skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no need to fail. Just stop investing in obsolete technology. It's basic economics. Increase the energy efficiency of transport 3 fold by switching to electric cars. Increase the energy efficiency of electricity generation three fold by not wasting it on inefficient turbine based powerplants (coal, nuclear). Fossil fuels are downright disgusting in their inefficiency. There is a reason why we need so much primary energy. It's because when we burn coal 2/3 of the energy turns into useless heat. Heat is so useless you even get it for free by circulating water in black pipes exposed to the sun. The only advantage fossil fuels have is energy density and that they can be used as a chemical feed stock.
Electric skateboards are insanely fun and after purchasing one I became convinced these things and (mostly) scooters are going to become ubiquitous in cities where the climate allows it.
Wikipedia says there are bass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandywine_Creek_State_Park
I like the concept so far.

Kind of curious about performance benchmarks vs C# and C++.
Did you post that somewhere?
I'm glad you had a good experience with this, but I can tell you right now that if I had a professor insist I couldn't use my own tools for his class out of what appears to be nothing more than "you will use what I force you to use because I believe only REAL programmers use vim," I would be the type of student who would take great pleasure in using my text editor of choice discretely and doing whatever I could to ensure there was no proof that I was using my tools of choice.

I'm fine if a professor wants to say "we're not using IDEs, we're using text editors in this class and this is why" -- but to dictate the editor would be akin to being told what type of pencil or pen I could use to take hand-written notes.

It reminds me of one of my writing professors who insisted that all papers presented to him be formatted in Arial. Arial is a bad font, so I asked if I could use the metrically identical Helvetica, and he refused. I still submitted my papers in Helvetica anyway and he never noticed.

(I'm not claiming this is a mature response, FWIW, but a core part of my personality naturally pushes back on anyone telling me I can't use something for a wholly arbitrary reason or because they want to enact a ridiculous level of control.)
I think this has to do with the qualification of the teachers. There are other, paid, vipassana organizations which offer a different experience.

My sense is that the Goenka org is the budget version. Which worked for me as a first retreat.

So yes, it's a factory, a conveyer belt of putting participants through a certain practice. It's practical, no frills, and not much flexibility. Also the food kinda sicks :)

But, for the price (donation) it totally delivers.
Some games -- recently Overwatch -- send hotfixes as live hotpatches. Those couldn't be scrutinized by anyone except the developer until they're included in the next formal patch.
Nationalistic flamewar is not ok on HN. You can't post like this here, regardless of which nation you have a problem with. It poisons the commons and provokes much worse from others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Unless you strongly prefer the smaller form factor, I would suggest T530 (the intel igpu version, not the nvidia one) instead of x230. T530 supports FHD natively. The keyboard mod principles are the same for all laptops from that year. Keyboard mod resource: https://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ec

x230 FHD resource:
https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=122640
Author is overthinking and taking teaching too seriously (religiously).

Buddhism has concept called the Two truths doctrine. Ultimate truth and provisional truth. There are also parables in the sutras where Buddha describes his teaching as not being the ultimate truth itself.

In the parable of dad saving his children from burning house , dad uses fancy toys to draw the attention of kids so that they walk out of the burning building. Essentially bullshitting them.

There is also comparison of his teaching to a raft to cross the river. Teaching has utility value to get people across, it's not useful to carry it after the river is crossed.

Another thing in Buddhist thinking is consideration to how different people understand things and what they need psychologically. There are people who just want to hear from authority figure what to do and they believe it and just do it (maybe majority of people). You must teach them in a that way.

As a modern interpretation of this, my teacher told me that the point of his public talks is to tell people something that makes them to attempt meditation seriously until it 'clicks'. The practice itself sorts out those who can do it and can't. Most people will never be into it anyway. The motivation and reasoning that makes people to start does not really matter at all.

The name Buddha gave to his religion was not Buddhism. It was Dhamma-vinaya, 'doctrine and discipline'. In my experience after being involved with mediation circles for 20 years, gym-rats used to hard training and daily discipline have much better start with meditation than people like me who are overthinking and analyzing, and who try to make sense of everything said. Instructions are there to help with training, you don't go to mediation retreat to learn philosophy.
Sure it's expensive, but by simple I mean it's probably one of the things a 5 year old could list if you asked them what kind of foods there are.
> Do you think Gendarmerie should forget about terrorists so they can focus on more "boring" causes?

Yes. Terrorism works exactly because of irrational out-of-proportion reaction to the attack. The attack is only for show, and later harm is self-inflicted. e.g. after 9/11 more people died from increased road use caused by fear of flying, than from the attack itself.

Every day lots of people die in car crashes, from diseases, pollution, accidents, suicides, addictions, poverty, but these deaths are too common, too numerous, and not spectacular enough to get 24/7 news coverage — such deaths have been deemed acceptable, unlike terror deaths.

When there's a war on terror trillions of dollars appear out of thin air, but when a fraction of that is needed to improve healthcare or environment it's "but who's going to pay for it?"
Greta is irrelevant in the US, which is what we are talking about. In the US you need to look at people like AOC and other GND advocates. You’ll find a stark lack of support for nuclear.
> As far as full military, sure. But their rudimentary guided srbm's are not the best by any measure. Their best still use infrared or standard gps for guidance. That is early 90s tech by american standards.

> Edit: wiki shows even lower tech ballistic style electromechanical guidance on their page. Thats 1960s tech.

The US still fields missiles with "1960s tech":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman#Minuteman-III...

I'm not so quick to dismiss these Iranian missiles. They seem to be accurate and able to effectively perform the job they were meant to do. It's a mistake to classify military technology as lower=worse/higher=better like it's a tech tree from a videogame. Inertial navigation systems like these missiles seem to have are actually superior to GPS in many circumstances that are relevant here. Yes, they drift, but that's not a huge issue over a short flight time. More importantly, they're self-contained, jam-proof, and don't rely on a service provided by an adversary.
> The end of nuclear was decided by the red/green government a few years earlier. The conservative successor government (Merkel) tried to reverse that decision and after Fukushima they joined the German mainstream position to end nuclear and to invest further money into a new type of distributed electricity production with the focus on renewable energy.

... thus ending it.
Security. Security is the huge implementation detail as to why we aren't writing "SELECT * FROM" + unsanitized_unsafe_user_input. When the Junior on your team doesn't know about prepared statements, at least you can fall back on the ORM.
I think that's only one subset of cheaters, many people use cheats in non-pvp games or use cheats in a specific server where everyone has the same cheats. It's often just a way to get more replayability out of a game someone really enjoys.

In monster hunter, the speedrunning community is migrating to PC because the ability to use cheats to negate the huge amount of RNG present in the game. Cheating is usually looked down on by speedrunners for obvious reasons but because of the difficulty of speedrunning a game with so much RNG(not rng that effects your gameplay, but that effects your ability to play at all), modders are basically making a new game with the rng removed and people are speedrunning that, and it's widely accepted as necessary by the community.

So cheating is often just a means of either getting something new out of a game or 'fixing' aspects of a game that the community takes issue with.

I agree that players like you describe, who's main goal is griefing other players, also make up a large portion of cheaters, just wanted to further elaborate on your response that not all cheaters are doing it to 'move up the leaderboard'
Removing the radioactive material from Fukushima is going to take forty years. Parts of the area around Chernobyl will be unsafe for the next 20,000. It doesn't matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
I wonder if 2020 is the year that global emissions start to fall. In some sense, that's too little too late, but I still think it would be a victory. It's really up to China, who was mostly recently estimated to peak in 2022, but who knows really
1024 Cores
Does D have something like Rust's #[derive(Debug)] or #[derive(Hash)]?
I will acknowledge a grudge against all things SMM up front, but this thing should be scorned.

If "PSP(SM)" is so great, what software did Watts Humphrey (the author) produce? Yes, I understand Humphrey died in 2010, but people put out GPL software even back then, and it has survived to the present day.

The other outstanding problem with PSP is that "quality" is never defined. Without a definition, "quality" cannot be measured, and the PSP is cargo cult ritual. If you think about it for 30 minutes or so, you can come up with some aspects of "quality", but some will be in tension with others: speed-to-market is certainly in tension with "bug-free", for example. There's no way to resolve this tension in PSP, so it's pretty much useless.

The closest I found to what "quality" means in the first chapter of the document is: "When engineers use the PSP, the recommended process goal is to produce zero-defect products on schedule and within planned costs."

Zero-defect and on schedule. Wonderful. Let's take all the fun out of a job by trying to reduce it to chickens pecking on bells. Also, probably not possible. See: http://scribblethink.org/Work/Softestim/softestim.html
It wouldn't. The trim wheel would work exactly the same from the pilot's perspective. It would only work different internally.
Doing Freelance Data Science Consulting in 2019
Ask HN: Who wants to partner on my SaaS project? I have revenue and customers
I have an existing side project (dndemail.com) that I have no time for. It has 40 paying customers, low churn and converts free trial to paying accounts at a 1.7% rate.

Is anyone looking for a side project to contribute to? Instead of starting your own project from scratch, work on mine and earn equity.
I will yield braided cables still tangle like a mfer. My Massdrop X Senn gaming headphones have a braided cable that is constantly tangled up. I got a pair of braided headphones with my S10+ and they are stiff as hell yet they still tangle.

Most of my headphones don't have a braided cable though, and all of those are so easy to untangle.
I would not say “stuck”. They have good reason for telling Nvidia to fuck off. Maybe you remember some time ago where Nvidia graphics cards didn’t meet the spec that they gave to Apple, and thus overheated and de-soldered themselves from MacBook Pro’s. This was not helped by the fact that Nvidia insisted on integrating itself into the north bridge of the motherboard. Meaning a card failure was fatal in the weirdest of ways.

Or the other time where Nvidia didn’t ship their graphics chip to them with support for the old school Cinema Display. So they sat in warehouses for 18months while Nvidia produced the part and only then, Apple could start integrating.

Then Nvidia tried to sue Samsung+Qualcomm when the iPhone came out (because apple used GPUs from these companies) claiming patent infringement.

Then in 2016 Apple said “no” to Nvidia on putting their GPUs into their laptops due to power consumption to performance concerns. And apparently that was not a healthy conversation.

Nvidia is a bully, and Apple is a big player. I will not shed a tear over 10% performance in predominantly game workloads.

Intel on the other hand has an edge with thunderbolt right now, but that’s an open standard and Apple could produce an AMD machine with thunderbolt now. I would suspect that they’ll live with the lesser performance until ARM is possible.
Well, they didn't shut down all nuclear plants either. The last ones are planned to go offline in 2022. It would probably have been possible to extend nuclear use a bit and reduce coal consumption faster instead.
I mean, that helps explain the definition. But in practical use I just know to multiply by three to get lightyears and I couldn't really care less about the projection of an arc subtended by a certain angle at a certain distance.
Search for "attack retrieve capture". It's a multiplayer game from 1997 that I made with a friend in college. That friend and I co-founded of PopCap Games with another game designer we met during the development of ARC (actually, our "producer" on the game when we licensed it to TEN.net).
Sure, but invoking a compiler from a command line is something you can easily pick up from a coworker or an internet tutorial.

The primary focus of an intro engineering course is (usually) about the theory and structure of computing, along with general techniques for writing code.

Learning about various build tools distracts from that focus.

EDIT: Also, you seem to be implying (apologies if I'm wrong) that invoking a compiler from a command line is somehow "better" than using IDE. Why?
There's no weekend warriors on the D. You're either on it... or you haven't tried it.
That doesn't appear in the Gutenberg.org version of the text [1], and according to the Quote Investigator, Twain didn't say it [2].

1. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm

2. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/19/geography/
Sorry, but this is a terrible analogy.

The core problem with it is that very few people can get paid more by being better at using their [D]VCS, whereas those more skilled with their programming language(s) of choice often do get paid more to wield that knowledge.

Consequently, most people do not fully master their version control system to the same level that they do with their programming language, their text editor, etc.

To be specific, there are many more C++ wizards and Vim wizards than there are Git wizards.

In situations like this, I prefer a tool that lets me pick it up quickly, use it easily, and then put it back down again without having to think too much about it.

You see this pattern over and over in software. It is why all OSes now have some sort of Control Panel / Settings app, even if all it does is call down to some low-level tool that modifies a registry setting, XML file, or whatever, which you could edit by hand if you wanted to. These tools exist even for geeky OSes like Linux because driving the OS is usually not the end user's goal, it is to do something productive atop that OS.

[D]VCSes are at this same level of infrastructure: something to use and then get past ASAP, so you can go be productive.
Thanks for reading! :) Yep, a fair amount of these folks should have done a bit of research!
No, you remember wrong, 5:4 was extremely uncommon, 1280x1024 is the only 5:4 resolution I have ever seen in the wild, compared to 320x240, 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768.

(Does anyone else fondly remember the short moment in time when all laptops and all projectors had 1024x768 as their native resolution and you could expect presentations to just work?)
that is really exciting!
Why is that a problem? We can still understand all the writings on ancient Roman buildings without any trouble. And it isn't too hard to make pictograms showing that something is dangerous and radioactive. We put some effort into universal pictograms understandable by actual aliens for the Voyager probes; making pictographs understandable by humans is much simpler.

Finally, why are you so determined to believe that no one will have a solution for radioactive waste in a few hundred years? How hard will it be to launch it off the planet if necessary? With the cost/kg of rocket launches coming down, it shouldn't be too hard to dispose of it that way. But for some reason, people like you just insist on sticking with coal power and breathing in all the pollution that creates. I will never understand it.
Lockfree Algorithms
I agree that it's weird. Maybe it's similar to US policies to prop up coal rather than deal with retraining workers?

There's reports that they just implemented a coal pricing reform: https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/11759-N...
- Moved closer to work so I bike every day unless it rains
- Stopped buying clothes and many things in general. Buy/sell used as needed
- Eating less meat
- Reuse everything until they fail
Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (2012)
That was eerily on point for how old that game is.
I don’t have a lot of trust in some of the non-profits that plant trees for the purpose of carbon offset.

It seems like a “debt” you take on. Today I will produce N carbon and plant enough trees to consume N carbon over 10 years. However, you aren’t actually watching the carbon repayment over 10 years. You’re trusting someone to do it for you. It seems like an easy swindle with how little regulations there are in this space.
Yes, it's called "grandparents" and can also be found on "in-laws."
How Old Are the Women of Mambo Number 5?
The math is different when a company is paying for it. It's not the same economics as a random ad that shows up on the page.
Those new ASUS laptops are certainly not gimped. They’re very premium.
They don't have to work that hard to stifle nuclear because that battle was largely fought and won 3 decades ago. By and large it has remained 'won.' Without splitting hairs the point remains that nuclear was scapegoated sufficiently that even if environmentalist could agree on nuclear and worked day and night to fight FOR it, we're at least a generation away from any new installations much less meaningful adoption within the grid. In the meantime, I think an objective person might say that natural gas -- on balance -- is a preferred alternative to coal (excepting any other viable substitutes).
When did I say or imply that?
It sounds like you are implying spaced repetition and the Cornell Note-Taking System are mutually exclusive.

I personally don't like the flow of Cornell's style, so I didn't use it as a student, but SRS software (Anki is still my preferred) didn't replace me needing to take notes and review those after class.

If anything, I would expect your Cornell notes to be a good basis for how you create some of your cards.
From this link:

"OneSignal Prompts are a 'soft request', meaning that they are not invoking the 'hard request' of the browser's Native Permission Prompt. This is important because if a user denies the native prompt, the developer is unable to prompt the user again, unless the user goes through a multi-step process to re-enable these permissions. On the other hand, if a user dismisses a Soft Prompt, the app or website can still present them the option later on."

Speaking for myself, showing such prompts repeatedly is a very good way to ensure that I'll never visit your website ever again. No, I don't care about your mobile app, anymore so than I did two days ago.
My room lights pulse when I turn on my toaster oven
You are almost certainly not eating animals to survive, you are doing it because you think it's normal and are either not aware that there is another way, or have chosen to ignore it. It is absolutely unnecessary for most people in first world countries to consume meat, there are easy to access alternatives that are better for the environment, animals, and quite possibly your health.

If you look at the screenshots it is clearly referencing dead animal flesh with the IDE icons.
I remember being utterly astonished at the realistic music and sound effects in (what I assume was) the original "Carmen Sandiego" video game. I would repeatedly exit and relaunch the game just to listen to the intro song.

When the local library got VGA monitors, us kids would look at the digital encyclopedia and those VGA pictures were like the future. Some encyclopedia pages even had VGA quality movie recordings... it was like the dawning of the future.
Previous discussion has been flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21984703
For those of you interest in learning more about causality, I just announced on my mailing list (https://data4sci.com/latest) that I'm working on a series of blog posts covering the contents of Judea Pearls's Causal Inference in Statistics - A Primer (https://amzn.to/39G5lWl, affiliate link) using Python.
That would also cause a divide by zero at a 90 degree heading
We only have worth alternative, that’s exactly the point here.
I do wonder if every generation picks slightly higher hanging fruits in science will there come a time when a single human lifetime won't be enough to digest even the most specialised domain of science in order to build upon it
Thanks for the links - I appreciate you digging into things further.

I may just be a bit “disillusioned” by any political decisions as they are just amended changed and reversed so in my own subjective feeling everything always kind a is possible if political parties want it at the time.

A poll is a poll and not a vote. I personally don’t trust any of these to reflect public opinion. A question can be asked and interpreted in many ways. You can always get the opinion you want.

As for “that’s democracy”: well, it’s kind a the chancellor/government deciding. Not the people per se. I would be careful concluding that a poll stating 77% and Merkel “rushing” the nuclear exit (not extending as most believed certainly) is just a reflection if a thorough public thought and decision making process.
Holy shit, ATT 3B2, I haven't heard any mention of those in a long time.

So, six years later, in 1994, I found myself as the UNIX system administrator for a large (at the time) datacenter at Keesler Regional Medical Center, Keesler AFB, Biloxi Mississippi, where we had quite a number of 3B2s. They were, in fact, the only machines we had that were rated for classified data.

If memory serves, they ran AT&T System V release 3 UNIX.

We also had, among others, DGUX, SCO, AOS/VS, Sun and Vax/VMS servers. Of course each of AOS/VS and VMS had their own, non-UNIX operating systems.

Funny story: we put word out to AETC (Air Education and Training Command) that we needed more 3B2s, and a few months later, some pallets arrived from Homestead Air Force Base, which had been destroyed by hurricane Andrew a couple of years prior. These servers had green and brown smears on them. Clearly they had been submerged by hurricane flooding for some period of time. So we ran a long extension cord out to the parking lot, plugged them in and stepped back. Much to our surprise, several of them actually worked, and later ended up racked in our datacenter.