skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rhodozelia not sure of your math there. 40kwh outputted at 5kw I make eight hours of use at max output? It's winter here so I'd say many households would empty it in less than two days easily. Equally in winter here 4kw of solar panels output about 4kwh's a day. So about two weeks to charge the battery and nothing else... Of course it's summer in Australia so much more solar output but you would be better putting it straight into your AC rather than storing it? Apart from running AC at night? $35000. That said if they can really get it to chug away for 30 years mainantance free unattended I can certainly see useful niches.
Stack overflow Annual Developer survey Analysis (2017-2020)
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Fascinating. The paper emphasizes an important distinction: there was no measurable correlation between dogmatism and confidence, but rather between dogmatism and ability to correct one's own confidence in light of new evidence.

From the paper:

In line with our hypothesis, higher values of dogmatic intolerance were associated with reduced metacognitive sensitivity (study 2: β = −0.12, p = 0.032, R2 = 0.01; see Figure 3A), in the absence of any effect on perceptual discrimination performance (study 2: β = 0.02, p = 0.77) and controlling for key demographic variables (i.e., age, gender, education). Importantly, there was also no relation between dogmatism and overconfidence (study 2: β = 0.07, p = 0.26), suggesting a specific reduction in the sensitivity with which confidence tracks performance, rather than a bias in confidence.

Original paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)...
Where is the study? I couldn't find the link. "95-percent success rate" is meaningless without context. Specificity/sensitivity, prevalence and the gold standard used all matter. You, too, can detect coronavirus with 100% "success" (and much higher than 100% that depending how you calculate it).

bool carriesCoronavirus(human *subject) {return true;}
Oh right, what B schools call, 'extracting the economic rents'. It makes sense why they'd want to purchase ARM, but to pay for the price/future earnings of this acquisition, I guess they'd need to increase the price of future licenses
UN Officials Warn Staff Against Flying Pakistani Airlines
> There's nothing wrong with snacking in itself. Arguably, it's better than three or so heavier meals.

There have been studies purporting to show benefits from having either more or fewer meals per day and overall there isn't really strong evidence either way.
I disagree, this is healthy exchange. Programmers -- and their employers -- want to discuss what works and what doesn't in the crazy world of software development.

Although this might not be a moment of reflection for you, there are software projects big and small happening all over the world, every day. A large proportion of them fail.

Or don't fail completely as long as we learn something.
I'm not clear on what part of my statement you're disagreeing with.
If anyone does, can you please make a torrent so we don't overwhelm the site?
I doubt that is something to be much concerned about, as I doubt there would be much use of anything that produces lists of suspects without explanation. What would one do with such a list? It would be like getting a bunch of anonymous tips all saying that a different person did the deed, without any clues to follow up on.

Getting a list of suspects is rarely a problem for law enforcement; the difficulty is in winnowing it down to the actual culprits. When a body is found, for example, family and acquaintances are all initially suspects, and experience has shown that summarily dismissing any of them, merely on intuitive grounds, will eliminate some fraction of actual culprits.

If a system did start suspecting the actual culprits with a significantly higher success rate than people achieve, there would be much reason to reverse-engineer the process in order to figure out how this was accomplished, as doing so would provide clues (and, ultimately, evidence) that otherwise could only be found by an independent process.

This assumes that due process exists, such that unsupported accusations are not taken as evidence, but if due process has been abandoned, we would have a much greater problem than that posited here.
That is not an elegant solution. That way you would forever had 3 in the name, even for future version of Python (e.g. python4, that will not break compatibility with old source code and thus making a .py4 wouldn't make sense).

In your shell you don't run "java8" or "java11", you just run "java", and then it's the matter of what version of java JDK you have in your PATH. The same with all other language interpreters and compilers, you don't run gcc9 or node14. Why doing something different for python?

Really, the mistake of python3 was to break compatibility with past programs. A lot of changes could have been done more gradually, in the first version require a __future__ import, then gradually remove compatibility with old features, and then remove them completely, making the new way the default and thus no longer require the __future__ import. And I think it will be the way for next python version, so in theory we will never have the same problem again.

Also to me it was an error for distros to continue packaging python2 as python. Other distributions, like ArchLinux, switched everything to python3 as default a lot of time ago, it's only Ubuntu that continued to ship python2 as python, thus making a lot of programmers relying on it. It would make sense that the command without the name refers to the latest version, and not the legacy one.
The "originally meant as a joke" belief is derived from an Eric Raymond quote in the Jargon File, not the tool makers.
It’s a quote from Gruber’s review, not from the maker of Hush.
Mental health is down, and obesity is up. It doesn't follow that they are related, but it seems they could be.
> You'll want to skip to the minute mark if you don't have a marketing-grade chuck-bucket handy.
Anyone can be racist. Political opinions need not apply, they might suggest, but that’s not safe route to judge others off of.
Sure does! The default set count unless specified is one. So you could record your work like

Movement Name:
10 12r
10 10r 2s
10 8r
About 100 million (startup exit, not to flex, just answering the question). Why do you ask?
It is actually quite easy to become a Japanese citizen. I’d be interested to hear where you got the impression that it is difficult. It basically requires 5 years of legal residence, a steady job, mediocre language ability, and paying taxes properly. For many people, attaining citizenship is easier than permanent residency.
The tiles have the format https ://www.micro-pano.com/pearl/panos/STITCH_-_FULL_35x.tiles/l8/[line]/l8_[line]_[column].jpg

where lines start from 001 to 219 and columns from 001 to 192
This made me uncomfortable. So it’s probably accurate.
Very notably not in the US, however. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Many websites implemented the banner because other websites are implementing them. There’s a lot of bandwagons out there.
Was Carnegie or Rockefeller a roll model for Bill Gates? Would they have been without philanthropy to launder their reputations?

Don't assume society is ergodic in what has been a period of rapid technological change.

> Definitely not enough to overshadow all the good done through philanthropy.

What are the greatest hits beyond mosquito nets?

At least in the current era, the "undeveloped" country is a bit of a rarity, and the main malaise is rampant Anocracy where institutions are weak, and social coordination of any sort is weak outside that which stems from the private fortunes of the elite.

How could private fortunes in developed countries tackle a problem like that?

And frankly, even before that, the absolute material standard of living is not necessary the best utility function. Hierarchy of needs means yes got to do the basics first, but it also means that people don't know what they aren't missing and relative distribution and other less obvious things may be more important for happiness and societal function.

If I were billionaire, I would throw all my money into improving democracy (and creatively, if it's easier to allow people to emigrate from US to better democracy than fix US, work on the former.) That the US government is exceptionally shitty makes for a too-easy straw-man when defending philanthropy against democracy.
What's weird about a syntax as straightforward as 'command name' 'input file' 'output file'? How exactly would you do it differently?
You and me both. Text ftw!
This still won't free us from the "your pip version is out of date" errors.
Good luck getting 50 year old C code to compile on a modern system. I'm sure it's theoretically possible, but then, so is continuing to use Python 2.
My mom and stepdad used to work in the Bell Labs NJ building.

Proper incentives would make that a perfect vertical farm facility IMO.
I don't. Do people do this regularly?
You could say it is "popularity", yes
Perl 6 *was* to be the next version of Perl. That was the intent when the whole effort started in 2000. That it didn't turn out that way, has many causes. Enough has been said about that already. But to say that it was a completely separate language from the beginning, is historically incorrect in my opinion.
> Should every language rename itself and split its community at that point?

yes. If breaking, fundamental changes are common, that's a problem.
Interview of Managing Editor for C64 Disk-Mag Loadstar (1987-2007)
We can read press briefings ourselves. The only reason for reporters to exist is to dig at least a little bit deeper for truth. We've all heard about the economics of journalism, we just don't think it's acceptable.
Sometimes I feel like in a diferent world than everyone else. I'm really happy with my 1080p devices, and upgrading them to higher resolution would feel like a waste of resources to me (I don't have especially bad eye sight, but on 1080p things are already small enough to my taste)

(Of course I'm talking only about computer monitor, for very big TV screens or for screens that I have 10cm from my nose it's a different story)
UK Coronavirus Dashboard
I think this is an issue of interpretation.OP does say that mindfulness/exercise/stoicism are helpful and also talks about the sleep-stress deadlock. I think what they are saying is that although these activities help, you need your mind to be in a decent shape to sustain these practices, which can only be achieved through quality sleep. This is to say that even if you have a good meditation practice or an exercise routine, if you don’t focus on getting your sleep back on track, you’ll never be able to handle stress in the long run.
Dogs, at least some breeds, can detect enormous amounts of "smell" information.

Only problem is how to make them tell people what they sense.

Maybe some kind of dog brain MRI would be able to get the info directly?
How to learn Lisp, ‘82 edition:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/teach/lesson.i...

The good times when programming was few orders of magnitudes simpler with less abstraction layers.
That'd be nice indeed. As part of the 0.5 release I have just published, I split the language core from the standard library to ensure the former remains as small as possible. So far, it's at 2,500 lines of non-test code and about 480kb compiled. Not the tiniest, but not too huge! (I know, possibly still huge for microcontrollers, but I'm not too familiar with that domain.)

As for a book... yeah, that'd be nice too. I attempted to write some worksheets earlier with screen-related concepts (rows/columns, cursor positioning) but, well, uncovered enough bugs at the time that I had to put those in the back burner ;) I'll keep thinking about this though, as a few individuals have also asked for something similar.
That's what I'm thinking. How?? I mean unless you're throwing a party every day or two, but that doesn't jive with "covid times"
> Thanks, but these citations don't at all support the GP's sweeping assertion that

Agreed, it was hyperbolic. But it was a correction nonetheless, and IMHO it should be noted as form of intellectual honesty.
A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 3: Rose colored glasses
It's really not that hard to use correctly. Maybe it shouldn't be the standard for beginners' tutorials, sure, but it's not terrifying once you know how it works, as long as you exercise appropriate caution. And that's the whole benefit of command-line tools; they're like a chainsaw in that they get a whole lot of work done in a hurry, but you have to point them the right direction and keep them under control.
I can also recommend Fedora Media Writer[0]. It can, despite the name, install other images too and it's fairly intuetive.

[0] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.fedoraproject.MediaWrit...
How is it strange? There are way more people that are not developers that browse the web not using a desktop. Hell, I'd imagine the number of people that think the entirety of the internet are the apps on their mobile device like FB,IG,Twitter,YT,etc is much larger than the number of developers that know and care about such things.

I find it strange that "smart" people such as developers can't imagine people think differently than they do, and behave differently than they do.
Definitely. I've had a fair few algorithms classes and recognize only the answer for problem 7. It's definitely not an easy exam, but it doesn't seem particularly difficult either.
I generally take all donations offered at parties.
2020 was a long year - this was just 6 months ago: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
If Right now means racist, what is the label for someone with the political attributes of Right, but who is not racist?

"Conservative".

But in the US for instance, there are very few, say, fiscal conservatives. "Fiscal Conservatism" simply doesn't exist the way that we might have been used to seeing it in the 70's or even 80's. Modern administrations on the right consistently outspend modern administrations on the left for example. Which would have been unthinkable 50 years ago, but happens regularly today because on the right there are now different driving priorities.

All of which is fine. There's nothing wrong with any of that so long as those on the right are representing the interests of their supporters. Like it or not, that's what democracy is about. But it leaves many, many people in society with no "political home" so to speak.
I don't understand why they chose to present these parts as .jpg. Why go through the effort of creating a 10B pixels masterpiece, when you compress it with a lossy format like jpg. Or am I missing something?

Also here's a working link for anyone to lazy to insert the numbers: https://www.micro-pano.com/pearl/panos/STITCH_-_FULL_35x.til...
Let's also be clear — it's not just "When", it's "Where".

And the "Where" is Turkey, which is no longer a nation which tolerates freedom of expression or political dissent.
Would it be possible to run a 2nd screen as small PIP on the desktop?
> what is the label for someone with the political attributes of Right, but who is not racist?

I hope I get this right. Everyone is racist, but it's only bad to be a racist if you have power. White people have all the power and so are the worst type of racist. To deny being racist is to be fragile and also proof that you're a racist.

So 'someone with the political attributes of Right, but who is not racist' doesn't exist.
Better permissions could help with this. Make it so that there is a user other than root that can write to the block device the flash drive is on, and then you sudo to that user to write images rather than sudoing to root. Then accidentally trying to write to the main drive will get a permission error.
I mean, corporations do regularly offshore as much work as they possibly can and build new plants/offices in low cost locations. Obviously, they need employees, but it's not as if companies don't already do everything they can to reduce the cost of labor.
> They are just regurgitating a press briefing that came across their desk

I would argue that's one of the problems. It's easy to just regurgitate press briefing, but that's _not_ what their job should be. I'd argue they could at the very least impose some form standards (don't publish "x% success", ask for exact metrics before publishing the press briefing). Asking them to vet that the study methodology was sane is too much - but asking them to use specificity & sensitivity instead of "success percent" isn't too much to ask.
I found that (for me) the key to making a habit out of some things is to eliminate as much friction as possible in just getting started. If I were you, I'd look at the simplest things like "7 minute workout" to just get started with something easy enough to fit into my routine and once it becomes a habit, one could consider making it more intense. There are interesting challenges like the "100 pushups" or "200 squats" challenge for which you only need a bit of free space on the floor.
Always thought this will be useful, but never had a chance to experience it. What kind of stuffs come up?
> That video was good, but I'm disappointed he didn't point out that it's usually better to rent a depreciating asset

He has lots of video on personal finance. I'm sure it's covered in one of them (he has a rent versus buy-house comparison for example: IIRC he used to own, but now rents).
Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done?
I'm disappointed that the illumination is not uniform in the stitch. Artifacts from the sampling and stitching leave subtle bands in the output that I'm fairly confident are not in the original. This is likely a biproduct of using some non-uniform scope-attached illuminator and not having sufficient overlap in their sampling.

Nonetheless, when zoomed in, the detail is impressive.
> The anti-homeownership propaganda seems to be growing

I don't read this like that at all. It seems much more a reflection of exactly the difficulty you're describing: lots and lots of people like you want to find big suburban family homes but are priced out, and the suburbs are (awkwardly and somewhat unfairly) infilling to accomodate more modest and denser neighborhoods to house them.

The unfortunate truth is that "The Suburbs", as you and many people imagine, simply don't scale. So the actual neighborhoods we're building in the urban periphery are having to change. Recognizing that fact isn't "propaganda".
With respect to moving, shouldn't the burden of changing something to presumably make something better, fall on people willing to take a risk, though ?
There is nothing offensive with you moving, yet the point of what is offensive was better explained by user theNJR

>>> the point of academics is to study and report on things they're not personally involved with?
This is right if we make distinctions on scientists vs academics.
Academics opine on things with no risk to themselves and usually what they report is a test that cannot be reproduced scientifically.
Scientists present facts on which they personally have a stake on (for example, a microbiologist studying a dangerous bacteria; a chemist trying not to accidentally blow up, etc)
.

To your point, you are correct RE: academic reporting. My argument is that maybe we should listen with a high degree of skepticism when such people talk. It doesn't completely invalidate any report (although in this example, there's no data to back assertions) , but as with most things from academics go, they are usually not testable, so.

(What people say and people do are different things)
Anecdotally, Texans as an example like their privacy, more 10/12 foot fences I’ve ever seen. The father you move into the suburbs, the more people value privacy in Texas is seems.

In general, American suburbs infrastructure-wise were built more for cars than people or other transit mechanisms.
Pipe video from vintage consoles and computers directly into a new PC
There are a lot of other complex sites and business running Wordpress. Why is it a big deal when there's a new one???

Wordpress makes it very easy for users to manage website content for the end users. But for developers, simplicity depends upon personal preference.

I like the the whole project to follow a same set coding standards irrespective of whether it's a procedural paradigm or OOP or any other. But, if you look into the wordpress core, you will several sets of standards which makes it harder to follow through whenever you try to understand the core. For simpler plugins, one might not need to dive into the core but I have had a fare share of projects and plugin development where I had to go through the core. And, it still takes me some time to understand whenever I have to do so. Maybe, I might be using Wordpress for wrong reasons and wrong project (because that particular task can be easily achieved using other technologies or even if I start coding from scratch without wordpress), but clients are always right and I have to use the technologies they prefer.
If Nvidia instructs ARM to do so, as 100% owner...
the ones like Eto work because they displace air which is necessary for the bacteria to turn the alcohol to vinegar. Well actually slow it down. I can confirm the Eto works okay and wine keeps pretty well for a week or so. and yeah I did a side by side with a couple of $10 wines of the same variety after two weeks one was nasty and the other was still drinkable and not gone completely off by then.
Thank you! This is a very attractive reading app. I think I'll purchase this when Im finished with my current book. Is there a way to export the list of bookmarks to a file or email or something? I usually have to manually type them all up with other apps
this is legit. sometimes i feel like i wait a little too long to gather notes or brainstorm possible solutions when i could probably get that going faster by involving a colleague and tag teaming it. it is a balance i am trying to work on because i feel like i “don’t want to bother anyone” a lot.
I don't understand all this hate against the suburbs. We lived in Jack London Square in Oakland in a 700 sq/ft apt until COVID made WFH easier. We moved to a suburban paradise in Colorado and life in the suburbs is so much better than Oakland. So much space for hobbies. I can drive 5 minutes and get anything I need. There is no noticeable crime. Cars are great. I own a truck and have a 16ft trailer. We can pack everything we own into the trailer and move somewhere else. These Millennials don't want to own anything and are just jaded.
what's wrong about strings representing text?

You're not making an argument about backward compatibility here, you're making a strong claim that representing text as a sequence of Unicode code points is fundamentally wrong. I have never heard anyone make this point before, and I am inclined to disagree, but I'm curious what your reasoning is for it.
I wonder, for some of the heavy brushstrokes Impressionists, a lidar scan would almost be appropriate. Some of the paintings where the paint is in physical clumps on the canvas, it has its own 3d quality to it that looks different from different angles. I don't think it will get captured with a single image taken from straight on.

Like this: https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/iris.jpg
Old Basics had quite impressive debugging features. It had breakpoints (STOP), you were able to inspect and change the content of the variables, change code before or after the breakpoint - and even on the same line - and then CONTINUE from the interruption point. Even ZX80 with 4 KiB of ROM (Basic + OS routines + 0.5 KiB character table) was able to do that (except modification of the same line because it had one command per line only)
I hear some pilots fly with photoshopped credentials - 30% some say??