skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not like higher prices are magical and mean that everyone who needs something will get it.

That's exactly what it means... If you create a product that adds enough value that people still want it with the high prices you'll be able to afford space at the remaining fabs. Low value add products will stop being produced until supply catches up. Yes, the TSMC customers will displace some of Intels/Samsungs, but the most important products will continue to be made.
The difference in experience from user to user is striking.
Efficiency is not a known concept here in Italy. There are people/companies who get fined for paying taxes, and other people/companies who don't get fined for not paying them. There is no presumption of innocence when dealing with italian tax authority. And things are super slow.
It was straight forward. Basically with the csv's I processed, there were a few sets of columns that would make natural tables, i.e. addresses that would create natural 'Street Name', 'City', 'Zip' Tables.

The first step was just sharding the csv's into 200 lines or so with a naming schema. Then storing those in S3.

Then the following was creating a manager Lambda that would send out the schema creation task to however many Lambda concurrent instances I could run, and hold the shards until instances freed up. So it allowed me to do the inefficient work in the individual Lambda instance.

The inefficient work was determining how many uniques were in the dataset with a threshold. As in if there were 50 or more uniques, then consider that column 'dead' to becoming a schema. However, if it were less, filter it up to the main manager thread.

Then the main manager thread would binary dispatch the results to combine the results into a main schema with another unique value threshold.

Overall it was a fun learning experience. The hardest part was removing the download time to get the full file into the lambda... I never got that right. The processing was dang fast, the latency to get the rows into the individual threads never got 'fast fast'

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Good luck! Cheers!
I, for one, welcome our new feudal overlords.
To think of the self loathing I felt when I screwed up a final stage Meta interview a while back.

Looks like I would of likely gotten fired anyway. The grass isn't always greener I guess.
WorkOutDoors is brilliant for offline mapping. I’d used it as a running tracker until very recently when I went back to the builtin Workout app (just because it’s simpler and builtin). The builtin Compass app is decent now for setting waypoints and tracking your hikes so you can find your way back. WorkOutDoors is great at both of those, but also allows you to upload maps from your phone so that you still get good trail coverage even when you’re out in the middle of nowhere, so long as you’ve planned ahead a little.
The median Oculus that was sold was used one time. That is not the mark of a sucessful product.
Show HN: IaSQL beta – cloud infra as data in PostgreSQL
Genuinely curious to see the source of this statement. I was always under the impression that more light is safer.
moon will only run on affected projects, so you're not building/testing everything. This is done through a combination of hashing + caching.

It's also language agnostic because you can technically run anything through moon, but support may vary. https://moonrepo.dev/docs/faq#can-we-run-other-languages
I fell into programming. I had been programming since being a wee lad but I never was too keen on studying or school itself. After high school I realized that I couldn't get into the school I wanted, studying psychology in my case, probably could've gotten in there if I would really wanted to, who knows. At that point, I was pretty good at programming and thought that might as well try some computer science stuff. Luckily got into one school, but got a real job on my first year, and the school became secondary for me. I was able to audit lots of stuff so I could finish my Bachelor despite working at the same. After that degree, haven't looked back to schools since and, for some weird reason, I quite enjoy my current software engineering job.
> The last thing though - “hybrid algorithms leveraging AI efficiency” sounds an awful lot like a buzzword sales pitch.

Oddly, to me this just sounds like efficiency gains by potentially introducing massive security holes i.e. the vector of the Meltdown/Spectres of the future. It also seems like they're trying to sell AI as some sort of secular qubit that they'll be error-correcting.
> It appears you are saying an employee negotiating for a better salary is a gross and extortion mentality?

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that using that tactic to negotiate a higher salary, is gross. I'm saying that I'd never hire someone who said that to me. There are far better ways to negotiate than demanding higher salary because you're doing fake interviews at Meta and they offer you such.
My backup plan was to join the military. It's a terrible way to discover what you're good at but it ensured I had food, water, and housing for 4 years + the ability to make a career out of something.
> sharing an executor between application and library is another matter.

Especially when there is not one, but several libraries, and the application itself doesn't actually has or uses any executors, now that's a fun challenge.
The location resolution order, the arbitrary rule inheritance, the complete lack of useful errors, the abundance of footguns, the asinine defaults. Oh and automatic certificate renewal is still a pain. Purging the cache selectively took me a few days to set up.

Blame the user all you want, but after a decade of using nginx, I'm ready to claim that it's a pain to work with.
To be fair, this variant of the avian flu is just spreading to Europe now.

https://www.reuters.com/world/bird-flu-spreads-new-countries...
Samsung says users will be able to clone their voice to respond to calls
APIs and connectivity suck. Apple Watch strongly prefers getting it's internet over bluetooth from your phone rather than faster wifi, so save energy.
I tried to read the wiki article on PikeOS, but apparently it too is a written ad seemingly from sysgo. Anyone with any knowledge and not their marketing department to key us in? I'd welcome words from people there who are not in marketing.
And Chrome is just Chromium with Google adware. I'd prefer people were using something else, but I would rather have them split between Google and Microsoft adware than all on Google's.
He Taught Americans to Cook Indian Food. Now He’s on His Final Chapter
That's not how it works. Airliners can safely take off into strong headwinds. A wind blowing across the wings will produce significant lift. In theory it might be possible to compensate for that effect, but in practice it's just too much hassle.
TCS?
Vanderbilt University apologizes for using ChatGPT to write mass-shooting email
From my viewpoint DSLs succeed frequently

The infrastructure management space is a special case but let’s approach it with some common sense. If I know bash I can script anything. If I know puppet and bash I can script anything with much more work. Most fundamentally, I still need to know how to use bash! Puppet, chef, vagrant, dockerfiles and all the above subtract value and don’t add. Then there are systems like cloud formation which exist for one reason: lock you into a vendor. If that is how you define DSL then DSLs fail but it is not about DSLs it is “why do people keep making bad infrastructure management tools and why do people have the bad judgement to use bad infrastructure management tools?”
It's not just hiring. It's also training and ramp-up.
I saw Woz speak and he discusses how the Apple 1 design extended this design

https://archive.org/details/TV_Typewriter_Cookbook_Don_Lanca...
I wouldn’t consider only the content/feed selection algorithm - I would take a holistic look at how people interact with Facebook (like button only initially, then expanded to a few more choices; real identity, not many comments shown at a time), then also compare it to other sites and their outcomes like Reddit (up and down votes, anonymous if you wish, lots of comments shown at a time).

Regarding users bearing responsibility for what they consume - I have seen others report running into this and I have as well - no amount of feed grooming keeps the controversial content off my feed for a meaningful amount of time. I actively unfollow / snooze content I don’t want to see, but Facebook has countered this by adding “suggested for you” items to my feed. It’s impossible to only see my friends’ updates. I must be exposed to content selected by Facebook as a cost of using Facebook.
EU countries bicker about VAT like schoolchildren. When Italy says VAT is due it might mean FB has been negligent, but it probably means FB made a deal with another EU country (Ireland perhaps) and paid a lower amount of VAT over there.
When companies hit a cap on what they can charge they start finding ways to cut corners and deliver less for the same money.
You say

> Egg supply is quite inelastic

But right before that you say

> Egg supply was hit hard by the bird flu

Then you say

> reducing demand by just 10% could easily force prices to double

I’m totally confused. Are you mixing up supply and demand?
Should give moon a try if you ever have free time :)
Agreed - much better link.

However, I "Try the editor" and then I can't find source. Clicking "GO TO SOURCE" in the properties window doesn't seem to do anything. Am I missing something?

FF and Chrome on macOS.
> Youtube would be in no danger if all it was doing was keyword-matching with recommended videos.

What order should those keyword matching videos come back in? By total views, by 30 day views, popularity, by upvotes, by downvotes, by keywords in the title, the description, the comments, the video itself?

Any choice made would be effectively indistinguishable from "designing the [search] to maximize engagement" as it comes to the law, since search itself is a method of surfacing new videos, and the order (even if only the default order) would matter.
> To defend this as "different views" when their brand clearly suggest otherwise is, I believe, a bit disingenous.

So what do you expect? A "tagparagraph" to describe all nuances? You're all fixating on this tagline to an unreasonable degree.

As I said, plenty of people have been VERY clear about all of this right from the start, over ten years ago, and you get a full page before you can ask a question which describes all of it. Again, the communication could be a bit better, but it's not "disingenuous"; that's just a nonsense accusation; almost everyone on the site actually contributing answers subscribes to this view to some degree (there are some nuance with this).

Not wanting to answer low-quality questions or being roped in to being an unpaid programming tutor answering the same beginner questions over and over again is not "gatekeeping".
Yep, its all about opportunities and nothing else. All identity politics is based on getting benefits for one's own group.

>> Overall, this is a positive development. But we still have a long way to go!

The way is eternally long, once reservations are introduced, who would want to remove them.

In India, now it is a competition among castes to show that they are the most backward, since they would be considered for reservations then.
The most important thing, for me, is the ability to keep my phone on silent, and to respond to calls.

I've written Watch apps (It's a pain in the ass). I haven't really found a compelling driver for it, though.

That might change, as the hardware improves.
Buy real estate in Silicon Valley. Next question.
Here's the difference:

TV network made a deal with the government (FCC): they got a monopoly access to a limited resource (spectrum).

In exchange they agreed to limitations set by FCC, like decency standards.

Limitations that go beyond what the law, as created by congress, requires.

YouTube or Facebook didn't make a similar deal with FCC because they use unconstrained resource (internet bandwidth).

Furthermore congress did the right thing and created a law explicitly calling out this scenario and made internet companies not liable for user generated content.

Why did they do it? Because without that there would be madness.
theoretical computer science
> I know lawyers aren't people

Yuck. Of all the comments I see, the ones from lawyers seem the most human and less misanthropic or so purposefully obtuse as to suggest one has no connection to society at all, etc, like I see from so many developers drooling over their edge-case applications of definitions as if the law was some sort of "whatever you can say goes" as opposed focusing on what actually makes sense.
AMD should build an arm chip. There's only so much efficiency you can build into the ageing x86_64 architecture
This should be taken as an opportunity to automate/remote more things, so less workers are needed to support the economy. It's a problem that warns decades before its arrival.
I could live without, but these are the main non-Apple ones I use everyday:

- SmartGym for tracking reps without my phone.

- Paprika with my grocery list. Much easier to flip over my wrist while pushing a cart than pull a phone out.

- Pocket Casts for selecting podcasts on a dog walk.

Honestly, none are worth buying an Apple Watch for but the notifications & built-in fitness tracking are really the selling points anyway.
The most important rule when doing layoffs: cut once, cut deep.

If you don’t cut deep, you won’t cut once.
Yes, yes, quite the conundrum.
>> The data “confirms that the airplane was safely airborne with runway remaining and at an altitude by the end of the runway that was well within regulatory safety margins,” said the union’s Alaska unit chair, Will McQuillen, in a statement.
I disagree with most of the claims presented here as facts. I believe that they are true experience reports for some companies, but I don’t think they generalize as strongly as claimed.

No, k8s doesn’t double the number of machines you need. You don’t need pods running more than what would be on a dedicated node.

No, you don’t need a full time engineer to run your cluster.

No, k8s isn’t unstable, I have used it in prod since v1.5 and have only seen a small handful of issues. Recent releases are boring.

I moved my startup onto k8s about 10 months in, and was our only infra engineer through series B raise @10 engineers. It took a small fraction of one expert’s time. This was widely regarded as a great idea by everyone who came later.

Maybe if you don’t have a clue how k8s works it’s going to cost that much time.

And there is the key advice where I probably agree with the author on most situational recommendations (while disagreeing on the generalization): don’t learn k8s to deploy at an early stage company. But, if you know it well already, it’s a fine choice that is unlikely to hurt short-term and might help a lot later.

Things you get: infra-as-code, with a (subjectively) way nicer API than Terraform, that you can plausibly run and test on your local machine. Easy scaling setup for unexpected growth spikes. Review apps within reach if you need them. Ditto GitOps. Managed infra because you are using GKE or EKS like a sane person (rarely need to think about patching your nodes; GKE patched the Spectre/Meltdown vulnerable for me weeks before the public announcement). Flexibility to easily run any new service (say, you want to spin up a Jupyter Hub cluster).

There are so many infra options that work for small companies that don’t have real infra challenges; if you don’t know one well already, just use Fly/App Engine until that gets too expensive. Or a single VM running a docker container; that gets you surprisingly far.

Meta: for a startup particularly pre-PMF, you should minimize the amount of learning you are doing and just iterate as fast as possible with the stack you know best. Even post-PMF this holds for quite some time until you start to hit cost/scale pain.
Notion AI is here, for everyone
Sure but they were smart enough to know it's a stupid idea back then /s
Rich company pays large sum of money to other rich company for special treatment, peasants HORRIFIED.
I started off as an EE in college ~20 yrs ago before switching to CS. I did some circuit board design work (never fab) as part of my coursework, but haven't touched it since. I have some baseline familiarity. I think we used pSpice and Cadence, which (at the time) still had a lot of Win 3.1 era MFC UI elements. I'd like to jump back into it for hobby reasons. Any recommendations on modern low-budget software-tooling?
On the other hand, not allowing very high prices for fuel in the aftermath of a hurricane is a good way to make sure nobody ever stockpiles fuel especially to be available after a hurricane.
Well, you guys are nothing if not predictable, I knew this would be the first response.

But you're living in a fantasy world if you think that I, personally, could ever recover meaningful damages from somebody with enough reach to meaningfully defame me. Rather, defamation laws are being successfully (ab)used to silence politically inconvenient people like Alex Jones.
So what are we to do about it? Shame them? Impose price controls that lock them in as incumbents with no willing competitors?

It would be nice if more people could realize that supply shocks can only be solved by supply increases.
When will Prime Membership IDs replace social security numbers?
I have to imagine that _any_ service that is providing CPU/compute (even if it is for building things) can be abused by cryptominers, hence the additional verification.
I think this discounts the finding that 575 people, the majority, were retirees that already returned to the workforce. This 2011 study said the rate for this was 15%. https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/article/reentering-the-lab...
I work with two developers in that age ballpark who are experts in the field we work in (cloud).

And what does “up to date” mean? Have you seen the kind of tech that insurance companies, etc. use?

To most companies, go is still a verb and rust is still something that happens to metal
This feels similar to "the mother didn't kill the kid; the hot car did". If the state is forcing the woman to stay in a situation which is dangerous to the fetus, surely the woman which is forced to carry it to term is not responsible for the situation itself?
-- at the market next to my house - 36 eggs are 6,700 won - I think $5.50? --
In my country they just have a secure maternity ward with access to specialist care. After birth the child is allowed to live with it's mother inside a specially equipped prison. The child is in no legal sense detained as it is free to be sent to live with anyone else should the mother choose for someone else to raise the child.
Knowingly: https://www.propublica.org/article/youtube-promised-to-label...

> YouTube decided against labeling 22 channels identified by ProPublica, but it's not entirely clear why.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-uses-youtube-an...

> YouTube said the clips did not violate its community guidelines.

> The warehouse accounts on YouTube have attracted more than 480,000 views in total. People on YouTube, TikTok and other platforms have cited the testimonials to argue that all is well in Xinjiang — and received hundreds of thousands of additional views.

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/04/08/google-you...

> [YouTube] even suggested videos for campaigns with terms that it clearly finds problematic, such as “great replacement.” YouTube slaps Wikipedia boxes on videos about the “the great replacement,” noting that it’s “a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory.”

> Some of the hundreds of millions of videos that the company suggested for ad placements related to these hate terms contained overt racism and bigotry, including multiple videos featuring re-posted content from the neo-Nazi podcast The Daily Shoah, whose official channel was suspended by YouTube in 2019 for hate speech. Google’s top video suggestions for these hate terms returned many news videos and some anti-hate content—but also dozens of videos from channels that researchers labeled as espousing hate or White nationalist views.

> Even after [Google spokesperson Christopher Lawton] made that statement, 14 of the hate terms on our list—about one in six of them—remained available to search for videos for ad placements on Google Ads, including the anti-Black meme “we wuz kangz”; the neo-Nazi appropriated symbol “black sun”; “red ice tv,” a White nationalist media outlet that YouTube banned from its platform in 2019; and the White nationalist slogans “you will not replace us” and “diversity is a code word for anti-white.”
Exactly. This feels similar to the type of "hail Mary" when a woman tried to argue that she should be allowed to drive in the carpool lane alone because she was pregnant and thus her fetus should count as an extra passenger. In that case, though, a judge agreed with her and her ticket was dismissed, and a bill was even filed in the TX House to explicitly allow pregnant women to use the carpool lane.
I believe it's always going to be an average. The more interesting question is how is the average weighted?
The iTunes being discussed here was not a streaming platform. It was a library management platform (2001) that also offered purchase and download of FairPlay DRM-laden music files (2003). Later it would offer DRM-free MP3 download for select music (2007) and eventually its entire catalog (2009).
This is the first time I have read about adding cost functions to monitor the state of a program to verify its integrity, and this is after having a job over a decade ago where we were running up against software attestation problems for an authenticator and device identity product (e.g. how can you know a device wasn't cloned?).

Reading this now, our assumption that the runtime attestation had to be cryptographic and deterministic instead of probabilistic (a score) based on the aggregations of something like these cost functions was our naive mistake. It's plausible to me now that software attestation is simply not a closed loop cryptographic problem. Even if I'm still wrong in some equally naive ways, this was really edifying to read.
Can you link to the facts of that case? It seems like you're very emotional and may be overstating things since forest fires don't cause "irreversible damage" to an ecosystem. They are a natural part of the ecosystem and man is trying to tame them so we can live there, etc. I'm also unfamiliar with the case in question of whether or not the person took reasonable precautions, but it seems the court may have agreed based on dismissing it on appeal.
There should be a law where you have to state this sample size stuff at the start of every statistical article.
not to be cynical. But presumably many CEOs knew the COVID demands wouldn't last forever, and overhired anyway.

I mean, look at Peleton, did they really think everyone would be locked in their houses for all eternity? No, they took short-term gains deliberately, not caring about the future.
yeah but nowadays everyone is constantly calling everyone out, everything is a shitcoin if it's not your favorite thing, etc, so too much noise in that
The language in 230...

My suggestion is that your hypothetical is useless and inapplicable because it is at best, reflective of your own personal misunderstanding, or at worst, outright disingenuous.