skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work on a system that did about 55k/sec at peak. The service was internal it was only handling grpc calls which were coming from inside our VPC and it was written in Go. It's main job was was reading and writing to an SQL db that was sharded across 3 or 4 of the biggest instances AWS offered at the time (2017ish).

Everything was Dockerized and I think we were using Docker Swarm for container orchestration. I don't remember the specs for each box, but we had auto scaling set up so at peak we'd hit a little over 200 containers.

Looking back now, I'm sure we could have gotten much better performance out of that service, but the team was young and inexperienced and throwing money at the problem was an easier solution.
Specialists aren't much better. Try getting a dermatologist appointment. It's almost comical now. The whole system is collapsing under load.
It certainly doesn't seem that way now, unless there is a massive skew in titles (maybe an L4 at Google is given Senior Engineer 2 at MSFT or something?)
Not sure what the need is for downvoting this opinion.
Yes, no. They are also a major proponent of open office space, and (at least the group that I worked for was) very intolerant of remote work pre-pandemic. It was very grating to see all these showy spaces (cafes, gyms, theaters, climbing walls, ball pits etc) that were featured in the REWS (Google Real Estate and Workplace Services) newsletters, with absolutely no focus on the overcrowded open office spaces that engineers were forced to work in.

I left Google for Netflix mostly because of my inability to work remotely for Google, and the group I work for in Netflix being remote friendly.
I always chuckle a bit when I hear the term social contract. It's not legally enforcable, isn't codified, people can't choose to partake in it, and has always been intentionally vague. Almost like a trick to convince the masses that they're owed something by the "leaders."
One of those countries is the US.
Fax is unencrypted analog. If practice, tgis is ver certainly not secure.
It's only "more secure" in the sense that unauthorized access to it counts as wiretapping, whereas the feds carved a loophole allowing them to read private emails without going afoul our anti-wiretapping laws.
That you don't see the absurdity means our educational system is also doing what feds built it to do.
you wouldn't use horizontal numbers, but a numpad-like layer, so that'd be just one extra f layer tap / hold
I used to use ReiserFS exclusively once upon a time. That was because ext2 used to get corrupted easily when the power went out. Once ext3 and ext4 came out with journalling, I found that they were just as good as ReiserFS.
> Meanwhile Vancouver’s population went up by more than 4x.

My point exactly. Meanwhile Canada has had sub-replacement fertility since 1973:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/fertility-r...
My math is that for something worthless like bananas, the fuel I buy to bring them a couple miles from the store costs more than the fuel to ship them to the store. Of course they truck rather efficiently, but they also sell for ~nothing.

How does it work then that the trucking cost is the primary component of the price? Or do you mean something different by "Guess which expenses impacts most prices, the most? Did you guess trucking? If so, you're correct."?
Google has lost lawsuits for colluding with Apple to suppress the wages of its employees
definitely...and they get to keep that credibility and coverage. at least, as long as this move didn't totally alienate the folks that got on terraform back then
The one from the lab does not have blood, sweat and tears spent on mining it. Lab workers overtime at best.

Maybe if artificial diamonds are made from forsaken orphan ashes they would have a similar sentimental value.
Hmm, I still fail to realize that, as except flexible work hours, none of this is matching my experience as a software engineer. I live in Europe though.

It's not that I complain of my situation: I'm healthy, have a loving family, and work with a great team which is full of kindness and which is part of an international group, something that let me exchange with people from all around the world as part of my job in a full remote position.

So this is just to say that not all SE live in this ultra-privileged bubble. :)
thank you oh benevolent Google, for allowing supply and demand to set labor prices after the DOJ shut down your wage fixing scheme
Whatever the regulation, please please please may it only apply to companies above a certain revenue (or some other metric). Regulation of this form has a dampening effect on innovation, and this would be a straw on the camels back for startups.
Analog. Unencrypted.
Your intent to misinform appears evident.
>Even mint is used only in certain dishes.

Pudina (mint) chutney is ubiquitous, often mixed with fresh green coriander leaves (hara dhaniya).

>When I think about it, fragrant fresh herbs are very seldom used in Indian cooking, outside of coriander (mostly used as garnish).

Somewhat true, but would vary by region. Curry leaf usage is widespread in South India. Just had an egg curry today with curry leaf (and other) flavoring, with chapatis, at a Kerala restaurant in a non-Kerala town. With raita and chopped onion and chilis on the side. :)

Methi (fenugreek) is used as a green and cooked and eaten, apart from use in parathas. Methi thepla (like paratha but from a different region, Gujarat / Rajasthan), is so tasty (to me) that I can eat it by itself. :)

And if you extend the definition of fresh (but not necessarily fragrant, some are neutral in smell) herbs to greens used like spinach, India has a wide variety of such greens that are eaten on a regular basis in different parts of the country. For example, many kinds of keerai in South India, including amaranths, palak, siru keerai, thandu keerai, agathi keerai, and many more. It's just that they are not much offered at mainstream Indian restaurants in India or abroad, AFAIK. That's because such restaurants are conservative and mainly make what sells the most.
The primary issue is that there aren't enough residencies so we don't train enough doctors. There are literally millions of competent Americans who would love to become primary care doctors but can't.
"But that does not make themselves Justified categorically"

Diamonds are the hardest objects found naturaly. While everything around them was crushed and changed ober the eons - they persisted. And if polished they shined. And can cut any other known material.

It makes for a good story, which is why humans are after them, since a long time. Kings and queens wore them. Pirates stole and buried them.

Is the story justified categorically? I don't know, but it is an old story.

But personally I rather would like to have the sci-fi story, where diamonds are cheaply avaiable, as a very strong building material..
Its not a strawman. Calling plants steak, ribs (see TFA) or even burgers is just playing word games in an area that actually means something to people. I'd say Amy argument in favor of that is some kind of BS argument. To be clear, I have no issue with the products, just the deliberately deceptive naming.
And here's 20 Billion dollars that disagrees with you. If switching was just a "click away" why would Google pay Apple $20B per year to be the default search for iOS etc.

https://macdailynews.com/2023/02/21/google-pays-apple-20-bil...
Singapore is pretty rich while not being particularly high on that list...
Anecdote: I had the opposite, I switched to an ergo layout mechanical keyboard and a vertical mouse and was able to avoid near-certain surgery.

The difference tends to be whether you're a "hard typer" or not. Folks who are hard typers (I am one), do much better with mechanical keyboards because it subtlety teaches you not to bottom out due to tactile feedback, while low-travel keyboards you /always/ bottom out while using. Folks who are not hard typers don't bottom out hard enough for it to injure them, and because they type more softly experience more strain due to the higher actuation weights of mechanical key switches.

RSI is fun like that, there's no one true answer. You have to find what works for you. It's not a mistake though that one of the first and most respected ergonomic keyboards has always been mechanical, though [1].

That said, /most/ RSI issues actually start with how you sit while typing. If you get a proper chair and desk and adjust your typing stance (yes, this is a thing), you can reduce wrist pain from RSI even without changing anything about your keyboard. Also, using touchscreens and using mice are way worse than the keyboard for you anyway.

The reason I responded the way I did to the parent, is that people who are hard typers are basically guaranteed to end up with RSI at some point in their life simply due to the strain of being a hard typer. As near as I can gather at this point, there's nothing you can do to train yourself to not be a hard typer. I'll be this way my entire life, but I can get tools that reduce its negative impacts.

[1]: https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage2-keyboard/
I'm wondering why you'd have a smart oven in the first place. Seems like all risk and no reward.
Sure, but would iPhone Mobile Intel® Celeron® have worked?
Living model of brain reveals human neurons work together to process information
The software industry in the US is enormously productive. It's the crown jewel of the American economy, and frankly props up our economy.

And it's completely unregulated.

Please, let's resist the siren song of regulation and it's inevitable unintended and undesirable side effects.
Note: lack of respect for primary care physicians by government and insurance companies. Not by patients or the general public.

Of course, the end result of all the short-term cost saving, is that care is switching to emergency only, which is a lot more expensive for everyone.
Offset by international tensions, Panama canal backups etc. These are all economic costs. Keep up or die
Since i wrote from a more abstract perspective, a systemic perspective, i am looking in the perspective of Reducing the rate of consumption for computing, and i feel the electrical consumption factor is a case of missing the forest because we paid too much attention to the trees. Too many state and NGOs lean into that.

The actual math of concrete examples we can come up will not change the underlying fact that consumerism fueled by corporations will always trump over whatever perceived or real efficiency gains, and i do not agree it ''pays back relatively quickly'': even the favourable example of replacing an Xbox Original for a Steam Deck demanded at least 2000 hours for the electrical consumption to match the incorporated energy, but this still had to incorporate whatever is needed to reprocess the xbox as the new trash it became (recycling and discarting).
What will the math look like in the future ? because over time, the tinier processors demand more and more energy and resources to manufacture, over the older ones. How many hours of use will the (presumably) more eletricity efficient PS6 demand to offset the PS5 it will be set to replace ?

It does not matter if the Steam Deck, which is subsidized by Steam like almost all consoles and because of that it is cheaper for the end-consumer, consumes less electricity, it still made you pretty much discard a fully functional and capable computer and buy another one, a computer that will degrade with time and have less lifespan, that could have continued in use with a technically possible upgrade.

I feel a computing culture that sees normal to discard functional computers every 3-5 years because of minutiae like slightly less eletricity consumption or even more facial hair in characters will never really be sustainable. Eletricity consumption is being solved with renewable energy, hidro and nuclear , but the rate of material and natural resources consumption, and pollution, of non renowable stuff, is not being tackled.
By 1998 many of the things you mentioned where common in Silicon Valley. So, Google was hardly the first company to pay very well or have great perks.

Historically a huge range of perks have been tossed around including some that have gone away like company cars due to tax code changes that eliminated the benefits. There’s long been ebb and flow around what perks are common, and which ones stick around as the company grows.

One that I wish caught on was Microsoft being rather famous for offering engineers an actual office with doors that closed.
I wonder if he is just doing this so all the press about not paying severance disappears?
There was an example of this reposted here just last week:
https://www.benshoof.org/blog/case-cracked

The crack for The Colonel's Bequest worked by hardcoding the RNG in the interpreter to always return the same number. This broke every random element of the game, which is undetectable on a single playthrough.
So could you be more clear? Why do you so desperately need to call this person a “man”?
https://www.theguardian.com
Switzerland has the lowest. A famously poor country of people wasting their money on rent, somehow topping all rankings concerning standard of living.
Outside of a few household-name Champagne houses, most expensive wine is expensive because it is desirable and the vineyards used to produce it are tiny. Standard economics.
I already posted a comment saying something like this to the story here, but it's likely enough that the energy the consumer spends bring the can of peaches home exceeds the energy used to get it to the store. Where's absurd defined?
I'm a huge car guy, and I dislike government usage of ALPR, but that's no reason to downvote or flag the post, for the reasons I provided above.
Someone once told me that data is measured in gigabytes, but valuable data in bytes. He wasn’t wrong.
FWIW, a free site for finding and preserving info about your ancestors, near and distant, is at https://www.familysearch.org . I used to work there; they have put a lot of resources into making this available and preserving the data long-term, permitting collaboration with others who have overlapping lines, etc.

I believe it also has a feature somewhere for determining how closely related you are to someone. My wife and I discovered we are 13th cousins (or so).

And it has a really broad wiki to help you do accurate genealogy, with many country-specific tips and other pointers to other resources.

It will not disclose info on living persons, in the tree, except to that person (and maybe their children? I forget).

Lately I have not been active on the site and get less than one email per month from them, I think.
Any tips for getting started for a software engineer? I built a couple CPUs in a circuit simulator, I'd love to get these things running on silicon of some kind and benchmark them against each other, but I wonder if I would be biting off more than I can chew.
I started to fast to cut down on food cost. I think the last time I went to the shops, I had spend £10 on stuff that I was used to paying a little over £3 for. It's crazy times.
Probably 95% of my programming these days is for the fun of it. But I am retired so don't need to do any other programming very often. (Other = internal programming for family-company financial stuff)

I like playing with 8-bit stuff: Z80 assembly on CP/M, also Linux/C programming.
I agree with this for internal tools only intended to be used by a relatively small organization. Using a DSL may well be preferable for open source, and for larger organizations where not every team is proficient in your Turing-complete language of choice.

Some drawbacks of plain YAML, and of tools that use string templating to render YAML:

- difficult to extend features not exposed by upstream
- composition is often messy, resulting in duplication
- validation is often impractical (at least identifying the exact source of the error… I’m looking at you Helm!)

Unrelated to OP, but you can leverage Tanka to extend helm charts with functionality not provided by upstream.

https://tanka.dev/
Mastercard denies report of plans to raise credit card fees
> the only pitched seemed to be affordability

I’m sure everyone was also talking about the filthy streets and daily car break-ins, too…
Sorry, I meant sharpening. Edge dull, even with a high rockwell hardness.
And then you will have micro chipping and so on happening… honing every time is the foundation.
A dermatologist has been consistently difficult to get an appointment with for twenty years in some places.
Not a US citizen so I'm not sure if I can even choose a state so here it is.

IoT devices are almost always data collection devices: CCTVs, thermostat sensors, smart light switches. The IoT devices do not only exist in the comfort of American home, but also American industries, American office buildings, and unlike your computer browser that receives security updates every 2 weeks or so, IoT devices are probably 5+ years out of date and are succeptible to hacks discovered over the years. Hacks can be discovered by malicious individuals, and distributed everywhere over the course of hours, so called 0 days attack. Think ransomware, cryptominers, backdoors. What would've happened over the course of years?
and unlike computer devices where we have vulnerable softwares, IoT devices are typically low level, in which a security compromise in the network can definitely compromise the entire hardware, by exposing secret data locked only by software such as leaking privte keys, to allowing attackers to install custom software on cameras in your homes.

And worse, there's little incentive for manufacturers to continue supporting 5+ years in service, even though they are still in service. They may stop that line of products and sell new products instead, or even worse went out of business.

We have been putting to much trusts on the industry, but we need security to protect those who are vulnerable. Do you know when's the last time the camera in your dining room got its security update?

Manufacturers should be liable to ensure informational safety of its equipments. They need to specify on the device until when security updates are guaranteed, and beyond that, consumers are to be responsible for the device, either by using third party security updates at theie own risks, or by getting newer models with newer security guarantees.

So the call to actions would be:

1. Limited period mandatory security updates that is communicated on the devices.
2. Allowing any third parties to make changes on the device, especially after the security period is over.

One consideration is of course, opensourcing its software. The internet is really quick to spot security issues and even proposes the fix, and this would come at no financial cost to the manufacturers that don't have the incentive to test the security on their devices.
Good question, most rock climbing strength is in the legs, so as long as someone can stand up, they should be able to climb, at least on the easier routes.

The equipment is usually rated for 10s of thousands of kN, so I don't think any of that would be a problem.

If you have a belay partner you definitely want to have them be near you in weight. Doesn't need to be exact, but I'd estimate within 30% based on my limited experience.

I looked up auto-belays, and I think most of them should be good easily up to 265 lbs, many that I see online say they can handle 300+ lbs.

Most climbing gear is rated to stop someone falling dozens of feet, and velocity is squared compared to mass. So 15kN is 3372.134 lbs of force during a huge fall.

And 15kN is low for most climbing equipment.
> If it's the real-deal, and not like people saying "Bun.js can serve 65k req/s+ (cough cough to localhost,)" that's impressive.

Not all req/s are made the same.

Amazon search is made of 100s of services, and Amazon's search page loads 20 products per page, that means 80k search req/s translates to 1.6 MM product API req/s for example.

FWIW a search request at Amazon hits roughly 100 unique search clusters (think of this as ElasticSearch clusters - but its not ES), with different product groupings in each cluster. Each cluster is made up of 1000s of nodes running Lucene (think similar to ES shards). This is just for the "match set", i.e. which products to return.

Then there are services to re-sort those matched products based on popularity, likelihood of purchase, etc. Think giant ML models. Then there are product lookups. Before all of this, there is Query analysis to simplify/improve the query (think giant ML models) to classify "Apple" into electronics vs groceries based on the other keywords and your current context.

Meanwhile, Bun.js is talking about 65k "hello world" type req/s. The compute per req is magnitudes different.
Architecturally, I think Terraform really ought to be hosted, because otherwise you have to trust everyone with a far-reaching admin cred on his desktop right next to Zoom and maybe BonziBuddy.
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic
I stick with BBC, Guardian and NewsNow.co.uk
Side question, are there hobbyist groups or meet-ups that one would recommend ?
On 2), you can define contributions narrowly as PRs in the repo, or broadly, as building providers, libraries, and documentation in the ecosystem. I think the latter perhaps makes more sense.

Contributing providers, for example, is a massive contribution of labor that Hashi would have had to do themselves if the community didn’t.
Take things apart. Fix things, while observing how they break. There are amazing online videos on how to repair virtually anything that goes wrong with a home appliance. Make things that improve your life at home. These are things that a lot of hardware people did as kids, including myself. Get your hands involved.

Look inside older stuff that predates 3d printing and cheap mold tooling, just to avoid the trap of everything being made the same way. In my case, since I'm interested in music, I've looked inside things like guitar pedals and amps, which often solve the problem of making something that's robust, but that can be made profitably in short runs and small shops.

Get a hold of the McMaster-Carr catalog, in paper form, and leave it in the bathroom. An old Digi-Key catalog if someone still has one.
It was closer to 15, but still...
On x86-64, there are instructions, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/54642811/468334
Society is just a lot of people.
What is RAAC and why is it forcing schools to shut buildings?
After ten years of reading these articles and imagining what it would be like to reach that level, I now find myself there and asking "what next?". What is the path for a staff level IC maxed out on the payscale? Seeking principal is a political battle I have no interest in. And management simply isn't in my skillset. Am I stuck just slinging Javascript into retirement? Are there any other lateral moves that could provide more upside?
> But he started saying that 20 years ago.

This is a bit of an exaggeration. His first book mentioning China wasn't even published until 2014. And given that China is in a lot of tough situations right now (looming currency/debt crisis, complete wiping of the upper government, alignment with Russia collapsing, decline in trade) he may still have the last laugh.

He also got things like the shale revolution, the Russian invasions, decline of the EU largely right.

But regardless of his predictive power, it's honestly kind of refreshing to get non-partisan (or maybe better put, partisan-agnostic) technical explanations for current events.
The article does mention this but worth noting that riding two rocket ships back to back is not going to be a typical career experience for majority of people. So this doesn't strike me as a typical career growth story.
The way things are going, the death of Disney may come quicker.