skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an Australian that has just returned after 15 years away, it baffles me there are Australians who will iterate the differences between "Extraordinarily mind-bendingly bad" and regular old "horribly bad" like it makes a difference.

I don't know what you're getting at or how it relates to what I wrote. Black coal generation is about twice as good as brown coal for emissions intensity of production of electricity and gas is about twice as good as black coal. These differences and other differences in efficiency are extremely important if you're looking to minimize emissions, which is the subject of the article.
Could you collect photons from all around you and accelerate them out the back? There's no reason you have to place the solar panel at the front.

Force would be negligible of course. But if you are in space, you are surrounded by energy in the form of starlight; it would be weird if that energy could not be used for work.
They're beliefs :)
it's not really preferred in the sense that it's the correct one - just one which has some sentimental meaning to humans' interpretation.
This sounds pretty similar to what Powershell does. You can list the contents of the directory which outputs a structured table, then pipe that into Out-GridView for an interactive GUI window.
On the origin of inappropriate reactions to COVID19
No, I'm considering it. I need to travel more and compare before I make up my mind. It's unsurprising many people migrate because they're fed up with their country. Financial incentives is just another side of it, because it's demoralizing to work long and hard hours and be paid little. However, plenty of Poles migrate that can reconcile their desire for high wages with uncritical admiration for their country.

The country has taken an authoritarian turn. The aspects that annoy me personally is lack of critical thinking, lack of insight when it comes to history (it's a second state religion in practice which is two too many), low trust, bigotry, corruption, double standards, shallow XIX century understanding of patriotism. There's focus on "moral victories", heroic sacrifices and losing battles. Contempt is something very common in society - it's like everyone needs someone they can despise. Constructive criticism is very unwelcome and met with denial. Compromise is often called "rotten compromise".
Have you checked whether your coded door locks have ever "starred" on the LockPickingLawyer YouTube channel?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ
Yes but by using an exchange rate. That would mean you have to use a factor to compare current with past grades
Overall I'd say the best book about microservices is Chris Richardson's Microservices Patterns (https://www.manning.com/books/microservices-patterns). That book will get you covered with everything you need to know about designing and building microservices, and also the various strategies you can use to integrate them. The examples are in Java, but even without being a Java dev it shouldn't be difficult to follow.

I'd still recommend Sam Newman's classic Building Microservices (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-microservices/...) as it describes very clearly the main principles for designing robust microservices architectures. If you wanted to learn how to migrate a monolith to a microservices architecture, you can also checkout Newman's more recent Monolith to Microservices (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/monolith-to-microservic...).

If you want a more practical approach with JavaScript examples, I'd recommend Ashley Davis' Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform (https://www.manning.com/books/bootstrapping-microservices-wi...).

Finally, if you wanted a practical approach with more emphasis on API integrations and examples in Python, I'd recommend Microservices APIs in Python (https://www.manning.com/books/developing-microservice-apis-w... - disclosure - I'm the author). You can download two free chapters from this URL: https://www.microapis.io/resources/microservice-apis-in-pyth...

It goes without saying that there're a lot more resources about microservices, and many of them excellent, but these are the books I'd recommend to get started.
Last year they took teacher assessments to rank students inside schools, and then mapped those ranks onto previous grades from the same school. So if previously only one person in the school got the top grade, last year only the top ranked student by teacher assessment could have got that grade, no matter how good the other students were. They’ve managed another shambles this year, by swinging to an opposite failing. The Education Secretary doesn’t seem very bright.
My experience with Arch is that I just install everything and it works straight out of the box because as nothing is patched the integration work done by each projects doesn't break.

Meanwhile Debian and Ubuntu both are a hodgepot of random patches thrown together by more or less (but rather less) knowledgeable maintainers for reasons which are clear only to themselves and involve goals I don't share such as allowing things to run over weird kernels and maintaining some imaginary philosophical open source purity. I wouldn't touch that with a ten feet pole.

I still personnaly believe that the Linux distribution system is the main reason Linux wasn't more successful. I like Arch because amongst all the successful distribution they seem to be the one doing the less.
Why cryptocurrency was invented in the first place
I’ve recently discovered fan fiction and am feeding like a pig at a trough!

Sadly Hpmor didn’t click with me though. I liked the science but found the characters themselves undeveloped. Acting rationally is great and all, but with rational people have feelings too and that felt completely missing. I just couldn’t get far into the story sadly.
The Great Debate of 2021: WFH or RTO? (Podcast Episode)
You are exaggerating, I've never seen a beating in school (from a teacher to a pupil). Was in school in Bucharest from the 90's to 00's, had loads of maths and other stem classes. If you didn't keep up you'd get a bad grade, if you didn't pass the year you'd have a chance to correct it during summer school, and worst you'd repeat the year. Nothing uncommon here. And I don't share your hate against the ones competing in the olympics, I knew lots of them, later on they went into research, got jobs at Google, did PHDs at Harvard and Princeton and the likes and are now professors at top universities. And some of them are good entrepreneurs now, you'd be surprised.
That greatly depends on your grades and grade history. If an applicant has high grades, meets the entry requirements, and shows a consistently high grade history, they won't be asked.

It really depends on how much information the Uni has and how contested each seat is. Some schools just make everyone take an entry exam anyway.
Don't forget the garbage trackpads. And screens also tend to be inferior.
1. Have you checked https://vue-native.io/ ?
Nix bundle – bundle an application so that it works outside of the Nix store
You can use "go mod vendor" to achieve the same, no?
On iOS you've got link previews on long press which might be similar to what your looking for. There's probably a way to do it on osx as well.

That wouldn't solve my problem though, for me tabs are a way to queue other paths to take in a way of reading that's naturally branching. For example, reading an article in Wikipedia might lead to 3-4 more I want to check out, but the preview system doesn't work because visiting each of those will probably give me 3-4 branches more. I'm basically doing recursive reading over a potentially infinite-depth structure, so there is no guarantee that I'll ever resurface to the upper node.
well yeah I could also write a function in C that does that. I don't think that's the point.
> I’m not sure what “novice” means.

It took me 15 years to convince myself I was no longer a novice. I've been at it for 40 years now, and I still don't think I'm anything like a master of the craft, nor ever will be.
The evidence does not suggest measurable harm for those on the other side of the spectrum from inclusive classrooms. Maybe there is some harm, but if so we haven't been able to devise a test or experiment that can find it.
It should be noted that the UK uses an arcane system where results don't really change what university you get to go to...
Carbon offset futures I guess.

Still, the moment that the government says "you need to pay big for your CO2" and the company decides "OK, let's buy some carbon offset futures offshore", that distills down to "let's send a billion dollars offshore for no tangible product", in which case from a capitalist POV they've basically donated the money. What would motivate the government not to just take it as tax money instead and use it to build more energy in their own country.
Is there an Apple equivalent of this?
I got 110 out of 80 on an Algebra II test once. On the standard system of every ten percentage points being a letter grade, that'd be an AAAAA.

I assume what's going on there is that the teacher has to deal with the range of students in the class going from 8th graders who have no difficulties up to 12th graders who can barely understand the material, and the test's "full mark" is set at a level that allows the 12th graders to get passing scores.
I don't see how this effects the size of the candidate pool -- Universities increase/decrease their entrance requirements each year, based on their current popularity + expected grades from students.

Of course, because you have to make all your offers, then see who makes their grades, it's annoying hard to predict.
Isn't an education system where all students master all the material they are supposed to master, and thus everybody gets A's, a worthy goal to strive for?
>Chomsky discards studying language by statistical means altogether

Chomsky nowhere does this. That is at best a straw man constructed by Norvig of Chomsky's position. If you just look at the transcript of the Chomksy interview in the Norvig piece, you can see Chomsky describing a case where statistical analysis is useful.
K&R is a common nickname for the book "The C programming language" by
Kernighan and Ritchie, and a reference to the authors:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
Can someone take the time to list the English translated Russian books that kids especially in elementary and middle school can use.
That's the thing, they don't need internet with AirTags, they just need an Apple device to go by it in order to inform the owner
Grade inflation has always been a thing but the velocity of this will lead to unfair outcomes. For comparison, in 2019 25.2% of students achieved these grades [1].

It's believable that, in the future, candidate pools for certain masters, PhDs and employment positions will include both 2019 and 2021 high school graduates. These grades are almost always used as selection criteria. Can we really trust the process will be nuanced enough to account for the inflation, or will 2019 exam sitters be unfairly discriminated against by a surge of higher scoring students from 2020 and 2021?

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/guide-to-as-and-a-level-r...

Edit: The inflation is even more extreme at the very top: 2,664 students in 2018 received at least 3 subjects at the top grade; in 2021 that figure was 12,945 (+386%) (as someone that achieved this roughly a decade ago, I can't help but feel a bit bitter) [2]

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/c35e13f4-09cd-4700-9573-91fdfd012...
There was no level playing field between schools and students this year due to different students missing different amounts of school, having different capabilities to learn at home, and many other covid related factors. It does not seem fair to me that they should all sit the same exam as if they had all had similar normal schooling for the past two years.

I'm not saying I agree with the mitigations that were put in place this year and last year, but I certainly think normal exams would not have been good for students. Ideally we want people to fill the universities, the aim is not to maximize the number of people rejected.
Surely astronomers have a list of objects which are expected to be interesting from a closer distance?
The mystery of the lost Roman herb (2017)
> How about learning a little self control? You can train yourself you know...

Yes, but you only have so much time and effort for training. So if you can fix some things without expending will power, that's a win.
It's funny how they lead with the useless info in that question.
Google allegedly considered buying Epic Games to silence antitrust complaints
This is so tame, 20 years later.

11. Fuel door button is shipped with a big warning "in a future update button will be moved to a new home." that takes up more space than the button itself.

12. Restarts are forced.

13. Time is correct, but weather is from a faraway place.
There will be no extra doctors. Places on medical programs are strictly limited. Students in the UK don't automatically get in once they make the required grades, they still need to be offered a place.
I got back to doing this for a brief moment a few years ago.

The effect was just brutally hideous, but it worked.

Makes one wonder if all this sophisticated tooling we're using currently is actually worth it.
I had a co-worker that would have over 300 tabs open. Except, unlike some, in a single window, so the tabs barely had enough room to click on. Yet he could still find the tab he wanted, I think it was down to spatial awareness of what was where. It still boggles my mind.
> Everyone who applies to study physics or physics and philosophy at Oxford, without exception, must take the Physics Aptitude Test (PAT), a two-hour test that evaluates a student’s ability in both physics and maths. We work in partnership with Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing to administer the PAT.

At least for Oxford, it seems universal.
The wind that pushes the cart can provide more push than can be harnessed by the cart passively (F=Pressure * area). To increase this force you can either increase the area of the cart facing the wind, or increase the pressure. The propeller harnesses part of the wind's energy to increase that pressure thus increasing the total force acting on the cart but the work done on the cart (F*displacement) is always limited by the energy that can be provided by the wind.
The demo version is limited in data saving and some other functions, so as not to spoil the demo site. A user with read-only rights is used to log in. In order to see the fully functional version, you need to install the project on the server. It can also be done on a local server.
This is about as useful as saying "How about you just eat less?" to someone who is struggling with their weight — that is, not useful at all. There's a reason only 15% of overweight people manage to make any progress towards weight loss, never mind any meaningful progress [0]: changing habits is hard, and as a society we haven't found a good way to systematically address the problem. Condescending quips do little to help in that regard.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539812/
No offense, but that's something entirely different. I'm looking for a way to utilize my 27" monitor to see an entire article without falling into the doomscroll trap, not a tiny popup containing a lousy summary on an even tinier screen.
The UK must be an amazing place for education. Nearly half their students are above the 85th percentile!
This rebuttal has always bugged me because of the egregious error Norvig makes in his analysis of pro drop. The dropping of subjects in English matrix clauses (e.g. "Not gonna do it") is known to linguists as "diary drop", and is a totally different phenomenon from the dropping of subjects in so-called "null subject" or "pro drop" languages like Spanish. The most obvious difference is that diary drop is completely impossible in embedded clauses:

I think I'm not gonna do it. [good in English]

I think not gonna do it. [bad in English]

(Yo) creo que no voy a hacerlo. [good in Spanish]

To linguists it's immensely frustrating that someone who's considered by the compsci crowd to be a leader in the field of NLP can't even get some basic facts of linguistic analysis correct. "Linguists can argue over the interpretation of these facts for hours on end", Norvig says dismissively. But any competent syntactician could have explained to him in five minutes why his examples are irrelevant to the point he's trying to make.

The rest of Norvig's post just consists in misunderstanding what Chomsky is saying, as far as I can see. Chomsky is saying that statistical analysis alone is not sufficient to achieve scientific progress. I don't think Norvig actually disagrees with Chomsky on this point, but he seems to think that Chomsky is saying that scientists should never use statistical methods.

The real kicker here is that Norvig is an engineer, not a scientist. He's contributed very little to the scientific study of language, and yet is lecturing someone who's contributed vastly more on how it ought to be done. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that he's wrong, but it does grate. Not to mention that the Chomsy/O'Reilly comparison is little more than trolling – it hardly seems calculated to stimulate an intelligent response.
Actually there will:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/05/grade-infl...

That they are in the top 45% of students might concern some ...
Agreed. Reminds me of how people complain that RSS is somehow too hard to use, and being on Twitter is now the only way to stay informed.
So spells just accumulate?

That is, if a mage says something general, all the rest of reality and other mages will just have to deal with it?
Went to university in the UK, met a bunch of Russian post-docs whilst I was a researcher, and they were some of the best mathematicians I'd met.

Not unrelated, but today in the UK is A-Level results (for 18 yr olds), and the UK press and exam boards, as usual are reporting it as the 'best results ever'. This happens year on year.

There's a lot of argument about education standards getting lower in the UK. My "anecdata" is that I was the first year to sit GCSE maths exams at 16 yrs old, and we went through old O-level papers from the mid 1950s onwards (aimed at 16 year olds) to practice. Those O-level papers had advanced calculus that we didn't learn until our final year of A-levels. Those old papers were much harder.

tl;dr in the 50s/60s 16 year old Brits were taught advanced calculus. They're not now.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28105111
This feels like you’re almost deliberately missing the point. The metaphor isn’t perfect, but surely you get what he’s trying to express. If your quibble is with the metaphor, a more constructive contribution would be to give a better one.
I don't get why people litter their browser with tabs. I pretty sure I never used more than 30 at the same time. I just close them if I don't need them anymore. At the latest when I can't read the titles anymore the garbage collection runs. If I might still need it I just bookmark the page. (It helps to sort your bookmarks and have proper syncing)
Try the Murderous Maths books.
What does that post prove except that "allocating memory that must be zeroed on use but is never used" is million times faster than "allocate memory and zero it right away"?

Sure, I can see how the code doesn't immediately tell you the difference but after you understood it, isn't it completely logical?

The title seems clickbaity and not accurate when you dig into the article.
But breaking the development and CI environments will prevent a good dozen people from working. So it's a risk vs reward question.
That's really interesting, I've worked with Vue since before 1.0, used it for various things (complex conventional SPAs, enhancing legacy server-rendered apps, even an IPTV GUI) and was always really satisfied.

Can you give a few examples of things that bug you?
> Do you realise the scale of their sacrifice?

We have a saying in my language (Romanian): "The operation was successful, the patient is dead". Unfortunately (for those who had opposed him) in Syria's case even the operation was unsuccessful, as Assad is still in power, but the patient (Syria) is most certainly dead, or as close to death as one country can be.

Again, I don't know of any civil war "success story" in Europe and its surroundings from the last 100 years or so: the Spanish Civil War came with huge losses for both sides and led to a fractured society that is still there if you know where to look, similar thing happened to Greece (maybe in their case the fracture is smaller nowadays? can't tell as I don't know Greek and as such I can't read their media), the post-WW1 Civil War in present-day Ukraine was also not something to be proud of, to say nothing of the Yugoslav wars from the 1990s.
Great project. I‘d love to use Linux on a M1 and hope the developer makes it happen. Even adore the name.
Without a jailbroken deceive I don't believe the APIs would be available
Time for the Stars has FTL at the end. (Physical FTL, that is. Telepathic FTL exists at the beginning.) But it's otherwise it's deliberately structured around the twin paradox - the main character is even a twin.

Indeed, while I remembered the importance of time dialation in Forever War , I didn't remember the FTL travel between collapsars.
I'm Serbian and moved to the UK when I was 10. A lot of this is a bit hazy now, but I really clearly recall my bewilderment during the first class-wide 'mental arithmetic' tests in year 5 where I thought the whole class was playing a prank on me. In Serbia I remembered doing quadratics and even touching on differentiation in the afterschool classes, but over here in the UK they were expecting me to take 20 seconds to do simple mental maths (I remember 8x3+17 being the 'hardest one').

The other kids were pretty fascinated with my slightly different long division methods, but the teachers were just obsessed with making me write an `x` instead of a `·` when writing out my multiplication, and trying to make me change the methods I'd learned previously.

I stopped finding maths interesting at that point (age 11) and it breaks my heart to this day. What I knew was enough to get me a couple of 'best-in-school + gold' medals in that Year 8 maths challenge, but it was all Bs and Cs at a-level. I did rediscover a genuine interest in mathematics again at uni as part of the foundations of AI course (CS degree), but that was short-lived and frustrating, as I knew I should have been better.
Read the docs, its from a Vue core team member and based on a future version of Vuex so you can easily migrate.
Portugal has still made a lot of progress. My father, who grew up in the Açores in the 50/60s, says that back then school stopped at 4th grade.
Perhaps I don't understand the UX developer role enough, but I would imagine it involves research and user engagement. Perhaps the role is then too narrowly defined? I liked the comment about Word's competitor being the previous version, so that changing the UI/UX would need to provide tangible user benefits. I think Microsoft lacks some of that these days (early Windows 11 builds have been proof of that failing in my experience thus far).
Available from several places:

https://github.com/JasonGross/unsong_scraper

https://github.com/Wagk/Unsong-In-Ebook-Format/

https://hiltonbooks.com/details/28589297-unsong.html

Can't remember which one I downloaded, but I guess they are all based on the scraper version
in this case though, it's not the ground that provides the motion but the wind. The mental equivalent of this with wind is not straightforward
If somebody say something that is wrong and another person correct it, we all learn something.

I think there is nothing wrong with saying your thing, if you do it in a humble way and you don't pretend to be an expert. It's called having a conversation.