skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty fascinating to me, thanks for sharing. The analysis you're referring to - how long does it take for the big clients you deal with? Is it mostly meetings?
Care to elaborate on how they intend to accomplish this?

This seems to have predictable limitations, and the last people I talked to a month ago said it killed their batteries. Surpriseeeeeeeee or not really?
I'd think, that of all the components in a not-user-upgradable stationary desktop computer, storage is the one that's easily solved through external devices.

I obviously don't know your particularly needs, and gather there's something I'm missing here — are there e.g. throughput issues with external SSDs? — so I'm curious to learn why my assumption is wrong!
I absolutely did not classify all rich people. I specifically called out the extra wealthy that go out of their way to avoid taxes via loopholes or accounting tricks. Do you think Apple's billions of dollars in avoided tax is the same as someone shitting on the BART escalator? Do you think it's the same as McDonald's Corp not paying a living wage and as a result its employees being poor enough to need food stamps? (Which means tax payers are effectively subsiding McDonald's.)
There is a great deal more information about how sycalls are implemented on Linux in this excellent free GitHub book called linux-insides:

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/tree/master/SysCall

I can highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about the kernel. This book is particularly great because it does not assume any kernel programming background knowledge - superficial understanding of C should be enough.
What is the origin of capitalization. Is upper and lower case really a reference to cases full of printing press letters?
This question took me by surprise because since I'm not a developer but a "business/marketing/product guy" the only reason I go into a project is because I do care about the product. Is so strange reading the answers.

I do appreciate it though, I have a new found respect for my developers that have shown again and again that they do care what we are building.
Incentives are not aligned here. As a user, I'm not paying for file to be stored - I'm paying so it can be retrieved anytime. As a space owner, I want to maximize profits per space, with cheapest (not reliable) disks possible.

This system would work much better if payment was tied to retrieval, not storage.
I've assumed that the reason was that green energy production, which is tied to climate factors (windy/rainy/sunny days), can't be ramped up or down to match demand. As surplus energy can't be stored or sold then its value tends to zero.
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Wasn’t Stormfront banned by every DNS / Hosting provider after Cloudflare banned them?

I really don’t know what happened to them.
Cost, I would imagine. It's there. It's working for most people. The "only people complaining" are those who want to take what you have to offer and stop you from getting advertising revenue for seeing it.

Your argument, whilst full of technical merit and other benefits which you have not mentioned, is perhaps not persuasive enough to those who control the purse strings.
I'm slowly joining that group, I bought a iPad mini for testing and it worked so effortlessly I bought the 2018 iPad with a pencil.

Outside of work stuff where I care I just want things to do their job and stay out the way.
This seems like a very strange perspective.

> The problem here is that the project was made public for others to use/view.

This literally doesn't matter if we're talking about someone's character, because whether it's public or not is irrelevant regarding the " they give up because they are now in the drudge work" point. Either that point is valid or it's not, but the public knowing about it is beside the point.

And I would say the point is not valid. Someone starting a personal project for a language and then discontinuing it is still much better off than someone not starting a project at all. I don't think most engineers share the perspective that this shows them in a bad light or something, this is honestly the first time I've seen this perspective in years.

> Most of the work that most of us have to do is not exciting, not learning new things, not even interesting. It is just drudgery that needs to be done to get to the eventual goal that we started with. This is life.

There's nothing good about this, nor anything good about reinforcing it. Godspeed to those who can avoid it.

The author of the language does not owe it to anyone to start, continue, or finishing any projects they have in mind, definitely not to anyone sitting around and judging them for daring to do something at all.
Why not sent proof of work ? Like the actual stuff you wrote, instead of having a program constantly monitor what you do.
The OP wrote a post which has nothing to do with article at hand and is deliberately misleading. I think the term is fitting - it's complaining for complaining's sake. And that's toxic in a community.
Compare it with the frontend developers - dealing with Android fragmentation is signficantly easier than dealing with browser and device fragmentation as a web developer... and those topics aren't full of people complaining.
The 'forms' may be different, the desires and needs stay the same.

People want to communicate with as little friction as possible - then some smarty pants thinks why don't I insert myself in the middle and be the creepy overlord.

It'd be novel and compelling if people thought beyond themselves for one second and wondered what they'd actually like to spend their life on. That'd be novel and compelling.
It's been novel and compelling since the beginning of time, because it happens so rarely. I don't expect that to change. Sorry, carry on :)
I have quit FB like 6 years ago and stopped using Twitter (I still have account I guess) like 2 years ago.

It doesn't mean the web became a lonely place for me - Github, HN, some music apps, Instagram, Duo, e-mail etc. What I have left behind is pictures of newborns, awkard 'friends', news and shallow exchanges - which I am not fond of also in real.
I find it funny that there is an ongoing discussion of how much electricity bitcoin mining wastes and another ongoing discussion of how to store free electricity.

The answer is simple! Mine bitcoins when electricity is free and use the bitcoins to buy power when prices go up! I call the scheme cryprographic energy storage. I am current looking into creating an ICO at $10 billion valuation. /s
It makes sense now. Thanks!
> > Downloading junk is also a life lesson, they will learn.

> Mega-corporation - with deep pockets, professional advice, etc - stalks teenagers and does targeted personalized campaign, it is teenagers fault to fall for it... I see a "blame the victim" attitude here.

You're really extrapolating quite a straw man from the original statement there. There's a lot of people out there that want to (and will, if given the change) scam you. Arguing that it's better to learn that in a way that at least doesn't lose you any actual money is not the same as blaming people who fall for it and/or implying that they deserve it.
This is true. For example, deadline for Model 3 was set much lower compare the Bolt. Even though Tesla make money on every sell of Model 3 and GM loses on every sell of Bolt money. Tesla is the one in negative news because of too high expectations.
How can we code up a better world?
EPA (US environmental protection agency) rates it as 241 km (150 miles)

JC08 (Japan's rating agency) rates it at 400km (248 miles). Even the dealer says this is wildly optimistic.

At 100% charge, my car reports 220 km. It's starting to "learn" my driving style.

My lead foot, my preference for 25dC (77dF) cabin temperature when it's 40dC (104dF) at 90%+ humidity drags this down to real world 150km (93 miles).

I'm sure if I drove more conservatively during more reasonable weather conditions, I could easily get over 220km. But with fast charge stations no more then 50km apart, no need to hypermile. It's good to take a break hour and half or so. (Speed limit in Japan is maximum 80kph (49mph) on highways.)
A banal long term way of storing energy is to pump water up to some high ground. Whenever you need it, use a turbine to get the energy back.
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I was just joking because before his edit he had "classical EU" instead of "classic EU".
The point is the completion of the project. Most parts of most projects that we do, whether we are paid to do those projects or not, are boring and tedious. Without those parts, nothing is ever built or completed.
I'd join in a heartbeat. Sounds like the platonic version of the speed dating app I wish existed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17356401
The causality / endogeneity problems with estimating returns to schooling (due to unobserved individual "ability" variables) have been known to economists if not politicians) since since at least the 1960s, probably even earlier, see e.g. the intro of http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/causal_educ_earnings.pd...

Measuring the true returns of education is impossible, both on the individual level (we can't replay history with alternative choices) and the population level (clean randomisation on education is socially unacceptable), so all we have are approximations and methodological hacks (technical summary in linked summary paper). But such approximations typically found that "ability bias" was not all that large.
Please help me find a lecturer in UK whom I can connect with
Hi folks,

I am Lia Anggraini, a bachelor student graduated from Islamic University of Indonesia. I currently working hard to earn certain scholarship which provided by UK. Some of the requirements says that I need a Letter of Approval from a professor or any lecturer who happens to be working on similar field of study as mine.

I already have several publications related to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence which built upon few years back. Here is the list of them :
- Hospital Patients Arrival Prediction Using Markov Chain Model Method
- Prediction on Suicide-Related Adverse Event on Anti-depressant Drugs Using Frequent patter growth Algorithm
- The ECLAT Algorithm Implementation in Determining Selected Contraception Method
- Implementation of Modified K-Nearest Neighbor for Diagnosis of Liver Patients
- Prediction of Diverse Case Ruling Using Naive Bayes Classifier
- Analysis of Risk Factor Linkage Stroke with Type of Stroke Suffered using ECLAT Algorithm

Further informations or details about all the researches can be found in this link https://sites.google.com/view/anggrainilia/home/publication

So I browsed several website of universities which resides in UK and found some email links that probably can direct me to lecturers in similar fields and have some conversations. But sadly none has replied for the pas few weeks, for reasons I may never guess. And it’s quite stressing to know that the scholarship application will reach it’s deadline in about 2 weeks from this time of writing. I have completed every other requirements enlisted, and this Letter of Approval is the only item left to work on.

I used to use StackOverflow, Quora, and similar forums for coding related Qas, but now I’m asking a bit of help from anyone who happens to read this message, by any way you can. But if in 2 weeks later I still made no progress, at least I’ve done my best.
I've gone back and forth on this so much.

On the one hand, it's really annoying when your client library doesn't actually support asyncio compatible code (ex libraries which perform synchronous network or disk reads/writes), and you have to wrap everything in an executor.

On the other hand, making it explicit ensures I'm actually doing things async. "Leaf" functions with an async containing no await is now a red flag to me.

It's a mental tax to remember that I may actually be returning a future instead of the result of a future (similar to how you can return a function but not the result of that function being executed, or a non materialized generator), and having to call 'await x' instead of just assigning x kind of violates 'do what I mean'. In the end, async is (relatively) difficult, so I appreciate the enforced explicitness.
Some people seem to be objecting to this as a fluff piece, but it speaks to me on a deep level.

I develop free software because I like to learn and create; because good tools make work a joy; because I like to make useful things.

And I've parted ways with several projects, some of them mine and some of them from others. It's painful each time I leave a useful project unmaintained. And yet, I don't find long term project maintenance sustainable as a hobby when my personal use declines.

I suppose the best outcome is handing useful things off to a new caring maintainer. How do other people deal with this?
Yep and yesterday FullyCharged released a vid about it being on trials - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Z4JCoPAGc

An interesting note from the video is how they said they could detect the grid frequency from the plug to detect times of over supply and (in theory) that would be the right time to absorb some of that excess.

Some other interesting benefits (mentioned in the comments) about how it can periodically cycle the heat better than traditional water tanks to kill off bacteria.
It seems people reuse the API which is used by the app. An example: https://www.npmjs.com/package/flick-electric-api

So it provides pricing info, not any home automation.
the same toxic ceramic than in magnetron ? .. scary
"But you can't invest in things you can't quantify."

From:https://genius.com/Frank-zappa-drooling-midrange-accountants...

Once upon a time, a record company had A&R people in it who would take a chance, make a decision, use their gut reaction, sign a group, and see what they could do with it. Okay? That was, whoa, a long time ago. It's not that way anymore. All decisions about who get signed and what happens to the record are made by these drooling little midrange accountants. And everything is based on the numbers games in there. And the taste of the accountants is what is ruling the mass media."

Continues at link.

This attitude is like trying to predict the weather tomorrow by just guessing it'll be the same as today. You're right most of the time...
I however don't appreciate how flimsy lightning is when it keeps disconnecting my apple headphones when my phone is in my pocket. Coincidentally, they put out new wireless headphones.

Not to mention what a hassle it is to find someone to borrow their cable from if I accidentally left mine at home.
Discussion about financial inclusion with WIZZIT's Brian Richardson
Seems like the second idea (interest rates should be higher) contradicts the first (it should be easier for banks to make loans to small business). Higher interest rates would tend to discourage loans.

Edit: I guess the idea is to increase supply and reduce demand?
Oliver Byrne's coloured “Elements of Euclid” in TeX
I'd say they were in a position of being strategic investors. There are only a handful of major labels and Spotify is slowly killing legal downloads which itself killed physical copies.

They owned a piece of the future of music distribution. And as shareholders and content providers they could squeeze every bit of profit their way.

They've redistributed the profit of the sale so they're not going to reinvest it.

My guess is that they plan on squeezing Spotify even more and know that this will kill the valuation. As there are more strong competitors now (Apple Music is said to soon overtake Spotify in the US), killing Spotify doesn't matter much.
We used to have exactly this in the UK, back in the day. They were called Storage Heaters and we had a special "Economy 7" tariff where energy was a lot cheaper at night when demand was the lowest.
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I think handing it off to a maintainer when your own usage declines is a very good idea. One of the problems with maintaining something that you don't use a lot is that you get out of touch with how it is being used and the direction of the community. If you are at the head of the community, it is helpful to be an active participant; so appointing another maintainer who has an active usage, passion, and is "in-touch" with what is going on could be very fruitful. Eat your own dog-food
It's funny how some people seem to be afraid of DIY electrical work. In European countries it's really different. For example, in Switzerland, you can do it yourself, but it must pass the routine inspection. France is even laxer.

If you follow most of the most important rules (Fuse, RCCB, cood conduit, proper cable), hardly anything can go wrong.

Hell, you can easily destroy a house with a single cigarette, but nobody talks about it.
Why refute this? Yes, under communism, doctors are in the same silo as teachers salary-wise. Especially since most of them are general practice.

Source: ex-USSR experience.
Thank you for the thoughtful response.
I am actually not that familiar with that decision, since I still work on python projects (but those don't require multithreading). But the guys who work on Go projects mostly cited the following advantages: 1) good performance, since it is compiled, 2) easier deployment, since it compiles into single statically-linked file, and 3) multithreading is backed into the language.

Instead of gevent, I had quite a good experience with concurrent.futures; but I used it only for simple things like download multiple URLs in parallel, etc. Anyway, I can't help, but in retrospective all this multithreading looks to me a bit like being hacked into python language as an afterthought.
Aircraft have beacons to stop them flying into each other, I'm not sure why they wouldn't design the drones to be able to detect them.
It was certainly not unconsidered by labor economists who have worked on such problems for the past half century (http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/causal_educ_earnings.pd...)
Does high user satisfaction make more money?
Note that the cases where speech is not legal are significantly more narrow than most people think they are. The category you link to has only 11 pages, and half of them are court cases where the Supreme Court decided against limiting free speech. (In particular, the famous "shouting fire in a crowded theater" quote is from a 1919 case that was overturned in 1969, and shouting fire in a crowded theater is not, in fact, illegal. Inadvisable, probably, and likely to get you banned from that theater for life, but not illegal.)
Myspace was never itself a publically traded company. They had the backings of News Corp to not die.
Is it September already?
SLAM is one of the few computer vision problems not conquered by deep learning yet... guess that's changing.
It's odd that no one has addressed the issues of the rising cost of higher education. Once upon a time you could work a full-time job during the summer and part-time during the school year to pay for your education and graduate debt free. This wasn't that long ago either, I paid for my college education in the late 90s in cash I earned.
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> and don't wanna do C/C++.

Give C++17 a try :)
Infowars passionately defends the right to censor Infowars
From Anki manual[0]:

Internally, Anki’s spaced repetition system is based on an older version of the SuperMemo algorithm called SM2

[0] - https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html
Pretty much nobody but you has this perspective, it's completely irrelevant to the reality other people live in. And such a perspective is harmful, as it could discourage people from work under the false perception that an unfinished piece of work is worse than none.

I'm not sure where you got this whole idea from, but it's not true, neither in the real sense nor in the perceived sense. People benefit from working on projects they do not finish, and plenty of people are impressed with unfinished projects. This person is going to be a much better developer than average from this experience. There is literally no issue here. It's his work and it's his time and what he does with it is none of anyone else's business.

The only issue here is you making an issue out of it according to some strange ethical norms that nobody else shares. This is a massive overthinking/overjudge and the thinking here is rather unhealthy.
No, at editing text I'd say that most text editors are better.
The article insinuates that Roosegaarde's tower uses a lot of gray energy, while it uses the equivalent of one watercooker, and is powered by green energy.
Just a thought: a sufficiently smart EV and a sufficiently smart garage door could talk to each other to share a circuit. The car just stops charging when the door needs to move, which shouldn't add up to too much time.

Not practical for an individual to develop to solve their individual problem, but maybe it could become a selling point for any particular EV.
Gas pumps have much better throughput though. I can fill up the 45 litres tank (good for ~750km) in less than a minute.
How long would charging for the equivalent range take?
Not saying this is right, but the opposite is also more common than you'd think. For example, this is no different than:

1. Oxford University - extends exam times for women's benefit - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/02/01/oxford-univ...

2. Prof Bumps Female Students’ STEM Grades (Because They’re Women) - https://reason.com/archives/2018/05/23/prof-bumps-female-stu...
Employee email explains Musks plan to make Tesla private
It by definition is a bad thing. I suspect you’re using the term as slang. Like, you enjoy working out, you do it regularly, and you don’t feel right when you’ve gone too long without a bit of exercise.

That’s not addiction, that’s a healthy habit. If you were truly addicted to working out, you’d be late for work because you wanted that last mile. Or miss your kids birthday party to hang out at the CrossFit gym. It would consume your time and attention to the detriment of other needs and the needs of others.

That’s the spirit the parent comment is using the term in. As something that demands more of your attention than it deserves.
visited ICBM software / hardware giant (insider info) - producing top router equipment - in Central China. Take this: Hundreds (!) sw/hw engineers top Tsinhua graduates in cubicles 4 x 4 ft; each one speaks a western language, English, French, German, Russian, etc. Totally motivated, Skim the web all day. Need more ?
Yeah, and in 20 years you kid will have an appointment with the AI driven shrink developed by Facebook...and it will be seriously pissed off when it finds out that you redirected facebook to infowars. Be ready!
> If platform owners decide they don’t want me using their systems to promote my particular brand of racist demagoguery, well, fair enough.

Would you like this thesis as much as it was framed in the other direction? Assume that all platform owners are just fine with that 'particular brand of racist demagoguery' but really can not stand the utterings of the last Nobel peace prize winner (just to give an example) and decide to kick him to the curb. Would that be 'fair enough' or would it cause an outcry? Other than a shift in political bias there is no difference so it should be the former but I expect it to cause the latter.

Those platform owners would come with the same ratification: 'There must be some sort of social responsibility. The Internet gives anyone with a bit of determination the reach and influence previously only available to large organisations'.
well yeah, they let people test out if they meet already can meet the requirement