skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can you recommend some good scholarships to apply towards? how do people even get scholarships they seem like a dream almost
The Commodore 64 and Apple //e had double hires mode by turning on two different video modes and switching between them to get more colors and resolution.

http://www.battlestations.zone/2017/04/apple-ii-double-hi-re...

Edit typo
disposing it by spreading it around the world? no thank you
Why not? Wind is a ~50% cheaper source of energy per kWh than nuclear.

Edit : apparently the answer to this question is "downvote" :)
> This seems unlikely.

Not to me, for the reasons I've already given. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I don't think badly of him. I think it was just to make a point, and the money was going to charity of the winner's choice. I don't know Sam personally but he's been very successful with his career so I don't think it was about the money.

He actually explained it where I quoted him in my other comment, from this article.
By measuring deaths per TWhr. Nuclear power plants generate a lot of power and very few deaths. The amount of energy generated by nuclear is so vast that it more than outweighs incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima over the long-term.

This source only has "rooftop solar" which is more deadly than nuclear power.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

I don't have numbers for non-rooftop solar.
>Which one do you think is going to be more productive for your life?

I think it's better to carefully select which books you read, and really get everything that you can out of them. For example, you could read 10 self help books or you could read The Republic and really understand it. And you could probably quickly read 100 self help books and books on leadership in the time it would take you to go through the relevant Plato->Aristotle->Kant->Schopenhauer->Nietzsche books that build on each other. I think you'd be far better off reading the philosophy than the self help books, but that's just me. Those self help books are a garbage use of language relative to works held up as being pillars of modern thought, there is enough extremely high quality literature from human history and text books from the modern era to keep me busy reading carefully and learning a lot for the rest of my life if its all I did, I'm fairly certain.

>You shouldn't generally feel guilty that you don't remember enough from a book. You're not supposed to.

Completely disagree, this might hurt some feelings, but if you can't remember much from a book you read, you wasted your time reading it if you weren't reading it just for pleasure. Either the book wasn't worth reading in the first place or you didn't pay close enough attention.
Kind of a weird choice for the name, the title of the piece is "The hottest thing in robotics is an open source project you've never heard of" and "The Robot Operating System (ROS) has moved out of academics" is a sub-section (and makes more sense as such, since it's in contrast to ROS's origins, not any recent event). Aside from letting you know ROS exists this piece is fairly free of content, but I guess it's a neat thing to be aware of.
Isn't this the whole point of the federate endpoint? That you just run a central Prometheus pair to federate metrics at low resolution from a ton of places?

I only care about high resolution metrics for alerts. Otherwise I can just take a handful of them at 5m intervals, but from a lot of places.
degoogle as much as you can
Warrants shouldn't be intended to discover evidence, they should be intended to secure evidence that is expected to exist in a particular location.

This distinction wasn't a major concern when the former was impractical.

Because of digital records and search agents, suddenly either is practical.

The intent of privacy law has always been to raise the cost of targeted prosecution. E.g. "We want to charge this person with a crime, let's find a crime."

The state absolutely has a duty to prosecute and hold individuals accountable. And in extraordinary circumstances, may even need to target prosecution.

What is unacceptable in a free society is that the state should have the ability to target anyone for prosecution with no effective bounds in the number of simultaneous times it does so (aka everyone).

The difference between Orwell and a safe democracy is scale.
It's way different because big tech cos acquire and retain far more data about individuals than anyone ever expected to be available.

10-ish years ago, it wasn't possible to retroactively subpoena a year of minute-by-minute location history, because unless you had an ankle monitor, that data didn't exist. You couldn't get a letter-by-letter log of every term typed into a search engine or a log of the amount of time spent looking at pages of reference material. You couldn't get a record of every keystroke ever typed into a mail client or word processor. You couldn't get every photograph ever taken by the individual, because cameras didn't automatically send a copy to the mothership. This is way above and beyond standard paper seizure or record demands.

"Write angry letters, but don't send them" used to be good advice, but now that the government can just casually dash off a search warrant to produce every keystroke and every location ping within a year of a suspected crime, we all have good reason to be scared. Why'd you search "marijuana" that day last October? You expect me to believe you were just researching a ballot measure? Pfft.

This makes Big Brother a tangible reality. It certainly feels big to me.
I got downvoted in another thread for saying this, but I’ve yet to see any nuclear advocate explain how these systems will fair in a war or state collapse. We’re less than a hundred years out from when wide swathes of Europe were reduced to rubble, but expected to believe that current political formations are going to be stable as far into the future as nuclear materials need to managed.

It may be the case that nuclear energy is required to stave off climate disaster, but given the political instability that’s also likely to engender, I’d like to see anyone speak to this with anything like a historical perspective.
There's also linear types, where you only give things capable of closing a resource a type that consumes a linear type.

There's also monadic resources, which you can view as a combination of RAII and what the author calls higher order functions.

Finally there's also monadic regions (as distinct from resources), which take advantage of higher rank types.
For the love of god, don’t buy an 8K TV
Living in Pittsburgh from 1986 to 1991 it was common in Squirrel Hill, among the best neighborhoods, for the air to go bad, completely unbearable and disgusting in the middle of the night even in summer as coke plants did their work. And authorities lied about it every time. Pittsburgh has a lot going for it, but bad air quality is a major open issue.
This is great. I was dreaming about large full colour e-reader since like 10 years ago, when I bought my first PocketBook. Now, TBH, I'm kinda used to reading on regular displays, mostly since I carry my phone all day long anyway. But if there will be a good reader like that I'm pretty sure I'll buy it. If nothing else, being usable without a daily recharge is huge by modern standards. It's virtually impossible to buy anything now that can last for a couple of days without recharging anymore.

Not sure about glass though.
In the short term nuclear waste should be stored in remote sites on the earth, in the future it should all be moved to space by elevator rather than launch.
There is some really good discussion on this in the 2018 thread, but I'd really like to see a ROS 3 that conforms a little more to the more widely-used alternatives to the stuff they had to roll for themselves back in the day.
You don't have the numbers for rooftop nuclear either.
I think for any work of art, there are two companions to the piece that need to be considered; context and authenticity.

Authenticity is why punk music or other lofi forms can technically "sound bad" but be great pieces of art; they come from a real and genuine place.

The problem with Star Wars is that it's so obviously lost its authenticity. It's just an IP that Disney can convert to the same money making machine they stumbled on with Marvel.

The article mentions the hints of world building that are exposed in the originals. I agree that was part of why I always liked Star Wars... but that kind of dedication to the art is completely absent from the new ones.
OK, fair enough. I saw three captures:

18:02:12
18:10:22
18:11:28

And all three showed:

> Uh-Oh

> Unfortunately this page does not exist. Please check your URL or return to the Homepage.

So when jashkenas said that there was content when they posted, I wrongly assumed that the first capture had been altered.

But now I can see that the first capture (17:03:04) was missing when I wrote my comment. And so it's fair to conclude that the others were never altered. Mea culpa.

We do know that the 17:03:04 capture was there when jashkenas submitted "5 hours ago", at about 2020-01-08 22:40 UTC. But it was missing when wutbrodo and I commented at about 2020-01-08 23:40 UTC. And back when hcs commented at about 2020-01-09 02:40 UTC.

So yes, I was wrong about the mechanics. However, I have seen several takedowns, over the years. And I understand how archive.org must maintain working relationships. But the point remains that archive.org is not a reliable archive.

And that's sad. The Internet needs a reliable archive. So we have a coherent history of what actually happened. This takdown has apparently been reversed, but several others never were.

I must admit that I'm curious why the first capture was taken down, and then restored.
I will let you in on a secret then, this is how 1/3 of stories work. I have gotten such stories written about my companies. These writers are under constant pressure to churn out stories and welcome someone doing most of the work for them.

Here is a general rule of thumb when reading an article. If what you are reading is not news, you are being marketed to.
Rooftop solar is fairly dangerous to install. However, the main reason nuclear is considered so safe is the massive amount of energy it produces is far greater than the danger.

There are quite a few resources on energy safety. Key terms to search for: energy production safety
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-safest-source-energy...
Well, I read the rest of his comments. There are little tidbits which are good observations, but mostly I continue to think he just disregards things which aren't in his field of interest. If I was more cynical, I might think he wanted the continuance of x86 specifically because he was working at Transmeta.
Could Chernobyl have turned Ukraine into an unlivable country though? I’m not sure of the science behind that claim. Presumably the larger the radioactivity was dispersed, the weaker it would be.

Obviously it was not a good thing, and could have been even worse, but I’d be curious to see a scientific explanation of whether a civilian reactor accident or meteor strike could make half a continent unlivable.
Please see my reply to textfiles.
> Do you think it's valuable to zoom in and out of timescales for a tool like this?

Years back I did a zooming prototype that went from dots as seconds like [1], through days like [2], up to dots as billion years, with customizable grouping/layout. IIRC, when zooming out, it was kind of fun to see the highlighting of your life contract to a pixel or two and fade out. If personal information were available, zooming could interestingly trade off aggregation vs detail, as with zooming maps. But without it... don't know.

[1] http://www.clarifyscience.info/assets/day_of_dots_clock [2] http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/QEt9x
They are absolutely great... for person with the AirPods. For the rest of the poor suckers on the call, it's headache time.

As I'm currently in operations, vast majority of my team spends 4+++ hrs a day on calls and conference calls. We'll take a $20 3.5mm Logitech with a boom over a $100 bluetooth with a boom over $200 bluetooth without a boom in a heart beat. Anybody with airpods [or Samsung etc equivalents] has been taken out to the back alley and shot by now.
In an average year nuclear accidents from power generation kill no one and the total deaths from all nuclear accidents ever are probably under 5,000. People die installing rooftop solar panels every year. Nuclear waste is treated with incredible care and there’s very little of it. Every solar panel has toxic heavy metals in it and most of them are manufactured China. I guarantee you people die from heavy metal exposure every year and once solar panels come to the end of their useful lives someone will be reprocessing them, probably unsafely.

Nuclear power is really safe.

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
I'm not convinced that the synchronisation is assured. While paper labels maybe subject to lack of staff or process discipline, electronic labels are going to suffer from power/battery issues, connection issues to the database, physical product ending up on the wrong shelf, etc. It'd be interesting to see independent reports on error rates between the two methods. ( Our biggest issue is double-scanning of product at the cash register.)
> If we have 100,000 reactors spread across the world, what’s the likelihood that over 100 years one of them, I don’t know, gets hit by a meteor and contaminates half a continent?

Zero. There simply isn't enough radioactive material in a reactor to contaminate half a continent, even if it were dispersed that widely by an extraordinary event like a meteorite strike. And the smaller you make the reactor, the less radioactive material there is inside it.

As has already been remarked, Chernobyl is a good benchmark for a worst case scenario of a catastrophic event with a reactor dispersing radioactive material over a wide area. And even counting Chernobyl (and Fukushima), the number of deaths caused by nuclear power per unit of energy generated is orders of magnitude smaller than the corresponding number for any other energy source. So I simply don't see black swan events as a valid concern that should stop the widespread deployment of nuclear power, particularly given the advantages to be gained.
It could but it's more than likely not. In this case a crime was committed and possibly covered up. As much as I agree with you to move to distributed spaces and increased privacy, I think Google has an obligation to comply here.
Health and Wealth in the Roman Empire (2019)
Ask HN: What to do if coworkers aren't reviewing my code?
I'm a veteran programmer -- not a 10x genius, but reliable and attentive.

My problem is that at my company, a nonprofit, there's a culture of not prioritizing reviewing others' code. That means my code, sometimes even urgent fixes to significant problems, can sit for a week or two before it's reviewed. Less urgent changes that should take a day or two of back and forth work and communication instead can many times that.

When I get assigned code to review, I make it a priority and try not to let more than a day go by without my at least responding with questions. This just makes sense to me -- after all, somebody is waiting on me to merge an improvement to the product!

The director of engineering tries to help by reviewing code himself, but he's overburdened and usually can't.

What's worse, there are fellow engineers I no longer feel comfortable being paired with on projects because the projects are sure to take far too long.

It's exhausting to be constantly spinning my wheels, trying to keep the context of my 6-8 open, unreviewed PRs fresh in my mind so I can move forward with my work.

I can't say my code is sparklingly perfect, but I don't have any reason to think it's particularly hard to review or unpleasant to review. My sense is that other people face the same situation, but don't mind so much. I know I produce more PRs than other people, and that I have higher expectations for our team productivity.

I've brought this up gently many times, but no one else seems to take it seriously. I also frequently offer to review others' PRs, and make sure to do a thorough and supportive job when I do.

What should I do? Keep trying to communicate about how this isn't working for me, and I think, for the organization? Try phrasing my needs differently? Look for another job?
Realizing you don’t understand the point comes from understanding the point more than you did before you read the book.
Ask HN: Old online fiction story on superman/crypto/PGP?
Prob 15y ago or so I read a "story" online about cryptography and how to use pgp and similar tools.

It was half a tech howto, half a fiction story about superman, with a bad guy using crypto to defeat the superhero.

I don't seem to be able to find it anymore, does anyone remember this or anything similar?
Well, yes, the "there aren't 330 million ponies in the US, and if there were, where would we keep them?" problem is definitely a problem too!
The problem with string theory is that there are limitless physics universes you can create within its framework so saying that ours fits in it is not saying a lot. Many universes could be described by it.
You can't hear sound from outside? So you can't hear sirens? Or horns? Or cars right next to you? Or safety warnings that warn of cars next to you when turning your blinker on? Or needing to break quickly? Etc etc
> Use mouse

I am ethically opposed to cruel and unusual treatment of *Nix users.

You can pry my tiling WM and Tridactyl/qutebrowser away from my cold, dead hands.
I've heard it seriously argued, because of the number of injuries and deaths taking of roofs and ladders while installing them. I'm not sure I buy it, but there's an argument to be made at least.
> expected to believe that current political formations are going to be stable as far into the future as nuclear materials need to managed

With proper management (reprocessing), we're talking a hundred years or so. That seems like a reasonable time frame to me.
Yes, I've also experienced this developing my extension [1] Newsit l. I encountered long wait times of a few days.

Firefox has consistently been much quicker to approve updates. They also allow source code to be submitted to, in order to better verify the extensions behaviour and possibly do diffs on extension versions.

The process for extension approval is still very human-driven, so there's a few things to help speed up the process:

- Understandable abstractions: eg separate view code from logic, so it's easier to understand the application

- Try not to transpile or obfuscate, as it becomes extremely difficult to determine behaviours and capabilities of the app

- Simplify as much as possible, as someone else has read through and sign-off saying its a "safe" app. The simpler the quicker it can be understood...

[1] https://newsit.benwinding.com/
I'm in Australia.

In my experience the cops I've dealt with have been professional and courteous, and they have guns.

Horrible aggressive cops seem to be a mostly American phenomenon.
It needs to be phrased more specifically, or it will violate the prohibition on general warrants.
It intersects with our upcoming presidential election. Two of the candidates (Cory Booker and Kamala Harris) were trying to pass an anti-lynching bill, as if lynching wasn't already illegal many times over, and then very conveniently Jussie Smollett has his fake lynching. He's an actor. He knows both of those political candidates. He'd be perfect for the job. Kim Foxx (with connections to both candidates as well as the Clintons) and Tina Tchen (with connections to Obama) worked to get the charges against Smollett dropped.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Smollett+foxx+kamala+Harris+Cory+B...
What a contrast with Albert A. Michelson, speaking in 1894:

>most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice. It is here that the science of measurement shows its importance — where quantitative work is more to be desired than qualitative work. An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.
Isn't an easy and reasonable response to this to charge the au pair for rent at the market rate for a single room in the neighborhood in which the family lives.

Room and board is a non-trivial portion of cost of living. Paying minimum wage and providing housing would mean an au pair makes far more than minimum wage when all is said and done.
I quit reading this dude when his stuff got too long. Paragraphs and paragraphs of rambling.
I've often thought a more honest name for Jira would be Legibilize.me
Anki’s toy robots are being saved from a digital death
For those wondering about lack of e-cigarette mentioning, World Health Org says e-cigarette doesn't help reduce lung cancer for now.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-tobacco/who-says-e...
I've started playing around with React Native lately and so far have been pleasantly surprised. I have also used NativeScript quite a bit and it too has a very fast compile and refresh. I don't know what it is about Angular that makes the refresh so slow.
Summon Up Remembrance: Mnemotechnics and the Visualization of Memory
Radar is pretty garbage in rain and snow as well.

https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/front/14dec-front...

My father was a missile radar guidance technician for a living. He says radar on a car makes almost no sense, especially for navigating in inclement weather, due to how radar tends to reflect off of anything to some degree.
Personalizing it is trivializing on an absurd scale. Getting the idea in prosecutors' heads that they can just grab a year of data on any accused party is the danger here, and it should scare the pants off all of us. Over the course of a year, you've surely typed something into Google that could be misconstrued.
VSCode was late to the party. Atom and Notepad++ were before them. Don't forget eMacs or VI that were first in the text IDE modes for multiple languages.

20 years ago we didn't have Youtube or online courses to learn. Just websites and forums and Yahoo Clubs/Groups. As soon as Visual BASIC got a service pack the old books were obsolete and you had to read on MSDN or the forums or the Yahoo Clubs how to deal with the API changes and language changes. Which management never understood and confused MSDN with MSN.
I had this issue as well, you need to bring it up. talk to ur mgr
Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
You are also blending sounds from other cars, as well as sounds from your tires on the road which gives you some feedback on the driving conditions. All of those match patterns that you have seen before and give you a better feeling about your car status.

The brain is using hundreds of different captors and is order of magnitude more powerful than any computer today. Attempting to drive with a couple cameras as only sensors is a recipe for disaster as has already been proved (see also: Tesla crashes)
Ironic that intercoolerjs.org is missing functionality unless you allow scripts from code.jquery.com
Yes, I've found that it gives me more variety in the work I do than I get in my day job. I find that for me an extra ~20hrs a week is all I can do without losing the will to live, but it's nice to know that if I got laid off from either position, I would be fine, and if I don't then it gives me investing money.
The article was modified to include "Editor's note: This is sponsored editorial content." before it was taken down. That likely excludes the "someone hit publish by accident" hypothesis.
> takes longer to bring online

For anyone wondering how long that is, the largest pumped hydro plant in the UK can be at full capacity in 16 seconds from standby, or 75 seconds from cold.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station