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At Berkeley, the enrollment dip [in CS] has come from a supply-side constraint

alumni.berkeley.edu
4 points·by jedberg·25 dni temu·1 comments

In Verona, Wisconsin you will find one of the biggest tech campuses in the U.S.

freakonomics.com
2 points·by jedberg·2 miesiące temu·1 comments

Ask HN: Any Niantic engineers or staff here who can help me?

2 points·by jedberg·3 miesiące temu·0 comments

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

theverge.com
676 points·by jedberg·5 miesięcy temu·394 comments

Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track layoffs

bbc.com
5 points·by jedberg·5 miesięcy temu·2 comments

Bay Area tech startup will play the villain in a new TV drama

sfgate.com
3 points·by jedberg·9 miesięcy temu·2 comments

I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years

dbos.dev
39 points·by jedberg·10 miesięcy temu·19 comments

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jedberg
·8 dni temu·discuss
For those that missed it, Sony announced that Playstation will no longer support physical media. This is Microsoft ribbing them.
jedberg
·12 dni temu·discuss
Any public website will be a training ground for AI.
jedberg
·12 dni temu·discuss
Look at /r/programming on reddit. They have explicit no AI policies.
jedberg
·12 dni temu·discuss
They specifically said that is why. Not sure why you think they can afford TAs at that rate (4x the average at other schools).

Here is a whole article about it: https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/2026-summer/...
jedberg
·12 dni temu·discuss
CS enrollment is declining, but not demand. Everyone is citing the numbers from UC Berkeley showing a 26% percent decline in enrollment. What they fail to mention is that the CS department reduced their admit slots by 25% because the TAs negotiated an $80/hr rate, and they can't afford as many, so they can't open as many classes.

But the number of students applying for CS is actually up slightly.
jedberg
·13 dni temu·discuss
If you like this idea, check out the movie Space Camp. :)
jedberg
·13 dni temu·discuss
I've seen all the Space Shuttles in their retirement. It took me 10 years to get to them all.

But I saw Endeavor when it was still just on the ground (like Discovery). I can't wait to go back and (re)complete my collection!

Interestingly, with this display, you can now see the shuttle in all operating modes:

Endeavor is in launch configuration, Atlantis is in orbit configuration, and Discovery is in landing configuration. And if you count Independence at JSC, you can see it in transport configuration.
jedberg
·15 dni temu·discuss
More cardiac issues than the other vaccine options but far less than the virus. If it were the only option it would still be on the market. It was only pulled because better options showed up.
jedberg
·17 dni temu·discuss
Ok if you want to be pedantic, the standard says, "if you can't read this file, go to the offset and then execute the code you find" which isn't functionally different from what I said.
jedberg
·17 dni temu·discuss
Sure, but when the standard says "read this file and execute the instructions you find at the beginning" that is more dangerous than "this is a file with data and your program needs to figure out how to read it".
jedberg
·18 dni temu·discuss
Another thing making a comeback -- reference checks. I had to supply references for my first job in 1999. Then I wasn't asked for them again until 2024, and then for every job after that.
jedberg
·18 dni temu·discuss
Hah, you did the one at 12 also? I too remember both, and it was also 30 years ago. I don't know why, probably because they were really important numbers to teenagers, and they say you remember things that happened to you as a teen more than any other part of your life.
jedberg
·18 dni temu·discuss
The scores have changed, but ideally they are asking for the percentiles. Those are scaled to the current year.
jedberg
·18 dni temu·discuss
Every job does that, whether they tell you or not.
jedberg
·18 dni temu·discuss
I edited my comment to make it clearer. I meant you should only directly store current timestamps, anything else you should leave up to a library to store as it sees fit.
jedberg
·18 dni temu·discuss
I edited my comment to make it clearer. I meant you should only directly store current timestamps, anything else you should leave up to a library to store as it sees fit.
jedberg
·18 dni temu·discuss
I would contend that you shouldn't store anything but current unix timestamps in UTC in your database. If you must store time in some other way, then the two column method in the post will work, but leave it up to your software library to do it.

I prefer to leave all the time conversions to software, wherein you only use battle tested libraries, and never do it by hand.

Timezones are just too fraught with peril to try and do it on your own.

Edit: changed some words to make clearer what I was saying.
jedberg
·18 dni temu·discuss
DBOS recently wrote a great blog post about why you should colocate your workflow data with your application data:

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/co-locating-workflow-state-with-yo...
jedberg
·20 dni temu·discuss
I've dealt with this before. The problem with doing a billing cap is that now you are bringing an out-of-band batch system (billing) in-band. The only way to do a dollar cap is to constantly calculate your bill.

Capping it at 100K requests is a lot easier, because it's a single number that can be incremented easily in a distributed way.

It's the same reason it took AWS forever to offer billing caps, and even today, they label it as best effort. They don't guarantee you won't pay more than your set limit.
jedberg
·20 dni temu·discuss
In the "this is why we can't have nice things" category, the first thing I saw was someone calling themselves "dick and balls". :(