skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also what's great about singapore is the penal system
illegal immigration (more than a week or so) is a literal harsh beating and explusion
drug use is death
most "big crimes" are death
littering is being forced to clean litter
imagine if we had those in the US! we'd not be able to hire enough executioners and prisoner beaters. That, or sharia law, as we'll see taking hold in europe in about 10-20 years.
> The book 'Software Architecture: The Hard Parts' is probably a path forward for you, but any books on modern data architecture would be.

I'll send you some books to read, too.

> Hint: even your ATM card doesn't use ACID

I guarantee you that the actual database handling those ATM transactions is ACID-compliant. The banking institution itself couldn't even be certified by the FDIC or the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) if their database system wasn't, at the very least, ACID compliant.

Out-of-band transaction resolution is a completely separate topic and has nothing to do with databases, or ACID, or anything else.

You're kinda out of your depth here...
>The most prominent one is supportive of Rust

It is the premise. Without his acceptance of Rust, we wouldn't be at this point.

But he can't realistically do the relevant rust-accommodation work all by himself.

Not does he seem supportive of Rust enough as to replace the top maintainers he trusts and has worked with for a very long time with those that will extend the red carpet for Rust developers.

Perhaps Linus was trying to be kind. But sometimes, just saying "No." is most kind.

He didn't have the luxury of hindsight. He tried to be accommodating. Now, we are in a situation that is not pleasant for anybody involved.
“There’s an IC sitting out there who just had an amazing idea for a new feature/product. What happens?”

Sounds like a good question, but the answer doesn't really matter, because it depends on whether the business actually wants to implement the idea. And if they do, it needs to sound like it's coming from an executive, because if it's not, they'll be embarrassed and try to crush the idea. So if the dev really wants the idea to get into product, they should be funneling the idea through their manager or through a product or sales back-channel.

“Tell me about your last major migration. How long did it take and how long did you say it was going to take before you started?”

Bad question, because they always take longer than they expect and always run into problems, and if they don't they were just lucky. You're asking them to either embarrass themselves to you in the interview, or lie. Not going to give them great feels to remember when they think about your candidacy. Maybe ask them about migrations to see how often they do them, but don't lead them to tell you something specific.

“Let’s say I’m the person you hire. 6 months have gone by, what’s different?”

> You’d be surprised how often I ask this question and the answer I get back is something like “you’ll be here and doing the job”

Yeah, because this is a really bad question. It's not their job to make you have an impact. It's your job to make an impact. That's why it's a job. The question should be them asking you what you will do in those 6 months to make a difference.
Exactly. The problem with voting is that nobody does it! ID is a weird issue that unites the extreme left and right of the spectrum.

The reactionaries are worried about the mark of the beast nonsense. When they cared about civil liberties beyond firearms, that would come up too. The left wingers are worried about disenfranchising the poor and elderly.

Thats one of the reasons why the ID landscape is and has been so crazy - there was opposition to central birth records 100 years ago.

Texas isn’t alone - in point it out because a few years ago a few thousand people, including serving military officers, were effectively stripped of citizenship. They were likely born in Mexico and issued a birth certificate on a fraudulent basis as an infant.
Honestly I envision this concept a lot; I was first inspired by Men in Black where a cat has a universe in a bauble attached to a collar around its neck. The bauble looks like a marble.
It's not strange at all, you just have to investigate beyond the surface.
When you’re flipping through the book, going from a choice you made on page 17 to a result on page 94, you cannot help but see parts of stuff on pages 18 through 93. Sometimes these things are captivating and surprising - how the hell do you get from “exploring your aunt’s spooky house looking for grandpa’s will” to “riding dinosaurs”? Sometimes you even abandon the choice you made and start working backwards through the book, looking for the path that leads to riding dinosaurs on page 42. Possibly this is “cheating”. Possibly this is just the book equivalent of looking up a video game puzzle’s solution. You could argue both ways. It’s certainly breaking the basic rules outlined in the front of any game book, of starting at page 1 and reading until you’re told to turn to another page.

Having pages with crazy stuff on them that cannot actually be reached by starting at page 1 and turning pages as directed by the official narrative plays with this experience. For more thoughts on this I would suggest finding a copy of “UFO 54-40”, which is probably the first book to do this. Play it straight for a while.

And do it with a real book, not a PDF or a Twine adaptation or something. The whole point of this is an artifact of the fact that you can’t stop the reader from glancing outside the rails as they flip through the book.
gtm strategy trumps nerdy perfectionism. Linux is successful because of its timing and probably accidental social engineering - regularly breaking out-of-tree drivers incentivized upstreaming hardware support. Doesn't matter how good an alternative would be on technical merits, there's too much momentum behind Linux.

Except maybe a fork where oxidation proceeds much faster, sponsored by a large corporation with bespoke hardware they can develop for and interest in security. Cloud OS-es or Android maybe.
being a democracy does not guarantee that everything you do is correct
For somebody who's unemployed, especially somebody who's been unemployed a while (very common in this market), the main thing you care about is getting employed again.

I imagine somebody who's currently employed wants to know that the company is better than the place they're currently at before they'd accept an offer. But sometimes "better" can be a very low bar to clear because their current company might be awful.

In other words, evaluating the candidate by their questions is just bias towards those who are already in good situations. Somebody being unemployed or employed in a toxic environment doesn't mean there's anything wrong with them especially in an economy where companies continue to lay people off at random.
Kagi is my one and only search engine for few years now. What a breath of fresh air. It was, "back to sanity" for me.
To be fair to Cain/Qabil, he didn't know ambushing Abel/Habil was going to kill him. Nobody had died before.
Here in Japan, we have a elixir nerves group. It isn't too active, but have made some stuff.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
Treating the interview as two-way is good, and how it should be. A couple points:

> When people struggle to answer it you still reap the rewards of letting them know that you’re not just looking for a job, you care about being successful at their company.

If you publicize that in a Medium post targeting HN-like audience, aren't you just increasing the number of people will ask that question just to "reap the rewards" of signalling (falsely) something they think is positive?

> Ask questions like: “How is the company responding to challenges from disruptors like X and Y in this space?” or “What are your thoughts on potential regulation?”

If you've been having a pretty candid conversation, these questions can trigger rehearsed public/investor-facing talking point answers, which is fine, but might also knock the person back into a less-candid mode.
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A positive view would mean an uptick in library quality and sophistication, and a death-knell to the trend of shallow do-one-thing script wrapping libraries.

I've been doing similar mobile development with Godot, and have found the Phantom Camera library to be an example of a better developed and thought out library thats actually worth importing.
Histamine and MCAS have been adopted by alternative medicine as an explanation for everything, but it’s not supported by science. Dieticians like the one you linked have been coming up with theories for how everything is caused by either too much or too little histamine for years.

MCAS is particularly over diagnosed right now. The number of patients who think they have MCAS based on TikTok and Internet forums is so bad that most doctors have no choice but to assume it’s not a real diagnosis unless the patient has actually supporting test results in their file. Usually when you ask an “MCAS” patient how they were diagnosed, you get a long story about how their vague symptoms can be explained by MCAS according to something they saw on the internet.

The saddest part of the internet MCAS phenomenon is all of the people on Reddit and TikTok who have been convinced they have MCAS and can’t understand why all of the antihistamines and mast cell stabilizers and special diets aren’t fixing their problems. The fact that they probably don’t have MCAS and histamine doesn’t explain their symptoms just can be accepted after they’ve become immersed in online MCAS communities.
AIs are now paying other AIs with crypto
Organisating a directory of websites, or information about websites, by IP address/range is still common. For example, we can see news.ycombinator.com listed here:

https://www.robtex.com/cidr/209.216.230.0-24

https://www.robtex.com/ip-lookup/209.216.230.240

The above directory has been online for at least 18 years.

Here is one I can remember that disappeared:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090907060026if_/http://onsamei...
I usually try to ask these

What are the bad things about this job?

What's the average tenure on the team, how many people have left the team recently and why?

How does this team & company compare with other places you've worked?

(second or third round) How many other people are being interviewed and how do I compare?
Let my sauropods go!
Ubuntu has more updated packages, which is better for a desktop system

Debian has testing, which can sort of get close, but it's not debian's specialty
That's no problem in many modern lexers as they usually have a "state" so when you encounter "echo" you can switch to a new state and that state may have different token parsing rules. So "if" in the "echo" state could be a string literal whereas it may be a keyword in the initial state.

Lex/Flex takes care of that mostly for you which is one of the benefits of using a well worn lexer generator and not rolling your own.
PC/GEOS v1.0 ran on an original IBM PC with 640K. The minimum for v1.2 was 1MB of RAM.

In terms of responsiveness, it was an interesting compare and contrast from the Sun workstations vs. the PCs running GEOS. Less mouse jitter is one memory (especially in comparison to those old Ultrix machines).
I'm curious, could you describe your mental process of recreating a shape you've seen before? (via drawing, I suppose)

I would of course start by visualising it in my head, but I know that's not how aphantasia works.
Debian has been my go-to when I need something to work. Their slogan "the universal operating system" holds true for me. Yes, even desktops.
Idle wall draw is approx 4W, average is approx 15W under load. Hovers around 10-24 mostly tbf. These are mostly i5-xxxxT CPUs. They have TDP of 35W.

And honestly, if you're in many states of the US - power's consumption is not necessarily an issue. Electricity is dirt cheap in the States, but I see your point.
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So they could swim?
In your description, nine people dying, 57 hospitalized, is the "fourth best outcome", and added "well, there are much worse scenarios" (and not just around the raw numbers, but the progression of events).

I am struggling to comprehend what these much worse scenarios are, beyond "we just say fuck it and let them continue to sell the stuff"?
We have an in-house migration management system that allows us to update views pretty safely and reliably, even with nested dependencies. Basically, on every release, all of the views are dropped and recreated, so we don't have to worry as much about that. (But still be very careful with nesting your views)
Tcl/Tk and Expect were popular back in the day because TCL could perform asynchronous programming most easily.
SteamOS is Arch based. NixOS is also interesting, and could plausibly become really popular. Oh and Android of course!
Yes, but how can we develop the next killer app for crows?
I refuse to write anything more advanced than Bubble Sort. When I want Nlog(N) I use the sort function in the language.

It's strange that they repeat until the list is sorted. I usually repeat the pass N times, ignoring the last items to get a nice exactly N(N-1)/2 time
One of the most fascinating verifiable geography facts I am aware of is that while the oldest known landmasses are on the order of 4 billion years old, the oldest known oceanic techtonic plates are 0.2 billion years old.
If you aren't already wealthy, you're probably working because "you just want a check". Even if the job you want is to own your own company, you still have to work until you have enough savings. This is how the world has always worked for most of the population in every human society that has ever existed.
> AI agents cannot get bank accounts, but they can get crypto wallets.

Basically speaks for itself from a fraud-prevention standpoint.
We used pexpect to automate deployment from various servers and it would prompt users for passwords then they could login to perform deployment tasks for our software. It powered our entire deployment arch at that time. But it would frequently drop off text or prompts if you started doing nested logins.

We rewrote our deployment arch since then
Technically division is asymptotically as cheap as multiplication, but in practice you can't really utilize this.
Corvids can recognise faces and they are territorial and know the humans in their territory.
I think there’s probably small but strong market for “Linux MacBooks”, as in laptops with the same or better level of fit and finish and attention put towards things like battery life, standby time, reliable sleep/wake, etc and are designed with Linux in mind.

All the current options, even those geared towards Linux specifically, make significant tradeoffs in one or more of these areas, and I think this significantly curbs Linux adoption.
A lot of research labs run consumer hardware for cost reasons and we are still quite far away from non-Mac ARM desktops being available to consumers.

The problem is that most of the consumer hardware manufacturers, from motherboards, to CPU coolers, etc are all geared towards AMD and Intel.
1000000 nanoseconds per millisecond.
that isn’t mutually exclusive with leadership. ICs lead by example and mentorship. the fact that they’re not managing people doesn’t preclude being a leader at a company. the way i’ve heard it put for staff+ engs that i like is that they’re managers without reports.

but to speak to GP’s point, they are being a bit overly sensitive. “leadership” in the context of the article likely means C-suite or director level, which usually IS mutually exclusive with an IC role. (and maybe that’s what you meant, sorry for ‘splaining if so)
This is fantastic. Gives a quick death blow to all forms of AI hype, both positive and doomsayer. We need these truths to come out so we can use LLMs and diffusion models in realistic ways, which are already amazing and world-changing. No hype is needed.
I believe that the GNU/kfreebsd stuff is unfortunately fairly abandoned? I am very interested in https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd and then Redox support and then maybe more in the line of https://github.com/nix-community/redoxpkgs afterwards.
The Linux kernel in a minimal VM has been done in other projects too. Firecracker came to mind first, but there must be others.

I'd imagine this would allow you to run whatever kernel you wanted to start whatever "container image" you had planned. Quotes because I'm not sure if that's still really a container.

https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
The actual story is here: https://nautil.us/the-great-silence-237510/
Fully agree in theory - especially that humans aren’t capable of defining a consistent agreed upon measure for - basically anything - let alone something as culturally amorphous as “intelligence”

The problem with this line of reasoning though is that it proves too much, and has the same problem, clumping intelligence into too small of classes for the level of ethical differentiation that humans can manage. The implications of such a philosophy would upend nearly all philosophical grounding for all ethical traditions

Even Rawls don’t have an avenue for a society that treats mosquitos with the same dignity that we treat human babies

So yes, but also we’re stuck with this cognitive dissonance that makes humans believe that ANY human is better than all (insert behaviorally demonstrable intelligence threshold).

For example: All individual humans are more important than all individual octopuses. However very few individuals are more important than thousands of octopuses. This despite knowing that Octopuses have more demonstrable intellect than most humans below a certain age and many humans of any age.
Chips and Cheese is Anandtech's spiritual successor and I think its patron model is probably better overall.

https://chipsandcheese.com/

David Kanter doesn't write articles very much these days, but Real World Tech has always had top-shelf stuff and it's one of the few places where all the comments are worth reading too.

https://www.realworldtech.com/
Yeah, nah, all that is better than drinking water with lead in it from uranium glass.
Suggestion for the blog. After "I adore Nerves", put a comma and a brief description of what Nerves is.
Logical =! Empirical (there are many books on philosophy you could read on this subject, probably all of them.)

Science is the study of things that aren't logical. Concepts don't have anything to do with natural systems, they are patterns of thinking fixed into definite shapes to be applied to the natural world. It is precisely what we don't know, and what we don't yet know that we don't know, that scientific practice helps us discover. If you trusted in "logic" all the time you'd just get endless mathematical formulas that look cool and feel nice, but don't have anything to do with the universe more than a cat has to do with a ball of yarn that it's playing with. It is always when we discover things that break logic, that real scientific progress is made, not when we mindlessly follow what is "logical."
The article is paywalled but I'm not a fan of suggesting particular questions in general. Unless it's relevant to the team I'm on or the candidate is genuinely knowledgeable and interested in the field then it comes across as not genuine. I've never actually mentioned that sort of thing in interview feedback but I would prefer a candidate asks what they are actually interested in knowing.
love it. works great out of the box
Last time I looked at Aurora (just as it came out) it was hilariously expensive. Are the costs better now for a real use case?
Our steering wheels only go left.
There are tons of crows around my house. I feed them, I know them, they know me, but they are so hard to become friends with. They know I'm not a threat, but they are still so afraid of me. This to me is the opposite of intelligence. Otheriwse, they are probably the best parents among the birds. They little ones have such characters and the entire extended family takes care of them.
Pis are basically toys. They have a function, but it isn't running servers.

I use an old Mac mini.
I think there are two things that are true:

1. Non-human animals have intelligence and are not “stupid” or automatons.

2. Human intelligence is just so much at an another level that it isnt even close.
The US is in no position to critique other countries' checks and balances right now with how the Supreme Court works
So, capitalism is built on the idea of mutually beneficial trades. It's supposed to be a cooperative game, and in cooperative games you should always provide as much information to your counterpart as possible. Capitalism breaks down when too much guard labor is necessary: if I don't know what flaws you are keeping hidden, then I have to spend extra effort on every transaction, and will buy fewer things that I want.

What I see lots of advertisers doing is treating it as a competitive game. They're slightly right, as they are competing against the other advertisers for the same customers. However, if all advertisers could just agree to be brutally honest, everyone would be better off. That's the purpose of governmental regulation, and governments routinely strike companies for deceptive advertising.

To be blunt, any advertising that does not make a good-faith effort to give me all the relevant information--the good and the bad--is deceptive. Perhaps you won't get in legal trouble (though you should), and perhaps it's socially acceptable because "everyone else does it" (not everyone, just the vast majority), but that does not make it right. It just means society still has progress to make.
The average person doesn't know what a DNS is and isn't willing to pay for a VPN. Society isn't a tech bubble.
You have to look at the statistics carefully. The hint in the New York story is “Rockland County”, which for these sorts of stories refers to a controlling, ultra conservative religious sect that is opposed to vaccination, amongst other things.

It’s important context because of the insular nature of these types of communities - the splash damage of a polio or measles outbreak has limited impact outside of the community.

Outside of these isolated areas, most of the slow burn is within the MAGA cult of personality, which will likely start to break and fade over the coming years, along with the pandemic memory.
Not many know this but Goldman indeed has between 2,000 and 3,000 MD physicians in their medical staff.
Other point Re: "VPs" :
tech director = finance VP
tech manager = finance director
tech IC lead = finance manager
tech bathroom janitor = finance IT
You don’t manually edit the generated Kotlin. You change the Swift. And if there are things you can't or don't want to do in Swift, there are mechanisms for writing Kotlin inline in your Swift, dropping Kotlin files into the project, and other platform customization options: https://skip.tools/docs/platformcustomization/
Remember kids: Don't burn chrome!
I really don’t want to watch ad riddled reviews on YouTube. I always went to their site to read an actual article that goes into depth about tech and gave great reviews. Truly a sad day for the internet.