skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm guessing this is a single master database with multiple read replicas. That means it's not consistent

Single master with read replicas is fully consistent if commits don't return until propagated to and acknowledged by replicas (the expense here being commit latency.)
"I think I'd be a perfect culture fit for this company".
Tulip mania, indeed.
> This is odd and completely counter to my own anecdotal experience. SMS messages from large companies I interact with (My bank, cell phone provider) always come from fairly static short codes

And what do those which come from scammers look like? In some areas, they are identical to those from the «large companies».
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> I learned a lot by actually implementing the techniques, instead of just going over the mathematics.

This is such an absolute and profound insight and applies to so much of maths in general it would deserve an article on its own.
Ok, time to put your money where your mouth is. In-N-Out pays its store managers over $100K/year. Their workers make around $25/hour which scales out to $50k/year for a full-time employee.

And trust me, most devs I know couldn't handle flipping burgers. Dealing with customers, dealing with managers, dealing with cleaning restrooms, dealing with late nights/early mornings.

So don't shit on burger flippers...
By definition the examples are cherry-picked. I noticed he didn't pull up old Visigoth ranges, nomadic farmers or Babylonian borders.

That doesn't take away from the insight that certain political histories still resonate today.

Just as you can find examples of geologic features (like mountain ranges or rivers) influencing political divides, so too can you find examples of geologic features not influencing them. Doesn't mean the former is "misleading" or something.
This camera has larger depth of field.

The article explains the tech, but I don't know how much of Lytro's tech is similar.

Both are "light field".
About a decade ago, I had one of those rectangular Lytro cameras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro

And yes, you could change the focus on a picture that was hosted on the web.

Unfortunately, those photos, as they required the Lytro site to work, no longer work and I can't find any working archives of them. ( Lytro is winding down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16705391 )

But yes, you could - the Lytro's first camera section of https://youtu.be/m8c1__yzX2Q showed some of the refocusing.
Amused by the Star Wars reference in the title. (D1 should have been called D2, just to get the complete name).
There used to be an internal tool to view every crawl, ever, on a time slider. Like archive.org but ridiculous depth.
Show HN: Optimizing a DIscrete Loss to solve inverse PDE using machine learning
I agree completely, but I've tried many times to figure out how to do that, and I've had no luck. I don't have any front-end skillz. If you can tell me how to do it, I'd be grateful.

Thanks.
It goes both way. If we assume intent behind a given action that has occurred, then we apply some form of competence to the person in their ability to turn intent into action. If an action is unintentional then there is some level of incompetence in play. The bigger the outcome and the more obvious we view the action is, the bigger the incompetence from a successful defense of non-intent.
"Dark pattern" seems like one of those phrases that's in the process of changing its definition. People use it to mean anything in software that they don't like. It used to mean something that tricked the user into paying money or attention. I don't see how this is a trick (I also find it annoying, as you do).
You're using a thin facade of decorum to push the idea that the oppression of minorities is their own fault, with the strong implication that you have nothing to do with it because that's just the way the world works. How am I personally responsible by association for the actions of others, while you aren't?

And again, am I supposed to be out here actively looking for people and views to disavow? Do I have to do this in front of everyone I meet, so then they'll be sure I'm one of the good ones and they can treat me like a normal person?
> NYTimes realized their echo chamber and practically ordered their journalists to exit their echo chambers. Which upon doing so they somewhat returned to better journalistic standards, NYTimes suddenly showed some excellent legitimacy.

Details? I know they've gotten a few people who are outside the progressive orthodoxy and tend to poke holes in it to write opinion columns in the last few months.
Well, i think meritocracy is bad. The job should go to the most suited and not to someone who has earned it cause of past efforts. People hope those two are the same, but in practice they might not. Meritocracy favors career-bureaucrats, who make up whatever metric that defines the merit.
Exactly. I love hearing the people "complain" but try and make the journey or stay. With remote work and automation becoming the norm. Soon we won't need to leave our respective countries and can all co-exist.
I personally wish there is a healthier supply of modern housing in these attractive workplaces. Places like SF/NY/LA has atrocious rent and that’s okay if housing quality on average is okay but a lot of these buildings are 100+ years old, barely maintained or a new cash grab apartment complex that’s marketed as luxurious but look an inch deeper and you could tell these developers hardly spent time nor money knowing they get away with shoddy quality apartments. What’s the point of getting paid six figures when your office is higher quality and aesthetically pleasing than your own house.

The solution to all of this is a simpler zoning law at the federal / state level that allows competent developers to win in all markets. City level zoning laws prohibits the best developer from scaling and artificially creates cost for developers that care. How come there isn’t a household name akin to Apple for apartment development? I want to be able to stick to one amazing developer for a consistent experience across multiple markets especially now that remote work is becoming a permanent option for multiple developers.

I have a sibling that lives in Japan. They live 10 min away from downtown Osaka by train, their rent is $1100 a month, it’s not large but the apartment is extremely functional, space efficiently utilized for plenty of storage and rooms. There’s also a giant green park in the middle of the complex with a foot bath. They also talk about the developer and boasts about their brand. Their family makes 1/5 my salary but I still feel like they’re living the wealthier life.

Please we could start in California: More housing supply, Let the best developer win and scale, normalize old building tear downs.
It's worse than that; many times the principle is: known evils are better than unknown angels.
I see it on Firefox, not on Chrome (am on Linux). Very obvious, hard to miss.
Models of Consciousness 2022 (MoC3)
> combine the different focus levels to produce one fully in-focus picture.

That's not the novel. part. Everyone's phone and DSLR with focus stacking does this.

The novel part is achieving a deeper range of depth of field.
Radical agenda like... being able to safely receive healthcare? Being safe from violence? Being able to grow into a happy and successful human being?

Ah, but yes, you're right, that's preposterous.
B2 to Cloudflare also does not incur egress fees: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-part...

Backblaze B2 customers will be able to download data stored in B2 to Cloudflare for zero transfer fees. This happens automatically once Cloudflare is configured to distribute your B2 files.
I used to let a flat through a property management company; 6-month lets. It turned out they were using AirBnB as an advertising platform.
He didn't pack the court. He got 3 judges in 4 years because he was lucky.

* One because the elected Republicans fought to deny Obama the nomination

* One because an existing Republican judge died

* And one because a Democratic judge was selfish enough to not quit ahead despite first having cancer in 1999.
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I exercise about 4x/week, and work remotely. If I owned a home + some barbells, I would space out my schedule to take 2-hour lunches, and get a workout over the lunch break. This would give me enough time to do meaningful exercise, clean myself up, and microwave my prepped lunch for when I sat down again.

I also expect 90% of people to find that whole idea strange or unreasonable.

Fitness comes down to finding some physical activity that you enjoy, or can comfortably perform multiple times per week. I like big, 'chunky' barbell work, such as deadlifts and overhead presses, but used to solely do cardio. Some people like rock climbing, or hiking, or biking. So long as it's a physical activity, it's likely able to be counted as some kind of fitness or exercise.

If you only have the energy for fitness/exercise 1x or 2x a week, then that's all you need to start with. It won't do very much, but is a great starting point for building a stronger habit without overloading yourself.

You don't need to answer these to me, but if you end up going forward with fitness, you'll probably have to answer them for yourself:

What kind of physical activities do you enjoy? Do you have any fitness goals? Are there any weird aches or pains you have that might be lessened with regular exercise? How many sessions are you willing to commit to in a week? Are you willing to follow a healthier diet?
I don’t feel underpaid. But I do feel undervalued.

I have bemusedly imagined a future discussion where when a prospective employer asks what salary I’m hoping to make I say the following:

“We’ll, that’s an interesting question. I want you to pay me X or 1.2X. If you’ll point me towards value and let me contribute towards that, and act like you trust me and include me in decision making processes, in short some form of equanimity, I’ll do this job excitedly for X. But if you’re going to treat me like a horse, micromanage me, overprocess me, basically devalue me, then that is going to cost you an extra 20%.”
> Markdoc uses a fully declarative approach to composition and flow control, where MDX relies on JavaScript and React.

This doesn't make sense to me? React is also a "fully declarative approach to composition and flow control".

> content can quickly become as complex as regular code

Okay, but has that actually happened in practice?
> Utopian thinking has always, and will always, lead to disaster. There will never be a 'perfect' world for humanity, we have enough historic evidence to show how foolhardy it is to try.

Two responses to this:

1) Please don’t communicate in absolutes (always, never, etc); you’re speaking for yourself only and I don’t share your limited imagination. Attempts to set arbitrary axioms like this is a dialog-shutdown tactic and I don’t share your perspective.

2) Perhaps you’ve intuited this, but you didn’t respond to my actual argument (that the GP is arguing in favor of the status quo); so instead you have to invent a straw man where I’m an idealist with his head in the clouds, so that you can have something you’re qualified to respond to. Congratulations!

> On the other hand, optimizing for a better balance than we have currently is possible.

Why say this if you’re going to spend the rest of your post talking about how any change to adjust the status quo will be undermined by “global elites” (your phrase, not mine)? I’m not sure you’re actually interested in this beyond a rhetorical feint.

You’re making the same argument as GP, know you have nothing new to share, yet still insist on browbeating anyone who points out the system isn’t producing good outcomes.

> The fact that we have interconnected most of the world in the way that we have means that any disruptions to the system are global and everyone suffers.

How convenient! Spoken like an ant, excited to watch the grasshopper starve.
Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated
They are predators, they are usually eyeing the conversion of these loans into assets (which will be bought cheaply) once the country defaults.

> and charged my country interest ON THE AVAILABLE FUNDS

That's actually fair. The problem is that many countries lack the capacity to satisfy the conditions and requirements for unlocking such funds. My understanding (and you can correct me if you have more accurate fact), is that the WB pass this interest to the relevant country rather than charge it for profit. Since the money was allocated by the institutions, they expect yield whether it is deployed or not. Obviously, the WB is not going to bear that cost.
this story resonated a lot with me. Have been in States for a decade and still waiting on GC.

However, throttling(7% quota) based on country of birth appears to be a bad proxy for diversity as India is a very diverse nation with rich cultural and linguistic distinctions. Designing a new immigration system would be a reduction problem from the existing one but we have seen successful implementations in other countries such as Canada and EU (albeit with their own set of problems)
I really enjoyed Lisp and Scheme while in college, but I never got to use them professionally.

I think we would be better off having core business rules in one of these languages instead of having to rewrite them every decade or so in the current fashionable language.
It seems you can no longer directly short on Coinbase but they still offer options contracts that let you bet the price will go down.
"did they actually ask what your favorite language was?"

Honestly, I don't remember. This was quite a few years ago, and at this point I don't remember whether they asked -- probably not -- or whether I just blurted it out, because I love Scheme.

What I most remember is the slap in the face I got in response to sharing with them something that I loved, the awful whiteboarding session, and that same interviewer walking out without saying anything.
I don't understand what you mean by unusable. I just went to Airbnb.ca, typed in a postal code in the very big entry form at the top, chose the next two nights and immediately received relevant results.
There should be no need to wait for permission to ask pertinent questions.

The interview process should be a conversation, not an interrogation.

If it isn't, I probably don't want to work there.
Esp. Check out Th. 2:30-3: "A Theory of Unsupervised Machine Translation with Application to Understanding Whale Communication. Adam Kalai (Microsoft Research)"
I went through the same process as this man, so I am speaking from experience.

The actual impact to my life was negligible, as all of the actual work was done by immigration lawyers. The only thing I had to do was submitting some info to the attorneys, a biometrics appointment and a short interview. And paying fees, and presenting a vaccination record.

And the system is at capacity because there are long waiting times, which is the definition of a saturated system. And this is public, published information.

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

If the guy has anxiety and checks the case status every 1 minute, there are good solutions for that, all of which have nothing to do with the immigration system.
Recent developments around the Qatar World Cup and various other scandals have toxified the brand

https://www.ft.com/content/dd1d016f-5263-4161-bb4b-af7968abd...
Sigh, I tried to follow what US Government was doing about this and eventually gave up but here is a short history:

S.386 was introduced in the Senate by Mike Lee in 2019 [1]

There was a unanimous consent on it in 2021 [2] but the bill expired (?) because Dick Durbin, senator from IL wont table it (I dont clearly understand the process in the Senate but some people who follow this had expressed anger at Durbin for not doing anything - https://www.durbinisracist.com/)

It was reintroduced in Congress as Eagle Act [3] but its been stalled ever since. It ironic that people think Democrats want open borders while the same Democrats could not even pass a sane bill for legal immigration (especially for immigrants who contribute a whole lot to the US) with their majorities while immigration was a top agenda for President Biden. Not to mention all the big tech companies with big lobbies cant get this move at all.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/386...
[2] https://cis.org/Vaughan/Senate-S386-HR1044-Country-Cap
[3] https://eagleact.info
I haven't heard of MDX before, but this looks fantastic. The API looks more intuitive than Markdoc. https://mdxjs.com/ for anyone else wanting to learn more.
So many people will fit here :D
It doesn't. He explains in the comments that he had long misunderstood this phrase. This is the first time that his misuse was noticed and corrected.
That's not true, every major city in the US is experiencing a major housing shortage. Not building enough units to keep up with demand can hardly be called a massive boom.
coinbase has the decryption keys to the wallet, so they have full control over the currency.

users of coinbase never "owned" or "have" anything. You gave money to coinbase, they have the money now.

If you had the decryption key offline, then you could control the cryptocurrency.

this is cryptocurrency 101 - the very basic nature of the blockchain itself guarantees whoever has the key to have ultimate control.

Coinbase is not a bank, they don't have to give you anything.
This isn't true. Most major metros are experiencing a serious housing crisis right now. We see similar problems to SF here in Somerville and Cambridge, albeit to a lesser degree. There's certainly not enough being built to keep pace with demand. The suburbs around us are even worse.
The lack of focal blur prevents depth perception, and the objects don't have "natural scale" clues (like a human or a car) so the photo looks like a flat 2-D collage.
Unfortunately you are incorrect even though I wish you were right.

"Of the 22 states with abortion bans that will instantly take effect if the landmark Supreme Court ruling is overturned, 10 have passed laws that make no exceptions for rape or incest: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas."

https://news.yahoo.com/some-republican-states-set-to-ban-abo...

Proposed bill in Louisiana: Get an abortion get charged with homicide.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/05/louisiana...
> The radicalization of my father

I'm pretty sure he thinks the same of you.
It's a random process.

If you set the bar 2 std. div. above what you need, you are hiring qualified people with a p value of 5%. You're rejecting /most/ qualified people too.

Most people underestimate how random the process is. There are a few ways in:

- Be 2 std. div above the qualifications

- Apply to many places and pick the one where you're lucky

- Give another, less noisy source of signal than resume + interview (e.g. networking into a company, consulting, references, major open source contributions, etc.)

I wouldn't get my current job if I randomly applied right now. I happened to do well on an interview process which wasn't well-aligned to my background. That was a fluke. I was probably the most-qualified candidate, but if I didn't have a lucky day, I don't think an interview would have shown that.

Last hiring cycle, I was also rejected several places where I am pretty sure I was better than the candidate who was hired too. If you make this about you, you'll feel horrible. If you understand the huge random factor, you'll do much better.

(Disclaimer: I have specialized skills, so my interview process isn't a typical SWE interview process).
Don't trust any company that sells "Swiss neutrality" in the name of security. Mitto AG is the 21st century Crypto AG, who sold secure phones to almost all countries, so that the five eyes can spy on diplomatic communications.
Incidentally, did you know that PowerShell on Linux respects the XDG specification? It was rather unexpected when I first noticed it and it just tickles me pink.
> but Bitcoin failed at that

what makes you say that? I use bitcoin to conduct private transactions regularly and its pretty darn solid for that purpose. Doing such a transaction over the internet, before bitcoin, required you to use permissioned rails.
How much time do you imagine this consumes? You seem to be bringing a lot of weird ideas and assumptions to something pretty small.
Did the other interviewers in the room continue on without saying anything either?

That's so strange. I'm not sure how I would have reacted to that but I don't think it would have been very kind. I like having a few good high-brow, back-handed slaps to throw around when I need to put rude people back in line. But walking out laughing? That's so surreal I feel like I would have simply done the same. I imagine it would've seemed a very chaotic scene to those remaining.
If you have friends in each of these categories who are skilled, I’ll interview them. Job is onsite in San Francisco. Interview is leetcode style plus software design.

Since it isn’t based primarily on past experience, it won’t matter that they haven’t had opportunity if they do have the skills.

I’m in HFT. Only hire people I’d consider capable and I’m comfortable with our interview process. If they knock the interview off the hook they’ll be in. Let me know.
That's why companies try and sell you their brand and/or their ecosystem as well as their product.

Arguably one of the best at doing this is Apple. A similar product exists and has cheaper options (various Android flavors) but people prefer their green text bubbles and status symbol brand effect.
There's a great description of why people buy these things by DeMesquita and Smith in their dictator's handbook, where instead of just conspicuous consumption, the status signal is more for political survival. The idea is that if you have a position, there are people who keep you there because you return rewards to them, and when you stop, they will find a way to replace you. Spending (arguably, sacrificing) money on status symbols indicates your ability to continue to deliver those rewards to your essential coalition.

If you can sacrifice $100k on a handbag or a watch, you're probably doing well, but if you're still wearing it 18-24mos later, are you still doing as well? As an essential coalition member how can I trust you're still going to be able to deliver what I need so that I keep you there?

If I am a prince, I can't tell you that I just made a deal with the americans for several billion in oil or give away details of what I do for the money I pay you because that's not strategic, but I can drop $50m on a new plane or make a splash at an art auction to demonstrate I'm still a going concern and your interests are secured. This isn't just ego, it is survival.

It works at a small scale as well, where if you are a local gangster, you splash out on jewelry, bottle service, and car rims. If you're an i-banker, you keep up with the joneses with places in the hamptons, or if you have a family office, palm beach. Where it gets weird is in US politics, you don't spend money to signal, instead, you do illegal things with impunity to demonstrate power. It's cheaper, but also more dangerous. If you are in media, publicly lying to sustain narrative is a similar signal, which is why mainstream media personalities can seem so dim, but they're playing the same game. (Alternative media people haven't figured out there's a game at all.)

In that theory, whether it's a birkin bag or bullshit, the status isn't the end itself, it's the political survival that the status enables that drives it. These fake bags are for people pretending to play a game they don't understand.
This echoes the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" saying.