skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it really a matter of self hosting ? or a matter of what people meant by "web" ? early internet had no strong goal, but when it became a soil for a new economy the vibe changed from genuine, wild and funny to structure and optimized (for business, for users it's de-optimized).
Did this years ago. I am very thankful I did. It has saved me a few times on cmd syntax. Seems like iptables is the one I always screw up. I recently started migrating the history across reinstalls.
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That's a good read. It's a pity the sample code repos aren't public.
I disagree. I've written a little about this: https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/are-we-still-thinking-795bd...

In pre-modern times one talked to more people, sometimes in a single day, than one would ever read in one's lifetime. Today it's the opposite: we will always read/see/hear from more sources that we cannot converse with than we will ever speak to. Twitter allows you great opportunity for dialogue again. It's the first social network that's gotten good at this way of interacting.

Declining to read news sites and ignoring capital P Politics is not hiding in a hole. Perhaps its having priorities that are too different than the ones you're used to, but if that's the case I hope it gives you pause.
i'm still using irc
I think IFR clearance is already displayed as texts in the cockpit?

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2014/12/01/tcpdlc-transitionin...
That doesn't explain why people do not massively despise hierarchies in the first place.
Legitimately asking - what can the PM do to help the situation? What would he have done for the fires had he not gone on holiday?
Yep, many think their single n=1 counterexample dismantles the truth of a general trend.

Especially when they fail to realize the selection bias of their commenting on a forum for curiosity-driven technology enthusiasts.
Yeah I'm not supporting Facebook just stating that the physical act of typing it all in vs copying from a Facebook post is not as easy. I have no Facebook account.
I typed many programs in from Compute and other magazines back in the day. I miss Byte magazine most of all. I may even try to this this on my Model 100 at some point. Just for kicks.
Seems like it: https://www.awea.org/wind-101/benefits-of-wind/wind-in-my-co...

Maybe a slightly biased source based on the name, but probably roughly right at least.
Thanks for this post it really resonates with me. I struggle with never feeling good enough. To be honest it has gotten progressively worse since transitioning to HN from other forums. Don't get me wrong the quality of content here is great, but the overall atmosphere here seems to be self-harming.

When comparing yourself with purple squirrels, you are comparing yourself with thousands of internet personas with differing ideas of what a good life is. It is hard to separate fact from fiction and excess from normalcy. The more hardcore people become, the more adoration they seem to get from the crowd. It is classic fanaticism.

The tech industry perpetuates self harming behavior: social isolation, perpetual dissatisfaction, judgmental behavior, envy and greed. It can feel like a death spiral.

For me I am looking to change my priorities in 2020. I would like to focus on what makes me happy in my professional and not what makes you happy.

Good luck to you.
Thanks, I'm aware of many chess rule variants. The question is whether these have ever been studied systematically by training human-level computers on each rule set and then analyzing the games played.
I wouldn't say using the same font for a part of it is "almost a carbon copy" but yeah, that pretty much sums it up. I'll be updating the text form of the branding soon though.

There's an entire industry around that called Cash Parking. There's at least four different remote job sites with similar domains that I receive traffic (and email) for if you'd like to look those up to make some more pointless comments.
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Wished such news articles would ways contextualize such news with a graph of the fire activity in previous years, if not in the entire recorded history. I want a figure how many standard deviations this is above the mean.

Edit: Something like this:

https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/145000/14...

Source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145998/fires-take-a...
Consider long and hard the case of Radonda Vaught, the nurse who killed a patient at Vanderbilt Hospital in a most dreadful manner. The investigation showed that she was overworked and stupid, and that patient safety at Vanderbilt is so bad that you should go elsewhere if you value your life.

There were no consequences for anyone, no changes in protocol or leadership; the institution covered up the nurse's error to such a degree that she still has her license. The nursing board is now looking into the case again, but that's only because of the public outcry.

There was a Gofundme campaign spearheaded by a well-known online nursing community that raised > 100 kUSD for the defense; that page mostly said that she is a nice person. (That might be at the recommendation of the defense, but it doesn't matter; there is no situational insight, consequently there won't be any improvement.) Z-Dogg MD came out in her defense as well, citing "just culture". From the outside is looks that since leadership gets off by default, consequently the scapegoat at the bottom that exposed the systemic failings should get of scot-free, too.

In the Ueberlingen case, at least someone had justice administered to him.
Sure, it takes up some space. But so does having to carry dongles. If Apple made an iPhone with the jack back again and a couple percent smaller battery, I'd take the jack. The phones has already been getting thicker every year ever since 6 (the 2nd last iPhone so far with a jack), so that's no argument.
The Scandinavian countries started from a fundamentally different premise. They're not based on a socialist principle--i.e. that property should be owned in common with the government controlling its use. They're dedicated market economies that evolved a strong social safety net. But their governments don't presuppose the right to control property and production. They impose taxes, which propertied interests can push back on. (And do--Sweden for example has abandoned its wealth tax, and its corporate taxes are competitive with those in the U.S. or U.K.)

See: https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/25/socialism-didnt-work-in...

> Sweden stood as the world’s fourth wealthiest country nearly five decades ago. Its taxes were lower than most western countries, including the United States. The economy was deregulated, and public spending was hardly above 10 percent gross domestic product (GDP).

> The 30-year experiment “was a brief interlude of failure,” Norberg said. To reform and save its economy, Sweden reverted back to its capitalist structure. It reduced public spending by a third, demolished taxes on property and inheritance, and reduced taxes in other areas. Defined benefits were cut and only defined contributions were permitted.
> What am I missing?

Touching your mouse less.

Might sound weird, but that's honestly my main reason for learning modal editing and emacs with evil.

Less flip flopping between mouse and keyboard might not be "more productive", but it's more comfortable.

And beneath that you start to find better fuzzy project searching with tools like ripgrep, an easier time navigating your project, powerful in-file movement commands, etc.

I'm mostly an emacs evil user, so I also have workspaces, projectile, magit, and a whole host of other extremely powerful tools.

And I don't really lose out on much wrt code completion, or other functionalities you normally get from an IDE. Since I can use the same language servers you would use in vscode.

That's not to say there aren't things that suck though. Emacs in particular isn't for someone that's unwilling to make changes to their config.
Most companies do actually offer loaners. Honda does, Toyota does, VW does. They're all under $40k for the most part.
I had a coworker who was having some issues. I chuckled when he had an alias for history | grep when I was checking out his env
This completely dismisses every developer out here writing drivers, hardware controllers, Operating Systems, compilers, etc. Look around as you drive to work. See the boxes along the road? See the automatic doors on the buildings? See the lights? There’s an entire world of software engineering out there that’s not some CRUD web app.
Not sure what you mean specifically, but this was not in a context of combat operations, where quick decisions were needed. There was plenty of time to address the complaints and fix the problems.
I have very limited experience, but the few that jump out to me emanate from a few conversations I had with employees during my on-site. For context, the role was for a "Golang / Elixir Engineer" during my onsite all anyone talked about was relatively new code written in Ruby and only mentioned Golang or Elixir in a "maybe 8 months down the road" way. Language barrier with your manager seems innocuous, but the problems I ran into were deeper and seemingly cultural. (she expected to only be told things were going right, nothing was ever her fault, asking for help is indicative of weakness or incompetence etc. - I'm trying to not sound racist but other employees had similar comments)

Also, it took me quite a bit of time to work through the mental gymnastics as to whether I was just bad at my job or if I was in a toxic environment. In hindsight it was definitely toxic - as an example senior engineers on my teams were being put in a position where they had to make decisions TPM's should be making (but still hung out when they made the wrong decisions).
The good ol' Stirling engine was tried out -- at a few locations in the US Southwest 10 years back -- to generate megawatts of solar-powered electricity (25kW per engine) at the focus of parabolic mirrors.

It got beat out by subsidized Chinese-produced PV panels (SES was forced into bankruptcy).

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Signal_Solar
Most people formalize "kernel languages" that contain all the bare essentials of the language at hand. There are a variety of tools to do this; a lot of people just end up embedding their language semantics in Coq or something and writing proofs about the theories there. Alternatively, a lot of people will tend to just write literal interpreters for their kernel language in a language like Haskell or OCaml; interpreters can be seen as a lightweight machine-runnable definition. And they have the added bonus you can play with them!

Another popular tool I'm aware of for this is Ott[1], which lets you write a high-level semantics description, much like you'd write in a LaTeX paper. It can then compile it to Coq, LaTeX, etc for further work. Ott is probably a much better place to start without getting too far into the weeds, if you want to write real high-level sketches.

In general, I (unfortunately) don't think there's anything like a "library" of language semantics definitions that are easily reusable or anything like that. Modular definitions of semantics that can be reused like a library/API is basically a programming language abstraction problem, but I'm not sure what the current forefront of research on that is. In general, very few languages have fully specified machine-checked semantics, or even unproven ones.

[1]: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/ott/
For the USA, the Federal Register is the "daily journal of the United States Government". No spin, just the actual rules.

https://www.federalregister.gov/
I literally got into CSE because of termux, at the time I didn't even have a PC..
>Only one air traffic controller, Peter Nielsen of ACC Zurich, was controlling the airspace through which the aircraft were flying.[10] The other controller on duty was resting in another room for the night. This was against SkyGuide's regulations but had been a common practice for years and was known and tolerated by management.[10] Maintenance work was being carried out on the main radar image processing system, which meant that the controllers were forced to use a fallback system.

>Skyguide, after initially having blamed the Russian pilot for the accident, accepted full responsibility and asked relatives of the victims for forgiveness.

>Under international aviation laws,[failed verification] the compensation amount was about CHF 30,000 ($34,087) to CHF 36,000. The Swiss Federal Court turned down appeals from some relatives for higher compensation in 2011.

>A criminal investigation of Skyguide began in May 2004. On 7 August 2006, a Swiss prosecutor filed manslaughter charges against eight employees of Skyguide. The prosecutor called for prison terms of up to 15 months if found guilty.[29] The verdict was announced in September 2007. Three of the four managers convicted were given suspended prison terms and the fourth was ordered to pay a fine.[22] Another four Skyguide employees were cleared of any wrongdoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_c...

How so?
Wow I just discovered that it's uBlock Origin that totally breaks the page layout. Which means that for some reason this page's CSS are detected as an ad source, and blocked! Curious, as it seems to be a plain and simple static site.

EDIT: It is the "AdGuard Annoyances" optional list, which is disabled by default but I like to enable: https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-ad-filters#annoyan...
This is exploitably incorrect. It seems that way to players but tool assisted Pokemon speed runs regularly use luck manipulation. https://glitchcity.info/wiki/Luck_manipulation

Games have had really bad prng’s for preformance reasons and gamers have been exploiting them for years. The most extreme example is probably Doom’s which was simply a hard coded list of numbers. https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator
The pads used for the turbines are quite large, they require an access road, power connections, and the turbines create substantial shade, reducing the productivity of the ground below.
vimtutor sold me on vim in 10 minutes. o, O, p, P, y, I, A, etc. It was immediately obvious to me how it could be useful, having one-key shortcuts for the most common maneuvers in text editors, even if I were just writing prose.

Next time you're stuck somewhere without internet, as I was, give vimtutor a shot.
There are just so many planes in the sky that we need better methods to avoid such incidences
I still am not. Could you explain?
pragmatism is nice but the goal of government is not only to affect the problem, moral support, presence is critical IMO
I do the same. Then I hiss like some sort of vampire-cat when I launch photoshop and the filter switches off.
I can't speak about Fogg's new book, but I've read Atomic Habits and read or listened to some of Fogg's other work. I think you're past the point of diminishing returns, especially compared to spending that time tweaking how you apply it. For example, by making triggers more obvious (daily email nag), progress more consequential (BeeMinder, blog), or goals more fun (choose valuable habits!).

If you want Fogg's take in a nutshell, here's a short podcast interview: https://boxofcrayons.com/2016/08/bj-fogg-on-behaviour-change... . tl;dl: Have an explicit trigger that you can't ignore.
>How many shelters could be operated for a year with that kind of budget?

Where? Determine where and then determine

- rent/purchase price of a property.

- cost of utilities

- cost of maintenance and cleaning

- cost of security and other staff

- adequate liability insurance

- cost of any programs/services to help the people using the shelter to get back on their feat (if they even want to)

- cost of therapists/psychiatrists/psychologists/medical doctors to visit and provide services

It looks like 'supportive housing' cost $12,800 [1] per head per year and I don't believe that factors in food/supplies/medical etc.

So realistically, they could probably provide 12-18 months of housing/food/bare bottom basic medical care/a few sessions of therapy/a few outfits/interview training to 5000-7500 people for 129 million dollars.

[1] https://endhomelessness.org/resource/ending-chronic-homeless...
I don't think it's reasonable to say that wake turbulence has never caused an issue for an airliner, when many hundreds of people died because pilots misapplied rudder in direct response to wake turbulence.

The correct systemic response is to note that wake turbulence is very dangerous for airliners because it may cause pilots to catastrophically misapply rudder.

(Sorry for my many edits to the parent, I didn't realize you'd already replied.)
Regardless, it still looks bad. Captain goes down with their ship and all.
I can't even decide whether the text (e.g. in a div or p element) should be stored as a unit with links stored as meta-data, or should the stretches of text before/after/between links be "chunks" and the links store their own content (like DOM)?

It's an old question, see the "piece-chain" structure Prof With chose for text-with-"looks" (aka "style") http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.Syste... section 5.2, "Text Management".
There are some single layer units that can get up to ~90 of delta_T, but I don't think they're worth dealing with. As a sibling comment points out, you can stack TECs - indeed, you can buy integrated units with very high delta_T that are just pre-stacked TECs.

I think it'd certainly be fun to play with. Some bits of warning - most TECs are physically quite fragile. Not in the sense that you need to be super careful when handling them with your hands, but that heat stresses can totally wreck them. Do NOT hard mount both sides (hot and cold) to different materials - the differential thermal expansion on the two sides has a potentially of ripping your TEC apart. You may be able to get away with a hard mount (such as solder) on one surface, and some sort of thermal transfer material on the other.

Also warning, your hot side is hot enough to start doing weird things with normal solders, which might be the bigger limiting factor.
2020 is going to be a huge year for the space industry
I think the advance of mobile phones and the cool factor that surrounded it for a long time, and “Hey look at this picture of my coffee I am drinking right now” kind of drowned the blogosphere. It was the time Facebook could count on being cool. Which evaporated after 2010/2012.

I think my personal take is that the idea of “your content is your own” got lost in the process of sharing-everything culture.

Luckily it isn’t dead, this site and the people writing informative blogs is still available.
From the author:

>This one is just for fun. When I first learned Lisp in 1981, I did so by reading Winston and Horn's book and writing my own Lisp interpreter. The interpreter was written in Basic on the only system I had access to at the time: a TRS-80 Model I. This interpreter eventually ended up as part of a series of three articles on Lisp that I wrote for 80 Micro, a TRS-80 hobbyist magazine. The first part of the series, which contains the source code for the interpreter itself, is included here. Note that the listing has all optional spaces removed so that I could fit both the interpreter and 1100 (!) cons cells into 16K (!!) of memory

http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/
I clearly remember flying and landing Wizz air on a particular flight in eastern Europe. The plane flight on landing felt on unsteady wobbly on the glide path towards landing. Internally I'm thinking what the heck! After the landing the plane made a big jump up in the air and then landed again safely on the run way. I was thinking thank god to air plane engineers who made this landing safe it was not the pilots.

If you fly with for example Lufthansa or SAS they will plant the plane absolutely steady on the ground during landing and usually never with a jump up in the air again. Fact is SAS and Lufthansa used to do more than the mandatory pilot training, they would do a lot more training with their pilots than was required by aviation authorities.

After the Wizz air what I though was a very bad landing. I have pledged never to fly with low cost airlines again. Air Safety is not worth saving the last penny on the flight. I prefer a well funded airline which trains it pilots properly. Thus I am avoiding low cost airlines since they skip on cost, also on safety.
My understanding is more birds are killed by skyscrapers than by windmills.
Cats are an even larger threat by a few orders of magnitude.
I may be missing some key use cases, but presumably you would somehow use the same snippet again and again otherwise why have it in some tool, ready to go. Once you are using that snippet a lot, then I think the incentive to make it part of the running script is high, or even creating a new repo to track those snippets and then link that somehow.
AlphaZero beat Stockfish, which is substantially more powerful than humans. Much fewer resources would be needed for human level performance.
Yea I see people make arguments like this all the time. We frequently get news articles about leaders who aren’t in the capital legislating/leading despite the fact that these people never really escape their work even if they do travel.

The PM isn’t going to do much of anything at this point. The time for the PM to act is prior to the fires starting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_demonstration

> A technology demonstration or demonstrator model, informally known as a tech demo, is a prototype, rough example or an otherwise incomplete version of a conceivable product or future system, put together as proof of concept with the primary purpose of showcasing the possible applications, feasibility, performance and method of an idea for a new technology.

Verdigris has been developed and maintained now for over 4 years. Not only does it work - it has unit tests, CI and issues are addressed by the maintainers.

While verdigris does demonstrate that something is technically possible, so does Apache httpd - does not make Apache httpd a tech demo.
You can have democratic decision-making, which isn't hierarchical and yet is explicit about the distribution of power.

So while it's true that holacracies can quickly turn into hierarchies rather than democracies, it's still doesn't explain why hierarchies are preferred by humans over democracies, while the latter is obviously more acceptable on the state level.
If you define hacking broadly as 'repurposing a system in a way that is significantly different from its originally intended use' then it certainly covers it - and you sort of need to define it broadly to encompass both the 'hacker ethos' and 'blackhat' meanings in tech anyway.
That's the thing about extremism, it comes in lots of flavors. And clickbait farms are incented to whip it up.