skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, article corresponds to unicorn-rainbow-coin-rebel style of most hackernoon content very well.
He says nothing about success, but about personal disappointment with the product. Why would you judge that against other people's experiences?
Seattle is below Paris in latitude. Plenty of sunlight. That is definitely not the problem in terms of energy production.

You have a point about the longevity of roofing materials though. You might want to use longer lived/higher quality roofing materials next time your have your roof renovated, and combine with solar then. Almost anything but asphalt shingles should do: epdm rubber, metal, tiles, slate, ...
$100 is too cheap. The whole point of big 4 consulting is to show up in suits, analyze the context and recommend a decision which was already pre-determined by the CEO. Except that now the decision carries more weight because it was made by a team of highly educated independent external consultants which charged $X,000,000.
They asked customers, and developed based on feedback from engineers, PMs, etc. As someone who works in an industry where people are vocal about what we should be doing, what people do and what people say they do are two different things. That, and products are different now. Software releases are daily if not more often, and to keep up with that sort of pace, you need data quicker than you can get in and analyze hundreds of people.

There must be a middle ground though. It can't be necessary for me to share my location data with an app for analytics, nor should it be necessary for me to provide a timestamped personally identifiavle breadcrumb trail, just so a site can know how i navigated.
For me, a chunk of text would go missing because it interprets fast typing as double, triple, quadruple tapping. Which means the text is selected and then promptly overwritten. The solution is to be deliberate about typing slowly on the screen keyboard.
https://www.howtogeek.com/441872/how-to-use-text-editing-ges...
I think majority of the deaths relating to Spanish flu were actually from secondary infections (bacterial pneumonia) rather than the virus itself
It's been a while. You can do real time sequencing now. E.g., here is a sequencing demo happening in a coffee shop in Africa. https://twitter.com/virology_chitra/status/12200656783272550... The device connected to the laptop via USB is the sequencer.
Show HN: There are 100s of similar Monitor Arms so I built this
Living near major roads linked to risk of alzheimer
> So how then do you know that Spain will veto a Scottish application to rejoin?

It is what I suspect after living in Spain as an Expat near Gibraltar for 3-4 years. I wasn't aware the official position has changed, however the Spanish Politics is all over the place especially after Vox (a Nationalist / Anti-Immigration party) did quite well in Andalusia.

> Have Spain produced a more up to date statement changing their position?

I think it is irrelevant and I qualified why in my previous post.

> If not, then are you not just spreading FUD?

It is simply a political opinion based on what I have observed after previously living there.

> edit: Also, Johnson shutting down the possibility of a second independence referendum is not the be all and end all: the Scottish government could pass legislation for one without a section 30, which would likely be challenged in court by the UK government. If the supreme court upholds the right for Scots to vote in a referendum, then it goes ahead.

Boris Johnson is going curtain the Supreme Courts interference with how the Commons work so I wouldn't count on that. If one is to believe David Starkey (who is a historian) he believes that the Supreme court shouldn't exist and is something invented by Tony Blair. Dominic Cummings is doing a shake up of the Civil Service. So I wouldn't count on any of that being relevant for too much longer.
This is somewhat misleading - it appears to be offsetting energy exported when there's particularly good conditions for renewables against times when there's not. In reality they are still both burning some fossil fuels and importing energy from countries that are burning fossil fuels. What really should matter is the carbon intensity of both electricity production and consumption.

In terms of hard numbers for Scotland, their carbon intensity is 59 gCO2/KWh (https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk/), which is actually pretty great. You can compare against other countries here - https://www.electricitymap.org. Here's the current breakdown of their electricity production:

Wind: 36.5%

Nuclear: 31.1%

Hydro: 16.7%

Gas: 13.5%

Biomass: 1.4%

So right now they are 52.2% renewable energy. Presuming they are running renewables to capacity, this low carbon intensity figure is actually being kept low due to the fact they are sourcing a third of their load from nuclear. Should the Scottish government phase out nuclear as they are currently planning (https://www.gov.scot/policies/nuclear-energy/), then we can expect this carbon intensity to rise as gas is used to pick up the base load when conditions for renewables aren't favourable.
They aren't always cheaper. I often (but not always) find hardware cheaper elsewhere - and I don't have to worry do much about counterfeits/refurbs with other suppliers.

Run your next purchasing decision through Google shopping. You may be surprised.
I dunno, I kinda like typing but at the same time it's not fast enough sometimes.

Is there any research being done into more efficient typing? I mean beyond different keyboard layouts (I've never tried dvorak and co) and keyboards (I like my wireless mac keyboard well enough).
>By 1994 almost all graphic designers and illustrators were using computers for work.

The iPad is a great device but, it isn't essential to anything or anyone. If tomorrow there where no iPads anymore, we would all just get on with our lives.
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Wirth's Law
Golang level is a tad below functional style or business rules.
It's supposed to be erased, not put in a pile of “things to write over at a later date”.
Journey of phosphorus from stellar nurseries to solar system comets traced
I wasn't really responding directly to the blog, more the title and the discussion I expected it to bring. Doing that was probably not the best idea in hindsight, I just see people judging products like the iPad as if their success relies specifically on the demographic they exist in
It's fully open-source. Licensed under Apache-2.

Github - https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp
> The only way for a company to not care about churn is if they literally don’t care about the quality of their product or services.

Quality of product does not appear on quaterly result and is not taken into account when deciding bonuses. Obviously companies don't care about it.

The only times I have seen companies care about churn is when :

- constant departures started impacting customers delivery scheduldes leading to financial penalties

- costs of hiring started to grate.
This is so much worse as of ios13 - which was somehow meant to make text selection better, but for me made it so much less consistent.

I really feel like this should be a solvable problem though. It can’t be that complicated to select text reliably.
Neural atlas uncovers camouflage tactic of squid
While I agree this is very clearly an ad, I do very much appreciate the technical parts, very well written
I guess there is not much to analyze. Both the RNA sequence is given and their translation into amino-acids. The capital letters give the amino-acids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid The lower case letter describe the RNA sequence. Sequences of three RNA base pairs are translated to one amino-acid. A table giving the standard decoding, can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code#RNA_codon_table

The next step is taking the amino-acids sequence and determine the protein structure. amino-acids chains fold together in a complex structure, which determine their function. Determining how this folding happens is a very complex problem. If you want to get some more idea about it, I suggest you have a look at https://fold.it/
A number of commentators have pointed out that the 7% deficit figure doesn't make an awful lot of sense as it ignores a lot of factors regarding the structure of the UK economy that wouldn't necessarily be in place for an independent Scotland - so comparing the GERS 7% figure with a 3% figure for an actual independent country in the EU isn't comparing like with like. Makes good headlines though.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/08/21/the-gers-data...

Edit: Article from the same source about GERS:

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/08/21/whatever-gers...
Single dose of psilocybin improves anxiety, depression
I'm can't watch the video right now, but I was wondering if that amount includes drinks. Water is heavy.
Kudos to the scientists who developed this so fast. I rember it took four YEARS to identify the HIV virus and another two years for a test.
You run collectstatic to get all of your static assets in one folder, use gunicorn (python package, there are other options as well such as uwsgi) to serve your wsgi server, and have nginx in front of gunicorn to intercept anything with /static/* to pull from your static assets folder. This is all 3 or 4 lines of config in nginx.

Your first try might take a couple of hours to get right. If you want HTTPS (you should) Caddy might be a better route than nginx. It's certainly easier.
The difference I've heard mentioned is that current Chinese civilization has much more in common with the ancient Chinese living in the same area than Italy has with the Roman empire, or even than Greece has with Ancient Greek civilizations.

The examples I heard were that Ancient Chinese poetry is still understandable and taught to Chinese school-children, that Chinese cuisine in most areas has not changed dramatically, and that many Chinese religious traditions are practiced very similarly. Even the Mongol invasion of China has apparently had more of an effect of making the Mongols adopt Chinese customs than the other way around.

Please note that I may well have fallen for state propaganda on any or all of the above. I am not claiming to know any of these from direct scholarship.
Rooftop solar doesn't work in winter in climates cold enough that people have heating rather than air conditioning. Like, at all. Not only is the peak heating demand in places like Scotland after dark when solar outputs zero watts every time, the winter capacity factor is so low that there isn't enough power produced to even be worth storing.
For me I would think of the "shape of code" as an abstract measure of complexity [0]. More text might correlate with more complex logic. This is a measure in a language which manipulates state / control flow.

I'm not sure what happens in a functional language. Maybe you could just think about numbers of functions. In Haskell sometimes it helps to write things in a pointfree way and you can spot some more general function to replace some noise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
I bought a x230 last year as my non-gaming computer, and I really like it. I bought it for 117€, it was pretty beaten up. The display is the cheap TN panel, has a light spot in the center, and the keyboard doesn't match my locale. However, it has the top-level i5. (i5-3380M, I think). I also bought a docking station at a bargain.

This year, I bought a new IPS display, a matching keyboard and a new screen bezel for it. I'll hopefully be able to use it for some more years - I really love the form factor.
Can new tech protect us from space radiation?
Emerging technologies punted as solutions for Africa's problems
> How would anyone ever figure out how to split-screen multitask on the iPad if they didn’t already know how to do it?

I actually recently got my first personal iOS (okay, iPadOS) device and this is how I feel about many of the UI features. Touching some side of the screen triggers this or that surprising feature and I'm struggling to undo what I did to get back to the business. Maybe what's needed is good old RTFM, but having heard how easy Apple device are to supposed to be to use, it's kind of unexpected that so much of this stuff is not that discoverable.
Bernie Sanders and His Internet Army
> We have high gas taxes and drive more miles than most countries on the planet - where is that money going?

A. You don't have high gas taxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#/media/File%3AFuel_ta...

B. You build a lot of roads.
Curiosity rover after 7 years on Mars
Does anyone know if there is a copy of WorldWideWeb floating around out there somewhere? Or was it exclusive to TBL's computer?
The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)
Perry Rhodan
If you click through and read the article, it has nothing to do with the Berlin Wall.
Multitasking? Huh?

You’re missing the iPad business model. You’re not allowed to do anything (except maybe wash the dishes or get dressed) when the iPad is showing an ad that gets you free something.

True multitasking would break the business model of thousands of sites.
Personality predicts seeing others as sex objects
Seems like someone's never left a first-world country before...
Indeed, we do talk more about good contracts with the Turtle alphabet than we do about global state. But it's a small part of the conversation.

The `World` (which is based on the concept from Racket's Universe library) does indeed get broken down into smaller objects. We talk about how to do that too. The idea is to lead this naturally into more OO stuff next semester, but we talk for a while about how we can use dictionaries to structure data at least.
What I didn’t appreciate before having kids was the sky high valuation you put on a little peace and quiet, especially while travelling.

Kid not screaming for X hours on a flight is a reason to buy and iPad for that trip alone.

Plus you can easily justify it to yourself as ‘educational’.
What's your point? If Bitmain decided to 'overturn' Bitcoin all their gear would become worthless.
Lots of fun with those sensors. Some years ago, I think while I was migrating from an older laptop to a new one, the new one would randomly to to sleep. It took me a while to figure out why: Being really short on available desk space, I had stacked the new machine (lid open) atop the old one (lid closed). Of course that tricked the lid sensors into thinking the lid was down. I could kick myself …
High indentation has always been a good heuristic for high complexity.

More indentation equals more mental context required.

But although these shorter, less-indented functions are inherently easier to understand, they're not necessarily freer of bugs...
That's because it's a consumption device, despite the heroic efforts of some people to prove otherwise.

If I want to reply to an email I'll walk upstairs to my real computer rather than attempt to do it on our iPad.

As Joey Hess said[1] "If it doesn't have a keyboard, I feel that my thoughts are being forced out through a straw."

[1] https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/
Isn’t it more likely that they are asleep than dead?
The Matthew Principle
Testing, Observing, and Understanding
Always more people, always more asphalt, always more buildings. When will this stop.
UN aviation agency blocks critics of Taiwan policy on Twitter
I would love to see some gifted people using this info to further improve tools like nteract[0].

It already eases a lot of pain you may have in comparison when setting up jupyter notebook without the knowledge of a software developer.

[0]: https://nteract.io/
I would stress that this is not really an appropriate venue for this sort of political argument – it's fine to talk about constitutional or political matters where the intersect with the story in question, but a shallow "lol those guys are so dumb" is probably not that much of a useful contribution at this point.
> You can have several virtual addresses mapped to the same physical address.

Ah yes, of course. Is this something that actually happens (e.g. because of processes sharing memory, OS hands out different virtual addresses pointing to the same physical memory) or theoretical in nature?
How can this be when you can multitask on a computer anyway
Do you have a script or any automated way to save a backup regularly?
everybody wants to be an unicorn apparently, not many people wanting to be a 'small startup' when you can just coast at FAANG.
Right but it usually isn't really between "open space" and "everyone gets their private office", but between "open space" vs "offices of few people in each, usually working on same stuff"
Cool idea love the simple UI.

Couple of notes:

- The date picker is not super keyboard friendly, let me type to go faster than a select.

- You can save the event on some basic server and generate a uuid to share/edit them, that way i can link to my countdown.
This matches my experiences, and I'm certainly no Distinguished Engineer, but as a PE I would still have relatively few options to work at a similar level and compensation if I was looking. Thankfully I'm quite happy where I am.
Does anyone know of an easy way to download the nucleotide sequences for the entire set of pneumonia / coronavirus viruses? I've looked at the FTP mirror but can't connect it with the nucleotide locus I find on the site itself.

I work in language modeling and want to see about using those unsupervised / self-supervised methods for genome annotation / phylogenetic tree construction.

Even if it's more of a curiousity than a useful tool I have experience with small datasets, most recently focused on character level language modeling on ~90MB of training data, so if I can get (90MB / (29 kilobases * 2 bits per base) =) approximately 12,000 related samples I should be able to at least make a dataset out of it.
I don't understand why that would make a fixed length of road be so much more expensive, unless commute time for blue collar workers is compensated better than lawyers. Shipping a truckload of asphalt plus the required machinery can't be that expensive.
The mean is misleading.
The median is misleading.
The mode is misleading.
Any reduction of a range of data to a single representative datum is misleading.

However, the fight back against providing something a bit more meaningful than a single value can sometimes be quite strong.

I try hard to provide software estimates as probability distributions, but when someone sees a line with a probability peak somewhere around two days (could be really simple), and then a wide hump somewhere around two weeks (if it's not simple, it will mean a significant rewrite), with a very low line between them and then a long, long tail off to several months, it is not well-received.

I can see their point; they're trying to plan things, and the whole system is set up to work with single numbers. If everyone provided probability graphs for their estimates, and we had a tool that could then combine them and deliver the net probability graph of the combined pieces, I expect they'd be a lot more amenable.
My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec
Are you eating your own dog food?
Lots of white supremacism here.
The iPad could have been a new Dynabook. Alan Kay was actually fairly impressed with it when it came out. Unfortunately I agree with Gruber, it has really failed to live up to expectations. Missing a hardware keyboard is quite a big deal I think.
Also, an option to penalize excessively huge drives would be nice too. For the same price per GB I'd rather buy 2 8TB drives than 1 16TB.
Here is the timeline of sequencing costs:

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequen...

The human genome is 3 Gbp, which is 100,000 times the size of the coronavirus at 30 kbp.
There's no concept of lanes in India. Vehicle volume and variety are so huge that it kind of makes sense to have all the vehicles move tightly packed.

Comparatively, it's pretty chaotic here.
I live in the state of Colorado where there are a thousand interesting and fun places to drive to. Ditto when I lived in California. Life is too short to be sanctimonious. P.S. I have a vehicle that gets almost 50 mpg, nearly triple the popular hulking SUVs here.
It depends on the company and their needs. In the majority of cases, I would say this is a positive thing for your resume.

If their goal is to hire someone for a specific position and they hope that person stays in that same role long term, maybe not so much. Companies are generally happy to just have you stick around, though - if you are moving within the company, you should in theory still be providing value to the company, and potentially even more value, if the moves are upwards.
I'm using deja-dup https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup
This is a very good take on the subject. I love the iPad, I use it all the time. It's an unbelievably good piece of hardware with a number of really good software applications. It is a surprisingly good thinking and note-taking tool, it's the best tool (period) for reading datasheets (or any large PDF documents), it is a great music workstation if you connect a MIDI keyboard and/or an external USB audio interface. But it is so sadly limited by the user interface and artificial restrictions that Apple places on the OS.

The worst thing is that the forced over-simplification of the UI features did not make it easier to use for beginners. I can see many people (including myself) struggling. So we have been forced into a "compromise" with all the downside, but none of the upside.

Given how great the hardware is (really, I think this is under-appreciated), I really hope Apple can get out of that thinking rut.

I also think that the slow iPad sales are directly connected to the mediocre OS software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
"Not even wrong" describes an argument or explanation that purports to be scientific but is based on invalid reasoning or speculative premises that can neither be proven correct nor falsified and thus cannot be discussed in a rigorous and scientific sense.

Bitcoin is money. It's as simple as that.
Much of your comment could be summarised as “it’s no worse than prior tools”. That doesn’t invalidate the authors points though: just because it’s better than previous tools, which have the same or worse problems, doesn’t mean notebooks don’t have problems that should perhaps be tackled or talked about. That it’s an improvement over what existed before doesn’t mean you can’t be critical about the flaws it still has and a study like this (looking at real people) and discussion like we’re having here is a necessary start to finding out how to improve on this.
I feel like with errors we're always in a state of sin because the way errors create a combinational explosion of code paths.

The only thing I have to say is I have a distaste for throwing exceptions across API boundaries.