skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but 1% impact is pretty small

The best you can say here is that it’s within the margin of error, in which case the effect is so small it’s literally unmeasurable. In that case the null hypothesis still wins, and you should not switch.

> Is there any reason to assume that this problem is permanent and unfixable?

IE11 as tested in the article is not getting anything other than security patches. The users who use IE11 are probably also the users most affected by poor performance since they most likely have the oldest hardware.
I really don't like the idea of a 200kg powered vehicle on the pavements. Have there been pedestrian objections?

In the UK postmen have a large 'pram' that they push on the pavements and which are often found bicycle-chained to lamps whilst the postie visits a cul de sac.
Among Democrats, women are now up to about 40% in Congress. I could easily imagine that passing 50% in another decade or two as older members retire.

But <10% on the GOP side.

The short answer is: there is still a significant part of the electorate which prefers to have male representatives, and various networks and institutional structures in some parties which give men an advantage.
>In a very relaxed way, without any tension, taking my time for each small change, so I was fairly sure that each small refactoring change did not change the meaning or correctness of the program.

Unlike the rushed, tense way in which some (many?) projects are conducted these days (and plenty earlier too), with people playing whack-a-mole with bugs introduced by said rush, "because we have to ship last week".
real heads will remember his proto-blog, “This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics,” which goes all the way back to 1995: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html
> except we’re trained to use software engineering principles to attempt to manage the complexity

Yeah good point. I think visual languages are often used by people who haven't had experience with software engineering, and that's fine, it's one of their main selling points.

But think there is a general limitation when abstracting connection between nodes. In a programming languages, one could for example do a loop and connect an array of a thousand structs to point to some pointer. In a visual language it would be drawing thousands of connections/wires by hand between nodes. So visual languages in a way hit an abstraction ceiling if you will. In some domains it doesn't matter and there are a few trick around it, so there is room for such languages, but I am pessimistic about a general approach.
Interesting site. I generally read what Examine.com (https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-d/) has to say about a supplement.
Shouldn't it be Linus Torvalds'?
That's because all the surplus goes into rents. If your job depends on you living in a big city, then you need to pay a fortune to get a tiny fraction of the quality of life that your parents had and that you had as a child growing up.

A lot of corporate jobs these days force people to live like rats in big cities.
What are some banking features that start ups are looking for? So far replies to OP have asked for:

1. ability to structure the credit line in that's amenable to VC investments

2. low or no minimum account balance

3. Stripe Integration, Apple Pay Integration etc.

4. Xero integration

5. Minimal process corporate card issuance

To frame this another way, what are the pain points startups have when banking?
If you lower and shorten an S-10, reduce the tire diameter by something like 40%, and stick an aluminum body on it, you've created a very unique driving experience in terms of acceleration and handling. I bet they're a lot of fun to drive.
Hopefully the fourth paragraph of the Wikipedia article will help you feel less depressed, since

"A People's History of the United States has been criticized heavily by historians from across the political spectrum. Critics assert blatant omissions of important historical episodes, uncritical reliance on biased sources, and systematic failures to examine opposing views."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_Un...
Ada was also too slow to compile with the computer systems of the day. I remember a HW company coming on site with a demo (contained on 9 track tape, of course). Compilation of a couple thousand lines of ada took all day (5+ hours). In that era, couple of thousand lines of fortran was 10 minutes. Big difference.
Ada was ahead of it's time. Still the language of choice when you care more about non-functional requirements.
Nah it's not like that at all.

My girlfriend does this all the time. She sees puppies and shit like that on Reddit, and always does this like "growl" and says how she wants to "squeeze the shit out of them." It's not like she really wants to squeeze them and kill them, and it's not actually anger.

It's just a really intense feeling of joy and wanting to take care of them and play with them. If there's any true aggression there, I feel like it's a result of being protective. It's probably a very biological reaction to seeing a small cute creature or person who needs care.
#1 - I think he knows that. Don't you?

#2 - Social Security needs work, but it's not going to be "broke". It can't be "broke". It's a required expense by law. It will be funded from other sources. And, not all that long after it hits that break-even point, we'll start seeing the demographic adjustment--i.e., the Baby Boomers dying off in quantity--begin to adjust that back towards the other direction.

As usual, when one finds oneself repeating things said by people who want to destroy institutions, one should look deeper into them for truth.
thanks, I will put these on my list!
I can't help but read the title as something akin to "musicians, how did you become comfortable painting with watercolors?"

I know ML/AI is all the rage. I just feel that targeting it so heavily is a bit shortsighted.
Excel succeeds at its job so thoroughly that I think people fail to realize (or cope with the realization) that spreadsheets are probably the most successful democratized programming environment we have. It may not have been intentional, but the 2D grid representation for data interlaced with an acyclic dependency graph is by far superior to any alternative representation, visual or otherwise, I can think of for either of those concepts.

Users don't even think about graphs or data, often they don't even understand those terms. Due to this IMHO spreadsheets are pretty much peak computer science
Actually it factors that in too
How to Build a Mind (2013)
Most postal delivery in somewhat urban environment is a prime case for electric vehicles: low mileage per day, lots of stop and go, low average and low top speed combine with a central spot where vehicles can be charged for extended periods.

It’s not a coincidence that DHL is operating a large electric fleet.
New Brexit side-effect for privacy
"What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus?” is now permanently archived on: https://setinblock.com/0x8006d703a45663cab96a85a4ef3e6ab94a1...
I think it's pretty clear what's meant by it, and "hit by a bus" has very similar problems if taken too seriously. Were they hurt? Are they out for a few days, just shaken, decide to change their approach to life etc.

> How much did they win? Maybe they’ll still keep working? Maybe they’ll go off to start their own company and take a bunch of key employees with them? Maybe they’ll be broke in a year and come back to their job? Maybe they don’t leave right away?

Well exactly. You don't know, and now you've given yourself four scenarios to think through:

1. Employee remains.

2. Employee leaves forever, maybe with others.

3. Employee leaves for a while but would come back.

4. Employee leaves, but with some time to plan.

1 should not be a difficult thing to plan for, and 2-4 all ask the same major question of "what if they leave". There's perhaps a slight benefit of not having to say "well assuming you are dead..." - I know I've had some time this year where I was trying not to focus on a death.

The key point is the risk. If your answer to "what if X wins the lottery" is "well as long as they don't want to leave..." then you're already setting yourself up to answer the question it's intended to propose - what if they are no longer working for the company?
Question from somebody who does not know jack about automobiles: would electric vehicles last longer? Tesla was boasting its powertrain's longevity and it got me wondering if that was normally a limiting factor to a vehicle's lifespan and whether electric vehicles were better off. I mean, I'm guessing you've gotta replace the battery a fair few times, but are they as promising as they sound for longevity?
The majority of people who are living paycheck to paycheck don't have enough assets to cover debts.

Furthermore, paycheck to paycheck living outside of poverty and disability is rarely the result of a one time mistake, it's usually due to an inability to budget and save day-to-day. Which is the reason they end up with more debts than assets.

Not to mention people who can't afford their house can often not afford to take care of their house, which reduces its value.
Thank you, that was neat. I speak Russian and it was fascinating to watch someone build software in DRAKON.
> Compilation of a couple thousand lines of ada took all day (5+ hours). In that era, couple of thousand lines of fortran was 10 minutes.

And a couple thousand lines of Turbo Pascal was 10 seconds! XD
A forging is about 3x the strength of the equivalent casting with the same metal.

I put all forged moving parts into my Dodge engine build :-) It wasn't strictly necessary for the power levels, but what the hell.

But I did get a forged scattershield, because I like my feet.
I don’t know exactly how it works in all areas to be honest. But if there’s a pension deduction, and one is able to withhold it and invest on their own, I think it should be the default choice.

Military is a whole different story. They need to incentivize people somehow and it ain’t going to be ping pong tables and beer fridge.
> there is no reason one debt holder (pensioner) should have absolute precedence over another (lender, who sometimes lends enough to get the company past bad times).

Yes, there is a reason: people matter more than companies. Lenders can price that risk in. If that makes lenders "stay away"? Then the executive teams that get their golden parachutes get screwed too, and I'm frankly pretty okay with that.

And let's be real: pensions are virtually never (you might find one large example; you won't find ten) destroyed to save a business. They're destroyed to make their assets worth more in a flip. We need not be dishonest in this discussion.
Its not the norm outside VC-backed tech land

There is just a lot of stuff to build and a salary that needs to increase 30% every other year
There definitely are a huge number of things that will arise to be on the top 50 desired list. However, if everybody has a respectable existence -- rent/mortgage, food, utilities being covered -- then these other things will be truly and for the first time optional and non-crucial. Which I think will be a big win for the mental health of the population.
Do you guys accept crypto donations? Seems like they would solve the problem perfectly.
Unless you pay upfront for the service rather than having a free bank account.

If your economical model is to take advantage of people going overdraft you can be certain the bank won't try to help clients. If the bank can make more money by having clients with more money that would probably work better, now I'm not sure how that would scale.
I would guess that most human health issues that are universal across the species have been discovered at this point. Vitamin C and Iodine deficiencies cause serious problems for all humans. Large studies that see some small effect are likely to be variance where a few people are have large positive effects and others not or even negative. That is your individual genetics and other factors are going to determine if some advice is useful for you. Listening to your parents and grandparents is probably more useful than reading almost all modern health studies.
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Golang infamously tried to not use libc at all and just use the kernel syscalls by itself. I think they now do use some stuff from glibc? Or maybe they only use the libc on OSes where the kernel interface is not stable, like Windows?

Also, I don't know how much of glibc is used by openjdk, but potentially not a lot because the jvm wants to behave the same on all platforms, so they don't want to rely on behaviors of the libc.
To be fair when I rode LiAZ in 1980s they were already considered long in the tooth.
Thanks!. I think https://fomoro.com/projects/project/reverse-image-search
this has provided me some motivation. Also just subscribed to your meetup. I will try to make it to the next meetup on the 8th as i am just about starting with GANs in my udacity PyTorch course. Thanks for organizing this meetup. I will leave the link for folks from Bay Area to follow-up.
https://www.meetup.com/deep-learning-sf/
Bluesky Capital
Reminded of Agnes from Despicable Me when I read this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SI6rhotAkE
Reading all the complaints about this, seems like a way to donate via Ethereum would be a perfect fit for this. No middlemen merchants skimming money.
Yes, they're available. They're are also used to compare how much a fixed pension would cost in present dollars.
If they're anything like us, they will be curious enough about who created it to try to extract whatever data they can from it.

If we found the alien equivalent of such a device it would be kept in a clean room and sampled and imaged until we could completely understand it. We would also try to extract whatever insights we could from the designers of such a device in case they ever decide to stop by.

We're not intentionally obfuscating the information on the disc. We've just made a lot of design choices based on the technologies available to us. We're hoping that any civilization that's out there can recognize those intentional choices by very careful analysis of the device. After all we're the type of civilization that scans areas of the sky looking for data in the background. Why wouldn't there be a people like us somewhere in the infinite cosmos?
We had a colleague pass away abruptly a month-ish ago. So much disappeared with him. And I kept finding myself typing out, "oh ____ would know that" before reality caught up with me.

It started to get really frustrating and upsetting. I'm not exactly a "pair programming" zealot but I definitely find value in overlap of responsibilities.
How do you debug logic errors in that case? I imagine that most logic errors can't be caught by the compiler, although I could be wrong.
right hand drive too
Cheatsheets are not intros. They're generally meant for when you know what you're looking for already, and want to get to e.g. the exact syntax for it quickly.
I think you misunderstand the "Basic" term in UBI. But if you truly think markets can't provide affordable basic living accommodations to everyone, then we should we not be discussing some non-market solutions for distribution of resources?
I think the bigger issue than lending is that if it's not funded with a land value tax then all the increase in income will be eaten up in rent.
Do you have a license to permanently redistribute it?
https://aws.amazon.com/training/learning-paths/machine-learn...

Patience. Spending that extra time (it helps if you really enjoy it or can program yourself to really enjoy it).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_6700... for inspiration.

To answer the question though: I'm not sure what you produce other than maybe blog or publish some analysis using your data skills. And maybe: https://github.com/MaximAbramchuck/awesome-interview-questio...

(source: non-CS engineer at amazon who watched the amazon videos internally before they were made public. I'm not a data scientist yet but sometimes, esp. when people talk about the challenges of AGI, I think about transitioning.)
Things were done differently in the US up through the 1960's. Different company but yesterday I learned that a P-47 Thunderbolt landed carrying a 500 lb bomb where there was a malfunction and the bomb exploded. Not only was the pilot okay, but though the tail was obliterated, the wings stayed on. That was one of the things about the P-47: the wings never came off. Those things were built incredibly tough. This is a part of the reason why the P-47 had such great dive performance. (Only late model Spitfires could beat the P-47 in a dive, and only in a narrow altitude range.)

There was another incident where a FW-190 pilot came across a P-47 limping home, with its canopy stuck. So the P-47 pilot had no choice but to go back and land at his airbase. The FW-190 pilot emptied all of his magazines into the P-47, but it just kept on flying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCNt3J65UqE

Greg's airplanes and automobiles is a great channel. Another thing I learned from watching it: Logistics in the form of better fuel refining actually was responsible for a big part of the performance advantage of allied planes in WWII. The allies could supply better quality higher octane fuel, which meant they could run their superchargers and turbochargers at higher pressures to get more horesepower from smaller engines. (Which is why late in the war, BF-109s were using water and methanol injection to try and keep up.)
Awesome. It's good to hear of government spending that results in long service life, lessons learned, and value for the taxpayer.
Living paycheck-to-paycheck can be representative of good choices being made (and I'd guess it is, in most cases).

Most people can't afford everything they optimally need while minimising their risk, and so have to manage this by optimising as much as they are able within their paycheck. People with limited resources are going to hit a barrier somewhere, and spending your income is often going to be the least bad barrier to hit.
https://github.com/tcoopman/image-webpack-loader exists. The plugin will recompress png, jpeg, and svg images, as well as optionally converting the first two to webp. That said, it seems to have a persistent bug where jpegs are always converted to webp while retaining their original extention, and the maintainer doesn't seem to have the time to fix it or merge pull requests. If you wanted to help them out with that, they'd likely be amenable.

Something that I've not seen is a plugin/loader that will automatically use the <picture> tag to make available multiple auto-generated source images and a fallback <img>. It'd be great to be able to

import myImage from 'res/img/my_img.png'

and have myImage be a string like

<picture><source srcset="[generated-name-of-my-image.webp]"><img src="generated-name-of-my-image.png"]></picture>
The US college population is still big enough that that tiny fraction is still a lot of people; and almost certainly enough for a viable market niche.

In that case I think they should not be prohibited from leveraging their unique motivation and study-skills, in the manner described by the grandparent comment.
> We can’t re-use dots because then there’d be addresses that are _both_ IPv4 and IPv6.

How so? 192:168:1:1 is not a valid IPv6 address, so it'd be easy to differentiate with dots

If you were to interpret it as ::192:168:1:1 then it'd be a valid IPv6 address, but that interpretation would be incorrect and even so would be in the "IPv4-Compatible IPv6 address" range that was intended to map directly to the IPv4 address as a transitional function anyways.

Not really sure why that idea got dropped, it seems to me like it makes a lot of sense to do any v4 mapping in the ::0/96 range.
It is a feature of the GIF format. You can specify how often the animation shall loop or that it should loop forever.
Check out this graph "The erosion of the minimum wage" from The Washington Post as well:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvbrUVCVsAM25XX.jpg

You need to do 47 hours of minimum wage work today to get the same amount of purchasing power as 40 hours of work in 2009.
>I'm trying to figure out if you're suggesting that police be withdrawn from places likely to have crime. It certainly aligns with the idea that the police should ignore direct verbal or written threats to people's safety.

I have no idea how you arrived at that. The point is that we already have laws against violence and harassment. What is being successful is to limit freedom in an attempt to _proactively_ prevent such crime. That's where you get into trouble.

More harm than good comes from protecting people from the big bad world. History has shown time and time again that no one can be trusted with the power to control our thoughts and movements.
>Most people are slaves to their limbic systems.

Excuse me, but would you mind not repeating this meme in the future? The "limbic system" is actually at the core of human consciousness and cognition, and at the core of what "reasoning" really is. The story of the brain as having a "rational human part" and an "emotional animal part" is a myth and a canard.

If you could rephrase or reconsider, you'd have the thanks of everyone in the neuroscience lab where I work ;-).
Yes, here was one: https://www.govdeals.com/?fa=Main.Item&itemid=6463&acctid=35...

Doesn't look like any are listed at the moment.
Those should not be allowed as collateral.
We would still have the other Stallmans from the Stall-verse
Gearboxes are another source of failures in aircraft engines, so running direct drive is more reliable.
Happy New Year! :)
You can type them! E.g., ctrl-^ is record separator.

$ echo ^\^]^^^_|od -c
0000000 034 035 036 037 \n
0000005

So, ^\ is FS, ^] is GS, ^^ is RS, and ^_ is US.
I'm not sure this works the way you say it works. NSEC records are provided by authority servers; they're a way for the delegated owner of "." to say that there aren't zones between .PCCW and .PE. They work because they have chained signatures. A recursive server can't generate NSEC records for the DNS root, and, obviously, wouldn't have to; any DNS server, DNSSEC or not, can accomplish what you're talking about with a simple "if" statement.
The main thing I remember about Buzz was that every time there was an update, all the sound generators changed. If you were relying on producing a certain sound for a certain song, you didn't dare d/l any updates.

Also, apparently the generators and effects left off some limiters when they were trying to emulate certain synths. You could easily produce something the original machine wasn't intended to. Personally, since I didn't know much about hardware synths, I didn't notice. A much more knowledgable roommate informed me and I just took his word for it.

That was fun program to work with though.
At my job we say "hit by the lottery bus" to make it clear that we're using a euphemism for "what if this person quits".
Financial Crime and ‘Money Mules’ – How to Avoid Becoming a Target
It really depends on where you live. Rust will eat up your car in a lot of the world.

Sure you can replace a lot of the things that rust until the frame goes, but it starts to get expensive. Pumps, hard to get to filters, starters, alternators, struts and other suspension bushings and components, engine timing components, and transmissions are liable to just go well before the life of the motor is up.

If parts are dirt cheap and your wrenching is free it's doable, but kind of a headache. If you pay someone else to wrench I think it's not a great idea especially for some models and brands.
I am the same way, but we are not the norm. In fact, most people don't even want to provide the occasional consulting once they leave the team (but stay at the company), let alone the company. There's also the problem of where to draw the line. Is a quick question ok? What about a bunch of questions? What about asking for a training session? What if the question requires diving back in to the source code to answer? Everybody has a different opinion and tolerance threshold.