skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO 1) it's already been a fad for a while, and 2) if you're talking about higher-level math (Lie superalgebras, differentiable manifolds, and other big words...) most of it has been and still seems to be impractical (read: worthless) for general programming.
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But at what rate do gasoline customers enter the store now? I suspect that rate is far lower than 5%.

In that case, cars going electric would very positive effect. IIRC, Circle K (a large gas station chain) derives around half of it's profits from concession sales, with the other half from gas.

Additionally, given the higher cost of electric cars, their owners are likely to be wealthier than their ICE driving counterparts. This is an assumption on my part, but I suspect that wealthier people are much less likely to shop at gas stations since items sold their often target poorer demographics. A shift to electric cars would mean that demographics which were already unlikely to enter the store are more likely to make a purchase, while not impacting the lower end clientele.
My passenger, Mr. "Who Are Your Lifelines" [0], was turned into a type 1 diabetic as an adult, seemingly through his interactions with the family court system. At one point I spoke to his sister, who said he was repeatedly thrown in jail when he couldn't pay his assessed child support. He was 18 or 19 years old at the time, and had previously made $100k/year (computer-something, in the 1990's probably), then lost that job. The judge didn't have the ability to reassess the child support amount. The sister said the law was later changed, but it was too late to prevent the destruction of my passenger's pancreas.

Maricopa County Jail did a A1C test on him on intake, and decided this passenger needed a daily time-release insulin injection. If he tried to refuse the injection, he would be sent to solitary confinement.

When combined with the jail's starvation diet, this forced use of insulin is a form of torture: I understand insulin without carbohydrates -> low blood sugar -> cortisol release -> muscle wasting. When he got out he told me he'd developed an intestinal blockage that required surgery.

When he was locked up again 2 years ago (on account of missing a drug court hearing, 2.5 years before), I took pity on him and deposited some funds on his jail account so he could buy snacks to sort of keep himself out of stress-induced deterioration. I have a postcard that said it was incredibly helpful knowing someone on the outside cared about him. He supposedly sent me three postcards, but I only got one.

"Do the most expensive thing possible" seems to be the guiding philosophy for the American approach to Medicine. The doctors quoted in my recent submission [1] pointed out that they can do expensive things for their patients, but have no ability to provide what their patients actually need.

My step-sister's husband is a type 1 diabetic. I just learned he had a bad case of the chicken pox just before he was diagnosed as a 3 year old child. A friend's 2 year old daughter became a type 1 diabetic soon after her first weekend at her biological father's house -- this was the first interaction with her birth father; I'm sure the kid was like "who the hell are you and where is my mother????".

I bet in 20 years the new myth of Diabetes will be that it's a chronic condition that can only be treated palliatively. "Stress" seems to be the cause behind the symptoms of diabetes. If doctors treated stress instead of the end result of stress (pancreas dysfunction / insulin resistance -> high blood sugar levels), people would certainly have much better outcomes.

[0] https://www.taxiwars.org/p/who-are-your-lifelines.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864
Converse, before going public with criticism, it's better to:

- be mild, and

- throw in "unless I missed something"

. . . because the likelihood of being at least partially wrong is non-zero, and the crow tastes better with less flame broiling.
>Currently charging at night at home is cheaper today, only because power company makes it so. Ideally cars should charge when the sun is up, in day time.

Power's cheaper at night because demand's lower. The sun being out during daytime does make more solar power available, but there's also higher demand because everyone's awake. Unless there's evidence to the contrary, I'm inclined to believe that night power is cheaper because of pure market forces, rather than being dictated by the power company.
There's one of these in North London as well. I know a fair number of Jewish people there, some more practicing than others. And this is indeed why they have the Eruv, it's to allow them to do some stuff that would otherwise be forbidden.

Another one of these sidesteps was that you can't turn on the TV on the sabbath, but there's nothing stopping you from visiting your friend who happens to have the Spurs game on.

I'll be a little bemused if I die and it turns out there's an afterlife, and in fact it was all a game of rules that you could play with like that.
Sorry, what point are you making with that foto?
Can I ask you what you are trying to achieve and why you are looking for this advice?
My original calculation added in an unintended currency conversion (Google assumed that "40 million" meant "40 million US Dollars), and I also meant to clarify that I was talking about this single initiative, not the overall IT budget. I've since edited my number (0.03 instead of 0.02%)
Interesting theorem, though experimental data might be hard to come by.
Is cicd sidetracking infrastructure optimization
To be clear, you’re not disagreeing that the author identifies a problem—you disagree (as I do) that “organized fractally” is not a meaningful phrase that can guide the development of new AI, correct?
Cool, I did not know that.

Why any organisation would choose to deploy regular desktops if this option exists, and why wouldn’t someone like the NHS not already be using this?
Can't you isolate cores from irqs with irq affinities? I'd be more worried by SMM stealing CPU time (ugh... talk about sad stories of 'real-time' Linux...).
There is no fooling going on because God is said to have promised to respect and validate these kinds of hacks, a form of devolved governance to the rabbinical law if you will. And a more conservative approach indeed does not distinguish between the word of G*d and the word of the rabbis but it is far from universal even among believing and practicing Jews.
Totally. But who's to say that watching dumb television causes most of the decline, versus a neglected brain taking the shortcut to comfortable brain-dead TV?

I would wager it's more of a vicious cycle, with other factors at play.
You're missing out.

For one, relying on information to surface in light-weight form means that - even if it surfaced - you would be behind the curve.

Secondly, it probably doesn't surface. A heavy book you engage with builds rich models: you don't get that from light-weight online content.

Thirdly, if you want to positively differentiate yourself, acquiring information others don't have is one method. Reading books others don't read is one way to get that information.

Anecdote: Feynman used to have others ask him to look at the integrals they'd been unable to solve, and he was often able to solve them - something he attributes to having read a different math book that presented some seldom-presented integration technique.
Idea is really nice, but with such unpolished execution, I'm surprised there is so much revenue.

RE the execution:

- filters work unintuitively: selecting more filters often increases number of matches

- some filters are very fuzzy, and don't even have detailed description: "Creative + Innovative", "Committed to Personal Growth" or "Bonded by Love for Product"

- you can't negate the filters: e.g. you can select "EQ > IQ", but you can't choose "IQ > EQ", or any value which goes against progressive viewpoint.
It's kind of disturbing to me that so many people in the comments are defending Linus's tone here. He writes like petulant child. Its wildly unprofessional, and only makes it harder to follow what follow what he's trying to say. I'm really glad I'm not actively involved in any community he's a part of.
All of these little details vary dramatically depending on the exact CPU and workload. I've developed a wide variety of scheduling strategies and have used neural networks to predict when a given strategy will be better. Scheduling is giant non deterministic mess with no ideal answers.
I had to switch on a project because I couldn't get IE support working :( A shame (that I have to support IE) because parcel is excellent.

I believe the new version will make it fairly easy to do differential builds - so users with modern browsers don't have to download all the Polyfilla but it still works on IE
The actual secret is low cost of capital and low labor costs, probably both in violation of various labor / tax / finance laws and regulations. This supposedly gave him free cash flow to invest in capital improvements.

"in 1998, he scraped together the $75,000 down payment, much of it from family and others in the local Egyptian community"

"One key factor: Said staffed his new location with fellow immigrants from his church, Saint Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Lynnwood"

"with the help of a broker — another member of the local Egyptian community — Said got a loan and closed the deal"

"Mainly, Said checks in with his managers and staff, many of whom are Egyptian immigrants looking for their own start in America. Many are referred to Said through his church or the local Egyptian American community; some hear of Said even before they leave Egypt."
Well, this should promote a calm, reasonable discussion.
Scaling a location based workforce that the owner is visiting once a month and maintaining quality standards is hugely impressive.

As the article explains the owner is drawing his HR from the Egyptian immigrant community.

As such I think the “secret” of success in this tale is the unique funnel he has developed to find motivated, highly responsible, and respectful labor.

Which is almost impossible to find in the US at this point with employment reaching all time highs.

Good lesson for anybody that thinks the “buy and improve” strategy is going to come from giving a near minimum wage worker a playbook and checking in once a month.
>charging at night at home is cheaper today, only because power company makes it so.

They make it so because there's excess capacity at night, when most everyone is asleep. This is not an arbitrary decision.

>Ideally cars should charge when the sun is up, in day time

That's not even remotely true. Someday MAYBE, if massive solar deployment shifts our excess capacity from night to daytime, but that's certainly not the case right now.
Sure!

https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/league-of-lege...

> As players win games in ranked, they gain League Points, also more commonly known as LP. They also lose LP when they are defeated. Upon reaching 100 total LP in a given division, players enter a promotion series to try and get to the next available division.

> Players must win a majority of their games in order to advance to the next division. Promotion series within certain ranks, like Bronze III to II, are a best-of-three series. From one rank to the next, such as Silver I to Gold V, promotion series are best-of-five instead.

> If a player doesn’t win that amount of games, then they’ll need to get back to 100 LP to try again.

----

Yes, the exact details of how your MMR is calculated is kept secret, but it doesn't matter if you still know exactly what you need to optimize for: winning sequential games, often in chunks, and going out of your way to avoid losing streaks which can result in demotions.

Arguing that hiding the exact MMR formula means that players won't alter their behaviors to fit its approximate contours is like arguing that because Google's page-rank algorithm isn't public that SEO is not a thing.

(Some of) the consequences of this setup include:

A) losing matches becomes much more costly, which exasperates the problems League has with feeders and trolls, and lends itself to a more toxic environment.

B) Experimentation and learning new heroes is best done off of the ladder until you feel like you're competitive with that hero. Experimenting on the ladder is not only bad for your rank, it's also likely to get you reported by other teammates as a feeder (see the toxicity mentioned above).

Players are effectively optimizers. If you give them a system with a clear success metric (ie, a public rank going up), they will optimize their play-style to fit that system. Designers often assume players will stop doing this at some point. They won't grind in an RPG because that's boring. They won't bot a competitive game because that's not fun for other players.

Most players don't think in those terms during gameplay (myself included). Thinking that way is hard. As a designer, if you want a player to optimize for creating a fun experience for themselves and others, you have to explicitly build your publicly-facing systems to encourage that behavior.
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That happened to me the last time I seriously shopped there (excluding subsequent visits with my kids for historical/tourism reasons). Returned a brand-new, unwrapped HP PC and watched in horror as the returns clerk clumsily defiled its pristine seal right in front of me. I assume it was later wrapped right back up again, but there's no way a roughed-up item like that would have ever been the same.

I get the risk of fraud and all that, but it seems the Palo Alto Fry's didn't understand the corresponding brand cost of selling blemished merchandise as new.
My favorite early history of Silicon Valley is still the 2013 PBS show ("American Experience: Silicon Valley" - 82 minutes long). I found it to be quite well done:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2547530/
When system is IO busy, processes block (more) waiting for IO completion. IO blocked processes wouldn't know what to do with a CPU, so they won't have it assigned. Are you saying something different?

Decreasing dirty memory decreases flush times, decreasing process write/flush times, decreasing process/UI hangs/pauses. Presumably it also lowers throughput in some cases, but it's better than having UI hangs.
I suspect you don't grasp the sheer size of the NHS. 2.15 million staff (of whom, 1.4M doctors, nurses, and medical specialists), at least 350 hospitals (depending on definitions) ... in terms of employment, this is the fifth largest employer in the world. This isn't about a single, universal, organization-wide SSO system: there are a bunch of systems, and it's a given that many of them are obsolescent, underpowered, legacy systems including exotic or proprietary kit.

Think of it in terms of SSO for an organization the size of the entire US Armed Forces and you'll begin to grasp the scale of the problem.
> four steps

Oh god... How a human being can stand this humiliation? I image this inflating to eight steps in 2030: login, password, 2FA key, face scan, reCAPTCHA, ID scan, phone call, click checkbox in AI TOS no one reads, final click on “We’re done!”
It also feels like we've gone from a mode of thinking that computers should work for people to an era of people working for computers.

One ubiquitous example is when a web page asks for a phone number and it requires the input to be in a specific format. Considering how simple it is for a computer to strip out non-numeric information and reformat a string, this is mind-numbingly annoying to me.
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SunRay were not Solaris-only. In fact virtually all of the ones that sold were used as Windows terminals.
The rate of customers who make additional purchases is closer to 50%. Source: I know a guy who runs a gas station. Profits from additional sales are bigger than from selling gas: they have 3-4% margin selling gas and 30-70% margin selling additional products. Coffee, wiping cloths, chocolate bars, etc.
Good point! How about assembly (x86/Arm)? How about Rust?
You can't copyright a game mechanic, but you can copyright content. This is why Words With Friends has a different board layout, tile distribution, and tile point values from Scrabble.

In that Set C&D, the infringing implementation is using art assets from the copyrighted Set game. Presumably, a version with different colors/shapes/etc (and a different name, so as to also avoid trademark infringement) would be totally fine.
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Despite having just started a remote job (and acquiring more free time in the process) I struggle with the motivation to work on side projects. This may be because most of what I work on I rarely ever finish.

I don't have any issues with finding time to read, do my chores etc. However I feel a great sense of apathy about the idea of opening up my machine and starting a new project.

Will this pass in time? What have some of you done to reinvigorate your interest?
Would someone mind listing the myths? It’s hard to understand which myth is referred to by number when you can’t read the article.
I've ogled that book at Barnes and Noble for a few years now but was never sure whether it was meant for professional mathematicians (the volume is saran-wrapped). Thank you for enticing me to buy it.
Like so many of these rants, he doesn't actually demonstrate his ideas fix the problem, he just insists that they do so without proof.

Less thought-leadering, more actual results please.
* Nobody uses windows terminal server for anything serious, because of its reputation for security holes (which may or may not be outdated, but y'know, "java is slow" etc etc).

* Nobody likes Citrix, even (or particularly) when they use it every day. The amount of compromises and hoops that app developers have to consider to deploy on it, is significant.
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This is Jevon's Paradox of software development.

As self driving cars enable us to fit far more cars on the road before causing the same level of congestion, people will start taking increasingly longer car rides for decreasingly valuable reasons, up until the roads are equally intolerable as they were before the innovation had occured.

Replace "self driving cars" with "faster hardware / more memory".
Maybe, but I’ve never seen the solution implemented on Windows. I’ve worked for multiple organisations where it would have made more sense that deploying individual desktops, but I’ve never seen it done, at least not with a thin client. I’ve seen and used SunRays.
I really enjoy Flask too.

I remember back when I updated my Build a SAAS App with Flask course[0] for Python 3.7.x when it was originally coded to support Python 2.7.x and 3.4.x, and it took like 15 minutes.

Also updating Flask to 1.1 from 0.9.x took around 2 hours but that also involved updating ~20 top level package dependencies at the same time, so most of it had nothing to do with Flask specifically. It was more about updating the whole app (which is a large SAAS app with payments, etc.).

I really like knowing that if I don't update my packages for ~3-6 months then the upgrade process will still be super painless.

A few weeks ago I also added Webpack into the app (and course) and even that, along with updating to Bootstrap v4 from v3 only took a little over 1 full day's of work, and that was starting from scratch and rewriting all of the CSS to SCSS and JS to ES6 JS. It's just so nice when your web framework gets out of your way and lets you use native tools whenever possible. It makes it SO much easier to follow that tool's documentation and online examples.

[0]: https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/
>> If things remain the same

By definition, if EVs become dominant over ICE, things haven't remained the same. Gasoline is voluminous, and both expensive and difficult to transport and store. Electricity requires no volume or storage, and thus the need for a specialized "gas station" is mostly negated, as virtually anyone can offer it.

I imagine most workplaces will offer low-cost charging as an employee benefit, thus, most people will have the option to charge either at home or at work. How many drivers will still need to stop off at a gas station then?
It later goes to explain a method to derive annual doomsdays based on a century-doomsday
EXACTLY! I wish someone would just explain why the behavior is different. Does linux only sched_yield on the same NUMA node ? (Linus' reply seemed to imply that). Windows will not pin threads unless you set processor affinity, AFAIK, so maybe that's the difference.

There are runnable threads that are not being run. It would be nice to know why.

Tell a person their code is wrong and you may have saved them from one mistake. Tell them why their code is wrong and you will save them from a dozen.
Because Citrix is horrible and expensive, and TS is (thougth to be) too weak (and again expensive).
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What's interesting is that aircraft piston engines are remanufactured that way (using swapping.)

After flying 2,000 hours, you drop your engine on a palette, ship it back, the mfg. sends somebody else's overhauled engine back to you, and you install that one.

But instead of 10 minutes, it takes over a month. Oh, and that $10k to $100k bill per engine ...
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>And in commoditized situations people are willing to spend more time/money or go out of their way to use your product.

It depends if your customer has money to spare and/or if they value the improvements. Walmart succeeded precisely because people don't care about anything other than price for commodities.
Much higher than 5%. Just stand outside a Wawa or Racetrac or Sheetz and do a quick observation.
Virtual desktops are a whole different ball of horror. Sometimes giving everyone a plain old PC is a ton cheaper than figuring out how to troubleshoot the super expensive nightmare server that has to handle the load of replacing everyone's PCs.
The torrent client isn’t the sketchy part of torrenting.
FiveBooks.com is a good place to find books. Here are some relevant lists:

https://fivebooks.com/category/philosophy/

https://fivebooks.com/category/mathematics-and-science/

https://fivebooks.com/category/technology/
You can, batteries are just super expensive right now. So a trade-in program (like it exists for BBQ gas tank, or the SodaStream pressured gas) doesn't make a lot of economic sense for the partner taking on the risk of getting a bad battery in.

Maybe it could become a possibility in the future as the price drops though!
I don’t really get the point of tv+ for Apple. They didn’t start their own record company for iTunes. Apple’s natural position seems like it should be a middle man between content producers and Apple TV owners.
Well, one can say that about the current 2 day weekend too. And there are people who do 80 hr / 7 day weeks but that surely gets you burned out.
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What a condescending response.

Yes, this person is a student. No reason to act like this.
I don't know if you're joking or being sarcastic, if this was the case sorry. If this is a genuine question, then you'll have a lot of fun learning more about Lisp Machines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

That has been release a long time ago.