skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My team's systems play a critical role for several $100M of sales per day, such that if our systems go down for long enough, these sales will be lost.

Would they? Or would they just happen later? In a lot of cases in regular commerce, or even B2B, the same sales can often be attempted again by the client for a little later, it's not "now or never". As a user I have retried things I wanted to buy when a vendor was down (usually because of a new announcement and big demand breaking their servers) or when my bank had some maintainance issue, and so on.
Office has had it built-in since 2010, 2007 you need an add-on.
Western Europe was more industrialized than we were at the creation of the Metric System, yet they managed. The longer we waited, the more expensive it got. Now here we are, the last holdout.
He replied to a tweet of mine and I still have it bookmarked and screenshotted to this day. My GF didn't understand why I was so excited
Currently, a savings account is one of the dumbest financial decisions I could make. The money sits in there, doing nothing and earning almost nothing. Not a prayer of keeping up with inflation. Then I considered a CD and realized that the only difference was no access to the funds at all.
Really cool! Why did you decide to start working on it? Because you wanted something simpler than what already exists, or just curiosity?
This time it won’t because there aint any fuel left.
Even if the data was accurate and sourced from Google itself (it isn't necessarily, and it's self reported), and was normalized (the Business Insider article did not normalize for level, and even if it did, could not have normalized for total industry experience which influences Google's initial offer and therefore the gap as exacerbated by annual raises and promotions) you still wouldn't be able to come to the conclusion, necessarily that Black employees earning less is some sort of conspiracy.

There are for better or worse many factors at play -

1. Initial offers are flexible depending on offers received and your ability to negotiate potentially leveraging them.

2. Compensation reported (or otherwise) necessarily is related to the stock price and growth. Propensity for stock to be issued is also related to how well the company is doing and retention. Notably right now hiring is slowed at Google which might lead to lower wages at certain levels.

3. Demographic differences (Google has different pay bands for different areas, and certain demographics are more likely to live in certain areas).
> ...there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently (shakespeare)

Why defer to a baseless "probably" when you can easily check what is known about the past? Wikipedia doesn't put the blame on refined sugar but rather point to farming as to what correlated with dental issues. Are you familiar with the barber's pole? that's the sign for the location where our ancestors went to be relived from owning teeth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber%27s_pole
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The magic bullet took a straight trajectory through Kennedy and Connolly. Modern theory is that they weren't seated in a straight line and Connolly was turned.

Oswald could definitely have made the shots. He was a trained Marine marksman. There have been multiple tests showing that it is possible to make the shots.

Kennedy had a small entry in back of the head. The explosion on top and side of head was not the entry wound. There isn't an exit wound because it was probably in damaged area so could say explosion was the exit wound. Remember that he was hit with rifle bullet that causes lots more damage than handgun.
I have some sympathy for the kinds of integrations that improve reliability or dramatically cut cost at the expense of repairability.

But when I look (admittedly) from outside at the auto industry it looks like they want to make parts a significant profit center, at the expense of the customer. This case being a prime example.

Just had a cracked windscreen which couldn't be replaced by an ordinary repair shop. The windscreen had a ton of integrated electronics and had to be calibrated, which, funny enough, could only be done by a dealer or a single company that they had a deal with. Price was the same: $1044.50. For a windscreen.
I mean, that would be like a secret service sniper shooting JFK when Oswald missed, or something. Surely is is reasonable to believe that the risk of a secrete service assassination increases during a assassination attempt. But, there is not really anything that would indicate that.

During the 1WW the death rate of officers was about twice that of privates for a sample.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X2...

I believe that there is a risk of opportunity murder when bullets are flying. Using the confusion as cover. But, as I said, only speculative.
Any system of regular measurement can be adapted to various real world equivalences.

The argument that one division system is inherently superior to the other would be a long one indeed.
The Modern Movement to Exonerate a Notorious Medieval Serial Killer (2017)
Either one of the TLAs (FBI, CIA, or NSA) or a third-party company monitors the social media of security researchers associated with some big name firms. The reason I know this is a buddy said they were out at some DEF CON party and taking pictures with people. Just after the event, they got a call from their boss that they, in turn, got a call from their boss who got a call from some government-affiliate that the person they took a picture with was a "bad dude" and it would be wise to not associate with them. It sounds like a made-up conspiracy theory/paranoia shit, but it sounded truthful by someone who wasn't in the business of making shit up. My impression was it's creepy and promotes chilling effects on meeting people for fear of harming one's employment.
Canadian maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(videotex_service)
Why not use the source private IP instead of the “unique value”?
>Why we have to separate “Export” from “Save” is another terrible UX that only makes sense to developers.

I'm actually torn on this one. I can see where you're coming from, but I can also see value in the conceptual separation between saving a file in a form which can reloaded with full editability, and exporting it in a foreign format which effectively freezes it in its current form. Commingling those two concepts does cause significant confusion in non-technical people.

Having said that, I still swear whenever muscle-memory from 20 years ago tricks me into trying to File->Save a .tif in GIMP, and instead of doing what I want, it lectures me about how I should use File->Export instead, like some bratty kid playing "Simon Says".
This is nice progress, but international regulation (and enforcement) of emission controls, banning plastic nets, and ending slave vessels would have much more impact.
I wonder if there will be a new metric implemented in evaluating LLMs: Hallucination score.
It's interesting to note that exchanges are adding "obvious error" rules that can slash trades under certain circumstances.
There are very few actual sinophiles in the western-aligned democracies, and I sure as hell ain't one of them, I have no stake in US-China hate wars. This is not some Trump rally where ad hominem attacks end any discussion and you triumphally ride to sunset.

The only reason west gave them work was they were so brutally cheap, and people simply didnt care why. Even if quality was lacking. It was west doing its own shooting in its own foot, everybody knew what kind of deal they get with China, but greed and immediqte profits overshadowed everything else. Dont blame stupidity on anybody but stupid.

They set the rules on their own soil and followed through, nothing more. No big fan of them, but instead of childish demonizing which got us nowhere in past 2 decades, what about smarting up a bit and understanding both sides and what led up to this situation.
> People are skeptical, I think, because many degree programs have opened up for which there is little use for their output, and little employment opportunities afterwards. Not only that, but many existing and useful programs have pivoted away from useful work and building on other knowledge

I mean this attitude is ultimately the problem and almost uniquely an American thing. College is always couched in the concept of necessity for work. But the intention of college is education, which is tied to work but not 1:1. In order to compete on the global stage we need artists, writers, people willing to specialize in cultural affairs. Having educated workers and cutting edge solutions requires the effort of a diversely educated workforce.

That pivot towards college being purely for work is why we're in this place to begin with. Rather than having be a public good, we use it as a barrier for the middle and upper classes to have better paying jobs. The exorbitant price follows because colleges know the people they want to admit can pay it. And then they further spend that money on things unrelated to educational pursuits to attract wealthier students.
What we saw in Ukraine is that arguments about geopolitics, economy, military readiness etc can be completely negated by the person in charge acting on a strategic or emotional whim.

Like all the experts in the world can concur that China is better off with peace in the Pacific, but if Xi wants a war, he's getting a war.
How about this. Some formats are severely lossy. Users are used to "save" not being lossy. If they misunderstand the capabilities of a format then they can irretrievably lose data.

"Export" is an attempt to make that less likely.

Some misunderstandings are more serious than others.
Used to organize LAN parties at my college as a fundraiser for the newly minutes ACM chapter I helped run. Learned more from running the LANs than I did from my networking, leadership and general computing classes.
Apparently the diesel can in one mode be coupled to the propeller hydraulically:

https://www.transfluid.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ehmt_10...
PHP’s had an opcache and jit for several versions now. Combined with preload options, this means startup time is negligible.
This seems to be off... According to the search, London is going to have no days above 31c by 2050, and we're currently going through a whole week of it.
I'm not joking. This is an area that AI would answer well. It's an issue that's been around for decades and is frequently written about by reputable sources. Like Wikipedia, it's probably a good start for someone like the parent who hasn't given this area much thought.

What makes you think it's a joke?
> , then you can have a car

See how silly that sounds? These are just two things I thought of quickly. You will end up with ten thousand rules and caveats if we think a bit more. Why wasn't this included in the original comment? If you propose rules, make them at least 50% complete!

> Company provided shuttle buses.

TIL buses are equal to trains and cycles. Also shuttles will pollute more if they are sparsely occupied which is common.

You should read about Mao's idiocy. We shouldn't repeat similar idiocy in 2023.
I believe this is also responsible for so called dad reflexes.
It's so good that you mentioned him, because this is from the first article of the top of Google's search:

"In July 1974, however, he was seized by police in Mexico City and shipped back to Chicago. One year later he was bullet-riddled in his home in Oak Park, Ill., by unknown assailants. He had been scheduled to appear before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss his alleged involvement in a Central Intelligence Agency plot to assassinate Fidel Castro in the early 1960s."

Source:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sam-Giancana

So, the guy was involved and worked with the CIA. Meaning, CIA could have been involved, too.

And they conveniently offed him to prevent him to talk. Such class.
Thank you for sharing this.

Could you tell me if your 10 million figure includes batching or are they a loop that tries to enqueue as many items as possible?
> (why code that had been dead for 8-years was still present in the code base is a mystery, but that’s not the point).

Actually it's a big part of the point: they have a system that works with dead code in it. If you remove that dead code perhaps it unwittingly breaks something else.

That kinds of chesterson's fence is a good practice.
Take a genuine look at the science. Scientists themselves are freaking out. There’s no way out of the famine and heat and just the general Collapse that will kill billions.
What happened to the third bullet in this scenario?
I think the first part of the title is more recognizable, i.e. "The Website is Down".
Market risk isn't the only type of risk. Many businesses in other industries don't have market risk, that isn't abnormal. Even businesses that you would expect to be exposed to market risk aren't, since they hedge most or all of it.

There's operational risk, like what brought down Knight Capital, that's a type of risk. Or the risk that you will be put out of business by competition because you were too slow to innovate while burning through all your cash runway. HFT firms face the same risks that other types of businesses face. Smaller HFT firms fail often, and larger firms tend to stay around (although sometimes they also fail and often they shrink), which is similar to many mature competitive industries.

> given how they act they don't seem to be providing measurable liquidity

I'm not sure "How they act" should inform one's perspective on the empirical question of whether or not they are adding to liquidity. There is a lot of serious debate and research that has gone into that question.
I've posted about this before, but people forget that we used to worry about bit depth for the framebuffer and available VRAM. And back then, such a low-RAM card was only doing 2D acceleration at most, with a little offscreen buffer for fonts and sprites that would be blitted into the active framebuffer or composed at the DAC by the card itself (like the cursor).

Just for your example, 1024x768 would require a minimum of 3 MB just for a single buffer of pixels if stored with today's typical 4-byte RGBA and updated in immediate mode. A double-buffering technique would take twice as much. Most often, we were using either 8-bit pseudo-color mode or maybe 2-byte 15-bit true color with only 5 bits per RGB component and no transparency. A 2MB card might support 1024x768 in 15-bit mode or 1280x1024 in 8-bit mode.

I distinctly remember on my first serious Linux machine when I downloaded a single large JPEG image from an academic site and displayed it with the "xv" command which was the go-to image viewer at the time. It required virtual memory swapping because the image buffer to store the decoded image would be larger than my entire 20MB of system RAM. This was an unusual image, interesting to me mostly for this fact. As I recall, it was a high resolution scan of an ancient manuscript.
The Linux Documentation Project has been around for 20+ years:

https://tldp.org/

Its history is here: https://tldp.org/history.html

It is not obvious to me if the two projects have different goals.
IIRC planing versus displacement is about 10x increase in energy for the same speed. That's why all ocean-going freighters are displacement hulls.
There is nothing about engineering in that list.
I live in a country that uses the metric system. Water and gas pipe diameters are in inches. Nothing breaks because there aren't any competing standards.
But ChatGPT would have fixed the issue faster in 45 mins than a human would. /s

A high risk situation like this would make the idea of using LLMs for this as not an option; before someone puts out a 'use-case' for a LLM to fix this issue.

I'm sorry to preempt the thought of this in advance, but it would not.
People seem to go between lone gunman or giant conspiracy and exclude the middle. It could have been a conspiracy of say four people: two shooters, one insider providing info and cover, and someone behind and planning the whole thing.

Much easier to keep everything quiet too. The difficulty of keeping secrets increases exponentially with the number of people who know it.
The point is to expose yourself to a variety of different courses and materials in order to not only identify what you want to learn, but to add tools to your toolkit. I took physics back in college and not once have I used a single thing I learned in my career as a software engineer.

Does that mean it was worthless? No, because computer science and physics are often intertwined and slowly I have been gravitating towards a career that will involve that knowledge. But if you narrowly educate people on hyperspecialized topics, then they will be more likely to fail in their post-graduate career because life and your job isn't hyperspecialized. People enter into this wrong attitude regarding the important of education.
It’s nice to see your perspective as someone familiar with better systems.

I have always found this story fascinating; in my junior days I worked at a relatively big adtech platform (ie billions of impressions per day) and as cowboy as we were about lots of things, all our systems always had kill switches that could stop spending money and I could have pulled them with minimal red tape if I suspected something was wrong.

And this was for a platform where our max loss for an hour would have hurt but not killed the business (maybe a six figure loss), I can’t imagine not having layers of risk management systems in HFT software.
I wish more scientific explanation were this concise and to the point. Basically in just one short paragraph.
This appears to be a long abandoned documentation project (last update was 2007).
The benefits of typescript when refactoring is immense. I have a really hard time understanding how someone could not see the net productivity gain if they've experienced refactoring in typescript vs JavaScript.
For some reason my original comment got flagged. It went:

I was concerned. Just as much as an average Facebook employee when it turned out someone built a psyop weapon on top of their data to manipulate elections’ outcomes.
The chemical composition of the world ocean reflects the balance of inputs from the continents (as described, from riverine input as well groundwater), atmospheric cycling, and outputs: extraction via evaporite minerals in marginal environments, weathering at the seafloor, exchange over a range of temperatures with mid-ocean ridge basalt, and precipitation of minerals (mostly in the form of biogenic carbonates such as CaCO3, biogenic silica, etc.), as well as their subsequent dissolution, and lastly the biological processes of CO2 fixation and respiration of organic carbon (including electron acceptors other than O2, such as iron, sulfate, etc.).

It is the solubility of sparingly soluble phases such as CaCO3 that controls much of the seawater composition: surface seawater is close to saturation with respect to CaCO3 (calcite, aragonite). Because halite (rock salt, NaCl) is highly soluble, seawater is, conversely, fairly concentrated with respect to these ions. Seawater must be extensively evaporated to remove the far more soluble (evaporite) minerals. Over geologic time, the composition of seawater has changed, reflecting the relative pace of the various processes listed above that deliver and remove components from solution.
Xiaomi doesn't make money from HW sales either, they rely on services revenue. They also have the same same 3yr support life every other Android OEM commits to.

It's not foolish, it's shortsided. At the scale major OEMs operate, even a dozen engineers per device generation would be a rounding error.
Ok, who else came expecting The King of Pop?
> why code that had been dead for 8-years was still present in the code base is a mystery, but that’s not the point

It's not the worst mistake in the story, but it's not "not the point." A proactive approach to pruning dead functionality would have resulted in a less complex, better-understood piece of software with less potential to go haywire. Driving relentlessly forward without doing this kind of maintenance work is a risk, calculated or otherwise.
> If you think 90% is pretty easy but 10% isn't then that's not in conflict with what I said.

It is though, because the 80th percent isn't any harder than the 5th percent, and may even be easier because when you're just starting out you don't have economies of scale.

You don't get to the hard part until you're almost entirely done and only left with the few outliers that are unusual and expensive to address.

> I wouldn't say that all of that 90% is equally easy.

That's true, but it could just as well be because they get easier.

Getting a new nuclear reactor design through the NRC is a massive ordeal, but once you have you can build an unlimited number of them without having to do it again.

> There are challenges that increase as more power is made from solar/wind, and there are different challenges to making enough nuclear.

As an absolute baseline we could replace the entire grid with nuclear. This is a known technology. If we wanted to we could build a thousand more reactors using known designs that are already in use and it would work. France has basically done this; they have a 70% nuclear grid and most of the rest is hydro and renewables. Their energy costs are below the EU average.

The only reason to do something else is if the other thing costs less. Newer reactor designs or regulatory reform could lower the cost relative to existing nuclear reactors. Using new renewable infrastructure to charge electric vehicles is an obvious fit because they have built-in storage. Solar aligns well with air conditioning load. If economies of scale lower the cost of storage technologies it could allow for more renewables and less nuclear. But these are all things that could make the price lower rather than higher.
That's what criticker.com does. It even has an IMDb import to sync your ratings.
Read books, on a variety of topics, including the ones you don’t know about. A book will give you a much broader and deeper understanding of most topics than random blog posts on the internet. Make sure you read one or two a year, and think about how you’d apply what you’re learning at work. Even better, find an actual application at work.

I’ve found that solving tricky problems ( horrible network related issue, performance bugs, strange behaviour of program/framework/os, someone you know deciding to use new tech you don’t know about etc ) is usually a good way of finding a topic to explore.

Find someone who’s interested in actively learning things, it makes things a lot more pleasant, and it’s easier to remain motivated. You don’t have to learn the same things - just share the fun stuff you’re learning.

Finally, and most importantly : it’s ok if you’re not learning as quickly as when you were at university. It’s not a competition. You have a full time job, don’t have a lot of time, so just make sure that you enjoy learning, so that you keep doing it !