skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is only partially true: because you cannot wear your glasses and you may need to put your hair in a specific way to clear your face, you definitely can obtain a picture that doesn't look like your casual look (even if the natural facial features are matching).
Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers [video]
Try to look for their email on the profile, and if that fails, give them the yours (it can be a temporary one).
>I don't have the foggiest idea why it is important to protect endangered species in and of itself, and I don't think there is a good reasons to.

Lack of understanding the importance of species shouldn't be an automatic justification to destroy them.
> never commingle inventory

At the very least, Amazon should mark the commingled vs. non-commingled status for each offer. Right now, you only see this once you hold the item in your hands - if there's a barcode starting with "X" on the package, it's non-commingled AFAIK.

(But I wonder if Amazon actually authenticates X-labeled incoming merchandise, e.g. by requiring a shared secret on the package slip. Otherwise, if an attacker sends in a fake item that's X-labeled as if it came from an honest seller, they would still be able to tank the reputation of the honest seller. Maybe this could even be done from the position of an Amazon customer, i.e. they would apply the fraudulent X-label to a swapped "returned" item. Who would believe the honest seller in this circumstance?)
Some of these are probably very personal, but have worked for me.

- I try to arrive in the AM, stay up all day, and walk around as much as possible. Ideally walk in the sun. By the end of the day I'm shattered and usually will sleep well. Often I'm traveling for work, so I'll head direct to the office and work to keep busy. That first day can be tough, but after a couple of dips you can power though. After that you're pretty well set.

- I never nap (or even lie down) during the first day, that's always the thing that throws me off.

- For the flight: I have earplugs, noise cancelling headphones, and a heavy-duty eye mask. On occasion I'll play something calm on the headphones, but often it's just unplugged.

- I have one of these weird neck pillows - https://trtltravel.com/products/trtl-travel-pillow - works well for me as it stabilizes the head. If find the actual "pillows" don't really work.

- I try to eat in (or close to) the target time-zone a day before. On the plane I'll eat for sure, but veer to something light. I find the full meals make me lethargic the next day. Definitely eat at the "right times" when you arrive.

- I drink plenty of water, but I don't go crazy - I used to drink too much and my bladder would wake me up. I'll usually work out how much I want to/should drink (e.g.. two bottles) and then ration over the flight.

- I do have a small wine and sleeping tablets on the plane. Realize that's not for everyone, however (and probably unwise for some). But seems to work for me.
Also, if you still have memory/performance problems, these two addons make a noticeable difference:

- LoadTabOnSelect: Load new tabs on selection. This addon will prevent new tabs from automatically loading, instead loading them on selection.

The intended usage of the addon is to facilitate power-users who open many tabs before viewing, but dislike auto-playing videos (and other annoyances).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/loadtabonsele...

--

- Auto Tab Discard: Use native tab discard method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs. Auto Tab Discard a lightweight extension that uses the native method (tabs.discard) to unload or suspend browser tabs to significantly reduce the memory footprint of your browser when many tabs are opened.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

edit: typos
Hi, I created Mu.

Happy to answer any questions you may have. :-)
> Are we NOT going to build something valuable because the output of a few mines are missing?

Actually, yes. Instead of producing 2000 widgets, we produce only 1800 and fire one worker. That worker who was already living at the fringe of survival, now suffers far more than you'd expect. Perhaps they survive, but their 2 month old child dies of malnutrition as the family scrounges for food.

Minor bits of economic disadvantage can have great cost to people.

Now, of course, it'd be better to simply subsidize people so they won't die regardless of if a mine is built or not. That's the solution that I support, as I'd err on the side of caution when it comes to ecological damage as it is hard to fix, and susceptible to being a classic tragedy of the commons since no one owns it.
> The issue was that this was being used to load uninspectible code onto users' devices, which sooner or later may have led to a bunch of users installing malware.

It is entirely reasonable to prioritize malware above circadian rhythms. (And e.g. Apple’s response is predictable.) This is just not the same as the priorities of the Flux developers.

I feel like you are deliberately missing my previous point. Do you understand what their motives and reasoning process were?
Can you see why I think their practice has nothing to do with their likelihood of distorting scientific research about vision or sleep science?

Relating the two seems to me like seeing a pedestrian crossing the street in the middle of the block and guessing that they probably don’t tip restaurant servers.
Crater lake doesn't currently have Rivers out or in. The water level is maintained by precipitation and evaporation - so you are right. Opposition from basically everyone.
Death valley varies from outflow to inflow every 400 to 500 years currently no outflow iirc so if we want to wait a few hundred years...
Interesting ideas though
Thanks for iTerm2. I've been using iTerm since 2006-ish and iTerm2 since approximately whenever it came out (2011-ish?) :)

Apple's sorry hardware situation recently pushed me to move to Linux on a ThinkPad for most of my daily use, so I don't use iTerm2 as much now as I used to. (And, naturally, just after the return period on my ThinkPad expired, Apple rolled out a MBP with 32GB RAM X()

Your software made my life better every day for years. It was the first program I downloaded and installed after LittleSnitch when I set up a new Mac. Thank you.
They are now allowing both ẞ and SS but are not recommending one over the other.

See Rule 25 E3:

> Bei Schreibung mit Großbuchstaben schreibt man SS. Daneben ist auch die Verwendung des Großbuchstabens ẞ möglich. Beispiel: Straße – STRASSE – STRAẞE.

http://www.rechtschreibrat.com/DOX/rfdr_Regeln_2016_redigier...
Bloomberg magnets to form nerdy/funny sentences with on the fridge :)
Commonly people say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear". Leaving side the origin of the phrase side, it is still a bad argument. You may not have something to hide now but can you trust that what you do now doesn't become something to hide? We've seen many times in history oppressive regimes rise out of free states. This power doesn't just belong to the government in the now, it also belongs to the government of the future. There is the possibility for turnkey tyranny. There's a balance to protecting the people now and people of the future (part of civil rights).

It belongs to other groups as well. We've seen pretty frequently the state of computer security in governments. Can you also trust that this technology won't be hijacked? Can you tell me that this system can't be used by an invading force to quickly target important individuals?

It isn't always what a technology is being used for that makes it concerning, you also have to consider how it can be abused. This type of technology, and most surveillance technology, has a high potential for abuse. By both our own governments AND adversarial groups.
Artificial intelligence has learned to probe the minds of other computers
Haven't seen Mu before. What's the benefit over giving a beginner a copy of VS Code?
Googol isn't the estimated ambition for Google's database, it's just the biggest number with a cute, short name.
I'm a fan of Pocket as well. It's what I use. It's also easy to quickly look up old articles I've read or to find new content to read via recommended/explore option.

Plus you've got that whole cross-platform thing.
Ask HN: Which is the best tool to get 360 degree profile of SaaS customers?
And communicate them via emails (both one to one) and automated?
That works by using "anchoring" by priming them with the length scale of the paper.
In Memoriam: Gervase Markham
Why would someone use this instead of IDLE, which ships with Python and does the same things?
Mice have very fast metabolism. Converting mouse models to humans requires adjustment.

There is some evidence that for humans eating all calories within 4 hour window might have similar effects.
F-Droid, Bulkshare
Being frustrated with burned top, and undercooked bottom I figured out that using the broiler together with a couple 2-3 mm thick pre-heated aluminium sheet that I placed the pizza on produced pretty good results. Not that I was aiming for a particular style of pizza though, ymmv.

The sheet itself was placed on an ordinary oven rack somewhere below the middle of the oven.

It seems to align somewhat with their findings. Since the aluminium sheet is only heated by the air, the bottom doesn't get burned, but the slight extra boost of initial heat cooks the bottom about right compared to the top. At least for a bit thicker pizzas as the one I made.

You probably would want maybe an even thicker plate to get a really short cooking times, like the 2min in the article. In any case, you will have to wait for a little bit between each pizza for the plate to reach the appropriate temperature.
Remember that Apple started screwing up as Microsoft got its shit together.

My guess is the defective laptop issue alone is driving a measurebale shift. The reason many folks were going Mac was the Unix tool chain, which Apple is also allowing to rot. Microsoft is basically shipping Ubuntu.
The new part of the article is the previously unnoticed role of the epididymis. It turned out that upon entering the epididymis sperm shed a bunch of small RNAs(which play a major role in epigenetic expression) and then reaquire small RNA's that reflect more closely the father's environment, later along in the duct.
Very nice list, thanks to Peter for putting this together.

It's worth noting that for learning/basic experimentation there's lots of even cheaper chinesium stuff available on ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=FPGA+board&_s...

[edit]: For those who want to try, while back I bought a couple of low-end boards from an ebay vendor called qmtech and very happy with them.
I use Org Mode so I have a plain text file called todo-bookmarks.org with a list of links to the articles I want to read.
"curl > file ; [...] ; bash file" is also installed in all the same places.
As an actual tree hugger, your #3 is my primary reason:

Protecting the environment protects the economy.

My secondary would be the precautionary principle:

Don't muck with things we don't understand.

Which will be mightily tested as we wrestle to mitigate climate change. Which feels like double-or-nothing to me.
Do you drink caffeine? Discontinuing caffeine improved my sleep quality dramatically.
Solution there is simple, pilots simply need to bring two jugs, one filled with water, one empty.
That would be an opinion though. That said, there would be significant number of subscribers in Gujarat and among the Krishna school.

I have the strongest suspicion that there would be a significant population of people who self identify as Hindu but would have at best tepid interest. There would be people who would be unhappy that their taxes are going in that direction. Day to day mundane matters and relative importance of other artifacts according to their judgement will trump it (Dwarka).

From your comments in the thread it seems you are a shade touchy about Dwarka and were taking obvious metaphors literally, but I couldn't figure out how it (Dwarka) fit in what we were discussing in the thread -- lack of wide interest among Indians on historical artifacts. So I let it ('but, what about Dwarka') go as an instance of whataboutism.

My personal belief/opinion is that it makes a lot of sense to explore that(Dwarka) than throw money at the stupid idea that the geological formation connecting main land India to Srilanka is a man made bridge built by Ram's army.
Got it in one!

I spent a LOT of time working with beginner programmers and saw many examples of learners finding their way into documentation and sources of information that were unhelpful, intimidating or not intended for them. Chaos, confusion and disappointment would ensue and this would take a significant amount of time and effort to undo. https://codewith.mu/ and https://madewith.mu/ are both websites for the target users of beginner programmers or those teaching coding (Python).

Mu's developer docs are in the "usual place" for Python projects (mu.rtfd.io) and I hope they make sense to any experienced developer.

All feedback most welcome.
Indeed. As for space exploration goes I don't remember if it was The Martian or Interstellar which mentions Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). And from there I found this nice article about Lisping at JPL, by Ron Garret [1]. I think it's an enjoyable reading.

1. http://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
You are probably mostly right. Yet I think there are probably also a huge untapped potential.

If everyone doesn’t have access to higher education, you run into underuse if the talent pool through aristocracy in place of meritocracy.

If families don’t have long paid parental leaves and subsidized daycare, you both get low birth rates and lower workforce participation.

The overheads in the healthcare system are well known.
What does it mean to say something "exists" but is not "observable"?
Hi, congrats and thanks!

What's been your rationale when deciding what are the most essential features?

Do you envision Mu as being someone's learning-to-code editor, then "graduating" to one of the big players or you think one can "grow into a programmer" and keep "living" in Mu?

(edit: the 2nd question is answered here: https://codewith.mu/en/tutorials/1.0/moving-on)
How two minds interact to create the sense that a Ouija board moves by itself
Regarding watching command completion, I built a tool for that purpose [1].

I use it mostly when working through SSH on the go and with slow connections.

[1] https://github.com/hoffa/pingu
Is it only Americans that call a pizza 'pie'?

As an Australian it sounds wrong, very wrong - a pie has dished sides and filling, not just topping.
Is the infiniband 40Gbytes/s or 40Gbits/s? I seem to recall that it is 40 gbits/s?
Depends on whether the scale is linear or logarithmic.
Research tools that make your life easier – Where there is light
Well it's okay to not infect every target. In fact, if you are being malicious, it would be better to only infect some targets so as to muddy the waters when someone is trying to investigate your actions after the fact.

You can claim that you were MITM'd and point to the non-infectious cases as evidence that you always send a good payload.
IDLE has lots of problems for beginners, isn't accessible for certain users and is a difficult code base to change.

Mu is largely based upon the feedback given to the Raspberry Pi Foundation from teachers and students who have used IDLE.

My talk at this year's PyCon mentions some of this in passing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5IAf5vGGSk
If by "signatures committed to blockchain" you mean git with a GPG signed tip/tag, then yes, sure, blockchain.

If you mean that other thing, no.
I specifically only talked about first-past-the-post votes, like the US presidential election. The decisions a president makes after gaining office are not the result of (nor even very influenced by) any type of popular poll about courses of action.

I really can’t make sense out of your last comment. You don’t influence specific policy decisions by getting out and voting. You only influence them by predicting which candidate, after being elected, will then actually perform the policy actions you want.

If you value an accurate mapping between votes and correctly predicting outcomes, then when your personal knowledge of candidates is weak, abstaining is a way to allow more expert voters to improve the signal-to-noise ratio relative to ignorant voters.

But you specifically said,

> “Abstaining from voting is never a reasonable choice unless you want elected officials who don’t give a damn about you”

and this can only make sense if instead of valuing votes as accurate predictions (wherein you might best obtain a politician who cares about you by abstaining from injecting your noisy vote into the election) you choose to value votes as a means of unqualified personal expression.
Why would you use a million and a billion instead of 1 and 1000?
How long ago did you take out caffeine? I found it took a month for my sleep quality to improve, but once it did it was an amazing difference.
cost ? you mean extinction has a commercial price?
Pipelines – a guided tour of the new IO API in .NET, part 3
"Gait DNA"? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...
The 24/7/365 aspect can be solved by moving them sufficiently underground. Underground environments are naturally the yearly average temperature of the surface.
Who are these "most people". I've never seen curl | bash outside of developer circles. "Most" people install things directly from the app store, or use web apps.
There is a large pool of Internet report on it and it is from Japan. The usage of Apple Pay in US, or the whole world does not even match the usage of Sucia in Japan.
But what about confident people who know that talking loudly and occupying the field is sending dominating signals ?
Where do they use Envoy?
Aww, I was gearing up for learning about blackboard chalk.
And specifically Hoover Dam appears in New Vegas.
Bureaucracy only grows, however. Across the US, there is a massive police state apparatus in place for no good reason and yet we can't just dismantle it because the usual fear mongers, who make money off of it, will scare the public silly.

I hate flying now, I gave up on travel just because the security apparatus is so god damn irritating and unnecessary on top of an airline industry which continues to make the most awful choices possible for the end consumer so that the CEOs can make more billions.

I have concluded that the rich and powerful fly on private aircraft and never have to experience these indignities so they don't care. The wealthy just drive up, often right next to their plane, and board it. If they want to bring guns or illegal drugs or their portable basketball hoop, they can because nobody is there to stop them. There are no lines or metal detectors or machines that pump you full of ionizing radition (thanks L3 System, you can all smoke a turd in hell for that gift to humanity).

The rest of us, as usual, are purposefully kept down using humiliation and police state tactics. This is the age-old method of keeping the peasants in line and it works exceedingly well. It's all become so perverse, and sadly, so accepted by regular people that they forgot they don't have to stand for it.
Fully Working Server in Abandoned Building [video]
VSCode is for professional developers... while this may look beautifully simply (because it is) to experienced developers like you and me, it still isn't particularly "friendly" for beginners.

The point of Mu is to be the first editor you use... it introduces you to the various concepts and capabilities of IDEs in a simple, approachable and coherent way so you quickly graduate to something like VSCode.

As I say in my PyCon talk (linked to in another answer), if you're still using Mu as your main editor after becoming proficient in coding, you're doing it wrong (and should graduate).

Hope this makes sense.
AWS pushes it really hard :).

Many of my coworkers got extremely excited about it right after re:invent...
Conversely, navigating a European city is a very confusing experience (even for a European), whereas driving around from point A to point B in e.g. L.A. is a no-brainer.
OK, I allow you to laugh on math and science articles then.
It is quite common in Europe and in fact Switzerland has a few just for that purpose (Pumpspeicherkraftwerk). Interactive Map [1]

[1] http://www.uvek-gis.admin.ch/BFE/storymaps/WK_WASTA/index.ph...
> Maybe about half of US workers get paid maternity leave.

I think there is some confusion of terminology here: a European probably means paid leave for the first 12-18 months of the baby’s life, until it’s old enough to go to daycare so the parents can return to work. One or a few months leave doesn’t really help much if you still either have to quit or take a long unpaid leave until the kid can be in daycare during the day
>So when using POSIX, or any other programming model rich enough not to mess with OS specific APIs, the OS becomes irrelevant.

Except that things like systemd and a lot of redhat related software rely on Linux-specific functions like cgroups so they are not portable. Good luck replacing Linux even if something that much better comes up.
Right. Every policy has an implicit cost component. If you bar the explicit consideration of cost, you just push the cost comparison to the political domain. And in this political domain, the response to cost excess may be complete repeal of your "but our values are beyond cost!" legislation.

It's better to just include cost up front.
I'd like to point out that COBOL generates rather efficient fixed-point math code on IBM mainframes because those mainframes have a dedicated set of machine-level instructions that deal with fixed-point math.

The data type used is "Packed Decimal" where each nybble in a string of bytes represents a digit, except the last nybble. The last nybble describes the sign of the overall number. It's similar to BCD with a sign-nybble at the end.

Here's a list of the Packed Decimal instructions with a description of each.

http://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~byrnes/csci360/notes/360pack.htm
How I built a system to gather, and then randomly text, all my Kindle passages
Looks very cool from a first glance!

As it was mentioned in another comment, its hard to find a link to the source code of this, or even to get the information, whether this is open source, and what licence.
(Answer: https://github.com/mu-editor/mu/, licence is GPLv3). For some people, this is some of the most important question before they would try out a new app.

Also, one detail which was hard to find, but interesting for me: This is build using PyQt5.

About the MacOSX package: It's about 430 MB. This is a lot for such a simple editor. Is this just because of PyQt5 which is bundled together with it? Isn't it possible to strip that down? I would have expected something like 5 MB or so.

Also, another question: Is it possible to have this bundled into another existing app? E.g. I have an app where the user could write simple Python scripts to automate something (e.g. the smart playlist logic in a music player), and I was wondering whether I can have a simple editor just inside the app. However, your licence is problematic for this usage, as my apps usually have a BSD or MIT licence or similar. Maybe consider to use LGPL?
Mansplaining, explained in one chart
My local co-op has committed to providing 100% of sunny daytime electricity with solar by 2022 (35 megawatts): http://kitcarson.com/electric/100-daytime-solar-energy-by-20...

It's really interesting that the push is coming from co-ops. Many people in my town don't seem to understand how important and incredible our local co-op is. They mostly complain about the quality of service (there's more downtime than you would get from a traditional utility, for sure) but don't think about the alternative is a utility that belches coal smoke and outsources customer service to Bangladesh.
I guess “too little, too late” means nothing to this person.