skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if they’re harder to get, fewer will have them. You can very much get an illegal firearm in Australia or the UK if you really want, but firearms crimes are significantly less because they’re not readily available.

I don’t think we (Canada or anybody) should necessarily ban guns, but I don’t think the US should have the 2nd amendment (as it’s now interpreted anyways) either.
Prices do go down though. A new building in Oakland just got written down by the joint venture REIT that built it, in their filing they blame "historically high levels of new housing on the market". Rents in Oakland are down about 25% in real dollars from their peak in 2019.
Capitulating to the depp pockets of NIMBYs and real estate developers would mean Newsom could easily kill all this with a few vetoes. He's not a passive actor here.
In fact, if I am reading this 2020 Census report correctly[0], 40% of the US population lives in the 806 cities with a population >= 50,000.

[0] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2...
Or even Counterpart?
Sorry, I would never use this. Before I consume any json from any source or for any purpose I validate it. Lazy loading serves no purpose if you need validation.

Hint: you need validation.
Amazing work. One random thought; Would giving each AY its own clock
make stack/unison much richer?
You are referring to building apartments in the second most populous city in the United States as promoting a social engineering agenda?
You started a flamewar in this thread and perpetuated it quite nastily. We have to ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
> My willingness to practice leetcode isn't correlated with my interest in new work or the work any given job post describes.

The job requires you to practice leetcode in order to get the job. If you don’t want to practice leetcode then you don’t want the job.
> Your questions are irrelvant. It didn't ask "is this a vehicle". It asked "is this a vehicle in the park".

To be a vehicle in the park, it must first be a vehicle.

But your definition is bad. It basically hinges on it being able to move, which means it's "vehicle-ness" can come into an out of existence quiet flimsily (like if it's is out of gas, a tire gets popped, or the keys are lost suddenly an otherwise functional car/tank completely ceases to be a vehicle and just becomes metal?). So like you could imagine sitting there, putting gas into a car, siphoning it out, putting it back in, siphoning it back out, etc etc. Are you really in that process, changing something fundamental about the car?

Another interesting question, is let's say we go to a storage lot, and we find a car that's been in storage for awhile. It was working before, it has gas in it and keys and tires and all that. But we haven't run it for awhile, and cars sometimes breakdown over time when they are just left there. So before we have had a chance to verify that the car runs, there is some non-zero chance it doesnt work, some non-zero chance it does. Is that car a vehicle?
If the question is sufficiently related to the actual application, it could be an interview of the "solve our biggest problems for us, unpaid, without context" form, which I experienced once at a tiny startup. The technical lead just sat there silently as I probed with more questions. Eventually, I set down a boundary and let them know that that is something for the business to solve.
We are more than capable to do this without any help.

I would say that cocaine or drugs has a bigger influence to generate war monsters than AI.
These jobs pay a lot of money. If you want one bad enough you’ll find the time to practice.
Google announced Jan 11th they’re eliminating data transfer fees when migrating from Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminatin...
Yes, but it's also Oakland - not really the most desirable place in the neighborhood. That's actually the kind of place where prices would be most likely to drop if you just increase density across the board. (Which is not a bad thing if you're overly worried about the detrimental effects of gentrification!)
> I find it frustrating that the Mach guys have this great write up, but don't just say what the "signing" is.

I think it's for plausible deniability in case M$ ever comes after them for RE reasons. They probably want to be able to say that they didn't use the proprietary blob in order to implement their own code signing.
How should I study this "How to Study" guide?

I say that jokingly, but John Gall pointed out in Systemanics the absurdity of giving students who struggle to study a class on how to study.
So far, it seems like the Industrial Revolution was the key accelerating factor for our civilization. Conditions for it were right (or very close) at the height of the Roman Empire. They were probably pretty close at the height of Chinese power, and the Islamic world before the Khans.

…but we’re still a young civilization, and are extrapolating from very little data. It could be that we’ve yet to encounter most of those inflection points. Maybe the next one is “the Singularity” - but beyond that we really have no idea.

All of this is consistent with humanity being very early on the timeline of the universe.
The galaxy is around 100k light years across and 13 billion years old. For us to be among the first generation born within 10^5 years of each other after a gestation of 10^10 years, would make us special.

Being among the first civilizations in the galaxy is less special than being the first civilization, but more special than being just another in an ongoing ecosystem.
That hadn't really occurred to me actually. I'll keep it in mind as I start mixing multiple chips together.
To be fair I really would enjoy writing the sorts of things I like in rust if I could express monad traits sanely there. Like I’m actually trying to talk myself out of writing a type theory plus resource logic language in my not so copious free time because I want higher order traits/types and low level powah :)
Sorry, somehow I really misread your comment. Not sure how I was so wrong in my reading.

Needless to say I agree with everything you've written, and also appreciate the use of a DAW screenshot to make the point.
Equinix bare metal bandwidth is pretty crazy expensive too.

5c/GB is less than the 9c that Amazon charges, but still, ouch.
I always played it as a meta-game: you can control transportation, but my real goal was to increase city population and ultimately build a single large metroplex.
If you think OpenAI isn't successful....
I’ve seen a few of those. It’s really surreal. It makes me feel like our history has been fudged and the singularity already happened. It’s surreal especially with all the graffiti mentioning similar scenarios, or the bullet casings. But even outside of that just the crazy amount of buildings that suddenly appear. It’s pretty wild.
Who cares? The alternative to flying on a 737 MAX isn't driving, it's taking a different flight.
> Android customization is sort of like junk food - enjoyable in the moment, but
not meaningfully improving your life.

Hard disagree. I assume you have some technical background, that's why you consider it not meaningful. Go speak to someone that knows nothing about it, which is the majority of the people I assume, I'm pretty sure they learn a lot in the way.
> What they care about is they don't want to start working on projects that then sit in drawers for years.

This reminds me of another HN discussion about prediction markets, and how they can be misleading since profit is not the same as the time value of money.

For example, I could put down some money for a guaranteed profit against the people betting on "Trump will replace Biden in October 2024 after the aliens invade", but that's so far-out (in both senses) that it's not actually a good rate of return--I could be doing a lot more in-between now and then with the money.

In this case, perhaps developers could invest in a profitable project... but if the time-span is too long, the profit-per-time is bad so they'll look elsewhere.
AWS VPN base cost is $72/mo + $36/u/mo. So they were spending $80k/mo before?
I make more than the average NYC person and pay far far less than them to live.

apply whatever the hell you want to rationalize that existence, I don't personally care.

When you're done screaming about how terrible it is that you'll never own a home, come join sanity.

or don't. I don't give a shit about your rationalization.
It feels like talking about religion. In a lot of them at the very least, there is an almighty, omniscient god, the alpha, the everyday, and the omega god, the one that maximizes knowledge, intelligence, power, whatever. And people following that religion know exactly how that entity thinks and behave. Because that entity should think like humans of the current culture does, no?

With aliens, with a different culture, civilization if that concept applies, language or not, and enough technology to make interstellar travel, and all of that for thousands to millions of years, those aliens that are far beyond our imagination, well, somewhat we know how they think and should behave, now knowing the technology they should have, the knowledge about the universe they should have, philosophy or whatever.

We don't even know if it will be ever practical interstellar travel, because we didn't reach that stage yet. In theory it should work... in theory I could climb stairs till reaching the moon too. People is too busy trying to figure out how advanced aliens should think, and didn't stopped to analyze how they are thinking.
I get what you’re saying, and will echo that these systems are still just tools that enhance what we, as humans, are capable of doing. But I think you’re failing to consider that even comparatively simple systems can exhibit emergent behavior, well beyond their programming. You’re being unreasonably reductive and dismissive.
acoup typically shows whatever image he can, and then states how close it is to the actual thing he was trying to talk about (and where it deviates) in roughly a single sentence — I’m not sure it’s actually that hard to fit in. In a video format, I’d probably expect it as a text-disclaimer on the image for anyone who cared.

Not doing so is exactly the same as the Hollywood thing; focusing on the narrative rather than the actual teaching, which seems to me psychotic behavior for anything purporting to teach. If you’re misrepresenting the image of the object for narrative convenience, the immediate question is how much of the other material has been butchered for that same convenience? The priorities are out of order.

It’s a violation of viewer trust, and it’s only acceptable in the sense that the viewer often doesn’t know they’ve been tricked… because they were viewing it for the precise reason that they don’t have the knowledge to differentiate between a truth and a lie on that subject
I found this at Instructables: "Slide Rule for the Modern Day"

[1] https://www.instructables.com/Slide-Rule-for-the-Modern-Day/
I know I'm being an asshole but that's quite thoughtful. Thanks.

> I'm over 40, have been working since I was a teen, and I have understanding and empathy for things like preferred pronouns. Genuine appreciation for this can come from seeing how things were for people before we improved awareness and sensitivity.

Same, actually. I made more of an effort two decades ago. My patience has been exhausted with the number of "victims" who prove to be cruelly antagonistic when you look under their sympathy narrative. In 20 years my good will has been twisted into: trust nobody, and if I'm feeling sorry for ___, it's a grift.

(As a minor case in point, look at the expectations surrounding charity these days. If you give anything at all, you're shamed and berated for not giving more. wtf?)

Israel's current antics are unsurprising; every subculture has quietly adopted the Nazi lebensraum playbook of crying oppression and attacking civilians to make gains for themselves. Tolerance and forgiveness is never advocated by progressives (feminists will, occasionally). "Lie, cheat, shame and kill/cancel" are their only moves.

It makes for a world that is crueler than it needs to be. You and I are just the cobblestones paving the road for someone else to advance their idea of progress. I don't consent to that.
https://github.com/harjoc/LogDiff - unmaintained, parses only ProcMon, but does the steps you describe, and uses Kdiff3 for diffs. With threaded apps it can be hard to identify automatically which thread is which.
From my experience, that is a popular opinion, but mostly perpetuated by people who only went to Paris, and didn't bother to learn at least a couple of simple phrases.

I got through France just fine while hiking and hitchhiking on my almost nonexistent french, mainly speaking English and German.

Just starting with "bonjour" or "ca va?" often lead to people offering me to sleep in their homes instead of under my tarp, especially in small towns, where the older population doesn't see many outsiders, and is therefore generally interested in having something to talk about. Of course their English and German is rather limited, so it takes a long time to communicate, but it felt very rewarding whenever it worked.
I mean, you're free to make the claim and I honestly hope it makes you feel better about yourself.

buuut... well you know your response is bullshit.

hey guys, dontcha know the only essentials are death and taxes! otherwise you have to admit that a brand new car driven off the lot is also an essential!

yeah, ok...
That's a pretty good comparison. We go to space but it's a fleeting excursion so far and we haven't yet evolved the necessary abilities to make it permanent
You can, right this moment, purchase a 2-3 bedroom condo in a glass-and-steel high rise in a central business district from a profit-seeking entity, for less than $400,000. It’s called Chicago. Something SF, LA, Seattle, etc. would be immensely improved by imitating.
> As we did with language, written words, books, newspapers, telegraphs, radio, telephones, television, etc. Every one of these was greeted with fear and disdain, and social disruption as we settled through a period of transformation. This one is no different.

My position doesn't come from resistance to change. It comes from seeing statistics like this: https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/number-of-teens-who-dont-enjoy... and from seeing how social interactions in person have degraded as smartphones became pervasive.

>Banning them from learning the complexities of a new social medium until they’re old enough to get into serious trouble will only hurt your kids.

And yet this is exactly what we do with alcohol. You cannot buy or consume any until the age of 21. Do you think we should simply trust children to self-moderate alcohol consumption?
>month long camping retreat

Not dissing your idea, which is accurate, but I can't not-find it funny to then remark that most Americans couldn't even take a 2 week vacation without cheating with sick days.
I'm using and enjoying Niagara on my Android phone. If I were to switch to iOS, is there any setting or app provides a comparable minimalistic experience?
Algebraic effects always struck me as an overrided fad. I would much rather they first spend time and something old and proven like higher kinded types.
Not exactly what you’re looking fir, but perhaps you’ll find it useful - llama benchmarked on all M-series chips, and in comments there are comparisons with nvidia.

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4167
And then evaporated the brine? Or what was it used for?
So if AI gathers the "facts" (as it finds them) and puts them into a summary for you, who will provide the commentary or "context". Who will help us make sense of the world around us? And connect the dots?

Will AI provide "insight" or "perspective"? Will AI predict "what might happen next?" And will AI help us make sense of the world around us? Or just a summary (in whatever "voice" or "style" you like)?
The scenario is similar to Solomon's: the merits the claimants have are equal, but the thing they're laying claim to is not divisible/fungible.

An arbitrary claimant gets the thing and pays the other one half the value of the thing. If that is wrong (very wrong), what would be right? Should we be cutting babies in half?

I'm sure we must be talking past each other, but I don't see where. My original point is that people would like just outcomes, but are satisfied with impartial ones, which is (IMO) the mechanism that allows us to come to consensus on a collective opinion even when no consenting individual holds that exact personal opinion.
Figma has actually gone along this line of thinking for plugins since ~2019 https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/ albeit their choice was from securing the existing plugin model rather than providing a minimal new scripting system.
People who say that are speaking from ignorance. These new buildings are ludicrously valuable. The newest, tallest in Oakland is worth > $500 million and the rents are $2k to $4k, and it's > 90% occupied. There are tons of jobs and demand for these homes.
Sure, but if when are you going to open a book on SNES (super nintendo)? For comparison, here is a very interesting video series for anyone with at least some programming knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ibhDU2SAI&list=PLHQ0utQyFw...

Sure, you could buy a book about snes (not even sure if any good ones exist) and read about that... but you're not that interested into the topic, because it's something old and not something you'll actually do... but here's a 6 minute video, that you'll probably watch... and if it's interesting, you'll go down a playlist and see "how thing were done" "back then" and learn something new.

Ever heard of Tefifon music player? Neither have I, until i saw the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqfVS6ahArs ... i would have never bought a book on ancient music players, but I learned something new by watching a short video.

Ever heard of purple gold? Neither have I, again, until the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Pcp944sRI

Compare this to eg. book bestsellers: https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/combined-print-an...

Sometimes all you need is a summary, you're not a chemist, SNES programmer or an old music player collector, but you still learn a lot, and all those things are topics, where you just don't buy a book, because th 10, 20 minute video covers all that you need and want to know.
i dunno bros, but this is the explanation of the fermi paradox for me. Sorry to go all HGTTG but...

>Wake up

>No idea where I am

>Hey we have no idea where everyone is

>According to history nothing much has happened in the universe

>Oh look at that, just now that you are alive you are hitting the singularity

Feels a little like a rehashed sitcom episode...like a director is just brute forcing shit to figure out a solution, with our lives. And its all probably just on how to make a good cup of coffee for his interdimensional space ship.
Makers&Founders
An always (randomly) expanding collection of video interviews, with makers and founders from a variety of sources and perspectives.
Context matters here. How critical is that workload? What the economic and reputational impact for the company, if one of the physical connections or some technical problem with the data center causes a downtime of hours or days?
Their desire and pressures probably impedes the time they're in. It's just not immediately obvious, and even today it's not completely obvious.

Typically, the response to ever increasing traffic congestion is to invest in wider highway, but the consequence remain the same, yet people continues to push for highway expansion.
What I know is that technological progress was very slow, until suddenly there was a breakthrough and it rapidly accelerated. Now, we have enough of the fundamentals down that new technological breakthroughs are happening extremely rapidly. What a time to be alive, of course, but what suggests alien civilizations wouldn't follow the same trend of rapid acceleration rather than constant growth?
Zero safety features?
so much this!!
Very good program. Not as interactive as other ways to do graphs, but solid for many tasks.
It's wild that we used to do radical changes to cities like this and now changing zoning or making cities walkable are frequently seen as unfathomable.
I own a Kill-a-watt, somewhere. Question: Why do you trust its numbers? I've seen similar consumer tech - step counters, etc. - fail when validated.
Kids that probably have an over-representation of Y chromosomes and swollen egos, so it tracks.
The specific behavior you get is a result of the programming. what does "beyond the programming" mean? I think it's actually a meaningless statement.

I would love to see an actual example where a program does something not encoded in itself already.
Rust has GAT which have the same power as higher-kinded types. However the patterns you might expect in a language like Haskell are harder to implement due to unforeseen interactions with Rust's lower-level features (such as no obligatory GC) - the standard approaches don't lead to a zero overhead abstraction in Rust. That's one of the reasons why this kind of work is needed.
Everything is accessible with an angle grinder and some patience.
I can't see how hackernews is 99.995% if I get at least 30-40 "Can't serve your request" error pages a year.
The constellation Gemini gets its name directly from the Greek mythological twins, Castor and Pollux.

Each twin had different capabilities. Pollux was a powerful warrior while Castor was an intellectual tactician.

The twins possessed an extraordinary fraternal bond, each loyal and devoted to protecting the other.

Together, they accomplished what they couldn't do individually. Their combined strengths made them far more effective than either could be alone.

Just as text, images, audio and video convey different knowledge, relationships and reasoning than text by itself, their combined strengths in a single model should be more powerful than any model trained on only one modality.
I think that my work is honestly the most important factor in my happiness. I spend 8 hours a day (probably for the rest of my life) at work so it's going to be the thing that impacts me the most psychologically in my life.

After realizing that, I decided I'd try as hard as I possibly could to never have to work at a job that I didn't like. I already didn't want kids so that part is easy. The other part of the equation is saving lots of money. I'm not an ascetic by any means, but I live well below my means on a SWE salary which means I can save quite a bit of money each year.

I also recognize that not wanting to go corporate severely limits my options down the line. But capitalism is all about making money for other people. If I can make someone a lot of money, they're not going to care about if I have the chops to stand up a Kubernetes cluster or write a Next.js app or whatever (I hope).

I don't think I'm super smart, I'd say I'm pretty average for this line of work. But I reckon that most SWEs are focused on learning new technologies to get to their next job, or are overly concerned with technical problems. I like to think that I am pragmatic enough about only doing things that are going to deliver business value to make up for being average in smarts.

Anyways, there's not really a point to this rant. These are just some thoughts I have had about optimizing my career for my own happiness, and how I hope I can stay a hot commodity even though I hate working in the cloud and my software skills aren't bleeding edge.
Last I checked at least, monkeys also don't build cities.