jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It seems like people benefit from the higher clocks and lower latencies from the 16-core 2950x. I pretty much consider the 2950x to be the end-of-the-line for typical use cases... with the 2990wx only really used for render-boxes.

> Reinforcement learning might be a good use case for 2990WX.

Hmm, the 2990wx is better than the 2950x for that task, but the 3960x has 256-bit AVX2 vectors. Since the 2990wx only has 128-bit AVX2 vectors, I would place my bets on the cheaper, 24-core 3960x instead.

Doubling the SIMD-width in such a compute-heavy problem would be more important than the +12 cores that the 2990wx offers.

EDIT: The 3960x also fixes the latency issues that the 2990wx has, so its acceptable to use the 3960x in general-use case scenarios (aka: video games). The latency-issue made the 2990wx terrible at playing video games.

Yeah, no one is buying these HEDTs for "purely" gaming tasks, but any "creative" individual who does video rendering during the week, but plays Counterstrike on the weekend, needs a compromise machine that handles both high-core counts AND high-clock speeds for the different workloads.
Did you make a username 'smug forgetting smug' just to make this comment? For your next throwaway can I recommend: smgfgttgs 'smug forgetting thugs'?
Not sure your area, but unskilled labor goes for 15$/hr in metro Detroit.

You cannot get people to show up for less than that.

Source, wife owns a business and that's going rate to answer phones.
To the best of my knowledge, Comcast is running dual-stack v4 and v6. The GP was talking about running a purely v6 network, and pointing out that it wasn't yet feasible. Your example of Comcast doesn't really fit the bill because Comcast already has a v4 network to all of their customers, and they are not migrating customers to a solely-v6 network.

This is the chicken-and-egg problem that all new networks are facing with regard to IPv6 adoption. In order to have a usable network, you have to support IPv4 to all endpoints. But once you have v4 at all endpoints, the incentive to run v6 is greatly diminished.

As always, v6 needs a "killer app" that Grandma wants to use that is unavailable over the v4 internet, and then network administrators could use the actual demand from their customers as a justification for moving to v6. Unfortunately, at the moment, the list of v4-only must-have apps is still greater than the list of v6-only must-have apps.
No 2FA other than mandatory phone number? This is a really, really bad thing. (+ forcing proprietary app?)

Can't find list of hostnames to use with OVPN, seemingly
To add to your links: https://contrakrugman.com/
Looking through the book, it seems to concentrate on R^n, and not pay much attention to abstract vector spaces. Probably a good choice for the intended audience (mostly engineers, likely).

You might prefer Hefferon's Linear Algebra, also free and open-source, and which spends more time on this.

http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/

Both books look truly excellent.
Wow, thanks very much. I spent a good chunk of Saturday morning googling around for something like that last one. I’ll look into all of these.

EDIT: TAG seems to focus on eliminating fraudulent Internet advertising; it's a much narrower scope than I had in mind.
If Chicago didn't exist, someone else would have put a city within a handful of miles of the same location.

It's about as centrally located to the US as you can get from the Great Lakes, and once a canal opened (in this case, the Eerie, but shorter canals could have existed, it was just in NYC's interests to have that particular canal), then that's about as far as a boat can go, and water traffic is more efficient than rail.

So you would have trains leaving 'Chicago' to go everywhere, and someone would have thought to build a canal to get to the Illinois river and hence the Mississippi.

I'm not so sure that "St Louis" had to be exactly where it is, but Chicago is virtually a foregone geographical conclusion.
How could an AV possibly know that a program is supposed to be a “simplistic image viewer”? Besides, there are several legitimate reasons for even simple apps to fetch data from the net (including simply checking for updates).

I'm beyond convinced that any available “advanced behavioral analysis solutions” are way, way more trouble than anything but.
more like several people for couple of months.

> What's the risk they were taking? They wouldn't have taken the case if the risk of losing was high?

The fact the Uber has all the money in the world to hire good layers. And a motive to make it seem like its not directly them
but their subcontractors problem, that is bigger than this single case.

In such cases, there is no such thing as a sure thing.
I hate falling into "slippery slope" arguments, but I'm gonna be "that guy".

If we treat the tech platforms like utilities, then would that force companies like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to allow full-on porn on their platform? How about literal neo-Nazi stuff advocating death to millions of people? Short of deleting and reporting something outright illegal (e.g. child porn), would we be forcing these companies to take a fully "hands off" approach to all their content? I just worry that if there's no content moderation, basically every platform devolves into awfulness like Gab, Parler, 8kun, or Bitchute.

I'm not wholly opposed to treating big tech companies like a utility but I feel I gotta ask the annoying questions. I would honestly love to be wrong about this but it does seem like the worst parts of humanity are the most vocal when there's no moderation at all.
Used clamav a lot in the past, it prevented a lot of Windows viruses making it past qmail on to exchange.

Yes, there have been times when distros have allowed things through, but that happens far less than malware getting through in a self service ecosystem.

The only benefit I see is that AV may point out that you have software that needs updating.

Is running AV on linux worth the downgrade performance that you'd get from dropping your CPU one or two generations and a couple of hours of battery life?
Now I'm happy to never have tried it!

Would never spend $2+ for a drink that costs about $0.09 to manufacture.
Your proposal would actually punish mom and pop stores in aggregate. Limited liability is incredibly important to business operation.
> Not having creepy ads would have sold units too.

Wow I totally forgot about those creepy commercials. Those were really bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9aPp2ldO_k
No.
The article overgeneralized when it conflated the term 'software' with 'product a business can package and sell'.
There is no perfect solution to this problem, however, people in general - even those who enforce the law - tend to be flexible. The situation described in the article describes a person who was badly treated by Uber drivers and would probably have tolerated a service in which the drivers treated her like anyone else even if technically Uber did not tick every single box of the ADA. It might even be counter productive to force Uber to provide a non-discriminatory service to everybody everywhere.

The law sets a high standard that we should all strive to meet but the courts tend to be full plaintiffs who have been wronged by companies failing to provide even the bare-minimum service. This appears to be the case here and we should probably focus on how to grasp the low hanging fruit before trying to come up with the "perfect" solution.
I don’t think consistency is actually that important here. I don’t expect the NYT’s editorial decisions to be perfectly consistent with each other as (a) they’re not necessarily being made by the same people and (b) the NYT makes a very large number of editorial decisions. I do expect those decisions to be justifiable considered individually on their merits.

I don’t see any reason not to give Scott Alexander’s real name. The mere fact that he’d rather keep it a secret doesn’t strike me as a good reason.
> Inability to fire police officers, even for gross misconduct including unlawful homocide is baked in to many jurisdictions due to PBA contracts.

I'm pretty sure there is no jurisdiction in which you can't fire a police officer convicted of unlawful homicide. It's true prosecutors aren't likely to prosecute police officers, but that's because they are elected officials that are held accountable for being sufficiently successful in prosecuting non-cops, but not for prosecuting cops.

Second, while both Constitutional law regarding due process rights attached to public civil service employment and employment contract terms may make it difficult, time consuming, and procedurally involved to fire police officers, which also makes agencies reluctant to even initiate the process, you are significantly overstating the case even absent criminal prosecution.

And third, the only reason it is possible to have contract terms that make it so hard to fire police officers for misconduct is that the the law doesn't set out accountability standards or qualifications for continuation in such roles that would make such a contract void as contrary to public policy. Which is, even if a negative choice, a legislative policy choice by elective representatives. And the decision to enter into such contracts, given that they are allowed, is also a decision made by publicly accountable officials.

So, a whole lot of different, directly publicly accountable decision makers are necessarily involved, either actively or tacitly, in permitting bad cops to continue to do bad things. If the public cared to stop it, they could through the democratic process.
I really do believe this, and the project of classical liberalism as a whole. However, I've found myself without a good response to:

> But everyone is biased, including journalists. So the best we can do is to get rid of the false narrative that journalism can be descriptive, and simply embrace the prescriptivist journalism-with-a-slant.

My gut tells me there's something wrong with this, but I can't spot what. I'd be enlightened if you can point out the problem with the above perspective
> independent universe,

Solipsystem, Inc. begs to differ. Having it your way is a booming business nowadays.

(j/k, borrowed an SF title https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solip:System )
>> You could conceive of a GUI as merely a projection of internal state.

Absolutely. The error is in trying to treat GUI elements as an actual data model. That and premature optimization trying to only update things as they change.

Once you take that approach the only remaining hard part is that for complex applications, events can trigger state dependent behavior. But that should be at a layer under the GUI toolkit.
The mixing step ins't transferable. I'm not super familiar with micro fluid mixing, but it happens on specially created glass plates with channels as narrow as a molecule wide. They's essentially single purpose physical process microchips. Constructing them is a (maybe the) bottle neck. Apparently you can count on both hands the number of people who know how to build these things.
... Except that it's not money.
Amusingly, without realising it, your post specifically hits on the reason I'm done with society.

It's individualism for me now. Me, my friends, the neighbours.

Everyone else, figure it out, I'm not your pawn.
It looks like the author of that article isn't too clear on the matter either, since there's a fundamental arithmetic error leading to a self-contradictory claim halfway through the article.
They're a dot UK company. This is a way of spinning the cookie compliance in a little bit more positive tone.

http://kellywarnerlaw.com/new-uk-cookie-law-compliance/
There were billions of internet-connected devices in peoples' hands in 1999 too. They were called personal computers. I'm not sure how being "unix powered, quad-core" turns devices into magical bubble protection.

Of course in the long term proliferation of communications technology will result in big changes, but that's a generational cycle, not a quarterly one. The market can (and probably will) boom and bust many times while that broader trend works itself out.
Congratulations, you've re-discovered blogging. ;P

In all seriousness, though, writing does help. The productivity block you're talking about was the reason I started blogging way back in the day. I don't write much personal stuff anymore because I don't need to, and when I do, it's an email to one or two people and that's it. As chrisaycock noted, sometimes all you need to do is observe your thoughts and feelings, and then they get out of your way, leaving you feeling less burdened.
If it takes 2 years to implement syncing, then the developers are incompetent.
this month I asked the same question on stackoverflow =>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4441368/is-there-any-good...
Horrible analogy. Once again, battery estimates are just that, ESTIMATES. Two days ago my magic mouse ran out of juice, at one point it said it had 13% charge and two hours later it said it had 2% and then an hour later it died. My laptop is telling me I have 2 hours and 19 minutes of charge. I just opened a youtube video and it changed almost instantly to 1 hour and 55 minutes.

If the manufacturer tells you, "Hey your device will last two to three days depending on how much you move" and you realize that it only lasts two for you AND then you don't charge it on second days AND proceed to bash the product because "ohhh it kept running out of battery and what's the point of analytics hurr durr" you're officially a retard.

You want to complain in a review that the estimation of the battery life sucked for you, fine go ahead, I have no problem with that. But make an objective review and actually try to use the product instead of just using the first scapegoat excuse you can get to bash it into the ground.

If it had been a negative review because the product is bad I'd be the first in line to commend the reviewer for not spewing a bullshit from a product marketing sheet. That being said, this is not a good review, it's FUD all the way around.
See also:

The Triple Crown of Global Cooling: More Volcanic Activity, Lower Solar Output and La Nina

http://www.examiner.com/seminole-county-environmental-news-i...
The exact opposite is also valid. Notable examples start with Anne Frank's diary right?
This is actually one of the potential scenarios predicted by global warming theorists - namely the shutting down of the gulf stream, resulting in European weather changing rapidly to what would be expected at their high latitudes:

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455&tid=282&cid=10...
Worse, Facebook makes a lot of mobile advertising money from app install ads. If startup investors cut back the flow of money, that advertising revenue dries up. There will be a glut of unemployed developers just as Facebook starts reporting declining revenues. Facebook will need to start reducing costs, not hiring, and definitely no acquihires (startups with viable business models might be a different story).

Google might clean up with their pick of the best surviving startups and the best devs going cheap, because they have more diverse sources of advertising revenue, but they might also be under pressure to control costs if investors panic and flee tech.
Generating revenues is not the same as making profit. If their infrastructure costs more than $1 / user to maintain on an annual basis they could very well still be losing money. To compare their price to something you'd have to compare it to dividends to the parent company or net profits for the division if it is integrated.

Revenues don't mean a thing.
> Why does such a large geographical region lack wood? Really?

History spanning back >5000 years, using either rocks, clay bricks (which require fire) or wood. North America has huge amounts of timber which wasn't exploited much until very recently, and a relatively low population for the size of the territory (even counting just the US, there were more chinese in 1900 than there are USians today, and the 1900 US population was below the Chinese population around year 1000… the two countries have almost identical surface areas).

Europe doesn't build with wood either, ignoring wood not being a very good construction material for high-density urban spaces, there's nowhere near the amount of raw materials you'd need lying around, and not enough room to grow it in the quantities necessary.

Oh and much of the Chinese territory is completely unfit for lumber growth (too arid, too montainous, or both), and what little would be fit is necessary for food production. China already imports ridiculous amounts of timber as it is.
uh yeah, those things are absolutely social media as well
More mainstream appeal? Which isn’t necessarily a plus to niche people.
It was fun breaking sites with XSS vulnerabilities (i.e. most of them) where entering </table> into an unsanitized user-content editor would break the entire website layout.
Maybe it could still happen? It seems like a super high value challenge that the BDFL could take on: build out the official set of tools (setup.py, twine, virtualenv, pip) to support features that make people seek out alternatives (pyproject.toml, poetry, flit, conda, pyenv, pipenv).
I hope Windows 11 is a free upgrade from Windows 10, if not buy it new.

ReactOS is improving to the point that I can use it in a Virtual Machine with a web browser and LibreOffice for docs. https://reactos.org/ If Windows is shut down, I'll just use ReactOS.
I know several teacher and can confirm this is true. If nothing else, where you work makes a big difference. The average salary of a teacher in california is about twice the average salary of a teacher in utah. Teacher pay is also often dependent on test scores of their students (which has its own problems, for example the best teachers might get assigned the worst students, because the teacher can help those students better, but that hurts the teachers test performance). The amount of education you have also makes a significant difference.
This is a good story for all to realize -- you CAN talk about your OWN pay to anyone you want. Every employer I know has tried to say "you can't do that" or "its in your contract" and I would rebuff and say the contract is illegal/non-binding as it goes against labor laws (in the US as per various labor laws and an executive order as recently as Obama). I get really annoyed w/ HR in firms -- their goal is to stop information from being shared to control things. On the flip side I do not agree that just because your colleague makes X that you deserve X. Pay never consistent and I have no problem with that part given we aren't clones of each other either.
> Individual people aren't diverse, teams are.

Yes, which is why I said he was the 'source' of diversity. If 7 data points have value X and one has value Y, then Y is the 'source' of the variance, else the variance would be zero.

> Diversity doesn't mean "non-white," it means "varied."

It's funny that literally the sister comment of my comment links to how someone at Apple was driven out of their job for saying this. For your own sake I'd recommend you don't express these opinions at your workplace.
Welp, there goes 3 hours of my life. Well spent.
Tendonitis :(
Yep! It's magical having everything signed automatically by plugging in my Yubikey and setting some git config once. I will not go to something that doesn't enable this.
Is this not Powershell?
Coding is a good way to explore the solution space, but not the best or only way.

My current guidelines for myself are

1. Take a few minutes (or hours, depending on problem size) to write a clear plan for a proof of concept. What's the terrible, crappy, bare minimum that shows your goal is feasible?

2. Run that document past another person. See if they can simplify the plan for you or find things you overlooked.

3. Hack out the POC.

4. Run the POC past a real person. See if they catch issues in your approach that would be blockers in a production version and resolve them if possible.

5. Write the spec for the actual feature/program based on what you learned from the POC. It doesn't need to be super-detailed or perfect; it just needs to capture the lessons you've learned and give a clear direction for building the real thing.

6. Run the spec past another person. Incorporate their feedback.

7. Write the production version.

This works out pretty well if you keep your specs as plain text in the project repo. You can do the whole process with a standard code review flow.
Indeed, but I expect that that for any theorem, that for some level of proof quality which is attained, that all proofs that are at least that good, all have at most a certain finite length.

And, as there are only finitely many proofs of any finite length, then the supremum of proof quality over any proofs of that theorem, is attained. (whether there is usually unique proof which attains it, I don't care to guess.)
Hi,

I'm very interested in learning more and discussing working on these projects. Please feel free to check out my email I send you a short time ago with the same username.

Also..by any chance is this job still available or has it been filled? Thanks
That is one way to do it, kinda sucks compared to just returning multiple result sets because you have the overhead of maintaining those custom types for every type of query you're going to need. I don't personally like that solution much for complicated apps which will have a ton of queries written against their database.
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If Google weren't making money off of it, you could at least argue the ethics.

Google is, however, making money off of content to which they do not hold the copyright or permission. That's unethical.
I'm curious to find out as well.

I feel most websites can run on a single instance with decent caching. But owners want reliability and that adds complexity, cost, and technical debt.
> To me it's chicken and the egg. Do you need to have this type of unassailable position if you're going to root out very powerful corrupt peers/figures? Or do you root our very powerful peers so you can have an unassailable position?

I wonder about the premise: I think the widely accepted theory is that 'assailability' and corruption have an inverse relationship; that is, the less assailable you are the more likely you are to be corrupt. I think the real chicken and egg question is, 'do you need an unssailable position to root out your political opposition, or do you need to root out your political opposition to become unassailable'.

Democratic leaders are far more assailable -- they have limited power, they can be removed from office, and they are open to public attacks by the media, the public, and competing politicans -- but are considered, partly for that reason, to be less corrupt.
music for elevators was the follow up to... Nevermind. Wrong quantum universe.
It also brings up Fowler's First Law of Distributed Object Design: "Don't distribute your objects."