skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing wrong with that. YC's co-founder matching program just seems to be skewed one way, so it wasn't for me.
Thanks, Phil! Good question. Yes, there is some overlap with the Maelstrom docs but most of the challenges either have different goals or they are new (Kafka, Totally-Available Transactions). These challenges also are aimed at people who are familiar with distributed systems and want to test their ability as opposed to the Maelstrom docs where they are meant to walk folks through the issue.

We also contributed a Go implementation of a Maelstrom client library and we were able to fix a handful of bugs in Maelstrom during the process. Kyle uses Maelstrom for teaching classes as well so work we did on these challenges were also contributed back into the repo.

The fun part about these challenges is there isn't one right way to do them. Many of the later challenges have several approaches and they each have their own trade-offs. Some of the challenge goals are performance targets so you can continue to optimize your implementation to get better numbers.
> I.. they’re not, but please share where you’re living globally where this is true, because omw!

Go look at % of income spent on food over time. In the US, that number is currently 7-15% - an incredible feat and underlooked luxury.
Notice that they are not using it as the only means for verifying system. They are using it as an additional check that supplements the extensive regression test suite. The test suite failed in this case because the bug occurred only under high load (after this, they added a new test case that simulates high load). The human verification that was in place in production as an additional safety check operated as intended and detected the bug.
When you think it's about a supply and demand curve, you give your lunch money to the bully and thank the bully for their service, when you think it's price gouging, the bully has to inform you that your lunch money is actually theirs.
Sure. The fact you can't knowingly do business with known criminals and stolen money also makes it harder to start a new bank.
The fundamental limiting factor here is not time, it's attention.

Regardless of the speed, audio books are inferior to read books because attention wanders
simple answer : workflowy is what? $15 per month whereas this one is $20 for life. Also Workflowy is online and this is offline so this can be used for work whereas I wouldn't use an online app like workflowy for company information.
5 years sounds optimistic
"For this campaign, we surveyed 930 Americans to explore their retirement plans. Among them, 16% were retired, 22% were still working, and 62% were retirees who had returned to work."

So, 149 of those surveyed were retired. Of those 149, 25 (1 in 6) are considering returning to work. 13 of those want remote positions.
Cruise: One Million Driverless Miles
Neat hack! If you look at old issues of Byte you'll see kits for converting a Selectric typewriter (electro-mechanical, no "brains") into a terminal.
Is there any LLM model that can be self hosted and fed a corpus of data to ingest for question answering? The part I find difficult is how to feed (not train) the open LLM models with entire dataset not available to public?
James Webb Telescope detects evidence of ancient ‘universe breaker’ galaxies
Would you say it is a heroin addict’s fault for getting addicted to opioids after a doctor pushed them into opioids when the doctor was far more aware of the risks than the patient?

We all have the ability (and some might argue responsibility) to educate ourselves on what our actions cause, and that’s why a lot of people, myself included, minimize or avoid Facebook use. However, that doesn’t remove culpability from Facebook for pushing addicting, polarizing, or divisive content onto users.

They are just pursuing profit, yes. But we as a society should really be pushing for their profit to be diminished by the extent it negatively impacts society. For instance, imagine Facebook were in part liable for terrorist attacks because it pushed radicalizing content, or partially liable for suicides, because it pushed content that destabilized someone’s mental health. We shouldn’t be tolerating them pushing content because the user is “such a fan” of the content any more than we tolerate doctors pushing addictive drugs, gambling or cigarette companies pushing their products, etc.
No paywall: https://archive.is/2023.02.21-232019/https://www.bloomberg.c...
To truly capture the HN experience, the user should provide a parameter for the number of "well actually"'s they want to receive.
So initial response should demonstrate clear expertise and make a great concise point in response to question, and then start the cascade of silly nitpicking.
Not sure if you're making my point, or arguing against it.

The employer has been paying a premium for having employees local. Now employees are getting upset because they're losing the premium. As if they are some dirty European or Indian. It's actually quite offensive to hear these complaints from US employees.
I also read the author's other article [0] and it seems that they are encountering engineers / teams who have not answered why they chose Kubernetes versus others options. Any initial project will have some legwork before any gets productive on it.

> Reasonable-ish counter concerns but way overinflated in each case & loses it's persuasiveness by trying overhard to sell fear.

My buddy uses K8s at their company for many clients(while they are small to medium sized) and they aggressively screen for the best engineers who can cut through the mud quickly and be productive with containers, Kubernetes, logging, etc.

So it can work if the engineering are able to say No and work with the tools / expertise they have.

[0]: https://thetechtrailblazer.blog/2023/02/14/dont-build-micros...
Why aren't there other companies outbidding Apple?
I haven't been able to exit vim since I wrote my first line of code in it in 1999, so now I do everything in vim, including reply to this comment.
What sort of multiplayer are you targeting? There's FPS-style (latency is important, lag compensation via extrapolation and interpolation, rewindable time for shooter-wins hit detection, UDP serialization with priority and delivery guarantees, sometimes client-side or peer to peer physics resolution, small player count), MMO-style (latency is less important, server-side everything, UDP or TCP, MUD-style messaging/RPCs, high player count, area of interest algorithms to optimize traffic), webgame-style (HTTP or VOIP-tech in browser, coarse grained calls, high latency is ok). There's also client/server, peer to peer, roll-your-own lobby vs. e.g. steamworks integrations, etc.

Not much docs up yet on this topic and the demos are a little sparse.
But they are about squeezing more hours for less money out of those who remain. The fact that this is punishing is just a bonus.
Seems low to me considering market performance and inflation over the last few years.
An excellent solution!
> It only makes sense that there should be an intermediate zone

Care to share any of that sense?
If it can be legally proved that the jail is incapable of providing adequate care (seems pretty likely, considering how terrible American prisons are generally), then they’re within their rights to enjoin the court for other remedies.

Time to see if the courts actually care about unborn personhood, as much as they’ve been crowing about abortion.
Russia is being belligerent, and a bigger war could break out soon. Depending on your specific demographic, you might be forced to fight it. In addition to higher taxes and lower salaries, most things (like energy) are more expensive than in the US.
When the price point is outside said supply demand curve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging
It has been clear for some time that this is largely aimed at middle management and not rank-and-file. The company has been pretty transparent about this.
This is why they call people 'resources' rather than people.
That title sounds as though it assumes that all the retired are white collar office workers whose jobs are amenable to remote working.

Sounds to me like the sample is not representative of the general population.
me too! I would not have got my current job if I didn't randomly check my spam folder. Tbf it was a cold email from a recruiter
Honestly, your discouraging attitude towards negotiation is far more disgusting. Negotiation is the only tactic employees have these days for market-rate compensation adjustments.
This isn't really any different from a "too big to fail"-kind of argument. We shouldn't hold websites liable for the algorithms they develop in order to generate profits, because it would be so inconvenient for them as to ruin their business model? That doesn't strike me as a good argument, and I have less and less of a personal belief that section 230 is a good thing. I think it's certainly the reason that we have the large internet companies we do today.

They get to externalize costs in a way no other companies get to, by not being liable for harms associated with their own business models. Rampant copyright infringement, we'll just let you make ContentID as a compromise. Rampant child pornography and child exploitation, we'll just have you do the same thing but with CP data sets... No actual physical business would be able to get away with business models that presented such realities, but we give carte blanche to the internet companies to do exactly that.
Unlicensed pharmacist.
Amazon officially becomes a health care provider after purchase of One Medical
No, I'm not that rare sort of person. But it also isn't in the organization's best interest to force everyone into a single style of work, rather than supporting people in their own preferred style of work. That's why management is hard! If it were as easy as "having a status update meeting every morning is the optimal process for everyone", we could pay managers a lot less :)
KHyperLogLog: Estimating Privacy Risks of Large Data at Scale
As a markets guy this logic makes sense, but as a parent it misses enough context to not be useful.

First, the market for child care that we face as individuals is one largely of our chosing. In a macro sense, we make choices to live close or far from family, to be in a close knit community or not, etc.

In a micro sense, are we comfortable with an off the books nanny coming to the house, or dropping the kids off at some illegal community grandma's house every day?

In NYC, no poor person deals with the "$150 just to get on the waiting list" type of child care. The people who engage with that are people who chose to raise kids in the city and want a certain type of "formal" daycare. These people also make enough that the cost/benefit obviously makes sense to them.

These are also people who would never use a broker because they don't consider daycare a fungible good. It's not like sourcing a trading venue for your sovereign bonds - by the time you are playing this game, you have very specific expectations about the philosophy of education, setting, religious context, etc.

Meanwhile, the poor people already have grandma living in the house, she gets SSI so the daycare is subsidized. And if there's no grandma in your house, there's one next door who'll keep an eye on your kid too for a couple of bucks an hour.

This is a very interesting example of where religious communities outperform the secular. For example in NYC is not uncommon to meet Orthodox Jews with 10+ kids. The secular can't relate to what it's like to have to deal with child care for 10 kids. But in those communities, it's routine - your family and neighbors help you out and you get through it. The fact that as seculars we fail to achieve that for ourselves is an interesting signal in my opinion.
Bollocks to becoming a millionaire, I'd head to Detroit and experience the birth of Soul ...
I run my tv as an external monitor from my M1 MBP via AirPlay

Rarely notice any issues doing so
Surely a scifi short story publisher personally knows and lives near enough good scifi authors that they can just ask their friends to write all the stories, right?
You know, back in the golden ages, employers had actual relationships with their employees and the communities they served both as a provider of goods and a provider of employment.

That was the time when the economy actually worked for the people.
Or their costs are a lot higher. When you don’t pack the chickens in a dense a space, you have more expensive feed, and you have a lot less chickens in the first place, then I’d expect it to cost a lot more.
That's kind of what I'm saying. "AI" "created" an "artwork" is nonsensical. It's like saying it was "created by Photoshop".
This public housing by the Fugger family in Germany has been in existence for over 500 years.

The rent is less than €1 a year.
Relevant quote from the briefing, which indicates they have not yet reached error correction takeoff velocity:

> It is known in the field that, when the physical error rate of qubits is high, the probability of logical error increases with increasing system size, whereas when physical error rates are low, increasing the system size leads to the desired exponential suppression of logical error. We feel that we are currently in a ‘crossover’ regime between these scenarios, in which increasing system size initially suppresses the logical error per cycle, but would, with increasing size, later increase error rates. Therefore, it is imperative that we continue to improve both qubit performance and system scale.

So this result is not yet the major breakthrough that would be required to build a scalable quantum computer.
any functional one with immutable data would suffice. my current favorite is Elixir, but others fit this bill.

There is still the matter of dealing with mutable stores like databases, but well-written code would make that impossible as well, plus permit tests to run concurrently
That's good isn't it? Wouldn't some extra-judicial consequences happening be cancel culture?
Speaking for myself, being able to work from home eliminates 80% of the things I hate(d) about working. Commutes. Having to appear to be not goofing off. Time away from family. Remote work, especially part-time remote work which is what I have been doing for the past five years, is vastly preferable to not working at all. I work when I am at my most productive, and the rest of the time I do whatever I want. It's the best of all worlds.
Sorry, but I just don't see it. Only difference is Fresh Direct puts a produce quality rating so you know when ordering online what the quality will be.

The only store that has consistently better produce at scale than Whole Foods in NYC is Eataly, but it's more expensive and there are only two of them. Before that there was Dean & Deluca but they've long since gone out of business and their prices were astronomical -- but I swear their produce section was like a museum and the vegetables were almost works of art.

I find it funny that when you drill down, the only supposed quality decrease is in the "freshness" of produce and meat, the two things that are ultimately the most subjective. I've shopped at a lot of supermarkets for a long time, and I truly have to wonder if people are simply imagining a decrease in freshness simply because it fits a preconceived narrative that if Amazon bought it, it must have gotten worse.

Because with my own eyes and taste, I don't see it at all. And it's not like this is ancient history hard to remember -- Amazon only bought WF five and a half years ago.
Right. Indeed my living room is not very big. I have made an error though, my TV is 55" - not 65".
Chicken food comes from corn, wheat, oats, some fish. It’s delivered by truck.

The cost of fertilizer is at record highs. The cost of fuel has increased.

I’m not justifying the exact increases but supply chains are never simple, especially in the modern economy.
Sure, but this is a very specific case where you cannot really do that without being completely disingenuous (which to be clear, may be the outcome that happens).

You can very easily not send a child to jail (because they have full legal personhood), but right now this fetus is considered 'part of the mother' as it relates to incarceration.

Hard to argue that a fetus has some constitutional rights, but isn't subject to the Fourth Amendment.

Like I said, a judge will make the argument that the fetus' environment is the womb and by that definition, their circumstances have not changed by being in jail, but that feels thin?
My read was that as long as the money printing machine is running, Zuck can do whatever random side project he wants. Once it starts struggling (ad tracking, macro environment), shit gets real, and not just for the company, but also Zuck.
So don't use async. You can get a very, very long way with threads and good old fashioned blocking I/O.
Founder here

Very excited to hit this milestones!

Hit me with your questions & feedback
Literally everything manufactured got more expensive in 2022. Everything.

Why would eggs be any different? It's not like they pop out of the chicken and land on your plate - there's a ton that goes into getting them into the store just so you can buy them.

Assuming egg production didn't experience significant cost increases seems precarious without evidence.

It's in the food industry - which suffered some of the most draconian restrictions on personnel and safety measures available at the time. For all we know, half of that cost increase could have gone to just sheets of plastic to hang all over the place and single-use disposable masks, gloves, boot coverings, hair nets and more that all had to be changed several times per day.

It's not Price Gouging simply because we don't like it folks...

> Collusion of the biggest producers would also explain why the more expensive eggs at the store did not rise as much as the cheaper brands

No, not at all. It simply indicates the more expensive brands had enormous margins before covid and were able to keep pricing more stable against rising costs.

Your cheap brands had nowhere to go, except raise prices when costs increase. This is so obvious and basic, it's weird it needs to be said.

Additionally, government policies don't happen in a vacuum folks. Policies made it difficult to produce and manufacture, and shocker - prices went way up. This is not rocket science...
> Quite literally the appellate court cited that they should have brought the claims earlier.

From the appellate decision:

"The superior court dismissed eight of the ten counts for
failure to state a claim, for undue delay, as duplicative, as outside the scope
of an election contest, or for some combination thereof."

"her request for relief fails because the evidence
presented to the superior court ultimately supports the court’s conclusion
that voters were able to cast their ballots, that votes were counted correctly,
and that no other basis justifies setting aside the election results."

https://www.azcourts.gov/Portals/0/OpinionFiles/Div1/2023/1%...
> could somebody avoid the traditional `docker build` with say NixOS or Bazel

Yes! You can think of an OCI image as a special kind of tarball, so things like NixOS and Bazel are able to construct that same tarball, potentially fairly quick if it just has to copy prebuilt artifacts from the store.

Today we're running BuildKit, so we support all the typical Docker things as well as other systems that use BuildKit, e.g. Dagger, and I believe there are nix frontends for BuildKit. In that sense, we can be an accelerated compute provider for anything compatible with BuildKit.

> build Docker images faster than Docker

Today the trick is in the hosting and orchestration. We're using fast machines, launching Graviton instances for Arm builds (no emulation) or multiple machines for multi-platform build requests, orchestrating persistent volumes, etc. It's more advanced than what hosted CI providers give you today, and closer to something you'd need to script together yourself with your own runners. There's also some Docker build features (e.g. cache mounts) that _only_ work with a persistent disk.
Oh please.

How were kids treated in Ancient Europe? The Ancient near east? Medieval Europe and the near east? What about ancient ancient China?

Specifics vary but generally speaking in all these cultures kids had rights on par with slaves, maybe with a little bit more protection from physical violence depending on the society and whoever the head of their household was had property rights over them. Women were generally treated a little better but not much. Only within the past couple hundred years did it stop being acceptable in the richest nations to sell a kid off as a quasi-indentured servant. Women were treated a little better but not much.

I'm sure there's some north American tribes that treated everyone much more equally but they are the exception not the rule.

Someone of your bent should know this.
Because the local environment is going to get more and more cuthroat and backstabby as people feel pressured.
And then I became a shoe salesman, because education seems to have a lot of intractable problems.
Except the article pointed to a previous outbreak where prices didn’t go up as much.
I had no backup plan, and still don't. From the age of 12, I knew that this was the only realistic option for me, and it still is.

If I had been born before computers existed, though, I'd probably have been a mechanical engineer.
This and all the other similar posts that way overconfidently state "you don't need k8s" seem to miss the most important factor IMHO: Do you know it or would you have to learn it?

If you have already been using K8s and you build a side project or launch a new startup, then K8s is probably a great choice for you even if you only have one Deployment and Ingress route. I can take a new app (assuming it already runs in docker) and have it running in a brand new k8s cluster is 20 minutes. I could have it running on a static ec2 instance/linode/droplet/whatever in 30 minutes, but then you have to solve a ton of problems yourself such as CI/CD and deployment automation, etc that k8s gives you for free. K8s is a great choice if you already know how to use it.

This also seems to miss that for startups the best path to k8s is a managed k8s solution. Linode (for example) has one that is wonderfully easy and affordable, and will scale with you a long way.

Lastly, as a person making decisions on tech to use, you are investing in your own future as well. Learning k8s is one of the most useful skill I think a dev can do, behind things like learning bash and standard *nix tools like grep/sed/awk.

Edit (and self-plug): speaking of awk, if you're interested in learning it I put together a free "course", originally a talk I gave at Linux Fest Northwest on awk that I've gotten a lot of positive feedback for. Github: https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet Youtube: https://youtu.be/43BNFcOdBlY
> seems pretty severe to me

It is.

We could certainly operate an aviation industry with a lot less regulation and a lot less care for safety. Operated that way, air travel would be noticeably cheaper. But it would also be more dangerous.

Frankly, I like the trade-off we have chosen.
It is insane that our society considers this sort of thing as "legitimate" for a business to engage in.
Get in the tobacco business