skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One could argue a common characteristic of the above exams is that they each test memory, and, as such, one could argue that GPT-4's above-average performance is not necessarily evidence of "reasoning". That is, GPT-4 has no "understanding" but it has formidable reading speed and retention (memory).

I don’t think they will make this argument since it will heavily negate their (expected) argument that they’re not open-sourcing the model because of safety concerns.
This. My current job I found vía linkedin, but from someone I would had never imagined . After the previous company I was at, burned to the ground (figuratively... kind of) I wrote a short text in linkedin saying that I was looking for a new job.

A guy I've barely met (he is cofounder/ceo of a friend of mine who is CTO at their startup) wrote to me via LI message telling me about someone (VC fund with new project) he knew was looking for a CTO. Turns out I knew them from before, and my friends co-founder referred me, so I got in easy.

Point is, you write in linkedin not only for recruiters. Actually in my experience, recruiters are mostly useless and waste of time for candidates. Instead you write there so that your network and extended network see you, and your work search get mor reach.
Isn’t ’giving up convenience in the name of freedom’ one of the core trade-offs you’re expected to make with free software? People buy into the ‘free’ bit of FOSS to varying degrees of course but it is disappointing that so many FOSS projects seem ok contributing so much to a proprietary product from one of the most anti-freedom corporations out there.
"Currently used" and "required" are two different things.

It's not going to happen overnight, but we have the ability to transition a lot of current agriculture toward more sustainable practices, and that's only going to improve as we learn more. I'm not talking about pie-in-the-sky stuff like vertical farming either, I'm talking about more about more proven techniques like soil restoration and permaculture.
Ah. While Zelle works fine, it’s fundamentally very different from SEPA instant credit.

It’s not available with all banks. Both sender and receiver have to actively sign up to Zelle. And the transfer limits are quite low.

SEPA instant credit works with all existing bank accounts in the Eurozone. You send money to someone’s IBAN which they’ve already had for decades and are accustomed to using for bank transfers. If the receiving bank doesn’t yet support instant credit, it becomes a regular bank transfer that usually clears the next banking day. (It’s like batched email delivery back in the dial-up days. As a sender, you don’t need to care if their email system does immediate or batched delivery. And of course nowadays everyone has immediate.)

The transfer limit is 100k EUR, so the same system is useful to both businesses and consumers.

I think Zelle is limited at $5k last I tried? (When I lived in New York, I tried figuring out if I can pay rent without the absurdity of paper checks. But Zelle’s limit was so low that you can’t pay a Manhattan family apartment rent with it.)
A very (not) safe library to check if a number is odd. Based on cve-rs
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We're tackling fundamental issues that underlie the finance and accounting departments. Companies like Wealthfront, AngelList, Clearbit, and more depend on Numeric to collaborate & automate their workflows, as well as to monitor, analyze, and share insights on their financial data.

This will be a fit if you're excited to understand your users and the domain, as well as to have substantial responsibility and impact. We work in person in our SF & NYC offices, and prioritize speed and ownership. We're growing rapidly and have a wide range of opportunities within the product team. As an engineer, you might work on building out our data & analytics platform, iterate on our self-serve offering, automate recurring workflows for our users, and more.

Generalists appreciated, bonus points for startup experience and/or full-stack experience with Typescript. 4+ YOE.

Apply: Email andrew@numeric.io (mention hackernews in subject)

More info on the role: https://numeric.notion.site/Software-Engineer-f641816581fc4f...
On product development at Numeric: https://www.numeric.io/blog/80-20-rule-for-product-developme...
Location:China
Remote: Yes
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Technologies: Linux, Python, C++,C#,net, MySQL, R, Docker, HPC,
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Location: Thailand

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: React Native, React, Typescript and relate tools

Résumé/CV: https://ramyareye.github.io/resume/

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For some reason the idea of a chat forum where shadow-banned users can see other shadow-banned users strikes me as next level awesome.
The tides are turning and the right walled garden is starting to look better than AI accelerating the various dead internet theory forces.

We're passing the point where the openness of the internet is being used against it. It doesn't help to be fighting the last war.
ah, we're still having that endless debate concerning ideological purity versus pragmatism. can we just ship good code please?
The state of time in Rust: leaps and bounds
Modern languages make offline builds far more difficult then they have to be, unfortunately. Rust, for example, buries its off-line installer on another domain. Rust also doesn't advertise or encourage bundling dependencies. Lastly, unrestricted build scripts basically give every dependency full code execution.
I hate your company. You posted my homework and assignments online without my permissions by paying off TAs in my university. That was theft.
logistic growth in populations is a direct response against malthusian theories
> You’re assuming a lot about what the hardware supports natively and conflating that to performance.

I think you're assuming a lot about Apple Silicon that doesn't affect Vulkan conformance. Apple can support Vulkan featuresets without directly accelerating every feature in-hardware. Even a low-quality official driver would allow people to use upstream DXVK without additional translation layers.

...in other words, it would basically be what Game Porting Toolkit should be, if Apple wasn't chronically afraid of supporting something upstream.

> Why is proton on Android not a thing and performant?

Proton is a thing on Android, and it is relatively quite high-performance: https://youtu.be/N7Y-YegXoMk

The main blocker was (and continues to be) a high-speed x86 translation layer. The GPU side of things has effectively been "solved" for years now.
I think you're looking for esm.sh . It transpiles both npm and jsr packages for the browser so that they can be used in a simple script tag.
> The tradeoff here is to decouple services in order to allow them to be developed somewhat independently of each other. Monoliths remove the overhead of network requests but they present their own challenges. You have a lot of implicit dependencies and feature development becomes complicated with changes having unexpected effects very far from the source.

I have seen, developed, designed, managed, deployed, operated, fondled, and otherwise been around thousands of large systems that are anything between trivial importance to “must always be running, in the national interest”. I was around when SOAs were a hot new thing, and SOAP was being rumoured as the thing that was going to save us from everything. A fondly recall an overpaid Compaq consultant talking about “token passing systems” when they were describing message queues.

I have seen exactly two systems that really had to be designed and built along a microservice architecture. Both of these had requirements that introduces a scale, scope, and complexity you simply don’t see very often. All other microservice architectures didn’t solve for requirements, they solved for organisational inefficiencies, misalignments, mismanagement, and - in no small part - ego.

When discussing this topic, proponents of microservice proponents talk about many of the advantages these architectures bring, and they are often not completely wrong. What is lacking from these discussions is often a sense of perspective. “Is this solving real problems we have?”, “What is the compound lifecycle cost of this approach?”, and, of course, “How much work is involved in displaying the users’ birthday date in the settings page?”[1], and “when will Omega Star get their fucking shit together?!”[2].

Don’t start with microservices as the default. I will typically work out the monolithic approach as a point of departure. Want microservices? I’m open to that, just demonstrate how that will be better.

[1][2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
I can tell from the phrasing that you don't agree with Apple on that, but just want to respond anyway. Apple will still be sandboxing the browser engines, so even if Apple doesn't trust the browser vendors, this still isn't a logical argument against allowing them to run PWAs.
Unfortunate but expected. You get tired after swimming against the current for so long. The rust community has for better or worse settled on wild unauditable dependency graphs. A real shame given how delightful the base language is (ignoring async, of course).

Most people who can't deal with this, including myself, simply switched to other languages.
As someone who runs a small discussion forum its a great way for people who like to spam CSAM, malware, and other stuff I don't want in a way that gets past filters.

I think a conservative estimate of link shorteners usage is that 99% of cases are used by bad actors, and if they would all die out my life would be a lot easier. But, every week it seems some new one pops up and theres a new wave of spam to deal with.

At least thanks to this post I can add a new one to the filters before a wave of spam, so yay?
> I'd like tool to generate the whole package root, including a transpiled or generated package.json

That's exactly what JSR does. We generate the package.json ourselves.
>> The purest example of scarcity creating existential terror is declining birth rates. 50% of the world population is now below the replacement birth rate and younger generations are delaying reproduction or choosing to go childless altogether. While this is generally correlated with one-time increases in standards of living, inverted population age pyramids have historically spelled doom for societies.

I think this is mainly correlated with the invention of antibiotics and the near-elimination of child mortality. Historically, when HALF the children are dead before reaching the age of 5, a species has got to have a high birth rate to compensate. Which has been the case in humans since their beginnings:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-al...

Only extremely recently on a historical scale have we surpassed this conundrum and seems like mentally we haven't fully adapted to it. It's no longer necessary to spew out 10 kids in the hope maybe 2 or 3 make it to adulthood. With high likelihood, every born kid can now make it to old age.

And we're still too many, human population is still too big due to this unusual condition of mixing a historical high birth rate with high survivability.

Personally I think there's absolutely no danger. Humans have bounced back since .. I dunno, some 10,000 individuals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck).

I'm sure we don't need 10 billion to continue to survive and natural decline is an elegant solution to overpopulation without the need for Soylent Green scenarios. About half of how many we are currently would be good, a quarter would be even better in the long term.

Bonus it would create incentives for actual efficient work. With less manpower to compensate by just throwing work at the problems, they'd have to be solved in a more automated / sustainable manner.
For me 6 months on and 6 months off would be incredible. But of course by the time 6 months goes by, someone has learned how to do my job and maintain all the shit I built, and I'm no longer valuable. Also I lose my health insurance and probably seniority. But man would it be sweet if I could make it work.
If and when it does, why do you think it wouldn't just be a subset of TS? Why reinvent the wheel when you have a perfectly good one that's beed around for 12 years and is proven in production?
Traffic within a data center is relatively cheap, is it not? Of course, I think managed network proxies tend to be expensive, but I think that mostly comes from the machine costs, not the network itself. You pay a bit of a tax for network serialization, but it's unlikely to be the bottleneck in most things ime.

Plus, applications built on an external database (e.g., postgres not sqlite) will already have 1 hop. Going from 1 to 2 hops is less dramatic than going from no hops to 1. And I guess implicitly any service sending lots of data to the client already has 1 hop.

Imo the only case where a network proxy would be egregious is an in memory database kind of workload where the response size is small relative to the size of the data accessed (maybe something like a custom analytics engine), but that's pretty niche.
Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth
Situating the origin of scarcity thinking in the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction is fascinating: this is the first time I’ve encountered this idea and I appreciate it. Thanks to both the author and the sharer!
Sure, but I think there's hope. People learn and change.

I've been speaking pretty openly about how shitty the effects are of the pro-corporate, anti-human ideology that's prevalent on HN for a few years now. I've noticed more people joining me in speaking out, and less push-back. I made an aside comment a few days back about corporations being willing to murder for profit, and someone else linked a bunch of examples of corporate murders. A few years ago, I would have had to pull together all that research myself, and I was the only one I ever saw doing it.

And to be clear, I'm not saying this to take credit for the change--I'm sure there are other people. I'm just saying, change is happening, if slowly.
Income is not income tax. Selling a property for $4 million is $4m in revenue which could be anything from negative to $4m in income.
Sounds promising! Gonna check it out.
This is well said. I understand wanting to keep the language smallish and simple, but enums is such a basic and well known feature, it's almost asking for trouble or dissatisfaction to not fully implement it.
No. Freedom includes the freedom to do what is convenient.

The tolerance of inconvenience is a practical argument. If you have non-free dependencies, the most likely scenario is that sooner or later the dependency will kill support for the project and you have no legal recourse. Eg, if a project uses Discord, at some point it will have to move away to some other technology/protocol. If it uses git, the project won't ever have to move away from git. Those predictions can be made purely from analysing the license.

Since a move is inevitable, it really should make more sense to use FOSS protocols and clients from the get go. People don't though, and I don't pretend to understand the reasons. But what I can confidently say that Discord is going to become inhospitable for the project eventually.
Soil restoration requires fallow acreage cycles that are unsupportable given the acreage of idle land required when compared against the total of available arable land at present. Permaculture is little more than a product of the instagram-homesteader industrial complex intended to sell books and land speaking engagements. It produces at absolute max a third of the calories per acre of industrialized monocrop agriculture. Where to source 200% more arable acres to make that transition is conveniently left as an exercise by it's proponents, as is how to handle the massive increase in labor required to harvest from permaculture lands.
To me every of these sounds like "why don't we put 10ys(tm) inside ZFWs(tm) inside Funnylettes(tm) proxy-edge-borderline stuff so stuff is so messhy and uncomprehensible that you need an IA to explain your application deployment"
They've done the research and, well, the newer houses really are just better at having fewer fire deaths. I suppose it's possible the fires that do occur are worse, but on net your death rate is lower in a newer house.

https://www.nahb.org/-/media/NAHB/advocacy/docs/top-prioriti...

> As expected, the coefficient estimate for the percentage of houses built after
1989 (pctpost89) is negative and statistically significant. This implies that, in counties with newer housing stock, all else equal, the fire death rate is lower. Interestingly, when identical regressions to model 1 were run using different cutoff points for new stock, such as the percentage of houses built after 1979 or 1969 or 1959, the coefficients were of roughly similar size, were always negative, and the associated t-statistics were at least as significant.
The human eye can see 'invisible' infrared light (2014)
which was discussed before

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507
"End of Programming" will look like a Mag-7 interview: [program design] + [leetcode].
Everything will succumb to enshittification, yes. It's a matter of jumping ship at the right time and getting the five or so years you can out of the next generation while it's still good, and staying ahead of the wave like that.
Just because they failed and had to resort to the courts for a second bite at the apple.
Gentoo was what finally make me understand what LILO was doing, and how GRUB worked, and why it was better.
Small plug for XMPP. It's worth knowing about if you find Matrix too bloated/corpo-scary and IRC too limiting. It's also an old established protocol with plenty of users already.
Elon Musk's legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad
Mastering OpenTelemetry with Uptrace: A Developer's Guide
I have used python in production for years, multiple servers, multiple racks, and deployment has always been as simple as

./deploy.sh pull sync migrate seed restart

pull calls git pull, sync runs pipenv sync, migrate runs django migrate, seed runs django management command seed, restart calls systemctl --user restart
Not quite. "in" here as a prefix is not a negation thing but to _do_ something like "en" in "enhance" or "encapsulate". The word's actual latin root is "inflammare" which means to put something _in_ flames. The subject is the one doing the burning and it's transitive.

Flammable on the hand comes from "flammare", which means for something to catch fire, and is intransitive instead, i.e. the subject is the one catching fire.

The actual opposite of inflammable is uninflammable, which I reckon is only in British English at this point and mostly lost in American English.
Every time the idea of using discord for support comes up, I like to retell this story:

I was trying to get support for a commercial product which I paid for. They only offered support through Discord. They had set up their channel to require phone number verification.

I put in my phone number that I've had for the last 24 years and it said it was invalid. I messaged support, and instead of fixing their system, they suggested that I just borrow a phone from someone who doesn't use discord to verify my phone number. They told me "it's ok we only do it that one time so it doesn't matter".

This was from their official support. What exactly is the point of phone number verification if they officially encourage you to circumvent it?

I never did get support on that product. And it never worked again.
> Traffic within a data center is relatively cheap, is it not?

Complexity is very, very expensive.
We're 4 levels deep on a comment specifically about gemini, good try with the dramatic subject change though. You tried to argue that intentionally injecting what you believe to be righteous bias into an LLM is a superior moral position than not doing so and I disagree. Your outrage about Palestinian children doesn't convince me otherwise.
> When you start using Kubernetes one of the first suggestions you'll get is to install a service mesh.

Who on earth is giving you this advice? Service-messages are squarely in the “you’ll know when you need it, and it’s not day 1” bucket.

Is this the experience people are having with K8s? Welcome to Kubernetes, here’s a service mesh gl;hf. If this advice is common, no wonder some people think K8s is over complicated.

To anyone not aware: it _does not_ have to be this complicated. Default ingress controller and a normal Deployment will carry you really, really far.
What's the mechanism by which consumerism and media lead to lower child births though?

It's easy to see that in poorer countries with minimal or no pensions or social security having more children leads to greater productive capacity for the family, and a better chance of the parents being cared for in old age. Family connections are crucial support networks everyone relies on. Each extra child is another insurance policy for the future. In wealthy countries with pensions and social security none of that is an issue.
You could pay someone California's minimum wage 24/7 for 140,000 a year.
>Google does have root on your device

Root access is meaningless on a user build of Android. Android is designed such that the root account is not needed and it is locked down using SELinux.

> to notify me about these silent installs, but it depended on a notification which is no longer broadcast on more recent Android versions

I built a test app on Android 14 and I was able to get the broadcast you are referring to. The changes which the app you linked has not adapted to is that since Android 8 you need to use Context.registerReceiver() to register an implicit broadcast receiver for those actions [1] and since Android 11 you need to use a <queries> tag (or query all permission) in order to get visibility of other apps on the system [2].

[1] https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/background...

[2] https://developer.android.com/training/package-visibility
Many posts over the years related to this where there are some mentions lamenting the old forum days and the value of those independent platforms and the way they organize and provide archived history of your project/your community. Discord, a realtime chat platform, still isn't that right?

The reasons ppl moved away from forums weren't entirely legit - the gaming community origin as a fast paced attn-deficit platform for rapid meme sharing, the rapid switch to mobile-first mentality needing UIs to match, a gap in generations of users not used to the forum posting / email like UX etc..... but I mean, look where we are right now here on HN, a classic forum by most standards, and even what Reddit is, a platform of a million forums,... The forum still holds a lot of merit no? It's just been pushed down under the weight of the rush to popularity and the mentioned issues.
yes. Always cautious. And yell "Stop!!!" if in any doubt. Better to have them be pissed off than running over you.
thanks for sharing. I appreciate it
On the contrary, I think open human discourse in platforms that aren't really a lure for spammers or trolls (like code repos or really niche topics) is more important than ever.

Generic social media is going to be a hellscape, yes, but I think weird niches could still thrive if Discord wasn't walling them off.