skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That comic suggests the police are not supposed to handle things like gang violence or domestic violence? Too bad they didn't label those rocks in the second panel, I'm curious to see who is supposed to take care of gang violence if not the police.

"Defund the police" is a broad slogan endorsed by supporters of everything from police reform to police abolitionists. That makes it hard to know what anyone is talking about in terms of defunding the police. When someone says "Well, I think we have to have police" then the defund advocate can just explain what the phrase "really means" (to that specific advocate).

To use just a single rock from your comic example - saying "I think we should invest in job placement, education, and drug addiction programs to help mitigate the homeless problem" is really different from saying "Defund the police." For one thing, it lets people know what you are talking about - reducing the burden that homeless people place on police by reducing the number of in-need homeless. Suggesting a specific solution also focuses the conversation on solving problems.

Defunding the police is pretty unpopular[1]. The idea is opposed by the majority in all demographics, both major political parties, and supported by only 18% of Americans. My intuition is that solutions to specific sub-problems with policing (e.g. how will you address homelessness) would be much more popular and productive. Plus, you need to have the alternate solutions in place prior to defunding the police.

1- https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/...
Instagram, a place where I used to share pictures with my close friends and family.

Now, useless ads and inappropriate posts from random kids I have zero interest in seeing.
Like so many web sites and blog posts, it's nothing more than keyword stuffing. Trolling for Google clicks rather than imparting information.
I'm surprised solar is not more common for its secondary use as building insulation. Black/gray roofs absorb lots of solar radiation.
I am not sure I follow. Are you saying licenses are what stopped the UNIX wars?
Wow, this took me down memory lane. Puppy Linux and its crazed Windows 95-esque dialogue boxes (remember Puppy Unleashed?) will forever hold a soft spot in my heart.

Not sure how it is anymore, but Puppy Linux circa 2008 was like the GeoCities of operating systems, glorious in its own unpolished way. Vector Linux, too, which I believe was Puppy's ancestor.
You can’t worry about downvoters. It’ll drive you nuts. I’ve had completely innocuous comments downvoted days after I made them.
I recently bought a set of 360 watt panels from LG and not more than a couple months later they came about with 400 watt panels in the same form factor (40” x 66”). Even though that can be frustrating, I am glad the tech is improving at a good clip.

While we wait for sorely needed battery cost reductions, it’s good to look at areas where we can ‘make hay while the sun is shining’. For example, train ML models during sunny days. Other industries might be aluminum, desalination, ice making (i.e. cooling), and other production (ideas welcome).
So he should use "vv?"
Smily faces forever. You can keep your emoji junk.
Random Variable Algebra
The chosen people, for experimentation
Square making real-world wallet for Bitcoin
Wow. These videos bring home how insane the rescue was. I could not imagine anyone going through those tunnels with zero visibility and diving equipment, let alone while moving a sedated person along as well.

Here the diver's blog post to accompany these videos: https://www.mikkopaasi.com/post/return-to-tham-luang-cave
I mostly tend to get ads relating to music production, owing to the fact that.. I follow quite a few music producers and related hashtags.

But now I kind of wish that I got to see ads for these kinds of ridiculous products in my feed too.
I’m not a fan of the guidelines myself (too carb-heavy, IMO). However I don’t think obesity and diabetes are rampant among people who eat 2000 calories and exercise 30 minutes per day.
If I remember correctly, in my diver training we were instructed if someone was in need of saving to grab them from the back by the hair and drag them behind you to safety. That way there is minimal chance of the person freaking out and dealing you any damage.
Also, telling an individual user to "just use another DE" does not solve the problem, whose effects are widespread, on a whole ecosystem of software, its users, and developers.
Digital Car Horn
I would be curious about this too. I'm not a fan of using Patreon and their incredibly asinine policies (eg: no debit cards, no virtual cards, no OTP cards, credit only, otherwise arbitrary failures).

But anything that is "direct" for donations results in problems - by directly, I mean not going through a fee-eating third party that middlemans it. For example, numerous developer that I try to support with PayPal I will get the error "this payment can't be completed due to regulations" - apparently it is not possible to send to certain countries with paypal. Also known as: the places where those developers need it the most, compared to US/EU.

And for US banks, even sending small amounts to numerous western EU people all over the place near instantly triggers "cancel your card for fraud" safety checks.

The easiest way that is the least troublesome would be to donate to FSF or similar - but this means I can't choose where my impact goes, and the people whose software I use are likely to never see a sixpence of that donation.
I remember seeing some really impressive unit mods when I was younger. I only got a glimpse at some of the tooling in a short documentary about the Tiberium series. I remember there was a voxel editor on a screen. It's cool to see some development in this area. Sometimes I day dream about making use of voxels for simulations or games.
You can. It is possible to point EdgeDB at an arbitrary Postgres cluster and have it coexist with other databases.
As a side note, I really enjoyed [Prisoners of Geography](https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Geography-Explain-Everythin...) which discusses this dam, as well as other political disputes, viewed through the lens of geography (e.g. why the Saichen Glacier matters).
The article mentions “watts per panel” but makes no mention of the size of a panel.

More importantly, the article also makes no mention of the efficiency of solar panels.
Also to put things in context, if they rename Egypt to Nile: The Country, it would be more accurate. Egypt is a country of 100 million people, all of them living next to the Nile or in its delta. It's unbelievable how much Egypt is dependant on Nile for its existence. Any disruption in Nile will have severe negative effects on the lives of 100 million people and be an existential threat to Egypt. Just take a look at Egypt's population heat map:

https://vividmaps.com/population-density-egypt/

https://i.redd.it/hs2wfeq62c511.jpg
How would we bet? (I wasn't the downvote you refer to though)

By 'airforce action on the dam' I assume you mean aircraft bombing of the dam. By when would this happen? (ie when would the bet be closed?)

[edit] I will admit I thought your idea was crazy, but you are not totally wrong looking into it, but this is about Egypt objecting it being filled in one year, which they'll let pass if conditions are ok rather than war, and going from talking about it to actually bombing it means they have think about what if Ethiopia bombs the Aswan Dam in response. Geneva Convention also comes into it.

They won't do it, all over it's being filled to quick. Bomb some military installations to make them slow down instead.
I've been using this setup for about a year now and love it. I haven't felt the need to open VS Code or a real IDE in a long time.
Maybe prices are cheaper in the US, on Amazon.de I could only find the 8 GB model for $100 and the 2 GB for $60.
Microwaving cooks food by applying enough power to heat it up to a higher temperature. Moskowitz is explicit that his claim is not about raising temperature, but rather some other mechanism related to bodily signals that is not fully understood.
I get four of these per month.
Annin AR3
https://www.anninrobotics.com/

Original software for it is a bit hard to work with, improvements in https://github.com/ongdexter/ar3_core
Reminds me of a great little story I just read about working in a brick yard in the 50s.

https://brickcollecting.com/merwin.htm

Yeah, I found some cool bricks and wondered if brick collecting was a thing.
It's funny, because you always imagine Germany is the pinnacle of efficiency, and that their infrastructure and accompanying strategy should be flawless.
I completely appreciate this. I don't want my social preferences to drag people into a dialog they're uncomfortable with. My preferences should dominate no more than anyone else's. Some of us would welcome it as it seems you know. To manage the divide, I throw out invitations and ask questions in ways that let the other person select for their comfort level. Every once in awhile I find someone willing to keep ratcheting and I think we both find it gratifying and interesting.
I don’t understand, are you following random kids you have no interest in seeing?
Why would the price go negative? If you have excess solar capacity why would you need to pay someone to take it from you? Why not just sink it into the ground or something?
Except the percentages max out at 100% design capacity. So in flood years (defined as exceeding this capacity) the surplus water isn't governed by the allocation.

This has been Egypt's excuse for syphoning water beyond the design elevation to their New Valley Project.

They just don't like that reasoning being used against them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Valley_Project
In 2019 the American population increased from 327.2 to 328.2.

In 2019 1.03million immigrants were granted permanent resident status.

The American population increase is entirely driven by immigration. The fertility rate is 1.73.

At some point soon the American population will begin falling, without immigration, as the baby boomers die off.
Without unnecessary information about the history of emojis, this would have been the entire article:

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When was the last time you went a day without using any emoji? How about a week? In March 2021, I went through a fun self-imposed experiment: no emoji for 2 weeks. Not on social media, not in private messages, not even as Slack or Discord reactions. No emoticon either: the goal was to communicate without illustrations, only with words. I did a semi-rigorous (a.k.a. half-assed) diary study, taking notes on my feelings and behaviour.

Here’s what I wanted to find out:

How does the lack of emoji affect my conversations with others?

Will other aspects of my interactions be affected?

My hypothesis was “I will somehow want to compensate for the lack of emoji.”

So, what did happen when I stopped using emojis?

On the first day of my experiment, I was already worrying that I wasn’t warm enough, or wasn’t conveying my reactions well enough. On the second day, I missed using emojis. It hadn’t even been 48 hours, but the good stuff comes when you push through, so I kept at it. On the third day, finally, I started feeling good about this. I wrote:

“This is actually cool, I don't know if I want to get back to emojis. Maybe I just needed to get the habit out of my system.”

No shit, Sherlock.

In the first few days, I did have to edit emojis out of my messages, as I was using them reflexively. During this experiment, I pondered about the importance of emojis to convey banter, being concerned that without them, I’d simply come across as mean.

In the end, I found myself adding a lot of exclamation marks, "hahaha", and writing more sentences to better communicate my mood. The need to better convey my messages forced me to have a deeper understanding what I was trying to communicate in the first place. Sometimes, a heart means “I love you”, “I miss you”, “I hope you’ll feel better soon”, “I love what you’re saying”, etc. Was I expecting my interlocutors to guess the exact meaning? I’m happy that it forced me to phrase my thoughts, look deeper into them, better identify and express them. I had to write "Thank you" or "That's great!" instead of adding a reaction emoji under a Slack message, Twitter DM, or Discord message, and I like to believe that those words carried more value than one more thumbs up added to the pile.

Ever since my 2-week experiment ended, and I started operating with emojis again, I’ve been paying more attention to what I write. I prefer using emoji on top of self-sufficient phrasing. I want to make sure that my messages are clear enough without emoji, and only then might I add one, spending it on expendable flair rather than something meaning is reliant on.

I wholeheartedly invite you to carry out this experiment for yourself. Who knows what fantastic feeling or intriguing behaviour you might uncover?
Livable wage discussions are often also about inequality and the broad sharing of societal-level progress. I think one reason Americans have become less optimistic about technology and progress is the benefits have not been shared as widely. Fixing minimum wage to productivity increases would help renew the social contract of people allowing (sometimes disruptive) innovation and progress.

But sure. Let’s tie federal minimum wage to inflation and then do local cost-of-living adjustments, say make minimum wage equal to, say, three times the typical rent for a two bedroom apartment in the area. That way places that might really struggle with $21/hour minimum wage (like Wichita, Kansas) but have low housing cost would be able to maintain adequate employment levels and attract business investment. (It would also force NIMBY-heavy communities like San Jose, California actually have to pay a consequence for extreme housing costs in the form of higher wage costs for local low-skill services… Encouraging more housing to be built.)
Agreed. I use emoticons and emojis in different circumstances. Emoticons feel more subdued to me.
I've built one and so has someone else, it's a journey, but gets you a reasonably competent arm at a reasonable price.
I donated to HaikuOS and ReactOS because I want a better FOSS that isn't Linux.
Reading that description, and knowing preschoolers pretty well, I'd suspect that the experimental setup is far too complicated for making any claims about children would interpretation the experimenters (fake!) behaviors
Have you ever scrolled past the tiny “view older posts” link?
Could you please explain specifically what one or more of these effects is? I may be able to offer suggestions on how to mitigate it. When I was talking about using something else I was specifically referring to the article, which is talking about using a different window manager, and makes a good case for switching, and may even be able to help you deal with some of those effects. I assume you agree with the article, if not then I don't understand because it seems odd to me to single out this one passing mention in a paragraph that otherwise goes against what was just said, so please elaborate if you can.
Emojis are fine in text messages and IM/Slack. I don't think its a good idea to use Emojis in technical documentation, terminal cli apps, package managers (I'm looking at you npm), long form articles, PRs and code reviews, etc. I just find them distracting since they stand out strongly in a block of text - eyes instantly gravitate to colorful emojis in a rather smooth flow of text.
I think the distinction is not hand-drawn with eg a pencil and ruler, but drawn-by-a-hand via CAD software.

There's plenty of beautiful CAD plans that don't hold up in the real world (this is why as-builts exist). I feel like there could be a scripted tool to check things like code compliance and stop people routing conduits through beams etc.
I love it. I don’t even post on IG. I just browse and find stuff I want to buy.
This guy makes his side-money selling dick pic NFTs [NSFW]
Click the "Careers" link in the top right.
In the places with the most sun you are trying to cool the home, not heat it.
Are there any good/recommended books or resources for someone who wants to learn how to run postgresql well? E.g, what defaults to change and when, settings for the host OS (such as in the parent linked article), overall tips/insights/recommendations.
I think that's one big reason. It's easier to build unneeded power plants than to figure out how to retrain people and move them into new jobs. It's something that other countries struggle with too. Fortunately (?) in the US there's less pressure to keep people employed with makework so unneeded coal plants shut down and former employees sink or swim on their own.
It's some what of a recent thing. They are bringing in new laws to allow the grid to shut off your solar feed back when there is an oversupply but currently it just causes a big problem and negative prices.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs
> this has been a recurring problem over the past few years due to the incredible power granted to browser extensions and the poor vetting process that allows malware into official extension stores.

I am really surprised this is not a much bigger problem starting many more years ago. It's amazing that browser vendors let people hack the browser this way. I am very cautious about extensions I install. One I had been using was hacked this way. I found out only because I pay attention. Google never mailed me anything about it. What about people who aren't paying attention? Can't google email people to warn people since they know what extensions are installed and generally have an email address associated with the browser?
Yes, I was mirroring your own use of the word "truth." My point is that performance reviews are simply the result of management's opinions. You asked the question "Why do you assume the manager always know the truth?" and the answer is that truth is irrelevant (or perhaps even nonsense as a concept) in this context. Only opinions matter, specifically the opinions that make up your performance review, which are the opinions of management. There is no objective way to measure your performance or, if there is, management likely is not doing so unless you work in a field with very easily measurable output (billable hours or something like that).

As in many or most aspects of social activities like work, objective reality effectively does not exist. Only the consensus reality matters.
How does this compare to Russia's Avangard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avangard_(hypersonic_glide_veh...

I recall trying to read up on the topic of hypersonic missiles about a year ago but relevant information is very scarce.
I'm in the sunny state, looking to install 15-20 kW solar panels. It's anything but dirt cheap. The quotes you see in the news (like 1.04c/kWh) are for huge industrial installations in deserts in some countries with close to no regulations.

My residential solar will be ridiculously expensive, probably close to $20K.
That infrastructure might not exist. Also, you probably dont get money, you probably get credit. So having batteries connected benefits the grid rather than wasting electricity.
Conflating cause and effect
Ahh, yep!
"additive" and "subtractive"
I input a non-english song and it turns out nothing changed right?! Did I miss sth?
http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2001/010601A.htm
> fails when your data simply is not relational

What's an example of data that's not relational?
That's an affiliate link
>These stickers in the 70s, mostly on polluting Citroen 2CVs used to really piss me off

What? A 2CV is a tiny, lightweight car, with a miniature engine. How much pollution can it possibly throw out already? Surely far less than many brand new cars today. I know you can actually almost see the petrol fumes coming out of some big old cars, but to go after 2CV owners is absurd IMO. Although i'm not any kind of expert, so i might be wrong. "Green 2CV".
The fertility rate is significantly below replacement (currently ~1,637.5 births per 1,000 women) [0] and yet the natural population growth rate is still positive (~+3/thousand) [1].

The two are compatible, though over the long term, if lifespans don't increase over time, a sustained below-replacement fertility would eventually require natural population growth to go negative.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr012-508.pdf

[1] https://knoema.com/atlas/United-States-of-America/topics/Dem...
Fair enough.

Cocaine is both too, by the way, stops intra-nasal bleeding post-op.
There's a setting in Slack to disable this!

Settings -> Messages & Media -> Convert my typed emoticons to emoji
I asked dragonwriter, so I'll also ask you: Source?
That is an interesting observation. As prey rather than predator, however, a horse’s response has, more or less, been validated by the survival of the genus.

I would guess that a wild horse or mustang would not be frozen in place by such things, suggesting, perhaps, that domestication has created a conflict between instincts, which is sub-optimal for its rider, but not necessarily for the horse.

With regard to the general point about checking everything, you are correct, and it takes a certain amount of judgement to doubt one’s intuitions without being paralyzed by doing so.
> Those cards are so good

Agreed. You can find them on eBay for ~$40 a pop, and they work flawlessly on Linux and Windows. I've made a few purchases from the seller "bitsquad" (ships from Kentucky), and he always seems to have Mellanox/Chelsio in stock.
Manufacturer's websites usually have this info easily accessible, eg. LG's 380W watt panels are about 1.7m x 1.0m.

https://www.lg.com/global/business/download/resources/solar/...
"Please consider this a commitment that I will fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels. No kidding."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1017149641991680002
Would you have any documentation on how to install EdgeDB and connect to an existing postgresql database then?

From browsing the current documentation, I can't seem to find anything similar to sqlalchemy's:

meta = MetaData()
meta.reflect(bind=someengine)
users_table = meta.tables['users']
Titanium production also uses lots of energy
No longer!
The app itself can quickly turn into a never-ending scroll of infomercials from ads and accounts if you go beyond your social circle. Even if said accounts are not directly selling a product through the store feature, it's often advertising a desirable lifestyle not your own and general consumerism. How many photos are staged versus candid? This type of content-as-ad imagery is what the app lends itself best to versus any other social media app. Of course, you can just not follow any of these accounts or limit them or have better self control over your time spent there. But, the company is also probably working against your best interests, bottom line and all that...
I want to buy every single thing I see here. I've been really happy with the kind of ads I've been seeing lately. Instead of generic commercials I'm getting very specific products solving problems I have but didn't realize could be solved by a gadget.
And is now pushing for the EU to label gas as "green" and oppose the same label for nuclear energy.

Beautiful.
Yeah, that’s where I end up in a sea of wildlife photography.