skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it’s a small company your energy is better spent ingratiating yourself to the inner circle, which doesn’t necessarily entail being effective.
He doesn’t have his own achievements?

I have heard of the Nyquist frequency, the nyquist limit, the nyquist sampling rate and the Shannon nyquist theorem.

As far as I know no other individual has had this many “things” named after him.
One company I used to work for went through a saga of finding the best compostable material for disposable cutlery. I think the first attempt was some black plastic thing that melted if you used it to cut an orange. Next was pressed bamboo, which worked but it tasted like wood. Next was a starch based thing that would melt in a cup of tea. I think they finally ended up with some kind of hard brown plastic, but by that time I just had a titanium spork from REI.

So the answer is just bring your own fork and rinse it off when you're done.
The maximum supported size is 512 banks, so 25 bits. But searching now, I don't think there are any games bigger than 1 MiB in size (64 banks), so 22 bits, or just 16 MiB or 32 MiB of lookup table. Yeah, maybe it is not so bad to replace the HashMap with an array, especially when I am losing a significant amount of time doing HashMap look ups already.

But of course I would like to avoid using that amount of memory if possible. Maybe I will also take a look at perfect hash mapping someday.
Really puts the phrase “ends justify the means” in perspective
> The complex tax code created by the government is the only reason they exist in the first place.

it seems like you’re arguing complicated is what we deserve, while simultaneously arguing against people who want to make it easier where we can, because making it easier would somehow be a bad thing (and also somehow that more complicated is a net good because complicated means anticommunism?)
May he find his lost shaker of salt.
> teams that played fair

What does "played fair" mean? Did this organsiation have a fixed definition of the value of a story point?

EDIT: The reason I ask is because when story points are used "correctly" their value is defined entirely relative to the previous output of the team which produced the estimate. Like, their purpose is to allow dev teams to do relative estimation (which is pretty easy to do), but also enable someone to produce absolute estimates based on the team's track record of delivery. Team says a story is a 5 pointer? Query previously delivered stories which the team also said were 5 points and if there's enough data you'll be able to forecast with reasonable certainty how long it will take them to deliver this new story. Used this way there's no "fair" value of a story point - it doesn't matter if one team uses point values in the range 0 - 1 while another uses point values in the range 1,000 - 1,000,000.

The whole thing breaks if you start comparing point values across teams, or say that 1 point is 1 day's work or whatever.
I have been in this position where my boss (the owner!) actually was willing to throw equipment away, but thought he could charge the client both for the new equipment, and for reinstalling. Unfortunately in the small business world, I fear this happens WAY more than even I could imagine, having dealt with it.
I really do think the Japan approach is the only practical one: just burn it all up. Maybe we just need to impose a plastic tax and use that to offset the carbon release. In the end this might be more inefficient but sometimes simplicity is far more important.
Ask HN: What do you carry in your backpack?
I've seen lots of generalized lists of items that people carry in their EDC backpacks, but I'm curious what unique things folks around here carry specifically!
Yup, just like there few that would consider themselves philosophers just because they took some philosophy classes in undergrad. Glad we have found some consensus on this.
Yeah; ISPs should be forced to advertise their 0.1th percentile speeds (aggregated over 60 second windows) as their topline upload and download numbers.

I once had a 100+ mbit comcast connection that couldn’t reliably do 2mbit in the evenings.
Why is burning it better than putting it in a landfill?
> Assisting Ukraine was a surefire way to start a conflict with Russia. Putin warned an invasion would be the result of NATO expansion. The US ignored the warning and shutdown diplomacy with Russia. This left Russia with no alternative but military force.

Interesting comment because NATO never accepted Ukraine as a member or even gave them a MAP, hell even Germany promised Putin before he invaded that Ukraine would never be in NATO, that didn’t do anything.

The quickly deleted Russian victory article also doesn’t mention NATO at all either.

I think it’s far more likely that this has more to do with Russias and more bluntly Putins want to recreate the USSR and imperialism.

I mean the Russian victory article does talk about how Ukraines independence was a mistake and how they have corrected that “mistake”.
Altmetrics: A Manifesto (2011)
Yep. Vercel has raised $300m.
> The truly great researchers are generous and friendly; so are many of the middle of the roaders.

Academia is a field with unique characteristics that exacerbate bitterness and frustration.

- People who were successful students end up with a lesser social status than their friends who followed different paths

- Researchers constantly compare to each other. Everybody knows the publication record of everybody else. They keep awarding themselves all sorts of prizes and titles, and at this game, most of them are on the losing side.

So not only they have a relatively low income, but they feel like losers at work when they feel they deserve better.
What is amazing about it, too, is that if you want to get better at using Shaq you could “increase your Shaq-fu”. For those who aren’t aware, there was a 2D fighting game released in the 1990s called Shaq Fu and featured Shaq [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaq_Fu
No, I'm saying that persisting data is mainly what a filesystem is about unless you go into some pedantic nonsense trying to tear apart a general statement.
If Musk publicly criticises MBS for this, I really doubt that is going to save the man's life. If anything, it will likely anger MBS, and he'll feel more inclined to make sure the execution is carried out.

If Musk privately contacts MBS, and asks him to reconsider this – there is a chance he might convince MBS to quietly commute the sentence.

So, if you really want to save this man's life - urging Musk to speak out publicly about it may not be the best approach.
Of course it has nothing to do with environmental factors, life choices, or just bad luck.
I joined the bug 323 community
I know it's too late now, but you are the type of developer that makes our profession an actual craft. Sharing knowledge is the biggest benefit to provide other developers, and too few that decide to go that route are rewarded for it. If it weren't for developers like you, we wouldn't be anywhere close to where we currently are in the software world. I try to give back knowledge as much as possible, because it's not just about the one business you work for, it's also about building up somebody. Know that you're appreciated, even if you aren't getting direct thanks for it!
Panels with inflatable pneumatic cells can bend flat structures in desired ways
Question for the OP: who/where/how do you design your app icons? They're super.
Yep, I just have my own utensils at work. Pack my food in a glass container (lid is plastic but reusable).
Perhaps how you take care of yourself plays a part, like life choices and all..
Many plastic items are single use items with a low lifetime. Recycling all these short lived single use items is absurd. An Amazon box lasts 1 day and then needs to be turned into pulp again and made into a new box if everything is recycled correctly?
Unfortunately, it hasn't changed much in small business. I try to do the same with my time, but often junior developers want to tackle the newest things, rather than the old that needs maintenance. The ones that listen to you often jump ship for bigger and better things, and I don't take credit for it, but I like to think I helped them along at least a little in their pursuit of more knowledge.
Just copy latest available wordpad.exe into your new OS. I'm 100% sure it'll work for the following century. It's Windows.
There is something about metrics that messes the thing being measured.

Suppose the bank Tim worked at decided to measure the number of pairing sessions each developer participated in—I suspect this too would destroy the team.

When you measure people doing X, you are really measuring people pretending to do X.
Show HN: I made an open-source TypeScript to JSON for mockering data
The country.
The San Diego link shows a "That position was not found" message.
Near Silicon Valley, we would get 256kbit theoretical.
Isn't the fib function as given heretical? Is it missing an oath, or is that the point?
It's been going on since at least Enclosure, and probably since the dawn of agriculture.
Japan is quite famously a fairly small mountainous island nation and therefore does not have much land where it is easy to pile up garbage.
Apps by Apple
You sure about that? Like really sure? Like you have definitive evidence that this assertion is true. Or are you placing faith in the news you read?
Android 12’s Material You Is Terrible and You Know It
https://web.archive.org/web/20221209231315/https://www.brend...
The GP used a double negative.
Refurb weekend: PowerBook Duo 2300c
Actually, starting up a digital agency might be the way to go? Like, he can learn from his colleagues. He also makes a return on investment.

Imagine this: you hire one UX designer, one marketeer and one dev guy (not in the US but in The Netherlands you could do this). You yourself oversee their projects and learn from all their skills. Even if you lose $40K per year, that's okay because you'd pay that money anyway for education.

It doesn't have to be one UX designer, one marketeer and one dev guy either. You can also think of other things that you might want to learn that synergize well with each other.

@OP: if by any chance you go through with a variation of this idea, feel free to shoot me an email. I'm curious how it would play out. Also, in certain cases I'd love to be the dev guy :)

Email is in profile.
I would never conduct business on Discord. It's for gaming not business.
sometimes you can print academic papers that have pseudocode in them it's like source code pseudocode is basically python anyway
Did you mean insert…?
I agree with you 100%. Management does not have an eye for software that is easy to maintain and continue to make money on 5 or 10 years down the line. Most management is thinking short term, how do I get money in MY pocket right NOW. Who cares how the business does in the long term, they'll jump ship and move on. It is the engineering that often makes a difference for long lived companies, it's just that usually the engineers and/or management isn't around long enough to reap the rewards. I try to balance engineering with product cost (I'm lucky enough where I can see the "numbers"). I try to give more to the clients that pay more, or at least create something that I can reuse in the future, while making sure what I deliver is stable and not a big ball of spaghetti to make the next developer/engineer cry at night.
> The Linux downloads come in around 200-220MiB, but the Windows downloads are around 320-350MiB. Weird.

I think I can guess at least part of the reason: MSVC redistributables. On Windows, each program is supposed to distribute a copy of the installer for the standard C and C++ library runtime corresponding to the MSVC version used to compile the software; unlike on Linux, these don't come by default with the operating system, and unlike on Linux, each new MSVC version came with a new and incompatible version of these libraries (the exception is very old or very new MSVC versions, which used/use a common version for more than one MSVC version; but even then, you're still supposed to distribute the installer with your software, since it's not guaranteed to be already installed).
We need a bunch of pre-fab structural designs that municipalities can put in quickly and affordable for various span lengths.

The American river could benefit a ton from this, as can all sorts of waterways in urban environments. Every bridge doesn't need to be unique and if we had a design contest which balanced aesthetics with durability and quality we should have a library of several design styles and have them placed over thin waters everywhere
it's always darkest before the dawn
The problem is that our main problem by a mile is that we burn hydrocarbons to do things like shipping.

Switch to any material that’s even incrementally heavier/more energy intensive to make and you’re creating more CO2 which almost certainly offsets the environmental and quality of life benefits you generate
Okay, let’s just agree to disagree then.
You said 'another place' but you didn't show us anything in the first two places.

So - you have no links to all that racism you're describing on reddit?

And no evidence of crowds yelling to keep black kids out of their schools either?

Again - You're saying there's so much racism. Substantiate your claims. Please provide the links to show us that what you're describing actually exists.

(It doesn't exist, because all these social networks very strictly police speech to prevent racism, as does society at large.)
It could work if one directly captures all the released carbon instead of releasing it into the atmosphere?
If I could, I'd give this more than one upvote. Take this comment as a "super upvote" instead ;-)
It’s mind boggling that this isn’t a native feature. I’ve been using minical, and this looks really nice. I suppose I’ll never understand why Apple doesn’t just add two buttons to their calendar so we can scroll months.
fnord already mentioned this, but to repeat: the situation with AI is the same as with other assets - Valve has no guarantee a developer didn't infringe copyright in taking some other model/texture/audio, tweaked it a bit, and put it in their game.

Edit for reply/clarification: "it's more likely" - I'm not speculating on the internal politics at Valve. Just stating the fact that, regardless of if assets are AI-generated or not, Valve cannot be certain they don't infringe copyright. In this respect, AI-generated assets with assurance the model wasn't trained on copyrighted works, are no worse than traditional ones.
I don't see this as "bullshit", but the opposite: Instead of going from one useful software to zero, we've gone from one to two.
We are in a climate crisis. It literally never is.

For some reason, people equate plastic waste with the other problem that literally changes the weather (maybe as a coping mechanism?). Under that framework, it makes sense to burn carbon.

But realistically, dead oceans filled with plastic in an atmosphere under 400ppm is a dream outcome compared to what’s actually ahead.
Ah, I believe I understand now. No, I’m afraid this risk is not insurable.

Any insurer would have to guarantee some share of the 1.05x EV per toss, call that share itself X. The insurer would keep the remainder of the EV as premium, call that Y.

X and Y are both positive so it seems at first like you should be able to underwrite this. However, the math will not work out unless you change the dynamics of the model in some way.

The fundamental problem is that this is a model for a sequence of N events, and X (and therefore Y) are exponential functions of N. After some finite N, it’s only the insurer’s most recent guarantee that matters to the total payoffs. No previous events are consequential; the brute force of exponential math says the exponent alone dominates.

So we can just think in terms of x^N. At some point the insurer must pay out x^N in losses from the previous x^(N-1) in gains.

In other words, regardless of the premium charged, or the number of individuals whose risk is pooled, this individual’s status as an insurer doesn’t give them any special exemption from exponential reality that prevents individuals in general from remaining solvent in the limit of this model.

(I haven’t totally worked through the outcome table for the author’s proposed solution— I’d encourage you to do that if you think the solution might be flawed. But this does indeed seem to be a situation where any individual who attempts to capture the EV will fail, and only unconditional sharing can succeed.)
This is a really neat idea. I didn't even know that other tools like this existed, what are they?
I think "information" is a better name than surprisal.

If your distribution has N equally-likely values, `p(x) = 1/N`, and information/surprisal `I(x) = log(N)`. In base 2, this is how many bits are required to specify exactly WHICH of the N values you're talking about.

If `x` is not a single one of the N states but an event consisting of `n(x)` states, then `I(x) = log(N) - log(n(x))`, suggesting it takes _somewhat less information_ to specify this particular state, and it correctly gives 0 if `n(x) = N`, i.e. there's only one state.

Exactly what this "less information" means is vague, but you might think of it in terms of compression: if you compress some stream of data which is sampled from `X` with probability `p(x)`, you could use use the shortest codes (0, 10, 11, etc) for the most common values with some "stop word" to say when the end of a datum is reached. `I(x)` captures this sense in general, but it might only become literally true in the limit of a very large stream of data with a very large dictionary.
No different. TLs are Software Engineers in title, track, compensation, and performance reviews. Most TLs are L5/6 (Senior or Staff).
Since you brought up refinery visits in the context of 80,000 hires I guess it is significant. Do you have an estimate of how many full time positions are for going to refineries to look at red diesel? Is this something a State could do?
Earthseed’s three main tenets are:

God is Change.
Shape God.
The Destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

https://godischange.org/about/
> Evaluating the source of any information is the very first part of comprehension

No, not comprehension, it has nothing to do with that. You can comprehend a topic presented without alignment with the source. The source may create a bias for how much authority you will give to the argument presented. Perhaps it’s zero, perhaps it’s more and you are willing to put aside a bias against the source to consider the argument.
Why Did a Drug Gang Kill 43 Students? Text Messages Hold Clues
In addition to your noted three, I use Calibre for deleting or reducing the size of images (for use on my ereader) and for merging books, like those in a series, cookbooks, and other references.
I get why people say this but let's be real. You optimize for the review cycle. If I'm told not to help as much I'm dropping it down until I'm told to help more. Then I'll correct the minimal amount necessary.
Very nice library. I used it some time ago to implement a module that applied ASR and other audio analytics to audio streams in real time and relayed extracted information via SIP messages. As with many projects in that space, it doesn’t come with a lot of documentation.
Sure. Considering the US, though, just imagine the backlash.

To be fair, some states have passed legislation regarding single-use plastics, and it's not as though measures in the EU didn't provoke whinging and pushback ... China, and Japan, among others, are somewhere between the US and EU when it comes to regs at least.

But, these are difficult measures to "sell" - the effects of this kind of legislation are immediate, impacting consumers, companies, etc. ... and "hit pocketbooks", in particular. The benefits are nebulous*, relate to some "ill-defined future", and don't seem to have tangible impacts today (except possibly negative) on ability to make a living / continue living.

Unfortunately, these factors in our current system(s) underlie a rigidity (resistance to changes) that bodes extremely poorly, IMO, for adaptations required to face the absolute sh1tstorm of challenges converging on societies like the water from "Lake Conemaugh" after the "South Fork Dam" break (i.e., when what was formerly protective focused problems avoided in former years, delivering decades worth of suffering in an ~hour-sized package).**

This isn't intended to suggest pessimism or apathy, but, rather, how much energy - voting, getting involved in politics, etc. - will be required from the (generally younger) citizens of many countries to break through the momentum of "legacy systems" to create some of the changes necessary.

The current indications aren't great when orange clown*** is still dominating the news many days...

* To the vast majority of sheltered "modern people" - who don't fish, say, or look at rain droplets with magnification, or have other occasions for encountering the really massive problem that's been developing for decades now

** https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood

*** And a whole circus and set of sideshows built around other grifters

Edit: one other point - my current favored "solution" is simply burning the plastic (most can be IIRC) in cement kilns and the like. Unsurprisingly, I think, to anyone with some understanding of "polymer chemistry", plastic isn't so "inert" when exposed to the harsh physical environment over the course of decades. In some sense, worse, one of the properties that makes plastic so useful, also means that most biological systems don't have enzymatic / other machinery for dealing with / processing plastic. There has been more burning of plastic, in recent years - it's not "great", but, it's actually still about the least harmful option for waste streams that can't be (practically) reused, recycled, etc. ... (yet). There have been some reasonably good articles on plastics recycling in some of the more mainstream sources that discuss burning (esp. for cement production / in "cement kilns")... I'd provide but kinda rushed (sorry - I need to stop writing long-ish comments when time is tighter), but, web searches should likely turn those up easily enough.
Where did I say the work should be done by trademark attorneys? They should have hired the appropriate people to do the required work. The original domain owner should not be responsible for fixing someone else's negligent mistake.

And that's very much how things are. Go into any court room and argue "it's okay that someone suffered material damage as a foreseeable result of my actions because I saved money" and see how it goes. Corporations maximize profits within the limits of still carrying out their obligations.
Windows 1.0 was released in 1985 November.

Microsoft Word for Windows was released in 1989 November, four years after Windows 1.0 included Microsoft Write. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Word
Hilarious!

And Brilliant!

Also... deeply, deeply disturbing... on many levels... <g>

(But then, sometimes some of the best humor is inseparable from being deeply disturbing on many levels...)

Kudos to the sick, but funny (but still sick, let's not kid ourselves!) mind or group of minds that concocted this!

You guy(s) are extremely funny, brilliant, and funny(!) -- but (and it pains me to say this!) also deeply, deeply disturbed...

Which I, then again, suppose is a hallmark of great comedy... I mean, I can think of SNL and Monty Python sketches that were extremely funny -- yet also deeply, deeply disturbing on many levels...

So, perhaps it is a hallmark of comedic brilliance...

But then again, perhaps it is a hallmark of sickness...

This we don't know -- but we do know that it is funny, and we do know that it is hilarious! <g> :-) <g>
Cynically, if you run the gamut become hugely successful, the rules stop applying so strictly to you (eg banning Uber unilaterally would be a great way for Apple to create Android users, especially if you think about Uber drivers on iPhone) but become a moat to new challengers.