skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would someone use C# in the first place? It seems to me that any advantage from the environment has gets lost by trying to make it work on a GPU.
Anybody using a big curved monitor without a tiling window manager? Working half-time in the creative area, I would not be happy with a tiling window manager.
> The sheer operations still require interpolation (just that, you don't need to do 2D interpolation, 1D works out),

Back in the day, the "rotozoom" coefficients were chosen at a nearest integer to avoid interpolation. This of course means that you can't continuously choose the value of the angle. Interpolation doesn't play nice with a palette-based image with a fixed number of colors anyway.

When palette and integers are not a restriction, higher quality interpolation (bicubic, etc) is also an option. Comes with tradeoffs, of course.

Using integer coefficients will also enable all kinds of opportunities for assembly-level optimization.
When you refactor, yes. In python, say you add a new condition inside a condition, it's really easy to get lost and indent the wrong one to the wrong level.
Ironically this is political as well just not civic political but office/work political instead (although really what’s the difference if you think about it? Not much IMO). You can’t have a “Things You Can’t Say” that isn’t political in one way or another. Man is a political animal.
You're completely right, I got arts and film mixed up
Apple let a fake $5 Cuphead game into the App Store
What "enormous" API surface? It's not about "optimizing initial deployment". It's about "optimizing continuous deployment" and having "always releasable Software". I've worked for departments with 15 devs all working on the same codebase and we could release and rollback releases (A/B deployments) every week because we treated the database as a dumb data store. We had multiple branches at the same time, etc.

I've also worked at a companies where all of the logic was in ungodly stored procedures and getting anything released took months and we had a whole two weeks "hardening sprint" because we had to coordinate with the "database developers" and of course the entirety of the business logic was In stored procedures.

Most software being maintenance work is even more of a reason to optimize deployment. What good is unreleased software? The most important part of the business is releasing software. Most of my emphasis asan Architect is making sure we can release fast.
I was about to chime in similarly; a ten-ride ticket for NYP->POU is $0.38 per mile and you can take any train without reservations; an off-peak MTA ticket for the same leg costs $0.21 per mile. $1.14 per mile sounds high.
Almost? ;) I think my Silicon Valley employer has a great culture in a lot of ways, but the whole "not just your employer but your whole world" attitude still bugs me. I also threw myself into work every waking moment when I was younger. I was also happy for my coworkers to be my primary social partners as well. Those were great years, but that kind of thing stops working once you have a family. Treating people with families as exceptions to the overall company culture - even if they're pretty well tolerated exceptions - is ageist and not OK.
I long for the days when you had to bring bags of cash to bribe a congressperson. CU made it simple and hard to trace and even harder to prove.
The article does get into the viral marketing etc. but, like you, I would like to hear more. I'm honestly not sure why the Instant Pot took off when (admittedly mostly much more expensive) electric pressure cookers have been around for ages. Though, reading the article, it's also not clear to me if the founder really knows why it became so successful either.
Since the patent has expired, the incentive to R&D the drug has as well.
Mobile App Stats for Growing Startups
the exchanges I looked at with the lowest prices didn't have a way to buy/sell with USD.
> When the city runs things, prices become a social justice issue, which forces prices too low. [...] If 50 Mbps is seen as “good enough” by voters, there will be a huge incentive to do the minimum required to hit that speed in order to drive down the price.

This is demonstrated by Albany, NY, where I live. [1]

> [Mayor] Sheehan said Albany must create a policy that could move this forward, with a focus on it being affordable to residents.

> “We would provide a certain bandwidth to every home at no charge,” she said.

The study we commissioned[2] focuses on providing free low-speed access to everyone with an option to upgrade to "high-speed" (>= 100 Mb). The idea of actually laying fiber to everyone's homes is considered, but mostly just to show how unappealingly expensive it is, especially when only a small minority of people will pay for the upgraded service.

[1] http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Albany-pursuing-wirel...

[2] http://timesunion.com/file/235/4/2354-Broadband%20feasbility...
Plurization with Then New Intl.PluralRules JavaScript API
My only complaint about my Instant Pot is the plastic sealing ring's tendency to retain smells.

At this point I gave up on trying to clean it and just bought a second sealing ring that I use only for Indian food.
> The thing is Volvo's experiments haven't been going as well as others.

Where have the results of their experiments been published such that you feel confident in stating that?
Calling Elixir from Erlang
Lots of people seem to be wondering why Instant Pot has become a hit while electronic pressure cookers have existed as a category for quite some time.

I personally think it's a great case of tipping points, networking effects and branding all working together.

The Instant Pot is a genuinely good product, so it didn't have a trouble finding early users. These people then produced recipes, books and videos not for pressure cookers, but for the Instant Pot specifically. There's 1600+ books for Instant Pot on Amazon, everything from how to cook Keto meals to Indian food. If you have a Breville Fast Slow, and I have a Cuisinart CPC-600 pressure cooker, the cooking times, settings and pressure levels aren't transferable between the two, and may produce quite different results. Hence the networking effect of everyone having the same brand and model of cooker, combined with the tipping point of reaching a certain mass of Instant Pot users, causing an explosion of recipes and guides, which again drives further adoption.

So why don't people create "Breville Fast Slow Pressure Cooker" recipes in the first place? I think it's because of the branding. The Instant Pot name itself is already fun and self-describing, and the marketing downplays the pressure cooking aspects. Pressure cooking has a negative association historically from a safety point of view. So while everyone tries to sell electronic pressure cookers, I think most people who buy this product aren't interested in pressure cookers at all, instead they're specifically getting an Instant Pot. And while technically they may be the same, the customers don't necessarily perceive it that way.
Things You’re Doing Wrong in Your Online Business
The title implies a bit more than what the article says. Basically China doesn't like their country to be mapped. As a result supposedly it's pretty difficult to use most navigation software (e.g. Google Maps) within China.

China is NOT blocking it because it is self-driving (which is what you might assume). China blocks pretty much any mapping.

I haven't been to China btw; I'm curious if OpenStreetMap would work.
Good stuff here.
I'm having a waking dream of Click and Clack (RIP) discussing the phenomenon.
I interviewed at a place (looking for Scala devs) that had me take a MBTI test after several rounds of (I believe) successful interviews and a take-home coding assignment. I tested INTJ, as usual. I never heard from them again.

Given what I could glean about the culture of the place, I presume the 'Introverted' part of my personality was the issue. Though, you would think a company full of extroverts wouldn't have a problem telling a candidate why he was rejected :D
I don't think its fair to say payroll should always be the largest expense.

Different businesses have different cost structures.

I used to run a hosting company and as we scaled up our bandwidth and infra costs eclipsed our payroll costs.

In many retail businesses rent and advertising eclipses payroll.

With regards to Netflix in particular, I think it makes sense that licensing costs are higher than payroll costs.
I'm all for p2p (really), but how about taking back control (sorry) of the Web by actually developing and enforcing declarative/markup technologies and standards instead of praising JavaScript because "it's not half bad" and adding procedural features to the Web (APIs, WASM)? With the current state of affairs wrt privacy and self-proclaimed standardization bodies, I'm not sure the Web is worth preserving.
I lived in chicago, they did some maintenance work on the street in front of my house but improperly installed the manhole cover. Now evertime a car passed over the manhole cover it made a loud thud. This is moderately busy street and there would be lound noise all day long, I was jolted out of sleep several times because of this.

I called 311 who said they will look it into it. I called them again couple of weeks after that, some person rudely asked me to call local alderman instead. I called alderman who said they noted down the complaint, called them many times in the following months. After a while a they said its comed( electric company) fault and I should call them. I called comed, they asked me to call local city office. I took time off from work and went upto local city office and they said I should call 311 for complaints of this nature.

Sorry, I don't want govt anything. If something goes wrong you are at mercy of some govt employees who have no motivation or sympathy towards your problems.

People who know govt officials like alderman ect get things done but everyone else is out of luck, just roll the dice and hope it fixed.

Edit: why the downvotes? I think this is a on topic response to parents comment about how well govt maintains roads.
You should come to chicago and look at the roads in working class neighborhoods. People are ok with poorer people getting horrible internet cos they can't raise enough taxes to fix their internet infrastructure.
Its horrible, if you take CTA in chicago underground in winter, you'll see drops of water ( is it water?) drip on your head from leaky ceilings.
The article explains why it's so expensive:

> Why are prices so different in the U.S.?

> "In other countries, there are price control methods. The government steps in to ensure drug prices do not increase by a certain amount," Alpern says. "There are no price control mechanisms in the U.S."

> Between 2011 and 2016, mebendazole's price jumped more than 8,000 percent, from $4.50 to $369.

So it was indeed $4.5 in the U.S. - until the company decided to get greedy.
Because there is no price the competitor can charge that the original supplier can't match.

This is a commonly cited reason but I don't buy it. They're selling these things for 4 cents in tanzania so we're talking about something that is practically free to make. There are lots of things that cheap where we see competition in the US: paperclips, reams of paper, chewing gum, whatever.

Why is there competition for these things but not cheap drugs?
Ahh, to be young and naive.

Decades of horrific developer pain disagree with you. The “tools@ all have different ideas of what is correct, good style, the right name spacing and encodings...
This strikes me as anti-American. Sure, I wouldn't go about building myself my own highway (to me the internet (access to) is to infrastructure as roads are to infrastructure). But... co-operatives can work in some cases and if a community wants to get together to build infrastructure and save the government money and do it better than both the feds and private institutions why not let them be FREE to do so?
Supply and demand? Because we'll pay for it anyway?
I set vm.swappiness to 0 on my Fedora laptop.

Meaning the kernel will only swap to save the system.

I've been doing this for years and had no issues.

Edit: Actually in recent kernels, which I am using, 0 means it's disabled. I was thinking of 1.
Elon is very tough on Public Transport no?
Less work, better customer relations, etc.

I personally believe that a small business is just better at making customers happy than a big business (atleast for a lot of things on the internet)
but they don't. Would it be better if this person just tried to negotiate with notoriously unhelpful bureaucrats while blackhats run amok?
I discovered this as well, that's why I moved to downtown Toronto. GTA is a blight of suburban sprawl ... if you live outside the city and have to commute in for work, daily, it's an absolute nightmare AND expensive. After years of doing this the value proposition just didn't make sense anymore.
Not who you're replying to, but have a search on pg's essays on his site.

What I took from it: if a team can't come up with an idea themselves and rally round it, there's something wrong with the team.

It needn't be a very good idea. e.g. the reddit guys were excited about a delivery service idea (pet food? muffins? IDR). pg said no, and suggested the reddit/HN idea. But note that they had come up with an idea and rallied around it on their own. (Who knows, perhaps they would have made it work anyway?)

Maybe it's a touch of mad passion/enthusiasm/optimism - not entirely rational - that is a key ingredient of an entrepreneurial team. Indicated by inventing and rallying round "some idea".
That might explain what happened to an old Benz 240D I used to own.
Microsoft's AI chief says the technology isn't the biggest hurdle
>Easy question : do you know what it looks like ? I think no picture has been published, I infer what it probably looks like out of what I've seen and my experience which is relevant in this case, but most people are probably not able to do so (this is arrogant I guess ?).

I have not seen a photo of it, but it's frankly irrelevant. You're shoehorning in your experience of having seen exposed organs as giving you some kind of expertise; but it does not, this is an issue of ethics about a breach of body autonomy and consent.

>BUT it is indeed bad and damaging for the doctor/patient relationship, which is today even more prevalent than the care one.

This is a very mechanistic interpretation which does not regard justice or principles as being a thing and only considers results.
> As a last resort, the Kernel will deploy OOM killer to nuke high-memory process(es)

Yes! That is exactly what I want to happen!

When the system runs out of RAM, things will generally stop functioning, swap enabled or not. The only question is how you want it to stop functioning when that happens.

In almost every situation, I'll easily take the kernel killing whatever single process it thinks is most appropriate to get rid of, and keep everything else up and running smoothly, over grinding the the entire system to a halt by upping the effective memory access time by orders of magnitude.

Simply put: If everything doesn't fit in memory, then don't try to run everything!

Properly designed software nowadays is designed to be able to crash without corrupting data. As far as I'm concerned, it is almost always preferable to kill and restart instead of giving CPR to processes that don't fit in the working memory.
I was super disappointed about jsonresume.org never getting their pdf issues worked out. So many others have tried (they tried and failed? they tried and died...Dune reference ;-) ). That was about the closest I have ever seen to a standard which could be used to semi-automate writing them.

Most services seem to stumble with consistent PDF or MS Word formatting. Rarely can you get a service that provides both easily.

Check them out for some trailheads though.
My point is that it's possible to effectively be one without. It's not like people without the degree can't do all the things an engineer does. It just becomes troublesome when there's safety certifications and such required.

There's definitely value, meaning, and importance in the engineering degree and certifications.
Just so.
Monkeywrenching the Machine
I meant 80k. See studies from Dr Cicero Coimbra for more background if you're interested.
Indeed, that was not a normal extension:

"The addon is actually deployed as an embedded WebExtension, which is subtly different. It has a 40-line legacy XUL/XPCOM bootstrapper controlling whether the WebExtension part of it runs. The legacy code actually could upload your hard drive and isn't bound by any of the WebExtension restrictions. We know it doesn't do anything harmful, but it could have done so.

The WebExtension itself also has <all_urls> and webRequest permissions, granting it the ability to sniff the content and headers of every page."

(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/7k7wu... )

The question is still: what was the goal?
>But they're absolutely not.

Fine. I was going for "things society generally accepts to be evil".

>there is no objective base on which to call someone unethical.

If you want to get this technical but I'm obviously using the words loosely here: I'm using "objective" as a short cut to mean "things that are outright proven or agreed on by practially everyone". So nearly everyone would be ok labelling a criminal as such but I don't think most people believe extending life to be evil. In fact, I'd consider such a position quite niche in general since everyone is for it at least to a limited extent (i.e. medicine).

>So put away the crazy comparisons and make a case for why people shouldn't be able to participate in a boycotting campaign.

I think social media has made the random person too powerful. Any random person can decide that someone else is "evil" based on literally anything they want and if they have some means of organizing a flash mob they can destroy that person's life. The victim doesn't even have the ability to sue who ever did it. So it's a major imbalance of power. Normally this kind of power to destory people's lives is limited to the justice system.

>So put away the crazy comparisons and make a case for why people shouldn't be able to participate in a boycotting campaign.

Well, labelling someone is defamation of character and it's not a protected right. You can be successfully sued for doing it (though not arrested afaik).

>censorship is not a new thing and people exercising their freedom of speech to decry unethical people and actions is not censorship

Social media has changed this. Decrying someone everyone knows to be unethical is not the issue here. Getting a flash mob to attack someone doing something that some consider unethical while others consider it some of the most important work humans will ever work on is an entirely different thing.

You never had the right to "speak freely" in the way you're trying to twist it. Defemation of character will potentially land you in civil trouble and no nonsense about "first amendment rights" will save you.
I bought one last year, when my slow cooker died, thinking it would be similarly useful. I did so mostly because I'd had a few friends who raved about theirs.

It turned out that it was better at pressure-cooking than my pressure-cooker, and the bluetooth model (which I assumed would be a dumb gimmick) was actually helpful. Turns out it was handy to be able to check on dinner while hanging out with the family.

My only wish is that they were a little more straight forward about how simple it really is. I'd love a variant that just had pressure and temperature controls, instead of the dozen named preset buttons. Or if they put the presets in a distinctly separate section of the panel or something.
This is probably the reason I don't use my stovetop pressure cooker all that much. I just don't make a lot of the one pot stews and such that they especially excel at. I have a few recipes that I make now and then but it isn't a go to appliance for me. It's also the case that I work from home a fair bit of the time so getting a meal on the table with a short cooking time isn't major consideration.
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A lot of left-wing and media groups attribute a lot of influence to the Koch brothers. But honestly, their efforts are often ineffective or outright counter-productive to their stated goals. It's funny to see them portrayed as boogeymen when you know how bad they actually are at wielding influence.

I've worked with the Charles Koch Institute before, and it's a mad house. Their other orgs are about the same. But don't take my word for it--check out their Glassdoor reviews[1] to see for yourself how many current and former employees feel about them. (Read the negative ones; many of the positive ones were posted because HR told people to do it.)

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Charles-Koch-Institute-and...
Suspicious when a 500 days old account has only two comments. And both praise user guyshachar, over a year apart.
A completely useless article, but the grain of truth deep inside is that the real threat to Tesla isn't other vertically integrated car makers learning how to make electric cars, but that car making will have low barriers to entry like other horizontal markets in electronics.

Even that threat isn't that scary: Apple is ever more vertically integrated at the top of the horizontal mobile handset business.

But there is a good chance that you'll be able to buy a good, usable electric-drive car for a fraction of the price of a top of the line car, from a company that you never heard of before.
Sure it takes skill to be a scam artist, but that doesn't mean such behavior should be tolerated.
Yeah I can remember how amazing 1 micron widths were. getting to 100th of that is a miracle.
The problem is that insurance costs continue to rise for no real reason. They even made costs rise when more people were insured because of ACA. In what world does that make sense?
Taking a Long Look at QUIC [pdf]
>>From the sound of things these diseases were until very recently isolated to poorer countries. Even today, with the increased number of cases, there might not be enough money to be made based on a few sick North Americans to justify tooling up to make a new drug.

The article also says albendazole, the drug in question, can be purchased in the UK for $2. Why can I not start a pharma company that A) imports albendazole (and other rare disease drugs) from the UK and other 1st world country at a reasonable markup or B) orders albendazole, and other rare disease drugs, from the same manufacturer that makes it for the UK, and other 1st world countries, at a reasonable markup?

I'm genuinely curious about the regulatory landscape of that question.
How is it a "query framework"? Linq works with objects and the Linq expression provider treats the Linq as data that translates the objects to Sql at runtime. That is by definition an Object Relational Mapping.

Of course most ORMs do fall short because most languages don't have the powerful concept of "code as data".
Your criticisms about it not being the amount that came in or that can come out also apply to stocks.

If all I know about a crypto asset is that it has a market cap of $100 million, I know it's a very niche asset in comparison to bitcoin or ethereum. It's small enough it's reasonably likely to be a scam. For me personally, it's small enough that I'm not interested in learning any more, which has practical use because my time is finite.
you forget /s