skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost as if tourists and workers are the lifeblood of a pub, and when you physically bar (hehe) those people from entering because of a peculiar collection of organic material going around, it is the pub that is squeezed to death between the landlord and the non-existent customer
I would argue that USA has already disintegrated as a single country with respect to its foundation, which is the society itself - basically, there's no single "American society" anymore. The only thing that still keeps the country together is the formalities of governance, and even that will only last for as long as people are willing to tolerate them (which is less and less with every passing year).

It might be possible to reboot it in more or less the same format as the original was way back when (i.e. by moving most political questions out of the federal level). But there needs to be some motivation to try to keep things together at least on some level. For the original colonies, it was clear that they would simply not survive on their own. But for many states today, they have numerous independent countries of similar size (in terms of territory, people, economy etc - you name it) as a showcase that it is possible.
I feel folks overcomplicate this. At least for the the HN crowd, it is totally possible to eat mostly non-processed, fresh food, don't drink too much booze, and get an average of 30 minutes of incidental exercise a day. Those three things and you are head of 90% of people.
You can ask question of the interviewer but don't come across as a douche if your intent is to get hired. If I was interviewing you and it felt like you were about to try something like this then I'd terminate the interview and show you the exit.
I am not 100% sure that all of the mitigation overhead
comes from syscalls, but it stands to reason that a lot
of it arises from security hardening in user-to-kernel
and kernel-to-user transitions.

Will io_uring be also affected by Spectre mitigations given it has eliminated most kernel/user switches?

And did anyone do a head-to-head comparison between io_uring and DPDK?
MVC is something I've looked up dozens of times in my career, and always forget what it is.

Still consider myself anti-react. It's a leaky abstraction.
TIL

> White sugar (and some brown sugar) produced from sugar cane may be refined using bone char by a few sugar cane refiners.[2] For this reason white sugar from sugar cane may not be vegan. Beet sugar has never been processed with bone char and is vegan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_sugar
Minor nitpick:

> The python standard library already includes a number of combinatoric iterators such as combinations(), product() and of course permutations().

Only the last one is clickable.
I quite like using USB-connected microcontrollers and Web Serial. I'm working on a MIDI controller, so WiFi isn't a good idea due to the latency. (Not to mention the running a web server on a Pico would probably get in the way of real time stuff.)

Firmware programming is a small niche, but it's been useful and I hope other browsers support Web Serial eventually.
Did Microsoft violate OSS licenses with CoPilot?
As an expat Brit who has been living with ESL speakers for over a decade and gotten sloppy on many of these things, some part of me lives in constant fear of exactly this eventuality.

Ain't been caught yet tho
Do you know why Wachovia is not included in the Wikipedia list of the 2008 financial crisis list of bank failures? I remember when that failed and I was watching tv.
I did something like this on the interview for my current role! It's not exactly what you asked about, but I'll describe it in case you find it helpful.

The technical interviewer gave me an algorithm question that I fielded for an interview for another company. I said I've heard it before, and asked if there was a backup question we should switch to. The interviewer said we should go ahead and I basically just dropped the optimum answer and live coded it. I mentioned I would be rustier on the "harder version" of it that comes next, and found out he wasn't familiar with that particular twist. I asked if I could give it to him and we could work it out together, and he said yes. So we spent the rest of the half hour laughing with me sort of leading him through a more challenging form of the question and working it out together.

I don't think this would have been successful if I went into the interview with a random Leetcode question in my back pocket and awkwardly asked for someone to work through it for me. However, if it comes up naturally for you like it did for me, it can be a very fun and rewarding experience.
I don't think so.

If GitHub didn't provide value, then it wouldn't be where it's at. Considering that collaborating on FOSS before GitHub was a mess if you weren't technical, I'd say GH has earned their spot.

Also, there's no way to avoid centralization. At some point somewhere, you're relying a mega-corp for critical services, and if not you, someone else.
Yes, behavioral questions aren't perfect, but I do believe they still serve a purpose. Sure, candidates will embellish and make up stories. Still you are able to weed out candidates who are an obvious bad match, or identify potential gaps that might need to be addressed after a hire.
> building a GPU-capable BLAS library is just a lot more work than one would think

I made a few pieces when needed: dense and sparse matrices, conjugate gradient, householder QR decomposition, other things. Wasn’t terribly hard.

I only needed to support relatively new GPUs, that’s one reason why. Another one, I based on DirectCompute not ROCm. The thing’s well tested (modern videogames are using compute shaders a lot), and works with all 3 vendors of GPUs. The main downside it’s Windows only.

> NVIDIA has a GUI installer for CUDA.

It’s still more friction compared to D3D runtime, which is an essential OS component installed and updated as a part of the OS.
I hate to say email, but I feel like the venue for not time sensitive messages is.. email.

I had this dynamic at my last gig with very pushy users, spamming of @here/@channel, and a boss working weird hours. I found no solution other than disabling all notifications for slack.

Still, when I would wake up & quickly scan through slack to make sure there were no open fires to login & help with, I would invariably have to dig through commingled fires & "just sending this now cuz I'm online" threads.

My next solution became that I just stopped even checking slack at all in the morning until I was either in-office, or ready to login while remote. Otherwise I found myself stewing about some annoying but non-urgent messages that I had exposed myself to.

Most people would prefer to get 1 properly thought out email than to wake up to a series of 5-10 slack messages or slack wall of text.

If I want to go back to an email, I can leave the individual message unread. A slack message I end up with a red dot next to my bosses name for an unread message (and obscures any more messages that have come since) OR use the "remind me" feature to them get a red dot popping up next to my bosses name in an hour to make me jump thinking my boss has some new urgent thing to ask me.

We've invented a pretty good async non-urgent message medium, and yet forgotten how to use it. I think all of these super clever DM strategies are self defeating.
clean code was published in 2008, two years after jquery. the world was different then. and there is a large audience of laggard adopters who still live in that world.
How are they affording wars?
Thanks that’s the one!
Like having an article go into a smart folder based on a keyword or some other basic filtering metric (say the author, tags of the blog post etc). Really anything beyond the basic way feed readers have folders and feeds by site
I've performed hundreds of interviews and this never came up. If it happened, I would chuckle and say we don't have enough time. However I would offer the candidate to meet privately at some time after work and go through a coding exercise together, off the record.
The gangsters aren’t affected by gun control laws.
What kind of indirect dependencies it would add, who else is using it (ie. if BigCo's public code uses it, it can't be that bad), is it actively maintained and does it look like it will be maintained for the foreseeable future.

Things like sparse documentation or stale code that does things in an "old" style aren't really signals to me. I'll gripe about it for sure but plenty of good libs have those warts.
I interview a dozen people every month.

If a good candidate brought me a coding exercise, I would schedule a time to do it.

Why? Because I want them to know the quality of the people they're working with. I want to sell my company.

(I would not do this for a bad candidate.)
I'm having the same revelation. Just setup a kit that had about 100 pz screws. The whole time I was thinking "man these screws suck!"
Then you work with nice people.

The problem with slack is it only takes 1 bad user in the organization and it becomes hell.

My org has both app devs & app users within slack. Users can spam channels and DM devs when they figure out who the useful idiots are. The "notify anyway" button gets used, frequently.

The idea that they expose this button to the sender is toxic.
You can try rogue-like games like Hades where you are expected to fail/die. Your future attempts are improved by what you've accomplished/collected in previous attempts.
On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Generic complaints about publications are more or less off topic because they don't pertain to the specific content of the article, which is what's interesting (if anything is).
Junked Si panels have Si crystals with a vanishingly low concentration of dopants, and metal foil on the surface easily dissolved off with acid. The crystals go into the crucible where the dopants will be refined out.

There are also CdTe panels, in relatively small proportion, even more easily reclaimed: dissolve the Te and Cd in acid, and refine that back to pure metal. Glass is glass.

Later there will be perovskite panels, with overwhelmingly less mass, so of correspondingly less moment.
Related:

The Sky Thief: Beebo Russell's Last Flight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728605 - July 2021 (7 comments)
> If hackers were (hypothetically, surely) to cause a liquid natural gas plant explosion, is that less terroristic than causing a truck, [...], a wastebin, a church, or a policeman's pub to explode?

If there is a war going on, then yes definitely. A LNG plant is a strategic target, same as the data center. The truck could also be argued as well. But a waste bin? What strategic aim is there in blowing up a wastebin, other than instilling fear in the local population? If the sole strategic impact of an attack is the terror it causes, that is terrorism. Of course you can get into shades of gray, like the truck. Maybe the truck was being used to transport materials for the war, or maybe not.
She wasn't clueless. She just said that in her experience, nobody actually takes her advice to exercise and change their diet seriously and they wind up on statins.
Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having a hard time. I suggest you find work as a contractor in backend work just to stabilize yourself financially.

Try not to take it too seriously, consult with your doctors on how to manage your pain and depression and any anxiety you may have from backend work.

Once you are stabilized and maybe have moved to a low cost of living area, you can take your time to find a more interesting job :)

Good luck.
> they have dens and territory that they use to survive as well

A bear's den isn't its property any more than a park bench slept on becomes the slumberer's own.

Property, specifically, the system that relates a person to some land via a bundle of use rights, is a deep human construct. It likely goes back to the dawn of agriculture and civilization [1].

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=f_roIy7ceEsC
Who in the server crowd is using snaps?
The problem with that perspective is that it essentially dooms every "life on the line" with a condition which can not be established with "scientific evidence"

For a simple example, the multitude of young lives lost to cancer because "scientific evidence" does not support screening before age 50. That perspective seeks to minimize and mischaracterize early warning symptoms because of public health probabilities.
Does Apple make anything at half the price of a competitor? Nothing is impossible in the future but past behavior indicates that an Apple console would likely not be "half the price". Also, Apple has sometimes been considered a "luxury" brand in tech, and that probably also means it's unlikely to push a reduced price console without diluting the brand or their image.
Canadian Pacific Railway's Rogers Pass Project (1983–1989, 1hr27m)
lol hi matt! Interesting finding Berkeleytheory folks out in the wild
I wouldn't go so far as to recommend not getting disability insurance, but folks should know how much of a scam it is.

I know of two folks personally, and many more folks second hand, who have battled to get disability insurance they are rightly owed. The insurance agencies will do everything they can to prove you are a fraud, like have private investigators tail you for weeks to collect photos of you doing things that people who are disabled obviously can't do. They'll go to your door to trick you into talking to them, they'll talk to your friends and family and colleagues and clients behind your back. They'll track your car.

Both cases I know personally ended up giving up on collecting insurance due to the full-time nightmare it required. One even moved overseas to get the insurance company off their back years later.
The point and power of vim or neovim and the others is plugins in my opinion. It can be customized to make you faster at what you do. I love my setup. It works great for me. I can’t use a full IDE, I’m broken in that way.
Ah, ok then. To me it looks like “your mom’s” and then cutoff.
Ever considered becoming a furry instead?
So all what Voyager was is a retail arm of 3AC? That’s just depressing.
So glad I've decided not to bother with FAANGs. I can spend two months in my "free time" re-learning algorithms I haven't touched in years (which have no practical bearing on my skills or experience), or I can spend time with my family.
My quest for the perfect window manager (2004)
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style and taking swipes at others in HN comments? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately. We ban that sort of account, because we're trying for a different sort of discussion here.

You can make your substantive points thoughtfully; please do that instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I thought about this. I think it would be incredibly difficult to pull of.

Doing that means that effectively you have +2 different ways to interview candidates. Ensuring consistency, fairness and a good candidate experience with one standard process is already hard enough. I suspect you'd have a really difficult time running this process successfully. Also, inevitably some candidates would find it unfair, and complain about the option the didn't choose.
I’m a nondrinker but that sounds great
It definitely seems like Gnome has developed a toxic anti-user culture lately. Calling wiki contributors "clowns" and Gnome users "the peanut gallery" is exactly the kind of behavior that will lead to being surrounded by nothing but sycophants. And that inevitably leads to ridiculous bugs and design failures, like not being able to set a desktop background color, or planning to remove support for X11, or not having preview thumbnails in a file picker.
An XT? That slowness was probably due to the CPU speed than anything else.
This... kind of shocking. Lived near seatac for decades, never read about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Horizon_Air_Q400_incident
It is the compact OED. It has all the pages from the 20 volume set
It turns out that programmers are artisans and dreamers of new methods previously thought impossible.

It is not possible to manage them in the same way as worker bees on a factory line.

Caveat being, if you have a programmer who is clearly not interested in dreaming or being an artisan, fire their fucking ass. That's like having a dj who doesnt want to pump up a crowd.
XCOM and XCOM2 in Ironman mode (only one autosaved game--all choices are permanent) are excellent choices to learn how to deal with risk.

Gameplay is turn-based so you can plan what you want to do calmly, but results are fairly immediate--if you miscalculate a move your soldiers get hurt or die.

You have to take risks: you must move your team of soldiers ahead into the darkness to accomplish a mission, but there could be aliens around the corner waiting to ambush them.

You can take a risk and have a soldier move ahead to grab some loot (meld) which can grant huge bonuses, but it could expose them to danger. You must decide what they will do.
There's all kinds of Tesla crash news. Here's one of hundreds of results. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/cars/nhtsa-tesla-crash-califo...

Which ones are in which terribly-named driving mode? Who knows, Tesla doesn't seem to be saying.
cuts both ways with rare diseases. mine's progressed to the point where I need a wheelchair outside the house. I do daily PT, but my arms are messed up too so my exercises are necessarily very light. Wheelchair use is literally a sedentary lifestyle, so I'm at risk of all the couch-potato issues.

Considering approximately $0 has been spent on drug discovery for my disorder (genetic, rare, not fatal), I'd substantially benefit from exercise-in-a-pill drugs if those come out, as would a lot of others in my position.
Found the midwit
Back in the 90s they made an amazingly robust floppy disk duplicator.
Meta: The video's actual title card reads "!CHALLENGE! — The story of the ROGERS PASS PROJECT", but I edited it to fit and to include the context that it's a CP Rail project: https://youtu.be/1zepXkTPvqA?t=176

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shaughnessy_Tunnel

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Macdonald_Tunnel
Why is that concerning?
Why are these letters always so long?
Related:

Why are maps so hard to make? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31587950 - June 2022 (96 comments)
We ended up explaining the challenge and giving them access, plus up to two weeks to submit. (We’d always give more time if they asked).

They could do it whenever on their own time, and then we scheduled a 1 hour time block to review their code. Some people took an entire weekend, some people took an hour. Sure people are busy but at least this method also gives them the opportunity to see if they’d like to do the type of work we do, as well.

Overall ended up with really great hires who seemed to enjoy the challenge.
Just make more money. That's what cured my desire to hoard every penny.
I have turned the tables quickly when being interviewed by juniors, especially if I'm not sure of the quality of their programming.
Color me disappointed.
> People are tribal. When attacked from outside, they’ll close ranks.

That is a piss-poor excuse for electing the worst representative instead of the best.

Folks are nicer to everyone anywhere than in NYC or DC. Your anecdote doesn’t tell us anything for or against South Georgia.

As for Uvalde, you’re straw-manning like mad. White communities have had school shootings and were not represented as w.s. stories.

Everyone who cast a vote for MTG should feel shame. Everyone who can vote for MTG should be getting involved in a way that results in a much more sane election result.
Wow, I had no idea this would be so intense (1st session).

I suspect that the sound and music has a pretty high impact, even independently to the binaural tech.

I think that because in my experience I can be pretty easily moved in a movie theatre too, especially if the soundtrack is well engineered (but yet, in a movie theatre there is the effect of flickering light too!! so that can also be a big part).
Wow, strange to read of other folks from the Kirksville vicinity. I didn’t grow up there but spent my first seven years of adulthood nearby, and rode the Southwest Chief that’s being discussed in the article dozens of times.

Rural folks have lots of positive things going on. But they’re also mostly shrinking towns, and I’ve had teenagers try to run me (on my bike, they in cars) off the road for fun on a Saturday night.

I wouldn’t want to be a teenager in rural America. But there are some nice things about being a kid and an adult.
It's not the only two options. You can have direct democratic assemblies at the lowest level, and then use the delegate system to form assemblies above them, scaling as high up as needed. It's still radically different from representative democracy as we practice it today, because delegates are delegates - they receive explicit instructions from the assemblies that send them on how to argue and how to vote, and they're instantly recallable if they disobey those instructions.

And yes, those systems do exist in real world. AANES (Rojava) has been operating under such a system for over 10 years now.
If that's true, at that rate crypto will blaze past traditional finance in only a few years, and be hundreds of years ahead of traditional finance in a couple decades. Sounds pretty good to me.
My next-door neighbor here in California seemed kind of shocked when I told her I walked to the movie theater. It's 2 miles away, with a safe sidewalk.
Is there a good comparison of these technologies? I've used dpdk for high rate streaming data and it roughly doubled my throughput over 10GE. I hear people using things like dma over Ethernet, and it sounds like there are several competing technologies. My use case is to get something from phy layer into gpu memory as fast as possible, latency is less important than throughput.
Thanks to India, more people in the world say "w" like "v" but I feel safe knowing that Indians have a better accent and better spelling than anyone in North America, and I would never joke about anything this serious.

;-)
> That sounds like it is working as the founding fathers intended. As that gives rural states a voice as well.

This is why residents of DC and Puerto Rico should be allowed to choose representation in Congress, because as it is, about 4M US citizens are paying taxes without any voting influence in Congress.
We are watching…
I can’t believe that all the crypto yield Cefi companies Al just gave their money to 3AC. There’s literally hundreds of high yield strategies out there. Many of them well hedged but nobody went that route (at scale).
I’m guessing nobody boundary tested this
I think your comparisons are at the superficial "what does syntax look like" level. If you're thinking culturally, roles, what they're expected to be used for, what hires look like:

Elixir is the new Erlang. Ruby is dead (I used to <3 ruby). Go is the new python, zig is the new c, and rust is the new c++.
That's not a benefit, it's a huge hassle for anyone with a family and a busy schedule.
Are you sure? I think they say zed in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. That’s quite a few English speakers.
The issue with turbines is not their capital cost (which is on par with the still falling all-included cost of PV) but rather operating cost. Steam turbines need frequent, expensive overhauls because superheated steam under high pressure is very hard on everything inside.

Renewables suffer no opex of such scale. They age out and need to be replaced, on a time scale of decades, but will be much cheaper to replace, then, than they cost up front. Probably perovskites will be used to replace silicon.
Given the supreme court's attack on all congressional oversight,
I don't like email.

Keep in mind my workflow is much more likely to result in you ending up in a new task focused group or with a new message in a group vs a 1:1 DM.