skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting point, I'm inclined to agree. I'm curious now about how many Likes and Reposts a thread on Bluesky gets vs a compact emotional response. I run a firehose ingester so maybe I'll test this out.

EDIT: I realize you specifically called out politics here and that makes me even more inclined to agree.
Wow, that's expensive.

There is no way that Steve Jobs could have talked Furber & Wilson into this.

http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/next/hardware/ns31_co...
I always ask about battery consumption... Apple seems to be on another galaxy right now. I decided to stop waiting and installed Parallels to run Ubuntu there... I really wish the best for Asahi Linux.
Would be more interesting with trivial Lora training
Serving ice cold Coca-Cola in winter is a fantastic idea.
I bought a https://www.meross.com/en-gc/smart-garage-door-opener/garage...

Apparently you can hijack the mqtt setup and manage it locally (I mostly wanted to know if I forgot to close the door, so I'm pretty okay with the Meross app).

I guess it doesn't have the built in support for the obfuscated protocol, my opener is just a dry contact so I didn't need to look into it.
Could you please provide a less incendiary source to break down the costs and potential processes involved in a mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the United States? Certainly it is important for everyone to have a productive discussion about this with less inflammatory information. Otherwise I ignore the Nazi comments and get to the heart of arguments presented. Which in my opinion has pretty compelling reasons for why one should oppose the potential plan for mass deportation Trump’s administration has mentioned.
That's not how it works on my iPhone or iPad, unfortunately -- and I just replaced and clean installed my iPad this week. It even happens when I quickly switch from and back to the X app.

Maybe my user account isn't in that feature pool yet?
> Technically and product-wise, there's not a whole lot wrong with Twitter right now.

The app is a bin-fire.
The fediverse very much is "the commons", at least it's as close as you can hope to get online.

Personally I believe there should be an ActivityPub equivalent of Wordpress for blogs - something so trivially easy to set up your own instance that your dad could do it. Everybody should be able to make their own instance that they can control and plug into the wider ecosystem. At the moment its an extremely strange and confusing mess of a dozen or so instances that are trying to centralize into "one true" Mastodon instance, which is never what the fediverse was supposed to be.
Even nice apartments are pretty miserable places to live if you have multiple small children, or engage in hobbies or activities that require much equipment. Imagine coming home to your apartment with a muddy mountain bike. Do you haul it up to the 4th floor in the elevator and wash it in your shower? It's possible to make it work but living in a single-family home (or townhouse with attached garage) sure makes regular life a lot easier.
Making the OP feel threatened/emotionally attached/both enough to call the language model a rival / companion / peer instead of a tool.
Moving the HQ of the gaming and movie business to California was a mistake. Sony needs to return to its roots and base all major decision-making in Japan.
Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right
The most important thing to me about remote communication is making time for "coffee catchup" to chat about non-work things.

We literally sit down with a fresh coffee for 5mins just as we might when crossing paths in the office. Find common topics among colleagues to shoot the breeze - football, video games, cars, etc.

Soon you'll have cross-team relationships with people who might never work directly together.
I like and use matrix (I'm indeed one of those ideological types), but even their nice webapp is janky in comparison to discord, with fewer features on paper (E2EE is huge, but the median discord user doesn't care). I use it in spite of the jank.

With bluesky on the other hand, there really isn't much jank, certainly not relative to twitter (except right now when it feels like the servers are struggling to scale fast enough...). The average bluesky user doesn't seem to be ideologically motivated (or if they are, their ideology is "I don't like elon musk"). They mostly use bluesky because it works for them, regardless of implementation details.
They do. Since July. https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-namecheap
I follow a decent number of tech people and I do see some of their posts, but then it runs out. In particular all the people I follow go to bed at US nighttime and then it's all bait until they wake up.

Also, half the people I follow are getting baited by the "random people complaining" posts - so I just see their replies to it!
All dialogues are pretty easily turned into text completions
You can add more parameters.

Whats the temperament of the driver. Certain brands attract hot heads who will drive recklessly. I was kind of expecting more sports cars in the top 5. 2/5 is still a good score.

Given the amount of SUVs as well, no matter how safe you make a small car, if an SUV rams you, it is just not going to end well for the smaller.
> A conversation will tell you much more about their approaches to problems solving, team work, and mentoring than a coding challenge will.

Having hired many developers over multiple decades, let me assure you that you should definitely make sure they can actually code. Do definitely have those conversations, too, but trust me when I say that a technical conversation, a degree and several listed years of experience as a software developer on a resume are not enough to guarantee that they can actually code.
When I can engage in conversatons with a wide variety of different viewpoints, without any of those viewpoints being repressed through some censorship mechanism, then I'll agree that the platform has 'won'.

But Bluesky is already censoring viewpoints that the collective don't want to see promoted, so its really not much better than X.

The issue is, whether or not a collective, reactive crowd, is really the ultimate form of human discourse. I happen to think not, but its sure interesting to see the dynamics of humans flowing from one echo chamber to another ..
if it’s not interactive and not littered with “likes”, how will i know to care about it or not?
In insurance they call it the "law of lugnuts" - bigger cars have better survivability in direct collisions.

However, most traffic fatalities do not come from direct collisions. They come from driver hitting immobile objects.

Smaller, lighter cars take less kinetic energy with them around corners, are easier to steer and avoid obstacles, and are more likely to stay upright when leaving the road.
My grandfather was in a US Navy salvage group in WWII. At the time, to verify an enemy vessel (especially subs) had been sunk, they would send down divers in the old fashioned "heavy gear" suits to identify the vessels.

They would also bring up proof, usually something that could be tied to the vessel, which could be a piece of military-grade equipment or even silverware engraved with the names of the ship or the enemy seal.

This is what the suits looked like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_diving_dress
Regarding the template make function, there’s a c++ proposal I’ve been working on: https://wg21.link/p2719

This provides the type being allocated to the operator new implementation.

If you want to experiment here’s the implementation: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/113510
I don't get it. What is the difference between:

I want to pay less
I want to pay less, and here's a document an AI wrote for me

The scenario you've outlined doesn't make sense. It sounds like your goal is to collect these idiosyncratic documents. Which is also unusual - like why do the documents matter? What is the purpose?
Hey. I ended up with an error saying my PDF could not be processed? But it’s my final loan disclosure form…

Also, I’m not entirely sure what costs this avoids? Inspection fees are already paid at this point, notary fees are paid to your broker, and transfer tax happens months later.
'I'm just here for the selfie': the mirror reflecting Rome's TikTok visitor boom
Try not to dismiss my comment for what it is. I'm not taking a stance on political affiliation or preference. I'm trying to highlight a behavior that is the result of elections of recent past. I'm not excited about another 4 years where communication diminishes to snarky comments that point finger at the side they oppose. It makes me want to just go outside and smell the fresh air.

I come to HN for substantial conversation, not this elementary unsubstantial conversation.
For the real computer scientists out here, what would time complexity notation be like if time traveling of information was possible (i.e. doing big expensive computations and sending the result back into the past)?
But it's not because each node is still controlled by someone who can choose what's on it and who has access
The M3 Max laptops can cross-build FreeBSD at a fraction of the time of the ThinkPad, being at around 791 seconds for `make -j17` versus the T14s being at 3210 seconds (with `make -j12`) according to the post above.

No idea about power consumptions.

It still scares me.
A rule we have due to giant high center of gravity SUVs. Rollovers weren’t as big a problem when everyone had sedans.

A car should survive a rollover. But when you make them big & heavy, those pillars have to be big and thick and you get large blind spots.
Yeah, the only people who pragmatically need decentralization are people who are being censored but that's very few people. So everyone incurs extra complexity to benefit a small minority.

I used AppEngine to host mine; they forced everyone to migrate to Python 3 after I'd built it, and I never bothered to update it

This is caused by you writing custom software, not by decentralization. If you were running some off-the-shelf software like WordPress it would probably be updated to keep pace with the world so you wouldn't have to do much.
This is supposed to be the role of the mortgage broker / loan officer.

However in practice it's more complicated. Homebuyers receive these documents after they already signed a binding contract to purchase. Most people don't even know what questions to ask, much less how to properly negotiate, and they're under the stress of just getting the deal done which include affording a down payment, getting a home appraisal, and making sure they're not getting into a bad deal.

Also throughout the closing, the real estate agent/mortgage broker/lender aren't incentivized to get the buyer the best deal; they usually just want to close. In general the mortgage broker/lender are not going to advise and how the customer how to shop around since it's technically illegal for them to give a "bad" loan to a buyer.
I only had one code sample.

As others have pointed out, there are a lot of problems:

- Many engineers don't write code outside of work and so don't have much code they can show off without breaching their employer's trust

- Those that do often don't have recent code.

- Those that have recent, personal code to show off have often written it to accomplish some goal and the code isn't necessarily a great example they feel like showing off

Really, the only people I've seen have good code samples are those who do extensive open-source work. And for those people, I'm probably already aware of that work when I checked their resume + opened their github.
> The writer’s new argument for left-wing foreign policy has earned a mainstream hearing.

If the past month has taught you anything, mainstream hearings are not necessarily synonymous with truth or reason. It would not surprise me if this book, much like the rest of Chomsky's writing, appeals more to what the reader thinks is right in their head rather than the complex workings of reality.
I consider it pointless. All you need to do is train new models to ignore the introduced distortion. Learning how to ignore the distortion will make the models more robust.
Respectfully, why not?
That's the whole point of campaigning. I seriously hope an incoming administration has a plan before they get to office. "I wouldn't change anything" fortunately doesn't seem to win elections when everything's sideways.
> Interface Builder was a lot more like VB and Delphi in the past, but around the time of iOS 3, Apple completely broke the UI programming metaphor in it.

I guess I can see your point. I started with IB on OPENSTEP, then onto macOS in the 10.1 days. But even back then, I still think the feel wasn't quite the same, from my subjective viewpoint.

I keep having these strong urges of using Windows again and creating WinForms apps. But then I go and use Windows for a day and the lack of polish is so jarring. But gosh, Microsoft development was almost always fun.
There's a more extensive worked example at:

https://gliimly.blogspot.com/2024/11/multi-tenant-saas-notes...

And, at a glance, I see:

- HTML output being constructed by string concatenation.

- SQL queries being constructed by what looks like sprintf.

- No functions, just HTTP handlers, some of them marked as "private".

- No expression system, just non-composable commands like "hash-string" or "match-regex".

- No evidence of an object or class system.

- Some evidence of filenames with 'magical' behavior like "before-handler.gliim".

None of this fills me with confidence. This is a toy at best.
AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time
The most important part of a distributed system: Time
My current car does 700+km on one tank. At constant 100Km/h it'd be 7+ hours. It wouldn't even be legal to drive that long in one go.
I don't use social media. I'm explaining why a ordinary person would disagree with the train of thought the parent was suggesting.
That just assumes that the crash tests are good indicators of actual safety. My understanding is that car manufacturers could go much further in the name of safety, but do just enough to scrape by on those crash tests. So there could definitely be differentials in terms of safety even among cars that have perfect safety measures from IIHS/NHTSA.
It would today, because macos requires signing, and windows has "the mark of the web".

They don't apply to scripts, so Python is fine, but they do apply to executables.

Having to sign your zip every time you produce it would nullify the benefit of the concept. And because the checksum of the executable file change according to the content of the zip, you can't just sign the cosmopolitan part.
You're right, we struggle with this at our company, getting CS to just pick up the phone and call the customer. Sales, no problem, but any other function of the business they dont prefer phone.
Which is why it isn't each node that is the commons, but the entirety of the ecosystem.
A set of mortgage documents can have over 100 pages and include 20+ fees. It can be difficult for a borrower/homebuyer to understand all these fees, and most have no idea if they're competitive. Loan officers or brokers aren't incentivized to get you the lowest rates on every line item. Sounds like this tool helps you understand if you're being overcharged.
"the world" is more than the US.
Diesel gate involved also many others manufacturers

> Opel (General Motors) publicly demonstrated (while representatives from the TÜV Hessen were present) a Zafira that met the NOx emission limits. At the same time, Opel started clandestinely pushing an engine software update that limited NOx emissions in Zafiras that were already on the road.

> German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported that US authorities investigating Mercedes have discovered that its vehicles are equipped with illegal software to help them pass United States' stringent emission tests. The claimed defeat devices include a Bit 15 mode to switch off emissions control after 16 miles of driving (the length of an official U.S. emissions test), and Slipguard which tries to directly determine if the car is being tested based on speed and acceleration profiles

> Dodge Ram 1500 and Jeep Grand Cherokee trucks, had software that allowed them to exceed NOx pollution limits, undetected by the usual testing methods.

>
BMW was sued in 2018 when certain models were named as producing several times more nitrogen oxide emissions than laboratory tests indicated
Newspapers filled this role once, and they're privately owned. You have two choices: privately owned or government run. I'll take the private ownership route. Better than prior, now users can openly write back outside of "letters to the editor" and without paying money. People used to complain about Twitter censorship, now they complain about its ownership. One is about free expression. The other is about political tribalism.
> there is no obvious single place to do this anymore as, say, a police department.

Their website! Now get off my lawn! :p
> In other words, unless they controlled for this, this would be biased by natural selection playing out.

Why should they control for it? It’s a natural consequence of Tesla’s design choices, not a total coincidence that Tesla had no control over.
Dunno for me it's great to commit if I just made substantial work but it's not ready yet. It's assuring that my work won't be accidentally lost if I mess up. Especially it's great to commit at the end of the day or if I just wrote tests which all pass. Stuff works, I can move on, and forget about it. Next day when I write more code, and something breaks (but worked yesterday) I can easily see the diff between yesterday and today and see what changed and where I'm currently at. Commit messages remind me of what I did, step by step. Then I push to the dev environment and if QA finds bugs, I commit new changes which fix the bugs. It's also great for the reviewer - they only have to look at the single bugfix commit, the rest of the code is fine (already reviewed). I don't find a use for squashing, modern tools allow to see several commits as one diff.
Your point didn't come across at all.
If that happens, that would be the most efficient form of regulatory capture yet!
Other countries exist, but they speak other languages so you're not reading their posts. Japan /loves/ short form text social media.
Might not be as direct as you'd like, but all well managed¹ GNU projects ship a NEWS file in their tarball. In this case you can also read it from savannah² without fetching the tarball.

¹ https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#NEWS-File

² https://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/ddd/trunk/doc/NEWS?view=...
Thats a factor of time given how new it is - and likely inevitable.
This is exactly why WebSub, formerly Pubsubhubbub, was written. Publishers can push to a relay only when something new happens, never having to be polled.

It was created more than a decade ago.
The percentage of regular people who care about any of the risks discussed in this thread is approximately zero. For better or worse.

Your typical home buyer isn't reading the contract they sign when they buy a home, let alone the privacy policy of a simple tool they use to check if they have a mortgage with decent terms.
Learning to swim : turns out its difficult to find an instructor if youre over the age of 10. I desperately want to learn so I can paddleboard and kayak with my partner.
macro programming in Lisp would be "programming programs".

I don't see it here. This looks like compile-time execution to compute values. If it would be a macro, it could return source code.
Because all evidence[0] I've found has shown that work-sample tests and repeatable, structured indicators are the best indicator of job performance. I understand that a lot of devs think they can get a feel for a candidate by just having a good ol' conversation with them, but the body of study on the subject says that that's just wrong. And so I have people do a task that's as close to the actual job as humanly possible and evaluate them on that.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283803351_The_Valid...
The study seems to contradict this: "When broken out by size, small cars have the highest fatal accident rate while midsize and full-size cars are both below average."

And later in the study, “When two small cars collide the forces are equalized and both vehicles tend to hold up well. But if a compact hatchback and a full-size pickup truck try to occupy the same space at the same time, the smaller car always loses.”
> Many people perceive much of the speech on X as hateful and extremist because it directly contradicts their core values

People disagreeing with you is not "hate and extremism".
I just checked, and there is indeed a `--pex-root` option with and even "-c" to specify a custom entry point.

Thanks for pointing it out.
Only sometimes is your historical deep-dive approach going to give you the right signal.

I’ve been out of work for a couple of years due to complicated immigration reasons, and I was most recently a people manager (although with a few direct technical tasks still). I honestly don’t remember many of the deep technical details of things to which I genuinely contributed significantly as an individual contributor or tech lead, despite those being entirely real and despite me still being a capable hands-on technical person. I’ve had so many jobs recently reject me for reasons like this without giving me a chance to actually demonstrate what I can do.

Memory tests are biased toward people who did the work recently, and biased against people with ADHD (who often have worse long-term memory for such details without being worse hires).

The coding interview shouldn’t be just a blind submit and wait for feedback, nor a live rushed and high-pressure puzzle test (you’re quite right in that regard). Ideally it should be the candidate doing what’s expected to be 1-3 hours of work asynchronously at their convenience within a period of a few days, and then discussing (maybe even presenting/demoing) live in a way that shows deep technical understanding and good communication skills. That avoids conflating memory tests with technical tests. Certain live coding tests can also be okay, but I agree it’s easy to make them unnecessarily uncomfortable with a false signal either way.
How is it better exactly? And why always?

I would argue differently, it is better to use latest JDK, it always has best support and fixes.

Most maintained libraries keep their code compatible with it, if one doesn't then I would be cautious in using it as it is a big red light, that notifies given maintainer doesn't have enough time, so any fixes might not get there in time (or ever). Think of it like a litmus test.

LTS makes sense if you are paying for it and updating your JDK as soon as there is a release of LTS JDK (so AFAIR usually once every 1-2 months. Which is exactly what you would do with the current JDK.
Democratic senators call for probe into Musk's Russia calls
Amazing, great product and slick implementation.
Not sure if it is allowed to play youtube videos in custom player though, since ads are skipped.
> The most crucial decision when joining Mastodon is choosing the most friendly instance.

I was very disappointed to find out that whatever instance you choose can essentially hold your identity and content hostage.

I'd been hoping for something where my identity comes from a private key that I could take elsewhere.
You are presently commenting on a platform that has upvotes and replies. Even you apparently want to use a platform that has interactivity.
Elon chose the name to be a joke.

You’re accusing the wrong side for making a mockery of government institutions.
Even knowing that the software exists isn't enough. You have to learn how to use the thing.
TFA links the conversation right at the start. It’s still on Google as far as I can tell.

https://gemini.google.com/share/6d141b742a13
For things like a missing person alert, it provides an instant feedback mechanism and the ability to share things with people you might know in the affected area.

Otherwise, there’s absolutely utility to interacting over social media. We’re doing it right now!