skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite theory is that the universe is finite, some sort of (hyper)sphere or -torus. If we could just look far enough out there we would see our own galaxy

What would be even cooler is if it was warped like a moebius strip in a higher dimension, so that when we look out there, everything is mirrored from "our" reality :-D
It's busier than I would've thought.

https://github.com/servo/servo/pulse/monthly
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We create software and hardware solutions for the dry cleaning and textile industry. This includes a cloud-based Point of Sale, mobile apps and machines for automated logistics.

Our customers range from small single store dry cleaners, to larger operations servicing a multitude of consumers or a number of hospitals and hotels. Known as the innovators in this industry, join us in our mission to create the digital dry-cleaning experience of the future.

We are profitable and experiencing significant organic growth, without external capital.

Company website: https://smrtsystems.com

You can email me directly: johan {@} [our domain above]
I'm not sure what points you are trying to make now, but originally you were talking about reference counting being slow and I was saying in a language like C++ it has no impact on performance because it is only necessary when giving memory allocated in one thread to another thread.

both parsing into an AST, AST manipulations, interpretation
even some games may want to use GC for some in-game objects, as the lifetime of those is fundamentally dependent on user action

Here you are conflating the lifetime of resources inside the various scopes of a program with dynamic resources in a game. These are not the same thing. Language level reference counting will not save you or help you to know when to unload a level or a texture. Just because there is control over resources doesn't mean reference counting. Likewise even in something like java you need to set links to heap allocated objects to null so that they can be garbage collected. The language doesn't magically know when you need to unload a level.
Modern systems are going to ramp the clock speed as utilization increases, if you're seeing sustained 90% cpu, chances are you're running pretty close to the sustained clock limit.

Edit: I accept your findings, and will pay closer attention to see if I can see the same.
Microsoft and Apple are building pack-in browsers that users neither love nor hate. Brave is trying to sustain themselves on a comedy routine of a cryptocurrency, and Google is 30 seconds away from relapsing into web domination.

Relative to the rest of the circus, I'd say Mozilla is doing an okay job.
This is what I came here for.
$5/dozen is still a lot less than the $7.33/doz at Costco that OP was mentioning.

Canada, under $4 cad per dozen which is about $3.20 USD. Saw about $4.39 when I was in San Francisco last month, I (perhaps wrongly) made the assumption that similar would be available elsewhere.
I used to work with a brilliant software engineer who weighed at least 400lbs when we worked together. Incredibly smart, kind, and thoughtful, and funny. But there was this one puzzling thing about her.

She was vocally critical of the mere concept of "fat" and would find any excuse to pick fights about it. During a company-wide meeting of about 1200 people it was announced that we'd be inviting employees and their families to a theme park for the day, all to ourselves. She stood up during the Q&A portion and asked if the company would be, in her words "giving people who didn't fit on the rides a sum of money equal to the cost of admission, travel expenses, and meals." The HR rep asked for clarification, to which she said "those of us who were born too big to go on rides shouldn't be denied benefits other people get because they fit. That's discriminatory."

She would also frequently and passionately argue about how the idea of "overweight" or "underweight" is an invention of capitalism - a tool to get people to spend money on books, gyms, diet programs. No amount of rational debate would alter her stance. She'd cite supposed medical journals from memory disputing the concept of obesity if anyone asked "aren't there health risks?"

Denial is a crazy, sometimes heart breaking, thing. There are people who don't believe that being fat is unhealthy.

She was one of them. I say "was" because she died of cardiac arrest at the age of 27 while at work, 20 feet away from where I was sitting. Even now, I still have a hard to reconciling who she was (smart, rational, kind) with what she believed and how she died. Utterly tragic.
Regarding your first point, a good alternative to Bazel is https://please.build/ - its build graph can solve exactly this problem in CI.
> We just don't know yet and there's not much investigating we can do.

Because a certain country made sure to destroy evidences from the suspected lab?
Are you referring to Morocco or a potential future independent Scotland :-) ?
This is a good message that generalizes to everything. My big peeve over the last few years is how often in software people want to talk answers before understanding the problem. Both in a "just give me the answer" sense, and in the "this will fix your problems" sense.

And said on the cleanest blog design I've seen in ages.
You can have transactional causal consistency with an AP system. Combined with CRDTs it’s very powerful.

You also have mixed (“just right”) consistency systems and techniques to introduce and optimise the use of runtime coordination where necessary.

For example see https://electric-sql.com/docs/reference/consistency
https://dynamicsignal.com
Yes you are absolutely right .. at this time we only can validate the publishing part , not the production part. Someday maybe ..
But the point is that the tooling doesn't help you with it. Those are building blocks that you might build a "does this need to get build/deployed?" (& if not, what is the result of the build) mechanism with, but they are not that mechanism.
They use automatic summarization once you exceed said limit to get around this.
They're "accurate" when they get a decent measurement, imo.

I can confirm with the other poster, I've found them to only be ~1 or 2 different from other oximeters.

I'd always assume bad read first if you have an outlier.
That equation doesn't balance.
I'm well aware of them, I'm providing an additional, cultural (as opposed to scientific) reason for why people feel the need for legislature about body disposal.
There's some historical burden of this analysis to that you could be ready to back up. Most people who experience psychosis don't experience it as a perpetual state, and they aren't particularly more dangerous while experiencing or any more dangerous while not.

It's certainly feasible that in many cases it would be chronic and severe enough to interfere with necessary responsibilities but that doesn't take us straight to "everyone who showed psychosis was exiled or executed." We know that some cultures did have explicit roles and accommodations for people who were way out there.

One of the graphics the author showed mentioned this but it didn't otherwise come up: look at the tradition of the holy fools in some slavic cultures. This got rolled into christianity but it appears to predate it in those cultures and straightforwardly includes people without obvious productive benefit for their society.
https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors?from=2021...

Most of the commits are updates to dependencies and the like.

So basically, no one is, outside of preventing too much "bit rot" and some very occasional bugfixes.
it's frustrating to lose a job. don't take it personally.
It's the same with Sushi in Vancouver.

It's because the BEST Pizza in NYC is probably on par with some of the best pizza in other cities. Great chefs can make great Pizza. They can do this wherever they are.

What makes a town renowned for a type of food is the MEDIAN quality.

Vancouver has more Sushi restaurants than Starbucks and bad ones don't last. You are always within a 15 minute walk to a better sushi restaurant than 90% of cities outside of Japan.

I understand NYC is the same with Pizza
Oh, definitely. Just making the counterpoint.
I guess we have opposite opinions, as I'm convinced the glowing recommendations for the pork rabe sandwiches are mostly manufactured by people with blogs, vlogs, and listicles to make who weren't getting any return writing yet another story about cheesesteaks. The good cheesesteak places don't really change much.

I went to college in Philly and not once did anybody ever suggest we go get one. When I was visiting a few years I was the one who told my friends about the sandwich. They'd grown up in Philly and never heard a mention of it. We made a whole trip of it.

It's a unique sandwich and not bad, but everyone felt we should have made a trip of going to get our favorite cheesesteak instead.
You assume I'm ignorant and grumpy, though. My response to the ghost was simply to say that last post wasn't me, and I really was thankful to work with a great bunch of people. However, the possibility that an employer will post as you on Slack should be taken very seriously. Perhaps my case isn't much of an error mode (setting aside feelings of creepiness) but consider the possibilities!

Try to assume the best in people and their actions and your life will likely be better for it.
So what you do is you form a ordinal-indexed hierarchy of “why”s,
And then you go up a universe level so that the class of ordinals in the lower universe level becomes an actual set and not just a class,
and then you somehow (exactly how... remains to be seen) appeal to Zorn’s lemma , and construct a why-of-all-whys that explains everything in the lower universe level.

And you call that thing [ERROR: NOT REPRESENTABLE].
Some apps tend to max out the cpu. The amount of times I'm just doing email and my laptop cpu spins up with all 8 cores maxed out due to a runaway process like mcafee virus scan or something similar is not fun. So I'd assume they could pull a few hundred Watts here too if allowed. Ended up switching to a mac, and now it's office 365 that regularly maxes out my cpu (and Window_server along with it).
Gardening. You're going to want that veggie garden producing real soon now.
Wanted: Data-driven articles of interest to programming language designers
Leave it upto what engineers want, and they will try to build a google scale thing to put it into their resume.
The rise of cyber cities (2021)
It's a pretty useless quality for a gaming PC.
Discord End-to-End Encryption
If it's heraldic, it's sometimes pretty easy to figure out the blazon (The verbal description, which is considered the real definition, the actual picture can have artistic license) for simple things, and then a search can often tell you.
What is your opinion on the Grail blood test?
So often I see SaaS companies write things like “built with Rust”. Yeah, nobody cares!
We Select Our Distractions (2021)
I don't believe any state specifically disallows traps and monsters. They just say how you're allowed to dispose of a body, not all the ways you can't. In other words, it's not an Air Bud situation. Anyway, just a joke, I don't have enough kobolds to populate a dungeon with (yet).
Off topic: I feel like magnets are the closest tangible thing to magic that exists in our universe.
They could arrest whoever owns that land.
How long until they until they neuter it and murder like they did Tay?
Ease to use and ease to misuse usually come hand in hand.

If we had very clear and static requirements I’d see languages/tools with more safeguards, fool proofing, optimized design etc. But we’ll never have that for configuration languages, and when aiming for flexibility you have to trust people to not shoot their own feet.
As is normally attributed to Burke, "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing".
Our who claim that things are isotopic seems in conflict with what we see:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/asymmetry-detected-in-the-dis...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2280743-enormous-strand...

Personally, I think this is strong evidence that primordial anyons were inflated — and we’ve failed to account for the energy these stored from inflation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyon
It depends on your space. If you are up against a competitor with venture backing, you will be at a disadvantage.

It doesn’t matter how good your product is. If they have $20M to spend on a sales and marketing team you will be drowned out and no one will ever get to see your amazing product.

We can knock VC all day and dumb founders who over capitalized and over spent… but there’s a reason some of the worlds biggest companies are venture backed.
> sometime their developer experience is inferior to what you get with off-the-shelf OSS

Working at Meta, being able to use Sapling (our Mercurial fork) is actually one of the highlights and I was pretty miserable every time I needed to go back to Git for my open-source work — thankfully it was open-sourced with a git backend a couple of weeks ago, so now I get to combine the excellent sapling CLI with the github hosting service :D
Thanks for the feedback! Currently looking into swapping out the OpenAI + Pinecone portion with fully open source and self hosted options such as Weaviate or Qdrant for the next version.
Read the letter again. This CEO is absolutely not forthright about taking the blame. He doesn't even speculate about root causes, much less assign blame. He describes the problem...

"While our revenue has grown by five times since the start of the pandemic, our costs have grown by even more as we geared up for a continued rate of growth that now looks unlikely. Additionally, so much of our organization was built for a paradigm of rapid growth, in terms of the roles, ratios, and structures we’ve put in place."

...but nowhere does he talk about why these things happened.

He literally uses the passive voice top avoid taking responsibility ("our organization was built" not "I built").

You come away with the feeling this is a good letter in which he takes responsibility because he distracts you by spending the rest of the letter describing the details of the severance offer, which is completely orthogonal to the issue of root causes and responsibility.
Maybe. Has the message been deleted?
If “it all keeps changing”, which thwarts their attempts to “model an insanely complex system”, then wouldn’t that mean any claim about “global warming” is actually a claim to possessing a priori knowledge?
6% curtailment seems pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things. Around 20-25% curtailment, it becomes economical to run those hydrogen electrolyzers part-time, even with the capital expenditures required. I wouldn't use that hydrogen gas to regenerate electricity, though - there are many industries that can directly consume that hydrogen gas and avoid the lossy round-trip from electricity->hydrogen->electricity.

I explore this idea further in this blog post: https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/factobattery/
Perhaps too clean - there is no hyperlink to the home page!
The mirror just needs to be large enough, concave and spherical. ;)
Undrselling the market only makes sense if you recoup your losses by jacking up the price once your competition has gone under
Not sure what waterfall dev has to do with that, and "the docs do not reflect reality or are out of date" is always true (even if within the code).
Put a CPU limit on the process. I do it for gaming to keep Dwarf Fortress from pinning my CPU even in the menus.
It's common for your previous manager to have temporary access to your machine, files, email and accounts at big companies to support continuity for a few weeks.

It'd be in extremely poor taste to post or email as the person but I don't think there's a legal issue per se. It is the companies infrastructure so your work accounts aren't really yours.

It's a solid reminder though never to use your work machine for personal use and never to use your personal accounts for work use.
I read the account and thats not what it says, I think you are projecting onto it.

The girl volunteered for example.

There’s no way of knowing anything clearly from that account.
In Australia, we're taught metric exclusively, and use KPH over MPH. But it is common to report your height height in feet and inches, and less commonly, bodyweight in stone.
I would also be interested.

A quick google and quick search of archive.org didn't pop anything up.
That could work as well & might be more practical if you can't do direct start lifting (yet).
The proof of human problems is actually addressable. We can imagine that the state publishes all public keys of its citizens in persistent storage, perhaps engraved in the stone, along with the name and where to find the person.

To verify that the state is keeping the record of citizens, accurate auditors come in. They can select 100 individuals verifiably random (for instance, taking hash function and sorting) and try to reach out to these individuals and check that they indeed own the keys they have been assigned, for instance, signing an auditor-given message. The number of individuals who did not have the correct keys or were unreachable could then be used to infer the legitimacy of elections being run.
A lot of people exchange small personal, not strictly work related messages with departing employees, to wish them luck or maybe keep in touch. I think it's unethical for the employer to read that. And it's even more unethical for an employer to reply as you, and make that person think you got the message and/or appreciated it.

For example, if the departing employee later interacts with former coworkers in a social context (employer totally out of the picture), someone could falsely get the impression that somebody replied to a personal message, when they actually did not read it.. That could theoretically have social consequences that are none of the employer's business. Maybe that coworker the IT guy replied "thanks" to was actually stalking them. Maybe there was some kind of affair? Those are probably atypical, but my point is you don't know what weird consequence even a small "thanks" could have. That is why, IMO, the most ethical thing an employer can do here is to not even look at the messages, let alone reply.
Funnily enough this used to make sense. When you were burning coal, generation skewed north and its cheaper to generate close to source and transport energy. Now, transport of energy is a significant cost, but it’s difficult to price/support that, and the industry/national grid have been working very hard on smart grids for exactly this reason.
Have you checked out headscale? It’s an open source control plane for Tailscale which lets you plug in any OIDC provider. Tailscale the company even employs an engineer which uses about 50% of his time on headscale.
> Distances in space are stupid. Our minds cannot comprehend them.

It's not even an Euclidean space.
Yeah. The cost objection seems like learned helplessness.

A government interested in raising national productivity would underwrite the necessary cables and expedite their installation. However, that's apparently not the UK government since 2008.

1. "Productivity and potential 2003-2012: the UK decade that decayed", 2013: https://www.primeeconomics.org/articles/productivity-and-pot...

2. "UK productivity continues lost decade", 2019: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47826195

3. "The UK is facing two lost decades on living standards", 2022: https://www.ft.com/content/7968048a-3f7f-4cb0-8fa1-e10aff14b...
This is "Thanks" by some poor ops engineer trying to do her job. You'd have her fired if the company lost a lawsuit all to prove some bullshit "ideal". The two things are completely different, for one a newspaper has an Editorial Board, I could go on...
> 1a. Are there satem languages that didn't lose the /n/ in their word for 100?

the /n/ in the word for "hundred" in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) was a vocalic nasal /m̥/, and is reconstructed as *ḱm̥tóm.

PIE Sanskrit Old Persian Latin English
--- -------- ----------- ----- -------
\*ḱm̥tóm śatám satem centum "hundred"

In Indo-European vowel gradation, this is known as the zero-grade form [1], and its phonetic realization evolved differently in daughter languages. /m̥/ became the -en' in Latin "centum" (the /n/ is due to assimilation with the following /t/, and "a" (schwa) in Sanskrit "śatám" (Old Persian "satem")

Furthermore, this transformation occurred in all instances of the zero-grade vocalic nasal, regardless of whether it is adjacent to a PIE *ḱ.

For another example, PIE *gʷmsḱeti ("goes/goeth") becomes Sanskrit "gacchati". Notice that in this case, the /m̥/ transforms to "a", just like in *ḱm̥tóm -> śatám, but here after *gʷ.

This demonstrates that the transformation is independent of whether the preceding velar sound is palatalized or labialized.

The original nasal /m/ is however retained in other forms of this Sanskrit verb, like its root form "gam-" (PIE: *gʷem-) which is in the lengthened grade [2].

> 1b. Are there centum languages that merged k into ḱ rather than the other way around?

None that I'm aware of, but happy to learn of an example.

> Why does the geography of Tocharian matter to the hypothesis that centum / satem reflects an early split between "proto-centum" and "proto-satem"? People move;

You're right that geography isn't deterministic, especially as it pertains to language, and Indo European has been a very mobile language family.

That said, most of the centum languages to this day are western languages and most of the satem are eastern. The big exceptions are Slavic (satem), Mittani (satem), and Tocharian (centum).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_ablaut#Zero_grad...

2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E...
I assume that cables aren’t all equal, eg maybe the new one carries more power or is more efficient or the sea floor makes it harder to lay. It could still be a good deal even if the upfront cost is higher.

I guess there could also be accounting shenanigans, eg if you pay $x upfront and $y over several years, you could focus on $x if the project seems unpopular and focus on $(x+y) if the project shows a popular serious investment in a government policy.

But I’ve no idea about this case.
https://www.chemicalaid.com/tools/equationbalancer.php?equat...
> Once in the underworld, they learn about the specifics of the different disease spirits and topology of the characters there. They are torn apart by hellish forces, but they are reassembled into something new, and through their wit they are able to negotiate their own release. They ascend to the upperworld of gods to obtain special healing powers. Then, finally, they return to the human realm transformed.

And that's how I learned Scheme.
Democratic rational central planning is a political belief. I happen to agree with it, but you’ll get called names for it.
Posting "thanks" as you is not something to be offended over. It's poor form socially, and that's about it. You're upset that you got fired, and you're over reacting to something that isn't a big deal.

I'd encourage you to delete this, since it contains an alias you apparently also use as your email and can therefore be easily linked to you. You don't want this to be something prospective future employers see.
By the time my friends dad had pancreatic cancer detected, he died within 6 weeks. It’s also the fastest growing cancer in the US. Every time I read about someone dying of cancer quite often it’s pancreatic cancer and it terrifies me.
From 2020, apparently.
ChatGPT-3: What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

ChatGPT-4: How many roads must a man walk down?
You assume death is better than life for the "mad".

This is non-obvious, as one of them.