skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extinction level event is precisely what I am looking at.

It’s funny to me that even here in HN people don’t get this at all. They fall behind simple truisms “automation only increases jobs”. It’s almost as if they’ve forgotten Trump got elected because vast swathes of America were deindustrialised and that led to a collapse to the quality of life in those regions.

On research that I’ve read, automation has definitely decreased the number of industrial jobs in America. Those people, some in large numbers, never found other jobs that were as well paying.

But like David Simon always says “American distopia doesn’t sell in America”.
Hackernews has a whole lot of smart people, but the dark matter of the Hackernews universe is the much larger number of schlubs who cosplay as smart people online.
I’ve got a handful of excellent ruby devs available for project work. If anyone needs help, holler.

It still seems pretty relevant and useful.
All of their friends are on social media, all you do by taking their phones away is that they're no longer able to talk to their friends and engage in content / share information in the same way as all of their peers do worldwide. Phones and social media definitely have drawbacks like you mention, but the world has clearly made its peace with that. Using a phone is pretty fundamental to how people interact / engage / consume content in the current age, especially in the youth demographics.

It's far better for children to be educated about a tool / told about the benefits and drawbacks than just be outright denied it, when as soon as they are out of college they will be reliant on a phone for practically all of their day to day life. (And no, I'm not taking about the 1% of people who don't use their phones usually or work entirely on their laptops, that's not the mainstream mode of operation)
Zig tutorials and learning materials and on-boarding experience needs a lot of work. Compare with something like Kotlin, so well designed is its introductory material that one could start doing useful things with Kotlin within a few hours.

Also I find Zig's choice to use abbreviated keywords rather cryptic, for example using 'fn' instead of 'function' only hurts readability I think.
My (possibly wrong) understanding is that trigraphs were a late addition to the ANSI standard, which would place it in late 80s, well into the CRT terminal and dot-matrix era.
Yes, I meant in your sudoku solver, sorry, I should've been more clear.
Its below replacement level now, according to the latest survey. That 2.2 number is from the 2015 survey.
People seem to have _really strong opinions_ about Apple. I’m in an IRC group and the people in there are great but then very tribal when anyone mentions Apple.

It’s a little bizarre to me, the litany of things they can talk about. I’m pretty sure I spend just about 0% of my energy thinking about where people get their phones or which mobile operating system they use.
My sense has been that Google and Deepmind ML has been pretty ingrained across the board in Google services. If they're still producing the the most advanced AI research, I don't see why that wouldn't be introduced into future products as well.
Splunk, as a company, is a shell of its former self. All they care about is pimping themselves out to maximize profits to an extreme that only Dilbert can relate to, even at the expense of destroying a long term professional relationship over trivial matters. They are more than happy to kill a deal over a 5% disagreement rather than understand the needs of a Fortune 500 customer and negotiate.

They are mad because Cribl is good at transforming data before it ingested by Splunk, so as to reduce the amount of data that is indexed. Period.

Splunk ONLY RECENTLY released “Ingest Actions” to filter data post-ingest (to avoid indexing) for their SaaS product — something that has always been a mainstay of their on-premise “Enterprise” product. Their ONLY suggestion to filter data that we didn’t care to index in early 2021? Cribl. There’s literally no other reason for us to use Cribl.

I’ve been paying for Splunk since 2008 and can’t wait to get away from them. Their sales teams have decayed into unethical slimebags and I am trying everything in my power to not renew our contracts with them. This just sealed the deal.

Source: I cut checks to Splunk for $x,xxx,xxx yearly
Here's an upload of his last vid. He gets banned around 3:53.

https://rumble.com/v1mrg0s-do-we-get-a-darrell-brooks-hearin...
The trolling terrifies me.

Trolling someone by creating awful video (just think about how deeply, photo-realistically, awful it could be - porn is just the tip of the iceberg) is going to get really bad. I am not sure how this is going to shake out. The easiest will be video of famous people doing awful things. A little harder is doing a custom training on a particular person's likeness, and videos of that person doing awful things. That high-schooler. That child. It's not a happy idea. There should be severe consequences for deliberately making something like this with the intent to harass (troll).

The fact is we have not even scratched the surface of classifying trolling as a real crime. I am less concerned with the tech (it's inevitable, hand wringing about it is not useful), and more concerned with the fact that we still have essentially no real consequences to this kind of harassment.

I suspect that strong anonymity is incompatible with civilized life, since the few edgelords will always end up ruining it for the many. We have collectively decided that some amount of privacy must be sacrificed to live in a civilized place where you can address grievance (the subpoena must be served to someone). Surveillance is a weapon for tyranny, but I think that we need to flip the script. The relationship between tyranny and surveillance means we need better governments, not more anonymity.

I also suspect we don't need to change anything except enforcement. I think trolls are a lot less anonymous than they think they are, since their opsec is typically nonexistent. It's just that we have no enforcers, and for some reason don't care. If I had a magic wand, I would convert the DEA wholesale over to dealing with online crimes (trolling, CP, trafficking, etc).
We recently transitioned to it at Notion and it’s been very fast, outperforming the previous log vendor substantially while offering better search and UX. If you used the on-prem version, the cloud version is quite a different experience.
The irony of this comment given the other article on the front of HN [0]. It feels like most of the commentary here is apologetic to the Android ecosystem for all the failures. But Apple has had plenty and will continue to make mistakes, just like every other vendor.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2022/10/05/apple-watch-blows-up/
http://mlton.org/LLVMCodegen

MLton can do it's whole program optimization then output to LLVM which I believe should then be able to do auto-vectorization.
I wonder if this worth the price: an extra (thing_uniq) table and extra key column on partitioned tables. So pay an extra query to the thing_uniq table before insert to target table. thing_uniq has one indexed column (the key). But we lose upsert.
Denmark sounds like a big success story. You've got half of locally consumed energy being generated locally from wind and solar, and you're also sending renewable energy to other countries which reduces the amount of fossil fuel they have to burn.

They should build even more so they can send even more and have an even bigger impact. And if their neighbors did the same thing and sent excess capacity to each other, then it'd all net off to not needing much storage at all. Maybe 10 percent of supply needs to be met with gas peaker plants when variability gets really bad, prior to storage solutions becoming cost effective.

So this case study of Denmark shows there is little substance to the criticisms of renewables.
You call it "concern trolling", I call it responsible research. It's not "social justice" to be concerned about the ability of any entity to make propaganda videos for virtually free. "Ok Google, produce a CDC-type public information video about how vaccines cause autism and disability".

Not that I would have a complaint if social justice was the sole thing keeping it from being released. Facebook managed to cause genocides by being careless.
My very large company got us all “free” premium Door Dash accounts, and then Door Dash starting classifying our IPs as bots and blocked us from promos.

Our company has now blocked the Door Dash website from our networks.

Yet the premium accounts remain unabated.
I thought that the main disadvantage with flying wings for passenger traffic was that any kind of roll is made much worse the further you get from the main roll axis, so turbulence etc becomes more uncomfortable in the wing part.
Unbaiting the click: "Google's parent company just pulled its latest product from China."
Cargo planes like the C-17 can make a steep “tactical approach” by creating lots of drag, with spoilers, reverse thrust, etc. It’s difficult to get very aerodynamic aircraft to ‘go down and slow down’. That’s not to say that the flying wing design couldn’t have drag devices, but it’d take more to reach similar performance.

The approach isn’t “slow” in terms of aircraft speed but rather its duration. Shallower equals more time in reach of adversary weapons.
US and Panama. Operation "Just Cause" in 1989-1990 to get rid of General Noriega. Which was before Friedman even formulated the idea. I guess you can argue that the Panama invasion wasn't "officially a war" but that's true of many conflicts and is rather arbitrary.
There's a weird sociological phenomenon where people declare that "renewables won't get us there" without any real justification.

A recently announced deal in California would build out solar for $20/MWh compared to your $200/MWh nuclear worst case. Renewables can and will get us 90% of the way there. I recognize that a renewables based grid will require massive investments in grid infrastructure, which are long overdue anyway, as well as eventually storage/batteries, which is still on an exponential cost reduction curve. Bbut given the massive cost difference of generation, that would still be a dramatic net benefit.

Particularly when nuclear plants take a decade to build compared to a year for a solar plant.

I get that nuclear is cool, particularly fusion, but I really don't understand this "renewables won't get us there" argument beyond that.
I think Haxe has pretty much the same feature, which it just calls "macros" (https://haxe.org/manual/macro.html).

I haven't used Zig (yet, maybe one day), but does anyone know if there's a difference between Haxe macros and Zig comptime? AFAIK Circle also offers something similar for C++ (https://www.circle-lang.org/)
> You need a VERY good reason to use anything except [...] Oracle

I promise, Oracle (the company) is a good reason to use anything except Oracle.
> …there is an honest to god source of truth - HR itself.

Or alternatively (and what LinkedIn is doing), employees can "open their employee-only experience" by verifying their work email address associated with a company.
It has always been the Cadillac of search, and moreso with unstructured indexing (e.g. key collisions with different data structures. Foo = string vs foo = integer vs foo = array).

Your queries or infrastructure were not optimized. It’s very fast when optimized.
My cynical prediction: Google search (as we now know it) will be retired. Google will provide AI-generated text which attempts to answer the user's prompt, with links to results in a handful of curated sources such as wikipedia.
“ We know for certain that the 'growth' metaphor/ideology doesn't spring cleanly/directly from human nature, as there's no shortage of human societies that have lived in a relatively steady relationship with their environment (here in Australia for 60,000 years or more).”

In all seriousness, what societies that aren’t “hunter gatherers” or migratory that have lived in a steady state with their environment? Also, how do you define capitalism? I think we probably agree about some of the flaws of capitalism that need to change, for example infinite exponential growth, but I am very much against any kind of centrally planned system and I know of no other system that doesn’t ultimately succumb to the human desire to chase social status and ultimately excess that I would want to live in. Pre-industrial migratory societies don’t really count in my mind as a real alternative this challenge and I don’t think this problem is limited to or is driven by “capitalism”.
A lot of these things can't be meaningfully statically checked. It has to be done by a working policy apparatus. If your org can't adopt, implement, and adhere to policy then there's no amount of standards documents in the world that will help you much.

There's no way in the world to statically and automatically check if your org regularly reviews configurations, responds correctly to monitoring alerts, ensures your developers adhere to least privilege principles, and so on. It has to be policy.
> and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols

That's a either a direct call to violence or it implies that violence has already been threatened or used via those weapons. Which means, as the preceding part of the the quote shows, that free speech has been eschewed in favour of violence:

> they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive,

Not to argue or listen is part of free speech i.e. freedom of conscience - I don't have to listen to you or anyone I don't wish to if I am free. But Popper uses the phrase meet us on the level, these intolerant people have chosen a different level where they will not allow certain argument to occur that is against their position.

So, when you say "utterance of intolerant philosophies" he is talking about violence or assault, and certain speech, actually threatening speech has been covered by the crime of assault for over a thousand years in English common law, which American common law has continued, and SCOTUS has provided particular exceptions to the US first amendment that line up with that (to be a threat a statement must be credible and imminent).

> Are you claiming that there is no content on any social media site used for comments and opinions that advocates for an "intolerant philosophy" of the sort that Popper recommended suppressing?

No, I'm saying that there's already a well defined level that Popper, common law, and the US constitution have all given and it's not this nebulous idea of anything that gives rise to something bad. If there are people writing credible and imminent threats of violence on social media because they don't like what's being said, that is what Popper was looking to suppress.

If a Nazi, for example, wishes to engage in argument without any such threat of violence, while arguing for National Socialism, that's fine by me, because it gives me the chance to destroy those arguments using my free speech. Those who are looking to suppress that are on the same level as Nazis and reveal their lack of confidence in their own ability to counter criticism of their position - just as a Nazi might - and hence, reach for violence.
Why does anyone in the west consider Saudi Arabia an ally instead of the enemy dictatorship they truly are? Also - why didn't we make Iraq a US territory? Or provide price supports to our oil shale industry when OPEC cut prices to destroy our homegrown industry?
PMs leave and start competing products. This stuff happens all the time.

Unless splunk has a smoking gun it’s hard to really take their side here.
Yes we need to focus on important subjects here like what flavor of toothpaste Elon is using today for example
50% of 2 interviewed would make this statement true … why does it matter if a CEO making a statement
You can reprocess “waste” in a breeder reactor. Not sure if plants can be retrofitted with a new generation of reactor, but even if you need a new plant that’s not that big a deal because the waste is still usable fuel (it’s not a use once thing)
I know for certain that the services I depend on in at least half of those categories either don’t work in the browser, do work but don’t have full functionality, or are just the desktop version.
India’s labor laws are actually a massive deterrent to most large scale manufacturing.

One of the perils of a democratic setup is that people are free to assemble themselves into labor unions. India has a strong culture of labor organization which often stops reforms and investment.

I’m personally on the fence about this. Its easy to demonize labor unions when you’re outside that particular labor force, but my family has witnessed the importance of labor organization first hand, and I understand how crucial they can be to prop up labor interests.
On the other hand, a tanker aircraft typically flies from a much more prepared base, something with a longer, guaranteed to be well paved runway, in non-contested airspace, with minimal or no risk of MANPADS in the area.

The design requirements for a C-17 to operate from a rough field, such as that which was built at camp bastion in Helmand province, are considerably different than for an aerial refueling tanker.

The rough field tactical tanker role is as far as I know presently served by a variant of c130 modified for special forces missions.
Appeasing a dictatorship (both mafia-style as in Russia, and Communist-style as in China/North Korea) isn't a good idea in the long run - especially if they have nuclear weapons. The barbarism we've seen in Ukraine is an example. On the other side of the world, Taiwan is threatened with war every week.

Further strengthening China's manufacturing capacity is not in the interest of democracies.
What are you planning to move to?
Splunk is a great tool but expensive. I like splunk's aggregation feature very much. If it is server logs, it can aggregate and tell me how many http 500 errors I have, how many requests resulted in 404 etc. It can tell me top IP addresses where I am getting requests from, etc.

I want to take a CSV file and provide same functionality. Eg. Give user information on how many times each field occurs. For example, if it is a CSV file with cities, countries, continents, I want to aggregate and tell how many cities are in each country and how many countries are in each continent.

Is there an open source version of splunk I can modify? I tried logstash but it is not straight forward to work with. It still needs me to define schema everytime.

Thx!
Some smaller companies have found that choosing “weird” languages gives them a much more focused pool of candidates from which to choose. Advertise for a Java position and you’re going to be overwhelmed with résumés.

And you’re doing a grave disservice to Elixir at the least. I prefer Erlang myself, but Elixir has established itself as a robust choice.
There's plenty of space - deserts of the southwest for solar plus offshore wind could easily suffice to produce all of the power needed in the US by themselves. The issue is lack of grid transmission infrastructure, which is a reliability issue during times of extreme weather independent of whether it's a renewables based grid or not. As for materials, there are some rare earth metals that are used in some solar panels, but many others don't require them. If market conditions dictated, use of those materials would shift on it's own.
What market are you targeting?
https://github.com/Hirrolot/metalang99
Leaked EU Docs Warn Members to Clamp Down on Crypto Mixers
As pointed out in the comments of that thread, if you make the same graph of all papers on arXiv by year (instead of just AI+ML), it would look roughly the same.

Which speaks more about the growth of popularity of arXiv or the total number publications, rather than AI+ML specifically.
List? Is it now illegal to measure radiation?
Very little of the language is available at comptime. Allocation is unavailable and the zig developers have declared this a non-feature. That either locks out or requires redundant implementations of a great many things.
> You need a VERY good reason to use anything except TypeScript/C#/Java/Golang/Python/React/Vue/Postgres/MySQL/SQL server/Oracle. Perhaps Rust. These technologies are good enough to get almost anything done these days. There's exceptions of course for example games tend to written in C++ and embedded is often C.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting.

Are we expected to rewrite everything every decade when a new flavor of language comes out?

It seems like, with the exception of Rust, you've named a lot of "lowest common denominator" languages. These languages, while productive, tend to lack expressiveness. It is my opinion that expressiveness is seen as a bad thing in the "professional" community because it takes significant cerebral evolution over the course of a career to learn which tool in the toolbox to use. In other words since the explosion of programming as a career there are more idiots in the proverbial gene pool, and so more companies prefer more idiot-proof languages because the average developer can't help but hurt themselves. This doesn't mean we should prefer "new safe technologies", it means our recruiting should far more stringent and our education far more formal (as in an actual useful programming degree).

I for one would quit if I could program, for example, common lisp and make even 3/4 of my current salary.

Here's, in my opinion, a better and less controversial hot take. Use what works. If you have a team of erlang developers do it in erlang (or whatever). Who cares about the market. If it means spending even more time (and money) learning to write another more popular language correctly it may not be worth the investment. If you build it, they will come. You will have no problem finding an endless stream of developers you can build from the ground up.

As a side note: Kotlin, Ruby, and F# are extremely popular. TIOBE is not a real measure.
Because you’re not a creative professional you’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

Here’s the truth about creative work - most of is trash. You make a lot trash. Unimaginative, boring trash. You use that to pay your bills. The creative stuff that people love and share on Instagram is 10% of the work.

The stuff you don’t share nor do you talk about is 90% of your income.

The problem in this forum is people dont have experience with creative work nor do they understand the economics of the industry. Not their fault they don’t have to.

But here’s the reality - the stuff you love so much and consider creative work is the 5% that those artists made the right decisions and were allowed to make them and everything went fine.

A lot of the work is drudge work. Like an illustrator starting out will make cheap card illustrations or whatever. And then in his 5% of time he will make the amazing personal stuff he posts on artstation. You love and share the stuff on artstation - but his income is mostly coming from shitty card illustrations that will never be on his portfolio.

Due to HN being clearly unaware of the economics this is being repeated here a lot - just do super high super creative stuff and you’ll be fine.

The problem is there isn’t enough of that work to begin with! If you’re working for a good company you know you can place the final work on your portfolio because the creative brief will be good and executed well - Nike, Apple, Squarespace - some people (including myself) will actually reduce our day rate because we know it’s great fun to work on it plus it will be a value add on your portfolio. That’s how competitive it is to GET high end high credit work. The idea that we can all migrate to that is a wild fantasy.
oh, I didn't think to try the btrfs snapshot route, that's a good idea to keep in mind for me if this happens again.
To be fair, anyone living in India knows that elected officials are largely above the law and live like feudal lords.