skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in several campus facilities like this. When they make ridiculous decisions, the person with the power to override is three ticketing systems away. In one case we even managed to get the right person on the phone, but it was a weekend and her VPN client wasn't working. Something to be said for a window you can open by putting your hands on it.
Two simple reasons. First, "hello world" requires less explanation

print "hello world"
vs
print ("hello world")

Second, printing a line to stdout is an extremely common and special activity (especially during debugging). There is almost no programmer-defined function you could write that has a function as fundamental as that of "print".

Larry Wall of Perl thought about these things in terms of Huffman Coding, i.e. the most common thing you might want to write should have the syntax elide any easily understood context.

In the case of "print", we know we're not talking about any random function here: it's the function for getting output to the terminal, one of the most fundamental operations in all of programming. So I think it's totally fine for it to have a special representation in the language.
Most ATM’s are cheap Hyosung, tranax, etc. they most certainly do not have dye packs.

Source: I used to operate some ATM’s as a side biz.
Worth noting: This does not affect many of the major municipal utilities, including SMUD in Sacramento, LADWP in LA, and Silicon Valley Power in Santa Clara because many have their own generating capacity and are also in alternate distribution arrangements. The investor-owned utilities don't have much direct generating capacity anymore and rely on CAISO, and well, that has its limits. Also pretty sure that customers of the municipal utilities pay less than PGE/ SCE customers. For example, this is why Santa Clara has so many data centers (municipal utility, Silicon Valley Power).

Really unclear what value investor-owned utilities provide us - the municipal utilities in general seem way better.
Thanks! I will have a read through that manual!
Why Remote Working Is Bad
I was thinking this. The canvas tag displays its contents if the canvas API is not supported, while the script tag is ignored. This means the browser still has to know about the tag to be able to not-implement it the right way.
Boilerplate + Features I've heard called Skeleton.
> not focused on backwards compatibility

You lost me there. If you want any kind of adoption, you need to be backwards-compatible as much as possible. Otherwise you're just building a toy for geeks to play with, and you end up only attracting "spec perfectionists" to work on it (that is, people who care so much about the spec/implementation being beautiful and elegant that they never successfully ship something people can use).

> HTML would have to be written correctly (eg. balanced tags)

This is a common misconception, unless you're talking about XHTML (which was mostly a failure adoption-wise). HTML is a variant of SGML, which does not require balanced tags (though you can specify that certain tags must be balanced, of course). Certainly you'd prefer to enforce them in some cases where it makes sense (like <em>), but things like <br> do not need a closing tag (and do not need to be expressed as <br/>).

Anyway, I think the overall issue with the web today is that people want it to be a complete application development platform + document layout system. The goal seems to be to be able to build any kind of application as a web app, and allow them to do anything a native app could do (though hopefully with better security). Not saying this is a good or bad thing, but if that's the goal, complexity is inevitable.
I won't even pretend to know enough about construction/infrastructure to know what's required to work on it, but there have got to be jobs that can be created that don't require technical skills. I've been reading that lots of people are now going to national parks because other stuff is closed, and they're leaving lots of trash - hire people to pick it up. Roads have potholes, and I can't believe that fixing those requires that specialized of a skill set.

And even for some of the things that are most efficiently solved with specialized skills and equipment, if there's a way to do them less efficiently by unskilled people, that's fine, since overspending on labor is totally fine if not desirable in this context.
Here's a small piece on a few of Scott Adams' predictions, discussing how they weren't anything special:
http://helvegr.com/2018/09/29/lets-score-the-accuracy-of-sco...

Before he pegged my personal BS meter and I just started ignoring anything from him that I happened across, I noticed that Adams seemd fond of a lot of "cold-reader" type tricks: vagueness that can be turned into specifics after the fact, ignoring their own failures while hyping their successes, that kind of thing.

If you want to see what actual serious prediction attempts look like, search for Nate Silver or Nassim Taleb.
I’d wonder if that’s orthogonal to the issue at hand though - Native American tribes experienced a glut of such diseases when they began transitioning onto anglo-Saxon style diets. We know that many communities across the world nowadays achieve advanced years by having simple diets and strong communities, and hunter-gatherers had that + rigorous exercise. As another comment on this page states, the typical hunter-gatherer was leagues more physically fit than the average person today.
Works council is all roses until it isn't. As a manager it's a huge pain to manage out non performing employees. Eventually all the good people leave and you are left with the ones you cannot fire.
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On Usenet, sure. But in LiveJournal comments? On the Something Awful forums? Things were much wilder on the murky corners of the web in the darkness of the eternal september than they were on Usenet, even in the alt.* hierarchy.
I always wanted to start a coop, but never found anyone who knew how. I am interested in your product and pinged you on your website.
people from /r/indiaspeaks who think Jio's regulatory capture is the same thing as innovation
Indeed, people testing positive months after all symptoms have disappeared don't appear to be infectious, the PCR is just picking up fragments of viral RNA.

That said, I always understood RNA as being pretty fragile, so I'm surprised, but I do know that the fragility is heavily dependent up on structure - you can have RNA sequences that are pretty stable due to the tertiary structure (folding) that occurs.
This is a so millenial take on self-control that I cannot help to comment about it.

Old school resilience and persistance is what you will miss all the way into "I will do as I please to do things".

Not good. Many, many things require years to be built. For example, if you want to study medicine, you're up for maybe 10-15 years of hard training, long hours of dedication, most certainly you won't see any "light at the end of the tunnel" before a decade into the challenge.

But also most certainly you will have the impulse to just throw away all your efforts, not one, but dozens of times, but, if you remain commited to your own path and true to what you would really want to do in life, you will get to the end.

How far in similar challenges would you think a person with a "lets go to whatever direction I want to go "right now" " approach?, will get?

Most certainly not the astronaut, highly trained all kind of professionals (scientists, military specialists, even politicians), type.
Astrobotic's CubeRover program awarded $2M NASA contract
All we need to do is actually roll it out. Waiting to see how long that takes and how it gets fumbled.
Experience Paralysis: How experience slowed me down
It's a bit sad that although coding tends to attract introverts, most SW development (especially in a work environment) fundamentally needs to be more social than other engineering disciplines.

If you can find a job where you, and only you, are writing code, and not integrating it into a larger piece of SW, then everything is fine and you can work alone. This is incredibly rare.

There is very little in SW that is clearly objective. How to architect the code well, rules about when to reuse code, when to abstract, whether to use a global variable, how to name things, even whether to use GOTO are all opinions - not facts. As such, the SW world has to put in a lot more effort in campaigning for what they consider good design and good coding practices.

Look at code reviews. This is, at its very core, a social practice. In my experience, most of the discussions in code reviews do not involve bugs (which are very objective), but are dominated by style and design discussions, which are subjective.

In most other engineering disciplines, things are a lot more clear cut. There usually are not 20 different ways to achieve something, and the criteria for quality is much clearer.

I too am an introvert. But I also realize that complex SW development is at odds with introversion. I can lament the situation, but I cannot blame extroverts for this. They didn't come in and crowd things. It is inherent to the beast. As a SW developer, I do need to influence my fellow developers (as well as my customers). I have to learn those skills. One can do that while still being an introvert.

(Not meaning to invalidate your point about RMS and organizations and social movements. I agree with you on that. But for SW development, some level of social skills legitimately gives you an advantage)
I spend a lot of time in the Ukraine and talk with people. A friend of mine earns $140/mo ($1680/yr) as a skilled machinist. He has probably as much accumulated skill as me and sweats at his work. I sit around and type out some JS and drink coffee, and make an order of magnitude more money than him. I drove a $500 car (on vegetable oil - cheaper). Live in one bedroom appartment with a Hungarian family. Outside the window are people shooting themselves up. I worked for a couple of years out of a McDonalds with earplugs so the music didn't distract me. I maintain a complex software stack that services nearly a million users with a software they love. I don't want to be doing anything else.

I don't like the IQ/talent fetish that seems to pervade Anglophone culture. Some people have a stronger natural predisposition to sit and stare at a screen and figure out puzzles, and that happens to be sought after on the labor market. Doesn't mean others have less inherent value as human beings.

Would be nice to have a small appartment one day. I just try to offer some perspective.
I think the confusion is in the way that sheep as a word can be both plural and singular. Specifically, one sheep is as likely to be in any single spot compared to any other single spot. It’s when you get to more than one sheep that you see the distributions
Anything Node, JS, or web-development related seems to churn much more than everything else.
My first post to Usenet was in 2019. Its message ID is <1562970678.bystand@zzo38computer.org> in case you want to try to find it. Who else made their first post to Usenet in 2019 or 2020? (I think there was one other, although I cannot find it right now.)
I'm gonna be honest, using kernel density estimates on discrete data is almost bad enough to make me discount the result outright. Almost.
The trouble seems that there aren't many people that get software AND electronics AND mechanics AND on top of that marketing, right.

It is rare enough to find people with good electronics and software skills.
On a similar note, many of those seemingly pointless as-sold-on-TV gadgets for kitchens or cleaning are actually assistive devices for people with limited mobility, relabeled for general sale on the side.
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I’m guessing NeXT is supposed to be Nest (given IoT and HVAC).
There's a reason commit and push are two separate actions. That said, most people commit+push in the same keystroke.

git revert is my best friend.
It also depends a lot on use cases and available resources. When on a single or just a few tabs, my perception usually favored Chrome, but in real usage I'm often keeping hundreds of tabs open and Firefox keeps being speedy enough most of the time while Chrome becomes unbearable very quickly.
Why? You can’t just say something is “unbelievable” without further comment. He has explained in other places, in some detail, what happened in all three instances, and his summary is essentially correct (unless you think he’s making it all up, of course).
Most countries' health authorities don't believe that any achievable level of infection can be controlled through contact tracing alone, so they're aiming to find an acceptable equilibrium for the next year or two until a vaccine can be widely deployed.
Good tips, not a page I would use at work on account of the title.

I get that SV is probably profanity-friendly, but a lot of us work in more reserved environments.
Does anyone know any details about how the archaeologist derived foot speed from ancient fossilized footprints? I've come across this before but took it with a big pinch of salt.
There are a million "simple facts" so knowing all of them in some sense doesn't mean you are accessing the one you need when you need it.

I think this is a fairly general explanation of why smart people do dumb things.

Also of why reading self-help writing can seem like it's revealing important stuff to one person, seem obvious from a different perspective, and not really help anyway.

People can do a very wide variety of things at any given moment, but temperaments or tendencies cannot be changed so easily. Large problems come from a persistent but small or even tiny bias, such as consuming slightly more calories than you burn. A ten pound weight gain in a year is less than 5% over 2000 calories maintenance. 20 years of that and you might be close to 400 lbs. Saying "why can't that person just not eat that..." is denying the problem of balancing something over a lifetime when the homeostatic feedback mechanism people rely on is out of whack.

I don't mean to suggest that weight control is unique, lots of things in life are about the accumulated benefits or harms over time. In management of an organization, not just individual problems, too.
Air conditioning should be powered on site when possible.

In a different timeline we would have programs for zero interest loans for solar power installations with payments managed through the power company (trading paying for power to paying for the loan to generate the power).
Thanks for feedback.

Each chapter has ample of free excerpt (10-20% of total content), all code is public under MIT license: https://github.com/async-labs/saas

This worked well for us so far. We received less than 10 refund requests out of 850 purchases. Not sure what else to add here.

Code speaks for itself, I am just no-name guy in the cabin in the middle of the forest, with hotspot and generator. I have early-stage SaaS business with few paying customers but nothing to brag about it: https://async-await.com

If I were you I would not buy this book. At least one author is not a celebrity =)
Well, Trump hasn't killed a million Iraqis for no reason.
Really? No selective presentation? AGNB is almost entirely selective presentation.
That's what https://dangitgit.com/en is for :)
Ah, The ones I read were about economic models, no social commentary at all.
This is a bit long back. They came a long way now in terms of security.

DKB rejects applications unless you have German PR or citizenship and it is mainly in German.

Here is a DKB subsidiary https://www.dkbcodefactory.com/ advertising as a start-up.
Car Designer Fisker Lost First Race with Elon Musk. He Wants to Go Again
> It hit the mainstream.

Mainstream people are not travelling to Area 51 to be part of a flash mob due to an internet meme. Re-set your expectations of what normal people are doing, because it's a million miles off.
Basically every large country is actively participating in it at this point against their rivals. (Yes that even includes you guys America - Operation Earnest Voice was just the beginning). You can't really call it out as bad when you are doing it yourself.

They realise it's a threat but also see it as an opportunity.

The US military were discussing meme warfare a decade ago. The Russian IRA basically pumps out this stuff wholesale.

It's incredibly hard to stop.
How is the decision made as to who loses power first? Coolest area?
When it gets to the point of diving into the last two, the article literally says:

> Alright, this is where it gets complicated.

I haven't implemented any of the above myself, but the author at least seems to think the last two are where the complexity is concentrated.
I have to ask -- are you aware of the existence of bimetallic strips, and how they can perform this function in a completely mechanical way? (No electricity.) It doesn't get you active air movement, of course, but it has worked for years in greenhouses.
Just FYI to all the shoe fascists, there's a guy Cody Lundin [1] who walks around barefoot all the time, even in freezing temperatures and does quite fine with it. I first found out about him as a survivalist author.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Lundin
No problem. Thanks.
This kind of sarcasm is poisonous.
I develop opensource software, so people don't need to pay for software!

Wouldn't that be a nice world to live in?
Trump says he will look into a pardon for Edward Snowden
By hounding him in this way, you’re making his point for him.
Site has been hugged.

On another point, is Opus a popular format, given that alot of people now stream stuff mostly? IIRC, some of the Quake engines support it.
"In all five datasets, we investigated if rates of autism diagnosis significantly differed by gender by first conducting χ2 tests (Model 1, unadjusted), and then by conducting logistic regressions adjusted for age and educational attainment as covariates (Model 2, adjusted)."

It appears the kernel density estimates is being used as a display of the data, not the actual method of statistical analysis, or perhaps I missed something.
Jesus this is long.

tldr for part one is: Jio is 4G only and that means all calls are VOIP(ish), and you only have to maintain the data network. This allows them to offer much cheaper data to their subscribers, and hence a bunch of new Indians are coming online.

tldr for part two is: the parent company is a retail giant and there’s a hope that they’ll be able to leverage the network to sell physical products to the new Cyber Indians.
The San Francisco exodus is real
This is a more level-headed description of the situations and their background.

But I think it's still missing the point:

* There isn't a legal process of banning TikTok.

* The current process is overly politicized.

It's not that there isn't legitimate reasons to motivate banning TikTok. It's that such reasons cannot legally justify such action.

Of course there is presidential executive power to do that. But that should be used as a less common mechanism. Not on this minor issue.

My conclusion: The whole situation is out-of-proportional because of politics.
>If it start beeping, either it’s malfunctioning and needs to be rebooted, or there’s a significant radiation leak on campus.

With no details on how it beeps I'm now anxious for beeping of a device many miles away
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's a flamewar topic. There's a new controversy coming out of MIT media lab every week and we need to question whether whatever "culture" they're putting out is actually worth emulating.

And don't forget MIT pushed out Richard Stallman in regards to Epstein debate while ignoring people who knowingly took childfucking money.
Le GARLIC: Yet another AI-generated content inspired by the ONION
The only link between Aaron Swartz and the Media Lab is that they hosted his memorial service.

Step one of not whitewashing history is to be accurate about it. You can't say that the Media Lab is an embarrassment to the MIT name when one of your pieces of evidence is that the rest of MIT - not the Media Lab - did something unconscionable. You can't hold organizations to account if your account is wrong.

And that's the danger with unrelated controversies and tangents - all of a sudden we need to have a discussion about the substance of that controversy and tangent. The angrier you are about something, the more important - and harder - it is to target your anger appropriately. Anger is a great tool. Make sure it is hitting what you intend for it to hit.

(In the interest of disclosure: I am an MIT alum who has never been particularly proud of my alma mater in general; I have no tie to the Media Lab.)
Curious why you think the worst ML scientists were the former engineers (as someone who does a bit of both).
The preliminary study shows very high specificity, which is good for something that may be widely deployed, as it avoids the problem of massive numbers of false positives: https://lee-phillips.org/testingbad/
Election forecasting isn’t useful for those who don’t understand enough about statistics and forecasting to have the correct context to know how to read and use the information. That’s not a criticism of you, it’s a problem in the field. I work in data science/forecasting, and explaining forecasts is so hard that it’s often useless for those who don’t understand how to read them.
Very true.

Having worked in this space, the failures usually come from lopsided teams. Too many startups try to treat these products as technology products with a side of building materials, assuming that the technology is the hardest part.

In reality, the technology part is easy. The most difficult part is manufacturing and shipping reliable mechanisms at low cost. It can be done, but the mechanisms and mechanical parts need to be treated as the primary product, not an afterthought.
>I'm not sure what you mean by "accept the person" with those beliefs.

That you cannot kill him, mute him or trow him into a prison, that person has the same rights as you no matter what his believes are.
Ask HN: Crossovers/intersections between mechanical engineering and CS?
I was wondering if anyone knew of any areas of cs where people with backgrounds in mechanical engineering who can also code are needed/work? I've found a few such roles related to software designed to perform analysis for engineering but am hoping to find additional areas to research or possibly of other relevant resources.
Votes only mean that they write things that agree with popular opinion. I find it funny that you say that accomplishments don't matter and then immediately use the amount of votes and discussion to give this person credibility.

Anyway, if someone writes an article being a proponent for elitism they should have accomplishments to back it up. This person has done nothing and they don't deserve to be writing this kind of article. Maybe if this came from someone like John Carmack I would listen but I don't think he would be dumb enough to write this.