skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought of this as well, and sorta agree. But I think the real source of the 2pi-s is a bit more subtle? Which is basically that anywhere 2pi shows up is a quantity that is supposed to have different 'units' than the rest of the equation it's in, but for whatever reason we have erased all the units so we keep finding quantities multiplied together with a conversion factor of 2pi. Now one way to handle that is to write Tau or something in its place... but another is to, somehow, erase all the 2pis entirely but keep track of the 'units' on everything.

In fact it is very hard to find places in math where 2pi shows up 'on its own', added to other quantities that are not also in angular units of some sort. That is, most of the pis show up in calculations that involved pi, or circles, in some way (often quite sneakily). Of course it shows up on its own in the circumference/area of a circle, but you can express the area in terms of the circumference, so really it's just about the circumference that has a special value. And I wonder about whether it's possible to just... pick a different value for the circumference, an arbitrary symbol with no value, and then expressing every other use of pi in terms of that one without ever being forced to pick its value.

(Of course when you tie a string around a circle and measure it and it comes out to 2 pi r, yeah, you're forced to pick the correct value. Oh well.)
> The 737 NG is a fragile POS more likely to kill you than an Airbus 32x.

TFA indicates the exact opposite.
This is an important point about encryption that a lot of people miss: it's not forever. All encryption is broken eventually.

The purpose of encryption is not to keep secrets eternally. The purpose of it is to keep secrets long enough that by the time they're revealed, they aren't worth anything.
> the DS223j will be the first J-series Synology NAS to support the Btrfs file system.

This is exciting.
This is exactly the reason I only use paypal or virtual cards from Revolut when I sign up to stuff online now. I can cancel the subscription from Paypal settings, or delete the virtual card in Revolut, and that ends up cancelling the service at expiry after they fail once or twice to take payment.

At least here in the UK this works fine. Netflix, Spotify etc all deal with that properly when I've "cancelled" my service this way.
H1Bs are a path to permanent residency, and at the end of the first renewal, you either have a greencard or (if you are from certain big countries where quotas run out; e.g. China, India, Mexico, Philippines) are in the queue to get a greencard.

That is not like other countries. China, for example, is happy to give you a Z visa every year without any path to permanent residency. 9 years and never offered permanent residency, not that I would have probably taken it.
They do not want US citizens because you all have a strong exit path when you realize the marketing does not match the reality.

When people lift and immigrate from across an ocean the proposition for going back is not as strong or easy. There are a lot of 'sunk cost' issues and 'image' that come into play.
Bounding the complexity is desirable for a system that should never fail due to software errors.
Presumably they don’t need to change their citizenship, they just become tax resident in another country. Most countries only tax residents. Norway is part of the EEA so its citizens have the right to live in Switzerland.
I'm sure regular folks (local cops and lawyers) have to get proper documents. I highly suspect the police state just has to click their mouses a few times to pull up any camera they want.
> employers still think that butt not in seat = not working

I don't like coffee breaks because I just drink water and I find small-talk very tiresome. I also don't smoke. So I never take breaks except for when I'm stuck on something and I need a walk to think it through.

Multiple times, managers or people even higher have complained of both : not taking coffee breaks and taking walking breaks.

To me it's not exactly "butt not in seat = not working", it's more "not behaving like everyone else = not working".

But when you come with a solution/idea that none of the regular coffee break takers had, now they're glad that you're not like everyone else.
Weird.
Arudino Uno has _always_ been primarily about being super simple for beginners. This is why the Arduino IDE exists (and why many more advanced hobbyists eschew it). This is also why the Arduino Uno can be used without breadboard. And why Arduino shields exist, so you can add on the Unos in plug-and-play kind of fashion, for beginners. I believe a secondary design goal is to still be useful past the beginner stage (which is where comparison with a Pico comes in), but that's not the _primary_ goal.

In contrast, Pico is far more complicated for beginners, since it's not designed for that purpose. You need a breadboard in order to use it with anything else. And the toolchain is _far_ more complex for beginners! Hell, I had some issues setting up the Pico toolchain on my Mac (and I'm not a beginner), whereas with the Arduino, it was just "get the Arduino IDE". Yes, you can use the Arduino IDE with a Pico now, but that wasn't that way from the beginning, and the fact that you can do so now is A) not because Raspberry Pi released any official method and B) because the Arduino IDE exists in the first place specifically to support Arduinos.

In short, as I said before, they are different products with different audiences, and therefore different design goals.
> you got the benefits of the system, pay back into it

The "system" isn't the government, though it's easy to muddle that line, considering some developed countries have government spending that's over half of the GDP (with Norway sitting at around a fifth as of 2021); and the existence of a government that facilitates the "system", which is in reality the private activities of the people, does not make it that without that particular government the system will not exist at all.

Imagine a parent who tells a fully-grown child well into his adulthood that they have an ever-increasing claim on what the child produces by virtue of having given birth to and raised him. Does that not sound abusive? That's not the kind of relationship I want with my government. The government, or at least the American one, is meant to serve the people, not rule over them and allow the people to keep whatever scraps the government allows them to keep.

Every time you perform a service for somebody or make a widget for somebody -- basically any economic activity -- you are paying back into the system by fulfilling a demand that someone else has. And not just remunerative efforts: every time you pick up a cigarette butt off the street that you didn't smoke, or every time you watch someone else's kid for a night, or you volunteer at a local soup kitchen. Those are all ways that people pay back into the system.

Let's not make the mistake of thinking taxation is the only way, or even the most important and effective way. Many roles that are currently performed by government funded via taxation have only been that way very recently in human history, and I'm in no way convinced that this is either optimum or necessary.
Your theoretical objection is divorced from any actual consequences that affect people. Why should anyone care? You state no benefits or harms other than what you feel. My point is about reality, so yes you missed it
And probably to state the obvious, this is to help use cases where UX is negatively impacted by the latency of client <-> server RPCs/Http requests? Are the proponents of "the edge" as a concept motivated largely by concern for people in countries far from the data centers hosting apps they are using, and/or with low bandwidth infrastructure?
"Rooms" are now probably miniaturized down to 1RU piece of equipment or smaller.
what about steel?
Have been using one for a decade now
> I never saw anything like this done with metrics or logs done by anybody.

Well, I assure you it can be done and it is not nearly as scary as you presume. I migrated an old Nagios+Cacti system to Prometheus (well, VictoriaMetrics) for a DC with thousands of servers.

Nagios using 4-valued datatypes for virtually EVERYTHING is frankly just poor design. As soon as you move away from binary state, the semantics becomes ambiguous.

Consider these two monitoring systems:

- Nagios-style: 1+ state metric for your HTTP service. "Warning" indicates something wrong but not critical. What exactly? Usually you will see the warning and then look at metrics in sysstat or Cacti as a follow up.

- Prometheus-style: 1+ state metric for HTTP probe, and a few relevant performance metrics. RPS, latency, etc.

The merit of the latter is you use the exact same alerting + visualization infrastructure for both types of data. You create a CRITICAL alert if the service is down, and WARNING alerts if RPS/latency crosses thresholds.

Importantly, this data is not siloed into Nagios and can be used for other purposes such as usage analytics and cross-domain incident analysis. The alerting service is just one possible consumer.
i think edge and chrome have started doing this recently
Oil companies do not employ gas station employees. Gas stations are owned and operated by franchisors or other small businesses.
And still no native Linux client for Proton Drive.
China digitalyuan office too generous in payrises,but rapid expansion continues
you can finance new hardware and rack in a managed colo for extremely cheap. like really cheap.

i was in this business until a couple of years ago.

we'd quote prices for potential customers currently in public cloud and they literally wouldn't believe us. it actually became an impediment in the sales cycle and part of the reason we sold. people are dumb, but i'd be even dumber if i expected them to change for my benefit.
Off topic, but why haven't they migrated these kind of sites to the meta.com domain? I mean, these are Meta tools, right? Not FB tools? Unless... the rename was more of an exercise in liability obfuscation than it was an indication of any kind of reorganization...
Linode "gave up" with a 900M exit? How is that negative.
i ususally keep tabs open to retain the context because i am too lazy for bookmarks.

yea, tab-grouping is essential. (tabkit in the good old days, sideberry currently)
I don't, but my browsing tends to be somewhat limited, and I tend to ignore the ads. I'm aware, vaguely, that the NY Times, is dumping ads for movies and clothes into its page, but I couldn't tell you which movies and clothes I saw yesterday.

Now, if I do see ads for women's clothing in a deeply technical post, and notice that the clothes include some I bought as a present for my wife, then I'm amused.
I agree with this. Also, a higher price leaves room for discounts, which might help convert wishlists. Disclaimer: I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Hey Matt thanks for the follow up explaining here!

I appreciate the feedback here on the user/company focus. That being said I think that as our focus is to help you understand how companies use your product it's actually essential to also track users.

A lot of our customers use June to understand who are the internal champions within a company - at what stage of activation each user within a company is etc...

In the end companies are groups of people and most of the time you really want to make sure that multiple users within the companies that use your product are active. And without tracking users you can't really do that!
I don't cook enough (and never steak) for you to assign me much weight, but FWIW I've had a (lighter, spun) cast iron skillet for 8ish years. I followed a seasoning procedure available online that involves (IIRC) 3 rounds of applying thin coats of flaxseed oil and leaving it in an oven at a fairly high temp.

This process went fine, but I always had to baby the pan (had to be very careful cleaning it with said chainmail, very careful with what/how I cooked in it) and had to re-do the initial seasoning several times when it got too troublesome.

This process would leave the pan at a dark brown, and for a while I blamed this on not removing rust well enough before seasoning or not babying it well enough for it to build up to a ~normal black coat.

At some point during the early pandemic I tired of this. I decided to do something similar on the stovetop where I could observe/iterate better. Apply a coat, wait for it to stop smoking, and repeat until it was black. (plus a few for good luck; I didn't keep track; this took maybe dozens of rounds?)

I've had a much better time since then. The most ~babying I've done is applying a few fresh coats if I don't use it for a while or water doesn't bead when I rinse it.
*...with the name of that secret and SSL works for almost everything out of the box. As I've found things that don't work (nodejs was one), I've just updated that code and it's made life pretty great for anywhere I'm running a CA in vault etc.
How much benefit does someone get and how much should they pay back in?

These are reasonable questions.
I'd actually say that cancer as a general term is in fact very unhelpful given the varieties and probably does need to die.
What do you mean? Sarcasm? It's already worse than 1984, further down the slope than people's nightmares used to be
There are literally thousands of people on wreck dives as I write this...
Oxbridge is a huge deal, maybe not so much for the education, but definitely for the connections
MIDI is very similar to RS232 https://www.compuphase.com/electronics/midi_rs232.htm

But RS232 dates back to the 60s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232

> In telecommunications, RS-232 or Recommended Standard 232[1] is a standard originally introduced in 1960[2] for serial communication transmission of data. It formally defines signals connecting between a DTE (data terminal equipment) such as a computer terminal, and a DCE (data circuit-terminating equipment or data communication equipment), such as a modem.
How so?

Capital flight is a form of class warfare. Controls against it are the majority, workers who don’t own capital, enforcing a social contract against those who do.

Of course, that will only happen in states where workers are in power. In most countries that isn’t the case and, unsurprisingly, there are weak capital flight controls.
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Yeah, this is a well studied economic effect. Sometimes increasing prices increases sales. My first "gut" reaction looking at his game was "Gosh, a 99 cent phone game, no thank you" but I kept looking and it's not bad.

People who play real games (rather than addiction-driven phone games) are willing to pay to get what they want, within reason of course.
I'm not sure this is a great example. A formula 1 car is significantly larger and more complex than any go-kart is is 4-5x as fast. In fact almost any car you can purchase will significantly out perform a go-kart.

I don't think just adding features means software must be slower. I would venture to guess Emacs has more features that Word, especially when you factor in plugins, and is significantly faster than Word.
Imagine you have an account holding $200.

Now two operations come, one adding $300, other one withdrawing $400. What the result would be, depending on thd order of operations?
Just buy an ASIN and use a VPS provider than understands them. You are now multihomed.
I’m more worried about not being able to go to the doctor for having the wrong opinions than the US military pulling up to my driveway in a tank.
Also keep in mind they've been in hypergrowth mode since 2010 or earlier. Regardless of whether Git is the clear solution today, it definitely wasn't at that time. So it makes sense they invested in building their own tooling.
This is a maquiladora strategy. A maquiladora is "a foreign-owned factory at which imported parts are assembled by lower-paid workers into products for export"

What's frustrating about it is that it's an expression of contempt for Canada's nationals by a governing class whose capital is already managed globally, so in their view, what does it matter if they import cheap labour and disincentivize capital growth with new industry when they can just tax farm income from a permanent underclass of workers who bring in salaries from foreign revenue?

It would be great if the H1-B's were coming here to do startups, but startups are the artifact of a uniquely American capital ecosystem that just doesn't exist anywhere else, and you can't reproduce something that was the effect of factors that were a moment in time. The strategy is just another expression of contempt of the citizenry by Ottawa. This cohort of government always goes on about how "diversity is our strength," but the emphasis has always been on the our part, meaning theirs, and increasingly at the expense of everyone else.
There's pictures or even footage of sinking migrant ships all over the internet.
What would be the reason _to_ release that to the public?
Ya, so it is even easier for Europeans. And it wouldn't matter if they were a part of the EEA or not, they would almost definitely negotiate their taxes with the canton of their residency as part of their move (you can easily buy residency in Switzerland). The EEA is more for normal people from the EU who want to work in Switzerland and pay normal taxes (which are still low for Europe).
I would speculate that all of the carbon basically instantaneously liquefied under the pressure after a critical threshold of fibers failed, leaving the Ti untouched.

I also want to mention that the large end caps you are seeing weren't bonded to the hull at all- there was a small Ti flange epoxied to the hull, and then the large domes were bolted to that. The front, with the window, was unbolted and rebolted every time for ingress/egress.

There is no way that CF epoxied to thick Ti is going to make a strong enough bond that it will deform the Ti when it detaches. In this case, the geometry of that "glued" joint was such that it was forced together by the pressure underwater, rather than pulled apart- so it was not necessary for it to have any real strength other than for holding the end caps on at the surface, and filling voids to make it seal.
The problem with a design field becoming established is that, in pursuit of fads, status, or inflated sense of self-importance, the designers begin to pursue design for design's sake. Looking backwards for ANY reason becomes taboo, and they start to conflate their ridiculous ideas with "progress." Without a clear line to the end-user it becomes a goal-seeking exercise that only claims to be user-oriented.

I just want a really solid, wholly original 90's style high-relief theme for GTK/Cinnamon and Qt. I used to use the old 2000 theme on Windows XP and 7 with some darker colors, it looked and felt great.
SpaceX seems to be doing everything right. Their safety and performance record speaks for itself. I also hear that Musk is mostly a figurehead for a very well-run company.

Tesla, however, is not doing everything right. Their self-driving and collision mitigation software is janky, causing deaths, and shoudln't be used on public roads until it is in a better state. Musk's insistence on using computer vision only reminds me a lot of Rush's stance on mixing materials. No one else agrees with either on this, and both made these decisions to save money.

Overall, however, Tesla cars are still pretty safe. The cars themselves are at the top of safety ratings. The hardware part of their cars from a safety perspective is a polar opposite of what Rush was doing. Their software is the weak point right now -- and probably not that far behind most car companies.

I am a big critic of Musk, but I don't think he'd ever have a company involved with such poor hardware design and engineering like Rush was. SpaceX does amazing work. Tesla can fix their software issues if they map their ambitions to reality better.

My comment is a bit all over the place, but Musk is ultimately a lot more experienced and responsbile than Rush.
And now I'm replying to you but only to show solidarity
Wait, are you saying that criminals participated in anti-police violence? Correlation is not causation.
Do you not believe in the value of those things?

Separately, every institute or person that has published anything has an agenda; so the fact that this particular institute has a mission that you perceive to align with their words doesn't mean that their words are wrong. It is by definition an ad hominem fallacy.
"only for legal reasons", which tells the target audience that it can fully drive itself, if it was not for these pesky regulations.

There is a delightfuly cinical alternative interpretation that is also obviously true:

the legal reason is that without a human at the wheel it is Tesla who is legally responsible for any damge. Not so with a human at the wheel.
oh, gawd, why have i never put 2+2 together like that? to be fair, i have not once ever made an online purchase with that kind of challenge, so i just have no real world experience. so i never thought about it, but not only are they able to confirm you are making the purchase, but depending on what the app is doing, they could get your exact location at the time of the authorization. man, my tinfoil hat is getting thicker
Context: I was part of a company acquired by FB in 2019, worked there until Dec 2022.
It really depends, based on how independent the acquired company needs to be, and how useful it would be to have overlap with code components & engineering resources with the main monorepo.

In our case, up until Dec 2022, parts our pre-acquisition monorepo were still separate, but gradually components and workflows, such as tests and reviews, were moved into the main repo. From my awareness, we didn't even start merging into the main monorepo until more than a year after we were acquired, though of course there were exploratory efforts before.

In general, I'm pro-monorepo, it makes sense to be able to update multiple interconnected components in lockstep. For the startup, we were still in research mode, so it was less urgent to spend eng/sci/TPM to incorporate with anything on the FB monorepo side...until it was.
> probably aliens involved.

Sigh. Shea and Wilson conclusively documented [0] the primacy of Leviathan, a direct continuation of the Ugaritic sea monster Lôtān, one of the servants of the sea god Yammu defeated by Hadad in the Baal Cycle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
This is more or less "the point" for those of us who argue for tau instead of pi.

I should note that using this "trick" of prescaling rotations by 2pi so that they are in the 0..1 range is de rigueur in computer graphics programming.
I can't be the only one who had to read this a few times before I realized it was sarcasm...
I'm curious how blind people normally engage with math. For me, engaging with math almost always means conjuring up a visual representation in my mind. Failing that, an equation.

Since visualization is so fundamental to doing math, and since mathematical symbols and equations are a written language for which there is no spoken analog, I really can't imagine engaging with math without my eyes. Even reading equations aloud verbatim is not reliable. "X plus B squared" can mean (x + b)^2 or x + b^2
Kardashev would approve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
It's a different type of humor is all.

> Celebrating someone's death means you would have killed them yourself if there was no consequence, am I wrong in saying that?

The right word is probably contempt. For example, contempt towards the rich and corporations for being responsible 1/2 of the inflation in the EU, while people are struggling.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure this will return. But this might cost a subscription, as language models are expensive.
Congrats! Curious if you have observed any outcomes/patterns, for example, to what topics students are naturally gravitating most, that surprised you.
Possibly the worst experience I've had dealing with a software company.

So bad in fact that I couldn't consider using any of their products ever again out of fear.