skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with your last point. We should presume that it's very probable that an outsider thinking for five minutes won't be producing a solution, but not disregard the possibility.
GP meant that you are paying $5.80 for a therm's worth of electricity, so therefore electric and gas are the same cost at a COP of $5.80/$1.60 = 3.65. At a higher COP electric is cheaper; at a lower COP, gas is cheaper.

You can use that number when looking at a heat pump's datasheet to see which temperatures the heat pump would be cost effective for you.
> 1 * time.Second * time.Second semantically reads to me as 1 second.

Which is wrong, 1s * 1s = 1s².

For example, the force of gravity is expressed in m/s² and describe an acceleration (m/s / s, aka a change of velocity per time units, where velocity is a change of distance per time units).
This is contrary to most testing tutorials and documentation I've read.

I get frustrated and forego a lot of testing because the idea of mocking out basically the whole system in order to unit test is insane to me. If function A calls function B, you've got to mock function B out. If you refactor function B, you better update the mock as well. Writing an app twice hardly seems like a good use of time.
make everything UTC, people. It'll make your life way easier. Try it out.
If Google Shopping is any indicator of how they're coming along, they've got a ways to go. I recently searched for refrigerator water filters and just went with the top result in Google Shopping. I ended up getting something that isn't NSF-certified, and in fact the company Google recommended to me as the top result has previously gotten in trouble by falsely claiming that their filters were certified.

I ended up throwing them away and ordering directly from Home Depot. At least I can be reasonably sure that they will sell me something I can trust to give me drinking water.
To respond in summary to all the posts - bfollis brought up a good point. I believe great professors do more than lecture. I can download the Feynman lectures (I believe they are still available), but I'll never be able to converse with him. But with a relationship with great professors you can. Or do some work in their lab. And that's the kind of thing that doesn't scale.

I don't think that great professors solely exist at prestigious schools, but there's definitely a greater density of them there. Just like FAANG has a greater density of competent programmers than competitors outside their tier.

I agree that not everyone needs a great professor. But, by definition, they are better. But yes, not everyone needs an elite education.

Ivy League schools have nowhere near a trillion dollars in endowment money. They have $1XX billion, I don't recall exactly how much.

I think that's all of the points, but I may have missed one.
This is fascinating, I didn’t know this was a thing. I always ignored the static strap, based on what I’d heard/seen that it was no longer strictly necessary.
I am fine with the so-called career path and leveling. What rubbed me the wrong way is that no one bothered mentioning it even though sneaked it into the offer letter. It is my mistake that I didn't catch it until it was too late. :(
or just have multi-dispatch, Julia:

julia> using Dates

julia> Millisecond(10)
10 milliseconds

julia> sleep(Microsecond(100))

julia> sleep(Millisecond(10))
On the desktop you can probably spare a core or two for encoding just fine.
I’m not going to lie and say Linux is problem free, but “barely works” is a massive exaggeration. Linux works just fine. Windows isn’t problem free. I use windows for work and it’s often a roll of the dice whether my monitors will got to sleep properly, or if windows will deign to recognize my keyboard on boot.
I don’t think it’s unwise or wise per se.

It’s just simply the case of - I’ve got the money, and hence I’ve got an audience, and (hence or not) I’ve got an urgent need to make random proclamations. Founder of this site does that a lot too and just like this post almost always gets a lot of attention.

Some people can just afford to do and have people listen to their useless brain flatulations and on the side are often called visionaries and shit. That happens on every socioeconomic levels and sub-levels, of course on different scales. So that’s there.
In Ada you can do something similar:

delay 0.3;

Or with package Ada.Real_Time:

delay To_Duration (Milliseconds (300));

Or use `delay until`:

delay until Clock + Milliseconds (300);

`delay until` is useful in loops because `delay` sleeps at least the given duration, so you get drift. (You call Clock only once and store it in a variable before the loop and then update it adding the time span each iteration)
I’m sure he’s considered it, but like many of us here, he refuses to voluntarily give Google a dime, for reasons that are obvious to most.
My issue is that no one explicitly mentioned this at all and I found out about it in my first week working there.
That's why I point it out as a missing feature: It's so basic, and yet it's "premium". I'm also intentionally separating YouTube from YouTube Premium* in terms of features, in which context YouTube is missing the background play feature.

*It may be the same app that you open, but the features are distinctly different, so I treat them as separate apps in my mental model. I would do the same for Spotify, for example.
I see your point but maybe the reactions are because most of these efforts feel half baked? For example they are forcing teams on users, which I use as a daily driver at my work and I feel that it's the worst piece of software I have to use.

On top of that the way things are integrated always looks and feels forced. Like going into lengths to hide control panel in windows 10 even if it's still there and while the settings app which replaces it only has a fraction of the functionality.
Windows doesn't need to change a single thing, it's just doing it's thing and it's been doing it for ages. There are actually viable alternatives these days if you don't like it.

Windows has always been an inferior OS, but I don't worry or complain about it. It hasn't been on my radar for over 15 years. I've spent that time learning *nix patterns instead of dealing with Windows quirks. That choice has paid massive dividends.
Weirdly, it’s a hallmark of Western civilization to domesticate tons of animals. Compared to say indigenous North America. Maybe white folks have an animal obsession in their DNA.
Conditional execution (CMOV) in modern x86 (or any modern target) enables 2x better sort performance specifically in places where branch prediction utterly fails because the input data is not predictable. If RISC-V lacks this capability (like Arm64?), then congratulations, RISC-V has closed off the possibility of a 2x performance improvement in important algorithms.

This is also a place where RISC-V displays an ABI choice that is nonsensical: a bit of historical awareness would have made the boolean "true" value ~0, or -1, as indeed it effectively is in AVX2 and GPUs.
Bank warns customer fraud charges, then says the purchases were valid
Long term anticoagulants will have some nasty side effects.
Oh, I know why. I was a brat.
So this is based on what a colleague told me who left my institution for UPenn. The position is "Teaching Professor" or equivalent where the idea is you spend most of your time teaching, with zero expectation of research, although you might want to engage in research about teaching. That kind of introspection comes naturally. Usually this role is without tenure, but universities are trying to make this position more attractive and so some, like UPenn, have attached the potential promise of tenure to the role (although I'm not familiar with the specifics of the promotion process there).
Ski towns should have prioritized apartments and condos in dense villages to make proper transit in town and from the city make sense. Instead they allowed mostly large single family homes.
99.95% uptime is a few hours a year of downtime. Some people lose power almost daily. The thing about exponential / logarithmic distributions is your sense of what is frequent or rare is quite arbitrary and based on your own experiences which are rarely all that representative.

When I lived on country roads miles out of town power outages happened many times a year, occasionally for days. Some I’ve lived in big buildings with buried power lines I’ve never had an outage in years. People in developing economies in some places only have occasional electricity. Is quite hard to say which one is normal.
Thanks for the link. I'm not a lithography expert, but this looks like a Cerebras-style approach at a smaller scale. It might be cheaper than the EMIB/InFo approach since there's no interposer with the associated alignment and thickness issues. In the keynote Apple explicitly said they're using a silicon interposer, which doesn't sound like this patent.
2TB egress a month (the quotes figure to be in top 1%) on AWS is ~$200/m. For a full solution charging $300 a month doesn’t seem unreasonable.

These ad-supported giants skew peoples idea of cost. They make it harder for others to compete - generating outrage when people compare the relative price to “free”.
Not the parent comment but I'm getting random freezes on two different machines with different guts; sometimes system resumes and sometimes it requires a hard reset. Doesn't matter if its Manjaro or Linux Mint or Fedora, or which kernel I'm using.

My GPU is no longer supported and I couldn't revert to last working Nvidia drivers in Manjaro because things were changed. Not sure how the open source version is capable of rendering 3D or compatible with Lutris/Wine.

It's not the "barely works" in my case but there are issues around that are giving me a feeling I'm using Windows 98 and ME again.
Lots of people have lots of money. None of them are doing what Musk is.

Besides, although Musk was born into wealth, there's no evidence on his wikipedia page that he had access to it:

"working odd jobs at a farm and lumber-mill"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

"Musk says that before the company became successful, he could not afford an apartment and instead rented an office and slept on the couch and showered at the YMCA, and shared one computer with his brother."

He made his initial money on an internet startup. Nothing wrong with that.
I just picked the first vendor off the top of my head and Brother came to mind. Feel free to replace it with any other vendor/manufacturer. In no way is it meant to single out brother as being poor on Linux.
Thanks, this is a helpful explanation since I'm considering a UPenn degree programme at the moment.
That’s not grammatically correct in my opinion. I’d say “je n’aime autant pas” ou “je ne préférerais pas” but it doesn’t sound exactly like it should.
Really looks like damaged RAM. You should run a memtest.
I'm not readily finding an (English language) origin story online for the term and since it's a German word, searching brings up mostly German resources and my German isn't that good.

Here is an English language piece on forest dieback:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_dieback

I recall the story from some college class I had but my memory isn't what it used to be. Perhaps I'm wrong about the origin story.

Thank you for supplying the word. I always want to say waldtot and I know that's not right.
Called the good guy discount. Or nice guy discount.
Personally, I've advocated for many user-friendly scenarios only to get shutdown by "business decisions" higher up by folks who have been in Windows for 20+ years. The engineering culture inside of Windows, from my experience, is poor and not improving
Not sure why that's annoying? The right side doesn't really make sense.

Though it does seem pretty easy for a novice to do thinking it's the same, but what does 1.month.to_i even mean!?
Article:

> "Originally the unit in “unit test” did not refer to the system under test but the test itself. Meaning the test can be executed as one unit and does not depend on other tests to run upfront (see here and here)."

I find the links provided to support for this proposition underwhelming. In any case it matters zero. No-one interprets unit test that way any more. Everyone interprets it the other way round, like defined on Wikipedia:

> "In computer programming, unit testing is a software testing method by which individual units of source code—sets of one or more computer program modules together with associated control data, usage procedures, and operating procedures—are tested to determine whether they are fit for use. Unit tests are typically automated tests written and run by software developers to ensure that a section of an application (known as the "unit") meets its design and behaves as intended. In procedural programming, a unit could be an entire module, but it is more commonly an individual function or procedure. In object-oriented programming, a unit is often an entire interface, such as a class, or an individual method." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing

It's generally accepted good practice to not have dependencies between unit tests. Dependencies between unit tests are generally accepted as bad practice.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is its last chance to do so
This doesn’t really answer the question either. The severity sought is absent. The bigger issue though is self-reported symptoms of disease are present in over 50% of people who never had the disease, in other similar studies.

Clinic-based symptoms or complications for at least a month means those individuals were monitored for at least a month, which leaves out everyone I know who had it and lived.
"Learn To Code" was aimed at journalists after they published some derisive business at blue-collar workers, that laid off coal miners should "learn to code."

Having it thrown back in their face is what irritates them.
Don't you mean "a company can deliberately make itself anti-racist and anti-sexist"? Otherwise that second sentence doesn't make sense in the context of your entire comment.
You're right, I did enjoy reading the paper.

The graph cycles are neat, but they even admit in their own paper [0] that the approach is limited to half the max path asymmetry (RTT/2 if the asymmetry is totally unknown) -- pure software clocks have hard lower bounds on accuracy that can't be overcome without additional information (which digging elsewhere on their site it looks like they do actually integrate with sources like GPS antennas).

The rest of it is actually pretty interesting; in a datacenter context you might very well have low asymmetry, and everything else seems well done and likely to be much better than NTP for common scenarios.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18...
The US continues to fail to effectively clean up the 56 million gallons of high level waste at the Hanford nuclear site and others throughout the US. Nuclear waste is slowly seeping into the water table and the Columbia river. The site is threatened by the risk of earthquakes, volcanoes, and flooding. We are no where closer to making it safe now than we were in 1985.

While I appreciate the devotion to facts, I feel the portrayal still rings true. These risks are catastrophic and are to this day being handled with scandalous incompetence.
> Google pay has been a hot mess.

I recently replaced my iPhone 12 Pro with a Pixel 5a. I never had any issues with Apple Pay, but I'd say that about 30% of the time I try using Google Pay at stores and restaurants in my city, something goes wrong. Usually I get a green checkmark on my Pixel, bit the reader doesn't agree, and I have to try again. In fact just this afternoon the reader gave some arcane error message that looked like it belonged in a log file rather than on the screen of a consumer-facing payment device. The clerk told me, "Apple Pay seems to work fine. Google phones always have trouble. Do you just have a card you can use instead?"
> I'm not a Business Major or anything, but I'm guessing the median mark-up on items is 100% (50% profit).

Well, there's your first problem. A 100% markup will only yield 50% profit if you have no operating costs at all.
True, but it can still be pretty CPU intensive. Plus on laptops it's a bigger deal.
It seems like this tweetstorm is rooted in Sam getting asked to acknowledge that his privilege made his life possible?
That's in the article...?
A local computer store doesn't likely have a lot of flexibility on price. They're working on low margins and are competing in a tight market already with online sellers. They're going to argue that they're offering something other than price- whether that's support, return policies, supporting local, etc.

But many of the comments on here have been anti-haggling, which is another way to say "Anti-negotiation". The problem I see isn't negotiation but instead how the negotiation takes place.

Let's take this computer store as an example. If you're one customer and you're making a single purchase- this is a simple transactional relationship and it behooves the store to optimize against such customers.

But if you are a customer who has been buying from this store for 10 years and using them for all the computer needs of a small business, presumably they've built a relationship up, in which case the computer store should know that they're gaining a loyal high-volume customer- a valuable asset indeed.

This means they can negotiate on many things, price being only one. They could negotiate on a barter of services, or they could negotiate on a personal relationship that's built up, or they could negotiate on service.

A good negotiation rarely happens in a single transaction.
Energy consumption of HW accelerated AV1 decoding vs h265?
I'm not taking offense so much as refuting your argument.

Did I use that word right?
What is worst or better is not what matters in this instance. This is a matter of the reality of what will probably lead to the adoption of an OS. Would I be happy with Chrome OS displacing Windows? No. Am I happy with Windows having the market share it does? No. But what I want doesn't matter in adoption. What matters is, Chrome OS has a strategy that will probably work. And that strategy doesn't involve tech influences getting excited over the product, it is simply getting it in kid's hand so they think Chrome OS is how a computer should be. Regardless if that is true. That is why Linux adoption for the common user sucks, their first experience was probably Windows, so in their mind, Windows is how a computer should be.
San Francisco's Mission Street Is 30 Mexica Hearts Wide
That still would ignore major sources of pollutants, such as tires (that get distributed into the air and on the road while driving). Electric cars do not improve that at all. If we just focus on emissions from the motors, why can't we just replace the motors instead of producing new seats, steering wheels and doors, while attaching a bunch of computers to it that also undermine the driver's privacy, and selling the package for double the price?
You’re not wrong, I don’t know why you’re being voted down. You’d need a double-blind study for these results to be reliable.
I don't like the idea of "positive rights" at least as applied to human rights. I don't think it makes sense to consider something a "right" when it requires the active participation of others to provide.

Education is good, but it should be as cheap and simple as possible. Putting it in universities that cost more than the per-capita GDP to attend is about as far from that as it gets. If we take that system and call it a "human right" and get the Government directly involved in paying for it, we're only making it worse by institutionalizing all of the bad practices that make it so insanely expensive, making it even more difficult to ever change and effectively extracting even more money from the people who don't use it.

Education is also not for everyone, and not at every time. People should pursue it because they actually want it, not because they perceive or are told they need it to succeed in life. We shouldn't tell kids they're destined for failure if they don't go to college, shouldn't shame people for being interested in jobs that don't need college, and shouldn't require college degrees for jobs that don't actually need it.
Fair enough. I've heard about it happening. I've seen how it's underreported, so I suspect it's undercounted.

I understand others may want to take the gamble that, while there are short and medium term symptoms, Covid has minimal long term effect. Until there's much better research that doesn't make sense to me. I'd rather take the known small suffering of wearing a mask and avoiding indoor activities instead of accepting the unknown risk of never being able to code large projects, climb, or hike for the rest of my life.
> The prices are driven by student loan availability and the need for investment in amenities for colleges to attract students.

Does the US have colleges that choose to attract students with lower prices instead?
I wouldn't say I've had zero issues or that everything just works, but things tend to fail less often or in less inscrutable ways than Windows or MacOS.
I haven’t heard that one before about Ford. GM supported / took over a school and renamed it the GM Institute of Technology in its earlier years, now it’s Kettering University [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_University
I don't really care how a company arrange their PCBs. It's just like writing code, as long as the code is correct, easily readable, expressive and have great eventual performance, it's a good code, you don't have to keep your lines in a visually beautiful perfect symmetry to achieve that.

The same is true for PCB design: as long as the board is correct, reasonable, stable and have good performance, it's a good board.

Based on the video, in order to clean up the dirty fans in this machine (something you'll start to do eventually), you'll have to:

1. Un-glue the button rubble stand ring to access the body screws,

2. Remove the exposed power supply (Risk getting shocked or worse),

3. Detach almost everything (screws, tapes and cables) you can see, so you can un-mount the main board to access the fans.

Then, after done cleaning, you have to do everything again but in reverse.

My opinion is, Apple can make their circuits look like a Steve Jobs thonk pose, but if an user has to go through all that many trouble and risks to preform such simple and (rare but) routine task, this design is bad.
Fair point. I was only referring to the Dune saga.
Google does kill off a lot of products, but I wouldn't hold my breath on Chrome OS. It is paying off for them in the education space. They have an OS that ships on cheap computers that work well enough for students. Gets them in the google ecosystem and the mind set of Chrome OS is what a computer should be. Not to mention contracts in place with school systems that probably nets them easy money.

https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/chrome-os/chromebook/228534/....
Couldn't agree more. I want to teach in a university. But I won't be able to even if I join one as a faculty.
Using a web renderer disqualifies it from being "native".
US housing inventory is 860k which is at historic lows compared to 1.5m pre-pandemic. It's a housing supply issue. Salt Lake City and Missoula are up 45% YOY with inventories down 40-50%.
How can they possibly have that data when we are talking about omicron? They have no idea whether it is omicron or vaccinations, and that distinction only comes into play if we even have measurable results for long covid from omicron, which has only been around for a few months.
Kind of. Long, convoluted interview processes are expensive in the opportunity cost of not having the role filled and in the actual work that needs to happen to conduct the interviews. That gets weight against the (presumed large) cost of a bad hire, but hiring is expensive, and practices that slow it down across the board to reduce a few bad hires might not be worth it.
Some never recover. Comparing to what you personal had and who you know to downplay doesn't make for a compelling case.