skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do non-engineers risk being biased more than engineers? If the job requires interacting with cross functional teams I don’t see how an interview with a cross functional partner is a bad idea.
+1 for LazyVim

I got fed up of tweaking my own config and keeping up with the very fast moving plugin ecosystem. Gave LazyVim a try (after using LunarVim for a bit) and it's been a breeze. It's very well polished and maintained by a prominent plugin author.
That might be because the risk of hiring is higher in Finland.
If the belt and road initiative (better rail transport between China and the EU) is hindered by the EU and static infrastructure like Nordstream is sabotaged, I suppose ecologically questionable projects like Arctic container vessels are one of the solutions.

We can raise energy prices for the small man in the EU to offset the damage. /s
"you have to GUARANTEE it (or fail compilation)"

I've often pondered the utility of similar flags for other optimizations. This is perhaps the largest one, but there are other situations in certain code where I want to know that my optimization has failed.

A more complicated example is, I've sometimes wanted an assertion that a given function is inlined. We know from hard, repeated experience over decades that letting users annotate functions as inline directly doesn't end up working very well, but I've often wondered about creating an assertion that would fail the compile if it isn't. (Ideally with at least a hint as to why the compiler failed it out, but that's easier said than done.) Obviously you don't want to go slapping this in some major open source library that's going to be compiled by half-a-dozen compilers on dozens of operating systems, but for my own code in my own situation it can be an optimization that is the difference between success and failure and it'd be nice to flag a failure.

(Bear in mind I am not proposing to blindly take any particular action if it triggers. The point is to bring it up to human attention and not have it buried deep in invisible, yet potentially consequential, compiler decisions. The human deciding "I guess this optimization isn't happening" and removing the annotation would be one valid decision, for instance.)
It sounds like the platform really matters for Roblox, if it's that much of a creative tool. BTW the first time I'd heard of "ActiveWorlds" (or Uru) was just now from your comment. And it also sounds like my kids don't have the problem Roblox solves! (And I don't really want them standing around in a chat room looking for things to do; absent a compelling reason to look at a screen, I encourage them to do real-world things.)
Isn't LlLM just a fancier markov chain anyway?
AMD to acquire server builder ZT Systems for $4.9B in cash and stock
CloudBeaver: Cloud Database Manager
Perhaps my zombie reference was a little harsh. el Reg is still close to the top of my bookmarks list and has been for over 20 years.
Nice reference to aphids (which are used like cows by ant colonies). So kids make games which require currency from other kids?! Why would they do that? Do they get a cut?
Looking at the pages and pages of crap games in Roblox is a bit reminiscent of a long list of horrid software on a dialup BBS.

Everything popular seems to start as a clone of non-Roblox games, and then goes off on it's own direction from there.

Not Roblox's fault, but it's not a good place for kids to make friends; any kind of contact information must be censored. They can play there with friends made elsewhere.
Your legal system that considers you a serf is not to be emulated.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/19/gm-lays-off-more-than-1000-s...

* GM is laying off more than 1,000 salaried employees globally in its software and services division following a review to streamline the unit’s operations.

* The layoffs include roughly 600 jobs at General Motors’ tech campus near Detroit.

* The job cuts represent about 1.3% of the company’s global salaried workforce of 76,000 as of the end of last year.
> In general case, Protobuf parsing cannot be streamed (because of the handling of duplicates)

I don't see how last field wins stops you from streaming parse. Please elaborate.
Azure Bastion Host: Secure Cloud Access Made Simple
I used AI to analyze 10,000 LeetCode Discussion Posts
Careful what you feed your brain, there are a lot of amazing things happening out there that they aren't writing about. It's basically 100% fear at this point, just different flavors. Because it works, you just have to keep raising the volume faster than people get numb/bored.
Is there a simple R example for Rule 4?
I see you've been shopping with my wife.
Duh, they have to destroy it to be indemnified.

Fifth amendment compensation doesn't happen cause the courts are corrupt. No blame no problem.
Robotron: 2084 One-Bit Fix and Many Other Thoughts [video]
I made a Gigantic Floating Head, with a cockpit inside [video]
*only applies to publicly traded companies
You cannot
Show HN: Profiles – personal landing pages built with Markdown
I imagine many people on HN have their own websites. However, most people do not. Rather, many have social media profiles they use as a landing page of sorts.

Social media platforms can be bloated for this purpose. Profiles is a project that aims to allow you to setup a personal landing page in minutes and gives you a unique, short URL with your username that you can share.

Github repo: https://github.com/slashtechno/profiles
I'm sure that these groups are producing specifications, and I'm sure those specifications are being followed to the letter (and perhaps even being validated as such). The problem is that the spec only ever contains about 80% of reality, with the rest being lost either to implicit assumptions made by the writer, or to requirements that the implementer couldn't possibly hit and can't know (unilaterally) how to trade into something more realistic.

This is why you have to get the humans to talk to the other humans. If that communication happens via a collaborative design document then yes, that's a process, and it's one that can work.
The Innovation Fallacy
Clean interface(*). Seems fast - does it index files ? (* nicer than grepWin (GPL) - more like BareGrep without source)

Comparing with others: ripgrep (MIT) mention filtering and shell completions, ugrep (MIT) - including a file indexer, searching in archives and fuzzy search, dnGrep (GPL3) - archives, s&r+undo, (as well) to line results in external editor and XPath.

Unfortunately can't test it. Virustotal says it's not network shy (IP Traffic) and unsafe (3/75 security vendors flagged this file as malicious) :(
I've worked with remote dev environments for many years, including some time with one of the providers of such a service.

It became clear to me that cloud-only is not the way to go, but instead a local-first, cloud-optional approach.

https://mootoday.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-...
>You're getting bottom-of-the-barrel capacity that (even if it works) is so slow that you'd be lucky to even use up half your data cap. You are always roaming and your data is tunnelled through what feels like some dial-up modem in some shady warehouse. These are a scam.

>I've tried a few of these and can rarely pull more than a few megabits per second (in a location where a carrier's own SIM pulls 150+).

That seems.. fine? If you're traveling and your use case is checking google maps, or logging into airbnb to pull up your booking, you don't need 150 Mb/s of speed and low latency. The only case where it might be dodgy is if you're doing voip calls or watching streaming videos, but why are you doing those things on vacation? Sure, it'd be nice to have a local sim with low latency and high speeds, that's often much more expensive than esims and/or comes with more hassle (eg. KYC or having to pick up the sim in-person).
A Postgres Alternative to Kafka
Sequin is a message stream built on Postgres. Unlike a queue, Sequin persists messages so that you can spin up consumers to ingest data at any time. It's comparable to Kafka, but easier to run and use.
They often aren't like you're describing, though. For example, pdfs with high res images embedded that are drafts of future book or pamphlets prints. These can be hundreds of Mbs for a single pdf with less than 100 pages, and are so common in marketing departments that it's hard to imagine that you could fit anywhere close to all the pdfs on 8TB.
The movement to diversify Silicon Valley is crumbling amid attacks on DEI
I think it is generally fast enough just using Supabase js library, but if you want to manage your own pools and care about handling millions of concurrent requests, only then I think moving away from it might show some visible performance benefits.
Hey, thanks! It's a common question that comes from the ML community. The reason is, the main aim of this project is to implement inference from scratch and without using any library. So, Python has lots of abilities to make it easier, and I need some restriction, like using another language/platform, like Go.
You need gas specifically if you want to have a chemicals industry that uses natural gas as a feedstock.

https://cen.acs.org/business/Germanys-chemical-industry-surv...
Meta also uses React and we know what mess that introduced to the world...
The code syncs on every keystroke. Consistency isn't an issue unless you are having connection issues. And if you are then pretty much all development is broken anyways.
My kiddo has easily spent 500+ on Roblox across birthday/Xmas gift cards/chores.

I can't stand that almost all of the games seem to have a pay to win aspect, or are heavily advertising every chance they get.

As a gamer dad, I try to show my kid better games to play, but because they aren't free, his friends can't play. Just drives him to keep playing and wanting more Robux. It's compounded when his favorite Youtubers play...

Seriously don't understand how Roblox isn't being investigated for predatory practices. I imagine they can hide behind the fact users are making most of the mini games, and they are just providing a platform.
I would put it to you that with bigger problems to worry about, you'd really rather not have other problems to worry about as well, such as the complete loss of space-borne surveillance capability, which likely would prove very useful with regard to the bigger problems.
You can disable the update checker with a very simple config change.[0]

As for :x being slow, I'm not sure what that might be, it certainly isn't the case for me, it quits instantly. Try asking around in their support channels?

[0]: https://www.lazyvim.org/configuration/lazy.nvim (look for "checker" field)
Everything is susceptible to being co-opted when it becomes popular, and sometimes even when it doesn't. Any religion, any political platform, any protest movement, anything with any kind of a group identity can be misused by those who want to have that identity without having to actually meet the qualifications. Expecting a one-page statement of a development philosophy to not be susceptible to that is expecting the impossible.

Agile at least pointed out that the way development was being done was inhumane.
That resonated with a large number of people. People wanted that more humane development style - that's why agile had so much appeal.

Calling agile a "framework" seems off, though. It was a philosophy, or perhaps a set of values. A framework is something more codified and rigid - which is exactly the problem, that people tried to make agile codified and rigid. "We're going to be agile according to a rigidly defined process" is an oxymoron.

But not being a framework, not being rigidly defined, there was nothing formal that stopped anyone from putting the "Agile" label on things that were antithetical to the Agile Manifesto. But they are in fact antithetical - it's like the practitioners never actually understood the manifesto, or else were never willing to actually change to correspond to what it said.
>The complaint is from early 2023. I suspect that whatever anti-abuse systems exist on Google Play hadn't deeply integrated LLMs at this point, as this is just like a few months after the initial launch of ChatGPT.

Google had an AI before ChatGPT, remember that there was some Google developer that made a lot of noise that Google created artificial live and enslaved it or something like that ? And I said AI not LLM
Dependency versioning is much smoother.

Example: Service A requires version 1.1 of libFoo and libFoo 1.1 requires version 0.1 of libBar. But Service A also directly uses libBar version 0.2. Now you have a conflict.

If libFoo and libBar are internal code stored in a monorepo they're automatically version-compatible because there is only one version of both.
It would help if RTK was widely deployed, especially on cell phone towers.
Seymour Hersh's story has never been independently verified, and several of his "facts" have already been debunked from open sources. He obviously didn't even do basic fact checking. He might have a few parts right but overall I wouldn't take it seriously.
Clang recently got a new calling convention that makes these tail calls much cheaper (avoids the need for the caller to preserve some registers). I can never remember the name - it’s either preserve_all or preserve_none (whose perspective is the preservation from?).
Strong disagree about the movie. Today it comes across as an art house horror movie. Not particularly gory compared to modern gross-out slasher films (which I rarely watch or like).

It's okay to dislike horror movies. But to me, as I watch more movies, I care less about genre. Romance, horror, thriller, whatever
> SBC

stock-based compensation
I learned that through brute force. They just had us multiply numbers over and over again rather than memorizing the table
Also isn't it susceptible for DOS attacks?
Can't I just spawn 100.000 clients and receive on pretty much all secrets, all the time?
I think it's fine to go back to C and maybe play around a bit to learn about some of the things that can be done, but I would implore you to bear in mind that the decades have taught us that the "ultimate danger" in question is basically that you're building sand castles in a minefield. We're not talking "oh ha ha I guess I wrote a few more bugs that a stronger type system would have caught", we're talking "oh ha ha I guess remote unauthenticated attackers can run arbitrary assembler as root in my network code because I tripped over one of C's nominally well-known mines that I did not personally know about and all the attackers had to do was slightly tweak one of the exploit scripts already in metasploit to install root kits on my system and add it to their bot net".

The world has gotten a lot more dangerous than people realize. People generally quite correctly assume that hackers aren't going to spend person-months attacking their system personally but don't realize that the attacker tools are quite sophisticated now and they don't have to. Shoving code into a small little buffer overflow to lift to a larger buffer overflow to load exploit code over the network that will run a pre-packaged root priv escalation to install a rootkit to add them to their botnet is no longer the work of a team of hackers for months. It's all off-the-shelf tech now and it's more like writing a 20 line function now; you don't need to attract very much attention now to attract that level of sophistication.

We are leaving C behind collectively for very good reasons. If you are playing with C and you do not intimately understand those reasons, you're going to relearn them the hard way.
Pretty sure he's joking around. And yes, I run the bots purely for recreation in some long running IRC communities.
>I feel like RTBF is kind of a lost battle these days

For those of us who aren't familiar with this random acronym, I think RTBF = right to be forgotten.
Amazon has had its App Store on Android for years. It was a good source of high quality apps given away for free for a while. If Epic does that too, consumers win.
Count to five in your head before answering any good questions.

They get trained to get you to misspeak, and they ask you questions that if you answer them like a normal human you give up rights...
I can't with a quick search find any info on the OneWeb satellites, but they're internet access, right? not equipped with high-resolution telescopes.
Oh you're right! I forgot about that, I wonder what happened to it.
I'm glad they are sticking to the core, because the complexity, fragility and corner cases all make that 1% a worse experience for people who trust it to work reliably. In addition, of the out-of-scope suggestions I've seen, most are actually miles away from being available are completely inappropiate, or are so full of corner cases that they're right to be refused.

On the plus side, the source is all there and it's easy to compile, so that 1% shouldn't be difficult to fill by someone with a little knowledge.
I once got to do some QA lab systems work at a fiberglass plant. Fascinating place.

The molten glass in giant hoppers is gravity fed through very expensive rhodium-plated platinum blocks, then spun into a plethora of different products and spooled or chopped. Their downstream customers would use that as the raw material for end products.

I can't read the article because of the paywall though.. not sure the nuances between fiber optics and general fiberglass products.
There's a huge swarm of recent spam accounts with submissions and generated comments that follow the same naming pattern e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=MetricsMaverick

It's not much in the way of evidence but could be another reason people find it sus.
pretty! and i love that it still supports Big Sur.
> Seriously don't understand how Roblox isn't being investigated for predatory practices.

Because if you held game companies responsible for deliberately fostering addiction in their customers to earn a profit, we'd have scores of industries behind them in line to be brought to heel the same way and the stocks for tech companies, game companies, tobacco companies, casino companies, alcohol companies, etc. etc. would all implode.

There's no danger of that of course because we long ago decided as a society that we're fine with vulnerable populations being put through an economic woodchipper to fuel our retirement funds, and that's been status quo for so long that I sincerely doubt there's any way to actually change it.
8TB - ~8,000GB - is more than 33GB.
GGP here. This was my reaction as well, though I fully admit to projecting my own experiences. I relate to this style of discourse...

Anyways, I wanted to note that I appreciated seeing this comment. Folks tend to have a hard time empathizing with this sort of thing.
"It's always a tradeoff" (2023)
The VS Code Python extension recently switched the default Python locator from "js" to "native" and this seems to break the extension for a lot of people. I'm surprised how long the issue has been open and how slow the response is.
As someone who was personally involved, it saddens me to hear this. The PSF is not Python, nor is the Steering Council. The language itself doesn't express any political ideology. Many core developers are displeased with the decision, too.

I've been using Python for nearly 20 years. Its faults are many, but it's definitely the actually-existing language I hate the least. It's not even close.

In the various threads here about the issue, I've seen calls to fork the project. This is a massive undertaking for a programming language and there's no viable way to get buy-in if you're planning to create something mutually incompatible. So that leaves separate implementations. But that doesn't really solve a problem, if the concern is that organizational dysfunction will limit development of new features - since you've committed to the same limitations. And if the concern is anything else, then why is that concern relevant to the language itself?
I immediately thought of the same thing. They'll stop retaining seized property indefinitely and start retaining it for 7 decades instead.
It's the scale.

One important blue collar worker can help a limited number of people at a time, usually one.

One line of code can affect what billions of people are doing.
No, the Safedocs dataset is unprocessed pdfs.
I'm interested in whether you've seen like Hitchcock's Psycho, which is probably a lot less shocking in the way of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and a lot more often considered a "classic movie" but similarly based on the horrific acts of Ed Gein.

If you have, did you feel the same way? If not, what was different about them for you?
> Can somebody explain to me the reasoning behind these payouts? Isn't this an incredible incentive for ceo's to make unsustainable changes, that look good by the time the bonus is payed out, but then destroys the company in the long run? But at that point this CEO is ofc already long gone with his 250mil ?

the reasoning is the board were negligent
Russia != Soviet Union. That being said, they've been using roughly the same vehicle for a very long time (20+ years if you only consider the latest gen Soyuz, much longer otherwise). I would hope it is reliable by now.
Yeah, the existence of SteamOS, Steam Machines and eventually Proton were a hedge against Microsoft’s perceived shift into locked down distribution .

I think a lot of folk have a hard time reconciling that there may have been non-altruistic intentions behind something that is enjoyed today.

Similarly, Steam itself was a hedge against physical distribution to cut out the middleman. It wasn’t originally envisioned as a store for anyone but Valve.

But here we are today, and both have positive side effects that actually have outlived the original design.
Fwiw regarding knowing what you're getting - there is a free demo available.
Bit of a story here, given in the 'pedia page.

Brits had a launch, 36 satellites, ready to go from Russia, days before the invasion.

Putin's Russia says (having just invaded Ukraine!) : we will only launch if guarantee not to use satellites for military purposes, and UK Gov divests shares (it was the large majority shareholder).

UK Gov oddly enough says no. Russia refuses to launch.

Russia then also refuses to return satellites, and they were in the end written off.

Like dealing with stroppy children with guns.
WHat about Positron/Cursor, both built on VScode and use all their extensions?

Are they inherently assuming this flaw?

Further - how does this affect Copilot addon to both, such as the Cursor's ability to connect OpenAI / Claude APIs?
Hi, I am the OP of that thread.

As my opening post there says, I was going to leave anyway - so I don't particularly mind being banned, but I do consider most of what they said about me to be defamatory and untrue (and the rest to be irrelevant). I'm admittedly no stranger to this sort of drama in the tech world - so I made local backups of my posts throughout that discussion (across multiple threads), because I knew there was a chance that I and others could lose access to them. But the specific way in which they went about things was beyond what I could have imagined.

But regarding your question: the linked forum uses the Discourse software, and its standard policies apply. Posts which were "temporarily hidden by the community" (in some cases, this can be done unilaterally) are only visible to logged-in users who have reached a certain "trust level" (which is also involved in weighting flags).

If you are logged in and subscribe to a thread, you can (as I understand it) configure your account so that replies are emailed to you. Generally this would happen before a post can be hidden, and you'd have an irrevocable record of it. However, this doesn't help with previous posts.

There's an outside chance that archival websites have copies of those forum threads taken at the right time to include currently-hidden posts.

Alternately, I've put my own archives on my blog: https://zahlman.github.io/dpo_archive/ .