skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that's the naiive measurement of the cost of just the syscall operation (i.e. if you measure issue to kernel is executing). Does this actually account for the performance loss of cache innefficiency? If I'm not mistaken at a minimum the CPU needs to flush various caches to enter the kernel, fill them up as the kernel is executing, & then repopulate them when executing back in userspace. In that case (even if it's not a full flush), you have a hard to measure slowdown on the code processing the request in the kernel & in userspace after the syscall because the locality assumptions that caches rely on are invalidated. With an io_uring model, since there's no context switches, temporal & spatial locality should provide an outsized benefit beyond just removing the syscall itself.

Additionally, as noted elsewhere, you can chain syscalls pretty deeply so that the entire operation occurs in the kernel & never schedules your process. This also benefits spatial & temporal locality AND removes the cost of needing to schedule the process in the first place.
There is literally no proof that John Ehrlichman said this to Dan Baum in 1994 and when Dan Baum made this statement John Ehrlichman was already dead and could not refute it. Note that his estate has denied this statement.

It also is not accurate that the Nixon administration increased incarceration of drug use. That occurred under Reagan and Clinton.

However, Nixon was the first president to coin the term "war on drugs" but this was a rhetorical flourish. The Nixon Administration repealed the federal 2–10-year mandatory minimum sentences for possession of marijuana and started federal demand reduction programs and drug-treatment programs.
Can you explained how to make a GDPR complaint?

I've never heard of this before.
Alaska's New Election System
Psychedelics are probably next. Already there is some movement, Oakland and Denver have decriminalized magic mushrooms.
> big banks don't want the liability

How is holding lots of cash a liability?
Since you asked, I'll make it explicit. My pile of innuendo alleges that the FBI is directly responsible or at least complicit for the Colonial Pipeline and JBM hacks, and the executive order is likely written by lobbyists who sell or intend to sell authentication services or "secure" platforms to federal contractors.

Do you remember back when there were no weapons of mass destruction and the "Intelligence Community", the media, and other agents of reputable institutions all went along with the lie so that unrelated geopolitical objectives could be satisfied and defense contractors would make insane amounts of money? It's like that.
Cloudfare as an SSL "MITM" was exactly what the portuguese authority responsible for running this year's census did! They then acted offended and made completly false assurances when this was pointed out. The privacy authority promptly forced them to change back.
A benefit of Triplebyte to big enterprises not mentioned in Triplebyte’s discussion here: acting as engineering assessment proxy for engineering hiring managers stuck with pathologically risk averse enterprise HR departments.

Often enterprise HR is paranoid of honestly evaluating anyone for anything, to the point that many HR teams tell one another and engineering hiring managers that it’s “illegal” to assess candidate abilities on the way in the door, at all.

If you think about joining a dev team where no one checked if any candidate could FizzBuzz, you can imagine the workplace environment that can end up with.

Triplebyte is able to provide engineering managers with a stack of pre-vetted resumes so an enterprise can interview by its lowest common denominator HR policies, while still having a prayer a team will at least be made of candidates who can code.

The value of this to an enterprise stuck in this position is hard to overstate.

Hopefully along with expanding the talent pool per this post, Triplebyte can figure out a way to get well paid for this ability to help land actual coders on actual dev teams despite enterprise HR.

The need for this is huge.

// I see a comment below from a Triplebyte PM about score matching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27542621 … That would be slick: land candidates that genuinely raise the bar, but aren’t so far ahead as to be speaking a foreign language to the team. Of course, this would require also assessing the target team, and oops, we’re right back up against that HR policy…
In the UK you don’t pay taxes on the first 12500£ you earn in a tax year. This is the income tax allowance.

For each 2£ you earn above 100K, your income tax allowance is reduced by 1£. At 125K, your allowance reaches 0. The result is that between 100K and 125K your marginal tax rate is 60%. At 125K it goes back to 40%.
The historical goals of the "War on Drugs" have not been to make the USA safer (though proponents often claim that). The goal has been white supremacy, which is served by giving cops laws that they can enforce based on racial prejudice.

Cannabis was made illegal because it was mostly used by Mexican immigrants. https://www.history.com/news/why-the-u-s-made-marijuana-ille...

Crack was sentenced at a 10x higher rate than cocaine because black citizens disproportionately used crack, while white users disproportionally used cocaine.
KSQL seems to address this gap.
I’m not sure. Since it is related to the distinction in mathematics between open and closed intervals (except on computers we have floats in instead of reals), maybe “interval error” or “endpoint error”. But not “bounds error”, of course.

EDIT: Or maybe “comparison error”. I like that the best. But calling it an off-by-one seems wrong, especially as what we usually mean by that is something more like not handling the last iteration of a loop correctly.
"Recreational drug" can describe anything from pot to PCP, it's our government's mistake for not coloring a gradient between them.
Huge difference between "feeling depressed" and "being unable to function on a daily basis due to a medical condition called depression".

Sick leave is appropriate if a person is sick. Depression can take over your life and make you unable to work. If sick leave does not exist for a depressed person they either become dependent on family or just get fired, risking homelessness, credit problems, increased chances of suicide etc.

In some countries and jobs ... well, that's what happens. But some places treat sick leave differently and if a doctor says you are sick you can get a lot of paid leave in order to recover.
Yeah I agree with you - I think what I'm trying to say is more nuanced and super easy to misinterpret (even in good-faith).

It's not about putting a happy face on, but about seeing yourself as a 'depressed person' or as having depression being a core part of your identity. I think that can be harmful - and lead to weird psychologies where being depressed is more comfortable in a way, more familiar.

Being open/honest is good, but making being depressed part of the way you see 'who you are' is likely bad (imo).

Hypervigilance [0] is also a thing - and it can make things worse.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervigilance
And a lot more people are fine with "Law and Order" without really thinking about what that means - among other things it means 'I don't want to see or deal with other people's problems'. It's a really easy position to have until other people's problems become your problems, or your family's problems and they can't get out of a bad situation.
> Debasement of currency marked the end of the Roman empire, why would American empire be any different?

The fall of the Roman Empire had so many causes that to attribute it to one thing is misleading at best.
A 30-year bond is 2.20% APY yesterday.

If inflation happens, the 30-year bond will likely rise with inflation: maybe 3% or 4%. It is better to store your cash today, than to "lock in" to 2.2% APY.

Next month, if inflation starts to kick in, maybe you'll get 3% over the next 30 years instead of 2.2% over the next 30 years.

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Obviously, a 30-year bond is 'different' than cash. However, when you start looking at 6-months, 3-months, 1-month, and overnight lending rates... things look more-and-more like cash.

No one ever holds "cash" per se, its always better to lend it out (even for only 1 day, you wanna have that cash generate more cash). By betting on shorter timescales (ex: 1-month), you're really betting that the longer-time scale bonds (ex: a 30-year) will rise up.
This project really has gone full circle.
> How does the former government being Communist justify anything?

Exhibit A is North Korea, who wants to nuke California. Think about that for a minute.
$1B S.F. startup wants to disrupt vacation homes
I deal with depression.

If I could choose between a four-month vacation and not being depressed, I would take not being depressed. I wouldn't even have to think about it.

It's like looking at someone who's sick with a debilitating illness and saying "Wow, I sure wish I could just lie around in bed all day." No, t0mbstone, you don't. All the things you're imagining you'd do with that time—you can't really do them when you're feeling sick all day long.

This isn't just feeling blue. It's darkness, 24/7.
I was thinking more the Little LISPer/Smalltalker.
What the difference between the American "War on Drugs" and almost every other nation having similar anti-drug laws?
0,[1] right? :)
Form-wise these just look wrong to me - there's something cool and high-tech about having turbofans as encased units. But function & efficiency should top aesthetics.
Do you suffer from depression and wish that your employer would recognize it as an illness?
Researchers cool a 40 kg object to near its quantum ground state
FWIW, this is also great advice from an insurance point of view. I went on a 3 month trip and took pictures of all the appliances before leaving--mostly for peace of mind, but also because the building was fairly old and had a history of leaking pipes, faulty outlets, etc.

Sure enough, a month into the trip and my downstairs neighbor has his bathroom ceiling fall in due to a leaky drain pipe in my shower. I had photo proof that the water wasn't on or leaking and the building's insurance policy ended up renovating both of our bathrooms. Came back to a brand new rainfall shower and granite countertops.
What is the most popular chip NAND and how it works?
I've seen very promising people lose their dreams to depression. Often times, I think back to one profoundly talented programmer who I met in Miami years ago, who is no longer with us. (When I met her and saw what she was working on, I was intimidated to see what a high schooler these days could do, and to be honest I breathed a sigh of relief when I found out she was an outlier.) What a tragedy, and what a loss that was for her community. In other cases, I've seen passionate, curious people fail out of school or work and never recover personally or professionally from it.
The "gateway drug" assertion isn't an "all or nothing" issue. There's nuance to it.

Ask a bunch of drug addicts if they used weed before [heroin|coke|speed|lsd|<insert-drug-of-choice>|aota], most of them will say yes. At least the ones I've been hanging out with in NA for the past 25+ years.

Does that mean, smoke weed and you'll automatically end up using other drugs? No.
I buy it. It was forced on the world by the UN with the convention of psychotropic substances 1971. Only a handful of nations, now including the US are seeing this as a horrible mistake.

It is, was and always will be a horrible mistake, maybe the worst sociopolitical action in the 20th century. The brutality we have seen as a result of these policies leaves little moral ambiguity.
Crystal meth was discovered in 01893; it has been legally available by prescription in the US since at least the 01950s. I don't think it's ever been entirely illegal like marijuana. Nowadays its main legal use is for obesity treatment under the name Desoxyn.
Unprinting the monies
So having rules and laws designed to leverage the justice system against Black Americans is conspiratorial? That's literally the history of this country, from The Black Codes, to Jim Crow, to the War On Drugs this has been standard operating procedure.
> Contributing seems difficult

yes, contributing is difficult

> an unstructured mailinglist

the main barrier to entry is not the lack of simple issue tracker though!

<rant>with something so well engineered, so visible each day to users (performance,features) and invisible to users (implementation), so portable (OS,arch) and so just .. careful.. The mental models needed to make meaningful changes to the code base, are so layered and detailed, the issue tracker is just as plain paper envelope as it can be ! If you dont know your bugs you shouldn't be here! so the gruff, take-no-prisoners engineering attitude goes .. and there is plenty of that in PostgreSQL, seems to me

On the other hand, modern FOSS plus dropping boomers, relays the actual fact that no, you do not have to get the "my patch was rejected by Tom" t-shirt to participate and IMPROVE the project. Its just that, this has not always been the culture, and now, maybe there are winds of change.

Every single core PG engineer today will pass away one day. PG is dead - long live PG ! yes, make the issue tracker but also, learn your bugs if you are seriously contributing at the core.
For anyone wondering, this is a fork of the rather popular app maps.me, which also uses Openstreetmap but started monetizing via increasingly intrusive ads in the past.
I use the same “stack” as you, but never thought of synchronizing them. Great idea!
Good program! I think? it's can bi useful in OSINT, or many more things!
There are incremental costs involved in bandwidth, if nothing else, to actually distribute your application so it makes sense it's not a simple flat fee.
Link to article: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-17/titani...
> Political change happens step by tiny step.

No it doesn't, political change is simply impossible without massive financial backing, which is why policies that benefit the classes that don't have a lot of money have to jump through all those hoops you mentioned to eventually get the money behind it.
That's true, I think Vaping is still not that healthy for your lungs.

Fair enough about burden of proof. I found one that supports and one that opposes the argument:

Kind of supporting, it says it is complex to evaluate the gateway hypothesis:
https://doi.org/10.1080/09595230500126698

Opposing:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-021-09464-z
Municipal broadband doesn't have to deal with the expensive parts of giving service to remote areas.
Robbery and murder are already illegal. Why are we criminalizing motivations for crime instead of trying to prevent crime?

Do you you think drug-related robbery and murder would decrease if we simply provided free drugs to anybody who wanted them?
>Or it would be, but it would be hopelessly out of date

I think you need to define "out of date".

Out of date for me means not receiving security updates and stale. I think you mean not the latest version and stable for me is better in a production environment.

Google example, look at Debian stable.
> io_uring is not an event system at all. io_uring is actually a generic asynchronous syscall facility.

I would call it a message passing system, not an asynchronous syscall facility. A syscall, even one that doesn't block indefinitely, transfers control to the kernel. io_uring, once setup, doesn't. Now that we have multiple cores, there is no reason to context switch if the kernel can handle your request on some other core on which it is perhaps already running.
Also having OCD, I can see how this would be helpful though. You can fall into a stable position where you're doing enough to keep the OCD at bay (taking the hairdryer with you) without it being something that interferes with your life. I don't think it's an _ideal_ long-term solution, as the OCD can latch onto something else, but as a starting point for ERP (leaving the hairdryer at home on shorter trips) or if other solutions have been tried and failed, I can see it being useful.
I think it's pretty necessary to know how your chosen language passes values.
I'm so glad Apple has kept the Mac the Mac and not succumb to the UI craziness that is plaguing other operating systems.

There's a menu bar at the top of the screen with, ya know, menus. Applications can have one, more than one, or ZERO windows open. UI conventions, keyboard shortcuts, etc are consistent.
They pay for the privilege of having the Fed hold their cash.
Consumer VPN competition is about to heat up! I’m sure the incumbents will innovate to keep up, right?

Competition is great and works, except when it isn’t and doesn’t. Dogmas are usually bad, try to avoid them.
The "boring problem" that always needs more attention than it gets is performance. Plenty of companies ship features that only reduce performance by 10,20,50 milliseconds but it all adds up and applications end up feeling very sluggish. Apple is one of the few where I feel like the perf doesn't regress over time (likely because the features don't really expand much either).
From my personal experience, depression is something that's there whether you think about it or not. Of course if you just think about it that'll just make things worse. But I don't think that's what this post is saying.

The conclusion is - "The majority of people are still uncomfortable when I casually mention my depression, but that doesn’t silence me. I do this not to elicit pity, or to be inspiration porn about overcoming obstacles, but to normalise this – people like me are here, everywhere, you could be me at any point in your life." and that sounds fine to me. If someone asks how you are, it is a positive thing to say you are dealing with depression to normalize it. I would probably not so it for everyone, but to friends and Co workers I think it is ultimately a good thing.
Policies should be judged by actual results not by stated goals. If it was politically profitable then it's a good enough reason.
That particular quote always makes the rounds in these kinds of discussions, but the veracity of it is challenged and suspect[1]. I'm inclined to disbelieve it on those grounds and also that it is so politically self-serving that is crosses into the "too good to be true" category.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#Drug_war_quote
I'm glad people are enjoying this. I wrote a story two years ago about Queues / Kinesis - and am in the process of getting it illustrated. I doubt it'll make any money, but it's good to know that people enjoy this type of thing!
The WISPs that are started by people with no/little background in NOC operations leave themselves to build, not only insecure, but inefficient networks rather quickly. I started my career on the network side and have worked for a number of ISPs (small and large). And while a WISP creator can make it - they can also just as easily create a bad product unknowingly.

Case in point...
I have family that only had one option for Internet service. Long story short a utility owned a WISP and no longer wanted to run it (they ran it OK, but made a number of mistakes when choosing architecture and products to go to market with). One of their employees bought it out and started making worse choices. The owner clearly had never scaled a network nor did this person have any formal training in networks or the protocols he'd have to manage and monitor.

I've submitted no less than a dozen vulnerabilities within their network and have had to install a monitoring stack for said family members to show the owner of the WISP that during peak hours they were dropping a significant percentage of packets, latency was spiking and SLAs were not being remotely met. The owner has refused to acknowledge any and all data I've provided to them, saying that "things are working well". Yet, I have now a years worth of logged data in a very consumable format that shows otherwise.

The reality is I ended up randomly meeting someone who had worked for them and the conversation was such that the owner was furiously trying to figure out how to fix the problems, but had neither the technical skills to do so or the budget to revamp the architectural flaws.

Starting a WISP almost certainly is not for everyone. Getting it working correctly is only one aspect, but keeping an open network secure for your users is not trivial. Not only do you need a working knowledge of multi-user networks but also a decent perspective with regard to the threat models involved. If you can't, minimally, check those two boxes it seems (to me) a bit egregious to expect others to fork over money and trust you for said services.
Don't compare yourself to just the ones that got lucky, that's the big fallacy of trading.
This always annoyed me more than it should.

It's also torturing the definition of "query language." There is no equivalent of "join", or any other typical query feature such as aggregation, grouping, sorting, filtering. GraphQL has as much to do with graphs or query languages as my smart TV has to do with intelligence. It's RPC, but RPC fell out of fashion when SOAP/WSDL/XML died.
I'm guessing this is your experience - was this more than a couple of months ago? We made some changes about ~6-8 weeks ago to how we order jobs to prioritize responsive companies much more than they were in the past. We also use responsiveness as an input to the "Likely To Accept" score shown for each job (here's a screenshot of a posting from my own prod-testing account: https://imgur.com/wSmGCEL).
There're a lot of people in the comments here who don't seem to know what depression is.

Depression isn't just “I'm sad all the time”. Functionally, depression is a reduction in the set of actions that one can take. For some, it can be bad enough that “fill out this form, make this phone call, write the reference number on the form then post it” is too much. No, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to do that. That's why it's called a mental illness. Sure, they could “just try harder” except oops, that's not on the list either. (See http://www.depressionquest.com/dqfinal.html for a good analogy.)

Many depressed people come up with psychological tricks to move necessary tasks from the “unavailable actions” category to the “available actions” category. Possibly the best one I've heard is the “shower heist”: it's not “taking a shower”, it's grand theft of the clean.

If you think depression is “just laziness”, why would someone go to all the effort of reframing basic actions in this way? So please, none of that.
Not sure why you are down voted, everyone (when it benefits them) takes credit for the “greatest economy the world has ever seen” and “record stock market”, simultaneously they ignore record wage stagnation, record income gaps, record homelessness, record student loan defaults, record debt defaults of nearly every kind, record young people living at home to record high ages…I’d say record high unemployment, to which someone would inevitably point to the unemployment numbers and claim it’s actually record low unemployment, which, to your point highlights the farce and disconnect from reality.

The FED is sitting on trillions of taxpayer bailout money from the CARES Act, yet if you took about 1/8th of that money, government could wipe the entire student loan debt, but then you’d hear the media talking point screaming how we can’t afford it.
> That Paris thing is certainly bad, but it looks rather like a backside

I live in Paris; believe me, the best and the worst are two streets away. There are quarters in the 18th or the 13th that make OPs photo look like a dream.

https://itinerrance.fr/app/uploads/2019/05/head-fresques-bou...
https://p1.storage.canalblog.com/11/75/1224518/120815785_o.j...
https://www.blackandwood.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Paris...

Now there is a lot of subjectivity here, and to be honest, I'm not fond of the Warsaw building either, so I might be a very poor judge of modern architecture.