skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Support contract does not linked directly to the maintenance of the software you are selling.

More support contract does not mean company will assign more resources into maintenance of software itself.
There is an unwarranted hate against BASIC. BASIC has of course also evolved since then and you can still write professional software in numerous BASIC dialects just as in Pascal.

Few years ago I evaluated FreePascal for writing desktop applications, I ended up instead with the BASIC dialect PureBasic (albeit commercial), better out of the box experience. Pascal is also slightly more verbose than BASIC.
> Yes, we had Pascal and C in the 80s. But what kid growing up in the 80s would go out of their way to purchase a Pascal compiler and learn an academically oriented language when their home computer comes with a very accessible built in programming language, providing direct access to sound and graphics and all the things they need to program their very own game?

Me... I saved and bought a pascal compiler for my C=64.
I'm not up on US employment law. As an employee are you entitled to put out a letter saying your CEO is a jerk and that the idiot isn't allowed to fire you so you'll keeping saying it?
> The projects that cost money upfront (OPEX) and can provably reduce recurring costs (CAPEX)

So you mean OPEX are upfront costs, and CAPEX are recurring costs?
ABRP's default assumes really close to the (often incorrectly mapped) speed limits. Having said that, your figures are probably pretty close. You'd just need to adjust the drive time for 80+ instead of ~70, and increase the charge times by maybe 10-15 minutes.
I wonder if this is why I felt off, when I drank 4L of coconut oil.
DNS "blocking" doesn't impress me much; it only works if you rely on the ISPs DNS servers.

I think personal computers should simply ship with a local recursive resolver installed and configured. The resource burden is tiny, and it's likely to be faster than most ISP's resolvers. And it'll tell you the Truth about what's in the DNS tree.

I understand that many ISPs use slow DNS servers as a way of throttling their users.
The whole glass ceilings concept is absurd: just because someone's situation isn't perfect doesn't mean we don't all benefit from pointing out flaws in a given system.
Why stop there? Institute Georgism while you're at it, so that people can actually afford houses again. Go "Full George".
From Amazon to Facebook and Google, how platforms decay
2024 is the biggest global election year in history
I might be mistaken, but wouldn't a git signature already be signing trusted things (i.e. the person making the original signature is trusted), making any attack enabled by the input hash function a second preimage attack (i.e. an attacker onky knows the trusted input, not anything private like the signing key)?

Hash collisions mean you can't trust signatures from _untrusted_ sources, but git signatures don't seem to fit that situation.
I can totally see people removing concrete slabs, laminated floors, window drip drains, and exhaust vents inside walls. The ants won't understand human idealism, but most aphids and fruit flies sure love vinegar smells. =)
[Facepalm\] IANANA (not a Native American), but I'll speculate that the great majority of the Navajo realize that - however many short & dirty sticks they've been handed by white men - they have no unique or sovereign claim to the moon. But if a topic really pushes the buttons of a vocal minority, and their President is elected...then writing a "don't do that, Luna is sacred..." letter to NASA may have been the guy's least-bad option.
A computer program is a theory of how to solve a problem, written by humans, in a format readable by machine. Most of the time, it will be humans doing the reading, the compiler only sees it sporadically. The run-time executable is a crystallization of the source code, freezing its structure for all time. (In the ideal case)

Since the audience is mostly human, write for them. Future you, who has forgotten the context, will likely be the largest fraction of that audience, be kind to them.
Sales/marketing don't even exist when a product is first being built, but you're getting paid... but your salary isn't R&D. The pace isn't calm. The stakes are high. The target can pivot violently.

Your salary is coming from the Business Plan's Capital Expenditure, as part of an initial round of investment needed to achieve the Business Goals. This is a marked difference from Operational Expenditure, which "Maintenance" is most often lumped under.

Whether your salary is CapEx or OpEx has a much larger impact on your ability to work freely and productively than what of these 3 (really 4) categories are.
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Even when a company sells maintenance/support/compliance, the incentive is still to put as few actual development hours into these columns as possible, and to pay as little as possible for those hours.

What is actually being sold is a promise, and that really comes from the sales department, not the engineering department. Once the customer signs the contract, the incentive is to do the minimum possible to keep the promise--or better said, break it infrequently and non-egregiously enough that the customer doesn't churn (or sue). So you'll unfortunately still be viewed as a cost-center at many companies if you're working on this stuff.
>what the mouse designers are planning

I predict the trailing mouse effect will stop following the cursor and go on its own adventures with occasional cursor privileges, that's when amazon will invent Just-Hover purchasing and your AI mouse gf will spend all your cash.
Students in my lab are having disability on basic computer literary such as explain what CPU GPU HDD do in a pc, read the error message and do google-fu, etc. And yes they are CS students. Only 10% of them can comprehend the idea of for loop after 4 years of formal training. Imagine that a guy stand in front of you say he is a master chef from some chef school but don't know shit about his cooking gears.

Seriously just go read some CompTIA A+ books then anyone can be more usable than 90% of CS grad population.
Among other things, critical current in bulk ceramic superconductors depends on cross-sectional area, so while it seems reasonable to make a ribbon-like structure, the 3rd dimension does matter. You can't make it effectively 2D.
Answering the title quickly: They don't store or ship well.
The footage of terrorists laughing as they torture and cut people up is deeply disturbing and shouldn't be dismissed. Sometimes, evil is simply evil. :(
How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS (2022)
But you don't get it. you think the government is required to play God in every aspect of the economy, clearly.
Well, it's not a tool for normal people to use _to diagnose their kids illness_. They can still ask it to come up with a poem about a science subject to read to their kids, or they can use it to have a conversational first dive into the surface layer aspects of a topic they're interested in (I've done this many times in physics and the results have never hallucinated, even when asking for book recommendations, just don't ask it to do a determinant).

Its definitely some kind of tool for some large aspect of society to use. At this point i think we've done a good job of dispelling the whole "agi is here and is about to make my job obselete" type of existential fear in the general populace. You don't see people talking like they did when it first came out anymore.

I do think that knowing what type of structure to add is essential. For instance, i basically always start with assigning it a role as a trusted high level scientist or clinician or whatever, I'm an interested student at some particular level tailored to the level of detail I'm seeking, and I'm about to ask you questions about this topic, etc.
Favourite sets of (unpublished) lecture notes which can be found freely online
> Otherwise, I can't remember the last time in recent memory when first-party cookies benefitted me in some worthwhile way.

A very standard example is when you put something in a shopping cart the site needs some way to record this, which requires cookies or other client-side storage. And if it's a site you've never bought from before you wouldn't be logged in.
Share link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-is-finally-killing-cookies-a...
Those properties are not a direct result of a function being collision-resistant, which is a property that only makes sense in adversarial contexts. If nobody is trying to produce collisions, it doesn't matter if they're easy or hard to find.

You might care that the output hashes are well-distributed for your closely-related input data, but as the comment you replied to above points out, there are non-cryptographic functions with good avalanche properties which would satisfy that need without being collision-resistant.
So that raises an interesting question. If part of the letter was about working conditions, and part was about Elon tweeting, can they legally be fired for the second part of the open letter despite the existence of the first?
First party cookies are how you’re authenticated on a website.

They (or an equivalent mechanism) is the only way to save state and create the concept of a “session”.
no - enhanced resolution is very iffy and subject to gaming etc

secondly, there is no perfect way to measure accuracy of remote sensing for many reasons
So like in my sister reply, I don't see the Backprop, but maybe I'm missing it. This article does use the word, but in a generic way

"For example, when doing the backpropagation (the technique through which the models learn), the gradients can become too large"

But I think this is more of a borrowing and it's not used again in description and may just be a misconception. There's no use of the Backprop term in the original paper nor any stage of learning where output errors are run thru the whole network in a deep regression.

What I do see in Transformers is localized uses of gradient descent, and Backprop in NNs also uses GD...but that seems the extent of it.

Is there a deep regression? Maybe I'm missing it
I know while they are out there on their fishing grounds they don't always tell others where they are.

I have several relatives that do fish. This includes long line tuna fishing and reef fishing.
I remember early advice in my career to always work for a revenue center not a cost center.

This was really helpful as having something that makes a firm money seems more easy to measure impact than a cost center.

The natural incentives seem to jive better. Revenue centers are supposed to increase and are a function of margin. So more salaries and expenses should lead to more revenue. Cost centers are supposed to decrease or stay the same. So always a pressure to cut expenses.
I don’t think I’m aware of any EV that doesn’t have a button on the trunk. What model was it?
Ahh that does make sense. They do things like turn their emotes "LUL" etc into images inline so I imagine they're doing something custom with it
Is there? When it comes to math and abstract concepts such as these I can see no such line. To me it seems e.g. the real numbers were invented about as much as they were discovered. Same goes for the semaphore.

(Of course the exact syntax and semantics of let’s say semaphores in POSIX belong to a different category. But I’m not sure I’d want to call it an “invention”.)
I hope ants won't end up copyrighted.
makes ya think doesn't it..
Nah just typing
This in the heart of the museum quarter, unlikely that anyone lives there. The only thing that is within a 500 radius of the exhibition and not a museum is the math department of the Ludwig Maximilian university. That is my guess where Sebastian is, but good luck finding him there.
I think a better way to think is as product development. Sales and marketing exist from the beginning even though nothing is being sold yet.
I don't believe you can heat an ICE in the garage prior to departure.
On top of this, we can't see 800 nm light. That's well into the Infrared band so "invisible lightsaber for your eyes" is an exaggeration, but helps visualize what you could be dealing with.
I understand that happens when you go to a different size.

But I haven't seen this when going from signed int -> unsigned int or vice versa.
Two things. First, the time of friction is important. Pretty much all friction points with vehicle ownership are distributed throughout the year, *and are amortized across all uses of the vehicle*. When you want the vehicle to haul the mulch you press the button and you get bacon. Contrast with renting a truck to pick up mulch, or renting a restaurant for a party, or putting your parents in a hotel. Those friction points happen every single time you want to do the fun thing, and happen when you want to do the fun thing. Press button, pay tax, *then* get bacon. There's a big psychological difference there.

Second, I think you're framing it as {truck + self pickup} vs {no vehicle + delivered}, but I think the more likely comparison is {truck + self pickup} vs {sedan + delivered}. Nobody's going to get a truck as their only vehicle that they'll literally only use a few times a year. They'll be choosing between truck and sedan as their daily driver (or truck as second vehicle). In the replacement case in particular (truck vs sedan) the friction delta is very small.
no man, 21€c/kwh at Tesla SC stations outside Italy, something x2 in the country. Besides, gasoline was outrageously priced last summer, an epic gouging.

Please, enough goalpost pushing
Had this same thought as well. Definitely comes up when calculating variance this way in streaming data.

https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/235151/1036

I am not sure if `n*old_mean` is a good idea. Wellford's is typically something like inside the loop

count += 1;
delta = current - mean;
mean += delta/count;
> Could the US do better? Yes.

That is like comparing a toddler to Usain Bolt in a race and saying the toddler could have done better.

The US isn’t even trying to manage any money from its resources in a way that benefits its citizens in the long term. Americans should be furious about how poorly managed the wealth from these natural resources is being managed, but instead seem to think that America is too different from Norway to even consider doing a similar sovereign wealth fund. The same bad arguments get made about healthcare all the time.
Yeah, I definitely do feel that I try to consider the options and weigh them.
Joining a startup: How to think about equity compensation
>The point about being hostile by default is precisely what pushed me towards suicide attempts.

This thread is stale enough I'm going to risk injecting some religion into it.

I've spent most of my life belonging to (some variant of) a faith with redemption at it's core. And yet, our adherents tend to dominate the part of society that 1) dedicates massive resources to thwart redemption and 2) broadly support the eradication of redemption. My analysis has slowly been shifting from our actions are indistinguishable from evil to - according to our own plain and reasonable definition, we're evil.

> Some people cannot live with actions they have done; others feel they cannot live with the limited options available in the future. I was the latter.

I have glimpsed the former and can say it is no metaphor. As to the latter, I'll say I was born at the end of a more reasonable time.

The actions of my youth didn't risk individuals or society in any meaningful way - yet would have imprisoned me for life today. This is entirely because we have become an unreasonable people who have lost our way. We no longer assess risk well because we have given up our sense of proportion.

I don't know how to make any of this better. Just learning how to fathom and elucidate the issue is taking time. Perhaps I'll come across people who can do something with that.
Is blocking the keywords really the solution to prevent spam? I don't think that solves the root cause.

Wouldn't another approach like detecting senders who deliver 10k sms to thousands different contacts in a short amount of time be more effective?
It depends on the household, and not exactly on the country and culture. However, those definitely affect prevalence. For example, I like to hold parties during which we cook together. But I have several relatives and friends who already prepares everything before anybody arrive. It’s not even family, because a lot of us do differently than how our parents and grandparents do. It’s a matter of taste.

That’s however a joke that home food is better. There are great home meals, and there are bad restaurants, sure. But the top is obviously restaurants. And not even just because they really know what they do, but it’s even way more difficult to get those kind of ingredients what they use. One time, one of my friends from one of the best restaurants from my home country (Hungary) left some beef loin from his restaurant in my fridge as gratitude. I made the best steak from it, that I’ve ever made. It didn’t matter how expensive meat I bought, or in which expensive meat shop. I tried different techniques, but no. I couldn’t reproduce it. Simply that kind of loin is not accessible for common people there.
Are you in Wyoming?
Isn’t it run multiple times and the slowest is dropped? Why would you expect the file to be evicted from ram so quickly?
> It (suburbia) is a very convenient place to live

I just wanted to point out that this is missed on a lot of people. City planners in suburbs have come a long way, at least in DFW they have. I live in Oak Cliff which is about 3 miles S/SW of downtown Dallas. The northern suburbs of DFW such as Frisco are not the traditional boring/bland bedroom communities that get associated with suburbs. Well, there is that element but there are many good jobs, good restaurants/entertainment, and other amenities traditionally associated with city centers in the suburbs these days.

I suggest spending some times in a growing a suburb with an open mind. If you're a city person it's not likely to amaze you but it's not that bad either.
> By the way he goes on talking about diet soft drinks, and explain that they are also bad, you produce insulin anyway.

This is where I'd start to tune out on other stuff this person is saying. I looked into this a while back when my son sent me those studies/links (we've been in a constant bar-argument debate over if real Coca-Cola is better or worse for you than Diet Coke) and I recall that it was highly specific to individuals. Some displayed a slight insulin response, while others did not.

I hit my weight loss extremely aggressively in the past year, and as part of that wore a CGM. I drink far too more diet coke than I reasonably should, and I've never been able to correlate any blood sugar events (high or low) to my diet coke or coke zero consumption. You'd think there would at least be a small amount of data in the graphs to tease out given it's a daily thing for me.

Of course abstaining from both is the right answer - but there has been no clear repeatable data I've seen yet that shows detrimental health from the artificial sweeteners commonly used. A lot of the first studies that got traction were either extremely flawed, non-repeatable, or using dosing that never made sense to test with.
Anyone who thinks BASIC is useless or a kids game has never seen what can be done with something like HP Rocky Mountain BASIC.
You’re paying considerably more all of the time – the vehicle is 2-3 times more expensive to buy, fuel costs are similar, every component will cost more to repair, and, yes, most buyers will have to worry about finding a parking spot on a regular basis. Insurance and, often, registration will cost more, too.

Now, if you’re in the 20% of truck buyers who really need them those are necessary costs but most people are buying them as a lifestyle accessory.

There’s also a fairly large group of people who live in urban settings who think they need all of that but are paying more than the cost of renting on the few times they actually do. Those people have been very good to the manufacturers’ profit margins but unfortunately all of the extra pollution and lowered safety affects their neighbors as well.
If a space is repurposed from a previous permanent use, sure. Although, nothing is free, it's a more reasonable situation to end up in.

But then we've also deviated from the discussion of acquiring things with the intend to perfectly cover an edge-cases. On-topic, that would be like getting a long-range car because you drive the 1000 km constantly rather than for trips, and later lose the need and only use the extra range for leisure.

> There is an enormous population that exists between "can't sleep comfortably on a couch" and "needs some specific kind of mattress."

I'm actually not sure there are many people in that group. I don't think there's far between a decent couch and an "eh" mattress, closing the gap of people that cannot sleep on one but can sleep on the other. A decent futon or fold-out bed also goes a long way, and to theorize a bit I expect those that would not be able to have acceptable sleep on such would not sleep well outside their own home and bed regardless.

Either way, futons or fold-out beds are quite reasonable propositions comfort-wise and I sure wouldn't consider providing more for friends and family that needs to sporadically stay over at my home.
Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness
Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells that produce less energy than in healthy patients. The results of the study were published today in Nature Communications.
> GPL - and more importantly, AGPL - is definitely important for full-fledged products that can be monetized and abused

With GPL3, that covers pretty much everything from laptops to online databases. Which is why Apple, for example, has worked very hard to rip any GPL code out of their systems.

> This project hardly enables anything new - they could just use a BSD userspace or other portable coreutils clone

Yes, but it is a competitive disadvantage to ship something less familiar. Again, the Apple example shows most developers would run to replace the shipped utilities with GNU versions instead, which was good for the ecosystem as a whole - less so for Apple, of course, which lost some control on target toolchains and suffered a competitive disadvantage towards Linux machines (minor, sure, but every little helps).

It's sad that this particular project is headed by Mozilla people, who are supposed to care about the health of the opensource community as a whole, and still does the wrong thing - probably out of a (vaguely desperate) hunt for widespread adoption of Rust, at the expense of the overall free-software community.
Yes, that's the one, and with a delay this fixes one of the "almost correct" issues
The benchmark is run 5 times without flushing file system caches. If you mmap it, it will still be in memory between process runs. The author intended this FWIW
The first style doesn't become dirtier, it just gets an ambient occlusion map applied to it.
I’m sure the engineers are nice people. But it would suck to have to compromise design to make the crappy stuff that just randomly eats processors.

This would make me sad and fortunately, I think engineers have a lot of choice over where they work. So if people are consciously building this stuff then I think it’s more likely that they drank the koolaid and agree than they are forced against their will to be crappy.
I'm waiting for you
Retro Gaming Watch is like a mini Game Boy SP you wear on your wrist
Rust, Ruby, and the Art of Implicit Returns
lol, I was just about to read the article to see if they were lying. Thanks for saving me the time.

Growth in 2022 was wildly high. Model launches this year have been slow. Growth shockingly fit with product launches.

But instead we get weird headlines.