skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate the effort, but my sample question (what’s the best double oven) gave a non-answer:

> There is no clear consensus on the best double oven, as opinions vary widely depending on personal preferences and experiences. Some popular options include LG Electronics, OSTER French Door Stainless Steel, and KitchenAid Compact Convection Countertop Oven. Other users suggest considering factors such as size, color, budget, type of top, and amount and type of ovens. Some users recommend buying used or considering a convection microwave as a second oven. Others caution against combo units and suggest investing in separate high-quality appliances for specific tasks, such as a toaster oven for toasting and an air fryer for frying.

While cool that this was able to be synthesized, from a practical standpoint, the answer is useless. OF COURSE I am going to consider different brands, size, color, budget, etc.
Yeah the worst part is they don't have to clearly/obviously disclose how much they are taking out in fees. It just vanishes from your account unless you actually look into it. 401k's funds sometimes have fees that are multiples of Vanguard....and perform worse.

Best to go into a self directed account and use Vanguard and safe yourself thousands in fees over a lifetime.
> When a regulatory agency, following due process according to its mandate, says so.

Begging the question.
From the video, he is advocating for an ethno-state based off a single poll regarding the feelings people have about the phrase 'all-lives matter' answered by only 112 black people. I wouldn't say this is just 'part of a persona'.
Obviously this is assuming that the energy prices will be stable in the next decades. The AER decided that SA Power Networks can have a total of $3914.2 million from its customers from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2025, which is already higher than the $600M/year figure above.

Regarding your 10% assumption: In June 2014, the Adelaide Advertiser reported that SA Power Networks made after-tax profits of $420 a year from each customer compared with $92 for another Li Ka-shing-owned utility in Britain. I don't believe the average customer paid $4,200 for energy in 2014, so their profit margin must be much higher than 10%.
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/ANnmi

Edit: This is not an endorsement to spending time reading this .. article .. or whatever you want to call it.
I think thats a perception we have that's not entirely based in reality
Probably the advertised inclusion of dental and vision, and for some, the comfort of staying with the same insurance company you had before retirement. There’s also the confusion/difficulty in signing up for Medicare. Apparently it’s not very straightforward to do that?
I'm still telling the average person to buy index funds.

Ok, I just wanted you to say this. Your original advice should only be applied to an "average" person.
The basic reason is that in whatever sector that is 'hot' the shares get overpriced and a lot of companies pile into the hot sector increasing competition and also hyping the sector further using investor money. Examples being dot com stocks in the late 90s, crypto stocks recently and probably AI stocks in the near future.

Also it's worth bearing in mind how "articles from industry analysts" get paid for. Typically from ad revenue from the types of companies featured.
If you turn on ADP those photos will be encrypted with a key Apple doesn’t have. They will still be private photos, of course. Even turning on unencrypted backup doesn’t make my private photos not-private.
This is just false (spoken from a perspective of infra / system / automation person, being in the field for many years). But, this is very typical of religious people: to claim anything that suites their agenda w/o even trying to verify their claims, not even being bothered by whether the claim even makes sense.

First of all, there's no such thing as a "development speed of a language", just like there isn't a development speed of ice-cream. It's just kind of a Jabberwocky: it feels like it's in English, but it doesn't really mean anything.

Development speed differs by the kind of project (eg. Web site vs filesystem), quality requirements, size of the team working on the project, expertise of the team working on the project... Needless to say that there are areas where Python is entirely not applicable, so, the development speed wouldn't even be a factor. But, even in areas where it's commonly used there are often languages that will compete for this metric, and there are certainly teams using other languages that will beat teams using Python.

But, overall, Python projects tend to be easy to start and hard to develop further and to refine. Python projects tend to fare worse in large teams. Python also doesn't attract high-caliber programmers, while also is often the first language a programmer learns, so it tends to be populated by mediocre-bad programmers (similar problem used to exist in Java before it was replaced by Python in intro to CS courses).

Finally, a huge portion of development speed rests on company's infrastructure: how quickly and reliably can developers test their code plays a tremendous role in productivity. Ironically, Python tooling is so bad that sometimes it's faster to compile a C++ program of equivalent size than to install a bunch of Python packages implementing the same thing (god forbid you are using Anaconda, because that can take hours and days in the worst case to install a handful of packages).
Our self hosted workers don't work. My understanding is that the control center is on the github side.
Nobody forced those people into that situation.
Which in turn led V8 to invent TheHole[1], a true unset value, as an implementation detail (unavailable to the user).

Honestly, it seems to me that pre-strict-mode JavaScript actually made a fair attempt at making "undefined" a genuine missing value, except that then implied semantics people disliked, like an undefined variable reference having the value of "undefined" instead of being an error. Lua seems mostly OK having an actual nil, though. (There is admittedly some gnarliness, like a vararg function f being able to distinguish f(1,2,nil) from f(1,2).)

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/61420580
Azure DevOps pipelines are experiencing issues and we can't trigger jobs against our self hosted agents currently, previously they did. I assume what ever is occurring here is more control plane related than host specific.
And common law marriage divorce even if you never GOT married! :scream: :skull: :praying_hands:

rip xQc's McLaren :tombstone:[0]

0: https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/has-adept-xqc-common-l...
The Java Ecosystem Is Broken
Java is a great language with a terrible ecosystem. Why is it so awful, and what can be done about it?
> taking a shot of standard household 5% bleach is actually pretty unlikely to cause permanent damage

You willing to take that bet for a million dollars? ;)
Well, if we are going for anecdotal evidence, that hasn't happened to me even once over the past 4 iPhone upgrades. SMS as fallback is enabled by default, and it has been this way for every single device I upgraded to so far.
Call me when there's an inverse A16z
As a cyclist for the last 15 years I get this. At the end of the day you gotta keep to what you think will keep you alive.

I can't be sure of the exact mechanisms or whether I'm observing behavior correctly, but a strategy that seemed to be shaking out in SF is cyclists aggressively standing up for our rights, by for example one person blocking cars from making illegal rights while the rest of the bicyclists rode along, or by repeatedly asking people parked in the bike lane to move along.

Again I can't be sure about mechanism of action all I know is that over the course of five years, bicycling in the sf area transformed from a battleground to a relatively easy ride full of demure cars sometimes going out of their way to give right of way to bicyclists (like expecting bicyclists to run stop signs, something I personally disagree with but hey, the slower cars are going the better).

My personal strategy was to decorate myself with so many strobes I was like a rolling disco ball. You can get some pretty crazy bright bicycle lights these days. That plus the GoPro, the rearview mirror, all the shit hanging off my bike... I looked dumb as hell but also the last bicyclist on earth you'd wanna cut off.
Those seem separate. Repeatedly doing simple tasks would annoy me very quickly but left in peace in a quiet room I'd be content for hours.
Worse than artifacts, it has things that make zero sense in terms of functionality and placement. Unless we're talking about low-grade fiction (on a budget, where authors can't or won't spend time working out the fine details), interior design is about function, not just nice-looking pictures.
That feature did not report users to the police. It did notify parents automatically, however, if you were a child in a family account. After some feedback from child protection advocates they removed the mandatory parental notification and made it a button that the child has to press.
This is an artifact of the battery supply crunch. If you're going to make a car battery right now, you should put it into something high end with a huge margin, that will help your brand make a big splash with the wealthiest buyer.

I hate that so many of these are twice as large and powerful as they need to be. I'm already seeing that rather than doing a reset of consumer expectations with this new generation (and improving safety, efficiency, environmental impact, speed of transition to electrified vehicles...), we're doubling down on the "huge SUV, fuck everyone else on the road, got mine" model.
I'm sitting here just trying to imagine a first date conversation where one person asks the other what their total comp is. I guess, having been on only one or two dates in my life, that bringing up questions like that would normally be a red flag and would be something most dates would not ask (on a first, second, or even third date). Even if not intentional, it signals all sorts of things about a person. If you want to know more about things like this, it's easier to work stuff into a conversation, to see if (for example) they spend a lot of money, and if that's problematic.
I mean if you genuinely wanna game theory this out, what's wrong with wheel barrows or carts?
I would agree with this. Late 40s here, and my comp today is higher than it's ever been, but Im pretty sure my comp as a percentage relative to my peers is at its lowest point ever and will get lower in future jobs.
I used to work for an org that deployed 3rd party legaltech "apps" on kubernetes which had all batteries included - Postgres, rabbitmq, redis, you name it I have seen it. Running statefulset even with the best operator there with a team of 4 is nothing short of a nightmare. Couple this with stability of rook ceph.

In 2019, every operator had crazy bugs, we inherited all of them. You have to solve not just databases level error but also errors popping from operators. If you can avoid databases on kubernetes, you should just do it.
> this subsidy ends starting age 65

As I understand it, the subsidy ends at 65 because at that point the "affordable care" option is Medicare. Thus, there's less motivation to subsidize private insurance.
The article was a bit of a rant. But the part that stuck out to me was the irreversibility of Medicare advantage, in some cases. That definitely excludes your last statement as a possible choice. If you’re battling a life-threatening disease, and are also facing overwhelming bills, being locked into a choice you made without realizing the full ramifications would make me rant, too.
Same here, my Firefox has disabled "allow pages to use choose their own fonts" for ages. I do use Stylus to override a bunch of fonts/sizes in various sites too.
It was some time ago and a limited sample but at one point there a was google recruiting presentation at my school.

When asked a reasonably simple question regarding expectations during interviews the google employees that were present each gave a drastically different answer(even after hearing their colleague).

The entire group covered the who spectrum of possible responses which lead me to believe that there was definitely a luck of the draw factor in who you get.

Perhaps they are more adherent to a rubric in 2023 which leads to these study guide type posts. Large company bullshit has never been my jam though so I never applied to find out myself.
It also keeps the base those that have the privilege to turn down other jobs and focus solely on getting hired at Amazon (or other FAANG) right out of college.

A good chunk of folks (among whom exist great developers) are those that are focused on working a job while graduating, and getting to a point where they have stable finances. Then they focus on things like "what kind of job" do I want, and "where do I want to work". That could be years and years down the line though.

So it enforces an aristocracy / pedigree of sorts, but folks are hesitant to admit as such.
This is not the case with Stable Diffusion. The open source community is moving faster and innovating faster, and the open models are by far the best. Midjourney is a contender, but it doesn't hold a candle to the best open models
Ask HN: Post-hype, Sapiens worth reading? Where to get modern recommendations?
Sapiens is the most hyped text in my memory; I haven't read it. I tend to think I could've died any time in at least the last century with access to more worthwhile literature than I had time for, and so the bar gets higher every year.

Now the hype has passed, is 'must-read' still a sober review? In general, what's a good source for not this year's 'bestsellers', but perhaps last decade or so, contemporary works with signs of staying power I suppose?
Is this a cloudflre problem or a web3 problem? Famously Ethereum has been liked to ‘a TRS-80 with a coinslot attached.’

People think somehow $10 million is going to fall out of the sky and hit them, but more likely people will get ripped off just like what happened to you. Let it be a cautionary tale. Stay clear!
> They are best used not as _primary_ storage, but secondary (think 3-2-1 backup rule).

Yeah, these are for archives, not service restoration/disaster recovery scenarios.
They do! Here are my dots: https://github.com/jasoneckert/sway-dotfiles
this is normally said out loud as "total comp", not "TTC", and if initialized, is almost always "TC".

There are entire categories of jobs that don't even use that terminology.
Autumn: Causal Discovery Through Program Synthesis
I mean has AWS ever been easy to use outside of S3? If they were simple, companies like Vercel and Heroku would not even exist (both runs on AWS infrastructure).
This post seemed weird.

There's a pretty broad range of possible outcomes, from apocalypse to lost jobs to utopia to little changing at all.

This is arguing presuming a high level of certainty in one of those outcomes.
* We're going to compile some lisp-like function calls into some C-like
* function calls.

From the top of the source file.
This is my thinking as well. A Cambrian explosion of new disruptive tech.
Until it all turns to 0 because coins are dumb.
There’s little reason to carry full coverage on a car over 7 years old and, classic cars aside, almost no reason past 10 years.
Not to distract from this project — it's very cool! — but I'd love to know if there's something similar in principle to this, but that's focused less on collaborative querying, and more on collaborative database administration.

Specifically, I've been in the market for a while now for a webapp you can run on a server, that presents a UX for submitting, watching the progress, and managing, long-running schema changes / data migrations (think: index creations, table re-partitionings) that have been written out as long screeds of custom SQL, and then either submitted through said UI, or which are uploaded to the server out-of-band and then pointed at. (And also, support for kicking off + observing + managing native DB-server commands like Postgres's `vacuumdb --analyze-only` or `pg_dump` / `pg_restore`, and relating them to their DB activity.)

Ideally, the UX would be designed so that you could have many of these jobs running in parallel, without everything descending into incoherence. (I'm picturing: the UI of a torrent client. A table of progress bars + error counts; click in to see the SQL execution log and per-job metrics.)

Ideally also, there'd be a library of SQL templates you could create, where you could generate and fire off N parallel copies of a query with the template-variables populated from some combination of running other SQL queries, and supplied static lists of values; with the meta-job having a configurable max concurrency limit for how many concrete jobs it will ask the DB to schedule at once, separate from the max concurrency of jobs in the DB generally.

Maybe as well, some macro-language for those templates, to let you write "if table_exists(foo), do: [sql], else: [other sql]", or "create_index_if_none_satisfy(table, {colA, colB})", etc — rather than having to look up the unintuitive tables and columns in ANSI-SQL INFORMATION_SCHEMA for the Nth time to then write either "compile-time" SQL or sproc SQL to get this effect.

Right now at $JOB we're doing this kind of thing ad-hoc, by writing scripts that take arguments and query the DB to generate directories full of .sql files, that we then run concurrently using shuf(1), split(1), bash for loops, and named shared tmux(1) sessions; and then visualizing progress in various weak ways, e.g. querying `pg_stat_progress_create_index` during index creation.
When I worked at Apple they made it abundantly clear that EVERYTHING was under NDA. Even things like “what version of the standard library do you use”. Or “what are computers for”. And that any minuscule transgression of the NDA would result in me
Being immediately deported, divorced, and likely put in front of a firing squad.
That's not a terrible idea. Ironically, my plan this evening was to investigate slowness in some actions for one of my projects.
Again? Last time an incident like that happened was Packages which was less than 24 hours ago. [0] Before that weeks ago [1] At this point, it is clear that GitHub is essentially falling apart and is becoming extremely unreliable.

It's not too late to join the serious projects like Blender, ReactOS, RedoxOS, etc who are happily self hosting and are not going all in on GitHub.

I posit that they even have better uptime by just self hosting for one year vs GitHub's uptime record since they got acquired by Microsoft. Looks like 'centralising everything' to GitHub did not age well at all, as I have warned years ago. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34982456

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843847

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
I worked for a university that spent about a million dollars on data storage for a research project. They estimated that they required about a petabyte of storage, so a big expensive storage array was purchased.

In the end the project used just a few terabytes of storage because they miscalculated their requirements.

It was a bit of a running joke that they spent a million dollars, when a $150 SSD would have been fine. They ended up repurposing the storage array (which is when I got involved).

Luckily everyone has now moved to cloud, and life is better.
Not access to GPUs for training? What would it take to get a 65B model out of eleuther?
I'm particularly crazy about keyboard cleanliness
Tell that to people counting on their job there to feed their kids, that it’s their fault they have the wrong job.
Yup. I’m outside DC. Somewhere near half my software engineer (and adjacent fields) friends are under contract to either the military or NSA/CIA. Most of them with TS/poly clearances. Ask one of the what they’re working on and the most you’ll get is something like “dig data on platform X”.

If platform X is something public, they could talk about the platform. But, talking about any project specifics, implementation details, etc would be a felony.
> This is also why children are out of school in the summer so they can help out with their family’s farm.

This is a common myth. There's more work to do during the spring and fall than the summer.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56901/why-do-students-ge...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/debunking-myth-summer...
Question to compiler writers : when is it useful, if ever, to tokenize the whole input beforehand (as done here) ?

You wouldn't catch an early syntax error and would go on tokenizing till the end for nothing.
This is interesting from a engineering side. At first they didn't care/want massive chests. Then they want chest but equipment was lacking. People tried different exercises and eventually the eureka moment happened that standardized the exercise. Talk about scratching an itch.
I feel like AWS is one of those things where you gotta stick to the good parts. A lot of stuff is half baked but there’s a decent slice of it that works quite well
More than half of the world will be overweight or obese in a decade
You’re right, of course.

Sadly, I find that I have the heart of a craftsman, so I won’t compromise my own Principles.

True, some (a lot, maybe) folks will sneer at me as a “poor,” and look down on me, for not being willing to compromise my personal Integrity for money, but I learned to ignore that, a long time ago. I’m not competitive, and I don’t care about dying with the most toys.

I like making stuff that will improve lives, and make the world a better place. I’d much rather do free work that benefits a destitute, homeless, recovering drug addict, or a re-entering felon, than be paid for work that is really about entertaining some wealthy, bored, tech bro.

I know that is a minority stance, in this community. I don’t feel (or want to feel) as if I’m better than anyone here, but I also know that I’ll be vigorously attacked, just for saying things like “I want to care about the people that use my work.”
Agreed. Cowardice and recklessness are both evils, and it’s possible to navigate the strait between them.
I dont think its possible to do it without "any load" The hardware grabbing the packet, putting it into the socket buffers, analysing if its valid, requires some work.
There's a lot of nobody in the context of interviewers making it expressly harder for those people to stop being that situation.
I worked at apple in the past. It would be a violation to answer your questions.
Thank you for your input. Duly noted.
When they talk about Damage Defective Return being under 5% - that is major failures. When it’s not DDR - it’s in the same form it was from the OEM
This is pretty cool. I’d probably have fun walking through some systems I’ve designed
China has also now overtaken the US in both quantity and quality of research

A huge portion of US science is actually done by Chinese studying here or Chinese Americans. Take any research paper published in the US and there's a decent chance you will see a Chinese last name associated with the paper. Instead of making it a great place for these people to do research, stay and live in the US, the US government and media are actively trying to tell Chinese and Chinese Americans that they don't belong here.