skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the poking / changes they're doing in Windows 11 indicates that they are happy to change things. But they're just really bad at it / should have done it all or not at all until they were ready.

They seem to have finally picked some UI overlords to make decisions, but sadly they're bad decisions... and doing it bit by bit.
None of my workloads (5x Cloud Run services, 10's of Functions) have anywhere near 5s cold starts. More like 2s with network latency.
> In the end I decided the only real way to tell if what we were doing was working, was to turn it all off, for several months to see if there was a measurable difference.

This is how he should have started. It’s called incrementality. You have a control group with no ads and you compare against a group shown ads. Then you can measure lift.

This is Marketing 101.
The perception of a connection is valuable for everyone from senators to plumbers, but rarely is it a reciprocal and enduring connection. I think this is the same basic question as the degree to which a waiter or barista is having a relationship with their customers.

Content creators may have strong individual connections to some viewers. However abstracting that to the audience as a whole is like suggesting you have a relationship with the miner who extracted some copper in whatever device you’re using right now. It’s can be meaningful to talk about such weak connections in contexts like economics, but individually most such connections don’t rise to the level of having an emotional response.
2016. AWS to GCP. Mostly cost reasons and AWS had some annoyances at the time.

We also replaced our ~4y old very manual setup with a ground-up rewrite with terraform.

Zero regrets, but we didn't have a lot of vendor-lock in with <100 VMs and S3 + a couple of SSL things.
because they can't afford to live there
i've had a similar experience in past, winding up with an employer mandated windows desktop after a decade of pure linux (thanks canonical and debian and everybody else!) was jarring to say the least. in the end i found my way, but it was not fun.

the big issue i have with windows is that it normalizes a whole bunch of approaches to computing that i think are bad. i think this is particularly problematic in the context of software design and development. people are influenced by what they interact with everyday...
Obviously when something is said to have "prevented deaths" this means early deaths from accidents/illness...

Here, as is explained is the tweet, the claim is based on the reduction in air pollution.
My problems with unit testing:

- There's no consensus on what a "unit" is.

- There's no consensus on how much coverage is needed.

- There's no consensus on what should be mocked.

- There's no consensus on if private methods should be tested independently, even though they obviously shouldn't.

- It violates "don't repeat yourself".

- The developers who write the tests usually write the code. Most bugs occur when developers overlook a use case. Do the math.
A lot of words that amount to: NIH.
These articles typically come in the form of, I was paying for my brand name when I was number one on organic search. I wasn't validating any of my other ad spend, I stopped and didn't see any negative impact, therefore advertising doesn't work/is a scam.

As someone who's worked in the industry a while, I agree that it's a sad state of affairs generally but when people extrapolate that this means all advertising is bs it's just not true. Fundamentally business orders should track results from their ads the same way they look at impact anywhere else in their business.
It’s very easy, this kind of testing is crucial for hardware (in a way that it is not for software).

At the most basic level this is done through scan, which allows you to test every single wire in the design for several faults (stuck at 0 and stuck at 1 being the most important). This covers the vast majority of failures (for example missing vias and missing contacts). For memory other techniques are needed (reading and writing fixed patterns) and various ‘repairs’ can be done by blowing fuses to translate faulty addresses.

So for example you might do scan test (the first one) at the wafer before the dies are even cut, then assume that the majority of dies will have repairable (rather than irreparable) memory errors and only test those after packaging.
the FAA enforces strict deadlines upon those it regulates, but seems to ignore deadlines set for itself or by Congress.

I think this just comes with the bureaucratic territory. My wife works in healthcare finance, especially with CMS on Medicare reimbursement. Having watched her doing this for a couple decades now, I can tell you that if you miss a CMS deadline by a day, they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks. But the deadlines set for their own operations are purely aspirational. They seem to kinda maybe try to come near those dates, but they're almost universally slipped. Adding insult to injury, when CMS misses a date to publish new regulations or whatever, that doesn't necessarily mean that my wife gets a corresponding number of days to submit her responses: she's often got to absorb it on her side, working faster because the government works slower.
I just wanted to take a sec and say I've been using Calyx for eight or nine months now- sure, there was some pain that came in the first month from adjusting to a new phone OS (there always will be when being a Samsung lifer trying something new to me), but overall I've been very pleased with it. Thanks for all the work you and the team have put into it :).
Not much to say about it. Mips is twos compliment like all processors in the past ~60 years.
You can use 3rd party tools to conduct tests so they are not affected by the outcome.
Highly recommend WireGuard for this (see kilo for k8s specific that works with whatever network you have setup). Setting up a VPN that just works is super simple.
Why? Can you explain that thought process? i.e. everything should be niche? Like toothpaste for devops engineers who want their teeth to grow in the dark when they are around 2 or more wifi networks?
Perhaps PowerShell will be ready in the same year as Linux for the Desktop?
Thank you. Subscribed. This article [1], in particular, is a gem out of the current edition.

(Aesthetic note: that's the actual URL. No trackers. No strings of nonsense. Sweetly concise. Says more than I realized about a team's culture.)

[1] https://mondediplo.com/2022/04/03nuclear
Yes from Linode to Hetzner [1]

Mainly because of price: more CPU/RAM/Storage for a lower price.

I think my previous server was underpowered, because it kept swapping. Now it runs as smooth as it can (it never swaps). Migrating is a bit of a hassle though and things might not work as you expect [2]

[1] https://j11g.com/2021/12/28/migrating-a-lamp-vps/

[2] https://j11g.com/2022/01/03/bypassing-hetzner-mail-port-bloc...
My personal website https://andykais.com. The "Art" link is probably my proudest page (https://andykais.com/moleskine). I'm not using any libraries to implement this effect
GAMI is a firm that develops avgas[0]. Avgas is a shorthand for aviation gas, or fuel. G100UL is an unleaded avgas that acts as drop-in replacement for 100LL(100 Low Lead), used heavily in general aviation, think little Cessna. And yeah, the terms are all pretty standard for anyone who has flown before. Analogous to saying DFS instead of depth first search for anyone in computer science land. Hope it helps!

[0]https://gami.com/g100ul/news.php
It's hard to reason from his post, but it seems like he's spending money on branded search terms. E.g. queries that include his website in its name.
The effectiveness of branded search terms is absolutely worth discussing, and it's pretty easy to run a small scale test on if it works by comparing organic and paid traffic after the fact.

But the issue is that this article doesn't differentiate between branded and non-branded search terms. Did he run campaigns on non-branded searches like "Registration checker UK" to get build awareness of his service for new customers doing broad searches? Did he compare his organic non-branded search engine presence with his results when running paid ads?

Also, his service doesn't seem like a great match for the advertising channel either. It's hard to turn a profit when your service costs £8. The product - channel fit [0] doesn't seem right. So all in all, not such a great experiment.

https://brianbalfour.com/essays/product-channel-fit-for-grow...
I think it's hard for people to appreciate just how much human behavior is driven by those fields.
It sounds like the idea of “the universe has no plan for you” really didn’t help considering you needed therapy
It's very common in Sweden to heat single family houses this way (300k installations). It costs about 15k EUR to install, and according to ads can lower you heating costs by "up to 80%".
It’s not like the Tories cancelled the policy, unlike say Heathrow expansion (albeit only temporarily).

That said the coalition government had a “no [taxpayer] subsidy” policy, which possibly was in contrast to the Labour policy. Nonetheless, this problem was “solved” by having electricity consumers fund an expensive CDF, as opposed to the government investing capital.
> . My general feelings were “This is it? This is Windows 7 with a coat of paint”

My general feeling is if Windows 7 still receive free secure updates, I'd be using it. I have no real need for anything more than Windows 7 but more secure, and don't see how any computer OS has improved in the past decade.
Works for shrimp as well. On some of the bayous south of New Orleans, people will set up metal arms like the ones used to control entry into parking lots (though obviously larger) and attach shrimping nets to them. When the ebb tide begins, they lower the boom. When the flow velocity gets lower, they raise it and harvest what's inside. Most are not very large, but (unsurprisingly) they are home to a lot of fishing camps, and small shrimp make good bait for redfish or black drum (which, in addition to being fun to catch, are absolutely delicious).
> People demand mediocrity and are furious when they don't get it.

Remember that people have different preferences.

Those objecting to Wolfram tend to be those who appreciate a "quiet confidence" style, which lets your work stand for itself rather than needing you to function as its hype man. To such people, Wolfram's general presentation style reads as puffery-covering-mediocrity -- someone who truly had what he claims wouldn't need to spend so much time talking themself up. (Note that the major point made across much of the criticism of his new science here is, approximately, "I'll believe it when I see it".)

Of course, opinions vary. There are others who think that someone who's great should promote themselves as much as their work deserves, and to them Wolfram is perfectly reasonable.

If you want an example of this divide outside of the science field, look at Trump. Depending on your own preferences, and for similar presentational reasons as Wolfram, he either reads as a tough and competent man or as wildly insecure.
I was thinking about the kernel, 65 CVEs so far this year.
Go do some reading and then come back with an informed opinion because you don't have the basics down.
Ya but a better lesson would be to do what has ROI. Ads work great, but you have to measure them, and you don't pay for traffic you get for free (such as your brand name).
Leaked MEMO: NYT has issued a Twitter 'reset,' urges reduction in Twitter use
The nonexistence of a competitor in many cases. But yes you’ve hit the dirty secret of search ads — they are often a highway toll to receive the traffic you would probably already receive barring fierce competition
>It takes a really long time to switch platforms and feel comfortable in them, and without spending a long time adjusting, it's too easy to complain and quite hard to provide a fair review...

I agree.

Some of the fixes for his complaints are effectively customizations, not unlike the customizations I'd make in Linux. I'm not sure some of these differences are really that different.
Though my day job is in tech, I've always been interested in Geology and Paleontology. It was my second choice for a major, when I was still in high school.

There's an awesome article[0] from The New Yorker about the site mentioned in the article, called "The Day the Dinosaurs Died". At just over an hour, it's an awesome listen.

0 -> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-di...
Thanks for reposting! I created an account to reply, but I seem to have been shadowbanned. Not sure why, I've emailed the mods to ask what's up.
Could you be more specific as to why? I'm sure you have a crunchy anecdote to share :-)
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Thinknum has 300+ clients across major corporations and investment firms.

Job Description
We are looking for a Vice President of Sales to help take us to the next level. You should have a strong record of closing large enterprise deals and several years of experience managing a medium-sized sales team (20 people). Experience in SaaS / Data is a plus. Experience selling to large corporations/investment funds is a plus.

Objectives
-recruit and hire account executives, BDRs, and SDRs, both in-office and remotely
-manage sales pipeline and coach
-manage call preparation and do call reviews and weekly meetings with each person on the sales team
-collaborate with the product and marketing team to develop an outreach strategy

Qualifications
-experience with scaling a Series A startup and building a great team of at least 20 people
-Familiarity with relevant technologies such as Salesforce, LinkedIn, Outreach

Please send your resume to jzhen@thinknum.com if you are interested
Laughable. There was 0 research, most of the claims can be proven wrong with a simple web search.

I find it always amazing how Linux users claim you can't customize or tinker Windows, which is plain wrong. Basic search in Windows docs shows it:

> You can’t customize anything!

You can customize a lot of things, and even, make your own Windows "distribution": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...

> It’s a commercial OS, aimed at users of Word, Excel & Outlook, pretty much.

The dev-tools are not included, yes, because most of the users doesn't need it.
The windows devtools are excellent. Take a look at Event Tracing for Windows as an example.

> Non-composable Software ... The command line tools

Yeah and Powershell exists ? You can pipe objects with Powershell.

> Paths

Sigh: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/usm...

> Installing Software

chocolatey.

> multiple clipboards

win+v

> to match my Linux workflow

Exactly, stop, don't, you will scream at a Windows user if they try to use their Windows workflow on Linux, why are you doing the same thing ?
Esperanto is the most well known International Auxiliary Language, often known by many who do not knows that others IAL exists, but the real reason behind it is not accepted by any élite and being not understood by the masses never took off.

The main point is: to be peaceful and diverse we need a common easy language to communicate, one that put everyone on par, so an artificial language. Unfortunately to craft a society all élite need a common language of course limited to their "society", so the current world superpower de-facto impose it's language. In the past was French, not English, tomorrow who knows.

Until people realize that to really progress we need to be diverse and communicative and so we need a common language just for international relations no one will push toward that and nothing really change.

To figure out how much a language means just try the ability to read the press from many different countries and how doing so form a less directed vision of the world making easy to spot propaganda from reality.
The genius engineering of the 3½ inch floppy disk [video]
Of course it has a wide selection, but my point is what some part of Americans (who as beforementioned "didn't like milk", not every one, of course) don't even understand what milk comes in a different fat content selection.

If that was a just a random encounter on my own I wouldn't even bother with making any conclusions, but I've seen it many times, incidentally some of them was after tasting milk in some other country, like in th GP comment.

It is interesting thing on its own, why there is a such phenomen and as I understand part of it is attributed to the plain old povetry (hence skimmed milk diluted with water) but tgere was an overall change in the mindset about how and how many milk should be consumed somewere around the middle of 20
th c. in the USA.

I could made the part about "some Americans" clearer, as evident by downvotes, but ehat is done...
Volumetric brain researcher here. Volumetric decreases across development do not represent a singular causal process. Same for volumetric increases. Volumetric changes can reflect a number of developmental processes, often concurrently and in opposite directions. I suspect that the declines in middle adulthood are not caused by the same causes of declines in the elderly, or at different stages, or a by a different mixture of causes.

Here is an example from my own research on amygdala growth, headed by my colleague Derek Andrews, a great scientist and colleague.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35341582/
The Vicky companies in Diamond Age are basically John Company, the British East India Company, I think it even more or less says as such, calling it John Zaibatsu. The Victorians appear to live in a plutocracy, but it's very particularly a Victorian plutocracy, we don't see any poor Vickies, the thetes living down in the LT are not Victorians and nor are the artisans on the hillside. The nature of the Mandarins is unclear, whether Doctor X is unusual in operating an actual business close to the LT, or whether actually the Middle Kingdom, too, is controlled by businesses and the Mandarins are the owners.

And as to the idea that it became true, well, here in the real world it is Russia that invaded Ukraine and not an invasion by Gazprom or whoever. The sovereign entities are still fundamentally concrete in a way that a corporation is not.

The Fists in Diamond Age may in some sense be tools of the Mandarins, but certainly the Mouse Army don't work for anybody except Princess Nell, their loyalty to her has been blended into all their learning from infancy, almost without anybody consciously intending this (Hackworth is ultimately responsible, but if/why Hackworth chooses Nell rather than his own daughter is unclear, we don't see enough of the other copies of the Primer to discern whether the other two girls could have led the Mouse Army, the novel is about Nell).
Good advertising works, good advertising is hard so hard that even advertising agencies are not able to produce it most of the time. It's more a question of time and space I always go for opportunistic advertising is there something in the aether or is there a trend coming up which my product perfectly fits? That's the time to ramp up ad spending. There just is no need to have campaigns running just to produce background noise. Nobody cares about it most of the time not even yourself.
I think it's relatively uncontroversial that advertising is a "strategy" for either low quality, not needed, or undifferentiated offerings, and that when looking at how a company goes to market, there is a choice of putting $ into advertising or into a better product.

I generally use advertising as a proxy for inverse utility. It would definitely be better to have more products that targeted being good, as opposed to ones that target influencing people to buy them.
Instead of asking questions... why not do your own research, draw your own conclusions?
https://gavinr.com

Using Hugo
Oops, I missed that. I would enjoy this feature but I think it's unlikely to be considered by the committee. As far as I'm aware it hasn't been discussed.
It isn't an important standard for really obscure words. However, if Merriam-Webster forgot something like "him," you would look askance.

We both know this. Why pretend?
WSL + Windows Terminal is enough for 90% of what I need to do. I say this as someone who uses Linux on all my personal machines. You'll even get WSL automatically these days if you install Docker Desktop for Windows.

The most annoying part, for me, is having to double-install certain tools both inside and outside of WSL (e.g. having to install git or openjdk twice). But it's a comparatively minor irritation, given how much better WSL2 works in general than previous solutions.
Ah sorry, I didn't see the part about using them as jump planes. Not sure about that, the ones I've seen are usually turbines. Plenty of twin-pistons used for transport though.
California is huge with many inexpensive places to live. However the coast and some of the more desirable interior are very expensive.
Album Art images are not exactly 500K. The percent mixup conjecture is just as evidence based as the Album Art conjecture.
Yes, you really need to be able to specify what's important to you. Their "traditional lifestyle" factor is definitely not on my list. Also, there can be great places in what would otherwise be dismal states. New Mexico is next to last on their list, and I understand why (it's one of the poorest states), but I'd move to Santa Fe in a heartbeat.

The "Where Should You Live?" quiz that the New York Times did [1] [2] is a much better design, IMO.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/23/opinion/sunda...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/23/opinion/sunda... (archived: https://archive.ph/oODZJ )
I look into what it going on from time to time, they are in the process of moving from GTK v2 to v3. Apparently it is not a easy transition but when it is done (GIMP v3) implementing adjustment layers and other new features should not take as much effort. I am going off memory so don't quote this as fact.
There are plenty of good reasons to roll your own solution. A blog is about as risk-free of a situation as you will get when it comes to rolling your own.

It's not like the author is rolling their own encryption library.
Not them, but this is the info we have;

I was paying for in-search adverts across multiple search engines, I was commissioning custom made adverts to place in online used car market places. I was spending time optimising the 'bid' in automated advertising system, trying to get the best bang for buck

My questions,

* custom made for whom?

* How did they select them?

* When did they show up?

* How were those terms selected?

* What terms did they select and which performed better?

* Did they track visits using different ones to see which had the best conversions?

* Optimizing can be most impressions or for quality. Basically show to as many people as possible vs fewer but better conversion. We don't know here, but I see most people doing most impressions.
All of 4chan did. It seems optimal for most people.
That got really personal really fast for no reason...
At hyper scale you don't need to worry about sharing as much because the important services are far bigger than one machine. That sidesteps the problem: you can apply whatever sysctls or configs you need to do before starting the container.

"Multitenancy" here means "I have a giant pool of machines and I run a bunch of jobs across them" not "I have a pool of giant machines and I stack jobs on them".
I'm not American, and I'm part of their target :)
https://www.adamconrad.dev - I used to write more on programming when I was a developer. Now I write mostly on engineering management and how to become an engineering manager.
I'd never thought of seeing life/career planning as a version of the secretary problem, but it makes sense. Cool!