skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had a lambda that was running at like 10mins and timing out. It downloaded a bunch of data from an API, ran some statistical functions on it, and then uploaded it to a database.

I found that the biggest performance increase came from async downloads. By sending multiple http requests at once it went from 10 to 2min. After that, optimizing the queries sent to the API reduced the amount of data that had to be downloaded. Finally, I found the best way to bulk upload data to mysql was to use file based uploads which simply copy themselves into the database. Sending 500 inserts at a time was wayyyyy slower. Managed to get it down to 30s. I also switched from python to Java but I never measured the difference between the two
I reread it and didn’t see a single personal insult. Can you point them out?
SAAB was never really a car company. It was an aerospace company that ended up owning a car and truck manufacturer due to some mergers and ran its car division more like an eccentric hobby. The car part was never really well run or financially self-sufficient and that just became more obvious when the car part was eventually split off from the aerospace part.
Cadence – Fault-Tolerant Stateful Code Platform by Uber
No, not wordpress.com, but a managed hosting provider. That means that wordpress core is managed by the hosting company, but you can install any plugin or theme. In the article they compared it to wordpress.com, so I'm sure it's not about that.
The investor hype in AI reminds me of the bitcoin hype around 2017. There is some real, promising tech, some real show- and usecases, but still ... Something's already off before it even started.
They should be mandated to hire private security. If they are utilizing the majority of the resources available but aren't willing to pay the real costs of that, well, they need to suck it up and pay.
Ask HN: Is there ever a reason to expose an SQL Server to the internet?
I am interested in learning about use-cases for when an SQL server may be exposed to the internet, with or without some type of authentication in front of it. Are there legitimate reasons for this?
>He can’t love women

This is a false premise and an oversimplification motivated by (understandably) bitter emotions (I go into this more in another comment).
This is very cool... I worked for a short-lived start-up in 2016 that was trying to do exactly this: solar-powered, electric high-altitude (60k feet) & long endurance drones for similar applications (connectivity, observation, and remote sensing). We were designing our-own carbon fiber air-frames and even bought (and mostly installed) a MTorres automated carbon fiber layup system.

I ran the material science group (I'm a ChemE) so the carbon fiber layup and manufacturing, solar panel materials and integration, battery system, avionics light-weighting and protection, etc. all fell under my domain. I'm not great in the carbon fiber department: we had a lot of help from a company who was our main investor.

As you know, the materials science challenges between flying a drone at 10k feet and below and flying HALE are extremely different... the day/night temperature oscillations on wing are huge, thermal management of the battery system (to heat it, keep it warm enough) is critically important, and so many more.

There are a lot of interesting problems to solve in this space. You've probably thought of most/all of them but I'd be happy to chat.
Buying your home and car is tax advantaged. Because you pay for your house and car with post tax money the equivalent stock or bond investment would need to yield 25-30% more to be the same roi. That can be a big deal over time
The church has been using logic in the study of religion for thousands of years. This is no different. One way or another asking questions and thinking about problems is OK.
Teaching is way less efficient than filtering, unfortunately.

I used to think we should strive to make everybody grow. But the more I've been confronted with hard challenges and limited resources, the more I've had to filter out.

Now I lean toward "filter first, teach to what remains, repeat".

And yes, being tactless is a very good filter, even give the obvious side effects.
Machine code is type erased, not really untyped.
Big country. Has the potential to be an absolute giant in Africa. Has a lot of smart people and potential for computer technology.
TCO, multiline lambda, fluids/parameters, to name a few.
I think managers should be able to have meaningful discussions with people one, two and even three levels below them.

If they're out of touch with the layfolk or can't detect when the people reporting to them are too optimistic/pessimistic, it'll cause issues down the road.

Ol' musky boi has been known to talk to low level engineers and ignore in betweens to understand issues better

Nvidia boss has been known to take reports from people way lower in the chain.

Both have been known to do a decent job in directing these large orgs directions faster than most.
I think this was one of the reasons that made me decide that poly was the way to go. Plus the fact that I don’t really get jealous. So far so good!
Most schools receive very little funding from the federal government. Maybe the poorest school districts this makes up a significant part of their funding, but for most school districts it doesn't.
There's lots of people with little income. Many would find a tiny apartment preferable to not having a place to live.
If it helps catch other bugs, that seems like a good thing.
>Sure, if Ford still wanted to sell them they could find a way to make cheaper batteries

You've already accepted that ford doesn't have a monopoly, so assuming we're agreed on the same basic tenets of free market capitalism they do want to sell them, and are already trying to find ways to make batteries cheaper.

You can't just hand wave away all that complexity.

Just because EVs aren't as cheap as you personally think they should be, doesn't mean ford isn't trying.
Link 3 was very useful, thank you.

The fact that the other three links go to whitepapers and specs is part of the PR problem passkeys have. It's hard to parse for answers to simple questions.

Such as: what if I don't want to use Apple any longer and wish to move to another provider?
Congrats!? It’d be better if you could explain why… so there could be a discussion.
> then it means that, of the developers who have departed, none had wanted to grow with the company, or the company had let them go. For a startup company this might not be a good sign.

What. Of course that "of the developers who have departed" all have left/been fired, that's a tautology. How is it "not a good sign"? Or is it supposed to be a bad sign that there even is a person who is not working there anymore?
It comes back for me. Super annoying
My take is high tariffs on high tech stuff holds Brazil back.
It is perfectly possible to love one person and have lust to another. Which is what original poster deemed shocking. The complain here is "how it is possible for him to be in love with one woman while also being womanizer in completely different relationship".
Marc

Thank you for taking the time to so carefully lay out your philosophy on how technology will save humanity. I think it would have been simpler and to the point if you just posted a hand drawn picture with you in Superman costume so people could really understand what a hero you are.

Truly, it is tremendously selfless of you to advance society with your investments designed explicitly to maximize your returns. What a massive coincidence that so much of your investment over the past 5-6 years has been so focused on web3 and crypto - many, many alt coins that you have successfully committed securities fraud with by dumping them on unwitting retail investors who then eat the loss. Progress!

We, the commoners, are so so grateful that you have enlightened us with your incredibly deep take on how the world will advance specifically through technological ideas that all have one thing in common: they all are explicitly designed to line your pockets first and foremost - societal benefits are an afterthought. Oops, I must have gotten that backwards.

At this point in my essay I will quote a philosopher to sound very very deep and contemplative like you - somehow I bet you are a fan of Ayn Rand and objectivism so I'll use her.

In the Atlas Shrugged version of the world, this worldview places you as the modern day John Galt. We are all oh-so-grateful for your ability to save the world by exclusively investing in tech projects that give you massive returns. We are all so grateful that the modern day Galt's Gulch is not a humble valley disconnected from society where honest men work together, but rather a $155 million dollar coastal property in Malibu from which you command your minions. It is literally the most expensive property in all of California. A home befitting the god that you are, reigning on high over all the peasants who don't understand or appreciate your benevolence.

Don't change a thing, don’t listen to anyone who says you have delusions of grandeur. Thank you for saving the world and meagerly only asking for a few billions of dollars and an insane amount of international power and influence in return. You truly are the most selfless and deep philosopher of this age. What a hero.
The Swiss e-voting system is currently being used in a trial in three (2.5 if you count the Swiss way) out of 20-odd cantons. It's real, but not deployed nationally yet. That doesn't change any of the arguments here, but it is context that I wish had been provided in the article.
She probably doesn't have much money. She might, but she might only have social security which wouldn't provide enough to pay those taxes.

Edit: by money I mean income. She owns her house because years ago she (with her now dead husband) at one time had enough income to buy and pay off the house. Now that she is retired she has much less income despite having assets like a house that are in theory worth a lot of money that cannot be accessed.
It isn't a serious problem if they have so much time to spare to write email threads like that one
> and the guarantees by POSIX make it impossible to make a compliant implementation that can be used with threads.

Can you be more specific than this? I kind of doubt it.

For example, seems to me you could write a setenv() that uses a lock-free algorithm or writes in a strategic way that won't result in a fault if getenv() or reading environ(7) runs concurrently, then say all bets are off for thread safety if you write via environ(7). That's safer than the status quo and I don't foresee it breaking POSIX.
in short, this is just squeezing the proverbial balloon...it moves the issue to a different area...over time, taxes have been high jacked and twisted into being used as incentives for influencing behaviors...the problem with that is that you need different behaviors at different times in development and there's an assumption that all parties will behave/think/execute in the same way given the same incentives...while more densely populated areas are more efficient and effective economically for some towns and municipalities, it's not necessarily the best use case for all scenario and all cases...at the end of the day, the goal for most municipalities is to cover the cost of goods and services (schools, infrastructure, fire & safety, parks & recreation, etc.)...if that's the goal, then we can quantify how much it costs per person/family/household to support these goods and services and that should serve as the baseline for the "tax"...your level of good and services should not depend on the market value of your land/property/house...in a recession or downturn with depressed property values, you still need the same level of goods and services if not more...
I don't think a manager in most companies should strive to be feared, at least not for the people under them (maybe when trying to get things for their employees, like raises or need another team to get off their asses and get shit done that they need).

The most I've ever wanted to leave any company was when I was under a manager that made sure they were 'feared' more than loved amongst the people under them. And especially in tech, the best employees (who can do a mean Leetcode, at least) won't stick around for that shit. It's too easy for them to go elsewhere.

For monarchies I imagine that would be different.
Also, people don't want to shoot other people or kill them.
sell absolutely anything they could get somebody to agree to buy

Yes. In my humble opinion, selling a non-existent product is really just a scam --- being perpetrated against the customer as well as the producer/seller in some cases. The sale isn't complete until the product is delivered.

But the salespeople don't care --- and apparently, neither do the execs who reward them with bonuses for their fake sales numbers. If the non-existent product doesn't materialize on schedule, it's obviously not the sales person's fault.

Just further illustrates the inherent bias that I mentioned.
A DFS and a BFS both visit every (connected) node, haha.

I don’t think the original comment was saying that it is crucial for somebody to fill in for their reports (that might be true, but it is a different aspect). Rather, they were saying that the manager’s skill set must include the skill-set of the person being managed, in order to evaluate the latter.

I think there’s some truth to this, but there’s also obviously got to be some attenuation factor going on, otherwise we get this “visit every node” problem.

The suggestion of firing every manager that can’t run the test suite seems like it ignores this attenuation factor. It might be a set of command line scripts with funky in-house flags. But they should be able to draw some some of useful conclusions from the output IMO.
We prevent people from using their property as they see fit all the time via zoning. It is in fact mostly those with generational wealth that use this power.
Yes, that's how it happened (I heard it from a person that was closer to the source). And because you can't make this stuff up I don't think it is possible to responsibly operate a nuclear reactor because the normalization of deviation is impossible to guard against over the career span of a typical human. Everywhere people work they make mistakes and do stupid stuff and over time this accumulates to the point where the 'experts' are themselves the danger but because they've done it for so long nobody can do a better job than they can in the short term. And then there is aging gear, embrittlement and a thousand other things that can (and do) go wrong.

You can't fix human nature and that's the root cause of many of these problems. And because of that I'm very much against nuclear power, no matter what the short term advantages may seem to be. Sooner or later every plant needs to be de-commissioned, will have an incident or will end up as a target or a casualty of something or other. Multiply that by the number of power plants that you'd need to make the world reliant on nuclear power and the number of accidents would quickly rise above what is acceptable (if we're not already there).

Nuclear proponents are quick to argue that this was all with old technology and newer designs are safer but people are still the same and even new technology resulting in working installations will eventually see those same installations age.
And most of that elimination of extreme poverty? In China. Now, I suppose you can consider Dengism capitalism, if you ignore the fact that it's markets and capital under controlled conditions being used to build up industrial capacity for the transition to communism, but hey. Whatever definitions let you sleep at night.
I honestly think this is a great idea, I'd go even further to require a minimum 2-year criminal justice degree.
The point is that you don't need runtime type checking if you can trust your type checker.
i'd like to shoutout to this really interesting youtube channel, exurb1a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzhkwyoe5vI

^he has a video on this topic, its a rather philosophical channel, and this is a rather philosophical video

ie, legitimate political opposition to the "only the state can see all of your secrets" is actually "let everyone's secrets be out in the open, those of politicians too"

if opposition starts using the logical endpoint of this line of reasoning, perhaps these constant attempts at removing our freedoms might diminish in quantity
A great read about the importance of flour: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/baking-bread-i...
Please consider adding keyboard shortcuts for thumbs up/down and pass. I do like looking at the generated art, but clicking like/dislike for each is bit tedious.
There is a concept called Solidarity, which Swedes take very seriously. If one employer chooses to not play fair by the rules of the labor market (which include negotiating with unions in Sweden) then other unions will show Solidarity with the one striking. The unions act with the mandate from the workers. They are not dictatorships.

Historically solidarity between workers is the reason why you only work 8 (instead of 16) hour days. Why workers have vacation days, sick pay, pensions and maternity leave etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity
> Yes, I identify as someone with reliable heating and power who eats real food, has many children and like to go on vacation from time to time.

Is this false dichotomy you’ve communicated something you’ve cultivated because you are afraid of what would happen without these things, or because without consideration for other viewpoints you chose to value your comfort and tiny world-view over a clearer understanding of reality?

Having written it out, there is no need for you to respond, really. It is just fear either way.
> did you know the nordic countries are among the happiest and have some of the strongest social benefits in the world while still being wealthy?

I do wonder how much of this is due to cultural homogeneity and the benefits that follow. Will this remain the case in the presence of a larger proportion of immigrants? I don't think its a fair comparison, when people contrast Nordic countries with the US.

Many studies have found that social trust is higher and easier to maintain in homogeneous societies.
If you squint, you could say the same about Python code that's been checked with Mypy.
Google results showing me this occurs in Firefox sometimes. will check it out
Billing Engines Don't Solve Pricing Problems
In practice, yes. And for real world applications I know of, the depth of primitive recursion is small enough that loops can be fully unrolled. So e.g. bitcoin’s lack of a looping construct isn’t even a problem.
Great products, by shopping there is a nightmare. Wade through clogged aisles of people abandoning carts in the middle of others way. Wait to checkout or do the labor for them, but with scrutinized ID verification. Squeeze past the hot dog people to wait again to get a highlighter on your receipt. Ah, finally, back to the parking lot of new drivers.
The notification API has changed so much that it requires a Google compatibility library to target more than one Android version.
The express app is really only used during local dev. In prod, only the bot part is relevant.

The site is served statically via Nginx, with a log_format that doesn't use any PII in it. That's part of my Docker setup, which is not in the repo, so I guess people have to "trust" me (which is not ideal of course).

The whole thing runs on a Hetzner server, so while I do not log any PII, Hetzner logs at least the IP and keeps that info for a while. So I guess I lied :(
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/06/texans-rule-change-h...

"Under rules negotiated in January during McCarthy’s tumultuous first election, any member of the House can motion to vacate the chair — a procedural move that will force a vote to remove the speaker. That was how the process worked until 2019, when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi significantly raised the threshold."
I am not following how playing in a band for money has the same business plan as this app
He didn't do anything wrong, you can read his book where he talks about his dating life in great detail. He was just successful at flirting.

Our puritanical culture just doesn't like it.
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You’ve already made the point, otherwise you would’ve said:

“Jesus Christ, if you could just explain why then we could have a fucking discussion, yeah?”

Intuitively you already understand the point I am making :)
I'm constantly surprised that the US allows off-duty police to "moonlight" as security.

What is worse, many states seem to allow them to wear both their uniform and retain their police powers, whilst being paid in a private capacity.

Which other countries allow this?
Neither. Good leadership is driven by respect.

A leader who wants to be feared is legit scary, but not in a good way... more scary in a "run away from the toxic" kind of way. And if you want to be loved... well, sure, don't we all? But that is what friends and family are for, not your direct reports.
Frasier Fantasy
I've introduced mypy to a project in the past. It was part of taking an older, low quality code base and stabilizing it into something useful. Sometimes you can't just throw it all away and start over and need a gradual approach that will start paying some dividends immediately. mypy fits that bill.
After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28% of staff
Right, because my wife home schools and has chosen to forgo a professional career to care for our disabled daughter, depriving us of a substantial income, and I don’t think the tax dollars I do pay should subsidize the public schools we can’t even use due to our child’s medical needs? Mind you, I live in an area with middle class incomes, so the families can definitely afford the school lunches.

Am I a bad person?
Yep, in my local area, light rail gets proposed all the time. And I'm not against it in principle. But the specific project proposals, even with their optimistic ridership numbers, pan out to something like we could buy every rider their own mid-sized sedan and pay for a personal driver for the same overall sticker-price. Figuring out the cost-effective way to deliver those kinds of project, improving state capacity, seems supremely important for the US.
Was there an "e-" component in the Bush/Florida saga? I thought the "hanging chads" thing was from _mechanical_ voting machines, and electronic ones were introduced to stop that from happening again, or have I misremembered?
I don't know how the FAA operates, but that's a perfectly reasonable model.

They are still government employees. Where the government takes the money from has little impact on their goals.
Not pledge. This is an overdesigned, overcomplicated clone of mimmutable.

https://man.openbsd.org/mimmutable

The OpenBSD kernel does automatic immutable for certain regions (e.g: stack, program text, bss), as well as from ld.so.

Ironically, mimmutable(2) is already used in the OpenBSD chromium port for v8.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=168854379207826&w=2

There is absolutely no excuse for Google to propose something different for no reason.
"bitching" implies that it wasn't hopelessly toxic and problem-inducing
That question and answer both hurt my brain. What to do to be more appealing depends more on the individual person you are trying to appeal to than on what gender they are. Individuals are not fungible.
I miss summer Saturday afternoons watching golf with my father-in-law. Pretty sure the rest of the family had a multi-decade betting pool on which one of us would fall asleep first.
I'm pointing out that simonw's claim about what verification meant wasn't true by the start of the Musk era.

Leftists call anyone to the right of themselves a Nazi so your claims about specific individuals are uninteresting.
Threads' temporary block on 'Covid' terms to end soon