Plot twist: The * in C-00000291*.sys is "-block-ultron"
Premature deployment of Crowdstrike AGI disaster response plan.
Readit Newsdmarble commented on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops old.reddit.com/r/crowdstr... · Posted by u/BLKNSLVR
dmarble commented on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/geox
After reading through all comments as of 2024/05/11 I (as a professor at some major university) am quite surprised that not one single comment has asked the obvious question (instead of dishing out loads of (partial) "textbook knowledge" about brain functions, the difference between mammals and birds, AI and LLM etc.), which would be: what do all those strange structures and objects do which we know nothing about whatsoever? Have a look:
https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/gallery.html
I count seven.
I'm in awe at the complexity and unknowability of it all, but I also have to chuckle at the thought that some portion may be vestigial.
I'm particularly fond of the "Egg shaped object with no associated processes". :)
Not just you. I would guess, optimistically, I’m averaging a 5% conversion rate of applications to recruiter chats/“stage 0 interviews”. That is, ~95% of applications yield silence or a generic email rejection without any human contact.
~15 YOE, FAANG experience, usually only applying to roles I feel I’m at least a halfway good fit for (i.e. not a complete scattergun approach).
I’m (financially) fine for now, which is very fortunate. I wasn’t even laid off - I quit voluntarily and took a sabbatical while the good times were rollin’. But since I started looking seriously again, it’s been hard to shake the sense of time disappearing with nothing to show for it. I’m better at Leetcode (ugh) than I’ve ever been, but so is everyone else, and with the slow drip of actual interviews, I only get to demonstrate it once or twice a month :)
ETA: A few of the recruiters I have talked with have mentioned that they’re getting hundreds of applications within hours of a posting going live. So there is likely a “lost in volume” effect as another commenter mentioned. In fact, for some of the roles where I thought I was a great fit but got a generic rejection without a recruiter call, I’ve had some eventual success simply reapplying for the same role, at least when the recruiting platform allows it (some don’t). For reasons of culture and upbringing, it took me a while to get comfortable not taking that initial, faceless “no” for an answer, but it has worked at least twice so far.
Very similar story here on the PM side in the US.
~15 YOE (FB/Meta most recently), ramping up a search after a sabbatical, targeted job search to roles where I have non-trivial experience and domain expertise, customized cover letters, leveraging my network, open to relocation, open to hybrid or remote, etc.
I'm seeing 3-5% response rate over the past few months. It's rough out there. No response for seemingly great matches. Slow moving recruiting process, even at early-stage startups. Rejections after screenings and first round interviews where the mutual fit seemed excellent.
Hiring manager friends and talkative recruiters tell me that in contrast to the past decade where they'd routinely screen people who met most of what they're looking for, they're now dealing with a massive volume of very qualified applicants (and trudging through a massive volume of unqualified applicants). Deciding who to screen and who to do a first round of interviews with is taking a lot more time and effort. And the first round of interviews might include 6-8 unicorn (i.e. perfect) candidates, where in the past they'd be elated to find 1 unicorn.
I've been through a couple down cycles, so I'm focused on grinding away till I find something. I think every level is feeling the pain in some proportional way. Big sympathy for early career folks. Even if we reset compensation expectations, it'd be a shame if the sector ends up losing out permanently on a range of talent. There's no way tech needs are going to decrease on a medium-term horizon (though they may shift).
Can Retool Database be self-hosted stand-alone without Retool? I can see using this as a replacement for excel on some things.
Check out:
NocoDB (https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb) - works w/ MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, MariaDB
Baserow (https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow) - PostgreSQL based
APITable (https://github.com/apitable/apitable) - MySQL based
It is prohibited to export beef from India at all [1]. Where did you learn that they are the second largest exporter?
India's beef exports are primarily buffalo meat ("carabeef"), not cow meat. In addition, there are states in India where slaughtering cows is permitted.
It's silly. But I want these features in my offline personal wiki:
- sortable table like wikipedia's
- sortable list and other list manipulation tools from dynalist/worflowy's
- automatically adding titles when you copy links of articles/videos/etc.
I'd like to think I'm not the only one who mostly uses lists and tables to organize information and notes. Quick googling says org-mode can do the first 2. I tried spacemacs and it was just confusing. One day.
Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) + a few plugins (enable on the "Community plugins" page in settings):
- Advanced Tables (handful of features including sort col while in edit mode): https://github.com/tgrosinger/advanced-tables-obsidian
- Sortable (Wikipedia-like col sort for view mode): https://github.com/alexandru-dinu/obsidian-sortable/issues
- Outliner: https://github.com/vslinko/obsidian-outliner
- Auto Link Title: https://github.com/zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title
For even more fun:
- DataView: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
dmarble commented on Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day taskablehq.com/features/t... · Posted by u/mattcrail
I remember trying out Getting Things Done, really liking the idea, and then finding out I had only crappy ways to reference an email from my "todo list". Enough of my "work" is "respond to this email" that I've never been able to escape my inbox as one of my todo lists.
Any ideas on how to build task planning that lets me include link directly to an email?
Check out Legend (formerly moo.do): https://legendapp.com/
Found it several years ago and used it regularly for a while. It has a nice mixed model for blending calendar, email, lists, tasks. Lots of drag and drop capability, keyboard shortcuts. Loads fast. Mobile app. Customizable views you can quickly switch between, e.g. 3 column email on left, tasks in the middle, calendar on the right.
Huge congrats to you and the crew, Spencer! Well deserved. It was always a pleasure working with your product and the people behind it at prior companies, and lobbying for more adoption as a result.
1. What are you most looking forward to (product/tech-wise, impact, financially for you, financially for the organization, etc.) that may not have been possible just a few years ago?
2. What do think are the greatest challenges you will have to face in your role as a founder-CEO and as a company in AMPL's next phase?
3. If you were starting over today, what ideas might get you excited enough to go at it again for the next decade?
dmarble commented on Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy dropbox.tech/infrastructu... · Posted by u/SaveTheRbtz
Sadly, it would probably be as hard to maintain as an opensource version. We really want to have access to the code to make sure we can fix, troubleshoot it, understand it fast...
Things that may've help:
-- Configuration definition (e.g. protobufs.)
-- More focus on observability: error metrics (instead of logs), tracing, etc.
-- gRPC control plane.
-- C++ module development SDK.
-- (ideally) bazel.
Some dataplane features like gRPC JSON transcoding, gRPC-Web, and http/2 to backends.
Don't any of the major commercial open source vendors offer custom terms to give access to the commercial source? I'd imagine they'd contemplate it for big deals. Seems like one of the only ways to keep some of these sophisticated customers onboard.
However, there's a major concern that server hosters are on the hook to implement authorization. Ongoing discussion here [1].
[0] https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-26
[1] https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...
Source: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...