skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that if you are worried about partition tolerance you are never going to be happy. Perhaps you are ignorant and happy if you decide to accept it.

My take is that most people can live with occasional "split brain" problems in the control plane so long as the algorithms involved have a latch structure with a bias towards progressing. (Think of the arguments as to why Bubble Sort completes even though it has free loops.) You might get some work units stuck and performance will be less than optimal but the main fear is that the degraded state is so hard to detect that it goes on for a long time.

Data plane problems are worse because people really do expect to get the right answer. There are many things other than "distributed system BS" that lead to incorrectness, such as floating point numbers, but I like the restartability paradigm behind Spark.
Hey, came across a comment of yours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25499058 in search engine results while researching the reasons to why learn Clojure as my next programming language.

I'm curious if you have change your mind about it or still prefer JS for new projects?

One thing that I find attractive about Clojure is Datomic (databases being a source of complexity in applications), its features like immutability(the db as a value, history), data structures as query language not strings, transactions and data model, OTOH, it's a scary niche black box. Also, the clojure REPL is a nice addition.

I'm no stranger to lisps, having played with scheme and racket, know macros, watched some Hickey videos and overall understand clojure's philosophy and concepts but haven't never use it for a real world business application. I'm sure nodejs/postgres could suit my needs perfectly but the ergonomics/defaults of clojure/datomic makes me think things would be less tedious to develop.
defunct ? Isn't this the same ? https://www.usenix.org/conferences/byname/5
The article is by an immigrant worker in tech. It is exceedingly unlikely he votes in any sort of election, and is almost certainly not the kind to elect Chesa Boudin.
Yes, I would be very interested. My email address is in my profile.
I am not saying it is safer because it is older, but it sure has been under more scrutiny than Age. That said, Age might be safer regardless.
I've stared at this comment for about an hour now.

I'm reading this as you saying that where you currently are (the Midwest?) people your age perceive the gender ratio as poor, and think they'll have better luck with a better ratio in NYC. You feel like it doesn't matter whether you're in the Midwest or NYC, or whether the ratio is good or bad, being non-white is a larger factor than location or ratio.

Am I reading that right, or am I misinterpreting?
The police report, however, did. Throwing ones hands up to say "well, of -course- the company is going to avoid paying anything out unless taken to a court of law" is to abdicate corporations of all responsibility other than profit making. Just because a person can't afford justice doesn't mean we should accept injustice.
> Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test

The article is paywalled, so I can't tell if the irony is intentional.

Anyone even thinking of taking actuarial exams should understand that since exam results are non-random, statistics based on the general population are not predictive of specific results.

For many instances of "you" the odds are they will pass.
Fair enough, I agree with you there. CVSS(v2/v3) can be subjective and can change when new information comes to light.
Yea, I guess I have been lucky in that for my last ~5 jobs I have had about the same benefits and costs, so I assumed (i.e.: made an 'ass' of 'me'; not so much 'u' though) that most benefits in the Bay Area were pretty standard to what I've experienced. I definitely don't do enough due-dilligence in researching benefits before taking a job, so clearly I've gotten lucky. Thanks for the input here.
http://progressquest.com/
I think one of the biggest differences for midwest towns (I'm a native of St. Louis) is that when we meet someone else in our city who has similar interests / passion for tech, we're surprised, and automatically form some sort of bond, mostly because there are comparatively few.

The OP hits the nail on the head with the introverted part, too—there are many hardware and software devs in flyover country, but it seems like most are the heads-down, family-over-work types, and don't tend to be as public and/or extroverted (thus leading back to my mention of surprise when one of us finds another local).

I think I've met a grand total of two other people in my city who have ever commented on HN.
"back to normal" is not an anti-political stand - no politics wants to keep us from normal. However rather a lot of politics wants to pretend that Covid isn't happening, both for financial and ideological reasons.
Lets pretend for a minute that you got housing down from 2.5k/month to 1k/month. How many homeless, jobless people would that take off the streets?

Hint: zero.
You are missing the step where the people who refuse the medical procedure are also taking up a disproportionate medical resources when they get sick. And it seems to be, at least according to the data, more prevalent with conservative ideology. Nice try though
Some antigen tests may fail to detect Omicron variant
> They are telling the government they will pay out if the insured party is at fault for an accident

No, they aren't.

They are telling the government and their customer they will pay out if the insured party is found to be legally liable for injury or property damage while driving. (That is, in exactly the situations where the customer would legally be obligated to pay.)

They are also telling their customer that they will defend them from such claims to the extent reasonable, settling where it makes sense to contain liability. That is actually a big part of why one would pay for insurance rather than posting a liability bond (as most states allow) unless you have the funds to keep a general attorney on retainer and seek task-specific representation as needed.

Had they paid out when there was no expectation you would establish liability, that would be a scam against their paying customer.
Whatever wooden artifacts we have from back then usually have a lot of trouble making it to today; think professional tools versus apprentices' tools.
> Any proposal to do that in effect makes the police investigation a court of first instance, which either means creating additional procedural rights that apply before it can be completed (driving up costs) or a very real denial of due process.

Not nessasarily. The 'additional weight' could still be something that requires a suit to take advantage of directly, but which the threat of compels behavior. For example, many localities have rental laws that compel the landlord to pay thrice what they would otherwise owe in certain circumstances. E.G. if my landlord simply refuses to refund my security deposit without proper reason, or without following proper procedures within 45 days, then I can sue for 3x the deposit and attorny fees.

A similar thing can be implemented for vehicular damages. Something along the lines of:

1) If you are found liable and

2) Were given adaquete notice and oppurtunity to pay and

3) Ought to have known you were liable

Then the defendent is entitled to punitive damages for your making them take you to court. You don't even have to go as far as most tenent laws go. You could allow for a loosing defendent to argue that there defense was reasonable, (or reasonable given evidence available to them at the time), and that they should therefore not owe punitive damages.

Of course, this still is only tangentially related to insurance.
Ask HN: Why is TeX being bug free so important?
> The Google engineer had a great defense in this article:

>> "[People are suggesting] if you can't get driving directions and road closures right 100% of the time, you shouldn't offer any. Surely that would be a worse trade-off than the status quo?" he wrote. "Consider that we don't know a priori which mistake is potentially dangerous."

That's a terrible argument, and it's even worse in context[1] because the person he's replying to didn't start from the position that "Google Maps shouldn't offer any routes ever". They asked if it were reasonable for Google Maps to express the known uncertainty in specific situations and the engineer seemed to imply that wasn't workable. It's frustrating because (as people keep pointing out) these product choices can result in death (regardless of whose fault you think that is) and the response sounds like they just don't care.

I'm sure the problem really is hard. It's also hard to believe Google couldn't do better. It's known that roads in certain areas can be especially treacherous in bad weather. The NWS posts official warnings about bad weather, including time ranges, affected areas, etc. It's not hard to imagine some heuristics like "in the Tahoe area [really], when the NWS has posted a winter weather warning, strongly prefer the main roads". Sure, this is harder to scale. But if that's the issue, then it's not "we couldn't possibly do better". It's "we're not willing to invest in what it takes to do better". (I get that even this idea might be flawed for reasons I don't know -- but I'm certainly not convinced from the argument in the article that there's just no way to do better.)

[1] https://twitter.com/BuschnicK/status/1475750318294061060
Yeah, tons of exceptions, but the top tier of Midwestern startups are just as credential obsessed as their coastal counterparts in my experience.

And overall I'd say pay, benefits, and labor practices are often worse as well. Even if you don't work for some old economy company - not all are as bad as the above post suggests btw - hustle culture is often the norm. But without the six figure West Coast salary, and often less/no equity.

Not to mention that if you're dissatisfied, job hopping is a lot harder to do when there are only maybe a dozen companies in town - not all of which have your tech stack. Less of an issue now with remote.

Even accounting for cost of living differences you can make more on the West Coast, and be in a more competitive job market that allows you to switch jobs easily if you want more pay or are tired of your current employer. The Midwest can still work out great for many people though! Maybe you want a big house, or you have family close by, or you want a leadership role that you'd never get in a million years at your big coastal employer, etc...
Why? Because the politician must be right, while the “billionaire” (aka “a citizen”) wanting to actually pay people money to actually make things must be wrong?
There's no reason to stick with legacy water-based generation technology that was designed on the assumption of plentiful availability of fossil fuels for heating.

Fluids with lower boiling points and Stirling engines could be used to increase efficiency.

Recall that the Deepwater Horizon incident started when frozen methane at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was exposed to oil at 200C, the resulting methane gas generated enough power to send a column of water 300 feet in the air.
If any of them. In archeology you can go pretty far assuming that any elongated object was used as a sex toy. However, this object is a dodecahedron, so we are all baffled.
>Title insurance when buying a house also seemed like a total “legally required” joke.

Real estate agent checking in here... I agree with you, but there's always a but... the problem is that there really are situations where there's a cloud on title or where title is questionable. This doesn't mean there's anything nefarious going on, and it also often isn't a question of history (IE: title recorded on parchment or something). It also seems to me that some states are just better at maintaining good title records over others - and again, I'm not convinced this is directly related to the timespan of recorded history.

So the problem then is an 80/20 or a 99/1 thing... 90+ % of properties the title insurance is going to be a waste of money. But in those few cases, it really could make a difference. Since the amount of money involved is usually quite small, especially relative to the size of the transaction, it becomes really hard to change the system.
It is hypothetically possible that a some carbon capture technology could be more cost effective than renewables, but we'd need to be clear about what exactly we mean by cost. I mean hypothetically the cost could swing either way if we really accounted for everything-- nonrenewables have tons of costs that get externalized, renewables are a growing market and expertise in dealing with them might be very profitable.
Most of my tools around the house have minimal markings, if any. There are a zillion sizes of Allen key, and very few have the decency to mark themselves.

My measuring cups have markings are marked in paint, most of which has already worn away. Wouldn't stand a chance over millenia.

That said, you'd expect at least one or two to have informative notches for sizing. The universal dearth of text for such a common device is surprising.

And also, wouldn't they be a standard size for the region if they were for measuring coin? It sounds like each dodecahedron was different sizes.
The problem with Bazel has nothing to do with learning curve. It's a pretty simple model as far as build systems go.

It's that it requires a lot of boilerplate and has a very rigid nested structure... which compounds boilerplate, unless you venture into custom plugins/build rules.

Some of the basic ideas are absolutely right, e.g. separating the resolution of dependencies from the build, and purity, but it's just soooo much boilerplate.
Climeworks addressed that question here:

https://www.facebook.com/climeworks/posts/we-often-receive-q...

The short version is: We should be doing all the things. Growing trees is cost-effective but requires a lot of land and water, which we don't have infinite supplies of.
Is cryptocurrency an alternative to remittances or an additive factor?
This is super awesome, definitely borrowing this to send a text push notification

Edit: isn’t this super costly for personal use?
I lived in SF 10 years and early on I was robbed at knife point just walking around The Mission district at around 7 PM (though it was dark because it was winter time).

I wasn't robbed but there was a person that burst out of the Victoria's secret downtown right in front of me.

My friend had her laptop stolen in the coffee shop I used to frequent, and while the thief was caught they could not recover any of the stolen stuff and she was eventually released.

Someone grabbed my iPhone out of my pocket (though I chased him down and forced him to return it).

Friend had parked a car in The Mission for their wedding held there. It was broken into and some wedding gifts including cash were stolen.

Friend had a guy "accidentally" open his back balcony door.

While working out of a pretty crowded Starbucks in the financial district some thugs came in and attempted a snatch and grab. He basically leaned in really quickly towards me but then apparently aborted when I braced and held the laptop. I wasn't even sure until the guy next to me told me after they left that they were planning to snatch it, and that one time he saw them do this and while trying to leave run full speed into a door that opened in-ward only.

I also for several years took the BART around midnight daily (after working out of a coffee shop downtown) so there's a long list of stuff I'm not even mentioning.

I think if you do short restricted trips to SF to nice areas, go with groups, take Ubers or your own car, etc, you can be pretty insulated. It wouldn't be hard to be sensible and take obvious precautions to greatly limit your exposure to crime. In fact, almost all of my friends who are there find it a great place to live because they basically do not have to interact with any of the undesirable parts or peoples of SF. I personally tried to take as much public transit (bus, walking, and BART) as much as I could, ate in The Tenderloin almost daily (and walked through it), and worked from public places frequently, so maybe I was asking for it but also I didn't want to give up the freedom to be able to do those things and not live some "alternate" city insulated life.

It's no wonder there's an anti-techie sentiment because the techies live on a complete different plane of existence here, never having to interact with the lower classes except when giving a tip, accepting a delivery, or writing a roommate rejection letter, and never having to interact with the public infrastructure that a whole class of people depend on and have no choice but to use. Some of my friends never had to leave the house except to go to work (delivery for food and groceries, Uber if they had to go somewhere specific). Yea if you can keep yourself in this bubble life is great; the city is great; the pay is great.

Of course, I did feel exhausted and left last year. If I wanted an insulated city life I'd have moved to the suburbs or LA. Planning to move to Tokyo as soon as they open up, where I can hopefully at least live in the city amongst the people, rather than above them.
> Are bad bosses more likely to find validation among other bad bosses?

Having not used it much, LinkedIn does feel a bit like this.
> It's more surprising that he was so open about the naked corruption/nepotism in the origin story. Apparently there's a sector of society for whom that is also normal and acceptable.

I distinctly remember this from the interview as well! He simply drops it in there that he married into the family, that it’s a family run company, that the family owns some significant portion of it… “family family family”… it was an odd interview.

> but are you also self-insuring against a lawsuit for damage to the other guy's car?

I guess their insurance company is going to come after me/my insurance company to pay up… yeah without insurance I’d simply hope I could reason things out with whoever.

I’ve actually had to do that in the past. After a minor collision I asked the other driver whether we could settle things directly, and how much he’d feel was fair for me to pay to fix damage to his motorcycle. He named a figure and we drove to an ATM and I paid him that, we still exchanged info in case anything else came up but nothing did. Yes it was scary, but I think it was more efficient and less hassle in the end. This occurred in Los Angeles.
Well in a lot of new distributions /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin are symlinks to /usr/bin.

The historical difference is that in /sbin there are binaries meant to be executed by root, and thus they were not be put in the path of non root users (Debian still do that), so you don't get binaries that you can't run in your path (these days it's stupid since you may want to use sudo and thus have them in path only for the shell autocomplete to work properly).

By the way I prefer how things are nowadays, otherwise you get the same confusion that I have every time I use Windows or macOS that you either have an infinite PATH variable or have to specify the full path every time.

Yes, the package manager can make symlinks, but at that point what is the difference?

Also having everything in /usr/bin has the good side effect of avoiding that by mistakes someone creates a program that has the same name of one of the thousands of programs that are in the repository of a distribution, to avoid confusion to the user that can launch a program or another depending on who comes first in the path.
The weekend spanning the 11th and 12th December was the first full weekend my entire team and I had to work in years.

This should not happen again without good reason. Announcing that there is a "New Log4j2 vulnerability" is a sure way of getting many good-willed managers, who may lack the deeper understanding us developers have of the vulnerability because we are able to spend more time on it, panicked and executing our critical incident response framework when it's not needed.

I know that we were not the only ones working that weekend, many of my counterparts were also tirelessly working this entire weekend too, along with much of HN I assume. Let's not do this again unless it's truly necessary.
I sympathize with a lot of their writing but their response to “ What are your credentials?” is awfully defensive. I think a simple “I’ve read some books and I’ve made my own observations” would have sufficed.
Thank you for the detailed suggestion! I feel like this is a good path, I'll look into it this week. :)
Please someone mention Tup and how it can be a reasonable build system. I’ve heard the Fuse dependency is not ideal, though I felt it had a nice UX experience with the Lua config.

Plus it’s worth considering that you can potentially use Fennel to configure the builds (since Fennel compiles to Lua).

Tup: https://github.com/gittup/tup

Fennel:
https://fennel-lang.org/
Heh. We all know that news are sensational by their very nature. Nobody reports all the good things that happen, or on the bad stuff that did not happen.

No, my car was not stolen and no it hasn't been broken into, yet. (knock knock knock)

Don't doubt it's happening, I have never seen a car with the window or trunk open.
The L1 device key they posted was already revoked earlier today. The tools themselves might continue to work for a while longer with an appropriate non-revoked key depending on how much services want to change up their APIs.
"...that is the only employer of actuaries in town, so they are completely marooned..."

In any career there were always those who will limit themselves to the options "in town" and those who will go anywhere, anyhow to move ahead or find a better quality of life. Not saying that one is right and the other wrong, and this may now finally change with the remote work wave, but, there it is.
You should report the other break ins. They sometimes use crime stats to allocate resources.

On a related note, it would be a good idea to harden your home so future break ins are only "attempted" break ins.

The American Dream is generally in a similarly bad position all across the country. At least my area doesn't have a severe crime problem and the state comparatively allows us to defend ourselves. But the rest of it seems just normal.
I had a mostly positive experience in the bay area, but I felt stuck there. Until the pandemic happened it was hard to not work there. The companies were forward thinking, pay was higher, work was more interesting. There are some terrible jobs, companies and managers out there in the world
I feel fortunate to have moved just north of SF 15 years ago. It was a compromise since there is not much work so you have to commute to SF or the east bay. But now with the ability to work remote, it's just about perfect. I'm sure other people in lifestyle areas, are feeling the same now.
The claim I was defending was that the way auto liability insurance is done is a scam, not that the concept of requiring liability insurance is a scam.

Looking back, the original post's comment on that point was a final aside that was ambiguous. But my defense is of the charitable interpretation of that remark. Any auto liability insurance system should be written to avoid that kind of gaming.
Ah thanks. I was confused, $52k is SF median income.
It is only a rat race for you if you decide to join the race. Who is it that is putting pressure on you to make more $? Is it your wife? Your friends? Yourself? Whoever it is will never be satisfied no matter how much $ you make. Stop comparing yourself to others. Ask yourself what you want deep down and act accordingly. When was the last time you were truly happy without buying something? Focus on that. It is your subconscious ego telling you something. Listen to it.