jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Think how handy something like this would be in Saudi Arabia to run de-sal plants. As long as you have big enough drinking water tanks to handle the occasional weather related or maintenance related you're golden.

For example, if you have tanks big enough to hold a week or so of drinking water, then as long as you produce more than a weeks drinking water per week, you're all good.

This applies to almost any process that requires energy that is either a long term average or you can store in a tank. Electro-refining copper (good luck keeping aluminum cells warm, lol) or pumping irrigation water into fields. I would imagine you can solar distill ethanol whenever you feel like it, more or less. Given big enough tanks, you could generate chlorine for anything from swimming pool size to municipal water system size. A country needs X megatons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer per season and yes all of it is made today from natgas, but you could theoretically make it from solar power, air, and water, as long as the long term average power generated is high enough to make enough fertilizer per year.

Some industries like aluminum refining and some chemical plant work have a batch or shutdown time longer than the average weather related issue, so for basic chemistry scientific reasons they're screwed and will always require coal powered electricity, but most others theoretically only need a couple minutes of UPS power to shut down. Because electrical power is now super cheap, there are industries that have not put the slightest engineering effort on it... think CNC machinery, where there's no scientific reason a machine can't enter "sleep mode" within seconds, and return to work in seconds after sleeping, although in practice no one has ever made or shipped a machine like that, that I know of. As a simple example there are very few gcode programs that don't involve a dwell or toolchange where it could simply sleep in the middle of it, aside from the more difficult task of interrupting a cut. I guess this is an awesome industrial startup idea, not just for CNC machines but numerous other industrial machines. (And edited to add, there are numerous 3rd world areas overseas and California where the coal powered electric grid is totally unreliable, and machines that respond cooperatively to power interruptions would be quite handy even if there's no solar or wind generation involved.)

The biggest challenge to solar powering those industries is going to be non-renewable energy is very cheap compared to long term capital costs, so if its cheaper to run on diesel than to let it sit while continuing to paying the bank loan, or if your competitors can out produce you because they're not sunlight limited, then they'll have to run on diesel or coal-based electricity for financial department reasons, even if its no engineering challenge at all to run on intermittent solar power.
This looks like something my kids would love. I've been trying to teach them Python over the last few weeks, with marginal success, sometimes to do with my time restrictions, but also their lack of motivation at the length of time it takes for them to see results. This looks like it could remedy that.
I started working on more templates, but it was extra hard because the only resume content I have is mine, BUT I want to target at other career type this time.

So I thought, if you guys want a custom designed resume, please contact me at wtzdesign@gmail.com, I will work with you to create a resume for you, I will give you the design source file in exchange of you allow me to use it for promotion material (key info like name and company info will be substituted with fake info if desired.)

I will pick one to work on first
Hi friends, i had update Readme.md
> But for many projects, it just doesn't matter.

If it doesn't matter, then why pick one over the other? Why not go with the uno over the rpi? It doesn't matter, right?
Wow. This looks awesome. When you say "necessary API keys", does this mean you can still use the program without them, just minus those functions?

e: and is there a way to perform all DD, PT, etc?

e2: oh no!

'xlwings requires an installation of Excel and therefore only works on Windows and macOS. To enable the installation on Linux nevertheless, do: export INSTALL_ON_LINUX=1; pip install xlwings'

e3: https://github.com/DidierRLopes/GamestonkTerminal/issues/2
> price [for consumers] is about the only criteria really considered today.

Blame the past 50 years of GOP-dominated Supreme Court jurisprudence, which has steadily eroded antitrust enforcement. Vote for the Democratic party in Senate and Presidential races, and something might happen to fix this in about 30–40 years when the Court turns over enough to give Democrat-appointed Justices a majority.
This. Way before Amazon Prime, you could order from Newegg within New Jersey and with free ground shipping get it within one day, two days tops. It was magical to receive something so soon that wasn't from an over-priced CompUSA or Circuit City.

Nowadays, Newegg is a mess of storefronts and even if you buy from Newegg itself, you have to deal with a terrible return policy.
> I think this is the problem the article is addressing

I think the article has misidentified the problem.

> "calling something what it is" doesn't convince people

Very seldom does anything convince anyone of anything.

> that don't agree with you on what it is, especially when the terms you use are loaded with possible implicit interpretations.

These kinds of culture signals work both ways. They can be used to filter out—to identify world views you don't wish to engage—but they can also be used to filter for refining one's own worldview. Identifying where an idea comes from a shared set of values and might illuminate something you haven't already considered within that same value structure (or might expand it).

> Which is to say that in a discussion or persuasive piece, it should be clear what you are arguing for or discussing without having to expose your whole worldview.

I categorically disagree with should here. You're welcome to value that, if your motivation is to engage in rigorous debate absent the impact that the topic of debate might have. If my motivation is to engage the topics by impacting them, I might care less about the rigor and more about some degree of blunt force response to the kinds of things which leave people I care about traumatized or dead.

> Arguments about the distribution of chores between males and females in a household, doesn't need to use the word "patriarchy" to make its argument.

It doesn't need to, but to the extent the argument is aware of patriarchy omitting it is either dishonestly hiding a system of power or reinventing a process of describing it that has generations of prior art.

> In fact, it tends to make the argument weaker given that "patriarchy" hides a lot of things that would otherwise need to be unpacked.

Hiding in what way? Why would a more assertive and clear description of the case obscure more of the reality than something mealymouthed?
Appreciate the insight from someone who has been in the industry for as long as you.

> Because software development, unlike plumbing, does not have an agreed-upon set of core skills or best practices. We don’t know how to measure software quality or reliability. We struggle with the hiring process. We can’t define or measure programmer productivity.

I wonder if this partially has to do with maturity? You say you have been in the business for 40+ years which is very long for this industry. Relatively some disciplines are much older. I think though there are de-facto industry standards for many software system design choices. They may not be enforced but are understood. E.G do not store your passwords in plain-text, use a salt to prevent utilization of rainbow/lookup tables for hash-cracking, Parameterize database queries, backup essential data, don't log sensitive data... etc

> For the specific problem you described, a password manager eliminates most of those problems.

I'm not sure how a password manager would help if their authentication service was failing which seemed to be the problem.
The F-15As were not better attack planes in 1981; the Israelis used them exclusively in air supremacy roles until 1985 when they bombed the PLO headquarters in Tunis. Israel had just received their F16As, but were well trained at Holloman AFB.
well, now we are in full lockdown in Germany, and all gyms are closed. But until November, they were able to operate with a limited number of people training at the same time.

To make it visible to the members, My gym had a progress bar, being update as soon anybody entered or left the gym.

This information was available in their website. So I was scrapping this data and getting alerted (via telegram bot[1]) when the gym was operating under 50% the capacity and therefore avoiding wasting my time.

Reference:

[1]: https://core.telegram.org/bots
How would that make any sense at all? States can't really go bankrupt if their debt is denominated in the currency they control.
This is good systems design. I've made a system with a similar design (RPI for display and UI, one STM32 for hardware control, another as watchdog) for an industrial marking system, and it's run almost daily for 3 years without any issues.

The great thing about the Pi in this case is that it's non-critical, and if it ever does die, you spend $35 and put in a new SD card.
Sure, you can ban politicians from engaging in social networks, but that's far smaller proposal than removing the connection between social media and politics.

Taking twitter away from congressmen won't stop superpatriotsforbaldeagles.ru from distributing political propaganda, or random people being fed extreme media each inside their bubble.

The issue is inflammatory content spreading like wildfire, and direct intervention from politicians themselves is just tiny drop in the ocean.
Then why I can't find it even with your keywords?

The other possibility is that it's not present for me because it might not be compatible with GrapheneOS?

But I have problems with search even for other apps. I'm OK with it it because FDroid is very good otherwise.
>>Thrown out due to Laches and lack of standing or lack of injury.

I don't know what "Laches" is? Besides,

>> Evidence was never actually heard in any courtroom

Well, that is a lie, many of his cases were thrown out due to lack of evidence and lack of witnesses willing to actually testify to anything. Guess where does that happen? In a courtroom. Where a judge looks at the case and decides whether to proceed with it or not. So all of these cases had their time in court, to say otherwise is just a lie. You, like many other people, seem to operate under the assumption that you first start a case, everyone gathers and then you present evidence. That's not true, at least not in the US it isn't. Evidence has to be presented when you file to open the case, and since there wasn't any, judges have dismissed the cases. Why would they continue? So they could gather in an empty room listening to...nothing? Evidence can be admitted to the case later, with the permission of a judge, but you can't just start a case with nothing in the first place, which is what Trump and his team were doing.

https://www.ft.com/content/20b114b5-5419-493b-9923-a918a2527...

>>But continue to dismiss, continue to ignore

Well, thanks but I won't, I think people trying to steal an election should be in jail, so my wish for 2021 is that we see trump and his cronies where they need to be - in prison. Either because of the election, or because of his many other crimes, I'm really not going to be fussy about it, he's done enought to spend rest of his life behind bars, attorneys everywhere will have enough to bring him to justice.

>>Trump was just Hindenburg

Hindenburg represented the complete collapse and end of the entire airship industry, it has crashed and burnt and with it the entire trust and reputation these ships had. And it crashed and burnt because people in charge of building them wilfully ignored the dangers of building flying ships filled with explosive gas.

So yeah, I think this is a very apt comparison to trump - just probably not in the way you intend.
This is why people are starting to make a difference between terms: repeatability, reproducibility, replicability.

> You give me your code and enough information for me to produce and identical environment or (even better) your code is insenstive the environment, then your research is Repeatable.

> If you describe your study sufficiently well that I can re-implement your study from scratch, without looking at your code and still get the same answer, then it is Reproducible

> If I can arrive at the same conclusions as you, just from a description of its aims, then it is Replicable.

From https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/118518/15198
> If you are a generalist and you feel undervalued, you're likely in the wrong project or too involved in phases of a project where your contribution can't move the needle significantly anymore.

My general take is that generalists would excel in small scrappy disorganized organic teams, while "specificists" would do well in teams with high level of organization and management structure. Unfortunately, large organizations tend to push out generalists, as structure increases, and their value in the eyes of management decreases.

I think a large organization should have both kinds of teams. This kind of alludes to
Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma -- "well managed" big orgs should be internally disrupted by small-scale "startup" style teams, and those scrappy organic type of teams need generalists.
I tested this and it seems to work for me for both! Maybe a temporary issue caused by HN hug of death?
Links
http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
Sigh, <> isn't the only way, D (as usual) has a very simple and clever solution f!(types)(parameter)
>That spirit and the thinking that was applied in such diverse areas is staggering, and as I read more about it (say, 1868-1915ish?) the more I’m convinced it’s very under-appreciated.

HELL YEA! Seriously, that time period was just dumped with brilliance in its own right, especially in engineering. It's so amazing what accomplishments were made with such basic tech. I mean seriously, the basic machine shop these days is FAR more advanced than what was available to the engineering cats back then. But those folks were spitting out brilliance like we use toilet paper after a pre-pandemic taco Tuesday.

There's a part of me that thinks our general mindset to engineering, learning and research is fundamentally different compared to that golden era of science and engineering. Honestly, I think it's for the worst. We're too subservient to technology rather than being the ones holding the chains and whips to the machines. That's going to be our downfall. Being switches to the machines and not knowing when to switch them off.
Steel and automobiles had the same root cause - management complacency. Not from a failure to race to the bottom as often suggested. Instead from their failure to invest in improving tools and processes. Edward Deming offered his statistical improvement techniques domestically first and they passed on them. Japan didn't.
There is no reason they can't keep doing "what they do best" while augmenting their products with a social aspect, it would help discoverability and should be a valuable signal for search.
i have fond memories at 7 or 8, of stealing the local computer club's QuickBASIC and Turbo Pascal compilers so i could finally create my own EXEs!
Don't overlook the existence of professional actors. Conmen and various methods of crime require significant acting ability. I do not believe it is possible to create an AI sophisticated enough to identify skilled professional acting or for that matter ordinary deceit.
He actually addresses this by saying he doesn't care about the previous posts. They'll just have a different format and are a time capsule.
1) no battery will be consumed by "runaway loops" because it will either be closed or be completely frozen in the background, regardless of the app design and epoch (pre- or post-multitasking)

To perform computations in the background, an iOS app has to be voluntarily coded to do so by using the multitasking API.

(3) half a gig on the iP4 is plenty enough to hold numerous Safari tabs, a huge game like Infinity Blade or Dead Space, and half a dozen random apps (twitter, messages, mail...).
A call to action below images should work quite well too, IMO.
I just completed a project analysing the construction of a concentrated solar power plant, using sodium as a working fluid and thermal energy storage mechanism; we found that it is a very practical solution, and believe that such a system would allow for solar power plants to provide power on a more continuous basis, at a reasonable cost. Sodium will allow for energy storage on a much larger scale than is possible with any other current technology, due to its favourable characteristics. It seems that thermal energy storage is one of the most practical methods of storing large quantities of energy, but I am unsure as to when such a system will be deployed at scale, though some (fast breeder) nuclear plants use a sodium coolant system.
Whatever the underlying factor is, it has nothing to do with the school system.

This cannot possibly be true. School system are artificial constructions created by men to serve men. They are not given laws of nature. The only thing we can tell from the above is that the current school system does not serve well black Americans. School system should adapt to whatever the "cultural factors" of the populace they serve.

Whether this should be through prolonging schooling hours; providing stronger and more persistent emphasis in personal hard work; correcting a harmful self-image; getting rid of institutional racism; using different instruction techniques; or any other method that may addressed the "underlying factor" can only be discovered through research, experimentation and a willingness to change and adapt.

It is easy to find examples of a schooling that adapts to the unique circumstances of some children, for example: intense language training for children from immigrant families, schools at hospitals or schools that follow a circus around the world (http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/jan/26/schools.uk).
From the Stanford CS department for 2009-2010, regarding CS/EE undergrads, size = 140 students:

> Salary offers ranged from $65,000 to $95,000. The average salary offer was $79,333. The median salary offer was $ 80,000.

Granted (heh), this doesn't include stock options.
A quick search on popular polish auction site (allegro) gives:

OCZ Vertex 3: 120GB: 1100PLN, 240GB: 2100PLN

Cheetah 15k 147GB: 400PLN (second hand).
I really, sincerely doubt that solar is going to be cheaper than coal in two years, barring a massive carbon tax or a huge breakthrough in solar. The energy density of sunlight is still extremely low, and coal is expected to be abundant long into the future.

Does this article point out some breakthrough that I missed, or some other reasoning? All I saw was some fluff about grid parity, apparently derived from a quote in the almost as fluffy Bloomberg source article by the CEO of a solar cell manufacturer saying that they were nearing parity, without mentioning any numbers. Given that the only hard numbers given in the source article claim a ~3x difference in the article, and the CEO of Solar City claiming that prices of installations have been dropping 5-8% a year, this doesn't add up to the 66% cost reduction in two years necessary to reach parity. This is even without considering all the auxiliary problems with solar, including energy storage.

Flagged for being inaccurate.
Definitely include it.

If a relatively non-techie person is reading your CV (i.e. if HR is doing pre-screening before passing select ones up the chain for consideration) they won't know to check the code quality, they'll just see that you were important for a significant project which proves you can handle yourself well technically.

If a techie person is looking at your CV, they will understand that a lot of code, especially code that is written in your own time so you don't have to go back and resolve QA issues, is far from ideal. If the project was popular, technically impressive, original, interesting, or any combination of the above if will be an advantage to you. A technical interviewer will probably bring it up in the interview, if they do you will be able to sell the good parts of it (and why they mean you'll be good in the position you are interviewing for) and discuss what you would do differently if you were starting now and why (which will give the interviewer a gauge of your ability to appreciate and learn from experience). Recognising a problem and how it can be addressed is more valuable in judging your real world (i.e. imperfect world) abilities than just talking about things that are right.

Disliking parts of your old code is normal. If you look back at your code from a few years ago and don't find things that make you cringe then either you were a savant, very lucky and "on form", had a lot of time to work on it which allowed for regular refactoring as the codebase grew, or (and this would be the worrying one) you just haven't learnt much in the intervening time.
It's trickier than it seems because some forms of radiation can induce different kinds of radiation when they hit the dense shielding so you're kind of back to square one in that you still need a radiation resistant processor.
Everything is running in firewalled environments. Literally nothing written in VB6 is publicly accessible. We are using .NET since the release of .NET Framework 2.0 and only very old code is VB6.
Thanks (and sorry) for doing my homeworks
I just did this update and it took roughly 15 minutes after I hit 'reboot now' till I was able to login and resume my work. All of the download and preparation work happened in the background without interrupting my work.
I really want to get to the bottom of this.
> The main problem with an income tax is it discourages labor.

No, it doesn't.

Arguably, the structure of US income (including payroll) taxation discourages labor and, even moreso, employment, but that's not inherent, but a result of deliberate inequities in how different sources of income are treated.
Is there a significant percentage of people in mainland China that don't support the CCP? Unless we're saying there is a hostage situation going on, it seems the majority are at least condoning everything that has been happening. I had a friend in Shanghai and in one conversation she justified and argued with me everything that happened to Tibet and Tibetan monks. I could not understand why she hated MONKS so much, but alas she complained about it and tried to defend the actions at the time.
It's yet another large Tesco Extra on the edge of a town, in this particular case just off the Royston Bypass, with the intended large catchment area of such hypermarkets. The "local shop" on the other hand would be the Tesco Express in the town centre.
Get an older Mac mini. Been my file server for 5 years now.
Amazing idea! Where do I sign up?
This is great news! I'm particularly interested in these changes:

* Sorted sets are now less memory hungry.

* Now write operations work against keys with an EXPIRE set! Imagine the possibilities.

I use Redis for many, many things. In fact, I realized the other day that without it, I probably wouldn't still be bootstrapping. Not because I couldn't use something else, but because I wouldn't enjoy the work nearly as much. Starting a company is a long, arduous road and finding joy in the work is really important.