skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think by example we can guess that you might act exactly that way (since so many other people do) but IMO the important thing is how do we as a society want people to act (ITT it would not be how this person is acting).

IMO we as a society should pass rules and laws to prevent people from acting this way ie limits on compensation.
I don't feel it's primarily about the money (but it helps). If it was about the money, it'd be the uncertainty of the bonus, rather than the wage itself.
The top talent can jump jobs on a whim in major tech hubs. The only senior programmers I know in Chicago that have been unemployed or underemployed for longer than a few weeks in the past decade were of their own volition. Maybe this is just my bubble and maybe it's just Chicago, but I doubt both of those.
You should probably just read the study itself (which will presumably be published in the next issue of the Alzheimer's Association's journal of Alzheimer's & Dementia, going by the conference's website), if you're actually curious about the precise definition and level of scientific rigor used to study "whole foods" and their relation to degenerative neurological disorders.
Ask HN: Do you self-host databases or use a managed service like RDS?
I felt AWS RDS is too costly for small usecases (5-10M rows). Does any of you manage self-host database here ? Any tools that can turn a self-hosted database into a managed database of sort with easy backup/restore etc.
That argument is just stupid...see smartphone rt-os in gsm chips, and btw it runs intel-me, not the chip. You can remove/disable it.
It's still going on.

Nikola, a vaporware company with absolutely 0 revenues burning $600m / year, is still "worth" $3b.

HKD, a vaporware company, is being pump and dumped and is now "worth" $150b+, the size of Bank of America, despite being 50 employees with nothing of value.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/wegalp/hkd_...
The use case for a bus differs from a pickup, though.

As far as the battery, at least in NYC there was talk of having quick charging stations at the end of each line. However the typical driver layover time is on the order of twenty minutes, so they'd have to be real quick charging.

Never mind vandalism of charging stations, and that areas of NYC flood easily. I lived in an area where it floods easily in a moderate rain storm. The arrival of hybrid buses years ago also saw the arrival of "No service due to road conditions."

Many are stuck in this mindset "OMFG! The world is going to end literally, TOMORROW, if we don't stop global warming!" and providing knee-jerk responses. Corporations have no problem cashing in on it.
Worsening Drought Drives California Water Prices to All-Time High
>Aren’t they selling the order flow of retail traders?

...and getting price improvements. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32325223. I don't see the issue here.
They were still in business?
Turns out I'm an idiot, there's a sign in with discord button right below it they works just fine.. Join the beta thing threw me off!
The entire purpose of the C-suite is to stay on top of macro level stuff, and its the boards purpose to make sure the C-suite is doing it. They didn't do their job. And they got rich not doing it.
> Even Windows, prior to Win95, used the event loop style for multitasking.

Even? That's nearly the lowest bar regarding multitasking, compared to other OSes of the time.
Right, but as we enter the era of climate change it's beginning to feel like going vest-less in a warzone.
But how would that motivate the other CEOs or aspiring CEOs to be better CEOs? /s
Indeed -- in this case, a large-scale diffusion of a very stable family of waterproofing chemicals into the, uh, global water cycle. The idea is that it's possible for human activity to fundamentally change the nature of some system whose behaviour we think of as stable and inviolable. Considering how goddamn important water is to basically everything in the biosphere, I think of it as more an eaten-by-a-grue "unexplored", rather than enticing-terra-nova, style of thing.
I have taken projects of significance to me from MySQL to Postgres. It was certainly a short-term cost but the upside justified it. (first class IPv6 objects, JSON)

I have tried to do the language port thing Several times. I never succeeded in bringing others with me (Perl to python) but that said, others I work with have done Perl -> Java and C -> Perl -> C and Perl -> Java -> Rust so I think language may be one of the "tractable" problems in many cases.

We tried AWS for low-end k8s and it was too complex. GCP/GKE was just better presented. It has the same complexity but gcloud/kubectl seemed to work "better" for us, which led directly to helm outcomes we liked. I think the AWS experience we had could be called at best "toe in the water" maybe try before you buy works?

The one which has proved the most sticky is VM/Cloud provider, for routing. If you are in a world which cares about BGP, the one you pick that works, you probably stay with. We partnered with CloudFlare for some stuff, and Linode for other stuff. I do wish at times we'd gone digitalocean, or fastly, or even Akamai (which is behind Linode apparently) -but the BGP surface we have, is the one we want to maintain because we understand it. Maybe it's not that different to AWS vs Azure vs GCP.

Also DNS provider. You tend to stick to the underlying NS and related registrar inside your chosen namespace registry.

Also Cryptography TA. Well.. once you move to letsencrypt you stop moving I guess.

I do think the DNA baked in early tends to persist. If you do monolithic solutions, you aren't walking to microservices without a huge conversation. If you went XML/SOAP you would be asking the cost/benefit of JSON given JSON and XML can be considered strictly equivalent for data content. If you went apache and mod_<something> then moving to nginx or caddy incurs massive cost for what?

But if you wind up behind dead/legacy platform (apache/mod_python) that can suck.

Even just moving off wordpress costs.

Moving off one CI to another CI costs. I don't know any CI which works all the time, they all seem to incur opex burdens

We moved self-hosted gitlab to k8s gitlab to k8s in GCP gitlab and that went ok. Maybe when the abstraction moves to the package, change in how the package is presented matters less?
Most people don't even get in the room because their resume was thrown out, most of the rest don't get in the room because they can't pass the codepen hazing.

Not all of us have fantastic networks.
Again, you are taking massive simplifications. Flight information is only one dataset they manage. They also manage data on planes, their users' subscriptions, perhaps site analytics, etc. The cost of the storage goes beyond the disc size - you also need redundancy, you might have offline ETL jobs to enrich the data, etc. Quoting estimates of disc size and per GB storage costs is not sufficient to summarize their costs.

Further to the point, your reply (to my comment) is not addressing my reply at all.

> unlimited traffic = unlimited cost

To support additional traffic does not come free. Sure, the traffic:cost ratio is not linear, but I don't think you are making the point that supporting the additional traffic does not have a cost associated to it? Exactly how are you refuting my comment, if you are at all?
"With great power comes great responsibility"
I'd be interested in knowing what that documentary is called if you remember.
These drugs clearly have risks. I know a case who took LSD and amputated his genitals during the trip (heard this first hand from the urologist who reattached said genitals). Sure, many or even most people will be fine, but some clearly won’t. Sure, he has a mental illness and took too much and was alone, but that’s exactly the issue. Do you have any suggestions how to make these drugs broadly safe without giving in to the supposedly unreasonable demands of the ‘normies’?
Unless you agree with the BTC utopians who think that: 'The US dollar and every other currency will collapse soon and be replaced by crypto.'
If you are seeing a venue not meeting nbbo you have a whistleblower suit to make which have been quite lucrative.

When I was doing this for work the issues we ran into came down to a) making the orders hit the tape close enough to ensure similar priority b) the size of the orders changing execution depending on venue c) differences in performance per symbol.

This was in a place that was sending a fair amount of orders in. Even then given the above finding statistical relevance was hard.
I can't help but feel that this is by design by VCs. Rip through younger talent and see what shakes out. You can polish the turd later. You're not looking for beautiful gemstones in most startups. You're just mostly throwing things against the wall to see what sticks, and it's later generations of devs who come in and deal with the tech debt.

Jokes on them, though, my mortgage is almost paid off, so I can work for less than I was. I'm the old guy working with all the young people at the startup. I can almost feel their eyes rolling into the back of their heads when I start going on about "back in the 90s"...
other brokers do too..
SoftBank Emerges as a Big Loser of the Tech Downturn. Again
It may never meet the impact of the web but held to that standard, maybe no technology ever will.

The killer application is Ethereum and the ideas it has spawned, including new global financial instruments like stablecoins, decentralized exchanges, NFTs.. and cryptography like zk-STARKs and MPC.

With PoS and privacy enabled rollups this technology can certainly disrupt and compete with today’s popular payment processors in the next few years.

But yes, the most successful consumer applications will probably be boring, like PayPal or Apple or Stripe adding blockchain based mechanisms under the hood.
> And big money players would never use Robinhood over schwab et all

Their entire business model is PFOF [0]. That is, a huge fucking scam against retail.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/paymentoforderflow.asp
You can also issue the relevant stty command to remap the interrupt control key in your .bashrc.

Or configure or modify your terminal to remap the keys before it gets to the TTY driver.
>It's not really my problem if you think I said UNIX has to be a monolith, since I never said that.

Sure you said that:

>Right - for a start xv6 is a monolithic kernel, and MINIX is (mostly) not.

>Nobody really gives a rat's ass about UNIX certification in the real world ... except MacOS fans.

Then don't call it Unix, your a liar and i stop here.
To me, towns are a bit out of place. I get a greater sense of wonder from a large building created with single minded purpose, rather than villages that grew over time.
Yeah. I wouldn't even mind learning weird syntax or grammar, like

Thread.sleep(5 * 60 * 1000);
light.off();
> spending 6 months to prototype anything

I come from the world of medical devices. Nothing happens in a week ;-)
I said the same thing. Taking responsibility doesn’t mean “I acknowledge that this is on me.” Of course it is. How about some accountability? How about getting your pay clawed back etc? Just “taking responsibility” is lip service.
I think they mean "missing" not as "unclear" but rather "un-utilized" (which could imply being unclear, but isn't in this case)
I worked at FB, too, and I can confirm you speak the truth.

This process is problematic, though. The "special case" is the standard process at FB: to make external contributors second class citizens.

They have their reasons, but doing this pushes the locus of discussion and action to the place where work happens fastest: inside the company. That means that the interests of FB engineers drive the project; in other words, not open.

That argument is I'm sure open to some logical nitpicking. But the evidence speaks for itself: Facebook open source projects aren't responsive to the outside community, and they language when FB's priorities shift. So their strategy has been pennywise, pound foolish in my view: they get the short term benefits of an "open" project, but they're incapable of actually being good open source custodians.
... and at the same time trying to show they're a great because capable of acknowledging errors.
I don't know the situation now, but both used to sell their order flow to the same place. I used both and fills for pretty much the same. However, I used tasty platform to set up options and then execute them on RH most of the time.
That's because it effectively is. I suggest you look into pledged asset lines (and more broadly 'buy, borrow, die'), which are even more tax advantaged than just getting paid directly. Sure, there is some marginal cost associated with borrowing against granted equity, but it's almost certainly less than 10%. So yes, it is accurate to assume that if an exec vets $x00 million dollars of equity a year, they have a high percentage of that available to spend on whatever consumption or investment they desire.
Not without big compromises and a lot of extra work. If you want a truly horizontally scaling database, and not just multi-master for the purpose of availability, a good example solution is Spanner. You have to lay your data out differently, you're very restricted in what kinds of queries you can make, etc.
Are you talking about the ~$800M in stock-based compensation described here [1]?

Nearly all of that only vests if Robinhood stock hits price targets between $120 and $300 per share. The remainder requires a price of $50.75 to be sustained for 60 days. Since none of these goals have been met, Vlad has not received any of it. And unless the company turns around dramatically - it's currently around $9/share - it's likely he never will.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1783879/000178387922...
I don't think that the collapse of the serotonin hypothesis means that SSRI's don't work, just that they don't work via increasing serotonin levels.
Feels like you're arguing semantics, either way the CEO is being made wealthy right?

Probably still getting much more than they need to live off of, so some of that should go to the people getting let go.
Amphidromic Point
If the CEO picks the board, and packs it full of his other CEO friends, who all have him sit on their boards too, and everyone rubber stamps each others compensation packages; isn't this circular blame game awfully beneficial to all of the CEOs at the expense of all the non-CEOs?
what an odd assumption

I'm suggesting that the de facto standard behaviour should be respected, or made opt-out. what people did or thought in the 1970s isn't relevant to that
I think memorable just means that there is some artefact of the work, eg some thing in the user interface or some committed code or report or whatever.
Direct air capture is the holy grail of climate solutions. Its success would offer us a way to put the cat back in the bag, and see CO2 levels decrease.

The problem is how absurdly expensive these things are. In the next couple decades, even being optimistic, it's hard to forsee a scenario where we've plugged enough holes in our infrastructure that direct air capture will be better or cheaper than doing more capture inside some existing pollution site, or replacing more fossil fuels with clean energy.

But one day we will reach that point. And when we reach that point, anything to reduce the cost of carbon capture a little bit will help a lot.

So yes, regenerative breaking connection is sort of a distraction. But improvements to DAC efficiency are very welcome, and improving airflow by mounting the mechanism on a high-speed train seems like it offers a big improvement.
He should be thankful he was just banned and not served with a lawsuit - Oracle's typical move.
I think they are implying disabling them (if on) could squeeze you out a bit more performance.
From your source:

> Specifically, a coordinated global round of unconventional quantitative easing through the issuance of a complementary currency, called the carbon coin, to be issued in proportion to the mass of carbon that is mitigated.

That is just nuts.

The result would be like every other time money is printed: Wealth flows to those that know how to game the system while inflation erodes the wealth and income of normal people.
With $800M you can’t keep up with the really successful billionaires. You know, things like sports teams, bezos’s yacht etc.
Just looked it up because of your comment. Plackers contain PFAS in the form of PTFE (Teflon). I play with those in my mouth all the time. Holy cow.
It's even more bizarre/frustrating for someone, especially in tech where many of our TC is largely RSUs, not understand that wealth is almost never held in cash.

When I was young (and poor) I also believed that being rich meant having Scrooge McDuck piles of cash to swim in.

After my first big RSU payout I quickly realized that nobody with more than a few 100k in assets keeps anything close to the majority of them in cash. Savings accounts are for the poor. Anyone, even in the every day millionaire level, keeps most of their wealth in non-cash investments, leaving only enough cash to cover crisis situations. Especially with inflation this high, holding cash is literally throwing money away.

Nobody has a bank account with 8 zeros, except maybe lottery winners that never learned the basics of asset management.
You actually want to have to rely on insurance? I would hope that my brokerage can at least stay solvent ffs.
And Elizabeth Holmes
https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-open-source-announcement...
So what you are saying, the ai hasn't yet grown up to be boring, clean, simple adult like the western scandavian school.
Civil time is based on time zones, and it will take thousands of years to have a meaningful drift in comparison to that. If we avoid the hubris of thinking that we know how clocks will be set hundreds of years in the future, then the error from lacking leap seconds is negligible.

And it's not like allowing .9 seconds of drift is objectively correct either.
You can't. With human language, the wordspace is so large that plagiarism is often identifiable, but idiom and such are very common, so even there it's very hard to tell derivative from original (and that's not even going into patterns and archetypes). With programming languages, the wordspace is usually tiny, the idioms are very many, and most programs closely follow an archetypical pattern. If whole sections are copied, you can't tell, because almost everyone uses those same operations in the same way, the same variable naming patterns, and the same formatting style.

Lazy copiers might be easy to spot if there were inconsistencies in formatting throughout a program, comments that match copied-from-source, lots of extraneous glue that indicates lacking the understanding to factor and adapt techniques.
Well, it's behavior specific to one board, and perhaps to TinyUSB. But it looks like Arduino has a yield function [1] that you can use to run periodic tasks if you write your own loop. And Teensy calls yield() between calls to loop(). [2]

Since switching to VSCode and PlatformIO, I read the source more. (Arduino 1.x discouraged this due to not having easy ways to navigate between callers and callees.)

[1] https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/libraries/scheduler/yiel...
[2] https://github.com/PaulStoffregen/cores/blob/master/teensy4/...
Right sizing not layoffs
HSTS is surprisingly NOT widely deployed, never mind HSTS Preload. Google, Amazon, eBay, BofA or Chase have neither. Facebook, to its credit, does, then again with Facebook your threat model is what’ inside the perimeter.

https://blog.majid.info/hsts-preload/
Cool. Are there any published benchmarks on how the data versioning engine scales?
I worked at a startup that tried that. Within 4 months, a good chunk of the best tech people were gone. Within 12 months they had gone under.

Maybe for an economy-wide recession where your workers have no other options. But if it's just startup risk that are making you founder, you're basically guaranteeing a death spiral. There is some chance if you make it a fixed-term paycut with a payback with interest, but you better have a real cult leader as CEO to get people onboard with something complicated instead of just getting a job at Google.
> people who hate capitalism

Capitalism is always tempered in various ways; I don't know if a single case where it's not. "Pure" capitalism would be a dystopian hellhole, and no serious capitalism thinker ever proposed it.

So the question is how and where we should temper capitalism, and more generally how we should implement capitalism. This is not "hating capitalism". That's just red-baiting.
Even if you know something exists, you might just have never tried it for some reason until something causes you to, at which point you might realize you enjoy it.

E.g., I got a bike over COVID, found I liked biking a lot, and have been doing it a lot more now.
It didn’t work for me.

“Turn off the lights in 5 minutes did but “turn off the floorstanding lamp in 5 minutes” did not

Honestly that’s more frustrating when it’s not uniform and now I’ve to remember this weird behavior.
Page 68 and on of the Schedule 14A filed with the SEC, published this May. The $300 I was referencing was the top price target of the PSUs that make up his comp.
> for the kids AA bumps out, Yale is not nearly as big of a deal

This is a massive, life-changing assumption you’ve made.

> do you care that certain minorities are massively underrepresented in many aspects of prosperity or not?

Yes. The consistent counter argument is this is a destructive way to address that problem.
Because I will build it and verify the code (either open source or my own) won't report any telemetry to them.
No amount of abstraction is going to save you from the problem of 2 processes manipulating the same state machine.
How many lives were impacted significantly by your production error?
For what it's worth, I think distributing horizontally is also much easier if you're already limited your database to specific concerns by splitting it up in different ways. Sharding a very large database with lots of data deeply linked sounds like much more of a pain than something with a limited scope that isn't too deeply linked with data because it's already in other databases.

To some degree, sharding brings in a lot of the same complexities as different microservices with their own data store, in that you sometimes have to query across multiple sources and combine in the client.
It absolutely is, when speaking on a global/remote scale.
I don't agree that cyberpunk was critical or satirical of technology, any more than film noir detective stories are critical satires of telephones, guns, and automobiles or the gritty parts of town; that's just a setting and some props, they're stories of human nature.
It seems strange to fix a specific day, people might need a day off for dealing with their mental health on another day of the year.
> I’m assuming that teams wouldn’t be sharing strategies with other teams. Is that accurate?

Correct. At least at this firm I was at (different firms have different org setups and therefore incentive structures), each team was a silo. All the teams shared the common core infrastructure to talk to exchanges, but that was it.

Teams have negative incentives to help each other.

> Would these other teams be independently finding some strategy that is either directly better than another internal team or is having some indirect impacts on other teams?

Exactly. You have no idea who you're trading with. It could be against other teams in the company or other players in the market (probably a mix of both).
Do you know how the core scheduling works? Does it migrate tasks between cores? Is there any notable core to core migration penalty?
Would you say the same about working from home generally, which seems to have more staying power (even if we are seeing some return to office)?

It seems not-crazy to me that someone would have thought that WFH was going to stick around post-COVID and thus also make people want to keep being able to work out from home.