skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you intentionally avoiding the question? Tell me why a non-technical user should prefer even a hypothetical, 100%-compatible Firefox over Chrome.

Remember that they are non-technical, they aren't aware of FOSS or the history of Mozilla and have no ideological reason to pick Firefox, so the decision has to be made purely on functionality.

What groundbreaking, relevant-to-the-average-user functionality (dev tools and advanced, off-by-default privacy options don't count) does Firefox have out of the box that Chrome doesn't?
Good art tends to sell for little to the artist, only becoming valuable once some rich person decides they want to sell it as expensive. The good artist does it as "the starving artist"

Similarly, it's big corporations like Spotify that benefit from music copyrights. Musicians make their money by selling your tickets
I'm spitting into the wind here, because the norms of temp-to-hire are simply not the norms of contracting and probably never will be, but, broken record: your contracting rate is wildly higher than your FTE salary. 2x would be a lowball.
That's very common with these sorts of decisions; they won't reveal the specific reasons, and typically claim it's to avoid disclosing their exact anti-fraud strategies to potential adversaries. Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. all do the same.
I replaced iPhone batteries in family and friends phones more than 20 times. It's only about $15 and 10-20 minutes of work. Some after market batteries don't last year even a year, some are good for 2 years.
i have this thought for SO MANY TOOLS.

gif, screenshot, anything to make me not install it and run it just to find out it wasn't what i wanted / needed.
Not anymore ... With facial recognition and passport/I'd databases?
I think the software that is promoted here is actually detrimental to "remembering".

The core thesis here "Learning is intertwined with memory" was indeed hashed out by psychologists in the 1970 (Craik and Lockhart); It was precisely these two who put forth the "Levels/depth of processing" idea, which emphasized the importance of the encoding process. A more "meaningful" encoding enhances memory.

The author not so secretly wants to sell us an app for spaced practice. And yes, spaced practice is indeed important and has been well studied in memory research. But I feel that the tool that they are selling is the antithesis of good learning, especially if you want to check "Quantum Mechanics" off of your list. If I got it right, the main difference of their app to Anki or any other flashcard program is that you do not need to spend so much time drafting your questions because an AI can do it for you. But this is precisely where deep encoding would come into play. You need to decide how to phrase that question and write it down! You need to draft that answer! The classic crib sheet phenomenon.

Regarding computerized support for such human "deep learning" I can recommend "concept mapping" tools (VUE from Tufts or ihmc CmapTools). But a pen and paper is great, too.
And if you filter the thunder properly you can clearly hear Azathoth's orchestra.
Distributed Tracing Using OpenTelemetry, Jaeger and Object Storage
That's the thing though, I never get "lost".

I've never studied quantum mechanics aside from snippets I picked up through pop science articles or such, so it's not like I started with a big body of knowledge already in place.

It's hard for me to imagine what feeling "lost" in Wikipedia would be like. Maybe reading some article about a complex historical battle would do it - lists of people with important names would probably become a jumble without really clear identifiers of who did what and why.
I was transferred to a higher level (that's what they said, but I think it was still the usual customer service). And I don't know how to escalate the problem to another level. Maybe a public posting would help in some way
Speaking of reference frames, I deal with quite a few for Earth-bound things, and the primary ones we use are ECEF (Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed) and ECI (Earth-Centered, Inertial), which then we will often move to a relative local frame for whatever object matters.

Is the equivalent set available for Martian Nav (MCMF/MCI, I guess), or do you have different/specialized/etc. frames based on something unique to Mars.
Should also add your half of FICA (7.65%), so should be closer to 20% of pay
The reasonable thing to do would be to put a hold on the funds from the gift cards but leave his account alone.
Russian Men Flee the Country
The Martian and The Economist: A Parable of Panaceas
If you're not using derivatives, integrals, or complex numbers, maybe you'd be better off using Wildberger's "rational trigonometry" with quadrances and spreads instead of angles? I haven't actually tried it myself. Wildberger's motivation is a sort of ultra-strict Platonism* mixed with the desire to extend analytic geometry to fields other than the real numbers, though, so it wouldn't be surprising if it wasn't actually a simpler way to write Asteroids. Doing trigonometry in Galois fields sounds super cool though and I hope I understand it one day.

Alternatively you can just directly represent angles as unit vectors in the desired direction, which is pretty much the same as using complex numbers. Angle addition is complex multiplication, angle bisection is complex square root, and computing the sine and cosine is simplicity itself. (This takes twice as much space. If you choose to store only the real part of the complex number, you can only represent angles up to half a turn, same as in Wildberger's approach, you lose some precision near the limits, and the other operations require some extra computations.) I have tried this, for example in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/aspmisc/my-very-first-raytra... and https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/-/blob/master/yeso/sdf.lu..., and in the cases I've tried it, it works great.

I'm interested to hear other people's experiences on this count!

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* His main concern is that irrational numbers don't, in some sense, really exist, so they're a bad basis for trigonometry. As I understand it, not only is Platonism now a minority among foundations-of-mathematics types, but even Platonists generally believe that irrational numbers are just as real as rational ones, so as I understand it, Wildberger's viewpoint is held by quite a small minority. That doesn't, of course, imply anything about whether it's correct.
What about time off? a few weeks off should be worth a few percent also. Some contractors get this, some do not.
1. This is for the San Francisco area. Does it generalize to software development more generally?

2. It sounds like this is from polling people about time at their current job rather than how long it took to leave their previous job? With how fast the field keeps growing, how much skew is there from recent entrants still at their first job?
Simply because DevOps is the onomatopoeic sound devs made when slipping on their banana peel (crappy code pushed in production) with a loud "ops" who happen to be both a sad face and a cry for help...

Beside that while this was the video that pushed me from Unix to Emacs (yes, correctly because that's was my switch not Vim in general but Unix model to Emacs/classic Desktop model) I never manage anything this way, instead most of my setups are tangled configs from org-mode, something I can't avoid to avoid entering in crazy kill mode looking to some YAML-lovers devs fresh blood... In many devops modern @$£&%"£CENSORED!!£!.
I didn't activate them all at once. It was over a month ago, and I think I took my time for two days. I activated a couple and then went on to do the work.
Neat, but not more. I prefer to define my own context (splitting into files as I see fit) and using code folding etc. which can achieve a similar result without fundamentally changing workflows (as others pointed out - editors, git, grep, ..). Each time you want to write a new function ("word" I guess) requires somewhat of a context switch as you have to navigate through a GUI to where it should go, where just swapping files in my editors buffers feel more naturally. But then again I have never tried working like this and maybe I'd have to try
I just sold my 12 year old Subaru that needed a full engine swap. The quote was "about five grand for the crate engine, about five grand for the labor, and that's if we don't find any other problems. Given what happened, there are definitely going to be other problems."

To explain, radiator hose broke, all coolant was lost, and we were about a 2 hour drive from a cell phone signal in > 100 degree heat with no other traffic around. It was life or death. I do not regret flogging that engine until it died.
I love how a programmable piano-roll was clearly forgone for a great big long manual one, because it looks cooler.
Actually no they don't, that's a misrepresentation of a minority viewpoint.
I’m not an engineer.

And it’s actually not a lot when you break it down. They each specialize in different areas of intelligence. NSA does SIGINT, NGA does GEOINT, military branches do intelligence for military intelligence in their respective branch, law enforcement intelligence for law enforcement, and so on.
On the other hand, to the point of the article, you can't get a deep understanding of a concept without remembering the concept, other concepts that it relates to, and how.
I absolutely hate it.
The race to invent new particles is pointless
There are a bunch of other options explored in Common Lisp:

* saving a compressed image (SBCL)

* saving a space optimized executable, using a tree shaker (Allegro CL, LispWorks), the delivery tool removes unused code, documentation, debug info, etc. Executables start at around 7MB on some platforms.

* compiling to C, without using an image (ECL)

* compiling to byte codes (ECL, CLISP)

* whole program to C compilation of a static subset of Common Lisp (clicc, mocl, thinlisp) - this generates the smallest binaries
Again, this is every fraud flag story ever. For what it's worth, one reason I'm not huffy about this is that I'm pretty sure they're going to get their funds back or their cards activated or whatever thing needs to happen. It's just going to be an annoying process.
Arguably, the whole point of play is learning.
> Allowing more browser engines would require granting those engines your battery and gyroscope data in order for them to display per-site permission dialogs.

...a process which could be reviewed as part of the App Store review process.

There isn't really any difference here. If your app reads gyroscope data App Store review will (theoretically!) make sure you're not doing anything nefarious with it. They could just as easily verify whether a browser passes data through correctly.
NYTimes runs social experiments on users for years:

https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-rearchitected-mobile-a-b-tes...
First you say there should be no sex discrimination. Then I say, what about this other thing that has sex discrimination. And you reply, well, that sex discrimination is justified, because reasons. So you already are fine with sex discrimination as long as there is a good reason for it.

> There is no Boys Who Code club at our school or any other.

Why do you think that is?
Ok how about this more difficult experiment to prove the hypothesis:

I'm going to send you a wikipedia page written in chinese. You're going to read it once. For every chinese word you're allowed to look up the meaning on google translate once as you read. You're not allowed to do any other form of learning besides reading.

Do you think in this case you'd also not get "lost"?
According to the link I posted above, they're already threatening to deploy anti-satellite capabilities specifically designed to knock out the Starlink network.

More realistically, they'd be more subtle. Perhaps Tesla would hit supply chain issues at exactly the wrong time, or they'd announce an extra $100b investment in industries directly competing with Musk's companies. Tariffs are also a thing. They could simply adjust them (up or down).
There are a few of these type of things, e.g. RNDR token (https://rendertoken.com) and rent a flop (https://rentaflop.com) in rendering, and golem (https://www.golem.network) and sonm (https://sonm.com/) in the "general purpose computing on the blockchain"
Without knowing all of the details of this situation, and without knowing if the Apple operator who told you that the reason for the ban was correct, this seems like a crappy situation and that Apple is unfairly screwing you over here.

One suggestion. Do you have any proof that you bought the gift cards legitimately: say receipts from the store or webapp you bought them from or credit card statements you used to purchase the gift cards with? It might bolster your case to provide this kind of information to Apple and show that there was no ill intent. Or at least, it makes sense to gather this info for some kind of suit against them in small claims court for the lost software (try and tally up those prices of all missing software and sue them for that).

The people saying that the person is at fault for using gift cards of varying amounts are not being helpful. If there's no published limitations on their usage, then you should not have to blindly guess how much you can spend before an action is a violation.
As I said

> Of course you can take your code and license it to said employer in whatever way you both agree on.

but that's likely to be a manual step with a lot of raised eyebrows, frowns, and questions involved.
How many times do you have to complete that 20/15 second task in a year? Multiply that by 5 seconds to get the "wasted time". Factor in the employees salary by that wasted time, how much are you paying them to wait on that slower hardware? Is it more money than the price difference between the better GPU and the cheaper GPU?

Or maybe it's an automated thing that runs constantly? The difference between 20 and 15 seconds is 480 additional iterations per 8-hours. How much is that worth to you?

There's also the unmeasurable benefits. What if you're losing potential good employees applying because word on the net is your company uses last-gen hardware for everything, and your competitors use the newest.
... unfortunately I didn't understand how this story relates to zero-knowledge protocols....
this is correct. direct contractors without agencies typically pull 1.5x-2x annualized base salary in hourly rate form. this is because contractors are estimated to spend 40% of their working hours in a non-billable state (like waiting on contract negotiation delays, for example).

additional overheads like accountancy professional services, insurance brokers, insurance and equipment as well as the time spent dealing with them are significant.

if a contractor converts to fte, or a long term contract (12+ months) then these figures adjust down. but for short term contracts, the per hour rates can appear quite high (although actual gross totals tend to not be much in the scheme of things).

this is why the mean rate from the last hn contractor salary poll was $100-$150/hr.
The sin/cos lookup tables would only contain an octant of the circle and use various symmetries to map other values to that range. Thus the resolution is ~0.176 degrees for a 256-entry table.

sin(x) = -sin(-x) = sin(pi - x) = cos(pi/2 - x)

cos(x) = cos(-x) = -cos(pi - x) = sin(pi/2 - x)
Losing 2k is just the top of the iceberg.
I can't log into the AppStore on my new device and therefore use all my existing purchases and purchases. I can't even update apps. Not on any device. This is much "more expensive" than 2k.
Had no idea there was a TV-series in the works. Would love to see that pilot.

Found this video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoGkB5yvDDk

its imdb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5024734/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

There was an NBC TV series in 2021 called Debris, canceled after 1 season, that must have taken some inspiration from Roadside Picnic (at least from what I see in this failed series trailer). It's about 2 federal agents searching for parts of an exploded alien spacecraft. It was your typical "monster of the week" while building up an overarching story. Each piece of the ship would have some unique and crazy affect on the area and/or people around it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debris_(TV_series)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11640020/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

edit:

ah, looks like I'm not the first to notice this connection: https://www.reddit.com/r/Debris/comments/nz6pkl/debris_and_r...
> the vast majority of American vehicle miles traveled are not doing things which can only be done by a large, expensive car or truck.

Source? People get cars because they need one. The first big thing you get for yourself is a car, because it's so useful.

I believe the opposite of your statement is true, biking is only really practical in a very limited bubble.
“The scholar Tamara Nopper told me she felt some Asian Americans were using hate-crime discourse as a way to avoid “dealing with anti-Blackness.” She admitted she had hesitated to tweet #StopAsianHate because she was concerned that joining in would contribute to the impression that we’re living through a crime wave and should turn to carceral solutions.”

So the Asian American community wants to feel safe because there is a heightened sense of crime directed against them but shouldn’t want to acknowledge there is a “crime wave”? And many of the law enforcement measures that would be effective aren’t to be considered because they could lead higher rates in African American incarceration because of over representation (over half) in the homeless population? There seems to be conflicted sets of priorities and metrics being considered here.

It seems the metrics being used is lower incarceration among African American communities which I can fully agree with. But there is a spillover of this well intentioned effort due to not enforcement of law or people fearing to report a crime. Is this a correct reading of the situation? Perhaps “lowering homeless rate” would be another key metrics to consider?

While I am all for community policing and self defence which the article casually segway to instead of addressing the root cause of the issue, in a civil society a person of a certain race or color should not have to resort to that to feel safe. NY state and NYC has one of the highest tax rates in the country and it is a sad state of affairs the minority communities have to live through this.
That doesn't come close to being true. Compare the Cambridge dictionary's "common definition":

> [summer] the season of the year between spring and autumn when the weather is warmest, lasting from June to September north of the equator and from December to March south of the equator

Wikipedia:

> Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, daylight hours are longest and dark hours are shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate, tradition, and culture.

> From an astronomical view, the equinoxes and solstices would be the middle of the respective seasons, but sometimes astronomical summer is defined as starting at the solstice, the time of maximal insolation, often identified with the 21st day of June or December. By solar reckoning, summer instead starts on May Day and the summer solstice is Midsummer.
In my experience someone job hopping every 6 months isn't usually doing so because they've found a better role or better compensation. That's usually, but not always, a result of under performance. Most companies are reluctant to fire someone within the first 6 months and it can take that long to gather the evidence necessary to avoid a wrongful termination suit. To me it's less a sign of ambition and more a sign of someone who interviews well but doesn't work well.

In this market there are always companies who will hire someone who job hops, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
I think the only real issue is summarized here.

>“The study has an inherent bias,” Dr. Flick said. “It shows that, if you want to get more jobs, you should be on LinkedIn more.”
I think they are trying to expand it beyond their world. They already have this in their world! Shown with examples. Just want it elsewhere as well.

Not everything is about software automation! Especially in this regard where decade long established practices work on legacy hardware and systems. This is ruining/complicating things for some chip of the scope.
This is mentioned in the article. But yeah, it is ironic. And given that newspaper headlines are pretty much all some people read, I wouldn't say it's any less harmless than suggesting weak ties for your linkedin network.
Intel and AMD never bothered to move OpenCL beyond bare bones C source, while NVidia not only moved CUDO into a polyglot ecosystem early on, they doubled down on IDE for GPGPU computing and first class libraries.

Google never bothered with OpenCL on Android, pushing their C99 Renderscript dialect instead.

Apple repented themselves of offering OpenGL to Khronos and the direction not going into the way they wanted to.

Those that blame NVidia for their "practices" should rather look into how bad the competition has been from day one.
https://www.google.com/search?q=log(10)
The reasonable thing to do in an actual fraud attempt is to lock absolutely everything down, and then look for signals that link the fraudulent account to other accounts, then lock those accounts down, then find any distinctive gift card sources for those accounts and use them to find other accounts, then lock them down, and then repeat.

"Cashed in a bunch of different gift cards in varying denominations to buy an M1 Macbook" is a transaction that is probably 50:1 fraud:real, which is the sucky part of this situation.

If someone had posted on HN and asked "would it be a good idea to cash in a bunch of gift cards to buy a Macbook on the Apple store", you'd have a thread where almost every comment started with "NO!!!", caps and exclamations included.
never thought of this but glad you said it. one thing i also think about if i was manager was creating a resilient system of employment. what happens if x leaves tomorrow? is x too critical and knows too much domain knowledge? how am i as a manager going to share that knowledge across my team so if any one person leaves we at least have some way to continue on.
Take your expected salary per annum, pre deductions. Divide that by 200. This is your BASE line break even contracting rate per day. Any thing less, and you're going to have issues financially.

@ $50,000 per annum

50,000 / 200 => 250 per day.

On average, you'd realistically want to be charging closer to Base + 40%. Im my example, this would be $350

just to give yourself time off, $$ for equipment, marketing, growth, insurance, accounting, other general business costs.

Contractors are expensive because we're the business. We take on the risk. We do the HR, taxes, insurance, office rentals, equipment costs/hire. Everything.
And if there's any chance of someone stealing your bank account, you shouldn't have one.

And you should only use your credit card at places where there's zero chance of it getting stolen (no US restaurants!), or getting skimmed, or hacked once it's in their system.

...Or perhaps we live in a world where things are not entirely black and white, and nuance exists?
> The key question is how big the difference between the groups.

2x increase in job opportunities.

> They found that relatively weak social ties on LinkedIn proved twice as effective in securing employment as stronger social ties.
Reply to them then.
Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits