skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the rendering is this controlled (and sparse), blocking the thread with it isn't really a concern. And with this data size, serialization/deserialization between the main and worker thread would probably become nontrivial.
It is saying that there is a lower bound to the complexity of the junk in your garage
I no longer have access to stats, but at my last job, we did measurements of packetloss on the backend tcp connections between our hosts. The vast majority of the time, there was either no loss, or some very small amount of loss (maybe < 10 packets lost in a minute).

Generally, when we saw losses, we were able to work with the datacenter to track down bad cables, or overloaded paths, or overloaded fabrics (which was usually in their 'legacy' datacenter). I expect the datacenter networking was overprovisioned (separate backend network, dual NICs on hosts, multiple uplinks on switches, etc), but it was darn reliable. Of course, it would have been nice if the people who owned the datacenter would have been monitoring all the stuff their customer (us) was able to find was broken. And, some sort of multistream connectivity would have helped avoid the paths with loss; ocassionaly the loss would be bad enough to impact service, and we'd need to force reconnects until the tcp stream went on a different path.
AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
Hello, do you accept people applying from Asia?
"developer" if you're a canadian
Almost all automakers are connected at the hip to a capital arm, so I think if anything they'd be unusually well positioned to take on the capex of building out a distribution network. Consider, by analogy, that banks and credit unions are unusual in commercial real estate for almost always owning their own buildings, for the same reason.
This matches my experience; I think some Kijiji sellers do get haggling fatigue after a while, where they've dealt with one too many tire-kicker types who show up offering 50% (or less) of the listed price. Or play other games, like agreeing on a price and then showing up short of cash and making a scene about having to drive back out and find the nearest bank machine. I had this happen once and stood my ground over it; suddenly the missing $20 miraculously appeared with no ATM trip necessary.

Anyway, being able to advertise a price as firm does provide a convenient escape hatch in that scenario.
They just launched two fresh ones last year so they’re good for the next 15-20 years
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Love the menu bar app style
Yes, several times. It was kept in because other text based protocols (like SMTP, HTTP) also specify the use of CRLF, at least for the request.
The benefits of using those services are that communication is much faster when you can just write up a message on your phone or computer and click "send". If you can afford it, it's the preferred way to go. It's better than having to wait for days upon days, and even weeks for your letter to arrive. Even though from what I've heard, a letter is much more personal and very much appreciated.
After recently discovering Gopher and falling down a deep (gopher)hole of exploration, I’m convinced that it, or something similar is a great alternative to the commercial web. What a volunteer-run co-op which sells food in bulk bins is to Walmart.

Simple, fast and open. The exact opposite to something like Urbit, which while it might be open source is designed to be as closed as possible.

Incidentally I recently found a good Gopher client for iOS has some rough edges but is definitely one of the most usable clients.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/gopher-client/id1235310088
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Does this help?

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Does it smell like bananas, though? This is important.
I did such a commute in Los Angeles for a number of years. Weather was fine. Sweaty, but doable. But it just plain soaks up your time, which is your life.

Some people would be cool with that, but it certainly shouldn't be forced on people. And really, it was only possible for me because I was young, single, childless, and had close to no life. To say that everyone should do this is the height of narcissism.
Glad you like it!

Matterport's camera uses a mixture of structured light, deep learning, and other techniques to build a 3D point cloud from each capture. Then, the app aligns the different captures together to produce a 3D mesh.

It's also possible to use consumer 360 cameras with Matterport's app, though accuracy is lower. In this case, the 3D-from-2D estimation primarily happens using deep learning.

You can learn more here:
https://matterport.com/how-it-works
https://matterport.com/cameras

Matterport is a YC company from way back in 2012.
Amazon did this for years. Brand products were listed on Amazon and pushed directly into the brands operations system when sales came through.
I bet he hasn't used LISP 2.
Beautiful demo, thank you for sharing.

I work with analytic tools to watch production systems and they boil my data down to a pathetic number of datapoints prior to rendering, when you know computers — even in a browser — are vastly more capable.
They use jPay and similar because it's faster. Typically in the incarcerated person's hand in a day or two.

USPS takes longer, then the prison contraband checking process, etc.
the split between service reps and the actual service department is another reason I don't like having service done at the dealer, it's annoying having the service rep have a hard time interpreting notes written by the mechanic that worked on it, when at an independent shop you'd just talk to the mechanic.

But most dealerships are set up with a "service bay" that's just the desks of the service reps and a couple of parking spots, then after you leave they drive the cars around back to the actual service department. There's total isolation between the customers and the people doing the work. I suspect they might consider this a feature, "white glove service" or something, but it's irritating when you e.g. bring something in for diagnostics, and then get the diagnostic report from someone who doesn't understand half of it - an experience I have had repeatedly taking my lemon of a Nissan to the Nissan dealership because no one else in town has the stupid Nissan proprietary diagnostic computer.

Seriously, when I brought it in to have them figure out a problem that had been frustrating me for a while (I do most of the work on my cars myself), they confirmed my suspicion that it was the fuel pump and maybe saved me the work of replacing the fuel pump when it wasn't the problem. But, the service advisor also told me they recommended replacing the entire steering rack (!). When I asked why, he seriously struggled to come up with an answer, and just said something about it being worn. Really? the quoted rate on the replacement was more than the car was worth, and he didn't even know why they were recommending it.

Now I think I need a stability control reset that as far as I can tell only the dealership can do. I've really been avoiding bringing it in as I know they're going to charge me at least their $170 diagnostic rate and probably write me a quote for over $8k in work again, all for something that apparently takes about 30 seconds if you happen to have a Nissan CONSULT II.
A frontend does not require JavaScript. I've made quite a few useful MVPs and internal tools whose frontend solely consists of dynamically generated HTML pages served via a Python Flask server with Jinja for templating or a Go server with its native template/html package for templating.

If you want to polish the UI a bit consider throwing in some simple CSS—either handrolled or prebuilt with Bootstrap or Semantic UI.

This reply assumes the project serves the UI over the web. For applications that are not hosted apps, I've had CLI tools just spin up a local server with the UI for a quick proof of concept UI.
I'd think in Dang's case he makes ok much money, and likes the company and coworkers
We wanted to build a simple and fun political personality test to help people find their identity and feel empowered outside of the traditional political arena. We are 100% self-funded, non-profit, and are not directly affiliated with any party.

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So Amazon ECS? Bring the docker container but put it behind a cloud loadbalancer? Or App Engine Custom environment. (not tried to be confrontation just generally feel like a lot of these problem sets have been experimented against and provided for).
Throw more cores at the problem?
Sure, but that's not what the GP was talking about. They directly stated that those who joined would forever be "second-class citizens", which simply isn't factual.
The belief that software could be affordably proven correct was pervasive in the 70s, it led to a research winter, and now formal methods is very much about adding rigor and catching more bugs (some of the most promising directions in contemporary formal methods research revolve around reducing soundness to help find more bugs more quickly).

There is a small subdiscipline of formal methods that comes from programming language theory (judging by conferences, it makes up no more than 10-20%) that does still have this 1970s "subtext", but actual researchers or practitioners are usually careful with what they actually say, and you'll most often find such claims explicitly made only by fans.
U.S. Congress Summons Amazon's Jeff Bezos
tl;dr: No
I don’t see how, since there’s a billion different trim levels and models of the same care with different MSRPs.
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The tech team is just me at the moment (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-segal-aa132093/). You would be the second addition to the team, so I can't really speak to our engineering culture yet. That said, you will be given autonomy and will contribute to key decisions about our work. Work is done during personal time with a time commitment between 2-10 hours per week. This may change as we launch our first pilot course with a university in June - there may be more work to do as we hit some unforseen issues.

I can say there are some good things about volunteering with Anika:

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Sentiments are changing now, particularly with GraphQL. Dgraph bet on GraphQL early on, and it's really catching on as a replacement for REST.
Not really. Percent off MSRP does not translate across models, across brands, or even across years for the same model and brand. (MSRP-to-real-prices inflates year to year.)

So you can't compare some percentage off other than the exact same vehicle sold in the exact same year. But you could already compare the exact sale price of two identical year/model vehicles.
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I realize that with a lot of effort, Python can be performant or can be scaled. It was a pretty low-effort move to rewrite my Python service (which was pretty small) in Go and go from really poor performance to acceptable performance right away, and it only took me a short time. Also, I'm pretty good at Python but I'm not very knowledgeable about optimizing it for performance. I'd like to learn those tricks though.
> If another electric vehicle player tried to get in the game today, I'm sure Tesla join the lobby against them using the same argument.

I think it's pretty unfair to be "sure" of this. Can you name other instances where Tesla has played regulatory capture games?
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The app is unique in that up to fifty people can gather in a virtual room at the same time. But they will not interfere with each other even though there may be several speakers. In this virtual place, you hear and see only those people who are close to your avatar. To move your avatar, tap where you’d like to go on the screen. On a map of the space, you can see where other people are and move to their location. You can also create your own virtual space that imitates a restaurant, a bar, a garden, or even a beach, and then invite your friends to join. The app uses Twilio technology for high-quality video calls.
Apple has built an ecosystem of automatic app re-compiling for new architecture. Every AppStore app that is built using modern (last 5 years) tools and xcode, in theory, should be transparently re-compilable to a different uarch. Apple currently does this with watchos apps.

So, yes, they learned. I suspect they will ship an x86 emulator as they did with Rosetta, additionally.
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I don’t think ppl are traveling as digital nomads because “that’s what you’re supposed to do”. You’re missing the point of what they’re doing.

Digital Nomads are in those places because it affords them a great lifestyle at minimal cost.

Perhaps you’re also confusing travel with sight seeing. For me personally I love to travel but have little care for temples, churches, most waterfalls (unless it’s something truly spectacular) and other architectures which there are millions of around the world, or honestly are just a bit underwhelming. For me, travel is about being in amongst different cultures and experiencing what it’s like to live in a different place, and having unique experiences that you don’t get elsewhere.

Yes, maybe some people are only taking advantage of the lifestyle and have little care for their environment, but like any group of people there’s a spectrum.
Thanks for the advice and i actually wxperience that diminiahing return you mentioned. I initially learnt programming with c++, so mostly picked it up again purely for nostalgic reasons to see where the language is now. It's become unmanageably large now! Where i live there isnt much work in C++, so job prospects are low for C++.

Im thinking of may be Rust or Go right now for more pragmatic reasons. Thank you for sharing your opinion.
>> Pentium? Pentium! We were lucky to have half a 486

I used to run it on DEC Alpha. I wrote a pair of scripts to generate include files of parameters and then render frames of an animation using those parameters. I had to hack POVRAY itself to output .tga files which I then fed to Dave's Targa Animator. A modest 20-30 frame animation took over night on that Alpha. University resources ya know...
Where would you install them on the bike where they couldn't be removed easily? I've thought you could place one in the frame, but that would be difficult to do aftermarket and the GPS and WWAN antennas would need to exit it somewhere.
MSRP is a reference point. So is invoice. You shouldn't ignore either, but one is not a better reference point than the other. Maybe 20 years ago when you had to pay a publisher to get the invoice price, but now that invoice prices are freely available on the Internet, manufacturers have raised invoice prices faster than MSRP and closed the gap between invoice and MSRP. Dealer margin on new car sales now comes from backend rebates and volume incentives that aren't public. The only way to truly discover the bottom line retail price on a car is to present yourself as a serious buyer and get quotes from multiple dealers.
I think just the marketing of this will have a small impact as well. Soooooo many people don’t know how to meaningfully converse. Especially when it comes to their kids. Outside myself, I’ve never heard another parent add affirmation and gratitude to their language when talking to their kids. “Thank you for telling me about your day” is often “oh, that’s great honey” at 1/2 attention commitment and the difference is strikingly impactful over time for the kiddo.

I suppose I’m saying they need to have these as trainers for grown ups too.
The only rule I know of is supply and demand. If there’s sufficient demand for a product, the seller has no reason to offer anything off. The proof will be that you won’t be able to find a seller willing to sell it.

Before the corona virus stuff, there were certain car models that you didn’t really negotiate much over, such as TRD 4Runners and Tacomas.

Tesla also doesn’t offer 10% off or haggle if I recall. I’m sure they would if they needed to move product, but I don’t know anyone who got any discounts for a Tesla.
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I was under the impression recording people requires their consent in most of western europe?
I was working from home for the last 5 years, and really miss office environment. I definitely would not come back to 9-to-5, but I desperately need one day for collaboration in person, I miss socialization and coffee breaks with colleagues, and my home turned into office long time ago, whereas it should be my "fortress" of relaxation and quality time with the family. I seriously considered moving all operations to coworking, but COVID-19 stopped me for a while
Your information is very out of date.

The old synaptics driver worked as you describe (implementing kinetic scrolling at the driver level)

Libinput (which all modern distros switched to ages ago) does NOT implement kinetic scrolling at the driver level.

Instead libinput implements 'scroll sources' and it's up to the toolkits/clients to use that data to perform kinetic scrolling.
I don’t think backwards compatibility is an issue.

A device that initially only runs what Apple ships (web browser, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) plus a few essential iOS apps (Facebook, WhatsApp, etc), priced competitively, is good enough to create a sizable market.

MS Office, FireFox, Chrome, and the like only are only nice to have at launch. It’ll be fine if it takes a few months for them to become available. They probably can do without Photoshop for years.
I’m not saying the dealer tax is warranted (absolutely not), I’m saying it’s still a lot of human effort even if you streamline the process with an app (financing, tax, title, licensing, vehicle defect issues, etc). Tesla totally botched my first Model S purchase and I was stuck for two days out of state while they fixed my purchase contract and my financing. This was after having bought through their website.

Just as high touch enterprise sales is here to stay, so is a human in the loop for auto purchases. You are not the average consumer if you’re here. Your average consumer will not tolerate rough edges of an app when spending $37k.
A synthetic control causal analysis of Musk's tweet on Tesla stock price
I'm not seeing any news about the general counsel quitting. That happened in December.
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If you think of shareware now as "free with in-app purchases", it's probably never been stronger (or more profitable).
Very cool, this is essentially just an updated (modernised) Gopher protocol.

I wish the protocol was designed so that the server signed the document itself [well, most likely a hash of the document]. That would allow caches, archives, and proxies to prove that a document did in fact come from the claimed origin.

Unfortunately the Gemini protocol uses TLS, and so only offers the standard guarantee of HTTPS: a client can confirm it is communicating with the origin server, but it is unable to transfer that guarantee to anyone else.
In my experience, from ~1.5 years ago, performance became an extreme challenge to overcome if you wanted to service user facing requests in <100ms (for a non-trivial sized graph). I really did enjoy Cypher though and the tooling around it was very polished. Tempted to try it again now that they have a new version.
It plots cell towers in the middle of my residential neighborhood where i absolutely sure there aren't any
Their ultimate goal is to convert the world to dozenal.