skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is most politicians. They have to say one thing to get the votes from individual citizens but they have to actually do something else to get the money they need from the corporations and special interest groups that they need to actually campaign and travel and do all the other things that they seem to be able to do on a 170k salary. Politicians live like rich people but only get a middle class salary. To make up the difference they vote in a manner that will get their PAC's funded. Most of the time all politicians have to do is not do anything. Status quote means special interests are happy and money keeps flowing. End of the day this works well for the politicians, citizens don't care what they actually do as long as they have the correct letter next to their name, just what they say.
How fitting that to characterize the performance of a quantum computer we don't use a scalar, but a vector...
So every emotion except confusion is inherently just a person over-simplifying their reality.

All the fighting: it's fucking stupid.
I really don't know why driverless car companies aren't going all in on busses. You can sell your tech to bus manufacturers, and if you lobby for BRT you have your own grade separated right of way which makes a lot of these monumental engineering challenges with self driving cars poof into thin air instantly. The biggest cost for a bus for a transit agency is the benefits package and salary for the driver.
This video does a good job also of covering the topic of over-testing/over-treating potential cancer (or creating "Fake Disease" as it terms it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNzQ_sLGIuA
Here’s the internal announcement email sent by Scott Gu https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29098640
Geology is one reason. Many major urban areas in the western US have a layer of caliche under the surface. Digging through 1m+ of natural concrete makes underground lines even more hideously expensive than they would otherwise be.
Clickhouse has done a performance benchmark with a much more bigger dataset and they have published the results in their website at [1]
https://clickhouse.com/benchmark/dbms
Yes, Real Estate can be a really flawed inflation hedge, and the relationship between rental yields and interest rates can also deviate sharply from conventional wisdom. Here in Brazil, although inflation is typically in the 4-10% range per year, and although all the rental contracts are tied to inflation indices, you look at homebuilders, REITs, physical real-estate, and nothing has kept up for the last decade. And for as long as I remember, gross rental yields have been lower than the real yields on NTN-Bs - our equivalent of TIPS - which on the face of it doesn't make any sense.
M1 dev setup using a NixOS virtual machine
> This. Any talk of "labor shortage" should be seen for what it is: a request for subsidized immigration to keep labor costs low.

Salary is not the only significant parameter. Awful working conditions also makes it very difficult to attract and retain employees, even if they are well paid. See for instance how one notoriously abusive FANG is currently experiencing high "regretted attrition" rates in spite of paying FANG-level wages.
I don’t think that makes much sense to say until they actually encounter a scenario where violating semver could be done and even be reasonable, and they actively choose not to.

Pre-1.0 semver is fairly meaningless, so taking it seriously really amounts to… doing anything at all. There’s literally nothing to be backwards compatible with, or to announce incompatibility with. They’ve have no opportunity to show how seriously they take it.
Definitely a thing.

Regarding the cost, it might be more than "some paperwork".
> Systemd is neither unnecessary nor stupid.

I'm living a pretty good life without systemd, so it's clearly not necessary. I'm sort of willing to acknowledge that it fits some people's needs better than alternatives however.

systemd doesn't have the ability to cancel tasks from the console like other init systems do, for example when my laptop can't get a DHCP response from the network card that's not plugged in, so it's clearly stupid (and so is the init script or whatever it's called that's trying to get an answer from a not plugged in NIC, but that's a separate although related issue).
I just had mine a couple days ago and opted for no sedation because I wanted to see what's going on. It was a bit unpleasant, at a couple spots the doc snakes the scope around some sharp bends and you can feel that inside of you. It totally paid off, though, I had a clear view of the monitor and could watch everything going on. I've done a fair amount of optical engineering so I was really curious about the whole thing and it's really fabulous.

Unfortunately, they found quite a few polyps and one was large enough that a) the doc marked the spot with some dye and b) they cauterized it. The puff of smoke inside my gut was definitely the highlight for me.
lol. didn't he have enough time while he was actually CEO? feels like quite a cop out
FWIW I don't really have a problem with him "glorifying" ETA, either (and wouldn't have a problem with somebody in Texas doing the same for a similarly minded local organization). I was merely pointing out that it's not just that.

And yes, of course, it's a law in Spain - that's the point of this conversation, that such laws exist (or can be introduced), and then selectively enforced against those the government wants to target for whatever reason, even in an ostensibly-liberal democracy.

Let me give you another example. In Russia, there was an "anti-extremism" law passed a few years ago that made it a crime to make public statements that "foment hatred or enmity against identifiable social groups". I can think of quite a few Western progressives who would probably cheer something like that as written. Only it turns out that e.g. police is an "identifiable social group", too, and so are members of the parliament!
Turning a Sphere Outside In
That pollution is due to exported goods – the US and other western countries are essentially offloading their pollution to China, who is more than happy to take the cash and greenify their own infrastructure.
How's the development velocity compared to Azure?

Can your App scale across regions?
> Suppose I want to teach first-semester mechanics

If you need to teach undergraduate mechanics, I highly recommend you at least read some of Hestenes’ New Foundations for Classical Mechanics http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/html/NFCM.html

> without any distinctive advantages

The most basic distinctive advantage is that you can invert vectors (which is incredibly useful!!) without needing to pretend that vectors are matrices, complex numbers, or some other kind of object.

GA takes most of the advantages of complex numbers vs. R² for representing plane geometry, but extends them to arbitrary dimension, and extends them further (when using complex numbers for plane geometry you end up representing vector–vector products via the obscure z̄w product involving complex conjugation, and it is easy to get confused about the difference between a vector vs. a scalar+bivector).

But there are a wide variety of other powerful (and geometrically interpretable) algebraic identities which can be applied to vectors, blades, and multivectors, ranging from awkward to impossible to express using the language of differential forms, Gibbs-style vectors, etc. Physicists often end up resorting to tedious coordinate-by-coordinate calculations for stuff that would end up being an easy vector expression in GA. Learning these identities and how to apply them takes years and a lot of practice solving problems using GA.

My own experience for the first few years of knowing that GA existed but not being too fluent with it was that I would work some problem (mostly 2–3 dimensional geometry problems) out in coordinates, spending like 2 pages of scratch paper for the opaque intermediate calculations, with high chance for mistakes, then eventually find that most of the ugly bits along the way canceled and yielded a nice result. Then I would think a bit more about the problem, skim through a list of GA identities, and find I could have shortened that 2 pages of work to 3 lines, each of which had an obvious geometric interpretation.
Imagine you want to go straight, but there is an overwhelming quantity of traffic that is turning right. And the lights are badly timed, so the traffic on the other side of the intersection does not make any progress during your green light.
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/my-cd-shattered-insi...

I've had a CD-ROM back in the day shatter on me like this. I'm pretty sure its a common enough story that everyone 'knows' it could happen... but was rare enough that not everyone personally came across it... but I never got to the bottom of it (why it happened, or what conditions led to it). It only ever happened to me once after all.

It sounds like x56 speed drives were just too fast for some CD-ROMs. We went from x1 speed in the late 80s to x56 speed by the late 90s, so it makes sense that some CD-ROMs just weren't designed for the speed increase and maybe shatter.

Alternatively: maybe some physical damage existed. We beat up CD-ROMs back in the day: storing them in backpacks without protectors and whatever. They were very reliable in terms of reading, but maybe those kinds of mistakes would lead to fractures that would literally blow up on you later.

Even then: the most common protector were paper-sleeves, because dust / scratches were what we were most worried about.

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We used to carry around stronger plastic cases in the early 90s. But by 00s, it was all paper-sleeves. The plastic-cases would themselves shatter when carried around, but the CD-ROMs / DVD-ROMs were stronger, lol.
List of libraries to handle most of the Machine Learning tasks
Most people have no idea what a productive standup looks like. I was on a team once where we had a standup on Monday mornings. Fucking beautiful meeting. Of course, a new dev manager killed it for some god forsaken reason. That meeting prevented so much bullshit. That manager ended up getting the boot because...chaos and lack of productivity.

Now every where I go some douchebag paranoid manager has established daily stand-ups because it makes them feel better. I resent telling people I'm working on a story we all groomed together and brought into the Sprint....it's right on the board: In progress, In Review, Ready for acceptance, Done. Clear as day. I'm still working on X, gonna work on X some more...everything is going great. Not adult-like behavior.
Yeah, that's a hard no. Back reigned in Bitcoin so it couldn't compete with national currencies after receiving funding from AXA and others through blockstream. Wasn't remotely interested in the project before 2014, and holds views wildly at odds with Satoshi's.

Nick Szabo, Hal Finney and Martti Malmi, or some combination of those three.
I wonder if this will make NSO group focus even more on selling to dictatorships and subvert-democracy-groups in India hereafter, and drug lord politicians in Mexico?

Hereafter, why not, they're already blacklisted (in the US) anyway
Yes this would have been mind-blowing.

Ps there was a game that had a similar FPS view in those days. It was a maze game with polygon graphics but no textures. I forget the name. No shooting though!
For a remote team, you have to make space for people to get the face-to-face hallway/watercooler chat time if you want to build a solid culture. Time for people to get to know oneanother that is easy if you're co-located. Easiest place to make space for this is to have padding on your meetings. Especially standups.
That email was sent by Scott Gu of Azure.

GitHub now reports to the same person that did this to the .NET community. Is anyone paying attention or just me? http://theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740701/microsoft-dotnet-hot... (and https://isdotnetopen.com/)

See also https://twitter.com/geoffreyhuntley/status/14559364800234823...

Other items under this persons remit:

- Visual Studio

- .NET

- Python

- TypeScript

- OpenJDK

- GitHub (+NPM)

- (hint hint) Azure SDKs (hint hint)

- (hint hint) Azure PaaS / Azure Serverless (hint hint)
Fireship's [video] about COBAL always brings a smile to my face
It'd be cool game though.
>I tried to work with Mozilla to get a couple minor changes made to enable some of the missing features, but that went nowhere fast.

Yeah, unless you actually write the code, there is no way. And writing code for the mozilla code base can be quite intimidating with their mix of C++ and js and XPCOM and not-XPCOM and webidl, etc. I once submitted a patch (unrelated to my extensions) that bounced from the who-is-who of mozilla rockstar devs at the time, and nobody wanted to really even look it because it was changing something so deep within the XPCOM-Javascript bridge and nobody really remembered how it even worked. I finally got my r+ from some brave soul who just said "I don't really know the code it touches either, but somebody has to do the review".

Even if you do the work, it can be an uphill battle to get code in, especially if you're trying to add new features and not just fix existing bugs.

I spoke to people within mozilla back in the day - I was part of the community after all and knew a lot of folks - and they weren't exactly happy, but weren't in a position to make things better, either.

DownThemAll! was big enough that they eventually "officially" reached out and ask me what I need, and then essentially said they couldn't really do any of it, "sorry" and they know "that sucks" (refreshingly honest, at least, but I wasn't talking to upper management but a developer-turned-developer-relations). The person who contacted me, one could tell, was given a mission to appease developers by showing mozilla cared, but wasn't actually provided any resources to really help or support people. All that person could do was to apologize and suggest to read the docs and read the docs on how to propose and implement new APIs - but at the time I had already proposed some new APIs that in my opinion would not just have benefited DownThemAll! but all kinds of add-ons dealing with downloads, and was struck down as "not generally useful to a lot of add-ons, sorry, we do not want to maintain such an API" already.

What I said almost 5 years ago still is true in that regard: they tried to a certain degree to accommodate some of the really popular add-ons, and with some success too, and the smaller add-ons were left in the dust. Not because of ill-will of mozilla, but simply because they lacked the resources to do anything more.
Sure, feel free to post the hospitalization rates of delta positive non vaccinated people. What is their delta hospital admissions in comparison? Lets compare those rates.

Many people who got covid didn't go to the hospital, didn't die and were asymptomatic, so that statistic you posted is mostly noise. Most people who take the vaccine don't want to get covid at all.
They are literally the only company that has autopilot in production at scale.
Yeah, didn't like the aftereffects of Propofol the first time I had it so I did it without sedation the second time. Saves time as well.
This is a linux kernel compilation benchmark comparing build tools of amd64-glibc, x32-glibc and x32-musl.

x32-glibc is about 10% faster than amd64-glibc, but surprisingly x32-musl is 40% slower than the glibc time.

Author mentions that it might just be stdout buffering, implicitly done by glibc but not by musl hinted at by 54min of kernel time vs 7min with glibc.

I'm actually more interested in memory usage.
Related: Type 3 Diabetes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_3_diabetes
Wow this looks amazing. Will give it a try on my real 800XL.
Awesome comment, thank you!
> I can, without a doubt, tell you that Clickhouse spanks the crap out of TimescaleDB.

Same. I'm ready to believe my experience is not representative, but I've rarely heard something different after talking to people who've seriously evaluated both.

> Clickhouse is to TimescaleDB what Nginx was to Apache.

Perfect comparison. Except I don't remember Apache cooking some tests to pretend they are faster than nginx, or astroturfing communities :)

Different tools serve different purposes, simple as that.

If TimescaleDB or Apache does the job for you, stick with them.

When you will want to scale / increase performance or just rewrite, chose the better option of the day.

In 2021, Clickhouse should be a recommended default, like nginx.
Why do we want to subsidize a huge block of solar panel production going toward crypto mining? Not to mention the waste of computing resources that crypto burns through on a constant basis.

The core problem of crypto is that despite what its promotors seek in vain to prove, it provides little societal value, while requiring a constant flow of an enormous amount of resources. This doesn't change whether your GPU farm is connected to a coal plant or solar field.
I think it is. But... But PLATO Moria might be the OG of 3D in this space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria_(1978_video_game)
This is already happening, with driverless cars getting rear ended because they come to a complete stop at stop signs.
Why are you so angry?
Thanks for this! I was thinking similarly, but you phrased it better than I could. My observation was "it used to suck, just like wireless, and suspend/resume, but now it doesn't." which matches perfectly with "software has built up a pile of hacks... aka bug fixes".

BTW, despite any appearances to the contrary, I recognize (and look forward to!) the superiority of an architecture based on fixed rate interrupts rather than a freewheel unsynchronized protocol. I was just afraid, previously, that:

1) All my stuff is gonna break! (Consider I've been using the same setup unchanged since the mid 2000s, and it's got a lot of self written code)

2) I'm gonna be stuck with a system I consider ugly!

3) My stuff breaking will be in exchange for nothing I consider worthwhile in return!

Now that I read the great article https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_waylan..., much of my FUD has melted away. I know that #2 and #3 aren't true, #1 is probably true but now I'm looking forward to it.
Yes, this also describes, for example, the next entrance at Hamilton and Hicks. Although there’s it’s narrower so primarily just one extra lane.
If you can banish cars from cities to the extent you have described, there's not much incentive at that point to try and automate away the drivers. They wouldn't be randos any more, they'd be professionals, and it's going to be a while before automation catches up to the best drivers on the road.
I love that the credits mention the raycast tutorial by Permadi https://permadi.com/1996/05/ray-casting-tutorial-table-of-co...

I used this tutorial in the 2000's to write a raycaster myself in C using Allegro. It's wonderful that these tutorial are still useful so many years after they've been written.
Intel also made the quark which is a 486 that runs on a button cell battery, the same type that we'd call a cmos battery.
I loved reading his blog in the early 00s. Imagine that one day in 2006 I ran "wget --mirror" on nat.org/blog and I still keep the result in my archive folder. I really don't get it why he deleted it.
What about Go and OCaml? And I'm sure there are others.
I considered Citizen Lab journalists when they came out with this. Highly-technical investigative journalists, maybe, but they were doing investigative journalism.
> In TypeScript you can assign an instance of one class to an instance of another as long as they have compatible fields.

Fun fact: If you add a private field to a class it'll behave nominally in TS. This is because private fields kinda require nominal relations to function. So, in a way, it does support "switching" to nominal type checking for classes - the opt in is simply per-class.
>I don't understand this thinking at all.

Which thinking do you not understand?
Seems like they promoted the chief product officer. Seems like exactly the person who delivered this.
What was the demand? 1200W seems like a lot, https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com runs on a 50W solar panel with a 168W lead-acid battery (non-deep-cycle so effectively 84Wh).

However it gets to have fully static content, and benefits from relatively modern hardware: for under 2W it runs on a dual-core 1GHz ARM with 1GB RAM (and a 16GB SD card but it doesn't use anywhere near 16GB).
> I'd extend this to the very existence of rigid roles such as 'project manager', 'qa', etc.

I don't go that far. Project management, qa, ops, and programming are largely disjoint skillsets.
There is Teal language that has type annotations and could output plain Lua: https://github.com/teal-language/tl
US Army delays $22B augmented reality goggle program
That is an good point. If the SME is not in the same industry, it would actually work in their favor. They could use some decent SEO and clever but legal word choices for certain lines and logo choices, they could have a ton of internet traffic directed to thier site just by people typing the web address incorrectly.

I did find this: "Meta Company develops augmented reality solutions. It offers Meta 1 and Meta 2 Development Kits for developers and creators, makers and artists, which provide the field of view, access to digital information and direct hand interaction with holograms. The Company serves clients in manufacturing, communication and media, medicine, simulation and education, remote assistance and 3D modeling industries."

NFI what that exactly means, but they are in comm's and media and if that is the same company, thats pretty dam close to facebook's whole "thang" isnt it?
https://archive.md/Jkhnu
>If the US hated Israel it wouldn't have supported its creation

The US did not support Israel past the original vote, rather it tried to push a series of measures that would have been detrimental to Israel. At the time Israel was far more reliant on the USSR.
I guess there is a disconnect between what you mean by the term infrastructure and what I mean.

Let's take an example, say Reddit. You want to support iOS, android and web. All platforms have the same core data but maybe have different APIs for optimizing queries, e.g. you may want
to use server side rendering for web.

So here's some of the microservices that you will use server side. I will label which I consider to be infra:

LoginService (infra)

Database server or library (to create consistent views/transactions on top of your raw database, infra)

Core business logic server

Web frontend server

Android/iOS frontend servers (probably not needed)

Image/audio/video processing (infra)

ML server (infra)

I don't see how any of the infra services here are trivial.
Google Wants to Work with The Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns
Zoom App Generates Meeting Score, Talk Time, Sentiment, and Engagement Metrics
Responded!
I thought all donors had to be living with a beating heart, are deceased non-heartbeat donors viable for some subset of organ transplants? How does this work exactly?
By far the most common complaint from support groups for people with sleep disorders is the sheer lack of respect people have for different sleep schedules. We get called lazy even when we work past midnight. By coworkers, and even family.

The usual advice is to find a different job with actually flexible scheduling or night shifts, for good reason.
Interesting! I didn't know about Zakat and Islams relation to usury. Thank you for educating me!
I don't think that is a bad faith reading; when the original statement was (basically) "systemd is bad and overcomplicated", saying "it's not and you know it" is a bad-faith statement. And no, sysvinit was perfectly fine for most people; if anything, I could fairly describe systemd as a very specialized init system for uncommon requirements. Now, I'm happy to agree that systemd is also basically fine for the most common uses (because, honestly, the most common cases are covered by anything), but it also introduced pain points for even non-esoteric cases (I've personally witnessed systemd getting stuck in fascinating nondeterministic ways more than sysv).