skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, and not breaking anything with layoffs is already hard when your sole criteria as a manager is ‘are they effective’. Which it’s never been that simple, especially in big corp, but it’s waaay more difficult now.

And so what happens when you’re required by the gov’t and leadership to also comply with coarse grained population statistics AND you can’t find qualified people that meet those statistics enough? On top of having to make layoffs?

My ex was a reasonably qualified software engineer, and even 4 years ago was getting no-interview offers because she was a woman - as explicitly stated by the recruiters.

It’s only gotten worse since then for hiring managers. She was offended because they literally didn’t seem to care if she was qualified or not.

I can provide links to signed and in force legal agreements between the DOL and Google for instance which formalize the need for this, and can point towards public records of evidence submitted to court of emails (internal) between recruiters which state the same too, btw.

Actual job qualifications (as in skills) did not enter the conversation at all. Just course grained DEI attributes.

So then they end up disproportionately cutting from the non-protected tranches (the groups that DO have to be qualified to stay) first because your stats still have to look good. I’m not saying DEI folks overall have no one qualified or hard working in them - rather, that there are little to no structural incentives for them to be. In many cases, they’re also unfireable/unlayoffable.

And eventually, the non-protected folks leave, burn out, or give up because f-this. Why do so much extra work when you literally can’t even get paid more for it, or be recognized because it will piss everyone else off?

And even if you’re superhuman on that front - everyone burns out eventually. Which is also why you tend to see what you see in Open Source.

It’s never any one decision, but stochastic movement in this direction has been relentless and inevitable.
> Rather its success demonstrates how one form of persuasion was more effective than another.

This is true. I'm not sure anyone has demonstrated it working the other way though so it seems to be infinitely more effective.

It's happening again now with EVs. "The EU is forcing you to swap your car for an expensive EV with their Euro6 rules." There doesn't seem to be any come back to it at all.
Schmidhuber invented these models in the 90s : https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/megi8a/d_j...
> AI within gambling.

That's like leaving Jimmy Savile in charge of a kids birthday party.

> Kasra Ghaharian, a post-doctoral research fellow at Las Vegas'
University of Nevada,

I had to check this was the BBC and not The Onion,
New M3 (base chip) Macbook Air supports 2 displays, so
Does it use tree-sitter for all the AST parsing?
Better hope it works to avoid the imminent danger.

If you hold your horn down trying to alert someone that you’re about the slam into them, your hand is going to be on the wheel as the airbag deploys.
how many people, realistically, use it daily? I think not a lot
The conversation was not about views on blockchain. The conversion was hetzner decided a client running several hundred nodes was suddenly running afoul of the ToS after running happily almost four years and they cut off all access without any notification. They then updated their ToS to clarify this was not allowed, but they happily took our money for four years and we built out a fair bit of tooling on this.

We do DFIR and security. Do you even know anything about digital forensics? It’s not a “bad” thing to investigate hacks and work with law enforcement to recover funds. It’s necessary as not everyone is a crook or thief.

So yes, I think it’s entirely reasonable to keep conversations on hacker news on topic and not inject politics where the conversation is not about politics. Obviously the cases you mentioned are inherently about politics so that’s a nice straw man you beat up there. Congratulations sir.
I don't live near anyone I could turn to like that, except my wife and mother. When I need to talk to someone, I do it on Slack, or I hop on a zoom call.

When I lived in New York, it wasn't that much different - my friends and I occasionally lived on opposite sides of Manhattan & Brooklyn; now I live in New Jersey, and if I want to see close friends, I have to dedicate at least half the day to it, and going somewhere on a whim is not always an option for me. Depending on where this kid is at any given moment, it might be faster for him to get to a friend than it would take me to get to mine.
Show HN: Workout Tracker PWA
Google was acting up for me as well, so that could be
FYI, this cut happened last week, just took a while to get reported in mainstream media.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/at-least-one-subs...
Does it really or is this a joke?

Edit: I found the following, I wonder if it's still the case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
I don't think the intent of posting on a visible, high traffic public space is to only offend the onlookers but to also incite outrage that cascades into other communication channels. Free attention from vitriolic strangers stemming almost solely from lacking self control to the point of expressing frustrated opinions is all they could ever ask for, at a minimum.
You don't run a massively profitable VC company by just throwing money away at a second core.
(replying to myself again)

The MBP arrived. What a machine!

I'm biased that my current laptop is a 2015 MBP (never owned an Air). But I'm still tempted to return it and get a 15" M3 MBA and save £600.

I think I underestimate battery life and over-emphasised performance. I've been running some npm & maven tasks every 1 minute, run a docker container, playing music on the speakers, set battery to power saver, set brightness to 50%. And after 4.5 hours I'm down to 72%, so I think I'm happy with that.
Welcome the the US when you can patent protocols and apis. (Afaik)

In EU you could have done it but because of US risks they killed it anyway.
I used to trot this URL[1] out a lot, but it's a pretty old survey now. In 2003, 39% of Americans believed that they either were(19%) or one day would be(20%) among the top 1% of earners.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/the-triumph-of-ho...
> For anything outside like-ing and post-ing, facebooks UI/UX is horrendous.

It isn't perfect for even that IMO.

> Even Internet search does not help to find out how something trivial is done... The only way is to watch youtube videos.

That says more about where the web is heading than about facebook. Video is easier to monetise ATM⁰, and these days people don't put helpful stuff out there just to be helpful as much as they once did¹, so content creators are making them instead of simple web pages.

--

[0] Everyone wants to be the next big influenza who doesn't need a day job to get by.

[1] That sort of people are still out there, though they are somewhat drowned out as the signal-to-noise ratio heads inexorably towards “WHAT? WHAT?! I can't hear a single thing above the manscaping adverts!”.
I've found that a social connection helps motivate me to work on hobbies/projects. If I start talking with people on IRC about projects, I'll start poking at code and share screenshots / diffs of what I'm working on for a quick feedback loop. Working in isolation is stiffling for me and quickly leads to being burnt out - or bored.
The Tea Native to Texas
because of the way the software you use, use other software that is licensed.

Just like it is not legal to do copyright infringement indifferent to how much you own the hardware you do it on.
"You can't mislead me by telling me what a real coin actually did" is implying any amount observation of a real coin only aids the likelihood function.

that since bayesian methods account for both the likelihood it is real and the likelihood it is not real, the observations are gaining evidence AND counter-evidence together. So as long as you don't lie about what a real coin did, then you are describing the actions of a real coin and therefor cannot mislead
They put his yearly cost at ~9900€ which comes out to ~830€/mo. So 300€/mo cheaper would come out at around 530€/mo. At that price you could get a studio apartment in many cities or at least afford to live with 1-2 roommates.
But there are arguments and there are arguments. I read a great book about the Reformation that was a comprehensive history but whose final chapter makes a very compelling case for the Enlightenment being a direct result of the Reformation. He even makes the stronger argument that the Enlightenment unconsciously carried on several of the preoccupations of the Protestant Reformers into a secular context. And that America being a nation founded by Protestants has shaped the entire world.

This chapter is preceded, though, by 800 pages of detailed history. You have to earn your big conclusions. And the bigger your conclusion is (say, here is why/how Europe colonized the world) you'd better have a lot of evidence.
This is horrible and I hope it doesn't encourage anyone to do this. No friendships beyond the very shallow relationships you can develop with the workers onboard the train or the people passing through.

This feels inhumane to me. I can't imagine someone being happy doing this for any length of time.
You can do that but you end up with something other than what the author wrote. The use cases are different. Arenas, at least in principle, should generally be able to allocate anything, not just a single type. If you have a single type you would do the equivalent thing in any language, not use arenas.
This might not be the answer you were looking for.

Garage Band is free for iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

Maybe you already have an iPhone. Maybe you don't. But you have to buy hardware irrespective of what software you use.

Good luck.
If you have an adblocker, try disabling that. The page fails to load with ublock Origin running.
That's a problem indeed, since it would further entrench CUDA. If you want people to develop for your platform, it could be counter-productive.

That said, what _is_ AMD's platform? OpenCL? Vulkan compute? If they don't have an alternative, then the strategy doesn't make sense.
Tangent to this but I saw a link to metastatus last week and thought it would be a status page for other services' status pages. This makes it sound like a useful thing now, too bad the name is taken.
Man the postmortem on this is gonna be fun.

“Yeah so it turns out when Facebook and Instagram goes down so does Google”

I do not envy the SREs at either company. I'm pretty sure all those other ones use Facebook or Google as their OAuth provider which is why they are all being reported as down.
Have you tried juggling upside-down underwater with the floatables? Basically impossible, lots of fun.
This is hardly an important point, but I don't think a change in the name makes something a different programming language. It's a minimum of 19 years old since Qi was released in 2005. Even then, Qi was just the evolution of the original language, being built on the same ideas.
A combination of whatever fiddling the mechanic did and making sure the fluid was topped off seemed to solve the issue. Also, it was a good, if somewhat old, car, and the mechanical steering was quite good. I was able to steer it without much difficulty at pretty much any speed even in no-power-steering mode.

But yes, I agree, unpredictable steering response is dangerous.
Is it coincidence that Meta is trying to get portions of NSOs source code via the court system. Also today is apparently a big voting day. The techno-apocalypse is near.
Lucky you didn't already have a Quest 3, and you were in CyberSpace when Facebook crashed, because then you would be trapped in CyberSpace and die. That's how it works, you know.
This is pretty neat, my only real gripe (and I know it is inherited from pod) is that the formatting tags can make it a bit difficult to read compared to plain Markdown, especially in the middle of text.

For example the line in the online editor:

This I<is> a B<text>

I find a little difficult to read at a glance.

The list items are also a bit visually "noisy" with every item needing its own "=itemX".

Is the plan to stick to the existing pod style rigidly or is there any potential flexibility for the syntax in the future?
The Nothing Phone 2A proves thoughtful design can come at a budget price
Sorry, but the USA is full.
It's real. Single core performance improves all the time. People overestimate how much power it takes to handle lots of queries per second on a well-tuned system and well-written software in 2024.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Congrats on the launch! Do you need Github permissions to answer questions on open-source repos as well?
The Google founders abandoned Google along time ago, and it's been rotting ever since.
Can a mathematical model decide best how to spend opioid settlement cash?
Having met many people who work remotely and travel, you have everything from mediocre english teachers, grifters, programmers (good and bad) to over-achievers with successful lifestyle-businesses.

Lately I've been programming less and less with wifi while sitting at libraries and cafes without wifi. It's fine, just have proper dev environments, use isync for offline emails, download docs and learn to read manuals instead of stackoverflow.
if you are logging in with facebook account that might be the reason
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379
What is the alternative? Build their own API that expects developers who have been burned by AMD again and again to provide dedicated support for? Good luck with that. CUDA is already entrenched, NVIDIA hardware is already deployed, so as a developer I can’t not support it. Why would I then go out of my way for the single digit percentage of users that need AMD support?
One of those juniors is going to do it once!
I'm not sure about the "eco-sabotage" angle.

In the past, the same group that claims responsibility for this attack,
conducted arson attacks on the public transport infrastructure accusing the train company of collaborating with the military-industrial complex or some similar farfetched excuse.

It seems to me like they just like to start fires and destroy things to cause chaos (under the pretense that there is a political justification for it).
Curious as well. Searching around I found this documentation on their ecosystem [0], which may shed some light on the organization structure. It may be they are organized as a DAO? From the intro:

> Radworks is a community dedicated to cultivating internet freedom.

They do not shy away from cryptocurrency technology, though AFAICS that is not directly applied to the Radicle project. Another project of Radworks is Drips [1], to help fund open source.

[0] https://docs.radworks.org/community/ecosystem

[1] https://www.drips.network/
That's because they were some smaller places.

When you've more-or-less monopolized a lot of the web's content sharing you get to tell your clients to pound sand. Where else they gonna go? Twitter? The incel white supremacist dollar is not what advertisers call "the good dollar".
I hate hearing this argument. Nearly all electricity in the world is a blend of sources. Texas, a famously oil and gas state, has the highest amount of renewable energy in America.

This is being worked on in parallel. If we wait until we have clean energy everywhere it'll take another 20-30 years to migrate vehicles away from gasoline.

Lastly, a single massive oil/gas/coal/etc power plant is more efficient than millions of little generators.
Ouigo comfort is far less than any Dutch IC-class stock. Maybe the Ouigo is on par with Sprinter-class stock, but even then it’s a stretch.

Compared to German stock — yes, the German stock is nicer (mainly has to do with different usage patterns, though — Netherlands train network has been said to resemble a country-sized metro network).

Outlets — who cares, just bring a power bank — again, compare to networks like London Overground or Paris RER.
Who thinks Meta pushed to prod without testing?
Aha, of course!

OK, if those are nautical miles this does make much more sense — 3698nm is 280 nautical miles (320 miles) longer than the great circle route. It's a bit longer than the naive calculation I made — increasing the average speed (and time at cruise) a little bit, too.

Then the BAH-LHR leg is more interesting too — its great circle route is 2754 nm, so they're going 366 nm (420 miles) out of their way. Their listed distance is approximately what it'd be if they routed through the Mediterranean over Malta.

https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=BAH-LHR%2C%20BAH-MLA-...
I know it's okay. That's why I asked if there is music that the poster recognizes as music. The poster didn't describe it as music that they didn't like, they described it as a "mishmash" of sounds. Kind of Blue isn't even particularly "mashy". You're a bit obnoxious yourself.
Amazon is the devil. They are flooded with cheap chinese crap, returns are a maybe, and shipping times, when the controlling entity is amazon shipping itself, are a clown show.

The thing that sets Amazon apart is they lead the pack in enshitification of platforms like these.
TLDR - if you are over 40 now, you will be like the guys nowadays that know FORTRAN and COBOL.

>A COBOL programmer, tired of all the extra work and chaos caused by the impending Y2K bug, decides to have himself cryogenically frozen for a year so he can skip all of it.

>He gets himself frozen, and eventually is woken up when several scientists open his cryo-pod.

>"Did I sleep through Y2K? Is it the year 2000?", he asks.

>The scientists nervously look at each other. Finally, one of them says "Actually, it's the year 9999. We hear you know COBOL."
I heard for a while Netflix would fail open if auth was unavailable. Like it’s just movies just let em see it.

Facebook data is more sensitive. Not so much the data people go there to see, cool memes that their friends liked, but the list of friends and interests.

Other places I worked had the ability for Ops to push out a change saying the site was down for maintenance. After a while we stopped using it and just took the hit of a bunch of 5xx errors. Basically when the planned down times became shorter than the time to propagate the down setting.
isn't this simply a commercialization of Llama Guard? Maybe FB and CF have a deal to allow this
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600257)
LinkedIn Serves 5M User Profiles per Second
The glue-free cyclic hexatetraflexagon is my favorite. IMO it's actually really easy to make; I'm not sure why the article calls it complicated.
AGI may never align with human needs – so says science
Bwahaha, just wait until you see the shrapnel flying over the next year.

You don’t think the steady erosion in system reliability and ever increasing outages is unrelated to these pressures do you?

I’ve seen the sausage being made at the middle manager level in big corp for a long time. It’s never any one person/hiring decision, but the pattern and it’s impact has been obvious (and getting unavoidable) for a long time.

That no one seems to want to talk about the actual issues, but doing character assassination and black listing (like this comment) is part and parcel of the problem.
Isn't this just renaming Shipt as Target Circle 360?
Ask HN: How do you do preview environments?
1. Do you have any setup to set up preview environments per PR?

2. What do you find useful about these environments?
As a child I once ate an entire jar of the German stuff that comes in a little stein in a couple of days just to have the tiny glass. It was like the toy in a cereal box except for odd children.
I like clever project names :)

This looks great - I just tried to generate sample code in the react repo and was pleasantly surprised. Do you have a sense of whether this works well to generate code in general, i.e. generate an API route to return X data that works similar to the other API routes.
A quick search surfaced this study: https://hechingerreport.org/why-your-toddler-cant-learn-from...

GP said studies, plural. I cannot confirm that. But the linked study is consistent with what I observed in my child when he was a toddler.
Laid off too many people? Critical services no longer have owners?
Show HN: Infinite Craft, but for Lambda Calculus
Gonna have my Angle Grinder controller ready for the new Sysadmin Simulator release
Julian Lage and Kurt Rosenwinkle are another couple of guitarists to check out. Deep Song, by Kurt, and Gladwell, by Julian, are great entry points into their music!
But you know enough java to be able to accumulate new knowledge. That is the critical barrier. To know enough in a subject so you are able to learn on your own
Well, we could always be better at sharing small things; but recall, the comment was made by Bjarne Stroustrup, and he probably thought that he had pretty much nailed the vector by that time :-)

The point of the OP is a bit broader than that: for something like a vector, we have at least figured out some language features which would help a programmer make an efficient and generic implementation. Templates are not great, but at least they are something.

For graphs, we don't even have that. What kind of built-in graph support would work for graphs which would work for pathfinding in a video game, or the internet, or a social networking graph a la facebook, or a routing graph routing a 100 million transistor chip....

We are getting better at abstraction all the time, but to abstract across all these kinds of applications is something which eludes us. Its really hard to see how you could give a programmer anything which would actually save him some time.
I personally cannot relate to what you're saying, as I'm sure you'd feel about people saying they don't like classical. One thing that we probably can agree on though is that there is jazz out there which is definitely written to showcase the player's skill rather than to create beautiful music, which I also don't care much for.
Show HN: An open source clean logs tool
I’ve lost count of how many times a junior engineer accidentally pushed something into a dev branch that either contained secrets/credentials etc. or that leaked those into logs/std. out.

Secure-log prevent logging for apps on production, scan for Secrets and remove them from logging.

No more console.log().
Man arrested for trying to steal Waymo robotaxi
Well yeah I was making a little bit of a joke there. It's also a handy place to keep the rest of my stuff, receive letters, use as an address for banks, sleep in known comfort, all the good stuff that comes with having a fixed abode

If it was the only thing stopping me doing the nomad thing I'd set it up at a friend's house (with payment in terabytes of storage) or aye colo it
"The Nature of Technology" – Book review
Since we're in full-on speculation mode ... Russian cyber-attack ?
Note that's the application server process being single threaded, but the server machine is 4 core, so nginx cache etc use other cores
Dealing in absolutes is a result of misaligned expectations.
Glad, I found this. I literally just told me boss I spilled my coffee on my desk so I could have a break and figure this things out. F'ing FB... Thank you to whoever started this post. I tried resetting my password many times and also thought I was HaX0red.
Shaming the choice to have children by those who are not "married, employed, [or] mature" is certainly a problem and we should address it, but another even-more-impactful problem we need to address is the problem of people not being married, employed, or mature. It also seems intuitively wrong to suggest that the shaming of the choice to have children, in general, eclipses the shaming of the choice not to have children.
HN is always slow when everything else goes down, tech people swarm here to check for information, and it overloads the site.
Boomers probably do.
It would be a better UX, but, depending on the outage, that might be a really hard behavior to guarantee.