skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SaaS is good because it gives you a constant income stream, which matches the constant development of your product.

For the user however, it means lock-in and their data being held ransom.

A good SaaS manages to remedy the downsides to enable the upsides to shine, i.e. data export, open formats, open core, open source + hosting business, ... and hopefully more diverse and better ideas to cover more markets, use and business cases.
No, it affects warm-up, which is not the same. JS is only JIT'ed if the interpreter decides that it has been running code enough for it to make sense, and then not even permanently.

Some things will never JIT. Some things will JIT much later, leading to sudden CPU spikes later. And importantly, code will often deoptimize a few times, meaning that it drops back to interpreted to re-trace even if it had already optimized this code block.

And as most web "applications" are loaded only to be thrown away as you finished reading fixed text, all of those resources were burnt for nothing. This includes an application like the eShop, which has limited need for JS for anything other than lightweight asset handling.
Imaginary numbers are not real: the geometric algebra of spacetime [pdf]
maybe it's my immigrant ears, but I distinctively remember that I could not understand anyone from Taranaki...
Imagine Iran killing some Raytheon employees in a terrorist attack.
That is correct - matrices are the natural companion of the general linear group. The GA representation exists, and is called 'the mother algebra', for general 4x4 matrices the GA equivalent is R4,4. (where general linear transformations are versors).

For other subgroups GA reps will also exist. (like e.g. if one wants to include projective transformations as versors, that would be the projective group (which preserves the cross ratio of 4 points), and has a GA representation in R3,3).

These spaces quickly become so big that efficient numerical implementations (while not impossible with enough symbolic work at compilation time, see e.g. https://www.jeremyong.com/gal/) are difficult. Other advantages of GA do of course remain.
> Apple's m1 computers have no PC analogue

And they don't need to. There's hardware available that works just as well, the buzzy marketing space around M1 is just that: marketing. Nobody needs this.
Git Forge Apps: Why git forges are serverless computing providers
Are there any resource of free and opensource human female models ?
And a higher risk of cancer, dementia, diabetes.
as a customer, i don't have the choice to not pay for such upgrades but continue using the old one.

It's the same with hardware. At one company we used to operate a 3-year hardware refresh cycle and this used to make a lot of sense, 3 years was a long time in hardware, and this assumption was true for a long time. But the pace slowed as manufacturers stopped making big improvements and just started eking out marginal gains. We looked at our kit and our workloads and realised that we had plenty of capacity and instead of refreshing proactively we should stretch it out to a 5 year or longer cycle and replace failed equipment with new rather than disposing of things that still worked perfectly well after 3 years. Saved a ton of money doing this, both in buying hardware and in the effort taken to move applications around. Of course manufacturers got wise to this and looked for ways to get you back on that treadmill.
If you can't be bothered to learn how to write linux kernel patches properly you shouldn't be making them at all, in a forked kernel or otherwise.
Depends on the floor plan: 500 would be on the "cramped" side for 4, 600 should be just fine.

The "trick" here is that all the rooms (& bathroom, kitchen, etc) are small and well though out so you really use up most of the space - basically the "empty" space would only be there if neccesary for movement.

Here's a quick example (~430sqft not counting the balcony): https://www.njuskalo.hr/image-w920x690/nekretnine/rudes-jabl... This would be okay while the kids are small, and having an extra ~100sqft would add another room for the other kid, or have larger kids' room.

So yeah - fascinating to compare the expectations on both sides of the pond.
> cheap, unlimited power is nothing that old people running the world want

The actual problem is nobody knows how to make a fusion reactor work.
This might be a mistake though. There's a reason all car makers moved to a heavily subcontracted, complex supply chain.
Just curious, What is unfiltered hearing/sound? Do people perceive more sounds than usual on these substances?
Consider making your web app offline first
I think that's a bit of an illusion. Yes, the average person wants tech to "just work", but what that usually means is "just work the way I need it to work for my specific purposes in my specific circumstances".

It's true that the average person doesn't want to spend time tinkering with tech and take the risk of breaking things. But that's not the same thing as being happy with how things work, and it's not the same thing as using tech as productively as possible.

When I write software or talk to people about how they use software, they always want it to work somewhat differently. They do want customisation for entirely sensible and very specific reasons. They just don't want to do it themselves. That's why consulting and support is a huge global industry.

The problem with "just works" is that it only has meaning where the requirements are specified in great detail with very little variability. That's always trivially the case for single purpose household appliances. It's also the case for things like making phone calls or for device drivers. No one wants to "customise" a device driver to stop it from draining the battery.

But computers are not single purpose devices. They are used for a million different things in a million different situations. "Just works" is largely undefined outside of core OS functionality. And that's why the appliance metaphor just doesn't work.
A virtual remote job fair
Seems You signed up to say that, now that is passion
For more than 25 years, I am simply writing HTML with only a little CSS and some JavaScript. During that time, I have developed a link checking program, which helps me fixing links and updating the tags. It is a simple C program and rather specific for my needs: https://www.iwriteiam.nl/chkhtml_c.txt
It also moves all files that need to be updated to an ftp folder for easy uploading to my hoster.
I suppose if you are really cheating, you wouldn't sprinkle in some computer moves. You would just move your pieces in the computer game exactly as your human opponent does. Then you move your own pieces in the human game exactly as the computer does in the computer game.
Oyster Bridges is a virtual remote jobs fair that brings together talented individuals from the developing world and other under-represented communities with companies that would love to meet them.
Approaches I Took While Learning Web Dev from Scratch
A handful of resources for the ones that want to learn to code on their own
It really doesn’t mean that. Neither Stallman’s four freedoms[1] nor Peren’s Open Source Definition[2] have anything to say about code history, bug trackers, development standards etc etc, and they’re the only commonly accepted definitions for what free and open source software is.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en

[2] https://opensource.org/docs/osd
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> Not much point in hashing a (v4) IP, there's 4 billion of them, trivial to undo (you won't be able to change the salt)

I didn't know! Here is my IP as a sha256, please reverse it and show me you actually know what you're talking about: 20adfe5288d85b6279dc65eff126828c0b20b896cb853caef9de0d6251e46169
In Germany, this also has a long tradition. People were making fun of Richard Wagner's Saxon dialect for all of his life. When Schiller held lectures, students would later complain that they did not understand anything because he always spoke Swabian. When I was in school, parents that weren't originally from the area complained that their children couldn't follow the physics class because our teacher had a thick Swabian accent.

Where I come from (southwestern part of the country), you can book courses to lose your local Swabian accent to increase your chances on the national job market [0].

[0] https://www.swp.de/panorama/hochdeutschkurse-zum-dialekt-abg...
Simpler than Stuxnet
I'm not buying the argument.
Firstly I don't think that designing competitive AI accelerators requires the resources that would restrict the market to a few high-end competitors.
From what I understand, they are a sea of low precision DSPs specialized for convolution, connected by a high-speed interconnect.
While I would hesitate to claim that they are simple to design, they don't necessarily have the staggering amount of design complexity of a modern CPU or GPU.

Second, for CPUs I don't think that a complete clean-sheet design makes sense for a lot of companies. Yes, I get it, Apple has taken the world by storm - but let's not forget, that Apple gets a lot of mileage from very few designs, probably the same CPU core ends up in the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and now the MacBook - with slight modifications.
This is the same, for Samsung, ARM,h Qualcomm, Intel, etc. - most of their CPU designs can be aimed at the market for servers, game consoles, smart devices, PCs, Notebooks, etc.
If AWS designs a server core, their entire market is AWS instances probably - not a small one by any means, but smaller than a dedicated CPU manufacturer's, thus the sensible amount of investment they can make into CPU design is lower than that of a dedicated CPU manufacturer. I'm not saying it doesn't make sense for them - it probably does - but it's far too early to predict the demise of CPU companies.
I don't think you miss anything. It is what it is, a collection of OS libs for generative art.
In my experience as someone who's worked for US companies and living elsewhere, most of them don't. It's a small minority that do.
> If we don't crack fusion, we're done as a species.

Well that's ridiculous. Using the technology we have right now we could increase provision of renewables and reduce consumption and be completely fine as a species.
We know that psilocybin alleviates depression by reducing inflammation in the brain, but how?

My pet theory is that given the antiviral properties of fungii, psilocybin cubensis kills off undiscovered viruses in the brain stem, allowing inflammation to recede.

(Psilocybin also triggers neurogenesis.)
It's a *nix with real Office and Photoshop
Quaternions are used in animation for blending and composing transforms for a reason. You don't have to trust me, but yes... tried for maybe ten years and counting from doing graphics and animation work.
> if you leave your pieces vulnerable to tactics that your opponent can find and you can't, then it's all for nought.

In my book, {avoiding hanging pieces, placing your pieces so that the opponent cannot pin them} ⊂ strategy, being wary of forks ∈ tactics.
With nary an antitrust enforcement in sight, who can be surprised?
> as I'd never be sure my opponent wasn't just putting the moves into a computer and playing whatever it told him to play.

100% sure, probably not however all the major online chess sites operate anti-cheat systems and heuristics plus dedicated teams.

I play a lot online and nearly always look at the game with a computer afterwards and you can see that it was a human game (or someone been very clever with how they used the engine).

I mean if you where a GM playing in a ranked tournament with a prize fund I could see the concern but at our level computer cheats are much easier to spot.
No it doesn't. It seems based on populist memes and from watching popular movies.

People with invested capital aren't "hoarding" it. It actively invested.

No, the point of liquidity is to encourage an active market, which is exactly what it's doing. Not sure what "trading over our heads" even means.
Then you're playing at something like 3000-3500 ELO. That's very, very far from subtle. And that is something you can detect by analyzing the games, a human won't pick the engine moves all the time.
I have looked into it before reaching this conclusion. Could you provide evidence to the contrary?

Nuclear fusion is most definitely not an option, because it can't be built in time to prevent catastrophic climate change. Fission perhaps, but I'm skeptical there too. I don't believe we have the capacity to manufacture enough reactors quickly enough to rely solely on fission.
Ireland has literally hundreds of accents with a population of less than 7 million. And that's not an exaggeration. Many Irish people can identify the specific town another Irish person is from based on their accent. I went to school in the largest town that hasn't achieved city status, Drogheda, and I could identify individual estates.
The new challenge is both parties, thanks to social media/news media reward mechanisms, cant agree to anything without loosing their behaviour conditioning like counts.

Until underlying reward mechanisms change political will won't have a chance to build.
There's really no need to end it anyway, human love spotting pattern and if it's not accent then it's clothing if it's not material then it's mannerism. We will ALWAYS find something to.. if you're glass half empty kind; find friends from foe. Or if you're glass half full then finding commonalities from others. It's just signal and we're just doing what we do best, pattern matching. What a civilised society should work on is one's behaviour once one believes certain pattern's matched.

Also we should know by now how increasing unreliable stereotyping is becoming in this information overloaded world. People are growing and learning according to their own pace, no longer restricted by their background hence the probability to assume a lot of things about someone by just looking at them is diminishing.
To be 100% certain, most people in my generation (GenX) did not want a computer at all.
The distance field is a standard technique for this. What I'm less clear about is how the designer comes up with the shape equations; is there some sort of tool offscreen, like a more conventional constructional solid geometry one, or do you just try things?
One of the strangest open questions about Tomatoes is: How did indigenous people in Mesoamerica look at a small, green, somewhat poisonous and awful-tasting berry and think, "I'll bet I could make something of this if I give it a few hundred generations of selective breeding."

Same question, really.
The capital "A" in the submission headline confused me, but it is a variety of the fruit, not the company, that has been discovered :)
As much as I do not really care about apple machines (and I neither own neither plan to own in the near future) it seems that the M1 laptops have a significant advantage in power consumption over amd64 laptops. And as a linux user, this is only gets worst with linux. I agree however that from a performance perspective the M1 seems to be competitive but not much faster than existing amd64 products.
Are you really going to argue that you need a $1500 laptop to write Ruby code while you sit in Starbucks?

You're fuckin' signaling, period... and the poster above you knows it. I know it. Its about showing you "fit in". You're part of a certain class of people. Its stupid and humanity needs to move past it.

You know why I built a new computer on 7/7/2019 using an AMD R9 3900X chip? Because it was literally over 300% faster than my E3-1231v3 Xeon, that's why. It wasn't about "signaling" that I'm "hip" because I have AMD, it was because it cut my build times measurably and literally made me more productive.
I sometimes play online and for some reason I frequently stumble upon users who cheat in all kinds of ways. From using a computer (it's easy to tell when all moves regardless of difficulty take exactly the same time to make) to baiting me to play a 3-min game and then changing it to 30-min right before I accept the game. The only reasonable explanation is that they are trying to harvest ranking to "transfer" it to another account. Regardless of the motivation is does suck out the joy for me.
So get a Mac. That's what they are.
> I'm not even sure about that. The biggest concrete pour in Europe right now is for a nuclear power station in the UK.

I'm having a very hard time believing that. In Czechia there are companies building entire towns (for rent), and these are still small compared to some of the new industrial areas, surely that can't be less concrete than a nuclear power plant
Michael Abrash! Wow, this brings back some found memories, as reading Zen of Assembly Language.
It's not the same without the original comments. Also, I don't know which is crazier, the magic number, or the fact that the code is casting a float to long bitwise and then working on it.
>the perception has always been that MacBooks are the best built laptops available

First time I hear that.
Is this based on anything other than a feeling? You've equated remembering or reflecting with processing and processing with dysfunction, which makes no sense at all because memories are a core function.
I think you're onto something, there, with that.
The High Probability of Low Probability Events (2018)
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I think AWS Inferentia [1], Amazon’s AI silicon, is much further along than the article suggests. The Alexa backend is mostly run on these chips now [2]. Other than this nitpick, the article is a great summary of how Google, Amazon, and Apple are vertically integrating silicon into their platforms.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/majority-of-alexa-now-runni...
Using the "renewable" technology we have today we'll push the problem a little into the future, out of our direct sight, and into a different science sector while making many new unknown/unresearched/unforeseen problems in the process, but definitely not improve anything.
As I said, I get the point. I'm just pointing out that it's not a great analogy because the scenario described is normal. I think a better analogy would make the point in a clearer way.
Absolutely correct.

Sadly, the best solution is for corporations to make more robust, high-quality, long-lasting, expensive, products.

i.e. Make less money, and do better work.

So...who's first at bat?
Code I can somewhat understand. Notes and email though should be soft-wrapped where line length is totally up to the client.

On mobile: get a 60 char line followed by a 20, and repeat

When editing in a basic editor: changing any text half way through a paragraph requires manually removing and re-adding the line breaks (if they're lucky)
I recently came accross a math theorem that in my opinion perfectly illustrates how mathematical notation can sometimes reach harmful levels of abuse.

E( E(X|Y) ) = E(X)

This is known as "the law of total expectation", and as a programmer this notation is so weakly typed it makes no sense. The more correct notation is

E_Y(E_X(X|Y))

If you can see that the outer E is summing over Y and the inner one over X, then the theorem is immediately clearer and very intuitive.
Live in Ireland (age 48). I've never put my photo or DOB on an application
“Engineers love it for prototyping, though”

Makes perfect sense. Matlab is for engineers, not for mathematicians. They use computer algebra systems, proof assistants, etc. Difference is that engineers (and physicists) want answers and don’t care about how they are obtained, while its the reverse for mathematicians.

I think APL, although it, too, is a language for computing numbers, spiritually is a bit closer to mathematics than Matlab.
Hi, Thanks for your purchase. These are mainly aimed at non-specialistic audiences, aka people willing to get a fair, recent, high-level picture without investing their time to research, collect and organize such materials. The added value is a thematic structure, coming from the ideas circulating in more divulgative magazines or platforms.

Any excerpt in the booklet is taken from the paper or the contribution it belongs, in order to share the researcher’s voice. All referenced papers are available for free in the internet for own consultation, in case audiences want to go deeper: think of specialistic audiences like graduate students, maybe looking for a different perspective or an up-to-date list of recent contributions.

As usual with services like these, more similar to consulting than publishing, the market will dictate how this series goes and the format of the updates to come. The Amazon infrastructure takes care of all the backend needed to make these circulate, and the occasional exposure from highly regarded communities like this will provide with valuable feedback, so thanks again.
No. First of all, most of them aren't mentally ill. But most who are would probably have been fine doing a normal job if they hadn't gotten hooked on drugs or become homeless, which exacerbated their condition.
Makes me no wonder given the nature of the rosacea the apple belongs to and their easy willingness to cross-pollinate, for appomixis and self-fertility.

Btw. only from appearance it looks like at cross between an apple and a quince (cydonia) ?
GNU Octave 6.1.0
Yeah because they go back to their old habits..it make sense, but that doesn't mean they didn't lose weight.

If you want to lose weight for the long run you've to eliminate the environmental, habitual and emotional factors that resulted in gaining it in the first place.
Your brain actively filters everything. What you hear, what you see, what you smell. This is on the fly encoding, and that can be disabled on these substances. Also the encoder itself can be affected, which is where things get fascinating. But yes, staying on the subject, the world isn't that silent.
If it was that low risk and easy for Musk, why didn't NASA just do it themselves? Or why not some other person? There seems to be quite a lot of space x competitors not doing as well as space x.
What is "general computing"?

The IBM PC lineage of putting unrelated components together by yourself is an anomaly in the history of home computers, or computers in general. Selling computers as a whole, with set hardware and software, is what used to be the norm, and it worked well for everyone involved. We are to some extent returning to what things used to be.
I did the same while in high school. Someone asked me to mod his PS1 so I copied the pic12c508 he provided to me so I could do it again for cheaper.

For the sales, it was actually a rather good business, I had between 1 and 3 console a week to mod, for almost a year, and I didn't even put an ad.

It ended because someone with the latest model (SCPH 8xxx if memory serves) inisted I try to mod his PS1 despite me not having proper equipement to solder at the needed accuracy. It did failed obviously. I had a hard time making it work again, it was so stressful that I ended up stopping it altogether except 2 or 3 times after that for some close friends.
From the article:

And then we’ll have to explain how gruesomely we murdered him.
Not with sticks and stones, but with a barrage of patent lawsuits.
We will have to tell the aliens how we used this great system of
socially legitimate torture to slowly wear him down over the years.

This is bullshit. The Wright Brothers brought the whole patent saga on themselves, and in the process stalled progress in aviation in the US for years. The Wikipedia page quoted by TFA says as much.

They should have listened to Lawrence Hargrave [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Hargrave#Aeronautics]
At one point in the video they said they've cleaned up the design process for the sake of pedagogy, and they mentioned a few times to reference their previous videos for some of the equations, so I imagine it's a mix of experimenting and experience.