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I suppose it may be that technical excellence
has never been economically viable

Probably more like:

1. It's generally orthogonal to economic viability

2. ...unless you have such a lack of technical excellence that it actively sinks the company because you can't execute at all
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Most 386s only had EGA. Windows 3.0 was not normally run in VGA.
Men always had to chase after women why would online be any different.
As someone forming a private foundation, this is very inspirational, thank you!

Albeit under 501(c)3 and not 501(c)6 like this organization.
Read up on Carbon Capture and Storage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage

Yes it can be done, but no it cannot be done cheaply. Thus a much better basic approach is to electrify almost everything and generate electricity using methods by other than fossil fuels (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal--and perhaps nuclear-- if nuclear prices ever come down).
You can try Obsidian[0] with the Calendar plugin[1].

[0]https://obsidian.md/
[1]https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin
Could you reconsider downvoting people who don't know about something and have a legitimate curiosity? It makes HN a really off-putting place to post.
But it's there, as I understand it, mainly to combine multiple logical packets over a short human sized time scale.

By its nature it also prevents fragmenting poorly written logical packets.

But you could also do this as a separate level of protection. Say a 5ms delay on any write without a flush, any further write resets the delay, up until a maximum of 20ms.

This would seem to reign in the worst of the behavior - developers not realizing they're sending multiple packets - without adding a large delay to developers using the system properly but not flushing.

And since the penalty is much less, it would be less likely to be turned off aggressively, see the Go example in sibling comments.

If the goal is to hand training wheels to developers of shitty apps, it's pretty important they actually use them.
It seems like this is the dude: https://twitter.com/thatdetroitandy/status/13313143780969717...
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We made a cake and stabbed it to death and then ate it.
Related to this, one of my favourite articles [1] suggests that it’s sufficient to only use one or two pieces of memory to get good estimates. Here’s a pretty amazing result from the paper. To estimate the median (loosely) on a stream, first set the median estimate m to 0 prior to seeing any data. Then as you observe the stream, increase the median estimate m by 1 if the current element s is bigger than m. Do nothing if the current element is the same as m. Decrease the estimate by 1 if the element is less than m. Then (given the right conditions) this process converges to the median. You can even extend this to quantiles by flipping a biased coin and then updating based on the result of the flip as well as the element comparison.

The unfortunately now deceased neustar research blog had an interactive widget as well an outstanding write up[2]

[1]https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1121

[2] http://content.research.neustar.biz/blog/frugal.html
A startup company to independently develop a medical product with a novel operating principle to be certified is a certifiable distinguished subgroup of complete morons. You don’t have to feel sorry for being misunderstood by those people.
Yes, you can tell because more of this questioning is happening in the present climate.
I worked at a dating service, pre-Web, in many capacities. After seeing various listed preferences, matches, relationships, and so on, I began to do my own (amateur, although I did take rather a lot of statistics for my major) probes of trends.

First, you can take away the "online" component. None of the trends OKCupid had blogged about (and were since deleted) were new to my experience. Online magnifies trends through sheer numbers but that's about it.

The men tended to make a lot of requests; the women tended not to. Most of the men were rejected; most of the women were not. Women tended to have more "must haves" than men. And so on and so forth.

It was all very disheartening.

I wonder if I could still pry the data out of dBase III.
Thanks to evolution, it's in the psyche of both men and women that the men compete with each other for the attention of the women. This plays out in the dating forum, both online and offline.
The author understood this, apparently explicitly, and took the time to successfully craft a 'Very, very creative' initial message to the most attractive account he could find in 3 minutes.
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>Cover every rooftop, every parking lot, every desert with solar panels as much as we can. Cover every windy plain with wind turbines. Take all the excess power and instead of building expensive batteries, use it to power this CO2 -> synthetic liquid fuel process.

This makes our current infrastructure carbon-neutral, yes. But that doesn't solve global warming? Atmospheric CO2 levels are already too high. We're at 413ppm, and we need to go back to 350ppm. Doing that requires carbon sequestration, which by definition makes no useful product.

The scale of the problem is thus: every kilogram of coal that has ever been dug up needs to be unburnt and buried, and every barrel of oil ever pumped out of the ground needs to be put back. That's the only way you can get to 350 ppm.
Not even close. Wrong color (2001 monolith was black, not stainless steel). Wrong shape (2001 monolith had a rectangular cross-section, this one has a square cross section (plus or minus).

Also, you can see the construction methods.
There are a lot of great responses here with lots of detail. But the common theme is empathy.

As a guiding principle, think about what each team member needs and how they feel. Doing so would make the type of communication that would help them accomplish their goals very clear.

Imagine a car and a driver. Now imagine the car had no gas level gauge. Instead the car has two rules. 1. A driver can enter a destination distance and get a yes/no depending on gas levels, or 2. The car will give random updates of remaining range. Maybe this is reasonable from the perspective of the car designer; I mean how often does the gas state change, isn’t it micromanaging to get updates every second?

From the perspective of the driver though, how can they determine how far to go, when to stop to get gas, whether a detour is ok or will exceed range.

Empathy goes both ways. Imagine that checking the gas levels is computationally difficult and expensive. Imagine each measurement burns a gallon of gas? An empathetic driver would agree to less frequent readings.

So empathy all the things.
As someone who is house-hunting at the moment, this is exactly what I do all evening for houses without an explicit address in the online exposé. Most of the time, the combination of solar panels and the positions of rooftop windows and the chimney is a collision free hash value.
Mathematical analysis of financial markets is more celebrated when applied to relative valuation of different assets, rather than prediction of the market. Black-scholes, for example, applied calculus with an underlying no-arbitrage assumption to create a thriving market in option pricing, by giving traders a mechanism to reduce risk and thereby reduce bid offer spreads. Same in fixed income, mortgage, and credit market assets over the years.

The problem with predicting absolute levels, is that there is a game theoretic aspect which undermines any mathematical trading strategy as soon as it is public. optimal game theory trading strategies don’t produce great results, and they are relatively trivial to identify. Instead strong profits in market long/short macro positions are mostly created by information advantages, which don’t really make for interesting Kaggle competitions. For example, big profits in macro trading have historically been consistently achieved by front running customer orders, by building timing advantages on top of trading infrastructure, by funding research analysts that inspect operations on the ground, by lobbying for regulations that change market directions and so on.

It’s very hard to tell if a best performing hedge funds that doesn’t have an unfair advantage, that declares its only using quantitative strategies, is in fact just a statistical anomaly with a hollow narrative.
I found those age adjusted rates some time after I posted. It strikes me as odd. I'm sure if we adjust by enough rates we can come to whatever conclusion we want. What if we adjusted for gang prevalence and suicide rate as well?
Don't worry, soon you'll be able to pool the data caps too, so everyone will exceed their caps equally
Adaptation is also a viable solution.

It's not out of the realm of plausibility we will be able to convert energy directly into food stocks via bioreactors.

Global weather/climate induced crop failure is literally the only doomsday scenario for mankind w.r.t. climate change. If we can figure out how to synthesize carbohydrates, lipids and proteins with low energy inputs, climate change won't be such a big deal.
A picture really is worth a thousand words. There's a lot you can learn from a picture. Often enough to say "You don't seem like my type."

If I don't want kids, I won't swipe on a picture with kids. I'll rule out somebody whose picture is doing shots with friends in a bar. Conversely, if a photo has a bookshelf, I'm certainly going to take a closer look.

The filtering happens at some point. There are thousands of women there and I don't have time to chat with all of them. I swipe the ones I think I have something to talk about with. Your photo conveys your personality, and people who put time into selecting a photo that gives me something to talk about are attractive to me.
Package for just-graduated SWEs is about $400k.
I met my now-wife through online dating, and used online dating over a year. I'll share my experience before my theory.

I never used matches. I assume this is some variation on the "like" or "swipe-right" system. Women get bombarded with these. Conversely, women don't a high ratio of high quality messages.

I maybe looked at the compatibility score if it's there (e.g. OKCupid), read through the profiles, and if there was enough to grab my interest I'd write a message that at least makes some reference to what's mentioned in their profile. I got a response 8-9/10 times. Personally I think I look average enough and don't have amazing conversation skills, I just put in the work to send thoughtful messages.

As to why the match system doesn't work, the sheer amount of noise in online dating (and over-representation of men, I think) is such that these "match" systems amount to glancing through a ton of pictures and picking the best-looking ones. Particularly since profiles are best fairly compact, and don't tell you a ton about a person at the onset. You're a complete stranger to women on these platforms, with 0 trust value to your name, and so actually having a meaningful interaction is a great way to expedite that trust. You won't get there with "hey babe", "nice pic", "nice outfit", "nice smile". I mean, maybe you can if you're one of the fortunate few to cut through the noise and get someone's interest on the strength of your "playboy" looking mug. But most likely, it's a weak approach.

EDIT: worth taking a good picture of yourself. Get a second opinion on it.
What you wrote makes no sense - Siri sends all of the data to servers (including audio). Apple even gave external contractors audio to train their models [0]. Not sure where do you see the difference here - are you sure you didn't mix up any marketing?

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4165544
I haven't spent any time in C++20, so it's interesting to hear that. I'll try and read more about both. Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Well, I haven't seen Airplane!, but this example is neither "over the top" nor camp, and appears quite prophetic given 2020.
Year added above. Thanks!

Also, discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4165544
Everything's to the point except it wasn't Orwell who taught elites proper sheepherding. They've been doing it throughout all the known history.
It looks like secure RTSP is a bit new https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Real-time_Transport_Pro...

Depending on your setup you could restream (as in reencapsulate) your RTSP stream to HLS and and restream it through ffmpeg to another container at the end of the chain.

https://hlsbook.net/how-to-encrypt-hls-video-with-ffmpeg/
The correct metric is not what the employee’s salary is, but the opportunity cost of their time. If all your engineers are working on urgent stuff, and each engineer adds in $1-2m of revenue a year, then the cost to your business of taking them off feature work to do recruiting is not $150/hr.
I started subscribing to the Seattle Times Sunday paper a few years ago. Comics section is a nice bonus, although I generally don't like their selection. For instance, the top comic is For Better or For Worse. Setting aside the fact that I've never felt any attachment to this comic, I don't understand why a comic that's been in re-runs since 2008 gets top billing.
In fact there is an art-historical precedent, dating back half a century, for calling modern vertical land art pieces "stele." Michael Heizer did it.

http://legacy.earlham.edu/~vanbma/index/121299heizer-art.htm

http://doublenegative.tarasen.net/city
Samsung somehow fits all of that on their Galaxy Watch though - what's the space taker here?
Just tried ASCII art and it doesn't work, I'll have to try playing with the width.
Should take findings with grain of salt.
I asked Rudder at a conference if he normalized the results, he said he did not on that blog post. Didn't account for education level, kids, etc. Which may (or may not) had an effect on the results.
Many of the components in Tailwind UI were already in Bootstrap. There's also a ton of free and commercial themes for Bootstrap (themeforest.net, themes.getbootstrap.com, creativemarket.com, creativetim.com, etc)
Why not do both, just to be safe? We can get solar and wind going immediately so let's get started on that stat, while we work on permitting and design for new nuclear. It doesn't have to be either or.
I think the main problem is that the prime selection criterion for most women is not looks. For women, online dating has a rather small signal to noise ratio. So then they are left with choosing the top % based on looks.
Here it is: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/raceandattract...
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Often I have to explain to people that no, people in medieval age didn't die when they were 25, that life expectancy is just an average, and thus it averages out people that lived normal lives (ie: plenty of people died in their 90s, as do people today) and people that died really, really fast (childbirth, child accidents and wars are particularly good at skewing the data).

Another one is trying to explain that people knew Earth was round for a looooong time.

Also explaining that no, Greeks didn't really believe Atlantis existed... our earliest record of Atlantis was Plato mentioning the myth... so even to ancient Greeks, Atlantis was a myth already.
Here's another one: https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

And its HN thread 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681270
I was wondering how anyone who made this thing could afford an office on reagent street it turned out to be a virtual office space (basically a mail forwarding address)...
The basic problem is that the advanced Western economies are finally starting to reduce their CO2 production (although not very fast), but that the rest of world is not.
They are tools used by programmers. They do, in fact, have languages of their own, but more to the point they have whole ecosystems of expected behaviors, idioms, best practices, etc etc etc. Those take longer to learn than a programming language.

Similarly, "web app" isn't a programming language, and neither is "server side". But they are toolkits that a developer must learn on top of their programming language, and it takes longer than the actual language itself.
Just replaced scrollock to pause to be identical as your case.

You need xWindows to count chars ? Noice :)
Huh, I see that all the time in Wizard of Id and never realized the somewhat incongruous first panels were due to this.
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The learning curve is very, very steep. Worth it, in my opinion. I think, though, you can become productive in Rust after a week or two. Go is great because you can grok it after a couple of days - you'll have most of the main concepts of the language down pretty well. I feel like I'm able to "bend the spoon" every day when I sit down to write Go, and I've only just barely been writing it for a year.

Rust? I haven't even made it to the Oracle yet and I've been writing it (granted, in my spare time) for the same amount of time.
I don't find bugs - I write them. ;-)
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I’m not a fan of taking old computers and “harvesting“ their cases. People used to do this a lot with the original Macintosh models. Often they would turn them into aquariums. Now all those computers are collectors’ items, and many of them have been butchered. The original NeXT computers are much more rare than those Macintoshes. In my opinion they deserve to be preserved for history.
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Thanks for the fast and appropriate response!
A while ago (2006? Not sure) I was trying to buy a CD in a Tower Records store in SF, and I found the disk I wanted but it said it was "copy protected". I would have had no problem ripping it with abcde or cdparanoia or something, but refusing to support this, I asked the store employee: "Do you, by any chance, have another copy of this without copy protection?"

He looked at me, with complete disbelief, saying "But why wouldn't you want your copy to be protected?" I asked him "Do you know what kind of protection this is?" to which he replied, "yes, it's a copy less likely to break".

After this incident, I started asking a lot of people if they are aware of what's special about their "copy protected" disks - and the more technical people knew it was an attempt to restrict copying, but the rest thought it was probably a good thing (it says protection, and its on the label, it must be good, or reasoning as such).

It was at that point that I started religiously using RMS style acronyms, like Digital Restriction Management, Copy Restriction, etc. and I recommend everyone does.
And here is a blog post about it: https://denisidoro.github.io/posts/mind-maps/
We can start the discussion on soldering irons, I guess.

There seem to be two main strategies. I'm not super well versed on the pro's & cons of each. A lot of soldering irons use a resistive heating element. Dump current in, get heat. Higher end soldering irons tend to use high frequency inductive heating. Hakko has a write up here[1].

Agreed that for a switching supply, PPS isn't going to help a lot. For a resistive soldering iron, a PPS capable USB power source would be very helpful. All that's needed is a control loop, to monitor temperature & adjust the asked for input voltage and/or current.

Honestly not sure what the Pinecil or the well known TS100 soldering iron are, resistive or RF inductive. It'd be great if they were RF inductive heating, & PPS wasn't helpful, as the much finer control would be great. I hadn't considered that they could be.

[1] https://www.hakko.com/english/products/hakko_fx100.html
The AMA was the first group to lobby against publicly-funded healthcare (1930s-40s).

See here [1] for some examples of cartoons they commissioned, playing to base emotions to sink the healthcare components of Truman's Fair Deal.

There's not a lot of content on wikipedia about the details of the opposition, but here's the summary of the context of the pre-WWII years [2].

Then after WWII, Truman proposed revisiting this problem. There's a really good account of what followed here [3].

Essentially, the AMA engaged in a mass-marketing scheme to paint universal healthcare as part of a communist agenda and therefore un-American.

This advertising, coupled with the ironically-government-induced rise of employer-subsidized insurance, decimated what had been broad public support for universal healthcare.

So, yeah. There's a pretty proximate alternate history where we've had universal healthcare since 1947. It'd be interesting to see what that world looks like today.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935669/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_health_care_reform_...

[3]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/november-19-1945-harry-t...
And what do you think it would turn into on the way?

No thanks.Right now is not that good, but it could easily become worse.
Monoum https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ium
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Feel free to share a crazy good guess. Or even something you saw in the video.
This role does exist. It is called an "administrative assistant" and you see them at most companies above a certain size. The downside is that they will tend to be assigned only to executives above a certain rank.
Source for those interested.

https://www.reddit.com/r/geoguessr/comments/jzw628/help_me_f...

I'm still gobsmacked about the specific geological knowledge and application here turning into a very precise and relatively small search area.
>has anyone formalized the idea that the second law can be interpreted as a general inability of computer programs to predict one another?

Arieh Ben Naim thinks entropy is better described by Shannon's Measure of Information. I haven't actually read any of his books, but I've been meaning to "one of these days".

http://ariehbennaim.com/books/index.html
I wouldn't bet on that at all
Yes that's the same document I refer to as well. So nothing has changed. A "mildly optimistic" rejection is a rejection of Rust nonetheless. Rust is definitely not "on track" of being adopted in Chromium. For that you'd need more. Right now it's rather a "we are interested, maybe we'll add it". Also note that Chromium engineers also built some languages themselves that solve some of the same problems that Rust solves: https://github.com/google/wuffs
I've got a Dover reprint somewhere wherein this is derived.

Many physical laws are discovered through experiment and tested, again and again. This one just ... arises from math.
Oh and the worst part is they use a logo for the strip Candorville that has a big ugly QR code in the middle of it.
>The session is constantly tracking the user's face and gets terminated if they look away for a minute

The hell did I just read?!
Can't tell if this is satire or real at his point but anyway let me just beat your employee tracking system by propping up a photo of my face in front of the webcam.

Wait, is your fancy system looking for features of life like facial twitches and eye movement to not be fooled by a photo?

Fine, here's a deepfaked avatar of my face acting alive powered by nvidia's latest deep learning magic.

See where this is going?
I work with AWS quite regularly and this is one of reasons I don't play with Rust more. If we had an "official" Rust AWS SDK I would probably be building things with it.
Use this instead otherwise it's quite obvious:
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