skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about people with sufficiently significant impairments that they are incapable of working. They are non-technical and likely do not have an emergency fund or usable credit. They do not have the bandwidth to file lawsuits.

I agree that this feels like a market misalignment that could be corrected and make someone a boatload of money in the process, but between the above issue and the general slowness of the legal market I'm not sure that that's actually the case.
I would argue that arrogance is the opposite quality that leads to the meaninglessness conclusion. It's a recognizance of your smallness in the universe, and that you will absolutely die and be forgotten in as little as a couple years. And so will almost everyone else. That doesn't strike me as arrogant - maybe a little nihilistic, but not arrogant.
I assume there's some latency since it would need a fully rendered frame to operate on, but other postprocess AA techniques would suffer the same issue. Not a graphics expert, but I think only doing real supersampling would happen during the initial frame render instead of in series afterward, and that's going to tank performance much further than DLSS (in terms of individual frame time rather than latency, but much more significant overall).

The DLSS neural network is trained off of renderings with 64x supersampling and tries to apply that to a low resolution image. In practice I wonder if there will be situations where the neural network screws up and makes strange artifacts, but the demos look impressive.
I have had wrist pains ever since getting the 6 back in 2016. Now that I'm on the X, it's gotten worse. I fucking hate these larger phones. They cause significant pain for me, and I don't even have tiny hands.
I switched to gitlab for the 10g free space per repo. Wont be switching back to github until they beat that.
The doctor denying the application incurs no cost when the case is challenged in court. The cost is incurred by the individual suing (paying legal fees) and the state (defending the suit).
In terms of product lifecycle, there's no doubt that wood (or bamboo) is a good choice of material, plants are pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere and as long as what's built is maintained, that CO2 will remain sequestered. Contrast that with metals (which have to mined and processed, using huge amounts of energy) or plastics (from fossil fuels, also a headache to dispose of). Not to mention wood has grain, making it pleasant to look at.
Disability claims can be appealed to an administrative law judge without filing a lawsuit[1]. It helps to have a lawyer for this, but having a lawyer or filing an appeal does not guarantee approval.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/appeal.html
I'll take this opportunity to plug Bo Qian's C++ videos on youtube if anybody is interested in learning modern C++. They are to the point, code-focused, don't waste time on basic syntax, and cover a lot of ground (lvalues and rvalues, move semantics, inheritance types, etc.). Only issue is they are only current to C++11.
If you simply see it politically, then sure. I see progress as a fairly objective goal. We may differ on how, but surely we can agree on the facts and what the definition of better is.
That's not so much the problem here. The problem is that the voters answered the wrong question, as a result of a bad binary choice and lying campaigns.

If voters had known what they are in for, they wouldn't have voted to leave.
I believe nVidia is the only major GPU manufacturer left without full-featured open-source drivers. nVidia was once the best GPU manufacturer for Linux on PCs but they proved unable to make the leap from proprietary drivers to OEM-supported open source; Nouveau exists as a community effort but remains well behind the AMD/Intel equivalents. IMHO, assuming you get to choose your GPU, the only reason to mess around with nVidia's proprietary drivers at this point would be support for CUDA—there are still some apps which only support CUDA acceleration and not OpenCL, and AFAIK CUDA remains exclusive to nVidia hardware.
As another commentor mentioned, Tylenol isn’t the best example here: acetaminophen is fairly dangerous and it’s not at all clear that it should be as easily available as it is.
I disagree, but I’m not sure where else we can go with this, since it’s a matter of taste :)
I've dreamed quite often about becoming a monk. It's not odd at all that if you limit your input your overall self is better for it. It's not really a reachable goal though, to remove all of my responsibilities and become so selfish as to become a monk. Here is the issue, you have a responsibility to the rest of the human race, to become self contained and not give back, is breaking the social contract don't you think?
Just FYI - its "loss leader" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader), although "lost leader" made me chuckle: I thought, for a second, maybe you are talking about Apple instead of Microsoft.
My apologies then, better to be safe than sorry.

Like I said, the best way to dispel the confusion is to play with Red by yourself and ask question in community chat. It is puzzling at first, but clicks over time.
I guess the question then is what criteria qualifies a non-disabled person to be considered disabled?
WordPress is used a lot more commonly in the news industry than you think.
Two Ideas- why cant amour not be manufactured fast in situ? Aka, i have a huge layered plastic bag, that is filled in a second with dirt from the ground, acting as armor?

Could Ammunition not be catapulted in?
Basically a mortar round with re-supplies that can be requested by the infantry at location? Also wasnt there a case-less ammunition program exactly to reduce weight?
So replace ammunition-charge and batterys with one fluid standardize energy component? Guns ignite it, radios use it in fuel cells?
Just dont have all those disjointed systems, and find more unions in stuff?
Github was never profitable, private repos were a way to squeeze out a bit of money when they could, but it would never support the service.

Now that they're part of Microsoft, Github's corporate goal isn't to be financially solvent anymore, it is to be a loss-leader for Microsoft's other products. Hook people with github, and then get money from them by offering integrations with Azure, Office, Windows, Sharepoint, etc.
Yes, that’s how (some of) you have chosen it should be.
The really big enabling feature was XmlHttpRequest (released with IE 5), which allowed client side JavaScript to make HTTP requests for the first time. And then, as you say the improvements in performance, reliability and consistency of the APIs between browsers made a big difference.
Sure, they publish some data. But I'd imagine that Microsoft can pull strings to get better data faster.
>I agree that this feels like a market misalignment that could be corrected and make someone a boatload of money in the process

This is already done. There are law firms that specialize in disability cases on contingency - they take their payment as a cut of what your back pay would be if they win and nothing if they lose.
Just by the nature of the comment, dropping such an inflammatory claim with 0 context or evidence, you can tell they were probably flagged with good reason.
If "what" represents the problem and "how" describes a solution, then "why" is about convincing people that the problem is worth caring about. Which can be considered quite fundamental, since people don't care about solutions if they don't care about the problem in the first place.
Deals are bilateral, but club membership isn't. You wouldn't seriously expect to be in a strong negotiating position with Amazon if you decided you wanted to leave Amazon Prime but retain some of the benefits without having to pay the membership fee, for example.
Interesting - I replied to your twitter post about this but I’ll go ahead and say it here as well:

If you were starting a PhD in CS/ML right now, and you wanted to be as useful as possible primarily to industry (while still being impactful academically), would you focus on the theoretical aspects on those weaknesses you mentioned? (e.g. model maintainability, complexity, etc)
It certainly gives me hope. Apathy is the worst, I really like to see people express an opinion, even when I may not entirely agree with it.
Contentment = happiness in this context?
We can and do go from phenotype -> genetic code as long as the phenotypic ask is something we have some familiarity with. There are enough examples out there that even though the toolbox is still small, there's plenty of new things we can rationally design - even if our success rate is not 100%.

Transcription Factor + GFP -> green transcription factor -> codon-optimized plasmid

Membrane tag + light-activated conformational change + cytoskeleton -> optogenetic mechanotransduction

Small-molecule-activated degradation domain + transcription factor -> chemically-induced genetic switch.

And though there's still a bit of trial and error to debug which/how those components go together, it's a common enough thing to be reasonably accessible.
Vulkan is supposed to be the cross-platform API, but Apple isn't supporting it (and doing their own thing with Metal, as per usual). From what I've heard, Vulkan was originally "OpenGL 5" so while OpenGL continues to exist Vulkan is effectively its successor. There is MoltenVK, which allows Vulkan applications to run on top of Metal.
These banks can't do that part of the business out of the UK or with a UK workforce anymore. So the tax income, foreign currency trade etc goes elsewhere.
Realism:

It's logical that the UK was involved when they were a EU member ( through partnerships as your opinionated source mentions).

1) It doesn't mean they are a leader ( as you mentioned).

2) It doesn't mean they have the expertise to set everything up ( which they didn't want to, since they tried negotiating for military access to Galileo)

3) It's not going to be cheaper now. They already spent 2,1 billion pounds when they were in the EU.

:)

Edit: can't reply anymore, but I do agree that I don't work in that sector and I don't know those companies.

It would surprise me that there is no ( current) EU-member alternative for the work that SSTL had done.

Edit 2: the current owner of SSTL is EADS ( Airbus). Which has it headquarters in France. SSTL is founded in the UK though.

Edit 3: Inmarsat History is synical in your statement that the UK is better off alone with brexit. Since it's origin is because of international cooperation

:)
This was probably a good time for Apple to broaden their mac range, and expand their computer market share. Under the Steve Jobs era, the Mac was always a premium product, and focused on capturing industry profits rather than market share. I think switching to focusing on market share would have been a very good change for them to make.

As a high end product, the mac is likely not gonna make them much more profits than it already does. However, additional market share would further strengthen their customer base for the areas which will make them money. iPhones, iPads, and services.

If Apple were to release a 5-600$ laptop it likely wouldn't make them much money, but it would create more mac users, and I suspect mac users are significantly more likely to own iPhones and pay for services like iCloud and Apple Music than Windows and Linux users.

And TBH, Apple has a massive market in the enterprise just waiting for some competition. You can see this in the rapid and popular uptake of Google @ Work services, and Chrome OS in the enterprise and education services. People were looking for a simpler alternative to the entire MS Exchange ecosystem, and once again, while these may not have been massive money spinners on their own (though they definitely could have been that as well), they would form a strong solid base to sell iPhones to.
So then why not encourage the population to breed, rather than sourcing our fertility abroad?!
So, your answer is an anecdote about the release of TRUE information you don't like the timing of, and an entirely unrelated topic of conspiracy theorists.

I'm sorry, I still don't understand. Perhaps you could re-read the initial exchange and try again?
If you are mom&pop's, you can live with unsigned driver.

Anyway, you don't have to be a professional developer to sign it. Just buy a certificate, then it is just a couple of commands.
Now that's strange. Electric cars are working pretty well, and then this guy comes along and says we have to wait for a new technology that doesn't work yet. Who is "David Stringer", anyway? A pseudonym, perhaps? ("Stringer" in journalism is a freelance journalist paid by the article.) There's a minor Arizona politician by that name, but that's about all Google has to say.
Hrm, the parallel feels really forced to me. You can invest money in multiple startups at the same time, to hedge your bets. You can't do that with your time if you plan on working full-time.
Bill Gates Just Published a Letter Urging US Leaders to Embrace Nuclear Energy
Just for context. Microsoft already offers free private repos, hosted builds, etc for Visusl Studio Team Services aka Azure Devops....
This definitely seems like a language issue. “Wizardry” has a very positive connotation of using technical magic to achieve amazing results.
...that sounds suspiciously like you're storing binaries in git.
27?
Good poem! I think is also the point in the movie “Mr Nobody”
I'm sure Rust works great :) But vcpkg was made by Microsoft and I suspect is rather easy to get working on that platform. On the other hand, I've used conan and had no problem e.g. getting FFmpeg working. And, thanks to conan's awesomeness, I can even make it work with clang on windows -- so that e.g. I can use all the latest c++17 features on a library like Boost.Hana and range-v3 (of Eric Niebler fame).
> I see this time and time again. Game developer runs into one of the difficult subjects in computer science/programming. Dismisses the difficulty. Gets themselves into trouble. Blames the library/product/platform.

Members of this particular team worked on the highly acclaimed Total Annihilation (1997) and Supreme Commander (2007) so inexperience or lack of technical expertise seems unlikely to be the cause here.
This is a key point, and points to so many thing being broken at the same time it hurts my head. The real smoking gun would be to find some sort of defacto evidence that doctors got the hint that denial gets them more business. That would sit in the next layer up, the assignment of cases. Alternatively, could it just be a big pool e.g. the race to get through them is a cash grab, so the faster you go you'll get to drink more of the milkshake? In that case denial is more of a way to avoid scrutiny.
The United States doesn't have a monopoly on liberty and civil rights. 45% of all countries are "free" using The United State's own definition of the term [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House
I worked at three startups before taking the current break I'm on - one I left before my stock was worth anything (would have paid out a small amount in an acquisition), another, the stock is now worth zero, and the third has a shot at being worth about a year's salary if current late-stage valuation is to be representative of a potential buyout/IPO (I'd say odds are alright this will happen). While I try not to think about it, because honestly the experience was worth it, I would have made far more over the last eight years of my career staying put at BigCo.

With that being said...

All three times, despite considering myself a pretty rational person, I got this strange psychological delusion when joining the startup that it was going to somehow magically make me rich. I think it's probably the "honeymoon" stage of joining any company. Things are awesome! The culture is fast-paced, chaotic, and offers plenty of opportunity! This is a rocket ship! It kind of matches the "what if" feeling of buying a lotto ticket. It's impossible not to imagine what might happen.

I think if I jump back into startupville, my cynicism toward the "get-rich-fast with these private options" will outweigh the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed sensation of my 20s.
Hopefully it gets better with time for you. My complaint wasn't with pain, but numbness. I developed this problem very early on, in SOI, and kept it to myself because I knew that it would get me medically discharged. Thankfully I never had to explain to anyone why I'd go to the lengths I did in order to avoid handling grenades. After 2 years of civilian life my knees and lower back stopped bothering me, but 15 years later: my hands still feel like they're falling asleep.
I've used Autobind a great deal as of recent with React classes, it's been both pleasant to use and I've yet to experience any issues with it.
John Lewis? It's insanely expensive and the variety of products is risible.

I remember looking at the pans and the fans this summer. There were more options above £100 than below. There was hardly anything basic and certainly not at a basic price.

When my vacuum cleaner died last year, I went to look for another one and they didn't have any except Dyson and its luxury competitors.
Correct. Though if that business was already made out of a EU branch of a London bank (likely for retail business), the tax income was already in the EU, not in the UK.
This is how I've approached joining the last two companies I've signed on with. In the hiring process I ask to speak with finance and the founders to see if the company has the legs to be a real rocket ship. Remember that an interview is just as much about them interviewing you as it is for you to interview them.
It’s better than using WordPress to run ecommerce. News content types are close enough to blogs.
The time and emotional effort of changing companies is a huge fixed cost, and I personally don't want to do it twice in three months ever, but you are right, it's always an option.
The benefit of wealth is not happiness but freedom to spend your time and resources as you please. That allows you to focus on what matters which in turn gives you meaning and amplifies your ability to affect the world around you, for good or bad.
Happiness is not a direct choice but choose to help someone or choose to learn a new skill. Those things will make you happier in the long run.
For me it wasn't easy. When I was about 30 I noticed my hand itch like hell.

Visual inspection revealed a lot of small wounds that were cause of the itching.

I tried washing them thoroughly and drying (no effect beyond temporary pleasure of hot water similar to scratching).

I put on them some cream with steroids that supposedly helps with wound healing. This helped for few days. Then the problem reoccured. I applied the cream again. This happened few times.

In about a year the problem came back. I didn't want to abuse steroids so I thought if I just wash hands and seal the wounds with any hand cream they will heal quicker. Worked just as good as steroids stuff. Only then I realized that my skin is probably just cracking because it's dry from vold weather and dry air.

At no point before my skin looked or felt dry. I never had this problem before in my 30 years of life. It was a new problem for me and lacking knowledge it was very hard for me to debug. The fact that I hate to have anything oily on my hands didn't help. Even now I put cream only on the side of hands that crack and only after they crack first time this season.

I would very much like to have a troubleshooting guide for the human body, right from the start.

I got something like that but limited in scope to pains caused by damaged muscles. The book is organized so that you can go from knowing where it hurts to knowing which muscle is damaged and what movement you need to do to gently excercise and stretch this muscle. Both things were surprisingly counterintuitive when my pain was caused by small muscles around the spine.
This makes me uncomfortable.

Private subscriptions were a direct revenue stream for Github, and explained directly how they can afford the infrastructure that provides the service.

Generally when previously paid stuff becomes free, it's because the paid service is no longer a product - it's now a tool to attract users. How will users be monetised now?
> Why not?

Drifting off-topic, but the short version is that "subscribe to a service that would independently validate pharmacies" (meaning everything on the shelf at the pharmacy), validating schools, etc all comes down to recreating work that the govt does and then making sure that it's more cost-effective to provide good value than it is to be deceptive about providing good value. I suppose I should get a few degrees to make sure I know how to evaluate these different areas. Hopefully I know which schools will teach me for real and not deliver empty bombastic lies. There's a reason that everywhere that does a good job at these (IMHO) have plenty of taxes.

Ultimately it's a war between where you want efficiency (private market) and reliability (govt).

All of which is mostly unrelated to the point I made above: The people under discussion are upset about results, not taxation. Even if you are 100% correct that giving them their tax money will allow them to fix the issues they are upset about, that's not the same as actually fixing them. And I, for one, pay taxes so that people with the right knowledge, authority, and economies of scale CAN fix those things. Giving me a tax refund is no different than refunding me for a product not delivered - it's better than losing the money, but I wanted the product.
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> OTOH it sounds like you genuinely believe that "random people" from Central America are equivalent to the US

The main topic of the discussion is people leaving the US and the parent comment offers Canada as an option - what does Central America and their 'equivalency' has to do with all this?
There aren't really simple data structures that involve pointers. Pointers are just hard (where hard means they require programmers to hold state in their head), and rust makes that explicit.

The reality is that implementing data structures that require pointers is not a typical task, and they're ideally provided by the stdlib or crates.
A heap would be simple.

Rust's ownership rules make it hard to implement data structures composed of nodes that own references to other nodes. (This includes linked lists, binary trees, and naive implementations of graphs.) There is a reason for this - it's rather tricky to implement such data structures truly safely in any language without introducing hidden assumptions, that's why they are so frequently seen in interview questions for java and c++ coders.
Switzerland and Norway both accept large parts of EU legislation and regulations without having a say. They pay into EU programs, without having a say. They accept free movement of workers, without having a say...

UK is currently not willing to do any of the sort. So no, Britain will not get the benefits Norway or Switzerland enjoy...
Support for DDL in transactions seems to vary quit a bit between DB servers.

In mysql (and I think also mariadb) ALTER TABLE cannot be rolled back, and also implicitly does a COMMIT on any in-progress transaction before altering the table.

In PostgreSQL you generally can do ALTER TABLE in transactions, but there are dome restrictions or exceptions. If the alteration is to add a value to an enum, it cannot be done in a transaction.

MS SQL Server seems to be OK with ALTER TABLE in the midst of a transaction, according to this article [1]. Oracle seems to be similar to mysql.

Even the ones that support this well, like MS SQL Server, have restrictions on other DDL, such as creating indexes.

I think I'd rather just assume no DDL in transactions and design my schema update procedure accordingly, rather than asking whoever is designing the new schema to try to limit themselves to changes from the old that avoid whatever statements whatever DB server we are using doesn't allow.

[1] https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4591/ddl-commands-in-...