skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We tried it in the 70's. Signage everywhere (well, almost everywhere) used to have both kilometer and mile distances. Speedometers had both dials. Thermometers had two scales. Etc. etc.

Then... it just never completely took. Then those changes went away.

Part of it was political, surely (Carter spearheaded the metric change; Reagan coming in was super conservative), but I think you underestimate just how hard it is to get 50 halfway-independent states and millions of people to all agree on an entirely new system of measurement (not just of distance, but of volume, temperature etc.) when in millions of people's brains, the number 72 means "comfortable" (in Fahrenheit) and 100 means "hot!" (again, in Fahrenheit... you can't say "temps are in the triple digits!" in Celsius and have it mean anything other than that you're boiling), a tall man is "over 6 feet tall!", the average weight of an adult is 180 pounds, ovens get heated to 375 to bake something usually, shoe sizes (in inches), belt lengths (in inches), heck my baby's perfect bathwater temperature is exactly "100 degrees" (F, measured via infrared thermometer), going "100MPH" is VERY fast, 0 degrees F is VERY cold (-17C), etc. etc.

It's still used in some spaces like science, but in places like tooling it's both... I have 2 sets of EVERY TOOL (well, every tool with a fixed size at least, like sockets and allen-head wrenches), the metric version and the imperial version, it's maddening- basically the worst of all options is to get stuck in the middle, and that's precisely what happened with tooling.

Lastly, the digital tooling to automatically or easily convert is getting more common (a certain Reddit bot comes to mind which automatically converts any Imperial measurements cited in comments to metric), heck a browser plugin could probably do it for you
It is complicated. Raw leafy greens are now a major disease vector since they can come into contact with animal waste during processing and the safety of animal protein has improved dramatically over the past few generations. This leads to sudden "oh fuck, destroy the entire crop" situations that spike prices. That's bad.

But... there is no question that industrialized agriculture keeps the price of lettuce lower on average than non-industrialized approaches. If you are just watching prices, the trade is still positive.
What's the breakdown of women in the context of this discussion (caste)? Is there an equitable ratio?
Have you done what while applying for a minimum wage labour job in a warehouse?
With that power consumption it looks just like an overclocked CPU.
this is extremely accurate. it's like a giant rube Goldberg machine that takes both good code and garbage as input and produces a tremendous amount of garbage that nobody can understand once it comes out the other end.
https://cloud-gpus.com/
"It's always been that way" is similar to "it was invented here" in that regard. Besides, the imperial units had local versions and some still do. There are AFAIK no US inches and yards, but US gallons and US pints.
But people want to be able to see what's going on at home while they're away, either at work or on vacation. That's the use case these cameras were invented for.
Or just an XMPP web client.
It lets you build static web applications that can manage relational data for your users that is stored on their own machines.

This is a really powerful capability. You could build the equivalent of full desktop applications - things like Word, Excel, Access, Evernote, task trackers, Blender... all without any server side storage mechanism at all.
The theorem. Where is the source of truth. Does every offline app now require CRDT or OT?

Hm.. 1 MB is good (just zero app code) ..okay.
Mastodon is part of the broader fediverse, which is made up of thousands of servers, each of which has their own set of users. Those servers, and the users on them, can interact with each other thanks to the ActivityPub protocol.

In this case, Medium is standing up their own invite-only Mastodon server. Users on that server will be able to interact with users on other servers and vice versa.
React and angular are definitely the wrong tools for the job if one is trying to make a semantically-parseable page. They're tools for human interaction, not machine interaction. It turns out humans care about things that HTML and CSS alone weren't sufficient to account for (like delaying streaming of data until it's actually needed, saving on bandwidth, which humans have to pay for).
These processors are getting ridiculous. It seems like you definitely need at least an AIO watercooler with a 360mm radiator for the i9 these days. I have the i7-13700k, and it immediately goes up to 100C with the stock boost/tvb settings. This is with a dual tower Dark Rock Pro 4 heatsink, that was more than adequate to cool an i9 9900K.
To be fair, that system has pretty good uptime.
Huge wage boost erased by increased supply and much higher living costs. Also, I am not convinced quality is the same and language barrier results in poor communication with patients. Let other countries have their doctors and train doctors in your own country is the proper and moral solution.
...close the app then?

It's just a different paradigm. It's not like quitting the app is in any way difficult (it's just cmd+Q which I actually find a bit too easy to trigger by accident sometimes), it's just Macs don't consider an app to be the sum of its windows.
Two examples:

1. The FAA basically handed their risk-management keys over to Boeing when authorizing the 737-MAX, contributing to those deaths (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-boeing-and...)

2. The FAA's pilot medical vetting process, while thorough, is behind the times. There are people who took ADHD medicine in high school that are unable to obtain a medical certificate due to the FAA's overly-strict policies on prescription drugs. There are current pilots with serious mental issues who are afraid to see a doctor about them due to fear of losing their medical license (https://www.flyingmag.com/why-pilots-dont-want-to-talk-about...).
I think the key phrasing here is "the incentives of the system they operate" — it isn't completely unfair to say that large financial institutions have had a hand not just in operating, but in creating the system. They act according to broader financial incentives and are constrained by regulations (so disincentives), and their time horizon is much longer than the tight feedback loops produced by a blockchain. Their disproportionate influence over the financial system coupled with a feedback loop in terms of consequences that, compared to blockchain, is glacially slow and basically toothless, effectively gives them a ton of latitude to do shady stuff with your money.
I'm not sure it's true that parsing an untrusted YAML document is generally unsafe. That has to be a property of the parser, not the format.

As TFA says:

> In Python, you can avoid this pitfall by using yaml.safe_load instead of yaml.load

In Ruby, there are now analogous options (including - of course lol - a gem which monkeypatches the YAML module to make it safe by default) [1]:

> Use the safe-yaml gem which overrides YAML.load

> Require a newer version of Psych that provides a safe-load option

In Java, SnakeYaml has a document about security which i think is a long way of admitting that it's not secure [2]. It looks like eo-yaml just doesn't support tags at all.

[1] https://trailofbits.github.io/rubysec/yaml/index.html

[2] https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/wiki/CVE%20&%20NIS...
Trusting us Americans to know history? Not a chance.
But the problem with this approach is that NATO actually needs Turkey, it's in a vital position and is locally a major player.

Ideally, NATO members need Turkey to be truly cooperative. (You know, discuss, compromise, that old thing.)

What NATO really needs is for Turkey to be not directly hostile. That would be incredibly costly. We already got a tiny tiny preview of that by Turkey turning a blind eye to ISIS.
So long as they're federated, you'll see their replies.
we don't want to: 12 is more divisible than 10
> The person who is doing the national calculation is not pro.

It's not one person, and I can assure you the Bureau of Labor Statistics employs a wide range of professionals.

> I have friends in six states everyone of them tallying their monthly expenses

Cool. Anecdote coupled with strong selection bias.
This for this it indeed looks very much better than json or yaml.
How's the metric system superior? For science, sure.

But I find day2day use of measurements in inch/ft, e.g. in home renovation and architecture, way way easier than metric system.

I think it's the other way around. The adoption of the metric system was an ideological program from a very specific time. An enlightenment belief in a supreme rational order of things, military science transferred into the real world.

Metric system is cool, but it's not "better". Personally, I think it's worse and awkward for many use cases.
The Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
The US uses metric for some things, so it's partly transitioned.

Feels like something that's only going to go in one direction, even if not quickly in some cases.
Maybe I'm missing something, but from the paper https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/FFA13.pdf, they use non-conv nets on CIFAR-10 for back prop, resulting in 63% accuracy. And FF achieves 59% accuracy (at best).

Those are relatively close figures, but good accuracy on CIFAR-10 is 99%+ and getting ~94% is trivial.

So, if an improper architecture for a problem is used and the accuracy is poor, how compelling is using another optimization approach and achieving similar accuracy?

It's a unique and interesting approach, but the article specifically mentions it gets accuracy similar to backprop, but if this is the experiment that claim is based on, it loses some credibility in my eyes.
Uhh, please don't listen to any advice in this thread which says "fire your highest performing engineers". You will literally turn your project into a "legacy" system overnight.

You're a manager. Your job is to focus their priorities on business outcomes. If you're not providing focus they will run with whatever pet problems they have with the existing system. That's called doing their job.

I would not worry about style or complexity. Style is irrelevant and complexity is driven by the business case. Don't try to write software that will last 100 years. Its going to be put on maintenance mode and never touched again the second your highest performing engineers leave or are re-orged.
Has anyone who works for an "Unlimited time off" company ever tried to reduce their work week to a 4-day week or only a 5 hour work day + taking consistently 30 days off vacation during the year?

That would be what I'd consider a true "we believe you are most productive when you take the time off you need" policy. I have been a 4-day work week employee for some years now and I've never been more productive in my job. Yet, I somehow get the feeling that "Unlimited time off" companies would very quickly make sure this is not possible when employees would actually test the policy.
I moved away from Gumroad for various reasons, it seems like most of their efforts are going towards the marketing side (rebranding/landing page) and the product is good to get started with, but in the end it ends up being too limited/simple for more serious stuff when compared to Stripe or Paddle.
Party membership means different things in different systems.

Soviet/Chinese style communist parties were vanguard parties. Party membership was a privilege you had to earn, and it generally meant that you were a reputable person and potentially a member of the elite. In some sense, it had the same kind of signaling function as having a college degree or passing a leetcode interview.

American Democratic/Republican parties are kind of like semiofficial branches of the government. They have little control over their membership (or their candidates), and membership in itself means very little.

European political parties (at least in the countries I'm familiar with) are private organizations. Party membership tends to be lower than in the Soviet/American systems and signals some nontrivial commitment to the party.
One is a key value store, the other is a full relational database.

Think Redis vs PostgreSQL.
I guess this is the comment chain where we address the room?

I'm seeing a lot of misuse of the word "risk". The FAA prioritizes safety over mission. The mishap that resulted in downtime affected the mission. The common-cause failure of the backup system affected the mission. That is not evidence that they're bad at managing safety risk.

Given that there was an article published at the time about removing the dissimilar backup, it's probable that they explicitly accepted this mission risk.
To be fair, YAML itself does not specify how tags should be interpreted, technically the idea of grabbing constructors from those is the library's issue. But then again, you wouldn't want to accidentally introduce code execution when you adopt a new library/language.
I think the reason why I've found 1:1's so effective is because of the recurring schedule. We're all busy people, and having a structured time to sit down and talk about things helps, even when we don't think it will initially. Yes, bringing up and resolving issues in real time is still key, but there are always things that slip because we have more pressing concerns or we just never found the right time to discuss the issue.

It's like having regular meetings with a mentor, coach, or even a counsellor. I find these meetings to be very useful because the discussion inevitably leads to revelations that I would otherwise not have thought of. Could they have been discovered ad-hoc? Some of them, maybe. But it would be a coin toss with the hundreds of other distractions and responsibilities tugging us from every direction. Even with my spouse, I've found that having regular meetings where we sit down and really talk about things has been extremely helpful.

That being said, everyone runs 1:1s differently and I've been on some really bad 1:1s that had no value or always ended with a negative, bitter taste in my mouth. I use it as an opportunity to connect personally and to provide coaching and mentoring towards their goals, especially when they align with company goals.
I then poke and prod in a way to really get at what the other person is thinking and feeling, what they are struggling with, and ultimately what the root cause of the problems are. The key in my mind is to surface issues that would otherwise not be discussed, and normalize it. I then work diligently with them to make sure we're addressing those issues, and if I have action items to report back to them on how I've been able to make progress. 1:1s are definitely not the only way of approaching this, but the one I've found the most effective.

Granted, some individuals are very vocal and constantly raise and discuss issues outside of the 1:1s to the point where we don't need them as frequently. For them I just push out the schedule more and have them less frequently, or we just use the extra time to again, build that relationship.
It really doesn't seem political as you present it, along party lines. No one wants to incur the cost of switching, which would be increased errors and material waste. The politicans who change it will be associated with the one time increase in errors and confusion. The benefits are reaped slowly over time (in the form of fewer conversions), so no one can really claim all the credit at once.

It's also not political insofar as whether we use metric or imperial de facto depends on the decisions of many thousands of manufacturers and suppliers, not the government. Are they going to outlaw all the imperial measuring tapes, or institute a buy back program?
> you'd like everyone who refers to pre-20th century humans who studied the properties of chemicals as "early chemists/alchemists",

"Alchemist" has a specific meaning, and it is not synonymous with "early chemist". Robert Boyle was
clearly an early chemist and predates Isaac Newton, who was an alchemist. There is no temporal hard line in the sand, the distinction is made based on methodology and goals. The two terms aren't necessarily mutual exclusive (as with the astronomy / astrology distinction you allude to), but that doesn't mean you can conflate them.

> Everyone had pseudo-religious beliefs back then!

Perhaps, but that doesn't mean there aren't relevant distinctions to be made about their beliefs and methodologies.

While this distinction is important, it is also irrelevant to my main point. "Vitriol" predates that alchemist and is arguably more of a word that arose than a name that was given.
Display the first few lines and click-to-expand.

I believe Mastodon already does this in web interface.
It's a project that offers support via IRC, the average internet customer/consumer is not the target user base.
One anecdote in regards to the potential benefits:

I've gotten into wood working the last few years and I've found that I'm significantly less likely to make a measurement mistake when I use metric. It seems like nearly all my measurement mistakes are when I did something in imperial.

So why don't I use metric all the time? Because materials are usually sold in imperial units.
that's what it is. KS suffix is golden-sample/top-binned silicon running at higher-than-normal clocks.

To be fair these chips will also be amazingly efficient at more modest clocks, because they're top-binned, but by default they're just pushing for max clocks above all else.

For some fun compare the 9900K to the 9900KS on SiliconLottery's historical statistics page... 95% of 9900KS will do 5 GHz all-core at 1.25v, vs only 30% of 9900K CPUs making 5 GHz at 1.3v, for example. Or top 5% of 9900K chips will do 5.1 GHz at 1.312v vs top 28% of 9900KS doing 5.1 GHz at 1.287v. Way way better silicon.

https://siliconlottery.com/pages/statistics
If you use geo thermal in combo with heat pump, efficiency is even higher and you are not afraid even -40 -50c , you still save money. NY state will ban oil burners from 2025 for the new construction.
Geo thermal is super easy just put few pipes under the ground and save money.
in europe egg price already went up in around 6-2022 about 50%
i've lost track how much it's now but maybe 100% more than year ago.

it's not because of putin, the prices rocketed already way before.
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Global shortcuts and screenshots are already available as standard features. The problem with your thinking is the system needs to be designed to have security by default for it to have an chance of being secure. We know from X11 that "insecure by default" is a mistake that leads to everything breaking later when someone tries to hack it to actually have security. When everything is secure by default, you can still turn off the security checks and allow everything to get access to everything else.
This guide helps to understand the elements of email infrastructure and their purpose.
Metric system sucks for day2day measuring.
Apex is an interface definition language (IDL) for modeling software
I've worked directly with this system a number of times. it's basically a pub sub rss feed optimized for low latency and molested by bureaucrats for decades
I work with some pretty smart people that build products whose names you would recognize. While some attributes ring a bell, particularly the "no consistent style" does not. If anything, the brilliant people I've worked with were too rigid on a particular style, which led to spending too much effort on premature optimization. Could be that they thrive in the mayhem but I also wouldn't rule out that they are missing the forest through the trees and solving the relatively self-contained problems they know how to because they aren't particularly good at system design.
How can this be strange? I am saying this as a European.

It’s simply customs. And the system works. Why change?

It’s similar like asking why European football clubs wouldn’t want to change to the draft system of the US leagues.

European soccer is commercialized to a degree which is unthinkable for Americans, who are commonly regarded as the bigger capitalists…
Java being used as a script is now also built in (since Java 11 in 2018): https://nipafx.dev/scripting-java-shebang/
No more and no fewer cameras than any city in the US.
The value of many "rare earths" suddenly plummeted recently when an iron+nitrogen [edit: not "nickel"] alloy/crystallization ("allotrope") was discovered that approximates the properties of the best lanthanide magnets.

("Rare-earths" are not, incidentally, needed for [edit:batteries], wind turbines, or solar panels, however much certain people wish they were, or confidently claim.)
> after entering the institute, they are unable to cope up with the rigor and fail or drop out.

I'm curious, what's your theory for why these individuals are not performing at the level of the top students from other castes? The obvious answer would be that due to a history of discrimination and/or limited opportunities, they haven't been able to flourish in the same way. But according to you:

> Successive Indian govts have taken several measures to ensure they are not deprived.

So what is it?
Purely political. There were plans in place in the 70s and 80s. A particular political party politicised it as some sort of government overreach/UN/NWO meddling. And once they had the votes they voted to strip any mention of metric in federal usage. States followed shortly.

I learned both metric and imperial measurements in elementary, middle, and high school. From what I understand they only use metric in science classes now.

It didn’t make sense to me at the time. But the. I saw what happened to Core Curriculum, CRT, and US history. And it all makes a lot more sense.
I work at a medical analytics company that uses Ruby + Sinatra. Our product is a "real" application that allows for sophisticated reporting drawing from huge data sets. No Rails is involved.
Yeah, so tired of excitement without thinking the full production process.
Yes, it’s always been the simplest answer and breathtakingly obvious but older generations of policymakers continue to act incredulous regarding root cause.
isn't this already implemented in iPhones for their autocomplete suggestions?
Throwaway can explain everything

>General category start line is a 0 mark and finish line at 100m mark
its BS

Let me explain
OBC - around 48% of population
SC/ST - around 27% of population
General category - around 30% of population
That's why Gov is not doing caste census

Entire reservation is only 50% so remaining 50% for general
We definitely do not know nearly enough to say anything like that with confidence.

Most of the "training process" of our brain likely occurred prior to our birth in evolutionarily optimized structure of brain.
That is not the only use case. Another important use case is to see who broke into your home so that the police can find them.
The idea is that something (some metric) will spike/dip in that period that is different than normal ("Why do does our petty cash usage fall when X goes on vacation?"). It also means someone else will probably handle some/all of their "caseload" (aka "work") and might notice inconsistencies ("Why are we paying $X to Odd Corp monthly?").

Bottom line people are sloppy and/or their schemes can't handle them not being constantly present or "sunlight".
Why would you suspect that? It’s a commodity experiencing a supply disruption. Prices for lumber, shipping, oil etc have all already come down significantly from the peak.