skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What gave me pause was when my base-spec M1 Air handily beat my admittedly old server (Xeon E5-2650v2) on a single-core compute-bound task [0] (generating a ton of UUIDs). I know Ivy Bridge is 12 years old at this point, but I didn’t expect it to be 2x slower.

EDIT: Also, I know the code in the link is awful; the point is doing a 1:1 comparison between the architectures.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/stephanGarland/f6b7a13585c0caf9eb64b...
Man someone has gotta say it. Thank you. This is not acceptable and does not solve the root problem. If anything it creates so many more. Stupid government. They have to get rid of the destructive species once and for all. Let the Beavers have the human houses, whatever it takes, just get the humans away from earth before they make the place uninhabitable for all.
I dispute the US is an empire. I get that all the time from Russian propagandists saying they are fighting the expansion of the US empire but there isn't one. I'm a Brit and we used to have a real empire where you'd appoint a viceroy to run the country and build colonial headquarters and station troops and beat up or imprison the locals if they go uppity.

Calling the US an empire because it if friendly and does business with other countries is just propping up the fascist propaganda.
long time ago ~80ies, when japanese Hi-fi brands were going strong, some mass-public so-called "cheapish" makers , like Technics and Kenwood, were makeing cheaper and cheaper amplifiers while being still-very-good.. then one day tried their hands at the high-end - like, how it would be, if, given all the engineering constraints, price is not a constraint anymore? And they made some simply fantastic devices from that time..

so i am thinking.. if chinese EVs are better while being much cheaper, what would be if they did not have to be cheaper?
BYD sales are up roughly 100% these couple months compared to last year: https://cnevpost.com/2025/03/01/byd-sales-feb-2025/ It doesn't seem that the tariffs are working.
Related previous discussion of "Stay Gold": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620278
Yeah, believing the mantra "If you work hard you'll succeed" also means believing "If you're a failure that means you're lazy".
Google turned up this Harper’s feature which is pretty good: https://courses.washington.edu/psy315/pdf/HarpersMagazine_Lu...
Writing a Rust SQL Parser in One Week
Free High-Quality Face Swap
I never use my phone during a meeting
So basically, I think at this point if you support this to go on, then you are really willing to face an all out war that possibly involves your country. So there is a real chance that you won't be able to limit how your pay will be affected. But things could get much worse if some country goes nuclear.

So what I am trying to say is that may be some people are acting from this point of view (which makes a lot of sense to me, if you are realistic), and is actually not unsympathetic to Ukraine.
Ask HN: Escaping Difficult Employment Situation?
Hello,

I am currently trapped in a job I don't want. I can't get out because it's really hard for me to either find work locally, or find a job that I can even tolerate.

Question: How do you escape a job when you have no energy to keep going? When you are mentally breaking down but still have to keep going because society doesn't care about damaged people?

I'm also dealing with a midlife crisis so that's certainly a variable.

My bigger issue is this: It takes ALL of my executive function to force myself to do a job I hate all day long. I have nothing left in the tank at the end of the day. My entire life is collapsing and I am having a bit of a breakdown / panic attack because it took me YEARS to find this job during one of the most stressful periods of my life. The idea of job hunting again is just... no. I honestly think I'd rather die... its upsetting to see myself type this but I do not know how else to get out of this fifty foot hole that is (the wreckage of) my career.

I took the job to keep my marriage going. Now I lost my wife, the house is gone... I am living alone in an apartment by myself... isolated all the time... doing a job I hate.

The job COULD be good but it was terribly misrepresented in the JD and the way the org behaves towards software development is not professional to put it mildly. I work in a very corporate environment that sees software dev as an annoying fly in the room vs another person at the table.
I've heard the opposite, that you have to hit rock bottom and want to change. If your life is sustainable and you get some pleasure from the substance, why quit?
Did it start at 1€?
One of my favorite ever papers and very ahead of its time. Thanks for the share :)
Jeep is Stellantis which has a significant number of European sales. Which is not surprising, because it's a European company, not an American one.
This is also why the UK is very, very far away from housing first. The war on affordable housing is alive and well there.

Pretending that guaranteeing shelter where you are at significant risk of being raped and robbed is almost the same thing as guaranteeing an apartment of your own is dishonest. There isn't really another way to describe it.
So how do you think the connection was made?

The best I can think was your location data was sold by a company behind one of the apps on your phone.
Also get to ensure safety and purity of the drugs and instruments. Safe injections sites for example are more about preventing the spread of AIDs, other blood borne infections and reducing/treating overdose than they are about getting people off the drugs. Yes, they form as a space to push towards sobriety, but that is not their actual job (because it literally cannot be).
It’s probably the best library for DEs in any language. I’m pretty sure that DifferentialEquations.jl, by itself, is the reason many scientists and engineers are using Julia.

https://docs.sciml.ai/DiffEqDocs/stable/
afaik no firecracker support with virt-manager. There's firectl to make it a bit easier but the tooling is generally still pretty rough
>We generally accept the principal that making something cheaper and easier results in more of this behavior.... But when it comes to making it easier for people to fuel their addiction and live a more comfortable life centered around a dangerous chemical, some question that this relationship exists.

The fundamental principals of supply and demand assume that the agents participating the market are acting rationally (or approximately close to rational). Those assumptions are strained to their limit when analysing black markets and addictive substances.
Canada tried "safe supply" giving clean and free drugs to users. It was a mess, this is an example of a "progressive" idea that in practice is terrible for the community.
PostNord already did this in Denmark, to the extreme, which render their services pretty useless. Letters will frequently take up to 10 days to arrive.

A previously employer resorted to ask staff to take mail with them as they traveled between locations and drop of letters to clients when they either visited or drove past anyway.

Some government services didn't take the hint and mailed papers for signing, asking for them to be mailed back within 14 days, but if the letters doesn't arrive until 10 days later, how are you suppose to have it returned within 14?

Danes don't send much mail anyway, but the reduction of service just made everything worse. You can barely rely on PostNord for Christmas cards without posting them before December.

Their package delivery service is excellent though, but only in certain parts of the country.
I can't make it, but I'd be interested in a summary of the event afterwards.

> How do you make long-term structural change that creates opportunity for everyone? It is an incredibly complex problem. But if we focus our efforts in a particular area, I believe we can change a lot of things in this country. Maybe not everything, but something foundational to the next part of our history as a country: how to move beyond individual generosity and toward systems that create security, dignity, and possibility for all.

In general, if you're talking equal opportunity, I won't be hard to convince. If you're moving "beyond individual generosity" to a system which forces others to be "generous" (via taxation) in order to achieve equality of outcomes, I will be very hard to convince.
Cue a flood of people euphemistically saying this is because it is a "small, homogenous" country
How many times has China threatened Canada with invasion, taking over whole country? And US? Something about infinity.

You are right, but I suspect you didn't realize its in completely opposite way if I understood you correctly. China isn't enemy of most if not all western countries in a way that it doesn't feel the need to export their system elsewhere and feeling as superior uber race, unlike russia for example. China never threatened Europe, zero zilch 0 nothing, it just wants to do business with us. US on the other hand...

Maybe China is enemy of the US (not really seeing it but mkay, your fight your problem), maybe it will become enemy of US with recent potus and his a-lickers actions, but rest of the world is stopping caring about US tantrums and US-first is only about US, which is what, 4% of global population?

Those that attack are our enemies. Those that don't aren't, rest are details.
I’m trying to understand how you took that message from this. The best I can figure, maybe the allusion to Col. Vindman’s bravery sounds a little like it’s referring to his early-career sacrifices in the Iraq war?

I think Jeff may have been referring to the circumstances of Vindman’s dismissal: namely, in retaliation for reporting up the chain (then testifying honestly) near the end of Trump’s first term when Trump held up Congressionally-apportioned aid to Ukraine (in order to extort support for his political allegations against his electoral competitor, as I recall).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vindman

…I get the impression that Jeff’s “Stay Gold” program is not especially compatible with that kind of zero-sum, might-makes-right MAGA behavior and ideology.
> What did Israel compromise on?

They did have Jewish settlements in Gaza that they forcibly removed. They gave the Sinai back to Egypt, etc.
https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount

> To use all fsspec features, either install via pip install ratarmount[fsspec] or pip install ratarmount[fsspec]. It should also suffice to simply pip install fsspec if ratarmountcore is already installed.
That's not going to work. China can sell cars to Canada but Canada can't sell cars to China even if there are no tariffs. Canada pulls profit from the automotive trade and that's why they are freaking out. If they were competitive on the world stage, they could divert their production somewhere else.
Meta keeps 'block' lists of ex-employees – and even a VP can't get you off them
FWIW I didn't read that as an argument against providing housing, I read it as an argument in favour of providing housing and treatment.
Is Microsoft Going Out of Business?
> This is beyond silly. You could be using your phone to [...]

I think you think the benefit of such a tool would be to shame politicians for something specific, whereas the real benefit of such a tool would be to make decision-makers aware that unchecked AI video scoring and facial recognition has implications far beyond the obviously controllable.

A nose picking score would be just as useful. But it would be more vulgar.
We could fix this!
*One consequence of this boom in AI use is that, in my online classes, I can no longer be sure of what my students are learning. I have no way of determining which concepts they are grasping and which are proving elusive.*

As someone who regularly interviews students for jobs, it is clear that the universities that have permissive use of AI for assignment completion produce graduates that know very little about the core concepts of their studies. Many students cannot explain simple concepts and base level assignments take significantly longer.
These aren’t mutually exclusive. I sometimes begin with a thread as a rough draft while I’m still thinking, and then move it into a more polished blog post. It is also (at least in last years when Twitter/X had a better SNR) a great way to get people to quickly consume ideas. But most importantly, the thread format gives you instant real-time feedback about which portions of the thought process resonate with readers, whereas a blog is all-or-nothing.

Hard to find a perfect example, but here’s one I learnt developed bits of: https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/1800291897245835616?s=4...
> “stream processing" might sound intimidating… we believe this isn't true

> Getting started: Install Kafka…

I know this is all relative, but running Kafka isn’t realistic for a small team.

Until a business reaches an enterprise level of maturity where everyone is on the same systems, there is always a mess of legacy systems from acquisitions that don’t even emit events. In order to make those systems work with streaming you often end up with something like “read the entire source data set, read the entire destination data set, and compare” to produce a single event that there’s a new row. And many of these legacy systems don’t have unique identifiers, or modification timestamps, among other problems that make these challenging to integrate with a streaming approach.

People like to say, “batch is a special form of streaming, so just use streaming”, and that’s true if you’re always working with nice, modern systems that emit perfect events.

But streaming and event based systems tend to fall out of sync over time, whether due to bugs in our code, an end user changes a field name in the source system of record, or just the lack of a proper distributed transaction solution. And when the systems fall out of sync, now you need a sync mechanism to find and remediate discrepancies.

So to make the opposing disingenuous argument (joking, but only half):

* Batch is a special case of streaming, so just use streaming

* Streaming is a fragile form of sync, so just use sync

* Sync is a special case of batch, so just use batch
Utah did the same thing two decades ago: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...
I believe the image of the US in the West started changing considerably during Trump's first mandate. Biden coming back hasn't completely repaired that change, but really it mostly came back (as in, "The US screwed up with Trump, but that's done now").

I think the 6 weeks of this second mandate have already made irreparable damage. When during the first mandate people tended to be "fed up with the US bullshit", now they are genuinely scared. Trump was not a one-off mistake. The people not only confirmed it, but seems generally okay with what's happening now; some Americans complain, but mostly when they are personally affected, it seems. It doesn't seem like the US people is shocked by the idea of destabilising the West. Not saying it is the case, but that is how it seems.

The trust is gone, I don't think it will come back. To the West, the US are partners, not friends anymore. It's still better than enemies, even though the US has been considering it... seemingly with the support of the people.

> Personally, I'm looking forward now for Europe to become self-reliant on technology.

Yeah, in a way, if Europe managed to be independent militarily, that would bring some stability. Let's hope they go there!
Stein was an economist, and effectively nothing that an economist states can ever result in anything reliable enough to be called a (capital L) Law.

In this case, Stein’s Not-Very-Well-Reasoned-Aphorism conflicts with the Halting Problem, which has formally proven that it’s impossible to
know if any given computational process halts once it’s begun.

Social Security is, inherently, a computational process. Moreover, it’s a process the source code of which can be changed (and has been changed) during its runtime… we can’t assume it’s unsustainable except given other conditions that are all three of dynamic, stochastic, and unpredictable.
This is a fantastic idea! Reading through one of the games I see:

- players are named based on their model, which can be ambiguous

- some model responses are being cut short

- some models seem to be thinking out loud, or at least not separating their chain of thought from what they tell the group
Thinking congress is going to help at this point is beyond delusional.
The title should mention this is from 2020
But the other extreme of your examples are also bad. No crop subsidies you get farm failures and unreliable food production. Get rid of student loans and many intelligent people end up trapped doing brainless jobs because they lack better qualifications. End gun sales and you can end up with mostly criminal organizations having all the guns and power and leave law abiding people vulnerable like much of Central and South American and large chunks of Africa.

There is a good balance point in the middle in most cases, but in the case of homelessness and drug addiction one sides cause usually amounts to not helping anyone and in many times criminalizes their existence making their situation worse and more costly upon them and society as a whole than it already was.
Wow, they're absolutely awful at it. They don't even realize who is still alive. I hadn't expected that. Too little training data? Look at this game for instance...

https://mafia.opennumbers.xyz/game/76e9e829-0a9a-4972-bec2-e...
Would this be only Meta though? I don't think they are nearly the only one who will not re-hire you or who keep a list of 'blacklisted' potential employees, I'd just assume that's a standard way of doing business.

Could perhaps someone, preferrably from an HR space, confirm or deny this presumption of mine?
Yep, thought the same. Both are social games with very simple rules. Always wondered what makes social games like these, and by extension also social networks interesting or not.
I really love tailscales offering but the performance was just significantly worse compared to cloudflare.one to the level of switching back and biting the bitter pill of fully depending on orange cloud for everything as well as having sub par usability compared to tailscale or even the rest of cloudflare.
Buried in the last time we discussed this phenomenom [1][2] is the reality of the Finnish policy towards homelessness.

Like in the US, "homelessness" as in "poor or unlucky people who find themselves without a residence" is practically a nonexistent problem. The real problem is the mentally ill or drug addicted people frankly being a public nuisance.

Finland has tried to sell their strategy as one of providing housing, but that masks the actual reality. Finland is engaging in large-scale involuntary confinement of mentally ill individuals, and that is responsible for the entirety of their solution.

The current Finnish mental health regime was enabled by a law passed in 1990. Since that point, given the 5.6M population times the 214/100,000 rate [3], we get a total of ~12,000 people committed. The graph in the linked article [4] shows a reduction in homelessness from about 17,000 to about 4,000, a reduction of approximately 13,000 people.

So all but a tiny fraction of the homeless population was not miraculously housed; they were put involuntarily into mental hospitals. While I hope that Finnish mental health facilities are humane and the inmates are well cared for, historically this has almost never been the case -- other agencies claim credit for reducing homelessness and eventually funding dries up and the conditions worsen in the facilities because the problem doesn't seem urgent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42656711

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683898

[3] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin...

[4] https://oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/finlands-zero-homeless-...
Note: The event will be live-streamed and replayable on Cooper Union's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@cooperunion
I think it’s another example of vertical integration making it better. Apple making the hardware plus OS gives them an advantage, making the trackpad experience great is hard if you don’t control both.

Apple has also learned a ton about how to do this well from the iPhone.
this subthread was about how if rape has the death penalty then s rapist may decide to commit murder to lessen the chance of being identified.
"AGI" will also make this even worse. It is a scam.
I mostly use Discord for real time chat. And around that time Discord got big it was IRC that filled that roll. Or skype for some.
First 'body in a box' biological computer uses human brain cells
I was around at the time. Facebook started in 2004, I had my acct in 2005 when it was US colleges only. General availability began in 2007, and then came the flood of parents and grandparents, causing college students to rapidly sanitize their pages and switch communications to Messenger instead of posting directly on people's pages (then known as 'walls').

The flood of 'normal users' led to creation of "groups" and "pages", that were effectively blogs. Discoverability of Groups and Pages was far easier compared to climbing the SEO mountain, so many moved to FB.

One of the biggest blogs/websites that moved were the webcomic The Oatmeal, and the author has written (or illustrated) what happened when he moved.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people
> First shirt was embroidered on 25 February 2024 with the price of 0 euro for Dries.
Canada is probably more interested in selling products like wheat, beef and pork to China which currently face significant tariff and non-tariff barriers.
The fundamental contradiction is here: "someone who is clearly not capable of making Right Choices" yet is "even a more genuine human being than your garden-variety obedient nine-to-fiver with a bullshit job and toxic family in 4 kinds of debt to cokehead bankerbros."

Many people can accept that someone is so incapable of making the right decisions that left on their own they might die. That since they're a danger to themselves and others, the state has to step in and take care of them.

The issue is that many of these people then turn around and argue that these people are capable of making their own decisions. Housing first in the U.S. gives these people apartment with no conditions attached. In a lot of cases, the people, since they are "clearly not capable of making Right Choices," make life hell for the other residents of the building, and usually aren't able to escape their problems.

There's a similar disconnect when people say "the shelters are extremely dangerous places, of course homeless people won't stay there" and then turn around and say "how could anyone think that putting a homeless person near them could increase their danger." Apparently, the homeless are the only ones who are allowed to consider the danger of being around homeless people.

Empathy is great. It would be nice if homeless advocates occasionally had empathy for other citizens as well.
Yeah, it's definitely not a perfect solution. Portland, OR has tried a housing first policy. However, there weren't enough available houses, so that requires to build them. That's lead to years of people still being homeless and underserved while resources went into building homes.

I think it can help a lot under the right circumstances, but if the system is already overwhelmed then funding less permanent solutions for a while may actually be more effective and kind
For anybody interested in how beavers change landscapes, I can't recommend Ben Goldfarb's "Eager" highly enough. It made me a believer.
I find that I have "less horsepower, but smarter gears", so it kind of evens out.

I'm less likely to code until midnight, but more likely to have the problem solved before clocking out at 6pm ;)
It would still have trump at the head of it.
I love how polite they are :D