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> The Nespresso system made every customer feel like a connoisseur: you had to make a choice every time you put a capsule in the machine, even if it was just between black or purple.

Ironically this is what turned me off. After borrowing a Nespresso machine from my brother and buying ~50 different capsules to try out I got stuck in analysis paralysis and decided to go back to my trusted Bialetti moka.

If anyone's curious out of all the variants I've tasted my favourite were two of the cheapest off brands, Kimbo Armonia and Starbucks Blonde - the rest just felt either too "fruity" or too "acidic" for my taste.
You also kill billions of bacteria without even knowing it... and of course every time you wash your hands, which I hope is a frequent occurrence in these times.
Grapes are healthy, no need for wine/alcohol to get benefits from it.
Canadians push back as U.S. Congress pressures Canada to reopen shared border
We just started using them.

We're a small org that's mostly experienced consultants and contractors. They're energetic, proactive and independent people.

We've adopted OKRs to basically get everyone pulling in the same direction, but without being prescriptive about how the work gets done.

I'll report back at the end of the quarter on how it's working out, if anyone's interested :)
Well, unlike angular, the event bus thing isn't integrated into vue self in any way (and it don't need to). It didn't prevent you from use it if you must need to either.

Moreover, You can polyfill it simply in one line. And it actually exist long before the vue ever exist.

const { EventEmitter } = require('events').

It always make me wonder why was vue ever want to pack this into itself given it did not use it as all.
My parents both retired in their mid 50s. My mom is a retired school teacher and my dad is a retired factory worker.

Shortly after my mom retired, she was offered a part time position with the school system to help at risk children. At the rate they were going to pay her. She could only work 10 hours a week without it cutting into her pension. She negotiated a pay cut so she could work more hours and still be useful. So she definitely didn’t need the money. [1]

They took the money she earned and went on three month cross country road trip.

After the funding was up for that, she tried to retire again and then another opportunity came up. By now they are both over 62 and getting both of their social security checks, her pension, and my dad is getting money from his annuity that he bought with part of his retirement savings.

She still was kind of bored so she made the same deal again. They took another three month road trip and used some of the money to both fix up their house and increase the size of it by 50%.

[1] most of the time you can work without affecting your pension unless it’s for the school system.
Building Twitter’s ad platform architecture for the future
What do you think about this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SRrsr-Iug

Are these people also conspiracy theorists?
America’s organizations want access to the Chinese market and, absent any regulations to the contrary, when necessary are willing to compromise the values of our American Way of Life. But those regulations are (finally) coming. In the meantime, when they are caught doing things like this, they risk being attacked on Twitter by the President.
Tinkering electronically
Let's celebrate and explore
IEEE754 floats are completely fine. They are 100% defined and produce 100% bit identical results across all compliant implementations.

The problem is most implementations include a few extra instructions or modes that are not defined in the IEEE spec. The Fast Reciprocal Estimate instruction that caused the issue in this example is one such instruction.

It's not defined in the IEEE spec. It's only defined in the x86 spec (and corresponding similar instructions are defined for other architectures). As its name implies, it's not defined to give an exact result. It's designed to be fast and it's designed to be a rough estimate to some level of precision.

You should not use such instructions if you care about any kind of accuracy or cross platform reproducibly. Stick to the instructions that are actually defined in the IEEE 754 spec. And stick to one of the recommended rounding modes, make sure all platforms use the same rounding mode.
Sorry, I have to completely disagree with this. This is a horrible, but often used, excuse.

In my experience these coders are doing exactly what you would do in a unit test but instead they are doing it manually by adding printlns and testing various values on the command line, in a repl, a notebook, or a main. Instead of manually adding these things every time you want to test your work, if you just added some basic unit tests it would speed up your delivery. Not only that but you can't "forget to test that" because you're forced to write down the test cases instead of deleting them when you're done.

If you add up all the time you spent adding printlns to your code, testing various input values in a main method, researching inside your codebase to see what could fail, debugging your ETL because you forgot about an uncaught error or a different kind of null in this column that only came up after it processed 3TB of data (real example), etc. I guarantee you would save time if you just implement some basic automated tests instead of testing in prod or staging.
Great idea. Let’s ask the business owners and working class citizens. They don’t want the freedoms “mobs” for sure
As much as I hate these pods, I think something like this tech could be used to bring profits from coffee closer to coffee growers. There is a ridiculous amount of middle men in between growers and drinkers. If you can get a factory that can make a product that stays fresh when shipped globally, close to where the coffee is grown. I think some Dutch company was doing this in Kenya.
Why are you keeping compatibility with old versions of Windows? Is this a directive from T17? Your own interest? A good way of targeting Wine compatibility? Some other reason?
Genuinely interested, not passing judgement on your priorities. :)
FSNotes isn't subscription based. I am not yet paying or Bear and I don't think I'd go for it either.
You’re better off unplugging entirely. Forgo all forms of news and pop media for at least 6 months and focus on your life. You’ll be happier and you’ll get shit done.

I think a lot of this has to do with the West not really doing anything to address death. It’s out of sight and out of mind, so when it’s knocking at our door we are feeble minded and scared because we are ignorant of the cycle of life and death. Everyone you know will die, but confronting this fact head on breeds a very existentialist kind of anxiety that we’ve failed to address in our societies.

This is the underpinning of doomer type behaviour. Eastern philosophy tends to have meditations where people remind themselves every day that today might be their last. You might think this sort of thinking breeds depression, mental illness, etc, but it works out for them very well.

The West could learn a lot from this, but alas that’s a pipe dream.
I find it makes better espresso than a 2k automatic machine. A typical electric kettle next to it does the trick, takes the same amount of time and is easy to fill.

It absolutely is a lil messier and more work, but there's something to the ritual of it.
For those in an (economic) position to emigrate, China lacks nothing in a material sense. Cars, electronics, clothes - they're not only available, they're well within the purchasing power of these people. In fact, what I dislike most about modern China is the endless gleaming shopping malls full of the same (mostly Western) brands.

But not everything is material, and creativity and freedom of expression definitely have an impact. I have a reasonably large circle of Chinese acquaintances via my wife, and anecdotally, I've never met a single emigrant who actually returned.

A lot of them definitely complain regularly about how much better China is, but none of them actually pack up and head back. I think that's telling.
Thanks. I dont fear Chinese government actually and I think it is bad. It's just we have a lot difference on where it is the worst part and how to make it better and by how much time. Truth to be told there are so many solutions proposed by smart ppl but I dont see many that wont hurt regular Chinese ppl more than what the current regime is doing :(
> Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking.

> ...

> I've been thinking about this lately, so I thought it would be good to write an article about it.

This highly meta introduction just cracks me up
Yeah reading hacker news since 4 hours and didn't even planned to open it. Now the world is more dangerous and don't know if people are commenting or GPT-3 bots.

Any solutions to find sleep?
By the next stage, you'll have products being delivered made up of 50 JIRA tickets with 250 bug tickets being moved to whatever your long term Maintenance and Support team is... but someone will get to play with themselves over the thought that it was delivered on time.
China economy has a vibrant private sector, takes about 60% of the economy, and is the main driver of the economy growth [1].

There are plenty of Chinese startups IPOed in US in the past years.

Of course the data was manipulated and inflated.

But does that totally changes the primary effect of market economy in China. I cannot find a logical connection in between...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/09/30/stat...
I didn't know what to think of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but in the one specific instance of diagnosis I know of first hand, it preceded a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer a bit later. Made me wonder if there could be a viral factor or something that leads to immune system problems that gradually develop over years.
> you’re not looking at a path towards AGI in my opinion

What I'm trying (and apparently failing?) to ask is, what would a step on the path towards AGI look like? What could an AI accomplish that would make you say "GPT-3 and such were merely search engines through training data, but this is clearly a step in the right direction"?
Rats, mice, dolphins, and parrots are all intelligent enough to be grouped along with dogs, monkeys, etc.
> Other builders have to design a custom bridge for a unique mountain range

These are not builders and nobody would ever call them builders.

Well one person would, I guess.
In practice it is much worse because Elixir's structs boil down to maps with a special key, and the analysis in Dialyzer can get confused there because it works them with Erlang's map semantics rather than Elixir's.

Far more Elixir developers I know have just given up on using Dialyzer altogether than the Erlang devs I know.
Personally, my unproductivity came from allowing myself to take dopamine hits where I worked. Putting games, web browsing or texting physically somewhere else prevented my home office from becoming a Skinner box of wasted time.
It's not just intellectual property - it's a capital intensive bioengineering project with probably a half billion or so capex and even more for an outsider to bootstrap.
Ha - this is exactly what caused me to post the original submission. A wrongly generated invoice from ADT Security.
I really ought to read an OKR book, because the telephone-game version I hear about seems problematic.

For example, Austin's Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations[0] gives a helpful 3-party model for understanding how simplistic measurement-by-numbers goes awry. He starts with a Principal-Agent and then adds a Customer as the 3rd party; the net effect is that as a Principal becomes more and more energetic in enforcing a numerical management scheme, the Customer is at first better served and then served much worse.

As a side effect he recreates or overlaps with the "Equal Compensation Principle" (described in Milgrom & Roberts' Economics, Organization and Management). Put briefly: give a rational agent more than one thing to do, and they will only do the most profitable thing for them to do. To avoid this problem you need perfectly equal compensation of their alternatives, but that's flawed too, because you rarely want an agent to divide their time exactly into equal shares.

Then there's the annoyance that most goals set are just made the hell up. Just yanked out from an unwilling fundament. Which means you're not planning, you're not objective, you're not creating comparative measurement. It's a lottery ticket with delusions of grandeur. In Wheeler & Chambers' Understanding Statistical Process Control, the authors emphasise that you cannot improve a process that you have not first measured and then stablised. If you don't have a baseline, you can't measure changes. If it's not a stable process, you can't tell if changes are meaningful or just noise. As they put it, more pithily:

> This is why it is futile to try and set a goal on an unstable process -- one cannot know what it can do. Likewise it is futile to set a goal for a stable process -- it is already doing all that it can do! The setting of goals by managers is usually a way of passing the buck when they don't know how to change things.

That last sentence summarises pretty much how I feel about my strawperson impressions of OKRs.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Managing-Performance-Organi...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Organization-Management-Pau...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Statistical-Process-Con..., though I prefer Montgomery's Introduction to Statistical Quality Control as a much broader introduction with less of an old-man-yells-at-cloud vibe -- https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Statistical-Quality-Cont...
Calling 2560px as 2K is absolutely wrong and really confusing. I hope they think what is half of 4K.
I don't know. I don't feel that I have to know to make the statement I made.
Rightfully so. Because they were replacing the SIMD code with non-SIMD code that was similarly untested, with the side effect of crippling performance on their competitor's chips. That's a really bad kind of "being careful".
>Old printed books will be the equivalent of the sunken ships they cut up for uncontaminated steel today

Already are.
It's funny the author wasted energy composing this after admitting he barely knows the origin of the sentence. Chomsky invokes it in "Syntactic Structures" to illustrate that the grammaticality of a given sentence doesn't fully explain the odds of it appearing in a large corpus. "Furiously sleep ideas green colorless" is another low probability sentence, yet a native speaker couldn't perform these sorts of mental gymnastics to twist some meaning out of it.
Reach out to a few people with a sizeable audience (or some other means to potentially amplify it) who may be interested. And also don't immediately write off channels that didn't work. There's a lot of luck involved. You can definitely try again later in a different way.

Then there's always paid advertising don't be afraid of it. With not much $ you can do a lot of experimenting.
> So how do you get into the habit of creative thinking?
>
> Well, the best way is to just do it!

Such actionable advice! Much wow!
How about not buying the shirt then, instead of complaining about the message you're helping to fund while buying it?
The way GPT-3 works is that you provide it with examples of a question/input and an answer/output, then tack an unanswered question/input onto those examples and send the whole thing to the API. The AI then answers your question/generates your output.
Sure. I'm not saying they should not solve the short term problem. Just that there's a bigger opportunity.
In most of the developed world, even poor people's labor is expensive enough that it's rarely affordable to just pay someone else to do something for you exclusively (e.g., private chef, private driver). In China, to say nothing of India, that's another story. There, you have professional class types making Western salaries but also a billion-odd people living on dollars a day which allows an aristocratic lifestyle that would be unimaginable in the developed world.
> As someone who has never been to China could you list some things the West is missing?

It's been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but it's worth reiterating - safety.

China is one of the safest places in the world. I literally never had a single concern for the physical well-being of my mother, my wife, anyone - no matter what part of the city they were in, or what time of the day.

Worth mentioning that I've found Singapore to be the same.

Contrast that with life in Australia (Melbourne), where I was constantly on edge even in the early evening, I'd worry every time my wife was out late, not to mention the instances where I was physically threatened or assaulted.
Show HN: Evolve – Feel How Places Change
Yes, twice, once in the time of Commodore Perry, when they were humiliatingly forced to open to western powers.

Then, after they powered up, and tried to ensure this doesn't happen again, in 1945, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their humiliating surrender and occupation. They turned into western culture as a response, and it took them until the 80s to shake some of this off...
I've heard of this concept some years ago, but can't recall where from at the moment.
It's not surprising. It is, however, illegal.
Got any Chamomile tea?
The purpose for me to taking notes is to help me learn, remember, and possibly come back to in the future. I almost _never_ look at my computer written notes unless I know that I am going to look it up later in the day.

To that end I have a few notebooks that I have wrote in over time. I have returned to them occasionally. The biggest downside to this, however, is space.

I just can't focus if I'm writing notes on a computer though. And it's harder for me to remember things if I don't physically ( as in, pen on paper ) write things down.
Zig, Nim, Crystal, Go and Swift all use C libraries extensively. Nim and Zig even make lower boiler plate C inter-op a key selling point.

Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and other's investments in Rust, clearly demonstrate the value of writing new systems software in Rust, alongside and inside existing C/C++ code bases. Rust is clearly monetarily useful, despite not being a systems programing panacea.
I know you're being cheeky but for me when I've procrastinated on things the fix has been to "just get started." Often in the past I've gotten caught up on how to do something "right" or "well" and this leads to avoidance procrastination. Instead finding somewhere to start and just getting started and continuously improving has been the way for me to break out of the hurdles of avoidance procrastination (overthinking).
> When you ordered capsules, you joined the “Club”, which also meant handing over your contact information. Over time, Nespresso gained a huge database of customers it could market to, as well as a way of recording consumer preferences and buying habits. For customers, the club created the sense that you were part of a sophisticated worldwide cabal of corporate espresso lovers. When I first encountered Nespresso, as a student, around 2006, I remember feeling like I was finally part of the global elite everyone kept complaining about. “What Nespresso have done is create a lot of benign bullshit around coffee,” said Rory Sutherland. “But people enjoy the bullshit.”

There’s a lot in there from the author. It’s marketing and building an ecosystem. Surprised this doesn’t happen with other drinks like carbonated water.
God of War 4
The last of us
Uncharted 3 + 4
Shadow of the Colossus
Metal Gear Solid (I recommend watching one of those videos putting the story into chronological order)
GTA 4
Red Dead Redemption 2

ToDo's on my list:
- The Last of us 2
- Ghost of Tsushima
Curious to know from your point of view; which company is well organised and well-run?
I try,thanks
Pick what you can read and enjoy.
A little tangential, but I've found that I'm the most productive when tired. When I have energy, nothing I do seems good enough and I end up wasting a lot of time trying to make something better, whether it be a piece of code, a blog post, some ML analysis, etc.

When I'm tired, I don't have the mental capacity to go above and beyond, so I just concentrate on producing something, anything. Turns out it's much easier to modify something that is sort of crappy but exists than create something great out of thin air.

The take away is that if you can, just produce the crappiest, quickest thing you can first. Once you're done, seriously evaluate if it actually needs to be any better, because often this crappy solution isn't actually that crappy and perfectly sufficient (I'm looking at you, Unix). If you think it can be better or needs to be better, don't be afraid to throw the whole thing away and try and make a slightly less crappy version. Even if you redid the same thing 5 times and the result is only slightly better each time, it's often less effort than if you tried to create the final solution from scratch on the first try.

I don't know where this quote comes from, but I really like it and I think embodies this kind of philosophy and thinking: you don't understand a problem until you've solved it.
vscode is pretty close to the jetbrains system. and its ecosystem of extensions is probably the best out of any IDE
A $5 plastic Melitta pour-over filter holder and a kettle make better coffee than any machine.
So you're not going to allow explicit no-reply addresses. Then they'll just ignore all incoming mail to the sending address. Or are you going to require that all businesses respond to all emails they receive? Will an automated response do?
But is the linked in user profile available (without the user logging in with linked in to your site)?
Teling the truth and getting downvoted. I'm Chinese too. Wanna connect (email in my profile)?
Well we have to believe that a democratic open government would be more reasonable in its internal and external policies, unless we’re saying that when it comes to China all hope is lost.
I've found that weight-lifting really puts my sleep in order. It's not only restful, it also feels good to sleep after a workout.
That seem to be the strategy of the CCP. Blocking foreign influence (Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc...) with the Great Firewall while taking advantage of the West's openness to promote their own platform TikTok, WeChat, ...

That allows them to promote their ideologies and export "The China Way" to becoming the next World's superpower without changing. Great way to take advantage of the asymmetry to have your cake and eat it too.
I'm often curious what makes someone feel safe or not. I've never felt unsafe wandering around (including in lots of "sketchy" places), but I suspect a lot of that is an accident of my genetics. I just don't look like an easy person to victimize.
What the hell did I just read
If this was done 3.5 years ago it could really mess a lot of things up. He has 6 months to do as he's told and it's over.
there seems to be an overabundance of negative sentiment towards deep learning among hn commentators, but whenever i hear the reasons behind the pessimism i'm usually unimpressed.