skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of your examples are about social / public acceptability of the artist as a person, not the evaluation of their artwork itself. Of course most people would be uncomfortable associating with such a person, but I don’t think that’s inherently relevant to their work.

Nowadays we are in a marketing-focused era where serious aesthetic thought is basically unknown to everyone but academics, so the natural result is that the identity of an artist is often more important than their work.

(Side note: performance art refers to a separate art field, e.g. Marina Abramović. Performing arts is the right term to use for music, singing, etc.)

But yes, of course there are various approaches to aesthetics and certainly some would say that the artist as individual plays more of a role in some genres than others.
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Rhis distinction also appears in C# in exactly the same way and I don't find it that hard to use. Also, Beef allows you to explicitly allocate objects on the stack via "scope:". So being by vale or by reference is a default rather than set in stone.
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Fast IPv4 to hostname lookups (using databases not the DNS)
Destructuring ("digging into" a type) makes little sense with open records and sums, which OOP introduced into common use. The "closed" ('final', 'sealed' etc.) case where destructuring makes sense was disregarded for some time because it was thought that extensibility was always the appropriate choice.

Today, "open" extensibility mechanisms are considered a bit problematic because it's never really clear what invariants they should preserve, so maintaining correctness is an issue. A "closed" interface makes it essier to specify related invariants.
Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down from Allowing Lies in Political Ads
Sea levels are rising at 2-3mm a year. That's about a foot of sea level rise per century, assuming some combination of AMO negative phase, PDO negative phase, volcanic activity, geomagnetic reversal, increased cosmic rays and subsequent cloud cover due to increased nucleation and grand solar minimum due in the coming decades doesn't kick off a cooling trend that causes a mini ice age to set in and sea levels to fall, of course.
U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says
I hate to ask this, but what is their source for this?
I was thinking the exact same thing.

I'm not the most technical person but I could easily understand the purpose of the program by quickly scanning the webpage. The combo "clear headline + demo screenshot" is all that's required to explain what the product features are, and how I, as a user, can benefit from this product. There is even a blob of text available under each screenshot, for those who want to know a little bit more. (Reminds of "The obvious, the easy, and the possible" [1])

A lot of landing pages of SaaS products and other tech-related websites could benefit a lot from this "old" but straightforward approach, instead of trying to sell you a better lifestyle with "Be productive" or "Break free" or "Solve all your issues" marketing headlines.

[1]: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3047-the-obvious-the-easy-and...
Note that "standby" is burning power to keep the turbines spinning without flow, so that they don't have to accelerate when the stopcocks are opened. Dinorwig's purpose is smoothing demand spikes, so its 75% roundtrip efficiency is acceptable and its duty cycle somewhat predictable, but it must be a tricky optimization problem to maximize efficiency while never failing to meet the load.

(Interesting side note - when I took a tour of Dinorwig some years back, the guide said that when the facility was built it rarely needed to run more than 1 turbine - now they routinely fire up all 6. At some point it will run out of capacity...)
Attempts to improve photosynthetic efficiency is not exactly novel, for example there is the IRRI C4 rice project[0] or various research on RuBisCO efficiency[1][2]. Speeding up the development process and trying to bring all the different improvements under one umbrella might be.

[0] http://photosynthome.irri.org/C4rice/index.php/component/con...
[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/1272
[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/eaat9077
The huge scientific effort to study Notre-Dame’s ashes
> My optimistic (maybe too deeply rose colored) vision would be for viewership of EME-locked content to drop off so far that the companies using it have to give up and reopen distribution.

They never had open distribution, they just had plug-ins.

All web browsers put together do not have enough market share of video views to make a material difference. Most major video services have less than 10% of views via personal computers at all, and could shift 80% of that to an application without much issue.
Replacing fossil fuels with renewables doesn't require a very large decrease in the standard of living. So we already have a technological solution for 80% or so of the problem. Steel, cement, and long distance flying seem to be tricky without releasing CO2, but we should probably only seriously worry about those once we're well on our way with the things that can be replaced without changing quality of life at all.
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Big O is always extremely relevant. - A lot of the typical algorithms in djikstra, merge sort etc. are not important to know by heart, but they represent important concepts to know to solve complex problems. Divide and Conquer and Greedy or topics that come up implicitly at least once a week, usually more often.
Can't you similarly say that category theory is just us abstracting previously known knowledge like we do with software?
No. This language isn't running on .NET. Interop with other libraries is accomplished via C function call conventions. This goes both ways in Beef.
Funny I ended up liking the idea of having multiple authors on a subject to swerve around my misunderstandings. To the point that I thought that a book with two authors (two columns layout) at once may be a nice idea.
It's not supposed to do the same thing. alt-enter closes vim:

* on a file it opens the file (in the same terminal if possible, depending on the system file opening)
* on a directory it does a cd to that directory and comes back to the terminal (if broot was launched with the br command)

I'd like Mac users to chime in and answer you now: I can't really test on mac.
At least in Portugal, prices on a supermarket can only be lowered during the day, never increased. The logic is: During a dynamic price increase, a customer may pick an item from the display at the low price, only then to be charged the higher price at the register; the store would be found lying on the displayed price, which is illegal.

This severely limits dynamic pricing.
They ran Skype into the ground by compromising on the quality of the end user-experience - just like they did with MSN Messenger - and the current desktop Skype client is an Electron app (at least this way Linux still gets supported...).

Skype was in prime position to be the best way to have free voice and video-calls between iOS and Android phones and the wider Internet (seeming as FaceTime is Apple-exclusive and Hangouts seems unpopular) - I don’t know what happened but WhatsApp ate Skype’s lunch and got bought by FB and the rest is history.

Skype on my iPhone X is just painful. I use it to make cheap PSTN calls when I’m abroad and simple things like switching to Speakerphone mode takes 2-3 seconds and involves opening the iOS audio output list (which has an animated opening for some reason) instead of every other app which has a single speaker button. This is but one example, of course.

They could have bought Slack, but they competed with MS Teams instead - but doing-so awfully because they still don’t have multi-tenant support in the client. Thing is - I can’t say that competing with Microsoft has made Slack any better (case-in-point: last month’s always-on WYSIWYG editor debacle).
That's such a reductive argument. I work in semiconductor manufacturing and trust me nobody cares about clock frequency.
.76*(.34+.11) = .342

That's greater than .26 (consoles), .25 (pcs).
Having used Miro and Realtime Board when I first saw this I thought they'd decided to change their name again
> Also, how does messing up a cc equate to a bad employee?

It wasn't the CC I was criticising. If you subscribe to the maxim that the point of an HR department is to shield the company from successful employment lawsuits then putting "dig up some dirt" on someone in writing anywhere where it is subject to discovery in the event of a lawsuit is flat out incompetent.
I have remapped capslock to be an additional ctrl so I hit C-z easily with my pinky + ring fingers.

C-a (like in screen) would be even better but as others have pointed out it masks going to the beginning of line which is very common.

C-z is very rarely needed. C-q/C-s would be good candidates also as I don't think I've ever needed flow control in this century nor the last one, for that matter.
If that’s so, it’s an even bigger USA-specific fact that was completely omitted from this analysis.
I like it! It's a bit too slow on my machine, but I really have too many files, I need to clean up some of the crap I have lying around.
This is the most Hacker News comment I've seen in a really long time

Good job, dude
I would assume because people who have been smoking for years still have the associated increased risk of lung cancer and it'll take years for the people who are purely vapers to start making a statistical difference
If the current solution is unstable and relatively far away from other solutions, you shouldn't necessarily expect random perturbations to lead to a different solution.
Auto-update allows app developers to add new features and fix bugs. And these are much more likely reasons for an update than removing a feature.
From a privacy perspective this is a problematic stance, though it is appreciated that you outline that it does this here.
http://archive.is/LjNKy
The difference is whether the user has explicitly asked for it. If I point my web browser at a url, I am instructing it to download and execute whatever it finds there. However, if the browser decides to download a codec on-demand, it is making an executive decision as to what code should run on the machine - and to select non-free code without user interaction is a violation of trust.

An analogous situation would be the non-free NVidia blob. Debian fully supports installing it, but it would be very much verboten to do so by default, automatically.
Australia’s Vast Wildfires Foretold in 2007 UN Climate Warning
imo, python won because the community does not condone monkey-patching and dark magic tricks. it's totally possible, yes, but it is frown up. i just realized how important language communities are, actually!

i, unlike GP, do not get a smile on my face when i read ruby code full of implicit tricks. even when i understand some of them, it is still annoying.

why don't people just write clear, explicit, maintainable code instead of trying to be clever. i am sure method_missing could be implemented in python using various tricks but nobody, afaik, is doing that.
Could also be due to the fact that Amazon might become a competitor in the future. Take the banking/finance sector, it might not expect competition from Microsoft, while Amazon could decide to enter the market, having a much more 'entrepreneurial' spirit.
Same for Cartography.
The "mob" you see is a figment of your imagination.

If it were real, why is Lovecraft still on library shelves? Lovecraft is sure to go first.

If it were real, can you point out any of them?
IIRC he also used "queer" to describe things as strange. I listened to some audiobooks of his works and it always threw me off.
Yeah, the burden of not exploiting their users really is a huge undertaking.
I like it and may use it. Needs an API and Zapier integration.
You might like the Barnes and Noble Nook 3. It's a terribly underpowered eink book reader, but Android apps and a launcher can be easily installed. I use it for Ankidroid. It runs Android 4.4 (API 19 I believe) but many apps still support that version.
The pressure on photosynthesis is likely pretty small because nutrients other than carbon dioxide are a limiting factor for almost all plants.
Interesting posters on the history of computers and evolution of computing
Perhaps Raku is an alternative for you with its Perl roots and its NativeCall support: https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall Also see this recent blog post for interfacing with C++ and Fortran from Raku: https://andrewshitov.com/2020/01/08/calling-cpp-and-fortran-...
How to install on CentOS?
I agree but there are many varieties that could meet and have met the criteria for public sales, except for current trends in appearance or taste.

It's really remarkable how canalized apple markets have become, when you're exposed to alternatives. The fads become somewhat self perpetuating because they shift context of perception (people judge based on what they know).

It's not so much currently popular apples are bad, just that there's lots more out there.

With apples too you have the interesting case of the cider market, hard and soft. You can kind of get a sense of the effects of fads because cider apples can be really different in appearance but otherwise meet other marketability criteria. You end up with different sets of apples, which speaks to what people like when appearance isn't an issue.

I acknowledge texture is an issue in eating vs drinking, and that cider apples are blended for their charactistics, but many are also varieties that used to be popular eating or cooking apples that drifted in popularity but are still used in cideries because they've stood the test of time and customers like the flavor.
Who's 'they'? I think mc has all the stuff you're talking about.
Nice to see overcoming bias post. Do people still read LW?
You can also probably extract everything from memory if the password manager is unlocked, I'd guess.
I followed the Fukushima disaster very closely when it was happening. And I remember that during the crucial hours, when emissions of radioactive material was highest, the wind was luckily going to the east, out onto the pacific ocean, with thousands of miles of buffer.
Given that, it seems to me that Fukushima could have gone much, much worse.

I have a pragmatic proposal: lets use nuclear power if it's competitive including insurance and including the long term cost of handling its waste. If it's not or if nobody can insure it, we should probably not.
Maybe! Just running my computer to game on raises the temperature in my office by about 3°F. My hunch is that a significant portion of that is from my monitor, as well.
But how do I, as a resident of Brazil, know that CT is blocked in Europe?
That's Dennard scaling, which indeed failed in the early 2000s. But Moore's law has been quite relevant in other ways, even in the post-Dennard scaling world - even if you discount multiple cores, I don't think "nobody cares about" increased memory/cache sizes, cheap GPU-like accelerators, specialized blocks for e.g. media decompression etc. etc.! If that sort of progress starts slowing down dramatically (and arguably it has in the past few years, especially if you take costs/economic feasibility into account and don't just look at the leading nodes) it's an even bigger change for the industry.
So on the one hand with nuclear, we're talking about one swimming pool's worth of waste since the beginning of the French nuclear programme. Currently stored safely enough, long term solution identified and implementation in progress.

You find this unacceptable.

On the other hand, we have renewables with no solution in sight (let alone implemented) for the intermittence problem (awaiting an hypothetical scientific breakthrough in batteries).
In practice, you rely on coal for the day-to-day base load. Coal, for only a year's worth of running a country's trains generates "700.000 tons of solid ash (usually stored in the open air), plus 1.000 tons of soot and fine particles, including tons / dozens of tons of arsenic, lead, thallium, mercury, even uranium and thorium".

You call this the reasonable option.

And in another comment, you even feel entitled to lecture the Belgians and French about their nuclear plants near the border that might hypothetically fail one day, when 7 of the 10 worst polluters in Europe are Germany's lignite plants (https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-lignite-plants-e...), with coal killing 23.300 people in Europe every year (https://endcoal.org/health/) right now, with certainty
Interesting article, but doesn't this come back to the age-old question of whether you can divorce a person from their art?

Isaac Asimov, Michael Jackson, Roman Polanski - can you enjoy their work knowing what you know about the creator?
Like old uTorrent? Riddled with security issues? You're better off with the latest version, or with security backports (these are generally FOSS apps, or vendor supported proprietary software). If an application removes features you wish to keep, and there's an interest in such in the community, a fork generally happens (with FOSS). For proprietary software, there's something like OldVersion.com or APK Mirror. Either way, when developers don't listen to their users, it is time to quit being a user.
But that a) is only happening because technology lowers costs, changing the economics of renewables so that it makes short-term, self-interest sense to install them, and b) alone it still doesn't solve the problem.
some of those Chrome extensions are already implemented inside chrome.

CSSViewer is essentially the inspect layout of the inspector. The extension just saves you from opening the inspector.

Clear Cache does exactly what the clear storage button in the inspector does. you can find it in Developer Tools -> Application -> Clear Storage. The extensions seem to be just a shortcut.
Normal not, but widespread and tolerated by society at large yes. Pinching, grabbing, hugging, making lascivious comments and cat calling had the same treatment as swearing, it was considered rude, but nothing more than that...
If I don't want cookies, "technical" or otherwise, I'll browse incognito mode or block them by some other means. I don't need a European bureaucrat to get involved. Thanks.
I fully agree.

The problem is: Even to well educated parents the summary "Everyone could be affected by life-long effects due to vaccination" has a drastically different meaning compared to an objective bystander that looks at the real numbers, and this leads to (seemingly irrational) decisions. Some even are mislead into feeding crusades against this "well known danger called vaccination".
There already exist plants adapted for optimal yields at lower CO2 levels. They are classified as C4 plants and hit optimal photosynthesis at about modern levels. These include corn and sugarcane, but only make up a small fraction of overall plant species (about 5%).

C3 plants hit optimal levels at higher concentrations, usually 1100-1300 ppm (90% of plants fit this category). See link below for more details:

https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/heres-looking-at-you...

Now I don't know how the mechanics work. I don't know if you could genetically engineer a C3 plant to work as well as a C4 plant. I reckon there are significant tradeoffs there that nature already factored for.
What humans consider optimal for agriculture and what is optimal in the wild can be different. And evolution is not a perfect optimizer, sometimes it has to maintain legacy structures because what it cannot do is huge refactorings, only incremental changes.

The article also mentions RuBisCO being partially synthesized from chloroplast DNA, which limits evolutionary speed.

Nature does evolve improvements (e.g. better rubisco in microorganisms, the C4 pathway in some higher plants) but other plants can't just download the updates from a central DNA package library.
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I was surprised by your affirmation, as I had the (apparently wrong) assumption that sea levels would increase by at least a few meter in the century.

However, the IPCC (UN group in charge of research for climate change) does predict an increase of ~0.2 to 0.5m (basically a foot) of the sea level in the next century.

Here is the source for interested people : https://archive.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq...
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> how would you showcase an experimental feature to the community?

How do other languages do it? Python has the PEP process for discussing design on paper, but I don’t know how they handle experimental implementations.
Remember when people believed that 90% of DNA is junk? Or that the human appendix is totally useless? Now we know better.

So when photosynthesis is "inefficient" after billions years of evolution, surely we would be more careful with the conclusions.

"Photosynthesis is only 1% efficient" sounds a bit like "we only use 10% of our brain" (according to some measurement).

> Photorespiration wastes little energy and instead enhances nitrate assimilation, the process that converts nitrate from the soil into protein, according to a new study.

> Most plants, contrary to popular belief, do not waste over 30% of their photosynthate in a futile cycle called photorespiration. Rather, the photorespiratory pathway generates additional malate in the chloroplast that empowers many energy-intensive chemical reactions, such as those involved in nitrate assimilation. Thus, the balance between carbon fixation and photorespiration determines the plant carbon–nitrogen balance and protein concentrations.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0191-0
And also, a decade before the Ruby community was the most inspiring community. One can really learn a lot from others, every day. It was like a hacker sanctuary while most programmers are still debating Java vs C++/C#.

Now the community is scattered into different communities - JavaScript, Go, Python, Rust, Scala, Elixir, etc. Those communities are still quite good, but none of them is as great as the previous Ruby community, or at least, gives me the same feeling IMHO.
Once you get used to two panes, it's hard to go back.

From ~1990 to now (yikes, 30 years!), I've used these:

- Amiga: Directory Opus (DOpus)

- MSDOS: Norton Commander (NC)

- Windows: Total Commander

- Linux: Midnight Commander (mc)

- MacOS: Tux commander

Looking back at old Directory Opus screenshots tickles the nostalgic bone. I miss the colourcoded buttons.

I wonder if Directory Opus was the first 2-split navigator, but probably not.
> The world is a giant ship with 8+ billion each with their own oar in the water. A vessel like that turns very slowly and with a danger on the horizon as complex and difficult to understand as climate change, we should not expect everyone to wake up overnight and be all-in on fixing the problem. But almost every trend shows that people are waking up, changing their habits, and shifting their priorities in the right direction.

We still subsidies fossil fuel extraction! When we stop doing that I'll think the ship is really turning. Other than that I think the bubble of people who care about this in increasing, but not having a huge impact on the direction we are actually moving.
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No, please keep your doomsday cult to yourself.
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Like IPv6 specified in the early 90s fully replaces Ipv4 with time.

Like reiserfs has become the standard Linux file system. Like btrfs is becoming the standard Linux file system (Redhat has announce to discontinue support)

Predictions are difficult, especially when they cover future developments...
> You're just focusing on the wrong metric.

I don't and you are posting links to outdated articles.
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