skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I’ve always thought would be interesting is that age discrimination laws only protect people older than 40.

That means you can legally discriminate against young people.

If ageism is truly a thing it means that there exist old people that are undervalued by the market.

Starting a company or having roles that are specifically 40+ only could be an interesting hiring advantage if that’s true. Especially if mentorship is part of the role.

Also - from friends that teach at university, lots of young people don’t know what a file system is and can’t navigate basic files/folders or hierarchies. They’re confused by files opening in applications (these are CS freshman). A bit unrelated but a lot of the “old” knowledge remains extremely relevant especially when kids exposure to only ios abstracts relevant bits away.
Because schools withhold a large percentage of their spots for "legacy students", a White kid who isn't rich or well-connected is less likely to get into these elite schools than an Asian kid with the same grades. Half of the White students at Harvard are legacy students [1] and White students make up 44% of the Harvard student body. 50.9% of Gen Z is White [2], meaning that slightly less than 51% of the population is competing for 22% of the slots. The same numbers for Asian students are 5.3% of Gen Z and 25.9% of the spots at Harvard. Now, the proper numbers to use are probably SAT scores or some other "skill metric", but finding the proper stats to use is difficult since College Board locked them down, and in this case the population stats don't affect the conclusion because while more Asians have high scores as a percentage of their group than Whites do, it is canceled out by the difference in population sizes.

Assuming Affirmative Action is still in place, once the current generation of Asian Ivy League grad's kids start applying for schools, this issue will start to apply to Asian kids as well.

[1] https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/09/penn-upenn-philadelphi...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/research/less-than-half-of-us-chil...
all of these tools exist and you're totally right they work, but they aren't trivial and require time and skill to do properly. I was responding to the idea that this kind of texturing and lighting is trivial - its not if you care about the product and actually want to sell based on it.
> The line of thinking you follow is what is plaguing this industry with too much complexity and simultaneously throwing away incredible CPU and PCIe performance gains in favor of using the network.

It will die out naturally once people realize how much the times have changed and that the old solutions based on weaker hardware are no longer optimal.
Maybe simplicity?
Something that can be understood easily in a few weeks, and then you may start implementing whatever features you find useful. Oh, and Xv6 is buildable under 1 minute on modern machine, and don't need a custom-build toolchain.
Let me put it another way: the bulk of the abolitionist movement sought to end slavery because slavery was cruel and evil. It wasn’t to reverse the flow of a cruelty and it’s consequences back towards a subset of them or redirect the flow towards a different group of people but to end the cruelty altogether. Fairness is irrelevant here because as you rightly point out, life isn’t fair, but since we legally bar discrimination on the basis of race—a form of law I happen to agree with—Yale should be held accountable per our laws.

If they want to change our laws, they should go ahead and meet up and see if they can’t put together a good case for bringing back racism as a legal practice. Seems that’s what they’re trying to do actually.

That said they should also be prepared for the consequences of success because that would give implicit license and justification to a much larger and more powerful group of people in their own country to start discriminating on the basis of race again. Or put another way: there isn’t a world where “reverse racism”—an oxymoron by the way—doesn’t lead back to “anti-reverse racism”, aka “racism”.

We can stop being cruel or not, but we can’t justify bigotry in one direction without giving license to bigotry in the other direction. You would have to convince people to stop looking out for themselves and their children, which is like asking people not to be people. It’s an insane proposition to start with.
It helps to understand the motivation why “Big tech” operates this way. Any time a company offers something free that is Turing complete, abuse occurs at incredible scale, scale that can only be opposed through automated means.

The next level of abuse is that the same abusers will use all the same escalation methods as legit accounts. They want to figure out why they got blocked so they can evade the blocking.

It takes a lot of work to separate the legit accounts from the abusers.
I think all the arguments "For" TikTok are smoke and mirrors since it boils down to it has a ton of information on its user, TikTok is Mega Big Chinese corp now, and CCP has full control over any corp in China, and have shown they will use that power (see Jack Ma) to do whatever they like. TikTok is the biggest honeypot and information dragnet by a foreign nation in our (USA) history by a huge margin. That's the only "against" that I need to say we need to shut down TikTok in America. There are currently a ton of other options people can move to.
I started reading doonesbury in the 80s just because it was on the comics page. I never found it funny and didn’t get it. I’ve heard people describe that it was once funny way back in the day but was never able to confirm it.
For consumers notebook, Optane could be fast swap drive. It's pity manufacturers didn't get this done. Swap should be just fast to make application switch fast enough. Optane could do it.
The counterpoint is probably going to be something along the lines of, what if the median wealth of one family is that way because dad and mom were working 100 hours a week each, fed the kids ramen everyday, and the kid got no attention at all. Then you're comparing that to some family that ate cavier on their yacht everyday while their parents worked 20 hours a week in their medical practice and devoted the entire rest of their time to the kids education and taking the kids on bullshit "volunteering" trips to make the kid look like mother Teresa for his college and med school application.

Same family wealth, but clearly cavier kid had the leg up. Maybe better to compare full time wage or something? Personally I would dispense with both race and wealth as metrics.
No it isn’t.

Most markets, in terms of their daily volume, are open at night, but very thinly traded until EU hours, but some do see action in Asia hours. It’s just about liquidity.

Maybe you’re thinking of single name equity markets, which are a fraction of daily trading.
I think it's more of a shield against upper management. AWS going down is treated like an act of god rendering everyone blameless. But if it's your one big server that goes down then it's your fault.
Is it now well known that Dilbert exists solely because Scott Adams was told - as a young executive - that he would not be promoted further because he is a white male? [1]

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[1] https://twitter.com/scottadamssays/status/127766727657395404...
But wasn't the point of the Big Short to show the perspective of people "outside" the mainstream who made big bets against the system/banks? Not surprising then that it didn't really show what was happening in the banks themselves.
That sounds like you have burst load. Per the article, cloud away, great fit.

The point was most people don't have that and even their bursts can fit in a single server. This is my experience as well.
And yet there are innumerable examples of societies where women lack freedoms and objective power, and almost none where men lack freedoms compared to women.

Seems to directly contradict any notion of both sexes having similar levels of power. Hell, 2022 USA is removing women’s power to get the healthcare they need.
The new TaskFlow API has been part of AirFlow 2.0 since its release in 2020: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/tutori...
> This isn't just about college, it's about opportunities for a high degree of success in a person's life. Yale doesn't represent "college" it represents "prestigious college that will open doors for the rest of their life".

Why is Yale the only shot for the child of a wealthy, well-connected person of one race but not the poor, unconnected child of another?

> makes perfect sense to prefer them over people who will get other shots at a highly successful life

This is the assumption that rightfully grinds people. Why do we assume because someone is Asian they will not face those barriers? And again, how convenient that the actual descendants of slave traders have reserved seats, too, at these prestigious institutions.
Forget making it worse as the primary concern. I am concerned about fascism emerging as a backlash to anti-White discrimination. People are pissed that their society has turned against them and will abandon democracy to fix the situation.
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PM at Google is normally Product Manager. Project Managers are called Program Managers (PgM). Most program managers at Google do not manage anyone.
But even the text is broken. The text in the window title bar is way sharper than the blurry mess in the window. If the text isn't even the right resolution, it's not using "current controls".
Layoffs can be positively received by the market if it cuts the fat to increase profit. No one expects Google or any other company to grow unboundedly.
Reading the Medium RSS Feed with GraphQL
Nicely organized and dense.

Thanks for the material!
You could just run system containers (eg. lxd) for each component, but still on one server. That gets you multiple "servers" for the purposes of upgrades, but without the rest of the paradigm shift that Docker requires.
> The House is often where bills originate,

As is the Senate. (Bills for raising revenue must originate in the House, but otherwise they can and do go in any order.)
And then have to deal with all the "price gouging" press/lawsuites/legislation. The manufacturers know they need to keep selling at a constant price, otherwise it will be much much worse for their business and brand.

Ford's CEO trying to address this dealership franchise problem is going to bode well for the Ford brand overall. They are best to keep their prices down for now and make the dealers look like the bad guys everyone knows they are.
Yep, there's a premium on making your architecture more cloudy. However, the best point for Use One Big Server is not necessarily running your big monolithic API server, but your database.

Use One Big Database.

Seriously. If you are a backend engineer, nothing is worse than breaking up your data into self contained service databases, where everything is passed over Rest/RPC. Your product asks will consistently want to combine these data sources (they don't know how your distributed databases look, and oftentimes they really do not care).

It is so much easier to do these joins efficiently in a single database than fanning out RPC calls to multiple different databases, not to mention dealing with inconsistencies, lack of atomicity, etc. etc. Spin up a specific reader of that database if there needs to be OLAP queries, or use a message bus. But keep your OLTP data within one database for as long as possible.

You can break apart a stateless microservice, but there are few things as stagnant in the world of software than data. It will keep you nimble for new product features. The boxes that they offer on cloud vendors today for managed databases are giant!
Just want you to know your comment made our day over here - thank you! We genuinely have made it has cheap for customers as possible. Balancing the cost versus what we need to survive and keep the doors open is quite hard, and I think we've learned why there are so few hardware startups!

Re: Pi Power - it's quite amazing how many well-behaved apps you can run on an 8GB pi. Some self-hosted apps that are written in Rust and Go these days use 3mb of memory, it's amazing! There will always be that particular game server that makes power users want more, but that's life!
PlanetScale Prevents MySQL Downtime
Wouldn't Rand Paul count as a fiscal conservatives who hasn't been kicked out? And how is Liz Cheney a fiscal conservative? Granted that I don't know enough about US politics to be sure - but isn't Dick Cheney super corrupt. I'm not sure if fiscal conservativism counts if the government is saving money on social programs so they could send it to Halliburton instead.

It's impossible to ask one side to balance the budget without punishing the other side for not balancing the budget. The voters just don't care. The connection between poor policies and their consequences are so drawn out that they've practically been severed.
Then I would say the Ivy League is doing something very wrong. When California and Washington passed ballot initiatives prohibiting race-conscious admissions, demographics shifted a bit but black admissions were nowhere near zero.
I manage hundreds of servers, and use Ansible. It's simple and it gets the job done. I tried to install Kubernetes on a cluster and couldn't get it to work. I mean I know it works, obviously, but I could not figure it out and decided to stay with what works for me.
How does this much money get 'lost' without heads rolling?

I understand that some of the deposits are from retail 'investors' who are poorly organized more interested in token appreciation or yield than the safety of their funds. But even getting to $150m would take forever if it came from individuals.

Surely there are large investors that provided the bulk of the capital. Shouldn't they intervene in some way? Or do these whales have so much to waste that they throw money into each of these projects knowing that they'll never see a cent back from 50% of them?
The question wasn't if you can call C from Zig code, but if you can call Zig from C code.
Interesting analogy. Is this exploit a Hindenburg or a steam train wreck?

It is probably both. The model of allowing governance updates from a contract owner on a bridge or rollup is not sustainable and will have to change to mitigate these kinds of risks. Whether that means crypto networks as a whole will inevitably be replaced by a central banking system is harder to agree with.
Exactly. Managers should insist that peer-reviewers give specific attributes or behaviors.

Also, "cultural fit" questions can be casually ageist as hell. I was asked once (at 40 or so), "We like to skateboard around the office for fun. What do you like to do?" I sincerely believe it was (for the 20-something interviewer) an innocent, almost routine interview question. I diffused the question by saying that sounded like a blast but I prefer Nerf Blaster wars or pranking people by hijacking their wireless mouse or whatever. I got the job offer but I've been on other interviews where I aced the manager's and technical interviews but got shut down by a barely college graduate who clearly didn't think they'd have to work with "their Dad." Not much you can do about that.
You're focused on a different angle than on what I posted.

There are so many factors that affect compensation for each individual employee, comparison of pay is useless. Geographical region also has big bearing on the discussion, and it really makes no sense to compare compensation online with a public audience in that manner. I won't discuss specific details and employers online for obvious reasons.

I reside on the East Coast, West Coast is a completely different labor market, and the cost of living in silicon valley is higher, another reason why comparison is futile. Jobs also rely on skill and experience, to which each person ranks differently, so individual salary comparison online is ultimately not accurate, why even try?

That being said, 6 months of work at $200k or 1 year of work at $100k is the same amount of money, but one job costs the employee a lot more time out of their life. Work is meant to supplement our lives, not the other way around. We're either marketable as employees or not, small companies that want to compete and grow within a workspace often pay more for highly skilled employees for shorter work terms overall, because they have vital work to do in order to be competitive...

Sure small and medium (non-public) companies don't offer RSUs and other things that large (FAANG) companies do, but if you really take a look at how long it takes to be vested in those huge companies, and how most people don't last long enough to vest, and how much big company culture changes employees to the point that when they're laid off or quit after bad experiences they suffer in readjusting to the regular working world... The compensation can be a lot better in small/medium sized companies.
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TGS is just weird. Friend of mine making very good money at staff level had them reach out to get him to come interview, saying they would at least double his comp.

Another friend at G said the “smartest person in the office was poached by this company TGS, have you heard of them?”
> I addressed the smb and mid-enterprise space here because most large enterprises already know they shouldn't run on a single rack.

This is a straw man. No one, anywhere in this thread or in the OPs original article proposed a single-rack solution.

From the OP:
> Running a primary and a backup server is usually enough, keeping them in different datacenters.
This is the federal reserves stated position.

https://mronline.org/2022/05/26/u-s-federal-reserve-says-its...
It's been the way the N. Koreans have been for a while! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/business/north-korea-cryp...
These leftists (there's nothing progressive in them) are the good old priesthood. They invent dogmas that mock logic to control the crowd, and they do it by fear, but they are keenly aware of the real power - the royalty - so when the roylaty wants something that contradicts the existing dogmas, the priests swiftly invent a new dogma.
I think context matters and the title "Airflow's Problem" doesn't make much sense when talking about the physical phenomenon of flowing air.
Hire Canadians. Currency conversion advantage. Same time zones. Same language. Mostly same culture. Very well educated. Cheaper health care benefits. And $150k USD is a generous compensation level, and $250USD is about what a Canadian Googler @ L4 gets paid. $100-$125k USD gets you reasonable non-senior talent.
Why would that relate to hiring at all?
Hiring is simply a costs problem. The other stuff should be addressed or ignored mutually regardless.
There is also the consideration that this isn't even an argument of "other things are down too!" or "outsourcing blame" as much as, depending on what your service is of course, you are unlikely to be operating in a bubble. You likely have some form of external dependencies, or you are an external dependency, or have correlated/cross-dependency usage with another service.

Guaranteeing isolation between all of these different moving parts is very difficult. Even if you're not directly affected by a large cloud outage, it's becoming less-and-less common that you, or your customers, are truely isolated.

As well, if your AWS-hosted service mostly exists to service AWS-hosted customers, and AWS is down, it doesn't matter if you are down. None of your customers are operational anyways. Is this a 100% acceptable solution? Of course not. But for 95% of services/SaaS out there, it really doesn't matter.
Yes, first time hearing of this.
Interesting, Astronomer was actually my last choice for orchestrator. We went with Dagster, but I didn't want to make the takeaway "Dagster solves these problems", because it doesn't directly. Astronomer was just the best foil for the "meta-orchestrator" space that seems to be evolving, and which _can_ address these problems.
The conflict is probably inevitable anyway. Appeasing the Chinese Communist Party by acquiescing to their demands won't bring us peace in the long run. Better to do everything we can (short of violence) to humiliate, undermine, and disrespect them. This demonstrates firm resolve and helps to maintain confidence among our regional allies.
Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House of Representatives. She is 2 heartbeats away from being President (she would become president if both the President and Vice President became incapacitated).

The House is similar to the UK Parliament. She is elected to her position by the members of the House.

Since Democracts control the House this term, they elected Nancy Pelosi as Speaker for this term.

The President has primary responsibility for foreign affairs. The Speaker taking this action could be interpretted as stepping on the toes of the President, or could have tacit approval of the President as a kind of stalking horse.
They may not have younger children at home, but they still have children/families (I live in an area where extended families tend to stay together, so that might be what's causing the confusion here), and they are more likely to have other family commitments than younger people. I also included other reasons why tech companies tend to hire younger people, because I don't think children are the only reason. It's mainly because younger people are generally more willing to work longer hours for less pay, for a multitude of reasons which include less familial responsibilities and less leverage for salary and workload negotiations.
That requires changing your filesystem to a compressing one though, and you lose the compression when you copy the file to another filesystem. It does have the advantage that the page cache could have the uncompressed copy though.
So, diversity := statistically similar to joint distribution of population demographics.
Just so you're aware this email returns an "Address not found" error
There's a reason these CS responses get used. Most managers or executive teams will scold or eventually fire you for pointing a customer anywhere else or admitting that your software doesn't do something.
You literally can go on indeed.com and check for "$250-500K/yr for a single developer". It. Does. Not. Exist. Yes there are a few at FAANG that do make this, but this isn't the current market.
I had these off and on over the years, and they somewhat seemed associated with stress, lack of sleep, to much/to little coffee etc, but recently they became more and more frequent. To the point of having them every couple of days. However, getting eyeglasses has dramatically reduced the occurrence.

I hadn't notice I needed eyeglasses, I could see things just fine, but apparently one eye is quite a bit worse than the other, and my brain was just doing some extra processing and making everything look OK. Eye doctor speculated that this extra processing was the cause of the ocular migraines.

Now, whenever I start looking a screen to program or whatever without my glasses, I can start feeling the impending tension building towards a migraine, and unless I put them on, will almost inevitability get the whole ocular migraine experience, and be useless for the rest of the day.
Challenge: explain to a normie that their life savings is gone forever because of mortgage backed derivatives.
> With 708,000 people tracking the aircraft upon landing in Taipei, SPAR19 is Flightradar24’s most tracked live flight of all time. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1554501909893062656
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Even without a hot active phase, potential escalation and the prospect of export issues with the US at this point would just fuel China's trade with Russia, as sanctions would become an unavoidable event, hence CCP wouldn't have a reason to think twice before maximising trade with all other sanctioned states. And the trade wouldn't happen in US dollars/western financial infrastructure either.
> I dyed my beard back to my original hair color and had 4 offers within 2 weeks.

Well done! Good opening for a Tell HN post!