skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean shuffle the review cards. Presenting them in order I think is part of the magic to these books (RTH and RTK share an author). It is the default behavior of Anki, if you add them all at the same time. It gets more difficult when you don't have all 1500 and start with, say, 100 and then build as you go (you don't want review time to be one month away for the first hundred characters just because you added them first). Because there is pronunciation and meaning clues to the radicals, the shuffle matters for long term memory. But the ordered helps get them into short term memory and to passively learn radical structures.
I just wrote "penis" and it told me it's nothing but a bunch of lines. 3/10
Wow, typical shill ignoring facts. How can I win an argument when you have this amazing logical basis?

>1 to 10 is dangerous

>3 and 4 is not dangerous, so you are completely wrong, and I can't see your facts so it's useless and wrong, go solar!

Yeah, I'll trust my government and scientists and professors who actually have degrees in the field more than you, thank you very much. Oh yeah, in your opinion they are coal industry shills so they are just "wrong", aren't they? lol

Downvote all you want, I don't give a f. But you can't change the truth.
I am not sure why you are downvoted, since you are correct.

The only way to be sure is to start from scratch.
And that nuclear power is just from a single plant!
> is close to a flame bait. (Not to mention your gross generalization of the members of a not-small community.)

You're the one who chose to use the term cargo cult a few comments above
> There are many articles about it that won't make you feel like you have been handcuffed to a tiny desk in a kindergarten.

Yep, as someone in their mid 50's I find this style of narration and the visuals utterly annoying and condescending. Sadly it's all the rage with all the attention deficit kids. I'm clearly not their audience.
Re Trail Router: Really nice work! Two thoughts:

1. Would it be possible to add an undo button for when changing a route goes wrong?

2. I think this would also work really well for planning routes and/or measuring their precise length. In fact, I have been looking for such a tool for ages! One like yours which also allows taking small tracks and paths and not just roads! Unfortunately, currently it's still somewhat difficult to select the precise route as changing it in some place might suddenly change it almost entirely. (Again, an undo button would be nice.) I assume this happens because Trail Router still tries to minimize a certain loss function? Would it be possible to disable that entirely, so that one could "free-draw" routes?

[UPDATE]: Just noticed that one can actually disable all routing preferences. This seems to be doing the trick – very nice!
I own Corel Painter 2019 but it hasn't been very stable for me.
Lately I've been doing my digital work on an ipad pro on procreate.
Syncthing works pretty well here!
The EROEI of renewables is good and getting better. There is nothing in their manufacture that would be impossible without fossil fuels.
Yeah, but they who make the software/social platforms also makes the decisions, and those are usually US companies. So even here in Europe we're imposed with US-based morals ("Oh, some nudity in a post photo! Bad! Censored, what would the advertisers say"), whereas in our own culture, left to its own devices, we could not care less about such things...

Isn't this the era of the scale down of globalism though? (Trump, Brexit, US-China trade war, etc)
Too hard to use YAML, apparently.
You should speak with your doctor.
learning about SIMT helped my understanding of the differences.
Ask HN: User-interface design guidelines when building for first-responders?
As an exercise, I'm wondering if there are any resources for learning how to design modern graphical interfaces for first-responders (i.e. military, paramedics, police, etc...)? Would material design be suitable for such a high-risk environment?
If a specific Unicode symbol adds actual clarity or meaning in some context, I would not expect it to be discouraged. I didn't mean my adjectives as a generalization of unicode graphics, but the opposite: a specification of circumstances.
This reminded me of the system of musical notation using finger segments. http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/watch-the-guidonian-hand-...
5ESS Telephone Switch Architecture
My favorite is Chisenbop[0], the Korean finger-counting system, that lets you count/add/subtract easily to 100. It isn't as intuitive, but it is quite fun.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop
This has been my experience too. Like I said before, just learning characters doesn't let you read in of itself because there are compound words. But you have to think of characters as building blocks. Then you repeat the process with words and it is easier to form mnemonics because you already have the base structure. The idea is to start from the ground up and build a strong base before you move to building the house. This is opposed to the classical Western style that is building random walls first. The thing is that the latter will get you conversational faster, but the former leads to a better understanding but takes more time.
I use procreate on ipad.

For windows I'm done with adobe. I'm not looking for an alternative to photoshop to stick with the company that made me leave photoshop.
Perhaps Wyoming wasn't the best example, but I was looking for something very sparsely populated and WY fits that bill.
I have been all over the place, never able to focus much. I'm keeping very busy, perhaps to ignore the insanity. It's been awesome working from home, I've missed it so much! Being here where I don't have IT rules that are cumbersome at best, I can easily just install a software package to try it out. I've been a bit stultified by the job for many years now, and am only just catching up on learning new tools, mostly by doing a crash course in setting them up and using them. To date, I've

- Setup my own personal webconferencing server (https://bigbluebutton.org/). I did this on Digital Ocean, which I'd never done before, but I couldn't provide the necessary bandwidth or hardware at home. It's really opened my eyes to having someone else host the infrastructure, but I still get the sysadmin control I crave, plus it's cheap and just so fast and easy to spin up new machines.

- I setup a phone number with SignalWire to hook it up to the webconference server as a dial in. That turned out difficult, so I quickly turned it around when it came up in my mountain rescue group that we had a need for a more customized replacement for GroupMe. I now have started working on an interactive system to manage callouts to missions.

- I went to setup a Gitlab server as a support tool for developing the aforementioned project (and other future projects), but it turned out to be quite resource intensive, so I learned to spawn it in Docker on my main development machine at home, along with a runner to do continuous integration.

- I finally got around to replacing my internal dhcp/dns/time/print/file server with something that uses an eighth of the power, produces much less heat, and is very quiet. It's so much nicer to have a quieter office.

- I've been working on updating my old library of code templates/snippets, including adding new programming languages. This project I also use to test out the Gitlab instance as my goal with the templates is to have things that are self-contained, but run a number of unit tests.

- I finally installed my smart thermostat, a HestiaPi (https://hestiapi.com/).

- I'm looking into RFID/NFC for a small project with my brother. He and I are also discussing a project using UE4. Hopefully I can find a way to cheaply host the Gitlab instance, or maybe I'll just end up paying for an account with them or Github, which I've also been learning how to do CI with and comparing with Gitlab.

- Since I'm also a member of a big band, I've been getting into home audio recording and mixing, using Ardour and Audacity (for click tracks). I'm hoping to get enough musicians on board so that we can make our own version of the Reddit Symphony Orchestra.

- So many other things! https://disaster.radio/, SDR, putting more holds on the climbing wall, trying new recipes, etc.

I've been keeping so busy I forget to eat (down about five pounds) and have been skipping exercise, but it's just so fun! I do wish I could muster the focus to work on something big, something worthy.
So, basically, no real reason besides "preparation for per-interpreter GIL"...

I, for one, wouldn't be encouraged to use it in this state, where it doesn't really bring any benefits yet!
Mostly works out fine. There isn't a perfectly strict separation between grammar ant vocab like you imagine. I do it through sentences, so naturally a little vocab is required for that, and that's ok. The goal in the grammar phase is to collect and Anki enough sentences to be able to parse sentences grammatically. I usually need about 3 to 5 sentences for each grammar point.

The vocab phase is purely about vocab. Grammar is done at this point.

I remember first year of Japanese study was Kanji then grammar. At the end of that first year I knew about 2000 words. The second year was purely vocab. I managed to acquire 10,000 new vocab by the end of the second year.

After that point I could understand most spoken and written things with patches here and there. I could hold conversations for hours with a single person.

In the 3rd year of study I did much the same. I remember my Anki vocab deck getting up to about 17k words before reviews were at about 300 to 400 a day and the returns were diminishing, so I just deleted the deck. Stopped cold.

End of that 3rd year I could read novels pretty well. Hold conversations on any topic for any length of time in group settings.

It worked remarkably well. It was damn hard work though.
From the programmer’s standpoint, the reasoning goes like this. In C++, the initial value you pass to std::accumulate depends on the operator. For addition, 0 is the “natural” choice. For multiplication, it is 1. So, if you raise a number to some power using this function, you implicitly or explicitly start with 1. Followed by accumulation of the zero number of 0s this leaves you with 1.
There used to be a small IKEA on the high street in central Uppsala (Sweden) in the late 1980s, and a larger one outside the city. The small shop went away around 1990, no idea why since it's a university town where everyone gets around on bicycles.
Was there a strategic shift to kubernetes now inside VMWARE?

I don't know that this start as early as 2014. Great work though.

The transition to partnering with IBM is baffling just like what you express.
> So what is the difference between “the company did layoffs of its lowest performers due to financial pressure caused in part by the pandemic” and “the company did layoffs of its lowest performers using the pandemic as an excuse to avoid bad PR”?

This is a confusing question, seems the answer seems embedded in the question...the former signals that there's "financial pressure" on the company over and above the reasonable baseline that every company faces, while the latter doesn't. A 100% financially healthy and secure company may choose to pay the ongoing cost of restructuring during good economic times, since layoffs in good times may have PR costs (for recruitment, for example) that outweigh the carrying costs of the low performers (or unbalanced departments, or whatever). If a downturn lowers this cost, then you'd expect companies to take advantage of it.
That has several really bad assumptions by assuming all solar roofs need to fit on an existing Tesla‘a roof.

> The usable clear area of a Model S glass roof is 42” x 45”

A Model S is actually 195.9” by 77.3 (ex. mirrors). Assuming a reasonable shaped solar car using 75% of that surface is covered in panels that’s 12x the area. But you also gain from panels covering the sides of the vehicle.

Further “Because the vehicle roof is flat, it collects less light than if it was positioned at the optimum angle to the sun.“ as I said your not limited by the roof. “Lastly, we lose at least 10% more due to the safety glass,” we don’t need glass and that’s already part of panel efficiency numbers. “and the inverter/charging is only 81% efficient.” Solar panels and batteries are both DC so you don’t need an inverter, the charge discharge efficiency of lithium ion can be over 90%.

San Francisco 5.34kWh/m * .3 efficiency * 7.33 square meters = 11.7kW/day /.3kW per mile = 35 to 39.14 miles in San Francisco depending on how much your charging the battery with plenty of areas getting more sunlight. Using the highest efficiency panels currently produced that goes up significantly, but cheap 30% efficient panels seems like a more reasonable mid term prediction.

PS: Example of a flexible 1m panel zero glass required at under 300$/m: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082FCZ4MD/ref=emc_b_5_t?th=1
Adobe has been marketing pdfs on their security. Ironic.
Cocktails! I read the Death & Co book and it inspired me to create a site to house all the recipes (and hopefully more eventually) and track which ones I've made.

https://www.CocktailLove.com
On the upside, that at least saves the time and energy of trying to figure out how to reply to someone in a way that moves things in the right direction and wondering if you are just crazy and reading in problem behavior when there is none and so forth.

I was strung along for months by someone who was married and not telling me that until he finally told me one day that he was married, his marriage was in the toilet and he needed "a friend." I wouldn't have fallen for that if it was clearer to me what actual successful networking looks like.

When two hetero men network, saying "Hey, let's have coffee" is a clear and unambiguously platonic proposal. This is not true in my case and it leaves me with serious challenges in figuring out just how on earth you do this.

It's only very recently that I have figured out how to get someone to discuss my work with me because those initial inquiries are so often ambiguous. Networking looks not dissimilar to dating in the initial phases and that means I waste a lot of time trying to make a business connection that will never happen because business is not his goal and will never be on the table, no matter how I handle things.
It's very task-dependent.

If your needs are towards "indie software" that needs a snappy native UI and can make use of subprocesses to cover major dependencies, the Pascal options are really good and time-tested. It's probably underused for games in particular, in fact. Fast iteration times for game projects are a great selling point for contemporary use of Pascal, if you can justify the investment in engine code.

If you are writing server backends, there is nothing interesting going on in Pascal and you will be scraping around to find the bindings to do what you need. Likewise with a number of other common industry tasks.
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The general point made here is really interesting though - a large number of our appliances (domestic and small business) can easily be time-agnostic if built for it. It may take a decade or two to replace the fleet but boy, just think of the opportunities replacing every appliance globally presents - this is on the order of a new Tesla (the disruptive company) for each appliance.

Scheduling exchanges, where your local grid sub-station can get your bids for usage and put it into a grid wide exchange, scheduling your car to charge itself at 3:34 am using 24Wh or whatever.

We become ever more interconnected - this is the real rental economy - renting not a lawn mower for an hour but renting power. You think privacy is bad on your phone - wait till your washing machine sends "soiled underpants on at 3pm - any bids" to half the planets solar providers

- Washing machines (Replace the concrete with water balloon, choose latest time to complete)

- Lights (mostly I think these will be LEDs drawing off a panel on our roof. We don't need that much light.

- too tired to do this but a study on this must exist somewhere?
I build Review Board (https://www.reviewboard.org/, https://github.com/reviewboard/reviewboard), an open source code review tool built on top of Django. It used to be a side project to fill what was at that time a gap in code review offerings (not even GitHub was around at this time), but these days it's a full-time job.

Like @encoderer and Cronitor.io, we also stuck with Django 1.6 for several years! YAY! Turns out the jump from 1.6 to 1.7 was a painful experience, but we're finally on the modern.... 1.11. Yeah, we're not getting rid of our Python 2.7 customers for some time (still trying to get some off of Python 2.6). Enterprise software development is a different sort of beast.

Our https://rbcommons.com service is Review Board as a SaaS, and uses Stripe. Curious to hear what you're doing with Stripe integration on your end! We've been making heavy use of it ourselves.

We've also done some crazy, fairly-complex, maybe-niche stuff in Django, and built these out into some libraries you might find interesting to browse through:

1) Djblets (https://github.com/djblets/djblets) — A big ol' utility library for Django that provides:

* Foundations for loadable extensions (just like browser extensions) for Django projects

* Support for defining flexible integrations for third-party services (Slack, etc.)

* Avatar support (gravatars, file uploads, URL-based avatars, and custom backends)

* Datagrids (with user column customization)

* A foundation for REST APIs

* Dynamic site settings

* Stuff to make privacy/PII/consent a first-class citizen in codebases

* And just a ton of other things that we found useful in Review Board and wanted to make more widely-available.

2) Django Evolution (https://github.com/beanbaginc/django-evolution) — A precursor to Django's migrations support (and the reason we were on Django 1.6 for so long — the in-development version cooperates with migrations now). We inherited and maintain this project. It provides an alternate way to specify database schema changes, and has the benefit of just being far faster to apply migrations, through a built-in optimizer. This significantly reduces upgrade times for large installs (super important for many of our Review Board customers).

All open source, and might be interesting to look at, who knows. We've built a lot up over the years (we started by writing code against Django pre-1.0 SVN checkouts), and I still recommend it.
I grew up counting the segments on each hand, twice. But the 2 segments of the thumb are also included (you use the index to point at the thumb).

Total comes up to a much-shorter 14x2 = 28 though.
I don't know what world you live in where any company (beyond a tiny, tiny scale) isn't "bad at hiring". Especially not using the ludicrous bar of "never hiring low performers"
>> Of course it can be faster—if you remove the slow, unique features you can optimize it like any other language.

And at some point you might as well use Crystal if you're going to do that, while keeping a Ruby-like syntax.
McNuggets are made from 100% breast meat (with the skin on to help them bind together). Please stick to facts, even in a thread about drawing penises.
Did Holmes use her sexuality to bring Theranos to a $10B valuation? I thought she actively fought to remove her femininity to be able to prop it up as a founder.
6 months of unemployment payments (if you have worked for at least 6 months and live in a state that doesn't play games with unemployment) is a somewhat cilivized safety net.

While finding a job in a bad economy can certainly be hard, at least you will be able to pay your rent and buy food and plan for the event that you are not able to maintain your current lifestyle.

However our medical insurance situation, unless you are able to qualify for a free/less than $30 per month plan, is really horrific and cannot be justified. If someone is healthy and becomes unemployed, it is not terrible but definitely not good. If you have routine medicines and you are unemployed.... death sentence.
> I could easily up my story point output by 10x if I picked the simplest bugs and stories from the backlog

shouldn't those have comparably fewer points assigned? Completing 10 easy features/fixes should be roughly equal to completing 1 big one.
What Does GIF Stand For?
Practicum by Yandex — Not another tech bootcamp.
During the first two weeks of quarantine, I launched a Shopify website to sell/rent home fitness equipment. It's been a great learning experience in the world of Supply Chain Manufacturing. While the site was an initial success and led to dozens of orders the first week (with no paid advertising), I hit a major roadblock that I was not expecting. My suppliers had to temporarily halt equipment manufacturing due to the emergency law that required them to start producing PPE. This led to the shortage of gym equipment nationwide. You can't even find dumbbells online.

Although my website got a lot of organic traffic and orders within the first two weeks, I was unable to fulfill most orders since manufacturing was on pause and everything was already sold out.

Since then I've continued studying SCM, and I'm also learning Python so that I can build a model to predict this kind of event in the future.
I don't mean to be personal or rude - I only say this because someone said it to me once and it helped me.

Your experiences in comment threads are often a reflection of what YOU write. Hostile people get hostility, humble people often get humbleness in return. Looking at this comment thread, some of the problems you mention in this comment have come up and perhaps it's worth considering whether that is due to how you write your comments.
No it won't. Actually, the grid doesn't give a f about your fridge. Residential electricity usage is only 37% and fridges use about 9% of that.
I don't think education is enough. If people want to believe crazy things, they will.

Back when I was on fb, there was an older guy who had a college degree in the classics and was sharing crazy gateway pundit articles and demonic, proto pizzagate Hillary memes. If it affirms your priors, people will believe almost anything.
Vaclav Smil is looking at this all wrong. There are three phases here

1) power is produced by plants that take fossil fuels to build and fossil fuels to run

2) power is produce by plants that take fossil fuels to build and no fossil fuels to run

3) power is produced by plants that were built using renewable energy and run off of it too.

Most of the people who focus on phase 2 basically want us to stay on fossil fuels forever, but they don't want to come out and say it.
The tax rate is also low enough that if he does pay, it's not much. 15% total instead of the 30-40‰ I currently pay.
Why were they permitted to begin with?
I drew a puppy and it thought I drew a kangaroo :(