skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And indeed I remember that as one of the more confusing things when I've got my first win95 PC as a kid. I used amiga and some DOS before, and I knew what a directory was, but now all of the sudden there's something called a folder that seem sort of similar?! To add to the confusion the computer manuals that were written in my mother tongue used in parallel both word 'folder' and the literal translation of it. Took me a while to understand that it all means the same thing.
That would be Stallman.
A lot of the really expensive high end designer clothes don't really have any logos on them or if they do they are very small for this very reason. Due to this what they wear might look conservative but could be expensive as fuck ;)
You missed a crucial step:

1.5: owner gets fed up of paying tenant's bills, installs prepay meters
You need to harvest and transport that wood, so it's not CO2 neutral.

PS: Gas also takes a lot of energy to refine and transport so it's worse than the direct CO2 produced during combustion.
It gets worse:

- Typical prepay meter cost: £1,026

- Typical credit meter cost: £807
Prepay only exists for people with extremely poor credit history, or if you fail to pay your bills few times in a row, the electricity/gas company will forcibly switch you to prepay.

>> Extra points for central heating with heating meters (OK just kidding about this one).

I used to live in an apartment that had a heating meter on every single individual radiator - but then the heating was provided by a central boiler room and I guess there wasn't a single point of entry into the apartment to measure the inflow there.
There's something different about cut & paste vs drag & drop, though it won't impact most people.

If you're using RDP and copying files from the host computer to the remote computer, it's natural to cut/copy the file on the host and paste it on the remote. Drag/Drop isn't as natural because you have to mess around with the RDP window size and scroll position to be able to see Explorer on both machines.

The file copy occurs very slowly, and requires a lot of memory. Copy/Paste uses the clipboard, so the entire file gets read into memory before it can be written to the remote filesystem. It goes slowly because there is apparently an un-optimized loop copying bytes.

Instead, on the remote system you should open two Explorer windows, one for the destination and one for your local filesystem, which RDP adds for you. Then you can drag & drop the file you want to copy. This skips the clipboard and also seems to use a much better optimized byte-copying loop. The speed difference is very noticeable.

Pro-tip: if you're copying lots of files, zip them first and copy the zipped file. That can reduce a multi-hour copy operation into a couple of minutes, even if the compression ratio is awful. Windows is really, really bad at multi-file copy operations.
I used to work with someone in Philadelphia who drove to work every day no matter the weather. It was a real loss to his department when he was out for a year due to spinal damage after an accident. I also had the mispleasure of having a friend die in a car accident in high school. I commend the people that do it at great personal bodily risk.

#anecdataisnotdata
I don't know what kind of setup would require this, I've had 8 different rental properties in UK so far and every single time the gas/electricity were in my name, not in the landlord's name.
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For Sale. Tesla Roadstar, cherry red.
One owner. Covered 92 million miles.
Buyer to collect.
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There's 5.9mn people in the UK on them - it's not a small amount
The old maximise system was simply designed to make the window as large as it needed to be to optimally fit content.

It wasn't designed to 'make this window fit the screen'. It was designed to 'make this window fit this A4 document.
PostgreSQL and compressed documents
There are Finder extensions like XtraFinder that add cut&paste to it (and a lot of other goodies)
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Another reason is the documentation. It's fantastic.
Usually in the US?

Metered electricity is common in working class areas of the UK. I don't know the history behind it, but as an outsider, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
I don't see memes as infecting our minds so much as giving voice to something that is already there that doesn't come up in conversation. The Nike and Sweatshop meme wouldn't be funny if people didn't already know that Nike had faced charges of using sweatshops. We all have a friend who seems to have terrible luck, so when formalized as "Bad Luck Brian" it becomes a vehicle for finding humor in this.
Invite URL for my project:
https://ixberg.com/#/invite/2018-hn-1
(click sign in to do anything)

Make (sharable) projects. Add tasks. Break into subtasks (recursively). Defer anything you don't want to see yet. Focus on what you can do next and get things done.
I specifically argue that posting something a long the lines of

> Anytime someone brings up Julia, I think of Dan Luu's review of the language: https://danluu.com/julialang/

if someone mentions Julia is not a helpful "message".
I used to live in a house with a wood burner in the living room and central heating where individual radiators didn't have any regulation - so actually, in winter it was cheaper to stay in the living room most of the time, burning couple logs of wood every few hours rather than heat up the entire house using central heating. Quite significantly so actually.
Except Pandas and SciPy use libraries written in CXX or Fortran and not pure python so speed is not really an issue with them usually
Don't forget about vapor.js! https://github.com/madrobby/vapor.js
The SSH access is actually not hidden behind a switch.

When you connect a reMarkable into your computer it identifies as an ethernet adapter and assigns you an IP over DHCP, you can then access SSH on the device via that IP.

This is what the device shows you for gaining access (don't worry, that's not actually my password anymore and I've put SSH keys on it anyways): https://i.imgur.com/zbJUBOe.jpg

This screen is in Settings -> About, right below the GPL information.

Edit: If you were asking about the HTTP interface, that becomes available at the same IP but it is hidden behind a switch (Settings -> Storage -> Enable USB web interface)
My brother was a bit of a home theater enthusiast when we were growing up and he bought a widescreen CRT HDTV and you aren't kidding about the weight. It took three of us tumbling it up the stairs just to get it up there (nearly killing us twice). It was a beautiful set he gifted it to me when he upgraded to an HD projector. Used it until I moved out. I wasn't moving that battleship any further than the street by that time LED panels had started coming out.

In retrospect I wish I had hung onto it but with the size and weight it just wasn't possible.
The article mentions that it's "partly down to the savings they can make to energy bills". It's time to tax them accordingly then, people shouldn't be allowed to pollute the air just to save money.
I agree on the security superiority. I use Wordpress because my wife can maintain and update it almost entirely herself.

I’m searching for a plug-in that generates static based on the edits in Wordpress, but haven’t found any that work cleanly.

I think that Wordpress is good for its users who will never use build processes for deployment unless automated well.
Alternatively, use opt-click to just invoke the old-style maximise. No add-on needed.
Hi - I'm working on some projects with IoT now and would like to see if we can use your services. Any chance you can contact me? Info in my about.
A Curious Moon – Big Machine
Nitpicking the size of sodas at fast food restaurants when you know they're stupidly big >
Your smart TV may be prey for hackers and collecting more info than you realize
Use distinct browsers (or profiles) for browsing web-of-documents, and using apps hosted on the web-as-application-distribution-platform. They're each (for many of us) legitimate uses, but have different requirements and threat models.

Cons: interactive infographics and courseware don't fit neatly in either.
But the narration is half the reason I pay for audiobooks -- it's an immersive experience and the variety in narrators keeps things fresh.

Fantasy books are notably that much more interesting with dedicated narrators.
use alt-click on the green button.
I often wonder about that, especially having written lots and lots of lousy, unmaintainable code in my own life.

It usually starts with "oh it's just a one-off thing" and then it turns out to be useful and the rest is messy history.

But sure, within that genre I could see Python being a faster language to write in than many others.
Have you looked at http://terralang.org?
> I know people used to joke about using the "Start" button to shutdown the computer, but I never understood what is so funny about that.

If you think of shutdown as a "stop" command to the computer, you see the contradiction: to stop your computer, press start.
I've just tried to do some research on the Notion Ink Adam, and found this archived features page [1]. On this features page, it says that it has a trans-reflective display.

I have an Amazfit Pace [2] smartwatch that has a trans-reflective display so I know what these are like. They're actually LCD, but can stay on all of the time because they make use of the ambient light much like older LCDs did, more info here [3]. On my smartwatch, it is actually a colour display, but when it is powered down there are fewer colours and a lower resolution. From what I understand this is to save power in the GPU and enable a longer battery life.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20130429100155/http://notionink....

2. https://us.amazfit.com/shop/pace?variant=25112

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
The Imposter's Handbook – Big Machine
" Quick. May fade to white. "
The 'Fighting for your dollars' mouse over, infographic thing is a great example of significant effort being put in to do a good job implementing a stupid idea.
How Glitch Fare Hunters Turn Airlines’ Tricks Against Them
Indeed, Qt is a great basis for developing a modern application with a HTML frontend. This is because Qt bundles a modern browser engine (was WebKit, nowadays Chrome) and has JavaScript support at various places (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5.10/topics-scripting.html).

All this makes Qt a first citizen in the Rich user interface world where the players have names like Vue, React and Angular today.

Btw, don't forget we had desktop toolkits with rich user interfaces already in the 2000s. In that time, Java was the big player. Swing was already superseded by Eclipse's SWT and HTML panels were already ubiquitous.
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Here's Peter Norvig arguing that you shouldn't:

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

The article is about programming, specifically about books etc advising you on how to learn programming in ten days etc, but it totally applies to Deep Learnign also.

Deep Learning is an enormous discipline. In the current point in the hype cycle, there are literally thousands of papers published every month. Personally, I doubt anyone, evern the luminaries of the field are keeping up with it. 6 months is about enough to dip your toes into the preliminaries, and that's if you're willing to skip the relative background [1].

Of course, that's all true if you want to learn. If you just want to train yourself in the use of a few tools, then 6 months is plenty. But don't expect to be able to solve any new problems that way- someone else will always have to do all the hard work for you.

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[1] A bit of background will help with questions such as: Why was Deep Learning necessary in the first place? (hint: search for "constant error carousel"); did Deep Learning just spring fully-formed from the brow of Hinton/ Schmidhuber? (hint: read wikipedia on "machine learning" and "Artificial Intelligence"); etc. If you're not asking those questions then you're holding it wrong.
it was by no means assured that Windows 95 would be the success that it was

I remember these times well. It was considered a huge break. People were whining about how stupid the Start menu was compared to just seeing your apps in front of you all the time :-D I love that we eventually came full circle to a Windows 3.1 Program Manager-esque approach with iOS nowadays!
"For what it's worth, PCs are subject to the exact same slow decline"

PCs have a much broader choice of operating systems and software to install whilst maintaining compatibility. Take Voyage Linux as an example (http://linux.voyage.hk); it's a stripped down Debian system for embedded devices which can fit down to 256MB of storage, but nothing prevents you from apt-getting more software and make it grow to a full featured desktop system depending on the underlying hardware capabilities. Mobile devices as of today cannot even dream a fraction of this modularity, but we already know why: they're black boxes intended to be consumed then thrown away, and their OSes reflect that nature. Mobile manufacturers should be forced to publish all hardware source code after a reasonable time (say after 3 years) so that "old" devices can be repurposed instead of being littered into landfills.
A Crazy Idea for Funding Local News: Charge People for It
Inequality puts more pressure on police/creates much more work for police. People don't mention that enough.
Ah, so it can switch between transreflective and reflective. The Amazfit Pace (see my previous comment) is transreflective but it has a backlight which I guess might make it reflective.
Yes, the issue here is what happens on moves?

https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2018-01-25-async-i-self-re... and the two follow up posts are the latest thinking on this topic, and by latest, I mean "posted in the last few days". This is cutting-edge stuff!

The intention is for this stuff to support Tokio; that is, generators make asyc/await work, which lets you write futures code more easily, to be run with Tokio.
CISSP Domain Refresh FAQ
So bizarre to write their own decoder, especially given libFLAC is BSD licensed.
Titanium isn't particularly terrible to machine. Nothing is hard to machine if your budget can cover the correct tools and you machines can provide the right setting to run those tools.

Your typical mechanical engineer fresh out of school has incredibly limited experience when it comes to things that are not stupid-proof to work with (engineering programs have other priorities). They then go on to build specialized knowledge in various subjects and usually more on the design side, not the execution side. Of course someone who designs plastic molds or simulated impeller designs all day is going to create a black box around things that aren't their specialty. You don't care about how the impeller or mold is made other than knowing that it can be made, what its material properties are and knowing that actually making it involves a bunch of details you don't know so you offload it to a 3rd parts (for the same reasons someone else is having you design the impeller or the mold).

A bunch of engineers and otherwise smart people on the internet saying that titanium is like computer programmers saying residential electrical is complicated or web devs complaining about bash. It really doesn't mean much but people who have no experience with this things tend to think the people who only have a shred know what they're talking about.

It's not difficult. Most other people just know they don't know how to do it and that they don't know what they'd need to know to go about learning how.
The issue with wood in urban areas isn’t CO2, it’s the particulate pollution.
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Thanks for that one.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOhZ5wD6u7A
How to Boost Team Recognition with Slack: PanDa Bot
Who to work for in tech and why?
If I am not wrong you can have Agile boards in Paymo as well, it's called Kanban boards.
Apple Introduces Battery Health Feature in iOS 11.3 Beta 2
The picture halfway down with the jogger is extremely misleading. That's not smog, that's a foggy morning in a comparatively rural area over 60 miles north of London.
The plain is to lock down block 5's design so it can be man rated which in itself would make it more reliable. This will probably not happen until they fly them a few times though so that wouldn't mean the first block 5s would be more reliable.
Telegram widget lets businesses connect directly with users of its chat app
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Dask doesn't solve that problem since it's a wrapper around pandas functions.

If you can't make the core pandas code decently fast, dask won't save you.
Note that the stylus tips need to be replaced relatively frequently, but there are reports that less-paper-like tips from other manufacturers do work and last longer: http://remarkablewiki.com/index.php?title=List_of_compatible...
The Transit app appears to use the official train schedule, which is useless in case of delays. The real improvement is the MTA's own Subway Time app.
Only after reading your comment did it occur to me that I should set up applications in the Launchpad the same way I have them organized on my iPhone (or like Win 3.1's "Program Groups" or Start Menu folders) and stop using the Dock to hold the applications I use most often. Maybe that would help keep track of which applications I have open, and where my minimized apps keep going off to!
>> Apparel is being displaced by travel, eating out and activities

The apparel and technology spending lines basically mirror each other. Why is travel mentioned?

Tech is the new status symbol for the masses. $600 phone instead of a $600 watch, leather jacket, etc
Great! VLC is one of the few desktop codes I use for decades now and it replaced Foobar2000 and Winamp, which were my previous favourites. So glad they also have a great mobile user interface (which is great on both Android and iOS). They can take the liberty to do that because VLC has a clean architecture with frontend-backend seperation. There are VLC frontends for the terminal (ncurses, asciiart), there used to be the wxWidgets one which is now Qt, there is a web server frontend, and all this is built into regular VLC binaries (as downloadable from the website or from your package manager) so it works out of the box.
I agree with that. But for the OPs specific problem, a function returning the genetic diversity as a float between two samples, rewriting it in C or Pyrex would have been an ideal solution.
> i’d rather buy a small number of high quality

See, something I've noticed too is that "high price / high quality" brands seem to not be so anymore. Recently I bought a handful of Carhartt pants, pricey-but-quality, or so it used to be yet the quality seems to have been driven downhill and all those pants quickly fell apart in various ways.

I've found the $20-$30 lesser-known brands ended up being of higher quality, oddly. It seems the "premium" brands have taken to abusing their name's mark of quality by removing that quality in favor or cheap materials and temporary higher profits.
True, and I was pedantic to reply.

Last week someone else on hn did the same; and I kept quite.

Unfortunately this time I could not stop the graybeard in me.
Linux/Unix user since the 2003.

1) Windows 95 is a good UI design, better than even CDE. Heck, Win3.1 and CDE shared a lot of stuff.

2) ICEWM was golden back in 2001. Guess what mimicked.
Write clean code and avoid the distractions of emerging technology
2018/01/18: Chrome 41: The Key to Successful Website Rendering: "Google updated their Search Guides and announced that they use Chrome 41 for rendering."

https://www.elephate.com/blog/chrome-41-key-to-website-rende...
Twitter is removing face-swapped AI porn from its platform, too – The Verge
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> Pretty animations? I don't need those; in fact they're distracting and annoying.

Animations are an important tool for showing transitions between states.

Pasquale D'Silva has a bunch of good blog posts explaining how they can help an interface:

- https://medium.com/@pasql/transitional-interfaces-926eb80d64...

- https://medium.com/elepath-exports/spatial-interfaces-886bcc...
How does Tor *really* work?
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While no cars have brake by wire, the computer can stop the car using mechanical actuators already(ABS is exactly this, or the more modern emergency breaking system) - same with steering, plenty of cars have "parking assist" where they park themselves, so the computer must be able to control the steering even if it's done by mechanical means.
Let me disclaim by saying I like Python, and I've used it for a decade and it pays my bills.

The author claims that Python has the lowest developer cost. I used to think that was true, and maybe it is in data science applications, but I regularly find that I'm quite a bit more productive in Go than in Python (largely thanks to the type checker and other static analysis tooling). As an added bonus, Go programs are regularly 100 times faster than Python programs, and usually Python programs are much more difficult to optimize than Go programs.

Library availability notwithstanding, starting new projects (of any significance at all) in Python is looking like a worse and worse choice all the time.
I find Contexts (https://contexts.co/) a better application to do exactly that
I didn't know about that before, and it performs so much better on a phone!
That's how it was when I started in the U.S. But the last 25 years have seen a huge shift in workplace dress codes in the US. Organizations that resisted discovered that it had an effect on retention -- in part because there are pocketbook implications, and perhaps in part because it is just more convenient to be able to use the same wardrobe for everything.
You can use most open/save dialogues to do this - a right-click is all it takes in most places. But I definitely agree with your sentiment. Finder feels like a badly-designed toy. The latest things they've added - tabs and labels iirc - require more steps to do the same tasks in the new way versus the old way.
What about Europe? Ever since Instagram added stories I don't think I even heard the word Snapchat mentioned.
I used to think this too but heating costs are expensive in the UK.

My own country has a very large supply of natural gas in the ground so its pretty cheap to get through the winter. The UK has to import.
Copy the Mac OS but make it crappier.
That would be simple to do. When I bought my wood burning stove (I'm a posh hipster) I bought one that was specifically certified by the Department for the Environment to be used in smokeless zones (of which London is one).

Either the certification/regulation isn't stringent enough (although I can't see smoke emerging from my chimney from the adjacent lost room when it is running) or people are fitting non-DfE approved stoves, in which case enforcement needs to be improved.

Of course, I originally got the wood burner to minimise my CO2 footprint - the same reason I bought a diesel rather than petrol car.