skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Education mostly exists to prove that a given person has the requisite minimum amount of raw intelligence, conscientiousness, and willingness to conform to be a good fit for the sector one is aiming to go into.

What a lot of people don't realize is that to a certain extent being strong in one of these characteristics can make up for weaknesses in the others. We all knew an effortless genius growing up who got all As no matter how late they stayed up or how often they just shrugged off studying for tests. But we know way more kids who got all As by being pretty smart, and then also putting in the work and mostly following their parent's advice.

On a slightly sadder note, we also all know a lot of genius slackers who slacked off a bit too hard and didn't make much of themselves, at least at the time. But these people generally do much better later in life, though, and IMO they usually don't seem to kick themselves too much about the lost compounding returns to e.g. getting into FAANG at 20 instead of 30 because they were busy playing punk shows with their friends or something.
Google's ads business dwarfs everything else, so as long as ads can be integrated into apps deployed through Google Play Services, they're happy.

Third party app stores mostly provide unprofitable utility apps Google aren't interested in stopping. And thank goodness for that, because it allows any Android phone to be used as a relatively open computing device without having to register with Play Services.
I really think we should have a EU-wide ban on targeted advertising. Targeted advertising only works if it is opt-out. Ask random people on the street wether or not they want to be tracked and have their data sold and the overwhelming majority will tell you no.
The Wars of Herzi Halevi
See also dev forum roadmaps [1] and design docs (e.g. [2], [3],[4])

[1]: https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/meta-pytorch-team-2025-h1-...

[2]: https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/pytorch-symmetricmemory-ha...

[3]: https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/where-do-the-2000-pytorch-...

[4]: https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/rethinking-pytorch-fully-s...
> But it doesn't have to be that way with a monolith.

Tell that to some old Java Spring app running on JDK 8 (though I've also seen worse). It would be cool if I didn't see most of the software out there breaking in interesting ways, but it's also nice when you at least can either limit the fallout or scale specific parts of the system to lessen the impact of whatever doesn't behave too well, until it can be addressed properly (sometimes never).

Whether that's a modular monolith (same codebase, just modules enabled or disabled during startup based on feature flags), microservices, anything really, isn't even that relevant - as long as it's not the type of system that I've also seen plenty of, "singleton apps", that can only ever have one instance running and cannot be scaled (e.g. if you store sessions or any other long lived state in RAM, if you rely on data being present on a file system that's not mounted over the network and can't be shared with other instances etc.).
Was this written by an infamous 26 yo "senior" developer with 4 years of experience ?
It probably didn’t influence the judgement much (if at all). But the relevance to the story is in the next paragraph and pretty straightforward

> The Meta spokesperson said the company was "exploring the option" of offering a similar service to UK users and would "share further information in due course."
Abolish the NIH (2024)
Can you cite actual example of such “founding documents”?
> They do build chargers, which is certainly relevant for an electric car future, but that seems inadequate to support a mandate to build transportation infrastructure.

And the current government is cancelling plans to build charging infrastructure and actively removing it from federal buildings, not ordering more.

https://www.wired.com/story/feds-halt-national-electric-vehi...
Translation: https://www-ynet-co-il.translate.goog/yedioth/article/yokra1...
With $14B per year in marketing is it a surprise Ultra Processed Food dominates our diet?
What I'm very much missing so far is research into longer term consequences for learning. I get that we could potentially gain something from using AI, I would like to know what we're losing, because it's obvious to me that it's a trade of some sort.

This article hints on it in the form of reduced frustration. Frustration and tearing your hair out seem to be tightly linked to learning from my experience. To the point where I wonder if it's possible to even get the same results without the experience.
> Rust says if the parameters are themselves constants then we promise we can evaluate this at compile time and if appropriate we will

Well exactly. "if appropriate". So like C++'s `constexpr`, Rust doesn't make any guarantees about compile-time evaluation.

Zig's `comptime` must be evaluated at compile time.
Has a "...what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you." energy to it.
Exactly, the point is that C++ added templates as a huge new language feature, while in Zig it is just one of the things that is immediately possible thanks to comptime.
My approach is to have a hidden OS. Either via a hidden bootmenu, or better yet transparently boot into a virtualized guest by default. With secure boot and encryption, things can be made hard for anyone to actually examine the drive out of the limited context provided. Requests for more access can be met with confusion and feigning technical ignorance.
Congress wants to keep the A-10 Warthog flying even though the Air Force desperately wants to be rid of it because it's a good jobs program, there are considerations outside of battlefield prowess that go into their thinking. Not to completely dismiss their opinions because they probably have more information than we do, but their world is not warfare.

Even giving the Russians every capability that they claim to have, it is questionable if they can even keep producing much of the high end of their technology with the sanctions leveled against them. Without Western components they are unable to manufacture a decent range of their good stuff.
No, but some kids have slightly older siblings in primary school, and learn all kinds of crap from them.
prototypes vs class
I don't think pron was saying that Zig has a feature-by-feature match for everything that Rust's generics can do. I think his point is that comptime can handle what the target audience of Zig wants from generics. In that regard, I don't think the criticisms there are that big a deal.
Amazon has treated their warehouse employees poorly for years. Poor pay. Limited breaks. Frequent injuries.

And meanwhile it's gotten harder to find good products on Amazon, while goods there have become more expensive, and Amazon uses its might to force sellers into exclusivity deals where they can't charge lower prices elsewhere.

Amazon lobbying the government to abolish a consumer rights law, or a few, seems consistent with past behavior.
Your AI Lover Will Change You
Why Trump's economic policies may have canceled the DOGE dividend check
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I would reject a backdoor man date too, but to each their own.
That we did not touch, and given the very broad vague suggestion about the specifics of such non-randomness, and the very broad vague (ungiven) definition of said "Author", to speak about it without details would be like building with concrete over water.

"Hypoteses non fingo" ( ~~ Isaac Newton)

...especially true of lacking, non-analytical speech.
>This in turn cuts business to blue collar service providers.

No, it doesn't. Where's that is come from?

I mean, look at the situation from the perspective of blue collar service providers: what is exactly those goods and services, that they was be able to afford for themselves, but AI will make it unaffordable for them? Pretty obviously, that there's about none of those goods and services. So, in big picture, all that process that you described, doesn't lead to any disadvantage of blue collar workers.
I have learned through hard experience that is you ever user sudo to edit the sudoers file, create two shell windows logged in as root before doing so.

Use visudo to edit the file of course, because not doing so can blow everything up by rendering the sudoers file unparseable and then everyone is gonna have a bad time.

But also the temptation when altering sudo is to immediately log out as super user and try using sudo to do the new command. If you’ve fucked up the file you might not be able to sudo anymore. So now use your second shell window to undo whatever you just did in the first window.
Oh please do me a favor and run your car into a wall to prove me wrong
That's wild and inspirational. Like the scene in Rush Hour when a stack of bills saves Tucker from a bullet.

Though I'm moreso tempted to just create a `.1111aaaa-antidumb` directory and store my caches and backups there.

This has also un-inspired me from creating a fast `rm`-esque utility.
California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers
It’s an interesting question. The bar would be the least they could possibly do, obviously (as it is now), so is there a case for raising that bar at all?
Can you share a rust playground link with an example of what you are describing?

I still don’t follow how a reference can extend the lifetime of some memory, even on the heap.

Sounds like you are describing a language that uses reference counting to manage memory, and I’m not sure what purpose a borrow checker would serve in a reference counted language.
You can verify my claims in 2 minutes on Google. I don't have the Netherlands on my list; I haven't looked. It is not my claim that every European country lacks every procedural protection in the US system, or for that matter that the US has every procedural protection from every European state.
> Your interest as the owner is to maximize that profit and minimize expenses, and our interest as workers is to maximize our wage and minimize your profit.

Is it? I know a handful of small business owners, and generally their interest is running their business well and keeping their customers happy. Sure, they want to be profitable, but profit isn't their primary motivator.

Ditto on the worker side.

Your outlook on this is wildly cynical
Facebook doesn't just collect data on it's users or just through the use of it's website.
Yes, my remark was intended to be more about Descartes than the West.
The thing about Microsoft RDP is that even at high resolutions it's NOT just streaming 4k video. It uses way way way less bandwidth (and requires way less of a performance GPU / CPU). It uses a ton of tricks like having the local client render as much as possible instead of just streaming video. This results in it feeling way more responsive and native desktop like.
The review you linked to is pretty critical of the book. Do you have an opinion about its criticisms?
Standard a-historical story I've been told about for decades by people who want to tear down tax-funded public schools.

"The Invented History of 'The Factory Model of Education'"

http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model

> One of the most common ways to criticize our current system of education is to suggest that it’s based on a “factory model.” An alternative condemnation: “industrial era.” The implication is the same: schools are woefully outmoded. ...
https://yarchive.net/chem/wd40.html

"That would make WD-40 like the formulation above.
The kerosine is the solvent, the tallow oil and lubricating
base grade provide the means for the fluid to displace
water from surfaces and, when the kerosine has evaporated,
leave a thin, protective film on the surface that provides
temporary corrision protection. It is possible that it may
have some solid lubricant in it ( PTFE,Graphite,MoS2 ),
but I suspect there would not be enough to provide any
useful lubrication - and thus should not be used to wash
"proper lubricants" off bearing surfaces, chains etc..
"
Unless one is writing something where pauses are a no go, even a tiny µs, I don't see a reason for rushing out to affine type systems, or variations thereof.

CLI applications are exactly a case, where it doesn't matter at all, see Inferno and Limbo.
Thanks for the share (and reminder)! Turns out I had this bookmarked somehow, lol.
Given you called the senate 'gerrymandering' I think you had an idea before you hid behind this socratic method to avoid making any assertion yourself.
> It's interesting that Congress is talking about sunsetting section 230

Congress will never stop talking about Sec230. Early on it was because 230 hampered thin-skinned congress people from disappearing speech they didn't like.

ref:https://www.techdirt.com/2019/03/19/rep-devin-nunes-sues-int...

Modern attacks on 230 are more likely to enabled by major platforms, who are the only ones who can afford to defend legal attacks on user speech.

ref:
https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
You might want to look up the term “shadow profiles” as it applies to Facebook.
Yeah, 1979 was totally the biggest year in meme history.
Because competitors do not play the line as badly as Apple does and also because they are not trillion-dollar companies ruling every single thing that a billion-dollar generating platform is doing.

I am at a loss when people defend Apple that much. You can prefer their stuff and are free to stick to what they offer only, but there is no reason to prevent others making other choices and allow other manufacturers to compete on features.

Apple has to allow access to their OS so that others can interoperate with it, and that's that.
If Apple is not happy it can go into other business where interoperability is not required like say frying pan manufacturing or whatever.
But they won't because the reality is that Apple has been investing from the large supply chain and innovations of other companies since the late 90's while refusing to play ball in recent years.

In the early 2000's Apple was promoting open source and open standard, how time have changed...
rm -rf ~/bin could have some nasty consequences if you fat finger a return key anywhere in the middle.

Run enough commands enough times and you will find Murphy is waiting for you.

If you’re just removing a bin directory one time, odds are low but not zero. If you’re writing a run book for people to use, odds are 100% that you will have to help someone rebuild at least once.
"Tyranny of the majority" and "paradox of tolerance" are both problems for Democracy. And solving for both creates a tension that is almost a paradox itself.

So elected officials also need to be able to manage their constituents, push back on the masses, and explain why compromise / commitment to values / etc are important in society. As you say, this requires some level of trust in officials which sadly has deteriorated.
This just sounds like you and your colleagues work for shitty companies.

This doesn't generalize to all companies! After all, if you started a company, certainly you'd do things differently... Right?
Can We Create a Community Based on This Framework?
Sure, bug happen. They (usually) happen reliably, and tests can help prevent/detect them.

It is impossible to test for human errors in advance, though.
What do 776 professionals at Procter and Gamble do? I'm just wondering how working with AI fits in with what they must do all day.

Besides discontinue my favorite shampoo of all time, Herbal Essences Blue Ginger & Micellar Water.
well, not quite since you can pass non-type things of generally any level of data type complexity (as long as it's comptime-valid, which only excludes certain types of mutation), and do stuff with them that you couldnt in c++.

fn MyType(T: type, comptime tag: [] u8, comptime count: usize) type {
const capitalized = some_module.capitalize(tag);
return struct{
fn name() []const u8 {
return capitalized;
}
array: [count]T,
};
}

for example
While I broadly agree with your point, I think it's easy to say that the end game for many is a change in sovereignty — who gets to define what "OK" even means.
I think most folk would gladly shorten their lifespan by decades for a million dollars today - the ultimate sacrifice for future generational wealth? Not that a million gets you anything substantial anymore...
Pi Tin – open-source Raspberry Pi handheld retro console
Grifters are laughing hard enough to break spleens as they stumble straight into highest office in the land
That's literally what "proportional" means.
I often run rm -rf as part of operations (for reasons), and my habit is to first run "sudo du -csh" on the paths to be deleted, check that the total size makes sense, and then up-arrow and replace "du -csh" with "rm -rf".
He played a caricature of a businessman on TV. I bet you've never watched a minute of that. Neither have I. Reality TV is Soma for boomers.

For young men, it's Joe Rogan. I don't understand how people can listen to that for hours. And video games.

The gap between men's and women's worldview is wider than ever because the men, especially young men, are vastly more addicted to the Soma of their generation.

It's not money it's not religion. It's not lacking the body of an athlete. It's not education. It's not some mythical positive masculinity. People old and young did it to themselves.
are they vandalizing and setting teslas on fire in Europe the way they are in the US
> Could you give concrete examples

I thought I already did, but here it is again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieudonn%C3%A9_M%27bala_M%27ba...

The dude kept on saying completely outrageous things on public channels, none of which should have been an issue in a country with normal free speech laws.

Here's another interesting case, where a TV channel was outright shutdown because they said things that the powers that be didn't like. I guess Moscow isn't that far east of France:

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/french-tv-cha...

Here's another interesting aspect of life in the land of stinky cheese: cash is by law legal tender, as in:

https://www.banque-france.fr/en/monetary-strategy/means-of-p...

However, it is illegal to buy anything with cash if the transaction is more than 1k euros:

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F10999?...

These are just off the top of my head, the list is very long and quite sad.
I dunno, he's asking a really basic question that should be trivial to answer. When I see a basic, level-setting question like this go unanswered, it starts to seem like the side refusing to answer is the one acting in bad faith, not the side asking the question
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I really enjoy Python's asyncio. I'm a big fan of aiohttp and the entire aio* ecosystem.

Then there's Rust's Tokio for the things that need performance.
In your specific example, time of day, weather (foggy, sunny, over-cast) along with images of cars with different colors, models, makes, from different angles will all be training parameters to begin with so the neural net can do this on its own without needing specific symbolic processing apriori or downstream. Training data input into neural nets is usually sanitized and transformed to some extent but whether this sanitization / preprocessing requires symbolic programming depends on the use case. For example, with the car example, you preprocess car images to color them differently, hide random sections of it, clip it in different ways so only partial sections are showing, turn them upside down, introduce fake fog, darken, lighten, add people, signs, fire, etc and use each of these images for training so that the neural net can recognize cars under different situations (even after accidents where they are upside down and on fire). Eventually the neural net will recognize a car in most circumstances without symbolic programming/intervention.

So when would you use symbolic programming? To generate quality data for the neural network. For example, maybe the neural net reports it read the speed limit to be 1000 km/h on a sign because of someone's shenanigans. A symbolic programming aid which knows potential legal limits will flag this data as potentially corrupt and pass it back to the network as such allowing the neural network to take more sensible decisions.
OOP eventually degrades into "lasagna" (a play on "spaghetti code".) Layers and layers of complexity like you describe. Once you have enough "layers" it becomes almost impossible to follow what is actually happening.
Well it's not a general purpose programming language defining the actual lock this way, it's checking a locking algorithm; so the atomic in the specification of the algorithm is just saying given that these steps do occur atomically, how will it behave.

The algorithm we're checking is using Redis, and the atomic read/write in the example is a behaviour Redis gives you.
Marginalised groups have argued for removal of protections because of inconsistent application. If the application is inconsistent the marginalised are the ones who suffer from that inconsistency. Those with the power to fix the underlying issues tend to be beneficiaries of that inconsistency, giving them little incentive to make changes. Frequently they don't even perceive there to be a problem because while inconsistent application is theoretically possible, their experience suggests that it just doesn't happen that often.

So many times people rail against a wealthy person who gets off lightly from some offense because their representatives have successfully argued that a punishment would be unduly harsh, or that there were particular mitigating circumstances. I usually disagree with people demanding a tougher punishment, but that is a similar principle at play. Personally I would rather have all persons charged to receive dispensation for circumstances rather than only a few elites. Similarly given the choice I'd want protections against illegal search and seizure to be for all, but when you have no power to make that happen, what is the best second option? A privileged subset, or everyone universally worse off?
This is pretty weak, makes very bold statements ("this is the way it has to be now") with no evidence.

Reads like the set up for a sales pitch, which came at the end
Why not delete the account
OpenAI and Anthropic respect robots.txt afaik
I agree with the Easter eggs, it feels like it’s not common anymore or they are really good hidden. But, I‘m also a developer so I try to do my own Easter eggs. I discovered fartjs (https://fartjs.com/) and try to incorporate it here and there.
How’d you build this? Did you use any of the new app builders or Cursor/Windsurf?