skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
self preservation is at the root of prepping and is an inherited instinct. However, these days, prepping has been integrated into the social media sales process to the point it has more in common with fashion than instinct or reactionary behavior IMO. I can't think of a single source i would trust for information regarding preparing for large scale disasters, it's all ads.
(I mean, by definition a "solved society" must be somewhat boring [read, difficult] to write about ...)
Jepsen found a more concerning consistency bug than the above results when Postgres 12 was evaluated [1]. Relevant text:

We [...] found that transactions executed with serializable isolation on a single PostgreSQL instance were not, in fact, serializable

I have run Postgres and MongoDB at petabyte scale. Both of them are solid databases that occasionally have bugs in their transaction logic. Any distributed database that is receiving significant development will have bugs like this. Yes, even FoundationDB.

I wouldn't not use Postgres because of this problem, just like I wouldn't not use MongoDB because they had bugs in a new feature. In fact, I'm more likely to trust a company that is paying to consistently have their work reviewed in public.

1. https://jepsen.io/analyses/postgresql-12.3
I’m a manager. I will try to answer this question:

> Like do you think managers write down why they didn’t hire a person, and even if they did, they would type “Too old” (“too black”, “too female”) into such a system?

Managers are looking for someone within specific experience bands. If they downlevel a candidate (hire someone that is too skilled), then it’s unfair to the candidate, as they are underpaid. It’s unfair to the teammates, because typically managers have a limited number of promo slots. Quickly promoting someone after they joined may steal the opportunity for another teammate.

In the case that the skills match the job level, someone that is 20 years of experience and not principle yet, is less attractive than someone that is 2 years into their level and has a strong hunger for growing.
or your readers are blocked by your writer
Nothing clever to add here, scary AF. Please vote with your hearts and not your wallets.
As a fellow southern German - is it really surprising? Pretty much all traditional dishes are just so heavy, there’s only about two days of fall when I’m in the mood to eat anything like that. Also, pretty much any traditional German main course is meat-based.
The linked PDFs contain censored sections, but it's just a black rectangle placed above the content. So by removing that rectangle the original content is still visible below...
I can't say I've ever seen many of these "vanity TLDs" in browsing through search results; and the ones I do see, tend to be SEO spam.
Go comes out of the box with sync.Pool
This is a monument to a phenomenal amount of money wasted on lawyers and hype. Look upon my TLDs and despair.
Oh, so you are, then we can rest assured this will end up being a solid project!

I personally can't stand mongodb, its given me alot of headaches, joined a company and the same week I joined we lost a ton of data and the twat who set it up resigned in the middle of the outage. Got it back online and spend 6m moving to postgresql.
They are really about the exact same thing from different angles. The second article explains the why: they underestimated how much it would cost them. What they planned for was already used in the H1 of 2024. If you expect the same energy production (which apparently is a record of 58%) then you'll have to get another $9B from somewhere and they won't be able to do 1) additional debts, 2) use emergency covid money like they tried to do last year.

This means the budget has to be good this time, before they have holes left and right.

PS: The reuters article comes late. Apparently this was already in the news about 10 days ago. E.g., https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/germanys-9bn-...
Dont think about your age if someone is looking for experience they will contact you. Yes the market is slow right now but you are not a junior.
I just went through the same process 6 months ago.

What gave good results for me was cutting down my resume to 1 page and highlight the important parts of my career.

Think of it like a one-pager for a startup pitch, but you are the company.
> Culture fit.

This is the biggest place where all kinds of biases slip in, including ageism. Culture is tied up in all of the protected classes, and any time that you hear "culture fit" used as a justification for turning someone down alarm bells should be going off.

The legitimate uses of "culture fit" as a filter should be itemized rather than lumped together: "he doesn't deal well with ambiguity", "she doesn't like frequent interruptions", whatever. Just talking about "culture fit" in the abstract is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
1. It slows down CICD install times for every repo.

2. I'd rather not have to make the same ESLint config change to 30+ repos.

3. I'd rather not have to update ESLint plus plugins in 30+ package.json files.'

We don't use ESLint as any kind of CICD gateway and we don't enforce what IDE/linter people use. It's not important to us to have perfect uniformity across every developer's machine.
I took part in math competitions as part of a math club in High School during the 70s. It was fun, made me think and was a bit of a social outlet. I don't think any one test was that important - we took a bunch of standard and experimental national tests and monthly meetups had their own problems.

All that said, my impression is current math clubs and competitions have been taken over by kids just wanting credit for college rather than the kids of my era, who were there 'cause they actually enjoyed math.

If the only purpose you can see for math competitions is find a few very talented kids, yeah, well then they would qualify as counter-productive.
> unparalleled depravity

(I mean, I am sure that's a plus for *somebody* :)

PS. I find it funny that the Irish Times would find "post scarcity" depraved :)
I also use notebooks and qtconsole daily so I'd like to chime in.

- I don't have a continuously running notebook server. I start it when I need to and shut it down if I won't be working with it for a while. I do like the idea of clicking an icon and starting an app.

- Modern command palette, I believe, is similar to what you would see in apps like VS code. It doesn't offer more commands but instead make it easier to find and execute commands. I don't use Jupyter Lab so I don't know if it has a command palette but Jupyter Notebook doesn't so that seems like an advantage to me.

- I disagree on the formatting point, too. Even if I am just doing something very quick I cannot stand seeing lines extending some length, no space after a colon, single vs double quote inconsistency etc. So I do spend time formatting them even if I am on IDLE and know for sure I am not going to save it. Thankfully, IPython added support for Black so it is less of an issue for me.

Apps in this area generally focused on extending Jupyter to maybe combine SQL/JS with Python, making data exploration easier but I do appreciate a light app that just gives me a notebook experience with some small advantages, especially considering Classic Notebook is going to go away soon. I'll definitely give it a try.
I completely agree. I was trying to say it’s okay to be wrong if you are able to acknowledge it instead of doing mental gymnastics to justify it. I don’t know where Paul Graham stands in this regard.
That's wild, we all use AES cipers w/ TLS/HTTPS everyday - and Galois fields are essential to AES - but few people understand how HTTPS works.

The field is probably onto post-AES, PQ algos where Galois Theory is less relevant; but back then, it seemed like everyone needed to learn Galois Theory, which is or isn't prerequisite to future study.

The problem-solving skills are what's still useful.

Perhaps problem-solving skills cannot be developed without such rote exercises; and perhaps the content of such rote exercises is not relevant to predicting career success.
I use notebooks the whole time, normally in vs-code and with github copilot setup.

I found it quite painful to point it to a couple of environments I have, and confusing how i get it pointing to my gpt4 api keys. Once I did these two I was not sure how to prompt rather than typing a command.

Good luck with this, don't mean this in a critical way, just trying to give some feedback of what I think when I first try it.
What's Inside the Pentium Chip?
Wayne Gretzky Once Destroyed Pele, Bjorn Borg and Sugar Ray Leonard in a Race
These change _very_ often.

On one library I work on, we ended up writing a bot to fetch the list for us and open a pr in order to maintain it. I suspect anyone having to validate TLDs faces a similar problem.
I'm interested and I need this. Do you have some additional info for me maybe? Thank you!!!
Unit is a general purpose visual programming system
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Europe
I like this write up. It is timely too.
Nobody else is trying to do a rapidly reusable upper stage that needs between 10 and 30 refueling flight of a rocket that's twice as big as anything else.
Are LLMs writing PubMed articles?
I know how stink bugs smell and I know how cilantro smells. Never once did I think that they smelled like each other. Could it be a difference in stink bugs? Also, never has it ever tasted like soap to me.
Long but enjoyable read. I was surprised it didn't mention AI.
It really was though. A lot of people with computers got their first modem to dial into BBS systems or the compuserve type systems. Small ISPs got started up and you usually found out about them through BBSes as well because they didn’t really have ad budgets and it was so niche.

A friend of mine and I split the cost of a 1200 baud modem for the c64 and took turns with it.

This was magic back then: 80 column terminal on a c64: http://kobolt.website/infocenter/images/novaterm-top.jpg
> Intel started using automated place and route techniques for the 386 processor, since it was much faster than manual layout and dramatically reduced the number of errors. Placement was done with a program called Timberwolf, developed by a Berkeley grad student. As one member of the 386 team said, "If management had known that we were using a tool by some grad student as a key part of the methodology, they would never have let us use it."

The grad student was Carl Sechen, advised by Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1052337
Of the 134 entries, I find only two where ICANN decided to keep the tld and transition it. For .wed and .desi. I guess these are tlds that actually allowed others / third parties to have domains, while for instance .wolkswagen was mostly enterprise use by themselves?
gTLDs went live in 2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain
I've had a very hard time getting my current job. No doubt ageism was a reason, combined with some years of self-employment that recruiters can't see as a anything but a suspicious hole. Still 40 is not old, wait one or two decades to worry.

Not sure if removing experience would have helped. After all, qualifications on nearly-extinct tech was an advantage in this case.

My problem is that I almost always get hired when I can talk with the technical lead. But I get filtered out before that step, like dozens of times past year.
And considering weather in the US has been recorded for only about 250 years it’s hard to say what a 500-year storm even looks like.
Sadly things are a bit broken if IPv6 is involved:

https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop/issues/55
Linker compatibility and the "User-Agent" problem
I've been using the Internet since the days of Netscape Navigator and 14.4 kbit/s dial-up modems. Maybe it's just that I'm getting older, but I really miss the old Internet. Ironically, it felt less "anonymous" back then, and it was easier to be part of a community — users knew each other. Now, everyone is here, and the quality of content has significantly declined.
Which link are you concerned about the topicality of, in specific?

Shouldn't we then link to the docs on how many bits wide db datatypes are, whether a datatype is prefix or suffix searchable, whether there's data leakage in UUID namespacing with primary NIC MAC address and UUIDv7, and whether there will be overflow with a datatype less wasteful than the text datatype for uuids when there is already a UUID datatype for uuids that one could argue to improve if there is a potential performance benefit
Embedded videos could just be a <video> element pointing to the file on YouTube's servers (and I believe for a short time long ago this was actually possible), but clearly commercial interests got in the way.
Powerful contender for favourite thing I've read in the last 30 days.
It could, but with the current WebRTC implementation initial connection establishment between peers requires a signaling server to coordinate network information.
iOS development is still crappy mess. Hard coded to many xcode and ui based workflows for many casual stuff. But do we have a choice? It's a monopoly.
I think they are talking about the word embeddings, where context is embedded into high geometric dimensions (one dimension might capture how 'feminine' a word is, or how 'blue' it is).
Notes for New Hires
Having some months food and water on hand for emergencies? Sounds great. Building a fortified bunker to protect your property when the government is overtaken by brown socialists? Less great.

If prepping were divorced from reactionary doomsday scenarios it would be much cooler. It’s not that different than people who fantasize about being the “good guy with a gun”.
Maybe you should trust information from FEMA for instance? Or just the Department of Homeland Security in general? While there is certainly an aspect of consumerism in some prepper communities the actually serious people tend to default to advice given by actual authorities that deal with disasters in the real world. Serious preppers tend to focus more on rotating their potable water supplies and making sure the backup batteries are charged than buying whatever tacticool new PDW is being marketed on instagram

https://www.ready.gov/ Is the most obvious resource and has a whole bunch of valuable information.
That’s the same incredulity that was and still is applied to solar’s stratospheric growth, yet the curve has remained true for decades now. There’s a Cambrian explosion of storage technologies ATM^ and it’s driven by profit incentive. Many places are reaching overcapacity of renewables, making storage a dire necessity that can be capitalized upon.

^ And crucially, grid storage doesn’t care so much for mobility or gravimetric density, so it can look very different to energy storage in an EV for example
> New grads perform better at leetcode than him(not saying that's a good metric, but that's not ageism)

It often can be, as:

1. Younger folks have more recently done their degree and algorithms stuff
2. There tends to be more free time to grind leetcode at a younger age (family, responsibilities, lower energy can hamstring an older person here)

Ymmv, but I wouldn't say LC is neutral in this regard.
I'm 44, and wondered about this very question the last time I applied for a job. I ended up removing my first couple jobs, not only because they make me look old, but because I wanted to keep the length of the resume down, and I didn't see them as being all that relevant anymore anyway. My stance is that I don't want to work for a place that would remove me from consideration because of my age, but it's convenient that I had some reasons not to put that to the test.

In general, I can't see any ethical objection to leaving off any previous jobs from your resume. The resume is not a legal document, it's a marketing document: you are presenting your best case for a half hour of somebody's time to interview you as part of the next phase. If you think that removing your earliest jobs—or your latest jobs, or some jobs in the middle—would help, then that's what you should do.
You world build it one time and you are done...
I switched to Windows/WSL2 a few years back so don't have a fight in this game (though if it's Electron, why only macOS?) - but having to switch between IDE and Jupyter for code formatting seems like unnecessary overhead.

But TBH Quarto is much better in this regard; you can use a VScode together with another IDE if you wish to format/edit/run chunks of code in the same file.
If the smiley face and the commit message's tone didn't make it clear that it's
a joke, TFA explicitly ends with this:

> Gunnar in particular was the one who uncovered this bug, and despite my
satirical jab in the commit message helped uncover this very interesting bug,
so he’s the one who made this post possible.

Gunnar is also credited right in the same commit message for help:

> Credits to Andrew Kaster, bgianf, CxByte and Gunnar for the debugging help.

And judging from how the author of the actually broken code in question is
(reasonably) not investigated or publicized, it seems quite obvious to me that
the article's author is not trying to play the blame game.
Would Apple revive OS X server or just run Linux on such AI servers?
Yes, the focus on individual capacity is misguided and foolish. The focus should be on community resiliency instead of individuals.

The cool part about focusing on community resiliency is it increases the mental health and well-being of the community members, as well as helping the local economy by focusing on self-sufficiency!
I think the connection is that the authors could convincingly write a paper on this connection, thus inflating the AI publication bubble, furthering their academic acumen and improving their chances of getting research grants or selective jobs in the field. Some other interests of the authors seem to be detecting exoplanets using AI and detecting birds through audio analysis.

Since nobody can really say what a good AI department does, companies seem to be driven by credentiallism, load up on machine learning PhDs and masters so they can show their board and investors that they are ready for the AI revolution. This creates economic pressure to write such papers, the vast majority of which will amount to nothing.
Edit: Oh shit, I'm wrong below....

...

Peter Drucker, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?

I have to say that while that book is likely "good for what it is", I utterly and completely despised it for what it was promoted as. Essentially, What Color Is Your Parachute was the standard thing that career councilors promoted for how to find a job - however it gives the ordinary seeker of an ordinary job nothing whatsoever but rather just tells everyone "become unique and find your unique niche". Whether that's good or bad advice, it's not the advice said ordinary seeker asked for and it was shitty trick that ordinary career counselors handed job seekers this book by default.
Player of Games was the first Culture novel I read and I enjoyed it a lot. I still sometimes go back and reread it and have found new perspectives each time. Would definitely recommend.
What makes you think if Nietzsche lived today, he wouldn't be a blogger?
Consider that the lower orders of integration of life are energetic molecular arrangements, then genetically controlled factories which make which make up the components of cells that in turn give rise to cellular replication, then cellular arrangements and multicellular organisms.

The creatures you are hoping to simulate which seem to be at the level of abstraction of a nematode, IOW a model of a very simple body with a brain of a few hundred neurons, operate in environments so diffuse and rarified that superficially they don't seem striking behaviorally, even as they do the stuff you expect simple animals to do. A casual onlooker will not be impressed by the richness of the world of the nematode. So one challenge is you could be on the right track but find appropriate results boring.

But it may be that the best you can do with a simulation is make arrangements seem interesting, because there may be an entropic blockade to stimulating life: life may be so efficient in its manifestation of degrees of abstractions, interactions, fabrication, layering, and interdependencies-- its complexity-- that organization of models using electronic computation devices can't get within many orders of magnitude of life's dynamical density and therefore simulation of life is inherently impractical. IOW you can get from life to computers, but entropy prevents getting from computers to life.

In life, is there any clear distinction between machine and code? Genomics suggests there might be, but so far fiddling with genomes is well known only for edits of taxonomically superficial traits. Has anyone shown edits that give rise to a new subspecies-- much less a new genus? Idk... but it wouldn't surprise me to find the answer is be no, and that epigenetic factors might inhibit any approach to editing new lifeforms into existence.

Is life is fundamentally emergent, without possibility of construction? I see a definitional hazard; that we may lack the language or cognitive capacity to deal with life's dynamics. These may be off limits. Or maybe not?
I remember even after flash player it buffered video though? They changed the behavior after Flash was dead probably as someone else suggested to not waste bandwidth on people closing the tab.

Edit: in fact every native web video player downloads as much as possible as far as I can tell.
From the essay:

> Indeed, Banks distinguishes himself in having thought carefully about the social and political consequences of technological development.

This we need more of. In any way shape or form.-
Even triple use if you could mount it in the cruise missile :-)
Element might be what ur looking for based on matrix protocol. Also maybe mastodon?
Apologies, should have been clearer there - the Wasp Factory is not a Culture novel and isn't even SF - it's about a rather troubled teenager and his unusual circle of family and friends.
I also edit my notebooks in vscode. I wouldn't switch to something that doesn't support GitHub copilot, unless completions are much better.
On reflection, was there anything you would have done or looked for differently in the 3 junior devs? Something you think would actually have changed your outcome? Do you blame yourself in any way for not being able to develop the junior devs?

FWIW, I'm currently on this trajectory (as the mentor).
Show HN: Ayeee Widgets in bento style for your site or portfolio
Yeah but it's an awful domain name lol
This was cool, looks quite nice and polished.

I also made a quick activity tracker app recently but went with Django, Bootstrap and HTMX. Used it myself for few weeks but then moved on with other stuff. Can't seem to keep up using such app personally.

Cleaned up the readme just now and added a demo video https://codeberg.org/jasalt/tracker. Should be quick to setup with Sqlite locally. I've had it running on Fly.io (free) and connecting to Postgres on a some toy VPS.

Far from a finished thing but maybe can inspire someone.
I feel like the main reason I'm stuck is both directly and indirectly due to my disability. I believed the company about how great they are and specialized in work that needed to be done but didn't have external opportunities. And of course interviewing and changing jobs isn't easy, but is especially hard for someone like me.
Apple sells expensive solutions to cash-rich consumers (some of whom are also time-poor) who are willing to throw money at a technical problem (setting up a device with an OS) to make it go away (ie, buying an iPhone, iPad, and Mac).

Why would you ever want to advertise to anyone else?

No internet = no Google.
I'm a little over 50, and I removed old (pre-2000?) jobs simply because they really weren't relevant any more.

Nobody cares that I used MS SQL Server or Visual Basic that far back, at least for my current career goals.

No idea if that affected my job prospects though. The last 18 months have been a really challenging job market either way, and I only recently found another job.