skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High albedo is important because of its effect on the net reflectivity of the planet, not its effect of the radiation of the surface.

Emissivity is the material property involved in radiation loss, and ice is highly emissive, but so is almost anything non-conductive. Also radiation loss depends on T^4, so that 15-20% difference ends up being closer to one being double the other.
Reading Don Quixote I was amazed to find people 400 years ago complaining about needing a prescription from a guild barber for a potion from a guild apothecary.
I see that sweden's new deaths have gone down (but their overall deaths are much worse than other scandinavian countries), but the US graphs shows no slowing of the death rate that I can tell.
> “On the psychology of the Woolworth’s shopper, a company president reportedly once said, 'Each customer who enters a five-and-ten-cent store becomes a rich man—for the moment.'”

the japanese, pursuant their reputation for meticulousness, have raised the bar on the five-and-dime to a high art. daiso (and the like) is a wonderland of irresistable crap, of ingenious, often single-purpose domestic gadgets for every fastidiousness imaginable. it's a joyous experience.
>You have more faith in your own virtue and right to rule over others than I do. I prefer to live as much as possible letting others live as they choose and being responsible for myself.

I never claimed any such personal faith or right, and that is a disingenuous reading of my comment. The chip on your shoulder is noted, albeit not compelling.

>QAnon isn't really much of a problem in the real world -- nobody is burning down cities and rioting because of it.

Hm... understate the threat of right-wing extremists, overstate the threat of left-wing activists.

Where have I seen that a million times before?
Ever ask China how that whole opium thing worked out for them?
deforestation to make room for the crops + cattle, the waste the cows produce.

Most deforestation is to grow crops. Cows generally eat grass unless they have no other options.
Wow, I am honestly amazed at the limitless range of human ignorance.

Congrats to the author for being a successful person, a good devoper and being the founder of Xamarin, but that doesn't mean you know everything, and according to text I read in the article being a good parent..

"I have kids aged 10, 7 and 4, and my eldest had access to an iPad since she was a year old,"

I have read this several times now and I cannot believe what I am reading. Giving a child, ONE year old to use an iPad? What in the world is happening? And then the author says he has trouble explaining to his kids why they have to watch an ad before continuing mindlessly playing games. And even better, he wants the rest of the world to adapt because of the children, who should not even be using it, especially not having access to Internet without parent control.

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Someone please explain to the author that it is not GOOD PARENTING to give a 1-year-old access to an addictive device.
Don't listen to me if you want, just ask Steve Jobs.. The guy made the iPad yet wouldn't let his own kids use it.. Says enough about it..
That seems like a loaded question.

If third-party app stores are allowed, companies like Epic or Facebook might just make their own app stores (or "launchers"), like they can on Windows. Governments could disallow the App Store and instead use a country-specific app store with apps that compromise privacy and include other user-hostile behavior. While it's arguably the government's responsibility to legislate and enforce privacy regulations, Apple seems to be much better at this than I would trust a government to be. Having the single App Store on iOS devices is easier, more intuitive, less susceptible to malware (and it's easier to remove malware that gets through), less susceptible to extreme government intervention, and better at protecting user privacy.

By using an Apple device, you trust Apple. They design the hardware (including the processor and Secure Enclave), write the software, and run iCloud. Trusting other companies to build their own app stores in a privacy-preserving and user-friendly manner—especially when their business model involves selling user data—seems decidedly user-hostile.
I'm convinced the app stores would look very different if they supported free trials and version upgrade pricing. Its weird that we've dropped the fundamental distribution features that powered the software and games industry for such a long time.
Standups tend to be held on purpose in places where it's socially awkward or physically difficult to bring a chair. If you can't stand for 15 minutes then carrying a chair is probably right out.

I know some feminists, I know some people with 'invisible illnesses', and I know some people who are both. There's an interesting degree of overlap in concerns and complaints for the two groups, and the intersectionality makes for some interesting commentary.

If hosting a meeting in a location where the women's restroom is on another floor veers into discrimination, if starting every meeting with, "Gentlemen... and Susan" is bad, then surely holding a daily meeting at a location without chairs creates the same type of concerns. Especially now that we include microaggression as hostile behavior.
"Because a judge" isn't necessarily the be-all one might wish it to be. A judge is just human and brings along their beliefs and knowledge or lack of to every case.
The whole idea is still equivalent to BitTorrent with magnet: links. So no, it's not a free file store - if you want to make sure your file is available, you have to seed it, or pay someone else to.
I grew up in Germany as well (Stuttgart) and love licorice, don't eat too much here but there are quite a few stores that carry it.

Most NW IPAs are nasty, enough said. Luckily the microbrewers are coming off their hops high and returning to drinkable beers again. Lots of great lagers in Oregon right now.
There are two aspects, as I understand it: Graal's native image and Quarkus's compile-time evaluation of annotations. Each is responsible for different aspects of space and time saving.

The comparable compile-time effort in Spring is being explored in the spring-init project[0] and I believe will be a core feature in Spring Boot 3 / Spring Framework 6, along with Graal support.

[0] https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-init
Not Stadia, but I've tried PS Now on Playstation 4. At least for the older-gen games it worked fairly well, but occasionally it'd get choppy. I'm not sure if that was a transient network blip on my end or somewhere between my end and whatever backend services PS Now runs on (AWS?).
I only find them useful for topics I do not understand because they are very complex and abstract. For example the explanation of linking voltage/current/watts to pipes with flowing water made sense to me because electrons moving through a conductor is too abstract but saying "Voltage is like water pressure, it makes the electricity move faster" makes sense.
Two things: if digicoins have a deservedly bad reputation, maybe it shouldn't be defended. And: if this is defending their reputation I'd hate to see what attacking it looks like. I have never wanted less to be involved in cryptocurrency or been more skeptical of it's future than now having finished reading this article.
A later (earlier) chapter became "Revenge of the Sith."
I've reaccumulated furniture as I went from living in a friend's spare bedroom during the divorce to having my own place after.
The majority shareholder can also invest in the company and dilute your shares if you don't match the investment.
I agree. It's hard to break out of the cycle, especially when you work a 9-5 (or similar) job and have to critically think throughout the day.

It's really hard to break through that especially in a system that incentivizes mass consumption, and arguably preys on it (addictive social media, food, etc...). I think it's about finding something meaningful, or building meaningful relationships, and harvesting the fruits of that labor. I think if you always try to be creative and produce something, not only will you get burned out but life will just pass you by. We should stop and smell the roses, not consume them.
It was Category 3 enough that they never connected all the murders together until he told them... We didn't know he was a serial killer, and we didn't know that there WAS a serial killer running around.
Thanks a lot. Yeah, makes sense that it should be frustrating having somebody who is not familiar with you nor a trained expert with your disorder giving all kinds of advices.

In my case, my son is 6, so even though I encourage him to tell me his thoughts, given his age most of the time is up to me to provide, or at least try to provide, a solution or in this case a coping strategy. I'll definitely do my best to not be pushy about it and avoid unnecessary stress. Thanks a lot for your comment, it certainly helps knowing other perspectives and see that things seem to be working on your end. Best wishes.
Wow, tearing down all of the bullshit in that site deserves its own submission but for now I will just focus on one thing: $30.00 per month for running shoes. What?

You can get two pairs of shoes for that at Payless shoes. They will last at least 6 months. Is anyone out there paying $360/year for running shoes? If anyone is interested in this product I would LOVE to hear about your reasoning.
If I was an sonar-equipped aquatic mammal that was also superintelligent, I'd expect generations of losses might have taught my civilization not to swim near boats.

(Unless we're positing that running the risk of being trawled is an essential part of mucking about and having fun, or a scientific experiment, or dolphins having enough imagination for some of them to speculate warnings about boats are a conspiracy to keep them from the best fish :D)
nice, what library does it use for the summarization?
I don't know about lumen, but i think in Scheme a symbol is "just" an immutable string, except that is used in a different ways for different purposes than strings which are for text.

Here is Guile Scheme (not sure if this is standard or Guile specific):

scheme@(guile-user)> 1e9
$2 = 1.0e9
scheme@(guile-user)> (string->symbol "1e9")
$3 = #{1e9}# ;; This the double quote equivalent for symbols.
scheme@(guile-user)> (define #{1e9}# "foo")
scheme@(guile-user)> #{1e9}#
$4 = "foo"

As you can see, 1e9 is read as a number, but that does not mean it cannot also be a symbol, it just requires us sneaking around the reader or using the quoting construct.
> It is, almost literally, the worst example that you could use.

But it's the one everybody knows. Society has chosen it as the common term for the concept by now. Its original source or accuracy is entirely irrelevant -- in the same way it would be missing the point to complain that "black holes" aren't technically black.

After all, we're not having a discussion between lawyers about the intracacies of US free speech law. It's just a phrase for referring to the general concept of rights not being absolute.
Yes, indeed, the whole point of being listed is that there's always liquidity (at least a market maker) and so a price signal. And in theory you can set your own risk limits. (Of course if trading is halted for the stock because a sudden drop/jump, that's a different story.)

However, investing is always a story about managing risks (so expectations). Public or private, even if it's itself an investment company, it's still just one very fragile basket. And usually there's always someone who has so different risk/expectation profile that they'll take the other end of the transaction. Anyone holding "ETR RKET" has some strange/complex ideas.
Let's not compare the adults with children, because the author literally gave his ipad to his one year old as per his own words.
That is interesting. Unfortunately from my point of view it's hard to know what to make of a report like that at this late date.
The US. Just be homeless.
Edit: I'll cop - I kinda very quickly skim read the article before posting this, now that I've read it I realize the author was arguing for better policing of in app purchases and the like, rather than content per se. Sorry - I'll leave this up because it feels like a useful addition to a different, but adjacent conversation anyway. Also my point about consistency before strictness still applies.

Technological filtering is not the solution to raising your kids. If you're worried about them seeing harmful content you can't be giving them unsupervised access to a general computing device.

Imagine how crippled the iDevice experience would have to be to stop kids from accessing anything questionable - it's not tenable to fix this problem just via app store reviews. However I can imagine a password protected browser and appstore toggle option being useful - then you could have a bunch of parent vetted games and learning stuff available, without giving the kids access to anything you don't know about while they're not supervised.

Also question whether you're doing more harm than good - I suspect I would not have followed the lucrative software dev career path that I have if my parents had heavily policed my "screen time" and internet access.

And on AppStore Reviews - they can't be made stricter unless they're also made more consistent. The current problem that people complain about isn't so much that they're too strict, it's that the rules are almost a black box and are not applied consistently.
Would you happen to know if the Internet Archive intends to use collaborative clusters to globally distribute archive contents on IPFS?
This isn't good enough. Sure you can monitor it if you have a load of time, but then what do you do when you find out its doing something evil? What do you do when you find out every app is doing something evil? You either opt out of proprietary software entirely or you let apple use their weight to force apps to stop being evil.
What's sexist? I appreciate that my wife is employable and tries to do her best in competitions. That's why I said "spouse".

The divorce thing is true for men specifically: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000312241665534...

What's nasty? Expecting that people generally value economic capability and competitive ambition in their life partners?

And, true, I don't know your wife. That's why I said to each her own. Still, as a thought experiment, quit your job and watch TV for 24 months solid then tell me how it's going.
> "No free games or games with In-App Purchases"

This is a great rule. As a father of similarly aged kids (10, 9, 4) this is exactly what I would like to have happen at my house. Unfortunately, I have found games like this difficult to surface on the app store. Is there a decent source for games like this?

Also, Apple needs to think of the impact that the prevalence of these kinds of apps has on their revenue - I spend money on steam, epic, ps4 games etc. mostly because this isn't an issue. (Or is very clearly signposted) But I am unwilling to spend money even on iphone games that are really enjoyed because the antipatterns discussed in this post have made it difficult to trust the vendor. The bottom line is, if I could trust them, I would spend more.
By proving themselves profitable to investors.

Stock trading is considered risky. Professional investors might not be happy with this, but will not be overly exposed and will readily invest again if they think they can make a profit.
I think the problem with Cloud gaming is the latency. And the network requirements push it to solving a problem for a very small subset of users (games which where latency doesn't matter can usually dont need cloud gaming).
As someone who takes a considerable amount of a potassium-sparing diuretic every day for medical reasons, it just occurred to me that I might benefit from eating more licorice, as hyperkalemia is an actual risk of my meds.
How do you know crows and dolphins lack language? Because they don’t use a syntax like ours?
It's not like the idea is arbitrary. Have you ever seen a giraffe build a car, or even a skateboard?

We don't assume superior intelligence, we observe it.
I haven't tried Stadia. I tried PS Now on a wired connection, using a 1Gbps fiber connection.

It's not ready. I played Infamous 1 and 2 and it would get choppy during complex events and the latency was noticeable. Sometimes my character would just keep moving until it registered on their server that I let go of the joystick.

If I had a bad experience what chance does everyone else have on slower connections?
Windows port – OpenZFS on OS X (2019)
> I'm not afraid of engaging with white supremacists, they always lose anyway.

The current state of the USA would disagree with you.

> the more we let them speak, the weaker their allure will be.

Except, somehow, they keep getting elected.
I don't think the antidote to consumption is necessarily production. Not everyone has to be making things all the time. And I think we're moving past the "everyone producing and selling their creations on Etsy" model, culturally. I think it's OK to do nothing and produce nothing, and just spend time thinking, talking, sleeping, whatever.
One time life payment of $3k USD?

Would it be a challenge for people to try it first if they have to pay $3k over three payments instead of the typical free trial or freemium models?
They are working on connecting Steam to cloud providers instead who will provide the horsepower and billing, etc.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/cloudgaming
I think so yes- what about the possibility of the use of a deep fake, for instance?
WTF happened in 1971 (and why the fuck it matters so much)
I've never had a standup my manager wasn't at. I know they're not supposed to but like, theory vs. practice etc.
His relationship with the company is more damning than that: his commercial supplements are well known for containing very little of the active ingredients he is associated with. It's a cash grab.
With the kids having remote learning, the school district has them playing this game called Prodigy. It has a really insidious "premium" model that it is constantly throwing up in front of my kids. New dance moves, costumes, all things kids want. I'm tempted to complain about it, the district shouldn't be using apps that push crap like this.
Sorry I should have been more clear. It appears you still do that because it's the bare minimum you need to do to keep customers from leaving for Amazon. But if that's where you stop then I can't see how it's solving the problem.
In my opinion daily standups are pointless when there is no short term delivery goal. In my dream company standups, or better dev meetings, would peter out to about once a week and then ramp up as the team approaches a delivery.

I once calculated that daily standups, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, and for some sprint of sprints consume one full day of the week. Now unless the Agile ceremonies make the team at least 25% more productive, to make up for the full day "lost", in my opinion, it is counterproductive.

But none of those activities made our team more productive, effective or deliver faster or better. Our dev teams had a built a great product that customers loved and a customer service that customers frequently lauded us for. In fact, customer loved so much they moved some of their staff into our offices and asked if we had any other product/services to sell to them! (Go figure) We had achieved all this without doing the Agile thing. We simply met and talked though issues. Senior engineers were given the freedom to innovate on the modules that they delivered. It was great, and it worked.
Absolutely. The iPhone is actually a "nice to have" utility. A $100 phone from Walmart will fulfill the "base-level necessities for modern life." The game console is an awesome analogy.
The irony here is that Google was built on the light semantics of the hyperlink: the anchor tag is the semantic web, giving you information that a server-side image map or Java applet or Flash movie or JS-driven navigation couldn't reliably identify without putting a hell of a lot more effort into your crawler.

There were probably always limits to how widely useful (or adopted) a single coherent set of resource definitions / markup conventions could have been, but for all the early value demonstrated by Google itself it sure seems like there really wasn't enough thought about the value proposition.

> Neither web developers nor web users wanted or needed it,

Users want search, first without having to put too much thought into modeling what they're looking for, then maybe with some additional options with an intuition or understanding of how results might be improved. They might not know how the semantic web could help with that any more than they know how Ruby helps their application exist, and it makes about as much sense to say users don't care about the semantic web as they don't care about Ruby. Both are potential waiting to be realized into an experience.

Developers, on the other hand, don't have anywhere near as good an excuse.
I beta tested it for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and it was pretty damn good. ~100ms on wifi didn't feel noticeable to me and I only disconnected a couple of times over a period of 2 months or so. This was on fiber, but not hardwired into the router.

My issue with using it is their software model. Google is notorious for closing things I use and enjoyed, and I don't want to effectively throw away AAA titles
Amazon Ring Drone
My learning from Reddit:

* Any comment at all is probably far too much effort, as confirmed by comments when behavior was criticized, especially if the substance of that comment isn’t already stated.

* Down vote is just the right amount of effort, like Goldilocks.

* Up votes are also a tremendous effort like fighting a crushing gravity.

* Up votes suddenly become easier with social validation. The more popular an idea appears, up votes per minute, the more irresistible the up vote button becomes like a black hole gravity well.
Yes, that's definitely the cynical way to look at it :)
I ask again, have you been a landlord? Have you ever been on either side of the eviction process in any state?

This is a typical debating "technique": bully the other party with questions like "Have you ever lived in country X? No? Then you have no right to question anything I say about the politics or history of country X."

Yes there is a process. After 18 days, what do you think the landlord does with the property? Do you think they keep it forever?

The point is, your initial message 100 percent, straight up said the complete opposite of what you're saying now: that as a landlord you can just "throw their stuff out on the curb" with no process whatsoever.

Thank you for explicitly backpedaling, at least.
a buddy of mine got asthma when the smoke was bad a few years in the bay area. The doctor requires a chest xray every year to renew the subscription.
Then they say "I worked on X, still working on X, no blockers" and move on.

A well run standup is a minute per person, max. It ensures everyone pulls their head up out of their work long enough to highlight obstacles that might effect delivery, or that someone else on the team might be able to help with, while also ensuring there aren't constant interruptions throughout the day.