skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Associated != causal

Most people who are vegan are more likely to be health conscious
P14s doesn't have discrete graphics.
Why decades of progress in cars' fuel efficiency is ending
https://archive.ph/y77W5
I get that it's supposed to be funny, but I wonder how many people still think bitcoin mining happens on GPUs, particularly Nvidia ones. Pretty sure that stopped being the case like 14 years ago or something? Anyway...
> And if it's the initial configuration file?

You're still going to have to open it and handle the errors (in case it's the wrong permissions, or the filename is a directory, etc).

Checking if it exists doesn't make the subsequent code any easier or shorter - you still have to check for errors even if it exists.
These types are static and don’t end up in the runtime (which has no notion of types), so no. LFE will need its own solution, like Gleam.
Not on the most recent macOS releases. I maintain binaries of an open-source app, and used to have instructions to right-click open on first use. This stopped working recently, I forget if it was on version 13 or 14. The users would get a denial, with no option to override.

I ended up having to pay $100/yr for a developer account to be able to sign and notarize the binaries. They can now open them like usual, with just a warning that it was downloaded from the internet. But without the signature they get an uncircumventable gatekeeper error.

ETA: See https://wiki.freepascal.org/Code_Signing_for_macOS#Big_Sur_a...
I argue that having a BSD license (in Darwin), BSD heritage (NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, briefly NetBSD), and a mostly BSD userland 20+ years into the project makes this OS a BSD.
If you only use rigid string and sail in strange curves that map to straight lines in 2d then that's true. Or maybe by "do Pythagoras" you meant to calculate the metric tensor for your projection and integrate that along your shipping route?
> But the next time you decide to be a patronising asshole to someone you’ve never met and who very likely has significantly more experience than you, maybe remember this meme

Well, I touched a nerve, but apparently not the nerve that would've caused you to substantiate your point with any specifics or details whatsoever, thereby re-confirming my suspicion.

> ho very likely has significantly more experience than you

Shrug, I can give detailed examples of things I have experience with; especially things that I'm publicly saying don't work well. Furthermore, you have zero basis on which to make this statement, other than emotions.

> The point, in case you completely missed it, is to empathise with the average user. Not me, I’m able to resolve the issues that arise in Linux land (or know when to stop), the average user can very quickly drown.

And you still haven't given a single freaking example. As I stated, I worked with extensive piles of commodity consumer hardware and have NEVER EVER HAD to compile a kernel module in the past 10-15 years. I haven't had to do anything that couldn't just be done in Plasma/Gnome. Go on, give an example. Any example.
The core products of social media platforms are the advertising systems!

After telling the advertisers to go 'F themselves', those paying customers are leaving in droves plus the ad ecosystem is one of the worst in the industry.

The only alternative is to get enough paying users. Good luck.
I'm the OP (of this thread). The main issue caused by the industry-wide hiring freezes wasn't necessarily income but work/team quality. I've been in the top-10% of incomes in my country for more than 5 years and the top-1% of incomes for a lesser period of time.

I was able to get offers in this percentile but the companies making these offers didn't usually hire at this level. If anything, I want to be around people that are more competitive than me, that put a lot of effort into what they do and that can easily walk into high paying roles. I definitely don't want to be the highest paid engineer in the room at a company that frankly doesn't need this.

I know this can be seen as entitled but I'm the sole provider of a 4-person family and willing to work hard and prove myself. I'm happy to say that I now have a higher income than I did before being laid off and at a company with more successful people than me and a higher ceiling, however, that doesn't mean I didn't find it significantly more difficult to get a job this time around than I have in the last decade.

There are people that are going to have a much harder time than I have.
Test your custom GPTs using simulated users
Built a tool that lets you simulate synthetic user personas for your custom GPTs, thereby evaluating performance in a scalable fashion.

You can use it to test the quality of your GPTs before the launch of the GPT store!

It's a prototype, so we're offering for free.

Welcome any critiques, feedback, or suggestions!
The extra time necessary, thus lower throughout, thus availability issues, will likely be the bigger problem than fuel.
As somebody who’s learning social media, followers and my own perceptions are pretty much all I’m measuring. If there’s a way to game follower count, it’s happening without me doing anything to game it.

Engagement is best on our email list, which is nearly parallel with LinkedIn and we’ve got a 40% open rate there.

These numbers are essentially from setting up our Substack and broadcasting the posts out to various different platforms.

As somebody with no idea what they are doing and limited time, what should I be measuring?
Scientific evidence and decision making typically isn't done logically. Nearly everything, if not everything, is done as probabilistic analysis.
The old web and social sites
One Year of ChatGPT
It's subjective I guess - coming to a Model Y from an Audi Q5 and driving a 3 series BMW for our second car, I prefer the interior of the Model Y to either of the others. Either way, between the fit and finish, performance, and the infotainment system, a Toyota or a Honda is not the right class of vehicle for comparison. Beyond that, a stock Tesla will blow the doors off of any non-performance luxury vehicle in its class, and often even outperform the much more expensive performance models.
I can see the reason IBM would want to push their mainframes into the 10GHz region.
Reminds me of working on a service with a huge amount of traffic

What I found interesting was how often edge cases would occur with that much traffic

Something that would be really difficult to reproduce locally would happen like 100 times a week if you looked at the logs
As always, don't use languages that suck.

On my system in hosting (FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE, 2x Xeon L5640), time perl -e '' with perl5-5.34.3_3 reports 3ms. On the same system time php -r '' takes 16 ms with php82-8.2.11 and a handful of libraries installed. By my own criteria, php as a cgi sucks; but I did say if your program takes too long to startup, run it as a daemon, which I think includes linking it in like mod_php or mod_perl.

On the topic of mod_php vs php_fcgi; with apache mod_php, an empty php file takes about 1.2 ms to serve, as measured by curl from when curl sends the GET request to when the content ends. I don't have a php fcgi server to try, but my recollection was something similar for minimum php output from lighttpd with php_fcgi on newer hardware.
Android allows the site to prompt the user to add it to their home screen, which it can do at a time when it makes sense. e.g. the user orders something, then the "add to home screen" pop-up appears and the user can accept with one tap, which they're likely to want to do because they anticipate wanting to check their order status.
This is kind of a weird objection. We already spread ashes in lots of sacred places - mountains, rivers, oceans, etc. This is just space NIMBYism.
For the question of "which language should I use, should I use Elixir?", I think it's valid to evaluate it against "all the other ecosystems that solve the same problems differently".

If you want to design a bespoke solution from scratch, then it could make sense to use a single ecosystem, that avoids the complexity of Kubernetes et al.
So it really depends on your use case.
If you're designing independent software, like RabbitMQ, it might make sense.

It's not bad, it's just that other solutions are often better.
Is there any delivery van with a hood height low enough to lift pedestrians, though? Others have more of a curve, but it starts high enough not to matter. For example, the bend on a Sprinter is around 46", above almost anyone's center of gravity.

(See https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-v...)
I don't really feel this is an option. And it still is a weak signal. Who knows their local police phone number? Do you know that for the area you're traveling through? 911 is flooded enough. Can I get an image of the officer's face to verify?
I read the book (well, up to a point; I stopped playing CRPGs in early 90s to concentrate on school). I did not know about PLATO, which hosted wizardry-like games before Wizardry existed, and the authors of Wizardry played those games.
While Google wants as much access to your phone as it can get. Why would that be?
I think it's quite clear the current trajectory is towards something like Elysium, where the rich party in a satellite and we rest labor for their luxury on a ruined earth.

And a lot of people seem very stoked about such a future.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)
Yes, the IP as a binary counter is a historical artifact :). If you look at the first computer reports, the IP was a binary counter because the memories were linear addressable since they were made from mercury tubes - so one could only increment by 1. This got carried over even though we developed RAM.

One wonders what impact the LFSR would have on the processor cache architecture, since there is spatial locality is not preserved. There is also a potential to run the program in reverse.
Google/Sundar is seen as the template, not necessarily as a positive one. Doing the needful, to the grave.

MSFT/Satya is the outlier, should be what others aspire to.
They "pushed" out this project in 2018

https://github.com/Netflix/pollyjs/commit/281115d359ee0da5e0...
The Quest devices are all fully wireless and have a pretty decent existing library of Quest-specific games and apps that you can play even if you don't own a computer.

You could also connect them to a PC wirelessly and play any PC VR games that your computer is capable of running. It used to be a little more cumbersome to set up, but Valve recently released a native SteamLink app on the Quest store that vastly simplifies the whole PC VR experience.
Things PWAs can't do:
1. On mobile, access full-definition camera/video as part of MediaDeviceCapture. There are new javascript APIs for this, but they're only partialy supported (the name of the new escapes me)
It was really easy to see what the site was about, and I was quickly able to POST a "Hello World" to it from my terminal. Based on some other comments in this thread, it looks like there's some market competition for this here.
> In the face of avoiding JS, I think we've both taken one for the team here

In which, you still need to include a JS file. I'd still count that as Javascript.
Did you predict the amount of money laundering through war chest trsansfers to foreign nations while at the same time talking about a government shutdown over money?

Why has not a single MSM has talked about the duel narratives to funnel US citizen taxpayer monies to wars we cant vote on, with funds we cant control and then be berated with threats that our "system" cant fund itself, but can force folks into just acquiescing to "we have to pay this"

Fuck you power bill - my money is grifted from my paycheck to pay for wars in foreign lands. Why would I pay PG&E when I can just passively subscribe to War+ streaming to me on youtube and reddit. Why do you hate hegemony? Are you anti-hegemony?
Like ogres
I’ve never had a cable break like that. Many people just don’t know how to handle cables and treat them like rope without any knowledge of bend radius, internal wire twists, etc. (and don’t care if they crush them).
You are reading too much into my comment, as others have done. "Curiosity" (note "curiosity", not science) does not go back to Newton, Bacon, Galileo. It's a stupid and shortsighted statement by the author. No need to read scientific counter-historiographies, be a post-modern "social constructivist" about reason and science, or a "progressive" cultural relativist to see that this statement is just stupid.

I added that it's eurocentric because that's what it felt when I read it (and it probably is, since even non-human animals are probably curious, too).
Memories are short, but Twilio was built when doing what seemed obvious - add an API to telecom services - was really hard. It's what Stripe is (doing, not done) to banking & payment, what countless companies have failed to do with Healthcare... I met Jeff in the early days and the fact that he (a) managed to stay the CEO through this growth & timeline, and (b) gave few enough sh!ts to maintain a hacker dev mentality makes him a notable standout. I'm not surprised that lots of people with legitimate viewpoints and perspectives DO/DID NOT like him or his approach. To me, that's a feature; we need less CEOs and senior executives who try to be all things to all people.
What will 2024 hold for the authorization industry?
Do people really look for the best possible general-purpose cache eviction approach?

It appears evident that there is no single approach that will work for all workloads (i.e. combinations of access patterns, read/write ratios, scans, processor/cache parameters, etc.). Perhaps I am wrong, and there's a holy grail out there, but...

If there is no single approach, shouldn't the focus be on matching algorithms to workloads? Better selection approaches would seem to yield far more value than yet another boutique algorithm.
Cows are spherical
I can see the benefit of flooding and it’s great to see that the government is managing the forest, but there is almost no information in this video. It’s YouTube pocket lint.
Hello judge, sorry for calling you at 2am, but there's a police officer at my door. Can you verify their badge number and then describe to me what they look like so I can verify that this is indeed the person they say they are? K thx bye

Sounds like a great solution....
I've worked on some of the foss tech (infra and ptsn) that twilio has used for almost a decade. Know all about what the company does. Have applied there (to which they never replied). Known plenty that work there.

Ironically my previous partner works there and she didn't know anything about the company prior to taking the job so me not even getting a reply to my application was a jab. I've always seen twilio in a positive light they do some really interesting work.

I live in the city of their HQ. I have no clue who the people mentioned in this thread are either but it makes sense that they'd see the CEOs in a positive light with how much positive I hear(d) about the place.
The phandroid url appears to be gone, but the original Reddit post is still up: https://www.reddit.com/r/duolingo/comments/18sx06i/big_layof...
A shitload of stuff from the Bad Old Days is "not particularly slow" now that everything's in cloud-whatevers and k8s clusters.

Anyone remember when you offloaded something to the server to make it faster? Now it's like "well this is blazing fast on my machine, but we'll see how it does when it's deployed to prod..."
The page was served to me with `Last-Modified: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 04:02:49 GMT`, which to me implies either aggressive caching, or that the publishing system acts like a static site generator.
>laws?

Maybe. I am not impressed so far, though.

>Or force everyone into ChromeOS once and for all.

I don't see that happening on iOS.
I'm keen for the Vision Pro, but the iPhone and iPod touch had already reached incredible market penetration by the iPhone 3GS. The reason the iPhone 4 leak was such a huge deal is because the iPhone had already left its mark on the industry.
I will not touch anything Meta/Zuckerberg related with a 10 foot pole, and I would advise anyone to do the same. FB and Instagram are giant drivers of depression and bitterness, they shouldn't be supported financially or otherwise.
The mechanism for caching seen certs dates back to Internet Explorer / Netscape times

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399324#c16
Isn't the same true for twitter nowadays?
the guy is toxic. https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/25/carta-san-francisco-lawsui...
Hi Chris. You don't know me, but I'd like to discuss something HN related by email. Could you write me at the address in my profile? No hurry, non-urgent.
It really depends on what you're doing. Resizing images is a pretty common CGI application, and that's going to spend a lot more time on compression than it does on process setup (one hopes). Process separation is a good idea for image processing, as codec processing has high risk.
Except masks do work. Here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33431650/ - "We recommend that public officials and governments strongly encourage the use of widespread face masks in public, including the use of appropriate regulation."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33370173/ - "Evidence suggests that the potential benefits of wearing masks likely outweigh the potential harms when SARS-CoV-2 is spreading in a community". Mentions the network effect.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32497510/ - "Face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection"
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

"...on a mannequin, in a lab, or when used as a filter between two hamster cages. Perhaps." No, you are coping hard. The studies above are not done by idiots.

"if you can't get effective compliance in a hospital, where are you going to get it?" Nice pivot, but the subject is whether they work, which they do. Compliance is a different question. That's like arguing that condom effectiveness is low when people don't use them properly. And because the figure is low, let's just conclude condoms are ineffective so people should stop using them altogether.

"Every failed drug ever tested worked in a laboratory before it went to clinical trials." And some actually worked in trials. Your job is to explain which is the better analogy. That unanticipated practical considerations exist does not invalidate every conclusion you dislike.

However, even if masks work slightly, or not at all, even if there are dozens of studies saying so, there is enough conjecture to warrant wearing them anyway just in case. If two equally qualified mechanics disagree on whether to change your brakes, you change your damn brakes. If you don't that's stupid. If you don't and then drive a busload of people, that's criminal.

But masks do work, and they're cheap and barely an inconvenience. The problem is everyone thinks they're smarter than an epidemiologist. Thanks Internet.
But it seems that I misread the original question. I see now that it reads "should I be using Elixir for new projects or Erlang?". There was a linebreak after "new projects", so it only read to me as "should I be using Elixir for new projects".

Apologies.
> If Crazy Carl says that aliens abducted his prize turnip, that is in itself evidence that aliens did the deed. It is wildly unpersuasive evidence, but nonetheless evidence.

Even as someone who has made a similar point recently, I think this is going too far. Carl claiming aliens is evidence of something weird going on with Carl, but there's still no reason to take his claim at face value. More likely Carl has a screw loose (good to know!) or is pulling a con.
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Code_Signing_for_macOS#Big_Sur_a...
On the many occasions where I've needed strace in macOS, on a number of them, I have tried to use dtrace. I have never once been successful with it; while I am sure there are dtrace experts merrily debugging anything and everything, the tool is nigh incomprehensible to the new user.
Yes that is exactly what I was looking for. Amazing! Thank you
> In fcgi mode it runs as a service listening to a socket and reads and sends response over it while never terminating.

What's the point of using this over serving HTTP directly? The whole point of CGI was providing an easy to implement interface to proper HTTP servers, but FastCGI is such as step up in complexity compared to CGI that you're going to need a library anyway.

Maybe FastCGI made sense back when companies tried to convince us we needed their heavy-duty software to handle any HTTP traffic at all, but now HTTP libraries and reverse proxies are dime a dozen.
Most prized variety - the bluefin tuna - is now widely farmed already (although farmed one still makes a very small proportion of tuna consumed). But it's possible and is already viable commercially.
>> just another entitled, out of touch zillionaire,

You can level a lot of criticism at Jeff but I don't think this one applies.
Silicon Valley Runs on Futurity
author here:

it takes time, after i hurt my hands from working too hard i basically lost all my equity at the company, i thought i'd never be able to make money again.

i tied most of my self worth to being able to make money. and when i realised i might not ever be able to code again it was a painful 2 years of really feeling worthless and being in pain everyday.

You just have to practice, try the inverted thinking!

--

a story:

I had this thought before of not want pets cause they do no "work". I grew up in rural china and so even a pet dog was really a "guard dog". when my ex wanted to get a tiny dog and i just thought " what a useless animal it does nothing". she basically said"the point is just to love it and be loved"

I still don't think i'd be ok with a useless pet like that, but i'm coming around to being able to accept that people do love things just on the basis of existing.

like... if people can love a 5 pound dog with a breathing problem, maybe I could just be loved too? maybe the people around me could just like me for being me. I dont have to claw at the acceptance.

But it starts with yourself, and being ok with loving others for just being alive and realising its possible and others are already doing it to you

---

theres also something partiarcial about it, but I'd recommend `the will to change by bell hooks`
I thought it was just me because I'm using uBlock. But even with the site first party scripts and line allowed it didn't work.
Nice! I was just trying to learn Japanese this week but Duolingo is painful
> SIP doesn’t block dtrace.

» dtrace echo
dtrace: system integrity protection is on, some features will not be available
dtrace: failed to initialize dtrace: DTrace requires additional privileges
I don't know. On the producer side, a lot of us were on soundclick before soundcloud.

Anyway, good luck with the sale. My soundcloud feels like an empty town only visited by promotional bots.

People seem to be on tiktok and ig nowadays.
Being able to keep track of the craziness that is the leadership history at X/Twitter is kind of impressive.
Right click, "Don't recommend channel"

After a week of doing that you can pretty easily get rid of the trash content.
Japanese scientist converting PFAS into valuable compounds
From experience, my take is that most laymen devs are unwilling and/or uninterested in taking the dive into apl/k/array langs due to the, in their own words, deliberately abstruse and obscurantist syntax/glyphs/typing; it's just too theoretical and/or cognitively/neurologically daunting for average engineers that just want to get paid.
I'm upvoting this, it's a clear issue
Ika and Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell
It's the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS), a group of I'm guessing 20+ community colleges around Kentucky. In recent years Kentucky has done a big overhaul of the community college system. Not sure how it compares to other systems, but it's a lot better than it used to be by a long shot. This everything-online stuff didn't start until COVID restrictions came about. But since then they've leaned as hard as they can into it.