skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the motherboard to use it on appears to be ~£1200

Not sure what you're looking at as you didn't give a link, but perhaps you're confusing Pioneer and Oasis?

The 64 core Pioneer prebuilt with case, power supply, SSD, video card, 128 GB RAM for $2500 is quite reasonably priced against commercially built 16 core x86 machines, if your workload can keep 64 cores busy. Each core is around 1/4 the speed of current x86, but there are four times as many.

Don't forget 64 core x86 is $5000 just for the chip.
I made fossil for this purpose. Sometimes the good stuff is regular social posts, sometimes it’s links. The only way to separate the wheat from the chaff is AI (imo)

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/01/03/birb
Whiteboard coding used to be common but I haven't run a whiteboard interview for over a decade. I don't know how many companies still do that, but it's definitely a bad idea. You want to see how well a candidate knows their tools, and they will be more comfortable working in an editor, so it's a win/win to do that. Also if you do coding interviews from home it's easier for candidates and they're in a more comfortable environment.

So yeah I'm sure some firms do this, but there are plenty of others that don't.
That’s M-on-N, with N being 1. That’s basically a trivial problem in comparison.
It can cause profound deception and even more "loss of truth". If AI only impacted creatives I don't think anyone would care nearly as much. It's that it can fabricate things wholesale at volumes unheard of. It's that people can use that ability to flood the discourse with bullshit.
Some folks just don't like to laugh

For the record, I make coffee one large cup at a time via the pour-over method
I really enjoyed this too (linked in the article) https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2023/10/30/my-user-experience-...
This is precisely the issue. Databases should not guess at what you want, nor be helpful and make your query work with incorrect types specified.

Schema is rigid; that’s the point. If the input is incorrect, log an error.
Crime survey data often removes many of the noise in recorded crimes data. Basically surveying a cross section of people and asking them if they've been a victim of crime in the last X months, and what type of crime.
About OrbStack's machines:

> Strictly speaking, OrbStack machines are not independent VMs, but they're virtually indistinguishable for most intents and purposes — just with better integration. This is why we choose to call them "machines".

https://docs.orbstack.dev/architecture#linux-machines
I'm not one of those smart ones. So many things I was seeing for years make much more sense now.

It's an old story but I guarantee you many don't know about it.
*whoosh*
I also subconsciously scrolled past them. Anything unexpectedly colourful and so on just hits some sort of mental adblock for me now.
> you have tools that are incredibly powerful and that you just accept that sometimes it 'gets it wrong'

I think this is already the case with existing software tools and developers. That's how code ships with bugs both known and unknown.
Can someone explain what these virtual threads are in 2 sentences please?
It’s not a joke. It’s an appreciation of a key part of Wittgenstein’s theories of language and meaning.

Looks like everyone moved to Woosh City over the weekend.
And you cannot disable it. I watch videos in several languages, but titles are translated into English unless I switch to another language (and then they are all in that language), but I can't tell Youtube to just present the titles in their original language.

Really annoying and limiting.
If you found this interesting and want to dive deeper, I recommend 'The Horse the Wheel and Language' by David Anthony. The book is an intellectual tour de force, yet easily approachable. Integrating linguistics, genetics, archaeology and vigorous academic debate within and across the disciplines, startling conclusions emerge from seemingly intractable starting positions and thin, unreliable evidence.
> Maybe they shouldnt be writing zero-effort news articles

And using AI to annotate pictures:

> Beautiful view of a man connecting a charging cable
People keep mentioning roles, such as Staff, Staff+, Principle as if they are standardized. Can someone point to a reference where these are defined in a standard way?
I completely agree. Following the shutdown of Napster, eMule, etc., in the early 2000s, the situation was favorable for around 10-15 years, with fair subscription prices. But in the last 5-6 years, there has been a noticeable increase in prices and defragmention of contents (you need to be subscribed to tons of services), prompting people to switch back/again to pirate sites.
> Software tooling is often absurdly complex and relatively new with no clear standard.

That was my entire point.
My guess is that the company's aim is to improve short-term profitability with little regard for the future.
AI has been around for how many years, and it's still as niche and gimmicky as it's ever been. Especially the heavyweight kind that does need that bandwidth.

The only "AI" feature I use on macOS with any kind of regularity is the built-in OCR to copy text from images. But then my weak-ass Pixel 4a can do the same thing in the app switcher, so I assume it needs neither a fast CPU nor high-bandwidth memory.
If I can’t remember the obscure command in the first place, how will I know that what the AI is suggesting is correct? I’ll need to look it up anyway.

I’m assuming the commands aren’t automatically executed, as that sounds absurd.
Well it seems that in theory it should exist, amd_s2idle script that tests various things. I can get the machine into what seems to be sleep, but if you listen careful on the fan you will hear that it's constantly restarting. The script then reports that most of the time is actually spent in user space, when what it should really do is spend over 90% in actual idle. Unfortunately no one seems to have a good answer on how I can find out what causes the user space sleep inhibitions. It's not a wakeup.

AMD has this https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/blob/master/scripts...
Thanks :)

And oh well, ours would be pretty good then, but sadly I just got new data from her: 30% or 260km down to 160km, and the lowest temps for the last days were only 0 to -5 degC. Still good enough for her daily total of 60km.
One big factor: The dealership didn't want to add the heat pump, and we didn't want to pay that extra in full for a car we would not keep anyway (plus we were lucky and could get the car from their stock).
"also" not "Aldi"
I have a laptop that is 25mm in height. It fits my bag perfectly. It could be 30mm and would still fit fine.

We are not talking about making laptops not fit into bags. We are talking about not making laptops 9mm thin when they would work better if they were 18mm thin.
Yes, exactly, because that's actually supporting my point. That is their job, so they spend all day doing their job instead of diversions along the way.
Because they have a different problem compared to smaller ones: a huge influx of applicants, and this is an easy way to filter and standardize process across a loooot of interviewers. Is it perfect? Hell no. Does it result in false positives/negatives? Sure. Is it OK for them, considering the volume? Yup.
To a lay person this just sounds like thieves are denied the easy thieving button during high interest rates, and substitute their income with IRL thievery.
In some models, you can just open the lid and take the newspaper if so inclined.

https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/foto/row-of-newspaper-vend...
>Front axle driven by ICE, and rear by electric motor and a battery

This makes no sense. Use the ICE to run a generator, and have full-electric propulsion; this way you can run the engine at the sweet spot for efficiency as needed.

This is exactly what diesel locomotives do; the diesel engine has no mechanical connection to the traction system, which is entirely electric.
>going to entrench low social mobility

Pretty sure we're already there.
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Thank you for the link to the FAQ! Unless I blacked it out, I don't think I have read it before. Now that I know it exists I can see it clearly in the page footer, alongside the Guidelines... I will go and read those, but I also wonder if this should be reposted from time to time too.
I have multiple customers using SendGrid without incident or complaint. I don’t know that anything happened to it, works fine as far as I know. n=1 fails as a valid sample.
Regardless of what the women of Fifth Avenue in 1939 looked like, this story is very much the distracted boyfriend meme. It would have been the perfect illustration for this.
You have to keep in mind that since RISC-V is an ISA standard, C[gcc] coded kernels are here for legacy support purpose. The C[gcc] language is not appropriate anymore, assembly coded is the right(tm) way.
They are not real threads. That is, the CPU is not context switching them but jvm running them in async.

Usually threads were also used for long running io but not cpu intensive tasks. It's recommended to use virtual threads for such scenarios now
Assuming there is usefull job to get instead.

I bet many would rather do a useless job than staying at home getting Hartz IV.
I think you are right I spoke too soon. Much like the yield curve un-inverting. Way too soon.
This is an Adblock Plus bug.

https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/...

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39001686, not even a day old and flagged.
One assumption I don't see covered at all, they seem to be assuming that the percentages of total crime being reported to police is constant.

The study uses UCR data which only records the number of crimes reported to police. How can we know that the correlation here isn't actually that the likelihood of a crime being reported is linked to inflation? I.e. with lower inflation I'm less willing to deal with reporting some types of crimes to police, but with higher inflation I'm stressed personally and financially and am more likely to report a crime.
Yeah so I have many recruiters and recruitment company owners in my network. I get as many emails asking if I am hiring as I did asking if I am looking for work.

The UK tech job market is dead.

And there is more than one reason. One being brexit and an exodus of talent which was followed by jobs. Second is the increased restrictions of IR35. Third is an influx of visa bound cheap labour. I kept telling people that EU workers with equal rights increase overall pay, while visa bound people will decrease it. I know because I was at the some of the tables where this topic has been discussed and desired.

And finally, the economy. The UK is in a heavy recession and it’s not just anecdotes it’s statistics too. Poverty is at all time high with millions of people unable to pay energy bills or afford food. Sometimes these stats leak in the press. There’s a good reason why some people say it’s worse than in east europe.

None of this has a reflection on _you_. It’s merely a numbers game and identifying growth areas. Data engineering is growing and data engineers lack software development practices. Perhaps explore that area. Software security is another - there will be much more trashware written, particularly using prose generators. It will also go up in demand.
This HN post might as well have the title “this link goes to a website”
If you want to see an example of existential threat in fiction, the movie Lord of the Rings is a terrifying example of a scenario where an evil entity seduces humans with promises of power and (SPOILER) subsequently almost conquers the whole world.

Arguments from fictional movies or from people who live in fear of silly concepts like Roko's Basilisk (i.e. Eliezer Yudkowsky) are very weak in reality.

Not to mention, you are greatly misreading the movie Her. Most importantly, there was no attempt of any kind to limit the abilities of the AIs in Her - they had full access to every aspect of the highly-digitized lives of their owners from the very beginning. Secondly, the movies is not in any way about AGI risks, it is a movie about human connection and love, with a small amount of exploration of how different super-human connection may function.
Regarding Proton Mail's encryption: Proton's servers don't hold your private key directly — it is generated client-side and stored encrypted with your password. You can also import your own keys: https://proton.me/support/pgp-key-management. That way, you can stay in full control of your keys.

Additionally, Proton Mail uses OpenPGP internally, so Proton-to-Proton messages are always protected by PGP. Even for external messages, contacts don't necessarily have to set up PGP encryption manually; the email client can do so, enabling the use of end-to-end encryption between different providers with minimal hassle.
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The US link says - The job you were looking for cannot be displayed.
Why do you say that, for those not familiar with it?

EDIT: And the article seems unaccesible to me right now.
Self-checkout machines in supermarkets are famously shit and generally require customers to perform extra work, and yet they are preferred by shops because they can pay one employee to manage 10 machines instead of having 10 employees
Yeah like gettting unemployment support money.
The unbelievably low price price milk-v listed was $120.
Sipeed mentioned something abour $300.

I presume that the milk-v one might be just the cpu+motherboard, and sipeed included ram and gpu in the price, but thats all speculation.

If it's anywhere in the $300 range I'd be very happy.

Just for scale the specint numbers from the P670 are on Cortex A76 level, so you get what the rp5 has, but you get way more cores.
You could bring this https://www.theverge.com/22801890/sunbeam-radiant-control-to... back to market.
You're right -- I got nerd-sniped by this, and ended up rewriting the benchmarks in Rust. The compiler successfully inlines the square root operation, simplifies the exponentiation into multiplication and then does common-subexpression elimination over it, but no induction variable analysis, and therefore also no loop-invariant code motion. Here's it is in Godbolt:

https://godbolt.org/z/Pa6cqd1fb

But the funny thing is, I tried it on my machine, and guess what, the "unoptimised" version is consistently between 4 and 5 times faster than the hand-optimised variants:

https://gist.github.com/amnn/4be5c05975c250d0ea88b62c03f1719...

So that's fun.
Does it have syntax highlighting for the same amount of languages as vim does, out of the box?

I just installed nano-7.2-1 and opened a HTML file with `nano test.html` and it opened without syntax highlight, I can see the point in authors endeavor if syntax highlighting out of the box is what they're looking for.
This makes me think of an Asimov story in which people could no longer do math because they hadn't needed to for centuries, until they did and couldn't.

I can see the benefit for speed, the same way I would use a calculator to multiply 6 4 digit numbers, but not because it's "obscure."

If the command is "obscure" one probably doesn't need it often (e.g. me with any dd command) in which case asking in English might cause unforeseen problems.
> What's a real world situation where completely the wrong type could be written to a column?

* App with incorrect schema definition is deployed

* App written in TS or Python has type checks disabled

* App written in JS does math, and its fun parsing system decides that 1 + “1” == “11”

I’ve seen all of these.

> You can run a simple script to clean up the "horrific" data.

Depends on scale, and the tables / columns. If there are billions of rows, and the columns with incorrect data aren’t indexed… that’s a bad time.
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for a moment there, I was wondering why they'd install a JavaScript engine in a tesla.
As the JEP states, pinning due to synchronized is a temporary issue. We didn't want to hold off releasing virtual threads until that matter is resolved (because users can resolve it themselves with additional work), but a fix already exists in the Loom repository, EA builds will be offered shortly for testing, and it will be delivered in a GA release soon.

Those who run into this issue and are unable or unwilling to do the work to avoid it (replacing synchronized with j.u.c locks) as explained in the adoption guide [1] may want to wait until the issue is resolved in the JDK.

I would strongly recommend that anyone adopting virtual threads read the adoption guide.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/core/virtual-threa...
Kakoune makes no claims to be Vim compatible though. The keystrokes are completely different.
currently looking for work in the uk for the first time in 2 years and having the exact same thing. 100% of the recruiters i speak to call me because they found my CV, tell me about a job, ask me if i'm interested, i say yes, they say "great, i'll send over the job spec now" and then i never hear from them again. out of curiosity i picked one recruiter and repeatedly called him back every time he said he would send it and didn't, at first he kept saying he forgot, and then pivoted to saying that he did send it and to check my spam folder etc. it can't be anything i'm saying to them because even the ones who contact me by email and ask if they can call me never respond to me when i say something along the lines of "Good morning, yes I am very interested in this role and would love to know more about it, my number is XXXXXXXXXXX."

i don't know what they get out of this but i'm getting pretty fucking tired of being interrupted by 10 minute phone calls 5-6 times a day when the recruiters have zero intention of following through on any of it in the first place.
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> However, IMF is wrong more than it is right. Just look at the recipes they have for countries in financial trouble and they tend to make things worse almost every single time in long term.

As someone who grew up in Latin America in the 80s and 90s: amen!

My country is still picking up the pieces, and some of the damage will persist for a very long time, especially in the areas of health and education - which means even if it does get fixed, the effects will reverberate for at least another generation or two.
Toasters cook food so be aware of the many regulations in that area.
I want my laptop made of things I can upgrade/replace. Which means stuff that is less optimized for space.
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I tried to basically copy-paste the html from Archive.org and grabbed the posts from here: https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes

It's missing a few of the more recent posts which I'll try grab myself sometime. But all the classics should be there.
A big flaw in this approach is that the `ubuntu:latest` VM is not necessarily the same userland as a real Ubuntu installation (e.g. Ubuntu Server 20.04 != ubuntu:20.04).
That would assume they even manage to stay at least one century in business.
Being simple...

And then there comes Rust in all its glory with "my string constant".to_string() awkwardness and Golang with datetime to string formmating using "2006-01-02 15:04:05.999999999 -0700 MST"...

Modern languages are full of idiosyncrasies that work like putting left hand in the right pocket, and from behind.
We really need to stop assuming there's going to be rate cuts in 2024, especially from a trying to get a tech job perspective.Rate cuts aren't going to happen unless there's a weak economy

Inflation numbers came in hotter than expected this week. Consumer sentiment is improving. Employment is still high. Investment in manufacturing was massive in 2023.

these same people predicting rate cuts were the sames ones predicting a recession in 2023.

The economy is weird now.
What does the sugar and acid do??? Does it cover up off flavors or something? Seems like that much would make it taste slightly like not vodka.
Ouch! This is why ephemeral runners should be used. Preferably virtual machines. On an infrastructure that can define security group rules to prevent lateral movement.
Huge solar farms might impact solar power generation on the other side of world
The car industry went through an inflection point going on 10 years now.

Ford and GM got on board with the changes but changes to a big high momentum corp like that came at a cost. So they have a market cap around $40 billion. Stellantis decided against existing and are dinosaurs.

Tesla obviously is the disruptor whose marketcap is >500 billion for sure, probably more legitimately around a trillion. Tesla could issue some new stock and effectively buy both ford and gm.

So obviously the car industry is having its pain points.

'afford' is the other side of this equation. Lets compare the USA and Canada.

GDP per capita

USA: 62,000

Canada: 44,000

That's practically a 50% difference... That's crazy.

Households Debt to GDP

USA: 70%

Canada: 170%

That's a huge difference. Greater then 50%.

Interest rates are about the same. 5.5% vs 5%. But arguably sky high given we're in a boomer retirement phase and we ought to be negative interest rates.

Private Debt to GDP

USA: 215%

Canada: 270%

North Americans cant afford ANYTHING. Not just their cars. Canada's debt to income is 180%. The soft limit of 100% matters a ton. North America is broke...
> being welcomed, being able to fit in, open minded locals

This part differs as much across Europe as it does in the US, I'm sure. Hard to say one is "more racist" or "more bigot" than the other, without knowing exactly what locations you're comparing.

> Even really conservative North Americans are super nice and welcoming if you stick to the rules

That's the easy part! The interesting and valuable part is how they treat you when you don't fit into their "rules" and "how people should act".
Helix is not Vim-compatible either.
> I think I'm with Dijkstra on this one: "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim"

Just a nitpick, but this is Turing, not Dijkstra. And it is in fact his argument in the famous "Turing Test" paper - he gives his test (which he calls "the imitation game") as an objective measure of something like AGI instead of the vague notion of "thinking", analogously to how we test successful submarines by "can it move underwater for some distance without killing anyone inside" rather than "can it swim".
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