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Due to the needs to reduce complexity and have less vendors to deal with most companies use a limited amount of suppliers for datacenter equipment as well like Dell or HPE or whatever.

Data center customers care about support, vendor relationships, keeping complexity down, politics, reliability (= aversion to new products), lots of things. If anything the custom PC market is more focused around specs and prices solely.
Or more recently, if Bill Gates doesn't get the will of the voters he will spend millions and millions of dollars circumventing state supreme court rulings based off of legal technicalities because you believe that you are right and people are wrong.
Smart people don’t understand legal disclaimers
I'm fairly confident that SQLite deals well with filesystem crashes nowadays, see https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html and https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html
Once you care about that level of performance, you can surely optimise your representation to have a greater range (use more bits for the numerator) or greater precision (more bits for the denominator) or some boutique solution like using three integers to store the number a + b/c.

You can store slightly fewer numbers with rationals, because it's hard to avoid having a representation for both 2/4 and 3/6. But the loss of range or precision due to that is pretty small.
They said floating point decimal types which probably means BCD.
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"It all started with a realization: Most the things I search for are easy to find. Did I really need the all-seeing, all-knowing algorithms of Google to assist me? Probably not."

"As a result, I’ve had a fairly tedious but important revelation: I search for really obvious stuff. Google’s own data backs this up. Its annual round-up of the most searched-for terms is basically a list of names and events: World Cup, Avicii, Mac Miller, Stan Lee, Black Panther, Megan Markle. The list goes on. And I don’t need to buy into Google’s leviathan network of privacy-invading trackers to find out what Black Panther is and when I can go and see it at my local cinema."

"I had, based on zero evidence, convinced myself that finding things on the internet was hard and, inevitably, involved a fair amount of tracking. After two years of not being tracked and targeted, I have slowly come to realize that this is nonsense."

Every user is different. What is appealing to the author may not be appealing to the reader. The author was searching for obvious things. HN readers and commenters may have more difficult searches.

Outside of HN, it appears there is a very large quantity of users who search for the same "obvious stuff".
It's not socially OK to be disabled in China. There's a very strong pressure to conform to a certain standard, e.g. use a bleach to whiten skin for women, dress "appropriately", be able bodied, be Han, etc.
but this is not an equivalence relation. You may have a=b and b=c but a!=c

it's horrifying!
Ooooooh, that's what's happening on that search!

I had assumed it was some combination of a bad synonym, partial matching, and a sort order that depended too heavily on site popularity and too little on query relevance, but the torus -> tori rewrite never even occurred to me.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. They're boring, and we want interesting.

To get interesting, focus on what tickles curiosity rather than what triggers rage.

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It’s not the idea that I find distasteful as much as your attempt to defend it and make it appear as a difference of opinion rather than a difference in reality. A lot of the mess we are in today politically is because the media has become experts in teaching people how to defend fairly incredulous ideas, and when those ideas are shown not to hold any water, to end the argument with “let’s just agree to disagree”. That’s not how we reason about facts, and especially about history. Avoiding the mistakes of the past requires us to clearly understand the mistakes made by those who came before us. Theories that don’t hold up water faced with facts are just fantasies and must be treated as such.
The author gives a shoutout to Palladium mag, whose EIC has some "heterodox" opinions on certain ethnic groups[1], as a cool SF philanthropy project. If the author is a liberal, strange bedfellows indeed.

[1]https://splinternews.com/leaked-emails-show-how-white-nation...
The hypothesis behind HowTruthful is that hypertext provides a better UX for exploring pros and cons than a nested collapsible tree would. Try it and see if you agree.

There are still bugs and missing features, but I think I'm far enough along now to prove the basic concept.
Unless they really want to have him for the laughs, they need to drop Steve Tuck from the tech podcast. Using "instruction set" in place of "instruction” and not immediately understanding the forward slash / backslash disconnect between Windows and everyone else really puts him in a different mindset
What was the arrangement before?

The "Pro Unlimited" plan (which is an odd name for a basically working service) cost as much as Netflix ($12/month) which seems a little steep unless you're using this professionally then it is nothing.

I guess it seems like there's a gap now between basic/free (15 tracks/3 hrs total) and Pro (unlimited/$12 per month).

For example: "Casual Tier: $4/month, max 1x track upload per week, basic support, basic stats." A tier to try and build an audience then $12/month once you're established ("Pro" tier).

But maybe $12/month isn't that much and I am just out of touch. Just imaging a bunch of low budget teens who would love to make a go of this but cannot swing almost $150/year for it.

I guess YouTube/Twitch remains free, people could that instead until they're established.
Storing money in floating point is always terrible. If speed is an issue, store it in integer types representing the smallest unit in the currency, e.g. pennies.

Unless you’re doing, what, massively parallel GPU algos on batches of independent amounts? But even then you could use the float as an int in that way... Honestly when is float ever actually good for money? Not for speed, not for correctness, ...
Countries like China recently gained those industrial capabilities, and the reason for that is not just because they have access to cheaper labor.

Don’t forget the psychological side. If an industry is booming then ambitious, motivated people flock to it, colleges teach courses in it, people look to build long-term careers in it. The West had that from the Industrial Revolution up until the 80s maybe. China has it now. There are still a few steelworkers and shipwrights and even miners in the UK but those industries are winding down. If we ever need a lot of warships in a hurry - which has happened not that long ago - we would struggle. The expertise is lost.
That depends on what you mean by computational advances. If you mean advances in computer hardware, I wouldn't hold your breath on that helping much since these are generally exponentially scaling problems meaning that tiny incremental improvements in simulation fidelity or system size require doubling the computational resources.

Quantum computers, if large enough ones ever materialize could give us a revolution in computational many-body physics because they could actually circumvent this exponential scaling.

The most promising straightforward avenue though is actually just developing better algorithms that make more insightful, appropriate approximations to correctly capture the physics we care about. That may or may not be what you meant by computational advances.
Bingo! You did a great job explaining this reverse-discrimination/preemptive excessive PCness that so many people advocate for yet are just apart of the problem (or close to it) as their corresponding counter-parts on the other end of the spectrum.
If you are earning interest at a bank, and you've earned a fraction of a penny, they will eventually pay it to you once you've earned enough for a whole penny.

i.e. they track your account balance to more than 2 digits, they just only show you 2 digits.
"A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World" by William Bernstein provides a sweeping overview of world trade - including spices [0].

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DDG just doesn’t work as well. Also, to ease switching friction it needs a gradient mode where it will start in what looks and feels like Google and then slowly transitions to their normal product.

Once you get over the initial UI muscle memory shock you eventually realize that the results aren’t as good and you jump back.

I can rarely find what I need with DDG and usually always find it instantly with google.
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Alone, most likely not. However, the second amendment has never been formally challenged in such a way and there is little legal precedent formalizing the right for Americans to individually own weapons.

It would be naive to think that any change to US law with regards to guns will change anything overnight but we have to start somewhere and allow for the culture around gun ownership to change over time.
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It's incredibly easy nowadays. Compressed voice takes very little to archive. Speech recognition allows to index everything. I don't believe that every government does not do this.
Disabled individuals don’t necessarily have mental disabilities. Why do they need to be protected from bullying anymore than a typical obese/short/tall/whatever person?
Little fun fact: DDG respects my macbook dark mode settings, google doesn't
Years ago I met first time with quantum computing through https://www.dwavesys.com/tutorials/background-reading-series..., then there was a python simulator on website and call for the beta testers but the slot was closed quickly. Kudos for great tutorial!
Let me be clear: there are conditions that are routine, and whose treatment is deferred to roles that are not as specialized as a doctor. That does not mean that the provider/patient interaction is any less personable just because the treatment is standardized.

Treating the sniffles does not require a personalized care plan in the majority of cases. You'll get the bog standard treatment of the symptoms, which is actually the best we can do. It would be an institutional waste to personalize that kind of care for each patient and provision an M.D. each time -- you'd actually be putting other patients at risk, with more complicated problems, who critically need that doctor's experience instead.
If you go back far enough, it's where the term comes from, but it doesn't make sense today. That would nominally make it an oxymoron for a "conservative" party to ever propose any kind of change, but clearly they do.

It's a fairly common outcome for political words to get stuck to changing movements rather than identifying unique positions and policies over the course of decades and centuries.
The result is that your number system (a) makes many common operations dramatically more computationally expensive, (b) has less predictable rounding which is very tricky to reason about, (c) generally gives worse results for the same bit budget. Instead of e.g. evenly spaced numbers, you get spacing like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%27s_question-mark_fu...

One thing you can try is storing a floating point numerator and a floating point denominator, and renormalizing them by bit shifts instead of finding GCDs. This lets you avoid rounding errors for small ratios. For general purposes this advantage isn’t really worth doubling the number of bits and complicating arithmetic for though.

See e.g. https://observablehq.com/@jrus/qang
Salt was more of a symbol in that case, similar to Tea for American independence.
Is there some reason why capital & lowercase versions of some of the letters are so different? If it's meant to resemble Arabic that might suggest they are different sounds,not just a lowercase or capital versions. I don't see why different characters makes sense at all. This seems to be a featural alphabet, but not being a linguist the "front/mid/back" stuff is nonsense to me too.
there are only two kind of problems, trivial problems and those that you don't know how to solve (yet).
Trump administration plan 'would cut food stamps for millions of people'
I don't think it's the ratios like 1/20 to 1/40 that are the cause, it's children in those classes. There was a HN thread about magnet/gifted schools and how they made a night-and-day difference in terms of quality of education and wellbeing for quite a few kids, just because there weren't disruptive/mean people there. That's what I've personally witnessed as well. I don't think homeschooling has any hope of beating a well-educated teacher in a good learning environment, that's what we should strive for really.
All numbers are equal to 1 in a number base of themselves.
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I'm visually impaired, among other things. I make some of my money doing freelance writing and I also know a little HTML and CSS.

I refer to editing my own writing as "cleaning" it, an expression borrowed from programming.

It's a pain in the ass for me because of my issues, but the computer or human reader equally don't care. So I just work at it and layer in extra steps.
Right, it is not correct. But many programs do it wrong. If you just do a couple of additions the problem will never be noticed. It's easy to write a program that sums up 0.01 until the result is not equal to n * 0.01. Not at my computer now, so I can't do it again. I remember n was bigger to be relevant for any supermarket cashier. But of course applications exist where it matters.
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I've never met anyone in real life with Tourette's, just as characters in a TV show that's trying to be edgy.

But in browsing TikTok I've met several people with Tourette's and learned about their lives. The majority of them whistle and don't use many profanities and this was a revelation to me. Also a fair number of BBW women who are both sexy and hilarious. But what I haven't seen at all are overweight men come to think of it.

I think that if TikTok wants to protect those under 18 from bullying it's a less than perfect solution. Perhaps they should target the bullies for banning instead?

But for adults it's clearly discrimination and they should stop. Can you imagine TV never airing Jackie Gleason, Benny Hill or Chris Farrelly?
It seems like they are dismissing the hyperconverged offerings from Simplivity, Nutanix, Azure Stack, etc which are definitely on premises offerings that would aim to do what they are setting out on
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> combining error diffusion with ordered dithering must already exist.

> people saying "oh yeah, [...] Knuth mentions it on page X"

Though the following answers your question only in a literal sense, you might find it interesting to read Knuth's article "Fonts for Digital Halftones", originally published in TUGboat (the magazine of the TeX Users Group), Volume 8 (1987), No. 2: http://mirror.tug.org/TUGboat/tb08-2/tb18knut.pdf (Reprinted with revisions as Chapter 21 of Digital Typography.) Though it technically mentions "ordered dither" (on the first page), it uses it in a different sense/purpose (to get an initial patterns of dots that make up a "font" called "odith"). It does do error diffusion though (details are in appendix).

Ah, the next chapter of Digital Typography (Knuth's paper "Digital Halftones by Dot Diffusion") seems even more relevant. It mentions "It would be nice to have a solution that retains both the sharpness of the Floyd-Steinberg method [of error diffusion] and the parallelism of ordered dither" and does something that seems to combine the two. (DOI 10.1145/35039.35040)
Money is not as wierd as anyone might guess. I work on a financial application, and money is almost always just a BigDecimal with the scale set to 2 (and stored in a database as a bigint type or equivalent). When its not, its just a higher scale (for say, compound daily interest on small amounts for a significant period of time).
you may dislike IEEE floats for many reasons, but not for being non-deterministic. Their operations are described by completely deterministic rules.

Fixed point is perfectly OK, if all your numbers are within a few orders of magnitude (e.g. money)
Hard to say. In 1960 classical computing would have seemed totally centralized and unattainable in distributed form for the masses. Who knows what the future may bring for quantum computing assuming there is actually a Conventional use case for the masses (most people probably don’t have a burning urge to factor primes at home like say playing video games).
Last time I checked d-waves systems didn't have quantum speedup thus weren't considered true quantum computers.
Gah, it was too wordy for Twitter, I scrolled to the end and back up to see that "They got an air force to circumvent Italy's limit of planes set after Italy lost WW2, but the allies/US had to circumvent because of the cold war".

That's 1 tweet. I fucking hate Twitter longforms, because my eyes have to keep hunting for the next part of the content...
Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/1357/
When I see my doctor, there's an understanding between us. We both know that professionals like software engineers and doctors look up the answers constantly. I don't expect him to know everything, nor is that even possible. I do trust him to know how to find the right answer, and think structurally through a set of symptoms, and debug them.
This is one of my favorites as well!
Seems to use the German way to punctuate quotations even though it's an English article :)