skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SLO (objective) is an uptime of 100%. That means that we have no error budget to use for scheduled maintenance or anything of that sort. This means that we can not use software in this hot path that would require scheduled maintenance (ie a relational database that requires periodic downtime for major version upgrades). We additionally minimize risk here: no code that is written by us sits in the path that targets 100% uptime. Ie if it breaks, its due to an upstream failure within Google's web serving infrastructure.

If we were to provide an SLA (an agreement, stating the minimum level of service to a customer) for this service, it would not be 100%. It would be 99.99%. This is to avoid risk. But we can still have a higher internal target than the provided SLA.

If we have to make all changes in a way that requires that we do not even have 8 seconds of downtime a year (but 0 seconds of downtime), that significantly changes how you design a system and roll out changes.

TLDR: SLA != SLO
Because there are billions of people in Africa, India, Pakistan and so on. And you cant just let them all in.

Millions would come even from second tier countries if they could.
Look at any war conflict, refugees would come to the western countries too, if allowed.
The Article does not mention the size of the fabs. MEGAFAB or GIGAFAB?
This exists. Here are the prevailing wage cutoffs for each experience level (calculated by the BLS) they use for "software developers" in SF, for example: https://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=15-1...
The frequency and duration of the trips can raise questions but in and of themselves aren't issues; what matters is the purpose of the trips, regardless of the duration; they must be limited to non-work/non-hands-on activities and the primary beneficiary of those activities must be entities or individuals outside the U.S. So it's possible to spend a lot of time in the U.S. as a visitor without crossing any line. But it's still important to be mindful of later repercussions even if no line is crossed; that is, if and when applying for a work visa, for example, an applicant might be questioned aggressively by a consular officer about the applicant's time in the U.S. as a visitor and might simply not believe that the applicant wasn't working if the applicant spent a lot of time in the U.S.
For short hops wifi6 is very viable for gigabit. Mine is regularly showing a link rate north of 2000mbps so the bottleneck is the GbE wiring. And that's with 4 year old gear.

Other thing to note is that you can now get really cheap 8x 2.5gbe fanless switches that have a 10gig SFP+ uplink. So we're finally seeing some good options in this sort of space. Paid like 72 GBP for one incl shipping.
Analysis of Billboard's Top Songs and Lyrics from 1964-2015
I should stake my personal usage

Nobody is asking you to do that, you can assess that for yourself if you're interested in looking at the project, if not, there's not much point subjecting the author to this sort of interrogation.
Is anyone expecting it to "just emerge somehow"?

This seems strawmanny. There has been an absolute ton of research into figuring out what kind of design/scope is necessary. More planning and research is happening all the time, and architecture is specifically being changed with a mind towards specific new functionalities. It's not haphazard; it's planned. Yes, there is some room for 'emergence' or learning, but that doesn't mean there isn't also a lot of structure and planning.

The picture you present of NN research is so far off from what I see actually being done in this field that I'm a little boggled. Are you sure you're in touch with what's actually happening in the field?
8 GPUs x 16 PCIe lanes each = 128 lanes already.

That’s the limit of single CPU platforms.
Do you have any suggestions for finding firm or attorney that can help with immigration of health care workers, specifically nurses?

I have a friend searching for such a firm now and of the ~15 firms contacted none had any experience with health care immigration.

They have decades of experience with IT services and the path to H1-B for IT.

If no suggestions, can you share thoughts on why healthcare immigration attorney help seems to be difficult to find?
X is now giving premium status—including the checkmark—to users followed by a sufficient number of existing blue check users.
I added an url parameter so you can load it up with any sequence.

Example for sequence 5,2,7

https://bewelge.github.io/aNumberGame?seq=5,2,7
I can see /park/ and talk rhyming with a transformation like that (like a Boston accent), but the o in pork is a completely different sound. Going from pork to pawk isn't something I can wrap my tongue around.
Literally every serious C/C++ project has shipped memory unsafety vulnerabilities. We have discovered, as the global community of programmers, that humans are not smart enough to write C code without doing that. It is time to blame the language (or the species) and move on.

Let's not pretend that the people writing the unsafe code are unimaginably stupid. They are extremely imaginably stupid, as we all are.
Ask HN: Opening Links in Correct Browser Profile from Native Apps?
I use two Edge browser profiles simultaneously on Windows—one for personal and one for work-related activities, each logged into separate Google accounts.

I also have Superhuman and Vimcal configured with both accounts and open in each browser profile. In these web apps, links open in the correct corresponding profile.

However, when using the Windows native apps for Superhuman and Vimcal, links open in whichever Edge profile was last active, often mixing up personal and work contexts.

I can't think of a solution to this, but maybe I'm missing something? ― Is there a known solution to ensure links from native apps open in the correct browser profile, or is this a common limitation with native applications?
Surveillance Bill Clears Key Hurdle in House, Putting It Back on Track
They traded requiring warrants for spying on Americans to changing the authorization from 5 years to 2 years when possibly Trump could be in office. An amendment could still come thru but I’m doubtful when an official recorded vote happens 7 days to April 19th deadline.

“Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, urged a no vote on the warrant requirement amendment, arguing that it would hinder U.S. authorities from collecting intelligence on terrorist groups to prevent attacks in the U.S.

The warrant requirement amendment passed in an initial voice vote on the House floor and a recorded vote was requested. The final recorded votes on the amendment was postponed (…)
Other members like Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have said the warrant requirement would provide Fourth Amendment protection to Americans. (…)

"Massive amounts of Americans' communications are still swept up in section 702 searches," Nadler said.
(…) U.S. law enforcement abused FISA section 702 more about 278,000 times over a period of sever years.”

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/debate-over-fisa...

And another longer article citing abuses.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-advances-2-...
Brazilian law does not allow what this judge is doing. Censorship is unconstitutional, especially that of a political nature. Yet he's essentially given himself unlimited powers to unilaterally censor anyone he wants and has been doing so completely unopposed for about half a decade now.

It started in 2019 when some magazine ran a damning article on one of these judges. The court reacted by declaring war on this so called "misinformation" and started giving itself more and more power until it assumed the role of investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner. It's as ridiculous as it sounds. There's some legal basis for the supreme court doing that for crimes which happened inside the physical supreme court itself but they stretched that to cover all of Brazil since the "attacks" came from the internet.

That's how the so called "fake news" inquisition started and it continues to this day, and it's under the umbrella of that inquisition that he's demanding that Twitter censor others.

During the 2022 elections the supreme court' engaged in political censorship which violates the brazilian constitution. Everything that was embarrassing for Lula somehow became "fake news". I saw them censor a documentary before it was even published, without having even watched it. Such aggressive before-the-fact censorship has not been seen in these lands since the military dictatorship of the last century.
I agree pretty much verbatim. I don't see how anyone could criticize them for getting into the AI game as well or at least using a 3rd party AI software for some results. That would just be silly these days. I like Orion browser but to be honest firefox does what I need.
The mess that the huge flood of immigration of all sorts (students, refugees, etc) has created (housing, food banks etc) has been in the news - mainstream news - for months here in Canada.
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> You could pass anything into the dependency parameters and the test would pass.

I don't follow. Under no circumstance would the test pass under invalid inputs, be it whether you use mocks, stubs, or even mockery (fakes?).

- Obviously it cannot pass while using mocks – a mock matches the real thing to every last detail. If it will fail while using the real thing, it will fail here as well.

- Obviously it cannot pass while using stubs – a stub matches the real thing, partially, to at least the minimum amount necessary for the sake of testing. If it will fail while using the real thing, it will fail here as well.

- Obviously it cannot pass while using mockery – mockery does not match the real thing in any way, but does require you to specify matching inputs with failure when they don't match. If it will fail while using the real thing, it will fail here as well.

I don't know what you are imagining, but I'm not convinced it is a thing. I mean, you could make it a thing - you can do anything your little heart desires, but there would be no reason to ever make it a thing.

Maybe we need some concrete tests to better illustrate what you are talking about?
Every browser devotes huge amounts of effort to PLT because that is the place where performance matters for most sites.

JS interpreter perf is a significant part of the latency, which is why it's weird to me that so little effort is placed into that vs the ever increasing complexity of JIT optimizations that are only important for a minority of websites.

There are also security reasons for improving interpreter perf as it gives you the option to have the JIT disabled for more processes (at the extreme there's iOS "lockdown" mode which disables the JITs everywhere)
Do you recommend saas companies founded by non-us citizens to form llc and bank accounts in the us, or outside?
For the rest of the readers- what online service would you recommend for that as agent llc + accounting?
Beyond that, the UX of this is always subverted by incentives.

The system's incentive: (1) make sure no pass is used to board more than once, (2) indicate whether all ticketed passengers have boarded, and if not which are missing

The gate agent's incentive: (1) board everyone as pleasantly and quickly as possible

So the errant boarder played on the misaligned incentives and time pressure, to bet that the gate agent would ignore any errors.

I'm incredibly distrustful of any system that requires:

- Someone deal with a rare situation
- In realtime
- Under pressure
- While not being incentivized against an adverse outcome

"Well, the person didn't do what they were supposed to in the 1-in-1,000,000 situation" isn't a valid design strategy. (See self-driving-car-interventions and TSA agents)
Ended up just replacing it with a timer, which was good enough. The main reason was that I wanted to use my computer while the laundry was drying.
My still-running heat pump from 1981 is not in the list. Unacceptable ! :)
You're mistaken. Huawei's Kirin Silicon was ahead of what the likes of Qualcomm offered, right before they were banned from TSMC by the US.

It was a damn shame too, right when Qualcomm was getting some needed competition, the US ban happened. Convenient for Qualcomm but a huge blow to consumers.
China initiated the "trade war" years before any American politician acknowledged it.
Once they left xmpp. What these companies can't compete they just put their work onto them and suck up whatever and users and then move on. Well no longer interested to see bloody adds on mastodon those who create my profiles. Facebook shall cease to exist ,
You can contract facilities or output percentage. You don't have to only "own it end to end" or not.
Webb won't ever provide a recent view since the images belong to the research group and are only made public when the results are released.

Also, Webb can't provide a video feed since it is taking long exposures, and probably only sends results back to Earth when image is finished. The images are in the infrared and only look good when processed.
How air hunger limits endurance athletes
Maybe it's also just absurdism that found a market fit. When someone identifies as part of, quote "Based Retard Gang", they're not necessarily making some grandiose statement. Many of them are probably laughing at the juxtaposition of the title and try it on as a form of self-deprecation.

Plus, the author doesn't really identify why the accelerationist perspective is correct. I consider myself pretty liberal, but none of the liberal appeals presented by the BRG or Milady communities make sense. I would characterize both mindsets as overly idealistic and focused on online community that isn't worth the hard drive it's stored on. Then they shoehorn in NFTs so somebody is making money off this delirium.

Reading this, I'm reminded of Carl Jung's theory of the persona and the shadow. The individual person is driven by complex motivations that are in some way reciprocal to their desires. It makes perfect sense that people are driven into the fringes of cuteness to express themselves, and similarly that people would denigrate themselves with BRG for the sake of it. The cuteness and accelerationist aspects feel completely isolated, perhaps only connected by the relatability of cute art and anomie.
We do not use GKE.

The Google infra that we do use in this hot path (GFE via Google Global External Load Balancers, and Colossus via Google Cloud Storage) is the same infra that powers serving static assets for Google internal services.
When data lives beyond the database, you need a uuid, but it doesn't need to be your pkey. Even your typical backend-frontend app with a single DB will often send uuids over the API.

If you're copying a DB, mutating, then merging back in, you just have to reset the bigint pkeys. I can see how in some contexts that might be less convenient (or if merges are very frequent and reads are not, less performant), but that's a special case and not something to assume from the start. For example I've done merges like this before pretty easily with bigints, and I've also been in places where they start out with uuids pkeys then never benefit.
>Sometimes this means you get very silly products like this

This link seems to be broken, it just redirects to the from page. Maybe it's dependent on region
I did 5e in 2010, but I'd run 6 today. I'd also be tempted to run fiber just because, but that is probably overkill. I'd also be a bit interested in PoE for cameras and even potentially lighting these days.
On paper it's finite, but in practise everyone on H1-B applies for green card asap to get the I-140 approved, and then the H1-B is not finite, you are cap exempt for extensions until your I-485 comes through
Vlad is Vlad, not Lori.
Yes, already are.
Don't forget how alliances/treaties/etc kept pulling more countries in, turning a local conflict into WWI. I think that's the bigger parallel.
The steam controller was a mediocre controller: Those touchpads are garbage for games that you are used to using a stick for. Valve made the same mistake when they used basically the same trackpads for the original Vive wands. It's awful to use, the force feedback doesn't even come close to replacing the actual physicality of normal sticks.

But by god it is the best "control a computer from your couch" tool ever made. I love using it as a wireless mouse/keyboard thing for a media PC. The trackpads work great for the onscreen keyboard. 80 hour battery life is pretty great.
Either. It really depends on your use case.

The developer experience is a lot better for .net, in my opinion, but it’s also expensive and usually requires windows (yes, Linux .net is completely possible). Microsoft invests heavily into building better, easier tooling from end to end. If you are an azure shop, it’s very easy to deploy.

I haven’t looked at the latest benchmarks, but when I did, c# was a clear winner in performance, multithreading, etc. nodejs isn’t slow by any means, either.

Nodejs excels at speed of development and in BFF patterns like next or other SSG. .net will steer you into better design patterns for maintainability in the future. There are also more gotchas around nodejs which is mostly due to the funkiness of JavaScript.

It’s quite nice if you use nodejs backend and frontend. It’s one language and if you use typescript you can share types!

Bottom line, there are tradeoffs to both. I would be more concerned about your team composition, skill set, and project type when picking between them.

If you held a hun to my head, I’d pick .net
The rule states "
1. Split an integer into two smaller integers."

If you split 5 into 6 and -1... 6 ain't smaller than 5.
I feel you. The lack of knowledge among American tradespeople is infuriating. As soon as you deviate slightly from the brands of furnaces they have been installing for decades, they don't know anything.
They are pouring lots of effort into their own EUV lithography tools. Given the complexity of the ASML approach, I bet China will have the best (cheapest at leading nodes) litho tools on earth in 15 years. They'll also have world class designs based on RISC-V. They are playing a long game.
Negative numbers would break the game by making the number of possible splits infinite. E.g. 1 could split into [-2, 3], [-3, 4], [-4, 5], etc.

It also violates Rule 1 because one of the splits is larger than the original number.
I try to tell my wife this all the time. She has ADHD, and possibly only that, but diagnosed with and treated for generalized anxiety and depression at various points. She likes to act like I'm some kind of mentally perfect person and I should breed with someone else because our children shouldn't inherit her traits.

To the contrary, I think those traits need to stay in the human gene pool. I'm extremely well adapted to a predictable, boring, overwhelmingly safe environment, but there is no guarantee the human environment will remain this way. Calling ADHD behaviors anachronistic is probably basically correct, but I think it's important to remember this doesn't mean we'll never again need them. They were adaptive in the past and may again be adaptive in the future. The important thing for humanity overall is to have a wide variety of behavioral traits so we can collectively adapt as needed when circumstances change. We do not want everyone to be perfectly adapted to the exact present moment. That's how extinctions happen.
A bit unrelated but does it jive with people's expectations that this game sold 50k copies (~$700k?) in early access and is considered only moderately successful by the poster?
++ on ROTT. Just pure fun. I loved the "missile cam", and when you played it on Dec. 25, the music was changed to "Good King Winceslas" in a minor key and characters had Santa hats.
> I think the biggest hurdle to heat pump adoption (at least in North America)

> When it's truly cold (like < 20F) the heat pump will run continuously and struggle to maintain temp.

Luckily, pretty much the entire Western and Eastern Coastal areas, it doesn't actually get that cold on a regular basis, except a few days in the winter. The US is actually in an incredibly advantageous geographical position for at least 60% of households to be on heatpumps, as opposed to, say, Finland/Canada/Russia etc.
Amazon CEO: generative AI is our next pillar of growth
This is an absurd generalization
*its population
Yes, but that decision has to be well-researched.
GitHub has the advantage of a low barrier to entry for their tools. A lot of their features are inferior to special-purpose tools, but they can expect high usage because a lot of users shrug and live with it.
Authorative as they may sound, EWG is not a good source to rely on.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4623
Hi. I'm the post's author. This was something I dashed off quickly, so I was a bit imprecise in the language. Clarifications:

Only positive integers are meant to be allowed. (Zero excluded.)

Combining is meant to work on adjacent pairs of integers.

If this is used in coding interviews, I deny any responsibility. Unless it's used in interviewing me, in which case I will totally take credit.
Common Lisp, maybe?
can a US based company sponsor green card for an international manager has not taken the job yet ?
The stated goal of the H1B system is to allow companies to import high skilled and high quality labor that isn't available in the US market, into the US. That it doesn't behave that way in practice is at odds with the intent of the program.
Could be useful for touch sensitive robot skin?
Hey Peter!
How can a YC startup be founded in the US if none of the co-founders are US citizens? Does it mean after their batch they need to leave the country? Or are they allowed to stay in the US by the "$100k investment rule"?
> They are quite opposed as texts!

The texts are quite different, this is true, but I don't find them contradictory. Whereas Tractatus was almost a facetious or flippant rejection of the millenia-long project to agree on a philosophical subset of language suitable for rigorous philosophy (although it continues today in the form of analytical philosophy), PI basically says "well we don't need to throw the baby out with the bath water", which I think is a fantastically mature response to a flawed tool that's still the best we have to reason about the universe. So: not contradictory in evaluation of fundamental compatibility of non-formal language for the formal needs of propositional philosophy, but perhaps contradictory in implied reaction to this realization.
>>This is just tit for tat in the Trump-Biden trade war with China

Or maybe something more strategic as they ramp up hostilities With Taiwan.
Can a F1 student start their own company and sponsoring themselves?
I think this stems from the fact that the government takes years to do anything and mostly caters to special interests. If we could get them to actually take action on things then this kind of thing wouldn't be necessary but I feel like, more often than not, we're all left waiting on them to decide how to best make sure their industry/corporate friends aren't harmed before they decide to do what's best for the public.
> It is not 10. It is lifetime.

Did some policy change in the last 10 years to cause the wait times to go up? Because I just checked the USCIS backlog, and it looks like they're now processing Indian green card applications from 12 years ago, and I've known people who've gotten employment-based green cards in approximately that amount of time.

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-pr...

I did scan some Cato institute blog post that claimed the wait is 134 years, but they're a biased advocacy organization (so have reason to exaggerate for political effect) and what they say conflicts with what I've personally seen.