skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gentleman acted exactly the way you recommend, and look what it got him.
these are worse than the cookies themselves.
The most recent one I can think of that I've used is random sampling.

When I started thinking of potential customers I found a list of n potential users. I could have started by reaching out from #1 then worked down. But this would not have been representative of my potential user base.

So I picked a random number from 1 to n and reached out to that customer. Then picked another random number, and so on.

This ended up being more representative of my potential market.
That's not how it works at all though. It's not really something that is "paid off", it's a stock of bonds that eventually come due, and can be rolled over into new bonds basically forever.

The actual constraints to the issuance of the bonds or money is 1) available natural resources, 2) available labour resources, and 3) inflation (which is usually a result of money issuance or velocity outstripping (1) or (2)).
Is this even legal at the federal level?

It’s one thing to decline to do business with another state, it’s another to ban travel and trade.
> easier (...) to implement quite a large existing spec

They don't have to implement all of the spec themselves. Nothing stopping them to leverage the existing base libraries and SDKs to build the functionality for the client.

> or they just wanted to.

Well, ok, but when I see such a strong manifestation of NIH syndrome it really reflects poorly on the project.
Land Value Tax says you tax land at a (high) flat rate per area regardless of value to encourage density. That is entirely different from higher property taxes on landlords (which would not lower rents but might lower property values).

I agree that LVT would make a huge improvement if it was set high enough though. But it will never happen when you have homeowners leveraged up 20x on govt subsidized mortgages who vote for themselves.
Also VMs; the JVM is targeted by multiple languages as if it were an OS
>If you know the email address that is used for the Apple ID, you can send it a message without being in messages.

Though this option precludes the random war-dialing explanation.
>6) If you look for DIY box fan filters, you will find examples with 4-5 filters in a cube shape. 5 filters improves filtration efficiency by ~50%, but costs x5 as much. That's $100-$150 in filters that will last just about as long as one filter while only cleaning the air 50% better. Just invest in a room air purifier unit of the same cost instead and enjoy much cleaner air over an entire year.

The cube box fan configurations with 5 filters cost 5x as much, but how can they not last longer than one filter? Surely each filter must get used up at about 20% of the rate that it would have it if were the only filter attached the fan? So a fan with 5x filters should last about 5x as long. Or is something I'm missing? (Time decay?)
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Well, there always has been a substantial difference in the quality of journalism between newspapers (subscription based) and tabloids (sold individually), wasn’t there?

What the internet adds, of course, is the constant competitive pressure of other content which will always be flashier, clickbaity, and emotion-triggering than yours. So people will switch faster if you don’t compete on these terms.

By contrast, a NYT reader 30 years back never got exposed to much of the competition’s content. So there was no reason for switching. You just stuck with the partner you had chosen, simply because there was no “Tinder”, so to speak.
Does that mean thousands of other companies mistakenly get job candidates because they have better job screening process than those with software rejecting millions of them?
Or even no rational job screening process at all?

I have to say both type of companies get what they deserve.
I've had to use Azure DevOps recently, and it made me long for the speed, simplicity, and stability of Jira...

The most annoying bug was that one could only have around 4-5 tabs open before something went wrong and everything stopped updating.
The people driving vans painted with Amazon logos, who are working hours dictated by Amazon, who are delivering parcels at Amazon's instruction, and who are not delivering parcels for anyone else, are not Amazon employees? I guess the IRS rules on "contractor or employee" must have changed.
In 2011 a company i contracted for was testing some new dell 1U servers with around 1-2TB of ram. There was a postgres database with 4000qps that could fit into tmpfs, and so i restricted postgres to 640Kb of memory and we got replication working, it took about 6 hours of babysitting.

We threw the switch and watched as postgres, with 640Kb of ram and a tmpfs backed store proceeded to handle all of the query traffic. There were some stored procedures or something that were long-querying or whatever - i'm not a DB person at all, so we switched back to the regular production server about 8 minutes later.

Yes, we did it in production.
This is kind of off topic, you're really stretching it by bringing in talk of living in a simulation when we're just talking about doors. This is neither evidence for or against that argument
"In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: Anyone can cook. But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatouille_(film)
The united states pulls these tricks all the time and claims to not be a dictatorship
It doesn't need to be a success for them to learn from the experience.
A scar changed his life, and Michael K Williams wasn’t seen as a gangster before
Those are terrible ads. There was no real business software for C64 (VisiCalc/dbase/lotus123/WordStar), yet executives at Commodore pushed ad after ad with spreadsheet bar charts instead of capitalizing on games by promoting graphics and sound :/ Even the one game ad didnt show actual screenshots, just box art with another fake spreadsheet graph.

Our computer supports high resolution 16 color graphics - just look at those 8 color text mode bars!
There are plenty of degrees that are worth the effort. This idea that college doesn’t have a justifiable return seems to be pushed by people who already have degrees.

Engineering or bust just isn’t true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY found on the main page
In those years, there was no Apple in Europe, only ZX Spectrums dominating in Portugal, Spain and UK, with Commodore taking the rest of the continent, followed by Amiga and Atari, then PC took it all during the mid-1990's.

The first time I saw a Macintosh for real, it was when I got into the university, where there was a tiny department with a couple of LC models, and our department had a few additional ones. However they also had enough money to buy a couple of NeXT Cubes.

Outside the university there was no one with them, and until the raise from the ashes, the only place you could get them was at one single store in Lisbon that served the whole country.
You need to do load testing to determine this - a request's time includes many delays that are not related to the work the server does, and thus it's not as simple as 1/0.03 - it's possible that 0.0001 second of that time is actually server time, or 0.025 - plus you also have to consider if there are multiple cores working, or non-linear algorithms running, or who knows what else.

Best way to figure it out is to use an application like Apache Bench from a powerful computer with a good internet connection, throw a lot of concurrent connections at the site, and see what happens.
The "Don't talk to the Police" lecture should be required viewing for everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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I find it hard to believe any language would be so silly as to call functions "functions" in actual code. Fn or fun or gtfo.
Comparing Bezos to Galileo, what a joke.

Back then an equivalent article would have targeted the church, and its author probably would have suffered greatly for doing so, sort of like our friend Galileo... Your obsequiousness, especially pathetic in this age when the stakes are so much lower, would have spared you from facing any similar repercussions I'm sure.
And why would we ever draw conclusions about genetics, even if what the two of you are saying is true?
Until there are no bad actors, anonymous platforms will be both (A) needed (if you have a reason to fear retribution for expressing an opinion—from the state, another citizen or some entity), and (B) abused (if you want to dishonestly manipulate public opinion, you can do so without risking your reputation, create masses of duplicate accounts, etc.)—it really looks like a catch-22. Platforms will keep trying to navigate A vs. B, but it’s a losing game.

In a perfect world without mentally unhealthy/malicious people and corrupt states, anonymous platforms will be useless.
Seems like figuring out how to live longer is good for everyone, don’t see why you would complain about it
I just want to say, I live in a country where there are laws for and against almost everything, where most Airbnb listings are basically illegal, yet the city I live in is one of the top Airbnb destination.

What I mean, is that laws are useless if there is no means to for them to be seriously enforced, which is the case where I live.

On the other hand, if I were to create my own Airbnb website in that same country, I'd be shut down by the end of the week and put in jail facilitating illegal renting listings, while Airbnb executives risk absolutely nothing since they live in USA.
What is the problem with binary logging? Would you prefer the ordinary text files and the great pain of properly filtering through something like only this services’ output, from this date to that, only warnings, etc? But that is only one part, what about the performance/stability of the whole thing? Afaik continuously appending to a file is not the greatest thing, especially if you have to move files around from time to time.

It’s also not like journald uses some secret format.
We seem to have drifted from the seemingly impossible task of determining truth to the definitely impossible task of determining what someone believed at the moment of speech. Authoritarianism is terrible for humans. Pray you never have to answer in court for this thread.
Item 5 is theoretically true if you assume accounting rules hold. The sectoral balances formula (derived from the definition of GDP) doesn't hold otherwise.

The only way for the economy to grow if the Government is running surpluses is with increasing private debt (so not really "paying down" anything but just transferring debt from one sector of the economy to another), and/or with a big enough trade surplus to cancel out the other sectors.
Maybe I should dust off my Turbo Vision and Clipper manuals.
I didn't understand why Google aquired Boutiques.com in 2010, but now it makes so much more sense. A lot of hot people joined the company with designer clothes, even though they didn't have to go through the usual interview process.
> The Commodore 64 is a fascinating machine. It is the single best selling computer model in human history. The fact that the C64 still holds that title in 2021 — close to three decades after being discontinued — is nothing short of amazing.

I'm still somewhat amazed at how long computer models stuck around for back then (which is the reason for the c64 being the best selling computer model - it was being sold for many years). On one hand, it was probably a mindset thing that you built things to last, and the concept of iterative development wasn't really there. How long does a computer model stick around these days? I type this on an 10 year old Windows laptop, which works perfectly well for most things (battery life is pretty bad, but otherwise works perfectly well). The 10 year old iPad 2 I have is next to useless (very laggy, software updates are non existent, can't upgrade to even a modern browser).
Why all this outrage? This is the ccp standard approach to not mainland Chinese since years and years. Very mobster like admittedly.
To add to that, in 2005, a Cloudflare engineer showed that you can receive 1 million packages per second (https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets...). Without processing though.
Discord flagged my account with my main email immediately after registration. Temp email works fine. Support replies with unhelpful canned responses and contacting them didn’t solve my problem. All this is one more reason why an open source alternative is needed and why this is good news.
This is a transport layer optimized for RPC, not a spec for RPC. TCP doesn’t specify encryption either. We already have means to apply encryption at higher or lower layers.
I only once tried to buy a 5 letter domain that was the company I worked at's initials (totally random like "UJEAJ". I used godaddy bidding system and gave them our budget which was $35k USD. They said no and countered with $250k. I said sorry that was the max offer we could make and they refused futher contact by having godaddy inform us of their no more contact allowed. 10 years later the domain is still squatted. Good for them I guess.
Yeah, no - basically all MMT economists think QE is a bad policy.
There’s a lot of anti-intellectualism that floats around in male culture, and a pernicious attitude that you can make it without a degree (despite the reality that a lack of credentials locks you out of most high paying or leadership roles).

Tech likes to pretend credentials don’t matter, but that’s entirely not true.

Not surprising that enrollment is down when too many men think learning things is for nerds.

Source: am an American male
The idea is ambitious but incredibly dystopian because it completely excludes conflicts arising from our innate differences. It's literally a real-world imitation of the Brave New World plot.
I’m not sure why you focus on the PE licensure - the vast majority of working engineers do not need this (but do need a college degree).
Instead of assuming an understanding of what natural numbers are, you could have continued to define all of them as equivalence classes, as that is what they are.

The integers are the equivalence classes of differences of natural numbers, while the natural numbers are the equivalence classes of finite sets having the same number of elements (i.e. which may have a bijection between themselves), including the empty set.
If old movies are to be believed, you could always buy newspapers individually from little boxes on the sidewalk for from the kiosk of a friendly guy who knows everyone in the neighborhood.
>We seem to have drifted from the seemingly impossible task of determining truth

So I guess it's time for the courts to pack up and shut down and go home.

>to the definitely impossible task of determining what someone believed at the moment of speech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal_law)

Yes, the courts should definitely turn off the lights right away.

>Pray you never have to answer in court for this thread.

Even if I was somehow successfully prosecuted it'd only be a civil fine. I am not worried.

Maybe these people are worried?

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/
One of either QUIC or RDMA already deliver this, depending on your definition of low-latency.
That you're treating "mentally disabled" as some homogenous group totally strips you of any authority on the subject.

To turn it around: Do you have any evidence that your "anecdotal evidence" doesn't simply reflect your teaching skills?
I'm sure regionally there are differences, but by far the most important considerations are power and cooling, both of which are a function of efficiency.

Island is quite attractive and have a few data centers (Google for sure and IIRC some crypto companies).
Okay, but isn't most of their content stolen? Why would you want to contribute to that?
> 5x Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports (1x WAN, 4x LAN) using Realtek RTL8367RB-VB-CG switch

So that should allow full speed switching (if not routing) without touching CPU, right? That'd be a welcome touch in a network box
I don’t really see a way Jeff B gets out of this w/out paying taxes outside of becoming immortal. The fed still takes 40% of your assets on death and that looks to be going up soon.

And it Amazon sells immortality as a service I don’t think reasonable people will be all that bent out of shape about him skipping a few hundred billion in taxes.

I mean… FFS that’s like 1/2 a year we couldn’t invade a country and bomb its populations. Maybe we should be giving Jeff a medal for avoiding taxes for all the bombs he’s kept from getting dropped.
I just watched Shang-Chi the new Marvel superhero movie and couldn’t shake the feeling that there’s a distinct current in the film of “come back to China all those who were part of the diaspora, we will accept you, you belong with us. You are part of our family”.
Such unruly youth not to respect the king from God's grace and the shareholder nobility,god bless them. Moonism it is, I tell you. Feudalism is the natural order.

Capitalism only ever played nice at socialist gunpoint, how dare this youth wanting that part of the past back.
There was another discussion more recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28350466
Did you mean Terence Tao's book on Analysis? If not, could you post a reference please? I'd be very interested in a Terry Tao book on Algebra :)
The Bezos half feels like its being shoehorned into an existing worldview, while the Milner half feels like its just flat out misunderstood.

Bezos is Bezos I'm not going to comment on that, but I definitely get the impression that the author has done zero research into Milner's other efforts.

Yuri genuinely thinks science can push humanity forward, he's putting a pile of money into science projects with little expectation of clear success and his manifesto just comes across as earnest and "humanist" if a little naive if you ask me (the universal story is a natively humanist concept that implicitly paves over the details by way of trying to build a single view of everything when many topics contain two diametrically opposed views that may not be reconcilable)...

It feels like the author has some decent points about Bezos and an axe to grind, and will level that axe at anyone that associates with him.
Every lawyer I've ever interacted with has used Word, and the lists and citations worked well. Just use Word.
I enjoyed Benno Rice's talk, "What UNIX Cost Us". I think he provides some examples of where the simple interface breaks down when compared to other systems (i.e. Windows, macOS) take on it.
You sound like an idiot.
It may be more about sending a message to other potential critics.

Nice family you have here. Would be a shame if something happens to it!
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There's this unfortunately prevailing attitude that you aren't successful in America if you aren't living in New York or San Francisco. It's absolutely bonkers. There are many other great places in this country besides those two cities.
I am running an app with 10.000 incoming rq/s on AVG. It's running on 8, 8 core Hetzner VMs.
Most request are static data calls like images, JSON and text. About 5% is MySQL and other IO operations.
I pay about 300 euros a month for this setup. Quite happy with it.
You cannot post something about the C64 without mentioning the activity the platform still has: http://csdb.dk

New releases every day!

Also it can be good to understand that the reason the C64 was such a success was that it pushed 8-bit as far as it could go, specifically in audio and video.

It was peak 8-bit, and in some ways peak computer in terms of repairability and simplicity, even someone like me can understand and repair the hardware!

The only thing peak 64-bit offers (Jetson Nano at comparable power draw) beyond the C64 is OpenGL. SID music is more compressed than mp3 f.ex.
No, women are generally underpaid compared to men, so it's obvious that they'll try to get the appropriate degrees in order to be able to compete.
Title should probably have a [2013] marker.
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For real, 640 kilobits?
But immortality for the individual is not progress for mankind but the opposite. Stagnation.

Death is an evolutionary mechanism, it's a fundamental part of renewal of the species. Biological life dies to introduce novelty, in a cultural sense it is what gives urgency to human action, creating new life. Human immortality is the same thing as the suppression of forest fire. Fires are bad for some individuals but they're vital for the ecosystem. It's the natural version of creative destruction. If you dislike the idea of an immortal company or an immortal government you should be wary of the idea of immortal individuals. One of the longest lived species on earth is the sponge. It is no accident that they're not a very dynamic species.

Good ideas always survive, Galileo's contribution to mankind exists without Galileo, but as scientists often point out, science advances one funeral at a time. And that can be taken quite literally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Office_II

IIRC we had that, not sure if my dad actually used it, mind. I imagine the experience was exceedingly painful compared to modern applications.
Even people with degrees are locked out of those high paying or leadership roles. Meanwhile, others can make it just fine by learning a trade. As a junior engineer, I was making the same amount as my degree less counterparts working in the oil industry were.
Segregation is very bad. Eff sounds like they support segregation as long as it's done with paper.
I think even a distributed cache in front of a database shouldn't have any trouble handling 2000 requests per second.

The issue is not really the number of requests per second, probably, but the number of bytes, which they don't talk about at all in the article; reading manga with no ads is a pretty static kind of application, which could be satisfied amply with a web browser or even a much simpler program loading images from a filesystem directory.

Valgrind claims httpdito runs a few thousand instructions per request, but that's not really accurate; what happens is that the kernel is doing all the work. httpdito on Linux can handle about 4000 requests per second per core, nearly a million clock cycles per request, almost all of which is in the kernel. Of course it doesn't ship its logs off to Grafana. In fact, it doesn't have logs at all. But it would work fine for reading manga.
It is listed in the profile. I am currently considering making it open source, but not there yet.
This is incredible, thanks for sharing. I found the linked veritasium vid also worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovJcsL7vyrk
It’s actually the safety / creepiness risk of having to work in people’s homes.
It's curious that you imply that "everyone agrees" on the relevant definition but you didn't classify my examples according to that definition or say that investment or not depends on other things.

Of course, my examples are intended to show that there is no "clear and agreed upon" definition.
I found a way to live with it.
Likewise if you count up all the $$$ in ad spend that he has blocked, he would probably be in the top 100 richest people.
I have never considered Tokyo especially clean, except right after a typhoon (first time I saw this I was astonished, amd it reminded me of how grimy the city is)
The movie "Annihilation" ends with a very neat and slightly scary Mandelbulb animation... Very dope Burial-esque bassy soundtrack too

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uBsJgceM0KI