skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the best salesperson is usually the one least concerned with reality.

Or as one VC put it: Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
There are custom editors for just about everything (note heads, playing techniques, lines...$
FCC launching investigation after widespread T-Mobile outages, chairman says
> SMR should be understood to be sort of a fast Tape, rather than slow CMR HDD.

I wouldn't go that far. If I can assume that the firmware won't cause a lot of problems all by itself, I think in my desktop I'd slightly prefer a 7200RPM SMR drive to an equal-price 5400RPM CMR drive.

And no matter what kind of hard drive(s) you're using, take a $20 SSD and use half of it as a cache with writeback enabled.
I’m comfortable reading code on a screen. I just thought it would be interesting to try printing out a whole library as a packet to get a good understanding of it as a first pass.

You’re right that you lose a lot of tooling on paper. But you can always have your laptop alongside the packet. No need for either/or. Plus, I have found that I retain things better when they’re printed out. I also like to mark up documents in pen. At the end of the day, it’s just a preference thing. And paper might actually work for the use case of just trying to understand a library; the code is static in that situation.
Smh. Great progress.
Isn't the entire point of agile to get rid of the product managers?
One thing ClimaCell seems to advertise is that they have access to, "Millions of data points from proprietary sources such as IoT, Drones, Airplanes, Cellular Signals, Sat Com Signals, Cameras, and more, combined with traditional data sources."[1] Another of their pages[2] claims they use signal strength on wireless networks as one of their sensor methods, which is where I assume the "cell" might come from in their name. [3] says, "Instead of relying exclusively on NOAA radar data, as other forecasting services do, ClimaCell also gathers information from closer-to-the-ground sources: cell towers, street cameras, connected vehicles, and internet of things devices such as smart garbage cans situated throughout a city."

I'm not familiar with the industry. Are other providers doing this?

(I assume that the question of whether these sensors are at all useful is another matter entirely.)

[1]: https://www.climacell.co/company/

[2]: https://www.climacell.co/blog/virtual-sensing/

[3]: https://www.fastcompany.com/90411326/how-cities-are-using-hy...
I heard a similar argument when I expressed to in an online community that I was going to pre order a cyber truck.

"That thing can only two 14,000 lbs. No ones going to buy a truck that can only two that much, my F350 can tow 20,000 lbs, that's much more useful."
A Party in a Google Spreadsheet
Is this switching really possible in 2020 or even 2021?
Thanks for the suggestion! I’m pretty sure I need the highlighting. Looking at black and white code is just so much harder for me.
Ramanujan – The Man Who Knew Infinity and the Akashic Records
OK, fair point. Allow me to quote from the EPA directly. [1]

"Manufacturers test their own vehicles—usually pre-production prototypes—and report the results to EPA. EPA reviews the results and confirms about 15%–20% of them through their own tests at the National Vehicles and Fuel Emissions Laboratory."

Wait a minute...

[1] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/how_tested.shtml
Understanding Azure storage redundancy offerings
https://www.revenuecat.com (YC S18)

API to manage In app subscriptions. I think it qualifies since it’s free up to 10K$ MTR.

Disclaimer: I work at RevenueCat, not in the mobile side of things although if I were to start a mobile app with subscriptions, after seeing how painful is to get it right, I for sure would use them.
Out of the box, sure. But it wasn't difficult to configure it to look almost exactly like Win2K.
Battery powered finish nailer.
How many people actually use desktop Linux on touch devices?
thx, didn't know about that before, have just subscribed :D
Show HN: AaRVi – AI-led personalized shoes recommendation engine
Can someone explain to me why the IRS even bothered with a patent application on software? Those are taxpayer dollars being used to fund that innovation--unless it's a classified technology, it should be public domain.

Furthermore, why did the IRS spend time and salaries to reinvent the wheel for a solution that is likely to exist as an OTS product?
You can do test prep for free online now.
GP isn't literally equating ICE with Nazis. But it's pretty realistic to expect (extrapolating from current trends) that if left unchecked, ICE will get more and more abusive, eventually matching Nazi level.
My Tesla Model 3 SR+ tends to exceed the EPA rating on most trips, but the Model S loaners I've had have been quite a bit more thirsty and varied greatly, although I couldn't help but play with all the extra power they have. Still blows the pants off anything else as far as efficiency.

I've made a spreadsheet to compare the energy usage of my 2019 3 SR+ to my old 2014 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16JLSzoWA0154ZUU3ahJ_...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496332

They postponed but anyway they planned to drop old Android support in 2020 but I doubt it's possible in near future.
Thanks for your comment on it by the way. I'm still in the phase of gathering what everyone thinks of it. I've noticed that RDF seems a bit polarizing. I have the suspicion that people who feel neutral about it also don't feel the need to chime in.
> In FY 2019, the IRS plans to cut 2,200 employees.[1] In Rettig's FY 2020 budget request, he plans to cut an additional 1,800 employees. Since FY 2010, staffing decreased by about 19 percent, primarily in compliance and enforcement.[2]

Sounds like the current administration doesn't want a functioning IRS. Less government, less money, less enforcement for those who can avoid obvious fraud. It is everything the current administration wants.

[1] - https://www.govexec.com/management/2018/05/irs-defends-budge...
[2] - https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/266/02.-IRS-FY-2020-C...
Yes, so I put analytics in to prove it.

I told the project leader that nobody wants a share button there, because of the nature of the data, nobody will share it.

They disagreed strongly, suddenly the share button was super important.

So I put tracking on it. A year after launch, guess what? Yep that’s right, nobody clicked the button. Not a single user.

So I showed them the data and told them I was right. I told them I was sick of not being listened to, and sick of designing and creating software that literally nobody uses, and handed in my resignation

Was a good thing in the end because it pushed me onto the entrepreneurial path

But I know how much it sucks writing software that no-one wants
Yup, that's the Bresenham part. Somewhere else, I expose this to actually drawing it with a pencil.

Thanks for pointing it out, I was overcomplicating it a bit in my mind (I wanted to point out more things) and therefore I didn't point it out.
The article is incoherent to IT experts, but it's generally a good thing to bring issues to light.

tl;dr: the IRS wants to convert its assembly language software to Java, but not badly enough to actually finish it after 20+ years.

Advice to IRS: since you have somebody who understands the issues, Jian Wang, incentivize him to do it - while that option is available.

I've done transitions like what's mentioned in the article. It takes somebody to understand and shoulder huge risk, while being a target of naysayers who won't do the same. There are very few people who will do that, especially in government, when you simply don't have to assume any risk.
I can totally see this starting as a lunch joke, or meme email, and escalating from there with one of the individuals going overboard and the rest lacking assertiveness/decency to break it up.

EDIT: Never mind, Seems orders came all the way from CEO :o holy shit this is toxic and expensive.
I have in the past with (small) clients. This was an upgrade to an existing product with flagging sales and their proposed direction made me scratch my head from day one.

However, I both wanted to do the work (it was really interesting by itself) and they made it clear to me that they didn't want my business input. It of course eventually went sideways, accusations were thrown around, the partners split up and I was left with ~18 months of unfinished work that didn't really get me anywhere (except paid -- never, ever risk your time for someone else's upside).

I'd say do the work if it's personally edifying and you don't mind the possibility of weak-minded people trying to throw you under the bus when it falls apart. If you're an employee, you are not shouldering the risk or responsible for existential-level decisions (or at least shouldn't be).

Having said that, seek out better teams with a higher chance of success if you can. Bad teams are sometimes hard to spot because they may look successful on the surface but may, in fact, be a few bad decisions away from falling apart.

One thing to look out for is founders who have a company because of an initial period of luck but questionable direction and drive to build something more sustainable (or larger). I've seen that a lot, even in myself when I was younger. People incorrectly attribute their success to their skills / vision / mojo and have enough runway that they internalize those beliefs while ignoring the slow death of their project.

It's hard to separate that misguided exuberance from a healthier drive. A good sign is when they temper their confidence with humility -- "we really got the timing right on the first one". If instead they talk about how they're crushing it and how "number 2 is going to be 10x" you might want to rethink hitching your wagon to them. In other words, if a founder ever makes you cringe while talking about themselves, that's probably your intuition telling you they don't really have what it takes.
It can't inline the dict in general though, and that is more the default situation than the opposite, unless the defn is in the same module
Note from Grab's CEO after 5% layoff
GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
"Nobody is going to buy this thing. I commute 250 miles each way to my job, in my pickup truck, hauling a load of lumber to a cabin 100 miles from civilization. There's no electricity out there. Call me back when Tesla makes a real car with real range. Anybody who buys these now is a sucker."

FTFY.

There's one of these in EVERY discussion of something Tesla releases :-)
A little more detail in a TL;DR way (summarized, but still long):

1. There are border states in India where many people don’t want illegal immigrants to get citizenship or any other benefits. This Act, by giving citizenship to illegal immigrants, doesn’t respect those people’s needs and so there have been protests from this angle by many people (mostly in those states).

2. This Act also arbitrarily discriminates on the basis of religion and location, and in the guise of helping minorities, it allows non-Muslims in certain countries who entered India before end of 2014 to get fast tracked for citizenship. Muslim minorities in those countries (like Ahmadiyas) as well as linguistic and ethnic minitories in neighboring countries are ignored. There have been protests from this angle by many people.

3. The “chronology”, as repeated by the home minister, is that a National Register of Citizens (NRC) would be prepared across the entire country and those without evidence of citizenship would be thrown in detention centers. Consider that there are hundreds of millions of people in India who don’t have a birth certificate (not issued or issued as one original and lost) and the fact that even an Indian passport is not a true proof of citizenship (there’s precedence with legal doubts cast on this). No government issued document is a proof of citizenship since all of those could be obtained by dubious means by anyone. This is ripe for bureaucratic abuse and corruption. Mix in the fact that the rules of the CAA could be changed by the executive to include certain non-Muslims even when the NRC declares them as not citizens, you have a huge self created problem where hundreds of millions could be declared stateless while many others are running from pillar to post with bribes in hand to be recognized as citizens.
And now seemingly every site out there has dozens of popovers, subscribe to a mailing list (amazed those still exist and are somehow pushed more than ever), cookie permission requests, "Like and retweet us!" banners that slowly scroll from the side, "It looks like you could use some help" clippy style bullshit that choppily moves on screen, autoplaying videos that seem to autoplay no matter how many times you try to disable it and no matter how many times browser developers say "Okay, we finally blocked autoplaying videos for real this time!", 15 megabyte gifs littered throughout random articles just to catch your eye or to be hip and radical and show the writer is the bee's knees and knows what the kids like, scroll hijacking that only serves to make it choppy and physically painful to scroll, back button hijacking that involves filling your past 100 pages with the current page and sometimes getting caught in a refresh loop so it's impossible to move, endlessly loading bullshit content whenever you think you've scrolled to the bottom... I can go on.

Dealing with the modern web is like reading an infinite run-on sentence because it absolutely overwhelms you with shit and it doesn't let up. It's not hard to go to any random site and find 75% of the above all at once.

Flash was bad. Somehow web developers took its demise as a challenge to make the web worse.
I share all tools (and their costs) I use to run my SaaS publicly: https://tryhexadecimal.com/running-costs

Roughly speaking:

* AWS for servers/database/CDN (because I have credits)

* Netlify for static site hosting & forms

* Cloudflare for DNS/domains

* Fastmail for email

* Redis Cloud for managed Redis hosting

* Stripe for billing/payments/company incorporation

* Sentry for exception tracking

* Twilio for SMS notifications

* Sendgrid for transactional email

* Tarsnap for backups
Vista was too bubbly and glossy, much like early OS X.

Win7 had a fairly decent balance of shiny chrome and usability by reducing both of those, while still retaining enough visual cues to e.g. clearly highlight buttons.
Why port a system from 40 years ago? I cannot imagine those systems are built with flexibility to endure policy changes of today.
New general purpose and memory-optimized Azure Virtual Machines with Intel
I'm surprised tesla doesn't break down energy usage visually.

The nissan leaf has an energy usage display that breaks down energy into driving, climate and other systems.

http://www.nissanusa.com/vlp-assets/media/vehicles/2016/leaf...
> the EPA numbers are ridiculous

If you think that, you should look at the NEDC numbers they post in Europe :-)

Okay, tried to dig those up and they've apparently switched to the WLTP standard there. That's good, because the NEDC numbers tended to be massively inflated.
Heyo! I signed up, just a heads up that the verification email went to my spam folder. You may be able to somehow improve your reputation so they get through. I marked it 'not spam' to help, though!
That sounds like they wrote a tool to convert assembly into Java....

I don't exactly have high hopes for that.

Am I missing something?
Sounds like the learning curve is just too steep, and you're interviewing for something too hard. Maybe lower expectations and take an easier to qualify for job so you can practice at your leisure. Two months is actually quite short for job searches; expect at least 4 months even if you're moderately good.
I am really confused about something in this article and I hope someone can bring me up to date.

The article revolves around this patent:

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IR...

The patent is assigned to "Internal Revenue Service United States Department of the Treasury".

The article also mentions that "two other related patent applications remain dormant. They lie abandoned, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office calls it, because the IRS wouldn’t pay the issue fees."

I thought that government work like this was in the public domain. Can the IRS/Treasury patent an invention?
I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't think grades mean much either other than a feedback/signal for the student. Using them as measuring sticks for admission into exclusive clubs seems pretty broken. We should be lowering the barriers to education and the exclusive clubs that elite educational institutions demarcate.

I want more people that study calculus and higher level mathematics because it is a standard part of their education and not because it is a requirement on some test. I don't care what grade they get on their exams because if I end up working with them I'm not gonna care about the grade but the fact that they learned how to think rigorously (or at least were given the opportunity to do so without having to waste effort and energy on playing status games).
>This is a serious matter, and that fact that you can't bring yourself to empathize with people being brutalized reflects very poorly on your ethical code

1/3 of my people were subject to genocide infamously by oven, more recently than slavery, but I'm not expecting people to remove any reference to fire or pizza from my life, that would be absurd. So is this. None of the people coding were slaves, I guarantee it, and they can move past it just like all other populations move past various atrocities that they experience. This focus on blacks is a fad, you can arbitrarily define a near infinite number of "marginalized" groups if you carve up 360MM people.

But what does make it difficult is being told all your life that you are a victim, held back by something about yourself that you cannot change; that's how you breed weakness and teach learned helplessness.
I was going to write something longer and then got distracted and this thread went bonkers, so sadly your post is not going to get the attention it deserves.

I've actually toured a fuel economy lab for a Tier I/Big 3 auto manufacturer. The testing procedures described there are correct...account for as many variables as possible. The lab I toured had the dynos in temperature and humidity controlled rooms. Exhaust vents were standardized in length to ensure consistency, etc.

MPG is serious business with millions on the line.

Most interesting story I had was that they have several drivers they use for different purposes. Some are super consistent and used for repeatability tests. Others specialize in maximizing mileage. They quoted a 5% improvement by certain drivers over others on the SAME TEST. which already has incredibly precise time/speed windows that the drivers must stay in between. Every time, someone is manually controlling the throttle and brake pedal. Although they can use a computerized control for other testing.

They will run the test until they get the best possible test and then ship that to the EPA.
I run most days, or do yard work. I’m getting back into exercising so my goal is to exercise every day for 30-60 minutes, pushing to 60-90 once I can handle the altitude of Colorado Springs (7100 feet at my home). That’s right after work.

Socialize (board games, RPGs, trivia via Zoom) 2-3 nights a week. That’s after running or yard work.

That gets me to 7pm or so, after that is time with my wife or reading and learning.
2:49 "At 16, he [Ramanujan] stumbled by chance across a copy of George Shoobridge Carr's seminal work, "A Synopsis Of Elementary Results In Pure And Applied Mathematics", and began to work through its 5,000 theorems..."

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

https://archive.org/details/synopsisofelemen00carrrich/page/...

https://www.amazon.com/Synopsis-Elementary-Results-Applied-M...
What does dynamic typing have to do with the language used for CTFE? (Have I misunderstood you?)

D has fairly permissive CTFE which uses the language itself; it remains statically typed.

Haskell is statically typed while the type system can be made Turing complete by using certain language extensions.

The Terra language (embedded in Lua) is statically typed and is metaprogrammed using Lua.

Racket is certainly dynamic, but Typed Racket is ... well it's still dynamic, but type annotations are statically checked.
"Nonprofit" is a tax designation in the U.S. There is nothing in that designation which prevents those running the nonprofit from personally profiting greatly from their positions. There are limitations in the methods to gain such personal profit, but they far from forestall it. Wikipedia has a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization_laws_i....
Am not hip with that then. Deleted Facebook years ago.
weight is inertia and aero drag is a speed dependant force...both are just forces that can be simulated really easily on a dyno.
I didn’t take the parent comment as “handwaving” anything. The comment was exploring the possibility that higher level company execs were involved, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence to support this.
In my imaginary universe, it’s be ARM for MacBook Air and a “Mac nano” shortly followed by an economy spec iMac. If the performance is there, it could eventually extend to the entire iMac line, with a broadened iMac Pro line staying Intel.

It would actually be quite tidy if “Pro” Mac meant Intel, non-pro meant Apple ARM.
So walk me through the narrative you're trying to sell here. Apple launches the iPhone without App Store or Flash in 2007. A year later, they launch an App Store. TWO years later, Steve Jobs writes a piece about why they don't include Flash.

If this was a coordinated attack on Flash in support of the App ecosystem, why wait so long to write that letter? Why launch your phone without an app store in the first place?
You don't calculate change. You just count it out, picking up coins and bills as you go. Start at the sum to pay and count towards the amount the customer gave you. Work your way up from the least significant digit using the smallest denominations. No hard mental calculations are involved, you just need to know how to count. Basic cashier knowledge they should be teaching you on day one.
Because a lot of business logic is probably hard coded and undocumented. Porting it moves it to a platform/language that may be better suited to continuing operations or applying the strangler pattern.
That's very useful. Do you have any favorite links/resources?
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I am working with Start-ups since 2008 - and classic companies before that.

My chances to know beforehand what customers want is 50/50.*

So I am very humble by now. Launch super early. Get Feedback. Quantity wise and quality feedback (listen closely if you made their life any better). Iterrate and/or change path.

Yes, like flipping a coin. Sad that, quite a lot of managers have a way lower hit rate as they have an inherent ”the customer is like me and users are stupid” bias (both at the same time, so that makes them...)
I wish I could do it, life would have been much easier.
A few questions:

1. What was the intended use case behind the Tegra having 32 blowable fuses? Did Nvidia intend for those fuses to be used in this manner?

2. What is a non-retail switch?