skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's because the mil works with decimal fractions.

If a measurement is 3.125 inches, you know that it's 3 inches and 125 mils.

You don't need support for fractional syntax in order to have an input field for inches that goes down to mil precision: just a regular decimal numeric input.

You cannot dismiss the advantage of decimal fractions as casually as you can reject the metric system.
Reminds me of a South Park episode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_C...
Cults gonna cult, and with special names like scrum master and rituals like standup, well ... cults have a way of fragmenting, as per the old Emo Phillips joke. Agile, in its flexibility, lacks what might best be called "orthodoxy." It lacks punishments in accord with the most common failings.

"He hath spoken the forbidden word 'deadline,' and we must pelt him with marshmallows." I'm joking about that, but only sort of. Agile has entirely too many ways it can be taken advantage of by bad and/or incompetent actors to be all that forgiving. I've seen so many sins: the stakeholders who will never meet or communicate with you, the deadline given only to have seven months elapse before they look at the product, the demand to see the prototype in the first week with all of its features (leading me to ask questions like "How fast does ten percent of a Porsche go?" and "If the prototype is feature complete, how is it a prototype?") Standups with a lot of clucking from the chickens, standups where the wrong people were present.

It isn't even a "process," it might better be defined as a failed attempt at a meta-process. It lacks the equivalent of unit tests and commandments graven on stone, so pretty much anything ends up going and Agile stops having its one original virtual: kicking the ball back to the stakeholders constantly so that the developers cannot be seen as the hold-up.

Really, that was the original magic of Agile, just keep punting it back to them so it is that much harder to blame programmers. This failed pretty early on.

As I grew more disenchanted with my latest cult exposure, for one project I finally built in a very specific "Did they even look at it?" framework, much to my boss' eventual dismay. I could tell who looked, when, how much of it, everything. He was very into Resume-Driven Development and blaming anyone else, so me batting it back on the absentee stakeholders didn't go over well ... but that was the original methodology of Agile.

And the defense is always the same: you didn't pray hard enough, you didn't pray right.
"Any issues/blockers?"
...
"No? ok - chat tomorrow".
A machined feature could be either.
Google invested over $400mm in Anthropic; not sure how people missed this. That's >10% stake in an OpenAI competitor and a clear bet on something.
Is this a roundabout way of saying, just don't use Google products and services? (non-rhetorical q)
It's partly just that it's tradition, but there are also practical reasons:

1) Chinese characters are traditionally/historically written with a brush, not a modern pen or pencil. Because brushes don't create uniform lines, there is a connection between the specific series of movements and the final appearance of the character (sort of like calligraphy pens). Basically, inconsistent movements tend to produce inconsistent-looking characters, so an agreed-upon standard aids in legibility.

2) Various components (most notably the "radicals") reoccur across many characters. Having a (mostly) consistent set of rules for how each component is written and in which order aids memorization because you're not learning every new character "from scratch".

3) Stroke order affects how mechanically efficient it is to write the character, which can be a pretty big deal when some of the more complex characters are upwards of a dozen strokes.
Don't forget to bring your 20% off coupon when buying ec2 instances.
But is the 3D printing solely for the prototyping phase? I would guess they’d just injection-mold the production version, after they’ve worked out the material/design questions.
The reason is that in both the global financial crisis and COVID we printed loads of money the rich kept it, effectively stealing from the poor to give to the wealthy. Of course printing in the UK ~£1.1tn will cause inflation and the poor will probably vote for fascism next time around. But at least asset prices continue to rise!
Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry
I'd say the problem is a bit simpler than this: ability.

When you're part of a firm that's staffed by those with middling abilities, using concepts like Agile Development like a blunt instrument is typical.

The reason isn't a complex one. Simply, that's the best they can do.

In high performance firms, which are attracting the best and brightest talent, you have a lot less problems with this. They easily come up with taylored managerial solutions to managerial problems, perhaps inspired by ideas from various sources including Agile, rather than picking up a popular methodology they know of like a cudgel and beating everyone over the head with it.

This is why discussions around this topic aren't that fruitful. The only fruitful course of action is to strive to get employment at more competent firms with smarter managers.

I.e. work yourself up and out of it rather than bemoaning it.
This has to be one of the coolest things I have seen this year on HN; last year it was the "endless acid banger".

It's tempting to let feature-creep make this bigger, but other than a few UX tweaks, it's perfect the way it is.

Then again, is there is anything I could think of for version 2.0 it would be satellite imagery from the virtual balloon (depending if Google maps allows that in their API)
Yea of course.

Another fact to consider is that all conversational text on the internet != all human discourse.

Internet discourse is prone to be younger, more educated, crazier?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25600274
Amazing, this is scary
There are numerous exceptions to the warrant requirement in U.S. law.

See https://scmoorelaw.com/warrant-exceptions/
When you vote in Fibonacci and it's really simple, do you vote a 1, or 1?
The Simulation Argument: Are We Living in a Simulation? [pdf]
Why would NTP be better with retransmisson of stale packets and go-back-N semantics on drops?
>When used in bioreactors*

When used in a sealed climate-controlled chamber that produces the ideal conditions on land for an aquatic plant specie.

IIRC it's ridiculously expensive to scale algae bioreactors, while trees grow and maintain themselves. I wish algae was easier to scale because it does have great potential.
Unfortunately US courts have not been very receptive to disparate impact claims recently
Oh, I am quite certain most corporations and hackers did exercise this curiosity for all of 2022, at everyone's expense. Shout out to Google for the ongoing cover-up. Can't lobby this one away.
bears are fast but humans can run much longer, eventually I would catch up with him
I do a lot of the migrations you mention, and while this tool in particular won't be used directly, adapting this process to our tools will definitely be helpful. In many circumstances I'd rather ingest an enterprise Google Takeout file than make N# of service connections to GSuite.
Agreed.

But the point is there are “bursty” options if firms wish to to pursue it as an option.
Plenty of human-written books are bad. There are already genres where the way to get rich seems to be to crap out a narrative that hits the right keywords (or claim that you have - who's going to check?), tick the right representation checkboxes, pay the right influencers and bot farms to make it go viral on social media, and tada, there's your bestseller. While AI-generated books are not very good at the moment, there's nothing that inherently makes them better or worse than human-written books; ultimately it's the content that counts.

I've been saying for years that curation is now a bigger problem than creation. AI is only accelerating the existing trend.
I’ve been able to make ChatGPT ask for follow-up clarifications if it’s unsure about the meaning of something. I didn’t explore this further, but the ability is right there and can be triggered with the right prompt text.
In my experience (Bazel, sample size of 2 projects), the complexity doesn't come from configuration options that have defaults, but from how well the "mental model" of the build system fits the preconceived notions of how to structure, organize, and depend on code in an existing project.

Almost none of the complexity comes from what configuration options I've registered ahead of time. It comes almost entirely from, "Well darn, this code depends on this completely unrelated part of the project. I wish it didn't, but now the build tool either needs to sometimes fail to rebuild something correctly, or it needs to build way too much to run quickly."
Well that's accidentally hella unfortunate.

I've been assuming eventually gRPC over HTTP3[1] would get some traction from big camps. But if Google is using their own internal transport, it seems highly unlikely that these main authors of gRPC are ever going to care.

This blog post talks about how many of the features of HOMA are already present in existing specs like QUIC/HTTP3. I'd expect many of the wins in Ousterhout's HOMA benchmarks could probably be replicated elsewhere, with better transports.

[1] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/19126
The distinction is super meaningful in this context.

- RSU compensation is used to prevent wage stickiness. It lets a firm pay really high wages when times are good and claw back that comp when times are bad.

- Stock options are a way to bait the gullible into working for low wages. Options cost non-hypergrowth companies nothing. As such, it doesn’t stop them from getting over the tips of their skis via labor costs. There is nothing to claw back / reduce.

So when the economy hits a snag, RSU heavy companies have a built in cost moderator whereas options based companies have to layoff.
Sure we do; they serve one term.
> A 100µm trace is pretty run of the mill for signals. 500µm for most IC supply traces. 50µm is small and expensive to make

The numbers get even better on the metric system. I was expecting them to just not get much worse, since they were picked on the imperial on.
If it looks indistinguishable from the user's perspective, why does it matter whether it's technically part of the website? The effect is exactly the same.
I think you confusing some very different things. It is not correct to say "corporations enjoy human rights" - people, when using corporations, enjoy human rights. Corporations is just a model that makes it easier to talk about people and certain interactions between them, but ultimately it is based on the same concept of human rights and derives from it, not from some weird concept that corporations are separate sentient entities. And of course corporations are allowed to cease to exist, that happened many times since 2008. Some corporations may occasionally enjoy government support if there's a danger they'd cease to exist in a manner that the government considers to be detrimental to the society, but it's very different from generally declaring no corporation is ever allowed to stop existing - that's just not something that happens.

> I think there’s a legal possibility that a corporation running semi-automously will be able to persuade a judge

I'm not sure what you mean "corporation running semi-automously". Somebody - a lawyer - would have to argue the case. Somebody would have to hire that lawyer. Somebody would have to approve the budget for hiring that lawyer. Somebody would have to sell the burgers that would bring in the money that then would go to paying that lawyer. Even if you replaced "human lawyer" with "extremely advanced script that produces legal arguments", somebody would still have to run that script and tell it which arguments it needs to produce.

> will be able to persuade a judge that it has as much a right to existence and livelihood

I see it as a very baseless claim, unless you are using a lot of tortured logic to imply that judges not destroying corporations (on which btw livelihoods of thousands of actual people often depend) left and right without proper consideration is the same as recognizing their "rights to existance" and making them a person. That's not true. Just like the judge probably would not decide to destroy your house just because you painted you fence wrong or didn't remove your garbage bin in time, it doesn't mean the judge thinks the hose is a person.

> if the judge is a political appointee picking up some dog whistles.

If the judge is a political hack - which unfortunately does happen - then it has nothing to do with AI or personhood, we have had political hackery for centuries before we even started to use electricity.
We've already got super trees (genetically improved). These are selectively bred trees, not GMOs; stuff that gets super site-specific, like 'north side of a hill within 100ft of a stream'. IIRC Weyerhauser pioneered the work in this area...I want to say back in the 60s. They've reduced the time from planting to harvest substantially, something like ~80 years to ~30, and the new stuff is just growing faster.

The main problem is that the growth rings get huge, the lumber is technically stronger, but it's much denser and not well suited for all applications. If you look at old growth, you see sub-mm growth rings in Doug fir, and it's very light. Super trees can be quite substantial, like 1/8 to 1/4 inch. I've heard they burn hotter and more readily too. In my personal experience, old growth will burn all night in your stove but the younger stuff won't last half as long.

Been a while since I've poked my nose into forestry, I've probably got some of the details wrong but that's the gist of it anyway.
Pretty useless. This study is actually measuring time to recovery from post-covid inflammatory damage after a vaccinated person controls a Covid infection.

The study realistically studied patients who "experienced at least 2 acute COVID symptoms" for 5-7 days before they got their ivermectin.

These same patients started being 100% symptom-free on average 8 days after starting a 6-day course of treatment or a placebo.

This is pretty useless when it shows very low levels of severe COVID effects and high, fast recovery rates in vaccinated study subjects.
I would have argued against this perspective a few years ago, but given my current situation, you are right. The ability to comprehend and manage complexity faster than others create it is key. The more help you have the better. Work with smart people who think about what they are doing.
> With Chrome, you can sync your history with your Google account, it pushes you to use Google services, sends analytics to Google etc.

Yeah that's why I like using it
> Charging infrastructure at work and in apartment buildings are currently deplorable in the southeast

Really? You would expect the increase in air quality to be something everyone can get behind
>However if you look at some of the biggest expenses a household has: housing, healthcare, education etc., the inflation has been a lot higher.

Inflation (ie. the headline number you see) is already weighted to account for this. Claiming that inflation "does not reflect the reality" because a few of the basket items are growing in price faster than the weighted average doesn't really make much sense. You'd expect 50% of the items (by weight) to be growing faster than the index by definition.

Also, even though housing grew faster than inflation, it's not by much[1]

[1] https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cpi2020-875x1...
Speedtests?

I have 10G internet at home.

I want to tell you I have a compelling reason why I have 10G at my house but, really, I don't have one.

There are some advantages besides speed though. Because it's DWDM FTTH (no PON, no DOCSIS, etc) I have 0 local congestion/issues and supreme reliability and a static IP. I don't do it for the speed.
Zelenskyy was trying to scare Biden to make him give over more or better money or tanks or political or ideological or whatever support to Ukraine?

And, citizens got the alert, but not Biden and his team did not? Or they knew?

The sirens were not triggered by the Russian MIG jet taking off in Belarus?

Both US domestic press and the international press missed the story that the air-raid sirens were #fakenews?

Interesting.
The housing supply issue is: available land in desirable locations with water and power.

Materials in North America are cheap: https://homenation.com/home/mhe-mansion-mini
The "problem" with moderation is that it's open for debate and not hard science

The main closing reasons are ambiguous (generic), designed to cover many cases, but it became such that almost anything can arguably fall under one of them
Historically, inflation was usually a function of higher labor costs, therefore wages and prices often rose together. Our current inflation is a result of external factors, so prices are skyrocketing but wages are rising much less quickly.
But the hardware options aren’t great
You are 100% correct I meant Orrin Hatch, Utahs senator.
> The units are considerably different: a millimetre is approximately 39 mils.

:o
Mils are awesome for wire thicknesses, trace widths, pin spacings on circuit boards, fine drill bit sizes for through holes ...

Guitar strings are, e.g. 9 to 46: .009" high E, .046" low E.

Classic DIP (dual in-line package) integrated circuits and headers have 100 mil spacing: ten pins per inch. IIRC, you drill a 25 mil hole for the pins. This is international.

The metric system doesn't have a nice mil-like unit for those scales; the millimeter is way too crude, and micrometers are too fine.

The mil is just right for all sorts of miniature things that are still large enough to be worked on by human hands and eyes.
This makes me really uncomfortable. It seems like you agree that under the First Amendment the government should not have the power to limit the way private publishers use algorithms, but you’re happy to let the same government pressure companies into limiting their algorithms by exposing them to a potentially unsustainable number of lawsuits if they fail to comply with similar rules.

I’m not saying you’re wrong on the law. I’m saying that it feels obvious that the goal here is coercion. While I suppose some people might legitimately want to ban all use of algorithms (including moderation?) it seems more that the idea is to “work around” the spirit (and perhaps literal text) of the First Amendment by using the courts to make non-compliant publishers unprofitable. At very least it feels like “Congress passing laws abridging” if not literally banning.

I also don’t understand the limits of this approach. Are there any principles here? If some near-future Congress passed a law saying “any algorithms you use must reduce the reach of posts that criticize the Biden administration, else you major platforms lose liability protection,” would that be fine? In my eyes that seems very abusive and problematic.
I've seen 1hr 11am weekly status meetings turn into "does anyone have a 1pm?" as Sr managers drill into every developer over the minutia of their status reports. Single handedly the most unbearable meeting series I've ever attended.

At least standups have structure and they are "supposed to be short", which helps a lot in keeping managers nitpicking at a minimum. Open ended 'status meetings' are horrible. A weekly 1 hr "standup" with a "no managers are allowed to speak", "stick to what you did, what you'll do, what are you stuck on and need help", isn't that bad, but you have to have structure.

Plus, if you are doing "Scrum", in a retro you should be able to suggest just having a "mid point" sprint review and change the process. I realize that's easier said then done, but its a good smell test on your org's attitude towards their process. Just make the suggestion and from the reaction you can tell if you can change the process like you are "supposed to".
I created a stack machine in Apple Shortcuts
The precursor to Web Components was XBL (NB: only ever implemented in Gecko), which was used extensively in the Firefox UI. (The Firefox product consists of literally hundreds of thousands of lines of JS powering the app UI—and many of its background components.) Gecko was doing Electron-style apps before Electron (or Chrome and JITted JS engines) ever existed.
You have a point there. Most crypto scams are blatantly obvious Ponzi schemes or pump and dumps being openly discussed in some discord channel. This stuff should be pretty trivial for investigators, but maybe the sheer volume is just too much.
Fortunately, you can override Apple's choice:

Settings > Appearance > Scroll bar behavior > Show scroll bars > Always

If I were in charge of fixing this bug for Chromium, I might start by prioritizing which permissions are the most nefarious, list them first, perhaps in red. Then ensure the entire dialog expands vertically to fit as much content as possible.
@metadat -- can you provide the source for that?

I'm genuinely curious how much Google spends on their privacy org, and esp. how that compares with the other big tech companies.
icelancer,Right now YoBulk is flattening the CSV to JSON with key-value document DB format and storing in MongoDB.You can use GPT3 to create mongo queries to fetch the data.We will be adding APIs soon where you can make a query through GPT3 and fetch the data from Mongo DB.Keep a watch on YoBulk Git repo.
ChatGPT will revolutionize the blog game. I spent two hours yesterday researching what ChatGPT found in seconds.

Game changer
Limited data sets a hurdle as China plays catch-up to ChatGPT
I got pushed to a team that did this. I decided to try to extend the meetings for as long as possible with the goal of eating so much time nothing got done anyday. The daily stopped shortly after
Hatch is only the seventh longest-serving senator:

https://www.senate.gov/senators/longest_serving_senators.htm
I think it means GPU inference capabilities.
Ditto, a good chunk of the nuclear sector moved to 4/10 and 9/80 in the 1990s. The days are long, but man is it nice to not have to work Fridays. Helps with the commute too.
It might be a personal problem, using MacOS is how I work around it :)

Like I said, I love linux, I run linux on literally 1000s of servers worldwide, the work Ashai developers are doing is amazing. I'll probably never again run it on my desktop/laptop.