skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that a mythology about where the difficulty in working with computers lies has made the relationship between businesses and the people they hire to do this stuff miserable for quite some time

"Coding", as in writing stuff in programming languages with correct syntax that does the thing asked for in isolation, has always been a very dumb skill to test for. Even before we had stackoverflow syntactic issues were something you could get through by consulting a reference book or doing some trial and error with a repl or a compiler. That this is faster now with internet search and LLMs is good for everyone involved, but the fact that it's not what matters remains

The important part of every job that gets a computer to do a thing is a combination of two capabilities: Problem-solving, that is, understanding the intended outcome and having intuition about how to get there through whatever tools are available, and frustration tolerance: The ability to keep trying new* stuff until you get there

Businesses can then optimize for things like efficiency or working well with others once those constraints are met, but without those capabilities you simply can't do the job, so they're paramount. The problem with most dinky little coding interviews wasn't that you could "cheat", it's thst they basically never tested for those constraints by design, though some clever hiring people manage to tweak them to do so on an ad hoc basis sometimes

* important because a common frustration failure mode is repetitive behavior. Try something. Don't understand why it doesn't work. Get more frustrated. Try the same thing again. Repeat
Nezha 2 becomes highest-grossing animated film globally
Okay, so update - we went to the local Morrisons (another chain) over lunch and got 18 eggs (they are sold from trays that you box yourself, but we just took half a tray) for £5.40 (so, what? US$6.82) The eggs are sold by the egg too, 0.30 each, so we could have bought any number we wanted really. They are also free-range. Remember too, in Europe eggs don't need to be refrigerated because we don't treat then to remove the outer layer.
No, it has not. We still have the same situation.
Good idea to start with k3d https://k3d.io/stable/
Retro Games on IPFS
They do let you switch it off, it's just a bit buggy sometimes (like having to toggle twice), I know because I use it all the time. https://i.imgur.com/YpSkS93.png
I don’t think it’s fair to compare Costco prices with local grocery store prices. Not apples to apples
A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself
This is an interesting side effect indeed. The people I know irl who have espoused this view are, ironically, the people who never liked Elon Musk in the first place. It'll be interesting to see how their narrative evolves now, if at all, as they stare at a practical example which contradicts them!
Black men in the U.S. who 'passed' as white lived longer in 20th century
The "severe conflict and stress" part may be hard to understand for the cityfolk; you have to kill chickens to eat eggs, or else they will do it.
Irrelevant. Even if they did nothing, the amount of exposure to the foreign intelligence services will devastate whatever we don’t footgun for a generation.
This has to be the most hilariously desperate anti-renewable argument yet.
OK. I was just wondering about your "zero trust" (aka "no database of user info etc") comment in the face of those and other Swedish laws that apply to Mullvad, is all.

What you're now telling me is only if I, as a user, don't give Mullvad my info, they wouldn't have to store that. I mean, that's one way or one way of looking at it, alright.
I especially like how they peddle their certificates as if they're worth anything.

The tool is probably gonna dream up a whole lot of deadend knowledge worker roles. Just look at the "Explore" animation: Marketing Manager, Media Planner, Digital Content Manager, Content Strategist and so on.

It's as if they've forgotten that the physical world exists.
This isn't an audit, it's a blindfolded hatchet job. They've already been caught either deliberately or accidentally misinterpreting data, to the tune of they called an 8 million dollar contract an 8 billion dollar contract, among many other glaring discrepancies.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/19/doge...

So if I was in charge, I would start by making sure I did the math right and didn't blindly trust my database scraping scripts as they appear to be doing (and that's the most generous interpretation). I would also make sure that before recommending that I fire any group, I at least have a high level understanding of what that groups works on. So I don't, say, fire the people who oversee the nuclear arsenal, or a group of researchers working on the current bird flu outbreak (both of these have been done). Rehiring takes money and time because upon firing their contact information is apparently deleted, and you aren't going to get a 100% return rate.

I also have some experience working with giant bloated blobs of legacy code managing critical systems, where many variables are arcane acronyms because they were written in a time where compilers had character limits. Moving fast and breaking things in that environment is just a good way to break a lot of things and not even understand how you did it. Which is fine if it's twitter, and a little more important when you're managing aircraft, nuclear weapons, disease outbreaks, entitlement payments that people depend on, etc.
AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone–Here's What to Do Instead
> Intermittent workloads on the order of 2 milliseconds, you mean?

Yea. Most of the cases I was looking at were with postgres, with fully cached simple queries. Each taking << 10ms. The problem is more extreme if the client takes some time to actually process the result or there is network latency, but even without it's rather noticeable.

> Turning it off would, to me, only make sense if you want a server to handle thousands of fast requests per second, but those requests don't come in for periods of, say, 50 ms at a time and so the CPU scales back.

I see regressions at periods well below 50ms, but yea, that's the shape of it.

E.g. a postgres client running 1000 QPS over a single TCP connection from a different server, connected via switched 10Gbit Ethernet (ping RTT 0.030ms), has the following client side visible per-query latencies:

powersave, idle enabled: 0.392 ms
performance, idle enabled: 0.295 ms
performance, idle disabled: 0.163 ms

If I make that same 1 client go full tilt, instead of limiting it to 1000 QPS:

powersave, idle enabled: 0.141 ms
performance, idle enabled: 0.107 ms
performance, idle disabled: 0.090 ms

I'd call that a significant performance change.

> if you have that many short requests coming in, the CPU would simply never scale back if it's reasonably constant.

Indeed, that's what makes the whole issue so pernicious. One of the ways I saw this was when folks moved postgres to more powerful servers and got worse performance due to frequency/idle handling. The reason being that it made it more likely that cores were idle long enough to clock down.

On the same setup as above, if I instead have 800 client connections going full tilt, there's no meaningful difference between powersave/performance and idle enabled/disabled.
Another disgusting move by this administration. At least eggs are cheaper... Oh wait...
> premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Yeah, we should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
conveniently sweeping aside the fact that those who depend the most on the 'inefficient' programs/agencies that are being 'optimized' are the poorest and weakest members of society. those who can afford private everything will be fine.
This rings more true for me. Food simply used to be a lot more expensive.

"Between 1960 and 2000, the average share of Americans’ disposable personal income (DPI) spent on food fell from 17.0 percent to 9.9 percent." [1]

I am not going to look for a source right now but I would venture that since the 1960's were part of the industrial era that food was even more expensive before the creation of the Haber process and gas powered farm tools.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2020/november/average-s...
tor generally doesn't recommend running vpn over tor makes any of your opsec any more safer , in fact I can argue that it makes your opsec worse

but if a website is working on mullvad and not on tor and you are forced to use that website , then yes compromise your opsec a little bit I suppose
Have you ever participated in an audit? You literally have no idea what the words you quack mean.
bigger discussion yesterday with 200+ comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095811
> Company A wants to hire an engineer, an AI could solve all their tech interview questions, so why not hire that AI instead?

Interview coding questions aren't like the day-to-day job, because of the nature of an interview.

In an hour-long interview, I have to be able to state the problem in a way the candidate can understand, within 10 minutes or so. We don't have time for a lecture on the intricacies of voucher calculation and global sales tax law.

It also has to be a problem that's solvable within about 40 minutes.

The problem needs to test the candidate meets the company's hiring bar - while also having enough nuance that there's an opportunity for absolutely great candidates to impress me.

And the problem has to be possible to state unambiguously. Can't have a candidate solving the problem, but failing the interview because there was a secret requirement and they failed to read my mind.

And of course, if we're doing it in person on a whiteboard (do people do that these days?) it has to be solvable without any reference to documentation.
It reminds me of Tesla removing turn signal stalks from their cars because they're going to be self-driving real soon so why waste money on unnecessary controls? And then we're still years away from full self-driving and a bunch of human drivers are struggling with ridiculous capacitative touch sensors for their turn signals.

This is the sort of thing that happens when you refuse objectivity and spend all your time getting high on your own farts.
I had a very hard time working there, maybe the worst time in my life. I worked with a lot of very smart people, but something about the company culture is doomed in a way I haven't seen before.

Last year I read the book Julia by Sandra Newman, which shows the story of 1984 from Winston's lover's perspective. Spoiler, at the very end of the book, Julia escapes Airstrip One, and we find out that Big Brother has just been captured by the good guys, and he is now a decrepit old man with no understanding of the world.

This implies that all the suffering, hardship, and pain experienced in the dystopian classic happens for no reason at all. Airstrip One is just a machine that gnashes and grinds each individual person within it and outputs... nothing.

This is the closest any book has gotten to describing my Amazon experience. I read headlines like this and wonder how long the machine continue to run for.
Show HN: MeetNewBooks – Book recommendations for those who read for fun
Hi HN,

Like many projects here, this started as something I built for myself. I shared it with a few friends, and it grew from there.

MeetNewBooks is a book recommendation app—a "find your next read" tool rather than a book tracking app.

How it works:

By Title: Enter a book you enjoyed, and we’ll suggest similar books. Depending on the book, you may see a mix of recommendations based on themes, genres, or tropes—combined with what other readers have enjoyed.

Search by Keywords (Genre, Theme, Trope): Browse recommendations using filters like "epic fantasy," "coming of age," or "billionaire romances." No vectors or embeddings—just a straightforward Elasticsearch implementation.

Suggestions Based on Recent Browsing: After you’ve looked at a few books, we’ll recommend others based on your browsing history. A "bulb" icon in the top right corner will show these suggestions.

Personalized Recommendations (free, but requires signup): Save and rate books, and we’ll tailor suggestions as soon as we have enough books to work with. We also compare your shelves with other readers to surface books you might love.
If you don’t like a recommendation, you can mark it (or the author) as "Not Interested," and we’ll refresh your list.

There are no quizzes or questionnaires to fill out. And while this isn’t a book tracking app, many users have requested those features, so I’ve been gradually adding them.

We also have iOS and Android apps. I’d love to hear your feedback!

As a side note—after years of working on enterprise software with grumpy traders, it’s been a joy to build something for people who love reading as much as I do. Users report bugs, suggest features, and have been incredibly patient as I work through the backlog.
With each Sprint, presumably.
Yes, dual socket Skylake. What's strange about that?

Please price it out for us because I still don't see what's cost effective in a system that costs well over $10k and runs at 8 tok/s vs the dual zen4 system for $6k running at the same tok/s.
Obviously this is your own fault for accepting the social contract, you should've declined back when you had the chance! /s
Don't you also need to add to that the time it takes for chickens to get to egg-laying age? Which seems to be 4-5 months.
> So here’s my question: if you were in charge of addressing this problem, how would you tackle it differently?

For one, with responsibility and care for the public. Not with reckless abandon. Not with malice. Not with a child-like perversion towards breaking things because it’s fun.

Politics aside, this has been an extremely unsettling disruption in the faith we have in our institutions. Trust and stability are the backbones to societal and economic growth. The unseen costs Trump/Musk/doge have wrought are massive, are spread equally among all people (globally, in US, minus the wealthy class), and is hard to see on a spreadsheet
Signal's server has access to fewer metadata than a Matrix server. If the self-hosted Matrix server gets compromised, it's a lot worse than Signal (and at this point, not only for metadata).
Yes, its called "elite rotation"
an alternate hypothesis is that all thinking is unconscious with consciousness being the sum of many unconscious processes. So, while it's true as you say "that some kind of subconscious "brainstorming" taking place", that would just true all the time, and you only notice it when your conscious thoughts are of something else.

(n.b. historically speaking in the literature, "subconscious" was the word used to describe Jung's "woo-woo" ideas about a collective subconscious shared across populations, and unconscious was the word used for ideas about a single brain a la Freud which is what we are talking about here)
So far, there's no evidence they're delivering either transparency or auditing in any sense that anybody is familiar with.

In fact, their operations -- in as little as they've been made public -- have been pretty opaque and sweeping (i.e. not detailed, as in transparency), and what little we have seen of their analysis techniques seem to be shallow and unconventional (i.e. not formal and measured, as in auditing).

I'd warn you not just take what public figures say at face value. Transparency and auditing are indeed virtues to strive for in governance (and we have many running systems for those already), and maybe they'll someday reveal that they're actually contributing to those virtues themselves. To date, they have not done so.
But isn't that apple id + privacy relay as well.

I think you have misread things. They aren't comparing private relay with tor but rather with obscura for which the answer is a yes
just dont eat eggs
In private companies people probably consider the issue to be 'less wrong'.

It's up to the owners and their management how they run it, right? So it's more about discrimination than government-style corruption.
random Internet user, yes, Sabine... no, it's all hyped, you know sometimes you just have to come to your own conclusions
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum...
This is really no different from health insrance companies just automatically denying first attempts at prior authorization: because it increases profits. Increasing waiting times means a certain percentage of peopel will give up or get disconnected and not bother re-trying. That's fewer calls your representatives will have to take so you need fewer of tehm, saving money.

Everywhere you look, from egg prices to electricity prices to broadband prices to medicare care costs, you see price gouging. Some event might be used to justify those prices increases. Profits always need to increase.

Some people will look at all this and say it's fine. These people are modern serfs who think their billionaire lord and masters deserve to be their lord and masters.

Some will see this as a few bad apples and it's a lack of government regulation or a lack of competition, which is the same thing because companies will seek to increase profits by decreasing competition by buying up or merging with competitors.

Eventually you realize all of this is by design. It's a fundamental and systemic problem. It's the internal contridctions in capitalism.
We (the US) aren't building record-setting amounts of natural gas capacity. That was 20 years ago.

https://headwaterseconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/HE_electr...
This relates to another issue of using people's public github as a hiring signal. I don't share any of these repos because at a glance the code is ugly, broken, incomplete.

Below the surface, I'm probably scratching a very interesting itch. Exploring a specific idea or problem, and then I stop when I get my answer.
If you're reading this and having the standard rage reaction to Baker's salary and the squandering of Firefox, instead consider donating directly to Ladybird. The community can solve for this.

https://donorbox.org/ladybird

https://ladybird.org/
This along with the writing style in the description is totally forced anthropomorphizing. It’s creepy.
Flux 2.5 GA
Interesting. I shattered mine similarly while snowboarding, but back in maybe 2018. There was definitely no debate on the matter, surgery via ORIF was the recommended option. Then again, my doc was a sports medicine surgeon so perhaps that played into it. Either way, I was never too light with it and it healed very quickly. I was back at 100% about 2 months later.
It's not even remotely similar. The app store vanishes from your phone, with no recourse.

Don't make excuses for Amazon, please.
Can't they just buy some? There's been loads of arguments on HN about how the right to own guns is seen as important, just for cases like this.
Indeed, and its not just a problem for future democratic administrations (assuming they come to pass), it's doubtful that Trump's inevitable republican successors will be comfortable with Elon having a back door to their government.
Copyright and AI: The Cases and the Consequences
It is upsetting that all of these great companies have stopped raising money publicly, so only billionaire VCs get to capture all the gains.

It is so obvious that anduril et al are the way of the future (in regards to warfare), and there is no way for the little guy to capitalize on it.
Can you use something like iCloud, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive to get sync for free? Does it work well?

Many do that with Joplin.
I mean, it can be both.

Factory farming has been around for more than 100 years. Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906.

The meat industry has done a pretty good job keeping the horrors of slaughter houses out of the public eye, especially in the days before almost everyone was walking around with a video recorder in their pocket.

I'm sure exposure to what's really involved in modern meat production has increased the popularity of veganism, but veganism has been around for at least a thousand years.
Something along the lines of LinkedIn and the company announcement part of twitter.

I, and im sure many others, can do without the stream of BS that comes out of LinkedIn. But as far as an online job history and to search for companies, it's quite useful.
Their intentions are irrelevant. They are actively attacking the United States. They are enemy combatants and should be treated as such.
Hyperinflation is defined as a monthly inflation rate exceeding 50%. In the U.S., the latest CPI numbers from January indicate a monthly rate of 0.5%.
I agree that a whole food diet is better than the “boxed” one but I have no comparaison point for the US. I’m from France and many people value whole food, “good products” and cook at home however even those gets diabetes, intestinal and blood cancers and other problems that would be easily avoided with more vegetable consumption. The fact is meat is often the central peace of the dish, second the carbs and then salads, cabbages and roots. People say they loves them but when they are on the plate it’s more a decoration that a portion.
Same for dairy cattle: males are redundant. My grandfather was an AI pioneer in the UK in the 1940s. AI being artificial insemination of dairy cattle....
I agree with this article, however I think it misses the most valuable aspect of speed: compounded returns on experience.

Experience isn't 1:1 with time spent. It's easy to spend a lot of time on something but learn very little. Conversely, its possible to gain a large amount of experience in a short period of time.

By being able to develop faster, you become able to accumulate more experience in a smaller amount of time. This experience then enables you to develop faster, kicking off a virtuous cycle of growth.

Following this thought provides clarity on what action you should take immediately: do anything as long as its something. Through doing something, you will become more experienced and that experience will enable you to do something else even faster.

This is why you end up with so many aphorism in the industry promoting rapid action over inaction:

- Move fast and break things

- Worse is better

- Fail fast

- Hacker mentality

- "Action oriented"

See also: https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/ and https://patrickcollison.com/fast
Yes. Earlier in careers, passion can lead to more time and energy towards growth, which is a strong contributor to becoming a great engineer.

For more experienced engineers, I think about it as skill vs motivation. In theory one doesn't need motivation to do great work. In practice, I haven't seen great work from folks with high skill but low motivation.
Maybe they're imagining more complex tasks like working on an engine.