skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 10 years ago on Christmas morning, my wife was out for her morning jog and came across a full sized Yamaha keyboard stuffed in a trash bin placed at the curb... looking to be in excellent condition. Presumably the homeowners purchased a new piano or upgraded keyboard and simply threw this one away.

She called me and I drove down in a BMW (LOL!) and we barely were able to stuff it in the trunk. 5 minutes later, and after digging out a 12v wall-wart from the closet, I was pleasantly surprised that it powered up and worked perfectly

My young son ended up loving it, and taking up piano as a hobby, and now regularly competes in ragtime (of all genres!) piano competitions. If that had never happened I'm not sure he would have ever taken up music like he did. Crazy.
> but you miss my point, it is not about nuclear vs renewable, but nuclear vs fossils as a complement to renewable.

I don't miss your point, I just don't think nuclear is a viable complement to renewable in Germany.

> Why didn't Germany close its coal plants first?

Because it wanted to get rid of nuclear first and as fast as possible. The reasons for that is all known and a little research can explain it to you - beyond the believe that it was 'irrational'. It's not that you need to agree with it, but people here had other priorities than you have.

Still CO2 emissions were reduced by 27% from 1990 to 2016.

The next two decades will bring the end of coal-based electricity.

> When is Germany going to reach no CO2 emissions?

When do you stop going to vacations via airplanes? Stop eating meat? Stop driving a car?

> Expanding nuclear along renewable would have meant it could have reached this goal right now

No, nuclear and renewable are not compatible. Nuclear is centralized monopolistic, mostly state-owned form of energy. I sucks up huge amounts of investments and corrupts everything around it.

> This cost is shared across the world

Germany invested into renewable energy and jump-started the PV business. That's equally important.
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This is essentially my problem. Every reality TV show is the same. Every esoteric subcommunity has the exact same pattern of drama, competition, cliques. Take it from someone that did everything from competitive yo-yo to ham radio. I just don't want to see the same reality tv show again, but about anvils. I want to see something that focuses on the science.
The reason the US PhD takes five to seven years is because most students enter it without a Master's degree. In the UK it only takes two or three years because they generally need to complete a relevant Master's degree first.
A couple interesting anecdotes. My first boss had multiple degrees in music, and was a professional touring classical musician. He self taught himself programming because he needed to actually make some money. Now he's a CTO at a large company.

My next boss had a degree in English. His thought was that no matter what he did with his life, communication was always at the center. He had founded 2 different tech companies before I met him, and he's now the CTO of a large company.

One of the smartest people I've ever personally worked with went to seminary (I'm not sure if he was an atheist before or after, but talk about fun conversations over a beer). He was preoccupied with finding meaning in life, and did things like math and CS with what seemed like his spare cycles.

The point is that a persons degree really only matters for their first job, and often even then only if they want to work at a FAANG for that first job. Where people end up 5-10-15-20 years later in their career has little to do with their degree.
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...and they all lived happily ever after!

It isn't surprising that a generation who successfully fought a war of revolution against a royalty of "divine" right would have a millenarian bent, but that doesn't mean that we should believe them. In fact, it might be telling that this pithy narrative is found in a private letter to his wife rather than in his more intentionally public works. In every generation, there will be those who find poetry boring and politics exciting. The rest of us must maintain constant vigilance against those scourges on humanity.
> Clearly many Americans have their essential needs covered [...]

Not in the same way. You can even be quite wealthy and still have very negative consequences from getting fired, evicted or having the housing market crash. Not only as result of the direct or financial consequences, but also to your sense of freedom and self-image. I guess you could say that the Nordics at their best isn't so much about being happy, as in the pursuit of happiness, but about being trouble free.
In Italy there are both disciplines: informatica, that is derived from maths and ingegneria informatica that is derived from engineering.
I thought that everywhere in the world there was the same distinction, I had no idea that entire countries had only one or the other but not both choices together.
I would tend to agree with this. I just do not see myself going back to Windows any time soon. In my experience, battery use is comparable, and might be even better on Linux with a few tweaks (powertop/tlp).

Fonts are likely a matter of taste. I personally can't stand how they look on Windows, to the point where I had difficulties reading off one of my monitor (and none of the cleartype settings helped). Having quite different font rendering on multiple screens is something that highly annoys me.

As for hardware, I was probably lucky, and use a nice DELL laptop from my lab. Sleep doesn't work on my Ryzen desktop, which I don't know how to debug, though it's only a minor annoyance.

The general reason I use Linux (aside from philosophical/ethical considerations) is to get my system as lean or as bloated as I want, but always exactly know what happens on it, how parts fit together and be able to diagnose and fix a problem is one arises.
Quote from OA

"The first journey is a bus from the south of the city, Stirchley to, Birmingham. This 3.5 mile journey takes about 20 minutes between 6am and 7am, and about 40 minutes between 8am and 9am."

That would be the school run. To test my hypothesis, I'm going to try to run the results during a school holiday in a bit.

Very pleased someone has actually done what I have often thought about (but done nothing about) while standing at the 97 bus stop in the rain early in the morning... getting the data from the departure system. I wonder how I can get my hands on a sample of the data...
Current setup at the office is a 28-4k dead-centre with laptop stand beside it. I use the side display for Slack and Spotify specifically to not look at.

At home I had a 28-4k but replaced it and my TV with a 43-4k. I mostly use the middle area so a single ultrawide with laptop below it would suit me fine if it wasn't my TV. The PiP is handy for using multiple machines.

Edit: when I was doing production engineering, I used two 28s, one vertical on the side with the laptop on the other side.
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There are relatively few symbols in the core language; mostly just '|', '->', '=>', '::', '=', '_', ',', lambda (\_ ->) , and brackets, but people do sometimes go over the top with operators.
I'd really like to have a list since most developed countries do have mass transit system. Can you provide an actual example?
> that you’re head over heels excited about.

How are you supposed to know passion at 18? I do alumni interviewing for my college and most kids have no singular passion they want to pursue (and more often than not, they are hoping college will help them find that passion).

And I don't blame them. Finding a singular passion to center a degree around at a young age is not the norm. And yet we put a lot of pressure on our kids to be specialists before they're even able to vote. It's a very difficult situation to put children through.
> In my experience the liberal arts classes I was required to take were all big 100+ person lecture -> memorize -> test classes

The classes you were "required to take" likely were intro classes with large enrollments. What you describe is how many intro science classes are taught at many universities as well. And even many second year science classes. It is generally only in the 300-400 level classes that are within your major that you start to have small sections with more intimate interaction with the professor.
While in general I agree, I understand the motivation behind these questions. Most jobs require more than just technical skills. They require and ability to think laterally, be independent, work on a team, etc. etc. Questions such as "tell me about a time when" are a reasonable way to assess some of these traits but also are not direct and have their own issues.

As long as interviews are consistent and polite I think it's reasonable to push candidates in non traditional ways to understand if they have the soft skills required for a role.
Education and the health service (think buildings and land as assets for the latter) are the two remaining ones apart from something like the road system. I'm sure they will try these soon.
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There are a lot better places to live.

I don't like UK outside of London - I find it either sad and worn out with the same cloned high streets repeating every 50 miles, or smugly self-satisfied villages with wealthy people living in houses with names instead of numbers.

London itself is pretty good. It is, however, quite squalid, and crime is getting worse. Best thing going for it is the wages are pretty decent, for Europe. Population density could be a lot higher though, and property cheaper.

I'd like to take London, and plop it into the Alps - somewhere near Grenoble - or the Mediterranean - somewhere near Barcelona, though Barcelona already has a much higher quality of life, IMO. Take London out of England, and it would be fantastic.

By education, I mean primary and secondary. UK exports education at third level and it's pretty good.
As I developer I didn't really see much of a difference - most of profile matching I've seen these SDKs do is via social logins and not via device identifiers. The OSes currently are very close in what you can get to identify the user.
> I use the swipe options extensively to switch workspaces

The mouse that I have lets me remap the buttons, so I have two of them mapped to "switch left" (like a three-finger swipe) and "switch right." I find that that is pretty nice for me.
"the css adds a linebreak after the widgets"

I don't see any linebreaks in the source, but there is this:

input:not([type='checkbox']), select {
display: block;
}

And other things, like margin-bottom settings for input elements.
This paragraph amused me:

> And while there’s often an assumption that the careers humanities graduates pursue just aren’t as good as the jobs snapped up by, say, engineers or medics, that isn’t the case. In Australia, for example, three of the 10 fastest-growing occupations are sales assistants, clerks, and advertising, public relations and sales managers – all of which might look familiar as fields that humanities graduates tend to pursue.

Sales assistants and clerks are pretty dull sounding jobs. the fact that humanities people pursue them and that they're available does not mean this is good for humanities people.

This paragraph was similarly dumb

> We also know that as more women move into a field, the field’s overall earnings go down. Given that, is it any wonder that English majors, seven in 10 of whom are women, tend to make less than engineers, eight in 10 of whom are men?

Female engineers make more than male humanities on average, according to the charts they linked to. It's definitely not a gender problem.

I've never bought the arguments for liberal arts. STEM degrees require plenty of critical thinking, argument formation, and learning to work with others. That's not to say you won't learn these things in humanities, but they're not special. They're a basic part of learning almost any subject that isn't rote memorization.

The article points out that you can make a humanities degree work, but I'm not convinced this is a meaningful way to look at it. What fraction of successful humanities majors should attribute their success to the fact that their degree was in humanities? Maybe just being a reasonably intelligent person with a college degree in anything is enough to be a successful person.

The article talks about salaries too. Overall humanities majors make less, but for some jobs they make more. That's probably not a good way to think about it either. Of course people who study pre-law are, on average, going to make less doing law. The law firms fill out their lowest positions from the masses of pre-law students. Taking an alternate path into something means you're more likely to be doing something special or having connections to a good gig.

For the most part, I don't see your undergrad major driving a significant portion of your capabilities, regardless of what it is. Humanities doesn't have an obvious job market they signal baseline competence towards. That doesn't make them bad, but it also doesn't mean we need to create stories about why they compensate for this.
Things I wish I had known before starting medical school
I'm not sure if FeathersJS integrates with any services, but its on our roadmap to explore how to provide Fanout integrations for web frameworks like this. Feathers supports plain WebSocket (and SockJS) via the Primus transport, so that'd probably be the way in.

Currently we're starting out by looking at feasibility with Apollo. If we can manage to get that to work, then hopefully we can move on to other frameworks.
> they generally need to complete a relevant Master's degree first

No that's not the case at all - most people do a three-years bachelors and then a three-year PhD. That's the expected route for a PhD in the UK. Doing a masters in between would look like you were starting to drag it out a bit. And the first year of your PhD is worth a masters if you chose to drop out at that point.
Most buildings last more than 20 years. I get you can make rennovations...however if you plan for the future during construction those rennovations can be much cheaper.

For example making their be excess circuit breaker capacity during construction doesn't cost much and enables ev charging to be added at a later date for less money than if that spare electrical capacity wasn't installed
> Would you be able to share some scientific research that supports the idea that the proposed antennas are completely, without-a-doubt safe?

Can you link to a scientific study that proves anything is completely safe? Ironically more money has been spent proving electromagnetic radiation and vaccines are safe than most naturally occurring substances, because the public is paranoid about those things/it is a "sexy" area of research.

They've literally put animals into cages and exposed them to 1000%+ levels of typical EM exposure, and still not witnessed this supposed cancer link. But science cannot say anything is "completely safe" because that isn't how logical reasoning or the scientific method work. All we can say is that a mechanism of unsafety has yet to be discovered.
maybe we can use carbon capture and nuclear to produce carbon neutral fuel
Bumping the difficulty to make it credible is basically video game logic, though. It should be as difficult (or easy) as it needs to be.
Almost none of my liberal arts classes were like that, and a lot of the lowest level science classes were. So there you have the power of anecdotal evidence.

My liberal arts classes required lots of writing and a hell a lot of hard thinking.
What are we counting as high levels of car ownership? I always blindly assumed it was pretty high throughout the UK, for exactly the reason you give. I've no data, look forward to reading yours - thanks!
The argument is that it's privacy neutral since this kind of tracking can already happen with JS or no JS with redirects both of which are widely deployed already.

* There's now a spec/standard for the data exchange.

* Users get faster websites, can see the actual destination URL on hover, and maybe a slight security improvement in the event that the server component performing the tracking redirects is compromised.

* It's easier to find the ping attributes on links than untangle all the JS on a page.

* For extension developers this actually increases privacy (assuming it's adopted en mass) because now you can just remove all the ping attributes on links rather than unbind click handlers which might end up breaking the page.
> The main problem with the humanities is that they have been consumed by the political far left.

That's overstated. There's plenty of good scholarship being done, in the humanities and especially in the social sciences, that is by necessity either non-political or extremely careful and overt about any political claims that they do make. But you're absolutely right that there is a growing far-left fringe, driven by Red Guard-inspired ideas from the 1960s and 1970s about "culture" and "academica" being nothing more than bourgeois privilege that one shouldn't have anything to do with. (And yes, that's especially in the Anglosphere - since by and large, other Western countries did their own Maoist thing in academia literally decades ago, and they've gotten it out of their system by now.) At the end of the day it just functions as an enabler of corruption and laziness, since the political stance is pretty clear as you say. They basically spend their time awarding "B's and A-'s" to one another, with basically no-one else caring much at all about the whole thing.
> You can't legally steal someone's trash. The courts have ruled that once you've put it in public it's abandoned and fair game.

This article specifically disagrees:

"Trash picking is illegal in California — once a bin is rolled out onto the sidewalk the contents are considered the possession of the trash collection company, according to Robert Reed, a spokesman for Recology, the company contracted to collect San Francisco’s garbage. But the law is rarely enforced."
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No, I just need to separate questions of truth from questions of preference.

I am a proponent of representative democracy, of checks and balances, and of democratic institutions that carefully examine problems making good use of all the expertise available.
The satellite position updates use essentially the same time format as the rest of GPS, as I understand it. So the problem comes when some GPS receivers try and use the latest information but base their calculations on an erroneous belief it's now 1024 weeks into the past, causing them to fail to find satellites.
T430, W530 at least. See, https://medium.com/@n4ru/the-definitive-t430-modding-guide-3... , for instance.
Pop up to Liverpool one day and see what you think. Best when it isn't raining and the wind isn't too strong.

Bold Street and Jamaica Street might be good starting points, then there is Renshaw Street and the Baltic area.
UCSD. If it was about argument construction, then why would my rushed papers get better grades than the ones I put thought into?

To be fair, not all classes were quite so bad. I took a small class in ancient ME history and it was much more detached and apolitical, while still being interesting and surprisingly relevant.
> As a rule, populists of the right (who are usually capitalists) don’t know how to divide the pie well, while populists of the left (who are usually socialists) don’t know how to grow the pie.

Right populists don't know how to grow the pie either.
I dont know why people are downvoting this.

Virtually every single creature on earth has defense mechanisms against others. Stealth, evasion are very common among the life we know--why would that be so likely to be different for alien life?
Also: much less overhead when testing apps intended to run on Linux servers.
I'm using these along with Sysinternals and Windows System Control Center [1] as launcher for both tools. NirSoft has own launcher but WSCC combines both tools sets along with Windows built-in programs

Edit: seems WSCC has been updated and it also includes MiTeC [2] tools as well, which are also interesting.

[1] - http://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/
[2] - http://mitec.cz/
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And for good reason, because if those working class young take a risk and it doesn’t work out (and it usually doesn’t) they are doomed to a lifetime of poverty and anguish from which there is no escape. There is value in taking the safe bet. Having a degree in English will be a cold comfort then.
Luck only in the sense of how early they were as a company and the premium Facebook put on them.
The one that shows exposure to EM radiation lengthens rat's lives, and that the older rats got more cancers..?
"There’s a child’s pink bicycle helmet that Mr. Orta dug out from the garbage bin across the street from Mr. Zuckerberg’s house. And a vacuum cleaner, a hair dryer, a coffee machine — all in working condition — and a pile of clothes that he carried home in a Whole Foods paper bag retrieved from Mr. Zuckerberg’s bin...“It just amazes me what people throw away,” he said one night, as he found a pair of gently used designer jeans, a new black cotton jacket, gray Nike running sneakers and a bicycle pump. “You never know what you will find.”...In the blue recycling bin marked with Mr. Zuckerberg’s address, there were A&W diet root beer cans, cardboard boxes and a junk mail credit card offer. In the black landfill bin were remnants of a chicken dinner, a stale baguette and Chinese takeout containers."

Zuckerberg and his fellow millionaires/billionaires sure are living it up there.
Age and education selection when comparing HN with general population.
Yes most jobs don't care whatsoever what degree you did.

You can do a degree in history of art and then become a fighter jet pilot if you want.
IMHO most people should take a STEM degree if they're going to uni. Not because of the labour market, which is a fickle thing.

The main reason is that you will be able to pick up a humanities/social science course with the skills you already have at the end of high school. What do people do in those degrees? Read text, think critically, express ideas. And you've not only practised that a fair bit in school, but also after education, where you're reading the newspaper, looking at art, and so on. Importantly you aren't going to lose the text reading skill because you'll be using it a little each day.

So you have plenty of practice in the humanities, at least to get you started doing it seriously if you need it later in life. And you have enough that you're not gonna be surprised when someone mentions there was a civil war in the US.

Math stuff seems to be use it or lose it. You can easily avoid linear algebra and big-o thinking, and you will if you aren't forced to think about it. If you do a STEM degree at least you will have heard of stuff and practiced a load of otherwise obscure topics, giving you a starting point that isn't years behind on prerequisites, and leaving you where you won't know what's interesting.

I've met plenty of STEM people who knew a thing or two about history, economics, and the arts. It's relatively rare the other way round, though you do get the occasional renaissance man from that side.
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