skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of. I'm at Google, not Meta, but the same "we have an expected distribution of ratings" thing exists here and it causes the same confusion.

With large enough populations you see fairly consistent statistical information across time. Little fluctuations even out. So at org sizes of, say, 500 people you'll see pretty consistent ratings distributions between cycles. This is where you get the "we have a roughly expected ratings distribution." If you've deviated far from this then it means either that your org is training people on the evaluation process incorrectly or there is some other cause of a weird distribution. When something doesn't match, people simply investigate for an alternative solution.

What people seem to be frightened of is when somebody says to a manager of 10 people "hey you've got too many high ratings, drop some." Google and Meta are massive companies so I suspect that this happens somewhere but I've never even got the scent of this happening from my position at Google. I've had cycles where 100% of my team was in the top 20% of ratings without anybody raising an eyebrow.
That is definitely not what PIPs are for
Yeah but overfitting is still a better strategy, for a number of reasons. Match your competition. Equity grants on the uphill, reduce them on the downhill.

What if the market goes up and stays up? Fed does or doesnt hike rates? Do you really want to play hiring catch up when everyone else has a 2 year head start?

Also, your board of directors doesn't give a shit about the reason, they only care what is being done in response.
TL;DR "Postgres doesn't fit well our edge services business model" which sure fine but the article is indeed biased/misleading by completely ignoring and not mentioning the option of running postgres and app in a single server.

The gains in latency with sqlite won't matter as soon as throughput starts to dominate.
Yeah, 4xx is client error, 5xx is server error.
I got frustrated once that my local supermarkets carried all but one particular flavor of a certain (food) product. So I looked on Amazon, and somebody was selling a moderately large case at an inflated price, and I bought one, because there didn't seem to be another option. Within a few weeks, I see the same thing on the shelf at a local store, substantially undercutting what I paid. Then, however, they never restocked it.

It wasn't like I was planning on starting a business of reselling it, but it was startling.
I always wondered why you couldn't do that on AWS, mainly because I could do it at home with Hyper-V a decade ago.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...
It’s still performance. If this was “AWE failed to deliver the new machines and GCP delivered”, sure, reliability. But this isn’t that.

The race car that finishes first is not “more reliable” than the one in 10th. They are equally as reliable, having both finished the race. The first place car is simply faster at the task.
For what it's worth, I've spent a few minutes googling and can't find any story that corroborates this. The only US trademark I can find around "kosher gelatin" is by the brand Kolatin, which is apparently certified Kosher.
What seems so hard? It sounds pretty trivial to me -- all you're doing is recording samples of people's speech and objectively identifying pronunciation patterns. And it's pretty easy to do before/after with the same people at differing ages (e.g. 15 vs 20) or life stages (e.g. pre-university, university, post-university) to watch change over time.

Time-consuming for sure. But not even remotely difficult in terms of rigor or replicability. And if you're familiar with the International Phonetic Alphabet, you'll see that pronunciation is something that can be analyzed extremely objectively.
Weather forecasts would be as good as they are now, perhaps 1-2 days further ahead.
How about just not installing all of the user-hostile apps on your main phone? For the longest time I ran a microg/f-droid phone that only had Free software like Conversations, Element, DAVx (CalDAV), OsmAnd, etc. There were very few notifications, because it wasn't running any software that was made by people who wanted to spam me.

For engaging with the surveillance economy, I use a different device (a few, actually). There's always a whole bunch of notifications waiting on the home screen, but it's silenced and I only pick it up for specific tasks so who cares. Most of the time I don't even bother to clear the notifications.
Your question is missing the factor of power - If we have 1000x at current power usage or 1000x at 1000x power?

Also, 1000x parallelism or 1000x single core?
My entire post was about targeting specific visitors. Zero evidence.

> That's nothing. Imagine how tired you'd be when it turns out everything you thought is "paranoia" is actually happening.

Every genius and every crackpot experience this. The sad fact is that crackpots outnumber geniuses by a factor of hundreds.

You missed my point about means, motive, and opportunity by a mile.

None of the web services/app you mention block specific visitors; only accounts. Again, my entire comment was specific to the hypothetical capability and desire to block per visitor, not domain/account or IP.
Not really. Or at least not in the same league.

AWS doesn't have live migration at all. You have to stop/start.

Azure technically does, but it doesn't always work(they say 90%). 30 seconds is a long time.

VMWare has live migration (and seems to be the closest to what GCP does) but it is still an inferior user experience.

This is the key thing you are missing – GCP not only has live migration, but it is completely transparent. We do not have to initiate migration. GCP does, transparently, 100% of the time. We have never even notice migrations even when we were actively watching those instances. We don't know or care what hypervisors are involved. They even preserve the network connections.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/03/Google-Compute-...
OMG I wouldn't know what to do with such freedom.
> It would technically be faster because of lower latency between services in the same data center and sending the final results to the user in one go

Which is a pretty big deal when you have practically the whole planet as users, many of whom are found where low latency is a luxury.

> but at the same time if your DB is hit 50 times to service that request, you still have a problem.

Maybe. Or when you are Facebook maybe you don't care. Just throw another datacenter at the problem.

> without actually improving anything else

They found it improved discoverability for designers and non-technical folk.

> That tradeoff seems like a tough sell to me

If your organization doesn't look like Facebook, I imagine it wouldn't sell. It's very much designed for a purpose.
Speak for yourself -- personally I'm asking for a 15" Framework with a Trackpoint and maybe built-in ethernet :)

I think we all have different demands. Hopefully with the modularish system they can gradually make us all happy.
> That said, all the quantum stuff is incredibly beyond me.

QED[1] will make it as clear to you as possible. Feynman conceived it as, paraphrasing, "explaining quantum physics to a housewife" which to our ear sounds vaguely offensive, but charitably construed for the time in which he said it means making it accessible to someone who has a lot of other responsibilities and doesn't have a ton of time to dedicate to learning advanced physics. It's a really neat book in that it explains the principles pretty much perfectly, while eliding the advanced techniques needed for practical computation of predictions. The analogy given is that you could teach someone to do calculus with nothing more than jars of rocks. It wouldn't be efficient, but it would be correct. "Rock" incidentally, is the Latin root for calculus.

If you find the role of the complex numbers as fascinating as I did, then Visual Complex Analysis[2] is another great read. It's considerably more challenging than QED, but on the other hand it clarified a bunch of things for me that my high school and college mathematics courses failed to explain and just presented as givens.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202469.Quantum_Electrody...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/149800.Visual_Complex...
I've tried speaking to that demo several times... I used the built in feature to record from microphone, and I played back the samples to make sure they were audible and clear.

Sometimes it outputs the words "thank you" (which I did not say), sometimes it outputs a period. It never once output anything I said. It seems completely broken.

EDIT: apparently something about the combination of Safari+HF+Whisper was not working. I tried another Whisper demo on HF and had the same results. Switching to Chrome made it work flawlessly... I have no idea what kind of codec incompatibility was happening.
Didn't seem that similar to me. Coinbase said we're not going to discuss politics at work unless it's related to crypto. Kraken said let's debate politics and gender and identity with the CEO in the company Slack.
React Native could now handle 500,000,000 3rd party jankfest line rather than just 100,000,000
Yup.

-JUST- on the housing side you had Inflated assessments (A lot of places got in trouble for this in the aftermath,) a tendency to do ARMs and being unprepared for an interest spike, NINJA loans, and the general expectation by too many people (both securities handlers and homeowners) about correlated vs individual risk.

On the homeowner side, correlated risk and the subsequent drop in their home's value resulted in a good number of defaults, leading to a second drop in values (lest we forget the 'goodbye parties' some of these people threw in their temper tantrums on defaulting, a coworker of mine was able to buy one of those on the cheap but it needed a lot of repairs.)

We cannot forget however that general the whole populace, both citizen and corporation, were drunk on 'cheap' credit. (Which is my biggest concern about our current situation, I think some people still are.) When they were unable to refinance existing debt on terms as good as before, or rates on other lines of credit went up, it became harder to service said debt.

I can think of at least two cases where 'expansion' efforts in the age of cheap credit (In one case it was expanding a chain, in another it was launching a new line of business,) led to death spirals of the companies in question.
It's on Charity Navigator. Not sure why it's not on CharityWatch.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200049703

EDIT: However it is not updated for recent years. Likely because Wikimedia is not transparent enough with their financial statements.
> For example in UK your passport application will be rejected if you were not in the country 5 years ago from the exact date the application is recieved by the Home Office. You could pay all fees, taxes, pass all tests, live in country for 20 years, but if you left for one day on Sept 1 2015 and post delivered your application on Sept 1 2020, your application will be denied.

UK rules often seem arbitrary or deliberately trying to trap people.

> The rules change all the time and there isn't an 'immigrant newletter - what will fuck you up at the next step'.

That surprises me: I would imagine there are online forums, maybe a subreddit, for such a purpose.
No, they keep track of dirty pages.
They're generally used to prevent a lawsuit, but they do not prevent lawsuits. A layoff on the other hand...
ECJ has declared "Privacy shield" as well as "Safe Harbor" null and void, since those were merely agreements, which never side codified into actual law. So I don't think there will be any new court decisions regarding those.

I also don't think most Europeans are really worried about US government intrusions into their privacy, thoug I don't know the legal implications the CLOUD act would have in this context. Honestly, I think anybody takes US government intrusions for granted after the Snowden leaks. It's the companies people are worried about. Facebook, Google have a scary amount of power and lack of oversight.
> then surely it has all the tools of that universe at its disposal.

Interesting proposal.

I honestly doubt it.

Black holes are tricky, for example. But some would say that “they are not exactly part of the universe”. Anyway I think time and space “break” inside of them, and those two are needed for Life, however you define it.
Is there a good chemical / spatial argument for why this is so?
I'm in favor of whatever course of action leads to a satisfying result. If reform were the ticket, that'd be fine. It happens to be the case that it isn't.

What I'm saying is that our conception of what the police is, what they do, and what they are for is wrong. This organization needs to be abolished; it's purpose is to inflict violence, in all manner of places, for any infraction the officer cares to enforce (while ignoring those they don't care to). A police force does not create safety or justice. It creates danger for those at the fringes of society, fails to stop bad actors (and often exacerbates the factors that lead to such bad actors), and creates innumerable injustices.

In replacing it, we'll have to address the thorny question of how to intervene in violent situations. It's true that we will need to organize something to address this. You're saying this will necessarily be a recapitulation of a police force; that's certainly a danger, but not a necessity.

A police force is a standing army which has broad authority over the populace. I am proposing we can change those parameters; they may not need to be standing, their authority and mandate can be very narrow.
View source, in the ones I get like that there usually is content but for some reason it isn't being displayed.
It is though based on a specific definition. If X doesn't do Y based on Z metric with a large standard deviation and doesn't meet spec limits, it is not reliable as per the predefined tolerance T.

X = Compute intances
Y = Launch
Z = Time to launch
T = LSL (N/A), USL (10s), Std Dev (2s)

Where LSL is lower spec limit, USL is upper spec limit. LSL is N/A since we don't care if the instance launches instantly (0 seconds).

You can define T as per your requirements. Here we are ignoring the accuracy of the clock that measures time, assuming that the measurement device is infinitely accurate.

If your criteria is to, say for example, define reliability as how fast it shuts down, then this article isn't relevant. Article is pretty narrow in testing reliability, they only care about launch time.
Get a Windows phone
Instead of asking this question you should be asking "how do I parley this into a new MacBook Pro M2?" :)
Cool but do all the legislation first rather than defending layoffs with hypothetical vapor.
anecdotal: https://twitter.com/cryptodavidw/status/1572621875091742720
Comment on the IAB Tech Lab's Global Privacy Platform (GPP)
The GNU C library version 2.33, released in february 2021, supports _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3, but reportedly it makes no difference on GCC yet.
Some applications depend on approximately solving optimization problems that are hard even for small problems.
The poster child here is combinatorial optimization (more or less equivalently, np-complete problems), concrete examples are SMT solvers and their applications to software verification [1]. Non convex problems are sometimes similarly bad.

Non smooth and badly conditioned optimization problems scale much better with size, but getting high precision solutions is hard. These are important for simulations mentioned elsewhere, but not just for architecture and games, also for automating design, inspections etc [2].

[1] https://ocamlpro.github.io/verification_for_dummies/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ALvgx-smFI&t=14s
Imagine a spectrum from document to application (from left to right).

This is the almost fully left as a pure document with low interactivity.

Applications are much harder to cache and start up fast.
It is only compatible because we are approaching peak population mid to late century and then we will slowly contract over time until extinction through lack of births... if trends continue.
It's totally reasonable for a company to ask you to prove you're worth it or just fire you, just like it's totally reasonable for you to demand your company prove they're worthy to employ you (increase your pay or benefits) or jump to another opportunity

I think the idea of bell curving people and firing the bottom is extremely dumb, a form of decimation with similar results. It's a culture destroyer and invents many perverse incentives in the company that are counter productive to "make great products".

But ultimately I don't think it's unreasonable for someone to be authentically reviewed poorly and made to prove they should stay.
It's the iPhone effect: If you use Teams, and something goes wrong, everybody is patient and sympathetic. If you use something else, then it's your fault for being "weird" or "cheap." In my case, my computer came from IT, pre-loaded with Teams, and it runs nearly flawlessly.

But I've noticed something else about computers and software. You can have two people with similar jobs, similar computers, similar software, etc. One person will have crashes and problems all the time, and the other person, smooth sailing. Nobody knows why. It doesn't matter whether they're IT experts or homemakers. In the words of a former office-mate: "I got a new computer, and spent two days setting it up exactly the way I want it, and yet it still crashes all the time." That person was a very sharp and productive programmer, yet he was swearing at his computer almost continually.
I see that nobody here had to use Skype for Business or WebEx... This is the better future people!
> Average nodejs manifest file would contain x12000 more dependencies.

This is absolutely true
Do you think Google has ever been served a court order requiring them to share information on a user and not inform the user? If so, then probably some people have been harmed.
It's called hallucination. As the model is trained on unsupervised data, such errors do seldom happen. The model picks up that such phrases occur in translations and inserts them even if they do not appear in the source. This is described in the paper.
...for the business strategy:

1. Neutralize the threat from Slack (AKA Salesforce)

2. Give Enterprise sales teams a checklist item

3. Don't spend a dime more than necessary on software development

4. Integrate with the rest of the MS enterprise product line

On top of those goals, the internal sponsors of Teams have to survive the savage internal politics at Microsoft, so the product is designed to threaten no important factions.
Product. RP org.
More bloat
Checks notes, so the near 25% decrease in deficit spending over the last 2 years should be helping fight inflation?
No, but the memory accesses have hooks that say "This memory was written". Then, program execution is paused, and just the sections of memory that were written are copied again.

This has memory performance characteristics - I ran a benchmark of memory read/write speed while this was happening once. It more than halved memory speed for the 30s or so it took from migration started to migration complete. The pause, too, was much longer.
Ah, I think I was actually seeing a tweet that was displayed on the neon.tech site and showed up in the google results blurb.

It looks like 3 months ago it was 2 seconds https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31538172
my 64GB RAM Macbook freezes when using Teams - should I get more ;)
> Western Europe should start to negotiate as soon as possible and give Russia some space

Every time you give in to Russian threats and aggression, you get more Russian threats and aggression.

The West should tell Russia, firmly and directly, that any use of nukes by Russia will result in the same on Russia, and advise the Russian armed forces not to obey any order that would amount to national suicide.
Holy strawman batman.

Note: 'in a standard way across teams'. You have jumped directly to 'can't be measured at all in any circumstances'
> Weekends only matter as much as you argue here if your company owns your ass 9-5 Mon-Fri (plus commute, sometimes). If you're able to be more flexible, it's nice to go out when everyone else is working.

I'd adjust that to "If you and your family and most of your friends are able to be more flexible". I went back to a mostly conventional schedule after I realised that while I was doing a lot that I wanted to on my own, spending more time with friends was a higher priority. I can see that if most of your friends are academics or similar then it could work better (indeed I found that in this remote work era it's become easier to meet people during "work hours", so if that sticks then maybe it'll be time to reevaluate).
I think when that hardware is attainable and the tech democratized things are going to get very bizarre very quickly. I'm hitting a wall in my imagination of what a society where this is common even looks like and it scares me.
Are you sure? I just ran some of Kimmy's sketches through it and ... The results are garbage.
Yet another reason to ignore the "smarts" of your smart TV and use an external box.
My experience matches yours. We draw diagrams all the time to explain systems, but we rarely use UML to do it.

If you think about it, the point of using diagrams is to simplify an explanation. Making explainers and listeners learn a formal language just to understand diagrams defeats this purpose.
"small" runs in realtime on Macbook Air M1 CPU.
That sounds fair. I also agree about keeping HN for hackers and not politics.
They added it about 4-5 years ago, and really it just keeps getting better and better. I'm really in awe of the tech chops of the team that did this, especially around security. You'll often hear it referred to as crostini: https://chromeos.dev/en/linux
I've also been contacted by them recently, definitely still reaching out.
the best thing I know of is you could emulate 256 bits with 4x64 bits float (double) and then use the derivative of mandelbrot to approximate the fractals around interesting points
>infinite exponential growth which is impossible on a finite planet.

its impossible in any space with non negative curvature. the kind of growth that is unsustainable in a finite region is any growth at all.
I feel like we are - I can run Minecraft RTX at 4k with acceptable framerate using DLSS 2.0 on a 3090. Minecraft is using pure raytracing (no rasterization). It also isn't using A-SVGF or ReSTIR, so there are 2 pretty big improvements that could be made.

Minecraft RTX does suffer really badly with ghosting when you destroy a light source, but my intuition says that A-SVGF would fix that entirely.

That being said, some of the newest techniques, like ReSTIR PT (a generalized form) have only been published for a couple of months, so current games don't have that yet. But in 3-6 months I would start to expect some games go with a 100% RT approach.
That might work if people were required to speak grammatically.
It's fast, reliable, has a good community and it protects the ecosystem and its userbase by using GPL.
I was contacted this week

I guess they are hiring at some BUs and firing at others?
I think in actual users Julia is behind Python, MATLAB, and R for scientific use...
I'm pretty new to Astro, but I did see this official plugin https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/integrations-guide/prefet... which I believe does what you're looking for.
> Azure feels like I'm starting a Boeing 747 instead of a VM.

Huh... interesting, this has not been my experience with Azure VM launch times. I'm usually surprised how quickly they pop up.
What's the alternative? We've had renewable investments for a while now. People have been swearing up and down how renewables are cheaper and better alternatives and yet... We're in an energy crisis now, because we're not getting enough fossil fuels to burn.
>SSO

So you're looking to pay $1000 per user per year?
Those are nightmare!
And not to speak about Skype for business predecesor, Microsoft Lync.