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hawk_··on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
But then someone has to watch the recording which you can speed up by say 2-4x but not much more than that. This doesn't scale. The number of terrible candidates out there who have no business being anywhere near an IDE is insane.
hawk_··on Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff
Fifty basis points.
hawk_··on A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation (2021)
Oh ok so colo here means bring your own hardware.
hawk_··on A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation (2021)
What is the use of colo with an arbitrary provider? (Asking as I have only heard of colo in the context of say an exchange or something else specific)
hawk_··on PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data
So when checksums are enabled and the DB process restarts or the host reboots does the DB run the checksum over all the stored data? Sounds like it would take forever for the database to come online. But if it doesn't it may not detect bitrot in time...?
hawk_··on AI: Accelerated Incompetence
'human engineering' here isn't social engineering. I think they're referring to aspects of engineering that LLMs are still incapable of - like design simplification.
hawk_··on CheerpJ 4.1: Java in the browser, now supporting Java 17 (preview)
There ought be a fair amount of legacy Java code sitting in enterprises that they would be willing to pay for an Oracle® seal of approval for running parts in the browser.

May be they are aiming for graalvm to be the answer eventually. (actually I don't know whether graalvm in the browser is effectively aot and brings all the reflection/dynamic code issues with it.) Curious if someone knowledgeable in that ecosystem knows.

hawk_··on CheerpJ 4.1: Java in the browser, now supporting Java 17 (preview)
This is incredible. Kudos to the team behind it. This requires knowing both the browser and JVM quite well.

I do wonder though why Oracle doesn't seem interested in building or acquiring some JVM in the browser.

hawk_··on Show HN: Samchika – A Java Library for Fast, Multithreaded File Processing
I thought DPDK would still be faster than io_uring.
hawk_··on Jules: An asynchronous coding agent
Offtopic but how does Gemini $20 compare to the equivalent ChatGPT?
hawk_··on Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)
Yes but why do it in C++? There is no compiler enforced safe mode and you're by definition implementing an engine to run hostile code in it.
hawk_··on Coding Without a Laptop – Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android
> The biggest downside of the glasses is that the FOV is actually too big. Seeing the top and bottom edges of the screen means moving your eyeballs to angles that are just a little uncomfortable,

Is there a window manager and/or eyeball tracking trick that could be added to this setup to bring content into the center?

hawk_··on Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI
Spotbugs or checkstyle etc... would catch these. What does AI add here?
hawk_··on LLMs can see and hear without any training
Array indexing can start at 0 or 1.
hawk_··on LLM Benchmark for 'Longform Creative Writing'
Yes I will use cliff notes LLM for my LLM literature class.
hawk_··on Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
This line of thinking applies to creating widgets on the assembly line but writing code combined with solving the right problems can totally have 10/20 even 50x impact. Automation can be levered up quite well with the right setup.
hawk_··on Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M
Finance, Dealmaking and Economics are vastly different fields. Just because one is bad at one of them doesn't mean they can't be good at the others.
hawk_··on Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field
Stroustrup said "There's two kinds of PLs, ones that people complain about and ones that nobody uses."

Odersky made Scala3 become a language that nobody uses and people complain about!

hawk_··on GPT-5 is behind schedule
While I empathize with the therapeutic effects, wouldn't this create even more powerful echo chambers? May be so many men and women of your generation are single because of already established echo chambers.

It's in our nature to crave outside acceptance of who we are. But may be taken to extreme, when we stop being wanting to be challenged at all we could lose touch with reality, society...

hawk_··on Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
Where did you move to if you don't mind me asking? The chasm between SV tech comp and various "completely different part of the world" is massive. Were you able to meet your employer in the middle?
hawk_··on We're going to see the return of diseases we have controlled for decades
Why is there a need to present a fake "balanced" perspective on every such topic or person. At least on a forum like this it should be ok to call out pseudoscience and straight up quackery.

Also just because some information is gleaned from corporate media, doesn't make it wrong. Facts and analysis can stand on their own.

hawk_··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
I thought Hooli was Google, but may be it was Netflix after all.
hawk_··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
I hear you. But I have wondered if there won't be a need to maintain certain like of software when you can just have it be rewritten for each iteration. Like some kind of schema evolution, yes but throwaway software at each iteration.
hawk_··on JVM statistics cause garbage collection pauses (2015)
ZGC doesn't remove safepoint requests on threads which is the root cause. "Guarantees" here are with very heavy quotes.
hawk_··on My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures
Yes and risk management dictates diversification to mitigate this kind of risk as well.
hawk_··on Making database systems usable
> The chasm between a small required effort and zero effort is vast, from the user's perspective.

Wow! I think I have intuitively/subconsciously worked this into some products I have developed but never had it articulated this way. This is very useful. Any books you'd recommend on this topic?

hawk_··on Texas woman gets 15 years for stealing $109M from Army to buy mansions, cars
> Criminals are stupid.

The ones that are caught that is. How many get away with their crimes by keeping a low profile.

hawk_··on C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading
Depends on how it's set up. You take a chunk of profits as well if things go well.
hawk_··on C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading
What other low latency projects in public domain are worth learning from?
hawk_··on A buried ancient Egyptian port reveals connections between distant civilizations
How safe is it given the politics of the place?
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