skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
huh?
I've always heard and read and experienced that "logs, traces, metrics" are the 3 legs of the observability stool.
It's a failure of democracy. Voters are not smart enough to understand the utility of ubiquitous fiber to the home as a utility, so they do not vote for leaders who prioritize that.
I would prefer if they just give employee bonuses rather than this indirect form of compensation
IMO formal software verification is still waaay too difficult to be worth it in all but the most extreme cases. That's really different to formal hardware verification where it is a no-brainer.

I keep trying to learn it, but you need to be a real expert. Like "I wrote the compiler" level expert for most systems.

For example I tried to prove a varint encoder/decoder. It worked for one or two bytes, but not more. Asking for help the reason was that the compiler internally only unrolls loops 5 times, or some random internal detail like that that you could never really hope to know.

I've been learning Lean recently, and ... I mean I like it, but if you learn it you're going to encounter documentation like this:

> Definitional equality includes η-equivalence of functions and single-constructor inductive types. That is, fun x => f x is definitionally equal to f, and S.mk x.f1 x.f2 is definitionally equal to x, if S is a structure with fields f1 and f2. It also features proof irrelevance, so any two proofs of the same proposition are definitionally equal. It is reflexive, symmetric, and a congruence.

And that's not really a knock on Lean - it seems to have some of the better documentation out of the alternatives.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab closed due to raging LA fires
Headlights are now entirely too bright. The base lights are brighter than the bright lights from not that long ago. If you're in a car and a truck is coming the opposite way...you can't see anything. It's incredibly dangerous. I have terrific vision and now try to limit driving at night.
Out params are thing too.
Manhunt?
Unlike when focusing on a movie screen, your eyes have to turn inward to direct the pupils to converge at the physically near iPad. This can cause muscular eye strain (it does for me).

You can get clever and order a prismatic prescription that bends light out, so your eyes don't have to turn inward. I tried it too, but it gave me nausea.
That's why you submit politician's voice instead
I hope it is not "basically" dead. I just resubmitted it at the request of several people.

And yes, for new APIs you could just change the order, but it does help also with legacy APIs. It does even when not using pointers to arrays: https://godbolt.org/z/TM5Mn95qK (I agree that new APIs should pass a pointer to a VLA).

(edited because I am agreeing with most of what you said)
Rumored? It’s a very real thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089

> We tend to call it the 'overheated discussion detector' these days, since it detects more than flamewars.

> Scott and I get emailed every time that software trips so we can quickly look at which threads are being penalized and reverse the penalty when it isn't helpful

- Quotes by Dang
Back in 1998, a level editor was made for the Arcade version of Bubble Bobble, named "Patch-A-Bobble". This level editor revealed the directional airflow in the levels.
From my understanding that analysis is complete junk. From the Daily Wire of all people:

> But it’s not possible from the data to say that those additional “people of color” took the 320,000 newly created positions. Most of them were almost certainly hired as part of a much larger group: replacements for existing jobs that were vacated by retirees or people changing jobs.

> A telltale sign that Bloomberg’s “percentage of the net increase” methodology is flawed, VerBruggen explained, is that, if the departures of whites had been just a little higher, the net change in whites would have been negative instead of the actual small growth of 20,000. Bloomberg’s methodology would then assert that whites took a negative percentage of the new 320,000 jobs, a mathematic impossibility.

> The percentage of new jobs that went to whites was likely about 46%, eight points below the 54% white makeup of companies’ existing workforces. That’s to be expected given demographic changes in the United States since the time that the currently-retiring baby boomer generation first entered the workforce.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-flubs-data-for-bomb...
Nah some of the rest of us say sodder too, solder sounds too close to soldier when you've got an accent haha.
It is not about wage suppression. It is about obedience. An H-1B visa is the biggest chance for upward mobility people from less wealthy countries will get. Listen to whatever we tell you to do, work however many hours we tell you to work, or get fired and sent back to your own country.
> From your description, it does perfectly at the task asked about upthread (extraction) and has mixed results on other, question-answering, tasks, that weren't the subject.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Which do you think was which?
I would love a source for this if you could find one. I tried searching and will search more in depth later. Any more keywords or information you remember about the story?
I know for a fact Waymo uses TPU’s not GPU, maybe it is equivalent to 4 H100’s but TPU vs GPU is somewhat apples vs oranges
I submitted an 8 second clip of speech and the resulting synthesized speech did not sound like the same voice. Too bad.
To be clear, the thing that’s keeping them from being disadvantaged against Musk/X is cozying up to the Trump and the government. That’s going to make a much bigger difference in stock performance than any personnel impact of these changes.
On a visit to Berln last autumn I went to a small one-man banh mi place. When it came time to pay, he picked up the handheld terminal, put in the amount, and then... clicked thru the tip screen (obviously a default screen for the terminal).

Classy, helpful, appreciated.
I am Wasq'u (a tribe in the PNW), I am connected to my tribe, and I am one of a handful of remaining speakers of the language. I am really tired of being caught in the maw of people fighting about my identity, what I am owed, and to some extent what place my identity has in society.

To the pro-DEI crowd: I have some hard truths for you. Actual change requires commitment and focus over an extremely long period of time. That means you have to choose probably 1 cause among the many worthy causes, and then invest in it instead of the others. You can't do everything. The problems that afflict my community are running water, drug addiction, lack of educational resources, and secular trends have have made our traditional industries obsolete. I am not saying that land acknowledgements and sports teams changing their names from racial slurs are negative developments, but these things are not even in my list of top 100 things to get done.

We all want to help, but to have an impact you must have courage to say no to the vast majority of social issues you could care about, and then commit deeply to the ones you decide to work on. Do not be a tourist. I don't expect everyone to get involved in Indian affairs, but I do expect you to be honest with me about whether you really care. Don't play house or go through motions to make yourself feel better.

When you do commit to some issue, understand that the biggest contributions you can make are virtually always not be marketable or popular—if they are, you take that as a sign that you need to evaluate whether they really are impactful. Have the courage to make an assessment about what will actually have an impact on the things you care about, and then follow through with them.

To the anti-DEI crowd: focus on what you can build together instead of fighting on ideological lines. The way out for many minority communities in America is substantial economic development. In my own communities, I have seen economic development that has given people the ability to own their own destiny. It has changed the conversation from a zero sum game to one where shared interests makes compromise possible. If you want to succeed you need to understand that your fate is shared with those around you. In-fighting between us is going to make us less competitive on the world stage, which hurts all of us.
if it were an offer, then i could choose not to be exposed to it.
that’s shocking to me actually. Was the ISP just bad? Wow.

I guess that challenges my perspective. The ping point still stands. May or not be noticeable depending on how you use the internet.
All those things you describe are computable metrics. They have to be or Otel itself would not be able to compute them for consumption. All you described are cherry picked semantic indirections to obfuscate it’s all just a computer computing metrics of its own memory states.

Sorry for knowing how computers actually work (EE grad not a CS grad). I know that can frustrate CS grads who think their preferred OS and favorite programming language is how a computer works. You’re describing how contemporary SWEs view their day job.

Edit: teleMETRY …what’s in a name? Oh right …meaning.
> Those wars started because the assembled aristocracy of f europe jumped the reforming nation.

And you think this helps your argument?
Did not know about $UpCase, the only part I knew was that the FAT16/32 driver from Microsoft (Which has the source code officially released, it's used as an example for how to implement a filesystem on Windows NT) uses locale-specific case-sensitivity tests.
Well, I feel like the "traditional way of life" argument is okay for why they should get special treatment. But why should anyone get special treatment if they are going to just, essentially, treat it as way to siphon tax revenue from the larger society?
Platform Engineering Beyond CFEngine
Related:

LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42638735
I can see that being true in high density areas, but I've got to think even now it's good enough that you really should question if rural areas should bother with fibre?
I'm sure this was posted on Wednesday - looks like the HN Gods gave the submission a second chance.

When I read the article on Weds I was struggling to find inspiration for the next Genuary2025[1] prompt. Somehow the patterns that the algorithm produced looked vaguely similar (if you really squint hard) to some patterns I'd seen used on London Underground upholstery. Problem solved[2]!

[1] - https://genuary.art/

[2] - "The textile design patterns of public transport seating" - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/ZYzrKYX
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Starlink satellites are placed in extremely low orbits specifically to avoid their becoming dangerous space-junk — their orbits are intended to decay after around 5 years, at which point they burn up in the atmosphere and leave no debris behind in LEO. Future iterations of the satellites may have even shorter lifetimes as launch costs get cheaper.
Yeah I'll be the first to admit that I don't have the answers. You might be right.

I guess the interesting point of discussion here is "personal inclination". A lot of my female friends have stories about how their parents encouraged their brothers to fix things around the house, get their hands dirty, read manuals, and set up new appliances. They tell me how they were, conversely, encouraged to make friends, maintain relationships, and steered toward more aesthetic pursuits like art, drama, or music.

My sister, at an age when she had no strong interests of her own, was given paintbrushes and nice paper as gifts by our parents but not Legos because they felt like girls were more likely to enjoy aesthetic things than mechanical things. Funny enough, as an adult she has neither mechanical nor aesthetic interests. The question I guess is how much of "personal inclination" is driven by these small decisions of what options we give to kids.

I will say my experiences are colored by the fact that my family is a low-income immigrant family in the US from a culture with definite gender discrimination and so they hold stronger gender prejudices than probably a high-income Scandinavian family. My guess is also that younger generations have grown up with a much better idea of gender equality and will raise their kids with less of this prejudice.

I also observed in my school that a lot of women felt more comfortable in the math department than CS (though CS had much less prestige compared to now), so thanks for your story and background.
its about relative change in power dynamics, not only absolute position.

American Labor should never support policies that will harm labor and benefit capitalist class (at least without some negotiation).

US citizens should not support policies that will harm working class and benefit employer/capitalist class
> In my experience it has been about trying to encourage a more diverse pool to select from...

In my experience, the DEI office rejected the results of an interview panel after the interview-and-candidate-selection stage because the candidates selected by the interviewers and interviewing panel to receive offers were "insufficiently diverse". This resulted in Corporate closing the job requisition because they didn't feel like dealing with the hassle (and expense) of repeating the process. (This sucked because we fucking needed that hole to be filled... but there's no arguing with Corporate.)

This is an N=1 report, and I'm sure there are other companies that aren't so super-fucked, but at this particular company, this is how it went down.

This scenario doesn't meet the strict definition of "diversity hire", but it sure does feel like actions motivated by the same sort of reasoning.
How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations
First time for me posting this kind of story - I thought it would make an interesting case on solving a hard computer vision problem with a crafty product engineer team.
> The __hash__() method should return an integer. The only required property is that objects which compare equal have the same hash value; it is advised to mix together the hash values of the components of the object that also play a part in comparison of objects ...

-- https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...

> The general contract of hashCode is:

> * If two objects are equal according to the equals method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce the same integer result.

> * It is not required that if two objects are unequal according to the equals method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce distinct integer results. However, the programmer should be aware that producing distinct integer results for unequal objects may improve the performance of hash tables.

-- https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/23/docs/api/java.base...
You ban the importation of satellite dishes, and you don’t let Starlink build ground stations. You can still get around this, just like people still import drugs, but you can make it harder.
I have Premium and I still get half the ads as free.

Plus, I get constant ads to upgrade to Premium+ for ads-free.

Premium+ is probably what you have.
It will be seriously real when the NYT abandons it. Washington Post has started to and writers are fleeing to lesser publications. Need to continue to marginalize the wokes and push them to irrelevant spaces where they can do their thing and no one listens.
1. Build a house for each homeless person

2. Remove them from the homeless count, because they now have a house.

3. Reach zero homelessness!

4. There are still people living on the streets... But we don't call them homeless!
A side effect of my career is that I have been in compliance adjacent roles for 20 years or so, and as a result I have read most of the related regulations. I still defer to a lawyer for actual opinions, but have frequently had to explain the technical implications of regulations to lawyers.

The bottom line is that the regulation is not a technical specification, it is a legal document, and parsing a legal document requires both the ability to read the regulation, and also to reason by applying the jurisprudence that is specific to the jurisdiction for the regualtion. Essentially, interpreting the law and translating it into requirements requires the ability to both outline the technical requirements and understand what is required to make the implementation legally defensible.

A good example of this is data deletion under GDPR. The expectation of the law is that when you get a deletion request, you will delete the data. In practice, deleting data is hard, unless you build your backup mechanisms to allow deletion of individual fields. With that in mind, companies meet this requirement by implementing a deletion scheme for production systems, and a mechanism such that datasets marked for deletion are logged, and when a restore from backup is performed, the restoration process references those deletion logs to ensure that deleted records are not restored. This, technically speaking, does not result in proper deletion of the data, but it has passed audits under data deletion regulations (Disclaimer: this is based on public documents detailing data deletion requirements, not my work directly. Consult your lawyer, I am not a lawyer, and I am not on your compliance or security team and this is not a recommendation).
The Most Dangerous Game was published in 1924
Here are some tips;

1. When you cross your eyes, gradually let them return to uncrossed. Try to do it as slow as possible. Along the way, try to line up any structures that you see in the image that are repeated from left/right half.

2. Once you are able to hold a cross-eyed gaze long enough with lined up left/right half, slowly move your eyes between different features near the middle. Your eyes will naturally want to start to focus and match up pieces.

3. Don't be too far or too close to the image; they are usually easily viewed from comfortable distances. If the image is too big, make it smaller. It's usually easier smaller.

4. Initially, when you cross your eyes, or look through the image, it will likely be blurry. This is because your brain naturally associates accomodation and convergence with also changing focus. You'll learn to decouple those things and you will more quickly be able to go from focusing on the 2D image to crossing it without changing focus much.

There's a whole bunch on this site: https://www.magiceye.com/stwkdisp.htm
We are currently in a world where you can be banned from certain rights wing echo chambers for, verbatim, quoting the more deranged and unhinged things a major right wing political figure has said.

It's not really alarmist or hyperbolic when some of the newer deranged things include not needing to vote anymore, or annexing Canada and Greenland.

You have to, like, take this seriously. Its not just some reddit troll running his mouth, and it's borderline gaslighting to suggest some both-sides-equivelancy between the two.
That's how I used to help my grandmother when I was a little child. She always used to remark that the last one (5th) was the most difficult to find.
No I think what they're saying is that they want ability to be the only (or at least by far the primary) metric used to evaluate the fitness of a candidate.
In no way it is at all believable that 94% of all fortune 500 hiring during 2021 went to minorities. This is statistical mumbo-jumbo. Do you even work at a company like this? This statistic has to be misrepresentative of the conclusion you are suggesting because it is easily debunked by standing at the entrance to any midtown manhattan building during the morning rush hour.
Transforming how you work with v0
First up is a love of language and word play, all language, all words, how they sound, accents, tone, resonance of a room, how to project your voice, and to whome.
Heyyyyy!
70-80% of homeless people are local. Fixing homelessness in your community does not attract large numbers of additional people.
How to send Prometheus data to New Relic: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/prometheus-int...

How to send StatsD data to Datadog: https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/dogstatsd/?tab=hostage...

Places like datadog and posthog are selling you their ability to ingest your existing data. I call bullshit. It’s a problem looking for a solution. It’s an excuse for engineers to build moats around a moderately difficult problem by making it inscrutable.
Yeah, but they have you read a specific text, so not as much of an option if you use the primary demo.

Seems like a heck of a nice way to gather a training set! :)
And then there’s Banksy’s “in the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes“. For pretty much the same reasons you stated above, I assume.
There's a certain strand of progressivism that holds as axiomatic that wealth and power are inherently evil.
Having grown up at a time where I was forced to use typewriters and listen to vinyl LP records, I don't wax so nostalgic over those old technologies. As soon as I got my Commodore 64 and my Star Gemini 10x dot matrix printer, I never used a typewriter again!

Vinyl took a little longer to get off of as I had (and still have) a fairly significant vinyl collection.
This is terrible. It makes my blood boil just seeing this.
The same idea was tried in Europe some 2500 to 2000 years ago:

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

The difference here is that Roman dictators were appointed to fix specific problems and did not derive their mandate from the heavens. Eventually the dictatorship took on a life of its own which then led to the fall of the Roman republic and the start of the Roman Empire - which later fell due to mismanagement and possibly the effects of a cooling climate [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period
Mental illness is a major factor that makes it hard to help people. A majority of homeless people don't have mental illness, but a large fraction do, but those are the hardest to help.

I have a friend right now who is in a precarious housing situation who has schizophrenia but does not have a DX and has no insight into her condition. If my wife tries to set a time to pick her up and take her out to our farm, odds are 1/10 that she will really be there, will really get in the car, will not get out of the car for some hare-brained reason or otherwise not make it out. You've got to have the patience of a saint to do anything for her.

If she had some insight into her condition she could go to DSS and get TANF and then get on disability and have stable housing but she doesn't. No matter how I try to bring up the issue that she does have a condition she just "unhears" it.

Indians and other people from traditional cultures have stronger "family values" and won't wash their hands of intractable relatives the way people who grew up in the US monoculture will. (Or if they do it, they'll do it in a final way)