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> I do not understand how IBM stays in business.

They make money on those who have more than they know what to do with.

Case in point: I spent six months in a project, which at its peak had about forty people working on it. Eventually it was scrapped and replaced with a solution from IBM, which in turn ended up... not being used at all.

Overall it was a hilarious waste of everyone's time, but somehow that was okay.
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I'm a dedicated cyclist in the upper Midwest. Many of my friends have gotten e-bikes. Some of them are already on their second e-bike, as the technology has improved quite rapidly towards more of a "light hybrid motorcycle" design. So far as the cost is concerned, you can get an affordable e-bike by shopping for a used one. Repairiable might be a different story.

The main question I get is: "When are you going to get an e-bike?"

I don't have a good justification for riding a human powered bike, other than just the fact that it's what I enjoy. I happen to live within cycling distance of most things that I need. I also play an alcohol powered musical instrument that was replaced by an electric version 70 years ago. Don't ask me why.

Of course since it takes me longer to get places, I have more time to think. About how e-bike technology could be improved. Making it ride "just like a bike" imposes a lot of subtle requirements on the controls -- exactly why my friends have stopped riding their early generation e-bikes. But what if that's not a requirement. The simplest thing I could think of is a motorized front wheel with a switch that applies a fixed amount of torque. You push the button when you want help. That would take care of any reason why I might want an e-bike, for instance when I get old.

In the future, conventional bikes might be seen as the exception to the rule, but I don't see them going away completely. For instance I don't expect the thousands of bikes parked around the nearby university campus being replaced by electrics in any practical way. I don't expect the homeless to ride e-bikes. Also, for people who are blessed with short distances and good legs, a conventional bike is still more convenient to manage.
It's a cool library. What I'm not quite getting is why your use case requires a deque rather than just a regular queue. If you just used a regular queue then you wouldn't need any virtual memory tricks to keep things contiguous while keeping the required big O characteristics.

Enqueue by appending to a slice; dequeue by incrementing the index of the oldest element. To avoid space growing indefinitely, copy the backing array to a smaller array every time the backing array becomes k times larger than the queue. If you're not enqueuing items at both ends of the queue, that's all you need for an efficient queue that maintains contiguity.
Sinek is a fraud. There's nothing useful to be learned from that book that you can't get from common sense.
> Maybe...

Definitely.
Not so sure about that: https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/. Enabling data collection from the rest of the solar system seems pretty cutting edge to me.
Is it just me or this feels like, effectively, a whole gnu/linux distribution?
But that's not the industry he said.
I looked at NSA/CIA when I was graduating college and the compensation was notably below market and with very rigid structures. I was given to understand a common path was to put in some time at the actual agencies and then go over to a contractor where you could make good money.

That was 30 years ago, though. Could be completely different now.
Can you link to anywhere that explains more? Pages are only generated when editors make edits and never from requests from visitors? How do you regenerate when you update the theme and what about tag, category and search pages?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
> Won't people just go "oh hexagon, cool, it's an NFT, seems legit cuz Twitter is legit"?

Most folks in my neck of the woods seem amped up to block them on sight instead of going “cool”.
I use them for my infrastructure's notification mail needs. Written a small tool to send e-mails from command-line via an API key.

They're a joy to use.
Is this a funding issue, or a request for funding issue? Or a bit of both? After all, the cheques don't write up the results.
I am not sure about his case, but it's not very hard for a talent student to get $1k scholarship every month. That's lot of money to use if he does not need to pay for his living expenses.
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Imagine you are limited to only pen and paper and need to communicate with another using written Chinese. Then even though what you convey will be exactly same meaning and characters count, simplified will consumed less effort (less ink and paper as well) to deliver equivalent same message in Chinese Traditional. From language studies perspective they view a token as basic unit of information, but in engineering and practicality, OP ideas of pixel measurement would be better. You can't transmit information to humans using "token" but displayed form via pixels. As for Simplified Chinese is much harder to learn, let just say Mao had proven you wrong with vast majority Chinese (outside of China) learning Simplified form much faster and less effort than Traditional form. Even Taiwanese using simplified form to describe the name "tai" in Taiwan.
"For younger people, fashion is a way to show off to people or be comfortable in various situations. It's much easier to spend $150 on a set of new clothes to try impressing a date than it is to try impressing someone with your car like people may've tried decades ago."

That's the real problem, the world can no longer afford that given the environmental crisis. They cannot have it both ways: millions of young people are always whingeing that the older generation has left them with a horrible environmental legacy that they'll have to clean up. Well, I suggest we start by pointing to them that to continue with both behaviors would shown them up as hypocritical.

Of course all those in the rag/fashion trade or the overly fashion conscious will vigorously disagree—mainly that to do otherwise would reduce their incomes.

The fact remains, we're using and wasting cotton in huge amounts and the amount of water needed to produce cotton is outright enormous—just phenomenal. Essentially the world's ecosystem can't afford it. If you want to be reminded of exactly how much that is that damage then I'd suggest you see what happened to the Aral Sea because of cotton growing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea. Right, cotton growing has essentially made the sea disappear. This really ought to be a wake-up call to the clothing and fashion industries.

"But it's not a thing you're ever going to "logic and reason"

Hike the price and it'd have an effect, so would nuking clothing and fashion industry ads (like the tobacco industry) and it may have to come to that. If I had any say in the matter (which I never will) I'd put an environmental tax on cotton (in first world countries only where the main waste occurs). What's needed is a cultural shift that it's not cool to show off this way. Like any other cultural shift, it'd take quite some time but it;s not impossible. If things continue to go from bad to worse governments may even force the matter.

BTW: That example was for knockabout clothes. I also have much better clothes right up to a 'money suit' complete with bow tie, although I've not updated any in recent years because almost all of them are AOK—i.e.: not out of fashion (it's actually quite easy to buy clothes whose fashion hardly ever changes). If I'm going to a formal dinner then I definitely look the part, same goes for a processional engagement (dealing with clients etc. one must be very particular and I never look out of place there either).

Re cars: I've never had one good enough to impress anyone (to me, vehicles are only a means to an end and I often wonder why they impress so many). Currently, I don't even own one. Environmental waste and the enormous waste of human effort is the result of the premature turnover of vehicles and it is an unmitigated environmental disgrace. Again, much of this is driven by fashion 'forced' on people by the manufactures and advertising industry (i.e.: same as the clothing/fashion industry in that they 'manufacture consent'—a feeling of need to continually want to buy and or upgrade their clothes).
I suppose this was supposed to sound like a snappy argument? It’s a bland, impactless statement. Even if scumbags are infatuated with something, it can still have legitimate and beneficial uses / users.

And the comment’s wrong too… the scumbags probably want to cash their gains out to traditional currencies, they’re least likely to be in it as technology true believers.
Finding the best way to beat a fun game is a fun game, as well.
Unexpectedly sympathetic to "the left", at least its larger an ultimate goals. (This may be an undeservedly sympathetic reading by me, since I disagree -- and, apparently, agree -- with "the left" on the same issues he does.) Unexpected, because while he became known as a leftist intellectual some twentyfive - thirty years ago, I was under the impression that he took a hard turn to the right somewhere between 2005 and '10, or perhaps even earlier (right after 9/11?). Glad to see he seems to have recovered.

[EDIT:] After reading a few more current columns: No real recovery, it appears. At best a temporary, transient one, during -- and in reaction to -- the Trump presidency? Sad. [/EDIT]

One paragraph feels like a particularly noteworthy reminder to the HN clientele, so I'll just leave it here:

> One thing we have learned in this epidemic, for example, is the vital importance of essential workers, the nurses and carers, the trash-collectors and food-preparers, the supermarket cashiers and truck drivers. They are people we should look up to, not down on, as they keep our entire society functioning. Instead, I suspect that many smart people have mistaken their own unearned gift for some kind of moral virtue, which is why they are so reluctant to note that others may not be so smart, and if they do so, think less of them. Remove the elites’ vanity, and self-love, and you can see their irrationality for what it is.
Why would you be forbidden to say more? That doesn’t seem rational.
I never understood why it was a shining example of good in the first place. It is a blogging platform. What else does it do?
More like Go/Linux
This is so cool!

I'm completely new to WASM but excited to learn — how did you use the Squoosh repo to turn it into WASM, and how did you embed that into your app? Is that just a static file you can "import" and use in the client?

And can anything be "turned into" WASM (e.g. a python library), or is that kind of a new paradigm of writing code from scratch?
"Let go or be dragged" - Zen Proverb
We’ve all seen the apes. The worse and more janky it looks, the more of an NFT it really is.

Some say that if it’s relentlessly ugly enough it’ll make itself non-fungible.
NFTs do not transfer copyrights. Dumbasses buying bored apes are just that, dumbasses-buying-bored-apes, not dumbasses-buying-bored-apes-but-at-least-they-have-ownership.

Additionally, good luck getting a court recognize opensea as a source of copyright when it's drowning in copyright infringements. I can just mint your NFT somewhere else and it'll be just as valid.
I worded it exactly as intended when I said "meaningful achievement" instead of "wildest dream". If the scope of your ambition is to push the envelope in astrophysics, you probably already have enough resources at your disposal - and if you don't, a very sophisticated radio astronomy setup is easily within the reach of most individuals and certainly a handful of friends. But if your ambition is very specifically to build a radio telescope on the dark side of the moon... well yeah, that would take a lot of money that you don't have and never will. But even if somebody gifted the amount to you, that radio telescope still isn't getting built - because it was never something that could be achieved at the individual scale in the first place. So the money wasn't the showstopper. Same story with chip fabrication. If somebody is whining about their inability to execute their dream design due to lack of resources - dropping a $500M EUV stepper on them won't fix their problem.
> I also play an alcohol powered musical instrument that was replaced by an electric version 70 years ago. Don't ask me why.

An alcohol powered musical instrument? This I've gotta see!
Same here- if they start talking about their kids, it’s over for someone, possibly lots of someones.
Would it be possible to eliminate the need to be online, so then you could make the much more enticing claim (for privacy-conscious users) that it works offline? Maybe a PWA, or just by clicking "File > Save."
I don't think "overpriced" is a valid criticism of a system built to funnel money from people with disposable income to artists. It seems to reflect a distaste for the entire concept of arts patronage.

Other things that are overpriced to a pure pragmatist: getting your name in the credits of a video by a youtube creator you'd like to support. Tickets to a recital for a recent graduate raising money to travel during audition season. Getting a museum wing named after you. Appointing a poet laureate.

If you want to live in a world where artists can afford to devote a majority of their time to their art instead of day jobs, you have to tolerate that systems are built to fund them, even if you balk at some of the most sensational price tags or artists' tastes.
I spent 10 years at a small (<80 people) CX company that was full of intelligent, motivated employees. We were smart and quick and lean and did very good work. But we never dragged in big deals because no one at the company had that swagger/access to high-levels. The scenario you describe is dumb and ruinous and, unfortunately, true.
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I'm not sure that's really fair. But, yes, there are people who are fairly well known in their little corner of the Internet and take it as a personal affront if Twitter won't give them a blue check. (From what I can tell, the checks are mostly for politicians, major journalists, and mainstream celebrities.)
there are speed limits in eu too, but I still think their users are more likely to hurt themselves than someone who's trained, either by doing it a lot on a regular bike to the point that they're able to hold relatively high speeds, or going through a special certification process like a motorcyclist. It seems highly likely for a novice to hop on this new toy but be unable to safely navigate given how different it is from a car (e.g. you can't just slam brakes in the middle of turning)
There are many products, indeed, entire categories, that never come out of the 'trough of disillusionment'.
The annual budget of the entire NSF is $8.28B. The NIH is $42B

Google's net profit was $40B in 2020. Apple's was $94.6B in 2021. (all according to wikipedia).

Edit: The above is net income, so AFTER paying all the exorbitant salaries.

Apple alone makes enough money that it could fund pretty much all current publicly-funded science happening in the US at the current rate. That is a ridiculous amount of money, and publicly-funded science just cannot compete at that level.

(Currently on publicly-funded grants. Underpaid relative to what I could make elsewhere, but happy to be contributing to the greater good rather than helping some advertising company).
>if you try and reload the page, xhr in the console fails, etc.

what about:

* DNS leaks (eg. trying to connect to payloadhere454098357987.attacker.example, leaks payloadhere454098357987 to the attacker)

* websocket

* webRTC

* prefetching

* service workers (background sync)

* beacons

* CSP reports
Postmark. Be sure to set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
This is a great insight. Even if execs know $x billions will be wasted on such trendy projects (toy projects to those who know what’s going on), they will still go and spend $x billions. Why? Since it keeps the market cap going up. This positive delta in the market cap is almost 10 times more than $x billions.
I think family can be an indication of stability. Existing obligations can be factored in ahead of time. The alternative (and this was my case), you can start something in your mid to late 20s, and if wanting a family becomes a factor while the company is neither taking off nor dying, that introduces a new variable. I decided to leave (there were many more reasons), but if I was in a stable situation at 45 maybe I would have decided differently.
Growth?
Thank you, awesome.
Scrubs covers this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVTWoPeMWSQ
So much more insightful, concise, entertaining, and relatable than TFA.

We hate our 9-5's but we're also annoyed when the plumber gives us an 8 hour window to show up (and misses the window).

Like many rules, timetables can be an inconvenience when imposed on ourselves but very convenient when imposed on others.
While I'm not clear why you would want to go back to an undergrad given your education, I would look for programs with names like "Computational Mathematics" or "Computational Science". I earned a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computational Mathematics. The first two or three years were heavily focused on the mathematical foundations (eg. non-linear and discrete optimization, combinatorics and CS fundamentals, statistics and applied mathematics). The latter half of third year and all of fourth year were basically a "create your own adventure" where you could focus on subject areas that interested you (ex. econometrics, computational biology, industrial engineering, computational statistics + machine learning, etc). We had a breadth requirement t that often pushed people to obtain a minor from a different faculty (eg. Arts or Sciences). The program overview for my school might give you an indication of what content to look for [1].

You might also find graduate level programs that are similar in aim; my school also offers an MMath in Computational Mathematics [2].

1. http://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/page/MATH-Computational-Ma...

2. https://uwaterloo.ca/computational-mathematics/future-master...
Adding another alternative here: https://write.as/

Free, easy, federated, ostensibly open-source and self-hostable: https://github.com/writefreely
+1 for MXRoute if you're just looking for an affordable alternative to Google Apps and not some fancy API. They bill by storage and not by the number of accounts, and they offer discounts around the year if you look around. Also don't be fooled by their frontend that looks like some run of the mill shared hosting. Their backend is absolutely professional.
A lot of valid criticism here about the measure of complexity, but considering the author’s initial motivation, I think the approach makes sense: “The magazine had a little travel article, and it was written in English on one page and Thai on the other. The Thai version was so much shorter that I started to wonder if it was more efficient.”

If the goal is to identify which language would have produced the most subjectively visual “short article” per the description above, the approach sounds ok. For example, concerns with serifs, variations in character sizes, the information content of characters, etc become moot because they contribute to visual clutter and typography, which the author would want to count against the language.
The main point of Rust is correctness, not performance. Performant code is a nice to have - but when the two are in conflict, correct code wins every time. How can one ever be confident that your Senior C++ devs are writing code that is free of subtle bugs? Are you going to look for professional Haskell or Ocaml devs too, for a proper comparison? Those folks ain't cheap, either.
I think what he is arguing is that someone with a negative attitude ("he can only do that because he's rich!") won't accomplish anything even if they were granted unlimited funding because they are focused on coming up with excuses instead of thinking about what they can do. There are plenty of poor people in third-world countries who have far less than the original commentator (who presumably lives in the first world) who have built very impressive things, especially considering the resources they have available. It is an attitude problem, not a financial one.
Without the source there could be all sorts of timebombs or tripwires in the firmware. For instance a device refusing to operate unless another device was present or changing behavior after a certain date.
> gender differences

I’m only denying the identity of their colleagues, why do the liberal professors hate me? This is cancel culture!
> could be generated statically a couple of times a day

Hell, let's do some partial evaluation: just bake the computed HTML into the source code and recompile that a few times a day. No need to even read from a file when you can fetch it from rodata.

As for the reason why they did it this way, I assume it's a combination of CV-driven development along with the hackernoon-reading-junior-engineer-meets-cunning-salesperson effect which others have noted.
That's a joke. If you read that drivel prepared for the stock market, you would come away thinking IBM is the biggest Cloud operator in the world. In reality of course they have just rebranded all kind of cash flow streams as "cloud" - because they know "cloud" will make the stock go up whereas "mainframe" makes it go down.
People are commenting on the quality of Door Dash predictions, but that isn’t what the article is about. The article is just about the architecture for high speed/throughput of prediction requests.

I would be interested in knowing how much improvement they saw by using C++ or Kotlin. Also, I don’t really understand what compute service is actually used to run the model predictions in this framework.
Not sure that's an issue, since the parameter does not have a name.

Just call it as `*args, **kwargs`. That's something you need to do when forwarding anyway.
I have no such need for a large decentralized network responsible for handling my money as I have access to regulated (albeit not enough) financial institutions in the US and USD.

IPFS/BitTorrent/Matrix is cool though. Can any of this research help in those areas?
Yes, they need to update that list.

Jamie Metzel [1] makes a very rational case that the Lab Leak theory is very likely. Check out is interview with Lex. It's more than 4 hours long (!), but worth a listen.

[1] https://jamiemetzl.com/origins-of-sars-cov-2/
It’s just too much to tell on a forum. You may start here https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co... (it’s not really Apple specific, it just has good overview guides). If you want a quick answer, state lives apart from views and is controlled by either predefined or custom behavior. It also doesn’t have to be flat (which React endorses) and smeared over a hierarchy of tiny proxy “components” which cannot really live outside of that hierarchy. Also, cocoa way is not the only way, and React is compatible with other approaches, some of which react guys call “stores”.
I’d love to see their architecture. Do they publish much?
That NFT hype makes it look like yet another get-rich-quick pyramid scheme to me. Can you please clearly explain exactly what you're using NFTs for that you couldn't easily and less destructively implement some better way, without burning so much coal, causing cancer, and destroying the environment?

If your business can't grow and succeed without shilling NFTs, then you don't have anything of actual value. NFTs aren't magic pixie dust that make everyone rich. Unless you're running a money laundering operation.
> I do not understand how IBM stays in business.

I understand why you're saying this. I have no idea either. However, open their 10-K and you'll find out how they make money. In fact, while their revenue and profits are declining, they still make more than $70B in revenue a year with a profit of about $4-5B, so their ability to stay in business is higher than many tech companies that are not profitable.