skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mostly correct, but it's worth mentioning that cloudberry substantially predates Greenplum going closed source. It just got quite a boost from that change happening. Different dev team too, afaik none of the original Greenplum team was involved with Cloudberry until very recently.

Also, Greenplum 7 tracks postgres 14. Which is still old at this point, but not so bad as 12....

I also don't think I'd call the architecture ancient. Just very tightly coupled to postgres' own (as a fork of postgres that tries to ingest new versions from upstream every year or two) and paying the overhead of that choice in the modern landscape.

Source: former member of the Greenplum Kernel team.
It seems like this should open up an opportunity for some enterprising people to make a Facebook and Instagram competitor that isn't filled with AI bots.
I have never gotten a “promotion” in 28 years of working across 10 jobs.

I’ve always changed jobs. It’s a lot easier to get a “promotion” as part of an interview when you control the narrative than going through the promo process.

Besides because of salary compression and inversion, even if you do get an internal promotion, you will probably make less than someone coming in at your level.
Pop some popcorn and watch the show:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/did-the-sun-rise-from...

Other than that, I'm thinking about what kind of side hustle I could start and get going. I suppose we all should have been developing a side hustle all along. BUT - I've never worked for Big Tech because their hiring and firing is so fickle. I've been able to carve out a long career working for startups and mid-caps. It doesn't hurt that those companies don't have the resources to manage the H1B process.
yeah, 105 years later we finally have a disney's a mickey mouse, but they still put the ears in every gadget to prolong it as a trademark.

TBH I can see now how the conglomerates created by buying smaller studios by big fish start owning everything. They've divided the market by themselves, and now they are rising their prices. Meanwhile I cannot make a screenshot of my
favourite cartoon to create a meme, because of "copy protection". But I have right to do it you now? It's written in law in my country (Poland) that I can have small pieces recorded down, screenshotted etc, as long as I am doing some creative work on it, or just keep it to myself. THIS IS THE LAW HERE. And it's being ignored.
i can easily get another sim card to get around the limit as an end user. this only affects people who want to buy devices en masse and would have to get a sim card each. and even that is not that hard if you compare the cost of a sim to the cost of a phone.

the annoying thing about xiaomi unlocking is the random wait time. when my mother visited a few years ago, i got her her first smartphone that i wanted to install /e/OS on. i remembered my own wait time was a week, so i figured i'd have enough time while my mom was here. when i started the unock process i realized that the wait time was randomized and this time i got two weeks. luckily that still left me one day before my mother had to leave so i managed, but if the wait time would have been just a few days more i would have been unable to set up the phone for her.
No. 'conceit' has a few meanings, including 'a fanciful notion'.
Effective Technical Diagrams (2020)
Economics has the idea of expressed preferences.

So for instance, with that framework, if you choose the cheaper item instead of the inconvenience of understanding the tradeoffs between the items, you obviously care less about quality than price and convenience.
New year's Unix haiku chain, for fun
happy new year. here’s a collection of twenty Unix-inspired haikus, strung together in Unix tool style. enjoy.

1.

Shell whispers commands,
Pipes carry thoughts unseen,
Files wait in silence.

2.

Awkward, but precise,
Awk scripts slice through data’s fog,
Patterns laid bare, whole.

3.

Man pages unfold,
Cryptic wisdom hides within,
Seek, and grep shall find.

4.

Chmod's gentle touch,
Permissions carved from pure need,
Root guards every key.

5.

Vim’s endless escape,
Insert, delete, and persist,
Lines converge, diverge.

6.

Git commits my past,
Branches twist like ancient trees,
Merge conflicts linger.

7.

Screen divides my world,
Windows layer, tasks align,
Detach to freedom.

8.

Cron breathes life at dawn,
Scripts awaken, work begins,
Time obeys my will.

9.

Sed rewrites the stream,
Substitutes the broken text,
Streams flow flawless now.

10.

Curl reaches out far,
Hands grasping at distant threads,
Webs of bytes return.

11.

Tar wraps memories,
Compressing fragile moments,
Files sleep, safe and still.

12.

Ps spies on the mind,
Processes reveal themselves,
Kill sends them to peace.

13.

Df tells the tale,
Disk space vanishes like mist,
Cleanup comes too late.

14.

Echo repeats me,
A mirror of self’s design,
Command-line mantra.

15.

Xargs multiplies hope,
Feeding commands endless streams,
Efficiency reigns.

16.

Top watches the stars,
Processes dance in the void,
Numbers sing their song.

17.

Find digs through the earth,
Lost files whisper from the depths,
Paths emerge again.

18.

Nano, humble friend,
Simpler edits, fewer fights,
No escape needed.

19.

Make builds dreams anew,
Dependencies aligned,
Errors beg repair.

20.

Unix fades to night,
Terminal's glow flickers still,
Scripts dream of tomorrow.
UK must ban full hybrid cars by 2030 or face net 0 catastrophe, says EV UK
Heh, no. Full Stack with a lot of NextJS/React/ReactNative these days. Sprinkle in a Spring Boot + Angular project and this Rails gig. I also spent a few years doing Obj-C/Swift iOS development.

Rails was one of the first web frameworks I learned after PHP and it and Ruby were always favorites of mine.

Closest I came to being a Drupal dev was shipping a small CodeIgniter app in around 2011 (right before picking up a Rails book).
Those two things aren’t in contradiction. Egalitarianism refers to equality of opportunity regardless of social class: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism. That’s distinct from believing everyone has a communal responsibility to take care of each other.

E.g. Desi culture is communal—people lean on each other for support. But it’s not egalitarian—social class, family reputation, and even birth order are important in social interactions. I have cousins that married above their league because our family reputation carries weight back in our town. Americans by contrast are not communal. The difference is especially stark within extended families, where the bonds of mutual support are very weak. But they are egalitarian. Nobody cares about your family reputation.

Egalitarianism is one of the things that makes America so attractive for immigration. Immigrants by definition have no spot in established familial hierarchies. In a society where that matters, immigrants can’t get to the top.
> you can't expect people at large to engage with nonhumans

NPCs are a big component of a lot of video games. Imagine an Elder Scrolls game with no NPCs.

A social media platform filled with AI agents pretending to be your friends is basically just a "social media simulator" video game, with all the same requirements for immersion that make it enjoyable/entertaining to use.

The fact that it's "multiplayer" (other real humans engaging with the mix of humans and AIs) doesn't change that.

Facebook has become a ghost town, so they want to turn Facebook into a Facebook simulator.

Imagine if a dying MMORPG could populate its game with NPCs that would help retain the dwindling player base, to avoid a collapsed network effect. Sounds good, right? Same thing here.

(Facebook became a ghost town in large part due to Facebook's own enshittification campaign, but that's another story)
https://about.google/belonging/diversity-annual-report/2023/

In 2023, 31.7% of the workforce was white males (page 15).
That demo gif is horrible.

You are not showcasing anything, but looping low resolution screenshots with special effects.
“do I want to suffer such rejection humiliation? Not really”

The point of Terence Tao’s original post is that you just cannot think of rejection as humiliation. Rejection is not a catastrophe.
Making a mitmproxy dump from a manual browsing session is more or less unblockable, barring some TPM or similar fuckery.

Usage of the API even with the protocol known OTOH can be quite easily made really hard.
The Edge team also briefly had a standalone Windows 8/10 app called "Reader" that supported EPUB, PDF, and a couple other similar formats without the rest of the browser UI, but was just purely an embed of Edge (Spartan).
you've nailed it
Thanks. Personally, I'd love to see more like https://alex-hhh.github.io/2021/08/fish-puzzle.html

When I was in university, the usual Prolog example was solving a game of Cluedo.
I think you mostly only run the risk of pigeonholing yourself as a “startup person” if you jump on another startup. But startup people value startup experience, so as along as you enjoy startup work and are making solid contributions, I think you have a long career ahead, with the caveat that options to work in a bigger company may be diminishing. Even then, it’s not all that uncommon for big companies to try to bring in startup types to breathe some life into a stagnant culture. Not so much FAANG but there are a lot of other big tech companies with good comp.
Nobody said sharing the code "is the perfect solution". Just that sharing the code is way better and should be commonplace, if not required. Your argument that not doing so will force other teams to do re-write the code seems unrealistic to me. If anyone wants to check the implementation they can always disregard the shared code, but having it allows other, less time-intensive checks to still happen: like checking for cherry-picked data, as GP suggested, looking through the code for possible pitfalls etc. Besides, your argument could be extended to any specific data the paper presents: why publish numbers so people can get lazy and just trust them? Just publish the conclusion and let other teams figure out ways to prove/disprove it! - which is (more than) a bit ridiculous, wouldn't you say?
2024 in AI Predictions
I think it was more watching people die gruesomely on ventilators in the early days and worries that could be widespread. In fact most people had already had the "four known seasonal coronaviruses (non-Covid-19)" but not really noticed as they are like the common cold.
Isn't this what Anker has largely done. In a world of might be good/might be crap cables, chargers, batteries, etc. You can always select the Anker variety on Amazon. It'll cost you a bit more than whatever random product, but you know they are reliable. It's priced much cheaper than an OEM (Apple, Google, Samsung, etc.) accessory but is more reliable (quality wise) than no-name accessories.
Reddit too... https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-...
Designing Cloud Servers for Lower Carbon
The real solution is to make the content sortable like Reddit.
A Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O'Brian
I don't fault them for taking risks and failing (I think at the time there was still an argument for VR, could be possible they were ahead of the curve). I think the tipping point is when they're actively pushing for things that degrade user experience.
The accidental invention of the snow globe (2024)
https://x.com/karpenoid/status/1670723794544263170

https://x.com/karpenoid/status/1873281722613400002

This might be linked.
What’s the point? To brag how jobs remain in the US and MAGA.

It makes sense to a certain extent. You need to secure the infrastructure for that particular job to remain in your country but you want cheaper labor.

From an employer perspective it shifts the balance of power. Those pesky citizens, they change jobs, have all these rights and demands… The visa is tied to the employer. The visa holder cannot just change an employer without the new employer applying for a new visa.

Don’t like your job? Suck it up. Boss is a bully? Suck it up. Underpaid for your skills? Suck it up. Otherwise leave the country within 60 days max.
Thanks! Really appreciate your comment :)
You do not but I feel like many places have the element of getting "pushed up or pushed out".

I'm in a similar boat but I haven't seen any place keep up with inflation without some kind of promotion or bonuses.
Short-Lived Certificates Are Coming in 2025
I presume GP thinks it's equally unnecessary considering they specifically mentions email and SMS.
if i'm giving a presentation, i always practice it several times and i always find flaws to fix up(there's no segue from this slide to this one, i need to reorder these so i can introduce X before talking about Y, etc).

but you have to practice the right way.

the terrible, long-winded, confusing presentations you've seen were most likely done by somebody that sees a presentations as merely "talking in front of a group" so their practice would be focused on memorizing lines/facts that want to say. they may sound polished, but it's not necessarily going to be good.

in order for your practice to actually help, you need to go through your presentation while maintaining a strong sense of empathy for the audience. you need to fight a constant battle against the 'curse of knowledge' and force yourself to honestly evaluate what you're doing from the perspective as a first-time listener.
We're All in 'Dark Mode' Now
Context !

What It's Like to Work for Elon Musk - Genius, Chaos, and Burnout (techiegamers.com) :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42574496

And

US culture breeds 'laziness' and 'mediocrity (telegraph.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42574238

In particular :

> “It comes down to this: do you want America to WIN or do you want America to LOSE,” Mr Musk posted on X. “If you force the world’s best talent to play for the other side, America will LOSE. End of story.”

> The world’s richest person later clarified, however, that he only advocated bringing in the top “0.1 per cent of engineering talent”.

It's funny, looks like, at a meta level this also explains both my burning hatred for Twitter (even before Musk) and why Musk doesn't give a fuck about this context issue :

> “Are people really dumb enough to think they can convince Elon Musk, an immigrant to the United States who has generated untold wealth and national security advantage for our economy and nation out of thin air, that high skilled immigration is bad for Americans? Like, seriously?” Mr Nelson wrote.

> “My tolerance for subtards is limited,” Mr Musk replied.

I can certainly see how this philosophy can work wonders at his level. And even produce tremendous improvements for *everyone : an invention has a one-time cost, but a "forever" benefit.

Still, even Musk needs a society that is liberal enough to produce the kind of people that can reach for the stars, and an environment pristine enough that something like an industrial civilization is possible. He would do well to not jeopardize these...
Facebook solidly at #2 is surprising, considering they've been heavily optimising the feed for algorithmic short video content like Instagram and Tiktok.

Are people using it for specific services like groups & marketplaces - or do people still use it to keep up with their friends?
How do I know if https://onlineornot.com is online or offline?

EDIT: Interestingly, it appears down for Beijing: https://www.uptrends.com/tools/is-my-website-down?toolReques...
Tesla confirms delivery of 495,570 EVs, way below its own guidance
Genuine question: is this how Meta gets into the lucrative synthetic romantic partner business?
Who actually has fast core (>=50% of Apple M series) that they could just slap RISC-V on, though? ARM, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm? IIRC the Switch 2 chip is going to use Cortex so even Nvidia can't be bothered to design their own CPU cores.

CPUs seem to be a commodity at this point so unless you're willing to invest massive amounts to be able to compete to catch up and overtake them just paying whatever ARM wants (probably pennies) seems like a good deal.
Reminds me of a realization I had in undergrad with some back of the envelope math:

There are more unique combinations [1] of a 16x16 1-bit grid/bitmap than there are:

* Cells in your body (10^13)

* Stars in the known universe (10^24)

* Atoms that make up our solar system (10^56)

1. 2^256 == ~1.2x10^77
> Immigration is America's superpower.

I think America's natural resources are its superpower personally. Immigration has historically been important in setting up systems for extracting these resources however I think whether its good at a given time needs to be justified every time.
Were there any staffers with founder's stock or other equity who might have been played with this maneuver?
I accidentally fell into working for state government. Small state relatively and it has been one of the most enjoyable things I have ever done. I am able to help people, again, use technology to make things easier. It is very enjoyable. I can see myself working here until I am no longer able to keep up. I enjoy programming, but more importantly solving problems, and really hope that I don't have to retire.
Out of curiosity: did you already have an education that certified you for the job, or is it something you acquired recently?
Those questions sound really valuable.

Off the top of my head

- Sell them to another educational company or charity. I can think of a dozen maths websites I used while at school that might want to pay for that content.

- Use them to train an ML model that generates new questions, then sell that (btb or btc).

- Sell them to parents and students as exercises.

- Sell them to teachers as exercise

- Sell a service to schools that allows access to them (either a directory or a "click to get a random exercise!" kinda thing).

-Sell a service that produces new mock tests with a single click, and that as a data source.

While I'm British, not American, I saw and used plenty of services that sold questions and worksheets. All were technically hideous.

I finished my A levels (high school) 6 months ago fwiw.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conceit

Definition 2D: "an organizing theme or concept"
Thinking about it now, I don't think I've ever heard about a female doing this

Gentlemen I give you, the latest iterations of the Nigerian Romance Schemes.
I clearly remember deleting my Facebook account years ago and today suddenly I saw email notification of someone's post. Had to reset my password and re-submit account deletion. What a bunch of slimy dickheads.
I'm mostly in the camp that notebooks aren't that great for software development, they thrive as an "excel for coders" of sorts, but take a look at nbdev from fast.ai.

The literate programming aspect is very nice and I wish it was explored more.
Minnesota Guaranteed Free School Meals for All Kids. Now Let's Do It Nationwide
> You seem to want to be recognized for your contribution with increased responsibility.

But you don’t need a “promotion” for that. Even when I was at BigTech, there was nothing stopping me from volunteering for a more impactful project. No one was going to tell me that I wasn’t allowed to do it because of my level.

I had a junior consultant/returning intern that I mentored as an intern and then when they came back over a smaller project that usually would not have gone to someone at their level. They had proven to the department that we could trust them to both do the work and be in front of the customer.

I was there as a backstop if needed. But when we flew fk the customers site, I intentionally stayed in the background and deferred to them.
HTML_slice: Enable Ruby classes the ability to generate reusable pieces of HTML
Detect and generate custom iframe code
Ground state of hydrogen as a zero-point-fluctuation-determined state
Ads in things I pay for frustrate me a ton. Thankfully Slack's stuff doesn't re-pop very often. ClickUp, the tool I use at work, is terrible able this. I have to keep writing TamperMonkey scripts to clean up crap on that site (mostly AI ads).
"living in the US on a visa"

If you want to stay in the US, focus on getting that Green Card first. Everything else is moot at this point because without a Permanent Residency or Citizenship, your choices are extremely limited anyway.
I am 46. I am more or less describing my present situation, except I haven't yet been fired. I say "yet" because my employer's products are government-facing and the incoming administration has priorities incompatible with the usage of our products.

I am told I work on interesting things, but the interesting things are my hobbies and not anything related to my employment. My day job is largely a slowly losing battle against technical debt.
That many posts from friends would represent months worth of my friends posts. For most people facebook doesnt show friends posts because no one posts anymore.
> But if there was a way to correctly tell people: "look, this smartphone is 20% more expensive, but it will last twice as long and it will be more convenient for you in ways you can't understand right now", nobody would go for the worse quality, right?

Wrong. Most of the population is limited by cash flow so that extra 20% they get to spend on food today is worth more than the quality of the phone a year from now. That’s a problem for tomorrow, hunger is felt now.

That’s why most people choose the cheap option, not some inability to evaluate quality.
Your argument holds a weight only if you already think that “Facebook/IG is bad for keeping in touch”. For almost any average person, that just doesn’t matter. Privacy, targeted ads, “benefits of networking for your future” are things that only us, extremely fringe group of people, care about. My parents? Never. My non-techie friends? I don’t think they know what “targeted ads” even mean.
> in general, my point is that he practically triggered mass layoffs at large companies by being so vocal about doing at twitter. A ton of investors were celebrating it after and pushing companies to do the same.

That's an interesting claim, and one I'd be curious to see a more detailed argument for. I'm sure it had an impact, but arguing it had a larger impact than the prevailing market conditions seems hard. The massive overhiring in the year or two before seems like the obvious culprits for the majority of the mass layoffs.

I see a lot of hyperbolic and flat out false things said about Musk. I push back on them because I think that people's habitual innaccuracy when he is involved tends to make the real criticism of him harder.
The Peter Principle still resonates
Having a built-in keyboard would make it a lot more suitable for use on the go, like one of the GPD models.
Seconding the treadmill desk (if one's situation allows). My previous job had one for communal use, and once I started working remotely, I picked up the same model (LifeSpan TR1200-DT5) on Craigslist.

I get in between 2 and 10 miles depending on the day, and have a little drafting chair that's intentionally pretty mediocre to encourage walking instead.

I find the idea of intentionally interrupting myself every 20 minutes kinda insane, seems like it would preclude getting "deep" work done.
Ahead of the curve? Their "virtual meeting" software presentation had graphics that made you look like a Nintendo Mii avatar from 2006, and couldn't draw arms or legs.
Yeah... They used side rules and vast lookup tables of function values printed on dead trees. For the highest value work, they painstakingly built analog calculators. They very carefully checked their work, because it was easy to make a mistake when composing operations.

Humans did those things by designing failsafe processes, and practicing the hell out of them. What we would likely consider over fitting in the llm training context.