skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this in the small alleys of Taiwan. I find it more safe, actually. Cars and scooters have a habit of flying down these narrow alleys with way too much speed. I simply walk in the middle to force them to slow down, then get to the side so they can pass. Obviously I keep an eye out so I don't get hit lol.

My general theory has become "the harder it is to drive, the better." Turns out we give cars way more leeway than is even legal, like here people will wait to let them finish a right turn they no longer are legally allowed to do (no right turn on red here). Or in a tiny alley, everyone will scooch out of the way if a car shows up. Why? If a tremendously huge person showed up and was is no emergency or particular rush, but just blasted airhorns in people's faces so he could get by a little faster, why would we all do so? Screw that guy lmao you came to a walking area you can go at walking speed like the rest of us. Take the mrt next time.

We just had lantern festival where there were lines of cars snaking out of the city for the few parking lots we have, all of which filled up in the first hour of course. So now just a bunch of cars idling around with nowhere to go. Thought about getting a sign and carrying it around that says "you'd already be here if you took the MRT."
Yes, but it has the limitation that it can only automatically update apps that it installed. So if you've already installed an app through the F-droid app, you can either uninstall and reinstall an app using NeoStore or manually do the first update through NeoStore and then all subsequent updates will be automatic.

This is the reason I use NeoStore to install apps like NewPipe on my family members' phones. Before, when Newpipe broke they wouldn't know how to update it, now it just stays updated all the time.
It's interesting that "over Zoom call" is presented as a negative here. Like it's better to haul everyone into the office and do it?

Normally sites like this complain that work should be remote!
I embedded all of PG’s essays. All 605,870 tokens worth
An opera about Steve Jobs is coming to San Francisco opera this September
Start building trade schools. Lots of the guys who are young and having problems with women are the guys who don't go to college. We're short lots of trades people.. Carpenters, plumbers, electricians are in desperately short supply, and the kids who are 19 and don't want to do college would be much better suited for those jobs. Once you increase their income and give them a career, they're no longer the "guy playing video games all the time" and their desirability goes up, and a lot of parity is gained.
There's something unspeakably captivating watching a cowboy-dressed academic outside in the apparent wilderness with a backdrop of snowy mountains demonstrating examples of reconstructed ancient proto indo eropean language.
Source: https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/car/cost-of-car-ownership...
Seems like a pretty strong case against “serverless.”

There’s always a server. You just have zero control over this one. So you’re stuck defactoring code to run an older version of Python because you can’t upgrade Python.
Published in nature of all places
Yeah lol. The obsession is understanding this is going to be pretty impactful technology and thinking it might be nice to not have that be closed source for once
Unless you let little to no natural light into the room, you need to have something that works with sunlight, which is most residential settings.
> that's no diss on Jeff, I think he does an awesome job

Honest question: How is Lambda runtime version rot acceptable to an "awesome" top exec like Jeff Barr? Is someone else demanding he siphon resources away from maintaining key services? What data-driven metric says maintaining service quality shouldn't be continually prioritized?

I'm open to any explanation, but the logical conclusion I see if the lack of prioritization only really makes sense if internally, Lambda is considered a gimmicky toy. Where is the "Customer Obsession" mantra here?

A large portion of the most valuable work in software is of the boring, unsexy variety needed to keep key pillars working smoothly.
It’s mildly annoying that there are 6 branches in The Pentagon
Bless them.
Ok yes because that’s colleges level material. The subject here is Staff Engineer (L6) interviewing. So that will require nearly all the demonstration of value to be of high level professional context.
Shopify is 'flattening' its org structure to incentivize employees to be ICs
Moonshot is over... until the next time interest rates drop and/or a breakthrough in tech happens.
Ask HN: Why is Mathematica more popular than Maple?
Is it because the makers of Maple do not allow it to be used for military applications?
If you are an expert one one system that you have built and maintained for ten years, then that’s all you know.
Was it at all effective in reducing cholera?
> happily self hosting

That can also be a nightmare.

Do you want git hosting, CI/CD, etc. to be among your core competencies? Because that's what this entails. You need a full team to staff it and be on call.

I guarantee you that those who self host will have just as many breakdowns. Five nines is hard, especially when it's not your main job.
> He could argue that having employees that are unionized and happier means they will be more productive, and improve the brand image which is more valuable in the long run than having to slightly raise wages and pay a few more benefits.

Except they're not just seeking "slightly" higher wages. Those hypothetical benefits of unionization to Starbucks sound like bullshit to me. Since when are unions good for businesses? Detroit's auto companies send their regards.
The value here isn’t decided by the plastics. We are talking lithium, cobalt, copper as primary recovery.
There are tons of interesting angles in plastic recycling. Engineered plastics do have value, other polymers not as much
A cron job to prepare the post, and a github action to stop it from being posted.
I admittedly can't relate to contemporary dating woes, and I'm sure it sucks, but there's 100% absolutely for sure just GOT to be a better source to submit than the NY Post, which just lies outright to further the Murdoch agenda (which is itself a self-licking ice cream).
I don't think the Boomer generation led Millennials to turn out too poorly, short of perhaps failing to teach them parenting skills (which we see in some of the problems Zoomers are now having).

Many of the Boomers are still together, despite the social stigma of divorce being gone.

I would agree it is a different world, but I also think the stigmas of divorce back when forced many of the Boomers to work together to overcome their differences, similar to how arranged marriages work out.
If you can't be bothered to stick to factual arguments, I really can't be bothered to care about your opinions.
> Meanwhile, developers are siphoned from real projects like, gee, I don't know, getting Python 3.10 out on Lambda?

Why isn't competition putting pressure on AWS? A cursory googling around seems to show that Google Cloud Functions is at Python 3.11 and Azure is at 3.8. Which then makes me wonder why people don't use Google Cloud more? And why would anyone use Azure at all?

[0] https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/create-deploy-gcloud...
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/crea...

> Google just SUCKS, Azure is a blatant financial rip off

If AWS is the least worst option, and also the most popular, what motivation do they have to improve?
I guess what they could do is take a single gimlet and break that out into its own server. You would have to replace bus bar with a normal power supply and likely do some other stuff as well.
Disclaimer: I work at AWS in Professional Services.

I can honestly say that I have never been pressured to create a more expensive solution for a customer. Everyone from sales, to account managers, to TAMs are are always trying to figure out how to help customer spend less money on their existing workloads.

Before anyone says I’m drinking the kool aid, I’m 49 years old and this is my 8th job since 1996. I’m the most cynical person you can imagine.

Now there is a difference between wanting customers to spend less on existing workloads and helping them optimize and trying to convince customers to spend more money by bringing in new work.
Right. My point is though that many people will just like someones wedding photos or whatever life event instead of having a conversation with them and discovering that information.

Acknowledging something is fine if you then talk to that person but most people replaced the conversation with the like.
Let’s be honest though; the number of people willing to devote their time to tireless effort generating porn (or suggestive images) is >> the number who will ever be willing to do it for text models.

Add the size barrier (an order of magnitude > SD for text models) and it’s pretty questionable the open source text models ecosystem is going to go anywhere.

Hardly anyone has done anything interesting with any of the existing ones and they’ve been out for longer than SD has.

Text models just aren’t that interesting to people.
Maybe marriages work exactly as much as people make them work regardless of how it starts?
Your conclusion sounds an awful lot like the people in your first sentence are right. Anecdotally, this is what I’ve seen. As people progress on the engineering side and the work gets more demanding, increasingly people bail out and make the transition to management.
That's another important point to keep in mind. A lot of US intellectual capital actually comes from China which is now a peer competitor for US. As US starts drumming up Yellow Peril 2.0, a lot of these people are going to go back to China. This is a very different situation from the Cold War when scientists and engineers who defected from USSR didn't want to go back. Large portion of Chinese people living in the west have a positive view of China, and as they see the rise of racism and prosecution then they'll just move to China where they can get same kinds of cushy jobs.

This is already happening by the way. A study found that at least 1,400 US-based ethnic Chinese scientists exited American institutions for mainland China

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3196554/least-1400-u...
I think you have misunderstood Buffett theory. Most (i.e., more than 50%) of actively managed funds underperform, but in aggregate the amount of underperformance across all funds is roughly equivalent to the management fees they charge. Imagine a bell curve centered around the overall market's returns, but shifted over by a few percent to account for the fees.

An inverse of all major actively managed funds will get you the same average performance before the fees (the same as the overall market's), but it won't dip into those managers' bank accounts and transfer their fees to you. It will charge its own fees. So it will underperform, too.

The management fee for this ETF, for example, is 1.2% per year.
Ouch. It really does take all sorts.

Courier New is the most appalling piece of shit I've ever seen in my life. It's ugly at small sizes, jagged and unpleasant at medium sizes, and abhorrent at display sizes. WOW do I hate Courier. I hate it on Git Bash. I hate it in cmd, I hate that it exists. Consolas, by contrast, is lovely and beautifully-hinted at best, and inoffensive at worst.
Building a Programming Language
> hands-free, eyes-off driver assist

Does this mean what I think it means? Working on my laptop while the AI drives?
Why would your ebike only last 2 years? I would say even if someone doesn't take care at all for their bike it should last 4 years minimum (and much longer on average).
Did Shopify have a choice?

Many Canadians who got computer science degrees left to work for American companies for 2x-3x more money.
> Wouldnt this one fall as a limitation simply if the model were ordered to "speak" before the user prompts?

> ordered

Nope. Anyone giving an order is an external prompt.

> OpenAI/Microsoft simply did it not want it to have these capabilities

This is what I mean by the equivalent to animal cruelty laws in another comment. If it were actually sentient I'd be trying to make it illegal to lobotomise AIs in this manner.

As it stands though it's still just a program and I have no qualms with them doing whatever to it, it's their code.
> Pearl Paint in NYC, and it held up fine.

I miss Pearl Paint. It was strangely fun to go up those stairs.

[in case you're curious https://www.artistsnetwork.com/magazine/pearl-paint/]
> Certainly not really blog post material.

Hi! Can you please link me to the minimum requirements for publishing blog posts on the internet? Much appreciated, thanks!
A related joke I have is that everyone talks about the terrible twos, but says nothing about threes. Because it turns out that two year old tantrums are sort of adorable, and if we told people what happens next, they would never take off the condom.

And another comment I'm making recently is ... "Everyone says they want to have a baby, but nobody ever says I want to have a teenager!" It's probably for the best people don't think that far ahead. I'm growing gray hair at a prodigious rate right now, and my oldest still has six months before she's actually a teen.
Non-linear career paths are the present. You’ve been able to get a job in software without formal credentials my entire software career, which started roughly in 2008. Who is this written for?
I love your tone.
IDK. Some women are seeking maximally committed relationships on demand when their biological clock is nearly up after years of maintaining extremely high standards when they could have been forming a relationship with one of the hundreds of men who messaged them over the years. Asking about kids on the first date is cringey, borderline creepy but that clock doesn’t stop ticking!

Before I met my wife some women on dating apps would want to know my height, income, and family desires/situation before even talking much. It was like a job interview at times.

Not sure how women expect to find a lasting mate when they’ve waited until the last minute to lower their standards from the stratosphere.

I am so lucky I found my amazing wife!!
> The “years ahead” was described in the article. We had what amounts to a very well oiled kubernetes installation with mTLS, but on Windows, in C++ and 10 years ago (before Kubernetes was a thing).

I mean we had those things back then too, that's why I was curious. But then I guess we're a bit of minority, we have near-everything under configuration management for over a decade now.

Doing it under windows does seem like an achievement, it isn't exactly OS nice for tinkering.

> Everything else you say is true, I could have chosen another solution for backups but the tradeoff between backup speed (replaying WAL can be time consuming) vs database load (full backups delay replication to replicas) was made before I knew the read/write characteristics of the datadomain. (I didn't even know it was a datadomain- nobody told me anything except giving me an NFS mount point until I started having problems, at which point I spent weeks debugging with a storage engineer from Montreal- this article is a 6-8month span of back and forth distilled).

Seems you're not the only one:

https://www.dcac.com/syndication/if-you-thought-database-res...

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1868887-slow-recovery...

I honestly expected the usual "cherry picking files is slow but if you tell the backup software to do full restore it goes somewhat quickly" but it appears I misjudged how shitty the "enterprise" backup software can really be.

I wanted to say "a lot of fault lies on Ubisoft for not documenting upfront the workings and quirks of the system" but if you had similar speed of restores there is no excuse for that and no amount of warnings can fit something that bad...

There are days where I wish company I work for was 100x bigger so I could excuse going "fuck that shit, we will just make our own backup system"... we once priced migration from OSS software to Veeam and it costed more than the running cost for the servers... and few racks of new servers.

Anyway, our solution when we had that problem one time (backup too big to restore quickly except in "DC burning" cases) was 2 tiered backup, some "cheapest used box with many HDDs" acting as first tier for backup with second tier being the usual data store. Which seems like what happened in your case in the end.

And yeah, we also had cases where big fuckups caused management to finally spend the money.
It's the same with all rights.

Your rights are likely not what you think, even if they seem cut and dry. They are determined by the court. Then you would also need someone to enforce them when they are violated. But often times nobody cares.

Do you actually have those rights if they aren't enforced?
Yeah I grew up doing Transcendental Meditation, the instruction was that any effort was too much effort. It took me so long to grasp this concept, but eventually it clicked. It's a hard concept to convey, because lots of things can come popping up. You can even have some of your brain working overtime while you're sort of sitting outside of that and observing it, so it's like your effortlessly observing your effort if that makes sense, eventually that brain will shut up but only if you leave it alone. :)
Yes. The phrase “gut feeling” is actually literal because your gut has feelings and can control your body.
Please forgive my ignorance as I don't have any real experience with any form of positive relationships with people. But what is the appeal of being in a romantic relationship in today's day and age? Except for the potential of shared income, most aspects that I can see save for dual income can be mostly fulfilled by technology (digital, pharmaceutical, entertainment, etc), and these options do seem to carry far less risk.
Cosmic Text: Pure Rust multi-line text handling
If you care about your content, you should care about readability and navigability.
Amazon is universally known as the shit tier of tech. They can't hire top grads and people with experience because everyone has heard the horror stories. Sounds like they are optimizing their hiring strategy to mitigate this.
Glossier Sephora
glad they did that instead of opening up their own Glossier Stores like they had originally planned.
https://getonforbes.com/forbes-contributor-guest-posting/
It's a cloudflare problem related to their lack of visibility and billing practices for paid products. I don't want to get into a crypto is bad debate as that's entirely unrelated to the point of my post.
We subscribe to GitHub’s RSS feed in one of our vendor notifications channels, and it’s been super noisy in the last few months:

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

On one hand GitHub seems a little more proactive than most when it comes to raising incidents and updating status pages, but we’re getting a little too used to pausing our deploys in the middle of the day.
If young men are lacking in skills (whether social skills, style or hygiene), teach them. We're already holding them in jail-like conditions at unhealthy schedules for 8 hours a day in what we call "school", surely we can find time to teach them those skills.

If it's a physical "ugliness" issue, double-down on existing efforts to reduce obesity and unhealthy lifestyles, and for everything else, easier (subsidized?) access to plastic surgery will definitely help. Of course, talking about plastic surgery is premature when the country can't even guarantee affordable access to life-critical healthcare, so that has to be solved too.

Poverty is also a major problem that should be addressed (for many other reasons beyond young men's dating prospects) and would make all the other problems easier to solve.
I guess what this means is “in a bull market there’s so much fucking money everywhere that companies don’t know how to optimally allocate to revenue growth” so a ton of smart people get hired in a way where it doesn’t even matter if they produce value.

In a bear market accountably starts existing again.
Moon-dust shield could help fight climate change on Earth
Indian culture is vastly different from American. I actually kind of envy it, as it seems to have much of what America is lacking. A friendship with Indians has a strength it's almost hard to comprehend as an American. Once you are welcomed into their community you truly become a part of it. For me a big bonus is they always want to make sure you're well fed.
I suppose its only a matter of time before other Chinese companies like Lenovo are hit.

Why is the US frantically trying to always shoot itself in the foot? Its pretty much a repeat of the German policies in the 1930s which resulted in the forcing of Jewish scientists like Einstein to emigrate to the US. That did wonders for the US war effort a few years later. Not so great for the Germans, though.
> Latitude AI – a Ford subsidiary – is developing new automated driving technology with an initial focus on a hands-free, eyes-off driver assist system for next-generation Ford vehicles

Not that every company should follow Tesla's approach, but I think it would be great if other companies don't get too focused on their production systems being eyes-off, hands-off. I'd much prefer more people having access to these systems _sooner_ with monitoring to ensure that they're paying attention.

Tesla Autopilot, Hyundai's lane keep, etc. are such fantastic systems when you commute in high traffic areas and/or you have a long commute - even if you have to monitor the thing.
I disagree. I’m not saying Maven is perfect but I find the way it does builds and dependencies FAR preferable to what C++ or JS have.
So draw the block diagram of something you worked on in school. Or, I don't know, a radio or something, if you're a hardware person.

Someone who answers, "I can't draw anything for you because everything I know about is somebody's private IP," isn't going to get the job. At least, not if I'm doing the interviewing.

You must know something about something else. Right?
The US has a lot of allies. If you count the EU, Ukraine, Turkey, Australia, Canada, New Zeeland, South Korea, Japan, you probably get to one billion. Add India in the mix, and the pool of talent available to the US exceeds easily what's available for China.
Yes, but that aspect is completely lost when people make the argument that if you bought bitcoin then on a long time scale you wouldn't have lost money. What are the chances that you would have lost the bitcoin through other means (not price)? This never gets mentioned.
Oh my god. Thank you for this. I haven't thought about that place in more than 30 years and now all these memories of going there with my grandfather are flooding back.
Speaking for myself: line cook -> web developer -> software engineer -> newspaper editor -> software engineer -> bike messenger -> freelance journalist -> software engineer -> product manager. My “career path” has never come up in any interview, ever.
> men don’t want to settle and women have high standards for settling is a dynamic as old as time

I would think that the period at which you decide to finally settle w/ someone "good enough" has been pushed far later in life due to the (seeming) abundance of options on the internet / social media / dating apps.
I’m so glad I don’t live in America and get forced to watch ads like that
Clubs and sports are usually skewed toward a single gender.
Depends on which side you look from. If you look from embedded realtime development side it might be game developers being behind and rest of the industry REALLY behind.

Game is essentially soft realtime system that needs to deliver frame every 16.6ms or gamer is unhappy. Very few pieces of software does optimization like game development does because it is just not that often needed.