skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes almost zero time. You can remain focused on your primary task rather than having to take a significant mental departure.

As I said, this topic is likely to remain controversial for some time. I have a feeling that a lot of people are reacting to it rather than actively using and understanding where we are today.

I have been using it actively and across a wide range of application domains (not just coding) for probably somewhere around a year. This use has been under a "trust but verify" modality, being careful and skeptical. And, yes, I have come across issues here and there. And yet, in the aggregate, it would be impossible to envision not using this tool. It is most-definitely a potentially huge productivity and time-to-market booster. And it will only get better.

I believe in this to the extent that we decided to pivot a hardware-centric startup we've been pursuing to make it software-centric with AI agents at the core of the offering. These tools will change the way we conduct business, write software, design hardware, conduct research, administer healthcare and more. They might not be ideal today. These are just babies learning to walk.
I have seen that happening inside a company (big one). There is an internal job market, and I would say the ratio is about 20% or more fake. From every 20 applications to postings that seem like a copy of my resume, I get 5 replies (the rest is black hole, or come a reply 10 months later) from the replies, eventually 2 interviews.
sell the shovel
This is expected. Elon Musk is being sanctioned for interfering in European elections and in unprecedentedly involved in the administration of an administration that has made annexing, by military force if necessary, the territory on an EU member and fellow NATO ally a centerpiece policy.

There is not a lot of hard data, but https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51298-public-reaction... indicates he is overwhelmingly unpopular and disliked in the UK.

This is not a political comment. YouGov is one of the best pollers (rankings are based on past prediction quality, and easily confirmed with any search engine if you don't believe this). If a CEO is widely unpopular for whatever reasons and deeply identified with the brand, it will cause a problem.
Reminds me of an oldie but a goodie- The Onion Weather Report - Revolt Forecasted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJwHZVl5Buk
For comparison electric cars declined by 9.5% but Tesla declined by 40.9% at that same time. This is more than Tesla just following the general market trend.
Funny, I have the opposite experience. I used to get relevant videos to what I was watching. If I'm watching a Phish video, it would recommend other Phish videos. These days, if I'm watching a Phish video I will literally, as in literally literally, get a Candace Owens video recommendation. I have literally never clicked on one of her videos ever. I don't watch political content on youtube at all, and if I did I am very left leaning. I can't fathom what has made the algorithm so terrible that if you're watching 90s Phish videos it recommends right-wing talking heads.
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The competition is getting better and Musk is a very polarizing individual. None of this surprises me.
In analogy with the article: what is the junk food experience, but the craving for more junk food? It is literally engineered to make us want more.
on the other hand I would venture to say there are less like you (demand) than generic web devs
...ironic
Even if Starship never carries humans (something I would debate you on) it would still qualify as a "marked improvement to private spaceflight capabilities". It may well clear that bar in a few months in fact, after they demonstrate orbital refueling in March[1] (or a bit later). All the other important parts (engines, heat shield, landing) have already been demonstrated as viable, and humans are a tiny percentage of all launches.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/01/
Well, they need to properly plan how they will protect the PIs leaked by hackers
Having interviewed candidates for full-stack positions, and actually asked them about the entire stack (instead of just the backend), I'm surprised the number isn't higher.
Ask HN: How do I find why my AWS VPC is costing $34?
This is for my personal lab. I am at my wits end trying to hunt down this cost. I do not have an EIP or public IP address or a NAT gateway. I do have ipv6 egress only gateway and EIPs for SQS, ECR and S3. I am mostly using my AWS for batch processing where I upload data to S3 and triggers a job by placing a message in a SQS queue. My VPC has subnets in different AZ.
From the article,

The automaker’s losses can be attributed to a number of factors, including the increasingly controversial attitude of its CEO, Elon Musk, and the decrease in government incentives. Some European states have reduced the amount of money offered toward the purchase of a new EV, while others have eliminated the incentives altogether.

That said, Tesla’s significant drop in European registrations has largely left the EV industry unaffected. Considering the sheer volume of electric cars sold by Tesla, EV registrations as a whole only went down by 1.4% in the EU, EFTA and UK from January to November and they actually went up 0.9% in November compared to last year. In the EU alone, EV registrations went down 5.4% year-to-date and 9.5% in November.
Isn't that the point? By purely focussing on business-centric strategies, the videos no longer have meaning.
It would not be my first time! Worst three months of my life.

Regardless, my friends in china seem to work hours that roughly align with 40-50 hours a week, similar to you'd see here.
I built this robot and gave it a llama3.2 brain
Great point on the Sieve - knowing it off of the top of his head wasn't itself a red-handed indicator of cheating, but claiming that he'd used it in a B2B SaaS app was. Especially given that he wasn't able to explain how he'd allegedly used it.

The candidates we're bringing into this screen typically have 1-3 prior positions on their resume, so the point here is to throw them some softballs that they should be able to crank through with some ease to demonstrate that their basic programming skills are there.

We've had experiences where people who have held legitimate programming jobs at F1000 companies struggle greatly with some of the basic questions that I've listed above. I'm not sure why, but it's the case.

We try as best as we can to adjust for anxiousness, I know that programming in front of others can suck, but all the same we're just trying to establish, "before we go forward, can you do some elementary tasks that anyone with your claimed experience should be able to do"

Do you have any suggestions on better questions?
We're learning that our companies are not data-driven, they're data-chauffeured: Bossman decides what he wants to do, and then (maybe) they cherry-pick data that support that pre-determined decision and ignore any data that contradict it.
I feel like I'm the only person who actually likes it. But I've also historically always enjoyed the bartender's handshake type bitter spirits.
One in five seems to be an under-estimate. Based on my experience of Upwork, at least 50% would be a better estimate.
> Much evidence shows that state owned competitions are significantly less efficient than the free market.

How is this possible? Profit, by definition, inefficient. Privatizing the production of rockets just penalizes american citizens with no benefit. Privatization necessarily makes less efficient markets, especially compared with a zero-margin competitor.
Unless I have an “in” and can directly send/hand a cover letter to the opening’s hiring manager, I can’t imagine ever writing a cover letter again.
there was an article shared here on HN which was great about this. It talked about how we often reverse logic behavior, and assume firms will be making the optimal choices.

We dont know. Ive gone through at least 3 research papers, all of which come to the same conclusion, hybrid outperforms RTO. Whatever decision is being made, its not based on the economic evidence. We will find out eventually.
I use proton. Love the product. I'm glad they are donating to organizations that need it.
I work on PGD but I'm pretty sure we actively support open-source options for HA:

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/repmgr
I don't think thats the case. Don't confuse homepage recommendations with end of video queue recommendations. It used to be end of video recommendations were heavily weighted on the current video or chain of videos you just watched. Essentially you could keep going to the next video and go down a weird hole of obscure videos. Now the algorithm will quickly circle you back to your profile homepage of videos as opposed to the video you just watched.
It never ceases to amaze me how many (fatal or serious) accidents (of all types in all circumstances) occur due to wanting to save seconds -- not minutes, hours, days, or weeks -- but seconds.
Of course there are better time series than Timescale. Better graph databases than AGE. Better GIS databases than PostGIS. The point made when it comes to Postgres is 9 times out of 10 you don’t need better thing. And unless you have that compelling optimization already ready to go with receipts to back it up, probably you should pick Postgres
This is about the market share of Tesla, a company with a PE of 112. Not about overall EV trends...

"...Year-to-date, Tesla registrations in the EU, EFTA and UK went down 13.7% from 327,635 units in 2023 to 282,692 units this year, while the market share shrunk from 2.8% to 2.4%. In the EU alone, which has 27 member states, Tesla’s market share went down from 2.6% in the first 11 months of last year to 2.2% this year..."
I evaluated this for our database and ran into many cases where it wasn't a 1:1 replacement, especially if you lean heavily on stored procedures. Additionally, our db library (it's a Rails app; the database was originally used with another language) needed features Babelfish didn't support. It may be worth another look for us, but I assume it still shouldn't be considered a 100% drop-in.
Breathless navel gazing. It's not that he's wrong, it's just that this article adds nothing new to the conversation other than excessively technical mumbo jumbo. Just read MrBeast's original document.
> It doesn’t cost anything to make sure employees feel valued, unless you’re doing things to hold back their careers

But it does. Even something as simple as writing a thank you email has an opportunity cost. In that time a sales person could initiate a new call, or an engineer could write another paragraph on a design doc.

It's why engineers having free coffee, or even BYO coffee, is such a bellweather. When the free coffee goes, the good times go with it. It costs the company nothing to let engineers BYO coffee, yet my friends and I have been with many a company that eventually set up a small coffee shop or a pay-per-cup coffee machine and go around confiscating employee-brought coffee machines. Historically they cite a "fire hazard" or some similar safety issue.

> That low interest rates make people better managers?

It's not entirely wrong. Higher interest rates reduce investment frequency and amount because it increases the risk and opportunity cost. When interest rates are low it's easier to justify to investors/board members that diverting some capital to employee value and satisfaction. When interest rates are high, things like the aforementioned thank you email becomes an inefficiency, reducing your attractiveness to investors. An extra 2% on a 10MM loan is 200k, and someone's gotta provide that additional revenue. Suddenly free coffee, unsupervised/unmonitored work (like remote), and thank you letters don't provide direct increased revenue while a sales call or design doc could.
> So the distinction is moot.

From the perspective of an applicant's emotional response, sure, but it's absolutely relevant in order to have a conversation about how to solve it since the different causes may need different approaches, or may occur in sufficiently differing rates to influence which should be addressed first.
I assume you're joking, but I do think wealth inequality is a major driver of this.
even better if you can just zip up the docs so I can extract into my project under ./docs
The original comment I was replying to has an inaccurate mindset: Linux supporters generally still envision this as a community project, with community contributors, and they are so successful, that companies knock at the door politely and are lucky to get code into the kernel.

It's actually the other way around: This is a collaborative corporate project, with corporate employees contributing, but there are some random community members who can knock at the door politely and are lucky to get code into the kernel.

The community-first development model died about 2 decades ago. When the Linux Foundation talks about "community," they are talking about their corporate contributors and their communities, not us. This is also why I cringe at the excessive (not all, just excessive) hate for corporations in the online community. Without their work, rip out 80%-90% of the kernel commits every year for the last decade, and see how advanced Linux would be.

This same change is also underway at another open source project - Blender; which is now increasingly corporate funded and developed. When I see online forum posts arguing that Blender is a perfect example of how we can beat the corporations as a community, I just shake my head now.
No, Staffs are suppose to be focused on the technical implementation of the product, not on the minute of everyone’s work. Most of what you describe are EMs. Staff/Sr Staff/Principals should be steering the high level architecture, tech debt refactoring, migration strategy, etc and still get in the weeds to implement said architectures. They have the technical experience to do it, trying to extinguish that experience by pushing them into administrative roles is a complete waste of their talent and experience.

They’re being pushed until these administrative roles because Directors have no idea how to leverage their talent and default to putting them into EM-like roles because that’s what they do but again, it’s a waste of talent and experience.
Cost explorer will help you dig into the usage type and resources used.
Thank you -- "platform decay" is so much more intuitive. In much the same way, I've always preferred the term "enabling behavior" to "co-dependency" (though, of course, there is nothing crass about "co-dependency").
I think it depends on the specific query. If I'm looking for something specific like the date of a holiday, traditional search is better. If I'm querying about a programming issue that would land me on several SO pages that I need to piece together to get the full answer, LLM chat can save me a bunch of time and answer in terms of my specific variable names
I strongly disagree with this whole sentiment. The vulnerable need actual protection, not perceived. Invention that is not grounded in reality won't work. Which grand vision starts from falsehood? A possibility not yet proven is not a lie, it's a potential. People united is not a fundamental virtue, people united under virtuous pretenses is of value; people united under a lie is more likely a cult, or a sick society.
Sometimes people say that the fix is unionizing workers -- which, yeah, probably, eventually -- but I suspect the first step is just organizing their thoughts, so that people can get collectively outraged. It's way too easy at the moment for everyone to go along with injustices (like the CEO getting a double bonus while laying a bunch of other people off, like one of the top comments atm describes) just because it's hard to coordinate frustrations around them.

Society needs new morals for this new age. Even though capitalistically this kind of behavior is incentivized / almost required, humanistically it is not. Giving one person money for fucking over a lot of other people is actually NOT okay. But if the only metric by which it is judged is economic, then it seems fine. Organizing to fix things like this requires, basically, a collective consciousness (something like the "class consciousness" of yore, but that feels like an antiquated phrase from an antique age).

It is the same role that "freedom of the press" is supposed to fill (in a world where press is less dominated by strategic PR campaigns/subliminal advertisements like it is today). If people can't align their thoughts together, they can't rebel, or revolt, and the way things are today definitely merits a revolution -- hence the entrenched powers are very interested in suppressing the alignment of thoughts. (Certainly China's censorship is the best example of this, but it happens on Western internet too, in a more subtle way. Keeping everyone outraged over the other villainous political party is a great way to keep them from realizing that the daily apparatus of their life is designed to loot them.)

The other way people align their thoughts is finding a leader willing to voice them. That is, basically, what Trump has been doing, for a class of folks who are pissed about some other stuff (some of it real, but much of it deeply contorted by tricks of propaganda). Well, there are a lot of other folks without those kinds of leaders right now. Most of the people on here for instance. If anyone reading is thinking about dropping the follow-the-rules mentality and becoming an outspoken revolutionary, please do, but be sure you're attacking the real problem, not just the least-likable people who it's easiest to bandwagon against.
> Drivers now do not want to get stuck at the light, so they are consistently running red lights

Police stopped enforcing red lights all over California after covid. And getting cameras installed is a Herculean task.
We can do reconstruct reads, what's missing is the code to rewrite missing blocks in a stripe after a drive dies.

In general, due to the scope of the project, I've been prioritizing the functionality that's needed to validate the design and the parts that are needed for getting the relationships between different components correct.

e.g. recently I've been doing a bunch of work on backpointers scalability, and that plus scrub are leading to more back and forth iteration on minor interactions with erasure coding.

So: erasure coding is complete enough to know that it works and for people to torture test it, but yes you shouldn't be running it in production yet (and it's explicitly marked as such). What's remaining is trivial but slightly tedious stuff that's outside the critical path of the rest of the design.

Some of the code I've been writing for scrub is turning out to also be what we want for reconstruct, so maybe we'll get there sooner rather than later...
Using State Machines to Run Databases (2016)
Knew before I clicked: it's a flat 4-way intersection of two large-ish streets where there is ample space for something else. Hint: draw a small circle in the middle of the intersection and take down the damn stop signs.
It worked for Levi Strauss.
Not really, since failing FizzBuzz basically ends the interview.

That said, Pascal's and Non-Primes allows us to do a few minutes of basic, "that looks great, what are some ideas for optimizing it" work together once they have established that they have the basics of programming.

I am incredibly open to suggestion on better ways to evaluate people for both (a) their basic ability to code, and (b) their ability to think about code/optimization.
YouTube is hardly the only website on the Internet. And besides that, YouTube splits ad revenue 40/60 yt/creator anyway. So I suppose those creators are all in on the scheme too?
One of the problems with modern social media (and digital media in general) is that this is now happening, to some extent, to everyone. This is particularly a problem for children, who are exposed to this so early that they may never internalize the difference between existence and performance.

Bo Burnham said it really well in an interview:

"I'm saying I feel very stressed because I feel like I'm on stage panicking in front of thousands of people... and I feel like I'm trapped within a performance and I'm freaking out because of it. And 13-year-olds were going 'yeah yeah, I feel like that every day'. And I go 'what are you talking about?' and I realize that the stresses of a C-list comedian were democratized and given to an entire generation.... Social media has made life a performance."

I'm not sure where the original interview is, but I found the quote at 9:43 of this analysis of Inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHat1OlMPeY
More and more of the labor value is captured by fewer and fewer people. People are starting to ask why we are working so hard if all it does is enrich a handful of people. The fact that one person is worth 1% of the entire US GDP is a sign of an unhealthy society.
Related from last year:

Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443
I'm confused by the pricing, why is going from Base to Medium more than double the price? It's cheaper to get two base tier servers and distribute containers instead, which is unusual.

I like the idea of the service though, but pricing is not that attractive for me currently.
Fascinating compiler glue from a bygone era. You'll be pleased to know the 2.0 version of echo makes standard dos.library calls like ReadArgs() Output() FWrite() FPutC(..., '\n') on a typical run. They exposed all the internals as documented API calls.
You used LLMs to write this comment.
I’ll never forget getting a boilerplate rejection email from Lockheed Martin 13 months after I applied for an internship for the upcoming summer.
My best experience reading Baudrillard was out loud with a group. Some passages spoke to some but not others, but most generated discussion. Some are also obvious to us now in the TikTok age - uncannily so.
Really liked this sentence:

"YouTubers are not “Creators” but Creations. Audiences, rationalized by the platform, and the vloggers who upload the videos those audiences consume are not separable either theoretically or empirically."
>Too bad that we are currently doing the exact opposite (cutting down more forest than is regrown)...

Hmm, anyone has data on this? I've seen many people claiming the opposite of that opposite.
> Have you any idea the launch costs of NASA/ESA versus SpaceX?

This seems to be the result of intentional incompetency by our own politicians and refusal to fund the program in any comparable way than a serious sign of inability to compete with Space X. They've been trying to get private spaceflight going for like four decades now and sitting on their hands the entire time.