skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think a lot of comments here (in my humble opinion) have taken the wrong interpretation of this article. Don't think this is a project-manager role, but is, as stated, typically a "tech lead or a DRI role." This means this person is still technical - would like to think this is how I approach my projects at a company and it is super effective.

Specifically then, as a technical person, this means you don't ignore the requirements and just think about the code. Instead, you need to communicate with both your higher-ups and your end-users, in order to make sure the code you're writing matches their needs - in my opinion, requirements is the part that most developers are weakest in, but if they strengthen would make the biggest difference. Get it as close as possible to being right on the first time (it's very rare that this happens but focusing on doing really good requirements increases your chances that you don't create the wrong system).
This was confirmed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118867
Incidentally, when I passed through the hellscape that is Cupertino/San Jose a few years, I was a little shocked that as a visitor you can't even see the campus; it's literally a walled garden. I guess when I was initially curious about the campus design during its build, I assumed that even a single part, maybe the orchard, would be accessible to the public. I guess based on the surrounding urban development though, the city isn't exactly interested in being livable.
For the avoidance of doubt, saying you hate a website is not hate speech. That is not what hate speech means.
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Same here, but I do have access to the codebase. But there's no documentation about all the different APIs. Reading through the code also doesn't always explain what the API does, or what it's for. I work on a separate system that benefits from using these APIs from the main product, there is almost no overlap or communication between engineering departments. It's far from ideal.
Well, the carbon our civilization has been burning started forming about 350-300 million years ago (from Carboniferous period, it's in the name), and the Silurian period was 420-440 million years ago, so what Silurians would have had under their tentacles isn't what we bootstrapped our society with.

Maybe they used plenty of the under-your-tentacles fuel sources, but it's been a very long time since, and it's hard to tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale
In Korean age, this kid is 11 already and about to turn 12!
Whoa, new 4chan is remarkably apt. It’s shit-posting for days. It feels degrading to use it at all.
> This ^ is a good problem to solve in social networks.

What, that people are mean about a very special website sometimes? Seems a rather niche problem, tbh.

There is nothing inherently wrong with people being negative. If you had a social network where people could only be positive about things… now, that would be unhealthy.
Any of the people/journalists that were reporting on the inner workings of Twitter that Musk didn't like so he shut it down would be something that jumps to mind.
hard agree, though community in the workplace is important for some (many?) people to feel like they have purpose
There are writings from Mesopotamia around 4000 BC talking about cooling food and drink in ice houses.
Pizza Hut's new pizza warmer uses the PS 5's heat to be keep your pizza hot
"We can't make a map of all of Twitter, because the data isn't available and scraping it would be difficult and illegal."

What makes scraping illegal?
In terms of toxicity, X is way beyond 4chan at this point. But the style is very different. Algorithmic vs organic, retweets vs (You)s, anonymous vs semi-anonymous and much more. All the way to how replies are visually presented which is awful on Twitter and it's clones.

Honestly, I've had more positive interactions and learned more on 4chan than I ever have on Twitter. I wish the few tech people I care about who are still on there would just move (to clarify, move anywhere, not to 4chan obviously).
Phoning the sheriff first before offering to give the kid a ride? What's wrong with people?
Also:

nets too small (not enough layers)

gradients not flowing (residual connections)

layer outputs not normalized

training algorithms and procedures not optimal (Adam, warm-up, etc)
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Yeah. Twitter/X after the Russian invasion quickly let me connect to serious professionals in US-Russia relations, war, etc. e.g. War on the Rocks and Mike Kofman, the Truth of the Matter by CSIS, etc.

Are there easy tools that allow you to post on multiple platforms from the same content, that also supports replies?
> I know that in Seattle, I've been very frustrated with all the talk and promise of our school to provide enrichment to kids like mine who are able to learn quickly and are ready for more advanced learning opportunities, only to discover that it is haphazard, often in name only, and there isn't time or interest in providing more.

Seattle used to have one of the nation's best gifted programs. Back in the 90s it was ran in a racist fashion, gifted schools only existed in wealthy neighborhoods and poor and minority families had to fight like hell to get kids into the gifted program.

The easy solution was to offer gifted classes in schools throughout the city, and to offer free gifted program testing to all students in the district.

Washington state actually recently passed the later into law, all students can get tested for free during the school day, removing one large barrier to entry. The law was passed just in time for the Seattle School District to dismantle the city's gifted program.

On top of this, the city got rid of their bussing program, moving back to a neighborhood schools model. While this saved the district money on bussing, it is also a return to a racist system that was dismantled for good reason generations ago. Is it actual segregation? No, but you don't have to squint very hard to see how it looks awfully similar...

> But it's not because of some drive for 'equity'. I've talked with teachers (as friends, not in a school setting).

The school board's removal of the gifted resources was driven by "equity".

That "equity" drive has also seen the test scores of disadvantaged minority students continue to decline. Not only that, now the kids who have a real opportunity to escape generational poverty, are no longer being given those resources.

I say this as a kid who grew up in Seattle in the 90s to a family that was working class poor, and as someone who benefited immensely from Seattle's once great gifted program.
> there's surely a higher chance of being mugged walking down a dark street than riding in a 5000 lbs vehicle with tinted windows

Please account for the danger of being struck by other people riding in 5000 lb vehicles with tinted windows!
> When people who can’t think logically design large systems, those systems become incomprehensible. And we start thinking of them as biological systems. And since biological systems are too complex to understand, it seems perfectly natural that computer programs should be too complex to understand.

For some time I've been drawing parallels between ML/AI and how biology "solves problems" - evolution. And I also am bit disappointed by the fact the future might lead us in a different direction than mathematical elegance of solving problems.
> You should maximize your income while minimizing efforts that take you away from living your life

You should maximize long term net worth, which often is in conflict with maximizing near term income. One can argue net worth is also correlated with compounding knowledge which is itself anti-correlated with "minimizing effort".

This whole viewpoint of work as a simple transaction hurts employees' long term prospects.
There are two reasons to use a jsonb column:

1. To store JSON. There's a pattern where when your webserver calls into some third-party API, you store the raw API response in a JSONB column, and then process the response from there. This gives you an auditable paper trail if you need to debug issues coming from that 3rd-party API.

2. To store sum types. SQL not supporting sum types is arguably the biggest deficiency when modelling data in SQL databases. There are several workarounds - one of them being "just chuck it in a JSONB column and validate it in the application" - but none of the workarounds is particularly great.
I tend to agree with you that it's very likely that the cars are operating autonomously most of the time.

However, I don't think this kind of math helps much in actually proving (or disproving) that. We don't know how many of the employees are supervisors. For all we know, Waymo hires dozens of external mechanical turks per vehicle and uses a simple majority voting algorithm to ensure safety. Unlikely, or even ridiculous, but apart from Waymo's press releases, and the accidental legislation report [1], there is little hard evidence.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
Please, we drill into kids heads to not get into cars with strangers.
All schemes for chemical plastic recycling are challenged by the fact that plastic monomers and other chemicals you might get from breaking down plastics (say in a disordered process such as pyrolysis) are worth about 50 cents a pound.

You cannot afford $50 of enzymes to make 50 cents of product but it's likely to be like that. Chemical recycling of polystyrene has been technically practical since the 1970s but the cost of bringing all that bulky styrofoam to one place defeats the economics.

Landfill disposal is a few cents per pound, any subsidy has to be huge to move the needle.
Sentry started in 2008, FastAPI didn't exist until 2018.
> The company won't be selling this device but has made 3D printing source files available.

Oh good, I was just looking for a new way to consume PLA particulate with the residual chemical fumes from my PS5.
I find natural language much easier, it's one single interface-- I just use raycast. If I type "20ft" it defaults showing in meters, so I don't even have to type anything extra, it's great
I don't "have hardship". I don't struggle. With all that happened in my life, I'm still among the vanishingly small group of people who have it too good to complain.

Whatever your fortune or misfortune opens you to is only relevant if you are under... maybe twelve years old. As a grownup, you are expected to be able to put things into perspective and realize that complaining about a pea under twenty mattresses doesn't really make you into a princess.

> the normal experience of being a human - that is your parents living into your own adulthood

However common this is, it's not the point. The point is that people in this thread complain about the best outcome that is possible in this situation. These people complain about winning the lottery for crying out loud. How much more entitled can you get?
> I'm well aware of the prices increases over the summer. But in october, I noticed the price drop to the $2 range. And then all of a sudden, the price increased to $4 the past week. Which would have NOTHING to do with your links.

It's hard to guess what your argument is when you haven't plainly stated it.

With the statements you have made, it sounds like you're accepting the links that I posted as truthful, but that they don't matter because they are "old".

On that basis, it sounds like your position is:

========

These links show that this bird flu epidemic, unprecedented in history, continued to grow from 50M in late 2023, to 100M in mid 2024. At which point the epidemic had been steadily growing for 18 months. That's why prices increased over the summer.

And then we instantly fixed the problem. And now there is no way that the death of 30% of the US flock could have price ramifications 5 months later.

========

Now, this sounds ridiculous to me, and so I apologize if I have set up a strawman. I can't imagine anyone actually believing this, but I also can't see a different interpretation of what you have said.

By the way, here's another link, this one from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/data-map-comm...

The May 2024 link I posted above had the total poultry deaths at 92M. It is unclear whether that 92M figure included the 4.2M chickens that needed to be killed in Iowa. I rounded the figure up to 100M. I apologize if you viewed this as deceitful.

The CDC link states that as of 11/8/2024, the poultry death count had now reached 105M. So, another 13M deaths (another 14.1% increase in total death count) since that May 2024 figure.

You didn't need to restrict yourself to only the links I posted. I chose links that were easily digestible, with the info up front in the headlines. The CDC page requires a bit of reading to get to the figures.

You could have done the web search I recommended and found these other links...

You also say:

> It's third world shenanigans.

But "third world shenanigans" covers a lot of territory, so I'm not sure what you mean. Usually "third world shenanigans" means that the administration of whatever country is being talked about is corruptly benefitting from those shenanigans in some fashion.

But I don't see how that applies here as well. What shenanigans are occurring, and who is benefitting from them?

It would really help if you would plainly state your positions.

> I may be mistaken, but your wall of text describes you. Are you a journalist, or a laid off journalist, by any chance?

Yes, you are very mistaken. But who I am doesn't matter, unless you are making an ad-hominem argument.

Can you elaborate on your positions without ad-hominem or name calling?
Hmmm. Not excusing Yubico if the report is accurate, but I ordered 4x 5C NFC to replace my old keys, and they shipped with firmware 5.7.1 which does not have that vulnerability. Perhaps because they got the FIPS version, which is actually less secure because of NSA-borked protocols, but required for government compliance, and probably sells in lower quantities. The 5.7 firmware was released in May and so new-old-stock of the vulnerable firmware should have rotated out a while ago.
Neighbor jailed for offering to give child, "a ride."
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My X never really degraded (I also spend a lot of time on Japanese-language X which is probably a different beast) but I have been spending time on Bluesky over the last year. For a while it was a fun network but fairly quiet. I could go an hour or so without any new posts. Over the last 3 weeks I've seen Bluesky become a lot more active and now it's feeling a lot like X where there's no way to stay on top of my feed. I'm really excited as I'm a firm believer that larger communities lead to more diverse views.

I also run my own Bluesky labeler and Firehose ingester so I've been following as event throughput has roughly doubled over the last 3-4 months.
maybe so but i don't like that you're linking me to twitter for it
Perhaps even the threat of being sued might be enough to even consider doing this.
Those are propositions with existential quantifications, not parameters, and we do not minimise them

We use comparisons over the richness of existential commitments in theory comparison, but NOT in the creation of theories nor in their specification
When I was 8? I think, I used to take a bus to go get a VHS tape from the local rental shop. It's important for kids to have autonomy. In Japan, its pretty common to send even younger kids out on errands.
But the aide won't have deeply analyzed every military campaign in history; it will only spout off answers from books about those campaigns. It will have little to no insight on how to apply principles and lessons learned from similar campaigns in the current problem. Wars are not won by lines on maps. They're not won by cool gear. They're won by psychologically beating down the enemy until they're ready to surrender or open peace negotiations. Can LLMs get in an enemy's head?
Astro a Brazilian small app for astrology
A brand? You have a lot of successful people coming out of those schools.
Each time you run WSL, you help MS with the first "E" in
embrace-extend-extinguish sequence.
Is 'Toxic Fashion' making us sick? A look at the chemicals lurking in our clothe (2023)
Hack your astral life!
Now, let's get that 8bit microcontroller running Linux and run Linux inside a LaTeX document.
The Yubikeys also support NFC, which is necessary for U2F authentication on Lightning iPhones.
You used to be able to do something similar (probably still can) by using common URL patterns for insecure/unauthenticated security camera feeds. You could even use google to find them! I loved the late 00's/early 10's web.
Spoil from Java: look at the implementation of ArrayList and HashMap, and be HAPPY that all those dirty tricks have been there forever, but hidden behind such a simple interface.
As a programmer I feel that software development as in "designing and building software products" can be still be fun with AI. But what absolutely isn't fun is feeding requirements written by someone else to ChatGPT / Copilot and then just doing plumbing / QA work to make sure it works. The kind of work junior devs would typically do feels devalued now.
I don't think that's particularly true but even if it was, the site is overrun with crypto spam and porn bots that will drive people away. I know 3 people who have deactivated their account and switched to bluesky in the past week - and anecdotal evidence for many people on bluesky seems to suggest engagement levels are significantly higher. The network effects are really gaining traction as well.

I gave up on Twitter when I opened the app in public to find a porn video playing in the main feed, despite not following or interacting with any accounts of that nature previously. That was ~6 months ago and I haven't looked back.
Click speed tests always make me nervous, because of the risk that the site could trigger a permission request and have laid things out so the Allow button will be right over the spot where you're clicking super fast.
… So, wait, two political cartoons (the first one’s been on the go for years; it’s pretty much a classic at this point) and a cat? Like, unless you’re going to claim that ol’ minihands is a marginalised group of one, very hard to read any of these as hate speech. Actually, even if one _was_ to accept that obviously silly premise, still probably not. Maybe the cat, at a serious push.
This is a great and insightful article. Very helpful. Thanks a lot, author.
Most people who are not into computers see AI as the next step of computers, and they are actively waiting for it.

I think that it’s very different from a computer which is a stupid calculator that frees us from boring mechanical tasks. AI replaces our thoughts and creativity which is IMHO a thousand times worse. Its aim is to replace humans while making them us more stupid since we won’t have to think anymore.
> That same school has a music program with a huge ballroom, recording studio, fancy musical instruments...bass sax, harps, bassoons and contrabassoons, double bass, violas...

Seattle has cancelled a bunch of their music programs as well.

A couple years ago they also cancelled, a very successful, STEM program in schools that primarily served economically disadvantaged students, because the school district couldn't afford to pay their portion of the program's cost.

There was a court ruling in Washington state a decade or so ago that said the state government has to fund schools and that school districts and cities are forbidden from raising more than a pittance of additional funding for teachers and academic activities.

This was good for the first few years, all schools in the state finally became fully funded, not just the schools in rich areas, but recently the state has been underfunding schools and now every major school district in the state is having financial problems.
Using CTID Based Pagination for Data Cleanups in Postgres
If you are unlucky, so your working set don't fit into the registers, in this case you sure will deal with memory bus and with cache hierarchy. But best if you just don't touch memory at all, making all processing in your code in registers.
Senior Principal engineer here (not at Amazon). Yeah :-(
You are arguing based on sunk costs, and even if rail was not an alternative, the US could be investing in other modes of transport: light rail (trams), buses and electric bikes.

Also, you are not accounting for externalities. Get the suburbanites to pay for all the extra costs they incur on the roads, power/water/waste distribution, healthcare costs incurred by air and environmental pollution from all the cement for roads and parking lots... Quickly they will change their tune and will be willing to become "city dwellers".
29 dollars a month is a bit of an insane starter price, especially for smaller teams.
I’ve never seen any of my own code that I’ve written trigger Gatekeeper warnings.

Even for third party software, it’s trivial to disable on a case by case basis as needed while still keeping the security benefits that Gatekeeper provides.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-parentsusas-fight-for-bri... - "Support ParentsUSA's Fight for Brit's Parental Rights"
> She (the Sheriff) kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or 'anything' could have happened,

This is weird. Is the crime so bad in the town? Even the good-for-nothing cops in my (developing) country do not come up with such nonsense.
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I agree wholeheartedly on your first point, but can't agree that there's zero evidence of what you said. We do seem to agree that TASS's observation was really them.

I think there are some metrics we can keep an eye on to know if Russia's claims here are true (which is hardly a given!). If it's true their motivations are clear, but there's also a motivation to make a real mess of things while both sides of the aisle fight each other as hard as feasible. Namely, if they can crash America, then America can be made poorer than Russia, and the balance of power shifts quite a lot.

For that reason, I feel like there's a motive for Russia to have done this, and I can't agree with your assertion that there's no evidence Russia ever helped Trump. I suggest that instead, both parties in the USA had reason to not publicize that reality, because it was embarrassing to them. Not even the right wing want to think they were doing the whole thing not to make America great, but to break it beyond repair. They (and we) live here.

Also, I know from working for Bernie Sanders in 2015 that the Democratic establishment is not eager to be directed by the grass roots, or to admit fault or misrepresentation on their part. I don't believe they would be eager to reveal how deep the rot went, and this reticence might have done us a great deal of harm.
Most people weite scripts with said tools which can keep going for a long time. I have a couple laying in my library directory to add replay gain metadata, convert to aac, and backup.
The paper says about those, "Behavior which a listener perceives as possessing any of the characteristics listed in the left-hand column arouses defensiveness." So the author doesn't describe it as defensive behavior, and he's not even concerned with it as behavior, only as a perception that might arouse defensive behavior.
Im a revolutionary leftist and I couldn’t disagree more. This crowd is not swayed by demagogues and is very much in their own category.
Regulations are neutral. Some are bullshit. Some are written in blood.