skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are implying that the consequence of not wearing a seat belt and having an accident hurts only the idiot? That's not the case. There's a cost to society (we have to clean up the mess) and to the family (if any). It's incredibly selfish and irresponsible to take such completely pointless risks.
It's somewhat fair price because ~8 cores Ryzen contains a one CCD contains two CCXs, and one CCX contains 4 cores.
So AMD can ship a CCD chip which contains good CCX and bad CCX for 4 core CPU rather than throwing away. 4 core SKUs are reasonably cheap.
Interestingly I dont have an issues with processor power as I think that is early solvable. Throw in additional $20 BOM cost and it is done.

My problem is I want to spend dollar on NAS with 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps or even 10Gbps Ethernet. But the whole ecosystem of NBase-T or 10Gbps Ethernet is ridiculously expensive. From Switches to Router.

There are just something I dont want it to live on the cloud and prefer to stay within in my own premises. But the whole Industry has far too many interest in sucking us all into the cloud.
> There are very clearly many queries with no advertising revenue, because there are many queries that show no ads.

Queries without ads do produce revenue. They are an essential part of the formula.

Think of people standing around in bars. We cant argue that just standing there doesn't produce revenue.

The flowers on the table in a restaurant produce revenue.

Free parking produces revenue.

If queries without adds didn't produce revenue they wouldn't exist. More often enough it doesn't even take an extra query, the adds will sit behind the links.
> As for alignment guarantee by the language: your own example code uses pointer arithmetic to conjure up a class out of thin air that is overlaid over other memory and thus has the improper alignment you're exploiting. That demonstrates how little faith you are allowed to have in the alignment of an instance of your type if you didn't allocate it yourself.

I forgot to point out in my other reply: -fsanitize=undefined immediately catches this, and gives me the exact source file / line number of the bug. So there are ways to convince yourself you're mostly doing the right thing.

EDIT: Scroll up to the first error in https://wandbox.org/permlink/q0mxk5DViIVs2GBl if you want to see an example.
Jio's parent company is Reliance Industries which is run by the richest family in India. So the usual rich people bad is the reasoning here. In reality, all rules are applied to Jio just like they are applied to other companies. I know this because I have worked there for a while.
I have no experience with the Army and even I knew that "Army of One" is a dumb as shit slogan. The entire military functions only because of chain of command and submitting to the organization rather than the individual. Otherwise how else would you get someone to risk their life for something as nebulous as a "mission"?
That's an interesting perspective. I guess for those of us on Mac and some Linux-ish OSs, we expect things to just work and look standard. I don't use mac but I think most users are accustomed to applications fitting in with the system, and Apple seems to make a big deal on both macOS and their mobile OSs about this. This is also true on the Gnome desktop where every single Gnome really looks and feels like a Gnome application - it's very coherent, and though I am not a fan of Gnome, I really enjoyed that part of the experience when I used it recently. On KDE this is also true, where every single application, whether Qt or GTK, looks like it's made from the same components.

And I think that web applications should be like this. They may be delivered differently, but they should be part of the system like everything else. Making the UI elements look like the OS ones is good.

I especially notice it on KDE, since on the default KDE theme the checkboxes and radiobuttons and scrollbars look a bit different from most other OSs and the Gnome default theme. But in the browser my checkboxes and radiobuttons and dropdowns look exactly like every other checkbox and radiobutton and dropdown on my computer, and the scrollbars have the distinctive KDE look too.

Most web apps do behave differently from normal applications, and also have stupid company-specific theming, but it's nice having at least parts of them fit in.

I suspect those who come from a Windows background will not have the same opinion, because on Windows basically every app is a mess of different themes and window decorations.
Regarding telcos dues, AFAIK those companies have been avoiding the dues for decades and they must be held accountable some day isn't it? I can't comment on whether or not TRI should have intervened when JIO started offering free services - if it was allowed as per the regulation intervening by TRI could have given a message that it was acting for protecting existing players and if it wasn't allowed by regulations, Telcos would have gone to court.

Regarding the on-going talks of selling asset, since court has already ordered Reliance to reveal assets, they just can't do away with whatever is the liability set. Indian court system is not a joke.

My original point was that Reliance or Mukesh do not rule India; yes they are clever and do lobbying as any other capitalist does but they don't control the nation or gov.
> I went and bought their cheapest dumb mopping robot, the Braava 240 and even though it doesn't have smart navigation or maps

IIRC that one is based on the Mint floor cleaner they bought several years ago, and does actually do basic mapping, using wheel rotations to measure distance instead of something like lidar.

(I have one of the original Mints from before iRobot bought them, though I've not really used it since getting a Neato)
Yeah I don't disagree that it's not nearly enough for 300 workers. I just think that they totally have a legitimate business model to make Real Money. And my whole calculus was based on just the first thousand patrons, but I think there's a very long tail here.
Mukesh Ambani once said to the son of the previous BJP PM that Congress (the previous ruling party) is his own private shop.

https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/kya-congress-muke...
Would be cool if it came with JS to resize, move close windows etc.
From what I've seen, once parties are dropped from the ballot (it's common to have positions where party isn't listed) people seem to stop caring about them. I've seen hyperpartisan areas where people will never vote for party B over party A when party affiliation is listed on the ballot, but when it's not listed they end up happily vote for someone from party B over A. Removing parties from voting would make it less likely that so many issues break down among strict partisan lines, and would make compromise much more likely because not every piece of policy would be tied to a political identity. Factions would still exist, but they would be much more fluid and adaptable.
Anyone have any links for recommended textbooks? It'd be nice to have a sort of roadmap for a self learner. Especially recommended soviet textbooks.
I'm running into more and more things that claim they don't support Firefox on Linux. We're headed to browser monoculture
I had to compile linux once and I found the process to be trivial. My distro had a guide for how to do it and then how load the kernel in to grub and it was basically just copy/paste
Studies have shown that cooperative enterprises (and probably capitalist ones with strong unions) choose the latter strategy while more typical capitalist enterprises tend to lay people off.

One reason might be that economic recessions are an excuse for a manager to, from their perspective, permanently "increase efficiency", i.e. make remaining employees do more work, while for cooperative and strong union organizations, the focus is to preserve their social bonds and help each other.
You really don’t need any calculus to learn all you will ever need to know about probability and statistics.
Wait, how does $50M not cover 300 employees? Is fully loaded cost of employees (I imagine most of those 300 are _not_ super high level engineers, but things like CS and admin) in SF really above $160k/employee?
yep, 10+ years in industry and that's how I usually debug (and I know how to use a debugger).
I have a large Elixir project with less than 10 branches (if then else) and they were written by other developers. Conditional logic is done either in pattern matching in function definitions (and some guard) or case/cond or with/else.

I guess case/cond can be implemented with the return mechanism of Chaos. Maybe it's going to feel weird, maybe not.

There is no pattern matching and I got the feeling that's going to complicate things but again, it can be emulated to some degree but the return mechanism. Instead of

def a(0), do: "a"
def a(1), do: "b"
def a(_n), do: "c"

Probably we'll be writing

str def a(n)
num x = n
end {
x == 0 : "a"
x == 1 : "b"
default: "c"
}

Having to define that x variable feels like a waste of code and reasoning on x instead of n (the argument of the function) is a pity. Maybe the function body can be empty. I didn't install the language.

I wonder how that scales on real world cases, for example matching the internals of some complex data structure.
Only if it's easy to swap out for your own. It's unlikely the JS it would come from would fit into they way you do things normally (in your project or even your head).
Someone did a POC of a CSRF against the admin interface for Cisco routers. They sent garbage packets that sufficiently confused the 'hex editor' display view in the admin web pages in such a way that it made a request to another page, changing permissions.
We had a very famous MIT professor on a 6 month sabbatical at our lab in the early 90's. He remarked on the difference between US and our institution in Belgium being that here you can just assume undergrad students would be fluent in basic math subjects, whereas in the US (in this case MIT) you would have to explain even very basic math.

Now 3 decades later we are also at a US level as math has in general been completely de-emphasized at all levels of education.

As for textbooks, at the time EU ones were pretty clean, mostly definitions, axioms, proofs and conjectures, plots etc, layed out in simple black on white, whereas US textbooks were extremely wordy, full of colour and irrelevant photos blasting away at your senses.

Sadly this seems to be the style that commercially won, but I doubt very much it is beneficial to the student.
*It woulda been cooler...
I doubt that the prison demographic is in any way representative of the whole population so that data would be of limited use.
In Soviet Russia, you teach textbook.
This seems like a pretty good reason to phone home with this data, but ... sending back urls WITH query params? It’s pretty common for sensitive data to be in query params, sometimes even things like bearer tokens. I can’t see how query params would be very useful for fraud detection, and sensitive data like this is something you really want to avoid collecting, IMO that’s low hanging fruit to remove.
That's usually balanced against how much money they bring in. If they are profitable customers then it makes sense to hire enough to support them.
It seems they still hiring: https://boards.greenhouse.io/patreon

How is it possible?
There's no reason you couldn't do p2p video chat. Now you just need the phone (which you already need the way things work now).
> asked me once to assemble him software department specifically from Eastern Europe people

I hope your friend realizes that this is clear-cut racial/ethnicity-based discrimination.

It's a violation of the Canadian Human Rights Act, see: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/rights-w...
> If I have a currency and someone hoards, my currency goes up in value based on supply and demand.

Not a desired trait in a useful currency, the purpose of currency is to be spent, not saved; it's a mechanism to exchange wealth, not store it. Good currency has a predictable long term value, it is not subject to the wild swings of supply and demand. The world abandoned the type of currency you want long ago as it was found wanting.

> The only reason I hold FED notes is because the government forces me to do so.

As it should be. Money isn't wealth, money is the tool we use to exchange wealth.
I think people do say that. The notion is that when you look at the people attending Harvard and Mit, for instance, their parents tend to be much more wealthy than the students at Bunker Hill Community College. You're right! That isn't an excuse to shut them down but it might be a reason to think of the system a inequitable. It may be that similar parallels exist in K-12. Then if you're middle class or poor, you have to wonder, "Why am I paying taxes for an elite school that my kid likely won't attend? Can't the rich kids' parents pay for the elite school themselves?" That may be short term thinking or kind of defeatist but it is reasonable.
When I was a kid, my home state of Florida introduced the state lottery, one of the arguments for it was that all profits would go to education.

Of course, what that really meant was that the state could reduce the state contribution to school system by an equal amount.

Harvard says that 100% of the money goes to the students. What that really means is the money doesn't need to come from somewhere else.

Are we to believe that Harvard ("a hedge fund with a university attached to it") couldn't plan for a pandemic, or couldn't have set aside funds for this possibility?

Or (IMO more likely) assumed the government would pay for some of it anyway - private profit, socialized risk.
Apparently NY is doing the same: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/nyregion/gifted-programs-...
I'm totally guessing but I think there's simply a missing "most" in the first sentence:

> Not only are most patrons not leaving the platform, we’ve even seen many of them upgrade their tiers to support their favorite creators during this challenging time.”

Because as the second paragraph reminds us, there's always some churn. I think what they mean is, the churn rate went up a bit, but it's not increasing (though how they can tell from only one month is intersting).

And btw, it wouldn't surprise me if churn goes up, a lot of $1 tier supporrtes withdraw support to save money, but a bunch of higher level supporters increase their donation by a higher amount. E.g. if you're well off enough to support a creator at $10, you're less likely to need to leave given the current situation, and if you do incresae your pledge, then you won't increase it by $1 - you'll probably increase by $5-$10 at a minimum. So the average income could still go up even as churns are going up.
I have no doubt many in the industry will experience a serious reality check, as companies start cutting back and looking at the value proposition of each developer.
Not speaking for the parent, but the article is very incomplete information. The type of test matters a lot and must be mentioned. Fast antibody tests are apparently very unspecific. That is, they would come out positive for a wide range of coronaviruses (which are widespread in general). That doesn't mean that the person is infected with the SARS-CoV-2 strain. A followup would be needed to rule out false positives.

It's disappointing that NPR doesn't report any of this nuance.
A middleware that can be described as Wordpress with access control and Stripe integration, but worse in terms of performance and UX; somehow takes on $165 million in funding [1] and describes their business model as "not sustainable" [2].

Patreon is a low touch SaaS platform that charges up to 12% PLUS payment processing fees. They do not provide any meaningful level of discoverability: you must build your audience yourself.

I wonder how the business would be doing if it disregarded that "raise money and spend money at all costs" model, that Softbank exaggerated? What if it had a WhatsApp-size of team: ~20 employees using sensible and well-architected tech stacks (not chasing the latest shiny thing just cuz its hip or cool)? I'm sure they'd be outrageously profitable.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/16/patreon-raises-60m-series-...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/crowd-funding-platform-patre...
Meant something that'd actually make money. For extra giggles.
In Europe most companies are doing this instead of laying off right now. It's a conventional practice that saved a lot of companies during the 2008 crisis and in many countries it's subsidized by the government.
> Honestly, it seems more likely that California's much maligned car culture has served us well in this case - ensuring many of us maintain social distance which is impossible on NYC's subway and bus system.

California local and state government being ahead of NY in issuing shelter-in-place orders even though NY was being harder hit even before the divergent response also makes a difference. But, yeah, the hyperdensity of the NYC metro area is a big factor.
This is totally true. Just lobby the biggest business instead of the government who didn’t bend for you.
Onboarding UX Patterns
Ultimately those small startup into turn into unicorns
>it's a central example of a law that shouldn't exist when the role of criminal law is to save innocent people from bad people and not idiots from themselves.

Do these people also disagree with drinking/smoking age laws?
> Why would someone want to convert their money into a currency that is meant to inflate?
reply

To spend it of course, that is the purpose of money. You convert wealth to money so you can trade it for some other wealth.
I would love to use this....If I had any guarantee Google is going to support this in the long run....

Google doesn't seem to realize it's not easy getting your friends who aren't techheads to move from one platform to another, so in order to switch I have to know this isn't going to die soon. Untill then I'll stick with hangouts/skype. Why couldn't they just keep the hangouts branding? I have no idea, its kind stupid.

(Also yes, I know hangouts is going to die. But it hasn't yet and that's what all my friends already know about.)
To top it off the bundle size and memory usage would still be more than just running Win95 in a VM...
The company I currently work for made across the board 10% pay cuts this past pay cycle. It has absolutely demolished morale among the rank and file.

Whenever I've been at a company when jobs are made redundant the same thing happens - everyone worries that their job will go if there's another round of cuts and morale plummets. That usually pushes more people to find new jobs, and it's ofter the people who are good because they can get new jobs more easily.

There is no winning strategy for cutting costs.
Even more Texan: "Come and take it!"
It can be, but too many find it "boring" and "old-timey"

Bah...
Tumblr v2?

Patreon is not an advertising supported platform, so it can't be from advertisers. Onlyfans has no problem accepting credit cards; and Patreon is certainly at the scale where they negotiate with payment facilitators.

I'm curious why they made the decision... moral superiority?

If it's a brand perspective, then I think the biggest regret of Patreon in the coming years is going to be not spawning off their own Onlyfans, a reskinned and rebanded version of Patreon.

I wouldn't be surprised if Onlyfans is growing faster than Patreon right now...
You can write a greeting before login with SSH as well. Good place for some ascii art.
This isn’t a good thing for India’s Digital Transformation.
So how is it a good thing? What are you referring to?
Proper Czech spelling is "Koláč" and it is universal word for round type of pastry with some filling in it. There are hundreds of variants depending on area and even familly.
Such a course would be amazing.

We definitely need more course that go down to deep specifics of how OSes work, are implemented.

(I feel like Tanenbaum's Minix book the last excellent piece of literature in the area that came closest. But of course, if you're aware of other literature on this, let me know!)
> As a student initially at a high ranked university, I found I got a better education by switching to a much lower ranked university.

That’s interesting. I’ve consistently heard the same sentiment from ex-students and alumni of certain highly ranked Canadian universities (undergrad) as well. They’ll generally complain about a lack of student support and restrictive policies at these institutions, making it needlessly difficult for students to succeed.

I suspect the higher ranked universities might be under pressure to artificially increase the difficulty of their programs, in order to distinguish their alumni from the alumni of other schools, who’s programs cover more or less the same subject matter.
> teaching was done in the 1800s.

Teaching whom? Peasants?

Soviet system was build as an attempt to provide schooling for every one, what kind of schooling of 1800 you are even talking about?
If you're not into Microsoft ecosystem then you don't really need it.

In IT company where Mac and Linux dominates we are already accustomed to other software and don't see any benefit in changing everything to use One Drive.
The biggest casualty in the pandemic so far has been public faith in news media, governmental institutions and "experts".

The thought is really, really frightening how many people had a very undeniable experience of their local Tinfoil-Hat being proven right not once, but 3-5 times so far.

From the WHO recommending to sustain Airtravel to China and it's refusal to declare the outbreak a pandemic, to renowned Virologists stating that facemask usage is ineffective until the evidence was too overwhelming. From Governments in the span of 3 weeks changing their tone from overconfidence to desperation. Statistics released by research groups that could very easily be disproven by anyone with first semester statistics knowledge...

If anything this will change the world and it is scary to me how much this loss of trust will cost us.

I know a couple of well educated and rational people that are already stating they will not take a vaccine once it's available, simply because they "can't" trust any data and study done on it.

"Where are the adults?"
By CRT are you referring to Critical Race Theory? I'm sceptical that its both that influential, or that any good faith reading of CRT supports sacrificing accelerated programs. In particular CRT in education if anything pushes against reliance on standardized testing scores.
> There is some serious systemic risk in the surreal number of people working whose jobs do not matter at all.

There is perhaps greater systematic risk in not having backups. Too much efficiency can equal a lot of fragility.
> FPTP as in the US will always yield a two party system in the long run as thats the only way you can “win” in it.

I don't think that's true. If you simply removed the de facto state endorsement of parties - if you only listed candidates by name on the ballot and moved to a California type open primary instead of having partisan primaries - you probably wouldn't end up with two parties like we see today.

Party primaries are a good example of this. They're also FPTP, but that hasn't lead to the emergence of two subfactions because such a thing is hard when it's not entrenched in the ballot. Instead primaries have much more loose coalitions of groups and endorsements that shift around in every election. Even in a particular election there are often more than two.
The Examined Life: A Review of Howard Axelrod’s the Stars in Our Pockets