skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a mental model, not how it works. Your computer isn't actually executing C code, but it's helpful to think that it does.

If you write React code that strays from that model, you better know what you're doing. When I have to reach for `useRef`, I know that I'm in dangerous water.
The company literally makes the hardware... You choose which company you prefer and generally stick within that ecosystem. Almost everybody uses third party software to process the images anyway, so we aren't really "locked in"

If anything maybe you'd have a point if you said they should open up the specs of the mount and lens/body communication, but the RAW format really just has near-zero impact in the real world
> Musk wouldn't exist if it weren't for the people working for him.

I've decided Musk core talent is creating and running an engineering team. He's done it many times now - Tesla, SpaceX, Paypal, even twitter.

It's interesting because I suspect he isn't a particular good engineer himself, although the only evidence I have for that is tried to convert Paypal from Linux to Windows. His addiction to AI's getting results quickly isn't a good look either. To make the product work in the long term the technique has to get you 100% of the way there, not the 70% we see in Tesla and of now DOGE. He isn't particularly good at running businesses either, as both twitter shows and his solar roof's show.

But that doesn't matter. He's assembled lots of engineering teams now, and he just needs a few of them to work to make him rich. Long ago it was people who could build train lines faster and cheaper than anyone else that drove the economy, then it was oil fields, then I dunno - maybe assembly lines powered by humans. But now wealth creation is driven by teams of very high level engineers duking it out, whether they be developing 5G, car assembly lines or rockets. Build the best team and you win. Musk has won several times now, in very different fields.
> I’ve seen many of these people approach implausible tasks, ones we wouldn’t even have chosen to tackle before, with reflexive and brilliant usage of AI to get 100X the work done.

Ah yes, the 100x engineer delusion. Why not a 1000x?

If the engineer is 10x, the AI is 10x, and they buy a laptop with 10x flops, install lights with 10x the lumens in their office, give them coffee ground 10x finer, they could all easily be 100,000x engineers.
Out of curiosity, I just looked through some of my old code calling useEffect. Most of it was for fetching data from an API on mount; I'd also written a custom little hook that returns a callback to signal that the data should be refreshed.

But a few instances were to conditionally set one piece of state whenever another piece of state was changed, arguably an abuse of the mechanism. I suppose the proper way would be to wrap the setter function into one that changes both, but it takes a fair bit of discipline to avoid useEffect in the heat of the moment.
Thought the same exact thing. For those curious, 4:3 intermittent fasting is where you eat normal for 4 days and restrict calories to 80% of TDEE for 3 days (if I understood it correctly). I was trying to make sense of it with how I typically perceive IF, like 16/8 etc.
Creativity thrives in Japan. I wonder why this country seems so prolific in that regards.
Pay me $10k and I’ll train you up to get a (mobile) FAANGy job in a couple months. Paying for the referral you’re not getting much.
I'm half joking. We are writing numbers in big-endian in all the discussed formats (euro, american, iso) so I do think it makes sense to store dates in big endian to maintain consistency with that and lists and such. Otherwise people can do whatever makes sense culturally to them. Americans also write today's date like 4/7/2025 which is obviously middle endian lol
I think, with appropriate adjustment of pin lengths (so that GND is always first to connect and last to disconnect), Apple Desktop Bus is hot-pluggable. There are even adapters for this purpose, made by hobbyists. May want to install a wee bit of software on the host, to occasionally force a rescan of the bus, but not strictly necessary.
> Someone mentioned going to Japan and how you could get cold cans of coffee out of vending machines there.

The actor Tommy Lee Jones has some amusing commercials for canned coffee:

* https://www.brandinginasia.com/the-tuesday-take-suntory-boss...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Coffee

The premise is that he is an alien in disguise evaluating human society, so some of the situations shown are quite whimsical.
Shit, I'm a US citizen flying domestic while colored and I have that fear. If you don't think that's reasonable, you're not paying attention. It's not hyperbole to say that ICE is the new Gestapo, and because international airports are considered borders and thus they have jurisdiction, they cover most of where I'd want to go to or transit through in the US.
If you are in NYC April 19, 2025, Meet the Artist: Topological Crochet Artist Shiying Dong might be interesting to you. https://momath.org/composite-gallery/meet-the-artist/

MoMath used to run an Online Topological Crochet class. I'm not sure if they will be bringing it back, though. https://momath.org/onlinecrochet/
I feel like this is the kind of stuff that will be common with AI.
Imagine having a whatsapp family group and a bot auto-generates this type of games for you based on your group.

It's a privacy nightmare but it will be fun for sure.
Yup.

I personally wrote that I had experience in a programming language I didn't, back for an interview in 2010. I got called out on it too..!

My wife has run a couple of marathons and her friend called her up to hear about her experience, because she was putting it on her resume for a job. She got it (probably not because of her running experience).
> Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form

Oh that's right. You're now giving me PTSD from all this Notes internals knowledge that was hidden away in my brain.
> the side bombing hospitals is fully animated

The Americans who lightly support Israel aren't bombing anything. They're the ones who get animated by giving the issue name recognition.
> 90% of libraries consist of books that are never opened

> The vast majority of them have been read once and then left on a shelf

So opened at least once, with once being higher than never.
>"In brief, partitioning refers to storing your links with additional information about where they were clicked," explains Seevers. "In Chrome, this is: link URL, top-level site, and frame origin.

This is crap. I want to see :visited color on sex.com no matter on which site it is embedded. I use this color to evaluate if I visited the page in the past at all, not if I visited it from this domain. WTF google :|
While the title slightly over-promises - a more accurate one might be "why LLMs may come to understand the world" - it seems to me that this video gives a very clear introduction to a hypothesis about why double-descent works despite the threat of overfitting, and a thought-provoking extrapolation to the claim of its title. I came to post it myself, and am disappointed to see that it is languishing.
For low light conditions my full frame mirrorless is way better than a phone.
the agreement that it represents. was that not clear?
Vibe Coding Keyboard
Well, fortunately, the US won't be involved in fixing world problems any more now that USAID is out. Our dirty dollars shan't taint the virtuous poor any longer.
Kinkos in the 90s (back when it was a by-the-hour computer lab) had vending machines with hot chicken soup.
> wealth is not the marker of the comfort class. Security is. An emergency expense—say a $1,200 medical bill—would send most Americans into a fiscal tailspin; for the comfort class, a text to Mom and Dad can render “emergencies” nonexistent.
The position's still open. It's ironic that it requires "Stay up-to-date on new AI technologies, including LLMs and generative models. Prototype and test new technologies to evaluate quality and improve performance."
Huge +1 to Australia, speaking from a salary worker PoV. So many of the Australian digital services are absolutely fantastic. As an American who was working there, there were often situations where I thought I did something incorrectly because my mentality was, "if it was this easy, I did something wrong and there are more steps".

It often literally is that easy.
> This whole “we hire the best of the best” […] should be eradicated asap.

This in particular has always perplexed me. Every company says they only hire the best, but then if that’s the true, then like basically everyone with a job is “the best”.
I feel the same way. "The Tao of Pooh" is a book I come back to a lot.

"The Te of Piglet"... is not.
Thought about a career at one of the national labs? I work at one currently and I quite like my job.
Torvalds Frustrated: "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code Landing in Linux 6.15
Regular sharpening doesn't work.

But a deconvolution filter will. You can't do it in Photoshop but you can with a dedicated tool that tries different deconvolution kernels until it finds one that matches the exact original blur function.

This is how you can remove motion blur from a photo due to camera movement, for example. It's wild how much information is still there, in the exact precise levels and shape of the blur.

There are limits of course, but they're much further than you might expect.
Yes... IMO, the WebAudio synthesis primitives are not particularly useful. You are so much better off discarding these primitives and rolling your own for an audio project of any significance.
Interesting translation issue where they use the dictionary definition of "ossan" (middle aged guy) but then they're all senior citizens.
Your moms right for sure

I think adding a theme to all the words like food, names or something random like that could make it more fun. It could also make it easier to there's that too. Nice game though
This is a superb idea. I had seen random cat gacha but not trading cards of random dudes.

Most efforts at custom TCGs seem to go nowhere at all because of the absence of any practical trading meta game, so bootstrapping that with local interest is a very neat marketing move that aligns very well with the desired community engagement.

The result is that whole idea is greater than the sum of its parts.
Bitkeeper maybe somewhat of a precedent (2000)?
Maybe I'm not understanding your point, but here is my math. 80 days * 24 hour/day * 1.4 kW (L1 charging / 12A @ 120V) = 2688 kwh of electrical energy. If your EV has an efficiency of 3.5 miles/kWh, that 2688 kWh would let you drive 9,400 miles. Of course, if you had a 240V @ 40A L2 charger at home, that would be 18,400 kWh, or 64,500 miles (@ 3.5 miles/kWh).
I feel like we're working at the same company. Not just this comment but your others on the same topic. I've seen all the exact same mistakes over the last year. The company wants to grow fast so hires quickly, but then the people hired quickly underperform, so then they're fired quickly, but firing people quickly results in fear, grief and guilt for everyone who hasn't been fired "this time". The top talent never feel comfortable in this cold mercenary culture, so they don't settle in and soon move onto somewhere less cut-throat.
The comfort class wouldn't need to text mom or dad for that, they've got a credit card that mom and dad just pay off for them.
https://archive.ph/cH7KU
If one house is on fire and you spray water on it to put out the fire, do you feel obligated to spray water on every other house too so that the other houses don't feel discriminated against?
German breweries gave their workers an allowance of 4 to 8 liters of beer per day not too long ago. ('Haustrunk')
> Someone mentioned going to Japan and how you could get cold cans of coffee out of vending machines there.

They're everywhere!

In rural Hokkaido, some people even have them outside their home's driveway for people walking by. They have various teas (green, hojicha, jasmine, etc.), Coke and Pepsi products, Pocari Sweat (like Gatorade), iced coffees, and sometimes even hot teas and hot coffees that are heated on demand. They're super convenient and something I miss having in America (we seemed to have more of them here in the 90's and early 2000's).

The only problem is that in Japan there can sometimes be absolutely zero public garbage (or, more correctly, recycling) bins in sight. You have to carry your trash with you, which is a bit annoying and mildly gross if it spills.
The difference is that AI can now feed them explanations as well. Their friends (who IME were usually also mediocre coders: everyone I've seen who actually did well on a take-home actually was that good) didn't have the patience to sit around and help them memorize a bunch of extra nonsense.

At some point it feels like it would be easier to just get good at programming, and yet...
Trying to make economic sense of a political action makes no sense. Trumps's goal is to disrupt global trade.
> Russian plans and acts in Ukraine do qualify. It is not just a war, the plan was and is to erase Ukrainian identity.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. If there is an attempted genocide in Gaza there is absolutely one in Ukraine.
Japanese vending machines are an act of engineering beauty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJnGjMAObA
Writing good comments: the why, not the how (2020)
Yeah, sites demanding a roundtrip for every small interaction can be a pain to use when traveling. The principle I'd wish more web devs would keep in mind is, "Just because the client managed to contact your server once doesn't mean it will have fast and easy access to it in perpetuity." Indeed, in my experience, too many roundtrips is the cause of most atrociously slow websites, regardless of how heavy or light a framework they use.
Last year it was a real fisherman.

Next year it will be an AI.
Yeah, obviously they don't use a CVT so the RPMs are anything but the same throughout the race.

I don't know the details of Top Fuel and such, but Steve with his SMX[1] wagon[2] keeps his car at 2000 RPM at the lights, so seems reasonable to assume Top Fuel is around there too.

On the top end the Top Fuel cars are limited to just over 8000 RPM[3], with the red line at 8500 RPM.

So an average of 3800 RPM seems reasonable.

As a cross check, given that Top Fuel cars are single-speed[4], I guess one could calculate the same using the diameter of the wheels, keeping in mind that the tire expands a lot compared to its size at rest.

[1]: https://www.enginebuildermag.com/2024/12/4000-hp-twin-turbo-...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnrZdrp77Cs

[3]: https://www.enginebuildermag.com/2023/03/top-fuel-and-funny-...
> I have a few issues with the way IT leadership in EU has been running things the past 20 or so years

I'm not disagreeing, but you are mistaken if you think this is just an EU thing. It's everywhere. I seems to be driven by two things.

One is focus on the knitting - and outsource everything else. Everything else includes your security infrastructure - which you outsource to Active Directory running on Azure, or Okta. Amazing, since both have been ripped new ones in spectacular fashion.

The second is de-risking requires redundancy. Redundancy is expensive, and worse hard. It means you have to deal with multiple suppliers and glue them together. That requires internal expertise, but you just outsourced the external expertise so you could stick to your knitting.
Forget OS support, is that something that modern CPUs can support efficiently? As far as I can tell, enforcing a security boundary across libraries would require changing the page table twice for every library call, which seems like a big performance hit.
Yes, Monotone partly inspired both. You can see that both hash contents. But both git and hg were intended to replace Bitkeeper. Mercurial is even named after Larry McVoy, who changed his mind. He was, you know, mercurial in his moods.
> because you had no reaction to it, it doesn't mean it didn't do anything. I know people at Microsoft and now they're talking internally about this

I mean yes, we're all talking about it. I forgot what the protesters at Google who locked themselves into offices were specifically protesting, but everyone I know at Google talked about that, too. (Huh, it was also Israel [1].) This sort of outburst has basically never been an effective form of protest.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/18/google-terminates-28-employe...
Thank you for sharing this, it is exactly what I was looking for!
I clicked the headline expecting a chuckle and left with an unexpectedly warmed heart.

> “We wanted to strengthen the connection between the children and the older generations in the community. There are so many amazing people here. I thought it was such a shame that no one knew about them,” [...] “Since the card game went viral, so many kids are starting to look up to these men as heroic figures.”
> Kids have started attending local events and volunteering for community activities — just for a chance to meet the ojisan from their cards. Participation in town events has reportedly doubled since the game launched.

there's so much more I want to comment on--it's not screen-based, increased cross-generational interaction, strengthening community, elders having their stories known--but what I love is that these effects will compound into even greater benefits for the community.
When you have a website that needs to be always accessed online, absolutely, give us an old-fashioned SSR vanilla web experience. Just give us a page WITH ALL THE DATA that loads in half a second. Don't make us wait for 5 seconds with spinners and placeholders while you make the client fetch data itself from different sources. This is insanity and torture! People are using client side rendering for the wrong things.

But there are good and powerful use cases for client side rendering.
RoP and unverified state would at least be highlighted by such an analysis. Generally it's a lot of work and we cannot quite trust fully automated systems to keyword it to us... Especially when some optimizer changes between versions of the compiler. Even a single compile flag can throw the abstract language upside down, much less the execution graph...

Fuzzing is good but probabilistic. It is unlikely to hit on a deliberate backdoor. Solid for finding bugs though.
Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
The mechanical Turk did something truly magical. Everyone stopped moaning that automation was impossible because most machines (while some absurdly complex) were many orders of magnitude simpler than chess.

The initial LLMs simply lied about everything. If you happened to know something it was rather shocking but for topics you knew nothing about you got a rather convincing answer. Then the arms race begun and now the lies are so convincing we are at viable robot overlords.
That's a bad idea - the speed bump can be semi-invisible in bad weather, and you'll have cars hitting it at high speed, going airborne and crashing.

There's a reason they have large warning signs before a speed bump.

There is also the implication that speed is the issue - but the linked video shows a car crash with slow cars, so they problem may lie elsewhere (visibility probably).
Yup I realized tobi is a massive dum dum when he had Tobi.eth in his Twitter profile. Even Gary tan had it and as an aside that is why I'm scared of YC's future. All of those folks were on an easy blacklist for me on twitter. Lacks original thought and is sheep like in their thinking.
You are correct - the hypothetical reporting individual would need to wait 24 hours before noticing the speed bump thereby allowing the adhesive to cure sufficiently.
Thank you! I knew it reminded me of something!
Humans aren’t chimpanzees. For this to be a direwolf there would need to be zero differences.
> but hospital processes eliminate most of the spread of bacteria through thorough cleaning.

Not really. I worked at a hospital over a decade ago and I during an onboarding training session we were told that 1/8 patients will receive an infection as a result of their hospital stay.
The bias of the article is strong, and I appreciate that. I actually despise performative unbiased reviews.

While that bias initially frustrated me, once again comparing some contemporary thing a writer disagrees with to the rise of the Nazis, the underlying topic is actually in line with a lot of my own recent thinking.

I think a disease of the modern mind is the belief in and desire for finality. A belief in the finality of contemporary models of physics, the finality of political systems, the finality of literature analysis. And seeing authoritarianism as an expression of this desire for finality is an interesting take.

It reminds me of "Man's search for meaning" where Frankl reflects on the the meaning of facing suffering with dignity. Or Camus' story of Sisyphus where a man is forced to perform a pointless repetitive task with no conclusion or meaning, and yet Camus argues we must see Sisyphus as happy.

It is interesting how we associate this by comparing it to emotions. Anxiety for Kierkegaard, Nausea for Sartre, Suffering for Frankl (and Buddha) and apparently Melancholy for Sebald. It is also interesting to see the different approaches each have for dealing with it.
What Was Quartz?
$75k is basically entry level right out of college, in one of the weaker (like, 3rd tier city) markets in the US. Straight salary, not counting benefits.

Child care and health care are really expensive, though, and can burn a surprising amount of that in a hurry. Even in “lesser” markets where housing’s within reach of someone making that much, healthcare and child care can hurt the ol’ pocket book.

Entry level in hotter cities will be over $100k, and the lower end of mid-tier in weaker cities will be over $100k.

You don’t have to be good at all, the handful of truly-bad developers I’ve met seem to do fine.
NGL I like it. Definitely illustrates the bubble we are in. AI has it’s uses, and vibe coding isn’t one of them (except maybe basic prototypes)

and based on the nightmares I’ve seen, not even that.

The majority of a developer’s job isn’t coding. It also isn’t about requirements -> code. Most of a developer’s job isn’t coding, it is the human part of parsing requirements and providing real feedback on the realities of implementation with an existing code base.

Every LLM I have encountered can’t even get 5% of it right. Many choke on even absorbing a large/ancient code base, especially with custom tooling.

Also, what clients claim to want is never what they actually want, and if they could feed it to an LLM , they wouldn’t need half the startups/small businesses in the world would they?
> There's an old tradition of American stars appearing in Japanese television commercials, [...] before downing what appears to be about a four ounce can of Suntory Iced Rainbow Blend coffee.

Was this tradition referenced or inspired by Bill Murray's "Suntory Time" scene in "Lost in Translation" (2003)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQnH450hPM
In Japan, yes
We have some certs. The problem is that software development is about thirty different skills in a trench coat, and half of them we don't know how to evaluate (like slicing, or abstraction.)

What ends up happening is that our certs end up being a bunch of multiple-choice questions that check people's ability to memorize trivia.

It is more like having a Certified Novel Writer or Certified Mural Painter or Certified Graphic Designer certificate than it is like HVAC or welding.
Something with React's approach is fundamentally broken, IMO, and this is why we see so many variations of state management libraries on React that we don't see on other frameworks because state kind of "just works" and is really, really simple when you are using signals.

My sense is that in React, the complexity comes from the management of minimizing the "blast radius" of state changes to prevent over-renders. So there are a lot of different approaches and ways that folks have cleverly engineered to solve this problem, but none of them feel as simple as say Pinia on Vue, for example.