skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manufacturers typically dictate reseller pricing and marketing to serve the needs of their brand ("you can't sell below x as that makes our product seem cheap") so dictating a sales tactic isn't unimaginable. Especially if the tactic is designed to sell services and what not the manufacturer offers via the resellers.

My other guess is that the resellers have figured out that while they cannot fleece you on the price of the device - they all sell the same, identical hardware after all - they can charge you extra for services, support insurance and extra options as long as those prices aren't readily available for comparison.
I often prefer the self service model, but other times I like talking to sales. Some of them are good (just happened yesterday) where they take time to understand your company and goals. He suggested their cheapest plan. You can often get deals. I know of a cloud hosting company that cuts outrageous deals if you talk to sales. Another gave a potential customer 80k in credit to leave AWS.

Most sales people aren't very good and there is a bad stigma that perpetuates
I understand in the abstract why the US is freaking out about China as their economy is eclipsing the US and they are starting to create a competing international order to the WTO/IMF type deal with the belt and road initiative. However, I don't understand exactly what is triggering the national security establishment's (usually stupid and deadly) sudden paranoia about China.

Many people I know simply see these headlines and start to see China as an official enemy. I don't understand why we should see them that way at all. The official enemies of the US are typically brutalized in various ways and slandered in the media. It is difficult to know what is to be taken at face value.
> that software has a monopoly on the work on that software, and as such can demand monopoly prices.

This definitely isn't true.
Should we maybe not try to recycle plastics, but just try to contain them in landfills?

Our atmosphere is polluted with CO2, wouldn't recycling or incinerating plastics release even more of that?
Because it gives you the opportunity to descriptively name the expression, sparing others from parsing it mentally.
Or maybe your customer base and system load has expanded by an order of magnitude beyond the original design.
Providing an easily monitorable spot for people that should be on watchlists.
They're not exactly taking over the world from there, aren't they?

(keep in mind that every time that they have to move, their numbers are diminished along the way)
Fake followers?

Looking at her account, I don't get why she'd have so many followers. She isn't good looking, not interesting, her videography and photography is very average.
How can a 3-4 year old codebase be legacy? That's not a lot of time for the platform or technologies it uses to become crusty and obsolete.
> People can and do profit off GPL'd code

how?
I‘ve never heard of this myth about Chinese products; China still produces tons of counterfeit goods and otherwise shoddy products. How many people actually think China is synonymous with product quality rather than price?
It's still costly, but at least it'd not be blocking the main thread. I'd definitely give it a try!
Rewriting is a very healthy part of software engineering. Sometimes you just didn’t anticipate what the company or product was going to do. The solution you wrote for 1k/qps probably won’t work at a million qps, and it is kind of silly to expect it to.
The map piece is interesting because I've observed that with most major fps games out there. With battlefield it's really bad because it isn't across just maps but game versions.

So you have people who truly loved one setting stick to it till nobody plays any more, but they are then not part of the general population and particularly any new IAP (although recent developments seem like they are trying to fix that).
It's actually worse. She has 2.6M followers, not 2M.

0.00138% conversion rate.
Has anyone used web workers at the edge ... like with cloudflare workers?
> if you took a human brain, deconstructed it's physics down to individual chemical reactions

Frankly, the idea that we can mathematically model 10^21 simultaneous [unobserved] chemical reactions in an individual's head in real time sufficiently well to result in a generalised model of cognition which can be applied to other uses seems more of a stretch than modelling language with ML...
What percentage of your users use Safari? If it isn't impactful to your business, you could ask them to use Firefox or Chrome.

I realize we need more browser diversity and not less, but at the same time we should encourage all participants to keep up so that the burden doesn't fall on smaller players.
Do you also think `if ((x > 3) == true)` is more descriptive than `if (x > 3)`?
Amen! Since I've been involved in hiring and recruitment, I stopped seeing interviews as a validation of invalidation of my worth and rather more as a discussion where we are both trying to see if what we have to offer matches what the other needs.
Based on this, most of the interviews are not interviews anymore, but open discussions.
Yup, my 5 year old saw them all as brown.
That's very interesting. But I think it probably is the fact they have fresher more youth receptors. If you think of when kids touch warm things and say it's too hot, it's a similar concept. Their eye receptor will fire more strongly reducing the main effects of the illusion. Although, if you are on a bigger screen, it may be that it's your eyes that are failing. Bigger screens or zoomed in this illusion breaks.
And yet you did.
Writing scalable software is all about being as flexible as possible. If system load expanded by an order of magnitude and the original design wasn't flexible enough to scale with the load, that's a bad software design.
I also like that it comes with no virtual dom, but just remembering direct references to the "holes" that need filling. It's funny that vdom has gotten so much traction albeit being inherently inefficient.
Have you looked at your firewall’s logs in the last 15 years?
First we must develop ai with the appropriate anti white male bias. Otherwise it’s just a tool of the patriarchy
To me the clear winner of business would be the site that has available pricing for base + options.
Literally they can make an easy $2-$4k sale just by adding [Buy now] button, considering that the rest of the pack are playing tough sh.. to get with the prospects.

I also found one site that has "add to card to reveal pricing" - which is perfectly fine with me. The problem with that specific site is that they only carrying outdated models.

PS: this is hardware device, not SaaS or service.
Can't the returning function be named appropriately?
what about feeding cows seaweed?

https://foodtank.com/news/2017/06/seaweed-reduce-cow-methane...
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An extra chip embedded between the layers would only be detectable by X-ray inspection.
Pro tip: if you ask a user to install a different browser, they're just as likely to use a different site instead.
Thucydides's trap, old as history itself.
From the wikipedia page of the Graham T. Allison who termed the coin:
Allison coined the phrase Thucydides's Trap to refer to the situation that when a rising power causes fear in an established power, it escalates toward war. Thucydides wrote: "What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta."
And a Ted talk from him explaining the matter: https://www.ted.com/talks/graham_allison_is_war_between_chin...
You've repeated the same argument except this time with examples.
If it's smaller, faster and react-compatible, then are there any downsides? Otherwise a switch would be a no-brainer.
Then let me ask you this,if a person has ancestors that were never victims of the "stacked deck" such as immigrants and they happen to be of a race as defined by the government which had been victimized,should they benefit from these reparations?

How about european immigrants that just arrived in the US within the last decade,should native minorities have better opportunities than them?

And what exactly is race? Ancestry? National origin? Consider this list: north african arab,turk,spanish, white skinned mexican,brown skinned egyptian,light skinned indian,albanian and south african with european ancestry. Lets say these people and their families immigrated to the US in the late 80's and had children immediately,their children will be treated very differently from each other. Which race are they? The south african is white but the mexican is not so white?

The law has no business defining race or using this social construct for systemic inequalities. This breeds so much strife,resentment and division and is not sustainable.

When you benefit one group, if you in the process benefit and harm other groups unfairly you're only shuffling around inequality. I believe the end result is even more unfairness and injustice to even more groups of people.
It's been discussed here before, I don't buy the descriptive argument per se, it's the function name purpose, but another argument is to anticipate further processing then condition description can become purposeful, and you just have to add code in the right branch
This is addressed in the comment to which you are replying by the prepositional phrase "including a private conversation".
"See how pointless this is?" sounded very snippy in my head, but perhaps I didn't read it charitably enough.
> The fact that sensory information is limited, does not make it wrong.

If you reread the comment you are responding to, it says raw sensory input is the only thing that is not wrong, not that it is wrong.

> For instance, we know that a stick isn't actually bent when it goes into water, even if it looks like it is.

We don't even know that there is a stick, even if it looks like there is, but we do know the sensory data itself. In fact, there very idea of “a stick” (or discrete objects more generally) is a useful, but still wrong, model.

> More generally, we have no practical problem dealing with reality using the information given by our senses.

We have lots of practical problems dealing with that, and lots of practices adopted specifically to mitigate those problems. The historically recent invention of the modern scientific method is itself a (far from entirely successful) method of mitigating a very broad and impactful class of pervasive practical problems with that.

> Sorry for busting up the "deny knowledge to make room for faith" parade.

Faith, where it concerns the material universe at all, is still a method of selectig models subject to the “all models are wrong, some are useful” rule, it's just a method of model selection that isn't focussed on predictive utility, so, insofar as prediction is your key metric for utility, it's inferior to the scientific method which is narrowly focussed on predictive utility.

Pointing out that all knowledge of the material universe beyond the facts of raw sensory data is models that are at best useful but always in some respects wrong is certainly denying lots that is commonly claimed as knowledge, but it absolutely isn't clearing the field for faith by so doing.
Are you prepared to send your children to die in a war over those logs? Both World Wars were caused by such mercantilistic tensions and they were economically ruinous for primary participants.

Why are you in such a hurry to escalate to war and send off Americans to die? Do you think you can really walk off with an economic advantage after war with a nation of 1 billion?
Everybody here is missing why this game became so popular, and it's very common trap with the game. Its the reason why the game has also been so polarizing. I've played the game steadily for over a year now, so I have a bit of a grip on what happened/is going on.

- Fortnite is not a shooting game. This is the main trap of the game. It looks like shooter, feels like a shooter, can be played like a shooter, but is not a shooter. Fortnite is a fighting game and should be played like one. It has an incredibly heavy reliance on mechanical skills (ala fighting games) and failure to recognize this will just lead to disappointment with the game.

- Fortnite's success was a complete accident. The BR mode was a spun off "weekend project" for fun in order to attract players into buying Save The World. It was free and meant really just as an advertising tool. There wasn't much thought put into how it was supposed to play, but Epic 100% did not see where this was going, nor did the community at the time. And that was very much instrumental to it's success. Had Epic saw this coming, they would have totally destroyed the mechanics that made it so good right off the rip. I could write an essay about this, but the short of it is that the building mechanics were used in a totally unintended/unforeseen way and it lead to a wild success. Mark my words, one day in the future, free of NDA's, former devs will come out with some truly wild stories about FNBR.

- Fortnite became a runaway success with kids because they have the easiest time adapting to completely new game mechanics. It gets a little gritty here, but the short of it is that Fornite is a completely new type of game with a completely new type of play style. Older players were trying to shove a square piece through a seemingly square hole (see note 1 about shooter/fighter), while younger players could easily adapt their blank gaming slates to fortnite's play style. Yeah the cosmetics and stuff helped, but nobody likes playing a game they suck at.

TL;DR: Fortnite is deceiving in what it is. Fortnite was a total accidental success, because of accidentally awesome mechanics. Kids love fortnite because they were less prone to that earlier mentioned deception, and can pick up new things much quicker than older gamers.
Sure but then risk being dinged by the customer/management for "over-engineering something simple." How do you determine where the cut off point is?
The last line is a reference to Kant, who made an argument roughly along the same lines as dragonwriter, and said he wanted to deny knowledge to make room for faith. He wanted to preserve religion in the face of the Enlightenment. So far, he has succeeded.
I never claimed that Web Workers are the silver bullet that will absolve us from all our problems. On the contrary, I don’t think such a silver bullet will ever exist.

I am saying that we should be using web workers to keep the main thread free. That is completely orthogonal to good static design, proper bundling, right caching headers, code splitting, asset hashing etc etc.
Self driving r&d is rewarded in stock valuations. First, because you can create great looking demos and hide the real difficulties.

Second, because you can say you will be selling trips, and have network effects,which seems to be a much more profitable proposition than selling robots.

Can you build a similar story for domestic robots ? It would be much harder. And without that, you can't invest long term.

So robotics is advancing incrementally.
I mean, it's the same thing as extracting the boolean expression into a function and calling that in the if statement. It's also easy to imagine a quite long expression that would benefit from breaking into two or three descriptive names. It's a good tool for your own sake when coding, to not get the logic tangled up.
Or perhaps the first project was budgeted to only handle limited scale and prove feasibility. In which case it was a success, and now that feasibility is proven, scale can be budgeted for.

I mean, if people tried to build for mega scale from day one, every pie in the sky idea I have would start with Spark clusters and load balancers and Kubernetes...which obviously is all expensive, time consuming, and may simply not be worth the cost given the business objective.
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Sometimes when you're designing a system, you acknowledge it's bad (ie, technical debt). Ultimately, your purpose is supporting the system (typically the business), not crafting artisanal design and code. I suspect there are many beautiful git repos that are deleted when companies close their doors.
The paper does not have any redeeming qualities and the title and abstract do not even align with the content.

In my opinion, conversation and other high level skills are sort of the icing on the cake of general intelligence. I believe that the key abilities that enable general intelligence are those that humans share with many other animals.

So I think that a research goal of animal-like intelligence will give the most progress as long as the abilities of more intelligent animals like mammals are the goal.

I think that people who have worked closely with animals or had a pet will more easily recognize that.

Animals adapt to complex environments. They take in high bandwidth data of multiple types. They have a way to automatically create representations that allow them to understand, model and predict their environment. They learn in an online manner.

No software approaches true emulation of the subtleties of behavior and abilities of an animal like a cat or a dog.

Obviously it's another step to say that leads to human intelligence. I'm not trying to prove it, but will just say that it seems mainly to be a matter of degree rather than quality. If cats and dogs are not convincing for you, look at the complexity of chimpanzee behavior.

So this is just a half baked comment on a thread, and I would not try to publish it, but I don't think that the paper is actually much more rigorous and yet we are supposed to take it seriously.

arxiv is amazing and we should not change it, but you have to keep in mind that there is literally zero barrier for entry, and anyone's garbage essay can get on there with the trappings of real academic work. So you just have to read carefully and judge on the merit or total lack thereof.
Well, that’s prophetic.

> Of course, a paper degree never made an engineer, but it does eliminate the necessity for the personnel manager to be able to think.

I'm honestly surprised folks were talking about credentialism back in 1968. Almost like they were just as smart as we are grin
As far as immigrants "whitening" their names in the early 20th century, it's pretty common, for whatever it's worth... My wife's last name is Gage, but her grandfather changed it from Gadzeki after he lost a local city council race for what he felt was his "damned Polish last name" (his words). This was in Detroit, and he worked for Ford, which at the time, had a fairly strong culture of "Americanizing" recent immigrants. There was a massive wave of anti immigrant sentiment in the 20's and 30's targeted at Irish, Italian, and Eastern European immigrants, and it lingered for many decades afterwards.

Also, the first name bias is quite real. I dated a lady for most of my late teens - mid 20's named Ticia (pronounced Teecha, rather than Tisha). She's Ojibwe Chippewa, but this was rural TN and SC, so race is treated as a very binary black/white checkbox, and she falls into the "white" category. However, Ticia is a "black" name, for the most part. I lost count of the number of times I saw blatantly rude reactions when she introduced herself.
Did you ever consider using svelte? Or was it not around when you developed this site?
I'd love to know how people like Sweeny and Carmack were able to transition from engine programmers to effective CEOs/CTOs of massive corporations. As monkish, introverted engineers, it surely would have required drastic changes in mindset and personality over the years. What steps were involved? Is there any advice to be gleamed for introverts who wish to become better leaders?
every person who finished some school should understand that speaking about motion without reference frame is meaningless.

Is such frame is proper to Earth (yeah, go google what proper frame is) then the Sun does revolve around Earth.
If the frame is not proper to Earth or Sun then they both rotate around common center of mass which is (relatively) near Sun’s center but does not coincide with it.
That makes 100% sense from a customer POV but this anti pattern exists because it serves (bad) businesses very well.

Say a reseller does exactly what you suggest: initially they might make more money that the competition simply because their sales approach is favored by customers but pretty soon the competition would catch on and embrace the same sales approach. Now everyone have a smaller profit margin on the product or, even worse, might get dragged in a price war.
Interesting in its own right, but has nothing to do with this article.
It's a myth insofar as there is no direct causation. A high quality product can be manufactured in China, and a low quality product can be manufactured in Germany. However, what isn't a myth is that products manufactured in China are generally of lower quality than those manufactured in first world nations like Germany.

It's perfectly acceptable to use the nation of manufacture as a heuristic in predicting the likely quality of a product.
When everyone is an influencer, nobody is.
> I'm sure everyone can come up with a million other reasons.

Indeed. One reason for rewrite is that there isn't a smooth continuum of changes from vCurrent to vFuture. If the discontinuity will have to be bridged anyway, and if other intermediate changes aren't going to bring sufficient improvement, jumping into it might be the most efficient way.
I have played with Svelte, not used it for any project yet.

When you say, “this site”, do you mean my blog? Because that one’s fully static using 11ty.
> what's about to happen with Facebook's cryptocurrency will border on a straight up scam

How is that scenario, in any possible way conceivable, at all different than literally every single other ICO?
I am working on Sciter (https://sciter.com) that appeared in Norton Antivirus in 2007, so it is used in production 12 years already.

And I never did full rewrite. The development started as "C with classes" when std:: was not the thing so I had and still have my own array<T>, string<T>, hash_map<T>, etc.

Since then I've added GPU support, Mac and Linux versions, scripting … a lot of features. But not full rewrite and no need for that that far.

Only incremental refactorings when they needed, e.g. when all platforms got reliable C++11 compilers I started using std::function instead of those ugly inner structures.

Am I lucky or what?
Some codebases are legacy from the word go. Legacy is more about the maintainability than the age of the codebase.
To be honest I do think `== false` is clearer than an inconspicuous exclamation mark but I don't use it.
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Maybe it wasn't built with containerization in mind. ;)
Intelligence is a range of behaviors. Human intelligence is that which produces human behavior.
I think it has to do with the fact that twitch streamers tend to be very engaged with their fans. Especially small twitch streamers. They're kind of like "rent-a-friend" except they live based on donations.
.. its also the mechanism by which it is acceptable to completely ignore the victims of America's illegal drone killings.
Is there an open source solution here? Another name in this space is Gravitational but I'm not sure if they implement ephemeral.
Perhaps you need to log the value of “condition” twice (once in each of 2+ cases) and you don’t wish to evaluate condition twice.
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Despite the similar naming, "Web Workers" is a specific browser API that has nothing to do with "the edge" or any server-side thing.
What “fact” backs this suspicion?
It's no problem - just buy a bigger PCB machine produced in China.