skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
24 hour operations matter in large budget (>$20k/year) deals. There are SLAs to hit, massive penalties if they are not hit, and customers are VERY trigger happy with filing Severity 1 escalations and texting your company's C-Suite, Board, and Sales Leadership to get a bug resolved ASAP.

In additon, some level of regional redundancy is critical to prepare for black swan events (eg. a regional power outage like in the NE in 1996, flooding in Sacramento or East Bay suburbs leading to Product Owners or feature owners dealing with evacuations - this happened to us with the current flooding).

And finally, 24 hour operations allows you to expand to markets outside the US. While engineers in San Jose are sleeping, it's the middle of the workday for customers in London, Paris, Istanbul for example and they will inevitabely have bugs and issues arise.

Also, like I mentioned in the comment below:

2. Training and mentoring is a reflection of your company's Engineering Management. My employer has had an easy time offshoring development to Slovakia and Bangalore because we had Tech Leads and Engineering Management make the initiative to mentor, train, and onboard offshore team employees as we would domestic employees. I've seen similar examples occur across the industry (eg. Google Pay's dev team in Hyderabad, DE Shaw's dev team in Gurgaon, Motive/KeepTruckin dev teams in Lahore & Islamabad). If Management views Engineering as a cost center (which, it pains for me to say as an ex-cybersecurity engineer, at times it can be), that's where you tend to see the relationship between offshore and onshore teams collapse, because the relationship is based on the implicit arbitrage of labor.
Really? What in particular?

I have heard that (rightfully!) said about "Art of Electronics" but this is the first time I have seen Mims mentioned similarly.

The biggest problem I have with everybody is being taught "electrons are flowing". I understand that teachers don't want to go down the rabbit hole of "waves are transmitting the power" but it would sure help if teachers would at least mention that electrons flowing is a "good enough" analogy and not physical reality.
To be honest, I think we should keep the spent fuel handy. Right now it's just a nuisance, but when we develop fast neutron reactors, we'll be able to burn U-238, and more than 90% of the spent fuel is U-238. We won't do this tomorrow, but if the SMR's get the nuclear industry going again, we might have fast reactors in 2 or 3 decades. At which point, having one hundred thousand tons of fuel around won't hurt.
I wonder whether that prompt still is 100% correct, given that Apple recently put an Apple TV app on the Microsoft Store (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/apple-tv/9mw0zwqfh0m2)
That can work just fine by intentionally opening windows. Having a "drafty" house is just forcing that 100% of the time (which isn't always wanted).

Side note: As a US resident in an area with a ton of mosquitos, I cannot understand why other countries don't heavily use window screens. Lizards a pretty cool, flies and other flying bugs are just annoying and gross.
Just looking at Cuba-EU trade (so more for the second category):

> Cuba’s main export goods are agricultural products, beverages, tobacco and mineral fuels, for which there is no preferential trade regime.

> The main export goods from the EU to Cuba are food, chemicals products, plastics, basic metals and their manufactures, machinery, household appliances and transport equipment.

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/cuba/european-union-and-cuba_en?s...

https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/exports/cuba
beautifully written
Perhaps not. The advantage is not likely philosophical here though as large more cold and calculated bullion companies like APMEX offer this discount versus credit/debit.

I think a real upside of crypto is in dealing with entities that you view as very low risk (APMEX and other trusted bullion vendors) who view you (random guy buying) as potentially high risk. Crypto allows you to provide irreversible payment, which seriously lowers the risk to the vendor that you can somehow claw the money back (as you may be able to with a chargeback, fraud protection, even possibly the bank somehow reverse the ACH transaction etc).

When you send crypto to the bullion vendor they certainly have risk the value of the crypto itself can go down, but basically zero risk you'll able to claw it back. I think this plays a big part in making it the cheapest quick clearing way to pay for online bullion. Credit/debit buyers are paying premiums that account for the risk associated with reversible nature of most of the fast clearing options.

Ideally there'd be a basically instantaneous wire transfer that is impossible to claw back for any reason if you wanted the lowest premium.
In Python or Javascript, I look for opportunities to use pipe() or pipeeither() [1] wherever possible. These crop up a lot -- CLI scripts, data processing lambdas, etc.

A quick and dirty pipeither() with a "poor mans" either monad and you get a lot of the benefits of pure, testable functions, easy maintenance and debugging etc.

It's not Haskell, but its good.

[1]

const pipelineeither = function (l) {
const pipelineeither = function (v) {
let [left, right] = [null, v];
for (const f of l) {
if (left !== null) break;
[left, right] = f(right);
}
return [left, right];
};
return pipelineeither;
};
No need to retain commands in your head anymore, use bash, docker, kubernetes, aws etc from your terminal in plain english
It’s Alexia Massalin now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexia_Massalin
Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning, No Centralized Training Data
The Past 12k Years of Behavior, Adaptation, Evolution Shaped Who We Are Today
The chromecast didn't have an actual UI to manage.
Ask HN: Best Phone to Run Linux
What are currently some of the best phones to run Linux on?
Creativity and data curation in a AI driven world
I don't think it's this person's fault or that they should have seen it coming but I am curious why someone with no other apple devices would buy what I consider to be a secondary apple accessory. I just assumed (and I guess apple did too?) that no one who doesn't already have an apple device would buy an Apple TV. If I didn't have apple computers and an iPhone I don't think I would see the benefit over a google tv device.

Anyway, this is a QA fuckup I would guess. Someone should have asked the simple question, what if they don't have access to any such devices?
I wonder if install iTunes on a Windows PC would work?
Yeah. The cliffhangers are not even there for viewer pleasure. They are just there to force you to watch next series so that you learn how it ends.

Getting rid for them is not exactly a loss.
> It could be fun in the same way an immersive film is fun and sometimes insightful. As long as we never lose sight of the fictional nature of the interaction.

A good example, but perhaps not in the way you think. Historical films have people who make at least attempt to hew to the historical truth. But despite that, historians have a raft of complaints about movies being fonts of enduring myths. GPT models, at least, don't have any idea about truth at all, and the individual, on-the-fly nature of the content makes it very difficult to catch errors as one would for film.
I was interested in reading more about this, but the only google result is your comment. Could you remember a name or any other details that might help find the story?
>How Federated Learning Protects Privacy

https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/federated-learning/
I have uploaded two sample clips: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper/tree/master/SampleClips

The text files in that folder contain performance data from two computers: a desktop with nVidia 1080Ti, and a laptop with integrated AMD GPU.

If you want just a single number, look at the “RunComplete” value in these text files.
You used to be able to set them up from the Chrome browser, back when Chromecast support was implemented via a browser extension and not baked in.

They completely gutted Chromecast support in Chrome quite a while ago, you can't even adjust the playback volume from your computer any more.
Can you use AirPods without an Apple device to begin with?
> Everyone just wants to believe the game is rigged, on a long enough time frame genetic winners are at the top

Is that a good game?

Why not just appoint the natural-born redheads as kings?

Seriously, if I'm born into a "game" where I'm predestined to lose by my birth status, then I'd rather not play that game at all, thank you very much.

However, you have to wonder about the mentality of not seeking wealth as your primary goal in life. The smartest are not necessarily the wealthiest. Was Einstein the richest person in the world? No. He chose to pursue science, not business.

I feel that society should actually deter people who are obsessed with wealth-seeking over all other values. That's unhealthy personally and socially. Money is not the true measure of a man.
I have seen HR get involved in situations like this zero time in my career. I wouldn't want them to either.
I have and iPhone, a Mac, and an Apple TV and I'm definitely in the "fix it" camp.

There are other annoyances too - Apple really pushes you to add a payment method when creating a new iCloud account for some reason and when using an iPhone without a sim you get a "notification" badge on Settings.app that won't go away. There's also now countless "Set Up Later" prods in the first time boot up flow of iOS. No, I don't want to enable Siri. Not now, not later, not ever.
I hate "crypto", which is whatever your first thought was when reading that word. The scams, the shitcoins, the culture, the ignorance of the people who swear they aren't ignorant, the obsession of getting rich, the arrogance, etc.

I don't hate cryptocurrencies as a concept and technology. I'm excited to see where it lead eventually, but it needs to shed all the baggage that it currently has.
Why would you buy your child an iphone if you don't have one?
It should be obvious to any product manager or engineer that a product is going to have buyers who don't have anything else from the product line. That's a thing that happens.
Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing.

Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation
I don't think this is much deeper than modern media abusing a strong expectation set-up by past media. The short-term mysteries are only as interesting as the audiences expectation that they will be resolved in an interesting way. We are trusting the narrator not to let us down. But of course it is much simpler to create mystery than to resolve it, and whenever the resolution is bad that trust gets chipped away. I think this trust is a limited resource and it feels like too many modern stories are chipping away at it. At least thats the case for me. I've become jaded about this kind of breach of trust. The shows hope that I am not attentive enough and keep around my positive memories of the mystery after observing the awful resolution. No. I go out of my way to taint past memories and call the experience bad overall.
The author seems to believe that Yeltsin was a moron who thought that the most advanced capitalist country in history would possibly be comparable to a country that belonged to the Tsar less than one hundred years prior.

Well, maybe he was an idiot.
> What we both needed was the company setting very clear, explicit expectations. "X is your mentor. X's main job is to mentor you and help you swim in this deep end." Though I think the entire company was learning a ton of stuff at that phase.

It's been a while since I've mentored someone, but that was always one of the things I made sure to mention in my first conversation with any interns/new grads I'd mentor: "While you're here, mentoring you is the highest priority thing for me to do. If there are ever any times when I have something so time sensitive that it would take priority over answering your questions, I will explicitly let you know. Otherwise, always assume that it's okay to ask me something, because if for some reason I can't answer and you don't know that, it's my fault for not telling you." It helped that the company where I worked at the time had very explicit time periods where someone was considered a "new grad" versus a full team member (since they actually would rotate on 3 teams before ending up on one of them full time), so this strategy might not work as well in places where the expectations for mentors are not laid out as well, but I honestly think that it will almost always be the best strategy to just be open and communicative with anyone you're mentoring. Mentees are just people like anyone else, and them being inexperienced as engineers doesn't make them any less able to understand clearly communicated guidelines, and if you need to adjust the guidelines as you go, there's no reason they can't understand that too.
Imagine an alternative ReLU which had a narrow curved section, to smooth out the discontinuity. Now it has a continuous derivative, but that gradient is still zero for values < 0. This flat region is the cause of dead neurons, because backprop multiplies the propagated error by the gradient, to update the weight - and if the gradient is 0, the result of the multiplication is 0 , and the neuron's weights do not get adjusted.

A derivative can be continuous, and zero.
"Binge watching" is also weapon of Netflix demise: they drop the whole season at once, you watch it in a day or two, and then you forget it, and you never log in to Netflix again for several weeks. HBO dropping one episode at time creates a feeling of anticipation, and gives you a reason to keep your subscription always active, because every couple days there will be something new for you to watch..
You literally created this account as a throwaway to avoid having your "critique" associated with your HN main.

You must be a lot of fun at parties.
You don't understand why some people might prefer a more precisely defined, simpler-by-default desktop? I can only speak for myself - I've been using linux full-time for ~20ish years, and gnome 3 is the one of the most solid, stable, elegant desktops I've used. I understand why some prefer KDE, but I spend most of my times in APPS, not configuring my desktop environment.

Also, what does "big corporate" customers even mean? At my corporate job, I get paid to do work (within applications), not spend time configuring settings in my DE. I'd be quite curious to hear how gnome specifically prevents you from doing your job.

Last thought, but "just buy a mac" is a rather silly argument; in fact, if gnome is being to mac, that's a pretty high compliment, IMO. If that's not your thing, that's fine, but it's also fine for others to want to use a simple, well-designed desktop.
It's kind of hard to compare performance/watt meaningfully when the wattages aren't at all similar.

If you limit power on current generation Intel/AMD processors, the perf/watt is pretty good; depending on the specific load, sometimes better, sometimes worse than M2. When you allow more watts, perf goes up, but perf/watt goes down as you see diminishing returns. (With some loads, you may also have a point where more watts reduces performance, whoops)

Geekbench isn't great as it doesn't even attempt to capture power usage, but that may not be available or accurate on all systems anyway.
The worst part of this is the statement that 1899 was canceled. I just finished it and was looking forward to the second season. I guess there's no way in Netflix to know if a show is ever coming back.. Will there ever be another Black Mirror season.. who knows..
Yeah most definitely it would be illegal, but the power of crypto is that illegal things become legal, or at least uncontrollable. Issuing your own currency was/is illegal, but Bitcoin's decentralized and impersonal nature made it impossible to shut down.
Yeah, I did that for the first one for a month because I couldn’t get in to a mechanic for weeks. After that, I searched “how to replace a window regulator in <my car>” on YouTube and then figured out how to do it myself.

Turns out it was about 45 minutes for me to do it myself. Not only did I save money (about $500 for all of them), but I saved time- going to a mechanic always ended up being about 2h
A lot of people seem to assume a network-TV economic model applies to netflix, where ‘ratings’ are inherently good, and high rated shows beget renewals, and so on…

But, Netflix subscriptions are much more in the ‘gym membership’ economic model.

People watching shows on Netflix costs Netflix money. They would much rather take your money and have you not watch anything.

The ideal Netflix subscriber is someone who won’t cancel because they think they might want to watch something some time, but who whenever they browse the shows decides not to bother starting a show right now.

This strategy seems optimized for maximizing that audience.
and in Python:

def pipeeither(l):
def pipeeither(v):
return reduce(lambda a, e: e(a[1]) if a[0] is None else a, l, (None, v))
return pipeeither
... this doesn't read well.

"and now TESLA just went back to the original prices". sounds like there are multiple people that went back to original prices but they are trying to point out that the discussion is about tesla. If this was spoken, the emphasis I would place would be on original, "and now tesla just went back to the ORIGINAL prices"
> Then he saw the bananas. He really wanted bananas. He wouldn't ask for bananas. So I grabbed a bunch and put them in the basket.

And then I told Andrei and Volodya about Banana Republics.
Google TV is filled to the brim with ads.
Because presumably in this case you would want to open a window for fresh air, and simultaneously run your heating system to heat up that fresh air?

I was responding to a comment that presupposes the need for fresh air. If you don't need that, feel free to close the windows then.
In 1998 MS had design. Now it is all crap.
Fortunately with Wheel of Time the story has already been told. You can go read it whenever you want. And although I'm not normally a "the book was better" type, for this reader, the show really is disappointing.
Do you feel satisfied in that series of decisions? This was something I started doing in my twenties, but am glad it didn't continue, despite having some major financial difficulties now (though I don't have much control over that anyway). Do you feel like your travel experiences offer you more substance than any possessions would, and do you feel like language learning is a fruitful use of time?
> were really few unknown ones run and decide on the protocol

That's not how Bitcoin works: you and the party you are giving money to decide the protocol, not the miners. If these unknown miners are doing something different than what your clients allow then those miners aren't part of the same network as you.
Fair enough. But I'd at least like them to finish it, so that in the off chance I like what they've produced, I'll have a complete product to watch. It would suck to get really engrossed in it and then find out they quit halfway through. :-(
Please elaborate. How would stopping banana cultivation help any of those countries?
There is literally a button in the link you provided saying how to do it on iOS also...
Not me, I do not watch any streaming show until the entire season at a minimum has dropped

I also do not subscribe to HBO Max in part because of that
Because kids might bully you over not having a blue bubble but adults might not.
> Shame they made the remakes Windows-only.

They run brilliantly through Steam on Linux, fwiw.
Just put out some wasabi coated peanuts... and have a good laugh when you see them with their open beaks trying to relieve the spiciness and cool down their mouths :DDDD.

And... they come back for more. Maybe they enjoy the ride.
From https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch/blob/main/sketch/p... it appears that this library is calling a remote API, which obviates the utility of the demonstrated use case.

Upon closer inspection, it looks like https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch interfaces with the model via https://github.com/approximatelabs/lambdaprompt, which is made by the same organization. This suggests to me that the former may be a toy demonstration of the latter.

Interesting how as of the time of writing this, most of the comments here (i.e. dozens) are praising this as a legitimate use case. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but it seems clear to me that uploading data to a third party to verify whether that data contains PII is a non-starter for any serious application.
>Ducts are still needed to circulate air

>A recirculating central heating system doesn't do that.

They definitely circulate air, and they definitely filter the air. Whether there is fresh air depends, mostly no.
I'm the opposite. I prefer to wait until a whole series has finished and then watch the seasons that were decent, and screw the rest. I watched 2.5 seasons of ~Tits And Dragons~ Game Of Thrones, and honestly, that was 1.5 seasons too many. I'm also perfectly happy to rewatch Firefly knowing that they never finished it of with some bullshit final series or movie* that tried to tie it up with a bow, and ultimately fail.

*I know

Edit: awww, hn doesn't have strike through markdown support :(
Hmm, so they will use some sort of cookie to link the two devices?
You act like a good employer, start a business
the same can also be said for the 12900K at 125W; having a TDP(PL2) of 241W
I grew up with a guy that had a similar experience escorting Russian people in Florida? Alabama? Somewhere in the south where we hid defectors until everything was straight. He was driving some guy around who thought it was a guided tour to Potemkin villages, so he pulled out a map and said pick a place.

They drove to whatever that town was and he said, pick a store. After a couple of hours, I think his mind was blown.

This was a fairly rural, poor part of the state. Later they went to Atlanta and the guy was gaga over... everything.
So, it's not "an Apple device", but an iPhone that is required?
In theory for a long time you've been able to "persistently map" A GPU side buffer that houses things like indexes, vertex data, or even textures, and then write directly* into GPU memory from the CPU without a staging buffer. This was referred to as 'AZDO' (Approaching Zero Driver Overhead) in the OpenGL space and eventually fed into the design of Vulkan and Direct3D 12 (see https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020791/Approaching-Zero-Drive... if you're curious about all of this)

I say in theory and used an asterisk because I think it's generally the case that the driver could lie and just maintain an illusion for you by flushing a staging buffer at the 'right time'. But in practice my understanding is that the memory writes will go straight over the PCIe bus to the GPU and into its memory, perhaps with a bit of write-caching/write-combining locally on the CPU. It would be wise to make sure you never read from that mapped memory :)
Why would you buy your child an Android if you don't have one?
It is common in English to make statements like this that are attempting to assert a general hypothesis, and are not expected to pedantically account for every individual human being.
That's assuming Apple TV engineers are living in their bubble and no product/design people validate the screens showned to users (including wording and presentation). Then allowing a product to be updated and maintained in this conditions brings further questions on management and how they see their users.

You might as well be right, but I'm not sure it paints Apple in a better light.
I mean... I am. It's hostile to the user, period. It doesn't matter if 99% of AppleTv owners have another device, it's still user hostile.

I suppose it might not be "insane", just malicious, if the intent is to force some amount of the N% of people with just an AppleTv to buy another apple product. Then it wouldn't be insane or stupid, but it would be scummy as hell.
We want dumber TVs, not smarter ones.
I'd never heard of the OSTI before. Interesting.