skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the sentiment of lofty multiples, but what do you think happens to good product companies in that scenario? Sure their stock tumbles quite a bit but would it actually affect the business itself?

I heard the dot com bubble "garbage" was full of companies with no revenue, no customers, etc. I'm not sure many of the high growth tech companies burning $$s are cut from the same cloth though as they really do have products and customers in the present; it's just that the market expects an insane number of new services/customers in the near future...

For example, I'm guessing customers can't just cut off Snowflake easily (time wise and effort wise) so the cashflow would remain stable for a while. As long as they don't need to do a secondary offering (and have some cash), wouldn't they be able to weather a storm? Perhaps at the cost of some massive layoffs/refinancing but would still prevent an actual collapse?
> It's highly ignorant to call unvaccinated Americans idiots.

Agreed. The correct term for them is "immoral". The only world in which it makes sense to forgo the vaccine is one in which your life is only one that matters. So a healthy unvaccinated person is making a perfectly rational decision, just a morally bankrupt one.
But is this only because they lacked a theoretical understanding of genetics (including an understanding of which combinations of genes that express the features that we attribute to race, which we still presumably lack by-and-large) and sequencing technology?
Assuming for the sake of argument that this is at all true, is the problem that designers are out to justify their jobs, and making changes as a consequence, or that designers are being put in a position where they have to justify their jobs, and are making changes to satisfy their managers?

If anything, the problem in this scenario is that culturally we need everyone to be contributing all of the time, even for positions that may experience occasional downtime. Let's not assign blame to a particular group when they're simply responding to the pressures put on them.
Bill ‘Blows Away All Numerical Limits’ on Employer-Based Green Cards
It's impossible for Option<T> to be the same size as T. Option is a tagged enum, where will the tag go?
To me this sounds like post hoc reasoning to justify the conclusion you already want to make. There doesn't appear to be any real correlation between the introduction of Instagram and suicide rates for girls. Suicide rates are up, but it's for both boys and girls and the beginning of the increase predated Instagram.

Instagram is an easy target like Video games, TV, Cell Phones, and Internet were before it. But like those things I don't think there's much causation going on.
Pandas was started by a quant working for AQR Capital, so it's not surprising if "Panda's choice is only good for high-frequency stock traders".
A very old argument. The counter is: the audience for videogames has massively expanded. The secondary counter is: $70 is merely the entry point into games. Even before you look at microtransactions, you have battle passes, dozens of deluxe versions, and season passes.

If this was really an issue - game prices not keeping up with inflation - publishers wouldn't be posting profits (not revenue, profits) in the billions of dollars.

And on a more explicit point: God of War, a game with no microtransactions or any other BS, made their company over $500M in revenue in a year, for a game that cost them under $100M to make.

So while I'm not surprised these multi-billion-dollars-of-profit companies are so ready to squeeze as much money as they can out of us, I don't attribute it to Tiny Tim begging for enough money to live, but to Ebenezer Scrooge hording as much money as he possibly can, no matter the societal cost (or cost to himself).
I didn't say they were (although I certainly think some are), only that I expect more opportunities exist.
you can use lombok for generating accessors, helps to reduce a lot of boiler plate code. See https://javabydeveloper.com/project-lombok-tutorial/
The Lightning Address
Because we can definitely fix things better than evolution can.
I'm not following.
No, the scenario is that there are massive price differences even for the same class of seats. Traditionally, the major long haul airlines sold seats weeks/months in advance at rates that were basically losing money but made almost all of their per flight profit on last minute bookings at higher rates. These were usually business flights, but not necessarily (not usually, even) business class.

Business models for budget airlines (RyanAir, etc.) are a bit different but that's not relevant here.
Which is why automatic defined liability for the leak might be the solution to the problem.
“Will move to”. Talk is cheap.

Everyone else is divesting now, only a fool who wants to lose money would keep investing in oil. More money to be made in other areas. This isn’t ESG. It’s savvy investing.
This is a plugin that adds a few "flows" to Neovim for AI code assistance. The main flow generates and appends a completion for the visual selected text. There are a couple other flows that try to get the AI to generate changes to the visual selected text e.g. add a docstring, or do a freeform task like "make all the variable names longer" or "add typehints".

Currently it only works with OpenAI so you'd need an API key to use it, but the plugin is (over)engineered so that adding a backend for something more open like GPT-Neo should be doable. OpenAI Codex is used by default but other OpenAI engines can be used as well.
Agreed, and to make jobs/keep people employed.
Don't forget Sinodonty.
While i agree that Java 8 added a lot of nice things, the big disruption happened with Java 9.
Check out Recurly as a alternative to Stripe.

recurly.com
I had my Square account cancelled a couple of years ago for no descernable reason. I'd never had a chargeback or dispute, just one day I got an email saying they "couldn't" be my processor anymore. Zero reply to emails.
Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Maryana Iskander as Chief Executive Officer
The Design of Experiments – Using Statistics and Probability
My family and I drive when it's the appropriate way to get to where we want to go. It's hardly an "obsession;" I don't sit around all day fantasizing about driving. This hyperbolization is not helping.

Personal freedom still exists, and will for the foreseeable future. Authoritarians should get used to this fact.
How about we start adding a tag like "[gatekeeped]" to articles behind a paywall/register wall?
Race is socially constructed, just like the idea of who is short and tall is. The objective things in each case are genes and height, which are not socially constructed.
Abyssinia
Everything is a social construct depending on how you look at it. Some people say that biological sex is a social construct.
They're up to $70 now on consoles.
A lot of stuff in HPC still doesn't utilize GPUs (because the problem is not amenable to GPU architecture or laziness / lack of funding and interest) so at least for commercial deployments with a diverse set of solvers I'd say CPUs remain important. Intel might be unable to outperform their competitors at this time, but they have more than enough money to be temporarily cheaper to (seemingly) make up for that.
Now we're getting into value systems.

- How much do you value your life?

- How much do you value the trip?

- How much do you worry about spending two weeks in a hospital?

- How much do you mind memory lapses and brain fog from long COVID?

From what you wrote, it's clear we have at least somewhat different value systems. Since you're an avid traveler, you should realize that's good, common, and healthy.
I don't think there is any plan other than use any tool available to maintain power and control.
I use swiping a lot. It is still worse than full-size desktop keyboard, but combined with right suggestions is on par with shallow notebook keyboard. Never had a smartphone with physical keyboard, can't compare.
Get a 2nd dose of what? J&J? I'm in the same boat as you (also got J&J). I thought it was temporarily pulled off the market by the FDA too?
Thanks! I had no idea about any of this. Very informative.
Yeah, and I think it really shows that WhatsApp, which wasn't developped by Facebook originally, doesn't benefits from the compression. The app seems very optimized originally, but maybe I'm wrong.
Even if no one is buying the game anymore, if they are playing it that means they are filling their gaming “need” already and are less likely to buy the new products being sold.

I don’t agree with it, but I can’t think of a single game company that is not incentivized to obsolete their games much the same way phone manufacturers are incentivized to obsolete their phones
I'd prefer a sense of trustworthiness.
There are different levels of influence, though. Yes, parents can assert a lot of control over their children, but at a certain age they start looking at their peers and being influenced by them to a tremendous degree.

And not all parents realize, or can realize, everything that goes on in their childrens' lives.
From what I've seen, the brewers at AB are world-class, and they have a very specific and longstanding flavor profile they target. I happen to also not be a fan of Budweiser, but it's been the same for decades and has a very loyal following. They are not brewing to a price point, they spend more on process and verification than any microbrewery to ensure that consistency, although they have introduced the use of adjunct brewing (rice) to make the materials cost fit their price point, and they were able to do it without changing the resulting product taste.
Kotlin does it, but it's next to useless because the ecosystem makes heavy use of null.
Thé issue has always been there, but it is now not only easily accessible, but pushed on us through ever adaptive personal in-app adverts. Search thinspo and it gets scary very quickly.
Note : Don’t forget but this is affecting boys as well, with increasing anorexia and muscle dismorphia
Quick answer is: yes, PS4 (as well as Xbox One) is x64 based, with an AMD GPU that's also available on PC (with some additional features that can probably be done still on GPU).

A more thorough coverage there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIMseCc9tZY
Metal roofs last much longer than asphalt shingle roofs and are considered to be a superior material despite being a “legacy” roof. Asphalt shingle roofs dominate in the US simply due to cost and more roofers being familiar with the material.
I sometimes go to A&W in Toronto Canada, and here I would say its the opposite - A&W is generally pretty reliable and consistent in quality across its locations whereas Mcdonalds can vary quite a bit based on time and location.

Poeple's attachment to certain restaurants is deeper than seeking out the best deal or best taste. Generally I consider an A&W burger superior to Mcdonalds, just as I would consider many boutique burger places superior to mickey ds. Yet the latter has a place in my heart that is really pretty irrational
See my parallel comment on this philosophy. Also, it's likely we'll never see "really big stuff" in a single release as the 6-month cadence has made possible incremental changes to a larger vision. Case in point, see Project Amber [1].

[1] https://inside.java/tag/amber
> what research does exist does not support your assertion

the link you posted does not oppose it as the other comment pointed out.

I hope you will keep an open mind as you look into this, setting aside the agendas of the NRA or the anti-gun groups.

When there is an item (gun, in this instance) which has both good and bad uses ( what they are, we are reasonably argue) -- there needs to be a balance in how the item is procured.

Nowhere in the country does one just go and pick one up. There are (again, we can argue on what is reasonable) checks and balances - checking the person's track history etc.

All this goes out the window when it is possible to skirt the law, or in the case of London, use knives instead of guns for the crimes.

We need to solve the problem at the right level of abstraction.

We need to focus on why the society today sees more shootings in the past decades when the guns have been existing for much longer.
For this reason I tend to prefer the way OpenBSD versions their releases.

They just did 6.9 and the next one will be 7.0.

But this really only works over long periods of time because they only do two releases a year.

It took me a bit to get my head around Linux kernel versioning where the 2nd digit just goes up until they feel like it's time for a new first digit version.
He didn't say it was NSO, but the Israeli military and specifically 8200
As a Westerner, I revere the person who makes an amazing mathematical or scientific contribution. I respect those who understand it and who can use it. I revere the person who extends it. Mimicry, no matter how complete, is not the same as genesis.
Many companies don't have sufficient margins to raise wages. Hopefully this isn't confused as me endorsing subpar wages, simply that those business can't be sustained or will just endlessly be looking for someone willing to work for cheap because hiring someone for more will actually cost them money. They may be better of turning away some customers vs. hiring someone for a higher wage to support more demand.
> The attractiveness of living in downtowns to mostly college educated young people is mostly a fairly recent phenomenon and there's no guarantees it won't reverse.

Especially since it already was a reversal. The white return-flight was driven by suburban and small-town white kids growing up in boring sterile sundown towns (and paying a premium to live in them.) In the city, if you were willing to put up with crime, substandard housing, and living within a mile of a brown face, you would also be exposed to the cultures of those brown faces, and the creativity of people whose rent was low enough that they had time to follow dreams.

Of course, when they (and their employers) moved back, they accidentally recreated their mallworld hellscapes as all the brown/interesting people were forced out and to the margins. Living in their circumscribed neighborhoods is now even more expensive than the suburbs they fled. Now the only benefit is that the city-suburb they live in is somewhat walkable and they may not need a car, but they're now living very close to the poors that their grandparents moved to sundown towns to avoid, there are panhandlers and shit in the streets, and armed kids make expeditions into their neighborhoods to hunt them.

edit: It's only rational to get bored by this and go back home. Especially if you've gotten married, had the dog for two years, and now you've gotten pregnant. Especially with the internet and television taking up so much cultural space now. They work everywhere.
I use Backblaze
“Choice”: A Rich Fairy Tale
It was a 501c3 charity. Not allowed to play in politics.
Well, then just add an S and a Cl in there.
hmm, right! All designers welcome :)
good point, I wonder what percentage is. someone should make a top percentile view of this https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/dvc1370/ for just London to make it easier
I don’t understand the stripe hate in the replies. In the past when I worked with stripe on a mobile project they were always quick to reply, and I felt like they did a good job of helping us through difficult problems (at the time a new platform) that is rare from a customer support perspective.
SaaS Benchmarks: CAC and CAC Payback – ScaleXP
Until C++14 constexpr on a non-static member function did actually imply const, since mutation was (logically enough) not permitted in constexpr functions. C++14 relaxed this restriction, however, by allowing constexpr functions to mutate objects which only exist within the lifetime of the constexpr expression, so constexpr no longer implies const.
An illustrative example of how reasonable short-term and narrow-scope considerations can be really bad in long-term and/or at a larger scope.
> If I can move gigabytes of my data into arrays of structs, then 1) I greatly reduce memory requirements (far fewer pointers), and 2) I greatly reduce the amount of work that GC has to do.

As an aside, and not to say that Valhalla is not needed (I am looking forward to it very much, along with Loom), I’ve recently learned that for many use cases (not all) when you want gigabytes of struct arrays, a bunch of equal-sized primitive arrays, one per struct field, might work even better from memory requirement and cache locality perspective.
Good point. Maybe "Quarter Plus Pounder" would ride on that familiarity.
I absolutely adore when publicly available data sourced from government agencies gets downvoted.

Since March of 2020 any kind of statement suggesting covid isn’t as bad as some make it out to be is met with fierce vitriol. The number of times I’ve been called “dangerous” for posting well sourced data that clearly shows the IFR of covid is not 1-2%…

It’s as if people believe that any good news will result in others “not taking this serious”. They must feel that everybody needs to be scared stiff of this thing all the time… the result is the average person thinks if they catch covid they have a 10% chance of dying, which for most age groups is like 1000x off[0].

It’s super evil, really. If people were better informed about the risk profiles of covid, how many would have sacrificed a year and a half of their short life? Wouldn’t that imply that forcing this “new normal” crap by scaring the daylights out of people is a tad misguided and perhaps very unethical and immoral? If the only way you can get people to comply with your draconian interventions is lying to society about the risks of covid… well that is pretty fucked up.

Worse, by the way, is peoples risk assessment for covid is so completely wrong it makes debating public policy impossible. If the average adult thinks they have a 10% of dying if they got covid, of course they will want to mask little kids at school, of course they’ll cheer vaccine passports, of course they’ll rat each other out for sitting on a park bench. If they knew kids were at almost zero risk of covid, and their age bracket had minimal risks, would they have agreed to any of that?

[0] a fascinating data set: https://covid19pulse.usc.edu/
Or walk into a casino and look at the people pouring their savings into addictive slot machines. It's kind of eerie how modern slot machines actually appear to be converging with mobile games in many ways.

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We actually have an ongoing project to reduce the occurrence of these mistaken rejections by 90% by the end of this year. I think we’ll succeed at it. (They’re already down 50% since earlier this year.)

It seems to me that if a company provides such an important service to other companies (i.e. functioning as that company's direct revenue source - payments), then if somewhere it is determined that Stripe no longer intends to provide that service, someone at Stripe should be reaching out proactively, via a telephone or other method, to the leadership at the customer and explaining to them in detail why the decision was made to terminate the relationship and what recourse they have.

I shudder to think of the impact something that an algorithm based decision like would have on my business in this scenario. I would be an absolute disaster, and could have far reaching implications for the viability of someone's business.

Every single decision where Stripe is terminating a relationship should have a clear path to a human being for resolution, and should be reviewed by a human before the decision is even made. Like, setup a conference call with leadership and work through the issue. Most fraudsters wouldn't go through that process anyway, and it provides a proactive approach to working with customers who obviously would be in a complete disaster recovery scenario if this occurred so it would be all hands on deck on the customers side. Nothing is worse than having all hands on deck to address a critical issue and feeling helpless because the other side of the equation is an auto-responder email box.

No business should be writing blog posts for help on something like this.
Yes. As far as I see index.html + underrun.wasm + l1.png + q2.png combined will compress into about 20.1 KB of ZIP. Still very small, but not 14 KB.
Quater also means multiply by 4. I think they were pointing out that in the same post where you were criticizing them for what was pretty clearly a typo ("forth" instead of "fourth") you also made a typo ("quater" instead of "quarter") that changed the meaning.
So one thing peculiar in Java is public records have to be in their own files. Now I wanted to treat records as less ceremonial than classes to organize code. I'd have liked to have a dozen or so records in a file along with some basic operations on them but it is not possible have multiple records without that many files.

I know the answer is always use IDE and all but it causes more context switches than scrolling a bit to see types I created.
Ah, that makes sense: if sovereignty is a driving requirement you can't just piggyback on the big LEO swarm deployments, but a single geostationary satellite covers exactly the territory that you care about. Now I understand. Thanks.
For OP: the about page is 404'ing https://method.ac/about/
People from certain non-western countries have bigger disadvantages in respect with the language, education, either lack of, or degrees not being recognized, and financial means.

This has nothing to do with those people's culture or willingness to work or something like that. If a German immigrant had the same disadvantages, he would struggle just as much.

Furthermore, the point is moot anyways, because the economical value of a citizen goes beyond simply tax-payments minus benefits-received. These people are also customers that local businesses depend on, and any money spent on benefits will mostly directly flow back into the local economy.

Another important point is that these disadvantages disappear over the generations.

Another VERY important fact is that immigrants actually save us from the massive costs of an increasingly 'grey' society (due to low birth rate).

I'm not going to put every reason here how immigrants provide benefits. But I hope it's clear that there's a little bit more involved with determining economic impact than just tax minus benefits.
> selection starts at 4yo" which implies that 4yo kids are selected and followed all their life.

I mean, they were followed all their life when they arrive at the final selection process, it is a track record after all
Is it? Does it actually matter? Serious question.
When speaking of "ancient times" we should really define more precisely who do we talk about - there were a huge differences between say citizens of Ancient Rome and some tribesman culture of Amazonia in terms of exposure to the pathogens.

We nowadays live in more sterile conditions, but we also live in a way bigger communities than ever, with significantly more population mobility - which makes us on average potentially exposed to a much wider spectrum of different germs in one's lifetime than it was a case ever before. When modern ppl get in contact with isolated tribes, although they're living whole lives in totally non-sterile conditions, it's almost always the modern people who will make them sick, not the other way around.
I'm not familiar with this particular set of findings, but generally speaking internal research at Facebook are generally either large scale in-app surveys (which suffer from response bias) or small scale (often ~10 participants from a single city) in-person interviews. It's useful for informing product roadmaps, but I don't think we can really draw bigger conclusions from it. Put it a different way, if this research had found that Instagram was NOT toxic for teen girls, would anyone buy that?