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Tons of us have worked at failed or middling startups or been pushed out of one. Sometimes with not a damn thing to show for it. There's nothing wrong with failing - not everyone's gonna bat 100.

I'd suggest developing some other hobbies or activities and not tying your identity up with your job so much.
I just answer the call, put the phone down, still live, and let them talk away whilst listening to my background noise.

No call center supervisor is going to allow an employee to keep asking 'Hello....hello....can you hear me....?" for very long.

As for robocalls...they just play all the way through. I don't care, as I'm not listening.

I get very few spam calls compared to my friends and colleagues.
Microsoft Teams App Gains Native Apple Silicon Support
> The first trick is "overwrite, don't clear". If you clear the "screen" and then add new content, you risk seeing a blank or partially blank frame for a brief moment. It's far better to overwrite the content in the terminal entirely so that there is no intermediate blank frame.

> The second trick [...]

> The third trick [...]

This is pretty hilarious to consider when coming from Win32API.

Its traditional to clears the window before showing anything on Win32. Clearing the window happens so fast that you shouldn't see a flicker, even as the mouse moves over your window (each pixel your mouse cursor moves, Win32API will clear the window to its background, redraw the window (erasing the old mouse pointer), and draw the mouse pointer in the new location.

This "TUI needs to be overwritten, not cleared" idea seems quaint and slow. Win32API was drawRect(background color) for decades on ancient 386 machines and fast enough to deliver a good experience. Why is a 80 x 24 terminal window so much slower?

> In Textual the layout process creates a "render map". Basically a mapping of the Widget on to it's location on the screen. In an earlier version, Textual would do a wasteful refresh of the entire screen if even a single widget changed position. I wanted to avoid that by comparing the before and after render map.

Win32API creates and maintains the "invalidRect", the rectangle that needs to be re-rendered from scratch (ie: draw-calls called upon the hierarchy of "windows" from the background to foreground, in order , to make the overall window look unchanged).

Not only from mouse-cursor movements, but also as other windows "move" ontop of your window, or Clippy's speech bubble disappears (if you remember that little UI from the 90s version of Microsoft Word).

And again, this needed to be done every time the mouse moved one pixel, to erase the old mouse cursor (aka: redraw the entire window from scratch "over" the old mouse cursor, making it look like you've erased it) and redraw the mouse cursor on top of the fresh coat of paint. It was an incredibly common operation even in 20MHz 80386 land from the early `90s.

There's just no way a modern terminal is that slow, unless there's a billion layers of vsync / refreshes going on. There's definitely something wrong going on IMO here.

> Unicode art is good

This is true. Heck, ASCII art / symbols are often good enough to do many, many things.

There's something wrong with the terminal model at the fundamental level if you're a couple of magnitudes slower than the 1980s. I can't say I'm an expert on TUI (or guis for that matter), but... this whole blog post is kind of a horror story IMO.
New algorithm aces university math course questions
I went to business school. The management textbooks used to tell you that steady profits were the most important thing. When I think about the things I was taught, particularly this incredible reverence for GE, I laugh.
Youth is horribly wasteful. Be glad you're not young.

Whether you work at Intel for 40 years or hop between jobs and your own projects, the story is the same:

- Find something that works

- Grow it larger until it fails

- Find something (smaller) that works

- ...

i.e.,

- If you want to feel more productive, take smaller steps

- If you need to go faster, take larger steps

The absolutely key issue is taking ownership of how your activities affect you

- If you read bits of news all day, you'll addict yourself to short bursts of new information

- If you relish people's attention, you'll depend on their whims

- If you meditate all day, you'll find the deepest peace, but do nothing

Right now, you have a long process of mourning all that you'd hoped for. It's best to do so deeply - to get it done. So:

- Write down all your faults and failings and how royally you screwed yourself

- Write each once. No need to elaborate

- When you can think of no more, you're done with that.

Now you have X time in the bank. How do you want to spend it?

Remember: if you read news or seek customers or write books, you will become the reflection of that activity: hyper-intellectual, a pleaser, a ruminator...

So, to make something of yourself, do what will make you what you want to be.

Above all, DON'T act out of misery to just make yourself feel better. DON'T try to "build yourself back up". i.e., Don't let your past define you.

That's the essence of freedom
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I am sitting in a hotel and apparently someone downloaded a Russian version of Photoshop :D
> I think just being able to grow one's own personal supply legally is a fair compromise.

And we disagree here, for the reason I mentioned before about how most people don't actually know what a safe dose is, i.e. what dose leads to distortions as opposed to just the benefits.

I think a better compromise than "everyone should be able to have all the psychedelics they want" would be "treat it as a controlled substance and allow for microdosing clinics, or prescribed doses, all of which have supervision by a medical professional".
Most of the falsehoods that most people believe, yourself most likely included, are things that they had not even noticed that they believed, so would never have thought to "test empirically", or even wonder whether they might not be true.

Your personal offense at the suggestion is characteristic of people who have been disinclined to discover their blind spots, and who stand to benefit most from an experience.

I have not seen people come away believing even more falsehoods than they went in with, although very large numbers can be hard to compare. It can take a long time and hard work to whittle that number down, but the best time to start is usually now.
Thank you for mentioning J. Nathan Kutz! Reading through this article, I saw similarities to Dynamic Mode Decomposition (I am not literate enough on the topic to elaborate). His Coursera courses and book were a fascinating dive into orthogonal basis functions, lower-rank approximations like PCA... I'm not sharp enough anymore (over a decade since grad school) to fully grok it, but damn his work is so cool!
Would you be opposed to using your tax dollars to fund a voluntary euthanasia program for these people?
Dont you mean "Norton Commander Copyright (C) 1986 by Peter Norton"? :-)

Reminds me of https://wetmachine.com/my-thoughts-exactly/ghost-writer/

>I was ego surfing today when I came upon this link to a book “Inside the Sun386i and Sun486i” by Peter Norton and, to my great astonishment, me.

>And it turned out that I was going to have to write a 400 or so page book. For which I was going to be given, I think, a $3,000 advance against royalties. The book was going to say “By PETER NORTON” and there would be a tiny “with John Sundman” at the bottom. Norton was not required to do any writing or editing;
There are so much stuff you could do with it right?
Wonderful story. And I think I have a speck of dust in my eye.
To be fair, neither of us even could be wrong, we both expressed things as they are within each of our contexts, and personal opinions. :)
The installments would have been subject to tax, too.
They don't, lol. Got a few ad impressions off me, though.
The need was synchronous -- I either got authorized right away, or we moved on to plan B. And yeah, as others have said, even listening to VMs this days is outlier behavior :/
I'd imagine you could do a frame by frame to identify points of interest and then "predict" the track they should follow into the next frame, training the model on each point of interest as you go.

In this case, you wouldn't be aiming to identify the material properties specifically, but given a model that's tightly fitted enough, there should be constants that stand in for the missing material properties when it's all said and done.

Just an initial thought, I'd love to hear why I'm wrong from those in the field.
Intel winding down its optan memory business
There was an eruption in the same location last year, that lasted for about 6 months. I think it emitted between 1 and 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases. In comparison humans in Iceland emitted around 2-10 million tonnes (depending on what you include) during the same period.

Another fun comparison is that Elon Musk’s 50 min flight in his private jet last Friday between Brownsville, TX and Austin, TX emitted around as much as last years eruption did in a day.
Contrary to popular belief, the highest chance of success, and largest entrepreneurial successes, come from founders who are 47 years old when they start their companies.

You are still 10 years away from the statistical "peak" to start your startup.

Yes you will recover.

This experience may be exactly what you need to become great. It's your choice to either hide from it and whither away in regret or face it head on and extract all the value it has to offer. Growth comes from painful reflection on our mistakes.

Studying Stoicism and this lecture series really helped me get through the failure of my startup (Which I spent 7 years building and then had to sell for $1).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xc2_FtpHI&list=PL22J3VaeAB...

Note the lecturer is controversial politically now... but this series genuinely helped me put myself back together after my ego was shattered - I am way better off now (and more resilient) and years later building another company which is doing great so far.
I could use some help with hip flexibility - would you be willing to post some links?
Assuming you submitted the actual URL, it's a canonical link problem:

<link rel="canonical">

That's the canonical link in the page, which points to nothing. Which I'd guess HN rewrites as just the root (what is currently being pointed to).
I did not like the comment. It is needlessly aggressive and implies I have the arrogant view that my post is better than the author's paper. I do not.

I also suspect your hypothesis is not correct. The top row of your link is a good example. The NN tries to infer a gradient but that's really tough to do with limited data. That is to say, the tree based models will locally fit their partitions to the exact training data and the NN will try to view it in the big picture filling in the gaps. Tree based model works better for most real world tabular data.

The paper concludes something similar:

> This superiority is explained by specific features of tabular data: irregular patterns in the target function, uninformative features, and non rotationally-invariant data where linear combinations of features misrepresent the information.

I daresay my perspective is better aligned with the paper than yours. Are YOU trying to replace the publication with your 4 lines?
One of the core issues here is that the "caller id" information is unauthenticated. If we could have the phones themselves receive all of the call routing information that the carrier has, we could build anti-spam technology against it.
First you can always research on your own, there's tons of resources online and in git.
If that doesn't work I find a teammate or a friend with the right domain expertise. There are also some useful slack communities for instance on MLOps etc.
EDIT: here is a link to single-kit orders: https://bit.ly/iollo-single-kit

To answer your questions:

- Thanks for the suggestion, we're currently working on the example reports with our pilot users and will publish some of them soon.

- Our turnaround time is currently 2-3 weeks, but we're working to significantly reduce that.

- Given this feedback we're receiving, we'll implement that option shortly. For now if you want to try it, you can get the one test plan and I'll cancel the subscription for you.

- This is a good question, and we have to look into this. Data privacy is a big topic for many people. We have to mail the package somewhere, but maybe there are options.
Showing the same rituals in an unlikely context was maybe the main point of that kind of comedy.
How is that any different than a notification from any messaging, social media, or any app really with notifications turned on? They all know that the human brain is very susceptible to these notifications.

At least with the old school phone, you could leave the receiver off hook to send the callers a busy signal or just unplugged.
The streetcar suburbs actually had larger lots than the modern suburbs. Sure there are large lots in a few suburbs, but lots in general have been going down. (we are only talk about a maybe 200 square feet though, so nothing significant).

The large lot suburbs get a lot of attention because that is where the rich live, but there are a lot more around that don't have those massive lots.
Nestlé also is famous for exausting the natural resources.
I can't be the only one to think volcanic eruptions are good settings to test Venus rovers. Composition and pressure are still different sure, but you gotta test these vehicles on Earth before sending them.
Mike, thanks for this reply and your work on SQLAlchemy. My employer uses your framework, but not yet the newest versions featuring async.

Previously, and still in my personal projects, I have been a Django and Django ORM person.

I got away with by and large avoiding SQL statements in building web apps and have sometimes struggled to understand why SQL statements seemed much more forward-facing in SQLAlchemy in comparison.

Then I listened to your recent Talk Python podcast episode with M. Kennedy [1] and it helped me understand where the framework is coming from with regards to expectations for SQL capability from a developer that wants to use SQLAlchemy.

I believe the focus was much more so on the dark secrets you mention above, though and colored in how you discovered those.

If anyone wants to learn more about async or SQLAlchemy, I highly recommend listening.

As an aside, it was also cool to hear you talking about your project because for me, it humanized you as the maintainer. You sounded pretty chill, which was for some reason not what I was expecting.

I hope you can make it back on to that podcast with less of a gap between appearances next time.

[1] https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/344/sqlalchemy-2.0
This looks awesome! I recently did a 2x/mo metabolomics experiment (https://smm-data.herokuapp.com/) and I've been wishing someone would do something like this ever since.

Best of luck!
I think your citation is 9 years old. What I've always heard is what they called 10 nm was non-EUV. You are correct that what they called 7 nm was going to use EUV, pretty much had to, but 10 nm catastrophically failed and the company responded very poorly to that.

Not that long ago I remember reading, forget at what confidence level, that their old 7 mn was believed to have the potential to leapfrog their 10 nm and save the company, but others said they had some problematic things in common (not counting the very poorly run company!) that made that unlikely. In any event what was 7 nm did not ride to the company's rescue.
We had this guy at a company I worked for. Always said yes to the attractive assignments that were good for his career and refused others on grounds of having way too much on his plate. Then after a while he‘d delegate the attractive assignments after botching or half-finishing them (often requiring a complete rewrite). Only to accept new ones („I‘d love to do it but i’m currently swamped with XYZ, maybe ABC can take over here? it’s basically done“).
I think he deliverately functioned like that, and it got him promoted almost all the way to the top.
One reason I left!
That is only a problem if value profits of a few companies, that don't even pay that much of taxes, over your citizens. Unless, of course, FB and Co. are doing for the letter agencies what TikTok is doing for the Chinese. In which cade it never really was about the companies in the first place.
I doubt it, they got too much traction at this stage.
That explains why his predecessor, William Alexander, made such a terrible painting in the video embedded in this article.

Other Bill Alexander paintings you can find online are competent. Uninspired but competent. The one in the "The Magic of Oil Painting III" is wretched.

Clearly the three drafts are an important aspect of the final Bob Ross process.
What’s the deal with fiber-optic Internet in Israel?
> Radical politics indicates an understanding of political concepts...

It can. Or it can indicate a very distorted understanding, based on badly flawed assumptions. Within that distorted worldview, the most bizarre proposals can seem perfectly reasonable, even "scientific".

There are radicals of several different flavors. They can't all have a (working) understanding of political concepts.
A friend of mine runs Sushi Cloud (https://www.sushi.cloud/), which could help make things cheaper than AWS for training purposes.
A random forest is an ensemble model - i.e. lots of instances of a model, all separately fitted to the data, with some randomness so they're all different (e.g. bootstrapping, random subset of the data used to train etc). These models are then all used to classify, and their results averaged. This averaging will work to mitigate any overfitting that a single model might suffer from.
> lack of participation comes from a lack of self confidence

Yep that's it... let's not have management or leadership take any responsibility. It's the subordinates fault of course.
Yup. There are laws on the books though like the Sherman Act, Clayton Act and Robinson-Patman Act that were passed in response to firms monopolizing industries and coercing competitors.

If firm gets to powerful they can do anticompetitive things that make the American economic system run by powerful oligarchs instead of a more democratic free market.

Capital tends to concentrate so regulation is needed to keep the free market system intact. In other words an economy run by monopolies isn’t a free market.
The new NPM Dependency Selector Syntax
Another note is that if the material is actually something that a student can engage with the work tends to be a lot better because people take more pride in it. In high school I tended to get lousy grades and struggled to focus, but in college it's been easier because I have more flexibility in my topics and can choose things that matter more to me.
I am not trolling here, just for posterity. =)

I once bought about a dozen Doctor Who paperbacks at a garage sale. This was probably 1995.

Half of them contained mysterious hand-written notes which related to "keys".

Cryptic sentences on each paper like, "The fifth key is hard to find, and has many chilly neighbors".

To this day, I have no idea what it was about. Maybe the books and notes are on a shelf at my parent's house somewhere, and I'll take another pass at it some day.

ETA: Possibly references to this serial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_of_Marinus#Plot

Which had 0 to do with any of the books, as I recall. I would swear there was more than 5 notes about keys as well. Guess I'll have to dig them up and find out.
Pi Pico is also dual core, So in essence it should be easier to write multi-tasking code there.
The editor wrote the paper for me
A lot thought went into picking this name, glad you noticed :)
yes, but...

it's not an unusual situation unique to that applicant. it's so rampant, that even the HR/hiring people will be subject to it and totally understand the request. if you want to stand out to me as a potential employer, being proactive and stating we don't have answer unknown calls as alternate arrangements via _____ method to set up a call.
Made of plastic with an external antenna? Well, definitely of human origin, then. I doubt it's anything particularly interesting, the mystery of the unknown is almost always more enticing than the truth.
pulling a sled also strengthens the acl which are a weakpoint for many.
Double Commander is amazing! Is is a drop in replacement for Total Commander. It even supports Total Commander expansion modules, of which there are hundreds.
Well, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, so maybe this is the egg. I can definitely see various emulators taking advantage of this for RetroPie and the like.

Also, as the article mentions, there's a fork of Android that runs on a Raspberry Pi, and there are already Android games that will take advantage of Vulkan 1.2 support.
I can say that part of my litany on expanding your horizons is that the more things I try to learn, the more I learn about learning. Some skills are a lot like software, or sometimes I feel software should be more like them. But then there are things like tai chi that is just nothing like the intellectual pursuits I’ve occupied myself with. Those are “safe” in some ways that as I get older I see as a trap.
> The United States of America has become a place where 60% of people are actively rooting for their country to do worse whenever their guy is not in charge.

If so, I blame the media for constantly selling their narratives and inciting hatred. Any disagreement is labeled as far this and far that. If a politician makes a move that does not fit a side's narrative, the media will attack the politician's motives and assume the worst. When the SCOTUS make a ruling that the media disagrees with, it must be that the SCOTUS are the worst human beings in the world and they have the most sinister motives. The list can go on.

I'd also blame the education system of the US. We are supposed to educate kids to take different views, to seek information instead of merely opinions, to be aware of logical fallacies, especially the damaging ones like attacking one's motive. Yet someone we get generations of angrier and angrier kids.
Confirmed, thanks!
The comment chain you’re replying to is advocating for reigning in “our own” companies, regardless

Kicking out the hostile state solves the immediate threat from China. But what about threats from our own (current and/or future) government?
> can't really imagine what difference it would make

With $1.28B, you'd be able to commission a superyacht and crew and operate it for years. With $433M, you'd really need another $200M just to launch, let alone crew and operate.
Ukrainian nuclear plant is dangerously close to the fighting
I can't find it now, but I've seen somewhere a claim that it's better to train a 10x model for 1 epoch than a 1x model for for 10 epochs. This is most certainly not true for computer vision models (e.g. EfficientNet B0 vs B7), but perhaps it's true for NLP? I remember that the original BERT has been trained for 40 epochs (but only on 3.3B tokens), so I wonder how it would compare to GPT-3 trained for one epoch on the same dataset.
Yeah, used cars were nosebleed expensive last October (I bought my last car used in September, and remember feeling bad about the timing, because cars had gotten so expensive that I figured I'd get a much better deal if I held out until this year --- I was wrong about that).
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While it is nostalgia, I use Directory Opus 12 every day on my windows PC.

Really speeds up my everyday work in game development.
> Everything is search-based rather than folder-based, thank god

Huh. At the very least I use both and couldn't live without both. Especially the really nice, super-subjective folder hierarchies that I built myself and know like the back of my hand...whether local or in the cloud. No clutter, no folders with thousands of different loose files.
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