skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the vast majority of any task that requires writing code, performance is the least of your concerns;

I always have conflicting thoughts when faced with such statements. On one hand, you are right - in many cases any single code unit you write is not going to be the performance bottleneck anyway, and if it is you can optimize it later.

On the other hand, there are scaling characteristics, both algorithmic and architectural. Once you chose architecture that is just bad at the scale you target, it is going to be increasingly difficult to change that.

I guess the takeaway here is that we often forget the distinction between code performance and product performance.
Deckard Is Valve's “Spatial Computer” [video] (Culmination of Rumors, Datamines)
Perl? Wow. Is that better than bash, python or even nodejs? Why write in Perl over these? Serious question, was propaghandized to hate Perl.
I use ublock on desktop and newpipe on mobile and i only see ads when i am looking at someone elses screen.
I think phone and video calls are:
1. for people who don't know each other, an assurance that they are working with a real person that looks professional etc...
2. For people who know each other, I think they are mostly for fun or entertainment that people maybe don't get through text, so don't really like it, but it has its use cases when you are looking for fast urgent exchange of information.

But when we are searching for clients, we always try to book a call ASAP with the client that 100% of the time increases the client's trust in our firm and what we do.
I think the people who say “the public doesn’t care about privacy” are either completely ignoring the fact that most people will give it up if it means the product is cheaper (because, financial survival) or they are deliberately pushing the agenda.
to be fair, it was only added in 3.7
Raising money to build an ad-free Google is like raising money to build a rainbow without a pot of gold.
I'm not going to switch to a browser that isn't cross-platform. Well-integrated tab, history and bookmark syncing are invaluable.

I suppose it's possible there's a browser extension that might fix it, but it needs to run on Windows, iOS, MacOS and Android.
One thing to look into. If you're married, give the vehicle to your spouse, and note the amount of the gift in a notarized letter. That then becomes the value of the vehicle for tax purposes. We live in a state that essentially has an import tax on vehicles. It's unconstitutional, but you'd have to take that to court and that would take years. We did this with our vehicles when we moved to the state. The person at the vehicle registration place was unhappy, but they had to accept it - an extra benefit.

You're not an asshole to drive around a ride you've earned.

Statists will always find some rationale for taxing more that sounds perfectly reasonable and good, when its obvious the motivation is envy.
As much as I simpathize with you, his comments are a follow up to a comment complaining from the guest’s perspective. There are spaces to discuss Abnb problems from locals perspective but they would be on a different thread.
VCs have no idea what to do with their money, on the other hand potential founders gravitate towards dev tools because it's a space they know well. It's not necessarily that they're seeing value (not saying that there isn't value there either).

Think of it as

[startups skewing towards dev tools] >> [clueless VC] >> [many dev tools startups get funded]

This actually works even if they aren't clueless - they can only respond to the opportunities presented to them and that input sample will be biased.
Level30Wizards is now Merlin, a new pioneer in the Creative Tech Boutique and Digital Production scene.

The former Level30Wizards, a young and innovative technical firm, unveils its repositioning as Merlin Studio. With this rebranding, the company aims to present itself more professionally and internationally in the landscape of digital production.

In 2018, Mees Rutten, 27, formerly with MediaMonks, and Servin Nissen, 28, previously at Q42, founded Level30Wizards. Along with their new partner, Emiel Muis, 26, from New10, they have delivered impressive digital performances. They have repeatedly made The Next Web's T500, twice received the DIA Pro - Best In Tech nomination from Emerce, and have won various awards, including two Lovie Awards, an Anthem Award and Dutch Interactive Award Silver.

Merlin not only focuses on high-quality design and technical standards but is also a pioneer in integrating AI technologies into their work. They use Machine Learning for image recognition or recognizing objects with a phone camera, offering unique campaign opportunities for brands with products.

Merlin's visual transformation and renewed strategic focus mark their ambition to bring creative concepts of world-class agencies to life, combining high-quality design, exceptional technical standards, and profound expertise.

In just five years, Merlin has established itself as a powerful player in the global market.

"Merlin is a combination of quality and innovation in the digital world. This rebranding emphasizes our growth and the constant learning curve we are on," says Mees, one of the founders of Merlin Studio. "Just like the mythical figure we are named after, Merlin embodies the mystery, skill, and wisdom of an entity and group simultaneously."

Despite the youthful age of the team, Merlin has already worked with prominent brands such as Heineken, Kim Kardashian, Nike, Inter Milan, Sprite, Eurovision Songcontest, DEPT®, GoSpooky, Vodafone, Bol.com, Talpa, Het Maritime Museum of Amsterdam and Coca Cola. They have shown their commitment to creating innovative digital experiences and leading the digital production trajectory.

"At Merlin, we become an essential part of our customers' teams. We work together and in this way try to find the best solution for both agency and client," Mees explains. "Merlin is a doer, which means we think purely from design and implementation without lengthy consultancy processes."

Even though many of their clients are based in America, Merlin remains true to its roots in the Dutch lowlands. "We want to become the leading digital production agency in the Netherlands in terms of quality and innovation. Our focus remains on digital experience and collaborating with agencies," says Mees.

The rebranding of Merlin is being rolled out this week. With this new identity, Merlin Studio takes a step forward in its ambition to contribute to the world and industry through the power of creativity and innovation.
Our firm is remote so one night before, I set the 3 main goals that I should do today, and schedule all meetings that need to be done + block out family time/workout/breaks ahead so no one can schedule a meeting at that time.
Wake up the next day, check what needs to be done and create a mini schedule on a paper or notes about how can I divide my day depending on it.
Works like a charm.
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Yes, in the near term it absolutely would because we need to decarbonize transport. Or put another way, fuel taxes are an impromptu way of taxing the huge externalities of ICE vehicles in terms of carbon emissions and exhaust, and unless those taxes are increased, adding special EV-only fees and taxes (which many states already have at much higher rates than the state fuel tax) will actually do the opposite, effectively negating this taxation of externalities that already exists.
Probably like iron filings and magnets, the stronger magnet would have a bigger pile of iron filings on it.

Water isn't compressible, so the distribution would always give the stronger region more water.
It strikes me just how detached and ignorant your perspective is, largely not because it bothers me that people like you exist, but how it seems practically impossible for such detached and decadent perspectives to proliferate without collapse being imminent.

So you, member of the spoiled rotten, pilfering upper strata, parasitizing the larger society while at the same time degenerating it, want the regular people you are living off in decadence, to also pay not just current rates, but even higher rates so you can see your utopian, egotist, narcissistic vision come to fruition?

You want people who can’t afford the luxury of EVs and who are already being destroyed and pillaged by the likes of your strata, to on top of that abuse, also pay more?

Do you want them to also just eat cake? Or perhaps maybe they should also just try being billionaires? Just stop being poor, people. Right?

It’s unfortunate that humans seem to have made essentially zero progress in preventing what has been captured in numerous stories. Possibly the most relevant one being that Hubris is struck down by Nemesis; the origins of those two words themselves, something most people do not even realize.

If you ever have the chance, there is an excellent statue of Hubris in the Louvre. It is a bit hidden and tucked away, which makes it all the more prescient. Note when it was created.
> But, honestly, they are too dependent on RH …

With enough support Rocky may grow by itself, without RH code. Like what is happening with OpenSearch and Elastic, and OPNsense and pfSense. And my gut feeling is that will happen.
all of rural America....
One of the first utilities I had to get to grips with way back was awk, and it serves me well to this day. Best bang for buck investment of time in my entire career. Even today I still use some variant of awk -F(x) '{print $x}'.
>we need more NUMA

As someone who regularly deals with NUMA in high speed networking, I wish the opposite.

It's shocking how much crossing a NUMA node just guts performance. 10Gbps becomes 5Gbps. 100Gbps becomes 20Gbps. Your application is too big for a single NUMA node? Sorry, your $80k investment only bought quarter of a fast computer, not a whole fast computer. The other three quarters are useless.

CPUs with wide fast interconnects between nodes and no locality to PCIe bus would make this situation much better. If AMD can do it then they'll walk all over Intel in some markets.
How is this different from the phone in your pocket?
Ever watched how many requests are fired off when opening the Telegram Web emoji window in any browser cache? Open it for yourself with developer tools open and cry.
Eventually of course road taxes need to be extracted from something other than fuel. How soon that switch is made just depends on how long you want gas car drivers to subsidize the roads for EV drivers. I think most would agree that the time to stop that subsidizing is "not yet".

Why you would need to track how much a vehicle is driven I don't understand though. Unless you want to measure how far it's driven within some geographical area (such as a state) and can't merely charge for the total distance driven, but that seems unnecessarily complex, given that a car will only be registered in one region and it should balance out across state borders.

So at the anual/biannual mandatory inspections (which make a lot more sense to add if they aren't already mandatory, than any tracking!) just check the distance driven and charge road tax accordingly. I pay around $800/year for road tax for my car. And $8/gallon for the fuel. But I do get great roads for it.
In this case, you know the input is one out of 16384 distinct values (originally 65536, but due to range-reduction and symmetries, you only need to consider one of them). So you can simply test them all.

But in the case of the minimax polynomial, I just got it out of Maple (it can tell you as part of computing it). That's not accounting for floating-point inaccuracies, though.
Thanks for your work! Awk is a rabbit hole.

"Dark corners are basically fractal - no matter how much you illuminate, there is always a smaller but darker one." - - Brian Kernighan (quoted in the GNU Awk book)
I own one, too, and it's a piece of crap.

It takes ages to sync, and, adding insult to injury, every time the app is updated, it syncs the AGPS, which is a very slow operation.

The on-demand screen backlighting is unreliable (one needs to do a very exaggerated arm twist to ensure it works).

But worse of all, when the Bluetooth connection breaks, one receives no notifications, which is a very serious problem for users relying on a smartwatch to be notified when they're at physical distance from their phone.

There are other UX problems (e.g. alarms can be set only via app), but those are secondary compared to the above).

It's a shame, because even if it's not really a smartwatch, it could perfectly fit the bill of "minimal, long-running smartwatch" (as a matter of fact, it fits the requirements of the author).
R/MildlyInteresting mods reinstated, but to be replaced if it goes private again
You can switch default search engine to DDG or Ecosia, Kagi extension will still redirect you away. Or use extensions like xSearch or xEngine, they seem to be better at redirecting
> Anyone know what exactly would be worth putting in the PCI slots that would make the Mac Pro worth it?

Probably something like this $5000 Avid Pro Tools card https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1385850-REG/avid_9900...
`sparklines`[1] is good for an overall low-res view. `termgraph`[2] is sometimes better for a higher-res, more capable view (but can be finicky about the data.)

[1] https://github.com/deeplook/sparklines

[2] https://github.com/mkaz/termgraph
Rule number 1: Never pay upfront, best option should be to charge hourly and pay daily. See that work is being done then pay. We too had to learn the hard way but consider it an expensive lesson.
Hi, thank you so much! I've added examples of each page type, how could I forget that? :)
Nah, the smartest people in the world are working on ads. And ways to track you to serve more ads.
Do you use paid advertising to drive traffic to your website?
Yas, BUT if the product is in it's early phase you really need to be careful with the money spent on advertising. It's better if you focus on building a community and then switch on low-cost remarking programs followed by referal programs and some partnerships.

Make sure you spend money on short and sweat advertising experiments first with a goal to understand your conversion numbers. For example, we just learned our user journey when creating an account and starting to use the product isn't ideal so we are fixing that before we increase the budget.

Our CAC for free account was about $20, we think targeting USA was too expensive considering the conversion rates so we'll switch that of for now. We also learned that alternative landing pages for a perticular competitor are giving us the most conversions. All from 2 weeks of testing, $600 spent.
This is a reasonable argument to make if the usage is fixed. But it is not. Depending on which price plan you have, your usage will differ. If it's unlimited anyway, well let me just leave that video running even when I'm in the shower and don't see it. Let me just download this large file again, it's for free anyway, no need to store it. Let me just watch this movie even though I know I'll fall asleep in 5 minutes. Once you PAYG, your usage pattern changes. You wouldn't do the same "wasteful" pattern as with the flat pricing since you are concious that you pay every second/kilobyte/meter of it.

This dynamic is pretty complex and it's not at all clear that your argument holds even with the dynamic considered.
(I submitted this)
It's looking increasingly likely that valve's work on a standalone VR headset is continuing.

It's super interesting to me, because even though I don't want to live in a dystopia where we all just work in headsets for 12 hours a day, having one as a monitor to also do productive things on when you want would be pretty helpful. The upcoming Meta Quest 3's per-eye resolution of roundabout 2000 by 2200 and lack of eye tracking don't sound like they will allow for comfortable text reading and navigating UIs for non-games, and the apple headset is outside of most people's price range and also requires you to be in apple's ecosystem.

Valve looks like they have a real shot at making a linux-compatible "spatial computer", and the work on the gamescope compositor pointed out in the submitted video suggests that they are moving in this direction. Exciting times ahead!
The only specs I could find was "battery lasts 5+ hours". Early access only costs the price of 2 Apple monitor stands, so I guess it is not very beastly, still, it would be nice to have some more info.

Edit: found it. 8 core Snapdragon XR2, 8GB RAM, 256 GB storage. Not sure if it can really handle Youtube AND GMail open concurrently (beside other windows) just as it is depicted on the website.
Beyond the DevTools: Profiling WebApps at the Assembly Level
this is a totally different company from Kagi the shareware recovery provider
>I think a small operation is exactly the sort of outfit to do it.

A small operation in terms of number of developers yes. But not being able to subsidise user growth means they will never be able to build their own full web index as the fixed cost of doing that is too high for a small number of users.

As a consequence, they will always be at the mercy of Google/Bing. The range of things they can innovate on will always be limited. And the situation can only get worse as people start to expect more AI functionality.

I doubt that you can build a sustainable niche product if the effort you have to put into it is just as big as if you're building for billions of users. Having few users is not what defines a niche. Niches are defined by specialisation.
This is a typical programmer, you'll regret code as soon as you turn your back on it. :)
Sounds like tax evasion.

You still need a charger/adapter between the outlet and the vehicle. Perhaps build the meter into the vehicles charging port.
Too bad "the right way" also differs between engineering experts.
This demonstrates to me how distorted searching has become. The early days of the web. The standard thing was to show someone yahoo which was a human curated list of sites. The other site was a search engine from one of the colleges I think it was Lycos.

This changed with ads. Suddenly search engines were used to find people searching.
I agree since Upwork has no proof of payment and does not have a proof of work being done or not unfortunately.
There's also interesting things happening in the server space that doesn't get talked about enough. Not only are the latest generation of Epycs very good, the price of RAM and especially SSDs has absolutely plummeted.

If ever there was a moment where horizontal scaling looked promising, this is it.
There’s also the device speed. It might provide a different reference point for different users.

If you’re opening a website on a low end smartphone with an outdated system, the network latency might be not noticeable (because the UX of the device is so slow anyway).
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It depends on what you're doing and also your subjective opinions. If you are writing software with a decent amount of lines and it's even somewhat important, you obviously want the typing benefits. On the other hand, if you're prototyping something personal and don't care about minor type errors in the slightest, it's nice and quick to do the job with javascript or python 3.
It's just part of the cost of ownership. Not classy to balk about a few hundred bucks more to register your car when you've paid tens of thousands for it, and are also paying more to insure it, and to maintain it, and in depreciation. Presumably you anticipated all that in the purchase as part of the TCO.
Not to mention, the tradition of wealthier persons contributing more to society stretches back in Western civ to the Roman period at least. Better IMO to take some pride in your attainment of some small aspect of patrician status rather than resentment at the responsibilities that come with it.
USPTO director 'strongly admonishes' patent owner in $2.2B Intel fight
> A small operation in terms of number of developers yes. But not being able to subsidise user growth means they will never be able to build their own full web index as the fixed cost of doing that is too high for a small number of users.

What do you reckon the cost of doing this would be?

Just doing the napkin math for say a Mojeek sized index (couple of billion docs) doesn't seem to justify a particularly astronomical budget.
"I like GNOME so my arguments are reasonable. You do not, so yours are driven by emotion."
Following the death of Windows phone and the earlier death of Symbian, the two options are "Android" or "iOS". This is apparently "not a monopoly".
> I moved to iPhone anyways

https://github.com/yattee/yattee
It's still probably a good product for big Audio/Video production houses to fill them up with PCIe cards for Video/Audio, super fast ethernet or SAN cards.

MKBHD recently did a pretty good video exactly on this type of question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KbwC-s7pY
That's sad. If only he had known 7 layer Flemish technique. On the other hand, then we wouldn't have his unique style.
A good reference is the Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic. If you can be more specific about what is it that's not clear, I'll give more specific "proof". Even though you're being a bit "sealion"-y.

> It's ridiculous to post a dismissal without even watching the full video.

The video is jarring to watch. It's well-produced, engaging, etc.; but also pretentious and overconfident. It seems to be chock-full with irrelevant "developments". So it's not reasonable to expect me to watch it end-to-end.
I’m an analog watch wearer and have been looking for something like that too. Found a dead Kickstarter thing that replaced the buckle on a watch band with a sensor blob, would have been perfect.

A simple strap (or ring, I guess) with a minimal electronics package, waterproof, long battery life, that sends data to my phone. Anyone? Is it not a business? Everything goes upmarket.

Oh, without a mandatory monthly fee, Oura.
The biggest difference is that using something non-privacy-conscious (like Google Maps) doesn't have an immediate impact on my insurance bills. It also doesn't have access to my ODB-2 data and I can turn it off.

iOS allows me to set relatively fine-grained permissions and privacy settings. Unless I actively use Google Maps (or any other GPS enabled app), it won't be able to report my location data.
The document is here:

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/lbvggkdjzvq/...

Especially section II.C.1 starting at the bottom of page 6.