skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in a way, more than one, though things are not quite as you expect them.

The human capacity for wisdom is great. It is the lies we tell ourselves which hobble minds and distort the significance of any thing abstracted beyond the account of one’s direct senses.

There are a whole heap of lies. One for instance is your frequent use of the word “we.”

Can you do those things?

No.

Someone can. Not you. That you may confer your own confidence through such a figment of an association is striking.

Consider that civilization dies and is reborn and must recreate itself every so many generations. We now have much records, only what lives of civilization is that embodied by those taking upon themselves its reinvention.

Wisdom is not some far off future technology, it is the determination not to be a damned idiot fool at every intersection of consequence. When you think feel or believe you are not capable of being the damned idiot fool, you are too corrupt and full of treacherous lies to be wise enough for anything.

The fragment of civilization represented by you is only that which you have cultivated (embodied or actualized) of those representations.
You might be thinking of someone else.
Given how evolution seems to work in practice - building beings out of discrete organs and they scale up/down to an optimal size depending on conditions - I'd expect that this will hold for most things.

I'm not nature, but the low-entropy way of building these systems would be to have biological equivalents of variables that control the size (and probably shape) of different features. That would be an evolutionary advantage, because species with genomes organised that way would be amenable to evolving into local optimums.

To rephrase; evolution works best when there is a small area of the genome where tiny changes have large impacts on the size of an organ without altering its function.
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The best faith HNer to direct your queries to should be dirtyid aka maxglute..

As complete non-alignist, I suggest it be eptifying to grade MIC-academia relations of USN vs PRN on their progress in crossing the sense-intuition (you'd say surface-bottom/bed-top?) chasm :)

>the Gordian Knot Center

(What a way to court the blade of hemitheus!)

(Sorry for not paying attention to Sen/Nussbaum atm!)
Graduate students are one degree away from slave labor.
Not at all. They are one bill away (look at the UK).

We cannot solve political problems by ignoring them and retreating into code.
Well, yes, but I'm trying to be generous to the PoV.

My preferred solution is definitely to use the GC. With some help if you want. You can GC the nursery each time around the event loop. You can create and destroy arenas.
Just call it hacking, we don't need new names for coding without any forethought.
This is why I prefer to liken software to crafting a novel. You come up with a nice self-contained story, a clear story arc with a hero and a villain and a good ending.

Then marketing come along and ask to make it a trilogy and a few weeks before release they ask you to add in Ewoks because it'll sell more toys.
Of course, a lot more people at age 55 back then were eligible for social security or corporate pensions than now. So not working was something they could choose to do not out of despair but for the sake of enjoying a comfortable retirement.
Up until 2019, it sort of was, via the magnetic constant mu_0 = 4 pi x 10^-7 H/m exactly. Unfortunately the 2019 revision of SI redefined it.
> Do you want to spend time and money in court to find out if it's really fair use?

No. I'd much rather pirate the epub followed by lobbying for severe IP law reform. (Of course by "lobby" I actually mean complain about IP law online.)

If there's no epub available then I guess it's time to get building. (https://linearbookscanner.org/)
Which is why it's reasonable to have configurable limits for both processing space and time in anything handling untrusted data.
Modern English didn't pop up out of nowhere, or relied on borrowing everything. Old English was a Germanic language, and while modern English borrowed quite a bit from other languages, it didn't start from scratch. It is still based upon Old English, which was Germanic. Even if you mean extremely modern, the base language is Old English, although the language evolves constantly. You would have a harder time comparing what is currently being spoken to Old English, but at the same time, you can't disconnect the two just because comparing the two now sounds entirely different. Language should evolve, since it's meant to communicate, not on it's own merit (as much as those who study language would like it to be). It's not crazy to think that in the future that a language could evolve even further to convey more meaning in a smaller amount of speech.
You are describing the deficiencies of Rust implementation of a borrow checker and disregarding general benefits of it. Obviously there could be some way to mark self-referencing objects.

C/Zig do not even allow to specify who is responsible for freeing the allocation, and every time you use a library you need to either search the docs or (more often) reverse-engineer the code. Probably this is why writing or checking C code is so slow. I end up adding annotations to function prototypes but nobody is going to validate them so they only serve as documentation.
They had to discriminate against white males because there weren't enough applying?
> Any recursive function can be transformed into a tail recursive form, exchanging stack allocation for heap allocation.

Can't all recursive functions be transformed to stack-based algorithms? And then, generally, isn't there a flatter resource consumption curve for stack-based algorithms, unless the language supports tail recursion?

E.g. Python has sys.getrecursionlimit() == 1000 by default, RecursionError, collections.deque; and "Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317592
3D Audio Software – Audiocube
Hey, I’ve just updated Audiocube.app - my new 3D audio software for creating soundscapes and spatializing sound. I put together a quick 60-second video that gives you a feel for what's possible. Would genuinely love to hear your thoughts or any feedback! I’ve been in the dev cave for too long and need to get some outside opinions.
An already risky proposition becomes even riskier, not just for those with fewer opportunities into get a degree program in science. but also adding stress and uncertainty for those already in programs in the USA.

Makes universities in other countries much more attractive. See he world and get a masters or PhD.
On the other hand, retail and fast food also are blue collar. I’m guessing most older people aren’t quitting the rat race to do things that are tough on the joints the way trades are. (Acknowledging that retail and fast food do require a lot of standing, but they aren’t physical in quite the same way.)
An ideal DOD startup would be a custom JavaScript application shop. I don’t mean some React SPA nonsense but actual original applications that solve actual business problems beyond merely writing text to screen. If the applications are small and portable they can be easily transferred to places like SIPR and JWICS as almost no cost. There is tremendous value in that that pays for itself immediately and saves the government at scale.

The DOD operates on approved software lists which forbid installing applications outside a dedicated internal application store. There are also strict patch management policies for installed applications. JavaScript that executes in the browser bypasses that limitation entirely, and Node is in many approved software lists now.

Additionally, one of the greatest challenges to growing software teams in the defense space is hiring. You can’t just hire some kid fresh out of school who pretends to program with some framework. They typically require a security clearance, security certifications, and planning capabilities that are absent in the civilian employment. This automatically means you have to start with higher caliber candidates.
Why not have the same behaviour everywhere? Because they are adapting the language to legacy CPUs not capable of detecting an overflow?
duckdb -ui pre_seeded_db.db

duckdb -ui -init startup.sql

where startup.sql contains various statements/commands like `.open pre_seeded_db.db`

Alternatively place statements/commands in `~/.duckdbrc` and just run `duckdb -iu`.
What do you want to see? Elasticsearch backed by a blob-store like MinIO?
As another commenter says, this is about IP, but even positing that copyright is somehow invalid because it’s new is incredibly obtuse. You know what other law is relatively new? Women’s suffrage.

I’m annoyed by arguments like the above because they’re clearly derived from working backwards from a desired conclusion; in this case, that someone’s original work can be consumed and repurposed to create profit by someone else. Our laws and society have determined this to be illegal; the fact that it would be con isn’t for OpenAI if it weren’t has no bearing.
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Examples from American newspapers:

New York Times

- He fixed me with a hard gaze and said: "I just gave you a $5,000 raise. Now tell me what happened." (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/opinion/12friedman.html)

- She fixed him with a steely gaze and finished him off with a single line: "You, sir, are a cad." (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/magazine/about-men-unhand...)

- Ms. Smith fixed him with a stony gaze. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/health/navajo-children-cu...)

Washington Post

- "Another student fixed his sweatsuit with a stinging gaze." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/01/27/...)

- "She fixed her interviewer with a direct gaze and rejected the idea that she is pursuing policies that are detrimental to public safety." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/26/rachael-rol...)

- "Peskov was chatting over coffee here in Sochi with a few reporters, and he fixed them with a true-believer gaze as he described the Russia that will be revealed — especially to Americans viewing the world through Cold War-frosted glasses — as the flags are raised for the Opening Ceremonies on Feb. 7, 2014." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-expects-o...)

Wall Street Journal

- In an early scene in "To Have and Have Not" she fixed Mr. Bogart with a smoldering gaze that became known as "the Look." (https://www.wsj.com/articles/lauren-bacall-dies-at-age-89-14...)

- As he fixes the camera with a steady gaze, you can see the magnetic mystic he must have been. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303325204579465...)

- The King fixed me with a serious look. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-american-ninja-warrior-the-f...)

USA Today

- She fixed me with a hard look and shot back with a slap at (Geraldine) Ferraro. (in a quote: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-rile...)

- In the middle of dialogue, he turned, fixed them with a square stare and said, “Now pay attention to the play.” (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/15/nh-e...)

- After setting the tone for their set with explosive performances of "Brenden Lechner" and "Moldy Cannoli" while wrapping the mike around his neck like a young Iggy Pop while fixing the crowd with a confrontational blank stare, Robbie Pfeffer announced, "We are Playboy Manbaby. Not to be confused with the drum circle." (https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/03/2...)
I've caught AI outright making up sources (like, fabricating urls and names) to satisfy me in the past.
One of the best uses of logarithms is how they can be used to quickly calculate db (as in decibel) gains and losses mentally. See this older comment for more details

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32550539
The do work, at 10x efficiency. Or maybe I misunderstood the 10x engineer idea all along!

And that efficiency can translate in 10x output, but it's not guaranteed.

My opinion on the 10x engineer principle, always was that these people have their best development/debug environment setup. And they can traverse, run, and explore code faster than most. Like world record pizza makers in under a minute.

Through my career I've seen some engineers that were stumbling their way around their tooling after years of use, and some that weren't even touch typing. Factor that in.
The far superior constant, Tau, mentioned. I am glad Mr. Propp has heard the good word.
Recursion per se isn't an issue; unbounded stack use is. If you either know your input size is bounded (e.g. it's not user-generated) or use tail-recursion (which should get compiled to a loop), it's fine.

If your algorithm does unbounded heap allocations instead, you're still going to get oomkilled. The actual vulnerability is not enforcing request resource limits. Things like xml bombs can then exacerbate this by expanding a highly compressed request (so a small amount of attacker work can generate a large amount of receiver work).
A big reason I switched into software is the fast iteration time. Designing machinery takes a very long time before one see's results. But with software, it's overnight.
Also, a quick glance at the wikipedia page for "copyright" talks about the first law being put down and enforced in 1710. What are we even doing here?
Copying other people's behavior to influence them to like us more is both so irrationally insane yet so evolutionarily encoded in us.
Thought vs. Action (2005)
You’re over optimizing for engineering skill. The majority of projects don’t need a team full of A players, and trying to get that is going to limit you.

Get rid of team members that make your life harder. Keep the ones that make it easier.

> Individuals ship software not teams

I can’t see how this is remotely true outside of contorting some definitions of “ship”.
Engineers at ai labs just come from prestigious schools and don’t have technical depth. They are smart, but they simply aren’t qualified to do deep technical innovation
It absolutely attracted different people. The inflows are much larger and not the same.

For example EE used to be prestige and CS was the backup. And that would never compare to finance or law.
I did not mention memory once anywhere in my comment?
Approximate Pi day is in July: 21/7.

1 Kings 7:23 describes a basin in Solomon's Temple as ten cubits across and a cord of thirty cubits encircles it. The word for 'cord' has two spellings with two numerical values: qvh (111) and qv (106). Now, 3 × 111/106 = 333/106 = 3.1415
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Examples from British newspapers:

The Times

- She fixed me with a beady gaze, allowed a dramatic pause, then replied slowly and carefully: “I’m afraid I think I do”. (https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/boris-johnson-s...)

- Pairs of stretching lions fix you with a goggling gaze, licking their lips and unsheathing their shining claws. (https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/englands-embr...)

- Neil Armstrong fixed her with a steady gaze. (https://www.thetimes.com/article/a-robot-from-the-dark-side-...)

Metro

- She fixes him with a lustful, narrow-eyed stare as they move together. (https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/15/bridgerton-fans-can-make-mirr...)

- My GP fixed me with a steely stare as she uttered the worst sentence imaginable: ‘Have you tried running?’ (https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/15/doctor-prescribed-running-dep...)

- Any time I attempted to say anything complimentary to Lemmy to his face, he would fix me with a kind of amused, contemptuous stare. (https://metro.co.uk/2016/01/01/queens-brian-may-calls-lemmy-...)

Daily Mail

- She would fix me with a regal stare and say, "Do I look all right?" (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1231133/How-fines...)

- The catwalk queen fixed the camera with a sultry gaze as she sipped her drink (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5059909/Kate-M...)

- All the while he fixes me with a similarly powerful gaze, which makes me rather nervous. (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-97398/Why-celebri...)

The Sun

- Footage shows the Government’s deputy chief whip Christopher Pincher fixing the Speaker with a firm stare before calling him a “bully” three times after he lectured Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom over procedure. (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8158041/government-whip-caught...)

- Tyra Banks fixes the camera with a sultry gaze in modelling snap (https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3878793/americas-got-t...)

- FLAME-haired model Emily Deyt-Aysage shows her mettle by fixing the camera with a steely gaze. (https://iframe.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/29013053/emily-deyt...)

Examples from books:

- Tenga fixed him with a pointed gaze, as if the question made him doubt Eragon's intelligence. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Brisingr_Or_The_Seven_P...)

- She sounded slightly strangled until she paused to clear her throat, then fixed him with a steady, determined gaze. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lord_of_Chaos/owkKhVCq6...)

- She fixed him with a serious gaze. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Pawnbroker/11WUYsOt...)
I’ve seen the opposite: plenty of examples of very productive teams with really no standout “10x engineer”, and several examples of unproductive teams purely due to poor team decision making. IME, productivity is a measure of past investment, not current skill.
Yeah carry propogation is tricky. Matthew Jones (the historian who wrote the book I discuss in the video) calls it the "Sufficient Force" problem. Babbage certainly did solve the problem, but so did Thomas de Colmar in his calculator and all the derivatives it spawned (including mine). This is because the mechanism that performs the carry is driven by the central drivetrain and furthermore each column is offset in the cycle (by 1 tooth of the drive sprockets) so that carries ripple, instead of happening all at once. See 20:35 in the video. This means that a low-digit add does not directly power the entire chain of carries, it just triggers them. And furthermore, you can basically keep adding columns without worrying about the force increasing drastically: Thomas de Colmar even made a "piano Arithmometer" with a 30 digit capacity.

While carry propagation is certainly a hard problem to solve (just ask Leibniz), I had much more difficulty getting the zeroing mechanism to work smoothly - in a way it's a similar issue because you need to move a bunch of parts all at once, which from a force perspective is difficult.

Oh I should mention that Pascal also solved the sufficient force carry propagation issue in the Pascaline with his "sautoir" mechanism.
Pegasus suggests no, and the UK already killed this with BlackBerry years ago.
Wasting your enthusiasm was your managements fault. It’s their job to set up the tasks that will have impact.
In desktop, dragging outside of the square canvas (and of course outside the windows) doesn't quite work.

I wonder how you would fix this, I think you could "capture" the cursor, and use esc to return it, not sure if that works in the browser.
Show HN: Web voxel game sandbox – building that in 24h or less
In every project I have worked in big and small - a key person took charge. Others contributed, but that individual made it happen.
I want to be able to replay a level, don't force me into the next level.
How timely! I just learned how to use a slide rule yesterday. Looking to pick one up, and a bit overwhelmed by the plethora of choices, I went down a small rabbit hole[0]. Some slide rules produced are pure works of art!

Lately, I've been rediscovering the surprising niceties that analog tools can provide over our everything-is-a-panel-of-glass interfaces these days. Recently, I have been enjoying pen and paper as my editor for initial drafts of projects I'm coding.

Does HN have love for any analog tools in particular?

[0]:https://sliderulemuseum.com/
Regulations were convenient to slow down competitors—you know, the ones you heavily lobbied for—it was all great. But now that you've done your part and others are finally catching up, suddenly it's all about easing restrictions to protect your lead? Beautiful.
> The problem is that real wages for the average person has been going down since the 1970s.

This was true, but the COVID period has actually changed that. Real wages are now up for the median wage earner, and for the median hourly earner. Not by a lot, but they are no longer declining as they were in the period from about 1978-2021.
If you specify the operations (API) of your system in a relational algebra, then you can use that algebra to generate valid state transitions. (this essentially can construct the tree of continuations the article is discussing or enumerate the paths of this tree)

If you create a query language, then the state can be verified to match expectations at any point.

I'm not sure why we don't program like this.
> The ratio of software engineers working in novel design spaces compared to plumbing style work is best guess ~1:5

Google has something 25,000 developers. You think Google has 5,000 people working on novel design spaces? That number sound way, way too high. By at least an order of magnitude.

And Google at least has customer facing technology compared to the thousands of companies whose developers only work is, say, integrating HR systems or deploying SAP or maintaining some legacy billing system.
One general tip is to always ask (credible) clarifying questions. A lot of interviewers look out for this - they want to see you dissect the requirements a little bit, not just jump straight to solving the problem based on a bunch of assumptions you've made that might not be correct.
I replayed it some more and I improved with each go. It’s kind of like older games, where the levels have to be learned over time to get good. I think we’ve forgotten about that with the more gentle on-ramp most games give these days.
Wouldn't that assume each parent had totally different DNA? Seems like there would be more than 50% DNA from each parent. At the very least there would be an enormous amount of DNA that just qualifies us as human, in general.
My experience is that people tend to fill the time they give themselves to do things. Give yourself 12 you take 12 hours. But humans have a limit to the focused productive work they can do. Lets say it is 4 hours. So of that 12 hr - 4 was really productive and 8 not so much. When I was at my tiredest I often spent hours trying to debug issues that literally took me minutes when I was rested.

One time I worked so many hours I lost vision (temporarily) in my eye - called cotton wool spots. I was a generally healthy younger guy. Working this way has health effects. If in fact there is such a thing as 10x engineer - how long do you think you will stay 10X once your health deteriorates. Just my 2 cents.
I worry I'm just trying too hard to make it make sense, and this is a TimeCube [0] situation.

The most-charitable paraphrase I can come up with it: "Bad people can't use LLMs to hide facts, hiding facts means removing source-materials. Math doesn't matter for politics which are mainly propaganda."

However even that just creates contradictions:

1. If math and logic are not important for uncovering wrongdoing, why was "tabulation" cited as an important feature in the first post?

2. If propaganda dominates other factors, why would the (continued) existence of the Internet Archive be meaningful? People will simply be given an explanation (or veneer of settled agreement) so that they never bother looking for source-material. (Or in the case of IA, copies of source material.)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160112000701/http://www.timecu...