skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um Twitter dropped in price AFTER Musk offered to buy it at above market value if I'm recalling correctly. He put himself in that position willingly.

He didn't buy it to liberate it. He bought it to make money off of it.
Side note, the amount of times that this article redundantly mentioned "Ditched RabbitMQ And Replaced It With A Postgres Queue" made me kinda sick.
I'd love to use fountain pens. Unfortunately, I'm left-handed.
I've seen reports that it wrecks RPi SD cards in short order though, so beware...

> What I'm wondering is how they fed the documents, as all those LLMs have limitations on the input sizes.

It's like file hashing at scale, you don't have to read the whole stream for every file, just the first 1024/2048 bytes (or first few paragraphs).

(This works for classification and sorting, less so for summarization.)
Pure Top down only works for small problems or problems you already know how to solve. Its main issue is that you don't know whether the solution is correct until you reach the bottom.

Structured Design, which is a quasi top down method, works better in real life. Its main issue is that it didn't survive the OOP hype.
> All the self-driving cars will bow dutifully to you

Well assuming no minimum stopping distance per vehicle momentum. Might want to be sure about that first lol
It is difficult to have confidence in companies.
In recent job changes, I did something different: I started at a new company before quitting my previous job. In the old 8 hours, in the new 4 hours a day. Both companies know this.
It is, for me, the only way to change jobs today.
In some countries, all or most banks are state owned. It can work.
One simple thing these LLM models cannot do yet .. that is to simply point a LLM to a URL and it will start scraping - ie follow the hyperlinks and start consuming the content. I am not an AI guy but I guess this has to do with the context limitations of most model? How did they train OpenAI with all internet data till 2021? This I think will be a most popular feature for LLM models and I seriously hope it is OSS whenever it comes out.
Shoutout to Clearspace (YC23), which I saw posted here and helped me finally break off from Reddit. I'm not entirely free of it yet, but I hardly ever browse it on my phone and the improvement for my mental health has been astronomical.

I noticed getting away from habitually scrolling has taken the shine off browsing the desktop too: Like now I have formed the complete realization that the content on that website just isn't remotely good anymore. There was a time where I could reasonably justify all the cruft and advertising shoveled at you there because of the quality content and discussion, but that's almost completely dwindled away now.

In hindsight, it's like the cool neighborhood bar full of geeks gradually started watering down the beers with urine over the last few years and I just realized the geeks are all gone, the patrons are all just shouting at each other, and the beer is just piss.

The site always had a contrarian edge to it, but the userbase seems completely driven over into a culture of "gotchas" - "well actuallys" as you say. And a decade ago the people making "gotchas" about technology were maybe at least informed in the niche, not fomenting cynically negative conspiracy theories and getting voted to the top of a front page threads. The site is so pessimistic now. I firmly believe habitually browsing reddit will poison your outlook to be more negative and cynical because the community constantly promotes that mindset.
How do you define the cost function for 'low effort'?
> 100% of Americans were asked to comply with a range of public health directives.

This seems a bit of a rewrite itself. A large portion of the american work force was told get in line or find a new way to feed and house your family.

Some people like to helpfully point out that's technically not forcing anything, but it's certainly a little bit more than politely asking.
Tangent: When it comes to mechanical pencils, the Pentel GraphGear 1000 is really, really good. Let alone for like $10.
I just looked it up. My new EV weighs 3680 lbs[0], or 1670 kg, which seems to be below average[1].

I still pay nothing in gas taxes, the primary funding for road maintenance. That doesn't seem quite right. I'd be happy to pay an annual fee based on miles driven and weight class.

0. https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/bolt-euv/specs

1. https://www.autolist.com/guides/average-weight-of-car
I'm at a point where I built a low volume queue in MySQL and need to rip it out and replace it with something that does 100+ QPS, exactly once dispatch / single worker processing, job priority level, job topics, sampling from the queue without dequeuing, and limited on failure retry.

I can probably bolt some of these properties onto a queue that doesn't support all the features I need.
It’s a “full” capability they’re incapable of delivering. It’s really hard to see how your distinction has any meaning.
The vanishing point is an amazing pen too, if a little pricy.
I use a unique email address for each substack author that I subscribe to. That is incompatible with Notes.
Edit: retracted!
Agreed. They just closed i.reddit.com, and I've actually stopped browsing reddit. I used to linger after looking something up.
Also tangentially -- what is reddit's obsession with Anker products?
Glad to see fountain pen enthusiasts here. I'm embarrassed to say how much I've spent on them over the years.

I agree with their recommendations, especially the TWSBI ECO Fountain Pen - would recommend that over the Pilot Metropolitan, but both are great.
Keep at it. It definitely takes a while to ramp up into doing daily interviews/technical assessments (take homes) but once you are in a good flow, it becomes easier.

I would say that your time is probably better spent leveraging your network, and using Linkedin/Work at a Startup/RemoteOK to find better leads, as there is more favorable signal/noise ratio on these more 'intimate' sites (excluding linkedin, but there is still value in Linkedin)

It definitely sucks. Especially when unemployment insurance takes forever (been trying to get a piddly $400 a week from MD where my last employer was located for the last 5 months, and honestly no one there is sympathetic for someone earning 100K+ who now is submitting all the documents and doing everything needed to get unemployment checks)

It's tough out there. If you are really hard up for money, take whatever is available or try to get into consulting. I wish I had better answers, but I'm in the same boat.
https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/road-safety/driving-...
My favorite are the Bic Round Stic pens. I like to write small, and I find that most other pens have more flow than I want.

It also helps that they're dirt cheap, so I can just get a big bunch like you and I don't have to care if I lose one here or there.

Ironically, I find that if I only have a few pens, I start to lose them over time, but if I have a large amount, I actually accumulate pens. Not sure how that works.
Ask HN: Azure startup credits are a bait and switch?
What's everyones experience been with Azure Founder's Hub credits? I have a legitamate startup, that Azure has vetted(I'm not a crypto miner or anything like that). First it takes me nearly two months talking to support to link them to my account, merely because my Linkedin email is different than my startup email.

Once they're finally linked to my account, I request a quota increase for a single instance of their smallest/cheapest GPU instance(startup has a few ML models it's running). This is a 4 core T4 instance priced at $383/month. They offer me a ~$5k/m instance, which is obviously out of the price range of someone asking for a $383 instance. Then I'm told, "Switch to a paid plan to access GPU instances, we have limited supply for sponsored accounts". Limited supply? I'm literally asking for access to ONE of your smallest/cheapest instance. And it sounds like the answer is "Yes, we have it available, but not for credits".

What's the use of founders credits that can't even be used? Is this the norm with Azure?
There was no mass exodus. The sports and celebrity people are still on twitter. Nobody cares about rando journalists and techies, who are a vanishingly small part of the platform.
I've actually seen a good amount of them in/around the bay area.
Which is fine, queueing systems can't store infinity of messages either. In the end messages are stored somewhere so there is always some limit.
Still trivial to get that benefit with just a separate postgres instance for your queue, then you have the (very large IMO) benefit of simplifying your overall tech stack and having fewer separate components you have to have knowledge for, keep track of version updates for, etc.
Right now EVs are expensive and charging stations are everywhere.

Cheap and easy always seems to win over any kind of politics or love of a certain type of real product.

Right now, you buy EVs because you care about the environment or want people to think you do, or because you're a tech enthusiast, but everyone else seems to have some sentimentality for gas engines.
twitter, is that you dude? what happened?
Why use something as complicated as SQLite? You can use a plain old set of directories and files as a queue, with sane, portable, exclusive, atomic locks, on any filesystem, with concurrent readers/writers. That's how we ran mail servers that handled millions (now billions) of messages a day, 20+ years ago.
Reddit login through the onion site appears broken
As of this morning, UTC.

I have two accounts, both are getting "incorrect user or password", both work logging in via reddit.com.
That is just individualizing a societal problem. A sick person has already qualified for care. The U.S. has, by FAR, the highest healthcare spending in the world, yet some people are to poor to not be blind. Chances are that these people don't have the social capital to know how to go about getting medicaid (...) or may be disqualified because of other reasons.

Cataract surgery takes, what, 10 minutes and has an average ROI of about 40000% (taken out of my posterior), which is what makes it extra clear that it is a failing of society.
> Does "free homes for the homeless" possibly work in the US without becoming "free basic homes for everyone"?

No. Free basic homes for everyone is exactly what I want.

> It is ludicrously easy to attack politically otherwise ("you're working two jobs to make rent for you and your family, and now they want to give these people a free home that's new and nicer than your crappy old apartment!"), and you know the American right would rip it to shreds, given they already see social security/medicare as too expensive.

Easy attacks have easy solutions. Nobody should have to work two jobs to make rent, and tiered aid should exist for people who aren't already homeless such that that isn't necessary (in addition to addressing income disparities). Nobody is proposing we give the homeless free new homes and give the barely-homed nothing.

> there's also the issue of "they don't wanna do things that way, so we're gonna give them nicer things; meanwhile, all the rest of you should keep following the laws kthx."

I'm not even sure this narrative is coherent. Is the implication that the homeless are lawbreakers and therefore deserve to be punished... with homelessness?

> We need to figure out how to reintegrate people into society without giving up on the ideas of that society in the first place.

No, we don't. Which idea exactly are you talking about? If there is some idea of our society that is opposed to the idea that humans deserve to have their basic needs met, I'm pretty on board with changing the idea of our society.

> From what I've looked up, places with much more established shelter programs and capacity than SF have fewer problems than SF. It makes zero sense to refuse to even start there.

Who's refusing to even start there? You won't hear any perfect solution fallacies[1] from me.

But I'm fully on board with imperfect solutions when better solutions aren't available, but your post seems to be arguing that we shouldn't even try the better solutions, because people might object. It's a weird circular argument: we're opposed to trying giving people homes because people might be opposed to it? We need to change minds, which is why I'm having this conversation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
Umm. I’m pretty sure if water that exists above the water line is melted into the water line, the overall water line will rise. You can directly observe this in a glass of ice that starts with no liquid water will melt into a glass of liquid water.
Agreed. I commented this on the announcement thread, but there's so much... Bluesky, T2, Hive, Post, now this. I'm not gonna jump to a new microblogging platform when 10% of my friends are on one, 10% on another.

If you are making a twitter clone, AP is the only way to go
Just slap an education discount on it and call it a day. There are plenty of reasons to do that anyway, you want students to get trained on your software and use it in their formative years as much as possible.

Many go even further and just give the product away for free for educational institutions and individual students (Github, Jetbrains and Tableau come to mind as examples)
In short: you don't want them to feel any consequences beyond having to pay back the money.

I'm sure that'll work great as a deterrent.
> the US healthcare system mostly works for those who are well off enough and have good enough insurance, at least until a catastrophic or chronic condition.

As the proud owner of several chronic conditions which are treated just fine(*) by US healthcare, I can infirm this statement (and I'm very, very far from being a fan of US healthcare...).
At a leisure park in the UK i once went to, the checks were performed by bored teenagers too busy hitting on each other.

The safety mechanisms worked for me but not thanks to the humans operating it.
I don't think she, or other non-violent criminals, should be in prison. There are much more affordable and constructive ways to handle this. This isn't rehabilitation or justice, only punishment.
That's the original problem, but then there are the secondary effects. Some of the people who made decision on that basis write blog posts about what they did, and then those blog posts end up on StackOverflow etc, and eventually it just becomes "this is how we do it by default" orthodoxy without much conscious reasoning involved - it's just a safe bet to do what works for everybody else even if it's not optimal.
This is incredibly dismissive.

That's like saying if your house is on fire and don't have a place to go to you might as well continue hang out while your house burns around you.

Even if you can't provide solutions or alternatives to a problem it's important to acknowledge the problem.

"Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it."
Just out of curiosity (as someone who hasn't done a lot of this kind of operational stuff) how does this approach to queueing with Postgres degrade as scale increases? Is it just that your job throughput starts to hit a ceiling?
Highly agree on tactile experience. I have Zebra Blen 0.7 and 0.5 for everyday use and they are much better than my BIC pens to me.
This works around VPNs, but something similar could also be done using the Accept-Language header or JS internationalization (Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone).

It's a clever find, but also very disruptive to the user when it happens, and even using a binary search tree still takes a long time.
I've definitely noticed it's a lot softer market than any other time I've seen it. Not totally dead but not great, especially since I'm really trying to find a role I actually want to be in this time (historically I haven't been very picky other than the comp number and it led to a bit of burnout).
Three strikes and you’re out isn’t about retribution, it’s about the strong evidence that the specific deterrence and rehabilitation effect of prison will not work on a particular individual.
I have a thing for taking advice in specific fields from people who are doing great in those fields and appear to have something useful to say on related topics, and not taking advice from them on topics they don't seem to be knowledgeable about or make poor decisions in relation to.

I would definitely love to listen to Steve Jobs's advice on topics of building products or companies. Not that they should be accepted as the ultimate truth, but i would be interested to hear his takes on it nonetheless.

If someone seriously considers listening to medical advice from someone who has zero education, experience, and expertise in the field, as well as going against what the actual experts say (with very predictable results in the end), I hope they strongly reconsider their life choices.

EDIT: the last paragraph wasn't mocking Jobs, it was mocking people who would seriously consider listening to him for healthcare advice.
The bill that created this committee passed unopposed. https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB2658/2017

Talk to your assemblyperson.
Fortunately it doesn't take much reading to figure out that this joker redefines words however he likes.

Therefore, he is an elbow macaroni, and I refuse to read the work of elbow macaroni.
> the only people who go to Jail for fraud are the ones whose fraud hurts specifically investors

Minus all the other fraud convictions constantly being handed down in America, sure.
> 11 years is quite a long time

And 11 federal years is a longer sentence than 11 years in most state systems, since there is much less opportunity to serve less than a full sentence in the federal system (short of executive pardon/commutation). There’s very limited good conduct time, but no systematic parole eligibility and early release.
Just from pop culture, I can come up with a counterexample: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/reality-show-cast-membe...

I'm not saying you're wrong in the aggregate, but can't you make a better argument? How can noting two people who went to jail for one reason be "all the proof you need"?
Substack is an "absolute free speech" app. They have gotten away with it so far because nobody could see the highly offensive content unless they actively sought after it and subscribed.

However now that Substack is becoming more like a conventional social media platform they will have a harder time being an "absolute free speech" app.
I was looking at some internal metrics for applications. We were seeing ~1000 applications per week for SWE roles and around 500/week for senior SWE.

I'm not sure how many are genuine compared to scatter-shot applications but it means that a lot of recruiters have to dig through huge piles of resumes and odds are good that you're just being missed in the volume.

There are much fewer resumes for specialized/higher level roles than for junior roles. Infra or Security roles get much fewer applications than junior SWE.

On a personal note, I've noticed that recruiter reach outs have increased since mid-February.
Sure. Good thing all new cars in the US since 2007 are required to give warnings about it.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/571.138
Exactly. Only an amateur criminal steals from the rich.
Coding Steam Scraper
According to the recent analysis of Steam, in order to grab the game listing, we need to make two queries to the server:
- the first query will fetch the appids of the games
- and the second one will pass the appids to the server and return the detailed data of listed games
https://investor.twitterinc.com/contact/faq/default.aspx :

> What is Twitter's mission statement?

> The mission we serve as Twitter, Inc. is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers. Our business and revenue will always follow that mission in ways that improve – and do not detract from – a free and global conversation

"Defending and respecting the rights of people using our service"
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/defending-and...
If your MySQL queue can't handle 100qps you've done something really wrong.
The queue was managed by a server written in Ruby that spoke Stomp [1], so while for the biggest queue most of the processing did in fact happen on the same machine, that was just because it happened to fit.

[1] https://stomp.github.io/
"In past texts and emails, Musk has described his goal for a “blockchain social media system that does both payments and short text messages/links like Twitter.” Users would have to pay to register a message on the blockchain. This would also include a massive database for all messages sent to the blockchain, and a 'Twitter-like app' to access that cloud-based database."

So it's the 'en-shitification' of Twitter:

Twitter + blockchain + payments = X

where X is pay to use X and Elon makes tons of money from X.
It's actually a misconfiguration (see the comment below with the documentation).
Beware of Fake Open Source
This is the goal of the Project Ceti, albeit with whale vocalisations and not cephalopod brain readings.

https://www.projectceti.org/
Not only Tesla, though. My 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV is 1670 kg.
Losing only 24 million sounds like a bargain. Imagine spending 40 billion to pay 1 billion more in interest each year.
Portland perplexed by homeless cabins built along prime riverside real estate
IT professionals are supposedly exempt from mobilization in Russia AFAIK.
I agree with you.

However consider how much you could get from people's data and a large wealth of information to train on while you're also trying to develop driverless cars and want to make sure people buy your stuff and not someone else's.

Or like you said, all the important people are already on it and now he's got access to them through the app.
the fact chocolate & coffee consumption are not primarily for nutrition make their impact even worse

and for proteins & fat, maybe I'm not human, or maybe rice have enough for me, but I don't eat animal food more than a few times a year, rest of the time I eat rice and plenty vegetables, so that's just to put a nuance on the "you need a daily meat intake" common falsy recommandation
The context here is the rich and powerful. A reality show actor is not in that group and doesn't have those priveledges. Prosecuting someone like that does not make the powerful uncomfortable by setting a precedent so it's done all the time.

But the only time one of their in-group is sent to prison is when it hurts other rich and powerful.
So that's the original end of that meme!
Oakville employs 3,000 people, and though salaried, skilled-trade and "some" production workers will continue work through the six-month transformation that begins in the second quarter of 2024, temporarily laid-off employees will be back before the end of next year, said Tony Savoni, plant manager.

So 6 months of unemployment for presumably most of the 3000 employees.
Some subs are still pretty decent, especially the ones discussing topics that are not adjacent to politics and news.

That said the points you list is why I don't understand how anyone invested money in their IPO. The thing is clearly one scandal away from a meltdown a la Digg.
A "Why PrimateJS?" section at very the top would be helpful.
and also whenever you least expect it
This is the new food pyramid, correct? I think there was a really bad one from the 90s.
I was thinking more of outpatient methadone clinics
I'm super excited about our EV future. All we need is for V2G (Vehicle to Grid) and V2H (Vehicle to Home) technologies to land.
It is brutal. Even with 20+ YoE and a couple of FAANGs on the resume, the response rate is 1/10th of what I saw a couple of years ago.
But this is purely in-memory with no disk persistence. That’s quite risky
I'm gonna need a source for that... I don't know of any collaboration between the two companies or overlap between their cars in general.