skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they weren't, we'd be hearing anecdotes of one-character diffs appearing out of nowhere all the time, among many other issues.

I think the amount of textual user data in memory is dwarfed by various kinds of program data (pointers, metadata, static strings, libraries, etc) as well as image data. It seems pretty likely that bit flips could result in a crash once in a while or could have no effect at all if the bit flip is in some rarely used piece of an executable loaded in memory. For example, would anyone notice that a letter in an error message string is corrupted?

So errors may be happening at the rate that researchers report, but with only a tiny fraction of them happening in user data where they will be noticed.
https://archive.is/8SGBs
Strangling your customers doesn't seem like good business.
What kind of "data" would you accept for this? Crime data by demographic?

Scarface just said "can't generalize to everyone" which is true and not the original point made.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. There are bits that are worth considering even without adopting everything he wrote in its entirety.
Never doing anything of note pays off yet again!

(speaking for myself, not you, to be clear)
So at this stage, what market did Microsoft not yet enter via a billion dollar takeover or funding (I have not read the article, did not load for me)
When was it, like 2013 where they had a bad outage and because the status page was hosted on S3 and S3 was affected they couldn't update the status page, so it showed all green even though half the internet was down.

Good times, Amazon. Good times.
Well, the equivalent for plain HTTP is very short. Client sends the GET request, shown near the end, and server sends back the payload, same as you see decrypted.
The notion that morality and class are not directly connected is exactly how structural oppression and mass inequality are justified. The OP comment is one of the few ethical people in a fundamental unethical world. Get off your high horse and stop defending the boot on your face
> Any "fix" to the interview process has to accommodate the reality that the left half of the applicant pool distribution is of terribly low levels of ability.

I would like to see some distinction between people who apply cold, and people who have been reached out to by a company.

I'm an experienced, employed engineer, and if a company reaches out to me, I expect to not be treated in an interview like "gotta see if you are a faker! You could be coasting for 15 years! We get soooo many applicants."

That's the (in-house) recruiter's job, or hiring manager's. Don't waste my damn time like this.
Good job moving those goalposts.
From the article:

Figurines of anime characters are being flagged as “child exploitation” on Amazon—despite depicting fully clothed adult fictional characters.

But fair is fair, these figurines clearly walk the line to show as much sexually suggestive minors as they can get away with.
I choose the null topic...others tend to do choose a topic...that's the main difference i've noticed
I'm not sure arguing for a company to rest on its laurels and keep feeding of an IP from 100 years ago is an argument for creativity and innovation.
Given the implications of this technology I wonder how much development is actually being done "in the open". And therefore how close to a breakthrough we are, whether a breakthrough has already occured and we are being fed delayed findings, and ultimately how a private organization like Microsoft would truly be able to access matured tech.

Whether by incentive or by coercion, it feels like the DOD and the DOE would want to have first access to any breakthroughs and also guard knowledge transfers (ie protect any program - commerical or government - from foreign state espionage).

The DOE is basically an entire national security organization centered around nuclear security, it seems unlikely they would be standing by watching R&D in fusion occur without a seat at the table.
> I think in particular because it is hard to pick and choose availability

I mean, human error is 95% of all outages, intentional changes to the running system and how it operates. You definitely can choose when you do those. Hardware or system failures outside of that are exceedingly rare, though I do submit they happen; simple systems are easier to stand up again if they fall over in the event that does happen.

I mean; Stopping a database for a backup is a prime example of something that's significantly harder to do when you're running it 24/7 365.

Similarly, performing a host migration, or running a potentially dangerous major version upgrade.

What we do normally is limit the cost of rolling back, which is nice.

But, instead of "iterate quickly and if it causes an outage we roll back" it can easily be: one guy stays a little bit late and upgrades the server and if it doesn't work then they roll back. -- impacting a much more limited set of people.

Also: if you work globally, you can run upgrades on your edges.

Also also: 20% unavailability is just an extreme case. I have 99.997% uptime with a single host machine that lives on a shelf in my room. I'm not saying this is how you should run systems, but it's pretty normal for even single nodes to have insanely high availability out of the box. Bonus: if it does have an outage, because it's so simple a restore takes 23 minutes.

I know this because I run restores on another machine pretty often, and if I run a backup I usually run blue/green between these boxes.
The true story
>> everyone knows who did the work.

Not the people deciding rankings and promotions.

Consider that every manager, over the course of a year, has things they want done but which they can't directly task people to do because those people either have defined job responsibilities or require a job code to charge their time while performing the task (which the manager can't, or won't, provide.)

Now consider that there are some employees that care more about doing what their manager wants than they care for doing their job (shocking I know.) They will happily take on the 'extra-credit' tasks without regard for any collateral consequences because when it comes time for annual reviews the manager will place them at the head of the queue for promotion.

And yes that does mean that the culture is broken and it's probably why so many people hate their jobs.
Great post! We learn a lot through our failures. We shouldn't be afraid of failure. It's how we build character and get to the next level.
Americans cheat at earth-scale by bringing about into existence of intricate systems that benefit them immensely.
> If there's a way to pay a reasonable sum for infallible information sources that's higher quality than wikipedia besides buying out a university, let me know.

Nothing's a perfect "infallible information source," but you can do better than Wikipedia without needing to go as far as "buying out a university." Perhaps Kindle Unlimited plus a newspaper subscription for current events?
The problem is no matter how much training or systems a company has for its interviewing process, employees won’t read it and will inconsistently interview candidates (couldn’t remember List method == red flag; another interviewer rightly wouldn’t ding someone for this). I think interviewers really need to develop their critical thinking skills in how they judge talent. I’d rather have someone who wasn’t able to solve part three of an interview problem but high leveled some decent approaches that indicate, given more time, they’d be able to solve it. It’s interesting to me that we place this artificial time barrier on many interviews when in reality work is not chunked out that way and often takes quite a bit of thinking to come up with good solutions to things. On the other hand, I don’t think take home tests are a good solution for interviewing either. I think a lot of interviewers just end up copy catting whoever they trained with when watching interviews as a shadow (if they even had this opportunity).
> When I was in college, folks from India and other low trust societies would mercilessly cheat on their projects and exams, blatantly helping one another on individual works, and the college knew about it and didn't care. When I had brought this up at one point, I was told by a professor that it was a cultural difference that had to be respected .

The reality (speaking from experience) may be that international students are a lucrative market and getting a reputation as being hard on cheating will make them choose to go elsewhere.
Ask the Developer Vol. 9, the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom–Part 3
Microsoft Bets That Fusion Power Is Closer Than Many Think

"Bet" implies a potential for loss. This is a couch-cushion spare change level "bet". Microsoft probably spends more on printer ink every month than they stand to lose on this bet.
HN tends to bias towards pro Apple.

You would see people doing mental gymnastics trying to defend their closed anti competitive practices, disregard for standards. I would cheer a Sennheiser/Bose more than any version of Airpods, I would rather not have a multi trillion dollar company gobble up other industries through unfair advantages.

Seeing a hacker crowd do this is just beyond bizzare.
Helios is building real facilities. Maybe it won't work, but it's not just drafting CAD templates — they are deploying capital into physical reactors. That's not bullshit.
Is that why they keep developing stuff with Electron?
Ask an AI trained on Seth Godin's writing
Bing is free, and runs on 4.
Applied math.
In Marx's usage (the common usage of the time), dictatorship just means "leadership", and doesn't have the same connotation of "ruling over others without their consent". Which is his point, really: socialism exists to take the reins of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (whose contradictions are propped up by a force-monopoly in the form of "a state") into a dictatorship of the workers so society can be transitioned over time into one where a state no longer needs to exist ("communism").

So, yes, in the meantime, the state takes control over some amount of enterprise and manages it for its own goals rather than to generate profits for a small number of owners. Is that a bad thing? In a world where for-profit healthcare in the US is famously more expensive and less effective than nationalized healthcare in any other OECD country, where the (unionized!) USPS is one of this country's most-popular and most-reliable services even despite years of meddling from capitalists in government pushing to gut it, in a world where famously most of our R&D is publicly funded, is it really so hard to imagine that it might be an effective way to manage production?
I'm curious do they get promoted from cheating or really doing the work. There are those people who get stuff done by getting others to help them do it. Not sure how the manager would find out though, without the peers who help telling.

Nice to see UT Dallas represented here, even if it's in this context.
It feels a little odd of to me that MMT (with Stephanie Kelton's book "The Deficit Myth" a great example of explaining such) never comes up in these conversations.
Funny that you pick on the hardware. I'd use an Apple phone if it could run Android, the hardware is the only positive thing I say about Apple stuff. My girlfriend has an iPhone 14 Pro Max and camera/microphone are good and and the lidar stuff is pretty cool.

The software is completely and utterly unusable for me. It reminds me of when I used to help my grandparents with technology, except now I am the grandparent. Nothing works like I'd expect and I just find it frustrating.

There are Android phones in a similar price range and I'm not really tempted to buy any of them. I would buy an iPhone running Android though.
That's not cheating? That sounds like the interviewers could see his potential and guided/corrected him through the process. His willingness to take feedback and keep going in itself would be something to be commended, especially for a new grad.

What's discussed in the post is clear deception of the interviewers by the interviewee (using a second laptop to google answers), which is a very different thing.
Watch a movie without food or drinks is what I did most of my life. Same with almost everyone I know, I don't feel like this is a weird choice to make.

Where I live now it's illegal for cinemas to stop you from bringing food in, so I occasionally might bring my own snack, but that might be like one out ten times. Mostly just watch the movie and eat before or after. (Spain if you want to know)
In their defence most of the popups are in response to tapping things, but in the video that is less apparent :p
Huh? 2020 budget was $6.5T. 2021 was $7.3T. 2022 was $6T. 2023 is $6T. Considering inflation, spending is down ~10%.

And any increases were across the board. Asking them to cut all of the increases from only ~10% of the expenditures is ludicrous.
Business has always been about the greater benefit. Not solely (or primarily, from the business owner's perspective) about that, of course, but that aspect is the entire reason why government puts so much time, effort, and money into supporting business activities.

If business is not at least in part about the greater benefit, then we need to stop wasting so many resources supporting it.
The murder and starvation of millions of people?

Even the “communist” government still around like China just have capitalist economies in sheep’s clothing.
It's hard to remember sometimes every project is building both technology and community.

Technical merits of the different approaches aside... this is a calm, kind and well reasoned response to a rather, uh, emotional critique. Thanks for bringing the discourse back to where it should be.
This contradicts what we read here about cheating being very often tolerated in higher education institutions in the US, because money.

Usually I try including at least a few links, but in this case I think anybody who has read these threads right here on HN should remember those numerous posts and discussions? I remember comments from educators who wanted to do something but the higher-ups prevented it, for example, or reversed the decision. Unfortunately I don't know what to search for to find these kinds of comments again.

EDIT: Found one very quickly after just a little cross-reading of one cheating related thread, the reply to this linked comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32533086

Quote:

> The amount of cheating was insane. He started academic dishonesty proceedings against many of the students but the department pressured him to "work it out."

It's not just the students either: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancraig/2019/06/21/americas-l...
I care where my coworkers are based, but not for business reasons as much other than preferring in person work for some tasks.
Phoresis, when animals hitch a ride on other animals
How do I try it on my desktop browser?
I would say the pro-cheating attitude is pretty widespread among young adults tracking into white collar careers, and computer science is no different. It usually starts in school - and these interview quizzes track this behavior pretty closely. Even without the cheating, you can pass an interview "honestly" by putting in the time to cram for it. That does not justify cheating in any way, though.

The fact that people can just cheat in these interviews and not get PIP'd within 6 months, at an organization notorious for PIPing its under-performers, does illustrate how bad the screening process it. Not only do they need to shift back to in-person interviews, they also need to fix their process to actually test skills.
That's like asking why do kings buy wonderful artworks when they could save their gold and hang mediocre artworks on their wall?

Either it's because they have very refined tastes and value aesthetics over money, or...
YouTube premium is a great example of a convenience product. My main YouTube consumption has moved from my browser to my Apple TV, where there's no good way to block ads, so I just pay for premium. Added benefit is being able to share ad-free with a few friends. I really don't like giving YouTube the money, but I REALLY don't like seeing ads.
Hard to believe the studios keep making them.

Oh wait, I forgot that movie studios routinely lie about revenues and margins. They are the OG's at hiding profits and engage in accounting shenanigans that make real estate tax lawyers blush.
They vary. But after I got a Caster (Tamamo-no-Mae) on Ebay I was thinking if I had only one figurine people would think I thought she was my Waifu but if I had 10 of them people would think I wanted a harem. So I got a (male) “nameless” Archer to go with my Tamamo.
A long essay on technology, equality before the law(s), and our cruel and dangerous nature.
Lots of websites have the option to toggle pagination on/off for those that do find it objectively better.
The Cuckoo Trie, an ordered index data structure explicitly designed to have
memory-level parallelism, which out-of-order processors can exploit to execute DRAM accesses in parallel:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.09331.pdf
Do they really believe that, or are they just trying to look greener and make their carbon negative commitment look more real?

> “We wouldn’t enter into this agreement if we were not optimistic that engineering advances are gaining momentum,” said Microsoft President Brad Smith.

Why not? What's the downside for Microsoft, even if they think this probably won't happen by 2028? They even get paid "penalties" if Helion doesn't deliver.
That's because kdb tables are much more similar to R dataframes (ordered maps of vectors), rather than to relational algebra used in RDBMS/SQL (logically sets of rows). That's for in-memory only (RDB), ignoring historical data (HDB) and persistence since kdb is a real database.

// kdb+/q
t: ([] sym:`AAPL`IBM`GOOG; price: 139.09 124.23 948.82; vol: 123456 98765 54321)

# R
df <- data.frame(sym=c("AAPL", "IBM", "GOOG"), price=c(139.09, 124.23, 948.82), vol=c(123456, 98765, 54321))
Savvier or more cunning—yeah, probably so.
Film is incredibly expensive. Digital can be expensive but still cheaper than the massive amount of film that was used in analog theaters.
Fusion releases energy when producing items lighter than iron. It requires energy to create atoms heavier than iron via fusion. It would cost huge amounts of money to produce an ounce of silver or gold that way.
Browsers are big enough already without having several versions of several libraries packaged in. It won't help when a new version or an entirely new library is released.

Further, we tried this 15 years ago with popular CDNs serving these libraries, but we discovered that having multiple sites sharing the same one raised several security concerns.
When has "having been there" ever been a measure for reward? In college no one gave a shit if you came to lectures, all that mattered was the exam at the end of the semester. If you learn better with books: great!

I'm suprised that so many companies are unable to measure the performance of their employees in an effective manner. This entire discussion comes down to whether management actually wants to own the product and subsequently the product development lifecycle and is then also willing to investigate potential friction, or, as is much more often the case, doesn't really care and just wants to be told what they want to hear.

You prioritize a metric (keep management happy) over actualy results. If I can improve that metric by improvising, how am I a cheater?
Disruption outside of the government eye is common, I wouldn’t be surprised. Those organizations focus on nuclear weapons tech.
I'm using dynamic SQL right now because generating almost a thousand almost-identical statements by hand would be stupid. It is necessary sometimes.
I understand him. Maybe Im cynical but everything I see on your link looks like something a technical sales person would come up with… How easy is it to onboard people? Easy! Are we helping save the world? Yes! Can we build it ethically? Yes!

Are those questions really what’s on the mind of the developer? Where is the: we have a way to revolutionize the debugging experience when doing ML(for people with PhDs) talks?

I know it wouldn’t sell to the masses but that was kind of the point if you want jaded devs on your side.
The term is "dog-eat-dog" by the way.
Well, then you need to check these out!

https://ektovr.com/
It's an expectations mismatch. Google used to be the most loved company by developers. It was confident, strong, did wonders for dev comp and gave away lots of cool stuff for free. The only way from there was down, really. Then they did a bunch of things that upset people like getting buy-in into platforms and products only to then constantly kill them off, refuse to release their AI models as APIs on the grounds that devs weren't ethically pure enough to use them, as well as doing stuff that shows a lack of confidence, mostly me-too products like GCP or Bard.

Apple was never particularly loved by developers. Respected yes, tolerated yes. But they were always a bit aloof, separate, never bought into the 2010s era of free love and open source. And that's exactly the way they still are today. Apple has been remarkably stable over time, culturally speaking. It consistently meets people expectations for how it behaves, both good and bad. So there's nothing really to be disappointed about there. It is what it is.
"Maslouh was last year a 34-year old employee of Randstad, which was contracted by Google to identify potential job candidates and enter their publicly available information—derived from services such as LinkedIn—into gHire, Google’s applicant tracking system."

At this point it is probably well-presumed that LinkedIn leaks to who-knows-where. Therefore, the real punchline is:

"When he accessed the system with authorization, Maslouh noticed the excessive age of some of the European personal data within it, and also noted that many of the records for so-called passive applicants--who had not actively applied to Google-- showed no evidence of Google ever having reached out to them. Many of these individuals were listed as working for organizations such as Interpol, the CIA, the U.K. Home Office, the European Parliament, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission."

I've always wondered the apparent gullibility of people who should probably know better, including those working at, say, INTERPOL. That said, the CIA stuff is presumably fake, given the huge amount of fake personas curated in LinkedIn over the decades for all kinds of nefarious purposes.
I'm almost at 2 months of waiting at this point.
Anecdotal, but I am someone who lived in Mexico as a non-citizen on a resident visa for a year or so. I have never had problems with cartels/shootings or anything of the like. But obviously this will highly depend on what activities you partake in, and where you end up visiting.

The worst I have had happen is a case of pickpocketing that happened to my GF. I would obviously not recommend going to areas that are known for issues. I also recommend doing the majority of traveling to other cities via airplane if you are worried about this sort of thing. I did take plenty of busses myself but I know some people are very paranoid/worried of what can happen.
> the smart ones will use this push as an entry point to the software development world rather than looking for an oracle function for software development (which does not exist yet)

Very much agree. I think mentorship becomes even more important now. I have a friends that's switching careers and starting to learn software engineering. Just for fun, I back-seated him while he tried to build a really simple app using GPT-4.

Even with really fine-tuned prompts, some of which I helped with, the code that was generated was either barely readable, had performance issues, and/or in some cases was just completely broken. At the time, I made the quip that for junior/entry-level folks it's like getting cybernetic implants in your legs before you know how to walk or run.