skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I get it. And alcohol is a problem for many people, myself included. I can't drink at all without it turning out badly.

If I could pick something, it would probably be legalization + social support for people dealing with addiction, along with actual consequences for people who do bad things while on drugs, as opposed to what the police do now, which is basically throw up their hands and say "we cant put every heroin addict in prison".

I think the biggest issue I have with Heroin personally is how it seems to totally consume so many peoples lives and how completely unable they are to recover. There is a reason people say heroin addicts never really recover, they just take breaks.
You should give PyPy a look. It's really amazing if you're writing actual Python code (and not just gluing together libraries). PyPy is to V8 and modern JavaScript engines as Python is to Eich's original JavaScript.

It's also amazing at gluing together your own C libraries.
AFAIK Ethereum is still proof of work, meaning miners are not doing useful calculations. Miners are not just running smart contracts.
Buried infrastructure also tends to be down for longer. Above ground lines go down more often. But they're easier to fix when they do; fixing buried lines can be a nightmare.

As an example, a mall near me was without power for weeks after flooding destroyed some underground electric infrastructure. The flooding didn't even do any real harm to the mall! They just got unlucky: underground lines and other equipment that should be waterproof weren't, and they shorted out in such a way that a bunch of stuff had to be dug up and replaced.
You have to make a blood sacrifice to the Voodoo gods in high speed electronics if you want it to work (is the saying, anyway) - i.e. the actual shape of the traces on the PCB starts to become important, and one can use this fact to form things like filters and directional couplers.
Oh no. Only ms to live.
> For the most part you can treat it as a “normal” database

While Clickhouse is great at what it does, I would expect a „normal“ database to support transactions. Don’t use it to handle bank accounts.
Well to be clear, I was asking someone else why they would want to use layman as a measuring stick.

I don't know who you personally talked to or their knowledge level either.

I'm highly skeptical the internet sleuth method of "I did some searches, I have a handful of links, now someone has to prove me wrong." How many times have we seen that come up short?
We reproduced the experiment in one of my laboratory courses. I don't remember if the controversial aspects of Millikan's data collection were discussed; whether it could even be called fraudulent seems somewhat debatable. But interestingly, Feynman had a quote about Millikan's successors[0]:

> We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off, because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of the electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

> Why didn't they discover that the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of--this history--because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong--and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number closer to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that. We've learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don't have that kind of a disease.

A classic example of herding[1].

0: https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/cargocul.htm

1: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-proof-some-pollst...
That's alright. I wasn't actually expecting that there'd be a ready-made solution since it's quite an obscure use case.

Thanks anyway.
Innovative idea :) Could be extended to buying and sharing multiple sets of parts for multiple products.
YouTube removes PewDiePie diss track for violating cyberbullying
For me it was unnecessary electronics, mechanical shifters work perfectly well and don't require me to install an app and dick around with my phone.

But modulating tire pressure quickly has no analogue.
>As such, the term is still popular because it's still highly relevant: whenever there's some kerfuffle about secularism or some other salient clash of values, the anglosphere tends to present the same predictable range of responses whether they are Anglo-Canadians or Irish, POC or WASP, immigrant or Baskerville.

That's too strong a claim. It probably was more true in 1960 than in 2020, given how much has changed. For example, the prudeness was a common stereotype of both Americans and Brits, but it's changed much since those days. The generations are so different from one another, it's quite a shock to many. And let's not get started with cities versus towns. In cities, things are so international they (cities) often have similar attitudes with one another across national boundaries.

Subjectively, having lived in the UK, I often felt there was more in common between the British and the French than either with Americans. Friendships, attitudes to strangers, and romantic relationships. Religiosity is more common in the US.

I'm not talking politics here - what's an example of this commonality of Anglo-Saxon culture or kurfuffle that clashes with French culture? Political correctness? Religiosity ?
How do you think transactions are verified? There's a limit to the number of transactions per block, and each block takes ~10 minutes to mine. So; ~2000 transactions/block, 600 seconds, 0.3 seconds/transaction. How much energy does the global bitcoin network use in 0.3 seconds?

About 700 KwH, far as I can tell. (Based on 76.87 terawatt hours annually in 2020, as an estimate for bitcoin). A house uses ~1000/month, ballpark.
> If I am traveling toward Mars at 47 meters per second it doesn’t help me to know that is also .047km per second.

Yes it does. It means you can immediately sanity-check your numbers even if you don't have a good sense of what meters and kilometers are, because you have that base/kilo relationship.

> My bike ride is six miles, I’m never going to express that in feet.

You can eyeball how fast you're going in feet per second and have a rough idea of how long your ride is going to take. Or rather you could if you had any idea of how long your ride was in feet. There are lots of little everyday things that just become much easier.
A more thoughtful question to ask:

If oil and gas companies are so opposed to renewables and have the money to work against them, how did Texas - which is where those companies should have the most control - become the #1 producer of wind power and the #2 producer of solar?

What are the possible explanations?
LED Characterization
That's up for debate, let the lawyers duke it out. To me, it's like suing for an xml file with different values. It'll be who has the bigger lawyers.

To stockfish dev, you should change your license.
One day you find out your parents were cheats. Or they stole Amazon packages, whatever. Do you think those people should go ahead and change their surnames?

A bunch of goodie-two-shoes.
+1. I've come to hold this stance as well.

I'd go a step further and suggest the lack of job mobility and variety benefits no one at all and actually hurts society a great deal, because it leads to the infamous peter principle, where people move up the career ladder until they reach incompetence, at which point they do everything they can to stay there because moving would mean reduced pay, reduced status and a feeling of personal failure.

The number of people who've long lost any enthusiasm for their work and yet won't give up their seat because they don't know how to do anything else is also quite frustrating and counter productive. Ah well :)
Stopping celebration of a thing is not the same thing as erasing it.
Something about select_related? Please do share.
If I found out my parents believed in Eugenics I wouldn't talk to them
Yes, meridians (on which latitude is measured) being a special case of great circle routes that happen to pass through the poles. That said, as a practical matter, you are more frequently contemplating a chart of smaller scale than "globe" so you're usually counting up distance between fixes, or distance to next turn in a harbor, or some such thing, where you have a compass in hand and just need to set the compass to the length of a mile. The nearest latitude tick marks are quite handy for that.
for me the value of an ORM is not so much query synthesis as serialisation of object fields to db columns and vice versa
Apple adds WebM video playback support to Safari with macOS Big Sur 11.3
The MetaHumans: High-fidelity digital humans in minutes
Yes, this movement is called quarterly reports.
This argument is as predictable as much as it is done in bad faith.

No one is calling for this person to be erased from history. They are asking that he no longer be honoured as a consequence of what he said.

Indeed, teaching people what he did and said will be the best way to prevent history from repeating.
Despite your arguments in an earlier (deleted) comment, eugenics is not good science. Furthermore, this isn't "scrubbing them from the history books". It's removing their names from some awards and buildings. You'll still be able to find their papers in the library and read about them on Wikipedia.
Related, https://www.epsilontheory.com/taiwan-is-now-arrakis/

Development of domestic chip manufacturing might even start to become a national security concern, leading to even more money flowing in on top of the money coming from crypto miners.
> For the qualities under discussion, generation companies have seemingly acted in lockstep, therefore it makes sense to view them as a singular entity. And it's not productive to call signing up for electric service consensual in any meaningful way. The ability to technically opt out isn't worth much when it would significantly impact your life, as evidenced by the vanishingly small amount of people who do so.

This is true.

> You can also come at the reduction from the other direction and define how interacting with the "government" is technically consensual as well. eg don't pay taxes, do the work required to not have your income flows surveilled, etc. Or in this case, don't sign up for the (de jure) government power grid, and go your own way.

This is willfully ignorant of how governments don’t let people do any of this. Being subjected to violence if you decline to participate is the opposite of consent.

> The point is that all frameworks ultimately have their limits - they are only good when their reasoning power holds. True understanding requires being able to switch between them as appropriate, rather than shoehorning everything into one and insisting that it must fit.

I agree with this and I was unclear. I mention consenting interactions because many of the people who oppose increases in the scope of state-sponsored activities prefer to source their necessities from markets. I’m aware that the tentacles of the government are long and broad and no part of the economy (least of all power generation) is free from this interference. There was probably a better way to express this in this thread.
Cryptocurrencies are supposedly popular among Venezuelans, although I wonder what the advantage is of using them versus any fiat that isn't the bolivar.

Anyway, seems easier for them to obtain crypto than getting a commodities account and buying gold, since presumably one would have to deal with KYC/AML in that case, and one can continue to use crypto as a currency within the country (though I doubt Bitcoin, since the transaction fees probably amount to more than a typical Venezuelan earns in a month).
George Mason University has been desperately trying to appear more diverse lately, unfortunately the selection of the new president only shows more of that desperation. The immediate past president, Angel Cabrera, was a complete disaster. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear this new president is going to change that.
I must say that this mission is highly disappointing. No risks, no major progress, no pushing the limits.

What does NASA have to show for a decade of work, since Curiosity landed in 2012? A toy helicopter, a drill that poops pellets. Billions of dollars and millions of man-hours later, this is the only progress.

The truth is NASA has become extremely conservative and slow. Compare this to the moon landing. NASA went from one man in Earth orbit in 1961 to people walking on the moon as a matter of routine in 1969. That is the pace needed for serious technological progress in space.

We must let NASA die, and let others pursue these feats, people who have a real passion for space exploration. If NASA had only a bit of passion, they would have sent men on this mission, based on all the learnings from Curiosity.

Defund NASA.
This is amazing! The playlist is really great!
Yeah, I did some embedded dev using the Dallas TINI devices around 2000, 2001.

http://systronix.com/tini/tini_simm.htm

I think the JVM is in a lot more places that people realize.
There are millions of forgotten (and fatherless) people, who suffer from depression, aimlessness, lack of discipline, nihilism, addiction, self-loathing and self pity. JP, speaks to those people and encourages them to find power through inner strength, personal responsibility, and discipline and not from from oppressing others or joining a mob. I am a middle aged, wealthy, Latino, liberal, atheist (i.e., not the stereotype mentioned in your comment) JP fan and would appreciate a coherent criticism. What am I missing ? Your above reply didn't add any clarity to this discussion.
ETh DAG is over 4GB now, no one wants 3GB cards
If keyphrase extraction and extractive summarization of legal documents interests you, I have a side project I’ve been wrenching on that I could use a hand with. Contact info in my profile.
> Anything for editing videos. Probably blender.

I got my now-high school kid an old Macbook Air (made sure to get 8GB RAM) for US$300. He's been experimenting with Blender and video editing (FCPX, make sure to render proxy files!) Sure, that's "only" 7 years old, but it's fine?
As technology for saving premature babies continues to improve, I think elective second trimester abortions (mostly illegal in Europe, but constitutionally protected in the United States under Roe v. Wade) will come to be seen in a different light. It’s legal to abort a 22 week old fetus in about half of states (including the states where most of the population lives) even without any special emergency or medical condition: https://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/week-by-week/week-22..... The record for saving a premature baby is a bit under 22 weeks: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/14/mo...
Adding another comment since the edit window on my sibling reply has elapsed. To be clear, I'm an IT professional who knows how to restore a device from boot media. I once managed a university computer lab, and wrote the linux-based image management software for 2000+ campus computers. I've written my own hobby operating, including the boot an initialization process.

I thought any problem encountered reinstalling an OS is something I could handle. But that was not the case. Near as I could tell when I followed up with Apple after the incident, the boot process involved the security chip reading some data off the drive and validating it before handing off control. If that data (which is on the Apple reserved partition) was wiped, the firmware would not boot. And since the security chip was configured to not boot from media (the default state, IIRC), it was effectively bricked.

So the very first generation of TouchBar MacBooks would not boot into recovery mode if you wipe the drive, nor would they boot any kind of recovery media. It's a state that required shipping to Apple for refurbishment to fix. It's my understanding that this was fixed in later models, perhaps even as a result of my incident.
For the record the study you are bringing up.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-homicides-rose-2020-study-fin...

The lead author things the pandemic is a significant factor.

> One lead author of the study told the Associated Press he believed part of the problem was the pandemic forced police officers off the streets all around the country.

> Even when on the job, social distancing requirements kept officers from interacting closely with the community. He said, “That really reduced the ability of law officers to engage in the kinds of proactive policing that can reduce crime.”

> The study found that the pandemic “has disproportionately affected vulnerable populations, placing at-risk individuals under additional physical, mental, emotional, and financial stress.”

Are we to believe your grasp of the topic is better than the researchers who conducted the study.
Don't know if it serves any other purpose than coloring, but if you want to just go back to the last (and next) edit locations, Visual Studio already has a shortcut for that (Ctrl+Shift+'-' / Ctrl+'-')
What makes postgres special in these cases?
> what is that actually useful for?

Ownership. It's the difference between "I own 20 quatloos because the Bank of Endor says so" vs. "I own 20 quatloos". It supports actual ownership instead of representative or proxy ownership.

In the same way that you can have $20 in the bank or $20 in your wallet. When it's in your wallet, it's actually yours and you own it. When it's in your bank account, then you don't actually own it, you must trust that your bank will do the right thing and give it back to you when you ask for it. That level of trust has been wavering for decades.

Remember that Bitcoin was started as a rebellion against the "second bailout for banks".
Silly.

So let's imagine cars are phased out. Maybe self-driving taxis or other transportation will replace cars, but don't be surprised if they are more expensive than expected. That's what happened with the railroads.
It is just mind boggling that something so far away is autonomously landing on a another planet in such a complicated manner and reporting back to us.
Humans can be amazing, this kind of achievements always make me tear up from joy.
2013 with similar specs here. My battery life is now garbage, but I think it's worthwhile replacing it.

I wasn't tempted at all until the M1...
I live in Europe, and in general we don't distrust the state, and we don't want to pay less taxes (we would like more efficiency managing them, though).
No, but copyright (in the US and US-influenced countries) does make a crucial distinction between work that is an expression of human creativity and work that doesn't, even more strongly since Feist. If the weights are a dump from some kind of ML training algorithm, it's likely that they're not copyrightable under US law.
Yeah, HN automatically edited [Video Podcast] to [audio].
Very true. I also (still) think the frequency of these events is not going to be constant, but increasing.
The case for painting Sanger as a eugenicist, or even a sympathizer, is pretty weak. Anti-abortion activists have been trying to make that argument for decades, but it just doesn't fit.

The case is much stronger with W.E.B Du Bois. Neither applied Social Darwinian thinking in racial dimensions, though. And that seems to be what puts Millikan over the top. His racial animus seems to have been rather typical of whites back then. (And arguably up until the 1980s or later!) On the other hand, his aggressive advocacy for applied eugenics seems exceptional, and therefore arguably places more culpability for the harms upon his shoulders. But eugenics doesn't play well in public debates; racism is what revs people's engines, especially on the left. So not surprising how people keep hammering on his racism.
But you don’t pretend you don’t know them or that they are not your parents.

The great majority thought they were doing good. We know different today. We know now the new Soviet man is bullshit. Back then they believed in this.
Modulating the tire pressure I can see as an absolute win for safety, which is why I also like disc brakes. Electronic shifting is just a step in the wrong direction. At what point is it no longer a bicycle, when it has an electric motor in the seat tube, always?
Joining a startup is not some game roulette where you gave zero information about potential outcomes and just choose randomly one number.

You as an employee have a lot of agency to find the startup to join that you think has potential. If the startups or founders are unwilling to share their thinking then it’s probably a bad sign.

Think about Stripe when they started. The whole story was that most tech and other companies need payments but it’s a hard problem and back in the day we had do merchant accounts. Makes sense, and there is a clear business and maybe as you talk to the team, you are impressed. They raised from Sequoia and other too VCS. Great, sounds like good company. Obviously there are risks. What if they get shutdown? what if PayPal/visa/Google builds this? Maybe the product will suck?

Compare Stripe to something like pet walking startup Wag which also has raised tons of money. Do you think it’s easier to make money by charging % on business revenue or charging % people walking other peoples pets?

There are always risks and unknowns but it’s not a random throw dice which company you join. Probably there has never been a time it would have seemed a terrible idea to join Stripe, at most it would have seemed uncertain and risky. They could have failed too but now they are a $100B+ company, and your employee equity would be worth $1M-100M depending when you joined.

If you join a random startup, you take a random chance. If you do your research and thinking you can increase your odds like you can increase your odds on the public markets. You can also optimize for the team or domain you want to work in, and even if the startup fails, you might have learned something.
The release candidates are already available to use if you don't want to wait 2 weeks.
My guess is accessing a related field within a loop causing a database request per iteration, e.g.

```
[book.author.name for book in Book.objects.all()]
```
15,000 years ago, there was ice a mile thick where I sit. We are still coming out of that glaciation. It is warming.

C - catastrophic - there is no evidence in the historic temperature record that anything unusual is happening.

A - anthropogenic - the human contribution is small, compared to natural sources.

G - global - not local.

W - warming - see above.

In addition, there is no good evidence that the slight warming in the last 50 years is causing extreme weather events, and there isn’t any good theory to support it, either.
Usually the fallen trees are removed, aren't they? Isn't that an improvement?
I think you underestimate the impact of one new device being produced.

Also, there is the matter of being complicit, whether or not your choice makes a 'real' impact.
If you never do anything but read them... why not documentation?
Zoomable map of last frame of Xkcd 1110
`commit` doesn't mean `push`. Commit locally, rewrite history with rebase before pushing it to others.
I’d take issue with Boris Johnson there. If the issue is Brexit I honestly think Nigel Farage would have better claim to the crown. Boris is a largely ineffectual leader that goes wherever the wind is blowing. Farage, for his many sins, was pushing Brexit on day one.
Ask HN: So is BTC going to be the only inflation/QE-proof asset in the future?