skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I lean towards per-thread sharding instead of mutex based or lock free data structures except for lockfree ringbuffers.

You can get embarassingly parallel performance if you split your data by thread and aggregate periodically.

If you need a consistent view of your entire set of data, that is a slow path with sharding.

In my experiments with multithreaded software I simulate a bank where many bankaccounts are randomly withdrawn from and deposited to. https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...

ShardedBank.java
ShardedBank2.java
ShardedBankNonRandom.java
ShardedHashMap.java
ShardedNonRandomBank2.java
ShardedTotalOrder.java
ShardedTotalRandomOrder.java

I get 700 million requests per second over 12 threads due to the sharding of money over accounts. Here I prioritise throughput of transacitons per second over balance checks (a consistent view of the data).

I am also experimenting with left-right concurrency control which trades memory usage for performance, it basically keeps two copies of data, one that is currently being read and written to and another inactive copy that is not active. You switch the data structures around periodically to "make changes visible" to that thread.
"No one" is a a pretty broad statement.

Julian Lage is my favourite guitar player to come along in a decade or two. And he releases instrumental albums.
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Google Domains: https://domains.google/ The last time I used it, it was around 12$/year at the minimum.
I agree. They also claim "lightweight" but give no numbers. Looks like they spent more on the web page than on product development. It also doesn't even have integrated tracking (see the vive trackers)
Binary formats and protocols: LTV is better than TLV
Or anyone else, such as aviation companies:

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-hack-an-airline/

Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446673
unlike palm 1, their palm 2 policy is to not say anything technically helpful about it publicly
a few differences!

- one tap to set up an app with us (rather than creating an automation in your shortcuts app)

- we can pull you out of an app at the end of the time you intended to use it for

- we support restricting websites

- we let you accumulate your progress over time via a streak, which is quite motivating (at least for me personally)

- we have a social accountability layer, via "teammates" who receive updates when you exceed your budgets or remove tracking for an app
They're the Microsoft Word of houses. Famously, people only use 20% of Word's features, but that subset varies depending on whether the user is a legal secretary or elementary school teacher or whatever.

McMansions have all the features - the 3-car garage, the almost commercial kitchen, the vast gathering spaces, the rec room, the home office, etc. Not everyone needs it all - but some car guy will demand that third garage spot or some foodie will demand the oversized Viking appliances or some family with multiple kids will demand the big play area, etc. This way these houses meet the needs (and way beyond) of 90%+ of the upper-middle to upper-class homebuyers, so they retain their value and are way more easy to sell than the weird custom 1800sqft home with 4-car-garage, or 1-bedroom condo with commercial kitchen, or whatever.
Great as a business and it's made well, but not much interesting for tech.
Apple and Google settled an antitrust lawsuit a few years ago for colluding to suppress wages (by agreeing not to recruit employees from each other)[0].

The settlement was a tiny fraction of the amount of money they saved by entering the illegal agreement in the first place.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...
>that’s loading resources from a third-party site

Which is what browsers can do for link tags. Some browser scan for links on pages and speculatively load them so that if you were to click on them it loads instantly. You as the website author can't prevent this functionality.

>No, they can just not do it

But they want to do it and may have business reasons to do it.

>their tracking is basically never in your interests at all

The tracking likely either improves the service based off analytics which is in my interest or it makes ads more relevant which makes the site more financially viable which is also in my interest if I am gaining value from that site.
what differentiates this from https://humanstxt.org/?
> We’ll be making PaLM 2 available in four sizes from smallest to largest:

What do they mean by making available?
>We appreciate that some customers would much prefer a perpetual licence, but to ensure the longevity of this project we ask you to kindly accept the subscription model that we've designed to accommodate our current and future needs.

Shouldn't that be "we kindly ask" ? (a customer should be free to - say - "grudgingly accept").
Why should land be owned? None of us created the planet...

But we have selected an economic system that depends on ownership to drive exchange in a market, so... that's why.
Another pet peeve of mine is that the search suggestions are not real links, so you can't middle click them. The ones that are links, bubble the event somehow and hide the suggestions immediately.
You say that but biological medicine and Technology continues to improve. The trajectory is positive.

Will every startup be successful? Of course not! But as a whole, technology continues to March forward and improve.
Creme de la creme? ROFL, that's so funny I have to upvote you.
You might have liked Lulzsec's website. They had an auto-playing audio clip of the Love Boat TV theme and an ASCII ship above text lyrics that replaced the word 'love' with 'lulz'. It was refreshingly amusing.

Sadly archive.org doesn't have a copy from its live state—however I saved the home page at the time (MHTML ftw) and here's a video capture of it*: https://streamable.com/zon5wy

* Expires in one day

Edit: for context Lulzsec were a hacking group a decade back responsible for various headline-making leaks and website hacks.
Google raises for most employees was between 0% and 1%
LLMs are great for Rubber-ducking!
Properly run incident management can have three dozen people involved with no negative impact. You need the incident manager to coordinate, communicate, run interference. You need a clear set of rules for who will have what role and responsibility. Combination of voice and text, multiple chat channels.

But yeah, if you have no plan or organization, too many cooks is detrimental.
Microsoft didn't have dozen products over 500 Million users in 2005.
They only had Windows, Office and IE.

Ballmer set the foundations for many of Microsoft's success today, including Azure
Large tech companies don't exist to serve as employment programs for software engineers.

If they believe it will increase profits without longterm harm then layoffs/salary freezes are the right thing for them to do as a company even if they are wildly successful.

Layoffs are frequently done when a company is struggling, so people seem to think it's incongruous for a company to do layoffs if they are doing well.
Then it should be made legally wrong right? That’s what should happen next
Actinides (including Pu) oxidizes readily in air, spalling off radioactive PuO2 airborne dust with no external mechanism required. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spall#Corrosion
FAANG is dying I guess, what are the next big players, likely in AI?
Read this book: Object Thinking, David West
If you see other threads about hiring, it appears many people are getting jobs solely based of their network. This is much easier and faster to build in person.
Reduction in Force (RIF)
He's overdue for a new album. I didn't think he'd be able to top GoD, but Magic OPN is fantastic. Apparently he's working for Disney right now

Related: Squarepusher. His album Ultravisitor will melt your brain
Some are worth more, some are worth less.

Relative worth is constantly changing.

There are professions that are paid more than ever
I went with Porkbun a few years ago, they seemed to be popular and recommended at that time. Zero issues, simple dashboard, low prices.
> Large open areas aren't suitable for living space unless you want a full living room in every room. If you were to say, convert one into an office, it'd be an interesting arrangement.

Oh my god, the move away from having actual rooms is so awful.

But as long as people keep falling for the "wow" factor (in real estate photos and on first-viewings) of big, useless open spaces and cavernous open living/dining/kitchen combo rooms and signing on the dotted line, it's what we're gonna keep getting :-/
It's impossible.

The problem is that such ai.txt would be an unidimensional opinion based on what? On the way the site describes itself. So a self-referencing source.

But the AIs reading it, are precisely going to invariably be trained with different world views that will summarize and express opinions biased by these worldviews. It's even deeper as every worldview can't help but belong to one ideology or another.

So who is aligned with truth now?

The author? AI1? AI2? AI3?...AIN?

We're in such a mess.
Well I guess that internal memo was true, there is no moat in AI, for Google, OpenAI, or any other, as long as AI continues to improve.
Are you sure? As far as I'm aware a single city might have its electricity network split in a few macro areas, and not really connected to each other. The Internet, on the other hand, needs all nodes to be connected somehow (and I bet the vast majority of connections are physical).
Also ECS / columnar data?
AI is coming for your job: How to survive the coming AI job apocalypse
The news has been full of it lately - Artificial Intelligence is coming for your job! Within a few years, Artificial Intelligence is going to make you unemployed, and unemployable. Goldman Sachs predicts 300 million jobs could be affected worldwide. How are you preparing?
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> Another example is, no one is forced to buy Apple Music, but for sure it pops up front and center when you buy a iOS device or Mac.

I never noticed, having never bought Apple Music before and just using spotify instead. I guess if I wanted it to run on a HomePod, I would need it?

> On top of this they will give you free subscription for 3/6 months when you buy a new device knowing full well that most customers won't bother cancelling. All of this behavior takes the air out of competitors like Spotify and is extremely anti competitive.

Doesn't Spotify do the same thing?
yes, most HNers are affected by it. That's why you see a massive anti-corp, anti-tech, anti-capitalist despite data screaming at them the massive benefits of tech, capitalism and corporation.
I'm not arguing that it's better or that ant of those things are good, but there will never be mainstream support or even k owledge about them.
Made that change. Thanks.
Semi-serious question: how do we help those too old to begin the training?

When I went through profound burnout in 2019, the part of my brain that handles planning and execution shut down for about 6 months. I could barely get out of bed, brush my teeth, etc. The grieving process was rough, as well as the struggle to relearn how to function in a culture that doesn't allow breaks. And it was physical, perhaps brought about by sleep apnea and digestive warning signs from stress that I ignored. I survived by separating the planning from the doing, by keeping todo lists and forming habits over weeks that began to rebuild the wounded parts of my psyche so that I could task and adult again.

I've since regained my executive function, but the experience changed me. The stuff that used to be automatic became manual, so work takes an even higher toll than it did before, and may even even have all-consuming qualities. I feel, institutionalized, like Brooks in Shawshank Redemption.

I know that AI offers a way to automate much of the doing, and within 5-10 years the planning as well. All I have to do is use it. But I'm just so tired physically, mentally and emotionally that the potential benefit feels like a burden. I struggle profoundly to make long-term plans or deal with the logistics around that. I will almost certainly miss this wave of innovation, just like I missed the VR, mobile and gaming bubbles before that. Living my most laborious life instead of my best life.

What I'm feeling deep down is that this time is different. AI should not be about personal empowerment. It should be about lifting others who are too infirm after a lifetime of hard work to do it themselves, so that they can rejoin the human race and make the contributions in their hearts that fulfill the promise of their self-actualization. I just don't know where to go with that sentiment, or if my feelings are even relevant anymore.
It's the market || politics || technology, stupid.
I'd argue that land is owned because it's a finite resource, and that without property ownership people would be in conflict with one another. "Creative expression" is not finite, in fact every human possesses it, it's also intangible, it's ideas, thoughts, ... , which I personally do not believe should be owned.
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A company that relies on massive amounts of increasingly expensive electricity to make enormous profits. Agrees to pay another company likely over the odds for early - and no details, but quite likely exclusive access and with Azure compute as part of deal (a la OpenAI)) - for the small amount of electricity that may or may not be initially generated by the other company's technology. Then when/if technology is successful, as it scales up they get to fill their boots with effectively limitless Carbon-free electricity at progressively orders of magnitude lower cost than their competitors have access to.

Worst case - a nice bit of PR for Fusion, Helion and MS.

Best case - in a few years provides funds to help Helion rapidly scale up, MS - assuming exclusivity - with increasingly low-cost climate-friendly electricity for their data centres that their competitors cannot access. Carbon capture becomes something other than an oil industry excuse, and the human race's bacon is saved.
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Google unveils AI-powered search engine to rival Microsoft’s Bing
Yeah, I had a similar thought around "favorite producer" as the language to use these days. I saw RZA speak a few years back and one thing he mentioned was that he just didn't have access to instruments and instrumental teaching when he was a kid like others may have had in earlier generations. He said something to the extent of "I could have been Mozart if I had had that access". What he did have access to was an ASR10, an EPS16+, a bunch of records, and great ears.

I've always wondered how much impact lack of funding for music education in schools has had, where a surprising number of people just don't know what instruments are even called anymore.
Was the author the girl that owned the TSA in the past year?
I mean, I have exercised pretty intensely when I was younger and it never didn't feel like work. Not when I was doing something solo like weight lifting or something more socially engaging like martial arts. There were times it was moderately satisfying if I could perform a technique smoothly for the first time, but it never didn't feel like work. And I hurt myself overexerting more than once. As a middle-aged person, it's much worse. It's not only not satisfying, but extremely difficult to get any measurable results. Lifting weights routinely left me sore and not any stronger when I recovered. Exercise is very much miserable and I don't like it at all. I presume it's biological to some degree that some people feel the bliss and some just don't.
Hmm, still doing stock buybacks and paying dividends -- so exec comp remains buoyant.

Back in the early 1980s it was hard to get software companies financed: "Why invest in a company whose primary input walks out the door each evening" (i.e. has no capital assets). Obviously that was eventually sorted out, but the underlying concern was not totally bogus.

If you like a company like Microsoft you can tolerate no buybacks and even a dividend cut if it means the company continues to invest in its people.
Trusting Google with your domains is honestly nuts.
A lot of the time when old things are still around, it's not because through all the years nobody has had the idea to replace them, but because the benefit of replacing them hasn't at any point in history outweighed the hassle.

This is true for X11 and this is true for the QWERTY layout. The benefit of switching must outweigh the enormous hassle of doing so. It's easy to find something that's a little bit better, but that's simply not good enough to merit a switch.

Often they're around because when it comes around, they do a such a decent job and it's difficult to actually produce something that has that sort of advantage.
Making advisories hard to read has been a thing since forever. Remember Gobbles?

https://github.com/thinkitdata/GOBBLES/blob/master/advisorie...
Before globalization, even before the industrial revolution.

The agriculture revolution has been a disaster for the human race. Or at least the individuals within it.
lol, this page did not work at all for me, and the only addon I have on firefox is ublock origin, which I disabled to no avail. Did anyone else find a workaround?
Dealing with bureaucracy the biggest one for me. I'd love to move abroad, but almost all countries have limited tourist stays of 90 days. I don't want to be moving around every 3 months.
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That's a good argument, honestly. Where I would disagree with at its core an MBA studies how to manage and administer an organization. It's in the name. That's also how schools see themselves, right or wrong.

In the US we associate business and management with money, so maybe you are right. I tend to think people are people and you get "ends justify the means" types in managers, entrepreneurs and even engineers.
Article doesn't mention specific tools. Here are some:

* pitest for Java (Maven and Gradle)
* Stryker for Javascript
* Many more for python

I've only set up pitest, so can't comment on the others.
Executives lost to competition due to cut comp are much harder to replace than regular workers. Sucks, but it’s the reality.
> Some browser scan for links on pages and speculatively load them so that if you were to click on them it loads instantly.

Anything like that is user (the browser acting as their agent). You’re obviously not responsible for that. You didn’t ask it to do that automatically, unlike <link rel="stylesheet"> and <script> and the likes.
This is inaccurate.

However if your sample is only people who are on Blind complaining, I can see how your data might be skewed in that direction.
I predict 'big tech' employees will start to unionize to fight the collusion of tech firms laying off and cutting pay (and if you don't think they're doing this, remember they already have).
I'm trying to visual the process you're using for this, and it's just not coming to me. Can you give me a run-down on it, or point me somewhere that has one?
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Ah, I see. I thought that he was upset because of the principle of the thing, not because he didn't feel that he got value.

It sounds to me like he's saying "a promise is a promise". And he's not wrong on that narrow point. I think that perhaps he took the promise as being more broad than it really was, though -- and any promise of "lifetime" anything will inevitably be broken anyway.
If you're a maker (which is not necessarily the case with limit orders), then there is a slight potential for adverse selection, but that's exactly what the spread compensates you for. If you don't want that, I'd recommend sticking to being a taker and paying the spread, for example using market or IOC limit orders.
>>Negotiated rates are also themselves set as multiples of the Medicare Allowable Rate.

Care to provide proof of that statement?

"...instead of negotiating prices with providers."

From the American Hospital Association:

https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2021-06-08-fact-sheet-refere...
Sure, ads are the price you pay for getting the content, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But if ads are the price, they just doubled the cost, and that's worth a bit of complaining.
One of my buddies had a dad who was a parapalegic and he was still much more mobile using his wheelchair and modified van than anyone with a bus could hope to make him.

One of these days, you should try traversing 8 blocks in a wheelchair and see how convenient a bus stop feels! lol
Coordination is required to make sure that one company decide to "defect" and start offering pay rises to all the best people at Microsoft.

At least, thats what the illegal agreement was about last time this happened (between Apple and Google).
No, that's controlled by the server: try lspci -vv on any linux system. Look at the link speed and width, like LnkSta: Speed 8GT/s, Width x2: x2 means 2 lanes.

Try:

`sudo lspci -vv | grep -P "[0-9a-f]{2}:[0-9a-f]{2}\.[0-9a-f]|downgrad" |grep -B1 downgrad`

Besides the speed, you can have another problem with lanes limitations.

For example, AMD CPUs have a lot of lanes, but unless you have an EPYC, most of them are not exposed, so the PCH tries to spread its meager set among the devices connected to your PCI bus, and if you have a x16 GPU, but also a WIFI adapter, a WWAN card and a few identical NVMe, you may find only of the NVMe benchmarks at the throughput you expect.
Restrictive nonsense seems common in the server space unfortunately. HPe do similar things. IIRC they disabled certain features if you used non-HPe ‘approved’ hard drives.
Sort of. Suppose you want to run Samba or WebDAV or whatever to export the same filesystems over something other than NFS. You could export remote shares, I suppose, but the obvious thing to do is to export local filesystems on the server, but now if smbd or whatever wants to use flock(), you have a problem.
Are you referring to this reference?

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...

What part is vague?
"While the agreement carries a risk to Helion, it also unlocks essential benefits, Kirtley said."

It probably has something to do with co-location at a Microsoft Azure data center, several of which or being permitted or under construction in Washington State.
Based on the URL, and being completely unfamiliar with the author, I assumed this was about advaitruia.com, so I was surprised that anyone would be squatting on such an unusual name in the first place.

You might want to put the actual supertokens.com domain name in the title to avoid this confusion. HN is certainly not the only site that highlights the domain name of submitted URLs.
I just want to point out that this is an amazing comment. These gray areas are everywhere, and cognizance of them betrays intellectual rigor and honesty. I salute you good sir.

edit: I just realized there's a great irony here. I salute you, while recognizing that honesty and intellectual rigor is not valued in the world. I guess that's why it's valued so highly by people like me?