skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do some welding with a stick welder with 100 feet of 4/0 gauge copper welding cable. Super heavy to drag around and very difficult to wind up. And that was for a few kW. So these 2MW cables will need mechanical support. You can use parallel cables with fine strands or water cooled cables supported by a balanced or power assisted arm to assist in manipulating those cables. So that's not really a big deal.

And 2MW isn't that ambitious considering much larger switched power systems exist like the 70MW 25 cycle static inverters for Amtrak's system in Sunnyside yards. See also large scale PV solar installs.
Well that explains why their money-down price jumped from $500 to $5000 within the last couple of weeks.
Lol probably because they realize after the fact they really didn't appreciate what they had when they had it. And Women gain self esteem after they get out of a relationship where someone beats down their ego so the more they regain it the more they understand how emotionally abusive the relationship was. Just SAYIN!
Is your brain really a quantum computer though?
Do climate change scientists pay hundreds of millions of dollars to climate change PR firms to spread known untruths about climate change?

Is there a network of climate change science think tanks dedicated to framing the climate change debate in a way that benefits the climate change community?

Do climate scientists run social media "consultancies" to make a pro-climate change case on the major social platforms and smaller forums?

If any of the above happen - questionable, but let's pretend - they're at tiny outlier scale compared to the organised lies, smears, denial and general FUD put out by the denialist corporates.

You say you've been warning about catastrophic climate change since the early 00s. What in your opinion would be the best way to counter climate denial PR?

Because clearly simply informing the public of the facts isn't going to do anything against the noise being made by the denialist side.
LC_ALL=C changes all the locale-related behaviors. I would try LC_MESSAGES first.
I once worked with a person in an ecommerce department who was annoyed that a German website used German instead of English.
This is the wrong question.

If you feel like management and politics are making you not trust the company, you should find another job, especially in this environment with plentiful jobs. If we suffer some sort of recession in the next couple of years, we need to hunker down in a good company that takes care of their employees.
There is an example of this at the Lumawan Copper Mine in Zambia. It's trucks are powered by overhead cables and electric motors whilst driving up the fixed ramps, It then switches to diesel when moving around away from the ramp. What is really interesting is that this not only reduces fuel use but allows them to move up the ramps much more quickly and improves productivity of the mine.
It's not a trend, it's an increase in scientific understanding.

Language is fluid, or we would all be speaking some variant of old German on this forum (try reading Beowulf in the original).

It's not grammar, it's semantics.

Words are social. When one person tries to rewrite the meaning of a word, unless they have significant social clout they are just going to be misunderstood. When many people rewrite the meaning of a word, they change the meaning of that word.
That kind of extremist minorities are far too often found working in journalism, so-called science (rather academic activism), politics etc. ... So I'm not too optimistic about these trends.
It's not, but I don't get your point.
"Is RethinkDB dead?"

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6747#issuecomm...

TLDR: They are hoping to announce a revival in the near future.
He is very right about how many tools and sites have problems with RTL (right-to-left) text. And don't get me started on mixing LTR and RTL text.
Growing herbs like Basil is a great way of getting started however. Not because it actually provides nutrients, but because tiny amounts of basil (just a few leaves) can grossly change the flavor-profile of your food. A small amount of Basil goes a long way in cooking.

Basil is also very easy to grow, so its a great beginner plant.
One of the huge advantages of being a programmer is not having to deal with women on a daily basis. I’d be extremely happy if the female ratio was 0% but luckily it’s low enough that it doesn’t bother me.

Edit: flagging a personal opinion, right.
Undersea storage of compressed air, as an alternative to batteries, needs no technological advances. Just air pumps, pipes, and bags.

Heat lost to the water (maybe half of the energy input to compressed air) could be reclaimed as the pressure is released, with simple heat exchangers.
That's correct, still, it is ok. That's why you don't make bold, generalized claims based on one study.
Basically, when you're talking OLTP write heavy applications, rule #1 is never really delete anything. Doing so becomes heinously expensive in terms of having to lock tables and update indices, so on, and so forth. This is a hard lock situation. I.e. No further transactions can be processed until such time as the deletion completes can be processed. Most systems therefore set a "deleted" flag, which causes the system to act as if the deleted thing is actually deleted, while actually just leaving the information alone.

This works great, as long as everywhere in the system actually honors it. That is not a given. If you were relying on actually being able to make that disappear, however, you're SOL.

Not sure what Google is doing in terms of data architecture/persistence mechanisms nowadays, but it sounds to me like they may just be using a deleted flag.
The problem with this logic is that it applies regardless of how we model Monty, and not every model of Monty has you doing better than expected. This reasoning is just as wrong as expecting that your chances are 50/50 in the standard form of the problem.
Read the book “Truth in Translation” by Jason BeDuhn[1]. He examines, IIRC, 7 different Bible translations and shows why many have translated specific passages in a biased manner. And he more or less declares a “winner”, with some caveats. It’s a really good, down-to-earth read that’s not too technical in terms of language discussion.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Translation-Accuracy-Translatio...
Capitalism and Spiritual Desolation
Demons of Democracy: the political and moral problems with democracy
Perhaps our traffic jams are due to too many rules? Classic video that demonstrates an alternative way of doing things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIn8GJIg0E
A couple months ago, after 5-6 years of not playing it, I installed Minecraft again fiddled around for a week or so. It took me a good day or two to get a solid grasp on all the UI changes that had happened since I stopped playing. I had to get on Google just to figure out how to eat.

I agree that it's relatively intuitive. Emphasis on the "relatively" part - I'm thinking here that it's intuitive compared to the UX changes and kippleization that iOS, Google web apps, things like that have undergone over the same time period. That's not exactly a high bar to clear.
Is an illegal* site online?

If I built this service I’d just log all the IPs from the requests and just hand them to the FBI.
> That and the fact that pricing carbon was the opposition party’s policy...

It is somewhat complicated by the fact the the Labor party was tarred by introducing a climate tax after promising not to.

They had a minority government due to some political shenanigans and had to form a loose coalition with the Greens for an electoral cycle. The Greens managed to negotiate in a carbon tax that was not well received. Labor is associated with the policy but their support for it was always tepid.
> This may be rooted in how designers are taught or simply in how they now practice

No course or degree on interaction design - free online to ivy leagues across the world - teaches 'design for aesthetics' and neither do designers in design departments of startups or of big corporates have design sprints where designs are shortlisted because one is more beautiful than others.

Infact 'Design Sprint' [0] 'Design Thinking' [1] are things because design is about problem solving. I understand majority in HN are engineers/developers but that is no reason to make this is a tech echo chamber.

[0] https://www.gv.com/sprint/

[1] https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration/what-is-design-think...
Isn't car subscription called leasing?
Key milestones in the ongoing development of the Internet
No, why? Not poor, but maybe involving using cars/tech items for longer times or spend more on locally grown food leaving less for vacation flights etc.
(125,000 per year if I do my math right)

You're high by a factor of 100.
Saying that Britain is the lesser of two evils is vastly under-representing the difference. Did the British kidnap people in the night, take them prisons, and torture them until they publicly admit their crimes? Did they harvest organs from prisoners?

They didn't attempt to make slaves of the Hong Kong people to the state.
IME C++ wasn't really a mainstream option until the second half of the 90's. BeOS choosing C++ for its operating system APIs was an extremely exotic choice at the time (same level of "exotic" as NeXT choosing Objective-C).

And IMHO, at that time, before or around C++98, C++ didn't fix a single problem of C, but instead just added a lot of new ones (one could argue that this is still the case even today).
I was out with a group of friends last night and had an interesting conversation when no one else realized you can search iMessages.

From the main Messages window, swipe down and previously hidden search bar appears. There's no indication this is an option or it exists.

As far as I know it's been there since at least iOS 9.0 (probably longer) and 6 people hadn't found it yet.
Sshuttle – VPN over SSH
I forget everything conflict related basically ... I think it is a defensive mechanism but it sure can be bad because you forget about things and you might end up in a new "normal" that is anything but normal.
What about Qt 3D in Qt 6?
In a startup the founders may not currently be making a lot of money but they have a ton of equity that they hope will be worth a lot.

In a large organization the people at the top are making an enormous amount of money.

My experience is that “culture” is for the people who won’t be getting rich from the company at some point.

I should add I don’t consider flexible work hours “culture”, that’s a real, concrete benefit. I’m talking about the organized fun and structured loyalty attempts management puts in place.
Conditionals are not functions in Lisp. They are 'special forms' since they have to control the evaluation of their arguments and functions always evaluate all their arguments.

So, if you want to translate a lisp into another language you have to resort to macros.
Interview with Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves
That still looks better, in my opinion, than the mobile operating of today. A proper dark theme many years ago, and an elegant (IMO), simple, touch-oriented UI. It avoided the "play skool/AOL" aesthetic that really rankles me with more popular UIs: rounded corners, circles that should be squares, etc.

All that said, I agree with the article's point that UIs that do not more clearly reveal the totality of their user interface actions are frustrating. I've often found iOS to be especially bad at this for outsiders like myself, especially with respect to hardware features outsiders are completely unfamiliar with such as "press harder than usual."
Indeed - if/when we meet aliens that we can communicate with, I suspect that they will have their own theory that we can all agree is also part of the isomorphism.
Gender has until recently been a synonym for sex. If you are referring to gender identity, then use that term.
You might be alluding to this, but I wonder if people are more prepared to mentally conceptualize electricity as a magic atomic constant: "it just works that way... so given that, of course a huge generator can produce enough power to run a large pump."
Autocracy Comes to America: Big Tech and National Security
For a complete and total failure of an industrial facility a death toll on par with a bad bus crash is far below the threshold of "substantial harm to humans"

Normally when something containing substances hazardous to human health and/or containing a lot of energy goes pop like that it's a lot worse. Strictly by the numbers the Chernobyl is not worthy of being called a disaster. We only hear about it because it is the worst case in its particular niche.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_disasters
[The common definition of estimate is] "the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true." ... Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest-date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be-finished estimating.
-- Tom DeMarco
---- as quoted in the book, "Software Estimation" by Steve McConnell.
> And we can't decouple GDP and energy growth.

US total energy consumption has been basically plateaued since around 2000 [0]. Meanwhile, GDP is up about 100% in the same time.

HBR had a recent podcast covering the idea of dematerialization that is worth a listen [1]. (They also do transcripts of all podcasts, so you can read instead of listen.)

[0] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

[1] https://hbr.org/ideacast/2019/09/dematerialization-and-what-...
This is the kind of thing you need subject matter experts for, not Data scientists. Working in biomedical sciences and seeing ML applied to medicine is scary, considering the lack of understanding of biases in the information used to train the algorithms.
In my company they sometimes change “estimates” to “commitments”.
climate change is not likely even a second order reason as to why this river is drying up. Maybe you and everyone knows that, and this is just an aside about the trouble we have dealing with long term environmental problems as societies?
Exactly. It's the same concept with buttons that give no visual indication they've been pressed, then 3 seconds later something happens. But depressed button state looks so dated!
I believe the criteria needs to be more nuanced that 'man' and 'woman' to be able to elicit anything valuable about society.
Hope is a propane tank self sufficient? Or LEDs?

All of this, except perhaps a lead acid battery, requires at least late 20th century technology, and a huge engineering effort to exist to get to the point of making it.
> There's always more work to do. If they don't like me, they can fire me.

I was at a job were I figured this out. Management was a mess, scope was so fluid to be essentially non-existent, and it was always the devs fault. So I said "screw it", I work 40 hours and collect a pay check, and that will be the extent of this relationship.

Sure enough, about 8 months later I am let go out of the blue for "lack of productivity" and "failing to be a team player". The example cited? When we were asked to stay after hours to help the company move offices.

Unless its your company, the relationship should always be about the money. I am giving a skill for X amount of time. In return I an receiving $Y. Anything more or anything less either needs to be put in writing, or is effectively an unnecessary gift. Perhaps it may be one you want to give, but ultimately unnecessary. And anytime the company asks for more X without giving more Y, they are taking advantage of you.
I grew up in a home that spoke another language. I'm glad there was on obvious lingua franca to learn that's allowed me to work with people all across non-English countries in Europe, Africa, South America, and India, and will probably continue to serve me well.

I'm not opposed to people developing tools in their native languages, but let's not pretend like projects that use this language aren't going to be completely isolated from most of the rest of the world.
I too found that annoying. If I understand correctly what you’re referring to, if you notice closely, there is a “Hide Preview” on the top right of that Safari popup. Tap that once and you’ll be back to just seeing a nice menu of what to do with the link and no more opening the link in a Safari popup.
Well here's the thing: if you're talking about socially presented traits of a person, you're talking about gender.

If you're needing to use the word sex, it means you're talking about the difference in shape of a person's private parts. The word is exactly as socially acceptable as it seems to be.

If you're trying to compare a bunch of people in a room, like to say you should divide up teams by ___, you probably want gender, not sex. It's medical professionals who usually have cause to care about the sex of a person they know. Unless you're dating someone, and then it is sex sex you're talking about...
It seems like much of the design rules that evolved by experience is being thrown away by designers because they don't think it's looks nice or is clean enough. Interfaces like Windows 95 that are neither too early nor too modern seem to be really excellent at conveying meaningful information to the user.
Equally bad, ask inexperienced developers to come up with schedule estimates, then insist that they be held accountable to those laughably inaccurate estimates.
Terra UI – A Healthcare Focused React Component Library
> GNU wc cannot do this in general because it's supposed to work on pipes as well

I used the "reference" source code linked from the original Haskell post, a BSD version hosted by Apple: https://opensource.apple.com/source/text_cmds/text_cmds-68/w...

It uses raw read() from a file descriptor and works with pipes as well. I think the only special handling for stdin vs. an actual file it has is calling fstat() if only the number of characters is requested, which shouldn't apply here.

So yes, this version does need to do more complicated I/O than a simple mmap(). And (broken record, but I'll stop after this) it's 2x as fast as my system's GNU wc (when compiled with -O3 vs. however the system wc was compiled).

> I had actually hoped Futhark would be slower sequentially

It might still turn out to be, if you see if you can get a faster C version of wc.
Is it realistic to remove ventilation with all that conductive dust floating around?
It's not always a trick; sometimes it's quite sincere. My first boss as a programmer hired me because he tried to write the app himself and discovered that there were more efficient uses of his talents. However he did learn some important lessons that he passed on to me:

1. instead of giving full word names to variables, it is more efficient to just name the first one `a`, and the second one `b`, and then on the second pass through the alphabet `a1`, third pass `a2`, etc. He couldn't understand why I didn't re-use his old code written with this scheme or why I didn't adopt it going forward.

2. It is far more efficient to simply not write the bugs, as opposed to wasting so much time debugging them.

Thanks for the education Frank, I did learn a lot from you.
From my experience today's designers just chase whatever Apple is doing. The second Apple moves away from something it becomes instantly dated.
JavaScript Party 99: There’s no server more secure than one that doesn’t exist
I don't think that would be suitable in an underground mine due to the risk of sparks igniting flammable gases. But for open pit mines it would be OK.
It's not just snark—try dropping a colloquial "all" or "none" in a context where that's clearly what it is, and watch ten people rush to correct you that "well, technically..."

Or even carefully qualified statements! I think folks here drop "most" and "typically" and similar words as they read. You have to write poorly, qualifying everything three times and disavowing a bunch of stuff you obviously aren't saying or even implying anyway, to make sure you don't get a bunch of pointless comments.
I don't think it's always the user. The gmail and outlook UI makes report as spam more prominent then delete. In addition it's easy for accidental inclusion in a users batch spam report because of poor multi select UX.
It depends on how you define management.

PMs should probably be present during sprint planning for Scrum, but any level of management above PM really shouldn't be there.

I worked at this one place where, as much as I dislike Scrum, we had a pretty good pace going without upper management ever getting involved. Then the manager of our department(not an engineering manager) decided to show up to all our meetings because, shit, why not, and it completely cramped our style. They also began to dictate that we do things in a specific way even though our productivity was fine before. Fortunately, like most non-engineers, they lost interest after a month and almost never showed up again.

Granted, I have found at most of my jobs that management is absent when it usually counts. At one place we had a "demo day" as part of our Scrum process, but relevant parties in management almost never showed up. They would even claim they would show up but always came up with an excuse at the last minute. It wrecked everyone's confidence in them because a manager can't claim to say things like "product is key" and then fail to show up to product demos every single time. Yet demo was something our management wanted us to have.
”Insisting on process but not participating. E.g. scrums with no management present.”

That’s pretty common. Retrospectives are also only for devs, not for management.
Brains are biological constructs.
Well, I oversimplified, but I see how it looks on hindsight. But my point is that the market is complicated, and net-exporter doesn't necessarily mean self-reliant.

1) Saudi produces a range, including primarily heavy / sour, but because they and their Asia customers have lax environmental standards, whatever light / sweet product coming from or through Saudi Arabia tends to be traded to a western country with strict environmental standards. Because of the US (historically) having an excess of heavy, the US could export that heavy in exchange for a lesser amount of light, and still come out ahead after taking into account cost of refining.

2) Fracking produces mostly gas and light crude, yes, but North American production until the most recent boom was mostly the moderate to heavy sour product, (North Alaska, Alberta sands, Gulf of Mexico, pre-shale Texas). The shift is causing the existing infrastructure to be repurposed in sometimes unexpected ways, from pipeline reversals (ho-ho) to underused heavy refining / cracking capacity, to changes in trading partners.

3) Re: fracking limited to US and Canada-
That's (mainly) due to cost of extraction taking into account permitting and compliance. It's a result of political policy more than technical ability or what proven reserves are available.

Other countries either: 1) don't need to use new fracking methods, as it's cheaper to use traditional extraction methods, or 2) don't use new fracking methods because they're regulated to the same extent (or more) as traditional extraction methods, which still makes it relatively cost prohibitive. The US and Canada just happen to be in a regulatory "sweet spot" where new-style fracking makes economic sense.
>>The point of all of this, I feel is that to many people, the epiphany the article is making was quite obvious, although it is neat to see this quantified.

Weirdly that runs contrary to what the study found actually. They mention that during polling, people expected, on average, to find no difference between how heterosexual men and women would feel about their ex-partners.
I read comments here, I watched the video. I still have no idea what this is actually for.

There is chat app, maybe someone can see your screen. I don't know.