skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't really remember if zero-indexing was a big deal when I was learning to program

And neither is 1-indexing even though people are always complaining about it. I kinda like when indexing from the third element to the seventh element to be just 3:7, instead of 2:6. and the last element to be length(x) instead of length(x)-1. And that use case is much more frequent to me than creating circular buffers on an array. And in Julia you can just use begin:end as well, or any iterator, it's really overall a non-issue for me.

Not sure about Lua, but in Julia (and Matlab, and R) is just because they actually have vectors/matrices types that have a convention that predates even programming, while it makes sense for languages that an array is basically a memory offset (that maps to a pointer arithmetic logic) to start in 0.
Disk is indeed cheap. The time to re-rip 1000 CDs, however, it not :(
This man had a profound impact on many diverse fields. A true Renaissance polymath.
And BC in particular has about 200 deaths and 9,000 cases in a population of 5 million. One of the lowest rates in the world.
I imagine most would be using it as a cross compiler.
ZIP code verification is commonly used for credit card authentication at gas pumps in the US, especially before the advent of chip & PIN.

This is immensely annoying for Canadians who drive their cars to the US, although there are some built-in workarounds supported by the credit card processor such as punching in the 3 numerical digits of a Canadian postal code followed by 00.
https://survivejs.com/webpack/
Drawing a parallel to Nassim Taleb's "don't hide the risk" (or atleast what I understood from his talks), working for a big corp hides risk (and reward). If you or the team do a shitty job, the feedback and the results are often not immediate, and absorbed by the bigness of the corp. I have seen fair share of disinterest and mediocrity in my place of work and I think it's a leadership problem partly, where they've pretty much failed to motivate or incentivize people to improve/move around the company and you have people working for years in the same role and project doing the same work, creating very little new value.

Also great point that it might be a characteristic of somebody choosing to work for a big corp vs something else. In today's climate that seems a very safe decision for a new grad. Ultimately it's a job that you do to earn money, it's naive to think everybody wants the same thing from their job.
I see it as they're en route to saving money by offloading as much as possible of the underlying OS in Windows to Linux, and only keeping the 'front end' of Windows as in-house development.

They get the 'effect' of Windows for Joe Public, at a fraction of Microsoft's cost.

In other words, Microsoft is doing in 2020 what Apple did with their OSX way back in 2001.
(I'm only talking about Enterprise)

> This is like saying food is a scam and useless and that it's only important when you eat it.

Yes but everyone knows it for food, for analytics people expect it to solve their problem, which it will not do by itself

> As far as I know, changing analytics tools for the average business involves just changing a JS snippet on their site, nothing complicated.

Well not really, first except Session replay tools and everything recorded tool (ContentSquare, Heap) (and even for them it is far for being the case), changing analytics tool is a huge step, you need to recreate all your events, teach your users, install on your website (for an enterprise website, installing an analytics js tag is a huge thing)

> my bigger goal is to make self-hosting and integration of web applications (in general) a lot easier for the average user

To me self hosting and average user is not compatible especially in analytics where the average user barely knows how to use a computer.

Apart from that, it is not really clear to me what you are trying to achieve
> My question is, does their methodology tell apart the following effects: [...]

First and foremost, their curve fitting, disguised as race-agnostic methodology, ignores the number of studies of the median artery in Africa 100 years ago (zero) and now (many).
Have you run a business before?
At the risk of sounding dismissive...

Who cares? Whether free will is an illusion or not has no practical application to my life, my behavior, or the lives and behaviors of other people.

If an illusion is so strikingly believable that you take it for reality, what separates it from BEING reality?
The key is don’t abstract it. No function builders, one big object with inline conditional spreads.
Calorie in calorie out principle doesn't imply that its not challenging
> FAT32 isn't often included these days in Linux FS benchmarks [0]

Running sqlite3 on a USB stick isn't really the same as one time sequential read from a virtual hard disk though. Even FAT32 on Windows 98 could handle sequential reads just fine. In fact if you look at the other benchmarks in that link you supplied -- the ones that are doing tasks more equivalent to a compiler -- FAT32 actually comes out pretty fast.

> but some older benchmarks [1] also show noticeable performance differences, especially when the workload is more meaningful than copy files.

But the workload in question isn't more meaningful. A compiler is "just" reading a few files and then writing a few new files. It's going to be more CPU and memory intensive than disk heavy.

> Lack of features does not imply efficient design.

I'm never suggested it does. However for simple workloads like a sequential read and write from a virtual hard drive where your host has already abstracted away the problems of physical hardware with optimised drivers, a lack of features on the guest operating system could conceivably be a more efficient design. It's not that far fetched a comment given that's the principle behind unikernels.

> Caching was optional with Windows 98 and sometimes was turned off by default

It's optional in every OS (even now) but is rarely ever turned off by default under normal operating conditions -- this is as true for Windows 98 as it is for Linux.

> The referenced Linux benchmarks probably limit the variability here since I think Linux tends to follow the same code paths, independent of the partition types.

There's a few things to consider when looking at these file system benchmarks:

1. They are all running on Linux so none of them actually demonstrate the FAT32 driver in question

2. They're writing direct to physic media (which isn't the case with the Delphi 2 benchmark).

3. The workload you're demonstrating isn't equivalent to the workload of a compiler. I wasn't suggesting people should run databases on FAT32 (tbh I wasn't suggesting people should run FAT32 at all).

I would be interested in the same Delphi 2 benchmark but with Delphi running bare metal in WINE
It’s the phrasing, not the idea per se. Like, yes, weight loss is energy consumed - energy burned, but it’s rather obvious, rather unhelpful, and simplifies things in a way that triggers shame, not determination for people who have to overcome more barriers.

It’s like you’re in the middle of a marathon and someone running a 5k goes “have you considered running faster?”
Hey, I do the same. I sometimes play with Arch, but I mostly run Ubuntu, because sometimes I am in a hurry to get things done and don't want to fiddle with the system.
This is all nice, but not portable. C++ has no formal concept of a "builder", every new invocation of the compiler is independent, so it doesn't know how a previous invocation parsed a particular header file.
>Those channels exist to spread private, identifiable data and this breaks the law.

Out of curiosity, to which law are you referring?

I'm not being snarky here, I'm just not clear about which law(s) are being broken.

According to the Wikipedia page for Telegram[0], Telegram's team is based in Dubai, and the company is registered in the UK and the US.

IANAL, nor am I any sort of expert on US, UK or Dubai law. If you could expand on this, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#History
> It's a waste of time to teach TensorFlow or teach the trendiest neural network architecture at school. The knowledge becomes irrelevant in a few years, and it's fairly easy to pick it up by reading docs/papers if you know the fundamentals.

Well, kind of. You teach one or two instances of such things as a case study in how to learn a framework. Usually Software Engineering courses are the best place to do this. The point is, your ML course should probably not be spending any time on things like pytorch. A sophomore level engineering course should have already taught students how to go through the process of learning a new framework.
Fortunately, that was not the only option. Another one was give up and GTFO. Which I did.

BTW, more than 50% of my classmates and ex-colleagues did that, and more than 50% of these who did are working in FAANG companies. Probably due to legal stuff, i.e. larger companies have better immigration lawyers.
Why not? It just means you eat a specific amount of calories and you’ll lose weight no?
Are these "very important initiatives" just a codeword for "Management doesn't know enough about what or how to interfere"?
Regardless of your opinion on whether it's acceptable, given what is happening in Belarus, that the protestors are working to identify riot police as a way to "fight back"....it's quite interesting (to me at least) that Apple is trying to direct the actions of an app developer after users have already installed that application. Is Apple now the arbitrator of "what computations are allowable on the device you purchased"?
I’ve never been to a station in NJ that’ll touch a motorcycle. Unsure about if there’s an exception to the law.
Determine the (very fast and unusual) orbits of stars circling sagittarius a*, thereby inferring its existence and mass.
Do I understand correctly that the inclusion of YugabyteDB support in Rook's functionality is simply based on current unavailability of the relevant native Operator by Yugabyte itself? If someone from Yugabyte is reading this, I would appreciate their comment on plans to implement such Operator. That would allow people who do not need on-premise data storage to avoid establishing and maintaining an additional significant dependency in the form of Rook.
On your third point. I remember a very good article on control theory which had a hard and often missed point. Which is digital sampling creates far more noise in the phase domain than the amplitude one. For control loops this is important because stability depends on phase. The upshot is you need a higher sampling rate than you would naively think.

Bob Pease also had some articles on audio. I think he would agree that open loop analog circuits often produce harmonics that people like. And digital and feedback controlled ones tend to produce harmonics people HATE.
Yup, they still do! If it wasn’t for my girlfriend (who is a Portland native) wouldn’t have been with me, I might have ended up with some bruises...
Here's one for sitting in a car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6VKxmUPb3g
It can try, but that doesn't make the law constitutional.
You will almost certainly need a neural accelerator for this, neural networks are currently the only known effective solution for cocktail party problems.
Not to nitpick, just to illustrate, but the disease is called Kuru[0] - essentially, prions transferred by the consumption of cooked dead bodies during a rite -, and it is absolutely terrifying:

>In the third and final (terminal) stage, the infected individual's existing symptoms, like ataxia, progress to the point where they are no longer capable of sitting without support. New symptoms also emerge: the individual develops dysphagia, which can lead to severe malnutrition. They may also become incontinent, lose the ability or will to speak and become unresponsive to their surroundings, despite maintaining consciousness.[14] Towards the end of the terminal stage, patients often develop chronic ulcerated wounds that can be easily infected. An infected person usually dies within three months to two years after the first terminal stage symptoms, often because of pneumonia or other secondary infections.[15]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
I have a mix of premade examples that try to help students work around a common mistake, and random problems with generated solutions in KaTex math notation. Although, my experience is that the randomized problems don't seem to be as valuable as the hand crafted ones.

I don't think I fully understand the "Hamiltonian circuit of elliptical values" question.
That its true but that statement doesn't say anything about the difficulty of it.
According to BLS, median hourly earnings of a lawyer in the US is merely $59.11.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/legal/lawyers.htm
I'm concerned that you don't seem to believe America is in a recession at present.
Show HN: A Visual Proof of Arrow's Theorem
Can you share what you did to lose this much weight?
I am under the impression that JIT compilers do not modify the compiler’s own bytecode. They write generated code into a separate data region and mark that region as executable. If the code needs to modified, then control transfers back to the compiler which can mark the region as writable again.

The same can be done for a binary and it’s own code, but I wonder if it’s used as a signal in antivirus protections if done too often.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX
Mods, the guidelines says no politics "unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" and I think this essay might be that. Or at least it's explaining the current phenomenons that are prevalent in politics, but 50+ years ago.
>Everyone who has taken a class on complex systems is aware of the phenomenon of emergence.

Reminds me of some conference (lost the URL) of Robert Laughlin, where he said (if I recall correctly) that rigidity (e.g. of a steel bar) was an emergent property, to which someone in the audience objected that sure enough it should be deducible from quantum mechanics, which he dismissed.

That would mean that emergence can occur even in simple systems (regularly packed atoms), and for quite basic properties.
This is incorrect, moving fluid always has lower pressure, you don’t need the narrowing of the venturi to get suction, it just works better when you do.

An intuitive way to think about it is to set up a straight tube with a fan at one end, open on the other end, with a small hole drilled somewhere in the side.

With the fan off, clearly the pressure is the same everywhere.

With the fan on though, air moves out the open end. That moving air has to stop once it is out of the tube, that resistance to the moving air at the end of the tube is dynamic pressure. The hole in the side though has no moving air directed at it, not having to resist that moving air, the pressure is less at that interface than at exit.

If this wasn’t true, you would have to be compressing the air, that is increasing its density. Saying a fluid is incompressible is equivalent to saying the speed of sound in it is infinite; that is obviously never true, however the effects of compressibility are relative to the speed of sound so as long as you aren’t dealing with flow of hundreds of miles per hour in air, incompressability is a very accurate approximation.
About WooCommerce: Go for it, but be ready for some customizations to meet your own needs.

Use the plugins you need, else if you have the knowledge implement the whole mechanism yourself either in a series of small custom plugins or place the whole custom code inside your theme's `functions.php`.

My suggestion would be the following:

* go with a VPS
* choose NGINX for web server and reverse proxy
* setup microcaching
* use memcached or Redis if microcaching does not cover your needs
* use the latest PHP
* avoid using a plugin for image optimization; let NGINX do that for you
* if there's a need for a REST communication, use WooCommerce's REST API; it works wonders!

That's all I can remember for now.

So, TLDR; yes, you can go with WooCommerce and communicate with your own CRM's APIs without a sweat.

How do I know?

Well, I have done that for a customer. It's a custom solution that updates their stock on a daily basis multiple times and every 15 minutes it automatically synchronizes the necessary changes; else, there's the "run now" option to immediate execute the synchronization upon demand.
Or you can just use 100x more weights in a transformer, and it will learn how to write human level quality texts without much data cleaning or fancy statistics. /s
I used Kinesis keyboards for years, and preferred them over all others I tried... but for the price, the build quality was just atrocious. Went through several of them. Have they improved at all? For $300+ I expect something that feels rock solid and lasts for years, not the plasticky stuff that eventually broke (out of warranty, of course).
Wow. You’re right. Thank you for correcting me!
Up to a point, eventually when the code base is large enough you spend more time serialising/deserialising and passing things between workers that it can be faster to disable the cache.
It depends, e.g. if you are moving data from memory into a Python data structure and then sending it to the GPU you will have a huge performance bottleneck in loading the data into Python.
it seems to include an eclectic amount of music-references for just filling that wordcount.
I'm confused about why you would CTRL+F "race".
Same, and it's just layer on layer of extra tooling and complexity.

Typescript, Babel, Webpack, JSX, TSX, etc, etc.

It gets in the way of development as much as it helps.
Yeah. I have a big bin of CDs in my attic, many/most of which I ripped as medium-quality MP3s. Realistically, given my so so hearing, I'm not going to go redo all those at this point--especially given that so much of my music listening is streaming at this point anyway.
In Case of Electric-Car Fire, Half of Fire Departments Are Unprepared
In Australia all new residential buildings are the worst..

Everything is in greys.

Go to any shop whether for paint or tiles it is impossible to find a bright colour.

Even the colours (when you find any) have a distinct grey tone.
I don't think a world view can defined much more than "one's foundational of life, the world and self". I think what the author is doing is defining a world view - especially, any fairly established world view is going to determine which questions are important, which order they should be asked in and so-forth.

Edit: Especially, "Is there a God?" is one of the first questions asked and answered in certain world views including the authors' but by no means all. "Should you even start by considering a potential God" is another question one can ask.
I know all that, but I was wondering what role the Senate Judiciary Committee plays in that process.
I see comments like this often, and I'm not sure if I'm wildly luck or others are tragically unlucky. We (as a household) probably order a couple of things from Amazon a week. We've had a couple of things not live up to expectations, and a handful of returns, but nothing like used underwear. I do tend to stick to the Prime vendors and not wander off into the dark corners of Amazon. Maybe that's why I've not (knowingly) been bitten by counterfeits or returns.

I know it's a caveat emptor environment, but it's worked for me. It's eBay that I have to watch like a hawk (just assume if you buy an electronic component, you have at best a 50-50 chance of it not being crap). I'm curious as to the wide variety of experiences I see from others.
>Almonds are ~9% or so of our ag water supply, feed for meat and meat products use 50%+ of our ag water supply.

Is this in all of the US, or...?

Water supply is a very localized thing, so comparing water usage in say, Iowa to water usage in California isn't really apple-to-apples. You won't solve California droughts by reducing water usage in Iowa, for example.

>Also note that California produces 80% of the world's almonds, but something like 1% of the world's meat.

If these numbers are accurate, it seems like it's more sensible to discuss almonds in the face of water usage and eschew talking about meat, since California in the midst of its many droughts is specifically using a lot of its local water supply on almonds, not meat.

edit: the numbers I found from a quick Wikipedia search are that 11% of Cali's Ag water is used on pasture forage (though this doesn't necessarily mean it's for meat; from other information on the Wiki page it looks like a lot of this pasture forage is for horses), and 18% on Alfalfa which is exported as cattle feed. So that's anywhere from 18% - 29% on "meat and meat products", whereas 34% is "fruit and nuts" (it's unstated how much of that is almonds).
The author highlights not teaching enough mathematical theory behind the various techniques. I have tried Andrew Ng's course on Coursera. It uses Octave from what I remember. After a point the lack of mathematical background started to show up. I have always wondered where can I find course that teaches both the mathematical background as well as the hands-on programming in a balanced way.
So if I want at least some of the benefits of the cleaning ingredients in the premium fuel, is the mid-grade an option?
No they are not. 1 calorie from fat makes you more full than 1 from sugar. Also sugar (or rather glucose) makes you hungry because of the blood-sugar spike and crash. So while one type of food makes you full, another with the exact same amount of calories can make you hungry and hence eat more. Also the body burn different things in different ways (glucose vs. fat). That is why some (like me) will feel awful if I take a long walk while in a period of eating what is considered normal today but can stop eating for a few days with no problems at all (and add a few long walks on-top of that no problem) if I eat low carb high fat.

You can say it is the same in basic physics or chemistry if you want but if calories from X does not give the same amount of energy for the body as Y, then X != Y.
How plausible is this scene from Rambo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgfoCa2-V3g
Well said; +1!
Fell off the intermittent fasting bandwagon recently. For some reason the intermittent fasting crowd is also usually a big fan of ketosis. I have recently switched to high starch very low fat, eat whenever you want. No added oil, no animal products. Immediately lost about 10% of body weight in first 3 months. Recommend fellow recovering keto-ers please look at the starch diet advocated by John McDougall.
> I can probably think of some more of people are interested

Sure, I'll read a few more.
For some reason that I can’t figure out, the dispenser shutoff doesn’t work reliably on my 65 or 66 Mustangs, or at least not fast enough to prevent spillage. Maybe the very short fuel filler hose (from the cap to the top of tank is only maybe 12” of high capacity bent tubing).

If I’m not listening for the noise/pitch change to manually stop, it’s going to splash plenty of gas out the back when the tank fills.
I agree. Neither you nor I made a specific comment in difficulty. Your parent comment stated it was disrespectful. I agreed and tried to use an analogy that would be considered both disrespectful and cruel by most people.

In addition, I have successfully eaten the “correct” amount of calories for years and years and still gained weight. I admit, andcdata, but I am not the only person with this story nor am I the only one with this odd medical outcome.
Walking Through Data Warehouse Design
She might prefer being called by her first name and perhaps doesn't even like formal address. We don't know and if she isn't complaining about it then I don't know if we should.
Support for import.meta.url is huge, especially inside fetch() and new URL().
Yes. In a perfect world there would be no externalities. All costs would be charged.
16 hour fasting seems to be the most popular form of intermittent fasting (especially as a way to lose weight), so I think it makes sense to focus on it.