skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon sucks. Every single search on Amazon now gives entire pages of identical white-label Chinese junk with randomly-generated brand names, which are designed to go out of business and reappear under a different name as soon as you file a complaint. For most things I've gone back to either Alibaba-- since it's the same stuff as Amazon usually for way less money-- or just shopping at physical retail stores since they have at least some brand and quality assurance that Amazon completely lacks.
Discussed just two months ago under the profile piece on her:

Lisa Su saved AMD – Now she wants Nvidia's AI crown

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36164887
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Dynamic data structures by their nature have to be allocated to the heap. What I mean by "prefers the stack" is that you don't have to make a managed ref and dereference a managed pointer type. You just make a `seq[int]`, use it as a `seq[int]`, and pass it as a `seq[int]`, just like stack data. Behind the scenes, it has a unique scoped pointer with no mental overhead.
sive.rs is not surprising, so...
I think you’re half right. In the US, the university you graduate from has not that much influence in most career paths. For jobs expecting post-graduate education, then it starts to matter a whole lot. Matching into specific medical schools and law schools can have an immense impact on the respective careers. Tech jobs don’t fall into those buckets.

You are right about this being different:

> On the contrary, here in Germany these positions are usually filled through either familial connections or company-internal mentorships.

Some government jobs are notoriously products of nepotism and inbreeding, but private industry is, in my experience, invested in recruiting the best candidates available to them.

It’s hard to explain in a comment, and it’s easy for locals to take it for granted, but private industry in the US incentivizes speculation (risk-taking). It feeds into how we start companies, how and when we invest, where we live, our liquid financial markets, and I think we idealize hiring not from academic titles or genes but from merit. This idea that we settle on the same things for the 30 years is somewhat antithetical to that.
I was going to reply with a similar explanation but then upon a reread it seemed like a flippant remark that didn't seem like an earnest inquiry.

do people just not know how to Google things these days?
They're a public company and have to report financials. You can look at them and see that net margin on a ride is positive.
With things like solar and wind installs becoming more off-the-shelf, is there any path there? What does 10MW of solar/wind look like? Are we talking the size of a big ranch or the size of a small county?
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He has a great spatula collection.
Note: this is an issue with sh/bash/fish/zsh, not shells in general. rc, from plan9 (http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc), correctly has lists as a first-class data structure and none of the problems in the article happen; a list is a list, not a string split on whitespaces.

See https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/31/The-rc-shell-and-whitespa... to see the examples work out of the box as you woula naturally write them.
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It's not a recession, it's the late cycle
I'm just now noticing this, from your test:

$ gcc threads.c
$ time ./a.out

real 0m10.097s
user 0m0.035s
sys 0m0.239s

$ gcc process.c
$ time ./a.out

real 0m10.168s
user 0m0.579s
sys 0m0.347s

You were pleasantly surprised by your own test showing an order of magnitude speed gain in user space by using threads?
Except it doesn't! In fact, first cousin once removed(FCOR) can mean both: your parent's sibling's grandchild, OR your grandparent's sibling's child. These are usually two very different relationships(if they exist) - the former FCOR is usually much younger than you, like a niece/nephew, and the latter FCOR is usually much older than you, and more like an aunt/uncle

I wager most native English speakers understand the concept of cousin, but not first/second/etc cousins, nor once/twice/etc removed.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine

Context: https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/jbqm8x/its_a_big_cl...
About 20 per month for the last two months. I have a separate card that is just used for Uber - the Capital One SavorOne. It gives you 10% cash back for Uber and UberEats and free UberOne through 9/24.
The TS-100 is an amazing little device and this firmware makes it much more useful.

I never thought I'd be upgrading firmware on my soldering iron on screwdriver, but here we are, and I'd much rather use this than the crap that manufacturers ship.
I've seen one example where it started apologising for what it had written within the current response. I have a suspicion that, if it is a MoE architecture, I was swapped from one model to another mid-response. Since them I've seen a few long pauses that make me wonder.
Hmm, I may need to look at this some more. Avahi supports[1] changing the default domain, so I think you could in principal use mDNS for domains other than .local. But that's a config change, so it wouldn't have that out-of-the-box zero-config benefit.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/5/avahi-daemon.conf
This take is unsupported by pedagogical research
Enclaves and remote attestations aren't bad per-se, it's just those where the user of the device is considered an "untrusted party".

It makes more sense to consider your cloud provider an untrusted party, however I'd not rely on these technologies anyway, in practice they might not be as secure as advertised.
WASM-4: Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console
Of course, but the result is that you need to write a lambda, even when it seems redundant semantically, because otherwise the optimiser may not see what's going on, whereas in Rust the natural expression of what you meant does what you expect.

One of the compatibility snags in Rust's standard library is that although you can write "Some words".contains(char::is_whitespace) and that does what you expect, the same won't work for char::is_ascii_whitespace for historic reasons and so you need to write the lambda in that case, which is uglier. Now, in that case if you write the natural thing you get a compiler error at least, but having the unnecessary lambda be needed to get performance is worse.

I really thought this was a dig at C++. What were you thinking of?
Why would it not?

If you bring the North pole of a big magnet, I would expect the South pole of the flake to be attracted to it, and the North pole to be repelled.

When you flip the big magnet around and bring the South pole this time, I would expect the opposite.

Isn't that what we are seeing in the video?

I would happily do it at home if I had magnets around, but I don't. Sorry.
Some doofus did a newfs.
Indeed it sounds like LK-99 specifically is not something we'd want used for power transmission lines. From a difficulty of manufacturing POV (aka cost), and from the nature of the material (more of a ceramic from what I hear?) but also because it's composed with lead.

At this point in civilization, we know better than to string lead stuff all over the place in unconstrained scenarios. Anything built with lead should not be ending up in areas where it will not be contained and maintained professionally,, and surely should not be going into the general consumer waste stream at all.

Seems like the most compelling applications will be in MRI machines, and then within power generation, specialized super computing, etc.
>Collect all student assignments in a database and routinely re-run them through the most up-to-date cheater-catching software available. Anyone who gets flagged, even years after graduation, gets their degree revoked if they don't make an adequate defence to the university.

So if some new overhyped plagiarism detection system spuriously decides that I cheated years ago and I've long since thrown away any notes that might show otherwise, I lose my degree? I don't see how that's a good idea.
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I know an unusually high number of people who went to Ivy Leagues, and none of them had just good grades, in fact some of their grades weren't great at all. They had some special factor. On the other side, the people I knew with absolutely perfect grades and 2400 SAT (this was before the 1600 scale) and no other angles didn't get into a single Ivy League, but still got into very good schools.
>but private industry is, in my experience, invested in recruiting the best candidates available to them.

Not in Germany. All management positions I saw at big auto makers there were filled based on connections instead of competence. Who you rub shoulders there is very important for your career progression.

I know it because I've seen a long delayed project of a hybrid sports car be even more delayed thanks to the project manager being replaced 3 times because he was an incompetent moron being given a golden parachute to be replaced by an equally incompetent moron, 3 times in a row.
> In France, most immigrants kids don't even know the possible paths to get into a top school.

Not true.

What happens, and not only in France (it's like that in the UK as well), is that primary and secondary schools that are in not very good areas are not ambitious for their pupils. They'll say average is fine, going to a technical college is very good, etc. so in the end those pupils do not think of taking the "high road" because they've been convinced it is not for them.

On the other hand, if your parents are highly educated and you go to one of the top secondary schools you'll be pushed and told that you should work hard and that you can get into a top university.
Unless I'm mathing wrong, it takes about 22.5 hours for the signal to travel to/from Voyager 2 to earth, one way.

15 billion miles / 186,282 miles per second = 80,414 seconds
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France to spend 2B Euros to boost bicycle usage
No, he's not delusional, but you are deeply ignorant of the current state of knowledge.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

"The main conclusion of most of these studies is that 100% renewables is feasible worldwide at low cost."

"Even former critics must admit that adding e-fuels through PtX makes 100% RE possible at costs similar to fossil fuels."
No i bought a fairly nice house that has a bonkers huge kitchen, with a giant built in fridge. The replacement cost is ~10k.
Kind of a tangent, but I worked for a Chinese company for a couple years as the only westerner mostly. My coworkers and I had so much confusion talking about family until the mutual realization that we were not using words the same way and understood some concepts differently. That lead to a lot of sitting around and pointing at a family tree going "ok who would this person be to you, how important?", and sometimes really surprising each other. Long way of saying, she may call him uncle, but he's not her uncle in the western European/Anglo-american sense.
> Nobody has ever complained that a talk was too short.

People did complain. In some of my writings, I regret of not expounding a topic a bit more.
Things get bad slowly and it can be hard to notice at first. When companies slightly shrink their products or change to cheaper ingredients, most people don't immediately notice. To an extent, it's like the boiling frog analogy. You slowly raise the prices and lower the service expectations and people don't notice as easily.

People also become dependent on things. Even when there are alternatives, people have habits and those habits are powerful.

Uber doesn't have a monopoly, but they are usually a duopoly (with Lyft). It isn't easy to compare prices and services between. I hate saying that because if you are trolling, you're going to say "it's easy, you just open both apps", but it's not easy since the pricing is always shifting and with drivers canceling or pushing you to cancel it becomes problematic.

Uber's brand and one's history with the service can leave one hesitant to believe it is now bad. Maybe a few times you think "oh, it's just a couple bad experiences." Historically, you have more positive experiences to balance it out. Many people will want to write off these bad experiences because they've talked up Uber a lot in the past. They don't want the cognitive dissonance of thinking "wow, I was an idiot to buy into their bait-and-switch and get all my friends to buy into it!" They'd rather believe that the service hasn't gotten that much worse and that they still like it.

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We see this kind of thing in a lot of areas. If Google Search is so bad, why are so many people using it so much that it's so profitable? Again, many of the same things: it becomes bad slowly over time and people don't notice it so much; people become dependent on things and use Google as a habit without even thinking about available alternatives - it's the default search in their browser just as Uber is the app they have installed; while Google doesn't have a monopoly, there aren't many alternatives and yea you could just run your search twice in two search engines, but people aren't going to do even seemingly "easy" things to compare or get better results; and Google has a brand associated with search quality that people have pushed forward over a couple decades and people don't like changing their beliefs around that.

We can't make truly free decisions. We don't have a situation where one could say, "If Uber isn't serving you well, you could just make your own transportation network that treated you better and use that." That's not so possible. We're often left without truly free choices because we live in a society where certain things exist and other things don't and we can't rebuild things overnight when something isn't great.

Lots of companies make lots of money while providing bad service because they're using their market position to gain leverage. If your logic is "so many people are using it, therefore it must be good," that really ignores how companies use their market position to leverage more profits because people don't really have choice.
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> But the model we have of science from elementary and high school doesn’t give us room for the random, ephemeral things that come into play in actual experimental work. Our model is methods equal result, every time, even though jiggling your foot a little bit to get the feeling back may have somehow made your small molecule production have less binding affinity or something.

That wasn't my experience, in either high school physics or undergrad electronics. I hated keeping a lab book (just wanted to 'do' & see results I suppose) but the emphasis was always on recording as much as possible to understand what's important and what happened etc. when you review later.

I suppose looking through another lens you can call that an expectation of repeatability, but it's just a matter of emphasis isn't it? You know it might be hard to repeat, so you record as much as possible about the setup & process to remove variables and control what needs to be controlled (especially if you don't yet understand what that is, or the full scope).
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