skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree, DevOps teams should be looking for resources that are being hit hard unnecessarily and request moves to better solutions when possible.

DevOps teams should be looking at CPU spikes, and should be performing RCAs, and they should be maintaining resources in a healthy state, and they should reject/revert changes and notify problem areas in code by product focused devs.

Product devs, for the most part, are only implementing human lex traces to debug business logic when it arises. Product devs are not equipped with the knowledge to identify system errors that are not "bugs in the code", i.e. they will not be good at telling you why SPROC_LXC1 fails as a result of making a ExcelParserFactoryFactory
I've never heard of memojis before...
So I did a little research on this, and it seems to be two main things.

Partly yes it seems to be a question of stability -- you're not going to bore and leave just a couple of feet of soil above, because of the way you want the arch of the tunnel to support itself, and that's not going to be strong enough. And close to the surface you've got looser soil etc. Going deeper does provide greater stability, in a way that isn't needed for cut-and-cover because that is supported by steel beams, not arches. But this doesn't generally require you to go crazy deep.

The bigger factor behind these crazy-deep tunnels seems to be pre-existing infrastructure. If you're doing cut-and-cover, you're digging out all of the infrastructure first and then replacing it -- it's highly disruptive. While if you're boring a tunnel, you need to go below everything that already exists -- sewers, water lines, deep building foundations, pre-existing subway lines that it crosses underneath, etc.
You eat an elephant one bite at a time. If we’re gonna start anywhere, pharmaceutical companies are a fine place to compress margins. You know, because people need these products to survive, and corporate existence as well as profits aren’t guaranteed.

We can always come for additional sectors in the future, depending on objectives and resourcing.
Yes I was mostly considering exactly perpendicular windows; it might be beneficial to let go of some realism and perspective to work more comfortably
It will be kind of like most of history where the only trustworthy method of communication is with face to face communication or with a letter or book (perhaps cryptographically) verified from a person you personally know or trust. Sounds good to me
"Meet the President!" Zadie Smith’s 2013 vision of our future with AR
Someone on a thread about Apple Vision Pro called it “active noise cancellation for your eyes” and all I could think of was this story.
It feels like every manwha has some sort of reference to hardcore bullying at school.
I'm not sure I agree, and as a rule of thumb don't really see much value in the arguments of those who seemingly can predict the future, especially when spreading FUD is the primary mechanism for supporting their prediction.
Have the kinks with the U3224KB been worked out? I had one for a while but ended up returning it and replacing it with a Studio Display due to a bunch of papercuts (blog post with details in my profile, if interested) mostly concerning its functionality with macOS (though there were a couple of issues with the monitor itself too, mainly the AG coating).
> Numpy is competitive with optimized C/C++

Can you cite a source/example for that? I cannot imagine an optimized C program that doesn't blow python with numpy out of the water. Even a poorly written C program is likely to be 2x faster simply because it doesn't have to round trip operations from C to python and back.
Why Selling Data for LLM Training Is Hard
I really don’t think it did, but in keeping with the greatest of human truths I only know what’s in my mind and not how others perceive me (in theirs).
It's funny it seems to have a lot of trouble extracting tabular data, which arguably is one of the things I hear people trying to do with it..
You can have an immediate-mode frontend to retained-mode state; see React, Compose, SwiftUI, etc. In this case, the retained state is an implementation detail, but the goal of the framework is to render your UI function deterministically whether it's updating or creating fresh state.
It's a problem because a given piece of text isn't going to match the same pixel boundaries on both screens.
I'm so confused by this, Python is really fast. This isn't to say that other languages aren't a lot faster but I can afford to be so ungodly wasteful with CPU bound tasks (on "leaf" programs don't worry I'm not doing this in libraries to be consumed by others) because it literally doesn't matter. The IO to call print(), write a log, or read a file on disk dwarfs the time actually spent running Python code and this is before using the new JIT.

I wouldn't number crunch in Python without something like numpy because you'll pay the cost of Python's dynamism for nothing but a lot of work has gone into making Python's primitives and standard library performant. I steal algorithms from CPython all the time.
Inflation just turns people’s brains off.

Some of us just panic and react without thinking about why food is getting more expensive or what policies will improve the world for us now and our children in the future.

When people are hangry, they vote for the loudest monkey.
On the dangers of reading and writing:

> ... And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.”

Note that the criticism is mostly spot on!

I spend some time in an internet forum where memory athletes hang out and you'd be surprised at what the human ability to remember can actually be.

This is from Phaedrus by Plato.

There are a few extra observations in the following text that nicely seems applicable to LLMs

https://conversational-leadership.net/myth-of-thamus-and-the...
Yeah, I really like the Macbook and the iPhone, but basically everything else apple produces is pretty shit these days, even the airpods are just alright (I mean, the audio quality, design, and form factor are amazing, but they are super buggy and there are better wireless earbuds for the price).

It would be a great shame if a secure, well designed, easy to use computer loaded with a custom-built, well supported unix-like distro gets trashed because the company that makes it is always trying to "innovate." I don't know if there's much left to innovate in the computer world, there is only so much you can do with ones and zeros. It would be better if they just focused on what works, reliable and secure consumer electronics, instead of trying to be what they were under Steve Jobs.

Jobs is dead, he will never come back, and Apple will never be Apple under Jobs again. They should just try to be like the IBM of their space...just there, doing what they do best. An institution, a monolith, but not a "disruptor," as if there are any of those left.
Widevine is a Google service so I didn't forget it. You can still play media if you dislike DRM usually, at =< 720p that is, which is a lesser security standard. I'm not even sure whether it involves additional servers.
But I think the weird part was that it was working okay in 3.5. In general c# support and cross platform saw regressions in 4.0 though it's slowly getting better as of 4.3
This is a great game, one question: what does ghost mode do?
> More often than not, it's collecting dust on the shelf within a few months.

I can't speak for the Apple Vision Pro, I'd love to try one, to be honest. But I can agree with your comment.

Such has been my experience with the two headsets I own - the Meta Quest 2, which I think is really great and serves many purposes, and the PSVR 2 headset, which is phenomenal for gaming, but pretty much useless for anything else.

Both headsets have had a short-lived "wow" factor to them, without a doubt, but sadly, the novelty tends to wear off within weeks. I haven't used my Quest 2 since early 2023 (I think) and the PSVR 2's last use was for a game called Pavlov, which is simply mind-blowing, despite which, I think the hassle of headsets is problematic. For real gaming I go back to couch gaming with the Xbox or PS5, and for computer things I use computers.

Funny thing is, I keep meaning to do more with the PSVR 2 but now it's actually so dusty that it puts me off, it needs a full cleaning at this stage :).

Edit: Meta Quest -> Meta Quest 2
A lovely app -- downloaded!
Wow, this is the first thing anyone’s written about the AVP that’s made me go “maybe I would use this kind of device…”

I didn’t even think about how nice they’d be to use outside on sunny days, compared with a laptop (or, coupled with one).
So... what is Congress actually going to do about it? Fix the broken patent system? Put a ceiling on pharma profits the same way health insurance profits are limited (80/20 rule)? Or just point fingers and continue taking campaign donation checks?
The Goodyear Massively Parallel Processor
By definition it isn't a gimmick.

You either have some rendered 3D model or you take the headset off when making a call.

Physics dictates that those are your only two choices.
Same. I returned it the other night because I finally just gave up on trying to make it comfortable. My body was just rejecting it. I could make it 20-30 minutes.

It's a bunch of factors. Heavy, lots of pressure on a few specific points, the dangling cable to a slippery battery which I had to leave plugged in all day, the grainy passthrough... But most of all it's just too heavy. And connection would sometimes get janky between Mac and Vision Pro.

I've got high hopes for generation 2 and 3 but it needs time to cook.
Admittedly I haven't read this article, but the title reminds me of staltz's excellent conceptualization of interactive interfaces:

The user sees screens and generates events.

The computer sees events and generates screens.

It's a mutually observing cycle (hence the name of his framework, Cycle.js).
I love the possibilities of retro-computing that are enabled by the decades of Moore's law we all benefit from. Behold, the VAX 11/780.... running in my cheap old smartphone. I can telnet into it. ;-)

Now I just need a good open source VT-100 emulator that runs on Windows.

$ show system
OpenVMS V7.2 on node VAX1 16-FEB-2023 22:10:27.77 Uptime 0 00:02:14
Pid Process Name State Pri I/O CPU Page flts Pages
00000081 SWAPPER HIB 16 0 0 00:00:00.38 0 0
00000085 CONFIGURE HIB 8 5 0 00:00:00.05 112 175
00000087 IPCACP HIB 10 6 0 00:00:00.08 99 177
00000088 ERRFMT HIB 9 21 0 00:00:00.10 146 227
0000008A OPCOM HIB 9 48 0 00:00:00.16 208 255
0000008B AUDIT_SERVER HIB 9 55 0 00:00:00.41 538 828
0000008C JOB_CONTROL HIB 9 22 0 00:00:00.10 162 301
0000008D SECURITY_SERVER HIB 10 34 0 00:00:00.41 1027 1398
0000008E TP_SERVER HIB 10 14 0 00:00:00.12 205 317
00000090 SYSTEM CUR 7 270 0 00:00:01.04 1274 445
> EDIT: rephrased because despite having a maths degree I can't count.

You would probably enjoy Tom Körner's book 'The Pleasures of Counting'. See eg https://maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-pleasures-of-counting
I have felt the same way at times. Just not waking up, so nobody can say that I quit.

My advice is to focus on healing your self with therapy sessions. Assuming this might sound like bad advice to someone who is broke try to figure out which free resources are available. Maybe subreddits or users willing to help pro bono.

Just the fact that you want to inquire about social media being weaponized against you is something that I would say just log off, don't let it even get to you. There's a reason why people deactivate their social accounts. Maybe it has happened but that shouldn't concern you. Your well being is and that involves difficult conversations challenging your thoughts and expectations.

Adulthood is more insidious in this respect, yes. Because our country lacks basic things like a national health care system that can help us. We have an infinite budget for wars but the notion of helping one another is blasphemous. So you're on your own in that sense, unfortunately.

The mind is funny, it can be our best friend or own worst enemy. Do everything in your power to love and care for yourself. Everything flows from there. Your situation is not unusual or embarrassing. You're not the first and won't be the last person to experience it. Build yourself up, don't break yourself down.
I have the Quest 2 and the text isn't legible enough for me to write code for any length of time.

I work with someone who has said "if the Quest 2 was a 0 on the usability scale, the Quest 3 is an easy 8 - it's that much better." I've not tried it myself, but I don't think my coworker is exaggerating.
And yes, I'm sure there are business reasons for wanting to pool a company's numbers under a main company line: but tough luck. There should be no way for this to happen. Make businesses find a way around it.
In number theory, 2 is often a special case in a lot of theorems. There's something odd about the even prime.
It's still way too easy to send LLMs into a complete tangent of rambling incoherently, opening yourself up to the LLM making written statements to customers you really don't want.

I recently asked some LLMs "How many gallons in a mile?" and got some very verbose answers, which turned into feats of short story short stories when I refined to "How many gallons of milk in a mile?"
Writing a geocoder is hard because they combine natural language processing (i.e. address parsing, an exceptionally hard problem) with the need to search through a very large dataset, typically 300-500GB but sometimes more. Doing that for each query generally requires using ElasticSearch, which doesn't respond well to being run on a VPS with 512MB of RAM. If you're not interested in this subject, there are lots of other posts on this site you can go read about.

Edit: In addition to the RAM requirements, you need a persistent volume containing the entire index attached to each serving instance, which is a real bummer when you want to scale horizontally.

> When you write like this it sounds very unprofessional. Also you are basically saying "this is really expensive, unless it isn't".

Likewise actually, it's kind of unprofessional to respond in this way to somebody's personal writing style for a writeup on her personal blog about a personal project. Go read some other Show HN thread, there's lots of genuinely cool stuff here, no need to pick on someone for writing in a way you disapprove of.
Second that. Good to see a polite but firm discussion in the comments. Also very interesting topic, would love to be a fly-in-the-wall in a meeting between these two.
Why did android go from full AOT in 5.0 back to a mix of the two? I remember when AOT was "hyped" (not really, but talked about) for Lollipop, but I never heard about why they went for a mix instead?
> there are better wireless earbuds for the price

Not that I’ve found. Maybe on individual features, but not as a whole product.
I've watched a few reviews where the claim is "multiple 4k monitors", and even on Apple's site it says "More pixels than a 4K TV. For each eye.". But any virtual monitor is going to be scaled down, and with "spatial computing" being the desired interaction, it's not going to be projected at a fixed point on the embedded screens. Sure, when you have a 4k monitor across the room, it's smaller because it's further away, but the full resolution is there (reality is much higher fidelity than "retina display" ever was and even the Vision Pro is). When a virtual display is projected into a space further away, it's going to take up fewer pixels and be down-sampled. It's kind of annoying that the term "4k" is being used to refer to "physical space the display takes up" or "size reported to the operating system" rather than the physical pixel density.
they will continue to beat the markets.

(not because they cheat, because they are our betters.)
That's a a great story. It's sad how much time and money is required to launch a profitable business and how many people never get this opportunity in spite of the fact that they could add a lot of value. They just need a few years of runway. Very few people are given that chance. Ex-developers from big tech are in an insanely privileged position, especially if they were able to accumulate some big pay packages. All developers I know outside of big tech are all broke.
Nah, diagrammatic reasoning is part of it. Separate yourself from syntax.

Doodling on paper (or just mentally envisioning a data structure) is way more fun than writing actual code.

I certainly would dissuade the OP from trying Elm. Not as part of learning state machines at least. Too many things at once and not necessary.
Now that's friction.
This is not a contradiction as these are multiple variables. The most important variable is the size of population able to participate in knowledge production.

Naturally higher the population size, higher the size of population able to participate in knowledge production. This creates a positive feedback loop on the population growth.

Downside of this is that every gain that would allow better living is eaten up by the population growth (there is actually name for this - Malthusian trap). Downside of this is that the size of knowledge producing population stays relatively constant in relation to the total population size.

There is another feedback loop, three actually. If households restrain the number of offspring in return of better education of the offspring then three things happen. First the size of knowledge producing population starts to grow independent of total population growth, total population growth will stagnate or decrease and amount of personal wealth will increase (surplus of resource growth is divided among fewer people).

This is also why Western world is rich, large parts of Asia is getting rich and Africa and India are staying poor.

Naturally there is a huge downside in the negative feedback loop on the population growth as eventually it will start hurting the total amount of knowledge production. It would be better if these two feedback loops would balance each other out.
Code like this often runs during application startup. It's not just printers.
Amazing. You can use the website ranking feature to boost results from certain domains ie. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This shows that going out on your own is not always strictly better or more rewarding. As a software engineer you can simply rent your skills and be part of a bigger team and company that's arguably doing something more impactful than building widgets.

The finances work out better too. Market salary as a software engineer is easily in the 200-300k range and increases over time with experience and skill. You can also more easily cap your work hours at 30-40 hours a week especially if you're remote. Then if you can figure out a way to do that while living in Southeast Asia, it's hard to imagine quality of life getting better than that as you're now living like a king and should be able to save as much as 50% of your income and retire young.
> There's a common saying that sort of derives from Frédéric Bastiat that "where goods cross borders, armies don't."

Yes, this was the widely believed theory prior to 1914 for why another large, Europe-wide war wouldn't break out.
I'm on a Slack trading stories about trying to take 5 figures in cash out of major banks, and (1) all of them are more complicated than getting stacks --- you get neat little envelopes, btw! --- at the teller, and everyone has stories about things escalating to managers and getting quizzed about what was going on, and (2) nobody has ever seen this supposed high-dollar withdrawal room or floor in a major bank (in fact: if you're doing HNW banking, you're less likely to see bulletproof glass, not more).

I think the Internet is hypnotized by the debate about how dumb you have to be to get taken by a scam like this. Smart people get taken by these kinds of scams all the time. The story is directionally and importantly true. But I think it's almost certainly false. I've got a FOIA out for the police report.

Someone should roll into a Citi or Chase and try to pull 50k out on no notice next week. I bet they freak out. One person I talked to was told they had to give advanced notice to take $15k out. And pay attention to the timeline given on this story! Everything had to have taken place between the hours of 2:00PM EST (when she got the call) and 5:00PM EST (when all the banks in Brooklyn close). At 6:00PM EST she's home giving the money to the guy in the SUV, who she's not allowed to look at, because he's UC. On Halloween. And the scammers picked the day to do this on. Come on.
Unfortunately, we gave them record, windfall profits with no downside or obligations by forcing drugs on people under threats of ostracisation and loss of employment. Now we don't get to whine about them.
I thought they were still using Unreal Engine for their games (notably The Finals?)
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/08/29/hhs-selects-the-fi... ("HHS Selects the First Drugs for Medicare Drug Price Negotiation")

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pharmaceutical-groups-lawsuit... ("Pharmaceutical group's lawsuit over Medicare drug price program dismissed")

Jon Stewart says it best (because of course he does): https://youtu.be/NpBPm0b9deQ?t=1153

"The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunch pail [bleep] job, day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart, and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues till they get a positive result."

You keep on grinding.

> The Inflation Reduction Act requires the federal government to negotiate the price of certain high-spending drugs covered by Medicare Part D, Medicare’s outpatient prescription drug benefit program, and Medicare Part B, which covers physician and outpatient services, including drugs administered by physicians and other providers. Under the new Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, the number of drugs subject to price negotiation will be limited to 10 Part D drugs for 2026, another 15 Part D drugs for 2027, another 15 Part D and Part B drugs for 2028, and another 20 Part D and Part B drugs for 2029 and later years. The number of drugs with negotiated prices available will accumulate over time.

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/a-small-number-of-d...
Idk maybe he uses some sort of fuzzer
I still love making smoothies, it just turned out that they are way too many calories :(
This is super cool to read about!

Geocoding is one of those _hard_ problems and this really seems like a great step forward.