skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A contact list actually seems to me like an abnormally bad example for other reasons, or I'm way more atypical than I think I am and everyone else curates their contacts far more carefully. For me, the proliferation of spam means I'm never going to answer an unrecognized phone number, and thus enter everyone I ever expect to receive a phone call from into the list. The vast majority of the time, these are things like contractors coming to my house, a hand surgeon I visit for one injury and hopefully only one injury, a shop I take my car to hopefully once and only once. Numbers I received a call from a few times, possibly more than a decade ago. The fact they're still in my contacts list says nothing whatsoever about my level of trust in them and doesn't mean other contacts, especially my actual friends, should assume anything about their presence except that I received at least one phone call from them at some point and I was expecting that call.

That's aside from the fact that contact lists are not reciprocal. Adding a number to your list and giving it a name doesn't mean the owner of that number has added you to their list. There is no guarantee whoever is on the other end of that number has any idea who you even are.

This is also aside from the fact that phone numbers can be reassigned. That's an argument that I and anyone else as cavalier about their lists as me should be removing numbers more often, but outside of a fairly short time horizon, there is no guarantee that the person who owns a number you have listed as "Bob" is still Bob.

These issues aren't unique to digital contact lists, either. My wife pulled a book off the shelf a few months ago I hadn't opened in a very long time and found an old sheet of paper I'd written some phone number on, possibly 25 years ago? One was a very good friend from high school, a name I still knew and a number I still recognized as her parent's home number from the late 90s. The other, I have absolutely no idea. Probably some designated driver for a group of friends I was going to a party with who were going separate from me in case I needed someone to call if something came up. I may have never even called that number or received a call from it.

Hell, how many contacts of people in their early 20s are someone you met in a club who gave you a fake phone number that happens to be some other person's real phone number?

This bugs me to no end with all the apps out there for smart phones that want access to your contacts. Why? What significance do you think this list has? It's just a semi-random assortment of some sub-sample of all the people and organizations I have had some kind of fleeting and possibly one-time interaction with in the past quarter century. It doesn't imply I remember who they are, know them, or that I vouch for them in any way.
Except when you've been working with suppliers who have already been iterating on <insert widget> for years in a competitive environment.

The amount of innovation in the automobile industry is staggering when you think of its history more holistically.
It's also just embarrassing that this is supposed to be a data science blog about employee performance and the only non-simulated data directly presented or discussed is the US wage distribution, where the author has just cavalierly marked the x-axis as "Performance". There's all this spew, and the author makes claims about what good data scientists do ... and there's no data in this discussion that's directly relevant to their rambling claims.
I've recently been working with a lot of service center productivity data. Staff productivity (customers/hour) is pretty close to a gaussian, with some skew towards many slight underperformers and few overperformers.

However, any single customer interaction is exponential or weibull distributed.
After a quick look it seemed to me like they're trying to standardize on how clients call servers, which nobody needs, and nobody is going to use. However if they have new Tools that can be plugged into my LangChain stuff, that will be great, and I can use that, but I have no place for any new client/server models.
Largest EV manufacturer in the world, of course you would see them everywhere.
that makes Scala look easy.
I knew that name (author, and lisp) was familiar: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40054453
How does moving to the country help fix loneliness? That sounds counterintuitive. Proximity to people should provide more chances for social interaction, not fewer.
it should be a factor (defense in depth) but not the ONLY factor.
Learning to code, both in person, and online, both formally, and informally are invaluable.
Yeah, the idea that companies bend over backwards to protect credit card information but not data on the user is mind boggling.

Except when you think of incentives.
This is a pretty interesting paper. I was not aware of the acoustic properties of silk (a fabric that continues to surprise me). The ability to actively dampen noise emission would obviously be of interest to ninja assassins but as someone who has hearing challenges I think exploiting its properties to make it into a full garment microphone might be an interesting application. Based on the sound levels in the paper I don't think it would work as a speaker however which is kind of good because everyone having their own mood music all the time would be super distracting.
If you roll in deaths from substance abuse (particularly opioids) and other “deaths of despair” the figures are a bit more striking. Zoom in on one a few gigantic demographic blocks and they become more striking still.

One would hope that people are feeling less desperate today than a period of time that includes two world wars and a Great Depression, that’s a really low bar for what many claim is a great time to be alive.
Batching is a pattern I’ve had to manually build in the past to push large amounts of analytic data to a database. I’d push individual events to be logged, map reduce those in batches and then perform insert on duplicate update queries on the database, otherwise the threshold of incoming events was enough to saturate the connection pool making the app inoperable.

Even optimizing to where if an app instance new it ran the inert on update for a specific unique index by storing that in a hash map and only running updates from there on out to increase the count of occurrences of that event was enough to find significant performance gains as well.
Correlation, not causation. The logic you used is the reason the SpuriousCorrelations website exists.

Palo Alto (adjacent to Sanford University) was host to clusters of suicides that appeared epidemiological and were studied by national researchers. [1] The pressures of modern life, struggles with meaning, increased competition, mental health issues, stubbornness against seeking help, access to deadly weapons/knowledge, etc. are all confounding issues.

[1] https://stanforddaily.com/2016/07/21/cdc-releases-preliminar...
Seems the article is about discounting the issue simply by redefining the word "friend".
got fixed by https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mai... fwiw
They don't actively target poor schools. The military recruits from the middle three quintiles of the population; it is literally a middle-class insitution by definition.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military

I called it disgusting because it disgusts me when people immaturely tar military service as immoral or lesser. There is no shame in serving the duly-elected government of a constitutional liberal democracy, and every human society which exists needs a military. Witness Ukraine.
you build an MCP that does great calling using your own cookies and browser to get around their scraping protections.
So when it comes to data protection, your startups will be user-hostile? Noted.
Prejudice, most likely.
Cherry tomatoes delivered across the Atlantic by pterodactyl, no doubt.
I think they scan the code by two characters because one is not enough for <= and => so what is why assignment is := or =:. Probably + is ++ too.
It depends on what you mean by "backwards compatible," and what you mean by "static lifetime checking" :)

The profiles proposal suggests adding static lifetime checking, "without viral annotations." I use quotations because I don't really agree with this framing, but whatever. The paper is here if you'd like to read it yourself: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p30...

The core idea here is that you add annotations to opt in or out of certain checks. And opting in may be a compiler flag, requiring no changes to source code. So that would be "backwards compatibility" in that sense. Of course, code may fail these checks, so you'll have to add annotations to opt out, or re-write the code. We will see in practice how much change is required once implementations exist and are tried out.

But the other part is, these profiles do not attempt to cover all valid cases. And what I mean by that is, there are some lifetime issues that this proposal does not attempt to analyze. And, where the analysis is similar, they offer a subset of what other proposals do. These decisions were made because the authors believe that they'll reduce a significant number of issues, and are easier to adopt. And that's worth it instead of going for more checks.

The competing proposal, Safe C++, has you opt into safety checks on a file-per-file basis. So in that sense, it is also backwards compatible: all existing code compiles as-is. When you opt in to those checks, it adds new syntax, similar to Rust, to do the safety analysis checks. So you gain this benefit for only new code, but it also you get much more power. This syntax is necessary to communicate programmer intent to the checks, but is the "viral annotations" that the proponents of profiles don't like.

So, basically, that's the thing: both are backwards compatible, but offer very different tradeoffs in the design space.
Llama Inference in 150 Lines
You are missing out on the huge world of self-taught developers who run many of the massive companies out there. Many of them dropped out too.

Learning informally, or formally, in person, online, in groups is all valuable.
https://pinegrow.com may serve your needs well here epic product
I thought the article was pretty clear: they are breaking rules (not laws, FWIW) but are not yet big enough for the EU to do anything about it. At their current growth trajectory they will soon. The EU statement seems to just be an anticipation of the inevitable.
Nobody [who knows what they're doing] wants their LLM API layer controlling anything about how their clients and servers interact though.
People who walk out the door talk.
I loved the unlimited vacation policy. I took more vacation at Netflix than anywhere else. No one was anxious about using it.

It helped that senior leadership set a good example. The CEO took a few weeks off every year and made sure everyone knew that it was ok to do that. He also made sure all his directs took a few weeks every year at a minimum.

There was a culture of management encouraging you to take advantage of the program.
I think we agree that it’s the rules that need to change. The software just made that clear, and those making it don’t get to change the rules — their bosses bosses do.
From the way that paragraph continues:

> The importance of sound is underscored by its dual nature, serving as both a vital tool for communication and a potential source of harm, exemplified by the pervasive issue of noise pollution.[1] Considered to be a public health issue by the World Health Organization, unwanted noise can have harmful health effects on people who are chronically exposed to it.[1-5] In the US alone, an estimated 145 million people are exposed to hazardous noise levels.[5] To suppress noise levels, both active and passive solutions are used.

I suspect it may be angling to funding or a journal/conference purpose or something? Without that, the rest of the paper's not really going to care about noise pollution, even if it potentially indirectly offers a way to mitigate it.
I apologize - when you said "You have the right to free movement on public land", I assumed the statement was related to the reality in Canada, and not some hypothetical society.
> IMO these kinds of "shortcuts based on column naming across tables" usually end in disaster down the road.

But sometimes this decision has been made years ago and it's not realistic to change it now. I've wanted to do this many times, and I've never been the person who created said tables.

Also, certain use cases perform much better if you create temp tables with small subsets of data from the main tables. It sure would be nice to be able to reuse fragments of SQL written against the main tables... if only SQL were better.
> Given that for many people owning their house is the only way to preserve some sort of inheritance for their children...

This is why the housing crisis will never be solved. Homeowners vote. Homeowners don't want to solve the housing shortage as it will hurt their values. No democratically elected government will ever work to actually fix the housing shortage. Of course there will be token actions and platitudes, but nothing of consequence will be done.
self report should be crossed with frequency of interpersonal contacts
You can't buy the same monitor that is in the iMac anywhere else so it is really hard to compare. Similar monitors are really expensive.
We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.
Yep it’s been great to see the sites that try and track me vs them just doing it without me knowing.
insider info: all the top talent at Samsung left for SK Hynix after government stepped and forced DEI on Samsung leading to unqualified managers ruining Samsung's culture of innovation and rewarding experimentation.
It was a very long time ago and I forgot some of the details. I just remembered the doctor who examined me was somewhat amused by my bad eyesight, bad feet, and poor lungs. I never drank (at the time), smoked, or did any drugs prescribed or otherwise. I did have excellent grades and I guess I wore my heart on my sleeve and my intense desire to enlist and do what it takes was plain to see. The recruiting officer had a few words with me, thanked me for my desire to serve, and checked I believe his strong recommendation for my enlistment and eventual commission. There was no mention of my physical condition. At the various schools I struggled with some of physical requirements. Mostly the ones that required explosive strength. Even then they gave me extra help so I could do things like pull ups and clean & jerks. I have to say the military for all of its faults and problems was one of the best places I have ever worked at and I look back on my experience quite fondly.
Can someone please give examples of uses for this?
Broadband for Dummies
I've honestly been pretty happy with it. It gives developers the ability to push back on shirt practices with "do you want to lose access to the European market?" Having that in the tool belt is very handy
I think I’ve even noticed a huge decrease in hate bots lately in my feed, certainly doesn’t seem to up date as often (aka takes longer for my usual “followees”to go off the firehouse, as they have some precedence in the feed make up
I have been playing Quake since Quake World and dial up. For Quake Live I was ranked highly for a while in RA. It's true that if you were close enough to the server you could get a better experience, but in western Canada servers were limited. In the past though, even with a good ping, rails were much more likely to hit on LAN. The changes to the net code in Quake Live were a welcomed change for myself.

As a note, I recently played for the first time in over 10 years. I got banned until 2029 from the main RA3 sever most people play on because I achieved 60%+ accuracy in a match and people thought I was cheating.

I also got the aim bot achievement from Steam as a result, which only 3.6% of other players have.

Back in the day I had a very tiny sponsorship with HyperGlide where I tested their products before the launch. They are credited for making the first hard surface mouse pad. I only received mouse pads, but I was happy to receive this.

https://www.hyperglide.net/
When I read these articles, I always ask myself if this is more of a joint OS-ISA issue than just an ISA problem.

Wondering if a well defined OS system, with strict enforcement of memory boundaries at the OS level and at the application level, where the application sits in a well defined deterministic execution model would mitigate some of these unpredictable state transitions.

If one considers a minimalist OS, micro kernel for example, lowering the attack surface, would this not explicitly prevent access to certain microarchitectural states (e.g., by disallowing certain instructions like clflush or speculative paths)? This could be accomplished with a strict memory management jointly at the OS layer and the binary structure of the application… one where the binary has a well defined memory memory boundary. The OS just ensures it is kept with in these limits.
> when people have to rent their homes, all too often it is some investment vehicle for the uber rich that gets the rent.

This is solvable with a greater mix of affordable housing. It is also solvable by increasing the portion of community-owned (e.g. county-owned/operated housing) which is already at about 20% here. It is also solvable by legislating that a certain amount of rent paid has to be used for upkeep, upgrades, and such. (Where I live already have laws to that effect for other near-monopolies such as water and communications, where the state effectively dictates a maximum reasonable revenue).

> when people own their home, it removes a lot of stress, especially in times of economic crisis.

Lots of crises over the past decades has seen a significant degree of stress among home-owners over the interest they have to pay. Over the past two years I have not been able to go more than a few days between hearing on national news about homeowners being stressed about interest payments on their homes. Among renters there is significantly less so as there already is a safety net available. So in my world it is the other way around from the picture you paint. (Let me also add a side note about the 2008 mortgage crisis if fewer people had less loans and less risky loans here).

> Not being afraid to make rent each month is a lifechanger.

Not being able to pay interest each moth is almost all I ever hear about the economy over the past year or so. Cost of interest has been one of the major factors in why the inflation has been so high. See above again. Never about rent.

> when people own their homes, they don't need as much money in pensions and wages.

This is again a question of social safety net more than anything else. If you have affordable housing you also don't need as much money in pensions and wages to live somewhere good.
After some research, it doesn't seem like Firefox supports it.
That's not how free association works. Both the individual and the group, each according to their own criteria, determine if they want to associate with one another.

i know that. my point is that absolute free association is not a good idea because it will create a group of outcasts that noone wants to associate with. but that is something that we must not allow to happen.

And, for those few that are unwanted by anyone, much fewer than there are now in a state dominated environment, they can always choose to associate with one another.

no they can't. similar to the quote "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" those outcasts will all be different and many won't want to associate with each other.

i am actually experiencing this frequently as an expat. although being welcomed, i am often treated as an outsider, and i have no interest to associate with other expats either. while there still exists groups that i can associate with, i am sure there are people that noone wants to associate with, and we can't allow to let these people be left behind.
In my ideal world, no they do not. Pay equals what it would cost to rehire me today. Performance should always be great for what you are expected to do.

Where the two correlate is that if you're hiring a mid-level person they get mid-level pay, and if they are top performing mid-level, they get promoted to senior and get commensurate pay.

So performance leads to promotions which leads to better pay. But pay is not directly correlated with performance. I expect everyone in the same level to have equal performance (over the long term, of course there will be short term variations).
This feels like a case for a function.
Pretty cool and could be useful for stuff that isnt updated so frequently like a CMS.
Ahh thanks! I was gonna say it's broken, but I now see that you're supposed to notice the sidebar changed and select one of the child pages. Would def recommend changing the sidebar link to that path instead of the index -- I would do it myself but couldn't find the sidebar in your doc repos within 5 minutes of looking.

Thanks for your hard work! "LSP for LLMs" is a fucking awesome idea
Indonesia rejects Apple's $100M investment to lift iPhone 16 sales ban
It was an emergency ruling. The takeover that was supposed to happen was blocked. What The onion was $2M below another offer.
An Apple Studio display has a similar price point to this iMac.
I can not emphasize this enough, we need more and better trees.
I'm not sure it's that bloated. The US is doing much better than most countries regarding headcount at the federal level. The Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, USPS, make up about 2/3 of the total.

I think it was just another campaign tactic, theater for the masses and the reality is very different. It's programs that cost the American people the most so if Elon and Vivek want to save money, they will need to look at programs like SS, Veterans benefits, Medicare, Education, etc.
We've reverted the title now. (Submitted title was "GitHub removes 42 "basic functionality" features from their roadmap")

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This whole thread smh. It feels like a military power convinced it can win a war by flying around in airplanes at 30,000’ and they are here vigorously discussing their insane tactics. It’s time for me to leave Silicon Valley.
If performance is not tied to pay, why would you have an incentive to do that?

If anything the incentive is problematic in the other direction. People tend to be nice because they don't want to say mean things that they know the manager will see.