skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would need to see average global surface temperature being uncoupled from atmospheric CO2 levels, sustained over a long period of time. Given that we have hundreds of thousands of years of climate records [0], that seems like a tall order.

One cold spell does not disprove global warming. While Dallas might be experiencing abnormally low temps, Jacksonville's seeing uncharacteristic highs (86F today).

[0] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/global-warming/temperature-change
There's a difference between not having enough generation to meet extreme load and having 35 gigawatts of power drop out of service.

It's also clearly that case that lots of operators are able to run reliably in extreme cold weather (of course they do that because it's a fact of life and not because of weatherization regulations).
> We cannot construct an instrument capable of measuring "yellow" as such.

Of course we can. We can capture the signal sent through the optical nerve and then reproduce it as a stimulus which will make the brain “see” yellow color.

Besides, humans are capable of distinguishing literally millions of colors, of which just a tiny fraction can be attributed to measuring particular wavelengths (or, more accurately, particular energies of the incident photons). In that way the eye is different from the ear (which performs a kind of Fourier analysis of the sound wave).
I know it's not a long list, but when I run into these sorts of lists I want to see them sub-categorized -- perhaps by strong static/dynamic typing or by language family (LISP vs. ML, et. al.) or maturity. The PureScript link is now out of date as well.
Don't forget that you're paying a huge price using the sqlalchemy orm - https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/faq/performance.html

If I know an endpoint is going to be hit hard, I forgo trying to use the ORM (except to maybe get the table name from the model obj so some soul can trace it's usage here in the future) and directly do an engine.execute(<raw query>). Makes a huge difference. Next optimization I do is create stored procedures on the database. Only then I start thinking about changing the framework itself.

For folks like me who want to get prototypes off the ground in hours, flask and fastapi are godsend, and if that means I have to worry about serving thousands of requests a second soon thats a happy problem for sure.
Can anyone recommend a hackernews alternative where only IT, CS and tech is discussed? With no politics or yellow press?
Maybe even the energy capital of the world.
Everything on that list is mainstream. If you define that as an alt-right on ramp then you’re probably disconnected from a large part of our society.
If TypeScript and OO are your thing, I made some code for this: https://gitlab.com/brlewis/mud-eventemitter
Well you've drawn a correlation, for sure. As one could do for obesity rates, processed and fast food consumption, alcohol consumption per capita.

Again, citation needed.
Not getting paid
You can also use whatever metrics you want, and you haven't even gone to the effort of defining them!
just.js (#9) looks interesting

https://github.com/just-js/just

It seems to be a much tinier JavaScript runtime than Node.js (still using v8), but linux only

The benchmark is probably unrealistically optimized code but even so, it implies Node.js itself has a large performance overhead
But has resulted in many oil companies being based there, which means lots of money flowing to politicians, which DOES make it a political stance.

'member Halliburton? ExxonMobil?

Virtually every large US-based oil company is headquartered in Houston.
Yeah the shop I got my start in shipped .Net on the server and client side with stored procedures tied to that code on the DB side. So it was a sort of API abstraction that slowed devs to call update_users(...) from the app side and get raw sql performance and such. To a newbie like me at the time it may have been an old school approach but it made total sense.

Pretty cool to see someone get a similar start to me. I’ve not played with the Django ORM yet. Still getting used to SQLalchemy.
>>We owe ourselves 356% of what we produce every year?

Ourselves is a strange thing to say, the whole world isn't exactly one country. When you have visa restriction preventing movements, and wars for resources. We are not one entity.

No country is going to forgive defaults on money borrowed from it.
Very untrue, it's a pretty common way of stealing social media accounts like Twitter and YouTube accounts. Happens all over the place, definitely in places like USA.
Does anyone know what conclusions (if any) could be drawn from the psychedelic studies of the 60's? The wikipedia page on the harvard study [0] is pretty light on details. Though it looks like the study only lasted 2 or 3 years before being shut down.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Psilocybin_Project#:~:....
I don't have any conclusions, mostly because I'm confident that the random chance of my internet searches doesn't provide enough to draw conclusions.
A bird learning to fly flaps it's wings even though it can't fly. We don't call them imposters. Just keep learning.
I write a lot of frontend JS with hot reloading

make change => see result => cmd-z 1 time to fix result OR commit and keep coding

oops, it wasn't really fixed. cmd-z 3 times and see if that works

I know it's wrong, but what's right?
Heads up the purescript fork is now purerl[1].

[1]https://github.com/purerl/purerl
That's like saying the crying Indian (who was Italian) has just been used to talk about litter.
I just want to point out the strange irony of GaaS in Fallout 76. It's set in a dystopian future of rural West Virginia. Relics of the past are everywhere, and special attention is paid to dangerous "Mole Miners" resembling the old "Mole-People" of lore, who you you must battle from time to time. The Mole Miners are an echo of the real life West Virginian miners who historically struggled under exploitative mining companies. One of the exploitative measures taken by mining companies was the decision to pay miners with "scrip" instead of real money. The reason they'd give was that remote mining locations did not have banks, so they relied on a company money for a company store for goods and services. This scrip economy was often stacked against miners, who would often find themselves in debt, and eventually revolt with massive strikes. Given that context, compare it with one of the main goals of the game, which is to fight as many "legendary enemies" as possible to gain "legendary items" that can be exchanged for scrip so that the player can acquire more "legendary items." The machine that exchanges these items for scrip looks like it was pulled out of a casino. Every time a player pays Bethesda $15 per month, they are literally gambling that the aforementioned casino machine will make them scrip-rich. They are gambling on getting ahead in a game that is very much stacked against them. I wonder if the game designers realize that the plight of their game's Mole Miners is a metaphor for the average player's experience.
At least diamonds have utility in cutting tools etc.
Professor Kenneth Stanley – Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Uhh, isn't the solution simple? Redistribution of wealth to a more equitable level.
Global warming models have no statistical power? I'm sure this well documented increase in atmospheric co2 will have no effect, then.

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

If you spend 30 seconds googling you'll see that communities in the high Canadian arctic, alaska and greenland have been setting new temperature records on a regular basis. And the subsidence and melt of coastal permafrost in some areas is increasing at a rate that will soon look like a hockey stick curve on a chart.
I'm not aware of any tricks to make mile calculations easier but the fractional scale common with the inch is very useful for real-world mental calculation and practical exchange. Effectively everything is powers of two. Got something between 1/4 and 1/2 inch? Great, use 1/8ths. It's three. Not close enough? How about five 16ths? It infinitely scales to provide another unit that is suited to the measurement at hand. In some contexts you might just say you pick the closest 1/8th. In others you might use 32nds. You can use the same measuring devices to agree on an ad-hoc standard that everyone understands.

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.

Adjusting HVAC in degrees-C is infuriating to my Fahrenheit sensibilities. 20C is cold, 22C is hot. 21C is probably ok but really I want something like 20.5C. The comfortable range for a room is 3-5 whole units of F, but requires a bunch of fractions in C that you may not even have available on your thermostat.

Sure, converting between units is easy in the metric system. That doesn't make it the best thing to use all the time. Hell, the idea of thousandths of an inch is used commonly, so even the imperial system is base 1000 in some cases. But I've never seen anyone utilize the fractional scale with metric units, probably because the units are the wrong size for that to be useful.
This is nothing short of incredible. Radio is hard, even at HF (1-30mhz). It's very forgiving at HF though, and so is very approachable. This is where I spend my ham radio time dabbling and hacking away at things. VHF is harder, and UHF an order of magnitude harder. But 8-12Ghz? That's not for mere mortals. It's machining pieces at tight tolerances and movement measured in the smallest fractions.

If this is what he does for fun, I wonder what he does for work?
Born in the 70s and raised in teh 80s, I lived the worm logo, and still do, but I really feel the meatball logo is both deeply tied that era of the 50s/60s, but also timeless. It's a classy and classic logo.

However, I LOVE that combination of both.
[Works if source is versioned].

I usually use these 3 approaches in IntelliJ (IJ):

1. When a line is changed, IJ will show some marker in the left gutter. If I hover my mouse, I can see the diff.

2. Sometimes I peek Local History.

3. Sometimes I commit with random name e.g. "bla" so I can refer to that commit from time to time. When I'm done, I squash all the blas into 1 proper commit.
ChessBase is selling this Stockfish clone for
€99.90. They have also disabled comments on all of their articles so far about Fat Fritz 2. Not a good look.

Related Article on Lichess (which is also open source) about Fat Fritz 2: https://lichess.org/blog/YCvy7xMAACIA8007/fat-fritz-2-is-a-r...
>What this really helps point out is how frequently people voice their opinions on matters online without fully assessing the situation.

Does it?

This article was written by someone with no expertise, and the result of some internet searches.
The term climate change took over global warming because of how laughable wrong all the "global warming" predictions failed to come true and disastrously so.

Like most prophecies by religions do.
And if you use IntelliJ/Android Studio there's Local History, which shows your git revisions but also periodic versions of your code outside of your commits
Would it finally be the case where a GPL violator is taken to court?
Yeah same here. I think their DC location was smarter lobbiest wise and just shows Amazon is digging in for the long haul and saying politics are more important than tech workers.
FWIW this also crashes Python 2.7 on macOS Catalina.
I think the median poster on HN was alive in 1989.
My guess is that counterintuitively but unsurprisingly, you actually want to use crops that were previously inefficient to grow. Low yields per acre crops are more suitable to indoor vertical farming because of the benefit climate control, and lack of pests provides.
As a kid who grew up in the Midwest in the 1990s, my education did include Millikan's name, and the idea that California's work led to a ton of nasty German things.
I think you forgot Tony Robbins and Bear Gryllz...
using unproven science or bad science for political gains is why people don't like "global warming" for political reasons.
By the same logic those interested in ML shouldn't be buying up Geforce cards and should buy their Tesla line.
Canada has winter every year. Thus doesn't happen there. Canada has wind turbines, too
I mean, I'd be pretty impressed if NASA managed to get Webex to run on a 133MHz PowerPC CPU and 128MB of RAM.
> I believe many devs are afraid someone could see all their trial and error attempts and judge them

This is certainly part of the reason I do it. Sometimes I'll start repos anew, without the "mistake" commits and branches, and add that version to my Github before I send the link to a potential employer.
Has a founder of a university ever been condemned by that university before?
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Our lawmakers and politicians should be held accountable for spreading lies. That being said, I still believe that this is an engineering problem first and not a problem with the Texas regulations or the politics behind why Texas has its own grid.
Use of ORMs is often a performance choke point. Raw DB queries are often much, much faster.
Almost always, the more you abstract, the worse you perform. It's great as a developer but not so great as a user.
I hope they get power soon, but is a Texan more likely to voice accurate information about their power grid than anyone else?

It's probably not that many of them who know it well.
Purity demands are ramped up these days on the left and the right. On the right, it’s to Trump, on the left, it’s to certain ideas.

I wonder if these mutually reinforce each other in any way.
Absolute bs. Both nuclear and hydro can and do handle it easily.
Where is SSL the bottleneck? Wondering if terminating earlier and just relying on HTTP after would help.
To elaborate on the topic, there is ample evidence that nuclear energy is by far the most expensive source of energy, when you take into account the government (for example here in France) entirely subsidizing the construction and hypothetical demolition.

I say hypothetical because french attempts at "safely dismantling" nuclear power point are not going so well and are over-budget by an order of magnitude.

Then these people who can't even build/dismantle a plant (see the many Areva scandals) would like us to believe they can build an underground storage area for highly radioactive materials that's gonna be safe for at least 100 000 years? Despite growing evidence of the contrary

There's also growing evidence that nuclear and renewables tend to be incompatible, mostly because nuclear means a grid with huge centers of energy production, far away from energy consumption (the opposite is true with renewables).

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=53376
Probably because you're looking for simplicity, the BEAM, and access to the Erlang ecosystem.

Or maybe it just like speaks to you.
I'm 16 and I'm sharing my journey of becoming a professional web developer
Likewise. This whole thread is totally bizarre.

The closest imaginable thing I might do is wrapping some block of code in an if(false) {..} or #ifdef it out, when I'm refactoring and feeling unsure about my changes. But is that even the same thing that we're talking about here?
It's probably just Firefox being Firefox again.
Engineers are dumb economists. nvidia could sell the full mining power BIOS or driver as a DLC.
In my experience it's sometimes a result of mismatched incentives resulting in a prisoner's dilemma rather than a lack of awareness or engineering ability.

The designer responsible for an alarm wants to avoid being blamed for the operator missing that specific alarm so they're incentivized to make their alarm as prominent as they can get away with. Of course once most designers are doing that then they have to keep doing it or risk get drowned out.

One way to fix that is by having someone who is responsible for the entire experience who can dictate shared prioritization, requirements, alerting frameworks, rate limiters, etc. In cases where the operator uses multiple products from different companies (e.g. in a hospital) that's especially hard which is why there's a cacophony of noise even though everyone involved acknowledges that it's a problem.
The ratio of people with inane checklists who spend their entire day in meetings to people doing actual work exceeds 1:10.

Employees who essentially believe in magic because anything ‘tech’ is beyond them.

Willingness to spend ridiculous sums on outside contractors/agencies to ‘speed things up’ without 1) understanding why that doesn’t work and 2) not rewarding employees working their asses off with no raises.

Not saying no to shining new things in a desperate attempt to increase revenue. Failure to realistically analyze and kill such shining new things post launch when they drive no revenue, but increase technical burden.

Devs constantly hammered as not doing things quickly enough by the same people who don’t do actual work other than above checklists.

Failure to recognize that exception handling is critical in things like Ecommerce and you have folks that aren’t going home until all the 1 in 1000 issues are dealt with because a paying customer is actually expecting a product.

People calling into meetings from poolside or better yet Hawaii acting like they are working remotely.

Thinking that MS Teams is just as good as Slack or anything else.

Man, this has been a hard fucking year.
HTTP/1.1 Keep-Alive helps a lot. HTTP/2 is even better. You only do the SSL handshake once.
https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch

Basically just lets my Plex server transcode more streams at once without having a Quadro.
This comment is probably sarcasm, but just in case it was meant seriously, I just want to make it clear that expending the energy of another supernova to create a currency would be, overall, a Bad Thing at this point in time.

Unless you've got some dyson spheres lying around that you're not telling me about, I'm going to politely request that bitcoin advocates not expend more energy than we have in the entire world just so that they can diversify their investment portfolios.
SpaceX Starship Habitat Deck
Hopefully. I also hope this gets spread throughout the online chess community so that ChessBase gets their name dragged through the mud, as they rightfully should, for this blatant plagiarism.

Taking the work of others, erasing their name and inserting your own, is the kind of crap we expect from lousy cheaters in high school, not businesses who want to establish themselves in a market based on a centuries-old global institution.
Newcombs Paradox – Can You Out-Predict the Future?
>In making its recommendations regarding Millikan, the committee also considered his stances on gender, race, and ethnicity, finding them sexist, racist, xenophobic, and inexcusable by any standard.

Except the standards of the day.
Regions in emacs do not need to consist of whole lines.
Another to the pile of movies filmed in Yugoslavia for interesting reasons is Transylvania Six Five-thousand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_6-5000_(1985_film...
Until you want to turn bitcoin back into useful things, you better hope whoever is on the other side of what you want accepts bitcoin. Other wise it's just a number online that you can't eat with.
I don’t understand why those would preferentially help low yield crops more than high yield crops.

That would be very surprising to me.
The author did more research than the common layman. From my perspective, the author fully assessed the situation. Do you have reason to believe the author hasn't done enough research?
Also, the exact same thing happened in 1989, 2011 and (less so) in 2014, and the recommendations that were made and ignored due to those events would have prevented the grid from collapsing.
Most commercial Websites today are shamefully-engineered pieces of complete and utter garbage, even with Ad blockers on. I have resorted to using no-script and whitelisting specific sites manually. In the old days, games and cool graphics would drive hardware upgrades. Today it's the web.
What prevents this from working on non-Chromium-based browsers?
My experience doing perf optimizations in real world systems with many many people writing code to the same app is a lot of inefficiencies happen due to over fetching data, inefficiencies caused by naively using the ORM without understanding the underlying cost of the query, and lack of actual profiling to find where the actual bottlenecks are (usually people writing dumb code without realizing it's expensive).

Sure, the framework matters at very large scale and the benefits from optimizing the framework become large when you're doing millions of requests a second over many thousands of servers because it can help reduce baseline cost of running the service.

But I agree with the author's main point which seems to be that framework performance is pretty meaningless when comparing frameworks if you're just starting on a new project. Focus on making a product people wanna actually use first. If you're lucky enough to get to scale you can work about optimizing it then.
This is a super-great article. I still have a bunch of old P60s and P61s I got for $100 each, a decade back, and (mostly) replaced the screen-backlight ballast. They did get unreliable after a while, freezing up at random times.

There is a place where you can get a completely new motherboard for a certain old Thinkpad model, that I think I will try.

My only problem with ancient laptops is that nowadays I need 32GB of RAM to run my VMs in.
True. I was doing something similar with wget.

However, I'm wondering whether there's any automated way to do this.

I don't really want to be doing 10-20 keypresses manually for each link.
Well, that's the motherboard, not the videocard. Every motherboard does it.
Damn, 130 million americans were once under forced sterilization laws pushed by the human betterment foundation (HBF) which was chaired by those guys.

It seems like such a waste of time to do all this renaming stuff for a bunch of hyper-sensitive freshmen (freshpeople?) but some of the sterilizations were for things like 'insanity' 'feeblemindedness' 'mentally diseased' 'mentally defective' and applied to you if you were below 70% of the average intelligence of your age group.

I certainly wouldn't like to live under those laws yet some part of me still values eugenics. Vasectomy for thee but not for me I guess.

I remember something about nazi schools teaching children the sterilised were victims of their ancestors, not nazi society. From what I recall they even had laws against treating the sterilised with contempt. Very progressive.

Here's some newspaper clippings by the HBF.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.0020380g/?st=gallery
http://python-poetry.org/ solves packaging
People and the processes not caring about writing knowledge down. From no process documentation to no knowledge management tools, including but going way beyond:

* Being OK with useless commit messages.

* Disregard for auditable tracking of issue progress, decision making, design flows, etc. E.g. Anyone having to tackle any existing non-trivial issue needing to be forwarded many email threads and random files.

* Predictable emergencies needing avoidable crunch mode over and over, no knowledge accrued about how the last fixes went.

The more examples I think about, the more it boils down to: any signs of an insatiable gluttony for technical debt should make you think twice. You're likely to be the one paying for it in the end.
GPU mining is mostly ethereum. Ethereum mining isn't just arbitrary hash functions, its network settled $1T last year[0].

[0]: https://www.newsbtc.com/news/ethereum/ethereum-on-pace-to-se...
That sounds terrifying.

Also with no magnetic shield, I wonder would animals (humans too) have seen higher occurrences of cancer, related diseases?
The WHO is part of the UN. The UN doesn't recognize Taiwan. It's as simple as that.