skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inelastic just means consumers aren't sensitive to price. The classical example is prescription drugs. Consumers are not price sensitive b/c they NEED those drugs. As such the seller can raise price and not see a drop off in sales.

I think a good example of a highly elastic good is hamburgers. Is McDonalds raises burger prices by 300% there a ton of other options for consumers to switch to and sales will drop.
Because having extra screenspace to keep docs/chat/... on is nice and an old screen is good enough for that?
Thanks for turning community-driven social sites into advertising-laden shitholes.
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Worked fine on Chrome, but broke the back button on Firefox.
Usually small things get to me like, Kmail won't keep my emails de-collapsed, or Kwin puts a border around Firefox so my tabs are not at the top and I have to aim (true for Gnome also btw), same goes for VScode. Or I want to use git over sshfs but KDE uses kioslaves and not gvfs so it's not a normal FS if you mount ssh in dolphin. Stuff like that.

Gnome usually make me miss some configuration options or they remove them. But as I grow older I get better at accepting defaults and I think Gnome will capture me once and for all soon. I do like how Ubuntu looks ootb (I only set dark theme, autohide the panel and keep 4 virtual desktop at all times (normally they are removed when empty)).

Sometimes I choose Mate (similar to XFCE I guess). I like it a lot but it just doesn't look that good (ark-darker makes it better).

I do like change every now and then.
Aside from all controversy...

How would this News app stand against existing market players? I don't see the differentiation factor TBH
teachers get a certain amount of prep time but its never sufficient and they do shit on their own time, all the time. plus they pay for school and class materials out of pocket routinely. I think in Ontario the average class is allocated like, $30 for the year in materials.
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Just launched a new website. Looking for feedback or new ideas. Cheers.
> In fact, criticism of the two studies has woven a damning tapestry of Twitter threads and blog posts pointing out flaws of the studies—everything from basic math errors to alleged statistical sloppiness and sample bias

Unless I'm missing something, it's Twitter and blogs against published studies. Sounds like he's been proven wrong all right...
Benefit-cost ratio of owning your own CDN.
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Please don't unnecessarily spam your product.
Vega and Vega Lite is nice too.

https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
As someone who’s interested in low-level programming, I’d really like to say thank you for creating this.

Are there ways that others can support this work?
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Did you know that the T2 is also the SSD controller in recent macs?

It's basically the southbridge controller for macs.
I feel like, 25 years post-undergrad and over 10 years post grad school, I should go back and re-read some data structures classics: I spend all of my time running database queries and debugging web service calls and only rarely dipping into real algorithmic optimization. I wonder how much performance optimization I'm leaving on the table because my data structures are so rusty.
Bring back the `<marquee>` tag.
As a team lead, my project sees them about once a quarter. This is on a project that fundamentally does form based data collection on a limited set of users.

The most recent one was where a dev used an array scan to find a piece of data in a record array. We changed that to a hash table look up and saw a 100-1000x increase in performance on our larger datasets.

Not quite as dramatic, but still pretty good.

If you aren’t producing single person solutions and your product doesn’t have any performance issues, you can either count yourself lucky to be working with great engineers.
A lot of people I know have left San Francisco, many businesses have closed. I'm curious to see voter turnout this year as a further evidence marker. You can see all things being equal [1] amongst bay Area counties SF sales tax went up only 1% from April to June - implying large amounts of people have actually left the city, consistent with anecdotal evidence I see such as friends leaving and seeing many moving trucks.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Yes-people-are-...
Many Trump supporters unruffled about covid even as US cases rise
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KDE Neon is what youre looking for.
The fake rage is from 2020, however.
Sounds like the opposite of what apple is doing now.[1]

They used to have "the halo effect" going for them where their really good products would make their reasonable products a no-brainer to buy.

Now they seem to be pandering to a less-sophisticated market and letting the high-end stuff sort of fade away.

I still use my few-years-old os on a few-years old machine and it works for me, but the magic is dying.

[1] unfathomably expensive mac pro with expensive wheels doesn't count.
My theory on that is that people are spooked by the virus and want to remain isolated.
That and living in a smaller apartment isn’t that much fun when you have to spend all your time in it versus going out to eat or meet friends.
Yeah... it actually works. Mostly for programmers who don't need bold/italic/headers and can make those out of ASCII chars
Yeah, part of this may be that one- and two-bedroom apartments are undesirable during a pandemic.

I know it's a sentiment I've expressed to friends and family: I bought a house last year and I've repeatedly thought "boy I'm sure glad I'm trapped in a single-family home with a nice backyard for a year, rather than in my old apartment for a year". I would have been climbing the walls there.

Of course there are more factors in single-family home prices as well: interest rates are directly tied to how much money people can afford to borrow, so the rate reductions this summer drive a surge in housing prices, and generally the fed injected a ton of money into the financial system that is sloshing around looking for safe places to park, and housing is a very safe place to do that. There are a lot of properties being bought up by investment firms to rent out.
They were able to do this because there were no viable options with Corona keeping the theaters closed. Doubtful people would be willing to pay that rental fee if they could have gone to the theater instead. However, $30 for a mom/dad/2-kids is still way cheaper than going to the theater. For people that hate going to the movies, this could be a new acceptable norm.
and when you click on how it works, it greets you with a 31MB gif
Seems similar to a boycott. A protest of the way google operate, related either to market behavior, privacy, or aspects like their stance on software licenses.

A nonviolent, voluntary and intentional abstention from dealing with google, in order to encourage google to alter an objectionable behavior.
This is a solved problem, and dependency hell happen when not choosing dependencies wisely when creating programs.
I'd call that better. It shows that at the very least some people inside their groups are willing the discuss and debate. The level of groupthink is probably lower than previously thought and the guild might be salvageable.
optaplanner simply rocks - I appreciate your work in the space tremendously.

My suggestion is to create a simple way to deploy a to containers so that a primary server can pass out parallel optimization runs to a set of secondary nodes, allowing you to parallelize really easily.

a second generation of this would include code to spin up secondary nodes on demand depending on the number of parallel scenarios you want to run.
Thank you!

> How can I do that?

You can drop me an email (it's in my profile), I would be happy to help you with this.
That title reads super awkwardly. Anyway, on the flip side, the trend seems real from my observations. I live in a mountain town in North Central Washington. The real estate market has seen around a 35% price increase, homes are selling in hours all cash and almost every builder is already booked through 2021. It's almost exclusively people bailing from Seattle.
And it looks terrible. I’d guess that this site was thrown together by an outside agency, as these landing pages usually are by companies. In my experience these agencies don’t care about anything but getting paid, and will yield absolutely trash. And why wouldn’t they? They never have to deal with it again and the company hiring them probably doesn’t care, it’s just a marketing landing page. Then the company wants to change it some day and thinks it can just be handed off to engineering, because “it’s just code” and “how hard could it be” and fuck now I’m just sad. I am so done with tech lol, I can’t wait to get out.
> Therefore, many projects require contributions be made under a more liberal license (or even a copyright assignment) that allows the contribution to be sub-licensed to others without conditions.

Most, but not all of European jurisdictions, have a legal stipulation that all copyright assignments are either void or revocable even if the assigner says otherwise, except for work-for-hire. You therefore cannot release yourself from preferred form even if you required a copyright assignment, otherwise you will get stuck in the case any further published modifications to your work, not only for the contributions, but any part those modifications that interact so much so that they are inseparable, even by the original licensor, may become illegal overnight. As GPL does not state "the form deemed preferred for modifications by the licensor(s)", but " preferred form ... for modifications", you need to apply that objective definition I stated above. It would be nice if they explicitly stated that way though, relieving a lot of load from judges in resolving a possible dispute on which forms are preferrable for modification and which are not.
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The newly-discovered Gollum snakehead fish may have lived alongside dinosaurs
> Openly selling it is ... brave, IMHO

What basis would they have for that? Seems it falls squarely into the exceptions for any law that could conceivably form the basis for a complaint.
I think LGPL is ok. I think linux should have games.
What happens when two lightsaber beams collide in a lightsaber battle? Nothing good, apparently. The gas would be dispersed everywhere and the users would get burnt.
This is what leases are for, they fix prices for a year or so by adding cost friction to moving (usually a few months of rent). Which, in theory, act as a buffer to stabilize prices.

The problem is that the cost savings of moving is so great that it was cheaper to pay to break the lease than it would be to stay. We saw the reverse of this before: when landlords were paying people $8,000 to move early because rent inflation meant they could charge much more than that to the next tenant.

SF is an outlier because of the income disparity, relatively low housing density, and unique climate & economic opportunity available there.
Who do you think writes code for the T2, if not programmers? You're imagining that people who are employed for Apple are special, but they of course are just ordinary programmers.

Your point about SSD controllers is embarrassingly incorrect; there exist many hackers of SSD controllers, including OpenSSD [0], an entire open-source community of folks working on the problem.

Please stop apologizing for Apple's walled gardens. They intentionally limit access to hardware, even after it's legally sold and belongs to the new owner.

Edit: Downvoters, provide evidence or knock it off. Nobody's interested in Apple apologia this morning.

[0] http://openssd-project.org/wiki/The_OpenSSD_Project
“There are two buried ledes in the Segment/Twilio news”
The sentiment of the threads in this discussion are very anti-police. I personally see this as a privileged perspective.

>It might instead be that the more aggressive police departments are the ones that more seek to purchase military equipment, and the more aggressive police are the ones with more killings. I tend to think that's the case.

Causal relationship between killings and military gear can easily be explained by "dangerous communities motivate police to seek out military gear. Dangerous communities have more killings in general." I believe it's the most straightforward explanation.
Aw hell nah
Even if not senior, these are not advanced grammar mistakes. A quick re-read would have caught those. It gives water to the other tweet indicating that whoever wrote this did not inform the guild beforehand.
This reminded me of a project an acquaintance of mine did in 1997/98 when he build a news aggregator site. Mind this was before Google News arrived and it was a great way of seeing all headlines from the bigger (ans also smaller) sites in Germany.

Until the publishers came, dragged him to court on claims of copyright infringement (for doing deep links into the articles). That was a time, when clicking on a teaser brought you to a category page where you had to click the teaser again to get to the intended article. Why? To increase ad impressions. Sometimes you had to click three or four levels deep.

So they feared the lost ad impressions. They pulled the big guns on a high school kid creating a service. He agreed to delist them and the service was dead in the water. Because nearly every publisher wanted his sites to be delisted.

One or one and a half years later Google entered the German internet with Google News and the publishers sued again - this time it came to a trial and Google won. But 20 years later the publishers still try to lobby for laws against aggregators, against quoting from "their" news.

Thanks for this trip down memory lane into the late 90ies. Now I feel old. ;-)
I'd argue that new construction is inherently a luxury just because people are willing to pay so much more for it. You can't just directly build reasonably priced older units, any more than you can directly build beater cars.
I also think that many founders aren't trying to always 'build a major company' but instead want to 'do their own thing' and earn a living without being entirely beholden to corporate types.

Don't think that the 'less work' is generally the case, even if the idea might be nice, but rewards that correspond to work can be good. Autonomy must be a strong driver.

However, once bootstrapped and operating, that can seem like a distant dream if the business requires more staff, with admin and management becoming 'a thing'.
Later, looking to sell the business can mean a whole load more work but if all the stars align well, can give a large return. Or not.
They fingerprint you everywhere, one way or another.
It might be not known to be a rhyming slang, but the phrase is in use pretty much everywhere.
D3 is very flexible and customizable.

I'd suggest HighCharts for more cookie cutter basic charting with great API capabilities.

This is an information visualization project I did for a college course (surprised it still works on heroku! Did this in 2014)

http://beer-guide-data-visualization.herokuapp.com/

There's a D3 JS Tree of the family and subfamilies of beers. You can click to toggle on/off elements of the tree and display the children data on the scatter plot.

Hope this gives you an idea as a functional example of what is possible, even hooking together different libraries (D3 and HighCharts).
In general, when you want to implement some kind of algorithm in real life the state of the Turing machine must be stored somewhere between ticks and this storage can be considered memory.

You could think about this way: hardcoding a constant (moving it from heap to compiled code) doesn't magically cause the program to use less memory.

Thinking it in a different way, from purely physical point of view, every bit of information can be translated to some minimum amount of energy or mass (mass energy equivalence).

Since state ("state", not "possible states") of Turing machine is bits of information, you can't have a Turing machine with infinite size of state. Now, "possible states" are capped because if the state is finite in size, the number of possible states is less or equal than all permutations of it (permutations == possible states).

It is largely philosophical question which is "memory" available to the program and which is "Turing machine state". In case of real programs we see that memory can be reassigned depending on requirements.

There are some cases when the distinction becomes important in reality. Consider a trained AI that gets "baked in" and shipped to the user to compress/decompress images.

Let's say it does fantastic job at compression and decompression but takes 2GB of disk storage and memory when executing.

If you just compress a single small image you realistically need to send 2GB of the AI plus the very small image, but when you have billions of images this static cost of the AI gets amortized.

The same way happens when you run any real program on an operating system. In reality the program is much larger because even if it prints Hello World it still needs to do a bunch of data like recognize your monitor it is talking to. We conveniently package the common parts of the program as "Operating System" and then just let exchanging the small part that will make sense when coupled with correct OS.

That's also how you can have very small webpage that takes GBs of memory to execute... sadly...
Your point about the FBI taking time and not being on call is good. New procedures and Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) would need to be put in place, i.e. politics. But there are more tactical teams than people realize. The FBI openly admits that the FBI maintains SWAT teams at each of its 56 field offices throughout the country[1]. The field offices are distributed ideally, so they'd probably need additional field offices. For example, there are two in VA and two in PA, but none in WV. The reason I am so for the FBI doing this is that they watch their people much more closely, and have a higher psych bar to entry.

Also, regarding distance for the North Hollywood incident, the FBI's LA Field Office is at 11000 Wilshire Blvd, along with our their office in Los Angeles, they have 10 satellite offices, known as resident agencies, in the area. The estimated travel time for the CIRG from the field office to incident site is 22 minutes by car. That doesn't count using sirens/lights, or using a helo. The problem was likely being asked to participate, and getting approval to participate. As with many things at scale, tactical or techie, politics is more often a root cause than a technical issue.

[1] "Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG)". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 15 August 2020. https://www.fbi.gov/services/cirg
At the time, yes, but I do not have those numbers anymore. Trying my best to remember - I would estimate that the speedup of 360 / 4 = 90x is approximately: 4x multithreading (it was pretty linear speedup), 7x the algorithm and 3x the memory inefficiencies.

EDIT: fixed my math, thank you andruby
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There's very little going on under the hood with C++, if it even has a hood.
how do we measure if we are succeeding?

I think of these devices as part of a long term, broad based parenting strategy aimed at opening mental access to a variety of human activity that includes but is not dominated by technology. The measures of this are very person-specific. It could be engagement, attainment, development, etc. I don't think there is a measure for all of "we."

As far as I'm aware there is no "call home feature" and I am very glad that there isn't as my goal is to clear many paths for the kids to choose from and not excessively encourage any particular one. If one were to have a measure, you can connect MakeCode to a GitHub account and track commits. If that became the measure, I'm sure the funnest kids would find a way to break it with negative 2000 lines of code [0] or the like.

Having tried Raspberry Pi, micro:bit and ESP8266 with my kids at various points I've found the micro:bit and MakeCode package to be at a sweet spot of simplicity and "batteries included." It contains many features like Bluetooth transfer of code that is brilliantly easy and enough sensors and lights to see something real without much yak shaving. There is a sufficient ecosystem of micro-bit slotted servo drivers and complete kits to fit different learning experiences.

If a person is interested in more sophisticated programming then a full Linux machine is great. If they want to sprinkle sensors everywhere then the Arduino universe is great. For someone who is curious but not committed then the micro:bit is an accessible path to develop a budding interest.

0. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
That Japanese Man Yuta has a great video demonstrating just how much Chinese script do ordinary Japanese folk understand:

https://youtu.be/rzJqXd-1dEU
Yeah it was stuttering, which is why I was inspecting it. I assumed it was a CSS transition, but without hardware acceleration.

Outside agency makes a lot of sense to me.

When you say get out of tech, you wouldn't happen to mean on a ranch would you? Been seeing more and more references to tech folk wanting to escape to such places ha!
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You sound pretty jaded. But your thoughts don't really match my experience with software agencies as you mentioned. I previously worked for a software consulting shop/agency. Our mindset wasn't just build some crap software and deliver as you might imagine, we actually put care and effort into our work despite half the team being freelancers who might never work on the product again.
Knowing if you're copying or passing references is essential to understanding most languages that supports both.

It's scary how many people are unaware of it, though.

Not nearly as dramatic as the example above, but I once cut the time spent on page generation for a commercial CMS by 30% my first day in a new job by realising they did excessive new allocation of strings instead of concatenation (which will amortise the allocations by allocating more space than needed in most C++ implementations).

I find it quite disturbing, because, while I prefer to use Ruby these days, C++ documentation is really explicit about guarantees provided by both the language and the standard library with respect to things like memory behaviour and algorithmic complexity.

There's if anything less going on under the hood with C++ that you're not explicitly told about than in most modern languages.
There's been some solid web based ones that have had my own boss considering buying a license (only held back cause we weren't near a real release of the project we needed it for yet). The web is already too hacky, a cleanly coded /featureful web library sells itself. There's also specialized cases where performance out of open source libraries is worth the premium.
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Sir, I recommend you look into the history of Charles Steinmetz, for instance. And your generalization of minorities effectively evacuates its meaning - technically we are all minorities by your reasoning; or rather your lack of it.
What kind of accessibility tools are you thinking of that would work with JS highlighting, but not server-generated? (Given that generally both would produce roughly the same in-browser DOM, which is what most modern accessibility tools work against)
Besides, the video with the demo of the lightsaber goes public tomorrow (Oct 14). I can wait until then.