skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a miscommunication.

EBS “appears to be local” but it is actually networked attached storage. Instance storage (is that the correct name?) is where the VM and the storage are on the same physical server and it should be faster.
That's fine for you but that's not saying much because that approach is not at all scalable.
The post office has been unduly laden with nonsense financial restrictions by the GOP in two presidencies now (Bush and Trump). Put another way, they've purposefully sabotaged one of the oldest institutions in America in order to crater it on behalf of private businesses.

Are there things that can be changed at USPS? Certainly, but they are not the primary cause of distress for this institution. See also: The current assault against the NHS in the U.K.
Citroën AMI might be a killer electric city car.
It comes at 6k euros with 45km/h and 70km range.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/28/21157346/citroen-ami-elec...
They can’t set their own rates and have an obligation to deliver everything, which leads to them shipping many things (not just Amazon) for free. There is no other country in the world, no other private business that lets you send first class letters for $0.60 for a reason. For years they were also wrangled into a treaty obligation that forced them to ship small packages from China for a loss.

They also have huge retirement —prefunding obligations which is pretty much unprecedented in either private business or government agencies.

All of these public obligations are poorly thought out and largely out of the control of the USPS itself. People bitch about USPS being inefficiently run and that’s true to some extent, but the most fundamental issues they struggle with revolve around factors beyond the control of USPS management.
There is already a device like this which uses the wrist: https://embrlabs.com/
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As a programmer in that age range I know I don't need to spend time learning the nuances of JS if I'm not using JS. If I start on a JS project (god forbid) I can learn that then. Just like I learned C/C++/Java/Python/PHP/Ruby/Clojure etc when I started on one of those projects.

Machine learning - we know that just means linear regression or Bayesian filters plus marketing, and we prefer programming. We've also seen 20 years of "magic bullet" solutions like ML fizzle and die in the real world and know most ML projects never see a day in production.

K8s is great if running k8s is your job. But it is a specialized skill that is only needed to run very large infrastructures, unless your project architecture (read microservices) has gone very wrong.

20/30 year olds think "keeping your skills" up means learning every new programming fad that blows through because they don't have the experience to differentiate the fads from the advancements. It is like telling master carpenters they need to keep switching brands of tools to "keep their skills up". But all these tools do the same things and are 99% identical. They are busy building stuff with the tools they have.
As a veteran dev in my 50's, "k8s" gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies. I've just about got my head around Docker. But it's painful seeing a system that should be a nice little monolith serving a few thousand requests an hour split up into microservices and "managed" using k8s for no good reason.

I realise this might make me unemployable in a modern web dev environment. Maybe I can just ride it out until the industry goes through the rest of the cycle and rediscovers simplicity.
While I agree with the notion, this is fairly short sighted. There are a lot of TVCs or "non-tech" employees of FAANG for whom free food makes a huge impact on their livelihood in high CoL areas.
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It is not the size of file really the problem if he had consumption of 30TB he will still be charged that much .

The b/w costs are very high on the cloud , 5-6x higher than it is outside, I don’t think there any value they provide that justifies it for vast majority of users .

I am pretty skeptical on anyone at all in the world needing 11 nines of durability. You are 100’s of times more likely to have a meteor strike .

All the major service providers have gone down recently. Cloudflare went down just this month . At best they are delivering 4-5 nines practically speaking (loss of one PoP or region is still down )

CDN is exactly the service which needs to be significantly cheaper at scale, if you really need 200 PoPs then you have at minimum 10,000s of users at which and you will have consumption

If the industry’s position is they only want/can service enterprise customers for whom current pricing is within the budget, then their online pricing models/ marketing are incredibly misleading on who they are targeting .

To me it looks like their business models depends on predatory pricing prosumers y hooking them on with the ease of use.

This is very much like credit card industry. If everyone paid on time , CC providers will never make money, predatory loan pricing at 36% or higher is their real revenue source.

Paying on time / reading the ToS only lets them off the hook legally , morally they are both praying on vulnerable users .
Lots of companies seem to be proving the opposite, from 37S to GitLab, even before the pandemic.
Pretty clear this is an intentional move by the Trump appointee DeJoy. It's a classic Republican tactic. Appoint someone to screw up a public service. Use that as an argument that it doesn't work. Privatize it so your rich friends can make a killing. It also has the added benefit of complicating mail in voting which might help the Republicans keep the senate and presidency. While I agree the postal service has some issues the current problems are entirely artificial.

Intentional mismanagement due to ideology and greed.

https://fortune.com/2020/07/24/usps-mail-delivery-postmaster...

> The Postal Service is a joke,” said the President in May.

> “Every time we’ve slowed down mail, we’ve lost revenue,” said Dimondstein. The new postmaster general, he said, instituted sweeping policy change after just one month in his position and without consulting any unions or representatives with deep institutional knowledge.

> “These changes are happening because there’s a White House agenda to privatize and sell off the public Postal Service,” said Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union.
> You're also conflating different problems here. If someone is writing poor SQL it doesn't matter if their deploying with a VM, Docker, or onto a bare metal server.

They are related, as devs sometimes think of microservices as a way to speed things up and/or process more requests per second, under an assumption that a server with fewer responsibilities is a server with faster turnaround time.
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Fellow Googler here. You need a new team.
I don't think that mail in ballots will significantly affect the USPS. They do about half a billion mail items per day. Ballots for everyone who is registered to vote is mabye 200 million. Ballots are also small. Packages take much more time to handle by the mail carrier.
testing should have been part of the estimates and you should have thrown that right back at the rest of the team during retro
Try driving on a French autoroute on a weekend during a holiday period, you would guess that there is nobody left in Belgium or the Netherlands.
In a company with offices around the globe and projects all over the place as well, remote or in-office makes very little difference.
English is indeed better suited for a conventional computer keyboard, coding, and reading left to right. However, to me it's still unclear how much of this advantage is due to the fact that computers were specifically designed for english speakers.
Agreed, we should not sympathize on behalf of them where they're free to choose to do something else if they wanted. This is a concious choice and it is in the same vein as people would support legalization of recreational drugs - let people make their own decisions.

Wanna rock climb and take the risk? We should allow it just like we allow sky diving, climbing the Everest and sailing.

This kind of thinking leads to degradation of the society where no one will be allowed to take risks.
given the sheer number and scope of Apache projects, it would be nice to have the title mention what it is (eg, "Apache Arrow - in memory analytics - 1.0.0") esp when the linked page doesn't directly say.
Can't agree that the poppy farmers aren't thinking long term. Abusing the aquifer is the nash equilibrium. As soon as one person starts pumping everyone else has to too, because the water will be gone soon either way. This is a collaboration failure more than some sort of ignoring the long term for the short term.
Many international keyboard layouts (including German, Danish, and Icelandic) use AltGr to reach the third level shift. We need this key to type e.g. at (@), brackets ([, ], {, }), backslash (\), and tilde (~).

The ANSI (US) standard keyboard is also missing a key that is most often used to type the less then, greater then, and pipe (<, >, |) in most layouts (right of the smaller left shift key).

To make things worse Macs overload Alt and AltGr into a single Option key. This makes Mac keyboard really hard to use for programming (and makes many people accidentally close the window when trying to type @).

Most international programmers that I know have simply given up on their native keyboard layouts because of these problems.
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I would easily pay money for something that is like Google, but a bit better.
I honestly don't think the show has much to do with AI at all and is more like a retelling of the Greek classics in a sci-fi wrapping, which is actually something that comes up in the show at several points excplicitly.

The AIs in the show very quickly turn into godlike characters with antropomorphic personalities and the real world issues of AI such as surveillance, economics and so on are all dealt with in very shallow fashion. I had the same issues with Westworld too. It turns from an AI premise into a classical Christian morality tale very fast. ("we need to suffer to become conscious").
Next year, thanks to Starlink, all remote locations in the continental US will have great internet.

https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/
They said no career benefits. They don't usually get a promotion for knowing about X or a salary raise so its effects are indirect if they don't actually use it regularly like say a dentist knowing about dental implant options.
Looks awesome. Would be fun to play it now as I actually live in Stockholm from last year.

I wonder would it be possible to extend the game with more city types. Cyberpunk-city builder would quite interesting.
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This is not possible in market capitalism. Companies will produce as many cars as people will buy. Even if one company decides to restrict its production, another will fill its place. You need central planning to decide how many cars are to be built, and to be sure, if you look at the centrally planned economies of communist countries, they definitely did produce less than third the number of cars their citizens enjoy now.
I once went on a bobsled ride on an old Olympic track. 4-person bobsled, two professionals controlling the sled, two passengers. I think we didn't go into the final turn properly, and the sled rode high and the brakeman (rear) hit his helmet on the side of the track. He was a bit dizzy afterwards, but otherwise it wasn't treated as a big deal. If this kind of thing just happens on relaxed tourist runs, I can only imagine what's normalized in training and competition.
> When that happens, retail investors in Utah or Uganda will be able to short TSLA on a web app; no regulators involved

Can Americans legally trade securities and other financial instruments on an unregulated exchange? I think no - my neighbor Bob can't just open up a stock brokerage, and I dont see how this is any different.

Engaging in illegal financial transactions also makes it harder to seek recourse when you're defrauded.
I believe something like 10% of NYC is unbanked.
Google will let employees work from home until at least next summer
great point. I sometimes see TVCs absolutely loading their plates with food, and it makes me think about what a blessing it is for them to be able to access high quality food at least once per day.
There are new EU laws regarding charging infrastructure, which is not going to solve everything really, but help.

Pretty much all new buildings will require the infrastructure for charging at every parking spot, if you have parking inside the building. Buildings that undergo major renovations will also have this requirement. But actually charging points / boxes you have to install is a bit lower if I remember, only 1 per parking lot or something.

Thankfully these laws will also be applied retroactively from 2025, so all old buildings have to get their act together by then. These laws do not apply to singe family homes.
There are DRM and signing schemes, stegonography, etc, but in the moment, people don't care. Or rather, the message registers in their minds whether it happens to be true or not. It's how advertising works. Beliefs are essentially tribal, and we all believe our tribal sources. If a source of news isn't a part of your tribe, you're probably not going to believe what it's saying until someone from your ingroup verifies it. Crypto doesn't do that.

The irony is that we all trust crypto because of the perceived tribal affiliation of the developers as well, which doubly reduces the case for crypto verifying media.
Goodhart's Law

May be what OP is referring to.

I have seen it in teaching. Teachers need xx hours of training per year. Training often satisfies that requirement but provides no significant benefits in terms of pedagogical improvement or content knowledge.

Teachers that want to improve do so by other means. The training keeps us in compliance.
Needs more Christopher Walken
The ability of utilities to incorporate renewables seems to have improved over the years. I'm sure it will only get better. In particular the approach of handling excess production by producing "green" hydrogen and storing it in the natural gas distribution network seems promising.
Wouldn't that person's replacement just suffer the same fate?

It's better to correct the bad behavior than to kick it down the river.
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Same here. Not a huge fan of reading while standing packed like sardines.
That bobsleigh track was designed specifically to be faster than any other. They had to close part of it for the actual Olympics because someone died in training right before hand. They went for records instead of safety.
Re-pairing takes likes 2 seconds though when it works well, like with the airpods. It's just as fast as multi-point pairing without the downsides.
>Just curious, but why are poor people unbanked? It seems like one could open a bank account with pretty much $5 at almost any bank in the country.

With a $15/month charge for having less than $1000 in the account per month.

With a destroyed credit history when Wells Fargo and BoA continue their stock value pumping shenanigans and opening accounts in your name.
There is a distinction here that needs to be emphasized. We should absolutely allow people to smoke: what we should limit is the amount of money that goes into marketing, promotion, the big Philip Morris, government lobbying, and a whole bunch of backend work that goes into getting people addicted to Tobacco.

Simply restricting people from smoking is a blanket encroachment of personal liberty and should not be IMO entertained. As far as it doesn't damage others (like Guns), we should allow it.

I think warning labels on Cigarette boxes is an excellent idea - it informs the consumer of facts of consuming the product, whether they choose to do it or not is up to them.
Doesn't work as well - I think is a fairer way to put it.
We’re thinking about this. What we don’t want are domain speculators buying domains cheap and then doing nothing with them. That’s all cost and hassle for us. We want to let you register domains that you’re serious about doing something with. We’re running a bunch of experiments to see if we can allow new registrations of domains people are serious about without opening the domain speculation floodgates.
Or, just, you know, a city with modern density levels. This is entirely achievable even without some “techie town” if the density of an urban area is sufficient, as it is in many cities in the world.
I don't think the problem is really with the data set, it's that GTP-3 doesn't actually have any understanding of the data. It's building a model of the text input to generate text output. It's not building a model of what the data means, or what it represents.

When GTP-3 writes a scientific paper it's not trying to test a premise or critically evaluate some data, it's trying to generate text that looks like that sort of thing.

It doesn't matter how many excellent quality papers you fed it, or how stringently you excluded low quality input data, it would still only be trying to produce facsimiles. It wouldn't be actually trying to do the things a real conscientious scientist is trying to do when they write a paper. Arguably at best it might be trying to do what a deceitful scientist trying to get credit for a paper with spurious results with no actual scientific merit might be doing when writing a paper that looks plausible, but thats actually a completely different activity.

The code generation examples are really interesting. Here it's being used to generate real working code that has actual value, and it appears to work pretty well. It's code often has bugs, but who's doesn't? It only works for fairly short precisely definable coding tasks though. I don't think scaling it up to more complex coding problems is going to work. Again it doesn't understand the meaning of anything. It's trying to produce code that looks like working code, not actually solve the programming task you're giving it. It doesn't even know what a program is or what a programming task is. It doesn't know what input and output are. For example you can't ask it to modify existing code to change it's behaviour. It doesn't know code has behaviour. It has no idea what that even means and has no way to find out or any route to gaining that capability, because that's not a text transformation task and all it does is transform text.
Wait, why? It scales at least as well as in-person voting.
I'm hopeful, but skeptical.
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I don't actually know how it was done but based on the apparent 'ethos' of makers of impossible bottles, I would guess it's probably a legit baseball and still contains original baseball contents. It seems that these puzzle-makers are creating for the appreciation of their fellow constructors as much as they are for us newbs. I expect the 'good ones' don't rely on easy cheats as much as extreme cleverness, bespoke tools and jigs and painstaking specialized labor.

My guess as to the method is the maker partially unstitched the baseball at the seam and then cut the insides into slices. Then restitched the baseball with enough pieces absent to fit through the bottle's neck and leaving a large enough opening in the seam to insert the remaining pieces once in the bottle. Insert the partially open, partially full baseball then insert the pieces, perhaps with double-sided tape pre-applied so they remain in proper position. Then stitch the open seam closed.
Last I checked when I tried to the library last the blocker on stable was packed_simd, which provides vector instructions in Rust. I can imagine the arrow/datafusion-guy isn't too keen on dropping vectorized instructions as that would be letting up a huge advantage and I'm imagine it's used liberally throughout the code.

As for stablizing packed_simd, It's completely unclear to me when that will land in stable rust. I recently had a project where I just ended up calling out to C code to handle vectorization.

EDIT: According to, https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/issues/29, the effort looks abandonded/deprioritized, so it may be a long time before it sees stable rust
>Nobody can argue what the next accounting rules are

This is just not accurate.

Accounting rules not only can be argued, they are all the time.

FASB and GAAP are rife with subjectivity.

I have an accounting degree.
CKEditor (https://ckeditor.com/) releases their product using the GPL license. Most large business avoid the GPL since they don't want to release their own code in accordance with the GPL. CKSource, the company that releases CKEditor, sells commercial licences to those companies, and will issue free licenses to GPL-incompatible open source projects. https://ckeditor.com/pricing/
It does matter even by the numbers shown in the paper. It matters more than agreeableness, emotional stability and even conscientiousness. It just doesn't make up for intelligence.

Also, if you're lazy and smart, you're still going to be a loser. You'll still need some amount of grit.
Many newer games are still built on top of that source code to a certain degree as well. I remember recently reading about how Bungie built the engine for Halo 1 and pieces of it have been used in every single game in the series since then.
That logic doesn't hold up. The overhead in learning your way around a Google or Microsoft-sized codebase is much larger than learning a new language or framework.
When I first saw Arrow I thought the biggest benefit was a good file format. (Feather I think is the format. ) However it seems to be designed for passing tables between languages in the same process.

If I never use multiple languages in the same process can I safely ignore it or are there other benefits?
> Avoid email or WhatsApp as much as you can. They are private by nature and make it harder for people to jump in if needed.

Hallelujah!

To extend upon that, I think companies should pick one medium for internal communication and stick to it. Doesn't have to be Slack, but it can be Slack. Keep email for external communication, of course.

At every company I've worked some people would start threads in Slack and others would start them through email. This is a pain in the ass because now I've got to pay attention to 2 programs and email is just generally inferior for group communication.
What pandemic? Total mortal rate winter/spring 2019 higher than 2020 (for those not good at maths: winter/spring 2020 lower than 2019).

So, let's repeat the basic question:

WHAT PANDEMIC? If you trust maths (and you probably should...), then if you know the numbers and still talk of a "pandemic", you have a mental issue and should reach out for help ASAP.
There is good similar project that does it: https://www.programmingfonts.org/
Approximately 13 years in the field. At least four to five different organizations. Worked on everything from embedded aerospace systems to web apps and everything in between. Start-ups, mega-government labs, and again everything in between.

I've never seen a project use "Waterfall". It's just not a thing. People use it as a hypothetical boogeyman to "Agile".

As with everything "Agile", all words lose meaning.

Edit: There DOES exist the CMMI Systems Engineering processes, that generally involve various design reviews (PDR, CDR), IOCs, FOCs. These are essential for large-scale procurement that perform mission-critical functions. Superficially similar to "Waterfall", it still isn't. For example, you don't want to be on an aircraft or spacecraft that was "Agile"-ed to completion.
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