skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that no-one thinks about loading and/or storing the data in a convenient format to do embarrassingly parallel computation ... they just stick it in a CSV/TSV file.

Independent jobs go beyond what is usually understood as embarrassingly parallel. In a typical bioinformatics workflow, you download the data, process it locally for hours, and send the results back. The ratio of computation to data is high enough that data transfers (and reading/writing data) rarely become a bottleneck. Meanwhile, the natural size of problems is both large enough that handling them takes hours and small enough that they can be handled on commodity servers.

In work like that, distributed systems tend to be overengineered solutions that make everything harder and more expensive. They make it harder to find developers who understand both the technology and the business needs – the biological problems in question. And they make it harder to install the solution in a new environment that may be fundamentally different from the one it was developed in. Especially in the fairly typical case where the person trying to install it does not have administrator rights.
What is stopping them to force you to give access to your cloud providers though?

Here's my thinking: If you're travelling to a country with nosy officials and you needed access to a lot of sensitive data, if it were on your regular (but encrypted) hard drive then it would be more visible if they asked to see the machine. With that data online, it could be in a system you only access by a URL you remember which they can't see. You can show them a normal desktop.

Still feel that clouds providers are a bigger attack surface than encrypted local data.

If you are actively being targeted, I agree. I was thinking more the "curious official" folks seem to run into when travelling. Since the mere possession of certain plain text documents is a criminal offence in my country, this has the potential to catch people unawares.

I think there are solutions to make hidden partitions. You would have have to create a clean, plausible system to show potential attackers.

This is a good tradeoff and would probably be fine unless they're really out for you - a whole other ballgame.
> That would seem to imply some overarching legal enforcement regime, rather than law of the jungle.

No, it implies that if you respect the laws of the countries the people you serve reside in, you can choose to follow the law by not serving them, and therefore not having to "do what they say", or serve them, but then by their laws "do what they say".

Regarding effects on Twitter: it costs them money. Their share prices drop and jo-jo a ton when stuff like this gets out. Legally, not much effects twitter, it's not a person after all, and legal departments weasel their way around plenty to make sure a company keeps existing and keeps making money. If it's cheaper to censor some random person on your private platform then compared against shoring up your cyber defences, that's an easy choice for the people in charge with somewhat cartoonish dollar signs in their eyes.

The reality is that nothing is truly isolated from side-effects and circumstances in the world. Even if there are no diplomatic ties, and no physical violence, it's all happening on the same globe with the same internet. So ignoring laws is not always the cheapest way to deal with countries, and not dealing with countries is generally not an option when you're connected online.
Decision Trees in Python: Predicting Diabetes
> The US is the most deregulated, pro-market, capitalist developed nation of size

Well, here in the US, I still buy electricity from the government. Consumer energy deregulation in the UK started in the late 80s and electricity has been sold through private companies for years.
A tiny amount got a friend charged in a national park. Federal Park rangers. Doesn't matter if it's in a legal state.
You're making twice the median whole household income for Boston... I nearly guarantee you could be more frugal and save fully half your income. You'd have to give up things you don't want to give up, but that most people in Boston don't have either... I say this not as a personal attack, but what I found out about myself after critically evaluating my finances in a similar situation despite being a single father in a HCOL location.
Late reply, but you might want to checkout our Vector integration for log shipping. You can ship your logs to whatever service you want.

Disclosure: I'm the Dokku maintainer.
Nope. Well, yes, but not solely. H1B visas don't tend to change based on the other ups and downs of the valley.
If you have access to Java you have a good language at your disposal already, and chances are you'll get away with Kotlin too.

I came to Java as my 6th or so language (small amounts of Basic, VB, C, Assembly and Javascript before) and while I absolutely didn't like it in school, once someone told me how it was supposed to be used (rely an a real IDE) it became much easier.

I still continued to dabble in other languages (mostly php and python), but these days no way I would go back to Python.
There should be reparations paid. Lifes have been ruined.
Old boss golfed with him. Suddenly everyone was a 6-Sigma blackbelt, or assigned on a 6-Sigma track, even outside of manufacturing. That lasted like two whole years. Bad times.
That's quite correct. All of the functions in the standard library that have "emplace" in the name would be better off by accepting a lambda. Now they are stuck in having a "perfect forwarding" interface that is not perfect at all.
It makes no sense because there is no single aquifer, nor is there any economic way of connecting all aquifers in the state.

Most of the state has aquifers which have plenty (an excess) of water, and these are drawn on by wells sunk by the owners of the property.

Others have no aquifers, or fossil aquifers being drawn far more rapidly than they are being replenished - often by folks who own the land under them, and paid for the wells.

Then there are seasonal sources and water storage (aka rivers and dams), but depending on the timing of a specific storm (or not), they'll usually have too much or too little water some of the year, and the inverse other parts of the year.

Also, water has vastly different levels of utility and availability depending on purity and the time it is needed among other factors, which directly impact the actual costs involved in delivering it.

Someone getting bulk (untreated) water that is overflow from a dam during spring flood season has made tradeoffs that make no sense for someone in the city who needs smaller amounts of drinkable water, but must have it 24/7/365 - and those differences drastically reduce the cost to deliver it.

And lastly - who is paying this money to whom?

Right now, everyone pays the water district that has either bought the land and sunk the wells, or who turns around and pays various different water sources for the water (all at different prices based on quality and time of year) and then treats it as necessary based on those factors for the customer.

Depending on the time of year and circumstances, the actual marginal cost for a gallon of water can vary from free to very expensive, and can vary completely at the same time of year for different people in different parts of the state.

And since there is no one party who owns, delivers, or controls water, there is no one person who gets paid anyway.

What's the proposal - every gallon must cost $1?

What about folks on their own private wells? Do they send a check to the state franchise tax board if they don't otherwise need to pay anyone? Do they get to deduct the maintenance and electricity costs they currently pay themselves?

Who is going to even check a 'meter' there, since they literally don't have one now?

Even when they're in Redding, and it's literally a rainforest?

California has incredibly diverse and often rough terrain with widely different rainfall, geological conditions, and ability to support life of all kinds. From the Mojave desert, which is one of the driest deserts in the world (2-6 inches of rain per year), to Tahoe averaging 52", to the lost coast [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Coast] / Redding area which gets 100-200"/year (yes, 8-16ft of precipitation per year).

And over a distance, and with large mountain ranges, that make it difficult and prohibitively expensive to arbitrarily move something as heavy as water around in random ways. It's over 1000 miles from North to South, 500 east to west, and almost 15,000 feet of elevation difference in the state.
Conquer usually implies to occupy and take possession.
Delightful. Only change: I'd add Tailscale for your SSH access (and to access your dashboards/logs) so you don't have ANY ports open.
Very true. An alternative is to install a lower-spec off-the-shelf charger/inverter for closer to £1k though, and instead have a handful of sockets with backup power. Being able to charge your phone and laptop, keep the fridge/freezer running and have at least some light is still magical.
When could we realistically see this solution for someone with prostate cancer?
Simple does not mean easy. It is hard to become a country that attracts the brightest immigrants in the world.
it's easy to understand and doesn't result in absurd outcomes

I mean, I realize this is somewhat subjective, but "more people ranking a candidate first can cause them to lose" seems like a pretty absurd outcome to me.

I'm not saying approval voting is perfect either, sure it has flaws, but at least it doesn't violate the monotonicity criterion (or a variety of other important criteria that RCV fails to satisfy).
i think it will take jeff bezos dying or stepping down for it to even begin to change
> If I took a Staff Engineer role and my job was to compensate for organizational dysfunction and fill voids left by underperforming managers, I'd be leaving that role very quickly. Either that or requesting a formal title change (or promotion) into an actual management position.

Eh. You might not fit it, but I really like that role. I don't want to be out of technical conversations and I don't love reports, but I do really like facilitating a path forward. At the moment I'm working outside of an engineering function, but I do it when wearing that hat, too.

> a Staff Engineer wouldn't have the necessary org structure authority to be an effective manager-of-managers

If that were the job, then yes. It is a soft-power role, though, not a hard-power structural role.

Limited authority absolutely can be a problem, but usually due to intransigence, at which point the hard-power elements of the org (who are typically limited in their available attention span) can be escalated to.
That looks like a really good work-life balance right there. Congrats!
Is it technically ironic how often that the "antisocial coder" who revels in their maladjustment wants to then give their opinions about how organizations of people ought to structure themselves??
Sounds like Musk is trying to find a way to wriggle out of the deal. He needs to either follow through or just pay a penalty (the bigger, the better) to end it all. And maybe not try any shenanigans like this in the future.
Neither do you. Probably.
keep in mind, the Figma founders and investors are likely VERY happy to have Adobe pay them oodles of cash.

It's a way of getting a payout for them they otherwise wouldn't likely get.
I'm far from an expert, but my Dad is currently battling a high-grade glioblastoma multiforme tumor in his brain. So I've learned a little.

> so this can put the breaks on cancer, but it can't fix cancer?

"Putting the brakes on cancer" is basically equivalent to "fixing cancer". For my Dad's GBM, he has an MRI from 13 years before his diagnosis that seems to show the early stages of his tumor. At the time, his neuro noted that it was mildly concerning, but then didn't order any follow-up testing. So the tumor lay "dormant" in my Dad's head for over a decade. Then it started rapidly growing last year, until he was losing his balance at work, started getting scans, and eventually found the brain tumor.

All of the standard of care around this is focused on mechanical or electromagnetic removal of large parts of the tumor, combined with throwing whatever chemotherapies you can at the body to stop the tumor from growing. Eventually, the tumor grows until it squeezes out all normal brain functionality. Anything that can arrest the tumor without killing you is good.
If you got cancer and the onclogist recommended chemo, would you refuse it?
> as a SDE in India/Bangalore, I would absolutely love to work in California

As someone who spent all his childhood in Bangalore before migrating to the USA & specifically California, let me give you some perspective. No SDE wants to work in a Shimoga or Davangere. They want to work in Bangalore. Similarly, no SDE wants to work in a Concord or Martinez or what have you. There are thousands of perfectly good cities in California, but the SDEs all want to work in Silicon Valley. I remember during the early days of YC, I wrote to a founder saying I'd like to work with him. So he invites me. I go to see the company. Its just a 2 bedroom house in San Francisco! They've gotten rid of the furniture, put tables & chairs & laptops. So I tell him, look, I have a 2 bedroom house in San Ramon. We can just operate out of that. He says, I too have a 2 bedroom house in San Ramon! So I say, why are you working out of San Francisco ? Because that's Silicon Valley, you see! So 2 people who live 5 minutes walking distance from each other, both in San Ramon, each have 2 bedroom houses with enough space to spare, no cost, have to commute 1 whole hour, all the way to San Francisco every morning, to work in an expensive rented 2-bedroom house, because Silicon Valley. Now if that's not ridiculous, I don't know what is.

In the case of Bangalore, one could argue there is a huge advantage to commuting from say Hebbal to Electronics City, because there is a gigantic 4 million square feet Infosys campus over there. But if you have a collection of 1000s of startups, and each of them is just a 2-bedroom house or some small office building, the same can very well exist in Danville or Pleasanton or Walnut Creek or Clayton or Dublin or Antioch or .... I've stayed in all those places and there's plenty of cheap office space & 2-bedrom houses. But no. All the action must happen in Silicon Valley. Because.

In that sense I really welcome all this disruption. You don't have to go to Colorado or Seattle or whatever...just go 20 miles N/S/E/W...that itself would be a huge deal. Forget cost cutting, Cutting down on the pollution due to commute traffic would be a very significant positive contributor to the environment.
Toxic air pollution particles found in lungs and brains of unborn babies
REITs already exist. "Investing" in single-family homes without the protections provided by the primary residence is a recipe for disaster.
How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive
Advent of Code: Seven Segment Logic Puzzle
> I would type out BASIC programs from books from the library

So did I. Were they the Usbourne books? I found the books again online a few years ago. Don't have a link unfortunately
It's true that Spirit has competed well recently.

Spirit (and other airlines) innovated and temporarily enjoyed a large market share of a second modality of commercial flight (very low budget travel). But it isn't (and wasn't, if you compare their operating margin over time [1]) a durable advantage.

The reason is there's very little preventing you and I from starting Soul Airlines, and copy-pasting the Spirit playbook. Many airlines have, and more will. And this drives their prices down, which is great for you but not for long-term Spirit investors.

At the end of the business cycle, the logical limit of their operating margin has proven to be functionally indistinguishable from Delta's.

[1]: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=operat...
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Its almost like we need regulation for it
Immigrants in the US (including people who aren’t permanent residents) are considered residents for tax purposes and pay the same tax rate as citizens.
I was under the impression that a blanket proclamation like this wasn't enough; he still had to sign off on every pardon individually.

Not sure why I thought that though.
Solvers don't fix the problem. They tell you how to fix the problem. :)

That's how they make sure the problem stays fixed.
> race is a useless concept.

Tell that to the medical community, who routinely give different interventions based on race.
env management is pretty easy considering tools like conda are out there, that will carry you pretty far especially in terms of education. you could create a conda env specific for your class and just email the yaml. its also easy to write a script that will install miniconda and build these needed environments
Next level politicians do a really broken implementation first cycle so they can deliver a solve next quarter for eye popping data driven results. I've personally warned people about terrible designs, saw them get implemented, they cost the company millions, but then they "improved" it next quarter to save the company "millions" ... They got promoted, I got called names like "too negative"...

Great company.
Just print out the shasum output and hide it somewhere where you might come across it by chance a couple years later. When you rediscover it, check it against the current shasum output to see if someone manipulated your photo library (and thus your memory).

At least that's how Hollywood would do it.
As a non-citizen permanent resident living in the US: how? Even the exit tax applies.
I usually think of an at-work "politician" as somehow taking advantage of relationships or social forces.

What you describe sounds more to me like the ""10X engineer"" (with extra scare quotes for good measure).

Many people have been skeptical of the idea of the 10X engineer. One take is that if your normal engineers are less than 1/10th as productive as another engineer and all of them are merely human beings, there might be some common organizational problems that your normal engineers are all being stymied by. Another take is that your 10X engineers can only achieve their high level of productivity through taking on more technical debt than others understand or would tolerate, leaving messes behind for the eventual maintainers to fix.
Correct, a Belgian isp would have vastly fewer reasons to comply with polite requests from CIA/NSA than a US-based FAANG.
a web browser?
And what arguments did they use to support this point?
I've pre-ordered two phones and watches after anticipating this launch for a while.

Now I'm strongly considering cancelling based on the ongoing issue with Pixels failing to connect to emergency services.

This thread has multiple recent examples and the OOP is trying very hard to get the word out, but so far no acknowledgment from Google:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xwjnf2/pixel_6...

I'm torn because I'm a really big fan of the Pixel experience, but this seems like such a major issue and no one from Google seems to be willing to even acknowledge it.
Here you are. You can feel the nostalgia https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books
> Yet there's always someone in any given thread about a Chinese app jumping to its defense saying "but Silicon Valley."

The reason there's always someone starting a subthread about it is because Silicon Valley and the United States has, had, and will continue to have all the same incentives and problems for international users. [1]

It's not a very interesting conversation, because it adds nothing that hasn't been said a million times, but neither does another lap around the 'China bad' rhetorical track.

[1] And also domestic users, but they have some means of recourse for it.
End-to-end encrypted email and workspace for the Cosmos ecosystem
> I, on the other hand, really like that role. I don't want to be out of technical conversations and I don't love reports, but I do really like facilitating a path forward. At the moment I'm working outside of an engineering function, but I do it when wearing that hat, too.

iirc this kind of role, and other glue are actually really great Scrum Master && Project Manager skills.
Yet another web dev article assuming that every web app is massive scale, for a global audience of consumers that have alternative choices.

I have worked on dozens of web sites for paying clients, and none were in that category.

Also, mostly I just want to know, why is Singapore's connectivity so slow? Some sort of filter?
feels like the current POTUS is either signaling his parties future legislative priority at best, pandering for november votes, or performing the legislative equivalent of 'dnf clean all' as these low level offenders are becoming increasingly burdensome and expensive to house and feed during a recession.
The President doesn't have the power to legalize marijuana by proclamation. He has ordered the DEA, FDA and HHS to review the classification of marijuana under the notice and comment rulemaking process defined in the Controlled Substances Act. That is the limit of what he can do under the CSA.
> any joy left over is value you failed to extract

One of the greatest lines ever
Even if he only has power to issue pardons at the federal level, this sort of measure has plenty of value as a symbolic gesture. It kind of signals a mentality shift.
Plenty of non-agency roles on smaller codebases out there. Even at large companies you can work on product-specific teams with smaller codebases or in companies with a service-oriented architecture where you only need to understand one service. Lots of smaller orgs with similarly smaller codebases. Just about any pre Series A startup is also going to have a fairly small codebase as well.

As to sticking it out, really depends on if you want to learn to be good at this particular codebase or not. If you are miserable, then find another opportunity (while opportunities are still in good supply). Don't force yourself through something just to satisfy others's perception of you or your own self-perception.
> Maybe work on cardio

Maybe work less? I know four people who died of heart attack. Two of them were in terrible shape (obese, no exercise), while the other two were in very good shape, but were also workoholics in stresful jobs. One of them even got the attack while jogging in the park (he collapsed in a rarely frequented part of the park and was dead before anyone noticed) He was a CEO of a decent-sized company in his early fifties.
I write meeting notes after every meeting, including details on participants disposition, what was discussed, potential misunderstandings, etc. I usually don’t share these.

Anyway, occasionally someone will “bring up” a meeting detail later on and be confused by it. This isn’t malicious, but sometimes it can be so far from what was actually discussed that people question their own memories and something slightly different arises from the ashes. I used to point out what was actually discussed, but I learned that doesn’t usually come across that well (you’re now questioning a teammate’s memory and aptitude, and requires a bit more delicate politics than I care to involve myself with). These days, I just sit back and watch it play out. It’s pretty rare-ish.
That's a different issue. Tangentially related that Allocator::construct has the same slightly crippled interface, so both the allocator concept and the container interfaces would needed to be fixed for accepting a lambda.

The stored allocator issue comes up when you need to store a bunch of vectors with the same stateful allocator, and you needlessly have to have a copy in each vector.
Before the riches of globalisation somewhat masked the damage.