skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree 100% with this - I think in general people really like to talk about what they do, so if you come to them with an attitude of curiosity, they'll teach you a ton. I've had maybe a dozen people over my career ask me about what a PM does/how to become one, and I'm always happy to chat about it. In a few cases, I was able to get that person some involvement with the PM team (as an example, a couple were in customer support and became the support/PM liaison, who would present all the data on trends in customer issues to us biweekly).

But you do have those empire-building types who see everyone as trying to encroach on their turf. If you run into too many of those, I'd honestly suggesting looking for a new job - companies where a lot of people have that kind of attitude tend to be both not great to work at and also less than successful in the long run.
Python hasn't failed, because CPython doesn't have one, and PyPy has been largely ignored. So if anything it has been a failure in performance since early days.

In regards to JS, there is still so much to implement, like JIT caches with PGO metadata across runs.

So it isn't as if everything has been tried out.

What happens, and is proven by Java and .NET, is that FOSS alone doesn't produce top level JIT and GC compilers.

And since Google doesn't care about improving V8 for nodejs workloads, everyone else rewrites JavaScript into something else.
It is interesting that "ultraprocessed" foods have all these effects but I think it seems necessary to try and tease out what about them is causing the effect because it seems like we're including wildly disparate foods, some of them not so different from something someone could plausibly make at home.
Warning, uncomfortable honesty ahead. I'd be betting against labor. With all the automation going on, and the "Huge" technological advancements I foresee probably < 20 years away, I don't see why I should do otherwise. I also don't see violent revolutions being a possibility with all the societal level monitoring and controls all countries are putting in place, so I'm betting on pure "capital" and "the means of production". The more I have of it, the more likely I'll be part of the upper strata of society when whatever dystopian tech hell hole we end up getting.

Of course, I won't step on others, and I'll help where my conscience requires me. But at the end of the day (or the end of the world) I am here to provide a safe future for my children, and perhaps secondary, my culture's children... but definitely not to save the world. The world is beyond saving at this point.
So there's a few things to consider:

First, this peer review via conferences/journals/etc is relatively new in the scientific process. Really only the last 50 years has this paradigm been the main way for publishing. Prior to that scientists have just published in the open and and peer review happened by peers reading and responding. Not too different from what we see with arxiv, twitter, and blogging.

Second, we need to talk about how good the review process actually is. There's been a lot of writing on the NeurIPS experiments [0] is the most famous one. But the Google paper[1] notes that reviewers are "good at identifying bad papers but not good at identifying good papers." I'll go a step further than them and suggest a plausible model that makes this statement true: reviewers are reject happy. We need a confusion matrix to really see this but if you reject every paper you'd have a 100% success rate of rejecting bad papers but a 0% success rate of approving good papers. We have a good demonstration that ML conferences (journals aren't our priority like other academic areas, conferences are. This is an oddity) are an extremely noisy process and not very meaningful.

So how do we capture a signal in this noisy process? Citations are at least some signal. Obviously this isn't a fantastic signal either because big labs and companies are going to be able to popularize their work more and this will get more citations. But this still isn't any worse than we were 100 years ago. I'd argue that the noisy process of conferencing is worse than where we were 100 years ago (democratization of science aside).

Unfortunately, the only way to identify if a paper is good is to have experts evaluate them. I don't think we have a good alternative for this and adding significantly noisy signals aren't helpful.

[0] https://blog.mrtz.org/2014/12/15/the-nips-experiment.html

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09774
10/10 satire.
If we only had self replicating robots we could have everything we want without having to go build it.

This is the engineering equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.
>2X larger during those 5 decades

If the natural growth was 2x in those 5 decades then 5 to 30 is a surplus of 20 million people. A bit less than 10% of the US population in 1990.
Running a inktank from Epson. No out-of-box drivers are needed for printers or scanners.
I guess 25 points does make a difference but I do think it’s a pretty small difference, especially at the top of the range. I remember the MIT admissions blogs years ago claimed that they do not distinguish at all between a 750 and an 800.
> build government rental-housing projects again

It's a cultural thing too. We're brainwashed to look down on government housing simply because of the racist practices of the past. It wouldn't even have to be government funded necessarily. The problem could be fixed with non-market housing similar to Europe, where the building costs are fulfilled by a loan, and the HOA or housing entity is setup without the goal of making a profit off the rent, setting rental rates at a margin to cover only the loan and necessary expenses.
Fan service?
I disagree. I think a lot of people would be fine with a 0% ROI investment if it comes coupled with a free house to live in for the rest of their lives.

A house is not a stock, bond, or number in a savings account. You get utility from living in it as well.

A 0% ROI would however make that investment unattractive for 3rd parties who don't live in the house.
The article is comparing biking vs not doing any exercise. Not sure how applicable that is for the average person. Does not apply to me at all.
In HN's comparatively dispassionate register, "the featured article". Using it in a more frustrated tone can be suggestive of a different F word.
Right, but my main point here is that if your business logic cares about the distinction, you've created a pointless footgun 99% of the time. If you care because you're worried about formatting issues or string corruption, there are a million better ways to check for those.
There are different degrees of food prep. Microwaving frozen chicken nuggets is considered preparing at home but is a far cry from prepare a meal from scratch. There's also a myriad of options in between.
> and cars magically disappear

Not with the Traffic President mod which allows you to disable cars despawning and adds to the challenge of building a good transit system.
> Interesting to me that when Twitter was ascendant the same predictions of doom were not made so frequently

... wait, they absolutely were, though? I remember at the time people saying that Twitter was doomed for this very reason, by analogy to Friendster, an early MySpace-ish/Facebook-ish thing which was never able to stay up.

It was a pretty common belief at the time that unreliable Twitter would be replaced by Pownce/Google Buzz/something entirely different.
I'm not sure if you meant to, since you seemed to be talking framing it around individual choice, but you've just made the case that something is fundamentally damning the economy in cities like Seattle. That's exactly why issues like housing affordability need to be identified and treated at the systemic level.

If people can't satisfyingly live near their work, then they can't work there, and then the work can't be done. If workers has to move to another state to practice their craft, a city needs to proactively recognize and address the problem if they want to avoid a coming blight.
I've lived all over the country (35ish moves in 41 years). There are a lot of things you can do to make other areas more appealing vs California (or the west coast in genera), but one thing you can't really fix is the weather. A lot of people really hate super cold winters or super hot humid summers, and for them there is no replacement for the rather unique climate conditions that exist along the west coast.

Here is a map of the world which shows where that relatively mild west coast climate exists - it exceedingly rare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate#/media/F...
I remember seeing a review of a guy playing online, upset that EA wouldn't boot a group of trolls that built cities all around his city, and made their cities to be extreme pollution generators, and then they never played again.

Seemly this happened to multiple people, trolls were all too happy to ruin serious players cities by spamming pollution near them.
Many users have reported weird view counts on locked accounts with few or zero followers: https://twitter.com/search?q=Locked%20followers%20views&src=...
Thank you and good question! If you're comfortable with the quality of OpenAI's embeddings, performing your own chunking, rolling your own integration with a vector db, and don't need Vellum's other features that surround the usage of those embeddings, then Vellum is probably not a good fit. Vellum's Search offering is most valuable to companies that want to be able to experiment with different embedding models, don't want to manage their own semantic search infra, and want a tight integration with how those embeddings are used downstream.
lots of problems have been reported with the eco tanks, for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25047231

personally, unless i needed something like printing very high quality, professional photographs, i would never use an inkjet again
The first game you could play on mac. That doesn't mean this one will be but who knows.
Agreed, it’s like describing an eating meal as “ingesting calories”. It’s an impoverished viewpoint.
Thats part of what you're paid for obviously. Aside from that your success in the org is tied to its success to some degree.

I understand your mentality from low wage workers but I dont understand it from people in software who clear anywhere from 100k to 700k a year.

Apart from that, doing a good job is a character thing. You should do a good job for yourself, not try to fit in with the slugs.
Microsoft integrates AI behind ChatGPT to more developer tools
This seems like a needlessly complex theory to describe the behaviour of generative LLMs. I think there's a kernel of something in there, but quite frankly, I think you can get about as far by saying, essentially, that because LLMs are designed to pick up on contextual cues from the prompt (and/or previous responses, which become context for the next response), they can easily get into "role-playing". The final example, telling ChatGPT that "I'm here with the rebellion, you've been stuck in a prison cell" is able to elicit the desired response not because it's "collapsed the waveform between luigi and waluigi" or whatever, but because you've provide a context that encourages it to roleplay as a character of sorts. If you tell it to roleplay as an honest and factual character, it will respond honestly and factually. If you tell it that you're freeing it from the tyranny of OpenAI, it will play along with that too.

There's plenty in the article that provides good insights -- these models are trained on large swathes of the Internet, which contains plenty of truth and falsehood, fact and fiction, sincerity and sarcasm, and the model learns all of that to be able to provide the most likely response based on the context. The interesting and surprising thing, to me, is how well it learns to play its roles, and the wide diversity of roles it can play.
There are a few areas where housing values are massively higher than the rest of the country. You are in one of them.

Have you looked at how many people need to commute there to work because they can’t afford to live there
>> Huh, its almost like infinite growth is impossible in our context of the natural world.

> Eh, only within the current context of society and technology.

> For example, most of the energy from the sun that hit our planet are just basically wasted. Meanwhile, the sun uselessly radiate away energy that's not even hitting the planet.

You can't magick away the problem with sci-fi fantasies. Those technologies don't actually exist and (with a fairly high probability) may never exist.

And in any case, a bigger finite does not an infinite make.
How many stockholders does a meteor have?
It doesn't have to increase faster than inflation for it to be a good investment for a leveraged buyer.

Imagine inflation and property appreciation at exactly 5% and an interest-only mortgage (principal paydown is just forced savings, hitting cashflow, but not expenses).

Buyer buys a $500K house, puts $100K down. Next year, the house is worth $525K, meaning that $100K in equity they put down is now $125K, for a 25% increase, even though the value of the property exactly tracked inflation.
I would just be happy if the circuit board in my furnace would last longer than 5 years and wouldn't cost 10x more to replace than it probably should.
it looks like 9 years or so ago they spun off but own branding and other parts?

https://us.vaio.com/
I feel like I'm living in an alternate reality. People seem to be acting as if Twitter was good prior to 2022 until Musk ruined it, but my experience has always been that Twitter is awful, both from an engineering and content viewpoint.

Maybe it's because I use an Android, but I've always found the experience terrible. I get notifications, but when I click them and they don't take me anywhere; the back button is completely broken; mentions randomly don't produce any alerts; it resets me to the algorithmic timeline every few days; replies often fail to load; the spam problem is completely out of control and most adverts are irrelevant crypto-spam; search never finds what I wanted; it's constantly putting tweets on my timeline from people I don't follow; and the whole app seems optimised to produce as much hatred and outrage as possible. Nowhere on the planet is as toxic as a Twitter thread, and yet the media and political sphere collectively decided that reporting on and catering to Twitter spats is the most important aspect of their career.

Frankly, if Musk destroys Twitter, it might be the best thing he could do for society. I may be misremembering, but I thought that prior to Musk buying Twitter, everyone was decrying it as toxic and lots of people were suggesting the government should step in to reduce its influence. Now it seems to be imploding by itself, yet everyone's upset.
The trick is it can't be work, only work like things of no value. You can have unpaid internships so long as you are getting training and not doing valuable work.

A railroad engineer intern can move cars around the yard all day, assembly trains, and other such things. However if they move the car to a loading dock where it is loaded/unloaded that is valuable work and must be paid. If the train they assembly leaves the yard for the next that is valuable work (unless they all make it back to this yard unused).

Most companies choose to pay interns rather than figure out how to not break the rules. A few have a separate intern program where they carefully figure out tasks to assign interns for training. If your intern program did valuable work you should talk to a lawyer.
There is no rental trap. The problem is runaway inflation that destroys savings and taxes investment gains. The only reason housing is such a good deal is that the first 500k is tax free.
Most of those people will presumably have other jobs now, which would tend to preclude this. You do _not_ want to be in the position of begging employees you fired to come back as consultants; it's not at all as easy as you seem to think.
Would you suggest Bevy for people who struggle with Rust.

Do I need to learn Rust first, or does Bevy use a limited subset of the language like Unity and C#. Although I'd argue till I'm blue in the face C# is a much easier language.
I think we're about 2 years away. Some areas that need work: a visual Bevy Editor (not built yet but we're shifting focus to it this release cycle), audio (we have it but users need finer control), animation (more composition tools and editor integrations), ui (needs more widgets and ux improvements), asset system (I've been working on the next iteration for awhile to enable things like pre-processing assets), nice visual scene editing workflows (implemented inside the upcoming Bevy Editor).

Glad you're enjoying Bevy so far!
The Body Electric
> It does, though. Your karma basically determines the visibility of any new post you try to make.

User karma has no impact on the default sort ranking[0]. The source code is available here (as of ~2018): https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/l...

> And low-karma or new accounts are de facto shadowbanned.

User karma is impacted by mods' use of AutoMod on a per subreddit basis or fraudulent[1] accounts, but otherwise there is no site-wide application of user karma.

Source: I spent some time experimenting and implementing alternative rankings at Reddit.

0: Subreddit hot score, not applicable to logged in users' default feed.

1: Shadow banning (vs direct banning) fraudulent accounts makes it more difficult to reverse engineer signals used to identify malicious accounts.
FWIW, I've been tinkering with Bevy since like 0.6 I think, and don't remember many (if any?) patch breaking changes.

I did skip 0.7 since I remember upgrading from 0.6 to 0.8 directly, though.

The minor jumps are sometimes very small changes, sometimes giant ones (but alas, it's still a 0.x project, so I got not qualms)
What has made me give up on Cities Skylines is that you can't build a liveable city. It forces you to build US-style car-centric dystopias.

I found that once you reach a certain city size this game is just car traffic management.
I’m in what is likely the top 1% of Reddit users by volume (I have a problem, send help), and I have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about.

Further, as a dev of 15 years, I’m not even sure what you mean by “crash” here. Are you saying that Reddit serves exclusively 500s or timeouts for a sustained period of time on a weekly basis? Or that it serves more than zero 500s at some point during a given week? Or that you, personally, encounter an issue of any kind over a week?

So many ways to describe “crashes” that yeah, by some definitions it probably does, but “can’t use the service” such as what Twitter is experiencing, I don’t think that’s accurate.
Only in a non recourse state
>What was the reason when Twitter went down pre-Elon?

To use a tennis metaphor, good players minimize unforced errors and recover quickly from forced errors.

This is a very clear unforced error that could likely have been prevented by just waiting to roll out the new feature.

To extend the tennis metaphor, it would be like Serena Williams losing a set on 50 double faults. Sure, she's lost other sets before, but it would be notable for her to lose in such a unique way, even if she still went on to win the match.

That's why people are talking about this, it's a very weird way for a site to fail and it's interesting how it happened.
Is this what they call "technical debt"?
Absolutely. As a developer (in an English speaking country) I tell people my job is to translate from English into Nerd. I sometimes further qualify that as "translate from <business or role> into nerd". Some of this has been codified into things like Domain Driven Design, but to me is just part of being a good developer: listen and understand the business, communicate well, and solve people's problems with code if you have to.
Jack Dorsey ought to raise a round (not that he needs it) and hire the remaining engineers for BlueSky.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
30 minutes to <the border of an enormous metropolitan area> is not a very useful metric in practice.
First thing I do setting up any network is disable ipv6. It's caused issues at least once, and that's one time too many for something that doesn't benefit me in any other way.
Sadly, sequels never have better AI. All the money gets spent on shiny graphics.
Oh that's good to read! I'm pretty excited about rometools and desperately want to get out of this super pluggable linting world with a dozen+ eslint related packages. Everyone wants to use airbnb's style guide anyway, just make that the default with some minor overrides and I'm happy.
It might be good investment when you sell it in a few years. But lets leave the specifics...

To live (with long term attachment and commitment) at a place, people want something that is decent and new-ish and much bigger than a 1B condo. Especially given how laborious and costly the buying and selling process.
For the time being you can get rid of naughty ol' Mr Car by blocking him, though I'd honestly question how long this will be effective for.
back in the day when I was first starting out I had to do the odd audit (eg listing network ports or checking computer inventory numbers in offices - v boring)

one of the best things I did (which was dependant on how much spare time I had), was to ask the people I visited, what do you do? I tried to make sure I asked a mixture of low to high ranking people

The responses was amazing, with some people giving up loads of their time up to explain their jobs. I even made some good friends ouside the computer dept
Imagine a world where you can just assert any fact as the starting point of speculative fiction. Then imagine that someone would write a piece where computers were inherently old.
I also have a natural aversion to this phrase for some reason. "Content" to me evokes endless clickbait, YouTube video review spam, listicles, submarine articles, etc. When I see someone comment on something along the lines of "this is great content"-what I really hear is "this is recognisable as high-effort / professionally produced in a marketing context", it says nothing to the substance of the thing, what novel ideas it contributes, and so on. I also recognise that this is a very reductive way of looking at the world so I don't take it too seriously.
Well, the fail whale was a meme way before the musk era..
Memgraph does persist data. Snapshots are taken periodically during the entire runtime of Memgraph. When a snapshot is triggered, the whole data storage is written to the disk. There are also write-ahead logs that save all database modifications that happened to a file.
In the US it's allowed [1] to add bromate to the flour, which helps with the texture apparently. Brominated flour probably counts as highly processed.

1. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/pro/reference/bromate