skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This explanation isn't consistent with my understanding. The key reasons are that SPADs have lower quantum efficiency than conventional CCDs and typical SPAD arrays have fewer pixels. Both are improving, but still not competitive for most use cases. Heating is an issue for data transfer, but as the video shows this can be addressed by on-chip processing.
On the contrary, what you can see in the Zapruder film is comletely consistent with the bullet trajectories lining up. [0]

This documentary I watched recently is long, but it puts all the eyewitness testimony of Oswald in the depository building into one big spacial timeline [1]. There are some inconsistencies (like you would expect when aggregating a bunch of eyewitness testimony from fallible humans) but there's nothing there that made me think there was something nefarious going on. Anything specific you had in mind?

As far as the autopsy photos go, I know the photo you're referring to, and you're misinterpreting it.

Here are some medical illustrations [still kinda graphic, but not photographs] of the part that "exploded out" [2] and what the actual hole in the back of his head looked like when you held that part back in place [3]:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AlKUJHXYxQ&t=260s
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AlKUJHXYxQ&t=260s
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HSCA-JFK-head-7-125.jpg
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JFK_posterior_head_wound....
Right, which is why I think there's more value in finding a couple of individuals whose tastes resonate with your own, and watch their favourite things, rather than pay attention to aggregated scores.
I was really surprised to read of the positive results. Because I naturally assume that fads are just fads, based on marketing or fashion, and all the activity tracking watches that appeared over the last decade really seemed like a fad.
Not my experience at all: ALL levels, besides maybe junior which kind of doesn't really exist in Big Tech, require system design, so I can't really relate to this.
Algorithms are usually about specifics of what the company itself does, so expect graph traversals, networking, file system stuff etc, disguised as a puzzle depending on the company. Nobody will ask you about "generic algorithm questions" and actually the "topics" are quite narrow.

What I'd like to know and see written down is how you truly prepare for system design when you DON'T HAVE or CAN'T GET experience with large scale systems at your DAYJOB.
The chasm here is that when competition is other 20 engineers who just memorize things, even if their actual relevant skills are objectively worse than yours in practice, you'll never, ever get the job. It's a very tough game and I admit there is real skill in knowing how to game the system :) it is what it is.

PS: I know exceptions are everywhere but I'm sure that the quality of the ones who get in vs rejected will be basically the same. It's just a process optimized to minimize false positives, so, only the median will get in, really good ones will be rejected and only maybe a very small fraction of the ones who make it through will be "The real deal".
"Up to" is Comcast weasel words language, in which -10c is also in that set.

It's at best garbage science reporting.

Best answer: give GIS heatmaps that show variance of temp from in-city to nearby large green space. Then we can talk.

(I see the urban heatisland effect locally. But 1 instance isn't science. Doing the math AND displaying it correctly is.)
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Maybe there should be a standardized test for software engineers like the LSAT or MCAT. there are just too many software students every year now to filter the top 200k or so out of 2 million using interviews. Who has the time or interest for that ? we need one to track progress in LLM’s anyway. humaneval is weak.

MCAT filters the med school application pool down from 80k to 23k. LSAT filters from 120k down to 40k. Without them, there would be millions of applicants every year.

How long can we keep relying on high school level tests that prefilter into computer majors for college. We need a post college test.
Even if you were able to start sequencing immediately, standard sequencing alone takes on the order of a day. And then depending on your computational methods, could take another few hours.

Remember that it's not just the sequencer, you also need extraction, so you need to add a centrifuge, a vortex, a pipetting station, a PCR machine, a -20 C freezer, a spectrophotometer and a whole lot of reagents, additional personnel, and probably tons of other things I'm forgetting.

Also I doubt most instruments are specced to be able to handle ship sway on the open sea.

It really just isn't practical.
Ruby's mob associations are probably exactly normal for someone in his line of work, but also they tell us they he wasn't committed to the rule of law. That's consistent with his statement about saving Jackie from a trial - he thought retribution was owed, not justice.
I think they mean this part:

> The only reasonable circumstance is if you're on a camping trip or something, and somehow driving hundreds of miles without passing a source of electricity- in which case yes, use a gas/ethanol car.

But is it, actually, the only reasonable circumstance? That's an exceptionally strong claim.
The nuance is a) what happens to existing equity stakeholders and b) does the bailout have to be repaid.

If the answer is nothing and no, then it’s a bailout philosophically. If the existing investors get diluted then they’re in part paying for the new capital injection.
spamming the market with orders for one
When was the last time Apple released a radically different device ?

Ask differently how long was the original Apple Watch supported ? Or the original iPad ?

I don't think any of them had more than 2 or 3 years of suport as the hardware radically changed in the next revisions. Faulting Microsoft for failing to support a first gen innovative hardware concept for more that a few years is kinda harsh.
Yes, I’m aware - you’ll note I also mentioned home heating, which is usually oil or gas. That doesn’t in any way change the fact that raising the price would both give people the right economic incentives to use less and provide funds to assist with capital outlays that might require.

That would among other things be great for letting us conserve usage for things which are hard to make from other sources. That’s a much better use of a limited resource than someone insecure driving a multi-ton vehicle to pick up a hamburger because it’s been subsidized to seem cheaper.
A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption
near infinite? there is literally a finite amount of water in this planet and it can be quantified objectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_distribution_on_Earth
It's an entire industry built on adrenaline, bravado, and let's be honest: testosterone. How could their IT discipline be described as anything other than "YOLO"?

Trading is mostly based on a book that, like the waterfall model, was meant to be a cautionary tale on how not to do things. Liars' Poker had the exact opposite effect of Silent Spring. Imagine if Rachel Carson's book came out and people decided that a career in pesticides was more glamorous than being a doctor or a laywer, we made movies glorifying spraying pesticides everywhere and on everything, and telling anyone who thought you were crazy that they're a jealous loser and to fuck off.
The issue is that depending on your OS and installation method, the paths you need to use for your configuration file can vary greatly. This automates finding those paths and writing them to the configuration file.
A lot of stuff in electronics at the beginner hobby level is highly project specific.

Post some project ideas, we can give you some resources on where to start, if you want to learn the basics just by jumping in.
Hi, these are also my favourite things. OP, yourself and myself should start a club.
No, for the same reason Microsoft won't support them: there was no QA in the design phase, so the hardware is poorly documented and relies on OEM-provided blobs from the SOC vendor, which cannot be redistributed and will not be upstreamed into the kernel, so as the kernel develops, these blobs will be left behind, since they're only compatible with the specific kernels targeted in android releases.

I could turn out to be wrong here, because once in a while the stars align and these problems are overcome, but it's rare.
At one point the big ten had 12 teams and the big 12 had ten teams...
I definitely have chromosteropsis to some degree as long as I can remember.

However, when I got older and went from "perfect" vision to needing glasses (textbook presbyopia), the chromatic aberration of the lenses has intensified the chromosteropsis to a whole new level!

Moving my head around (changing angle of glasses, thus severity/direction of aberration) while looking at that top images in TFA is quite a trip. For those who cannot see what I see...imagine the red and blue being printed on separate sheets of transparent film, and then slid around a few mm independently.
Yes, increased CO2 probably contributes. I'm guessing it's a drop in the bucket for ocean currents though. Mining salt and dumping it on roads is probably an issue to, as it runs off and goes down rivers. Again, not doing much because the oceans are so big. But over a million years maybe not so great to do.
> Maybe a retailer might have a zapzap machine but lots of cards aren’t imprinted these days so that’s a non starter too.

When I Google "zapzap machine" this comment is the only result, but after looking around on Wikipedia, I see this is a typo for "zipzap".

Is this really the only time in history someone has typoed zipzap as zapzap? I guess so.
> the usual protections given

He's currently receiving the standard amount of protection from the secret service for a primary candidate at this stage (none).
There's an interesting dialog about this in Catch-22, the novel, but it intentionally revolves around boredom, not fear (which of course also is a primary subject of the novel)

I assume you were also aiming at a point of absurdity, because I don't want to imagine that you'd like to lenghten your perceived lifespan i.e. by being tortured...
Any system based on majority votes will always lean towards the left.
> Displacement hulls are more efficient at lower speeds for the same displacement

Yes. I thought it was obvious I was comparing at displacement speeds only; I'm sorry for not being more clear.
How is it accidental? The code can only do what its public interfaces expose. This indirectly (not accidentally) exercises the private methods.

If all the public interface test cases pass, isn't that enough?
Narcissists are more disagreeable, which correlates with thinking independently, which correlates with arriving at disfavored conclusions frequently categorized as conspiracy theories.
I remember being the first of my friends to owning an SSD, which was 60GB. Any game we played, my computer showed "ready" in mere seconds while the others needed upto a whole minute.
Now I wonder who could have given him that idea. I don't think I've ever seen him put together a line of reasoning by himself.
Gives them that sense of control and authority over others that they crave-with lowered effort.
The volume of the Pacific Ocean is 1.583x10^8 cubic miles. (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=volume+of+pacific+ocean...)

The world's freshwater need is about 950 cubic miles a year. (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=worldwide+water+use+in+...)

You can just put the leftovers back without worrying much about it.
What we do as software engineers isn't standardized. If you are doing things that have been done before, you are wasting your time.
It's an impacted field.

Read architecture books and learn system design from existing success stories and read through their thought process.

Contribute to a large system open source.

There isn't really anything you can otherwise do.

Try to make large systems on your own projects.
I've tried that, people don't see me as a manager, for them.

Its a different "culture fit" metric than IC. I prefer IC, I've just also done what you're suggesting.

I've ran companies before too, been technical founder a couple times, have done plenty of side projects with remote agencies as well, which turned into companies. I've been "lead" in IC, or been promoted to Engineering Manager. When I'm on the job market and trying engineer manager, I've had comprehensive answers for everything, people don't see me as the manager. I've tried a more social approach as well and a variety of iterations. Nope. They don't see me.
I totally agree that at higher levels System Design is required. That's why I have a whole section about System Design in the article. See https://www.lambrospetrou.com/articles/big-tech-software-int...

I describe all the resources I read outside my day job's material. There are a lot of useful engineering blogs you can use, and with 1-2 books you can go very very far in learning the principles.

Once you have the theory, then you just need to practice on brainstorming designs for any kind of app you want. Then, you can verify that with the real implementation, you can pretty much find information about any big-scale famous system online. Or you can do mock interviews with others, but I am not a fan of these personally.

In my experience, reading, and then trying to come up with designs on your own for well-known products will make you ace these interviews after a few months.

Also, during the interview there is no nearly enough time to verify that you have done in the past all the things you will mention. So, if you understand what you are saying, and your design makes sense, you will pass the interview, even if you haven't practiced these things in your day job.
The goal with automation is that the number of unidentified corner cases reduces over time.

A manual runbook is a game of, "I did step 12, I think I did step 13, so the next step is 14." that plays out every single time you do server work. The thing with the human brain is that when you interrupt a task you've done a million times in the middle, most people can't reliably discern between this iteration and false memories from the last time they did it.

So unless there are interlocks that prevent skipping a step, it's a gamble every single time. And the effort involved in creating interlocks is a large fraction of the cost of automating.
Maybe. I have been developing for over 30 years. I still use emacs, use logs and printf for debugging, and have never even looked at ChatGPT. I'm willing to admit I may be set in my ways but I get my work done.
I think it's a valid suggestion, but where are you getting this from:

> MCAT filters the med school application pool down from 80k to 23k. LSAT filters from 120k down to 40k. Without them, there would be millions of applicants every year.

How could one reliably estimate the number of people deterred from pursuing medical or law school due to the respective standardized tests?
Oh no

Anyways
One way or another, there has to be a master thread that gathers things back. So instead of a mutex, you have a supervisor.
Generally, yes, but I also think the fn1,fn2,fn3 can happen independently (which is why its powerful). So items of collection may be at different steps.
These concerns already come up with things like glass and metal clad buildings - plenty of urban zoning codes already account for the light that reflects off new or modified structures (or at least try to).

It tends to be newsworthy when it goes wrong, because the results can be things like buildings cooking nearby objects at certain times of day. Spicy stuff.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/09/03/Skyscraper-melting-c...
Ended up doing a DIY homemade thing with a filter I had, will check the recommendations.

Many thanks!
the coffee-water ratio was going to be my next question.
This perspective is really interesting to me. I’d be interested in knowing what people find problematic with it.

I used to unit test all the components individually. But these days I test with most of the componentry wired up, only mocking the i/o layers. I end up writing fewer tests, they have been less brittle, and refactoring is easier.
Wow. I’ve worked with a fair number of vendors, customers, and internal stakeholders in my time and “let me get back to you” is extremely common. The only time that wasn’t acceptable was when you didn’t get back to them in a reasonable amount of time.
If we must do pedantry, technically the original comment didn’t specify “on Earth.”
I love how rust removed SSO from its string and now every library reimplements it over and over
> Pull the filter out when it’s done to avoid overbrewing/oversteeping

I’d never have thought about that! Thanks, appreciate it
It is very hard to change the overall size of the messages, and there's a lot of pressure to keep them short. So it could have been a bitfield or several similar things... e.g a value in a char field
Ship drug users off to drug camp? All the drugs you want, free, for as long as you live. Test clean for a week and you're out.
those are both Bezier curves. They're just second vs. first order Bezier curves, but all the same math applies, and polybeziers are so much harder to work with when they're quadratic instead of cubic, it's not even funny.
Mike is. Why isn't yours?
To be fair it is wired to one computer and wireless to another. It is wired because it really has no battery life. Unlike my mouse that can last a year or two. The battery life on the keyboard is like one day.
I was employee #1 at a SaaS startup 15 years ago. I got 0.5%, which translated into 175k after tax 8 years later (500m exit). That was the only successful exit out of 8 startups I have worked at in the last 20 years.
Rude way of putting it, but yeah, mobile dwarfs everything.
words have meaning
Yeap, it's used as a case study for us as to the worst case scenario in trading incidents. Definitely humbling.
> keeping an app active and functional does require maintenance.

Only for _acquiring_ new customers on _very new_ devices.

Old customers on new devices are just fine.

https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-librar...

Goes all the way back to Android 4.
Another reason why I never used SaaS.
> “if Amazon wasn't so up their own ass about not using Spacex rockets”

Amazons entire company model is to create businesses that it needs for itself 1st, and then sell the excess capacity.

Why change now by using SpaceX?
It exists: https://samy.pl/pwnat/

(from top comment)
I wrote a tool to automate our hotfix process, and people were somewhat surprised that you could kill the process at any step and start over and it would almost always do the right thing. Like how did you expect it to work? Why replace an error prone process with an error prone and opaque one that you can't restart?
The cost of capital of tech companies has gone up - it’s actually turned positive! Shocker.
I think this is the best and the most logical explanation.
Only emissions per capita counts. Just because those countries have more population than entire continents of Africa and Europe, does not mean it's their fault.

USA emits almost 8 times more emission per capita when compared to India. Rather India is so poor, that it must increase it's energy generation by any means possible.

So an Indian on average consumes just 1/8 of a USA citizen.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita
And they don't have to. The approximation of a circle with a bunch of cubic curves is so accurate [1] that you'd need to print a huge circle and then sit there with a measuring tape to be able to even tell it's not a perfect circle. Which is why "you can't draw a circle with Bezier curves" is only a mathematical "problem", it's not an actual problem.

[1] https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/#circles_cubic
Qualified immunity is indeed a doctrine, not a law. It is a construct of the Supreme Court and not subject to congressional oversight (or indeed any oversight other than the whim of a ruling judge). That is a fundamental problem which congress needs to fix.

From a practical standpoint, actual real-life laws already protect law enforcement officers in the process of their duties; the removal or codification of qualified immunity would not affect that in the slightest. Since the vast majority of qualified immunity invocations concern financial liability in civil suits, it would be simple to implement a liability insurance program (like medical malpractice insurance, but for police work) to shield officers from life-ruining financial responsibility for their actions.
My Apple Watch isn’t perfect but it’s pretty accurate in measuring exercise nowadays. It was much rougher in the first year or two though, they have certainly improved the hardware and software.
Yes. Why do we need a trusted traveler program?
Changes we make to software and hardware infrastructure are essentially hypotheses. They're backed by evidence suggesting that these modifications will achieve our intended objectives.

What's crucial is to assess how accurately your hypothesis reflects the reality once it's been implemented. Above all, it's important to establish an instance that would definitively disprove your hypothesis - an event that wouldn't occur if your hypothesis holds true.

Harnessing this viewpoint can help you sidestep a multitude of issues.
Very few people have real distributed systems experience. Maybe 1% of people who pass system design interviews have ever actually implemented or even worked on such a system.

The nitty gritty of implementing a distributed system is orders of magnitude harder than the high level view of a sys design interview.

What it means is you can just prep for system design like algo. The expectations are not that high. Learn the patterns and common technologies and how they are applied. It almost always comes down to databases and message queues, and the different versions of those. DDIA is the reference book for these interviews.
it doesn't even appear for me on default browser scaling

if you hadn't commented that, I wouldn't have known
These past couple years I’ve been drinking my coffee black, will find out the taste of cold brew tomorrow!

Loved the coffee maker recommendation! looks practical and easy to use, thanks
There probably even a conspiracy theory that you did it!
For game dev or in general? I hate using actors for general backend stuff, but for game dev maybe it makes more sense.