skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you're putting too much emphasis on The Algorithm. It's a problem, and I agree it's probably the worst offender, but similar problems were observed decades ago with children (and adults...) allowed to watch too many hours of uninterrupted TV.

Yeah that's fair.

> I agree they are a wonderful invention but I'm not sure grade school students need to be connecting to anyone, anywhere throughout the entire school day.

Well to their friends in other classes ("Wanna go out after 3pm lesson").

Additionally, and socially, smart phones, if banned, would be instantly seen as a status symbol. And it would also accelerate strong anti-autority sentimentality. The kids won't understand it, hell adults wouldn't. So it's also the case that you can't really ban them without really adverse social effects.
Typical human response
Planning one, hence the conspiracy charges. Seems pretty Orwellian to me though.
While reading this I had an idea.

First, the (widely known) problem that I thought about which inspired the idea: basically, how can you maintain academic standards for the class you are teaching, when so few of the students are really prepared to be successful.

Sure, you can just keep the standards high/static, fight cheating the best you can, and fail most of the students until you get fired. You could try to teach all the preliminary material yourself, trying to make up for years of poor education, but that's probably too much for the time you have and wastes the time of students already prepared.

But how about, instead, having a placement exam on Day 1? A qualifier, if you will. It would test a representative set of knowledge you should already have in order to be successful. The students who don't pass are dropped without judgement, and that's it. Nobody's time is wasted. You can move quickly through a wait-list if there is one, and few students will find themselves with a failing grade halfway through the course.

Thoughts?
Wow German has actual money saved in the pension system. Most public pension systems (whether in the EU or US) immediately pay out what is paid in, and are on track for bankruptcy.

Which is the flaw in most public systems. There is no way the pension system of the Netherlands will work for people currently younger than about 50. It seems pretty unlikely it will even work until death for people currently entering the system.

The actual problem is deeper. You don't care about money in old age. You care about living expenses, housing, and medical care. Most of that is effectively labor. Labor you get to use after you can't work anymore yourself. The money is a means to an end. And that's where just about every pension system fails, public or private. And that labor will definitely not be available in 20 years at the level it is today. Pensions being public or private simply change the method of failure: currency devaluation, raising costs or bankruptcy of the pension system, take your pick. It does not change whether they fail.
Do the things that reflect the world you want to live in. If you inspire others they may inspire others and it could grow into something bigger, one day you could find yourself living in that world.
I just don't trust Google anymore. They are not the same as they were years ago and have just declined in general.

Play Store Review and everything takes weeks sometimes and I can't tolerate that.
Exorbitant Privilege
How do we reconcile this with needing very high test scores to get into even the 'ok' universities. A university that is nearby requires 1380 SAT to be competitive and it isn't even close to a name brand, maybe 90th in the US.
>In China students work very hard because they had to beat a tough competion to even be able to attend the University

This is an unfair comparison. The equivalent of those chinese students do work as hard in America - they just wouldn't be found at OP's school, there would be in a Tier 1 school.
I’ll take em. They sound lovely.
> which was around 11 trillion watts in 2022, this would slow the planet’s spin by 7 milliseconds over the next century, the authors calculate.

Really puts how small we are on a cosmic scale into perspective.

If we did it for a million years at current energy use scale it would shorten our day by about 1.1 seconds.
All rockets are "dual use" in theory. Lots of the technology, such as guidance and so on, is the same. But this rocket is about as far on the 'launch sats to orbit' side as you can build a rocket.
>and there's something to it that makes it easier to just know which window is open over which window that's lacking in modern UIs (I think it's the over-reliance on soft shadows and the borderless windows).

I think this started with Vista, I remember watching a video criticizing the new love of glass effects on UI chrome as it got rid of or minimized the color/shading difference between focused/unfocused windows. The example the video used was 6 notepad windows and pick which one was focused, and the main cue you'd need to look for is that the window with focus had a close button colored red.

Thin borders and minimalist/hiding scrollbars is another one that annoys me, give me something graphical for my gaze to grasp.
I keep hearing from friends and seniors that Gen Z doesn't take accountability for their work, and the sentiments the author has shared in this article are dot to dot relatable.
I really don't care that they lack grammar and prefer short words (no cap fr fr), low attention span is just irritating and hard to deal with.
Solving Dense Acrostics Quickly
> Tesla stock buyers are buying it for future promise

Indeed, they're buying into Musk's deep vaporware product line.

I think the robots really took the cake. He wasn't even trying anymore.
I did some digging, and found that SequenceEquals is heavily optimized for when T = Byte: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/454673e1d6da406775064...

Does memcmp do all of these things? Is msvcrt.dll checking at runtime which extensions the CPU support?

Because I don't think msvcrt.dll is recompiled per machine.

I think a better test would be to create a DLL in C, expose a custom version of memcmp, and compile that with all the vectorization enabled.
Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL
"The Matter with Things" by Iain McGilchrist has the same effect. Highly recommend it.
Being kind and civil with your words would strengthen your message.
This might be a little incomplete.

It's trivial, to get equipment at a datacenter, where the equipment is visited for you on your behalf if you wish.

You can place your own equipment in a datacenter to manage yourself (dedicated servers).

You can have varying amounts of the hardware up to the software layer managed for you as a managed server, where others on site will do certain tasks.

Both of these can still be cheaper than cloud (which provides a convenience and a large markup to make often open source tools easy to administer from a web browser), and then paying someone to manage the cloud.

Global location at once can still be done with the reality of hybrid-cloud or cloud-agnostic setup requirements (not to be tied to one cloud only for fallback and independence).
With Ariane 6, they switched to Italian soilds. This was basically France buying of Italy so they would side with them to build Ariane 6, rather then Ariane 5 ME that Germany wanted.
yes! or a 2/3 ish of the printable area column plus a 1/3 ish margin notes column.

a single column on a4 simply is too wide anyhow...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_(typography)#:~:text=Fo...
99% of Windows users don't even know what compiling is, nevermind compiling from source themselves.
Isn't friction from the atmosphere already slowing the planet's spin? Many weather effects like hurricanes ultimately derive their energy from a combination of the earth's rotation and thermal/uneven heating effects so I don't see why this is contentions.

Like most things, nature is already doing it and has been for millions of years.
Good point. I forgot that in addition to DXVK they also have WineD3D.
It would be interesting if this works. Last time people were hyping up a tiny effect with big ramifications that can only exist due to a subtle 'loophole', it was the EmDrive stuff that turned out to be driven by measurement errors. But I'm no expert in electrostatics.
Model Context Protocol. It is a way to give an LLM access to an API. There's a lot of hype about it right now, and, thus, a great many half-baked articles floating around. https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
I use this method and have only broken one phone in ten years because of it...
That's why he had to "sell" X, he was facing margin calls on this Tesla stock and would have been forced to sell stock.
You can use it as a guiding principle and go about your life.
It’s just that when something hits a process there’s a massive step change as everyone normalizes processes around it. Until that moment, rare events are all that you see.
Why? Rocket companies are a horrible investment and almost all of them fail. The small rocket market is tiny, and requires huge investment. Pretty much all companies have given up on that market completely and are moving to bigger rockets.

RocketLab is still flying electron, but they never produced much profit from it and are themselves moving to a bigger rocket.
I can recommend learnung some scala, where HashMap extends PartialFunction
The funny thing is, they don't even have control. They can't push propaganda. They can just accelerate human desire. Through all the brain rot they have created, they didn't even gain anything significant, just a few % bump in "kEy pErFormAnce iNdiCatoRs".

And they doomed a generation in the process
> Even after that we have had, and even continue to have, economic segregation.

A lot of real-world economic segregation is directly linked the housing market, and then the leftists actively support it. When policy choices are adopted such that the market threatens to reduce the amount of segregation that a city or neighborhood is subjected to, leftists call that development "gentrification" and scream in protest against it.
You have no idea, what amount of energy we will be able to use the long run.
Multi AZ is as much planning as anything else.

IaaS (Proxmox) is a different layer than PaaS as we know.

The same orchestration tools (Terraform) can orchestrate Proxmox or other hypervisors just fine. Discounted licenses for VMware are readily available on ebay if that is preferred.

Proxmox has built-in node mirroring between multiple servers, it just works after it's connected.
I was about 99.99999% sure that one was bogus because it was violating bedrock conservation laws. I'm not sure that this does. AFAIK there is no conservation law that says a spinning mass can't extract power from that.

Still... it would have been hilarious of the EmDrive had worked.

"Well, they've progressed! Last time we checked in on the third planet in this star system its inhabitants were still using warp drives to heat food. They appear to have realized this."
It's not limited to bytes. It works with any bitwise comparable primitive i.e. int, long, char, etc.

The logic which decides which path to use is here https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/Sy... and here https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/coreclr/tool... (this one is used by ILC for NativeAOT but the C++ impl. for the JIT is going to be similar)

The [Intrinsic] annotation is present because such comparisons on strings/arrays/spans are specially recognized in the compiler to be unrolled and inlined whenever one of the arguments has constant length or is a constant string or a span which points to constant data.
In case ya didn't get to the conclusion:

> All this might sound like an angry rant. I’m not sure. I’m not angry, though, not at all. I’m just sad. One thing all faculty have to learn is that the students are not us. We can’t expect them all to burn with the sacred fire we have for our disciplines, to see philosophy, psychology, math, physics, sociology or economics as the divine light of reason in a world of shadow. Our job is to kindle that flame, and we’re trying to get that spark to catch, but it is getting harder and harder and we don’t know what to do.

This is a brilliant, beautiful last paragraph. This writer cares and is crying out for help, but sadly none will probably come.
> The whole UI as branding thing has utterly killed usability.

Imagine if Active Desktop had taken over.

I eventually came up with a not-awful use for AD but that was a few years after it went away.
Perhaps because I'm a parent, I worry about the younger generation. For the Gen-Z and younger, how would they build a nest egg?

Social security? Not a nest egg, always under attack, and always under pressure to move the age higher.
Pensions? Long out of fashion.
Real estate? Out of reach, except in distressed areas.
401ks? Was only ever for the upper-half of the middle class, and even this is under attack.
A lot of that kernel is that dependency information is grossly coarse. For the vast majority of langs I ve used it is simply the library name: not even a library version (build files like gradle will).

The node approach is very fine grained libraries, but that makes its own headaches

Really every function or interface invocation has an implicit version number. It should be explicit in the code, and that assumes major minor breaking change versioning.
Yes, I understand that but if what is needed is a group of people that have a certain set of behaviours (silence, or dancing, or talking about science), a religion is not needed. Joining a religion just because the way people meet is a bit too much, no? You also need to take in the whole set of religious stuff.

I completely understand that some places bring the kind of inner peace someone needs. I like to sit in churches to think because they are nice, cool and silent. I aml also an "active" atheist and these things do not clash. It is just that churches in my country (France) are great places for this kind of meditation, but it could also be a Buddhist temple or anything else not related to religion.
The Earths rotation already generates power for us: wind. It’s why the jet stream only goes one direction.
It's not petty. It's the profit margin average solutions get to make over expertise with individual tools, or groups of tools.
Are police only allowed to arrest a rapist when he is raping? Are they only allowed to arrest a murderer in the middle of a murder?
How Not to Handle a Corporate Kiss and Tell Book
This is your brain on nostalgia
I had my mom on Xubuntu for many years. (There was a moment where I put Mint on there, but moved back to Xubuntu because that's what I was using.) It worked enough like Windows that she or Dad never had problems. I showed them how to check email, browse the web, play solitare, and shut down. I expected a call to 'put it back to what it was', but it never happened. Mom called me once about how to get the old solitare back, and guided her on how to change the type to klondike, haha.
I believe there are kind of two flavors to Quakers — the more evangelical kind and then the cool ones.
For my sins, I didn't actually realise how great that was until quite a bit afterwards! ;)
Have you tried the newer [LibraryImport] attribute?
Is that even stable to use yet? Last time I used ReactOS, it was very unstable to use as a daily driver.

Some of the basic apps like Jetbrains it could barely run it. At best it was crashing frequently for me.
Bad timing on your post. Just today, Elon tried to get content he didn't like taken down from Reddit, using specious legal reasoning: https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-messaged-reddit-ceo-o...
Every “hard” concepts I’ve seen in Haskell is immediately clear to me if explained in almost any other language. The hard part is Haskell, not the concept.

Usually I’m left wondering why whatever-it-is even has a name, it’s so simple and obvious and also not that special or useful seeming, it’d never have occurred to me to name it. I guess the people giving them names are coming at them from a very different perspective.

Exception: type classes. Those are nice and do need a name.
The internet, although I'm not convinced they can tell the difference. The web is of course part of the internet so both.
Thanks for checking it out and the suggestions.

I designed the UI To be more usable in a phone screen. Hence the buttons in the bottom. Also I have tried to make it stream like. So everything together and you can quickly close out the cards your'e done with. But definitely having categories is something I've thought about and may move to it.
CBOR seems a bit more complicated. I've written a few msgpack encoders/decoders, usually over a weekend using https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/spec.md

See https://github.com/PeerDB-io/gluamsgpack
>It’s on of the many reasons Windows base install is so much heavier than a typical Linux base install.

Is that a bad thing if it means a seamless experience for users? Storage is cheap.
JavaScript is hella fast for a dynamically typed language, but that's because we've put insane amounts of effort into making fast JITing VMs for it.
Just try it then.

I upvoted it because it aligns with my own findings working on real projects. Especially the bits about needing to “ground” the LLM in appropriate context, and being mindful of the sliding context window.
Telemetry may tell you the "what" but, at best, it will only allow you to infer the "why". It may provide insights into how people do things, yet it will say nothing about how they feel about it. Most of all, telemetry will only answer the questions it is designed to answer. The only surprises will be in the answers (sometimes). There is no opportunity to be surprised by how the end user responds.
I still send my AirTags in checked luggage. But they are small!
The languages that were actually adopted by the industry are not exactly full of great useful stuff:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
As someone who has moderated multiple subreddits, and single handedly brought a subreddit from 0 to 100,00 subscribers, this misunderstands subreddits, moderation, and the relationship between Reddit and moderators. IMO subreddits were supposed to be like random forums on the internet of old, but with a shared substrate. Those forums were singularly owned as well and if you didn't like the operators you moved on, because there was no one you could escalate to.

There is fundementally a social contract between Reddit and its moderators. Moderators get autonomy and control, and reddit gets content that keeps users around. As long as Reddit does not pay moderators, autonomy and control is all they can give moderators. I'm investing a lot of effort, and I'd like to retain some control. IMO creating a community is more like starting an open source project on Github with a lot of community contributions.

If you take away autonomy and control from moderators, what is in it for the moderator? Imagine if github started seizing projects wholesale, taking them over and installing new maintainers. People would move off the platform.

Some people say that moderators are unpaid employees, but IMO that is only to the degree that moderators are required to carry out Reddit's agenda and priorities. We don't call OS maintainers github employees. I don't mind if Reddit benefits from my communities, as long as I can run it the way I want. If you take away autonomy and control, moderators absolutely become unpaid employees.

If Reddit didn't like my policies and took my subreddits, I would take that as a strong signal that Reddit is not the place to build my communities. The API debacle, protests, and mod removals caused me to decentralize my community more. I spam a linktree in my subreddit that links to Discord and other resources, exactly to protect against community seizeure by Reddit.

I think you touch on some real issues. One is of namespacing; folks can sit on valuable portions of the namespace and basically extract rent. We have the same issues for domains, and haven't solved it there. Some places like github semi-solve it by putting repo's in organizations, but that shifts the namespace issue to the organizational level.

The other problem is second generation moderators. Most moderators are terrible at succession planning, and so generally chose terrible successors. Many second generation moderators don't understand the original decisions that shaped the community, and what makes the original community successfully. Reddit should do more to encourage succession planning, and teach moderators how to do it.
>Waste is still the giant elephant in the room and a lot of people have a fifth grade solution to the problem (we will bury it under ground! We will fly it to the sun! We will resuse it until it is no longer radioactive!)

Could the waste be 'sent' into space?
Bonus points for sending a certain human with it.
Serious question, though.
It's a question of values, the students know the world does not value the experience or education he is providing, and they don't have an intrinsic interest in it. Being able to discuss Sartre will not get them a high paying job, but somehow that type of stuff is part of the liberal arts education.
Maybe Rubio is not the most trustful source... i mean i said it before. They probably can't really get to US citizens. But they can take away peoples VISA on a whim. The reason is to send a message.
Nah. Lots of people know what monads are. And critically, they don't write monad explainers.

This is because if you understand the fundamentals well enough to understand an explanation, monads are so trivially straightforward that the definition is 100% of the explanation you need. Learn about how Haskell denotes types. Learn about higher-order functions, higher-kinded types, parametric polymorphism, and bounded polymorphism. Once you are comfortable with what all of those do in Haskell, Monad is a way to bound polymorphism with a couple extra expectations about how things behave. It takes about 5 minutes to explain and show a bunch of examples.

But before you're comfortable with those parts, it's like trying to explain exponentiation to someone who doesn't understand addition. People who understand exponentiation don't do that. They don't try to use analogies. They say "you need to learn about addition first, then multiplication. You can learn about exponentiation after that."
https://archive.md/20250325162813/https://www.economist.com/...
> Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub

I don't think this is a question of blame, rather than suitability. In the spirit of blameless postmortem, I'll state that GitHub was found unsuitable for hosting a FOSS project.

Why it's unsuitable is truly a secondary question, but it shouldn't prevent us, Free Software maintainers, from drawing necessary conclusions.
I find this essay quite bland, inane even.
I remember him from the Bourne Identity… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Identity_(1988_film...
Oh wow that’s actually amazing, I’m glad to hear it! This was going on for so long
UX designers, PMs and devs are all currently sweating to see which role will be replaced by AI first.
Thanks for checking it out.
I made UI for the phone, so can't really put tooltips, but maybe I can add labels to make the usage more clear.I think shorter summaries is also a good suggestion
> However, most people were still novices at using computers

It has (to my surprise, initially) been my experience that "kids these days" are more novice at (desktop) computer-usage than the people of the 90s
Unfortunately the arrangement of the continents would require undersea transmission lines for this. Would be an interesting future where the Bering Strait is the most valuable real estate on Earth for the American-Euraisian grid connection. But more likely we would build fusion reactors or get over our nuclear phobia before building something like that.
Does wine and wine bottler work on the new Apple silicon macs? Maybe for the old intel machines it does but not quite sure for the new macs though.
Social media is a tool of corporations.

All Russia needs to do is bribe corporations.

It is that easy.