skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but five, ten years ago that wasn't the average "junior web dev" outlook. There was diversity in experience and education.

Big money FAANG posts have really distilled the market down.

Maybe I'm just an oldfart. When I started a quarter of a century ago, people were crowing about Frontpage experience. I'm fairly sure I'd boasted about Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 expertise. And there was an explosion of technologies being thrown around between different devs. But now you don't get to discriminate against bad technology if the market demands it.
There's two main reasons:

* gunicorn doesn't have worker scaling, they're all always running, so async workers were to not waste those resources idling while still allowing lots of simultaneous clients

* The limit was 32768 not that long ago, which was at least possible to hit with a ton of clients
The original post verifies the fact (experimentally) using simulations, and includes example code. However, the guy in the video you referenced does a lot of talking around the problem, and includes a VPN advertisement in the middle. I never heard of Matt Parker before, and I'm not knocking his talent (he has 1.24 million subscribers!), but the only coherent part of the video is where he includes an explanation from another channel, 3blue1brown.
Quite suitable that the American protagonist did nothing to affect the plot or outcome, was just along for the ride.
The tool behind the game:
https://proto.trickle.so/
https://archive.today/rNptv
I never particularly liked Honeycrisp apples and never understood the hype, but seeing this #1 on HN I feel like one of the cool kids ahead of the curve on a niche topic. Jokes aside about 5 years ago I began reading about the industry side of all these new trendy apple varieties, much of it is industry driven and interesting for those into that sort of thing.

The best in my opinion is Fuji followed closely by Gala.
I would think truly open source means also including the initial training data. i.e. Everything needed to build[/tweak/customize] the thing from the ground up.
If you ever eat Cosmic Crisps, you'll throw rocks at a Honeycrisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Crisp

I think there is a newer cultivar that should be superseding the Cosmic Crisp here soon.

Edit - the Kudos Apple. https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/talking-apples-u-m-0
[From the footer: "For those who don’t know this is a parody of The brilliant Story of Mel if you’ve never read it I highly recommend it!"]

I like what the author is saying.

I, too, just code in my terminal (but with vi, of course ;-), and only occasionally DDG a programming language or bash question. I also kindof miss VS EE, but I don't use or target anything by Microsoft, so no need, really.

But, really, I'm just focused on simplifying my coding patterns then being consistent with them. It's an iterative process, where the end goal is as much contraction of the codebase as it is expanding it to add new features.

One of (IIRC) Picasso's children said that their father would work on his canvas for a while, then just sit and stare at it, for hours sometimes, and then repeat that process, perhaps over days. Then, one day, after his usual period of just staring, he would say, "It's done.", and would be done.

I didn't realize until I was nearly 50 that I'm really an artist who works in code, but here we are.

And there, just like in my food, where I abhor articial ingredients, I prefer real intelligence.
I think that’s the point. That work isn’t going to be done for a single unidentified corpse on a battlefield.
Yup. Incentive to use brand recognition for a lower quality, cheaper to produce in more volume substitution is too strong for a large business to ignore.
In some circles, there is the irritating tendency to believe that technology can solve every problem. Experts are eschewed because innovation is valued above all else.
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> You can run a model with substantially similar capabilities to Claude or ChatGPT locally

I am all for local models, but this is massively overselling what they are capable of on common consumer hardware (32GB RAM).

If you are interested in what your hardware can pull off, find the top-ranking ~30b models on lmarena.ai and initiate a direct chat with them on the same site. Pose your common questions and see if they are answered to your satisfaction.
Reminds me of how they archived data in blade runner with librarys full of little crystals as optical storage.

With Sony soon to stop making blue ray it makes me fearful in what to use for a long term archive.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sony-stops-produc...
How do we make local apples a bigger thing again
Aren't some of those platforms more-or-less official outlets of the manufacturer for some brands already?

While it's entirely possible some of the storefronts are just flashing "official widgetco shop" as a credibility-enhancing gesture, it's probably also the easiest way if you're a Chinese firm with little understanding of global last-mile logistics and small-dollar payment processing to get into the direct-to-consumer business. I thought AliExpress was spawned from the B2B relationships Alibaba already had.

If you put up a rule like that, I suspect those sites would just pivot to being "Shopify for Chinese Vendors" -- offering an embeddable storefront that the manufacturer can put directly on their page. The only losers would be the consumers, who would no longer get the convenience of centralized search, being able to put together an order from ten vendors in a single shopping cart, and the ability to efficiently combine shipping.

And let's not say "we lost manufacturing." We GAVE IT AWAY. It's not just that foreign labour is cheaper, it's that Asia was industrializing later, so you get state-of-the-science facilities, while the American plant is 50 years old and nobody wants to splash the capex to rebuild it to modern standards.
I enjoyed those, thanks! I like the circular grid eddy type ones the most. I wanted to highlight some favourites but they have a curious phenomenon where, after studying one for a while, looking at a new one is so refreshing that it always ranks higher so I just get stuck in a circle myself!

Reminds me of the graphic design at "May Contain Hackers 2022" that I really liked: https://mch2022.org/#/ which included a tool to generate similar designs https://mch2022.org/design/

Also reminds me of Bernard Cohen works that I loved in Tate Modern. For me, he achieves something next level which is to go beyond just pressing my "pleasing geometric pattern" buttons but also the type of order/disorder that feels like a human intelligence at work too.

I can't find a page including the ones I have in mind but:

https://www.flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/387-bernard-cohen...

https://www.artnet.com/artists/bernard-cohen/

Sod it, this is probably more comprehensive:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bernard+cohen+works&iax=images&ia=...
The book is available as a free-legal PDF download, whole and per-chapter (as well as purchasable in the traditional dead tree version):

* https://www.edgeofsentience.com/formats
I have never eaten a bad Fuji. They're inexpensive too, usually 1/2 to 1/3 the price of these crapshoot Johnnies-come-lately.
Or, "under pressure, da da da da-da dum dum"
> are we sure node graphs are the best metaphor? Modifier stacks (like 3DS Max) give you 80%

Worth noting that, generally speaking, a linear sequence of modifier steps is what we get as the output of a topological sort on a DAG.

Meaning, it is indeed simpler and easier to reason about if we just let the user define and manage that list, as opposed to building a graph which then produces that list.

It seems like both concepts can happily coexist, if the task runner just needs a list of tasks. Then any structure that can be transformed into a list can work (list, tree, graph), and then a “modifier stack generator” can transform a tree using a tree search, or a graph using a topological sort (or whatever algorithm is appropriate based on the kind of graph).
This is true for most fruits and vegetables and it's the cost of having everything available at any time and for less money.
SnapMem: Snapshot-Based 3D Scene Memory for Embodied Exploration and Reasoning
EPYC brings plenty of NUMA complexity in a single socket unfortunately. If you just want to solve system performance riddles then one socket is plenty. I seem to recall that Facebook publicly announced that they switched their web server systems to 1 socket more than 8 years ago. Since that time Netflix has written several times about how they carefully keep the sides of a 2S server from interfering with each other and I always wondered why they bother, why they don't just saw the system in half and save themselves the trouble.
I'm guessing that they're referring to the practice of investors borrowing with low interest rates to buy large amounts of stock in a company, then milking the company of all its value for short term gains. Unless there's a significant plan in place, many companies can't really get away with long term playbooks if they are responsible to shareholders using ownership for short term gains (so they can quickly move to the next money making asset).
That's the game. Put in enough detail to get the patent but not enough to actually implement the invention.
Germany I hear is one of the worst on piracy. In the united states the worst that will happen is your ISP cancels your service. In germany ? Up to 1000 euro fine and possible jail time. Absolute joke.

Source : https://vpncentral.com/torrenting-fines/
This is the same story for every new variety of apple. It becomes popular because of its positive characteristics (sweetness, tanginess, juicyness, crispness), but then slowly over time it gets cultivated for mass market appeal (uniform color, shape, shelf life) and the variety loses what made it good.

The best apple variety is generally the new one. The market is strewn with the discarded remains of formerly good apples like Fuji and Gala.
Sorry, I'll be using my lazy card here and give a concise answer, which you can extrapolate to find the answers to all of your questions.

PISA is a standardized test conducted by OECD for International Student Assessment. It's homepage is located at [0], alongside with datasets for all previous tests, and plethora of material.

So, you can download the data, look at the questions in any language you prefer, do your own analysis.

I'll just reiterate that, my personal experience mirrors the article. Extreme reliance of smart devices and technologies like conversational LLMs reduce the cognitive ability and deep thinking capacity tremendously. Children and people become interfaces to these devices they use. They just delegate all their thinking to these devices and live a much hollower life.

[0]: https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/pisa.html
Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL
I hear you and I 70% agree.

I’ve also been using Prisma for a project recently and I’ve been finding it quite good. It layers several useful features on top of sql, like schema management (checked in to git), code gen (incl typescript types), db connection management, serialization / deserialization from JavaScript objects to sql rows and back, and it lets you follow foreign keys. If you want, you can also easily just make raw sql queries. That works fine too.

Sql is a very old programming language, and it’s showing its age. The design is wacky - does GROUP BY go before or after ORDER BY in the query? Every command has custom, seemingly random words which are actually parameters. They are placed at totally arbitrary, hard to remember spots in the command. And what, we make our program output a string that gets immediately parsed by the sql server? What a horrible, stupid way to do RPC. It also gives terrible error messages if you get it wrong. And it’s awful to learn and debug.

All of that is a huge pity, because modern databases can do so, so much. Doing logic inside the database can often be an order of magnitude faster than doing it in client code. SQL is a fantastic way to represent your data.

One path for fixing this would be to move the sql query parser inside the client library. Then internally, have the client library send optimized RPC instructions to the database. This would take cpu load off the database (usually a good move - databases are harder to scale). And it would open the door for the client library to provide other better, lighter and faster ways to programmatically construct database queries. Ideally without the totally unnecessary loop of constructing then parsing sql.
Note that the same individuals weren't that lucky with Plan 9, Inferno and Limbo, or Oberon.

Employeer vibes matter.
That's right. Research needs to be bottom-up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_(game)

Google searching for the answer would've taken a lot longer ... i and everyone wants their answer immediately in front of them vs. the antiquated Google search riddled with ads compared to GPT's clean in your face instant results!

I want this experience from Siri (on my phone when I pick it up) now but Apple is too far behind so look forward to an AI Phone called GPT ;-) in the next 6 to 12 months ( hopefully OpenAI & Microsoft are smart are working on such). It would help kill both Google and Apple at the same time!
The engineering-focused "Omega Tau" podcast had some some good episodes on the Apollo program:

http://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/

http://omegataupodcast.net/97-how-apollo-explored-the-moon/
spoiler, spoiled
These US bases should be closed, I don't care they are for mutual training between both countries or other such excuses. The UK should be as hostile to US made weapons and NATO in general as much as the French.
I agree there should be a common api. The sheer number of dialects with SQL contributes to a lot of issues with ORMs.

But SQL is definitely not something designed for computers to only write or compile another language into (which is what the OP is promoting).
> Maps has only become slower and less informative (I remember when it use to actually display everything that was in a location and not just the popular/paid for stuff) since 2009

"Ground Truth" is truly dead... we've been to 25 states in the last year and the speed limits displayed in Maps were correct about 10% of the time.
Being able to spam and mind control 4chan would be amazing just for personal reasons, let alone how juicy that is to governments around the world!
That was it, yes. Long term storage under refrigeration is harming the quality of the apples at market in the interest of making the apple available year round.

The actionable information is in the beginning: honey crisp apples are not worth it anymore buy whatever instead. For me this keeps it from being insufferable. The stuff in the middle demonstrates what the conditions were like before it went mass market, which supports the conclusion that something changed and that it was likely related to the logistics of growing and distributing the apple.

If you don't like reading these articles, you could try using an LLM to extract a summary before choosing to dive in. I'm sure there are browser extensions for that.
What kicked Python on 2000's was Zope, everyone was into Zope, like Rails almost a decade later.
Luckily, given the Bernstein decision saying source code is protected speech, Github's hosting probably isn't so vulnerable.
Basically, they are being stored too long, because Honeycrisp season is only in September, and the apple industry in Washington state is trying to provide them year round.

This is compounded by the subtle effect of the trees being adapted for Minnesota, whereas Washington’s climate is much warmer.
For any large project you need type-safe languages. 99% of experience developers (10+ years of experience) will agree with this opinion.

Sure you can develop very large projects in JS, as long as you don't mind being 1% as efficient, and having 100x more bugs. In JS, refactoring a huge project is the biggest nightmare in the world and really no human is capable of doing a great job of it in a reasonable time, even if they have a high IQ and decades of experience.
there was a lot of popular science on sports training in the 1980s.. perhaps related to new, excellent measurement of blood content at different stages of exercise? a fallout of that science was the steriods era in US pro sports
Agreed, the experience the author describes with a Honeycrisp at the beginning of the article is something I recently had with a Cosmic. Let’s hope it lasts.
> Isn't it a greater risk that creators lose their income and nobody is creating the content anymore?

There are already multiple lifetimes of quality content out there. It's difficult to get worked up about the potential future losses.
I'm kinda looking at it from the other end of the causation: with all their resource, talent, everyone shouting at them on their garbage results to the point specifying individual sites like reddit in the query has become common knowledge...all of this says that changing course is hard.

We might be completely mistaken on the reasons why it's hard, but there's no doubt they can't do it easily.

On human curation, this brings other problems that Google is also very bad at solving. Google would need to manage their moderators at scale. Even Meta couldn't do it in a sustainable way, and Amazon's Mechanical Turk model is also deeply problematic. Amazon itself puts a ton of effort into customer service and yet doesn't keep up with the scams.

Curation and moderation at Google scale is indeed a crazy hard problem.
> Don't view ads.

I don’t think that is possible. If you go outside, you will be exposed to advertising. And lots of it.
I feel like it’s only a matter of time before we get AI-enabled image formats to supersede AVIF and WEBP.

Hopefully we can get some meaningful wins on mobile web performance.
And now Elm is gone, as its author failed to capitalise on it, to the point of having a talk about lack of funding in FOSS.

Technically not dead, rather stagnant, a difference that hardly matters regarding adoption and ecosystem future.
Huh?

"Fuck the customers, shareholders are happy!" So odd.
Even if you know of massive projects in JS, the problem isn't that they cannot exist, it's that maintaining them takes 100x the manpower it would in TypeScript.
Hard disagree.

I used to love Galas but ultimately realized about 50% of the time they were mealy.

Since swapping to Honeycrisp, I’ve yet to have a mealy one. Maybe occasionally (about 1 out of 20-30) there’s one that has a hint of mealiness, but far from what half of the Galas were.

I do agree that not all of them are super sweet/flavorful, but still most of them are, and I’d take a less sweet but still crisp apple any day over a sweet but mealy one.

I never tried Fuji much, but don’t remember them being anything special. This site [1] (shared at least once on HN) has Fuji even below Gala.

[1] https://applerankings.com/
"Working their way from the ground on down." --Ben Harper

Even in death, we're all time travelling ;-)
> There should be a system analyst.

Exactly, this what we try to advance our tech people to, someone with the combination of domain+systems knowledge.

It results in more independent+correct action which is much more powerful than having to specify significant details to less knowledgeable people.
> As for NuScale being a scam, it would be probably the most elaborate scam in the history of financial scams. They were founded in 2007 and went public in 2022. People don't spend 15 years to run a scam, especially if this involves not one by two government agencies (the NRC and the SEC).

I wouldn’t call it a scam, but something that runs for 15 years with the involvement of 2 government agencies (read: large bureaucracies) is not unlikely to produce very little.

For example, see NASA’s space program, the European space program, and Boeing.
Quite the contrary, I support declarative configuration and code-reviewable infrastructure changes but k8s is just too much for me.

I paired with one of our platform engineers several months ago. For a simple app that listens on Kafka, stores stuff in PostgreSQL and only has one exposed port... and that needed at least 8 YAML files. Ingress, service ports and whatever other things k8s feels should be described. I forgot almost all of them the same day.

I don't doubt that doing it every day will have me get used to it and even find it intuitive, I suppose. But it's absolutely not coming natural to me.

I'd vastly prefer just a single config block with a declarative DSL in it, a la nginx or Caddy, and describe all these service artifacts in one place. (Or similar to a systemd service file.)

Too many files. Fold stuff in much less of them and I'll probably become an enthusiastic k8s supporter.
HN fails to see the intersectionality between corpo power complex politics and marshalling LUTs in firmware space. Shame, but that's life. Rob's point is bang on albeit from a technical stance. This is also ultimately why Rob failed, but with a deep groaning sigh and not a bequeathed resignation (a true nerd is at the end of the day only known by their yawp). Power junkies will try to convince you otherwise because they benefit from it. But you have to live to believe it. The life of a kernel driver maintainer of something that a large corpo entity is financially vested in is one of a diplomat saint. Newly minted VP wants to leave a mark and be goody two shoes. Good luck. The news you hear on the internet are superficial because the map is not the territory.
They're calling looting a hobby?
SnapDragon is a vastly improved version of Honeycrisp anyway. The only real issue with it is that only growers within New York State are allowed to grow it, so it's not nearly as available.
In case I was unclear, I consider Angular dead and obsolete.
The urgent need for a national GPS jamming detection system
Yep - in fact, when discussing the idea for CMYK mode it was brought up that we should make it flexible for CieLab and other color modes. Unless someone beats me to it, I'll likely try to make a merge request with CMYK mode first, then use it as a reference commit for implementing other color models.
Thank you for sharing. Can you tell us more about this:

"He told me about a small group of successful indie developers that he was a part of and alluded that maybe once they are looking for more members, I could try applying to join them. Half a year later, I applied and I got in."
On the other hand people look at themselves and their neighbours and think “can’t happen here because we aren’t nazis”

Doesn’t take many people to actually hold a nazi ideology to make it come to pass.

After all, “ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”

Simplifying into “nazi” and “not nazi” is not helpful
Graph editors are useful when the nodes represent meaningful abstractions over the underlying code for whatever the domain is.

For example, I could use a bunch of arithmetic nodes to implement matrix multiplication, but a RotateAroundPoint node would be far more useful and desirable.

For low-code users, this is often exactly what they need. You could write a RotateAroundPoint function for them to use, but then they’re still managing a lot of the boilerplate around writing code. Graph editors solve many of these pain points when the correct nodes for the problem-space are offered.
Which vegetables taste noticeabley worse? Whenever I travel abroad I try to eat as much fruit as possible because of how terrible nearly all of it is in the US. Melons and mangoes are basically a totally different fruit. My cousin from Kenya refuses to even try his favorite fruit in the US. But vegetables, especially after cooking, seem ok. Only thing I can think of are maybe out of season fresh tomatoes.
She doesn't really explain why the honeycrisps she gets at the farmer's market are hit-or-miss now, which would have been a more interesting story to unwind.