skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the topic of computer history museums, I strongly recommend a visit to the American Computer & Robotics Museum in Bozeman, MT if you're in the area [1]. It's a small space born from a personal collection, which Edward O. Wilson describes as "inch for inch, the best museum in the world". An original cuneiform tablet, Principia Mathematica, Enigma machine, NASA artifacts, early Apple computers - All here and much, much more. Run, don't walk.

[1] - https://acrmuseum.org
“ Normally, 7 percent of a server’s food-and-beverage sales at Oven & Tap are automatically deducted out of their paychecks to pay those people, while tips are left untouched, her lawyer”

This is nuts, this can’t be normal. They deduct wages based on sales? So sell more, get paid less!?

Edit: As someone outside the US (in the UK) it’s seeing stuff like this that makes me realise how the “gig culture” type statups took off over there and have spread around the world. This would literally not be legal in the UK.
I think the person made the $4,400 tip didn't understand that the waitress was not the only one served them, not even the one contributed the most of the labor. Just imagine how other workers would think to let the the waitress alone take out the big tip.
> The situation is analogous to a century ago, when electricity became an essential input

You can do nearly everything "the computing cloud" offers without it : just use servers, install your services on it, manage it, invest in more servers/ more powerfull servers if needed... Cloud computing is not a brand new invention, it's just delegating the server and services management to others...
Whereas, a century ago, electricity was actually an essential input.
URL points to wikipedia homepage. This seems to be the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms "is an American Internet forum dedicated to the discussion of online figures and communities"
Take a look at primary elections in Democrat strongholds like NY to see the same kind of voting restrictions you're railing against, designed of course to ensure that current party power brokers are difficult to challenge.
> She and I agree that everything past a senior engineer is political. She is much better and handling the complex social dynamics of the management class. It's kinda a game of finding the least common denominator that works best by not pissing off people and making everyone maximally happy. That often means the decisions you make you know are not the most optimal, but the most politically optimal.

A colleague of mine at previous company once described all this in two words "managing expectations" :)
> ... storing hydrogen will always be difficult.

Yes. Which is why synthesis of liquid fuels from renewable electricity might become the better alternative to hydrogen. Methanol as an example ... eMeOH ...

Economics & carbon dioxide avoidance cost of methanol production based on renewable hydrogen and recycled carbon dioxide – power-to-methanol
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/se/c8se0...
How much media do you see around shitting on India for their IP stance?
And despite your misgivings, businesses in every industry have now been on AWS for years without the doom predicted in every thread.
that's really surprising to me, because I used to run a GPU cloud that was cheaper than amazon, and the margins were insane.
for some.. sadly not a joke
Surely you've used Javascript?
> I just responded to a question about what Mac OS was like to work with on a daily basis in the decade of the 90s.

Your experience does not match my own.

I had way more issues supporting users on Windows, at least until Windows 98SE landed.

It was a happy day indeed when Windows 2000 finally landed with memory protection, process isolation and preemptive multitasking.
I tend to like all the 'Your browser is not supported' codswallop. They promote Edge beyond any reasonable measure.
Financial data is expensive because it is valuable. People make billions using it. No VC-backed Silicon Valley firm is going to leave that amount of consumer surplus on the table by selling cheap data.
That reminds me of the (current) top-most comment in the `drgn` thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29537594

"just keep rebooting to solve the problem, rather than fix it"
I don’t see any cost analysis, you’re just glad you were on AWS so you didn’t have to do it. Could be a convenience fee in there big time.
Same things as senior but more. Source: I've been one.

Senior and principal prefixes are there to provide respect in orgs that rely on titles for respect (possibly a sign of toxicity), or a way to explain to HR why someone's salary is higher.
In my industry/sector I led a sales team for a company that had a moderately successful exit, where a lot of similar companies ultimately failed. People often asked what the strategy was, and I said "I told a lot of customers NO". We stayed focused on a core market, and worked to avoid customers that seemed like they would be difficult and demand resources disproportionate to their spend with us.
> As a South African. I am wondering what this guy is on about?

I guess as South Africans who voted for the politicians who sell South Africa out to anyone willing to pay while stuffing their pockets, the majority of South Africans have no clue what I'm on about.

I mean at least Russians can claim that their voting system is horribly corrupt, but South Africans claim with a straight face that they, en masse, do not in fact support the policies instituted by the politicians they elected and who who are so blatantly corrupt that it would make Putin blush.

No, that is all the west's fault. Apologies if I delayed you from a xenophobic lynching with my crazy talk, or was it the burning of another university?
> He famously told Alexander the Great to fuck off and stop blocking the light (which leads me to think that the ultimate "fuck you money" is to have no money at all, and not want any).

Many historians think this anecdote is apocryphal, giving credence to the opinion that Diogenes' act was... an act.
"the conversation is usually about how to get someone else to pay the bill instead of get costs under control"

Unfortunately most of us Americans cannot comprehend this fact or are too helpless to do anything about it. I love the folks who tout their awesome employer based plan without really thinking about the insane costs just because they are not the ones paying most of it. I also love the folks who just think a total Universal Healthcare like Medicare for All is the solution which honestly I am not totally against but only if the costs are first regulated in any way.
Working with indexes to accelerate query performance in Firebolt
Trading on the stock market is a negative sum game (you pay fees to play, so the sum of all outcomes is negative).

Tooling is an edge, giving it away is not nothing. Typically data is also an edge. Realistically though, they're small edges and I guess GS believes the upside is worth it
There's more to it than just the tech and what is cheapest though. Like risk management. Cost might be higher for a less-risky thing.
I was looking for this
I appreciate your point about "they can't hire the expertise they need" but I feel it's missing the "because": because those hires are so expensive? Because they only exist as consultants? Why can't they hire the expertise?
Create low pressure around the legs, they puff up with blood which means less blood in other parts of the body. If you need a demonstration then google “penis pump”
The NetHack Challenge: Dungeons, Dragons, and Tourists NeurIPS 2021 Report
>> Having random cables cut doesn't help the situation

It was the battery cable or similar, which cut power to all the electronic means of getting out - including the other door. It was not "cut" in the sense of someone using a knife, it just came loose or similarly broke contact. This is a design failure, not a RTFM failure.
List of Apache projects affected by Log4j CVE-2021-44228
Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI)
It uses the same pins, but it doesn't actually use Ethernet. I'm pretty sure it's IEC 60958/61937, like SPDIF.
Personality Traits Predict Performance Differently Across Different Jobs
It uses a heavily forked version of Druid. https://github.com/lapce/druid which replaces the window management to use winit instead https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit

and a self-written wgpu backend hooked with druid. https://github.com/lapce/piet-wgpu

For xi, it only uses it for text manipulation.
On my local Postgres 13 instance, the EXPLAINation of both of those queries looks identical – which is a trap, because the path of the query planner's understanding is narrow. It's quite easy to write a subquery which must be evaluated over and over again for each row of the parent query. Grouping (either inside or outside of the subquery) is usually a good way to trigger this pathological behaviour (which sucks, because grouping is often where you want to use a subquery!).

I usually find CTEs to be a relatively tolerable middle ground of readability and performance (although I don't run from HAVING, either):

with category_totals as (select category,
sum(amount) as total
from mytable
group by category)

select category,
total
from category_totals
where total > 100;

Either way, subqueries are a code smell for me.
The Mauritshuis, the regular home of The Girl with a Pearl Earring, is also well worth your while. It's a lot smaller than the Rijksmuseum, so you don't need to set aside as much time, but additionally has The Goldfinch by Fabritius (recommended companion read: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt) and The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt.
>by the time NASA is ready to go to Mars

Don’t hold your breath.
Bolt Engineers Are Designing Its Next-Gen Data Platform
Amazon refusing to sell new Edward Tufte book
In the case of sour cream, the issue was the line making 5 gallon buckets couldn't fill smaller containers, and even if they could there weren't enough smaller containers. Whole factories are optimized for a package format and can't switch.

This is a trade off - some factories are more flexible than others. However if you can fill both sizes of containers (in reality there are more than two sizes, but for simplicity I'll use two) that means half the time the jigs needed for the one size are not in use - but they still need to be cleaned and such. You can't even skip cleaning because harmful bacteria doesn't care that it wasn't use much - in fact you might need to clean more often if the constant movement isn't flushing insignificant amounts away.
If you like dplyr in R, you really should check out Linq. Dplyr as nice as it is doesn't remotely compare to how sensible and ergonomic Linq is.
I'm stuck inside a 5000 person IT company hiding inside a much larger consumer product company, and 3/5 of us are all 'principal' engineers by title. This includes a bevy of old timers who exist just to run a few ancient shell scripts and otherwise keep a chair warm. Although they are shrinking quickly, they still vastly outnumber us coming in from the software industry. There is no title above principal here; we are hired into principal and that's it until we invariably get bored or stressed out and leave.

We have other titles above principal, which I wont name here because you could figure out where I work, but suffice, those titles are gated and only promotable by multiple director consensus. It keeps their numbers very, very low. My department wont mint a new one, but only hire outsiders already at the title.
https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-reports-third-covid-19...
I've had two experiences with this. Once due to a credential leak through a public GitHub Gist (PSA: Gists are public). Once through the failure to delete a resource with premium IOPS for a couple months (PSA: It's easy to leak resources when developing Terraform scripts on AWS - remember to clean up afterwards.)

In both cases, we received a partial credit. Amazon expects you to setup cost explorer and budget controls before doing anything else. These features must be manually activated on every billing account. It's kind of maddening actually that even turning on Cost Explorer takes 24 hours.

PSA: Turn on Cost Explorer immediately after creating a new AWS account and don't give out API keys until you've setup budget limits. If you join a new company in a role where you have access to the AWS billing account, make sure the cost and budget features are enabled.
I guess it sucks on the "skin balloon" by creating low pressure around the lower body, thus "inflating" the legs (think swollen feet).

But I'm a little surprised that would work. Another way to look at it, would be that the higher pressure on the head and torso "squeezes" fluids down, like a water balloon - squeeze one end, and liquid goes to the other end?
I believe I sorta did something like this recently in differential reasoner.
See this code here: <insert link to the code range in differential reasoner in the file where I use the count trace to throw out ineligible ones>.
It's only _kinda_ like this, though.

I will post the link later, if necessary in a comment.
100% agree that general purpose search engines are broken, the problem I see is that search functions on subject specific sites are often not indexed well (Google has had 20+ years fine tuning this after all).
From a game theory perspective, morality encapsulates behaviour that is viable over multiple interactions across long stretches of time.
Two things jump out at me:
1. Having to order parts yourself and send them to a factory is something I’ve done a few times and still baffles me. It was easier for me to buy some parts from the US, ship to me in the UK and then send to China than for the Chinese factory to do it. All totally legit and about a 95% time saving.

2.
> I finally do the “unthinkable” in the web age – I pick up the phone, and dial in hoping to reach a real human being to plead my case. I dial the extension for the custom department sales rep. It drops straight to voice mail. I call back again, this time punching the number to draw a lottery ticket for a new sales rep.

He should have done this at the start. When it comes to supply chain problems it’s usually always a people problem. The first thing you do as soon as you get an undesirable result from email is pick up the phone and have a conversation.

It works pretty much every time.
Often it's an OpEx vs CapEx play. Also large orgs crave treating staff as interchangeable parts and IT hiring is thorny. Throwing too much money at the problem can be preferable.

Enterprises would rather not maintain inhouse infrastructure for many of the same reasons they engage MSPs despite persistently shoddy services.
Exactly this! If pinterest had a moral leg to stand on I might have some sympathy, but they have no implicit rights to the media they're spamming search results with.

Imagine if Instagram or Facebook tried the seo garbage pinterest is doing to completely take over image search results... they'd get shut down hard, and there would be screaming matches between c class movers and shakers.

I honestly think there's gotta be a kickback or individual level corruption involved, no other site would be allowed to break Google's image search functionality and reputation. It's not like they can't simply downrank and spread out the results. The pinterest situation is fishy af, and it's been years. Google image search used to be useful. Now it's annoying.
It depends on who's running your company. The bog-standard MBA's in middle management love to minimize capital outlay, preferring to expense everything possible. Sure, there are tax advantages, but it becomes a rule-of-thumb in most Fortune 500's, and winds up infecting IT as well. What a lot of blue chip companies STILL haven't grasped is that IT is as strategic, differentiating, and important as any custom machine they can design, build, and install on an assembly line, and the software engineers, as much or more, important as the product engineers.
> build autoscaling k8s based infrastructure for a site that could be hosted on a $5/month VPS

I think the goal is that it should be the same amount of engineering time to set up both options, and both should cost $5 per month.

Today, that is broadly untrue. Although a few niches like appengine offer this.
Lol. The vulnerable people who doesn't want to get infected can also 1) get vaccinated and 2) wear the best masks and 3) stop going to crowded place (like shopping on line and eating at home). Stop using this nonsense to force other people to wear masks.
Recommender Systems: Use Cases, Choosing One for Your Business
Are there any resources e.g books, blogs etc. that have a low-level description of the data structures/algos involved when SQL queries are run?
With Bitcoin, the miners can be expected to pay for large ASIC mining rigs, but can't be expected to pay for a couple of TB (for 10x increase) of extra storage every year?
Either The Economist or I don't know what Snowflake is.
> The money is not the issue.

Money is COMPLICATED and THE issue.

Money is complicated because you have income and expenses. Time to market and velocity can help you get more income. This needs to be balanced by expenses.

When you're growing or your needs are uncertain than a hyperscaler can help you get moving quickly. This aids in time to market. But, you do this at a cost. Hyperscalers cost more than running it all yourself.

If your workloads are steady state or changing at a predictable rate than it can be cost effective to run your own infrastructure.

There are other elements to all of this such as global location of hardware compared compared to end users.

Money is the issue because companies are in business to make money. Sometimes companies take a loss now in order to make money later but it's always about the money.
What is this segment about?

> Aaron Peskin, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, compared parklets to beaches, “arguing that anyone should be free to sit down in a parklet and enjoy a cup of coffee,” Eater’s Becky Duffett reported. “But, in practice,” she continued, “countless restaurant and bar owners have called into these hearings and shared complaints with their supervisors, saying they are hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, they have spent tens of thousands of dollars on parklets, and are having to clean out urine, feces, and needles every morning.” A theoretical comparison to public beaches is one way to see the issue. But isn’t buying a coffee as a condition of occupying a section of asphalt a lower barrier to entry than having to own a car and feed a meter?

It seems totally disconnected from the rest? Are they having to give up these due to pointless red tape or are they just fighting to exclude non-paying customers from using this part of the street? Is "you can't just act like you own part of the street when you don't" the red tape they want to get rid of?
The thing that initially kept Linux from installing on those Macs was the lack of a driver for the SSD controller which is located on that T1/T2 chip.

https://t2linux.org/
Ask HN: News site that provides world updates only when relevant?
I didn't know about the massing of nearly 100K Russian troops on the Ukranian border until a week or so ago, and felt completely blindsided. I am desperately searching for a (preferably lightweight) site that would offer important world news, limited updates on that story, and be willing to be quiet when nothing is going on. The site I linked is way better than most, but still is full of low-value updates, and it tends to miss stories of real significance. In the past I have used text.npr.org, but it is worse yet about missing stories and giving low-value updates.
The 2014 documentary The New Rijksmuseum is also worth a watch before you go. Not a ton of Vermeer content but a fascinating look at the beleaguered decade-long gutting and rebuilding of the museum leading to its reopening in 2013.
My understanding based on a previous discussion of tips is it's actually the opposite: everyone else is paid better, and that's why splitting tips with them is so contentious.
Also experience. My team has been doing cloud deployments for the last 18mths, now we are on a gig at a company that has onprem. In theory the onprem infrastructure is comparable to cloud (K8's, GPU's, HDFS, Kafka) but the reality is that to get a set of K8's pods for a release has taken 2 weeks, 10+ meetings (calls) countless messages and 40+ emails.

And the ones we got on Friday were wrong (we asked for 3 * 16GB ones + 1 * 2GB, we got a 16GB project container with 4GB pod limits).

For our hadoop request - yes it got provisioned in >8hrs (mostly I think because no one is using it) but none of the access instructions work and everyone who has used it is mysteriously unavailable - so we can't access it.

Compare and contrast to self service from any cloud.

Why : well it's demand management. If you do self service and say "pay for what you want" then IT's costs bloom and the CIO is shot. If you do that in a cloud scenario then Cloud costs bloom and the CIO says "you guys have spent your money badly". This means that you need police and you need people who you ask to give you what you need if they are happy. These people obstruct you and then get things wrong.
All the time?

I don't tip every person I hire for every job, but if they go above and beyond somehow, I thank them for it in the form of a little extra cash or a gift card.

Just recently, I hired a young man to rebuild my front porch, he did a great job and got it done fast, so I padded out his check out by 10%.

When my father was dying of alzheimer's, we made a point of giving $100 gift cards during the holiday to the 3 or 4 nurses who treated him like a person instead of a job.
Even if vaccination does nothing for kids except keep them from spreading it, it's net positive for the community.

Of course, with omicron, who knows...
>> We've had PRND(L) levers as the standard for shifting in automatics for over 50 years now, and the dial offers no advantages that I can see.

My guess is that the dial costs less, so it is done for the company not the customer. Many cases of bad design come from prioritizing the manufacturer over the customer.
It's dead simple. Nobody cares if you get sickness X, they care if you *die or have lasting major effects* due to sickness X. It doesn't matter whether sickness X is COVID, or the flu, or a cold, or literally anything else.

If everyone gets some sickness, but nothing happens but a few symptoms for 24 hours, does it make a sound?
More broadly, as a pragmatic issue utterly divorced from the goal of “justice”, few nations achieve prosperity when confiscation is the norm, as prosperity usually involves planning and investments with multi year returns. If a nation wishes to repair inequalities through transfers, the less disruptive way to do it is through taxation. Seizing specific properties outright is an arbitrary and capricious distribution of the burdens, and a lingering political culture of expropriation will likely deter investment for a generation or longer.

It is also remarkable the extent to which these land confiscation programs focus on the nation’s farms, as if the leaders’ vision of a prosperous future was simply subsistence agriculture: two acres and a cow for every family. The proceeds of a program of taxation can be invested in health and education and infrastructure, the foundations of future prosperity. It’s hard to do that with seized land; few will be fool enough to buy it off of you.

On the other hand, a campaign of land seizures, fêting ethnic resentment, is much more effective at feeding the ruling party’s political power, so, there’s your tragedy.
Err, no!

I have rather a small kitchen, and I like cooking. In the same way that a carpenter prefers to choose his own tools, I prefer to choose my own kitchen implements. I'd prefer to receive consumable ingredients that can last a year or two on the shelf (no, not stem ginger in brandy, thanks all the same).