skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what, five hours?

Add in the 6-hour take home (which companies delusionally believe will take 2 hours, despite being often inadequately scoped or otherwise poorly presented; while quite often expecting a nitpick-proof solution); and all the random delays, and other hoops - and the none-too-occasional ghosting (even at the very end of the process) -

Yup, it adds up.
I think we’re finally hitting a tipping point where we need male advocates.
This script is good evidence they made up the connection part way through Empire. Also, if Lucas already had it in mind for Star Wars, I doubt he'd have Obiwan straight up lie about it.
A leader can only press the first button, they can't press the last button.

Every country has allies to retreat to.
authentik CTO here; we’ll fix this in the next release (match-april), it should be possible in a non backwards incompatible way using the suggestion in this comment https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/6139#issueco... (which does call that solution a hack but I wouldn’t necessarily agree)
This is definitely something I’m thinking about doing! I would ideally like to keep the reaction wheels visible though. Putting LEDs inside the wheels for a persistence of vision effect might be cool.
Farcaster a decentralized "enough" social network, which fixes this. Easy to run your own node too
Lucas only came up with the idea that Anakin = Vader after the original Star Wars was out, when he was revising the script for Empire. Before that we were supposed to take Ben Kenobi at face value when he said that Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Luke's father.
Yes, and I’m struggling to imagine why you think it is even implied that they could be the same person, from the first film alone. Could you explain further?
Pretty good for 256 Bytes!
They're coming for the libraries, too.
Good point, I want both. The app should use files and be open source.
> There's a difference between banning things (including books) for use in schools and the federal government declaring certain books illegal.

Perhaps. But there is a law in Florida making it a felony for the teacher to have that book in the classroom.
Great post. I think Mojo's claims like the speedup over Rust are a problem, like the 65000x speedup over Python. How can we differentiate between good new tech and Silicon Valley shenanigans when they use claims like that? They do nice titles and slogans but are shady in substance
I agree. Even as a senior dev, I couldn't help but think, "this story isn't as difficult as I was expecting from the headline". To each his own. ;-)
This hits way too close to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39295526. I am now waiting for someone to start turning HN discussions into videos in the style of "MongoDB is webscale", which is both amusing and terrifying.
1080p is the way to go IMO
strong plug for onshape instead of fusion360
Why Has Autonomous Driving Failed? Perspectives from Peru
Why can’t we do both?

Edit:

It would take _years_ to get the police to put their house in order. So why not go after swatters as well in the meantime? Most swatters are repeat offenders.

And once the police have cleaned up their act… do you believe former swatters will quietly become law abiding citizens? I don’t. They’ll find some other way to ruin people’s lives, hopefully a less dangerous way.

We could also ask, why do swatters swat in the first place anyway? How could we prevent them from wanting to do such a thing?
Thanks for your measured response. You're right that it's not inherently toxic to think of yourself. The reason I reacted that way is because that mentality (whether explicit or not) is what leads to operating in a very transactional way or empire-building fashion that works against good outcomes in the long-term.

I honestly don't think being too selfless is an adequate explanation for career stagnation though. Selfless behavior will generally help you get ahead in life and in your career, because good relationships matter a lot. However you won't get promoted just because you help everyone. What if you are just servicing the squeaky wheels rather than solving the biggest problem on your plate? A good manager will only look to promote you because you have demonstrated you are capable of solving larger problems. There are other things too: like the business actually has the need for a higher level role. If that's the case, then your behavior is irrelevant—you just need to leave to someplace that does have the growth opportunity.

Overall the reason I said your comment was strange is because it clearly comes from some personal experience you had, but it lacks enough context to be actionable to anyone who reads it. I can think of a dozen different ways I've seen a "servant leader" mentality succeed or fail, but it all depends very much on context. Ultimately if you want to succeed you need to understand what game is being played and not fallback to abstract platitudes.
Oh they “read books.” They just don’t read books without weighty worksheets with “lessons” and themes discussion. The reading is always purposeful and always leads to some bloated exercise. It’s rarely just reading.
Christmas the Minch did steal
Use nostr
Bit of a rant but I also have been job hunting after a layoff and their experience sounds like a dream. I have only gotten email rejections thus far and only 1 phone screen. It feels like most of my rejections are just automatic emails. Some of them come same day. The most demoralizing thing happens when you get rejected for a job and then see a new listing for that same job go up just moments later. You were rejected not because they picked someone else but because they decided even talking to you wasn't worth their time and they would rather go back to the pool.
"You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership." [0, 1]
- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USN

0: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
1: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-wit.html
Snowpocalypse/snowmageddon. 2010

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5%E2%80%936,_2010_N...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010...

Two back to back storms, there was about 12 hour window where you could get in or out. This poor guy was supposed to fly back during the first, got pushed to a flight during the second, and then the pile-on of rebookings pushed him further. I don't remember if he got trapped due to the third storm too.

It wasn't completely cut off. During the first storm, I got head notice of the next one and rebooked my flight out of the east coast to be one day earlier, and threaded the needle by politely asking customer service. I was in and out of the east coast for a week.

Anyways, Some cities on the east coast are less prepared than others for this sort of thing.
The extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land
That's kind of what I'm thinking, after getting my 4k HDR TV I was blown away by the filesizes needed to make full use of it.

Just the most popular stuff and limited to 1080p or less though... Yeah 16Tb is pushing it.
Thanks for confirming that I didn't imply something that the GP read into it.

They posted numbers like they were well informed, but conveniently left out of those numbers that you pointed out had more than 1 subscription that you've pointed out. I just didn't think this was something that needed to be pointed out in an honest conversation, and would only be needed by shills for Netflix
> Keycloak solves a complex problem.

A lot of problems, actually, and most people don't have many of them. If you just want an OIDC server in front of your self-hosted apps you can solve that with a much simpler and faster tool.
I’m really excited for the upcoming Supernote A5X2. So many smart and community-friendly decisions in the design and software. My reMarkable 2 is still holding up, but I’ll be giving it a close look when the time comes for a replacement.
Agree. The last lynching was in 1981. Things are definitely better with the youth vandalizing property instead of murdering.
Ooh, that's nice and interesting. Will have to re-check out Stride then.
I have written scripts in awk (what seems a lifetime ago!), bash, then perl, ruby and python - in that chronological order. I think awk scripting didn't take off for the masses because while it was good for its goal, (1) it was a bit niche; the common knowledge people came in to work on unix systems was bash and awk/grep/sed one-liners - learning awk would have been work that was seen to have specialized gains, (2) yes, Perl sort of provided a sane alternative to the mix of shell scripts, magic one-liners and awk scripts. Of course, later it was supplanted by Python (transitioning through a brief period of Ruby).

Reading legacy scripts was wild back then - you had to be somewhat good at bash, unix tools like awk, C, make, Perl:-)
In our case, you can track school performance via state standardized test scores. Yea, they are somewhat flawed and biased, but can still give you a very good idea of how good of a job a public school is doing. In our case, our kids (now aged 15 and 12) were getting B’s and high C’a, but were both scoring single digits on standardized tests for math, English and science.

As it turns out our district overall state test were abysmally low.

The net result is general flight from the public system, either via home schooling, “Choice” programs that let you go to other districts if yours is inadequate, or private school. Graphing our school enrollment numbers has gone from about 970 students in district in 2017 to 670 in 2023.
That is a cut. A cut is literally any calorie deficit from maintenance. If you lose weight by changing your diet (or energy expenditure while keeping diet the same) by definition you’re on a cut. Most people that deliberately do this would cut at 200-600kcal a day to be effective though, otherwise minor fluctuations make a, say, 100kcal deficit difficult to measure.
List of SaaS boilerplates (starter kits) by stack
Don't forget to give some credit to llama.cpp which actually runs the models here and does all the things you're praising it for. This project is more about building a platform on top of it with RAG and function calling.
I used to live in the back-facing first floor apartment off Atlantic Ave (basically the busiest street?) in Brooklyn and I almost never heard anything going on outside. It was always weird stepping outside to the very lively street.

It was very strangely quiet and I didn't particularly like it.
The irony is that the distribution company in my state has been privatised and the QoS has nosedived. People are looking for backups and by far the fastest and easiest solution is to buy a diesel powered generator (which doesn't have the same emissions/noise requirements as cars).

There is visible growth in solar, but you see it more often in businesses, because the return on investment takes a long time for a house (10-15 years).
To further one of your points, there is very much pressure to keep closure rates up by pinning it on the most-plausible suspect even if you have doubts, and letting the DA sort it out. The DA does not always sort it out, and if it looks like an easy case then that someone gets railroaded.

Obviously this is not ideal at the police level (who should find the truth, not someone to blame) but some more accountability is warranted within the judicial system too. All incentives here are perverse, yet lack of them results in fuckall getting done.
Tell me more about how they don't care about their property value they are simply trying to uphold the character of the neighborhood.

Really the property owners and landlords are the victims here.
I mean, you aren't payed in buckets of rice or whatever. Or even a inflation adjusted basket of good and services.

You are paid in dollars (or equivalent). So they don't get to claim to be paying the basket of goods if they won't automatically match inflation either
Crash test of an EV pickup truck
Distant Worlds 2
Try running it through chatgpt. Give your resume and give job discretion. Ask if your resume is a match for this job. You will be surprised.
The RM homebrew community has answers for some of the problems the author poses. I haven't tried it personally, but there is a VNC package that will let you use your tablet as an auxiliary screen.

The hacking community is small but pretty dedicated. There's a few exciting projects in the works, like a complete desktop interface called Oxide.

The RM tablets are kinda neat in that you get root access out of the box. You have a lot of power to write or isntall custom software.

That said, Remarkable the company has been fairly shitty. They removed the links to the dev tools, and don't really respond to requests for source that they are obligated to release under the GPL in any reasonable time.

They also made the inexplicable decision to ship a keyboard case for the thing, but the only way their software supported it at launch was a fixed textbox in the middle of the screen. You couldn't move or resize it, so it was basically useless.

Fortunately, homebrew has your back. There's an app that just gives you a terminal with keyboard support. You can ssh to another machine or write in vi or whatever you do with a normal terminal
The problem is companies are having people run the gauntlet -- or in any case displaying a cavalier attitude about milking folks for their time and patience -- despite not offering anything comparable (in terms of intrinsic attractiveness of the role or compensation) to what FAANG-tier companies do. On top of flaky (or flakier than the used to be), sometimes weird even, communications, etc.
Look into sleep apnea as well
Yeah, that's a pretty interesting question. For long-lived connections on networks I don't trust, I arbitrarily set the timeout at 10s. On networks I trust, I set it to one second. Looking at 99.99%-ile connection times on my production network, it's bimodal with peaks at 1ms and 28ms. (Guess which connections are from one physical machine to itself, and guess which connections are to a different machine.)

I have no idea what the correct answer to an interview question that asks this is, though. Like, I never connect to my database inside the request flow, I have a connection pool and wait for a connection to become free in the pool. So "connection time" is really a function of how utilized the pool is, and has only a passing resemblance to the health of the database. Maybe 10 connections are running "begin; lock table foo; select * from foo where expensive_condition". All 10 connections in the pool are blocked on a lock, and that doesn't mean the database is unhealthy and you want to shed load. So do you want to show the 11th person "sorry, our site is down, come back later", or do you want to wait for the random expensive queries to complete? I'd wait. (I suppose I wouldn't take an exclusive lock on a table to serve a web page either, but who knows what the interviewer is doing.)
> We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave them kids alone.
Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone.
All in all, it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.

Given that that's a Pink Floyd lyric from the 70's written by men whose education would have been WWII era, it does indeed seem like a long-running theme.
Can somebody help me out here? I went to the GitLab pricing page:
https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/

Where do I select my location so as to get my location based price?
Sure, but even so it's not clear that air pollution is a factor. Some researchers recently compiled a "chronology of global air quality" which might be worth a review to see if any correlations can be uncovered. At a glance, it looks to me as though Europe and the USA cleaned up their act a long time ago -- so unless pollution exposure in early childhood is somehow especially bad, pollution still has no explanatory power: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7536029/

There's also a paper which reviews the "global incidence of young-onset dementia" -- and, again, incidence in the low-pollution USA is higher than in high-pollution developing countries. https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.100...
What features does oauth2-proxy provide that Dex is missing?
This trend seems to have no borders. Norwegian students are worse at math, reading comprehension and science than ever: https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/nyheter/pisa-undersokelsen... The pandemic, “studying for the test” and smartphones are the three most common scapegoats here too. A summary of the situation can be found in this (paywalled) article: https://www.morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/kommentar/2023/12/15/hve...

My money is on technology or other global causes. The decline started before the pandemic, and a decline in many countries at once cannot be attributed to Norwegian government policies.
You can experience a verbose Vader for real, thanks to Auralnauts bringing Zack Snyder’s vision to the Star Wars franchise:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J9X_FmCbrIA
> One company used an IQ test

This is interesting. I haven't had that one yet, but last week I had an application with a "personality" test that asked whether I tend to vote for left-leaning candidates or right-leaning candidates. This company was in the healthcare space.

GitHub asking for approval for AI to review my resume was a bit of a beat too. I did not give permission, and it definitely left me feeling at a disadvantage to other candidates.
Tbf, buried in the scammers scamming scammers is what appears to be a scandalously bad bit of customer service from AirBnB.

Normal member of the public "Kathy" makes a normal reservation via the AirBnB website for a falsified hotel listing whose address resolves to a vacant lot and whose "representative" doesn't respond to her questions. To add insult to injury, the scammers on AirBNB's platform post her personally identifying information including contact details on their social media (presumably as evidence of "real customers" to try to sell more scam franchises)

AirBNB - according to the reporting - decides that refunding her "about half" the money she paid AirBNB for a nonexistent hotel room is sufficient...
What’s your learning about this? I just tried it and it’s very interesting how specific the analysis is.
Or you should hire twice as many of them
Why companies are leaving the cloud
I guess I got lucky in when I started out as a career switcher in 2017. Iirc I applied 6 places, had 4 interviews, got 2 offers. Mind you this was as an effectively junior person applying to mid-level positions. I like to think that having so few interviews allowed me to concentrate my enthusiasm and highest mental energy into the interviews I had, but maybe it's just survivors bias.

Since then I've taken 3 interviews and gotten two great offers in the 50+% percentile for US based software engineering roles. I'm a not-that-bright grug-brained developer, so I'm sure it wasn't because I was blowing people out of the water with my brain power.

I'm not sure I have the energy to do a numbers-game applicant strategy. I hate interviewing generally, and live coding causes my brain to lock-up. So I only apply places I am genuinely excited to work for, and places that I reason would be generally excited to have a good team player who is nonetheless a grug-brained developer.

I can get genuinely excited about pretty run-of-the-mill work though, and have strong opinions very loosely held. I think maybe those two qualities are my secret sauce.
Wendover productions is always super insightful. thanks for sharing. Here is the YouTube link https://youtu.be/URoVKPVDKPU?si=HvieKCDqozaen-et
Is that a problem? That's kinda the whole point. It's docker, so you can make a cloud drive mountpoint with rclone on the host, then mount that path inside of docker if you really wanted to

I imagine most people running immich also have a good amount of local storage
To expand on this, if software was like hardware:

- when your function calls don't have enough white space between them, they'll some times mix up their return value (crosstalk)
- the more deeply your if/else statements are nested, the more random their results end up being (voltage/IR drop)
- when the user makes a selection, your bound function is called somewhere between once and a dozen times. Each time with a different value (bounce)
- their is no `true` or `false`. You just are given a float between one and zero, where one is true and zero is false. Sometimes `true` is as low as 0.3 and sometimes `false` is as high as 0.7
- the farther apart your variable declaration is from it's use, the less it represents what you actually declared. If it's two lines apart, a 'foo' string is still 'foo'. Hundred lines apart though, and 'foo' might become 5.00035 (attenuation)
Wholesale connectivity is usually priced per unit for the 95th percentile sample, in the dominant direction. For most cloud services, outbound is the dominant direction by far. That's why ingress is free in almost every hosting environment.

Additionally, settlement free peering is usually based on having a roughly balanced traffic ratio (something like 2:1 or 3:1 counts as roughly balanced), attracting more ingress traffic by making it free vs having paid egress helps the provider balance their ratios so they may help their case for settlement free peering.
That title would call out the edge cases.

I don't think it is tainted. In practical terms, those games have been won.

Also, the idea of this + search as being the next step is wrong. That was the last step, ie it's been done. No search is the next step.
It's time to break free from Corporate Agile
I spent quite some time (almost) perfectly aligning my reaction wheels. Vibrations at multiple thousands of RPMs are no joke. Then again, such speeds are typically unnecessary once the cube has settled into its equilibrium position. ReM-RC on YouTube has built a similar cube which uses 3D-printed wheels with steel bolts in the circumference [1].

My wheels are oversized when you just consider the balancing application, but I want to add jump-up functionality later, and the wheels need significant inertia (and also need to run at significant speeds) to accomplish that.

[1] https://youtu.be/AJQZFHJzwt4
For one particular pool of candidates fighting over university allocated senate seats - you still have regular voting rights.
That's one of those questions I simply could not answer on the spot. My brain would immediately go into needing to know how long it takes on average to connect, why it takes so long, if the user's connection is bad, if we could load the content from the connection async, and so on...
According to this page the noisiest city in Europe would be Vienna. I have some doubts about this. I have no idea how they measured this but I would expect there to be some bias in the data.

Noise levels are very hard to measure as they are very different depending on where in the city you live. It also is even harder to measure in practice because the building standard can greatly affect how loud it is inside.

For Vienna you can find noise measurements online and really outside of very busy roads the city is pretty quiet: https://maps.laerminfo.at/
Could you clarify what you mean by "driving" people? Are you talking about leadership? Motivation? Persuasion? Using the word "driving" makes it sound like you want to pressure them into doing things faster or differently. Since you're not their manager, they may resent this, or just ignore you entirely. If this isn't your intent, you may want to think of some better words to express to yourself and others what you're trying to accomplish.