skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A running gag at Google is that the infrastructure makes hard problems easier and easy problems harder. There's a new-hire parable centered around the phrase "I just want to serve five terabytes" that demonstrates all the layers of systems and services you have to plug into to get a simple static-data server running reliably, scalably, and with monitoring and support.

The parable hints that "The Google way" to solve that problem is to find the service someone already built and use it to vend your data; don't re-invent a wheel. But (a) that means part of your job is now keeping abreast of all of Google's wheels (and there are hundreds of them) and (b) if your work didn't require the creation of a new wheel, was it impactful enough to justify a promotion later?
It is substantial;

>More recently, Cawley and Meyerhoefer drew headlines with their estimate that obesity accounts for 21 percent of medical spending-$190 billion in 2005-more than double Finkelstein and colleagues’ earlier estimate from MEPS data. (1) Cawley and Meyerhoefer also used MEPS data to make their estimates. But they used a different and potentially more accurate method for calculating costs, called the “instrumental variable approach.” This method takes into account the two-way relationship between obesity and chronic disease, by using a biological child’s body mass index as a surrogate variable for the individual’s body mass index.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesi...
It's lunchtime so I googled - Siemens did have a collaboration with Intel and built processors at least through the 286 in Europe - I found a picture of one marked "Austria". This would have been completely unremarkable at the time, nothing to stake national pride on. Given the cultural and business style differences between Intel and Siemens, that process could have possibly been harder than ripping off the masks and pirating the chip! As an aside in that vein, it looks like Intel and Siemens caught a real cold working together on the project that became the i960. One of the pitfalls of advanced development is you can go wrong...
> do they still make Mazda Miatas

It's gone through some name changes in the US (sometimes MX-5 Miata, sometimes just MX-5), but they still sell it.
"when that's explicitly the wrong answer for that interview question"

So to clarify: You're asking some sort of an interview question that is to some degree subjective, and then penalizing people when they have an "incorrect" opinion?

A better approach would be to discuss why they have that opinion and why they would go that route over another one.
I would love to see an answer to this. I use a 43" 4K monitor, and have not been able to find a good position for the camera.

Below the screen: Unflattering view up my nostrils.

Above the screen: Makes me look as if I am trying to avoid eye contact.

To the side: Combination of unflattering and no eye contact.

I wish there were software that could take input from two cameras (high and low) and create a fake view of me looking directly into a camera.
I wonder if you can follow up with them and ask for your survey details, and perhaps how they compare to others?
i guess we eventually going to end up naming every other feynman - savvy stuff in "Harry Potter and X" way
> ... and are left with mostly addicts for whom the most popular gets worse and worse.

I think you're painting a darker picture than what it really is.

Maybe it's a US thing where people fight each other over Trump and vaccines. But my FB experience is pretty mundane. Watching some friends or acquaintance pictures when I'm procrastinating, and chatting with friends who still use Messenger. I also follow a few groups. Never got any fake news or harmful content whatsoever.

I'm not a FB fan because I'm favor of decentralization and openness, and I don't think a company (or gvt) should have access to that much information.

But I don't buy into the opinion that FB is such a threat to humanity because a small minority of people share fake news on the platform.
A video by someone named Taliver: Answer to What’s an inside joke among Google employees? by David Seidman https://www.quora.com/What-s-an-inside-joke-among-Google-emp...

Pretty old by now, don't know when you started at Google but probably not seen much anymore.
Should social media accounts be anonymous?
- http://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source

- http://theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740701/microsoft-dotnet-hot...

- https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505

Organisational design defect - the .NET language is open-source and wants to be available on all platforms, on all devices and fundamentally an open programming language (ie all editors). The problem is the .NET SDK team is paid by the Visual Studio team. CVP ripped out SDK features to sell more Visual Studio product because the org is run as a profit centre that is stuck in a Ballmeresk Cold War with Jetbrains vs Satya “Azure is the future”

Moments after the public “reversal” blog post key engineers and product managers took to twitter to celebrate the victory and the community movement with expensive scotch. (“Thanks for your support”)
I thought actually life-cutting health choices like obesity and smoking are actually less strenuous because they die earlier and faster. They're cheaper too because of this in the long run. Not to say that there aren't other reasons why we should combat obesity/smoking/addiction/any number of lifestyle-related health problems, just that using "they strain the healthcare system" nets in other issues like "what do we do with patients whose mind have gone long before their bodies?"
64GB memory, $292:

https://www.newegg.com/crucial-64gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82...

2TB NVMe SSD, $199:

https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-2tb-blue-sn550-nvme/p...

X570 board, $154:

https://www.newegg.com/asrock-x570-phantom-gaming-4/p/N82E16...

Case, keyboard, mouse, fans:

https://www.newegg.com/petrol-blue-fractal-design-focus-g-at...
https://www.newegg.com/logitech-mk120-920-002565-usb-wired/p...
https://www.newegg.com/p/13C-0007-001M0?Item=9SIABW9EME4036

Together ~$100.

You're off by about $1000.
I didn't mention the flu. I mentioned making tradeoffs between death rate and living life. Why does everyone bring up the flu when talking about covid? Flu is a deadly endemic virus that most people have natural immunity too (yes, even if you get a bad flu, the fact that your body has some past experience helps you fight it off and not get as sick as someone who's immunocompromised).
Well, as far as I glanced it, it did cover multiple chairs of 4k+. Which is admittedly not 5k, but is not crap either.

The fact you are spreading it over 10 years does not make the 4k chair suddenly cheap.
I’d say the new iMac’s argue against that. Very ‘designed,’ very thin, to the point of compromise in some ways. It seems they are letting the designers have their way in the non-pro arena.
Intrinsic value is a subjective matter of philosophy.

Pickled cucumbers cannot be used to manufacture bitcoin miners, yet one can surely argue that they have “value” and a certain “price” (= “market value“) which is expected to be a proxy for the perceived intrinsic value.

How you perceive the intrinsic value is subjective, while market value is (though to be) objective. For example, if you personally don’t know what to do with pickles then they have zero (or even negative) value to you. Other people might have different valuation.
I wonder if they'll connect the third leg of the triangle and figure out that entrepeneurship is mental illness.
There are a series of jokes in Google about things like this. Things like just wanting to serve a file, or run some small webapp, etc, etc. Google's tooling is geared towards building large, reliable apps. That makes wanting to build some tiny thing seem like a big bother (seemingly lots of overhead).

I remember my first hackathon at Google, probably in 2015. My group built a service and deployed it with some automated deployment tools. In "production", it was running 9 instances, spread over 3 continents. A little overkill for a hackathon project.

But I have never heard it (in 7 years) seriously.
I am also interested in this expression. Google searching turns up nothing, except maybe a reference to marijuana.

So maybe 'broccoli' is their way of saying craziness? Like being on Google drugs. But obviously that's not a perfect fit. Maybe its a misspelling of something else?
I'm an outsider, but this book[0] talks about how they think about these questions. The mentality makes sense to me in the sense that they are also trying to scale development processes. Does it make sense for every team to start small with a single VPS running python scripts and then migrate to up to 3-tier architecture, then all the way up to k8s when the feature is a success so needs global scale and availability? Or could the company make k8s easy enough that its trivial to just host v1 there, and back it with a massive multi-tenant db that also works fine for low volume prototypes?

0: https://abseil.io/resources/swe_at_google.2.pdf
Punish the law-abiding - a pretty well known and used policy in the UK (sadly).
I've had a January - April interview process before. Not FAANG at all, but a pretty big company. For me the first few months were HR and the last half were the coding/technical/hiring manager interviews, save one online coding challenge early on after the phone screen.
Ok, here is a picture [0] but don't make fun of my LEDs lol. It's one of the few pictures I have of a semi-clean desk so I'm going to run with it.

[0] https://imgur.com/ILTcpG0

EDIT: Because I forgot to mention and my above post isn't editable: My 3 2K monitors are all 27" and my 1080p is 24"
He did talk in some things. I used to have an LP of a bunch of the Spider-Man stories from the show. At least I think they were from the show.
I walked into the Cambridge Raspberry Pi shop on launch day and bought a Pi 4, a power supply, and an SD card with NOOBS. It isn't my hardware that's at fault and, even if it was, it doesn't excuse developing hardware that doesn't work with in-spec USB-C power supplies and depends on inherently fragile storage media.
The initial incident: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740701/microsoft-dotne...

Reversal: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/23/22742282/microsoft-dotne...
Only you can answer this question. If you're used to a larger screen then it's quite the adjustment
Yep, you could even buy groceries with BTC, but the haters seem to overlook some things. I actually bought coffee with it before, and yeah, it is legal.
If we have a component
<ProfilePage id={id} onLoad={handleOnLoad} />
and inside profile page we use an effect to load from id and call handleOnLoad with the loaded profile data, then we need to put handleOnLoad in the useEffect dependencies. So we have to pass a callback wrapped in useCallback else the effect would fire every time ProfilePage rerenders.
I have a setup with homebridge, zigbee2mqtt, z2m (for better glue between both) and Node-RED, and a few write-ups here:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/01/13/1900

Essentially you can use Node-RED to either act as another HomeKit bridge or to handle MQTT events from homebridge itself (I chose the latter).

You can easily "fake" and inject new accessories into homebridge via the homebridge-mqtt plugin (which allows you to dynamically add accessories and "see" them in MQTT).
This is nerd-speak for "my guess was way, way off": the database under consideration would have to not just double in size, not just be 10x larger, but be 100x, maybe even 1000x or 10,000x bigger before it stopped fitting in memory. And her time at Google had her used to dealing pretty much exclusively with datasets at several hundreds of thousands times larger than the one this job was asking her to think about.

"Orders of magnitude" are a concept found wherever you have to deal with absurdly large or absurdly tiny numbers; if you've ever seen someone write a number like "2 x 10^9" then you're seeing someone use a little of this - they're saying "about two billion".

Wikipedia's page on the subject of orders of magnitude might be a decent introduction to the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
I asked the author on Twitter if this approach was still in place, but didn't get a reply :/
A surprising fact: about a third of all pedestrian deaths are drunk pedestrians.

https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i...

I'd really like to see a campaign about how it's not safe to walk home drunk. People should Uber home after drinking if at all possible.

Another interesting fact from the CDC: most pedestrians killed are crossing city streets, at night, and not at intersections.

This is also something we can improve with education -- we should inform people of the risks of jay walking at night, just as we've informed people about wearing safety belts and not driving drunk.
Does this mean we will see a startup offering injections of Toxoplasmosis? I've seen worse TikTok challenges.
I only rent a car when going on holidays abroad for a week. There is no way I would choose Electric. Filling car once and forgeting about it is a must for me
Agree totally. It's not FOSS but I've had good experience with FileRun.

I loved Pydio but it was simply too slow.
If there is one thing the US military lacks, its money.
goldmont uArch -> Atom. Slow & tiny cache. It'll struggle
The top 0.1% - 10% already pay the majority of taxes in the US. Beyond 0.1% the tax rate drops off due to loopholes in the tax code.

Eliminating all of the loopholes, re-evaluating the marginal tax rates, and taxes on corporate income or a VAT make sense. Unfortunately it seems to easy to whip up people into a frenzy about some of those solutions because they can't math.
> rather than to express any genuine feeling on the part of the composer

Having found Gunship a few years ago, I'm not sure that this is true. At least one of the members is in their 40s, and based upon their other works, they definitely seem to have a love of the 80s and 90s (at least the media of it).
My brother-in-law has an apostrophe in his last name and almost no systems bother to support it and it is in the character set. If this is an example of an appropriate use of GDPR, wow.
> so I have been genuinely surprised that there hasn't been any push for diet and exercise over the last 20 months

There's been no official push but there have been individuals whom, upon realizing people were dying due to their lungs clogging up and difficulties breathing, organized into online groups and started exercising a lot.

> Instead, all we see pushed are pills ...

It appeared very early on that there was a gigantic correlation between low vit-D levels and severe Covid-19 complications. Several scientific studies now confirmed this officially. I don't think it's know (yet?) if Vit-D supplementation works or not (it works to raise vit-D levels, but does it help when you then catch Covid-19?) but I don't find it crazy that people, like me, started taking Vit-D (+ K) supplementation.

> ... and shots,

ah yup, RNA shots. I was basically forced to get mines too (even if it's not totally mandatory they're pretty much rammed down your troath in the EU).

The worldwide epidemiological study as to what the consequences of this new kind of vaccine are is ongoing...

Stay tuned ; )
To put it in perspective, 6k deaths in a year are about two orders of magnitude lower than covid deaths in 2020. Heart disease similarly claims some 600k+ lives every year; its death rates swing by more than 4 deaths/100,000 YoY.
Using a hardware wallet doesn't mean you're physically storing it. It's just a user interface to make storing it a little easier and a little more secure than having it as a file on your computer or on a piece of paper.
macOS Monterey is now available
Tesla breaches $1T market cap
The world will continue spinning regardless of the noises made by those of us resident on this layer of it.
Well, that'll be interesting, from a company yet to do an orbital launch that's been operating for 20 years and an old aerospace dinosaur that can't even fix the issues with their crew module.
Would Linux have achieved the same success if there had been no GNU?
Use one for an offline emulator (using e.g. RetroPie). Kids love it and they don't have to be so careful with it.

We mostly play SNES games but I sometimes play stuff from my childhood when they're not awake.
The best way to get your foot in the door is by actually getting your foot in the door. I had great success working with a staffing company and others who have followed my advice also became full-time employees. You'll be a contractor or vendor for a bit but you'll meet the right teams and even get a chance to sample the culture before you make the move in.
They also have some extremely dangerous flight characteristics.[0] To be fair, helicopters are even worse, but they require extensive training and are known to be dangerous.

[0] https://youtu.be/CfjBzrSDrV0
Erm. You can't run Node-RED on those, the NodeJS runtime alone would eat three times the flash storage. You can _talk_ to them, though, from a more powerful system.
We might simply not be able to comprehend our own brain to a level that let use emulate it. The toys we're playing with today aren't even remotely close to emulate any kind of intelligent animal, the best we can (almost but not even fully) do is a worm with 300 neurons [0] (vs 80+ billions for the human brain)

Technocrates told us we'd have AGI and flying cars by now, I'd stay cautious about people claiming reaching AGI is a question of time alone.

[0] https://openworm.org
The 1940s model didn’t include any way to generate them, so talking about their creation process is kind of meaningless.

The process of generating a NN is it’s own thing, just as python code is different from a python programmer.
That would only be an apt comparison if the problem with cars running over pedestrians was that they sometimes accidentally run over the wrong pedestrian.
> ... people constantly forget about are motorcycles and the fact that many pedestrian deaths actually happen _outside_ of a city.

They also forget that pedestrian deaths do actually not happen on the highway.
For me nudging verges uncomfortably close to overbearing social pressure.
I really don't like working for those 100 darts people. They are a royal pain in the ass.

Much better are the folks with a solid vision who can drive folks to execute on it, successfully.
I've learned how to use uMatrix. Almost no javascript means almost no ads. I haven't experienced more ads lately.
> It just gives people with bad thoughts a thing to look at.

The word "just" is doing a lot of work, here. By your line of reasoning, propaganda isn't anything anyone should worry about.

Not to go full Godwin, but the Nazi regime is an instructive analogy, here. By your reasoning, all the Nazis did was "just" promote a lot of anti-Jewish propaganda. Would you really go on to say "Blaming the Nazis for negative outcomes in the world is just like blaming violent video games. All they did was put the messages out there, then the people with the bad thoughts did the mass murder..."?

And to preempt the objection that Facebook isn't intentionally distributing material that, say, promotes ethnic violence, while Facebook corporate obviously does not have that as an official policy, their algorithm is doing precisely that, by actively promoting these types of materials. Facebook's own internal research has shown that it can and does steer individuals to increasingly extreme content.

So if we agree that a) Facebook's systems steer individuals to violent or extremist content (as proven by their own research), b) propaganda is a tool that works to steer public opinion and drive human behaviour (as proven by historical precedents like Nazi regime), c) extremist content serves as effective propaganda (which is well trod ground in research on extremism), and d) that Facebook knew all these things and failed to curtail what was going on (as now revealed in these internal documents), then I don't see how you can possibly defend Facebook, here.
Anyone else learn to read from Pokemon Red or Blue?
Pro Tip: calling developers "resources" causes employee turnover.

What is a "senior" task and what is a "junior" task depends on the organization of labor.

It's certainly possible for a senior to divide a big task into small chunks that juniors can dispatch with great haste. You could possibly put 1 senior and 4 juniors together in a bullpen and get them to do the work that (say) 3 seniors or 10 juniors could do with a different organization.

To realize that you have to get the human relationships right, a theme I keep harping on is that the people involve have to feel the tasks are worthy of them. Many juniors, in a situation like that, might feel like they are being micromanaged.

Another thing you need is for the senior to have enough of a global view of the situation that their seniority really produces value. If you really don't understand where you are going and you'll need to rework everything you aren't getting value out of that kind of situation.

Around my farm we have a large number of "junior resources" available for construction work. Those young people make silly mistakes that cost time and money and that's one reason why they make $18 an hour compared to a more experienced person who makes $40 an hour because they are twice as productive.
> I've seen worse TikTok challenges.

Ha! That's a very low bar.
Would love to see this in AMD. It's also just a little bit pricier than I typically pay for my to-go linux netbooks, but I'm always happy to pay a bit more to support a company that's supporting linux.
> I turned off the "touch-up" checkbox on my video conferencing software.

Is that not the default?
There is a nice symmetry in the fact that all apps/websites will need to take into account safe area insets to display properly on any apple device in all display modes.
Post-FAANG digital infrastructure. This is that moment, when the cycle starts all over again.
I would trust the FBI more if it stood to its original mission statement and stopped scope-creeping.
Bet they also use non-powered hand tools and hammers with wooden handles. Savages.
> The Google Maps car navigation iOS team had over 200 engineers.

I don't really believe that. I worked at Google and the frontend teams were usually just a couple of engineers per target client, I doubt any projects had 200 entire engineers just for a single target client. Not even big projects like gmail has nearly that many.

Edit: If I were to guess Google maps would have 200 engineers in total, or at least 200 figure would be the entire team of frontend engineers for every target client, and then many more working in other roles. 1 engineer per million users is a pretty good rule of thumb for Google products, and a large majority of those will work on backend systems.
With the decline of “traditional” TVs and watching habits, the number of people paying for a TV license has also decreased despite them being able to watch basically everything online via the BBCs own apps.

The BBC is funded through a TV license, which is a “tax but not technically a tax”, and plugging the obvious loophole of watching BBC funded content online for free on their own bloody platform is a good thing, not least of all because they produce some absolutely marvellous content.
"One small step for a Musk, but one pipe dream leap for Marketingkind."
Yeah, I got one of those and sold it within a week. Bought a used Concept2 Model B (from the early 90's or so) and have loved it.
Make sure you can remap the Fn key on this keyboard. It is in a terrible spot and should have been swapped with the CTRL key. Dell has the same issue and on their system it isn't software remappable. Really makes using the keyboard untenable for me.
And yet, AFAIK, research largely dismisses a causal link between 'distracted walking' and pedestrian injuries.

e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019822...