skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some of this is the ultimate logical conclusion of postmodernism/deconstruction. In the early 20th century people were a lot more confident about the possibility of finding absolute truth; at the end of it this had completely dissipated into uncertainty and relativism.

The "Sokal Hoax" was a 90s experiment in which a physicist created a fake paper and submitted it to a cultural studies journal. He did not base his paper on anything he would have considered "true", rather on a desire to look as much like a valid text as possible. This is a simplified version of how the LLM training/scoring process works. Nowadays everywhere is having to deal with the same kind of thing done by LLM users. It's the perfect technology for non-rigorous academia.
Your drill was probably designed by an engineer under time and cost pressure, and then assembled in a factory by someone who absolutely did not care because they're thinking about going back to the sweatshop with slightly worse conditions but slightly higher pay.
I was following this yesterday and there seems to be very little commentary regarding the lack of damage to the table surface or the color staining to the scissor blades. This looks far more like someone blowtorching the blades while holding the scissors over the table (one presumes outside) to get some of the plastic to melt, then later placing the cooled scissors on the table and moving it inside. Classic Reddit runaway arguments with no consideration that the OP is pulling their leg.
Only person who understands this is a style choice and not a deep limitation of the robot condition.

If a politician has non-answers for difficult questions, does that mean they aren't conscious? If a student writes crap for a test question, aiming for partial marks, were they raised wrong?
> Apple has gone WAY down hill.

I need a place to rant about my recent apple frustrations. :)

I recently got a new laptop - I can airdrop to it once or twice before the notification to accept the airdrop stops showing up until reboot. Just that flow is broken, other notifications continue to work.

I got an apple watch for my kid as an "upgrade" - software is a complete mess, connectivity issues abound, it's less reliable than the gizmo watch it replaced.

The iPad just got a calculator last year.

I am randomly not allowed to delete some photos from my phone. I have no idea what this is about.
A quick search brought this up: https://www.louisemeta.com/blog/indexes-gin-algorithms/

I think it illustrates the issue he's mentioning well enough.
But if this change is adopted, then commenting out column C would still compile the query. There isn’t a need for leading?
CodeTV
For this use case though, I would prefer something more modular than Apple hardware — where down the road I could upgrade the GPUs, for example.
It seems like an appropriate channel given the silliness of the question!
It's Access databases all over again.
You give them too much credit, they just follow the money/power. A few years ago it was virtue signalling about diversity &co, now we're on the other end of the spectrum, god knows what tomorrow will bring.
It’s already a huge pain to update once every year, imagine updating it after 12
"Axioms" is a very generous way of stating it.. but I'm sure you'd agree
I tasted the coin cell bitterant when I replaced my Airtag battery. Didn't taste very bitter to me.
Couldn't you just up the temperature/change some other parameter to get it to be more random/"creative"? It wouldn't be active/intentional randomness/novelty like what a human would do, but at least it shouldn't generate exactly the same naming.
>As in: about two days of necessary hunting-gathering was enough to sustain the group for the remaining five days.

When things go well. Then a random famine appears, and your descendants (what few survive) write horror stories about it for the next few centuries. Or maybe none at all, because they grew up feral illiterate orphans.

Modern society's longer work week is the "insurance" against the modern version of that. Without even knowing it, you and everyone else is invisibly squirreling away "extra" to keep yourselves from starving if things turn to shit. Unemployment insurance, savings, social safety nets, robust (even frantic) economies that have an excess of job openings.
> "Real-time" on the web often just means an app that allows multiple users to concurrently make updates to some piece of state, and for the changes to that state to be broadcast to all users so that all clients are kept consistent within a reasonable time frame, preferably as quickly as possible.

Hard disagree. There is no deadline to meet time wise, only that a specific task must be completed in a specific order as quickly as possible. This implies managing state while keeping latency low which is a QoS problem.
Isn’t this kind of thing the story of tech though?

Languages like Python and Java come around, and old-school C engineers grouse that the kids these days don’t really understand how things work, because they’re not managing memory.

Modern web-dev comes around and now the old Java hands are annoyed that these new kids are just slamming NPM packages together and polyfills everywhere and no one understands Real Software Design.

I actually sort of agree with the old C hands to some extent. I think people don’t understand how a lot of things actually work. And it also doesn’t really seem to matter 95% of the time.
How do A/GPL provide security against the IP owner switching to a commercial license?
facebook.com started out as a php app. It was easier to make php efficient (enough) than to rewrite the application.
Resurrecting saturated LLM benchmarks with adversarial encoding
I wouldn't say this is a sign of declining mobile usage, but rather that people have YouTube videos playing constantly on the TV while they're scrolling around on their phone.
he's not, just another delusional venture capitalist that hasn't bothered to look up the counter arguments to his point of view, done by mathematicians
Civics 101 teaches us that Congress in charge of the purse, not the executive branch. Given than any authority DOGE has was granted solely by the executive, any "cost-cutting" he has done is likely the beginning of a long, expensive, legal battle that DOGE will inevitably lose.

Even if you agree with the goals, the methods are not just bad... they're illegal, ineffective, and likely to be very expensive in the long run. They should have just done it properly.
This trick works for SELECT and is way less ugly than putting a leading comma. Just SELECT a constant:

‘SELECT
a,
b,
c,
0
FROM t1
‘
Oh yeah, SOMEONE has to be be first.
It just doesn't have to be YOU!

If you want to be successful in your career, when you are put in charge of a big new project, on a tight timeline, high management visibility, etc.. you dig into your existing tried & true toolkit to get the job done. There's so many other variables, why needlessly add more risk no one asked for?

But yes, I'm glad there are maniacs out there.. I just don't want to work with them.
Ha! Find me where I can buy it for $2000.
Ah this is nice! Fond memories coming back of learning HTML and web design with HTMLGoodies and LissaExplains. Anyone remember those?
Median salary is above the median for all workers, for a job that ain't going anywhere (well, aside from physically, obviously) any time soon. That's the critical part.

That overall median plasters over a bunch of nuances, though, like:

- Whether you're a company driver or an owner-operator; owner-operators earn more, but they need to own/lease and maintain their own trucks.

- Whether you paid out-of-pocket for CDL training or if you did it through an operator like Swift (wherein they put you through their internal trucking school and then require you to work for them at suppressed wages until it's paid off).

- Whether you're working regional or OTR / long-haul jobs; long-haul pays better.

- Whether you've got e.g. hazmat endorsements and other special qualifications beyond a class A driver's license.
What about Mason and Jason?
My opinion: tech isn't firing programmers for AI. If is firing peogrammers because of the financial environment, and waving around AI as a fig leaf to pretend that it is not really cutting back in output.

When the financial environment loosens again, there’ll be a new wave of tech hiring (which is about equally likely to publicly be portrayed as either reversing the AI firing or exploiting new opportunities due to AI, neither of which will be the real fundamental driving force.)
Enjoying my 7900XTX as well. I really don't understand why nvidia had to pivot to this obscure power connector. It's not like this is a mobile device where that interface is very important - you plug the card in once and forget about it.
“Man of the year” is an award for notoriety and influence, not morality and positive impact.
also, before 9/11 many airplane hijackers were also political protests (PLO, Cuba, etc.) where the goal was _not_ to kill anyone, not terrorists intent on killing as many people as possible
Get in loser. We're rewinding the stack
I think there was a _time_ when this worked; companies were very anxious about their Social Media Presence (TM) so would treat public social media messages, particularly complaints, as priority support cases. You can imagine all sorts of factors which would have decreased its effectiveness in recent years though; overuse, companies becoming more used to social media, the death of a usable Twitter API, making tracking this stuff difficult, the general decline of Twitter (if it's likely to be presented beside Elon Musk retweeting a white supremacist or something, are twitter complaints about your dishwasher being too noisy really all that consequential?)...

It's definitely a thing some people still _believe_ in, though, and some people have twitter accounts which they use _solely_ for moaning about brands (there used to be a fun Twitter account which replied to them, as if from the brand they were moaning about; not sure if it's still a thing).
It’s boomers. And maybe children but I just have data on old people using YouTube on a big screen
I was ordered to call the “Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America,” but it wasn’t a communist who ordered me to do so.
Audio files are tiny, itty bitty things - even uncompressed. If you have the ability to use a lossless file at 0 extra cost...why not? Massive streaming services like Spotify don't obviously, the economics are way different.
I use newpipe on my TV more often than my phone.
An LLM would never predict the word sequence of this title
Useful recent podcast about homelab LLMs, https://changelog.com/friends/79
Definition of success. When people point to your competitor and the competitor is still you.
It's not even close to "far more"

Go look at new and do the percentage yourself.
Huh, what happened to HGST?
It can depend on the company, but some companies literally don't have a public facing email anymore. I was trying to get in contact with Bank of America of whom I am not a customer because they were (and still are) spamming my inbox and the only human contact I managed at all was via their support Twitter page.

Not that it got me anywhere in the long run.
What is your actual point? You are criticizing Meta for building complex systems by iterating on boring tech like PHP and MySQL, and instead suggesting that they build their systems on top of different boring tech like YAML and Ansible. Why? The fact is that there are no "boring" off-the-shelf solutions for solving the problems that Meta is facing like whole region failures and performant cross-datacenter routing/sharding.

Your comment feels like it's not actually engaging with the contents of this article. It's not that Meta is creating bespoke technologies only out of fear of breaking past code. Their entire methodology of innovation is highly iterative and grounded in feedback through practical demonstration of results. You say that "Facebook creates tech to mitigate the pathologies their past continuously present", as if that is a bad approach, but considering Meta's success, I think it would be wise to seriously reconsider that position.
I know the type, my top 10 friend suggestions on any given social platform are people I'm supposed to hate and usually in-laws.
It seems like a flop not in user count but in that I'm not seeing it originate any valuable content.

I've seen several interesting posts from Bluesky referenced elsewhere already, but literally nothing from Threads despite it having had more users for longer.
Show HN: Aex-GL – OpenGL ES 2.0 Implementation from Scratch
Aex - rhymes with "Yikes" - daughter of Helios.
(.. all the good names were taken ..)
I can say my company stopped contracting for test system design, and we use a mix of models now to achieve the same results. Some of these have been running without issue for over a year now.
I am normally NOT the person who wants to see people not make as much money as they [legally] can, but we see how much of a wrecking ball a person-state can really be.

It's made worse by the fact that isolation makes them literally detached from reality. COVID completely broke some billionaire brains as it was adding to their loneliness.

How long before they start forming their own armies to cause geopolitical havoc?
I was a longtime JUCE user and won't hold my breath for them to support the web. They skate strictly where the puck was two years ago, not where it's going. I also wouldn't call their Linux support "easy" - it's not surprising to me very few JUCE developers even consider using Linux in CI, let alone as a supported target.

That said, I think there's something interesting about building out an audio platform with "no VSTs" as a constraint - about 6 years ago I was convinced that the web was a deadend for even middling complexity audio projects when I saw Bandlab at NAMM, and I was very wrong. It seems like the value of a DAW that you can fire up in a browser and instantly access all your projects/share them with your friends is more valuable than having no plugins and crashing after hitting browser tab memory limits. And looking down the road it frees you from the serious problems with native plugins and current plugin APIs.
I honestly refuse to believe this unless I see the source (which is not listed).

Maybe in the US sure, but take any country in Asia or Latin America and I can guarantee you mobile usage skyrockets. Can't say anything certain about EU, but I'd assume from my few experiences there it should be a 50/50 split.
Classic aggressive follower.
Not easily: if it's enforced client side it may as well not exist, if it's enforced server side you just let anyone lock anyone else out of their account by running a constant brute force attack against their account (a DoS vuln). It also does nothing for attackers who try a giant list of accounts but only one or two passwords for each.

I worked on Google's system for solving this. It's a pretty sophisticated analysis that decides whether to demand CAPTCHAs or not based on a lot of factors. The CAPTCHA was needed (at that time) because it's the only way to slow down the attacker without bothering the real user, who won't be shown one.
> Now those people trying to sell their books, but nobody needs to buy them, because one can download thePile.

Approximately nobody gets their reading material from thePile. People buy books from book shops, or from Amazon, or borrow them from a library or from a friend, or buy it from a second hand shop.

> The LLM can now write somewhat nicely sounding books in no time.

That is again not a thing. People don’t read longform LLM output instead of published books.
Back when Twitter was the most useful and popular (roughly 2018-2022), it was common for some companies to do support over tweets. Delta Air Lines (@delta) comes to mind.

I think those days are over.
Mutation XSS explained, with a CVE and a challenge
Not to mention people falling asleep means that all ads will play unskipped, regardless of length. That means they have data that non-zero amounts of people are watching the whole of the extremely long skippable ads that get placed (more than once I've seen 90+ minute ads appear).
This seems completely random...
“We were always taught as Christians to serve the meek, the lowly, the marginalized,” Ms. Stephens said. “I think we’ve realized that, if anything, the rich, the wealthy, the powerful need Jesus just as much.”

Many rich and powerful feel very close to Jesus but hate the meek, the lowly, and marginalized more than ever (do they know how Jesus felt about the marginalized?) Let’s see how this works out for them. What a wash.
Often it was.

I once had an insurance problem that was resolved only after I posted about it .. on Livejournal. They'd namesearched themselves and assigned a special team of super-customer service "fixers" (maybe just one person!) to look at complaints on social media.

We all understand that the only customer support channel for Google for things like unjust account cancellations is to post and hope a Google employee reads it, yes?
It still says "Brecon Beacons" for me. Doesn't even include the official name in brackets.
It's the cockpit doors that prevent another 9/11, and those have nothing to do with TSA. Even if you could bring box cutters onto the plane you wouldn't be able to take it over. Plus, like you said, awareness among passengers. That also has nothing to do with TSA.
Framework [2nd Gen] Event
ISE Engineering Fundamentals Playbook
It isn’t “administrative overhead.” It’s indirect costs.

Does research happen in buildings? Yes.

Is that an indirect cost? Yes.

What happens when you can’t pay to use buildings? You can’t do research in them.

Private foundations and other grantors can pay lower overhead because universities are often losing money on those programs and footing the difference.

Again, I am not suggesting the rates need to be where they have wound up. I am saying that you cannot remove 50%+ of a program’s budget overnight and expect not to disrupt or potentially fatally damage its operations.

Thinking a research university can lose tens or hundreds of millions of dollars per year in funding and not cut research is beyond naive.
Totally agree, but how often is the young coworker using the hip new language in their position because they were told learning it was the key to getting a job in a competitive market and it is what they have to fall back on?

Somewhat similarly, I feel like the boring/mature infra often gets ripped up in favor of something hip and new by a CIO who wants a career checkmark that they "modernized" everything. Then they move on to the next company and forget the consequences of breaking what was stable.
After writing code for 20+ years these sorts of concerns are just tiresome. The effort expended debating and enforcing optimizations like this completely wipes out any and all benefits they bring, which is incredibly minimal to begin with.

Just read the code, write your change, move on. If you find yourself missing small details like this you need to just slow down a tiny bit. Its not hard. By all means format your code cleanly, just don't spend cycles writing blog posts about it.
This isn’t how it works.

Your SMPS needs sub-2V output, cool. That means it only needs to accept small portions of the incoming.

But, if the incoming is 48V, it needs 48V tolerant parts. All your caps, inductor (optional typically), diodes, the SMPS itself.

Maybe there isn’t a sides difference in a 0603 50V capacitor and 10V 0603 capacitor, but there is a cost difference. And it definitely doesn’t get smaller just because.

Your traces at 48V likely need more space/separation or routing considerations that they would at 24V, but this should be a quickly resolved problem at your SMPS is likely right next to your connector.
The old Mini-Fit takes 10A/pin, or theoretically 480W for 8 pin. Existing PSUs would not be rated for that much current per the PCIe harness, so the connector compatibility has to be intentionally broken for idiot proofing purposes, but connector wise up to 960W before safety margins can be technically supplied fine with just 2x PCIe 8p.
There are worse choices in the compiled web language niche. Most of the competitors don't qualify, because people don't want to do formal verification for their side projects.
Okay, so some communication tips:

1) You should have led with that to get to the point immediately instead of cryptically alluding to the existence of such a point and adding an irrelevant example.

2) Your point was already made in an initial reply[A]. You didn't need to make your comment at all, and if you were going to lazily allude to the existence of an argument, you could have just linked that one. Or, just upvote it. Comment sections don't need repeats of points already made unless you have something to add.

To address the point you did add:

3) You're still conceding the core point that you have to go outside the usual big-O model to get hashtables being O(1). In no other case does anyone take big-O to mean asymptotic complexity relative to comparable solutions for the same problem -- not unless that's explicitly stated. You can't have a data structure with constant-time lookup, period.

[A] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43006957
Well.... how did it taste?
This is sound short-term advice, as long as there are carriers that do not support Starlink. Voting with your feet / wallet only works as long as there are viable places for your feet and currency to go.
Interesting article. I think the author though is describing pretty normal market dynamics and seems to be responding to advice from people with more enterprise-y backgrounds. Most B2B SaaS markets have the enterprise players (who nail sales and service) and the SMB players (who nail product led growth and inbound from developers).

Depending on the market and product, players from either side may win the whole thing or it can stay fragmented. Often, eventually, the enterprise players do try and move down-market by building the muscle for product-led growth and hiring developer advocates while the SMB players try and move up market by hiring sales and building out the product to be more enterprise friendly.

In my own industry, it seems like enterprise companies moving down market are having more success, but I can imagine in other markets the opposite is true. In some areas the customer is so valuable that products can keep being built for them, but that’s an open question (that the author seems to be betting on, for now).
This is just a limited recreation of the ancient mikubox from https://rentry.org/lmg-build-guides

Its funny to see people independently "discover" these builds that are a year plus old.

Everyone is sleeping on these guides, but I guess the stink of 4chan scares people away?
It greatly predates 2021.
All that means is more ad sales. For YT, that’s grrrrrreat. For those selling ads, not so much. But to me, this is no different than people buying ads on broadcast at 3am.
Most professional photographers use autofocus all the time.

Photography is less about the technology and more about the art.
I use gloves when chopping up peppers. Don't want that capsaicin getting under the fingernails and then anywhere else mucosal membrane.

Which is to day: It'd be good for bags you don't want to handle very much.
I'd be willing to bet that "planning to" means the plan is being executed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/meta-starts-eliminatin...
> They had been been used about an hour prior to open a bag of Smartpop.

Leaky nearby microwave oven heated the metal part of the scissors?
I think your stats are way off when you consider how many kids are being babysat all day by YouTube videos on an iPad or the TV.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007052

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012079
And yet last night youtube broke itself on my Nvidia SHIELD by turning all video thumbnails into a larger size than the entire screen, such that no text or title is video nor even the entire thumbnail itself. So instead of scrolling a feed of possible shows, I get the center 60% of one image at a time.

Moving to greyjay.