skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gap's problems for me:

1) Sticking Gap on everything. That kind-of logo/advertisement in huge lettering is great on the way up, but not on the way down. Superdry take note. You could not pay me to wear either.

2) Pricing and price point. It's frankly been bizarre for years. Overpriced when compared to new competitors, such as Uniqlo. Not quite good enough to compete with other stores, such as Levi's or more designer brands. Its position in the market felt awkward in recent times.

I still buy chinos and plain t-shirts from Gap. No logo and so nobody knows. Despite their crazy vanity sizing, they still offer a range of sizes unlike Uniqlo, which only offers tailoring in-store at present in the UK.
If it was random, why did it become dominant if it provided no evolutionary advantage?

There’s variations going on all the time, maybe they’re random, maybe they’re not. But the ones that stick in a population are the ones that get selected by outcompeting hosts without the variation.
UTF-8 mandated everywhere is how I work atm, and I am happy the old latin... etc died off. But I think its fundamentally the wrong way to go in a sense. UTF-8 is too huge for starters, and does a great deal which it probably should not as it will never do it well. While latex is horrifying in its own right, it remains indisputably superior at writing math compared to UTF-8 and similar for html5 with styling. In both cases the extensibility and styling is built in despite not needing more than perhaps 50 characters to write. It seems to me like the mistake was adding locales in the first place, we have a chance to standardize not language, but meta language. The user will never see the low level stuff, and the programmer will mostly not see it unless they click show low level in their ide, and it will always be compressed when it matters, so why even have separate a,A. Why not have a, \{upper}{a}. shown, and even entered in the keyboard as a,A. The key difference to utf would be that the rendering and which commands exists is up to the locale which could be globally stand... Wait I just made it worse didnt I...

Qt still leaves you with the problem of string litterals possibly changing when moving the code from one locale to another as the code itself is not of defined encoding, so if reparsed it will either look bad in code, or bad in output. The everpresent tr is also rather annoying.
Assuming you didn't buy too close to the annual forest fires, and neither the mortgage crisis or the pandemic wiped out housing prices in your area, yes.

Unfortunately hard to predict those events at the time of house purchase. Some people do very well on Bay Area real estate, some not so well.
GraphQL isn't really a comparable language, and PathQuery predates it by at least 3 years. While the paper is recent, GraphQL quite probably made zero to low impact on its topic.
The thing is, that’s all relatively recent in computing terms. For the vast majority of computing history it’s been 1024^n because that’s how the hardware works — you can’t have 1000^n in a binary system where bytes are multiples of 8. All the 1000^n values you get are where the raw value in bytes is taken and then divided by powers of 1000 but that leads to values that are technically not accurate (eg values that are not addressable).

And here lies the problem, before HDD manufacturers decided to change things up, computer science was already standardised on using 1024^n. Sure there was some outliers in network theory but it was pretty easy because if you needed a precise value then you knew it was 1024^n and if you just wanted an approximate value you could still divide by 1000 in your head. It worked, everyone understood it and everyone was happy.

This whole “1000^n is more human friendly” only appears so because we now have multiple interpretations and people without a tech background making decisions about it. But frankly, if you can’t wrap your head around 1024^n then you’re already in the group of users who honestly don’t need to worry about the precision of getting the scaling right. Those who it does matter for honestly find 1024^n easier.
Quite. They're dwindling, but at a slower pace than other countries.
that's right! or access the drive at all. that made it a nonstarter for me as i was trying to build a player for fat32 formatted cd-roms full of mp3s.

of course the bigger problem was that the r3k was too slow. (i ported mpg123 over to run in fixed point, but it still was many times realtime to decode a frame). i wish i'd known about this gte vector unit thing, that may have been a way to make it work... but ah well,
Seems like it's NMN given earlier work, which I image many people on HN already use.

https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1470377

I don't give it to pets though, it's just to expensive
I guess it's one of those things that can be argued either way and only time will tell!
TL;DR: Time series data are measurements ordered by time. Time series analysis tools like Prophet tries to guess future values based on past ones. This matters because many economic decisions take future values as inputs, and we can't measure the future values yet.

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Time series are data values ordered by time. So amount of rain for each year 1993--2017, or the sales each week of Q1 this year, or service time for each request received the previous minute, or ... you can come up with your own examples.

The reason for ordering by time is that we think that there might be patterns in the data that are revealed over time. The measurements might be evolving in (somewhat) predictable ways, day by day, or year by year.

Say, then, you know how much sunshine your area received per year between 1999 and 2020. You're thinking of installing solar panels. Then you have an interesting problem at your hands: given what you know about sunshine historically, how much sunshine will you receive in this year, 2021? How about 2022? What can you reasonably expect to get out of your solar panels in the future?

This is probably the most obvious way to apply Prophet: I have an economic decision to make, which takes as input future data. Obviously I don't have future data yet, so I need a good guess based on the historic data I have. Prophet attempts to make that guess.
My limited experience shows that a good way to influence children is to lead by example, and build on previous knowledge to provide context.

Using gardening as an example, choose a fruit or vegetable your child likes, then go with them to a store and buy seeds / trees / whatever. Then get them to help you plant it and look after it. Children love harvest time, the excitement is palpable.

If you have chickens you can feed them wheat. If your child likes bread then you can show the child how to turn wheat into bread.

The key is not to force things. Monkey see, monkey do. If my nephews see me doing yoga, suddenly they are all trying their best to copy me.

For programming, I am not sure. But i think the best way is to start with a simple language that can alter something visual, so that there is clear cause/effect.

I'd love to hear any other examples people have!
Seems being unable to waste yourself 247 is selected for by the opposite sex?
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Gap's quality is higher than H&M, IMHO. Zara is another of Gap's rivals that seems to be expanding in the UK highstreet, although I rarely find anything worth purchasing.
There is also the water consumption. One cotton t-shirt uses more than 2000 litres of water. That's about a month's worth of daily showers. It wouldn't be too bad if the garment would last 10+ years, but they don't.

Unfortunately the people (mostly women) who drive this are addicted to the churn of clothes. It's not about a basic need to be warm and protected. It's about maintaining a constant source of novelty by buying new clothes almost every week. In my experience, half of the clothes they buy don't fit and/or they don't like them when they get them home.

When I was little my mum used to buy most our clothes second hand from car boot sales and the like. I can't believe people buy brand new children's clothes. You know they are going to grow out of them. Unfortunately, in the UK at least, second-hand clothes have been largely stigmatised and many people won't even consider them. I have recently seen apps which specialise in second-hand clothes. This would be great but I think it's going to take a lot to convince people not to think of clothes and consumables.
Exactly! All big ones like NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, etc, are fully capable to read and interact with craziest single page application build and rendered in your browser
> It boggles my mind that people look at something like Kubernetes and decide "You know what? We need more layers. On top of this."

This statement is less about adding another layer. It's more about not falling in to the same trap that we did with VMs in 2010--managing them by hand, producing unreproducible configurations, "tending" to them. The same pattern is happening with Kubernetes, but it fundamentally runs on computers at the end of the day so it's prone to similar types of failures.
The core of the problem is the part that I sort of glossed over when I said:

> tax-exempt if you put the right weasel words into the statute

The law lists a finite amount of ways [1] in which an e.V. can act in the public interest ("Gemeinnützigkeit") and thus become tax-exempt. Most of these items are engineered to cover existing e.V. For instance, sports clubs are explicitly covered, as are consumer protection watchdogs.

For any associations doing charitable work in the IT context, the issue is that none of these bullet points in the legal text explicitly cover such activities. There has been some support for the idea of adding free software as a charitable cause to this list, but nothing has come out of it as of yet.

I'm familiar with this topic because I'm volunteering in the Chaos Computer Club. Most local chapters are constituted as e.V. and are tax-exempt under the purpose of public education ("Förderung der Volksbildung") since that one is the easiest to get away with if you do any sort of public events that can be considered education every once in a while (like conferences or talks or such).

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ao_1977/__52.html
Not without people to do it with. And the people that the parent poster is talking about aren't nomads.
More Money = More Motivation?
> Next you’ll have me believing you can scrawl a signature to verify a card payment.

I have heard a horror story from a friend who was on holiday in NYC who can't pay at a certain store (I forgot what store, sorry) because the terminals are signature-only (and the card is PIN-only because that makes a lot more sense).

Edit: If I remember correctly, it was resolved by getting a cash advance on an ATM, which a) works precisely because there's a PIN, and b) is frustrating to him because it adds up unnecessary (if the terminal worked) fees.
Cmon this is hacker news not 'art is ineffable news'.

Yes the point of things like this is to help understand the framework that underlies (edit: most western) music. There's actually a lot of structure to western music that is obfuscated by the completely bonkers terminology. I find articles like this very intersting and useful, and there's no way you'll catch me listeneing to stockhausen.

For example the explanation of modes vs scales in this article is the clearest I've ever seen.
asking developers to do OPs is broken, too.
I smiled at "changing the world". It's very funny we think about the world as if it needed changing, had the ability to change in a lifetime or that it was remotely interested in our own opinion of it.

It's probable most people in the world, the majority being Chinese and Indian, would strongly disagree with what you think it should be. If not, it's the africans and the europeans who would.

I have a huge amount of agency in my life, simply because I can live with little money, enjoy obeying and building stuff in teams, can be useful and accept sacrifice, so I moved across the world to work in investment banks and it's striking how similar yet different people are, and hows silly 20-something are in speaking of changing "the world".

Something I hear a lot around me that I also apply a lot is to "pick your battles". There are things that are pointless to fight over, others you can and must. And you see the frustrated spinning around behind you on detail why you slowly but surely build the bigger picture.

Start by changing your hometown, already a feat :D
Some of our clients still send us cheques (even though we explicitly note on our invoices that we don't take them) while the banks in the Netherlands won't even process them anymore... It's rough.
About prioritizing, I want to share a story:

We were a small and good team developping hardware/software combos.
We ruined a demo to a client by promising some hard to do feature, and during the demo, the said feature had not been well tested for a particular environment.

The debriefing of that failure was memorable. The big boss was yelling at us, saying we should do better, work harder, longer, whatever was required to succeed.

When this calmed down, I only asked one question: when going back to my desk, should I work on this new feature promised to some other customer, or test this old one for any combination of inputs/environments?
The response was: "You do both"
I insisted that I will do both, but which one first?
He responded with some blabla I do not remember, but no response to my question.

To any manager which cannot decide between feature and stability:
If you cannot prioritize, the dev will do it, with whatever information/incentive they have. You may not be happy of the result.
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readable-hacker-ne...
School sucks for individuals, but for the whole system there's no significantly better solution (at least that I'm aware of), sadly.
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That doesn't mean it's impossible to create artificial intelligences, though, which was Dreyfus' point.
Haha, that's an interesting coincidence. I initially clicked into a few that didn't have exceptions listed and just picked that one when writing my comment. I just copied/pasted the beginning and didn't expect the extra section there.

Being able to stack rank principles is interesting. I think in practice, different principles apply to different use-cases and systems. There may be a certain set of principles for "critical" functionality pieces, but maybe a different set for features like reporting (such as staleness of data).

Amazon's leadership principles aren't specific to engineering, but they keep competing ones with tension between them all the same (e.g., "Bias for Action" vs "Insist on the Highest Standards").
I think @votingNNN answered you well. The sharps and flats are because the majority of music stays within the scale -- particularly for the singing monks not in front of a piano. So they hear and consider the scale and notes falling outside of that sound wrong i.e. they sound sharp or flat

Sharp and flat are only needed when moving outside or between scales, or using "fixed do", like modern western sheet music does with sharps and flats. Here is a discussion of the benefits

https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/41764/solfege-fixe...

For the record i prefer and use a numbered tin kay method like the article (but starting from zero rather than one), because it lets me abstractly consider what im playing, in much the same way as the above article
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I’ve been on the panel of volunteer Mass Observation writers for about 5 years. I find it a helpful form of directed journaling. Over the years I’ve dipped in and out of regular journaling but rarely kept it up. Instead, I prefer to be asked interesting prompting questions and use those as a springboard for sharing ideas. The prompts and the external “utility” of MO are better for me than a blank sheet of paper or a private diary. In fact, I try to almost never write private diaries, but instead share random diary-like thoughts with other people. It’s less of a black hole and usually results in good conversation.

MO is a longitudinal study of everyday life. In my responses to the directives, I sometimes write asides to the researchers who may one day read them.
Another interesting fact not mentioned in the article, is that men produce way more ADH than women:

https://sites.duke.edu/apep/module-1-gender-matters/content/....

I wonder how that fits into the author's narrative?
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> There is also the water consumption. One cotton t-shirt uses more than 2000 litres of water. That's about a month's worth of daily showers. It wouldn't be too bad if the garment would last 10+ years, but they don't.

What does that even mean? Does the water just disappear?
I find it easier to write/recieve a check and use it with my banks mobile deposit than any of the reinvented wheels.

I don't understand why we can mobile deposit checks, but using a bank app generated and signed jpg check isn't an option.

Email, txt, or even print-mail-deposit.

Recipients could do the same. Mobile deposit app opens the file instead of taking a picture, automatically stamp your endorsement, submit, done. Or print and deposit.

It could have been so simple.
That's harsh.

If you think you could use it and have suggestion, let's open a thread on Github and discuss
Is this some kind of joke? Can't read it with FFs inbuilt PDF renderer nor with Acrobat.
Banks here in NZ have stopped accepting them in the past few months, they are very much a thing who's time is passing
You could probably also ask why Temujin had many children.

Founder effects are a thing and a sufficient explanation. They hold even for relatively detrimental defects, and likely hold even better for something as silent as acetaldehyde metabolism.
This is also completely ignoring economics of quality for government - the folks working there typically are either bottom rung (willing to accept non-competetive lower pay), or as a 'civic duty' of some sort. There is some exception perhaps for the intelligence community (NSA et all) because they have had somewhat a monopoly in that legally speaking, although again, there are private entities out there you never hear of which may be of higher quality.

But even there, talk to pretty much any vet - you can quickly surmise that as far as classifications go, most stuff is over classified without valid reason, because the safest thing to do for the low level peon is slap a "top secret" on anything and everything...

And there's plenty of evidence otherwise as others have mentioned - most patents are garbage and should never have been given out.
Oh and one warning regarding UTF-8 everywhere, use it but perhaps dont force it on a filesystem level. I have a file in a zfs filesystem with utf-8 and normD which everytime I try to delete it remains, and if I copy/move it in the filesystem it duplicates in size and if I try to copy it to someplace else, that fails. It has some wierd seemingly cryllic filename too long to be shown and changing with zfs version numbers and possibly randomly. I think it was a meme image originally, but its taking up 135GB of tank space by now. I mostly keep it for fun, hoping zfs will eventually either declare it broken or fix it so I can see what it was. I'd share it but the tank is huge, and I never figured out a way to move or read it without dd ing the entire tank.
There is no way on earth there are enough remote positions for all those who want to work remote.

Yes, many new remote positions will be created, and it is a trend which will grow. But most will (have to) stay right where they are.
I find it awesome that we all independently had the idea to perform this stupid trick. Fun in simplicity
Shades of PG's "Why Nerds are Unpopular" [1]

> "As far as I can tell, the concept of the hormone-crazed teenager is coeval with suburbia. I don't think this is a coincidence. I think teenagers are driven crazy by the life they're made to lead. Teenage apprentices in the Renaissance were working dogs. Teenagers now are neurotic lapdogs. Their craziness is the craziness of the idle everywhere."

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Cheese is not popular, as far as I'm aware, on the mainland. But even if it was, it contains almost no lactose. Milk is different.

I know the Chinese consume milk, but I don't think any individual person consumes very much. Some anecdotes:

- A coworker revealed to me once that he was buying milk to feed to his baby. The baby, of course, would be able to digest lactose in pretty much any quantity.

- I shocked a tutor of mine once by having a carton of milk for lunch. She told me it was very important not to drink milk on an empty stomach, or else "it will be diarrhea!" She didn't quite know what to make of my response that that wouldn't happen to me because I'm white.

- A friend of mine told me that her parents made her drink one glass of milk per day, which practice she still continues (into her 30s). This tends to imply that it's seen as a healthful practice.

- Another friend of mine, younger, spoke of milk explicitly in terms of its healthfulness, and when I asked if she drank a lot of milk herself, responded "maybe not a lot, but at least every 2-3 days".
Thankyou very much for finding this bug. Safari was blocking the email input field on signup. Just fixed it, if you'd like to give it another shot. Ipad should be okay when running in widescreen but some elements might show out of the screen as it's optimized for desktop.
so they're 95% sure.. how do they even come up with a figure like that? they didn't bother saying. might be equivalent to 'give or take a few trillion tonnes'
> Yes, and they published counter-propaganda from HK protestors.

I would not be surprised if they did, but I hadn’t heard of this. Do you have a reference?

> Advertisement is propaganda.

I don’t disagree, but Wolodarski (at the time) fashioned DN as a neutral observer. As he is publishing this opinion piece under his editor-in-chief title, I can only assume he has changed stances (or maybe he just doesn’t want SvD’s editor-in-chief to be in the list of authors instead of him).
It is a pity about the reporting.

But it is a fascinating area of research. I never expected that we could measure gravitational waves in our life time.
It's fairly simple to make lactose-free milk by adding the lactase enzyme. Maybe the milk being sold in China is lactose free?
isnt scala having a kind of resurgence at the moment though? I think saying Scala "was" hot is not correct, but then again I'm working with data as a data engineer so my perspective is probably quite biased/skewed.
That is quite literally not true. Ypu need just a brief look at history or antiquity to see that.
The Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan [1], published in 2016, was typeset using groff [2].

[1] http://www.gopl.io/ch1.pdf

[2] http://rkrishnan.org/posts/2016-03-07-how-is-gopl-typeset.ht...
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A2 milk is (was?) very popular in China, people bought it and shipped it back home so much that some stores had to implement quotas here in Aus. It supposedly has the same amount of lactose but fewer symptoms of intolerance.
No but it had to be turned into fresh water suitable for use which uses energy and also can’t be used by someone else. There are water shortages all over the place.