skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Air travel has really only become commonplace fairly recently.

Air travel has been mundane for at least the better part of a century now. Just to remind us all how old we are: The Boeing 747 first flew in 1969 and went into initial service with Pan Am in 1970, that's 55 years ago.

>Space travel was rare and extremely expensive

I said quick and mundane which the Space Shuttle accomplished in spades. Nobody talks about going to space anymore unless something is particularly novel.

>As to culture and militarily some of this depends on how western you view Russia.

Russia was never considered Western: Politically they have been considered east of Eastern Europe since ye olde days and "Second World" post-WW2. Religiously they were always the Russian Orthodoxy and the various Orthodox Churches all have eastern-to-Europe vibes.

>But, the US was cautious of China all the way back in the Korean War well before Vietnam when we did the same.

And arguably not cautious enough, including to this very day.

>we’re better off economically,

The stock market is having the time of its life, but that isn't entirely reflective of the real economy.

Remember that Harris lost this election ultimately because of the bad (or at least perceived as bad) economy.

>militarily

A lot of Western military still uses hardware from 50 years ago, and even the so-called latest is 20-ish years old on average.

I also question the real efficacy of Western militaries when placed in an actual peer war. We talk big, but the US has also lost practically every single war in the modern era against inferior enemies.

>technologically

Nearly all of the bleeding edge technology is manufactured in the East. Even if the West produces the ideas on paper, it's the East which actually turns them into practical and tangible reality.

Also, new isn't necessarily better. Russia and Ukraine are both demonstrating quite viciously that dumb-and-cheap might be better. Ukraine has already called out the M-1 Abrams as useless in today's battlefields without certain modifications, which the US military and industrial complex are refusing to entertain.
I mean if you'd like, you could reimplement the necessary client on an airgapped computer, produce an encrypted value, take that value to a networked computer, send it to the server, obtain an encrypted result that the server could not possibly know how to decrypt, and see if it has done the computation in question. No trust is required.

You could also observe all bits leaving the device from the moment you initialize it and determine that only encrypted bits leave and that no private keys leave, which only leaves the gap of some side channel at the factory, but you could perform the calculation to see that the bits are only encrypted with the key you expect them to be encrypted with.
I know they used to be worse, haven't tested the newest ones
If that cafe was part of a megacorp that was doing shady business and driving small business in the ground, as well as exploiting others, I’d drink that free coffee every day!
I want to live in a community where everyone cares.
Maybe I'm just not American, but I've never had to go at all, it's just a bizarre TV/movie thing.
We are at a logical impasse... i.e. failure to understand the noted ROC curve is often a metric that matters in ML development, and LLMs are trivially broken at the tokenization layer:

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

Note, introducing a straw-man argument and or bot slop in an unrelated topic is silly. My anecdotal opinion does not really matter on the subject of algorithmic performance standards. yawn... super boring like ML... lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yawning_koala_bear_(35893...

Best of luck, =3
I am the guy who cares or cared! I will bring lost lady back to care home. I will help a kid to find his lost key in the playground. I will start fixing technical debt in a product at work. While two first cases were naturally the right thing to do I didn’t expect anything. With technical debt I was stopped because I was wasting company’s resources. I observe in my diary, that I am turning into do not care type person. One can’t cary about every pothole in the world.
I watch a YouTuber called bigclive who does hardware teardowns. Occasionally he'll tear down a single-use vape to show how you can harvest re-usable li-ion batteries from them.

He can't use the word "vape", or the video gets de-monetized...
You could also work around this by adding a scaling transformation that normalizes and centers (e.g. sklearn StandardScaler) in between the raw embeddings — based on some example data points from your data set. Might introduce some bias, but I’ve found this helpful in some cases with off the shelf embeddings.
FYI - website seems broken, docs link is invalid, readme mentions docker-compose but the compose file is missing, pnpm run build:server is broken, pnpm run start:app launches the app but the login fails as it seems it needs a database server, dockerfile used outdated node.
> Apple execs knew that this would negatively impact a subset of users' batteries and were at least OK with that

Seems like every 6 months or so they come out with an update almost specifically designed to do that for their phones and other products, so that's not even surprising.
Agreed about Musk.
Elon Musk as an example of caring, is ignorant of his actions vs his narrative.
Example him saying he says he's the best diablo player in the world, vs seeing him play poorly.

We live in a world full of people doing good who don't do it for the "player 1 energy"
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I really have no clue what you're trying to say. You presented as a bad historical example for your argument, landing on the moon. I showed how that was a flawed example and now you're talking about a people from India in IT and the Artemis program and an accomplishment of it that hasn't even happened yet. Looks like your trying to pick an argument of H1B visas with my comment that had no mention of it.
well established companies in an industry where there is not much competition or incentives to make drastic changes fit the bill
This is largely a political problem, I'd start there
Another thought is the rise in school shootings.
They have a right to education much like one has the right to bear arms or publish a book. You can have it, but your rights end where you demand someone else give it to you involuntarily, particularly with violence.
Please never give up the fight against entropy. We can keep the flame alive a little longer.
The demo website at https://hlorenzi.github.io/customasm/web/ makes this even more accessible. I can actually follow along as to how this works.
What a worthless rant. There are big problems and there are small problems and/or inconveniences. People do care, when they have a budget for caring. Unfortunately the modern world depletes that budget with the day-to-day life. I live close to where the author does and trust me, the city has way bigger problems to deal with than the nitpicky bullshit OP is calling out. In the suburb I live in, we have an app where the city does receive and implement reasonable recommendations. The reason why is that it's a small town with large pockets.

The rest of the things are just rants aimed at society? big tech? I don't get it.

> When I joined my former Big Tech job, everyone cared. Over time, incentives attracted a different set of people who didn't care as much. Eventually those people became the majority. It's painful to work with people who don't care if you care a lot, and eventually I left because of it.

No. Bullshit take. I used to care. But then in 2008, my employer showed me that I'm not the 'developer! developer! developer!' Steve Ballmer was excited about, I'm just a number on a spreadsheet governed by some pencil pushers in finance. All employers since have showed me again and again that if times are tough, I'm the ballast the company can shed to stay afloat. And in the past 4-5 years they've showed me I'm ballast even if the company is doing great, because 'activist' investors say so. So why should I care? I care about my family, I care about my personal projects, I care about my craft and I care about my health and the people around me. Do I care about your little annoying bug? Fuck no. Why would I? It's not even my intellectual property.

> Have been to the DMV? It sucked? There is a human being whose job it is to be in charge of the DMV. They do not care that it sucks.

I have. It's actually called the DOL where we live, OP. And it's great. I need to renew my license in person because of my disability and it takes me 15 minutes in-and-out, I barely have to stay in line. I also renew my car tabs online exclusively with 0 problems. I really don't understand the DMV meme, at least in Washington state.

> We have examples like Elon who, through sheer force of will, defeat armies of people who don't care. For his many faults, you can't say the man doesn't care.

Oh, you shouldn't have gone there, you lost all credibility my friend.
>which users would expect to be working whenever they are wearing the headphones (or at minimum, whenever music is playing).

Why would that be the case?
The idea that the DMV is a particularly awful experience does seem like something that would be especially susceptible to selection bias. Why would anyone ever announce "I went to the DMV today and it was fine"?
In the U.S. It's typically 20mph (32kph), although class 3 can be up to 28mph (45kph).
Would love to see an Australian equivalent of this.
People do not care because they don’t want to suffer all the time they see some lack of effort.
Even when there is 80% carers and 20% do-not-carers, 80% will suffer and go into the opposing group.
It has upside-down-bowl stability.
I care. Title busted.
Right. That thing doesn’t incur cost itself. It’s a good egg.
What the author of this post is actually mad about is that most people don't care about him. The people who designed the DMV don't care about him. The people who made the crappy Oracle HR software he probably has to use don't care about him. The people who designed the bike lanes don't care about him.

It's not their job to. They have about a million other priorities, they're not sorry about it, and they shouldn't be.

The DMV, the HR software people, the engineering people, they care about lots of things: Following the laws they are required to follow; maintaining regulatory compliance. Handling the latest set of changes and rules from a higher office who demands they be implemented yesterday. Not overwhelming the underpaid staff they have on-hand. Figuring out how to deal with a generally unpleasant general public, including the guy who wrote this. Holding back an ounce of sanity so they can get home at the end of the day and be happy and not drink themselves to death.

The reality is that life is a series of tradeoffs. Even if I am giving 100% at work (and I have a family and a life, so often I am not), that 100% does not get allocated entirely or even mostly to "deliver the best experience for the specific needs of the author of this article." It's dedicated to getting work out the door at an acceptable level of quality; monitoring our systems so they don't crash and lose us money; complying with the rules and procedures my employer demands I comply with; being tolerable and decent to my colleagues so they don't resent me and make my life harder. If I think about the needs of one specific customer out of the millions that transact business with my employer every day, it's because something extraordinary has happened with implications for one of the things above.

What sets people like Elon apart is that they are single-mindedly dedicated to getting people to appease them, and also pretty good at it. All Elon cares about is whatever interests him day-to-day, his ego, his impact on the world, whether people like him or hate him. He's "successful", by this author's metric, because he's self-obsessed.

All that said, the UK has a phrase for someone who cares only to do the bare minimum: a jobsworth, as in, more than my job's worth. A jobsworth is unhelpful on purpose, or because enforcing apathy is more valuable to them than doing anything that might impose upon them later an obligation to act. The thing is - those people are universally reviled. They are not liked or approved of in society. They're also a severe minority.

Most people are doing their best to stay above water on a dozen different things, and you are only one of them. The author ought to have some humility and realize that.
Anonymity should still be a choice. Especially location anonymity.

While I don't mind 7 billion people knowing what I intentionally said publicly, I don't want 7 billion people knowing where I sleep or where I am at this exact moment.
Yesterday, I opened Xiaohongshu and was surprised to see so many English posts and international users! The discussions are super interesting, too. I’m really curious—what kind of content are you all most interested in on this platform? Considering the cultural differences and the fact that most of the content here is created by Chinese users, it’d be cool to know what catches your attention the most!
Shouldn't managers be asking for this kind of thing regardless? We do weekly standups plus weekly written updates on our quarterly goals.

I despise this sort of thing but I get it. Managers do need to keep tabs on their employees one way or another, and employees do need to shine the spotlight on themselves if they want to get ahead. Still feels like busywork though.
I've had experiences with the DMV in three US states, and in two out of the three it was highly efficient and worked great. In one of them it was mediocre to unpleasant, but nothing to write home about.

I suspect the DMVs in LA and NYC are particularly bad and that's why it's a cultural meme.
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What do you think about deterministic simulation testing, which is currently trending?
You’ve been making commits for four months?
Trust me: You don't. You'd go insane.

See for example everyone who has to live with an HOA.
Oh! It’s your interface endpoints. Each one costs you a penny an hour (the S3 and DynamoDB gateway endpoints are free).
If the issue is paywall, you can read it here https://archive.is/LW3Iv
Well, what about "FROM python:3.18" and using requirements.txt or something like that? I mean, running an arbitrary Python version will get you in trouble anyway.
I've had success with getting people to do a clutch-only start then stop several times over. Once they get a feel for the engagement zone and realize that they can speed up the process by applying gas somewhere around it then it's all (metaphorically) downhill from there.

This is how I taught myself how after having multiple people tell me things like "it's just a continuous motion you do with both legs", "you just let the other pedal out while you give it gas", etc. Driving a manual seems to be one of those things that few people seem to be good at teaching because they forget how frustrating it can be to learn.
I invite the author to work for a large corp or a government and try and improve things. The most supportive people for improvements will be your team. The least supportive will be the higher-level managers. And no, the Director of Transportation is not the real manager. That's the mayor or city council.

Why? They get measured on the sweeping stuff, by the broad demands, and the people who actually pay them (in money or votes).

A better bike ramp that involves user testing but involves a delay that pushes work into the next quarter, changing accounting? That's a problem. I've lived this scenario where user features got axed to ensure all work could be budgeted under a particular quarter. Or a sign? That costs money and also needs approval, perhaps from another department.

Oh, and you are improving one bike ramp? Can't do that without people complaining. Got to improve all of them. So that is now a multi-million dollar project.

In a large org, it often isn't clear who owns overall design control, if anyone.

Lights that are great for drivers but suck for everyone else? That's many things in most cities and that is because drivers are the most vocal (and often the largest) population. Drivers win on everything from parking to infrastructure spending and drivers will tell city council what's on their mind.

For the corporate software I worked on, many users hated it. Tons of complaints. Team agreed. Team created proposal to fix it. Team managers pitched it to those above for the broader roadmap. Management explicitly said they didn't want to waste time on UI as the people paying were not the same as the people using.

Never worked for the DMV, but know a guy who maintains some software for one. What's the priority? Cheap. Cheap, cheap, cheap. Nobody wants to fund the DMV. Nobody wants to pay for technological improvements for it. Nobody wants to pay for staffing. It is where small amounts get shaved off to pay for things people do care about. The guy in charge of the DMV is tasked with keeping costs low.
That's one possibility -

Here's a story of the burnout of one of the GNOME terminal maintainers

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/259

In a situation where no amount of effort seems to be enough its really easy to not see the point anymore
I did some testing and even in python both approaches are nearly identical in speed:

def isEven_modulus(num):
return num % 2 == 0

def isEven_bit(num):
return (num & 1) == 0

import random, time

testSet = random.choices(range(0, 100), k=10)
iterations = range(1000)

print("These are our test numbers: ", testSet)

mod_start = time.perf_counter_ns()
for z in iterations:
for n in testSet:
isEven_modulus(n)

mod_end = time.perf_counter_ns()
for z in iterations:
for n in testSet:
isEven_bit(n)

bit_end = time.perf_counter_ns()

print("Modulus method: ", mod_end - mod_start, "ns")
print("Bitwise method: ", bit_end - mod_end, "ns")

There's some variance run to run but for the most part they're close enough to not matter. I do see a very small difference generally in favour of bitwise, but we're talking about a 60000ns (0.06ms) difference occasionally on 1000 runs (or about 60ns per run). Unlikely that this will be a significant bottleneck for anyone.

An example:

These are our test numbers: [45, 88, 55, 52, 40, 70, 62, 47, 78, 30]
Modulus method: 757341 ns
Bitwise method: 698872 ns

Possibly just a well understood and well-optimized problem.
I remember seeing one of these in Chatswood, Sydney, Australia
> Nix is a programming language, a build tool, a package manager and an entire ecosystem of extremely powerful tools

You have identified part of the problem.
Wait till you discover India and goverment.
Huh? China will get all the energy it needs from Russia. Plus China is the leader in renewables production.
The new features should interact fine with encryption. They are implemented at different parts of ZFS' internal stack.

There have been many man hours put into investigating bug reports involving encryption and some fixes were made. Unfortunately, something appears to be going wrong when non-raw sends of encrypted datasets are received by another system:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12014

I do not believe anyone has figured out what is going wrong there. It has not been for lack of trying. Raw sends from encrypted datasets appear to be fine.
Everybody cares actually. Obviously the author cares more about investing the time to write this blog post than to take a sledgehammer and some concrete and fix the bike ramp himself. Or he cares to avoid the potential interactions with law enforcement that would result from such ridiculousness.

The problem isn't with people not caring, it's that the deepest affections of the heart are selfish - incurvatus in se (curved inwards).

"Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, [being] so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works-righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake." - Martin Luther
Homeschooling is becoming fashionable because school systems have become shittier... Teachers are unable to discipline kids, there's zero consequences for kids who are disruptive, instead of failing kids school systems are dumbing down the curriculum, there's also massive institutional biases...

Plus it's more or less a golden age for homeschooling: there's more resources available than ever.
Everybody cares, but not enough to make a difference
Did Clippy Get Pregnant?
Man, I've been the engineer in situations like that bike lane and believe me, we care. Usually the engineers care. 99% of the time the contractor had some "value engineering" suggestions that the client was all too happy to take because it saved them a little money up front. As the engineer you can try to explain that it will be shitty, but they ... don't care.
And how exactly is the U.S. throwing its own away? In the last elections, held right on schedule as constitutionally designed, a certain slight majority percentage of voters picked their candidate and he got elected. Or do you define throwing away as any time someone you don't like wins, legitimately, through the exact process designed for picking heads of state?

It's getting tedious to see the hysterics that many go into about the destruction of democracy whenever whatever their emotional and ideological preference is doesn't happen as they want.
> The things we can accomplish today would have been nearly unimaginable nearly thirty years ago.

Like what? Witing an entire operating like Linux or Windows NT from scratch?
> I’d argue the average worker is in the position they’re in because of a whole chain of people that couldn’t be bothered to care.

This is a lame excuse. My caring is a choice I make. I can choose to care whether you care or not. I make the choice for myself.
That sounds inefficient. Should the right answer not be to train an ai and iterate?

I mean, I know it’s lame to say ai is the solution to everything but here it seems to make sense to me.
I've had wonderful experiences at DOL offices (which are 3rd party contracted), not so much at the DMV. Which one are you going to? Honestly worth a drive (or bus ride, depending on the issue) to go to a a decent one
Absolutely. Wild, isn't it?
These are actually wrappers around CPU instructions, so what ZFS does is implement its own equivalents. This does not affect encryption (beyond the inconvenience that we did not have SIMD acceleration for a while on certain architectures).
I agree the authors examples were all nitpicky and omg Elon was the worst example you could have picked.

But it does touch on a sort of apathy and nihilism that I can feel myself falling towards.