skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May as well ask here, I pretty much only read the weekly Economist to get my news at this point. I think I have their slight biases dialed in at this point. Anyone want to make a case for a different primary news source/argue that The Economist is bad?

For context, I like The Economist because it's mostly unemotional, information-dense, and the magazine comes in a single weekly thing to read.
So what is fixed vs growth mindset?

You believe in innate talent vs you believe in practice and hardwork.

Failure indicates that you don't have it vs curiosity around why it did not work this time.

Criticism or feedback is taken personally vs Feedback is a way to learn.

You are constantly looking at others to validate your talent vs You are measuring and developing your own yardsticks for growth.

As per my understanding, you can have growth mindset in one sphere of your life and have fixed mindset in another. For e.g. a person I recently met, has fixed mindset around programming, but has a growth mindset on the subject of maths.

What does all this result in? Our self-talk about the activity at hand will tell us what mindset we have.

Do we tell ourselves:
"I am not good enough", "I will never be good at this".
Are we constantly looking at others to gauge what they perceive of us or our abilities?

We then need to transform all these into

1. "I am not good at this right now, but if I work at it, I will".

2. "Everyone struggles. It's just not me. Everyone has spent time and effort to become good at it."
"Everyone finds learning a new thing hard and challenging"

3. What is stopping me from continuing right now? "Am i tired?", "Am I hungry?" or is it my regular pattern of avoiding pain of learning? Can I transform this towards curiosity?

To move towards growth mindset we need to approach it with a sense of play. With a sense of curiosity towards what we are trying to learn or develop into. We also need to be aware of how are feelings are involved and what they are pushing us to do or avoid.
Average temps in that town go from -40C during winter to +15C during summer (with excursions outside this average below -60C and above +30C)
I just checked and Verkhoyansk lowest temperature record is -67.8 deg C, and highest is 38.0 deg C. That is 105.8 deg temperature range. In Celsius. In Fahrenheit the range is almost 200 degrees!
does it go through the process?
The comment was very literal in comparing the cache on the Apple chip to the Intel chip.

And just to be clear, cache is "expensive" in die size. They aren't putting an order in for L2 cache to Samsung or something.

That Apple chip has a die size less than half the size of Intel chips than it outperforms. So the whole "expensive" claim is debunked before it even gets started.

Further we are very explicitly comparing Apple silicon to Intel because that is exactly the transition that's happening here.
That's mine, and to prove it, I just deleted the answer.
I recommend https://alf.nu/RegexGolf for timewasting
I can confirm. Reading Lucifer was one of the highlights in high school of my Dutch class.
The LHC has not been a failure.

First you complain about the lack of experimentation, then you complain when they perform experiments. It is normal in science to formulate a theory, design an experiment, and then having to discard the theory in view of the experimental results. That's the scientific method, and that's what has happened with SUSY (kind of).

You also claim the goal of new collider is to validate SUSY, but they say is to study the Higgs boson, the one that was discovered using the LHC.

It is also normal that scientists worry about their niche and try to find funding for research in that niche. Else, the only research we would do would be cancer treatments, but that would not be effective in the long run. Huge amounts of money like this one always call people attention, but it is not so much. If you compare the cost of the LHC with the amount spent in defense by the countries involved during the same period, these are peanuts. You will find all kind of reasons to spend this money somewhere else, and some of them may be valid, but fundamental research is still necessary.
Wow, those are effing serious reasons to stay pseudonymous. If that doesn't convince a reporter to not publish that name, they should really ask themselves how mercenary they've become.
I guess an Apple TV-sized "Mac nano" seems plausible as a potential product now (I hope)
They should use the Slashdot epithet. “An anonymous coward familiar with the discussion said ...”
I gave up on them years ago when I noticed so much editorialization outside of their opinion section. Their news has become opinion; their opinion has become propaganda.
Perhaps. But it's not at all uncommon for me to be running Chrome with devtools + Firefox + webpack + Sublime Text + xcode + a second webpack for react-native + an iphone simulator + Android Studio + flipper for debugging + Slack...

This definitely makes my computer run slowish (esp. Android Studio!). Of course I can shut things down and run fewer things at once, but it would definitely provide value to me not to have to.
Direct accountability.
More like it's too remote. Most if not all immigrants prefer Melbourne and Sydney as they are the largest cities with the most things happening and a pleasant climate.
Israel using fish as well as high tech to guard against water supply hacking
Unless a journalist is merely acting as a typist "not using themselves as sources" is not enough.

Journalists gather, assemble and interpret information, and sometimes they build the dreaded 'narrative' for the reader. In this case they must not only _source_ knowledge but consume and comprehend it - at which point they _are_ operating in the specific domain of the information they gathered.

Different knowledge requires differing degrees of investment to comprehend, and for non-trivial subjects being an SME that covers most of the domains involved is going to allow you to validate interpretations made on assembled knowledge i.e the stuff you are operating on rather than merely regurgitating.

I am open to the idea that a journalist could separately have good investigative skills and other journalistic things I am not aware of while not being an SME in much of anything - but in which case they should always work with one or more SMEs, much like the sibling comment's suggestion from 'cousin_it'.
And of course there is Dante's Divine Comedy, which started the whole thing in 1300...
Never forget your Slip Slap Slops!

Slip on a shirt, Slop on the 50+ sunscreen, Slap on a hat[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip-Slop-Slap
On an average year Yakutsk goes from −42.7 to 25.5, a measly 68.2°C (120.6F) range

The record high is 38.4°C, and record low is −64.4°C, which is a historical range of 102.8°C (185F), although presumably not in the same year.
Sadly we're not likely to support an RSS feed for Today in Indian History for a little while, but if you sign up via email we'll definitely let you know when we add one.
Becoming successful can't be the point, you won't reach it: there are always new goals on top of what youve already achieved.

The point is to take some steps towards the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow now and then, and enjoying the walk.

So sometimes, act a bit more curious than you feel. Remind yourself that what you're doing is actually fun more often (or if you can't, switch to something that is). And then who knows.
>But what I find sad is the commentary it makes on the state of humanity's collective emotional development if commercial celebrity endorsements and falsely personal birthday messages have so much more sway over our hearts than messages from people who are actually in our lives. //

Yes, this. What we laud and prioritise often seems so hollow.
No - it gets down to below minus 60 celcius there, so a range of 100 degrees celcius
> I noticed that the raw educational value of some (often 4h+ long) meetings

In person 4h+ meeting would have equally low value. In all seriousness. Plus, people would be all antsy due not inability to go to bathroom or get the drink.

When you are at 4h+ meeting, the video conferencing is the least of problems.
If the journalist talked to the expert while writing the article, the expert will always be happy for a chance to sanity check. The only reason that's so often not done is because the journalist is on a power trip.
Researchers identify genes that tell plants when to flower
Has the post been changed? I remember it containing some quotes from the journalist in question.
On Android and Chrome, I can't read the page. The graphic takes up half the screen and the text underneath is barely visible.
I tend to think of this xkcd [1] comic when people talk about 'solving the big problems we face' instead of doing blue-sky research.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1232/
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 benchmarks just leaked – and AMD should be worried
>I'd expect a doctor that failed to maintain professional standards to be struck off, and I'd expect the professional management services to proactively get them struck off before they could do anything dangerous.

Unfortunately expectations do not match reality. 10% of deaths are due to medical errors [0]. Then look at how the rest of the medical establishment are failing us. CDC is prohibited from naming the hospitals that have this error. The only thing they report on is trends [1]. If you have a hospital in your neighborhood, can you find out anything about it? From the medical error rate, to the spread of Candida Auris[2] is there any dangerous news about your local hospital/healthcare system that is public?

[0]: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db118.htm
[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-can...
If you buy a frozen pizza and it tastes terrible, should you continue buying and eating them for a week until you have enough data points?

If a single sample of corn in a shipment is contaminated with aflatoxin should you keep testing it and trying to find the good corn?

If a program corrupts your data on first use should you keep trying it on different data before rejecting it?
A lot of people are bemoaning this move from the viewpoint in the Valley. I work for an old-school Fortune 250 which is a top-30 H-1B holder. They strategically employ thousands of visa holders for jobs that hardly require a high school education. It seems to be a calculated move to get over-qualified workers at a discount, who have very limited mobility in the job market. From my view here, it's a system that's working against the long-term interests of the country, denying those jobs to local people for whom they would be a huge leg up.
I've enabled those two settings now, fits my fingers better. Thanks for the hint!

As for the look of those buttons and where to put them, not sure if my suggestion is good, but how about having them floating as a row at the bottom of the screen, and right above the keyboard when it's active. This is sort of how it looks like in `Simpletask` (another task app on F-Droid that I tried out and liked).
Is this the same project? https://books.google.fi/books?id=HRs0kuGfTe0C
The Economist is the rare case of a news source that's not too bad, at least at present. We can't let ourselves become complacent, however - just see what's happening to the NYT.
"what's the point?" Good question. Nobody knows. Certainly not being "successful", whatever that may mean: you can easily see different cultures and different time periods having even opposing definitions.

The people telling you to just change your mindset are just as broken as you are, I can guarantee you this. They just lie to themselves and/or others and try to force feed you their belief system. Empty words, ignore.

Do listen to that Allan Watts speech, he can certainly present things better than we here can.
I remember releasing a game written in Haxe for the original iPad. It ran quite slowly.

I had to hack up the Box2D port to pool short lived objects that would normally exist on the stack.

Which was kind of frustrating, as it was all compiled back down to C++ again anyway.
Google actually uses some version of Latent Semantic Analysis which clusters these results based upon word frequency and position. This creates a word matrix where snippets of text can be clustered into themes and the documents are related by a fuzzy concept (document distance in Nth-dimentional space), not directly with key-words like "X relates to Y".

It's harder to "game" that system, but if you know how it works and you're targeting a concept; it'll just force you to create high-quality content so Google wins anyway.

If you really want to play with this type of thing (unlike the blog-post writer that just piggy-backs off of Google smarts) check out the Natural Language Toolkit:

https://www.nltk.org/
it has the feel of the religious witch hunt because that is exactly what is has become. Many of these groups no longer look at data or science or any empirical evidence for the basis of their positions or policy, it is pure emotional dogma at this point. They are non-theistic religions
Facebook?
duck
This simply moves the problem up one level. Who is going to vouch for your credibility in vouching for these journalists?
Very much an interpretation issue of course.
autohokey is your friend
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Looks like others have tried an x86 to z80 asm converter before. Maybe some ideas there:

https://github.com/Zany80/x86-to-z80
How are we doing on desalination technologies?
> Water bills that exceed 4 percent of household income are considered unaffordable.

This seems extremely arbitrary. It's not that they can't afford water, it's that it's a relatively important expense rather than a trivial one. Most people in these income brackets don't even pay water bills directly.
Might not be a good idea to tell the Dutch that hills are useful for more things than just keeping water out.
> video communication [...] is more information dense than text

this has never been my experience. group meetings devolve into explaining the same thing in many different ways, for every item that is discussed.
Sure, people have to eat.

But that's kinda a base thing to build a cultured society around. Can't we do better than that yet, what progress has humanity made?

Agency is what artists need to perform their cultural function in society. Sure there are demands for music and images that don't care for the cultural role of art; but most artists seem to want at least some agency, though the need to do bread-and-butter work (baseline earnings) is something that hits early in any artists career.
People interested in such topics should check the SoftWare Heritage persistent IDentifiers (SWHIDs) https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/persistent...
They provide references to files and directories (and even specific releases or commits) and they are now an official IANA URI scheme.
Every Federal Reserve Board Member Is a Multi-Millionaire
> CPUs mostly run idle. Even if you had a theoretical CPU using zero energy, most people are not going to get 30% battery life gains

I don't agree. Simply disabling Turbo Boost on MBP16 nets me around 10-15% more battery life. Underclocking a CPU can even result in twice to thrice the battery life on a gaming laptop under same workload.

Here's more details.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/304884-disabling-intel...
Wirecard’s Ex-CEO, Markus Braun, Is Arrested in Germany
It's specifically telling that they would choose to do this with Scott Alexander and not another psychiatrist prior to this point: the NYT has in the last few weeks been overcome from the inside by a new moral zealotry, and Scott makes a prime, juicy target for the moral assaults that will gain it plaudits among other zealots.

This will make the backroom media Slack quite pleased, I'm sure, especially if the article attempts to tie him back to white supremacy. It'll be seen as a good score, and might appease the mob for a short time. But they'll be back again for fresh blood soon enough.
I was following the time honored HN tradition of posting one line about the article and then taking up a tangent.

That might be a practice to do away with.

But to be literal, I asked because I wanted to talk about it and not just read about. However that may have been a mistake on my part; this article, found through my search engine, was pretty good: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/08/why-are...

Points raised in the article:

1. Inherent differences between genders, if they exist, are tiny, and vary considerably from region to region

2. Starting in the 80s computers were marketed towards males

3. Computers were often in the male sibling's bedroom and not their own, according to interviews with some female CMU students in the 90s

4. Self-bias "For instance, girls tend to score worse on a test if they are told their maths skills are being assessed than when they are told they are taking part in a study investigating how people solve problems."

5. Hostile work environments: articles about why women should not be in the workplace, sexual harassment and illegal discrimination

6. May not be a worse gender gap than other industries such as finance or media

7. Cultural: women can (physically) start a family by having children; men cannot; there is an cost to staying in a work environment with regard to starting a family, and there is a "risk-taking" in the tech industry (to be honest, I've always found it very a secure line of work, but that is what the article says)

8. Tech may be well placed to bring more females into the workplace

9. Startups where someone is encouraged to spend a lot of time at the workplace are not doable for primary caregivers (which is often mothers)

10. Algorithmic biases being implicitly developed by a mostly male workforce (e.g. voice recognition trained and tested solely by men)

Final line from the article, and why I posted my root post to begin with: “Computing is too important to be left to men.”

So there is a whole host of reasons.
We have heaps of fresh water in NA, I guess except in these areas (many of which seem to be in places where fresh water is scarcer). I think for many of these, it is still cheaper to bring water from a fresh water source than it is to bring it from the ocean, even if there is no desalination cost.
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even if it were the case, it is still a saving for the end user and it is a threat to Intel.
Here's a concrete example. Some of CERN detector technology has been spun-off as Quantum Detectors [https://quantumdetectors.com/], which makes detectors for electron microscopy, x-ray scattering , and neutron detection I think.

I've personally beta-tested their MerlinEM and it's pretty damn cool. It's very different from other technologies that already exist (e.g. Gatan detectors). You can read out images at extremely fast rates (compared to traditional electron microscopy detectors anyway). I'm guessing that this comes from the need for CERN to read-out detectors fully for every collision. Who would have known that this would have been useful for unrelated ultrafast electron scattering experiments?
I mean SAP has roughly 30 BN € in revenue and according to their marketing more than 70 % of all transactions worldwide run through an SAP system. If that's not a "unicorn" company I really don't know what qualifies. You could of course argue that SAP is quite old already (founded in 1972, soon to be 50 years old), but so is e.g. Intel (founded in 1968).

It's true we missed the boat on the second and third waves of IT companies, but there are many unicorns in the manufacturing sector that most people in IT have just never heard of because it's outside of their bubble, these companies often dominate the world market in their respective segments though. For example, do you associate Germany with 3D printing? Probably not. Well, turns out some of the leading companies in industrial 3D printing technology were created here, in 2016 GE for example tried to acquire Germany-based SLM Solutions for 1.4 BN €.
Ask HN: How do you learn a language/framework quickly?
I'd love to hear what the HN community does - with a focus on learning a language + framework by experienced engineers for the purpose of building startup products (i.e., not simply for the purpose of becoming a language/framework expert but rather to build something as quickly as possible).
Isn't it better that she's asking you rather than making up things?
Here's my 2 cents...

1. Have some users
2. Be useful
3. Be challenging
4. Be ambitious
5. Monetizable

These requirements are so general that they could literally be applied to any project. You should narrow these down to actual things you enjoy (for example; adventure games, language development, embedded systems etc...)

Your ideas; 1, 2 and 3 seem very similar so it looks like you have an interest in visual programming and language development. You should start there!

> "4. transpile natural language to programming language..."

This is particularly interesting and could be useful for speech-2-code programming, for people how are unable to type with their hands ([1] also discussed here last week)

Finally, it's much harder to stay motivated and make someone else app a reality. You might as well use your own ideas, anyone of them could be a fairly popular project leading to new opportunities.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497756
The Economist is actually pretty good. They have their own political bias (see at wikipedia entry) but both, their news and technology reporting is top notch.
Trust me, in Germany with that income you can either buy an apartment (not a house, at least not in a place where you will find a software developer job nearby) or fly on vacations, but not both...
>> I haven't found much of anything in life that you can't get better at by trying again and again.

I used to think the same way until I tried learning to play guitar. Have been trying it for a year now and I seriously question if I will ever be able to do it with reasonable proficiency. (So far holding on though.)
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Which isn’t necessarily a good thing. They totally butchered the Mac Mail.app by shifting it to iOS UI paradigms. It used to be great; now it’s barely usable. Now they’re just making it easier to do the same and dumb down all the other apps out there for desktop users by replacing them with dumbed down iOS versions.
Personally, I agree with you - my will to live is certainly predicated on theoretically being able to be directly responsible for significant accomplishment. The attitude that everything is set in stone and you can't change anything about your circumstances has always seemed a bit silly to me.

What the parent comment said is probably true for the majority of cases - most people will succeed or fail due to external factors outside of their control. But you'd have to perform some impressive mental gymnastics to assert that Elon Musk just keeps getting lucky because of his environment, and not because of his own actions.

That being said, I think at some point you have to decide who you want to be. Elon Musk is an insane outlier in every way, and his life is the extreme opposite of stability and peace. I don't think that reality is unrelated to his success. So the parent has a point - accomplishment/self-improvement/growth aren't going to make everyone happy. Some people prefer stability over learning new things.

It doesn't make sense for me, but I can understand why some people want to live their life that way.
I am a professional, and I primarily browse with it off by default and whitelisted for only a few sites. I do have a JavaScript-enabled browser for user-hostile websites which require it, but I rarely need to use it (and I have real animus against those which force me into doing so).