skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not saying 2000 is too much but I'm 100% sure that your SRE team only does a tiny fraction of what Confluent is doing.

They will have marketing folks, lawyers, they will almost certainly do more testing than you, they are going to have to support many many more configurations than you, they have people all over the world, they have a support staff, they have upstream contributors, they have backoffice people, ...

Nothing against you or your team but what you're doing does in no way compare to building a fully fledget product for on-prem and as a SaaS.
Depends on the project.

But in general:

* Old School VPS or Cloudflare Workers (if the problem lends itself well to Workers)

* Usually leaning towards sqlite instead of a hosted postgres (as that's often overkill)

* Language: whatever fits the problem best. These days likely TypeScript as it's so versatile.
Something that is legal and regulated.
Honestly, that is not a bad thing. The westernised elite were not particularly good for us...
LLM means Master of Law degree, kind of an advanced JD used in some specializations like tax. What do you mean here?
You mean specifically for products that involve the internet/web and is "full stack"? I'm not very familiar with the trends there but I do know I'd likely use a whole different toolset if I was only building a service without web frontend than if it had a web frontend. And whether or not it involves a database of some kind (and what kind) also heavily influences the choice of tools and platforms.
I’m specifically saying that prose/text and code are different contexts that don’t necessarily benefit from the same styles of writing.

What I was saying is that just because spaces in prose naturally improves visibility does not _necessarily_ mean that underscores and dashes improve overall readability across many contexts _in real code_, because code and prose are different. It could be the case, but it’s not the obvious innate property people are suggesting it is.

If it such an obvious innate improvement in readability, then why don’t we replace spaces with underscores in prose and handwriting? It would remove any ambiguity between intentional separation and awkward unintentional spacing or kerning. But we don’t and haven’t done that for some reason, so there must be something else at play.

Your examples (and many examples in this thread) of long sentences in these formats are not what code actually look like.

Real code has meaningful symbols and syntax that occur between identifiers that carry semantic meaning. Maybe the lack of symbols in identifiers in camel and pascal case make it easier to identify these other symbols and syntactic elements, so you end up with better overall readability. Maybe adding to that the flexibility of using camel and pascal and upper snake case for different "types" of identifiers improves mental mapping of code concepts that you'd lose if you always used snake case.

Again, I'm only making the argument that readability in code and readability in prose are two totally different things, and the effects of different casing and different identifier naming schemes are likely more subtle than what is better clearly separating words in the identifier.
3900 positions ~ 300M, 1 position ~ 80k
$1T Green Investment Matches Fossil Fuels for First Time
It's only recommended that you store json and text on relays. It's a text protocol, not a protocol for storing large binary data. Note sizes are restricted as well on most relays.
> noted by several lawyers when some of the details of this experiment were revealed: The AI already committed a cardinal sin of traffic court in that it subpoenaed the ticketing officer

Would you have a source?
An IBM recruiter reached out to me a while back which caused me to go and have a dive into IBM. From what I found IBM is mostly consulting.
How a CPU works: Bare metal C on my RISC-V toy CPU
I always wanted to understand how a CPU works, how it transitions from one instruction to the next and makes a computer work. So I thought: let's implement one and run a C program on it.
> I actually had no idea it was possible to do efficient count-distinct without hashes, but it turns out it is!

Since the final algorithm maintains a Set, doesn't it still perform hashes?
Jerrymeandering?
> You precisely describe the nature of section 230

In the original authors' own words (https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-wyden-a...):

> Section 230 protects targeted recommendations to the same extent that it protects other forms of content presentation. [...] That interpretation enables Section 230 to fulfill Congress’s purpose of encouraging innovation in content presentation and moderation. The real-time transmission of user-generated content that Section 230 fosters has become a backbone of online activity, relied upon by innumerable Internet users and platforms alike. Section 230’s protection remains as essential today as it was when the provision was enacted.

The original authors believe that algorithms are protected.

The original authors of Section 230 also don't believe that Section 230 prohibits biased platforms or prohibits platforms from having an agenda. Ron Wyden's take on the "platforms are biased" argument (https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/16/18626779/ron-wyden-sect...):

> Section 230 is not about neutrality. Period. Full stop.

----

That being said, should we have better protections for platforms being strong-armed by state actors? Yes, absolutely. The government has many levers it can pull to influence private speech, and those levers need careful safeguards and we need checks in place to prevent state actors from threatening platforms and using political power to bully them into making specific moderation decisions.

But while that is an admirable goal, it has nothing to do with Section 230, a law that is itself a check on government power to punish companies over moderation decisions.

If you're worried about private entities being influenced by state actors -- as you say "often with the implicit threat of regulation and anti-trust action" -- then giving the government more power to determine what is and isn't "good faith" moderation is heading in the wrong direction and would make the problem even worse.

The solution to the government strong-arming platforms into removing content is not to give the government more power over moderation decisions.
Using new shipping data to improve government understanding of trade flows
In terms of developer credibility with the entrepreneurial community? Sure.

In terms of being a going concern for large customers and investors? The make billions of dollars of profit per year, have a P/E valuation better than Apple's, and pay out 4-5% dividends annually.

I'm not sure what it really means to "be dead" for 40 years. In a sense, the average human is "dead" for 70-something years. But periods of time at that scale are called "life", lol.

IBM will be here long after everyone reading this is gone. They aren't relevant to the environments in which most of us work (they're basically a professional services consulting firm), but we aren't everything.
> Layoffs don't prove the CEO made a mistake

That is irrelevant, since they are taking full responsibility anyway, right?

Just kidding.
As a lawyer, I agree. Much of the trope of 'the lawyers always win' has a lot of truth to it, believe it or not. And all of the incentives align in this direction, it keeps the legal profession fat and happy and beholden to monied interests while suppressing access to the non-wealthy. And the rich don't actually care that they're being constantly fleeced, because it's just a cost of doing business that is really pretty finite in comparison to profits that can be made. It's almost like it's a feature of 'the system' (combination of capitalism and common law) and not an unintended side effect.
> Traditional media produce and own their content.

Phone companies don't. The traditional choices were "have full control of the content, and take full responsibility for that content" (e.g., newspapers) or "don't attempt to control content, and bear no responsibility for that content" (e.g., telephone companies). Newspapers were legally responsible for what they published, phone companies weren't. The phone company (and other so-called "common carriers") weren't held responsible even if someone used the phone to plan a murder. In exchange for that immunity, they were required to give access to anyone with enough money to pay the monthly bill.

> Online media is user generated.

As are phone calls.

With Section 230, tech companies both have a) full censorship powers and b) no responsibility. Absolute power with no responsibility has always been a recipe for abuse.
You are probably right, as you grow older you tend to lose the feeling of time... or at least, I do :) 2007-2008 was when FB really started to be mainstream so blogging was "hype" way before that.
Note that hnreplies asks not for a comment ID, but for your user ID. You get notified when someone replies to you in any thread whatsoever. You don't have to continuously monitor specific threads. That's the point.

Say I'm involved in 17 recent threads, in any of which there can be new replies. Do I have to bookmark 17 hntoast URLs and monitor them?

Or what if, today, someone replies to something I wrote in 2019? [Edit: that won't be possible; HN doesn't allow necroposting!]
In this context it means Large Language Model.
I hate articles like this. They are part of an entire genre of pseudo intellectual nonsense that seems to be this genius insight but directly ignores obvious causes.

They treat depression like it is some mystery of science when it is directly caused by…everything about modern society, institutions and lifestyles.

People in Africa living in villages don’t get depressed. People living in suburbs eating shitty food with no hope due to capitalism and crappy prison schools do.

The cause of depression is so obvious only a PHD would be able to write and publish a BS article like this, and it is total horse shit, and pretend it’s a mystery.

It’s not a mystery, they just want to try to solve it with crappy drugs that you don’t actually need rather than target the root problems, which they can’t target.

I hate these articles and think they are promoting an intellectual culture of pretending not to understand the obvious by drenching it in overly intellectualized nonsense.

This is a media coverup. We know what causes it.
It's a completely ridiculous list. The blogpost is about designing a 2 tap filter, not a CPU, so even if there wasn't a gate limit the design wouldn't have those things.
The argument is not that everyone who likes old russian writers is a shill. It's that people bringing them up at current time can't read the room at least, give in to their own imperialist tendencies probably and it only goes worse from there.
> It wasn't that "no one" wanted to hear them, but that the people that controlled the platform didn't want others to be able to hear them.

This is an important point. Free speech is really as much about the rights of the listener as the rights of the speaker, if not more so.

I think this is a good way of framing the censorship debate, because while it may be easy for some to dismiss the rights of a few dozen famous people that they hate, it's way harder to argue that the millions of people who follow those celebrities shouldn't be allowed to hear what they have to say, even if they want to.

(To be clear, I'm making a generalized moral argument here, not a legal one, so let's skip the whole "but it's a private platform" debate this time.)
? Word does this itself. Does this perform this task better than Word does?
Interesting. I consider myself an average developer who picked up Urbit to play with in 2017 (when it was still very rough). I've been happily using it almost everyday for a couple of years now. I mean, it's just a peer-to-peer network built from first principles. That's really kind of it. I guess I don't really deep dive into the inner workings of its address space, OS, or functional programming language, but for an end user like me it works pretty great for distributed communication. I'm not trying to sell anyone on it by any means, but some of the most interesting things I've read have been in Urbit groups.
If you make a movie (>40min) independently and share it on YouTube and Letterboxd and I find I'd probably add it so long as it looks like you actually tried to make something.

I don't really care if the movie is "good". The people who made and shared them clearly put a lot of work into them and were brave enough to share their art on the internet so to me I feel they deserve some nice showcase

I setup an email will@welovefreemovies.com too if you want to send me something directly
I can well imagine there are lots of upset people having lost their jobs.

However it never seems to be a priority or even on radar for jobseekers to consider how a a company handles layoffs or handled layoffs in the past as a proxy for their own treatment should that time come again.

I wonder if this is partially because jobs seekers have over optimized for salary or total comp relative to other things like job security and working conditions.

I must have seen 00s of "Top 10 lists" listing places according to intern pay or grad pay with big companies like Meta and Snapchat always at the helm getting thrown around social media. I have never once seen places advertise that they haven't had to let an employee go.

Maybe it's too difficult to measure or just rare enough that it can be largely ignored while things like salary simply can't be ignored. I don't know -- just trying to look at the other side of the coin as it were.
> This reads like you know what’s best for artists and takes their point of view completely for granted.

I think I know that little better than lawyers do. Even if only because I had zero financial incentive when I formed my opinions.

> As a photographer, I can’t claim to have or require a fraction of the skills used by creators of hand-made art. And even I am not excited about some AI slurping up my best work and commoditizing it.

I know it doesn't feel great. But your art has already been commoditized. There are hundreds photographers perfectly capable of replicating your style and many of them do it completely accidentally. The value of your art is a personal element not the content itself. What's valuable is your service and the name you made for yourself.

AI gives an artist a ticket to a lottery that can strongly boost their name without doing any additional service.

> The amount of literal content stealing and “creative reposting” that happens with absolutely zero attribution to the actual artist is quite extensive.

I wonder how much money you've lost due to that. Besides, attribution is naturally built into those "plagiarist" prompts for AI.

As for prompts that don't mention specific authors ... you shouldn't kid yourself that AI won't be able to completely naturally recreate your style from styles similar to yours even it it never seen yours. After all that's what you did to create your style. You created a variation on similar styles you saw during your education as an artist.

> ... just make it far easier to steal content while making it harder to detect or take action against such theft.

steal, theft ... what do artists actually loose in those brazen robberies?

Copyright conglomerates created language that doesn't reflect reality. But it reflects most primitive human instincts evolved in the world of scarcity not abundance.
I've been saying this since it came out...

Stable Diffusion is equivalent to hip-hop sampling in the 80s and 90s. The outcome is obvious.
Wouldn't working with systems that keep the largest stock exchange for the largest economy in the world running where a simple mistake can cause "mayhem" when the market opens be considered more "tangible" than working in AI or on self-driving cars? It just doesn't have as much street cred as working on those particular projects in the tech community.
>If HNers wanted notifications they would’ve implemented it in the last decade.

HNers have been complaining about wanting notifications since forever, and several people have set up services to that end.
That...actually makes good sense. No mention of coins or magic money. Just a good use for a persistent shared ledger.

I guess the devil is in the implementation details. Still an interesting idea, though.
If anyone reading this was part of the affected, please DM me. I have an SRE type role open that would almost certainly be a good fit for anyone from eng. Totally remote, good company culture.
>If someone is smart and capable enough to work on tangible things like AI systems or self-driving cars

Maybe they aren't as smart as they think they are? Or they find that there are interesting problems to solve in fintech? Problems they can tackle and see resolved in a realistic time frame vs 'tangible' (?) self-driving cars or chat bots.

I know AI encompasses a far larger range of things but right now, what problems is it solving? Artists, writers, and others can do that work. What do self-driving cars resolve beyond continuing the dominance of car culture in a world that could have better public transit and safer infrastructure?
Can we just agree that EV cars right now have specific use cases where they are good fit.

-Mild Climate

-Homeowner w/ Garage and high voltage charger

-Mostly local driving

ICE seems to be a better fit for people who drive long distances regularly, live in colder climates, and may not have easy access to a charger
Does this still assume that the speed of light is a hard limit?
haha, totally right
Looks very much like an origami "flasher", which doesn't require cutting.
That number is for quarter
Interesting idea!

A tiny nit - computers are good at things, so the input box could easily take either a post id - eg 34520664 - or, for ease of use, the whole url - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34520664 - and then do the trivial string manipulation to extract out the id.

Saves the bit of friction going copying address bar to using hntoast.

Just my 2 cents.
All JS for me with mysql/postgres and OVH VPS

Node/Express/React (can use next/nest)

NGINX Let's Encrypt
Not sure how its a different issue. Wouldn't a recession have made the home prices affordable.

Your point is what? Biden somehow predicted the future and claimed we are not in recession. Criticism was valid when he made that statement. Not sure why current news will make his previous statement right.
A recession defined by two down quarters is still a recession even if it recovers in the third quarter.

Biden was criticized for trying to spin off the accepted definition for political gains.
"The post was killed by software, user flags, or moderators. [...] If you see a [dead] post that shouldn't be dead, you can vouch for it. Click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch' at the top. When enough users do this, the post is restored. There's a small karma threshold before vouch links appear." [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I spent last weekend moving my access point behind an opnsense firewall so that I can see what's happening. Things having wifi is grand...but needs to work locally.

I've also had one case already where it works locally (HA) but eventually the device hits a overflow issue if it can't resolve the phone home address.
I made a drum machine that I think is pretty cool - https://main.d28ilu31tegyi1.amplifyapp.com/ I taught myself how to program 15+ years ago because I wanted to make music software. Fast forward 15 years, and I've spent my whole career as a designer for B2B Saas. I wanted to re-learn some development stuff and going back to my original inspiration seemed like a good idea. (Still a bit in progress and sorry doesn't work on mobile, there is some Web Audio stuff I haven't figure out for mobile yet)

I also built a small app to learn my piano chords. You can play along with a MIDI keyboard. https://www.learnyourchords.com/
Nope, you're way off base. The article is about something different.
Looks cool. The element re-ordering feature is a bit confusing since cannot know where each starts and finish. Would like the elements be distinguished (maybe having a border, e.g. https://files.catbox.moe/r6kt63.png but probably something more minimal will fit more) and also the up/down arrow remain active until finished re-ordering (maybe even keep fixed until mouse moves away). The third button (eu-centered globe) in belt does nothing.
Everyone wants a pill as a quick effortless fix, but IMO it seems a lot of our modern afflictions come down to an gross imbalance of exercise, diet, sleep, and social connection. Most likely the way society (see disclaimer) currently functions - how we work, how we consume our limited leisure time is sort of an occupational hazard to peak health.

Not to mention, exercise is "too hard" for most, the food supply is weaponized with sugar and FUD, everyone is so tired at the end of their "BS job" workday, so hit the couch and stream the streams. And now you have a vicious flywheel that quickly turns people into candidates for the latest big-pharma "cure"

HN Disclaimer: I'm in the US and making generalizations based on my observations. Not saying that there aren't needs for pharma / pills / afflictions that aren't solvable by the above, etc...
It is uncanny how much this mimics my own experience.

Was bullied between ages 11-16. Grew a a social circle in high school, which started fragmenting once everyone went off to university. I rarely if ever see any of them anymore.

Before the bullying, I was aparently happy and excited for most things (according to siblings). After it I have always been the low energy serious guy.

20 years on I feel an intense need for human connection, but no matter how much I try I never seem to be able to cultivate any kind of lasting relationship with others.
I'm a developer at IBM for one of their enterprise OSs. The lack of funding in retaining and finding talent is slowly killing an already anemic product. The amount of institutional knowledge that has disappeared over the past decade gives me little hope in it ever recovering. More and more bugs are being marked as 'permanent restriction' as there isn't enough time nor experienced developers to fix them anymore. My department is basically surviving on legacy contracts and customers too scared or lazy to migrate to a modern Linux or Windows infrastructure.
This implementation incidentally uses a hash table, but any set-like data structure would work. This is different from things like HyperLogLog that actually depend on the hash values themselves in order to work.
The post & tweet have been removed - details: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10lonsi/commen...
It seems likely that depression is also not a single disease.
> And then we have China, where the big companies are required to share the data with the government if they request it.

That's one thing that is probably the same in most countries... at least we know it is also true for USA and Russia.
And they (we, I should say, I work at Red Hat, but not in RHEL) as a company improved profits 10% after adjustment for inflation.
Depends on what the product is. If it's ultimately some kind of CRUD app, hard to beat Rails.

I'd probably run it on a managed K8s platform though instead of a VPS. At the very least use a managed (postgres) database instead of running my own.
I was thinking of something along this way a while ago: "what if we had an AI that we didn't merely use to obtain answers but rather to ask intelligent questions, so that it would help to build self criticism when developing a product, service, piece of code, etc?
For Oct-Dec 2022 (according to https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-4Q22-Earnings-Chart...)

Mainframes: $4.5 billion

Consulting: $4.8 billion (even after selling off Kyndral)

Software: $7.3 billion

Software includes all of Red Hat, a pretty big security business, and "transaction processing" which isn't explained but I guess is running payroll and the like for other companies.

So lots of un-sexy stuff that never makes HN but keeps the world running.