skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This issue is very relevant for me since I have been homeless since May. It's been a bad run of being a target of criminal activity, unemployment and just running out of money during my job search. I cope with a mix of volunteering, overpriced housing (think $1200/month for a room in a rural area before I ran out of money for that), catsitting, house-sitting, staying with family and sleeping in my ancient car. Although I'm a citizen I don't qualify for any government support or programs, even though we have employment insurance here which I paid into for years.

I'm from Ottawa where the cold is obviously deadly, as it is in Finland. I do feel that we need to take shelter more seriously in public policy compared to warm areas because of that. Last week someone froze to death overnight a few blocks away from where I was crashing on a couch with family. Walking through downtown Ottawa and seeing the huge empty, lit, warm buildings with people freezing to death right outside is striking. Any practically minded person can see the problem is political and philosophical, not practical.

I can tell all the posters who think people choose to be homeless that I'm certainly not one of them. The comments about the importance of avoiding a downward spiral are certainly correct. Searching for work is hard enough normally and becomes increasingly difficult without access to things like a kitchen and toilet.

What I see in this Finnish policy is the starting assumption that doing nothing is not a good option. After reaching that point there can a rational discussion about what to do with whatever money is being spent - do you pay more people to hand out blankets and conduct surveys or just use it to buy housing units? As a homeless person I would really like to see Canada have a policy like I'm reading in this article instead of what we are doing now. The crappy temporary shelters and bureaucratic spending strategy obviously isn't working.

Even just economically, to have a government pay for years of schooling and subsidize advanced degrees then just be ready to let that person die on the street when they are ready to work but can't happen to find something seems like a waste. I'd rather see a functioning "social safety net" as described in this article.
Remembering Mike Maples, Sr
I am assuming that OP was honest about his description of how he believes conversations are supposed to happen.

Notice, that he never mentions asking people questions, initiating conversations or anything besides interjecting himself into a conversation to talk about himself.

All I am assuming is that the things OP writes are his typical behavior and how we would typically behave in conversations.

Seriously, he describes himself interrupting a conversation to talk about himself and immediately there after complains that someone else interrupted him to talk about themselves. I do not know what a benevolent interpretation of that could be. If you have one, please tell me. It definitely can't be ignorance.
It’s not.

Your link makes the same mistake I already addressed. It conflates nullable booleans with tri-state logic.

Null is not a value. It is the absence of a value.

> The SQL null value basically means “could be anything”.

This is wrong. Null means it could be any valid value but that value is unknown. If the datatype is DATE then the value cannot be boolean TRUE or the string ‘purple’.
XKCD has a fun comic about a guy who recalculates the world records of pole vaulters based on the gravity of the locations of various events. Earth's surface gravity is by no means constant -- it varies, presumably due to the density and altitude of any particular location.

Indeed, "sea level" is defined as the level that the sea would be at, if the area of question didn't have the land mass, but still had the same gravity. Of the various possibilities, this particular definition is useful, in that it you can expect the air pressure at a particular altitude to be the same, regardless of where you are, after factoring in things like temperature and humidity -- which is kindof important if you're a pilot of some sort!
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regular expressions in Vim
You can actually do it both ways, but which is easiest for whom is different.
Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18
Disagree, I still have my account and check it periodically when I get linked to something on Twitter and the feed and trending are both pretty crap (maybe it would be different if I used it every day, but I never used it every day, even when I created the account ~10-ish years ago. But my feeds are way worse than they used to be).

And it keeps putting things I really don't want to see in my feed, that aren't by anyone I follow.

Facebook has also gotten worse with its feed as far as sometimes injecting things into it I don't want, but most of it is still decent or at least relevant to my interests, and usually product or harmless news related (I get a lot of Kickstarter and mobile game ads, or celebrity gossip for some reason, even though I couldn't care less about most celebrities' lives) instead of political outrage and misinformation like I tend to get on Twitter.
Diversity in tech hiring never felt like the right end of the funnel. It’s why I went into teaching and I’m proud to say after what seems like a ridiculously short amount of time (“they grow up so fast” etc.) the girls from my classes are now entering the work force as SWE and ML interns. Not many, but more than none.

When we focus diversity efforts on high school kids then we get a turnaround at the funnel entrypoint in as little as only five years. Companies could be far more impactful here than any lone teacher could hope to be.
Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1
How do you make it happen? Relying on people to "wake up every day and practice diverse hiring practices" wasn't working.
It was generally mocked.

Car companies will do anything but build actually diverse teams of Mech Es, EEs, mechanics, human factors psychologists etc.
Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours, blames WP Engine
I think you could easily describe accessibility efforts to be an attempt to provide both equal and equitable access to content.
Do you actually have experience with those programs?

Here's what DEI programs actually do in practice, in my experience.

As a simple example, let's say there is an opening for a somewhat senior position, like a director. Your team does some interviews and wants to make an offer. DEI vetos it because every single candidate they interviewed was a white male. They don't tell you who to hire or not to hire, they just say that if you couldn't even find even a single woman or POC to interview, then you didn't look hard enough. Go back, consider more candidates who might not fit your preconceived notion of what you thought a person in that role should look like.

If after interviewing more people you still pick a white male, that's fine. DEI offices never force diversity and standards are not lowered. But they do have an impact - by considering more diverse candidates, that naturally leads to more diverse candidates being hired.

That's just one example of what they do.

You can argue the merits of the specific programs, but it's not true at all to say that those programs are just "puffery".
For the tracing part of Otel, neither Prometheus nor Grafana are capable of doing that. Tracing is the most mature part of Otel and the most compelling use case for it. For metrics, we've stayed with Prometheus and AWS Cloudwatch Metrics. The metrics part feels very under developed at the moment.
"800€/month for a minimum of 32 hours per week" for experienced workers with your kind of backing (ex-IBM, Bain, BCG) is insulting.
Why not just edit your original comment?
I am not being sarcastic. The revolution and subsequent wars caused extremely high casualty rates among French men, while the country isolated itself from international trade, and suffered negative economic consequences.
Death of the Bedroom Coder (2004)
Putnam indeed reported a correlation between the mean herfindahl index of ethnic homogeneity and trust in societies (both own-race trust, other race trust & neighbour trust).

If you had actually read the paper (which I have), you would realise that the relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust is inverse.
> I don't know that cutting 90 days to 45 days would help move the needle further.

What does this protect you from? If a private key is stolen from a device? If it went unnoticed for 45 days, the device is probably still compromised, and the threat actor will just steal the new key. If you can automate issuing certificates, you can automate stealing them too.

Sounds like a great way to garner more business for Big PKI.
It’s an LBA, a Linear Bounded Automata.
I'm most curious about the timing. Could this be related to the X narrative of LA fire response being compromised by DEI hiring? Zuck really sounds like he's mimicking X TPOT dialogues these days.
That was two years ago (we tried spans before metrics), so it’s fuzzy. I believe the collector sidecar was fine with it but the backend was not, which complicated debugging. There’s not a clear feedback path in OpenTelemetry that we could find. I completely forgot to mention the tendency toward silent failures. That’s a cardinal sin for telemetry. I would take it out back and shoot it for that fact alone.

The other problem I noticed looking at the wire protocol was that the data for the parent trace doesn’t seem to get sent until the trace closes. That seems like a bookkeeping nightmare to me. There should be a start of trace packet and an update at the end. I shouldn’t have finished spans showing up before the parent trace has been registered. And that’s what it looked like in the dumps my OPs people sent me to debug.
There is a national security risk angle to this. Elon has been talking to Putin and Putin has been making requests on behalf of Xi Jinping such as not turning on Starlink over Taiwan [1]. Musk has also been turning off Starlink when he decides there is a risk of nuclear war [2].

An American corporation undermining American foreign policy is a security risk. No citizen, especially a crazy one like Elon, should have this much power.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversat...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264
Can you point us to your Vercel apps and what kind of traffic you're dealing with?
ITT: everyone telling us their stories about how great they are at stereograms. We get it, you're all super special.
I don’t think source was ever used for porting in those days anyway. The asm wasn’t directly portable for sure.

The c64 levels are pretty close to the arcade, apart from the arcade having 26 rows of tiles rather than the c64’s 25.

The nes versions levels deviate wildly. Some have been moved and some are replaced.
I don't see them as different to any other company, really. I could imagine diversity in their staff of buyers would be useful, for example, to ensure they're stocking products that represent the different desires of different groups.
It is racist. Proponents of such diversity hiring try to redefine racism in such a way that their definition excludes diversity hiring, but that's bad faith rhetorical tricks.
There was a discussion about 8 months ago about a "wtf" journal and all of the things that need to be considered about current processes and team dynamics before you start making big (and effective) waves. A lot of the points are already made in the replies here, but it was a good discussion and article you may be interested in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078106
It's in the same band as regular satellite internet, so the licensing is already dealt with.
As I say, I was a bit later--mid-eighties--but I knew Jim Guyer who was one of the microkids as I recall. Helped setup an interview for Command Line Heroes podcast. Do need to get back into writing. Next week. Really.
I have a friend who decided he wanted to try all the drugs.

Weed, LSD, MDMA, Cocaine. He never did heroin (afaik) but tried more than I can recall.

He's very well adjusted and no longer does drugs at all. He doesn't even drink. No bad trauma, no rehab. He justed wanted to try them all to say he had.
There were already actual commitments to diversity in most places, yes.

DEI programs, on the other hand, were basically a symbolic "party badge" that many companies and organizations felt compelled to adopt to keep scary people — often their own employees! — from suing them for discrimination.

That's the "political landscape" they are referring to — a political climate that allowed for even frivolous discrimination lawsuits to succeed, against companies already striving to minimize discrimination.

These DEI programs weren't "performative" in the regular "performing caring" sense that companies often do; they were "performative" in the Red Scare "performing Very Visibly Not Being A Communist, even though you were never a Communist" sense.
I have a big problem crossing my eyes too while having no problem with the parallel view way seeing stereograms. I am actually going to stop trying as my eyes started to hurt.
You've submitted this a lot of times already

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42608407

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42556536

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529305

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42512237

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42478233

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42448699

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42421317

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319193
Can anyone explain how the last snippet works?
Spyro the Dragon – How game music is made, Stewart Copeland [video]
This was exactly my reaction to OpenTelemetry.

Creating an HTTP endpoint that publishes metrics in a Prometheus-scrape-able format? Easy! Some boolean/float key-value-pairs with appropriate annotations (basically: is this a counter or a gauge?), and done! And that lead (and leads!) to some very usable Grafana dashboards-created-by-actual-users and therefore much joy.

Then, I read up on how to do things The Proper Way, and was initially very much discouraged, but decided to ignore All that Noise due to the existing solutions working so well. No complaints so far!
The granularity of virtual address mapping is usually a page. On many systems, that's 4 kilobytes of address space. In order to trigger a fault when the address 0x0000000000000000 is dereferenced, it's necessary to map the entire address range from 0x0000000000000000 to 0x0000000000000fff to the same faulting behaviour.

That's a waste of a page.
Please come back and tell us!
Yes, it had a split screen option where the two images were the same size and side by side. Can't recall what kind of TV it was... perhaps a Sony?
Netflix obviously wanted a Korean show, otherwise they wouldn't have funded Koreans to make the show in Korea, they would have funded Americans to make the show in Hollywood.

I applaud Netflix for actually embracing diversity of content and having great shows produced outside Hollywood, and the results speak for themselves (not just Squid Game).
I see that bounty at the bottom, so tossing away my chances here, but this visualization is just asking to be mapped onto a Hilbert Curve. [0] When you "stripe" the data like this, points that are sorted close together could end up pretty far apart, since a distance in the Y axis skips an entire row of data as you move down, rather than a distance in the X axis which is 1-to-1 with the source data.

If you map it onto a hilbert curve, the X and Y axis mean nothing, but visually points that are close together in the sorted list, will be visually close together in the output image.

Since the first part of an ISBN is the country, then the second part is the publisher, and the third part is the title, with a check sum at the end, I would remove the checksum and sort them each as a big number. (no hyphens)

You should end up with "islands", where you see big areas covered by big publishing countries, with these "islands" having bright spots for the publisher codes.

Bonus points for labeling these areas!

I set up something a while ago [1] for an interview that does this with weather data. It makes the seasons really obvious since they're all grouped together.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve

[1] https://graypegg.com/hilbert (https://github.com/graypegg/hilbertcurveplayground code if anyone wants to go for the prize using this! Please at least mention me if you decide to reuse this code, but I can't stop ya lol)
I can't define what "pure culture" is. I've never seen one.

The people claiming that pure cultures exist that must try to define it. The onus is on them, not me.
Not the OP, but Hillel Wayne’s course/tutorial (https://www.learntla.com/) is fantastic. It’s focused on building practical skills, and helped me build enough competence to write a few (simple, but useful!) specs for some of the systems I work on.
The competition will get even stronger when SpaceX's Starship launches the next generation of Starlink satellites. More satellites with more capacity per satellite and at lower altitudes could make Starlink a viable competitor even in some urban areas with crappy ISPs.

Also I hope Amazon succeeds with their Kuiper constellation. Imagine two competing global satellite ISPs!
The National Library in France was built when stained glass skylights were not developed yet. So, if they copied a historical building, why do they need a stained glass skylight that comes from the other period of architecture?
At many companies accessibility and DEI are rolled into the same office.

https://blog.google/authors/eve-andersson/
Getting paid for work done (and cheaper than competition as well) is not subsidies.
Yeah their agent will accept traces from the standard Otel SDK but there is no way to change their SDK to send the traces to anyone other than Datadog when I last checked a couple(?) of years ago.

I mean I understand why they did that but it really removes one of the most compelling parts about Otel. We ended doing the hard work of using the standard Otel libraries. I had to contribute a PR or two to get it all to work with our services but am glad that's the route we went because now we can switch vendors if needed (which is likely in the not too distant future in our case.
No thanks I won’t waste my limited lifetime tweaking some algorithm to serve me better ragebait.

Haven’t used any of these platforms in the last 5 years and I haven’t missed it a single minute - you should try it sometime
Are any of those late betas available anywhere? Would love to see what that was like
I wouldn’t call it listed in columns when the order is row-major. Rather listed in rows.
Unless you live somewhere that has some form of probation, a token commit day 1 or 2 seems pretty meaningless. Everyone involved will see it instantly as that, a token commit.

Making an effort to learn the business (essentially the 'why' of your area at the company) is valuable of course.
Ultimately, it all comes down to build what you're comfortable with. Additionally, when you're managing large organizations and teams. Build with what you can hire quickly for and easily scale with.
Curious how this compares with, say, the implementation of gemm_s8s8s32 in Intel's MKL / OneAPI.
It’s ironic, isn’t it? The people who fall for this scam aren’t the honest ones. It’s the greedy and dishonest who get caught :D

Hence the old saying (and W. C. Fields movie title): You can't cheat an honest man.
Noise cancelling headphones were a huge boost to my productivity.
The local police do not report to the PM. It is that simple.

Your local cops don't report to the president.

The RCMP don't have jurisdiction in Ottawa. You said it yourself, it's the federal government and it's not the same as the municipal government.
Im interested in anecdata, but think more information is needed to make it useful. What is your height and current weight back up to?

I have found pretty big differences in response even across short timescales. I was able to shed 30 lbs last year with severe calorie restriction(240>210). This year my 5'11" body is not so cooperative (220>???).
Starting with main() instead of wmain() is enough to make it vulnerable :(
I feel like at minimum, the information should all be stored in encrypted, unavailable-to-an-admin way.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_encryption.html

Basically, all the data in the app would be hidden to everyone except the users. I'm assuming this would be the case, and I'm assuming that you, with prod db access, wouldn't be able to directly read the text that is being written.

If that were the case, I'd say your ethical obligation is fulfilled, more or less. (obv implementing application-level 'everything is encrypted' is not trivial, but it makes it so that you couldn't ever see what was being said)

I don't believe in political authority, so when people say "But hipaa!" I hear "but I believe in the institution of authority" and I sorta tune out everything else that they say.

There's a LOT of people in the world who believe in authority/political authority, and it is tiring. sorry for us all.

This app is cool! Well done to you. Hope you don't have to spend thousands on lawyers and don't have to deal with coercive institutions based on the fantasy of political authority.
Hate to suggest more process, but the technical review stage could be edited to include a section where cost changes are explored?
You don't even require Communism for economic Equity. That's possible within capitalism.

We're pretty far off the discussion at this point though.
There's an excellent article on how to implement OpenTelemetry Tracing in 200 lines of code.

https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/minimal-js-tracing/

"It might help to go over a non-exhaustive list of things the offical SDK handles that our little learning library doesn’t:

- Buffer and batch outgoing telemetry data in a more efficient format. Don’t send one-span-per-http request in production. Your vendor will want to have words."

- Gracefully handle errors, wrap this library around your core functionality at your own peril"

You can solve them of course, if you can
Be angry they don't subsidise and/or encourage competition in the domestic market instead of where they do then.

Tons of people stuck with 2005 tier connects at x10 the price is just sad.
Lagos can't use starlink very much because starlink has limited capacity in any given area. The future sats might improve that a bit with more sats and more capacity per sat, and also there will be more non starlink constellations, but it's an inherent problem. If they targeted any densely populated area they would vastly over-provision the rest of the more sparsely populated world.

So in general it's good news for the rural population (if they can afford it), but it doesn't really help too much for the cities.
I think you missed my point. Government policy right now is to use Twitter, yes, but is that because everyone has confidence in it, or because they are simply slow to change? Twitter is quickly losing it's claim to being the digital town square both as users flee it and it becomes more difficult to use. I can't even navigate twitter anymore because I don't have an account. I can see single tweets at best. A new default choice has yet to appear, but what are the odds everyone is going to stick around if Bluesky continues to gain a following? To me it seems like momentum more than anything else.

And really, if you were going to publicly congratulate the Tweeter in Chief and wanted to make sure he saw, how would you do it?
I'm not sure I'd call Ray Peat's ideas "radical but not stupid". He claimed that eating a tablespoon of honey could cure almost any fatal injury.
The problem I have with this is that instead of the images completely overlapping they overlap a section in the middle. I can't get both images to completely overlap and am getting some eye strain from trying to force them.
So you don't show how to make it or how it works and just 40 minute of showcase?