skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true for very memory constrained platforms like Heroku, but is a non issue at larger scale.

Taking your figure of 300MiB per process, and assuming you might want to run 1.5 process per core to account for IO-wait, that's 450MiB per core (ignoring copy-on-write).

If you look at various hosting offering, most offer something like 4GiB of RAM per core (e.g. EC2 "general purpose" instances).

As for the lack of concurrency support, Active Record has asynchronous queries since a few versions, and is now even async/fiber compatible. So if you truly have an app that would benefit from more concurrency, you can do it.
The whole article is concerning. Somehow there is no protection from this. The government can attack and threaten people?
You might find some stuff here

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/perf.html
> the connection between the legitimate will of the public and the actions at the other end of the chain of command can get pretty tenuous.

This is exactly why I can't imagine an open internet was ever going to survive.
In the US they can just spoof numbers.
Good observations.

Things were not very uniform 50 years ago either.

Patterson was already out of college in 1972, Howard Hughes was still alive and was the richest man in the US, but Hughes was reclusive and accomplished more without attracting attention, compared to someone like Musk in a similar position today.

But Hughes Tool and Hughes Aircraft were only somewhat similar to working for Tesla or Spacex. This was the '70's and Hughes had made so much money decades earlier that his manufacturing operations were much more old-fashioned and he provided intentionally better jobs and security for engineers and workers than alternative contemporary employers like oil or automotive. Everything like that was still expected to be "career for life" if you wanted it to, with constant advancement in pay at least, if not job title.

All these companies had tons of applicants so like today the vast majority of highly qualified candidates never had a chance.

I was around back then so I'm officially a boomer according to current guidelines.

But I was not quite out of high school around 1972, so it was a little too late to be very similar at all.

This would be an exact quote in that long gone time frame, from millions of people my age, allow me to embellish:

"(1976) I am sorry but todays world is different to the one he grew up in. We face challenges that makes prioritizing 100% on family extremely hard."

IOW, this is what millions of the younger "boomers" sounded like by that time. Talking about fortunate people only a few years older than themselves. Not 50 years older at the time like Patterson is now.

Being extremely aware of things like this for 50 full years myself, people like Patterson with his background and philosophy, I really have always admired more than anything else.

It's easy for me to appreciate high-performers thriving in a more flourishing landscape without envy.

For one thing, that can set an example of what it is supposed to be like.

It's not my fault that the economy had been destroyed while I was still a teenager, and those who were already adults had opportunities that were never going to reappear.

And it's not their fault either, they were just barely adults at the time.

I figured I could whine over the roll of the dice, or focus on the reality of the situation.

Edit: No doubt I was born into an equally prosperous time as Patterson, that's what makes me "officially" a boomer. It was just too good to last once the crooks came into political power.
I’ve seen people spin Results in their favor within a company, where you can validate them, but for interviews it seems nearly impossible to validate.

Does anyone have techniques for that?
> They didn’t want to tell me if I would be a contractor or an employee during the personal interview. They told me that they were just looking for the right person and that technicalities would be discussed later.

... that's not a "technicality", that's a crucial distinction that's as important as salary range or other benefits. This would be a huge red flag for me.
I long for the late 2000s/early 2010s style of web administration UIs which tried to sorta-kinda look like a desktop app, they'd have things in like, tables trying to be like LVS_REPORT where you'd rarely have to scroll and rows were 14 pixels high etc.

Nowadays stuff like this is a sea of divs with an ocean of margins and padding. Or just straight up card-based layouts.
If the interviewer were better they would instead ask: if no one else on the dev team knows the type system how do you handle that situation?

Which gets at the real risk, maybe valid, that someone super smart who isn’t the best communicator will go and make a bunch of code that no one else in the company can reason about. Maybe you get a really nice explanation of the type system, or they are aware this is an esoteric approach but used it anyway because you said anything goes and it’s cool.
Perhaps one day Trump will remember (or learn, more likely) that the Nazis would have murdered his autistic son Barron without a second thought.
Boy do I feel for that candidate. As a manager, while this is not the kind of question I'd ever ask, if I saw a candidate work through a problem like this I'd take it as a strong signal for a possible hire. Ghosting is a dick move period, but especially after a performance like that. I would like a follow-up discussion probing how open/accepting they'd be to skilling-up in their weaker areas, how they go about asking for help, try to suss out if they're prone to getting stuck in "ruts". But if I didn't see any red flags my vote would've been yes.
Maybe I let my ranting get in the way of my main point: Objects and their order matter less than people and their problems. If you find yourself ranking things the opposite way, you should think that through.

No aggression meant towards the original commenter but in my experience as a son and grandson, that road can take you somewhere you don’t want to end up as a father.

Edit:I should add I’m just as pathological as the rest of my family. Instead of stuff I collect rules, and I have to be very careful to not impose those rules unconsciously on other people.
He was obviously responding to "and probably most communities?"
I'm sorry, but playing king of the hill is a great way to get people to try to kill you. Absolutely moronic foreign policy.
Nice effort and just shows you how far the art/science of dataviz has come with the ability of websites to work like realtime game engines.

This is the same information visually expressed in a grid chart from 1983 by Edward Tufte (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information). While the method can't scale the same way it feels like a more creative approach :

https://www.edwardtufte.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/VDQI-...
Complete Human Recombination Maps
It’s always a fun little, largely meaningless, bike shed. ;)

I don’t understand how people prefer invisible characters which change sized depending on the editor to visible ones which are consistent and easy to scan for.
At least in the US, establishing a legal contract requires more than just an attestation and agreement by both parties (verbal or written or telegraphed or whatever).

For example it’s not a contract if there is no “consideration”, a legal term meaning the parties have exchanged something of value.

IANAL, but “abuse of telecom resources” is the more likely flavor of legal hot-water you might land in. I would absolutely not worry about a fraudster taking me to court.
China is big on UHV (1000kV) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-voltage_electricity...

> In 2015, State Grid Corporation of China proposed the Global Energy Interconnection, a long-term proposal to develop globally integrated smart grids and ultra high voltage transmission networks to connect over 80 countries.[10]: 92–93 The idea is supported by President Xi Jinping and China in attempting to develop support in various internal forums, including UN bodies.[10]: 92
I don’t find this “super good”. It’s mostly giving 2 clues which is the most basic level of competence. The paper 4 clue is reasonable but a bit lucky (eg Jack is also a good guess). I also don’t see it actually using tactics properly, which I would consider part of being “super good”. The game isn’t just about picking a good clue each round!

Now obviously it’s still pretty decent at finding the clues. Probably better than a random human who hasn’t played much. Just I find the post’s level of hype overstated. It feels like the author isn’t very experienced with Codenames.

It would be interesting to compare AI:human vs human:human games to see which does better. It seems like AI:AI will overstate its success.
It might works if you need to handle a few websites. But this retro engineering approach is not maintainable if you want to handle hundreds or thousands of websites.
This response is already so tired, like we need more excuses to be incompassionate with one another?

It seems like it's just an excuse for mostly fine-under-trump White folks to go "welp, don't blame me, I didn't vote for him" to people who are actually impacted by his policies. And they seem to apply it liberally to people who may have never supported him or who belong to demographic groups that statistically voted for him way less than White folks.

And even if they did vote for trump and are now facing the consequences? I still care enough not to laugh at them from the side lines for being the victim of a con man, and so should you.
Postmodern Views Are Linked to Left-Wing Authoritarianism
This is similar to the observation that memory semantics in most any powerful machine since the late 60s are implemented using messaging, and then applications go ahead and build messaging out of memory semantics. Or the more general observation that every layer of information exchange tends towards implementing packet switching if there's sufficient budget (power/performance/cost) to support doing so.
I have over 100 devices connected to Home Assistant

Man, I don't know how this doesn't end up being a full time job to manage.

Every time I dip my toes into "smart" devices, the required operational maintenance of fiddling with them to keep them working always pushes me back to the tried and true workflow of just flipping a light switch.
There's a lot of people that just aren't capable of releasing control like that.
i kinda agree but in practice it stopped being an issue 25 years ago
It depends on how high performance your high performance context requires. Being an array language, ideally traditional interpreter overhead doesn't matter if you write "array-y" code as most time would be spent in within-interpreter loops.

But as currently there isn't any loop fusion in CBQN (though I'd definitely like to add such at some point), despite the native ops being all nice SIMD where possible, it can still lose to autovectorized C or similar, or even scalar code, due to memory overhead.

FFI is libffi currently (with non-JITted preparation), so on the order of 100ns per call.
UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway
Deep Seek V3 Azure Hosting
Good afternoon,

Does anyone have experience hosting Deep Seek V3 in azure. I am trying to understand the expected costs, and the ideal stack to be using.
Presumably they're talking about linker scripts, and IMO if you're one of the vanishingly rare people who absolutely needs a linker script for some reason, then, firstly, my condolences, and secondly, given that 99.999% percent of users never need linker scripts, and given how much complexity and fragility their support adds to linker codebases, I'm perfectly happy to say that the rest of us can happily use fast and simple linkers that don't support linker scripts, and the other poor souls can keep using ld.
This is fine. In our situation we also kept a couple of summary tables in the regular database so we could track things that we commonly queried (like total visits per country, authenticated visits, etc.

Before I left we also started tracking every hit but with less information on a weekly rotating basis - so we could always query the last 7 days of logs, but only needed to store about 20% of the information in the full log. It added to the cost a little bit, but queries within the 7 day limit were effectively free, which Support and Analytics loved :)
Am I crazy or is “conversion to base 15” very much a numeric method/operation?

Like sure the API itself may have string input/output, but under the hood there’s no way it’s not doing integer divisions and modulos.
Word Autobots: Using Transformers for Word Association in Codenames (2020)
If by job you mean acting as a circus bear.
That flushes, just like the fsync() system call mentioned in Luu's post.
Experts Weigh in on $500B Stargate Project for AI
I think this one is pretty outrageous:

> Mutating array operations are forbidden. Arrays cannot have content appended or removed after initialization.

In a language like C, one could interpret this rule as making arrays containing anything other than 0 or a fixed-length list of expression be forbidden. And, in any case, who comes up with what are essentially style rules that are the same regardless of language?
The study found that strong endorsement of liberal postmodern beliefs - such as skepticism of absolute truths and emphasis on subjective experiences - was significantly associated with left-wing authoritarian tendencies.

This included support for progressive ideologies such as censorship and revolutionary measures to address social inequalities.

Notably, the research contrasted this contemporary form of postmodernism with earlier iterations from the 1960s and 1970s, which broadly rejected authority in all domains.
> The hangover is going to be spectacular when it hits.

I'm honestly looking forward to it. We constantly deal with abstractions until they break and we are forced to dive into the concrete. That can be painful, but it (usually) results in a better world to live in.
Extend the European synchronised grid to Northern Africa.

Then you can think about deploying solar on a massive scale to parts of the Sahara.
> Why do they vote for the extreme right wing, you may be wondering? Mostly out of spite. They really hate people on the left, who they see as smug.

People would rather bear illness (themselves, family) and even die than let the 'wrong people' get some assistance (which would also help themselves):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness
That would definitely do damage to somebody's skull.

Airspeed, drag, and terminal velocity and all that I would assume it's going subsonic and appears to be quite brittle.

The angle also appears to be consistent with what I've seen other impacts produce in the 40 degrees.

The lack of sonic boom and camera catching it I am curious if this happens on the daily with nominal observation.
Team humanity is too segmented at the moment. Unless the next Pan-whatever happens, it's just politically impossible.
When I moved to a larger metro I would see people walk their dog and say, "Hey nice dog!" and get completely ignored. I get why after a couple years. they assume I'm going to sell them something or ask them for money.
Oh boy there is a whoooooole fun thing on that here: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/7475

And ya I also don't appreciate having to care about formatting for my code to compile and not being able to put debug statements at column 1 so they stick out like a sore thumb, though I suppose the solution to the latter is to stop being a puts/print debugger but, like... no :)
That feels like a tilted assessment. The technical solutions can break down enormous walls, and very quickly. There are just some walls they can't - political, social, etc - and once the other walls have been leveled, we tend to get focused on those & lament.
Stop re-electing the same people. I vote for someone different in my state’s partisan primaries, because I believe high turnover of elected representatives is beneficial. I may still vote for the incumbent in the general election, but never in the primary.
I think of Docker as a well executed and well-timed formalization of existing tools. It put a name to a collection of engineering concepts. This is why people can build Docker in N lines of shell script. Jails existed in the late 90s. IaC had multiple options before Docker.
nah, it's pretty clear, they shared their side of the story in what you quoted. damn, that's got to hurt. it feels like failing a test in school because the teacher is pedantic, not because the answer is wrong. maybe they were looking for an excuse but at least you are not left guessing otherwise. that's the only thing i can think of that would be worse.
This is also one of those things that can be quite tricky to modify down the line when you need to add a new feature or whatnot. This problem is of course very artificial and it doesn't sound like the interview was particularly well done, but I can kind of see what they were trying to do with "keep code maintainable as it evolves". And even if you are a TS-wizard with a Ph.D. in typing: is it really worth all the cognitive overhead?
It's particularly funny/annoying when they're convinced that the fact they got it from the "AI" makes it more likely to be correct than other commenters who actually know what the heck they're talking about.

It makes me wonder how shallow a person's knowledge of all areas must be that they could use an LLM for more than a little while without encountering something where it is flagrantly wrong yet continued with its same tone of absolute confidence and authority. ... but it's mostly just a particularly aggressive form of Gell-Mann amnesia.
The last project I worked on went in the same direction.

Everything works great in local/qa/test, and then once we move to production we inevitably have customers with super weird network security arrangements. Users in branch offices on WiFi hardware installed in 2007. That kind of thing.

When you are building software for other businesses to use, you need to keep it simple or the customer will make your life absolutely miserable.
Or, have it play a human and compare human-human and llm-human pairs.
In some countries the transit companies (public or private) also become the landowners of the adjacent areas - this would be the "rail plus property" model.

In fact, the rail plus property model allows the rail operate to better capture their added value, so it applies even in "private" scenarios. The most famous example would be Tokyo.

The goal shouldn't be for the public to be able to reap direct financial benefits from the induced activity around transit hubs, the goal should be to firstly to incentivize and maintain affordable, high quality, sustainable transit, secondly to provide more and better economic opportunities.
I absolutely love the video chip of the Ataris. The display list approach is nothing short of brilliant, allowing multiple display modes on a single frame.
There's half a dozen lines over 500kV DC in operation and as many again under development and construction
You can see from the photos how people might mistake planes for drones or UAP's.
Can you elaborate on some of the more advanced tactics?

When I play, it's mostly about getting a good 2 clue each time. Then if you can opportunistically get a 3 or 4, that's awesome.

Some tactics come in for choosing the right pairs of 2's so you don't end up mismatched, or leaving clues that might be ambiguous with your opponent's... But that's mostly it.

It'll be fun for multiplayer! Just like how in other online games you can add in a AI to play as one of the players.
ah, yes, that's probably it. also typical german. don't pay for the role, but for the formal qualification.
They're Lying to You About AI Agents
I agree to sell Hacker News for $1 million.

Am I liable for fraud?
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Why don't any of the trains go into New Jersey? That seems like a big wasted opportunity for adding more space that can easily commute into the city.
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I agree about vanilla FizzBuzz. It's like a 'hello, world' of coding. My comment is about the several other rules brought in.
It's the (b) case I'm interested in. Like the spymaster loses if they can't subtly indicate to their friends that they're the real deal. Otherwise the robots win.
I had a ZX-81 clone for a few weeks. When my family saw what it could be done, they returned the Prológica CP-200 and got me an Apple II+ clone (still very bare, but it would later gain floppies, 80 column-display, a Z80 coprocessor, extra memory and a modem). I still have that computer and the //e clone that I added later as a second workstation for software development. I did a ton of educational software on Apple IIs.
I figured there would be a hand full of instances of people dying from meteorites falls, but they have only ever bruised a person: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/only-person-ever-h...
Ah, private equity, lovely. How the US allows such things happen is a myth for me.

Free for all, but only the riches.
Meh, I agree in spirit but in practice it’s quite hard to get enough unique names using descriptive terms. I also think there’s some benefit in learning history that comes from naming things after people.
i know it might be too much to ask, but can you record one of your coding session and share it on youtube? like, one hour session using aider to implement some features for aider.
DeepSeek Is Chinese but Its AI Models Are from Another Planet
Well, actually it caught a meteor striking, leaving behind a meteorite.
Super cool! Its kinda crazy how out of the loop JFK airport is
That is an absolutely adorable picture!
They are mutually exclusive in the US because space for cars (current US sized cars) means everything is farther apart, which means the public transit is not economical, or lots of walking. And walking is more dangerous for pedestrians due to inattentive drivers and large arterial roads with wide crossings.

The constraints lead to completely opposite designs, which is why only very few, very dense cities in the world have convenient public transit, and they also happen to be inconvenient for personal cars.
https://archive.is/JOtyT
This is the LinkedIn profile the attacker referred to as his: https://www.linkedin.com/in/solomon-aborbie-jr-6b0a32155/ (Solomon Aborbie Jr) - the CV seems to check out with this Bowdoin video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_vHGLDMtM - so likely real and the attackers did "identity theft".

Starting at 1:58 here: https://cloud-3s03ljpcy-hack-club-bot.vercel.app/0call_recor...
I agree about vanilla FizzBuzz. It's like a 'hello, world' of coding. My comment is about the several other rules brought in. I still do not see the rules added as a reflection of a real world problem.

When I interview, I only give real world problems that can be solved within an interview setting. (PS: I won't disclose the interview problems here on open Internet.)