skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely different beasts. Busybox is a tight, lightweight implementation of [a subset of] the Posix toolchain. This thing - also tight and lightweight - is a collection of commands primarily geared towards manipulation of file names and contents. Highly un-unixy (more like "do all sorts of things and do them well") but with clear, straightforward, non-arcane syntacs.

I had a pile of somewhat complex text transformations I needed to perform, and was getting headaches just contemplating the hodge-podge of cat and grep and find and awk and sed and regex and stackoverflow and kilometers of pipes I would be getting into, not being much of a wizard with such things, so went looking for something a bit less daunting. Found this, and within in an hour had a working script which I am fairly certain I will also be able to read and understand a year from now.
> Water from precipitation is a fraction of the water needed in areas like the American central plains where the Ogallala Aquifer has been pumped out for decades

This isn't true. Much (at least a couple of years ago, most) corn in the midwest is not irrigated. Rainfall is common enough over the summer that it almost always works out OK, and if it doesn't, you write it off to crop insurance.

Edit: double checked, still confident. Check out the page 4 map of the midwest and % of irrigated corn fields https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...
What's the relevance or value added here?

The fact that states with notably high winds and 1/30 of the population are 3-6x higher in a per capita metric is predictable based on these simple approximations.
I am by no means an experienced developer--but the issue I always seem to have without using an ORM is that there are string literals containing different bits of SQL scattered all throughout my code. In addition to being hard to refactor when the database model changes, I think there is a fairly high performance cost to doing so many string concatenations every time the code runs. Is there a better way to manage the SQL command strings when you are sending the queries by hand?
For some reason, Linux is specially bad at working under load, both memory (too many applications & browser tabs open) and I/O (copying large files into USB drive).
Proof-of-Stake (PoS)
One thing that I think we'll have to deal with at some point in the next two years or so is that although using the borrow checker will be incremental on (say) functions, the actual design of said borrow checker needs to be more integrated than incremental i.e. currently we can catch lifetime related bugs but you can't properly express (say) invalidating a pointer into a container by calling popFront.
Don't be afraid to ask for help, don't be afraid to seek support. We are all feeling this right now, some more than others. I am just some rando on the internet, but if you need to talk to someone let me know.

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Coal isn't great on startup times, but oil can be as good or better: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45956.

According to that same page, most natural gas plants currently in use utilize a combined cycle system which takes significantly longer than more flexible, but less prevalent, combustion turbines.

Though maybe the point is moot: Even if the total environmental impact of natural gas is the same as oil, and leaving aside the geopolitical issues-- natural gas is still cheaper, so if you're going to choose between two bad options then you might as well go with the lower cost one. At which point you just invest in upgrading those combined gas plants to more flexible combustion turbines.

However, nuclear isn't completely out of the game here: It may have a very long cold-start time, but in the last decade there's been progress in making it capable of load-following instead of just baseload, especially when it's planned, e.g after sunset. There's certainly other environmental factors there, but if we're worried about decreasing CO2 ASAP, nuclear should probably be part of the conversation.
Scientists Found a Way to Communicate with People Who Are Asleep and Dreaming
> and thus the Great Filter theory is true

Or we're just ahead of the curve.
Are those the hardware specs of this rover?

EDIT: It's a 200mhz CPU alongside 256mb of ram. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/brains/
Does this also happen during machine learning workloads?
Note crash early AM of 15 February.
Tell him to set up a Patreon (or similar -- it is not the only one) and tip jars (PayPal, Venmo, Stripe). Look up services like Buy Me A Coffee.
Some questions I've asked that (occasy) produce illuminating answers (and sometimes an illuminating lack of answers):

"Production has just gone down. What happens?"

"You're offering X share options in equity. What's that come to in terms of % of the company, what is your valuation based on your most recent round, and what is the strike price for those options when they vest?"

"How long is your company's runway right now?" (Note: I was told 6 months, took the job, and it turned out to be 6 weeks. Everyone was let go.)

"Do you have any engineering practices that you would like to adopt but can't for some reason?"

"What does a typical customer of yours look like? What about an ideal customer? What are you doing to close that gap?"

"How large are each of your engineering teams? How many teams are there? How do teams coordinate with each other?" (The most illuminating answer I got was "engineering isn't split up into teams, all 50 people report to me."). Alternatively, ask to see an org-chart.

"Someone from sales just closed a huge deal, but they made a bunch of promises for custom functionality and features without running it by engineering for sanity checks or timeframe estimates. What happens now?"

"What's your 'bus number'?"

"Why does the CEO of a 10-person startup need a 'chief of staff'?

"What's a cool feature you came up with that you decided to NOT build (or deploy)? Why? How was that decision reached?" (The best answers showed how dissenting opinions were handled, and who was allowed to express them).

"You're just idly browsing through the company repos on a weekend (as one does). What are you looking (or looking out) for? a bug to fix, code to refactor, code to delete, tests to add, documentation to update, or something else?"
Is it true we're having an anomalous number of extreme cold events? All of your links are about an anomalous number of extreme heating events.
Hey, I was hoping you could share some resources about this subject! I always have a hard time finding any useful information about hydroponics and would love to learn more.
vim users just can't stop winning
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This article makes a mistake by assuming that an installation (TheFarm) represents the best we can do with vertical or indoor farming. Of course an exploratory art installation isn't going to be particularly cost conscious - it's not designed for that, not really.

Instead, the obvious counterpoint is to look at currently vertical farming installations. The one I'm most aware of is Plenty, which has 350x the yield of standard outdoor farming. At that level, it's leafy green products are organic and cost competitive (i.e., the same price) as other organic spinach/kale/arugula brands.

This is really substantially understating the case for Plenty, but I don't think I can say much more and I would encourage anyone interested to just go look up what they and other vertical farming operations are doing.
> half of gold use is jewelry

uh, no that's not true. I bet there's more bitcoin being used to buy drugs than gold being used in jewelry
I'd think they could, but that would bring up the question of how many transactions Citibank had properly run through the software.

I doubt Citi would want to pursue that sort of a suit, since it would lkely highlight they were at fault. Sure the software is probably difficult to use, but if they already knew how to use it, then using it incorrectly is not the fault of the UI.
Same here.

I'd love to have a tool that just generates an object type for a given SQL query's result rows, and a function signature for its query parameters.
In all my years I've never seen a complete rewrite (i.e. a "cleanroom rewrite"), but I've seen many systems and subsystems evolve over time (usually in the same language) which eventually, one has to ask "is this the same software?".

Most software that's been around a long time is generally a Ship of Theseus.
> Sure, but why do we need a separate currency for all of this in the first place?

I might be answering the wrong q, but the separate currency represents the cost of a transaction in the network. I.e. the amount you're willing to pay to send a transaction in the network and the amount a staker is willing to receive in exchange for validating your transaction

How else would you represent that cost in a crypto network? Some kind of currency needs to represent the transaction cost.
I didn’t say something about the progress of space travel. I made an observation about how technological progress and centralization are correlated. And I don’t think societies in the age of space travel (with the technology that that entails) will be less centralized than what we have now.
I would like to know as well. All I know is that for this specific workload there appears to be a strong correlation between the chosen DB and performance. Depending on the benchmark you're looking at on that site, the top 30-60 results are exclusively postgres.

Further, for every framework/language that was tested with both MySQL and postgres (there's quite a few of them), the postgres one always ranks higher.
> biggest wastes of electricity

you're aware that you're talking about legacy cryptocurrencies?
if you haven't sold*
Social networks != Facebook
> Buying Bitcoin isn’t so much a hedge against inflation as it is a bet that demand will continue to rise.

While I do agree with majority of your points, I think people are missing a crucial point why Bitcoin was made in the first place: the 2008 bank bailout. Buying Bitcoin isn't a bet that demand will rise, to BTC maximalists, it's a bet that a Central Bank will screw up. That spills over to mainstream hype, scams, and all the sleazy things people associate with Bitcoin.

It's not appreciated by majority of people right now. The USA, with the might of the dollar and the Feds, will keep seeing Bitcoin as a nuance, it's not surprising. The only places where a globally liquid asset like BTC is appreciated right now are countries with a weak central bank. Either the central bank is being cut off by trade sanctions and local businesses cant acquire USD so they go through BTC [0] or just the plain inability of a government to pay debt, and the currency devalues due to the mistakes of a few and ordinary people suffer [1] [2].

But right now with all the QE, that 2008 spirit lives on with that price ticker as Central Banks are bound to screw up somewhere in this economic uncharted territory.

[0] - https://asiatimes.com/2020/10/iran-to-use-bitcoin-to-fund-im...

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47553048

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-africa-...
> When we had that few thousand individuals population bottleneck in the past was when it was dicey.

Yeah, but those individuals were presumably all in pretty close proximity to one another. If we were left with a few thousand individuals across the entire range of the human-inhabited Earth, we'd have one heck of a time continuing as a species.

In any case, the risk of an extinction event on Earth is exactly why I believe space colonization needs to be Priority Zero for humanity, from two different angles:

1. Living beyond Earth means that we as a species are that much more resilient against a literal-Earth-shattering catastrophe (and if we can get the bulk of Earth's current/future population off of Earth, then we might very well be able to avoid a couple different plausible extinction events).

2. If we can colonize entirely inhospitable worlds like Mars or the Moon (or my votes, Ceres, Venus, and Enceladus), then "colonizing" Earth is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy even if it does become Venus 2: Greenhouse Boogaloo.
I've found that "what's your typical day like?" to be a good starting point. Pay attention to their answers, ask follow-up questions, and you're likely to get a good sense of the company culture and state.

Generally speaking, you should be asking just as many questions as the interviewer, interviewing the company just as much as they're interviewing you.
humankind is just so much awesomer when we work to divulge & share the ways of things
Node-efficientnet – image recognition model written in Node.js and TypeScript
This repository contains a tensorflowJs implementation of EfficientNet, an object detection model trained on ImageNet and can detect 1000 different objects.

EfficientNet a lightweight convolutional neural network architecture achieving the state-of-the-art accuracy with an order of magnitude fewer parameters and FLOPS, on both ImageNet and five other commonly used transfer learning datasets.

and before the jokes start it works for "hot dog", "not hot dog"? :D
What’s weird about it? For some - to do git diff might take more keystrokes than hitting undo 5 times.

I do all of these. I’d use undo/redo when I want to look at something I /just/ did, meaning while in the process of writing something. The git gutter when I stumble upon some change I want to see what was there before. Or Sourcetree for a full diff.
Oh, that's exciting! I was last looking hard in 2018 but I'm still surprised I didn't notice.

Alas, I've got the whole "phone needs to be small enough to use one handed" due to disability stuff so https://www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/hisense/a5c/ is their smaller one and it's a bit big but close...

Might be a wait until there's enough market for a niche of both not huge and also e-ink. There was a bar e-ink phone though! I'm surprised they can't just put a more complex OS on it given the resolution...

https://www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/mudita/pure/
Death and disease?
Likely it's the better/faster support for multi-step transactions. (That's a big point for PG, since at least 2004)
I was hoping for this (the app doesn't work on my old iPad, and I wanted Over-the-board play, but its an app-only feature).

Hope that comes to the website soon.
Star Trek calls them "quakes" I noticed
Not OP, it's a wager about some average of other people based on how they talk.

The absolute best case for tech workers under 40 is they worked in a kitchen or factory on summers, did real work and saw/empathized with how the other half lives. And even that is rare. Lots had internships instead of that routine.
Delightful. This took about 15 seconds to reveal just how grossly distended my ego is
It's a great opportunity for non-commercial spontaneity, choosing not between "what bar to go to", but which direction to walk in, and really taking in reality.
Signing, verification, and key exchange are quite expensive. ECC doesn't help server-side; it mostly reduces client-side verification costs. Session caching can be an important optimization that can significantly reduce those costs, but scaling session caching has its own problems.

But IME real-world bottlenecks have more to do with overall architecture. People tend to heavily focus on technical details, such as concurrency architecture--the how. But the biggest opportunities for improved performance usually involve functional aspects of an architecture--the what. (Note that these aren't fixed categories; they're relative positions. A technical detail often becomes a functional model as development progresses.)

12 RPS is a long way from implicating SSL. If you get to the point where SSL is an identifiable bottleneck, you've either made a series of tremendously good decisions or exceptionally poor decisions.
edit: every day it gets worse, not better. https://esotericnonsense.com
Yes, they are constructing infrastructure like office buildings and roads to the power plant area. But none of that is under nuclear safety regulations. They will only start the plant construction once the plans have approval from the regulatory body.

Loviisa plants are VVER, but they too underwent a lot of redesign compared to the Soviet reference to meet safety criteria. That's why they called it "Eastinghouse".
Why is it acceptable to use the wrong pronoun, such as "they", for someone who chooses the pronoun "she" or "he"?
All the scientific evidence points to global warming is real and will cause more extreme heat events.

But the science that global warming will cause more extreme cold events is on much more tenuous grounds.

From the epa

"Although the United States has experienced many winters with unusually low temperatures, unusually cold winter temperatures have become less common—particularly very cold nights (lows). Record-setting daily high temperatures have become more common than record lows. The decade from 2000 to 2009 had twice as many record highs as record lows."
Thanks, I don’t think I learned the about these concepts in college; granted, I dropped out because I am ADHD to the max. I usually adopt or adapt what I observe in others code, my old code, or idea from other fields entirely. I like to adapt and improve techniques I see and fit them best into my projects.
Hey, thanks a ton for the context! I really appreciate it.
This is a surprising concept missed by many, especially in energy. Since places solar is the best. Some wind. Some hydro. Some nuclear. The world isn't homogeneous. I see the same thing with farming. Indoor and vertical farming allows you to farm in the middle of the dessert. In Africa where hippos eat your crops. Closer to population centers where you reduce emissions from transportation and increase food security (longer roads mean more chance of food trucks getting stopped, due to accidents, climate, whatever).
You can't compare these things on singular metrics. You have to look at the whole picture. In some instances things will be better, other instances worse. You have to balance complex equations.
This!

We don't need ORM, we need OQM (object-query mapping)!
But with the metric system you only really get cm (too coarse) and mm (too fine) but you don't get something like 9/16 so you can't "work in 16ths" and have everything be whole units again.

People who use metric units are perfectly happy rounding to the nearest 0.5cm or 0.25cm if that's what's needed, exactly as people do with inches. Why on earth would you imagine people use mm if something doesn't call for them?
I came here to write this comment. I use this feature often and, like the sibling comment, it has saved my butt a ton! I love JetBrains IDE with Vim bindings
Undo/redo have nothing to do with this though. Undo/redo is for looking at changes you did while in the middle of writing something. Before committing.

This is from an example I did just yesterday.

Let’s say you’re moving a piece of code by cut n paste. You cut it but in the middle of changing you copied something else, maybe accidentally. Undo and cut it again. Redo and it’s now back in your clipboard.

You could copy from the diff but you’d get extra tokens to clean up.
Here's the vscode marketplace link for it https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=xyz.loca...

I use it with every project and it works great. Helped me out a bunch of times. Just need to remember to ignore the .history folder from git and other tools.
Great, except cave art in the identical tradition, on Sulawesi, dates back 46,000 years and more. Conservative reasoning must assume, at least for now, that it spread west from there, reaching Europe many millennia later.

For most of the past 40,000 years, sea level was 400 feet lower. Probably most ancient cave paintings are now deep underwater, and we only find the ones made up in the hills.

So Sulawesi cave art long precedes the Adams Event. Maybe that was the trigger for it to begin to be carried west.
I use the Blue Yeti. I have had it for 3 years now
They were supposed to in November but wiffed.
I don't think it is always feasible to make the learning process entirely deterministic, especially for distributed reinforcement learning.
> Without winterization, it doesn't matter if Texas is connected or not.

Why is this the case? It seems like if Texas was connected they'd be able to pull some of that missing 45GW power which might be enough for an hour of electricity every 8 hours which would be a total game changer for a lot of homes.
Eclipse keeps local history and you can see changes as you made them.
+1 for EasyEDA, way simpler to learn for me as well.
Getting full power from a nuclear plant has negligible fuel costs, so it's good to stay at 100% and use the power somehow, but that doesn't mean they're bad at load-following. A plant made with load-following in mind can go between half power and full power in minutes.
Is the arrl website hacked? Whenever I click on text, I get ad pop ups.
they didn't blame the employee they did the right thing, that's the culture.
Here's one: use USA percentiles for both countries. Or use Denmark percentiles for both. Only when you use a high bar for US and low bar for Denmark do they come out on top.
Build one. Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECD_machine

Or maybe use that SoC with its FORTH as microcode to implement SECD on top of it.

Or look into https://github.com/kanaka/mal & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP-11 for matching and mixing.
I’ve used DI before but never fully studied how Spring uses it. I assume you’re referring to the automatic instantiation of an object based on session, request, etc. What do you feel you get out of it, that would be significantly different from just constructing the objects manually in a lifecycle method? (Just trying to better understand the question)
Except that an observer located in the (hypothetical/approximate) common reference frame, but situated halfway to Mars, will report observations inconsistent with this definition (NB of course we receive their report at a time consistent with the definition, but the contents of the report are not consistent). So yes, you can play games with your definition of simultaneity, but you will win stupid prizes like observers in the same reference frame no longer agreeing about simultaneity when such a result is worse than what relativity requires.

Your link points this out. You can play these games; I don't dispute it. But it's a separate matter entirely from anything to do with relativity, as your link points out, which is itself separate from the classical problem I originally posed. So we are now two steps removed from anything relevant to the Mars rover; I guess we get a sense of pride and accomplishment?
Don't blame the company for that, blame the 3rd world country health system the US has. This isn't a problem in Canada or in Europe.
> A - anthropogenic - the human contribution is small, compared to natural sources

CO2 from burning fossil fuels and burning plants has a different isotope mix than does CO2 from other sources. We can use this to tell how much of the CO2 in the atmosphere comes from that kind of burning. There aren't enough wildfires or other natural sources to account for more than a small fraction of it.

Hence, we can prove that most of that type CO2 comes from human sources. And that type account for most of the increase since pre-industrial times.
Going from no electricity for 2-3 days to just an hour of electricity every 8 hours is a total game changer. It allows you to charge your phone which reduces your health and safety risks suite a bit, not to mention an hour of heating can mean the different between a house that hits a low of 34 vs 44 which is a world of different in terms of cold.