skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kind of like saying that Maxwell's equations solve the luminiferous aether problem only if you subscribe to relativity (or something equivalent).
I haven't done any reading into this but as far as I know on the used Thinkpad I have Computrace is "available" but hasn't been connected to any sort of third-party tracking service.

Should I disable this forever? Is Computrace tracking me even with the service not connected to anything?
GP didn’t say they’d cost the same. They said $30 is too expensive
If you can wait until September that’s the month some people predict there will be a new MacBook Air with a new type of keyboard that goes back to the original design.
LLVM is slow but swapping for CraneLift only improves compile times 33%. Other work is needed for a dramatic reduction in compile times: https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift/issues/133...
Are you aware of Radford Neal’s pqR?
https://radfordneal.wordpress.com/
I realize this just the photos from the associated manuals merged into a basic website, but damned if it isn't cool.

I feel reassured when the people who were responsible for my computer's creation aren't doing their very best to hide the fact that what they sold me was, in fact, a computer.

I get machines are now marketed as lifestyle accessories, but they can also, unapologetically, be computers. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
The Global Crisis in Conservatism
Billionaire Chris Cline, the ‘King of Coal,’ among 7 killed in helicopter crash
That doesn’t mean the cable that can will cost $30
If you want to get up to speed on Svelte quickly, read this!
https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/sett/july...
The warranty program is only for four years, while these computers last longer. My MBP from 2010 has been usable to this today. However, I just bought a used 2015 MBP to replace it, as that is the last model with a working keyboard and the possibility to upgrade the SSD aftermarket.
Start here:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

or, if you prefer a video, http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf
A lot of cuisine options open up with international shipping and with international immigration.

It's not a surprise when a climate that can only reliably grow rye, barley, oats, potatoes, beets, and cabbage produces cooks and traditional dishes that don't even recognize the existence of certain flavors. But once the ships make it there and back again, those same cooks are forced to experiment to figure out what to do with new (to them) foods, and sometimes come up with results and combinations that the cooks for whom those foods are native have never even thought to try.

But that has a dark side as well. International food markets also make it possible to replace the cocoa butter in "chocolate" with oil-palm-based oils without being immediately struck down by Ek Chuaj for that blasphemy against cacao.
Blue or Green if it's a Razer device, or Red to indicate Gen2 vs Gen1 ports on gaming motherboards.
I don't think amluto said the clean-up costs were more important than deaths/kwh. The point is that these improvements are necessary and welcome even though nuclear is already safer than the options, for reasons other than safety.
> Bots pretending to be people wouldn't be of interest at this level if it was just criminals trying to scam people

How about foreign agents trying to influence elections at scale, or inciting civil unrest?
Ewww. Raw strings are yucky! "_|_" is just as terrible.
> Where nuclear fails, and where improvement is desperately needed, is ability to deliver on budget and within schedule.

Indeed, this is what is glanced over way too often with the urge of politicians and industry bureaucrats to rush builds of the bleeding edge and experimental designs.

The only economic nuclear power stations today were big, multi-gigawatt PWR and BRW designs with more than 4 reactors. In comparison to power output/fixed costs, all other factors pale in comparison.
This! The internet outside of the big tech/media sites is mostly the same - maybe even a bit smaller and more communal. Although there’s no escaping modern advertising without using aggressive ad blocking.
A&A (a UK ISP) today donated £2940 to the Mozilla foundation. It's the amount that ISPA membership would have cost them if they were members which of course they are not:

https://twitter.com/aaisp/status/1146803916853645314
“lawmakers are purposefully vague”. yeah that’s a bad thing not a good thing. it really means almost everything breaks the law and then they selectively and inconsistently enforce on actors they don’t like
So it's okay if a person uses bots to deceptively call people, it just shouldn't be okay for corporations to do it, because they shouldn't be treated as people?
Isn't DAX only a network-based in-memory cache, and not a in-process in-memory cache? Or is it both?

It's definitely at least network-based, b/c you have to spin up instances of it in your VPC.

However, they also require custom clients, which is a little odd afaiu (b/c in theory DAX is API-compatible with DynamoDB, so why would regular dynamodb sdk clients not work?) so maybe the custom clients also add some in-process-based caching?
On the other side of the American revolution there is the interesting case of Benjamin Thompson, aka Count Rumford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Thompson) after he became a nobleman in later life. Born in Massachusetts in 1753, he became a Loyalist who opposed the American Revolution, and later moved to Britain, and then to what is now Germany. But he was one of the earliest scientists born in what is now the United States, and contributed a lot to the early study of thermodynamics. But being on the "wrong side" of history he doesn't get the recognition he deserves in America.
Agree. The only thing I see changing this is possibly reactors developed in another country that solve some of the fundamental problems, and becoming successful there. China comes to mind, but there's so little transparency its hard to tell whats real there.
Apple doesn't typically have an arrangement with a university. Apple does allow you to send the device in/get it shipped back to you though if there is an issue. There may also be a certified Apple repair store near your daughters university.
> The golang authors threw away all that (and are still dismissive of things like sum types) because of, well nothing really to back it up.

Because of multiple decades at Bell Labs, which was the computer science research facility at the time. And because of multiple decades of experience using many languages to write a huge amount of real-world software. And because of specific problems that they found with using C++ in their specific environment.

Look, you don't think go was the right way to go. That's fine. You even base it on having used go and not liking it. It's good that you're basing your opposition on experience, not just theory. But don't claim that the go authors are ignorant of programming language theory just because of the direction they chose. They are not ignorant at all, and they chose the direction they did with full knowledge of what others were doing. It may turn out to be a mistake, but it wasn't from ignorance.
I guess I am what you would call an R power user.

What’s really crazy is I never realized how fast and easy excel pivot tables were to work with.

I know I know it sounds ridiculous.

But if you do a lot data splicing and dicing, excel can actually get your cuts out way faster through pivot tables than writing R code.

So if you use R for almost everything, give Excel a try as well. And the nice thing is this is even more powerful if you work with non data science folks, because then you can say I just did this in excel (where excel skills should be required by everyone in the company, and R for the data scientists) and they’ll probably just leave you alone the next time they need something since they will try to do it in excel first.
You would probably have less trees in that country actually, give that trees need carbon dioxide to grow.
It seems like tricks defining revenue will help with this.

It seems to me that the way to implement these types of taxes basically have to amount to “tax anything that uses euros from a French citizen.” And use some features from crypto to use as the source of truth for spending.

Otherwise it seems possible to not collect revenue in French countries and just have people buy stuff out of France that targets people in France.
One has to wonder if the kind of person who passed the downvote requirement, has so much time on their hands for a very good reason.

Perhaps not the most intelligent, rational, mature people. Else they'd be more productively occupied, I'd imagine.
Researchers identified 400 common medical practices contradicted by studies
I'm a project manager and I am very relaxed about working hours and remote work. And it's because I have been monitoring my own programming habits for years and came to a conclusion that it is as much a creative process as it is technical execution. Depending on the complexity of the problem at hand, one hour of programming (monitored with wakatime) usually includes two to three hours of reading documentation, going through source to hunt a bug or planning a feature you are implementing. So I usually set up the tasks as milestones, usually bugs that we have to crush or features we have to implement, usually we have a pretty good pace on projects and people seem to be way more productive than other places I have worked that had a stricter culture.

Now this is my first time as a project manager, but I have set things up the way I would want to work, and I have had positive feedback from my team and management. So I'm pretty pleased with how things are going, YMMV depending on how everything is set up so don't take this as an advice.
working for me now as well
Trees plant themselves, they have been doing so for hundreds of thousands of years.

It would take a serious amount of carbon for humans to do this task for mother nature - we need trucks to transport the seeds and soil to where we want them planted, we need to grow food so the human can eat to get energy to plant the seeds.

The best thing we can do is let mother nature grow. Build up instead of out and stop deforesting for farm land.
Pelican: https://blog.getpelican.com/

Statik: https://pypi.org/project/statik/
Sorry, my mistake, forget it. I should have read your other comments first before replying.
The price is very important, but so is the act of minimizing electronic waste. I've personally collected so many gadgets and their associated accessories that I don't know what to do with them.

It is a fair criticism to say that I am going too far, but I want to reuse the things I already have. I don't want to continue buying single-use things that will eventually be waste. It's not that I won't ever do it, but I now think very carefully about it before buying more electronic toys.
I'm already over 100, way ahead of all you virtue signalers ;)
Hypertaste: AI-assisted e-tongue for fingerprinting of complex liquids
> The problem is that Apple has often been replacing logic boards when this type of thing happens as well. Some people see it as a good thing, but it usually results in the complete wipe of data.

You should have backups anyway. Especially with Time Machine it's dead simple to keep good backups.
Ugh, I'm really going to need virtual phone numbers for all these "second factors" (i.e. linkable identifiers), I'm just not sure where to get them. Twilio requires a credit card, and most other businesses that offer this look super shady.
Is there any evidence for the "shake-out"? I haven't seen it in 20 years, demand for new web applications continues to outpace supply of competent developers. A recession is not a "shake-out" because it hits experienced developers hardest, if anything it's an opportunity for green developers.
When you're making an electronic device that you will be selling millions of, the onus is on you to do your homework in verification testing.
Yup. For 3b+ it was generally a good idea to feed it via the gpio pins anyway if you want stability with devices attached.

So not at all surprised that they moved away from the old usb
Came here to say the same thing. I'm amazed they thought that was a good idea.
I think one negative consequence of their model is for new release, which will appear to lack features, compared to older games which have received years worth of DLCs; so buyers/players/complainers will complain that the new game lacks features compared to the previous games (adds some whining about dumbing down/decline too for good measure) and the devs are greedy *s who cut back features to sell as DLCs. Facing such reaction, the devs will double down on DLCs on existing titles, making the issue even worse in the long run...
Writing vs. Writing (2011)
You seem to not understand what I’m asking.

I have Atom, VSCode, Sublime, JetBrains, ... I know vi and Emacs. I’ve programmed websites in Perl, Python, Java, Go, ... I didn’t realize we differentiate between applications and sites these days.

In 2019, I’m one person who is willing to start with a clean slate. What current tools should I choose so, as one person, I’m most productive 6 months from now, once I’ve mastered the new tools.

The idea is to choose an above average stack:

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
>Please.

No, you please. I'm genuinely trying to reach a better understanding of your side. What comment did you think was the most political, outside of this sub-thread? Was it the one by car12 [1] which pointed out a quantitative observation about Muslim fertility rates and imagined a future where Islamic parties gain a bigger voice in politics through demographics? If so, what is it about that that's so political? Or if not that, then can you point to another comment that you think was particularly political?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20361236
You close your eyes and pray that it’s compatible
And Ferret too.
https://nakkaya.com/2016/06/10/ferret-a-hard-real-time-cloju...
Some screenshots or muted video of using the product on the homepage might demonstrate why using this workflow tool is superior.

There are a lot of kanban tools out there and I'm not sure people will sign up if there isn't some screenshot that looks compelling. (and not just generic images)
Have you considered whining endlessly about Eternal September and the modern web on niche tech forums?

That seems to be what the kids are into nowadays.
It is legitimate to ask how our everyday perceptions can be so radically and fundamentally different from what the math appears to say about the nature of reality. "Shut up and calculate" is not a legitimate answer.

(For the record, the phrase "Shut up and calculate" was coined by David Mermin as a pejorative characterization of the Copenhagen interpretation, which actually says simply that we cannot know anything more than what the math says, and that's just the way it is, and any attempt at further inquiry is doomed to fail and therefore should not be attempted. It's a deeply unscientific attitude.)
You can use tools like Hugo to generate static sites. Basically such tools gives you power to avoid duplication of reusable components on the page, as well as to generate static lists automatically like related pages/recommendations. See this discussion on such tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16472395
I think for the layperson, with many potential ports available, one that colour matches the cable in hand seems a fairly obvious first choice.

And even if that fails, it's at least something "support" can add to their check list when a customer calls with issues.
That sounds about right for rent. But that would make a parking the right choice if you can fill it up.
you’re making the assumption we’ll use the same type of DNA and that this will work in exactly the same way. pretty powerful assumption
A drug that genuinely has no effect is actually pretty good; most drugs have some sort of risk and many are seriously dangerous. Rofecoxib is believed to have caused around 100,000 heart attacks and 30,000 deaths. Market approval for rofecoxib was based on misleading data and its withdrawal from the market was substantially delayed by misleading data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxib
In my experience, one of the best ways to fight complexity is by reducing the amount of things you have to keep in your head. In practical terms this translates into being able to do local reasoning about your code.

I find that imperative OO style naturally leads to complexity. Passing references to mutable data all over the place creates tight coupling across your entire application. This makes it impossible to guarantee that any change you make is local without considering every other place that references the data. Meanwhile, objects are opaque state machines and programs are structured by creating many interdependent objects.

These aspects make it pretty much impossible to tell what any particular piece of code is doing just by reading it in large applications. The only option is to fire up the debugger, get the app in a particular state and look at the data. However, there are typically many ways to get into any particular state, and it's really hard to know that you've accounted for them all. So, a debugger is a heuristic at best.

FP and immutability tackle both of these problems head on. Immutable data directly leads to the ability to do local reasoning about your code, and allows you to write pure functions that can be reasoned about independently. Meanwhile, data is not being abstracted inside opaque state machines that provide ad hoc DSLs as their API. Instead, it's explicitly passed through function pipelines to transform it.
This was my experience. My battery was having issues and indicating service was needed, but they refused to only replace the top case since they claimed there was a "logic board failure" that caused my A and S keys to skip and repeat. It took hours of escalations and phone support to finally convince them to replace the affected parts, and of course we now know (and I always suspected) that it was never the logic board in the first place. Not sure where they came up with that conclusion originally.
So, you don't use Go, Kubernetes, and a bunch of other projects, just because they come from Google?
It’s interesting for me to see a project made mostly by 1 person that happens to be employed by Google described as “by Google”. [1] Not that there’s no truth to it, just that the reality is much more nuanced than a simple phrase can capture.

[1] https://github.com/cuelang/cue/graphs/contributors
Some possibilities:
1. Disgruntled employees who got pulled back to save the failing clouds blowing steam off on Reddit
2. Just had dinner with his/her least favorite relative and had a fight over why blue cheese is edible.

Hope that makes you feel better lol.

But if you still feel sad, take a look at :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508921

The top Rants by Linus on the Linux Kernel Mailing List
This is a very interesting and I think accurate take. It also has strong implications for the support or lack there of for abortion in the future.
Setting up an encrypted SOCKS proxy using Dante and stunnel
In terms of cost, we are on the exponential improvement phase of the logistic technology curve for wind/solar/storage. For thermal energy, we are long past that. That's why "exciting" matters.

Already wind/solar/storage have beat nuclear on cost, are beating coal, and in many areas solar+storage is beating natural gas for new installs.

We don't know how much wind/solar/storage will improve on cost, but we know it will be quite a bit. We know that thermal generation of electricity is optimized to its max.

As far as dense energy production, what benefit does that have? If you want to stick a steam turbine on wheels, or a nuclear reactor in a submarine, that would make sense, but I'm not sure how it helps for the grid.
In the very least, dhall is typed
As far as I can tell, the spec could have been designed so that having so resistor at all would indicate a baseline cable. Since no resistor is cheaper than a resistor, the cheap cables would omit the resistor and all would be well.
Spreadsheet-like dataflow programming actually works quite naturally in FP. See re-frame and javelin as examples:

https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

https://github.com/hoplon/javelin
To say that R is a domain-specific language is hardly a criticism, though. It was designed to be domain-specific from the start.
Using YubiKey for SSH with PuTTY on Windows
I think this is what the author is getting at, that correct tidyverse usage requires greater experience and knowledge and creates difficult to debug and optimize code when used incorrectly (and is easy to use incorrectly).

I tend to agree. I've found tidyverse code has a write-only quality to it. Since I'm going to see more of it I plan to dive into the inner workings of at least dyplr and purr.

That said it is hard to deny what Hadley Wickham has done for the R community and I can't write off the idea that he sees a bigger picture I'm missing.
I wish I had enough cash to purchase a chunk of pasture and reforest it, but everywhere in the SE is stupidly expensive I think. Possibly moving up north soon, so I may well purchase an acre of two if I can. I'd want to be near enough to be able to keep an eye on it.
I dunno this sounds rather dismissive of the average person.

That they couldn’t cope with such a non-shock is a bit helicopter parenty, and being overly concerned with gramas sensibilities regarding trivial things.

Riots in the streets over it? I mean when we don’t riot over real drama, why not over changing labels on olive cans?
We have 8h workdays and it seems ok for general public, especially for large companies where you can do only meetings all day without contributing anything despite your butt in a seat.

Nothing pushing govs to lower the working time, so deal with it. For me writing code more than 4-5h in a day is considered as a success today but when I have meetings it becomes a hard goal to achieve.
I think trying to slow the cutting of trees would also help.

How many Christmas trees are cut down every year? I bought a synthetic tree many years ago, and I just keep using that to save on killing a tree every year.
If I would run a dev company, this is how I would do it:

- no open office

- no meetings in the morning

- no phones in the morning

- no slack/whatever in the morning

Try to create a window for devs where they can do some deep work for 3-4 hours. It doesn't have to be in the morning, whatever works the best for each developer.
Well, there are those cases where Google Maps routes people to the middle of the desert...
I have two generations of the butterfly keyboard and I can say that the version with a silicone membrane is vastly superior. The keys feel much better, they rattle less for virtually silent typing.

iFixit found that the membrane also made a big difference in terms of limiting the impact of dust: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/19/17592138/i...

I have sent two of the pre-membrane keyboards in for repair, but haven't had an issue with this new one. I haven't tried the one or two revisions since the membrane has been added, which are reported to be better still.
> That's kind of like saying "anyone can run a marathon" and then qualifying it to "if they enter an organized event and complete the appropriate training for it".

Yes. That was what I was trying to figure out is, if there was an organized event could anybody (who are motivated to complete the training) get a coding job?

I would like to think so, but I work with many people in the industry who will say, 'nah they need the brains for it'.

I try my best to motivate those who lose motivation but ultimately I don't have the bandwidth to inspire everyone who loses motivation.
If I can store data in DNA, can I use yeast for genetic algorithms?