skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and would even go one step further and say the first implementation was a decent first pass. Sometimes the 'awful' implementation is good enough and your time is better used on something else. However, this pattern can sometimes bite you in the long term. As you can have tons of little 'hacks' all over the place and people become afraid to touch them, or worse copy from them.

This also nicely shows one of the fun things with table scans. They look decent at first then perf goes crappy. Then you get to learn something. In this case it looks like she used normalization to scrunch out the main table size (win on the scan rate, as it would not be hitting the disk as much with faster row reads). It probably also helped just on the 'to' lookups. Think about how many people are in an org, even a large company has a finite number of people but they get thousands of emails a week. That table is going to be massively smaller than keeping it in every row copied over and over. Just doing the 'to' clause alone would dump out huge amounts of that scan it was doing. That is even before considering an index.

The trick with most SQL instances is do less work. Grab less rows when you can. Use smaller tables if you can. Throw out unnecessary data from your rows if you can. Reduce round trips to the disk if you can (which usually conflicts with the previous rules). Pick your data ordering well. See if you can get your lookups to be ints instead of other datatypes. Indexes usually are a good first tool to grab when speeding up a query. But they do have a cost, on insert/update/delete and disk. Usually that cost is less than your lookup time, but not always. But you stick all of that together and you can have a DB that is really performant.

For me the fun one was one DB I worked in they used a GUID as the primary key, and therefore FK into other tables. Which also was the default ordering key on the disk. Took me awhile to make them understand why the perf on look up was so bad. I know why they did it and it made sense at the time to do it that way. But long term it was holding things back and ballooning the data size and crushing the lookup times.

How did I come by all of this? Lots of reading and stubbing my toe on things and watching other do the same. Most of the time you do not get a 'mentor'. :( But I sure try to teach others.
And how would you know what your feelings would be like without the circumcision? Not like you've ever experienced the alternative…
Psychosomatic disorder
except for, you know, the "we totally violated your privacy" part of it.
Yes, this makes sense. It will become outdated soon, technologies are evolving rapidly.
He “was” against any kind of censorship. His principles forever frozen in time. I wonder had he lived would his position have softened in the interval. I think many of us have been on this journey.
How much skin would you be happy having removed from your daughter's clitoris before you'd consider it mutilation? Answer in cm².

The reality is that so much as a pin-prick or tiny cut (to draw a drop of blood or leave a small mark) is counted[1] and prosecuted[2] as FGM. If the word mutilation fits there, it certainly fits male circumcision.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37819753

[2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/16/female-...
> That said, I'm not that surprised that men feel that way, considering that having been with many women, an absurdly large percentage of them were shocked to be with an uncircumcised man,

I remember an episode of Sex and the City where one of the character was put off by an uncircumcised penis.

That being said, as a European uncircumcised man living in NYC, I haven't received any bad comment about my penis (but new york is a diverse place, so that may be why). In any case, I can't imagine it can't be a deal breaker. But at the same time, I can see why some would find an uncircumcised penis prettier .
Ok, have you had time to try it out?
> Pretty sure

Pretty sure you're mindlessly repeating what you've been brainwashed with.
This reminds me about the Juarez incident.
https://culturacolectiva.com/history/cobalt-60-ciudad-juarez...
What do you view as the problem of universities?
I had a frenuloplasty for the same reason, but it wasn't as successful as yours, and I was circumcised a couple of years later.

If a doctor is unsure how successful a frenuloplasty or frenulectomy will be, and knows that you might need a circumcision anyway, then they might suggest the latter option. One procedure is better than two.

Getting circumcised allowed me to have sex again, but there's no way in hell I'd agree to it otherwise, knowing what the consequences for me have been.
I grew up in a country that rhymes with toroko.

When it was done to me i was 7 and it was in my grandmother's living room surrounded by family and it was performed by the neighborhood Barber(it was the 90's)...he cauterized it with electricity. It destroyed my sense of family, i no longer felt loved by those around me.

25 years later I had my own son and was offered neonatal circumcision for him, my wife was for it, my inlaws who are american were pushing hard and of course my parents too.

I had a near nervous breakdown over it, but i stood my ground. We need to Break this culty traumatic cycle.
any companies offering sour patches?
Many moons ago I quit gaming on PC and sold my gaming rig, and went back to consoles.

I remember the day. I was playing Battlefield 3 I believe. I kept getting sniped across the map with headshots. Went to search and typed in 'BF3 cheats' and the very first hit was a youtube video with a working aimbot link in the description.

That being said, every time my PS4 would update and the only patch notes were 'security updates', the only thing that actually changed were their ads on the home screen.

Then they began removing functionality.

Then the weekly OS updates, with notes never saying more than 'security'

Nowhere to go that hasn't been shit upon by either the player base, or the evil manufacturers.

I used to love online gaming, have made some lifelong friends from it. But I'm over it and these days I look for single pmayer games with enough content to be worth the purchase without ebdless DLC.
I'm not sure it would have mattered. I've been contacted before by recruiters trying to hire me for roles at companies I already work at, exactly the same role and everything.
I'm sure most of us forgot, but thankfully there's always one in the crowd to point it out and remind us.
Does anyone have any examples of this stuff working out in the real world? Particularly curious about the "we used accelerometer data" part of it to infer that these two individuals were in the same place.
I think there was a way to do it better: thermal clips should've been optional. Thermal clips were a fine idea in principle, but being able to vent when you've hit the clip's capacity or have run out of them should've been an option. That way you introduce ammunition without requiring such a massive retcon.
It's strange how Anne Wojcicki's company has done more for science than Theranos ever did yet most have never heard of her. Even when you exclude the scandal Elizabeth Holmes got herself into, she was more well known.
Israel would have had zero issues with Iran if Iran wasn't on a quest to destroy Israel. In fact the two had normal relations until the Iranian Islamic revolution.
Other fields seem to do just fine with this approach.

If you interview for an R&D position at (e.g.,) a biotech company, in academia, or one of the National Labs, you're usually asked to prepare a 30-45 minute presentation about your past work. New grads usually use their MS/PhD thesis defense slides; other folks often have a conference talk they can expand. Some places also do "chalk talks" where you describe how you'd approach a new problem of your or their choosing.

This presentation is the jumping-off point for the rest of your interviews. If you talked about building a compiler, someone is going to ask for details about the lexer, maybe have you do implement a very simple tokenizer on a white board. Another person will ask how you measured its correctness/performance. Yet another may dig into how you organized the team doing the work, etc.

Maybe, as you propose, someone else helped with parts of the work. This wouldn't necessarily weed that out. Nevertheless, I'd argue that being able to justify the decisions that were made--and cogently explain when/why they might be different--isn't actually BS; it's understanding.
Unfortunately it shut down after a year or two. Never really saw anyone else there. On one occasion I spent too long on the water and to get back to my car in Woodstock I took a short cross directly across the now-closed Palace gardens. Firstly I was accosted by a retired Gurkha security guard, and then I met the Duke himself near the gate - fortunately he was merely bemused rather than angry.
> including the building in which the Associated Press had its office, a building Israel said it purposely targeted.

Why did you omit the reason for targeting?

"... because it was being used by the groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad and that terrorist attacks were directed from there"

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-has-received-mo...
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I think they're all iPhones because they have a reliable way of detecting it on iPhones (perform a backup and look at the backup on a computer).

But at one point side loading was how the Android version was installed

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/04/an-investi...
Business needs a reality check on who will pay for net zero
Israel launched over 900 attacks on Gaza in May, killed hundreds of Palestinians, and displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians. The UN estimate is 461 housing and commercial units were destroyed by Israel's bombing of Gaza.

I don't dispute even more could have been killed by Israel and more destroyed by Israel if the United Nations Security Council did not call for an ending to it and that if that did not happen "it wouldn't be a place anymore...not something anyone walks away from". People can go and look at the videotaped news reports from Gaza after the bombings and judge for themselves.
I can show you lots of policies that were made against whites.
> It is an amusing anedocte that illustrates a broken piece of tech recruiting.

The guy didn't list the employer on his resume:

> The resume I passed doesn't have my old job listed by name, but it's a copy paste of the job listing.

How was the recruiter supposed to know this person had been fired from the position if he didn't list provide a complete and accurate list of his previous jobs?
While listening to music you might hear something that stands out to you. Maybe a drum sound or chord or certain part. So you record a sample (or make note for later), then load the sound up in a sampler, chop it up, repitch it, warp it, etc and store it in your library. Once its in your sample collection it becomes just another color to paint with.

> Jonny Greenwood came across it in a used record shop when the band was on tour in the United States recently I think it sold about 7000 copies, which is a lot for a classical recording.

I think it’s more experimentation with musical ideas and happy accidents. Had Johnny not gone into that shop maybe idioteque would sound a lot different today.
One wonders if there isn't any issues why aren't these build in parks and other places in cities? Surely we should be green and make savings from shortened transmission distances...
Scientific apparatus is by definition “pre-engineering.” It’s low volume and generally designed by a few people with no BOM optimization. OTOH, everything that’s engineered is generally just EE or optics lab stuff that’s already high volume and aggressively cost optimized. Good luck making a cheap MBE or dilution fridge, and good luck making a 10 GHz oscilloscope cheaper.
It never ceases to amaze me that someone can look at these die pictures and knows what’s going on. All I see is a bunch of copper colored squares
It absolutely is not. It’s telling that you victim blame here.
Indeed I was, which is why I found the surgery full of babies and children decidedly sad. I don’t think I implied otherwise?

Even then, it was still confusing why I was being pushed toward circumcision when a frenulectomy is a far less invasive, easily tolerated procedure with decades of practice, but is apparently not that common as a solution for similar medical problems as mine.
I’m well aware it’s not compounded, it’s still a worthwhile comparison. We’re comparing ability to capture alpha, they’re clearly among the best in the world at that. 66% is insane for 30 years as a prop desk even with a fixed capacity, what makes you say it’s just good? Who is doing better?
Maybe not, but when you're lying down the border between nap and meditation can be pretty blurry.
What is the silicon spacer used for? And where is it located - there's not a picture of the three pieces of silicon in the package.

Also fun to see this next to the 8086 die shots. How things have progressed in 40 years.
> the main users of that "right" are seriously-bad guys

Source?

I recently read that it’s used a lot by young people wanting to remove embarrassing they or others added in their younger days. I’ve no idea to what extent either of you is right.
> When one codes on a Raspberry Pi one generally thinks of these CPUs as the core of the device with all the peripherals surrounding them... however the provenance of this chip is much more interesting and the CPUs are actually an afterthought.

> The primary design goal of this chip was for cable TV set top boxes. For that the designers focused on transporting video. The real core of this chip is the "Video Core IV".... it's the actual master.
Dr. Brian Earp is excellent resource on this topic. I had the pleasure of talking with him at a conference on genital autonomy in SF a few years back.

What I most admire about Brian’s work is his relentless scholarship and his calm and kind demeanor in discussing this sad topic.

This talk [1] of his is a good example.

[1] https://circumcisionandhiv.com/2021/09/16/brian-earp-circumc...
The video is a great tribute to a rare combination of integrity, perception and technical talent.

The digital world is much, much poorer with his loss.
The study is in Africa and involves poor populations with limited access to sanitation. In developed countries with proper sanitation and a low risk of HIV contamination to begin with, the risk/benefit is extremely unlikely to be comparable.
The accelerometer/gyroscope would be a great tool for spotting click-farms. Bunch of phones in the same location, in the same position, and rarely move...something shady's happening.
The questions part comes after the CV usually.
What would be the difference in writing them instead?
The purpose of having a conversation is to interact with a person to get a sense how it is working at that company.
If this can't be done, I'd rather do it with text, at least I can copy-paste fast.
Giant app developers do complain about it (see the ad tracking debacle). That hasn’t stopped Apple in the past.
Can you point to some good bitcoin-centric communities in telegram please?
This might be where google got that figure. Again, as I state above, I was using rough figures to get an idea of the magnitude of the funds they were devoting to their flipping/analysis unit. It looks like they were doing thousands of units instead of tens of thousands with discrepancies among the sources I'm finding in google:

https://www.zillow.com/research/zillow-ibuyer-report-q2-2021...

What's not changed is the fact they were leveraging a significant portion of their company's market cap into this segment and it resulted, so far, in them laying off a quarter of their labor and completely terminating the program - amongst other things. This is not good news for their business and prospects of continuing to be an ongoing concern.
> anyone from the original team would be horrified by what's happening at Reddit right now

Except for Huffman (spez) who still works there and doesn't seem to care whatsoever.
>half of the candidates (with master degrees and 'years of industry experience') fail.

If half the candidates with a master's degree in CS are failing your test, that should be a pretty huge red flag to you that your test might have an issue. What question are they failing?
Does this really matter? Australia passed the "Identify and Disrupt" Law, which allows them as well as any government in the The Five Eyes (FVEY) international security pact to access and modify all digital communications - so why would this story even be important? This is our new world, where any government can access and modify any digital information.
Updating a CV takes like 10 minutes. Are they looking for a Graphical Designer? I used PaintBrush! (I guess they will not hire me.) Are they looking for a programmer? I know a few languages with different level of ability, but I have no formal education in CS. Is a Math degree good enough?

A CV has a lot of information is a very short form and it's easy to maintain up to date.

Recording a video is much more work. I give talk in the university once or twice a year, with a friendly public of ~30 coworkers. I rehearsal it a few times, and it is as good as it is. Nobody will fire me. Now the talks are online, an the expected quality level is higher. Actually, nobody will fire me, but a bad recorded video looks very bad. I have to take the video like 5 times until it's good enough, but not as good as I'd like. If my job is in the line, I'll be even more nervous.

Some questions are very specific and each company will have their owns, so with your app I should make a new video.

Some questions are common, like "university degrees". Can I reuse the video? Do I have the same t-shirt for the other video o r it's in the laundry?

I went to a high school with a specialization in Chemistry. It's not a degree in the university, so I probably not mention it in a video for a bank, but I may mention it in a video for a factory. (I don't have enough knowledge to run a Chemistry factory, but I can't talk to the manager and understand better the problems.)
Also Firefox and even Edge when the IE version was being developed. They've also refused to implement features which would bring web apps in line with the the capabilities of native iOS apps (things like push notifications, offline support with data that doesn't get cleared every 7 days).
> It might grate on some hobbyists who see this secretive approach as the antithesis of open-source but Google Broadcom's stock price and one can see it's been a fabulously successful company.

I am really interested to see what the people on HN will make of this statement.
It's both funny and cringey. Is it unprofessional and a dick thing to do? Yes. It's also hilariously absurd.
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There are forms of FGM that consist of removal of the clitoral hood. Those are pretty much exactly the same thing.

Yes, clitoridectomy would correspond to removal of the glans.

In practice, most FGM in the West happens under Islam and is symbolic: A small cut to draw blood, but no amputation. Still unacceptable, but actually less damaging than MGM.

Finally, do not be fooled by "just skin". First of all, it's a lot of skin. There are videos on the internet of African tribes performing circumcisions of adolescents. Watch one.

Second, it's full of nerve endings. The skin is a sense organ. You are removing as much as possible of that which makes sex feel good. To emphasize, this is not like the relatively insensitive skin of the shaft. That's the whole point.

If you're a man, if you pay attention you can get a hint of what you're missing. What's left of the inner foreskin after a circumcision is called a "corona" (as though it's a natural body part). Touch that. You will find that it is one of the most sensitive parts of your penis, arguably even more so than the glans. And if you are a (straight) woman, then I have just given you some important information about how you can still give your partner some (limited) sexual pleasure.
It’s absolutely the other way around. High Tc superconductivity, quantum hall, Geiger-Marsden, etc…
I heard from someone on the inside that Zillow didn't lay off any engineers. It was all building inspectors and other field staff for their failed house flipping biz.
"overall burden" is meaningless utilitarianism. This is a procedure which harms individuals.
"Yes, that map which the Arabs never accepted."

This is always presented with the implication that they should have accepted the plan.

I think if someone, even the UN came to you (and by 'you' I mean group of people of multiple religions living in your state / country etc ) and said "I've got a wonderful plan that I want you to accept. You people who currently live in the whole of this land will get to live in less than half of the land. What do you think about that?"

I'm not sure many people would accept this.
I’ve never had the benefit of not needing a job while doing interviews. Doing interviews while I’m at a job isn’t viable for me.
According to him, being snarky: https://twitter.com/firr/status/1454493608179126273?s=21
The relevant definition in this discussion is the one described by Zuckerberg in the Meta presentation video.[1] Have a look a the 4' mark, the only missing part from my comment is the virtual car travel. (But there's “chose your virtual outfit” instead).

[1]: https://fb.watch/98Vt421zcF/
The right thing to do is think about what’s best both for your friend, and for society in general. This can lead to different decisions in different situations, yet both being “right”.
Isn’t it likely people grow though? Like I went through all the interviews at Google. Didn’t get an offer. They said maybe in the future. So I assume I wasn’t senior enough for the position. Years later and now HR is trying to recruit me. Perhaps this time I could solve their challenges better.
An example I’ve seen (I forget where but hey, it won’t work now anyway) is to move some background elements to create a parallax effect, like iOS itself does:

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/06/28/ios-7-parallax-effe...

I’m not trying to make out that it’s a crucial feature or anything but it’s a useful case study in permission gating things: it’s small enough that you’d never trigger a permission prompt to ask to do it, so you just don’t instead, and lose a class of nice subtle design flourish.
As badly as "my company is in trouble and my division needs to do cost-cutting" or "my boss is jealous" honestly
This is 100% exactly what happened. Being a hacker was the un-sexy thing, done out of passion. Then people realized it paid a ton of money and now we have... whatever mess it is we have today.
I wonder how much of the last point is a high tolerance for false negatives? If a candidate is that close to a no-hire, maybe a rational choice is to say “No, you’re welcome to re-apply in N months.”
In popular fiction other idiots make up stories where people gain superpowers from radioactive events. I have no confidence future generations won’t think the same.
or maybe its conflict of interests. I'm not talking of the general situation but about this action by Israel government and the response. And this all human right groups are funded by the EU if its private or public it doesn't matter from the Israeli government perspective. Or maybe this groups doesn't know everything? why their members opinion is more accepted than the Israeli politicians who did that? some of them are even have pro-Palestinian independence stance