skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he actually did claim that gradually increasing exposure does make you better at cold.

This claim is true in the broad sense, but not just from gradual exposure. In the Marine Corps, I went through quite a bit of training in dealing with cold conditions. There are specific training requirements for cold exposure, and a tried and true methodology for increasing a person's capacity for dealing with the cold.

Biologically, your body will naturally adjust to a climate over time. This occurs when living in warmer or cooler conditions for a period of time. The main controls are metabolism speed, sweat threshold, and activity level.

One of the key ways to quickly adjust to a new climate is by a forced activity level in it. When we'd train in a new climate, we'd always start by doing forced marches during the peak condition (hottest or coldest time of day, depending on which condition we were unused to) for a day or two, then move on to runs, then to actual mission based training. On the first day or two, we'd all be shivering, miserable, joints swollen, etc... By day 3 or 4, that would all go away. You're still uncomfortable, but your body has adjusted.

Once you leave that climate, your resistance to the extreme temperature slowly fades (as you're adjusting to a new climate), but it seems to me that I still carry a bit of resistance to the extreme.

We'd do refreshers whenever we got the chance, taking people on "polar bear runs" in the middle of the night in the desert, in shorts and t-shirts, and that would help sustain the resistance to the cold.
The path of a series on traditional tv too often follows the path:

1. New show is popular
2. Gets renewed
3. Season 2 or 3 they decide to slow the story line and just have individual episodes where a problem pops up and is resolved with no advance of the overarching plot.
4. By seasons 4 the actors are now famous and getting too expensive to continue. Some drop out, new people come in.
5. It gets cancelled with many things unresolved.
Can I search HN, sort by date and hide all the hits which have never been shown in the top 30? Occasionally I want to find something I've seen among the titles on the HN index page some months ago.
I can't seem to find posts before 2006 or so on a cursory search for a random comp.* group on usenetarchives.com so where are these updates posted on either www or nntp? Also, I believe usenetarchives.com deserves an improved web ui on top of just hierarchical navigation by group.subgroup... + month even if the preferred protocol is nntp.
> t's the US version that people seem to re-watch endlessly

That's probably in no small part due to the fact that the US version is markedly more upbeat than the UK one. I honestly cannot watch the original anymore - despite being undoubtedly better written and better produced, it's just too bleak.
Caper debuts AI-driven self-checkout solution
Women forced by their dress codes to wear revealing clothing.
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> Countries that locked down late, came out of lock down too early, did not effectively test and quarantine, or only used a partial lockdown—including Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Sweden, the U.S. and the U.K.—have almost uniformly done worse in rates of infection and death.

I'm skeptical of this kind of underspecified hypothesis. Is there some concrete definition of for example "came out of lockdown too early" being applied here? Or is it just the post-hoc reasoning of "well, they didn't achieve good results, so their methods must have been bad"? You could probably explain any pattern in the data with such vague criteria.
Function composition doesn't spring to mind when I think fakes/mocks/testing. As a long-time functional programmer, the things I'd reach for are:

Higher-order functions: rather than taking a 'service object' as an argument, and calling one or two of its methods, we can accept the methods/functions we need as arguments. Tests can pass in their own functions, which looks a lot like mocking but doesn't need any tricks or frameworks. This is the easiest approach for simple cases, but incurs lots of boilerplate as it's used more and more.

Records: these are name/value collections (think '{foo: bar, ...}' in JS). Since the values can be functions, they're pretty much objects; but we can swap out these values without having to define classes, etc. We can use these just like 'service objects' in OOP.

Type classes/interfaces: these define certain operations/methods that can be performed on a given type, even if that type's generic. They're essentially records like above, but chosen by the compiler based on the type; some languages (e.g. Agda, Idris, Scala) also allow overrides to be taken from the current scope.

Domain-specific languages: we treat the methods/operations of our API as if they're builtin-functionality of some 'embedded' language. When we use such functionality, the result is a program for that embedded language. We can run these programs by defining an "interpreter" (a function which implements each of these operations); we can define a 'real' interpreter and a test interpreter. This is the most hardcore, and usually benefits from some framework for doing the necessary plumbing. I wouldn't recommend it as a first step, but I've had success doing this with Haskell's Polysemy library; another popular library is Haskell's 'Monad Transformer Library' but I've not used that myself.
Somewhat related but not exactly related to Low-Level Academy, you might be interested in "Nand2Tetris" if you're interested in studying low level concepts for education purposes.
You pay them 120 bucks per year.

I get great customer service at the local record store, where I pay 30 bucks for an LP.
https://freeyourmusic.com/en/transfer-spotify-to-spotify

This is the best of the lot.
Not anonymous (mainstream creeptocurrencies are traceable by design!) but censorship resistant. Yes, this is the ONLY use case for the buttcoins.

The problem is that for every successful weed and nudes sale there's a million ransomware attacks, scam calls, and absolutely fraudulent "investments".
A lot of what is great about netlify and the jamstack is that it doesn't lock you in. Migrating away from WordPress means a new codebase. Migrating away from netlify just means putting my files somewhere else.
If they're good enough it will stick.

I'm arguing that isn't always true. Yes, some shows knock it out of the park in season 1. Other shows take a few seasons to really hit their stride.

It appears Netflix is taking a SV/VC approach to shows. Spend big, fail fast, and count on a small number of massive hits to succeed. While this may pad revenue in the short term, I'm not convinced it's the best long-term play. If subscribers get annoyed at short production runs and inconsistent programming, they leave and go to Disney or Hulu or Amazon.

Of course, I'm not in the industry at all, so I could be wrong. But, as a consumer, it is annoying to have Netflix push a few shows really hard, only to have them cancelled after 8 episodes.
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I don't think it's about having the cash, I think it's about whether or not it's a viable change to make.

Given the lead times on iPhone hardware design, and the lead times on building the tooling and machinery to actually build that hardware, these things need to then get locked in well in advance.

It was April before face masks started to be recommended in the USA, which is reasonably the earliest that Apple might be considering that pivot.

Assuming Apple pivoted on the spot, consider the following:

1/ The full scale of the pandemic was even less known then than it is today

2/ China was still not operating normally, and it wasn't known if the lockdowns they imposed would prove to be a success or not, resulting in continued reduced availability of factories.

The implication from your (very terse) comment is that the solution was just to throw money at the problem. The trade off in that scenario is that Apple is then effectively asking it's suppliers to put their employee's health at risk in order to increase their customer's convenience.

We're dealing with a global pandemic. Some things can't be solved just by throwing money at the problem.
I don't know what compressible means. If you mean the information content of the universe, then well, anything that is not pure random is generally compressible.

What evidence is there that physics is 'compressible' rather than simply 'uncertain'?
I'll look into that, thanks. I need to design the technical solution I am going to use for client work and I want it to be as cutting edge as possible without being a nightmare to maintain.
>Stop gaslighting on behalf of Microsoft.

It's not gaslighting to point out the error in @Complexicate's argument. If you want to convince people here then you need to get your facts straight rather than making childish statements.
Exactly, companies just see people who need support as pure cost, since they can't make money off someone who already paid for the service, they treat you like garbage.
Firstly, I am sooooo over Google's open source policy. I'm thankful that they document it, but it's just plain annoying.

Secondly, I use the UNLICENSE because it is an ideological statement. The 0BSD is not. Dual licensing with the MIT gives me a very small activist voice while also providing a practical option for the risk averse Googles of the world.
The first is an example of where Rogan doesn't push subjects and takes an overly credulous line of interviewing. A more recent example is him spreading the "antifa is starting fires" bullshit, which he later had to walk back.

There are actual studies on the impact of Reddit deplatforming, specifically around the /r/fatpeoplehate and /r/coontown bans. http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
If reformation proves impossible then revolution is inevitable. What any individual wants is largely irrelevant.
How so?

This is the main summary I take from the article of as regards the political picture, when the author was discussing Allende's successor, who took power during a military coup backed by the US CIA:

> It is estimated that during Pinochet’s rule about 38,000 people were imprisoned and most of those prisoners were tortured. Close to 3000 people were executed, another 1200 people went missing, and around 200,000 people were exiled to other countries.

and it seems to consist solely of well-corroborated facts.

Can you specify what you read in the article that you consider "really biased and dishonest"?
The ISS solar panels are quite large
Probably the result of using python for number crunching.
Have you done a blind taste-test? Research has shown that a lot of our perceptions around the experience of a product can be influenced by presentation and branding.
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Anything that keeps data away from Facebook is a win in my book.
That's not accurate.

The options in System Preferences are:

Allow apps downloaded from:
○ App Store
○ App Store and identified developers

There used to be a third option,

○ Anywhere

but the frog is warmer now.
How can we hold the surveillance capitalists to account if not through their employees? Google is having a big cry about Australia's (pretty kooky) laws that will make them pay media companies, fine, but when they put up ads on reddit saying that the process wasn't fair and they weren't consulted enough - I could barely think of anything more rich, when did they ever consult anyone about anything! Nah your account is dust, talk to the hand.
IMHO, US politics are extremely polarized. Politics elsewhere tend to be a much more nuanced spectrum, with large moderate bases.
I certainly cannot say what the solution is, but I can say that not speaking up, not getting noticed, and generally quietly toiling does not seem to attract opportunities and promotion.

Since people generally seem to underestimate the work and effort that any job other than their own takes, being quiet and capable means forever remaining quiet and capable in the same position. This applies to men and surely also applies to women (although there likely may be additional factors for women).

My point is, regardless of what gender you are, being calculatedly outspoken and visible is surely a necessary element in one's career progression.
To give a reference in France an average vehicule is driven 13000 km/year which is around 2 MWh with typical 150 Wh/km.

A parking spot is around 2.5 x 5 meters, solar panel efficiency is about 20%, in France we get about 1000 hours equivalent full sun per year so a parking spot covered with solar panels will produce 2.5 MWh each year.

Of course not enough in december and too much in june, but that gives an easy figure to remember.

Solar panels don't produce that much energy but electric cars are very efficient devices.

Another statistics about France : there are about 2 to 3 parking spot per car in the country.
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I don't get the impression that it was - it came out later than the NES and was a bit more powerful, but much less so than the 16-bit systems.

There are some (relatively) impressive games for the Master System, but I think that's because it stuck around into the nineties, in regions where there was an installed base i.e. not the USA. Late-generation games often benefit from better optimisation, and things like more cartridge space. The Master System port of Mortal Kombat, for instance, despite being pretty horrible as a game, is miraculous from a technical point of view. Despite being heavily cut-down, of course, it was an attempt to create the same game. That's a port (or demake or whatever else you'd want to call it) of a 1992 arcade cabinet, onto a home console released in 1985.
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I don't care if series are short so long as the wrap up and properly end the story. It's like America's version BBC, great shows that run for half a season to short.
20 years ago you read articles like this in a socialist newspaper; today you read them in a conservative magazine.

how times have changed.
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#cpython-bytecode...

https://bugs.python.org/issue33387
A documentary about Conway's Game of Life
This bridge already exists. The latest versions of the WordPress post editor are built almost entirely in React. Why do you think Facebook backed down from the BSD+Patents React license scheme they were trying a couple years ago? Because of pressure from WordPress!
I'm one of the engineers @ Caper. We're tackling some interesting problems and we're almost always hiring. We're also attempting to be more active in OSS [0].

[0] - https://github.com/CaperAi/
I liked in that sense Unbelievable. Great miniseries.
is it really impressive that a browser can do a lot that regular desktop apps have been able to do for decades? I find it pretty depressing, really.
I've been burned by that quite a bit, it's annoying watching a show for it to end with either a cliffhanger or some lame tacked on ending. I really enjoyed the Travelers for example but it sucked for it to end as it did.

Another thing I've noticed is that I tend to not watch shows when they've just been released, especially when it's the second season of something I like. Instead, I wait until I have the time to enjoy the show but at at that point me viewing it doesn't count in the metrics Netfix uses to decide in favor of continuing the show.

Right now though, I feel ambivalent about starting a new show on netflix because I don't want to be disappointed in the ending.
As a fellow Brit: what you're saying definitely applies to US network TV shows, but really not to the vast majority of what Netflix does. I'm not actually sure Netflix has any shows with the 22-24 episode seasons you'd see on US sitcoms.
So true. It's like they forget what made them popular in the first place.

What was special about Netflix was this large library of on-demand content and things you may not find anywhere else. I think what early adopters liked about it was you could be deliberate about sitting down to watch something. You'd put some thought into creating your list. We were trained to do this going back to the DVD days - probably even more so during the DVD rental days. And remember that Netflix had that massive collection of quality movie reviews. I suspect that early adopters had much different viewing patterns than the people who hung around on cable for longer.

So what does Netflix do? Make it more like a broadcast. Maybe that's what they discovered was necessary to attract the masses. I don't know. All I can say is it's much different than it used to be and, aside from some really good in-house content, I don't like it anymore.
Masks don't cover eyeballs and hands. Plenty of scientists have learned the hard way what happens when you don't wear proper eye protection and work with viral material. Rabies is especially not forgiving. There are plenty of other ways to get a virus into the system. Micro-fractures in the nasal passage, gum disease, open wounds. Shaking hands then rubbing your eyes or picking your nose. I could go on and on, but this would get really graphic.
More mini series are needed. The UK has this in spades and executes well. They have an end written before the first episode starts. 3 episodes or 10, but not the same drivel season after season.
PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack
Nitpick, but the cap is probably 40 gigabytes whereas the speed is measured in gigabits per second.
It's an interesting point--I underestimated the difficulty of learning to handwrite characters. Knowing simplified I can read traditional pretty effortlessly and even communicate with a relative in HK typing in traditional, but cannot write it by hand from memory. I liken it to being able to read but not draw the Gothic "T" in the New York Times.

Still, I'd claim that regardless of the direction, learning the simplification map (and some patternless exceptions) is a small incremental task compared with the thousands of hours learning the broader language. What's a few hundred mapping rules + exceptions, after learning 3000+ characters? If someone asked me which character set to start with, barring real issues with availability of education material, I'd say to learn whatever you want if you're committed to it! Just be ready to spend a few hundred more hours at least due to the increased amount of information to memorize in traditional.
This goes both ways. Writers clearly set things up that way in the hope this will put pressure for more episodes, but cliffhangers are just really bad writing done against rather than for the plot. Hopefully cliffhangers die thanks to streaming and the risk of non-renewal!

That said, I like how Netflix handled sense8. The plot was clearly getting more and more absurd and season 2 had a massive cliffhanger for season 3. Then it was cancelled - but still they produced a final somewhat absurd but satisfying movie-length final episode that tied all lose ends. That was probably a contract term and not perfect, but it worked out better than a third season or no end at all.
This is a classic dilemma which doesn't have any clear answer.

Individually, I assume Netflix has the data to back up the fact that each show should have been cancelled -- that no matter how critically acclaimed or how devoted the fanbase, the shows simply didn't have enough fanbase to justify the cost.

But then in aggregate, it adds up to an unintended narrative that could prove to be harmful to the bottom line: that Netflix cancels shows. So people stop watching the first season to see if a show survives into a third... stop recommending Netflix... and it's harmful to the bottom line.

The thing is, there's no obvious answer. If Netflix didn't cancel any of these shows, it would go out of business and/or not have the money to fund future (hopefully successful) ones. It's the same way with Googling canceling products: it's ridiculous and money-losing to keep around every failed product, but individually they add up to a reputation.

It's a classic damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't. People love it when companies experiment and launch lots of new products/shows -- that's where innovation comes from. But then they hate it when the unsuccessful ones get cancelled, because every product/show has some set of users/viewers who love it.

But I see no solution, except for companies to continue cancelling unprofitable things, and people to continue complaining about it.
I hold the view that anti-zionists are often anti-semites in disguise. A view that is explained quite well in this article: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/anti-zionism-is-antisemitism-5...
Thanks, didn't see this comment while I was digging for references for mine... I'm sure I read something more recent & more quantitative.

But the site you link has this which is not bad:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/09/peat-and-coal-foss...
Turning off autoplay on YouTube was the one of the best things I have done for my personal happiness in the last few years. It's amazing how having to take a moment to choose the next the next action after finishing a piece of content has contributed to my mindfulness, and raised the quality bar in terms of what I consume.
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Seriously, stay away from Oculus. I know they currently have the most versatile/best value headset in the Quest 2, but needing to have a FB account linked to it should be a deal-breaker for anyone who doesn't already have an active FB account (and perhaps even those who do). It isn't just an auth system shared by multiple products. It's Facebook, and the ban-hammer can come down swiftly, especially if, like the author, you are just creating an account to link to your Quest. I'm also not confident, as of right now, that FB is gonna fix this in a meaningful way.
> Maybe it's an inevitability of scale?

Increased quality is a good marketing ploy for growth, producing shit is a good way to increase margins. I notice a lot of restaurants have great food opening week, and then a return to median over the following year until they go bust.
And Linux has AppImage. However, it is the common convention that is important here and for decades Windows convention has been application installers.

> But I see no reason to hold up what AFAIK is the shrinking 3rd place in computing (behind cloud and mobile) as evidence. Servers and phones install software too.

Ok, let's look at mobile... which uses self contained applications. Huh. How about server... where things like VMs and Docker are increasingly popular because they allow self-contained services. Hell, even developers use Docker to create self-contained build environments.

Regardless, I don't think what servers do is very applicable to how desktops should work. Mobile is much more applicable because they are personal devices, like desktops, but they are still a distinct entity with different use cases.
Totally agree. SN76489 had a particularly dreamy 8-bit sound (BBC micro also used it AFAIK). Thanks for sharing (never played SMS Ninja Gaiden).

I never know if I would have preferred the music of the Yamaha YM2413 FM chip that was available as an extension to the Mark III and came with the Japanese Master System only.

It does sound great though - Yamaha YM2413:

https://youtu.be/Ug7qGWFnwC8

Texas Instruments SN76489:

https://youtu.be/9_NfVt7y_IQ
In fact, I think Linux's package management is too inflexible. You always need to wait for maintainer to package it for you, and it is not as fast as upstream. To have multiple version of a same package usually require to compile yourself, use a PPA or download a package and install it. Compiling a software not always easy, and it takes times. The PPA and install a random package from Internet isn't really securer than Windows's way of software distribution IMO.