skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reductions in generality are a major mechanism for reducing engineering cost in database engines

Yeah, just look at snowflake for a great example of this. They outsource the entire bottom half of the database (making data durable) to a blob store (S3, GCS, etc.). That is a huge simplification for them. They don't need to write their own durability and high availability components (no write ahead log, no recovery or replication protocols, etc.). It also makes it completely impractical to run lower latency small write transactions vs snowflake because the data needs to hit blob storage before the transaction can commit (and blob store writes are 10 to 100s of ms of high variability latency). Being a more specific case database (a data warehouse) let them make this trade-off. More general purpose systems can't make this type of trade-off. I wrote a bit on this topic a few months ago if anyone is interested [1]

[1] https://www.singlestore.com/blog/separating-storage-and-comp...
Ask HN: How did you gain your first, your 10th, and your 100th paying user?
If you’ve bootstrapped an app or a SaaS business either as a solo founder or with a small team,

- How did you gain your first paying user?

- How did you gain the next 9 paying users after that?

- How did you gain the next 90 paying users after that in turn?

Also:

- What was your economy like, and how did you survive? Did you have savings that you lived off of for example, or a daytime job?
Imagine thinking FB execs are so stupid that this was the impetus for the decision:

> "One More Thing" is the announcement of a company rebrand to avoid government regulation.
....Fido? How did you get online?
On Debian "unstable".
> Just in time doesn't mean "buffer free". It means eliminating unnecessary buffers.

this is sort of tautological, or at least hinges on how you interpret "necessary". certainly no one would implement a buffer knowing at the time that it was unnecessary!

but even in factorio, it can be worth maintaining a buffer deeper than what's needed to keep the factory running at 100% under optimal conditions. you don't want to find out that you're out of stone when your bots stop autoreplacing your walls and the biters flood in, or discover that you've exhausted all your uranium patches when your base goes dark. it's a real pain to reseed your kovarex enrichment in a power crisis. I usually maintain fairly deep buffers of critical defense items and monitor them periodically (or set up alarms). especially with fuel cells, I like to have at least a two hour supply, in case setting up the next mine is nontrivial.

disclaimer: I have played several hundred hours of factorio, but I have never built a base so large that my PC itself became the bottleneck.
You go girl. Free speech FTW!
French has the directional component specifically for people (amener vs emmener) which could have influenced British English like many other words and phrasings, or it could have just been lost/simplified in American English.
I definitely have healthy friendships, I was just sharing a learning.
What are the reasons for his reservations about it? The article doesn't seem to cover that. Why does he call it impossible? I was under the impression the idea is to supplement the current supply chain, not replace it completely.
The stereotype is that younger people aren’t having sex. Maybe we will look back and realize we medicated away a generation of relationship building.
I don't think anyone was under the impression that it's cost effective to manufacture in the US. The US push to get TSMC in the US is 1000% about risk mitigation... and I have a feeling that the nay-sayers from ROC might be concerned about losing political significance with their western trade partners.
Little to no IDE support. Arcane or no type systems. Shitty module systems. Inconsistent semantics. High verbosity. Extremely bad tooling. etc etc
Chatbot Has a Positive Impact on Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Not every person is smart in every way. Some people are very good at reading technology, some are very good at reading the motivation of other people. It could be that Carmack mistook Zuckerberg's intentions with Oculous and believed him on the handshake promise (I'm giving a lot of grace to Carmack... it's hard to see people you respected fall by the wayside).
Shipping from a Singapore fab to SZ will always be cheaper than shipping from a Chandler fab. The real investment needs to be on board assembly in the NAFTA region.
I’m still fine with that. Or more so as the OP said. Sfuff is already being scanned, sold, etc. The trade off was fine when I was using Unroll before.
literally just bought a quest 2 and I'm pretty blown away

tried vr years like 5 years ago and didn't seem fully baked then but now i don't see why you would buy a console when you could get a vr headset for cheaper and it's far more novel.

imagine the nintendo wii except 8 times better.
Another good reason to have a 419 response code:

https://www.419eater.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419eater.com
I'm nodding off right now, so my verbal fluency is off. I think I was trying to make an analogy on how their effects differ, not on how their effects are.

For example, with eating weed, you get bodily sensations, and so its effects are more on your body, i.e. physical; while with smoking weed, the "sensations" are more in your head, and mental.

Likewise, with injecting NASA, the effects seem to be spread around your body and more "physical"; while administering NASA intranasaly, the effects are more mental, and focused "in your head."

The route of administration changes the expression of the drug on your body and mind. Dependent on that, it can either be a nootropic (nasal route) or akin to a mild and sensationless (compared to painkillers like opiates) muscle relaxant (subcutaneous).

It's difficult to explain, because the effects are so mild and without the normal "Oh, I'm on drugs. I can feel it" sensations, that you can only see them in hindsight (in my case, by perusing old journal entries).
> Debt to your citizens is great

Except it's not. Debt to citizens represents tax payments that are owed from all citizens to the subset of citizens owning debt.

The rich own a disproportionate amount of bonds. This is expected.

By taxing all people to pay interest to the rich you're just taking from the poor to give to the rich.

Especially considering that the next generation is made up of larger numbers of children of the poor rather than children of the rich, this is tantamount to stealing from the future of the already disadvantaged to give to the ready advantaged.
Why? How will it solve the problem?
My hot take is that Nogales is going to be the next shenzen
The trouble I have is that the cost for using the system is the same as if you try to buy your own Facebook-free headset. The advertisers still demand all your info and demand to be able to sell to you.

I feel like we’re all hoping that there will be a VR version of the early web, free and open, and mostly just neat things to connect with or about. I worry there is increasingly no chance of that.
Beeple to Auction a Real-Life LED Sculpture for About $15M at Christie’s
> It never stops. If it does then the glass cools down and solidifies inside the machinery

That's why you can't just flip a switch to turn it off. But what if you stop feeding glass in and wait half a day first?
Slowly is right. Every time they release a package it's 2 years after the source code was published.
Again, why don't you share your wisdom?
Most single people who have a full time job should still have enough free time to devote 1000+ hours a year to personal projects - and even with a family, you should be able to find 400+ hours if your employer has any respect for WLB and/or you know how to set boundaries. That's 2 college degrees a decade worth of time
Glitter Factory (2018)
If you can't trust the data, just ask whether citizens are happy with the change. Considering that Portugal hasn't rolled back their decriminalisation, I'd say that either things have pretty much improved, or at least stayed the same.
I always see a lot of hemming and hawing in these threads but it's impossible to underscore just what a HUGE boon remote work is for people who don't want to or can't live in Tier 1 cities like SF or NYC. My career has taken on an entirely new trajectory. Prior to the pandemic I worked at two different companies over 6 years. Since the start of the pandemic I've changed jobs 3 times and my TC has almost tripled.

There are definitely downsides to it no doubt. I'm a social person and I miss shooting the shit with coworkers and in-person interaction. But I have to laugh when I see statistics in the article like "workers view being forced to be in the office full-time as equivalent to a 5% pay cut". 5%? Are you serious? For me, being asked to come into the office = I must physically live near my employer = I take more like a 70% pay cut. For 70% I'll find another social outlet!
If you think public markets are bad at creating poor long term incentives (they are) you should see what private equity does. 10x worse.
Is it me, or do some researchers seem to start from a point of stark ignorance and thus a low bar for ‘findings’?
I think they just mean that they wouldn't necessarily have heard about or got into Agda otherwise.
Please stop spreading misinformation. You're confusing case fatality rate with infection fatality rate. There has never been a credible IFR estimate as high as 2%. The previous CDC IFR estimate was 0.6%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Video of the sculpture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIx4D3WSeHY
Interesting thought experiment. Language/communication barrier and that whole getting murdered for looking different aside...if you were able to accomplish such things, I'd imagine the world you came back to -today- would look much, much different.
I'm not saying they suck for society (my take is more along the lines of: they have certainly improved the taxi experience, which has made noticeable contributions to issues such as, per your mention, drunk driving; on the other hand, they have exposed and exploited externalities that impose their own serious safety, quality of life, and social costs on the areas where they are most active), I'm saying their business model fundamentally exists as a response to regulatory issues, so their business will inherently have more exposure to regulation.
Understanding the structure of government is largely a matter of understanding law and formal procedure. This understanding can be validated by decisions that courts make when resolving controversies relating to that structure.

Validating an understanding of political philosophy cannot be done scientifically, which is the same for all areas of philosophy.

Validating an understanding of the outcomes produced by certain kinds of policy can be approached somewhat scientifically, but you’re never going to derive reliable predictions, or conclusions that are widely agreed upon. Which is the same issue that all scientific research of human behavior encounters, in this case further complicated by the fact that the domain is the entirety of human civilization.
where I work at theres a beautiful, cool and collaborative office. friendly people overall. But I much prefer work at home or whatever I want. Just need a good ISP. If they ever tell us we need to go to the office in an arbitrary frequency, then im out.
Everyone should keep in mind that water seeks its own level. And think of this on a global scale.

I've been working remotely for almost a decade as a senior software engineer. Now, post-Covid, almost everyone realizes they can do the same.

Salaries are going to drop in the "rich world", and it's not just because people are now fleeing places like SF/SV to lower cost of living areas.

We are also beginning to compete globally, far more than ever before with the ease of remote work. Qualified engineers can be found for 1/10th of the price with "near shore" companies in the "rich world".

I know because I've worked with them throughout various roles, both as peers and as a PM/Team Lead.

The money may start flowing from the "rich world" to the "poor world" soon, no need for H1B visas or anything else.

The gold rush days may be over.
I've never heard of USG jobs where you had to work specifically from home, but I don't doubt they exist nor that the USG would be so asinine. I'd hate the condition of having to be specifically at home. Would probably set up a VPN to house or something just out of principle and then run away to hawaii for a week (assuming odds of being randomly called in were slim but you could always claim potential covid exposure, I guess).
For solar flares, I always like to check http://spaceweather.com too.
What is a “near shore” company?
Multi hour commute is, truly, insane. But that’s more a comment about our collective housing and transportation choices than something inherent to showing up at work.
If you have to fake being sorry about everything, eventually that pent up frustration has to come out :P
>I can understand the soldred RAM on M1 — yes, speed of light and other laws of physics get in the way

so you do know the speed of signal in copper? ~20cm per 1ns. 5-7cm of extra track length to a slot would not hurt anything.
There are no guarantees civilization won't collapse. The traits that were essential for our survival in the stone age aren't things we want to abandon. I'm a big fan of redundancy.
Roblox Has been down for 4 hours
It's kind of the same argument for/against a universal programming language. The sheer creativity of all the peoples working in the same language, eclipsing the few lost concepts we are unable to represent with our current model.

If we want a robust model, we have to include uncertainty within it. As long as computers fail by being sure about the error, a human is always needed to fix the problem.

It would have to be an almost philosophically mathematical standard. How we do that when half the world measures physics by completely different metrics than the other one?

At least we have Unicode. God bless Unicode. Solving the problem from a computer-linguistic viewpoint: Let's get the language into the computer and we can worry about what it means later!
I actually have a lot to be thankful for to Keyence. In a prior life as a process engineer, I had some exposure to Keyence products in a manufacturing setting. Looking to make a career change, I got into their hiring pipeline for a technical sales role. Fortunately, I got rejected after taking a personality test and submitting a video response to some interview prompt.

I instead got my first software development position the following month, which has been an amazingly positive change in my life. So thank you, Keyence. Who knows where I’d be today otherwise!
Now people can get the immersion they crave, what they probably wanted most from fiction in the first place.

You say the metaverse is evil but where do you draw the line? If you fill your waking hours pursuing other forms of fiction, is that any better?
One wonders if the concept of language 70kya was sufficiently advanced for you to transmit ideas beyond the immediate and concrete. I wouldn’t be surprised if you’d have better luck with water wheels than animal domestication, despite the latter preceding the former.
I just spent $3k on a fancy TV and I was presented ads when I powered it on for the first time. I wanted to rage return the product but the sheer size makes it a hassle to take back to the store. I am beyond angry everytime I turn it on (which quickly dissipates when the video turns on and ads go away leaving me in awe of the image quality).
Add verifiable Covid-19 vaccination information to Apple Wallet and Health
You'll never catch me! I'm going to play the piano next.
Or perhaps we need to be asking ourselves: Why do we demand ever-increasing growth in order to declare that a company—hell, even a product or a segment within a company—is "healthy"?

Smartphones hit a saturation point a while back. At this point the only ways for Apple to grow marketshare are to a) lure away current Android customers, or b) convince first-time smartphone purchasers to go with iPhones at a higher rate.

Neither of those things are trivial, and not being able to do so for a little while should not be taken as an indication that something is wrong.
Google Cloud’s Transfer Appliance [video]
Ironically, money is fungible. One dollar bill is perfectly interchangeable for another dollar bill.
The Facebook brand is tainted so they're renaming themselves Meta because people won't be trigger by "a Meta Company" in the site footer.
doing your own thing can be a chore that keeps you very far from doing the fun stuff, especially if you love R&D.

when you least expect it you will be in a meeting about business management crap, it's very hard to keep that at bay.

I don't regret doing my own thing, but sometimes I'd like to work for my company instead of running it.
Probably targeted at people who use other ML family languages (although this isn't a large crowd).
Facebook investor exposes metaverse rollout as distraction
i am also very skeptical of the phishing companies. It seems like a very scammy industry as a whole. I think yubikeys is a far better solution.
How is the Swift experience outside of the Apple ecosystem? And how does it compare to other languages like C# and Java?
I thought this was already established? I learnt about it from Smarter Every Day: https://youtu.be/Oai7HUqncAA?t=388

Here is the source they reference: https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/why-dogs-tilt-their-h...
For some definition of "own" which is unclear to me why it's desirable.
> Konrad Malawski is a member of a team developing foundational server-side Swift libraries at Apple, with focus on distributed systems and concurrency
I don’t think this took 2 hours. 2 months maybe?
For US, it's south America. Same time zone, cheaper labor costs.
Patent disputes in the United States arise in federal jurisdiction.

In relation to a patent infringement matters commenced in the US District Court of the relevant judicial circuit, it can be appealed to the Court of Appeals. In theory it can then be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States (as happened in Google v. Oracle), if that court thinks its intervention is warranted.

In relation to issues arising from the grant of a patent (not an infringement action), an appeal can be made to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and then to the Court of Appeals for the federal circuit, and then to the Supreme Court of the United States, if that court thinks its intervention is warranted.

I read below this is working its way through the appeals process but I'm not sure about its status.
> He's sharing the same story without throwing jabs at a particular company.

I would argue it’s not the same story. He wanted to join this other company but couldn’t, which means that his product or at least personage is going to be different in a way that is irreconcilable with Codecademy. They are thus his direct competitor, which is extra information conveyed by this title.

> the audience doesn’t have enough context to see the complete picture.

No one has enough context to see the complete picture, though. The logical progression of this is, “don’t talk about things in general,” which I rather fundamentally disagree with. If someone is unhappy, that can be a good motivator for a story. The same is true for happiness IMO, by the way.
LSD activates 5HT2A. Mirtazapine is the only medication I posted about that blocks 5HT2A.

I'm not sure what the mechanism behind venlafaxine's blunting effect on LSD is.
This is shockingly obvious and it's sort of crazy that it doesn't seem to be discussed [edit: in the overall discussion not just this thread]
This was a huge problem with the IETF early on but real network operators persisted and got fully functional vrrp, dhcp, and private networks for v6 years ago.

As for disabling autoconfiguration, high end network hardware has always supported disabling router advertisements. Consumer devices should have this option, there is no reason not to. A generic workaround in any case is to configure the local subnet with a prefix length other than /64.
A practical start would be OpenCPN + plug-ins.
That Wikipedia page is great, but entirely incomplete. I can see many missing ones, including their hysterical coverage of drugs.

https://www.nytimes.com/1927/07/06/archives/mexican-family-g...
This will make C much slower on your hardware, too.
>> We are also beginning to compete globally, far more than ever before with the ease of remote work. Qualified engineers can be found for 1/10th of the price with "near shore" companies in the "rich world".

Yep. I've said it many times here and basically anywhere I can: Clamoring for remote-only work, maximum-introvert, never fly somewhere, don't value in-person communication/meetings/etc is a dangerous game to be playing. People vastly overestimate how talented they are and how hard the problems they are solving may be.

Not today, and not tomorrow. But if face to face communication, meetings, and the other sociable stuff goes away, it won't take long for domestic management to realize where the cost savings could come from, and international management to realize they need to upskill their people in English and code quality to earn "huge" [0] salaries consistently.

[0] Huge salaries to them being a high-five figure salary.
It's very hit or miss.

I have a Vive from 2016. I purchased the Q2 with the intent of doing dev work with it and I expected it to be a big improvement. I mean I read reviews like yours and I saw what it was capable of.

Don't get me wrong, it's a big deal that it is now standalone (the Vive very much feels lke the matrix), but the visual fidelity hadn't incresed prceptibly in that time (as far as I can tell) and the headset itself is still too heavy.

The higher sales are interesting but it's at like 6 million units worldwide? The most popular consoles were over a hundred million. We're not even into a console that everyone knows about but only that weird dude has like the Xbox yet.

I can see a future where these googles are 3x the resolution, even cheaper, and as light as actual glasses, and that day we'll be at mass market, probably before it.

But if you made me work in VR for any length of time at all as of now, I'll quit because the quality is not there yet. I'd rather play the latest games on cheap but incredible monitors anyway.

Give it six weeks. You might still be entralled. I sold mine, I don't want to build anything for that guy.
Isn’t that what the state of VR has been for the past decade? I used an Oculus for the first time in 2013 and it was exactly that feeling of exploration and joy
It’s really not. Their financial results for FY97 was a loss of $1 billion. That was after posting a net loss of $816 million for FY96. At the time of the Microsoft stock purchase it was down to $1.2 billion in cash… you can do the math on their runway had Jobs not quickly turned things around.
As well as the fact that taxing unrealized gains would have to come with _issuing tax rebates_ for unrealized losses - something the government would find difficult to do in the case of a systemic economic downturn a-la 2008. And then there's the fact that you aren't really creating any new revenue by taxing unrealized gains if they are going to be, at some point, realized. Last I checked shares of stock aren't very useful as a payment instrument in the general case, nor would IRS accept them as taxes.

This is a cynical ploy to the part of the populace that can't tell a portfolio from a hole in the ground, and there seem to be surprisingly many of such people.

Also, to address GP's comment - Apple would then buy back all outstanding stock and destroy it, dramatically driving up the share price for folks who haven't sold.
Really? I’ve visited relatives new-ish condos in a tower in middle of nowhere Anhui and it perfectly nice. OTOH, anything older like pre 2000 was pretty dumpy unless it was extensively renovated. The older houses were single family homes or townhouses, often with no heating, awful showers, etc etc.