skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK used to use milliard, and officially switched to billion for 10⁹ in 1974.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale (there's a map of current usage, most of Europe uses milliard etc.)
I would say that .5 is more like .75 - still gotta go through traffic to get to work, and people are still in a place they (apparently) rather not be. Eliminating the day entirely is still quite valuable compared to leaving it as-is.
Are you against all lossy compression methods as well? The watermark can simply be a slight tweak of the compression algorithm that could as well have been done for non-watermarking reasons.
Uhm, that's not what it indicates. The fnords aren't funny or anything at all, they little things that go unnoticed. They're around you but you never see them, even though they (may) have meaning or effect on you.

Like parts of links that you click on but don't really see.
When ACA was passed (Obamacare), it expanded healthcare benefits to millions of part-time workers based on a new definition of "full time" that meant >=30 hours.

The result was simply that many employees had their weekly hours cut to less than 30 hours.
>> the missile making dogfights obsolete -- a little early, but true eventually.

Not true so. The US thought that in Vietnam, the F-4 (?) didn't have an on-board canon for that very reason. All new planes again have one, because dog fights turned out to be very much a thing. The Phoenix missile, and the F-14, have been built around the beyond-visual range idea. Both are out of service now. Beyond visual range works when you see the enemy but the enemy doesn't see you. If both parties see each other, the first shot will be beyond visual range, any survivors will find themselves in dog fight after that. And if both side use stealthy fighters, they won't see each other, or be able to engage each other, at distances beyond a dog fight.
The other reason I do it like this, is because many years ago I got a comment from an auditor about an item on the install-log: "Used CD-Image from https://cdimage...", because he spotted the "/unofficial/non-free/" part of the URL. The resulting discussion is what I wanted to avoid in future.
Does make it safe food though
Yeah, I'm sorry you're being downvoted. I totally agree and I'll sign myself up for getting downvoted too. There's nothing I hate more than cargo-cult programming and cargo-cult thinking, which always takes the form of these unthinking quarter-correct maxims like "dependencies are bad!", or "state in your server is bad!", or "O(1) algorithms are better than O(n) - so use my algorithm that achieves constant time by iterating over everything in the known universe!".

It's not just not thinking pragmatically, it's not thinking tout court. It's a thought-terminating cliché. It's trying to reduce problem X to universal solution Y because you don't trust yourself to genuinely think it through. It's the programming equivalent of Reddit neckbeards who regurgitate (semi-accurate) names of logical fallacies from Wikipedia rather than actually evaluating the other person's argument.
First get rid of exempt status for most non-equity dependent positions- unless you're receiving a significant share of the profits there is no justification for an engineer, much less a teacher, to be forced to work unpaid overtime.
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That sounds impossible to deal with. So you pick your groceries based on price presumably and then when you get to the register they can be something totally different? So as they are getting rung up you would have to say "no thanks for that one, please put it back" on every price you are not in agreement on?
It’s probably just misleading to people who don’t understand the implied semantic (which you describe above). That seems like a fair (if minor) criticism. I certainly think there’s a lot of validity in listing the manually managed dependencies, but maybe it would be clearer if we called them “manually managed dependencies” rather than simply “dependencies”?
There's technical knowledge, and there's ecosystem knowledge.

To know which applications/libraries are available and suitable for a certain task, and what their individual strengths and weaknesses are, is a very different set of knowledge, and often a vastly underestimated part of experience.

I've been using Linux and other Unix/BSD operating systems since the nineties, and I'm completely lost when it comes to helping out others about App store or Windows store options. I can imagine that it's especially hard in Linux to be missing that sort of ecosystem information, as the installation process often assumes some level of technical proficiency and up-front knowledge already.

For experienced Linux users, the experience of freedom is a lot greater than using Windows, Android or Apple operating systems; but if you're just starting out and all unknowns turn up more unknowns, it might be a pretty frustrating experience. I think you have to choose if you want to learn, or if you're willing to settle with whatever you're given in the Windows, Android and Apple world.
That's a tad pedantic. They add the . so people immediately know its not $29, and that it's a low number. No one sells things for decimals of a penny. I think they gain more legibility than they lose on average by writing it that way.
Embed is fairly new; not new this release, but not that old. If you're not keeping up with every new release it is easy to not yet be aware of the new features.

But, yes, to samhw's issues, it is now trivial in Go and built into the standard library to embed arbitrary files and/or directories into a Go executable. Also have no idea what the "semi-grudging" comment about build tags are; they've been there since the beginning and heavily used by the Go standard library for many things. Go, of all languages lately, is the most comfortable with reserving things for the compiler/runtime; if they wanted to, they would have. It was always obvious that build tags were necessary and I don't see what's "grudging" about them at all.
Many years ago. Knew a tech worker that had worked years of unpaid overtime for IBM.

She said it was fine, because she was exempt. So I looked up the definition of exempt. She didn't meet the legal definition. Argued with her for hours over it. She refused to believe that she was being taken advantage of. In her mind all a company had to do was say you were exempt, and that was enough. Eventually I gave up.

Following year, IBM lost a big lawsuit. She got a very big check.

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2006/11/26/ibm-pays-tech-wor...
Air-to-air combat has been beyond visual range (BVR) for ages now.
It's not so much for when it actually happens, but publicly driving around in a car that will kill bystanders when attacked is still a no-no from a PR perspective. Just imagine how many attack ads you could create off that one thing alone.
The idea that you had to instrumentally combine perceptual and symbolic reasoning has been around since at least the 1970s and has been implemented variously (see, for example: Hermina J.M. Tabachneck-Schijf, Anthony M. Leonardo, Herbert A. Simon (1997) CaMeRa: A Computational Model of Multiple Representations). What those models didn't do is learn, but just pouring learning into that sort of model and hoping it will magically become a GAI seems like an implementation idea without a theory.
> It's certainly good to think about how to reduce supply chain risk - and that may begin with thinking about dependencies, but it certainly shouldn't end there.

I don't think anyone here said it does.
The Future of the web is marketing copy generated by algorithms
I was afraid of Nix before I adopted it based on what I've read. Now that I've taken the leap, there is no going back. Other operating systems are crude dinosaurs in comparison. Once you get past the learning curve and the initial setup (which can be steep), your system will be far more stable and easy to maintain than anything out there. Declarative OS builds are the future, whether it's Nix or something else.
That's exactly something to look out for. As I mentioned in another comment, they aren't spreading falsehoods per se, they're just underrepresenting them; safe from lawsuits AND downplaying the pandemic.

But even factually correct numbers, presented neutrally, can still fuel an agenda. For example, most corona related articles focus on the number of deaths, but don't mention the number of cases nor the amount of people with long-term effects, nor the long term effects of e.g. the organ scarring that the 'rona can cause. It's deception - or downplaying - via omission.
The word "even" here in the title indicates a fundamental lack of understanding of just how bad the New York Times is.

If you are ever very close to the subject of a story, to the point where you know the important details, and then you see that subject get covered by the New York Times, you will see just how bad they are. Exceedingly, horrendously, tragically bad with facts, and trying to put an ideological spin on everything. But I'll grant that it's often less bad than some of the others.
I was an armored vehicle officer in the USMC. ATGMs are a long standing threat.

There’s no scenario where hundreds of Javelins are sitting in one infantry company. It’s the type of thing that only makes sense on paper.

Would be much more worried about evolution of loitering fires with drones.
Ask gas stations. Every single gas station charges .9 cents at the end of the price.
I think this might be the difference between long and short scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale
Canada's housing market is a destination for capital flight from other countries. Imo, the market is completely financialized and not producing actual homes.

That money is also made in countries without the same levels of taxation Canada has, and that puts citizens at a huge disadvantage in their own market. Why should a 21yr old from North Bay or Timmins in Ontario have to compete for bidding on a house with the someone in the top 10% of earners in Hong Kong, Delhi, or Tehran - let alone their REITs? I'm a huge believer in positive sum economics, where people can be trusted and bet on to find a way and create new businesses and value, but that only works when there is a diversity of markets based on geography and not a single zero sum managed global one.

Whether one calls this "nationalism," or just a government being responsible for the people who elected it, the dynamic is clear. Canada's economy has been hollowed out by two decades of globalization, whereby all that "empty space" is not economical to inhabit because we can import everything people could produce in that new town at higher volumes and cheaper from asia. There is nothing "local," to be produced or manufactured for export that would facilitate growth, and therefore no incentive to build new housing to serve that local market. Precisely due to Canada's theory driven agricultural supply management laws against entrepreneurship and smallholders, there are no local markets either.

Even though I don't trust this govt to implement the rule in an effective way, it's the bare minimum necessary to mitigate a crisis. If millenials and gen Z and beyond do not have homes, they aren't going to have kids (after losing 2+ years on that path to covid), and the govt is using this policy to try and mitigate an imminent disruptive population bust. Boomers are coming to terms with the fact that generally, they aren't getting grandchildren (unless you count "fur babies"), and now Gen X is about to experience the same. As a signal that your society is damaged, consider that the only time any creatures on earth cease to have kids is during war or famine, or in captivity. The greater issue of the culture being broken and physically dying off isn't going to be stopped by banning foreign ownership, and unfortunately it may keep the people responsible for these policies in power even longer to do even more harm, but it's a sign they apprehend the disaster they have caused, imo.
I was thrilled when I read Spotify was coming to my country. Then the main genres I listen to (Reggae and Dancehall) have many tracks unavailable as the labels (VP Records is the worst) whitelist countries. I reverted back to local files.
Australia has a 35-hour work week... but so many breaks too. Morning coffee. Lunch. Afternoon tea. Like it really paced out the day nicely. Not sure if the breaks were mandated or just cultural.

Thing is, it never felt like we lost that much productivity. Spent a lot more at the local coffee shop though, that's for sure. But also, such better coffee than we have in the US.

I think 32 hours is weird. Like 32 / 5... 6 hours 24 minutes a day. Just strange way to slice it.
I have Cornell's Merlin app installed on my phone. It will recognize bird vocalizations and seems to do it rather well. Ambient noise has to be low, and if there are too many birds it doesn't work well either.
Colorado is pumping beef fat into a fancy airplane near you
You're a statistical outlier. Out of the millions of units they sell, someone is bound to end up with 2 lemons in a row. Sucks for you but it's not the case for millions of satisfied customers.
Slightly off-topic:-

>Someone on the endpoint receives your Captcha with the details

I did this stuff for a few days just for fun and to see if I can legitimately make some minute amount of money. Meaning, I was the 'worker' or the 'someone' on the endpoint.

2captcha actually paid me the exact amount of money what they said they owe me. It was approximately 2$ in 2 days (6 hours approx). Some captchas were easier while some of them were slightly difficult where you need to do addition based on digits you see on dices (from a image).
Look, I spent a decade there, as an employee and as an employer. I know what UAE ministry of labor will do to a company in case if they get a single complaint but, hey, what arguments can I possibly find to change your mind? You will keep finding facts that support your point of view.

Somebody with an agenda told you "Dubai slavery" long time ago and it is now easier for you to follow the narrative formed in your head. I get it, but the reality is different.
>Most European countries I see are well under 30 hours most mid to low 20s.

Which countries? The EU average is 37.2. I don't know of any that is under 30.
So does good society happen when prosocial truths are high status and antisocial truths are low status?

Edit: and the same for lies I suppose.
> You can just download a bunch of packages in parallel, extract them in parallel, and finally "merge" the prefixes to get those combined bin/ and lib/ dirs.

docker pull achieves the same result: layers are fetched in parallel, and they are extracted using pgiz (parallel gzip). It just uses a pre-defined order, which does not harm performances, but it is not useful either in case nixery is used.
Under the title “Serious Professionals Get It Wrong All The Time” there is a picture of a misaligned road/bridge. Does anyone know if this is a real picture? If so, what is the story and how did they fix it?
Haha I did missed that "i". Seems like a it's worthy of more than just "side project" title. My side projects look like crap compared to this. Very professionally done.
Yeah, it is wrong.

First of all, the coincidences become a lot less coincidence when you look at convergent evolution. For example tooth shape is tied to what you eat. Since we and pigs are both omnivores, we wind up with similar teeth.

Second, only related species can form hybrids. Lions and tigers split probably a bit under 4 million years ago. Donkeys and horses split a bit before that. We don't know when humans and chimps split, but you can find estimates everywhere from 7-12 million years. The split between primates and pigs appears to be about 80 million years ago. And the result is that lions and tigers can interbreed and the child can be fertile. Donkeys and horses can interbreed and the child is usually NOT fertile. We have no evidence that humans and chimps can have children, and it has probably been tried. As for more distant than that, farmers have been having regular sex with farm animals since farms existed, with no babies.

So I'm going firmly with "crank".
This is well written and is something I noticed too during my own house hunt: houses owned by teachers, plumbers, and car mechanics were getting fought over by engineers, doctors, and lawyers.
For me, I think their simplistic approach to blogging/newsletters is it's main benefit. Sign up, choose a subdomain/domain, upload a logo and start building a subscriber userbase! It takes no time to get up and running, and not having to care about billing/hosting/SEO/coding/design and such is very important for people who want to start writing fast and not worry about those things.
You still need something to move troops though, this just means that every tank will soon have lasers to target and destroy missiles fired at it.
Same... however, it's also the time that I actually get a chance to do things without being interrupted.
It's imperfect if used inaccurately. The fact that the words million and billion is only one letter apart isn't really relevant IMO. I mean a single letter turns an innocuous word into a rude insult, which suddenly wouldn't be a simple mistake anymore.
Considering that the NYT doesn’t hire copy editors anymore, it’s not surprising. They stopped in 2017.
I was responding to "striving to reduce the number of dependencies is a good goal". I don't think that's categorically true. I think it's an XY problem where one would do better to focus on the 'X' (i.e. reducing risk of malicious third-party code).
Elon so long as the AI doesn't take it over and uh- uh- murder us in our sleep or something Musk.
You're missing a big point of buying with a fixed mortgage though -- its partially a hedge against housing cost inflation. Sure, property taxes will go up as property values increase, but taxes aren't really that large of the total housing cost of my home. Taxes could double and it still wouldn't be the majority of the cost of my house. Most of my monthly cost of my house is P&I, values that won't go up.

My mortgage, insurance, taxes, and savings towards repairs is now a good bit less than the current rent at my last apartment just a couple of miles from my house. But my house has over twice the square footage, a private garage, a private yard, etc.
Unless you are starving, it is a matter of tradeoffs. At least half of people could take some sort of pay cut, as demonstrated by the fact that 50% of people do in fact make less.
Had a few jobs that were mostly just meetings. Mostly because there was so much red tape, that no real work could actually get done. Think, 200 hours of various employees time to approve a 5 hour project.
iOS app may still be covertly tracking you, despite what Apple says
That's how many people write 19 cents. For some people a decimal point is the thing that goes between dollars and cents. Yes, not a very rigorous system, not something you'll see in engineering or science, but something I see on shop signs.
The sign is perpetuating the idiocracy epidemic.
I think this article downplays the ludicrous effectiveness of anti-tank weapons in ww2.

https://youtu.be/QPJRd_XiDGg

Tanks have always been vulnerable to very cheap infrantry weapons if used badly.
I think the point is that the watermark is supposed to survive being re-encoded, so it can’t be something just in the compression algorithm.
Interesting, looks like laws differ in subtle ways for these kind of agreements. For reference in the Netherlands any offer you make is legally binding, though the deal has to make at least some sense to both parties (as well as satisfy a few other conditions).

A price of 1/5 ct would probably be considered too low to be sensible and would not be considered binding.
That's when you have the government bail them out :)
That's different though.

That method of representing price has been normalized.

We all know what it means.

That's different than miscommunication something.

My pet theory, is that putting 30c just 'feels' bigger to people. So a long time ago, everyone started putting .30c.
Repercussions of Transition Out of Elite Sport on Subjective Well-Being [pdf]
Rah. USMC austerity is fundamental to the corps, from what is supplied to individual Marines, all the way up to expenditures on larger tactical equipment, with the notable exception of the Osprey.
I always had a hard time trying to visualize these higher dimension objects. I think its because I actually have quite good visualization and spacial awareness. But going to 4d it just breaks and all the concrete ability isn't so useful.

eventually after looking at the math and understanding more about complex numbers, i got some intuition for the multiplication of the basis vectors and i feel like I can sort of extend the intuition by linear decomposition (distributivity)

multplication by a complex basis vector is like a pair of rotations one of the rotations is in plane spanned by the reals and vector itself and the other is a rotation "orthogonal" to the vector spanned by the 2 other basis vectors.

This helped me recover the intuition around scaling and rotating from the complex numbers to quats.
> they're artificially constraining their supply of candidates and increasing the cost they need to pay for developers for absolutely no reasons.

The incorrect hidden assumption is that by decreasing your own supply the value goes up.

It's well known that turning down candidates or refusing to interview them sends the message that their skill are less valuable. It's HR management 101.

The same goes for "anti-poaching" agreement. If FAANGs don't hire from each other they reduce the number of high-paying employers willing to hire the average FAANG employee, effectively reducing average salaries.

There was a big scandal about this.
The reason in The Netherlands is necessity; they've got no other option.

That's not the case for Hawaii and Florida, for now. The Army Corps of Engineers is considering fortifying Miami, though. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/miami-fl-seawall-hurri...

Hawaii can move uphill in a way Florida and The Netherlands cannot. Disruptive and expensive, but possible.
If you want an inspiring (imho) overview of the power of geometric algebra, I thoroughly enjoyed the video "A Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra"

https://youtu.be/60z_hpEAtD8
The parent’s grievance isn’t that projects have dependencies, but rather that projects advertise only the dependencies which Cargo doesn’t manage, which can cause confusion (the project maintainer wants to communicate that these are the only externally-managed dependencies, but at least some readers interpret this as a comprehensive list of dependencies). I’m only clarifying, not arguing in favor of the parent’s perspective.
Don't you mean the Abrams tank?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Bradley: "The use of aluminum armor and the storage of large quantities of ammunition in the vehicle initially raised questions about its combat survivability."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams: "The M1 Abrams...introduced several innovative features, including a multifuel turbine engine, sophisticated Chobham composite armor, a computer fire control system, separate ammunition storage in a blow-out compartment"
The quotes overlap just about completely, they aren't offered with any additional analysis so the 'original source' of both the curation and transcription is really those slashdot comments. There's no 'ripping off' mentioned.
A bit off topic but what are all those devs at Yandex doing right now?
At my work we’ve needed a QMS and requirements traceability. We first implemented it in google docs via AODocs. Now we’ve moved to Jira + Zephyr for test management + Enzyme. I can’t say I recommend it.
Running Open Policy Agent Serverless with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway