skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ”In his message Tuesday, Mr. Tenev said the new round of changes at the company are particularly concentrated in its operations, marketing and program management departments.”

People here on HN often say how bad is to be an engineer in a non-tech company. It seems that it’s much worse to be a non-engineer in a tech company.
I bet it will happen sooner than 10-15

The thing you’re missing is AI generated content can be refined by AI. If Disney promised their meh looking movie would improve on its own over time, people would be line to it because it’s new, not just streamlined copy-pasted design we see all over media now

Painting the Titanic wasn’t the hard part. The hard part was organizing the process that produced its structure. That’s were AI content is now.

We’re generating the bulk structure pretty competently at this point. Refining the emotional touches will come faster.
They kinda did that with Optane+flash 1TB M.2 consumer drives like the H10 and H20 series. Unfortunately they never merged the controllers so each one only gets 2 PCIe lanes and you need Intel's software (which is only compatible with Intel CPUs because why not) to do software RAID (which has a terrible reputation on Windows for losing data)

It achieved 14us latency (by acking writes before they hit flash) which is extremely good (better than today's fastest SSDs) but the 32G Optane cache doesn't go very far when most enthusiast consumers are gamers that blow the cache every time they download an update. A lotta games are also larger than 32G so if you use more a few large programs, the cache just isn't large enough. So you end up with a product that's kinda expensive, but still not quite good enough to take the performance crown.
These are the current guidelines
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18593734/
What's the risk of a plane flying over the Sea above the reach of "simple" weapons is being tracked?

A military-level attack against the third highest representative of the United States is a quite certain way to launch a war, maybe even nuclear retaliation, based on how quickly and well "prove" for attribution is unveiled.

However getting attention is a key purpose of that trip.
In the past year he sold $55 million of shares. Let's don't be too credulous about cries of poverty.
If the whole original dataset doesn't need to be in memory all at once, there isn't even an issue to begin with.
I find it mind boggling that one can purchase a server with more RAM than the sum of all working storage media in my house.
This is true IFF you get to the point where you have to split up.

I know we're all hot and bothered about getting our apps to scale up to be the next unicorn, but most apps never need to scale past the limit of a single very high-performance database. For most people, this single huge DB is sufficient.

Also, for many (maybe even most) applications, designated outages for maintenance are not only acceptable, but industry standard. Banks have had, and continue to have designated outages all the time, usually on weekends when the impact is reduced.

Sure, what I just wrote is bad advice for mega-scale SaaS offerings with millions of concurrent users, but most of us aren't building those, as much as we would like to pretend that we are.

I will say that TWO of those servers, with some form of synchronous replication, and point in time snapshots, are probably a better choice, but that's hair-splitting.

(and I am a dyed in the wool microservices, scale-out Amazon WS fanboi).
What React is capable of hasn't really changed (code from back then will still work), but recommendations in that whole ecosystem have changed so massively in that time it can look like 2-3 different frameworks depending on what era it's from.

Angular is a total rewrite of AngularJS, that as far as I know is incompatible with the original (no firsthand experience, going off what I remember others saying about it). It was first released ~6 years ago, while AngularJS's last release was ~2 years ago.

No comments on Vue, never used it and I don't hear about it as much as the others.
> Shared-kernel container escapes are found so often they're not even all that memorable.

Agreed. I realized I inverted your hypervisor comment. Hypervisors have the compact contract that has any reasonable chance at being audited. Container security is basically a screen door.
Interesting. It seems even they don't know the reason for the run.

> During the period since our initial public offering, the Company noted significant volatility in our ADS price and, also observed some very active trading volume. To our knowledge, there are no material circumstances, events nor other matters relating to our Company’s business and operating activities since the IPO date. The Company is also monitoring the market closely for any unusual trading activities or abnormalities, and would continue to maintain our communication channel wide-open to the public through our Investor Relations Office

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/amtd-digital-inc-thank-not...

Something unusual seems to be going on. Could it be being used as a vehicle for capital flight?
We would need numbers to say that. The countries I mentioned are relatively small and have small energy footprints. The outlier would be Venezuela, but I wouldn't blame them if they needed to burn their own oil to generate energy because they are under economic sanctions.
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Show HN: Mom, can we have (Haskell flavored) post-modern C++ at home?
async/await does not result in bloated code that is hard to maintain and debug.

It's a strange thing to say - async/await is now built in to most major programming languages - strange that Arduino would dismiss it so easily.

They are correct in that async/await does not solve multicore utilisation, but it's the most important and easiest way to implement parallelism on a single core.
I mean "classical" psychedelics whose activity is primarily mediated through activation of the 5-ht2a receptor.
It's not missing. You just pointed to it. The piece is the politicians.
Maybe someone mixed up regular dram and optane dimms?
Sure but that's not opex (the context of this thread). That's stuff he has by virtue of founding the company.
> Your take on taxes is incorrect

It isn't, at least in the US. Straight from the horse's mouth: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/09/23/new-...

Talk to your friends in Wealth Management, they can confirm. Tax minimization via loopholes is active and thriving.
reliability, sometimes sharding just means you don't have to get up in the middle of the night.
It's just a turn of phrase... usually "it's on me" just means I've acknowledged what you might be thinking and I'm going to continue doing whatever I want.
I don't know the characteristics of bikesheddb's upstream in detail (if there's ever a production-quality release of bikesheddb I'll take another look), but in general using something that can scale horizontally (like Cassandra or Riak, or even - for all its downsides - MongoDB) is a great approach - I guess it's a question of terminology whether you call that "sharding" or not. Personally I prefer that kind of datastore over an SQL database.
New DNA ‘Camcorders’ Can Record ‘Movies’ of a Cell’s Development Through Time
When a fundamental part of token generation is brute-forcing secure hashes?
Indeed. Cement is a big problem. In the meantime, we can do the things we know how while we figure out what do we do with cement.
I can imagine a bot that posts a "Show HN" for each of those ideas that points to a landing page generated with GPT3 and DALL-E and tracks traffic to figure out the best one to build.
that's funny, since IBM is actually promoting one very fat and reliable server.
This kind of realization that "yes, it probably will" has recently inspired me to hand-build various database engines wherein the entire working set lives in memory. I do realize others have worked on this idea too, but I always wanted to play with it myself.

My most recent prototypes use a hybrid mechanism that dramatically increases the supported working set size. Any property larger than a specific cutoff would be a separate read operation to the durable log. For these properties, only the log's 64-bit offset is stored in memory. There is an alternative heuristic that allows for the developer to add attributes which signify if properties are to be maintained in-memory or permitted to be secondary lookups.

As a consequence, that 2TB worth of ram can properly track hundreds or even thousands of TB worth of effective data.

If you are using modern NVMe storage, those reads to disk are stupid-fast in the worst case. There's still a really good chance you will get a hit in the IO cache if you application isn't ridiculous and has some predictable access patterns.
It shines at creating highly concurrent applications with a great deal of built in features to provide reliability and resilience. Sounds a lot like a server, and that's what much of the modern use for Elixir is. In particular, one area where it shines is stateful, long-lived requests (e.g, websockets) where many other concurrency models will either rely much more on databases to track state or potentially get choked up.

If nothing else it's neat to learn as one of the few somewhat well used languages in modern times that actually adheres to Alan Kay's original conception of OOP.
Taxing the rich is also a wonderful solution to inequality.
Hindsight's 20/20? Why would we feel sure that people wouldn't keep up with habits they picked up during COVID? That seems like it could have been similarly likely to me -- someone picks up day trading, gets hooked, and now it's a regular habit.
Wait till you learn about ASBO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour_order
if you have multiple micro services updating the database you need to have a database access layer service as well.

there's some real value with abstraction and microservices but you can try to run them against a monolithic database service
I fail to see how meritocratic systems would force any such selections.

Systems can and should select for the best candidates.
Lots of execs take "only" $100ks of compensation in salary and the rest in stock.
>This seems like a good case study in rolling your own compiler toolchain from scratch.

They've flouted good sense before too - they only recently started passing function arguments in registers.

Using jump tables to compile pattern matches has been done since the 90s at least.
There's an Antarctic Exploration Vehicle Lost at the Bottom of the World
Wait, shouldn't this be returned back to whom the money belonged (investors)?
How are you arriving at the 12 trillion trees number? I think there are some less obvious ways that trees can capture more carbon. For instance, trees build soil over time. Much of the deforested land in the world has had its topsoil washed away without trees to hold it in place. That soil is also a form of captured carbon.
Elsewhere in the thread, others mention he was paid 800 million in stock awards in 2021. Do you have some other supporting info?

The 800 million number seems to be better supported via a quick search - https://www.execpay.org/executive/vladimir-tenev-42307/r-186...
Even worse: Dental floss. Oral-B Glide is made with it.
Sure, go ahead and ask those laid off if they'd feel better if they were given a nice grant of $HOOD, which was worth about 500% more in 2021.

The post-IPO 2021 price stabilized for a while around $50, so $50M is about 1M shares. The article says about 1,000 people were laid off, so if split equally that's 1,000 shares per employee. Since then, the price has come down to about $9, so it's a severance of $9,000 today.

I would hope everyone getting laid off receives at least that much.
> Other benefits to being a "public telecommunication utility" include the competitive right to place your own facilities on telephone/power poles or underground in public right-of-way under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. You will need to enter into and pay for a pole attachment agreement. Of course local governments can reserve the right to tariff your facilities, which has its own ugliness.

Note that in many parts of the country, the telcos/cablecos themselves own the poles. Google had a ton of trouble with AT&T in my state thanks to this. They lost to AT&T in court and gave up.
After 4 years of development of the image augmentation library Albumentations, I decided to give it a try and collect the feedback from the community.

Here is the summary.
> there's good reason to suppose the climate would settle back to something similar to what it has been the last 10k years

What's that good reason?
Employment is a transitory thing. Remember this the next time you spend your life energy fixing something you could get away with letting fail.
They aren't that much more expensive when new. Someone who buys a 10 year old car will buy an electric one 15 years from now.
UK has parliamentary sovereignty, so any presumed common law right only exists until the Parliament passes a bill that effectively nullifies it.
As you noticed from AF1, the people who manage the flights of nation-level VIPs are extremely cautious and have a rich, well-informed risk model. You can imagine these airplanes have many countermeasures (SPAR19 is a C-40C, which is a military version of a 737). For all we know it was a decoy plane.
executives should be compensated for the performance of the company in the future, not the current quarter or year. this is the board's fault for failing to set effective incentives.
how much of that $800M was in stock vs cash?
As a nontechnical person, I can say I don't blame co's for cutting these roles first. Marketing, HR, program management, etc. are great at creating additional layers and busywork that makes it seem like they're absolutely critical to a company functioning. I was mostly in sales/bd and what I did love about the job was that there were pretty objective criteria to look at to see performance- how many partnerships or deals were in the pipeline, how many did you close, what dollar value, what was the csat on closed deals, etc.
It is 404 error. However, I added a few letters on the end of the URL and then it works.

They defend their right of freedom of speech, and I agree that they should have the right of freedom of speech, regardless of if I or whoever else agrees or disagrees with the some or all of statements that they will say.

Like they say, you must defend free speech of everyone (whether you agree with them or not), instead of risking the government arbitrarily decide what is, or is not, acceptable speech.

(It is like the quotation misattributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.")
So the argument I see proposed again, again, and again here on HN, is that companies are paying programmers too much money and they should all agree to offer <$100k or something.

Are you guys all bitter business owners?
> Well the overall premise is that if they don't need to, it will become harder to justify to your users. The second premise is that legislation can be put in place to forbid the ad hoc storage of PIIs.

If your system requires a government enforced monopoly, or some sort of class uprising, to succeed, its probably a bad system.

Literally any system, regardless of how good an idea it is, would succeed under those conditions.
Agreed. That's why I wrote "pretty much".

My go to example is oxygen. There is more than enough of it for everyone, so there is no possibility/need to charge money for it.
> Doc comments now support links, lists, and clearer heading syntax. This change helps users write clearer, more navigable doc comments, especially in packages with large APIs. As part of this change gofmt now reformats doc comments to apply a standard formatting to uses of these features.

A lot of exciting new features, but really happy to see this one.
> Once Google and Facebook started growing it's clear they realized that every talented engineer on the market is a potential threat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

Remember that Google and Apple were caught trying to control the employment marketplace. Keep 'em happy, but not too happy!
I _might_ be able to find comparable salary, but I sure won't find the other benefits of working for my employer. The 401k match, the on site clinic with a doctor that I really like, etc... those things do add up.
What do you mean by "nobody"?

Significant % of top 500 fortune used it
TLDW, rust here is the cost of metal oxidation not the programming language
The vast bulk of global energy production does not go towards "cheap plastic crap" or vacationing. It goes towards transportation (which affects the base cost of practically all economic activity), industrial uses that are essential to healthcare, construction, and agriculture, and the heating and cooling of our living spaces and places of work. These expenditures will only increase as the world's human population increases to a projected ceiling of around 10 billion. In addition, replacements for "cheap plastic crap" may consume more energy to produce, even if their production emits less carbon.

There are certainly efficiency gains to be had. They will not be made overnight. America's housing stock alone can't be replaced in a week, or a year, or a decade with hyper-insulating, low-emission construction materials. Changing from one mode of construction, consumption, or production to another has an energy cost, too.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133463-500-how-to-u...

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth104/node/1346

https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth
It can work to some degree especially at smaller companies where cash flow matters a lot.

I experienced this in the dot-com collapse but probably ripping off the bandaid is a better approach in many circumstances especially when cash flow isn't the driver.
"Job applicants to ads with ageist language are on average 2.7 years younger than the applicants to the control ads. The median age for these ads was also 2.7 years younger, and the 75th percentile was 3.1 years younger. The share of applicants over 40 was lower by 9.4 percentage points"

Gosh. That seems like an international emergency.

One of their 3 template phrases was "You must be a digital native and have a background in social media"

Which honestly seems like a great way for people to self select out of jobs that they really aren't going to want to do!

I also question their choice of "retail sales" as a job that older workers want? They might be applying out of desperation, but isn't retail one of the quintessential "work there only until you can find something better" jobs? ( Not always of course, and lifestyle, work/life balance matters too, and of course I've gotten service from plenty of older workers, none of which negates the fact that dealing with the public all day can be particularly draining, and people who can, will often choose to do other work )

I've had discussions with a senior manager at a previous job who really wanted to get younger people in.. but it was an ERP software company, almost the definition of boring for a young person, if they even know what ERP is, uncool by almost any measure, and it was incredibly hard to get people under 30 to even apply. The median employee age was well over 40, and increasing.
No one was getting pushed out, their staff retention was absolutely epic, almost no one stayed less than 5 years ( for good and bad reasons tbh ), but I really saw his point too?

How much harder is it to get new, disruptive ideas when your new hires are all 40+ and "worse", many coming from customer sites, so already indirectly trained in the existing patterns of thought?

Not dissing either the company or those employees either, a tech company with. 40+ year history is doing something right, and many of those employees were of course highly competent and dedicated.

But not necessarily particularly innovative either.
He's perfectly capable of giving stock to these employees as well.
> I know we're all hot and bothered about getting our apps to scale up to be the next unicorn, but most apps never need to scale past the limit of a single very high-performance database. For most people, this single huge DB is sufficient.

True if the reliability is good enough. I agree that many organisations will never get to the scale where they need it as a performance/data size measure, but you often will grow past the reliability level that's possible to achieve on a single node. And it's worth saying that the various things that people do to mitigate these problems - read replicas, WAL shipping, and all that - can have a pretty high operational cost. Whereas if you just slap in a horizontal autoscaling datastore with true master-master HA from day 1, you bypass all of that trouble and just never worry about it.

> Also, for many (maybe even most) applications, designated outages for maintenance are not only acceptable, but industry standard. Banks have had, and continue to have designated outages all the time, usually on weekends when the impact is reduced.

IME those are a minority of applications. Anything consumer-facing, you absolutely do lose out (and even if it's not a serious issue in itself, it makes you look bush-league) if someone can't log into your system at 5AM on Sunday. Even if you're B2B, if your clients are serving customers then they want you to be online whenever their customers are.
Sure, but also, none of my (investing) friends use Tastyworks, and almost all of them are using RH as their primary investing platform!

Companies in hyper-growth stages may hire/fire differently than others.
So we worked at home for nearly two years, and productivity increased. Then we were forced back to the office, and productivity decreased?
In what world would it make sense for CCP to shoot down Nancy Pelosi's plane? What does it achieve?
Not to mention the name of the opera rendering engine.
If you don't mind videos, these are a pretty good explainer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlgF_EchG56YnW2bLDk-...
This is wrong.

The 100 poker-chips interview thing = interview BEFORE internship.

As you would expect, a job offer is based on full internship performance.

I don't have personal experience but I have friends who interviewed there.
its worse than any other broker, so there is no reason for it to survive
> over an SQL database

it is actually distributed SQL Db with auto sharding, their goal is to be SQL compatible with Postgres.
I still love PHP and JavaScript
In general the non-engineers at tech companies get treated pretty well and I don't think they are more likely to get laid off than they are at other companies. They also generally get the same kind of RSUs/options/stock comp as anyone else at the company: those are not normally restricted to engineers, although engineers often get more compensation than others.

Marketing, advertising and sales people are especially vulnerable at any company: if the company expects consumer confidence and purchases to decline, those are some of the first roles that get cut anywhere.