skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is NOT "absolutely false". There are no net instabilities. Yes, there are lacking north-south connections and they are being built. But they don't have to do with the net capacity as such. They have to do with the new requirement of distributing wind energy from the north to the south and solar energy northwards. This was previously not needed, as every country roughly generated enough energy for their needs and there was little far-distance transportation.

And I don't understimate the amount of power needed for cars, it can be easily calculated, as the numbers of the cars are known as well as the average distance travelled per car. Do the multiplication and you get about 120 TWh of electricity needed per year. That is for converting any single car to electric. Which will take more than 20 years from now on. Compare that to the 600 TWh of production.

This doesn't even calculate in all the electricity spent on fossile fuels, which would be saved.
As someone who moved to Switzerland from America, Germans and Germany seems easier to integrate with than integrating in Switzerland.

To be fair, I'm learning High German and not my local Schwiizertüütsch.
Css grids > flex box.

I don’t ever want to touch flexbox again after learning css grid
Show HN: Image/video lazyloader for twig templating engine
> Or are you worried that someone at Google knows your voice?

Google already knows who you are, now they know a bit more about you, including what you talk about, and of course your voice which probably can be used to locate you with all those "smart" speakers around.
Agreed.

The patterns sound like native English speech.

I suspect dyslexia.
Check this example. It is quite both complex and simplified. Real implementation is more automated.
https://github.com/WLOGSolutions/RSuite-examples/tree/master...
Ironically, I once ran into Paul Graham and his family on a Virgin Atlantic flight to London. They were flying first class. I imagine this unconsciously factors into his views, much like the Marissa Mayer “being a mother and a CEO is really easy” comments.
There's a lot of spectrum between a trailer and Epstein. And you don't necessarily need people in Epstein's social circle, for such a scheme to pay off. Industrial espionage and sabotage doesn't require bigwigs - worker bees that happen to have access to things just so that they can do their daily job can do a lot.
The numbers in a billionaire's net worth include no contextual information - nothing about the lives damaged, the jobs lost, the opportunities eliminated, the time wasted, the scamming, cheating, and manipulation, the ecological support structures destroyed.

Business and personal accounting systems deny, ignore, and suppress those contextual details. So does the "investment" industry. And that makes a mockery of "price discovery" because the nominal market price always excludes critical externalities.

It's possible to become extremely rich without negative externalities. It just happens to be incredibly difficult. The looser your ethics, and the less empathy you have for competitors and victims, the easier it gets. It's a feedback loop which rewards unethical behaviour.

Essentially, money itself is a form of morality-laundering. It's an integer when it should be a complete trace through a common contextual event map.
Off the top of my head - nirvana. The post presented an idealized, "perfect" benchmark drawn from the user's own subjective experience, which is a problem in and of itsef, and suggested that anything less is not worth having.
> Damore argued exactly for this but it still led to a shitstorm which ultimately got him fired. This proves that these things are still extremely politically incorrect.

Whether what happened to him was right or wrong, your statement is an oversimplification of that case.

But as a mod said further up, let's not go there as this discussion will spiral off into typically unproductive territory.
Exactly, production and deployment process are very different. In enterprise it is very rigid with production that has no internet connection and the best if you do not install pkgs there (supported by rsuite).
But I had a customer who treated dev as prod. :)
It turns out be more redundant work than being a valuable or a smart work.
What is a fixer upper?

Is it a house that needs renovation?
Refugees get sent to Libyan prisons in an attempt to prevent them from entering the EU at all.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/10/libya-migrants-un-iom-r...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/03/libya-migrants...
We use R for rest using plumber. It is very similar to flask. What you need is to add load balancer.
What are you talking about? Of course it was written in lower-level, compiled languages. Is it any different than Python? Javascript? Perl?

As for the "easy iterop with other languages": [1]

So, how is R different from Python?

Also, it's not true that R wasn't designed for writing software. Even a critical "pamphlet" by Pat Burns [2] states otherwise. For writing statistical software, yes.

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[1] https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratingPythonWithOtherLangu...
[2] https://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Present/infernoishR_annotat...
Some biology and genetics. I’m interested in bioinformatics, and need to get a grip on the sciencey stuff.
> I have a piece of software and a task I want to accomplish. For example, list files ordered by size in ascending order. ls' man page tells me how to do that, but I have to piece the information together because it is arranged option by option. Thus, I'm forced to read more than what I'd like.

If you don't take time to read the entire manpage or at least skim through to find the optimal solution, then you're not experienced enough IMO. I understand the rush to come up with a quick win and amaze everyone, but the first quality I notice on senior engineers is that they were really slow in delivering solutions. The ROI would come up later when drawbacks were documented, the solution was well explained and most of the times elegant, hence no one would need to touch that part of system anytime soon and if someone did had to do so, he'd have a head-start.
The only reason that happened was because Masayoshi Son pioneered the idea that you could make any idea a success if you gave the company enough funding. Obviously, that turns out to a total disaster of an idea. The reality is that you still need to make customer satisfaction and value the number one priority. You need to make a product or service that people want, need and are willing to pay for (or allow you monetize it profitably). Of course, that turns out be very very hard to do in practice so it is understandable why Son was looking for a shortcut.
Umm.... can we get back to the football/soccer article?
What does that have to do with the article or its subject?
It's probably as poster above says: each snapshot (sounds like it's DB + app instance or something, maybe a VM snapshot?) is probably > 1TB in size. If you have a 1.5TB image it would make sense to want 4TB storage so that you could have two versions locally at a time. Also explains how long it takes them to do things. Every time they switch versions they have to swap out TBs of data to pull latest. Because it also sounds like they don't have a way to grab just the diffs. They grab whole images at a time.
If you refer to [#7], it is not true.

[#7]: https://github.com/alexherbo2/krabby/issues/7
The same reason other projects mention "in Rust" "in Haskell" etc.
"Mr. Neumann mesmerized them together with his pitch"
Ah, but I think Damore did dismiss those valid concerns. Not explicitly, as far as I recall, but implicitly, in choosing to feel victimized as a man by Google's personnel practices. Someone who had made a sincere effort to understand how women are treated in tech (and indeed, in business generally) would, I daresay, not have written as he did.
ENS allows to register names with emoticons, I think that regular URL allows that as well. The problem with those things is not that they're not memorable, but that there's no good UI to type then when you want to write the name.

That said, the project is great! I love such things:-)
ymmv, but many of the libraries R uses run on multiple languages, so you can take the models built in R and run them in another language (usually Java).

Python is single threaded as well. Like Python, R can be made multi threaded, and like Python, R can be productionized without having to convert it into another language.

One possible implementation is a pool of R workers. Each request calls an R worker. So if your pool is 100 and you get 20 requests from 20 different users at once, all 20 will be ran simultaneously. Likewise, many tasks can and should be cached. Consider MemcacheD or similar.
Dropbox selective sync that ignores the archived versions maybe?
> Why not set the fine to a million dollars for everyone

Because that is a disproportionate punishment for speeding for most people. We don't do disproportionate punishment.

It's also why we don't hang people for stealing. Any more.

> [it's not a tax] Why?

Because allowing speeding and taxing it is not the goal. We don't want people to speed. Even rich people.

> same amount of deterrence for everyone

Exactly.

> which requires a constant fine.

Er, no. Exactly the other way around. To make the deterrence effect the same for everyone absolutely requires the monetary amount to be different. The deterrence effect of an economic fine is hugely dependent on how much money you have/make.

If I make a €10000 an hour, a €1000 fine is nothing, it takes me 6 minutes to work that off, so who cares? If I make €1000 a month, that's an entire month's worth of work, and so the fine will have a huge impact on me.

In Germany, this is encoded by the concept of a "Tagessatz", which is essentially how much you make per day (minus what you absolutely need to live):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagessatz

They don't generally do this for traffic violations or other misdemeanours, but for felonies for which the sentence includes a monetary punishment. So you are convicted to pay, let's say 45 "Tagessätze". How much that is depends on how much you make. If you don't pay, you go to jail for that amount of time.

Time is the equalizer, being roughly the same for everyone, unlike money.

(Yes there are differences in how long people live, or have left to live, but it's not clear whether those should be accounted for and they are nothing comparable to the differences in income/wealth. See Taleb on "Extremistan" https://wou.edu/~shawd/mediocristan--extremistan.html )
Also, rest is interesting because it solves a lot of "base protocol" questions. Accept header is part of standard http.

So that should be the default way.
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This is brilliant! I like the fact that it also cleans up the page. I don't know much about MFS but I see there's a video linked from the add-on description so will take some time to listen. My main concern is what format is going to be always readable in the long term, so it should be either something widely accepted and distributed like PDF, or something that is going to be retro-compatible and always running smoothly in future machines. Thanks for your answer.
What makes you think that? I don’t see anywhere mentioning doing that.
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We use the same style in Romanian.
I'm actually a little surprised by the general praise of this move here on HN, if only because I don't see what, if any impact she has had on either climate change, or climate change awareness.
If anything, she's only contributed to the overall polarization of these topic. Most people I know don't find her engaging or interesting in any way, but rather grating, petulant, and full of childish arrogance.
At least that sense to be the tone that's constantly reviled on social media along political lines.

If she somehow found a way to inspire change from both parties working in unison, then I'd get it.
But these sorts of popularity contests are usually unimportant, but personally, I think it should've gone to the HK protestors.
That at least is an interesting story, and is bringing forth discussions around China's influence on American businesses, as well as the general struggle in China for political freedom.
A New Competitor to Intel and AMD CPUs
Scala 3 Explicit Nulls
Web definitely needs a better keyboard interface, this seems interesting but it looks a bit difficult to learn and use.

I used and liked Gleebox quite intuitive, easy and powerful. But it is not developed anymore. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gleebox/miinkdcjgl...
Omg. It is not like he watched his buddy lose a finger trying to hang a bridge.

It fucking just data. It is just made up numbers.

There is a reason why higher up mangers and bosses don't go e shit about code or understanding technology. Coz in the end it doesn't matter. There is always a role playing nerd that would love to slay the dragon.

So much nerds that get promoted because they belive in Dragons and such.
A good company will honour your request for a specific keyboard layout. I've spent the majority of my working life in Europe and have always requested (and fortunately received) a US-layout keyboard at work.
Check out the black-hole diode on page 362.
Damore didn't feel victimized by Google's personnel practices until after those "practices" involved him being fired from Google. He argued that policies that were purportedly intended to increase "fairness" in hiring were in fact markedly unfair, ineffective at their presumed goal and reflective of a growing political polarization within Google itself that was worrisome on its own. It's quite common to express concerns about fairness and related issues without feeling victimized personally.
I agree with thoughtful solutions being under-appreciated, but you can't correlate age with quality or goodness.
It's useful, but after so many years the state of machine translations and speech recognition in general is still not exactly reliable. It's like it doesn't have context or doesn't know how to apply it. I've heard success stories like this before, experienced them a few times as well, but most of the times the experience for me is subpar to the point it gets so annoying and needs so much manual intervention I gave up, thinking I'll just try again in 5 or 10 years and see if it's any beter.

Maybe my accent or pronounciation sucks but I tried getting Siri to write down text messages about 10 times. Most of the times it was close, but none of the times the words were 100% correct and in more than 50% of cases that led to the produced sentences not conveying the original meaning. Same for navigation. Names of cities (in Europe) seem problematic, like confusing Miltenberg (DE) with Milton in Canada or so. Similar for Google Translate. Our Portugese taxi driver didn't speak English and was worried about getting us to the airport in time. His phone showed us he was worried about the weather. I get 'tempo' can mean both, but it's these subtle differences technology still is lacking.
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> Berlin trains will drive you absolutely mad.

Can you expand a bit, punctuality or what? In Berlin trains are sometimes a bit clunky, sometimes a bit late, but I absolutely love the Berlin public transport system.
IMO the worst is accessing non-existent items in lists or when using the $ or [[ notation in data.frames: the fact that you get back NULL instead of an error breaks code in unexpected ways, and given that R's debug facilities are basically useless, makes it hard to debug complex code.
Well, I dont get them as well.
Interestingly, 1993 is also the year a rather large research endeavor began in Europe, paving the way for the kind of on-the-fly speech translation technology that is now built into Google Assistant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noZBab-Lmss
Publicly, yeah. But you really think google would depreciate some core internal service actively used for account security, as well as internal employee security?
Metacognition. Just think about it.
It is called a "formality"
What's wrong with Shiny? It's reactive. It's efficient. It's straight forward. It works well. It works with tons of great plotting libraries.

It's not perfect, but I'm struggling at finding bad things to say about it.
Why isn't the DOJ looking into him? He should be brought up on charges just like Elizabeth Holmes. There has to be a clear fraud cause in here somewhere.

He can't be allowed to get away with what he has done, he needs to be stripped of his money and spend some time in jail to act as a deterrent for others who would seek to do the same.
We also have speed cells, boundary cells, place cells, grid cells... some of our senses might not be auxiliary or primary but rely on another sense which mediates them.

But your body keeps track of its speed and location in any environment regardless of if your senses are impaired (grid cells and place cells rely not only on sight but information gathered from speed and head direction cells), which is as much of a sense as proprioception. We don't even have a word for this, I think. Locoception, perhaps? Posiception? Only two Latin roots I know which fit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_cells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_cell
Yep, was just reminded of the Heath kit. Always wanted to try but never had the chance.
Except when the made up numbers are the whole damned business. Or not (waves at Experian)
In the US, we are taught that this is called "savory".
What happens in Germany if you lose your connection due to the train being late? In Finland the train company is responsible for ensuring you get to your destination (with taxi if needed) if the train rides were bought as a single trip.
The HN title is misleading.

The Wired title says "through" not "on". And the article makes it clear that an internet connection is required.

Surely "on" would mean that no connection to the internet would be needed.
Raku has less of a learning curve than R, does things better, and is quicker and easier to pick up and be productive in, with barely any gotchas if any at all.

Though, to be fair, I like R. It has good plotting libraries, and as much as it gets bashed I like RStudio too. In comparison, Raku's ecosystem is brand new.
I had the same problems with work, but I solved it with finding a part time job. In my country we get paid vacation so I can take a month off if I want. I have to live somewhat frugal but I don't want kids so it works for me.
Not sure about this specific app, (it's unlikely to be heavy) but it's a nice indicator of "native". As opposed to yet another electron / java / whatever heavy runtime app.
That is a EC, not an ICE, I think. Often full with drunk tourists sadly.
It's pretty common for societies to do exactly that. For example, if you look at the descriptions of beautiful women in the Victorian society, it overlaps pretty well with the symptoms of tuberculosis - obsession with unhealthy levels of thinness, or pale translucent skin.

And whenever you look at what underpins it, it almost always has to do with class and wealth - basically, physical traits that correlate with lack of need to perform hard menial work become a mark of belonging to the upper class. Better yet when it's physical traits that make it impossible to perform such work from birth, or close to it. When they didn't exist, they would sometimes be invented, such as foot binding.
(Was this intended to be a reply to the comment by parfamz[0]?)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21794929
The problem is often cultural food (ie non German) quickly changes to the German palate. There was an incredible Indian restaurant opening here recently. We visited a few months later and it was half as good. Asked the owner: “yeah well, Germans like it not hot, salty, and fatty”. Same with Italian: it’s quantity over quality.

And the supermarkets are woeful. It’s hard even to get an “exotic” herb like cilantro often.

After living years in Germany I’d say, the Germans don’t love food for foods sake, unlike say the French, where it’s a passion.
Might be he enjoys coding, but not software projects. Personally I can program adequately when needed, but I ended up working as a sysadmin because I determined I don't have the right temperament to deal with software projects. I prefer dealing with systems as a whole instead of focusing on individual pieces of software.
A designer mouse for blender designers
"Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst"
https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/0...

"The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator"
https://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Human-History-Deadliest-Pred...

"The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution"
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...

"Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity"
https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Darwin-Genetic-Engineering-Hu...

"Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do"
https://www.amazon.com/Biased-Uncovering-Hidden-Prejudice-Sh...

"Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World"
https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized...

"The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War"
https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Traitor-Greatest-Espionage-Story/...

"Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion"
https://www.amazon.com/Trick-Mirror-Self-Delusion-Jia-Tolent...

"Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know"
https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Strangers-Should-about-People...

"Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence"
https://www.amazon.com/Prediction-Machines-Economics-Artific...
Getting to Go: The Journey of Go's Garbage Collector (2018)
China Suspends Planned Tariffs Scheduled for Dec. 15
Writing Terraform is easy - having it work after six month of features being delivered, the cloud provider evolving, and working with all your other microservices, isn't particularly. Assuming you can do that and just change a few lines to redeploy in a new cloud environment (imagine that including GKE to EKS) seems naive.
Sure.

No. 1. "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst" by Robert M. Sapolsky.

No. 2. "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" by Timothy C. Winegard.

No. 3. "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution" by Gregory Zuckerman.

No. 4. "Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity" by Jamie Metzl.

No. 5. "Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do" by Jennifer L. Eberhardt.

No. 6. "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" by David Epstein.

No. 7. "The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War" by Ben Macintyre.

No. 8. "Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion" by Jia Tolentino.

No. 9. "Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know" by Malcolm Gladwell.

No. 10. "Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence," by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb.
Didn’t know that word existed back then. I do remember a console game we joked about called, “advanced communist mutants from space!”