skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: not a dba so my terms might not be appropriate

I’ve seen uuid4 which replaces the first 4 bytes with a timestamp. It was mentioned to me that this strategy allows postgres to write at the end of the index instead of arbitrarily on disk. I also presume it means it has some decent sorting.

[inspiration](https://github.com/tvondra/sequential-uuids/blob/master/sequ...)
Then one should make a good case for changing that gatekeeping, if you think it’s unhelpful. That’s not what this article advocates: this article is about changing the PhD process inside the academic system.
Google's parent firm to lay off 12,000 employees
I held a 30 person NYE party in the house I just purchased, that's 9 years in a row I've been holding this party. We dance, sing karaoke, drink champagne, and catch each other up on our otherwise busy and turbulent lives. Mostly friends from high school, some from university, and others still we've met afterwards. It's a wonderful atmosphere, partially because nearly everyone there has known each other for years now.

When I throw parties, it's for people I love and care about. I wouldn't go through all the time and stress and effort for acquaintances or coworkers; the reason my friends and I get together so frequently is because there's nothing else we enjoy more, so we prioritize it.

COVID isn't the problem and neither is getting older. My parents are in their 60s and still throw classy, drunken, hilarious parties with their decade long friends. The problem, I'm afraid, probably lies with your third point.
Virginia still has all of their highway signs to let you know that it's enforced by aircraft. A report came out in 2018 that stated they were no longer using that method of enforcement primarily due to the cost of the program.
Google Announces Layoffs
8GB is probably enough to get by for most types of development, but personally I'd sacrifice some other spec on my computer (such as having the bare minimum HD space) to try and ensure that the RAM is at the normal level.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/011516/top-5-g...

The top individual insider shareholders of Google are Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Sundar Pichai
> I am sorry but I just get annoyed reading opinions on what 10x means.

There are literally people redefining it in this thread:

> 10x = It takes 10 people to clear the mess they left behind.

> All you need for the myth to be true are a few programmers who will take 10 times longer than necessary to complete a task.
You can now Join an AI company and wait for Google to acquire the company and make Bank? Looks more like marketing Google investments in AI than anything else on that letter.

Best of luck to anyone affected.
I forgot that Julia can do juxtaposition multiplication with literal prefixes. (My guess is symbols that can't begin an identifier.) Otherwise, the types of the terms must be known at parse-time to correctly interpret, for example, f(x)².
I once built myself a parametric real-time rhythm sequencer - a little black box with knobs and buttons and lights and an LCD screen, which spat out MIDI notes to drive a drum machine - because that seemed easier than either learning to play the drums or learning to program drum patterns.
What I'd like to know is what were the leaderships (Google, Amazon, et al) thinking or expecting when they decided to mass hire.
Employment rules are not the same across the EU. You would have to specify the country. In NL if you fire more than 20 people in a 3 month period there is a specific set of rules you have to apply and it determines in what order you must fire people as part of a mass layoff and who you can even fire as part of a mass layoff.
unfortunately, streamlining these movies made them really bad. There's no soul in these movies that come from the love of the comic book characters. It's like a meat factory, rolling out identical, tasteless meat in a can that's cheap and easy to consume, but lack depth of flavour.
Maybe for some. The illusion they had of a nice job, especially with lots of money promised, made them take too big a credit for their house or whatever. And now they're doomed.
You can always say this is their fault for not having foreseen that, but it probably wouldn't have happened to them if they had another, more regular job.
Not surprising at all. I don’t know about the rest of the country, but nearly all school boards in NJ are run by non-paid citizens who run for office with no experience in business or education. The result - if you look at school contracts, they are paying outrageous rates with no safety net compared to regular businesses. In our district they are spending $300k on simple pole barns and $50k on simple score boards because industry knows school boards have no clue on actual costs of goods and services.

With amateurs running the show, it is not at all surprising that they flubbed negotiations for a service like this.
I am still waiting for `docker upgrade my-container my-image:latest`.
But they are the ones that will suffer more from climate change than those who live in, say, Scandinavia.
I had a Lisa on my desk back in early 1984 (along with an IBM PC/XT, an Apple III and an Apple II of some kind). It was an amazing device that clearly showed the direction of computing in the future. It was also way overpriced and underpowered (a 5 MhZ 68000 is not exactly fast), but while I didn't get a chance to write anything for it as it was just an eval unit, reading the documentation was mind bogglingly different than anything I had ever seen. Of course it was the Mac that actually lead to the future (and then Windows 3 that took over years later), but the Lisa pointed the direction.
Fair question. I know in my company they didn't and from what i have seen in other comapnies they didn't do it either (Ok I don't work at a FAANG.)
What is the comparison to modern camera sensors nowadays? Can they detect single photons?
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre
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Question. Why a laptop if you're plugging it into a monitor and therefore using it like a desktop?

Does it have to be a laptop? If you just want something portable you can take from place A to place B and use with a monitor have a look at mini PCs. They're smaller than a laptop (about the same weight) so you can pop it in your bag easily to move around if that is your need.

The only real limitation is you can't sit down in a coffee shop to work. But if you have a couple fixed areas of work they are far more cost effective than a laptop and actually allow for upgrading (RAM and SSD anyway, more than you get on most laptops these days).

FWIW I picked one up for my son a couple of months ago. It's a Ryzen 5600H with 32GB RAM and 500GB NVMe SSD. Runs Windows 11 and Fedora perfectly. Does a little gaming but is mostly for school work. Makes a solid little dev system though.

Not to mention it had perfect Linux support out of the box. Literally everything worked (wifi, bluetooth, both HDMI with 4k60, etc) whereas on a laptop it can be a real pain to get everything working right. You can avoid so many headaches going mini pc over laptop.
Lower production costs also means competitors will have an easier time producing content. Hollywood studios have been the gatekeepers of culture but that's going to be more and more difficult for them to enforce as the limiting factor on movie making becomes more about creating desirable storytelling and less about wealth. These hugely expensive CGIfests seem to be the last ditch attempt at setting a bar that only the incumbent studio can meet. Someone will come along with a compelling story and a meager budget and end up showing up the nth iteration of whatever comicbook character they're pushing at the moment.
When there are little to no consequences, it will keep happening. We need severe penalties for losing sensitive data, as in, an actual threat to the survival of a company, not some minuscule fine.
The site was hosted by my local ISP sover.net
That's what I did as well.

The problem often is fighting the urge to correct things. For me the only thing that helped was sleep deprivation, but probably alcohol has a similar effect.
These companies work not for their employees, but for their shareholders. I suppose shareholders would have revolted if they hadn't increased investment to potentially hit it big when they could. Turns out these investments didn't work out, so now they cut their losses. From a shareholder's perspective, I can understand this narrative as not foolish, rather courageous.

From an outside (and employee) perspective, it can seem foolish though.
10x and 100x are not myths. They exist. Once you work with them you will know right away. You will walk away in awe and in shame of knowing that you will never ever be that good.
It was ZWB (Zimbabwe dollars), but I can see why you would assume "pound" given the country's history. Source: I have one of these notes on my coffee table :) It lives with a $1 bill that was printed only a couple of years before it.

Bad stuff happens when a government gets these things wrong!
It feels like we always defined 10x programmers as those that "make" things 10x as fast.

But, the true cost of software is in the maintenance. Building the software is 10% of the cost, 90% is the cost of keeping it running and fixing it over the life of the software.

Certain programmers will "make" software that might be only, say, 0.7 times as fast as the next. But, the way they made their software will lead to 10x more software maintenance. IMHO, this would be a developer with poor design patterns, no regard for automated testing, and no regard for how their work can be used and modified by others. It'll work, and it'll get "done" within the sprint, but the true cost will be seen in the years that follow.

Those 10x developers are causing the maintenance costs to go up by 10x. If you believe the numbers around 10% to build, and 90% to maintain, then that means one of those developers will make your project cost almost 9x as much over the life of the software.

That's the 10x programmer you should be watching out for.
Conan + (any build system) = problem solved

Conan has a learning curve, but it’s totally worth it. Anyone making their own build system should get some experience with a state of the art package manager before writing a single line of code, because chances are that it already solves whatever problem is motivating you.
The Fed has been raising interest rates at historically fast rates all year in order to fight inflation by cooling down the economy.

Which is another way of saying "inducing a recession", as any educated person should know.
“See? I’m vindicated! With this collapse, Bitcoin is all the way down to 100x what it was when I first heard about it and correctly predicted its imminent demise.”
10x skills are everywhere.

My brother's car kept going into paroxysms where the engine would stutter and want to die, at random times. He'd pump the gas etc and it would go away.

Never happened when he was at the shop, so the guy said "If it does it and you're anywhere around, drive right in and show me!"

Kind of a long shot but what could he do? So one day it happened around 5 and he was close so he pulled in.

They shop guy listened a moment, said "don't do anything!" and ran and got a vise-grips. He shimmied underneath the car, clamped the fuel line. Waited until it almost died, then released.

The problem disappeared! It purred like a kitten.

"It's almost 5, I want to go home, but bring it in Monday and I'll take care of it."

"You have to explain that!"

"A piece of grit got into your needle valve (fuel rate control). Starving the engine made the valve fully open, and the grit passed through. I'll replace your fuel line and filter, problem should go away."
We gave the 10x developer who worked on one of my teams a VP level equity and bonus position in addition to being paid the same as me.
Breaking the Scalability Barrier with CGX: Training on Multiple GPUs
Aside from the money, I'm quite glad my job was cut, in hindsight, but only because Amazon handled it so well: They gave us time to sort out a new position. I'm already much more excited about my new gig, and for the right reason (not $).

I'm not sure a union would have helped there, but I'm not opposed. Amazon tried to make hay while the sun was shining, and it didn't work out for all depts. It happens.
Can you define "success" ?

Was all poor artists who died in poverty successful in the past ?
"Please don't post shallow dismissals"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>7 Marvel movies will be released in the next 19 months.

Disney-Marvel is now the Taco-Bell of entertainment.

In fact, most modern Hollywood productions are absolute trash. Just poor quality remakes, sequels, spin-offs of once popular franchises where they shoe-horn various modern-day identity politics and woke "progressive" topics trying to appeal to Twitter critic mobs, expecting people are NPCs who should just mindlessly consume whatever their corporate machine craps out of their "creative" board-room meetings.

Top Gun Maverick was for me the only enjoyable movie worth watching in 2022, which is somewhat sad since it was full of plot holes but everyone enjoys thrilling dogfights and it followed a very simple recipe that has been battle proven all the way till the '90s but for some reason Hollywood decided to actively reject it now in most modern productions thinking that some sliver spoon executive detached from reality knows better than the fans who buy the tickets. Tom Cruise seems to be one of the last few in show-biz who knows how to give fans exactly what they want.

These days, I find much better quality stuff is coming out of Korea, Denmark, France, Finland, etc.
So does Zuckerberg. But while he and Page/Brin may have a controlling interest in _voting_ stock, they own a much smaller amount of overall shares. Sure, activists can't control the board, and Zuck/Page/Brin are not in danger of being ousted, their fiduciary duty is to the shareholders not just those with voting rights.
> That’s exactly what they said they have done.

But they're trying to frame it as if they cared more about employees than profits.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/employ...

tl;dr: There is a special process called collective redundancy which requires a 30 day notice given to the workers.

There are also country-specific rules.
I do see exactly such a noise in dark rooms, am not unnerved by it at all.
Had a project where the tedium work was cranked to 11. I automated that because I sure was not going to do that for every time I wanted to deploy some code. I also automated the semi complex task that you only do every 2-3 years. Because I sure was not going to remember the steps and I am 100% sure it would just get lost in our sea of documentation. Spinning a new env is mostly just running some scripts instead of days of filling in fields. Computers do the same over and over exactly the way you told them to. Use them. On the other side of that it is dead easy to over complicate something. I am dealing with a project like that now. 5 layers of indirection, model view, the testing framework is solid, the whole thing. It is a single form app with 3 buttons and 4 edit controls.
the 10x designs the entire system. the 1x teams work in it after, in a controlled way.

eventually the 1x teams understand the system and mimic the patterns.

enough patterns created by the 10x it's hard for the 1x to fuck things up.

yes you eventually won't have the 10x one day, but if you utilized them right, they made you a nice temple.

10x or not, if you have a team design a system you're doing it wrong. teams can work in it later, one person should design it.
> your "little" Skoda

That's the thing, it's not "little" in my book, but a full sized car. It comfortably fits an average family (or a group of four adults) and their stuff for a week-long vacation.

> same size as a first or second generation Landrover Discovery
It's 25 % lower and 5 % narrower than the first generation, but I understand that the Discovery is an off-road car, and I also consider it a full sized car, just like mine. The evolution should've stopped (or been regulated) right around there.
Very helpful y’all, thanks! Gonna see if I feel up to tackling the repair (good excuse to buy a reflow setup) and or get in touch with this gentleman. Cheers!
Hybrid Logical Clock [1] could be of interest for readers.
This is a monotonically increasing clock based on a physical clock.

Combined with a machine identifier you can obtain globally unique identifiers that are totally ordered.

[1] https://cse.buffalo.edu/~demirbas/publications/hlc.pdf
for the described usecase, that should be fine. I would recommend getting rid of desktop environment (gnome, kfce ...), go for i3 instead. and don't use display manager, gtty is what you need to log in to your system. that would save you lot of memory and space.
With laptops (and few other things), I have a personal rule: It's better to spend a bit more and enjoy it than save money and suffer it.
Having said that, if your budget is that tight and there's no possibility of saving a bit more in a reasonable amount of time, I would go for the 8GB version *only* if the model allows to upgrade the RAM, then, months later, after saving a bit of more money again, purchase more RAM and add it. If the model is one of those where the RAM is soldered, I wouldn't even bother.
"Make hay while the sun shines"
I use ULID, 128 bits, time and great sorting

https://github.com/ulid/spec
Well, it might simply be "push the project architecture in right direction so whole team overall is efficient".

It's also probably a lot of anecdotes, "this dev solved weird issue in a day where other dev was stuck for week and couldn't find it!".

They might be 2x developer on normal day but happened to be this or that, debugged some hard bugs everyone else got stuck at and the people in project remembered those few good performances and assumed they do everything that much better
This 100%!

Buying a new laptop should not only serve you today but also AT LEAST 2-3 years (more like 5y) down the road.

I'm still using my Late 2013 MBP (which I even bought second hand a year or two old) today - everyday. Unfortunately this one will need to get replaced soon as even with this build quality things starting to come apart or work suboptimal after almost 10 years.
Hoping my next one is more repairable/upgradable (so probably no Apple) and last at least 5 years
Happy to see you’re doing well and will be a father soon. That will certainly change perspective on things in a positive way
A company I worked for 20 years ago tried to save money by foisting that policy off on us, and I flat-out refused. I don't remember what reasons I gave them, but I still remember the shuddering feeling of tightness across my upper back when I thought about it.
I meant your reply, was it generated by AI?
Yes, its all part of the game. The failures are real, but the reasons might be BS. In any case, you have to do another poly and now the stakes are higher. Its hard to understand the stress around the process without experiencing it. Passing the poly is a very important step in be able to get/keep your clearance so you can actually work. Otherwise you need a new profession. I miss the work itself but I dont miss the process.

EDIT: I'm not aware of any polys leading to discovering enemies of the state. Its all self-elected information from my understanding, in line with your suggestion.
I'm curious, what are you doing that requited 32 gb of RAM?
I think it's there just so no one infers the opposite. It's not unheard for executives to blame everyone else. Pichai is just affirming that he's not blaming anyone else.
> Intense schooling has made people apathetic to life and reluctant towards taking any initiative.

What do you mean by this?
This is not a question of someone being 10x what you are.

In our industry there are plenty of very weak developers, I bet you have worked with someone who is 0.1x of someone reasonably good, even someone who makes a net negative contribution.
I'm willing to believe that cows spend most of their lives consuming grass (I started this comment chain) but would also like to see a more compelling source than your anecdotes.

If they do spend most of their time consuming grass, I wonder if they are carbon-neutral for that period, or if that requires constant migration to fertilize new lands which might not occur.

The big development in this sector is the new seaweed supplements / additives, which should reduce methane emissions by a staggering amount. Some places are beginning to adopt it, not sure about the US. Naturally the green sphere is not thrilled, because there's so much overlap with the vegans.
I'm 42 and last year moved back to my home country. We wanted to throw a housewarming party but getting enough people in one place on a specific day at a specific time seemed like an impossible challenge. Everybody had busy schedules for their precious August weekends anyway.

We ended up doing a full-weekend party where people could drop by whenever they can. The first guests came on Friday around 6 pm and the last ones left on Sunday at 11 pm. In the end people were spread out evenly. Some came with kids in the day, others alone in the evening. This way there was really time to sit down and talk with old friends whom I hadn't seen in years or even decades.

For food, we ended up having ingredients in the fridge for a few quick foods like Vietnamese rice paper rolls, and we'd make it together with new guests if they were hungry. It worked out fine.

Of course dedicating the entire weekend to a party is a big commitment, but I think it actually reduced the level of stress compared to trying to do a traditional "dense" party on Saturday night.
Poll: How do you make your coffee at home?
Automatic filter/drip machine
Manual filter (e.g. V60, Clever brewer)
Espresso machine
Manual other (e.g. moka pot, aeropress)
Manual other (e.g. moka pot)
I don't drink coffee at home
No, it is not. That is enough for like 1 tab browsing a bank website to pay the bills. Maybe open 1 wikipedia tab.