaper remover style device with a hot air source instead of steam??
Theoretically, if you exclude the occupied parts from voting, you'd ensure no Yanukovich-like candidate winning.

On the other hand, Trump can always move the goalpost ("Election not held in eastern Oblasts == Sham elections") or even reinforce the view that the eastern oblasts are de facto not part of the Ukrainian state anymore.
Doesn’t seem like a nightmare to me - a trillion dollars spent on ads that get blocked is a trillion dollars wasted.

The real nightmare is hundreds of thousands of people on six figure salaries wasting their lives producing ads everyone hates.
Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong
Lord knows there are ample opportunities to learn this lesson in the industry today.
I'd add to that that the best results are with clear spec sheets, which you can create using Claude (web) or another model like ChatGPT or Grok. Telling them what you want and what tech you're using helps them create a technical description with clear segments and objectives, and in my experience works wonders in getting Claude Code on the right track, where it has full access to the entire context of your code base.
It's a great article but calling Erlang's philosophy of 'Let it crash' a pithy, catchy statement that brushes over the complexities of the real world was an unwarranted attack. There's much more to it and with Elixir on top it goes a long way in lightening the cognitive load of error handling and building fault tolerant software.

They aren't perfect tools but they are also not merely misguided academic exercised combined with vapid catch phrases, as the analysis seems to imply.
They were looking for a clear effect. they did not find one.
The actual job posting just says "software engineering", full stack, ai, "to build a tool that answers all the questions".

I can only see undergrads falling for this.

Maybe if you narrow down the job requirements (and the company mission) you would get less than 2.5k applicants and you wouldn't need to throw challenges to filter out people who value their time.
Self directed learner is not the same as someone willing to spend several hours on a lottery ticket for an interview. The cost of applying for this role is 100x higher than most other jobs.

So the independent thinkers did some thinking and realized that their expected return from this process wasn't that high.
But if the EU has no 5th gen fighters then they'd have a hard time maintaining Air Superiority against Russia if they manage to mass produce Su-57 or Su-75 and I am betting the Russian can do it before EU can have 5th gen fighters or FCAS.
European university would kill me. I am pretty sure I have undiagnosed adhd and universities aren't made for people like me. Having to learn things i dont care about is practically impossible for me. Its not like I don't want to, its because im physically not able to remember these things. This is also why I didnt succeed my drivers license or cant read books I dont consider interesting. So self learning is the only way for people like me.