skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a fascinating problem (not sure if there's a name for it):

You play the following game (say for many rounds). Someone puts different values in two envelopes (they can pick the values arbitrarily, even maliciously, each round). You want to pick the higher valued envelope. You pick an envelope, they show you the value of the other. You can hold your value or you can switch.

It also works if the game is they show you your own value and you can choose to hold or switch. Actually, now that I think about it, you can even make the game such that you pick an envelope and tell them which envelope to show you, then you can hold or switch. More interesting :)

The questions is: is there a strategy where you get the higher value strictly more than 50% of the time?

The surprising answer is, yes, there is such a strategy. It's really neat, and I've tried to find other places to apply the reasoning, but have not found another interesting place.

And yes, this problem and strategy are mathematically correct, not cheating, not "out of the box" stuff.

Good luck :)
Yes the fastest computers are those aboard the Parker Solar Probe at 690,000 km/h.
It doesn't seem that simple, given he won a primary in which all of the other candidates promised more money than he did.
For sure. Perhaps I came off as way too critical. I write my fair share of spaghetti code. I think we all do. But at least in an open fashion, things are corrected far sooner with more eyes on it. That's all I'm saying.

The editor seems cool regardless.
There used to be for Android, but Google has restricted audio routing during calls to prevent two-way recording (i.e. you'll only hear yourself).

iOS used to have this capability for jail-broken devices way back in the day; not sure if it still does.

I'm guessing that the state-level consent laws make it difficult for Apple and Google to bake in phone recording.
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I believe you. I'm sure it's quite a challenge.
kWh is power over time. When planning a power backup solution you have to account for spike loads, building code inspectors will insist on it. For an average central air conditioning system the outdoor refrigerant compressor has a locked rotor starting amp requirement of ~80A (typically). According to Ford the max amp feed back to your home from the truck is 80A. Building code will let you hook up your outdoor unit only in that case, the inside air handler will not be allowed because (assuming internal is 15A) you would be asking for 95A. You will most likely require either load shed devices or a transfer switch which will most likely not include your whole home or your AC/HeatPump. At least by building code.
Anyone know where I can get a $10k education loan immediately?
In a candidate-rich environment when it comes to selecting workers companies do a lot of crazy and irrational things. Just look at interviewing processes, they tend to be more superstition than anything. Having a gap in your resume that the interviewer can fill in with whatever horror story strikes their fancy (was it drug rehab!?) is a disadvantage.
> The must used linear algebra library is written in Fortran.

My understanding is that most supercomputers have the vendor provide their implementation of BLAS (e.g., if it's Intel-based, you're getting MKL) that's specifically tuned for that hardware. And these implementations stand a decent chance of being written in assembly, not Fortran.
> I can't be the only one who feels like this is "buying votes".

Votes are already bought by wealthy campaign contributors.

Anyway, aren't politicians supposed to help the public financially? If a politician campaigns on tax cuts, tax credits, and tax incentives, isn't that also "buying votes"? Which politician is not buying votes with their stated economic policies?
I can imagine the tik-tok - "Am I a 10x engineer or are you a 0.1" =)))
That was why I mentioned cache and of course we could talk MIPS.
The only 2 disadvantages of LFP batteries are that they're a lot more expensive than lead-acid and heavier than Li-Ion for the same energy.

But they can withstand many more cycles than Li-Ion without wearing out. If you can afford LFP, they seem ideal for a home backup situation.
There’s no Croatian Autonomous Bezirk in Germany or Austria
In fact my home was one of the first home in France to get a DSL connection. The modem could do 8mbit, but the phone company capped it at 500kbit. The problem is that though the connection from the exchange to the home was DSL, the infrastructure behind was the same infrastructure they used for 56k connections. So you ended up with a DSL connection that was about the same speed than a 56k modem...

And now I am complaining about having only 100mbit upload.
Bank account number, name and address can be enough to setup a direct debit or initiate a withdrawl (in specific circumstances). Keep in mind that you are less worried about the company itself being evil, than the possibiliy of this data leaking and being seen by a less scrupolous entity.
That's more hacking the system than using the system as intended
Ford F-150 Lightning Reaches Its First Customers
Apparently harmless diseases are not that harmless as the example of strange previously unnoticeable hepatitis shows.

We have no idea what chance of myocarditis (and other things) those harmless diseases cause because additional risk from them is counted towards our baseline estimate.

It might be that all of spontaneous cases of myocarditis are caused by viruses we nowadays consider harmless, because we can't shield ourselves from them so we don't know what would health look like without them.
To be fair, I believe there is some disputed evidence that the Kurdish (partially) descend from the Hittani. The arabs living in Iraq do not. Well... I guess in reality it is so far back that probably everyone in Eurasia descends from the Hittani.

Still, I can imagine it makes a difference if you identify yourself with Hittani as ancestors or you do not
Quite true. Additionally, there are raised expectations around wanting a perfect experience. My college in the 90s was block wall room with bunk beds and communal bathroom on the floor. Today everyone wants a private bedroom, shared kitchen and hang out area in their quad. This costs money and space too. At the same time, we now refuse to give deserving teachers tenure and everything is adjunct and basically gig work. Universities are no longer interested in education. They only want to create the largest possible funnel for endowments in the future. We do need to adjust how student loans work. The government should only guarantee a much lower amount and the rest should be dischargeable. And I personally would like to see it tied to the average 5 year income of students of that school's graduate per degree. We need to stop letting people sign up for $100K degrees in marketing when the average graduate ends up as a barista.
A modern AMD Zen3 has more PCIe bandwidth than DDR4. With somewhat slow ram even if you measure half-duplex.
Is there a limit on the amount of time a company can delay arbitration once you file? Is there any sort of "default judgement" mechanism that can be used against companies that drag their feet?
That very well may be true - I've never had a house newer than about 20 years old, and they've had 12 gauge everywhere.
Problem being interviewers can spin almost every arbitrary detail into a "red flag", and they have done so for decades. It's the benefit which comes with being in a position of power where they get to be far pickier than most candidates can comparatively.

It's the same reason so many arbitrary things go from "this is absolutely necessary" to "this would be nice" to "oh we can remove that please don't walk away!" depending on the state of the job market. Interviewers are surprisingly flexible when they are no longer the ones holding the reins.
>there's a distribution of engineering talent and capability

I think the debate is over the properties of that distribution, and whether it needs to be plotted on a logarithmic scale
Life and parody is indistinguishable now. Like it's difficult for me to cone up with any ridiculous statement that I could publish, and someone online would not take it seriously
Prisoners have the right of escape??? I think they do!! = vote with feet, the only means they have, and speak out from afar and hope some creeps through via Telegram etc.
1x Forth by Charles Moore 4/13/99
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This is a particularly egregious example (and unusual because it involves DOE) but if you browse the US “Brownfields” Superfund sites[1] you’ll find all kinds of crazy and reckless behavior relating to land contamination. Most of the people carrying out the orders in the 50s, 60s, and 70s just didn’t know any better. But some of the people from the 80s and 90s who did know (or should have known) better just didn’t care.

There’s one site in Montana called Yankee Doodle Tailings pond from an old (I think) copper mine and the “pond” is highly contaminated with heavy metals. Every once in a while the Montana Fish & Wildlife will frantically try to alert residents who hunt not to eat any $bird they might have killed recently because a mass die-off means the flock stopped at the “pond” and was poisoned.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites
> This is why we have courts, and why a contract is never examined in isolation.

So are you suggesting that when considering the validity of a contract, externalities should be considered (e.g. the 20 email chain), but the actual document that was signed should not be considered?
I wrote Biden a letter advocating that he send them to Ukraine and put it in the mailbox this morning.
I found a tremendous amount of gratification from joining Effective Altruism - a movement of people working on doing as much good in the world as they can (through careers, charitable donations to cost-effective charities, etc). Specifically, I joined Giving What We Can, an international society of people (now in the thousands) who give at least 10% of their income to cost-effective charities. https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

This experience cemented in me the realization of how lucky I am to be so well off in a world of tremendous inequity. And helping others (effectively -- knowing that my contributions are doing a tremendous amount of good) is arguably one of the best things in life. https://www.effectivealtruism.org/

If your career isn't satisfying, it may be because you don't see it as helping anyone. Consider a high-impact career (see 80,000 Hours) https://80000hours.org/

As for delayed gratification, a book may be a good fit - you can pace yourself (set goals of reading for X minutes without getting distracted) and build up that skill of focus. Find a genre you like; for me, high school has spoiled interest in books, until I realized nonfiction is a better fit for me, and that there are amazing fiction books as well.

Best wishes; and I'll be happy to comment more.
>Why does a giant condo building have to be high-end?

Because the margins are higher and you can't put up infinite towers.

>if they weren't focused on profit

They are.
The demand for gelatine would contribute to the pig meat revenue stream, offsetting costs and thereby (at least ever so slightly) decreasing the cost of pork, leading (in theory) to increased consumption.

Whether that effect is large enough to be noticeable is questionable, and I definitely agree there could be "better choices", but it's not exactly right to say that it has no impact.
I haven't used Turbo yet, but Simulus is a great little framework for slapping a bit of JS onto an existing fairly vanilla server side app to add some nice interactive experiences.

Have really enjoyed using it recent in my Rails apps.
I agree right now, I'm thinking maybe in 15 years you can have >1PB on a single machine, and then those problems that don't fit in that space but that fit in a supercomputer become fewer. 2050 will be within out lifetime.

Basically I'm estimating the benefit ratio to be (log SupercomputerSize - log ConsumerSize)/log ConsumerSize, and that keeps decreasing.
This is kind of a cool computer, but it's not a serious approach for most problems, and doesn't have much to do with the original article. Analog computers have very limited precision due to SNR, and this kills their usefulness for almost everything aside from niche simulations and machine learning.

Edit: Also, the host of this YouTube video doesn't sound like he knows what he's talking about.
> Hiring in many ways is a guess if you can stand to work with someone or not.

This, although it seems not everyone got the memo, hence a recent conversation I had:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31528057

> Being in any way undesirable hurts you.

Does having gaps make you so though? I'd say not necessarily. I mean, isn't there a workforce shortage at the moment?

Personally, I don't care. I just checked a recent candidate of mine and he... didn't put months in the start/end dates of his projects. If there's a gap there, I wouldn't even know.
Monty opening the door condenses the probabilities of the two unpicked doors in to the one unpicked door. This occurs because Monty only opens a door with a goat and never the car. In the original three door version you always had a 2/3 chance of winning if you switched because you'd only lose if you correctly picked the car on the original 1/3 pick.
Wayland has been the default for several years now, so yes I'd say whatever X-related pain (I can relate) has been eased since then.

I'm no Linux-on-the-desktop evangelist however, and still rely on a Mac for work use. My personal desktop runs Fedora currently, where I can afford to tinker. It's getting there.
Happy to be of help.

It's very challenging finding a lawyer in a lot of these consumer protection spaces, because, for a whole host of reasons, there's not a lot of money here.

Having said that, one piece of advice I always like to give when looking for any professional is to use your network. If you have people in your network you trust, use them as a starting point. So, for example, I don't do criminal law. But, as a lawyer, I know lots of criminal lawyers (insert joke), and I also have a well-tuned BS detector when talking with other lawyers. So even though I can't help you, you'd be smart to reach out to me because I can help you find the right person much more effectively. And if I can't, then I reach out to a criminal law attorney I know, link you up, and let that person make a recommendation.

In short, use your network to leverage experience and knowledge to zero in on a good attorney. It will probably take a few degrees of connection, but if the chain is solid, you should get a good end result.

For example, I recently had a client who needed a criminal law attorney in a state where I don't practice. So you have two issues: one, I don't know that legal community, and two, I don't do criminal law. But, I reached out in my network to a prosecutor in New York. Now this prosecutor can't represent my client, but now I have a criminal law attorney in the right state, and so his network is going to help. My buddy (lawyer 2) reaches out to his network, and one of his trusted contacts says "call lawyer 3)." My buddy (lawyer 2) doesn't know lawyer 3, but he trusts his network and the referrer. Long story short, my client ends up represented by lawyer 3, and well taken care of.
You can use On Screen Keyboard with the mouse.
This could have been written from the perspective of the potential employees.

“Ice cream shop can’t afford employees due to rising costs”

Business are happy to pay the very minimum possible for wages to maximize their profits. When everything goes up and minimum wage stays the same you need more to survive.

If you looked around at what this guy is paying vs the neighbors, you're now competitive with your salary.

Supply and demand. The demand for retail works is high but the supply at that minimum rate they wanna pay is non existent.
If you want, but why would you want that when there are as good and often better FOSS alternatives. With FOSS stuff you can have your cake and use any kind of plate you want to eat it from.
First rule of un-curated package managers: pin your dependancies. (and check for typos!)

And every time this happens I will ask for the same thing, I want a platform that has library level isolation and fire-walling.

Also could all PAASs please implement outbound firewalls, I cannot understand why it's not a standard feature.
If we were dealing with the victims of a school shooting, first we'd make sure none of them were going to bleed out. Then they'd be prioritized for dealing with their root cause injuries.

We can apply similar tactics to these school financial injuries. We don't need to choose one or the other.

And the core problem with people taking on debt to pay for college in the US is individual people having to pay for college, unlike many other countries. How much it costs is a secondary issue. If it can cost anything, market forces will boost the price until it passes a fairness threshold.
You could, and I think it would help. It would also shift the type of themes/plugins we see, because the discipline in making compatible themes/plugins would weed out certain types of producers.
Always a red flag when someone says x happens because of y. In this case shared interest is just as crucial. Imagine friends who don’t have shared interests, they may not hang out as much and not develop “context”
It's actually engineering (data sciences orientation). It's going OK but requires a huge effort (I'm way above the age at which you can ingest so much maths). So I have to be careful not to burn out again. But the deal is different: I work for me, I'll most likely succeed (I've made it through most of the exams with very good gradeq; I'm on the thesis right now), I don't have a toxic boss. So it's not exactly like a burn out situation. But I'll definitively feel relieved once it's behind me (hopefully in september).

Now I was fortunate enough to have enough money (and a powerful social system) to be able to do it. I understand I am very lucky.

And data sciences are super cool when you come from computer sciences. I definitely feel I'm learning something totally new. Data sciences is very far away from computers when you think about it...
Sounds like the plot to a horror movie
Only if you use. A better strategy is to not let customer issues turn into lawsuits.
My algorithm is single threaded :-)

Multiplying the number of processors by the clock speed of the processors, and then multiplying that product by the number of floating-point operations the processors can perform in one second, as done for supercomputers FLOPS, does not help me :-)
> For example Iraq 1 started due to Saddam Hussain invade Kuwait.

... but it didn't start when he invaded Iran. i wonder why?!? (rhetorical question ofc).
I'm not confusing anything but you're certainly muddying the water. The USSR lost the Winter War. Period. It's well known and not remotely controversial. They intended to conquer all of Finland and failed. The end. Soviet losses were 5 times greater than Finnish losses. The whole thing is what made Hitler believe he could succeed on what became the Eastern Front.
It has to be something like this because I add to my list of close friends fairly often - so I have lots of people to lean on (as I discovered when I found myself debilitated by an accident recently).

I'm mid thirties and the last close friend who was willing to help me shower when I couldn't is someone I got to know 3 months ago.
I'm a visual learner. I wanted a way to see how documentation of complex systems looked too. I'm working on a https://gainknowhow.com/software-companies.html . It is basically like a mind map for documentation. The high level documentation like core values is on top connected through learning paths to learn the complete context of low-level skills.
I'm curious how this looks in another context. According to the EIA in 2018 the average Texas home used 14,112 kWh a year.

The EPA/Monroney window sticker for the Ford Lightning claims 49 kWh / 100 miles, so about 1 kWh for 2 miles. So you could drive approximately 28,000 miles on the same power that a home consumes.

Does my math make sense? Did I miss something?
The rocm stack is one of the toolchains deployed on Frontier. With determination, llvm upstream and rocm libraries can be manually assembled into a working toolchain too. It's not so much trickle down improvements as the same code.
I guess that's interesting. But I wouldn't exactly look at that metric when deciding to buy an electric vehicle.
I'm aware of the Hittites from Asia Minor, and separately the Mittani to their east. But not the Hittani. Did you unconsciously merge the two?
Sounds like a misuse of relative return (growth rate). If you gain 100% today, then lose 50% tomorrow, you are back where you started. Absolute numbers give you the correct answer: x -> 2x is a gain of x, 2x -> x is a loss of x, so expected value is zero (x is a hard number not a ratio).
I tried to read all my app privacy policies. It was 1M words
I’m not sure I understand.

What’s the difference in incentives colleges in lowering tuitions whether the government pays them directly or indirectly through the students?

They are getting paid either way. Unless there was a cap that was removed that I missed.

And the students are picking up the same loan amounts whether it was originally backed by the government, or originated from the government.

The chart in the figure also doesn’t line up with the claims, with college inflation deviating from before the law was passed, and then a further increase in growth starting over a decade after it passed.

Anecdotally, having been heavily involved in the student govt affairs of a major state university at the time a lot of these tuition increases happened, what we saw was:

1) A huge pullback in state govt tuition support.
2) Coinciding with a massive increase in spending on athletics and buildings
3) leading to my otherwise extremely price competitive state college becoming as expensive as the equivalent private college a few streets down the road.
4) Followed a few years later by an increase in tuition at the private college.

This was once again further entrenched after the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
Fred Brooks' original statement re: 10x was that the best programmers were ten times as productive as the worst programmers, not the average programmer.
I'll admit, I didn't actually read the codebase. I just took the notes at face value. I agree. People are harsh in review of themselves.

To your second point: I think it's a matter of size for a project becoming spaghettified. ffmpeg is mature and massive, so it's no surprise it's jumbled at this point. For a project of 4coder's scale, I'd wager that being open source sooner would've benefitted its design.

But, it's in the past. I'm just glad the dev left the code in the community's hands before dropping it. A lot of devs don't even do that, and the project becomes history.
I can't point you toward a specific part, but I think something like this must exist for the 3rd gen Moto 360 to exist. I wouldn't be surprised if it was substantially more expensive than the ones with the tab, though.
This is not a resolution, a resolution is where you point out the faulty step in the reasoning that leads to the paradox.
By that argument, everything is "buying votes". There are far more blatant examples of vote buying, like creating jobs in the production of weapon systems for the military, tax cuts for specific groups (mostly the rich, though that's more "buying campaign donations"), and plenty of other examples.

The fact of the matter is that these loans are unsustainable. They saddle people with life-long debt that they can never get rid of, dooming them to a life of poverty because of a choice they made when they were young, which everybody at the time told them was the right choice.

That particular debt forgiveness is simply the right thing to do. It will free a lot of people from poverty.

But clearly there are also measures necessary to prevent this from happening again, like a reasonable maximum to how much can be lend.