skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably out of my element here, it's been a while, but... does that not scream "race condition" concern? Obviously it's going to be application-specific; given the context though, are you just expecting "validation" from the 'other' side (ie reject requests with old checksums/timestamps) maybe? Or is this just a highly-theoretical example/mindset?
I don’t believe that the average American buys 68 pieces of clothing a year. I’d like them to share the source of that. The author doesn’t offer one that I saw.

TBC, I think wearing something 3-4 times and discarding it is horrible.
there wouldn't be any new parts except the mainboard/cpu/heatsink. It's unlikely for someone to want to replace only one of those*. I don't see a loss for customizability or repairability

* very few people can solder a cpu and I've never heard of a heatsink needing replacement
Making an assertion and sticking a question mark at the end isn't questioning anything.
I can't really speak to the "portable assembler" point of view here, but if I was trying to make UB less dangerous I would say that the code had better return either 12345678 or 12345679, as long as no other memory addresses have 12345678 stored in them. Or it could trap.
Overkill probably, but useful practise for when working on something of a scale where it will make a significant difference. And they might just like playing with these things. A home lab does not have to be DayJob practical!
That's a very thin hot water bottle. The hot water bottles commonly available where I live are made of thick rubber, and would be impossible to inflate in this way.
Glad to see this was about working at FB / Meta rather than being a user. Just for personal interest.

Newish dev doing my first attempt at a FAANG interview. Wondering if I should be trying for FaceBook as long as Im bothering to study. Had a very positive-feeling convo with a recruiter there ~6mo ago before "Meta". Sounds like it might be a negative thing to have on your resume now though?

Any thoughts?
>Florida used to be swamps now it’s growing like crazy.

Florida native. Every person on the Internet loves to poo-poo Florida.

1000 people move to Florida a day. Every. Day.

Most of my native-born friends hate it.

Don't move to Florida, we're begging you.
Right, those negative efficiency numbers that drive every anti-vaxxer crazy and anybody ignoring them like there is there nothing to see. Must be hard. It is right there.

Has it occurred to anybody that there really is nothing to see there? Can it for example be that delta and omicron are circulating in slightly different populations where omicron is more prevalent among vaccinated and delta among unvaccinated?

Or there could be some disparities in populations, for example young people not getting vaccinated but getting infected by delta instead of omicron not not getting infected because of some other measures like school antigen testing?

You can investigate this information https://covidtracker.fr/vaximpact/

It is mostly omicron in France by now.
I opened up Leetcode and started chipping away at the problems in the “Hard” section. It took me days to solve some and I felt miserable. Self-doubt crept in, and I started to lose motivation. I hopped on 2 phone screens and failed both. It was humiliating and I felt like shit.

As in, the same very same tests your company now expects new candidates to "solve" (pretending they haven't seen it before) in about 30 minutes tops. In order to, you know, keep out the riff-raff.
I’m not saying bad things about the author rather that the authors don’t hold proper credentials so the reader should examine it carefully.
That was a bit of the pot calling the kettle black though as they get close approaches with space debris from their own ASAT test all the time.
Wow... I had not touched the AWS SDK with JavaScript in a long while. This is actually very surprising. It looks significantly different for what seems like a marginal improvement from V2.
"everyday life it’s still very prestigious place to be working at. Getting a mortgage or a car loan is easy, saying you work for Facebook gets you on the fast line."

I once felt that way but after leaving FAANG years later, I realized how snobby something like this would sound.
Ontario judge put Covid vax gag on father
Mozilla Rally is not preloaded on Firefox. Users who want to participate in this study about Facebook's pixel tracking can opt in by installing the add-on and entering the study. Users who don't want to participate don't need to do anything to stay out of the study.

Defending Facebook's pervasive tracking of users and non-users across the web by pointing the finger at Mozilla's use of telemetry and automatic updates is not very persuasive, primarily because it's not even a defense of Facebook, which performs tracking on a much, much greater scale than Mozilla and most other companies.
XMonad's config files are the text of Haskell Read instances, so they have to be valid members of the datatype in question. The type checking is very precise because of Haskell's fine grained type system, and it's all done automatically by the GHC runtime.
Interviews are designed to be roughly the same experience for everyone. There's plenty of good legal reasons why, but separate from that, jobs, roles and so on are not standardized across various companies. While I personally know someone with 8 years experience at Facebook probably isn't a clown, the point of an interview is also to get a sense of how you'd work together and to ask eachother questions. A good interviewer will tailor their interview to the candidate, too.
Yeah I knew about this - China reacted negatively to this process in describing, but no doubt we're all sending it elsewhere now.
Some people just like to tinker and try other things even if it's overkill. I have a k8s cluster on DO to host shitty side projects, it's pretty nice to just `kubectl apply -f manifest.yml` and be done with it, especially since I'll probably wind up tearing everything I just set up anyway.
It's also that free sites suck these days. Quora is still free for vast majority of content, just need to register, and has very interesting facts and nuanced opinions. The Economist is a place to read real news rather than talk shows that CNN and Fox have become. Ad supported doesn't seem to work for quality content. So do you want to at least be aware of the quality stuff or just browse junk? Serious question, there should be a search engine to cater to "free only" crowd.
In Romania alimony did not exist until a few years ago, so we are going in the opposite direction with the excuse "this is how it's done in EU".
Kids grow out of clothing quickly and would shift the average number of new items up, but even then, I have trouble believing that it would shift it up by that much? Are they counting each socks individually too?
Then I don't get it. If you accept first principles, then the world of structural econometrics is open to you. Cake having, and cake eating - at the cost of structural assumptions.
All you are doing then is filling your models with some actual data.

Could you be more specific what is a lab setting for you? Natural experiments are not what I meant when I spoke of experiments, as natural experiments are observational inferential methods!

btw did they ever tell you about that physics experiment in a lab that was built just over a subway line? So much confounding!

Jokes aside, your assumptions amount to assumptions about what "controlled" and "in a lab" means. I hope you see it makes more sense to define the requirement for experimental identification mathematically, in which case you'd see that the conditions are not different in kind, only in degree.
etc.

Edit:

If that counts as revealed preference data, I can assure you that econometrics are used to great effect in pricing, auctions etc - one of the reasons certain orange and blue companies hiring experts on this have become mucho rich in the past couple of years. Some oldschool econ models may not be the best to describe the altruistic, boundedly rational present-preferrer. But oh boy, can you make some serious dough if you can mechanism design the auction platforms and the best the firms can do is to try to train some machine learning models against it.
When you live in a boate who have limited energy storages
What does PSC stand for and what is it? I've seen it here and mentioned on Blind a few times.
Even if you have no interest in joining a company, an offer can be used as leverage when negotiating with a different company.
In the Philippines it's Ukay-Ukay, which originates from a term which means "to dig." So, they're digging for good finds. ;)
Yes the article was changed from a sensationalist article by the Daily Star to the original press release on the study from caltech. The sensationalist article spun a piece of neutral-to-positive news on Starlink into a negative one.
For a while around 2012 or 2013 I was using a circa-2008 Dell M4400 workstation laptop. It cost me $350 used on Craigslist, complete with docking station and HDD caddie, and it absolutely beat the pants off of anything you could buy new at that point for twice and probably even three times as much money.

It came with a 15.4” 1920x1200 display, 2.80Ghz T9600 Core 2 Duo CPU, Nvidia Quadro FX 770M (GTX 9600M equivalent) GPU, 8GB DDR2 RAM, a hotswap bay, wifi/Bluetooth card, and WWAN slot and a ridiculous number of ports, including 4x USB, full size DisplayPort, and gigabit Ethernet (and that’s before docking it!). Its only real downfall is an odd design decision to bridge a large gap between the heatsink and GPU with a thick thermal pad, which was fixed by replacing the pad with thermal paste and a copper shim.

I don’t have a lot of use for it now, but I’ve upgraded it to a 2.53Ghz QX9300 Core 2 Quad (socketed CPU!!), Samsung SSD, and an Intel Wifi 6+Bluetooth 5 card just for fun. With all that, it’s quite serviceable nearly 14 years after manufacture when running a lighter modern OS and good adblocker.

The value on that machine is probably among the best of any tech purchase I’ve ever made.
Read the official React documentation and view courses on egghead.

https://egghead.io
> Or just a total DIY xen or KVM hypervisor on debian or centos approach.

Or just install kubevirt on the existing cluster and manage kvm virtual machines with k8s

https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt
Performance Summary Cycle. FB’s semi-annual performance reviews.
Which distro and tools did you end up on?
This is one of the many problems we're trying to tackle at you.com (full disclosure, I work there).

We felt like it's important that you can select your preferred sources and downvote sources you don't like.

For this and other reasons we separate the experience into a private and personalized mode. So you get exactly what you want based on your explicit settings (like StackOverflow code snippets or arxiv papers) and can have hardcore privacy when you want that (where your location isn't used, not even your searches are stored like on DDG).
it would get cold pretty quickly compared to water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_specific_heat_capacit...
I started at Facebook a little before Alex, but left five or so years ago. It remains a highlight of my working life. It's a little sad, but expected, to hear it's become just another tech co.

I'm interested to know why you didn't use your network more when looking for new opportunities. Amjad of Replit is an ex Facebook employee, after all.
> An Ontario judge has told a Brampton father involved in a custody dispute he is not allowed to badmouth the federal government’s vaccination policy within earshot of his 10-year-old son

If this were the US, that would obviously be totally unconstitutional. Does Canada not have freedom of speech?
Googler, opinions are my own.

For products that are core, large UI changes tend to just annoy a lot of users, unless there's something really amazing about the change. Even then, people are hesitant to like new UIs. Engineers and designers definitely want to try new things, but balancing those against messing with UIs that a billion+ people use is hard.

My general take on drive and calendar, if they are trying to improve these cases for enterprise users. There's a lot of very non-sexy work going on to make these improvements, and they aren't always visible.
>What the heck happened then?

For one, Google itself became this biggest advertiser and SEO marketer for its own interests, but unlike the others, it had internal influence on the search rankings and presentation...
I would guess, move back to Facebook. People are paid for a reason: coding is dull.
I enjoy reading about homelabs that aren't using kubernetes or some other scheduler and how they're doing it/what the full stack looks like. This is just another "how I installed kubernetes" thing only without any real scale behind it. There are other ways to deploy and run things, and it takes people toying around with alternatives for something unique to spring up.
> It looks like the main problem is not the amount of data lost but amount of extra manual work this situation causes. I assume Starlink tracks and knows where their satellites are, so why don't they just provide data feed to trusted third parties who might be affected by their satellites? That way researchers could automatically classify these trails.

The information on where Starlink is is already publicly available through the US government. Anyone who wants to know where the satellites are can view the live positions at any time.
Can you search as if you're from a different country? My incognito searches are useless because they are region-specific.

Edit: Yes, you can do this if you click on settings -> show more settings -> show more countries and pick the country you want. Which seems like a pain.
What are you a skeptic of, exactly? This is the model actually used by the Danish Ministry of Finance to study the effects of various policy changes. I don't think there's any need to speculate about how much influence it will have: it apparently is already in use and guides policymaking. Other advanced economies have their own similar models used for studying and making various aspects of economic policy. I think another poster has provided a link to the model used by the NY Fed.

At a high level, I, like you, am fairly persuaded by the Hayekian point that its impossible to collect enough information or otherwise capture the necessary complexity to reliably model even a moderately complex economy with enough fidelity to allow central planning. But this is far short of that. And there does seem to be a need for general models to allow policymakers to make informed decisions. The only alternative would seem to be to make no decisions at all which a) is itself a decision and 2) does not seem to be an option that many people seriously advance.

I guess your position could be that these efforts are doomed to failure--i.e., no model will provide useful results. But that position--that no model will provide any amount of useful information, even at very low levels of granularity, is a very strong position--much stronger than Hayek's argument against planned economies--that I'd have to see some serious support for. And it certainly doesn't seem like a position that people should accept without a very convincing showing of its futility, given the significant costs of making policy decisions without even attempting to model them, or of making no policy interventions at all.
Can you port it out and back in?
I hear you. But arguably, imagine you could search a "collection" after you drilled down into your category.

Top -> Finance -> Credit Card -> Merchant Fees + Search
Top -> Finance -> Stock Market -> Algorithms + Search
Top -> Health -> Vitamins + Search

And of course, the Wikipedia is a good jumping off point for all of that information. But imagine a wikipedia-like place that then allowed you to find the top level information that you're looking for with additional search capabilities in its supporting collection.

Maybe the start of this is taking a Wikipedia article on Price Parity and then enumerating the referenced articles in the footnotes and putting a search engine over those perhaps.

I don't know. But there's got to be something better than what we have right now. I feel another leap of search innovation happening soon.
Sure, you would want a model to aid decision-making, but if there is (initially) no data for how the economy will behave under a UBI and with 80% unemployment, for example, then all existing models might end up generating predictions or recommendations that don't help at all.
Debian is basically beholden to what upstream projects do, so almost all UI rearrangements are direct from upstream and not caused by Debian. Ubuntu do some of their own UI changes though, but a lot less than they used to.
We are better than other species at filling new niches. But being champion is no excuse for getting cocky.
Economics is and has always been ideology disguised as “facts” or “science”. There are many incompatible schools of economics that constantly battle for supremacy. And the current winner is always the school that best support/explain/justify the current ruling class. So you can almost predict who the ruling class is at any given time based on the school of economics most taught at Universities at that time. Kinda obvious when you think about it since the ruling class decide who the economists are that teach at Universities.
Doesn't make it wrong, though.
The classical hot water bottle for sale today is either made from rubber or PVC plastic. The latter material has few advantages. It’s often a bit cheaper and can be made transparant, but unlike rubber it contains toxic chemicals (which make the plastic flexible). A third option – a bit harder to find – are plastic hot water bottles without chemical softeners, which are rigid instead of flexible.

A fourth and possibly much cheaper alternative --- a regular plastic bag, or multiple layers of them if they're too thin. They are polyethylene, which is flexible without plasticisers, and many people already have some non-holed ones lying around.
Really interesting article for someone not in this field of semiconductor products.

> Put simply, we have entered the age of dedicated processing architectures. “AI is asking for more than Moore’s Law can deliver,” says Tim Kogel, principal applications engineer at Synopsys. “The only way forward is to innovate the computer architecture by tailoring hardware resources for compute, storage, and communication to the specific needs of the target AI application. We see the same trend in other domains, where the processing and communication requirements outpace the evolution of general-purpose compute, such as in the data center or 5G base stations. In data centers, a new class of processing unit for infrastructure and data-processing tasks has emerged. These are optimized for housekeeping and communication tasks, which otherwise consume a significant portion of the CPU cycles. Also, the hardware of extreme low-power IoT devices is tailored for the software to reduce overhead power and maximize computational efficiency.”

And practical applications like running AI on edge devices:

> AI applications on the edge often are driven by power more than anything else. “Customers want to run more and more AI, but they need to run it more efficiently,” says Paul Karazuba, vice president of marketing for Expedera. “This is especially true when you move away from the data center, and toward an edge node, where an edge node can be defined as anything from a smart light bulb all the way up to a car. There is a need for specialized AI acceleration because there is a need for power efficiency, and there is a need for performance efficiency. Just running the same engines is not powerful enough. You will start to see a lot of different architectures in chips, mostly because they can be much more efficient than others.”
We do but as a country we've lost the plot and basically thrown all our constitutional protections out the window. For all the badmouthing of the US, it seems like one of the few jurisdictions whose constitution can actually endure a crisis and not just get overridden out of one sides political convenience
Well, the difference is that while democracy can lead to Hitler eventually, it can also keep them in check (whereas non-democratic rule can more easily captured and kept by potential Hitlers).

Whereas capitalism can't keep itself in check (democracy might keep it, though).
> My computer is my work station. Imagine if you have a woodworking table with all your tools and materials laid out, and you go to bed, come back in the morning, and everything has been rearranged, some of your tools replaced with other tools, some taken away altogether because you "don't need them". It would be a very rude thing of someone to do, and it would be a non-starter.

This is pretty much exactly why I don’t agree with your root cause analysis. Imagine if some open source standard or some set of them deliberate on a breaking change, and everyone who uses their thing has to manually move all of their tools to do any work. Imagine if that change didn’t reach consensus and every user has to manually move their tools into both conforming places corresponding to multiple tools’ expectations.

The vast majority of people using computers just won’t update anything and… then we’ll have the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the security implications of that. Or even just platform capability implications of that.
There was no precedent set by Starlink. What they did was already allowed and many other constellations have been launched previously. Some into the low 100s in total satellites. Starlink just has much larger amounts than any previous constellation and they're reasonably large as generally there was somewhat of an inverse correlation in satellite size and the number of satellites in the constellation.
my cross-platform DAW, Ardour, has as many Linux downloads as Windows downloads (on the order of 5k per month). Is it the DAW niche? Or are you possibly wrong about this?
This is a fantastic (like all of his writings!) write up on building idempotent web services: https://brandur.org/http-transactions
> The question I want you and all people who say "crypto is a fraud, ponzi scheme, has no value" to ask yourself is "If I'm right, why is there such demand to buy crypto?".

There are a few reasons, but the main one is the same reason there was demand for beanie babies.
Show HN: Pianobar-remote-control – low-frills go web remote for pianobar
I like to play pianobar on a bluetooth speaker but don't always want to walk over to my desk to hit next, so I made a terse little web remote in go. Now I just whip it open in my phone. Took about 3 hours and then another 1.5 later to polish it up for sharing.

'twas a fun little project that someone else might enjoy using.

Looks like in retrospect there are some pretty feature-full pianobar-web repos out there, but certainly none as simple/short.
In Oakland I wouldn't leave the phone in the car.

(Sorry, irresistible joke. Also, dear downvoter, this is not intended as a criticism of Oakland.)
I didn’t see retirement addressed, that would be among my top priorities personally. Unless he’s already financially independent and can retire at will, taking a 30% paycut off FB’s top 5% comp could mean delaying retirement by many years. Given fixed living costs, retirement savings could easily drop by much more than 30%.

I’m not disagreeing with his choice, it’s a personal one and he may not want early retirement, but I would find it extremely difficult.
i get it but in reality in many families someone is sacrificing their career for the family unit. i don’t think it’s unfair to take that opportunity cost into consideration