skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm sure ISP execs are all mustache-twirling villains, what they're doing is not absurd, it's essentially the same as selling a burstable connection with a certain average bandwidth (the cap divided by one month gives a data transfer over time).

And the reality is that, as a customer who loads a 5MB site and then spends 2-3m reading it, I much prefer this model than if they sold me a smaller fixed data transfer over time.

That networks don't work like this is rather irrelevant, because it's a shared pipe. If they sold be a data transfer over time (say, guaranteed 256kps), that would be wasteful, because I couldn't take advantage of the higher speeds when other customers weren't using it too. A well-managed burstable connection is a much more efficient use of the resource.
> In a couple of cases, those people replied to me, demonstrated some actions towards those goals, and I hired them later, when I had more available positions.

I've seen this being automated in enterprise recruiting systems as "Candidate Relationship Management" using terms like "silver medalist" to identify and re-engage folks who didn't quite make the cut for positions they interviewed for but may be good fits for other open positions or for future pre-vetted candidates.

I applaud you for making things more human!
> that’s not how networks work

Correct. I agree with most of your post.

> If that time slot was empty, it is wasted and you can never get it back. So you really want to be able to use all time slots as much as you can.

Yes. And you don't get that by having everybody with their foot down on the download pedal all the time.

Speed oversubscription is a thing, because a lot of the time people are using a trickle down of data, in some other periods they're using more.

NN is important and a byte from Netflix shouldn't be treated differently from a byte from some other site.

But I think having people differentiated by the amount of data they use per month (or at least having a big tier limit) could be something ""ok"".
Please show me where in the x86 spec side channel attacks are discussed at all? They aren't.

I am really unsure where you're getting this from. Your reference to the spec makes me wonder if you really understand what Meltdown and Spectre are. They aren't bugs in the chips even though some such issues may be fixable with chip changes, because no CPU has ever claimed to be resistant to side channel attacks of any form. Meltdown doesn't work by exploiting spec violations or actual failures of any built in security logic, which is why - like Spectre - it surfaces in Apple chips too. Like Spectre it's a side channel attack.

I'm not trying to twist this into a negative for AMD: it's the other way around, you are trying to twist this into a positive for them, although no CPU company has done any work on mitigation of micro-architectural side channel attacks.

I'm simply trying to ensure readers of this discussion understand what's truly happening and do not draw erroneous conclusions about AMDs competence or understanding of side channel attacks. What you're attempting to do here is read far more into a lucky escape than is really warranted.
I used to always visit techmeme but it became almost exclusively focused on google Apple amazon Microsoft Facebook Netflix. I’m going to go have a look right now to see if that’s still true.
The largest practical problem with going 3D is how do you cool the chip?

But then, what is really the gain? You will be trading a larger number of chips per die for a proportionally more expensive process. Besides some faster communication (may be great for L1 cache), I can only see it adding problems.
Have you tried the large button their website?
Congrats; good for Cloudhealth tech to get a great offer. Hope this will bring increased budgets for them to continue to improve their solution.
>Once you get to a certain level in your career, part of your job is to be the go to person that explains things, mentor, spend way too much time in meetings and just grease the wheels. The heads down developer is not seen as the multiplier like the team lead/architect is and they get paid accordingly.

Great. That's exactly what I said in my original post -- hire someone specifically to do that. Problem solved. Now your junior/mids don't have to explain that. But that's not the career trajectory of every developer, let's be honest.

If someone's going to deny me a promotion for linking a wikipedia page that answers a basic question and completely ignore my technical contributions, I absolutely do not trust that place has the best interests of its developers in mind and is likely driven more by politics than anything else.
> Most poor countries these days are located in perfect places for solar energy, which is anyway cheaper than nuclear.

Apples to oranges. Solar can't cover more than a fraction of the total energy because of it's fluctuating nature.
In San Marco square, Venice I saw a seagull fly over a tourist and snatch a pizza right out of his hands. Pretty smart and agile animals, can’t say the same of pigeons (although it’s somewhat a blessing, considering their numbers)
https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent

from there I look for papers

1. Immediately relevant to my current interests
2. by people I who know write good papers.

For chaff-vs-wheat some of my friends use arxiv sanity?

to find popular articles I go to
-google scholar page of someone well known for a topic and look at their highly cited papers
-look at citations of highly cited papers

edit: just a warning-short term popularity of a scientific paper is almost surely not a good indicator of long term value.
You design it ticker at the moments the computer will be using more power, and thinner at the rest of the time.
Internet groups urge U.S. court to reinstate 'net neutrality' rules
I don't know. I've spent years researching this issue. I had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy through SFSU when I was living in Fairfield, CA. This was long before I was homeless. Then I spent nearly six years homeless and researching how to get myself off the street and back into housing and this was very eye opening.

I would like to read through the several thousand page Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, but I'm having trouble finding the time. I haven't gotten very far.

I am trying to create pilot programs and find things that actually work. I would like to stop just shooting down suggestions that don't work and start saying "Well, we did x, y and z in my small town and that got such and such results and here is how you can try to replicate that." But I'm still struggling to make ends meet myself, and yadda. So it's slow going.
The evidence that there actually were any software issues related to unintended acceleration is pretty tenuous.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...

"Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents.[28] The report ended stating, "Our conclusion is Toyota's problems were mechanical, not electrical." This included sticking accelerator pedals, and pedals caught under floor mats."

And Malcolm Gladwell's podcast about the subject,
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game
I once sent 49 rejection letters (for an internship!): « Here are statistics about the 50 applications I’ve received. » Received big thanks from at least 50% of them.
With auto-discovery of routes, Google might be picking up the most popular routes, but that does that does not mean they are the best ones. For example, on Strava heatmaps you can frequently see routes that are heavily cycled, but they might also be extremely stressful because one has to share the road with traffic. In fact, most cyclists might only be using them because they are sports cyclists with very thin tires unable to explore and find other options. The great thing about OSM is that it only takes a single mapper to find a nearby alternative and add it to the map.

> At least I've had rather good experiences using Maps for biking.

You wouldn’t in many countries around the world. Google Maps is considerably inferior to OpenStreetMap for cycling in much of the Western Balkans, Africa, and Patagonia.
How about you do it?
Because the secret lingo needs protecting.
And the bottom line has nothing to do with economic output.
Justification being that downturns are the fault of reckless consumers while self-declared experts takes credit or the upswings after. Didn't bother reading, but assume it can be shot down along these lines.

Edit: So read it, Germany workers need high academic degrees to climb in that system, so in practice not a huge difference.

Also reminds me of this great pun:

"Do you know what above board means?"

"No."

"The union and management is in agreement, the board got nothing. Do you know what it's called when the it's above board and the union isn't involved?"

"No."

"Corruption!"

Read: Factory/workers union, not management run ones. Today maybe if finance is involved, probably like that for divisions in IBM when central board is involved.
This person probably wanted you to say that there might be a performance problem in filtering a result set using HAVING, instead if selecting rows using WHERE, if the query optimizer fails to see the equivalence. And the only reason why they knew was because they fixed that very same problem one week before, after debugging it for three days, as it is often the case with bad interview questions.

Edit: shouldn't assume gender
I've rejected dozens of people right after face to face coding session of a simple task (third meeting, first technical) explaining the reasons, providing them some guidance on what to tackle next, if I saw hope invite them to try again once they feel they filled the gaps or at least describe the progress and ask if we think it's enough to try and/or what could be next.

I've most likely never had a person who left without a handshake with a sincere smile on his/her face and most of them expressed their gratitude.

Sometimes you have to reject a person on what you feel is a gut feeling. It's because over time you developed an intuition which is picking small details in a less conscious manner. In the end there are some reasons your intuition is shaped that way not the other and you can find something that presented within the context of your company and expectations will resonate with the candidate and he won't feel like he's been scammed.
Where is the gameplay? All I see are cutscenes and quick time events.
Butts absolutely stink. No smoker is going yo store 10-20 of them.

I'd rather seem them made biodegradable.
Absolutely I would. Employees create the culture too. If you cant push back against stupid policies then it is probably good to be pushed out and move on. Plus any environment that has a policy like that is probably a very sterile workplace.
Yes this is first thing I thought about as well. Since PHP commonly uses FastCGI, using CGI via fcgiwrap as in the case of a cgit deployment for example, is basically the same sort of model, in a more modern sense.
It is a subjective topic. Each service provides different layers of data, with varying amounts of coverage for each layer. People have opinions on how important each layer is, and what's acceptable in terms of coverage for those layers.

Where I went to college, near Rochester NY, housing data is nearly non-existent in OSM, while Google Maps happily provides it and 3D models of them too. Where I am in Seattle, OSM has parking information while Google Maps does not.
Low orbit latency is reasonable. Current satellite ISPs use geostationary orbits which are much further away.

SpaceX plan to use orbits at around 1110 km - 1325 km.

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

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
Actually, I've thought, for a few years now, that software engineering principles, like loose coupling, have a natural application to just the sorts of problems _Seeing Like a State_ talks about.
The Starlink satellites are in a very low orbit that decays relatively quickly, and so is only feasible with a large constellation of very cheap nodes that wasn't possible before. The high latencies are to geostationary communications satellites, which are vastly farther away. Starlink latency should only be 25 - 50 ms.
I believe that the article is fundamentally wrong.

The bulk of the article is true. But companies are not lying when they say that legal risk is a reason not to send feedback.

Triplebyte is in the unusual position of being able to say, "Everyone who has enough technical skill gets through the interview." And that fact is sufficient to defuse their risk. But real companies don't have the luxury of ignoring non-technical aspects of the job.

Here are real reasons why I've seen people denied a job. "Nobody could understand his accent." "Accidental personal referenced summed him up as, 'Loves to make things crash and burn in production to see the pretty fireworks.'" "Nobody could believe the argument he got into at lunch."

In my books those are all valid reasons to not want to work with someone. However the first opens you up for an accusation of racism, the second would break a personal confidence, and the third had demonstrated sufficient irrationality that tiptoeing away was a great idea.

And you can't give feedback on technical issues, and not on the rest, because that amounts to a tacit acknowledgement that there was something non-technical. Leave the non-technical to your imagination and guess what happens?
And I don't know that that's better than "walk me through the query you'd use to do X". Because the reality is they may need to look up the exact syntax for something, and I can't gauge how much they actually know based on their googling; someone who knows nothing might stumble on a good search and seem to get it really quick, someone who knows all the fundamentals might spend 5 minutes trying to find a keyword that's just slipped his mind ('having', for instance, which I've used maybe...once? :P), who will seem like they know nothing.

Instead, just describe it to me. Best guess it. We'll dive into that.
The Australian market is routinely manipulated by pretending to turn off equipment until the price rises sufficiently to pretend to turn the equipment on just in time for the high price market.

So yes, there is "a button somewhere" that a private owner can use to just turn off Australian power plants on Australian soil.
> I don't think this is a big reason Gentoo users use Gentoo.

Exactly. The two most compelling reasons to use Gentoo are/were: 1) It's a rolling-release distribution and 2) it offers customization by virtue of building from source. I don't think I've seen the argument that it's more secure--not seriously anyway. I used it back then because I wasn't a huge fan of Linux and Gentoo seemed more familiar to me with its ports analog.

Perhaps part of the OP's confusion is the hardened profile (or similar)? I'm not sure considering their wiki currently advertises it as risk mitigation [1], but I haven't used Gentoo in probably 6-7 years (at least not consistently outside a VM) so my memory on this is likely wrong.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo
Yes it has been solved, thats the advantage of LEO - it's currently at 25ms

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/space...
Capitalism is great when it's many companies competing. That's the kind of capitalism I support. Capitalism isn't so great when a highly in demand market is largely geographically controlled by very few, with that control also being largely governmentally involved because part of its product is now essential infrastructure.

There are thresholds for when how markets operate starts to have effects that have sizeable socioeconomic effects. I don't think it's hyperbole to claim that the Internet is now an essential part of U.S. commerce with itself and the world. Whenever we talk about physical commerce, like stores or driving to work, we generally agree we need some form of government oversight and regulation so that the commerce can keep flowing.

For example if a highway has a wreck it can prevent millions of dollars being earned all across the board. This is in part why we have road safety standards, and standards for the vehicles that can be on it.

I think the internet is similiar in some ways. We now use it for work in lots of places. For government applications, and to buy and sell a significant amount of goods. Entertainment is included as services and goods.

When we consider commerce flowing freely we have to also consider the real bottlenecks to it in relation to monopalistic control. Is netflix's bandwidth actually a significant stress for Comcasts networks? If it is, is it because netflix's bandwidth is inherently too large for what Comcast can realistically afford, or is it because Comcast does not want to innovate and/or improve their infrastructure?

I was surprised when I found you can get a 1Gb/s dedicated line through Cogent or Hurricane Electric for about $150. This is transit network that has very low latency, and they're much smaller companies than U.S. ISP's. Residential internet is not dedicated, it's shared. I don't have the data on how much is actually used but I highly suspect only about 1/20th is used by most people overall, if not less.

I think as it stands right now, it's ISP's lack of competition leading to lack of effort to provide a good product. Given their position and lack of effort they are the ones who are actually hurting free commerce.

If they are hurting free commerce then what should be done about it? Well, as I originally stated, ISP's are in the business of infrastructure. You don't have realistic alternatives that do allow that commerce (In this case, bandwidth). So, do we just ignore commerce for the country being limited, or do we force the hand?

I think forcing the hand is a bandaid, but a true solution, competition, is much further out of reach. Any time anti-monopalization is brought up you get the same notions of 'free market' saying no, when monopalization puts down free markets.
What an odd combination of units. Here's a translation:

• 5¼ oz. of all-purpose flour.

• 7 oz. of milk chocolate chips.

• scant ½ + ⅛ tsp. baking soda.

• ½ tsp. salt.

• ⅛ tsp. cayenne pepper.

• 4½ oz. of sugar (31% medium brown, 69% white).

• 1 oz. of egg.

• 2¾ oz. of butter.

• ⅛ tsp. orange extract.

• ¾ tsp. vanilla extract.

Or, equivalently:

• 167 grams of all-purpose flour.

• 245 grams of milk chocolate chips.

• 2.96 mL baking soda.

• 2.46 mL salt.

• 0.61 mL cayenne pepper.

• 127 grams of sugar (31% medium brown, 69% white).

• 25.7 grams of egg.

• 81.3 grams of butter.

• 0.59 mL orange extract.

• 3.7 mL vanilla extract.
> a central design decision

I do not think PHP had design decisions until ... much, much later than day one. I would cautiously say even PHP 4 is more than a bit haphazard and PHP 5.0 I definitely remember as an alpha quality release, 5.1 as beta and 5.2 as stable. Design, I think, started to appear with the later stalled PHP 6 attempt and so mainline 5.3. The first one I remember that can be called a conscious design decision was deferring $this support in closures to 5.4. Correlating with my memories is the first release to appear under the "Implemented" headline on https://wiki.php.net/rfc is 5.3 indeed.
Unfortunately, it's not unusual for large corporations to invest millions or even billions into new R&D projects that yield no results.

This is especially true for high technology projects, and only becoming more of a risk as technology becomes more complex.

Can totally see it happening with something like self-driving cars, which is currently still a black art (remember how even Uber apparently needed to filch some IP from Waymo to even get its own project going?)
I'd say it's a good article with a bad title. my take away is that even with their generous approach only 62% of studies replicate. That means 1) probably over 1/3 of results are completely bogus and 2) of the ones that were real, about half the effects were substantially weaker than claimed.
As a PHP programmer, among other things, I think Perl programmers have the ultimate "quick and dirty" mindset, but they're typically trying to solve different problems from a different perspective.

I also think a lot of the bitching about PHP is mostly because newer programmers are just repeating what they heard with the fervor of someone who doesn't work in PHP regularly.

Does it have problems? OH HELL YES. So does every language. Are the problems ever going to be fixed? OH HELL MAYBE. Is it the perfect hammer for every nail? OH HELL NO.

I work with what I know and I live with the problems because that's what I know. If I need new features, I'll work in another language, maybe.

No language is without issues. Except Python. Python is perfect.
> Mac development is a bit more complicated than running MacOS on a CI, especially with GUI apps.

And this is a cross-platform project that's not exactly Cocoa-heavy (being based on Electron). The person I responded to did not say anything about creating GUIs either, so I am not sure what your point is.

> And of course code authors prefer compiling programs themselves on their infrastructure.

Which is why Travis, Circle, Appveyor and co have zero users, as we all know.

> If you want to volunteer and provide a Mac Build then get the source do it and distribute it

It's almost as if that was one of the things I suggested - working with the requester to provide a binary

> But don't accuse people of being somehow lazy for not supporting mac, that's preposterous.

I said the argument is lazy, not the people. If for some reason (ideological or whatever) you're not interested in supporting macOS, then say so outright. Don't pretend as though the only obstacle between you and distributing your otherwise cross-platform software for macOS is not having a literal Mac in your hands because there are other easy options, like taking on a contributor or using a build service.
I apologise for all the child comments but I find your posts compelling. However, your 3rd paragraph above seems a bit at odds with your idea in an earlier comment to rebuild SROs. In any case, I think the same sorts of housing opportunities should be available to all, which is why I brought up the fact that the USA has ample unused housing, it's mostly just an issue of policy/assholes in power.
I didn't mention US in my post, but since you insist... here is what is declassified and publicly known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
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Put the elephant to bed? "How the elephant got in my pajamas, I'll never know!"
PHP supports almost any style of programming depending on the framework you choose. And that's sometimes a problem and as a consequence is 'that PHP developers often tend to have more of a "quick-and-dirty" mindset and don't really appreciate that kind of code'.

I guess you have tried Symfony, haven't you?
Their concern is that too many people read "...of Congress" and assume it's not for them. They're very much pushing the idea that it's a library first.

Not sure I like how they did that, but I get the idea.
I wonder if this would make any sense in a tech company. I would generally think a CEO (who is on the board) is going to be more aligned with an engineer's interests than the CEO and a walmart cashier, but they still have some distinct interests. Maybe a representative of non-founders holding the "standard" employee form of stock?
I highly recommend following a data oriented approach to software organization. OO loves to abstract data, but why? Data is the main character of the story. I also hate the take on Knuth's "premature optimization". Don't sweat the small stuff, but do architect for performance, it is a feature. If you focus on performance and not hiding your data, the code will fall into the right level of abstraction.

Solving general problems happens when you start thinking about data you don't have, but might, and throw performance away for premature organization.