skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the age of language at all relevant to how many ops/s or whatever other measure of speed you want to use it has.

It's either faster than what you consider "very fast", or it is not; how long the language has been around is, IMO, a complete non-sequitur.

That it can be made, possibly, much faster than it is I guess can probably weigh in here, but that's not what they were talking about.
Bingo.

One kid has access to books and parents who read with them at home every night.

Another kid has no books at home and no learning support after they leave school.

How much is it going to cost to teach each child to read at the same proficiency level?
I think it’s good that a government and a society resist homogenization by globalization. Cultures need protected niches to develop unique ideas.

While there are many good things coming from so many cultures around the world slowly converging further thanks to social media technology, many things are lost too
Most of the stuff I buy is just $RANDOMNAME_MADEUP_BYIMPORTER that was produced to hit the lowest cost point on amazon, and which will work fine in nearly every case I subject it to. For example, my BOJACK 50 values 1350 Pcs Resistor Kit. Do you want me to go measure a sampling of those and compare it to the equivalent kit (or pages of components) from DigiKey?

Not sure about the counterfit, the PSU I just got is from ARESGAME which appears to be a California company, and from every detail of the product, it appears to be legitimate. I just popped it in my main desktop computer (cyberpunk 2077 was crashing/windows rebooting when I hit 400W). I fully expect this device to work as expected for the next 10 years I will operate this machine. Same for the $1K Dell monitor I just bought. This thing was obviously made for dell and sold by dell with top grade components.

A small fraction of the stuff with $RANDOMNAME I've bought on amazon has been total and complete crap, but once should probably be suspicious any time something is sold for 1/10th its ostensible manufacturing cost.
Wait until you see the Jerusalem 40 minute video. Munich traffic is tame in comparison: https://youtu.be/kJD5R_yQ9aw
I really don’t understand why mobileye gets so little recognition. They might be quietly winning the self driving race.
They are doing more than just subsidizing Canadian artists, this is part of a $1.1m program to promote local artists.
I understand that it sucks to deal with bugs that may release with updates. That said, "never update" is both bad and irresponsible advice. It is important to ensure your systems are up-to-date, even if you choose to lag your updates by a week or a month.

Security is extremely important and in some cases can save your personal information and money from being needlessly stolen.

I can empathize with the slow downs, bugs and deprecation that may occur, but I can never agree that to never update is a good alternative.
> It's pronounced completely different in French

For real? I thought both languages pronounced them like /libʁ/.
Yeah, at our company it means you can get promoted onto most teams (have your choice). I feel like they specifically keep some people below that so they can't leave as easily. They also have a "critical man" policy where each department can designate one or two people as critical so they can't leave there.
Québec cultural protectionism is very strong in left wing circles as well. It's really only the federalist center that caters to Anglophone montrealers that is less on board.
We've attempted to replaced that wretched title with something serviceable. The entire article is dreadful, including what they've done with links, but I wasn't able to find a better third-party source.
Sorry for this barrage of questions:

How did you rationalize building up big credit card bills? You knew you'd have to pay them back some day.

Were you spending without thinking about the bills? Did you not understand what interest was?

Could you afford the monthly payments, and think that if you could everything must be fine?
As a British-born Canadian, my view is they have a knack of shooting themselves in the foot without realizing it.

When we moved to Canada we were allowed to be schooled in English. Within a year or two they passed a new law that said you could only be educated in English if your parents were educated in English in either Quebec or Canada (don't remember which). Coming from England, my parent's education didn't qualify. There was no grandfathering, letting us continue in English because we'd already started in English.
My parents didn't know French, and wouldn't be able to assist in learning it, or helping with homework. In response, we left Quebec and moved to the Toronto area.

If they hadn't passed their law, I would have stayed, made French friends, shopped at French stores, and generally been immersed in the culture they want to protect, and learned French. My brothers would have too. Instead, we all vaguely know grade-9 core French, but not enough to actually communicate with anyone. Pretty much the exact opposite of what they want.

Years later, they enacted French language laws, harassing stores over English signs, talking English to English customers, etc, all making it harder to be a tourist location.

All their efforts seem to be more effective at driving away the non-French as opposed to spreading adoption and appreciation of French. Maybe that's their real plan. Their calls for separation are another sign that driving away the non-French may be the real goal... they want to be left alone... Which just seems incredibly short-sighted. If you're too isolated from the rest of the world, the rest of the world will move on without you.
> What's so wrong with var?

var his function scoped, allows redeclarations in the same scope to work as reassignments, and has some other quirks, while let is block scoped and errors on redeclarations in the same scope.

The net result is that var is a lot more trouble. If you are using ES6+ and need a reassignable variable, you should use let. If you need something that won’t be reassigned (even if it will be mutated), use const.
Like a hipster wearing a monocle fashioned with metaverse-substrate. The new age user interface is like cup of coffee and a pipe with eco-friendly, translucent tobacco.
Yeah, the whole "as a European why is America so bad as X" gets especially funny in cases like this. As your link shows, the top 10 countries with the highest household debt to gdp ratio are mostly European. The US isn't doing great but it's not like Switzerland is hell hole so maybe it's not especially bad to have a higher household debt in the first place anyways. The European countries with lower household debt seem to have a higher public debt anyways. And to go a bit off topic here, I'm not American but it's very weird to see the almost alternative reality about how life actually is in (yes even western) Europe on the internet when it's much more bleak in real life. It's okay to be super critical of the US and it's issues but it's mind blowing to me that Europe is seen as an overall superior & a model of what should be done when it absolutely shouldn't be.

(And that's not even touching how much more stressful debt is in some parts of europe. In the US the bankruptcy courts and laws make it so much easier to bounce back after a going bankrupt, whereas it can be a completely life shattering experience in the old continent. Unless things changed recently)
They're surrounded by 300 million+ English speakers and desperately trying to keep their language and culture alive.

I'm not saying I agree with this particular initiative, but this is about survival of their very culture, not narcism. What an awfully uncharitable thing to say.

It's funny, if the Inuit government had a similar initiative in Nunavut to support their culture, literally no-one would have a problem with it.

Make of that what you will.
There's plenty to do outside in the snow for those who aren't turned off by the cold. Having grown up in Canada and now living in Rochester, I like having actual seasons :)
I'm usually frustrated that I've got dozens of GB of unused RAM, and some horrible 32-bit app is thrashing and paging to disk because it's getting close to using 2 GB.
During the next major password dump, acquire the master list.

usernames.com can be a freeview model site where you display all of the 'acquired' usernames much like how RetailMeNot displays coupon codes. Click on a username and have the availability to purchase the password.
A resistor bank of the required wattage would simply be a big lump of dead weight most of the time. And it would need its own cooling fan which would add even more weight.
That might've been true at the time. But what about today? Can't we use the higher settings for JPEG 2000? At least speed shouldn't be an issue now.
I'm just sticking it out. I have too many home life problems and need the health coverage too much.
Seems like most of the responses ignore the fact that there's actual value creation in every other market, that is completely lacking with doge. It's a joke with no real-world utility.
I ended up being on the losing end of the stack ranking at Microsoft and it was pretty terrible.

My manager straight up told me that my performance was fine but because he had to rank someone the lowest, it was my turn since I was the least experienced on the team. If I had actually been doing a bad job it wouldn't have felt as bad because at least then I would have had some control over the situation.

I moved teams shortly after that and my new manager was pretty surprised to see my last review. He started keeping a list of other developers on the other teams that I was helping so he could help me get ranked higher. That felt super shitty and I left the company right after.

That happened to be right at the same time they did away with the stack ranking. I have no idea if it improved things but it had to be better than what it was. (At least in my part of the company.)
Profitable by owning and sitting on an asset != Profitable for a builder to buy land and build a house. You can have one without the other.
Where do people even pick this sort of stuff up to take with them into industry? Are they teaching Electron development now in undergrad CSE programs instead of C?
Unless something still manipulates the price, as in the diamond market.
As a current faculty member at RIT, I feel comfortable saying I love it here. While I can understand how it's not a fit for everyone, I think Rochester is a great place to live :)
But don't you believe it encourages innovation ? That's the main argument in favor of patents
Shakespeare would probably have some strong, formerly slang, words to say about your English teacher's take on using slang. Today's synonyms are yesterdays slang, and arguing against embracing the fluidity of language is just saying dead old white guys have a monopoly on inventing words.
Not just that, Tom reduced his expenses, consumed only essentials in order to pay his rent, when if he known this was going to happen, he didn't need to had he known. This is effectively giving Joe and Jack extra income, while giving little extra income to Bob and none to Tom.

This is the same issue with forgiving student loans...

At the very least, CA should consider the forgiven rent as income paid to the renters whose rent was forgiven.
Sure, but it would be worth it.

The cost is that you'd have to re-engineer maybe ten or twenty percent of major freeways and interstates (like have two miles of charging per every ten to twenty miles of regular road), and you'd need to establish a standard for trucks and passenger vehicles and get automakers to adopt it. (Or make it simple enough that it can be added as an aftermarket kit.) You'd also need to install more electrical generation capacity. (Fortunately, charging cars while they're driving shifts most of the charging from nighttime to daytime, when solar power can be used for this purpose.)

The benefit is that you could reduce long-haul trucking fuel consumption to near zero and reduce the need for EVs to have heavy, expensive 200-mile-or-more-range batteries.
The laws of identity (2005) [pdf]
It was previously a place to buy and sell usernames, but I wasn't too crazy about the concept, I think there's possibly more potential elsewhere
I understand why they made the "no-LIDAR" bet early when the LIDARs were completely unpractical for a production consumer car

However, nowadays it starts to look that 100% reliable depth estimation from cameras might actually require a human-level AI to work and also solid-state LIDAR technology is becoming cheap enough and integrateable into normal cars, but Tesla can't really change their stance on this without admitting that FSD options they already sold would not actually become FSD within the lifetimes of these vehicles. I suspect this might also be the reason why Karpathy looks more and more nervous with each new talk
Why the future of the cloud will be built on Rust
If you go for a thinkpad, I advise going for a model that still uses the dual battery system. Some models I can think of: t480, x270, p51s, p52s. Since you'll be running Linux, you'll need all the battery power you can get and having dual batteries make hotswapping possible. Also avoid getting models that have an nvidia dedicated gpu if possible.
>I feel like most of these stories are just coming out recently, in the last year or so. Maybe things hit a tipping point during the pandemic?

Current Amazon engineer here. People have been complaining working at Amazon for a long while.

At least in my organization, leadership pays close attention to whether folks are happy or unhappy in their roles. I posted this earlier, but we have a massive workforce of engineers at Amazon, across many countries. If 1% of them are unhappy, and even 5-10% of those unhappy folks are willing to say something about it online, you're going to see plenty of news sites picking up those articles and representing Amazon in a negative light.

There's plenty of bad publicity around Amazon, and I think that's due to the insane growth of this company. Regardless of your view, Amazon has been insanely successful. With that success comes suspicion, and you can quickly go from being very trusted to everyone questioning every practice – from quality of AWS documentation to Prime shipment speed to hiring/promotion practices, etc. Alot of people have skin in this game because they're competing directly with Amazon.

I'm not saying Amazon can't do better. We absolutely need to. But alot of the things being represented as systemic issues at Amazon are simply not so, but they certainly push a specific narrative. shrug
That's true. In extreme cases it could really upset Earth's magnetosphere. And since we don't know we can't assume it's magnetically inert.
Does this mean that when the battery is full you must use the brake pedal? Or does the software automatically apply the friction brakes when you back off the accelerator?
Consider a used thinkpad. I recently picked up a pre-owned Thinkpad X1 gen 6 for 600. 16G RAM and modern enough CPU. Its wonderful and works well with Fedora.
Totally agree. The government should have a policy goal of keeping house prices stable relative to inflation. But when multiple generations have locked up most of their wealth into housing, it’s unclear how to untangle the whole mess without collapsing the economy.
> You can't say "it just takes a lot of time" if that time is > age of the universe.

1. The difference matters a WHOLE LOT when you're studying computability. If the question you're trying to answer is "Can this be computed exactly?", then the distinction is paramount.

2. Your argument here is functionally equivalent to stating that there exists a largest number since it's trivial to construct a number which would require more digits (in any base you'd like) than subatomic particles in the entire universe to represent in its fully-expanded form… so let's pick this one as the largest and stop worrying about all of that infinity hub-bub!
On the Long Way Up they did just this to recharge their Rivians
If libraries use unicode in their internals, it doesn't affect you or me. And I have yet to see in the wild any examples of unicode identifiers that are required for use. The closest thing i can think of is the composition operator in Base, though it has a somewhat awkward ascii equivalent.

Do you have any example? As far as I know this is strongly discouraged in the community.
To the contrary, do not judge an extremely successful great line of laptops based on the experience of a single person.

I can't wait for the X1 Extreme Gen 4 later this year and I am set to buy one at Black Friday if it comes at a reasonable price. I would even get the P1G4 if the RTX 3070 version can be had for anything even remotely reasonable but I have a bad suspicion it won't be. (4lbs 16" screen 16:10 resolution, two M.2 drives.)
On my 2012 mbp I have the OS and software running on the SSD in the drive bay, and a beefy hdd in the disk slot for storage. I set this up back when a 256gb SSD was pretty expensive, but maybe that sort of strategy would work for you now that SSD prices have gone up again, having a fast drive for software and the system and a big drive for storage.
There are situations which are quite simple and, I agree with you they seem to be taxed the wrong way. It's just harder to fix than it seems because the spectrum of what people actually do when involved in a business is wide. Most situations are something in between your example of a person who "knows" and mine of a chef.

The chef in my example "knows" what kind of food to create for a given area - ie the intersection of demographics/tastes, the existing competition, locations etc. That expertise is equivalent to your "knowing". The chef might not even actually work day to day - he/she just had the initial insights. Now the chef has moved along the continuum towards a finance person.

In almost all the modern successful PE operations, the teams are industry specialists (ie if you look under the hood at Blackstone, KKR etc, the people are organized by industry). They actually know a lot about the operations, what can be improved, what needs to be thrown out etc. They are something in between my "chef" and your "person who knows". By and large, they aren't timing markets. Even VCs are becoming industry focused as opposed to generic. Many are former founders. They have stepped down the continuum toward being a "chef".

ie, most folks are in the grey area.

WRT business sales - at least for PE/VC folks, the carried interest is calculated on the business sale. There are some situations where they can write things up or down, but it washes out - ie they can't just write it up arbitrarily - the value of the asset, and hence their capital - needs to have actually gone up.
I just figure it's really thick virtual oil/gouache/whatever paint.
Yes, but I didn't cite QC as an exception to the rule. I only mentioned it because it's governed by a different set of axioms and would result in a different discussion.
To understand code, start with data.

For database-driven applications, that means, read the DB schema first. For everything else, look at their in-memory equivalents.

"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." -- Linus Torvalds (2006)
Amplification and Its Discontents
The Metaverse in this context is a continuously updated digital copy of the real world, where the "environment" is generated passively by users.

Imagine a city park where a handful of people have glasses with cameras on them that are continuously sending a geo-located feed of the images to a map server which processes it into a 3D reconstruction. You could watch in real time as the city park is reconstructed and updated in real time 3D, add in virtual content, make content "layers" for different digital assets, track interactions etc...

It's a globally crowdsourced, consistently updated real time digital twin of the world.
If homes are a profit-seeking investment then supply and demand would incentivize lower supply. If new houses cannot be built, but the demand is the same or increasing, then prices must rise. The profit motive directly leads some people to fight against new housing.
This feels like it is said in bad faith because I suspect you know exactly what is meant.

If you really want to be pedantic, 1_000_000 user operations are to be done. If you write something that does 1_000_000 user operations/second, and it takes 6 mos to write, it'll be done in 6 mos and 1 sec.

If it only does 500 ops/sec but takes 1 day to write, it'll be done in ~3.3 days.

Which one is faster?
As a Quebecer, I will allow myself to highlight the intention behind this surprising proposal. Quebec's French-speaking artistic community is very rich and very lively. The musical tastes of Quebecers are also very diverse, in both English and French. Only, from a commercial point of view, English-speaking music enjoys a very large exposure and it is very easy to forget that other music also exists. Canada, from a constitutional point of view, officially recognizes 2 languages: English and French. Laws impose on the broadcaster a certain percentage of content in these 2 languages. However, French does not benefit from the strength of attraction of English on the North American continent. The Quebec government has therefore decided to do its part to increase the visibility of French-language music in Quebec, more specifically, Quebec French-language music. It is an action of resilience, one among many others that we feel obliged to do to avoid disappearing like all the other French-speaking populations of America.
Note that the P51 is a mobile workstation, not a "laptop". I have a P50 which is the same hardware platform from the previous year; powerful stuff - but not something you want to have in your bag to commute with. Also the battery life is not that great (it is a "full power" processor, not a mobile one), so even the "in meetings for most of the day" use case is not appropriate; it uses a brick power supply that you don't want to carry around either.
The T4__(s) and X are great laptops - (Except for couple of X1s that were too ambitious footprint-wise or which tried too hard to implement "edgy but bad" features (touchbar)).
Living in Europe and traveling by train for 7/8 hours every two months for work.
What kind of shitty train does only 50mph?

I would say the convenience it’s highly dependent on the destination. Here the train station it’s often near the city center while to get to the airport you need additional transportation,
As you said you have more legroom but also there is enough space to use a laptop and actually work connected to Wi-Fi.
I’m not limited in what and how much I can carry with me, and the train is much quieter than a plane.
And finally, the train is much less stressful and traveling time doesn’t really matter when is the company’s time.

I would say that if you don’t have an airport in a 30km radius from the destination, the train still wins around until 8hours trips. Above, I would consider travelling with the airplane.
Interesting! Thank you! :-)
Signing up for the NY Times is easy and can be done via the internet. Cancelling requires calling a number and waiting and speaking to an agent.
This guy is way too excited. He's thinking he's gonna get Cyberpunk 2077 but in reality he's getting a combo of Wall-E and The Final Cut.
Yes it is a pedantic premise and conversation

I agree that its great that there is a normalized inclusive context that allows the benign similarities between philosophers and music to be acknowledged, instead of their less benign differences such as the philosopher’s erotic performances
Fun fact. Yggdrasil can be translated to "the horse (drasil) of the terrible storm god (Ygg)", where Ygg is one of many names for Odin / Wutan

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