skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read a few articles like this in the last few days and I don't understand why everyone is ignoring the elephant in the room. It's 2024 and Safari is still not evergreen.

When people say Safari is the new Internet Explorer, replies always mention how Safari just adopted such and such bleeding edge CSS feature (while ignoring much older features, though), but the truth is many Apple users won't see those features for years, until their devices break.

Apple is stopping both users and developers from enjoying these very same new features they so happily announce. The web is stuck in time, waiting for enough people to update their devices. Just like in the age of Internet Explorer. At least back then people had the option of installing a different browser. So maybe Safari and the apple ecosystem is actually worse than IE and Windows used to be.
I am a big fan of these simplistic solutions. In my own area, it was incredibly frustrating as what we needed was a database with a smaller subset of the most recent information from our main long-term storage database for back end users to do important one-off analysis with. This should've been fairly cheap, but of course the IT director architect guy wanted to pad his resume and turn it all into multi-million project with 100 bells and whistles that nobody wanted.
You're on the wrong thing there. I could be wrong but I think you're outside your field on this one.
Alpine Linux Shows Signs of RISC-V Architecture Support
In my experience the only time I worked on a big data project was the public Twitter firehose. The team built an amazing pipeline and it did actually deal with masses of data. Any other team I've been on were delusional and kept building expensive and overcomplicated solutions that could be replaced with a single Postgres instance. The most overcomplicated system I've seen could not process 24hrs-worth of data in under 24 hours... I was happy to move on when an opportunity presented itself.
Could we be watching in the wrong direction? Finding patterns where there is random noise is one of our characteristics. Or something closer than distorts our view of that region.

In the other hand, complexity sometimes lead to unexpected regularities, maybe things were not so even around the Big Bang.
> I would think that he would publish with an extreme amount of confidence, forgoing the need for an apolocetic shrug, which I have never ever heard of. Never, and I have a degree in math with a minor in Statistics.

Good for you. As you might have guessed from reading that I used to teach statistics, I have a bit more than a minor in the subject. Your attempt to appeal to authority, not to put too fine a point on it, falls flat.

Just because you haven’t heard of a thing don’t mean it isn’t true. We can, after all, just read the original paper:

> Before I had succeeded in solving my problem analytically, I had endeavoured to do so empirically. The material used was a correlation table containing the height and left middle finger measurements of 3000 criminals, from a paper by W. R. Macdonnell (Biometrika, i, p. 219). The measurements were written out on 3000 pieces of cardboard, which were then very thoroughly shuffled and drawn at random. As each card was drawn its numbers were written down in a book, which thus contains the measurements of 3000 criminals in a random order. Finally, each consecutive set of 4 was taken as a sample—750 in all—and the mean, standard deviation, and correlation5 of each sample determined. The difference between the mean of each sample and the mean of the population was then divided by the standard deviation of the sample, giving us the z of Section III.

As for the apologetic shrug, in the course of the “analytic solution” we have:

> The law of formation of these moment coefficients appears to be a simple one, but I have not seen my way to a general proof.

and then after a bit more math guessing the correct distribution based on the moments

> Consequently a curve of Prof. Pearson’s Type III may he expected to fit the distribution of s2.

My story is slightly off; Gosset only used one sample size rather than several different sample sizes. But he did use simulation with thousands of hand written cards as his approach to the problem, he did fail to prove the correct distribution (moments are not sufficient to determine the distribution), and he did publish with an apologetic shrug.
Homebrew Turns 15 [video]
I would argue that “scripting” has to do with what you, as the programmer, do to deploy your code, and not what happens under the hood. If you can deploy by shipping a single source code file, that’s a script. If there’s a build step, that’s not a script. Whether the underlying system compiles it, interprets it, sends it to MTurk for a human to evaluate by hand, or whatever doesn’t matter.
This is the "Italian canon" I've been taught: a gentle boil, stirring often. It ranges from no bubbles, to a few bubbles, to a lot. A few bubbles are ideal.

I'm not familiar with the chemistry, just with how the kosher al dente finished product is supposed to taste. I'm guessing the water temperature gradient goes from 100C at the bottom to something less at the top. If you prefer it cooked another way, then by all means.
Yup. The killer on these things is usually actually feedback phase shift. Sometimes the output load can have a complex reactance which turns the supply into a convenient power amplified oscillator. Fat output capacitor solves most of these problems but sometimes that has its own problems (old HP supplies had nice barrier strips so you can deal with them yourself :). Obvious trade off is step response there etc but your load should be properly decoupled anyway.

Lots of problems on power dissipation there as well as you state. The HP/Agilent designs tend to use an SCR pre-regulator which reduces Pd on the pass transistor considerably. But of course the principal cost in these things now is shipping and profit margin so it works out cheaper to cost cut even more and shift a small heatsink with a loud ass fan on it that does your ears in. Grr. (this is one of my many reasons for disliking Keysight)

The old HP designs are very robust. I've owned a few. Almost impossible to blow up, even the big ones. I actually had a Harrison one built in 1967 that was still working unrepaired and unmodified until I sold it recently.

Bob Pease did an interesting "zero output capacitance" supply article a couple of decades back. That was surprisingly stable.
Something like this. They come in many sizes. Big ones for clothes, small ones for socks and underwear.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01D4I3RW2/ref=sspa_mw_detail_0?...
Australia is always going to be worse as long as we have this weird government/cultural pumping of housing as an investment. Every single bogan here talks like the absolute epitome of life accomplishment is to have a property portfolio to laud over the plebcunt renters. The idea of investing in production or business is laughable, you don't hear it mentioned at all.

Our biggest software employers are banks and real estate companies. Everyone I've worked with in my career has worked for REA or a bank at some point. There's no innovation, just property investing.

As long as every newspaper in the country keeps running stories about some dipshit 20 year old magically buying 6 houses with a paper route, it's impossible for it to ever change.
We are decomming our 5-year old 4TB systems this year and could have been ordered with more
Next steps for the maple tree data structure in Linux
> So the workflow is to adjust the volume with mp3gain, then re-analyze those levels and set the ReplayGain

Doesn't that already happen automatically when you bake the adjustment into the file using mp3gain?

Also small sidenote: There's also a modded version of mp3gain that supports AAC files, too, including the same workflow of optionally baking the adjustments into the AAC data itself for ReplayGain unaware-software. (https://github.com/dgilman/aacgain)
By having it defined at the language level you increase the chances that your dependencies use the same struct.
And since the data scientist cannot verify the very complex AWK output that should be 100% compatible with his SQL query, he relies on the GPT output for business-critical analysis.
First Ukrainian Pilots Graduate US F-16 Training
A California Plan to Build More Homes Is Failing
Ah, the -Warray-bounds-pointer-arithmetic warning is actually just about the pointer addition; thus even that doesn't warn on *(x+10) on the 10-element array, as the construction of the past-the-end pointer is still valid, and seemingly no warning checks bounds validity for actual dereference.
You are right, the conclusion should be revised to: "I ended up using an HTTP server anyway, but I choosed the more efficient one", because Flask's http server is for testing only. Sorry for the unclear. I think using a Unix Socket could be more efficient but I don't want to be over-engineering :)
I'm trying to understand what the person I'm replying to had in mind when they said fit six terabytes in memory and search with awk.

is this what they were referring to just by a big ass Ram machine?
So, are we saying that Jane Street is evil because they specifically target smart people and pull them into finance?
The coolest thing I ever did with the Rete algorithm was to hack OPS5 to support spawning multiple working memories (or data worlds).

I have a funny history with OPS5. When my company bought me a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine in 1982, converting OPS5 to run on InterLisp-D and adding a nice UI was my first project. I also ported it to the Mac in 1984 (ExperOPS5), and one weekend I converted Charles Forgy’s original Common Lisp code to MIT Scheme.
> spend the whole day dirty? ick

How does that work? If you wash in the evening and go to bed you do not wake up dirty. Unless your bed is a pigsy I suppose, but then the solution is different.
If anything, I suspect many company leaders would see the 3M tax as a bigger incentive to refuse to pay than paying those extra 3M to the criminal.

At least the capitalists I've met tend to really HATE taxes.
> That's exactly what every architecture astronaut everywhere says. In my experience it's completely untrue, and actually "planning for success" more often than not causes huge drags on productivity, and even more important for startups, on agility. Because people never just make plans, they usually implement too.

That's not my experience at all.

Architecture != implementation

Architecture astronauts will try to solve the world's problems in v0. That's very different from having an architectural vision and building a subset of it to solve problems for the next 3 months. Let me illustrate:

* Agile Idiot: We'll stick it all in PostgreSQL, however it fits, and meet our 3-month milestone. [Everything crashes-and-burns on success]

* Architecture Astronaut: We'll stick it all in a high-performance KVS [Business goes under before v0 is shipped]

* Success: We have one table which will grow to petabytes if we reach scale. We'll stick it all in postgresql for now, but maintain a clean KVS abstraction for that one table. If we hit success, we'll migrate to [insert high-performance KVS]. All the other stuff will stay in postgresql.

The trick is to have a pathway to success while meeting short-term milestones. That's not just software architecture. That's business strategy (clean beachhead, large ultimate market), and every other piece of designing a successful startup. There should be a detailed 3-month plan, a long-term vision, and a rough set of connecting steps.
I mean if you're doing data science the data is not always organized and of course you would want multi-processing.

1 TB of memory is like 5 grand from a quick Google search then you probably need specialized motherboards.
No, copyright got extended too much for that. Public domain for music is only just about to reach the '30s.
Question: hasn't around.co been doing this for years?

I remember using that tool in 2022 or so, multiple people in a room with this kind of audio sync / cancellation.
> ...casting nervous glances at a rooster slowly approaching me like a Weeping Angel.

> Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They [the Weeping Angels] are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back. Don't turn away. And most of all, don't blink.

I know this has nothing to do with the point of the article, but Weeping Angels are exactly the wrong analogy for something approaching slowly!
Low overall skill level in the populace is not the same as isolated competence.

And in software, you really only need isolated competence. We've seen repeated examples in the West where a team of 10-20 highly competent engineers is able to run circles around 10,000 person orgs filled with bureaucrats, managers, and questionable hires.

NK sends a few people to China to train, or even just imports from China, and if they prove themselves capable, says, "We're going to make you part of our elite spy hacking force. We'll pay you $10 million/year." Suddenly the highly competent hacker is living like a king and NK has their spy force. Not so far-fetched.
I never trust Brian
>it is also why indie games can be so cheap yet so successful. Not because indies are better (tho they are- at least more passionate if nothing else), but because indies are capable of taking risks to push the edge and make something new and untested.

The cheapness also means indies simply get more "shots on goal." The barrier to entry is relatively low, so failing is lower-stakes. You have way more indies trying (and mostly failing), which means you have a greater raw number of hits. That's compared to a big company only having a handful of big-budget games in development.
He presumably considers his content "good things" and wants relevant people to see it, and at one point they did. Just as he found good content.

He thinks they're now being shown rage-inducing bullshit instead by the algorithm.

You seem to agree with this analysis from the point of view of a reader, but think from a writers point of view he's just being outcompeted by better content. That seems inconsistent.

So what is his move, to get good non rage bait content to an audience, except to leave twitter?
Yeah, that's true. I guess I don't trust developers to build decent buildings, especially affordable ones.

In England, the new-build homes are often of a far inferior build quality to the older ones built after the war.
It’s also important to note that the scope is intercessory prayer. There’s no contemplative/meditative or other inspirational factor.
Wow, that is so cool! I love the diagrams showing the internal state.
What about his answer prevents any of that? As stated the question didn't require any of what you outline here. ZFS will probably do a better job of protecting your data than almost any other filesystem out there so it's not a bad foundation to start with if you want to protect data.

Your entire post reeks of "I'm smarter than you" smugness while at the same time revealing no useful information or approaches. Near as I can tell no one should trust you with any data.
If you can't pass the most basic of filters like relevant education and work experience than what will you be offering them after you pass the AI system?

If the position is in so much demand that they need automation to filter resumes, what are your chances to be selected when weighed against candidates that actually passed the filter?

Aren't you just creating more useless phone calls for yourself?
Understanding what to click on
Pushing Java to the Limits: Processing a Billion Rows in Under 2 Second [video]
Last January a challenge was posted online by Gunnar Morling:
How fast can you parse a file with one billion rows of weather data using Java?
Little did I know this deceivingly simple question would lead me down a path that taught me all about: parallelism, memory mapped files, SWAR techniques (SIMD as a register), bit twiddling, branchless code, mechanical sympathy, Graal native compilation and finally... I even turned to the dark side: using sun.misc.Unsafe.
Join me in this deep dive where I'll explain all the code changes and tricks that took me from the reference implementation which processes the billion records in less than 4 minutes, to processing everything in under two seconds.
Who knew Java could be this fast?
I already said I never managed a data lake and simply got stuff when it was needed but if you need to criticize then by all means, go wild.
Can someone explain to me who these customers are? Who is buying these seats from Lufthansa?
Anyone reading the above comment ask yourself. Do you actually think when interest rates dropped to zero they suddenly inverted a system that was better than SQL. “Horizontal scaling” I’m sorry I don’t speak marketing language, what is that? I’ve only been doing this for decades.
Musk's XAI Raises $6B in Bid to Challenge OpenAI
I have airconditioning so I don’t sweat at night? I mean, it’s Japan, everybody has one.
This just looks entirely pointless and the product of a marketing team with too many staff.
I already qualified my statement quite well by stating my background but if it makes you feel better then sure, show me the door. :)

I was never a data scientist, just a guy who helped whenever it was necessary.
Thats one of the first things Andrew Ng said in his old ML course
And now, ChatGPT does all that in seconds

I've seen ChatGPT generate a five-line Elixir function that had three hallucinated stdlib functions, several hallucinated options to the ones that existed, and several MORE hallucinated explanations for what those calls were supposed to do.

IMO that's objectively worse than "copy-pasting from Stack Overflow" because sites like SO have at least some chance of obvious nonsense being moderated / corrected.
Meta trying to recover some of their investment into VR via sales to the tech graveyard?
Oh believe me. They and everyone else tested me by giving me books without pictures, and that I'd never seen before. I was reading.

It's not common for 3-year-olds to be able to read, but it's also not so rare that you'd find someone on a site like HN that could do it.
What if companies only accepted resumes mailed in with cover letters??? I think the postage expense would reduce the noise.
Germany's population has only risen 5% in 50 years. It is one country that should be able to have affordable houses.
Welcome to the UN.

I mean, err, international bureaucracy.
> You're also not everybody.

No, of course not.

> Have you gone around asking people how much of them will craft anything with their hands without a lot of guidance?

I do in fact know dozens of people who knit, paint, cook, engage in home improvement projects, sew, and do many other things with their hands, with essentially zero "guidance".

Are you claiming that you do not?
This is exactly what I try to do and what I've seen successful systems do.

Laying out adjacent markets, potential pivots, likely product features, etc. is a weekend-long exercise. That can help define both where the architecture needs to be flexible, and just as importantly, *where it does not*.

Over-engineering happens when you plan / architect for things which are unlikely to happen.
I was a +1 at an ESOL conference recently where this point was heavily featured by both elementary and high school faculty.

There are warning signs, students who are regressing, who are being failed (often by being passed) by their teachers and schools who don't have the processes or resources to identify and divert them. They're primarily male, and until they're out of that school system, they don't often have a chance to discover who they are in a context free from conflict, stress, and failure.

I wouldn't call it feminization because it comes down to the support the superintendents have from above and below for testing and support, but it's certainly a combination of lies in aggregate, leftovers from zero tolerance and NCLB, and expansions of duties without sufficient resources. The teachers know and feel it, but they can't help everyone when the schools are being run in a way that prioritizes the highest volume of students completing their "sentence" over caring about individual competency and development.
Agreed. My mother thinks I'm lying. I will admit I feel a little bit special that I can hear her motion activated cat-poop repeller thing.

I visited her recently and wasn't sure if I had finally aged out of my sensitive ears (34 now) or if her batteries needed to be replaced.

FWIW I wonder if people do not experience physical pain from certain sounds, because people seem to be totally fine with sirens but it feels like I'm having a spike pushed into the side of my head.
Thx, fixed now.
I’m not enraged, I’m just baffled that someone would come in to a conversation, state things that are wrong, then dig in their heels rather than say “ah yeah I see”. And then keep changing what their “original argument” was in a thread where you can literally scroll up to see what it was.

And sorry for the edits, it’s usually not a problem since the time delta between a reply and and it being read it is usually large. I’m just never satisfied with what I’ve written, so I edit until I am. Maybe day I’ll learn to do that before I post.

> This was never a personal attack, and I thought I made that very clear.

You were the one that brought a personal attack into the conversation. Sucks to be on the receiving end, yeah?

> The argument MT vs PRNG XYZ will never be won with implementation code as "proof that it is really better". I am not sure you understand that.

It sure as hell is a convincing argument that it’s simpler to implement than MT.

> If you still think that, you haven't been coding long enough to see how much worse your own code was when you were younger.

25 years in to my career, thanks. I regularly think this about code I wrote last week. I’m missing the relevance.

> knowledge changes

It does. I used to be a fan of MT in the nineties when I was young. It sounded cool and it wowed with a huge period stamped on the tin. I updated my knowledge as time passed.

> And I don't want to have to maintain a randomizer, because it's the most unnecessary thing to maintain with the most collateral damage if it's ignored.

Nobody is asking you to. You’re the one that jumped in to defend MT as a reasonable choice. It isn’t. Progress has happened and this hasn’t been true for a very long time.
I wonder if it is worth the risk of paying, ripping all the music and publishing it for free
With VR goggles, everybody can have the business class experience while paying for economy.
The Lense-Thirring effect is absolutely a thing, and we have direct evidence for it. To be clearer (I totally wasn't clear enough on this tbf), there's nothing we know of which can do it at the required scale to allow for time travel.

What we're talking about here are closed timelike curves. There's models which suggest they could exist inside a singularity, but they're not going to outside without something which seriously breaks other areas of physics (Tipler cylinders etc).
USAF acquiring at least 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft by mid-2030s
It's easy to see when a number is divisible by 2 in binary,

just like in decimal: 70 is divisible by 10, 500 is divisible by 100,

so in binary 10 is divisible by 2 10100 is divisible by 4 101010111000 is divisible by 8 etc. (We also know 101010111001 can't be divisible by 8, cause it's only 1 more than a number divisible by 8)

Knowing this we can look at the question backwards
take 24 and -24, because 24 is divisible by 8 it must end with a 1 and 3 0s ...0011000

when we take the compliment we get 1100111 which for the same reason must end in a 0 and a run of 1s,

now when we add one to this, all the ones will roll over and we end up with the same tail "1000" as in 24, and since this anything to the left of the tail is a compliment of the corresponding bit in x a bitwise and will just be the tail.
Lufthansa will do anything for its business class except make it any good.