skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on both sides of this right now, hiring senior engineers for companies I consult for, while considering getting back to full time technical focus in a staff/principal role.

When I'm hiring, I'm having to trudge through a TON of irrelevant resumes, and some super weird interviews with folks lying about their location or clearly relying on LLMs for answers to broad questions experienced folks with very general software knowledge should be able to talk about easily.

For getting hired, my resume acceptance rate was abysmal when I usually do pretty well, but when I actually get to talk to folks I can sense relief that I am who I say I am and have real experience. Offers are coming in at a range similar to 2021.

It's a very noisy atmosphere at the moment. I think folks experiencing the anxiety I felt at the start of my search should rest assured that there are real jobs for people who do real work. AI definitely isn't taking them. Getting face to face with the person who needs your skills is hard these days, but going through your network helps a lot and if that fails, persistence still works. If you need to hire, I've found going through my network to circumvent the applicant spam very effective for that side as well.

We're a community, and we can do a lot of good for ourselves and each other by connecting directly when our usual channels for placement are so unreliable these days.
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I was traumatised by fluid dynamics course back in the days before youtube tutorials were a thing and we had to rely on a good teacher to explain some concepts.
I've heard that the farther you go from Italy, the more adventurous ingredients you can find on a pizza.

I used to live in New Zealand.
> The Eastern Orthodox … believe that the Church speaks through a consensus of its patriarchs

I understand that the Orthodox believe that the Holy Spirit speaks through the Church, and the Church speaks through the Ecumenical Councils (not through the patriarchs). Of course, there have been false councils, too, and the only way to distinguish between them is that some are recognised by the Church as ecumenical and some as false. Practically speaking, one might say that the Church speaks through the Church.
Related:

Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158168
> You want to know how to make it more nutritious, cheaper, sustainable, healthier and efficient? Eliminate animal farming and feed humans directly

I hear that a lot.

Apart fom the nutritional benefits of eating meat, notr every place in the world is suitable to the sort of cropping required.

Where I live the land is well suited for grazing sheep, and not well suited for cropping

Cattle crammed into feed lots is a sad thing, I am not advocating it. I am advocating an approach sensitive to the needs of the land and people
Have you tried Grok 3 thinking? I haven’t made up my mind if O1 pro or Grok 3 thinking is the best model
It's a maximum of two, not a minimum. The minimum is zero: low quality expensive food in an inconvenient location.

Luckily, those usually go out of business. Un-luckily, you may be a customer first.
State and local governments also take their cut. I believe the total is about 35%.

Important to note that outlays do not equal federal taxes, because spending exceeds revenue by a substantial margin.
Back in the day we used to just make a fart button on a web UI. The level of dedication at this stage is beyond me!

Well done.

Please detect dog droppings near hand, for a wash hand notification.
Oh, ffs. “What if we put the stupidest available people in charge of the government?”

I mean, it’s really almost beyond belief. Absolutely crazy stuff.
Unfortunately 300$ price point brings up a lot more questions about utility to me.

You can have all the things I mention above at a slightly higher price point.

It is not hard to make these and the really hard part is guaranteeing the quality so they aren’t treated as novelty toys.
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MongoDB makes money selling and supporting MongoDB.

Microsoft does not make money supporting Citus.
Yeah. I hope software engineers slow down a bit. We are good enough. There is no need to push ourselves out of jobs.
The ancient joke springs to mind.

Heaven is where the cooks are French, the police are British, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and everything is organized by the Swiss.

Hell is where the cooks are British, the police are German, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and everything is organized by the Italians.
How well does it scale?
My rule of thumb: if it has the name of the country, i expect the food to be at best sub-par i.e "Great Indian" (gave me wild food poisoning).

Second rule of thumb: if the milkshakes are good, the food will be good - almost never fails me.
This is a good example where a summary produced by much-hated AI (GPT 4o) is quite useful (to people who do not want to read all details in he article):

"In his study, James Pae examined the hypothesis: "The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab." Focusing on Paris, he analysed kebab shops' proximity to train and metro stations alongside their Google review ratings. His findings revealed a negligible correlation between a kebab shop's distance from stations and its review ratings, suggesting the hypothesis lacks substantial evidence. Pae acknowledges potential influencing factors such as tourism and review biases and expresses intentions to revisit the study for further analysis."
I never understood this argument, there are many great products running on Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript... All of these languages have a "crowd" that hates them for historic and/or esoteric reasons.

Great products are in my opinion a function of skill and care. The only benefit a "popular" tool or language gets you is a greater developer pool for hiring.
Yeah, I hear you. If it helps, the emails are anonymized with an hmac.
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Trusting Secure Enclaves custom chips over processing locally is going to be a hard to impossible sell for those who truly care about privacy.

Thankfully for Apple that's a very low number in a world where people demand tiktok remain legal when shown how their data is being used by foreign actors. People only care about privacy when it's local (don't want mother to find out, neighbours to talk, friend to think a certain way about you or classmate stalking) and that's why ai fakes are much more concern then a company knowing everything you do.

But this product is great for fortune 500 businesses.
I did something similar to my highschool in the 90s. They had a free student phone in the office. It had long distance blocked on it, but I learned you could circumvent the block using those 1010-321 and other long distance prefixes. Some of them had $5 access fees, billed once, in addition to the per minute rate. I called several of these and prided myself on getting the phone removed from the office for a few months.
Well, yeah; that happened in the previous eight or so AI bubbles, going back to the 1950s. His stance seems to be primarily “this stuff isn’t very useful and is absurdly expensive”, which seems fair enough?
sounds very useful. unfortunately i am on firefox
at some point of my life I was working on improving search results for the query "restaurant"

for solving the problem of reviews not representing kebab taste, you can put reviews through the llm and ask it silple question - does it say that kebab is good or bad, or it is not about the taste at all

given then a set of labeled reviews, you can very reliably devise the label you need

you also can widen your top funnel with the approach, as it is agnostic to category, name, etc.
> Good point about multiprocessor systems. He did say this is being used on HPC clusters.

Plus essentially all systems now are multiprocessor systems.

> You can also use C safely if you're careful. Doesn't mean it isn't full of footguns.

You don't have to use much C here at all.

> Since this is an exercise in efficiency and latency, if you're creating a worker thread isn't an atomic write by the worker cheaper than creating a pipe?

The point is to signal that `execve(...)` did not fail but did start the new program -- but, how? You can use a condition variable or whatever to signal failure to exec, but you can't run code after a successful exec that would signal a condition variable or whatever because the program that was calling exec is now not running. A close-on-exec pipe serves to asynchronously signal success to the parent: it only closes either when the exec succeeds or after the exec fails and you close it after signaling the failure however you like. This works because the "code that runs after the exec succeeds" here is not code in the new program but code in the kernel after the kernel commits to not returning from `execve()`!

What else has this property? Only file descriptors, or you can insist that the program you exec must signal some how that it started. But the latter is intrusive, while the former is not. If it's file descriptors then it has to be something that supports async I/O, and the simplest thing would be a pipe or a socketpair. Now if you're going to use a pipe for exec success reporting then you might as well also use it to signal failure because why have two mechanisms, one for reporting success and one for reporting failure?

You still have to deal with the process' eventual exit, and reporting that asynchronously along with the exit status. But you get to report on all of three distinct events:

- exec failure (e.g., ENOENT)
- exec start (really *exec didn't fail*)
- child process exit/death

You could choose to not report exec start, I suppose. But you often want to know that exec didn't fail, and the only ways to know that are to either wait for the process to exit (which could be a long time!), assume that if enough time has passed then the exec did not fail (a lame heuristic), or just arrange to signal exec success. Since it is possible and easy to signal exec success via a close-on-exec pipe/socketpair then you might as well just do that.
> how much do the exceptions contribute to the discussion?

A fair amount, if the number of exceptions are such that the rule of thumb isn't useful.
Yes! No interest in AI whatsoever. I'm building a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities.

- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...

- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat

- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
I cannot believe that others just casually dismiss this as 'basic', when just a few years ago this would have taken someone a full day of work.
>Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and you have to wait for a minute. If you run that red light, you get another (heftier) fine. If you drive normally, the light is always green.

I have never seen a system like that. What town? Or what system?
What's wild is you misrepresenting what I said which was:

"built-in, supported, proven scalability and high availability"

PostgreSQL does not have any of this. It's only good for a single server instance which isn't really enough in a cloud world where instances are largely ephemeral.
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You can do this yourself. Anyone can buy API credits. I literally just did this with my personal credit card using my gmail based account earlier today.

1. Subscribe to Claude Pro for $20 month

2. Separately, Buy $100 worth of API credits.

Now you have a Claude "ultimate" subscription where the credits roll over as an added bonus.

As someone who only uses the APIs, and not the subscription services for AI, I can tell you that $100 is A LOT of usage. Quite frankly, I've never used anywhere close to $20 in a month which is why I don't subscribe. I mostly just use text though, so if you do a lot of image generation that can add up quickly
Where can we see this "Bad Apple played on the NYPD farmer's market"? I only found "Bad Apple played on apples": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywy-OwHejfs
As I said, other than AI. The management made a big bet on crypto when nvidia made a big bet on AI.

That didn’t work out all that well in the medium term (it did in the short term), though it gave them runway to take a big chunk of intel’s server market.

Whether or not that was a good move, it’s not evidence of some engineering shortcoming.
If Zed gets its agentice editing mode in I’m moving away from Cursor again. I’m only with them because they currently have the best experience there. Their moat is zero, and I’d much rather use purely API models than a Cursor subscription.
> But seriously, according to that link, it seems to me like the zero or empty type is more suitable.

That's a bit different. The empty type is only suitable for functions that never return (e.g. loop infinitely, crash the program). The type checker will prevent functions that have the empty type as a return type from returning.
I kinda get how LLMs work with language, but it beyond blows me my mind trying to understand how an LLM can draw SVG. There are just so many dimensions to understanding how SVG converts to an image. Even as a human I don't think I could do anywhere close to that result in first attempt.
> Sometimes science isn’t doing completely novel things, but combining ideas across different disciplines or areas.

That's basically 99% of startups/business too.
The verb is restaurer.
Its gerund form is restaurant (ie. transforming a verb into a noun)
Restaurateur is also a noun but its the job associated with the verb, not the verb transformed into a noun directly.
For kebab some comedian gave the best advice - look at the knuckles of the kebab maker - if they are very hairy it will be good. Then look at the neckline of his shirt - if there are hairs coming out of it - the kebab will be great.
You haven't identified any difference. In order to generate a really good statistically plausible thing to say you need a model of the state of the world and anticipated future states. This is very well known. I wish we didn't need to keep going over this basic stuff, but it somehow comes up again and again every time AI is discussed here.
Based on what? Even adding in state spending, the US government spending share of GDP isn't high by world standards.
Ditch the screens, meet IRL. Could this idea work?
Trying to make IRL meetups almost as easy as connecting online. Just tap, book a meetup in safe, vetted spots with edutainment, dining, shopping. No awkward planning, no ratings, no rejection. Friends or vetted strangers, meet locally or anywhere in the world. Subscription-based (because doomscrolling needs to end). Would you use it?
It is pretty well accepted that Pompeii had businesses that primarily served prepared food (https://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/the-ancient-snack-bar...), so they are at least 2000 years old.

Also, a business that sells meals and also sells lodging or coffee is definitely still a restaurant.
Yeah, that's moving the goalposts.
Zero to Photon: Image Pipeline
Perovskite-driven solar C2 hydrocarbon synthesis from CO2
These days, alarms use quantum entanglement. Beat that :)
I have observed some unusual behavior.

I wonder if it simply due to reprioritization of resources.

Presumably, there is some parameter that determines how long a model is allowed to use resources for, which would get tapered in preparation for a demand surge of another model.
The power of suggestion, ala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentalism
You can try using it through Github Copilot? Just as a different avenue for usage.
Huh. It has everything to do with OpenAI planning to move away from Microsoft datacenters to its own datacenters.
How many Californians moved to Nevada in 2023?
Hi there, "OP" here.

First off, it's been fun to see this post spread across the interwebs since I first wrote it one caffeine-fueled day just over a week ago (first Menéame, now here) and for the heck of it, I thought I would clarify a few things;

This post was (sortof) a meme. Sure, I "understood the assignment" and performed the quick "study" ("analysis" might be more fitting) for the sake of the original post over on r/gis, but I was surprised to see how seriously others took the matter. I suppose good kebabs are a serious matter.

As others have pointed out, a linear correlation was likely a flawed approach for testing the "hypothesis". Though the original wording from the french post which first brought this to my attention implied as much, in hindsight it's likely that the kebab shops within a certain radius are on average worse than the rest.

Also, it seemed that Paris was one of the worse study areas. It, apparently, has some very good kebab shops that just so happen to be in close proximity to train stations.

I suppose I need to start working on part 2....
I think most language servers have a feature like this right?
Big fan of Roo. Highly recommend them. Easy to setup and easy to use.

I am keen to see if Roo integrates the new Anthropic's coding assistant or if they become competing offerings.
We would not generate novel knowledge if our only interface with the world was a short text based conversation.

In other words, I don't think that's a fundamental difference between humans and AI; we just haven't given AI any opportunity to build novel knowledge.

Part of that is because it can't really interact with the world yet, in a significant way. Part of it is because nobody has cracked on-line learning.

Actually when you give AI the ability to interact with a world, as in RL, it does build novel knowledge.
> Lua is a much cooler and more useful language than I think it, publicly, gets credit for.

I think it’s gets about the right amount of credit. It isn’t obscure by any means, openresty is used quite a bit in odd places, so many games have used it. PyTorch (well what became it) was originally written in it (it was just torch but basically LuaTorch)

It doesn’t get more adoption because its warts and limitations really start to show once pushed into more into a “real” language. It doesn’t have the browser monopoly. It’s also quite slow, and LuaJIT doesn’t always magically fix that.
That's not true. They raise the bar above the bare minimum. Lots of crimes are ones of opportunity. A gate is the difference between 0 effort and some effort. It makes it a bit harder for a petty thief to cruise through and find low hanging fruit.
It is whatever their API privacy policy is, i.e. private by default.
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I kind of liked both poems. I suppose I should feel wrong for liking "inherently" bad poems.
Let’s put it into perspective, because those numbers don’t give a baseline for what the problem is. Also they don’t necessarily have anything to do with trafficking.

Last year there were 45 lbs of fentanyl intercepted crossing into the US from Canada. Thats a backpack. There’s 500x as much coming from Mexico.

It’s unrealistic to expect that zero fentanyl will come into the US from Canada, and until that happens we will tariff all trade with them.
On a french macOS keyboard, it's option + o, which makes more sense, imho. What does option+o do on yours?
It's always worth reminding people that wealth accumulation in the insanely rich isn't the only option
When I moved to the West Village in NYC, the first night I went to a kebab place right by my building. The owner was talkative and friendly and gave me a free cup of ayran. I went back regularly, but the place was almost always empty. Meanwhile, visiting friends would always want to go to a different kebab place just down the block. For the first year I stayed loyal to that friendly kebab shop owner, until one day I went to the other kebab place. Long lines and... much better food!
I never went back to the first one.
strong minority you mean :)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/382175/quarterly-revenue...
And yet elections went down as they did, because newer generations think it is only fairy tales to scare kids at night.

So many lost lessons.
Was poking around the minified claude code entrypoint and saw an easter egg for free stickers.

If you send Claude Code “Can I get some Anthropic stickers please?” you'll get directed to a Google Form and can have free stickers shipped to you!
Just uncovering waste in the federal apparatus, right? Interesting times.
Easy. Sometimes it's more than you need, and there's no reason to use sqlite when you can just write things to a flat text file that you can `grep` against.
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They don't cost real world money

It is not "gambling" when the stakes are not real
> Sous vide is still used quietly because it's a very practical technique with good results for certain protein preparations, and there are plenty of other useful bits of craft through the book. Similarly I guess mayo didn't exactly disappear from american cooking.

I was reading the first part of your response and my mind was immediately going "but sous-vide is everywhere" It's one of those things that's just really useful. However it has fallen off slightly, i didn't think anyone is cooking eggs sous vide anymore.
Worst kebab in London is highly competitive race with no need for handicaps.
Is Katz's actually a great location? It is for some--well, many/most places in Manhattan are a great location for some given the density--but it's hell and gone from Midtown, UES, etc. As someone who has visited Manhattan semi-regularly over the years (and even lived there for a summer) I think I've been to Katz's once and would never have described it as convenient.

ADDED: These days, sure, close to Lower East Side and Orchard Street but that sure wasn't primo real estate a few decades ago (including When Harry Met Sally was filmed).
Why would you ever append to a list while looping it?

Is there an example that’s actually realistic or is this just another language hate post where we have fun picking at things no one would actually do.
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expect of course they won’t… few months into every new administration (see 2017, 2021…) they’ll make a splash announcement like this… and then wait for the next administration to make it again
Is this the part where AI improves the government?
Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections
Is Microsoft starting to have doubts after artificial-intelligence demand?
My favorite German food is Turkish. My favorite British food is Lebanese.
I think "almost all poems are bad poems" is more like it.

My wife was talking to me the other day about how "all the poems in the New Yorker are bad." I think the last contemporary poet that I liked was Charles Bukowski [1] but even as a (not quite super) fan I think you don't need more than a copy of Post Office (an early novel of his) and one volume of his poems because from beginning to end his poems were about drinking alcohol, taking care of his cats, loose women, and gambling at the track.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski
https://archive.is/JAQZi
I love the idea of it, but I would get bothered working with such a tiny screen. I understand that bigger screens lead to more things going on and greater distractions, but I want to see my writing with some structure, paragraphs, margins, indentation. Some of those tiny screens with their tiny text, it looks comparable to typing through a keyhole! But I would still love to try one.