skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the "middle option" between paying the minimum and paying the full balance that is more optimal?

If you pay the full balance on the due date, you get the interest-free loan. It's not exactly one month, but it's from purchase date until due date, which is something like 25-55 days.
"It would have to be a mass on the order of magnitude of a moon"

Here I am overcomplicating things in terms of E=mc2, and you come and point out the obvious.
Yeah. This is how Squeak changed the license from SqueakL to Apache and MIT. That code has a lot of history, so it was a pretty big effort, but worth it in the end.
There's an interesting first comment providing some argument for the decision:

Under common law (aka Anglo-American jurisprudence) Rulings of Law must follow precedent. Additionally novel rulings establish precedent. In other words, to be fair to Alice, we must use the same criteria for judgement that we use for Bob. Furthermore, it is established law that someone is "innocent until proven guilty". Using these two axioms, we can see that while refusing to allow bayesian statistics in this case may seem unenlightened, it is nevertheless legally essential that courts do so, as holding someone legally responsible for an action that they did not commit is reprehensible under our legal system, whereas letting someone off the hook for something that they did is merely unfortunate. In our system of law, it is desirable that investigators utilize all available tools, including math, to discover likely culprits and that they use that information to refine and direct their search for actual evidence. It is also desirable that courts refuse to allow the tools to be used as evidence and require that substantial proof be provided.
There are so many drugs that DO penetrate skin that Fentanyl would be a bizarre and ineffective choice. Which is why it should not be considered a WMD and why we know this is just dumb politics from the right.
How do multiple people increase the chance of a sale?

I was responding to "if you die in a car crash on the way home, there is someone left to continue on with." Which seems pretty clearly attached to survival.
"often" is not a number, and Economics has improved it's reproducibility rate more than any other social science.

> researchers who are awarded the most prestige and airtime are sympathetic if not outright fanatics of the prevailing order.

The most well-known Economists living, to the public, lean anywhere between left and far left. Stiglitz, Varoufakis, Piketty, Krugman. So that's horseshit. I also couldn't think of one who's "fanatic" of the prevailing order at all, they all have criticisms of the government; unless "prevailing order" for you translates to Liberal democracy.
Abstract: Handwritten assembly is a widely used tool in the development of high-performance cryptography: By providing full control over instruction selection, instruction scheduling, and register allocation, highest performance can be unlocked. On the flip side, developing handwritten assembly is not only time-consuming, but the artifacts produced also tend to be difficult to review and maintain – threatening their suitability for use in practice. In this work, we present SLOTHY (Super (Lazy) Optimization of Tricky Handwritten assemblY), a framework for the automated super-optimization of assembly with respect to instruction scheduling, register allocation, and loop optimization (software pipelining): With SLOTHY, the developer controls and focuses on algorithm and instruction selection, providing a readable “base” implementation in assembly, while SLOTHY automatically finds optimal and traceable instruction scheduling and register allocation strategies with respect to a model of the target (micro)architecture. We demonstrate the flexibility of SLOTHY by instantiating it with models of the Cortex-M55, Cortex-M85, Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A72 microarchitectures, implementing the Armv8.1-M+Helium and AArch64+Neon architectures. We use the resulting tools to optimize three workloads: First, for Cortex-M55 and Cortex-M85, a radix-4 complex Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) in fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic, fundamental in Digital Signal Processing. Second, on Cortex-M55, Cortex-M85, Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A72, the instances of the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) underlying CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium, two recently announced winners of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization project. Third, for Cortex-A55, the scalar multiplication for the elliptic curve key exchange X25519. The SLOTHY-optimized code matches or beats the performance of prior art in all cases, while maintaining compactness and readability.
I keep looking at various JIRA alternatives, but no good finds so far. This is definitely not it.

I don't really like the idea of bug tracker as a sort of a GUI program that acts like time management software, i.e. focuses on planning work, tracking how much effort was spent, ability to add notes to tasks etc.

My ideal bug-tracking software works more like Git: it has a server-client relationship where clients query the database with predefined set of commands, while at the same time it has programmable interface facing test code. This interface should enable tests to do things like:

* figure out what components need tests to run against them when a particular feature branch sees a code update.

* extract history of tests running against a defined group of features.

* manage association of tests and program components.

* manage test sets that aren't feature-related (eg. nightlies).

JIRA kind of has this database / query component, but all the functionality above needs to be built on top of it. And the data organization of JIRA relies on issues as the basic unit, where I'd like the basic component to be "features" (similar to how branches are in Git).

My biggest problem with the currently popular approach (emphasis on time management) is that it's very informal and unstructured when it comes to testing, poorly automated and poorly integrated with other development tools to the point that it makes it both easy to forget to do the necessary stuff and a very repetitive chore to keep the necessary stuff up-to-date, while it's clear that it's possible to automate it.

The attempts to automate this process by adding bots that manage issue life-cycle or generate trivial fixes / merge trivial PRs isn't the way to solve the problem, IMO because this automation is stupid and has a potential to cause harm. Instead it needs to be very tightly integrated with VCS (but, let's be honest, with Git) to the point that such configuration would require minimal effort on the part of the admin and be vendor-independent, and, most importantly, be feature-oriented to mirror how programmers conceptualize the development of their program.
The amount of physical adjustments and maintenance needed to operate mirrors in the 15m+ diameter range, for visible and near IR/UV, are very hard in outer space. For now it seems that earth-bound optical telescopes are still needed, even with all the orbital debree and atmospheric interference.
Tik tok is only a vine clone if Reddit is a Twitter clone. They operate completely differently and had very different starting points.
So a chunk of consumers use autopay to pay their bills in full every month, and another chunk use it to pay the minimum amount and let the rest accrue interest. I'm not sure how one can draw the conclusion that autopay is at fault here? If anything the lack of autopay would make things a lot worse, because plenty of people in the first set would neglect to pay their bills as well.
Back in the days when 200 MB was a big drive for a personal computer, IBM was working on a 1 GB drive. I worked at a place that was doing firmware for a company that was going to use those 1 GB drives in their product, and that company had access to some of the earliest test units. We were writing the firmware for that product, so IBM allowed them to loan us a couple of the drives.

I once put one of the drives into my test system, and plugged in the power connector. It used a standard Molex connector [1].

The way the drive was mounted I couldn't actually see the plug or socket. It's a keyed connector so that should not be a problem. Yet somehow I managed to plug it in upside down which fried the drive.

Afterwards I did some tests and found that the plastic on the connector on the drive was very soft. If you tried to plug in the wrong way the parts that were supposed to get in the way due to the keying would just deform out of the weight.

It took more force to insert it the wrong way, but not more than was often needed when you happened across a plug and socket combination that were a tight fit so that didn't tip you off.

I reported that to the person who had loaned us the drive and he told me he'd fried two of them that way. He said that when he told IBM about that his contact there said that they were losing something like 10% of the drives during testing right after manufacturing due to their technicians getting it backward, and the parts list had already been revised to switch to a connector hard enough for the keying to actually work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molex_connector
IMO the main thing is the bleed between "pixels" in retro games.

I recently bought a "Metal Slug" art book, and was AGHAST that all of the assets in the art-book were obvious screen caps from an emulator. The assets looked like shit, and I considered the book lazy and crappy because of this.

The game assets were designed on CRT screens with the bleed as part of the aesthetic.

It is amazing to see the difference between assets on a CRT screen vs an LCD screen with no shaders. Do some basic googling if you are interested, it is crazy how much better a low-poly model, or illustration looks. Especially on stuff like the classic King of Fighter and Street Fighter games.
I used to review charges, and it was always a pain. I know where I shop and don't shop, so if I see a charge for a place I don't shop, it is clearly fraud. But, a lot of fraud happens where you shop(because that is where people may have access to your card). That is, I gas up at Shell, but did I really gas up 23 days ago?

Now, I have a text message/app notification come through immediately whenever there is a charge > $0.00 (chase at least supports this). Reviewing immediately, and then knowing that all charges are real at the end of the month, has been a real pleasant change in that workflow.
Hi, article author here,

Semantic Kernel and LangChain are both geared towards NLP but they have different takes on it. While LangChain revolves around creating sequences of calls known as "Chains", SK employs a "Kernel" to manage these sequences and has a "Planner" to auto-create chains for new user needs.

SK steps up the game with plugins supporting both semantic and native functions, which isn't a feature in LangChain. Also, SK has a memory feature to store context and embeddings, broadening its use case.

Moreover, SK is more welcoming to C# integration alongside Python, and has a knack for blending AI services like OpenAI with conventional coding, which LangChain doesn't offer.

So, in a nutshell, while there are similarities, SK packs more features and a bit of a different approach compared to LangChain.

Hope this clears things up!
I wonder what their trade-offs are for not supporting games. It seems to have everything. Maybe the 6-dof spatial tracking isn't good enough.
Could you be specific and point to a highly cited study that set up such an experiment? What in the experimental design do you think mechanically reinforced ideological biases and how would you have designed the experiment instead?
> New way: Winner bids $1.00, 2nd place bids $0.80, Google adds 15%* markup to 2nd bid, Winner pays $0.93.

This is true. But the story gets crazier. Let's say that CorpA and CorpB are both bidding on the term "Valuable Widgets". Here is who it goes:

CorpA bids $0.80

CorpB bids $1.00

--

CorpB wins the auction, pays $0.80 + 15% = $0.92

--

CorpA is sad they lost and wants so they try to outbid. They must pay $1.00 + 15% or $1.15

CorpA wins the new action, paying $1.15

--

CorpB needs those auctions to sell more widgets, so they now must pay $1.15 + 15% or $1.32

It obviously goes back and forth, but as you can see, Google is widening the gap each time to escalate the bid up faster. It increases competition and raises prices. In order to win you can't just pay what the previous person paid, you must pay a premium of 15%.

Now the part that is unclear is what happens if you ignore the winning bid price. So if CorpA has a max bid of $1.00 and CorpB tries to bid, they will see that they need to bid $1.15 to win the bid, because Google is saying that is what is needed to win the auction, but if CorpB only bids $1.10 they should still win the auction at $1.10 since that is their max bid and CorpA is only willing to pay $1.00. So CorpB in this case would pay their max bid and win. But either way, google is artificially pushing the price up higher than it technically needs to be.
LSD would be easier to weaponize. Do we need to mark that as WMD? Let's be realistic here. This is just silly right-wing posturing.
In the US, if you pay your credit card bill in full each month you don’t pay any interest or fees. Most if not all cards give cash back or rewards points in the range of 1-5% depending on the merchant category. So you effectively get a 1-5% discount on all spending compared to paying with cash or debit.
I don't know if anyone will find this useful, but here's something I learned literally this weekend.

Sort rows/cells into groups based on the value of a cell.

=FILTER(Stories!B2:D13,Stories!F2:F13=A2)

First parameter, "Stories!B2:D13" is a group of cells showing some stories.

Second parameter, "Stories!F2:F13=A2" is the column where each cell is compared to the value of A2. Rows that match are then copied into wherever the =FILTER formula is placed.

I use it to take a list of Stories and sorts them into Sprints automatically. That's useful for program increment planning, etc.

The other useful Excel thing I learned recently is:

=IF(NOT(ISBLANK(A2)),HYPERLINK("https://jira-instance.atlassian.net/browse/PROJECT-"&A2,"PROJECT-"&A2),"")

That says: If the cell A2 is not blank, append its value onto the url given, and show that as a link with the text PROJECT- with the value of A2 appended.

I know I should have probably done something cooler with Emacs and org-mode, but I have to share it with a lot of business folks.

If by some chance either of those are useful to you, I hope they work OK for you :)
The answer from the article is that the IR optimizer, acting on the LLVM bitcode, is able to combine the separate lines for getting the quotient and the remainder into one assembly instruction.

The problem with the article is that the same argument applies to any sufficiently good optimizing compiler, and therefore it is not obvious at all why C needs the div() function and Rust does not.
I quite liked it but last time I checked there was no GitHub integration and that's I would say one of the top features, as every card we complete we want to have PR/Commit attached to it in development lifecycle.
Are national security arguments not legal? My understanding was that Chinese Tech companies are required by law to serve as (willing or unwilling) arms of the domestic spy agency in China.
Sure. I wasn't really responding to this bill directly.
I watched Dr Strangelove and they already made a joke about this in the 1950s- even before ICBMs.
Besides a couple of yearly digital subscriptions I don’t use autopay. I do everything manually. I still hand a money order to my landlord. I like doing errands and getting to know everyone.
I'm seeing a lot of answers in the negative, so I'll give my experience:

Find a relatively low cost of living area. The good news is that there are several top universities in such places (e.g. Midwest).

Find out the pay you'll get.

Find out the fees you'll pay.

Now you know how much you'll make. Check rents in the area, and then decide.

For me, (2003-2010), as a single person, the pay was more than sufficient to get by. I could afford a single bedroom apartment, got a good used car, and drove across the country (staying at motels, not camping) twice. I bought a DSLR, and had a very nice PC that lasted me all those years. Would eat out from time to time.

It wasn't much, but it was all I needed, and a bit more.

The main difference between then and now is that cars have gotten a lot more expensive. Rents may have gone up, but perhaps not as much (i.e. pay may have gone up enough to compensate).
I'm the opposite. I know it's wrong, because I'm giving companies free loans or whatever, but when I pay recurring bills (that aren't on autopay) I just multiply by 10 so I only have to pay once a year or so.
I’m interested in helping out.

I have done a lot of research in medicine due to my poor experiences with even top specialists. Ignoring symptoms, denying side effects of meds I took, even though those were present on the label.

Do you have a discord?

Any plans on allowing people to comment on physicians?

Any plans of adding how much doctors have received from corporate interests?(as this data is available)
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I hear what you're saying, I think this is a case where there's no perfect total solution. I would amend what I said to be more "on the balance" more bad then good get weeded out.

The thing about Facebook is they were widely profitable and quickly growing quite early on if I recall correctly, so not sure that's a great example, but I get what you're saying anyway.
Who is asking? Generally as a small software company founder, key man risk worries come from middle managers who are afraid of the worst case (you dying or something) then their boss asking, so they are just trying to cover all their bases. It should be a minor consideration for the overall business who is the ultimate customer (as there is risk in everything - getting acquired, going bankrupt etc.), ask their concerns and reassure, focus on the value and product since you have a niche
You are right, except in this instance there is very objective proof that inflation and homelessness are problems that have gotten worse recently and are having widespread impacts. If the media choose not to cover this, because of whatever reasons they have (maybe they worry about frightening the public ?) then it will not be addressed politically. They are called the 4th estate for a reason. They determine what political discussions are allowed. Inflation is an important issue for lower income and middle class workers.
The flip side to that is it's going to be easier to self-host a coding LLM. That's free for the user (if they already have a good enough GPU) and it gives much better flexibility.
No, you cannot.

Because C++ without exceptions is not C++, and those languages cannot catch exceptions, nor call overloaded functions, nor delete or create objects using new and delete, nor refer to fields with classes, nor call methods on objects.
That's a different issue than what I thought you're talking about, and I'm not sure why it's relevant here. None of the declarative/imperative systems can deal with future compatibility. The service you're using may change the meaning of some API call/values - there's nothing we can do about it apart from updating the software, whether you're using Terraform or Ansible.
So you don’t have to wonder if it’s a variable. Old Mac style uses prefixes: kConstant, gGlobalVar, TType, mMemberVar. Remember this was when all coding was done in black and white in a plain text editor.
With higher interest rates, I stopped paying the full balance and instead try squeezing a little extra interest out of the money (I buy USFR, which is giving around 5.3% right now). I still pay the statement balance of course.
I use this in Pandas all the time. (Just got done teaching a class about it.) Very useful once you grok the syntax.

Smart folks like duckdb realize the utility (and the pain of doing this in normal SQL) and have added PIVOT to their implementation. Super useful.
In any of those fields, and computers science, there is a spectrum.

Deep research areas in computer science would be foundations of databases, cryptography, formal verification, statistical heuristics, core algorithms behind deep learning, ...

Since so many areas in computer science are relatively new, there is generally more flexibility in who might be considered great at research. The field includes many unusually creative individual practitioners who have produced great work without a Ph.D.

But Ph.D.s are still very much in demand and common for research positions in these highly technical, high value areas.
Thanks! Yes, I am
> Often, people are reluctant to engage with support services and instead shut down, which can hinder long-term financial planning and wealth accumulation, particularly if the cause of the anxiety is driven by high debts," says Vyas-Lee. And, she adds, "financial anxiety rarely resolves by itself, so professional support can be genuinely transformational for those who do step forward".

I'm genuinely curious about that professional help.

A this point it seems the general advice is "just accept to be poor", which doesn't seem to go in line with wealth accumulation over time.
I'm seeing way too many comments about not being able to change the relationship.

I was in a top school. I saw plenty of students change advisors and do fine. You have to be a bit careful - your former advisor shouldn't be in your thesis committee, and some advisors are unwilling to take you if they think it will cause bad blood between him and the original advisor. But it definitely was done. Over and over again.

Of course, it helps if the department is big (mine had about 100 professors).
I'd say something like:

> I _am_ <company name>. This product is my baby.
More than that, a US company has an innate floor on 'how bad' they're willing to disrupt the US to get what they want, because they live and operate there. A foreign national company has no such floor if they are not our allies.
Do you not have the option to receive emails and pay online?

All of my "manual" bills work that way. It takes a few seconds of clicking to schedule the payment on the due date for the full amount, and even log it to my software, which doubles as a chance to check that there wasn't something unexpected going on.

I think being fully aware of every bill or credit card you pay is helpful in being full control of your finances. I get that impression that some people using automatic payments don't slow down to review things carefully. That may not be the case for you, but that doesn't mean others don't make that mistake.
The US is way past 100% now:

https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Have you tried some from Waveform Lighting? I have some of their bulbs (none of which has broken yet) and I selected them because of the low blue light and zero flicker. (No relationship with them beyond being a satisfied customer).

https://www.waveformlighting.com/
I was asked what I like and dislike not to debate or justify my opinions which stand.
yes major downsides, these are only strategies to get by
Same as in the US.
The only viable replacement for Fortran we currently have. The rest are not getting it.
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