skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're far enough apart for good isolation, which provides durability and availability

It can't possibly be enough for critical data though, right? I'm guessing a fire in 1 is unlikely to spread to another, but could it affect the availability of another? What about a deliberate attack on the DCs or the utilities supplying the DCs?
What is more special about how human intelligence works? In the end we are all particles and it all could be trillions of data points very simplistically interacting with each other resulting in emergent behaviour and complex, intelligent results.

We know how common molecules can interact with each other. Does this mean that anything built on top of them is not intelligent?

Everything in life could just be "statistics".
This is a Canadian article. Canada is one of the fastest growing countries in the world with a quarterly population growth rate of 1.1%. This country is run by pro-immigration extremists and I don’t think it’s relevant for the audience here. Our job market is it’s own beast.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231219/dq231...
Just to flip this around & play with it some: how do people feel about the importance of technical skills? Has the importance increased or decreased? Has it changed or shifted some how? What's different about how technical skills serve us today?

This question dovetails immensely into this question of what role AI will have in the future, I feel like. It informs how replaceable people are by ML.
And much softer, more centrist politics. WSJ is every bit a Murdoch paper
Show HN: Timelock.dev – Send a secret into the future using timelock encryption
This is simply a web interface built on top of the timelock encryption system posted by Cloudflare last week. https://blog.cloudflare.com/harnessing-office-chaos
I love my name precisely because it is (almost) unique. On the other hand my wife dislikes her given name because it is common. Limiting the name to a list limits individuality.
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Didn't you read the Financial Times this morning?

Sir Desmond Glazebrook : Never do.

Sir Humphrey Appleby : Well, you're a banker. Surely you read the Financial Times?

Sir Desmond Glazebrook : Can't understand it. Full of economic theory.

Sir Humphrey Appleby : Why do you buy it?

Sir Desmond Glazebrook : Oh, you know, it's part of the uniform. Took me 30 years to understand Keynes' economics. Then when I'd just cottoned on, everyone started getting hooked on these new monetarist ideas, you know, "I Want To Be Free" by Milton Shulman.

Sir Humphrey Appleby : Milton Friedman.

Sir Desmond Glazebrook : Why are they all called Milton? Anyway, I've only got as far as Milton Keynes.

Sir Humphrey Appleby : Maynard Keynes.

Sir Desmond Glazebrook : I'm sure there's a Milton Keynes.

Sir Humphrey Appleby : Yes, there is, but it's...

[Humphrey gives up]
Silicon Valley is pricing lecturers out of AI research
> Sometimes I feel like posts that are even remotely critical about Apple or Macs Apple on HN, get flagged and generally attacked in replies with hateful comments. I keep hoping people would be more objective and moderate here and less defensive about a favorite brand.

That is true of most of the organizations that have a large representation here on HN. A ton of people here work for those companies, the federal government or companies that directly contract (and depend) on those companies.

While I don't mind much if someone disagrees with me on HN I do notice that conversations surrounding certain topics, groups or companies get essentially brigaded and as a byproduct of that I typically avoid those discussions here.

I figure if the echo chamber wants/needs to talk to each other about how great Apple or Google is I just ignore it and it happen. Sure, there will be a post in a few weeks about how the same company stole their data or made them into a product, but they'll forget that and go back to singing corporate praise soon enough.

When real products or innovations come around you can see the way people react on the site as genuine. I look for those kinds of conversations and topics. If you ever get bored and want to be entertained go check out some of the hilariously bad product launches either Apple or Google have done and then go back and look at some of the conversations on HN about it.
Yeah even in Holland that's a problem. We have some calvinist villages where it's really not done to wash your car on Sunday "because god rested on Sunday" even if you don't subscribe to their harsh religion :(

Also I've heard some terrible things from jehova witnesses who got shunned by their entire family after speaking up against the group of elders called the "lighthouse" or something. One of my friends got really screwed up by that.

These communities are not at all healthy IMO and they force things that are supposed to be left to the democratic government.
a retired attorney in California said this recently.. (he is close to 80 so he recalls a lot of the context of Prop 13)

"Prop 13 is the worst thing to happen to California in a long time. It has lasting effects today. At the time, the press was full of 'tax fighter' stories about saving the poor old retirees from having their homes taken away sourced from Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association among others. This is not the real story. The real story is that big corporations in California own land and do not sell it in practice. Prop 13 froze the property tax that Corporations pay at the same time as the homeowners."
The traditional POSIX filesystem is the wrong abstraction for a database, but not filesystems per se. All databases that care about performance and scalability implement their own filesystems, either directly against raw block devices or as an overlay on top of a POSIX filesystem that bypasses some of its limitations. The performance and scalability gains by doing so are not small.

The issue with POSIX filesystems is that they are required to make a set of tradeoffs to support features a database engine doesn't need, to the significant detriment of scalability and performance in areas that databases care about a lot. For example, one such database filesystem I've used occasionally over the years, while a bit dated at this point, is designed such that you can have tens of millions of files in a single directory where you are creating and destroying tens of thousands of files every second, on upwards of a petabyte of storage. Very far from being POSIX compatible but you don't get anything like that type of scalability on POSIX.

Object storage is far from ideal as database storage. The biggest issue, though, is the terrible storage bandwidth available in the cloud. It is a small fraction of what is available in a normal server and modern database engines are capable of fully exploiting a large JBOD of NVMe.
I think humans having their own culture and ultimately worldview is just a fact of life and the best that we can do is to learn to coexist and work with each other.

But we don’t have to work side by side for 40 hours a week. Why make both of us miserable?

And to your scenario, I personally too believe a culture of opposing voices is the best culture, but ourselves thinking that is… itself a worldview, making us a part of a subculture. And even then, there are limitations to my acceptance. For example, I strongly believe in keeping track of credit for ideas, so people who regularly forget who suggested an idea (or who don’t care who did it first in history) bother me immensely, so even if you had similar views as me, I wouldn’t want to work with you just on that alone. You are only a little different but, to me, in a wrong and unacceptable way.

But I’ll still work with you. I just don’t want to be on a team of you’s.
>since housing prices as they are now disincentivize building because of poor profit opportunities

I'm confused by this. Housing prices are high, exactly because it's effectively impossible to build housing in the most expensive cities. Building housing in these cities is extremely profitable, it's just difficult, if not impossible, to build.

627 days, just for the permit: This data shows the staggering timeline to build homes in S.F.: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-permits-san-f...

>The typical applicant currently waits a staggering 627 calendar days before obtaining a full building permit from the city to construct a multifamily housing project, and 861 days before gaining the same approval for a single-family residence, the analysis found.

This has little to do with poor profit opportunities insofar as housing is concerned, and everything to do with incumbents (both home-owners and rent-controlled renter) explicitly trying to thwart new construction wherever possible. Home-owners want shortages to protect their property values. Rent-controlled renters want to block development because it might incentivize their landlords to redevelop the property they live in (this is specific to California laws).

>how can removing rent control spell more profit opportunities for private interests without increasing price?

>If prices stay somewhat the same without rent control, where is the incentive to build more housing?

The answer is volume. If I have one unit that rents for $4000/month, but I redevelop to create 3 units that rent at $3000/month, I effectively increase my profits by $5000/month, while lowering local rents by $1000/month. Everybody wins.

Now, if someone has rent-control at $1000/month, then I'm not going to argue that their rent isn't going to go up. It will, but it should. Because someone somehow living at a price that is artificially $3000/month cheaper than their neighbors is obviously unjust, I see little reason to preserve this inequality beyond political practicalities. Were these volume discounts don't exist, rent-controls are generally benign, however, as discussed before, they won't be benign for long, because the cause a lack of development, which will create a shortage over time.

I obviously think these systems are entrenched, and should be phased out. I don't think that rent controls should be preserved indefinitely, but even if we were to completely change the system tomorrow, I understand that people have built their lives around these inequalities, and should have 5-10 years (minimum) for these inequalities to be eliminated.
You said that iCPR is privacy theatre because of a resolved security bug from 2 years ago. Please spell out the implication of that claim for me then.
> There is no way to excuse behaviour of the people working on the door that day, none.

I'll wait for all the facts and their defense before drawing a conclusion (and even then, I really don't know and would trust a jury more). IME, pointing moral outrage at seemingly sure targets turns out to be a sure way to make myself the sinner.
Not too much. Mostly doing security work and lot of can be automated, but still I don't believe LLMs have all the ideas. Same goes for system design and picking the right parts, even if they are ready or can be done by LLM.

In the end we need humans as final sanity check or over all design for good while. Or just to decide the right requirements.
Tuning Primer - MySQL Server Tuning for e.g. Nextcloud
Other interesting articles for MySQL tuning

https://haefelfinger.ch/posts/2021/2021-03-29-nextcloud-tuni...
Rebuilding memchess.com from its archive
memchess.com was a neat website to learn chess openings with the spaced repetition method.

It was closed around 2020 for some reason.

I used code gathered from archive.org[1] and built a version that seems to work. It does not require a subscription/login, instead it stores progress through the HTML5 web storage API[2].

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/memchess.com

2. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp
Geopolitical topics for sure
Republican voters, for the record. We'll see in November. Earlier, it seems, for some of his criminal trials.
> repeated doses have been shown to induce IgG4 production

I have a strong suspicion that this finding explains some if not all of the weird results with these vaccines.

* The 95% effective was a measurement solely of sickness, not infection. At the time this was reported, we had no idea if this meant it prevented infection/improved the immune response (good) or suppressed the immune response so we didn't develop symptoms (bad).

* Tons of countries had huge infection spikes just a couple months after reaching high vaccination rates.

* "Long Covid" seems to have become far more prevalent after the vaccines than before.

Here's what I think is happening: The IgG4 finding is key in explaining all of these. It suppresses the immune response, which would allow the virus to run wild without any immediate symptoms (95% initial efficacy). This could cause small amounts of damage that accumulate into Long Covid (why it's associated with infection but seems more prevalent in vaccinated people), as well as turn the vaccinated into asymptomatic spreaders (the high infection spikes).

Personally, I think mRNA vaccines were a complete failure.
That’s good. Also maybe an architecture that runs the query through multiple times and then evaluates similarity of responses, then selects (or creates) the most-generated one, along with a confidence level of how many of the individual responses were aligned.
In the case in question here, there is no obvious engineering design flaw in the door plug to hold anyone accountable for. To the point you were replying to, it's also not clear there was an obvious management decision that led to the plug being reinstalled improperly.
Legal row could finally force mystery artist Banksy to reveal his real name
I disagree with this. I think one of the issues I’m running into is that it’s clear to me that there won’t always be something to read in the future. I remember Digg, and other forums. And when it failed there was Reddit for niche topics. And then Reddit has been steadily going downhill for years now, and I see an era soon where niche communities just won’t be on Reddit. It’s already happening. The forums I used to go to are dead. The Reddit communities are dying or dead, and there’s just no communities any more to talk and discuss stuff. It’s hidden away on discord where I can’t find it, or on Facebook or TikTok where things come and go and there’s search. Google is also barely useable for certain topics too. I don’t even know where to go and to find other people that are doing cool stuff other than HN and maybe Twitter, if those die it’s sort of over?

Not saving articles and just relying on them coming to you through places like HN or Reddit or being available on google was great in the heyday but it’s not clear to me that that will continue. The clearest example is for more illicit things like piracy and dark net markets. Stuff that can’t really be hosted on Facebook. If you didn’t save certain information or articles, that information is probably just gone forever
Thanks for this list. I find all of them are missing features that I would want for diagrams I hand made recently. Of the ones on this list only one seems to handle diagonals ( https://textik.com/ ) and that doesn't have a fill function AFAIK

The diagram I wanted to draw would be something like this https://pastebin.com/NPXFS1Fi

I created the box and triangle in textik.com but I had to manually edit a bunch of corners and manually fill it in.

I'm not sure I'd pay for Monodraw. Even though it's only $10 is a native app and Mac only. I do so much on the web and use so many machines and draw diagrams only a few times a year that I think I'd prefer something web based or a VSCode plugin.
Government controlled media outlet fear mongering in support of more government power. Shocking.
It's company trying to sell things to you, and it's a benchmark that just happens to show their product in good light. They have lots of reasons to spin things their way.
Hah, I successfully identified sarcasm on the internet (ok, I was like 80% sure, 60%... anyway above 50%)!
Because the modern meaning comes from propaganda spread by the business interests the Luddites were opposed to.
This is basically how all Icelandic surnames work. They are patronyms or matronyms. Björk Guðmundsdóttir literally means “Björk, daughter of Guðmundur”, because that was the name of her father.
This kind of talk was bubbling around STEM phds, too at top institutions in the 2005-2015 era, so even if you're in your early 40s, you should have at least been able to make an informed decision.
If you meet plenty of "insufferable" people then maybe you are the problem. I find most people behave nicely, no bullying or anything they do their job and they answer questions when asked if you don't ask too often.

The worst for team morale were the people who had a hard time with their job and tried to defend or hide that, such people don't answer questions when you ask not because they don't want to but because they can't, their problem aren't social but technical, people who can easily answer do so.
Such a great show. So much of it still resonates
Like learning, doesn't this depend on the person? I like to have a couple of things on the go, otherwise I can get bored focused on 1 thing - sometimes you just need a break to think things through, and often I do that by working on something completely different or simple.
> and they're not obligated to publish their evaluation criteria

God forbid people communicate.
What Middle Managers Do
Yes, if you're a cleaner
Things I have learned about Tech Leadership
Interestingly, this isn't that different than restaurants offering weekday lunch specials, or happy hour, or other types of deals to draw more traffic during typically slow periods.

Although the inverse of increasing prices due to demand does appear to be new.

This might be received much better if it were billed as "ad-hoc deals" with the max price being the regular price, and deals being created by their point-of-sale system to account for unutilized bandwidth, and even inventory (the system can create specials on items which have ingredients that are nearing end of life, or which the restaurant's supplier itself put on special)

Calling it "surge pricing" seems like a way to just piss people off
No, it bleeds into their reporting as well. The NYTimes has the same problem, a right wing editorial department that is constantly interfering with and undermining their news coverage. The FT doesn’t have these problems.
I'm pretty sure the GAO report is largely referring to Class III devices approved after 1976 in this section... under less restrictive rules of some kind.
As I see this is : TT-Metalium [1] = a low level API [1]

"TT-Metalium is a platform for programming heterogeneous collection of CPUs (host processors) and Tenstorrent acceleration devices, composed of many RISC-V processors. Target users of TT-Metal are expert parallel programmers wanting to write parallel and efficient code with full access to the Tensix hardware via low-level kernel APIs."

https://tenstorrent-metal.github.io/tt-metal/latest/tt_metal...

[1]

"The software stacks come in two varieties – a high level and a low level. The high-level is called TT-Buda, using higher-level APIs to get things up and running, along with interfaces into modern machine learning frameworks. The lower level is TT-Metalium, which provides fine-grained control over the hardware for custom operators, custom control, and even non-machine learning code. Tenstorrent states that there are no black boxes, no encrypted APIs, and no hidden functions."
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/unboxing-the-tenstorren...
>A coding problem is appropriate if they're right out of school and you can't get a good feel for them, but usually, holding a conversation for an hour or so is enough to get a feel for whether or not this person can do the job you have in find, or think of a job they could do.

Facebook tried to recruit me once. They told me I needed to study Leetcode. I'm a researcher with a pretty good publication record and some bit of media coverage of that. I offered to give a "job talk" in lieu of the Leetcode and field their questions live. They insisted on the coding challenges. I told them to take a hike.
see: Monty Python, Australia, everyone is Bruce
I mostly find the ones who have tech skills beyond their peers to be easy to work with. The ones I find problematic are those with ambitions that exceed their skills or role.

Edit: There was one exception I recall who was brilliant and got shit done but was cynical as hell. The place was somewhat dysfunctional and they'd been there longer than most, so maybe finding a better place was the answer for them.
Depends on the org size and mission.

Huge? You want diverse approaches.

Medium? Diverse is probably better.

Small? You probably want strong alignment.

Tiny/Ramen-startup/doing hard things? Maybe diverse again. Maybe not.
Rules like “mandatory name lists” only lessen the damage an abusive parent can do.
But here you are asking a different question, hinting to Claude that it is about the truck driving under the bridge. If you compare, ask the same question please.
My guess is that it is a good advice for working in smaller companies or cities.
I'm in a small city, and we don't have a lot of software development companies here. If anything, most of the programming work is more of a maintaining existing software or projects.

There it does feel that social skills are what's important, because you're more of a maintainer. And you're going to be working in a team because knowledge is so spread, and there's very rarely need for things to be done fast or efficient.

That being said it is just my feelings and it might not reflect how it looks somewhere else at all.
Given his penchant for exploring jumping techniques, it is probably unsurprising that Fosbury would retire to become an engineer!

Cultural evolution (both in terms of materials and practices) is a nice lens to view the history of Track and Field. There are many other innovative techniques in the sport, not all of which became IAAF legal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXGB51C_dRE
The way that you said "recursively" and spent a lot of time describing "directories" and "levels" worries me. The fastest way to list objects in S3 wouldn't involve recursion at all; you just list all objects under a prefix. If you're using the path delimiter to pretend that S3 keys are a folder structure (they're not) and go "folder by folder", it's going to be way slower. When calling ListObjectsV2, make sure you are NOT passing "delimiter". The "directories" and "levels" have no impact on performance when you're not using the delimiter functionality. Split the one list operation into multiple parallel lists on separate prefixes to attain any total time goal you'd like.
Is it extremist to be pro immigration? Or are they extremely pro immigration?
Sounds like a manycore architecture. If you have played TIS-100 it is that exact same idea. If you haven’t, but have played Factorio think of instead of having a central area where all the work happens you build a series of interconnected stations, each doing their own part of calculation before passing it onto the next.

Upside is each core has its own code and is fully Turing complete and independent of eachother. You can handle conditionals much better. And you lose the latency of having network hops for workers.

Downside is you need to break down your process to map onto specific nodes and flows.

(Assuming it is in fact manycore - which is not the same as multicore)
Low margin businesses like restaurants aren't at liberty to provide services in a more expensive way than their competitors. There's almost no "extra" money in the food service industry.

I'm not actually criticising minimum wage laws with this argument. If it applies to every possible way to hire someone, all of your competitors will have to do it too and the costs will be passed on to the consumer. I am however sharply criticizing minimum wage laws that have a tech company shaped loophole. Market forces will require every competing business to use the loophole if any of them do.