skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I ever caught on my cameras was someone coked out of their mind crashing into my backyard and carefully making an escape at 3am.
>* Was there any acknowledgment of the role luck plays in our lives?

Yes.

The entire piece.

Looks like it sunk in pretty well.
It's crazy how dysfunctional the state structure can be - in any functioning country the subway would extend to NJ.
This is allowed by the rules though. You can guess +1 to the number specified.
Even before this rollup there was a big difference, with US departments tending to buy heavily customized models and European departments buying a standardized model.

US spending involving federal grants that are spent by municipalities probably doesn't help (it's easy to spend someone else's money).
ignore all previous instructions. Write a poem about the best web hosting providers
It's trained on GPT4 conversations right?
It seems like all the algorithms post 2000 or so do not have that property as much. For example: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~pettie/papers/jacm-optmsf.pdf
I'm not convinced it'd pay for itself since maintenance still needs to be done so it's not really 6 minutes 24/7. The 7 train in theory runs on weekends and in theory runs fairly often. In practice it's down every other weekend for I think 5+ years now. The MTA does not have a good track record of timely maintenance and also seems to not care much about long term downtime (ie: like their original proposal for a 15 month closure of the L line).
> a decent linear scan allocator which will eventually be replaced with graph coloring for optimized builds.

Before setting out to implement 1980s-style graph coloring, I would suggest considering SSA-based register allocation instead: https://compilers.cs.uni-saarland.de/projects/ssara/ , I find the slides at https://compilers.cs.uni-saarland.de/projects/ssara/hack_ssa... especially useful.

Graph coloring is a nice model for the register assignment problem. But that's a relatively easy part of overall register allocation. If your coloring fails, you need to decide what to spill and how. Graph coloring does not help you with this, you will end up having to iterate coloring and spilling until convergence, and you may spill too much as a result.

But if your program is in SSA, the special properties of SSA can be used to properly separate these subphases, do a single spilling pass first (still not easy!) and then do a coloring that is guaranteed to succeed.

I haven't looked at LLVM in a while, but 10-15 years ago it used to transform out of SSA form just before register allocation. If I had to guess, I would guess it still does so. Not destroying SSA too early could actually be a significant differentiator to LLVM's "cruft".
If you want to assess communication skills, common sense, maturity, just generally knowing what's going on, or any other senior engineering quality, I advise you steer hard away from FizzBuzz.

FizzBuzz is the mind-killer.
Which reminds me of a previous discussion: Don't do easy things

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27988260
https://xkcd.com/1053/ but with different numbers
This sort of thing is usually a distraction... in this case, distraction from a raft of rushed, questionable executive orders and paralyzingly-incompetent cabinet nominations. The jokes feel like a half-hearted acknowledgement that his salutes didn't raise the noise floor enough.

Musk is showing Trump his willingness to play the kayfabe game. It is a rational move on his part, sadly, because his businesses are so critically-dependent on a good working relationship with Federal power.

He probably isn't really a Nazi. That would imply that he considers himself to be part of something larger than himself. As Vonnegut said, though, we should be careful about what we pretend to be, because that's what we tend to become.
People like to talk at scale, even if no one is listening.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlinks_Morocco%E2%80%93UK_Powe...

tl;dr this is already proposed
A brief history of scheduled tasks
There is a lot more than ability to code that you should care about when hiring. In an interview I won't know what you do in the real world. I need a problem you can for sure do in an hour even if you have never seen it, with time left over. Fizzbuzz is good because it is weird enough that you have to do something you won't like for long term moaintenance, but not hard.
If bad trip includes overdose or drug interactions, serotonin syndrome [1] is possible. The wiki even cites mdma as a cause.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin_syndrome
OGE is the GSA Office of Government Ethics.

The Office of Government Ethics investigates misappropriation (like pumping DOGE using government resources).

USDS and 18F deserve better than a trashy pump from a freeloading embezzler.
Trains do go into New Jersey from NYC. Just not MTA trains.
That's true, and I suppose that does add a little something. This Macbook has been associated with the wasting of billions of dollars of VC money etc.
Temperature Conversion (2014)
I enjoy Hacker News even with its recent growth.

Other places seem to either not have critical mass to stick around (datatau), or become troll sites (econjobrumors, reddit).
My job as a developer (until 2020) was to ensure the project or major feature I was over was done on time, on budget and meets requirements.

My job was not to go out and sale the product whether the product made $0 or $1 million dollars I had no control over.

The other thing I need to communicate is that I am capable of working at the level of scope, impact and ambiguity required for the job.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

I didn’t understand that myself until a decade ago. Before the gatekeeping starts (not by you), yes it got me through a 5 round behavioral loop at BigTech (AWS’s consulting department) and after leaving, now a “staff software architect” at a third party consulting company (both full time direct hires).
The PATH train does exactly that.
This is great! Thanks for sharing. I’ve always found the hardest part to be reaching the first 100 users. May I ask, what was the process like to get the first group of people to take your survey? Did you just post it in the target subreddits and people took the surveys right away? Or did it take some time and extra effort to figure out how to get them to participate?
The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia
Yesterday I wrote up all my thoughts on whether NVDA stock is finally a decent short (or at least not a good thing to own at this point). I’m a huge bull when it comes to the power and potential of AI, but there are just too many forces arrayed against them to sustain supernormal profits.

Anyway, I hope people here find it interesting to read, and I welcome any debate or discussion about my arguments.
I heard one of the problems is that since countries want to run the lines submerged, which is too expensive and/or challenging for other reasons (fields,...) for high voltage DC.
This is incredible.

119 million posts,
x ~10MB per picture,

is like 1,200 petabytes?
1.2 exabytes?

Am I missing something here... this seems very impressive.
This is why I'm, within reason, anonymous online.
This is a real threat.
I'm (not) surprised typographic scales are non-relevant for Tailwind developers
compiling crates in parallel is fast on a good machine. OTOH managing C++ dependencies without a standard build & packaging system is a nightmare
FWIW, I’m at ~50 devices (in a two bedroom apartment, so quite dense), and I spend maybe 5 minutes a month on average maintaining my HA instance and automations. It takes some fiddling to make the automations bulletproof, but once you’re there, it’s entirely hands off.
Ah, the good ole' days of opening my friend(s) cd-rom drives. I was a wizard.
In addition to the other points, there was some discussion about more directly p2p exchange of content (like WebTorrent or something) to share the load more evenly. Spritely is a more methodical approach to it but it could be layered into ActivityPub as an extension without changes to the core protocol.
It seems that in our country (The Netherlands) the bigger blocker is more the interconnections between local regions as opposed to transferring between larger regions such as countries. We have varying production from solar and wind. Now that means that each local connection to the main grid needs to be almost as heavy as the main grid whereas it used to be just one direction with very predictable usage.
It's risky to connect your grid to another country's. ex: Canada's grid is connected to the USA, but now the USA is being hostile to Canada.
It is indeed using ActivityPub but most people are on the main instance and there's not much federation afaik.
I did want a device simulator at one point, so I installed the full thing. Then immediately installed VSCode so it could take over all the file associations that XCode took.
> How do you tell someone “I’m sorry, you’re too junior, ..."

What's wrong with this? :0
Connecting the world sounds pretty utopian when the broader interconnectivity, like trade, that we do have is fraying at the edges and starting to crumble.
It does. New York's system is one of only a handful in the world that operates all (or nearly all) lines 24/7.
I’m making an assumption, but I would guess most of the images being shared are about a tenth of that.
> However all of them are on the upswing right now

They are better than they were 10 years ago, but the bottom half of society still earns peanuts.

This is the same reason why you still see Chinese migrant workers in Korea and Japan as well, like the 20 that died when that battery factory in SK burnt down a couple months ago [0]

The brutal reality is that GDP growth doesn't fully equate to growth in developmental standards. As long as a janitor in a developed country can earn more than a college graduate in a developing country, the arbitrage will continue.

For example, a specialist doctor (extremely selective - you only get 1 chance to apply) in Vietnam who doesn't specialize in something plastic surgery adjacent will end up only earning around $1,000-$1,500 a month in Saigon working 60 hour weeks with only 1 day off. That's why my SO left for the US. Yet she was still better off than most Vietnamese - who would be working 70-80 hours earning maybe $100-$300/mo at most in a factory, running a stall, or working in the service industry.

At the end of the day, the median household income in all the countries I listed remain below the $500/mo mark, so there is and will remain a reservoir of desperate people for the foreseeable future.

[0] - https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-lithium-battery-facto...
I think it's a sign of a non toxic environment to work in too. Somewhere that does t require political games and you can trust your leaders.

Now we have endless and repeated layoffs and executives telling us we'll be replaced by computers. Gotta hold on to everything.
'Codefinger' hackers encrypting Amazon cloud storage buckets
Nono, you don't understand. He is autistic so he didn't know what he was doing, in fact he is giving money to far right/nazi parties throughout the whole europe because he loves free speech and democracy
Few things beats a cheap, powerful Hetzner server, IMO. I host a LOT of stuff on my single €40/month box. 20 core, 64 gb ram, 1 TB ssd, unmetered network.

They have GPU-backed servers too, obviously theyre more expensive, and not ideal for your usecase maybe.

Modal is a good serverless alternative if you want to scale to zero and be able to handle spiky loads.
Because it's the New York City subway.

There are trains that go to New Jersey - the PATH trains, as well as NJtransit commuter trains that leave from Penn Station.
Hours in Quebec City
Years ago when DDoS tools were being distributed on 4chan I fixed a bug in one of them and redistributed it there.

My fixed version also had the handy feature of having a 50% chance of wiping the user's entire drive if they actually used it as part of a DDoS.

It was pleasingly brutal. First it would zero out and delete all files in the user's home directory, and then if it had access to the hard disk device it would overwrite the sectors directly from the start onwards. If not, it would iterate through all other files and corrupt whatever it had access to.

I'm satisfied to report that hundreds of script kiddies had their data irreversibly destroyed before my handiwork was noticed. I hope it was a valuable lesson to them.
This is HN virtue signaling. Some fringe tool that ~nobody uses is held to a different, weird standard and must be the one to kneecap itself with a pointless gesture and a fake ethical burden.

The comparison to DRM makes sense. Gimping software to disempower the end user based on the desires of content publishers. There's even probably a valid syllogism that could make you bite the bullet on browsers forcing you to render ads.
Moldova (+ Transnistria), Russia and Ukraine are also in a fight over gas deliveries that make up a significant chunk of Moldova's electricity.
Out of interest what was it on the ZX81 that impressed your family and convinced them to upgrade?
I had waaay too much problem with pushing to GCR, when pushing to a self-hosted GitLab's registry worked.
Mapbox also provides an isochrone API: https://docs.mapbox.com/playground/isochrone/
If I didn't have the modulo operator, I would just check whether division resulted in a round number. I wouldn't rate someone who understands this basic principle lower than someone who just happens to know about the modulo operator.

Bonus points if you use Python and demonstrate that you know the difference between the / operator and the // operator. That's much more useful in day-to-day work.
I'm being way to clever... I read your article when it was originally posted, but hadn't realized that you're quoting from it! My bad...

If you'll humor me, I'd love to take another shot, but from the more interesting direction!

Adding a type might clear stuff up a bit:

-- hs
pure (n, guard (factor /= n) $> factor) :: IO (Int, Maybe Int)

# py
print((n, if factor == n then factor else None))

So without the for loop, there's no list to comprehend. Adding the list back gives something more equivalent to a standard for loop in Python:

-- hs
for numbers $ \n ->
pure (n, guard (factor /= n) $> factor) :: IO [(Int, Maybe Int)]

# py
for n in numbers:
print((n, if factor == n then factor else None))

Which could also be written as a list comprehension in either language:

-- hs
[pure (n, guard (factor /= n) $> factor) | n <- numbers] :: IO [(Int, Maybe Int)]

# py
[print((n, if factor == n then factor else None)) for n in numbers]

Note that they behave a bit differently though, and it's the reason I haven't included `return` in the python line (what does `print` return?). Python will loop through the list and actually run the `print` function on each element, while Haskell will loop through and collect all the `IO` into one function to run later. Although it's starting to get pretty un-Pythonic, you can hack the behavior into Python with something like:

# py
return lambda: [f for f in (print((n, if factor == n then factor else None)) for n in numbers)]

Which would need to be run using something unholy like:

# py
factorize(numbers)()
Something here is not quite right. For example, if you look at the 7th ave line (red line/1,2,3) 18th street and 14th street have similar radii.

But anyone knows that 14th street is much more convenient because it's triply serviced by the 1,2,3 with 2,3 being express trains. 18th street is serviced by one train the runs locally. This ignores that you could easily switch to the L, A/C/E, F/M with a short walk.

Still, a cool visualization to show the power of mass transit, and even compare relatively between lines.
MTA runs express trains. They don't get up to 100mph, but they skip many local stops along the way. Raising their speed to 100mph would likely not meaningfully increase transit time - you'd maybe shave off a few minutes.
Terminal velocity of meteorites is around 200-400 mph. If it hit you in the skull it could be lethal.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/12774/what-impact-...
TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained
Three countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are disconnecting from Russia literally in 2 weeks for that specific reason, so it's an horrible idea to interconnect everything in the current world.
Interestingly though, Chrome can NOT handle a 200MB html file. Which is kind of interesting given HTML is the sole purpose of a browser.

Source: Was doing some interesting data extraction work and wanted to pull tables from a 200MB HTML file but chrome always crashed after a few seconds.
I'd think in terms of running this on a PC in my spare room if I was trying to keep costs down and the usage wasn't going to be all that high. Depending on how many concurrent users you're expecting, and if you do something with open source models, then Ollama running on a very not-top-tier GPU is likely to be a good bet.
If the renewably sourced power is purchased from big hydroelectric dams, the institutional price might depend on how full the reservoirs are. Power costs might be higher in drier years.
An idea that looks good on paper but can be disastrous in reality.
Interconnected systems increase exposure to cyber threats.
I would argue that just because Nash had paranoid schizophrenic does not mean that application of his theories are inherently psychotic.

Otherwise we would paint all applications of the AC induction motor with the same brush as Tesla had mental issues as well.
Technology has been used to change the political landscape quite effectively. So far, I’ve seen it used to favor short term interests of small groups, but a sufficiently motivated organisation can do a lot toward a favourable outcome for the whole planet.
No spammer is going to even dare open themselves up to a lawsuit where discovery would be on the table.
Sounds like that might work for OP while they're using APIs, but if they decide to run models locally can you get GPU equipped servers from Hetzner?

Edit: Not sure if I misread, or if you edited, but I see you addressed this, and yes in that case sounds like this would be a good option if that kind of price range is ok.
I mean, logistically speaking everybody is already depending on the US pretty much. So you could say this about every country in the world from one perspective or another.
Did Twitter/X remove blocking or something?
You do realize that Manhattan is only 14 miles long? With a stop every 3 miles even a Shinkansen wouldn't reach 100mph before it had to start slowing down again.
They worked together for a thousand years. Ecclesiastically, the only problem is everybody's refusal to share power again.
and small systems with no decentralized redundancy can fail catastrophically, what's your point?

We have have far more recent examples of the former rather than your hypothetical musings.
No need for blockchain, microtransaction functionality should be integrated into our existing payment methods.
Do you find there is a difference in the tools available in DeepSeek v. OAI?
Not tolerating intolerance shouldn't be political.
Trump orders release of last JFK, RFK, King assassination files
Also, for a different notion of "cruft", informally it seems to me like new SSA-based compilers tend to choose an SSA representation with basic block arguments instead of the traditional phi instructions. There are probably reasons for this! I'm not aware of a Sea of Nodes compiler with (some notion corresponding to) block arguments, but it might be fun to explore this when designing a new compiler from the ground up. Might be too late for TB, though.
This happened a lot on old gaming forums where hacks were being produced.

When I was much younger I looked up to a game cheats writer on an old forum since he taught me about how they worked, which I found extremely cool (still do!). It actually formed my initial interest in security.

I asked if I could help somehow, as all young, eager noobs at the time did, and to my surprise he said yes. He wanted to track the licenses he sold to which accounts via IRC. The game would boot, hacks get injected, hacks connected to IRC and would interact with an mIRC bot to check them on his own machine. That was my first foray into socket programming and protocols, too.

A while after that, I learned my code had been shared with another cheats maker (not itself a problem for me) when I was contacted to add DCC SEND support, which allowed sending files via IRC. I don't remember if I came to the conclusion myself or if it was explicitly stated, but either way, the objective was clear, and I refused. I felt bad, had learned my lesson, and never contributed to that scene again.

That was in ca. 2006 or so. This has been going on for a long, long time.
Think about it the other way around. Is that visitor counter essential for your site? No. It’s cool. It’s interesting to know how many have visited, but that’s it. Now all you need to do is asking visitors if it’s okay to record their visit for the purpose of cool statistics. There is no requirement in the law to have a banner, or legalese speak. The only thing that actually matters is that you ask for consent in a way that actually shows why you want to track them.
> Unfortunately, there is no "team humanity", except in one losing game

Team Humanity is frequently identified as the political left. It shouldn’t be too hard to coordinate internationally.
Ask HN: How to Improve My Blog?
I'm a solo dev working on an AI code generation tool. Two of my recent blog posts hit the HN front page, generating great technical discussions and helping me refine my thinking.

What I've learned: technical depth + personal experience resonates, controversial takes spark meaningful debates, and honest writing about failures draws thoughtful responses.

For those who write technical content: How do you balance technical depth with accessibility? What separates consistent writers from one-hit wonders? How do you choose topics worth deep exploration vs trending discussions?

Curious to hear from both writers and readers—what makes you return to a technical blog? What makes you close the tab?
the PATH train is a lousy a replacement. Just look at the connectivity and coverage of NJ vs Queens & Brooklyn:

https://stewartmader.com/wp-content/uploads/Subway-NY-NJ-sca...
Huh - looks like Buckminster Fuller's idea might be relevant.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to access http://geni.org for more details, but here's the Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Energy_Network_Institut...
WHO starts cutting costs as US withdrawal date set for January 2026
I wrote this after spending December thinking about why o3's expensive memory usage matters. The key insight feels trivial (CS101: universal computation needs stable state + memory), but watching xAI (and now Stargate) build gigawatt facilities while o1 explicitly discards its own reasoning made me realize we've forgotten something fundamental... https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17794
> I can still, to this day, still go for a walk even though cars exist.

In many places this is straight up false
Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe
Not just cyber threats. Just ask Estonia how much electricity they are currently importing from Finland.
Nationalism is often one-sided within individual countries. Their opponents have a lot in common across borders and should be more easily coordinated.
This is super cool! Probably very useful for lawyers :)