skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author should remove - or at the very least _credit_, come on - the image used in "The Pendulum of Database Realm" section. It's from Martin Kleppmann's "Designing Data-Intensive Applications", a particularly good O'Reilly book with illustrations by Rebecca Demarest.
Yup. Much more verbose. However, I must admit, all the unescaped names in Typst leaves me with any eerie feeling. It seems a ground ripe for a name conflict at some point. Or a bottleneck for customization like calligraphic C or script C.
He didn't say it fed back into birds, but into the study of birds.
Why dont they have some IR source that can selectively heat the water molecules and zip them into space?
Is it uncommon to dislike the latent smell associated with cooking? I love cooking, but I go as far as changing my clothes after it to get rid of the smell. I could never imagine having an open kitchen.
Well, if publish or perish is hard in your own discipline, why not branch out and publish nonsense for fun and profit /s
Stable Diffusion 3 Turbo
There always is, things that mattered here:

Why didn't higher ups care? I didn't bother going up higher than skip. My core interlocutor was my skip's peer's report's report, I didn't expect my skip to go to war over slow-drip white collar bullying. Honestly, I was done and planning my exit once year 3.5 of "not this year" hit, going crying to VPs you see once a month / once a quarter felt insane & would have just devolved to he said/she said.

To your point re: seems like a lot. I worked with a couple counselors at same level as my skip over my last year there. (highly recommend G2G if anyone reading is at Google, kept me sane.) #1 said they dealt with less after kissing their VP's wife at an off-site - which is why I got #2, wasn't sure if that one was too skeezy at first.

What would I have done differently? I was honest the whole time, which didn't help because the fact I wasn't happy and it was escalating was clear. ex. with the hiring friend thing, told my manager that I was shocked and didn't expect that kind of thing at a startup.

How do you hire a friend without domain experience as a manager?

There's a core principle that once you've made it through Google interviews, domain doesn't matter, all Google SWEs will excel. Having loose rules with kind intent is awesome, but they're double-edged. That gives you rationale, and combined with moving recruiters into individual orgs., lets you put your thumb on the scale and bring in who you want. Also 2022 through June, Google was desperate to hire, this would have been justified as an awesome referral, and what's a friend, anyway?
Always a welcome and thoughtful opinion, but not correct about the potential for LLM. Waving away their output as "BS" is awfully flip, and IMO is hence one more example of Ximm's Law (that every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon.)

One might find ambiguity in his criticism though, that LLM alone are insufficient... but, that's what Ximm's Law is saying. It's not very interesting to (as I would say, he does here) take on straw, rather than steel.

(A steely defense of LLM is to say that no one is particularly interested in scaling LLM without other improvements, though scaling alone provides improvements; multi-modal, multi-language, long-context, and most of all augmented systems which integrate LLM into systems rather than making them "systems on a chop", are where things look and IMO will be interesting.)
The distinction between language and "thought" to me is odd. Language and "thought" are the same thing. The mouth sounds or hand scribbles aren't the language, but expressions of it.
I been using it wrong all these years...

<hides under carpet>
Maybe the rules of physics need to have a measure of "ductility" all their own.

So they don't get really bent out of shape ;)

I know what I would be doing with an alloy like that.
That's some pig!
"Adam Smith and Karl Marx found common ground was in the idea that everyone’s interests are aligned against landlords: they are an economic deadweight."

They provide benefits: capital investment/capital risk, maintenance obligations, and most importantly-- mobility to renters.

In the country I live in, there are myriad tax breaks for landlording over owning. Perhaps removing those should be the first attempt to fix things?
Favorite 3 books for your main programming language?
I've actually been working on a personal project using asynchronous ring oscillators on FPGAs to perform meaningful computation. If you make the oscillators interact in the right way, you can leverage them to solve certain graph problems!

Once I finish the write-up I'm planning on posting it on HN :)

https://github.com/zbelateche/digial-ising
Expression is not language. What you're having trouble doing is expressing what you understand.
Also because science for the public these days is no more about facts, but opinions.
The Win32 API is also seriously ugly. All those struct parameters, mostly full of zeros, and the hungarian notation. I know it is something from an earlier time and can't be changed without breaking everything, but it was hideous even by the standards of the day.
Causation is just correlation, and a good story. :-)
> more narrative interviews

Please no.
Hackers exploit Aiohttp bug to find vulnerable networks
> for free

Strange to see this popular misconception on HN.

Adtech products are certainly not free/gratis. You're paying with your data, usage and attention. They're extracting far more value out of you than you do from their products.
The Toxic Effects of Electronic Waste in Accra, Ghana (2019)
Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
> By “help” I mean that — especially when changes in epistemological points of view from one’s own common sense are required , it can make a huge difference to be near a “special human” whose personality is strong enough to make us rethink what we think we know.

This is how I measure Ed-Tech companies. Do they have an awareness that you cannot replace the connection with other human beings that is an essential part of teaching with "facts" or not? If "yes, they have that awareness" how do they mitigate the problem?
The real trick that made Google possible, and the following web 2.0 era startups, was that linux and commodity hardware was all that was needed at the time so engineers could strike out on their own. Comparing it to the current ML era where you need many millions of dollars of data and many millions of dollars of hardware to compete, the guys that wrote the transformers paper are stuck in bigcorp and aren't going to be the next Larry and Sergey. OpenAI might be one of the few new big companies but it's run by a VC/CEO, not the engineers that figured the stuff out, and he had to sell half the company to Microsoft anyway.
Why would I use Java 22 over Kotlin?
And if you make housing more affordable, household size will drop further, as fewer people choose to live together purely for economic reasons. For example, housing is pretty affordable in Finland, and the average household size was 1.93 in 2022.
Another housing shortage article, another extremely contrived piece trying to convince us that housing is the only thing that isn't subject to supply and demand.

If there are more houses, houses will cost less than otherwise. Stop with the weird strategies to ban, tax, mandate, subsidize etc... Build.
not a US term. SE Asian.

"Fresher" + "100 people on the call" immediately makes me think Tata or Cognizant.
Tangentially related, on the topic of micrometeorites found this rather cool "Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust":

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/17/cosmic-cathe...
The papers actual page feels like a clearer explanation to me.

https://mhamilton.net/featup.html
But most homes in the UK are single family homes (66%) and women changed from having 2.4 kids on average in 1970 to 1.66 in 2021, so you would expect household size to fall.
I will be unable to leave the stock iOS Reminders app:

- I do a lot of my tasks away from my desk, so when I have my phone with me but not my laptop
- A todo item without a reminder/due date is “dead” to me, it’s the reminder to actually do the thing that adds the value

The stock Reminders app is the only app on iOS I know of that can keep persistent notifications on the Lock Screen, even after locking and then unlocking the phone. A reminder will stay on the Lock Screen as notification until marked as complete.

Any other todo app can give me a one time notification. But if I don’t act on it, the notification is gone (or hidden below the fold at best) and unless I open the app, the todo item is again “dead” to me.

This is definitely Apple allowing its own apps access to features closed off for others, but this unique capability is what will keep me on the stock Reminders app forever.
Much like the frequently vilified HF trader, the value that landlording adds to the economy is liquidity. What do these managed housing schemes provide when, for example, a household breaks up? Or two households want to merge? Or even when a household wants to move across town to be closer to work? If you have ~100% utilized housing, the only way this gets addressed is with elaborate queuing. The liquidity that an open rental market offers comes at a cost, and it's very worthwhile to interrogate that cost and seek to mitigate it because it mostly translates into homelessness. But the managed housing market / absolute rent control approach doesn't seem to have an answer to the liquidity problem, which also demands interrogation.
There’s a long debate in neuroscience about whether information is encoded in timing of individual spikes or only their rates (where rate coding is a bit more similar to how ANNs work, but still different). It hasn’t been decided by any one paper, nor is it likely to be: it seems that different populations of neurons in different parts of the brain encode information through different means.
That's so bizarre. Both that you aren't allowed to buy it at any % concentration (not in clothes), and that my Random Ass could buy it at up to 36%.
Asymmetrical Social Mach Bands (2014) [pdf]
Physical activity can offset the negative effects of social isolation
Why are we asking tech CEOs about societal racism and politics?

Oh yeah, ratings.

Seriously though, it would probably be better and far more entertaining if we stop making politicians and business people celebrities and just go back to asking musicians, college professors, journalists, and actors for their political opinions.

We're plagued by this ideal that CEOs are somehow this elite class of people that should influence the way the world operates rather than finding non-billionaire individuals who are far more human and relatable.
Does a full free operating system, all the way down to the metal, and hypermedia publishing suite in 936kB count as "a system of any complexity" that "will do what it is supposed to do" to you? If not, what specifically is your standard? https://youtu.be/BUud1gcbS9k
Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder to Run Consumer A.I
A somewhat related ask for help -

I have seen a program, I think for IOCCC, where the code was aligned in 4 character columns that seemed to naturally fit the code, so it would have code arranged like:

for( long i=0; i<n; i++)
{int a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4;

for the whole program.

I lost it though and have been completely unable to find it, despite searching very hard.

Has anyone seen something like this before? I would be forever grateful for any pointer towards it.
Thank you so much for trying it out and for the feedback! Macros are certainly high on the to-do list :)
CVT's are 100% pure trash.

Dig the ZF8 in my RAM a lot. Did not like the 10 speed in my F-150, ZF is much better.
Thoughts occur independent of language is same as saying sentient beings think. The question is does the thought you have depend on the language?

I speak tamil and english and can distinctly see how the language drives some of my understanding. If you have a language that has evolved to describe 3D space, would be understand spatial ideas better/faster?

If we are pattern matching creatures, then the patterns are built over a period of time and our earliest scaffolding for the patterns come from our mother tongue (or the languages learnt in early childhood). Subsequent understanding depends on building and expanding on those patterns.
Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust
The problem here is that correlation is not a hard term for the people doing drawing the lines. People who take homeopathics for example will assure you they always get healthy when they took the sugar pills. What they fail to see is that they would have gotten healthy without it as well.

If you always rub your lucky penny before playing a sports game a superstitious person would account wins for the penny and excuse losses by not having rubbed the penny enough, the right way, not concentrated enough. This also feeds into correlation.

We are not talking about things actually being correlated, we are talking about people believing they are. Those are two wildly different things one is physical reality and doesn't change when you ignore it, the other is bound to individuals and tbeir world view and can take on absolutely ridiculous forms.
This is also how I learned that 8X7B doesn't mean "eight 7B models joined somehow".
Yea, though in a good way. Not needing roommates is what happens when a housing shortage goes away.
HIBP has a domain search [1] that's free.

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/DomainSearch
https://archive.ph/Gwc9k
Yellicode – A free and extensible source code generation engine
Looks awesome, one of my frustrations with jq has always been that I can't see what data I'm going to be retrieving until I run it.
The key thing to understand about GFS and relatives is how essential it is for distributed computation.

It is natural for us to look at a big file and think, "I need to do something complicated, so I'll do a distributed calculation, then get a new file." This makes the file you start with, and the file you wind up with, both bottlenecks to the calculation.

Instead you really want to have data distributed across machines. Now do a distributed map-reduce calculations, and get another distributed dataset. Then create a pipeline of such calculations. Leading to a distributed calculation with no bottlenecks. Anywhere.

(Of course this is a low-level view of how it works. We may want to build that pipeline automatically off of, say, a SQL statement. To get a distributed query against a datastore.)

Absolutely essential for this is the ability to have a distributed, replicated, filesystem. This is what GFS was. When you try to scale a system, you focus on your current bottlenecks, and accept that there will be later ones. GFS did not distribute metadata. It did not play well with later systems created for managing distributed machines. But it was an important step towards a distributed world. And the fact that Google was so far ahead of everyone else on this was a giant piece of their secret sauce.

True story. I went to Google at about the same time that eBay shut down their first datacenter. So I was reading an article from eBay about how more work it took to shut down a datacenter without disrupting operations. And how proud they are at succeeding. And then I saw the best practices that Google was using so that users wouldn't notice if a random datacenter went offline without warning. Which was a capacity that Google regularly tested. Because if you're afraid to test your emergency systems, they probably don't work.

What eBay was proud of doing with a lot of work, was entirely taken for granted and automated at Google.
Because it costs money to run and I’m not made of money? It might be cherish, but money I don’t have to spend is even better. It’s also better for the environment(!!) and I like my working space to be as quiet as possible.
Yeah, nothing fishy here at all. Why pay tribute to other artists if you can make a deal with one and promote him on all the playlist to pocket back your money. Just give him the machinery and funding to create all of it and voila!
GPT 3.5 blew me away.

Unfortunately GPT-4 and even other coding co-pilots like Phind kinda suck at anything beyond "noob tier" / beginner level questions. In fact it has gotten so bad that I ended up Open AI subscription.

It falls apart at anything with complexity, and I feel that just taking out a sheet of printer paper or going to the whiteboard is always far more effective than trying to get GPT to come up with something that at the bare minimum has no errors.
It doesn't really mean anything to have "revocation" of a Root. The way forward is to explicitly cease trusting this Root if you believe it has been compromised. For example Microsoft can ship a Windows Update which distrusts roots they by default trust in Windows.

Exactly what clients do about revocation for Intermediates and End Entity certificates varies, the revocation information will be available publicly in one (or both) of two forms:

The Online Certificate Status Protocol. OCSP results have a lifetime so you can check back periodically, and they're created via a distinct key from the Root, which has its own certificate (provided in the response) showing that it's trusted to do this specific work.

Certificate Revocation Lists are signed documents with a list of revoked certificates. CRLs are again signed using a distinct key with its own certificate showing that it was authorised to sign these lists.

Some client vendors may (semi)automatically aggregate information to produce their own summaries so that their clients can rely on the aggregate rather than fetching revocation information during use.

OCSP in particular was designed so that it could be stapled which is a technique where your server fetches and then includes the OCSP results for your end entity cert (and possibly the intermediate) with the cert itself during a connection handshake, the client thus now has a valid (albeit perhaps not entirely fresh) OCSP answer without doing its own checks, since OCSP is signed you can't forge this although of course if you have a 48 hour OCSP good answer you could continue playing it for up to 48 hours even if subsequent OCSP results said revoked.

Unfortunately implementation for OCSP stapling has been fairly poor, it's usually wrongly or at least badly implemented by people who apparently have no idea what the goal was and so it can make your service needlessly less reliable if your server is defective in this way, so the main browsers are not (last I knew) much interested in pursuing this further.
Generic and Automated Drive-By GPU Cache Attacks from the Browser [pdf]
The paper in question: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1bc6
Stories like these are my catnip. The 500 mile email is another great one.

How did you end up debugging/reproducing? I conjured a picture in my head of an engineer comically exasperated and squeezing the controller followed by an “Aha!”
It doesn't increase the supply of houses. It increases the supply of houses for sale, and reduces the supply of houses for rent. I don't see why this is a better state of affairs, especially if you can't afford to buy.
I love driving my manual, although I recognize in this day and age that is probably kind of silly on my part. Are the new automatic transmissions really as much an improvement in fuel efficiency as the manufacturers claim? I'd like to justify buying another manual, but I can't ignore a 4 mpg gain in fuel efficiency.
> Redis for 99% of the intended use-cases and companies will be just fine.

Except when Windows is the architecture.

This may be a place where Garnet is a good alternative.
I've never seen a java codebase I thought couldn't be better in kotlin
That's a temporary solution at best, and hurts those that cannot afford to buy even with reduced prices which I believe is what is happening now. Lots of small time landlords exiting the market due to changing in taxation causing rent to increase. Oh, and house prices are still rising.
Cell division is a solved problem. Install new ram module and ctrl+c, ctrl+v from backup, done.
> the RESTful guy, Roy Fielding

I think you're confused about who Fielding is and what REST is about. His writing isn't about building "true" RESTful APIs. It isn't really about APIs per se at all, RESTful or not. (Further, Fielding to my knowledge isn't even known for his use of the word "RESTful".) It sounds like you've probably been misled by a bunch of people who aren't Fielding about what's in his dissertation. Not unreasonable in those circumstances that one be told to actually read the thing instead of guessing at the gestalt of it based on ambient chatter which is by and large very misinformed.

Having said that, Fielding's writing is not something I would exalt for its clarity. I'm partial to jcrites's explanatory powers: "REST describes how the Web works" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23672561>
The problem is that moving is economically inefficient and a large part of the population will be priced out and have to continually move so you need some hysteresis.