skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100ms with how many responses per second? Throughput matters too. And techempower does some pretty realistic-looking benchmarks. For example:

> In this test, the framework's ORM is used to fetch all rows from a database table containing an unknown number of Unix fortune cookie messages (the table has 12 rows, but the code cannot have foreknowledge of the table's size). An additional fortune cookie message is inserted into the list at runtime and then the list is sorted by the message text. Finally, the list is delivered to the client using a server-side HTML template. The message text must be considered untrusted and properly escaped and the UTF-8 fortune messages must be rendered properly.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
That's assuming people bring up the patience to wait for a response - a rockstar developer type is inclined to go "screw that, I can whip this out in a couple hours", so by the time others have a chance to think about it it's already done. Not too late to challenge it, but it'll feel like wasted effort then.
When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques
The real root cause was building redundant systems that share a single point of automated failure, creating a massive blast radius.

> Thirdly, the software initiating maintenance events had a specific bug, allowing it to deschedule multiple independent software clusters at once, crucially even if those clusters were in different physical locations
+1 avo is on our radar as a tool to use in the future
Use the REFL.ME application and the data source in JSON to show messages and notifications on your mobile device in a simple and user-friendly form. The application works directly with web services, does not store messages on its servers, does not require registration and personal data.
Running an Underground Lottery in Detroit
Just refs for stuff others mentioned:

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/keycommands

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/quickref

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/shortcuts

https://docs.cycling74.com/max7/vignettes/javascriptinmax

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/00_N4M_index

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/lua_in_max_topic

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/gen_overview

https://cycling74.com/tools/max-toolbox

http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/classes/mumt402/MaxMSPExtern...

http://www.interactionlab.biz/v2/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/...
Might makes Right, that's obvious. No mumbling about it.

Now if State Powerful wants to pean itself about how good and fair they are, I'll laugh at their faces. Again, no mumbling.
I’m in a similar boat. I don’t even have the degree, but in my favour is that I was white, male and had a lot in common with other programmers who started their career in the late 90s.

In most jobs so far I’ve been able to work my way up but always felt I had to prove myself a lot more to get the same outcomes as other more credentialed colleagues.

Got into a reasonably secure position (I’m now 39), but I still have a lot of impostor syndrome moments, and I’m sure I’ll start encountering ageism soon.

Hopefully after I’ve paid the house off.
Where is the goal post? And no even they wouldn't have individual data, even if they self-insured. They don't manage the claims themselves, that's ridiculous.

Do you have any source for your suggestions, or is this just a random hypothetical?
Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits
So if it were me trying to bypass this system rather than trying to make increasingly complex and expensive projectiles to try and defeat the system I'd just make increasingly cheap projectiles to make it easier to spray the target with them and eventually get some through. The article even mentions that a laser can only point at a single target at a time. To your point if you also target the defensive system you're bound to sooner or later damage the system with one you managed to get through. Seems to me that this system is easily defeated with tactics.
It was my understanding that in PSTN at country-level boundaries the operators choose to forward calls, and do billing and such recording: at that point they decide whether to put the call to the local country network or not. If the call has meta-data as if its come from the local country then they could drop the call request, but they establish the voice call [because call senders pay more than call receivers, presumably].

Is that incorrect?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7
Phased arrays have been used in moving vehicles for decades with things like AESA radar systems. So what you're saying is ahistorical.
They definitely have access to at least aggregate data, see this kinda thing: https://collectivehealth.com/solutions/actionable-insights/
Science says you're wrong and not only wrong but this mistaken belief some of these people hold that they can multitask or be interrupted without significant loss of productivity is actually an admission that they are the worst of multitaskers. [1]

The mind is single-core. There's no black lotus you can huff or secret technique to master to make it more than one core. And the inertia returning to its task is significant.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/01/24/1701601...
The actual title is:

Meditation Reduced The Opioid Dose She Needs To Ease Chronic Pain By 75%.

It's the story of how one user was able to supplement a smaller dose of opioids with other therapies and reduce her need for opioids. The title as is makes an extraordinary claim never made by the article and as such is a lie. It would be great if we didn't mislead our readers to get them to click a link.
This doesn't make much sense. Notarization is for the benefit of users, not developers. To an aspiring young dev, the right-click-opening Mac user market offers more users than the Linux market.

For a user, right-click-open is easier than installing Linux.
I hate this. If the commercial world has any say we will not have quiet anywhere, ever.

Silence is so wonderful, why must we fill it up with noise?
Some examples:

- Fake UL and other regulatory approvals.

- Sand in batteries.

- Rocks in power banks.

- Full line voltage to the USB side of a charger due to an under-insulated step-down transformer.

Without enforced consumer product protections, manufacturers will do anything and everything to make a buck... no libertarian economics utopian "unregulated markets will solve everything" BS because it doesn't work in the real world.
Except if the terrestrial fiber backbone is cheaper and less congested you want to downlink near the client.
As a manager, a big part of our job is to mitigate risk and single points of failure. If enabling someone to work like this increases risk and creates SPOF in our teams, we're screwing up letting them do it.
When is Twitter going to ban that spammy Elon bot?
SpaceX's twitter and also mentioned during the webcast.
Overly dramatic language aside, what else are engineers that come into a place that isn’t rife with greenfield opportunities expecting?

Most software work out there is babysitting. Oh I know, I know we’re rockstars inside.

In the early days, as the story goes, one person shipped a bunch of features. This part of the anecdote is underdeveloped, IMO. Hazy past recollections formed after emotionally processing a big shift.

Was someone bringing this up before manager and rockstar bailed? Sounds like the team and upper management as a hole lacked foresight, and this is an after the fact realization.

It’s a TEAM effort after all. Poor organization isn’t the fault of one brilliant eng or manager.
I'm actually still so struck how literally nobody seems to give a shit or even know that this happened. It's really sad.
I had read that the fairings were the limiting factor on launch frequency, because of how long they have to be cured for. So it's not just the direct cost that's relevant. Of course it's always possible to build a bunch more curing ovens, but at that point you're probably rearranging the factory layout and so on.
A good book in this vein is Writing With Power.
Aren’t many of the ones that are themed after IP’s explicitly temporary?

I went to a bird café In a mostly residential area just north of Ueno park last year. It was a total blast. We only went in because my spouse didn't feel well and need to rest, but it ended up one of the highlights of our trip. Everyone was super happy. All guests were laughing at the birds that were in a huge cage; the caged birds were seemingly having a great time snuggling and humping each other; the birds you could visit with were clearly excited to get attention. One bird kept chirping at my wife every time she stopped petting it. The entire place liked like a room for kids, but there were no kids, just happy adults and birds. The music they played sounded like music from a happy scene in an anime. It was almost surreal.
I would go back in a heartbeat!

We did go to a hedgehog cafe which was bad. Unhappy staff and the animals are nocturnal and just want to sleep. It felt just like animal abuse.
A shame those massive fines don't get applied to IKEA's tax avoidance schemes
That doesn't work for iOS devices. Regular Joe User can't really use an app that wasn't approved by Apple. Jailbreaking is far too difficult for any non-techie person and deployment with TestFlight is far too limited in scale, and also could be easily blocked by Apple.
I'm not sure how much of a "flash in a pan" Hololens was. It did not seem intended for mass consumption and instead had an extremely small niche for enterprise or business use. Microsoft is going to release its second iteration this year. I suppose it is a way for Microsoft to get real world data for incremental improvements without alienating the wider public from the current limitations.
It's not a question of is it possible. It's question of what scenario makes it most likely.
That seems reasonable, but easier still is putting your thumb on the Gigafactory 3 from Tesla. As long as Tesla understands that things will go smoothly as long as Starlink happens to not work there, it won't.
> get interrupted constantly because they work on important projects with a lot of stakeholders

Are they really OK with this? Constant interruptions is the hallmark of a broken process and usually means the company is a bad employer and the projects are in trouble. I'd guess those "most productive engineers" handle that situation usually by finding new employment.
Pavlo's CMU database courses are some of the best educational content on YouTube, and they are updated regularly with revised course content. Great way to get up to speed with the technical underpinnings of modern databases, as well as emerging areas of research.

(Big time commitment though, FYI.)
How can advertisements ever die in a capitalist society? Anyone who wants to sell anything buys ads. That's how the cycle works.

Sure, they can morph into different mediums and appear in different contexts, but that doesn't make them "not ads."
> Do they really need to make that explicit in the terms of service? I thought it was obvious that I didn't have the right to make Google/YouTube pay for hosting and serving a video just because I created it.

You would think most people understand this. However there is a political movement in America to force social networks to host people's vulgar or derogatory opinions in the name of the "first amendment," which technically never applied to privately funded social networks in the first place.

Lots of people would never think of walking into a Target and posting illiterate political meme's on the wall. But that's almost exactly what you're doing by making Facebook and YouTube spread your hate.
CockroachDB does target OLTP workloads. Note that the vectorized SQL engine covered in this blog post is execution-only (and used only for queries that operate on many rows). The storage layer remains row-oriented so the write performance is not affected. Rows are columnarized before processing by the execution engine.
Raku = Perl 6, just in case you're wondering.
Who's to say that we're not in the middle of it now? Lots of little surgical strikes appearing to be russian hackers, heart attacks, ethical lapses and folks caught in unlucky situations?
Except the mirror would be coated with vapour deposits - ruining it.
Also, they weren't very good at it. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl... "When you're walking around the neighborhood, [the lines are] popping up out of the road all over the place," resident Larry Coomes said at the time. "People are tripping over it." ... "AT&T has been using various forms of shallow trenching since 2009 and hasn't seen similar issues."
For me this edit while writing habit developed in school because I didn't enjoy using a pencil and multiple drafts meant hand writing the entire paper over and over.

For this reason I trained myself to make the first draft the final draft. Now with computers this is no longer relevant as I'm not hand writing multiple drafts on paper.

There are other factors, but I think this one is major for a lot of people.
Why did this comment get downvoted? (It's currently somewhat greyed out.) Can someone who downvoted say what they found objectionable?
Would love to hear some examples/experiences especially since 10x programmers are so deified
> If it's always OK to pay an extra $100/yr on top of all the other Apple purchases, then the market price is actually $infinity.

By this logic the cost of anything that you can't own and use ad-infinitum is $infinity.

> Also, some people may look up to Lawhead as a role model as a programmer/artist but not have awards and lots of $.

What does that have to do with her ability or willingness to pay?
> Not easy to block with technical means over a large area. But easy to block with legal means. The way Starlink works the system needs to know exactly where each terminal is, so SpaceX doesn't have plausible deniability about serving customers in areas that prohibit it.

That is incorrect. SpaceX doesn't need to know where a terminal is for it to work. The Terminal itself though will know where it is, as it needs that information to calculate the pointing angles of the phased array to the satellite orbits.
Interesting how you're glossing over the fact this violated the Data Protection Act.
This reads to me as an attempt from Google to further balkanize the web. This looks a lot like the "blue bubbles" effect from Apple iMessage.

Did Google run out of actual features to implement? How about reacting to real user concerns such as controlling the privacy of their personal data on the web? Rhetorical question, I know...
> They said the Oxis battery would provide “in excess” of 500 Wh/kg, a number which appears to apply to the individual cells, rather than the battery pack, with all its packaging, power electronics, and other paraphernalia.

For comparison the energy density of gasoline is 12,200 Wh/kg

https://xtronics.com/wiki/Energy_density.html
No. Patient consent is part of the whole "everyone thinks [it] will help" part.

Not really sure how Google finagled their access? It's odd when neither the doctor, nor the patient knows. I wonder if even the hospital administrators knew? Or is this a decision that was made at the system level and the average hospital CEO at Ascension was none the wiser?
Exactly this and programming screening interviews are full of this!

> Evaluating different solutions leads to natural questions about the definitions implicit in the problem statement: mathematically, what is digit length?

OF COURSE! This is a MATHEMATICAL problem that is posed as a PROGRAMMING question. This has always confused me and I could never justify until reading this article why I felt them to be irrelevant to showcasing my programming knowledge. At the very least just tell people, this is the mathematical reasoning behind it, and watch the person implement it.
here is a very contradictory opinion.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2019/05/21/ten-re...
Why does he refer to Apple as ‘they’ instead of ‘we’ then?
DeepSwatting
The registry sets their own prices. For the new generic TLDs it is basically the Wild West - they can charge whatever they choose, hence the fact that most new gTLD registries go for bargain basement pricing in the hope that they can get enough volume for someone to want to buy them before the whole sorry mess comes tumbling down.

For country level TLDs it’s a little more nuanced I guess. Extensions like .fm, .io, .co and .ai have either managed to position themselves as a fashionable alternative to the very crowded .com (or whatever you first choice is) or have been fortunate enough to have an extension that “fits” a particular industry. Because they work and for some people have become an “accepted” alternative to .com they can charge a premium for brand name fit.
Undoing someone else's well intentioned work can be viewed as passive aggressive behavior.
>Among various other car things, I'm very enthusiastic for in-car noise cancelling:

This is one of the biggest gripes of automotive reviewers when it comes to cabin noise and I agree. My GT-R has it (that exact Bose technology you linked) and I find it quite obnoxious. It neuters the sound of engine and all I'm left with is more road and wind noise. Save that for an S-Class, it has no place in sports cars.
If anybody thinks the difference between major brands is due a difference in factory processes they would be very wrong. The reality is every large manufacturer now has a culture built around Six Sigma/Lean/6S/Continuous Improvement/etc. Vehicles aren't manufactured in underground hideouts of secret societies. If a process if found to work well in one corner of the industry it absolutely permeates to other parts.

Here is video of a Mercedes C-lass production line moving as workers assemble by the way: https://youtu.be/z6c_Zs5DG0s?t=531
Toyota and Honda brought the first two mass-market hybrids to market (the Prius in 1997 and Insight in 1999, respectively). I don't think it's fair to say they innovate very little or that they churn out the same internal combustion engine 10 million times a year. A bunch of my friends have plug-in Priuses (Prii?) that are effectively EVs, since if you're commuting you never need to run off gas.
Apple is exactly on its way, as it's always been. You've just been crushed under its wagon.
Exposure of private data is counter to surveillance capitalism. The "capitalism" part is scarcity of aggregated data without value to be gained for data exchange; the company knows something about a person that other companies don't, and that has competitive value.

It's not "surveillance capitalism" to collect and then publish a pile of damaging data on a person; it's just sloppy, and makes people less inclined to do business with the company that screwed up (on average).

I trust Google specifically with my data because Google has some real good incentives to keep it private.

Fascism is fascism, and I find it interesting (in a cognitive-dissonance sense) how many of my European peers are leery of data collection by a Google but are extremely comfortable with their respective governments running universal healthcare systems. Aren't those governments one fascist dictator away from all that centralized government health data being used to drive a mass extermination? It sounds a lot like people's real disagreement is on choice of master of the data, not whether data aggregation has utility to them.
This thread is also full of people arguing with them. Meanwhile for end users like me, I see only benefits if Apple keeps the bar high.

If I really want to run an app that is not notarized and I trust its developers, I can always manually allow it to run.
Every interaction with my health provider's website has links to double click and google analytics.

This includes test results, doctor communication, and even the feedback page where I composed and sent my complaint.
Producing 760k of code for a Raspberry Pi (running a full blown non-realtime linux distribution) hardly seems like embedded development though.
> It seems like this problem is solved by simply setting a sensible minimum in an autoscaling group.

Do you really think people do things because it makes sense to do them for their particular situation or because those things are "the thing to do(tm)"?

Most people go to see Mona Lisa because that's what people do when in Paris, not because they care about that particular piece of art.

Same with automation. It really makes me sad when I see people "automating" things they barely understand how to manually do, let alone the "when" to do it.

Yes, your example is perfectly valid, but that means one understands the system they are working with and generally people have no bloody clue about what they are doing.
One Among Millions: The Chemical Space of Nucleic Acid-Like Molecules
See also lithium-air (aka lithium oxygen) battery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium–air_battery
Starlink very clearly is supposed to make money and has been stated many times... It's there to provide revenue for Mars vehicle development.

Communications development for Mars before even having a launch vehicle for Mars payload delivery is putting the cart before the horse. You don't need a global network of satellites to communicate with Mars.
E-cigarettes take serious toll on heart health, not safer than real cigarettes
Agreed. In general, it feels like modern America lacks critical thinking skills when it comes to discerning obviously fake information from real.
Combine that with a speech analyzer and synthesizer and you could theoretically even eliminate the voices of individual people (particularly that annoying person who sits near you in a cafe/plane/work).
Why is literally every post of yours shilling for mainland china?
I'm sure people who intend to do business will accept such restrictions as long as they can access email and Salesforce dashboards. Although it might break the spirit of net neutrality (which, to be fair, isn't really a thing anymore anyways).
Still no pure BEV from them, only hybrids and fuel cell. No charging network either. Owned two Toyotas and a Lexus before we sold them all for Teslas, really a shame as I liked the reliability of the brand, but buying EVs was more important to us. Personally, I want to support innovation, not the status quo.
Site autoplays video with sound with no controls (for me, FF on Android).
Requiring commenters to assume good faith and attack the strongest possible version of the argument is a wonderful tool to keep discussion civil and productive.

I don't see how this can possibly by applied to the internet at large which is absolutely full of loud evil people operating in bad faith.
During the height of the cold war the US launched ~20 disposable film-based spy satellites per year; I wonder if they got meaningful cost reduction.
I was reading The Nature Fix earlier this year and they mentioned there's very few places left in America where you can actually be free from human-made noise at daybreak. It was quite sad, and, as you mentioned, it's only going to get worse. I quite miss quiet, and wish more people felt the same way. Instead, it seems many hate quiet.
Why are you surprised? I can count on 1 hand the amount of people I know personally who care about data privacy or anything remotely close to the idea of data privacy. However, I do agree, it's really sad.
Hehe, hopefully it's just more fodder for an anti-trust case 1-2 years from now.
I hate it when a vendor replies, as appeared in this article, that the problem was "a supplier-related issue". I purchased the product from you, not the supplier. You're responsible for what you shipped me.

By contrast: there are many reasons to criticize pharma companies but they don't take suppliers' word for any materials. Dell doesn't blame Delta when they ship bad power supplies, they take responsibility. But some industries (cars, aircraft, et al) are perfectly happy to blame someone else.

Note: it's OK if you say "we got some bad products and we failed to detect it..." That's defect analysis. But own it.