skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use Google Calendar, and it is generally the best solution in my experience. But not just a daily event; an actual time, with a meeting invite that anyone relevant joins, to run each task together. It helps knowledge transfer and helps guarantee that it happens. Documentation, like with most meetings, is thrown into Notion or whatever; just quick and dirty.

Example: test our database backup restore process. Everyone hops on; leader logs into the cloud provider; confirms that the backup strategy is what we expect (which is documented in the description of the meeting invite); confirms that database backups exist in line with that policy; confirms they're of a reasonably expected size; we click one for staging -> restore to a new deployment -> wait for the cloud provider to set everything up, use that 5 minutes to talk with one another about stuff -> set up the database username/password; log in to AWS Secrets Manager -> update credentials -> roll the deployment to pull in the new credentials; confirm everything looks good; and tear the old (again: staging) deployment down. A second person on the call is tasked with documenting everything we did, taking screenshots of the screen share, and getting it all into a wiki. For us, it takes less than a half hour, do it every quarter or so, usually scheduled for a Friday afternoon where we can also talk about weekend plans and enjoy some drinks.

Eyeballing dashboards is a harder one; a similar thing we do, similar to the last example, is more of a Performance Review, which is bi-weekly. We've got a collection of dashboards, database index metrics, etc; we all get together for a half hour and review all of them similarly. If anything looks unacceptable, we generally backlog two tickets: one to adjust our Slack/Datadog alerts for it so the next time we don't find out during the review, and another to remediate.
My rebuttal is saying that your premise is bad and indicating why. I can't disagree with points because I disagree with the foundation you build your points on.
Thanks, I'd appreciate it.

Often talks of such nature even if extemporaneous or unrecorded are based on on a line of development that leaves traces elsewhere.

I'm not finding a homepage or blog. None is mentioned in his Wikipedia bio.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer>
Growing a New Type of Organ Donor
It’s easy to imagine almost anything. The question isn’t whether he could but rather whether he did. I’m challenging the reasons many people believe he did, or likely did.
Exactly. Sometimes my columns aren't waterfall phases, but more: Backlog, Blocked, Active, Done, Abandoned.

The "Blocked" is important to highlight on the board: when someone can't do their thing, no sense floundering quietly -- highlight that, see who can unblock it, and what anyone else can do in the meantime.

"Abandoned" is another one that I think is important, but might be unusual. If the task no longer makes sense, stop immediately, move it to Abandoned, and move on to a more worthwhile task. Just don't abandon anything quietly; acknowledge it on the board, communicating to everyone immediately we're not doing that anymore. Later, we can reflect on what info we had, when, and what we can learn from that.

(I usually really-really want a Gantt model as well, on the same database that the board view is coming from, but the tools aren't quite there yet.)
In this instance I’d say it’s rather a question of how naive/innocent you think the poster must be for it to not be sarcasm.
Is there a law that counts that as discrimination?
I read the intro and it looks similar to Jotai[1].

But the value getter and the compute tracking looks nicer. Anybody tried it with React pros/cons?

[1] https://jotai.org/docs/basics/primitives
My point wasn’t that the program in the bug report did not do anything meaningful (duh). My point was that most numerical algorithms, once they hit intermediate underflow in the form of subnormals for a set of inputs, do not proceed to compute a result that is in any way related to their stated purpose (with the notable exception of string conversions). Unless a hard limit on the number of iterations is imposed, most iterative algorithms can also be made to hang by giving them unfortunate inputs. In both cases it is the responsibility of the numerical analyst invoking them to not provide such inputs.

So it seems likely (if not certain) that the bug report in question says, essentially, that a function inside scipy, given certain arguments, returns one sequence of meaningless bits quickly when gevent is not loaded and a different sequence of meaningless bits very slowly when it is. While that is certainly not nice, and I’d accept it as a bug in gevent, it still does not count as a piece of code succeeding at a reasonable task with subnormals but failing without them.

(I do not have any ideological opposition to such code—it would certainly be interesting to see some!)
I think the OP means something more like "immutable" or "copy on write", so you would never modify or delete previous data (or at least separate the modifications/deletions to a more-secure system).
That's cool, much appreciated. I don't think any of them are livable on the minimum wage.

The charts are terrifying.

Add the highest gas and now electric prices in the US, California is headed for a reckoning.

I know myself and several associates are looking at getting out, with some of us looking at north Washington to be close to the Canadian border.

The great thing about skyrocketing everything in California on top of their already insane prices, is that it makes other places that may have seemed out of reach cheaper by comparison now.

It's pushed me personally to finally open another business. Not because I was ready- or even wanted to again, but because I'm tired of making others rich for nothing.

I've a friend who is maintenence for Marriott properties- they just had a housekeeper hit 20 years with the company and she is still making minimum wage (bonus- it's the 14/hr not 15/hr because Marriott properties consider each location a separate business, so they don't think they should have to oay the 15/hr for employers with more than 26 employees).

Not even a $.05 raise a year.

Really opened his eyes, he is now looking at taking a year off to enjoy himself since he doesn't have rent or anything.

Sad, truly.
It isn't comparable to Safari for sure, but with similar tabs open, for me, Firefox and Chrome have similar (if not better for Firefox) heat/fan behavior. Leaving a Gmail tab open is cursed in both, though.

I would use Safari on a Mac if there was a decent way to sync browser history, etc. to Firefox on Windows, but--welp.
Can you disable the video driver in the system control panel if you don't want Windows to use it?

Other stuff seems normal for a server board though.
Early in one of my companies, we had a cloud hosted database provider that only provided (at our meager level of spend) 7 days of daily backups for the main db. We had a specific customer, one of maybe ten, and a higher percentage of our revenue, who made an big bulk import oopsie-whoopsie; and given the specifics of this software product, did not notice for weeks. They wanted everything back to the way it was.

We ended up being saved by our traditionally "crappy" local dev process; me and the other dev had copies of the prod db on our development machines. And, naturally, we rarely updated them; the last time I had sync'ed it down was, conveniently, about four weeks ago. So they had some data loss between that "backup" and the oopsie-whoopsie, but far less major than their issues with the current state.

The most interesting thing to really come out of that was a set of tooling to precision restore an individual customer's data from a backup of this multi-tenanted database. That was something I see as pretty rare for engineers to consider in their backup strategy; you may have the backup, it may be easily restored, but it will take the world with it and maybe you don't want the whole world. We ended up using that a half dozen or more times over the next few years... against a far more comprehensive set of backups of course. Yeah, maybe it makes sense to store a history of every change made to every row; but for our needs it made a lot more sense to leverage backups and some glue scripts.
If you're into large networks rather than trees specifically, you will probably also enjoy IES Backbone, an underappreciated technique.*

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8896846

* This is a roundabout way of encouraging its broader implementation
> Change from stainless steel hardware for doors and travel touch surfaces back to "brass/copper".

I have never heard of this. I had to Google it to even understand your meaning. It's eye-opening to learn that different metal surfaces have an effect on the spread of germs.
the first 9 were satire, then i did about 6 more and they were about 50% satire
A bit off tangent, is there something that can ingest unstructured data and output something meaningful? Something like GPT-3 but huge amount of data.
Bioware, from medical simulations to computer games.
Data centers are finite and I assume Amazon has some metrics on when to stop allowing new instances (even if they have capacity) so they can continue to serve existing customers.
I just browsed the Solid website for the first time. It looks somewhat interesting, but one thing I noticed is that rollup seems to be the preferred way to do builds?

I kind of like keeping things simple by using just Preact and esbuild.
Most people just don't have that much data. Those huge HDD arrays were mostly used for pirated media but these days most people are on streaming. Even for games, it's usually easier to just delete the games you aren't using and download them back when you want to play them.

Many modern cases opt for only one or even no HDD bays because it makes the case look cleaner, smaller and gives it better airflow. Gone are the days where most cases had top to bottom bays of DVD and HDD slots
This is the example at https://github.com/looker-open-source/malloy

query: table('malloy-data.faa.flights') -> {
where: origin ? 'SFO'
group_by: carrier
aggregate:
flight_count is count()
average_flight_time is flight_time.avg()
}

SELECT
carrier,
COUNT(*) as flight_count,
AVG(flight_time) as average_flight_time
FROM `malloy-data.faa.flights`
WHERE origin = 'SFO'
GROUP BY carrier
ORDER BY flight_count desc -- malloy automatically orders by the first aggregate

I don't see much value in this. This is not aesthetically better than SQL. It's also semantically better. This is just a different syntax that would parse to the same AST. And what's with the `?` for equality?!
I hope his view isn’t so myopic/“boot straps” but I guess it’s possible.
> but still called hard drive space "memory".

Well, it is secondary memory. Besides, absolutely, it is memory. It's just not the main memory in a relative context about your computer.

In fact, "storage" and "memory" mean about the same thing. And since it's not technically the main or primary memory of our computers anymore, and RAM is actually an implementation detail that all of the in-machine memory shares, I'm not sure I have a good pedantic name for it.
I think it would be nice if they added a feature where you could visually tell what cell you have highlighted. Bigger screens nowadays, I always have to look in the upper left to see what cell I am in, and then find the row and the column on the left and then trace across and down and voila, there is the highlighted cell.

Making it a substantially different color outline or something would be a nice feature. Maybe a 2032 feature.
The world isn’t uniform. Quite a lot of companies continue to self-host and take care to not expose their data to the cloud.
I wish they completed the IF variants of statistical functions.

Why do we have AVERAGEIF, but not AVERAGEAIF or GEOMEANIF, MAX and MAXIFS, but not MAXIF, etc?

I can’t find logic in that.

(https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-functions-b...)

Ideally, the “IF” would be a separate function that filters out cells, so that it could be used with VBA functions taking multiple cells, too.

While at it, these IF functions should use lambdas for specifying the criteria instead of strings such as “>5”
I think the main point is all the other (technical) brags are quite quaintly outdated (T1 lines are glacial by todays standard, while interestingly the lines about how quickly hardware becomes obsolete have become less accurate over time), on the other hand 100GB of RAM is still quite extreme.
I’m just the submitter, but I’ll bet the creator would be delighted to hear that from you!
> An analog computer is limited by its intrinsic accuracy with a typical error delta-f_analog ∼ 10E−(4±1) (averaging over the Analog Paradigm
Model-1 and future analog computers on chip).

Yes, solving FDEs is useful, but how often are you happy with results equivalent to 12-bit fixed-point integers? And with problems which needs minutes of human attention to change? Most analog computers, including Analog Paradigm Model 1, are programmed by humans dialing in the dozens of potentiometer dials and plugging in jumper wire.

And sure, one could replace every potentiomenter with multiplier driven by DAC, but this will dramatically change every figure mentioned in the paper -- power consumption will go up, speed will go down, accuracy might get even lower... The case for analog computer will be even weaker than it is now.
>>* CMS (medicare/medicaid) sets a low price for a procedure that's overly common in a particular facility, now that facility loses money for each occurrence. They choose other procedures to raise the price to try to break even.

This is precisely why most Doctors I speak with are abhorrently against a single payer system.
Experiencing Paris as a tourist and living in Paris are two very different experiences. You don’t really see the cramped apartments with awful isolation, the constant urban work improving nothing, the lack of vegetation, the never ending noise, how the public transports always have issues, how the city is constantly grubby as a tourist. Also despite the impression you get from the small buildings Paris is actually extremely dense. People just live in shoeboxes.

I really like the city but it wears you down sometimes.
Guess its time to learn RISC-V. Any good courses?
The real awakening for audiophiles was when someone bench marked a lot of devices and found the $10 Apple USB-C to 3.5mm adapter was outperforming these expensive boxes and PCI cards.
I used to drive airport shuttles that ran on CNG. I think the airport wanted to lower emissions on site. Worked fine, except that the county only had two stations with CNG pumps. They kept a couple of regular vans that could stop for gasoline on longer trips.
A pet peeve I've had to grow out of is the missing word "connection" when people say "The Internet is down".
That's very generous of you. Thanks.

All we need now is a good, local copilot implementation. Has anyone done anything like that with minGPT that you know of? Something to inspire the masses like stable diffusion has with images.
that lifeform ia gpt-3
Prior to 1.17, go.mod was not a complete representation of the dep graph. More broadly, the problem is that programmers expect dependency management tooling to have a lock file, see go.sum, and assume it's a lock file. This isn't a problem with those programmers, it's a problem with Go modules.
One of the important considerations of database design is “what might I want to restore” and there are often way more answers than just “how it was at a point in time”.

And some of those restores should happen in the application layer not the db backup.
Just a nitpick, when there is a single purchaser it's called a monopsony.
The newest from go.sum isn't reliably the version used in the dep graph. The only way to get that information reliably is via go list. Unfortunately.
New Book Says NSA Pressured GCHQ to Shut Down Publication of Snowden Leaks
From a sudden high and then a consistent low, none of my contacts are using Signal. It has become irrelevant. Almost completely irrelevant.
Argentina has public free healthcare and it still has growing expenditures in the private health sector.
The CPU is that box that the monitor and keyboard connect to. :-/
Funny, the author considers Windows 95/2000 the pinnacle of usability but then includes a screenshot that illustrates one of the issues with it: the start menu being able to contain folder within folder of complexity, each triggering its own popup. One wrong mouse move and you could start over again.

Having said that, the UI was incredibly clean and didn't contain too much marketing crap. Though even in W95 Microsoft just had to put an MSN (Microsoft Network) icon on the desktop - not related to the messenger or news site but their own proprietary alternative to the internet which they abandoned soon after - thank god.
It's built to be completely random, which means upon refresh it would likely still load differently but there's no check to prevent something like that from happening.

Sort of a fun example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness at play.
Do Russian citizens not deserve to make an honest living?
I don't know how extreme I'd consider it; 64GB of RAM is relatively common and 128GB is just one step up from that.
Since every board started coming with built in Wifi it's been a while since I used any more than 1. I'm not sure what all the panic over PCI is when all the stuff we used to use these cards for is just built in now.
> reasonable prices

You were fooled by your American salary and the euro-dollar parity. Prices are extremely high compared to what people earn.
ProviDRs Care network is hosted in Google Drive. All 200gb compressed. The article writer has probably never heard of this network.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zmNEPoVCa0kIVBIu2hu7...
JavaScript, which is why "you must hate JavaScript" is a confusing thing to say to me...
> countries without that or with less generally have better outcomes at less cost.

> Looking for evidence to the contrary

There was no evidence behind your claim either. 90% of US healthcare costs go to managing ( not treating ) obesity/metabolic disease . Yes 90% [1].

Which country with similar metabolic disease rate has better outcomes with less costs?

1. https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm
De-reg. De-reg. De-reg.
Arguing that FB's primary reason for being is as a political influence operation rather than providing network effects to its users. I don't agree with your characterization of the comment. No doubt our interpretations will continue to differ.
GDPR apparently does: https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/the-gdpr-how-the-right-t...

If data is on backup tapes you seem to be able to inform them of how long your retention policies are.
https://www.fireeye.com/cyber-map/threat-map.html

Or build your own:
https://github.com/hrbrmstr/pewpew
:)
Seems to be timing out pretty often on my end for the last 2h.
All great points. And it's becoming clear that we are using different tactics to reach the same ends. I've laid out how it's useful for me, you've laid out a another approach. Circles back to my original point - my experience has been different from what the author says and we just add in that you go about things a different way too. Looks like there's more than one way to achieve things which isn't terribly surprising.
Not related to this awesome font, but is it just me who doesn't like fonts ligatures? I'd much rather see !=, than crossed =.
Artificial Intelligence envisions living housing built into redwood trees
Because everything is standardizing. You don't need ports for TV tuners or proprietary camera memory cards anymore. Everything you do need is now built in to the mobo.
Our last company went that path. We planned to build one product, but first we had to build an initial feature set to support it. That initial feature saw early traction and we never got around to building the real product. Not a bad outcome for us, but we definitely were not able to realize the vision we had.
Just received Kubernetes: Up & Running 3rd edition from Amazon yesterday, but good to know there will soon be some alternatives
DOesn't have to be this way. NIMBYism is a failure of hyperlocal politics where the population looks out for their own interests at the expense of everyone who wants to move there. It can be solved by higher level governments banning restrictive zoning. California has already begun that process with the mandatory duplex zoning.
You're contradicting yourself here already.

Resilient code is easy to read/grasp code. It should pass a 3 am test too.
Violent mobs organised through private channels by men seems to be more similar to what KiwiFarms are doing than what they are reacting to.

This seems like a fundamentally different scenario than the OP I was responding to, glad I asked for specifics ;)
> RAM is actually an implementation detail that all of the in-machine memory shares

Nope. A pagefile is random-access memory backed by your sequential-access hard drive (or, hey, maybe your random-access SSD) instead of your "RAM".
I think as dependence on web services increase there's also higher expectations about availability. You have giant services like Twitter, Facebook, and Google that are almost never down and start to expect that of other companies
JavaScript is decidedly not "easy to use" in any sense for building out and managing infrastructure.

There are AWS/GCP/Azure APIs where you can fully manage your infra if you'd like via JavaScript. Nobody does this, however, for a reason. Lots of reasons, actually.

That's what this submission is, a way to solve a problem in a much harder (and limiting) way than is necessary, given the other available tools that can be used to solve this problem.

You'd be much better off learning something like Terraform to solve the problems being addressed here. Not everything has to be solved in JavaScript, and that's a uniquely "JavaScript" community solution, given how seemingly attainable it is to newer coders (which a lot of JS programmers are).
For anyone (like me) not knowing what subnormal floats are, this StackOfverflow question and answer explain it quite nicely: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15140847/denormalized-nu...

Though they use the term denormalized, which AFAICT is the a synonym for subnormal.

Edit: Thanks for this great blogpost :)
Those companies have to continue using bolted down PCs without admin access then. For the rest, take home laptops with full access work fine.
Keep in mind these files are called "Machine Readable" for a reason. Yes, they dumped everything. Machines and 3rd parties are supposed to sort it out. Best be assured each carrier now has full visibility of each other leading to "transparency".

It might be a little exciting to be an underwriter right now :D
> When your account starts generating income, they place a 'light hold' on the account - requesting 'reasonable' information.

So is the strategy to make nightly transfers out of PayPal to a real bank of whatever you took in that day?
Based on data we can report that 90% of the customers do not like the 500 error page.
Here is a golden opportunity for the info/data visualization community to show how their tools can handle big datasets to make them comprehensible to the public.
> Singapore which has exceptionally low healthcare spending

yea because they have healthy population, its not because of some smart govt policy( if only it was that easy).

singapore obesity rate = 10%

usa obesity rate = 42 %

usa obesity healthcare spend = 90%
It makes sense that people that want 'power for sake of power' wins the power game. Everyone else are optimizing for something else.

I just don't believe such person exist. Everyone wants something.
And all frameworks migrate over time towards being more declarative with this exact failure mode.
FCC Does The Bare Minimum: Asks Wireless Carriers To Be Honest About Location Data : https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/06/fcc-does-the-bare-minimu...
You're not alone. :)