skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like a lot of words and fp "stuff" to describe a system where a function takes two inputs (anyval0, maybe<error>) and ouputs (anyval1, maybe<error>) and you chain them together.
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What about textgraph? or textplot?

The latter is taken by several other text-based plotting packages of a similar nature, so I would suggest the former name.

FWIW, many plotting toolkits have an ASCII backend, like "set terminal dumb" in gnuplot. My suggestion therefore is to not make this a general purpose plotting package. ;)
I'd probably be happy to spend ~2k on a foldable/rollable 30" 8K screen that I could setup anywhere I decide to work.
Makedonia

I wonder - is this spelling some sort of shibboleth for Greeks who want to make a point that 'Macedonia' is only the area in Greece? I've seen it a few times in this thread, but never before anywhere else (then again, I didn't even know this was an issue until a week ago).
Google Reduces Prices for Preemptible GPUs on Google Cloud Platform
You have to account for a buffer, I always plan to be at the airport at least an hour earlier than the flight for unknowns such as: slow traffic on the route of the airport bus (or delays for train service, traffic for taxis, etc.), slow/long security and/or luggage drop lines, etc.

With trains I just factor how long takes for the subway right across the street to take me 8 stations to the center.
After initial compilation, recompilation is 40x faster using Zapcc
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I get the same rush if I fire up older hardware. Installing some random old OS onto real hardware is still as thrilling as it ever was.

Far more thrilling than having Windows 10 invade itself onto some modern soulless fucking lounge bar. I mean hardware.
This article should have postfixed itself with '... in the United States.' I live in Saigon now, there is literally hundreds of thousands of clothing stores here. I can't go 20 meters without seeing something for sale. Why? Because most clothes you buy are actually made here. Which also has the added benefit of making them extremely cheap. I can get a big name brand shirt here for $4 that costs $50 in the states.
So... try/catch?
I'm also in the Harry Potter generation; I was 8 years old when the first book came out. I remember my grandma recommending it to me at the time. It sounded like "kid stuff", so I didn't pay much attention to it and went back to reading Asimov.

I finally read this "kid stuff" years later, in my mid-twenties, and I liked it very much!
I am in complete agreement with you, I rent for very similar reasons.

What I was attempting to flag was that for many this was no longer about it being a choice. The dramatic rise in house prices has meant that saving a deposit is now a lengthy endeavour in many areas, one that is driving a much larger renter culture. It is to be expected that lifestyle norms will change around this as well.
I've heard serious concerns about lack of safety testing and regulatory oversight. The problem is that it's difficult to find credible sources pro / con. Would be interested in reading if you have any to share.
>> Roads aren’t black. Your office chair isn’t black. The sidebar in Sparrow isn’t black. Words on web pages aren’t black.

A #000 pixel on the screen of your mobile or laptop isn't black, either.

I strictly adhered to the principle of never using black until I was specifically asked by one of my users that has presbyopia (and most people over 50 or 60 have it, to some degree) to make the text black. Black text was much easier for them to read than the standard Bootstrap dark colour with the same font size.
Interestingly enough, Qing China actually had purchased more advanced military equipment than Japan at the start of the Sino-Japanese War. On paper, at least, the Beiyang fleet at the Battle of the Yalu River was the superior force - unfortunately for them, so crippled by corruption and lack of training that those advantages were squandered.

Krupp and Armstrong made boat-loads of money selling top-of-the-line hardware to China during this whole self-strengthening movement.
Pratchett is a very special author! Though not my absolute favourite, he does manage to combine brilliant humour with an incredibly observant social satire and deep, likeable characters.

BTW, if you like Pratchett, do you know the Discworld MUD? (http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/)
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Wouldn't that be the day. The funny part is how they preached 'errors are values', and instead of giving a good error monad, they implement a poor version of it explicitly where they feel like it.
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I'd be down with a requirement that consumer behavior is researched in only de-identified settings. Economic frameworks like Berry-Levinsohn-Pakes are sufficient to make most decisions in things like product, placement, and so on. Micro-level data is nice, but macro-level is sufficient for what these customer journey analytics groups are pressing for.
Having two objectives (eg, offense and defense) doesn't preclude sometimes making decisions that trade a setback in one of the objectives for an advance in the other.
I'm curious:

What did/does such a project cost?

Is there substantial scientific value to going further?

I can imagine some tech billionaire(s) funding a follow-on project, esp in a more hospitable location that could attract tourists, press, etc.
But wouldn't that use a non spinning OS lock. I.e. the scheduler knows which threads are waiting on the accept and can randomly pick one to directly wake up?
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This is pretty clever, I like it!
An extract from the tree is already being used for sewage water treatment in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV8Uzhphxs
Right. The whole time I was thinking the hardware change probably exacerbated an existing software issue. Then I saw this:

"The issue has been fixed with .NET Core 2.1 and .NET Framework 4.8 Preview contains also the fixes for it."

And by the end of the article I was thinking their code might just run faster as a single thread on a ~4GHz processor.

Another thought was why do they have so much resource contention in the first place? That seems fishy.

Another thought: Perhaps they should write it in Rust with all of its "fearless concurrency" claims. While I'm skeptical of those claims, The exercise would probably highlight some of the real issues.

Any way I look at it, I keep thinking it's a software design problem.
Because your landline is too slow.
Dependent types can encode constraints and require proofs.
That's currently where I'm at myself. Do you feel that, that approach scales fine and you get a broad enough idea of where problems are for the general user and where you need to improve/change things?
Which AWS cost optimization service provider are the best?
Hi,

we want to optimize our AWS costs but want to focus on our core business and not managing the AWS cost "features".

We identified following cases and service provider.
Any more service provider recommendations or even experience with the those mentioned?

1. spot instanz management
- Spotinst (https://spotinst.com/)

2. reserved instances management
- Parquantix (https://parquantix.com/)

3.AWS improve transparency & governance
- cloudability (https://www.cloudability.com)

Thank you in advance!

Best
Alex
Probably they will make it like the shopper card programs, where all are free to come and shop in the store, but you suffer disadvantages like paying more unless you check in with your phone.
My solution to this with shoes was to start buying really high-quality shoes. Bought some Red Wing Heritage chukka boots that look nice with jeans and business casual attire. I've been wearing them every day at work for over two years now, and they look like they're barely broken in. I expect them to last for a _very_ long time, especially since I can get them re-soled when the soles wear out (which they're nowhere close to).

Did a similar thing with Allen Edmonds dress shoes. Yes, they were expensive initially, but given how little I wear dress shoes, I wouldn't be surprised if they last me the rest of my life.

Now if only I could find a solution for clothing...
All purchased digital music has been DRM free for a decade.

Netflix says we watched about 60 hours last month and my son watched 5 seasons of "Everybody Hates Chris" on Hulu - combined price of both services was $23 a month. How much would that cost to buy?
This is hardly news. The use of Moringa extracts for water purification and sewage treatment has been going on for sometime now and there are companies with commercial products using this technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV8Uzhphxs
Working in ops is a good plan - in the mainframe world, the people we would normally call system administrators are called systems programmers or sysprogs.

Sometimes you can find a specific position (being a sysprog for CICS and nothing else, for example) or a more general role. Either way it's pretty easy to move from sysprog to developer once you have some mainframe experience because mainframe experience is so rare these days. You'll also be working reasonably closely with the development teams, so that helps too.
iOS 12 will include a new life-saving feature for iPhone customers in the US
Terry Pratchett- I've re-read Thief of Time the most but they all work.

For poetry, Mary Oliver.
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That's all well and good until you get taken by a card skimmer or a compromised credit card terminal.
Isn't this essentially a "back door" to location services, only accessible to law enforcement? Sounds ... familiar.
I'd be against that. The damage a single computer can do is minuscule compared to, say, a car accident. So any penalties that amount to more than peanuts for anybody in a first world country would be unfair. How about we first try to get companies liable for selling insecure IoT devices, or for not providing security updates for cell phones that work just fine?
I bought Cormac McCarrthy's Border Trilogy on a whim (had seen and loved the film of No Country for Old Men before). I'm based in the UK, but it honestly takes you places you can never go. Read the whole three books four or five times nows.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6163.The_Border_Trilogy
>Shopping journeys concluding in online purchases have baskets that are 25% larger, on average. When someone first visits a physical store and then purchases online, the effect is even more pronounced: Baskets are 64% larger.

Something that's not addressed in the article, but I have noticed about myself is that I am more likely to order multiple sizes of a piece of clothing online, and return all but the piece that fits the best. That might contribute to larger purchase sizes. Sites like amazon make this particularly easy.
Exactly, I'm also slightly red-green colorblind, but I have only really have difficulty with green and yellow when I need to differentiate them quickly.
> How much would that cost to buy?

Price usually depends on many factors of the market. But if it's not available at all, it doesn't matter how much you would be willing to pay - you can't buy it, period.

> All purchased digital music has been DRM free for a decade.

So if music can be sold DRM-free in parallel to renting services, what problem is there with video that prevents it?
It is simply a different transliteration. Neither country uses the Roman alphabet, it's either Македонија or Μακεδονίας.
If you like podcasts, I would suggest listening Frank Delaney's Re-Joyce [0], where he goes through Ulysses sentence by sentence and tries to explain what's going on. Sadly this great podcast was interrupted by Frank's sudden death.

[0] -- http://blog.frankdelaney.com/re-joyce/
> all it would take is a few published cases of people getting their life savings emptied because of malware and idiots will wisen up or refrain from using the internet (which is fine too).

There's always sob stories* about how little old granny lost her savings because of some scam website

Yet people still fall for them, especially the ones that promise to get rich quick. From Nigerian princes to bitcoing investing

This one has been advertised with fake newspaper reports about how it was on "Dragons Den" (I believe it's Shark Tank in the U.S.): https://bitcoin-trader.biz/

When people fall for
What kind of results can I expect? Bitcoin Trader members typically profit a minimum of $13,000 daily.

there's simply no helping them

* (Usually from the kids/grandkids who wanted the money instead)
Fucking rights bud, I know a few greybeards down with the city so reaching out would be a great idea. There's not much talent or tech here so It wouldn't surprise me to find an old mainframe running parts of the show.

As far as github there are only 758 total repos for it, so I'll need to do some serious digging to find something to work on that's active. Half the reason I made this thread was to get ideas on what to hack up and publish after all.

I'll tell you what, if you find yourself up is Stoon give me a shout. Would love to rip some shittys and hack some darts with ya. Just look me up on FB or email me :)
It's definitely .net. We've observed deadlocks in spin scenarios which came down to this implementation rather than our callers.
I note that each shipwreck record includes a date of loss. I'd be interested to see a histogram of frequency by year.
User-Centered Design: Process and Benefits
Sadly Vans have stopped doing the style I liked wearing and had been being for years (often buying several pairs at once). I'm hoping that the Etnies I now wear wont go the same way.

The other issue I've had is when finding something I like and that fits, I often can't bulk buy because there's only one or two items actually in stock. Thankfully these days I can often buy the one item in the shop and get the remaining ones online.
It's excellent. One of the best books I've read.
I wouldn't ever pay for an agency to do user testing, and it has nothing to do with money.

Your ideal tester is someone who cares enough about your product to use it.

I also wouldn't even start developing the product unless I had a decent sized list of people who really want it.

In which case, testing it is easy. Just ask those people to test drive your app during development. If your app solves a real problem they will happily do it for free since it solves their problem, but you could also give them perks like giving them 2 months of your service for free when it launches.

Your users will naturally give you feedback if things are broken, so that handles post-launch real world testing. Of course you'll want to supplement that with heaps of automated tests too.
I'm not aware of any resources to help with developing a roadmap. A web search might find something useful, but I don't know.

The basic idea is to project what will be needed for the business (new functions, expanded functions, some things might be no longer required) and then figure out how it would be technically best to deliver those, with some anticipation for further future changes.

Determining the business requirements is a whole job in itself. Look for upcoming regulatory changes (new federal or state or industry rules you'll need to adhere to), things that competitors are introducing that you don't yet support, and the kinds of things that customers will start to want once they begin using what you provide currently. This is where input from the sales team can be really useful. You'll likely also have some tech debt you will need to clean up, and maybe a couple of big hairy issues that are the root cause of a lot of your reported bugs? Maybe also there's some operational things that cost you a lot of time or effort that could be automated?

For each of these items, you need to rough out a plan of how to deliver it. Work out some sort of estimate of the effort required, and then balance that against the value to the business of getting it fixed.

That'll give you a priority list which ignores interdependencies, and product architecture. You then need to factor those in, and resort the list such that it will deliver pretty good business value in an order that's technically reasonable.

That's your roadmap.

You can also have branches of the roadmap which are determined by key business decisions: do we pursue this opportunity or not?

Ultimately, you can then present an order of work, and a level of resourcing needed to deliver it, and for each item you can explain why you think it's important and how it fits into the future strategy of the company.

The emphasis on "need" rather than "could" or "should" is that roadmaps tend to have a lot of wishful thinking, and blue sky ideas thrown at them, and that's largely a waste of time. Focus on just the things that are absolutely needed to get the customer base, and the revenue, and maintain an acceptable quality of service --- otherwise the whole exercise can be disregarded as a waste of scarce resources just by picking on the one little bit of future-proofing you slipped in there ...

For me, the self-discipline required to do the networking is extreme, but it's crucial that you build a network around you that gives you options if and when you decide to move on. That's especially true if you're not lucky enough to have a college degree, which can make more transactional job hunting difficult.
Someone was able to fix it.
> You could walk into a market and go home with slaves, totally yours, to do whatever you pleased with your property.

then: people as property

now: people as a service
How many Watts would a single such hole generate? And how sustainable would it be?
Blood Meridian is also worth a read. Very comforting.
Yes, but in a functional paradigm.
There is Windows 10 in "S-mode" for this. A user can't screw up this type of Windows installation, just like iOS/Android.

The problem is that most people seem to not like the limitations. Although you can now install iTunes from the Windows store, there is still no Chrome which most users really want.
A strand of fiber can carry something like 20 Terabits/s. Streaming 4k takes less than 20 Megabits per second. That's still a million people streaming 4k simultaneously.
That actually sounds like a great approach! I can imagine you've triggered a sense of involvement or idea ownership in the most active ones. From my own experience, as a user, reporting a bug er suggesting a feature in a product, only to see it fixed or added, has a tremendous effect in loyalty and even promotion of said product. I think I'll definitely adopt this idea once properly released.
I refuse to see where the difference to exception handling is. My exceptions bubble up to my "sad path" handler.
I was surprised some of these myths were actually myths!

When it comes to online shopping, which makes up a majority of my clothing purchases now, these facts from the article are very important:

1. Spend is dramatically higher at brand stores and websites than in multibrand stores.

2. Very often, they are happy to rebuy the same or a similar item.

3. Most journeys are still overwhelmingly single-channel, though this is changing.

For me, finding clothes that fit right can be difficult. I'm tall enough that many shirts are too short but many tall sizes are too long. Most brick-and-mortar stores don't stock tall sizes, so I had to go online to even try them. Since it's enough of a pain, I've settled on two or three brands whose sizing I know can work for me.

If I were to shop somewhere like Macys or Macys.com, I'm dealing with several dozen brands, each with different sizing. If I stick with a brand, say Banana Republic or Gap, it's substantially easier and I'd tend to spend more money at one place rather than buying pieces here and there. On the other hand, I do not like online returns at all, so I try and stick with brands that have a physical presence I can utilize for returns.

Additionally, many stores offer really great discounts that can be hard to parse and take advantage of in stores. They may have a %-off coupon valid for certain things, in combination with BOGO discounts that you can stack for big savings. Toying with that in an online shopping cart is really easy but is much more of a hassle in a store.
And here I was hoping this was about CMRI/JMRI
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I've tried it, and found it to be worthless.
Yeah, you chose one of the absolute worst passages for that ;-)

I read the Bible every day, a habit that is very important to me. But I don't just "pick specific passages I like", I take a book and read it through sequentially, then move on to the next. I find much of it intensely practical and applicable to my life; it challenges, comforts and teaches me. Of course, some parts are of a more historical interest, yet others (like the one you quote) can be really tough to make sense of. But I believe that the Bible is one of the main ways in which God communicates with people, so I want to read and think about all of it.
I starting using rust recently and I noticed my programs tend to use the techniques described in this article. Using an "object" pool that is responsible for the creation / management / destruction of values and their referencing is a good way to reason about lifetimes when you need to manage DAGs or graphs (where reference ownerships and lifecycles are hard to reason about).
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The power elite has competing fractions, which are aligned for the most part (e.g. in economic policy), but have different (and often merely token) differences in other areas, like when to use the carrot and when the stick in foreign policy matters.

That other countries are their subjects upon which to use carrots and sticks, however, they agree perfectly.
In a store, however, a sales associate tries to guess a shopper’s tastes in real time.

Shout out to the people who can afford to shop at stores with a business model that supports "sales associates" that actually do something besides take your money (or help unlock a dressing room) I can't remember the last time I was helped personally while shopping for clothing.
How to recognize fake online stores and not lose your money
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Unfortunately, the genes developed for resistance are still present in a certain portion of the pool... so that when antibiotics are used it only takes 1 to multiply exponentially and destroy the resistance. Some of the genes cost little extra to be selected against... and even when an expensive group are selected against, it can split up into more than one survivor and then the combination will be selected for again.

Like old code... most of those once useful genes don't ever fully go away.
I don't think the rich Grand Duchy would be terribly interested in acquiring the empoverished Belgian province.
While it might be "less worse", I don't think London will be "fine". I'm pretty sure the big banks will bail will flee within a year, which will trigger a huge set of dominoes.
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So of those, perhaps "Development Tools", "Scientific Support", and perhaps a couple of others reflect the OP's proposal of high-level task-centric modular functionality.

But there's no reason that groups couldn't be configured for "Musician's Tools", "Artist's Tools", "Educator's Tools", etc.