skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems pretty useful. I'm actually working on a project right now (https://postheat.com) to automate all the styling and html for devs and I've had to learn most of this the hard way...

I think you need some example search b/c I was not sure how to use the tool at first.
Yep, it allows you to tag something a metres per second, but it doesn’t automatically make multiplying it by a duration yield a distance without writing any custom code. F# can do that, and it’s rather cool. There are dimensional analysis libraries for other languages, but none that I’m aware of baked in.
Ok so the thing that Thermoworks markets as a "Thermapen Mk4" -- how much does that cost shipped to the US from a European vendor selling ETI products?

I think I paid $60 for one on Thermoworks's web site during what they said was a sale, and I generally don't regret it vs. the crummy experiences I've had with cheaper food thermometers.
We must be evil twins in opposite universes. I've always wanted to be able to code the equations the way they look on paper. I actually am quite annoyed that most languages won't let you use Greek characters as variables. To me, it just makes it easier to spot errors.
The 2600, called the VCS (Video Computer System) when I was a kid, offers three kinds of graphics.

Background. This can be changed by the CPU, but as mentioned, the CPU is not fast enough to do that per pixel. It is often changed per scan line though.

Playfield. These are 40x1 pixels, that cab be mirrored and otherwise manipulated. Call this a scanline buffer, or partial one, depending on what one wants to do.

If you want symmetry, 2 and a half bytes of buffer has you covered. Otherwise, you need to load different pixels for the other side of the screen.

Playfield is monochrome. One bit per pixel. The colors can be changed ar any time, and are often changed per scanline.

Sprites. There are two "balls" which are two bit wide strips that can run the length of the screen vertically. It is up to you to put the right pixels and position in place for every scanline.

And two player sprites, same as the balls, 8 bits wide.

The color precision of the system is basically one NTSC color clock, which is roughly 160 pixels, or positions to which the sprites can be drawn.

This generally means pixels at least twice as wide as they are tall. Other graphics can be much wider.

A typical game will contain a complicated kernel that is responsible for the graphics. Game logic and other tasks happen during the blanking times.

System resources:

128 bytes of RAM

4k ROM

Sound and game controller I/O, which is actually fairly robust, supporting digital direction input, up to 4 paddles (pots that can indicate a position), and some buttons.

I do not recall having ever seeing it, but a nice analog joystick is supported as are rotary encoders, and various button and stick combinations.
> Quantify wherever possible

Google's former HR head describes this as:

"Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y], by doing [Z]."

This and other useful resume tips by him:

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/google-recruiters-say-the...
Thank you. From your's and most of the other comments I understand that speed automatically develops with familiarity with the topic and does not need to (and should not) be worked on consciously. We can grow familiar with a topic only by reading more about it from different sources. This is why probably the people who are able to read faster are the ones who read a lot.
> What the average HN user and the average user want is worlds apart. The average person likes their emails to be nicely designed like a website with blocks of colour and the site logos.

Taste is generated. Cool trendy startups make "nicely designed" emails, users come to expect that. If scam emails looked "nicely designed" and Google sent emails in plaintext, the "nicely designed" emails would be considered untrustworthy. As a counterpoint, an "average user" wants software to work, and forcing every email client to parse HTML (which is far outside the scope of what an email client should do, especially with html as complex as it is today) often breaks things in unexpected ways.

In my opinion, html and plaintext are both inappropriate for email. HTML is far too complex, and plaintext is a bit too simple. I think a markdown-like syntax would be the best balance, but I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed.
> I believe, unproven, that if you could see when your comments earned many replies, turned gray from downvoted, or got flagged by people, then That would be enough information to allow voting to continue to provide a social guiderail without the exact integers of everything mattering.

Upvotes and replies to a comment do not necessarily indicate the same thing. A controversial comment can spark discussion, but an idea can do so as well; only the latter would receive many upvotes. A good and long explanation, for example, might be very valuable, but not receive many replies and only upvotes, while a boring comment will receive neither. I think HN not showing the score of comments already does a solid job of preventing trains; you yourself seeing the score just allows you to know whether people valued your contribution.
I was referring to the headline, which very much has a "mission accomplished" spin to it:

>Pfizer Covid vaccine protects against worrying coronavirus variants

It reads as: "Don't be worried, Pfizer has the variant problem solved."
Disagree. There’s a lot to love about a job at Wendy’s relative to the alternatives (alternatives that don’t realistically include a programming job at Google).
> 1992 or so the 3.5" floppy was the preferred format

3.5" disks/drives could also be 720KB, I have an 8086 from Olivetti with a 360KB and a 720 KB drive.
I know 2880 kbyte disks and drives existed too (they used to be mentioned in every BIOS) , but I never saw a computer with one.
Yet no one else makes them.
That'd be about expected TC at any FAANG or FAANG-adjacent company, once your RSUs start vesting.

Obviously that's top of the market, but it exists.
Seconding this. Open for any faang referral as well.
No, it emphasizes itself over standards, and promotes compiling beyond the scope of inlining CSS. That's enough to turn me off. It's self serving. It's not serving my needs.
Unfortunately no -- Amazon is often ~20% cheaper than a brand's website, plus offers free shipping which brand sites often don't, and (very importantly) I can trust that I can return an item with zero hassle if it doesn't work as advertised.

Also the majority of brands don't even sell directly, only through retailers like Amazon, Wal-Mart, or Target anyways.
I doubt it matters to Samsung.

They are not Google, or an American company for that matter, where the mentality is win at first try or die.

They will try to erode the market slowly but with constant grow, learning from other companies mistakes and having better fabs and better logistics.
Epidemiologists use the term "variants of concern", so maybe "concerning" would have been a better word. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/vari...
https://www.levels.fyi/2020/ -- Many of these firms are fully remote since the pandemic and the extremely high cost of living no longer applies.
I daresay I enjoyed my job at Wendy’s a great deal. Mostly I left because I found better paying jobs elsewhere, but Wendy’s was a lot more enjoyable than those jobs (cart wrangling at Costco, car detailing at a Ford dealership)… until I finally broke through into office work.
> They also attempted to get Tesla's side of the story, but Tesla didn't respond:

To be fair, that's a little disingenuous given that Musk was literally tweeting denials at press time. Tesla certainly didn't refuse to respond, they had lots of things to say. But the article didn't get them in time so went to press trying to imply they had something to hide.

As far as the media reporting the story: it's fine. It was newsworthy. The "there was no one driving the car" business from the fire chief seems in hindsight to have been the real failing. That quote seems to have been a lot jucier than was warranted. In fact it seems almost certain that someone was manually operating that car via some mechanism or another.
There are hundreds if not thousands of variants by now. The ones that matter are the ones that spread more easily and/or make people sicker, aka the "worrying" ones.
The difference between the crude poster you linked to and the women portrayed by Mucha is enormous. I would say the poster you cited does not celebrate beauty at all. This one, for Trappist Liquor, does:
https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Trappistine-Liquors-Posters_i...
>Can you provide an example of a publication that "strongly implied or outright claimed" on their own that autopilot was involved?

Sure. Here you go.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/19/tesla-texas...

Headline: A driverless Tesla crashed and burned for four hours, police said, killing two passengers in Texas.

Lede: "Just before midnight Saturday, a Tesla drove swiftly around a curve, veered off the road, struck a tree and burst into flames in The Woodlands, Tex., a suburb north of Houston, police said."

"Driverless" is used here to relate the reader to "Driverless cars," aka "self driving car." Note that the police only said that the driver wasn't in the driver's seat at the time of the crash.

The lede puts the agency for the driving on the car: "a Tesla drove..."

Looks like NBC did it too:

The vehicle, a 2019 Tesla Model S, was driving at high speed when it ran off the road, hit a tree and burst into flames, he said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-dead-tesla-crash-afte...

Here's Yahoo News with a video, headline "2 killed after self-driving Tesla crashes into tree, bursts into flames":

https://news.yahoo.com/2-killed-fiery-tesla-crash-210032357....

But wait, isn't that "technically correct" (the best kind of correct) to what the original investigation said?

Sure! But then why did other news sources go to great lengths to avoid using the phrase? Here's The Verge:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/18/22390612/two-people-kille...

"Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving"

"Preliminary reports suggest the car was traveling at a high rate of speed and failed to make a turn, then drove off the road into a tree."

Notice the hedging in the paragraph. Notice the use of passive voice "was traveling."

Professional writers know the meaning of words. They know what those words mean to readers. They use them deliberately.
How does the Moderna vaccine compare?
1921 is shortly after copyright became effectively infinite, and falls in the gulf of books that were lost because they were snatched away from entering the public domain.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120330/12402418305/why-m...

Edit: I'm a bit off with my dates, as 1922 was the year after which works effectively didn't ever enter the public domain.
The most counterfeited good I’ve found on amazon is moderately priced shampoo. It’s cheap and bulky and I have no idea why it’s faked but it’s super common.
I wonder which unintended instruction streams decode to the highest number of decodable partial instructions/instruction sequences, and then I wonder how useful those sequences might be in, say, a 4k or 1k demo....
Really? On Amazon US, I still can't see any Thermoworks Thermapens available for sale. Just lots of similar devices.
Yep! They ditched the touchscreen for 2021 (in my CX-5 at least), along with the whole infotainment overhaul. It's a big upgrade over the previous system. The screen is large and very good quality.
They don't sell exynos phones in the US to avoid patent wars with Qualcom.
It sounds like you're just making a seemingly reasonable assumption about something you don't know a lot about. There actually are not a lot of different kinds of good quality fast-reading thermometers out there.
You aren’t going to get 4 people in Mexico or China to be your line cooks and wait staff.
They probably should have said "variants of concern".
Interesting, according to this blog post: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/better-protecting-kids-...

> YouTube now treats personal information from anyone watching children’s content on the platform as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user. This means that on videos made for kids, we limit data collection and use, and as a result, we need to restrict or disable some product features. For example, we no longer serve personalized ads on this content or support features such as comments, live chat, notification bell, stories, save to playlist, and others.

So it's to keep kid behavior from being tracked. Kinda cool.
A commercial project aims for profit, not public service. The previous post explains why they are popular demands. And it is natural for commercial project to satisfy popular demands.
Also, they shouldn't need to reconstruct the issue, there should be a black box recording all the events.
Frink[0] is a language specifically designed for dealing with this kind of stuff. It has tons of units and conversions.

[0] - https://frinklang.org/#HowFrinkIsDifferent
In my experience it’s easier to measure and thus control the temperature of a thermal mass that is much much larger than both the sensors (thermocouples) attached to it and the samples inside of it.

The large thermal mass of the heating block in a traditional thermocycler vs the relatively tiny masses of the samples inside the pcr tubes contained within means that the samples are basically always at the temperature of the block, which means the control loop for the heating/cooling system can be modeled and controlled with just a PID feedback loop.
No, a dam fails all at once. What has been seen in mutant strains (if anything different) is somewhat reduced protection.
Not really, a units systems needs to be able to combine units in a useful way, like if I typed this:

radius = 15 [mm]
area = pi*radius^3
force = 100 [N]

def will_i_blow_up(pressure [Pa]):
if(pressure > 1 [Gpa]):
return "Oh no it blew up"

will_i_blow_up( force/area )

should raise an error like "UnitsException, [N/mm^3] is not compatible with [Pa]". I could then look over my code and realize I should have written:

area = pi*radius^2
If we're talking about the Model 3, wouldn't you also not be able to know your speed since the speedometer is on the center console? I feel like that's pretty significant for most drivers.
Yes indeed! It is an ebook. I should probably write that in the landing page :)
One oddity I've noticed is that Germans seem to like their emails in plain text, and without any attachments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226022

I've corresponded with others, also German, and they had the same preferences, even if not as explicitly stated as the examples in my other comment there.
I somehow suspected so. These are terribly poorly chosen benchmarks.

They test compilers, which tend to be older on BSDs; They are more conservative with updating them.

They seldom if at all test SMP scalability, parallel io, network throughput and latency or even scheduler latency. That is where the meat is.
I am not saying that analytics cannot be applied. I have been making money applying analytics to football for years. But analytics is not some machine that you just cram data into and out come the best players. That may work with baseball it doesn't work with football because the nature of the game is totally different (another example is with NBA, NBA's scoring frequency and pitch size totally changes the dynamics...it is another invasion game, but one that has totally different properties to football).

No equilibrium strategy has been explained twice. If you don't know, I can't help you.

They aren't "farm teams". That only makes sense in the context of American sports (once again). Analytics is an emphasis at many of these clubs, it is how they win games (again, I am not sure if you understand that I am not talking about American sports...win probability is important because if you don't win games, you get relegated, and your club can stop existing in a few years...you need to win games).
> I was referring to the headline, which very much has a "mission accomplished" spin to it

That’s really reading a lot into what is a simple, concise, factual headline. There are a set of currently-worrying variants (about which there had been much public concern about the effectiveness of current vaccines), and the Pfizer vaccine is effective against them.

That headline is very much not a “Mission Accomplished” banner.
>A spokesperson for AXA XL [...] said the announcement doesn’t apply [...] to ransomware-related incident cleanup costs.

So rather than paying the ransom, they'll hire a "ransomware cleanup" consultancy which cleans up the ransomware by paying the ransom (under the table and with plausible deniability, of course).
I literally saw the opposite headline about Pzifer versus a strain in India today

The actual article said "modest antibody evading capabilities“

I hate that the internet has become this way
> Not my claim.

> That won't work. We know from science that the IQ gap appears before school age so it's not caused by school.

I'm not going to waste my time on this if you're not going to stand by your claims.

The IQ gap that appears and is measured before school age can be reduced by external intervention. Therefore, if the tests are accurate, then something is happening to those kids as they age to make their skills regress. If the early tests are not accurate, then it stands to reason that adult tests could suffer from the same problems and should be similarly distrusted.

Either way, your claim that IQ tests prove that the sole cause of gaps must be introduced before children reach school age is unsubstantiated.
Maybe just take care of them because in the grand scheme of things, the actual support cost would be a minuscule fraction of current spending, and, as an accidental byproduct, we’d do some actual unmitigated good in the world.
Fair enough. I've never worked at Goldman or anything, and I know people personally who do quant stuff for a living with math/physics degrees. It's been no surprise to me that trying to explain to them why rising economic inequality is a bad thing is like talking to a brick wall. As Upton Sinclair put it, "It's very difficult to explain something to a man whose paycheck depends on him not understanding it."

This quote is quite apropos, as the very thing that has allowed the proliferation of jobs in finance is the middle class largely not being in control of their financial destiny: all the money is floating (or perhaps being sucked) up. So I need to add another qualification: doing such a job is similarly low on the totem pole in terms of societal good. The goal isnt to provide a good or service as such, only to make more money (whether for the managers or their shareholders, who are, again, largely affluent to begin with.)
Noun Wording Prevents Unethical Behavior [pdf]
Unless, unfortunately, you've got switchable nVidia graphics. As of last year, at least, without some real gross stuff you're looking either at awful multi-monitor performance on AC power (because the dGPU is permanently switched off) or awful battery life (because you're using the nVidia chipset and it eats batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner).
This is cool, but really expensive for an indie blogger
Isn't it the spike protein that is usually different between these variants? In that case antibodies that target a different part should even be more effective.
- Create a landing page via Github and use Github pages or Cloudflare pages to automatically update your domain when you push to your repo

- set up stripe checkout on the client side only (so you dont have to deal with server logic)

- simply send the book by email when you get a customer

This was my MVP as I didn’t get the time to automate things on the server side. As it’ll get more tedious I’ll find the time to implement that, but so far it’s worked well!
You mean text-align: left?
"worrying" is an identifiern of the variants.

If it protects against the 2 least significant variants, that's less interesting of an article.

Unless it protects against all variants the headline would likely be inaccurate without the "worrying" qualifier.

I could agree with a criticism that "worrying" should be replaced with a better identifier of the specific variants being discussed, but I don't have a replacement proposal. And dropping the word "worrying" seems like it might be factually wrong (it also might not be, I don't know)
There's also the allure of retreating from the unwashed masses back to their solitary perch on top of their very, very high horse.
I regularly use "pint" for Python:

https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

I'm sure it's not as good as a true type system could be, but it works pretty transparently due to Python's duck typing.
Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: Patterns from Open Source Projects
Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day
If it's not OSS it is unlikely to succeed.
Screen time for people that create/learn/do is much different than screen time for people that consume consume consume.

With that said, everything should be done in moderation. It's a skill important to know whether your socializing, or spending time alone.
I've been buying a lot of tools lately, and I've found myself in the spot where I trust Harbor Freight's supply chain more than Amazon's.

Never thought I'd see the day where I was choosing Harbor Freight for quality.
To be fair the laptop is rated for 16.5 hrs.
Does anyone have an idea of what a CME direct hit would do to a residential solar/battery system?

Would the outcomes for grid-connected and off-grid systems be different?
The only option is to make additional conspiracy theories that are actually obvious verifiable reality

But presented as conspiracy theories
I extend this rule to any electronics above $30 and any chargers for said electronics. Sometimes cables too, I've seen horror stories about miswired USB-C cables, and some of the cheap micro-USB cables I've bought were uselessly bent up within 2 months. $3 cheaper isn't worth the risk, or the e-waste.
Not just m43s. Sony/Nikon/Canon, I'd assume the rest of the major brands as well nowadays; most frequently for Pincushion and Barrel distortion.

Such corrections are all but essential for affordable zooms, but I'm still split on the potential for over-use in primes. I'll point to the Sony 16/2.8 E as an example; the use of correction in JPEGs is pretty evident compared to shooting raw, and you can see the correction softening the corners.
Someone at Microsoft could probably check to see if he's still an employee, but I highly doubt he's still working a day job. Though maybe he is. He's surprisingly not that prolific for someone who's so successful with his writing.
One LA Neighborhood Reveals the Racist Architecture of US Homeownership
You’re making this comment without realizing that you’re pre-supposing the market rate was “correct” in the first place.

Which is a big proposition to just accept on its face, considering how the US government for example has been subsidizing the workforce of companies like Walmart and McDonalds, who actively encourage their own employees apply for food stamps and other social welfare programs - because their wage is so low that even though they’re working, they’re still qualifying for poverty programs!

Wages have not matched productivity for decades. To assume that the market was working correctly before this extra unemployment payout program started is misguided.
That mummy at the bottom looks extraordinary. From its own page: "Xin Zhui's body was remarkably well preserved in an unknown fluid inside the coffin. Her skin was soft and moist, with muscles that still allowed for her arms and legs to flex at the joints. All her organs and blood vessels were also intact, with small amounts of Type A blood being found in her veins."

She died almost 2200 years ago.
Seconded. This is one of the things you buy in life and keep forever and are never unhappy with it. Worth every cent.