skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use case apparently is for sharing some memory region between thousands of processes, which has a lot of overhead because each process would normally need its own PTEs which add up. I agree this is really weird though, if you want thousands of things sharing the same memory region it would make more sense to me to just use threads.
Class action lawsuits filed against Terra founders after crypto collapse
Hi there, founder of Classpert here

In addition to this thread, here are some ways you could learn more about us:

a) If you're an author you could directly reach out to our instructors. Their social media and contact information are visible and easily accessible on the course page

b) If you're a potential student, you could try reaching out to some of our students. We usually display their avatars along with their usernames on the course page. I believe that a quick search on the internet using their usernames would lead to their contact or social network profiles

c) If you're a potential hire, you could try looking up folks currently working at Classpert on Linkedin

Finally, if you want to take a glimpse on how the course works you could email me at fj@classpert.com and I'd be happy to give you access to our next production: "Building a Programming Language"
Indeed, this is how humans have lived for their entire history, up until extremely recently.

Our brains are not wired for it
One obstacle is that we've all been trained that domain-specific search engines suck. Like Wikipedia search gives bad results unless you know the exact name of the article, so I just use DDG adding the word wikipedia.

Another obstacle is that the searches Google does worst on are for heavily promoted topics. What company would give you an unbiased answer to "are NFTs good?"
Five lessons for beginners I learned after five years in the industry
haha, it was scrubbed maybe 10 years ago.
What do you mean, so what? Have you not read the article under discussion?
Similar experience in some companies in my CV. Billing systems aren't fun to maintain, develop nor debug. They take a non-trivial amount of time when done wrong and if you are building one in-house you'll inevitably run into some mistake.

Buy a billing system, it'll save engineering hours having to deal with it and if you choose right they'll scale with your company.
"Ignoring the creepiness of taking a picture of someone without their consent"
In a public setting consent is not needed for photos.
What are some examples of web3 products/solutions that are better served on web3 than traditional methods?
My guess is FB, be overly cautious, probably had their algorithm/filters allow false positives but not false negatives. Or at least minimize false negatives as much as possible. Unless there are other issues, I'm sure if you somehow got in touch with them, they will allow the site. Or just don't use facebook if at all possible.
> Lots of startups' "business model"

and what is the share of startups in Ad tech comparing to behemoths like Walmart etc?
You’re thinking about average throughput, while these cables need to be provisioned for max throughput, which can be completely different.

Having said that, cloud bandwidth is indeed overpriced; but at the same time, given that Google Cloud is still burning money, can it perhaps be argued that bandwidth is one of the money makers that allow for other services to be free?

I recall that from the old webhosting days, this was already a common tactic of the providers: lure people in with cheap servers, sometimes even at a loss, and earn money back with bandwidth.
> Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, a positive case report on the app had to be backed by a PCR result, which required a code provided on a positive PCR test. A bad actor as you describe would have only one shot at a malicious shut down (and would actually need to be Covid+ to do it).

All they had to do was do a test, type in the code and say it was positive, this is my point about the NHS app could have also required a photo of the positive test result but it didnt! I was poking around with it, and you could trigger the mobile app into telling you to self isolate simply by having one or two of the leading question symptoms, it was that "cautious".

So if earlier that day I spent my time around loads of people like in a shopping centre, on a military base, in a police station, I could get those people to self isolate by being in their vicinity and the app doing the rest, if they had that app, but the US Military bases here in the UK were doing their own US testing and where it was only a suspicion, they got US personnel to do an NHS test in order to keep the brits happy and the NHS happy. In actual fact Covid was ripping through some RAF USAF bases and the US mil were soiling their pants at how many active personnel were going down, what a way to take out the most powerful military on this planet!

Now it just so happened, you could also reset the app without any problem so you could rinse and repeat the next day!

> ...but shop keepers, retail staff et al by and large did not have the app. Employers were actively preventing their employees from downloading the application to prevent having to close for staff shortages while they were advised to isolate.

That would have been illegal in the UK, cant comment on how bad the US is.

> Hanlon's Razor

Yeah, if you are caught with your hands in the till put it down to Hanlon's Razor and say you found some money on the floor and you were putting it back! LOL

Looking at this globally, its fcuked the Just In Time global business sectors as we have seen with shortages et al and continue to see.
Will ping you asap!
> One well-known consequence of the rider subsidy is the decline in public transit. One study estimates the arrival of Uber and Lyft in a city decreases rail ridership by 1.29 percent and bus ridership by 1.7 percent each year. In San Francisco, where Uber was founded, the authors estimate Uber has decreased bus ridership by 12.7 percent.

There's something the author is ignoring here: public safety. In the Bay Area it's apparently a policy not to report crimes anymore [0]. Maybe decreasing ridership numbers has something to do with it.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-withholding-s...
I'd say the one you know ?
For me it's react and firebase.
Dont forget price changes. Gotta deal with that. Then discounts, trials, weird durations, and a bunch of other shit I forget.

My advice for anybody thinking of building their own subscription management system is to stop and go look at something like Zuora. You do NOT want to get stuck maintaining some home grown subscription management system--it will never be better than Zuora and you'll always be playing catchup, leaving your company unable to quickly react to the market. All the time spent adding functionality you can buy from a third party is money that you could have invested in your actual product. And worse, the fact you couldn't quickly react to the market because some key feature was missing in your homebrew thing is literally leaving money on the table.
The distinction was slightly more subtle -- "slice-wise" was a storage mode for data in which a 32-bit float would be stored as one bit in the memory of 32 processors, so the "transposers" could be bypassed going in and out. It was supported by the Fortran compiler and by a microcode-like internal layer called "CMIS" (which was, I think, available to at least some customers -- I worked there).

Code in other languages still used the FPUs, if available -- but they paid the "transpose in, transpose out" overhead on every operation.
The example is the way that the dominance of Google changed the web.

It's "manipulate the results", by way of "be careful what you wish for" - if there's money to be made in pandering to a search engines whims, then that will happen at scale and that content will swamp the good stuff that you wanted in the first place.
Nit: there's a lot of noise being made in comments about it being an open source product, but I haven't found the source (maybe I have to speak to an expert to get it?). github.com/getlago has the docs, which is nice (and gives a lot more info than is available on the website about how the product works), but not quite the same.

Also note:

> Our open-core version is forever free. We will introduce paying add-ons in the future, with a consumption-based approach.
Yes. And the M1 Ultra has even more memory bandwidth than the M1 Max. But a 128 GB system made of 3 NVidia A6000 has 3x768Gb/s of memory bandwidth, a more common AI-grade card has 2x2Tb/s of memory bandwidth, which simply dwarfs the M1 Ultra.
Exactly. They are loaded, especially from farm subsidies. On paper they are super rich. We should cut off their water, force them to pay taxes on their still operating farms, and sprinkle salt all over the land. California should shoot down the water desalination projects (like it has for 20 years) and punish it's citizenry.
I have to admit, I'm torn on whether or not we should have copyright / patent / etc. laws or not (and what their exact nature should be if so).

But I do feel pretty strongly that IF we have those things, the time spans should be severely limited. I don't think I personally, for example, would support copyright for any duration beyond the life of the author / creator.
Yeah I can agree. I made custom integration with Chartmogul and it was a nightmare. But we did it! And now I feel like real engineer
I stated a detailed reason why I think playing a game with 35 ping without rollback would be “playable”. If you would like to explain technically why it would not be playable I am willing to listen and learn, but posting some low effort Reddit-esque reply does not bring any value to this conversation.
Not for usual apps, but iOS for iPhone might need to know. USB is a fairly complex standard to implement correctly and now Apple tries to bring this to billions rather than millions. So the bar is much higher.
There's no exact rule but I'd say 12 to 16 months is a good time to expect some sort of positive trend. I don't do any of that MVP stuff and go full-blown right away because user expecations are high and I'm too old to get pleasure from starting something out of a notion-hosted website. Cash-wise I try to keep it under 20k - keeping in mind that I don't do physical projects and all by myself (no freelancers, contractors, etc).
It’s a bit pedantic to be honest. Multiple times it’s been pointed out on this thread that the OP was referring to total comp so I’m not sure why this keeps being brought up.

While equity in a public company can go down and go down significantly it’s liquid. Especially in companies like coinbase that don’t have a 1 year cliff, are public, it’s a significant part of your comp and not funny money like you get in many early stage companies.
I still think it’s a correction if you factor that since 2020 the S&P500 has had astronomical growth . If we see pre-pandemic levels it’s still a correction. If it drops below that then we are in for a rough ride.
While Serverless does address some of the points which were the design goals of Erlang, it doesn't address them all. In no particular order:

Hardware interaction is more or less non-existent in the world of Serverless.

Timing/Latency is not really controllable. It's at the whim of your provider.

FaaS doesn't support very large systems well. It's far more about scaling down than up.

Erlang is functional for a reason: it minimizes faults. Quality follows.

Complex feature interaction is limited in the stateless serverless world.

Cloud providers tend to solve for a different set of problems, which is fine. But I'm going to claim that many of the things Erlang was designed to solve runs dual to the problems in the cloud space.
I read the article twice and I counted just one solid description of a scientific finding:

> Looking at the two scores together, they accounted for about 1.6% of variation in total brain volume, a finding that had been seen previously.
A few hundred dollars?

Put it on Schedule 1 line 8z and work on making it a few thousand dollars for next time!

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s1.pdf
Pros:

- It does what it says, a document database with multi-primary/master nodes, which is good and rare.

- It has been relatively reliable over the years for my previous company, while running on very "beta" managed Azure AKS cluster. CouchDB has been the most reliable component of the stack, together with RabbitMQ (both are using Erlang but it may be coincidence).

- The community is not huge but friendly and helpful. Once a coworker corrupted a test database (it involved network volumes on AKS on Azure), and the community helped me retrieving most of the data because some people put important data in a test database.

- It improves slowly but surely over the years. The background indexing has been a huge improvement for example.

Cons:

- It's not very fast, especially on VMs with network volumes.

- Indexing takes a while, so migrations can take a very long time when you transfer the data.

- The indexes uses a lot of ram, by design.

- The community is small, so sometimes you have to send a pull-request or two.

- Complex queries is not its strong side. The query optimiser will default to a large scan in most cases if you are not careful to use your indexes correctly.

- When you have an issue or a question, not many people got it before you.

I left the company but last time I talked with the CTO, they were happy with CouchDB and they didn't want to migrate to something else. But I think the requirements (resilient multi-primary document database) where not necessary after all, and the company would most likely use PostGreSQL if they had to redo everything now that they know the actual requirements (a database with relations, transactions, fast complex queries, and a failover is enough).
> You might be sending a truckload of expensive accounting papers to your customer every month, one per transaction. And each of those pages was printed using government prescribed software from oddball vendors you must use or else.

I guess that's good for employment numbers? There's really two ways to create jobs, innovate or regulate. The US and the EU have apparently chosen very different paths. With every country having it's own special snowflakes laws, there's a reason EU founders always try to come to the US first.
I'm aware that Japanese lolicon in anime, manga, video games, and other contexts, is at least ... problematic ... in numerous areas. Several online sites have banned it, and on Mastodon and the Fediverse, there are often peer-level blocks against sites in which lolicon is permitted.

Then name itself is a portmanteau of Lolita complex, after the Nabokov novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon#Legality_and_censorshi...
This seems like it belongs squarely on Reddit, particularly the r/antiwork subreddit.
It is an embarrassing bit of corpspeak, to be sure, but can you please not fulminate on HN? It makes conversations less insightful and more predictable, which is why there's a site guideline against it.

You can make your substantive points without that; please do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Development apps are exempt from the requirement. (They are also limited to 100 accounts)
S.B.F.’s $12M Long Shot
Isn't 150 like a tiny amount?
Ok, well it has been available for zero books I've read on Kindle, and 100% of books I've read on moon reader. Whatever the challenge might be, other people have figured it out and Amazon hasn't. It's embarrassing.
It being creepy and legally needing consent are not the same thing. Consent is what makes it not creepy.

Just because it may be legal, doesn't mean it isn't creepy for someone to take a picture of a random other person.
Neural correlates in a post-mortem Atlantic Salmon (2009) [pdf]
Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried lost big on Tuesday despite airdropping a historic sum into a congressional race in Oregon. What was he thinking? The logic, the math, and the aftermath.
Hacker News has this surprising tendency to cling to the past.

People here are nitpicking over the definition of the Turing test. What actually matters here is that, if not already now, but certainly in 1-5 years neural nets will most certainly be good as the 99th percentile artist.

Does that mean AGI is here? Probably not. But we are missing the forest for the trees.
This has worked well for me when I need something more visual than what the console offers.
Yes, this is a big thing - there needs to be a clear model of how variable pricing and discounts are going to work in this company, with the sales team being able to apply the actual amounts of any prices and discounts, but not arbitrarily changing the model.

It doesn't work when the model is too simple or restrictive, which will simply result in the model being violated; you do need at least the ability to customize pricing for individual customers, and for specific invoices, but other than that the decisions (e.g. whether you apply invoice discounts as percentages or specific amount or both) can vary but you just need to pick any reasonable option and stick with it.
It's too late to edit, so I'll rewrite it here for you

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Example 1:

> printcon-ml git:(master) # show the date the file fastai_main.py was first added to the repo

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> git log --diff-filter=A --follow --format="%ad" --date=short -- fastai_main.py

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Example 2:

> printcon-ml git:(master) # show the commit before the 2021-12-04

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> git log --before=2021-12-04

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Example 3:

> printcon-ml git:(develop) # show all git branches and their creation dates

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> git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(refname:short), %(committerdate:short)' refs/heads/ develop, 2022-04-28 multiprocessing_manager, 2022-04-28 master, 2022-01-11 plotting_upgrade, 2022-01-04 image_samples, 2022-01-03 label_output, 2021-10-12 percentages_output, 2021-08-10 add_model_argument, 2021-08-10 model_9, 2021-08-05 model_7, 2021-08-05*
In fairness if the best example of a question that proponents for this can come up with is “What do NFT collectors think about NFTs?” it’s not obvious it’s worth solving for in the first place.
I think it's easier for billing systems to have 1 subscription for 1 customer. The reason behind this is mainly because you can apply several prices to the same feature belonging to two different subscriptions. Stripe does not work on it because they might consider this as a edge case.

When you look at usage-based billing, even if a billed feature is linked to consumption, it needs to be related to a subscription given the fact that this feature can be priced differently for several plans. Every company has a singular pricing model in mind and it's hard to have an all-in-one model fitting all the needs.
Even when we built internally the whole system for a fintech back in 2016, we had some edgecases creating conflict inside the company.
Anyone have (a link to) equivalent advice for transitioning into product management?
This is specifically for usage in print, so it's possible that's right for some definition of "print". Here's an example from Pitch Perfect (2012) though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZfPi-DJso
What is there to fine-tune, in a program like Logic? I've often heard that word associated with using extended instruction sets and leveraging accelerators, but where would the M1 have "untapped power" so-to-speak? I don't think the "upgrade" from a CISC architecture to a RISC one can yield much opportunity for optimization, at least not besides what the compiler already does for you.
This already exist with the `with` expression, no?
Maybe we should've shut down liquor stores during the pandemic.
Ok so I'm speaking from personal experience and network.

The point is that 3-4 years tenure is enough for significant appreciation in equity, especially in the earlier grants. Let's work an example, for someone who started 3 years ago.

- May 2019. -

Base: $225K.

Equity: $880K grant = 785sh @ 1120/share = 220K.

Bonus: $60K.

Total: $500K.

- May 2020. -

Base: $236K.

Equity: 196sh @ 1428/share = 280K.

Equity: $220K grant = 154sh @ 1428/share = 55K.

Bonus: $63K.

Total: $634K.

- May 2021. -

Base: $247K.

Equity: 196sh @ 2411/share = 473K.

Equity: 39sh @ 2411/share = 94K.

Equity: $220K grant = 91sh @ 2411/share = 55K.

Bonus: $66K.

Total: $935K.

Trust me, if they've been there for 3-4 years, they're making more than 1M in total comp. If you back my example out to someone who started in 2018, those refreshers easily push them into 1.2-1.4M, and factor in promo grants?
replayed this vid for 10 times, thanks
Ways to Identify Your Ideal Audience
Totally accurate and valuable information based on people in my network.

You can make a lot of money working as a staff engineer at a top tier company.
That's horrendous. I am surprised that a university would advise their students to do that.

What exactly do they think is the intellectual value of rearranging words and substituting synonyms? Calling that synthesis and summation is like pushing bricks around in a circle and calling it construction.
I agree. Seems it had a good run. I still remember the fairly long discussions of whether to make the public API C or C++. Fun times. :)
> and install it manually.

But how would you do that? Firefox 'opening' an APK is obviously also able to update itself.
the entire point of large scale technological literacy is to replace the tech sector. no web app you write is going to be more useful to an organization than an administrative staff that just knows SQL and can use it on the fly for queries, reports, and analysis. software developers are working against the tide: think about how much simpler dev tools are than user tools. as users become more sophisticated then you expect them to need simpler rather than more complex tools.
> They are 50% faster

No, pretty sure light still travels through them at C. What they can do is carry more data, largely by having lower error rates.
This seems a super-cynical take. Some people are smiley and happy naturally. You might pick them to be in a video.
Taiwan's value, Brexit's wins, and Apple's VR (2021)
They sure were! No need to read the rest of the comment!
candid unrehearsed interviews
Yeah, this is the obverse of why I don't go to the US. I know the guy upthread was smarmily pushing the "oh, it's just because you CAN'T get a visa / get a job / figure out how the fuck you're meant to apply for an ESTA / etc" line, but it's not really that. I'm at the not-literally-top-percentile-but-very-very-close mark in London, and I'm confident I'd be paid commensurately in the US. But the healthcare situation is an absolute, hard no.

I don't care if I get private insurance in the States. I get private insurance here too, and I even use it now and again. But I care about knowing that, no matter what happens to me, ever, I won't be saddled with a life-ruining debt that wipes out what I've gained. Not without my consenting to borrow such an amount.

I'm not interested in playing snakes and ladders. I'm not interested in the equivalent of someone selling me a mortgage without my knowledge in my sleep (and with no house at the end of it). And I know that insurers - unlike the UK govt - are in the business of avoiding making payouts[0].

(That's the main thing, at least, by far. Then the salary-erasing real estate costs, in all the places where those endlessly-quoted salary figures are from, make me not-particularly-sad that I ruled it out.)

[0] I'm not imputing dishonesty. I'm just saying their literal business model is maximise premiums, minimise claims.
Yeah, this is tough because when the VP of Sales knows that one particular change will close the deal, they're going to push for it no matter what the cost. In reality it may be better from a big picture perspective to give a concession that is actually better for the customer and worse for the company than x as it relates to that particular deal, because the larger concession fits within the current billing system with no custom work, so the overall cost to the business is less.