skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was the call about?

Don't worry about it, I don't remember it! I have come to regret a lot of stupid things I said when I was younger.
I mean, from films etc, us Yanks would think everyone in the UK is piss arse drunk 24/7, sounds like a chimney sweep waiting for Mary Poppins, sends their kids to magic schools, and all live in castles wearing period clothing, all while their gov't watches everything they do from CCTV.

However, most of us understand that films etc are made up stories told for entertainment where if we based our expectations of people solely on that information we'd be grossly mistaken.

There are plenty of people that have their lives severely tilted if not turned upside down from a single DUI. There are also people of means that get off with a much less interruption to their day. I'm guessing it is the same on your side of the pond as well.
> But I remain amazed that OP does not report any illegal moves made any of by LLMs.

They did (but not enough detail to know how much of an impact it had):

> For the open models I manually generated the set of legal moves and then used grammars to constrain the models, so they always generated legal moves. Since OpenAI is lame and doesn’t support full grammars, for the closed (OpenAI) models I tried generating up to 10 times and if it still couldn’t come up with a legal move, I just chose one randomly.
Good point, and that's what I do, mostly. My interests are history and technical topics. But I follow scifi authors, cartoonists, some minor (relatively) politicians.
Imma let you finish, but since Trump won the popular vote by millions of votes, the word "reasonable" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
> “Most of these vehicles received excellent safety ratings, performing well in crash tests at the IIHS and NHTSA, so it’s not a vehicle design issue,” said Brauer. “The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities.”

Quoting what's easily the most important passage in that study.

The two Teslas on the list are the Model Y, right beneath the Porsche 911, and the Model S, right beneath the... Toyota Prius.

So yeah. No surprises here. It's a study where the lesson should be "a car is as dangerous as its driver" and everyone is going to read it as "Teslas are deathtraps". What else is new.
Huh? I agree that there are way too many DUI deaths everywhere. The thing I am mocking is this idea that "MY group DOESN'T have these problems and YOUR group DOES." In one case, the group is Tesla owners; another case, the group was, I guess, trees on roads; another was people who drink and drive - a typical HN reader, I am confident, believes that he does not belong to that group. And yet. Perhaps there is a group that the typical HN reader belongs to that does indeed drink and drive.
Only by the loosest possible definition that would also encompass forums, IRC, game lobby chatrooms, etc. There's a clear and practical distinction between communities driven by a specific interest like this one and platforms like Xitter.

Saying that HN is social media is like saying that a taco is a sandwich.
What hours are you doing now and (if you want to answer) why so many?
Probably 80% of notable performance problems I’ve seen in the kinds of systems that things like Django and Ruby get used for have been terrible queries or patterns of use for databases (I’ve seen 1,000x or worse costs for this versus something more-correct) and nearly all of the other 20% has been areas that plainly just needed some pretty straightforward caching.

The nice thing about that is that spotting those, and the basic approach to fixing them, if not the exact implementation details, are cross-platform skills that apply basically anywhere.

I actually can’t recall any other notable performance problems in those sorts of systems, over the years. Those are so common and the fixes so effective I guess the rest has just never rated attention. I’ve seen different problems in long-lived worker processes though (“make it streaming—everything becomes streaming when scale gets big enough” is the usual platform-agnostic magic bullet in those cases)

A bunch of TFA is basically about those things, so I’m not correcting it, more like nodding along.

Oh wait I just thought of another I’ve seen: serving large files through a scripting language, as in, reading it in and writing it back out with a scripting language. You run into trouble at even modest scale. There’s a magic response header for that, make Nginx or Apache or whatever serve it for you, it’s a fix that’s typically deleting a bunch of code and replacing it with one or two lines. Or else just use s3 and maybe signed URLs like the rest of the world. Problem solved.
>If "owning" my data means I need to spend time learning a new format and setting up a way to publish that format on a domain I own, and then maintain it into the infinite future, the odds I'm gong to bother are very low.

Good! Higher barrier to entry is exactly why Neocities, Mastodon and [redacted] are so much higher quality than the NPC internet. We need a couple hurdles to keep out the low effort posters.
While I agree with you that maybe people will move, and I agree that lack of hospitals increases maternal mortality, the entire history of humanity suggests that we're incredibly good at reproducing without all of that. I don't really need a study. Your existence is proof enough.
I second all of that heartily. Of course the senior eng with 10 years hands-on experience at a household name tech company knows how to code... except that they don't. At all, apparently. That seems so ludicrously unlikely unless you've actually interviewed a lot of people, then it's just the sad fact.

To others reading along, I'm not talking about someone not being able to write a multitasking OS on their own. I mean, I'm not sure how these people possibly graduated college not knowing how to write a trivial program in the language of their choosing. Turns out you can get surprisingly far into a software engineering degree without every writing code. I wouldn't have believed it. Evidence proves it though.
I wish this would break down driver and passenger deaths in the tesla vs outside the tesla.

if other people are more likely to hit a tesla or are tesla drivers usually at fault?
Why do we need to protect kids? Greed. Why do we need AI to help people? Greed.

It's not complex. There are complex things but understanding the cause of business doing business is not complex. It's simple.
Mine is French door without a front ice maker/water, and I love it. Way more room in the fridge too. Just open the bottom to get ice.
I don’t have any experience with Lisp. But I think C++ templates and Rust macros are both super bad and impoverished compared to what can be done in Jai.

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/using-jais-unique-and-p...
Political extremism persists because it's politically successful in places where political moderacy isn't. Us Canadians aren't better than Americans, we have a system that allows people to vote more closely to their values and (somewhat) avoid polarization. It's not perfect and a lot of the issues come down to being a "2 Party Lite" instead of a full multi-party democracy.

In my opinion, American Exceptionalism is not a pretension that the USA is the best, but a general assumption that culture primarily drives a nation's systems and not the other way around.
I guess it depends on the developers and how they choose to commit. On my team we don't commit unless we're ready to push, so we aren't creating 100s of commits for every feature or bug fix. Some developers seem to think they need to commit every 2 seconds for every tiny little change. That's just seems like a waste of time to me, and it also creates the need to squash and do more stuff with git. Anything that distracts me from writing software and putting work into the code is a distraction, and git is a distraction. I don't really want to deal with git as often or as much as some developers seem to use it constantly to commit everything...

git commit -m "added a blank line"
Your argument against a rapidly falling fertility rate is that I exist? Yes, I exist, but the evidence is strong that year over year, more people are choosing not to have children and the systems that people who do have children rely on are not being supported adequately (as I've enumerated with my citations). Would you not agree with those observations?

(South Korea's TFR is ~0.7, China is ~1, Japan is ~1.2, the US is not far behind at ~1.6, all 2024 figures presented)
I would like to recommend this book on the issue :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigma:_Notes_on_the_Managemen...

It shows quite well the tension between normality and the need for a community IIRC
Living closer to nature and animals fundamentally alters your spirit. The sound, the light, the details and complexity, the beauty of other animals (bringing back the carnivore dilemma though, but also making you more aware of what feeding yourself entails, I don't know)
oh, great, so none.
> It may convey a certain life extension benefit.

I think it would be more interesting if it doesn't affect lifespan. It would be a really counter-intuitive result (to me).
Yes, I have seen many worry about it on r/collapse. Here in Brooklyn, Prospect Park burned, and my house smelt of smoke for hours...
It’s on a “per billion miles driven” basis so it is normalized.
The loom and invention of punch cards come to mind
They are like this literally any time a Republican is in the White House. They were like this when Dubya was President too, even though today they act like he's some sort of elder statesman just because he hates Trump.
Or, like medicine and a whole variety of other fields, “male” is assumed default and anyone who isn’t the default has worse outcomes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/business/car-safety-women...
See, your post is exactly what OP is talking about.
Those are my favorite. When I’m interviewing someone, I’m literally considering working with them - what better way to find out about that than to do it?
Thinking about Election Apps
As a code golfer, this is beyond satisfying. Doing things in a few bytes is nice, yes, but doing them in a way no reasonable mortal ever would is even better.
Another local-only alternative; Athom have a pre-flashed ESPHome Garage Door opener which has a reed switch for determining whether the door is closed. Works flawlessly for me, and less than half the price.

https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/garage-door-opener-for-esphom...
> Meanwhile, everything I uttered on Facebook in college still exists.

by the good grace of Meta Inc. and nothing else. Your account can get purged because:

- they decide to start purging old content

- they comply with a censorship order from the country you live in (or a country you don't live in)

- the CEO decides they don't like you (though that's really only a current issue on Twitter)

> Decentralization feels like it's driven more than idealism/zealotry than pragmatism.

Decentralization is the bedrock of all the _most_ pragmatic internet technologies (DNS, HTTP, Email), centralization is a more recent phenomenon driven by a dozen or so very large companies.
>> but the new administration hasn't even gone into office and I cannot get away from this.

Well, it cuts both ways. New administration should not be talking till they are in office.
How does iSeeCars (who did the study) know how many miles were driven by each brand's cars? It says they have a database of cars, but do we know whether it's an unbiased sample?
That's a word I don't know (and neither do you): brumation, invented in 1965.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brumation

The verb ought to be brumate. But I guess the desire to pull it into line with hibernation is strong, this happens with lots of words. (Or was the influence from "rumination"?)
Don't worry: what you truly love is a moving target as no one stays still. No 40 year old is like themselves at 30 or 20, or will be at 50.
When the only houses being built are monstrous, is that a useful metric?

The majority of people I know don't own a house. They rent and they're in their 30s.
I gave my anecdote elsewhere, but I will recount it again. I felt embarrassed at age 23 to purchase a pregnancy test with my wife. This is simply due to cultural messaging saying babies are bad. Despite having been married for a year, making well above median wage and having enough for a down payment, etc, I was worried what others would think of me! And I come from a family that is very pro-child and pro-natalist for lack of better word. I can only imagine what my peers would have been feeling. I think in many people, it takes into their 30s for this feeling to go away, but if they wait that long to have children, they're having 1 or 2 max on average.

EDIT: I think many on here don't believe that there's anti-child cultural messaging, because they're in their 30s-40s where this pressure starts to go the other way. But if you start having kids at that age, on average, you will never have enough to hit replacement. To hit replacement TFR, the pro-child messaging must start at 18 or younger.
It seems like late onset psychosis (you didn't mention his age). The only therapy is an appropriate antipsychotic (I would prescribe olanzapin at first). Very bad prognosis, mostly life long permanent mental handicap
The decision to promote blue check replies is a product-level decision that has made the user experience much, much worse
I'd be interested in per country data for this information. Last I checked, nearly every country was at 0.75-2 tops, save for the world average being skewed heavily by some usual suspects.
The terms are not public until the house is sold. In the contract pending state you don’t know how much it is going to sell for. Theoretically if they saw a buyer accepting a crazy low offer they could alert the troops.

But it doesn’t need a lot of the data in that document, so really they need a way to redact all the unnecessary data to require less trust.

Edit: words.
Technically feeds don't depend on keywords or hashtags but it's the simplest, cheap compute method to run. I run a feed with an ML model but it uses heuristics like Like Count and follower lists to limit the throughput.
Interesting study. The performance increase on the difficult task as audience size increases is counterintuitive at first, but it makes sense when you consider how many humans excel at performing in front of large audiences.

Yet for some of us the stress of being observed and scrutinized is crippling regardless of the task difficulty. I've bombed so many interviews because of this. :(
why upload the actual document? why not let users enter only numbers?
Pregnancy isn't the reason why people are not having kids. It's the eighteen years after, IMO. That is what is memetically discouraged. Although, I won't pretend to know what the messaging is towards young girls
Ubuntu has an experimental installation image for this laptop at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-concept-snapdrag... . Everything works except for audio and screen brightness control (I saw a patch for audio upcoming on LKML. I don't know about the brightness control, but it is stuck on high. Nevertheless, it still reports 12+ hours of battery with a bright screen.). It is a nice laptop, if you like the Lenovo T series.
> All the time

If you didn't solve your problem in 45 minutes with zero assistance from tools or Google or colleagues, were you immediately fired?
Not that one could tell by their vehicle choice, of course.
Not entirely. GOTO can be pretty nice! And even the lack of structs probably has the advantage of helping to prepare you for today's world where column-major is back in style, for performance reasons.
Wait, did I miss something that happened just over a week ago?
I had the ... experience ... of working for one of the founders in another startup. I am surprised it lasted this long.
As you climb the engineering IC ladder your responsibilities involve larger and larger tasks and timescales. It's not possible to measure whether someone can make the right decisions about the architecture of a service as requirements change over years in a 1-day interview. Anything that isn't "be the engineer maintaining this service for 1 year" is going to be a proxy for that, which can be learned and gamed.

What would be a "proper" interview in your opinion?
Remember the well-known interview [1] between Jordan Peterson and Cathy Newman? If not you may want to have a look at it to see where she went wrong by using that 'so you are saying that ...' construction you employ here in the same erroneous way. No, that is not what he said, at all. In a debate you should engage your actual opponent instead of your own projection of that opponent to avoid situations like this one.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375138990_So_you're...
Let's put that guy in charge of government efficiency, what's the worst that could happen
People do that when feel it's socially acceptable to do so. It feels like it could be a matter of time. A million people joined in a 24 hour period yesterday.
The only owner of this project is "Gliim LLC" and it's written in C with cryptic commit messages. This looks dangerous. If this is an honest project and not an attempt to inject malware into other people's projects, you should:

- Say who you are.
- Commit as individuals, not as the company.
- Explain how this is memory safe. The C language makes that seem very unlikely.
Disagree. That's what HN and IRC fans tell themselves to draw an artificial distinction between networks they like and networks they don't. I don't see a huge meaningful difference except in scale and content breadth.
These people have been inundated with the drivel of a billion dollar propaganda machine run by the most expensive campaign in history.

It's gonna take a while before they're back to normal again. I've heard so many "office of government efficiency" jokes in the last week I am tired of it too. But, in their defense if all you hear is how this administration is going to be the fourth reich (lol), destroy the country (lol), introduce fascism (lol), kill people (lol), etc you're going to react in a sarcastic way to anything you can grasp onto.

Though tbf, again, "office of government efficiency" seems like an oxymoron.
Saw one for a sports journalist on a subreddit. I think that's a clear sign of it making it, given how twitter and reddit are joined at the hip
You're abstracting the complexities down to a granularity that strawmans my contention.

If you cannot operate the vehicle you need to do your job you don't have that job. I'm not saying that people need to be experts. I'm saying if you cannot learn the tools needed to do your job then you shouldn't have the job.
I never said I'm spoken ill of, just that the cultural pressure to not have more kids is omnipresent. I'd label it a 'microagression' of sorts.

For example, after my third, I've been asked multiple times if I'm getting a vasectomy.

No one speaks ill of it, but I'm definitely one of the only ones with this many kids in the area. I can count on my hand the number of 3+ kid families in the neighborhood. Whereas for my parents generation... 3 is a typical family.

As for the pariah bit... having kids means that we're probably not going to be doing a bunch of the adult-only activities that people invite us to. With a baby always at home, it's unlikely we would do that kind of thing until our kids are grown and my wife well past menopause.

Parents today expect to not only have children but also to have an adult social life of a sort that my parents and grandparents never expected. Rather, adults socialized with their families mostly. That was considered typical.
who are these people?
I heard EVs are very heavy, how can they be faster?
Utility monsters are definitely overrepresented here. But it’s just a consequence of intellectual discussion that all ideas are entertained, no matter how perverse. But that shouldn’t be absent any reflection of how these ideas would affect real peoples’ lives. Especially in tech circles where there can be a large potential to affect many lives
That's a whole lot of rationalization for a few decades of a species that discovered condoms and the means to spread them cheaply to everyone.

How magnanimous to blame our own selfishness onto the problems of the world. People were having kids with mass killings and rapes and torture and no hospitals or social security or higher degrees or anything for millenia. All that is new is the choice, due to cheap contraceptives.
If you look into car safety testing and design, they haven't used "Woman sized" crash test dummies until very very recently.

Cars were less safe for women because they were not designed to be safe for women.
Wasn't that the basis of computing and technology in general? Here is one tedious thing, let's have a specific tool that handles it instead of wasting time and efforts. The fact is that properly using the tool takes training and most of current AI marketing are hyping that you don't need that. Instead, hand over the problem to a GPT and it will "magically" solve it.
RIP. An interview [0].

I started learning Logo as a kid on a TI-99/4A, and I was fortunate to have a personal teacher who introduced me to BASIC on an Apple II/e-compatible computer (Franklin ACE 1000). This early exposure allowed me to explore programming in all directions and share my knowledge by teaching and helping friends on various platforms like Commodores (including the Amiga), Sinclairs, Texas Instruments, MSX, BBC, and more. BASIC truly was everywhere.

BASIC also served as a bridge to Assembly language [1], with powerful features like PEEK, POKE, CALL, and SYS. It’s remarkable that Visual Basic later became such a success, ultimately passing its legacy to .NET in more recent times. There was also a trend of microcontrollers supporting BASIC around the 2000s.

On a personal note, I was amazed as a kid when I discovered the power of MID$ and used it to write my own programming language. That experience felt like pure magic.

[0] https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/rauner/archives/oral_histo...

[1] http://swain.webframe.org/tshirts/peek_and_poke_zoom.jpg
Last time I checked that’s called gatekeeping.

Neocities is a ton easier to try for “non-engineers”- it even has a discovery feed and a WYSIWYG editor…
Irrelevant though because California's population as a whole is declining. Religion / politics is highly heritable. That doesn't mean that 100% of kids feel that way. But enough to change the demographics.
For posterity, there have been some issues when destroying containers. Errors about "inconsistent state of container" or such. But these have always been about non-running containers, so the answer has been destroy/recreate, so no measurable impact for the business. After spawning and destroying thousands of containers in a high-load live environment(across half a dozen servers), I consider podman pretty stable.

And assuming my own comment is high up, this is the env variable we automatically load:

> DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock
Do you have any examples of articles with Bsky embeds?
Easy, hate is what those people throwing stones were feeling, and sun is what they were accusing that woman of. You know the verse, right?

The hate remains the same today, except now the “sin” is being gay, or getting raped, etc.
If that were the case Europe and Canada would be overflowing with children.
Well, it was a while ago... I was trying to choose a language to use for our start-up's tiny (2kB EPROM, 2kB RAM?) Z80A system, alongside some assembler, and I was basically having to write an OS/runtime for the robot that I designed the hardware for as well. I was about out of my depth. Candidate languages were, I think, BCPL, B, C and D, and I got mixed up and spoke to you about C. (It is possible that I spoke to the B or BCPL guy rather than you.) But in any case, asking one language's creator to extol the virtues of a different language is not clever! %-P Ouch!

Does the name "Grey Matter" ring any bells for you? (Software reseller, still seems to exist...)