skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically all of aviation safety is about the spreading of blame and plugging up holes.

Either approach is wrong: just pointing to the pilot and saying "hah-hah error" without considering what led to the error is what aviation did for decades. "Crash less!" we said to pilots, and were surprised when things didn't improve much. But you can't ignore crew performance, either.

The crews that crashed did not do great. But if a system is regularly putting crews to the test in a way that requires high levels of personal performance to survive, that's a bigger problem.

And MCAS is more easily improved than the rest: we can more easily reduce the frequency and severity of that "testing" than we can improve all flight crews. But we shouldn't ignore the problems in crew decision-making, and the related training choices (e.g. not requiring crews to demonstrate handling of runaway trim in some jurisdictions).
I am from a third-world religious country and I'd just like to take this chance to say that religion should be classified as a mental disorder.

I see the effects of it first hand, severely crippling the potential of individuals and entire cultures. There's nothing it offers that can't be taught by basic morals which don't require you to appease an imaginary entity or repress the human spirit.

Even the leaders of religious countries know it's bullshit (see the UAE, where there are "No Displays of Affection" signs in upscale shopping malls but the streets are littered with cards advertising phone numbers for prostitution services), but maintain it as a convenient form of manipulation.

If a handful of Dungeons & Dragons players got together and started dedicating all their actions to the Drow goddess Lolth they would be called loonies, but when millions of people worship an imaginary entity for centuries and erect monuments to it and start wars in its name, apparently that's something that should be respected.

This is scary to even talk about. Not only would criticizing religion be frowned upon by first-worlders who seem to have a fetish for "exotic" cultures they have never lived in, it would put the critic at risk of physical harm in their own community.
> How can you even answer any of these questions except with fluff and bullshit if you want to be hired? Google is supposed to be a data-driven company, but it's impossible to extract any information out of bullshit, bullshit by definition is orthogonal to observable reality, it is neither truth, nor falsehood, it's pure empty words.

Noise might not contain information but the presence or absence of noise does.
> that's often extracted from poor countries and communities.

Most bottled water came out of a local tap.
Agree. He for sure had a exciting life so far...
C++ and Rust do let you capture by value. Here is a Rust example that outputs exactly what you would naively expect.

fn main() {
let mut x = 1;
let f = move || println!("{}", x);
x = 2;
let g = move || println!("{}", x);
f();
g();
}
New ICE Director Silence Leftist Congresswoman in an Epic Clash
Shouldn't they use pilots with the absolute minimal skills required to pass the ATP test and get into a 737 cockpit?

If you use average, that still leaves ~half the pilots to crash...
You can have an opinion without ramming it down your friends' throats at every opportunity.
Well, I'm not going to argue much with Andy Grove. But my answer to "What do executives do?" is: Work on environmental problems.

Problems can be put into three buckets: 1) Can be solved by things 100% under your control. 2) Can be solved only by influencing others to participate, 3) Things that are part of the environment and can really only be mitigated.

Area 1, control, is the realm of the first line manager. The FLM has the people, the budget, the FLM's team has the know-how, so execute well and the problem is solved.

Area 2, influence, is the realm of the middle manager, and also sales and marketing. You need to borrow resources from somebody else, argue for corporate re-allocation of resources, convince a sales prospect to become a customer, etc.

Area 3, environment, is the realm of the executive. You have no control and no influence, unless you can find some levers and then delegate. But some things will not have obvious levers. Example: It rains. No body will stop the rain. But everyone can fix the holes in their roof. Likewise, companies have competitors and an economic environment in which they operate. Predict and make plans.

When I was at Intel, one of the great things that senior Mids got to participate in was "red teaming" as competitors. Given all that Intel knew about a competitor, a team would be give a data dump and a short number of weeks to come up with a strategic plan for that competitor to Eat Intel's Lunch. Then they presented to Intel executive staff. From what I heard, it was an excellent experience all around and very valuable to the company. (Before you ask, no.... I was not ever in any danger of participating....)
I wonder if his investments could really trigger something like that. Are there other investments of the Vision fund that are falling apart besides WeWork and Wag?
Dedup on ZFS is problematic because ZFS, in exchange for some of its core useful features, promises that block locations on disk are immutable.

So the only place you can do dedup is inline, as the data is being written the first time, not after-the-fact.

In addition, this requires you keep a huge indirection table (the DDT, or dedup table) that needs to be read for all writes, so either that has to be kept in memory or on fast storage, or you've just turned every write into one or more random reads, plus writes.

This also means that even if you turn off dedup after turning it on, the performance implications remain until the DDT no longer contains any blocks (e.g. you rewrote all the data after turning dedup off).

There are feature proposals to make the performance of dedup less pathological, but nobody's taken up implementing them so far. (Someone even did a proof of concept implementation of one of them, and it still hasn't been finished and integrated.)
The PET and nylon tea bags tend to be pyramid shaped.

From the BBC
>This is usually so that the tea bag is held in a pyramid shape, which producers claim helps the tea leaves infuse better.
> Load-sensitivity is one “smart” approach. The idea is that you keep track of the load on each shard, and selectively route traffic to the lightly-loaded ones and away from the busy ones. Simplest thing is, if you have some sort of load metric, always pick the shard with the lowest value.

Gotta be super careful with this one. We did this at reddit and it bit us bad. The problem was as soon as the load on a machine went down it got pounded with new requests and the load shot up, but it takes a few seconds for the load number to react to all the new requests. So we saw really bad see-saw affect.

We had to add extra logic to mark how long a machine had beed at a certain load and also randomly send requests to slightly more loaded machines to keep things even.

The moral of the story here is make sure you pick a metric that reacts to the change in request rate as quickly as your request rate changes!
For you and your friend: http://phpdoesnotsuck.com
> ReactJS is surpassed by VueJS

Is it though?

- react weekly downloads 5,672,972

- vue weekly downloads 1,090,292
That's how you know it's a Google product.
> If my program ever treats a zip code like a number I would like it to throw an error.

One interesting thing you can do though, is sort by zipcode. This sorts your mail from East to West in the US. You can use that as a rough estimate of shipping time.
Can we make a small exception for when the comment perfectly elucidates what everyone is actually thinking while reading the article?

I’m sorry, all due respect, but.... a dog walking company.
> But the cache is a distraction. The performance you’re going to get will depend on your record sizes and update patterns and anyhow you probabl don’t care about the mean or median as much as the P99.

True your 99th percentile slowest requests won't hit the cache, and certainly that caching won't solve all your scaling difficulties.

However, keeping requests for commonly-needed data away from (say) a DB cluster decreases the load on it at a given level of throughput, and that can be good for P99, and (as the post notes) caching can specifically help with super-hot data which can cause problematic hotspots in some sharding strategies.

Obviously situations vary and there're limits, but a cache seems like a legit tool, not just a band-aid, for a decent number of situations.
It's not a talking point to say I'm scared for my country because my president is literally asking a foreign power to get dirt on his enemies.

Like, I'm worried here. This is bad, right? This isn't a simplistic partisan campaign talking point - I mean it shouldn't right? We should all have some basic values we all subscribe to, like a president should keep his oath of office and not torture kids. I'm scared we as a country no longer share those basic values because there's a lot of people who are just angry. And that freaks me out. I mean that's pretty normal, right?
Here is a very detailed programming guide for the Super FX:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Super_NES_Programming/Super_FX...
What I don't get about the Vision Fund is how so many of its investments lack (pun intended) vision.

Other than the ARM, Nvidia, and a few billion in biotech (about $3 billion[1]) investments, so much of the fund has gone into pretty "obvious" traditional startups.

If I had a $100 billion fund, I wouldn't be swinging for these singles and doubles (which Uber and WeWork were by the time Softbank got involved, although these companies can still provide value to customers).

Vision Fund should've been out-competing Google X to become the financial backer of basically the next Bell Labs. Instead of 3% biotech and 20% Uber and WeWork and Wag, I'd have flipped those two numbers.

The biggest loss from the Vision Fund is the opportunity cost of all the great disease-eliminating, fundamental-science research that could've had much greater upside than WeWork. And I never hear that opportunity cost discussed.

EDIT: I've added an additional comment with more supporting arguments for taking bigger risks but more ambitious risks when managing large sums: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=21096651

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/softbanks-vision-fund-deployi...
That test will run the same way twice unless it has been tampered with, you'd have to be pretty sure before taking a gamble on that. The chances of a false positive are >> the chances of database tampering, why attack the harder target?
To avoid either of us being downvoted and to avoid this thread being giant, I'm happy enough to continue this conversation via email (in my profile).
Ah yes the soothing feeling that at any one time no matter what I am doing I am loosing out on doing something else. Such are the inner workings of the ever rational and goal focused financier who embraces this reality in its fullest form and yet still decides it best to prioritise their pride. "Do not fear the doubters" says the fund manager "they are simply jealous of your achievements and commitment to the fund". Of course this is not said out loud but rather communicated subtly through the language and the ideology that underpins the language of finance.
Load balancing is just a subset of sharding though. It's how you shard your incoming traffic. The same strategies generally apply to both, but you get more leeway with traffic if it's stateless.
I don't think it's regulations, I think it's that with legalization, some things improved, but it also created a broad market for counterfeit products. There are arbitrary limits on production capacity (eg, a home grower can only have 6 plants, 3 of which are mature, etc) which is creating artificial scarcity. Also, high taxes are helping to push people into the black market.

In the case of other illegal drugs, there's just no telling what you're getting unless you watched someone make it yourself. A lot of illegal drugs are coming from overseas or developing nations generally. I'm sure they're using banned pesticides, slave and child labor, you name it, to make some of these drugs. There could be literally anything in those, it's just unsafe to consume.
Saint Louis Blues (Song)
Emacs is not an operating system. It is a high bandwidth peripheral that connects your brain to the operating system using lisp.
While I'm an atheist and agree with you in part, I don't see how that's related to this story.
This thread mentions the Super Gameboy. There's a deeply fascinating series of blog posts about the Super Gameboy that everyone should read:

https://loveconquersallgam.es/post/2350461718/fuck-the-super...
Those fees are outrageous.
Two Kazakh Cybercriminals Plead Guilty in Global Digital Advertising Fraud
> This is why major organisations don't allow usernames to be name_surname or nsurname. They pick random usernames. I remember when I was a student my username was a random string with characters and numbers.

sounds more like an artifact of early garbagey email systems than any sound security policy. certainly i've seen nothing of the sort from any organization since a VM/CMS system in the early 90's.

> This makes it more difficult to hack my account (without prior knowledge, shoulder surfing, etc.) since it was highly unlikely you could guess my username and my password.

this doesn't make any sense.

if i generate my passwords by a perfectly reasonable, robust procedure, and then prepend them with the string "password", and disclose this fact publicly, they become no less secure.

the username is just like a publicly announced string prepended onto your (hopefully) securely generated password.
I hear this a lot from people who've never been to a yoga class. It's more of a stereotype than reality. All the yoga classes I took have never mentioned anything resembling yogababble.
> "This thesis doesn't fall apart on basic scrutiny" is the entirety of its point

The thesis DOES fall apart on basic scrutiny. The chart represents the entirety of the exploration, and the chart doesn't support shit. Minus the outliers, the chart presents a conclusion entirely different from the author's.
Has only bottled water been studied? I wonder how many microplastics are found in gallon milk and sodas?
I open applications only when I use them. And close them afterwards. I also turn off my machine when I don't use it.
To be fair to ZoL, at least the nastiest data loss bug I can think of (hole_birth) was cross-platform, so FBSD, ZoL, illumos, and everyone else in the OpenZFS family was equally affected.
It has a small active community with many abandoned libraries, no killer app, and painful tooling. I like the language in spite of that, but size of community matters. To your point, as a hosted language you can make up Clojure's deficiencies by using Java libraries, but if you aren't a Java developer (or are a disgruntled Java developer) that isn't a great answer.

The only question worth asking is whether the language has a big enough community to be sustainable

Exactly, and I'd argue Clojure was on a path to yes, but has lost momentum and is leaning toward no.
Right. Libertarians (or at least the consistent ones) are all anarchists, but not all anarchists are libertarians. "Anarchist" is a very broad term spanning the complete range from pacifist voluntaryism to violent agents of chaos. Libertarians tend to be completely non-violent so long as they and their property are unmolested, in stark contrast to certain other notable anarchists.
This is, in fact, the same principle behind how Vantablack works!
The real question: is municipal sourced water "better" (have fewer plastics) than bottled water?

Edit: article says tap water is better
Well, whenever I have a heart trouble it (the trouble) normally stops on itself soon. But some times it takes so long that it starts feeling scary.

I often get the trouble during regular sex with no drugs. But this never ever happened during sex on MDMA. The rhythm is so perfect it reminds me of the Gattaca movie.

Some times I had the tachicardia episodes right before taking MDMA because I sort of get nervous (positively, like when you are about to meet a friend you have been separated from for years, because I look forward to such an intense love experience) but they stopped and perfect rhythm restored immediately as MDMA started to act (as I could notice).

So I feel like I should probably carry a reasonably small crystal of MDMA with me wherever I go as it can save my life once - this probably outweighs the risk of criminal prosecution. But I still am not sure, I still hesitate to have any prohibited substances with me, store them at home or anywhere.

I have also tried 6APB once - a guy has told me it's a "better MDMA" which doesn't stress the body that much. Besides I didn't really like it I have also found out (I wouldn't ever touch a drug without studying whatever information I can find about it) it is supposed to be 50 times more cardiotoxic and should never be taken together with viagra - combining these 2 drugs can make you need heart surgery after just a couple of times you take it.
During the Grove era, Intel practiced "consultative decision making". The leader of the meeting owned the decision. The leader consulted all the meeting participants. Then the owner of the decision makes the decision (NOT NOT NOT voting.) One person owns the decision. As a participant, you get your chance to make your case. After the decision, you either "agree and commit", or "disagree and commit". To disagree and not commit is to undermine, and that is a "career limiting move".

> Sometimes an executive needs to integrate different perspectives and choose a direction that neither party could see.

Exactly why "disagree and commit" is so important. The decision maker is expected to have the integrated perspective that you may not have.

edit: Added clarification
Those cheese grater macs are real energy slurpers.
Dude not a fair comparison, here in Canada there's probably the best tap water in the world ;)
Sometimes there is one right answer and other wrong answers.

The sun always (at present) rises in the East. Not in the West. Also: not a compromise of somewhere in between.

Can the manager marshal the resources to determine a correct scientific answer for questions that are not a matter of opinion? Or even recognize when such issues are present?
Game'ified performance appraisals or records/statistics that you can cite/link for getting work outside the app-job.

Unlocking raises with hours invested or good reviews earned or a combination of metrics.

Making in-app purchases to join a union or buy into additional benefits.

Integrating these gig economy apps with places like LinkedIn (shudder) to help you find temporary work quickly without ever talking to a human.
They've implemented subsets of the general bprewrite functionality for things like vdev evacuation, but it does still require that functionality, they didn't come up with a clever way to avoid needing it.
> created a situation where a less price sensitive person subsidizes the cost of the product purchased by another more price sensitive person.

Assuming 1:1 $2:$4 sales, say the cost is $1. They make $4 if they sell w/ coupon or not. The coupon chasing customer is a lower value customer because it actually takes some overhead to make coupons and to constantly convince them to be a customer. Whereas you can price at $3 and look like a champ compared to your $2 (secret coupon) /$4 (advertised price) competitors...
I mean, posting your content repeatedly until it hits the front page isn't great…
That's probably just a reflection of the job title changing, rather than the number of jobs available. Computer Programmer is an "old-school" title while Software Developer is more up to date.
Keep in mind that this is a marketing blog post for a fairly simple hiring platform.

The target audience for this is small to medium businesses, not corporations or competitive startups, who would be potential customers. It's more of a starting place for people who do not think about this much.

My guess is that HN is not the target audience for this blog post, so take what the simplicity of what is said with a huge grain of salt.
The price you advertise is the price it sells for, otherwise you have committed fraud. Seems clear to me.
I felt the same way before I got my Model 3, however I find that I don't really notice the lack of analog controls. I think the virtual keyboard on a smartphone is a good analogy. A tactile, analog button is better but a touchscreen is good enough.
I think a lot of people are missing the point.

As someone who was there when the dot com bubble collapsed, I think part of his point is that sooner or later, companies based purely on BS, or that have high valuations because they've BS'ed people... are going to come back down to earth.

Judging what is BS and how much there is, is not something you can do in a real scientific way.
Masa Son in 1999: loses $70bn in net worth in half year.

Masa Son in 2019: hold my beer, watch dis.
>Given all that Intel knew about a competitor, a team would be give a data dump and a short number of weeks to come up with a strategic plan for that competitor to Eat Intel's Lunch. Then they presented to Intel executive staff.

I guess it's safe to say that they didn't predict AMD's Zen?
Highly variable based on where you live, some places it is far better, some places it can get you sick.
>> In San Francisco, if you sit down at a restaurant, take the written prices on the menu and multiply them by 1.5 to get what you'll actually be paying.

>Is this anything other than taxes and gratuity (which, technically, you can give 0% for)? I'm trying to understand how even with 20% gratuity and SF's 8.5% tax, how you could get anywhere close to 1.5.

It's mostly hyperbole. There's an additional 4-6% charge that's fairly common to see for "SF employer mandate" which is sort of BS in its own way, but that only gets you up to a bit over 1.3x.
I applied to this company right at the beginning of there expansion. The person that interviewed me said he had been sleeping on couches for the last year or so, (around 2017) and working insane hours. They gave me a php coding test to implement some kind of pub/sub. I finished it. Had no real way of submitting it other than emailing it to the interviewer as a zip.

The moment the interviewer told me they worked with a php stack. I asked why they'd chosen to go with php given that the product was so new they could've chosen any newer tech. stack (JavaScript framework) and probably been better off. The interviewer didn't really response to my question.

The entire conversation with said person, was them talking at me for about 30 minutes. They said the company was going to try to pivot to developing some service surrounding their lock box service for the keys to get into people's houses for the dog walking.

It seemed very "directionless" and gave me a very bad taste in my mouth. They never got back to me or anything. Which was fine by me since I wasn't going to pursue them any further.
If you're Saudi Arabia with a silly amount of money in cash, are you looking for 10-100x return out of this, or are you simply looking for a place to park liquid funds that won't lose as much as leaving it in German government bonds.
Plan to get taken for a walk, end up getting taken for a ride. Figures.