skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least when GCE tried to recruit me -- now almost a decade back -- it was with millions of dollars of concessions where they would clearly be operating at a loss. We tried them.

If, instead of $$$, they had treated customers like human beings rather than statistics, that might have paid off. As is, I'd say the effect was literally the same as if Google had poured millions of dollars into the California wildfires by quite literally dumping paper dollar bills into the fire. Google lost a bunch of money, and their problem went from few customers to vocal, dissatisfied ex-customers.
Why do you think this is the best book? And would someone's background, or lack thereof, in other fields of mathematics not have a bearing on that assessment?
The current situation is not a mess; it works pretty well:

* Manufacturers configure their devices to ship with reasonable default settings, where is CSS pixel is roughly the same apparent size for everyone.

* Users who want content to be displayed larger or smaller can change their device scaling, which then makes their CSS pixels larger or smaller.

* Web developers can write for CSS pixels, knowing the content will display at a reasonable size for the user.

> if you buy a bigger monitor, everything just gets bigger, including most of fonts, unnecessarily

It sounds like you're probably sitting closer to the monitor then expected? Lower your device scaling and things will be a better size in all programs including the web browser.

> on high-resolution screens there is sometimes big empty space on the left and right side because it is just "highest-width" media query and designers didn't expect you would have so many pixels horizontally

I think this is also running into user preferences and design. If I'm reading an article, and there is just one stream of text, I'm quite happy for it to take a 40em strip down the middle of my screen. If the text ran edge to edge it would be much harder to read, because it's hard to keep your place when jumping to the next line.
This was the story given to public. The reality was that all of the infrastructure for AWS was brand new purpose built for AWS. There was no sharing between the stacks. Source worked there in the early days. The story sold was that Amazon was utilizing spare capacity from retail side, completely wrong.
The issue is most of the time the decision maker has no clue about that. In B2B enterprise the product is not a big part of the decision to buy or not.
The warning sounds good but that use case makes sense - often it's better to allow "slightly unclean" data to make the format work better than to demand that someone work out how to add 40h to a total by splitting it over multiple days
> Fungibility is whether an asset (ie. individual assets within a particular class of asset) is interchangeable with one another.

Of course. This is synonymous with my own explanation. However your take is that it means that after you've made it interchangeable, then the bank or exchange somehow automatically gets more rights over it. That just isn't the case. Unless there's an express prior agreement, it's also morally wrong.
>This argument sounds sort of frivolous, but it is actually quite strong.

if you have kids they will probably be dead

if you don't have kids but are planning on having kids within <9 years your kids will probably be dead.

If you don't have kids but are planning on having kids within 10-12 years your kids will probably not be dead (at current average life expectancy) but will probably be so old they are almost dead and their best years will have been behind them anyway. Perversely as climate change is supposed to decrease average life expectancy your kids will probably be dead anyway.

If you are planning on having kids in 12-20+ years they will probably not be dead then.

If you have kids within 1-20 years and they have kids your grandkids are going to be dealing this somewhere between their teens to their middle age, depending on how soon you have your kids and how soon they have their kids but going by current demographics, probably middle age if you have a kid now and probably teens or younger if you have one in 20 years.

on edit: I do not find the argument particularly strong unless one is not good at simple math, or one does not care about grandkids.
Yes. Again, properly estimating X1, X2, T and C is so difficult in most cases that this strategy is not really applicable (notable example: technical debt).
Clubhouse's Moment Arrives
It's a great project, so why do you think you need a "Sign in and star GraphScope" dark pattern on the sandbox page?
> East Asian SMS systems need to implement multi-byte encoding for “real characters” anyway so it’s considerably less friction to add some fun ones. That’s much more difficult argument to make if you’re designing a system for the American audience.

It definitely helped, but the reality is that the carriers also have (had?) complementary e-mail services provided for free or low-cost, which was uncommon in the rest of the world (especially in the '90s and early 2000s!). For example, au (part of KDDI) had implemented their emoji (before standardisation) using image tags.
LibreOffice 7.1 Community Edition
The author is joking. The article is tongue in cheek.

You can get a MS in CS from Georgia Tech for roughly $7,000 US dollars total cost... if you can get accepted and complete the work. GT's CS program is consistently ranked in the top 10 CS programs world wide.

https://omscs.gatech.edu/

Today, you can easily earn a six figure salary anywhere in the US with this degree (provided you have good work ethic and are reasonable to get along with).
Love to do that once with him! Don't think I have seen in him in the wild at the museum. I did see Tom Holland (the author) in Member's Room once
I wonder if that might actually be some kind of justification for the infamous idea of a Ireland-Scotland bridge?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-496610...
Right, Windows has a stable C API, but the comment i replied to was about a platform libc.
Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper
A 747 built 1970 is very different than a 747 built in 2020. Barring PR issues etc, SpaceX could be using an ever improving version of Starship for a very long time.
This is a ridiculous problem. Stop installing smart phone apps. Even better, get rid of your smartphone.
> It is way better to empower the tech and UX people

And who empowers them if not the PM ? I mean in theory you could say that to get a product, you only need a designer and a developer. But you know the reality is different. This is not a hazard that most successful tech companies have PM (except Apple)
Venus Flytraps Produce Magnetic Fields
Ah yes, i've forgotten about it. I wonder how reliable that is as i noticed a bunch of applications i have ship their own copy of ucrtbase.dll.
Love this! Would love to see more features in there I know someone mentioned charts which is great! Other features could be news/fundamentals! Let me know if you want to brainstorm my Twitter is in my bio. I used to work at a data vendor that competed with Bloomberg have plenty of ideas!
Not if you value time.
Building in Public Definite Guide: Use Transparency to Win
This is really a thing which happens with the glibc allocator and long-lived applications. Back in the day I had a custom chat server which consistently used more and more memory until after about a month it ran out of memory and crashed. I spent quite a while investigating, even annotating every malloc/free in the program to find the leak, only to conclude that there was simply no leak at all in the program and it was some effect in the allocator itself. (Rather than spending time trying other allocators, the "solution" was to schedule a server restart every couple of weeks, early in the morning when no one was using the system.)
What are people doing that requires this?
I prefer `qlist` and `qfile` from app-portage/portage-utils [0] as the q versions tend to be faster.

[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Q_applets
GraphScope addresses on computations on extermely large graphs, e.g., the friendship networks of all facebook users, the hyperlink relations between all webpages around the world, and so on.

Typically the graph may have billions of nodes and 10x billions of edges. Obviously the graph data cannot be fit into a single machine to run alogrithms like SSSP or pagerank. And a single machine usually doesn't have enough cores for the computation, e.g., an interactive query couldn't return within milliseconds. That why we need distributed graph processing system for such big graphs.
By definition, empirical data is observed from the present or past.

If you are asking for empirical data from the future, you are asking for time travel.
It seems a simplistic answer but... hard physical work does wonders. Workout is OK but cutting woods, moving earth, building wooden things really put mind to peace.
Maybe our wonderful tech work is just the new version of the boring secretary job in old movies.
We need to run, sweat, build.
I wrote the best pieces of code and engineered long lasting architectures after such activities.
-Incidentally, my curiosity got the better of me today and I rang up the AKG distributor to inquire about a spare driver for my 1990s vintage K240 cans.

'Sure can do, but if you're willing to shell out another $11, we'll sell you a pair of drivers, wrapped in a headphone-shaped box - it even comes with a cable, ready to plug in!'

So, I guess AKG are like any other brand - after market is considered 'free money' and an invitation to fleece the customer...

(Though in fairness, for such a cheap-ish pair of headphones as the K240, the logistics of even keeping a spare inventory probably makes AKG lose money on selling me a new driver, even at the $70-ish price point I was quoted for a driver which goes into an $80 pair of headphones.)
One thing that helped me manage anxiety was to monitor my caffeine consumption more
closely. I found that if I went over a certain threshold (> 4-5 cups of espresso)
my overall functioning was pretty severely impacted. Sometimes this resulted in me
waking up super stressed and not relaxed at all in the morning and not getting
enough sleep overall. Now I have a strict no coffee/tea after 14:00-15:00 policy. If I feel particularly stressed after a work day I go for a run to really exhaust my remaining energy.

I also tend to make lists ~1-2 hours before going to bed, categorised by project,
for the next day, so that I can let go of all the tasks that I can't accomplish right now.
I really like Things (paid app for macOS / iOS) for that purpose, but also toyed
with org-mode and task-warrior.
Fireward: A concise and readable language for Firestore security rules
Category Theory is one of those things which I know are important and has applications in many engineering fields. I also have an intuition that its obviously because things need to flow into each other and composability is how we achieve that. But man, whenever I try to get into this I feel like someone is hitting me on the head with equations.
"Companies do tend to promote good programmers to architect, and you don't want to miss out on those programmers."

Everything in your responce sounds to me like in your view, architect is 'extra senior' developer, whereas I understand it to be a different job. Isn't what you are describing a principal engineer?

"In particular it tells the difference between someone who shows their own code versus shows someone else's code and lies about the source. (Yes, I have seen that.)"

To eliminate that possibility, you can ask questions about the code, how it was designed, etc. Presumably if they stole the code, they are not going to know it inside-out, like the author would.
Great topic. I’m curious how much we ascribe “flow” in a team setting after the fact. Unfortunately the article doesn’t help on conclusions.
Mindcastle.io: Secure Distributed Block Device for Edge and Cloud
Except state machines aren't that good at handling complexity. This generally boils down to:

- The number of possible transitions scales quadratically with the number of nodes

- They're not very composable

Plus, there are many things that compile down to state machines, such as Regex or async/await, because they're a pain to write directly.
What's up Hacker News!

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Click on any product link and submit your shipping and payment details securely using the Universal Checkout overlay; Heartface's Automated Order Injection (AOI) Engine then passes your order straight through to the retailer. Our goal is to build a seamless, secure and privacy-respecting way of discovering and shopping products from content, price comparision, social shopping platforms or anywhere else.

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Just split up that monopoly. Amazon is not a success story it’s a fail story for market regulation.
CSS pixels are good for layout, not just sizes and positions, because a pixel (in a browser) now represents an apparent size. That is, if the user has a large device far from their face, or a small device close to their face, a pixel represents a similar portion of their vision. If they want things larger, they can adjust the scaling so a pixel represents a larger apparent size, or the reverse.
> if a system can be brought to its knees by a single person, then the system is very likely flawed.

That just means that the person who designed the system deserves the blame.

I'm only half-joking here. You can't just rely on the "system" – someone needs to be responsible, either for the decision or for creating the system that makes the decision.
Thanks for the comment! I know that I am putting something out here, which is definitely controversial. I was a PM myself for a long time...

To your question: I think it is the role of management to empower the devs and UX people. To your point about Apple: Isn't it amazing that one of the or even the most successful company on this planet doesn't have any PMs?
I like that the article offers practical solutions like funding community-building initiatives.
Angst when waking up can be tied to cortisol/etc dysfunction - hormone/endocrine imbalance.

Cortisol gives us "panic", it's how we wake. Not showing off, just figure it could help your research.
RNA Memory Hypothesis
I doubt that. The Brighton Hotel bombing that targeted PM Thatcher and killed an MP didn’t seem to result in very much for the IRA, and the Good Friday agreement was 13.5 years and a change of governing party later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
I tried dpi.lv on my 2 monitors and my phone. It said:

Resolution: 3360 × 2100 Diagonal: 13.3″
Resolution: 2560 × 1440 Diagonal: 13.3″
Resolution: 2160 × 1080 Diagonal: 13.3″

(my monitors are 15.5" and 27" diagonal, my phone is 6")

Maybe I'm crazy for using my phone in landscape mode, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to tell which of those measurements is a phone.
Show HN: KeeNotes - a Privacy-First Personal Knowledgebase Tool
KeeNotes is a Privacy-Preferred Personal Knowledgebase Management Tool.

It's light, it's small and it's confined for you only.

Since I have continuously polish this tool, I would like to share it with you.

I hope you can give it a try and any feedback is preferred.
Yes. “What can I promise on the roadmap to close this deal?” is very different than “What is best for the roadmap?”

You can’t trust a salesperson to think about the broader good when half their comp is tied to specific deals.
I'm not sure how that is relevant. The price of the option will decay to zero or to its intrinsic value and if it ends in the money one side will give $X to the other at the end. Someone also paid a premium to the other (ignoring the bid-ask spread and transaction costs). Peter's gain is Paul's loss. You have 50/50 probability of being Peter or Paul.
> it's reflective of an attitude where old stuff is hung out to dry even before the officially-committed time horizons have expired.

As mentioned in another comment, the “officially-committed time horizon” is imposed by Ubuntu, and it does not make sense to apply it on pip maintainers. Python 3.5 was retired by CPython in September 2020.
Xterm still has Tektronix emulation. You should see "Show Tek Window" in the middle button menu.
It might have gone past unnoticed, but the ferry industry (at least in Europe) in general has been shrinking significant the last 20 years. At the same time air travel and car usage has gone up. Train usage seems to sit somewhere between.

A revival of the ferry industry, even if it just because of brexit, is interesting. The industry is also in dire need of modernization and electrification, and if done, could be much more ecological than bridges and increased road capacity. Energy efficiency in transport is generally in favor of more transportation over water.
Go outside as soon as possible after waking up.
Edit - pointless comment removed.
> Are you saying that your device doesn't let you silence application notifications?

It does, but I assumed the DND mode was back to the scheduled mode. I also was _completely sure_ that I had set everything up so, under no circumstance, I was going to be awaken in the middle of the night –spoiler: I was wrong–.

> If you're getting woken up by app notifications in 2021, it's time to RTFM

Yes and no.
- Yes, maybe I should have read the manual, that's right. It was also probably not worth the time spent reading it because:
1. It might not even mention the behaviour of the DND mode after the "DND for 1 hour" finishes.
2. Even if it did mention it, I'd rather be awaken once than spend hours reading mostly useless stuff.
- No, in 2021 there shouldn't be an app/device waking me up unless I explicitly allowed it to happen. Especially if the device *knows I'm sleeping*.
It would be interesting to see how jemalloc performs compared to tcmalloc. The article doesn't explain why they choose tcmalloc among other alternative memory allocators.
I listen to the calls weekly. No one shouts. No one degraded others. Cbell's power is that he doesn't have an ego in these calls.

The blameless postmortems are reviewed in these meetings, and the findings challenged, to ensure they really got to the root cause and lessons are learned.

I once almost got to present my post mortem, but it wasn't high enough priority that week. I wish it had been. It would have been ripped apart, but I would have gotten the feedback from the smartest people in the company on how to make my system better.
Sure sure, you know what I meant.. Legally in the sense that for _most_ companies, if they don't prioritize profits, they can potentially face shareholder lawsuits, or management gets ousted and replaced by the board, etc..
You searched poorly, PubMed was quite full of medium quality evidence for their use, back from 2008. Even against influenza which is notoriously widespread and harder to control.

Evidence against was at most due to low adherence. Which means so much as masks don't work if you don't wear them, and they're annoying enough for general public. Quite obvious.

Face shields are somewhat less tested, and likely much less effective based on theoretical data, as they don't form an effective barrier.
I think it is rather well known since Taleb's book came out that deep OTM options, including LEAPs tend to be mispriced as there's just not enough data to model better pricing.
OK. I will accept that. Any idea why so many doctors I know (American born and bred) had to attend offshore schools?
You did the wrong math: you didn't account for air that gets sucked through the filter more than once. So that random filter is generally assumed to be about an hour to filter all the air in that room once. And that is assuming there is reasonable air circulation over the whole room - often what happens is the filter sits in a corner and filters that corner well and doesn't filter the rest of the room at all.

More filters in the room, and different sized filters both exist.
https://gifmemes.io A tool for creating gif memes with motion tracked text and images.
Jeff Bezos Wants His Girlfriend's Brother to Cover $1.7M in Legal Fees
Writing a hardware driver is usually harder than writing a new UI.
These laws and regulations are about protecting the commons. You're prevented from polluting on public land so that it remains usable by others into the future; you can't just set up a high powered transmitter and jam everyone because then all the other radio equipment sharing that space would stop working. If you want to operate a boat on the open water above a certain size, you need the proper lights to ensure that everyone is safe out there.

The tragedy of the commons would be if these things weren't enforced so that the various commons descended into anarchy and a dumping ground for externalities.
`command -v` is standard POSIX sh [0]

[0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/c...
As pointed out in some other comments, SpaceX do extensive simulations, they almost certainly have the best rocket simulations in the world (see some of the published talks on youtube to see the state of their research).

We know that their simulations/calculations were excellent for these last couple of Starship tests because the tests themselves were excellent. There were a number of things being tested, including things like flying multiple Raptor engines, turning those engines off, switching between different fuel tanks for launching and landing, the bellyflop maneauver, the landing flip maneauver, engine relight from the header tank, and finally landing. Almost all of these were perfect, from what information we have.

There have been two failures, and from what we know these were not related to simulations at all - they seem to be system/integration issues, though we don't really know much about the engine failing to relight this test.

On SN8 they had a pressure issue feeding the engines from the header tanks. It may have been possible to anticipate this or test it independently, but it was probably the least important of all the things being tested. Given that they have multiple new (and updated!) test articles rolling off the production line they clearly made the choice to conduct the test without spending years trying to validate every single component. Again, they obviously did a lot of excellent engineering despite not undertaking a long pre-flight validation, as the test was so succesful.
Great, now do the same thing but you have to lift boxes. And work in a dangerous environment. You will be exhausted but also in pain.

Office work is not comparable at all.
The Seeds Are Sown
Seems like it came from the idea of adding a simple "mark" for each revision!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_(designation)
People interested in language design and learning Racket in one book might enjoy this book https://beautifulracket.com/

Edit: Also Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, which I haven't been through yet, so can't endorse fully: https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-0...
Jared Porter from 401GO About Fintech Trends in 2021
Jared Porter, co-founder of 401GO, discusses fintech trends and their impact on the wealth management and retirement planning.
This is very common in long-lived Ruby applications as well, where jemalloc seems to be the accepted solution.