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tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
That's not what that column is supposed to mean afaict. The way I read it is it's showing that if the website requires hundreds of different parallel backend service calls to serve the page load, what's the probability a page load hits the p99 instrumentation latency?

We have a similar chart at my job to illustrate the point that high p99 latency on a backend service doesn't mean only 1% of end-user page loads are affected.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
There's a difference between legal reasons and decency
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I don't want my own office. If I wanted to work in a room by myself, I would work from home. The whole reason I go to the office at a job that lets me choose is because I find it easier to be productive when sitting with my teammates.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
You do not have the right to force your personal religious views onto other people though. Tolerance does not mean everyone else has to allow you to dictate how they live their lives.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I don't think it's fair to complain that you're not interested in reading about the state of venture capitalism on an article titled "The State of Private Markets". The article delivered exactly what it promised in the title.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Well-equipped soldiers may be fine but low-income civilians in Khartoum would not have the means to obtain P100 respirators or gas masks.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
By law, if the FDIC takes losses to the insurance fund to pay out on uninsured deposits, they have to charge an extra premium to the member banks. So it's still the banks paying for it.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Why would banks take more risk with their deposits? The bank executives, shareholders, and bondholders wouldn't be personally affected by the loss of deposits anyway so I'm not sure they would care either way. If deposits aren't guaranteed, they lose their investment, and if they are, they still lose their investment.

> Unless the insurance is paid for by the banks themselves

It is though. The FDIC insurance fund is funded by premiums paid by banks.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
This is also assuming that the sale of SVB's assets doesn't end up covering the full cost, and that the remaining cost is large enough to result in a meaningfully sized special assessment on FDIC member banks. My understanding is that neither of these outcomes are a given or even likelier than not.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Taxpayers did not pay for the FDIC protections. And shareholders are wiped out, so they didn't gain from this collapse.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
While the goal sounds admirable, it seems like it would inevitably mean discriminating against young, child-free employees.
tpankaj
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Maps has become buggier and buggier over time. These days I can't figure out how to use the UI and my navigation to work has become completely wrong (it used to be correct for years) out of nowhere.
tpankaj
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
I think the fear is a bit overblown. California already doesn't allow non-competes as far as I know.
tpankaj
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
My understanding is they would have to prove criminal intent.
tpankaj
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
The process is quite complex so it's usually too heavy handed for a project of this size. That's why people look for an existing nonprofit to take it on. But if kloch mainly wants a couple other people who care about the project to be around to make sure it continues, I'm onboard.
tpankaj
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
I'm 25 and I'd totally take it on, but you're probably looking for an actual nonprofit if you want true survivability. As someone who has used this tool for at least 10+ years (as long as I've known what an IP address is), I'd love to help make sure it stays around.
tpankaj
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
My team is 3 right now and 33% time oncall is still pretty bad.
tpankaj
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
There are a couple of blog posts and associated papers on TAO:

https://engineering.fb.com/2013/06/25/core-data/tao-the-powe... https://research.facebook.com/publications/flighttracker-con... https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/18/core-data/ramp-tao/ https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/07/open-source/taobench/

I work on TAO consistency at FB and we've put out a bunch more articles/papers in the past couple years. Until 2 years ago, there was just the 2013 paper on TAO itself.
tpankaj
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Where did you move to?
tpankaj
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
That's a pretty narrow viewpoint. I can tell you from personal experience that it is very difficult to graduate college almost straight into a (pandemic-induced) remote job in a new city while trying to make local connections and ramp up in my job during a global pandemic.