skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the last years we’ve had 500K immigrants coming every year. That’s what’s causing inflation.
> People working in customer support, from my experience, sort of see the anti-survivorship bias working in action.

I used to see this all the time at an old job where my team worked on open source client libraries for using the main product that our company sold. A decent number people seemed to think that an increasing number of tickets being filed against one of the libraries was a sign that users weren't happy with it, but it always seemed obvious to me that you couldn't easily conclude that; you might have 99 happy users with no issues for every 1 unhappy user who filed a ticket, or you might have literally only unhappy users and nobody without issues. On the other hand, getting literally zero tickets might mean that you have plenty of happy users, or it might mean you have basically no users at all.

I'd often talk to younger engineers who were interning on the team or recently joined full-time about how this dynamic informed how I approached my job; usually, we'd only hear from users who had issues, so the "goal" in some ways to was to make the software so good that you'd never hear from them. If you did hear from a user, that was a valuable opportunity where you might learn something you could do in the future to make things better the first time.
never been happier at work than now, 27th year in the industry. I've always been happy though, avoided all the pitfalls of this industry, bigtech/faang/... and stuck with small but profitable companies and never looked back. last 8 years 1099, mostly government sub contracts
why dont they get another LLM to do the last 20%, are they stupid?
.... hell my original comment was flagged (Funny though how now the original post is flagged instead...)

> It seems one of the side effects of the vaccine is that people have a hard time facing the truth.

I honestly have no clue whether it's COVID or the vaccine or anything else, but it's crazy how much closer the average person has gotten to a point of "Don't put your hand on a hot stove, NO I SAID DON'T DO THAT."
Insightful comment. While some of wokeness involves performative aspects like PG mentioned, it also seems to involve a genuine increase in awareness about injustice, and a desire to do something about it- which is much needed. I’m concerned that this desire to “end wokeness” will throw the baby out with the bathwater, and end us in a situation where it becomes taboo to point out or do anything about injustice.

It’s insane that PG seems to think racism isn’t a very big problem- hard to imagine he is living on the same planet I am.
If you wirte 100x faster code you could probably automate almost all of it away as it seems to be super trivial and already resolved problems.
I also use Claude for my coding a lot, but i’m not sure about real gains if it even give me noticeable speed improvement as i’m in a loop of “waiting” and fixing bugs that LLM made still it is super useful for writing big doc strings and smaller tests maybe if i focus on some basic tasks like classical backend or frontend it’ll be more useful
Thanks for the suggestion. I have never owned a pair of really high end headphones. Most I've ever purchased have been in the 100ish dollar price range.
Python doesn't require an IDE, but you'll definitely want to use a programmer's editor with it. I don't know what you're using that doesn't handle its indentation correctly because I haven't seen anything like that in at least a decade, but you may wish to upgrade to at least a newer vim or emacs.
> The current democratic coalition is extremely dependent on affluent white economic conservatives

Dependent on them for what, exactly?
TI BASIC has some unique implementational own goals, however, particularly with respect to system architecture and the middle-level interpreted language TI BASIC is written in. It really makes the 9900 CPU look unfairly bad.
> But, if you could work from anywhere, why wouldn't you want to be in the coolest city in the world?

Large cities are like black licorice. The people who like them, really like them, but most of us think they're kind of gross.
they've slashed immigration, so I guess we'll find out. BC is also going to tax any sales after less than 2 years of ownership; I'm doubtful this will increase affordability or supply, but it will essentially kill the economic model of renovation & flipping.
That's essentially an export tariff.
If you're 5x more productive from AI, you can do 5x less effort if you feel your previous productivity was sufficient for the current pay.
Thats mostly because of herdmentality not because of a considered approach. Decentralization assumes the majority are anti social.
Not SOTA - outperformed by qwen2.5-coder-32b, deepseek-v3.

Cost per token 20x Deepseek v3 for input, 4x for output [1]

New mostly API only license unless a continue.dev enterprise subscription (VC enshittification at its finest).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1i0f5tt/codestr...
So I run a personal blog, which I treat as my personal brand and take quite good care of the SEO and keywords. I write and treat it as ad copy, so there is some FOMO for people who are interested in ever wanting to work with me. And from 2017 and up, it has gotten me at least $250k in client work. So that's $30k from a blog per year. I'd attribute at least half of that to the blog, so lets say $15k. I do not post on Twitter or LinkedIn, these clients have only been finding me on either YC or through Google.

> Why do you keep writing

Because its so, so easy to stand out from the herd. So why wouldn't I? From my experience, even in this bad market, it makes you have clients to choose from. Got laid off? No worries, someone will inbox you within the next 2 months with some offer. Started working with a bad client? No worries, you have others to choose from. I haven't send out a resume in years as a result. I will be retiring the blog soon though, in favor of writing content for a small niche agency that I am hoping to start in 2025. But then the branding will continue there.
If the code these LLMs produce has logical errors and bugs, I have formed the opinion that this is mostly user error. LLMs produce great code if they're used properly. By that I mean: strictly control the maximum level of complexity that you're asking the LLMs to solve.

GPT-4o can only handle rudimentary coding tasks. So I only ask it rudimentary questions. And it's rarely wrong or bugged. o1-2024-12-17 is much better, it can handle "mid" complexity tasks, it's usually never wrong on those, but a step above and it will output buggy code.

This is subjective and not perfect, but when you use the models more you can get a sense for where it starts falling apart and stay below that threshold. This means chunking your problem into multiple prompts, where each chunk is nearing the maximum level of complexity that the model can handle.
Damn you azure! Or is Microsoft not even running their precious GitHub in azure
> Not sure if the embedded video is suspend to RAM or disk.

Its Suspend to Disk (S3).

> Also not sure why there wasn't a PW prompt upon resume, but I'm not a BSD person, just someone who is paranoid about PW prompts.

The purpose of this videos were to show only the suspend/resume process of FreeBSD system.

In my daily life I have two shortcuts related to this:

- [SUPER] + [L] - locks the system and leaves it running - and it requires to enter password

- [SUPER] + [CTRL] + [ALT] + [L] - locks the system AND PUTS IT INTO S3 SLEEP - and it requires to enter password if you wake it up

Hope that helps.

Regards,

vermaden
This is excellent, assets like property don't grow on trees and needs to be protected from foreign investors.

Absolutely need something like this in the UK.
Er, I meant Asterix & Obelisk :)
That's the same as not having one.

Otherwise you can claim Facebook is distributed because you can email people links to Facebook pages.
There have been plenty of great sketches in the last 15 years, like many of Adam Driver's, and Weekend Update with Colin and Michael is really good, especially when they swap jokes.
Sonos sucks, but afaik everything else is worse
I only knew Noah as a child where he grew up in Huntsville, TX. He came from a prominent and wealthy family there. He could have been a snob, but he was just the nicest, brightest, most polite and most humble kid. My son was a friend of his, and I knew him through the community’s music program. I am sorry to hear of his premature passing. Requiescat in pace, Noah.
> I am no audiophile but Sonos is actually quite expensive vs getting some streamer like Wiim with basic cheap amp and any solid speaker brand - KEF, Elac, Klipsh, Polk…

The whole point is Sonos is easy. One product for speakers. Another one for a sub (which most people don't even need). Ok now you're done. And then there's people who really don't have space for all that.
Perhaps if they were mobile homes. :p

The comparison breaks down a little further with cases where the foreign owners just rent the home out.
The return on property is too good to pass up to an investor. This is a step in the right direction and need something like this in the UK.
Forcing someone to provide a service at below market price is not direct.

It would be more direct by taking the market price for these goods and purchasing them directly. Then you have a line item that perfectly encapsulates the subsidy and the transfer and you can reason about it.

That's what I mean by direct
> best shown by Bowen Yang's haughty affectations.

Straight Male Friend is a dope sketch though
I believe FreeBSD is usually treated as a 'server' operating system 'useless' on the desktop/laptop pattern usage.

The point is to show that FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system and also works great on the desktop/laptop scenario.
Yes. What we're seeing here, and with Facebook and other platforms explicitly allowing racism and companies rolling back DEI, etc, is compliance in advance. It's a common fear response to authoritarianism. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.
Because when they increase their prices too much, they lose the customers, which loses money. Why would a for-profit company want to lose money?
Do you need specific evidence that additional demand causes price increase when the supply is pretty much fixed?
> How much can a DEI team possibly cost?

I don't think opposition to "a DEI team" is about cost at all, it's about the fact that it's harmful to your company to hire and fire based on skin color or gender expression, or to harass and lecture people for not participating in the DEI religion enough. If I had a nickel for every hiring discussion I've been in where I felt pressured to thumbs-up someone with serious flaws just because we were below an unspoken but widely-understood quota, I'd have a lot of nickels.

The idea that we should pass over the best candidate if he's a certain color and pronoun, thinking that will right the wrong of centuries-old sins, that's the mind virus that some of us don't approve of.

If you want an example of why it's bad and dumb even if you're a progressive, our VP, a very unpopular candidate who ran a laughably failed campaign for president was undeniably chosen as VP for DEI reasons, then she couldn't be "passed over" when Biden changed his mind about running, due to optics, so she, a candidate who peaked at 17% in the 2019 primary, was installed as the nominee.* The DNC killed itself on the altar of DEI in this case, and then lashed out at everyone else saying things like "Latinx people are white supremacists!"

*Stipulated: Democrats have a massive shortage of popular national-level politicians, so obviously while Harris was a bad choice, I can't point to any guaranteed 'better' ones.
I do wish it had lambdas. That's largely mitigated by the fact you can define functions pretty much anywhere. Instead of:

def my_func():
another_func(lambda: ...)

you can write

def my_func():
def inner(): ...
another_func(inner)

Sure, it's creating a function, naming it, then immediately throwing it away, but gets the job done with minimal extra boilerplate.
Housing prices in spain and portugal are booming to astronomical degrees mainly because of china. This bill is specifically targeted to stop that without explicitly calling out china. Middlemen cost money, making it more expensive to buy houses, which serves the purpose to restrict the market outside of non-eu residents.

What's going to realistically happen is foreign investors will claim quick citizenship in a relatively poor and more corrupt eu member state and then buy the property.
Is there a pejorative term for performative intellectualism?
Just by the title. Please let it be a Lord of the Fly's situation where the Rich eat each other.
This would benefit from a "[2023]" appended to the title to make clear it isn't new.

Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273406
Ah yes the playbook to distract from immigration, and lack of house building, ie the policies designed to increase house prices
Here is a list of SouthWest stock buybacks https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/luv/buybacks

December 2022 SouthWest canceled all flights for multiple days costing a billion dollars because of poor scheduling software. Running poor quality/inefficient scheduling software most likely incurred other additional expenses/stresses for workers and flight crews during a larger period than December 2022 but there is not a way for me to quickly to put a cumulative value on that for a response here. That 1 billion dollar loss and incurred stress for workers can be attributed to the stock buybacks listed above.
https://archive.md/LSHoi
The original calculation is not even right, because 100% of the work software engineers do probably isn’t even writing code. A lot of the time they’re debugging code or attending some kind of meeting. So if only 20% of their time is coding and they do 1/5th of it, they’re like what, 16% more productive overall?

Now factor in the expense of using LLMs, it’s not worth it, the math isn’t mathing. You can’t even squeeze a 2x improvement, let alone the 5-10x that has become expected in the tech industry.
lol I changed my ssh key 2 times until I figured out pubkey permission denied was an issue on their side
iOS 16 is supported on devices back to iPhone 8, which came out in September 2017. That’s seven and a half years ago.

Apple has done a good job of supporting old devices with new OS releases; they also subset old OS’s. That seems like a fair trade.
Re: 3 ... the level of misunderstanding about what affirmative action is and means is so wide and so deep that "the public doesn't like this" is more or less an information-free observation. Most of the public has only a strawman in place when it comes to understanding affirmative action, and sure, if the strawman was accurate, most of the people who do support it would drop their support.
they don't self-host the models, neither embedding nor last step llm. taking into account low load self-hosting likely would be more expensive. if so why not to use the best models.
> Last year, by my math, the U.K.’s output per person was $45,485; Mississippi’s was higher, at $47,190. If Britain were invited to join the U.S. as the 51st state, its citizens would be at the bottom of the table for per capita GDP. Some might say that for Mississippi, that is still disconcertingly close.

> “That’s not fair!” the critics would counter. “When you compare the wealth of nations, you need to look at how far the money goes. Things cost more in the U.K. than in Mississippi.” To adjust the raw numbers, the argument goes, you need to use an economist’s tool called Purchasing Power Parity. Sure enough, when you consider differences in the price of things in Britain and America, the U.K. does appear richer than Mississippi. Thus, after such PPP adjustments, the Financial Times analyst suggested that for 2021 Mississippi’s per capita GDP was a mere $46,841 to the U.K.’s $54,590 (though conceding that, without the London effect, much of Britain was relatively poorer than the Magnolia State).

I don't understand this. Things cost more in UK than Mississippi, therefore UK's purchasing power parity goes up? Shouldn't their purchasing power be lower if cost of goods and services are higher?
Is there a world in which GitHub used an open protocol for the social network part of their product like BlueSky's AT protocol[0]?

[0] https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto
The 15 year olds today aren’t watching network television and you missed the part where I mentioned the lasting celebrity and comedic appeal of stars that predated my teenage years. “Actually, it’s the children who are wrong, things can’t ever decline in quality” is not the argument you, nor Lorne, think it is.
> Studies in Toronto and New York have shown that
sound intensity peaks in their respective transit systems
exceed medically-safe sound level limits

I still remember the shrieking rail noise when the subway in Toronto took the tight corners into and out of Union Station, and the same for the streetcar that went south from there to the waterfront. Always felt like that gave me some permanent hearing damage since I often didn't cover my ears quickly enough. Have not been there for 15 years though - is it still like that?
There are tons of supported solutions in this space, such as Openstack, Kubevirt, and oVirt (and many more).
How Liverpool became a life science hotspot
The thing that everyone seems to miss here is it's not surprising which code falls into the 80% or 20%. I can guess if an AI will write something bug-free with almost 100% accuracy. For the remaining 20%, whatever, it gives me a fine enough starting point.
Easy! It won't work and it would make things worse.
Unfortunately the wiim mini doesn't support the google cast ecosystem, only the more expensive devices. But the more expensive devices don't support airplay, which seems like an odd choice.
All checkmarks just turned green and my push went through. Snow day over.
When Skytrain first came out it was touted about how quiet it was vs. other metro systems. [1] The problem (as others have pointed out) is just the Mark I trains are 40 years old and the maintenance hasn't kept up with the track and the wheels. Things wear out.

[1] https://youtu.be/pTsSXdSjU1I?t=455
Look, I completely agree, but let's not make it totally one-sided, okay?

F.ex. I regularly have a problem with the cookie-cutter (and utterly meaningless) "advice" of many privileged HN programmers saying "Never had to look for a job" when I told them I am a senior who struggles to find a job currently. Never maintained a network, never had relations that last with former colleagues, never had college buddies etc. As far removes as the classic successful USA dev as I can be really.

Yet these people still think their advice applies and is actually worth anything.

Back on your topic, I don't want to silence them but I want to tell them that their severely filter-bubble-limited take is not very interesting, or even at all helpful.

It's really the same as the topic of this thread as well. Privileged people exist and their takes can still be useful, however, their usefulness can be limited. And again, from where I am standing, I would not want to ever silence you. I only want to make you aware of your bias. We all have them. All "sides" of any debate have bias but hey, that's a completely different (and much bigger) topic.
Sure. I'm not saying that a focus on language or whatever is the opposite of "woke." I'm just saying that it is a general sling thrown at left wing politics, not a thing that exists to distract from revolutionary class politics.
> All I want to do is play the same shit on ALL MY SPEAKERS. My living-room ones, my patio ones, and my backyard ones. All I need is A, B, and C speaker switches. But NOPE. As far as I can tell, nobody makes this. Nobody addresses the 99% use case for multiple "zones." There are at least NINE AMPS in my receiver, but I can't play the same source on three pairs of speakers.

Maybe a smart speaker switch like an Audioflow[0] is up your alley?

[0] https://flow.audio
Back in the day (early 90s) my mom would sometimes serve Karo corn syrup on pancakes, even when we had maple syrup around. I thought it was a typical thing for a long time!
> going back and re-watching episodes with my favorites, they are still full of duds.

Sure, but the hits were massive. You had everybody doing Steve Martin or Billy Crystal catchphrases back in the day, for example.

SNL has the same problem as everything--there are simply way more options in entertainment. Consequently, a modern "hit" has nowhere near the ubiquity of a "hit" from days of yore.
> Before woke, there was "PC"

forgive me if my understanding is incorrect, but wasn't political correctness something conservatives were pushing (a.k.a mainstream culture)?

iow, you cant say expletives on radio/tv, cant have gay characters on tv, games can't have violence, don't say x in public etc etc...

i've always assumed it was people on the left/progressives pushing against all that, is that wrong?
Small discussion from 10 hours ago (17 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683387
Not sure if I am just noticing GitHub's issues more often as I am using their tools pretty much every day but their availability is kinda not great. Be it Actions failing or something "not core business" (read: git operations) but I can't remember a month in the past where I was not annoyed by any outage on GitHub
Yes, conveniences like:

- A canonical name and place on the web;

- Access policy enforcement (who can commit and when);

- The whole pull request thing, with tags, issues, review, discussion, etc linked to it;

- Code review, linked to said policy enforcement;

- Issue tracking, even as basic as what GitHub offers;

- A trusted store for signing keys, so commits are verified;

- CI/CD triggers and runners;

- A page with releases, including binary releases, and a CDN allowing to use the download links without fear.

This is way more than distrusted version tracking. Actually the above is not even married to Git; it could be as valuable with Mercurial, or even Perforce.

This is a large product, actually a combination of many potentially self-contained products. It should not be compared to Git, but rather to Gitea or BitBucket. Not all of this can be reasonably decentralized, though quite a bit can.
To be fair to the skeptics, for every Amazon or Google, there were 10 other companies that were actually bad ideas or didn't survive the dot com crash. It's also hard to say how much of the take here is apocryphal in terms of AWS being a plucky demo. It seems inevitable that someone would realize that with good enough bandwidth infrastructure, concentrating utility computing in data centers and increasing utilization of those resources through multi-tenency is just a good idea that is beneficial for the capital owners and the renters. Research into distributed and shared computing was around since the 80's, Amazon was just the first to realize the business potential at a time when hardware virtualization actually supported what they were trying to do.
This feels like one of those “NASA spent millions developing a space pen, Russians took a pencil” moments.
Derisking changes may not work sometimes. For example I don't use Spotify anymore, because of their ridiculous Ab tests. In one month I saw 3 totally different designs of the home and my fav playlists page on my Android phone. That's it. When you open Spotify only when you start your car then it's ridiculous that you can't find anything and you are in a hurry. That was it. I am no longer subscriber and a user of this shit service.
Sometimes these tests are actually harmful. Maybe others are just driving and trying to manage Spotify at the same time and then we have actual killed people because of this. Harmless Indeed.