skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the other child comments I don’t agree with the presupposition that guns are an entity that somehow incites people to commit violent (Which is what you are implying).

For example most people have access to cars, statistically much more dangerous than guns, and no one seems to imply that having a car around incites people to violence. People who are mentally ill and dangerous could as easily use any array of common tools or methods to commit acts which are dangerous to themselves and others. That doesn’t make it the tool’s fault.
Don't think covid affected university reputations that much. Slogans like "decolonize maths" and skin colour based recruitment and award of degrees give me very little confidence even in modern STEM degrees from formerly prestigious universities.
Right.

> "Please tell me how much confidence you, yourself, have in higher education -- a great deal, quite a lot, some or very little?"

Confidence in higher education doing what? Leading to a good job? Making people better? Having a positive ROI? Being fun?

Gallup asks "how much confidence do you have in X", for business, government, courts, gods, etc. to measure sentiment. It's too generic to be meaningful. The trend, though, is interesting.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534616 - The floppy disk music scene (2024-02-28)
In that case you won't do well in the interview because "bad attitude" or "lack of soft skills".
Developing a fast system requires an entire different mindset, unless it is critical it never happens. Most people think it is w/e we don’t need to optimize and when you have people complaining it is already too late
> By those parameters, "decent level" refers to the harder questions on USAMO/IMO... the top 100 in USA in a given grade level.

No, those are table stakes. To reach that level you have to know the theory and be good at the game.

> Burnside's lemma is a silly trick, in the sense that it's easy to memorize without knowing why it's true.

By that standard pretty much 100% of mathematical education is silly tricks unless you are literally getting a PhD in pure math.

Calculus without real analysis? Silly trick! Statistics without measure theory? Silly trick! Learning how to code without an in-depth understanding of computability theory? Silly trick!

Applying Burnside's lemma in a competition setting requires at a minimum a fairly sophisticated understanding of what is a group action and an orbit, which is definitely "real math". The broader point is that competition math isn't some kind of parallel universe where you learn "fake math" that doesn't exist in the real world. You learn the real thing -- perhaps less rigorously than in a university course, but the real thing nonetheless.
He fixed some specific DBA/sysadmin-ey problems. That matters, but less than you might think. He didn't fix the underlying problems in those cases or the more important problems that he identifies.

> Yet, the company still said they “don’t need to hire people with experience because everything is cloud native so anybody can just figure things out.” — This company tolerated a year of 80 hour data imports because “cloud native” means “experience doesn’t matter” and they didn’t have anybody in the entire company to even detect the problem because “only product features matter, we don’t want to hire low value sysadmins.”

> It’s not my fault companies fail though. I try to help, but when VC brain disease runs all companies into the ground instead of prioritizing building good products on high performance platforms, there’s only so much you can do before leaving dying companies (then repeat at the next dying company forever?).

> I’ve seen companies making $5 million a month in revenue just evaporate over 3 years because their original idea falls out of popularity and the executives refuse to adapt to better ideas. I’ve seen companies go from a billion in funding to being sold for parts because the CEO is too busy buying horses to keep his wife happy instead of actually running the company. I’ve seen companies just give up and get acquired by some big tech because the CEO was offered a personal $100 million gift when he agrees to the acquisition, then 90% of the company is let go after the acquisition. Feels great to work forever on the zero-reward side of a winner-take-most-but-the-winner-aint-you professional economy.

> I don’t know about you, but I care about company structure, product issues, platform scalability and reliability, customer usability, developer usability, performance, legal compliance, security, corporate scalability, and team cohesion all at the same time.

Caring is good but only if you care about the stuff that matters. At some point, yeah, if the last 5 companies you worked for died and you're making a point of selling yourself as someone who cares about the important stuff, then either you're not as good at identifying what's important as you think you are, or you're ineffective at actually fixing the problems you've identified. Which is naturally not going to get you hired.

> it looks like I am a full time architecture-only, no-product-value person, but it’s only because...

There's only so much "it's only because..." that people will look past.
Oh man that would be a nightmare - I mean I probably could do it for most of the languages I have used but I would sweat during an interview. Worse would be "show how long a string is in all these languages". I always keep confusing that syntax when I initally switch between languages.
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There's a distance from knowing Python enough to find your way around in projects to knowing it enough to solve coding riddles. The latter requires the level of familiarity attained only with regular use. Plenty developers go by their daily jobs without having to write a single line of Python.
Where I'm from, a 4 year stint in higher education is about as expensive as a month's wages. It gets more expensive if you need student housing, but many students can and do commute.

Most young folks can study something that interests them, at little risk. No one here has to worry about the ROI of their offspring's studies, nor do they have to worry about their prepubescent child starting charities (or whatever other insane nonsense) in order to qualify for some insanely expensive elitist college.

Seems like a much more sensible approach than putting a fuckton of pressure on kids in order to get them in a college which will land them with 30 years of debt on top of a potential degree.

Let kids be kids, and give students a chance to learn and explore.
You are referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40992134

What is your understanding of the word "attributed"? Why does it not imply "proven"?

To me, the word falls in the same category as "linked." It is usually used when a regression analysis has been performed, and some independent variable has been shown to have a statistically significant impact on the dependent variable.

I.e. it's an interpretation of evidence in a statistical framework. Nothing can ever be proven outside a robust theory; only made more or less likely, so I don't see why you'd reach for that word.

The study is https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2403211

> Decomposition analyses showed 5.23 (95% CI, 4.97 to 5.47) fewer PASC events per 100 persons at 1 year during the omicron era than during the pre-delta and delta eras combined; 28.11% of the decrease (95% CI, 25.57 to 30.50) was attributable to era-related effects (changes in the virus and other temporal effects), and 71.89% (95% CI, 69.50 to 74.43) was attributable to vaccines.

Whether this study was good or bad, I don't know. But I think you're misunderstanding or misrepresenting the word "attributable."
At Portkey, this is a problem we deal with quite a bit. Also the reason that Datadog and the traditional observability vendors did not work for LLM use cases since they're not built to handle large volumes of data.

We've done this through a careful combination of Clickhouse + MinIO for fast retrieval of log items + selected retrieval from the MinIO buckets.

Cost becomes a very big factor when managing, filtering and searching through TBs of data even for fairly small use cases.

One thing we lost in the process is full-text search over the request & response pairs and while we try to intelligently add metadata to requests to make searching easier, it isn't the complete experience yet. Still WIP as a problem statement to solve and maybe the last straw here. Any suggestions?
in under 40 KB it had a lightning fast compiler that generated .COM files, and a text based IDE with a WordStar compatible code editor.
Guilds were anti-competitive and anti free market, in that they regulated the number of people who could enter a profession, and practice it in a particular town. As such, that's against the interest of employers and most people who want to enter the profession. I don't think guild members generally worked for employers, except for apprentices, who had to work for a guild member; they were business owners or self employed.

Arguably though, medicine and academia are guilds.

Early guilds probably used violence to restrict entry; later they needed the state to enforce guild restrictions, so when the state decided it didn't want to; that guild was over.

I suspect that cooperatives are a better model than guilds for the modern era.
Those semantics are exactly what cannot be done in Java for many reasons (including legacy code etc.).

And yes, those semantics are important, but sadly most people stop at "yay we have green threads now" and then a null pointer exception kills their entire app, or the thread that handles requests, or...
I'm really interested to hear more about your work too! I've had a few situations where IP cameras would have been ideal, but I dropped the idea after examining a handful because the firmware is invariably too awful to contemplate running.

Reading your later replies, I gathered you took a standard camera but wrote clean new firmware for it. Is the SoC on these devices supported by mainline tf-a, u-boot and kernels, or are you stuck on ancient manufacturer ('BSP') kernel forks and so on? What does the userspace you've put together look like?
it's not a "long" con, it's a con which keeps on giving.
There is an alternate universe where you comment how insane it is engineers waste time on trying to understand the nuances of every single bespoke byte encoding/decoding technique used between services. JSON is just fine for most tasks, otherwise the world would be in flames right now
Maybe. San Francisco is unique among major American cities in a number of ways and it has a special charm to it. I don't think that a generic substitution of Santa Cruz vs ($BIG_CITY) would favor the likes of Seattle or Houston or Philadelphia to Santa Cruz.
I would agree that Santa Cruz is nicer than anywhere in Santa Clara or San Mateo counties, and there is probably good reason so many people put up with the commute over the 17. The real issue with Santa Cruz (if it is even an issue) is that the whole town is on a perpetual summer vacation (especially the college students!). Boudrillard has some very choice observations of Santa Cruz in the 80's that more or less ring true to today. And Santa Cruz is full of interesting characters and it is quite cosmopolitan for a place its size, it also feels as if everything has gone to seed.
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Really? What kind of similarities are you talking about?
You know that I use take home to ask for modifications on the spot during technical interview. First hour is soft talk to see if there is any communication issue, then you go home do take home, if you don’t like us you don’t have to do the take home.

If someone is reluctant to do changes in his own code it is a no go for me.

Main point of take home I give is so that candidate has his own code to modify while we are on the second round, not to waste time and stress people with something they didn’t wrote/know.
No home in Carmel, California has an address. That's about to change
Many of them are presumably 17 when they make this decision. Minors.
That's simply not how LLMs work, and are actually awful at reverse engineering of any kind.
> The set of possible data type systems to choose from was very large, and to make the process more manageable I had written a program to select the competitive (Pareto-optimal) candidate systems. Interestingly, but quite incidentally, that selection program itself was written in SETL.

Wow, now that I'd like to see.

Awesome and informative comments, cheers!
In case of blurring, wouldn't it be easier to try and guess the parameters of blur operation used, and invert it?
The GHC runtime has lots of cool concurrency features.

Async exceptions as a way to pass messages (and kill threads!)

Allocation limits for threads.

Software Transactional Memory.
> But all else being equal, I'll pick open-source over proprietary. That is a competitive advantage over github.

GitLab is proprietary with some open-source components that comprise a limited 'open core'. It's not open-source.
Oops thanks for pointing that out. I am indeed using librewolf.
> You'd first have to drop the pretence of neutrality that most voting advocacy efforts lead with.

I bet there are legal and practical requirements for that. For instance, a lack of a pretense of neutrality would probably undermine the voters' feeling that they're exercising their voice, and instead make many of them less likely to vote because feel like they're being used to serve someone else's goals.
Well the IMF thinks there are over a Trillion dollars of explicit subsidies every year.

https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...

And another 6 Trillion in implicit subsidies by ignoring the costs of local pollution etc.

But yeah, if you categorically define something as "too hard" then it's too hard. Getting some percentage of that blood money back as campaign contributions and bribes is I'm sure not a factor, it's just those pesky voters to blame.
at middlesex polytechnic (north london) back in the mid-80s, we had several PDP11 desktops that were very unreliable. the first fix was to drive them round the north circular in the back of a van, but we worked out that dropping them from an inch or so was easier. they were pretty crappy.
> Outside of global top 50, ROI decreases

Source? Costs decrease, too.
Sometimes I wonder if it's the money per se, or what brings in the money, or both. My guess is the higher-paying jobs are more interesting and fulfilling; conversely if two people have equally stressful jobs, but one pays a lot and the other little, the high pay would mitigate against the stress ("this has these costs but at least it pays well").

This sounds obvious maybe but it's a bit different from money per se bringing happiness. It would be more about the perception of the work.

I also am not sure what to make of life satisfaction as a happiness indicator. It's a single item reflecting one aspect of happiness; there's other components of well-being. The author acknowledges this but it feels like a critical issue.
I believe it really depends on the degree. STEM, no question. Humanities, I have seen studies showing a negative ROI.
I don't know about where you live, but in my town, people are required to pick up their dogs' poop, wherever it may be.
Have you any evidence of this? Or is this just fud?
Will gcc catch that? The GCC compiler knows about "printf" as a special case.
But "Serial.printf" may not have a definition with the annotation GCC needs to check parameters.
He had a habit of climbing up a specific platform in his enclosure and leaping off into the fluff below, like he was jumping off a diving board.

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Suicidal hamster. Poor fella.
As a Xoogler, I have to say Google isn’t what it once was. You pay for your high salary with the fact that the one thing you can be sure most people you work with care about is how much money they extract out of Google and how they could get more.

Taking care of toddlers is ostensibly a better use of the one life you get.
> And there's no particular reason to believe the JVM can have a list of threads and their states more efficiently than the kernel can.

Of course there is. The JVM is able to store the current stack for the Thread efficiently in the pre-allocated heap. Switching execution between Virtual Threads is very cheap. Experiments show you can have millions of VTs, but only a few thousand OS Threads.

I don't know why you think preemption is a big downside?! The JVM only suspends a Thread at safe points and those are points where it knows exactly when to resume. I don't believe there's any downsides at all.
I remember seeing tomato plants growing on the tracks at my local station and realising how they got there.
This reminds me of the time I went to an all inclusive resort. It was fun in the short therm. Just ended up walking around buzzed the entire day / vacation.

If you have an unlimited supply of something, then all your vices could be fuelled. And if that happens then are you strong enough to resist temptation.
And if not, then you happiness will probably decrease.
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We're talking about Bezier curves in the context of CAD and graphics. In this case, I believe there is no reason to assume that these curves will have a more special form than sqrt(arbitrary quartic). Do you think that they do have a more special form, and that this form will simplify nicely? Or are you suggesting that sqrt(abrbitrary quartic) might simplify more?
Hey ChatGPT what is population group mostly affected by menopause?

== Women Aged 40-55

Conclusion: AI should be banned.
OpenAI used a game to help AI models explain themselves better
To a degree yes, but spending a lot of time massaging the output of an LLM over training your own mental faculties for problem solving causes an entirely different kind of skill to develop. It’s not good.
What to do if you don't want a default constructor?
Fertility rates are an interesting hypothesis, but looking at the data I think we can definitely say that's not the driver. In 2011 there was total enrollment of about 21 million. In modern times we're down to around 19 million. [1] Fertility rates have only recently cratered, and from 1990-2010 we were even pretty close to sustainability. That's relevant, because that's when most of all of the current student body would have been born. So there's definitely fewer children, as can be clearly seen in this population pyramid [2], but it can also be seen the difference is, at most, the low hundreds of thousands. And we're talking a difference on the order of millions fewer students.

An open question would also be the overall shift (if any) in international enrollment. If international enrollment has stayed the same (or even increased) then it means the decline in American enrollment could be even more extreme. By contrast if international enrollment has completely plummeted, it could go some way towards mitigating these numbers.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/183995/us-college-enroll...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA_Population_Pyramid.sv...
These studies never seem to address the "keeping up with the Jones" factor, or more broadly, that social opinions shape how much we care about money. I think a lot of people would be near "maximum happy levels" [1.] with very little money, but are indirectly socially pressured into needing more money in order to buy more stuff. A few centuries ago, it was normal for kids to have only a few toys, adults to have a few dozen books, at most, and this was typical. I don't think kids then were less happy because they didn't have modern consumer abundance.

Today, the social expectations on say, eating out at restaurants frequently, traveling for vacation, and so on are expensive, and to be a deliberately frugal person living in an urban area requires a lot of discipline and asocial behavior that wasn't necessary before.

It would be interesting to do a study like this that selected people who care less about money, or at least cared less about the social expectations of money – and then see what an extra $500 or $5,000 would do.

1. Assuming their basic needs like food, shelter, clothing, parks, etc. are met with a decent level of quality.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
I'm not sure if that's ironic or not either, but it surely is bananas. (I'm so sorry I had to make this joke. I'm a dad, give me a break please.)
What fud? This is a standard way to deal with grid issues.

Some people don't see electric cars / chargers as ideology that must remain absolutely pure of oil. Some are just pragmatic - it's a good car that runs cheaply, and supercharger is critical infrastructure that needs a reliable backup.
I don't the claims he's held anything like Distinguished Engineer roles at Google or Amazon: https://matt.sh/files/a-resume/resume.html.
Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs

-> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40988076
The money by itself means that you have more spoons [1] compared to everyone without money. All the little things that eat up time and attention even for totally non-depressed neurotypical people go away once you have enough money to pay people to do them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
Building codes require earthquake strapping and take landslide risk into account.

What more do you want people to do? Seattle has had large earthquakes in its short history as a large American city and honestly even mid 20th century construction held up ok.

This isn't like parts of Japan where large earthquakes will happen on regular intervals. Engineers have to weigh costs vs risks.
I don't quite get what you mean. Computation time is also bounded with the size of the tree.
Most people don't want to live afraid of everything. I learned that lesson in the past 3 years.
Yeah, if nobody can afford a computer, then people gather outside and talk and laugh and the kids play.

If only you can't afford a computer, then you can't talk to anyone, who have all gathered online, and you can't know about community events, and you didn't see the latest meme people are joking about.

So it's not about whether or not I can afford a computer.
I use zellij in kitty. Great combo!
I guess it looks nice when cached, but i am just scrolling empty page and when I stop, after a second I get random picture. An epitome of atrocious design
> Amazing that Apple survived, at all.

They coasted on the success of the Apple II for a long time. It's difficult to overstate how popular they were in American schools. For over a decade, "a computer" was an Apple II.

They didn't stop making the IIe until November 1993.

It was the BBC Micro of the USA.
That's not what he's saying. He means if there is a conflict between the two most people chose function - that's what matters, that the thing actually work. Not Apple. They pick form, even if the function is harmed. (They will of course try to make it work anyway, but that's not the point being made here.)
your salary it's 25 times the overall office cost? Maybe you are an top manager, an apical figure anyway, but how much it cost the office for all workers (grand total) vs their salary? Compute all office costs, cleaning, air conditioning/heating, surveillance and so on included.