skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had friends in the truck driving business and the hardest part is finding people who can stay clean with the drug testing. The Venn diagram of people wanting to drive truck and who recreationally use drugs seem to overlap a touch.
kinda unrelated but can someone explain to me how this one korean company has access to infrastructure to lock any phone anywhere in the the world? am I misreading something?
> things that are moderately hard to understand

My experience with AWS is that the pricing for each service is reasonably well documented and the calculator does descent job. The problem starts when multiple combinations of services are used and it becomes harder to reason.

With the advent of cloud, cost-modelling becomes an essential skill (which can be learned). One needs to be clear about total work that gets done and "how" that work gets processed. This in turn should translate to relevant cost metric (e.g PUT requests/s for S3 or IOPS for DynamoDB, amount of data scanned for Athena, etc)

This needs to be evaluated for zero load, normal load, 5x load, 20x load, etc. Zero load gives what is dead weight cost of the system i.e cost incurred when no work is being done (e.g EC2, EBS volumes, etc)
My job involves 80% rote memorization including a lot of mental math. No being able to calculate simple stuff would slow me down at least 2X. It's a high-pay job.
> the ALB itself did not scale fast enough

On the other hand sharing an ALB across 100 apps means that a single app's fluctuations are less significant. If your apps have completely independent traffic patterns then a 10x surge for one service would only be a 10% surge for the ALB if all applications have equal amounts of traffic. This likely can be handled with the current utilization buffer so the ALB scaling isn't even required (of course you hope that it will still scale up quickly to refill the buffer).

Of course in real life everything isn't this perfect, your traffic patterns are correlated between services and one service is the vast majority of your traffic but it can still be a nice buffer.
Where you get such ideas?

The average salary for a truck driver is $70,363 per year in the United States.

https://www.indeed.com/career/truck-driver/salaries
Word!

But very difficult to pull off in a team, because the less enlightened will always try to nail everything to the floor asap and judge you for not playing along.
Perlin noise comes to mind. I’ve implemented noise “off the cuff” using general math knowledge, which appears visually quite similar. But Perlin’s algorithm doesn’t seem to me to bear any resemblance to the one I settled on. And at least for me, it’s non-obvious and takes quite a bit more study to understand.
I pass no judgment, but merely take the developer at his word: https://new.pythonforengineers.com/blog/confessions-of-a-1x-...
Cockroach just today launched a free hosted serverless version of the db. Looks generous free tier then reasonable once you outgrow, postgres wire compatible, sign up thru GH https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/announcing-cockroachdb-se...
With cab size and fuel efficiency constraints I don't think it'd be as simple as "bigger = $++" but I could be wrong.
>Your auto formatter can’t figure out where you missed braces either.

I mean, it kinda does? You get a result that's wrongly indented if you miss a brace.
I mean.. houses are an item.... a better question would be, is there enough (desirable) land to build houses on, and will the government let you build there.

I live in a city where we have enough land, but the government wont let anyone build pretty much anywhere, and the housing prices are horrible.
Oh good; i caught the first DVD and it sucked. Bad VHS rip grade.
Try to describe the difference to a woke mob, then
Yes, and you are especially at risk if you report a black person. For example, Amy Cooper did not act well, but she did not deserve national vilification and losing her job. If you wrongly report a white person, it won't become a national story. In this case the rapist was black.
Cops will tell you this is a civil matter. At least in the USA.

Amazon knows this, a relies on people just paying.

They know how difficult it is to dispute. I imagine they make millions just of people giving up, and paying?

(I haven't used their servers, if I did it would be with a prepaid CC.
"Basic training" would happen - but that may or may not cover driving the trucks. The above scenario happened to a person I know when they enlisted (though they were 18 at the time).
Maybe, or maybe it is just the normal controversy you can find in most fields? There will always be people who disagree with each other? Is JD universally villainized in Anthropology circles, or just among some Anthropologists?
"Entry to the workforce" is not a goal. It is a failure of society to force people to labor for ~half their waking hours just to exist.
Perhaps. But then I want to know what those patterns are, what are their actual benefits compared to not using them, and most of all I want to know if such benefits outweigh the significant costs that comes with the lack of static analysis¹.

[1] The need to test much more, the need for a better, more accurate documentation, the higher cost of refactoring, even the higher prototyping times (I prototype faster with a REPL that has static typing, because I don't to debug type errors).
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I co-founded https://trucksmarter.com to enable more drivers and owner-ops to get insurance, find loads and drive on the road
I would be shocked if the average truck driver is retiring at 60.
No, it's a low COL area but there are just no workers. Closing shifts are $18/19 starting (at least according to the sign they've had stuck up since before COVID).
It sounds good on paper until you consider the facts. Being an owner-operator means you maintain your own truck, find your own loads, and take care of everything related to your business (insurance, licensing, rent, parking, etc).

Just maintaining a truck is crazy stressful. It might be ok for some time until something major breaks on your truck and you’re not working for a week and you’re out an additional $5k for repairs. Just hope you’re not stranded in the middle of nowhere and have to pay thousands to have your truck towed.

It’s also in the top 10 most dangerous jobs. It’s incredibly stressful. And all the latest regulations will put you on edge at all times. When you’re an owner-operator, you are constantly walking the line between pissing off customers and losing your license.

It’s such a demanding job nowadays.
They can't just double salaries and still expect to have customers.

At some point, companies will simply not purchase the goods if they can't truck it economically or will look for alternatives.
No, never. Actually the most problem I've ever had with this feature is seemingly unending discussions that come up in almost every single HN discussion ever, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651040

> would make grepping harder on larger projects

There is a built-in tool `nimgrep`, but honestly I never even need for that - `rg` worked perfectly fine each time I had to do something like that.
I strongly disagree. Math and other stuff such as reading or writing requires focus. That's what is degrading. Kids can't focus anymore, not by choice but because they're simply unable to do it (even for stuff they like).
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You wrote:

> Folks shouldn't need to post their grievances to a very public site to be heard, and that it needs to happen to get traction on an issue should be taken as a clear gap in customer service provision.

Yet by your very own comment you say that we don't know if he actually tried to contact support so there is no "clear gap in customer service provision".

The fact is, anyone who actually interacted with an AWS rep would tell you that they would delete the bucket and not charge you for it.
For programmer or engineer though, it's now a gamble to invest heavily and be that expert in a single technology. In medicine, expert/specialists have large population pools and simply accident or genetic defect rates they can rely on to have customers for their speciality. You can specialize on a specific body part and become a dentist or ophthalmologist and be assured there will be sick people who need you and are willing to pay (unless of course we cure/eliminate the problem you solve which rarely happens).

If you're in software and know the internal workings of Postgres, well that's fine and dandy iff a business decides to use Postgres. Maybe they chose MariaDB or something else arbitrary instead. That highly specialized knowledge you have about Postgres is highly dependent on demand as it always has been. The difference now is that for any given technology, there seem to be a sea of competing options, so the risk of your expert time investment having no demand is quite high. The salaries may be high but I'd argue they're not high enough for the time, effort, and risk to become a specific technology expert anymore. I have expert level knowledge in systems that now have almost no demand. It's a waste of my time to maintain them at this point, the risk and opportunity cost is far far too high.

There was a time when you could become an expert or near expert of about 1-3 competitors for a specific library of infrastructure and those skills were incredibly valuable, highly transferable, and in demand because the pool of competing tech was so low. Now I can't even keep track of number of just say database or database like applications teams may choose to use. There's more diversity than there is demand to justify and sustain the evel of diversity we now have, IMO.
Anything outside normal behavior can trigger these automated systems. Trying to withhold important personal data will make you an unimportant user in the eyes of these hungry giants and it will trigger the lock out hell spirals sooner than later.

I use Instagram only in a separate container in Firefox. I have no phone number connected to it. I tried to manually delete my pictures the other week. Got half way through before being locked out for suspicious activity. Message said account would be deleted if I didn't give them my phone number.

So, I bought a prepaid SIM card and proceeded with SMS verification. They told me I had to wait 24 hours. After 24 hours I got a message saying I was still suspicious and had to send a picture of myself holding a sign with my username. You could mistake this process for a reddit gone wild submission.

I'm done with Insta. Went ahead and deleted my FB account too, while I could still get in.
There is no noise. Size of configs is close to optimum. Cross cutting concerns are easy to express. Quality of configs is very high similar to well typed code with algebra on types, this idea of values are types and lattice based unification is very intuitive.

...and we are generating manifests for "older, more production-tested systems", ie. docker compose for docker vms/swarm services - it's really great for that.
Desperate for workers, restaurants turn to robots
yeah and my blackmagic cameras have SD/CF/SSD - but SD is super common, most cameras have it. New UHS-II SD cards are pretty fast - https://www.cameramemoryspeed.com/sd-memory-card-faq/fastest...

MicroSD->SD is easy with a dummy adapter
[OT] I 100% agree with your 'woke' post btw.
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> Finding that theory is hard to find for our current knowledge and capabilities. But extrapolating that this will remain so will not age well.

On the other hand, have you ever tried to explain even the most elementary concepts of basic special relativity to a crow? Crows are intelligent and can reason about problems, but special relativity is just beyond them no matter how long you try to teach them, and it seems likely that this is something crows will never be able to understand. At best some distant descendant of crows that has evolved so much from present day crows to be a completely new species might get it.

I see no reason to assume that the capabilities required to completely understand physics fall somewhere between the limits of crow intelligence and the limits of human intelligence.
"Don't listen to the professionals on the front lines. They know nothing"

Really?
I had a chuckle over it.
Oh! Ha! I did not notice that! I thought something seemed weird though. ;)
If you deep dive into demographic groups (https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading/nation/groups/?gra...), you get a bit of a different story, showing a lot of the drop might just be Simpson's Paradox at play and the educational outcomes getting worse for the lower performing students.

For instance, non English language learner's reading scores are unchanged over the last 3 decade. It's crashing lower for ELL students.

Dive into other metrics and you see the pattern of the lower performing groups performing worse and better performing groups roughly holding.
Additional cost of not sharing ALBs is a small price to pay to avoid CloudFormation, as in this solution.
my father makes 100k driving for a major carrier. of course that's working 6 days a week. he's also 65.
Yea, totally agree. But I think my point still refutes the one about long term hunter gatherer Luddite lifestyles being the result of conscious philosophical choices, at least in the context of health, since most people would choose a longer healthier life given the opportunity. There may be trade offs though I guess.
Absolutely, Apple can charge $1.5 for something everyone else can charge $1 for, but I was looking it from a cost of goods sold perspective, instead of pricing power.

If it costs them $1.25, and everyone else can do it for $0.75 because they have scale and capital... that doesn't seem long-term stable.

If one cloud provider becomes dominant, Apple loses. If Apple loses market share, they lose negotiation power, and Apple loses.

The only way Apple wins is if cloud stays a multi-polar race AND Apple stays cloud-portable AND Apple retains significant market share AND cloud stays commoditized.

I'm not saying it's a bad bet (I'm sure Wall Street loves the resulting financials), but it does seem like a dangerous long term strategy, if cloud becomes more of product.
I used this as a literary device, because apart from many other unregulated professions, trucking requires special licences that most people don't have. Anyone can clean toilets, most just don't want to for the money offered. Not anyone can drive a trucks... so i was wondering is this a "not enough licenced people" issue to cover the work, even with "infinite pay", or just a "not enough pay" issue for people with licences and other job offers.

But considering the other comments, McDonalds-like jobs pay similar amounts of pay for a lot better working conditions (less responsibility, stay at home with family, less dangerous,...).
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What does composing into an arity-2 function entail? Do you automatically spread from an array? What if you need an array for your first parameter?
"When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more."

-- Daniel Ricciardo
There's money in confusion... I'm terrified of using the existing cloud services for personal projects. For business projects you can mostly just get an idea of how much your month-to-month bill will increase with certain actions, but it's sure easy to blow a budget by accident.
Don't we have this problem with regular electrical cables, but instead of not working you blow a circuit breaker or just start an electrical fire? There is very little stopping me from going to a wall socket and hooking up a 20 amp welder in a 15 amp plug and cranking it so the breaker trips or worse.

edit: I wrote this but then realized other countries other then the US exist and handle electricity differently, my example only applies to the US
What we should/shouldn't do doesn't matter. The fact is that because CS has exploded in the past decade, and because there are hundreds of applicants to most jobs, there needs to be some sort of programming litmus test to thin the herd. That's why I'm OK with FAANG companies having multiple rounds of interviews; they need to because so many people want to work there. What is the alternative?

The problem is when some dogshit startup that got funding 2 weeks ago copies Google's process. That I don't know how we can fix.
I don't think this scenario happens much unless people don't try to resolve it. I've worked with AWS for a long time at many companies, and support always takes care of these things. Things is just another anecdote, but I've never heard of AWS refusing to refund in these scenarios, even when it's entirely the customer's fault.
Putting aside the issue of locking real phones this has an issue of state persisting between test runs. The previous execution of a test should not change state for subsequent execution.

This is a long way of asking why the phones weren't unlocked as part of a cleanup step in the same test. Although, at this company, if they did this, they might not notice they were locking and unlocking phones whenever this ran and then periodically disable and enable their customers phones.
Ok that may be true, but I personally think infant mortality is an undesirable attribute of any society.
The first thing that pops in my mind is choosing a dictionary of 2^n words and making an identifier that maps the 256 bit hash space to a k-tuple of words, where k = 256/n.
How much storage did you get? I am thinking of 1Tb, but aren't sure its future proof enough.
I am sorry he lost the money, but this quote:

> My intentions were good, if naive. I helped both Yahoo and Viaweb. Business isn’t just about winning; it’s about helping others.

Tells me that he's a decent chap.

I mentioned in another post, that today's culture doesn't reward "decent chaps."

In my own case, I don't care. I do my best to be a "decent chap," even though I'll never get rich that way.

I'm clean-shaven, and it's important to be able to look myself in the eye every morning, or I'd cut myself to ribbons.
From the article:

> In the United States and other high-income countries, the overall rate of CMV infection is about 50%...

Those aren't very good odds. And given that a third of children are exposed to CMV, there's a good chance it will be a moot point by the time you're old enough to stick your tongue in someone else's mouth.

Of course, assuming you make it into adulthood CMV-free, you could remain completely chaste in an effort to avoid the horrors of this virus:

> Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common virus that usually causes no symptoms or only mild illness.

> Most people are infected as children or as young adults, but many don’t know it because CMV usually does not cause noticeable symptoms or only mild illness in otherwise healthy people. Individuals with mild illness may have non-specific signs and symptoms, such as sore throat, fever, tiredness, and swollen glands. In otherwise healthy adults, CMV infection may sometimes cause a flu-like illness or signs and symptoms similar to mononucleosis (mono), such as extreme fatigue, fever, chills, body aches, and/or headaches that usually resolve within a few weeks.

> Once you are infected, CMV remains in your body for the rest of your life without causing symptoms. After your initial “primary” infection resolves, CMV becomes dormant or latent, like other members of the herpes family. However, if your immune system is significantly weakened, the virus can become active again (reactivate) and cause illness.
Yes. From the article:

More ominous were the results for 13-year-olds, who experienced statistically significant drops of three and five points in reading and math, respectively. Compared with math performance in 2012, boys overall lost five points, and girls overall lost six points. Black students dropped eight points and Hispanic students four points; both decreases widened their score gap with white students, whose scores were statistically unchanged from 2012.
Not knowing the program you graduated from, I have zero faith that you have any idea whatsoever how to actually be a productive member of a development team as a result of that degree.

If you refused to answer technical questions during an interview because you believed your degree should be enough, you would not get a job from me, period. I don't know if that's true universally, but I expect it to be nearly so.
How much do you make per year? I think 70k is underpaying for truck driving.
Did the reaction wheel recover from this or is it dead? Article started by saying they used 3 so now only 2 are operational? Can they sustain the satellite with 2?
They’ve been politicized and captured by industry to the point of being an actual caricature…
This, more or less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay#Inflation

The problem is we're not sure that's what caused reheating. There's been other suggestions, some of them quite exotic -- a collision with a neighbouring brane, for instance. Still, my bet's on false vacuum decay.
Thank you!
I initially built it for my personal use to learn and practice Hebrew vocabulary, and that's exactly how it helped me :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28916271 ;)
This reminds me of an impromptu interview I saw with a teenage kid driving trucks in Africa in order to support his family.

Found the link: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1104630323217300...
The point is they were Germans and called Black Germans "Afro-Amerikaner" even if none of their ancestors had ever sat foot in a US territory let alone been citizens.

The implicit assumption was that because they were Black they couldn't be German. "Afrodeutsch" ("African-German") came significantly later.

In Germany (and I know the equivalent is true for many other countries) the term "German" is racialized and often used in a way that Americans use "white". Americans are far more willing to call an African or Asian American simply "American" than Germans are to call an African or Asian German simply "German". Also nobody will care more about your distant ancestors being Italian or Norwegian than they will care about them being Swabian or Bavarian, but if you are non-white, you will always be treated as a foreigner even if you have a Bavarian accent.
AB5 did not outlaw owner-operators; however, some owner-operator fleets have decided not to operate in California due to possible driver reclassification from contractors to employees due to AB5.
still need a truck to haul the backhoe around
Insecure standards we can't easily abandon
I agree, JS _the language_ would be a more "obvious" choice for this, since it is both generally much faster and more popular in web development. I assume they are using Python _the ecosystem_ here. It probably comes with packages better suited for rendering specifically?

I don't think either is a super compelling choice anyways for this type of work. I think you want to use a systems language here. However Python is completely fine as a teaching language. Pretty much anyone who knows a similarly structured language can read it. And there is very little noise. So it can serve as a good reference if you want to follow along with a different language.
I'm from Chile, never heard of thousands of phones being blocked here.
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It may be intentional. Nature journals generally discourage using technical terminology, jargon, and abbreviations, unless there are good reasons for them. In the same spirit, brand names should be avoided as well, especially if the spelling is weird.
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