skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is http://paulgraham.com/vanlfsp.html in a nutshell. Every language has to decide how much it expects people to learn, because that’s how it empowers experts. Knowing an easy language is like carrying an empty toolbox.
> Why do retailers push financing options so hard if they only get 9% less money?

Typical financing options like Affirm only charge 2-3% to the retailer.

The 0% financing is a bit misleading as they're just collecting their profit up front as a separate fee (the 9-11%) instead of collecting it as interest over the course of the payback period.

Expecting contractors to take a 9-11% cut out of their profits is not likely, at least in my area. Realistically I'd expect contractors to raise their quotes by the amount of the financing fee so they come out at the same final payment amount.
Redux Toolkit is the official Redux solution now and is what you're looking for.
Ask HN: How to invest on contracts in Pipe without being institutional investor
Is it possible to invest on the fixed-income contracts listed on Pipe without being an institutional nor an accredited investor?
My idea would be to pool a bit chunk of money from different folks and approach Pipe to see if they'd let us on their platform, has anyone attempted this?
Unite so that you can continue to run the same code on both Intel and AMD. This will be true anyway until some software/OS vendor begins using one of the two new exception handling methods instead of the legacy one.
They apparently used Niti on one or some of the early Mars rovers. In that case, they used the Sun's heat to slide open/close a glass pane to measure the amount of dust accumulating on the rover throughout the days and nights.
From spending time with medical residents, a good chunk of the "overworking" happens because the environment is completely dysfunctional and unorganized.

They are pitted against one another to show their values to their superiors, leading to taking on longer and longer shifts, and an obsession to be the one that ends up being right. Since demand is basically guaranteed (people won't stop getting sick) and money keeps being poured into these underperforming organizations (due to the artificial scarcity of residency spots) there's no incentive to change, better organize and improve the situation. No matter what, the checks keeps coming every months for the organization.
Probably Amstrad CPC, an 8-bit computer series mostly popular in Europe.
The author(s?) almost certainly have no idea what they're talking about. Wtf are "diamond schemas" and "multi-branch joins"? This blog is the sole google result for that made up nonsense that's supposedly there to imply that it's somehow normal to put an OR expression with columns from two different tables into a join clause. They're using select * in a group by query with no aggregates. And they're talking about keywords as operations as if their SQL is directly executed and doing stuff rather than merely being the input for a plan generator (this despite the first paragraph - maybe one of them knows better than the other?).

They say that query #2 is "the intuitive way of thinking through the problem, and something that someone with intermediate or advanced SQL skills could come up with" and is slow because it "eliminated the optimizer's ability to create an efficient query plan" - and they're wrong on both counts. That query is a nightmare no advanced SQL expert would write, and the plan that was generated was probably perfectly optimal to give them what they asked for. They just don't realize they asked for ridiculous nonsense that accidentally matches their expected results.
I’ve provided clear details. You’ve not once explained how ETC can be original from a technical perspective.

So again, for clarity, here’s the technical explanation. When an upgrade happens, it’s a hard fork. The hard fork means that two chains immediately begin to propagate across the network.

Any clients running the previous version continue to add transactions to their chain.

Any clients running the new version add transactions to their chain.

Both chains retain all the previous transactions prior to the fork. After the fork they disagree on new transactions.

So there’s no “original” at that point.

Again, every single hard fork upgrade this happens. Not all miners upgrade immediately, so there’s typically two chains running for a short time.

Once consensus is reached upon which chain most people want to follow, then that tends to take all the miners.

In some select situations as with the DAO fix, and probably the upcoming 2.0 upgrade, a significant proportion of miners will choose not to upgrade. Then you have another long lived chain.

So again, nothing says original there. One could easily argue that the majority consensus in all cases is the “original” since it is treated as the same token by all infrastructure, including payment processors and exchanges.

So if you can somehow explain how ETC is original from a technical level, please do.

And you’re correct about the personal attacks, but it sure is frustrating when people post what is clearly misinformation and falsehoods as you have. On top of which you continue to post falsehoods in multiple responses across multiple threads.

You are actively doing damage to the community at that point.

Now if instead you want to respond with a clear, neutral, non point of view explanation on why ETC is “original” then please do.

However, given most of your comments, where you talk about forced forks, whales, centrally controlled, I simply can’t see your input as anything other than horribly misinformed, or purposefully deceitful.
Who says 90s American cars are bad? They're the majority of cars my family has had and they've been fine. I really like my 99 Grand Cherokee 4.7. Almost 200k miles and still running fine. Powerful, comfortable, practical, reliable enough and easy to work on when something needs to be done.
Presumably, this person suggests role playing a conversation as your ambitious self and a persona that is centered around that fear. By 'centered around' I mean a stereotype of a person with that fear, like 'crotchety old man' or 'flippant 90s valley girl'.

Staging a dialog is a framework for thinking that can force expression of otherwise amorphous thoughts. People suggest journaling for a similar reason. Rather than 'forgiving' myself when I repeat the same point in my brain, it is in front of me and instead of feeling like there are 'a million' reasons why not, I can see it is really just three or whatever.
Huh I’m not familiar with that game. Gonna check this out.

Edit: ok, just checked out the Wikipedia page. You will be happy to learn that it is directly inspired by SCP.
Do these features really need to be a stand-alone browser or could they be a browser extension?
Pretty impressive performance, but Optane 905P is 3 years old and still handily leads in nearly every benchmark (except power). Too bad Intel pulled out of the consumer drive segment [1], so I'm not even sure why Anandtech bothered to include those benchmarks.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-kills-off-all-optane...
For a very relevant example in Germany: Getting recognized as "art" or "culturally relevant" affords certain protections against media censorship that consumer media usually don't get.

Censorship that contrary to popular belief is not only reserved to Nazi themes/glorification but can also happen over too gruesome depictions of violence and other topics edging on the Overton window.

Which in practice lead to the reality that the original Doom game, an undeniable cornerstone of modern video-game culture which has by now become very much mainstream, used to be banned in Germany, in it's censored German version until 2011, the original US version of Doom II was only "unbanned" in 2019 [0]

The long term consequences of decades of activism about "video games and violence" [1] coupled with a complete disregard of the idea that such a new digital medium could contribute in any meaningful ways to society.

[0] https://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=15460

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killerspiel
What is really interesting to me is to train the game models from the existing player base.

This is fairly common but more simulation replaying in networked games with fake bots based on that gameplay. Previously I have done similar in networked games where the way points and reactions are reused in AI agents that mimic players. The networked players that we captured, if another player dropped, we replayed captured ghost plays essentially with more interactivity that seem more real than just AI. This allowed us to have networking game experience of matchup, that can drop a player, but seemingly did not but still have that player act human not just bot-like. This is now used in all our matchup/networking games because it makes the matchup/networked experience better for the player even if they end up playing a sim and not knowing it.

Taking that further if you could train the machine learning models from the existing player base for an additional level of focus it could really make the game fun and you could use it to even drive player behavior.

Machine learning definitely has a place in game testing and progression tuning. However, even more it would be nice if it can learn on the fly and not end up in predictable AI, one possible way would be capturing actual human player behavior and modeling that.
If its an online service, Why not set up in another country? Who don't have such tight restrictions. You can try e-residency in Estonia.
I think there's correlation. If you are able to consistently "act" tidy (or whatever) then you actually have tidyness. A real slob can't fake it.
I've never seen that. The only moment I needed a university backup was when a university unit specialized in IT (making websites, databases...) lost 3 months of work on a system they were managing and that we needed to migrate from (to get rid of them and their incompetence). The deal was for them to give us the data on that day, theu just nuked the db, and recycled the hard drives. There were supposedly backups University wide, so I just asked the service handling it (another one) to send me the backups. Thats when they discovered that no backup worked for the last few months for the whole university... Don't ever trust your university with data. Make yourself multiple backups, encrypt them and keep a copy of the key/password in a safe place. I have horror stories linked to each of these reasons. One fun one was the single backup that was plugged when a user opened a "fedex" email and got a cryptolocker that locked all the network drives and the backup. Thankfully the person managing the networked drives had off site backups (and archiving).
I remember it was done by some folks as an idiotic solution to keeping malware off your computers. It would not surprise me if someone did just that. Although, that would basically force students to use network or cloud drives.
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When I was an independent consultant in the mountains in northern california. There were companies running devices from their Windows 7 and Window NT computers where the device manufacturer had gone belly up, quit or just decided to not support their previous products. I had several sucesses using WINE on Linux. The companies were so grateful that in some cases I get free pastry, coffee, and/or sandwiches
Here in LA some schools are in a bad way so I put Linux on old hardware and teach the kids what is different between linux, libre Office, GIMP, and other FOSS software. I freely transfer my HATE of M$Soft and MAC to these young minds
But it is not nuclear that is rising. It is coal that is falling.
I'll also note that natural gas use is rising compared to that of coal because of one of the biggest faults of renewables.
Renewables cannot just be turned on and off, and will often show little or no power output during some period of time, at night, when its cloudy, and when its not windy. During this time, a natural gas plant can be quickly turned on, and run at the power necessary to make up for any lack in the renewable's output.
Coal cannot do this; coal plants are harder to power up and down, and they need to be run at a single output for optimum efficiency.
Coal itself is a very energy-dense fuel, and for this reason, as well as its ubiquity, is a very good fuel choice, and remains to be so for countries such as china, which also lack oil. The other big fault of coal is toxic emissions such as sulfur. Nuclear is of course the best of these, as its source is incredibly energy dense. Unfortunately, nuclear plants are being shut down, not opened, because of utilities or governments not wanting to maintain them, because of price or pressure not to. I do wish that nuclear would be adopted and become the main fuel used worldwide, but I just do not see that happening.
Why is it so important to express this as one SQL query? Why not just run the two simple queries? It feels as though two different types of things are being joined.
You forgot to cite how helpful he was with the competition by favoring open formats and interoperability.
Isn't optane something like 2x-3x the price for marginal gains and worse write latency?
I dont like it when people who cannot write efficient SQL/design efficient database schema start blaming "bad" query optimizer.

pro SQL developers extremely rarely have a problem with query optimizer, and when they have it is extremely exotic.

it is usually ORM users that have a problem with SQL performance and blame the optimizer
That show was too good for this world. The Veridian Dynamics commercials were just perfect: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S4e37QsJNuE
Eh, it's easy enough to imagine how you'd get into this situation.

Start with an elderly IT system where your network drive quota is about 5% the size of your laptop's hard drive.

Then imagine someone in (for example) a psychology department where they've got ethical obligations towards data security for things like survey results and medical data - so USB hard drives are not officially endorsed.

Then imagine the department is fragmented into labs and groups and people pursuing their own lines of research, so while some research groups in the department have lucked into having someone IT literate enough to get hold of a NAS or sort out backblaze accounts for everyone, others haven't.
Many use specially authorized locked tablets or chrome laptops that are "safe for exam". highly depends on the place. In some universities students struggle, in other the CS students come with their monsters AlienWare machines to learn how to python...
This is a great table of information. It’s news to me that Tether is based on Ethereum tokens. If Ethereum falls out of favor and offers an appealing 51% attack, or if the proof of stake transition has a vulnerability, would this affect Tether spectacularly and then impact BTC and all other CCs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age

"Middle age is the period of age beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age."
I think it'd be cool to merge it (this) with the rendering part of netsurf, which can run on a framebuffer.
I highly recommend the Susanna Epp book[1][2] for Discrete Math. I found her book to be much better written, and more understandable, than Rosen.

[1]: https://www.alibris.com/Discrete-Mathematics-with-Applicatio...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPr5-X9nZc4
What happens when you make a lot of money? Then you have a lot of taxes. There are various ways of paying those taxes. One of such ways is by making tax deductible charitable donations. Another one of such ways is doing tax deductible research & development.

Most billionaires are also philantropists because they donate sizable amounts of money to different causes. This helps them maintain a favorable public image. It is also a social activity that helps you build relationships with other wealthy people.

Bill Gates does have a bona fide foundation that works on important problems and his approach to solving those problems seems reasonably effective. He is an avid reader and reads hundreds of books per year. He is an interesting person, I enjoy his talks, etc...

But Microsoft is a different story. Behind every Microsoft key product there's some deceiving business deal.

- MS-DOS: Misleading deal involving 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products

- Windows: Misleading deal involving developing software for the Apple Macintosh

- Windows NT: Misleading deal involving a collaboration with IBM to develop OS/2

- SQL Server: Misleading deal involving a collaboration with Sybase to develop Sybase SQL Server

And the list goes on and on and on.

In addition to the AARD code many other things happened. Linux was called cancer, there were fear/uncertainty/doubt campaigns against OpenGL, against Linux, against many open source projects. Open source communities got pissed off, developers got pissed off, and that started slowly hurting Microsoft. So now they have decided to co-exist with open source.
https://hypercard.org/
Curated readings of ML in production at big tech
Kid me had so many c64 games with your intros on them downloaded from local BBSs. Thanks for all the cracks!

Adult me wishes she could go back and actually pay the authors of all those games but then again I think most of them weren’t even available in the US...
For syncing across multiple devices and being potentially available on the web portal or from the browser extension check out Saas Pass if that’s what you might be interested in.

Disclaimer: worked on it
Sure, but that wasn't my point. almost C99 is unclear, unless you already know the intent. It's telling me which language the framework isn't written in.

90% C99, 10% C11 would be fine.
I'm pretty sure the post you're replying to was written tongue in cheek.
This seems directly disingenuous -- the up front fee is going to have to come out of the price, and is way, way more expensive than secured financing.
I'm still waiting for the day the Space Cadet keyboard makes its long-overdue comeback. How am I supposed to use Emacs with a measly three modifier keys?
Do people actually ask for email addresses from their crush?
I have one of these in a new Ryzen 5000 build (that also has 3200Mhz ECC RAM! In a workstation!). The latency and throughput are impressive. What a time to be alive where SSDs are doing 5-8 GB/s with low double digit microseconds. At home the bottleneck is obviously my network, but even in a data center you’d need 100Gb networking in order for the network to not be the bottleneck. I really hope these hardware trends continue and we start to see a paradigm shift to more local processing/storage.
AFAIK the larger denominations are quite rare as they're only used for federal-reserve interbank transfers (which are almost entirely done digitally nowadays). Again, that's a solution that works for one entity, it doesn't work for the economy as a whole.

From an article:

* $1k bill: 165,372 in existence

* $5k bill: "fewer than 400 believed to exist", valued at significantly more than $5k

* $10k bill: "only a few hundred survive" (also valued at significantly more than face value)

* $100k bill: 42,000 ever printed and can only legally be used for transfers between federal reserve banks, illegal for private entities to hold

https://www.investopedia.com/6-famous-discontinued-and-uncom...

So no, not really enough physical large-denomination bills for everybody to hoard physical cash.

The FDIC commits to ensuring bank liquidity, it covers retail withdrawals, I don't think it's ever committed to printing specific combinations of bills to make it easy to hoard physical cash. In fact, they have already argued they don't need to, in order to discourage money laundering. The existing bills are mostly leftovers from the 1890s-1930s.

If they choose to give you a billion dollars in all 100s, well, sucks to be you. And again, they don't even really need to do that since only $250k per account is actually covered.

So I mean, to wit, have you ever seen 100 million dollars in a single bundle? Unless you work for the Federal Reserve doing inter-reserve settlement I doubt it, seeing as there’s only $165 million of $1k bills in existence. That would be over half of the $1k bills in existence and there's no other large bills in private hands in any significant quantities. Maybe you saw it as a movie plot point somewhere?

Regardless, not something that can be executed at scale. There are $21 trillion of treasures in private hands alone, there are only $165 million of $1k bills in existence.
Emacs source has detailed comments describing it.
Sorry for their loss. I prefer that I control my own computer. I just realized today that Windows 10 rebooted in my Virtual Machine without my permission. Reminds me of a quote of Dennis Ritchie about Windows "Inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog"

Yes, do backups. In the worst case, keep emailing your thesis to your gmail account (if it is not confidential).

I backup here: https://www.opendrive.com/

I have my data on two HHDs. On an LUKS encrypted ext4 FS, one a non ecrypted ext4 with a file based gocryptfs encryption. I mirrow the last one into opendrive. I tried several encrypted cloud backups that I can totally control. This was the only setup that worked reliable.
> Think about it, I say "you have a 30% chance of winning the game from this position". What does that even mean? If I play well I have a 30% chance of winning? If my opponent is of equal skill I have a 30% chance of winning? It's completely uninterpretable.

It means that the AI that generated the data has 30% chance of winning, or at least that's what it's trying to estimate.
A compo what?!
Oh yeah, thanks EU, now I can't read most USA local newspapers because they don't have money to waste complying with this and it's easier to region ban users
In practice Nyxt is a common lisp environment that has an FFI binding to webkitgtk (and probably qt-webengine). I've only used to webkitgtk. So Nyxt is a lot like eolie and gnome web.
you are not paying attention if you think that the US has some kind of dearth of musicians and artists. the internet has made it easier than ever to create a profile and cultivate an audience.
It is a nightmare yes. I used to run machines on a network isolated from IT's network. Before then they would come and ask to inspect every machine their IP or ARP scanner found. The problem is that they send a student that know nothing but extract info from machines... try to explain them what VM on bridged networks are etc. They have destroyed more data and computers (one we gave to them, windows takes 10 minutes to boot, and they told us it is fine just let it running, no kidding) than any student ever had. In term of users machines, rotating them is fine. However for instrument computers thats not doable, many labs still run win 3.11, xp and so on... Of course you could reverse engineer the custom acquisition cards and their dos driver, but you would also have to deal with the custom oracle database and the parallel port dongle and the weird timing hacks that make the software only run on machines with a specific graphic card...
> "MySQL has an application base of people who prepare and use queries just once". Is it really likely that mysql is unique in its usage patterns?

It's quite plausible that it is distinct in the usage patterns it has chosen to optimize for, and that that design choice has been instrumental in determining what use cases it became popular for and which use cases led people to migrate off of it for a different engine, yes.

To the extent that is at play here it is somewhat of an oversimplification (even if the target audience was a factor in the sewing decision) to describe that as simple unidirectional causation from usage to design, and possibly more accurate (though still oversimplified) the other way around.
I think your sarcasm detector needs maintenance.
What progress have they made (other than raising more money)?
Tell that to all the descendants of Genghis Khan....
thanks so much. appreciate this context :)