skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I wonder if it's poorly engineered and that 2 minutes is spent spinning up an Ubuntu VM on GCP

You can ask "Walshy" in the Cloudflare Developers Discord and he can give you access to a feature called "fast builds" it's in beta at the moment.
Well, that would be ideal :) But I think a loophole isn't "something that's not yet been interpreted by a court". It's "something that's agreed to be the case, but the people writing the rules to get money didn't foresee."
>"they should be paying for enterprise support"

This sounds a bit arrogant. I think they found better and overall cheaper solution.
I'm trying to relate this to my experiences. The best I can make of it is that burnout comes from dealing with either the same types of problems, or new problems at a rate that's higher than old problems get resolved.

I've been in those situations. My solution was to ensure that there was enough effort into systematically resolving long-known issues in a way that not only solves them but also reduces the number of new similar issues. If the strategy is instead to perform predominantly firefighting with 'no capacity' available for working on longer term solutions there is no end in sight unless/until you lose users or requests.

I am curious what the split is of problems being related to:

1. error rates, how many 9s per end-user-action, and per service endpoint

2. performance, request (and per-user-action) latency

3. incorrect responses, bugs/bad-data

4. incorrect responses, stale-data

5. any other categories

Another strategy that worked well was not to fix the problems reported but instead fix the problems known. This is like the physicist looking for keys under the streetlamp instead of where they were dropped. Tracing a bug report to a root cause and then fixing it is very time consuming. This of course needs to continue, but if sufficient effort it put to resolving known issues, such as latency or error rates of key endpoints, it can have an overall lifting effect reducing problems in general.

A specific example was how effort into performance was toward average latency for the most frequently used endpoints. I changed the effort instead to reduce the p99 latency of the worst offenders. This made the system more reliable in general and paid off in a trend to fewer problem reports, though it's not easy/possible to directly relate one to the other.
Hopefully all that cash advances VR/AR in general.
On the very low end of that spectrum of managed/dedicated server providers would be Rackspace but I have heard it may not be as good there any more. On the high end of the spectrum would be IBM but that is very expensive. In between are various managed server providers. Just look for managed hosting and what you would actually want to research is who their customers are. Or look at it the other way around. Find medium sized companies and research who their managed hosting providers are.

Another method would be to look at colocation providers. They can give you blocks of IP space. On the low end would be Hurricane Electric if you are on the west coast. A step up from there would be Sonic. There are a myriad of colocation providers that scale up in price from there. If you wanted a presence in many locations then Equinix may be a good option though they can be expensive when you are first starting out. All of these providers have partnerships with network providers and can help get you peering arrangements, address space and much more.
Yes! A single machine can handle tons of traffic in many cases.
Most users will assume it’s a reference to the common English word…

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grist
I've used serverhunter.com but be wary of the fakes as there are unknown "companies" who place their offers of powerful servers for cheap prices only to take your money and never deliver. It needs more reviews but so far the few of them are already useful and the site also provides several filtering options that can make browsing more specific and in many cases - easier.

And no - I'm not related to this site or it's owner/s in any way, I stumbled upon it on a reddit post 1 year ago and found it useful.
Apple likely has access to non-public statistics actually showing the impact.
SQL Server has temporal indices. Our queries seemed fast enough. Sorry, I don't know Postgres, but would expect there's some kind of solution.

We stored medical records. Datafeeds were very chatty. Updates would arrive out of order. Resolving "single best record" (aka "source of truth") was trivial via queries. The norm seems to be to adjudicate as data comes in. So my solution really upset a lot of people.

To your point, I did have to change the schema for scripts and allergies. To get the indices arranged just right so that GROUP BY queries were performant.

Further: UPDATE only strategy enables temporal testing; just specify time range. Saves a lot of time, effort. Versus norm of reloading the data from scratch every test run.
Should anyone push any mindset on anyone else?

What basis is acceptable for pushers of mindset? Are charisma, money, spirituality, power a good basis?
> I think there are more. Like radiation from evaporating black holes.

Evaporating black holes?

Yes, if you are willing to wait a very, very long time, and have collectors over a large area.

However, if you want to get stuff done before your protons evaporate, you could instead throw matter into a black hole, thus increasing its mass. The radiation given off by the accretion disc is substantial, and can be collected... over a large area.

IIRC, the mass-to-energy efficiency is something like 40%, which is really good.

They are a little difficult to set up however...
What's that saying? History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes.
Neither, unless we are speaking of kernel and drivers kind of systems programming, in which case I would pick Rust.

For anything else, a language with automatic memory management.
Or people in the business of selling clicks (or ads, offline and online) intentionally choose to use various metrics in the wrong ways.

Using fluctuations in market cap is a tried and true method of churning out nonsense “content”. I assume there are simple algorithms that basically write the whole article based on the market cap change in last day, week, month, year, whatever the article’s publisher wants.
I live in the US South. There are many misconceptions about the South, and there is a lot of prejudice in American society toward the South, toward “trailer trash,” and toward “rednecks” and “hillbillies.” This is going to build hatred and resentment for “the wealthy” that cannot be overcome by a mindset change. They are hated and despised and therefore they hate right back.

Beyond this, there are people who are viewed as poor, dysfunctional, and “degenerate” even by the standards of the hated groups mentioned above.

Funny thing is, these hated people are the very people societies cannot live without. Some are the bus drivers, the line cooks, the truck drivers, the sanitation workers, the veterans, and on and on. These people do actual work so that everyone else can get on pushing paper and making new digital b.s. These are also people who’ve been underserved by the digital transformation because they are hated.

Why did it take reaching 2020 for someone to make PayPal that works for truckers?
Enterprise Support never disappointed me so far. Maybe not <10 minute response time, but we never felt left alone during an outage. But I guess this is also highly region/geo dependent.
Pervasive rent seeking and price gouging in the healthcare sector is a sad reality in the U.S., but it doesn't just hurt the poor. It's bad for everyone. People usually try to push for socialized medicine as some sort of panacea, but that doesn't help at all if the price gouging part is not addressed.
Show HN: ultra minimal markdown static site generator
And you can export the Hugo markdown from org mode
https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/
You can also do this directly with gitlab pages, which supports hugo. My blog runs on it.
Somehow I doubt that most people would take a bot marking them with a laser pointer as a benign action, but maybe that's just me.
All life spreads and lives wherever they can--humans included. That's just how life on Earth works. It is the natural way of things, for better or worse
We Won't Make Changes to Kickstarter Without You
An Adventure with Optimization and Z3
Light sails are practical, and have already been tested in orbit.

https://www.planetary.org/articles/lightsail-2-successful-fl...

Light from the Sun isn't coherent, and you can't focus it with mirrors very far away. Lasers have many orders of magnitude less divergence when talking about distances measured in light-years.
I agree with you, but don't think the issue is one of documentation. Rather, it is an issue of communication.

To borrow a concept from Starcraft, what has worked well in my experience is for every member of a team/company to clearly understand their "macro loop". This involves being aware of the set of chat channels, email threads, code repositories, and documents that are most relevant to their work in the near term and in the medium term. Everyone on the team should be:

1. Checking these sources at a regular rate (once a day, once a week, once every two weeks).

2. Reflecting their work in these sources to the extent that it's relevant to their team mates.

Macro loops cannot be forced onto someone, but they can be reinforced by the rest of the team. For example, if you lead a weekly meeting and always have the meeting doc up on a shared screen, people will naturally start refer to it themselves when they need the context it contains. Or if a particular document is always linked in answers to a certain question, it will make its way onto indexes and bookmarks.

The particular systems you use to represent these things -- Slack vs. Discord vs. IRC vs. Google Hangouts for chat, GMail vs. custom servers for email, GitHub vs. GitLab vs. Bitbucket vs. self-hosted git for code, Docs vs. Quip vs. Dropbox Paper vs. Office 365 vs. Notion for docs -- really don't have a significant effect on how well a team runs its macro loops.
It's more complicated than this. There is some truth to both sides of the equation and it is true that we currently overwhelmingly blame poor individuals for their problems and largely fail to recognize that there just isn't enough to go around of some things.

We need to do a better job of putting in a floor for all people such that there are limits to how low you can fall even if everything goes wrong and we need to do a better job of lowering barriers to moving between classes. It's currently too easy to fall in the US and too hard to get back up.

The right mental models, attitudes, etc can be helpful in problem solving. Some problems are intractable (hard to make progress against and require many years to solve) even if you do everything right. Some kinds of resources are in limited supply such that, yes, some lucky few can readily get out but some will not even if they "do everything right."

The best thing we can do as a society is focus on solving that last one: Try to make more resources available of certain kinds such that there is enough to go around to establish a floor from which people have some reasonable hope of being able to be self determining.
With current ISO C++ velocity and the stance to keep doing language evolution in person meetings, I don't think Herb's proposals will ever come to be, and even if they do, it won't matter when they most likely can only make it post-ISO C++26 with best efforts.
I don't think they are boring, but very important on the kind of engineer you are. At AWS I try to encourage people who like the problem space and at the very least appreciate it, but can totally understand that you don't want to do your entire career on it. Many of our younger folks have never felt the speed and joy you can get with hammering out a simple app (web, python, ML) that doesn't have to work at scale.
> ...but punters walking around a computer store are not going to appreciate the differences if Intel get away with making big claims on the sticker (possibly even spinning "software defined silicon" as a way for them to upgrade hardware over the wire) - for the average consumer this would making an already difficult to achieve informed comparisons hopeless.

This. I can already imagine it: "hey, my notebook was getting a bit sluggish, but I upgraded it over the internet with Software Defined Silicon(TM) and just spent $100 instead of $500 that a new one would've costed".

And everyone who knows the "extra" capabilities were already there to begin with would be screaming on the inside.
Many of those investors are non-Canadians and it has led to many years of extreme housing unaffordability in major cities like Vancouver and Toronto.
Pricing caps are not the answer, but it shouldn't be profitable for foreigners who have never been to Canada to displace Canadians out of affordable living.
Ah, thanks, didn't see the connection with AT&T - that makes more sense.
Which option does Fastmail fail on?
This action alone should make FDR go down as one of the worst presidents in US history, yet many people still consider this monster great.
There are some actions that cannot be washed away no matter how many other good deeds you may have done.
Yes and: Most of our queries (current patients) only needed the most recent records. For our clients, it was ok that older data took a bit longer to retrieve, because those patients weren't present (eg on the phone vs not currently in the emergency room).
Not really, some did follow that path.
Your hateful comment kinda proves my point, lol

Keep your anger with yourself, I don’t accept it
>The article doesn’t say much about what would help.

A Universal Basic Income would be a good start.
Your claim:

> no one had any issues with a polio vaccine

Reality:

> 40,000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis and killing 10

There's no misunderstanding or straw man here. You made a false claim whilst accusing others of misinformation. Which seems to be often the way it goes with "misinformation" - not a vague platitude, of course, but the topic of the entire thread.
I understand going ahead and using it. I have in the past and then stopped.

But teaching people that it’s fine to enter their bank username and password on a not-their-bank website if somebody asks nicely is inarguable creating security hell in our society.
Method for identifying incompatible T cells
Neither it was common before, Objective-C, C++, Eiffel are probably the only known ones with mainstream market share that actually went via the compile to C as initial implementation.
Go daddy is definitely scammy. I’m using NameCheap for the domain and hosting of my blog and quite happy with their service and customer support. I’ve also used PorkBun for domain names. Their prices are reasonable as well
I've already implemented a 32-byte version. But, as mentioned in the article, it's not faster (in terms of throughput) because it needs to fetch two cache lines.
It’s critical if you’re an independent contractor or will become one some day. Writing blog posts about interesting projects or topics then submitting them to tech news aggregators (HN, lobste.rs, r/programming) pays dividends for years. Not even from the post itself necessarily, but it ensures you show up in search results. Much easier than writing a textbook, doing conf talks, or building a really good network. Plus it’s also nice on a psychological level, I feel I only get closure on projects once I write about them.
Thing is, its not all technical work - thats the problem 20-25 +/- hours a week of meetings - so I put in the extra time so I can do the 40 hours of technical work on top of that.
Facebook has been increasingly stepping into politics around the globe. In response, they are banning, blocking, etc people and people are leaving the platform. privacy concerns have always been there, but now that actions are being taken it’s obvious actions need to be taken.

This “awakening” to the risks of Facebook are leading to lawsuits, new laws, etc which are also decreasing potential revenue (in addition to customers leaving).
Are they obligated to not trade on their own research and information? And it’s not Apple stock, it’s Meta’s. Great topic for a Matt Levine Money Stuff segment on his laws of insider trading series.

https://github.com/0xNF/lawsofinsidertrading.com
I think it is because the container it spins up is a bit heavy. When you select a framework, it just sets a build command. It seems as though every framework and tool is installed in that build container.
I am not sure you are aware that server load is never linearly distributed. And that's the exact problem OP is talking about.

If everybody would get a ticket number and do requests when they're supposed to do them, we wouldn't need load balancers.
> I think you need to lock that disk in a box with a sprig of sage and seal it with wax.

Sure since I have original black floppies with gold Netscape rudder! Will do.

Unfortunately hex editor shows nothing.
This is an outcome of the historic process which gave us modern Unicode.

The Turkish alphabet ISO 8859-9 was published in 1988, and it doesn't distinguish between I and I, since why would it? It's a byte encoding designed specifically to accommodate Turkish.

Unicode has a principle of adopting whatever makes it easy to convert from the preferred legacy encoding to Unicode, and for Turkish that meant using the same code point for I in both Turkish and practically everywhere else, since I is in ASCII and the bulk of Latin-based character encodings are based on ASCII.

I point this out because it could indeed have been the case that they ended up with separate encodings, which would have solved your problem.

But it wouldn't have solved the actual problem, which is the collation and casing are locale-specific according to Unicode, and indeed they must be. Example: in Dutch the letters 'ij' are one letter for collation purposes, as well as for casing, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJsselstein for an example.

This is of course impossible to get correct if the application doesn't know it's dealing with Dutch, which it often can't know. The very same problem you have with Turkish.
The real problem is that the business relies on abusing their users - an obvious conflict of interest.

Over time, either the users will evolve to make the abuse less effective (equivalent of "banner blindness" of early web advertising), use technical countermeasures (ad-blocking, alternative clients, etc) or use their political power to vote for regulations that will make outlaw said abuse. A mix of all of these is currently happening.

The only areas where this kind of adversarial relationship will work is if the adversary has no choice - such as military/defense or law enforcement for example (military enemies can't vote, suspected & convicted criminals can but the feedback loop is so long that it's not going to have effects any time soon). But if the adversary has a free choice, over time they will exercise that choice which will reduce (and eventually eliminate) the profitability of abusing them.

I don't see this - or any other business built primarily on advertising and "growth & engagement" - as a winning long-term strategy.
well that just sounds like programming with extra steps.
The efficiency of our bodies (or the amount of calories in food) is astounding. Makes one think whether there is any acceptable use case for serving snacks and other high-calorie-density food.
The worst thing here would be recurring payments, and also maybe the idea that Intel can act like platform providers, and revoke your CPU's license to execute code if they deem your usage unacceptable. Just another step towards you not owning the hardware you already paid for.

I hope AMD doesn't copy this. Intel has been on a downwards trend recently and maybe this is just a dumb, desperate move from them. As you say the landscape is getting more competitive, which is a good thing for consumers.
Try opening them in an image viewer as a RAW file, mess around with the width and height and try to spot some patterns.
I think the other responses have explained the definition I had in mind for "anti-value".

"Frugality" is a bit less explicit than "move fast _and break things_. I think the reason it could be considered an anti-value is because it implies obvious _costs_. For example it can cost time in "shopping around", or it could mean that you miss out on opportunities - for example missing out on a great employee because you pay below market rate.
> I hear a lot of people talking about systemic explanations for everything

I agree. All anyone does is talk. So many YouTubes and Podcasts talking but nothing changing. The time for talking is over.

And I agree, Christians are one group of people who tend to act instead of talk. The Franciscans are a good example.
yes. It should be casette inline. I must have printed it out, cut and glue to an empty casette.
Those were the days!
Suppose some rich people actually got rich by dishonesty, exploitation and selfishness. Believing that rich people get rich because they deserve it will then mean either (1) believing that dishonesty, exploitation and selfishness are good or (2) believing a bunch of falsehoods about how those rich people got rich.

#1 is clearly harmful, to the individuals involved and to society as a whole. #2 is probably also harmful, not so much because it matters what everyone thinks about how particular rich people got that way as because believing those falsehoods probably means believing a bunch of other falsehoods about, e.g., how business and society actually work, and it's probably bad if everyone believes a lot of false things about that.

Suppose some rich people actually got rich mostly by good luck. Believing that rich people get rich because they deserve it will then mean overlooking the importance of luck, and believing that people who don't get rich deserve not to be, and probably to believing that people who are poor deserve to be poor.

That's harmful because it begets a lack of sympathy towards others in need.

There are no doubt positive effects too; e.g., if you think that hard work reliably makes people rich then you may be more likely to work hard, and maybe it's good for society if everyone is willing to work hard. (Though I have my doubts about how well that sort of self-deception can actually be expected to work.) But it's not at all obvious, at least to me, that the overall effects are good, because of harms like the ones I described above.

(... Maybe you were being sarcastic, in which case I apologize for missing your point. But it looks to me as if you meant what you wrote.)
>Maybe in another 60 it will get proper strings and arrays.

If you think this is missing, there's a big chance you don't "get" C.

Also, if you don't know how to properly emulate strings in a safe way in C nowadays (for which plenty of code sample and librariesexist), your skills with the language are quite poor.
C must be really amazing compared to Algol than. It powers today's computing infrastructure without having proper boolean type. Are there any widely used applications written in Algol?
My wife and I live in smaller cities for her job. Well we will in the suburbs.

We've always found it odd how we see these news stories of the local downtown dying yet, they all offer nothing of value to many on the evenings and weekends.
KCB Bank (Kenya) system security flaw exposed
a slightly-larger-than-normal slice of pecan pie will easily get to 1000kcal. a la mode and you don't even need a normal sized slice.
> Intel get away with making big claims on the sticker (possibly even spinning "software defined silicon" as a way for them to upgrade hardware over the wire)

Kind of like buy now, pay later. You can buy this cheap computer now but don't worry, you can always upgrade it later.
That chart looks like a good reason to never buy crypto.
Just a reminder, George Takai published a graphic novel memoir of his time in a camp called "They Called Us Enemy". He also has quite a few pretty moving talks about it.