skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the name I thought the site would have a GUI for playing around with floating-point numbers, like this one: https://www.exploringbinary.com/floating-point-converter/

The "On Using Integers" page seems very narrowly applicable because it only discusses fixed-point in the context of currency; in a lot of other applications, notably DSP and other multimedia, fixed-point is the norm.
It seems to be more concentrated than alternatives to achieve higher temperatures, which presumably needs very precise focusing and taking into account minute tolerance differences between the mirrors.
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This seems cynical. The list of changes on the new laptop are enormous...

And this is Apple -- they don't have to, or feel the need to, justify anything. If they released the 2018 15" with just a new keyboard the world would be over the moon because otherwise it's a close to perfect laptop. They took quite a few steps further surprising a lot of people.

As an aside, I've had my MBP for about a year now. I've typed barely a paragraph on it. I've always used a magic keyboard and mouse with -- yup, even when mobile -- because I cannot stand "laptop warmth" under my hands. So I've inadvertently gotten around the shite keyboard because of another weird hangup.

...yet I've seriously considered getting the new one. Keyboard doesn't bother me at all given my weird usage, but the other changes, particularly the much better speakers, seriously interests me.
I think if a company gets to enjoy the benefit of a behavior, it bears the responsibility of its consequences. A giant picture of an iPhone has materially impacted the lives of these people, in order to improve Apple's bottom line - this rightly lands on their doorstep, even if they didn't intentionally do this.

Everyone involved here shares some blame, but the insult is especially magnified when one of the parties is the richest company on the planet.
Newish Polar bands (H10, maybe H7) send data on each beat. There are apps that use this to track heart rate variability (the variance in the gap between heart beats) which can be used as a measure of "readiness" in athletes
Are there any other human rights that you can sign away?

In any case, it's clear from the article that the tenants here didn't agree.

Why can't Apple be partially at fault? Perhaps not in a legal sense, but in a moral sense.

Couldn't they agree to only work with ad companies which don't violate human rights? And set up compliance oversight?

Or, agree to pay more taxes in order for the government to have the resources to do that? (Or rather, not fight having their taxes raised for this purpose.)
Those do exist - MSI and Asus made a few recently I'm sure.

For example:
https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/msi-gt75vr-titan-p...

I mean, at 4.5kg it's extremely heavy for a laptop, but it does have a mechanical keyboard and very beefy spec.
> It sounded to me like they weren't able to get enough revenue going for their work, and are basically throwing in the towel.

I sort-of agree. I don't think they're throwing in the towel completely, but clearly their current model isn't working, and they need to try something else, and they know that that might not work either.

Nonetheless: they want an alternative model that might make this sustainable, and I suspect they'd have better luck trying an open-source with a paid tier model, rather than pure donations.

I've never used the Sourcetrail, but I suspect there are some simpler and more advanced features involved. They could open source it as here, but put the advanced features behind a simple paywall. That would still give the benefits of open sourcing (more community engagement, wider usage of the tool itself) whilst being far more likely to drive the heavy/enterprise users to actually pay for it. Asking people nicely for donations is much less effective than asking for money to use a valuable feature.
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Yes, this is because everyone is used to getting quality (though usually the quality is very lopsided) software for free. Shareware was a different beast because you still had to pay for if you wanted to use it (initially shareware only asked you to pay for but still gave everything for free, but as developers realized quickly in the 80s, practically nobody bothered and even a small "nag screen" made a big difference while people who removed some features - aka crippleware - saw their sales to significantly multiply).

When you can get something like Notepad++ (or similar) for free, paying for Sublime (or similar) feels like a rip off, even if the latter may do one or two things better.

Also quality rarely gets into the equation: a program that does 28378482 features in a half-baked way for free is often seen superior than a paid program that does 1/1000th of that but what it does it does in a higher quality.
That's really interesting. Basically the audiobook is more of an interpretation of the text. It's perhaps closer to a movie adaptation. Once you lose the exception for the TTS to "tell you a story" but rather to "tell you the words", it becomes just a different input stream. I didn't think about it like that until now. I'll give it a try.
correct. the most prominent use case for ancs is during plane trips. but I never use mine for that because I prefer the humming of the engines (literally) over the chatting, whining and music from my copassengers.
I have a Mid-2015 15’’ MBP and a Magic Keyboard (about 2-year old) sitting in front me side by side right now, and I use both every day. I definitely prefer the Magic Keyboard.
You have to be very careful using floating point on embedded processors not only for the reasons in this website, but for speed too! Unless you have a separate floating-point core (ARM Cortex M4s have one, M3s do not) it can take 1,000's of clock cycles to perform any floating point math like addition, multiplication, etc.

Even with a floating point processor you need to be careful when switching into and out of interrupts! The floating point core has it's own set of registers you need to keep track of. Doubles are even worse!

Basically it is almost always better to use integers when you can, and be aware of what types you are using (always important in C anyways).
> The trend is up to now in the low end of the ranges published by the IPCC since 1990

The 1990 IPPC 'that under a "business as usual" (BAU) scenario, global mean temperature will increase by about 0.3 °C per decade during the [21st] century'

We saw a warming of 0.8°C in 30 years, and the warming is accelerating. Which means that the BAU base forecast (from 30 years ago!) was on the mark and you should lend credence to the IPCC.
I thought Disney+ rollout would have no hiccups, because I thought Hotstar (I think it is mostly India based content) owned by Disney did quite well during the cricket world cup, in terms of live streaming (which I thought is more complex than streaming movies).

My respect for Netflix goes up each time a new streaming service has a hiccup.
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What do you mean by "distribute writes"? One of mergerfs' primary features has always been it's policies which provide different algorithms for choosing a branch to apply a particular function to.

https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs#policy-descriptions
That's a stretch. I enjoy creature comforts. Hot high flow showers, A/C, a muscle car. My life is better with these features. It's not practical to advocate abstaining from these things.
Rationality has nothing to do with what I said. I said that groups tend to coalesce around short-term, immediate concerns. Imagination and the capacity to dream is an individual, not group, activity. It often takes a true outsider to expand the bounds of a culture's thinking or time perspective. This by definition can't come from a group.

Nor is rationality itself necessarily an ideal end goal. In fact, this obsession with rationality (exemplified by sites like Less Wrong and in general by scientism-adherents) is itself a perfect example of my point - a group of individuals stuck in their worldview, incapable of seeing beyond the walls of their own local culture.
You mean a "Marster-ful" job ;-)
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Crypto is a little different as you have direct access to exchanges whereas in stocks typically you’re trading with a broker. This opens up a lot of opportunities for individual traders that traditionally are only available to institutions, such as strategies based on order book (market making, arbitrage etc)
I am curious - what languages do you think would be better for kids to start with?
the study's title is: "How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-s...
Snapnator actually delivered for you? I know several people including myself that had bought one of these things and never had them delivered, then never had any support requests answered. I had put them down to a large scam.
Regarding the former - Yes. It's basically something like this:

line 1 - Water usage = X
line 2 - Sewage usage = X * modifier

My monthly water usage is usually something like $20 worth, but my "water bill" is usually around $60-$65 when combining water + sewage (2 adults, $ = USD).
> while coal waste is stored in the atmosphere and thus partially in our lungs

can't argue with that

> nuclear waste is stored in a safe location

so, that's part of the reason many people i know are still very suspicious about nuclear power even though they know _intellectually_ that it's (supposed to be) safer than some of the alternatives.

nuclear waste used to be dumped into the ocean, because back then we thought that would be safe. now it's stored in places that are deemed (earthquake-) safe until an earthquake (or a tsunami) hits. next we outsource the storage to private companies as those are cheaper and act suprised when we learn that they were skimping on manpower, maintenance and safety protocols when trying to cut costs and containers are leaking into the ground water.

it's the same as nuclear power plants. they're always perfectly secure until something unforseen happens or they've been secure for so long people get neglient.
The imagery is computer generated because it is the cheaper solution compared to hand-drawn animation.
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This is a byproduct of the decadence of Western... I mean Roman empire
Or it might be that mobile connection is better because the bandwidth needs are much lower for the mobile-size video feed.
Sounds a lot how computers work
Here's something simple that I don't understand.

Imagine someone comes up with a better funding model for online content creators. At first glance it seems like it should make creators better off. But there's a basic econ argument saying that won't happen, or will happen to a much smaller extent, because online content creation is an industry with free entry and exit. If you pour more money, more people will enter, until it equilibrates with other industries again: the total money+popularity+fun someone can get as a content creator becomes equal to the money+popularity+fun the same person can get in their next best occupation. In short, their livelihood won't improve much. Could even get worse, if the new funding model attracts even more people by publicizing its successes more than failures.

That's not to say a better funding model won't have any effect. It will certainly increase the total amount of content. But we don't have a shortage of content now, we have a glut, and adding more will only make it harder to stand out. So why do content creators call for better funding models? What am I missing?
Edit: Relative to coal. I guess I shouldn't have taken it for granted that people would know most people in areas too rural for gas mains use propane or oil (because those are orders of magnitude more convenient than anything that requires you to move the fuel yourself.
I really love these posts because it shows methods of critical thinking about things that aren't strictly lines of code -- and ways of mentally deconstructing things. The 1st and 2nd order steps in reverse engineering processes, comparisons at different levels, and so on must take dozens of hours per post and a huge archive of screenshots from select areas preselected months ago for later comparison.

I also found the general "greening" of the map at larger scales interesting -- something that seems to be a drop in detail -- while the green spaces at smaller scales seem to be more specifically defined (and the new maps seem to have more of them).
Is there a normal browser website for Apple maps, or plans for one? I often use Google Maps website first, then "Send directions" to my phone. If there's no Apple maps website, then I can't do this.
What do you mean with So "your throat hurts" after a few days' work? I'm finding it difficult to muster sympathy.? Why should anyone hurt anything after work? Where is the health and safety service for these people? And for you I guess... Is this some kind of sentiment I am to Dutch to understand?
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I personnaly support their "all usb C" politics. A world where every device will share the same cable will be better.
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We do not know the failure rates so making judgements of its sustainability are hampered and cannot just rely on "I want the option" as a counter to how a product is designed.

By your logic why stop at laptops, why not demand tablets and even smart watches be treated the same. the reason is simple really, the reliability of these devices is very good and companies like Apple have highly developed processes in place to recycle the failures they do encounter.

we would never survive in a world were consumer electronics were lego like in their manufacturing. you think we have waste issues now, it is far more likely a laptop or desktop would be recycled than individual components which when failed many would just toss like they toss one use batteries found in many devices.
Thanks for the response! FWIW, I find nothing lacking in the application, but I'm working on an ipad and it seems a native app would be less constrained by the browser quality.
This article reads like metric ton of BS but sadly I don't understand enough about the substance to be able to tell reliably.

1) I thought the reason cement production is bad for the environment because CO2 is released from the calcium during the process, not because fossil fuels are using for the heating of the oven.

2) So they're solving the problem by pointing the mirrors directly at the oven or how does that work? I don't really get why the temperature generated is important otherwise.

3) There's also storage of the energy batteries mentioned, how exactly does that work? Sounds like a contradiction to 2)
Can you really tell if you don’t like the older keyboard more because of familiarity after a few minutes with the new one? I can’t.

I just got the Magic Keyboard and it’s still growing on me after a few days.
It seems that the Alpnisit with green dial will back in production early 2020 with a new movement. [1]

[1] https://www.seiyajapan.com/blogs/news/the-alpinist-will-make...
And then you'd fall in the issue of the tragedy of (unmanaged) commons. Trash everywhere.
The term "Black Swan" comes from the Taleb book and it refers to something previously thought to be impossible.

Black swans were thought to be impossible (they had never been seen in the northern hemisphere), then they were discovered. The fail-safes for nuclear reactors were all thought to be invulnerable until they weren't.
>Corporate networks don't magically add latency.

That's why I specified "this specific" corporate network.

>You would need a corporate network that idiotically sent things over the wire to a corporate office on another continent.

There are much more plausible scenarios than that, like packet inspections and side-effects of attempting to MITM any SSL packets.
These 4 European countries still have it [1]. Apparently it's difficult to enforce, probably for reasons touched on in this thread.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/4-european-countries-wealth-...
Would you guys mind open sourcing your data set, including the cases where you currently fail (presumably graphs with edge crossings -- I couldn't help but notice that all examples are planar graphs)? I think I may have some ideas how to tackle some of the unresolved issues you state at the end of the blog post.
So, you have a calibration target on the tower, along with the actual power generating target? Allow each mirror a brief time slice to hit the calibration target to ensure alignment before returning to the power generating target? Maybe you can calibrate more than 1 mirror at a time, and like old fashioned medical diagnostic tests, they can determine the optimal number of mirrors to calibrate simultaneously? That seems unnecessary at least with the number of heliostats I see in the image. Once calibrated, I’d expect the heliostats would operate acceptably for at least a month.
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It's not obvious to me - why do you think snap is better than scratch?
> Over the past 50 years, my computer has adapted to how humans normally operate in nearly every other way. Why do they continue to use this system which produces results different from what any normal person expects?

Lisps and Lisp-derived languages, like Scheme, have had a proper numerical tower, including rationals, for decades now. Using reals is optional, but using rationals and everything else imposes an efficiency cost, so people make their decision. Implementing rationals in hardware would not necessarily make them more efficient; that is, if you think having rational support in hardware would help, you have to make the case. It isn't an automatic win:

https://yosefk.com/blog/its-done-in-hardware-so-its-cheap.ht...
Baldur's Gate and Bob Marley over here.
The tenants did not freely enter into a contract. They are being "temporarily" housed there, with rent paid by the local government, as they were made homeless. This is why they are being mistreated - they are stuck where they are with no bargaining power, and nobody has any incentive to make their life easy. The landlord will keep getting paid regardless.
Are you sure you own a 15"?
This 16" has literally the same dimensions as the previous-gen 15"
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Sorry for late reply. It was just slow and unreliable. Probably as much down to the machine i ran it on as anything. It was also a while ago. I just found with fastmail it consistently just worked. Also I really need those passwords, and as much as they are backed up I preferred relying on FM than myself.
People tend to think that your beliefs drive your actions. So if someone claims to believe one thing, but acts in accordance with other beliefs, what are you going to assume about their beliefs? If I talk about believing in family values but make it impossible for gay people to get married, do I really believe in family values? Or was I just lying/using a dog whistle?
2016 and 2017 mbps are only as good as the free keyboard replacement program, which starts ending next year for the 2016 model. These laptops won’t be in circulation long except as pseudo-desktops.
Can you irrigate with water that has detergents in it though?
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This is great work! I’m a fan of blockp5.js’ approach to the problem: take a beginner-friendly JavaScript environment (p5.js) and add a blocks.

https://github.com/ycatch/blockp5.js
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> the total money+popularity+fun someone can get as a content creator becomes equal to the money+popularity+fun the same person can get in their next best occupation.

That only applies to the marginal industry player. If more people enter the industry, in general, existing players, and even some new entrants, will indeed face better conditions.
This seems like it can be used to lower the bar for (repressive) governments to identify people.

E.g. by making it easier to distinguish parts of the body, identification via them, or gait analysis, becomes easier.

Are there compelling use cases that make this risk worth it?

Or are we just producing tech because we can?
Remember when the Panama Papers came out and absolutely nothing happened?

On the plus side, exploitation of the system by the richest has been going on for millennia, the only difference is that today more people are aware of it.
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Thank you!!! Yes! VisIt is what I was trying to remember. I don’t know VisIt, only that it exists and numerical people (at least in Astro) use it.
Interesting project! Do you have some info to share about the project architecture and technologies used? :3
I'd be wary of that last point depending on what you mean by "isolate". Chroot is not a security feature so the isolation is not perfect. This shouldn't matter if you trust the application but if it could be malicious (or manipulated by something malicious) then you'd want a harder boundary. `pivot_root` perhaps?
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> I'm struck by the irony that voice actors (who work for a day or two on a video game) are paid royalties for years, while developers (who work crazy overtime for years on a video game) are paid a straight salary, then laid off after it ships as a "cost savings" measure.

Not really. Developers have a monthly salary and a kind of work insurance paid by the company and/or the state in many parts of the world while most actors work in a risky business with sporadic work.

Also, if developers start getting royalties voice actors will receive less royalties or the company income will be reduced and all this could rebalance to, for example, more expensive games or lower developer salaries that at the end could be the same total.

Not saying it is not fair to paid developers royalties, just saying that sometimes there is a state of economic balance and changing it doesn't make it fairer at the end.
>I think that taking unironic pleasure at the misfortune of others, or wishing others harm, and the capacity to do so, is the literal opposite of empathy.

Wishing others harm and being able to empathize are tangential concepts.

The ability to understand what it's like to have something terrible happen to you does not preclude you from wishing it upon your enemies.

I suspect that for a subset of people the ability to empathize with people who are suffering makes the suffering of their enemies all the better.
> Over the past 50 years, my computer has adapted to how humans normally operate in nearly every other way. Why do they continue to use this system which produces results different from what any normal person expects?

If you look at any low level hardware it's behavior will be alien and unintuitive to most end-users, your computer has not adapted, only it's ability to support sophisticated high level software that abstracts these things away from end users has improved.

FPUs are no different, calculators round output to 10sf, and as a result most users think calculators are perfect, and that's usually fine... it's not fine when you do programming, because eventually you will need to understand the fundamental limitations of the hardware and more generally finite numerical computation regardless of implementation.
> Animated films will be the last place to start using TTS.

Well, big budget theatrical animated films from major studios like Pixar or DreamWorks, sure.

But most animated films aren't those.
> Increasingly, it seems to serve a smaller segment of society,

I am not certain that it serves a smaller segment of society than ever, I suspect it's always served a small segment of society. Would want to see some data.