skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're a UK founded and based company, so we see this all the time as well. The finance option makes it a lot easier to sell to a customer - if you're told you can pay £700 for a TV today, or take it away and pay £30 a month for 2 years, most people would rather take the finance. I don't know why the sales reps would only get commission for finance sales, but the stores would rather take a small loss and make a sale than lose a customer to a high price.

For our tradespeople, most of their customers know they can get finance from companies like British Gas. Even though our tradespeople would be cheaper outright, BG can offer 0% and so the customer doesn't have to pay it outright. We've had people tell us they signed up to use us for this very reason, with someone even saying BG were £1000 more expensive, but the customer went with them as they could pay monthly!
Stainless steel can be cut and welded. Somebody will be around to repair them.
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With each of those blog posts I'm fascinated by the pace at which they release new features.
This would go well with Elian script.
Impressive machine. As an Italian, I am pleased to see that the casting machine for Tesla is supplied by an Italian company.

Living in Italy, sometimes it's hard to see why the country is still in the top 10 economies in the world, due to the fact we lack mega-corps and global consumer brands (luxury aside). The truth is that Italy is all-in on small businesses, with thousands on niches companies that fill a very specific spot in the world supply chain. I really hope that this model proves to be sustainable and we can find a path to growth again at some point.
As a concept the cybertruck looks really really cool. However, it's pretty scary if this is the final design.

> The body of the Cybertruck is a unibody shell

The profile is full of sharp edges at torso/head level for pedestrians. The shell concept sounds like it would have nothing in the way of planned deformations zones for outside pedestrians or crumple zones for inside passengers.

Again perhaps this is just marketing bad ass looks and they will sanitize the final release but pretty scary if not.
It depends on the role as well. Organizations bring on junior sales people--admittedly often in lower impact inside sales positions--and they hit their numbers or they don't. And, if they don't, well sales managers don't have any trouble firing people. And this applies even to companies with good ladders for tech people.
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Sometimes we thing “damn when will someone
I agree with you. I transited from computing to drug discovery. A lot of projects attempt to harness the power of ML but there still seem to be a lot of misunderstanding. A lot of the time the valuable ML methods are supporting / assisting hypothesis generation rather than 'doing it all'. The domain experts will judge the value of ML methods by their usual merits in the drug discovery world. If the more sophisticated methods can predict hit compounds no better than the traditional standard deviation based cut off, or if the models can not explain key insight of any indication of mechanism of action, then it may not be a good method after all. But meanwhile if it opens up a new way (e.g a new phenotype based screening) then it is worth pursuing.
Absolutely! I'm just not sure if we have chosen the right notation to describe our ideas. There are many interesting developments in formalizing mathematics and I hope that the field of mathematics is gravitating towards such solutions.
America should have done the South Korea playbook. Technology based, aggressive testing and contact tracing via an intense public-private partnership.
A fixed function terminal from the 80s certainly doesn't support a variable byte character encoding from the 90s.
I completely agree with that. I think it’s still a useful shorthand for “hey, you might want to take a look at this one”.
There's an indirect relationship between Rego and DDlog, at least people-wise. OPA comes from Styra, which was founded by Tim Hinrichs and Teemu Koponen. Teemu designed nlog, which is also a Datalog variant, for use in NVP, which was the network virtualization product at Nicira and was later renamed NSX after VMware acquired Nicira. Tim also worked with Teemu (and me) on NSX at VMware. And Teemu was one of the architects of OVN (the biggest open source application for DDlog), with Tim also having some influence. And Teemu also knows Leonid and Mihai (the principal authors of DDlog).

Some of the episodes of my OVS Orbit podcast may be relevant:

* Episode 5: nlog, with Teemu Koponen from Styra and Yusheng Wang from VMware (https://ovsorbit.org/#e5)

* Episode 44: Cocoon-2, with Leonid Ryzhyk from VMware Research (https://ovsorbit.org/#e44)

* Episode 58: Toward Leaner, Faster ovn-northd, with Leonid Ryzhyk from VMware Research Group (https://ovsorbit.org/#e58)
The Internet did not trick Leonardo "Fibonacci" of Pisa into calling the number system he was advocating "Arabic" in the thirteenth century.
Given how well Nvidia’s attempt worked (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/nvidia-accidenta...), I’m glad they didn’t try. It’s an exercise in futility.
Damn these security questionnaires are a pain and I appreciate this product, might not be best to feature Anthem on your frontpage about a security related product though...

Additionally I'd be a little wary of handing off all my documentation to a third-party how do you protect this?
I suppose one possible scenario is:

- Police confiscate your laptop on some bogus pretext, then return it to you saying you're free to go.

- You open the laptop and find nothing that shouldn't be there. You wipe it, reinstall the OS and continue using the laptop.

- Surprise! The CPU now works for the police, so after some time it installs a rootkit or whatever.

Dunno if the microcode is big enough to do this kind of attacks, and perhaps some other firmware is easier to program.

But if someone waves this off saying that's not how police works in the US, well the world is larger than the US and it all definitely happens in other countries, only without CPU rootkits so far.
I think I remember seeing your thread (and responding to it). That sucks.
I dare say that if such a letter were to be sent from a company in my country, it would be grounds for legal retaliation.
Why would you put insults into writing, in official letters no less?
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Once again: my point is that it is the opposite, because you can make lots of vulnerabilities read out this way even if they're not at all urgent --- and the opposite thing is true, very severe vulnerabilities can also get surprisingly low scores.

CVSS is literally a Ouija board. I'm not just calling it that because it's unreliable or based on superstition. I'm saying that the process of arriving at a CVSS score is Ouija-like: you fill out a calculator or something, get a score that has no relation to your intuition of the severity of the vulnerability, and start applying small bits of pressure here and there to land on the score you know the vulnerability should land on. In fact: if you don't do that, you get exceptionally dumb CVSS scores for everything. It's a mess.

If you want to call out the severity of a vulnerability, you should do so with objective facts. "Remote code execution" is a good tip-off. "CVSS 9.6" is not.
The issue is not anyone alleging that staff are being forced to work there. The issue is: analysts are often told they won't do 100 hours, and that most of these people will leave and do something else which isn't a good outcome for the employer.

Adding more analysts does fix it. The amount of work does not increase exponentially as you add more analysts, it is unchanged (that is why they are hiring more people, no-one expected this to be such a big year for capital markets...most places just haven't hired enough). Same amount of work, more analysts, less work per analyst.
I am aware of that, but my prediction is that they will be slowly less and less sovereign over time and at one point there will be one unified european superstate. Who knows, maybe German will become the main language?
See https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/09/7 :

> To reproduce in XTerm, decode the file then try to select the line.

For the original report on screen, see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2021-02/msg0... (warning, contains the raw test case, may crash a text-based browser).
Do you still consider it a good salary once you factor in all the extra hours and "health concerns" [1]?

[1]: I imagine super high caffeine/stimulant consumption, sustained lack of sleep, high blood pressure, inconsistent diet, less time to go to the gym, lack of social opportunities outside of work, etc.
For old school effects there's a pretty good page here with full source:

http://demo-effects.sourceforge.net/
The main difference is that in a press you have a sheet of metal that you shape in some way and in a casting machine you get molten metal in which you apply force to generate a shape.
Given the reaction when Michelle Obama suggested kids eat more vegetables, you can only guess how many heads would explode if EXERCISE was mentioned!
When iOS3 was a thing, there was exactly one screen size to support at one resolution, and when you went to the home screen the app closed so you could count on a predictable state every time the app opened. We used to measure design elements in number of pixels back then. It was a much simpler time.
You're right that Abe said that, but he was quoting von Braun when he included that line in the Gettysburg address.
Not everything humans do is based on a need. We are somewhat random as well and have wants that aren’t backed by anything more than the want itself. The essentialism above reminds me of Robert California’s “all life is sex” motto.
Indeed, people (especially politicians) seem really afraid to simply say "we don't know". Rather appeal to science as an authority that everyone agrees on. Especially when it comes to large topics like climate-change or pandemics, scientists dedicate their lives to learn about a small part; yet somehow all scientists are in agreement on whatever someone posted on social media or what a politician wants to do.
That's a for loop. And depending on the language I'm pretty sure that return call would exit the parent scope.
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> The font size on paragraphs is equal to the width of the reader's screen multiplied by 0.01. That's a continuous function.

I was wondering how "discretely" to inform him of this.
All those words are familiar to me, in part because some of them are entirely quotidian in Spanish, though not in English, but in part because they're common terms of art in linguistics. Well, except for "Siniform", which is new to me and whose top search hit is this very article, suggesting that, like "ciphered-additive", the author made it up for this book (though it is etymologically straightforward), and "Jurchin", which is presumably a misspelling of "Jurchen".

But maybe after studying different languages I'm less terrified by seeing things I don't understand. I mean, I already know I'm ignorant; why should further evidence of that be terrifying?

Is there a good browser extension for looking things like this up in Wikipedia? I recall when I was in Venezuela sometimes I found cyber-cafés that had a browser extension that would pop up a Spanish translation of any English word you moused over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieratic
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quotidian (though Wikipedia is happy to redirect you here if you try to look up "quotidian" in Wikipedia instead)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_script (though this is sort of defined in the article)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_script#Numerals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_numerals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka ("For the American alternative rock band, see Sri Lanka (band).")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocutor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphia (a Wikipedia search result for "biscriptal")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabary
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Another reason hover-anything is bad is because it is totally inaccessible. Observe a 90 year old with poor vision or someone with shaky hands trying to precisely position a mouse cursor over a UI element, while hover-popups are animating all over the place. It's a disaster. Do screen readers even work on hover elements? Need to stop designing the web as if all of your users are healthy 25 year olds.
Let's start with following the scientists, rather than following the reporters' priorities and interpretations of the scientists.
Ventilation and filtration are more important than either of those efforts because they require zero compliance from the public. No one walks into Walmart and demands the blower fans on the air filter be turned off.
I would be very curious about your perspective myself if I were in that book club! It's interesting that you say the translation got in the way of understanding the text; I can see how the literary quality of this type of philosophy would not do well with one-to-one translations.
Goldman Sachs has a lower yield than Harvard. Meaning they accept a fewer % of applicants.

Industrial action against GS would be completely ineffective because a million other grads would be willing and eager to cross the strike line.
Yes: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-27135
That practically brings a tear to my eye. We need a world with a lot more of those bosses.
Makes the argument that politicians dropped the ball. Mentions Cuomo and di Blasio by name, but oddly omits to mention deSantis, Abbott, any other conservative governors, nor the the politician best equipped to address the crisis: Trump.
In the EU the Munster cheese you'll find is generally from Alsace, it's protected (PDO).
> our leaders

In the United States at least, that's a bit of a cop out. Lockdowns were applied at the local level and were originally meant to buy time and prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. The Federal government could have then stepped in with mass manufacturing of masks and wide-scale testing. But Trump was reluctant to use the Defense Production Act, and Jared Kushner was put in charge of coordinating PPE supplies, and we saw how that worked out.
Yeah, my girlfriend—a native Spanish speaker—was astounded when I told her most English speakers didn't know the word "quotidian", although its calque "everyday" is quotidian.
People also realise you don't need a GPU to play the game of your own life, so people chase real life points rather than flipping bits with their imagination.
A press typically works with room temperature metal, or metal hot enough to be slightly soft. The blank is placed inside, and the press comes down and crushes it into the shape dictated by the mold. Excess metal is sometimes cut off by sharp edges on the mold.

A die casting process starts with molten metal, and the metal is injected under pressure to fill the die cavity. The mold is separated and the new part is removed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSyBsdJkQu8

After die casting and the part cools, a press may be used to trim any excess off.
The shoveling of "Cloud Native" is in part a bid to sell cloud services at AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Alibaba, etc. Just because the engineers on the ground doing the work conveniently ignore this point doesn't mean that the executives who ultimately green light and fund these projects aren't considering it the #1 priority.
Fauci has mentioned eating a healthy diet. But most people consider their diets healthy so that doesn't help. Anyway, this was obviously a point glossed over by the pro maskers.
Go to Reddit, create an account. Join r/relationships.

Give advice to people with the goal of getting to 10,000 karma.

Then you will know what to write, which will make it easier to say the correct thing when it happens in person.
The art of making illustrations is almost lost now it seems(scroll towards the bottom): https://design-of-forms.online/evolving-a-design/make-up-of-...

Contemporary illustrators are Adobe professionals who Dribbble their way through the design world, churning out Corporate Memphis: https://www.are.na/claire-l-evans/corporate-memphis
Every actual war that called up those that weren’t ready and trained proves this point wrong
Fwiw, those are marginal rates and you deduct the “employer half” of self-employment taxes.

So a (filing single) contractor making 160,000 in California would pay more like $60k in total taxes (which is still 37.5% effective).

But given the number of UK folks for this topic, the “Social Security” and FICA amount (~15%, so nearly half of “tax”) is effectively similar to National Insurance.
I read James Falen's translation, which I thought was great. I don't speak Russian though so who knows.

> But, you're citing a book by Pushkin (or the anti-hero within?) as illustrative of Nabokov's worldview? While he affected amused disdain I think Nabokov did care about the world. Doesn't Onegin too?

That's my view, yeah. The figure here is the disaffected noble (or intellectual) who disdains society, creates his own values, and eventually tragically fails partly because he can't totally leave society behind. I think Nabokov loves those characters. I don't think he's criticizing them.

I am of course not saying you have to agree with Nabokov.
What? The phone is a second factor.

The push notification is more secure than sms 2fa, the only more secure option is a yubikey, and your can disable push notifications on favor of a yubikey.
Right, I understand the difference between casting and pressing. But the article frequently says "Giga Press" instead of "Giga Cast," I think they're actually referring to pressing machines and it's just not a very well researched article. There is nothing that mentions molten metal being used, and it regularly references previous pressing machines which did not take in molten metal.

Again, I'm happy to be wrong here, but I'm not seeing the evidence of this being a casting machine. And I'm seeing a lot of circumstantial evidence that is indeed a press.
Not op, but what would you give him in return? Sending some random purist on the internet my personal texts is one thing.

Sending it to the company promising secure communication, company which delivers the best convenience messaging UX in the whole fucking world without any ads...

Well, if you can’t see the difference...
I'd like to see them trying to beat M1 rather than chase the GPU game. Apart from gaming these GPUs have little use in day to day computing. Maybe you encode a video once in a while, but it does not make huge difference whether it will encode in 10 or 5 minutes.
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I run my own site with no ads, analytics, or conscious SEO. It's nearing 20 years old now. It's significantly cheaper and easier to run now than it was when I started. The direct hosting cost is less than a standard Netflix subscription.

The site still shows up on the front page of Google results for the (admittedly niche, non-commercial) topics it covers well. It still scratches the personal itch I set out to satisfy. If I wanted to make money from it, I would consider it a disaster. But I never set out to make money. I set out to discuss something that I found interesting and meet like-minded people who shared that interest. In that regard it has been a smashing success.

There are still enough people like me -- writing to share their interests with the world, expecting payment only in the form of reader engagement -- that I could read their writings all day, every day and never run out. Facebook doesn't threaten my own site any more than McDonald's threatens my own cooking.
> What a potentially incredibly efficient use of materials

Actually no, casting requires more material for equal strength, and you loose materials in voids.

But given Tesla's pricetag, and already huge weight, it might make sense. Even most poorly designed aluminium part is likely to be lighter than steel at least by a tiny bit.

It is also not that much faster, as manufacturing from steel is automated so much these days, and cast parts needs further finishing.

And, MAYBE, having a huge casting machine, and some finishing is cheaper for Tesla than going with bigger metalworking line with their current scale.
Sounds like you could sell it as an NFT!
Are insults illegal where you are?
I don't think those cases are really comparable. Scandinavian countries had separate state institutions (even when countries were part of the same empire or composite monarchy) in a way that didn't apply to the former Holy Roman Empire/German Confederation which were nominally part of the same political unit and saw themselves as having much closer ethnic ties. The HRE was seen as an entirely german political entity and had almost no non-german kings in its entire history. The fact that German states jealously guarded their sovereignty does not mean they did not see themselves as fundamentally german.

Similar reasons apply to Italy. Because of the geography of the Italian peninsula a unified Italian nation state would be much more successful economically than a patchwork of small entities. Once Italy's maritime commercial decline began states had less incentive to block unification.

>> Put another way, German unification was not for the benefit of Germans, but for the benefit of Prussia.

The rest of Germany not only strongly benefited economically from german unification but also supported protective tariff policies after unification that had the effect of tying their economies much closer to Prussia (and vice-versa of course). If they didn't believe it was in their interest why in the world would they do that? If anything, the rest of the German states probably engaged in free-riding off of Prussia's military support. This once again benefits both sides.
These are not alternatives to basing policies on scientific knowledge, they are either alternatives - chosen with the benefit of hindsight - to some of the specific policies followed for a time, or some additional science-informed actions that could be taken.

Human history has plenty of experience of what happens in epidemics when the response is not informed by science, and we do not need any more of that.

Furthermore, not erring on the side of caution is more frequently encouraged among those who are dismissive of the idea of using science to guide policy.
Some Android Material Design guidelines (which are often not followed..) specifies that you should be able to press-hold a button and have a popup label shows up to describe its function.

I don't remember exactly where I've seen it, but for example in Android you can press-hold some buttons without labels and you see a toaster-style popup indicating its function.
Actually, AFAICT, Home Depot has a large business doing financing for precisely this reason. Most Americans can’t afford a $2000-5000 small remodel, but they are willing to pay $200/month on a “no interest for two years” credit card to Home Depot.
If someone started a discussion with "which gas car should I choose?" I think it would be very helpful if someone pointed out—hey, did you know there's an option D: electric cars?
Then this is a must watch. Elon talks to Munro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAtLTLiqNwg
What's the need? Normally a bit of thickness in a keyboard doesn't matter. I'm sure there are compromises in the design, I strongly suspect a standard switch is better.

Now, what I want is for someone to build the old Northgate OmniKey Ultra keyboards. Function keys on the left are so useful for many purposes and I especially like them because I can reliably touch-type the ones on the left but I can't reliably touch-type the ones on top--they're just a little bit too far away, I sometimes miss.