skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hours of enjoyment benefits certain types of games versus others.

Return of the Obra Dinn is a pretty short game, I put 13 hours into it by playing quite slowly (and there's a not inconsiderable amount of AFK time in there as well), I doubt I'll touch it again any time soon (because the structure gives it zero replayability value), and I would count it as one of the absolute best games I've ever played. Portal 1 is a 4 or 5 hour game and, again, one of the best ever.

On the other end of the spectrum, games like Minecraft, Oxygen Not Included or Factorio are enormous, all-absorbing time sinks that will consume your every waking hour for months or years on end if you let them.

How do I compare ONI and Obra Dinn and say that either is, in any objective sense, better than the other?
As a vegetarian of ~20 years, I kinda find them too meat like. I constantly wonder whether I accidentally got the wrong patty. I guess that's largely because I've only dim memories of the real thing.

Am I the only one in that?
I am not following you here. If, as you say, "culture, taken in a broad sense, explains almost everything about which societies become economically successful and which don't", then the causality there would be from culture to IR, IR would therefore be dependent on culture, and IR should pay attention to culture. Are you saying that cultures are influenced by ideas from other nations? That seems plausible to me, but that would not make it an either/or situation (either IR does not get culture or culture theory does not get IR.)
>This type of system is only useful to non-idiots.

So, everyone that isn't the City of San Diego, which is pretty problematic, when you think about it.
Almost like KPIs are a measurement of state, and OKRs are a measure of change.
Totally not a joke. Also totally not related to C# from .net :-)

Super fun stuff!
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Maybe this can help someone:

There is a total of 85,000 new H-1B visa numbers released each US Fiscal Year, with the FY2020 beginning as of October 1, 2019.

Out of 85,000 new H-1B visa numbers, 20,000 are set aside for individuals that graduated with a Masters or equivalent (or higher) degree here in the U.S., provided the university wasn’t a for-profit entity.

There is high demand for new numbers and USCIS typically receives 190K+ cases the first week of the season (ie: April 1, 2019). Thus, each year USCIS conducts a lottery to decide which of the cases will be processed .

The H-1B Cap lottery first step is to decide which cases will be selected for the regular 65,000 numbers - then the lottery for the 20,000 US Advanced Degree H-1B cap being conducted after.
Chinese Rocket company successfully demonstrates 'landing' of rocket
Writing a simple JSON path parser
The kernel is small so security patches and such will be less frequent and there are minimal utilities like ssh, shell, what have you.

Also, the key is that there is very little to exploit so the likely hood of it being exploited is reduced.
> Will this disproportionally affect people with less money? Yeah, in the same way that everything that gets more expensive affects people with less money. People with less money have less of it to spend on things. They are now incentivized to find alternatives, creating demand for alternatives, therefore creating supply of alternatives.

This is all very well in the abstract, but what exactly are those people supposed to do in the meantime - you know, while the public transit that they demand actually gets built?
>> the folks who did this did it secretly, without consent

This. I've lived in San Diego for 50 years and this was done in secret.

I'm contacting the ACLU to try and get a lawsuit going. This is appalling.
This is a preliminary congestion charge that was instituted now because NYC already had the hooks to extract these fees.

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OKRs are Conjoined Triangles of Success irl. Lots of companies use it around the bay (including Google).

They think it’s a godsend because suddenly they can measure their progress in some way that is not just “story points per sprint” ignoring the fact this measurement only makes sense within the system itself and may not reflect the reality at all.
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Gah, I tried to get here before someone suggested rendering Moby Dick.
Is that even a realistic way to combat this?

If people have a tendency to gravitate towards bits of information (true or false) that confirm their biases/make them feel good about their beliefs, then I don't see how "real news" can ever win. After all, there's only 1 real news and infinitely many fake news...

Or is there a way to think about this problem that I'm not grasping yet?
Why do you need to drive from the GWB to lower Manhattan? The subways and busses are $3.50 each, it's already cheaper than the tolls, and often faster.

I already choose to stay in NJ as often as possible because of how auto traffic in the Lincoln tunnel clogs up space for busses and it sucks to stand on a bus in a tunnel for 50 minutes while all the single-occupant cars squeeze by, and because walking and cycling in midtown is slow and dangerous because the cars get 5 lanes of 5th, 6th, and 8th avenues and we have to squish on 5 feet of sidewalk in places.

Man up and stop hiding in your enormous solitary metal box, we don't have cooties.
Totally possible, locomotives tend to work out to around 20-25 hp per ton and that's just the locomotive. So you need proportionally smaller batteries than you would with a car.

And when you start digging up the capital cost of locomotives you find they can easily absorb the cost of batteries.
The Humane Dozen (2017) [pdf]
You have to consider the set of alternative available to the person.

If you're considering people who do eat meat, and want something that is close-enough to meat as a substitute, then yes, I am not a good judge of that. But if you're considering people who do not eat meat, and want something that's as close as they can get of things that are not meat, then I think I am an expert since over the past 18 years I have had many different varieties of that thing.
I think the poster was pointing out the misspelling of his name in the original comment. He's Steve Ciarcia not Garcia.
> Ray-triangle intersection is a very small part of the overall problem.

Its a small part, but a very memory-latency part of the problem. GPUs typically are very bad at memory-latency. Dedicated units would be able to traverse the BVH tree far more efficiently than a typical GPU shader design.

The BVH Tree is your typical tree, pointer-chasing on a GPU is way slower than on a CPU, especially with something like the BVH tree which is far larger than can fit in a cache. A typical shader would just be stuck waiting for memory, while RTX Cores can likely process a ton of them in parallel.

Hard to say for sure: NVidia didn't say how its RTX Cores work at the assembly level. But it isn't hard to imagine dedicated units that are more efficient than a typical design.
>developers are constantly taken advantage of, made to crunch for no pay, mass layoffs, etc. Lives have been ruined, and for what? So you could watch your horse poop or play dominoes in an open world game?

Hard to feel too bad about people working on leisure products.

I'm sure if you swapped out Golf/NASCAR, people here would be less sympathetic.
>> No, there aren’t. This is a few hundred cameras and it’s mostly downtown.

Wrong. I've seen these from Pacific Beach to Imperial Beach. That is around 40 miles from North to South. They are _everywhere_. You can spot them by the black antennas sticking out the bottom of the light fixture.

Source: I've lived in San Diego for 50 years.
You've argued yourself back to the null hypothesis here. The original argument was that there was something special about the baseband peripheral that made smartphones a unique threat. No, there is not.
Brilliant blog

Also a fan of these:

https://wsvincent.com/ (and his books are excellent)

https://realpython.com/tutorials/django/
You need to ask the following questions (to yourself):
- Has your salary increased with inflation?
- Has your job changed to include increased responsibilities?
- Do you feel others are getting paid more than you for the same roles with similar experience?

If the answers above are no then its unlikely you would get a pay rise.

Unfortunately I have to agree with a lot of the people below, the best way of securing more money is to find a different job with a different company. Asking "I have been offered X - can you match it?" is a sure fire way to have confidence in you reduced.

If you feel you are capable (and the company can support it) then by all means ask for a promotion and a salary package that matches it and your wants.

New jobs mean new challenges and new learning experiences - this should also factor into your decision, the ability to work at something modern you are interested in on the job is a perk many people dismiss!
No, they do not. You also can't depend on a secure connection from your ISP.
Access to mobile phone location data is also very limited and subject to strict protocols for use in investigations which absolutely everyone ignores.
And they should be concerned if FB did it because FB is not a journalism company. Journalism is our most important check on govt and corporate power, and they certainly should be checking FB's astonishing amount of power on a daily basis.

If FB did the same to journalists, it certainly would be disturbing, because FB's customers are not its readers and it has no editorial firewall. Anything it says is hopelessly self-interested.
In practice you need to maintain large colonies in order to reliably have enough mice for experiments. Also you need to keep gender in mind because females can be housed together but males cannot and generally experiments are conducted in either one gender or the other.

So, let's say you need 20 female mice for an experiment (e.g. 4 groups of 5). That means that you need to have >40 offspring in order to get enough female offspring. That's at least 7 breeding pairs (assuming you're not harem breeding) and you've got to maintain them for 6-8 weeks until you can use them. That's >$1,000 in breeding costs before you get to the actual experiments.
I hear so much moaning about students with "poor math skills" when it's really poor arithmetic skills. The moaners typically wouldn't recognise a differential equation if it hit them in the face.
> his promulgation of national self-determinism came straight out of his racist Jim Crow views

Can you expand on this? I'm having some trouble understanding the connection.
Don't forget ELTAs.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ETLA
This is one of the problems with money in politics. As money becomes more important in winning elections, politicians' interests align more with the "moneyed interests" rather than the voters or even the public.

The house of representatives should serve as a bulwark against "moneyed interests", but even they are being targeted and bought by money. What good is democracy if a small group of people buy all the politicians?
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Right, I was responding to watwut's question of "what exactly do you want me to ask?"
That might well be true, but there are long-term plans, not everything is reactive. The US global hegemony project for example was a long term strategy that was planned and decided upon. Local implementations may be reactions to local circumstances, but it's not like everybody was busy playing cards and they accidentally stumbled into building an empire.

I'm sure it's not a small circle of shadowy people that only meet at 2am and require a heavily sedated black cat for each participant, but there are plans and decisions, and actions carried out that commit the country to tens or hundreds of billions of dollars and military involvement measured in decades. Those aren't "oh gosh, what's this now? well, put some duct tape on it, I suppose" reactions.
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Heterogeneous Design Creating Havoc with Firmware Versions
The theory as stated in the OP explains everything and nothing - either you say that every country's culture is complex (duh), and that bundle of cultural identities, when taken together provides a relevant guide to how that country will act on the world stage, or you give up all claim to culture being analyzable on the grounds of its complexity.

We do talk in broad brush strokes about how overarching cultural norms impact the way countries act in a way that does seem to marry up with reality. The way the US acts does marry up with a commitment to a broadly liberal international order, underpinned by the principles of the Constitution. The UK acts in a way that is informed by its history and a respect for the rule of law. China and Russia, on the other hand, act in a way that respects individual sovereignty and the 'international order' much less.

The English school has much to say, even if you acknowledge that it may not pick up finer distinctions, and is still tied to a Westphalian view of the world (both valid criticisms)
I just asked a macOS programmer why he’s tweeting about back and forth code conversion between Swift and Objective C. His response was “Swift is dog slow.”
I doubt that Google's options are shrinking. There aren't that many companies with similar pay scale or culture.
At least the way google did it your first example could totally be an okr. Not every okr is some deliverable.
That's base pay and doesn't include RSUs.
I think designing for static types changes the design of a library’s api. So, in this case, Pandas would likely have to evolve (handwave) in some fashion, if it were to support Mypy types.

One way Mypy could help do this is by implementing a feature like Type Providers https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tutorials/typ...
Sounds like you're not. If you don't want the taste of meat, there is 0 point in you caring about this at all.

But as you said, those options have no protein and aren't trying to be a meat replacement.
Electric cars are still not good enough because they weigh so much more per passenger than electric trains
amplified by the new model of game design to drive loot box sales above all else, which means fun gameplay is no longer a priority compared to designing systems that encourage users to spend on microtransactions, especially addictive-personality types.

quoting a comment from another thread
"it used to be that you felt good because you were having fun. In this new era of micro transactions the games aren’t even fun anymore. There is only frustration, and then you pay to alleviate that frustration. You sometimes find yourself sitting there say, “why am I even doing this?”"
I have a friend who worked at Archer for a couple of years and spoke highly of the team there. Good luck!
Integrate this with https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware!!!
IMO it all comes down to the place that cooks it. I've had oily ones and I've had ones that were very meat like.
> Insights that can only be derived through higher-order analysis are left to the intuition and synthesis powers of the learner

As a robotics nerd with a highly technical background and knowledge in Visual Basic, Python, C++ and the Arduino-flavored variant of it, I highly disagree. I feel that those who say "code should document itself" miss the fact that, at least to a "novice" there's a lot of stuff that doesn't self-reveal its purpose. For instance, the Arduino extensions to C++ are very confusing at times, and the editor doesn't even have tooltips or the like. Even after switching to Visual Studio Code and its Arduino extension (which is great, BTW- thanks to anyone that's reading this who helped out on either project) there's still a lot I don't natively understand.

I personally don't document all my code, but like how third-graders don't natively understand the Pythagorean Theorem, but can be taught it, I put everything that I didn't understand right off the bat in my notes or my engineering notebook, and / or in my code, often with a StackExchange link that has a more complete explanation.

I find it somewhat offensive that even in products targeted towards "Makers" where this might be their first programming project, the documentation is sub-par and StackExchange is better, even in just pulling out some code that's already there somewhere else. [0]

Physics doesn't speak English, you translate it in your head. Eventually. Code is a different language, that like English with its weird (I before E, except after C, most of the time) rules, needs explanation from time to time. We're not all college graduates with a BS in Comp Sci, and I feel like movements like these make programming more elite and off-putting to beginners.

[0] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/67087/analog...
> as discussed in my previous article [1], Go uses memory instead of registers to pass arguments and return values across function calls.

[1] https://science.raphael.poss.name/go-calling-convention-x86-...

This is very surprising for a language that targets somewhat high performance.

Looks like it's a 5-10% performance hit, but makes it easier to provide good backtrace information: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18597
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Not at all. If you achieve your OKRs regularly, you can expect to get promoted. If not, you can expect not to get promoted. Being clear with it helps everybody. If you don't get promoted although you achieved most of your OKRs, you should run from that team / company.
Everybody's acting like OKRs are this enormous heavyweight process. Why? You just write down what you're planning on doing this quarter in a prioritized list. The purpose is to broadcast your view of your priorities, so interested parties can ask that they be adjusted. At the end of the quarter you look back and review what you actually accomplished. It's really not that big of a deal.

The process gets heavier at the level where OKRs are getting aggregated across multiple teams, or teams of teams, but that's a cost paid by managers, not by "drones," so I don't see why line employees should be concerned with it.

FWIW I spend about four to six hours a year thinking about OKRs, and that's assuming I'm paying attention for the entire OKR team meeting (fat chance).
The entire value of the offering was traded in the first 30 mins which goes against that narrative a bit..
State and Local Tax deduction is limited to $10,000. It isn't eliminated.
Would it be possible to pass a flag to go build to change runtime.pclntab to the pre
Go 1.02 implementation?

I don't actually have the author's usecase though, I tend to build microservices in Go!
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All the beef has to be kosher.

Not only that, but the kosher requirements (no dairy and meat together), depending on how kosher you are, also to apply to the plates the meal is served on, the equipment the meal is cooked on, and food storage areas; you need strictly segregated facilities, and washing between uses does not make it kosher. The requirements are strict to the point where rabbis have to regularly certify kosher restaurants as kosher.
At worst async became a keyword in 3.5. I have to say I am enjoying f-strings from 3.6.