skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely about scrum being a religion and lack of faith and all that, and I can't stand the "but that wasn't real scrum" automatic response that most of the defenders make.

But the GP point is valid. not every iteration can be blamed on "scrum" anymore than anything bad that happens in life can be blamed on Satan. If people want it to fail, they can make it fail.

But that said, to slightly counter my own point: I think that demonstrates a weakness with Scrum. If people following the system (even malicous compliance) can make it fail, then the system is flawed. It obviously sucks for those people or they wouldn't have a bad attitude about it. For example, Scrum likes to pretend that all engineers are fungible, but this is clearly wrong and a big problem with the system.
Hmm, the pre-computed header strings is definitely interesting optimization, and does seem to be a bit non-idiomatic – but IMO, this is the sort of optimization the framework itself should try and do.

If first several bytes of the header are going to identical for many requests, a super-optimized framework would ideally memoize it, and write it directly out, as this benchmark is doing.

(And if the framework itself is doing it, then any user of the benchmark would just inherit that optimization, and not have to resort to non-idiomatic optimizations...)
> The general economy want these people to have children for its own benefit, not for the benefit of the parents.

Well maybe the parents aren’t supposed to be the beneficiary in the parent-child relationship.
I was perhaps unclear. I meant a firmware blob in the sense of an OS image that includes Linux, such as might be downloaded as an update to your smartphone.
> I'm not here to engage in flamewars

-> ends previous comment in an ad-hominem
I was born in the US, and my parents immigrated from India. I encountered this once at a tech company in Seattle. My team's previous manager left the org, so we were assigned a new one. On our very first 1:1 meeting, he wasn't interested in discussing projects, but he kept asking all of these bizarre personal questions. At first, I didn't understand, but it became clear later on.
This should not be news. This should be status quo. The fact that it is not means our society is late-stage capitalism dog vomit.
from the article:

"For the OR clause query, the DBMS sequentially compares each condition's value one by one. In the given example, it performs three comparisons for each row to determine if (price = 1), (price = 2), and then (price = 3). This evaluation approach means that for N predicates, the complexity of the filtering operation per row is O(N).

On the other hand, with the IN clause, PostgreSQL builds a temporary hash table populated with the elements in the query’s IN clause (ExecEvalHashedScalarArrayOp). Then as the DBMS scans each tuple, it probes this hash table to see whether the tuple's attribute matches with any entry. This hash-based evaluation has a more efficient complexity of O(1) since the DBMS only needs to perform one lookup in the hash table per tuple.

Hence, as the number of predicates increases in a query, the OR clause incurs significant overhead because the DBMS evaluates predicates for each row individually, in contrast to the more efficient IN clause."
It's the same reason I have to patch the Radeon drivers on Linux. They just pick the highest mode available without regards whether it will work at all. E.g. if the EDID shows the monitor supports 10bpc, they will pick it even if there's not enough bandwidth to suppport it (e.g. bad cable or already daisy chaning something else), resulting in an empty screen.

They will also pick 10bpc even if it results in power consumption increasing by 30W (hello stupid AMD GPUs idle power consumption heuristics).

I have the impression (untested) that Windows seem to be less excited to select modes outside of the common ones, even if they are advertised in the EDID.
"Alumni from as far back as the 1980’s reached out to me and told horrifying stories" -- so the firsthand accounts of sexual harassment by RMS are not anonymous, as they are known to the person writing the article.
I think you just agreed with the point of the article which is to "disagree and commit", instead of companies being wishy-washy in their policies. Sounds like an ideal experience.
I don't see why they can't just charge a flat rate that is slightly above whatever the sum of all fees would be and then they sort it out themselves. Is it actually better for the consumer that they charge us $36.78 instead of $40.00 so they can avoid listing 15 different local fees?

I'm honestly asking because I don't know.
My pet peeve is limit speed by vehicle weight, equal impact for all drivers. Want to drive fast? You're welcome to crash into me with your 500kgs. Want to drive a 3000kg vehicle? Limit to 70kmh, even on the highway.
It definitely is. Brahmin names might be more Sanskritic, for example.
Sculptor Is Full of Conflicts
This is great, but "dual 4090s" bring this stuff down to the Ryzen APU level.
I'm actually struggling to understand this a bit.

So an ISP needs to advertise a "$29/mo + local fees" plan as "$29/mo + $0-$80/mo in fees"

I guess other than making the advertising super annoying, I don't understand the ISP objection. Assuming every provider is faced with roughly the same kind of fees and it's a level playing field.

> Providers are free, of course, to not pass these fees through to consumers to differentiate their pricing and simplify their Label display if they believe it will make their service more attractive to consumers and ensure that consumers are not surprised by unexpected charges.

This is a surprisingly snarky response from the FCC. "If you are so worried about the label being confusing why not just raise your prices?" It's hard to believe that they are suggesting this seriously.
One thing I don't see mentioned is that a larger portion of the population spends a lot more time in full-time school, and in part-time school + working which easily delays having children.

Is it truly necessary for so many of us to spend that much time in school? Can school programs be shortened? Can we admit in some areas additional schooling doesn't provide more value than on the job training / experience?
That's a normal part of business.
As a genealogister, the most familiar thing to me was this:

My second thought was, "Wait, this whole time I could have solved this mystery from my couch? I didn't have to go to St. Paul, much less Kansas City?"

But yes! It is hard to get more clear than "A foot-bridge should be planned at Second avenue to serve Assumption school and church." That is why the bridge is there!

I once spent weeks trying to complete the history of a great aunt. As I was posting the final results, I found a note of mine, long forgotten and attached to the GA's (then) empty record. I wrote it following a conversation w/ a distant cousin. The note included the name of her final husband - the info I had spent weeks trying to learn and confirm circumstantially.
Cancelling the payment doesn't cancel the service or the debt
Unfortunately, I think Sony is the only company left when considering these things
> The Murena Fairphone 5 is not yet available in the USA... get the Murena Fairphone 4 [instead at]

https://murena.com/america/
Agree. It's not at all obvious the world is in need of saving.

That said, software of all kinds (including machine learning) does make the world more interesting and exciting, so happy to see more investment.
https://archive.ph/HgIMo
Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability
It’s the same for Audible subscriptions, you get 2 free books and can even keep them if you cancel.
There’s a problem that Google is too big already and that at least some people now have trust issues with them and would prefer to get their AI from a different provider than the search and email services.
How the European nuclear lobby undermines the EU’s energy future [pdf]
A helpful video about what's inside an AC EV "charger":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxB7zA-e4Y

Really the only difference with the fancier ones is they have a screen and payment terminal or NFC terminal for activating and paying. Like a gas pump, although most want you to use their app and membership to save (them) on credit card processing fees.

DC fast chargers are a whole different story, where the AC to DC conversion happens external to the car.
Couldn’t agree more. Would love more discussion of stuff like this in front end
Well I think a truly democratic country like the US (even though imperfect) getting these technologies first and isolating/defeating the autocratic countries would actually lead to some form of self-governance over the use of these technologies.

This would avoid the dystopian nightmare he worries about.
How many subscriptions do you have? I can't imagine having so many that I can't keep track of them...
> The universal one is unique if you know what to look for. It pops up in a lot of older TV shows.

Recent ones too: https://hiddenremote.com/2018/02/28/travel-good-place-neighb...
My point is people are choosing kids because of a deeper responsibility and meaning. Not because the experience of raising kids is more fun than hanging out with friends or other alternatives. The parent in this scenario is not maximizing their enjoyment or personal satisfaction in the way someone choosing their hobbies is. That distinction did not seem observed when comparing the choice to raise children with the choice to spend free time other ways.
Could it also be used to bridge a BT keyboard to USB for the semi-rare cases where having a wired keyboard is necessary (BIOS access, boot loader, login screen etc.)? I expected this type of product to exist, but couldn't really find a good one after a cursory look.
We don't know that though. The fact that it presumably works everywhere except Linux makes me think there's still a bug in that `edid-decode` path.

And as far as I can tell from the article, OP just assumed the display supported 60hz because it happened to show an image when they set it to that.
That's f'ing depressing. I'm 43, with 39 years left, and I don't feel old but apparently 56% of people are younger, so I'm no spring chicken, lol. It'll also be maybe a miracle if I see 2060.
I find it interesting that certifications like ISO27001 basically force you to use all these solutions which create massive single point of failures.

Sure in theory you could use a more decentralized solution but often there are no COTS solutions for this and making your own would require it to be certified, so that's not feasible. In some options you might even be better of with not deploying such a single point of failure. However for certifications that's often not an option.
For this the best solution is virtual cards. When you want to cancel, don’t argue with customer service about canceling. Just lock the card.
Very fair, good call (moving rather than deleting) and thanks for posting this explanation. I was enjoying the pile-on (though was arguing good faith devil's advocate in an attempt to create a better discussion), but it was definitely not adding value beyond validating people's already held opinion. I think many of us have suffered under Scrum, so we get emotional about it, but it's adding nothing substantive to the post.
It's interesting that you're reacting this way to Marx being brought up when the language you're using is straight out of the Marxist school of thought.

It's also fascinating that you favour the idea of cycles, as in that case trying to fight the bourgeoisie is an inherently lost cause and you'd be better off trying to become part of it.

But in any case, the major point was that while you may be free to speak your mind, so are others, and they are also free to choose to not want to associate with people who want to spread hate and bigotry, and you're facing a losing battle. Doubly so if you believe in social cycles (an utterly idiotic concept to buy into today given the amount of change since it was conceived), in which case you're doomed to keeping losing this battle forever.
In case you're not aware, Signal has a chat called "Notes to Self" that should be more or less the same thing, except without having to create a group.
Did you read the RTI response? There’s no reservation for upper castes, yet the vast majority of faculty in all of the RTI response are upper caste
I live in a rich European country and every once in a while they find some poor smucks forced to pick asparagus at a farm or have sex with a dozen men a day in a hotel. It gets a little column in a newspaper.

It's really not that hard to make people drop off the grid in an uncaring world.
I guess maybe parents had fewer expenses when I was a kid (I was born in 1983)? No cable bill, no cell phones, fewer video games, no streaming services?
the dupes are getting out of control around here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ifixit+ice+cream and that's above and beyond ignoring the "please submit original sources" in the Guidelines which would have led one to the 200+ comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37311239
I'm sure they're legally allowed to do it. They wouldn't be doing it otherwise.

But it's something customers are going to want to keep in mind when picking Google products or services: they have a track record of ditching you. If you're looking for long-term products you can rely on, maybe Google isn't the best choice.
Thank you, and I definitely agree to all points. From my own observations, I feel that the right is often wrong on many things, but the far left has gone off the rails, and most of the left is either, willing, blind, useful idiots or outright evil. There's definitely a few racist, violent right wing assholes in the world, but they don't even compare to the numbers the far left weild.

It also irks me to no end, when people refer to leftists as "liberal" when they are no such thing at this point. I can deal with liberals, and as a libertarian share most of the values. More like Progressive past the point of usefulness to society.
These invoices aren’t issued up front. The marketing copy gets ugly and confusing.
I guess sometimes a pain can exist without a profit, there's only a small number of people willing to solve those pains without a profit incentive though (pro bono lawyers, doctor's without borders, etc).
The exterior of JJ's Diner is of a shopping center in Atlanta. Easily recognizable to locals because of the presence of Galaxy Trading Company (part of Starship Enterprises), which was a headshop.
And economist Mahoney acknowledges it might be annoying if consumers had to actively renew a subscription every month.

My "mandatory" subscriptions do work this way --- they send me the invoice and then I pay after reviewing it. I refuse automatically-renewing ones. Then again, I have very few of them anyway, which IMHO is a good thing.
Cool, thinking how can use it in programming, or other conditions?
> I can assure you that the vast majority of upper-caste people here don't use a caste-based surname anymore.

Oh, I don't need assuring for this, this was the point I was making! Basically, some south Indian upper castes use their father's first name as their surname. And this in itself is a strong signifier that the person is from the upper caste!

And yes, some surnames like Bulsara are linked to a place, some are neutral like Kumar, or some are rare enough to not signify caste unless you really know. So what? Even now, a large chunk of the Indian population uses caste-linked surnames, and it is one way they get discriminated. This is the point he makes when he says "Typically, one's surname (last name) is a giveaway".

> RTI responses will only tell you the number of candidates who were hired through caste-based reservation.

No, the RTI responses that he has linked is for the "breakdown of faculty members in the respective category of reservation..." (see the linked pdf for IITD, for example), not if they were hired through caste-based reservation. The category of reservation being information that every Indian citizen is asked to provide in government forms.
The Audacious Future of Palo Alto Networks
Unless this very recently changed this is not true. Those credits expire. They will give them back if you hit up support but otherwise they poof.
I've recently went down this rabbit hole myself as well and found Custom Resolution Utility (CRU) [1] to be an efficient EDID editor.

[1] https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-Custom-Resolution-...
Lol you haven’t used a slow ide if you think Rider is slow. Visual studio is super slow in comparison.
Yes, this explains the how, but not the why.

Why is there no optimization in place for this? Converting a=x or a=y or a=z to a in(x,y,z) should be trivial and the db should have heuristics to calculate the expected query cost to decide when to apply this transformation.
Astro View Transitions
Jeez, I paid 1/3 of that for my black pills, and they're objectively better in every metric.
One article saying "AMD playing nice with open source, nVidia not, will nVidia continue to be a leader in AI?" and they'll fold
exactly what I thought as well, though I wasn't sure
> There's an amazing catalogue of classic games that could run really well under a hypothetical 32-bit x86 Rosetta

Rosetta 2 is a combination of good AOT/JIT x86-64 translation to ARM, and apple-specific hardware modes to change performance CPU to use the x86-64 memory model.

The x86-32 memory model is much more expensive to support. Doing this in software is why ARM windows has such a terrible reputation for running x86-32 unbearably slow.

Unless Apple suddenly feels the need to make a stronger investment in running an architecture they deprecated before they even switched off Intel, it is unlikely to see any sort of official offering.

Even if they did feel the need to support 32-bit: without a hardware investment (e.g. M4 support), you likely get the same performance you would running under a third party emulator - which you can get reasonably easily via ARM linux or windows running on the hypervisor.

So if there isn't interest in an actual port, your easiest option to run older games is going to be with something like Parallels running a Windows VM.
In storage you measure things in blocks. Historically, blocks were meant to be 512 bytes big, but today the tendency is to make them bigger, 4K would be the typical size in server setting.

So, the idea here is this: databases that store structured information, i.e. such that needs to store integers, booleans, short strings are typically something like relational databases, eg. PostgreSQL.

Filesystems (eg. Ext4) usually think about whole blocks, but are designed with the eye for smaller files, i.e. files aren't expected to be more than some ten or hundred blocks in size for optimal performance.

Object stores (eg. S3) are the kinds of storage systems that are supposed to work well for anything larger than typical files.

This gives the answer to your question: blobs in a relational database are probably OK if they are under one block big. Databases will be probably able to handle bigger ones too, but you will start seeing serious drops in performance when it comes to indexing, filtering, searching etc. because such systems optimize internal memory buffers in such a way that they can fit a "perfect" number of elements of the "perfect" size.

Another concern here is that with stored elements larger than single block you need a different approach to parallelism. Ultimately, the number of blocks used by an I/O operation determines its performance. If you are reading/writing sub-block sized elements, you try to make it so that they come from the same block to minimize the number of requests made to the physical storage. If you work with multi-block elements, your approach to performance optimization is different -- you try to pre-fetch the "neighbor" blocks because you expect you might need them soon. Modern storage hardware has a decent degree of parallelism that allows you to queue multiple I/O requests w/o awaiting completion. This later mechanism is a lot less relevant to something like RDBMS, but is at the heart of an object store.

In other words: the problem is not the function of the size of the database. In principle, nothing stops eg. PostgreSQL from special-casing blobs and dealing with them differently than it would normally do with "small" objects... but they aren't probably interested in doing so because you already have appropriate storage for that kind of stuff, and PostgreSQL, like most other RDBMS sits on top of the storage for larger objects (filesystem), so they have no hopes of doing it better than the layer below them.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37312853

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37312159

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37307032

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37303332

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301728
If he is so well off, I wonder if he would have even qualified for OBC considering the creamy layer income limits. I wonder if he got a fake income certificate to get himself below the limits to avail OBC reservations.
Also possibly upgrading the wiring in your house or office.
-Quote from Lt. Cmdr LaForge as engineering shakes and control panels explode in showers of sparks in the background
A universe could be simulated, but could they all?

I prefer to think that there are symmetry/conservation laws that work bidirectionally in time. Even if time travel were possible, the only events that could occur are those that don't break any symmetry/conservation laws. This could be seen as a weaker form of simulation hypothesis leaving out the concrete 'how' as an unknown.

I remember coming up with the idea of 'time legs'. A tree can't pick up and move somewhere else, and a falling leaf doesn't choose its path. Other creatures can. We just don't have the apparatus to move freely through time--our memories only form when moving forward.
Is Big Oil Turning on Big Auto?
My understanding is that Japan requires dual Japan/US citizens to choose one citizenship when they turn 18. If Japan allowed dual citizenship, they could see dual citizens return and raise families. These dual citizens would enable Japan to maintain more homogeneity via immigration while also increasing population growth.
"NCTA's letter made the issue clear: retail stores have items pre-labeled, and, under this new rule, they'd need to create thousands of variations of those labels."

That's a bunch of bullshit though. The cable companies use vastly different pricing all over the place, so there's already "thousands of variations of those labels" - in fact I'm pretty sure those labels are produced regionally.
Tbh I don't think OpenAI would sell for 100bb unless they are seriously strapped for cash and can't fundraise any other way.

Given their current revenue projections I would be surprised if that happened
> How would that work when you may not even know where the person wants service?

No cost until the service location is known. It's a two way street, right? It's entirely reasonable that if you were to obligate the ISP to deliver precision in pricing they'd have no recourse but to require accurate disclosure of the service location.

This is all fantasy, however. This clown world we've built doesn't contemplate such things. The minor ask the FCC is making here is as far as it will go, and if the big ISPs put enough campaign money into the right "family foundations" we might not even get that much.
https://twitter.com/windscribecom/status/1667177373534494729

Here's one bang on subject for example. The company that won the bid to formalise digital IDs donating directly to the party members responsible for choosing in favour of them. 6 states are trying to link porn sites to a digital driving licence. So porn habits and identity are linked for example.
Jitsi as a Service
> IDE people want full VS (or IntelliJ) and they both run better on less expensive Windows machines.

No Windows machine comes even close to the battery lifetime and general performance of an M2 series Mac.