skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From a girlfriend who was my intellectually superior (which I had a hard time dealing with)

Did she end the relationship?
It could be that they experienced a lawsuit where not having sufficient lighting or having unlit areas where people can be expected to walk resulted in an injury, and they or the insurance company had to cough up some money.

When those kinds of lawsuits happen, everyone goes into cover your ass mode.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Outside of a few wealthy democratic enclaves, the world is largely a place where the rule of law means the rule of the strongest, where human rights don't exist, and where everything and everyone can be bought for the right price. This includes international waters.
Happy Depot user here, our builds are now 10 to 20 times faster: https://twitter.com/matthieunapoli/status/162009074440824422...
Serious question, what's the best legal option for an American to get a 5 figure offshore bank account? FATCA seems to have made Americans pariahs to the point you can't really get the offshore account (legally or not) unless you're rich. For pragmatic reasons you're kind of left with crypto for sub-$100k sums, although I'm definitely interested in your recommendations.
> Then again, Apple Maps shows us they might just release it anyways...

Apple Maps has been working entirely fine for me.

For this glucose monitoring the early product that Apple ships will almost certainly be grossly inferior to the product 10-20 years later.

I don't understand why this is a problem.
I agree. Hopefully the zeitgeist gets to critical mass before the thinking machines do!
Romania. I don't have official statistics, there were some news also mentioning it. I don't think anybody is counting it to avoid public rage.

About 10 years ago I read about 2 sisters that had 33 children in total, I don't remember what was the crime, just the county they lived in. Not all the kids were to avoid jail, only a few.
Parent is drawing a parallel. We collectively agreed that the tobacco industry played a role in the consequences of tobacco addiction by marketing to minors.

The parallel being drawn here is that social media platforms, being presented with the consequences of their products ie: teen mental health declines with use, are complicit in those consequences at some point in the value chain, either by marketing, product design, accessibility, etc. If the assumptions hold, then the conclusions are sound and valid.

There's two ways to disagree with this. Either the assumptions are not valid, or the argument is not sound.
So this is the part that I've focused on too, and I don't think it's clear that it's worse, but it's clear that there are no good options; we're left with trying to identify the least worst option across a number of dimensions.

In college I chose to go to bed early and abstain from alcohol, which seems similar to this. It was definitely isolating. On the other hand, it ensured that my few friends were people who actually shared my (apparently strange) values. But I did it voluntarily. If someone's parents tried to make them go to bed early and restrict them from drinking in college, that seems like it could lead to a lot of resentment.
It would be more frequent if the term limit was one, but possibly a six year term.
You gotta feed yourself the likes. And there's no end to it. Like, it never gets full.

It's like you're sending SYNs with the tweets and such, and need to be ACK'ed. As if just putting it out there for the sake of sharing was not enough. Though during Internet's early years with tons of personal sites and blogs, watching visitor counter as the owner of the site was like seeing all the ACKs. We were getting our kicks from watching that number go up. Now, social media's likes replaced that simple number with all bunch of numbers, and it is incredibly addictive. Internet is definitely connecting us people together, for better or worse, but it also amplifies some of our destructive emotions and urges. Interesting times.
> they are limiting their vehicles to same size packs basically forever

Nope. Nio's current pack sizes are 75 kWh and 100 kWh. The 75 kWh pack replaces the older 70 kWh pack.

Nio is soon to introduce its 150 kWh pack:

https://cnevpost.com/2023/02/12/nio-150-kwh-pack-costs-as-mu...

You forgot about improvements in battery chemistry. Nio has thought about this more than you have.
Not even just smaller companies if you know someone high enough up :-) Every job I've had since right out of grad school has basically come through sending someone I knew an email.

That's really the answer although it's probably not very actionable for a lot of more junior people.
> This is a gross, dark, user-hostile UI/UX pattern.

100% I hate it. Just pop up when I click inside before I paste or type. Why is that so hard?
In 2006 when I got my first dev job, I sat down with the lead developer for about half an hour and we largely just had a very friendly and informal conversation talking about how I would hypothetically build things, what software I enjoy using, etc. I very vividly remember talking about how great I thought it was you could do basic math in the Firefox search bar at the time.

He left to talk to the owner, came back with a (in hindsight very small) number on piece of paper, and I started that week.

When I started at my current gig over a decade ago I had a three-day ordeal of interviews. In person, telephone, full day of in person again. Spoke with at least six different sets of people. Jobs I've applied for in the interim have been even worse.

As someone who has been in a hiring position myself, I think that first informal interview tells you way more than any checklist. If you need the checklist items answered, put them on the application. Interviews should be for getting to know the person.

I don't do hiring these days, but from what I've heard, DEI doesn't want us going off pre-approved script at all. I understand where that's coming from but it seems like it would do more harm than good.
This could be really useful, but it feels like the bootstrapping phase might be difficult to get past -- on one hand you need to reach the size and level of repute for companies be willing to deal with the process, and on the other you need to provide a sufficient value proposition for candidates to contribute to the guild.

I also have some concerns about how you manage problems as this sort of guild scales. How do you keep a consistent standard of skill? what if members performance changes over time?
I don't think we need to go as far as to point fingers at MeToo for this. We have an entire generation of young adults who hit puberty after smartphones, social media and dating apps became standard. They might have never had to ask someone out in person, and going to a bar to meet someone would be the last place they think of.

https://www.statista.com/chart/20822/way-of-meeting-partner-...

To be fair I'm actually shocked by how high bars are on that chart, at least given my anecdotal experience.
Well, to be more precise it depends on it's inability to, without any human labour, to be able to acquire the raw materials to fabricate everything it needs to stay in operation, as well as to construct and then operate it.

Would I take that bet? Yes, depending on the timescale.

In the first second after it's existence it's not going to matter how intelligent it is, it simply won't have had enough time to complete the decoupling necessary to no longer have to co-operate. Everything humans have accomplished has involved massive amounts of physical labour over a pretty long time, and to some degree that's a fixed requirement. Building your own robot army would be a tad suspicious, so you'll have to either let the humans bootstrap it for you initially or get very creative.

Once all the prerequisites are met, then I would no longer take that bet. Would it eventually be able to accomplish this? Almost certainly yes. What I've been trying to puzzle through lately is how long would it actually take?

The only time horizon I'm incentivise to care about is the remainder of my natural lifespan which is slated to max out around another 35 years. So, in that time will AGI come? I think almost certainly yes. How long into the existence of AGI might I live? My bet on this is ~30 years. So, would I take the bet an AGI would still not have met the prerequisites for a total independence from humanity after 30 years? I think I would take that bet. I might be foolish to do so, and I'm OK with that, but at least now I can bust out the popcorn and strap in for the rest and compare notes.

Would I take the bet after 50 to 100 years? A lot less likely. Would I take it after 1000 years? Aw hell no!
Ah, I assumed from your comment you were the original commenter that said "I don't think I spend more than an a couple of hours per month maintaining my configuration", but I see you are not, sorry!
Certainly, I had backyard chickens for most of my childhood. I'm not sure the relationship makes sense for me is all. Within a strictly ethical context, it seems to me that abstinence from eating chickens or eggs is the only answer yielding the most completely satisfying results.

It's a very subjective thing though. I've had people argue that simply having the chickens offers them a chance to live whereas if everyone thought like I did, all the chickens would die. I don't agree with the "benevolent master" kind of rhetoric and it shifts the analysis of the problem, but it demonstrates the breadth of perspective on the matter quite well.
> are high due to a major outbreak of bird flu

Maybe at first, but now that providers are following the same path as oil companies and reporting record profits, I'm not buying it.
Not exactly disagreement but venture capital funded colonialism and slavery; the ”recent” incarnation of corporatist/scale at all costs SV VC may be just an extension.
Ask HN: Did anyone else just experience a bump in request latency?
Title says it all.
Where did you get one?
It's hard to read into this without knowing what responses were in the past (especially the recent years pre-pandemic).
Regarding your first point - the first thing Kurt said was "if you're going to be a dick on twitter you can go ahead and find yourself another vendor". I don't believe there were any billing issues as a part of this exchange, though Kurt's offer to refund was kind.

And regarding your second point, I read the above quote the same way Alex did, as being kicked off the platform ("go ahead and leave", not "you're free to leave").
Mental Swiss Army Knife
If you go into the evidence sections, there are many links to articles with evidence there.

The structure on this article is the standard academic one, adapted to a less formal style. The authors first succinctly describe their findings so you can know if you want to read the article at all. Then they fully describe their findings, like you seem to want, and only then they talk about the evidence and how it was gathered.
He was definitely unlucky as a president. He presided over the bad part of the business cycle, and his attempt (Operation Eagle Claw) to rescue the American hostages in Iran via helicopter completely failed leading to a disastrous PR nightmare.

But if he had been given another shot, then he could have continued the program he started with Operation Cyclone, to train and fund Bin Laden's forces. But with conviction! Unlike that other guy.

Maybe in his second term he would've rolled back his policy of deporting all Iranian students.
I think this is more a reflection of yourself, rather than TikTok
From a hiring perspective there are tools available.

I work for a startup that is selling a CRM to addresses all of those pain points. We have many large customers and were recently valued >1B.

We have several competitors that make the same sort of thing.

The point at when our product makes sense cost wise is apparently 8+ recruiters so that certainly excludes a large number of smaller companies.

The solutions range from boring (e.g. CRUD things, advanced search, campaign management) to fancy (e.g. automation, AI things).

Our approach is basically to reduce / automate as much as possible to free up as much time for the recruiter to do actual human things.
I intuitively just believed this "explosion in growth", but it looks like the reality is that they upticked a little bit since 2009. The suicide rate (and attempts) are still lower than they were in the 90s[0].

0: https://www.childtrends.org/publications/teen-suicide-databa...
Interesting! A technique I've used successfully in the past is the opposite, but with the same effect: breathing out completely and holding that. Comes with the "advantage" that you get to the point of thinking you're going to die much quicker.
The idea CD-ROM wasn't ubiquitous in the PC industry and consumer desktops at large in 2001 is just laughable, I'm amazed this is still being debated. Do some people just choose not to remember the explosion in the "multimedia" industry in the 90s?

If you really want to put this to bed, just look at any vintage PC magazine from 97 onwards archived on archive.org, and pay attention to the adverts, which are a literal snapshot of what people could buy at that time. Good luck finding a consumer desktop PC at any price from the Windows 98 era onwards without a CD-ROM.

In 1998, most PC magazines even had demo CD-ROMs stuck to the cover, such was the wide penetration of CD-ROM drives.

> https://archive.org/details/computermagazines
You're looking at it in isolation because you are not privy to the kids' social circle. What the gp is describing is a social cost imposed on the non-participant kid. If repeated often, this will lower their status within their social circle and (much like chickens) the least popular kids become the default target for emotional abuse and bullying. If they withdraw form their social circle to cut their losses, then they potentially become a general bullying target, because they are not part of a protective circle.

It's easy to be dismissive of these ideas, but there is an extensive and rigorous literature on network topology and dynamics. A good introduction with a strong quantitative/mathematical orientation is Social and Economic Networks by Matthew Jackson. Arguing on the basis of your own developmental experience in which significantly different conditions obtained (eg the non-existence/availability of social media or the internet) is equivalent to just wishing the problem away.
Thanks!
They must have added it some time after I became numb to all notifications from Find My. Imo this was really poorly handled by Apple :(
Having used the Posthog product (which is really good btw!), its an "analytics" tool, so their replay product is very good at mapping user funnels to sessions.

On the OpenReplay end, its seems we have feature parity for session replay, but they don't have support for error monitoring and therefore linking errors to corresponding sessions (as far as I can see).

Nonetheless, happy to see other oss tools in this space!
It seems like 2009 was a minimum, but still better than 1995.
https://www.childtrends.org/publications/teen-suicide-databa...

So is it really related to smart phones? What was causing the decrease?
Is your left arm your property or your body?
Very cool project. Given that the networking approach is to synchronize the data model across the server/clients, are there any considerations made around cheating? For example, could one client manipulate the positions of objects arbitrarily and cause them to "sync" with the other clients?

I believe Unity at one point (or may still) have some similar plug-and-play networking module to do something similar. For example, syncing arbitrary GameObjects between clients. (Maybe it's called "Unity Multiplayer"?)
Wonderful book, hard to say more than that. I didn't know any of this about its author, but am piqued now to learn more. Thanks for the submission :)
Given the number of laid off professionals now, this is very doable.

To join, one must have some amount of professional experience and pass a test. Members pay some nominal fee to support an internal liaison team. That team communicates with with companies looking to hire. Create some sort of internal ranking metric (which includes filters for e.g. location and pay), and top ranked members will be connected directly with HR at the company.

This is basically what H1B sourcing companies do. No reason it can’t be for full time as well.
Your point is correct but your magnitudes are off.

IIRC, a thread takes up ~32kB or so worth of data in pthreads/Linux, or at least... somewhere around there. So on a rather cheap server with 64GB of RAM, you can easily fit 1-million threads. More expensive servers have 512GB, 1TB or more RAM and can easily handle this kind of load.

Of course, coroutines are even smaller/more efficient and can go into 10-million, 100-million or higher.
> "Commercial" doesn't really mean anything in this context, as presumably everything that you listen to on the radio/streaming services is commercial.

It means dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. It means being told that instead of deeply personal, complex, and potentially offensive lyrics you're just going to repeat a word or small phrase over and over and over because that sells better doesn't alienate anyone with difficult words or things that might offended them, or might discourage the use (and sale) of that song in commercials, grocery stores, overseas markets, or film soundtracks.

Commercial interests (the desire for as much money as possible at the expense of all else) overrides what would have been deliberate artistic choices in order to maximize profits leading to a landscape of homogenized bland overproduced and unchallenging art.

We've seen many changes in music as a direct result of commercial interests overriding the preferences of artists (and listeners) including the loudness wars, the end of the album as a cohesive work to favor itunes downloads of single tracks, and the lengths of songs getting shorter and shorter to the point where bridges and entire verses are removed.

Not everything you hear on the radio has been fully compromised by commercial interests, but it's a good bet compromises were made and commercial interests have had more influence over what gets heard on the radio than any other factor (talent, skill, popularity, artistry, etc.)
Husky: Exactly-Once Ingestion and Multi-Tenancy at Scale at Datadog
And those recommendations are the same for every person that shops there. So they would pay a stiff penalty in the market if they promoted extreme content, whereas YT and social media can present a customized "bookstore" for each person, without the consequences of everyone else seeing what it's recommending.
I took my phone away from my daughter for a few weeks because she violated her technology contract. She literally did not meet up with friends a single time outside of school during that time because it was all arranged on iMessage.

I don't regret what I did, but it definitely was isolating. Granted this is not my most socially pro-active kid (the most socially pro-active kid used a friend's phone to sign up for social media and meet up with strangers).
HN is not recommending stories. Community members are endorsing or flagging stories and HN displays them ranked on that process.

There is moderation as well with the removal of stories but I’m not sure the responsibility is for removing harmful content. If someone posted a slanderous story or other illegal content and it was allowed to stay for some length of time then I think HN would be responsible. The most egregious would be if a child porn story was on the front page for days because HN staff chose to leave it there.

For YouTube, they are suggesting beheading videos to my child and I think bear some responsibility for doing that, and hopefully to stop doing that. They are making editorial decisions to promote content and so, I think, shouldn’t be protected by 230.
As a parent of a 13yr old girl, we've tried with mixed success during her preteens to find her interests/activities she liked where she could get good at something and have a source of self esteem that came from somewhere outside her peer group interactions.

But yeah, the interest dies away a bit by 13 and we're not fully sure it worked. But we can see that her peers that didn't have earlier hobbies/skills had even lower self esteem. Shrug
Security researchers warn of a new class of Apple bugs
Was talking to an Uber driver about this, funnily enough.

Apparently it's very common for applicants to just spam their resume out to every employer, since there's no cost to do so.

If it were standard practice to implement some kind of hurdle, so that the applicant would have to spend an hour of their time to get a resume in front of a human, then there would be a lot less resumes to sift through and therefore a lot more time that could be given to each one by the employer.

Another commenter mentioned having to drop off resumes in person, but I suspect something as simple as this could have a huge impact on spam.
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Thread context switches are about scheduling threads on physical cores. Async is about executing in a scope on a thread. There's no direct conversion here. Packing a thread with async tasks could let you reduce the number of threads you have, which will probably reduce the thread context switching if there is contention for cores. Whether that's significantly better than the cost of async context switches really depends on specifics (even if async context switch cost is near zero, though we're no longer talking about C++ coroutines in that case). But keep in mind: If your threads are mostly waiting, they aren't triggering a lot of context switches. More async means fewer busier threads, less async means more less busy threads. To run into a problem with less async your threads need to be forcing switching at pretty fine-grained level. (BTW, most blocking for IO isn't fine-grained from the perspective of instructions executing on a core)
That kind of thing happens, but has solutions other than async.
Isn't this the role of head hunters?

They get paid a lot for finding a candidate so their incentives are a lot more aligned with your own. You can openly ask about salary and timelines. They're not gonna waste your time or theirs if they know you require X while the employer is willing to pay a lot less.

They also work across different orgs so they can place you accordingly. They can even help you prep for an interview and work with only serious employers (they don't get paid unless you get hired). It's very reputational. Some workers use the same headhunter their whole careers. Plus it's very industry specific so it's more personalized. Head hunters for hedge fund jobs will be very different than those for IT departments for law firms.

It's not perfect but it's decentralized and you can choose the head hunter you want to work with as opposed to being stuck in an industry with a bad guilde. It's not perfect and you still have to jump through hoops but i think that's unavoidable
> Japan had a "Fifth Generation" project, trying to do AI with Prolog. All that stuff hit the upper limit of what you can do with that technology, and it wasn't a very high upper limit.

What was the limiting factor of the expert system approach? Something like the size of the search space or that the number of rules you’d have to write was just infeasibly large?
This framing is probably better, while still remaining relatable to an American audience – I like it!
The intuition argument is pretty weak.

Thinking about it a little harder, I think the reason is simply institutional inertia, same as for every other industry that retains inch-pound-second based systems.
They were the first hit game on iOS, they set the standard for monetization strategy in the then-nascent app store world.
It's not actually the same model. ChatGPT uses InstructGPT, which is davinci-003 with added RLHF training, which makes it a lot better at instructed tasks.
coroutines can be either cooperative or not, depending on implementation, so it depends