skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the lack of certain things would be an indicator. No home phone. No phone books. No physical maps. Less likely to have a dictionary or other books. Fewer newspapers and magazines.
The very first StreetView was a relatively slow-paced one-two hour tape with Larry, Marissa, Schwim (I think) and a fourth (?) person driving around town in 2000 or 2001. Larry then took the tape to Stanford and a while later the project got funded by Google. Source: I saw the footage years ago. If the project hadn't became what it became, the VHS video would have been a truly unremarkable one like millions of others before and after it.
HN members are typically smart... How do we stop this kind of thing? Please don’t say gun laws, there are plenty of those.
It’s a pretty wide range. For juniors just out of college, I think we’re near 80-100, I’m at a principal level and am close to 200. We’re looking mostly for junior to mid. We’re a bit top heavy right now. It’s not SV levels plus equity like they get, but we don’t have unlimited budgets like the FAANGs. The owners just take a normal salary and all of the profits go to the employees as year end bonuses. So it’s pretty fair, I think.
>This looks like a non-hotswappable board with proprietary switches, and it's still tied to Logitech's wireless dongles (which are notoriously bad about both causing and being super-sensitive to 2.4Ghz-spectrum interference).

I like my logitech mouse, but for the desktop I built, I had to buy and extension USB cable to keep the dongle far enough away from the machine to get the mouse to work without glitching.
Crypto currency has my trust. Just like when Mt Got got hacked and crypto dropped in price, the fundamentals are still there. Luna and tether's fundamentals are distinct from proof of work crypto currency.
This is just like 5th+ major crypto dip in 10 years or so, we just need to wait for bad investments and over-leveraged investors to clear out.
Stripe has an excellent guide on this. https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/saas-pricing
Biggest difference between now at 2000 is companies have real customers and revenue. 2000 was a completely different beast and conditions that set that off aren't anywhere close. Doesn't mean it can't get bad but 2000 is not the place to look for a playbook.
Is there a YC response to this?
I think they’re just using their standard nodes running a managed db on there, so look at their prices and specs for the standard linodes and you’ll get close. That is how they do k8s cluster pricing, they just add the nodes up cost wise then add a premium for the managed service.
it says "Thomas Ptacek" is author though?

only further confirms my assumption that tptacek has an army of clones
There are other options to solve this problem but the US is unwilling. So instead we have blogposts about bullet proofing childrens school supplies.
Lambda is fundamentally message oriented, you send an invoke request, lambda will either route the request to an existing warm instance, or will boot a new instance, it processes the request, then once the request is processed it will suspend itself.

Fly VM's are just VM's that can start quickly.

They don't seem to currently support a request/response based VM lifecycle.

If you wanted to use a fly VM in a lambda-like way, seems like you would need to have some kind of proxy to coordinate the work, ie start the VM via the API, have your VM process start a web server, once it's booted, send it a HTTP request, once the request is finished, shut down the VM via the API.

Also seems like fly can't suspend a running process, your process needs to start up every time you start a fly VM.

Lambda will suspend a VM between requests, keeping the process in memory for a few minutes.

Sending a subsequent request to a warm lambda is much faster then booting a lambda from scratch, particularly for JIT based language runtimes.
Yeah. We can’t compete with the numbers I see the SV folks making. Most of our work is directly billed to the customer so we need reasonable rates if we’re ever going to win bids. We can’t just live off of monopoly-level ad revenue.
> Sex workers, who have long been censored by moderation systems, refer to themselves on TikTok as “accountants”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/08/algospe...
I ran the numbers for fun once, including porn and "sugar baby" and honestly I think it pays terribly. It's probably in the "high waitress tip" range but way below tech. If your only skills are being pretty, your best bet might be ASMR on YouTube.

There's also a lot of marketing needed. It's hard enough to sell SaaS or whatever, how do you sell something that's free in large quantities? If you have marketing skills and are willing to show skin, you could probably make money faster selling submarines.

It's a bit like acting, sports, drug dealing, novels, where a tiny minority make extreme incomes and most lose money on it. Even then, the top extreme of hard and smart workers like Sasha Grey make less money than say, Notch made from Minecraft.
That's the thing though, "looks like" breaks down pretty quickly with things that aren't real images. It even breaks down pretty quickly with things that are real, but maybe not so common, images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI

So one question would be: Does your image generation approach preserve a higher information density than big enough pixels?
AWS had a paper in SOSP on verifying parts of S3

https://assets.amazon.science/07/6c/81bfc2c243249a8b8b65cc21...
Oh look, a gun thread. There must have been another mass shooting in the US. Let's all spend some time together and learn once again why gun violence in the US isn't a problem, it's a solution, and the problem is liberals and leftists wanting to take away people's guns.
On the contrary, it would seem like Cheney was/became rather empathetic to his daughter's situation.
AFAIK Google Maps for Android now supports calibration by using phone camera.
The Guardian's version of the article contains an update correcting a misattribution. The study was published in mBio: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-acr...

Just an FYI for anyone who's interested in tracking down the actual academic paper.
I used to be very gung ho on IPFS, until I learned that the content ID does not depend solely on the content of the file. When one puts a file into the system one can choose different hashing algorithms, which will cause the content ID to be different obviously. However, even when using the same algorithm the content ID will change depending on how it is chunked.
I would expect any sane system to consistently produce the same hash/content ID a file. I can see if the system is moving from using SHA2 to SHA3 that it could be stored twice. Don't know whether they have changed things so that a consistent content ID will be produced or not.
There were claims that Freon was being manufactured in India and sold really cheap.
> Why not have a step between #1 and #2? "Tether immediately sells the BTC for $10"

Yes, why indeed? That's a great question for Tether! If they were holding enough actual cash reserves to cover all the USDT in circulation, there wouldn't be an issue.
Only in very special country with "special" gun laws, those kind of articles would be needed. One could argue that other countries would solve the underlying problems through other approaches than bulletproof backpacks (i.e. change laws).
I really don't know that much either. I just took up a little bit of gardening last year. I just learned all of that from a few short videos on YouTube. I'm sure we'll both learn more given time. Best of luck.
The other benefit is that all of the AoPS books have extremely complete solutions manuals so you'll get immediate feedback on the quality of your solution, or you can just look if you've been banging your head against something for a while.

Solutions manuals are the autodidact's best friend.

Other high quality books with complete solutions included or in separate solutions manuals include Spivak's Calculus, Hubbard and Hubbard's Vector Calculus, Tenenbaum and Pollard's Ordinary Differential Equations (a really cheap Dover text from the 60s!), and Knuth et. al's Concrete Mathematics.

Going through the AoPS books and the above will give you an extremely solid foundation to learn any further math you might need as a software engineer as needed.

If you have a career spanning 3-4 decades, spending a few years mastering this material can be extremely useful.
It’s coming up to June when MSFT does yearly planning and determining headcount so expect to hear nothing back or that they are in a holding pattern.

This happened to me last year and after asking around happens every year.
I’d like to. I’m always caught off guard when the Who’s hiring comes around and most of our HR dept isn’t on HN to make a post. I need to make a throwaway some time and post an ad here (not looking to tie my account to real life right now)
"A luxury afforded to billionaires is that they don’t have to fade away no matter how spectacularly they fail, and Adam Neumann, who both co-founded and was exiled from running WeWork, is a prime example."

This is phrased as a put down but the way I see it we should all be as lucky and fail like Neumann. I wish I were a failed billionaire like him. Instead I'm a "successful" web developer that works for someone else to make sure I can pay my bills.

Ok, I'm ready to fail. Where do I go? :)
I don't understand how what you are describing can also be minimalist.

It's some kind of aesthetic, but people used to do fine without digital maps or messaging.
If HN members are so smart, why don't they admit that taking laws written 200 years ago as gospel is fundamentally broken?
I know some prominent HN users work for fly.io, and they seem to be doing some interesting work, but the absolutely glowing response that every blog post gets here on HN seems a bit nepotistic.
The most likely outcome is that the bacteria would be outcompeted by wildtype strains and fail to metabolize very much in the immediate term.

It's more likely we'd see this type of microbe used in a bioreactor style setup where plastic slurry and growth medium are fed in for decomposition.
Reminds me of the movie Contact where the alien civilization encodes the whole design of a traveling machine inside Olympic telecast video.
Paraphrasing title, bugs are evolving faster than humans… :-\
"Is Bulletproofing My Backpack Right for Me?

Do you feel safe while you’re out?

Do you feel safe in your neighborhood?

...

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, consider investing in backpack armor. "

So... If I feel safe I need backpack armor? Seems backwards. Also, wouldn't this be heavy?
It's a good point, but it's also why I was specific about it being an issue with the ecosystem, encompassing their apps.
That is really interesting. I wonder if there were any other interesting uses of paid programming to solve problems like these around that time?
You can be sure the manager DID tell the story like that and got a even bigger bonus. That's how you get promoted even higher up the corporate ladder
Stupendous remark.

I'm old enough to have lived in a cash society. We got paid in cash and paid for things in cash. You can send cash to others. Without a cap. We didn't own some government an explanation on what we do with our money, as it's none of their damn business. "Guilty by default, prove me that you're not" is to be rejected.

Society had less crime not more. Moreover, things like capital controls do nothing at all. Criminals with half a brain are quite obviously going to work around publicly known limitations.
I must have a serious bug in my writing about this (sorry), because this was never about regex engines -- it's about literals and domain-specific sublanguages in general. Composing DSL programs by string concatenation is such a famous source of security bugs you see it in top-10 lists. I linked to the very similar example of a PEG-parsing DSL.

But any regex engine that can work with a parse tree shows the same principle, e.g. https://edicl.github.io/cl-ppcre/#create-scanner2
When I first starting using AWS a few years ago, having known generally what it was for far longer, I was flabbergasted it was at how slow it was to get an instance booted. I expected much less, thinking about things from first principals, even if you're literally talking about cold booting a physical machine via IPMI. But it seemed like everyone accepted that as the way it was and now I do too. So I'm glad people are still interested in making things fast.

Right now I'm doing Postgres stuff (RDS) and dealing with taking 10+ minutes to boot a fresh instance. I'm tempted to try out fly.io and their Postgres clusters but I'm afraid I'd be spoiled and hate my life after (my job has me stuck in AWS for the interminable future).

I would be interested to know where all that time is being spent in on the AWS side. To be a fly on the wall seeing their full, unfiltered logging and metrics.
Yeah, largely agreed.

But also, what part of any of this shit looks like a well regulated militia? Take all the guns, including the police's, & lock them up.
Might be. I don't particularly care, for myself (I'm done with the rat race), but there's a whole ton of folks that have the job description that may have a hard time of it.

It seems that a lot of software, these days, is "full stack" (SaaS) stuff. The app is really just the frontend. If the frontends get clobbered, the backends are just behind. Basic "food chain" stuff.

UPDATED TO ADD:

I took a peek at your HN profile, and it sounds like you have a background after my own heart (monkeying with hardware).

That's a fairly serious skillset, and not for the faint of heart. I'd say that you may have a better chance than many.
Tether has not survived those investigations.

My model is the same as your model, you're just making assumptions I'm not.
I entered the software job market in 2009 as an intern, start of 2010 as a full timer. All through college people were questioning my choice of major; they viewed CS as a bad bet. I took what I could find starting out, but it hasn't hurt my career.

It may be harder to find something. It likely won't be your dream job right after college. Mind you, you probably wouldn't have gotten that anyway. Don't stress too much about it.
Right, but how many things are actually central to document processing?
A single NAND die is only divided into two or four planes. It's a function of how many copies of the peripheral circuitry for accessing the array are included, not how many layers are in the 3D NAND array. More planes means the die can do more things in parallel (subject to constraints).

A drive with 8 dies each having 512Gbit capacity divided into four planes per die will perform almost as well as one with 16 dies of 256Gbit divided into two planes, other things being equal (eg. number and speed of the channels between the SSD controller and the NAND, page and block sizes and access times, all of which are subject to change at the same time a generational change increases die capacity and number of planes).
During a recession it is common for companies to freeze hiring. Even Google has done it before, from low levels to very very high, it's a very common and fast to implement step. It's a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel, but they often just don't have the information to know whether their revenues will go down, userbase might go down, maybe salaries go down and they don't want to overpay, it's not especially surprising.

This is the time when starting a (slow-burn) company and being in school are big advantages, I think a lot of people go back to grad school during these sometimes. But I think a lot of people were just sort of like... too risky to assume I can get another job so I better stick with what I have. It's a scarcity mindset that favors employers for sure, but it may also be correct during a recession.
Dishwashers use a fraction of the water they used to. It is more water and power efficient to use a dishwasher then to wash dishes by hand. [1]

In all these responses what I'm noticing is people missing the vast gains in efficiency from our appliances over the last few decades: everything we have gives more, and uses less.

[1] https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2008/data/papers/1_1...
They probably didn't have more cash than they claimed during their attestation, though, so it's a reasonable upper bound.
I would be interested in learning why we don’t have Armed guards at schools, the way we do in stadiums, airports, and other large gatherings.
I meant the design of f-strings, not of regexes. I must've written my comment very badly since almost all of these replies seem to take this misinterpretation.

(E did have this concept back in '97, iirc, though yeah I wasn't expecting Guido to have run into it then, that wasn't when I meant.)
You'll only get guesses. If people knew, it would be talked about on the larger stage and implemented.

In my opinion it's most commonly a lack of hope. They don't see things getting better (bullying, social isolation). They don't think they have any chance at a good job/life (turn to crime, commit suicide). There seems to be some supporting evidence in studies that look at socioeconomic factors of violence.

How to fix that is highly debatable. The general points could be people having jobs they feel are meaningful or pay enough, people having a respected part in the community, and people having friends who don't make them feel isolated and hopeless.

Edit: why disagree without a discussion?
Cash, precious metals, value businesses, real estate.
I remember attending a talk by Walter Bright maybe three decades ago, back when he was known for his C++ compiler for Windows, and before that his compilers for DOS. He talked about his very paranoid approach to assertions; in addition to a huge number of asserts for preconditions, he would start out with asserts essentially at every basic block; he'd take them out as he produced tests that reached this point. This was the DOS days and he didn't have a coverage tool, so the presence of an unconditional assert meant that this line hadn't been reached yet in testing.

He said he developed that style because the lack of protection in DOS meant that any error (like a buffer overrun) could trash everything, right down to damaging the machine.

He said that early on those asserts were enabled in the shipping code, making it appear that his compiler was less reliable than competitors when he felt it was the opposite, but I think he wound up having to modify his approach.
Evolution doesn't take millions of years for fast reproducing microbes. Another example is Covid, we've already seen half a dozen evolutions (that we know about) within the past several years.
From skimming the paper, "continuity" seems to be a deceptively strong assumption here, and the claim "this is a physical system so it's continuous" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Unless I'm misunderstanding the example in the first paragraph, "move towards point 1 at a constant pace" can't be represented as a continuous A_t(x) for t above some finite threshold.
I do okay, thanks
+100 for Aiven on managed databases. We moved from AWS Aurora (MySQL) to Aiven years ago because wanted to be on MySQL 8.x (unavailable on AWS at the time). We've been running a 3-node HA cluster using Aiven's control plane with peering int our VPC and it's been solid since 2019--including with auto-failover for MySQL patches that are applied from time to time during the scheduled maintenance window.
We're still hiring at Wefunder! Our platform allows founders an alternative to VC funding, and helps a lot of small companies get started that might otherwise get overlooked.

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Pretty much just have over 5-10 years of experience as a software engineer on LinkedIn. Multiply for tier of company reputation.
How has Ohio (or is that Iowa? I can never keep the two straight) gone 560 days while all of the surrounding states have not?
>had a friend from the first job help me get a job

This is the part of the story that OP needs to key in on.

OP: Network. Network Network Network. I've been at 2 FAANG in 7 years. I don't write code. I make good money. Friends got me jobs both times.

Do whatever you have to do to make friends with people in the industry where you want to work. Go to the bars they hang out in. Go to meet-ups. Go to lectures open to the public. Network on HN.
Obviously, anyone want's to keep making good money :) But if you successfully avoided lifestyle inflation, a drop won't hurt as much and you've probably taken some proper savings from the good years, so the benefits (like earlier retirement) will last.
I'm a big fan of Herstein's exposition. The text is plenty rigorous, without too getting bogged down in formalism, and he also manages to come across as personable and funny in a way that doesn't feel condescending.

The people who update/glue stuff onto the 23rd edition of those 1200-page doorstop undergrad calculus texts would do well to revisit books of that era and learn the difference between "engaging" and "patronizing." That's not a dig at the books not being Spivak or Apostol - there's absolutely a place for that kind of undergrad textbook (though maybe not 1200 pages of it, updated every three years) - but in terms of attempts at being 'relevant' that transparently read as 'Hi, fellow kids!'

I also dig Herstein's problem sets, there's a good breadth of difficulty, and they really elucidate key ideas, or point to other topics not covered in the text. Some of the problems are absolutely wicked, but in a good way. (IIRC, doesn't the introduction say that some are meant more to be attempted than actually solved?)
> If a person is not in a protected class, is regular middle class, doesn’t join the military, what should they do?

Claim to be Wiccan.
XML is a bad text based format. It doesn't know if it wants to be human readable or computer readable so it does both poorly (if you think this vuln is bad, check out some of the saml vulns).

I wouldn't blame xml's silliness on text based formats in general, even if they are full of risks.
Assuming that we know how promises and syscall-triggered context switches work, what’s the important difference?
I am still hiring software engineers at Academia.edu; email me
The iPhone always had multitasking. What it didn’t allow was background processing. When selected again, your app would be suspended and allowed to run again or be launched fresh based on memory pressure.
When you ("you" in this comment is probably most usefully read as "a compiler" :) ) monomorphize a generic function or data structure with the various type parameters that it's been called with, you make a copy of the code for every set of type parameters it's been called with.

Each of these copies requires space for the instructions...this means a larger binary on disk, more memory required when it runs, and more pressure on the CPU's caches, especially precious L1I.

The cache pressure issue is typically the big one worth thinking about, although binary size itself can be an issue for some cases - I've primarily got embedded use cases in mind, but I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of.

Anyway, back to cache pressure. If there are a whole bunch of different monomorphizations of a given function, and they're all called frequently, that could mean that the CPU will frequently need to refer to slower L2$, or much slower L3$ (or much much slower RAM) to load instructions. That's no bueno from a performance standpoint.

Because of this, there are cases when dynamic dispatch can outperform monomorphization - it's definitely not as simple as "vtable slower, monomorphization faster" across the board, even if that is an OK rule of thumb.
Apple Lisa Retro Computer Teardown
"A BIOLOGICAL TIME BOMB?

"In the shaft leading to the [ventilation] grille a mindless, groping mass of malodorous corruption was thrusting its way silently towards the surface. Buoyed up by bubbling foam it steadily rose. Single units in an obscene abrogation of normal order divided and made two. Two became four and four, eight. "

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59