skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about the previous author or if it's even his best, but I learned about Lars through a Slate Star Codex guest post 2-3 years ago. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-...
> Saying that one isa is faster or more energy efficient is like saying that c++ syntax is faster than java syntax.

Which may be true, if we’re talking about compilation speed, although in this case the reverse is true.
PostgreSQL Operations Cheat Sheet: featuring security, scaling, structure, etc.
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene
Reasonable suspicion: unknown white substance....
GPT with a really high level framework is your friend.

My really young kids and I were about to put out a Roblox “obby” in about four hours asking GPT when we got stuck. Their 3D environment helps as well.
Extreme exhaustion and burnout: How it happens and what to do about it
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HI89zb...
Let's not go conspiracy and discuss scientifically.
Except there's 20,000 POS, sometimes multiple per shop, with dial up ISDN on POS machine 1 per shop, except a few rural systems that need satellites
Not necessarily store value, but being able to acquire or hire things and people that allow more value to flow through the company. Which are things other people want so much they'll pay for them.
This is among those topics where I don't expect the opposite result to be reported.
I wish I had more than one upvote to give - what you just wrote is the truth of the matter.
Hōkūleʻa did Hawaii to Japan in under 6 months. It successfully circumnavigated the Earth in three years.
Surprise plant cell discovery unlocks human anti-aging potential
Their alternative:

"To make stuff usable, a proper idempotent API with end-to-end principles in mind will make it so these instances of back-pressure and load shedding should rarely be a problem for your callers, because they can safely retry requests and know if they worked."

Is to ignore requests and make the caller implement their own queue, apparently.
You negotiate compensation before accepting the job and generally have the option to move.

If anything it’s people failing to consider commute times when looking for work that’s the issue not company’s requirements. Going they will pay me 10k more per year but I’ll spend X more hours a week commuting is effectively being paid to commute.
This sounds grossly like a skill issue, for lack of a better shibboleth.
Weird attack on Jordan Peterson in this piece. The quote from him about being concerned about solutions that work "by impoverishing poor people, by raising energy prices and food prices" is a standard part of the discourse among liberal and progressive climate advocates. Lots of people on the far left are very vocal about policy changes which place a burden on people in poverty or on developing countries.

I point this out just to try to resist this "us vs them" mentality and divisiveness that I see growing in many places. One can advocate for addressing climate change, while still being worried about the impacts of policy changes to the most vulnerable. There's a complex, overlapping set of issues here that one could prioritize differently without there being a stark "good guys" and "bad guys" breakdown.

(My own view is that we need very aggressive changes to minimize carbon pollution and also that it's reasonable for rich countries to pay a larger share for those changes than poor countries)
You can, via the ACA exchanges (ACA compliant plans can't deny coverage for pre-existing conditions), but only at the end of each year. You wouldn't want to get a diagnosis in Feb.

Once it gets bad enough you may get Medicare/Medicaid for disability/income reasons, but that's... a suboptimal approach.
I’d agree to that as long as politicians have to wear the same label any time they speak about legislating AI, because they’re clearly so lost and out of touch it must be a parody.
Just wait until corporations get AGI CEO's. They will be the peoplest of them all.
https://archive.is/I7nCx
Start something from zero to profit getting to know all the steps to do so. You might not become the most technical programmer but you'll be one that knows how to deliver real value.
I find it strange. Github says 99% of the code is Go and 1% Makefile. Yet I see a package.json and a yarn.lock. I am not sure to which degree this relies on the NPM ecosystem. Probably I wouldn't want to use it for secrets, if it uses NPM ecosystem in any runtime processes. Perhaps the NPM stuff is merely for development utils?
Can I send you a book? My email is on my website in my bio but I cannot find a way to contact you to ask.
Bad at what? Typically when a compound is considered a "drug" it's - by definition - because it has an effect on the body/mind.

Like the old joke says: why do people use drugs? Because they work!

If I take an ibuprofen and it doesn't diminish my headache, then I'd consider it "bad". If I am nauseous or insomniac and take a capsule containing cannabinoids which settles my stomach or relaxes me to sleep, then I'd consider it "good".

What I imagine you're saying is that "ingesting drugs for some things is good, but ingesting them to relax, wake up, or otherwise feel differently than you currently do is bad".

I don't think anything in life is that simple.
I think it's called Nabla9's Observation?
Google Photos came from the acquisition of Flock (via Bump) which was a mobile photo organizing and sharing app https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/31/google-to-close-bump-and-f...
> A good quarter has reverted to old Nokia phones and respond to emails within 3 business days.

How does this affect their professional life?? I simply cannot see that working out well at all.

> Sometimes I get a tinge of fomo when thinking about what others do with social media

I think this is because most people have no idea how to use social media, nor what they could be doing with it. It's poorly defined even at the top level - CEO on down. The "goal" of a new social media company is "growth", which means more users... but for what purpose? Advertisement dollars. It's all kinda backwards in my opinion. It'd like to see a social media company whose purpose is connecting people that want to be connected, in meaningful ways. And yes, they're going to have to charge. A good social media platform that was useful in connecting others and charged around $2-5 a month, depending on how well it actually did what it purported to do, would be something for which I would pay.
I can recall only a few physics-heavy moments in the trilogy. Don't recall any math-heavy moments.
Epub isn't that great. The very idea of having a bunch of files zipped is something that makes sense only for a device where the entire thing wouldn't fit into RAM otherwise, and that otherwise just adds senseless complexity.
Gladys can drive around for hours at will, while Bill has no choice. Bill is still a sucker.
That was a uniquely satisfying and comprehensive answer. You answered about 10 questions I’ve had on my mind for a good 50 years.
Ask HN: Which CEO should get laid off?
Feel free to provide your rationale or other suggestions not listed

Sundar, Elon, Zuck, Jassy , Satya , Cook, Greg Peter's
Adventures in Advent of Code [video]
Very sorry to hear. I lost my boy five years ago and it just isn't something that ever gets better in the true sense, but we all have to learn how to live with it somehow.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat

I lived in Germany in 1999 and then the internet connection from Germany to the US would get overloaded during the day. At maybe 9am the latency would be < 1 s but it would start to grow to a length of 90 seconds, then it would start dropping packets.

I don't know if it was the intention but it was about as good as a ban on VoIP at preventing people from making international VoIP calls.

Today there is more consciousness about the problem but people frequently create an overly long or nominally unbounded queue: in that case you start with one problem, insufficient throughput, can add the problem of unacceptable latency by adding a small queue. Limit the length of the queue and you put a cap on latency.

Backpressure is hard to implement for social and political reasons as much as technical, people don't really like the idea that the system can refuse service and of course it often has to be pushed further back than people would expect.

I'd point to the example of a medical specialist office where once you are being seen as a patient you might have a series of appointments. The initial appointment controls admission to the system as a whole so you might wait a few months to get the first appointment, enough that you might "balk" and look for another doctor who can see you sooner. Once you are being treated you often have no problem rescheduling an appointment or scheduling follow-up appointments in a timely manner.
>But the bias of a pool

Maybe? What if the pool is being influenced with whatever is trendy at the time?

I would take my bias of working with a former colleague for years over what the current societal pressures are enforcing. Some may call it nepotism, I'd call it risk management.
Yea I tried and it looks nothing like me.
Safety-wise, the chance of choosing a non-safe new car today is very low since they're not on the market (a lot due to current regulation).

> A privacy policy is a pinkie promise. Why depend on something so fragile for such an important function in your life, when there are much more trustworthy options? Logseq, Org Roam, and Joplin immediately come to mind.

Yep, I agree. This is why my own previous note-taking app is completely open source[1]. But this comes with many difficulties, and often times subpar experience compared to closed source apps. That's why I decided to close source my next note taking app[2].

[1] https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38584960
Aside from being compensated directly for daily commutes (on which we could reasonably disagree), there’s also an issue around liability: if someone crashes going to work and the other side wants to sue, should the company be liable, the employee, or both? Being “on-the-clock” makes it more likely the company would bear responsibility, as opposed to being “off-the clock”. Company cars seem to be less common now than they were even 10 years ago. A personal injury lawsuit could easily bankrupt a household, but is much less likely to bankrupt a mid-sized or large company.
I didn't call you dumb or irrational, I suggested that you raise your standards to exclude Apple and Facebook's behavior as "acceptable".

You could also do nothing, and just adapt to sideloading and anti-Meta regulation when they both come around.
This is some mountain kung fu master level of advice. Good job, sir
I am talking about scientific conspiracies....

MRNA - for example - could be an effective plan to reduce the population quite effectively, by making sure that every year, there is 10% of 20-30 years old excess death... (real numbers so far across 2022 and 2023)
>YOUR SON DOES NOT WANT TO LEARN TO CODE

You are probably right, but when I was 9 I definitely wanted to learn to code.
It's an interesting hypothetical, but not realistic in countries with loan regulation. Not to mention, NSO Group has shown us that you can install a rootkit using built-in iMessage and zero-click exploits. I don't think manually-installed malware would lower the current bar, especially considering how "dangerously" capable the phone and web browser already is. Arguing against anything that can be used against the user would see the phone, iPod and internet communicator removed from your iPhone.

> The answer is 20 years of abominable behaviour by corporate app teams.

I feel like you're not going to like my answer to "Why Apple is facing multinational antitrust scrutiny" then.
> Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.

Yeah, criminals may not be the smartest bunch. Everybody who understands how the bitcoin blockchain works knows transactions can be traced.
The demand currently is with taking revenue out of the companies laying off.
Nobody is hiring, it won't get to the previous state so soon, maybe never.

But the money is still there and big tech never been so fragile against capturing their market share.
I haven't seen the term "AJAX" used in years. Very bad sign both for the project and people mentioning it.
I personally was affected by this fire, although I've always kept 3 month backups of production data, encrypted, on-site, just in case of emergencies like this. Haven't touched their services for anything production related ever since
> As you can see, there is no 'v'.

V also doesn't occur in any pinyin finals, but Chinese people commonly use it in their own pinyin spelling anyway because it is used in pinyin input methods as a substitute for ü, which is harder to type.

Your list of initials left out the zero initial, which is important for words like 饿 or 安. As I've commented elsewhere, though "y" is a pinyin initial, "yue" does not feature it - "yue" is just the spelling of the final -üe when no initial is present.

This leads into a question I've had for a while - I know that some Chinese people do not distinguish between y- initials and r- initials. I'd like to know whether that lack of distinction somehow extends to every pinyin syllable that might be spelled with a "y", even if the "y" is normally not viewed as being part of an initial, as in "yu" / "yin" / "yue". Do you know the answer?

(I know that the lack of distinction occurs for 人 even though it does not rhyme with any syllable that might theoretically begin with y- in Mandarin. But that's not quite the same as what I'm asking about; 人 is definitely not a syllable with a zero initial. I would be interested in how the lack of distinction plays out for a syllable like "ri", where it's not obvious to me how the vowel would accommodate changing the initial to y-.)
Agreed. It's their primary function, not sole function.
Oh, if they're excluding PMs and tech leads because they're in management, this data makes perfect sense.
> But if your queue is never emptying, you've hit an equilibrium where you're persistently overloaded and constantly load shedding

I believe this is an incorrect assertion. You have hit equilibrium, yes. But you are not load shedding unless you are preventing new queue entrants. And if you are allowing new entrants and the latency is acceptable to customers, you are not overloaded. Like you said, you are at an equilibrium.
You are. Compare the fingerprints of your two browsers: https://amiunique.org, https://coveryourtracks.eff.org. Very likely, the fingerprints are very similar. For anonymity, use Tor.
You can start with simple physics simulations. Ten Minute Physics channel has some great basic intros:

https://youtu.be/oPuSvdBGrpE?si=3HNjgo-_lruGgAaq

They have tutorials on rigid body physics, fluid sims, etc. so those can all be fun projects to explore the basics with your kid.

Or you can start with a library that provides these and focus on making it interactive or game-like:

https://brm.io/matter-js/

JavaScript in the browser is an easy environment to setup and play with for this kind of thing.
By this argument I assume you think the poor will bear the brunt of any changes caused by climate change?

So what's the argument that the interventions will hurt them more than the problem?

Peterson has anbeasy answer, because he's a loon and doesn't believe in the problem or any of the solutions and can just tack concern for the poor on as rhetoric.

But people who understand the problem and the solutions don't have that luxury.
> vs the guy who "reduced the processing time on our main data warehouse from 24 to 2 hours, allowing us to provide real-time analytics to our customers".

I reduced a 25 hour process down to 30 minutes. Someone else at the company took that 30 minutes and reduced it to 25 and put "15% reduction in import processing time!" on his resumé. But... he was also the one who was insistent that there was nothing to be done about the 25 hours in the first place. It was "impossible" to get it faster, supposedly.

In the past, I've put that 25 hour reference on my resume, and I had a couple recruiter folks tell me it smelled of bullshit, advising me I'm not supposed to exaggerate that much. What do I do? It's the truth, and if I explained it to someone who understood the state of the art at that time, the 'fix' would make a lot of sense (not magic, just... a deep understanding of what the tech stack is doing under the hood).

Last year I fixed a report screen that took 50 seconds to load up; brought it down to .5 seconds. But the company had already told the client it would require a big rewrite to 'fix'. And I 'fixed' it without the big rewrite. FWIW, the rewrite wasn't necessarily wrong, but also wasn't necessary. Or at least the ordering could have been reversed - give short term saving up front to keep users happy, then provide the rest of the support for that shortcut in the rewrite ('refactor').

Anecdotes like this can get you filtered out of some places that think it's BS. And... it might not hurt to avoid those places in the first place, but... you can't always know ahead of time.
What's the snarky bit at the end of article about?

> And then of course, there's the use case where you use the queue as a messaging mechanism between front-end threads/processes [...] because your language doesn't support inter-process communications.

Isn't it the other way around? A message broker is used as a simple queue but then you immediately have the option to scale up to n producers and m consumers if demand requires is.

But even if there is only one single producer and one single consumer you still got the advantage of the decoupling of the two sides of the queue.
> “execution there was the problem”

Thoughts on this devil’s advocate perspective?
“Don’t design/propose what your org can’t build.”
These are mechanically linked controls. Literally the force of the other pilot is directly felt and observed.

What force feedback in addition would you have in mind?
the original idea behind it was to not enrage china, as they wanted them to cooperate on fighting it and share info on the covid.

All partial-evidences and clues point to lab leak, including post covid coincidences that look like cover-up attempts.

But no definitive proof exists and china will never admit it. so whats the point?
Inserting B between A and C loosens their coupling, which is the point.

It's not to say it's guaranteed. Tight coupling could remain if A and C still communicated via structs defined in A or C.
Jebus ... this is still being debated?

Can we just acknowledge the complete an utter failure of managegment around this debate (I am management, btw) such that we can't settle this one fair and square.

We all have expectations and results from individuals. It doesn't take a Fed study to answer the question around an employees productivity. Either it's better, the same, or worse.

I'm all for remote and hybrid work. Manage by results and what's the issue? Super strange. Get together every so often to catchup, do the human thing.

I've had anecdotal evidence of firms falling behind because so many talented employees tell them where to go when flexibility isn't an option.

Hold the line.
On the positive side, this provides a handy test for determining if someone has a clue.
Do you think he has not already turned this question over in his mind for many agonizing hours?
You can take this further (aside). Famous people are people but there is no point in loving them. They won’t love you back. I don’t understand people who are fascinated by people like the king of Denmark. Or Churchill.

I have people I admire (that don’t know me). But I hope I don’t love them.
My commute is about 40 minutes each way by bus, plus a 5 minute walk on both ends. I love it. I get outdoors for a short walk four times a day, I read books and magazines on the bus, see what's being built or new businesses opening around town, sometimes I get to meet neighbors and other commuters, or help out random strangers with directions or whatever. My commute to work is definitely a benefit to my life.
I can get behind that for sure. I just don't like the blanket "get rid of IP" especially when we are talking about AI companies which already well surpased the legal and ethical limits of it.
How to enable UWB on Android (and why you should)
A*B < C
Maybe not loved, but corporations can certainly be hated.
Romance Language
That's how you get very-important layout classes (hidden, flex, etc) put arbitrarily in the middle of purely-visual ones (border, etc.). I've seen this in practice, and it makes grokking exiting code a massive pain.

But then I'm so old school I prefer just putting the CSS in the CSS, or even the `style` attribute. (I must say I do appreciate the pseudo-class support in tailwind.)
Layoffs compound with other layoffs. The data show that more people were fired and still no positions open so the data doesn't show the opposite.
It sounds like the above poster is in a situation with multiple priority queues, where as long as latency and throughput for high priority items is good, having higher latency for lower priority items is fine, and could be a form of low-cost back pressure on new orders or signalling to improve the throughput a little bit.
> Then again, it could always have been that, and I just grew out of it.

Nah, reddit really did change dramatically. The last reddit account I had got a site wide ban, I commented on some post I saw on /r/all which had a "from the river to the sea" flair with "Wow reddit admins really letting anti semitisim run wild? That's insane". First got banned by that sub with some toxic remark and then a site wide ban for "moderator harrasment", all while I was asleep. That _finally_ pushed me to no longer visit reddit.
A few days later that subreddit got geoblocked in germany for that exact flair.

And I agree with your reading that these people are just bullies, ever since I've started viewing them as that I've finally started to understand their weird behaviour a bit better.
What if Spotify makes it 27% more expensive to use Spotify on Apple?
Right Track, Wrong Station
Since the ACA you can. As long as it's a Marketplace plan, they can't deny you or charge you more for preexisting conditions, and I've never met someone with a private plan nowadays. The catch is that you can only change plans for the next calendar year unless you move or lose your job or something.
I doubt this is true for health insurance, but for many competitive insurance industries insurers will frequently break even or even take a loss on premiums. Warren buffet explains it well in his letters to investors.

Basically, insurers make most of their money by investing the float, so their incentive is to have a bigger float by offering competitive rates to bring in more customers. They don’t really care if they pay out every dollar they take in, because they made money by holding onto the premium in the time in between when you paid it and when a claim was made.

So for things like car insurance, it actually is a pretty good deal. Many companies expect to pay out as much as their clients put in, with the added benefit that you can take out more than you put in if you have a claim immediately after getting insured.
I talk to customers basically all day about table formats. Only one customer has really brought up Hudi in a meaningful way. IMO, Hudi is basically out of contention for 95%+ of people looking at table formats.
> Scornful people have always existed, but that doesn't mean they should be especially listened to.

Are you describing consumer lobbyists or Apple, with these words?
Intel 10nm is actually smaller than TSMC N7. It has also had two massive performance upgrades which should put it around and maybe ahead of TSMC N6.
Even without wind, the Pacific is ~3x as wide as the Atlantic? The Pacific side of a globe is impressive.