skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true - there are lots of folks on the ground who know what's needed but can't get top cover to enact it.
Ok, then convince me. Write 'software' of, say, the proof of the the dominated convergence theorem or something else reasonably advanced and let's compare it to the proof in conventional math notation.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23912455
Is it? A few replies here are mentioning being happy with ~40 Mbps in bigger cities, meanwhile the last time I ran a speedtest in a busy CBD in Australia I got 600Mbps or so on 4G.
Only option and joining because of jio are two different statements. Author did not do his research or wanted to push his agenda.
Teachers passing it to other teachers:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/arizona-teachers-coronavir...

Older Children passing it to others:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-childr...
The real value of a Costco membership is in the ancillary non-grocery stuff, like cheap glasses and contacts, discounts off high-end electronics, money back on plane tickets and rental cars, etc.
In another comment you wrote: "what I like about Substack and Medium is how easy it is for people to subscribe and discover. Their "distribution" is great."

These license conditions allow them to make that discoverability possible. It's probably just legal language to make sure that they can do that.
If the web did offer a uniform experience then the user would have more control how pages look. Text only, material design, native controls, your choice.
Pretty sure this will help them move in that direction:

https://www.khanacademy.org/donate
Either the sites you’re visiting are doing it wrong, or you’re expecting a density of pixels that never worked well for most mouse users already.
Correction: swap #1 with #4
slashdot discussion https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/07/21/1539216/return-and-en...
It is reported as 10.16 on Intel, and the final build will present itself as 11.0 unless the application is linked with an older SDK or you set the right environment variable.
I agree, it's difficult to do music on Linux. I almost punched my computer last weekend because it's so hard. However, two things I can say for sure is that the Linux native of Reaper works great and Ubuntu Studio presents a pretty good OOBE with Ardour. Nothing running on Linux compares to Ableton, so if that's your preferred workflow, just stick with that. Now, if someone could just write a good audio editor that works on Linux... (Audacity is complete garbage).
Medical school seats are controlled by the AMA, in order to keep doctor pay up.
I agree with this. Additionally, I think a lot of detractors of single-letter variable names don't realize that it is often the case that the structure of the equation/expression is what's interesting, not what any individual variable represents. That structure is most visible and apparent when the variables don't take up any more space than the operators.

Being able to recognize things like "oh, that's a polynomial!" is extremely useful, especially in the context of learning new math rather than a more applied context. And I think it would be extremely hard to spot an opportunity to do integration by parts when working with Java-style verbose variable names.
Would chainmail armour be practical here ?
You may also want to try out NetSurf, it is another lightweight browser but i think it has better support for HTML+CSS than Dillo.
> Keep in mind this is a large public university charging $40k/year.

Funny enough, that grad student was almost certainly making less than that. Universities are screwed up.
Slightly off-topic but I'm curious anyway: Has the tooling for JavaScript improved with TypeScript's adoption? As a back-end developer, I feel like each time I've tried to dig in and start a JavaScript project from scratch has ended with me weeping after spending four hours fighting the tooling. Is there a better way?
This likely will prove to be much bigger news than many anticipate today.
this is really cool! thank you for sharing
So the public shouldn’t be able to apply pressure against companies supporting hate groups?
Can you make one that's just not RSI inducingly large? I don't need "oh it's so cute" at parties, I need, "that looks almost usable."

I'm so close to just buying a second hand Nexus 5, i'm so over all these phablets.
Automation doesn't eliminate jobs, it can even create more work. When 90% of society was working in agriculture, automation took that down to single digit percentage and there are more people employed than ever.

The critical flaw of this thinking is the belief that business is a finite problem. Any major business has literally unlimited work. If every single engineer worked at maximum capacity, doing 70 hour weeks for an entire year the backlog wouldn't have even decreased.

Work creates work. Automation unlocks work.

In a previous role I developed an automation platform for our Customer Service and Operations staff that reduced most of their workflows from hours to minutes. What happened after this? Both teams increased in size by 50% or more.
I've been using InfluxDB, but not satisifed with limited InfluxQL, or over-complicated Flux query languages. I love Postgres so TimescaleDB looks awesome.

The main issue I've got is how to actually get data into TimescaleDB. We use telegraf right now, but the telegraf Postgres output pull request still hasn't been merged:
https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3428

Any progress on this?
iOS≠macOS≠NeXTSTEP, but all three run Mach kernels.
I'm guessing there was a physical intuition behind the theorem, if you can simulate it you will probably do something better than the proof. Now it's your turn to tell me why 1 + 1 = 2.
Ah, finance.
90% Businesses Fail in First Year – These Tips Will Help You Avoid That
Sure, but my point was that good notation takes advantage of the wealth of pre-existing plumbing that exists in our brain.

I think a good example is: https://xkcd.com/936/

"Correct Horse Battery Staple" is easier to remember than "Tl)7x" because the latter maps into plumbing we already have. Likewise, print "Hello world" is easier to remember than printf("Hello World"), which is easier to remember than std::cout << "Hello world"; This is why we recommend beginners start with a language like Python or BASIC and not C++.

Also, my point wasn't about ideas, but rather the notation used to represent these ideas. For example, you might not be able to read "Ăn quả nhớ kẻ trồng cây", but if I tell you it means "When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree" you understand the idea. Notation is just a means of transferring ideas. Having deep complex ideas is not an excuse for poor notation.
It doesn’t need to, since that communication is consensual: the sender must explicitly send the information, and the receiver must explicitly be interested in it (and can check what origin it is from). The problem with SharedArrayBuffer (with Spectre) is that is allows the “receiver” to read whatever it wants from the other origin, just by virtue of ending up in the same browser context.
> This is the same firm well known for totally missing the boat on India's IT boom.

Not setting up a body shopping entity is hardly big loss to Reliance.

> that set of skills has nothing to do with charting out a vision that will work in future.

How have IT/Retail/Real Estate/ Banking/ Airlines and so on vision worked in India. I see it again none too well. So what's the big deal if Reliance's vision did not pan out.

> But the other stuff, the stuff that actually requires vision, is waiting to blow in India. ...

Same crap, different pile. Good that you have option to move around though.

> This bet on 4G/cloud/platforms etc is not because of some great vision of the future..

No shit. Neither was IT industry. It was just labor cost arbitrage.

> Plus there is the small issue of huge existing players who are not exactly lining up to bend over to the Ambanis.

Could be that they live in caves in Himalayas or deep under Arabian sea. Never heard of those "huge existing players" in India who are not bending over to Ambani.
Yes, because Google Docs would throw a fit if it didn't.
It seems to me that “military history” in this case is like a 30-year preview of the Computer Age: maybe I’m just young, but I’d generally put the start of the Computer Age around the time of the invention of FORTRAN and Lisp. To my mind, everything before was a “beta”.
You can buy from Costco from the Costco online store. Same-day shipping items are processed using Instacart, so it is more expensive. However, Costco does have a 2-day shopping section, and everything else that cannot be shipped in 2 days is a separate section. In addition, Costco is upfront about the fact that some of items might be cheaper in their physical store. However, I got myself a Costco membership, bought from them exclusively online and I’ve been very happy with my results. I don’t have a car, so my available options are what you would expect. I’m also happy that I can move away from Amazon for more of my regular / staple purchases.
Yeah the PS4 and XBox gift cards tend to justify the membership cost on their own for me, so everything else feels like a bonus, and I don't feel bad about wasting money buying something somewhere else even if it's a bit more expensive since the Costco membership is already paid for.
If you have to fire so many people at once, it means you've fucked up. They should have never been hired, or individually fired a while back, or whatever.

It means the company is making a dramatic shift in how they do things. While this could be good (mass layoffs often mean that the company has finally realized they have a problem), what is definitely means is that they've made a lot of mistakes. It's essentially admitting that they've made suboptimal decisions.

That is why it is reported on, not because it's a morally bad thing or whatever.
Willem Van Spronsen who firebombed an ICE facility was a self described antifa [0]

Connor Betts who shot 9 people dead was an antifa sympathizer [1]

James T. Hodgkinson who hurt two officers and wounded Republican Rep. Scalise in a shootout was found to have posted a lot of content comparing President Trump and the Republican party to Nazis [2]. An idea that has been popularized by antifa elements.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/ice-detent...

[1] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/08/07/dayton-shootin...

[2] http://jewishbreakingnews.com/2017/06/14/breaking-shooter-id...
For those that don’t know, when the posts were republished hundreds of email notifications went out. One for each post.

Quite the splash for coming back online.
Media “Mask” Querades
But that's crude. There's an arbitrary taxonomy of "government" and "not government" and "not government" is under any condition whatsoever, looked at only as good faith actors while "government" regardless of any context, evidence, or institutional oversight is only seen as bad faith actors.

This isn't reality, it's just some artificial classification system placed upon society. It's a hypothetical thought experiment based on fictional categories. For example, The Irvine Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Company) is a Private For Profit company that Governs the City of Irvine - the distinction between the two groups are totally imaginary and fictional. They only exist on a chalkboard.

I'm talking about people who call themselves libertarian who do not participate in this classification dance

There's a historical reality of actual real world public banks and there's been consistent and nearly universal support for their continuation across party lines. Theoretical thought experiments aren't needed - we can simply look at observed reality.

Maybe you should actually read Mrs. Brown's material as I suggested before forming an opinion on her work. I dunno, just a suggestion.
If you got a Ph.D. in some field and wanted to do R&D in it without trying to go tenure-track, then the national labs, and occasionally the contractors, used to be a decent compromise. Bell Labs was gone, Google wasn't yet running its moonshot factory, and Softbank had yet to open its pocketbook. Depending where in the country you want to be it still might make a little sense.

But if you're a programmer without a scientific speciality, then there's less reason.

The contractors have some freedom to pay as they see fit -- they pay more than the national labs in my experience -- but they still have to justify their rates to the government during contract negotiations, and the government can push back. The pay is "ok", but has been falling increasingly behind "Tech". So now there's brain drain, particularly among programmers.
It's not surprising, because Wittgenstein himself was in a sense dismissive of academic philosophy. He turned against his former self, of the Tractatus, which was highly regarded among so-called "analytic" philosophers. The controversy began almost immediately: Bertrand Russell, who had previously been Wittgenstein's biggest supporter, had nothing but scorn for the Philosophical Investigations.

Wittgenstein was a kind of anti-philosopher, as was Richard Rorty. Their goal, as I see it, was not to "solve" traditional philosophical problems as such, but rather to dissolve them. They believed that many philosophical problems were misunderstandings, projections of our human languages onto reality, false anthropomorphism. Rorty also started in academic philosophy and left the field later in his career, while generating similar controversy. If they're right, then it's unclear whether philosophy as it had traditionally been practiced has a proper place in society. Academic philosophers deem their own projects to be "foundational", but Wittgenstein was a threat to that way of thinking.
I actually had exactly this idea with my YC knock-off, HMC INQ.

The first cohort (5 cos in 2017) I offered them to all pool some of their equity. But first I polled how much each would be willing to give. The results were 0%, 0%, 2%, 5%, and 20%.

So, I abandoned it. Ironically the one that offered 20% is doing the best so far.
VCs Are Destructive Predators
> When it comes to delivering first-class mail for cheap, I assume there’s a minimum population density that allows for such a thing to be done cheaply (similar to now) and profitably.

This is a bold assumption that needs backing, because it would suggest that Germans or Britons would be paying 2 orders of magnitude more on sending paper mail than Singaporeans. It also presupposes that private corporations must absolutely turn a profit on every piece of mail that they deliver to every destination, but that’s not how most enterprises work — there can be sustainable loss leaders. It also presupposes that we ought to subsidize rural paper mail delivery rather than charge the true price, which is also debatable.

> I’d bet there’s a threshold somewhere in that range where it wouldn’t be possible to deliver a mail anywhere in the US by a private company for similar rates that everyone currently enjoys now.

“I’d bet there’s a threshold”, how do you know that the US isn’t above that threshold?

> equitable pricing

This is also debatable, because the USPS is essentially charging higher rates in denser markets to offset the subsidized rates in sparser markets, which imposes a regressive price increase on poor urban USPS customers. Higher prices mean nothing to rich people. If there’s some social utility to having rural (and not urban) Americans enjoy subsidized first class mail, then why not just subsidize it directly through taxes as opposed to selective price increases, which can be regressive and un-equitable?

> Not every damn thing needs to be privatized, some things are better left as government entities because the benefit to the public is greater than any profit motive. Letter delivery is one of those things.

Is food one of those things? How about clothing and shelter? The profit motive is just an incentive for private entities to provide goods & services. The strongest argument in favor of the profit motive is that resource allocation is superior among private entities relative to government central planning. There are obviously exceptions, like externalities, but those don’t really apply here.

And even if we did decide that there’s a public benefit to providing subsidized mail to rural areas, that’s an excellent argument in favor of keeping a taxpayer subsidized USPS, but not a sufficient one in favor of maintaining its monopoly on paper mail. Especially considering that private corporations already deliver packages to low density rural areas alongside USPS just fine.
Always good for a laugh: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
That's a brilliant conclusion on the JPEG hack, and yes, that's precisely what I've observed. You really notice it if you compare to even 1080i with high bitrates (OTA HD TV for example). It's weird.
No one agree that dedup is most useful feature on ZFS. It is generally considered as useless feature unless you have special datasets.
IMO the issue has to do with linting and editors i.e. "how do I make the yellow squigglies go away" or silent compiler warnings in the console due to several layers of default linting rules again applied by your editor, or your React CLI, or your operating systems package manager. These are very unsexy problems that nobody has been able to solve over the past 5 years because ultimately they are opinionated.
That misses the point that the problem is transit created as political footballs. That basically results in grand plans that end-up worthless.

I used to live in Sonoma County. To fight congestion, they created the Smart Train. But through a similar process, the train wound-up a seldom running, expensive medium rail from nowhere to nowhere.

Maybe there's a reason to not put trains where people generally good but you'd have to spell out what that is.
Is the point really predicting outcomes? FIDE (chess) Elo is useful because I can compare machines to humans who have never matched each other.

Generally speaking the "rating structure" is a lattice where you can, for any two players A and B, tell whether A is a better player than B or the other way around. Elo, Glicko, etc. are embeddings of this lattice on the real line (much like the utility functions of microeconomics are real embeddings of preference lattices).
Elo was in Age of Empires back when zone .com was a thing.

It worked and worked well. Points were calculated for each person. However Dots2 and lol don’t implement Elo the same way, points are calculated for the team. So if you’re Low score and you win against high people. In Dota and lol you won’t gain many points.

I believe this is done to avoid being carried but it doesn’t work because it just results in you being stuck in a Low tier for ages.

TLDR: elo works and it’s great. No one implements it right.

Edit: In Age of Empires / Zone, if you had a 4v4, it used all 8 players to calculate the ELO on an individual player, so if you had in your team 1750 elo, 1550 elo, and anything in between. The 1750 may gain only 1 point, while the 1550 may gain 16 points (the highest gain lowered the more people who played) While on the losing side the lowest elo will lose the lowest amount of points and the highest will lose the highest amount of points.

dota / lol don't do this, the winning/losing team gains/loses the same amount of points. This is wrong.

This means a high elo player has the potential to farm points from low elo players with little risk. While low elo players get stuck not playing people in their own range.
They don't have a cost competitive option because they're not allowed to offer one. They can only deliver "extremely urgent material" by law.
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Do you realize that you sound like you have a second-grade math education with your example? Also, do you realize simulation is not feasible for more than a few dimensions, if that?
You don't need a Costco membership to buy using instacart.
Amazon has a few superpowers. One is writing, but the other is so many metrics. I worked at AWS and saw how the weekly metrics meeting was ran, with execs questioning why some metric, out of 10s of thousands, was behaving in a certain way. A good product manager had a good reason, an acceptable one found a reason quickly after the meeting. Without an understanding of the business writing is worthless, and one of the ways Amazon creates this understanding is comprehensive metrics gathering.

It is the combination of business understanding and writing
that is Amazon's superpower.
Honestly what are you talking about. You can simulate for 100 years without finding a counterexample, but that doesn't make a proof. The whole point of math is to understand why things are true, not to just be satisfied that it seems true.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't…if Apple broke all the old software here, people would be up in arms about how they should have added a "legacy mode" for these applications.
This is saying basically the same thing in a different language.

> In this method, yes, the actuary calculates the value of all benefits to be paid out in the future, due to past and future service, and then subtracts out the value of the future accruals, to calculate the actuarial liability.

I.e., the USPS has to raise the money to fund liabilities for 75 years, and it had to do so in 10 years, which essentially meant that they had to operate in the red making its financial situation even more complicated.
Malan is a "Professor of the Practice". That means teaching only. There may be some kind of job security for such teaching roles, but it's not a tenured nor tenure-track title. Usually just a fixed contract you have to repeatedly renew like visiting professor (but possibly with less degree requirements).
How to Write Handwritten Notes at Scale
A Review of Methods for Estimating Algorithmic Complexity
I live in Benicia and I think the alternate plan is slightly disingenuous in removing Vallejo as a consideration for the Benicia stop. Much of Vallejo is only 20 minutes away from the rail line.
One could argue that because of the widespread use of < and > in HTML, those characters have gained an alternate meaning as brackets. Saying they're NOT BRACKETS is a bit like saying "selfie" is not a word. Just as language changes over time, glyphs can gain alternate meanings through usage.
Here's how to do the "three polarizing filter" experiment. You can do it at home if you have three pairs of polarized sunglasses.

1. Take two of the lenses, hold them an inch apart, and shine a light so that it goes through both. The amount of light that goes through depends on their relative angle; at the right angle (90 degrees difference), no light will pass through. Hold them like this, so that no light gets through.

2. Insert a third polarizing filter between the two at a 45 degree angle. Amazingly, some light will now get through. You added an obstacle, and more light passes through.
Baffled by how defensive you are of a former employer. Linkedin emailed my contacts without asking. And the same has happened to me from my contacts. I would get emailed repeatedly to join. I don't support these dark patterns nor those who have worked for companies that build those dark patterns.
>They're intentionally making devices disposable.

Well no. This is what intentionally making devices disposable looks like.

>According to iFixit, the Surface Laptop isn’t repairable at all. In fact, it got a 0 out of 10 for repairability and was labeled a “glue-filled monstrosity.”

The lowest scores previously were a 1 out of 10 for all previous iterations of the Surface Pro

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/251046-ifixit-labels-s...
I'm not surprised to hear that bay area politicians would be happy to rid themselves of something "unpleasant" like a military base. Also, I wish we would give up all the grandiose and expensive plans for trains as a means of public transportation in the US. This pandemic has just added another reason why they are not viable here.