skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, that's the great thing - you even have options: block the producers or overwrite old values. just don't forget to increment the start pointer too when overwriting old values.
It's really another symptom of the digital asymmetry.

It's the same as sign-up being one-click CC details input, but cancelling the account/subscriptions requires you to send a paper mail to America, with parcel tracking, and then The Company has 90 (business) days to "review your case", and they may as well decline it, to which your recourse is... take them to court? In California?

Compare that to the medieval market/bazaar: the seller shows you the goods, you show them the geld; you inspect the item(s), they inspect the payment(s). You either both agree to the exchange, or not. Symmetry.

And no, I'm not advocating traveling back in time. I'm advocating for more symmetry between the selling and the buying sides.
I don't see the issue here. Nobody expects candidates to build actual product during the interview. Having a (targeted, scope and time-limited) design discussion or giving your candidate some made-up context around an engineering cycle and then doing a retrospective with them are practical and useful ways to interview a candidate.

I'm also not sure what the alternative is? Just not hiring?
I remain curious if you can actually calculate anything with these gadgets? I mean can it add 2 and 2 or work out the factors of 30 or anything?
The classname "lowagie" will live forever in the memory of Java developers, but we've all abandoned itext for the fork:

https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF
> Is gen ai app development really that important?

Yes, it already has fundamentally shifted software development and it will continue to do so. We're just getting started. And it's not going away.

> Does it make real apps?

Yes, it can, in whole or in part.

> Or only prototypes and trash?

Not only, but yes, it creates plenty of that, too.
I await the blog article. I just think throwing out Prometheus Stack was terrible idea. If you want to store Metrics in Elastic, which I've done and always ends in tears, is fine. My concern is not keeping Prometheus compatible until last second.

If I'm a customer and say "Hey, my applications are emitting Prometheus Metrics, how to scrape?" what is your recommendation with the platform?
JasperReports library used that library, and forked it at it's last LGPL version.
Side note, one of my favorite uses of LLMs is to unpack papers like these that are filled with turbo encabluator speak. Yes yes yes caveat emptor about all the possible risks associated with this practice, particularly if you have any actual responsibilities associated with that understanding.

I don't. It just for fun.
Ironically, the Old Testament (which Christians consider the word of their God) only mentions abortion once, and it's a description of how to perform one with a weird magic spell if a woman is unfaithful to her husband (Numbers 5:11-31).

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that abortion is a sin, or even of any concern to God at all. Although if one takes the Bible seriously, one has to accept that God is pro slavery and made women inferior to men.

Which is why the Bible shouldn't be taken seriously. It has a few good moral precepts which can be found anywhere and a lot of bullshit that the Western world has been dragged down by for millennia.
you can use onedrive to sync the files, and there's also community-made plugins for onedrive and git
I don't think the average person hate autistic or nerdy people.
While it's totally possible to build competently, my impression is that, in the US at least, there are tons of existing houses—built roughly between the 70s (energy crisis) and the mid-2000s when ventilation requirements became more common in building codes—that are fairly tightly sealed but lack any sort of real ventilation systems beyond like, kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans.

Having grown up and lived primarily in (uncomfortably!) drafty old houses, I've noticed the phenomenon ever since I was little kid because they have a distinctive stuffiness and smell of furniture/carpet/plywood even if nothing inside is actually new. I think many people are just used to it/consider it a normal smell of a house because so much of the housing stock is in this category.
You seem to be confusing brain design with uniqueness.

If every single human on earth was an identical clone with the same cultural upbringing and similar language conversation choices and opinions and feelings, they still wouldn't work like an LLM and still wouldn't be stochastic parots.
If events need to be processed in strict order across different partitions, then you need to send these events to a single key (and thereby to a single partition). A partition consists of multiple service keys for which Restate ensures strict order processing. It is noteworthy that different keys don't block each other from being executed (no head of line blocking across different keys).

The order in which events are processed for each key is their arrival order. If you need to handle out-of-order events, then you can implement this as part of a virtual object which can store events and re-order them based on other events that carry some form of watermark or based on time.
Oil comes largely from plankton, FWIW. Much of that was algae, some animals, some fungi.

Coal and natural gas are almost purely fossilized plants.

At some point, people picked up the simplified thinking that fossil fuel = dinosaurs, but the carbon-rich deposits are primarily from the Carboniferous period, at which point animal life was mostly invertebrates, fish and small tetrapods.
Before even debating the effectiveness of this audit, we have to address the fundamental problem: Elon Musk has no legal authority to be conducting this in the first place. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is not a real government agency and Musk has not been confirmed by the Senate or given formal oversight. It's illegal and unconstitutional.

Beyond that, yes, large-scale government audits have been done before. In fact, we already have institutions designed to do exactly that. The GAO, the Office of the Inspector General, and even bipartisan commissions have uncovered fraud and inefficiencies without letting an extremely partisan private individual with massive conflicts of interest connected to his businesses arbitrarily rip apart government agencies.

Your claim that the continued existence of fraud means the system does not work is also specious, it's obviously not possible to eliminate all fraud, statements like that make me doubt that your comment is made in good faith.
I would happily bet that 50 years from now, so long as you've preserved the bytes accurately, it will remain possible to open DRM-free PDF/A files, epubs, MP3s, JPEGs, PNGs, CSVs and zip files.
She does not. She specifically speaks against that kind of thinking. Recently, she stated it as, “Believe arguments, not people.” I couldn’t have said it better.

She makes arguments, forcefully. That’s good. That’s what science is supposed to be. I don’t agree with her on everything, but I find her arguments engaging, and sometimes convincing, sometimes not. But her process is not dogmatic, as you’re trying to make it out to be.
That’s a skill you do need at Google if you’re going to survive. At least nowadays.
That's not quite how ubsershaders work. They're a "fallback" shader in the sense that they rather inefficiently implement the entire pipeline, but they do implement the entire pipeline. The shader being compiled in another thread will be more efficient as it uses only the logic needed for whatever configuration the game is calling up. But the visual result is identical in the ubsershaders case, that's the whole point. If you want, and your host system is powerful enough, you can turn ubsershaders on all the time and disable the entire compilation thread and associated cache.

I believe the term was coined by Dolphin team, who did a pretty good high level writeup of the feature here:

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/
Ya sorry, this was way back in the late 90s-early 00s. It's still only relevant in SQL dev.
Nezha 2 still has fart jokes (and a sequence involving a joke about bodily fluids), but the quality of the animation is now top notch.
Feedback and feature suggestions are much appreciated!
> This isn't an audit, it's a blindfolded hatchet job

It's actually *worse* than blindfolded. It's extremely partisan [1]

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/adambonica.bsky.social/post/3lil7yl...
NATO already bordered Russia. There were already NATO rockets in their back yard.

You're falling for Russian propaganda. This is the usual Russian land grab. They've done it many times before and they will continue to do it.
Yeah, all of every American's banking information being permanently exposed is a totally OK cost for "improvements".
Barbara Broccoli thinks the people at Amazon are "fucking idiots":

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/james-bond-movies-amazon-...

Amazon has apparently solved the problem by pushing her out.
> apply state-of-the-art system engineering to make them as valuable as currently possible

Sure, and if DOGE was doing that, it would be a worthy mission. But we have seen no evidence of that, while we have seen a lot of evidence of ideology and retribution based purging.

There is already a government agency who has been working to overhaul and modernize the government's systems -- very much needed -- for years, and they all just got sidelined and/or fired. The DOGE team that took over that agency (USDS) isn't even talking to them.

The people at the FDA responsible for oversight of Neuralink's medical device approval just got fired. Don't tell me you believe that was to make the FDA's system more efficient.
An Interview with Manna Founder and CEO Bobby Healy About Drone Delivery
What I've been thinking about leetcode medium/hard as a 30-45 minute tech interview (as there are a few minutes of pleasantry and 10 minutes reserved for questions), is that you are only really likely to reveal 2 camps of people—taking in good faith that they are not "cheating". One who is approaching the problem from first principles and the other who knows the solution already.

Take maximum subarray problem, which can be optimally solved with Kadane's algorithm. If you don't know that, you are looking at the problem as Professor Kadane once did. I can't say for sure, but I suspect it took him longer than 30-45 minutes to come up with his solution, and I also imagine he didn't spend the whole time blabbering about his thought process.

I often see comments like: this person had this huge storied resume but couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. Now having been that engineer stuck in a paper bag a few times, I think this is a very narrow way to view others.

I don't know the optimal way to interview engineers. I do know the style of interview that I prefer and excel at[0], but I wouldn't be so naive to think that the style that works for me would work for all. Often I chuckle about an anecdote from the fabled I.P. Sharp: Ian Sharp would set a light meter on his desk and measure how wide an interviewees eyes would get when he explained to them about APL. A strange way to interview, but is it any less strange than interviewing people via leetcode problems?

0: I think my ideal tech screen interview question is one that 1) has test cases 2) the test cases gradually ramp up in complexity 3) the complexity isn't revealed all at once; the interviewer "hides their cards," so to speak 4) is focused on a data structure rather than an algorithm such that the algorithm falls out naturally rather than serves as the focus. 5) Gives the opportunity for the candidate to weigh tradeoffs, make compromises, and cut corners given the time frame. 6) Doesn't combine big ideas (i.e. you shouldn't have to parse complex input and do something complicated with it); pick a single focus. Interviews I have participated and enjoyed like this: construct a Set class (union, difference, etc); implement an rpn calculator (ramp up the complexity by introducing multiple arities); create a range function that works like the python range function (for junior engineers, this one involves a function with different behavior based on arity).
Why LLM Extensibility Is Vital to API Vendors
Hell, I honestly believe the NSA does not need a backdoor anyway. They have some absolutely frightening people working for them. I believe some of the best of the best.

I do not believe there is such thing as privacy from such organizations. If they want you bad enough, they will get you. Don't have a reason? They'll make one.
Great insights so far. I'd also love to dig deeper into the early days: What did your first 3-6 months look like? Especially curious about strategies beyond referrals - how did you directly find and land your first clients before having a strong portfolio?
The answer is get the fuck over eggs.
Post your bank account number here. Give us the benefit of the doubt.
TreeSheets: Free Form Data Organizer (hierarchical spreadsheet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BipvGD-LCjU
Ya, it loaded just fine right now. Thanks
We're a bit rural but still too tightly packed for farm dogs. They've got a regular dog but it doesn't have quite the free rein a farm dog requires to keep chickens locked down. Kind of the worst of both worlds as far as the chickens are concerned.
What DB system operates that way, that's nuts.
Shorter WSJ: "Won't anyone think of the poor widdle billionaires, who can't even verbally abuse their staff nowadays without somebody recording it?"
This[0] doesn't seem random, and is just one example of many similar ones.

And that's not counting the firings at the DOJ and FBI which were explicitly retribution (though you could argue DOGE had nothing to do with those firings, which may be true, but I'm referring to Trump's mass firings in general).

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/fda-offic...
I'm pretty allergic to all those things so I'm going to disagree with your implied preference and take the haribo and brake pad dust all day.
I've been operating home cluster (on-prem and lately hybrid with cloud instances) for several years now, running a lot of self-hosted applications for my family.

To be frank I struggle to understand what kubevpn does. While I may be missing something important, the quality of the documentation and description is lacking. Documentation is key as you are learning, so I suggest you don't use it and just focus on deploying and using k8s to host something.

IMO, k3s is the best distribution for hobbyists, by far. If you want to add connectivity to it - k3s supports tailscale now and I can confirm that it is quite stable.
You realize that the entire executive branch excluding defense is like 10% of the federal budget.

There isn’t enough money to be saved to give you back anything.
That was the Vivek plan. He got sidelined.
I did have a question about that. Where does the other 60% go? Isn’t the whole point to reduce the debt?
AI Alignment at Your Discretion
When feeding alignment principles to an AI, what does it prioritize? What are humans prioritizing when they give feedback? Does AI have the same priorities as human feedback?

We formalize these questions as 'alignment discretion'. Just like we scrutinize judges when they interpret and balance legal principles (judicial discretion), we should scrutinize annotators and algorithms when they balance alignment principles. Our paper presents a set of metrics to do exactly this, and we find significant discrepancies between human and algorthmic discretion.
Using WiFi RF signals, ML, & AR, we built a device which enables X-Ray vision
paper:
https://cdn.openai.com/global-affairs/openai-edu-ai-ready-wo...
... by buying her out.
Ignorant question: why might one need to euthanize a chicken?
> Bureaucracies are a common good

Bureaucracies are just organizations of humans, who have the same motivations, biases, and incentives ans everyone else, everywhere else in society.

They're not a "common good", they're just people, and because they have de jure authority over certain domains, they need be subject to oversight and accountability if we're to trust them.

Bureaucracies often have perverse incentives, ulterior motives, and are themselves co-opted by the very "anti-social elites" you're complaining about (and such language indicates a conflict-based rather than an error-correction-based approach to dealing with these issues, which is itself an error). Increasing the efficiency and efficacy of such organizations without proper oversight can easily lead to more abuse and corruption.

In this situation, I think that neither the established federal bureaucracy nor DOGE and the current administration have interests and intentions that are necessarily aligned with the broadest interests of the public at large. At this point the best we can do is hope that the adversarial relation between them leads to a favorable equilibrium rather than an unfavorable one.
Sorry, that was intended to be facetious
This is a story that will definitely be told in family office conferences for a long time: one family has basically overseen bond since the beginning of the films I believe. Sad end.
Can is not should. Who are we trusting to move fast with our governance and why? Is this why?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/17/trum...

Unacceptable.
Why would you expect coherent answers from someone incapable of coherent thought? How would that even be possible?
They’re moving to teams and zoom and slack calls. In classic Amazon fashion I’m sure it’ll take a minute
Black was not the best color choice.
It's not just new hires. Employees who move to a new position, even if they've been in that agency for a long time, also have less protections and are being fired.

But as others have noted, these are not the only ones being mass fired.
Sorry, I completely disagree with everything you are saying here.

So much so that there is no point debating it further, because there is no common ground and it just becomes as argument.
I will dig into the meta a bit here, because both it, and one of your points is interesting.

When I read things like "animal agriculture being devastating for the world including the environment", it rings true, and makes me want to dig further, support this any way I can etc. The conflation with the (IMO hella sus) health arguments makes me question the judgment and intent of the writer, and second-guess my initial agreement.

I would find it easier to sympathize with the main purpose, if it was left to stand on its own. Trust is an important concept in human interactions.

*Reading further posts in this thread, I'm going to double down and add my own frustration: I really want to support this cause and perspective, but I hesitate because I consistently get signals that the people who promote it are arguing in bad faith.
DOGE = EGOD = EGO/GOD
A minimal 16 bit system is something like a XAP [0] at 3,000 transistors. Incidentally, also a terrible architecture to program for.

I don't think any "real" x86 processor from the 286 onwards had under 100k transistors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAP_processor
We're not throwing out Prometheus stack that's for sure.

I've had experience using Elastic for a long time I understand it's capabilities and limitations, I'm familiar with it's querying capabilities, and things have always played out nicely with elastic for me. I guess it's all about what tools you are familiar with.

If you are a paying customer and say you want prometheus metrics today we would show you how to access the already available LXD /metrics endpoint securely. You can learn more about this here https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/metrics/. With Opsmaru you get full access to the underlying LXD cluster by default out of the box.

Ideally we would want to build an uplink version of the /metrics endpoint to ensure more smooth / automated / seamless integration but the above will work perfectly well if you want it today. The uplink /metrics endpoint would also provide additional metrics regarding application specific metrics not available from the LXD endpoint. LXD only provides infrastructural metrics not application metrics.

In the future we want to integrate APM by default since we handle the routing for the apps we can bring together all these metrics like response times, SIEM and provide more metrics than infrastructural level metrics.
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There's a stereotype of male motorists who never stop to ask directions when they may be lost.

Now is that rugged male individualism, a DIY spirit, or something else?

Passersby and strangers have the right of free speech, and what incentives would compel a stranger to give accurate directions the way the motorist wants to go? What also would inform the conversation with a stranger so that there is understanding and trust, assuming that the stranger doesn't intend to misdirect or beguile the motorist? Hop in car and tag along for 10 miles?

The stereotype may also derive from a man's instinct to protect others. Such as a spouse and children in the car, or his coworkers, or just a taxi driver's fare. The man has taken responsibility at the wheel, and control and liability rests on him to complete the journey. A man's sense of fatherhood and spousal love--"jealousy" is a fierce force of nature that ultimately can only be tempered or quelled by feminine influence.

Now take this defective "car analogy" and apply it to the US Gov, Justin Trudeau, or Mexico as you scope out and figure out what's really going on in 2025.
I've found that when cross checked against my own expertise, LLMs have dubious "knowledge" at best. Trusting the output with anything you already don't know would just be Gell-Mann amnesia.
Did you miss definition of G, or I didn’t have enough caffeine yet?
So far they said 20% refunds, 20% against the debt, and the rest...presumably they are determining to what extent to put that into tax cuts and the other two buckets some more. This way everyone wins, assuming their savings so far are sustainable and annualized.
Here you got then - https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BU/BU00/20250213/117894/BILL...

Spoiler: Nobody is _directly_ getting a refund. That money will be less than the planned increase in the deficit. (This is the house's budget bill which is the supported version of the president unlike the senate's version).
Oh man I needed that in the clip for like a dozen interviews a decade ago.