skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, trivially - really. Machines can communicate via TCP and UDP, pretty much the same way you communicate with a web server - but more efficiently (than http). There are tons of protocols/frameworks for replicated and distributed maps which are significantly more effective than redis, esp when hitting the local one.

Writing one such yourself, is sort of, rite of passage.

While redis is well understood and (relatively) easy to use - it's just a TCP offloaded map (and few other datastructures), all well implemented and with non-blocking IO but nothing groundbreaking. Heck, it's even single threaded by design - no vertical scaling, and no L3 cache communication.
34 Years Ago: 11 y.o. hacker Zero Cool causes 7 pt. drop in stock exchange
Right? What a groundbreaking idea! /s
I do not have a SKU to hand, but I recall the following specs off-hand: Crucial, 8x16GB, 3200MT/s, unregistered DIMMs.
Using bitmaps to run retention analyses over billions of events for $100/mo
> I'd imagine your "regular people" friends should be willing to help you out with something not readily in your power

That was actually the trigger for me...a few years ago I needed a very small favor and literally not one person would help because it was just slightly inconvenient for them, at the same time it was a massive ordeal for me, (I had to take a week off work, rent a car, and drive across the country and spent two weeks in a terrible panic besides). Given how much time and resources I'd spent on every one of these folks I was completely shocked to say the least. Everyone gave an obvious and transparent lie as an excuse, saying something like "oh sorry, but hopefully you can find someone else".

I really picked up on this broadly shared idea that "someone else" is supposed to handle this. I really think a lot of the traits that produce "regular people" as I use the term here are this combination of laziness, irresponsibility, and a narrow focus such that they're truly only aware of their own wants and needs at any given moment. I guess things in modern society are so diffused nowadays that it is possible for people deflect a ton of responsibility on other people.

Put another way, most folks are just coasting by as efficiently as possible, but this strategy doesn't produce world class anything, nor deep knowledge nor expertise of any subject. And these are the people who will disproportionately be looking to others to solve their problems.

Another interesting thing I've noticed on this is that while I quickly fell off the radar after a just a few "sorry, I can't help" replies, these folks don't seem to have any trouble whatsoever dealing with each other. Sure, they complain about people quite a lot, about lies and excuses and last minute cancellations or whatever, but week after week it seems everyone in their social group is just fine with the situation.
I would also like to sing the praises of nip2. I use it constantly in my work with enormous images at the Rijksmuseum. It's backed by libvips, which means that it offers a delightful combination of insane speed and unlimited image size. The finishing touches of the 717 gigapixel image of the Night Watch were done in nip2. Also, the spreadsheet-like nature of the interface is excellent for designing, documenting, and repeating complex workflows. Cells contain images, and the reactive trickle-down computation lets you build up multi-step transformations and computations cell by cell. Any cell's contents can be replaced by a new image at will, so it's very easy to repeat an analysis or transformation for new source images.

John Cupitt (jcupitt here), the main developer of nip2 and libvips, is super helpful, responsive, generous, and patient.

They can pry nip2 from my cold, dead hands.
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> How Long Coverage Lasts?

> The Lifetime warranty lasts for the manufacturer’s defined lifetime of your vac. The vacs are designed to have a run life of 500-700 hours. The warranty coverage ends the shorter of: after such run life or the product becomes unusable for reasons other than defects in workmanship or material.

https://www.ridgid.com/us/en/wet-dry-vac-warranty
It's varied. Some posts below describe the standard software test engineering. Test engineers on Google Fiber would buy every microwave and 2.4GHz cordless phone and baby monitor, and see if our changes to interference mitigation algorithms improved or regressed between releases. So you're basically in a lab trying to break Wifi algorithms, probably not writing much code. (Also things like "does our change to move iPhone 6 to 5GHz when it's closer to the 5GHz access point also work with and iPhone 5?")
I didn't realize I replied to you in 2 different threads lol.

I'm going by his articulation on a recent podcast with Chris Hayes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY9yBZm_57w

He would say that its not that liberal democracy is some teleological final state. But more like a local optimum that we can't hill climb out of. There simply aren't different ideas about how to organize states "beyond" democracy.

I think the shift is subtle but important. It implies a lack of ideas as opposed to a "prediction" about the consequences of 1991.
> Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

> Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2012-title18/html...
> The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Some of the most valuable work I've ever done was spending a month creating something, throwing every byte away, and then spending two weeks creating the same thing, much improved.

The key to rework like this is you have to actually be able to finish it and get rid of the old, instead of spending months or years maintaining two half-baked versions of something instead of just one.
This is some next level of evil
> My managers consistently gave me "meets expectations"

That's because his bonus was probably tied to your performance. By making sure all his subordinates receive meets or exceeds expectations, then he looks good. His manager does the same, all the way up the chain.

They played the same game when I worked at Amazon. What's more, it became automated. They introduced non-optional surveys that popped up on your computer daily. At first I assume it was a well intentioned system to gauge general employee sentiment. It was annoying and stupid HR bullshit, so of course I immediately went in and disabled it. After a year or so, my manager finally notices and orders me to enable it again. I soon guessed why. Within a few months, we start having quarterly group meetings going over graphs of the answers. And of course, the surveys aren't anonymous, so he would call out the people who gave bad answers and start grilling them about their issue in front of everyone, if they didn't immediately recant, then they would "schedule a meeting". I assume his performance bonus had become tied to the results and everyone needed to tow the line. It was amusing to me how many of the younger employees didn't understand the game they were playing and would continue to answer honestly. I just glanced at the options, picked whatever made my manager look good and went on with my day.

You'd think those idiots in charge at the upper management levels would have heard of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." But apparently not.
I am speaking to the HN audience here and expect that most people have more technical knowledge than ordinary people. Also, I acknowledged that today AOS might be superior, but it's important to support alternatives, because it will have problems long term, because it's controlled bu Google and heavily relies on proprietary code.
If an app uses the non-OS supplied web view I just assume they're doing nefarious things.

Coincidentally the only apps I have that don't use the OS supplied web view are from Meta.
Sure those people exist: but there are plenty of people who aren't that way.

I've worked a couple of different places where the systems, processes and structures in place effectively rendered me as deadweight. In both cases it was incredibly stressful and had a profoundly negative impact on my mental health. In the first case I hung around for quite a while hoping things would get better (because they had been better in the past) but, actually, they got worse, so eventually I left. In the second case I stuck it out for only a few months before leaving. Not soon enough unfortunately: I think it was a significant contributor to losing a relationship.

For a lot of people I've worked with over the course of my 20-odd year career not being able to make a meaningful contribution is intolerable over the medium to long term, and not much fun in the short term either. Of course, there have been useless layabouts, but they've been vastly in the minority, and tend to be spotted and managed out.
How do you go to sleep watching Phil Harding's legs in those too-short cut-offs?

:-)
This sounds pretty intuitive, that smarter people should have better lives in general.
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In my local grocery store it is the Fish / Meat department that has the dry ice.
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Code is Liability, the Less the Better

https://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/less-code-is-better/
China has a history of brain drain to the West for exactly this reason (and others, like quality of living):

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/2010-...

Speaking based on my own experience with young Chinese colleagues in academia and industry, this flow was already reversing before 2020 kicked idpol into hyperdrive.

And never mind the anti-Asian hate crimes, where we aren’t allowed to notice or discuss common characteristics of the perpetrators (not that it stops folks from noticing or discussing). Michael Burry of Big Short fame recently found the Justice Department burying relevant data on the perpetrators:

https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/status/1556003057699209218
To what? Disable the ability to inject JavaScript into the web view?
Right, but the actual % efficiency does matter. Derailleur and IGH achieve easily 90+% efficiency with low maintenance. Is this in the same ballpark? 80% ? 60% ?

Also the string will definitely pick up grime off the roads, especially when wet, so efficiency will almost certainly drop as a result.
Because those things don't impose the will of the minority. There are somethings that a better decided by people familiar with the local circumstances.

I would argue a person in Wyoming's vote being worth 65x that of person's in California has no benefit.
Getting a bunch of introverts to talk to each other every day can have tremendous value for the company.

But in most companies standups are just agile cargo cult. Nobody knows why they are doing standups, so naturally they turn into "I publicly report to my manager and pretend I work really hard, because everybody else is doing that".

People forgot (or never realized?) that standups are not for the manager, they are for the team.
I think Yahoo was a special case though. At that point in the company's life, they attracted the kinds of people that wanted a job they could phone in. I knew a bunch of Ex-Yahoos, and they all cited this fact as one of the main reasons they left.

I also knew some Yahoos at that time, who were not like that, but were frustrated so many of their coworkers were, especially since they had to carry the load. But they liked their job so they stayed anyway.

Marissa came into a terrible situation, and tried to make some big changes to fix it. She wasn't successful, but she did try.
> content this good

The memes are mostly Ant (my cofounder). we also have a #memes channel in slack which is surprisingly active (and a bit geekier than the twitter ones). For the blog content, everyone at Supabase is expected to write about what they build and we all pitch in on editing.

> make sure you’re not scaring off the serious enterprise buyers

We probably are scaring them off, but they sound like hard work anyway

> measure any real growth as a result of the success of this twitter account

We don't have anything sophisticated enough to attribute the growth to any particular channel - it's not really something we spend time on. We see most of our growth during our product launches (Launch Weeks primarily).
Yeah, we had that.

Even where I work now (that has almost no table constraints at all because there is no way to support them at our scale), we have tooling that prevents you from making dumb mistakes and alerting + backups if you manage to do it anyway. Having processes in place to deal with these kinds of issues, and tooling is. That's what I meant by "people problem." No constraint will keep a determined person from deleting the wrong thing (in fact, it might be worse if it cascades).

We had someone accidentally fight the "query nanny" once, thinking they were deleting a table in their dev environment... nope, they deleted a production table with hundreds of millions of rows. It took hours to complete the deletion, while all devs worked to delete the feature so we could restore from backup and revert our hacked out code. They still work there.

My point is, these are all "people problems" and no technology will save you from them. They might mitigate the issue, or slow people down to get them to realize what they are about to do ... but that is all you can really hope for. A constraint isn't necessarily required to provide that mitigation, but it helps when you can use them.
Calling it an alternative is an insult against actual alternatives.
It's still Android, just less googly.
> Or because they wanted their data to be schemaless.

I once led a team creating a public-facing site based on its own custom forms/wizards. We had half a dozen internal departments wanting dozens of wildly varying forms defined, and decided we didn't want fixed schemas as future field requirements were unknown.

Rather than the corporate C#/SQL Server we went for Node/MongoDB, and we (successfully) ramped up a new system that transformed the power and cost-base of our public sector employer.

We were well chuffed, and it was deemed revolutionary (it also did cloud integration whilst pulling submissions, parsing/verifying, communicating, managing, and pushing into legacy IT systems, so not hyperbole).

And yet, despite the outcome, privately the team regretted the choice from about half-way through. I think for me the clue was when we introduced Mongoose to ... enforce a schema onto our schema-less Mongo collections and help out with the relational querying.

(Edit: I'm not saying schema-less is bad, I'm saying you need to be clear about when it's good.)
The difference in entropy is so small that we are talking about entropy of dissolution. It's not hard on those conditions to introduce some element that weakly bias the reactions on a different way.

I don't want to minimize the gaps on our knowledge. We don't know how any macromolecule polymerization occurred. But I also don't want to maximize the gap. Those kinds of reaction are completely mundane and occur on a huge variety of environments. The fact that we don't know what environment it was doesn't mean it's an outwordly phenomenon. And adding just a few of those mundane reactions is enough for life to appear.

(Anyway, I question your certainty about the concentration of water on our primordial oceans. Abiogenesis research usually uses a model of water origins that gives a precise estimation for its amounts, but not only we know that this model is wrong - water is cycled by geologic means like any other mineral - but we also do not have anything with near that amount of precision to the other substances that composed it.)
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One part of the bill which is being overlooked is Part 4, Section 1: the requirement for all user to user services to provide the option for User Identity verification. It's easy to write it off as an "option" now, but this is 100% trying to normalize mandatory online identification.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0121...
Have you had any luck with FB this way? There's local history groups I'd dearly like to back up for future generations - plus posts from 6 months+ ago are already hard to get to.
Sorry, rereading your comment that's exactly what you said and I just misread!
It is interesting how this would apply for custom browser engines in the future of iOS.
2 years ago, Sonic pulled fiber in my neighborhood in the East Bay. Gigabit is $65/month (including taxes/fees + 1 unused phone line). Very happy with Sonic!
I don't get what point you're trying to get across with this comment. The question at hand is essentially one of causality, but you seem to be avoiding it? Addressing your points one by one:

>Survivor bias. If nothing existed [1], we wouldn't be here to ask the question.

Survivor bias leading to the question is not the reason anything exists, in the same way you being alive to ask this question is not the reason you're alive. In both cases existence is simply a pre-requisite to asking the question, but it does not answer it.

>It's like asking what is P(A|A).

No, that is misinterpretation of the question. The question is not "What is the probability that anything exists, given that anything exists?", it's asking "Why does anything exist?", as per the title.

>The question "Why do I not exist" has never and will never be (seriously) asked.

Haven't given much thought to this, and at face value, yes, you're right. But "seriously" is ambiguous and there are some interesting questions here regarding the possibility of an evil demon like entity, or, more interestingly, GPT-3 posing this question.
I'm going to skate past the fact that difficult customers and maintenance aren't why monopolies are expensive, in fact they're the things that are most amenable to economies of scale, so bigger gets cheaper.

The real question is: why does he have to get larger than the 600 homes in his nearby rural area, ever? Why does his goal have to be to defeat and replace Comcast rather than to supply internet service to his neighbors?
100%

Working in a +200 yr old manufacturer, and some entire teams may fit that definition.
> Easy. Refuse service. You aren't legally obligated to offer your service to assholes. Any business has the right to do or not do business with whoever they want, provided they’re not refusing service for a reason that violates local, state, or federal law.

Then isn't this a point against the scalability / feasibility of this idea working broadly for others or becoming a model for replacing dumb telcos?

If part of the reason telcos are the way they are is because they have to serve everyone, and at some point if you run a service like this you will run into that requirement, then you will too become like a telco because of those obligations. And this is just one example of a factor that starts to matter.

I try to help out in my HOA of 25 people to manage the utilities, infrastructure, landscaping, and even with this small a group people are uncooperative and 1-2 people are constantly questioning and threatening to sue if we don't do what they say. Hundreds/thousands of people is even more a nightmare.
It varies, but 6 min = 1/10th of an hour so it’s pretty common.
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Why believe anything about this question at all? I feel quite strongly that the proper mental posture towards many questions is "I don't have a very compelling reason to hold a strong opinion on that." This feeling it buttressed by the fact that there are a great many tractable scientific and philosophical mysteries which are as yet unresolved. It seems premature to tackle this particular one, perhaps because I fundamentally disagree with the author that we are at a stage in history where it can be tackled "scientifically."
Do you need good marketing to guide your decisions? Do you need someone else validating your choices? Why do you care about "good marketing"?

> How do I tell people about it?

"hey, the website is https://e.foundation, here is the link"

That was not so hard, was it?
Yeah but at least they're getting gigabit from an asshole, instead of 1.5 Mbps from an asshole.
You can’t really tell from a distance if engineers are productive. The key to success is having a culture where people are motivated and principled so that they manage their own productivity. That culture requires respect. Zuckerberg isn’t showing that to his people, and he is paying the price for that.
The novelty here is the TEVR tokens, which is in the c++ beam search decoder.

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411566
I have met a few of those people, but every single one of them needed a justification.

Some told me they felt wronged by the company somehow. For example they had experienced bullying, or didn't get promoted when they felt they should have been, or they had contributed something and then it got cut from the product, something like that in most cases. Now didn't feel they owed the company anything. Yet others said the pay is not enough to really get them invested in the work.

The fact that they needed these excuses tells me they felt what they did to be morally wrong and didn't really want to be dead weight.

I personally have done a few projects that turned out to be purely compliance based, and had no merit whatsoever. I remember the feeling of wasting my life to be absolutely soul crushing and I have been avoiding that kind of project as if my life depended on it.

Your mileage may vary.
Plenty of players happily pay Steam 30% of the sale value of their ingame items.
GE Appliances designs and makes appliances, and never stopped, but they've been owned by Haier, not GE, since 2016. Sort of a subtle distinction, but it matters.
I bring a breaker tool and a spare magic link. Never needed the link, but it’s small. The breaker tool has saved a couple of riding partners.
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Oh, I would like to see a look on your face when just in about 100-200 years from now it will be mature enough for a "web scale".
> Which is why china, vietnam, and korea never recovered.

What does economic performance have to do with the British museums being filled with looted cultural artifacts? You could have thrown in Greece in there (EU member), but Greece also wants it's looted artifacts back.