skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We (I'm a co-founder) run the following:
- 1B (10^9) rows/sec with 86 servers
https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/12/how-scylla-scaled-to-one...
- 1PB with 20 servers
https://www.scylladb.com/presentations/operating-at-monstrou...

- Comcast moved from 970 Cassandra nodes (and 60 nodes of cache) to 78 Scylla nodes - https://www.scylladb.com/2020/01/15/comcast-sprinting-from-c...

- Palo Alto Networks run 8600 clusters(!) of ScyllaDB
https://www.scylladb.com/2022/06/14/how-palo-alto-networks-r...

ScyllaDB excels in throughput and latency, we have also a better compaction algorithm that saves 37% of storage compared to C*.
Usually one can replace lots of small nodes with gigantic nodes that have more
resources and it allows much better management.

To run 100PB Scylla will need more than 300 nodes, even thousands but definitely
not what Apple throw at the problem.
> "Confiscating devices" sounds like such an ordinary, routine thing, but it is so incredibly, profoundly invasive and would upend my life as much as being throw in jail for a week, only it would cost me a lot more. The bar should be ridiculously high for that kind of government intrusion.

In Germany it is quite normal nowadays. The legislation for protecting your own home has been weakened over the course of a decade to a point where you have to expect it if you share anything online that is not 100% clean, especially if it goes against current administration.

In the article it sounds like they argue that this is to prevent another Nazi Germany, but it sounds a lot more like fashism what they try to achieve here. You can happily spread misinformation and hate about politicians of non-established parties. You might get sued under civil law, but your home is certainly not invaded, you get arrest and your stuff confiscated.

Another case that exemplifies this is "Pimmelgate" where a Twitter user said to a Andy Grote (senator of Hamburg at that time iirc) "you are such a dick/cunt"* (Du bist so 1 Pimmel) and found himself in the same situation as the guy in this article.

Hate speech legislation is especially stringently interpreted when it comes to higher officials.

*: I'd say the harshness of the insult is in between those words. It's slightly more than nothing.
Would the defense of "I just changed my password and don't remember it" work?
As well as the attack. That wasn't an improvised event.
OP was specifically asking about a MSc in computer science.
They didn't "discover a recipe". Anyone who was a kid at that time could look up on the internet the recipes for these things, and even pre-internet in things like "The Anarchist Cookbook" and other such literature.
Those tasks don't require concentration, yes, but they drain your energy supply just as well as those that do. This means that the likelihood you'll be energetic and creative tomorrow diminishes the more of them you pile up at the end of your shift.

So IMO do 2-3 of those and call it a day. You have to be in a work shape tomorrow as well.
Criminalizing hate speech is one of those things like affirmative action, where the social benefits of adopting it outweigh the theoretical unfairness of it. In Germany's case, criminalizing hate speech helped keep their country from renazifying for over eighty years now; with the USA of all places in imminent danger of nazifying, I think it's time we rethink our approach to free speech.
The Economist lost a lot of credibility with some of us around the turn of the century, when it fatally misunderstood US politics and wrote columns addressing people like Karl Rove and asking them to follow their better nature. (Karl Rove does not have a better nature.)
Aren’t iPhones already fully encrypted? Or is that something you have to specially enable?
I do not know much about your background, your experience and your interest. But for me one thing I realized is Computer Science isn't as good as I thought it to be. Since I was from engineering background, I found CS to be more math focused and abstract. Think of CS as what pure maths is for physicists. Both physicists and mathematicians can solve problems, but mode of thinking is different.

If you want build a solid foundation on CS, I would suggest taking a course in Applied mathematics with some CS related subject because that would allow you to understand the deep fundamentals within CS. These mathematics (discrete, probability, linear algebra, proof techniques) are generally covered in Bachelor's level of CS. Having sufficient skills with these topics will allow you to dive and understand any topic later in life. As engineering major, it was mostly focused on calculus and analysis. Therefore, whole idea of theoretical proofs and reasoning was quite difficult for me. CS is filled with these kinds of proofs. No one tells it.

However, if you are interested in building things, it would be wise to pursue something in software engineering (or applying for challenging job etc). Like everyone has said here, CS is to go into some deep niche like compilers, OS, networks, algos & DS, which is extremely narrow, intellectually fulfilling but extremely hardcore. Good luck with your decision.
Descriptive engineering: not just for post-mortems
Yes. I know that and you've just presented it again without asking yourself if it's right or if others should be judged by your standards. You've kind of made my point.
The number of anti-russian-infrastructure sabotage attacks happening in recent days is getting troubling. First Nordstream and now this.

It seems unlikely that this was a missile strike or a boat attack from the analyses I have seen. A car bomb or a big explosive placed on the top of the bridge seems like the most likely possibility. This attack is certainly something that a Ukrainian special forces unit would be capable of doing.

It is certainly possible that these are Russia's doing to get their population interested in the war and cut off Europe from gas, but a false flag would not be my first guess.

Edit: I am not trying to say that these attacks are "anti-Russia" or that they were not done by the Russians. I am only saying that a lot of people have been destroying strategically important infrastructure operated by the Russians. Who is doing it is anyone's guess. To think we know who actually did any of these attacks without a thorough investigation is silly.
> What's even better is that recently, Russian government proclaimed some oblasts of Ukraine to be Russian territory, _even the areas they never controlled_, such as Zaporizhzhia city

Even better, Russia shelled what they considered their own city (Zaporizhzhia) in retaliation for the strike on the Kerch Bridge.
Why? What exactly is it achieving for your society?
Bad analogy. It’s already established that there are innate differences between males and females even shortly after birth, and that translates to different behavioral outcomes and career preferences.
Everyone knows it was the fault of the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people and under the supervision of the reverse vampires.

In all seriousness though, who knows, the job is done and that's all that matters.
Even when they're trying to use it as Internet slang, mainstream media tend to use "trolling" as a synonym for just saying mean things.
Have my upvote. Full stack frameworks like Rails, Laravel or Adonis are not "fashion" anymore apparently. And people keep wasting time reinventing the wheel because that's the fashionable thing to do.
> The collapse here wasn't a slow event anyway, it has very clearly been triggered by lockdowns/vaccines

Absolutely fucking mental mate.
The Latin block (Southern Europe??) countries joined the euro to cut their interest rates, and that happened.

The periphery is poor because it has been ruled by embarrassing governments for decades.
Thanks. Updated to "future partner", as I have success with partnerships and am not worried about finding the right person in the given timeframe. I am not looking to get married and have a nuclear family, so I am looking to see how others with a hacker mentality are thinking about their children.
I just don’t see it. Right now we are in a moment of perhaps “discouraged” buyers, because interest rates are rising and home values have increased in some areas. But I have watched builders and agents in my area sell homes within a day of homes becoming available over the last few years. People are buying homes, and it’s not just the wealthy, it’s the middle class.

In the US FHA loans are available with relatively low 3.5% down payments even with mid-level credit. The problem driving affordability for some people is excessive debt to income ratios much more than housing prices.

If you can save $10k, and are not saddled with excessive debt you can afford homes in most places in the US.
Most of the best paying companies don't screen for anything beyond a Bachelors.
I really like the idea of exponential learning, and was disappointed to see that this is just an ad for spaced repetition.

My opinion is that true exponential learning depends on specific content in a specific order.

What we need is the dependency tree of concepts. Does such a thing exist? Curriculums are kind of a non-rigorous attempt at this.
Starlight interstellar probe
Would you want Iranian system in Pakistan?
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor trained attack dolphins stay these couriers from the swift completion of their secret bridge demolitions?

We'll know it was the Ukrainian postal service when someone asks Putin to sign to confirm delivery of a whole parcel of humiliation.
There's no such thing as "AGI for the sake of AGI itself". AGI is synthetic and its goals are synthetic, it doesn't want anything that you didn't tell/construct it to want.
So worried about the Neo Nazis, they forgot to watch out for the Neo Statsis.
That would be a fair point if US businesses weren't donating to the GoP en masse.
As an American, I feel harassed and intimidated by your comment attacking people of my nationality. Perhaps I should report you to the police.
Did you just invent a longform for "it's only a prank broo" expression
As an obvious counter-example: a runway at a military airfield is a legitimate target even if not in active use. Same for military aircraft sitting dark in hangars at that airfield.
IMO no degree is necessary or worth the money today for doing software/computer related things, there's virtually nothing you'd be taught in classes you can't learn with an internet connection.
I agree the few number of attacks is concerning, hopefully this is the start of a more substantive campaign to degrade the Russians capability to wage war.
As I argued, as has been made clear for years, the UN and its IPCC are political and not scientific. As I mentioned, one of their main goals is to arrange big bucks transfers from rich nations to poor ones.

In particular, the many predictions of significant warming by the alarmists including the IPCC never happened. E.g., years ago the West Side Highway of NYC was supposed to be under water. Nope.

I'm sure you can see this rationally and objectively.
> since the time I've joined the site (three years ago), I haven't seen a single ban that wasn't warranted, be it due to a single incident of flouting the site rules or a pattern of behavior.

That is hard to say, if you were to look up my final thread, all my comments were deleted, and you have no way of evaluating if the judgement was fair or not. I held the same position, assuming the moderation team was doing a good job until the hammer hit me.

> Regarding the thread you linked, I'll agree it was the admin's fault for writing the passive-aggressive banner that led to that (well-respected) user leaving.

That is what I am getting at. He has "joked"[0] that the job of moderation is stressful, and it is known that he has other problems[1] that aren't making the job easier for him. I believe that this shapes his moderation style, and not for the better. He errs on the side of over-moderation, which was exactly one of the faults HN hat, that motivated the creation of that site.

[0] https://lobste.rs/s/mox75k/2021_mod_applications#c_ad4hj0
[1] https://lobste.rs/s/ugprwi/what_does_it_take_get_new_tag_acc...
You absolutely don't need a higher degree than a bachelors to break into specialized fields. For many people it will just be wasted time and money. Simply apply directly to those fields in a company that needs engineers for them. As long as you have a basic working knowledge of computer science you'll get in.
The real eyebrow raiser for me was that the plaintiff is in Los Angeles. Wait until they learn where Kentucky Fried Chicken comes from...
I am 100% supportive and in agreement of this.

Case in point was going to Athens for a work event. I felt like the Parthenon was disappointing experience. The crowds were terrible. You can't get anywhere near the actual building. And it's often under some type of renovation/construction, so there's scaffolding everywhere. There are no trees, so it's basically it's a bit of a hike, waiting in lines, and then without shade you're out in the blazing sun (if in Summer time).

Afterwards I went to another site in Athens, the Ancient Agora of Athens. Wow, what a completely different experience. It was mostly empty. But there were several big buildings to actually walk up to and into. There were remnants of statues and other historical items that made it super interesting. There were also trees, for shade and the grounds were really well kept.

https://goo.gl/maps/pGRysme3D91Kt8Q7A if anyone is interested in seeing some of the photos of the location. I had never heard of it, but had a few hours to explore and this location saved my Athens experience.
>>The problem is that then some people opt out. If enough people do that, it's no longer financially viable to have a fire service.

Aside from the fact that since most homes are covered by a mortgage and mortgage companies would require that as a condition of a loan, no where did I really say to make it optional. I simply said I wanted an itmized bill for the service

I am required to have water service turned on as part of occupancy, I can not turn off the water service to home even if I wanted to live completely on bottled water, it would be against local ordinances. I am required to pay that bill monthly, if I turn it off I would get fined by the city, and at some point they would take my home

I am also required to mow my grass, and other such things, I fail to see why fire services would be any different.

>It's not all that different than living in an apartment with a few other people.

You are correct on that front, I despise apartment living and I also despise HOA which is why I took great care to avoid both in my life.

If star link or a competitor proves to be very successful and gets to be cost effective then Rural living may even be in the cards for me, one the only reasons I moved to where I did was because of the availability of high speed fiber optic service.
I did a MSc with a BMus in piano performance. I went on and got a PhD in CS, afterwards.

Normally, when doing a Master's degree, you are required to do "levelling" courses to ensure that you know the basics. These courses are usually the core competencies from the BSc in that university, and don't count towards the Master's itself. It just so happens that, if you have the BSc from that university, you will also have the levelling courses automatically.
So are you saying that if someone tweets something ridiculous like "Did you know that Jews drink the blood of murdered Christian infants? #zionists", they should be arrested and charged for this?

That seems to me a highly disproportionate infringement of this person's freedom of expression, as well as being completely pointless. If you're going to have the police arrest people for posting conspiracist idiocy on the internet, they'd have no time left to investigate real crimes that meaningfully affect people.
> The past of least resistance

> getting read of constraints

Some proofreading is in order.
I find myself absolutely perplexed that there is available policing capacity for this, but not for solving things like scooter phone thief gangs and stolen motorcycles.
You could literally only have "hash table" and this would be true for "necessary for the majority". But maybe we should raise the bar a little bit.
It’s a non-binding document, yes, but it is the source of principles for other, binding treaties.
That's what Mike Martin and The Warzone speculate as well.

https://nitter.net/ThreshedThought/status/157864691554543206...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/explosion-rocks-russia...
I think the suggestion was that this was a planned Ukrainian covert operation, and the postal service was told in advance as a propaganda play.

Zelensky is a former actor who clearly understands PR, so it is not unlikely that he would plan something of that sort.
https://archive.ph/G42wy
Messy? I invite you to try some C
The Stipa-Caproni was certainly odd, but I wouldn't call it ugly. Imho, the ugliest plane ever made was the M-15 Belphegor, which has the unusual distinction of being a jet powered crop dusting biplane.
As a CEO & recruiter that’s hired dozens of engineers, I’ve never looked at someone’s degree, only the recent projects they’ve worked on.

My exposure is exclusive to startups (typically < 50 ppl), but many have been very successful.

And these roles are typically mid & Sr. level web, mobile & AI roles.

This works because at a startup you usually need to be good at teaching yourself and innovating, which is a skill that successful self-taught developers usually have mastered.

If you’re looking at different roles or at different size companies or can’t get exposure to interesting projects then you might find a CS degree worthwhile.
Oh, I question it myself all the time. I am still very much in favor of free speech, although I do think we as a society need to work on dealing with the consequences of free speech rather than just thinking it will work itself out.

However, my concerns with free speech would never include the types of things the UK is enforcing here. I am not worried about people being upset or hurt by mean things, I am worried about false information and propaganda.
There is an excellent Real Life Lore video on "How Russia is Crippling Germany with Gas" that has quite a different take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi74gPrn24Y&ab_channel=RealL...

Peter Zeihan also has quite a different perspective.

> those in Europe’s biggest economy will be able to behave as if not much is going on

It seems like the shut down of the Nord Stream will have a big impact on German manufacturing. I'm not sure how they'll be able to "behave as it not much is going on".
Because the social benefits of literally recommending a suicide handbook alongside a chemical that kills in 20 minutes on a platform widely used by almost every family in America without a second thought is zero.

There’s no cost benefit analysis to do here for the rest of us. There’s no pros and cons. Amazon doing this is bad, they were told about it and didn’t fix it. They have godlike amounts of money and are telling us to go fuck ourselves if it bothers us.

They could make an algorithm that doesn’t literally recommend suicide to teens and they should. There’s no other side of the argument we are talking about a recommendation here. The recommendation engine is a consumer product and it’s faulty.

As for the chemical the legitimate needs for it are likely vanishingly small and I find it really unlikely the people that need it would really mind some age verification or another extra safety step when ordering it.

We have been so corrupted by corporate influence we don’t even think to insist that companies act in the benefit of society anymore. Making profits isn’t a god given right if the product is bad for people.
Like the article points out, CCTV footage of the explosion shows that it did not originate from the truck; there is a bright light above and to the right of it the instant before the explosion.
France hasn't really benefited much. Italy has been the talking point for a long time and rightly so for the amount of debt plus the chronic political instability, but France is very much on a similar decline path.

Edit: cheap Russian gas + high productivity + political stability + undervalued currency (the Deutsche mark would have been way stronger than the euro) is what fueled German dominance in Europe. Italy/France/Spain/Greece/Portugal all struggled with varying degrees with low productivity, political instability (apart from France) and a currency that was too strong for their macro-economic fundamentals.
The word “quasi-intellectuals” is accurate. I’d even go as far as calling them pseudo-intellectuals. Very few people here know what they’re talking about. That goes for you too.
How did it lead to the truck being the source of the explosives though? How did they time the explosion to the train's crossing so well?

Feels to me like attacking from the ocean would have a higher probability of success than trying to sneak a truck packed with explosives onto a bridge that (one assumes) the Russians are very watchful over.
Actually all but a couple of american's I've met have been very thoughtful, and open. The attitude that worries me is expressed online IME. I'll edit my post to say that.
Why not just have the wifi-controller hardware already there, but strip out the software required to make it do anything?

I.e. modularize the BIOS firmware such that you flash "the BIOS firmware" and "the wifi/bluetooth stack firmware" separately, to separate chips. Then ship the motherboard without the wifi/bluetooth stack firmware pre-flashed — with the NAND that the wifi controller initializes from, just empty, such that the wifi controller immediately halts on boot, and the CPU doesn't find it on the bus. Make sure the rest of the BIOS works without the wifi controller "up". And then have an open root key of trust for the BIOS (= you can sign your own BIOS), but a closed root key of trust for the wifi controller (= only the OEM can sign the wifi/bluetooth stack firmware.)

It doesn't seem like it would be all that hard, given that we already have this kind of hardware firmware (+ firmware storage) modularity in modern devices in other ways — e.g. most trackpads have their own isolated firmware, that the host can flash to update, but which isn't otherwise accessed by the host CPU, rather only the trackpad microcontroller itself; where the trackpad firmware flash lives inside the trackpad, not in the host.
Same trajectory here. I started with vi(m), used a handful of IDEs along the way, but vi(m) was (is*, if I'm in my terminal and just need to edit a config file or look at some data file, and sometimes even just for reading source, I default to using neovim) a mainstay, and I also eventually landed on Emacs with evil-mode. I still use an IDE frequently for graphical debugging. I find it's the best way to approach thorny problems, but I jump in and out of the IDE quickly. I don't hang around in it and write code, almost as a rule.
Are we sure that doesn't make the entire "military operation" an extended act of terrorism? I'll accept that in lieu of admitting it's a war.
It does preclude incitement of discrimination:

“All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.“

And otherwise:

“In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.”
Apartment buildings... The claim of terrorism is aimed at convincing Russians, not everyone else.
To get the science why more CO2 means more heat, look no further than Arrhenius, he described and calculated the phenomenum in the late 19th century. That is very basic and confirmed physics.