skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They went straight for blaming mastodon, without seeming to try and fix or mitigate the issue on their end.

Hard to be sympathetic.

This isn't a new issue, nor is it unique to mastodon. Reducing server load for sites like this is a very common exercise for many reasons.
Hi everyone,

Maelstrom is a Rust test runner, built on top of a general-purpose clustered job runner. Maelstrom packages your Rust tests into hermetic micro-containers, then distributes them to be run on an arbitrarily large cluster of test-runners, or locally on your machine. You might use Maelstrom to run your tests because:

* It's easy. Maelstrom functions as a drop-in replacement for cargo test, so in most cases, it just works.
* It's reliable. Maelstrom runs every test hermetically in its own lightweight container, eliminating confusing errors caused by inter-test or implicit test-environment dependencies.
* It's scalable. Maelstrom can be run as a cluster. You can add more worker machines to linearly increase test throughput.
* It's fast. In most cases, Maelstrom is faster than cargo test, even without using clustering.
* It's clean. Maelstrom has a from-scratch, rootless container implementation (not relying on Docker or RunC), optimized to be low-overhead and start quickly.
* It's Rusty. The whole project is written in Rust.

We started with a Rust test runner, but Maelstrom's underlying job execution system is general-purpose. We will add support for other languages' test frameworks in the near future. We have also provided tools for adventurous users to run arbitrary jobs, either using a command-line tool or a gRPC-based SDK.

Feedback and questions are welcome! Thanks for giving it a whirl.
I think you’re misunderstanding things. FTA:

“If you use the standard bitmap icon formats, you’ll probably store them in their own files, separate from the files that use them.”

⇒ i think they’re talking of having to read the same data again and again, and then try to minimize the number of blocks read from disk.

Of course, reading the icons again and again is the MVP implementation, but not necessary. They could create a cache of icons. Even if they don’t, the file system cache would significantly decrease the number of actual disk reads.
It's referencing a very famous recruitment poster from the World Wars
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I still like the Effective Modern C++ books by Scott Meyers, although they are a few years old already.

The modern parts of C++ are alright (inelegant and cumbersome, but alright), but because the language has grown over the years and best practices changed, it's difficult to see, which parts are worth learning as a newcomer.

That's why I like the books, mentioned above. They give concrete Do's and Don'ts, explain some important concepts like move semantics and why and how best practices changed.

Keep in mind, that these books require some preliminary knowledge, but you should be fine, if you learn the basic stuff from an online tutorial before going through the books.
It's not what case specifically addresses how it should be handled in an emergency but rather that there is no exception in copyright law for emergencies like a pandemic. If there's not an exception allowing a library to make unlimited copies during an emergency, they can't do it. It can be argued that there should be one added to the law but it doesn't change the fact that the IA clearly violated copyright laws when they lifted their Controlled Digital Lending restrictions.
I wonder if there's an actual correlation between layoffs and stocks prices
Right... so you don't do that and go with one of the other options. Like I said the first time...
Head of memes? ಠ_ಠ
It's a play on the old Uncle Sam "I want YOU" recruiting posters.
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It would be great if the DEA and ATF were a bit more consistent in their enforcement. Joe Rogan smokes pot and has guns, federal agents busting down his studio door and dragging him away in handcuffs (while state ones look on and clap) would do more to move the needle on drug legalization than most anything else.
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Being dragged in front of Congress on anything related to a computer is not a big deal; if it were, Mark Zuckerberg would not be CEO of Meta. The liabilities will be played out in court over the next decade, and you'll possibly see some legislation passed over that time period limiting liability in these situations, because how can we possibly expect these companies to deliver value to shareholders while shouldering the risks posed by adversarial state-backed hackers?

Personal responsibility as conducted through firings means more for the rank-and-file than for directors and above. It's not about what you've done as much as who you know in those levels.

TL;DR: I'll believe it when I see it.
> I can't imagine a more soul draining job than maintaining a corporate C++ codebase.

Especially if most of the developers learnt Microsoft Visual C++ and believe that is proper C++!
If you care about the privacy of your users, don't collect their sensitive data. That's the simplest thing that might work. Good luck.
The next question would be "how do you narrow from {250} down to {25} by spending at most 3 minutes per resume?"

The answer there is often "select only the ones that show the most things on the resume without evaluation of their practical skills" ... and we get to the complaints then of "but people lie on their resumes all the time" and "but my skills at coding aren't things that I can reflect on the resume?"

And when you're spending 3-4 minutes per resume, you don't have time to open up a GitHub link and try to figure out if the person who this is wrote the code or if they just forked another repo ... and what contributions are theirs.

For evaluating a coder, the time imbalance is heavy on one side or the other.

Having two people do seven hours of interviews a day for two weeks is also in the "not feasible" category. As its the company that is setting up the criteria for the interview, they've got the first move and are setting up a process that they can fairly evaluate the candidates that apply and go forward with that step in a way that is most likely to eliminate the most risky candidates and find the candidates that have the skills but don't present well on a resume.
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Are these privileged system-level permissions in the room with us now? What specifically are they?
Postman launches v11 to supercharge development with AIs and APIs
congrats! I think if you really want to shine - you should have a real time api that fact check any televised election debate or interview :)
Good luck and keep on building
Raspberry Pi Sign Language Spectacles
> running every query I do through all of the SOTA models so I can directly compare the results

For everyday non-dev users, Msty for MacOS lets you run split chats and compare each model's answers.

https://msty.app
This is the FSF situation in a nutshell, gcc has slowly been eroding in favor of llvm and clang because of this.

FSF donor listing/sponsorship listing is... spartan at best.

Compare this to Linux Foundation and LLVM Foundation, and generally wide swaths of both corporate and personally interested parties contributing time and money and tell me that trying to be idealistic is good for FOSS. The evidence I see is to the contrary.
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> is that the controversy?

The most salient political controversy he has wandered into his "defense" of free speech, which has largely consisted of platforming neo-Nazis and transphobes while kicking off people who report on him kicking off someone who ran an account tracking the movements of his public plane and filing SLAPP suits against those who committed the heinous crime of making him look bad.

Beyond that, he has engaged in the standard tech-bro stance of it's-unconstitutional-for-the-government-to-do-anything-to-me (his attempts to flout California's covid lockdowns, e.g., or his more recent attempts to declare the NLRB and SEC unconstitutional agencies because they ruled against his companies).

> * kept twitter running on a staff 1/5 the size

In my subjective experience, Twitter quality has collapsed, and most of the people I'm interested in following have left the platform altogether. Also, he's trying his best to rebrand it to "X", which is such a smashing success that every commentary has to at least refer to it was "X (formerly Twitter)" and in many cases, people (such as you) don't bother to attempt to refer to it by its new name.

> * created the only high speed internet that is available globally

It's not officially available in Russia, I believe, so hardly "globally". Oh, it's also not available in Antarctica, which is another place with very crappy internet service.

> * has completely taken over the EV market. I don't agree with the FSD stuff, that is killing people.

Much less than "completely taken over", Tesla is no longer the largest seller of EVs, now that BYD has eclipsed it.
I just sent 30 minutes with rowzero and pysheets. RowZero seems to support huge datasets. I have been using quadratichq as a python spreadsheet but now I think RowZero has more features (and a cheaper price point). I thought pysheet might be opensource but it seems to be closed and 2x the price and it is limited to 50 rows. Finally i was not able to figure out how to import https://www.w3resource.com/python-exercises/pandas/excel/Sal... into pysheets.

I didn't know about visidata this is incredible. Thanks everyone for the informative post.
Because they have been deliberately excluded from participating in the discussion early on, so the only solace they have is watching the left eat their own. If the right doesn't get freedom, they'd at least enjoy their enemies getting the same treatment. It's a sad bargain but the only one available as it seems.
Sooo what’s the new 2025 way?
Having been programming continuously on JavaScript for over 20 with all the popular frameworks, I'd try to stay away from it as much as possible:

1. Dynamic typing must die. Except for R/Julia/Python (aka JuPyteR) notebooks use-case, where it's awesome. My list includes only statically-typed languages. Typescript is much better, but its type-checking still fails sometimes, unlike real static-typed languages.

2. NPM is a mess that allows any transitive dependency to run arbitrary code on your machine at a time of installation (including cleaning up after itself). Compare that to Java's Maven -- libs quality is much better. no arbitrary code runs, just downloading.
appreciate the comment! I think I understand what you mean and I get the feeling that you are crossing into the land of aristotle haha.
Among other things, tooling and vendor libraries. Vendor libraries are often composed of thousands upon thousands of lines of auto-generated C headers and written in some bespoke format. Demonstration code and/or sample drivers are almost invariably provided in C. Of course you _can_ rewrite these in Rust, but if you're an engineer trying to get shit working, you'd first basically have to reinvent the whole wheel just to do bringup.

I don't even want to talk about the state of proprietary vendor tooling...
Tens of millions secretly use WhatsApp in countries where it's banned
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if only printing money could solve all problems

alas, but people don't like inflation
These are service providers, not rent seekers. By focusing on OpEx above all else, they missed an opportunity to build starlink first. They were doing the right thing as long as nothing ever changed. Now they’re forced to consolidate further and are probably going to disappear.
> Nothing stops someone spending 6 hours on a "2 hour" take home test

I once got rejected from a YC company because I responded more than three hours after a two hour take home test was given.

So you certainly could stop them. Doesn't really leave the best impression of the company though.

And if you're curious I wasn't actually working on it for three hours, I just started late :)
This and code node https://docs.n8n.io/code/code-node/
Residential VPN

they're just blocking data centers
These are/were rampant in product design hiring. Especially "startups" or smaller companies. The direction is always the same "spend max a couple hours!" but the understanding is clearly you must spend significantly more. Some are cute with clearly non work related problem, like a previous company I worked for that did "design an app for a time machine" or similar. But many are very very obviously current problems the company is facing.

In my last job search (~3 years ago) I was presented with many requests to complete a design challenge. I rejected them outright and the responses I got (typically from a 3rd party "design recruiter") were quite astounding. Some acknowledged and moved on, but there were several who clearly expressed frustration, disdain, sometimes almost anger. One dropped me from another role I was working with them on for refusing.

Now it's a total red flag for me. But judging from Blind posts it's still a common practice.
Here's an article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/on-whiteboards-n...

> So first, a quick summary of how the rules engine works. When a game of Magic is in progress on MTG Arena, the program that is tracking the state of the game and enforcing all the rules-correct card interactions is called the Game Rules Engine (GRE). It's one of the two main programs that we work on. It's written in a combination of C++ and a language called CLIPS, which is a variant of LISP.
IBM 2.0
CERN has had some interesting storage technology, at least in the past. When I was at Seagate, we were trying to pitch our Kinetic drives (basically a 3.5" HDD with an ethernet port that talks key/value store instead of SATA), and CERN was one of the large purchasers of these.

Their datacenter is used for a lot more than just LHC results, also. Zenodo, the open science result repository, also lives in their storage.
Well my point is that healthcare is getting more and more expensive. At some point we will come to a limit where the money is not there or that the individual himself has to directly pay for it and take that decision. Will the kids work their asses off for the rest of their lives to give their dad another year? Or are we prepared to pay double the tax rate we pay today to cover all the new opportunities in healthcare? If more and more people live to 100 and beyond, then we will need more and more healthcare over a lifetime. Who will pay for that?
Weren't we working Codeplex at the time too? So I'm not convinced that the history is all there in github.

Oisin
That is one hell of a leap. That slope must be very slippery indeed.
> They're explicitly letting go of high ranking staff in high wage metros.

How do you know those people still weren't low performers?
Is there more where we can read about how it works?

I tried testing it with the sentence “Toledo is the largest city in Ohio” and it’s suggestions were to replace this with paragraphs of text about what constitutes a city in Ohio and history about Ohio, which did happen to include that Columbus is currently the largest city in Ohio.

That doesn’t seem strictly helpful as a fact checker as at first glance it isn’t even addressing the truthiness of the original sentence and just bloviates on about other details, if I even accept it’s suggestion.

Is there a demo that shows how you expect people to use this?
There absolutely is causative change in share prices. Investors love hearing that costs are being reduced.
Those four companies he cites (Matter-App, Adcellerant, Symplicity, Bidsight) that tell you to spend x hours, then tell you "hey, but y'know, if you want to do [an open-ended number of additional hours for free], that'd be great!" should all go sit in the corner.

Realistically, people are going to spend more time on their take-home assignments, because they perceive there's an advantage to doing so. It's not hard to imagine how this spirals out of control over time, a feedback loop of candidates trying to do more and more free, meaningless work as the bar is raised. A three-hour assignment that takes an entire weekend, a three-hour assignment that takes a week, etc. But they shouldn't be openly encouraging this death spiral, they should be trying to keep it under control.

Better to say "if it looks like you spent 20 hours on a 3 hour assignment, we'll think of you as someone who isn't good at estimating, and wastes a lot of time fiddling with things that are out of scope".
I think the timer is probably something that doesn't get enough attention here. Lots of people say about how these select for people with lots of free time, and that's very true, but they also seem to be biased towards people that don't tend to freak out in stressful situations/do well with a clock rapidly ticking down behind them.

Which... doesn't necessarily correlate to someone being good at programming or web development or what not. Or whether they'll be good at the job in general, given that most engineering roles don't have someone screaming "get this done in under an hour or else!" with no time to think things through properly.

At the same time though, I can also see why they do that, since otherwise it comes down to "whoever's got the most free time and willingness to grind away at the problem", turning an hour long exercise into a 3 day one in the process.
I admit that I'm quite old...but my #1 reason for preferring small businesses is that they usually have "immediate & highly-competent live human" customer service.
It's weird that they can't find anyone in Mexico who wants to be the CFO. Even if you just cloned Ruth Porat in another country, with a private helicopter and the works, it would cost way less.
Really awesome and well executed. I'll be using this for sure.

One thing I don't get is that you click a muscle group and sometimes it turns red and sometimes pink. What is the difference? And then I click on the opposite muscle on the back of the body and the front disappears. A bit of twiddling to get it right. Maybe a small animated intro with how to would help here.