skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure. I know they push tons of deals through the apps. I know this second-hand, including from someone who routinely gets entire meals from Taco Bell, specifically, for a couple dollars—just as you used to be able to do off the normal menu. Sometimes he can get absurd amounts of food for less than a dollar—just as you used to be able to do couponing or deal-hunting. In short, what it looks like to me is the normal prices became "sale" prices, the former sale prices became super-duper-sale prices, and the new menu prices are a totally new massive-profit-margin category that didn't exist before.

This is actually pretty similar to what pizza chains have been doing far longer and to a greater degree than other fast-food joints used to—it's long been the case that you can get 30-50% off your chain pizza order with coupons, and that there are always a bunch of coupons available to suit many common orders, such that there's rarely a reason to order anything at full menu price from a major pizza chain unless you just can't be bothered to track down any of the deals (hence, it's price discrimination, with a side of psychological manipulation to make you think the "deals" are actually bargains when they are, rather, simply not rip-offs).

As for my own experience: we usually do Arby's when we want garbage food. We can easily drop $40 there at menu prices without going nuts—or we can get all of the exact same stuff for $15 or less, with coupons (the key: lots of their coupons list, in small print, a count of times you can apply it in the same visit, so you may be able to use a single coupon for, say, "$3 sandwich + fries" to buy five of those meals at once at the coupon price). Again, these places have long had coupons, but they didn't used to constantly have lots of coupons or other deals active at once, and the difference between coupon and menu prices didn't used to be so extreme. Actually, noticing that Arby's prices had damn near doubled over just a couple years (pre-pandemic) was what prompted me to take notice of this situation, which does appear to be playing out industry-wide.
> ... seems faster than the row based method in the post.

But the row-based method in the post is not what they describe doing on the GPU version of the algorithm. The row-based method is their initial CPU-style version.

The GPU version handles each pixel in isolation, checking it against the relevant shape(s).

At least, if I understand things correctly (:

As far as I can tell, the approach described here is probably similar to what a built-in "draw path" command would do. Checking if something is inside a triangle is just extremely easy (no concavity, for instance) and common, and more complex operations are left up to shader developers — why burn that special-case stuff into silicon?
I understand what you're saying, despite not necessarily agreeing with everything you are saying.

It's just really odd to say:

"X produces the best model we have"

But also say:

"X is an unlikely solution".

If it produces the best model we have, it's the most likely solution at this time. That doesn't guarantee it will ultimately be the correct solution, sure.
Sounds we're just arguing about the definition of the word "try". I'm ok with adopting your definition, I suppose, but "let go of expectations" doesn't quite capture it either. I suppose there may simply not be a word for exactly what I'm talking about, and what I believe Bukowski and the buddhists and stoics and Yoda are all referring to. They're not opposed to the expenditure of energy, which is what effort is.

They, and I, are referring to... striving, perhaps? The combination of pursuing something and being attached to the anticipated or desired result. To me, "try" comes closest to that. But I recognize you use the word in a more precise manner and are probably correct to do so.
It's very funny that you trying to invalidate the problem OP is explaining and you made the exact same mistake in 10 lines of code :) You forgot to return from the error handling branch.
Give stuff away for free or cheap

Gain majority market share

Raise prices
"Serious" cyclists are often using newer chains like those from SRAM. Many of these newer ones don't use spare links, you'd carry a quick link and remove a portion of the chain to get yourself riding again.

Small distinction I agree, but you come off a little arrogant with such a strongly worded statement.
Pickles of course (too bad the codebase isn’t in Python or it could be a great pun in this circumstance).
I wrote a Twitter bot in Python that tweets one of the Hacker Dictionary Words of Day once a day.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/hackdict?src=hashtag_click
Starlink's constellation isn't even half completed yet. It's likely that Starlink will get faster when they have more satellites. Why are they judging results on incomplete data? The other guys get until 2028 to finish their build-out -- why doesn't Starlink?
Any general statement.

Would that be bad? How?
When I do fast food these days I almost always get off the bargain menu (inflation means it's not the dollar menu any more). I assume they made money from it but I doubt anyplace could survive if all the orders were that cheap.

It's plenty of food, if you skip the soda it's like $3 for a small burger and fries, or a taco and a bean burrito.

I see some BK combos are within striking distance of $15. Add sales tax, easily over $1 in many locations, and there you are.
It's a metaphor, I mean that an individual who disagrees with a jury system trying to avoid jury duty does nothing to help dismantle it. In fact, their refusal to participate likely comes with a human cost.
I don't believe they had performance commitments yet. What this is saying is they don't meet the performance criteria now and they don't think they will meet it by 2028 because performance is decreasing with more subscribers. I think the FCC is wrong on this one. I would take the long bet that Starlink will average above 100/20 by 2028.
No, terrorism and child porn are separate databases.
Some people can't afford to live in cities...and their life is better in rural areas. Some people prefer to own rather than rent, even if it's a 100K house on a small plot passed down generations. You're essentially saying poor people don't deserve internet access. It's hilarious to me that people with your position proclaim to be progressive (not saying you are,) when there is an explicit hatred of the poor when you start talking to them. I imagine -that- is why people in rural areas feel a disconnect with people in cities.
If it’s presentably presented (ie: a nice stack of mostly squares without buttons/zippers), I’d think any random car/bike/moto mechanic shop would gladly take them off your hands.
Stupid question. In Europe or the US, we wired the whole country all the way to the most remote house to connect them to the electricity grid. Then again to connect them to the telephone. What has changed that makes it so difficult with fiber?
What about detransitioners? Most of those kids grew into adults that have been ruined for life. Knowing this, the risk of giving these drugs to kids to outright block their puberty is just too immense. Not to mention the underage surgeries some of them receive.
This would be acceptable if the members of the FCC weren't being compelled to take action that would be favorable to Comcast and Verizon. I do not accept that they acted in good faith. Hasn't anyone noticed that the net neutrality actions initiated by the FCC under the Trump administration haven't changed?
Typical where? I've _never_ had to deal with such a schedule.
Starlink right now is a bent pipe between the dishy and a ground station. Depending on how many customers they have in a specific ground station's cell, they need different backhaul capacity for that cell.

So, in the case of Starlink, they absolutely CAN provision customers like that, and that's EXACTLY how it works right now - invites happen per "cell," and each "cell" has a capacity quota.

Recently, they've been overprovisioning "cells" for some reason or another, and the service has slowed down, so it objectively didn't meet the thresholds and they'll need to bid again. This also seems reasonable.

I say this all as a happy Starlink customer - negative externalities to space junk and obnoxious fanbase aside, it's way better than my previous fixed point to point WISP experience was, and worlds better than ADSL stretched to the bitter end of distance capability over lines from the 1970s was.
Political will and lobbying.
Did Sundar ever write code? Wasn’t he a PM? I wouldn’t be surprised if Mark still writes some code, he’s a hacker at heart
OP addresses this. Very little of what goes into those boxes gets sold as-is. Some more gets sold as rags, chopped up for insulation and pillows etc. Most ends up in landfills. The boxes are convenient, but don't really solve the waste problem. They just change who profits from the very small residual value in old clothes, and often not for the better. You're better off selling the very few best pieces (e.g. still-fashionable dress clothes in near mint condition) locally and donating the proceeds to a real charity. The rest will go in the trash anyway so might as well skip the middleman and put it there yourself.
iOS 'solved' this by including a back button in the top left that takes you to the previous app, but now I sometimes misclick that when trying to hit a button/control in the top left of the foreground app. On a small 5 to 8-inch display, there's tradeoffs for every change they make and in every stage of the design process.
Maybe stop having transactional friendships?
You think Starlink doesn’t have lobbysists?

If they failed their qualifying metrics and did win the subsidies anyway, wouldn’t mirror universe hedora be here complaining about that double standard?

To me at least, this seems less obviously suspect than that would have.
I agree that is overkill today, but if we are spending a bunch of money building out new infrastructure it makes sense to future proof it. The ISPs have ten years to complete their rollout, and I'd like to see it provide adequate service for at least a decade after that. Will 100Mb be overkill 20 years from now? Think about trying to use the internet of today on connection speeds that were common 20 years ago.
> The lobbying against it has been intense for completely befuddling reasons though

Citation needed. I don’t see why anyone would lobby against starlink or LTD here. Neither won. They money from the fund is not distributed. They can reapply.

What the hell are you talking about? If there is lobbying, it’s certainly not against Starlink or LTD getting the funds as subsidiaries. The goals were set, starlink didn’t meet them, they don’t get subsidized. Simple as that.
> You can't "provision" customers like that.

You might want to tell SpaceX that, because that’s what they’ve been doing.

The satellites near a particular area (at any particular point in time) have a capacity as do the local ground station(s).
In case anyone missed it in TFA, here is /e/'s whitepaper on how they substitute and proxy Google services:

https://e.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/e-state-of-d... (PDF)

There's also an updated description of /e/ here: https://doc.e.foundation/what-s-e
I’ve had it in central Ohio since February 2021. I would say i average ~120M down, ~20M up. There’ve been a few outages, but I’ve never seen a prolonged period of less than 80M down.

The fastest thing I can get otherwise is a 10M down, 768K up DSL link. I had been working remote on that since 2008.
> I've seen 220 down/40 up out of it.

Sounds great. However, I've seen ↓31/↑4 and ↓20/↑10 out of it. Anecdata doesn't prove much.

The network is improving, the tech is capable, but the real life performance is not up to snuff. Starlink, much like any company Musk seems to get himself involved with, is promising more than it can deliver, and that hurts when it comes to subsidies. They can have their billions when their network does what it promised to do.
To which people?

In best cases, to domestic thrift stores, which are hoping to create retail jobs for people (often a bridge job to get training, a work history) with customers including homeless, thrift treasure seekers, costume shoppers, college students, near poverty, in poverty, makers, reusers and more.

Middle case, they get shredded into insulation or dollar bills.

Worse case, they flood Africa as finished textiles obliterating the local market.
Because people independently choose to use Ookla, it's very popular. Few people use the FCC's app, which depend on people at the locations using it to provide data.
Comcast didn't participate in RDOF: https://www.fiercetelecom.com/operators/comcast-adds-323-000...
Hate speech isn't necessarily illegal nor do I know what you have in mind when you say "harassment" is illegal, there are 50 states in the U.S. with 50 sets of laws.
Lua itself is _really_ good as a build system. Spawn a process with libuv, wrap it in a coroutine to periodically check on progress, done.
re pipelining: unless Go's network package does this magically under the hood, then sqlite-http doesn't take advantage of that! If you think that would be a nice feature, file an issue and I'll see what can be done

How complex is your text processing? If I'm working with a small dataset, I typically just save the "raw" responses into a table and create several intermediate tables that extracts the data I need. Something like:

create table raw_responses as http_get('https:/....');
create table intermediate1 as select xxxx(response_body) as message from raw_responses;
create table final as select message from intermediate;

(some CTEs[0] will be very useful here)

The "lambda" pattern described about half-way through this post might be useful as well, if you need to do some complex text processing.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/lang_with.html
A lot of clothes, including the donated ones end up in landfills like this https://youtu.be/MHnDqelUh-4?t=90

It's an abomination the fashion industry doesn't get any blame.
They do it because it benefits them too. OpenStreetMaps links with WD, GLAMs link with WD, journals/ORCIDs link with WD, all sorts of other data archives link with WD. Whoever is not linking with may see a crawler pass by to collect license-free facts.

Also, I just checked: WebMD is using a ton of embedded RDF on each page. They understand SEO well as you said :)
> The result is that we now would need to subscribe to about a dozen VOD platforms to access the same content we once did through Netflix,

> and since each subscription is separate, it is no longer USD 9.99, but closer to USD 60, which is outside of reach for many.

A $9.99 Netflix plan back in the days did not provide the same level of service that a $60 streaming budget can provide today.

I'd argue that a Netflix plan today provides much more content and a much better experience than the old Netflix.
Landsat Island (2006)
GPU vector graphics library I released a few years ago: https://github.com/styluslabs/nanovgXC - basically a new backend for nanovg that supports arbitrary paths. Coverage calculation (for analytic antialiasing) is explained a bit here: https://github.com/styluslabs/nanovgXC/blob/master/src/nanov...
They do. Once they finish their buildout and can meet the performance required, they can re-apply.
>> But it probably won't be free since I'm looking at >$100k in compute costs to build it.

How about crowd funding it? Your previous work should be enough to convince people it's worth contributing to.
There was a period of time at my high school where we would compile a default browser app in Borland c++ and it would let you access whatever it wanted. They noticed because they got proper filtering after that...
The most extreme examples of this are countries like Pakistan, which derive a great deal of foreign aid from their ongoing 'conflicts' with terror-related groups in outlying territory. Pakistan has very little incentive to ever 'win'.
Because if a statistically insufficient number of people are using that app, the data shouldn't be used for decision making.
What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
It seems to be the same problem in most european countries that have different political systems. Doesn't seem to explain it to me.
Clothes are generally difficult to quilt with because the fabric stretches too much.
Yes, the size in memory is definitely an issue. Do keep in mind that right now, the julia executable more or less just has to load all of LLVM as a shared object into memory, since we might compile stuff at any time. That alone adds ~84M of overhead on my machine for the current libLLVM14 shared object. There's probably some other stuff I haven't thought of OTOH. The (non-minified) runtime itself is 244K at the moment, which can probably be slimmed down further. There are currently efforts underway to statically compile more stuff and hopefully introduce a more traditional static linking approach, but it takes time & lots of effort.

Still, a large chunk of the memory being spent is not in the code that's produced or in the allocations happening in the code, but libraries that are loaded but not required. It's one of the downsides of focusing on interactivity first. The benchmarks in benchmarksgame don't reflect that, which I guess is up to interpretation/what's required - if the total amount of memory is a concern it's an important figure, if you only care about your core algorithm not having inherent allocation/memory problems, you probably won't care about the compiler chain as much.
It’s all about where you pass the cables. If you need to dig up the street then 30k is not a lot of money to do the installation. If you can install the cables on already existing poles, then that reduces the cost a lot.

It’s also cheaper to do a group of homes then it is to do 1 as the cost of bringing the workers, the machinery and the permits is spread across all clients. That’s why we hear a lot of cases where someone has a fiber cable passing close by but the cable company did not see enough profit to finish the last mile (or they asked at the time of building and not enough homes signed up at the time).
FCC's app is a white-labeled test on contract from SamKnows. FCC also has contracts with Ookla for use of their data. From the FCC's perspective they seem to just be using data across multiple vendors for more coverage, but Ookla is the biggest player and has a lot more data points on offer than SamKnows.
On a side note, Observable is stupendous. Interactive Network Graphs, Charts, Maps, Animations. Not sure why we don't see it used enough.

Mike Bostock himself is constantly adding latest work https://observablehq.com/@mbostock. Great learning resource.
You eat food right? It doesn't grow in the supermarket? Maybe you take vacations outside of the city and you expect the people who provide the services you use there to have a life and access to the internet.
Yes it is. I took too many words to convey that in my comment above.

Two very high value things:

Getting us kids relevant, useful info

, and

Time / Focus management.

When done with basic human consideration in mind, those two amplify the good thinking and knowledge building.

Great teachers get that and apply it to the course, project at hand and the students benefit greatly.
yes.
The current government is accountable for its own corruption.

If the current president is taking bribes, They are at fault. The fact that the last government was also corrupt is not an excuse.
This makes sense and hadn’t really thought about it that way. My mom had her right (shifting side) arm amputated when I was younger and there were a few times we were driving and I’d do the shifting for her.
Don’t remember why I didn’t drive in the first place (and for the record her personal vehicle was automatic, though she was a firm advocate of manuals).
I think it’s funny looking back on it but can’t say it’s particularly safe
I feel like the land and building cost in my city dwarf the utility difference.
Do you have a particular price point in mind? And have you looked at audiosciencereview ?
Fun fact: Windows XP sound was created using a cracked version of Sound Forge; it embeds "Deepz0ne" scene name in the files :) (This is absent in SP1 and further.) https://boingboing.net/2006/07/19/windows-xp-sounds-cr.html
As a child of the 2000s: just let them look at the horrifying underbelly of the internet. One trip down grossout lane isn't going to undo all your parenting and make them some kind of perverted monster.

Children aren't prisoners.
And this is in an essence why demoting content is difficult.
Managers also seem to love these proxy metrics, so delivering these metrics to management (as a dev) can be a good way to get noticed.
It was only 4-5 years ago that Google was considered the pinnacle of Engineering centric culture. It was still considered top up until last year. Something is going off the rails in the big tech firms if people now view big-tech work as menial. These were the same companies that pioneered CI/CD, Services, cloud, scalable web services, and myriad other technologies.
Well, we're viewing these messages without context. Absent of context, I would say that Zuckerberg's messaging is too aggressive, and many otherwise decent employees would find it toxic. Now, if there was a proper build-up of messaging to this level of aggression, perhaps that context justifies it to a certain extent. But it looks quite bad in isolation.

Pichai's messaging is more reasonable, even without context. He's just saying the company needs people to work harder. I'm fine with that.
I'll never use a custom ROM that includes microg by default. LineageOS with no gapps of any kind is my preference. I can get apps from f-droid or even aurora store, and everything I need works. I don't want any google stuff on there, not even a slightly less sketchy version.
The piece says, thing X doesn't exist, here's how it was already figured out, etc. We should find something better. I don't think it says we aren't allowed to keep it around when it is sometimes useful as a thought device.

It also reduces the religious aspect, demoting DM to simply a tool used in specific situations, "we don't have anything better at the moment."
setup yubikey with domain.com

login to domain.com

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login to fakedomain.com

enter username/password to fakedomain.com, it then demands domain.com yubikey authn token. yubikey does not provide because not on domain.com. or it demands fakedomain.com token, but yubikey doesn't have it

so, in that way, yubikeys (and similar) are immune to phishing, unlike say google authenticator
What the hell does that have to do with being employed?

My employer gives me money. I give them labor. I am friendly with my co-workers because I am generally a friendly person, but I don't owe the company any more than I give and I don't deserve any more than I demand for myself.

There's no "grateful" to be had here. I'm not grateful to have a job. I have a job because I earn it.
He's serving 600 households afaik, not offering service to 600 households. So the assumption is that there's a 0% attrition rate. Pretty safe assumption for monopolies, or for local services with half the price and 5x the bandwidth of the other choices.
I am well aware of the state of Librem 5 shipping. Every time they get the CPUs, they ship another banch of the phones: https://forums.puri.sm/t/estimate-your-librem-5-shipping/112....

Last I checked the forums, Librem 5 works for 10-12 hours on one charge, without suspend. This is mostly fine with me: it should survive a working day and one can buy a spare battery for emergencies. The work on suspend did not stop. Yes, I am undoubtedly an enthusiast.
The CEO may not be involved in hiring line engineers sure, but the buck still stops with the CEO. The least they can do is be sensitive in messaging. "Some of you don't belong here" just comes across as crass and insensitive. Given how FB is doing may be Zuck himself doesn't belong there anymore? Did he think about that before making the comment?