skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in tourist cities for the past 6 years, cities where tourists come for the summer for vacations and it's absurd.

The smallest apartment come summer season landlords behave as if they are renting you a hilton suite at a loss. The entitlement is crazy even when I pay higher rent during summer and a lot of it doesn't make sense as well. Tourists come for a week at most but somehow that's more interesting or profitable than having a tenant use the place year round.
Levandowski stole Waymo trade secrets, and only escaped the full consequences of his actions because of a Trump pardon. He is not representative of anything about Waymo in 2024.
Can LLMs pass the bar yet? Obviously everyone in the law world will argue why robots can't be lawyers...
And yet, they somehow managed to convince most people that they are a leader in battery technology ! Fascinating.
Nice to know MacBooks also can have this kind of problems, I was under the impression that if you paid the price, walled gardens and controlled hardware would make life easy.

Computers are hard. Could be worse, though, in alternate universes, major OSes never agreed on USB and other standards.
Well, that's visible. It doesn't need to be said and PG doesn't wanna be his arch enemy. The guy's becoming too powerful after all
I can suggest 2 things to try, been in similar shoes as yours.

1. Try to look into open source contributions or building a project of your own, start to finish - a project that actually has some real world utility.

This will hopefully get you from a learner to builder mindset and help you showcase something strong and valuable in your portfolio as well.

2. Start attending networking meetups wherever you can - physical meetups and online, both count here.

A strong network is what will really help you land jobs or internships at least - don't shy away from internships or taking a salary cut for the short term.

Whatever salary you get today will not be the salary you will have in a year from now or 2 years from now.

Short term salary cut to get you in the job market is worth the trade - people who get job offers usually are the ones who are already in one(or do not need a new job right away)

The goal is to get you building valuable things and at the same time get in touch with people in the industry while also showcasing your skills as fast as possible - a higher salary will just hinder the speed - get started imo
No, more likely. (Assuming China recognized how weak the US would be if it had no large machine manufacturing at home).
> There’s no working around the rocket equation

Or "Space Travel is Utter Bilge"[0], as they say

0: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AAS...203.2801Y/abstra...
What you call "maximal negativity" is what I would call skepticism about spin. Giving Sam an ultimatum, forcing him to choose one or the other, is a very forceful move. PG is not universally opposed to people running multiple organizations. He's fine with Musk being in charge of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and Starlink. I don't think pg was unhappy about Dorsey running both Square and Twitter[1]. OpenAI leadership was fine with Sam in both roles. But Sam had to either quit OpenAI or quit YC, and would get fired from YC if he refused to choose.

[1] https://x.com/paulg/status/1235363862159003649
Half way through reading that, I stopped and sent my partner a message telling them how much I love and respect them. They have recently passed the 5 year survival mark after a cancer diagnosis and treatment, and are coming up on 3 years for their second different cancer diagnosis and treatment.

None of us knows how much time we have ourselves or with our loved ones, so make the most of it in the moment.
Which law is that now? As I'm sure an expert like you knows, this will vary by jurisdiction.

The fact that somebody may take a replevin claim against me because the digitizer in my phone was removed from their stolen phone does not, imho, have any bearing on Apple's rights and responsibilities with regard to me as a customer.
There are numerous strategies and methods available to enhance RAG performance, particularly when it comes to improving performance in parsing vast amounts of unstructured data. Additionally, various scenarios call for different parsing techniques. I would suggest exploring a RAG project that excels in document parsing: https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow
looks okay to me boss
IBM spin-off Kyndryl accused of discriminating on basis of age, race, disability
I had no idea they did discounts
Thanks for the tip!
Looking how something works will hopefully always remain legal in this (and most other) context.

Copy and paste is a different thing.
You must be trolling. This is just patently false. Please don't spread misinformation.

Your comment is confusing "fast enough" with "fastest". Java is fast enough for lots of applications and that's fine, particularly because large systems are usually I/O bound, but it makes no sense to conclude that it is therefore faster than C.

I've been writing Java code for the past 10 years. Do you know how people speed up Java applications? They write the code in C, compile it as a library and use JNI to invoke it.

I would recommend you brush up on your CS fundamentals.
Imagine I say my house burned down and I lost everything, and someone (here: neycoda) points out I haven't lost everything because I still own the land underneath the house. Pedantic? Maybe, but still correct. At no point would neycoda state it wasn't a negative outcome, just that "left with nothing" was not true. So in the analogy, it doesn't make sense to ask him if he would like you to put his house on fire... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
I'm referring to the concept also known as "bona fide purchaser"
I previously used a raspberry pi as a development companion to my ipad, now it's an Android phone. Full linux distro (via termux proot along with its limitations) to edit compile run on the go for js/python/java/c/c++/rust. Yes you read right, best development companion device on an Ipad is an Android phone at least for me. Me carry no laptop no more :D
XLA tends tends to be better optimized for TPUs, Pytorch is better with GPUs, but I believe you can choose a backend when using Nx.
> Seems like he took an L

Your numbers come out to $250K/year at Google and $230K/year as an entrepreneur. That's a small price to pay for this kind of real-world education.

There's no guarantee his next business will be successful -- but there's no guarantee that those kinds of Google positions are going to keep existing, either.

On the other hand, there's also the chance that his next business could be massively more successful because of lessons learned, and open the way to much higher amounts than he could have been earning at Google were he still there.

Overall, I think it was a massive win for him. And it may have been more beneficial to society than the work he was doing at Google.
Damn that's expensive for something that's meant for kids.

Don't forget Google refuses to repair their watches. Break the screen? Go buy a new one. Ifixit found that it's actually not hard to replace the screen/glass module but with one issue: Google won't sell you one.
Good. Hopefully they'll go under and put an end to this sad chapter. The food delivery industry is a plague in the UK.

(Almost always) sloppy junk food being delivered cold, by mostly illegal immigrants (the companies don't really care about vetting) or people swapping delivery accounts (thereby creating a safety risk), on modified bikes who largely disobey traffic laws and create dangerous situations amongst pedestrians in built-up areas.

It's also a bad deal for everybody involved. The restaurants lose, the delivery drivers lose and the customers lose, and the middleman apparently can't even turn a profit. The only people in my apartment block who still buy it are the rich foreign students (Chinese and Arabian), because money is clearly nothing to them.

And what you get from it is a high calorie, over oiled and salted burger, pizza, Chinese/Indian meal, or other slop which contributes to the national obesity/overweight rates (over 64%), because you're too lazy to cook even an easy recipe.

If you want a special meal, you'd be better off going to the restaurant and at least eating it hot, and if you subsist off this stuff, you'd be better off kicking the habit and getting your life in order. Living off of this stuff is just the new smoking.
keepalived? What do you mean?
It is a nice read!

I am not super familiar with the definition of "object-safe" (I read the docs but the definition is not completely trivial for me).

Does it work to say that an "object-safe" method mutates the object? That's what happens when you take `&mut self`, right?

But if I understood this correctly, I guess it means that a function without side-effect in Java should not really count as a method? Because in Java I call it a method whether it has a side-effect or not. Which corresponds exactly to the definition of `method` in the Rust docs, I think [1]. In C++, I would think that this is the difference between a const (no side-effect) and a non-const (side-effect) method.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/associated-items.h...
Do you see the irony in your comment? As long as there's tens of thousands of people like you, bouncing around between the most touristic cities in the world, do you see how that exacerbates the problem?
> Yep that’s Germany waiting two years

Not sure what you mean with "waiting", the soil needs to be removed as per environmental regulations, and the state will handle removal of the top 40 cm.

> some soil.

80,000 truck loads just for the top 40 cm.
As an indie AND dev, with close to 100k downloads on the app, I dread of making any changes to my app. It's like looking for trouble really. Last couple of times I made smallest change, there was always something else I needed to address.

As a professional AND dev, this sounds like there might be less devs, which means more work for me.
"curl ... | bash" makes me run away from a project.

There is the reductive argument that basically everything you download is arbitrary code, but throwing away the code that is run seems uniquely silly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21490151
Ask HN: Advice for a Senior Front End Developer Aspiring to Join FAANG
I'm a senior frontend developer with 8+ years of experience, currently working for a consulting company. I moved to the Netherlands two years ago and now aspire to join a FAANG company. While I am proficient in React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, I don't feel entirely confident in my skillset for big tech companies.

I would appreciate advice on the types of applications or projects I should build to improve my skills and make my GitHub portfolio more appealing to FAANG recruiters. What projects would demonstrate my capabilities and align with what these companies are looking for?
It's the Curdleboot Effect: best way to get the information isn't to ask for it, but to make wrong statements and someone on the internet will correct you?

Well there ya go.
Yes I'm aware of the prices. You not liking the price of an app doesn't make it "cancer". Personally I think the fact that they have found a model that works and that doesn't require releasing entire new versions of the app, keeps legacy users' versions up-to-date and bug-free while continuing to deliver new features and improvements should be celebrated. Especially from an independent developer team who clearly loves the craft.
> As I'm sure an expert like you knows

Sigh. You're both making claims that could be different between jurisdictions. If you don't know that, then you should probably stop now.
The next versions of CPython are expanding in two very important areas for speed. The free-threading (NoGIL) project will allow true multithreading support and the Faster CPython is trying to speedup Python and are developing a JIT. Exciting times!
It means that if your speech is written in the way you casually speak, it's easier to remember it (since you'll not have to remember fancy words or turns of phrase that you wouldn't normally use). The idea being that it's easier to remember or reconstruct speech that comes natural anyway.

It will also be easier to improvise and fit the tone if you forget what you were supposed to say.

Aside from the above, which are about memory, it's also good for making it natural: you'll sound more authentic/natural speaking as you normally do, than trying some fancy speech, and it will also be easier to add off the cuff remarks that also fit the tone, like an idea that occured in the moment, or to respond to something that happens just before/while speaking.
> If you're talking about a business setting in a jurisdiction that Mistral can sue in, not so much.

I'm reminded of the Japanese concept called Sosumi :)

> Being able to use it in a business setting is a pretty darn important part of what Open Source has always meant (it's why it exists as a term at all).

I'm quite familiar with the history of that term, but neither I nor Mistral used it. None of their models have been open source; they have been open weight. You can argue that they are actually "weight available" given the terms they write next to the download link, but since there has been no ruling on whether weights themselves are covered by copyright (and I think that would be terribly bogus if they are), I simply choose not to care what they write in their "terms of use".
Ask HN: Any progress on controlling the body of a brain-dead human like a robot?
Suppose you have a brain-dead but otherwise healthy human. How difficult would it be to create an artificial brain to control their body like a robot and perhaps even enable them to become a functioning member of society again?
I was referring to the claim that "we haven't had X and we survived" in general. I wasn't trying to prove that higher levels of surveillance increase survivability. However, yes, that argument makes sense to me. It may mess up kids in other ways, but my gut feeling is that it does decrease child's chances of dying.
For a democracy to be healthy, everyone should talk to one another about politics. Without this you will gain polarization and hatred.

Well, considering places like reddit ban you for having a different opinion then everyone else. That you're basically not allowed to be even mildly conservative on reddit. Thusly they have a tremendous echo chamber problem. Guess what, now we have polarization and hatred.
The best thing was that the internet was made by and for smart people.

It was an incredibly unique dynamic- access to incredibly diverse people from all over the world, but simultaneously tilted towards the intellectually curious and tech-savvy. It was maybe a little bit like the vibe of being on a college campus, even if you were talking about sports or the weather, the default level of knowledge, intelligence, openness and curiosity were far higher than the default in "real life".

There was this unique culture of "the internet" as a place separate from "the real world" that was heavily skewed by the demographics. It was a world where nerds were 50% of the population instead of 1%.
It's unfortunately often people that recover from some serious traumatic experiences, that are the most emphatic. They know what it is like to be completely lost with no one to help.

Children are too, but somewhere along growing up, many unlearn that.
Perception is important in discoverability of documentation, and yes, vibes are also part of it.

The complaint is that now it often ends up disjointed, especially when you're starting to search for a topic, and the links pointing you to "new site because this one no longer updated" don't point to the same topic (or area) on the new site.

Also, I have absolutely no idea where you come from with fanboyism or Microsoft hate as context in previous comment.
WiredTiger was kinda Mongo's InnoDB and has made "your data will actually still be there later" rather more true than it used to be.

I think the key thing is that people using MySQL were having trouble with deep data and found MongoDB's document oriented approach much easier, but these days people are tending to start with PostgreSQL, which can handle that nicely.

(MySQL/MariaDB are far better than they used to be as well, though I find most stuff I read online doesn't take advantage of that as much as it might)

There's also probably a factor of Mongo solving pain points people had when they switched to it, and there being lots of excitement around that, where today the same people have run into the pain points of Mongo often enough that it's no longer nearly so exciting a prospect.

I wouldn't honestly be surprised if we're now at a point where people are -more- negative about Mongo than it really deserves, and I say that as somebody who viscerally hated it on sight and would still rather avoid dealing with it myself it if at all possible.

(oh and MongoDB the -company- has always done their best to be a good corporate community citizen, sponsoring all sorts of cool things as a result, and while I think the license change was a shame I -still- think they're doing their best, just in an environment where they wouldn't have a best to try to do in the first place if they didn't avoid being killed by AWS)
Does installation matter at all? Once you've installed a package, you're very likely to immediately include it in the project, build, and run. Any malicious code can easily run during the package's initialization in your app.

Seems like prohibiting arbitrary code in installation scripts would only help with issues like Bumblebee's `rm -rf`: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
React was a blessing for the few creating apps that needed more than jquery, and that AngularJS 1 couldn't handle for perfs reason.

That was actually a very small parts of the projects in the world at the time, and in fact, a very small part of the number of projects that adopted react at the time.

I remember above all that:

- React was hyped to the roof by facebook. They had a fantastic marketing machinery for that.

- React sucked for years, with a terrible doc, a crippling webpack experience and breaking compact all the time.

- The JS community was moving from koolaid to koolaid, never assessing the new tech for their cost. They solely inflicted on the world slow and brittle preprocessors left and right, thousands of stuff you had to integrate manually because "libs > frameworks", and jumped on react, redux, graphql, docker, spa, microservices.

So I would say it was a loooot of hype for react, just like it was for graphql.

I'm going to feel like spamming at this point, but, remember when XML was the future?

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles
Please don't generalize across half a continent when your experience is within one or two countries.
I still hold onto my Phantom Blade in World of Warcraft
The charm of old-world cities, with hundreds or even thousands of years of history, becomes their worst enemy as tourists overrun everything trying to get that historical viewpoint. Then, businesses take advantage of the desire for "old" to create new "old" as the existing "old" is not good enough. In the end, tourists will abandon the now-fake charm, and everyone will lose.
Exaaaactly. I worked on big systems at a very large retailer, and at a very large bank, and in each case, there were reasons why GraphQL worked very well for us. But 90+% of developers across the world adopt tools and technologies because they look fun and shiny, not because they need it. For the overwhelming majority of developers (who in most cases are working at medium-to-large-sized companies on internally-facing apps with a small number of users) a simple web app stack from 2005 will serve you quite nicely.
The important ones
So that's why I couldn't access Twitter while using FF. Interesting. That notice wasn't there before.
Sorry, you are right and I stand corrected. I must have misremembered this. Here is a tweet from PG correcting this: https://x.com/paulg/status/1796107666265108940 via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40521657

I originally got this sentiment partly from this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38378216
Likely to be a lengthy development process. Pithed humans don't stay fresh very long at all.
Spanish Telco Telefonica investigates possible theft of 2.6M clients info
I haven't done much more than toy projects in GraphQL. Is there no way to limit the query complexity/cost? Such as a statement timeout in postgres?
I dont get the down vote. Portugal and Spain are going to be taken over by gdp/person by Czech republic and Poland. Very poor countries in 90s. Spain has amazing weather, could be europe tech capital if they only could get their taxes and labor laws in order. Spanish developers earn less money than Czech ones… and it will onlyget worse for them.
I don't bounce around touristic cities. I live in one. I don't go to tourist places for a week and expect the landlord to evict a tenant that lived there for years and cycle people like me.
They didn't seem to mind him running Worldcoin though. Doing two (several) jobs problem came later and this explanation doesn't really address this.

Personally I don't care if pg is completely honest or if sam was fired or not. It doesn't have meaningful impact on my view of either.
My bikes (and my dogs) saved me not only during the lockdowns, but in a time when my life was way darker than that, between october 2015 and march 2018 (couldn't get a job for much I tried to, completely heartbroken, several of my dogs died, bullied by my own sister, parents' illness...) so I definitely can relate to this.

Trully one of the noblest inventions humanity has made.
Then we just come back full round trip to REST where the backend clearly defines what is allowed and what is returned. So using GraphQL it is unnecessary complicated to safeguard against a caller querying for all of the data and then some. For example the caller queries nested structures ad infinitum possibly even triggering a recursive loop that wakes up somebody at 3am.
A small crime can result in massive power. Knowledge is power.

Barring the ethics you can single handedly use such data to manipulate stock market, countries etc.

It’s just too much power
This is deemed not conscious because it's just a small piece.

LLMs, though quite large, are deemed not conscious because they're only made of silicon.

When we are running LLM-like software on large human brain organoids (which is clearly where this line of research is heading) maybe some people will finally have some ethical concerns?
Speaking only for myself, it has been invaluable to have access to the private papers of people like my great grandfather. It provides a real connection to a man, time, and place which I couldn't know in person.

Perhaps publishing everything is a step too far, but things like semi-private diaries from a war or a voyage --- intended for immediate family to read, but not for publication --- are often okay to publish within living memory of the deceased. Sufficiently chaste love letters seem to me to be okay after a long enough time has elapsed, too.
There's also a really simple hack: they can just leave their phone/watch at home. And now even if you or they have an emergency, you can't reach them :)
I've been diving for years and I learned that the deeper you go, there is a higher chance some of equipment can malfunction. Because of that I have to always plan or consider some backup solution. And that started to reflect on my daily activities - e.g. when I book a flight or a route, I put everything on paper, just in case all my devices die (which happened before).
Who is closing their ranks?

The ID group in the European Parliament has expelled the German AfD. The AfD tried to get them to only expel their top candidate Maximilian Krah instead, and has banned him from appearing at campaign events.

Looks less like closing ranks and more like passing the buck.
In south of France, a lot of rentals ads are "from September to May". I think they make all their profit in the summer, and everything else is just a bonus for them.