skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The important dispute isn't about the calculations, but whether the limits only apply to sleep mode (as claimed by the first comment) or also to yearly maximum power consumption (and thus to power consumption during active use).
Seems like a waste to pay expensive rents for office space when you are using it 2 days a week. I would imagine that is not a stable equilibrium
Having spent the price of a small car on an Apple laptop, albeit several years ago, I have no qualms in extracting SF Mono from that system and using it on my Linux desktops.

If for some reason Apple take umbrage — I can’t think why they would, it isn’t like they haven’t gotten all they could out of me — I would be happy to give them back their laptop.

Sent from my iPhone.
Busy Beaver-type functions (counting how long a program runs, provided that it terminates) might look like a mere curiosity, but they make interesting statements about the power of different systems of computation. For Turing machines it grows quicker than any computable function – and Turing machines are quite powerful!

If you consider a finite-state automaton, you might define a similar problem: What is the longest word that automaton accepts, provided that it accepts only finitely many words? This you can answer directly: it is n-1, where n is the number of states. And finite-state automata are not very powerful.

Here is another system: I give you a list of transactions, where each transaction consists of multiple instructions of the form “add/remove x units from account y”. You may only execute a transaction if no account goes negative. Here, a Busy Beaver-type question would be “What is the longest sequence of transactions that move one unit from the first account to the second, where all the others must start and end empty?” This is actually a somewhat powerful system, and here the answer grows at the rate of the Ackermann function – extremely fast (and, if you have never heard of it, probably faster than any computable function you can think of), but still computable. [1]

Recently we have shown a Busy Beaver-type result for a certain distributed computation model, where many (very limited) participants interact to compute things as a group. There the question was about counting how large the group is, but each participant can only count to n. So given a protocol that reliably recognises certain group sizes, what is the largest size it accepts? (Again, provided that it accepts only finitely many.) We proved that it is at most 2^(2^(2^n)) – so in some sense that model is very weak, but nevertheless much more powerful that finite state automata.

[1] I did not think to carefully about this, some details might be wrong.
The Windows install floppy disks almost always came on DMF formatted disks which hold 1.68mb of data. That saves you about 350 floppies.

Fyi: that is as far as I know the reason for most oldy cab installation files being that size.
It's also the same for new teams or even new large projects. I have worked at {Big Tech Company} for 7 years and WFH has barely been a speed bump for me.

Last week I decided to switch teams. My onboarding rate is glacial so far. Naturally I don't have a big workload, because I am new. However between tasks I can't just try and learn by osmosis, because there's nobody around. I have to go out of my way to schedule meetings with people and say "what are you working on? explain it to me."

Luckily I am in a fairly senior role so I am confident scheduling those meetings and asking those questions. If I was a new grad I'd be terrified to do that and instead probably just sit here and twiddle my thumbs half the day.
Actually, first class functions also means the ability to form functions (ie, closures). Javascript for instance has that feature. I think that python also supports it. C OTOH doesn't, but it has other advantages.
Not just the top comments. Replies that agree are fairly rare here in general.

Personally I think that's good. Replies that agree rarely add new information, but they drown out other more informative comments and can create an echo chamber.
Flowdock is really good. You rarely need to use the mouse. If only the search was a bit better and there are some occasional crashes.

But the core design with threads is a killer feature and prevents migration to anything else.
Amazon.com is full of drop-shipped no-name almost literal polished plastic turds from China. A few useless stock-photo level product images. No technical specifications, just the same generic terms repeated as `description`. A completely unknown brand and company name. Of course only available for a few months, so bad reviews with this product name and brand don't accumulate all over the Internet. Rinse, repeat.

It's great that they "make things right" somehow. But their marketplace is crap, they are the embodiment of a cancerous flea market that grew to enormous proportions.

The problem is, Amazon shouldn't be able to set prices so freely. Market forces don't apply when you can just dump all your profit into a new niche, obliterate the competition, capture the audience, then set prices to maximize profit, and move to the next market segment. (Just as Google's money distorts the browser market.)

(Books happen to be the segment where most of this doesn't apply, because books, like any content are not substitutable, yet copies are perfectly fungible. At best there's a very minimal concern about the condition of used books. And it shows that Amazon's whole model is built on this. One completely unknown PowerBank/USB-hub/gadget is just as good as an other.)
Medium just sort of became the go-to for vaguely technical blogs. I'm sure there's much better platforms out there
https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/05/the-new-york-times-success...
>Is there a military cover-up of this information? Absolutely. The amount of secrecy around this for nearly 80 years is unparalleled. Is it because some general or defense contractor or masonic lodge really cares so much if people know that there is a greater intelligence here? Probably not. The disclosure of centralized, credible phenomenon-related information is likely driven entirely by the phenomenon itself. So even with this movement for transparency the last few years, I'm not optimistic about getting the truth anytime soon.

I'm curious. what do you mean when you say that the disclosure of credible information of the phenomenon is driven entirely by the phenomenon itself? And why does this make you pessimistic?

As for one plausible reason for the secrecy by governments. I assume it's because they don't like to look like they're ignorant (few governments do), and stay secretive because to do otherwise would be to reveal that they're just as clueless as the general public or any private research effort.
Do you have examples of where that doesn’t happen?
The purpose seemed aimed at people that procrastinate a lot and have small-ish tasks. If you have to account for your efforts, then you might work more efficiently ?
> spent at broken charging stations with low charging rates or just broken

Should of bought a Tesla. Competition is cheaper for a reason.
Before buying anything from Planet, see how well they have done at maintaining older devices. Latest release for Gemini PDA is Android 8.1, three years ago.
You need to read the Taft-Hartley Act to understand why no one, and I mean, no one, should answer that question. The Taft-Hartley Act deranged both capital wielder and labor alike from exploiting network effects, but only the prohibition on labor doing so seems to have been able to get much oomph on the enforcement side of things.

Whoever is had best remain anonymous if they want to stay out of the crosshairs of the legal system. It'd be an "I'm Spartacus" situation.
Amend*
https://millionshort.com only searches the webpages that lay outside of the top 10,000 100,000 or 1,000,000
The difference is that they purport to sell you assurance (and lie), where aping FB would leave you no more exposed than deep-pockets (therefore attractive-target) FB.
Exactly. When I was on antidepressants but not actively having therapy, that was "only treating the symptoms". But it actually freed up my mind to allow me to adjust my mental state

I would assume this is similar, if you cut down the porn, it gives you time to clear your head and consider how to adjust your lifestyle to a more healthy balance
As far as I know - investment amount / % shares of company - so if your cap table has total 10% for 100k it's a 1 mil valuation - whether an investor is willing to bet that is a different matter however :)
The weather might help, as well as the phase of the moon.

But you could be a little more scientific and try different parameters once you went back to disk 1. Maybe also remove some of the more questionable drivers or memory-saving tweaks from your DOS configuration while you were at it. Or perhaps it was just a flaky floppy drive that randomly flipped a bit somewhere.
I am just fascinated by the amount of work and effort that goes into this. A simple view-source shows tens of thousands of lines of code... for a free blog. Incredible
How common is having to install such spyware though? I hear stories about it but none of people that I know actually had to put up with it (or maybe they didn't know?).

The closest I got to this situation was being told that if I want to do work on my personal laptop I'd have to install some software that would allow the IT department to wipe it out in case it gets stolen. While I understand the reason, it was an obvious nope from me.
Misaligned incentives. Other charging networks buy station hardware from outside vendors who optimize for lowest price point. Tesla designs all the hardware in house.
Anytime someone creates actionable testing advice I automate it. However that still isn't enough to ensure quality so I need humans to find the bugs that actionable advice didn't
I'm a bit out of date with this thread so I no longer know which other user you're talking about. My point is simply that I responded to MikeUT about MikeUT's comment. I wasn't blaming MikeUT for anything anyone else did—nor would I use the word "blame" in the first place.

Everyone here needs to follow the site guidelines regardless of what other users do.

Edit: if you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27853738, we banned that account for trolling.
If you have the need to 'be together' why not utilize video calls etc?
Let the Bullets Fly for a While
People are naturally born poor. Nobody told the Chinese or Africans to create that many poor people. Most of those children were born with the expectation that they die early. Isn't that cruel?
Nice review of the many problems facing most adults, not just millenials. Many of which could have been fixed if millenials voted libertarian.

The author even complains about Obamacare. If you didn't have to pay for it (or the fine), you could choose to go uninsured for a while and use that money to get out of debt. Both major parties support Obamacare, so why do millenials they vote for them?

The same applies to other problems in the article. Almost all millenials I know want Big Government, but don't want to be affected by it. Good luck with that.
> What do you mean here? I have multiple discord accounts that I have logged in at once.

It seems this has somehow changed. Historically, the web app connected to the webserver of the locally running client, so it was impossible to be logged into more than one account on a device with native app running.
In life sciences the people are smarter than any developer but software is IT-captured so all they can work with is Excel. No code is meant for these people. Software developers will never deliver what life sciences needs without no code.
This post is overconfidently written, and its thesis is wrong.

A few others have mentioned CUPED (Kohavi et al. 2013), a way of doing exactly what this blog post says you can’t. CUPED is a great starting point for anyone new to the subject of pre-experiment control variates.

The post is bold enough to describe any use of control variates is a “fallacy” but somehow doesn’t mention the most famous method for doing this (CUPED). The author is only interested in linking to their own prior blog posts, and does not engage with any reasonable (or attributed) argument for the method they’re dismissing.

The post’s main argument is that using CUPED-style control variates provides no benefit when N is sufficiently large, so we should just make N bigger — as though “sufficient N” grew on trees.

The next argument is less silly, but still wrong: They note observed differences in pre-treatment effects are “random fluctuations”, and claim they thus cannot be used for anything. Their argument ignores the reason pre-treatment measurements are subtracted in the first place: In CUPED, we acknowledge pre-treatment observations are undesirable noise, but presume this noise already contaminates our post-treatment measurements. We collect pre-treatment measurements exactly because we want them gone — the pre-treatment measurements tell us how much meaningless noise to subtract.

As a reductio ad absurdum, imagine an “A/B test” (an RCT) of a drug that ostensibly makes humans taller. Would it seem reasonable to you, as a participant, if the doctors never ask what your initial height is, and only measure you once the trial is done?
> That's the very same reason why i kind of dislike that Skype/Slack just lets you call people without asking them first whether they're available for a call at that time, same with phone calls

Whenever someone would do that to me, I would always reject the call and say that I'll be available in 5-10 minutes. I would then tell them I would like to discuss having a call in text before actually having it, because it's an interruption. It seemed to cause people to stop just outright calling, which I hate.
How does it work for Excel?
I agree. This is the case for busy bars and especially the clubs. It is like being an arsehole is part of a job requirement for the bartenders.

The fact is that in the US people tend to congregate around the same time (happy hour or at night)in bars/clubs and the bartenders get overwhelmed and don’t care much about service. It is all about volume and who looks like is going to tip well.

At quiet times they tend to be chill and friendly though.

It is a pure supply and demand thing (of their services)
When the Microsoft/Windows mark was still interesting and not just four squares…
(I agree with your opinion)

But is the article about conferences? I thought it was about directly supporting some of the developers of GIMP, perhaps I misread
Very true about Excel -- it isnt going anywhere

>>People make mistakes - like selecting the wrong buttons - and need to clear them sometimes. Include a “Clear Selections” button!

And that's what I hate about most software, especially in some critical applications, like applying for Visas (VFS is a serial offender that should be banned from civilised society) -- bad software is so unforgiving, so judgmental, make the smallest mistake and in VFS case, it wipes out all the data you typed and forces you to start again (and sometimes randomly crashes in the middle of typing). At one point I thought it would be easier to just cancel my trip rather than fight the website (and they dont take paper applications anymore , because... technology).

The chances of an app being crazy and buggy are directly co-related to how critical it is -- so while the teachers app talked about in the article is well designed, it isnt critical, since teachers can always do the work otherways. Meanwhile VFS and other government mandanted monopolies, for which there are no alternatives, are buggy as hell.

Is there an internet law for this effect? If not, I'd like to name one :)
I once had to install a Unix system that came on over 90 floppies... and failed about two before the end :-(
Good luck with launch!
> The most productive engineers ... are the remote

I was way more productive in the office. Home is too fun and distracting. The sounds and vibe of the office have work associations in my brain.

> Problem is when people mix the office with their entire social Life.

You sound like a joy to work with.

What's wrong with making friends at work? I have other friends (although age makes meeting new people harder) but work friends tend to be techie people who are interested in similar topics to me. My wife's eyes glaze over when I start talking about the finer points of my job. It's nice being around other technical people for a few hours a day.
> everyone is different.

and yet, you assert

> Humans are social animals, and working _with_ someone is important.

The most productive engineers are all different. But empirical evidence has suggested that those who are _the most productive_, such as people like Carmack, are productive in isolation (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16518726 about his programming vacations).

Of course, i don't deny there are productive engineers who do their most productive work in a group setting. But i would also not want anyone to assert that social interaction is required for it.
Funny.

But in reality, if you did not even have a choice (like we didn't in the olden days), I honestly don't think your productivity would suffer.

I think there other factors that are way more important for that. Like for instance, having syntax highlighting (which hasn't even been around for that long) is in my opinion way more crucial than the choice of font. A way to visualize matching parentheses is way more useful than the choice of font (think Lisp, especially).

So, yeah, nothing wrong with having different tastes.

I'm just saying that the topic of which font you use for programming is way less than important than some people make it out to be, if you believe the internet.
I just can't get used to the playful fonts like that. My most recent attempt was with Cascadia Code, but that wobbly Comic Sans feel looks off to me and prevents the font from falling away into the background when reading. I also don't like how different many of those fonts make the italics look. It makes them almost feel like a completely different font and turns them into a distraction.
We work in C# mainly; unfortunately; I have been in favour of F# for a long time, but it's just not popular enough so it would make our (already large, with decades of work) codebase less maintainable. However it does not really matter as long as you can make the types (classes in the case of C#) precise enough. You can indeed (see the other commenter) make (an) Age classe(s) which will give a nice error message if you do something illegal, for instance;

int i = -2;
Console.WriteLine((Age)i);
Console.WriteLine((Age)200);
Console.WriteLine((AdultAge<UnitedStates>)17);

will throw three Exceptions. We define every single piece of data like that.
> net migration rate in France…and Sweden did not increase in any unprecedented way in resent years

Oh come on, the migration into Sweden in the 80s was educationally, financially and culturally distinct from that of recent years. That’s the big experiment Europe is engaged in. Is there something about European culture and institutions that can assimilate migrants? (America is quite good at this.) Or is the success not extensible.
I have the same theory. Only competive advantage Toyota has right now is thin margins through massive scale (and thus relatively cheap prices) and reliability. First point is not yet possible with EVs and reliability may not be as big of an issue anymore with EVs.

More complicated the drivetrain the better for Toyota since not many can make it reliably at scale. EVs seem to be fairly easy to make given how many startups are popping up.
> I'd say, what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end?

In emacs, it's just Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e to go to beginning of line and end of line respectively. Those don't involve taking my hands off the home row, so they're much faster than lifting a hand up to go hit Home or End.
Thanks I'll take the tip into consideration, since I don't do much activity at all lately... what about running instead?
Not since 2012:
http://www.oldversion.com/windows/safari/
> I'd also want: ...

a home provides all of those. So basically, you want to work from home!
* Have a back up plan. For example I have a second part time career in an unrelated industry. That second job can always become full time employment if the primary employment falls apart. It doesn’t pay quite as much but it pays enough to cover my bills and is a viable option.

* Know how to pivot. Identify what about your career feels negative and redirect those concerns. Talk to your management and express potential solutions. For example I believe many coding products at work are low quality. My boss has asked me to put together training opportunities and I am also working on test automation solutions.

* Write. Take superior notes that benefit not just you. My experience as a corporate developer has shown me developers can always actively improve their writing skills. Better writing skills allow for solutions that aren’t possible through code alone.

* Take a break. There are many blessings to working from home. I can play computer games for 20 minutes every couple of hours to clear my head and refocus on work. If I am tired I spent time in my garden or with my cats/dogs. It really doesn’t take much of a purposeful distraction to make you feel better.

* Don’t get bored. The corporate job doing the same beginner stuff over and over gets old, especially when that means repeating past failures. I try to bring superior solutions into work to prevent the same kinds of problems from repeating. Those solutions can be training, automation, documentation. For me, I like working on side projects that solve problems other people are less interested in solving.

* Take care of your health and get out of the house/office. I try to run 3-4 miles several times a week. Staying healthy helps you focus and lowers depression.
I always find conferences to be a real boost for productivity personally. You always come out full of ideas and papers to read or implement. The motivation and passion of others can be contaminating as well.
The human system doesn't use single-muscle feedback for holding position though; it requires flexing both the push and pull muscles and coordinating the strength between them; positional information is relayed not just from the muscles, but the surrounding skin as well.
Poland had been split 3 times by a Prussian+Austrian+Russian alliance long before WW2. Some of those nations were even trying to forcibly transplant their own culture in Poland.
You describe VWs ambitious "supercar" from early 2000, XL1.

https://www.carscoops.com/2021/07/vws-262-mpg-xl1-was-the-pe...
Now that photopea is a thing, do people still use gimp?
Okay fair, it's unreasonable to ask Google (who have a limited budget) to 'compete' with the grey market.
But isn't then the conclusion to introduce bug bounties with unlimited budgets, e.g. sponsored through the European Union?

It would be interesting to see how high the prices really go - at some point NSO clients might see more efficiency in going for more traditional military means.
It doesn't run Android. It runs Linux. There is already similar devices with front lit eInk screens and support keyboards out of the box too with Bluetooth or USB C. The Boox Note Air is an example. It's considerably more powerful than the Remarkable 2 and in the A2 refresh mode typing with a keyboard is not too bad.
US Lawmakers Want to Avoid Chinese-Like Surveillance with Digital Dollar