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> with sheer persistence, I busted through leeches.

Thats totally fine too, it’s just that energy could’ve been dedicated to other cards where there isn’t an issue. I also power through some of these occasionally if I don’t feel like busting out pen and paper, etc.

> given enough time, cards you know well will turn into leeches,

Yeah this is an issue. Particularly if you keep periodically doing Anki, with just enough time to have lapses. So I set Anki to mark leeches instead of suspending them, and when I go through suspended / leech cards I do an assessment.
I had envisioned a close up overhead rig where it would mostly be their forearms/hands that are recorded as the primary subject of the recording would be the box.
As I read this I thought "That's about one line in Prolog." I was wrong; it's two.
Why would adtech companies buy anti-net-neutrality comments?

They are some of the biggest proponents of it because they don't want ISPs trying to charge them for transit to their users.
Considering how many other industrialized nations have it, we'd have to try incredibly hard to get it wrong. Plus, it's not like we can't make changes later.

Plus we already have Medicare, and do that pretty well.
I have a regular five-day workweek but to be honest, I work productively only 4 days a week. I find it hard to work productively all 5 days. On the day's I am not working productively, I just pretend to look busy to my manager. It would be nice to formalize this working pattern as a four-day workweek.

Where can I find such four-day workweek jobs?
We’ve just come back up and we’re monitoring.
Thanks Nat! I would also recommend writing a blog post announcing Discussions and its features as soon as you get the chance.

Reading this HN thread, I got the impression GitHub actually did just copy/paste Issues into a new tab, as a commenter mentioned, a belief that was backed up by a cursory look at Next.js's Discussions.

Now I see that's not fully the case.
F# already has the main things people like about Reason.
Does indeed seem to work again, good stuff! (9/10 times, still some sporadic 'whoops' pages).
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Why makes you saw it's a DDoS attack?

Can confirm that it's back up now.
Probably unrelated, but their status page shows Docker Web to be having issues as well, same on Docker's own status page, but it is up for me.

https://status.docker.com
Yeah, but way more people look for answers rather than ask them (not to mention the pain of having to answer the same question repeatedly if they can't find the answer).

Accepting an answer is an attempt, but without the moderation, editing, voting, duplicate closing and so on from SO, the quality and ease of finding answers won't be there.

I'm sure plenty of people remember trying to find answers through forums, and it was a nightmare. The thread might not actually have an answer in it, and even if you get pointed to an answer, it'll often need context from the rest of the thread, it might be out of date, or completely wrong.

To put it simply: there is a reason why people use SO almost exclusively for Q&A, and there is a reason people still use forums and stuff as well. Discussion and Q&A have different goals and conflating or combining them leads to pain for users.
Then it wouldn't work.

They purposefully price it low so that people will go against their better judgement because they can get a really great deal. It wouldn't really be the same scam if they priced it higher.

And I am not saying price is the only indicator. Just that low prices are usually a red flag.

Although, there are studies that show increased sales for products by just increasing their prices and nothing else. So that incentive exists either way, scam or not.
The status page shows a few events related to downloads; generating a repo download is apparently ripe for an L7 DoS attack.
I won't tell you, let it be a surprise.
VS installation is also a PITA if you have your C:\ on an SSD. The installer doesn't give you choice of what partition to install to (for most of its huge disk space demands) so you need to fake it with a bunch of symlinks. The VS team recognizes this problem but doesn't do anything about it, as follows from the comments on https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/...
There is a nice resource about sugar dangers - SugarScience[1]. They provide a good overview of a various aspects and current research.

[1] https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/latest-sugarscience-research.h...
Quibbling over the details is a given, but people are going to like it. It fulfils such a clear need.
> could’ve been dedicated to other cards where there isn’t an issue

Nope! It doesn't work that way; each card is scheduled independently of others. You're not going to see other cards less due to seeing one card more.

Busting through leeches just adds to the workload; you still spend all the same time on the other cards.

(Even if you set daily limits on reviews, that just causes a backlog.)
They send you to SO with questions which have specific answers. If you want to have an actual discussion that involves multiple people, SO is not the place and will close the question very quickly.
I understood the point to be that to do all these things well is very difficult for a single product / company. I worked at a startup where our solution was to replace five other solutions. Only customers with the simplest use cases found that it worked. The complexity from the breadth makes achieving the requisite depth for a good experience difficult.
The claim is obviously wrong. x86 paid the cost for it's complex instruction decode ages ago so the real cost in today's die area is low. Recent changes to the ISA are only incremental cost increases.
Tock OS[1][2] is way more promising since it's written in Rust instead. In 2020 there is no reason to invest time in anything new in C, apart from maintaining legacy software.

[1] https://www.tockos.org/

[2] https://github.com/tock/tock
> It's not huge.

It's massive. Healthcare is byzantine on purpose. It's opaque to patients so that providers can prevent shopping around and adjust charges per patient, and it's opaque to providers from insurers to help prevent having to pay claims.
I wonder what you'd say to the lawmakers who caused that change...
> They're not going to do better than that.

I can give you a few examples where there's room for improvement.

If you liked jules verne, maybe you'll like h.g. wells

If you liked isaac asimov, maybe arthur c clarke.

If you liked william gibson, maybe bruce sterling.

If you liked twilight, arrgh!
I regularly listen to RFI. What the pro EU press tries to spin after brexit is that some questions should not be asked in a referendum, some decisions should not be left to the citizens. I am frequently asking myself the same question. How is this democracy? I'm quite certain that the next thing we'll hear from them is that democracy is not always good or something in that line of thinking.
Yet another to the list[0].

[0]: https://www.osrtos.com/
I'd rather seL4, which isn't written in rust but on a time-proven language (C) and yet has thorough proofs of doing what it's supposed to do, unlike this OS you suggest.
Um. Japan's aim was to quarantine the ship away from their population?
What is O(log n)? Learn Big O Logarithmic Time Complexity
You're saying "it's massive" and, in, like absolute terms, sure, it is; everything we do is massive, we're a huge country. But in relative terms? No. It's not massive. It's a small fraction of our total costs. The total benefits we can reap from minimizing it? Not that great. Ambitious plans based on minimizing those costs? You should be skeptical. You should be asking: how are we going to solve this huge problem by zeroing in on such a small fraction of the total problem? Maybe the answer will surprise you, but you should start by needing to be surprised by the answer.
I guess it's the trade off between backwards compatibility and readability/correctness/maintainability. Both languages will have technical debt overtime. In my opinion, I would much rather have to rarely update python scripts in exchange to for peace of mind that I can fix/update the script as need be. In my experience, *sh scripts can be fragile and hard to ensure correctness.
I think using their logo based on the premise you posted a thread on a public forum is a bit disingenuous.
Linear algebra is like the Swiss Army knife of science, and it is used in pretty much all areas of science for modelling. I assume you remember high school math functions, and how useful they are to help us describe input-output relationships between real number inputs and real number outputs.

Now imagine the inputs are vectors and the outputs are vectors too, in other words we would need vector-functions. Many problems in math, science, computing, economics, biology — you name it — are of this multidimensional nature, so the more you know about vector functions the better models you can build.

As you can imagine describing arbitrary input-output relationships between high-dimensional spaces is quite complicated. Think of all the possible ways that a vector input vec{x} = [x1,x2,...xn] can affect the coefficients of a vector output vec(y) = [y1,y2,...ym]. If you allow arbitrary functions like quadratics, sine, cosine, exp, etc. there would be way too many different ways to map vec(x) to vec(y). Too many ways...

This is where the "linear" part of linear algebra comes in. Instead of arbitrary input output transformations vec(x) --> vec(y), what if we restrict oursleves only to relationships where the output yi is some linear combination of the inputs x1 x2 .. xn, where linear combination means

y1 = m11*x1 + m12*x2 + ... + m1n*xn

in other words, take the outputs are equal to the inputs times some proportionality coefficients mij.
The other output coefficients y2...ym are computed in the same way with different coefficients

y2 = m21*x1 + m22*x2 + ... + m2n*xn
...
ym = mm1*x1 + mm2*x2 + ... + mmn*xn

thus the overall map vec(x) --> vec(y) has a total of m*n coefficients mij.

This map between inputs vec(x) and outputs vec(y) is the vector-equivalent of the single-variable function y=mx (proportionality relationship, or line with slope m passing through the origin if your prefer to think of it geometrically). We call these maps "linear transformations" and they have really nice properties. If you study linear algebra you'll learn all about them. Computationally (usefully), geometrically (Whoooa moments), and theoretically (knowledge buzz). And that's just the math part! Once you start to look into applications, it goes really far... Others in this thread have already mentioned numerous areas of applications in CS areas, and it's the same in biology, chemistry, economics, etc. TL;DR: linear algebra is good stuff!

PS: Here is a short video where I explain more about why linearity [normally written as f(ax1+bx2) = af(x1)+bf(x2)] is so important: https://github.com/minireference/noBSLAnotebooks#ch2-lineari...
We’re testing it out with a ZEIT for now, working to improve things as we go.
I'm not sure that's fair. There is only one party that has ever put forth serious health care legislation in this country. I wish we had two parties policies to debate but we don't.
Thanks! Hopefully helps you find answers, too :)
You might do well reading up on the last couple of centuries of Greek history...
In 20-30 years when we have fusion, and essentially unlimited energy that comes with it, all of the bickering here will look ridiculous.

In the meanwhile, here's what I think about this story specifically: https://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-14
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Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA, pown gene sequencer
No. Pentium Pro in 1995 was the first Intel x86 with register renaming.
> The most common way of analysing metabolite content is gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This technique sorts molecules by their weight, producing a pattern of peaks that correspond to different substances. But the same weight can be shared by many molecules, so the results may be ambiguous.

There's more to it than that. So basically you get a MS profile for each GC peak. But there are various ways to do MS. Some mainly give you masses of intact molecules, after ~gentle ionization. But some also give you masses of fragments, and that distinguishes among molecules with similar masses.
Twitter tests labels, community moderation for lies by public figures
You are part of the hyperactive onsite mainstream HN crowd.single or married but no other responsibilities (children, aging parents and other such commitments). When you live the other life you will see how work just fills up and an extra day feels like a miracle.
Doing EV calculation with personal finances is also tricky, because you don't get repeated trials. In poker, assuming you have an appropriate bankroll, you should be able to make risky but positive-EV bets hundreds of times, such that you will realize that EV. For job choices, you're not going to get more than a few cracks at it. You really need to be more concerned with risk of ruin, especially when the ratios are greater.

The difference between FAANG and early-stage startups can easily be a 50% pay cut, with at least 5 years until liquidation. If you have a 50% chance of that bet paying off, then maybe it's okay - you can do this twice a decade, and you're reasonably likely to end up at least even over a career. If you have a 5% chance of the bet paying off, even if the rewards are large enough to make the EV even or positive, that's an insane amount of risk to take unless you're already financially independent, because over a career you're not likely to win even once.

This is one of the fundamental power imbalances between labor and capital: Capital can diversify. To go back to the poker analogy, VCs are playing cash games - they can take 100 bets of which they expect only 2 to pan out. Employees are in a short-stack tournament - even if you make the highest-EV play, if you're going to lose most of the time, you shouldn't be going all-in.
If only there was some sort of collective bargaining possible to address the unique nuances of our industry
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Oh dang. Kudos. That is such a concise and well explained summary of the polarization in internet communities in general. I don’t think that you can do much about it though. Maybe, write a monthly post on your moderation work on HN that might help people see the opposite side.

At the end, people will have to develop the critical thinking skills required to reason about the way things feel to them.
You should be far more worried about CO2, methane and other greenhouse gases than worried about waste heart because that is just a drop in the ocean compared to greenhouse gas issues.
"And that money, dollar for dollar, buys them an inferior product: l"

No, employees are usually offered options at market value when they are issued. They are essentially 'free' at the time of their issue. If they 'cost something' at exercising time, then they are 'worth at least' the cost of exercising, and usually more.

An 'option' definitely has value beyond a stock, because you don't have to actually take any risk if you don't want to. You can just 'wait and see' - which has very material economic value.
All IBM Executive-series typewriters made after World War II featured proportional spacing.
For those curious about dBASE, this video from 1984 gives a good (and amusing) overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ng2Tp01Hc
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I know what you mean, but given great search, this is not going to be massive difference.
But the ability to link to source code lines/issues/pull-requests as part of the discussion is going to be good.

Here's the thing - I would bet there's an overwhelming majority of users, who "discuss" and ask on GitHub issues anyway. And half the job of repo owners is to close such issues.

So it's not like the natural behaviour of users is to go to stackoverflow for questions/discussions anyway. This just channels existing behaviour
I always think about the distance from my house to my work place in terms of kilometres. It only now occurs to me it’s pretty much exactly 1 mile, and only one set of traffic lights.

Living in a city with approximately 100,000 people has its advantages!
By that logic, it's zero LoC in the Python list comprehension version.
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You're misunderstanding what he's saying. He got a 50% cut in salary, but because all of that comes from the higher brackets, his take home is only 35% less.

I do the same thing (Australia). Worked 9 months last year and made about ~82-85% of what I would have working the full year, rather than 75%.

Incidentally this is why progressive tax is so important for a good startup culture (and thus overall tech scene). It's a negative tax on risk. The steeper your progressive ramp, the less of your geniuses are working in shit jobs creating UI form widgets with 40 managers telling them to redo it every other day.
"VCs and startup founders are shooting themselves in the foot. It makes very little financial sense to work at a startup vs FAANG these days."

Consider that it makes no sense to do almost any job if you can work as a dev at a FAANG.

Not everyone can work at a FAANG, moreover, this is not just a VC/Founder vs staff problem, it's an existential startup problem vis-a-vis FAANG and the rest of the world. You see the issue in housing affordability etc..
I'm still hoping China will take up the torch since current administration in the USA seems hellbent on going downhill and regressing technology rather than making progress in this arena.
If you ever need one of these mattresses, lemme know. I contract to pick them up.
If you ever want one of these open box returns, lemme know. I can hook you up.
Exactly this. Once you have other responsibilities or hobbies outside of work, a 12-hour workday will leave you with absolutely no free time. Add in your typical bay area commute time, and you'd hardly have time to sleep.
Not to detract from your root question, but it's worth being accurate with the numbers.
The number of individual tax payers is 7.6 million, not 4 million. There is also company taxes on top of that [1].

But that's not the whole picture. You also have to take into account non-personal taxes like VAT, booze, smokes, sugar and petrol to name but a few. These are significant revenue sources, and ultimately tax low-income people fairly harshly.

So to say 4 million people are paying for everyone else is an over simplification.

I'll comment on your main question in another post.
[1] https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-28-crunch-th...
By the way, SMT solvers are (sometimes) able to do this in a non-brute-force way. That is, they will actually make logical deductions to avoid exploring impossible parts of the space. I think logic programming languages will also commonly implement efficient searches for satisfying assignments so that you're not exploring the literal Cartesian product of the variable's domains in every case.

I've heard repeatedly about the interesting discovery that Boolean satisfiability is "hard in theory, but not in practice" because most constraint solving that we want to do inspired by real-world problems apparently has structure that software can identify.

But I also think this is an interesting challenge in its own right for thinking about polymorphism, even without getting into how to find opportunities to make the search non-exhaustive.
If you was any one of these open box returns, I can hook you up.
How does backfilling work? Do all destinations support it completely? Do things like the original IP address and date time get passed through?
Ah, my information is a bit out of date because thanks to the quality of Corsair power supplies, I haven't actually needed to buy a new one in a long time.
More pictures of reconstructive tattoos by the same guy:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxgTfcYg1K2/

Another that's NSFW: https://www.facebook.com/eternalink/photos/beautiful-3d-nipp...
For fission reactors that is not the case, a fission core can be as small as few liters in volume without losing power, but are artificially kept to less dense forms, such that runaway supercritical events(intended or not) can only result in Fukushima and not a Nagasaki.

That might be different for this fusion device, but for outdated looking fission reactors it’s artificial dilution for NPT purposes and by no way a technological limitation.
Upon reading this article, I came to the conclusion that there is nothing particularly special about these points except arguably the second to last point - don't these points apply for anyone in any corporate job? For the exception point, many professions simply cannot pursue a side hustle that can really pay off because their day jobs consume them by nature of their profession being such like doctors, so software engineers have some leeway in theory. Sure, many doctors do have side hustles and passions, but they almost always intersect with their profession in some way. Most of my side passions take almost zero knowledge or experience with software, yet people will probably not care unless I explain what I do for a day job with the social proof of competence that brings with it.
I was just reading the discussion happening around the post and where people are going with this. I agree with you Jared, and I didn't find the post particularly compelling as well.

I should have been more clear. I just read through the comments here in HN and tried to make an observation about the level of the conversation that the HN community (is it a community?) seems to be having. Mainly wanted to express that I hoped that we could all learn more about privacy in this day and age, given that it's (or should be) a fundamental matter that relates to most of what we work on these days (at least as people working in tech).
Well his blog hijacked my browser history. Injecting the homepage of his blog. Which is not appreciable.
Exactly. Or just skip the tranches and only give founders as much as they can reasonably spend proving that they deserve more money.
I started out with dBASE III+ but never really got it. Borland had a far superior product in Paradox (which they bought from Ansa). Paradox 3.5 helped me understand the power of relational databases -- the Paradox Application Language (PAL) was an amazing language and so was Query-By-Example (QBE).

But Borland also decided to buy Ashton-Tate so for a while they owned both dBASE and Paradox. dBASE became the red-headed stepchild in the Borland world, but still consumed Borland resources to develop and maintain. It was a weird time in the industry.
Is the goal to maximize your income? It seems like if that’s the goal and you are playing to win, you might make a lot of questionable choices to get that win

Not speaking about the article, just in general. Eg, there is an article about jp Morgan and climate change on the front page too
I'm sure these days they're far more involved in the creation of their power supplies than they were a decade ago when I last had a need to really research any of this.

Anecdotally, Corsair has always been a top-notch company to me. Even when their products go bad, their support is awesome. I had a set of memory sticks appear to go bad, but I couldn't tell if it was my northbridge or the RAM itself. I was a cash-strapped kid, so I didn't have another machine to test with. Corsair sent out a set of known-good RAM sticks for me to test with, at completely no charge to me. When the test revealed that it was indeed the RAM that was going bad, they offered to let me keep the test sticks they sent me until my replacement came in the mail.
Could you elaborate on this a little more? What exactly is "the changed behavior of exactly one microarchitectural operation"? Which operation?
> it's quite possible at the end of the day the fraudster doesn't have significant assets to recover.

It's possible they still have the camera, if they weren't just scoring goods for resale.