skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there are some other things you can say for certain. But as to some of your points:

> Watch out for positive-only feedback loops, you absolutely need negative feedback as well - or only. Eg. exponential back-off.

Agreed it may need negative feedback, but I'm not sure about always.

If your service has a latency SLA, exponential back-off might kill your SLA (depending on wordage and where the back-off is). The fix is to soft reject requests (RST rather than dropping packets) when you can't meet the demand. This change may allow you to meet your SLA if it's written to prioritize low latency over service unavailability.

This is it's own negative feedback loop, but change from sending RSTs to silently dropping and you no longer have the feedback.

> Sometimes, you just need a decentralized solution, rather than a distributed one

Agreed

> Loose coupling is your friend.

Until it isn't? :)

> add an extra layer of indirection, but you probably need to pay more attention to cache invalidation

Fixes for additional layers tend to increase system complexity compared to fixes for fewer layers.

> Throughput probably matters more than latency.

Until it doesn't :)

> Reducing the size/number of writes will probably help more than trying to speed them up.

Depending on 20 different things... You really have to account for all the system's limits (and business use cases) and find the solution that matches the implementation needs.

> there is probably a huge business for multi-tenancy-as-a-service

Sure, it's called EKS :-) Just build more clusters... Don't worry, we'll bill you...

> Don't overthink it

Yes and no; Yes, in that there will always be unknowns. But no, in that often improvements in communication will provide better solutions without extra work. Think smarter, not harder!
As interesting as the Mill looks on paper, it's hard to keep faith in this architecture ever coming to fruition with the decreasing press coverage [1] (8 articles in 2013, only 1 each in 2014, 2015, 2017, several about fund seeking) and lack of activity in the Implementation section of their Forum [2] (one nearly 1 year old thread and others nearly 3 years old or more).

[1] https://millcomputing.com/in-the-press/

[2] https://millcomputing.com/forum/the-mill/implementation/
> above-average network connections and super beefy computers

Googlers have been WFH since March on laptops and residential Internet & WiFi.
>Java , postgres and tomcat

That's his stack...

>So unless there’s some magic piece of technology that can take CentOS RPMs and make it work flawlessly on any Linux distro,

It's not magic, just alien.
The author creates a false dichotomy when they write that business is either about making profit or managing cash flow.

Making a profit requires cash flow management, but managing cash flow does not require making a profit. This article does talk about managing cash flows in a way that involves never making a profit.

First, and tangentially, it's interesting that real estate developers do this all the time.

Second, it's interesting that this article shows not only why cable companies regional monopolies are extant, but also that their continued existence relies on the preservation of those monopolies.

These and other companies that rely on a strategy of unfettered subscriber growth, in this case leveraged as a marketing tool to creditors to acquire additional debt, is no different than a Ponzi scheme. It makes the fatal assumption that subscriber growth can continue ad infinitum.

But, similar to the amount of free energy in a system, the number of potential subscribers remaining is finite. Eventually, cash flows will fail to meet the projections sold to creditors and established as assumptions in their financial models.

Thus arises a situation that remains tenable only as long as subscribers remain subscribed for as long as is required to service the debt outstanding at the time the growth stopped. Because the debt didn't go anywhere. It hasn't disappeared. Today that debt is sitting on the balance sheet of every one of America's cable providers: the direct result of a flawed line of thinking promoted by the author.

Consider the implications. To remove the regional monopolies of the cable companies is to not only destroy their subscriber base, and thus their cash flows, but also the cash flows promised to their legion creditors. Every one of these creditors now has a vested interest in the preservation of those monopolies, having themselves extended and received credit based on said promises of payment.

I propose that, contrary to the statements of the author, the proof presented by their friend is not "framed incorrectly". Rather, it shows something the author doesn't wish to see.
Fusion should lead to unbeatable specific impulses, so the huge size of a reactor may not be a problem at all. (Or maybe it is, I don't think anybody can be sure before there are actually working reactors out there.)
Sorta. Code is the medium of encoding a program, but it's just text. One important part about programming is it gives us a new mode to think in terms of. Another is that it gives us power over an entity (the computer) to execute things. The cool thing about Papert's LOGO was that children already knew how to think in terms of left, right, forward, etc. so they could act out their programs in real life before writing them down. This is one step forward, but not enough.

We have to stop looking at computers as machines with mice and keyboards and small screens that we conquer with code and start thinking of them as abstract entities that execute things, and then think of how best to manipulate those entities to do what we want.

"The computer is an instrument whose music is ideas" (Alan Kay) - Can you imagine what music would look like today if all we could do was write it down and hit play? Where's the emotion and playfulness in that?
Consider having this as your surname: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Čulo

I was rather startled when I saw the first e-mail from a new colleague, when either our e-mail system thought ASCII was good enough for everyone or, (more likely in this case) the accent got lost earlier due to migration and someone's indifference to ancestral heritage.

I would be intrigued to learn the actual story, but it's not the kind of question to ask casually of slight acquaintances, I think.
You don't really get to tell other people what the right way celebrate their heritage is...
I’ve run into this previously. Someone else mentioned this, but an assistant at a much lower hourly rate would likely be of value. I would try to do a cost/benefit analysis, maybe starting with the following questions:

- What is this individual’s billable rate?
- Is the administrative work something that could be done by someone at an hourly rate significantly less than the billable employee?
- Would freeing up the billable employees time from administrative work allow them to work more billable hours?
- What would the expected loss in billable work completed be if the employee was terminated or left?
- Etc.

I’ve done these calculations before, and while as a manager it is a bit irritating to have an employee not do parts of their job, there may be a business case for accommodating it.
The original design was done with function first and form received almost no attention which was typical for Google for a long time.

As design overall started to become more relevant in products Google started to push out their redesigns but it was done with form instead of function as the focus. They've never really re-designed anything to be better - their updates have usually made the product worse.

But without a strong design leader it's death by a thousand cuts because there are so many layers of management to getting anything done.
I love how low tech they are. Bluetooth and NFC and all that are cool, but not many of these protocols are compatible with a VT100 or plain old paper.
Vaccination is medical procedure. It's not different from other medical procedures. As such, it's part of patient-doctor confidentiality.

Put differently, when asked, you are not obliged to answer any questions about whether or not you are vaccinated. For instance, if I ask you whether you had a flu shot last year, you do not have to answer me.

What about public authorities? Same thing applies, unless vaccination is legally mandatory. Then we'd have a different discussion.

Finally, how many private businesses are willing to risk a court case over refusal of service because a patron isn't willing to divulge medical information? Not to mention potential violations of discrimination laws.
So i wonder if "being overtaken" by China is a better way to phrase it then.
Socializing what risk? What are you even talking about? Musk put his entire fortune from PayPal on the line for Tesla knowing that in all probability it would fail. It turned out well for him but it was still a huge risk he took.

I would argue that the opposite is true. California wants a larger cut of profits from business activity within their borders without any risk on their part, or even having to provide better services than competing states.
It doesn't benefit anyone outside the groups you mention, you're right. Many people outside those groups are lured by the false promise that they too could make it into one of those groups, so they work against their own interest.

http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/
The elimination of dedicated playlist pages also sucks for resuming progress in the middle of a playlist
Musk made it clear what he thought about worker’s rights when he forced the Tesla plant open during the pandemic:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52627744

The modern day robber barons will never care about the working class. It is up to us to look out for ourselves.
> It also highlights the need for everyone to get vaccinated as quickly as possible. Don't procrastinate when the opportunity arises, because there are people around you who can't be vaccinated or can't be vaccinated with vaccines available to them. You being vaccinated cuts off one more path the virus can take to them.

I would consider this faulty logic. I'm going to avoid taking a coronavirus vaccine until we have some actual data on the effects. Why would you rush to risk unknown consequences to your own health, and thus your ability to care for your loved ones if they get sick?
> It will end up in the pockets of friends and families of politicians that will be in "the management".

100% agree. Considering the incredible education system and engineers we have, the 2 only things restraining Europe from reaching Silicon Valley level are corrupt politicians and risk-adverse VCs.
Right, I had "until the very end" and removed it in a copy/edit. Thanks. I added it back.
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What percentage of Tesla employees will prefer living in Texas over California?
Sorry I painted too wide a brush... Some of the examples are integration examples, and I fully expect we'd have at least one example for Mapbox, Google Maps, ArcGIS, and hopefully more providers in the future.

The rest of the examples are to show deck.gl's capabilities. They currently use Mapbox GL JS v1 (recently changed to use Carto's basemaps so that new users can test deck.gl without any API key). Those examples focusing on deck.gl are what I meant to refer to originally; it seems unlikely we'd move them to GL JS v2, at least, because we aren't currently using Mapbox services with them. (But again, the team hasn't had full discussions about this yet).
Semiconductor sector usually has a No. 1 player which takes more than 50% of the market share of a specific application or business model. It is a very crowded field and very difficult to catch up to current leaders. Unless Europe has a game changing technology or business model, I am not optimistic about the outcome. They should think about working with Taiwan or South Korea instead of going alone. US end up persuades(orders) Taiwan to make sure TSMC builds a new plant in US.
Nothing in gp's post even remotely indicated that they thought it was
Alright, I just tried the exact same search query and there is something wrong with the responsiveness of the knowledge panel thing on the right side.
Tax requirement in CA doesn't allow for that. You can't own and live most of your time outside of CA to strictly avoid paying state taxes. This is multifold but I think a lot of it is to prevent people just buying up all the housing stock and putting pressure on the market as well as the state needing to make money since we have prop 13 challenges.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/residency-status/part-y...
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I'll be monitoring this post by "puppet" to make sure that "dang" removes it the way he removes all posts that are remotely anti-narrative (leftist).
>TSMC is slowly taken over by China

far from it
> These billing changes make some self hosted tile users go from $0 to tens of thousands of dollars a month in usage. It’s shady, don’t lie to yourself.

This only happens if the developer deliberately upgrades and adds a token. If you do nothing and you keep using v1 - nothing changes for you.
That’s why I said I’ll never understand them, not that they should be put in jail.
You may support YouTube's decision to do this. But I ask you, what about False-Positives? What if an instance of fraud did take place and discussion about it is removed because it's "unproven"? Everything starts out as un-proven.
Why isn't Netherlands mentioned btw? What semiconductors companies did Germany , France and Spain built so far?
Netherlands has ASML, NXP and ASM...
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That is quite a leap of logic there.
a quantum computer could do it in O(n^.5) with grover's algorithm
I forget where I read it, but some article described Uber's business model as "sell a dollar for 80 cents". You get a LOT of customers that way, and report huge growth, which brings in investors, and everything is great - until the pyramid scheme collapses.
I'm sure it does if you read Russia Today and Xinhua.
The DNI only admitted to one instance in the last year and it is rationally likely that other instances of the Patriot Act being used like this exist from pre2019.
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No, Democrats said Russia hacked the election results. For example Neera Tanden, Biden's OMB appointee, the President of a major liberal think-tank: https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/817744398939197442

Trump claimed that "Voting machines were not touched" by Russians in the 2016 election. Tanden said that was a "lie." The media massively amplified claims of Russian election hacking that never panned out: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/politics/russia-electi.... They played fast-and-loose with terminology, saying that "Russia hacked the 2016 election" when they meant that Russia hacked and leaked DNC emails. (Part of the problem here is that the media has taken to regurgitating Democratic talking points. Saying "Russia hacked the 2016 election" is a clever way for an Democratic activist to describe what happened, but its misleading when that same "hacking" terminology is used by the media.)

Nalder said that, without impeachment, Trump would "rig" the 2020 election: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-08/nadler-sa...

And people believed them. Even as of 2018, 66% of Democrats believed that "Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected President": https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
Death of an open-source business model
The consequence of this is not that I think Firefox is bad, by the way. It's that I think Google are a bunch of idiots.
Yes i am, redhat had a really good ride being the trustfully and good guy.
I've ran a lot of systems for the past 15+ years and I can honestly say that for servers, Debian is the most solid I've been able to run. (Debian, not Ubuntu). Especially because of its release cycle and no-nonsense vision. I'm not sure which Debian release you've had experience with, but ever since Debian Stretch it's been very solid.

Another system (altogether different since it's not Linux) that comes close to Debian in terms of solidness is FreeBSD. However, the experience of doing `dist-upgrade` for Debian from a release to another is miles better than `freebsd-upgrade` and the shenanigans of upgrading all your ports tree. I have to do that once every 2-3 years, and it takes an hour for Debian, whereas it takes half a day for FreeBSD (for example I just had to do that recently for a 10.x to 12.2 database running on FreeBSD system)

I would definitely NOT recommend Ubuntu. If one looks at Ubuntu and think it's like Debian - it's not. It doesn't come close at all in terms of robustness. An unrelated example: once you have Ubuntu up, there's tons of service that I don't know serves what purpose that's already running. For Debian, that does not happen, you have a minimal set running.

Also, you can keep running Debian for years before having to touch anything. This is one of the behaviour I'm looking for when I consider systems for work (what I mean by "solid"/"robust").

So rolling release systems like Arch serves a totally different purpose.
They are optimising for something other than performance. E.g. ease of maintenance, or ease of scaling
> Which is going to hurt since ZFS with buying everything up front is VASTLY more expensive than RAID where you can grow the array as needed - under the assumption that the storage needs grow slowly, which they typically do for home users.

Not with mirrored vdevs, which you can expand pair by pair.

I'm not arguing for the article, just pointing out your error. The article is very flawed and is bad advice. Not because it's bad per se, but the reasoning fails at basic mathematical analysis. There certainly are valid reasons to use mirrored vdevs. One might be, so you can more easily expand your pool incrementally.

Anyway, from personal experience, my thought is that home users should give up on the idea of "incremental expansion" anyway. Double up each time. I'm surprised that you want to say home users aren't going to use 8 drive setups, while at the same time decrying mirrors in favor of parity. If you have a low drive count, the storage efficiency of parity puts you close to that of mirrors anyway. raidz2 with 4 drives as you suggest makes almost no sense vs mirrors.
Put another way, it's taxing money (value) that you haven't actually made yet.
this is painfully true. at a previous company we went from forced-curve ranking, to a manager-driven model where EOY rankings were completely at manager discretion (though pay incentive was pre-allocated to be distributed at manager discretion).
Within a year new directives were provided on how the manager-driven ratings had to be distributed.

its a sickness
This sounds like something an underperformer who thinks they are doing great would say :)

I am kidding but my perspective (as someone who spent lots of time in both management and senior IC roles) is that thinking like this is harmful.

Sure, there are terrible managers out there but 95% of the time, if your manager and you disagree on your performance, they are looking at it from a perspective that you're missing.

I'll give you a few examples:

- "My manager doesn't appreciate good engineering, just rushes me to get features in."
- "No, your manager sees that you over-engineer non-critical parts of the system so you take way longer and your code is more complex than need be. He's been trying to help you make more pragmatic decisions but you're dug in on insisting he doesn't understand you, so you can't see that you can do something much better."

- "My manager is upset that I deliver extra features for our business. I think he's a control freak and he doesn't understand how much I do."
- "No, your manager sees that you keep doing one off favors for whoever asks, at the expense of slowing down the critical work that the team has committed to. Your manager works very hard to push back on the business and keep your roadmap clear, and you keep sabotaging it for the team."

- "My manager doesn't appreciate how many bugs I fix in our system. He keeps saying something that I don't think high level enough but I just think he's an asshole."
- "No, your manager recognizes that if all you do is fix bugs you will never rise in your level, and as someone who's considered a senior engineer, he needs you to step up and help the team figure out why they have so many bugs to begin with, and then work to solve those at root level. Also, your boss has a hard time fighting for a raise for you every year because his boss just says 'oh that guy just fixes bugs, no growth'"

These situations are super common. In each one, the employee is better off trying to understand what the manager is seeing and why they are suggesting something different. But when the employee has their head up their ass and starts from the point of view "everything I am doing is right and my boss just doesn't understand" they are screwing themselves, likely the team, and are way more in the "oblivious underperformer" category than they realize.
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I'd buy a car through Carvana (in principle), but I don't recall the prices being very attractive. It was the same or slightly more than what was available at traditional local places.
Yes, most places in the country have a massive deficit this year because states are spending money to protect their citizens and stimulate the economy. So this year is an odd year for most states... don't try and single out California as this bad actor that can't manage its finances. That narrative is misleading.
There are more links to other pages at the bottom, though the first one seems to take you to the original page
I think I have been one of these employees before. However, management basically did the opposite of what was suggested here. Goals were so vague and corporate-speak and abstract that they were indecipherable. Expectations were kept vague. I was routinely praised for average work and ignored for good work. Managers canceled 1 on 1s and never renewed them. It was a constant uphill battle to get managers to actually talk to team members because they also wore other hats like project manager, product owner, etc.
Yet another "oops" to add to the pile

https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871246510264320
And even Airbus is widely thought to being dependent on under the table government funding to keep it afloat, and keep its pricing competative. The line between private and government is blurred when EU is usually involved as well.
Central Europe actually
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>Basically akin to a hostile government takeover.

Or, you know, taxes to pay for the government subsidies that have funded all of Musk's current business operations.
Sounds like Transmeta.

Anyway, these alternative/exotic computing models also remember flops like the old Transputers. But it is necessary to invest in those anyway.
Could be the latter.

But Every process can be prone to glitching. Just mess with the “how many password failures have occurred? If >10 start erasing” process and there’s no such thing as too much failure anymore.

iPhones used to increment (or save the increment) after the password entry failure, so bypassing used to be as simple as quickly disconnecting power before your failure got recorded.

It’s also possible they can make copies of enough data and have a “slave” iPhone embedded in the device to continue cracking offline, just in case only the guts of an iPhone can do the decoding.