skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any comment on the article though?
> Why aren't we using process-isolated sandboxed components talking over io_uring-based low-latency IPC to express most software dependencies?

To some extent we are, if what you do is work on backend RPC or web app frameworks.

But the better answer is because sometimes what you actually want is the ability to put a C function in a separate file that can be versioned and updated on its own, which is what a shared library captures. Trying to replace a function call of 2-3 instructions with your io_uring monstrosity is... suboptimal for a lot of applications.

And in any case, the protocol parsing you'd need to provide to enable all that RPC is going to need to live somewhere, right? What is that going to be, other than a shared library or equivalent?
I'm not sure if that is a metric you can rely on. LLMs are very sensitive to the position of your item lists along the context, paying extra attention at the beginning and the end of those list.

See the listwise approach at "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting", https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17563
I've worked on one last year. A JS developer was surprised at how fast everything was.
Paramedic here. You don't -stay- in the ER. You're either treated and discharged, or stabilized and moved (to surgery, to ICU, admitted). The more beds available, the shorter the ER stay, the less wait time due to throughput.
The grammar of the sentence, as written, would really indicate otherwise. Written in the post: "Scarcity drives demand." (exact quote)

The sub-text is that doctors are slightly corrupt and wish to be payed more, and therefore are incetivized to reduce the total number of doctors.

After reading the travails of what this doctor is going through, that seems like a very callous take, insulting even.
Very interesting. Sorry about the confusion. Can you help me see where the message become unclear to you? Even on multiple re-reads it seems clear to me, but if you say it wasn't clear for you it is probably could be improved.
Period as in full stop. Period. So yeah decimal point.
How does cost compare with some of the GPU-cloud providers?
It's not only emergencies. I've heard people in the US hesitate to get cured because they don't have the money.
side note: not your CDs, not your game.
Thanks for contributing that point. It’s good to have one data point for what happens when there are no restrictions.

I’m from Ireland and have the same experience as most of the rest of the commentators on this thread, i.e., we have a chronic shortage of doctors – and nurses – in our health system. This has been the case for as long as I’ve been alive but it’s got much worse in the last decade or so.

It’s interesting to see how universal this problem is – aside from the odd country like Brazil where the pendulum seems to have swung too far in the opposite direction. It’d be nice to know if any country has found a happy medium.
Do you have data to back up the claim that private healthcare out performs public? I don't mean "if I have millions of dollars I can get treated for whatever I want, whenever I want", I mean "if you are an average person, with an average income, and average insurance what is the time to a necessary procedure, and how much will it cost you".

You can always find articles with people complaining about service in countries with actual PHS, but in my experience the same thing applies to US hospitals, with the added fun that your insurance may simply not cover anything so there's no waitlist by virtue of no treatment options, and then even if it does cover it you can still have a huge copay.
I fail to see the relevance of this comment?
> is switching address spaces at the same time going to kill you?

The answer is "yes".

I won't stop you, if you want to make React even slower, be my guest. I want off this ride.
A guy a worked with once did some time as an IT contractor at one of the large hospitals here in town (they are almost all now owned by the same organization) and he was telling me how this works in practice. Since they have to spend all of them the money on "improvements" it ends up on things like the wall-sized $40k television his team of 5 put in a room in a conference room in a basement that no one ever uses.
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Ah, the 1960s. Have you tried living in a jungle, slaughtering villagers in their homes, fighting to overthrow a foreign government in exchange for college tuition? Good times.
Not at all, the problem is the word "hallucinations" which I kind of people wish would stop using.

They're not doing anything AT ALL different when they "tell the truth" or "lie" or "get it right" or "get it wrong."

They are remixing groups of word chunks based on scanning older groups of word chunks. That's ALL. Most any other description is going to be overreaching anthromorphization.
Along with private university endowments.

The endowments of the Ivy League schools are nearing a combined $200b and schools like Stanford and MIT not far behind. These “schools” have become investment funds with a side hustle educating students to maintain their tax status and solicit alumni donations. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t be taxed, especially with many of them charging upwards of $50k/yr in tuition, much of which gets paid with grants and loans guaranteed by the government.
That it may be an AMA talking point doesn't make it wrong, and as far as I am aware the AMA is in favor of increasing physician at supply at the supply point - increasing medical school class sizes, increasing the number of medical schools, and increasing federal funding for residency programs (which can increase the number of slots, pay existing residents more, or both).

The answer to a physician supply problem is increasing the supply of physicians, not having nurses do physicians' jobs.
Even the CDs these days will often refuse to play without an internet connection.
Keeping employees from discussing compensation is the easiest way for employers to undercompensate employees (and avoid keeping pace with the market).
Yep. Computers are just binary-state machines. Everything you can do with a computer, you could do with water channels and pulleys and gates (if you could assemble trillions and trillions of them). No one would ask whether the water-channel system 'groks' things, but because they are miniaturized and (to 99.9999% of people) esoteric in their actual workings, people treat them like magic.

Clarke was right, but sadly it doesn't take alien technology for people to start anthropomorphizing computers or thinking that they magically have transcended mere (though obviously very complexly-arranged) logic gates, it just takes a GUI that spits out algorithmically-generated pictures and text.
I couldn’t make it through. It’s funny but also stressed me out.

I feel like the front end web dev community is going through its equivalent of the microservices/kubernetes madness that overtook the server devs in the past few years and they’re making everything 10x more complex than it needs to be.

Like, server side React frameworks like Nextjs solve a problem that never should have existed in the first place — that people were using React to build websites, when React wasn’t designed for that problem. It was designed for SPAs. And so with server components and Nextjs they’ve reinvented PHP. It’s like, we could have skipped a five year step and used PHP/Rails/whatever.
I don't think this stuff is as hard as you make it out to be. Consider that companies like Apple regularly change how things are done successfully. It just requires a good plan, time, & budget. Wayland is one example of what that looks like & it's not a good story. Pulse audio followed by pipewire is another example of migrations happening. I suspect this would probably be slightly worse than Wayland unless some kind of transparent shim could be written for each boundary so that it can be slotted in transparently.
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It has nothing to do with the first amendment. The government isn't restricting what churches say, it's just saying that they get an active benefit by not talking about political topics (which is widely ignored). They're free to talk about taxes all they like, but that just means they get treated like the rest of us.
Absolutely none whatsoever and to consider otherwise is to really fundamentally misunderstand the whole thing by overly "humanizing" them.
I dont understand your objection. Are you saying that captital regulates AI scientists and Surgeons into scarcity, and that by doing so, they make more profit than if they payed lower salary to those professions?
Shouldn't they be obligated to? You can't help but create taxes and tax dodging at the same time, but the fact that people try to get away with murder is no reason to make murder legal.
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There's something weird going on with the "46,449 bananas" stat. Copilot seems to inject it randomly into long pieces of generated text.

If you Google "46,449 bananas" you can find all sorts of unrelated web pages that I guess include text generated with Copilot and then were never checked by a human.
Paying for people to get lifestyle advice is a great investment as it reduces both the cost of their healthcare and various externalities associated with living in a society where lots of people are unhealthy.
To me it sounds like you're already convinced that the earth is flat and just taking out your bad day at people online.
The meaningful boundary between small data and large data is the difference whether the whole dataset/processing is expected to fit in the RAM of a single common machine. From that perspective, 1 billion rows a borderline case, which can be small or large depending on how large the rows are - and in this particular challenge the rows are tiny.
On windows, this is Dependency Walker versus ProcExp. Similar eye-goggling results.

https://www.dependencywalker.com/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro...
If you lower the barriers to producing large volumes of garbage text it follows that you'll get more of it — who wants to read any of it, I don't know. AI generated text isn't interesting to read, the video isn't interesting to watch and the music is painfully boring.
Why didn't they make the resumes identical? Todd's is much easier to read quickly.
Your data on New York "today" appears to be pre-opiod.
Yeah, I had grand plans. I even did one issue, and OCR'd it as well, but then COVID happened and work got busy and now you can fast-forward four years when I've moved countries again, hopefully for the last time. I know where they are, which is good. Need to disassemble the book-edge scanner and clean the underside of the glass off because it's all fogged. I also need to stand up a VM that can talk to the crappy OpticBook drivers. And I'm behind on my start-of-season farm work, which keeps expanding fractally the deeper I go. That dependency stack is what's in my way at the moment.

Eventually, I swear!
A software developer and meditation practitioner with a maintained website that looks straight out of the 90s.

There are many gems to discover in here. No JavaScript required!
> Are the trade-offs measurable?

Yes, but you need the context about what is the correct tradeoff for your use case. If you've got a service that depends on fast writes then adding latency via extra indices for improved read speed may not be an acceptable trade off. It depends on your application though.
> the content and successful people I’ve seen — poor, rich, whatever — seem to share one commonality: they found their passions in life

> Everyone else is just packing for [...] an endless journey without a chance of satisfaction.

With no offence to you and all the fine people whom you know/have known, I think it's clear that there is no regret in living a good, kind, caring life without seeking a "passion" or consumerist distortion. Many millions more people have lived the former than have lived the latter.
Ads and social media are not the reason that humans have climbed mountains or sailed unmapped seas for centuries. They are not the reason captain Scott died on a polar expedition.

Seeking fame and fortune is baked into the human condition, all the way back to hierarchy in tribes.
Yeah, the gamble only pays off for a company that has a growth so strong, and a plan so safe that the downside is quite low. They have to give you more options because they know they are worse than RSUs, so the pay really can end up being higher than FAANG, but still with some gambling involved. Those companies exist (See, Stripe 10 years ago), but there are so few of those, it's harder to find them than just go to FAANG.
> The second use for blockchain is tokenization—that everything is tokenized and you have monetary value added to everything.

Sounds much more like a dystopia born of the worst aspects of neoliberalism than a protopia…?
what about people who worked their asses off to pay their student loans?

if we give/forgive one group but not others, what sort of message does this send to the rest who don't benefit from populist policies?
head lacks sufficient memorization capacity lending to proneness to credential reuse—which, in this specific context, makes it inherently less secure. but i would agree head is safer than any other basket, definitely.
Me too and I was confused.
>And so with server components and Nextjs they’ve reinvented PHP.

Except worse. There will be PHP-7 monoliths out there running on Apache until the heat death of the universe. Try updating a Node project that hasn't been touched in two years.
Those are actually easy. The ones using the first versions of React with custom state management and weird conventions however, are a different story.

Those, and debugging jQuery UI problems.

I digress but in my career of using every technology possible, the pain I had debugging a huge (HUGE) jQuery UI project could perhaps only be matched by trying to make NHibernate (Hibernate ORM but for .NET) behave in some complicated (but CRUD after all) data-heavy projects.
They are just not accurate. 25% variability is just not an acceptable level of accuracy. And their results are very dependant on temperature and humidity.
In my experience, a culture of radical employee-driven compensation transparency can lead to toxicity. A subset of folk have a tendency to become obsessed, and increasingly more resentful about their particular notion of fairness. Then from that, folk start to play the victim, grasping for explanations that don't require introspection or admitting individual responsibility. In that environment, the company is forced to take a defensive position, which makes the culture even more toxic.

What I've seen work well is the company taking pro-active steps to be transparent about compensation in aggregate. For example, HR can put out a periodic report documenting compensation metrics by job title and experience. They can also slice the data along various social factors to quantitatively show whether there's any indicators of unintentional bias. From there, another good idea is for the company to regularly apply adjustments independent from performance, in order to keep the metrics healthy.
ChatGPT Can Predict the Future Telling Stories Set in the Future About the Past
It’s strongly correlated with genetics down to a handful of SNPs. There is also a lot of evidence to suggest physiological differences in amygdala mass as well as hormone production. No exterior factor has been proven. No scapegoat is needed either, autists tend to like who they are and have unique and important value.
The only thing horrifying about this situation is the extent to which people are apparently taking these software outputs seriously. Or perhaps the extent to which others are selling the illusion for personal gain.
That may also be a factor of states that implement recoverable taxes, where moreso than showing an exemption, the organization pays the tax, but gets to deduct that amount from tax owed.
Yes but the salaries have to be reasonable. You can’t setup a charitable organization and then pay yourself $10 million a year to run it.

And the people getting paid are usually separate from the people in charge. Most of the time board members of non-profits are either unpaid or are paid a small token amount. When they are paid, it’s not going to be a meaningful chunk of the profits.
I think the editing style is stressful. It could be funnier if it were slower paced.
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First a minor quibble: if you're talking about 'Nix data', then starting the conversation by talking about 'Nix-the-language' is rather misleading.

That aside, Nix allows you to create infinite datastructures, e.g.

$ nix eval --expr 'rec { z = { a = z; i = 5; }; }.z.a.a.a.i'
5

which you can't do with JSON.

But even if JSON did have some way of handling datastructure 'loops', it's still not helpful because of laziness. You almost never want to eagerly evaluate a Nix expression to produce what you seem to term 'Nix data', because you'll invoke the `derivation` built in function to create paths you never actually reference - this is why laziness is such an important property of Nix.

So I'm still not clear what user-facing part of Nix is isomorphic to JSON. If it's just "Nix types [0] are similar to JSON types" then...sure.

[0] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/values
I'm afraid this poor guy will be besieged by people who heard about a vacancy in San Francisco.

I've unfortunately had my share of dead friends and relatives. I wish I could say that it somehow has made me stronger, more mature, but I'm afraid that the opposite is more true. Each is a trauma that I never entirely recover from. They make the world more bleak, confusing, cold, scary.

And it makes it harder to comfort people, to speak the lie, "everything will be alright, with time." It can be, but it isn't a conveyer belt. If you get there it's under your own power.
Hard to relate because they didn’t mention the BUS.
If the code path that loads the library is never hit, does it really count as a dependency?
The point is that they can make sure that they don't have any extra money by giving themselves raises, or overspending with friendly vendors.
When I google for "libvulkan_virtio" I get zero results.

What does it do?
I dont see what that does to quell the domestic calls for a response to the embassy attack. Of course I want Iran to stop the bullshit, but the realty is that they couldnt let this attack go unless they wanted massive unrest. So the question remains, how should Iran respond to the embassy attack? To me this seems like just about that absolute minimum they couldve done.
Presumably, those who trained as surgeons, want to be surgeons. Sunk cost fallacy might come into play. A better analogy is someone who wants to be a software engineer, get burned out - and you say "hey, why not be a NOC technician if you can't handle it?"

Further, you assume a surgeon could just become a GP. They are different fields.

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-surgeon-also-practice-as-a-prima...

"Can a surgeon become a regular doctor?"

> They can try. But they would have no idea what they are doing. But legally, they could certainly practice as a primary care doctor. They would not be board certified, and could not sit for the ABIM exam, and would not be able to pass it if they did.

> The professions are also very different, primary care is more allied to the work of a physician, whilst a surgeon is trained to do serious surgery, not the kind a primary care doctor would do. So not sure even if you could be legally certified in both specialties you wouldn't loose your surgical skills if you spend a lot of time in primary care.

> Knowing what I know about the medical world in general I would advice against such a combination, a surgical residency is such a taxing one that you wouldn't have time to do anything else beside surgery, furthermore the required mental approach to do the work well as a surgeon or a primary care physician is also quite different.
funny, but my life experience showed that fallen apples get damaged and rot faster

and shaking pine tree always showered me with dried needles

so I didn't even think about "shaking for the fruit" association xD
Sequoia's essay has three categories:

For each of FedEx, Google, Duck Duck Go, Facebook, Tic
Toc, Amazon, AWS (Amazon Web Services),
Windows, which category does it fit?
> However for material that I've presented a bunch of times, I no longer need to rehearse.

All of those previous presentations basically count as rehearsals. Depends on you, but if it's been a year or several since you gave one, it's probably a good idea to do at least a mini rehearsal before you do it again, but if you're doing one a quarter, once you're good, you should be good.
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Also this uses 16 threads while the contest restricts to running in 8 cores. Needs to compare the benchmarks in the same environment to make a fair comparison.
This is a follow up to Interview with Senior JS Developer https://youtu.be/Uo3cL4nrGOk?si=6e8Aks_xmUSdYC6u from two years ago.
>that people were using React to build websites, when React wasn’t designed for that problem. It was designed for SPAs.

React generated HTML on the server from the very start with Node.js. You always had some form of hydration, even before there was an explicit API and process for it.

It was built by Facebook... to build a highly utilized and extremely popular website. React had pretty popular examples and integration with RoR and Python, and of course PHP.

Why are you just making up history to fit preconceived notions?
How can we be sure you are going to be around when the inflation hits 9% and interest rates go up to 15% ? This is a serious question because whoever invests time in building on your backend which is not open source are taking extreme risks.
it probably would - you saw exactly that outcome with mining.

for a lot of these demand bursts, demand is so high it cannot be sated even consuming 100% or 200% of typical GPU production.

cards like RX 6500XT that simply don't have the RAM to participate were less affected, but even then you've got enough cross-elasticity (demand from people being crowded out of other product segments) that tends to pump prices to 2-3x the "normal" clearance prices we see today. And yes, absolutely anything that can mine in any capacity will get pulled in during that sort of boom/bubble, not just "high-end"/"enterprise".
There is no way that I can explain better than this: https://lwn.net/Articles/689856/
currently involved professionally in a software architecture based on pretty much raw shared memory IPC, it's still too slow compared to in-process.
See also VST hosts that allow grouping plug-ins together in one process or separating them in distinct processes, like Bitwig: for just a few dozen plug-ins you can very easily get 10+% of CPU impact (and CPU is an extremely dire commodity when making pro audio, it's pretty much a constant fight against high CPU usage in larger music making sessions)
Maybe that's the height of "mount everent" [sic], which is different from "Mount Everest".
What is the situation where the smart tv doesn't have the internet where you need to log in? My wifi password is specifically easy to input on any device.

If you're already buying a smart tv device and putting it on your network, downloading an app that gives you better control over it doesn't seem like a step too far. Especially with phone permissions being more finely grained than whatever the box itself is doing.
> "The occupation of a person’s non-residential property without their permission is not a crime in England, though police can take action if crimes are subsequently committed, including damaging the property or stealing from it."

> "...if you want to get us out you will have to issue a claim for possession in the county court or in the high court."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/13/squatters-yo...