skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“IKEA uses war psychology – confusion, camouflage, and attrition – to wear down and coerce shoppers, starting with the store layout.”

Evidently the author does not like IKEA…which is perfectly fine. They are free to go to Bed Bath & Beyond.

But to offer a counter perspective…I like IKEA. Sometimes we travel 90 minutes just to go hang out there and shop. It’s kinda fun and interesting and weird in a way that makes it different from ordinary shopping.

I’m not saying that they’re the world’s most virtuous company or should be exempt from criticism, just that it’s odd to accuse them of using war psychology to beat their customers into submission when a _lot_ of people really enjoy the experience.
What? No, undercut them.
I was pretty invested in the "tools for thought" space for a little while, but my interest cooled as I realized that I was using zettelkasten tools like Logseq to try and recreate simple folders of documents, because as it turns out that's all I really needed to begin with. I use Obsidian, because wiki links can be handy from time to time, but my notes these days are mostly just plain markdown sorted into folders by topic, and that's plenty for me.
What do you think just-js does well, and doesn’t do well?
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Ok so now I get your convoluted point, but then great let's exclude net exports, the other categories like PCE etc. haven't declined?

EDIT: I want to give you the benefit of the doubt here because I like where you're headed (ignoring the timing effect that would make GDP useless under your framework), I really do, but let me chew on this. Because it is interesting, though it does completely ignore FDI (which is how imports are paid for)
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Over the past 3 months I've had to make several trips to Ikea to usually buy one or 2 items (a shelf I forgot for our entertainment center, a bracket for the hanging shelf in my office, etc). I've gotten pretty good at walking in, taking the correct shortcut, and getting out of there in 10-15 minutes.
Whoa! Awesome. Thank you.
The “fuck you, you developed on the back of cheap energy, and want us to keep living in huts” humans will do plenty to move the needle. There’s 1.5 billion Indians, Bangladeshis, and Pakistanis with sub-1.0 tons of CO2 annual footprints who want to live like Texans. (My cousin just moved to Arlington, TX and she loves it. “Look at all this elbow room!”)
Lists based on cons cells avoid heap fragmentation: all allocations are of the same size. This is not true of vectors.

Making different lists that share the same tail, by building at the front, is incredibly common in code that manipulates code.

For instance, in many situations you have a body of forms that are to be put into some statement:

(defun glue-args-and-body-making-lambda (args body)
`(lambda ,args ,@body))

That lambda expression shares the args object with the caller, of course (and an array would do the same), but it also shares the body object, which an array won't do unless it's a very specialized array.

The backquote expression can compile down to:

(list* 'lambda args body)

which allocates exactly two cons cells: one cell to hold lambda in its car; another one to hold args in its car and the body goes into the cdr of that same one.

It's also incredibly common to work with the suffix of a list.

In the reverse direction, we can break the lambda:

(defun take-apart-lambda (lambda-expr)
(destructuring-bind (lambda-sym args &rest body) lambda-expr
(values args body)))

This requires no memory allocation We can pull the args out of an array-based lambda expression for free; but not the body (suffix of the array).

Vectors have the advantage of compact storage; a large vector's storage should be roughly the value word size times number of elements, plus small fixed overhead. Each element of a list costs us a cons cell (unless we have cdr coding, which is just little vectors in disguise). Cons cells can be compactly allocated, but not like the elements of a vector. They can be individually reclaimed though. If we cdr three steps down a list, and nothing has retained the pointer to that list, those three conses can be identified as garbage and reclaimed.
The posts table also has a foreign key to the tenants table specified with ON DELETE CASCADE, so all the tenant's posts will be deleted. (I don't know if Postgres makes any effort to find some optimal ordering of the referenced tables—in this case deleting the tenant's posts firsts, then its users—to avoid updating records that will just get deleted anyway by cascading deletes.)
> these prices my not be round forever

This is an excellent illustration of how autocorrect is much worse than nothing. I can easily determine that "my" was meant to be "may" and "round" was meant to be "around". But "prices"?

If you just left whatever the typo was alone, I'd be able to understand that word too.
Couple of years back there was an article that talked about higher incidences of autism in kids with such parents.
I'm missing how this is an advance over https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2105646118
For people who use a personal notes tool like obsidian, how would you deal with notes that turned to work related later?
I always find myself end up with half-finished notes in multiple different places. First versions in personal notebook and refined ones in company's google doc/etc.
Thanks
It appears to be in the works: https://oven.sh
Whose restrictions?
I was "critical infrastructure" and went to many mine sites. MSHA guidance was basically to continue with safety protocols which includes to stay home if sick. Nobody was wearing masks because they dangerously limit vision. The mine sites were great to work at during the fear-fest because people were rational. One mine had a pig roast for the employees and families and it was glorious to sit elbow-to-elbow with real people.

Going to shop for a part had ridiculous OSHA-inspired theater with signs and where to walk and masks and counting people.

It was a mental trip to come off highly regulated mine sites and go to a grocery store filled with people participating in a scare-fest and making sure they followed directional arrows in the aisles. Like two different worlds.

The miners had it right.
There have been musl builds of Bun before but there were a couple subtle bugs regarding thread spawning. I’m also not sure about posix_spawn implementation - would need to read up on that
I really like contract to hire, both from the employee and the employer perspective. You have a nice honeymoon period and if it works then great and if not no hard feelings.
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They gather dust, which can cut output 50%. That is on top of the heat induced loss of conversion efficiency, and reduced panel life.

And, yes, you need to build transmission lines.

They go better in pastures and floating on canals and reservoirs.
There is deep discussion of that topic in the paper. Attention, audio processing, and lexical layers are brought to the forefront of their discussion.

To quote the authors: ”We propose that deep neural networks encode a variety of features…”
This is basically the same definition I have.

First principles to me is the basic foundations of an idea.

Abstractions are used but; any given abstraction is not owned by a single vendor and are based on agreed upon standardised abstractions as they relate to to operating systems and databases etc.
Interesting. This is very in line with my experience, and I'll try to incorporate in your recommendations and see if they work.

I dedicate a significant portion of my life to managing the symptoms and optimizing my health now, which is somewhat working, but also annoying. It would be cool for it to just go away completely as you mentioned.

Did you see the sibling comment about stellate ganglion block shot? Not sure if my symptoms are bad enough at this point to risk messing with such a delicate area, but there is certainly a temptation to just be "cured."
Princess Diamond taught the world early into it that some people didn't get sick, even when locked in room with spouse who was sick. There was some natural immunity.
>do gamers actually buy this?

They do. It is not like we cant push these GPU to the limit. 4K Ray Tracing 120 frames.

And like I said when it was launched, $1599 4090 for N4 ~700mm2 Die + GDDR6 isn't expensive at all. Whether one can afford one is a different matter.
Zig is great. The editor tooling could use some more work but I think after their new stage2 compiler is more ready, it sounds like they’ll invest more into that.
<quote>Some have spent millions or tens of millions trying to make SAP fit their business and failed.</quote>

Any business that tries to make SAP fit their needs will fail to some degree (usually to a large degree, and expensively).

SAP will tell you in a heavy German accent that you bought the perfect business practices from them, and if you want to be successful, you VILL make your business fit SAP, not the other way around. In reality, they're right - All the really successful SAP installations I've ever seen had the company tossing all of their existing processes and replacing them wholesale with the ones built into SAP. Trying to make SAP fit foreign practices is a losing deal.
Musk likes to look good. He weighs in on notable events to boost his brand. He is also an extremely savvy investor who is very greedy, and has routinely manipulated markets for profit. Considering he is willing to roll over for the chinese (with a direct link between tweet and outcome), I don't trust him. It's not cute anymore.
It’s a major distraction even if they have money and resources. I am a CFO who has purchased/integrated multiple products from SAP/Oracle/etc (different companies). I’ve never once factored into my purchasing decisions whether they were dogfooding or not. If I was told they were dogfooding, I’d have placed zero value on that. That’s just me though.
This is par for the course for Meta.

They almost never show actual content. It’s always aspirational.

When they do show real content, it’s mixed in with the aspirational videos to muddy the water so people discuss what might be coming , unsure of what’s legitimately happening.

People might say that this is the norm for all tech demos but the other big tech companies do show a lot more real examples of their products in their marketing.

Apple has hyped up marketing but they show what’s happening on device when a device is shown. And they show devices often.

Google almost always show real world stuff and clearly delineate when it goes into vision territory.

Microsoft are similar where they obsessively show on device interactions rather than a lot of faked content.

Meta are alone in the big MAGMA group that really fake their content everywhere. Even the infamous Magic Leap videos tend to have more real world content mixed in with their outlandish vision content.
GrapheneOS supports running Google Play as regular fully sandboxed apps without any special privileges and without the OS using them as the backend for anything. It has near 100% Play Store app compatibility when using sandboxed Google Play. You can run GSF, Play services and the Play Store as regular apps. All of the improvements to the sandbox and permission model in GrapheneOS apply to them. We reroute Google Play location service requests to our own OS implementation by default to avoid needing to grant Location access to Google Play services to use it in apps using Play services but it's possible to use the Google Play network location implementation if you choose. We'll offer an entirely local pseudo-network location service as part of the OS location service in the future via publicly available cell tower / Wi-Fi databases (a decent Wi-Fi database isn't available yet).

https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

There's also a per-app exploit protection compatibility mode toggle for apps with memory corruption bugs uncovered by `hardened_malloc` or which have compatibility issues with the larger address space (48-bit as opposed to 39-bit).

Due to the advances in the sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer over the past year and the exploit protection compatibility mode, only a few apps aren't working. Most of those apps are choosing to disallow using a non-Google-certified OS via the Play Integrity API. SafetyNet attestation API was the previous legacy approach.

GrapheneOS has a system backup service and it does mostly work. It doesn't have great UX, and has a lot of issues, which is why we plan to replace it. It was originally developed for GrapheneOS but was taken over by a hostile group and we're going to make our own instead. Until then, we still have the existing one.

Many Android apps still disallow backups from backing up their data but this problem was solved for apps targeting Android 12 and above which is about to become mandatory for the Play Store for both new apps and app updates. That issue will be resolved by the end of the year. It was caused by a poorly designed Android manifest configuration option for disabling backups. Most apps just wanted to disable cloud backups for bandwidth, size or privacy reasons. It now means disable cloud backups for apps targeting Android 12 and above. It's still possible to exclude files from backups but it requires a new Android 12+ API with separate lists for local backups, E2EE cloud backups and non-E2EE cloud backups. This issue isn't in any way GrapheneOS specific. It applies just as much to Google's device-to-device backup/restore system shown as part of the initial setup wizard and their cloud backups. It just takes time for the new API level to become mandatory: a bit over a year after the new OS release.
> or maybe Electron...?

I just physically shuddered. Tk with GDI was a work of art. Electron is... not that.
I don’t really have opinions about just-js. I enjoyed their blog post about optimizing Postgres though
> That Netflix thinks its catalog is worth so much puzzles me

Same here. Well, this post reminded me to finally cancel.
You could also consider an EOR like remote.com or deel to hire them as employees abroad without needing to register your own business there and deal with benefits payroll taxes etc.

There is risk in misclassifying employees as contractors in many countries.
I should add, obsidian value add here is the android client which IMO needs a lot more focus due to input / storage considerations (constraints). If just syncing across desktops then sublime/similar with it's folder display would likely suit my needs.
I wouldn’t phrase it as a competitor but Bun will ship hosting & deployment

https://oven.sh
Spain requires showing id to buy a prepaid SIM card.
I know Ikea’s game, I don’t go there for a quick visit. I go there expecting to take a while, wander, shop.

It’s ikea, not a gas station.
I do small projects statically all the time! Writing a simple bf interpreter can be done so statically that you don't even need to store the program in its own array; program text can just be taken directly as const char*

https://github.com/ijustlovemath/bfi

You can also do ergonomically nice things using static allocation in many data structures, like linked lists (as a tiny example: https://github.com/ijustlovemath/linked-list/blob/master/ll....). That way you can focus on the concepts that matter; the data structures, and not frustrate newbies with opaque and difficult-to-reason allocation issues (at least not at first!)
Can you describe how you arrived at this conclusion?

Even Terrance Tao didn't publish anything original of such noteworthiness until his 20s. This guy knows as much as he did without even going to college. mind-blowing x10.
IMO, the reason it feels enlightened is that we don't clearly perceive the negative consequences of not doing it. If societal IQ was as pervasively tracked as global temperature, "let's not" might feel as enlightened as "let's not mess with climate engineering."
Same with the store in Minnesota. Has big windows.
It's already a service. "The Work Number" is their employment verification service available to anyone https://theworknumber.com
Which disaster was that?
I'm reminded of: "Want to motivate poor people? Threaten them with starvation. Want to motivate rich people? Use more money."
Surprised might mean "it's within the bounds of possibility but we have not observed it in the wild."
Enough with LISP - no one cares
That’s a long way from a comprehensive report, it’s not even a peer reviewed paper and has serious flaws. It aggregates things at the state level and condenses it all to a single datapoint which throws away mounds of useful data. Not just that but excludes state level data that doesn’t fit it’s conclusion and ignores cofounders like population density and feedback loops from low rates of transmission reducing the need for lockdowns. I don’t mean mean this as an attack but read up on the backgrounds of the authors they all have political backgrounds. It’s an odd collaboration, I how it came about.

Here’s a vastly more rigorous study: The differences between weights estimated by common and individualized models, although present, do not lead to drastically different conclusions—indeed, both models indicate that school closing has a large impact on virus transmission https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-21126-2
"C) there is no difference between saying "There is a 40% chance it happens" and "There is a 60% chance it happens"

AND

"If there is no difference how could it be based on past experience or whatever?"

These are two different propositions and questions.

Past experiences can tell me that if I see dark clouds then it could mean rain.

I could be wrong, I could be right, but I have no way of calculating the probability of that.
LineageOS in general is very mature, I used it as a daily driver for years. Though it will partially depend on model; there's an upstream that all the different builds share, but individual builds have to be made for individual devices and support was entirely community-based last I checked. So depending on the popularity of your phone, you eg. might only get nightlies and not stables

Assuming this is your phone, looks like you might have to use nightlies: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ocean/

Still, I've used nightlies for significant stretches of time without any major issues. You'll probably see a significant speed boost too vs the OEM software

You will need to follow a guide and do a little tinkering to set up the OS, but I think this is a viable path forward for you
I haven't seen this at all, I'm currently contracting and I see rates anywhere from 63.50 per hour to 80+. Depending on the locale and whether we're talking FAANG or not those are pretty good rates. (130-150+ respectively)
Format is pretty much a language unto itself. That's why it's one of the few entries in CLHS that gets linked chapters.

If Lisp was more popular, format would be an excellent topic for a big fat reference book, since it can do so much more than you'd expect a print statement to do.

When I was in grade 11, we were tasked with writing a program, in our language of choice (that they'd taught us), to convert a decimal number into a roman numeral.

I get that the exercise was to teach about the process of doing it manually, and coding it that way. But Lisp was one of the languages they introduced us to. No modulus, loops or ifs needed - format will happily do this for you in a simple format string.

I still got the marks, but the teacher was on the fence about whether I deserved it or not. We regularly did base translations in C. It's just that Lisp has this one extra trick up its format sleeve, and Byte Magazine told me about it.
The title seems a little like clickbait.

I think it would have a different sentiment with:

"private space travel extends around moon"

"space tourist Dennis Tito now to travel around moon"

"Anika Tito to be first private female space traveler"

etc..
Agreed. Well, it's probably not far off. It's not 2090 yet.

Appreciate your choice of handle, by the way.
Still seems like a better option than most major cities in California where the zombies just smell like urine and neglect.
There exists the possibility this barium is actually suspended in the atmosphere through technological means.
The Mood of America (1962)
Curious if anyone has experimented with a dynamic DNS edge solution that allows you to literally have a "dynamic static IP" basically an actual public IP that doesn't change that points to your dynamic IP?

I had a client ask for this admittedly bone-headed config - ironically their DB server requires an IP not a domain name (which in most cases more than suffices for DyDNS).
Yeah TWN is referenced in the story, but it doesn’t sound like it’s being used to weed out multiple jobs. Mostly just used for government agencies and financial institutions doing credit checks.

Either employers haven’t caught on to that or the data it provides does not offer the required detail.
Not unique to the UK. This is common all over the world. It's the most efficient way to educate the masses cheaply.
Maybe "these species may not be around forever"
https://archive.ph/xc8ja
Mandatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/456/
Any idea if you can "tunnel" to a proper public IP which is static? I recently did some digging and realized you can pay to get "reserved egress IP's" on cloudflare, curious if this would work for this?
Fine, fine. But I'm going with 'Cat-Chowing' instead.
You're right, of course. As for bash scripting, I love it and use it as much as possible.

My problem with python are largely with calisthenics regarding getting all the libraries and virtual environments to play nice, and I have a particular hatred for pandas.

N.B. I'm looking at all of this from the standpoint of a scientific computations guy, not as a software engineer or a "data scientist," so Fortran is in my blood.
the article mentioned eye tracking data in the sense of eye movement, not iris biometrics.

Not that Meta wouldn't do it if they could.
It’s fine to write like this to the local English-speaking team. But the international team can’t parse through the pulchritudinous prose.

“Very sad” it is, then, on the technical Slack.
Yep, Obsidian's latex support makes it almost ideal for writing math notes.. but because you can't quickly drop in quick sketches from a stylus (something like the Bear notes app.. which misses too many other features) it kills Obsidian for this usecase :(
Yes, seriously. They need to service the vehicle, OK, but communicate to and through the vehicle.
Do you have any stats or profiling info on the binary lockfile? JSON gets parsed so fast (GBs in a second?) that intuitively it doesn't seem to me like it would be a bottleneck, especially if you have the flexibility to change the representation. I know `package-lock.json` is especially verbose, but e.g., Elixir's `mix.lock` is pretty trim, and still human-readable.

If it really is a problem, then a binary lockfile might be worth it, but it's a pretty substantial hit to developer experience, I think. At least, I'm accustomed to checking the lockfile diff on PRs, and it's a shame to lose that.
My daughter is in 3rd grade and is bored with her math lessons, so I started to do my own nightly math lessons. Long division was a big hit, but what I really want is to find some accessable number theory material, preferably about interesting patterns. Any recommendations?

Probably something in the 10-15 age range, or 8-10 and originally in Russian
I’ve worked at several companies that have efforts in renewable energy and building energy management optimization. Reducing use and reducing peak demands mostly.
Definitely not, I work above standard but all in all maybe top out at 18 hrs per week - I backfill the rest with personal interview prep (fml leetcode) and contracting at 3x my work pay. TLDR; TPM work is a breeze - idk why I spent so much time slaving away as an IC.
That’s talking about a recent snapshot not what things where like at the peak of the pandemic. In 2022 hospitals are as it says getting back to patients who’s treatment where deferred during earlier peaks.
Ding ding ding, first correct answer.
Internal...until they aren't. :/