skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you can't simply classify servers or employees categorically as direct or indirect costs, but must consider how the inputs contribute to outputs. a janitor is a direct cost for a cleaning business but not for most others. if you're aws or ibm, then yes, (fractions of) servers are a direct cost. but servers are too course of an input, and non-linearly related, in most saas businesses (e.g., stripe or hubspot) to be apportioned to individual customers. that's not the same as being able to statically divide server costs by the number of customers to reach a per-customer cost, which you can do with any business and any cost.

take an accounting or pricing class if you're really interested in this stuff. that will explain it much better and more in depth than a few sentences here can.
Changing to inferior platform and UX just for a messaging app is some pretty hardcore addiction
Nothing in history is truly inevitable, but it’s hard for me to see Russia — and particularly Muscovites — to abandon empire and corrupt oligarchy. Yeltsin let oligarchs emerge to help him consolidate power, but then was trapped in the system. He chose Putin as his successor so that he could retire safely. To keep stability, Russia plays to the idea of themselves as a great empire, despite the reality that many citizens of the “republics” have never seen indoor plumbing.

If there was another choice, what was it? Not to be corrupt? Who would have made that choice?
The Commodordion [video]
I would say one of the reason for globalism to retreat is the west (especially US) find itself in a awkward situation: developing world and developed world has to meet somewhere in the middle, which means, the living standard in developed world has to drop.

For developing world to develop, you will have to go the extra miles, you are competing with big guys, trying to make a space for yourself in a crowded room. Every country does currency manipulation, imaging you make your good cheaper to get some papers, only because the paper can be used to buy energy.
Here's a decent commentary:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/x9oupk/2022_alaska...

> Two popular suspicions are now confirmed. Nick Begich was the Condorcet winner. Sarah Palin was a spoiler candidate - her presence caused Mary Peltola to be elected, by prematurely eliminating Nick Begich.

Here's another, that got down-voted to hell, because of the audience.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ForwardPartyUSA/comments/xb119e/its...

> If 2913 voters who supported Palin first and Begich second flipped their first and second preferences, they’d have gotten a more preferred result.

(i.e. they would have gotten Begich instead of Peltola, by having Palin eliminated first)

> Even worse, if instead 5825 of those same types of voters just decided not to vote, they’d have also gotten a better result. So merely participating in the election hurt them.

While I do prefer the winner it selected, it's not a great election method. Better than FPTP is a terribly low bar.
Brings to mind Gould's quote - "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/99345-i-am-somehow-less-int...
Then you don't have suspend to ram.

The way I read it, s2idle leaves the CPU running. So it is up to the OS if it wants to use it or not.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/states.txt
Everyone in Asia did or is doing the same thing.

Meiji did this in Japan, to the point where many B. temples were burnt down (thankfully not as bad as Mao), and the whole of Japan's culture considered obsolete. KMT boys were doing the same thing in China before Mao. Nehru and his Congress cretins who inherited the British state, did the same, and India continues these "destroy Bharata" policies to this day.

In fact, since a lot of Asian culture is tied to India, one might call this an extension of the millennia long war on India from the West, but now on the realm on the realm of ideas. Not surprising that the occidental academia has deep-hatred for India's old-culture and everyone who imbibes it (at the same level as medieval anti-semitism from my own experience). They also have the victim-complex of Islam (and Xtianity to a lesser extent) to their support now.
> The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

This is exactly where this current tyranny is coming from:

The radical leftists who promote it are thereby granted the license to abuse all who oppose them, since those "reactionaries" must be bigots, racist, sexist, transphobes, homophobes - in short: evil people who deserve the abuse of good people like themselves.

Dissidents who reject this new tyranny aren't respected fellow citizens who hold differing opinions: they are evil people who must be silenced. If this trend is allowed to proceed to its logical conclusion, the dissidents will be silenced permanently, by eradication.

> To be able to destroy with good conscience

Like those ignorant young students, barging into complex discussions they often fail to understand, to shut them down. To shut down thought, invention, investigation, and discussion. And to do all that primarily in the very academic institutions dedicated to promoting these projects.

> to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation'

A succinct description of cancel culture, the radical left's mob justice that has become normalized.
Think of it like Rust eventually supplanting C++ once the ecosystem and libraries are complete enough for people to make the change.

The cognitive burden reduces via the new foundations not requiring deep understanding of the old ones to be able to make new steps forward.
A good headset usually outlives the bike its installed on, in my experience. Fairly simple things if threadless, and a lot of threaded had loose bearings you could find to replace easily. (If it's damaged tho I can see you being out of luck)
There have never been derailleurs in brakes AFAIR.
Also related:

https://grantwinney.com/the-nsfw-quotes-of-notepad-plus-plus...
The problem with bike tools is half of them are stuff you’ll need every 5 years and it just makes no sense to buy yourself when for less than the cost of the tool you can get someone at the bike store to do it.
Spain passes startups and digital nomad law
I can't pretend to be anywhere near the frontiers of math but aren't some contributions about providing a unifying framework or simplifying re-expression of something that was already known in a way that makes it more comprehensible? Is there not always hope that the right new perspective or innovation in one generation will allow subsequent generations to get up to speed faster?
Will anyone buy my Liz Truss book?
If you haven’t seen “Alexander,” staring Collin Ferrel and Angelina Jolie, you may really enjoy it. It was much better than I’d expected. Great historical alignment, excellent acting, exciting battle scenes and even some drops of esoteric wisdom here and there.

Beyond that, the best source I know is Life of Alexander by Plutarch. It reads beautifully (even if it could probably benefit from some modern editing). Highly recommended! https://lexundria.com/plut_alex/1-77/prr

I suppose the point of the OP is that—it’s quite hard to know exactly what happened back then! For instance, the Greeks would never admit that Alexander was the son of the King of Persia and grandson of Philip. Yes, it’s unlikely but it’s not implausible…
> Also, in this case, the amount of required memory is less significant during peak times due to some optimizations to reduce the memory consumed.

Pretty sure it’s the same: because of collisions, maps always have a certain fraction of empty slots (much more so than vectors). I’ve not heard of Go maps being very high load factors, so they probably resize around 50% or so full. I didn’t check any of the numbers, I’ll assume 50% load factor, doubling on resize, and entries of {hash, key, value} with a word-sized (8 bytes) hash, but some and likely all of those are likely off.

Anyway with a load factor of 50% and doubling at any point you’d have 2n to 4n slots in the map total (depending whether you’re nearing resize or just went through one). And thus if you make entries smaller, you make all those overhead slots smaller as well.

hash + int + blob would be 8+8+128 144 bytes, a million of those is 144MB, x2 is 288 and x4 is 576, so the observed bounds are pretty close: IIRC Go maps use some form of separate chaining (though not “trivial” linked lists), I assume those do get reclaimed as entries are removed even if the map itself does not get shrunk, which would explain why memory consumption goes down as elements are removed from the initial map.

With a pointer each “entry” is 24 bytes instead, for a map overhead of 48~96MB (so clearly Go maps use either a higher load factor or a more efficient storage than the trivial scheme being assumed here, possibly both).

The actual data accounts for 128M plus some, there’s a 144M difference between the full and the emptied pointer-maps, which would account for some chain links being removed, and maybe some object headers / allocator overhead for the on-heap arrays.
This was how the US Constitution was designed by the smart people, before various idiots screwed it up with the 17th Amendment and Permanent Apportionment Act. Your US representative was supposed to represent about ~30,000 people and your state representatives even fewer than that. Now each representative represents close to a million.
I would say the bicycle is still an incredible shining example of standard interfaces working at a near universal level, given there's a billion bicycles in the world, so some variation in part sizes is to be expected. I'm not sure if I can think of a more universally modular tool for transportation that is as complex as the bicycle.
There is still plenty of amazing engineering going on, for example EUV development at ASML.
The professional math world is full of smart but delusionally ambitious people who do things like focus all their energy on the Jacobian conjecture and the Riemann hypothesis. Most crash out never finishing their doctorates (because these problems are too hard and working on them does not provide what it takes to survive professionally). Zhang is an example of such a person. What is very unusual about him is not that he continued to work on such things anyway, rather that he eventually found some measure of success. What I infer from his story is that he is tremendously stubborn and genuinely oblivious to ordinary material feedback. Evidently he has some talent too, but that's not the unusual part of his story.

Said another way - I've known quite a few people like him to a point - with the difference that none of the others ever produced good mathematics, much less solved a major problem.
Nice to see a comment on Occidental already. That's the one I've used and supported for 10+ years now.
In which countries it is supported ?
I asked a doctor about this once. He said that as any animal ages, the protective mechanisms they have eventually break down, and either work less well or stop working. In dogs, they break down sooner than in humans.

For example, the ends of chromosomes have telomeres[0]. When chromosomes are copied they can’t copy the full length of the chromosome, so every copy has fewer of these telomeres. When they eventually run out of telomeres, cell division stops happening. (I don’t know whether dog chromosomes have fewer telomeres or if it’s some other mechanism, but telomeres are an example of a cellular mechanism that has a limited lifetime.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere
> How comfortable a life can one afford with $60k/yr or $30k/yr in the US? With this level of income, would you actually find any essential things or services lacking in life?

It really depends where in US. $60k/yr in NYC or SF or Seattle will be hard -- you'll need to get housemates to share the costs of housing. But $60k/yr is some small town in Vermont or Montana is comfortable in my guesstimate.
The article opens with a somewhat moot point. The Factor Ostro VAM mentioned is a pro bike and costs around $10,000 - so it's no wonder that it also requires professional screwdrivers and the corresponding tools.
PhD is a scam that sucks hardwork from smartest individuals while giving them poverty, mental health problems, significant opportunity cost and graduating them with absolutely no skills that are required to make a living in market economy. I have said it multiple times unless you are doing a CS PhD or you are an Olympiad medalist, PhD is a significant net negative for your life and career.
Oh absolutely agree, everything up until now has eventually descended into the age old pattern of power and money finding it's way concentrated into the hands of the few elite, however capitalism with it's private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit, and rewarding accumulation of capital, seems like it's designed from the ground up to funnel money and power into the hands of the few, where at at least in theory communism/socialism/other -isms are designed to try to share the wealth.

Of course, said -isms require either an unbroken chain of morally righteous people with absolute power being in charge of said means of production fairly for the equal enrichment of everyone, or some kind of system of checks and balances to keep those in power from abusing it and preventing corruption from outside the political power structures, the exact formula of which we've yet to figure out.

Personally I'm of the opinion we should just throw the baby out with the bathwater and chalk this whole civilization experiment up as a mistake and go back to tribal societies of yestermillennia. Of course, the vast majority of the current human population disagrees with me in that regard and I will admit there are some good things about it, so until that changes I'll be here plugging along like the rest and hoping for better days.
Sounds like the environment of humans is the explanation. If you were to put a whale in a human city, eating and working there, maybe the whale would have the same rate of cancerous cells
Yes, lidar is probably a game changer for (indoor) navigation apps for blind people. However, I have yet to see a prototype which surpasses my own hearing. We shouldnt be too intusiastic about technologies coming up, and forgetting the skillset a human has already built-in... Tech is not always helpful, sometimes it is just an artificial gap between you and the rest of the world.
Point is that the low hanging fruits are finite and are picker continuously, thus sooner or later they run out. Reinventing something I consider low hanging just not recognized for some time.
I really hope someone who has put this much time into archiving stuff didn’t put all his eggs in one basket and still has these archives sorted offline in case he wants to distribute them, would be awful to put so much time into something and then just have youtube pull it away.
I asked in good faith and I think we share similar perspectives, however it seems an implicit assumption in your statements is that we know all there is to know about hearing, and we can measure it precisely, thus any claims of audio qualities, for lack of a better word, are by definition psychological biases. Maybe that's not exactly what you mean, but it'll do for here.

Fair enough to consider although I suspect we'll wind up agreeing to disagree. Not interested in flame wars, and thanks for obliging me.
The US is big in every sense of the word, cost of living varies hugely in different areas. There are places where $60k is more than enough to live nicely, and there are places where $60k would mean sharing an apartment, and being very careful about spending your money.

One thing to keep in mind is that you might $100k+ in student loan debt by the time you actually get your phd. So for that reason you go for the higher paying job.
Bleeding my SRAM brakes requires a special kit that costs $90 [1], working with toxic chemicals (DOT 5.1 fluid), and a procedure that isn't rocket science but I wouldn't call it trivial either [2]. I also find that disc brake pads wear much faster than rim brake pads (I'm on my 3rd set this year), and cost more to replace too. They also are prone to alignment issues and I find myself messing around with them at least once a month to correct rubbing or noise issues. And god forbid you do something really dumb like squeezing the brake while the wheel is detached (guilty) - causing the piston to pop out and fluid to leak everywhere.

Compared to my other bike with rim brakes that I only had to change the brake pads once and turn the barrel adjuster a few times in several years, I would say that disc brakes are much more troublesome to maintain. I think they are worth it for riders who do a lot of descending, especially in the rain, but would definitely not recommend for someone just getting into cycling.

[1] https://a.co/d/im4bOVh

[2] https://youtu.be/8K4ADjuxEqc
Merely enforcing "namespace collisions" implies you could still pretend to be anyone who isn't verified on Twitter. The concept of verification is itself a demonstration of a deeper problem with either Twitter or society, but if you are going to do it it has to mean something, and if you can change your name once you do it it doesn't mean anything anymore. If you want to change your name to something silly for frivolous reasons, here is a simple solution: don't expect to also be verified.
>Overall interlingua is about as simple and regular as can be.

Interlingua never cared much about simplicity and regularity and it shows. Occidental before it has something called De Wahl's Rule that is focused on achieving as much regularity as possible while being easy to read at first sight. Here's how it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Wahl%27s_rule#Rule
There is a simple solution here: everyone gets a serial number with their ballot, the list of serial numbers for each candidate is published, and you can verify that your vote was counted in the right spot.

Yes, this is susceptible to coerced voting where your family member can force you to vote a certain way, but guess what, the entire vote-by-mail system that we've gone to is already susceptible to that, so as far as I'm concerned the ship is sailed.
Since I made the above post (two days ago) I now have 243 followers. All people who I'm in contact with on other platforms - I'm not even sure how they found me, but either way. The momentum is honestly accelerating. Sorry, 244 followers - just got another follow request.
Cool, so I can morally use as much as I want because in the grand scheme of things I am just one person.
You know what, I agree with that. Now I don't have to change my behavior for any of this stuff. I just needed to see myself as important as them.
Thank you for this change in perspective. Now I can say a few words about the environment, while consuming as much as possible, and you'll have to defend me from critique.

By "big fish" I actually meant companies (who are a prime shake-down target for carbon credits), but if for the rich, celebs, and politicians the shoe fits...
They are supposed to have noblesse oblige.
less inequality?
The fact that there has been no evidence of any significant voter fraud, machine malfunction etc is a conservative problem.

I only see Left and Liberal believing in the data. And pushing for people to vote. Instead the right say "if we win it's good, if not we need to investigate". So I don't buy your line personally.

What has you concerned by the integrity of the elections? Serious question I'm curious. Because this is a fairly recent phenomenon that has exploded exponentially thanks to conservatives. Most famously Trump.
Either you people don't know what iMessage is or you have strange way of defining usage.

>more than 70% of the possible iPhone population doesn't use iMessage.

Based on? Are they not receiving SMS messages at all?

>The rest of the world doesn't have the SMS problem that the US has.

So why are they using Whatsapp?
My calculus professor from university in the late '90s had earlier on won a Lottery Visa to the US. As I understood it he took advantage of it, only to find out that while there he could only find very menial jobs.

He came back to Romania and to Bucharest, which was really good for me and for my then colleagues because he was an excellent professor.
I see, that was helpful - thank you!
I dropped out of my CS PhD program after two and a half years to "go into industry". It was the perfect amount of time to spend in grad school - just enough time to meet my future wife.
> to, what, make sure it is forgotten by the time you graduate?

That seems a little dismissive. Did you forget everything you were
ever taught? I doubt it. Maybe let's be charitable toward others.

> is there even any evidence that making somebody take a class on
ethics will make them more ethical?

Yes of course. Same as there's evidence that teaching cookery makes
better chefs and people who take a driving lesson crash their cars
less. Education is a real, actual thing, as you well know.

> most college courses are grading you on your ability to write about
a subject, not on how much you care about it, or decide to alter
your future behaviour.

Most college courses are rubbish. They're training camps there to take
your money and give you a piece of paper to boost your fragile ego. I
know that because I'm a university professor. You can read what I
think about the current state of education the Times HE.

Maybe one in five students actually take anything meaningful from
school. They're the ones who care about stuff and focus on their
future behaviour as successful individuals and members of society
rather than on ephemeral "knowledge" or getting grades. Don't fall for
the certificate scam and don't let schooling get in the way of your
education.

> making somebody take a class

Now, that's a telling word you use. Not wishing to psychologise, but
are you maybe afraid of someone making you take a class in this
useless subject?

If so I agree with you. "Ethics" is widely abused as a stand-in for
whimsical "policy" that can't be backed up rationally, or to conceal
hidden political agendas. Many classes are tedious finger-wagging
checklists and plenty of "ethics boards" are sham kangaroo-courts run
by cardigan wearing Kevins and Karens [1] who sit down with tea and
biscuits to decide the future of a department of PhD's based on how
they "feel" about some keywords in a checklist (I've sat in those
meetings).

You should be afraid of "ethics" when someone else co-opts it as way
to tell you how to think.

That's not what my project is about. If you're sceptical about ethics
in tech you'd probably like it. It's about ethics empowering you as
a decision maker - to back that up with 8000 years of human wisdom -
to be wholeheartedly motivated by projects that can make the world a
better place, and confidently, courageously say no to tedious
dehumanising schemes of extraction and surveillance that passes for
computing these days.

[1] sorry actual Kevin and Karen
Why is that? Not disagreeing but genuinely curious. One of the issues I face sometimes is wanting to stay in touch with someone I met. I'd like to do that over Signal (I don't use any of the popular social media platforms) but I don't feel comfortable sharing my phone number with them. It would be nice if I could use a unique user handle instead.
Oh, I'm not interested in the flame war! lol I'll stand by my opinions but won't force them on you. People can use their own ears/brain. Always have, always will. Enjoy the music, ladies and gents.