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My company had done a few. I’ve never participated, because the vibe I got from my management was that we shouldn’t have enough time to work on something like that.

Some of the winning projects seemed way more involved than what would be done within the hackathon. It seemed like these were things that had been in the works for a while, and they used the hackathon as a means of internal marketing, to get the idea out there and give the team recognition. It felt like a dog and pony show in some respects. Though I could be wrong. Some data to support this is a video contest we also had, and my team was one of the winners. No one on the team had any idea about it, going 3 levels up to the VP level. They had the marketing team (or something) throw a bunch of fake videos together with made up information, and presented it as if teams were participating. This is one reason why I question the validity of the hackathon.

One thing that kind of upset it, or made me jealous, was that those working on the hackathon had a portal with a 1 click setup for the internal CICD system, so they could jump in and start coding right away. When working normally, trying to get into the corporate CICD seems to take months, with countless meetings, hoops, and tests of strength, followed by significant manual setup and a steep learning curve. I’ve seen more people fail than succeed, and some leave the company defeated over it. Why time would be invested to make it seamless for the hackathon, while everyone else is left to struggle, I will never know.
I am so glad to be in the office.

For instance, every morning when I come in there is a person on my team that will talk about their family, their kids, their life, and that goes on for about 15 minutes. In the spirit of team building, I entertain it for awhile. But that does come with a cost.

Someone came in a few weeks ago not feeling well, but decided not to stay home. Ended up having covid and spread it to others. It's hard to be productive when half the team is out sick.

Every day I have to be in the office with others, I truly hate it. The pandemic was hard, but I absolutely miss being able to work from home every day.
Nothing in that snippet is Typescript-specific, it's just plain Javascript.

All syntactically valid Javascript is also syntactically valid Typescript, it just adds stuff, though you can get runtime errors for things like reassigning variables in a way Javascript is fine with that Typescript disallows.
Imagination Announces B-Series GPU IP (2020)
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Okay, so then you need to know the environment, which leads us to secure boot. It isn't perfect, but it is better than nothing.
I find it interesting that everyone is assuming I want gambling made illegal or something, when I said nothing of the sort. The comment I replied to postulates that gambling is fine because it's the person's choice. I replied asking if that was necessarily true given all of what we have learned and are learning about addiction, drawing comparisons to substances/behaviors, illicit and otherwise, that are known to be addictive. And everyone thinks I'm some moral crusader who wants to ban everything.

I don't, FWIW. I just think these questions are important and the answers are more complicated than "everyone can and should do whatever they want" or "everyone has to eat nothing but corn flakes and eschew all temptations in life for Jesus."

Though, I will say that I find it off-putting how many states in my Untied States are apparently totally fine with juicing their budgets with the profits of gambling enterprises. Like... we can definitely have gambling, but it feels exploitative that the state itself is raising money, even if that money is for public services, off the backs of known-to-be-addictive products.
> People who buck the silly social dynamics in office cultures will be perceived as less productive whether it's true or not and are frequently devalued.

Younger, I would have agreed with your sentiment. Now, I appreciate good coworkers. If I don't have a socialisation outlet during the day, it's just draining and I burn out faster. If you're a person that is just a grumpy Gus isolated in their cubicle, you can make your team less effective and undermine the team spirit.

This is where I feel like management fails. To build a team you need to really pick personalities that work well together and honing and tuning the group composition is something that managers can do. Put the introverts together. Put night owls together. Parents are more understanding of taking something to over to cover for someone because they need it sometimes too.
Heroin is just one of many opioids, all of which have similar effects for addicts. There are still legitimate sources of prescription opioids such as Oxycontin, although legitimate healthcare providers are now more selective about prescribing.
Around here, the five mealtimes are morning-meal, 9 o'clock snack, midday-meal, 4 o'clock snack, and evening-meal.

On the other hand, I've been in a resort where they announced "merienda will be served between X and Y o'clock", which scandalised my local friends, who wondered aloud who'd ever heard of such sacrilege as eating merienda according to a clock and not your stomach.

My impression of historical practice is that people who had to go work in groups, in fields (or later in factories), tended to hew to traditional mealtimes. (there's a nice discussion somewhere on HN about how you don't want to stay in the fields between noon and one, or the "noonday witch" will get you...)

However, those who could afford it simply ate whenever they felt like (in at least two asian countries I know, it's considered a faux pas if there is ever a moment during the day when the main table doesn't have some sort of food on it).

The story I heard is that in the western context it was Louis XIV* who instituted mealtimes for rich as well as poor: his court was so large and so elaborate that logistics demanded the kitchen no longer be open, as it had been under previous monarchs, for courtiers to swing by at any hour they felt like grabbing some grub. True, or "Just So"?

* later, in the waning days of Austria-Hungary, the protocol at court dinners was that one did not continue eating dessert after the Emperor had finished with his. Of course, he had also been served first, so at some precedence level it must've always been a throw of the dice, whether one would even get served any Kaiserschmarrn before it was time to down forks.
If you are accessing elements in memory with a constant stride[1], then hardware prefetchers[2] do a surprisingly good job at “reading ahead” and avoiding cache misses.

A typical example would be: you have an array of objects of constant size, and you’re reading a double field from a constant offset within each object. The hardware prefetcher will “recognize” this access pattern and prefetch that offset every sizeof(obj) bytes.

The major downsides (vs. a struct-of-arrays design with full spatial locality) are:

1. Every prefetch pulls a full cache line, but the cache line will include data you don’t need. In this example, every cache line might have 64 bytes of data, but you only needed the one double field (8 bytes) - the rest is not useful. If you were iterating over an array of doubles you could have pulled 8 double fields in a single cache line.

2. Specific performance is hardware-dependent, so it’s hard to guarantee performance on e.g. low-end cores, short loops, or unusually long strides.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stride_of_an_array

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_prefetching
Market Impact of the CrowdStrike Outage
They do/did it in e-sports too. But for video game skins they can trade for money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike_match_fixing_sc...
Handing a Cop Your Digital Driver's License Can Lead to a Complete Phone Search
This is the native app vs Electron argument all over again (except limited to proprietary AAA games). "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" and all that.

Yes, a few game devs will drop native Linux support because building and maintaining just the Windows version and relying on Proton will be cheaper for them. Some number of them would have inevitably dropped native Linux support anyway. Take Rocket League for example. For most games, very few would have EVER had a native version for Linux. Source: the decades of PC gaming history prior to Proton.

Even with regular WINE being available, it's not like game devs were testing how their game ran in WINE. Currently, if your game doesn't work in Proton (and therefore the Steam Deck), you get an "Unsupported" icon on your store page. Getting that Deck Verified green checkmark is an actual economic incentive for game devs to support Linux in any way, even if that way is unsavory to some.

So, like Electron, the argument is less "Electron app vs native app" and more "Electron(/Proton) app vs no app at all".

Also, given that Proton isn't preventing developers from still offering a native Linux version, you really can't say that Valve/Proton are why those devs are dropping it. The developer is still choosing to drop native support.
This submission got marked as dupe but that’s incorrect. Click “past” and you’ll see it was never submitted previously.

I only mention this because I think my other comment confused the issue.

My other comment says there was a previous discussion but that was actually a 2020 comment to a different unrelated submission that was the only mention to the TTA that I could find on HN.

It was not a previous discussion of the submission here.

To help start a discussion though…

The TTA here refers to a series of books from my childhood with beautiful space ship art. Took me forever to find it recently.
A few years ago I left a tenured position and transitioned to industry. It was quite a mixed bag of feelings, including grief for a career that I had identified myself with. It’s very difficult not to identify ourselves with our jobs.
> I call this bog-standard, but the quicksorts most easily found online are always oddly pessimized, both more complicated and slower. This one uses the “Lomuto partition”, which is simpler than Hoare’s.

The Lomuto partitioning is a naive vandalism of Hoare's original, which causes quicksort to have quadratic behavior on sorted input.
Sports betting and the spread of gambling is a symptom. Much like professional sports being a vehicle for advertising due to the teams' brand value. Or like a team having brand value due to the spectators it attracts. Or spectating someone else's physical activity.

There's inequity at every step here. And the fact that even a Jacobin article only addresses the terminal symptom should tell the reader how unimaginative our society has gotten.

Here's a thought: the guys in the article could have placed the same bets on themselves before their pick-up basketball game instead of draftkings. Should those bets that actually encourage physical activity be taboo too? The author suggest betting for a few pushups – great, but is that not gambling?

Of course, I'm ignoring a few other symptoms in the puzzle: states like Illinois facing _budgetary issues_ and taxing _addicts_. Limiting gambling availability might be a good band-aid for some of the symptoms, but I'd wager that solving root causes might be more worthwhile.
You could even extend this by making a rule that gamblers can only wager money they've earned through shares. So there'd be no financial harm to their external life.

The cold start problem of such an enterprise could be solved by only imposing this rule after a year, using charity, or - in the worst case - buy ins.
but 1600° for tungsten is still barely above its ductile-to-brittle transition, isn't it? because that can be up to 967°
I grew up on spring water from a (small?) cavern system in my backyard. People can say what they want about fluoride, but I truly believe it makes quite the difference in dental health based on my experiences.
They are quite prevalent in Russian as well (though I am not sure if American English is actually “peppered” as you claim).
What is the inherent value Verisign offers here? Is it hosting an entry for my domain in a database somewhere that someone can lookup using DNS?

And if so, why can't we just solve that problem using some sort of decentralized solution?
How does the MITM victim get a non-MITM connection to the CT logs so they can be sure to get the correct ones?
Putting aside the fact that it technically IS named "Republic of the Congo ", technically Mexico is named "The United States of Mexico", that's not really important.

People who claim that "The Congo" is offensive don't say that because it's not the official name (which it is), I guess they just presume that there must be some colonial racist reason, and not just the fact that it's named after a river.

"Republic of the Congo", or "République du Congo" in French, "du" being a shortened form of "de le", "of the". Other French speaking republics just have "République de N".
I was going to say this. The proof, unfortunately, sidelines into some very deep mathematics that it didn’t need to. I imagine but don’t know for sure that Euclid stopped where you do.

I’m not sure when infinite descent would be considered to have been formally proven to a modern mathematician but I bet it wasn’t in Euclid’s time!
> I listen to a fair amount of sports talk radio and have for most of my life. Even back into the 80s and 90s I remember noticing that these guys on the air seemed to speak the language of betting. Odds, spreads, etc.

I have also listened to sports talk radio for many hours a day over decades. My take on sports talk hosts chatting about gambling covers a few thoughts. Betting lines are talking points. "How is TeamA -125 on the moneyline, their star player is nursing an injury!" "TeamA just got their star player back, and they're playing at home with one of the better home records in the league, and they're the underdog?!" "Boy, I sure thought TeamA was going to win that game, Vegas didn't, and I was wrong" Are all things I have heard in the past 6 months.

Their job is to talk about sports. Telling listeners what Vegas thinks will happen in a game is almost part of the job description.

Professional line-setters are pretty damn good at what they do. Checking what "Vegas" thinks will happen in a game gives you more information, not less.

> But, this being before the legal/online/casual betting age we're in now, it always struck me as both sad and out-of-touch. I would think, these sports radio hosts are all such degenerate gamblers, they probably don't realize that most of their listeners are actual sports fans.

You have made a few pretty judgmental assumptions here. When people bet on horse racing, is that sad and out of touch? Going to a casino, sad and out of touch? Buying a lottery ticket? 50/50 raffle?

> I would also think, maybe I'm the outlier? Maybe the hosts AND the listeners are all gambling and I'm the only one who doesn't?

Yep, you're the outlier. Give yourself a pat on the back. Or, more productively, maybe stop being so judgmental.
Looking at the webpage, she is now active in the diversity & inclusion space, which is still booming. She gets an endorsement from Sumana Harihareshwara, who turned the DEI up to 11 in Wikiland.

The talks of the Women in Chemistry section at the recent American Chemical Society meeting included gems like "Metalloids and mentoring: Life at a PUI as the 'Other" and "Transgender chemistry graduate students navigating between trans and STEM identities".

All of that sounds nice until you start teaching in Alabama or get students from a reservation in New Mexico, then you see that what the DEI folks offer is completely useless when it comes to deprivation.
I absolutely hate the visibility of all forms of gambling. I hate going into a bar and seeing the big, bright machines that remind my children of Candy Crush. I agree with the overall sentiment here, if gambling is to be legal, it should be a hidden thing; no advertising. Seeing it everywhere makes it seem like something you should try at least once, like it's a rite of passage thing to becoming an adult.
Other way around. Humans and pre-human hominids evolved in a more confined region of the world for an extremely long time, and they left recently enough that they still instinctively prefer the climate of that region.

Prehistoric spread was driven by other factors that were more important than climate preference. But that doesn't eliminate climate preference, and all else equal humans will act on that preference.
Seems like they got into tech, like many people leaving science: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa19/speaker-or-organize...
I was looking for NVIDIA alternatives that might bring prices down. I found that Imagination, who makes mobile GPU’s, has a desktop-class GPU that’s available for licensing to manufacturers. A Chinese company licensed it to make graphics cards over there.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/imagination-tech-discusses...

I’m not sure how good it would be for model training, though.
this is a fantastic find, thanks!
Is there a name for the phenomena encountered with this particular response?

Specifically, I’m talking about when discussing extremely complex systems, ones that we don’t have full understanding of, there’s this tendency to ignore the huge gaps in our knowledge and deny that individuals can know anything objectively about how their body responds to things, even though science has no explanation for it…
This desperately needs a solution.
This is why election betting being legal and even frequently cited these days is kinda crazy to me.
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Personalized advertisements exist because all-sites exist.

Facebook isn’t a pets/cars/vexillology site, it’s an all-site; it and its kin are designed to contain almost all of humanity’s interests. It stands to reason that all manner of ads would fit in there, and in order to make these ads useful you need to filter or target them. If you see the history of targeted advertising, a case could be made that Facebook invented it as we know it today. No diss meant to Google and Googlers that might read this, I’m sure they played a big role as well.
no idea. This was the early 2000s. I'm sure it's based on the same thing.
I set-up a netbsd box as the server and could hook up as many laptop as I had network ports. I would then just hit the enter key or perform a few manually steps when things couldn't be automated.

I'm sure it's all based on silent install or the /s switch for install.bat.
If my memory is working.
And then refuted that with a different study at the end. Weird.
Having run one, I have to say that towards the end people were moving to social media BECAUSE posts had a like counter. I regret not adding one to my forum.
This stood out to me as well.

If you ask me to write a spec describing a piece of software, it’s going to come out very differently than a story about someone using that piece of software.

A story is narrative. A contract is must be definitive and withstand scrutiny over time.

A story takes you on a journey about a subject, and what you take away from that story is often subjective. A contract cannot be subjective or it’s likely unenforceable.

I’m not saying legal documents can’t be made more understandable, but at the same time, it seems pretty obvious that a legal document is necessarily structured quite differently than a story for reasons that have nothing to do with magic.

I do think there’s a certain formality that is more about stylistically separating legal documents from other kinds of writing, and it could be argued that this degree of formality isn’t necessary. But at the same time, it feels appropriate that the legal system and the language in it endures, even as society evolves rapidly around it. It seems like one of the only ways to maintain sanity in a legal system in a highly dynamic environment.
I think, based on many battles, a lot of folks in the early days that came from Java/C++ absolutely struggled with the key concepts of JavaScript, couldn’t find “features” (like strong typing) they claimed were critical for writing good software and invented ways to make the language fit their paradigm, rather than really deep dive into the language and embrace it. There were constant battles back then - and I’m sure the battles continue.

JS was certainly never a “garbage” language but the elegance is unappealing/unappreciated by entire classes of developers. I totally get the perspective, but it’s all based on a worldview that just doesn’t get functional programming
Anyone able to contextualize what "Level 59" means here? Also is that $126K base workable in the Seattle, Washington market?
So you think over 10% of the economy is working on the advertisement industry? Isn't that number at least a little bit hyped up? I also cannot imagine how we, lacking targeted advertising, would eat less or buy less.
We are also welcome to advocate for banning lobbying in the country we're in, because it has clearly-demonstrated detrimental effects on our daily lives and our democracy.

Funny how that works.
try saying "smoking pot". then say "smoking the pot". Listen to the rhythm. Which one sounds like a flow that a rapper would choose?

Rapper's are wordsmiths. It's an aesthetic choice.
I hate error messages from most software. Recently my system failed to boot because systemd told me a start job is running for a certain disk. And it doesn't tell me what the nature of the start job is, why the start job is needed, and why the start job is not finishing. From the disk UUID I could guess the first two, but there was no way to guess the third.
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> the desire to insult comes from the unwillingness to take responsibility for one's own reactions. If I'm upset, I want it to be your fault

If someone does something blazingly stupid, I should be able to calmly and legitimately point that out.
I’m not sure that works in many places outside the US.

It’s viewed as alternative medicine here in New Zealand, in a similar ballpark to homeopathy, though perhaps a bit closer to conventional medicine.
Musser and Stepanov were working together on the STL. I think they were both at SGI at that time, and introsort was integrated into the SGI STL (around the same time the STL was standardized, I guess introsort was too new to require it in C++98); from there introsort made it into most other standard library implementations which are directly derived from SGI STL.

libc++ is notable for being one of the few from-scratch implementations.
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It can be really difficult to keep up, even if you're well-intentioned / sensitive / progressive.

Where I live, MR is considered a slur, not an objective descriptor of a biological fact.
> these native gentlemen keep telling us cannot sustain life?

I mean they were wrong, it obviously does sustain life. You're just grumpy about what it looks like.
> Even prior to the bill being passed into law, DraftKings and FanDuel issued a warning to the government, essentially promising to rig the spreads even further for Illinois residents, hiking their vigs and offering less appealing odds.

This is the real scary bit in this article and the crazy spiral. Yes, we can legalize gambling. Yes we can tax it (and keep increasing the taxes). But if we both make it very legal, and tax it a lot, the businesses who run the gambling will need to adjust their odds to make a profit, making the end situation a very easy way to gamble in "safe" ways that unfortunately are much less likely to return money to the gambler.

This is a complicated issue beyond just saying "gambling should be legal". As soon as taxing is involved, there's a scary tornado of nobody winning in these situations and it feeling like a wink-wink grift.