skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I think this is a good analysis. But, I challenge that they actually got these returns. Specifically from this effort. It is popular among the type of crowd that posts here in HN. I would be surprised if any of my non-tech family even knows it happened.

I think I would push on the ~5% of 500 people's employment decisions. With the sizes of the teams that competed, I'd not be too surprised that the teams involved were largely the extent of who was directly impacted by this contest. Everyone else was as happy as those of us that read any of the blogs/articles that they would publish about their infrastructure. Which is not nothing, but probably hard to spot the difference. (Ironically, I would argue that the raised morale of the people that publish the articles are probably more measurable? Which, I confess I don't think is a consistent position from me.)

And I stress that I agree it was a safe thing to do. I am even glad that they did it. I just don't know that you could really convince me they would not have had the revenue that they had without doing this contest.
Tap the squiggles.
No, it only executes when you enter the err != nil block so it's almost never called, again 0 impact on performance.
The article provides insights into using AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda with Terraform for efficient, cost-effective serverless solutions.
Hey, a project I actually know about. Used to work in Kaisha Benjamin's lab (Endy Lab at Stanford). I remember all those bioinformatics to get the glucose inducible promoter. Back then at least, the promoter wasn't controllable enough. Currently, I'm actually vaguely helping with this project by synthesizing phage PH15 (building a high throughput DNA synthesis/assembly company right now). Can probably use the phage to package up DNA to transform S. epidermidis.

In general, I think microbiome engineering is super cool and should be explored more!
The post I was responding to was advocating for a "smart phone age", i.e. the state banning smartphone use for people under a certain age like we have for alcohol and other hard drugs. All of your examples are examples of regulations, not bans on a particular product. The video game example doesn't even involve the state; all you mentioned are private companies.

I'm not opposed to all regulations. I just don't believe we should have the state deciding when people can or can't use a computer, which is what a smartphone really is. It's up to parents to decide up to a certain age, and after that people have autonomy and can make their own decisions.
Not a ginkgo project
API Brew – Low Code Declarative REST APIs
It makes for a perfect bedside table though, the place where you'd actually want clean air the most. Virtually inaudible in the low speed modes.
Just some calming awesomeness?
"to varying degrees"

Very much agree with this.

I kind of crave some kind of configurable advanced workflow around calendar categorization, membership, visibility, etc. For example, I want to accept a prompt to create a calendar event from a doctor's office reminder, and I want that shared with certain personal contacts (my spouse) but I want it to show up as "busy" in my work calendar--without my work calendar service knowing the details. I want to be prompted to provide a travel time buffer around it so I don't get scheduled for a meeting before and after my event; when the time comes, I want to be notified about the personal calendar entry but not by the work calendar.

This is one example but I feel like these calendar-juggling operations are actually pretty common use-cases these days, besides integrating between iCloud/Gcal calendar users and "arbitrary calendars" like Yahoo or some other calendar thing. Co-parenting with an ex-spouse brought up a whole bunch of other "sync to some degree but not naïvely" use-cases, too. And there's professional use-cases where I'm setting up job search interviews and need to block time on my work calendar(s) but not reveal details.
Perhaps they should just jump straight to D. The proposed C++ 20 is like D-- given how many D features have been adopted over the years. Now that D supports C native compilation and supported by GCC eco-system so the conversion can be done in peacemeal, it will be win-win situation for safety, convenience, power and flexibility. One of the main reasons of switching to C++ given is for templates, and D templating system is second to none. D also run and compile as fast as C, and the latter cannot be said to C++. For kernel developers fast compilation will be necessary not a luxury. Imagine kernel development in D without GC and user level development with D with the default GC, it really looks like a match made in heaven to me.
A significant portion of the reasons the author outlines are exactly the environment going on at $PreviousJob, except it started a year or two before the pandemic. It’s amazing to read their flags and notice how much of it aligned with the final few years of the nine I spent there.

It’s especially hard when a large company (80-90k employees) can’t see themselves as a conglomerate of smaller businesses that have individual/different cultures, customers and customer needs. The authors list destroyed $PreviousJob (not yet, it’s still there but all the “fruiting trees” that created the magic customers loved are gone. From top to bottom, it’s a shadow of itself in vision, ability and drive. It’s a shame, mostly for the customers.).

The biggest flag I can agree with is when sales timelines force corner cutting or outright premature/possible-unworking/unsustainable software get delivered to customers at outrageous prices all while losing focus on the needs of the core customer base. How can a business ignore the source of 60% of their core customers/fans for three-five years and believe they can recover from that? They can’t.

I know old peers and colleagues will read this and know what I mean. I hope they do, and I hope that my passion for what we were working on and our entire customer base was very obvious for all my time there.

It’s wild that “leaders” are deaf to internal experts who built and grew these smaller orgs into the businesses they are today. I don’t assume me or anyone else has all the answers, or are ever right, it’s the complete objection to suggestions of righting the course towards customers who actually need and want the product that’s wild.

I like to think of it like the Unix philosophy of “small sharp tools”, as our founders believed. Chasing extreme growth is a poison and when it infects giant organ from top to bottom… the issues the author highlights and the ones I experienced lead to these outcomes.

This is why companies/products die.
They seemed (to me, by omission) to really want to maintain the status quo.

I understand a "back out plan" but it turns out that there are unfortunate side effects to burning fossils, so it isn't a really decent plan.

Not once did GGP suggest an alternative. No one really wants to drink paint but in the immortal words of Mr F Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does".
Sounds like apophenia.
I see you've drawn conclusions from my post where there weren't any... only facts. I didn't make any statement in opposition to pursuing renewables.

Carry on!
GWater2 Early Access is out [video]
UNIX philosophy is alive and well.
I will absolutely pay $100 for that router with top notch openwrt support. Not cheap, but very reasonable.
I started at a place that had

store_v1.js

storev2.js

store4.js <----- this one was the newest, and current production version

store_new.js

store_newest.js

I got their head engineer fired by explaining to the CEO what industry best practices were and how incredibly common and valuable they were (and honestly, the engineer got himself fired by refusing to even consider changing his ways). I introduced concepts like "store your products, sales, and user data in a database instead of a flat file" and "use version control" and "use a deploy script that supports rollbacks". Then I quit for a better paying job.

The CEO complained that I convinced him to change everything in the software stack and to get rid of the guy with 15 years of experience there, and then bailed on him. I pointed out that $40k/yr is not enough to buy loyalty. Last I heard he got acquired by a bigger company who threw out our entire estore anyway.
He's doing great.
The strike breakers were sent in to break up the violent strikes that were killing replacement workers who crossed the picket lines.
Yes, I was talking more about an attitude than your specific concern. Though your framing still contorts the issue in a way that makes a coal plant appear like the proper, ideal solution while this new "problem" method is some shady, questionable alternative that must have hidden flaws. And you continue to list more speculative flaws in this comment as well.

What do you think of the idea that, given proper experience and technology, we can have a grid system that does not suffer from inadequate wind/solar/hydro/battery? That is the mindset we need to shift our framing to as these technologies continue to expand and prove themselves on larger and larger scales. I have no doubt people had to shift their framing around the entire idea a reliable coal-based electricity production once upon a time as well.
This looks like a whole lot of confirmation bias. For every person who climbed ladders, there were others who were attacked and there were others who didn't want to climb. And only a small percentage of these people were unreliable.

Maybe times have changed. But engineers today are too smart to listen to leadership that will throw them under the bus to hide their own incompetence.
Any guide? I assume that the sounds happen in a sequence, is there a way to control this?
It’s cool people are messing with this stuff but for me the results of modulating an oscillator with it dont sound that interesting unless you’re into modular synths with chaos oscillator type stuff. Most fitting use of L systems seems to be 3D plant geometry generation
So, we're subsidizing rural lifestyles with our Bay Area power bills?
Absolutely - I should have specified "MBA-thinking"
Sad to see tacit approval like this. BTC mining is a scourge, for the environmental impact if nothing else.
The R-U invasion was undeniably the event that set off the explosive rate hike that was enacted as a counter towards the exploding inflation which was directly caused by the invasion skyrocketing electricity and gas prices.
I made no indication that renewables weren't a desirable goal, or that we shouldn't pursue them. I made no arguments against renewables.

Simply stating facts that are often overlooked. Very often policy focuses on the visible wins while ignoring the "shuffling" of externalities.

If a policy passes that lowers emissions in the USA but increases them in China as a result (due to offshoring or other means), you'll only hear about the first part
The general consensus in the media industry is that Netflix basically won the streaming wars this year. Every other service is contracting, has a fraction of the viewership, is running at a loss. Netflix is running in the black, has by far the highest viewership (like an order of magnitude over many of them), dominates over seas. The other studios have started to license content again to get every last bit of cash flow they can.
Movies have very real returns that are trivial to see from box office results and merchandizing. Not to mention they have famously perverse incentives to spend as much of the profit from a movie as they can, due to how a lot of the royalties are structured.

More to the point, though, this is a bit of a tangent/deflection from my question. How do you assert the return on this $1m? This line simply says that no return was needed for it to be spent. It shows nothing to say how you calculate what is made from it.
We explicitly generate events (in pseudocode):

this.eventDispatcher.dispatch(new SomethingChanged())

It can be anything: just a property change ("AddressChanged"), or something more abstract (i.e. part of business logic), such as "UserBanned" for example.

Internally, the dispatcher serializes the event as JSON (because of custom event-specific payloads) and stores it into a special SQL table in the same local DB of the service as the original model. Both the original model and the event are committed as part of the same unit of work (transaction) -- so the operation is atomic (we guarantee that both the model and the event are always stored together atomically, and in case of a failure everything is rolled back altogether). It's called "transactional outbox". This step is required because just pushing to RabbitMQ directly does not guarantee atomicity of the operation and previously resulted in various nasty data corruption bugs.

Each service has a worker which finds new committed events in the local DB and publishes them to RabbitMQ (whose exchanges are globally visible to all services). Consumers (other services/apps) subscribe to integration events they are interested in and react to them. There are two types of handlers: some do actual business logic in response to events, others (like view services) just fill their view tables/indexes for faster retrieval from their own local DB, which solves some of the problems listed in the OP.

In our services, the order of processing events is very important (to avoid accumulation of errors), so in case an event handler crashes, it will be retried indefinitely until it succeeds (we can't skip a failed event because it would introduce inconsistency to the data because later events may expect data in a certain state). When a failed event is "stuck" in the queue (we're trying to re-process the same event over and over again), that requires on-call engineers to apply hotfixes. Due to the retries, we also have "at least once" delivery guarantee, so engineers must write handlers in an idempotent way (i.e. it must be safely retriable multiple times).

There's also an additional layer on top of RabbitMQ to support DB sharding and "fair" event dispatching. Our product is B2B so we shard by company (each company has its own set of users). Some companies are large (the largest is a popular fast food chain with 100k employees) so they produce a lot of events whose amount can dwarf the amount of events produced by smaller companies (50-100 employees). So we have a fair dispatcher which makes sure a large company which produces, say, 100k events, doesn't overtake the whole queue for itself (it splits events evenly between all accounts). This system also localizes the problem of stuck events to specific company accounts (the whole global queue is not affected).

So all in all, this is how it's done here, on top of MySQL/RabbitMQ and some glue code in Go.
Those countries have higher rates of road deaths, so that is not it.
> Once you make it to professor, you need to use the connections and the prestige to get the big grants to hire lots of PhDs and postdocs yourself to continue the cycle.

It is certainly strange that the final goal of academia is basically to create an org. Totally different from the image of the idealized scientist to me. But this does allow a lot of people to work in science. It probably allowed me to get my foot in the door when I wouldn't have otherwise.
Guess this also explains why they cancel good shows after a few seasons but not sure how well the hypothesis extends to reality.

Netflix rarely does good shows that are created exclusively by them. My go to example is the Witcher series. What they are amazing at though is picking up projects from small scale studios and helping them produce it. Nimona, Klaus and Arcane are some of the stuff I remember on top of my head. Wish they stick on to that, helping small scale studios reach a wider audience
Umm each plane cost way less than 1.7 Billion. A F35A can be purchased for around $80 million. The 1.7 trillion figure is the cost of research
& development, purchasing about 1700 aircraft, and sustaining them for 57 years. So that includes fuel, spare parts, upgrades, pilots, etc, for almost 60 years.
Workable submarine though! Could a submarine get by with only 400 horsepower?
perhaps common 1-2 hours commute is data enough
The source is http://benmoren.com/ :)
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Is it using OpenAI under the hood?
> You have to exercise a truly absurd about to burn enough calories to lose any meaningful amount of weight.

I mean, kinda, sorta?

I can go to the gym and burn 1000 kcals, as measured by a chest strap.

I used to do this 3x a week. That is nearly 1lb of fat burned through just exercise.

In the context of someone who needs to lose 50 pounds, 1 pound seems small, but in reality 1-2lb of weight loss a week through diet is considered "healthy", adding another 1lb of weight loss via exercise is absurdly impactful.

Now, do most people, especially beginners, have the willpower to burn 1000 calories at the gym? Hell no. A 1000 calorie workout sucks.

> There's no studies or evidence whatsoever that shows it has a meaningful impact on weight loss.

The obvious counter example is any endurance sporting event, where by the end of the event athletes weight a lot less than when they started.

30 minute workout 3x a week? Of course no weight will be lost.

Now, instead go train boxing or MMA for 3 hours a day 5 days a week. If you track calories and don't increase your intake, I promise you'll lose some weight.
This implies that a large number of subscribers are here because of this. I would hazard most subscribers don't know this even happened. Much less did it have any impact on a choice to sign up. That was driven much more directly by high speed internet access.
Verifying Rust Zeroize with Assembly Including Portable SIMD
How do I win?
Clearing memory of secrets is a black art. This post is a summary experiments I ran to convince myself that memory in Rust _really_ is being Zeroized.
Vlad from metahead here. We answer this in the FAQ – metarepo is just a git repo that you can slice and dice any way you want while preserving history and having the ability to work on your part of the code. We went with "meta" because it's not exactly mono- or poly- – it's flexible enough so that you can make anything out of it. It also stores information about how your repos / projections relate – in that sense it's "meta" as well.
5000 of those, right?
With solar power, if there isn't sufficient energy storage, then any excess power generated has to be discarded. With a battery system it gets stored for later use. So the energy component from shutting down the coal plant is partially replaced, depending on how much excess solar power is available.
I haven’t followed the course closely, but I’d assume there’s still some variation of the game going on, Charles was quite fond of it.

I’m not sure what you mean by “finally complied an opening book”, by the time I was involved with the class opening books were table stakes and we even included code to generate them as part of the starting distribution. They’re somewhat useful, but effective culling of the search space in multithreaded contexts is far more important. The opening book can only ever help for the first few ply, after that the engine which can consistently think a move ahead will likely win. (Indeed the staff designed the rules to optimize for that very property). A quick and informative heuristic function is of course also critical.
That’s too complicated and not immediate enough. Manual entering? Printing out and making a packet of trade histories for all my accounts, figuring out what address to send it to, manually going to the post office, waiting for confirmation of receipt weeks down the line, extra scrutiny because an agent has to manually review your paper copies etc. Yeah no thanks, that’s the opposite of super quick and simple. Super quick and simple is entering a couple of logins and clicking next and being done with federal and state taxes in 10 mins.

This is why you can’t take reviews of contentious software at face value. People are so sick of TurboTax (I am too) and their lobbying shenanigans that they will give glowing reviews to deficient competitors.
Anecdote: throughout my life, on many occasions, I've gone on multi-month binges of over-consuming massive quantities (1500+ cals) of desserts on a daily basis, while retaining a sedentary lifestyle. I always seem to weigh the same weight (skinny).

I realized I've been doing this over the past month. I weighed myself yesterday. Same weight.

Clearly something is different about my body, at least when it comes to sugar calories. It just doesn't seem to readily convert it to fat.

Is it really that hard to believe that some people's bodies actually behave a little more rationally than most?
I'm a big fan of solar and renewables, but at the same time, in the past there have been massive volcanic eruptions that have blocked out the sun for extended periods of time [1]. So in my mind, the post you were responding to makes a very good point.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tambora-1815-volcanic-eruption/
Yeah, I think it's the wrong choice.

It's really off-putting because the words are the wrong way. There's a reason books on a bookshelf consistently have the words reading down. That's what I expect to see.

But if you do it right from that perspective, it's wrong with respect to the "timeline" (that is, if you mentally "turn your head" so you're reading right-to-left, you now read "up" the timeline), so that's bad too.

The fact that both choices are wrong are a strong signal they're on to the wrong premise.
Wait, this has to be a joke post right. Because you drive a large vehicle that means you don't have to give way to people? Perhaps people should follow the rules of the road regardless of the vehicle they drive and superiority complex that may come with it
Well if CICO is not a good idea, not really healthy not really applicable to most people, then why bring it up when we are talking about solution to obesity ?

The main problem with CICO is that it is confusing the description of a process with an intervention designed to modify said process. Both things a very different.

> I’m merely saying IF you do it right, THEN you will lose weight...
> that it still works despite all of this...

That's the first part, the "works" include the IF... You mixing efficacy and effectiveness is here.

> 1. Will it work if you do it exactly as directed?

Try to apply CICO to water and hydration level : You can modulate your hydration level by driking more or less. BUT, you can go above a certain level or below a certain level independent of how much you drink.

The problem with CICO's is you fail to realize that CI and CO are not the control variables and you might be getting the causality wrong.

Much in the same way that you can change the temperature of a room by changing the value on a thermometer... You can't change the body set point and fat disposition by "just" changing CI/CO.
Well, Bitcoin the p2p cash system has clearly lost, Wall Street getting in is basically the last straw.

Winning in terms of getting rich, probably true. For me it was never about that but it seems to be the direction things are going. I guess this is the sentiment of the day: https://i.imgur.com/I8x93HM.gif

End of an era. Remember all the money can't buy you freedom should we one day wake up in autocracy.
Those ratings are somewhat arbitrary.

If you run it long enough and you’re not cycling the room air with external air constantly, it will be fine.
I haven't noticed one back in 2018, thus I wouldn't hold my breath now.