skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Every article that states you can save a small amount of money by doing something is tacitly saying it's your own fault if you're poor. [...] It's corporate PR to shift responsibility for the cost of living from billion dollar company profits

That's reading way too much into it, don't you think?

>You ate too many avocadoes, you didn't make your own coffee, you didn't turn your TV off at the wall

The "article" literally says the savings is £30 a year. Nobody thinks that's the reason they're poor.

>Journalists who write those articles should be banned from being published forever.

In other words, money saving advice should be banned because they might be spewing "corporate PR to shift responsibility"?
GPL has the same virality as AGPL other than it isn't implicated by access over a network. Apple has plenty of software that isn't accessed over a network, so it makes sense that they would care about both. (So does Google, but that code is largely open source already - Android, Chrome/ChromeOS, etc.)
I do alot of e-commerce purchases from various retailers, probably 3-4 a week, every week!

The one click checkout has already been solved. It’s Apple Pay. Any time I see that on a retailer i always use them because of how easy it is, all payment info, shipping info, etc are prestored, and if they integrate Apple Pay directly or through their merchant processor my trust level immediately increases.

It does help increase conversion as i do abandon some carts without that and it makes me a repeat shopper of the places that integrate.

It is a solid concept the real issue is that between Fast and Bolt it looks more like the wrong founder CEOs rather than anything else. One is completely shady and the other spends way too much time on twitter and is now potentially caught misleading customers and investors.

If they had focused more on their business and moving quickly but sustainably one if these two companies would be succeeding instead of both of them looking like they have massive issues.
What's the point of this comment? If you don't care about Lisp, skip the thread.
Key Metrics You Must Monitor When Building a Computer Vision Monitoring Solution
Monitors can dissipate a huge amount of power without a fan. The OP blames mostly them, and their stand-by power consumption usually isn't even available to a buyer.
Thanks! TAGBODY is another non-Schemish part of Common Lisp that has its uses.
Because otherwise, multinational companies will use their global profits to bankroll illegal activities within any nation's borders, and will keep on doing so until the nation relents.
Affirming the consequent fallacy:

> If Brian had been thrown off the top of the Eiffel Tower, then he would be dead.

> Brian is dead.

> Therefore, Brian was thrown off the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Seems to work fine for me here in Canuckastan.
I upvoted specifically, because this is effectively how a lot of users see this feature ( admittedly based on anecdata ). I might even expand on it. Most users do not even see a trade-off. Most see pure benefit.

But.. there is hope as jokes along the lines 'Wiretap, what is the time?' seem to have become more common.
90-degree? Yeah, you should get those wisdom teeth out because general anesthesia at your advanced age would not be good for your longevity. That is, if your wisdom teeth were ever then to surface and rot.
The naive part of me wonders if this will improve services. I have good health and dental insurance and while my health insurance becomes really beneficial once I've hit a threshold and met my deductibles, there is a hard upper limit on how will be paid for dental work annually, to the point I've had to spread (non-emergency) care over multiple years to cover the costs.
If you have e.g. a diagonal line from a vector graphic then it will almost always be antialiased (i.e. light grey pixels along the edge of the black pixels - or maybe there aren't even any black pixels and they're just dark grey, which might look fuzzy to some).

The alternative is that you convert the vector line with a "nearest neighbour" pixel algorithm (or cleverer but fundamentally similar algorithms e.g. [1]) but then you get the aliasing artefacts that anti-aliasing is meant to avoid. For example, two parallel lines that are rendered 2.5 pixels apart might end up having a gap between them that alternates between 1 and 2 pixels along its length, which looks even worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm

With hand-designed pixel graphics, this isn't a problem because you can manually choose to draw everything an integer number of pixels apart or avoid certain constructions altogether.
The title is wrong:

Dentist almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments; Google results of search spam SEO cesspool
Indeed, I've been told countless times I don't "need" to learn some branch of math I was interested in (by mathematicians no less).

Also, I've been told I "can't avoid" some branch of algebra (I've never touched it since).
> At least that last factor is directly correlated with online learning.

Unless they live in rural settings, it’s likely a very loose correlation.

When I was a kid, I grew up in a neighborhood in a walkable town and my friends and I saw each other everyday, though we went to different schools or were in different grades at the same school.

I later moved to a rural area for high school and only saw people at school due to how far away we all lived from each other.

In the first situation, I suspect online learning would have been great for me since I could do it at home and I’d still have plenty of social interaction without the downside of hauling books between classes, sitting in an uncomfortable classroom environment, and largely not paying attention since there wasn’t any way for the teacher to track my participation in a large class.

I’m not sure how physical education would have worked at that time, but maybe fitness trackers help with that nowadays.

I do suspect that online learning isn’t great for lower income households since they may not have dedicate space set up for learning, and it would be a shame to create yet another class difference in education.
Or Covid vaccine.
The 10th dentist didn't notice there was no tartar?

Or the first 9 didn't remove the tartar?

Which is the good option?
> I take it you've never thrown your back out and had an adjustment that fixed a lot of pain?

A _good_ chiropractor will only perform adjustments, but the foundations of Chiropractic "medicine" is pseudoscience that many still practice to this day. Wikipedia has a good summary on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic#Pseudoscience_ver...

But, in my opinion, if you're only going to a chiropractor for adjustments you'd be better off finding a Registered Massage Therapist or Physical Therapist (depending on your level of pain).
> It’s extremely telling that when you spend time in tech forums most people dread system design questions as the harder side of interviewing for senior level SWE roles…

Yes. It's absurd that anyone that can talk about this stuff at a basic level is seen as some sort of ultra-skilled professional. See also: the relatively small amount of chatter about this stuff in the blogosphere, where there's a million tutorials that amount to "here's how you run create-react-app" and about 3 that talk about even moderate system design topics.
I don't really get why people want to download these huge emacs configs in the first place. You're not likely going to be able to change the configuration without incurring a massive headache and apparently Spacemacs and Doom Emacs both auto update their configurations, from what I understand.

Starting with vanilla and then poking around with elisp a bit is much more satisfying and you end up learning how to adjust the tool to your liking.
I had the recent privilege of interviewing Brian Oki [1] of Viewstamped Replication in September last year, since VSR is the consensus protocol that we use in TigerBeetle [2] to process a million financial transactions per second.

One of the first things that Brian Oki mentioned was Tandem NonStop, and I understand that Brian's VSR was then the first consensus protocol to deal with network partitions, where the network is not reliable, for high availability.

What was also special was that James Cowling joined me afterwards—we covered Viewstamped Replication Revisited, the 2012 revision, with a focus in both interviews on Barbara Liskov's influence on both James and Brian.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps106zjmjhw

[2] https://www.tigerbeetle.com
"Kool Smiles to pay $23.9 million" sounds like they're being punished?

They typically settle and sometimes pay a fine.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2015/ag-schneiderman-announc...

I suspect they still make more profit than they lose in fines.
I was curious too. he used to post regularly in his blog, but then he stopped in september 2020 and didn't write since then. I liked his nice technical posts, albeit they were intermingled with some occasional gun nut stuff.
Latin American startups fail to grant employees stock
Something is working, even if it may not be clear specifically what that is. My grandfather had a full set of false teeth by the time he was the age my parents are now. The other big change in that time would be diet, but I don't think more refined sugar improves tooth quality.
Came here to post this, fantastic paper and probably the most comprehensive thing on the internet available about this

Something else I've taken away from research about columnar and vectorized databases: there doesn't seem a good reason why they aren't fit for OLTP workloads

Analytics from SaaS/line-of-business apps shows about a 90/10 read/write ratio for CRUD apps.

Pavlo et al. have a solid paper on an HTAP database that compares OLTP, OLAP, and a novel HTAP storage on varying read/write workloads:

> "Arulraj, J., Pavlo, A., & Menon, P. (2016). Bridging the Archipelago between Row-Stores and Column-Stores for Hybrid Workloads. Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management of Data - SIGMOD ’16. doi:10.1145/2882903.2915231 "

See "Figure 17: Concurrent Hybrid Workloads – The impact of the storage layout on the query processing time under different concurrent hybrid workloads."

The chart contains 4 workload types, one of which is "• Read-Heavy: 90% scans, 10% inserts"

You can see that the columnar storage model outperforms OLTP N-ary storage here

So my question is -- why don't people use columnar databases for CRUD apps?
Pointless nitpick, especially because providers pay referral fees.
Sure they did - except that was decades ago.
If you use 5 devices a day and need 30 seconds for plugging and unplugging, this will accumulate to 75 hours per year. If you make 15€ per hour, the cost of opportunity would be 1140€. Ouch!
i had access to industrial power meters designed to 120A 400V so that is what i used, but the typical household here would not go over 4-7 kw
and you can buy cheap digital meters from AliExpress with display and so on they can measure up to 4kw i believe.
This comment has a good explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31173042

For myself, the biggest thing is locality. Coming into a large codebase that's been around for a while, it's a lot easier to understand if the event handlers are defined inline, right there with the form itself.

If they aren't, you first have to determine experimentally that it's not using the default form behavior. Then you end up having to hunt down where in the code someone put the `addEventListener` calls and then read them to decide which calls (and which conditional branches) apply to this form.

If the event handlers are instead defined on the forms themselves, the onsubmit behavior is immediately obvious just by looking at the form. It's a bit more code to write, but it's much easier to digest later.
I mean in the broadest sense that's a cultural question and most big online platforms have decided that it is their place—Facebook and Twitter in particular—because of pressures from the public.

In a much, much narrower sense, we are talking about Google and not an online platform. Google's explicit mission is, “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Like, filtering out misinformation is literally the thing that Google says is its purpose.
Parking is an exception. How would you do it? Scan your latest tax report when driving in?

They do it for other stuff:

[1] "Day-fine"

"...A day-fine, day fine, unit fine or structured fine is a unit of fine payment that, above a minimum fine, is based on the offender's daily personal income... "

"...Jurisdictions employing the day-fine include Denmark (Danish: dagbøde), Estonia (Estonian: päevamäär), Finland (Finnish: päiväsakko), France (French: Jour-amende), Germany (German: Tagessatz), Sweden (Swedish: dagsbot), Switzerland, and Macao...."

"The Limits of Fairer Fines: Lessons from Germany"
https://www.fairtrials.org/app/uploads/2022/01/Day_Fines_Rep...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine#cite_note-1
mootools was awesome. I always wondered why it was so fun(for me at least) to use.
I'm using Shelly EM at the entry (for the entire phase), relays with PM at some sockets with interesting devices and shelly plugs at some sockets that need to be easily serviceable (think behind kitchen cabinets, for the built-ins).

The consumption of each of them is below 1W.
As a customer, I much prefer online shopping in no small part because I don't want to deal with salespeople.
> Isn't that a win? Public pressure forced Apple to do the right thing here and we don't need additional regulation.

It may be a win on short term but do you see any parts for Mac machines there? Such a "minimal offer" has the danger of public officials being ignorant enough to fall for Apple's propaganda of "we're offering that here, isn't it enough?". Also, it does not seem to offer the special tools that Apple uses for calibration or pairing of components.

We need comprehensive regulation covering all kinds of technology self-repair, from phones over laptops and computers to cars and trucks. Anyone should be able to perform the same quality and level of repair service that official Apple stores can.
The notion of a conspiratorial cabal of aristocrats plotting together to sabotage working class education in the name of preserving their exclusive privileges makes for good cinematic content, but I'd guess simple indifference and the desire to pay less taxes is more of the issue.

I think it's disastrous to the long-term success of any nation, however. If America continues to slide towards such a system, it will fall behind China in technological development. Britain seems to have suffered from this issue: even though Britain was an early leader in computer technology (Turing, Colossus, etc.) they never had a Silicon Valley moment.
I totally agree. I’ve been having a blast on mastodon.
indeed.

I don’t believe any particular test or qualification wards off mistakes
I think most devs see that the jobs are asking for overloaded responsibilities from multiple other jobs and they're trying to live up to that. It also became the norm to see job postings which would have been 3-4 distinct positions a decade back.
It’s been closer to 25 now. Bob Dole was shilling for Pfizer’s Viagra in the 90s.
Uber drivers’ most consistent bad habit of is stopping mid block to drop off or pick up a passenger. If it isn’t a parking spot or a traffic light, you shouldn’t be stopping there.
Awesome, this project is from the team behind data version control (dvc) and CML, I’ll give it a try!
Thats really interesting to have their support team run an AST2 run for you remotely. I guess its probably easier if you are doing a one off repair so you don't have to run AST locally.
Mind you, AWS implementation is a bit broken. Can take non trivial engineering work to fix up proper SSO
I'm curious if you'll reread your comment and can see how you disproved your own point.
They only sell parts for phones that are probably still under warranty or Apple Care+ coverage. They don't sell parts for any models that actually need reliable sources for parts.
Are there any laws that treat medical providers as fiduciaries? That seems like a minimum bar that insurance companies would want to enforce (at least in the short term when premiums could remain high while treatment cost plummets).
Leviton offers what you describe:

https://www.leviton.com/en/products/residential/load-centers
Yep, Your device heat adds to the load on your AC. So if you going to bother with unplugging devices, it is more beneficial on those hot summer days.
If you are looking for concepts and not actual code or implementations, can't recommend "Algorithms to Live By" (https://algorithmstoliveby.com/) enough. It walks through 10ish algorithms and how they can be applied to real life.
What's the difference between a service that you send a string to and get a string back and a binary that you execute with a string argument and it prints a string argument back? I quite like the latter, as you're free from keeping state and thus have a smaller attack surface or potential to leak resources. Of course one difference is the execution environment, with a systemd service you can have it set up exactly as it should be so no changes to LD_LIBRARY_PATH &c can poke holes. I wonder if its socket activation feature can be used like a sort of CGI server - for each connection on a socket, run the binary in a controlled environment and connect its stdin/out to the socket, with stderr going to a log file.
You have a few options for this: The TH package wraps Blas, etc., and has MINST, GAN, etc. examples.

My preference is using py4cl to use pre-trained TensorFlow models in Common Lisp.

I wrote a short book on Hy that has some deep learning examples, but I don't use Hy that often any longer. I am looking forward to the 1.0 changes.
Competition? If they become the equivalent of Google, why would anyone pay them to get the same kind of content they can get from Google for free?
Broadly, it's because the US has a culture of individual sovereignty and not everyone being a ward of the state.
>>Reading this, I wondered whether this would increase demand of BTC [...]

Very unlikely, given that CAR's population is less than 5M, and only a small (read: negligible) portion of the population will even attempt to use bitcoin more than they were already were due to this legislation.

The more interesting question is how the other independent African states that use the CFA franc[1] and the Bank of Central African States[2] will respond over time, especially with regards to the development and adoption of the Eco[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_CFA_franc

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Central_African_States

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco_(currency)
What SRE is not (2021)
I think everyone agrees, but it is a first amendment nightmare to try and regulate.
He also did this a few weeks ago in an open tournament: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ7UH8nbB3I

There are a bunch of analysis videos on youtube about how vast his game knowledge is and how quick and precise his reaction time is to perform this maneuver. Very similar to moment #37, just years later.
>In 2014, another Daimler brand launched a tiny little car named smart. It came with one tiny little feature that struck me as a genius move. The base version of the car had no dash screen whatsoever, just a smartphone holder.

The smart has been around forever (since 1998), maybe a specific 2014 model has this feature of no dash (but smartphone instead)?

All the ones I have ever seen have a (minimal) "normal" dash.
The solution to high prices is stop using monopolized nation state currency being “loaned out” to us by banks.

Remove useless middle men whose role is to “generate value” by charging fees to move money.

Money is moved via electrons in machines now. Moving real money is environmentally expensive and let’s grifters nickel and dime for merely acting as custodian for a moment.

There are a lot of options and we didn’t save horse and buggy when cars came along; screw the bankers.
> Is there anything you do differently, relative to in person?

I call on students more systematically rather than just waiting for volunteers to raise their hand. When I taught in-person, it was usually the same few students who spoke up a lot, while others never said anything. Now everyone contributes, making for an overall better discussion.

With my larger online classes, I will sometimes throw out a discussion question and give the students five or ten minutes to write up their responses, which they submit through a Google Form. I then display those responses on screen and respond to them. Having the time to write up their responses, and knowing that their responses might be shared with the entire class, seems to make students respond more thoughtfully than if they were just making an ephemeral spoken comment.

I sometimes ask all students to submit questions to me through an online form, too. In in-person classes, many students seem embarrassed to ask questions in front of their peers. That doesn’t apply to online forms. (When I display the students’ questions on the screen, I don’t show the students’ names.)

Some of these ideas come from workshops I attended years ago on “active learning” and could be implemented in the classroom as well. But I began using them only after I started teaching online.

> If you are teaching grad students that is also not going to be representative of the overall population. Those guys are definitely in the right tail of motivation.

You’re absolutely correct.
I thought it was a bit sketchy too and spoke to their support agent about it. It seems this site is run by a partner, SPOT or Service Parts or Tools. Their privacy policy lists servicepartsortools.com as a domain but visiting the domain shows a standard parked domain page. The domain is owned by CTDI[0] which does seem more legitimate. The response I got from the support agent after pressing the issue was:

"Apple has partnered with CTDI for the SSR store and the fulfillment of related parts and tools. CTDI will utilize its SPOT subsidiary, including SPOT customer service agents, in support of SSR store customers."

It makes sense that Apple would offload this to someone else, but I agree it's a rather jarring experience.

[0] https://www.ctdi.com
True, it's not a full loss. A heat pump can easily be 400% efficient, though, so I'd rather lean on that except in extreme cold.

Still, not a bad idea to run Folding@Home all winter.
I keep an electric kettle and Melitta pour-over on my desk at work. It is on when I turn it on, then it is off. The Keurig has always seemed like kind of a bad deal.
To some extent, Nim has a valid excuse because Whitespace is syntax. Forcing spaces should (ostensibly) make parsing more reliable, and users are less likely to have weird problems caused by their editors. Regardless, it's a negligible problem in my eyes.

> I assume you're talking about the partial case insensitivity of Nim?

That's one part of it, yes. I include UFCS in that as well.

Case-insensitivity isn't as weird once you start using the language. Everything in the stdlib (and every Nimble package I've used) is in camelCase anyway, so I often forget that feature even exists. If anything, I'm grateful the language punishes people for trying to name one function `doHttpThing' and another function `doHTTPThing'.
The EU has a big enough market that access outweighs the cost. If Malta tried to fine Uber a percentage of its global revenue they'd pack up shop and leave immediately. Australia is about one fifteenth the size of Europe in population.
Well theres the hippocratic oath, but maybe thats little comfort.
The scientists and engineers creating this have great intentions. What it will really be used for, I'm afraid, is audio billboards and in-store audio-enabled ad posters.

Maybe we'll be lucky and sports bars with TVs at every booth will use them to focus TV audio only to the individual booth.
Hardware's holy grail, the value of waterfall and contract manufacturing