skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Supported by the Gates Foundation, so likely to be widely disseminated in schools.

Is it? The financial support seems to be $3 million in 2017 [1]. That year the Gates foundation spent roughly $380 million on "U.S. education" [2]. It seems hard to imagine that they plan on widely implementing the results of every single grant?

[1] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Gran...

[2] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and-Med...
Why not write things you might write in gleam in Rust, too?
Here in the Seattle area, we regularly have a big blow which knocks trees onto the power lines and vast portions of the power grid go down. While it happens to some extent every year, about once a decade it's a several day outage, even in the city. The last time it was 10 days. The power cables were down for miles everywhere.

And yet, everything gets rebuilt in place, the same way, the same risks. No engineering improvements. No buried cables (which do just fine in storms).

Most everyone in my neighborhood has some sort of generator, and we're well inside the dense part of the city.
I discovered the same thing myself but opted to use Privacy to generate a card and then pause said card so NYT can’t charge me again.

https://twitter.com/NetOpWibby/status/1362567006797537280
I think the point of the tests is like vaccination. It’s about reducing risk. And it errs on the side of caution. A test won’t catch every instance of drug use, but will catch a drug usage behavior pattern. You want people who are trustworthy to never do it because you can’t test everyone all the time. It’s more about personal responsibility.

A pre-shift only needs to fail once and you have a co-workers recklessness injuring another worker.

I wonder what unions think of drug tests? As a union member I might prefer that my coworkers were tested to be honest if I worked closely with them around heavy machinery.
The Mars atmosphere is at a tricky spot where you can't ignore it like when landing on the Moon (also Mars gravity is higher than on the Moon) yet it's not thick enough for survivable landing with parachutes or wings (as envisioned in the earliest Mars mission plans) only.

That's why you always see parachutes + something else for Mars EDL - parachutes + rockets, parachutes + airbags, parachutes + skycranes. And in Starship case, high speed glide and speed shedding with propulsive landing at the end.
What's the problem? I do this often.
Hahaha yeah I mean not get them arrested but I heard really weird stories when people get delirious and think their dealers have some kind of magical power or connection to a secret society. I guess that's another reason why people that will sell you psychedelics usually do it for some kind of cause or to enhance another bussineses they have.
Do you get to make the call for someone else ?
Hey, I'm glad you like it! I liked Jonesforth a lot, and
SKF's predecessor tokthr was derived from Jonesforth: https://github.com/kragen/tokthr/blob/master/tokthr.S

IIRC the reason I only allowed single-byte identifiers was to simplify the symbol table, which is implemented by these four lines of code:

: Type Four* header 6144 + + ; ( Table of definition Types: 1=code, 2=data )
: Addr Type 1024 + ; ( table of definition Addresses )
( register a colon definition )
: Colon %flush dup Type 1 xchg ! HERE @ xchg Addr ! ;
( register a variable definition )
: Var %flush dup Type 2 xchg ! HERE @ xchg Addr ! ;

Abbreviating this as follows would clearly be highly immoral, so I would never do that:

: T F h 6144 + + ; : A T 1024 + ; : C % d T 1 x ! H @ x A ! ; : V % d T 2 x ! H @ A ! ;

"Parsing" is kind of the same as it would be if more bytes in the name were significant, because the other bytes in the name are still there in the source and the compiler still has to skip them:

: word getchar dup Isdigit [ ; ] dup '' = [ ; ] dup 0 1 - = [ ; ]
{ Getchar dup ' = [ pop ; ] dup 10 = [ pop ; ] 0 1 - = [ ; ] 1 }

What's simpler is that it doesn't have to store them anywhere, or implement any kind of string compare operation, and consequently doesn't use C@, and consequently doesn't have to implement C@ either. It implements @ and ! and C! (which it calls "store"; I should have called it "c!" since capital "C" was already taken for "colon"). It needs C! ("store") for emitting sub-word-length instructions and at any rate for backpatching jumps.

It's definitely a questionable choice, though! I think it might be worth using two significant letters instead of one for a "tiny boot FORTH".

Traditional FORTHs, you probably recall, used a fixed-size four-byte "name" in their dictionaries: a length byte and the first three letters of the name. Chuck Moore received some criticism for this choice, in response to which he wrote a letter to a popular FORTH magazine arguing, effectively, that thr-- let---- was ade----- to tel- wor-- apa--; col------- bet---- wor-- wer- suf--------- rar- wit- the fir-- thr-- let---- bei-- sig--------, and of cou--- it was mor- eff------. FTP and SMTP commands are all four letters long for the same reason.
Is the person who wrote this knowledgeable on this topic?

The way it is written it seems like they just did a bunch of searches and found some information. It reads like you see when we'll meaning internet sleuths find data, but often don't understand enough to interpret it with enough context.

Do they know enough to be sure they're drawing the right conclusions based on what they found?

I'm really not sure the general conclusions are so much wrong (about winterization), there may be events elsewhere, but that doesn't mean what happened in Texas also isn't what he seems to try to refute.
> He uses a homemade 60-centimeter dish

that seems surprisingly small. overall, impressive feat. would be interesting to know more about the gear. from the posted video, I guess he is using ettus b200, but thats just a guess.
> Judging vertical farming based on the performance of wheat is not valid. When I saw the test crop was wheat, I scrolled to see if there were any other crops, saw that there weren't, and abandoned the article because wheat has among the worst yields per area (in terms of kg of edible product per sq meters).

I want to stress this point. Crops like wheat, rice, and corn are not suitable for vertical farming. No vertical farms today are growing these.

And claiming “vertical farming does not save land” based on a single 1msq art installation makes a tenuous argument at best.

And even worse, from the article:

> When wheat is planted in the ground next to each other, instead of above, the sun provides free energy and the clouds free water.

No, no, no, no. 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. Irrigation is a must for growing staple crops almost anywhere. And water is increasingly in short supply.
Nope. The burden of proof is on those suggesting history is wrong. Phased array doesn't just drop 3x in price overnight. I'm waiting...
> The other analogy is cars - for most people it's something that gets them places, for others it's a way of life if not at least a more involved proposition.

But if code is your way of life, which it is for many people here, it is beneficial to learn the tools that allow you to do it easier. If someone can see how their code was 5 minutes ago in a few keystrokes, they’re going to take advantage of that significantly more frequently than someone using your cumbersome method.
I've had retractions printed in nearly every Australian news website, and among the 3 times I've contacted the ABC about inaccurate reporting the average response time is 1.5 months. 100% of my reports resulted in retractions (extremely delayed ones).

This is not an organisation that cares about journalistic integrity. In fact they actively eschew ethics while their private sector counterparts reply in 1/50th the time or less.

Also, you're using an ABC-produced show as evidence that the ABC isn't ethically compromised? "We investigated ourselves and found we we did nothing wrong"?

Before you accuse me of being a shill, remember I've had retractions printed in News Corp outlets, too.
You might want to check with your neighbors to the west and southwest. The Southwest Power Pool which covers most of the Dakotas and by eyeball 2/5ths of Iowa has not had a fun time starting Monday 10:08 am https://spp.org/markets-operations/current-grid-conditions/

I can report from further south of those states we've had rolling blackouts at times, although they didn't hit me personally. We've also move one level down in Energy Emergency Alerts each of yesterday and today shortly after 6 pm, another neither of those to Level 3 where you must shed residential loads.
Chiclet keyboards hurt my fingers. Maybe I type too hard; but rather than correct that habit I bought a WASD with some nice cushion. Much more comfortable, and less pain.
You beat me to this comment!!
Didn't the who correct those mistakes within weeks?
What's SA? Saudi Arabia I presume? Are you a scholar to argue what is and isn't compatible with Islamic laws? We go back to our texts (Quran, Hadith) to determine whether something is or isn't compatible with Shariah. There are explicit texts that prohibit increasing the price of an item in exchange for a delay in payment.

> you have no incentive to let anyone use what you have for their own benefit.

Renting is a trivial counter-example.

> if I want to help them I am going to expect them to take the risk on their business plan rather than subject me to it.

Which is specifically one reason why lending with interest is prohibited. You don't get to profit off of the need or misery of others. There's a power dynamic difference that Islam aims to make more even. We've already seen countless times how this ended up throughout history. And we're living it today.
lol wat, lived in nyc for years. you either rent a car, get a cab, or hire people. owning a car that sits and takes up space during the 90% of your life you aren't driving is inefficient and stupid
Well I ll be honest we all do. My own bank, another giga multinational, also has this hubris, fine. But at Citi they went so far in the outsourcing nobody knows anything anymore. The people you talk to to organize stuff are timezones away from the guys doing stuff. And me I m close to the Indian time in HK, work with our own outsourcing in India who are fine for what they re here for etc and we have pains. But never to the extent of Citi where there s like internal conflict or total lack of communication that makes the contractors lie more than usual to the managers... I dont know I dont get why each time we have to deal with Citi it's the same story. It s organisational though, not tech (their tech I ve dealt with is okay)
During the late 80s my dad ran Maxus Calgary office later sold to Kerr-McGee. So in Calgary the Texas temperatures would not even be considered cold. This storm dropped Calgary temps to the -20Fs with wind chills in the -55Fs (I did not even check the fields which are further north). Pretty common when I grew up there. Oil and Gas did fine.
Except projects like TrustSwap exist.

The Internet doesn't have built in mechanisms for regulation or fraud and nor should it. Cryptocurrencies obviously don't solve the problem, but can be used to create a stricter set of guarentees than the current sustem.
Oh it keeps on working, you just have to learn how to "use it" and that's not something that your average dealer will tell you. But yeah LSD is great at getting you off other stuff so sometimes it's even bad bussineses if you like also sell cocaine. It's also hella dangerous combined with weed so if you deal weed dealing LSD too is like a really bad idea.

When I think psychedelic dealers I'm thinking more about MDMA which is/was kinda profitable and have customers coming back when we had parties and festivals.
If I have to commit my whole undo history then I’m using git very wrong. I commit (even temporarily) to save progress, but only when it makes sense to so. Sometimes I don’t know whether I’ll need this specific version again in the future.
curl and grep can do this from the command line. Just paste your link between the quotes like so:

curl --head --location --silent "yourlinkhere" | grep ^Location;

https://curl.se/
Object Detection at 2530 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT, and 8-Bit Quantization
Interesting. White Crow had a similar idea 4 years ago. https://bikerumor.com/2016/05/03/optimal-traction-fly-white-...
I’m more worried that it’ll be way too sensitive and think my code or use case is hashing in disguise.
Cool. This Canadian amateur, Scott Tilley VE7TIL, is the same operator behind previous discoveries like a NASA satellite thought to be dead three years ago.

https://www.rac.ca/amateurs-in-the-news-scott-tilley-ve7til-...
Sad. I still wear the t shirt sometimes. People think my name is Flynn.
> lots of parks

I have to disagree, after living in West Midtown Atlanta for the past 3 years. There's one large park (Piedmont) downtown, but beyond that I have to drive 30mins-1hour for any park of comparable size.
The point remains, you're the one bringing up the spoils of war straw man. Not sure what this has to do with the discussion that interest is bad.
So does my PPO plan, that’s not the point. The point is that my healthcare doesn’t become more expensive when I’m unemployed.
Yeah, they are certainly not launching so many Starlinks at the same price they charge to the customers. A very big benefit having your own partially reusable rocket (especially as long as no one other has one yet).
Heck it's how boring business apps handle bookkeeping data since forever. You never delete a record to correct a mistake, you create a new record to do it.
How this compares to busybox[1]? Additional functionality?

I would rather stick to posix/unix commands than learn a new list of new functions

[1]: https://www.busybox.net/
> Second there may have been frozen wells but natural gas does not go directly from the wellhead to the peaker

I agree that the natural gas does not directly go to the station. However, from what I could tell in the NERC documents they referenced it freezing at or close to the well.

> Natural gas at the burner tip is supposed to be one million cubic feet (MCF) is one million BTU (MMBTU)

I'm guessing you're referencing "14.8 Bcf of natural gas production was lost". If so, Bcf comes directly from the NERC report in reference 14.
"Securities" is a pretty well understood term.

Mutual funds, the most legible way to get an estimate of the holding cost of securities (since they are required to transact at net asset value) routinely charge between 0.2-1% fees, depending on size and asset class.

Clearinghouses, transfer agents, and cash management firms don't work for free, which is the problem that cryptocurrencies explicitly solve; neither do compliance, KYC, fraud, etc., which most cryptocurrency protocols elide altogether.
Aaron – The Bible's Account of Moses' Brother and Spokesman for Israel
Honestly I would expect something like that to be happening at a hardware level. The number of bits in a memory address for the ground sensing radar is very interesting. Or the algorithm to determine vehicle acceleration given the voltage reading of a solid-state sensor vs the baseline. The metric system vs the imperial system is not an interesting distinction in these contexts.
This solves another problem I had, so I’ll try it, but it’s completely unrelated to edit history.
It feels like people are blaming other networks for needing their planned-for emergency capacity and not dropping everything for TX
Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager
You're right to be suspicious, he got a lot wrong about the nuclear power plant where only one of two reactors tripped.
Well, not all the hackers have yet been driven from "Hacker News" yet, I guess. Where there are hackers, there will be FORTH — as Devine Lu Linvega said, "Lisp is a slippery slope that leads inevitably to FORTH." DSSP was an independent Soviet invention (on a balanced-ternary machine!) but its differences from ANS FORTH are smaller than the differences between Moore's early text interpreters and polyForth or ANS FORTH.

FORTH's a bit of an occupational hazard of hacking, you might say. Like suicide, or being burned at the stake. (It's been two days since the anniversary of Giordano Bruno being burned at the stake for being a hacker, though he was too early to write a FORTH himself.)
Ask HN: What are some red flags at work that make you want to leave?
Here are some of mine coming from a software engineering background:

- Symptoms of bugs are treated, not the root cause. This one varies but there is a consistent lack of analysis in understanding the problem.

- Architectural mistakes re-occur, but not their solutions. Problems that aren’t/weren’t well understood from past architectures/implementations crop back up.

- There is a superficial understanding of the problem that leads architects/managers at the top to make decisions out of fear: "Feature X used EC2 instances. EC2 instances are REALLY expensive. Therefore we shouldn’t use EC2 instances ever." The real problem is not EC2, it is how our company migrated a monolithic application without refactoring with the new environment in mind.
And there is a group of wealthy people who contribute money to reinforcing the idea that government (at any level) is incapable of fixing problems. Either through argument or by creating laws that hamstring the ability of members of the government to take action. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2019/11/15/can-com...
It doesn't matter if there's some instability, as long as it's not a downward trend.

> Bitcoin and Blockchain is an interesting project but 1 BTC > 50k USD... Yeah, sure...

Bitcoin could conceivably become the next global reserve currency, 50k USD is horribly undervalued from that PoV.
The fact that Texas has huge exploitable oil reserves is an accident of geology, not a political stance.
I attended a PCP (Palm Court Party) at New College in the early 90's. It was quite an experience and I've never forgotten it.
In my benchmark testing, SSL appears to be the bottleneck; e.g., Apache vs. Nginx does not really matter. I assume the benchmarks above 10,000 RPS are not using SSL and regular HTTP? How are people doing benchmarks at 10k-100k RPS?
I mean, like, maybe a simple threshold matter here is: did any significant area outside of Texas have to issue boil-water orders because they couldn't run water systems?
It's a matter of degree and alternatives. Borders and wars are clearly the domain of the federal government as described by the Constitution. If you don't like it, your only real option is to elect better people. Yeah, it sucks when our leaders invade Iraq for no reason, and then we elect one of few diseenting voices to be our next president and then he... invades Libya. So I realize my words are cold comfort, but there's no much else I can say.

But abortion funding is not the domain of the federal government and there is not much reason for it to be. There are plenty of private citizens who are pro choice and could fund abortion subsidies. It would probably be easier to do that than fight a political battle over it, which also costs money.

A government should govern the people that are actually here, not who you wish were here. Maybe in some places nobody minds abortion, but the US is not one of those places. So, we've got to respect those tens of millions of people at least enough to not spend their money on abortion.
You know what? Most of these ‘disagreements’ about coding workflow and tool choice in which one person is telling another person that they’re Doing It Wrong boil down to different strokes for different folks.

This seems to be a fine example of that.

(Though I must admit that consternation about how often someone presses Ctrl-Z is a bit lower level than I’m used to seeing.)
What a genuinely dangerous ans idiotic article.
This is a pretty neat tool.

Off topic: If you're on a Mac, you can do a lot of PDF manipulation right from Preview.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202945
My local telco built a dialup. This wasn’t a monopoly, it increased competition because now there were two options.

This shall not pass.
I’m curious that any Tech company allows multiple full time employment. All tech companies require employees to sign work for hire intellectual property assignment. You must disclose any other intellectual property agreements with other entities.

Even taking on a side job contract has IP issues. Most companies claim full ownership of any IP produced by employees at any time, on any devices.

There’s also workman’s comp and medical insurance, unemployment insurance and all other issues that conflict with multiple full time employment.

I know people that work full time and do a side gig. Either their own business or a part time under the table contract job.

I’ve never known anyone work multiple full time SE jobs. That leaves easily discoverable paper trail.
> Is the person who wrote this knowledgeable on this topic?

I am not... "I am a software developer, and this is my best interpretation of the requirements I could find"

> The way it is written it seems like they just did a bunch of searches and found some information.

That is about how that went.

> Do they know enough to be sure they're drawing the right conclusions based on what they found?

Maybe? if you have other conclusions, I'd love to hear them.
You should at least pay your intern a livable wage, $15/hr
WHO deliberately chooses to kowtow to China and exclude Taiwan, the country with one of the best records on Covid-19 and with the experience and knowledge to fight it successfully. At some point sacrificing public health to accommodate a genocidal regime becomes a matter of institutional failure. Don't waste your breath making excuses for them. The WHO's "inaccuracies" go far beyond believing CCP propaganda.
"DaveMosher reports @SpaceX has contracted @ST_World already "a few years ago" to build 1m #Starlink user terminals at $2400/pc, hence current hardware subsidy for beta testers is $1900. Article suggests, SpaceX may be paying $2.4 billion for the order.
https://t.co/jak0hKQBGn"

So the current estimate published in business insider means you are about four times off based on the contract with ST, who we now know builds the chips inside of it. Please show your sources of a $500 phased array terminal.
Well there is pubpeer — https://pubpeer.com/static/about

I’m not sure how we get away from the current review system without a coordinated effort involving the prominent scholars in whatever field. The editors are often senior peers, and there’s sort of an expectation that you review others work, and that they will review your work
PineCone BL602 Talks UART to Grove E-Ink Display
Sure - I spent a decade decommissioning Lotus Notes apps in various Enterprises. I did a ton of successful re-writes of small apps to more modern stacks. But the bigger and more complex the app, the worse the rewrites were. It was often better not to re-write at all and instead to start from scratch and re-solution with the business to determine whether they even the same app again. Often, those complex custom apps that were 10+ years old now have off-the-shelf solutions that worked better anyway.

I've also seen full re-writes of large complex apps work fine... if you are willing to dedicate an entire team to it for 2 years.

But if you are looking for a huge re-write done smoothly, easily, and quickly... I have no success stories like that, and recommend against trying it.
In addition to using different end points, that Karolinska paper was about a gene cluster on chromosome 3 whereas this PNAS one is about chromosome 12.

Is Covid a virus from 40,000 years ago is now my question.
Send your finances through the roof
Yes.

Any one of these things would be a massive boon to our understanding of life throughout the solar system and broader universe, right down even to here on Earth. All three of them would arguably mark a new era in Earth's history.