skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ridiculous cost to dissuade open access from all but top universities and companies.
Rent seeking gate keepers.
Because it is the body that people care about when they talk about algorithms.

But even if you include it, it is ran exactly as many times as the body of the loop, so not sure why you bring it up?
There are many other Analytic companies around, Plausible, Simple Analytics, GoatCounter.. etc

I think they need to take notes.
> and the entire body of high quality MOOCs are just available __for free__ over the Internet

nobody alerted me to these
That's pretty clever. I wonder if there's an obvious fix browsers can put in that doesn't break things.
The wikipedia article includes references from a couple of decades earlier, at least; e.g.

> Nat. Geographic: May 1974. "Tanna (Island, New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean) Awaits the Coming of John Frum (cargo cults of Melanesia since about 1940)".

(See https://georgehbalazs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TANNA-A... for a scan of the full article.)
But having niche knowledge of art, architecture and linguistics is much different than than understanding the scientific method, basic statistics, how to interpret studies and critical thinking.

Those fundamental skills are essential to making informed decisions
As a general advice: Always communicate in terms of what the recipient cares about. If your recipient is a business person, you should communicate in business terms. No-one really cares what things you are trying out, issues you have et.c. - only the consequences for them / the business. It may seem like this is just two sides of the same coin (and it is) - but which side you approach it from makes a massive differences in the communication.

A startup cares about business traction, functionality that helps existing or getting new customers. So a status update should be on how one is now closer to (or unexpectedly further away from) that.
Note also that in a startup vision of the product, usage scenarios, user groups and business model often tend to evolve over time. You must make sure that you are up to date with the latest learnings, and that your development plans are inline with these.
If you don't make sure to do this, your work may be perceived as (and/or be) irrelevant to the company success.
I was in new York once. I was amazed by:

1) Subway system, and its fauna.

2) The state of historical, and not so much building, and that people were still living in them.
You should really mention that it's diesel in a comparison like this. Diesels produce significantly more air pollution (particulary nasties like NOx) than similar gas/petrol engines.
No, it's a stop gap solution promoted mainly by those looking to keep on exploiting fossil fuels for a little while longer. There are lots of companies that are looking to do this because they are knee deep into legacy infrastructure that they can't shut down overnight because it would kill them.

However, continuing improvements in pricing for renewable energy (wind/solar + storage) make most such propositions increasingly less viable from both a carbon footprint point (you release more than you capture) of view and an economical perspective (spending money to make an already expensive solution less damaging).

Mostly it's a strategy pursued by companies that are protecting a sunk cost in the form of existing infrastructure to stretch its economic life a little bit longer. It's also a strategy for green-washing things that really aren't that green. Ultimately it's cheaper to not bother putting CO2 in the atmosphere thus removing the need to add cost by compensating for that elsewhere. Long term, most carbon capture schemes will end up on the wrong side of a cost equation.

The long term perspective for most gas and coal plants is basically extremely grim with or without carbon capture. Investors are actively divesting for this reason for most of the last decade already.

There are of course still a few countries building coal plants but most are in the process of actively shutting them down and on a clear path to getting rid of them completely. IMHO, most remaining ones will not make it to their current planned retirement dates for the simple reason of it ultimately becoming unsustainable economically to keep them going. To some extent that has already played out for most coal plants. Germany went against the trend here by opening a new one recently (probably for political reasons, the brown coal lobby runs strong in parts of Germany). But it's an anomaly in a market otherwise dominated by premature closures of plants.

Likewise gas plants are converting to being peaker-plants in a lot of markets that have fluctuating supply of increasing amounts of solar and wind. This vastly reduces the appeal of building new ones; but the reality is that the more renewable energy hits the market the less attractive it gets to operate gas plants. In some markets batteries form a perfectly adequate and cheaper substitute for having lots of gas peaker plants. I'd say investing in a new gas plant that supposedly will run for a few decades is at this point extremely misguided as an investment strategy.

It only makes sense if there's lots of stupid money (i.e. tax payer money) involved. Put bluntly, that's what most carbon capture schemes boil down to: stupid money. It's basically tax payers paying for the privilege of paying too much for electricity and corporations helping themselves to this cash on the basis of empty promises and a green-washing strategy.

We're decades away from having fossil free energy production world wide; but several countries are looking to get there in 10-15 years nevertheless.
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Dealing with AWS hasn’t been hassle but is expensive. However, the value proposition is well worth it for us.
Elaborating on the audiophile market: you have audiophiles and audiofools. I consider myself a bit of an audiophile, your friend might be an audiofool... I have even heard someone claim that spotify sounds better than CD.

There is this audiophile article [0] that takes compares some different consumer level NAS devices. They used the same listening setup to play lossless audio files from different NAS devices. The article's authors perceived a difference in sound quality and characteristics, depending on the NAS and RAID configuration!

The article is a solid example of a placebo effect. The bitstream is identical between the setups.

When it comes down to digital to analog conversion, there's a lot of variables going on. I can definitely hear the difference between my laptop's headphone output and the headphone output of my prosumer-level audio interface. A more expensive audio interface might introduce measurably less cross-talk and noise. Some headphones will sound weak if the headphone amp is not powerful enough.

In other words: some people focus on things that are measurable. Others seem to be deliberately chasing the placebo effect of expensive equipment.

0. http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_t...
I agree. I'm actually working on a couple of projects around non-technical textual interfaces, trying to make "code" applicable to more than just "building software".
As an addendum. Many people (quite frankly) worship "Science" like it is a benevolent deity. You just have to "listen" to it, and good results will come out, bettering society.

But terrible things happen when you try to apply science to a field that it should not apply to. Science can tell you how to do something effectively. It will not tell you whether or not it is good or beneficial to do a certain thing.

There was a news article recently published, that claimed that Iceland had eradicated Down's Syndrome. The mother runs through a battery of tests to determine if her baby has a genetic abnormality -- and if so, can choose an abortion. Unequivocally, this is genocide! Genocide!

Contrary to the "IFL Science" types who wake up singing "There's a great, big, beautiful tomorrow", Huxley has an appreciation for what science is truly capable of.

> We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.
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> It got me worried about history. The whole story sounds like 90s zine fiction, which I think it is - there is no record I could find beyond the original story from 1995 on Harper’s Magazine [2], yet it is now in Wikipedia, stated as a fact.

Did you look at the references section in the article?
Or Blondie?
Ask HN: How to land more web development and design contracts?
I'm a web developer and designer who's been doing this for over ten years. I've had a long list of clients that I've been working with for years, but during the past couple of years, I had a few problems and now I'm back looking for work, but it seems that the field has changed quite a lot, and I can't seem to figuer out how to bring in any new clients anymore. This is my portfolio if it helps: www.aladinbs.com

Any advice will be very appreciated.
You are right, this is a govt. site, they are known to use super old tools and tech. Won't be surprised if this is built on some ancient CMS.
Harper’s December Index
I think this is right, where "most recent post" is chosen from both comments and submissions. Looking at top of the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest page illustrates this pattern. Almost every timestamp there ends with a dot, except for the cases where the submitter commented on their own submission, in which case that comment has the dot. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198319.
Australia shifts away from climate credit cheating.

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-australia-shift-climate-credit...
While saturation and brightness (value is probably a weird term for most) are explainable and straightforward, even if you explain what hue means, I doubt most people would be able to intuitively reason about it. I use HSV all the time but I have absolutely no idea how a HSV colour would look like, over time I have an intuition about RGB though.

Where I was growing up though, most kids would have an intuition if you were talking about red, blue, yellow, which were the colours we used to paint all the time.
Also interesting, regarding what YT Music is doing, including with live music:

"Inside YouTube’s plan to win the music-streaming wars"

https://www.protocol.com/youtube-music
They seem fairly pro intellectual, just not lefty intellectual.
How many carbs should dieters eat for weight loss?
> after every strip he pauses, asks what happened, and then says, slowly and calmly, “Why”

Honestly, that’s usually my reaction to Garfield as well. The strips often seem like they don’t have a punch line at all.
From big automotive clients to small-ish fashion eCommerce. From publishing to food-delivery (with upselling in the checkout process) - I found the gains in using rules -> simple ML techniques -> complex systems like NN in most cases not to warrant the costs.

The quality of recommendations nearly always increased from a revenue as well as perceived quality standpoint. However, it almost never had a positive impact on the profit margin that would have justified the necessary investments.

As said - from a quality standpoint most simple systems were just "good enough".

One would need to know the business case and environment. But take automotive (new cars) as an example: The goal is nearly always to get the user to request some form of contact from a physical dealership near them. For that you nearly never need a perfekt, fully configured recommendation.

I know of an example (a car manufacturer) where the search space of all configurable variants (including various things the car owner would never register because they are specific screw variants) is of a size where even the number of visitors to the website per year is some orders of magnitude less than the number of options.

The way to go here was to reduce the search space and the number of variants. Here it turned out that you can, quite fast, reach that goal with few specific questions (active learning) to lead the user to vehicle variants, which correspond to its interests and led to a disproportionately high contact behavior.

And yes: ML techniques were used for the analysis and reduction of the search space. For the concept people to then develop specific questions to get to these reduced attributes. But in the end the recommender now works rule-based.

I don't imply that this holds true for every scale of company/problem. And I know some counter examples - but most companies do not operate on that scale. If you are ebay, Zalando (Germany) and the likes: I would probably get different results from testing the revenue validity of the different approaches.
The process need not be as efficient as nature; if it ‘only’ is both a net win and deployable at a scale that’s larger than we can do by planting trees/stopping cutting down trees, it could be a good idea, even if we get the energy needed for capturing CO2 from burning even more oil.

And no, it need not belie the laws of thermodynamics. The idea isn’t to convert CO2 back to oil or do so without putting in more energy than burning oil gave us. In fact, some capture approaches keep the CO2 as CO2, for example by pumping it into empty oil fields (that makes me think “what could possibly go wrong?”, but hey, what do I know?)

(I have trouble envisioning carbon capture to be a net win and feasible at scale, but I’m not an expert; it might work, just as burning forests to prevent forest fires from spreading has its uses)
Going full meta, I can easily imagine this being a Star Trek episode:

We're presented with an alternate future where Starfleet flies blocky and predominantly green ships (instead of the usual saucer + nacelles, white/gray with touches of blue, red and orange designs), and there's no Federation. In the course of the episode, the temporal agents investigating the alteration discover that the culprit is a data cache that traveled few decades into the past and landed on the lap of a particularly entrepreneurial Ferengi, who proceeded to register patents and trademarks with relevant planetary governments just as crucial technologies and iconic designs were about to be created - ensuring his own riches, at the expense of the fate of the quadrant.
I'm gullible for my skepticism about an anonymous internet commenter's "CEO" friend's generic "in-the-know" boasts?
Without the miners bitcoin transactions are impossible. Its value is entirely due to the mining network's activity.
Somewhat related, it's interesting how non-intuitive steering is to people for motorcycles and bicycles. They do it correctly, but it's hard to reason about.

That is, that pushing the left handgrip forward, at speed, turns left and not right. Yet, at very slow speeds, like walking it, it's the opposite.
oh that is a bit of flash back sql injection attack.
The list is so long we might as well start another thread for it.
This is the crux of the problem. There are no economic incentives for this, even if it became very cheap. We would simply have to agree, as a global society, to invest in carbon capture because it's the right thing to do.

Given our track record with this kind of thing, this does not look very likely. It's the tragedy of the commons writ large and I don't think anyone has a sane answer to it, or we would have done it already.
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A professor once told in class "when it works and you don't understand why, it's called AI; when you do, it's called algorithm"
Yet it allowed US big tech to buy a lot of stake in its biggest data platform Reliance Jio?
"The trick here is that it's meant to be an infinite loop, so "give me da Yooo Toobs" isn't gonna work here."

Except it would work perfectly, as I'd just download the video using youtube-dl and then play it in mpv, which can easily loop the video.
This project has been going on since 2017, they missed their own deadline years ago. They’re 100% swapping the engines of a running car
> All my friends who bought a new car can afford an electric car as well. Buying a new car in itself is a luxury.

Dunno where you live, but here in Poland there's over a 3x difference between the cheapest (new) petrol car and cheapest new electric car... And the electric's price includes state subsidy. In result, there's plenty of people of modest means (pensioners even) who buy new petrol cars - as they intent to own them for 10-20+ years while doing minimal mileage, making the purchase quite economic - while electric cars are basically still exotic toys.
I love how the NOR gate is made visibly of two transistors.
Unfortunately, since you're the only engineer on the team, there was probably an unspoken assumption that you would also fill the role of an engineering manager who, in a bigger company or team, would not just drive progress from the engineers, but also communicate that progress back up to the non-technical members of the leadership team in terms of the "why does this matter" aspect of whatever tasks you or your team is completing. That is NOT an easy thing to learn, often it's trial-and-error feeling out what language and method of communication is best received by the other internal stakeholders in the company. My entirely anecdotal experience has been that, when you first start at a new position like this where you are expected to communicate tough concepts to folks with no training in those concepts, it's often best to go straight to the high-level strategies and goals of the company/CEO/CTO/etc. Take those desired outcomes and map your work to them, putting on paper exactly how your work will enable those goals and coming up with some initial thoughts on how to quantify your progress toward meeting those (sometimes admittedly unquantifiable) strategies. If you then report regularly on those metrics, that goes a long way toward explaining the "so-what" of the tasks you're doing.
I'm the author of this lib. Yes, abstracting away ANSI escape sequences is one purpose of the lib, but first and foremost the purpose is to make it easier to render complex things as tables, panels, grids etc.
Every time I hear of Garfield, I sort of end up thinking more of Heathcliff.

https://www.literateape.com/blog/brian-sweeney/we-need-to-to...
Good for them to raise up against a totalitarian. If all free all free. But if one sided close boarder by china, do not blame others not to let its app to go to the world.

Free is never one sided. So us trade.
5 projects for programmer in beginner or advance, to learn something.
"This action was taken based on the inputs regarding these apps for engaging in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order."

Being based in Shanghai, CN.
I don't mean malloc. I mean that the memory is allocated inside the database sdk we are using.
Why load balancing? HN used to run on a single computer with 16GB of RAM[1]. I think this may still be the case. Not so?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006
Liberalism and Its Discontents
The difference with Ironkeys are you can remotely deactivate/erase them.
If you start importing from china - you must be certain that you can unload the product. Or you are stuck with 12 000 masticating juicers ...
I love reading stories about Steve Jobs at NeXT. He had been fired from Apple and wasn't on the winning team but he was still fighting to build great products. I know he's a controversial figure but he did great things.

Personally I find that Steve at NeXT is far more relatable than post iPhone Steve.
I suspect, somewhat anecdotally, that this begins with the educational system (at least in the US). Reflecting on my education, at least, it's remarkable how much of it boiled down to exercises in reading comprehension. Even many of my science classes were really just training my ability to read a passage and respond to a short answer question. There were many "alternative" math tracks offered--home economics you could take home economics after algebra 1, if you weren't a "math person"--and just generally, it was constantly reinforced that math was a specialization, not a fundamental skill.
It's a small, shallow sink, making it effectively still a buffer. It isn't going to help much in addressing an exponentially growing flow. Especially that we won't be able to fully regrow forests anyway - there are more humans now, who need space to live and space for farming.
Actually the problem is not just that people don't know about science, they know so little that they don't know who to ask, either. Look at your local antivaxx FB group, they think Wakefield is authoritative.

I blame the education system. There's way too much specific knowledge that you will be tested on, and barely any theory of knowledge or scientific method fundamentals. And in the end, you will forget the silly quiz questions, leaving you with just the principles, if you were so lucky.

It would have been nice to have a general survey as well. "Not gonna quiz you on it, but FYI apart from the classic subjects that you are learning, there are also things like geology, materials science, a huge array of mathematical things, and so on. Just so you don't think that we had enough time at school to teach you everything."
> Purpose and meaning from religion.

Having been raised in it you're not missing much. And the baggage it comes with far outweighs any benefit.
If you take the average Oslo deaths over 2019 and 2020, which is 0.5, then London would have one order of magnitude more deaths per capita than London.
It's not a TUI library in that sense. You should check out Gui.cs if you want to build more interactive applications in C#: https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs
Seems like an ugly hack just to avoid Javascript in an extremely nuanced scenario.
Technically, RGB isn't a color space either, it's a color model. sRGB is the color space.
Unfortunately the "Machine Learning" startup scenario is very grim in my opinion, everyone wants to jump on the wagon but 99% of entrepreneurs don't know what they are talking about, so the fault is not all in your lack of communication, in my opinion, some people just want too much and expect to get it for free or almost.
The hard part is that in software engineering in general, more so in Machine Learning, the expectations by non technical people is always exaggerated.
My advice is to always talk about dates and deadlines, it is all that most people care about, make always clear what you did to go from point A to point B, what effort it cost and what it generated in return. NEVER tell that a particular task is "easy" of "fast" to do, it will be your end.
Always give the right importance to every one of your choices and your actions, obvioulsly do not allow anybody to take credit for, or to minimize the importance of your work.
Ah ok - then yeah I can kinda see the value in that.
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There is enough delay in the feedback loops that the simple steer to the middle works - despite the jagged edge, you still track a straight line to within a few cm.
My cynical take: Because Reddit didn't pay like a FAANG to begin with.

(I don't actually know if this is the case though, I've never looked into employment with Reddit)
If browsers could fix CSRF for JSON they could probably fix it in general. My impression is that browsers have done what they can. Sites without CSRF protection should do a better job.
Yes, Spectre.Console is heavily inspired by Rich, and this is stated in the first paragraph of the repository and documentation :)
Testing out OpenServer6 with bhyve on FBSD12.2 ATM...so much for mainstream ;)