skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do two things. First, I read voraciously (both fiction and nonfiction) -- and make it a point to include topics that aren't in my usual set of interests. Second, if I want to learn something in-depth, I invent a project that requires that knowledge to accomplish, then tackle it. Learn by doing, and all of that.

Insights come when I'm listening to music. I listen to music like most people watch movies -- I sit down and actually listen without doing something else at the same time. It's very meditative and it's quite common that I get "aha" moments regarding things that I've been learning or doing.
Strong agree. I think even having to make compromises of their aesthetic minimalism and platonic form to something as pedestrian as “aerodynamics” would pain Apple’s hardware designers (the ones whose output we’ve seen, anyway). I almost think they would prefer a car to be a perfect sphere or cube or something. Or a big symmetrical blob with all the wheels carefully hidden underneath.
problem with hypotheticals is most people can give an ideal way to handle a situation, but when the actual scenario presents itself, they deal with it in a non ideal way. I'd like to find out what that non-ideal way is and if the delta is small enough, then that person meets the bar. i can also add supplementary questions if i didn't get enough of a signal, such as the one you presented (i.e what do you think you could have done better)

should add that the more you dig, the better you can identify where truth/embellishments lay. a reaaaaally good liar is rare and you can somewhat tell across differing kinds of quetsions where the red flags are. just need to create a robust system of questioning. this all sounds dystopian as i write it, but unfortunately that is the nature of interviewing
I would love to live in a world where I can know for a fact that war will never again happen. However, the path to that world is a very long one. In the meantime I want to know that the acquisitive psychopaths that run many of the countries in the world have a very good reason to not line me up in front of a wall and shoot me.

Should we be taking steps to a more peaceful world that we aren't right now? Yes, very much so. However, unless you want to imitate the path of Tibet or Ukraine, then you better spend some money on guns and fighter jets.
Obviously, it won’t be $3000 and it won’t be clunky. The current version is basically a dev kit.
Scheduling Internals – How async works
Everyone's brain works differently. My mom worked at the county court and her side gig was creating transcripts of the court case. It was always amazing to see her fingers fly as she sat with headphones and a glazed look as the words seemed to flow directly from ears to paper.
>No, those ships are setting sail with anchors down, and complaining why they're moving so slow.

It's 2024 and you still think the choice of language in which you build your product is what makes or breaks a company?
Apple's playbook for at least three decades has been getting in the game late, but timing "late" very carefully so that the product they debut defines the category.

The iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Watch, AirPods. It's the most obvious thing about the company, this is a bland truism at this point.
Because the explanation in school misses something like 90% of the detail replacing it with zero-explanation magical thinking.

For example, yes, the air above the wing moves faster than the air below the wing, and it's related to shape of the airfoil.

However, it has nothing to do with magical "air has longer to travel".

It starts with how combining flows at the trailing edge of the airflow create a vortex which induces an opposite vortex around the wing, which is a bit counter-intuitive (but it has nothing on why swept wings work, which can be summarised for practical aircraft design purposes of "because if we calculate at an angle we get better values and reality is crying in the corner")
Do you have any recommended reading on this topic? I'd like to brush up.
Don't feel obligated to share if you're not comfortable, but what country/ethnicity are your parents from?
How come no one is mentioning that the source of all this traffic was the downloading of an mp3 that the OP probably doesn't own rights to distribute?
My understanding is that your docker image must have the lambda runtime interface client installed on the image in order to work.

It's not a huge step usually to add the RIC, but it's a bit more tied in to AWS than CloudRun is, which can run arbitrary docker images, if I understand.
It's one of those things... what works for you may not work for other people. For someone who's made-up differently, the right chair can make all the difference in the world.

I do what you do (and more) _and_ I have the best chair _and_ I am still in constant pain.
Oh, this I could also see. Apple hates to partner with others, for the most part, which is why I don’t think that happened. And some of that is for good reason. The awfulness of the Motorola Rokr is what convinced Steve Jobs that Apple had to fully own and control the iPhone.

And Apple is showing off parts of Car Play that could be fully integrated by manufacturers in a much deeper way, assuming they want to give up control (which given GM’s decision to drop Car Play and Android Auto, seems like it’ll be a challenge).

There is certainly a world where Apple could be a modern QNX unencumbered by its parent company baggage and a better business model (ongoing subscription and not 50-cents a car or whatever it is QNX gets) and provide the software for all that stuff, but based on everything that has been reported, that wasn’t what Apple was doing here. They were trying to build a real car. And as challenging and interesting as that might be as an R&D exercise, I just don’t see why that would be a business you’d willingly want to enter when you are so successful in other areas and the margins are so poor.
They sued

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/12/...
X announces partnership with the BIG3 to stream live games and exclusive content
These are two different design alternatives.

You use HBM or GDDR if you want very high bandwidth, like top-end discrete GPUs would get. But then the memory itself is more expensive and you want the external channels to reduce cost, so the OS bloat can go in the cheap memory and preserve the limited amount of high cost memory for what needs it.

This is notably not what Apple does -- they're just using ordinary LPDDR5 with a wide bus, equivalent to having a lot of memory channels. It gets them several hundred GB/s worth of bandwidth, similar to a midrange discrete GPU. If you were going to do that, you could put most of the channels within the package and still have two of them outside of it.

That sort of configuration would allow some flexibility. The on-package memory might have lower latency (if they're both just ordinary DDR this isn't going to be much difference if any), but if you configured the system to only interleave between the on-package memory channels then the "close" memory could achieve that lower latency. Interleaving the external channels into the same pool would have a small latency hit but increase bandwidth by e.g. 25%. Which could be configured in UEFI based on your expected workload.
> It is insanely cheap, getting that much calories in less than 10 USD would be a dream in any developed or poor nation.

Maybe in cost relative to local median income ($10 is about 1/11 of a one day share of US median personal income), but definitely not 10 actual USD or the equivalent in straight currency conversion. Proof: people actually live and do physically-demanding jobs with in much of the developing world, with wages which your statement would make impossible because every single person doing it would be dead of starvation within a few months.
Europe continues to lead the way.
It is amazing, and happens exactly this way.

I'm a "regular person", engineer, and since moving here over 10nyrars I've met a lot of famous tech people, witnessed lot of amazing things, all mostly by happenstance just because there is so much of it, so many people like me, here.
Not quite true! Modern airplanes are way more complex. First of all, all modern airplanes have supercritical airfoils which go back to the 60s and 70s. Secondly, the airfoil of the wing root is typically different than the wing tip. Finally, new composite wings are adaptive during flight. They change their shape slightly to maximize efficiency.
Why Chiplets Are So Critical in Automotive
That was a surprisingly clear walk back.
> I meant that I have gcc on my laptop, and I can compile code there that runs on linux, and no one can stop me from writing code and sharing it. But they can add ever greater regulations to the infrastructure involved until the friction kills the community.

Much of that gcc-on-Linux compiled code is absolute crap (generally, not yours), as we can see by the outcomes. We need much higher standards for anything engineered for the public.

>> oppression has increased and democracy and freedom have retreated

> One of the best weapons to implement these kinds of changes are an ever-increasing regulatory burden.

Could you give an example? China, Russia, Hungary, Turkey, India, etc. are not known for their regulatory burdens. The EU has plenty of regulation and is arguably the leading region for democracy.

> The claim that regulation doesn't hamper innovation is an unsupported assertion of control freaks. And regulation that directs innovation only does so because it makes alternative innovations harder - not because it makes certain innovations easier.

I didn't say regulation doesn't hamper innovation, I said it depends on the regulation. Some regulations make innovation easier; for example, standardized Internet protocols fostered incredible innovation, instead of everyone reinventing incompatible wheels.
Interesting space to operate in. I wonder what safeguards they have to ensure that they will get paid by a customer base that likely cannot afford to pay its existing bills.
Interesting things happen in many places, not just Silicon Valley. You simply need to keep your ears open and listen.
Or by Sam Altman’s ego.

(The author doesn’t say that. But he points out that pre-Altman OpenAI was afraid that GPT-2 was too dangerous to release, while now they let anyone use GPT-4 to spam the hell out of YouTube kids.)
Automatic Hallucination Detection with SelfCheckGPT NLI
I haven't heard someone talk to Siri in a loooong time.
I had some very long periods of intense suffering over the last decade. After... a lot, I'm in a much better place now.

I made some minor lifestyle changes to make things a bit easier on myself, but nothing earth-shattering. Most of my days are largely the same.

However, life moves much more slowly now. When I get to the end of a week, Monday seems quite a long time ago.

I'm not sure about the predictability thesis. The way I think about it is that I have no expectations from life anymore; I take what I can get, give what I can, and focus on one day at a time. I think this more than anything has contributed to a feeling of my life slowing way down.
Yep, sometimes, when I'm not using Kubernetes with a Traefik or Nginx ingress.

That's actually how most of my personal and homelab stuff runs, with Docker Swarm due to how lightweight and simple it is. There, Apache actually works better for me since if I have 10 different domains configured and only 9 resolve (e.g. containers not running yet) then something like Nginx would complain about a non existent domain and crash the whole thing, whereas Apache would serve the 9 other domains and eventually proxy the 10th as well, instead of just returning an error.

I did tune Apache a little bit, in that I disabled .htaccess to avoid too much I/O (now the config is more like nginx.conf), though also sometimes add other modules, like mod_security (simple WAF) or mod_auth_openidc (Relying Party, so using OIDC wouldn't make me insane), as well as PHP-FPM if I ever need PHP in a particular container.

Nginx is still better for serving static files in general (e.g. packaged SPA), Traefik for HTTPS, but Apache is generally okay at most things.
Title sounds like 'compartmentalized c programs' are no longer able to be securely compiled.
> unix being a thrown out the car window by AT&T at speed

I beg to differ; when I was at AT&T in the late eighties we tried to enter the computer business, on the PC side with Olivetti, and on the UNIX side with the 3B2 minicomputers made with our own chips running System V UNIX. I even had a 3B2-200 in my house for a couple of years.

Entering a new business is hard: although the engineering was solid, we didn't have a saleforce trained in selling computers, and we didn't have a rich ecosystem (Oracle! Ingres! Informix!). AT&T didn't throw UNIX out the window, but found that capitalizing on UNIX was hard.
A death book won't help a spouse. They already have enough on their plate with losing their partner.

Also when one partner dies or is ill, the other often lacks the capacity (mental etc) to deal with complex technical stuff.
Never heard of this before, but what we both say can be true at the same time.
I always thought of it as each unit of time being relatively shorter in relation to your life on earth. A year is 20% of the time a 5-year old is aware of, but only 2% of a 50-year olds life. But the boredom argument is pretty strong. I remember vividly the time when I moved to another country and those first three months still feel like they lasted longer than the last three years.
Americans do quality control and reliable contractual law which is actually really valuable.

The Chines can buy other Chinese goods sold in the US with some degree of assurance to quality standards and minimal supply chain fraud. Without that expensive high tech devices will fail due to pervasive fraud in the supply chain. China can try to crack down on such fraud but that is really hard to do effectively, much easier to ‘outsource’ quality control with normal business incentives.

The US isn’t the only country with quality control and the standards have degraded, so has the reliability of contract law has also degraded. So this ‘service’ may not be maintainable long term. For example, Amazon to me is now a faster and more expensive Alibaba, I cannot rely on Amazons quality control or reviews. It would have been so easy to algorithmically ensure quality but less profitable and Amazon chose the option with more profit.

In Australia there are faux grocery stores where people (often Chinese nationals) film themselves buying groceries to send to China. Is called ‘daigou’. Things like baby powder and alcohol. For one I would never drink alcohol in China, a friend almost died there from drinking fake beer. The idea of using sewer oil for cooking still makes me gag.

I think they’ll keep getting better at fraud and it’ll be harder and harder to avoid. The world seems to be increasingly corrupt and the general population does seem more amenable to fraud than even 10 years ago so I do worry that quality standards will slip to the point that we’ll have our own ‘tofu-dreg’ projects. Australia already has problems with poor concrete standards for high rises and I expect this to get worse over there.
Some people like talking about things not related to their job when they aren’t working. The culture out in SV is very much still “work is life”.
For SG:1 sure. For SG:Atlantis, they had access to all of the ancient's tech.
This is a tangent, but you are well informed in the space, and I would love to read your opinion.

There is a new heli player trying to start from clean-sheet, called Hill Helicopters.[0] They are building a sleek new carbon fiber fuselage, but what I am wondering about is the fact that they are also making their own turbine engine.[1]

I have assumed that their new turbine is the hardest part of their plan, am I correct in that assumption? Is it crazy, or not crazy, that they are trying to do this themselves?

[0] https://www.hillhelicopters.com/

[1] https://www.hillhelicopters.com/gt50-engine
It's your job to make sure that your problems don't disrupt other people's lives.
> Gitea ... don't have CI/CD at all.

That seems to be no longer the case?

>> Starting with Gitea 1.19, Gitea Actions are available as a built-in CI/CD solution. ... It is similar and compatible to GitHub Actions, and its name is inspired by it too.

https://docs.gitea.com/next/usage/actions/overview

Which seems to have been released almost a year ago

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.19.0/
I have this book, it's great
apache's way of enabling/disabling sites, certbot plugin, access management and directory sharing stuck with me for the past 20 years. So much so that it feels like caddy has nothing to offer. Certbot already has a timer on ubuntu, so all I really need to do is run certbot --apache and enter a number.
The R1 chip in the Vision Pro came from this effort so there’s definitely some return on investment here.
These are all classes of device where existing options hashed out many of the growing pains before Apple released something more polished or attractive to buyers - the definition of second-mover.
> The bar for acceptable for me is VS Code.

Hmm. I have quite the opposite complain. Why is when I install a single extension that enables Vim navigation in VSCode there's quite noticeable typing latency? And it's not a single plugin, I tried multiple. While my Emacs instance where I use over 300, built-in and third-party packages still feels quite snappy.

I'm not saying that Emacs built in such a way that it is impossible for a package to degrade its performance, that can happen, but if you know how to use the built-in profiler it's not that difficult to find the culprit and either remove it or try to find a workaround.

While typing this comment I googled, TIL - VSCode has very impressive Perf Tools suite for profiling. That makes it even more surprising, why would the authors of those Vim plugins, and I'm not talking about some obscure and esoteric thing, but supposedly popular, demanded feature, ship it with such obvious deficiency?

Observing this latency after adding just a single extension, frankly makes me question the long-term viability of using VSCode as my main code editor.
Great to hear!
It's the usual suspects like greenhouse, lever, workable, successfactors, ashbyhq, recruitee, pinpoint, personio, adp, talentlyft, and many more...
At work, you can buy reasonable time: "let me get back to you"

Outside work, people remember/invite people who are empathetic and/or fun to be around, not those who win arguments. In fact argument winners tend to annoy people more.

There are very few high-stakes situations where quick thinking is crucial. What most people mistake for quick thinking (say averting a mishap during airplane landing) is trained muscle memory, which comes from long prep.
True. I was taking the most generous interpretation, though, and assuming that by "cereal", he didn't mean the kinds that are straight-up candy.
>20 years ago started using it professionally, _everybody_ used it to program on Linux

For C++ maybe.

For C most used Vim
Even before AGI, suppose a data center uptime optimization algorithm is given a broad range of possible actions to achieve more 9's of uptime. Across all failure modes the algorithm sees that to achieve the next 9, it needs its parent company to lobby national governments to subsidize energy grid maintainers to install fast breakers at all transformers.
I owned a Blackberry in 2007 and thought the new iPhone was trash.
As you note above, he was motivated by the thought of an easy win. That would thumb his nose at NATO and be popular at home. It didn't actually need to accomplish anything strategic -- though Ukraine is a bunch of land that's valuable both economically and historically.

Having failed to accomplish the easy win, there's no way to back down and say, "Well, never mind". He still desires the emotional goals of owning that land, and having sold it as an existential risk against NATO, he can continue to get support at home.

Which will last as long as he can continue to staff it with prisoners and disfavored ethnic groups, and various countries continue to fund it by skirting sanctions.
That's an in-house complaint before the FTC's own judge. I'm talking about a request for a preliminary injunction in Federal district court in front of a real judge. The FTC doesn't have the authority to block a transaction unless they're in an Article III court; their in-house proceedings can only unwind a transaction after it closes.
Planting more trees and removing space for vehicles are two different things; it is not necessary to make them dependent. Those who do, usually do it for their anti-vehicle agenda, and planting green is only an excuse / a tool, not the objective or intent to improve the environment.

If you want more space for parks and green, you can do it also other way. For example, like Hausmann did in Paris.
Obviously, they haven't invested any money into it (well, apparently they will for iOS 17). When Apple does invest money, however, which they seem to be doing now, there are usually impressive results. Take the M1, for instance.
They eat because the food hits a particular combination of cheap, being ready quickly on demand (hence "fast food") with minimal interaction, and acceptable quality. Its not optimized on any one of those axes.
Considering how strategic SpaceX has become I wonder sometimes if the us gouv would just intervene if Elon did anything funny with it.
> Surely we HN users must be able to think of something we could ship to China cheaply!

Well, first, I assume by ‘we’ you mean the US, since not all HN users are from the US.
That being said, we do ship to China, but those products don’t require an empty airplane. It’s the software, especially the open source ones, that China needs. Hardware-wise, China may be ahead of the rest of the world for various reasons, but software-wise, it’s still lagging behind. And this is not just a Chinese market issue. Remember, even Japan until recently had a majority of users who used IE!
Software engineering practices you should probably be following in 2024
Julian Simon is speaking facts not beliefs. He's not disagreeing with CO2 measurements or global warming. He's disagreeing with what we do about them.
I didn’t say risk-free, I said “conservative”.

But let’s turn to examples:

“As of October 2023, Harvard's endowment has an 8.2% 10-year return. In fiscal year 2023, endowment returns averaged 7.7%, with smaller endowments posting larger returns. Institutions with over $5 billion in assets have historically had higher 10-year average returns of 9.1%.”

https://www.highereddive.com/news/college-endowment-returns-...
I've done a lot of writing in the past decade and I can honestly say I've never felt the need for a semicolon. I think writers overestimate the finality of a period. If one sentence follows another, readers will understand the implicit connection between them. After all, you put them next to each other.
If company leadership recklessly eroded safety practices, of a well-understood safety-critical national institution... is there individual criminal liability?

Prosecuting willful bad behavior at the top that led to deaths might help push the culture back.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/10/putin-compares...
https://www.csa.fr/Mes-services/Foire-aux-questions/Informer...

It seems that Internet was also considered as "potential to watch TV", like you can watch TV online, and/or through services provided by set-top-boxes like Freebox.
Django is better paired with something like HTMX.
“As of October 2023, Harvard's endowment has an 8.2% 10-year return. In fiscal year 2023, endowment returns averaged 7.7%, with smaller endowments posting larger returns. Institutions with over $5 billion in assets have historically had higher 10-year average returns of 9.1%.”

https://www.highereddive.com/news/college-endowment-returns-...
What companies serve the market segments above Apple's offerings in the phone, laptop, tablet and VR categories?
Other eating-out prices are also going up; its not just fast-food.