skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What reasonable assumptions? I'm not saying you are wrong, but the energy problem is a quantitive problem. There are many energy sources that are great in certain circumstances and certain regions, but do things actually add up when we create a plan? Without plans and numbers we are stuck with hypothetical ideas that feel kinda right, but you can't solve quantitive problems this way.

One good example worked out for Britain is:
https://www.withouthotair.com/c27/page_203.shtml

This will of course differ from country to country.
I fully agree. I wrote my elements compilers this way. Slowly from a tokenizer, parser up to .net backend, Java backend. Bit by bit. The only way to learn is by doing.

I'd even go as far as saying the literature on the subject is overrated or out of date.

And not everything is set in stone. Not all compilers have a single symbol table. Sometimes it makes sense to have a type/global table and local table, and check the current class scope on the fly. Sometimes not. It doesn't really.

Abstraction doesn't make sense until you actually have multiple implementations. And you might have rewritten it four times by then.

My advice like above. Just start writing
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This article could be titled "Will people less smart than me shut the fuck up already? Part N of Infinity" I haven't been a fan of previous ones and this is no different.

People will always be wrong. And it's easy to say it's because they're not thinking about something clearly enough, because very often they aren't. I'm sure it's cathartic to complain about them on the internet, but it won't change anything. So either ignore them or help them.

Having productive conversations rather than just satisfying the human urges around disagreement is a life skill. Understanding how to identify when conversation is destined to go nowhere and exit it effectively is a life skill. This article could have chosen how to build and exercise those skills in the face of this kind of wrongness. But it didn't and neither have most the comments. It chose to pontificate on a root cause.

It doesn't do anyone a service by writing hypothetical stories about how and why every person wrong in a particular way came to be wrong. Yes, it's 100% correct that those assessments could be useful in finding a way to conversationally bride the gap, but in practice they're just used to make someone feel superior to the other person in addition to being right. It's a first step down the path that ends in political memes of the form "$OTHER_PARTY only believes in $BAD_IDEA because $INSULTING_BULLSHIT."
Amazing work on HFD! There is a lot happening in the space of mass-customization where I feel this fits right in!

We have a platform for automated sheet metal production and quoting. At the moment we only take completed 2D/3D technical drawings as an input although there is definitely a market for ordering parametric products too.

If you ever want to discuss the possibilities for HFD in the sheet metal industry let me know!
SEC settles with two suspects in EDGAR hacking case
pretty cool. I'm using a similar setup that allows a real-time preview of every change by means of the `entr`[1] command and gets triggered by saving the markdown.

ls ./presentation.md |entr -c bash -c "pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex --toc -N presentation.md -t beamer -o presentation.pdf; killall -HUP mupdf"

this would reload the pipeline and update the content of the pdf output. easy as 1-2-3 (no Makefile though which would be another step).

[1] https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-entr/
That’s 40-60k before taxes. I realize that taxes I’m the IS are much lower, but do you have any idea on a rough percentage?
I'm of the opinion no one should be writing new IDEs anymore for languages and should instead be writing good language servers for the language server protocol (and it's debugging friends). The duplication of effort for each IDE + language pair is just too large.
The "a 60 years old programming language" thing is such an odd opening given that you could also say that anything running C is "technology from the 1970s" using the same logic. It's a shame that following that statement, a significant chunk of the article seems to be spent countering the idea that it's and old, uncool language.

I wish more words had been given to why FL tried and failed to get something newer off the ground while MA succeeded. While the legacy system might work just fine, extending its lifetime might just be kicking the can further down the line, increasing maintenance costs and making transition an even riskier change along the way.
I didn’t mean to compare specifically to PS4. I was just clarifying that Dreams is a PS4 game.

The comparison is more about the framework usability vs the quality of the end product.

I’m wondering if Godot is maybe targeting similar audiences as Dreams or if Godot is targeting a more serious developer concerned about things like performance
Show HN: Nocode platform DronaHQ launches custom UI/UX development tool
Putin Makes Painful Climbdown as He Sues for Peace in Oil War
Citing BGP hijacks and hack attacks, feds want China Telecom out of the US
Maybe this one [1] help you enable Xcode 11.4?

[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive
Why don’t they just walk out?
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Chernobyl is probably the most damaging thing to come out of the Soviet Union long-term. The design of Chernobyl was crazy. I dug fairly deep into the many, many issues the reactor had when that HBO mini series aired, if anything it only made me massively more confident in our modern designs.

Chernobyl's design was deeply flawed and they knew it yet did nothing, not even tell the people operating the reactor. Then it took these operators doing everything wrong, including consciously putting the reactor in an unstable state (removing nearly all control rods way beyond regulation) and keep pushing the reactor for absolutely no rational reason to create the explosion.

And even then, had the reactor had a proper concrete enclosure like western reactors do, the fallout of the explosion would probably have been severely dimnished and mostly contained on-premise. It still would've been the worst catastrophe in the history of nuclear power generation but only a fraction of what we've had to deal with. It would've been Fukushima-like, probably (i.e. pretty damn bad, but not apocalyptic).
DOJ says to 'expect action' next week on social distancing regulation
In the US you would pay roughly 35% to 40% in taxes. However (in general), expenses incurred in the course of your business would not be taxable.

For example, if you earned $150,000 as a contractor, but you incurred $30,000 in expenses then you would have $120,000 in potentially taxable income.

The tax code is very, very complex, though, and there isn't a simple answer to this question. There are a vast array of factors that would shift how much you pay in tax up or down, and this complexity is heavily exploited by lots of folks.
Can you refer to figures and have the name rendered? For instance, a piece of text referring to a figure and the figure’s label will both get rendered to “Figure 2.8” regardless of paragraph edits and figures inserted or delete before it?
>But recently I saw that a lot of music I owned was missing from both services.

It's not just that, it's also that apple "transparently" changes the version of the music that you "bought". I had a version of a musical album with a particular song in it. When my ipod died and I re-downloaded that album on my new computer, I found that they had helpfully "upgraded" it to the newer release (without the song I wanted on it). And there's no easy way for me to get it back unless I find a physical copy somewhere and buy it again.
Also the Makefile. I still cannot write customized Makefile for my side project now
> Heck, with the advent of Go you now have another great higher level language that consistently outperforms Java/Scala

Citation needed? Java may not beat C++ in most use cases, but if you need a garbage collected language, it's likely the fastest you're going to find. But you get high memory usage in return.
Funny thing is, the real settings app in windows is still more or less the same as xp and still just two clicks away. I think they just put the new fake settings app in there to fool people.
> Even a Commodore 64 could simulate our universe given enough time and memory

Given enough energy, we ourself could snap a universe into existence as well by clapping our hands?
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I think if you implicitly define "top-notch garbage collection" as "never requires any tweaking ever in any performance profile" you've limited your "top-notch garbage collection" down to the empty set. There aren't even any "manual" memory management techniques that can stand up to that definition, honestly. Even in "manual memory management" languages there are situations where you end up having to say "just give me a big slab of memory and walk away, please" (arena management, etc.).

(Not a defense of Go's GC, necessarily. I'm not sure I'd call it "top-notch". A lot of its advantage over Java was that it got to look at Java and make different decisions, and by having a lot more values in the language with fewer references, part of the reason it tends to do a lot better than Java in terms of memory usage is just that it gave itself an easier memory management problem in the first place. Java GCs are frightfully good, yes, but to some extent they are that good because they have to be. Java at the very, very beginning was not designed for the sort of usage it has today (it was very originally a set-top box language, not a Big Iron language), so the language does some things that stress its GC. Go's doesn't have to be that intricate to be still quite good, so it isn't. And note difference between "quite good" and "top notch".)
> Scott Adams... a top political analyst

I can’t help it, I LOLed.
> Are multiple used smaller drives really more cost effective than fewer new larger drives once you take into account cost of power, HBA, backplane and lifetime of used drives?

Resilver times for drive replacement is generally much faster for smaller drives.
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I guess it's relevant.

Here is a great set of videos from "Low Level Javascript" channel explaining how to write parser combinators from scratch.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQLRhw5Ah0&list=PLP29wDx6Qm...
A localized problem which is still nowhere close to the worldwide problem of mercury levels in fish attributed to fossil burning and coal plants.
150/hr sums up to 200k/year if you work 30 hours a week for 11 months.
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Ok I was expecting some kind of LinkedIn/Facebook style "this delete my account button doesn't actually delete my account" bullshittery.

Your explanation sounds like their process is slightly less intuitive than it could be.

I'm not overly impressed that they auto-increase business licenses if a "new" computer is detected, but their response to fix the issue was prompt, so I'm generally willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
It's estimated that the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant will be uninhabitable for 20,000 years.

The Fukushima area (especially the sea surrounding it) suffers a similar fate.

Once the Bikini Atoll containment fails within the next decade or so due to neglect, it will be uninhabitable for thousands of years as well.

The world is awash in secret-but-not-really nuclear dumps with failing containment systems built too close to groundwater sources, which cannot be fixed due to the radiation hazard from the failed (due to neglect, improper design, and seismic activity) containment.
Clean Water = Healthy World
For me personally, my slides improved significantly when I started using Latex. Imo Latex forces you to give clean, concise presentations. If there is content that takes a lot of fiddling, your presentation is probably overloaded with things that won't reach the audience anyway.
I also remain a keen member of filesharing communities because I want to actually own my music and films, and I know it could disappear from streaming sites.

But another advantage of having my own collection is that it lets me enjoy all this media at my country cottage, where the only internet access is 4G that gets throttled to hell after just a few gigabytes per month. I can torrent Blu-ray images in the city with my fiber connection, and then keep a backup hard drive at my country home. That has proven a lifesaver during this long virus lockdown when I am stuck in the countryside and can’t travel back and forth.
Usually the idea goes 50-50 split between founders. Unless the guy with the idea has an upper hand in terms of traction or mvp built.
> I want to guarantee to my users that my software will always remain free [...]

I always found this argument for GPL a little uncomfortable because of what it implies... let's be more precise: the existing code you publish whether using GPL or BSD will always remain free (it is irrevocably free); copyleft makes a distinction for freedom of derivatives i.e GPL forces people to make all future code free as well, this is about enforcing future investment not remaining free.

To be clear I'm not dogmatic about either, I think both copyleft and permissive licenses have their place - it's simply subjective - some software feels more suited to GPL and others more suited to BSD.
I never claimed that they support custom domain. Thanks for the down vote.
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Hello, I'm desperately searching the internet for a short story I once found lurking through the comment section but as I changed PC there is no way for me to find it anymore.

However, the story is a short sci-fi end of the world - kinda like Asimov - story.
Specifically it's about two scientists who wait for a massiv star to rise as they calculated that it's light would reach earth on that day. In the end the light emitted by the star is so strong that the whole planet dies but the two scientist manage to survive just two more days in the cellar before they realize that there was no way to survive anymore.
As GP just said, this posting is probably not intended to be taken up by a US person. There are many markets around the world where that's a very good salary.
Another way to look at it is Musk has been right about engineering/manufacturing goals but has consistently missed on AI goals.
Have you tried this [1] to enable XCode?

[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive
Same on Linux, unless the software has some crazy build system, at which point you probably won't and that's exactly OP's point.
please help :.)
Webflow. But more like 1000 hours. The first low-abstract, clean code generator.
At least in Europe, SEPA payments are visible abroad the next day (at least according to my experience from transferring to Germany and London from Finland), so that's not too slow.
dotnet does this, caches compiled assemblies then also tunes them. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-is-just-in-time-jit-compi...
>And please, stop abusing the term "freedom".

GPL uses freedom correctly, it's just not freedom to the programmer, but to the end user. No dishonesty, no misleading and no abuse.
I don't know... the only time I tried to use Transferwise was to make a transfer to Haiti. Their website claims they support it, they allowed for the transfer to be initiated - but in the end it failed for some unknown opaque reason.

I'm sure it works for most large countries, but the reality is that they sell the idea that they can transfer anywhere, list almost every country to give the illusion of ubiquity, but haven't actually tested transfers to all those countries.
I did this too, although the makefile presented in the article is much cleaner than mine was. Definitely recommend XeLaTeX. You're not going to get very far without unicode. I had to drop down to LaTeX often to control formatting, but Pandoc helpfully lets you do that.
"popular" is a stretch, it's what a few banks are trying to get people to use because they couldn't get NFC working on apple devices with their apps. Until recently they have been giving money away like crazy to get people to use it.

It requires extra hardware at the cash register (if using bluetooth) or modification to the vendors terminal to be able to display a qr code.

Sadly the app is extremely slow and cumbersome to use at a cash register compared to other options such as NFC payments on android or just straight tap and pay credit cards.

It would be a great system for payments online as scanning a code is very easy compared to entering all your CC information but becauses the fees are so high (compare to credit cards) the largest online electronics retailer (digitec) in Switzerland dropped them after the intro rates expired.
At my current company, Powerpoint is used as the main medium for communication and reporting. Powerpoint slide decks are even considered some form of documentation by many, even though they are not really suited for that: Bullet points instead of coherent prose and explanations, ambiguity on the audience of the presentation (internal vs customer), general clunkiness of a ppt files. For many projects, documentation is just a shared directory with a number of powerpoint files from various stages of the project. I hate it and I want to change it, but I am still new to the organization and this behavior is deeply ingrained.

Besides that, Powerpoint is pretty good if you actually want to do a presentation.
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Yes, unfortunately in the US we have legacy admissions and athletic admissions without much oversight on how athletically talented the student is.

"A study, published earlier this month in the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that 43 percent of white students admitted to Harvard University were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or on the dean’s interest list — applicants whose parents or relatives have donated to Harvard.

That number drops dramatically for black, Latino, and Asian American students, with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories.

The study also found that roughly 75 percent of the white students admitted from those four categories, labeled 'ALDCs' in the study, “would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs,” the study said."[1]

We are already aware that the current admissions policy has the effect of heavily and unfairly favoring wealthy white students. Then we try to "correct" for that. For some reason we talk about and fret a lot more about policies that tip the scales for minorities, but for legacy admissions it's just "how things are done". In my opinion if a university uses legacy admissions, they should be barred from receiving federal funding. When JHU stopped using legacy admissions, the number of minority students increased. It would be interesting to know if the number of nonwealthy white students increased as well. My point is, there is clear favoritism for the wealthy class, and at least one easy fix (drop legacy admissions) to get towards a more merit-based system.

[1]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-...
Yeah it is yet another bookmarking app but much more than that. I am not sure if I am allowed to market the product by listing its features here but I can connect with one-on-one and tell about it if you are interested. I am very new here so don't know how HN works yet.
Emacs can do everything but for specific tasks there's often something that specializes in that thing that's better (IMHO).

For example, when I'm writing C++ on Windows, I use Visual Studio. I do Python work in PyCharm. I use Sublime Text for Markdown and light duty text editing. If I'm working over an ssh connection, I use vi. If I'm writing a letter, I'll use Word or Pages. If I want a spreadsheet I use Excel. For slides I'll use Keynote or Powerpoint.

Today, I think VSCode is acting as the new Emacs.
These two comments are a great example of statements that are (probably) correct but miss the point entirely. Thanks!
Added to that concern is that streaming services often feature only recent versions of albums that are pitched as “remastered”, and they might replace earlier audio with whatever the label now sells. The supposed remastering is not any improvement on earlier digital-era releases, it just reduces the dynamic range because labels know that people are listening to music on their phones in noisy places these days. So, if you have a nice stereo and listening environment and you want to get a version of the album with actual room to breathe dynamic-wise, your only choices are buying a used CD or torrenting it.
Godot targets both, it's used to teach kids programming KidsCanCode[1] and supports visual programming via VisualScript[2]. Also they work on support for Vulkan (Godot 4.0) for high perf graphic.

1: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNaPQ5uLX5iIEHUCLmfAgKg/vid...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW8CJQ8jMBM
At $60k from freelancing, take home will be around $40k.
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You have something to do with the jurisdiction of the UK when you use a service based in the UK. Illegal drugs are clearly forbidden in the acceptable use policy, and the terms of use states English law is used.

UK law on kava (and many other drugs) is stupid, but that's not TransferWise's fault.
If they say they support it, it’s because they do support it. Problems are common in international bank transfer, that’s why their support team could have helped you. Your anecdata doesn’t prove that they don’t support this country, if it’s on their website it’s because they do.
Why masks work – understand exponential function
> wondering how I can hookup a custom backend then for the boundary box detection, which appears is not supported.

You can take a screenshot with:

pyautogui.screenshot()

With your neural network you can have the coordinates of what you want, and act with pyautogui afterwards. In many cases, a neural network can even be overkill, take a look at this https://vimeo.com/352072921
The script takes a screenshot of the webpage, recognize the current highlighted word with pytesseract and type it in with pyautogui, simple.
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> In what situations do they welcome false contributions?

I think the point was more that being quiet is an option.
Thanks, yes, but it it was also thankless. You get marked as a 'pendant' and 'uncooperative'.

Being patronized by the OP was neither true, kind nor necessary. It is another misdirection of the sort they describe, this one attacking the (imaginary) opponent with a strawman or false dichotomy? Anyway, I'll shut up now.
> Musk is just more open with plans and often too optimistic,

Or call it what it is, lying. He habitually lies about timelines.

> still have most advanced self driving capabilities that are actually mass selling now.

Easy to be the most advanced if you're the only one "selling".
United Nations: Free webinar on the benefits of AI
Or maybe the discussion time travelled …?
I guess that's the gist of all these arguments -- they are ideas not something we can prove or disprove.