skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree with what you are saying, however I'm quite surprised at the pushback about homegrown eggs tasting better than mass-produced.

Send me as many papers as you want, but respectfully, I have empirically tasted the difference. I have no interest on imposing my opinion on anyone, but to me it's pretty obvious and easy to understand and accept that a better fed, better cared for chicken will produce better eggs.

A bit like with Wagyu steak, no?
Love reading these sorts of "technical problem + solution" pieces. The world does not need more content, in general, but it does need more of this kind of quality information sharing.
Correction:
- not quoting a newspaper, but court documents.
- not a random staffer, but THE staffer you are so concerned about.
Ask HN: Thoughts on using American-based cloud vendors in the Trump era?
I think American cloud providers offer state‐of‐the‐art infrastructure but it's fair to question whether the current U.S. political environment—and the unpredictability it sometimes brings—could affect data sovereignty and regulatory stability.

How does HN crowd feel?
And there are many people that continue to be religious even after becoming atheists. "The little book of atheist spirituality" from André Comte-Sponville, touches on this subject, and many others. I'm would also call myself an atheist-catholic.

I remember a joke in the book where two rabbis are discussing the issue of god's existence during the supper, at the end, they both agree that god must not exist and then go to sleep. At the next day one rabbi finds the other doing his early prayers and confounded asks him why he is praying if there is no god, to which the other one answers "what does praying has to do with god?".
People who know that the majority of people are stupid and will mess up even nulls.
Same, as someone with two middle names. Both scenarios are very common.
Which systems do this? I could see situations where reading in a text file, you have might assume the value null is not the string "null". I am struggling to think of other situations.
That sounds like double-buffering. Or did I misunderstand? Is it actually a ring-buffer? Can you give more details? What is a Half-Transfer interrupt?
Walled gardens are good because if you insist on picking your fruits only from the wilderness due to moral principles you're gonna get mauled by a bear some time. Sure, you might prioritize feeling morally superior, but the majority of society is more practical
Same here. I specifically remember staying home "sick" from school just so I could transfer those COMPUTE! programs from paper to screen and eventually to cassette tape! Still have the entire setup except for the 13" Montgomery Ward TV it was connected to. I owe my entire tech career to my parents buying me that little TI from Shopko in 1983.
> 1. The people voted for smaller government […]

The people voted for President and the people voted for Congress. If Congress, who under the US Constitution controls the purse, votes for a level of "X" spending why does the President get to decide to spend <X?

> 6. In general, “if nothing breaks, you’re not cutting enough” is obviously true.

It is not obviously true. Because what you're cutting may be resiliency.

To use a tech analogy: if I have two firewalls in an HA configuration, then decommissioning one to save on support costs will not break things… until the first one goes belly-up and there's no failover.

There's a reasonable argument to be made that more government capacity is actually needed (at least in certain sectors):

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-needs-a-bigger-better-...

The IRS for example would probably do better with more resources:

> That’s one reason that five former commissioners of IRS, Republican and Democrat, have argued eloquently that additional IRS resources would create a fairer tax system. The logic is simple. Fewer resources for the IRS mean reduced enforcement of tax laws. Though the tax code has become more complex, prior to the IRA real resources of the IRS had been cut by about 23 percent from 2010 to 2021.

* https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/cutting-irs-resources-and...

> Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.

* https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...
Housing affordability so squeezed office-to-apartment conversions spiked 484%
10 years of indoctrination via social media and Fox News is holding them back, unfortunately
(Carl from Obscura here)

This is actually quite an interesting point that we’ve been discussing internally.

Right now Obscura rotates your WireGuard key on every “Connect”, but in a future release we will start caching (persist) your WireGuard keys on your client. When we flip that switch, we will also enable recurring key rotation and add a button in the UI for manual key rotation. This rotation would make it harder for Mullvad to track a user across the same key. (Not that they would anyway)

All of this is available for folks to verify at on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/Sovereign-Engineering/obscuravpn-client
Absolutely. But while I cannot declare its ultimate "final cause", perhaps I have some right to declare a penultimate one? I have my reasons for believing this is the case. What are your reasons for believing it is not (or do you believe that we do have some right to declare penultimate final causes for living creatures, and if so, what are the limits?)
Well, some of them are, indirectly. But there are also those allegedly independent agencies (which, although maybe not a bad idea, is probably unconstitutional—we don’t have a fourth branch).
I disagree. If your system is failing to correctly type check strings during SQL interpolation, you should probably kill it with fire.
You set them free and they’ll find the bugs. You can also give them a huge variety of food waste. This mostly only supplements their feed though
Denial on what is actually happening is rampant at the moment. When in weeks, months, and years the consequences of these actions maybe, maybe, it will be acknowledged, though the pattern has been so far scapegoating the 'other'.
Don't buy a Valve Index. It's pretty old at this point, and you'd be way better off getting a Bigscreen Beyond or PSVR2 if you just want tethered PCVR.

You might also want to look at https://vr-compare.com/ to help find headsets.
You should add some way of contact in the website
Buddhism is both religion and not religion. Most of the core ideas are not metaphysical, and most modern (certainly western) practitioners don’t engage with the metaphysical (what most would consider to be “religious”) aspects at all.

Having come from a conservative Christian religious background (and finding I was wholly incompatible with it), I avoided anything even remotely resembling religion for most of my 20s.

It wasn’t until my mid 30s that I went down the Buddhism rabbit hole and what I found was entirely unlike what I expected based on my former experience with western religion.

There are also many forms of a Buddhism with varying positions e.g. Zen Buddhism is explicitly non-religious, tapping into the core insights without asking the practitioner to believe anything.
Ah yes! Little miss (indecipherable silence).
I read about these Hawaiians that would use stones to wall in an area of water but leave gaps big enough to let smaller fish in. They’d create an environment that was safe (appeared so to the fish) and provide food. This would keep most of them reliably inside the wall. Eventually the fish mature and can’t escape due to their size. And now you have ocean fish that are easy to harvest.
> You can't train this out of the dog, unfortunately.

Speaking from experience, I can say "Yes, you absolutely can train this out of a dog." However, it is not easy and it is only marginally more easy if you start at a young age of the dog. Furthermore, there are breeds that have no interest in chickens at all, anyway. LGD may actually even protect them.
Everyone "knows this", but officially they do not admit to having them. Thus it is possible (very unlikely, but possible) that they don't have them. Nobody who we have reason to believe know and tell the truth are talking, though some who have might know reason to lie have given various numbers.
Pharma CEOs Speaking Up, Damn It
What is it called when people cry free speech, democracy, and transparency while actively assaulting these ideals?
By "party" I was using the term to indicate an individual, not a political party.
IMO, this sounds totally like what happened in China.

Trump will get his unchallenged power like Xi or Mao did.
PID techniques useful?
MS CEO Satya Nadella and 10% economic growth
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/research-highlight-ocean-air-f...
I mostly skipped the technical questions in the last few interviews I have conducted. I have a conversation, ask them about their career, about job changes, about hobbies, what they do after work. If you know the subject, skilled people talk a certain way, whether it is IT, construction, sailing.

I do rely on HR having, hopefully, done their job and validated the work history.

I do have one technical question that started out as fun and quirky but has actually shown more value than expected. I call it the desert island cli.

What are your 5 linux cli desert island commands?

Having a hardware background, today, mine are: vi, lsof, netcat, glances, and I am blanking on a fifth. We have been doing a lot of terraform lately

I have had several interesting responses

Manager level candidate with 15+ years hands on experience. He thought it was a dumb question because it would never happen. He became the teams manager a few months after hiring. He was a great manager and we are friends.

Manager level to replace the dumb question manager. His were all Mac terminal eye candy. He did not get the job.

Senior level SRE hire with a software background. He only needed two emacs and a compiler, he could write anything else he needed.
The person who is MapQuest saw a marketing opportunity.
I would think the appropriate answer here is Betteridge's Law of Headlines. "No".

But I think you probably knew that.
Write me an email and i'll share one that makes money.
Not only the headline is misleading but uses a very annoying way of describing the cost drop... "1000x" instead of "by 99.9%".
> Most likely this involves scrubbing any personal data whenever possible, or anonymising it whenever it's not.

Don’t you think it’s a problem you can’t say this with certainty or point to an authority who has assured us this, and there’s no way to verify if it’s true because theres’s no oversight of DOGE?

Would you tolerate such uncertainty from even a SaaS provider? Why should we tolerate it from our government?
* gestures to most of recorded history *

Before the industrial revolution, 80% of us worked the land, most familiar with animal agriculture.
Ask HN: Resources for learning about AI models
I have been using some of the AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini for simple end user tasks like help in writing small scripts or help in proofreading OCR text etc. I would like to learn how to take use of these models to create workflows, or to create apps/services based on them. What are the good resources to start learning about these? Thanks in advance.
> if we go back to Alan Kay the creator of SmallTalk who coined the term « Object Oriented Programming » when he meant to say the following

It should be noted that Alan Kay invented the Smalltalk-72 language, which is very different from the Smalltalk-76 and onward versions of the language, which were rather invented by Dan Ingalls. The quote applies to Kay's vision of OO, which is much closer to Smalltalk-72 than any other OO language. Smalltalk-76 onwards instead are closer to the concepts invented in 1967 for the Simula language. Also note that the first documented application of the term "object-oriented" for a programming language was in the 1976 publication by Jones and Liskov (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879311). Concerning the generally accepted meaning of OOP see e.g. https://ethw.org/Milestones:Object-Oriented_Programming,_196....

> We should encourage all software engineers to strive for knowledge, learn, and develop critical thinking rather than forget all kinds of rational behavior, considering only the hype and prejudice of our times

All too true, and increasingly forgotten.
Exactly, even with it being excess, I think the motivation is to reduce waste versus produce money in these situations. They have uses for the waste, it can be eaten by an animal, but that’s also true if it doesn’t get sold
Yea; it's double-buffering in a ring buffer? Or maybe I don't really understand ring buffers or the terminology; thought I did from the article, since it said they were called circular buffers, and you set up the DMA in "circular" mode for this, and it's using a buffer!

Half-transfer means when 1/2 of the DMA transfer size is done, an interrupt fires. So, you can use this and full-transfer interrupts to manage the sequencing.
>Lol a bit touchy aren't we?

No. I just looked up other responses to your post. It's obvious you got exposed as being inexperienced (or an idiot), while posing to know the definitive with your "gotcha". Being inexperienced (or ignorant) is not a problem, but being cocky is.
That's factually incorrect. You don't have to kill a plant to get the fruit and/or the seeds it produces.
I don't disagree... In most cases, it's not your system, though, it's someone else's.
...and if you don't care about the oldest items being discarded, you can just continue writing and 'push the tail forward', e.g. a ringbuffer is perfect when you need to record a continuous stream of values, but only ever need to access the last N values.
Concurrency bugs in Lucene: How to fix optimistic concurrency failures
THE staffer? I don't remember singling anyone out so I have no clue what you're talking.

You're argument is "This document said this one dude isn't currently accessing the system" as if that somehow means they aren't going to in the future and or that other team members don't have access. What are you even talking about? No one is saying "It's all this guy"
This is the point: A well functioning bureaucracy allows for repeatable predictable outcomes
Doooooooooooooooooooooooom
This brings fun memories of being a kid in deciding which one I am going to pick - Apple II, TRS-80, Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX80, Commodore PET, Atari 800, etc.

What a diverse selection of personal computers!
The electric fence is for keeping foxes out, not chickens in
Storey's Guides are a good starting point: tohttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/storeys-guide-to-raising-ch...
> a non-American billionaire

This is false.

Elon Musk has South African, Canadian, and US citizenship.
Let's not play the xenophobia card.
Loved that use of data visualization.

Thinking about it, it makes sense to cut the loops out of the CYOA as you want the story to never be infinite and because they’re for young readers never be too long.

The charts remind be of “puzzle dependency charts” used to design adventure games:
https://grumpygamer.com/rtmi_pdc/
Sadly most websites will scream at you if you don't follow their weird and sometimes arbitrary recipe (exactly one special character). This is great for when it's actually allowed
Unless you have too many to do this, you just need to show them in the first couple of nights, and after that they pretty much help themselves.
Great book, I suggest everyone read this at least once in their life.
Oh, alright...I'll be that guy. All respect to those infected with this particular strain of nostalgia, but I hated that piece of crap.

I was starting to program back in those halcyon days (BASIC and fortunately for my later life, Fortran), so my dad got me one. Probably because it was cheap. Cheap it was, and slow. Like, my friends VIC20 seemed faster (but then, he had a floppy, more on that later). And the games were mostly inferior to anything on something like the C64. And they were games none of my friends had, or more importantly, my friends had games I couldn't. And the business apps, according to my dad, were 'just shit'.

OK...I will give the thing one huge props: it had a relatively cheap voice synthesizer "sidecar" thing, that my dad actually sprung for. It. Was. AWESOME. Write a little BASIC program and a robot voice would call your friend a 'butthead' or something. For a couple of days I was the most popular kid in the neighborhood and everyone had to see (hear) this thing. And then...they all went "cool man, but we're gonna go and play Fargoal or Double Dragon or whatever that you don't have and don't know how to play". So back alone with my 99/4a calling my friends 'butthead', but now in a sad way.

But dad bought it for me to program on, so let's do that. The BASIC was...okay, I guess, but since it was some TI thing unrelated to MS BASIC used by pretty much everyone else at the time I couldn't compare notes with and get help from my friends with sane parents who had gotten their kids a C64, Atari 800 or TRS-80. The Logo cart was actually pretty fun, but it was also it's own thing and more of a toy to play with; moving the turtle around the screen got old quick. I probably should have gotten the assembler cart, but I didn't know that was probably the only way to really have fun programming the thing. Nut anyway...I'm a couple of BASIC programs in, and a floppy sure would be nice (read: required). Oh, you want floppy? You have to buy the giant expansion box, which is 5 times bigger than and costs more than the computer. And then buy the floppy. And probably a memory expansion.

At this point dad realized he'd been sold a bill of goods, did the math, knew what a sunk cost is, and went out and bought a TRS-80 4P for a lot more than the TI. Added CP/M, Turbo Pascal, 123 and Wordstar and a modem and I was off to the races. Got me all the way to my second year of college or so.

At some point in the '90s, a buddy showed me around his new job (manufacturing) and we spent some time on the TI-990 minicomputer he was in charge of. I remember thinking "if this is what is possible with a 9900, they had to have worked hard crippling it for the 99/4a".
The proof part is interesting. Civil is easy to prove because of its artifacts. Someone from Netflix or Meta layoffs, what proof do any of them have? Do some people defensively maintain background proof other than paycheck stubs?
They used to give away premium apps like Epic does on PC, so even I have used them.
You've clearly never been audited by the federal government.

In the case of the IRS, generally, you must hand over the data they request or you go to jail.

Whether or not it's behind a password protected internal system is irrelevant. Everything is potentially material to any conspiracy to commit tax fraud.

I see no reason why the Federal government itself, which works for us, should not be subject to reciprocal treatment.
How about "waiting to see which AI god emerges supreme"?
Going through the school system (private pre-K/K and public) was really what changed my kids' eating habits. Once they get used to the school nuggets and pizza, it's hard to "unlearn". They were more diverse eaters as young kids and ended more picky and narrow in their food choices. It's why pizza is the staple of every kids' birthday party.
My family must be odd, we probably consume about 4 dozen of raw eggs per year. What is everyone else eating that requires so many eggs? Do you cook eggs daily?
In theory, there could still be a possibility to track through the retailers who bought which one-time code (or have particular buyers be sent particular codes). But Mullvad also simply accepts cash by mail.
Glaciers melting faster than ever recorded
It has really stuck with me since I read it.
LLMs tend to be very naive in their outputs when you start asking for anything below surface level. If you ask it how to audit something, it'll probably give you a solid high level answer - look at a, b, c and try to build a narrative about how they relate and then look for deviance (I'm not an auditor and I didn't use an LLM for this). Once you start trying to look at the mechanics of how to actually do that, that's when it will start "hallucinating" or just generally swirl. It's the side effect of having a ton of training data on what something is but not much data on how to do it in practice.

This may change at some point in the future, but I would hardly say that using an LLM is "close to having someone with that experience and knowledge," or maybe it is "close" but it isn't a substitute for "having" when dealing with serious topics.
Be logical and scientific to be a good person
>NATO has an offensive one.

Israel, also.
"full-time managers" might be draining your company
Feathers are incredible technology.
I mean.. there are tons of people without last names in the world. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
What a mouthful of pretty rhetoric

“Slush fund” “crooks” “cookie jar” “parasites”

But not a single meaningful point brought up or data pointed towards.

It’s a nice easy way to feel like something makes sense without thinking about it.

What are you doing just spouting rhetoric at people who, you know, don’t agree?

> reducing military spending

This needs to happen. It dwarfs non military spending.

But that’ll never happen in the US.
1password, at least, has had this for almost a decade.
"At a high level, our informants described great software engineers as people who are passionate about their jobs."

Curious to know this group's thoughts: Do you believe that passion is NECESSARY to be a "great" software engineer?
Turkey's translators are training the AI tools that will replace them
Insects do not have the same level of sentience as birds and mammals.

However, do keep in mind that a large proportion of agricultural output is used to feed animals.
The hospital staff filled out most of the birth certificate, but left the name field blank when they gave my grandmother the paperwork to take home. She either didn't notice or didn't care (both possibilities are realistic) that the name field was blank and submitted it anyway. The state accepted it.

My mother started filling out her own paperwork around elementary school because my grandmother created so many problems that school staff would simply give up.
There are a few interesting hacks of people experimenting with feedback between Spatial Computing devices and vision impaired use cases. A case in point is this Unity test using audio sonar to "create a 'noise field' around the listener that directly communicates surface distances"

https://x.com/TheMirzaBeig/status/1823489371279937885

https://m.youtube.com/@MirzaBeig/videos
IRS to fire 6,700 staff
There's a pretty strong variation in input lag between apps. Sketching in the Concepts app rather than the Notebook/Noteshelf app for example is essentially instant. So this is mostly an issue of third party apps having varying levels of good/bad implementation.
The FBI reports to the president. They aren't going to stop anything.
I think we should all embrace a future where legal names are just straight up binary streams.

I can finally realize my true potential and be recognized as Mr. “:100 emoji:(Unicode zero-width joiner):fire emoji:(null character)(base64 encoding of a QR code that links to a website with a photo of my face),(vcard data, recursively referencing this last name somehow)”
It's weird that none of the systems automatically fell back to disambiguating with a number or something similar if the 'proper' one already existed. I'm wondering if you were a year or two apart instead, would the system simply silently fail to create a new username for the younger sibling when they joined?
So what’s in it for you to give up your rights to a tyrant? Do you really believe that it’s “your team” that’s winning?
ReLU Strikes Back: Exploiting Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models(2023)
Psychedelics bypasses religion and ushers you to spirituality via secret shortcut. Warning on box: "Some assembly required."