skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't this used to be a java plug-in?

It also showed a world map and where the sun was currently shining.

I only know it used to be one of the first results on googling "current time".
No one really cares about such a minor distinction. Perhaps you have some experience with these agencies but for the vast majority of people they're basically the same thing - especially for non-Americans (the Grauniad is English).

Deciding that the rest of the story is "highly doubtful" over that is your call but ffs there are pictures. No musician breaks their own utterly unique instrument to craft a fake story. Be real.

That it's apparently so difficult to precisely assign accountability for this damage is it's own issue, not a cause for suspicion of the story. Lol.
Beyond Facts: Divergent Thinking
Yahoo is that cool kid from the 5th grade,who ended up being on drugs and with a dead end job.Nope, not invited.
This is not a function of regular market economics, but rather the extremely monopolizing regulatory capture that Hydro One has in Ontario where they charge huge $$$ for distribution.

Hydro One has a zillion regular folks earning >$100K (see the Sunshine list), working-class retirees earning huge incomes for life after retirement.

A regular line manager in rural Ontario without a college degree and not a huge amount of responsibility can earn $80-100K, which is 3x the national average, in an area where cost of goods and housing is very cheap.

Hydro One exists to support the historical cabal of line managers and pensioners and to maximize their income. They will charge whatever they can force you to pay - since they are a monopoly, that will be a lot.

Electricity will never be cheap because those that have the power to control distribution will 'set prices' and take massive surpluses.

Government/Quasi-Government workers (natural gas distribution is similar to Hydro) have a privilege that few in the private sector have, which is job security, which is an extremely valuable benefit never really put into the calculation. The average person has to change careers or is put out every few years, not only is this structurally costly, but it means from age 45-65 it often means massive pay cuts or worse - no income.

Energy transmission is a big roadblock to the entire energy equation, it'd be amazing if somehow we could get around this. Imagine if we had high-efficiency hydrogen generators, and homes (or neighbourhoods) simply had to maintain them, abnegating the need for complex transmission. It would change market dynamics quite radically.
That’s nice. But how do we kill them all? Whatever happened to that experiment with using CRISPR to make them sterile?
DuckDuckGo is just a metacrawler. Depending on the search, it uses either Yandex or Bing.
Absolutely, the key phrase is "current usage and reserves". There will almost certainly be ways developed to stretch or augment or displace uranium as a nuclear fuel.

Thorium salt reactors look promising. But unfortunately there has been lack of political will to fund research and it's only recently that its being investigated seriously again. And this is a common story with virtually all the interesting nuclear technologies. Sounds great, but who's paying for the fundamental research?

My point is that people often compare nuclear and coal as if radioactive ore - which today does mean uranium - is some infinite resource, just because it isn't made of fossils.

The idea of "oh well, we'll just mine more as it gets economic to do so" isn't a sustainable solution to clean energy.
They made it a standard html/js front-end app that precisely mimicked the java applet some years ago, but they ditched that entire UX today.
Odd. It appears to show all of TX in central time. I thought the Western tip (El Paso, basically) was Mountain.

Edit: fixed now. Quick work for a Friday night!
I completely agree you provided a list of things Devs should know already. My point is that it's the exact same list of stuff that has shown up every single SEO sales pitch I have ever seen.
Yeah, that's the ideal pattern in C#. You have to be smart-ish about it, but writing low GC pressure code can be easier than you think. Keep your call stacks shallow, avoid certain language constructs (i.e. LINQ) or at least know when they really make sense for the cost (async).

IDK if this is true for earlier versions, but as of today C# has pretty clear rules: 16MB in desktop or 64MB in server (which type is used can be set via config) will trigger a full GC [1]. Note that less than that may trigger a lower level GC, but those are usually not the ones that are noticed. I'm guessing at least some of that is because of memory locality as well as the small sizes.

On the other hand, in a lot of the Unity related C# posts I see on forums/etc, passing structs around is considered the 'performant' way to do things to minimize GC pressure.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-col...
[2] https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote
The code generating this is un-minified and loaded from here:

https://time.gov/scripts/zzz__0fd3fed7f945928bf590af174cd541...

It's basically:

timeDotGov.data.realTimeDif =
timeDotGov.data.serverTime -
timeDotGov.data.responseTime;

with added corrections. Grep for

realTimeDif

to see all of it.
You can use memcpy to remove items from the middle of a memory segment. It's probably not a single memory segment either; I imagine it works more like a Golang slice.
I think the problem is the need for uninterrupted high power input to the Fischer Tropsch process in order to maximize the utilization factor. You could get this in theory from a massive dedicated battery that kicked in when clouds rolled over and reduced solar output. It's doubtful that the economics of that work out.

Another problem is getting an uninterrupted supply of H2 and CO to feed the process. None of the convenient sources for those are carbon neutral, and obtaining either in a carbon neutral way (i.e. renewable electricity powered electrolysis) adds significant additional inefficiencies.

> Synthetic diesel is its own energy storage medium. If the plant was powered at night by burning its own daytime products, and powered in the day by solar, it would still be carbon neutral.

Yes, but why would you power it at night with the syn diesel you created during the day? You'd end up with at best 25% of the syn diesel you started the night with, because the Fischer Tropsch process is only 50% efficient, and running a diesel generator is at best 50%.
I said a lot of things there, which part isn't true, that it would take me six hours to take public transport to some parts of Los Angeles from where I am?

With regards to the myth of car companies driving or forcing urban development in a place like Los Angeles (really, think about that for a moment), here's the most complete research on Los Angeles mass transport I have ever found:

https://media.metro.net/projects_studies/crenshaw/images/pre...

There are an array of interconnected competing interests that drive the evolution of a city or region. For example, good union jobs building highways, suburban home developments and driving buses (one train = one conductor; 100 buses = 100 union jobs), etc.

No, car companies are not that powerful. Los Angeles did this to itself over a very long period of time and for a number of reasons not having much to do with this fable of a car company promoted car culture. The simplest explanation is: It just happened.

This isn't unlike the internet, which just exploded at one point and it is what it is. If we had to design it from scratch today with the benefit of hindsight we would likely change quite a few things. Same with cities. You get what you get, unless someone early enough had enough vision or was naturally restricted in some way to take a more favorable path.

EDIT: I stand corrected. I just checked with Google Maps. There is NO way to take public transport of any kind. Well, at least Google can't solve the routing problem. I think there might be a way if I took something like three buses to get close to where I might be able to reach light rail. Plain and simple, Los Angeles didn't evolve to favor mass transportation.
Is thata dangerous byproduct? Or is the lithium isolated and of usable quality as feed stock for the battery industry?
I always thought "force of habit" was "forcive habit".
No, they haven't.

http://www.tucows.com/downloads/
The Thelio (desktop) cases are custom manufactured by them, and quite good.
So I used to be a Linux mint/ubuntu/fedora user (I distro hopped a bit), but I really like how homebrew on macs is per user account rather than system wide, and I can just delete the folder to reset it for the most part (minus running programs, some GUI casks, and shortcuts). AFAIK, apt-get and most if not all linux package managers only work system wide, and I can't install something just for a specific user. Maybe arch is different? Homebrew definitely has issues though, agreed.

Incidentally I ran all of those distros on a T430... which still works fine when I boot it up. Thinkpads are great linux machines, and just great easily repairable machines in general.
This checks out with my anecdata, though. When I’m out with my spouse the mosquitoes seem to prefer only me. I run hotter, sweat more and have painful allergic reactions to every bite. Kid got my genes here and has it even worse.
Can Journalism Be Saved?
As a power-user, I wonder if there is any reason to not do DIY PC building (for personal use) over buying from System76. It's not hard to figure out a good configuration online (or even just whatever System76 uses in their desktops?). Basic assembly itself isn't that hard (or time consuming), once you have all the parts.

And, I guess these days most people who would need a desktop at home with this configuration are potentially power users.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-526
This can really backfire if your superior is doing their job poorly. Sure, they will be happy to deligate tasks onto you that they are incapable of performing. But unless you make it known to their superiors that you are doing those tasks, you only end up with doing someone else's job but without their pay.
I remember transformers being one of the worst. Evey episode introduced new "characters"... Voltron was good, and then they needed a robot with like 50 cars that made up the big guy so there were more toys to sell.
If anyone from Microsoft happens to be reading this thread, please read the above comment, then re-read it. It's a spot-on description of the problems and solutions for Windows search.

Edit: and just to expand on a point the commenter made, the results would be more valuable if it prioritised in an order like this:

1) Something the user has pinned

2) Something the user has launched a bunch of times

3) The shortcut leads to an .exe that's likely to be the main program file

4) Anything else
I think you could succinctly define running as a motion similar to walking, except only one foot has contavt with the ground at the time.
I wonder what the deal with them refreshing every 10 minutes is... This is at the bottom:

setInterval(function() {

location.reload();

}, 600000);
Thanks. I’m in a situation where I might be doing this trip annually with a large amount of luggage so I wanted a local’s take.
In the end it's funny: it shows my location (a borough in London),but when I click on jobs,it shows positions in Nashville... According to Wikipedia, just 3 years ago there were still 500 people working there...
Unless something's changed, you appear to be correct (edit: as of just before 9pm eastern - https://i.imgur.com/dFrM24l.jpg)

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

In fact, considering it's from NIST, there's a stunning lack of precision in the map. The controversial Florida timezone split (2000 elections) isn't reflected here either, and the map itself is largely rounded without considering individual locales.

edit: fixed! Nice!
Demo at the 11m 56s mark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3xdv4UP9-U&t=11m56s
The WHO also announced 5-6 days average incubation with a mortality rate around 3%.
I know why this happens.

It happens because someone doesn't understand that search rankings vs. queries have to have a 'smooth' solution, and thinks they can tweak a few weightings here and there to get the results they think are 'correct' for the very specific cases they have in mind, without realising that this has a knock-on effect on the entire scoring space and you get odd singularities and stuff popping up as a result.

The people in question should not be touching anything even distantly related to a computer in any professional context.
Here's what the site looked like previously, a classic design: https://images.mix.com/production/b0/9f/b09f278d6474c4ac543b...
I prefer all measurements of mass converted to stones, and volume converted to the volume of a 1-stone stone from the nearest drystane wall, provided the stone is one-hand wide and high.
What’s funny is I’ve drank the Reddit koolaid in favor of body weight fitness, as the routine I do is the r/bodyweightfitness routine, with bordering mixed in for fun
I'm not this is really an alternative, at least a direct alternative, to Jest. Jest is much larger - but you get a LOT more functionality, so this isn't really surprising. You don't just get a test runner, you can a fully fledged testing environment.

I haven't found Jest to be a bottleneck at all, but all the other stuff (transpiling TS, rendering a DOM for React component tests, etc...). Jest supports all this out of the box, more or less, or with a few plugins - baretest doesn't. I guess you have to configure external libraries (jsdom, webpack, babel?) to do this with baretest. Now your tests are slow, like in Jest! Turns out the test runner isn't the bottleneck, but all the other stuff that happens before the actual execution.

Some real benchmarks would make this article much more convincing - and not just with a basic "sum" function, but various examples (some simple node tests, some API tests, some jsdom tests...)

I don't think baretest or minimalist libraries are bad, but I also don't think anyone using Jest could really consider this an alternative, unless your use case is very simple.
There are also stringent restrictions on the mechanical components from the governing body, UCI.

edit: wrong acronym
Tangentially related: IIRC, the demo disc version of one of the PS2 Metal Gear Solid games had a small texture sitting in VRAM that just contained the url http://konami.co.jp/xxx/

If you visited the url, it was just a hit counter. I found out about it on Sony's PS2 registered developer forum. Someone had put the disc through the PS2 "Performance Analyzer"[1] and had a peek at the VRAM. When I hit it site it was in the low hundreds. A few months later it was in the low thousands. A few months after that it was gone. konami.co.jp apparently isn't even a thing anymore.

[1]http://lukasz.dk/mirror/research-scea/research/pdfs/GDC2003_...
Evidently the tricks were what made it slow.

This happens all too often: once the code changes enough that the optimizer doesn't recognize the pattern anymore, it throws up its hands, and you're on your own. Some people call this optimizer roulette.

It's not just compilers, either. CPUs have their own peephole optimizers, and patterns they recognize, or don't, and it can easily make a 2x difference in your run time depending on if it cottons to what you're trying, or doesn't.
It's a lot better than before but still not 100% polished. E.g. the bottom left of the footer shows undefined #responseTime

https://i.imgur.com/703v1cC.jpg
Memcpy is certainly O(N). But yeah, if they implement it with multiple slices (e.g. a B tree) it could be fast.
You may like Cooking for Geeks, by Jeff Potter.I've read the original book and loved it. It includes the how and the why for classic and modern cuisine, each recipe has well measured ingredients (imperial AND metric) and also suggestions like "you could also try adding x, or replacing y, or doing z technique at the beginning".

There's a second edition with some more techniques added.
This is correct. Additionally, the Hopi Reservation, an enclave within the Navajo Nation, does not observe DST, hence the smaller shaded region.
My only guess is accounting for local clock drift.
Meanwhile ... the news on the Lieber story[0], which first appeared 5 weeks ago, has gone silent. Interesting coincidence. Of course, on Reddit it's been combined with Epstein. BTW, in case you run across it, here's what 'BSL-4' means.[1]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/800442646/acclaimed-harvard-s...

[1] https://consteril.com/biosafety-levels-difference/
I have an (Intel) System76 Thelio desktop with multiple Nvidia GPUs on my desk and and I feel differently about the Thelio case. I think it's nice, actually.

In particular, I like that I can undo a few screws and then lift the case.[a]

In terms of build quality, it's neither better nor worse than those of most other manufacturers.

[a] See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUfZO1llNXY
If anyone wants a taste of this show, this 1 minute clip about the arbitrary origins of He-Man’s Battle Cat is one of the funniest things I saw last year.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ponettplus/status/113087611982831...
> Dan's minimalist site (can't say I've ever waited for it to load)

He has an article[1] about speeding up his site, too, with the summary:

"I'm not sure what to think about all this. On the one hand, I'm happy that I was able to get a 25x-50x speedup on my site. On the other hand, I associate speedups of that magnitude with porting plain Ruby code to optimized C++, optimized C++ to a GPU, or GPU to quick-and-dirty exploratory ASIC. How is it possible that someone with zero knowledge of web development can get that kind of speedup by watching one presentation and then futzing around for 25 minutes? I was hoping to maybe find 100ms of slack, but it turns out there's not just 100ms, or even 1000ms, but 10000ms of slack in a Octopress setup. According to a study I've seen, going from 1000ms to 3000ms costs you 20% of your readers and 50% of your click-throughs. I haven't seen a study that looks at going from 400ms to 10900ms because the idea that a website would be that slow is so absurd that people don't even look into the possibility. But many websites are that slow!4"

[1] https://danluu.com/octopress-speedup/
Comparison of information rates across human communication
Local groups blocking solar panels shows how the climate fight will play out
If you don’t have access to cash or credit to take care of car repairs, the last thing you want is to be paying a car note on a car that you can’t afford to have fixed.

As far as four vs seven years. You’re hoping that you can figure something out in four years.
TIL the Navajo nation (in North East Arizona) recognizes daylight savings while the enclaved Hopi nation does not along with the rest of Arizona.
> I've been scouring the darker corners of the internet obsessively for every seemingly reputable bit of data under the assumption that virtually anything official out of China could not be trusted.

I do the same. If you can read Chinese, I strongly recommend you read Sina Weibo, a micro-blogging social media in China, or Toutiao. Read them quickly before posts are inevitably deleted by the censors. There are some truly harrowing stories of ordinary people being refused treatment and left to die at home.
Title should be “Toy commercials are being replaced by product placement and YouTube influencers”. Can’t stand clickbait titles and articles like this that keep stringing you along, expecting to get your answer, paragraph after paragraph, only to save the disappointing answer for the last little bit.
>treat running more like Formula 1 racing

There's the issue though isn't it?

There's no F1 at the Olympics.

So running can be changed to be all about tech, but then the Olympic Committee is gonna have a bit to say about things. They have to treat all sports fairly after all. Add to that the fact that they've already proved that nothing is sacred when they dumped wrestling. (Wrestling was, at least to my mind, one of the original sports even in antiquity. They had no problem at all jettisoning it.) And you end up in an environment where Track and Field has to be a bit careful about where we step. We already have, let's say, not the best reputation because of doping. We really didn't need any new headaches. (In all honesty though, I think the wrestling thing woke a lot of sports federations up. A lot of sports are being a bit more careful about things these days. So trying to avoid the attention of the Olympic Committee is definitely not just Track and Field.)
Speaking from memory as it's a little difficult to search for but there's no fully FOSS ac driver available for Linux which might be why the BSDs have none, Linux has open source ac drivers of course but they still require proprietary firmware blobs and the performance is terrible compared to the proprietary drivers (think 350Mb/s with OpenWrt compared to 800Mb/s on stock router firmware). Atheros released fully open blob free 802.11n drivers in 2008 with their ath9k driver, although no other manufacturer followed suit. I've heard that there may be licencing or patent restrictions preventing blob free ac drivers from being released but again it's a little difficult to try and verify this.
I believe pneumonia can be caused by a number of bacteria. These used to be very deadly before the advance of antibiotics, much worse than the flu or cold.
If you're part of a community that expects newbies to adhere to rules that aren't published or articulated... where's the blame really lie? I have social handicaps, I could join your group and never realize that I upset people by failing to adhere to unwritten rules (its the story of my life, really)...

I can't really tell when the "unwritten rules" are unwritten so that they may apply to some but not others, and when they're unwritten because everybody actually did agree they're good ideas, but prefers not to share that revelation.
mobile is the tire fire that keeps on giving
Won't better shoes make it easier for non profoessionals to pick it up and also have fewer injuries?
Reasons?
I would think it's because Xcode uses the implementation of SwiftUI present in the OS to render the preview, which is only present in Catalina and not in Mojave. I presume they didn't think it worth the effort to re-implement SwiftUI rendering within Xcode itself just to support the older OS.
3.6 is ordered as well. All other versions are about to be EOL soon.
Would you expect it to do that if somebody wrote the following?

$id = 12835151;
$arr[$id] = Get_thing_with_id( $id );
No. Ddg gets most of its index from bing.
I was disappointed that the chosen games were ones that we don't have rules to play them.

The Royal Game of Ur is an ancient game where we actually have the rules. It's easy to make a board for it, and it plays great. My recommendation is to to play it with 4 coins or other 2 sided randomizers instead of a 4 sided die, because I find a normal curve more satisfying than flat probability.
Maybe a silly question, but how can they reliably detect and display the error between my system time and the actual time? I would think there'd be some latency introduced while the page is being loaded/drawn, and by the JavaScript code that's displaying/changing the time, among others.
This is a great article, but I’ve come to believe that HN commenters are utterly incapable of appreciating how absolutely essential journalism is, and in fact how many great journalists there still are writing today. When I read the kind of things people here tend to say about “the media”, I can’t identify with it at all. Good journalists are the conscience of our nation, and have been been stepping up to the job admirably in recent years, when the nation has lost its ethical center.
I'm shocked that tripod is apparently still around.