skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The graph is absolutely meaningless to me without further contex. So, the electric grid generates 12.7 "units". If we subtract solar, wind and hydro then we get down to 6.42 "units". I have chosen these because they are not thermal power sources. These power sources generate an almost equivalent amount of primary energy and electricity. So we are left with 6.42. 6.42/31 is 20%. Where are these 20% efficient power plants? Nuclear alone would be 30% efficient. Combined cycle gas is 50%. The numbers make no sense to me.

Edit: Ok I read the note at the bottom and the graph literally adjusts the rejected energy of renewables to match thermal power plants. Assuming 33% efficiency that means 12.56 phantom units of energy that never even existed in the first place are being rejected.
"FYI, this is often easier to read and better generally than wikipedia for a lot of articles."

I reckon you are correct, but as I mentioned some weeks back in a reply to a question about what books would I recommend for a beginner in philosophy, SEP was one of my references in that it is an excellent resource but my recommendation came with a caveat which was that there is a huge amount of detail that's likely to overwhelm all but the most hardened.

I refer regularly to SEP and when it's just a quick reference I often find myself getting bogged down in detail. There's nothing wrong with that so long as the student knows how to extract just what's needed, the trouble is at times that can be difficult (as there's essentially no delineation between the key points and details).

Ideally we'd also have a précised, much shortened students' version.
On the other side, 10 million kids may never go back to school in the developing countries after pandemic. Probably good for the underground textile shops dressing up the ones who can work from home.

https://www.savethechildren.net/news/almost-10-million-child...
While I tend to agree with the results, this study is highly unethical, probably statistically useless and incredibly biased, and the use of ‘females’ vs ‘men’ (as opposed to men/women or male/female) is ... rough, at best.
John Cleese is brilliant. Period.
I've seen a case where about half the class was cheating. People would pay those who took the test earlier to give the exam. Given this, it would be cruel to come down hard on any particular student for cheating.
If you throw money at a black hole, and put the expenditures under the "education" column, that's where it will be counted. You should see the inane &#@* they buy, and the volumes of it they purchase.
This piece is from 2015. Not being on Tinder I have no idea how things have changed since then.
I read it as saying that collecting 100% of federal income taxes would add $7.5 trillion in revenue over the next decade
I looked, and cannot find any documentation (other than a few comments in the source code).

Is there any documentation of the IR codes?

Also, what version of C does the C compiler implement, and are any GNU extensions implemented?
I love this idea, but I would like something more ambitious. This is a interesting addition to the stable of Linux Tablets - with the Pine Tab that is one and a half?

Thing is I am desperate to have a tablet with decent capabilities (and at about $500 price point) that is not a consumer device, and I need it nine months ago. Too late now - up to my eyebrows in Apple iPad nonsense.

I have been working on a application that uses a dedicated tablet (iPad FFS, why does Apple hate developers so much? I spent thirty years away from them - how fantastic they used to be... I digress) I would really like to have complete control of the tablet that the users are out using - controlling millions and millions of dollars of assets and revenue - not have a consumer device with all the cruft that implies.

Whilst it is possible to strip capabilities off of a consumer device, as a developer I am not in control of it. The only confidence I can have in it is based on Apple's engineering, and as a developer I have a inside look at that, and it is not what it was (or seemed to a younger me thirty years ago).

Nice start, too little, too late - for me.
Covid barely spreads through children. It spreads through travel and large gathering of adults.
Your comment will be flagged and removed. You cannot be this open minded and critical of the lockdown religion.
That looks like exactly the Sage model I have. Clearly multiple branding going on, maybe per country (I'm in the UK).

Anyway, same situation as you: multiple cups for the wife and I daily since February 2020 without a glitch.

I set it for double espresso then I fill up the mug to get an americano. I don't use the quantity setting for the grinder, I do it manually in several small steps.
It's an ad-supported platform. They just do the math, if people keep watching even if they increase the number of ads, they will keep increasing it.

I personally use YouTube Premium for a few years and I like it, never having to watch ads on PC/tablet/TV is really nice.
I personally like Futurology Subreddit, trendlab.io, insighttrends...

I'm also interested if you have other websites !
I also personally appreciated the time limits of exams as well. They seemed like a good balance to projects whose outcome was primarily decided by how much time one could spend (there's a clear balance in the real world utility of performing well under unstrained time, and time management, etc).
I never said everybody is, but I do think most people who have been at FAANG or companies that pay in the same ballpark like trendy late stage pre-ipo companies for 10+ years are or are close (especially if we define multimillionaire as >2m networth including 401k and house equity, and include household wealth for married couples).

My other comment you linked I still stand by. But you don't need to be IC6/L6/E6, refreshers and equity appreciation are very powerful if you are lucky enough to get both.
I just use the typing module from the standard library, and only use Mypy via an LSP client in my editor.
Okay, I can see how it comes across. Personally, I want America to succeed and I think closing schools is bad for that because we're damaging people who are far more precious than us (the next generation).

But people get what people vote for. They could smash the teaching unions if they want to. But they could choose not to.

So if you choose a path I warned you about and it hurts you, I'm happy to find some positivity in that by insulating myself from you and prospering by not walking off a bridge like you.
I work on a well established, closed source, trade secrets style e-commerce site. I can never seem to think about anything I could write up that would not involve me reworking everything to be more general. I also think it would largely boil down to a Stack Overflow link. I am doing more management now, so that might make this problem a little easier to solve for me.
Just like a lot of things where the best thing to do for the individual only works out if only a tiny minority of parasites do it.

e.g. getting a vaccine. You're arguably best off if you're part of the 1% of the population who choose not to get one but still get protected by herd immunity. But if that 1% grows to 10/20/30%, suddenly, not only does the defection advantage disappear, but the whole herd starts to suffer. Tragedy of the commons.

We're all stuck between a rock and a hard place of simultaneously not wanting to restrict individual freedom, autonomy, and privacy, but also recognizing that when being a parasite is a disproportionately advantageous role for an individual to choose, it eventually kills the host.
> Physical art is different. (hang with me here, but..)

No, it is not. Picasso died dirt poor, he never beneficiated in large sums from his paintings. It just happen he was crazy enough to make a name and now people brag about him.
I'm not really following you but intrigued. A few questions:
You're quote of the parent doesn't seem correct? Where did you find that quote?
MEGO?

This is imo not a gotcha interview question. It's A) Intended as a way for me to check if the person has an understanding of when to deduplicate code or not (I don't care if they know what DRY is, and I try to help them without giving them the straight up core part of the answer, give examples, etc). I believe this is one of the fundamental parts of writing maintainable code and B) Able to formulate this so that others can learn from them. Both are critical skills for the role.

In my experience, by applying DRY wrongly you're creating a really dangerous code base (maintainability wise). It's probably even worse to deduplicate code wrongly than not deduplicating at all.
In the 1970's (before outsourcing and immigration became significant) tgere wasnt anyone in the country who would work in those conditions because there were so many better jobs and so few other workers.
Most people don’t “need” a high level education nor do they actually want one, a degree is just another metric about a person and when you make something a metric you tend to ruin it.

Most people would benefit from a liberal education, that is the literal meaning of liberals to make one free, but most don’t actually get it at university because it’s hard to do and to measure (and not many actually care).
The article uses men/women *and* male/female in their respective appropiate contexts

I won't go into how you think of the ethicality of the "study" which is little more than a cursory glance at avaliable data bringing some insightful results
Sundial: Fault-Tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters
*a Drawing of the Brooklyn Bridge
Not in Spain
> probably most of the time we don't need to do fancy type manipulation or dynamic dispatch at runtime

The fact is, I really wish there were a way to have the ability to build systems that you can recompile at runtime that had types. The recompilation itself is the "problem," or at least an inconvenience. You have to interrupt your flow in order to test even the smallest change. Yes, this is a selfish programmer desire to make building things easier.

The general consensus is that it's not worth having flexibility over the stability that types enforce, and for most cases I would agree. It would be ridiculous to program critical systems like financial software with the expectation you'd be able to walk right up to it and deploy changes whenever you want. There isn't a need for extensibility with that use case. But there are some cases where extensibility is a key part of the development cycle, like Emacs or Excel or game development. Iteration is important in those cases, seeing that you can make some changes and test them out, "teaching" the program what you want until it's just right. My experience is that this is an optimal development cycle, where I'm not prone to be distracted easily and lose more time than I needed to when I intended to just compile something.

It's just that I'm not seeing why having types means you must use a machine-compiled language, meaning you now have to reboot the program to see your changes. I wish there was a best-of-both-worlds solution that works in the weird way I expect. The closest thing I know of is Teal, which compiles to Lua, but it will be a while before it's production-ready.
If you're looking for a discount, you could get this one instead:
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Just wanted to nit pick
>No doubt the rise of the Internet – and today’s “cut and paste” culture -- has cheapened the value of “original” work.

I think broad statements like these, that blame a shift in culture, do so out of a sense of nostalgia for an imaginary past. Isn't it more likely that the effect the author sees is simply part of the culture and that changing technology allowed for new expressions of it?
Curious, what virus we eradicated?
The technocratic left hates you and your children. It's that simple. This website shadow bans comments critical of lockdown. The technocrats want to replace you with foreign workers that they can exploit and they want your kids poor and desperately stuck working in the gig economy.
Millennials just don't understand ... world is becoming digital very fast.
What's not talked enough is how this is normalized in Saas digital marketing today.
Science behind Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to be used for cancer jabs 'in few years'
The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
"wing-flapping rate of African swallow"

Laden or unladen? In a vacuum?
In the US cops can actually have sex with prostitutes and then arrest them for prostitution afterwards. The justice system is broken.
Hi, Jonathan here, founder of the RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) at DigitalHumani.com

https://ecologi.com/ is great! Whatever works for you. Montly payments, Continuous Reforestation, donation to reforestation organizations, etc. Let's plant billions of trees.
NFTs are getting shittier everyday, therefor here is REAL shitty NFT
This is a Shitty NFT

This shitty NFT is another worthless magic bean that will only get value if people think it will get value. Yes, I don’t fully get it too.
Emacs (esp. with org-mode) sits close to the barycenter of the space of problems like this, where the vector sum of "effort to use the solution to solve the problem" and "engineering effort needed to build the solution" is quite low. Building a React web app, or a Visual Basic bespoke app, might yield a nicer to use program, but would require more effort than throwing something together with Emacs Lisp, SQLite, and org-mode.

It's one reason why I won't give Emacs up, again despite half of Hackernews being convinced the VSCode will solve world hunger.
What would it have been like if the schools had not been closed?
If millions had been infected in a short time and the hospitals had been overloaded so that in addition to the deaths from Corona, the deaths from lack of capacity would have been added?
How traumatic would that be for the children?
Are there any studies on this from New York or Italy?
Can the consequences of the lockdown be so cleanly separated from the consequences of the pandemic?
Couldn't it also be that the lockdown simply makes people more aware of the threat of the pandemic because it has a tangible impact on their personal lives?
It's nice that schools that follow the hygiene rules have fewer COVID cases, but what percentage of schools have the space for it and actually implement it?
Why else have studies shown that school closures are one of the top 3 measures against the spread of infection, after closing down restaurants and limiting contacts to 5 people?
Could that word be computacy?
There's pretty much no evidence for that. Kids are asymptomatic and the virus is so out of control that it's difficult to track down the graph of infections from kids is all.

Additionally teachers and school staff tilt pretty heavily to high risk groups. Watching so many of the adults die in their life would absolutely give kids depression too.
Biggest carbon emitters are industrialized western democracies. Unless you are considering them as failed states, your argument is not correct
You could generate a signature that proves that you have the private key associated with the address
If you think it more like as Patreon then it makes much more sense. The ownership of the artwork (or whatever) is irrelevant. Similarly that Patreon members might get their names in the credits of a youtube video, token owners get their name in the blockchain. The key here is that both are public displays of support to the artist and not much more.
Kids would be pretty depressed being surrounded by a 8 digit body count in the US too.

Kudos for expressing an unpopular opinion.

I'll express another one: I think the whole thing about "ZOMG! Suicide rates through the roof!!!elevelty!1!" is blown out of proportion, largely thanks to pseudo-news web sites trying to grab clicks on the internet.

The school district where I live put out a press release lamenting an 18% increase in student suicide in 2020. Reading to the end, you find out that the actual numeric increase was something like 2. Two dead kids isn't good in any way. But when the number of suicides reaches a meaningful fraction of the number of COVID deaths, then I'll take it seriously.

Having to stay home for a year is nothing — absolutely nothing — compared with what children had to deal with during previous social upheavals (world wars, and the like).
I, once, removed a graph from application. Application has all these nice abstractions. Change touched 40+ files. Single Responsibility? bonkers.
dark.fail
If you think about "insider trading" in the sense of trading on "material non-public information" then it makes sense to say that congresspeople are legally insider trading.

If I hear from a friend at X that company X is about to Y and trade off that, that's insider trading. Right? If a congressman heard in closed testimony that a bad thing is about to happen to X and trades off that...
So, for context, France tried that. Badly, like the rest of our handling of Covid, but we did close restaurants, bars, and everything else, keeping schools open. Not really for the well being of the children, but rather that their parents could not work if they had to handle children.

Depressions are still through the roof, grades are low.
The interdependence of humans means that no lockdown could be hard or long enough and the independence of humans means that nobody would actually live under such a hypothetical regime anyway (starting at the top especially). As it stands the worst of both worlds was erected, a lockdown too soft to effectively “eradicate” the virus and too hard to prevent the economic and psychological ills that have predictably presented themselves. The bright spot is that the anticipated deaths due to over utilization of healthcare resources seen in northern Italy has been mostly avoided. Maybe the worst of both worlds has been the least bad option.
Weekly Notes 007 – Shipping Node.js at Netlify and Design Systems Workshop
Is this a scam?
let's put it that way:
It is not a surprise to me
There is no semantic meaning given to type annotations by the interpreter. There's no need for polyfill nor are there issues with interoperability of frameworks because, again, type annotations have no semantic meaning.

They're like comments, they're only there for developer convenience and can be completely ignored.
Yes, NFTs are a scam.
Yes, but it is known to everyone exactly how many they will sell.
Elon Musk's SpaceX may have been one explosion away from going bust
it is really not a solved problem
Clinton flew on convicted sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express 26 times. Bill Gates also visited the island several times. Lets pretend that Democrats are great people and ban anyone who disagrees.
I expect this comment to be shadow banned immediately.
Well, if the person is healthy and young, I can’t imagine why it’d be the latter.
>>the db was so well abstracted, they managed to swap these out with no need to rewrite any application code

What were the reasons for the swap and what were the outcomes of it besides that it actually happened? Costs, performance, scalability etc?

I think hardly anyone would argue that those transitions are impossible, because they are indeed possible. The main question is usually if your abstraction can leverage the benefits of underlying implementation or it is just a common denominator. I can imagine a clever technical strategy in a startup, foreseeing future growth and starting with a simple DB before moving to a more complex in maintenance but scalable solution. This may work. Often it doesn't.
Maybe we just should not care?
In the end, if someone claims sth., she always has to give proof.
If da Prof. Prof. Dr. Dr. super plus claims sth. without proof, and a pink hair colored teenager claims sth. with proof, everyone _should_ believe the teen (actually believing the proof, not the person).
Sadly thats not the case, lots of people still believe "eminence based proof" instead of "evidence based proof".
While a grad student at TX A&M CS, I rolled out a grading rubric (for a couple of intro courses) which required the students to pass individually each of the homework, quiz, and exams, separately, to pass the course.

This nipped HW cheating in the bud by the 3rd semester, because the students knew that you couldn’t game the system by maximizing HW grades to bring up exam & quiz grades. Exams & quizzes were autogenerated from a set of parametric problems, and put in random order on the print out — made side-by-side and answer-sheet cheating basically impossible.

Faculty weren’t as charmed with the cratered grades, though.
You have to ask the vegans.
I deal with servers for HPC use. Let me explain why I made my question...

Consumer boards for Ryzen CPUs support ECC RAM these days. So, it's not as bad as you think. Is it as reliable as a server board? probably not.. But, I'm not building for or paying for that reliability either - fitness for purpose.

I think your comment on storage missed the whole point. The article was about a PCIe 4.0 SSD that I wished to use in servers. They are every bit as fast as the enterprise grade NVMe drives. The differentiation is typically power loss protection. At consumer grade service levels, I don't care, I go cheap, but insane value. Again, fitness for purpose.

Networking. I can find a Asus board for Ryzen CPUs with onboard 10G NICs.

Sure, server CPUs have more lanes etc and are designed for maximum load sharing across workloads. My quest is the opposite. Give me small, cheap, and insane value servers instead of VMs that are running dog slow in beauty servers used by a hundred others.
What proof would you believe without empirically letting the death rate get into the double digits to begin with?
As someone who's worked in AAA game engines this is like saying because C# is now open source it will be easy to just copy code into Swift without any hassle.

The part that makes game engines both interesting and difficult is they made a series of discrete trade-offs to support the use cases of the types of games they ship. This is true from tooling workflows to rendering stacks to core engine layout like if they do heavy arena allocation or more open world dynamic entities.

We extended the engine we licensed with some fairly reasonable features and even doing the uplevel was a brutal, 4-6 month process to reconsile those changes.
Anecdotally , this seems similar to what I observe in the job market (most employers fighting for the top 20% of candidates). Average is out in all aspects of life.

Maybe this is why so many people are unhappy .
I think you're misreading the comment you replied to. "+/- 25% of a 11M of the population having been infected" means about 25% of 11M, or 2.75M, officially infected. 22k/2.75M would imply a 0.8% fatality rate.
Most places don require masks at all. The recommendation (for now) is to keep wearing mask as before.

I assume this will change as/if/when more people become vaccinated.
Reading standard financial forms isn't a solved problem?
The consensus is more that younger children seldom have symptoms that's why they get less tested, that's why the real number of infected is highly unknown.
Otherwise studies have shiown school closing are ver effective
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/eabd9338
I think most people here would agree that working on a side project in your free time using your own resources (Ie, not using your employer’s) is perfectly reasonable and hardly comparable to fraud.

(Disclaimer: happy PD employee from 2011-2015)
Here's the problem:

Some developers will say a (data structure) Controller is a class obeying the SRP

Some others will say the class can manage itself and not need a controller, so M and C can be one thing.

Some other will argue that it's better to make 2 controllers, one for complicated thing 1 and another for complicated thing 2, all based on the same Model.