skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting analytical failure. To explicate. You go through your day wearing only boots. You see people wearing sneakers and so one day you buy a pair the wrong size and put it on with a tag inside and walk around like that for a day. You think to yourself how do all these people do this every day did nobody ever show them a good pair of boots! Sir Boots4Life's analysis is faulty they aren't all walking around uncomfortable because they don't wear the wrong size nor wear a small object between footwear and foot for extra penance and everyone isn't walking around with a fuzzy screen.

There as it turns out are other ways to scale a UI other than integer scaling factors. Even if you don't use svg you can use different image sizes and scale fonts by smaller increments yet.

You describe their being 1080p of usable real estate which is a complete failure to use a meaningful unit of measure. Your 5K display, future 8k displays etc use more pixels to draw a button 3cm x 1 cm. They aren't wasting increasing number of pixels they are drawing the element with increasing fidelity. If we measured screen real estate in pixels one would conclude that a 5" screen and a 32" screen both drawn in 1080p have equal screen real estate. This is a clearly incorrect conclusion. Clearly screen real estate is measured in area with fidelity not real estate measured in DPI.

Increasing fidelity might bear on the smallest element one can possibly usefully use but its not going to bear as much on what size element people desire to use which has much more to do with how far the object is from a users face.

You are saying that 4K monitors require one to choose between giant elements that somehow waste all the pixels or exceptionally tiny ones. This is silly. First off 108Op displays that range from 12" - 32" already had to adjust elements to be usable even before 4K became a thing and there were already more knobs than scaling factor to achieve the same end result. 4K changed the existing equation that has existed for 20 years by an exact factor of 2. 8k changes it by an exact factor of 4.

TLDR: Set an integer scaling factor then tweaking your fonts a little bigger or a little smaller until it looks nice according to your taste. Nobody on earth expected a 24" 4K monitor to display twice as much content as a 1080p 24" monitor because they want things to be the same size on the screen only prettier.
> No they're usually defined by military and government officials taking over institutions to overthrow the elected government.

No, a coup doesn't have to be by military and government officials (though they are usually best situated, and in any case were involved in the autocoup attempt of which the attack on the Capitol was a part—but neither the whole, the beginning, or necessarily even the end once it failed.)

And a coup attempt can (this specific subtype is called a self-coup, autocoup, or autogolpe) seek to irregularly extend the powers or the term of the current leadership, not overthrow anyone already in power, and this is what the one involving the 1/6 attack was.

And a coup attempt doesn't always involve taking over anything, in the same way a murder attempt doesn't always produce a dead body.
The abstract concepts are useful, but in practice most effort is spent on applying rote symbol manipulation rules to questions specifically designed such that applying the most obvious rule at each step will reach the solution. The idea of a tree search in symbol manipulation is never taught, so if you try solving non-trivial real-world problems you will likely manipulate yourself into a dead end.

Highschool calculus should be taught with computer algebra software. That's what you'll use in real life as soon as you find an even slightly difficult calculus problem. There's not enough time to teach both the symbol manipulation rules and the intuition.
Indeed, if the definition of patent in the EU is anything close to what it is in the USA, publishing an article, source code, or really anything else about the patent or how it works is not infringement. The entire purpose of a patent is to explain how something non-trivial works. The word means “make obvious”.

A patent isn’t some magical license to stifle discussion of a topic. It’s supposed to encourage it!
What about goats?
Who knew that Egypt was so progressive that guys can take off when their wife or daughter has a period.
Tangential, but it feels so odd to see the accompanying documents shared as .pptx and .docx rather than as PDFs. It's entirely reasonable from a PR point of view, as it treats these formats as of first-class, but I don't think I've seen anyone else do this in a long time.
They already make "dumb" monitor controller boards for almost every panel in existence. The difficult parts would be:

1. Designing a shell that is unique enough but simple enough to pass muster for the average person. Aesthetics matter, after all.

2. Incorporating a remote that had the features you want without directly copying another design, and making it fully functional with the TV brains

3. Finding a microcontroller that can be purchased at the appropriate quantity that is able to handle the latest features that you want without requiring internet connectivity. (HDR, Post Processing, Dolby/Atmos/Surround, etc)

4. Getting the appropriate inputs to handle all of the expected inputs for at least 90% of your target audience's expectations

5. Getting the finished product UL Listed and fully evaluated by the appropriate licensing bureaus.

6. Doing all of the above without causing the TV's price point to explode well past the point where your average target purchaser can or would choose to afford it when less expensive brands exist that have reliable warranties or customer service or a name to live up to.

Should you pass those bars and have a modicum of success, then you will have to fight off all of the competitors who will leap at the target audience you've uncovered, releasing dumb tvs at price points you may not be able to match with the goal of driving you out of business even if it costs them money so that when the next cycle comes around customers will have no choice but to purchase their products again.
As a token lay person, I had to Google that part during signup. I second that might be the best approach. Thank you @holler for all of the replies.
No, definitely not.

It's some kind of nonlinear optical effect happening in a medium which ends up as it was from the start. Two photons somehow excite the medium together, and a higher energy photon comes out, but the medium is not changed chemically.

I found this referred to as 'upconverting fluorescence' on one website, but I don't actually know anything about nonlinear optics, so I don't know how it works.
Anecdotes mean just what they mean. However as some one most closely aligned to leftys vs other political identity or group, I’ve not been around too many leftists so focused on BLM specifically in a central/organized way or treat it as such.

> That is your position here, no?

Not at all. Your core point revolves around me thinking about and using local chapters as a core defense. I didn’t even know that was a thing for all of this.

The comment revolves around various assumption. Pointing to a caricature of an immature left wing person who craves getting one under everyone to the right of them. Like “if you wouldn’t accept any evidence”. I asked because I don’t particularly care much about BLM a specifically because caring about oppressed minorities has always been a core tenant. i knew little about this most famous blm group**. Similarly, I can’t remember the last video feed in the past year I’ve gotten from YouTube that was about BLM from a lefty source. Except for two specifically focused on black issues in America.

** I searched “blm vs black lives matter group”. I see a majority of front page news and other stuff being conservatives foaming out about stuff. As if a lot of the issues and “facts” of BLM centralization are something greatly discussed by all sides. Not just the people upset over it. Now I more likely believe how big this org is. If they get this much attention from center and right leaning media. Not dissimilar to the over exaggeration done by the mostly centrist and neoliberal media of focusing on Trump so much (though definitely including more left wing media a lot too). Still. Not every one on the left or sympathetic to certain issues thinks this way. Nor is every one on the left a smarmy smart ass. People aren’t a monolith.
Just like with any government agency, you bid on something called "Small Business Set Asides" and get or say you are a minority woman. This will give you bonus points and contracts that are reserved for these groups. All government bids are open and if you google it, it will take you to websites which has these contracts listed and how to bid.

https://www.sba.gov/federal-contracting This site is pretty good on the process, on that page you can look and see the "Federal Procurment system" and it has a link to it, which shows all open bids on contracts. They also have another link on there which has small business set asides.
And the course is what, elementary row operations?
Not unless someone finds a product that people want that needs a CRT. I expect that in 20 or so years, CRTs will be so rare that they could be a nerdy conversation piece. So someone could go back into business making a simplified, no-frills CRT and selling it at enthusiast prices ($1000+).
> Monarchist countries like the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK ... that either stayed out of the war mess or ended up on the winning side were more likely to keep their monarchy.

If I'm not mistaken, those are also countries that had already significantly diminished the actual power of their monarchs prior to WWI. The UK in particular arguably started that process centuries earlier with Magna Carta. On the other hand, places where the monarch retained the most power, like Russia, saw their monarchs assassinated pretty early in the industrial period.
The right decision as far as I'm concerned, but replacing it with Snaps isn't much better.

Support native packaging. Flatpak is unnecessary and harmful to the ecosystem. Simple as.
I was hoping to find Enchanted Scepters in there (I'd guess it would be in the system7 version), but no luck. I tried a few years ago to get it working on a Mac emulator but I wasn't successful, and I have fond memories of that game.
Another non-obvious problem is that you can get mis-tracked too low even on the highest track. It happened to me. There was an assessment test on entering middle school for how many classes up you got shifted, I went into the highest bucket with 4 other kids. Last year of middle school we had to get bussed into the local high school for math education and back for everything else.

I was not seriously challenged and felt like math classes wasted my time.
It was also at $70 when Dorsey left around last October and down to $30 when Elon started buying shares this March. That is a great job?
Seeing the source code wouldnt help, you dont know that they are running that code anymore than you know the description was implemented correctly. You would need to see the electrons flying around to know that its running that code.
I get that. As a robotics engineer, some cursory understanding of integrals and derivatives is useful.

But what I really mean is that, as a person, I just really enjoyed calculus. I found I was very good at it, and that experience helped me understand why some people choose to focus their career on pure mathematics. I am happy I took calculus not as a means of training for the workforce, but because I found it enriching on its own. And I never would have taken all that time if it wasn't offered to me as a class in public school that counted as credits towards graduation.
The specific argument is that the Mathematicians and Scientists are screaming that the policy is nonsense. The other specific argument is that a researcher in mathematics education doesn't need to take a lot of mathematics. The inference is that we should trust the former set of people more even on matters of mathematics education.
When I went to public school in a privileged neighborhood, the "honors" track was opt-in for the parents and students. I don't think you have to go straight from "the government shouldn't decide whether you are fit for college" (which I agree with) to "there should only be one curriculum for everyone."
>Microsoft, the entire business world depend on their apps and services. The world wouldn't run without Azure, Windows and Office.

Funnily, no one at the office (a dozen colleagues, in a European software editing company) and in my family uses any Microsoft service – except for LinkedIn, Github and npm.
To offer a counterpoint I think it’s totally fine :) “reticulating splines” is one of the loading text that The Sims uses, for example, and I can’t find a less “niche” product than that using it.

Maybe just making the “…” dance to indicate that it’s loading would remove any doubt that the page is doing something for those users that might not understand it. I personally love apps that have some charisma!
Hi! I'd like to offer some hopefully useful information if any Slack folks end
up reading this, or anyone else with a similar infrastructure. I'll start with
some tech and make a separate philosophical comment.

Also caveat: I have no deep view into Slack's infrastructure so anything I say
here may not even be relevant. YMMV.

First some self promotion: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Proxy
memcached itself is shipping router/proxy software. Mcrouter is difficult to
manage and unsupported. This proxy is community developed, more
flexible, likely faster, and will support more native features of memcached.
We're currently in a stabilization round ensuring it won't eat pets but all of
the basic features have been in for a while. Documentation and example
libraries are still needed but community feedback help speed those up
tremendously (or any kind of question/help request).

It's not clear to me why memcached is being managed like this; mcrouter seems
to only be used to abstract the configuration from the clients. It has a lot
of features for redundant pools and so on. Especially with what sounds like
globally immutable data and the threat of cascading failures during rolling
upgrades it sounds like it would be very helpful here.

If cost or pool sizes are the main reasons why the structure is flat, using
Extstore (https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Extstore) can likely
help. Even if object value sizes are in the realm of 500 bytes, using flash
storage can still greatly reduce the amount of RAM necessary or reduce the
pool size (granted the network can still keep up) with nearly identical
performance. Extstore takes a lot of tradeoffs (ie; keeping keys in RAM) to
ensure most operations don't actually write to flash or double-read.
Extstore's in use in tons of places and everyone's immediately addicted.

Finally, the Meta Protocol
(https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/MetaCommands) can help with
stampeding herds to help keep DB load from exploding without adding excess
network roundtrips under normal conditions. I've seen lots of workarounds
people build but this protocol extension gives a lot of flexibility you can
use to help survive degraded states: anti-stampeding herd, serve-stale, better
counter semantics, and so on.
"Note that to the extent there was a shift, it took place in the 70s."

This really has ramped up in the last 2-3 years.
You can't get a college degree without passing the College Algebra weedout course (let alone Calculus, which is required for the bulk of STEM courses), and you can only realistically pass College Algebra by getting a lot of rigorous math in K-12. Lowering the bar is doing every student a disservice, and the most vulnerable students will be the hardest hit.
My finance classes are at least partly a few decades out of date :-)

Another reason that I recall is that (presumably) if a company does a split, it indicates that management is confident in the future--and a reverse split presumably indicates the opposite.

>I do wonder, with the relatively recent availability of fractional share ownership, if the effect of splits will be more muted in the future

Certainly, we've seen share prices of a fair number of companies recently that would have been considered well out of "normal" ranges historically.
Hey main developer of Howdy here, bizarre to see this on HN :)

To emphasize: Howdy is about convenience for people that are okay with a less secure installation. It can also be used as a second factor.

3.0.0 has been in the works for 2 years now and will introduce a GTK UI, native PAM module and many other changes. Let me know if you have any questions!
As pointed out elsewhere, options trading deals in lots of 100 shares, so the table stakes are very high for GOOG options right now. A split will open that up to many more traders. But also, even though they're not exactly exotic, not every brokerage account lets you trade fractional shares still. Mine don't, for example.
yeah, there's no argument for getting rid of windowshade. it's way better.
Smarter feels like a bad word to use - I specifically dialed into problem solving because I think that's one place we can accurately differentiate but "smarts" is an incredibly broad concept. We're better at certain things because of specialization and long education but worse at other things because we're obviously not training our motor skills to do different things from birth - it's like folks who can skin mangos in a single cut, it can be learned but most of us aren't going to learn it.

Ancient Egypt did have public schools and a semi-meritocratic scribe class so formal education was a thing which makes it easier to compare in contrast to areas that revolved entirely around apprenticeship like the more nomadic contemporaries would be.

Also, we do have a much more balanced diet growing up but if we did travel back to ancient Egypt there might be dietary issues trying to maintain our extra mass - the lack of access to diverse fruits and vegetables might wreck havoc on our bodies... you can look to extreme contemporary diets for any evidence of that you'd like to see.
Same, it's so downing when I remember I'm working for a spanish client with all spanish coworkers and I'm making 1/10th of spanish minimum wage.
Regarding GCP my gut feeling is Google is way too unpredictable and quick to cancel products to seriously attract big enterprises.

Anecdotally their Google Workspace offering however almost seems to be the default for smaller business that are not IT oriented or have a separate IT department.
also works on chrome and edge chrome with ublock origin.
Businesses with high long-term customer value and high customer acquisition costs will always dominate these sorts of transactional ad channels.
Twitter's algorithm promotes whatever tweet will make people angry, because angry people spend more time on Twitter. I'm on Twitter, but I've been on Twitter for a while now, I've selected who I follow, and my feed just doesn't get that kind of noise in it at any significant level. Most of what I see on Twitter is people arguing about Elden Ring or showing off how they can access YouTube from a Mac SE or something.

"The news" is dominated by organizations which are trying to maximize their social media engagement metrics so they can get more money from advertisers, so they're subject to the same forces that drive Twitter.

Neither of these sources reliably give you a picture of national affairs. Right now the best I can do is get a picture of local affairs by talking with people that I happen to encounter because I live near them.
Population growth, nimbys everywhere.
>Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.

The entire piece is reiterating stereotypical VC twitter content but the most obvious point is that very few optimists make money. Most optimists will lose money. The reason that this doesn't matter in technology circles is because the overwhelming majority of tech folks hail from upper middle class households so the people who risk a lot can afford it and it's not that big of a deal if they crash.

Even if you believe the premise of the article about the future of technology, which is itself kind of a bad Whig history but that aside for a second, most people in general have no good reason to think that they're the ones to be able to capitalize on it.

Pessimism really isn't the right word here, Conservatism is more apt. And many people are conservative in particular at the individual level for very good reasons, because they cannot afford to play high risk games.
no it is automatic there is no setup.
The attacker could be pressing the button, or even opening your eyes for you :)
So, admitted jq fanboy here, but I found a lot of the criticism from the articale really sensible.

I think jq has a pretty elegant data model, but the syntax is often very clunky to work with.

So here is a half thought-out idea how you might improve the syntax for the "stateful operations" usecase the OP outlined:

I think it's not quite true that different elements of a sequence can never interact. The OP mentioned reduce/foreach, but it's also what any function that takes argument does:

If you have an expression 'foo | bar', then bar is called once for every element foo emits. However, foo could also a function that takes arguments. Then you can specify bar as an argument of foo like this: 'foo(bar)'. In this situation, execution of bar is completely controlled by foo. In particular, foo gets to see all elements that foo emits, not just one each. I believe this is how e.g. [x] can collect all elements of x into an array.

In the same way, you could write a function 'add_all(x)' which calls x and adds up all emitted elements to a sum.

However, this wouldn't help you with collecting all input lines, as there is nothing for you function to "wrap around". Or at least, there used to be nothing, but I think in one of the recent build, an "inputs" function was added, which emits all remaining inputs. So now, you can write e.g. '[., inputs]' to reimplement slurp. In the same way, you could sum up all input lines by writing 'add_all(., inputs)'.

However, this is still ugly and unintuitive to write, so I think introducting some syntactic sugar for this would be useful. E.g., you could imagine a "collect operator", e.g. '>>' which treats everything left of it as the first argument to the function to the right of it.

e.g., writing 'a >> b' would desugar to 'b(a)'.

Writing 'a | b >> c' would desugar to 'c(a | b)'.

Any steps further to the right are not affected:

'a | b >> c | d' would desugar to 'c(a | b) | d'.

Scope to the left could be controlled with parantheses:

'a | (b >> c)' would desugar to 'a | c(b)'.

To make this more useful for aggregating on input lines, you could add a special rule that, if the operator is used with no parantheses, it will implicitly prepend '(., inputs)' as the first step.

So if the entire top-level expression is 'a | b >> c', it would desugar to 'c((., inputs) | a | b)'.

This would make many usecases that require keeping state much more straight-forward. E.g. collecting all the "baz" fields into an array could be written as '.baz >> []' which would desugar to '[(., inputs) | .baz]'

Summing up all the bazzes could be written as '.baz >> add_all' which would desugar to 'add_all((., inputs) | .baz)'

...and so on.

On the other hand, this could also lead to new confusion, as you could also write stuff like '... | (.baz >> map) | ...' which would really mean 'map(.baz)' or 'foo >> bar >> baz' which would desugar to the extremely cryptic expression 'baz((., inputs) | bar((., inputs) | foo))'. So I'm not quite sure.

Any thoughts about the idea?
I was joking, I meant the QED box.
No one is suggesting that all students take calculus in high school.

What is being recommend is that no one take calculus in high school.

Both of these ideas are bad, but only one of them informs the California Math Framework.