skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boeing uses inches. Not feet, just inches. The drafting scales (rulers) we used were in inches, but divided into tenths and hundredths of an inch. The ball bearing catalog what in inches, but rather strange values, which turned out to be mm translated to inches.

I had a hard time recently trying to find a scale in inches and tenths and hundredths. It's just easier to user. I'm kinda sorry I sold my drafting equipment.
Well not everyone knows that 42 is the answer. I guess you get full unfettered access.
This is exactly what I thought when I read this.
Most people only "give" when the bells ring outside the stores their buying gifts for others, so they're already used to "giving" during a window.
This has been studied a lot in design. Most people prefer line lengths in the 50-60 character region. Some studies show lengths up to 75 to be appropriate, but that’s about the limit. Past that people have a hard time keeping track of where they are and find reading to take more effort.
Yeah. If they had hoped for more impact, they could have, say, made Smile the default, instead of only very occasionally reminding you to use their inexplicably different URL for smile purchases.
For workloads that are on the same node -- Putting the database in the same memory space as my code as well as the same I/O and scheduling contexts isn't always what I want. I want to be able to prioritize database I/O far above app I/O. In addition, I want to make sure my database isn't prioritized "lower" than my application, as this can trigger priority inversion issues.

Also, the scaling characteristics of database nodes vs service nodes are very different. I might not want to put reliable storage into every node I have, but I'm probably willing to shell out a couple bucks for my database server's storage.

An example from my last project that used a lot of postgres. The database node was about ~20x the price as the workers.

From an operational perspective, having the database be maintained separately from the app also has its benefits.
When I think cryptocurrency and making nitrogen compounds, I think about the FBI and ATF showing up.
I worked for a university here in So Cal. Our lab fell on hard times and we were scrapping equipment. We had a Crimson series (if memory serves) server that had originally cost like 40k. My boss was screaming at me to sell it for something (think early 2000s).

I had to explain to him that we could pay to have it recycled for $85.
Thank you.

For once, Agile is actually quite explicit about documentation. From the Agile Manifesto.

- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

- Working software over comprehensive documentation

- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

- Responding to change over following a plan
Naming Things in Code
We all know how those “ethics committees” go, right? It’d immediately turn into another culture war type issue where very blatant favoritism is shown to certain charities and blatant hostility to others.
The massive Python regression is because of a missing, trivial compiler optimization, one already implemented but just not applied when you compile to push frame pointers.

There is no actual need for the compiler to maintain a frame-pointer register, or to access stack frame values relative to it. When you compile without, the compiler does fine. The compiler could generate that instruction to push a copy of the stack pointer, and do nothing else different from when working without, as it is doing now, except to add a larger value to the stack pointer before returning.

That said, who runs Python if they are bothered about performance?
Realistically, corporate donations are almost entirely measured by the "gross value added to brand/reputation."

Not "actual worth to society."

A market based, consumer driven approach like Amazon Smile, is likely optimal.

Consumers, on average, are very effective and logical choosers (on average).

Amazon Smile was likely a highly effective program.

Issue is, Amazon now wants to redirect its customer's dollars to improve its reputation.
> To what end, Diogenes?

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You're just pushing complexity around. Now you have to figure out how much content you can put on each page before you have to make a new one. The reason it seemed so easy is that you just deferred the hard part.
Yeah my boss just turned it around on me.

And I guess he was right? I did have the power to change in that situation.

But it made asking for help kind of pointless.

I was already blaming myself.

This is turning into a pity party.

Eh.
You realize books also have lines of text? Why do you think # of lines = # books sold?

Not # books sold = # of copies of software sold?
The trademark: Oracle

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75026640&caseType=SERIAL_...

The standard: ECMA

https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard...

The implementations: browser vendors, Npm, and many others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ECMAScript_engines
First off, it's important to realize they mean audio only podcasts. [1]

My opinion is that monetization is killing podcasts the way it killed a free and open internet. Everyone wants to wall off and exploit listeners for profit, or to make $ and quit their jobs. That's not the spirit of the internet with a free exchange of ideas.

My other concern is that eyeballs are worth, I have heard, 4x the revenue VS ears only. It makes sense, as it's far easy to manipulate people and exploit the cult of personality when you own someone's eyeballs.

I personally have friends that have become dumb as bricks after giving their eyeballs to YouTube podcasts and channels where they are easily manipulated with 3 second snapshots of legitimate quotes and scientific papers. They think everything is on the up and up because the claims come from scientific journals, and they saw it with their own eyes. They don't understand its taken out of context or the facts stretched in service of a narrative. They would NEVER dream of going to the source document and reading it.

A good example, and one of the better ones that I actually don't mind the fringe conspiracy fantasy elements of is Ben Davidson of suspicious observers and space weather news.

But his business model is destructive and detrimental to society. Just go to the youtube page, and watch a video. Seems pretty legit, except there is no way to adequetly fact check the science behind it because he often uses one paper and cherrypicks what he likes and then matter of factly states that other parts of the same paper are flat out wrong. Lol.

There are no links to show notes or scientific papers. You have to pause the video, and scour the internet to hopefully get first hand sourcing of claims. And many papers are firewalled, so the guy can say just about anything he wants and people take it as gospel truth because he shows a paragraph from a peer reviewed journal.

Instead of providing relevant links, it's just 47 links to all his monetization in the shownotes.

It's infotainment, not science.

But also a perfect example of how audio podcasts are dying because content creators are moving to video "podcasts", which this article doesn't recognize.

[1] https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1615043223709442049?t=1fdsE...
I have advocated to at least try bazel (or even buck), but the higher-ranking devs all say that it's too much "organizational knowledge risk", i.e. if I force something unfamiliar onto the team and they only shakily know how to work with it with my help and then I leave, they're screwed. Therefore, it usually boils down to trusty old crusty tools.

Crabs in a bucket.
There's no grounds in the TOS to boot anything that's not a hate group as identified by the SPLC or ADL. Amazon doesn't want to get set up with a lawsuit if they boot a group outside of those bounds on either side of the aisle or if they try to change the rules to fit one group or another.
A fantastic list. And frankly the bit about context should be thing number 0. Context matters throughout everything you do in a system.

So many "tech wars" come down to "you are both right in a different context." Holding a dogmatic view that "we should always do X" is usually detrimental (for some values of X).

I like people to have opinions, and to make suggestions, but I tend to take more seriously those who can discuss the downsides as well as the upsides.

For example, a junior I have tells me we need to switch to tool X. He lists 10 benefits of doing so. It's obvious. We're morons for not having done it already. Clearly we're incompetent pointy-haired managers getting in the way of real programmers.

I ask him to argue the opposing point of view - why we _shouldn't_ change. Sometimes the quick answer is "there is no reason". But what I'm looking for is an acknowledgement of the impact of the change. The costs of retraining staff. The existance of existing code. The pushback from others. Etc

Only by understanding both sides can something be recommended.

I see juniors have this issue more than seniors. Seniors tend to understand that change causes ripples, and there are positives and negatives to everything.

Change is necessary. But jumping on every new thing can be disastrous.

Clearly my point works in my context, it may be different in yours.
Consumer parts are dirt cheap compared to enterprise ones. Most companies are not able to use them at scale due to CUDA license terms. I don't think there is much of a need for rebates here. For hobbyists, it is somewhat of a steep price for the latest cards, but it's already way down from the height of ETH mining a year back.
The first amendment to that same US Constitution says otherwise.

That said, username definitely checks out.
Zig's comptime idea is definitely an edge to Zig. It's an elegant feature that solves a lot of problems. However, using it for parametric polymorphism is very clunky. Not that it's a bad way to think about PP, but right now the ergonomics are just not there yet.

Odin has a sophisticated PP system, which supports something like dependent types last I checked.

Odin's context system is excellent. It is similar to implicits in Scala, but Odin's is by far the best implementation of the idea that I have come across. If Go wanted to make context part of the language, they would do well to understand Odin's context.

Odin doesn't do OOP. Zig does. I don't know why a C replacement would try to.

As far as leadership, Andrew (Zig) is the better open-source leader. He's better at engaging with the community, attracting people to his cause etc. But as far as a language designer, GingerBill (Odin) really "gets" it. If you listen to him talk about language design, it's very clear he's given it much more consideration than pretty much anyone.
I have tried to figure out how to use Nix as a package manager to deal with this, but it is still too much wizardry for me to wrap my head around.
Indeed, even my most empathetic, patient friends will struggle to care about a topic entirely unrelated to them for long. You do have to make an effort to find people who can relate to you in some dimension. That's why hobbies are a common suggesting for making friends, you immediately have common ground.
For the US timeframe, the island was viewed during the Cold War as strategic to the United States, due to it's proximity to India, a potential ally of the Soviet Union. It served (and may still serve) as a Navy communication station. It has been used to monitor Afghanistan and China's activities in the South China Sea.
This is exactly what I always assumed. Forcing you to navigate to a different URL killed any affiliate cookies.
It seems like Monobook is the only skin whose styling matches all the boxes and tables used in articles. (Minerva makes a valiant attempt to restyle infoboxes but doesn't touch other elements like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Masters_(snooker)#Main_dr... .) It's forward-thinking, placing the search box in the sidebar where it doesn't take up valuable vertical real estate on widescreen displays. It doesn't try to shove controls in between the title of the article and the content of the article. It's even got a responsive layout for mobile devices!

I say they should have bumped up the font size a notch, added a max width option, and saved themselves thirteen years of redesign work. Web design truly did hit its peak in the early 2000s.
"can't stop sending money to people they don't like without cutting the entire program" would indeed be a reason to cut off the entire program, yes.
And if the webspider is a browser?
We're a google household but I'm interested in switching. Do you know if it's possible to use YouTube Music or do I need to do a line change and replace all of my Google Hubs?
I volunteer for a charity where each and every $500 donation supports a kid going through a program. That program regularly changes kids' life trajectories in a way that has a difficult to quantify multiplier effect throughout the community.

I am highly skeptical of wisdom of utilitarianism in charitable giving. No one has non-toy models so the math is all made up nonsense. More importantly, proximity between the giver and the recipient has profound agency effects that are completely ignored by most utilitarians. You tend to get better outcomes when you allow agents to center their personal projects, even if resources aren't optimally allocated when ignoring this "agent centering effect".
This is most likely why the vast majority of suicides are men.
Nope! I called and asked!
Notice one of the charities is building affordable housing in their "hometown communities." I wonder how much of that housing will go to underpaid Amazon laborers?
It was also in this weird spot where they wanted to use it for PR but simultaneously wanted to shove it beneath the floorboards so people won’t mass adopt it.
They're a public company so it'll be on their 10-K in some form. And of course the charities would notice if they didn't, though they're only going to mention good news.
For me, loneliness is not a lack of understanding but a lack of connection. The main difference being understanding is often about "knowing" and connection is often about "not knowing" (or being comfortable with not knowing something).

I personally have felt the most lonely when I feel disconnected from how I'm feeling AND how someone else is feeling.

1) If I get too focused on how I'm feeling and distant from how others are feeling, I can start to believe that no one will ever understand me, or "get me."

2) If I'm too focused on how others are feeling and not on how I'm feeling, then I may feel a lot of resentment towards them for not paying attention to me.

3) If I'm not focused on either how I'm feeling or how they might be feeling, I can feel quite numb and empty.

So for me, what helps is trying to focus on how I'm feeling and how other people might be feeling, while also trying to focus on letting myself accept uncertainty for both of those things.
those customers were responsible for $19.6B in sales. that’s sort of a bunch of money to say “fuck you” to.

not to mention the ethical backflips you’d have to use to distinguish the SAF from the ACLU.
I use an embedded postgres testing library for the JVM that does something along those lines.

Well no actually it just unpacks the tar file in a temp dir and runs the full postgres, but it mostly feels like what you describe (minus the single file part) and starts surprisingly fast. That would totally work for a little proof of concept (https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres)
No need to be sad, though. Look at what Amazon donated to your charity from your purchases, then just go give that amount directly to them next year. And then quit buying on Amazon. Everyone wins!
I had already canceled my Prime membership and started shopping elsewhere. I'm not exactly outraged by this news - although I did always buy through Smile - but I'm now doubly sure Amazon won't be my first choice going forward.
There was a recent project that combined transformer breakthroughs (such as those used in ChatGPT) with human motion.

[1] https://guytevet.github.io/mdm-page/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33029522

If anyone from Boston Dynamics is reading this, please explore this line of research :)

Would be awesome to command Atlas through plain spoken language
> Ardern said she had reflected over the summer break on whether she had the energy to continue in the role, and had concluded she did not.

Good for her and good for NZ! Other countries should be so lucky in their leaders.

Typically politicians leave ahead of a scandal, an ouster, or because they've been diagnosed with something.

She's young. I hope it's true she's simply tapped out, and that her health is fine and she's got many fruitful years ahead of her.
The 4090 is able to draw 450 watts. Current apple silicon are all used on laptops, which cannot possibly sustain or cool that much power. It might change when they make a cooling-optimized desktop chip though.
At page 1232 were and 30.43 or so. So it dropped off fast and then leveled out - long tail.
>It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue.

The general mistrust of academia, liberal arts and mainstream science amongst the rural populace suggests those issues overlap quite a bit.
Their patrons page says otherwise:
https://www.fsf.org/patrons

“Patron pages for past fiscal years” section
Sometimes this is born from politics, and whether you have the freedom to be a 10x programmer, or are held back by externalities, opinions, and red tape. Anyhow, the fact is, there can be unfriendly environments to 10x programmers, and so it can be rare to find them there.
There is this myth that there are no 10x engineers. This is categorically false. I was a 10x engineer when I was employed. I could do in a day what would take people weeks. It's an amalgamation of knowing the system, knowing how to try out ideas in isolation, knowing the editor well, a desire to build things fast and touch as few things as possible, aiming for simplicity and holding the big picture in the head.

So I think this myth is propagated by those who aren't 10x engineers and just want to give up before getting there.
Thanks for sharing your ideas! With respect to the research this topic for me concept, I stumbled upon this repo:

https://github.com/daveshap/LiteratureReviewBot

It does something similar, but uses the ArXiv dataset to search PDFs instead of the internet.
It's rooted in American marketing and lack of regulation. Many people don't view melatonin as the hormone it really is. Kinda wild we can buy unlimited amounts of it with no regulation. Pretty cheap too.

I have yet to hear a clinical neurologist actually recommend melatonin for sleep management. It is highly disruptive and while you may feel you slept well, there will be nagging consequences which result in negative net gain.
I have 1 technique: Do they own a dog and treat it well?

If yes, they're a pretty good person
The poorest people in the US are nonworkers (elderly and children) not Amazon workers. And Amazon workers' pay has significantly increased in the last few years.

If you think they're not paying enough, I have a simple solution - actually have a Washington state income tax.
I think the problem is that we don't have a great way of quantifying the impact, so the tradeoff always ends up being something like "people are literally going to die, is pleasant light worth human lives?"

The answer IMO is "yes, if the number of deaths is small enough relative to the total amount of pleasure that the pretty lights create", but without a quantitative framework it's pretty tough to make that call.
This just sounds like lazy cops that did not wish to check all the items back into evidence after itemizing and tagging everything. I suggest this as I am also lazy.
its just as fake or real as Tesla's self drive mode.

which is to say that its a long way from being perfectly reliable, but its also quite usable in many scenarios.
This is incorrect. Firefox does ship an emoji font, but for the rest it delegates default-selection to fontconfig, and it’s likely to have a very long list of possibilities, depending on its configuration (see /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.default for a start) and what’s installed.

Run `fc-match --all sans-serif` to see how it resolves. On my machine, Noto Sans gets higher priority than DejaVu Sans (though I’ve configured Concourse 4 as the top preference, in ~/.config/fontconfig).
I don't think the common wisdom on treating service people is about when you have a legitimate complaint, I take it to mean more "on average".
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Well, it let customers decide as long as those customers enabled ads on their phone, remembered to visit smile.amazon every time, and re-enrolled in the program every year when it turned itself off. It was pretty clearly designed to stop you from using it.
> it seemed like they just sort of skimmed them and they didn't notice that one in particular. I didn't mention it; I just let it go.

I sometimes wonder if I feel more lonely when I "let it go" aka suppress how I'm feeling. I imagine if it were me, I may have felt annoyed or sad or confused that they didn't see the "I feel like garbage" part and didn't reply to it, and when I"m feeling courageous, sometimes I'll say that to them. I think I've noticed that when people have that deer in the headlights look, I can slowly start to suppress more and more things about how I'm feeling and then sometimes feel stuck, wanting to go deeper and also trying to respect that they may already feel overwhelmed.

I don't know if there's an answer in any of what I wrote above, just wanted to share how I can struggle with this as well.
This is basically it. Prime has gone to absolute shit (Walmart and Target beat them on delivery AND quality now), and this may have been the last thing keeping me on the platform.
Interesting. Never seen one for sale and never seen one installed in any household. Still amazed that in 2023 they're not a common thing. I understand the challenges, but it's not a problem that's going away, that anyone enjoys dealing with, etc.
ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
Gnome Report Shows Gnome Extensions Are Super Popular
Yes, we have natural sharding by user. However Core Data also can create shares which multiple users can access. I don't think this typically causes high concurrency, it's more like a Dropbox file share or a Google docs file share for a few users at a time.

This definitely helped them make the choice to run SQLite on the server.

But I still think it's super cool. We're talking 1.8 billion devices with data stored as SQLite files in the cloud.
Not sure how seriously to take this but:

1) First of all, staying in the world of pure deductive reasoning, isn't this fallacious?

> lack of skills to explain yourself is caused by lack of understanding yourself.

It's: (can't explain) => (doesn't understand), not (doesn't understand) => (can't explain). (I.e., there could be other reasons you can't explain yourself well).

2) More seriously, I think the "if you can't explain it you don't understand it" adage is more about concepts than about people. A person is a complicated set of constantly changing thoughts and emotions, and I'm unsure that it's possible to explain the entire phenomenon of a given person "simply".

That said, I think there's definitely a nugget of truth here. Often you feeling lonely may be the result of you not expressing yourself openly or honestly with people around you.
Currently at Amazon, did a physics fellowship with the DOE and completed a practicum at LLNL. I decided against the labs mainly for location reasons. I have nothing but nice things to say about the DOE labs and the people that work there.

The pay is good for government work. You can continue to do fundamental science research. You get great benefits, and they do some wicked cool science and engineering there (read about NIF and Z-pinch). I didn’t get to see any of the wild stuff behind security, so I can only imagine.
Scamp – A self-contained Forth computer
Nvidia Grace CPU Superchip Architecture in Depth