skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have much contact with cloud, but it just seems expensive and unstable in practice from business perspective.

Cloud offers standardization and support, so in some cases it might be preferable, because it meets requirements without spending additional time on setup or operations, but eventually cost might become problem, especially if cloud providers will decide to increase prices and you can't easily migrate it to on-premise.

Probably it's best to stay hybrid and be always ready to at least change cloud providers, so you need to avoid vendor lock-in. That sounds like cloud native, so why bother with cloud, if you can have some servers, use them with Rancher and create Kubernetes clusters?

There will be some overhead, but your company controls servers, can easily migrate also to cloud, if needed, provides most functionality that most teams may require and depends only on electricity, internet providers and workers required to operate some data center, so it can always choose cheapest option to operate.
> Even providing facts is a subjective, opinionated process.

Yes, that's why you need press freedom with multiple point of views. But it is orthogonal to the point I was making.
I think it's prob slightly biased towards kinky people, but it wasn't primarily shared across fetlife. Most of the responses came from viral videos of people sharing their results on Tiktok.
The weird thing is, it didn't work thus for other numbers for used for this or similar characters.
It’s probably Nobel worth based on its world impact.
Querying by rsid is clearly a bad idea. You want to partition by chromosome (and sample-id in this case) and sort by position. When looking for a given snp, the parquet reader will go through the metadata to only read the data page that contains the given position. Unless your pages are huge, read time will be super small (and cost-efficient since you don't fetch too much data). Since the data is static I would want to try storing all the sample data and metadata in arrays. (For non-static data you can't do that because you won't be able to edit the arrays later - you can only add new rows to the parquets.)
I am not really sure I understand what the author is doing, sounds like he wanted to sort by position but he failed to do so and decided to bin instead?
I agree that Awk is very useful in this kind of problems.
They might even be able to do other things that would make it worth it. Like giving additional vacation for being on call, etc.
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You can make arguments about base rates here, but if nothing I think this gives decent data for comparative frequency. As in, it seems unlikely that any one particular fetish is overrepresented compared to others.
The Amiga outsourced a lot of its work to custom peripheral chips, so doing something like a mass move of memory from one location to another, on a bit boundary, didn't rely on the CPU. Likewise, you could change the addresses of video bitplanes, which could give the illusion of graphics animation without doing huge memory moves. All of that accumulated to mean an Amiga had a better human interface than a PC, at least in that era, even if the PC could do more math.
Related:

Using AWK and R to parse 25TB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20293579 - June 2019 (104 comments)

Recent and also related:

Exploratory data analysis for humanities data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792916 - Oct 2023 (38 comments)
My biggest problem with Wireshark is that it can't do anything with HTTPS traffic - which is most of the traffic I'd be interested in. I understand that's kind of the point of HTTPS, and a MITM proxy with cert replacement is somewhat out of the scope of Wireshark, it still limits the usefulness of the program.
He lost me when claiming entertainment is smaller than tech. That is a clearly self serving view that is laughably difficult to defend.

To be clear, the other direction would also be hard to defend.

And when was this magic period of interop? Even the cited examples are notable for how exceptional they are. This is almost literally an exception proving the rule.

Remember back when your adlib sound card couldn't play the sounds of your game? Remember when you actually did have to know the signal capabilities of your video card? Ever buy a keyboard that didn't connect to your computer? Try watching that dvd your friend brought from Japan? Get sent a 8trak? Have a record, but not a variable speed turntable?

For that matter, have a grandparent buy you sonic, but you only have a NES? Super Mario World, but again, you only have a NES?

Then have you ever actually had fun replacing a car tire, only to find no store in town has any to fit? Heaven help if you were missing transmission parts. Or you thought you'd be forward looking and buy metric tools, and now none fit any of your mechanical parts at home anymore...

Really, the list is rather impressive on how hard working together is.
User growth and profits are not the same thing.

A company as big as Facebook is going to have different groups with different objectives that often do not see eye to eye or even know about each other. A company as profitable as Facebook is going to have projects that are motivated by things other than profits.

There is most likely a team at Facebook whose goal it is to get as many users as possible in developing markets. These markets do not generate profits from online ads. Facebook will never disclose its cost per user but in general online ads only make money from affluent users. I have heard that even mid income countries like Mexico or Romania are not profitable for ads. A place where people make an average of $3 a day is wildly unprofitable for Facebook and even the most optimistic development projections will not make them profitable for several decades. The OP is spot on that the amount of money that Facebook will ever receive from Myanmar is negligible.

Based on conversations with people at Facebook I generally get the sense that people there (especially at the top) have a strong sense of mission and a belief that their product makes the world a better place (I disagree with this but that doesn't change the fact). I would guess that these the project tasked with increasing users in developing countries is viewed more as philanthropy than business.
pretty cool ngl
Some areas of science use double blind studies a lot, others don’t. I assume you won’t get mad if I don’t use a double blind study when investigating a black hole, right? We use different types of studies for different types of science.

Double blind studies work for areas where the experimental subject can’t tell the difference between the different courses - for example, whether a drug relieves pain. A double blind study for static/dynamic typing is definitionally impossible, since the experimental subject must know whether the language is static or dynamic, and they come into the experiment with biases about that.

Now, you could do something like a double blind study, where the participants are assigned to program in a language without knowing what they’re testing. I hope that those types of studies are done! But that’s a different thing.
Problem is, there is no good way for long way travel but airplane or car. Flights become ridiculous expensive (thanks to green movent too), and if you don't own car...

It becomes middle ages again: you live all you life in one city, you eat only local food ("we don't need oranges all year around" from other comment in this thread), you wash with cold water (to conserve energy), you wear thick, warm clothes even indoor at winter (same). Yes, you have antibiotics and, may be, good dentist, if you could afford it. Thank you.

I'm joking about middle ages, but as they say every joke contains some part of joke...
My understanding is frame damage generally results in a write off. It’s too expand too risky.
Sure, and "constructing that system" should mean paying your employees for non-work-hours work. And even if I never get paged, if I need to be within 15 minutes of a computer with an internet connection at all times, that is going to drastically limit what I can do with my free time. I should be compensated for that.

One company I worked at didn't have a formal policy of giving people time off if they got paged, but most/all managers would allow for it. That's nice, I guess, but to me still doesn't cover it. Even if the pager never goes off, the employee has made their off-hours worse (that is, not really off-hours anymore) in order to give the company value. Not compensating them for that is unethical.

Just to specifically address one bit:

> But we have to be responsible for our work and our mistakes.

Absolutely agree. But if you want me to be responsible for my work outside of regular work hours, I expect to be compensated for my time. Also consider that I'm being asked to be responsible for my teammates' work as well; while I do have some influence over the quality of their work, it's far from sufficient to guarantee their work is equivalent in quality to mine (and vice versa).
Thank you for this.

I have a basic grasp of algebra (including quadratic functions such as in your example).

So am I on the right track in extrapolating this to say that LLM parameters are the adjustable coefficients and constants in the chain of functions?
I much prefer the incentives around time off in lieu for working out of hours, rather than elevated pay.

We are paid a base rate just for being on call, it's less than our normal rate and the same for anyone in the company who goes on-call. It's payment for making ourselves available, not for doing any work. If I'm up in the night, I'll want a lie in the next morning.
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When hail totaled my car, I kept it for another 4 years. Just "cosmetic" damage. It's still kicking around in New Mexico; I guess it's 17 years old, now.
> So long as I've got mobile coverage, I'm free to get on with my life.

I don't doubt this, but surely you can agree many people lead lives which they would not be free to live in this arrangement? Putting children to bed. Driving somewhere. Cooking. Going to a bar...
This is a very strange statement on a site designed by and for engineers. We’ve all worked on large projects. It can take an annoying few minutes to get a static type check error fixed. We’ve all spent days or even weeks tracking down weird random runtime errors due to type mismatching.

The plural of anecdote is not data, but this is not a science website either. You don’t need a study to establish engineering common sense.
First, you're not "probably currently somewhere in the area of 6-7%" bodyfat--6-7% is a minicut away from 5-6%, which is stage-ready levels of bodyfat for natural bodybuilders, and they only drop to that a few times a year (because of muscle loss and the inability to build muscle). But the rest of your comment is worth taking in for those who are overweight or obese and still have reservations about these drugs, or about using drugs at all for weight management. The influencers selling you discipline, diet, exercise, and the rest as the ticket to achieve lasting weight loss are already on these drugs. If you have serious weight issues (which these people don't), why aren't you? (I say this as someone who has never used any drug for weight loss, except being a bit of a caffeine junkie.)
You can't put your house intonneutral and roll it onto a trailer silently with a set of housekeys.
Isn’t that exactly what happens?

You send it for an estimate. If that estimate is too high, insurance gives you a check then sells the car as a salvage.
I love how you quantify your burn rate. I’ve been living off savings in much the same scenario. Mine is $6k.

Do you want to compare notes? I’m really curious to ask for details on where your burn rate adds up. Mine is half mortgage at around $2700/mo, but I’ve been surprised and a bit dismayed that an additional $3k per month seems inevitable. I’ve been trying to trim it as much as possible while still living life, but a lot of it is just… life things.

It’s ok if you don’t want to go into details.
Unity is just the loudest, they certainly aren’t the first and they definitely didn’t invent the paradigm. ECS/ECBS is a pretty common construct.

This wiki is the Bible for ECS/ECBS systems: http://entity-systems.wikidot.com/
Don't care for the way they do exceptional handling. Make errors part of the type system
Reminds me of "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30595026
Imagine being a superpower and having north korea and russia living rent free in your head.

I guess when every state is an adversary and your nation is paranoid, then you need to spend a trillion dollars annually keeping an eye on them.

If I was RU and NK, I'd just keep a dozen empty trains going back and forth, to keep the satellites busy, and for the lols.
Startups prefer cloud because:

1) a lot of startups were never about building a sustainable business but to live the "startup founder" lifestyle and provide cushy jobs for your friends. In this case, complexity is a feature as it gives you an excuse to raise a lot of money, hire a lot of people and give those people tons of busywork to do (which they wouldn't have with a simpler stack).

2) even for startups who do want to build a sustainable business, VCs are often close-minded and anything that doesn't fit the typical "engineering playground" mold described above may fail technical due diligence despite it being better from an engineering point of view. So cloud and overengineering it is.
Culture wars make strange bedfellows.

Right now there seems to be proto-forming an (reluctant) alliance between the saner right and the part of the liberal left that is scared/disgusted of the more fanatical illiberal ultraprogressives.

If you want freedom of speech and the freedom of computing - the conservatives are natural allies. Not that they are terribly principled, but because they are getting the shaft at online censorship they are willing to tolerate free speech a bit more, at least until they get to power.
Swift was not given the chance to prove itself as a language
Glad you get paid a base rate!

A company I worked at (informally, as there was no specific policy) gave people the day off if they got paged overnight and had to do work. That's certainly something. The problem with it being informal is that many employees didn't realize it'd be ok for them to take off the next day, so they didn't. And managers often wouldn't pro-actively offer it.

But the question to me is: if I have to wake up at 2am and work for 4 hours, is that "equivalent" to having the next day off? Maybe? But also: maybe not.
I’m really disappointed by the lack of comments explaining the logic
I would add Richard Feynman to this discussion, not because he created earth shattering discoveries, but because he was able to understand so many things deeply and communicate them in the simplest possible terms, at times back to the experts debating the topic within their respective fields.
Depends who you are. For people with certain lifelong conditions, the drug component would make up almost 100% of their healthcare costs.
It's doable but the egress bandwidth charges (which are there to prevent exactly this) from most clouds may negate any savings.
> unless he signed an executive order specifically about this?

.. and we all know he would never sign an order that he knew was unconstitutional /s
There are, however, some type annotations.
it's complicated, but in general server centers can profite enormously from economy at scale, but also handling that many customers at scale adds additional cost compared to just having that much compute for your own use case, so does handing out tones of free credits to startups, and running a company (personal wise) at scale is often highly inefficient, too. Especial if you make things unnecessary complicated.

but mainly, AWS and similar do not have a need to lower their raw compute price to that level because even without they get enough customers, e.g. there had been cases of Microsoft Azure in some locations running out of spare compute resources leading to issues for customer.
What's the rationale for setting up the on-call schedule? Is the system that unstable?

> on call at least once a week, including the work day and evening, once a month, including the weekend of that week.

> I should also note there is a required 15 min response time to pages. The person MUST be able to be online and fixing the problem within 15 mins of the page.

I've worked a position where I had extra duties on the weekend, so I effectively worked 12+ days in a row many times. I've also been on an on-call schedule like this with a short response time. Both of these severely impact your personal life.

You have to realize that the two most valuable things you can give engineers is their own time back and money.

This is how I would probably try to handle it: To start, it would be opt-in and not mandatory, as this type of responsibility is difficult for those with small children or other family members, such as elderly, needing care. The 15 minute response time also means you should be being paid an hourly rate (maybe even 1.5x or 2x) while being on-call, whether there's an incident or not. This is because it severely limits what you can do -- you're basically chained to your laptop and an internet connection. Anyone responding to an on-call event after hours should also be given a half or full day off the next work day. Weekend on-call should at a minimum be given a day off the following week, preferable two.
Honestly, I would be fine with Microsoft having a subscription IF they made Windows executable interoperable with Linux.

If I have to pay a tax to make software for Windows work flawlessly on Linux, I would take it (I already donate to Wine).
From Nordic Semi (nrf52 chips behind most BLE/ANT+ implementations these days). Seems microwave ovens use the + side of the tolerance (2.45+0.5_ so they suggest sticking to 2.40 to 2.48 (channels 1 to 80 in their parlance).
I'd read your blog! Do you have one?
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Yes, that!

And on top of this complexity of life, it took like 4 billion years on earth (that's roughly 1/3 of the age of the universe) from RNA/DNA to intelligent life forms that can talk about this on the internet. And during this time, no catastrophic global event has happened to undo all that development. Comparing Earth to other planets in our solar system (we cannot really compare to other systems, obviously), Earth is really lucky that there was no such catastrophic event. So many factors are important for this -- our sun is just the right size (not too harsh UV radiation (bad for molecules to be stable), not too small to make our orbit so small that rotation would stop (blowing away the atmosphere)). Our moon is unusally large for a planet like ours, yet it was vital for stabilising the Earth's axis (stable axis == stable weather) and slow down its rotation. And for the moon to emerge, a very nearly fatal impact from another body of the right mass (Mars sized) needed to happen at the right time (very early). At the right speed and the right angle. The availability of water and oxygen at the right times in Earth history where also quite a big unlikelyhood. And it goes on and on: Earth is unimaginably lucky.

Taken all this together, I doubt that anyone could multiply the probability of life on a planet with the amount of planets in the Milky Way (or the universe) we think would be Earth candidates, and claim to have a sensible number. The later is an unimaginably large number, but the first is an unimaginably small number and also a very unknown number. So: we just don't know how often life happens.

And also, detection is not trivial: it is not that easy to see other planets (they are far away), or alien space probes (they are small, space is large), other radio waves (they are weak), or any other signs of intelligent life.
I hear this sentiment over and over. However, of my acquaintances, some are prone to falling for scams over and over, and others never have fallen for any.

I can confidently say I'm less likely to fall for a scam then the average American. I guess I'd say I'm a naturally suspicious person.
Gotta avoid bugs, imagine if they lost some customer funds due to poorly written code.
Neetcode seems to skew junior from my first look. I'm looking for help with senior positions.
I used to go out to my car and nap in the car during lunch, until I started working at a company that was close enough to not need to drive, and away went my nap time. With WFH, nap time is back on the table and I am a happy man.
I was ready to reply with an “um actually it is an arbitrary number” but… no… it is literally a random number. How did someone commit that and sleep at night?

It’s amazing that some people still defend SBF. Among his sycophants is Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, The Big Short, and now “Going Infinite” which somehow manages to gloss over the rampant fraud happening at FTX since inception.
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This article feels weird to me. It starts (in about 3 bullet points) with mentioning super duper 70layers of obfuscated supermalwar; how their company is awesome and unbeatable and finally that their customers are safe. Then there is very shallow text of several "this steals your X" without much details.

This ad sucks.
It looks like it does, though I've never wanted to use them. I just had a quick look at my instance and you can add text notes alongside the document and also there's some basic editing draw/text tools to add to the document itself.
I agree with your criticism overall. In defense of interoperability though, I think everything you mentioned is a great example of interoperability working as it should. Everyone started with the same serial capabilities, and tried their own solutions to various degrees of success. Eventually, the industry settles on a particularly attractive and agreeable implementation and standardizes it for everyone. This happened with sound cards, video cards, keyboards and pretty much everything else. As the Bleem! lawsuits proved, even interoperability between game consoles was a legal concept. The incentive to engineer solutions for it just didn't really exist until we standardized computer architectures.
I'm still skeptical that this would end up working well in practice, but I do want to say:

> You could also handle cropping and omissions by having the original device sign the picture as a grid of individual tiles.

is a pretty good idea, I like that quite a lot. Not saying it means I'm on board with signatures overall (I mean, we're still in agreement that this would require locking down devices to at least some degree) but I do think that's an elegant solution for the cropping/censoring part of it.
People hear what they want to, to be honest. Most of the time, in my experience, people aren't trying to "cut down" successful people, they are just trying to show that it wasn't all skill and good decisions. Its a response to the idea that people who are successful, and especially those with financial success, are somehow morally superior to those who are less successful. This idea is pervasive, at least in the USA, and that's the context people are usually coming from when they talk about the externalities that lead to success. And honestly, if successful people don't recognize the luck that also went into their success, they become delusional.
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Well, that's an uncharitable way of reading into it imo. Anyhow, I explained my question in a follow up (can no longer edit). Basically I'm curious on how to do proper science on things like these.