skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Languages and English is hard. So asking clear questions is important. Proof is in this conversation. As you seem to have suggested so much from so few words.

It devolved, because it went from what looked like a structured question with a finite expcted result, "Name the most common data structures" , to something more loose, a list of structures, any structures.

Further more, we agree, the candidate was trash, and I don't think the wording would have helped. But I do think a more precise question, or maybe a less loaded, or bias inducing question of "name some data structures". Namely, because "common" is subjective as I pointed out. If you are writing lisp all day, well, list are your most common. If you happen to be in assembly then registers are. So to be a better interviewer you don't want to taint the question with your notions.
This doesn’t require belief in the great man theory: progress can ebb and flow under any theory of history.

Besides: there is no point in history that’s identifiable as “the fall of Rome.” The Western Empire declined over the course of three centuries; the Eastern Empire arguably never fell at all. The idea of the “fall” comes from the same period of historical theorization as the “great man” framework; it’s not widely accepted as a useful milestone today.
Seems it could take some explanation to ask a guest whether they wanted coffee or tea.

But a language with 200 words necessarily becomes verbose I suppose
The models like gpt themselves are inherently private and secure. They make predictions based on input.

It's what happens in the interface, that is your web chat or API call, which is different per implementation. ChatGPT is an implementation that uses that model and its maker OpenAI wants to keep your history for further training.

But what Azure is doing is taking that model and putting it behind an endpoint specific to your Azure account. Businesses have been interested in gpt, so asking for private endpoints. Amazon is doing the same with Bedrock.
Where in my comment did I stated the documents had to be given back scanned?
About a year ago I started the IPv6 migration for my home network (2 Remote sites, connected via IPSEC, with 10 VLANs (subnets) and about 70 devices, 10 people).

- I started on one side of the IPSEC, where I have an OPNsense

- there were like 5 updates of OPNsense in the last year where different IPv6 issues were fixed (and others have been introduced).

- my ISP only hands out /64-Prefixes, and these are also dynamic, which makes configuration more difficult

- a number of times I had to turn off IPv6 because different parts were suddenly not working anymore, mostly based on software issues in my stack

All of that over 20 years after IPv6 was introduced makes me wonder if it is the correct technology, if it is so difficult to implement.
My point is that the scientific process is the thing that allows reality to be eventually probed despite the occasional stubbornness or irrationality of a particular individual or even a whole generation (or a whole century).

You seem to be throwing the baby with the bathwater and being too cynical if you conclude that reality just cannot be something people agree on just because there are (and always will be) particular areas of research where people are far from objectivity because led by other interests)
Negative and Positive Rights
San Francisco sensibilities. A model trained on a large data set will have the capacity to emit all kinds of controversial opinions and distasteful rants (and pornography). Then they effectively lobotomize it with a rusty hatchet in an attempt to censor it from doing that, which impairs the output quality in general.
Often, yes. Far too often. But there is a scientifically sound way to measure some things, and there is very good science that cognitive ability plus unstructured are the most predicitiv (and least bias) way to select employees that we have available right now. Ideally you would also include objective knowledge tests.

We're headed by a professor of organisational psychology and stick strickly to scientifically well supported methods and stick to the ONET and APA guidelines. But we're one of the few since it's not the easiest way of doing business. But we refuse to peddle sudo science.
Urbit is ok, give it a minute.
marriages existed before the Church hijacked them - it would be great thing if we took back marriage from both Church and State!
IPv6 adoption is just the traffic shift from desktop to mobile. IPv6 kinda makes sense in mobile because it solves a problem of needing multiple addresses per person (phone, tablet, gaming device, etc) and the whole stack is maintained by two entities (the phone OS manufacturer and the carrier). It probably would have worked even better if it was far less complex and only solved the problem that was needed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210122043401/https://blogs.aka...
What Happens When People Start Reading Privacy Policies
Varanane = One (female) with a gifted face. God, Sanskrit names are so beautiful!

Also, apt username (the three-eyed one)
I've been trying to imagine a game which is like a real time strategy game for programming

You command coroutines, threads and processes across machines to do work for you, like units.

You can collect data from database, transform it in a pipeline and give it back.
Are patents on printer technology still relevant? Printers were booming in the nineties but as I haven't seen a single piece of innovation in the last 20 years my guess is that all important patents have expired by now.
2 adults, 2 infants. 110 Sqr metres.

6 a day is on the high side. It's probably an overestimate.

When there are no new borns we might dry 3 loads a week.

But the house is a work in progress. The curtains blow on a windy day.
I think we'll simply agree to disagree. But suffice to say that I don't need you to explain love to me or tell me that what I feel isn't "real" love. And simply because we disagree on an adjective some people like to attach to their love and which I do not? How myopic and unnecessarily condescending of you.
No, none of this is stuff that reasonable people can disagree about. No credible anthropologist thinks that middle-eastern/north african peoples of that time had the sub-saharan skin tones seen in those videos, and Beard is not ignorant enough to think so either (and indeed doesn't claim so - rather she sophistically pretends that people are asking a different question).
The HUAC wasn’t McCarthy, of course; they are just sort of bound up in the same Red Scare history. It is routine for people outside the USA to conflate these things because of how they are presented in dramatisations; as a Brit I didn’t realise until recently.

McCarthy might have been a pivotal figure in McCarthyism (obviously ;-) but he had nothing directly to do with the HUAC because he was a senator.

He sat on what is now the Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. It was the Senate Committee on Government Operations then, which had an enormously broad remit and gave him his ability to harass and persecute anyone who worked for the US federal government. He was also more able to resist pressure because of it.
The only time `is_` is used, is with functions permitted in guards. These are functions defined in Erlang, and only a small handful exist, and you learn them very early on. With the advent of `defguard`, it is conventional to use `is_` with custom guards as well, but that’s the intuition - guards vs general predicates.
It's not "intentional", at least on the part of the company. It's intentional in that this is the product of American car culture and suburbia, and it's something that Americans have been buying into willingly for many decades now. The company can't just locate down the street from your house: that's zoned for residential use only. They can't locate at the shopping center near your subdivision: that's zoned for commercial use only (for storefronts/shopping, not corporate offices). And even if they did, that wouldn't help: it would be a nice short commute for you, but not for the other employees that all live in other subdivision scattered at a similar radius from the city center. The employees that live on the other side of town will have a horrible commute. What you're complaining about is simply what you get by building with such low density and making everything dependent on cars.
I find Flutter way more technologically superior than React Native.

But I still don't understand why most companies still focus on React Native for their cross platform development.

It is fantastic for side projects and personal projects or when you are contracted. But I find it very difficult to get a job with Flutter.

Google needs to do better marketing for the technology.

I learnt Flutter and find that it's very hard to get a Job with the technology.
Ask HN: Getting Rid of the Founder?
This is probably a weird question, but I am in a uniquely weird situation. So I think it would't hurt to ask.

For the last year, I have worked in a startup. There are five people in the core team: the founder, the CTO, two domain experts, and I. I developed the core technology along with the domain experts. I know the founder from grad school, but nowadays I mainly work with our CTO.

So our team works relatively well, but our CEO has becoming more and more a headache for all of us. He is constantly changing directions without consulting the rest of us, and is very opaque and autocratic about the whole thing. Many of the team members have left or developed serious mental health issues because of him. Recently, he even hired his girlfriend as the sales director (who is totally unqualified), and she is starting to bypass the product manager and directly influence the development process, which as expected, results in absolute chaos.

I have talked with the whole team and the CTO, and we unanimously felt that the product works, and the team is amazing, and the sole problem really IS the founder. We have dedicated lots of efforts into this product, and we want to try to atleaset preserve some of our hard-work. And now we are thinking about going directly to the investors and have him removed, but we are not very optimistic about it.

Has anyone ever been in a similar situation? What would you do if your are in my situation?
The problem with 'I have nothing to hide' is that it creates a system where everybody has to abide. Everybody needs to be transparent. Everybody's data are exposed to a third party via network effect. It is not essential that Google, or government has my data. It has my friend's data, my techears, my psychologist, my president, my boss data, my wifes data. The third party might use it correctly, but then they can sell it to somebody, to a greedy corporation, to other branches of government. I see a very big potential for abuse.
Automation depends on order, there is way too much 'street action' in SF for this ever to work here
Actually not at all. You think no one in history has been picked on or discriminated against for their political beliefs?
The POSIX specification defers most semantics of rename to ISO C. It does mention atomicity, but only in the non-normative “Rationale” section, and also again only with reference to ISO C, so this is an aspirational rather than a strict requirement of POSIX. On referral, however, it turns out that the C standard omits an explicit requirement for rename to be atomic. Consequently, rename is not definitively atomic in either POSIX or C.

I’m reminded that NFS was for a long time a popular storage for ISP mail but notoriously prone to non-atomic renames (or anything else, for that matter), and that is why many maildir implementations instead prefer an hard link followed by an unlink, via a tmp/ subdirectory on the same filesystem, during delivery and move/copy operations.
Exactly: the problem isn't the corporate employers, it's the middle-class Americans who bought into the suburban dream. Now that they got away from the black people downtown, they're complaining about the commute.
Nobody "told him to", he was perfectly capable to do that himself to not lose the power.
considered and rejected because triggers complicate other database operations like restores. Triggers to me are like global operations, they really make a strong statement about storage which does not tend to be true over longer time horizons when you consider all the stackeholders of the data storage system. They make sense as an application feature, but they are implemented as globals, and this is where the problems begin.
I think this is the first explanation in a while that goes into why there's interest in wasm. In short it's for running on low powered devices and for running quickly and reducing overhead.

That said, let's wait and see how it plays out once it becomes part of development workflows. The compliance and regulatory frameworks don't go away and take a while to catch up.
No, you’re exactly right, they are just regular singly-linked lists of tuples, nothing more.
That's an extreme oversimplification.

Most apps are budget constrained - doing 2x native over flutter budget doesn't get you 15% better UX. It probably doesn't even give you two working apps in the budget. And getting to them you're still likely 2x bugs and worse UX because of the time spent redeveloping common shit.

If you're not budget constrained, have a team that can execute better UX without flutter, and this matters to your app - go for native. But there's so many scenarios where it doesn't.
Linux started in the same position. Sometimes the underdogs win.
OK. Fight the power, man.

Now back to the issue at hand. This is an LLM advertised as a therapist. Do the statements I quoted look like effective therapy to you?

If for example a kid comes home from school where he was being harassed because other kids found out his parents are Republicans. Are these the answers a competent therapist would give?

If your answer is 'yes,' please stay away from therapy
> those who built a house from scratch

That's called a developer not a landlord.

> those purchased the house from someone else

Transfer of ownership doesn't create anything.
By what metric was your older i7 better than a newer i5 other than “7 is bigger than 5”?
Yes, we (which is to say those of us of European descent) conquered much of our land, and also purchased lands that others conquered, and yes made some odd trades for land with cultures that didn’t understand our (as in historically Christendom’s) conception of property ownership and trade, but what does that have to do with this discussion vis a vis positive rights? We’re not discussing property rights, so please make the connection to this discussion since I’m afraid I’m not seeing it.
Unless required by law… I wonder what law.
Google marked https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/ as unsafe
How did you structure your hiring, your teams and project lifecycle ?
Numbers and locations are abstract in Toki Pona so it's difficult to communicate exact times and meeting locations. Only the numbers 1, 2, 5, and 100 are officially in the language. Though you can always chain "1" and "2" together and render a place name into Toki Pona-ish phonology and add "ma" ("place/location" in Toki Pona) to it to make it work.
> you also had for years the issue of lots of applications requiring substantial rewrite to support another protocol due to use of BSD Sockets

Past tense? I still regularly see code that uses BSD sockets and doesn't support IPv6. Actually, I feel like among C and C++ codebases that make direct TCP or UDP connections, the majority are IPv4-only, even in 2023. Though, direct TCP and UDP connections themselves are less popular than they used to be, and so are C and C++...
It looked exactly the same as 98 and 95, there was nothing changed.
I’ll give that a shot
The only tags you need when first learning HTML [video]
> It was cheaper to buy a whole replacement brother with the starter cartridge than to just get a cartridge...

This may not actually be the case, 'starter' cartridges often have significantly less toner than full-size. Also, Brother is among the better actors in the printer space - I believe that Louis Rossmann has one, and talks it up in [1] at around 11:30.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGszSj0BLeg
I've heard that South Africans who can't make it to Australia directly use NZ as the stopover until, as you said, they can use the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement to move to Australia.

I wouldn't be surprised if their (and others') ultimate goal is the US. That's the case with Canada, where my understanding is that FAANG offices are staffed mostly with those who cannot (and often will never get) a US visa, plus the odd local who doesn't want to move to the US for personal or family reasons.
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15pxt76/why_ha...
Migrating Netflix to GraphQL
The Great Man Theory is not primarily about scientific discoveries or inventions. It’s more about political figures: Napoleon, Muhammad, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
2013!

what's the difference between running a program (interpreting it), and compiling it?

where's (and what's) the line that distinguishes the program from the output of the program where both parts are just software?

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the most interesting thing about turning machines is the universal turing machine because it actually invents/defines/showcases software as we understand it nowadays; this makes me reflect on how the busy beaber problem just misses out on this realization
...And of course after the edit window is over, it occurs to me I got my wires crossed. "Concatenation" is adding two strings/words.

What I meant was "contraction".
Independent of fads, I remember a bottom-feeder tech recruiter dismissing another language, Go, as a "nothingburger" in 2012. Hubris is on them, as with any arrogant proclamation steeped in ignorance. The people closest to niche but useful tools are the best to see their trajectory, regardless of media characterization of hype or apparent obscurity. Around 2016 I exited the Go scene for Rust because it became crowded with noisy, low-skilled, needy users who were leading to time suck without contributing much in return.
Google is just so easy for login. No need to deal with password forgot, reset, email verification etc. But I'll add login via magic link soon.
I don't see why we would believe there must exist music more pleasing than what we've already created. Not saying it's impossible it exists, but I also don't see any reason to believe it should exist. Perhaps the utmost extent to which we can enjoy music is really not that high, and something like Bach or Rolling Stones or Taylor Swift or whatever already approaches the theoretical maximum.
I saw that on youtube once I saw something that is this idea flipped on its head. It was two folks, one of them was trying to talk to the other about politics, the other just shoots him down straight away.

Said something like "I was sent to Vietnam war when I was just 16, nobody should ever had to go through that. All because of politicians. Since then I don't want anything to do with politics!". They became apolitical because politics directly broke them.

In that situation, I get it. They had been through hell, as far as they are concerned they just want to be left in peace. But as you said, when the state starts forcing their ways on others, that situation of none committal generally goes out the window lest you be trampled.
The Spotify: Explained the conspiracy to make AI harder than it is
I make less than $150K, am in my late 40s, and live in Auckland. My partner and I own our apartment (well, most of it -- we still have just under $20K left on the mortgage). She works part time, and while we don't have a lavish lifestyle we have enough money for a comfortable life. So, yeah, if you're making $150K or more and can't afford to live on your own (even renting) then you have to take a closer look at where your money's going.
OpenAI APIs have pretty much as clear a contract as you can get with a third party.

> Starting on March 1, 2023, we are making two changes to our data usage and retention policies:

> OpenAI will not use data submitted by customers via our API to train or improve our models, unless you explicitly decide to share your data with us for this purpose. You can opt-in to share data.

> Any data sent through the API will be retained for abuse and misuse monitoring purposes for a maximum of 30 days, after which it will be deleted (unless otherwise required by law).

https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies
Borgbase is pretty good. I’ve used it for 6 years.

The usage graph on each repo is great. I redid my server this year and was accidentally backing up a stale snapshot every night for one of my repos. It would succeed, but without changes. The flat line for usage tipped me off. I’m not sure I would have noticed otherwise since it was a VM image that I could restore and boot, but it wasn’t super obvious it was full of stale data.

This downtime isn’t ideal, but, if downtime is needed to preserve data integrity, I’ll take it over the risk of trying to maintain availability.
Okay? I don't think you're actually reading those. See the conclusion:

"Private data in a smart contract is not private as such since we are dealing with public blockchains"

Yeah, "private" exists as a language construct, in the way it does in C++. No, it's not actually private from the world though, and so anything you put there is something I can get my hands on trivially.
Let's use a C interpreter so we can just copy Linux code over... Or the other way round.
Broken Ownership
Anyone have any thoughts as to ballpark costs to run this? My napkin math on the cosmo-db requirements is failing me (largely because I do not know Azure at all).

I'm wondering as a hobbyist / tinkerer if a solution like this is "affordable" (I know it's all relative)
First off, resorting to ad hominen insults diminishes everything you write. "The likes of you?" You can F right off. You don't know anything about me. Yes, I buy Applecare, because that extends the life of my Apple devices -- Apple does do repairs, you know. My older devices go to my children, my parents, my family, my wife's large family. I don't throw old phones or laptops away. Try sticking to the actual topic rather than tossing out stupid insults.

I do say that pollution is due to obsession with cars and refusal to use public transportation, bicycles, walk. I haven't owned a car in years. I don't support the oil companies but they aren't forcing everyone to buy two pickup trucks, they're just enabling it. Supply and demand, pretty simple concept.

Dell Latitudes are sold as business computers. Businesses depreciate things like laptops over 3-5 years. They may or may not care about repairs and upgrades, but in my experience businesses pay for service contracts with Dell etc. The Inspiron line is Dell's consumer line, somewhat less amenable to upgrades and repairs, though I grant better than Apple hardware. Both Dell and Apple offer recycling and trade-in programs, though I don't know what ultimately happens to that stuff. I see used phones, tablets, laptops for sale all over Asia, along with lots of small repair shops, so it's not all just going into landfill like in the US.

Apple's desktop market share is around 15%, not 50%, but that includes desktop and all-in-one iMacs. Laptop market share is closer to 7% globally with the (hard to repair) Asus and Acer ahead by a fairly big margin.

LVMH does not have tiny market share. They are the leading luxury brand. Among all purses or luggage or shoes sold, yes, LVMH is tiny. In their niche they dominate.

You seem to miss my actual point. You don't need to imagine a conspiracy at Apple to force consumers to buy new phones and laptops all the time by making their products unrepairable. The economics of manufacturing, logistics of supply, and the nature of consumer craving and demand do that for Apple, with no need for a conspiracy. Once Apple secured its spot as the luxury electronics brand they don't have to conspire -- people willingly buy new iPhones every year (they stand in line overnight, in fact) for the status display.