skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DDIA is a good book and I've read it at least 3 times, but there is no substitute for real world experience.

I also think a lot of system design material is oddly positioned in that it caters towards synthetic interview scenarios where you are designing mega scale systems but somehow are also the single person responsible for all of load balancing, CDNs, message queuing, databases etc ...

In the real world it doesn't really work for that way for product engineers.

It's good to know about that stuff but there's lots of other topics that would have higher ROI like learning how to plan and sequence work properly, how to reduce different kinds of risk during build and deploy, how to migrate complex, existing systems towards better architectures without disrupting the business, how to actually become someone who gets to design systems ...
Papers for Software Engineers
Interesting train of thought.

Do you think that we in the west are then more closely responsible for the repression of people in China than what we admit to ourselves? We want cheap things? Oh, this country can offer low cost labor... It's like blood diamonds (probably worse in terms of scale), but less controversial for some reason.
It's really fun to go back through historical marginal tax rates (you'd have to adjust for inflation yourself in this link [1]) and see just how un-taxed the wealthy really are today. No wonder dynastic wealth is so prevalent. Tbh, I think we need more gradations and income above $1M should be taxed at rates in excess of 70%.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/historical-income-tax-rates-bracke...
Because it has occurred multiple times in multiple countries. It is a hard fact.
Every move the Chinese government makes should be scrutinized to the finest detail. They have but one goal: complete control of key parts of world infrastructure. See what’s happening in the Indo-Pacific. Most media is asleep at the wheel.
Because the generics are still expensive.

Which is why Blue Shield of California, as a major health care payer (which the State of California also is), has invested in doing the same thing (with the same nonprofit that has been discussed as the most likely contractor for the California state effort.)
Bruce Sterling at CFP 1994
In the interest of cranking up the pedant-o-matic machine:

(1) If astronomical twilight and other indirect sunlight counts, then moonlight counts doubly so!

(2) If indirect and thus spatially separated sunlight counts, then temporally removed sunlight, in the form of airglow, should count as well!
I agree, current management is pretty bad. I can easily envision a world where it is well-run and with less grift where your California ID essentially unlocks a slew of services like healthcare and university access.

Like i said before, this is wishful thinking, but it’s not for lack of resources.
Rich people love California, and all the other blue states with high income tax:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/294941/largest-ratio-mil...
I don’t think that’a entirely fair. California is the product of good governance during the 1950s-1980s. There is public infrastructure, like good schools and universities, that needs to be laid to attract industry in the first place. California probably wouldn’t the what it is without the UC system, for example. Of course that was a very different California.
No, again, NATO, even bases in Ukraine are is a material threat to Russia, or not much more so than before.

Again, everyone knows this. The Russians know this, we know they know, they know we know they know.

Due to interference in Ukraine, Russia now has another 1000km NATO border with Ukraine, that could (may very well) host nuclear weapons.

And yet what was Putin's reaction? 'Ok, that's fine'.

Russia's posture that '1000km of NATO border with Finland is no big deal, but 1000Km of NATO border with Ukraine is enough to invade a country' is bullshit at face value.

The 'NATO' issue has a 'tiny bit' of validity, in that, yes, it's advantageous for Russia to have a material 'buffer zone' - definitely - but it's not enough to substantiate the invasion.

Moreover - Ukraine was not really trending towards NATO. NATO denied them entry before, and likely would have denied them in the future, because the West/NATO doesn't really need/want bases in Ukraine. What the West wants, is just for Ukraine not to be a vassal of Russia.

In short - the 'default situation' that Russia said it so desperately wanted, i.e. a 'buffer zone' - was what the Russians had.

A 2022 'negotiation' would likely have yielded nothing.

The West would probably have accepted 'No NATO' for Ukraine, but required in return 1) get out of Crimea, and Donbas and 2) No interference in Ukraine politics etc. whatsoever.

Russia would not agree to #1, and would agree to #2, but then not heed the agreement.

The reality is, Putin/Russia have had plans to re-conquer Ukraine (and whatever else) since the breakup of the USSR.

Putin's 'special operation' in Ukraine is the same as it was for Hungary and Czech, i.e. put those stupid fledgling paupers under our thumb, part of the Empire.

In their cynical view of the world, everyone is a vassal of either them or the US, and that's it.

I don't see how any negotiation with Putin would have resulted in anything.

The best thing to do might have been to put NATO Air Patrols and Air Defence over Ukraine (At least West of Dnipro), train them on F16s, MLRS, M777 etc.. and then if Putin decides to invade, back it up with tit-for-tat i.e. if Russia launches Kaliber, then NATO launches cruise missiles, if Russia has S300, then NATO uses Patriot, if Russia blockades Odessa, the NATO blockades Crimea. Ukraine pre-trained on patriots, stingers, mid-range AA, American mannned Patriots, NATO Air Superiority over most of Ukraine, tons of arty, pre-trained MLRS units, and a lot of trained troops ... this war would be over.
I guess being a nonce isn't "subversive".
Even as official state media it doesn’t quite capture the complicated relationship between the BBC, it’s reporters, management, and the government. Take for example how it covered the Northern Ireland Troubles

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/oct/22/how...

I grew up watching BBC Northern Ireland and also the Irish equivalent of the BBC, RTE and witnessed at least two different versions of reality every evening. Many competing interests were involved and many on all sides were genuinely acting in good faith within their respective systems.

As a point of contrast, I feel like US mainstream news is even more beholden to special interests, including that of the government, than either the BBC or RTE ever were. So being nominally free of state control doesn’t mean a whole lot in reality it seems to me.
I assumed the insult and abuse was intentional to get me to react so I did the opposite. When publicly abused I was very nice in an obvious way and made sure my peers saw my hardwork. The abuser looks even worse that way, especially when you don't fight back at all. I had to endure a lot from superiors for too long though but in the end it always turned out well for me.
For things like "where you're allowed to live" and "time zones of team members", yes, 100%.

For a lot of the other points, employers are incentivized against candor, especially in a public posting. They're trying to attract the best workers at the lowest price. You're not gonna get the unvarnished truth.

Getting a good sense of a job/team/leadership seems to require informal conversations with key people in a context where they'll have something to gain from being candid. Maybe you get that when you're approaching the offer letter stage of an employer's recruiting funnel. How might you get it as a part-time job board maintainer?
Courageous, but seems to be an immature decision and tactic to me. They haven't even figured out a name for the project and chose to instead signal "death to nim".
...and Scheme is a dialect of Lisp. Clojure and Scheme are similar in that they are Lisp-1s. You can look that up too, but it is a rough reference to a count of namespaces.
Do state governments have to respect patents?

Edit: Answering myself here, they do not: https://www.vorys.com/publications-2574.html
'woke' imperialism, what a joke
Well my personal opinion is these larger vehicles should require a special license to drive. And once we kill gasoline and diesel on our roads, we should tax based on 1) wear and tear on the roads and 2) risk to pedestrians and other vehicles.

Weight is an okay stand-in for that metric, but isn't perfect (there are ways to distribute load on the road using the wheels that reduce wear, and there are design features like a low hood or even external airbags that could be used to reduce fatalities to pedestrians and other vehicles).

But we shouldn't go there until we've all but eliminated fossil fuels from our roads.
As far as Java apps that feel snappy, I would imagine Minecraft qualifies?

Otherwise on the JVM in general, something like jwhois is very snappy to start up.
> After watching it I assume China will be invading Taiwan in the next year.

I'm not watching it to find out whether you mean that, or whether that's sarcasm. But Russia talked very similarly to how China is talking, and it turned out that Russia meant it.
I'd imagine the air around your body doesn't move as much because it's somewhat sheltered from the wind
Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody
Yeh that was sweet when we tried to build a high speed rail or when we spent billions to fix homelessness. We are extremely efficient and effective with the ridiculous amount of cash we lucked into.
Such huge BEV also needs big battery. Since EV production is now constrained by battery supply, saving battery usage is also important. One Hummer battery would be equivalent to almost four Model 3. Replacing a ICE Hummer to a EV hummer vs replacing four ICE Camry or BMW 3 to four Model 3s, which is better?
I don’t know where people get this notion. It’s obviously not true except for a handful of cities. Most cities, like Baltimore or Newark, are fighting to annex the affluent suburbs around them.
> Under the latest proposal, people earning more than $400,000 a year and couples making more than $500,000 would have to pay a 3.8% tax on their earnings from tax-advantaged businesses called pass throughs. Until now, many of them have been using a loophole to avoid paying that levy.

This is raising taxes like a locked door is stealing, lol.
I thought the lyrics were "Wouldn't It Be Nice" perfectly clear. The very next line "And wouldn't it be nice to live together" emphasizes that it isn't age that is being desired, but the social roles that come with being older. The singer is resenting that saying good night is followed by leaving to separate houses, that they then wake up in separate locations. That those are moments they could be sharing together, but due to the narrator's age, they aren't allowed to.
OK, I'll clarify:

Modern reactors all have a containment shell made of concrete and steel that is capable of keeping the melted down uranium core inside it, if the worst possible event would happen. Had Chernobyl had this, the incident might have destroyed the reactor and even killed some employees, but that would have been the end of it, and the world would never even have heard about the incident.

There are also plenty of other security improvements since that ancient design, but the containment shell alone makes what I would call "chernobyl happening again" just about impossible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_building

Biggest dam accident is arguably worse than Chernobyl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
>when done with rigor, a flame war is a dense information exchange.

I can't agree, I have never felt that comments like "person A is an idiot" have any information in them. I have been on the receiving end of plenty of those comments, I never learned anything from them, they just serve to make the other person feel bad or angry. Actually, those comments are against the guidelines here because they have no information.

>Errm, I think our comment histories are on the open. I don't think I'm accusatory or like to start flame wars.

I am not going to look through your comment history. It's just a thought: perhaps, if you aren't getting positive interactions, you may be accidentally being rude. I can say that I have been accidentally rude in the past. If that happens, just apologize. It may not have happened. It may never happen. I don't know, it's just something to think about.

>while I don't trust Lennart

I don't understand this. You do not have to "trust" anyone to make a bug report, you just write it. Someone will either read it and act on it, or not. Also, there are multiple other systemd developers working on bugs.

>Does giving references to occurred events in case of somebody wants to follow trail is bad practice?

It really depends. If you are trying to solve current issues, and those events are not strictly related to the issue at hand (like, it is not exactly the same bug or something related) then it probably is just noise.

>I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors, Have a nice one, Thank you.

I wish you the same.
I don't have a lot of pity. People turn in to psychos when it comes to their pets. You have to be a special brand of stupid to treat the only people who can keep your pet alive like garbage.
Totaled EVs are a great source of second-hand battery modules, used either for fixing broken batteries or even for grid storage.

Lots of commercial vehicles make it to a million miles. Those are the ones that will want the longest lived batteries.
Ever since return to office, I walk by the Teslas in the EV lane, and half of them passive aggressively blink their headlights at me and play the throbbing anus animation on the dashboards.

However, I'm still repeatedly shocked by how quickly that company is burning down its brand.

I'm extremely happy with my non-Tesla EV. It has a modern entertainment system (lane keeping/smart cruise are an option), but no touch screens.

It handles ridiculously well, and efficiency is comparable to the best Teslas (range is worse, but it was inexpensive used, and it's for my commute).
RV parks are also great places to find level 2 chargers even for non-RV EVs. If you are driving up to Alaska, most of the trip they are basically your only option right now.
I'm not sure it will be successful, but I am glad the governor is doing something. Not seeing much effort in Washington in regards to healthcare.
Sounds like it’s not your cup of tea, but I wonder what prompts you to leave this negative comment? Do you think the author will read it and change his style?

And, what do you think about the actual matter subject of the post rather than the style?
There are tons of people automating it already (Vanta, Secureframe, etc.)
I am moving from Hong Kong to UK and I’d say most of these are not fine. Sadly it is probably the only route to escape Hong Kong that is accessible to most people here.
I'm curious about liability.

My understanding (maybe wrong) is that for private drug manufacturers, the risk of lawsuits provides a strong incentive for safe, effective products.

Would a California-run facility have similar incentives?
> That initial value is the same for all elements across the entire web. The initial value of display is inline, and the initial value of every margin property is 0.

What? Pre and H1 do not have an initial margin of 0 and plenty of elements do not have an initial display of inline

Confused.
It's true and yet my cynicism runs pretty deep. I'm not quite sure what to imagine for the future.

Space, I like space.

And robots.

Smart nanomedicine...

... There are some things I like to imagine, I guess.
Yeah, no California is a bit of a mess.

This action might be rational actually given lack of federal regulation on healthcare, but they could just as well handle it another way, and more comprehensively (i.e. price controls, pricing transparency - yes, it's hard).

There is no obvious path forward.

I kind of think Vermont has a lot of it sorted but that's also a cultural issue, I mean, Los Angeles and Vermont might as well be on different continents.
I think it has to be.

UTC+8 is all of China and UTC+5.5 is all of India, and in between are high population countries like Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, so UTC+5.5 to UTC+8 has to be included.

UTC+11 to UTC-8.5 is the Pacific Ocean and has maybe 10 million people total, while UTC+0 has >100 million in UK, Portugal and part of Western Africa so UTC+0 must be part of the range.

That only leaves the choice between UTC-1/2 and UTC+9/10. UTC-1 and UTC-2 have under a million with only a few small islands while UTC+10 has most of Papua New Guinea with 6 million.
>California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country.

i don't suppose you're familiar with what a dystopian nightmare the housing market is?
I love how it's pay money for the privilege to temporarily license a beta, unfinished feature, but only if you jump through a million hoops. Some gotcha capitalism right there.

Perhaps King Musk could go to a feature-enabled forever model of IR cameras, LIDAR, MMW RADAR, and similar AND disengage FSD when it's too complicated for AI control... nawh, that would be too sensible and unprofitable.
Compromise, IIRC. That's the "evidence of crimes, blackmail, evidence of an affair" part.
You find yourself on a slippery slope. What do you next? <nlp answers only>
https://cloudhiker.net/
That is unrelated to the issue. Developing any OS is not easy and takes expert work and a lot of time. No one ever said it was going to be easy. There is no choice that frees you from doing that work. The "choice" is entirely about how you are going to approach that work, and who you have chosen to do the work.
I did something remarkably similar. In the 90s I independently reinvented Markov chains, although I didn't know that was what it was called. I wrote a mIRC plugin and made a bot with it. I gave it the username "Cybergirl" for both the pun factor and that it encouraged people to message it.

I remember one conversation in particular that, by chance, went so well that it had some poor soul convinced it/she lived in his city and was going to come over.

I also saw a TV episode where a magician demonstrated supposed ability to play simultaneous (round-robin) chess games against multiple grand masters. The conceit behind the trick was that (after the first board) the magician was just mirroring the last move made so that the grand masters were effectively playing each other but didn't know it. That gave me the idea to modify the bot to connect two people through the bot.
Incidentally, damn does your house resemble the Amityville Horror home.
Hmm.. what if you wear sunglasses and checkout the screen's figure? Would it still notice?
> Again, you cited a paper claiming…

I cited no such thing but merely pulled an opinion out of my backside.

I’m really just saying that maybe it isn’t such a good idea to intentionally restrict young people from the job market because they have the exact same right to meaningful employment as anyone else.
Insulin is relatively cheap and available in all other civilized nations.

Somehow they've figured it out.

I can provide no insight as to 'how' but I suggest some reasonable regulation has something to do with it.
I read through the wordy description and still feel more confused about why they did this. I also feel like missed the opportunity to call their language "Rod" in reference to Nim's original name Nimrod.

I assume they didn't like something about the maintainer or the community.
Schools cannot solve society's issues. This is hardly a new thing. Eventually people will learn this. The teachers certainly are, hence the quitting mentioned in the article.

> gun violence

> COVID-19

> masking policy debates

> political battles over what teachers can or can't discuss or teach in the classroom

Parents blame teachers, admin blame teachers, what a shock some teachers are quitting
US life insurance company paid out 163% more for deaths of workers 18-64 in 2021
Hmm, perhaps I'm missing something, but for most apps, I don't really see how you could do it much simpler than Qt does.
> until it becomes able to sustain life independently

You mean get a job and earn a living, or just forage in the woods for berries?

> at which point abortion is essentially illegal everywhere in the world except in seriously extreme circumstances.

Assuming you mean "at fetal viability" (the RvW standard), I think you may be surprised to learn that 6 states plus DC allow abortions at any stage of development and for any reason.[0]

> If I have to amputate my arm did I "kill" my arm?

Does your arm have distinct DNA from the rest of your body? Was your arm going to naturally develop into a healthy individual with their own rights and desires?

> Is a baby part of the mother or is it special because some of the DNA was donated externally?

Thank you for correctly using the term "baby". I ask your question back to you in the context of a hypothetical law allowing the abortion of newborns. Would your answer change if this hypothetical law only applied to newborns with life expectancies less than 5 years?

> What distinguishes it from viral infections that introduce foreign RNA?

The baby has human DNA (and RNA). That seems relevant if we are asking whether the baby should have human rights or not.

> I don't think I'm uninformed.

It seems like you've thought about your position a lot, which is great, but I'm not sure if you've fully considered enough of the possible counter-points to it. Thank you for sharing your position with me, though.

[0] https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/ges...
This is very interesting. Does Chatterbox require agents to use specialized matrix clients to interact with customers or will any matrix client do? (e.g Element for android)

If any matrix element would do, how will new customers appear in the client? Will they pop up as a new direct chat?
Too many people nowadays leap to part with huge sums of money with little or no assurances and refuse to make waves when (not if) they get taken.
What they need to do is make long term capital gains taxed as regular income. I wish I could defer payment from my employer by a year and be taxed 10% instead. In fact, I'd do that exclusively. One year of pain and then 10% tax indefinitely.
Depends on the type of insulin you want to make, but if you want to be at the cutting edge it would likely cost around a billion dollars.

You have to avoid the intellectual property minefield on the manufacturing side. The production of insulin and its delivery mechanisms are heavily patented and the big pharma companies will shut you down if you infringe on anything. If you want a reference for this happening you can google 'lusduna'.

Plus you have to make it through the FDA, which is its own can of worms. The 505(b)(2) is still not a cakewalk but at least it will give you 3-5 years of market exclusivity so you can recoup your costs. (Wait you can get market exclusivity for a biosimilar with an expired patent? That should sound insane to anyone not in healthcare.)

Then you have to actually manufacture and distribute your product. There are extremely high capital costs to get set up. For reference, Novo Nordisk's insulin manufacturing facility in North Carolina is 328,000 sqft and staffed by ~500 people 24/7. Just to get a comparable facility up and running you're talking about 400-500 million dollars in capital cost. Sanofi, Eli Lily, and Novo Nordisk have spent billions over the last decade upgrading and maintaining their facilities.

I would suspect it's about the hardest project you could tackle if you were a startup.