skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that a lot of people here are forgetting that a project is whatever you make a project to be. It does not need to be operated like a bureaucratic profit seeking corporation. The problem is that the corporate world leaks their madness into our private lives. Just do whatever you want and have fun. Remember that you can choose any type of societal model to structure your project. And most importantly you are free to walk away at any time. But there exist two things here the real project and the social avatar of the project and how the people on the project interact with each other. What belongs to whom? and does it matter? Sub specie aeternitatis this whole thing feels like an effing Herzog movie. Please don't let yourselves get carried away by this nonsense. Like whats the effing point here Fitzcarraldo? I mean seriously people, as a humanity, where are we going so fast that we can't wait to get there and why don't get there with joy?
Thank you for sharing!

I was thinking about starting something like this, and had reached out to datasette [1] / Simon Willison for advice on starting and maintaining a project.

[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2017/Nov/13/datasette/
Miracle Octad Generator
I wrote a small DSL editor before and I had to fight extremely hard to get a theme that made the semantic highlighting legible.

I like pretty things too, but they also need to be functional.
Given that most governments spend more than they take in and can print money...
15 Businesses that are failing because of the Coronavirus
I believe this is because the current state of things on the web advocates for consumption instead of curation, and you can see this trend in every domain not just movies/media. Multi-billion dollar corporations do not want their investments subject to a random person's criticism, and from their perspective that makes perfect sense. It was very prudent and certainly much cheaper to coopt the entire field of media critique: Metacritic is owned by CBSViacom, Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Comcast, IMDB by Amazon. The old-media reviewers can get drowned out by new-media that is beholden to these corporations for access to interviews, swag, early-access, exclusives, etc. The corporations that create the media own the algorithms that tell you if the media is good or not.

The vast majority of the web has devolved similarly. Interested in a widget? If you Google "Widget Reviews" the first page is drowned out by listicles. Google gets the ad money, the listicle website gets the referral money, Amazon gets the retailer's cut plus maybe another Prime membership. There's very little incentive for fair and honest criticism on the web and every incentive for the big players to drown it out.
What was absurd about those allegations?
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> I could imagine that it would be relatively easier to extract and isolate heavy metals in a state where they're otherwise just in water, vs once they're extremely diffuse

This is definitely true; the more concentrated something is, the more of it you can extract.

But there are significant logistical differences between having 100,000 filters in 100,000 households doing their filtering at the point of emission, and having one filter in a treatment plant which all the water is guaranteed to pass through. What happens if 20% of the individual filters break?
Nope. They want more data - especially trading data. It's why charles schwab is offering free trades. Apparently they believe the data generated is more valuable than charging $4 per trade.

> MS needs more assets if they want to start lending.

No they don't, they have nearly a trillion in assets. And if they wanted more assets, they would buy up local or regional banks.

Just like tech companies started buying other companies for their "IP", now the trend is towards data. Whether it is to train their algorithms, to package and sell or whatever.
Those problems were brought up as objections the very minute that Flatpak and Snappy arrived.

OP has just provided concrete examples of those problems appearing in the real, existing public repos for Flatpak.

This is not surprising.

It has turned out exactly as expected: Upstream developers cannot be trusted to update dependencies on a timely basis.
OK, I see what you're saying, thanks for the clarification.

I guess there is a tendency to overreact and think, "I want the exact opposite of the Bay Area", when what you really want is cheaper rent and a tad less shit on the sidewalk.
Oh, nevermind, Sim City 2000 actually came out in 1993.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12021195
For the beginner there's "Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists"[0]. The main issue I have with them is they tend to optimize poorly on modern hardware even when they theoretically should be the right data structure to use (IMHO of course).

[0]: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/
Democracies can vote fascists into power.
It's also Knuth quoting Tony Hoare, a man who I highly recommend everyone familiarize themselves with, he's a wonderful speaker and is extremely intelligent.

The context of the quote from both Hoare and Knuth is critical, and is always left out.

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil."

ie: 3% of the time you should absolutely care about 'small' efficiencies. Given that most programs spend almost all of their time in a few places, this is hardly surprising, and 3% is actually a fairly sizable amount of code to optimize to the degree which the paper is discussing (most people are rarely dropping to tools like goto for performance).

And, from the same paper (Structured Programming with goto Statements):

"The conventional wisdom shared by many of today's software engineers calls for ignoring efficiency in the small; but I believe this is simply an overreaction to the abuses they see being practiced by pennywise-and-pound-foolish programmers, who can't debug or maintain their "optimized" programs. In established engineering disciplines a 12 % improvement, easily obtained, is never considered marginal; and I believe the same viewpoint should prevail in software engineering. Of course I wouldn’t bother making such optimizations on a one-shot job, but when it’s a question of preparing quality programs, I don’t want to restrict myself to tools that deny me such efficiencies."

In other words, we should not write slower code when we can help it. Small efficiencies are well worth attaining in the general case, and the fears of writing 'unreadable' code because it's fast are mostly unfounded.

I believe this has never been truer. It's easier than ever to create highly tuned code that's hidden behind a 0 cost abstraction, and it's well worth it to tune that code for simple and obvious wins - we should never strive for inefficiency, as so many seem to advocate.
I think a lot of people here are running NoScript, more than you may realize. Yes, it breaks a ton of stuff. I give temporary whitelists to sites I actually want to run JS for and permanent whitelists are quite rare. Case in point: google only gets temporary whitelisting.
This is a fair point, but, prompted by the headline, I was thinking of this as a waste disposal problem, not as a "how much energy can I get out of a pound of fat?" problem.
Is there any reason they, in particular, are so bad? I'm presuming that running one takes a lot of energy but, other than that, why are they such a strain on public health and the environment?
The plan to prosecute Assange began before Trump was elected. We all know that the majority of people working in government now are from prior administrations. If Trump directly tried to stop it, then he'd have to weather more inconvenient headlines about Trump-Russia conspiracy. If he indirectly tried to stop it, then we'd have more anonymously sourced leaks and whistleblowers. Either approach would lead to the house Democrats demanding another investigation. The American people would be embroiled in another impeachment debate. Biden and Harris would be making hardline statements about severe punishment for Assange, and it would hurt the Trump campaign goal of being the "Law & Order" side. The least risky thing Trump can do is allow the government to proceed with the prosecution & then try to get a deal in for him.
> See, I've always heard Facebook makes the largest part of its money by selling data about its users.

Categorically untrue. They sell advertising space. The data is used to target the ads, which are often paid for based on performance.

Selling the data would be a terrible idea... if anyone else had it, it would undermine their value proposition.
For me at least, a round watch face blends better, and it's harder to tell whether it is a smartwatch or not out of the corner of your eye without specifically checking the face of the watch. For square watches, I can pretty much tell it's a smartwatch, starting from the Pebble days.
When to take a chance on someone (2019)
> they believe the data generated is more valuable than charging $4 per trade

They're selling the order flow [1]. Just like Robinhood. This isn't a data play in a tech-company acquisition sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_for_order_flow
A fun snarky article. It missed another potential issue: many modern systems use cache prefetching, where they intentionally start loading the "next" memory area. As a result, sequential memory access is often much faster than bouncing around memory.

Your mileage may vary.
These are the same reasons you should opt for an SoC that can run Linux over a "wifi microcontroller" if your embedded project needs networking and has the cost and power budget to support it. The Linux community has spent the last 25 years finding and fixing bugs that you absolutely will encounter if you use the Microchip or Espressif or SiLabs networking stack.
Sometimes I wish there also were "news of the past", so that we could recall what was on our minds ten years ago and see it in the perspective.

Something like... Ten years ago Senate was voting to appoint John Doe a new supreme court judge. At that moment FNN Channel claimed it would be the end of the free world as we know it and Cox News praised the appointment as returning to the good old times. As we see now, ten years later neither prophecy was correct: the world has not ended and good old times did not return.
And interestingly enough, this is a method used by Russian services as well.
Coincidentally, poor understanding of your tools (especially databases) seems like a huge source of frustration and pain for anyone involved in software development.
Man are you me?

After college I finally got diagnosed again after being off medication for 8 or so years. Grew up first doing Ritalin->adderall->concerta->no meds. I realized how needlessly difficult I made college for myself.
Gauging demand can sometimes be useful in planning a project can it not? I mean, if the comments are phrased nicer than your example.
> margin on trading is quickly becoming negative

Both institutional [1] and retail [2] trading are is still profitable. Even for smaller shops. That said, the business has economies of scale. It thus becomes more profitable the larger one is.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/d7ab03c2-0939-4665-aa72-a2b922da7...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2020/08/03/robinhoo...
Hi, I want to clear up some points. First, it is not intended for non technical folks, this was never claimed! However, even if it was, we are currently working on a gui, where (non technical)users can run it by writing a simple cmd in the terminal.

Second, I'm a technical user, in fact this is my daily work and we build this tool for reasons that were mentioned in the docs/readme, so you can check it out.

Third, you mentioned understanding YAML Format. Really? I mean yaml is the most understandable format any person can understand. I can never imagine that a person cannot learn yaml in 30 min at most.

Finally, yes sklearn is great and well documented but did you checked how many libraries are out there that represent basically a wrapper to make it easier/abstracter to write sklearn code? you ll be surprised.

As discussed in the official repo & docs, it is a much cleaner approach to gather your preprocessing & model definition parameters/configs in one human readable file/place, where you can manipulate it easily. Re-run experiments, generate drafts, building proof of concepts as fast as possible, than to write code. At the end of the day, we all have different opinions, you can still write code of course. The tools are there to help.
My preference is usually: ‘hi, thanks for creating this tool/library/whatever. It really makes a meaningful difference in my life. I’m encountering a problem with the blah blah module, which you can repro thusly.’

Don’t grovel, but also acknowledge that the only compensation the reader of the report is likely to get is in the form of these extremely rare moments of gratitude.

I should also mention that I maintain an open source app that gets used by the public, and is regularly confused by them with being a product of a group of paid individuals. In fact, they usually think the software is a result of their tax dollars at work. I’ve received a lot of really negative, shitty feedback from all sorts of people, including folks in the software industry (shout out to everyone who ever emailed me from their Amazon.com work addresses). Don’t be like these people. The ones who start by simply saying “thanks” not only get more from me, but also help keep my motivation up.
> - Adderall = Amphetamine

Adderall is a mixture of several amphetamine salts including (25%?) dextroamphetamine and the formulas are subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) different between manufacturers. The key difference between Adderall and Dexedrine is the addition of those complementary amphetamines that balance out dextro's rough edges (Tracers!)
A beginner’s guide away from scanf (2017)
LumixEngine: New open-source cross-platform game engine inspired by Unity
> and when something is missing, it is not part of the contract.

What if a clause is ambiguous to benefit both parties equally, but not at the same time? Are both parties forbidden to act on their own in those cases?
Firefox. Chromium. KDE. Gnome-shell. Libreoffice.

Static linking is an atavism. Application authors don't spend time thinking about it any more.

The main reason static linking persisted as A Thing into the 1990s was that fossilized vendor UNIXes didn't support it, or didn't support it well. Those systems are all extinct.

About the only place you still see static linking is embedded. And that is its own world.
They can by turning off secure boot.
> Complex syntax is mentally taxing and distracts the programmer from focusing his energy on problem solving.

With respect I don't see it that way (nor know of any studies to back that up qualitatively). While complex syntaxes do exist and they are horrible (I pray you never have to use XSLT) dropping semicolons and commas do not make a syntax noticeably simpler. But they may lay unexpected traps.

See how your users find it though.
There are supplements, backed by research, that practically remove all of the negative side effects of adderall. To start with, the sadness you felt on vyvanse sounds like dopamine depletion. You want to be taking l-tyrosine to make sure there’s plenty of fuel for the amphetamine to work with. ALCAR + ALA counteract the psychomotor agitation and tolerance formation. Magnesium + zinc help with muscle cramping. Selenium is neuroprotective. And of course you want to make sure you’re getting enough electrolytes (sodium + potassium) and balancing your intake, as a general rule for life, but especially if you take stimulants.

With the aforementioned supplement stack I’ve been able to go off doses as high as 60 mg of adderall per day without any significant withdrawal symptoms. It’s been a complete game changer in terms of making this medication a sustainable option for me. I will say as a caveat that things which reduce drug tolerance formation also typically attenuate some of the effects. In my case, ALCAR + ALA basically erase the potential for euphoria but don’t seem to diminish the mental benefits.
I agree with you, the worst is about to happen worldwide.

The Indians clearly want more control. The Chinese obviously are never going to relinquish any control. Even the South Americans and especially the Africans are starting to look at regionally fenced mobile and internet services as a method of both more control over social media and growing their economies. (As well as providing jobs for their youth.)

I think the saying was something like freedom dies to thunderous applause.
I read that part a few times, but it makes no sence.

I prefer another quote

> What we did was reroute the current in the circuit and transform it into something useful.

Let's suppose that they get some "useful" energy to turn on the lamp like in the animation or power a small device.

Let's suppose that you use it to power a laser and send a beam that heat some object far away. As a side effect, you are extracting energy from the device with the graphene in the lab so it will get cooler.

So the net effect is that the device in the lab gets cooler and the object far away get hotter. So you have a flux of heat. But if the other object is hotter, you have a lux of heat from in the wrong direction, that is impossible according to the Second Law.

There are a million ways to rewrite this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics in more abstract or more concrete ways. With some oversimplifications, another is that you need at least two heat baths and the efficiency of the device to transform heat from the "hot" bath to of "useful" energy can be calculate using the temperatures of the baths. When the difference of temperature is zero, the efficiency is zero and the device can produce no "useful" energy. Or in other words, with only one heath bath, you can produce no "useful" energy.
Passenger service is usually high-usage enough that the cost of electrification is worthwhile. But many freight-only lines still use diesel, even in areas where a majority of the rail net has been electrified, because little-used supply tracks lack an incentive to electrify them. If we can replace those diesel lines with hydrogen, that's a win.

Also note that the motors themselves are electric, so when this train is running on an electrified section, it could still use the overhead lines. Not sure if modern diesel engines offer that same option (i.e. if the diesel is purely used as a generator for an otherwise electric engine).
Absolutely useless pollution machines. Running on bunker fuel, used as floating towns for people's amusement, polluting more than all of Europe's cars combined.

There is no excuse for them. I believe they should be banned, and any leisure ships should be sail-powered. I bet they would be more fun for the tourists, too.

I understand international shipping is vital, that's why cargo ships get a pass, but cruise ships simply have no place if we actually care about the environment. Sadly, money trumps everything.
This article presents one side of a long-standing debate in linguistics about whether human languages are more shaped by pressures for efficient communication, or by innate computational constraints that are hardwired in the brain. The latter position is heavily associated with Chomsky’s school, which posits that language can only be understood in terms of complex, discrete data structures and a small set of computational operations acting on them. This article is a fairly standard articulation of that position.

Which is to say, it’s not all there is to this debate. For a review of the arguments on the other side (that language is shaped by a pressure for efficient communication) here’s a nice read: http://colala.berkeley.edu/papers/gibson2019how.pdf
watches have been a fashion accessory only for years now. The high priced swiss etc watch market is purely a status symbol fashion thing for sure. Smart watches are an accessory as there's very little reason to not be with your phone or check your phone for the basics (time, notifications). All the perks you all like about the Watch are frivolous/luxury concerns. Even the health tracking. Having all the extra data and notifications (bleh, no more notifications!) are a luxury. Tap to pay, handy, sure, but man, is that a luxury. And all you parents out there loving the watch because you're juggling kids and don't know where your phone is half the time....... handy luxury, and maybe really you only need the one device (tied to the iphone still? bah)

The pandemic has also changed everything. Other than perhaps wanting the health tracking in covid times which could save a life sure, no one should be moving around as much or in the same way as pre-covid to need a watch.

It's just another watch fashion accessory that keeps you tied to your phone for convenience, but not necessary = luxury. You're paying a luxury fee for convenience that the Apple ecosystem has made you accustomed to from a glorified media company that happens to have some hardware made for you to access their media offerings. Just like the iPad made a market for tablets where there wasn't really one and for years despite competitors entering the market was really only for the Apple iPad and nothing else.

meh/apple hate in this post, whatever, just a different viewpoint not expressed enough in this thread.
Yes. I still see the colors of stars, but it's like a pale color. They are mostly white, but some tend toward red, others yellow, others blue. There's definitely a difference. When I see Mars, it is definitely more red, especially so when it is closer.

But I distinctly remember my young eyes, probably when I was 4, that the the stars had a lot more color than they do now. I remember talking about it with my mother while she was driving one night.

I score fairly high on color acuity tests, and gravitated toward a job in color printing in my 20s, and learned color management. I matched so many colors in CMYK and CMYKOG by hand, because the color models used to calculate color differences and tolerances do a poor job of modeling the response of the human eye to color. Since then the models have improved, but they still need work. Given what this article describes, this makes complete sense. You are mapping two very different mathematical spaces from one to the other. One based around specific pigments with specific values, and the other based around differential curves between color receptors with overlapping ranges.
Meanwhile this kind of dancing around the issue will piss me off, though I don't usually respond so.

If there's a bug, tell me what happened, what you expected, what your config/environment looks like, and if it's a library a minimal code example that triggers the bug.

I don't need to hear about how your grandmother's favorite chili recipe saved your uncle's best friend's life when he was trapped in the Siberian wilderness after going on the run from the Malaysian government. Just tell me how to make the damn chili.
Not at all. Pro-profit media is simply reporting, as is profitable, that there's no mention or arguments from the media anymore about the issues regarding war crimes, without explaining why.
And the mall owner charged not only rent, but 30% of your store sales which could only be made through their proprietary payment system.

Sounds lucrative.
The world's worst video card? (how to build a breadboard video card) (2019)
QAnon lands on LinkedIn, prompting networking site to limit spread
Snap, Flatpack, and Docker applications almost universally use dynamic linking.

They just use some combination of rpath fields and virtual filesystems to make sure the dynamic linker only inspects the paths mandated by the application author.
New service checks if your email was used in an emotet spam campaign