skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OTOH, if you care about that last 5 percent or so of performance there is the complexity that what the OS has optimized for might be different between different OS's (e.g., MacOS, Linux, FreeBSd, etc.) and indeed, might change between different versions of Linux, or even, in the case of buffered writeback, between different filesystems on the same version of Linux. This is probably historically one of the most important reasons why enterprise databases like Oracle DB, DB2, etc., have used direct I/O, and not buffered I/O or mmap.

Speaking as an OS developer, we're not going to try to optimize buffered I/O for a particular database. We'll be using becnhmarks like compilebench and postmark to optimize our I/O, and if your write patterns, or readahead patterns, or caching requirements, don't match those workloads, well.... sucks to be you.

I'll also point out that those big companies that actually pay the salarise of us file system developers (e.g., Oracle, Google, etc.) for the most part use Direct I/O for our performance critical workloads. If database companies that want to use mmap want to hire file system developers and contribute benchmarks and performance patches for ext4, xfs, etc., speaking as the ext4 maintainer, I'll welcome that, and we do have a weekly video conference where I'd love to have your engineers join to discuss your contributions. :-)
Can you give an example of a job offer that wouldn't pass your morality test?
Because they clearly are not qualified in the field based on the quality of the analysis, yet claim as if they have to hide even as a "PhD". Their blog post reads like someone who works on the backend for BLAST but knows nothing about genomes or proteins.
A bit off OP's topic, but in California ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) are now legal in all residential zoning districts. This effectively opens up the urban core for homeowners that wish to develop out their property.

A smart first time owner will take advantage of this and effectively create an additional 1 or 2 living units (Primary residence+JADU+ADU) that can cover the new mortgage.
Many experts believe that many pornography users experience a behavioral addiction.

One could point to many things unaesthetic about traditional pornography (the "pig face" where the model is heavily made up and scowling... makes me want to slap the person behind the camera) and point to OnlyFans and camgirling as a better product but I think it is a more harmful product because the fantasy that you have a parasocial relationship with the creator is more engaging and more dangerous.

On top of that with the last two years there has been a normalization of video-mediated interactions of all kinds, plus people have not been going out thanks to the pandemic. So I think there has been an explosion in increasingly toxic modern pornography and also the TikTok behavioral sink that has happened so quickly that it hasn't been understood or reckoned with yet.

I think this guy explains it very well

https://www.youtube.com/c/PinnacleOfManTM

particularly see the concept of "simping". I would disagree with most manospherists that you should never, say, buy a woman a drink. (Robert Greene says a lack of generosity is "anti-seductive" and he's right.) Being part of a reverse harem of 1,000s or 10,000s of men is dangerous to your pocketbook, self-respect, stunts your psychosocial development and makes it certain that you are not going to develop real satisfying relationships with women or other men.
They do not. Also as the industry has moved toward Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) which allows for running trains that are much much longer than they used to be (up to 2 miles+) with much less staffing. So even if there was someone to do this (and there isn't; conductors are busy with other things), they'll have a lot of train to cover.
I'm actually in a very similar situation - in fact I'm trying to go on unpaid leave as a preemptive measure. I would happily undertake other mitigation measures, including working remote, biweekly testing, masking etc., and my (extremely supportive) boss has been trying to pull off some alternative arrangement for me, but he's not the one who decides these policies.
It leaves out the important information, what does whale sushi taste like. Interesting to know, though these inconsistencies between cases, and time seem rife for popularity and crony "justice". We like group X so they get 6 months we hate group Y so 20 years for them. There is a reason I became a programmer not a lawyer. Deterministic code is easier than subjective rulings at least for me.
It’s a service for you the consumer, but those loans are packaged and sold as investment products
I took a nearly 50% pay cut when I started my current job. I had enough in savings that I didn't need the extra money and I really wanted to learn more about crypto, so I took a crypto job and I'm much happier here than I was contracting, despite the significantly lower pay.
There's another side of the coin. For people who's identity was "I am X job" then maybe the comp is a reason to go get better pay and not be so intrinsically tied to it. The other side is people realizing that in many ways, that thing you are spending 40+ hours a week doing is, in some very "slice the pie" of your time ways, a large part of you. Even if it's not an identity, it's a lot of your daily existence. So spending all that time somewhere miserable is also a problem, even if the comp is great. I don't think most people need to have some hyper fulfilling work life, as it is ultimately a business transaction, but it probably should at least be a neutral feeling and not a negative one.

An easy one here is the commute disappearing. People realizing they were giving away an hour or two or three that they aren't getting back that all of a sudden they did have back. Starts putting the perspective of your time writ large front and center.

Both those scenarios boil down to balance and people being skewed too far one way or the other.
Visa probably got a look at their infrastructure, and saw liabilities that could expand to consume all of Visa.
How about Guy Reffitt, who has been charged with bringing an assault rifle to Washington, and a handgun onto capitol grounds, then later, charmingly, threatening to shoot his own children if they turned him in, which they did?
I choose "Believe in product" & "Other". I really love the product I work on. I've had a lot of friction on my team, a few issues related to comp, but in the end of the day I'm really passionate about what I get to build and this product is only really viable in a company as large as the one I work for. And, this brings me to the "Other": brand recognition. When I used to meet people and say "I work at X as a programmer" people had no idea what I worked on. Inside of companies when someone had no ground to stand on for a technical argument they'd say "My friend from $FAANG said my way is better" and it was basically pointless to try and argue from there because I didn't have FAANG on my resume. Now I get to skip all of that and people actually attempt to evaluate me, and my technical propositions, based on their own merit instead of tribalism. Or... at least the tribalism works in my favor.
Unladen?
Recruiters are constantly contacting people these days. Some companies have reputations for paying well, so when you hear from them you sort of know what is coming.
I'm looking forward to firearms as a fashion statement.
Which is why .gov holds like 50% of residential mortgages. Any losses can be eaten by tax-paying renters [by virtue of government purse] to subsidize failures of homeowners/lenders. Home owners can watch their asset [privately] appreciate while failures in the mortgage system get socialized onto landless class as well.
I think GP's point was Reddit breaking Chrome would cause a big uproar and result in the issue being fixed quickly, not that Chrome has more engineers.
I ask a question about dna sequences for SWE interviews. It ends up providing some useful signal. For example questions I ask include: if you have a symbol table with 4 symbols, how many bits are required to uniquely identify each symbol (answer: 2 bits). OK, given this ASCII string 'CTCCTCGG', can you compress it a few bits? (answer: without entropy, run length, or backrefs, you can easily compress DNA encoded in 8-bit ASCII from 8 bits/byte to 2 bits/byte). OK, so, how many bits does an 8-long DNA string require encode (answer: 16 bits). Huh, that's a short.

The rest of the interview is how to move form using a hash table for counting k-mer frequencies to a vector using a minimal perfect hash, and compute k-mer frequencies quickly using a rolling hash. It's a great question because it always throws the CS people off to hear their questions asked with biological structures involved.
FaceBit – turn any face mask into smart monitoring device
below the age of 35-40, i don't feel like you should stay at one job more than 2-3 years. How do you know what's out there if you're not trying other things out? Once you've been around the block a few times it's then time to settle down, dig in, and drain as much cash to your checking account as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
That’s still incorrect. MERS is a Betacoronavirus and has a furin cleavage site:
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/42/15214.full.pdf

Furin clevage sites haven’t been found elsewhere in SARS-Cov-2’s Sarbecovirus subgenus.
Alright. I can verify the meaning and significance. I have a PhD in chemical biology, and have done (non-pathogenic) gain of function research. This is the sort of result that I would expect someone to have found if I were given the charge to insert a furin cleavage site into a virus. Proof: https://bmcbiochem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2... ,in which I stack-overflow-copy-paste ideas for beneficial mutations from sequences in distant species.
The worst part of this whole system is the complete opacity about what company will actually service the mortgage after you finish signing. As it turns out, some companies provide a much better and more modern servicing experience than others (for example: Chase versus anything Cenlar).
They might not be allowed to sell the servicing rights, but they almost certainly can sell the risk and returns.
Broadly speaking, the hygiene hypothesis is the current leading explanation.

To make an analogy, in AI/ML terms, it amounts to a training set problem: you're not exposed to a diverse enough set of microbes and pathogens, or you're exposed to a biased sample, or you're not exposed to enough microbes.

Your immune system's role is to act as a classifier to discriminate between good and bad, self and non-self. When you have a bad training set, you increase the odds that good things will be identified as bad, or that self antigen will be recognized as foreign.
The Fed operates as both a public and private entity, while the Board of Governors is a governmental agency, the the Federal Reserve Banks are set up like private corporations. Whether that makes the actual capital private, I am not sure, but I think it is a noteworthy fact.
I seem to be the only guy in our company who can spell 'BGP' correctly. This makes me nigh unfirable.

Since, on a technical level, the network is pretty much 'done', and generally doesn't break randomly if you design it with a modicum of care, I spend my work days attending meetings where I get to explain IP to colleagues across the whole org. Actual workload is maybe four hours a day, and as such, I would need a total comp increase beyond 100% for a job change to even make sense.
Having lived a similar path (Uffizzi was initially a Heroku-like PaaS before we pivoted) I’ll offer some lessons learned that I wish I could have had a crystal ball to see.
-First I’ll reference Peter Thiel’s 10x rule - is your product or experience much, much better than the alternatives?
-The market is pretty saturated with free and low cost options for hosting. Heroku being the 1st and most ubiquitous and then Digital Ocean launching their PaaS in 2020. I’m sure there’s others.
I’ll concede that Render seems to have gotten some traction despite some significant odds against doing so.
-We got $100k in credits from GCP
-You’ll likely have trouble attracting serious start-ups or businesses because they will worry that you won’t be here in 1 year or even 3 years. If you don’t attract businesses you’ll have a hard time getting to monetization.

Your monetization plan is unique and I love anything that simplifies the Dev experience. Best of luck to you.
> I think the causality may go the other way: Those of us with something wrong are more likely to both have EBV complications and MS.

I'm unsure, but it sounds like you're hypothesizing that EBV infections does not cause MS symptoms, and that instead some some third factor causes both, so that preventing EBV infection would not prevent MS. The paper being discussed specifically considers and rejects this possibility with pretty strong evidence. Indeed, that is the main contribution of the paper. (The fact that 99% of MS sufferers have EBV, way higher than the 90% baseline in the general population, has been known for a while.)
I work in newsgathering for a major international news organisation, I have oodles of flexibility, great work-life balance, massive variety, the ability to do all sorts of things that I wouldn't be able to in a different job, no responsibility other than what I put on myself, a great team, pretty much unfireable, and the bulk of the problems I (and the rest of my team) used to have with work a few years ago have all been solved.

However the flip side is that pay is relatively terrible. It's good for the UK, but not great (top 15%), and pretty terrible for tech.

Just had a recruiter knock me up for what seems like quite a junior job, fully remote (like my current), but offering a 40% pay rise.

I'm fairly confident I'll be able to stay where I am until I retire - I'm about in mid-career, but expenses are increasing, and there's no way I'll be able to keep even a cost-of-living raise in this industry.

If money wasn't an issue I'd stay where I am, I think there's some interesting challenges coming up in the next few years, but ultimately money is a big issue.
Wish you best. Grass is always greener, but, as crap as it is, income and savings can be greenest.

Edit: Saw you deleted your post...

Long ways to go but you're crushing it... I'm not sure your location, income, or potential equity pay-day opportunities, but your monthly overhead is quite low for the family of 5 - congrats that is so huge.

A long time ago, I used to work as a cashier at a grocery store. I did it because I was in college, but for most of my co-workers, it was their permanent 9-5. As ruthless as it sounds, in their world, these minor irrelevant/annoying day-to-day things such as a SKEW/PLU not in the system, running low on bags, or someone being slow for a cash drop became these world-shaking miserable events that could totally make or break their day. I guess what I'm trying to say is people create these boxed realities and define their own problems on what makes the day great or not. I remind myself often to "realign" what matters. The easiest route? Stop caring and take things a little less seriously. Your day will get exponentially better and your day-to-day stresses can become less important. The world is not going to stop spinning.

Obviously there is no good answer on burn out or you wouldn't be here. I personally found having a super passionate hobby helped (you can force something for you to obsess over every single day and week that is not work or even family related). Then find budget to outsource as many other things in your life as possible to make your plate tiny (e.g.: stop looking at bills for a year if your wife can wrangle solo, long-term financial plan go yolo blind with a trusted advisor, annoying chores like cleaning or maintenance pay for, etc...). You can't control it all... so just make your world as small as possible for what you can personally manage. Then of course working out and go cold-turkey on pr0n. Getting on a super strict schedule if you aren't already too can help. It sucks, but no late nights and no missed early mornings.

Change in my experience is always good, even if you are making the wrong choice. Just changing a setting on where you work from in the office or at home can make the world of difference. You could just say F that job and just do something else even if it's the same role somewhere else, and I promise you it will be 100% better. Maybe try that before blowing it all up to a less-paying job or doing a complete industry bail.

Burn out is like an injury of the mind and took me a full year to recover and "realign". The passionate young-buck mojo mindset you probably compare with is never coming back to a full 100% so get used to it and be reasonable about your injury.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. Your words got to me. I promise it will get better and easier. Best of luck and hope you see this and helps just 1%.
Ironically it doesn't mention the elephant in the room. US Fed is now funding T2.6$ worth of mortgages [1]. US Fed began purchasing RMBS assets (essentially mortgages) in order to support the housing market as one of its responses to 2008 crisis [2]. It was meant to be a stop-gap measure, but it hasn't ended.

BTW this is a good overview of different parties involved in the mortgage supply-chain https://imgur.com/NYg7G4t

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOMCB

[2] https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/mbs_faq.html
The Australian newsreaders leaving their mics on during the break while saying what they thought of Djokovic was funny. I imagine it sums up the attitude of most Australians ("lying, sneaky a**hole" https://inews.co.uk/news/world/australian-news-presenters-no...)

While I think the rules not allowing unvaccinated people in are excessive at a time when there's no shortage of covid in Australia, rules are rules.
The Big Short (great movie) had a good scene on the productization of mortgages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbiDrzTd8fE
I'm pretty sure the blacks and Latinos who had their small businesses looted and/or vandalized and/or burned would be all for nice high resolution cameras with enough lumens to identify people (or at least get a really, really good description).

And no, not all small businesses have insurance that covers damage from a riot and/or swarm lootfest with no raised rates or titanic deductible. And even if they did, they might not get covered next year (this has happened to some vineyards in Napa after the recent major fires).
"Well-established" norms are a barrier to newcomers and perpetuate power structures (including racial, ethnic, national, and socio-economic).

That's not theoretical; I know many people who were or would be embarrassed to ask.

Explicitly posting things is helpful.
Comment from someone on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/s2sjxj/los_angeles_th...):

> It’s not just in LA, theft and vandalism have gone way up on all the rail networks. My company is experiencing some of the worst loss numbers while in rail transit. We just announced that all transport carts will be welded shut and unwelded when it gets to the destination. Even locks aren’t enough.
I am skeptical of the claim that real estate generally appreciates over time, at least in real terms (inflation-adjusted). Yes that has been the trend for a long time and especially in popular areas, but there is no reason to think the trend will continue.
This article is worse than useless because it places a pseudoscientific veneer around something (to make it sound plausible) while still being almost certainly wrong.
The committee loves overloading. IMO they overuse it. I think once you start thinking "this overload only participates in resolution if..." you should start considering different functions.
> Girls in STEM: society needs to quit telling people "math is hard, tee hee"

To me, the very existence of "Girls in STEM" groups is sending a weird message to girls (and I’m apparently not the only one to think that). Something along the lines of “sure you can do STEM, you’re just not good enough to do it the regular way so we created a group just for you”.

Honestly that’s the message a lot of diversity initiatives end up sending.
I don't doubt anything about what you're saying, but I'm not sure what argument you're making. Yes, false negatives exist. Will another kind of interview have better rates of false negatives? At the big tech firm where I work, there are many different kinds of interviews, and HR definitely has all the data about what correlates with job performance. I'm not saying coding-style interviews are perfect or even good, but there has got to be a reason they still do them.

As humans with a strong confirmation bias, it is extremely difficult to tell what's behind your feelings for those worst yeses. It could have been the case that the candidate had red flags, you saw them, but couldn't articulate them. Or it could have just as easily been the case that the candidate had a cultural and/or communication style that was different from your own, and they also happened to perform poorly after being hired. It's important to remember that no interview process is going to yield perfect results: there will be false negatives and false positives, you can only move the trade-offs while simultaneously ensuring that you're avoiding any conscious or unconscious discrimination against protected class to the fullest extent possible. That's a hard problem to solve.
Can it be AfterStep ?
Definitely my experience. I had it as an adult at 26 and it absolutely knocked me out for weeks. I lost a ton of weight from having no appetite and having a constant sore throat. Sleeping was also terrible because I couldn't breathe easily. I think I missed 3 or 4 weeks of work and even when I started back I could only work half days for awhile at my not-strenuous desk job.
Sodium-cooled reactors have a long and troubled history.

* Sodium Reactor Experiment (Leak, minor sodium explosion, decommissioned)[1]

* Monju Nuclear Power Plant (Sodium fire, never worked properly, decommissioned)[2]

There's even been a sodium fire at a solar plant, one of those big focused mirror systems.

Many of these new reactor designs are based on complex arguments that the worst-case accident doesn't require a huge, expensive secondary containment vessel capable of containing a major accident. That's a tough sell, since Chernobyl didn't have a containment vessel and Fukushima's reactors had ones that were too small. On the other hand, Three Mile Island had a big, strong containment vessel, and in that meltdown, it held, containing the problem. In all three accidents, the actual accident was worse than the design maximum credible accident.

The NRC is right to be skeptical of weak containment designs.

It's frustrating. The reactor designs that have worked reliably for long periods are very simple inside the radioactive portion of the system.
Sodium reactors had leaks and fires. Pebble bed reactors had pebble jams. Helium gas-cooled reactors had leak problems. Molten salt reactors include a radioactive chemical plant. So nuclear power is stuck with water as a working fluid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Yes. Even if I had my every theoretical need and want covered by my salary, it still makes sense to go for more, because it just goes right into savings and reduces my retirement age by X.

I have a sign "The Goal is to not have to work" right above my monitor in my home office. Every career/learning/spending/saving decision I make is in furtherance of this goal.
I mean, I am just criticizing the founders and company based on the information available - which isn't much, but it's their fault. They seem to have a lot of press coverage for an empty landing page, and a lot of it is unreasonably glowing.
my favorite part about your response here is how you didn't answer any of the questions and gave a hand-wavey response about how they're wrong.