skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m relaxed about climate change. Photovoltaics have grown at a compounding average rate of 40.5% over the last 20 years, going from 0.566 GW in 1998 to ~512 GW in 2018.

World power use (all forms, not just electricity) are currently around 18 TW. At current trends, we exceed this in June 2029. By June 2034, we should be overproducing by a factor of 5, which makes up for the difference between nameplate capacity and actual average output. By 2037 you do that and have enough overproduction you don’t need batteries to store energy at night, just make interconnections between existing power grids worldwide, because you can afford 75% losses (if you want to, which you might not).

On the other hand, I am concerned with biodiversity loss, nitrogen cycle issues, antibiotics resistance, and non-renewable use of phosphorus.
Time to start terraforming with sulfur?
Actually, a lot of Python users don't even know sets exist. Or they forgot, and use them randomly after they google "remove duplicates". Even among the sets users, a lot of them don't even know you can use ^, | and ~ with them.

Size sample: a few hundred students and colleagues over 15 years.

It make sense: for columns, it's quite commonto use dicts, or pandas dataframe. The sets of key is just the dict keys memory view.

A web dev rarely needs sets. A GUI coders, a sysadmin or a geograph neither.

It's not that sets are not useful, it's just that in the huge numbers of things you need to do in programming, accross all fields that Python attends to, they are pretty niche.
I haven't read it (though I saw his talk), but I'm sure there are arguments to be optimistic as well. It can be a mistake just to focus on the negative stuff.
What do I do to get a finished version of my work without the watermark?
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Your scale is off. It will be at least a few billions.
>"Deservedly condescending" is not an actual thing that exists in the world.

There's absolutely no rational reason for it not to be a thing.

"Politely condescending" might be a contradiction in terms, but some people just lend themselves to being treated condescendingly.

Same thing with how some people might deserve a sarcastic response -- sarcasm is not that remote from condescension.
If you haven't been chronically sleep deprived and haven't been using a caffeine/alcohol cycle to support that life style, why would you expect to see effects the parent said you would see?

You're at the baseline they were already talking about.
Evidence of bias against girl in contexts that emphasize intellectual ability
Well, US Agency for International Development is one of them.

Whilst I have no doubt it has done some good stuff, it's also been directly involved in funding attempts at regime change. This usually done under the guise of promoting democracy – often in places that were once US puppet-states.

It's interesting that the US speaks of promoting democracy, when it is fiercely supportive of some of the least democratic states.

If USAID's plans would be so widely supported by the US taxpayer, words like "discreetly" [0] should not need to be used.

[0] https://www.scribd.com/document/122217408/USAID-DAI-Contract
Well, to each their own. For me life's too short to read authors walking on eggshells.

Of course for a technical book it's the technical content that matters -- whether it's presented politely or not.
Damn that's frightening. They need semi-autonomous robots (spider-like?) to crawl ahead with a camera before going head-first into a place like that.
> it describes the most advanced features of the most advanced language: COMMON LISP.

I thought Haskell surpassed it a long time ago already.
So much this. I'm working for a company that used to have Support Engineers and now does not, and I now get bombarded directly with requests from customers, and I haven't been able to make any effective new development happen for months as a result.

Those Support Engineers are invaluable. They can investigate those requests, decide which ones are legitimate (we get a lot of either one-off minor freak things happening due to network glitches or customers just interacting with the software in really crazy ways and we don't have time to baby proof the software -- I should note that this is internal software, so we only have a couple hundred users), and for the things that do happen from time to time, like a customer accidentally closed something out and needs to reopen it but we don't normally allow that to happen so it doesn't get abused, we provide tools so the support engineer can fix those things without involving the rest of the dev team.

Once those things are taken care of, everything that's left, assuming the support engineer thinks it's important enough, can then be passed along to us. We used to only get a handful of those a month.

Now that there's no Support Engineer I get these requests all the time, and I'm getting burnt out, as I'm effectively working two jobs now instead of one (actually four, as I'm also an Architect now and the director of the phone systems, without the promotion, and basically have four bosses now, who don't communicate with each other and each have their own high priority requests I'm expected to do for each of them in addition to dev and support work, but that's another story....we lost a lot of people and there's almost no efforts being made to replace them).
I’m not really depressed now as I’ve kind of come to accept similar ideas to what you’re getting at. However it took me a long time to reckon with it all, and unfortunately many loved ones and younger people might not be able to just accept the bad news as easy as you can.
I recommend revisiting the great philosopher, Haddaway's poem with a simliar title:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXWRTEbj1I

Also, follow this guy's advice on being sad:

http://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/051a347d6ed13b5893716224ca6...
This article raises a lot of suspicion, and it has many of the hallmarks of bad reporting.

- The Vice piece is shallow and didn't investigate the claims and arguments of the cited article (And what's with the authors photo? Is Zing Tsjeng really serious about this?);

- The author of the paper, Jem Bendell, is not an academic in climate science nor in sustainability, but in "Sustainability Leadership", a field in Management;

- The paper reads like an opinion piece.

- The paper, as provided in the author's website, makes reference to the journal to which it was intended in the past tense, which raises the question of whether it is the original or an edited version;

- Many of the references cited in the paper are from news websites, and only a few are proper scientific articles: I was expecting a lot, lot more;

And the worst red flag of them all:

- After being rejected by a not exactly relevant yet serious journal, the author made it public nonetheless, hinting at some form of censorship of an inconvenient opinion.
I'm not sure how that would work, without breaking the encryption the mining process relies on... but then it's not "faster", just "broken".
I guess UTF-8 is technically what we would call the encoding (with alternatives like UTF-32 with other tradeoffs). But what would be the correct word for Unicode, if not encoding? I guess I could always say Unicode standard, but that feels like just avoiding the issue (for example we usually say SMTP protocol, not SMTP standard).
If I may, in a nutshell a badly built house is bad.

To this you add ineffective, amateurish or no repairs and maintenance and you have the perfect disaster.

It is perfectly possible to build a long lasting, maintainable, underground house, but you won't have it "cheap", expect the costs to be between 150% and 180% (if not more) of the "normal" costs for a comparable sized house built with whatever building technique is common in your area (bricks/concrete/etc.).

Mould is almost unavoidable in any (not only underground) houses with a high level of energy efficiency (in Europe those that would be classified B or A and higher, even if in my experience issues start happening at the D or C class) unless a proper (and properly calculated and maintained) mechanical ventilation system is installed.

Though you may save over the years something in heating/cooling costs, it is simply (usually) not worth it.
"internal virtual machine" is such a great way to think about it.

Today a recruiter crashed one of my mental containers when she made an API call to me telling me she had an opportunity for me and I responded with 200 "I've got a new role now that I'm happy with" then she fired a GET request for the company I am currently working. I don't implement that method on the social contract (I commented it out recently) and instead just returned a 404. She then immediately fired another GET request for the same information and my mental container just crashed. Just hung up and ended the call. That isolation is great though because I went straight back to enjoying my beer.
Wrong answer. Selling support means that the developer is incentivized to make product unnecessarily complex. Also, with recent developments it turns out that other entities might be better at providing support than original developers, taking away the option to monetize OSS. Why bother writing your own software, when you can just sell services and provide support for a different one?

Note that RedHat, often quoted as success story, is really a services company that just happens to write an occasional piece of software, and support them when their customers need it.
Love his YouTube channel and also that we can see the innards of Teslas and how they work at such a detailed level.
> protect themselves from the highly unlikely.

Tyrannical governments are unlikely?
The vast majority of Americans have but one choice for wired high speed Internet. Cable cos like to pretend that they compete with DSL, which is a lie.
Ask HN: I casually came up with chained unary operators, do you like them?
Working on a simple virtual machine and a new programming language, I have discovered that the interpreter I have developed can read chained unary operators nominally.

It seems a useful side effect...

$a = 0

print ++$a++

# Prints "1" and sets a = 2 in memory

$a = 1

print --$a++

# Prints "0" and sets a = 1 in memory

$a = 0

print ++++$a

# Prints "2" and sets a = 2 in memory

$a = 0

print $a++++

# Prints "0" and sets a = 2 in memory

$a = 10

print ++$a----

# Prints "11" and sets a = 9 in memory

$a = 10

print ++--$a----++

# Prints "10" and sets a = 9 in memory
I always wonder if Common Lispers who bash Scheme know that Guy Steele (who also is the chairman of the Common Lisp standards committee) was the co-creator of Scheme.
I took an SSRI for 15 years. It took me multiple tries over a couple years to taper off. It was not a fun experience. When I tried doing it too fast, I would get terrible headaches. The final attempt took 9 months of careful tapering until I got below the therapeutic dose and just stopped.

I do regret ever starting it. I feel like I lost a part myself to it. I feel like the peaks and valleys of my emotions are gone. I never get very sad or angry, but I don't ever feel very happy either.
And after it bites you, "it's strange because it's usually so nice".
> I think your project is cool. Perhaps some changes to the README to explain exactly what your benchmarks are meant to show about Python itself would help the criticism.

I agree. I'll edit when I have some time this week. =)
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... and UE/Spain mandated tree cuts (officially, Xylella)
>I can not confirm/deny whether you are more or less familiar with the situation.

"Great" arguments.
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There needs to be a Patreon alternative. I decided to contribute to a favourite author and found that I could register for an account, but logging on and paying people? Ha! I'm not a robot but I'm fscked if I'm going to battle through 19 Captchas (I gave up at 19). I even wrote to Patreon but not even the courtesy of a reply was forthcoming.

Sod'em

/rant
According to Wiki, very small:

A 2017 meta-analysis of 44 studies found that DST leads to electricity savings of only 0.34% during the days when DST applies.[81][82] The meta-analysis furthermore found that "electricity savings are larger for countries farther away from the equator, while subtropical regions consume more electricity because of DST."[81][82] This means that DST may conserve electricity in some countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, but be wasteful in other places, such as Mexico, the southern United States, and northern Africa. The savings in electricity may also be offset by extra use of other types of energy, such as heating fuel.
> Oh wait, this is discussion, not an academic paper.

It's literally an academic discussion insofar as it's about the technicalities of an academic paper.

So yes, you really do need to support your arguments if you want them to be taken seriously.
I'm curious about how they decide this is a religious site. The artifacts have images on them, but that can't be the only indicator of why they were there can it? Why build pyramids and other things above ground but then make people crawl deep into a hole to have a small religious site? Isn't it more likely people of lower status were forced to live underground and this is their stash of valuables? - to give just one possible alternate interpretation. How do they decide what a site is?

I'm sure they take into account all the other knowledge that has been gathered over the years and put this find in context. That's largely missing from the article.
> haven't been using a caffeine/alcohol cycle to support that life style

I'm frequently acutely sleep deprived. (Which is relevant within the context of a "catch-up sleep" article.) And while I don't use alcohol and caffeine to support my sleep cycle, I certainly take each frequently.

Cutting them out had no dramatic effect on my sleep quality. TL; DR Results from cutting out alcohol and caffeine may vary, and not everyone's body knows how much sleep it needs.
Nice to see that my sentiment is shared. I heard people joke about C# during university, but it's a well designed language, VS is a joy, and I'll take it over Java any day
You might at least say why you think your bald statement should carry weight. Plenty of intellectuals support Brexit. https://briefingsforbrexit.com/.

A lot of people understood Tony Benn's five questions about people in power.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tony-benn-dead-five-questions-powe...

"What power have you got? "Where did you get it from? "In whose interests do you use it? "To whom are you accountable? "How do we get rid of you?". Prior to the Brexit vote a lot of people had trouble squaring these vis a vis the EU - especially the last one. Indeed, this, not immigration (UK is already a highly diverse society) was a significant factor for many voters. Clearly you have no problem with Benn's questions but maybe you could avoid making gross generalizations regarding those who disagree.

Benn's comment about that last question:

"Anyone who cannot answer the last of those questions does not live in a democratic system."
This is something I have been looking for and couldn't find to the point that I was considering just building it myself. Thanks.
I tried chunkwm last year or so but I found it to be very lackluster. There were a lot of problems when it was trying to work against the native window manager. How has it improved over the last year or so? I use i3 on Linux, but love to get a window manager on my Macbook as well.
Who can afford to pay for more than 60% of the ride's cost?
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I love dogs. My familly owned 4 of them, small ones, bigs ones, smart ones, dumb ones. All so cute.

Yet, they have no place in an office. They actually have no place in a city. Animals need space. They need to be able to be dirty, make a mess, make noise.

Cities are a place terrible for that. Work even more.

If you decided to get a dog, knowing what it implies, and it prevent somebody from working, you deserves to be fired.
The article said that it involved interaction with gravity and wasn't from GR, so that doesn't sound like a complete explanation. Nonlinear phonon interaction has already been demonstrated experimentally, but that doesn't seem to include the additional complexity of the interaction with gravity.
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It is challenging to construct a realistic long-run
scenario of a happy future that is sophisticated and
meaningful.

It's simple enough: Pick a reference point in the past that makes most things look pretty good, and extrapolate from there.

Compared to the 1800s, everything seems to be going in the right direction. Medical technology? Much better! Childhood mortality? Lower than ever! Science? Much more advanced - and much better funded! Democracy? Many fewer limits on who can vote or serve in government! Women's rights? LGBT rights? Much improved! War? Fewer and smaller wars than ever! Long distance communication? Faster and cheaper than ever! Average education levels? Higher than ever! Prices of books? Lower than they've ever been. Availability of food? We literally have an obesity epidemic! Quality of food? More people have access to salt and spices than ever! The average westerner today eats better than a king would have in 1800! Access to education? More university lectures than you could ever watch, on a screen in your pocket.

Then just gloss over any negative changes as temporary blips, and you've got a pretty positive outlook!
You can hug a tree with any car, be it a Tesla, Corvette or Porsche. Once.
Um, I'm in the UK, but I thought Trump didn't get a majority, and in fact got less votes than Clinton; it was the electoral college system that put him in.

Wikipedia confirms that, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_president..., 46% Republican, 48% Democrat.

So?
It's not triviality.

How many people do you really think care about Elymaic script? Or about Nandinagari?
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Are you for treating Google and Facebook as Utilities, with all the Federal oversight that comes with it? Valid topic for debate.
Object Detection – Playing games using your hand gestures
I won’t claim to be a Paris expert but I have spent a bit of time there as a tourist. Never heard of it either and I stayed just a few blocks from there four years or so ago.
Taking up arms against a government in your lifetime? Yes I'd call it unlikely.
Nuclear power is a meme. To replace our current energy expenditure we would need 15,000 fission plants. Not only is that not possible, but unsustainable. Neutron embrittlelmen and a ton of other problems means thousands of plants would need to be constantly torn down and replaced every few years. Or one somewhere in the world every single day. Currently, it takes 6-12 years to build a nuclear station, and up to 20 years to decommission one, making this rate of replacement unrealistic. We only have about 80 years left of viable uranium. With 15000 new plants, do the math. We definitely do not have enough exotic metals for even building that many plants. We need a lot of stuff to protect the plant from radiation. The efficiency of nuclear power, fission and fusion isn't that great. After all, it's just heat energy transferred to mechanical to electric energy. Which means, it would take a tremendous amount of oil (yup fossil fuels are still needed) to lubricate the mechanical parts. No oil, no power regardless of what's doing the pushing. The trade off in power generated isn't that great for nuclear compared to traditional plants. There are a number of other issues.

Nuclear Utopia was never tried for a reason. The current model of civilization is just simply unsustainable. Billions of people and everyone needs a car and a plane and a drone and a hundred appliances and gadgets and exorbitant food waste is just NOT SUSTAINABLE.
Actually, if you look at the pictures, it would seem the artefacts themselves a larger than the crack we see in your image.

That was mysterious to me until I saw the rather large electric lighting fixture on the cave floor. So there must be some larger passage somewhere.
So you do you- just don't force the complexity of your life on the rest of us.

We can contribute a measurable number of deaths every year to DST. It's a disaster.
There's an LCARS live wall on F-Droid App "Store" (F-Droid.org)
Cool. So it seems like PDF signatures are broken by design, not just implementation. If you can just append unsigned content to a signed PDF, you are toast.

Interestingly, Adobe has created a cottage industry of certificate providers and has strict security requirements like use of HSMs to prevent private keys from being exposed. As you can imagine, these certificates are stupidly expensive for what they do.
Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database (2012)
The replication problem has been well documented, at least for the social sciences. A cursory search for “replication crisis” will yield many results. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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They were describing an alternate explanation of the cause of the problem, not a solution. And yes, an activity can go from being not a problem to a problem when poor people start do it because there are a lot more poor people than rich people. 1000 people doing something will cause a lot more wear and tear than 10 people. Also, with greater numbers, there's a greater chance of one of them being a thoughtless jerk who causes harm.
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It seems like monotonicity (or a subset, stronger monotinicity, still covering many practical use cases) can be statically enforced in an algrebraic type system. With some generics magic you can encode monotonicity as a type assertion on (optionally asynchronous) function calls mapping an underlying transport/RPC mechanism (REST over HTTP, RPC over Websocket, custom protocol over TCP/domain socket...).

In TypeScript for example you can strongly type your communication protocol (web requests/reponses, websockets, parent/worker ipc, etc) and get some guarantees at compile time. For example, you can guarantee that your state
updates over the wire are eventually consistent.

The same goes of course for other algebraic type systems by encoding monotonicity in the form of static type assertions (Flow, Caml, Haskell...).
try https://gpt2.apps.allenai.org/?text=This%20is%20a%20Turing

it ends up at https://gpt2.apps.allenai.org/?text=This%20is%20a%20Turing%2....
It is something of an insult to the accident investigators to suggest that someone just "reached for some pet theory" to explain the Challenger crash (and that of Columbia, for that matter.) There was a very thorough investigation, that clearly established that there had been a normalization of deviance leading up to the final showdown over whether to launch. The commission would have come to a shallow and unsatisfactory conclusion if it had looked at that showdown alone and not recognized the normalization of deviance that had set the stage for it.

I encourage you to read both reports, available from NASA:

https://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html

https://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/CAIB_Vol1.html

The term 'nomalization of deviance' was coined precisely because accident investigators have found a recurring pattern. The recognition of a recurring pattern is more helpful in accident prevention than simply attributing each incident to "just the ongoing tension between the desires of higher management and the reality that those on the ground know."

Here's another example of it, not involving engineers, and where explicit management pressure was not an issue:

http://www.rapp.org/archives/2015/12/normalization-of-devian...