skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More capacity won't address operations that the originator isn't willing to (or can't) hang around to wait for and/or that are long-running enough that restarts due to failures might be needed. That's the most immediate reason: Tasks where no amount of capacity will remove the need to have some form of queueing mechanism.

For complex enough workflows, queues are also often helpful at addressing potentially failing stages in ways that are easier to debug. But in that case you want your queue to be closer to a state machine where actually waiting in the queue for much time is the exception. You can just build a state machine for that too, ensuring the inputs to the stage about to execute are recorded in a durable, restartable way. But sometimes you may need more copies of the same type of job, and soon you have something that looks and smells much like a queue anyway.

Then lastly, spikes. But they only really help well enough if you still spin up more machines aggressively enough that the wait time doesn't get long enough to be perceived as just as bad as or worse than an immediate error, so it does make sense to ask your question.

A queue also doesn't need to be complex. If it gets complex, that increases the reasons to ask your question for that specific system. If it potentially grows large, as well (sometimes the solution to that is simply to refuse to queue if the queue exceeds a certain size or the processing time goes above a certain threshold).

Queues are great when appropriate, but they do often get used as a "solution" to a scaling problem that hasn't been sufficiently analyzed, which sounds like might have been the case in your examples.
Suppose you want to graph negative responses to a survey over time. Let's say the business had been getting increasingly worse on all metrics over time.

Grouped by day you might just see a couple huge spikes on days where there were a few negative responses.

Grouped by year you'd notice that the volume of negative feedbacks was increasing.

Grouped by milllenia it would be hard to notice that something had changed radically in the last few years.

The question is what timeframe matters to your particular case. Unless you can answer that, you can't form a specific idea of how bad something actually is or whether it's begun improving or is still deteriorating.

The worst atmospheric polluting parts of the industrial revolution will have been over for most countries for a century before we really feel the environmental consequences of rising sea levels and increased greenhouse effects. No one alive today was burning coal in 1895. So it's not crazy to think about how we adapt, while still considering how to stop adding to the damage.
They wanted to show that they didn't cheat.

In general, you can pick a random seed at the start of the day, commit to it somewhere (eg publish a hash of it on the bitcoin blockchain, or just on your website), then use that seed in a cryptographically secure PRNG on your website all day, and at the end of the day you publish the seed you already committed to.

This way people can check that you didn't cheat, but can't guess their opponents cards either.
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So, it was using a pseudorandom generator?
There is no "OSX". You don't know anything about me. Stop being obtuse.
With my best friend, in our teenage we used to maintain our website using Netscape composer.
I'm very surprised that it came out this year because I believe we started our website maybe before 1997, but don't remember using another tool.

It was pretty easy to use for childs with zero help at all from adults. But was crashing pretty often (so where many apps in this era).

The hard part for childs was to host the website, hopefully, in France was had the free hosting association mygale.org

I'm so sad my bestie deleted our website with no backup without asking me about.

Those are fond memories that I'm pretty sure are the reason I because a developer.
>How Amazon built an EV charging network in two years

Money
The benchmark for the latest checkpoint is pretty good: https://x.com/teknium1/status/1780991928726905050?s=46
Maybe it's a kind of test where how and what you do during it is evaluated, not the stated objectives of fighting fire for the business. But as another comment pointed out with twitter execs sleeping under desks, even they got fired.

Perhaps it's not even a test but a kind of warning that layoffs of managers will happen regardless. Given that, what would game suggest as an optimal playing strategy?
Yeah, but that was less about centering in the web, and more about fonts in general tend to be made incorrectly which makes vertical centering hard everywhere, including the web.
I was taught linear algebra and multivariate calculus as a business major. They could hardly justify why they were teaching it in that context - they were weeder courses - but I always wished they had at least tried to give us a hint of applications. Nothing, it was all algebra for the sake of algebra. Atrocious.
It isn't, I explicitly rejected that idea. 2nd paragraph.
exactly and clearly.
Stray chance, dump nature ,blind force, unconscious casuality and the elements that without restriction are scattered in every direction -none of these can have any part in the most balanced,wise perspicacious, life giving ,orderly and firm deeds of the Creator. They are used ,rather by the command will, and power of the Glorious Doer as an apparent wil to conceal of His power.

According to the meaning of the verse:
Who has created everything in the best way,(Quran)

everything is cut out according to its innate abilities with perfect measure and order, and put together with the finest art, in the shortest way, the best form, the lightest manner, and most practicable shape. Look at the clothes of birds, for example, and the easy way they ruffle up their feathers and continuously use them. Also, things are given bodies and dressed in forms in a wise manner with no waste and nothing in vain; they testify to their number to the necessary existence of an All-Wise Maker and point to that Possessor of Absolute Power and Knowledge
Thanks a lot for being open and sharing. You are not alone, and wearing multiple hats is something all one-person companies have in common. The key points that work for me are:

- Having a close circle of friends with similar lifestyles/journeys. trustful, open exchanges are invaluable, in both directions.

- Being clear on your business's purpose, means understand why you started it and what compromises you're willing to make.

- Setting clear goals for both business development and personal life in order to maintain clarity in both areas is essential for balance and progress.

As I'm in a similar situation and work with startup/scale-up folks, I've created a toolset aimed at addressing the business aspects of these struggles. It seems to solve these types of challenges for the people I work with: https://startup-business-cockpit.de/en.index.html.

Check it out, and if any guidance is needed, feel free to DM me.
In their minds these are all measures to counter the "China-Russia-Iran" block.
The article mentions a few times that Tesla is well known for not advertising, so any spending at all is meaningful. It’s not like they are spending $200m on Facebook and Google marketing, and $200k on Twitter.

Elon also Tweets about Tesla often, as one would expect. With his reach on the platform, that is likely better than actually advertising.
Interesting narrative... but where are the statistics to back it up? [0]

FWIW, I ask that as an American who moved to Hong Kong for 10 years before returning some years after the handover to Chinese control.

[0] And no, not just graphs of people who claim they'll emigrate if the Wrong Guy Gets Elected, because history shows most never will.
I am skeptical of the fawning views the industry has about Satya. Microsoft has been “slaying” by using anticompetitive practices. They haven’t innovated much. They copied Slack and achieved scale by bundling it with office. They copied AWS and used their enterprise sales channel to push Azure onto captive Windows and Office licensers. They’re now abusing their market position by forcing PC manufacturers to include a proprietary Microsoft Copilot button, by injecting ads and Copilot all over Windows, and using other dark patterns (for example to push Edge over other browsers).

I definitely think Satya is a good leader, but I don’t know if he’s a great leader. He’s more like someone who has kept Microsoft going, in both the good and bad ways. It’s easy to enter all these markets by using your existing cash flow and access to users. It’s a totally different challenge to build something from scratch and survive without those advantages. I also think people unfamiliar with Microsoft’s past often ignore Ballmer’s contributions and instead give Satya credit. But Bing began under Ballmer, and Bing’s service infrastructure was the birthplace of Azure.
Apple still removes apps for Russia when it asks.
Nvidia datacenter GPUs support enclave hardware backed encryption and attestation. This shifts your trust to Nvidia, but that's adequate for this scenario.
What kind of safety issues are involved? They all use dangerous voltages, 100kv and 200kv will both kill you.

Are higher voltages significantly more likely to cause a fire?
Does anyone have a theory why Korean currency is depreciating?
"Lying CEO lies again."

or

"Overconfident CEO has to eat his words again."

Is this really a Musk thing or is he just the most visible and comical example of it?
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it's version 3.6.3.2, where the last on the internet archive is 3.6.2.5
Wouldn’t building anything with this scrape be a YouTube TOS violation?
TikTok divest-or-ban legislation could suddenly be fast-tracked in the Senate
I'm pretty sure there is a timeline where humans are atheists but the robots are religious.
"raised organizational awareness about offshore projects"
Reminds me of bots that used either encoded or encrypted posts on specific reddit subs.

There’s a whole lot of side channels out there.
I think I only learned linear algebra about 3 or 4 years after I graduated. I learned how to do the computations during the course but the teacher was so bad I had no idea what anything was for. Could've been an IQ test course for all it mattered. Here transpose this matrix now. Ok.
I would assume it's related to fair use and how OpenAI and Google have closed models that are built on copyrighted material. Easier to make the case that it's for the public good if it's open and free than not...
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Well, Congress has spent $7B on chargers with not much to show for it.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-charger...
Netflix isn’t good, it just sucks less.

It’s really commentary on how bad streaming services are becoming.
My locally-hosted llama3 actually craps itself if I ask it to answer in other languages. It's pretty hilarious. Has been working flawlessly (and impressively fast) for everything in English, then does hilarious glitches in other languages.

Eg right now to show it here, I say "Write me a poem about a digital pirate in Danish":

Digitalen Pirat

På nettet sejler han,
En digital pirat, fri og farlig.
Han har øjnene på de kodeagtige
Og hans hjerne er fuld af ideer.

Hans skib er en virtuel børs,
Hvor dataenes vætætø
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Edit: Formatting is lost here, but all those "T" and "Ø" etc are each on their own line, so it's a vomit of vertical characters that scrolls down my screen.
Is ElevenLabs Turbo v2 faster than streaming OpenAI TTS?

Also, have you checked out XTTSv2 over StyleTTS2?
A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people.

South Korea doesn't have the privileges that Canada and Finland both have of friendly adjacent neighbors and natural resources, which provide opportunities when Nortel and Nokia respectively stopped succeeding in the marketplace.

That being said, there have been terrible knock-on effects from this societal policy. Brutal work culture, low birth rates and much more.
They seem to be ramping up advertising budgets quite aggressively, so they probably shouldn't be well known for not spending on ads.

Musk boasted that Tesla spent $0 on advertising in a tweet from 2022, but Vivvix estimated that they actually spent around $200k in ads in 2022 and $6.4 million in 2023. I'd guess that they're not done increasing those budgets since they're still quite low when compared to others in the space.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-dives-into-advertising-af...
Protest is a show. You don't need to take over for days, you just need the protest to have maximum reach which in our time could happen in minutes. Obvious things they should have done : Inform their colleagues beforehand, so they be in the know, plan around it, and why not participate in some form. Inform journalists and smuggle them into the buildings. Police intervention is planned for and should be a major part of the show.
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The lead up to calculus is brutal. I did poorly in high school math, got my requirements finished by the grace of BYU online. Never took precalc. Then in college I crammed for the placement exam and got directly into the upper level calculus track - and from then on I loved math. Unfortunately in the traditional track, calculus is the first and only class that "makes sense", as in someone would want to take it. But it takes years of preparation (supposedly). In the meantime like you I took some interest in programming.
> There's no intuitive mapping for the concept of the square root of negative one in real life. Not in the way there is for negative numbers.

I really think you might be a victim of bad pedagogy. Admittedly, the notation confuses complex numbers as points vs. complex numbers as operations. Let me drive home the point. You can represent complex numbers as matrices:

e := [[1 0] our identity element, i.e. what you typically write as 1.
[0 1]]
i := [[0 -1] our imaginary unit
[1 0]]

These 2x2 matrices operate over 2D vectors, obviously. Furthermore, notice that

<e,i> = [[0 0] the inner product of e and i
[0 0]]

in other words e and i are orthogonal, meaning that their span is a 2D subspace of the underlying matrix space. 2D... Meaning every matrix like this can be written as v = a×e + b×i. Also, um, notice that i^2 = -1×e, or more on the nose, i = sqrt(-1×e). We've just rediscovered complex numbers!

Now, using the above matrix representation uses 4 parameters, but you really only need 2. Indeed, any general matrix in our 2D algebra looks like this

a×e + b×i = [[a -b]
[b a]]

where the repetition is obvious. Why not throw away the slop and just directly use e and i? Also, notice that e acts just like the identity 1, meaning that a+bi as a notation makes sense. Then we end up writing that i^2 = -1 and unfortunately invite all sorts of confusion about the meaning of "imaginary" numbers.

However! Even though these are 2D things, it's very important to not confuse them with the 2D vectors they manipulate. The matrix representation above makes that more manifest. Said another way, it doesn't make sense to compose points in space, but it does make sense to compose operations which operate on that space.

It's an unfortunate and confusing quirk that we often write a+bi to mean a 2D point in space, a 2D translation operation, or a 2D rotation and scaling, despite all these really being completely different things.
> This is a common practice in big tech companies…See this article from Ars, titled “ Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges”

So the DOJ is merely alleging (i.e. has not proven) that Google (one specific tech company) routinely engages in this practice, and that is your basis for the claim that this is “common practice” in all “big tech companies”?

When a company is deciding whether or not to do something that may expose them to legal liability, part of the process is to include attorneys in those discussions. The attorneys will then provide legal advice about the proposed course of action. If you are an attorney employed at a company like Amazon, it is literally your job to be involved in these discussions. It’s not an abuse of client-attorney privilege for a company to discuss with its own attorneys whether or not the company should do things that may or may not be legal. That is literally what it means to ask for legal advice, and the explicit purpose of client-attorney privilege is to protect these very discussions. Now, the flip side of this is that if the company is actually trying to do something illegal, the attorney has an ethical duty to advise them not to do that. And since there are gray areas and disagreements over the exact interpretation of the law all the time, the attorney’s duty to the client is not to merely find one possible interpretation of the law that allows for whatever they want to do, but rather to consider the full range of possible interpretations that might be enforced or even seriously considered by a court. So there is such a thing as an unscrupulous attorney abusing attorney-client privilege to take part in a criminal conspiracy. But the line for this isn’t drawn at, “the company wants to do something ‘shady’ and asks legal if it’s okay”; it’s drawn at “the lawyer knows that it isn’t okay but has ideas about how to get away with it anyway”.

And just on another note, allegations made by the DOJ aren’t always true. The DOJ gets things wrong sometimes; just consider the case of Aaron Swartz for one. Unlike the situation of asking for legal advice before you do something, once you’re in the middle of litigation over something that’s already happened, lawyers can and do just come up with whatever legal theory fits their purposes. And the prosecutors at the DOJ are exceedingly creative in this respect. In the Google case, they seem to be making a fairly transparent gambit during the discovery process to try and get access to privileged emails they otherwise wouldn’t get access to. It never hurts to try something like that, but it also doesn’t mean anything until a court actually rules in their favor.
As we say at home: "fallen upwards due to lack of weight."
Aren't Japan and China very similar? They are all societies where the group is valued as more important than the individual.
Dear supabase. Please don’t get bought out by anyone and ruined. I’ve built too many websites with a supabase backend now to go back.
It took less time for notoriously slow Europe to develop Ariane 6 than for Russia to develop Angara.
It is because of regulations. Nothing is trivial and anything has a cost. Not only it impacts existing businesses, it also make it harder for a struggling new business to compete with the current leaders.

Regulations in the name of the users are actually just made to solidify the top lobbyists in their positions.

The reasons I hate regulations is not because billionaires have to spend an extra week on some employee's salary, but because it makes it impossible for me tiny business to enter a new business due to the sheer complexity of it (or force me to pay more for someone else to handle it, think Paddle vs Stripe thanks to EU VATMOSS)

I'm completely fine with giving away some usage data to get a free product, it's not like everyone is against it.

I'd also prefer to be tracked without having to close 800 pop-ups a day.

Draconian regulations like the EU ones destroy entire markets and force us to a single business model where we all need to pay with hard cash.
yeah, because nothing makes you want to work - and work good - if not a "sense of crisis"
It's all about monetary policy, Japan is also affected by this as their interest rates are out of sync with North America, pushing people to leave the local currency to pursue higher interest rates in US Dollars.
Making fire and the wheel considered dangerous, choosing farty animals for our cultivation endeavors stinks while getting down from trees into concrete caves was a bad move. Scaling that up to "everyone"... priceless.

What we once considered pivotal points in our development seems now the source for our declared demise. At least we discovered that via satellites shot into orbit by rockets.

Now, if we accept that as the natural overshooting in a evolutionary jump, we just need to adjust. The undershooting will be painful, the discussion in the next few oscillations annyoing, still, it's the way to go. After all, denial is just a common step in change.
I read Calculus Made Easy about 15 years after my last math lesson, and had forgotten a lot of the mechanics of algebra. I went through Algebra and Algebra II for Dummies before reading it. They're really concise, very easy to read and absolutely did the job for me.

Calculus Made Easy is an amazing book btw, by far the best introduction and much better than the way I was taught at school as it actually builds your intuition.
There's even a federal regulation about how much radiation they're allowed to emit:

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-J...
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I'll take a stab, not much knowledge of the specifics.

Relatively high household and govt debt levels + anaemic growth causing central bank to lag on increasing rates to the level that the market sees as worthy of the risk.

Am I close? It's the AUD model but I figure it's close.
I tried to migrate from Firebase once and it wasn't really straightforward and decided against doing it, I think you guys (if you haven't already) should make migration plugins a first class priority that "just works" as the amount of real revenue generating production projects on Firebase and similar are of a much higher number. It's a no-brainer that many of them may want to switch if it were safe and simple to do so.
I swear, this feels like people get paid to write positive stuff about him? Have you forgotten his shitty leadership and practices around data and lock-ins?
Same here. Composer and to a lesser extend FrontPage Express taught me HTML and a bit of CSS back in 1997.
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Guess so. Unfamiliar with Zig. The point is that not a "all or nothing" strategy for a compilation unit.

Debugger writers may not be happy, but maybe lldb supports all conventions supported by llvm.
> Well, Congress has spent $7B on chargers with not much to show for it.

According to your link, Congress has allocated $7B, sent $2B of that to states, but none has actually been delivered to contractors.

So, if I understand the article correctly, no money has been spent.
yes, agree with you, that's why I want to find a remote job overseas. In China, I think such kind of businesses is far more less, in fact you must have no moral to be successful in China, one example is Chinese business owners try their best to exploited employee regardless the Labor Law.
Most visible.

Seen many opine that SpaceX is slow and expensive, which only makes sense when anchored against Musk's fantasy timelines as all the old space companies are much slower and more expensive than what SpaceX actually delivers.

Likewise with electric cars, the talking point is how Musk didn't really found Tesla, not that pre-Musk-CEO Tesla delivered 147 cars in 5.5 years for over a million dollars invested per vehicle.
Doesn't that seem actually surprisingly small amount of money? Or will it ramp up significantly?
Finland has Russia as a neighbor.
> As the experiment progressed, Ancel Keys, the nutritionist running the study, noticed odd psychological effects.

As we know now, Keys was a truly unscrupulous fellow. He took bribes from the AHA to lie about the effects of saturated fats and animal fats on heart disease.