skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pedantic answer would be to allow customers to specify both minimum storage space and minimum IOPS. Then charge them for whichever is the larger portion of a drive and provide the space and IOPS that they are then paying for.

This way, if you need 10MB but also 25,000 IOPS, then you'll pay for ~10% of a drive. You'll get your minimum required 25,000 IOPS....and also 200GB or whatever share of the drive is required to get you those IOPS.

At the end of the day, I'm not entirely sure it matters whether the cloud provider breaks it out like this as long as it at least has a little gray UI element under the specified storage space slider that reads out the IOPS to you.

It would be exactly the same as the current situation where customers do this manually. So probably not particularly necessary - why make customers fill in additional fields they might not need to?

I do think cloud providers should make it clear during requisition and read back how many IOPS you're getting, just for clarity.

It does seem like having temporarily high quotas and then throttling back seems to break developer experience. Good deeds and punishment - but in this case there's a solid underlying reason why it has detrimental effects.
If you cut off your arms will you no longer have to wash your armpits?
Yes, it is true that there are SOME professors with chairs. Not that all professors have a chair. analog31 already explained this in response to your last comment.
It's expected the outrage was due to a migration, the majority of test is design to cover new feature/bug fix.

A migration is way more complex, it can touch multiple different components and at Google scale that mean different teams, it can be impossible to test this kind of migration without having a testing platforms as big as prod and if Google do it, maybe all gcp will not be enough.

This "unclear" reason can hide a bigger issue like a security bug fix, or just an important migration to go somewhere.

It look like covid19 hit everything, since it begins, attack increases a lot and security need to step up, really fast. Some manager have trouble to handle the full remote situation, some engineers have trouble too, all that combined can create small hole, so some outrage.

How many migration they do way more complex than this one without issue?

I don't think engineering culture is degrading, but shit happen and in extreme situations we see problems easier.

if this outrage was due by a feature or "massive hardware" , we can be very worrie about it
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I find persisting data to /dev/null is very effective for highly secure and consistent data storage requirements. It’s also very performant.
I think this depends on the field. If you're working 5+ years at a postdoc earning no money that time would have probably been better spent in industry.
And yet another definition of "Open"/ "Closed" is born.
I think that an article like this that doesn't emphasize the fact that a placebo is still treatment is remiss. The naive reading is that surgery is useless, but that is not at all the conclusion if compared to a placebo.

The neuroscience of placebo effect(s) are super cool and quite difficult to study. Pain-related ones which involve release of endogenous opioid receptor agonists are fairly well mapped out, and similar circuits for blood pressure and other physiological functions controlled by the brain can be imagined. I've read about placebo antibiotics, though, which presumably involve the immune system in cool ways. There have been big investments by NIH into the idea that we should be treating a lot more disease with neurostimulation, but I think so far this has not paid off...
This is a problem with bad developers - the general idea of patterns makes a ton of sense because pattern recognition is important and it makes it easier to reason about the properties of various parts of code.
True, but it’s still irrelevant to attaining a new job. Ultimately it’s a conversation about adding value and distractions that detract from value are a net negative on both sides of the table.
>> Attacking Apple through such campaigns only shows how less Facebook actually cares about user’s privacy. In fact, it clearly portrays that Facebook is only interested in retaining and monetizing off the user’s personal data to preserve their monopoly

I don't understand naivete like this. Businesses are there to provide a product and in return, make money. They are entities that don't "care" about anything -- good or bad.

OF COURSE they care about maintaining their competitive advantage. Which business doesn't? Why is that cause for outrage?

It's like saying: "Monkeys are only interested in picking out lice and eating bananas. Shame on them."

The personification of companies and the outrage over that personification just seems misinformed.
There’s multiple parts to Weird Al’s Licensing scenario, because oddly - The law separates out copyright on what we broadly know as “songs” into two parts. The lyrics are legally distinct from the melody that they are sung to[1].

Weird Al licenses his parodies, both the lyrics and the music, but additionally asks for permission from the singer/songwriter out of respect for the artists. Often the copyrights on both lyrics and melody are assigned to someone (or usually, corporate entity) other than what we think of as the “Artist”. He possibly (depending on the song in question) has a legal case for some of his lyrical parodies (Not so much “The Saga Begins”, but “Addicted to Spuds” is certainly a parody of love songs in general and “Addicted To Love” in that blast radius), but he plays the original melody, and that requires him to license his work.

Apropos but distinct: Figuring out the copyrighting entity, or if there’s a copyright at all, is itself a challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#Copyrigh...

[1]https://www.copyrightuser.org/create/creative-process/going-...
At some point, I tried this as an experiment. Instead of doing things myself, I tried to hire people to do it for me.

I tried a few different things, data labeling, custom sewing work, custom car modifications.

Turns out that the work was either done badly when it came to fairly common tasks or people refused to outright do it when it was custom work. I've seen the same thing when I looked at what happened when friends hired others.

Maybe there's a point where you have enough money to hire highly qualified people. But I doubt it's anywhere below $10M net worth. Below that you're just not likely to start handing out $150 per hour for what I would consider fairly standard yard or other work. At least I'm not.

Or maybe the trick is to hire a supervisor as well. So first you hire someone to do the work and then you hire someone to supervise it. Unless of course the supervisor also does a bad job. But then I can hire a supervisor for the supervisor.

Most likely I just wasn't good enough in the hiring process. So I probably should have hired someone to do the hiring for me. But what if I hired the wrong person, because I'm not good at hiring?

Now I'm sitting on piles of money and I'm still doing everything myself.
So should we be using zoom? Does China have a back door?
I don't deny that the world needs people who can be dedicated to intellectual pursuits - but the stagnation you've described might be further proof that academia itself is the reason the job isn't getting done. There are hundreds of well-regarded universities in the world, many with massive private endowments - if just one of those universities could prove that they are capable of advancing valuable knowledge without falling into that publishing trap - why wouldn't they? All of these institutions claim to have education and knowledge discovery as missions, but all they seem to do is build up barriers in the name of elitism.

The world needs innovators, discoverers, creatives, and engineers - but why is a university structure required for someone to be acknowledged as such? The market's needs certainly can't drive every valuable intellectual discovery - but I don't think they preclude them. Government agencies (NASA, EPA) are also capable of doing research and publishing.

To be clear, I do think academia does serve a valuable role and is a good thing in general. I just think that it's grown too broad in scope - probably because of the massive availability of government grants and competition for those grants.
I’d go for something a little more tiered. First Harry Potter book came out in 1997. Do I think publishers or printing press companies should be allowed to sell Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone without giving Rowling money? No I do not.

But I wouldn’t extend that past 50 years. And I might set compulsory licensing of some kind. Particularly for redistribution of existing work. I think some type of gradient between 20 to 50 or 30 to 50 makes sense.

I also like the idea of having copyright expire after 10 years but require an increasing annual fee to extend. This would allow abandoned IP to recirculate but still give creators control over their work if it’s worth their time and money. I’d make the fee growth non-linear so that very few things are worth extending beyond 20 or 30 years. It’s a variant of “use it or lose it”.
Hi! I like your comment, so thank you.

> This persuasion can be purchased by the highest bidder

Yes. In other words, they're purchasing weighted edges in the social graph: buying new edges (that send peer signals toward the target within a graph of social influence), or amplifying weight of existing edges representing peer relations. The whole attention economy is not actually about the knowledge or content that flows through this network, rather it's all about buying/building/fortifying edges/connections between marks and those who will exert influence on them, in the direction favoured by the buyer. It's the shape of the network that's damaged, not the content flowing through it (which we've never had more access to). Empathy is just an existing biological solution to a similar network problem, maybe even a biological technology (sorry, can't help it with the weird jargon here -- was a biochemist in a past life).

> My idea is an app, forum, or social group which pairs individuals to discuss issues

It's a neat idea, but to be clear: why would people participate? I feel that without a self-interested reason, audience would bias toward process-oriented and highly empathic people who already care for the sake of caring. (I would participate, for instance.) imho some aspect of participation needs to give the process and participant teeth they didn't previously have, or give the participant power in a larger system. That's why people vote. That's why they run for election. That's why they join boards/committees. My mindset is interested in empathic tools primarily where they marry power-seeking and empathy together again in a new process.

It's a neat idea though, and don't take my words for discouragement pls! It's one thing to seek social/tech tools that sit beside charity or art or altruism in the cultural landscape (which it sounds like you're rolling around), but it's another to seek social/tech tools that sit alongside elections or Robert's Rules or other governance processes (where I believe Polis operates). We definitely need more people looking for opportunities here, so I'm grateful you're thinking on these things :)
Not the case in my field - biomedical. The hiring manager at a large pharmaceutical company told an audience of postdocs & graduate students at a career event a few weeks ago that they prefer to see a postdoc of at least 2-4 years to be considered for a senior scientist position.
I read this and identified with it, and then read your username
This is such a great experience post and review, really enjoyable to read this, I may choose some online courses in the near future, thanks for posting.
The AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't have enough supplies for that when you count all the countries that have ordered it, and isn't effective enough to create herd immunity by itself (most likely 60-70%).
Sure but if it's just a placebo, there are probably cheaper and safer ways of achieving that affect. Even a routine surgery can be really risk.
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Is Clojure better for applying linting to more benefit than other languages then?
I feel like the focus now should be on architecture rather than patterns.

We know how to write good widgets now, but designing your program such that it scales well and doesn't rot is still difficult (e.g. lots of mutable state is fast but is much harder to scale when you introduce concurrency)
GEOS was written largely in assembly from everything I’ve read.

Apparently this and other things did not go over well with developers (apparently the apps needed to be done at least partly in assembly too). Wikipedia:

GeoWorks attempted to get third-party developers but was unable to get much support due to expense of the developer kit — which ran $1,000 just for the manuals — and the difficult programming environment, which required a second PC networked via serial port in order to run the debugger.

Even though PC/GEOS is referred to as an "operating system", it still requires DOS in order to load. GEOS and its applications were written in a mix of 8086 assembly (Espire) and C (GOC), both with non-standard language extensions to support the object-oriented design.[5][9]
It's suddenly dawned on me in the past month or so that the era of growth for many American ways of life is at an end. Not just academia.

The post-war, post-energy boom should have been obvious. Millennials have been complaining about lack of job growth, housing, and affordable education. Their parents had lower-hanging fruit to pluck. (I'm assuming this isn't just some myth I've been told about the 60's - 90's.) The blame is sometimes placed on "bad Boomer policies", but I'm not so sure. It feels as though we burned through the "easy" years.

In academia, international students aren't flocking to US institutions anymore. The playing field has been leveled.

Asian tech is coming into prominence at full stride and is reminiscent of Japan's meteoric rise.

The manufacturing story is obviously much different.

Is this happening because the rest of the world caught up? Or did America put investments in the wrong places?

What's causing this, and how do we get back to prosperity for all young Americans?

Am I simply missing the areas where things have improved?

Genuinely curious about thematic ideas / shifts, what we might change, or if my views are wrong.
Wonderful film. One of my favorites and one of the few that I return to time and again. The music is excellent as well, as the piece points out.
This seems like a strange sort of criticism to be levying. Am I supposed to be shocked to learn that the barbarian horse lords in a fantasy series have very little basis in real world history?
I don't think Astrazeneca is banned. maybe they dont have FBA approval.

Also they illegally marketed their psychotic drugs to children under kickbacks from doctors
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Health/astrazeneca-pay-520-m...
Prob a safety req foe most work or travel. You gonna need one or another.
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Not just censored, apparently framed as terrorists:

> The extent and detail of the alleged campaign to make pro-Democracy activists look like criminals is, frankly, shocking.

> "Jin's co-conspirators created fake email accounts and Company-1 accounts in the names of others, including [People's Republic of China] political dissidents, to fabricate evidence that the hosts of and participants in the meetings to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre were supporting terrorist organizations, inciting violence or distributing child pornography," reads the DOJ press release. "The fabricated evidence falsely asserted that the meetings included discussions of child abuse or exploitation, terrorism, racism or incitements to violence, and sometimes included screenshots of the purported participants' user profiles featuring, for example, a masked person holding a flag resembling that of the Islamic State terrorist group."

> The allegations go beyond simply shutting down some Zoom calls and monitoring others. According to the DOJ, families were targeted by authorities in China as a result of the information Jin provided. Specifically, family members of those who had planned to dial into the call were harassed, and one person was jailed.
Well, the constitution is pretty clear -- the police powers belong to the states, there's not much the federal government can do (short of amending the constitution):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co...
The professors I’ve worked with usually only get that title when they have a couple of decades of experience and are at the very top of their fields with international recognition and will of course be funded and tenured. It sounds like you’re using ‘professor’ to mean something far more junior which is why we aren’t understanding each other.
Further reading: https://research.checkpoint.com/2019/select-code_execution-f...

I've never seen mention of this being fixed in any way. SQLite is not an acceptable format to transfer between computers.
I can’t really answer that, but I can say I find the subject matter fascinating and relating it to a show with which I’m familiar helps ground the material a little for me. So I really enjoy it, even knowing that the Dothraki have little basis in real world history.
If they do as good a job as Apple, I'm pretty sure they can emulate a 12 year old CPU pretty well.
This. Several years ago, I sat through a panel (at a university) in which representatives from various businesses tried to lecture a bunch of academics about how the university is a hidebound institution, and that if doesn't "get with the times" it will be crushed by the new technological world order.

I recall noting that "the university" had not only outlasted any particular firm they could name, but had indeed survived the rise and fall of empires. I also noted the irony of being lectured by a representative from Big Blue about one's inability to "pivot."

"The university" is a remarkably resilient institution. That doesn't make it a good institution, but we should pause before we analyze them with the kind of narrow-minded presentism we see in this post. Universities have survived these many centuries not because they refuse to change, but because they're better at changing than even the nation states that have supported them.
I also opted for 8GB and a 250GB SSD. I've found that my M1 Mac Mini has completed replaced my Window desktop (an old i7, 16GB RAM, TB of SSD/HDD, nvidia 1070).

I mostly use my Mac for personal projects in TypeScript, Swift, and Java, and for browsing the web. I also play video games occasionally, and I'm surprised at how good the performance is.

It's incredibly fast, and at $700 it's a steal. Normally with Apple you pay a pretty hefty premium if you want performance, but the M1 makes it much more accessible.
Also, what's I really like about Subscript compared to LaTeX is stuff like this:

<desmos>
<expr>y = x^2</expr>
</desmos>

Not that the above is hasn't yet been moved over from the original Subscript repo, unless you use e.g. this: https://github.com/subscript-publishing/subscript/blob/maste...
1. This is an ongoing series of blog posts, this has been done for various civilizations from various works.

2. The first post in the Dothraki series specifically talks at great length about how strongly we should criticize such "incorrect" civilizations in fiction. Ice & Fire is particularly worth criticizing because both the books and the TV show are often (incorrectly) said to resemble real history, so people might think there actually were or are societies like the Dothraki.

3. It's fun and educational. The blog is literally called "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry". Not everything has to be a life-changing TED talk or a hot take callout.
I think you're misunderstanding what "placebo effect" means. Colloquially it's applied to things that "do nothing," or have only a psychological impact but in reality the placebo effect continues to work even when people are fully aware that what they are taking is a placebo:

1. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jebm.12251
2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152659001...

So the situation is more complicated than "figment of your imagination" or "wishing it away" (this doesn't work and isn't what placebo is referring to by they way - you have to actually receive a treatment even if that treatment has no direct effect) - it's clearly a real biological effect. Just the mechanisms are more obscure.

There's obviously a limit to what placebo effects can accomplish even if they can be positive, and I think the goal & point made is that because surgery is inherently risky, there should be an expectation of benefit over and above what can be accomplished with risk-free methods; ie., that surgeries which are shown to be only as effective as placebo should probably not be performed.
Polyethylene is usually used to shield against cosmic rays. Nearly identical shielding performance as water. Slightly less weight per volume. Can be formed easily and retains its shape.
150/hr for fairly standard yard work? Shit, I used to do 'fairly standard' yard work for a twentieth of that. Or do you mean hiring an entire team of people at that rate?
> So ad companies' revenue gets shifted to Apple's app store,

This presumes that everyone who is currently using add supported apps will start paying for apps which is unlikely.

There will continue to be ad supported software, it will just be less profitable. Likely at least some developers will shift to paid, but not nearly all.
A fresh postdoc able to secure an academic job joins as an "Assistant Professor". Fresh Assistant Professors usually cannot recruit PhD students, have limited funds to establish their lab, and no job security. It takes several grades and 15+ years to reach the position of "Professor", which comes with tenure.
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Wouldn't this barrier to entry apply to any industry with high capital costs?

Container shipping, aircraft manufacturing, maybe tesla.
Viruses do it all the time. It can indeed cause trouble, but a random mutated rhinovirus is more likely to do so (allergies, typically) than a vaccine which was developed specifically to not cause any damage.
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The next gen will almost certainly be better (faster, more efficient, etc.), but that's true of any computing product you buy.

It's impossible to say if the next gen will be a giant leap where you'll feel bad for "wasting" money on the previous gen, or if it'll be just a small upgrade.
A friend's child had snoring problems before the age of 5, possible obstructive sleep apnea. There can be serious developmental consequences to this, some of which were showing early signs.

The specialist diagnosed his tonsil enlargement as grade 3 (4 maximum) and recommended tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. This is recommended in grade 3s with his symptoms; strongly advised in grade 4s. But the specialist gave them thorough context that led them to go against his advice. Children go through 2 growth spurts of the neck around ages 5-7 and ages 10-12. After these growth spurts the ratio of tonsil mass to neck cavity decreases, giving even large tonsils more room -- possibly enough to no longer require surgery.

They pursued simpler treatments like saline sprays before bed to make nose breathing easier, which greatly reduced snoring. Developmental delays were caught up, and now at 6 years old they are glad they avoided the surgery, though admit it wasn't necessarily bad advice and were prepared to reconsider it if no progress was shown in 6 or so months.
Trying to figure out how Google Cloud IAM works
Thanks. I've got an MBA6,2 lying around so may give it a go over the holidays.
I want to frame your first sentence. Abstract code discussions are absurd. I’ve learnt to mostly ignore programming blogs if they don’t include some concrete code.