skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a love/hate relationship with diagrams, and diagrams-as-code-things (plantuml, mermaid, etc). As a programmer, I find myself trying to turn everything in to a software project: everything must be version control-able. Same with these diagramming solutions -- except I nearly never know what I want the digram to look like, when I start "writing" it. This means I nearly always end up on something like lucid.app just sketching out the solution, and thinking to myself that I'll turn it in to a beautiful diagram with one of the earlier solutions, later -- that never happens. So now I have a diagram I can link to (yay), but can't version control (boo).

Then, I discovered excalidraw[1]: it lets me sketch like lucid, but isn't nearly as polished or robust: you can throw together simple shapes, draw lines between them, and the lines stick to the shapes, so you can move them around and the lines move too. You can also group things together, and draw freehand, and also include text -- what more do you need?

The cool thing about excalidraw is that you can share your drawings, and export them as SVG files -- yay! I can version them again. You can also self-host it, which is a massive plus in my book.

/rant

[1]: https://excalidraw.com/
So, it's a bit more than that. Let's say I've identified someone that I can't figure out what they're doing. They're just going slower than I expect given what I understand of the work. (I was a professional programmer for over 15 years before management, so this is based on the expectations of a former practitioner.)

Now, why is that? The first possibility is that they ran into a string of tickets that were just harder than we expected at the outset, and it's a statistical anomaly. A second possibility is that this person takes the hardest of the tickets, and anyone would struggle. A third possibility is they are taking tickets past their capabilities as a developer and aren't getting the help they need. In this scenario, they're a capable performer, but are need help to get to the next level. Maybe they're junior, or they're a new employee. If they keep taking these tickets, they will grow and their performance will jump. In these cases, you just keep monitoring.

In the middle case, they may have transitioned to a team or project that is a bad fit, and would thrive on another team or an adjustment to what they're asked to work on. They may be a front end specialist that was expected to pick up back end tickets and struggled from the start. Or, they may be in a temporary dip due to personal circumstances.

Then, you have the negative cases. Their work ethic might be insufficient. They may just not be good at their job and may not ever be able to match the performance at the pay grade and seniority they were hired. Or, you may have a good bullshitter on your team and your numbers tell a different story.

The numbers will tell you if this is a temporary dip. The numbers will tell you if their current output is in line with the rest of the team. From there, the hard work starts.

If you don't have those numbers, it starts looking like a lot of status updates and micromanagement.
Yes. Do you agree that my point is also correct? Different groups want different things, and have different demographics, and excel in different areas.

If we defined the "groups" in a less historically informed way, we'd still have differences.
I thought about it for a moment and beyond the obvious negative reaction I think it is hard not to marvel at the level of hubris this displays among executives. In a sense, you can understand that he is simply 'selling' his product.

That said, I think most people here played with LLMs in some capacity and while they can be useful, it is hard not to be left with an impression that, to put it charitably, 'there is room to improve'. Not to search very far, I was researching magnetism yesterday and my local LLM confidently recommended me with some follow up reading on non-existent authors. Needless to say, it is a genuine recipe for disaster just waiting to happen.

I said this particular thought here before, but old guard media has a chance now to differentiate itself from the torrent shit unleashed upon the world wide web partially by being 'certified human' product ( and following some basic journalistic principles like not -- maybe -- putting one's thumb on a scale ). The window won't be open for that long, because this shift has been under way for a while now and it appears to be slowly closing.

But.. having seen reality for what it is, I do not expect this to happen.
You would think so, until you realize that Matt and Luke have some narratives in common to the exclusion of Mark.

That has to be accounted for, which is where Occam's Razor falls short. It's probably the strongest argument in favor of a Q source.
With resting.. bored face, I'm busy staring at myself in the corner, trying to keep a neutral or optimistic expression. That's something we don't get in-person, a digital mirror.

For audio, Quicktime audio recording can act as a monitor of sorts. You can hear yourself speak, which can help temper volume.
Never knew people are unemployable in countries with strong labor protections. I must be lucky to have landed a job counts on fingers multiple times now.

> Also severance is a thing.

Indeed it is. Not in the US though

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The absolute delusion Americans live in never ceases to amaze me. I'm surprised China came up with 996, not the US, and that the US didn't immediately adopt it with the masses cheering it on.
HOAs go well beyond what any government is allowed to impose on you. They don’t have to follow the same rules a government does.
This entire response thread looks like the classic AR N+1 problem ;)
I view this as harmless at worst and potentially inspirational at best. And the author has learned a lot as well.
Aren't low rises safer then earthquake zone
If you had to list the top 3 best formats for use cases like this, what would they be?
Also nobody was murdered
My sister just moved into a place that has an HOA. She's actively trying to get it suspended permanently.

They live on a lake that attracts very aggressive Canadian geese. The geese do geese things like eat and poop lots of poop.

The HOA fined them before they moved into the house for having goose poop in their back yard.

For me, it's hilarious. I take handfuls of corn and stuff to throw around their backyard when I go visit.

She has started a genuine campaign to have the HOA removed. She's so salty all the time now. It is top 10 things that has happened in my life.
Firecracker is more comparable to container runtimes than to orchestrators such as K8s. You still need an orchestrator to schedule, manage and garbage-collect all your uVMs on top of your infrastructure exactly like you would do with containers via k8s. In other words, you will probably have to either use k8s or build your own k8s to run "supervisor" containers/processes that launch uVMs which in turn launch the customer dev containers.
> Not sure what makes this 'successful

You're talking about it.

Also highlights to Perplexity's enterprise customers (who is their primary market) their value.
Huh. Pretty sure I saw the Perplexity CEO at Github Universe being introduced as a new partner. This stains both brands for me, unfortunately.
I find it a bit odd that Perplexity still have a human CEO.
When you run up against a fact (see? we’re being fact-based) that doesn’t fit your worldview, that doesn’t mean someone had to “completely misrepresent basic statistics”.

It could simply mean that you are wrong.

A possibility you no doubt spend a great deal of time thinking about, oh even-handed one.
>HOAs often enacts rules that would be illegal for a city council to enact. (between the US constitution, US federal laws, State constitution, State laws, and county laws there are often strict limits to what can be done that HOAs are not effected by). Courts have reigned in some of that, but there is still a lot that a HOA can do.

Can you give some examples that are applicable today?

>HOAs also tend to be too small - it is hard to find someone qualified who wants to be in charge and so they are often forced to accept some busybody nobody really likes because at least that person wants the job. As you get larger you get a choice of qualified people for the job (but of course also large enough for corruption to take effect).

This might vary on a state by state basis, but there are some pretty "cities" in some states. In Florida, there are plenty with population in the hundreds. In some cases it's due to it being rural, but there's plenty of cases where the city is simply small. For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briny_Breezes,_Florida

more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Flor...
Note: remember I am condensing the real work into a few paragraphs. Of course I know it's much more nuanced than I am making it here. This is a surface level treatment.

Also note: Most managers end up doing a lot of part time jobs, of which performance management is a relatively small part. If my primary job was performance and task management, that would be a very bad use of resources for the company.
USFS decision to halt prescribed burns in California is history repeating
Also embeddable scripting languages like Lua
Same with GitLab. I really appreciate the builtin Mermaid support.
Yep, I'm a big fan of building views in postgres and just hitting those with the ORM. I don't even use the join syntax in my ORM (Ecto) - if I need a join, I use a view.
The linked case also mentions that legislation was passed to provide criminal immunity to patients and providers relating to IVF.

I can't see why any side of the political spectrum(s) would be opposed to IVF given its about helping people who are struggling to have kids and start a family.
You're not the target demographic.

It's an enterprise play.
GPT-4o Advanced Voice Mode plays music during speech
What is the generally accepted meaning?
Q being their lived experience is not out of the question. Finding a written Q would for some detract from the quality of the gospels as a primary source.

Lee Strobel has a good take on the authenticity of the Gospel account in his book The Case For Christ [0] and as always the book is better than the movie

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73186.The_Case_for_Chris...
It's clearer to use the original term and meaning: Anno Domini is "in the year of our Lord", and follows the same year numbering system that has been followed by various kings in history (even Japan still does for their Emperors). The birth of Jesus Christ signified his reign on earth, and that's when AD 1 happened. It's estimated he lived about 33 years until being killed on the cross, but since our current numbering is based on a 16th-centry estimate of how long ago it was, there is room for debate about Jesus's birth being shifted around a few years. Instead of changing our year numbers ("We've decided that 2024 is actually 2030..."), we instead talk about "maybe Jesus was born in 6 BC"
> Different groups want different things, and have different demographics, and excel in different areas.

I think it's very easy to overstate how much those things are genuine differences in preference/ability. Allowing no-fault divorce dropped female suicide rates by 20%; were they happy in those marriages, or enduring them? Would they choose differently if offered the same opportunity?
> What governments do you have to go to to get approval to do this?

It's a good question, the ocean being international waters and all.

I dont know that answer but for [geosynchronous] satellites in orbit this is negotiated with affected countries via the ITU.

(Create a mesh of undersea cables dense enough and you end up with a tripwire for submarines...)
Claude would tell you that this is a shitty move PR wise and likely to backfire.

Edit: Tried it, and yes claude started it's answer with: "I need to strongly advise against making such an offer publicly". No wonder these people are so impressed by their AIs, considering they are making worse choices than their models.
Like I've commented maybe 100 times on hn, there's more people who want Elixir jobs than there are Elixir jobs - it's not a real problem. Probably same for Rust. Especially when AI makes it so much easier to get up to speed on a new project, framework, etc these days.
I've never believed that changing one's diet will cure autoimmune diseases. The autoimmunity is from a genetic alteration. Diet could possibly help dampen effects, but diet is difficult to control, not just "willpower" but environmental exposure, and the metabolic pathways are long and quite diverse from person to person.

The bigger question is how do we control the gut microbiota effectively and accurately?

ALSO, I must point out:

>> Consumption of a high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet (KD) improves MS-related symptoms in humans

This is a SKEPTICAL claim, as the footnote trial references used do NOT state this.
I don't disagree with you. The world is increasingly fragile with too many consolidated single points of failure.

The original question, though, was what would I preserve, and news was an example of something that can't be backed up ahead of time.
How do you ensure the trace elements are present and available? I assume there's some testing you can do for both the soil and the produce, but how do you fix any deficiencies that you discover?
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices"

- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
I do appreciate the information. I cannot afford the doctor's visit much less prescription even with a discount. This is what my country wants for me so I'll just deal until I am productive enough to deserve healthcare again.
There was probably just one single bottleneck that got fixed by the ASM code. Often in my experience, not enough work is done to identify what the bottleneck is before trying to solve performance.

It's not like every line of C takes N amount of time and every line of ASM takes a fraction of N. Most lines of C compile to the optimal ASM right off the bat. If this was one of those case like 90% of cases are, where you just need to identify the bottleneck, you can normally fix it and stay in C (not ASM), although I used to enjoy doing some inline ASM in my C code to milk out every last bit of performance in critical loops.
"usually" probably means at the time of writing this book. lambda, car and cdr are from the 50s/60s when short names were preferred for various reasons (small memory, input on cards, output on paper, small screens, ...).
You don’t need to blow up the runtime to cause a vulnerability due to a data race in Go:

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-DEBIAN13-GOLANGGITHUBGORE...
It's literally just capitalism. This is the point of the economic system. Why are people surprised? Is the propaganda just that good?
I love all the bellyaching about the NYT missing that election coverage money. Perfect time to go on strike. They're only asking for a 2.5% salary increase YoY (which is very inflation-y) and some WFH days. That's a pretty mild ask.

NYT will be signing on the dotted line within a week I believe given the risk to their revenue if they don't cover the second Trump-vs-Kamala. The section vs-Woman-Candidate election in a decade is going to get a lot of eyeballs.
No, it becomes a "food desert", and people just learn to buy a car and drive to the nearest town with a store once a week. So really it just increases car dependency. (they are buying too much to bike or take transit - you need a car for the large storage space)
Except corporations do comic-book-villain-evil crap all the time. Forcing the government to buy food for your employees because you don't pay them enough to eat? Hi, my name is Walmart. Using your customers as guinea pigs for science experiments without their consent? Hi, my name is Facebook. Use lies, fraud, and bribery to extort money out of the government while supplying critical national defense services (and get caught and fined 1B)? Hi, my name is Raytheon (an RTX company).

Corporations will do anything and everything they deem that will make them money with the only constraint being the least possible adherence to law they can get away with.
> The gospels are the best historical records available for Jesus but they have their flaws

The Bible is written by men, specifically prophets and apostles. As such, there is errancy that creeps into the work. There is also errancy introduced in copying and translation.
With the mask on, it’s like having a white noise machine at a volume of 3-4. My wife wasn’t getting enough sleep because of my snoring, so this white noise isn’t bothering her at all.

I went with the doctor prescribed one, through insurance and have a Resmed Airsense 11. Did not explore second hand and I don’t think you can buy one without a prescription. I Change the mask every 3-4 months, but you can extend it as long as you wash it every 3-4 days.
I often feel this way about heavy use of typescript generics. The more you lean into the crazy (and awesome) world of generics, the more inscrutable the code becomes to anybody who isn’t a generics wiz. It’s really like an extra language stacked on top of JS. I’ll come back to code I wrote a year ago, and it’ll take me a full day to figure out the types.

But the simplicity of using a library or set of functions that have really nice generics? So awesome. The intellisense and type errors alone can almost be a decent form of documentation.

The source becomes hard and weird to change, but the end result is a very nice DX
Unrestricted in this sense means that both parties are able to deploy their capital as they choose, and specifically without outside requirements.

In this case someone took a piece of capital (land), and traded most of the rights, but not all to someone else.

The buyer took the deal knowing that they hadn't purchased unrestricted use of that land, but instead a limited use of the land.

Both parties agreed to the deal, and no other party restricted their actions, or unfairly restricted competition. No party was coerced, and they could have negotiated for different terms.\

An example of a great non-market restriction would be: you can't enforce any land use restriction covenants.
One of them reportedly declined to take part because of his "crimes against women".
https://gwern.net/backstop#hui-nengs-flag -- Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning -- Hui Neng’s Flag -- the mathematics of positive and negative reinforcement

https://gwern.net/fiction/batman -- The Gift of the Amygdali -- Sci-Fi, anxiety, pain
Nice (and MIT Licensed!) - I'll give this a shot.

Another thing these types of tools bring is multiplayer support. Which I found my distributed teams really benefiting from over time.
Do you recommend it?
I have been thinking about this some lately. The loss of complexity in main stream music. One of the most popular songs this year is just f# f# g ... f# ...

I am sure someone can figure out which song it is. While the music sounds great and sells, my theory is that it comes as a result of losing music classes in many public schools. Over decades it has led to a loss of complexity.

Then again, I am probably just old.
I work in DB kernels, everything gets hand tuned as there is economic reason for hand tuning it. The expectation in many of these systems is that there are no wasted cycles. You can codegen a decent kernel, but then someone will find a better approach - do you want the slower version of the product, or the faster one?

You can see this in action with matrix math libraries, folks have been hand tuning those for decades at this point.
At a company I worked at they explicitly told us they will do anything to avoid upgrading the hardware from 1GB to 4GB because it increases costs. They would rather we optimize the software to use less RAM than upgrade the hardware.

I remember arguing as well with people about 0.10$ components. They told me it was a no go, not even a point of bringing it up. Sometimes even a 0.01$ is a big deal.
>Having two opinions on two different forms of land use restriction is not necessarily inconstant. Especially since one is a form of contract law, the other government regulation.

Shouldn't he rail harder against the former than the latter? A contract is agreed to by two willing parties. The same can't be said for government regulation, especially for people who want to move into an area but are blocked by NIMBYs.
Richard Carrier's "On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt" is great. He wrote about Q (he isn't a fan) in his blog, which seems to be struggling at the moment.

https://www.richardcarrier.info
> sit on those for 2 months and let's say make a fairly conservative 8 to 10%

Um, that doesn't sound conservative at all! 7%-ish is what we expect the whole US stock market to return in an _average_ year, 6x that would be insane.
> Just listened to Vogue on my headphones ...

There's been plenty of discussion, throughout the decades, on that subject.

My take: Qsound is something very specific and it is meant to work with actual speakers, not headphones.

Your anecdotical experience supports my take on the subject.
1 mg sublingual (dissolve under the tongue) melatonin works for me. I find it works best if I wait until I'm well settled in and should be asleep, but aren't. That's the time to quietly pop the tablet so it nudges me over the edge.

Biggest problem is that 1mg sublingual is hard to find. Walgreens/CVS is excited to sell you 5, 10 even 20 mg pills and gummies. But, those are so strong they are counter-productive.
I know people get a chuckle out of it, but does it not make more sense to have CEO LLM that will make decisions without regard for its own needs, self-interest, conflicts and so on? Honestly, the longer this particular debate rages on, I think shareholders are looking the wrong set of humans to replace.
You do not have enough information to tell if a majority of people want it that way.

Some of these zoning restrictions (don't know specifically about CA but true elsewhere) were put into place 60 years ago, when a majority wanted it that way (often for very racists and class warfare reasons), and they made it a requirement to have a supermajority to change it, not simple majority.

Thus, a majority could want to change, but are unable to reach the 2/3rds or whatever supermajority threshold is required.

Don't all political questions in the US boil down to democracy issues?
If it would cost $10M to build and open a new grocery store on an unimproved lot, that's only a 7.5% rate of return to force your competition to lay out $10M to open a store, at which point, you could probably convert your lease into an operating store for around $1M or less of capital and compete to ensure that they could never show a positive return on the overall move.
The people at these open source alternative projects at least type in their version of the copycat designs/whatevers, not using a machine to style-by-style convert it to a component for them keeping everything that can be kept.
Stock buybacks are good if you're paid in employer stock like tech companies are.

Aside from that, they're value neutral to the company. They're not spending money, any more than you buying stocks is.
Go is memory safe by modern standard.

If I show you a UB in Rust without the use of unsafe does it means Rust is unsafe?
one hand . . . invisible

with liberty and justice for all?
That wasn't actually my point though. My original comment was specifically calling out the cost to go to college entirely on loans, not what the average student ends up borrowing.

To me its less interesting to look at what the average person who is able to afford college today borrows to pay for it. That's a self-selected population and doesn't show what the impact would be on anyone who gets into college but doesn't have family money, scholarships, or grants to help pay for it.
The feds were right. We need to shut down defcon.
At all costs (Isaac Asimov's three rules of robotics)
Which ones do they have in common?