skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What companies do those things? That actually sounds like fun.

The Star Wars lingo probably gets old though. It should really be Expanse lingo if they want to stay cool.
I can't offer much personally but

> I have doubts there because no one I know in those jobs has mentioned it.

It's heavily state-dependent (considering some states ban non-competes, and other restrict them from being used on low-wage workers). So this may be selection bias.
Exactly this - the ability to re-orient your view in a game (or in your mind in the case of the "enemy gate") can be a huge advantage. I personally play much better on bottom side in MOBA games and I have never understood why it can't be flipped. Even if the map is not 'symmetrical' the players could adapt to that change, rather than having to adapt to the change in side each game.
It's a nice analogy! Or at least a flattering one. Thanks either way :)
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Mostly because rich people can pay someone else to mail cockroaches to their enemies instead of getting their own hands dirty.
That's absurd that they shouldn't pay ANY attention. You can go too far in both directions. The stock price is an indirect indicator of the material impact of the regulation.
That's one part where having multiple completely independent processes is a disadvantage to just having threads. I never benchmarked this, but I always heard that Postgres processes are expensive and you should always use a connection pool. But this is probably more noticeable on the DB server side, where each process uses memory. I never used it myself, but PG bouncer might be useful to you in this case.

The number of requests still feels slow, and it isn't clear to me from the blog post whether that is DB limited or CPU limited on the application servers. Even with writes on each access Postgres should still be bored at that kind of load.
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I am the marketing director at a professional service firm. We started advertising on radio and tv about 7 years ago. The first campaign we did generated clients at a cost of about $10,000 each. That was very expensive and we were disappointed. We kept going and we’ve seen the cost per acquisition go lower every year. After 7 years we are around 750$. Brand advertising is like a flywheel: you keep fueling it and it takes a while before it’s actually spinning. I really don’t think you can measure ROI. Especially since it helps your business in other ways too. Since we have been advertising it’s actually been easier for us to attract talent. Having a known brand is immensely powerful.
China is not an Eastern European "old country" that got broken and remains broken because communism. IMO I find an interesting divergance in opinions immigrants of ex-soviet bloc countries and China, the former mostly has experience of decline and bad times to draw from, the latter largely supports and are of proud of modern PRC, many have aspirations to return / sea tutural back to live and work. You'll find many Chinese people genuininely defend PRC (and CCP) precisely because China isn't a failed communist Eastern European country.
Perhaps then the title of the post could be "handling 100 writes per second with Postgres"
Or used! I get most of my power tools used/refurbished.

I get what you're saying about the US becoming low-trust. This is just another example. I feel like it's the same kind of thing when a city erects hostile architecture.
Can one not be simultaneously repulsed and mesmerized by the government's ability to murk somebody that they don't like?!
NSO's clients have effectively unlimited budgets. The bang for the buck on exploits is probably pretty shocking compared to alternative intelligence collection methods; sending actual people out to do stuff is incredibly expensive. When you raise the price of exploits --- which you should do for other reasons! --- you don't necessarily harm NSO. Since they effectively take a cut of exploit valuation, you may even help them.
I just answered this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27971504
it remind me of this news from years ago:

China’s Millionaires Visit Communist Revolution Sanctuary Clad in Military Uniforms of the Era

https://japan-forward.com/chinas-millionaires-visit-communis...
In my experience, it's difficult-to-impossible to use AWS' certificate management and LB termination in conjunction with Envoy-based networking like Istio or Ambassador.
Indeed! So good to find someone else who had this experience. We went from Flowdock => Slack on a fully distributed team of ~20 engineers, total staff size of ~40. Flowdock threading was night-and-day so much better than Slack threading. It was such a stark difference, everyone noticed. What's so maddening about this is that I'll bring it up to anyone who will listen, and they'll think I'm just nostalgic, or a curmudgeon against all new things. But no, Flowdock simply did threads better. And you had to use both, for awhile, on real teams, to "feel" the difference. (Screenshots can't really convey it.) If you were on a scaled team using Flowdock before adopting Slack, it would have been totally obvious to you.

Tweeted about this here:

https://twitter.com/amontalenti/status/1263317861537402885

Nice to meet a fellow traveller!

And yes, to the point of someone else on this HN thread, the closest thing to Flowdock threads on the market today in a semi-popular chat product is Zulip "Topics", as described here: https://zulip.com/help/about-streams-and-topics -- the difference is that Zulip forces threads to be labeled (similar to an email subject: line) whereas in Flowdock, all threads were anonymous, given a thread-id (permalink) automatically, and also automatically color-coded.
And better fits the brand. We want to avoid that extra "t" at the end. :)
I agree, people I like the most don't share most of my interests at all. Yet time and time again all I hear is that "not like me" means a different skin colour or gender. It's like race and gender are the only differences but at the same time I'm being told there's no differences between races and genders. Which is it?!
MSFT reported 51% revenue growth for Azure, so it's pretty constant:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2021-Q4...
This is incorrect. Depending on the time you beat the game in, Samus would have progressively less clothing in the end:

https://metroid.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Metroid_endings#Metr...
fascinating rebuttal, so because you - a random account - didn't notice it before, it must be a strawman argument.

I don't really understand the utility of going that direction? Like, are you advocating for something in particular such as anti-privacy measures or are really just independently unaware that people would say something while that's fascinating enough to you that it would be a fictional argument that you feel undermine "pro-privacy" talking points

Its just hard to see why it would bother you enough to invalidate it
Forgive me for being late in replying to you (sometimes I sit on things for a while). Are you suggesting that we must find a way to democratically federate the problem of trusting particular mixnet servers? What solutions would you suggest? This seems a silly exercise, so feel free to ignore it: if you were to redesign the internet from the ground up, what would it look like, particularly with respect to this problem?
I think "I anticipate downvotes" is fine. "If you downvote me I will lean harder into my position" is basically blackmail (admittedly lame and ineffective blackmail), which is why I downvoted it.
Much of the API and Maccish world is actually quite well integrated with the command line Unix world. As a trivial example "say" in the terminal fires up the Cocoa speech synthesis engine and by default pipes it out over the current CoreAudio device. Just the surface though. You can trigger anything you can in AppleScript and so on. Some time with the man pages can pay off.
I'm not sure I understand. Why deny something that you claim not to know enough about?
If putting a bounty to harass a person is not a crime it absolutely should be IMHO

The day he started that he should be put in jail regardless of being on bail
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From the reference:

"But the real question behind the question is, are we doing something according to political ideology or viewpoints? And we are not. Period," he added.

So either he is full on lying or he thinks we are too stupid to understand the difference?
How I Got into Urban Planning (and Why I Hate Houston)
The first problems I came to Julia to solve were ODE simulations in which it's just as critical that the stuff I write and rewrite over and over again (the actual differential equations of my model and associated simulated controller callbacks) runs fast as it is that the pre-written stuff of the library (the solvers or integrators) runs fast. To the best of my knowledge I can't do that in python.

This example (DifferentialEquations.jl in particular and SciML.ai in general) is one of the places where Julia leads the pack.

When I first used Julia it felt rather strange in a lot of ways (I had used python for about 20 years), but after 2 years when I go back to python (and of course there are places where it makes more sense to use python) it feels primitive as there are a lot of very nice features of Julia that I suddenly miss.
You seem to be making the deeply flawed assumption that only one side can be breaking the site guidelines at a time.
I have a strong suspicion that doing pure keyword searches of job descriptions (or resumes, on the employers' side) probably has some pretty hard limits on how well it can work, especially in the presence of participants with incentives to spam.
Interestingly, I can't tell if you mean the stalkers should have less privacy or the stalkees should have more privacy (so they don't get targeted for stalking).

Privacy is a tool. Its benefits can help or harm.
Let me guess, you’re American?
i've always wanted to test the hypothesis that the timing and type of penalties within a game have more of an impact than the overall number of penalties. is there a way to leverage a penalty for strategic advantage at any given point in the game?

i still suspect that would be hard to determine given the subjective nature of what constitutes a penalty and what (dis)advantage the penalized team was carrying at any given moment.
It is based on the Energy Star energy consumption criteria. The formula is: 365*24/(1000)*weighted_average_power_consumption (the division appears to be due to using unitless formulas, and wanting a result value in kWH).

The weighted average power consumption is based on measured power draw in the following states: "off", "sleep", "Long_idle", and "short_idle". Most desktops under the California rules will use the "conventional" weighting factors of (45%, 5%, 15%, 35%) for the respective power modes in that average.

Short idle is basically what you expect. Screen is still on, drives are still spun up.

Long Idle allows basic power saving features to have kicked in (like spinning down hard drives), and assumes the screen has gone blank, but that the computer is still in ACPI G0/S0, not in some form of sleep mode.
If you want evidence of widespread upheaval, just look at California's weather data over the past few decades. It's consistently gotten hotter and dryer, causing more and more fires that are killing hundreds of people per year and destroying entire towns. It's not about believing in climate change, it's about *understanding* it. It's very real.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Wildfires-...
Sinking feeling sets in. I am assuming the modern economic systems will change once the significantly wealthy class start to loose real material wealth and opportunity. Unfortunately that will not be a good thing for billions of people over the next fifty years. I am also assuming really interesting technologies will make climate change livable for many, but no all and perhaps that's the way the game Earth is played.
Flailing about seemingly randomly is a good description of how I learn complex software. Blender, Ableton, etc. After a few days I'll reach for the structured educational resources.
good but can it run crysis?
Ah, not the same as venerable WeeChat. #IRC
Exactly, this is how we use it too.
It's a classic red vs. blue attack/defense problem that affects lots of fields.

To make a perfectly secure piece of software it must be flawless. An attacker on the other hand only needs to find a single exploit, a single oversight, to break it.

Defending something is orders of magnitude more difficult than attacking something for that reason.
Note: that also include all Google Workspace related income.
MyWish Took My EOS and Failed to Deliver
Thats because they bought a locked version, such as most carrier models.
Past related threads:

The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18872376 - Jan 2019 (255 comments)

The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13555925 - Feb 2017 (89 comments)

Today's rich families in Florence were rich 700 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11731890 - May 2016 (103 comments)
It’s just a question of efficiency. The first day sales of new ICE are outlawed there are going to be a large number of ICE cars already on the road which keeps most gas stations in business the next day. In effect the difference between 0% ICE or 10% ice is only visible several years in the future.

It’s simply bad policy to create a situation where a lot of 5-15 year old cars get scrapped because nobody can find a gas station. The country is much better off when people scrapping cars because they can’t get gas are doing that to 20+ year old cars.
If Elon Musk is one of the richest men in the world and draws roughly a minimum wage salary, is salary really that valuable to building personal wealth?

That is the equivalent of what you are asking. Musk has other forms of income and wealth accumulation that other people don't have. Therefore his salary shouldn't be used to compare to people who don't have those other methods of income. Similarly Tesla has other advantages that help increase demand (or limit the upside of further increasing demand). Other companies that don't have those same advantages can still benefit from increasing demand through advertising.

The only conclusion we can draw from Tesla's lack of advertising is that the company leadership feels that it is not the best use of company money. Any attempt to extrapolate that out to the auto industry or advertising in general is making a lot of assumptions.
Serious answer: Yes, but it's legal discrimination. If you were doing so based on sex, race, or other protected class it would be illegal discrimination.
I think there's more to it than that. It reminds me of JBS Haldane's four stages of acceptance:

1. This is worthless nonsense

2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.

3. This is true, but quite unimportant.

4. I always said so.

I think many former 'skeptics' are now at stage 3.
Confounding factors?
Yes, though I've seen it many times on maps, from the air, and on the ground, I still imagine going directly east from Silicon Valley, across the US, through Virginia, and across the Atlantic ought to end up close to London or Paris. No. That path will take you to northern Tunisia in North Africa.
One of the demands

“believe that our values as employees are not being accurately reflected in the words and actions of our leadership,”

Sorry they pay you to do a job, not reflect your values. And anyway whos values? I'm pretty certain values are a personal thing, how can the leadership possibly reflect all their employees values?
What I think is really weird is the high level of correlation between the presence of the beliefs that it's not happening and that it doesn't matter if it is. Those are two separate questions that are almost completely distinct in terms of what facts lead to them, and they overlap only at the point where they both recommend no action against climate change. Yet, it is very common for people who believe the first to end up believing the second after the first is shown not to be true. I think this might be because some cultural leaders start from "don't do anything" and work backwards, creating a correlation in their followers and indirect followers between all otherwise unrelated beliefs that imply nothing should be done.
You're right, those of us reviewing evidence must strive for 100% accuracy. One of the issues with the cherry blossom data is that it's difficult to be 100% sure that we can accurately keep track of the Japanese calendar 1200+ years into the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calendar
Surely Tiktok is growing much faster.
Average vehicles have only grown in footprint by about 4% since 2008. Weight is <10% heavier than when EPA began tracking it in 1975. [1]

Most of the weight shedding after 1975 happened in the 1980s in the immediate wake of peak oil prices. [2] Vehicle weight is just now catching up to what it was just before the ~1980 oil crisis, and current gains are far offset by fuel economy and horsepower ( there is a relationship between power, weight, and acceleration/speed available to the vehicle).

The extra 4% in outlay could very well be explained by a combination of consumer and regulatory demands for safety (all else equal, it is easier to engineer something bigger with cushion room to be safer than it is something smaller).

Ultimately it is difficult to explain away the lack of small trucks and smaller cars without accounting for the large play of regulation (safety testing, poorly constructed CAFE standards, and tariffs).

One can readily see from operators of the 125cc motorcycles like honda Grom, illegal street operators of ATV/dirtbikes, and mopeds that there is considerable demand for minimal footprint transportation. Tiny cars like the Suzuki Alto are in demand in other less regulated markets.

Our criticism should not be the presence of large SUVs and cars, who have legitimate use for large families who live off of dirt roads and those with a low risk tolerance that demands monster sized cars full of safety features and crumple zones. Rather our criticism should be aimed at questioning why the guy riding his ATV down the residential street is a criminal while the well to do person riding newly constructed 4,500 lb Tesla full of toxic metals recharged by the local coal plant is not.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/highlights-automotive-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut#/media/File:Nom...
I listen to experts then try to judge the experts credibility. This goes to listening to the sources of climate change believers and unbelievers. What sort of people believe climate change is real? What sort of people don't believe it?

Also, what evidence does each side present, and how credible is this evidence?

Just relating what I do.
Unless you have two cars, that makes no sense. The car can either pick up the kids or get itself serviced. Plus it's not like those journeys won't be made even if you drove them yourself. Kids need to get picked up, cars need to get serviced.

However with a self driving car it's also possible to schedule it to drive to the garage at night when the roads are not congested.
That might be true for products or services that people need and know. But what about new or less known ones? For example, I will buy a car and one car only. All the advertising is not going to make me buy two. However, for electronics, I might buy an additional TV or another tablet, or gaming console.
They're pulling in ludicrous amounts of money, and it's pretty clear from the quality of content over the last 8 years or so that they're not investing more than a tiny fraction of it back into the game

They'll just continue to invest less and less in actual playable desktop games and more and more in toxic mobile dogshit as time goes on
I was suuuuper curious about the fastest player on the field (i.e., in full pads on game day), and the play-specific data includes acceleration as one of its data points. Miranda on our team (co-author of the post) dialed up a query to show the top 3, one of whom is Tyreek Hill. (The other two don’t play that much)
Yea, our IO and CPU of our Postgres instance is around 20% currently. We haven't hit too many issues with Postgres, so haven't delved too deeply into the performance.

I think people seeing performance posts are used to people pushing huge numbers. Our intent here was to show that using standard off the shelf tools with a tiny bit of architecting, you can hit huge performance numbers at a reasonable cost. We have lots of various ways to shave performance, but we're pretty sure we could scale 2-3x with the same stack without a ton of work.
I would agree that this is easy, but I did run into a weird edge case.

First to be clear, I would never comment on anybody's body or clothes, especially not in the workplace. This is not to comply with some rule, I wouldn't have the urge to do that in the first place. It's weird and unneeded.

Anyway, the edge case. My female coworker is very passionate about making custom dresses. One day, on the day before our country's Queen's Day, she comes to work in an absolute master piece of a custom dress, dedicated to the festivities to come. The quality of that dress, the attention to detail, was out of this world. All custom made.

She walks over to a group of devs (five men, one is me) and basically presents the dress, yet without saying a word.

And now comes the awful thing. By chance, all of us had one of those mandatory "ethical workplace" trainings the day before. And this literal example, some guy commenting on a dress was used as an example of an absolute no-go.

Which sounds reasonable to me, in every context but this one. I had a strong urge to compliment her on her skill and the incredible result of her tireless effort. Surely, she worked on this forever, and this was to be a proud moment of display.

But we all kept our mouth shut, and picked the safe side of things. She left defeated, perhaps humiliated.

I know, it's a very uncommon situation, but the dynamic is interesting. In the gray zone area, most people would prefer to better be safe than sorry. Which almost every time is best anyway, but not this time.

I'll end with an aspect much more common. Feedback, as in professional feedback. Recently a study showed that VCs are far less critical towards female founders compared to male ones. Males would get very direct, sometimes harsh, and detailed negative feedback, whilst women would get the far less usable vague sugar-coated version of it.

Supposedly, out of fear. It shows hyper tensions, paranoia. If that gets out of hand, women and other minorities will be treated as radio-active objects, which is in nobody's interest.

The way I see it, really bad men (subject of article), cause this distrustful relation between perfectly good people.
Or have checks and balances.
Many ponzi scheme fraudsters roll over the dwindling investments, hoping to hit the big payday that lets them fulfill the promised returns to the investors. Unlike most, Shkreli got very lucky and found a successful exit.
> The contract of sale contains a confidentiality provision that protects information relating to the buyer and price.
The mean is just another magic number
Matrix/Element is the most promising messaging platform from a privacy standpoint, but I wish that they didn't chose Electron for building the Linux client...