skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Performance Impact from Different Arch Linux Kernel Flavors
Relevant Dilbert: https://dilbert.com/strip/1993-09-16
I think your point is valid and important, especially considering the average user. However in my experience it worked surprisingly well with a long word based master password. Since I only needed to remember 1 password that I then used daily it was not that difficult. And typing it was quick since it was all lowercase which most keyboards are optimized for. However the issue came when I started using my password vault on my phone and tablet. I was way too slow at typing on them. I now have a 22 character password which takes the same time for me to type on a keyboard, maybe a bit slower, but is faster on my phone though still annoyingly slow.

As for 70 bits password, it might be enough, but you need a lot of iterations (2^58) if you want to completely make up for the lost security margin. Which will also be unusably slow in practice.
We have NFC enabled cards and phones. I guess one could get a challenge from the card's chip with an app if they insist, but the phone can already work as a contactless card over NFC, so one no longer needs the EMV chip.
Too bad it is not ideal compared to a full-blown SQLAlchemy setup, and it's not production quality yet. Hopefully he'll get it done sooner or later.
Other warehouses, despite what internet pundits will tell you, are much the same.

Tech workers in air-conditioned buildings are out of touch on how the underclass live and work.
BUT I PICKED TOMATOES FOR A SUMMER JOB WHEN I WAS 15
He was a full-time employee - VP at Google before, and a PM before that... at least $300-500k/year, is that not enough or something? How does one of the highest salaried jobs around make you a 'disposable peasant'? Do you just go through life not knowing anyone on an 'average' income?
I also like digital keys and whisking myself to a room. But I would also rather know about my relocation (or any other issue) before I get to the hotel rather than after I get to the hotel.

When I worked, we used to have to often change room types from rooms with 1 queen bed to a room with 2 full XL beds (full XL is 6 inches narrower than a queen).

Of course, technically, this would modify a guest’s reservation and give them an inferior bed than the one they reserved, so we would go down the list of people who had reserved a room with 1 queen bed and ask if they were willing to change to a room with 2 full XL size beds, and as a thank you, offered a few thousand points.

Obviously, all the single business travelers had no problem accepting a couple extra thousand points for a bed that was 6 less inches wide, but if they did not have a good phone number on the reservation, they were not offered.
Going to Idealab's Pitchbook page: 202 investments, 135 'exits' (I think this is where you get your 65% number), but 65 of those 135 'exits' were bankruptcy.
The idea of activists/politicians having any say in who companies hire disgusts me. The average person might thing of them as professional useless people. But as someone who lives in a somewhat corrupt country, I fear it's far more sinister.

Here, after every government change, public worker positions and state universities tend to get filled with by the winner with their incompetent cronies. But the private sector is relatively safe. When you bring in DEI positions you're just creating new opening for the politicians/activists to exert control over the private sector as well.
I think it's more of a sarcastic / cynical take - kind of a "you reap what you sow" sentiment. This IS what capitalism is, with a weak social safety net and without controls on the accumulation of stupid levels of capital. If you don't believe that the people who invested in Coinbase should have had the ability to fling around billions of dollars on a whim, then it's difficult to feel bad when they spend it poorly.
This makes me think of something I have heard people say (mostly on tv, but sometimes in real life)

"I wanna talk to my lawyer"

But how many people have a criminal defense attorney on speed dial that can be contacted at a moments notice and will jump to your defense during the interrogation process?

Can you call an attorney up and say, "hey I want you to be my lawyer in case I get in trouble"? "Let me have your cell phone number."
Congrats, are you using micro acquire to sell?
The problem of having multiple sources of data is Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance. It also depends on IO characteristic of apps. Who are readers, who writers, how long stale data is acceptable. Basically all the distribute system problems. In web app, frontend + backend + db sit next to it is enough of problem (e.g. SPA vs MPA state problem)
I for one am very sure about how I feel about that
When every hire can make or break your company, then you are looking at this from a very wrong perspective. In that case you should be hiring in network, candidates you know, or are vetted by people you trust. Or hire people on contract and convert them to full time. Or work with trusted vendors in the field who can source great candidates.

Not every SWE can work at every company, that is pretty much true. But creating arbitrary “signals” to figure out who will be a great fit will doom your company with a very specific type of people, which is not what you want when every candidate can make or break your company.
I believe the symptomatic behavior of the two operating systems you are describing are the default choices around overcommit ratios and bytes and reserved memory and this only starts to become a problem when one is using more memory than what is installed.

Linux is by default very forgiving, to a fault. That fault being an application can ask for more memory than what is available and will use a simple formula to permit it. BSD is stricter by default on over-commit, thus keeping some people out of trouble at the risk of denying an application's request for more memory. This is really only a problem if the person is forking more processes and requesting more memory than what is installed and available.

Take a look at your committed memory and available memory:

grep Com /proc/meminfo; free -m

Assuming this is what you are running into on Linux this behavior can be disabled using

# vm.overcommit_ratio = 50 # is the default (mem+swap*1.5)
vm.overcommit_ratio = 0

in /etc/sysctl.conf or adjust as you see fit and then running sysctl -p or rebooting. There are other tunables that can prevent swapping or start swapping early depending on what behavior one prefers and how much memory is installed in the system in question. There are also tunables for reserving memory for root and for the kernel but I will avoid going down that rabbit hole without knowing your setup.
congrats!
1. are your projects open source?
2. have you written about your experience working on these projects somewhere e.g. a blog post?
> clever snark

Thats the entire point of ftalphaville. Its a great read, and free, barring email signup
Export from LP and start migrating, starting with changing common social IdPs like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github, Apple, Microsoft/Live/Xbox/Outlook. Update the password of remote access programs like Parsec, and your cell phone provider's password. Then go through your TOTP generator and start changing everything in your TOTP generator (especially since you might be using LP Authenticator - if you are, then move to a different authenticator at the same time). Next: banking, your work payroll, investment accounts, Tax/IRS, shopping. From here one out start going through the list by the amount of money involved. If you doubt that then go through them ordered by the amount of data involved.

If you get lost and stuff seems too hard, if your replacement product lets you sort by age then just sort by oldest and hit 5 today. Hit 5 more tomorrow. Keep chipping at it. At this point you might as well change one every single day.
looks like you gotta listen to a whole podcast here, do you mind summarizing the points? the research I've looked at mostly has been around number of graduates in certain fields which would seem to lend credence to it being a pipeline problem, at least so far down stream. would love to hear evidence on the other side. thank you.
They do have glucose metabolism[0], but that is the issue with CICO model already you have to start making extra rules about what is digestable and what is not.
Calories doesn't state that all. Offcourse it wouldn't because the Calories concept was made for steam engines in 1800's.[1]
Not that is matter from when it is. But maybe it's time for new ideas that do explain that conundrum of those type 1 diabetics.
The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity[2] does have a explanation.

[0]https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes/insulin-effects-o...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082688/
Hooray for diffs, Molly joked about formatting issues (triple space), SBF probably read it and fixed it
Did not at any point suggest multiple sources of data.

EDIT: While there are things in their repos that suggests they might be thinking about moving towards allowing multiple writers, what's currently there suggests a single current active instance of each database, with the WAL being sync'ed to object storage so that in the case of failure and/or when doing a cold-start, the database can be brought back from object storage.
I hope rarity is not your only marker for value. Otherwise I do have a rag to sell you which I've been using for 5 years now. Totally unique, nothing else like that.
Email is on my personal website linked in my profile
If you’re restarting your Linux distro regularly, there’s something wrong with your setup.

In fact, force rebooting is a thing of the past in most platforms, and has been for decades. Even Windows is reasonable stable.
The Long Room was difficult for other reasons. Everything there was on FT webspace and was built by FT people, but with strictly limited access, so the compliance folks were comfortable. Moderation was light but within our control. Risks were known, therefore manageable. The eventual decision to kill LR was taken largely in the hope that we could replace it with something better. That's a work in progress.
Might be worth having a chat with Ian Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YQ8dGOiDk8
The argument wasn't "avoiding meat prolongs death." It was "avoiding meat reduces the risk of dementia."

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/114/1/175/617...
Perhaps you are confused. I was implying that people with dirt on them are the ones who are promoted to positions of power. Precisely because they _can_ be controlled. I think it is obvious and goes without saying that not everyone is susceptible to blackmail.
Sometimes you've got to trim the branches for the tree to stay healthy.

Layoffs suck, been there done that, but they're a good chance for everyone to reconfigure in a better configuration.
Good question. My gut says his all in comp for Google including stock would likely be a lot higher but who knows.
See https://github.com/xlladdins/xlladdin/blob/master/ThisAddIn....
Correct, I rarely eat out now. I've seen the QR code menu's before, but the place still had regular menus as backup. This most recent place did not.

This should be illegal as it really discriminates against elderly. My 75 year old dad has an old shitty phone that he can barely use... what is he supposed to do? I could barely read the menu on my iphone 13 pro max...
It's also worth noting that many companies have policies against open-source contributions, the use of public forums (like stackoverflow), and so forth. This is obviously more common in big tech as opposed to startups. I know employees in those corps that love coding and do that stuff in their spare time - but because of the policies they do it under a screen name and certainly don't mention it in their resumes, etc.

In some of those corps there actually is a "dont ask dont tell" kind of policy around personal projects/blog posts/oss contributions/etc. as the company forbids them unless you have special approval. However on the flip side managers know that the people with those projects and experiences often have a stronger drive than those simply treating coding as a 9-5 job.

I also know of cases where the interviewers were very impressed by the candidate's Github repo/oss contributions but stated that the candidate would have to stop working on that stuff after being hired. I know people who upon graduation seperated their projects for this purpose, continuing some under a screen name and having other less important ones for resume purpose knowing that they may not be able to continue working on them under that name in the future.
Show HN: Automating Patient Interview with GPT
This demo collects patient information in an open-ended and conversational format and then writes a preliminary medical note based on patient responses.

Many GPT-3 applications focus on GPT answering user queries; here, we flip it around, with the system asking the user instead.

I think open-ended conversational question-asking (that maintains long-term coherence, for which we use SNOMED-CT ontology and some rules) is especially important in medicine. Most existing systems rely on multiple-choice questions with a heavy amount of medical reasoning, but that’s very hard to get right. You can’t enumerate all the possible ways a patient can be sick, which is why many doctors begin the patient interview by letting the patient tell their medical story.

This is also not supposed to replace doctors. Many emergencies and other complicated medical cases require strong clinical reasoning to collect medical history, which a system like this lacks. Here, we just try to collect some information before the encounter to help contextualize the physician about the patient from the get-go and to empower doctors and nurses to do triage.

A couple of notes on the technical side: (1) This is openai dependent (each turn is a variable, but often 3-5 openai calls, if openai is over loaded, this means that the responses can time out). (2) The chatbot session url is a permalink. It can be shared/refreshed/etc. If it times out, you can try to continue the discussion at a later time (just go/refresh the permalink).
It would have been cheaper to acquire QNX
There are vanishingly small number of these positions in the world, and a vanishingly small percentage of that vanishingly small number are hiring. These positions are also gated by things that commoners do not have access to, like prestigious educational backgrounds and well-connected networks of executives. Same for becoming a founder. Unless you bootstrap, the minute you want to raise funding, you're more often than not going to be blocked by those same gates.

This is a class issue, not a "seize the opportunity" issue.
I agree that crypto is 100% negative-sum in my experience. (Especially the ones that are proof of work which literally destroys our one biosphere through wasting electricity.)

Most recently, I got a "legitimate" (doxxed, "real") job offer via HN, got hired and scammed, wasted hours of my time. Crypto is scamsville.
>> I'm almost certain the way they technically define "biological age" is misleading

> I'd be curious how you came to that conclusion - considering that there's currently no known way to objectively measure biological age. Best thing that any researcher can do right now is just measure everything, and that's what they're doing.

I came to that conclusion because, if they have a definition, they're almost certainly measuring things they can easily measure and perhaps influence, which aren't really the things people speak about when they talk about age. I don't care how fit this guy is, he's not living to 140 by doing the stuff he's doing.
Let's see: Chris Dixon (a16z crypto), Chamath (pump and dump extraordinaire), and basically everyone on https://twitter.com/VCBrags .

Especially:

https://twitter.com/VCBrags/status/1588954788334800896 and https://twitter.com/VCBrags/status/1572301007383851009

https://twitter.com/VCBrags/status/1608178902664642561
Don't show it to my boss, please.

It is super cool and would love to play around with it - just not at work :)
This is such a poor faith argument that completely ignores any reality. These companies have had a massive last decade or so, and if what you're saying is really the case, then we would see booming levels of wealth in middle america among the elderly. Instead, we see most wealth going to the richest of Americans, with the lions share of wealth created during the last 2 years of resurgent economic boom going to the top 1% of Americans, not the fixed income middle america boomers who are currently dying because they can't afford to keep living on social security.
This is interesting stuff--thanks for writing it out.

> ...super-Turing computational power.

Could you expand on this? The Wikipedia page claims that the deterministic version can be efficiently simulated by a Turing machine.

The Wikipedia page and page you linked claim that NP problems can be solved in linear time. It does point out the caveat that it would require exponential space, but I think even then something's being swept under the rug. Namely, it assumes that an exponential number of basic computational steps can be performed in a single "time step". In a physical cell (and presumably any other instantiation of this model in the real world), repeated application of a rule like a -> aa would require an exponentially-increasing expenditure of energy, which isn't being taken into account in the analysis.
Right that's great. I get that. It's gonna put me out of a job in 10-12 years. I'll worry about that later.

The person I responded to was saying that they (as a dev I believe) have been seeing huge productivity gains _right now_ and that's what I'm interested in.
> increased rates of cancer and other (cough cough) disorders

Can someone translate dogwhistle to english here please?
Oh I'm not being sarcastic. The lemmings at the top of most tech companies are highly overpaid and continually fuck up Their One Job. The rare person who manages to trick them into paying a lot for little-to-no services has figured out the game and deserves some praise.
I suspect that like many peacetime efforts undertaken by various militaries, they need to train so they might as well do something useful while training.
Heh, I'm guessing you're a product designer!

Much like the person that has their 2FA app on their phone, and their backup keys burn down in their house and then is suddenly on HN begging for Google support to help them because they are in a catch-22 situation no one cares about the edge cases until they are being crushed under one.

Also a 1% failure rate is off the charts when you're talking about serving millions.
It is absolutely insane that you're going back to LastPass after this. We have no reason to believe they're not still fully compromised.

Switch to 1Password. It takes ~5 min to export and import.
"libSQL" is a silly name. It's not a library is it?

I wish people would at least vaguely try to be helpful naming products.
The problem with startup studios is attention is completely splintered. I think Lemon.io (your company) is probably the only way to get quick validation and then drill down.
EU’s proposed software-security requirements could have a dire impact on open s
Doesn't sound like any trickery was involved. Relatively standard high profile options package. He got really, really, really lucky in terms of timing and mechanics.
Layoff Brain
> Blockchain

Stopped reading there...
I predicted this would likely happen at the start of the year.

I don't think it was an accident that tech become one of the main industries pushing D&I over the last several years. Whatever your opinion is on D&I it's arguably not something a company would put significant investment or time into unless they had spare margin and cashflows.

This isn't a political comment, just an observation as someone who works for a company with a large D&I team, but I do hope this injects some sanity into what a reasonable emphasis on D&I looks like in the corporate structure, because I think a few tech companies have gone a little too far in recent years. The company I work for at the moment has ended up dividing the workforce by race by pushing "inclusive" policies so hard. Our corporate Yammer is worse than Twitter.
> even the playing field between labor and capital

No, the goal was to keep it tilted in capital's favor. Which group wields greater decision-making power? Which type of income is more lightly taxed? Capital vehicles (corporations) have almost all of the rights and practically none of the responsibilities - or vulnerabilities such as mortality or geographic limitation - of human laborers. Yes, the playing field needs to be leveled ... the other way.
If we're going to dismissively summarize, shall we at least summarize it correctly?

> The SIT protocol consisted of 3x20-second ‘all-out’ cycling efforts against 0.05kg/kg body mass, separated by 2 minutes of low-intensity cycling (50W).

You're right, that's not one minute. That's 20 seconds high intensity spinning spaced out with 2 minute "just regular biking" sets. Turning that into "it's 8 minutes, not one minute" takes some doing. Anyone with a home exercise bike can comfortably repeat this regime.
I'm not sure how to respond.

I don't think being conniving is better than being smart, just sharing an observation.

Do you disagree with the premise?
It might be jealousy. But it also could be that they're just now realizing how they got taken, and to what extent.

Which would be unsurprising, as plenty of startups puff up expectations and take advantage of the young and naive. I have relatively little sympathy for Coinbase employees, as I think the whole thing was a scam built on scams, so it was always a question of who gets screwed. But I have some sympathy for the ones who were early enough in their careers that they didn't really have the chance to learn how rotten the world can get in spots.
Yes, I was using microacquire and twitter.
My favorite part of the diversity sham is the race selector on the Bumble dating app. Asian has 5/6 options with all cardinal directions included. Yet White has one option. Certainly just like the South Asian is different than the North Asian you get the picture. Also the Greek European is different than the Norwegian. You get the picture.

Also the chess.com emoticon selector. If you don't pay you have to be OK with no emoticon or 2 icons which are Pro Ukraine. If you pay you have access to all emoticons.

Not quite sure exactly what the message is there, but doesn't really go well with freedom of choice. Especially when you have a platform which has a huge minor audience. I guess chess.com has bigger problems not that their site is suffering under extreme load due to poor planning.
One of the few things I miss about in person work is the banter that happens more organically in an office. I do love my job and enjoy my coworkers still, but it's not the same. Sometimes I'll grab a beer with some old coworkers and that's always a blast.

Even back in high school and college when I was working generic minimum wage jobs, coworkers could make or break it. So many good times collecting trash and cleaning bathrooms with Ashwin, but the same thing with Dave was dreadful. Turns out spending time with people you like leads to happiness, who would have though :)
Coinbase Pets: A custody management solution for storing and transferring pet ownership certificates on the blockchain.

Coinbase Recipies: Cooking recipes stores and exchanged on the blockchain.

Coinbase Ponzi: Turnkey service to create, launch and list your new tokens. Whitepaper generated through partnership with ChatGPT. A16Z investment guaranteed.
Irrelevant to article content, but did anyone else find the cookie UX on this site infuriating?