skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everything reported casually gets reported formally, then people can no longer have casual conversations.

What strikes me as overreach about the black eye scenario (which is used in orientation/training for University staff as an example of something that needs to be reported under Title IX) is that a) the black eye is the result of some type of abuse and b) a non-University relationship suddenly falls under the purview of Title IX just by being mentioned to a University employee.
Wayback URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20200815220615/http://www.ethanz...
>Nuclear energy serves the purpose of acting as the filler for the delta between the peak and trough.

No. Just. No.

It's incredibly stupid and inefficient to use nuclear as a peak power plant. Due to the huge CAPEX reasonable power system should use nuclear for base load and maximize capacity factor as much as possible.

Yes, there are experiments on maneuvering nuclear plants, but: a) usually maneuvering range is relatively small (60-80% from max output) b) latency is still too big when compared to gas plants and hydroelectric storage. There are some micro-nuclear plant designs, which would be more flexible and more suitable for this scenario, but they are mostly just paper reactors.
... from space ...
Oh, I see. I think it was just a simple play on words.
When your brain gets tired maybe all you need to do is some Yoga Nidra or alike and you can reset and get more clarity back by pushing out the norepinephrine.
How is "high willpower in the cerebellum" measured?
The newest videos about the recent protests offer a slice of every viewpoint. They show the people who just want to make a mess, the people who think there should be peaceful change, the people who think there should be violent change, and the people who just don’t care. Of course, the wildest people stand out, but they’re all given pretty fair time to explain why they’re doing what they are.

And I think the point is to clearly avoid the polished and prepared representatives who have a quote perfectly prepared for the media. The point is to find the people who aren’t polished and show what they’re doing.
Expert users can already do this using extensions though.
> many of us

But not all. What is condescending to one is a necessary insight to another. Personally, I am very grateful to people who are willing to say obvious things.

I also occasionally re-listen to the audio of self-help books in order to remember things I learned which are simple yet hard.
> But there is absolute evidence that 'not having guns widespread' will keep people safer.

There is no such evidence. Your canard about other countries is completely silly, their crime rates are totally different based on their cultures.
> Such a simpler web spec would be relatively fast moving, not focused on backwards compatibility, but instead on simplicity of implementation. HTML would have to be written correctly (eg. balanced tags), old styling mechanisms would be removed so that layout engines wouldn't have to accommodate them. Everything would be pared down.

No need for new standards, you just implement recent standards properly and don't pay attention to the real world (as in "what people thought was HTML at which time").

It might be more worthwhile to clean up some existing rendering engine, factoring out kludges (for the aforementioned "real world") into code that can be disabled at compile time so we are left with a FOSS "pure specs" implementation of current specs. I personally would be interested in seeing what breaks, betting on "not much".
Personally I'm a huge fan. Instagram has never been for me. But it appears to be becoming a relatively popular IM tool. I thought I was going to have to install it on my phone at some point to communicate with friends but this lets me stick with the same one facebook app that I have been living with for years.

I can't wait until I can drop WhatsApp too.

I mean ideally people would start using something open like Matrix or even XMPP but I'll still take wins when I can get them. The less separate networks the better as far as I am concerned.
For left-to-right execution, the dissonance between execution and statement separators (including functions and list notation) is very bad as you note.[0] For right-to-left execution, assignment has a similar problem: the name really needs to be on the left to allow easily scanning definitions, but this conflicts with the evaluation order. Particularly statements with multiple assignments in them don't work at all. Right-to-left is usually framed as a more "declarative" or "functional" style (and note that application and composition of mathematical functions follows this order) while left-to-right is considered "imperative".

In my first major language, I,[1] I did change to a left-to-right order. For BQN, which is intended to stick much closer to traditional APL, I didn't want to make such a large break from the methods that have worked in the past. I do think I'll introduce some mechanism like a "pipe" that goes in statement order so that longer chains of functions and operators can be built up without such a discontinuous reading order.

[0] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/problems.html#right-to-left-...

[1] https://github.com/mlochbaum/ILanguage
Interest rates have crumbled over that same period. As interest rates go down, housing prices go up. The problem becomes the down payment goes up making it difficult for a lot of people to get the initial equity.

People often forget that mortgages are essentially bonds. When you get a mortgage you are essentially selling the bond. As interest rates fall the bond gets more expensive which means the price of homes rises since servicing the bond gets less expensive in terms of interest. But the principal goes up which means you’re building equity more quickly. So this is good - if you can get to the down payment part.

And interest rates can still get lower. However there are large parts of the country where homes are relatively inexpensive. But they’re cheap for a reason - not many people want to live there.
Perhaps it's a great book but the price is crazy.
That requires you to break out of the array paradigm and drop back down to procedural looping. Which is what you'd expect since numpy is array operations bolted onto python as a library and J is array operations baked into the language itself.
Yep. Averages don't tell you much unless you know the shape of the distribution.
There are no "gun law loopholes".
Obama has zero credibility about this issue.
I wouldn't get hung up on transmission and distribution losses--they're something like 6%--and you're missing out on economies of scale with larger installations.

That's what was always so weird about rooftop solar: if solar is so great, why is there more interest in rooftop than large-scale farms? Especially when you look at the installation cost and sub-par location and orientation, rooftop solar is significantly worse than a farm. Transmission from a farm will be less than inefficiencies because of roof angle.
I used to respect and admire Musk on a personal basis which led to me being interested in buying into the products and services he's responsible for (I own a Tesla Model X, and I applied for an avionics SWE position at SpaceX). The more he keeps up his cavalier attitude on social-media the more it puts me - and others in my social network - off from benefiting his companies, and by extension, him.

The same way that I'm not interested in working at Facebook because of Zuckerberg's attitude towards his users.
The problem is that people do not understand their findings.
What you say makes me think of the gemini project :).

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
So when it is 21C outside, and 24+C inside is close enough.

Two analog temp switches will be far more reliable, easier, and adjustable.

(I get the fun with an Arduino, but it is hard to beat century old tech)
I might well be wrong. I wrote what I surmised as the situation after following lots of links for five minutes. Your comment certainly confirms there’s a lack of clarity around AdoptOpenJDK. I’d like to be better educated about it.
Kissanime Down
I am really not the best person to answer this because I am still very unexperienced. But I had the luck of writing one blog post that got a lot of traction and to have a website that can generate a bit of traffic to the blog.

The actual writing was really the hard part for me. Putting my knowledge to words is tricky. I struggle with finding topics and how to express them. What worked for now was more of a "whatever, let's just do it" attitude and try different things.
Aka the "C is a high level assembler" view.

C is not a low level language - https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479 - argues that this hasn't been true in a long time, since C was ported from the PDP-11.

Attempts to model C as being "close to the hardware" are at best misguided and usually hopelessly wrong. It's only possible by delving into the "implementation defined" parts of the spec but even then implementation s are often very bad at precisely defining what their semantics actually are.
Yes, my children are in grammar school. First: They focus almost exclusively on Math and Reading. Important subjects to be sure, but history, science, social studies etc are little more than an afterthought.

And as you said, a significant part of the begining of the year simply covers what was done the previous year. I'd prefer they simply provided a summer curriculum of 2 or 3 hours a week of such work if review is necessary, which would also eliminate the complete discontinuity from one scho year to the next. I'm fortunate that We can do so on our own, piecing together that sort of thing, but plenty of working parents have neither the time, or ability, or inclination to compose their own mini summer curriculum.7
Actually it is Australia and Kazakhstan [0]. But the point remains a good one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_r...
There is no chance in hell that you’d get the general web to move back to floating divs to manage layout.
I definitely have. Gmail is one that comes to mind: it scales to let you see more of a message.

A lot of people are on 13” laptop monitors, they’re not that wide.
Show HN: Neffoss – A 21st century credit bureau
Hello everybody! We are building the credit bureau we missed working with in our previous jobs.

Tonight we make available the first two products for you to test. The Email Score which scores the fraud risk for the submitted email addresses and the Instant Score which is a lightweight credit score. It can be used globally and for everyone. We don't recommend to use it for lending in US since it is not FCRA compliant.

You can pick your API key from https://www.neffoss.com/account/get-api-keys and read the docs in https://app.gitbook.com/@akxs14/s/neffoss/ .

They are in early stage so we would appreciate your feedback and input.

Have fun!
An honest pre-flight safety video
It's not related.
Yes, it does require a change in elevation. The US has many pumped hydro systems. Wikipedia lists ten in the US that are larger than 1,000 MW.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroel...
Gina HäußGE and OctoPrint
That’s exactly the point of what he is doing. I would guess most people who watch Fox News consider Tucker Carlson to be a reliable source. That’s a problem because he obviously isn’t.
The kind of ATM I see at gas stations usually seem to involve a legacy ethernet cable of some sort (I've been told it's probably RJ12) and/or a small antenna magnet-mounted to the top of it. Not sure if they both serve the same communications purpose.

The few times I've used one they also take a ridiculous amount of time to connect/return anything, on the order of 30s-1m.
Ask HN: What motivates you in your job?
What are the things that make you get out of the bed every morning for ?
I tried to go one character smaller, by using the combined unicode character "⒕", in an attempt to eliminate the ".". I combined it with the "ms" TLD, which can also be represented a the single character. Unfortunately all the browsers I tested refuse to treat it as a domain name without a full stop, so I'm stuck using the three character http://xn--1rh.xn--ryk/ instead of the two character http://xn--6sh056c/ I was hoping for.

On the bright side, even the three character version is unlinkable on facebook -- it just redirects me to http://invalid.invalid/. I'll take that as a win. I still managed to get a pretty cool domain name for around $40, and it was definitely fun to mess around with this idea.

EDIT:

Interestingly, HN has automatically punycoded the URLs. That should be ⑭.㎳ and ⒕㎳
I'm guessing the easiest way to fix this would be to just disable the feature?

According to documentation, Google mentiones that face groups are deleted when you turn the feature off: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6128838?hl=en

(And if they're not, winning a lawsuit against Google should be trivial.)
Good point, I’m only noticing the people wearing workplace swag/bringing up their workplace. I don’t notice people who don’t bring it up.
Sounds like something coming out of the Responsive Environments group (https://resenv.media.mit.edu/).
Undefined isn't the same as implementation defined. "Undefined" means you're not even talking about C any more. "Implementation defined" means which of the allowable semantics the implementors happened to choose.
My “in theory” was referring to Kosmonaut. Then I pointed out Sciter as evidence that something similar has already been done.
Yup, same. No warning. I left the house in my AC car and went out for ice cream
> Wrong. Workers amounts are the same.

I see that aiohttp has 5, uwsgi has 16, and gunicorn has 12, 14, and 16 depending on a web-framework, is this your definition of the same?

The author says:

> The rule I used for deciding on what the optimal number of worker processes was is simple: for each framework I started at a single worker and increased the worker count successively until performance got worse.

That's not how benchmark is supposed to be conducted, one doesn't fit workers number to the result that one finds "optimal", one should use the same amount of workers and find bottlenecks and either eliminate them or explain why they cannot be eliminated without affecting benchmark invariants.

> this wouldn't affect the variance between sync and async results very much because both frameworks were run on the same machine.

it will affect the variance. Firstly, because the db will spawn processes on the same machine, pgbouncer will spawn processes on the same machine, they all will compete for the same CPU and the order of preemptive context switches affects individual benchmark runs differently. On top of that, there are periodic and expensive WAL checkpoints, and fsync that competes with a benchmark for the kernel system call interruptions and context switches, and the multi-process workers setup may be affected dramatically. If you don't believe that external processes affect the numbers to the extent they become incomparable, try to serf the Internet with your web-browser randomly while running a benchmark.

> Real world connection pools have an upper bound limit. I don't see why setting an upper bound limit to be closer to reality is not a good test.

Because benchmarks are not real-world workloads, they are designed to show unbound performance of the implementation detail that is selected for a test, where external resources are non-exhaustable for the purpose of avoiding side-effects external to the functionality that is being tested.

> Also you're completely wrong about the connection pool blocking when it is exhausted. See source code:
> If all connections are exhausted then the system still yields to compute and incoming requests.

I didn't say that it wouldn't yield, I said that the coroutine will be blocked at the point where it tries to acquire a non-existing connection from the pool, which affects the benchmark. Now, instead of one blocking context switch at a network socket call that queries Postgres, the coroutine will yield AND WAIT twice - at the exhausted connection pool, and at the network socket call after the connection is acquired. This is exactly the reason why resources should be unbound, and why DB should be on a separate machine (unbound spawning of connection processes upon request), and why the number of OS workers should be the same in all benchmarks, because the sync version will also block twice, and the consequence of blocking there will be much more dramatic and different than in the case of async, WHICH IS THE POINT of a proper benchmark - https://github.com/calpaterson/python-web-perf/blob/master/s...
I would go further and say I wish I could help the poster get some "tough love" about the problems ahead.

An interest in venues like "Show HN" is a sign of marketing theatre as opposed to doing the hard work of marketing. If you contact real customers and make sales that is success. Getting the high score on Product Hunt is O.K., it's like being on the "Shark Tank" TV show. But it is the high-value customer you need to have a business.

If I was in the poster's shoes I would expect to take at least 3 to 10 specific actions a day in order to get my product in the face of someone who might be interested.

(e.g. that could be writing a blog post about the product, the problem it solves, and the surrounding environment. It could be calling a phone number you saw on a web page by a person who is complaining about the problem, set up a search engine ad, put up letter-size posters around a college campus or other hotspot, ...)

That's my basis of how I react to the post, just in that situation my head would be so full of how to talk to customers that I would have no time to get hung up on a lackluster response from 'Show HN'.
That's neat. I don't have experience with farms/agriculture so pardon my ignorance.

Are there existing centralized communication systems to know which farmers are growing which crop in a state or country at what rate?

Centralized and vertical farming doesn't work with small farmers and there are too many of them but it's hard to get them to lease the land and start your own hub afaik.

With ground water depletion, lack of storage facilities, distribution channels, capital and good tooling. It's a hard problem.

Would it help/work to have a federal level planning system that farmers can use to decide which crops to grow and how. Get support through a hedge fund and be able to reuse tools.
Didn't Oumuamua had a thick shield of similar to this proposal?

..just saying

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua#Appearance,_sha...
Big fan of this, hoping they integrate WhatsApp and its end to end encryption to this joint project soon as well
Russian Akademik Lomonosov [0] is already a working example of such technology (well, apart from it being "only" 0.3 GW). While I think this direction has certainly has its niche (somewhat similar to floating storage and regasification units), I don't think we should view it as a general replacement for ground-based plants. It's not only about economics (after all floating plant inevitably will cost more), but providing energy to users deep inside land mass.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov
> My grandfather who fought in foxholes in South Pacific jungles didn't have to worry about dying from a scraped knee, either.

I mean he literally had to worry about dying of gangrene from a scraped knee in the tropics, but I get your drift.
I am building a breeder reactor in my backyard right now.
the eighteenth-century essayist Samuel Johnson. When a friend urged him “ to take a little wine,” Dr. Johnson explained, “I can’t drink a little , child; therefore I never touch it. Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.”
I don't find it surprising for Jobs, especially at that younger point in his life. He always wanted control; early Apple, NeXT, late Apple, that remained true across his entire professional life. Wanting Rand to present options is another way of trying to have control over the process, to try to get more influence over what the final product is. It's why Paul Rand wouldn't provide options, he wasn't willing to cede that control; it was Rand's way or the highway.
What a surprise read.
"The related research was funded by the NBA, National Basketball Players Association"
They didn't have a choice, their internal teams weren't ready for S3 SigV4. For example, EMR was not ready for SigV4. That means ton of customers can't use EMR.
Would the founder of vegan restaurant be considered a social entrepreneur? As by growing their business, more people will consume non meat-based food, and in fine help reduce climate change.

Defining the boundaries of social entrepreneurship would require a whole separate thread.
The last videos and the most political ones are clearly showing the effort to portray a little bit of everything.
This is not even remotely true. Please point to any legitimate insurance provider that has this exception.
I think that may be the point - it works, but not really well enough. If you need to use it to shift a large amount of data around, the performance is crippling.
Thanks! I didn't know about Immersed and vSpatial.
$99 is absolutely not crazy, especially if it really does save weeks of time (as billed).
If you're not already aware, check out the Gemini protocol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23730408
A sharp change in labor supply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_of_foreign_born_in_...

due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...
I urge you to distinguish good advice from the people that say it. It might benefit you.
Thinking Fast and Slow is actually pretty flawed as well. See https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und... and e.g. The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics paper by Gigerenzer. It turns out quite a lot of these "biases" are actually quite useful and effective in the real world.
Good point.

If the standard is 100% accuracy on all predictions. Well that is problematic.

Even still. He predicted a trump victory and riots. Took awhile, but the core was correct. Lot of rioting going on now.
I like that you bring up refactoring. The biggest pain I have experienced with IT drawings is maintenance. If you are using a GUI these things are usually hard to maintain/refactor. As a matter of fact, I have experienced whole organizations just switching to graphviz, plant or other text based diagram tools just because of that!
Almost nobody has solar power that can serve through a grid outage, so emphasis on "slowly".
In a working system, yes. In the America that we have today, I can crime all I want, behind a wall of indirection, lawyers, and preferential treatment of the Church of Business. It requires prosecutors with a special set of skills, perseverance, and resources, which we simply don't have.

Mountains of corporate money is flowing into the government, thanks to stuff like Citizens United (a nuclear bomb under American politics), and absolutely out of control lobbying, creating a castrated government that simply cannot or wants to do anything.
I think you're right and it makes me sad. It's the resurgence of centralized computing and thin clents. Much more controllable and profitable that way.
Voila:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/11/03/what-developmental-mil...

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Like XHTML 4?
We have licensed this driver and the fsck-like tool.

The driver was deployed to 65,000 Ubuntu-based servers (as far as I remember), but we had a ton of issues with it, to the point that we removed it entirely and went back to NTFS-3g. We were told by paragon that we used a too-old version but at that point we had already moved on.

However, their NTFS check tool that ships with the driver (I forgot the name, but I can dog it up if anyone is interested) is actually super awesome! It is so so so much better than even the Windows chkdsk tool itself, and corrects many more issues. We use it to fix NTFS errors in millions of backup images. Can highly recommend!

Hope this helps.