skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I meant repeated halving or doubling. So for example if you start with 1, and keep dividing by 2, in base 10 you get
1, 0.5, 0.25, 0.125, 0.0625, 0.03125, etc.
In base 8,
1, 0.4, 0.2, 0.1, 0.04, 0.02, 0.01, 0.004, etc. Much simpler.

Obviously multiplying and dividing by 5 and 10 are more natural in a base 10 system, but dividing things in halves, quarters, etc. (or multiplying by powers of two) are a much more common operation. (We only think of 10s as round numbers because of the base-10 decimal system.)

12 is useful in that it has so many different factors, but it misses all the benefits of being a power of 2, so I feel 8 is superior. Hexadecimal also has benefits, but my feeling is that 16 symbols would be too many for everyday use. Difficult to count on fingers and such. 8 really seems ideal to me. In fact, I've mused in the past that it's kind of a shame - you can imagine a world where people ignored their thumbs when finger counting and just lucked into a base-8 system thousands of years ago. (Although of course in that case we wouldn't call it base-8, it'd be base-10!)
Casio makes analog watches, too. They come in hundreds of designs and they're just as cheap and reliable as their digital counterparts.
I dunno, I saw those numbers on the prisoners dilemma and I immediately felt that I should lie just based on the off chance that the other prisoner does too. The difference between 8 and 10 years in prison is not enough to matter. But 1 is pretty good, and maximum utility for both of us.

Of course they’ll probably end up confessing, but that’s no more than I expect anyway.

Interesting how context is so important.
The personal is political.
What's actually being disingenuous, pointing out the formal route for settling these issues or using terms like "atrocity"?

"Is it moral?" is a complex question in many cases and that's partly why the courts exist - to help transform those moral questions with subjective answers into actionable objective ones.
Building a scalable Machine Learning feature store for DoorDash
Like I said, logistically impossible, but it would work.
> But what about human and civil rights? Can we really celebrate something as an absolute win if it hands absolute control over our access to encryption to anyone who happens to control Apple?

How exactly is Apple going to ban encryption? Isn't HTTPS outside of Apple's control?

And how would Apple manage to "ban encryption" on Windows, Linux, or Android devices?
A flat distribution doesn't comport well with heterogenous consumption preferences. The latter is a trend that will likely intensify in the coming decade.

The challenge with discussing welfare is that different people have radically differing definitions of what it entails. A solution that's worked ok so far is to seek a minimal band of commonality. In the future, given current trends, it might be difficult to maintain even that and it will likely "snap" into several fragments. The strains leading to this "snapping" are the root causes of most headline political dynamics worldwide.
IMHO, one of the issues with BitCoin is the prophecy that bitcoin will explode. It makes people engage in FOMO even worse than other investments because many people 'know' BitCoin will go to the moon and they are anticipating the hockey stick. It also makes people less skeptical of bubbles because it's expected. (disclaimer I own some bitcoin)
Any watch can accommodate a handstand if you pair it with a sufficiently elastic watchband. :)
Get to da choppaaaa!!
I rarely see the comma operator used, but it can be quite handy, eg:

if (turn_on() || reset(), turn_on()) { // try to turn it on. if fail, reset and try again
// it's on
}
> I believe I'm getting more value here than they do.

Well, these huge chains have bean counters that do exactly these kind of calculations, and in general, no. They are making more money in aggregate by doing this data collection than they are losing to discounts. Otherwise they would not do it.

The real mystery is the shadow economy behind the scenes of how this data gets packaged, sold, analyzed, and monetized. You should be more curious. In fact, we all should.
If you had given me 10k when I graduated it would have helped me a lot too. Are you going to give every college graduate 10k?
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Or there’s a lot of subcultures that think there’s more competition and then proceed to cause the problem they’re reacting to.

I’ve moved around enough to see just how wildly it varies. It’s tied to cities and industries and sometimes just specific companies, but I’m not so sure it’s tied to any intrinsic economic reality.
There's some other pretty remarkable watches you can get for 40$. Go up a bit and there's all sorts of various colorways for gshocks. The instant classic "casioak" can be had for 100$ https://www.casio.com/products/watches/g-shock/ga2100-1a1

The "100 and under" range is getting massively popular in the mechanical watch space as well. Vostok is a cult favorite and happens to fall in this range, then there's a whole range of homages (watches that are "inspired" by, typically nearly identical copies of in appearance, luxury watches such as omega or rolex) such as loreo, guanqing, and pagani.

The youtube channel "just one more watch" covers the budget watch category extensively. Here's a "under 100$" video by him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOsVmor5Qwc&t=1275s

I have no affiliation, I just am mildly obsessed with watches and wish more people were too lol
I agree, I'm using pulumi with ts and it's pretty great to be able to develop / test my deployment pipeline using the same tools as my core services.
I just meant in imperial, it's common to use fractional measurements. IE 1/16", or 1/4 cup or whatever. Doubling or halving those fractions, especially repeatedly, is simpler than with metric measurements. IE taking 1/4 of 25mm.
I think what they're proposing is that you'd buffer (not necessarily literally) those writes, then later (also not necessarily literally) pass them through a rewriting function before actually interacting with the operating system / environment.
Your bailey makes no sense as it isn't a position.
I was really entertained by a little note in the manual for the watch:

"NOTE: THERE IS NO WAY unit components can be damaged or malfunction due to misoperation of buttons. If confusing information appears on the display it means entry sequence was incorrect. Please read the manual and try again."

I don't see many modern manuals stating this.
What's a NATO setup?
Truth. I survived Covid. Caught it very early in the year. Just unfortunate time and place.

Short story?

Was down hard for a few weeks. Still struggling with a general lack of energy that has slowly been improving.

Brain fog is a thing. Better now, but during and for the few weeks after Covid? Rough. Would walk into a room only to realize I had no idea why.

Again, all improving, but for some of us Covid has a longer term impact beyond possibly losing a month being sick.

Very true.

Valuing this risk properly seems to be the major disconnect.

With it valued reasonably, the extra head count makes perfect sense!

I wonder why people don't just work in the opposite direction? Rather than run too lean, run properly, risks managed as they should be.

Then be opportunistic!

Every so often, when things are favorable, take work that matters an nail it for a nice payback!

Works about the same over a longer period, and the big costs are totally off the table.
My observation in the years leading up to the online giants dominating some markets (electronics for example), was that retail stores that could adequately guide customers was rapidly declining.

Medical supply is probably a different category, where expertise is more important than others. But in more common examples, when I would go to a store and already knew more about their product lines than the salespeople, the local price difference was a turnoff. I'm happy to pay a reasonable uplift if a vendor can educate, guide or support me as a customer. But when few of them can, I literally have no reason to patronize them.

As fast shipping became an option, there was less and less reason to go to a showroom other than to independently look at a product person. In 2020, I don't even care about that, because return policies are liberal.

My favorite case example is CircuitCity [1]: "In 2003, Circuit City converted to a single hourly pay structure in all stores, eliminating commissioned sales. Many previously commissioned sales associates were offered new positions as hourly "product specialists", while 3,900 salespeople were laid off, saving the company about $130 million per year. Many company insiders later revealed that they thought this was the most influential company decision that would ultimately lead to its demise."

Lowering costs by eliminating qualified and experiences salespeople, attempting to become an expertise-less local storefront competing on price with businesses that have lower costs was a suicide move, and endemic of executives attempting to run companies based _purely_ on a bottom line, without actually understanding the market they are in. "Excel Excutives" in my words.

On the other hand, I have begun doing more business with BestBuy this year. Not because they have changed their level of in store expertise, but because when I need something, they can compete with Amazon in some cases on a combination of price and convenience. I can find if their store has something, the quantity, and have it in hand with no more than drive time. In the work-from-mode many of us are in, this can be a big deal. Plus, I can get appliances from them with installation, and office furniture from their delivery services that is a bit of a gamble from Amazon, who so far is not as convenient for "big box" shipping.

I hope BB continues what they are doing, because they seem to have figured out some of the variables to _adapt._ IMO innovation is not the problem, adaptation is. No business can survive if they don't adapt to fickle consumers where a significant portion of them will always use the resources available to them while simultaneously seeking to save money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_City#2000s
I do remember loading programs from cassette on my Vic-20. Occasionally I'd pop them into my Sears stereo to hear what was actually on them. Never thought of hooking up the phono. :D
What exactly is wacky about limiting legal immigration and/or asylum if that is what the citizens want? IMHO, Those don't seem like insane ideas when there is crazy amounts of unemployment in the country.
Exactly. Politics are nuanced. Nothing is clear cut. When you are a business the effect of your decisions grow exponentially with your scale. For you it might be a political decision not to eat meat, or it might be a personal decision because you simply don’t like the taste of meat. A business doesn’t have this luxury if it pervades through many peoples lives.

Not everything a business does is political, but when a business chooses to remain apolitical on an issue which effect the lives of other people—especially those who work for the business or who’s lives are affected by the customers or the product of that business—they are making a political decision. And more often then not a rather poor one.
Such people can be found if you go looking for them, but that doesn't mean they are common. Even a few dozen of them in an industry of hundreds of thousands is enough to create a web forum with the appearance of popularity.

That they're easy to find online may be proof that search engines are effective, but I don't consider it evidence of their prevalence.
What is it about “culture issues” that makes it particularly “tough to accept neutrality?” Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of the the Iraq War—is that sufficiently weighty to warrant people demanding employers to take a position?
> Friendly reminder: the US does not have a national or official language.[1]

English is the de facto language of the US. All government business is done in English. Of course you know this, but are merely stating this as some kind of "gotcha". There is no reason for the US to take anyone who doesn't speak English in this day and age, not with a massive backlog of educated, English-speaking, law-abiding people waiting in the queue.

> They only harm themselves by not knowing English and usually they try very hard to learn so as to not be at a disadvantage.

If only they put as much effort into following the laws of this country.

> If they use someone else's SSN, the payroll taxes are still being paid, so the taxpayer isn't losing out. In fact, it's free money for the SSA because they'll never have to pay out benefits to most of these people later. (Would you take the risk of claiming Social Security if you were here illegally?)

They are criminals committing fraud. It's not a victimless crime. What do you think happens to the people who have their SSNs used?

> If they get paid cash under the table, there are two parties acting illegally - the employer is also to blame (and possibly, laundering money, which is an additional crime). I don't see much vitriol directed against employers though.

Then you may hear it right now, businesses that knowingly employ illegal aliens should be prosecuted for breaking the law.

> I hear "Build the wall" but never "Shut them down" (for employers who illegally employ undocumented workers).

Unfortunately in our current two-party system, the options are "Build the wall" or "Give them all free health care, and a path to citizenship".
do {} while(0) is a common idiom for macros in C, because it consumes the trailing semicolon, which a bare {} block doesn't do.

if(x) MACRO();
else something();

expands to

if(x) { ... }; // Error!
else something();
Google and basically all tech companies will still exist after this. Its probably preferable to take a hit once in a disaster situation than to be constantly paying to avoid it. Its the same with large companies not having insurance because its cheaper to not pay it and then if one building burns down they take the hit but they still saved more in the times where nothing went wrong.
It’s really not so black and white. By paying taxes you’re technically facilitating their efforts, so approximately everyone is complicit.

This is a political problem that can only be solved politically (by voting) not by some tech companies doing small scale boycott
> the fact that businesses generally, and in many ways are legally required to, let people do their jobs regardless of their faith

Businesses take political and religious actions all the time.

Hobby Lobby refused to pay for any health insurance plan that covered contraception because they believed them to be abortifacients and contrary to the christian values of the corporation.

The difference today is that now it is employees rather than owners pushing for a certain stance.
> From the outside looking in, American politics has long since ceased being about policy and ideas, it is now a contest of identity

Lay political discourse (and especially partisan media) does frequently fit the description of identity banners and other tribal + value markers.

But it's also very, very wrong to say that politics has ceased being about policy and ideas. It is definitely true that there are marked differences between policy goals advanced by parties (and sometimes individuals within). And it's not exactly rare that you can find lay participants who have a policy or ideas that are important to them.
Can't this be achieved through legal or properly political means? If child trafficking is outlawed then a company cannot engage in child trafficking. If petrol cars are outlawed, then a company cannot manufacture petrol cars.
> Blind hiring increases diversity in hiring

This one says it doesn't: https://www.pmc.gov.au/news-centre/domestic-policy/beta-repo...

> What we found is that de-identifying applications at the shortlisting stage does not appear to assist in promoting diversity within the Australian Public Service (APS) in hiring. Overall, APS officers discriminated in favour of female and minority candidates. The practical impact is that, if implemented, de-identification may frustrate diversity efforts.
These aren’t mutually exclusive. A corporation acting purely out of motivation to make money is still inadvertently making political decisions whether the company considered them or not.

This doesn’t mean that companies have to change their tune but it doesn’t mean that they are absolved of the consequences of their decisions.
The entire reason advertising exists is to subvert your conscious assessment of what you need, and when you do buy something you "need", you buy the right brand.

It's just stochastic brainwashing.
Thanks, these are some neat boards! A bit higher cost than the Aliexpress ESP32s I'm used to, but maybe that's the price you have to pay for better design and components. It's neat that the TinyPICO lets you turn off the power LED without having to cut traces on the PCB.
Or even just the board, I can do the swap myself.
A secondary problem is that even if you offer the best, most trustworthy customer experience possible, people will naturally discount it because they will have the feeling you're just trying to steer them to more expensive/higher margin/higher kickback purchases. Shops sometimes say "Non-commissioned salesperson" to try to diffuse that belief, but I'm skeptical.

I wonder if for major purchases, there'd be a market equivalent to the "independent fee-based investment advisor." Basically unbundle the service experience brick-and-mortar traditionally provided and let people buy it seperately. You'd pay a modest service charge up front and discuss with them what your needs are, and then they find you the right product and the cheapest/most reliable place to buy it. It comes with a service guarantee-- if you buy through their recommendation, they are responsible for negotiating warranty/service hassles.

I could see spending a $20 fee to know I completely slam-dunked a $500 purchase, especially if they can regularly yield outcomes like "Our huge network of merchant data found you the bike/appliance/etc. you wanted at some tiny brick-and-mortar in Baltimore and it comes out $50 cheaper delivered than any retailer you'd consider locally." Brick-and-mortar retailers don't have to try to maintain an expensive sales and customer-service experience and convert to rack-em-high-sell-em-cheap warehouses, and no-service-required customers can skip the consultancy and go directly to them and still get a decent price.

They "advisor" service would have to be explicitly independent and no-kickbacks for this to work... so I suspect what would happen is that it would build trust for a few years, then start undermining it by taking incentives to steer business.
Macbook and Macbook Fan.
We used to use Jenkins but have moved to AskJeevesCI as it is the same guy
Except all the multibillion dollar advertising mega corporations happen to sell directly to the people who want to affect your behavior to their benefit.

You could argue that it just happens to also be to your benefit by chance, but that's certainly not where the incentives lie.

By comparison, companies like consumer reports, which instead directly sell you information to influence your behavior to your benefit are tiny. The advertising industry is nearly a trillion dollar industry -- if a large amount of that value is going to the consumer why hasn't there been massive innovation in selling to it directly to the consumer?

GP's comment about selling us shit we don't want/need is a hard pill to swallow. It's highly counterintuitive and demeaning to our sense of agency -- just like so many results in modern psychology.

But I think that view also misses the bigger picture twice. First, because while the consumer-producer relationship is positive sum and that's the whole reason it exists, pricing is not. If advertising makes it easier to connect with a product you want, then the price can be raised. We should think about how advertising makes the things we want more expensive.

But second, I think we should also think about how the relationship of advertiser to producer may not be positive sum. Producers compete with each other in a fashion that isn't positive sum, and advertisers sell to all producers. That's an arms race. I can't effectively start a business without using advertising because all my competitors use advertising. Advertising doesn't account for a trillion dollars in demand per year -- it just siphons it from producers by selling them the same arms they sell to their competitors.
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Not really? The point I get from GP is that the way America is set up, corporations have a lot of say in (de facto) health care and employment policy. In most other countries, these things are decided democratically rather than though the market. We could have arguments all day on which is a better system, but it's hard not to admit that the American system makes corporations into more political actors.
What do you think Hobby Lobby was about?
I'm building a color palette now for a hobby site. The MaterialUI color guide matches this writeup pretty well.

An additional guide that I would love to see: how to make a complementary dark mode (or light mode) palette that still holds on to your app's existing color brand.
Hard disagree. Not doing a thing is by no means a political statement (your BLM example). Now if they put up an All Lives Matter flag, then you have an argument.

Further, I'd argue selling a service or product with no judgement of the buyer is also nonpolitical, even ICE. I'm not sure what the opposite side of ICE is, if it exists, but as long as you'd be willing to sell to that entity also, it can still be politically 'neutral.' Only when you decide to refuse or discontinue something have you made a stand, which is what many said about Cloudflare's semi recent takedown and why it was murky.
The hue is the color, so generally you should change the lightness and saturation to get a different shade. You should use HSL (hue-saturation-lightness) because that’s what CSS3 uses, and HSL/HSV are colorwheels designed for representing RGB (what screens use).

HSL/HSV attempt to mimic paint mixing. Hue is the color. It’s a degree because imagine all colors of the rainbow arranged in a circle, that’s the color wheel and each degree corresponds to a different color. Saturation is how much color (0% saturation at 50% lightness is grey), and lightness is how light or dark the color is (0% is black, 100% is a very bright color or white depending on the saturation).

Here’s a good article on HSL/HSV with diagrams: https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV
NPR Link: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/20/937009453/the-cias-secret-que...
Personally, I use evcxr [1] instead of rust-script for it's convenience as a REPL. If only they had come up with a better name... I have to look it up every time I want to launch it :)

[1]: https://github.com/google/evcxr
For sure the CIA has done a ton of crazy shit. They should be subject to oversight and accountability, but abolishing them won't accomplish much other than introducing a massive blindspot in national security.
You can trade tether for other crypto in some exchanges.
Parent to your comment mentioned that they like the watch because it's thin, light, shows time and date.

You commented that the UX is poor because of the way the stop watch works.

That user, if they're using the watch for the time and date, never experiences the stopwatch UX. To them, the UX is superb for what they do.

>The UX is poor though.

for you.
My only grumble is the LED backlight is too weak to read the tme at night.