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Since I can't edit anymore - ISBN-13 is 978-0913022009, ISBN-10 is 0913022004

Published in '43, so won't have some of the newer exotics, but comprehensive regardless. Sometimes hard to find, but Amazon has new hardcovers for $20. Don't blow your hands off.
Back then their competition was Lotus 1-2-3. What they were showing was that they had some basic automation for some common tasks (autofill, auto calculations, auto formatting) while everyone who was coming from Lotus, their target customer, knew how manual and tedious this kind of thing was to do. Plus the UI in Lotus was only slightly less convoluted than Emacs.

The part they should have shown was how you could have large, complex (for the time) spreadsheets and not run out of memory which was a significant advantage they had back then as DOS applications had serious memory constraints even with extended memory. A lot of heavy spreadsheet users switched to Excel for that feature alone.
Hi HN, I wrote this helpful library for anyone using the Go programming language. I basically found myself re-using time manipulation code for ETLs and so I decided to write my own library to remove duplicate code.

Thanks and any feedback is welcome!
In things like construction, I don't think it's entirely because the quality of the work is getting worse, it's probably more that as engineering has improved, we're building closer to the margins, and so sloppy work more often has consequences. I have a house from 1945, and the material dimensions indicate that nobody ever calculated anything, they looked at some beam and though "that ought to do it" usually to the good side. Various hacks I've seen around old houses tell the same story.. So with everything massively overdimensioned, there is plenty of room for error without any consequence.

For things like customer service, I partly blame software and internet.. It's about margins again, profit margins this time, and as cut down as they are in many areas, there's simply no way to compete if you employ actual human beings that can actually solve customer problems.. Much better just to let those caught in edge-cases crash and burn, this high churn means nothing and it'd be very unprofitable to provide a high quality of customer service.
You could get a loan at prime rate if you were a bank. You likely aren’t a bank, so a retail loan is what you get. Prime rate is the interest to the bank. Retail rates are higher because there are costs associated with your loan. Those costs also include the degree of risk to the bank.
I am not talking about crypto in general but the ancor protocol in particular. The ancor protocol provided 19.5 % yield without having any asset that actually produces that kind of income. It provided the yield from new investments coming in, which is the definition of a ponzi scheme.
That’s what full-screen mode does. A window with no controls seems kind of useless in a stacked window manager. MacOS doesn’t support this because it would introduce UI complexity and ambiguity without adding any functionality.
There are 121 million unintended pregnancies per year per the UN. Maybe help those folks not have kids they don’t want? People themselves want to limit their fertility and simply don’t have robust options or socioeconomic support to do so.

> Nearly half of all pregnancies, totalling 121 million each year worldwide, are unintended, according to a new report published on Wednesday by the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA.

> For example, an estimated 257 million women around the world who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe, modern methods of contraception.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1115062
> But the innate value of an idea is also extremely important.

Disputable. Many people have many ideas. Just the mass alone diminishes the general value of ideas.

> A poorly executed good idea can easily out perform a well executed bad idea.

Also disputable. For the evaluation, result matters most. And a bad idea which still solves a problem, is better than a good idea which just exists in its own isolated bubble, doing nothing worthful.

The tech-world is full of fancy oversmart ideas and their implementations. Yet many of them fail because neither a good idea, nor some half decent implementation alone have enough worth to survive.
Specialized mining hardware is an environmental disaster but it does make 51% attacks more difficult.

With POW on general purpose CPUs, anyone can rent cloud processing to mine for short bursts in a way that's just not possible for attacks on bitcoin.
I don't understand your question. Obviously the source is a critical factor in evaluating information, which I'm sure you know, so what do you mean?
I think Intel still wins at certain important metrics, eg memory latency, that can have an impact on certain workloads. Also stuff like:

- some LAPACK-style libraries select slow routines for AMD cpus

- better understanding of / support for performance counters and suchlike
The experience of the too real 'blood splash' sound in Prinse of Persia. I was shocked after buying a sound card.
If you measure value by the thing Bitcoin came to replace (fiat), your vision will be distorted.

If you measure value as a consequence of utility, they’re certainly far more valuable than BTC (BSV however is a corp coin and has weird copyrights so I wouldn’t touch it with a stick).
Nah, that's named after a guy called Toyoda.
The Voynich manuscript is fairly extensive (over 200 pages), illustrated, and we still do not know what the heck of a language it is written in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
If they were not applying because salary ranges were too low for them they would have ended up rejecting your offer in any case. So to me it looks like you saved time and resources on stray leads.
Being an employee and an owner doesn’t align incentives since I have no meaningful influence over the stock price. I don’t care at all about the success of the projects I work on as long as I keep getting paid
Source? In fact, any breakdown of mining costs would be quite informative.
Besides hybrid cores, Intel and AMD are using the same techniques. They both turbo and they have the same low-power modes. This year Intel is slightly ahead in performance and AMD has longer battery life but next year it will probably be different.
> No one said committing to the code repo

Yes, you did. Quoting: "...Anyone not committing the entire node_modules to their repo..."

> you're not revisioning your deployments

That's what I'm saying, quoting: "...If you want to be safe if NPM goes down, what you need is to keep an archive of built "binary" releases, either zip files, docker images, or whatever..."

Using Git/SVN/etc repository for this (which is what I kind of get from your responses) is just using the wrong tool.
But dude, we need to post this headline at least three dozen times!
Speculation: Google Translate says it's "lesson" in Romanian; tsimionescu's name might make that make sense.

Possibly connected to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/praelego#Latin and the form praelegere to 'read before' in Latin, either the same kind of lecture/lesson sense, or about the parent comment "reading 'regulatory capture' before should really be 'retail capture'"?
Wow. I can't delete comments in hacker news. That's so stupid. Anyway, I was getting downvoted for a stupid opinion FYI.
> Bugger King
Vim Graphical Cheat Sheet and Tutorial [pdf]
If I could find an SBC that could fit in this footprint/also drive that display, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I assume by selling sponsorships or products like everyone else.
Perhaps, if and only if bitcoin manages to win out against the traditional banking system AND the governments of the world do not regulate miners into oblivion. Even if some form of cryptocurrency does win out against the combined might of traditional banking and governments, let's hope for the sake of these mining companies that the winning currency is one that both depends on Proof of Work (I can stake PoS chains just fine from a raspberry pi, after all) and also requires hashing of the type supported by the current equipment of the miners.

All in all, the chance that a crypto mining company becomes one of the richest businesses on the planet is slim and the chance that that company will be one of the mining companies already existing is slimmer still. Buyer beware when investing in the current crop.
Do you maintain metrics on the ratio of flagged posts or comments to those you take action on? Or categorize why such posts are flagged/removed?

I've only ever heard you say "trust us, we do this," but I can speak from experience that I have personally flagged some posts and comments that end up remaining anyway.

This is, of course, your site and you can moderate it as you please, but the quality of participation has been falling (IMO -- yes, I'm familiar with the guidelines saying not to complain about it) and it's been turning off participants who otherwise would have very wise, informed, and useful things to say.

For example, a distinguished engineer who did a lot of seminal work in performance benchmarking while at Sun and later wrote Linux's original source control system is gone now, dissuaded by the emotional and nonsensical conversations he was getting into here. IMO his opinions and insight are at the 99th percentile of in terms value here, and this site is far worse off for the absence of people like him.

Anyway, I don't want to get into a big debate here; just wanted to give my two cents.
If they are delivering, who cares if they run errands or do hobbies? Look at their work and if they don’t meet the bar, let them go. This whole attendance equals work thing is more often than not coming from insecure/micro managers.
Well, I have such service, though it's a map with the current rainfall data.

Still, after I wrote the previous comment the rain has come. And in 15 minutes there was no rain and the sun shone brightly and in another 30 minutes even puddles all dried up. So the practical usability of such service is quite limited.
From http://csinvesting.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Sees_Candi...

“Warren and I raised the prices of See’s Candies a little faster than others might have. There are actually people out there who don’t price everything as high as the market will easily stand. And once you figure that out, it’s like finding money in the street.”

[...] During the same period, the Retail Clerk’s Union attempted to organize the sales force in the stores. See’s since
has triumphed in four attempts to organize by the Retail Clerk’s Union, mainly by paying higher than union-scale
wages.

[...] At one time, See’s came under attack by a major candy producer from the Midwest. [...] They duplicated our identity and tried to grab out market. Of course, I informed Charlie and Warren about that fact.” Munger said, “If they are infringing on our trade mark in any way, we can go after them.” Stover’s eventually backed off.

Part of See’s competitive advantage is that it is a leader in its market. “In some businesses, the very nature of
things is a sort of cascade toward the overwhelming dominance of one firm,” said Munger.

[...] Thus our first lesson: businesses logically are worth far more than net tangible assets when they can be expected to produce earnings on such assets considerably in excess of market rates of return.

[...] “Jack was a life-time friend of mine and an excellent, but somewhat eccentric, businessman... When we were due
to close the purchase at Charlie’s office, Jack was late. Finally arriving, he explained that he had been driving
around looking for a parking meter with unexpired time.”
Far from being annoyed at the delay, says Buffett, he was delighted: “That was a magic moment for me. I knew then that Jack was going to be my kind of manager.”
HN is only a positive place if you agree (and see things the same way as) the current tide of active users. The good thing about HN is that they usually come and go.

IMO, seeking "harmony" sounds like a logical reaction to the toxic political activism we've experienced across the spectrum in the past decade. I find myself doing this too; why would I want to expend the emotional labor to convince people of things that matter to me? It doesn't benefit me in any way, and cathartic things like shaming aren't really healthy.
Grape sugar
If CEO pay rises 78%, so should worker, CEO pay shouldn't be able to rise without worker pay rising an equal amount, because without employees they wouldn't have a company.

Tit for tat.
Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
Is there one similarly for sunscreen and lotions for toxicity?
It actually improved quite a bit until Excel 97. By then the competition was dead, so they no longer needed to try.
One of the silly limitations it had as a result of this neglect was that it was impossible to run cmd.exe with an arbitrary set of foreground and background colors because it was limited to using a set of 7 unique color schemes stored in the registry. I used to (like 15 years ago) have a hack script for this called colorcmd that would take the fg and bg color hex as arguments. The dirty trick was that the registry keys for the color sets were named for the actual executable that was being run, and I would just make a symlink to cmd.exe called eg colorcmd_RRGGBB_RRGGBB.exe (with the actual rgb hex), create the registry entries for it, then run that exe. Now it seems odd to me to even want many different colors of console (I used to use them for differentiating purpose or project) but that was a fun little workaround at the time.
CLR is a great choice for a general programming language which is more on the "static typed" end of the spectrum. I'd not it's lightweight, and it does not handle dynamic types well.
The Truths of Information Technology
In previous times, rather than being a piercing insight, this would be considered commonsense.

There really is something very weird about Silicon Valley.
5 years and 1 president before the invasion.
This is interesting. I feel like from a man’s standpoint the only thing we really fear , for ourselves, is either losing our lives or own property. At worse we’ll either be tortured or enslaved or whatever. For women however there are much worse horrors awaiting if the invaders don’t follow a strict moral code. If I were a woman I wouldn’t accept pacifism in any capacity as I would be the one more likely strip of bodily autonomy in a worse case scenario.
It has "nothing to do with Bitcoin itself" in the sense that it's about the economics of mining, which has everything to do with bitcoin and its valuation.
Learn how to leverage all the various tools we have at our disposal. Each week there's something posted on HN that makes me go: 'Hey I might use that'. Two examples I just bookmarked:

https://pitivi.org/ (Pitivi is a Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface)

https://www.openshot.org/ (Open source video editor)

I just recently got into editing video, so I made a pact to myself that I will use those tools and learn them well & can proficiently edit video.

Also: Browse Wikipedia and hop from link to link. I'm certain Wikipedia has increased my IQ by at least one point over the years reading it. Don't feel ashamed for seeking out knowledge.
The large market effect, as described in the GP. It can't be denied that it has significant effect. What do you ascribe it to and why? Less health care doesn't improve the economy directly.
Yup. Just build a nuclear reactor in your back garden and it's easy passive income!
Cultures differ.

There are some cultures where direct communication and quickly exposing conflict is normal. It seems to me that they consider it impolite to waste people's time by hiding conflict. I have personally experienced this from German and Dutch people, and I believe it's also the norm in Scandinavian and Icelandic countries.

If you're experiencing a huge skew between places like Hacker News and "real life", I guess you might live in North America.

However, this isn't to say that indirect communication is useless. North America is odd because there's a tradition of valuing democratic free speech even when it's upsetting. But personal manners have become increasingly indirect - to preserve harmony, to avoid premature judgment of differing experiences, to preserve pride, to provide space for enthusiasm. These aren't always bad things either.

So, I would say, for North America in 2022, harmonious small talk isn't exactly useless - it's how you slowly gain the credibility to say more substantial things. An Oklahoman educator I follow online, who has remarkable success engaging right-wing and rural Americans to discuss science, said "Nobody cares that you know until they know that you care". This might be especially true for the North American mode.
if we can't trust a company's label, how can we test another company's testing? the incentives to deceive still exist
i would leverage that cashflow into creating something else that produces similar returns. something niche like your first product. rinse and repeat.
So sad. Your thougts do not sound as free person thoughts.
On a countrary I would better be dead than a slave.
I ran a quick `while true {}` in the background. It used 7B cycles per second (twice the clock speed for some reason?), while Discord used about 700M. Discord does drop lower if I minimize the window. But still, thousands of context switches per second, while completely logged out. I have no idea what it could be doing.

You're right that I'm probably not benchmarking rigorously enough. But people don't care about any of this stuff. They care about "my FPS gets lower when Discord is open, pls fix". And they don't want to micromanage CPU usage either. Make sure you minimize Discord after starting the call, make sure you close that gmail tab during the game then open it back up when you're done so you don't miss notifications? No thanks. I'd rather just pay for a few more cores.

I guess what triggered me is you saying you cringe at the end users. They don't deserve that. They just want the stuff they buy to work reliably. And if they need a bunch of extra headroom for that to happen, well, that's just the sorry state of the industry. If you must cringe at someone, direct your cringe at developers.
I think its the open office layout and commuting which are not good.
We need to go back to private office space and start with local work hubs where
people live.

Its also quite insane to spend 1-2 hours of commute per day back and forth to and from the office. Commute time is mostly waste.
Does this apply equally to those promoting trans agendas in the comments?

I ask because here we are, in a thread specifically about these kinds of issues, and you are threatening my account with termination for disagreeing. I don’t see any threats made to the people on the other side, despite posting incredibly divisive/controversial views.

When you selectively moderate along ideological lines you harm the community. I could understand removing these types of posts from say, a technical update about AWS as it’s off topic. This post however is about social issues and the comments are about social issues. Perhaps you think that’s off topic for HN, so maybe remove the topic entirely?
sounds really good but in the end, companies will do what's best for their bottom line... I think the Government should do it
To be fair, even before that acquisition, the quality had been going down. The biggest jump imo was when they went from making the donuts in-house to having them delivered and just heated at the location.
LOL, my native language (Czech) has no articles, but it is so flexive and permits so many subtle, meaning-carrying changes in sequence of words in a sentence that it is actually hard to carry over some of those subtleties into written English.

The only thing "robotic" about it is the fact that "robot" is a Czech word that was adopted worldwide.
To be fair, the Mac bluetooth stack is a dumpster fire. Not sure that works as an excuse given that everyone else's headphones seem to work on Mac.
They had printed circuit boards back then but point-to-point wiring was very popular.
> The problem is there isn’t adequate scientific evidence to back the efficacy of any of these supplement which is why they aren’t regulated in the first place.

While I would agree that good evidence is generally lacking on supplements, that’s different than “is the product as advertised”. Just because vitamin C isn’t a miracle drug wouldn’t justify selling sugar pills as vitamin C.
Is there electrical energy just burnt for no purpose in fiat systems? You are talking about efficiency, not absolute value. The transactions of fiat systems are orders of magnitude more than the bitcoin chain's.
Lotus 1-2-3 was still king of the (spreadsheet) hill back then. Borland was trying to compete but could never get their act together.
> This reached almost $100 in the 2017 rush.

Ethereum, with a bigger blocksize had transaction fees going up to $3,500 a couple of weeks ago. A larger blocksize is not the answer.

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=popular-nft-mint-spikes-eth...
Hum... A large share of the solar costs are on support and installation. Those are proportional to the area, and are even higher (by area) for algae, because algae requires some water, and water is heavy.

So, if they need 20x the area, just their support and installation will already cost some 5x more than a full solar plant.
This thread is a good example of a law of internet communication: when different people are responding consecutively to a single person in a thread, each person will subtly change the subject and misunderstand the foregoing argument, so the end of the thread will be discussing a completely different topic than the beginning.
Most people are familiar with the internet dialogue as you described and don’t want to get into arguments with highly opinionated people…
I'm a bit late in responding ... No matter what you try to throw out there, I don't think you will convince anyone that the US isn't a culture of individual liberty, and that it's been very successful in every way - freedom, prosperity, security, culture, etc. It turns out that people deciding for themselves, instead of others telling them what to do, results in great decisions.

All those people are coming to the US, not vice versa!
I think this is super heavy weight, even compared to LLVM and .NET. However, it seems to win in terms of speed, if your language is dynamic
The monopoly is in the illusion of access to choice on shelves. The pharmacy markets is dominated in the US by 2 players - Walgreens and CVS. Heck they even have their own generic meds competing at the same prices
Vanguard has their own Vanguard-branded self-directed 401(k), but your employer has to support the option.
"redhat based arch linux distro" didn't?
> What people need to realize is that a P cores takes around 4 times the die area/transistors of an E core, and use probably 3 to 4 times the power of an E core, but performance is only around double that of an E core... (Btw, these ratios are pretty similar as those for the Firestorm/Icestorm cores in Apple's M1.)

Apple's strategy with their in house chips has always involved optimizing for performance and power draw, and not so much for die area. They throw execution hardware at the problem and run the clocks slower for power efficiency.

For instance, going back to the 2012 A5x:

>the A5X is approximately 2x the size of NVIDIA's Tegra 3, and even larger than a dual-core Sandy Bridge desktop CPU

While it's technically possible for Apple to have ramped up CPU clocks in pursuit of higher performance, Apple has traditionally been very conservative on CPU clock frequency. Higher clocks require higher voltages (especially on the same process node), which result in an exponential increase in power consumption.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/5688/apple-ipad-2012-review/1...

Caring less about die area makes sense when you are selling the whole widget and not just the chip itself.
Someone proposed the second idea to me once. My immediate thought was of all the careers that would be ended as a result of it being too easy to share that random thought that went through your mind.