skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To help avoid the hot shard problem, I wonder how capping followers per "timeline" would perform. Especially each user would have a separate timeline per 1000 followers and the client would merge them. You could still do the lossy part, if necessary, by only loading a percent of the actual timelines. That wouldn't help the celebrity problem but it was already acknowledged earlier that the solution to that is to not fan out celebrity accounts.
> Really languages that can model state in sane ways and have a good concurrency story like Elixir make much more sense.

Can you expand on this? Curious why JS state modelling falls short here and what's wrong with the concurrency model in JS for agents.
Why is that pie chart so heavy?
I haven't found predictive code completion to be good anywhere for Swift, especially anything to do with Apple frameworks.

I've attributed it to the general lack of open source projects to train off.
I think it's more an advert for not being a fledgling product.
I just have never connected my Samsung TV to the Internet. My streaming all goes through my Roku. When the TV turns on it displays a splash screen asking me to connect to the network, which disappears after about 15 seconds and never comes back until I turn the TV back on.

I know there are TVs far more obnoxious than this, but I have no complaints and the Internet doesn't know a thing about my TV.
> Today a computer read the whole internet, suggested a place to look at

Or imagine this one - computer maps the whole world, suggests a route how to get to any destination?!

You just described a basic search engine.

LLM is kind of a search engine for language
Amazing!!! This one... I would buy one. Can't find any specs on battery life.
What that even be? You can’t fit what’s in the pro line in a smaller phone. The smaller phones already had smaller batteries, would you be willing to give up more to squeeze in another lens? Something or some things have to give when you have less space to work with.

Apple made the best small phones anyone had ever made and people didn’t like them. Bigger phones allow for a lot more than just bigger screens. People seem to take all the non screen stuff for granted.
Exactly. But Apple has so many low hanging fruits that anything that doesn't make billions is irrelevant to them.

Apple is making way too much money for the good of their customers. If only people would stop mindlessly buying, they would eventually listen but their userbase has become so huge that they are not going to change anytime soon.
So there’s AI that’s really good at doing the skills we’re hiring for. We want you to not use AI so we can hire you for a job that we’re saying we’re going to replace with AI. Sounds like a great plan.
you're right there are quality issues, some probably deliberate.

but the screening cost for companies is eye watering so something should be done.
I'm just pondering on how to change the game so it becomes more fun for me. Coincidentally, I know I can have a great time playing a game commonly known as Poker, so it's natural to compare the two.

I also expect HN to have lots more people interested in game theory and game design than any random place so it seemed appropriate to share and invite people to throw ideas about (which is also kind of fun).

Let's have fun any way we can!
I have done interviews with Karat which just outsources technical interviews to engineers elsewhere.

All of these technical interviews still suck though! I basically never code with someone watching me and find it very difficult to do in interviews. I also find it hard to find the time to actually practice this skill
Definitely interesting, but I'm not so sure that such a study can yet make strong claims about AI-based work in general.

These are scientists that have cultivated a particular workflow/work habits over years, even decades. To a significant extent, I'm sure their workflow is shaped by what they find fulfilling.

That they report less fulfillment when tasked with working under a new methodology, especially one that they feel little to no mastery over, is not terribly surprising.
As others have pointed out this is possible using confidential computing / secure enclaves. It's actually a pretty great application if I understand what you are doing correctly because you are running a relatively simple and self contained process in the enclave. Don't use SGX which has been pwned so many times it is a meme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions#List.... AWS has something that looks ok for VPS. AMD SEV-SNP is pretty nice. I know you can get SEV-SNP working on hosted dedicated servers not sure about VPS providers.

If you want to do a crazy science project you could look at the Marlin network which apparently lets you execute code in enclaves on random people's computers. Probably the throughput these random people would not be practical to run your VPN.
> Finally, it impedes the flow of commerce into New York by increasing costs for trucks, which in turn could make goods more expensive for consumers

This is plainly absurd. Non-articulated trucks pay a toll of $14, larger trucks $21.
pharma profits
you're not allowed to discriminate
Putin is wrong. Even Ted Postol, who has been (falsely, I think!) accused of all sorts of loyalties in the Syrian missile drama, has said that the Oreshnik is a normal intermediate range ballistic missile (variant of the RS-26) and not a low flying hypersonic missile.

He also rejected the claim that inert warheads can do the damage that Putin claimed. Which is obvious, since the warheads cannot have more kinetic energy than the total energy of the rocket fuel minus drag.

Hypersonic, yes. All IRBMs have hypersonic warheads on reentry.
Oreshnik is a ballistic missile. It was originally mistaken for an ICBM. Hypersonic, yes (as are ICBMs from the 1960s). Low altitude, no.
Thanks, I am appreciating reading this discussion.

> Of all the things you listed about Trump, I’d only really take issue with two

So then you agree that he tried to overthrow an election? This is the wild part to me. I don't know whether his actions after losing the 2020 election were technically illegal or not, but in my opinion this was the clearest threat to America's peaceful transition of power I've ever witnessed. I thought "okay, this is at least 50x worse than Watergate, even Trump won't survive this." Then amazingly (to me), he won in 2024. My only hypothesis for how that happened is that 99% of people who voted for him believed his unfounded claims regarding the 2020 election. But you seem to be an interesting counterexample.
> Denmark's medical system generally will not prescribe Adderall for ADHD.

Not sure about Denmark, but at least in Germany immediate release stims for adults are not covered/approved. Neither methylphenidate, nor amphetamine. However, both are covered as extended release formulations (e.g. Medikinet/Ritalin adult, Elvanse adult). And both can be prescribed as IR, or XR privately, which means you have to pay for it yourself (e.g. ~20€ per for 50 pills Ritalin).
The article actually takes a stance that if you incorporate AI you can learn how the person is at doing things the AI cannot.
Artic blast to bring in -50F temperatures breaking records in 27 states
The Create Now button text seems misleading. It should say, "Create after making an account with your email address or signing in with Google". This is the second time *today* that some neat-seeming landing page tricked me with that. Sorry, I nope'd out.

But, a true "Create now" experience could have been awesome. The preview images on the homepage look clean, and I really wondered what the machine might come up with. (Just not at the cost of a signup/signin.)
I'm one of those users -- I set up a pihole as my DHCP server to get ad blocking on all devices on my network a few years ago and haven't really thought about it since. Raspberry Pi was familiar enough. Networking in general is mostly Greek to me, so it wasn't the easiest thing to do, but it's pretty much been set-and-forget since the initial setup (aside from updating pihole itself and the web interface every few months).

I've seen AdGuard recommended a lot recently but from what I can tell this doesn't do the same thing as a DHCP pihole.

Something I'd love to do some day is replace my consumer router with something open source and run an all-in-one solution (ad blocking for all devices on network, DoH, as well as just a generally competent home router for a small apartment). Do you have any recommendations for where to start if I were to go down this road?
Most places even pay you to recycle a lead acid battery. A "core charge" that's only refunded when you return the old battery.
What are your thoughts on cheaper hardware like the stuff from Opentrons[0]?

I've been interested in this kind of stuff watching it from afar and now I may need to buy / build a machine that does this kind of stuff for work.

[0] https://opentrons.com/
Would certainly make it easy for employers to differentiate themselves by saying “well, at least we don’t do THAT”.
"Hot Shards in Your Area"... I died
Firefox's keyboard shortcut for new incognito tab is objectively wrong (Cmd+Shift+P vs. Cmd+Shift+N). It turns out that even if you're one of those weirdos that configures his web browser, it's impossible even for you to change it because Firefox has a separate shortcut for "Reopen Closed Tab" (Cmd+Shift+T) and "Reopen Closed Window" (Cmd+Shift+N) instead of just having one, which is even dumber. If I close the last tab of a window and press Cmd+Shift+T the right thing to do is just to do nothing? Really?

No one at Mozilla will ever have the conviction and power to fix this design misstep. I had a bunch of other reasons typed up but finding out that this will be wrong forever is actually enough for me.

I hate ads more than anyone and I'll switch if I'm forced to but Firefox is just a bad knock off of a browser forever playing catch up with the real thing. But I'm glad someone's doing it.
You can’t fit what’s in a pro into a mini sized phone. You have to give something up. The battery was already smaller than the regular sized phones. So what would you be willing to give up from the regular line to get a mini that wasn’t Gimped?”
I don't see any description of the resulting model in the post. Or any results for that matter. Reads more like a book plug.

Am I missing something?
I’ve read a few of these in depth crash analyses: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/

I’ve realized that fires are a way bigger issue than you might imagine after a crash — things can go south really quickly. Multiple stories of planes going from “fire outside” to “people suffocating and burning to death in their seats” in minutes. Here’s one of a 737 in Manchester, taxied of the runway intact, 55 people died: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fire-on-the-runway-the-m...

I might have taken my laptop bag in such a case out of habit before reading these stories, not so much now.
given the in-person interview is at the end of the funnel by a factor of 500-1000, standardized testing might even open up opportunity for under represented candidates.

Think of how poor the screening process is at the recruiter & CTS (left side) of the funnel, and how many false negatives there are .

If you could offer standardized test at that level, you may be able to keep viable candidates in the funnel longer.
No, that was Triplebyte's marketing. Their actual product was completely different.
Interestingly I find AI is actually better at that kind of CS whiteboard question (implementing a binary search tree) than that "connecting middlewares to API" type task. Or at least, it's more straightforward to apply the AI, when you want a set of functions with clearly defined interfaces written - rather than making a bunch of changes across existing files.
Frama-C doesn't actually prove memory safety and has a huge proof hole due to the nature of UB. It gives weaker guarantees than Rust in many cases. It's also far more of a pain to write. The Frama-C folks have been using the kernel as a testbed for years and contributing small patches back. The analysis just doesn't scale well enough to involve other people.

Spark doesn't have an active community willing to support its integration into the kernel and has actually been taking inspiration from Rust for access types. If you want to rustle up a community, go ahead I guess?
Maybe they do though the most powerful movements are grassroots. If it can get enough momentum to outpace the demonization that surely follows growth.

For example, who wouldn't support anti-fascism? That morphed into "antifa" which became the source of all the worlds ills according to the orange goblin. Yet only a fascist could be afraid of anti-fascism.
> I know this sounds corny, but people are the recourse. We are part of the checks and balances.

By "we" here, it seems you mean bureaucrats. But what if your opinions, as an individual, unelected bureaucrat are bad? I don't care what a mid-level bureaucrat's opinions on what policies are damaging is. He could be a neo-nazi for all I know. Constitutionally, we should go with the opinions of the people who won an election, instead of some random dude. I was taught that was what "democracy" was, not some random person taking advantage of their position to advance their personal goals.

When the guy paid to guard the door starts making his own decisions about who should get to come in, it's not good. It's corruption.
I've been arguing that "AI" has very little impact on meaningful technical interviews, that is ones that don't test for memorization of programming trivia: https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/llm-interviews/
I suspect most small/backyard flocks will be taking this approach, if only because of lack of testing.
Damn right it was.

The "unreasonable elitists" itself was a narrative spun by a law firm that made one of the first of what would eventually be called spam messages, in the form of BBS posts advertising their services to would-be immigrants to the United States looking to get into tech. They spammed their post to tons of BBS boards of varieties of topics, which often meant users of many of them were downloading that spam message many, many, many times, and because this was back when data was charged by the byte, they were paying for that privilege too. Naturally, they were pissed the hell off and crashed the law firm's servers with hatemail and harassment (rightfully so IMO.).

In turn the firm took to the public talking about these weird nerds and their "internet" and how it was the future of commerce, whether they liked it or not, and businesses had the right to free speech same as anyone, and that included the right to advertise.

IMHO, that's a canon event to when the Internet was destined to be ruined. As soon as the fucking salespeople got in, it was game over man.
I still have my TI-99/4A! I received it Christmas morning of 1983, although a Timex/Sinclair had been on my wish list. Sears had them marked down to $50 during the 8-bit wars. Mom had been up all night hand-typing in a BASIC demo so it would be running in the morning. Many Wumpuses were hunted that day.

Today, it has a F17A video processor that enables VGA output: https://dnotq.io/f18a/intro.html

And a FinalGROM99 cartridge, so I can have an SD card with all the program cartridges loaded. https://endlos99.github.io/finalgrom99/

There's still a community of fairly active development for retrogames, and some of them are quite good given capabilities of the hardware. My niece particularly enjoys a marble game called Skyway, try it on the online emulator at https://ti99ers.com
Chatgpt o-3 mini search returned:
"At a 30% effective tax rate, your taxes would be about 178,500 € × 0.30 = 53,550 €, leaving you with roughly 178,500 € – 53,550 € ≈ 124,950 € net.
At a 35% effective rate, taxes would be about 62,475 €, resulting in net income of roughly 178,500 € – 62,475 € ≈ 116,025 €."

For a health care you pay roughly 150€ monthly fee and 7% from your income but there is a income ceiling of €66,956. So for a case I presented in my first comment it should be roughly 3,600€ per year.

So I guess 112,5€k is net income with 178,500 being gross one.
UTM and others use that code to this day. They could fix the bug and re-enable.
The DOJ regularly provides guidance about its interpretations of laws. These letters are also “deciding what it means in practice.”

https://adata.org/interpretation-letter

Nobody complains about this though.
I had a chipped right kneecap in 6th grade, around 1980. At that time the practice was to put the whole leg in a brace and baby it; I don't remember for how long.

Being a kid and wanting it to heal, I took that advice to heart. But of course I still wanted to do stuff... even riding my bike pedaling with only one leg.

This was highly detrimental. There was no mention of physical therapy or rehabilitation of the knee. The favoring was so quickly ingrained that it continued unconsciously even after the brace came off; now my formerly-injured leg is longer than my other one, leading to mild scoliosis and a lifetime of asymmetrical foot and/or leg problems. I can see (although the casual observer probably wouldn't notice) that my whole body developed to put more weight over my left leg.

It's infuriating. This blunder during a child's growth years can be a disaster. Even as an adult I experienced doctors dismissing this entire sequence of events as the source of measurable deformity. WTF?

I experienced a minor brush with a similar mistake much more recently. A falling basketball fractured my finger by jamming it dead-on from the tip. My general doctor put it in a splint, where it was to remain for a while. I noticed that the swelling and color were not improving over an extended period, and went to a hand specialist. He immediately removed the splint and had me flexing the finger as hard as I could every day. He said if I'd left it in the splint I would have permanently lost some range of motion.

I believe in medicine, but even with access to "good" care it's a minefield. Even a relatively informed and interested patient can't dodge all the harm from incompetent, ignorant, and outright corrupt healthcare and drug purveyors.

Don't even get me started on the serious harm visited upon people by corticosteroids and fluoroquinolones...
I hear this and I do not relate at all. Face ID is so much more reliable than Touch ID ever was for me.
"If the music I dance to doesn't arise from the radio, it seems to be suspiciously well correlated with the radio.

I think the music I dance arises from the radio."
Long term, you'll want your datacenters to be roughly spherical to minimize cross-section path length latencies.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
I was waiting for the author to discuss actual strategies, like subtly herding new passengers toward a seat, sitting in your own row so you can get up when the right person comes along and graciously offer them your seat, saying "I think there's some spilled Sprite there" if the wrong person attempts to sit down (only if there are plenty of seats left, of course), etc.

Other ideas?
Hmm. I still use ed now and then. It's an alias to vim I assume these days.
What is the metric to measure comprehension?

How are we disentangling comprehension of natural language itself from comprehension of the subject matter being discussed via said language sample?

I think that by most reasonable metrics LLMs can reasonably be said to comprehend natural language itself. However they clearly are deficient in logic and reasoning, as well as comprehension of many of the concepts that the natural language is used to express.
> The truth is I don’t trust anyone else to run evals.

It's a common sentiment.

But compare https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decisio... . ("People predicting the future performance of college students state that interviewing the students aids prediction, although in fact the interviews make predictions less accurate.")
GMD is meant to counter threats like North Korea. There aren’t enough interceptors to stop a strike even from China, but more than enough to stop an attack by NK.
It would have been nice if they linked to the power metrics for the new servers.

I think it would be amusing if it turns out they just raised the power limits for those servers not showing the problem up to base that was originally advertised.
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Eventually yes, but the 13 is less than 3.5 years old and will likely receive iOS updates for another 3.5 years. And most apps support one or two iOS versions into the past. I agree it’s not ideal, but ~8 years of use isn’t that bad either.
Police shouldn’t be allowed to lie in general
Why is computer technology getting politicized - "Russia-aligned"... When Bulgarian gypsies commit crimes in Germany, let's say, the media is banned from revealing their ethnic background, and thus hurting the vast majority of Bulgarians directly and indirectly as the Germans have no idea that the thieves were gypsies, but it's okay to vilify a whole nation such as Russia - in movies, in the news, etc. Shame on you, "technologists" and "artists"!
The president is head of the executive branch, which has three basic duties:

1) Implement the laws that congress passes

2) Represent the US internationally

3) Be the head of the military in times of war

Trump's responsibilities explicitly encompass foreign policy, with some important exceptions. Namely, the president cannot declare war or enter into treaties. Those powers are for congress.

The president also cannot create laws or set budgets.
This is a sign of an abusive relationship.

If you have the stomach for this, you have the stomach for Ubuntu and a Looking Glass VM for whatever software won't run under wine (which is a lot).
Let me have this. It’s a fun pet peeve. I have little else.
When you buy name-brand servers you'll definitely get any faulty hardware replaced. Compensation would only happen if you negotiated for that and you'd have to pay extra. You're probably better off buying some kind of business interruption insurance instead of trying to get vendors to pay you for downtime (even if it is their fault).

Hetzner is not a normal customer though. As part of their extreme cost optimization they probably buy the cheapest components available and they might even negotiate lower prices in exchange for no warranty. In that case they would have to buy replacement motherboards.
I have yet to use one, but have you heard of the Pinenote?

Its a Debian Linux based e-ink tablet. It doesn’t look particularly premium, but it’s not android. There is a pressure sensitive stylus that comes with it as well.

https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/

Not many reviews out there but here is a video of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3trcI7MK4U
I guess I answered my own question. This is what I meant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12170
It seems very similar to how large, complacent businesses slash R&D, training, and employee compensation; then are surprised when they are left behind by their competitors.
I was thinking Dublin, Ireland , but also open to other places like The Netherlands.
Yes they do: https://www.premier1supplies.com/poultry/fencing.php?fence_i...
Cursed fire or define black magic
TFA is about the effects it would have moving through cells.
Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes Compelling Case for Kernel Drivers Be Written in Rust
I don’t think that the suggestion is that the standarised test is the only filter. It is merely one out of many.