skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hold a very dim view of all information AWS emits, by whatever channels.

My experience with support/account managers is that they always tell you "yes, Redshift can do this", and the and the only way to actually get a "no" out of them is to already know Redshift cannot do something, and to explain to them why.

They won't deny reality, but you would never have got that answer from them in any other way.

I suspect the problem is the training AWS give its staff. The material they are taught is relentlessly positive and I suspect AWS staff actually have no idea what Redshift is no good for.

(Indeed, if you read the official docs for RS, which I strongly advise you never to do, you will come out the other end under the impression there is literally nothing Redshift cannot do; the docs describe everything using positive terms only.)
I'm currently writing a book on the subject of bad hiring practices, and other management mistakes. Allow me to share some of what I wrote:

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Homework assignments and personality quizzes won’t give you excellence

This year I was once again hiring junior level developers, and the same dynamic was at work, but I got a surprising reaction from the person I spoke to. I’ll call her Zareen, who had just come through the Grace Hopper program.

Zareen had been interviewing at a few different places, but I assumed she was still open to hearing about the specific job that I was hiring for, so we arranged a phone call. We chatted for 15 minutes, and then I suggested she should come by the office and meet the whole team. She was just absolutely stunned.

"Wow, I didn't expect things to move this fast!" she exclaimed.

Let's think about that for a minute. She wants a job, I might want to hire her, I ask her to come by the office for an interview, and so she is stunned. It says a lot about how broken our hiring processes have become if what used to be the absolutely boring, dull, and standard process now provokes the response, "Wow, I didn't expect things to move this fast!"

Apparently other companies were giving her homework assignments and personality quizzes and phone interviews. “Please go to this website and take this test, we are trying to figure out what your skills are.”

At two other companies, she had already done 20 minute interviews, but never with anyone on the tech team. Instead she got a call from someone in the HR department, who read a checklist of words, which the HR person did not understand, but they were all requirements: “Have you ever heard of HTML? Do you know how to use that? What about CSS? Do you have that? How many years of skill do you have with CSS? And Java? I mean, Javascript? Are those different? Yes? Okay, I think we want Javascript. Do you have that? Yes? How many years?”

What an empty ritual; reading words that are not understood.
Or that someone made up the results for a fun clickbait article!
I absolutely will judge someone who calls the way an article is written "dumb" like an entitled brat
Lots of babies and children used to be big second hand smokers, get exposed to asbestos fibres if work was being done on their homes and schools, possibly get exposed to DDT spraying in certain areas, have lead paint and lead pipes in their homes, breathe in fumes from leaded petrol with higher sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions than today's cars.

The point is that a lot of things are finally heading in the right direction. For endocrine disruptors especially, more people and agencies now know and care about them in a way that they didn't even 10-15 years ago.
>Looking back historically, many of the European powers of the 1500s-1800s were literally millennia ahead of the people they colonised in terms of technological prowess.

I don't think this is true. India was colonized, and it had very comparable technology - perhaps 50 or 100 years behind. There are cases of very primative people being colonised of course, but often the capabilities of other civilisations are minimised in our history - for example north american natives are seen as hunter gatherers whereas there was extensive farming and land exploitation in many places in the USA - along with pottery and settled living.
People like to use their PlayStations and TV's. You need several Sony domains to get those working right.
I'm highly skeptical of this argument. e.g. I don't think humans avoid killing certain species because of their intelligence relative to us, but rather some more absolute scale (e.g. feels pain, or passes the dot test, etc.)

What's more common is just pure aggression or selfishness
You'd be pissed off too if your car was sold without turn signals.
If you look at the linked list of papers, the prof usually appears at the end of the list. That's common in computing fields.
Since everyone is saying BMW - which is the most stolen car? Since supposedly the chance of criminals being sociopaths is significantly higher than the rest of the population.

I say supposedly because I have strong reservations about how worthwhile the definitions of sociopath are, as well as reservations about the parts of the field of psychology that deal with identifying personality traits in order to make value judgments.
"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

-Frank M.
So eat beans and starve. Thanks, science.
And a bit more from the book I'm writing:

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Beware of fake, dishonest attempts at establishing an "objective" hiring process

In the tech industry, I've seen good people, full of good intentions, invest serious time in developing what they felt was an unbiased, fact-based system of hiring, but they were blind to extent their own preferences were being treated as facts.

A specific example of this: there was a CTO, a man I've worked with and who I largely respect, who put serious time into developing a code base, and then deliberately adding some errors and redundancy to it. This code base would then be given to job candidates, as a homework assignment. Could they find all the mistakes, fix them, and remove all of the redundancy?

Many people in the tech industry now rely on tests like this, which are seen as being more objective than older job interview techniques. But this overlooks how much of the assignment is actually subjective in nature. In particular, what does it mean to reduce redundancy in a code base? Anyone who's done much programming is aware that one can refactor a code base almost to infinity. One can create more and more abstractions. At the extreme, one can create a new programming language where the program is represented by just a single character, perhaps the letter "w"":

w

There it is, the whole entire program that runs a major website. Of course, you also need to create a compiler that knows how to parse that letter into a lower level language that would do the real work of running the website. But if you ask a software developer to remove the redundancy in your code base and they come back to you with code that has more than 1 letter in it, then they've clearly failed the assignment.

Am I being ridiculous? Yes, absolutely, because I'm ignoring nuance, subtlety, reasonableness and proportionality ALL OF WHICH ARE SUBJECTIVE. If you want a truly objective standard, one needs to accept absurd, surreal, and almost psychotic behavior, because that's what human behavior becomes when you try to remove all subjective factors.

Does this mean the hiring process can never be truly objective? Yes.

Does this mean the hiring process must be unfair, unjust, corrupt and cruel? No.
Microsoft Edge has an identity problem
I think you're all overthinking hugging :)
"Eyes". I love the teaser. But this would mean that the user would have to memorize the phone numbers again?
> The trick is to untangle it.

USAID is specifically designed and called that so as to tangle it, tell me, how would your average joe understand that USAID is a intelligence agency spinoff designed to sound "good" while doing evil all over the world rather than what its name suggests? You know... Aid?

The NSA, CIA, Extraordinary Rendition and so many other things dont exist there by accident, if said """government""" wishes to spend such amounts of money and resources to enact such evil under the veil of security, then i dont know about you, but then that to me and several other people just reads as "US Gov being flat out evil"

Do remember that there was *wide* support and acceptance back on the Kennedy days to just dissolve the CIA

> Levine tries to lump all of this in with surveillance.

I am not particularly kind to the guy, but he's just merely looking at it on a holistic system design level, any programmer minded person would do the exact same thing when presented with a black box problem

But as far as the foodstamps go, wouldn't it be great if the system where set up in such a way as that foodstamps where not needed to begin with? And on the flipside, why would "the government" allow for such a societal structure where the maintenance of "foodstamps" is necessary for the organization of the nation? I see that last bit in particular if anything as a national security problem...

As Clintonites would say: "It is the economy stupid"
It is not outright wrong, just incomplete, and refers to the period of seclusion between 1639 and 1853.

In all, 16th century European Jesuits (and to a much lesser extend: Franciscians) in Japan are a footnote in history, with Daimyo's specifically adapting Christianity in order to have better trade relations (and thus easier access to firearms) with the Portugese (and later Spainards). Stories of high daimyos exclusively converting to Christianity were great success story fodder for the Jesuits to write home to European courts and ask for more money for their mission (and in fact: such tractats and letters have survived, and are available in university libraries today. The most colourful of these writings come from Luís Fróis).

Japanese common-people understanding of Christianity was highly syncretised even back then (as Jesuits adapted Christian stories into plays, and matched story tropes and experiences of their Japanese audience, one famous example is Jesus' apostels morphing into samurai serving their daimyo Jesus). These religious ideas became even more intertwined when Jesuits were not around (e.g. Mary often was fused with Amida Buddha), and when Christianity was banned and Christians were persecuted, several tiny groups were able to survive in hiding (hanare kirishitan) and develop their own dogma which eventually diverged so much from original Christianity that when they resurfaced in the late 1800s, Western Christians did not accept them as compatible. These hanare kirishitan were at risk of extinction in the 1990s.

There is no indication of widespread adoption of Christianity, especially exclusive Christianity even in original Jesuit sources. What did happen was that Christianity was mostly understood as yet another Buddhist sect for most of its 16th century presence. When the Shogunate decided that they weren't (and the Franciscians demanded Spanish military fortifications in Japan, among other incidents), Japanese authorities decided to shut down Christianity.

The Tokugawa era is sometimes described as "Japan's second medieval age", which ended - abruptly so - with Perry's show of force. The assessment that Japan only started westernisation in the aftermath of a traumatic event (the landing of Perry's steam-powered warships in a quasi-medieval society is described by then-living Japanese authors much like we today would write about extraterrestial invasion) is pretty fair.
New 1 page Notion template to manage ideas, dev and design work
Karenifornia tax cattle state property objects are extremely biohazardous, do not comply.
All energy on Earth is derived from the Sun. The amount of radiation from the Sun, and the fact that it isn't constant nor uniform, is conveniently ignored in all the climate science I've seen.

It is also awfully very convenient to ignore the fact that Earth's climate has been ever changing since its beginning.
> This is precisely about responsibility and responsiveness

Yes, it's about placing the responsibility on the person you're bothering, and doing less of it yourself. So I think you're actually agreeing with me or somehow misinterpreted my post.

Here's your cases laid out:

1. I think my problem is more important than whatever it is you're doing, so it's Ok to bother you.

2. I can't bother to organize my thoughts and compose them in writing, so have fun parsing my word salad over voice, because obviously you have nothing better to do.

3. I am horrible at planning and cannot think of questions in advance, so it's your fault.

> It's very much a young person and startup thing

Right, so the toxic business practices.
It's a fun piece of technology.
So the poor in the US are not exploited?
The minimum cost for serverless seems quite high - 14.4 USD per hour.

The advantage is the flexibility to easily change compute resource. A disadvantage is that your data is now in S3 or something very like it, and this I think alters the characteristics of write performance, for the cluster; I've not yet looked into this, but it's on the list.

You absolutely should beware of falling into the trap of imagining that serverless simply gives you flexible compute and that's the only change to behaviour.

AWS in their press releases and docs are relentlessly positive - anything which is not a strength is obfuscated - so only actual experimentation and investigation throws light on what you're really getting.
This is like being presented with eg West Side Story and responding “oh hey but that’s just the same old Romeo and Juliet story isn’t it?”

It really doesn’t matter if you “spoil” most story arcs, because as it turns out, for most stories, it’s not the story arc that matters. On the contrary, if you follow the familiar, recognizable beats and cadences, it gives you a lot more room to experiment and build nuanced meaning, because a lot of the meaning comes pre-established.

An apple is just an apple, until you’ve tried a Gala, and a Honey Crisp, and a Braeburn…they are very different, and you can’t really appreciate that until you've first had some kind of apple.
That changed a lot since 2020. I regularly pay small things, like franzbrötchen, with my Apple Watch (that was not always possible before). At least in Hamburg it is now possible to use a card/contact-less payment almost everywhere.

I only use cash for public transports.
This made me chuckle:

> They need to be such excellent chess players that they can still possibly teach something to someone like Carlsen, which makes finding one the chess equivalent of hiring a physics tutor for Albert Einstein.
You are probably looking for Qt.
The always required: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."
Ansible 5.0
I think you may be overdosing on right-wing adjacenct substacks or some subreddits that echo this type of rhetoric.

All of the things you mentioned are like a wish list of nonsense that you think will make you more comfortable and I'm assuming you're a non-white immigrant. I'd love for you to expound more on "better law enforcement" and "math is racist apparently". Are you sure you're not being wound up for an upcoming election? This isn't a tax issue, it's a you're very confused about America issue.
For usages like "Robert likes to clean their house" I could see this, but in an example like this with "my friend" I don't find it to be particularly modish.
For those reading just the headline:

Bluetooth is for making actual calls via your phone, just like a bluetooth headset.

This is aimed at adults.
It is possible to add tooltips in a desktop version. But how to show them on a smartphone with touch interface?
Easier to track you.
Offices make so much sense. Remote work in the limit just offloads office costs onto the employee. Many people will be happy with that, as they’re privileged to live in big houses with spare rooms, but the young and less well off will suffer. Kinda annoying to hear execs of banks or whatever see remote work as cost cutting.

Even if you compensate people for the extra space and wear and tear on their property, you’ll end up further inflating the housing bubble as larger homes are in short supply.
Coming from Germany I strongly believe that this ruling is based on the mere fact that those ruling over the topic, simply do not understand the topic. I imagine explaining DNS and internet to my grandparents which never had anything to do with computers or computer technology. Its simply impossible.

Needless to say that there is billions of recursive DNS around the world. Their own FritzBox runs a damn recursive DNS server that is able to resolve whatever they request. What - will they now sue themselfes to make that right? The spooky internet made me do it!!
"Gold" tops the list of car colours correlated with psycho behaviour, and I thought, well, that makes sense - but then the one at the very bottom is "red".
I'm having trouble arranging this into some consistent mental image of the correlation.
Ok! ;)

Nice saying from the metalworking world: 'increased feeds and speeds are no substitute for better planning'.
> A poor or lower-middle income family has very very few escape routes into middle income group. Educational credentials is one of the best ways

This is true universally, so I don't think it explains why some people in some countries are extra desperate to get degrees
Ah, yes, shorthand, which the language loves. So the shorthand here is that if you don't add a unit qualifier then by default it's the next largest power of 10. So, "1,500,000" can be shortened from "1 million 5 hundred thousand" to "1 million 5", based on the theory that you're much more likely to use "1,500,000" in real life than "1,000,005". So then of course, to handle the latter use case, you now have to add the qualifier "1 million 0 ten 5", and then we shorten that of course to "1 million 0 5".
Or car mass...
Thank you! We were trying our best to make the UI simpler.
Well of course. I can't imagine any country would have identified a new variant before it has a chance to spread. Because how would they?

This is similar to the situation we had back in March 2020. The virus was already present at least a month before, we just hadn't started testing yet...
I swear people who can get up early have a massive advantage in life. Any time before 7:15 is incredibly painful for me.
Automatic tests won’t solve all your problems
> "can't be bothered to pay the onboarding/maintenance cost of Kafka for Debezium"

Debezium can also be used without Kafka; either via Debezium Engine [1], where you embed it as a library into your JVM-based application and it will invoke a callback method you registered for every change event it receives. That way, you can react to change events in any way you want within your application itself, no messaging infrastructure required. The other option is using Debezium Server [2], which takes the embedded engine to connect Debezium to all sorts of messaging/streaming systems, such as Apache Pulsar, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Amazon Kinesis, Redis Streams, etc.

[1] https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/stable/developme...

[2] https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/stable/operation...
These autistic nerds should fix their software, or never have pretended to anyone that it can be used in the real world for any of the complicated use cases they marketed to us, or provided the warnings about these aspects as likely outcomes.

I remember similarly when someone paid a 10,000 dollar transaction fee to transmit 100 dollars instead of the other way around.

What kind of idiotic wallet software doesn't make such a catastrophe obvious to it's user in a confirmation step before doing it?

Or cases where millions were paid in transaction/gas fee or whatever...

Yes I like the "power" of a system that allows you to do anything including the absurd, but it's almost as if the people working on this important software cannot even reason about the simplest implications of their code.

Or don't care enough.

Of course things will get fixed over time, whenever it is out in the real world.

Tough luck for early adopters who trusted the sales pitch and made losses due to bad design from people who seem unable or unwilling to consider the impacts of idiotic designs.

Of course this goes beyond crypto, that poor kid who killed himself when Robinhoods idiotic system told him he had a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in his account when he had no such thing. (from an idiotic handling of a corner csse situation in options that occur rather often)
Even in async you have to worry about ticks, it's just that the ticks aren't global.

Think of the extent to which a clock can propagate as a lightcone, within that domain everything is synchronized, but it need not be synchronized with things on the outside. The smaller the domains the more asynchronous a design gets. But you'll never be async all the way down, at some point you will have to worry about stabilizing your outputs and passing them on to the next stage in that stable situation.

Compare synchronous serial lines with an asynchronous interface such as a centronics printer interface. The former will happily send zeros + clocks all day long absent a signal, the latter will strobe it's 'ready' output only when there actually is data, but it will still have to output that pulse, which serves as a very local clock.
That's how the law work in Germany and I'm okay with it. Ot puts a damper on the /r/publicfreakout type of internet bullying.
NLP Research Papers Explained
Comparing performance of M1 chips: P and E
Hey, instead of Dropbox - would you consider putting this on archive.org?
Please do not use md5 in 2021. At least use something like sha256.
Only assuming equal roles. These roles assume a huggee and a hugger, as described from the hugger's point of view as a gesture of support.
That's not what the article says, if you read it. He's complaining you have to pay to stream it to wireless Google speakers.
In my view, AWS docs (and support and so on) obfuscate everything which is not a strength; they cannot be trusted, not ever.

Redshift is a sorted relational database and as such it provides the performance necessary to handle Big Data when and only operated correctly, which is to say, when the sorting orders of the tables are correct for the queries being issued on those tables.

If you start talking as the quotes here do about "extremely complex SQL" it is going to be utterly impractical to operate Redshift correctly; it's impossibly complicated.

When operated incorrectly, Redshift has the same performance profile as good old Postgres, except you have the cluster rather than a single node.

The cluster is an expensive way to get 10x or 100x performance, but if you have Big Data, you need a LOT more performance than this - you need sorting, with the staggering efficiency gains it brings - but sorting only works when operated correctly.

The docs from AWS here are, in my view, utterly misleading and are dangerous to readers.
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American unions are nothing like in Europe because American companies pull shit like this.

If European companies had the same attitude towards unions as American ones, our unions would respond more aggressively too.
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