skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is patented so who knows! Now instead of having to compete on producing cheap generic medicine, pharma can ask the proper question: how much are you willing to pay to be saved!
What is Apple selling to have so little settings in MacOS? ;)
A good size to resolution ratio.
My MacBook drives a 27 inch 4K in scaled mode that looks like 2560 x 1440 pixels. What the OS actually does is it renders a 5K image and then scales it down. The scaling is x 0,75 which can be a resource hog. I guess it would be better to downscale by 0,5 which would happen if you’d run an actual 5K monitor like the LG Ultrafine. This would still give you a sane scaling, anything else is either too large or too small on a 27 inch. The culprit is that there’s almost no 5K monitors on the market and the LG model is way too expensive. At this point I could just get a newer computer to iron out the scaling issue.
Not having testers is cheap though.. At first at least..
Mobile app back end [SURVEY]
Hi guys!

I am trying to figure out whether or not to go forward with an idea I have for a mobile backend product (MBAAS), and it would be great if you had 2-3 minutes to fill out this quick survey I made:

https://forms.reform.app/SyxXbC/mobile-app-backend/owlvls

Thank you!

Best regards, Casper
I hope one day Microsoft will remove support for arbitrary 16-bit code-units from their API and only accept valid UTF-16. That shouldn't break too many applications, but will finally allow people to use unicode strings to handle filenames.

Switching the default "ANSI" encoding to UTF-8 (or WTF-8) would be pretty nice as well, unless an application is running in compatibility mode. That should avoid most of the problems with the 8-bit API, without breaking everything.

And in the long run perhaps even switch to UTF-8 internally, making the 16-bit API legacy (one can dream).
You replied like you were replying to me. I literally do this for a living. My original post speaks to all of this.

Quota-based sampling -- a preferable term to convenience sampling -- (i.e. non-random samples that allow respondents to opt-in but with invitations to opt in extended to a large pool about whom basic information is gathered in advance, with invitations extended in a manner to quota on population weight targets, often with additional post-survey weighting to hit interaction terms in the targets) is non-probabilistic, but its performance is fine -- and indeed given reasonable quotas, the coverage of the classical MOE -- as I said, a conservative normal approximate binomial CI e.g. +- 1.96 * sqrt(0.5 * 0.5 / n) ~= +- 1/sqrt(n) -- is about the same as it is in a probabilistic survey. If your quotas are exactly correct then it's literally the same.

As you allude to by linking that article, sampling error is a small component of the TSE framework. And crucially, both probabilistic and quota-based samples typically do weighting to targets after they get their sample, and neither typically report the design effect (i.e. how the choice to weight affects the sample variance) when reporting results. The choice not to be honest about design effects is a shame of the polling industry. It probably leads to a good deal of "movement" in the polls being completely illusory, which was part of Gelman's point in his earlier writing on the subject.

What I don't understand is why you would report an estimate like this and not attempt to report any uncertainty. The reader is not likely to take away "design-based inference considerations require that we refuse to state a classical MOE representing sampling error on principled grounds", and instead is likely to take away "number in headline = correct".

I don't think that they "just did a dumb Facebook poll". I am concerned that they did not do a defensible quota sample or that they don't have reasonable population weight targets and that may be the cause for the failure to state any measure of uncertainty.

The article you linked is very, very old, reflecting a fear of convenience sampling within AAPOR a decade ago. YouGov more or less won that argument.
> placing trust in the population of the internet not to misuse the information

As far as this draft goes there is no such thing going on. The end of anonymous websites in EU as one member of the pirate party put it (and this article is claiming/accusing him of not reading the draft) has no bearing on the public.

In this context it is similar to the end of anonymous bank accounts. Even thou there are no anonymous bank accounts I, as a member of the public, still can't get anybodies personal information from a bank.
Wim Hof and his breath training seem to correlate with many of the same effects as placebo, meaning he's able to consciously trigger normally autonomic systems in his body that are thought responsible for many of the positive results attributed to placebo.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-explai...

It makes sense that triggering different systems in the body could result in medical benefit. The science of placebo effect is very active, but runs into fundamental issues of neuroscience pretty quickly. Science needs to figure out how brains work before we unlock the secrets of the placebo effect.
Hing: The Secret-Weapon Spice of Indian Cuisine (2016)
Non-ethnic-Chinese Hong Kong Police speaking perfect Cantonese [video]
What is your text editor?
It's not like that at least when it comes to running. The more I run, the more will power I have for all the other stuffs.
> A 3D print function would be cool.

As alternative to MECCANO (which is by design not for 3D-printing), there is STEMFIE — a fully free & open-source 3D-printable educational construction set.[0]

Another alternative: try reconstruct MECCANO parts in LDraw format for LeoCAD (LeoCAD has an option for export into STL).[1]

[0] https://stemfie.org/

[1] https://git.io/digitallego
Bromite v94 released, with auto-update feature
In the big picture, evolution of PLs has been reachiny for higher levels of abstraction.

People used to program everyday business apps in arduous things like assembly language, C++, etc.

But the search has been staggering in various directions and taken missteps half the time due to historical accidents and corporate games. Look at eg the current primitive and fragmented state of GPU languages for a glaring example.
The bigger the organization is, the more able it is to "promote" or segment it's workforce; and less likely to actually do any changes.

The smaller the organization is, the more it is competent at what it's doing, the faster it can change to adapt. But there are sometimes no practical value to promotions at all.

You are seeing it differently, I understand. Why?
I didn't know it even supported Eth!
While YouTube Music is still a clear regression from GPM, it's slowly catching up. Any year now it'll be good... But it seems it might already annoy you less than Spotify? Which is interesting, most people seem to believe Spotify is superior.
i kind of get what you want to say and admire your trust in humanity, but on the other hand am certain that there have been cases of murder that were "bribed away" in any country.

"steal a million dollars and you go to jail, steal a billion dollars and they name a business shool after you"
I don't have any written or direct evidence, however I worked for a public service broadcaster, who regularly dealt with Apple and Netflix, and the feedback from both was that star-rankings were driving a lot of royalty payments and user choice (people would ignore poorly ranked content). The impact of this was that low performing content providers made less money. By removing the collective scoring, the company would implement their own recommendations algorithms, which gave them the ability to both deliver 'better' recommendations based on what the user consumed and spread the royalty payments more broadly. If what you wanted was to see what everyone else was watching/listening to though, that's not in the interest of their business. Anecdotal and third hand but I believe the people that relayed this to me.
Is it not hypocrisy to say that? Our job as software developers is literally to kill blue-collar and low-skill jobs by thousands.
Genuine question - why do people use Git Tower?

I used it during the beta period a few years ago and IMO it was good, but nothing really special.
I'm all for paying for software, but it's relatively expensive, and doesn't seem to offer anything new when compared with something like Sublime Merge, the paid version of which is about one third the price.
Alitalia went bankrupt so this is technically a new company that has purchased some Alitalia assets. The staff they hired were not all from Alitalia.

I hope it’s a success and they’re able to grow because right now many Italy to Europe routes are served only by Ryanair (sure, they’re often cheap, but you get what you pay for).
I don't understand why 'fixing bugs' before writing new code isn't still a best practice?
looks like a bankruptcy reorganization (similar to Chapter 11)

Free hand to layoff staff and let go of debts so they can have a "new start"
Can you finish a thought tho? As in, why did you just type all that up? What is the point you're making?

Respectfully.
Not so eerie, even apart from the minutes-long exposures. The US population in 1920 was 106 million; only 50% lived in cities (up from 25% of 38 million in 1870) . Today it's 80% out of 331 million.
Lasagna Driven Development – Thoughts on Layered Architecture
"We are running different businesses. I fly people and they fly battery chicken farms,"

It's refreshing to hear someone say that. Cheap airlines have been competing in a race to the bottom for a while now, and the result is pretty horrible.

As for Alitalia - I've flown them once and it was the only time I've seen alcoholic drinks being distributed after a series of turbulences. Unorthodox, but can't say it didn't help.

Ryanair would probably try to sell me the same thing for €4.
> However, it's disingenuous to say that writing is a lot harder.

You quoted me wrong, and frankly 'disingenuous' sounds like an objectively incorrect vocab choice. Apart from that I confess that I speak from experience gained with a small sample size (around 1), and things may differ with each person.

What's more, I assume neither you nor I have done any rigid testing in this matter. 1500 kanji in 60 days does sound a lot, so good for you. However you cannot say with confidence what the future retention rate will be, nor do you (strictly speaking) know how you would have fared with any other approach. Also consider recognition of kanji (and their correct readings) in actual texts and recognition of artistic, calligraphic, handwriting styles; no idea where I'm standing on those but I do feel I have some kind of grip. Training for the latter does include looking at lots of calligraphic samples, and I do repetitively write some of those, too; it's hard to gauge how much either of these activities contribute to the learning effort.
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As far as I can tell, this just switches the cpufreq governor based on whether the laptop is on AC or not. Tools to do this have existed for at least a decade, and integrated into various desktop environments too, so this isn't really novel in any way.

It also suggests using "powersave" on battery, based on the old idea that lower CPU frequencies save energy. This is not a given; lower frequencies use less power but also take longer to get the same amount of work done. While the CPU is active, it is consuming static power regardless of frequency. This has gotten even more significant with newer CPUs.

What the optimal power saving config is varies from system to system. Ultimately, what you need is to actually benchmark the performance and energy consumption of your system. It's complicated and you also have to deal with things like switching latencies so the cpufreq governor and scheduler can make optimized decisions. Most PCs don't really do a good job of this at all, which is one reason why battery life can be all over the place.

Sadly, switching to the "powersave" governor may not, in fact, end up saving you power, depending on what you're doing :)
I have to start out by saying there are a lot of creative people looking to make money, and am humbled reading the paper. Its definitely a little on the optimistic side, but its an interesting idea.

> Bitcoin miners are unique energy buyers in that they offer highly flexible and easily interruptible load, provide payout in a globally liquid cryptocurrency, and are completely location agnostic, requiring only an internet connection. These combined qualities constitute an extraordinary asset, an energy buyer of last resort that can be turned on or off at a moment’s notice anywhere in the world.

So for anyone else reading, the premise is to capitalize during times when there is excess energy being generated. So instead of trying to figure out how to store that excess, you can expend it mining bitcoins.

It does make investing in green energy more attractive, since you don't end up throwing away excess energy, which makes the claim "Key to and Abundant, Clean Energy Future" somewhat defensible. But investors will have to consider other things like cost of energy storage and cost of maintaining a competitive mining rig, and who knows, the reality might be that burning up the excess for bitcoin is still not a good trade.

I also don't see increased attractiveness of green energy to investors, mining efficiency, and pollution output of the bitcoin network having strong correlations with each other. Maybe it might help increase the percentage of green energy in the energy sector, which in turn reduces the amount of brown energy being expended mining bitcoin, but, that would be more of a second order effect, and we can only make postulations at that point.
Rust crate for simple cloudstorage functions
Years ago, while I was in a pretty bad place, after a period of insomnia and one particularly bad night, I woke up with what I thought was chest pain. At the time, I had been worried about heart problems for a while, totally unjustified (young and no risk factors), simply based on stories I read of young people sometimes having heart attacks. I didn't seek help at first but as I was concentrating obsessively on my heart region and the sensations, the perceived pain grew stronger and stronger, until I persuaded myself I was having a heart attack and called an ambulance. I thought I would die before reaching the hospital, regretting that I didn't call earlier. They did a whole battery of tests, found nothing. Gave me 0.25mg Xanax, doctor asked if I was having stress at work (I was), and then I learned people can absolutely get realistic pains just from their mind alone.

It's not a stretch to understand that if you consistently imagine such issues the stress hormones and other biochemical changes caused by such sensations will create actual damage in the organs.
Also note that they are making use of Ada/SPARK alongside C++, which is quite cool, instead of the typical just use C.
> ITA has found a novel way to invigorate workers: every single employee will have a part of their salary linked not only to the company profits, but also to customer satisfaction.

Clearly this man has never flown United...
Hacker news also does shadow banning.
> But the entire original tweet thread except for Hoy's first tweet was about non-mass-produced goods from China

If I tweeted something and then a bunch of randoms started reply-guy arguing in my notifications about a straw man they'd made up, I'd block the lot of them forever too.

Every post you've made here is making you look even worse.
The Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway [video]
Doesn't mention when we started eating cows/beef, seems like a significant oversight?
If you don't measure it, don't require it, it won't be there.

Nobody ever asked "are you a proficient typer?" in an interview. And no one ever followed up with "show me".
Another one is a rule about not being managed by someone who can't code.

But in general the solidarity problem is huge. If you look at Europe where we get strikes now and again, there's always a fault line between the group that wants some change and their friends. The third party always has this problem of "do we want to piss off people that we personally are ok with at the moment?". It's understandable too, everyday people don't want to be bothered by some specific issue that causes a general strike.
What's a straightforward way to clock down a CPU to a fixed rate?

I sometimes want to run benchmarks and I'd like my laptop to stick to one speed

I understand it's a bit problematic with the latest CPUs bc the gap between turbo and non turbo is so huge - and the CPU is in turbo a good chunk of the time (and your cache performance will be very different running at 1Ghz vs 4Ghz)

Anyone have a good solution?
From the full text quote at the bottom of Breyer"s blog:

> 4. Member States shall ensure that the TLD registries and the entities providing domain name registration services for the TLD publish, in accordance with Article 6(1)(c) and Article 6(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and without undue delay after the registration of a domain name, certain domain name registration data, such as the domain name and the name of the legal person.

That does read pretty ambiguously like at the very least my name becoming public when I register a domain. Opening for example an anti-fascist blog under its own domain this would become a real life threat if you don't happen to be called John Smith or the local equivalent.

Overall I come down pretty hard on Breyer's side of the argument here. This is the DNS equivalent to enforcing operators of online forums to check users' real names. It's ripe for abuse and it will inevitably be used to chill dissenting voices.

The fact that the register (and the people they interviewed) see this differently seems to be that they trust that data collected will only be used by "trusted" authorities. But with the above quote I don't see that being the case, and the trust in authorities is really only an effective protection if your website happens to defend the status quo, good luck otherwise.
Yep, the potato was favoured for the ability to grow enough food to feed your family on the shitty scraps of ground your absentee landlords "allowed" you to keep.

In a similar vein, the potato revolutionised Māori inter-tribal warfare when introduced to Aotearoa New Zealand (possibly more so than the musket), as you could grow far more calories from the same soil with potatoes than the traditional kūmara/sweet potato - and they kept far better than kūmara while on the move.

This allowed for longer campaigning against opposing tribes, which led to widespread mass migrations to escape enemy tribes - hence why the area now occupied by Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, our largest city, was mostly depopulated when Europeans started settling it.

And of course, those mass migrations led to more conflicts.
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I largely agree with what you said but:

>As the reasonable costs of climate change (according to the latest IPCC report) have been estimated from 0.2% to 2% of global income

That assumes we keep carbon below 450ppm and is only up to 2030. Also it only gets down to the bottom end of that range if you pick the most optimistic models.
I think it's an advantage because you're more likely to have a good work ethic and understand business then someone from an academic stream.
Change the cpufreq governor to userspace and then you can echo the desired frequency into its control file. It will stick.
Unless you end up on the bathroom floor, having overexerted yourself. Be kind to yourself people.
It is regrettable that industry could not do better. But I can see some sense from the government perspective. Ultimately you get a big investment in British industry. And eventually a very reliable baseload generator. And people will blame the electricity companies for high prices not the government. And ideally the next build is at a lower strike price. Offshore wind was also very expensive in the early days but now has much lower strike prices. Ultimately the biggest hurdle to development is commercial risk and electricy prices need to match with that risk. Better to pay a lot than pretend that nuclear is super cheap. The UK energy sector is never going to be cheap! But it maybe can get less risky and cheaper.
On the steel vs aluminium debate, have a read of this from Production Privee [0] a boutique bike brand based in Andorra.

[0] https://production-privee.com/blogs/news/why-steel
Tale’s of eccentric Victoriana are almost a cliché. But I can’t get my head around this.

Are there any software projects that are comparably daft?

This would be too far fetched for a Monty Python sketch, are there any VR mock-ups of it?
> Many companies go further and provide employee stock purchase plans and stock options.

those are all really great, but what i really want are the shares with voting rights (^_-)
There is a “don’t play this artist” option.
With a coarser granularity they have the “unlike” information.
In the context of this conversation, I'm not intending to suggest that people should be able to not have healthcare or retirement, just that removing them from employers makes it vastly easier to set a wage floor based on a poverty level that can include their costs and that can be full-time/part-time agnostic because there won't be such a thing as "benefits eligibility" based on whether you work 40 hours for a specific employer or not.
Quick and dirty option...

hop into the chrome dev console and set body width to 80ch and margin-left to somewhere around center of your screen.
The very simple fact that your GIT help command is unfindable/unguessable/undiscoverable is the essence, the succulent “apéritif” of Git.

Fortunately git is majority, so it’s justified to master it. I would not accept that from an OS, for example.
Maybe you’ve been “online” for so long that you have no idea what to do when you’re not online.

This hit too close to home. Ive been online almost everyday since 2004 so yeah.
I would rather fire Frank Gehry.
Per-capita emissions are extremely important when you are trying to get the political will to make changes.
It’s hilarious reading the negative comments here because it’s completely out of sync with the way Analogue’s audience perceives them.

They’re seen as a high quality, craftsmanship driven shop. Their current consoles offer extremely high fidelity emulation. There’s an attention to detail that’s to the point where original hardware quirks, limitations of accessories are maintained. You can go pretty deep with the way the color palette, the pixel shapes, and the scanlines are rendered. Their current OS (for thw NT and such) feels like a file manager that could run on an NES. It’s ok. To see them invest into making it more capable, and more versatile is a great thing. You can’t get this level of service with a SNES Mini or a NES Mini. This is exciting!
Dagger – Create powerful CICD pipelines and run them anywhere
Complete Archive of Aaron Swartz's Blog
>> B.C. circa 1800 can be described as 'patchwork of sovereign micro-ethnic groups in rugged terrain

So was Appalachia at that time. So too were the expanses of Russia. So too was even Ireland. Pretty much every 17/1800s settled territory without a nearby railroad was composed of tightly-knit micro-ethic groupings. That doesn't meant they were not also part of a larger nation.
Yes, the end goal is reading comprehension. I'm getting there. Since I've finished the books I've been actively listening/reading while attaining vocabulary. I still have a long way ahead, but not being worried about the characters or how to write them is a big boost.
if i interpret this correctly, it basically means someone else gets to own your contributions?
Seemingly this could have been inspired by a French version at St Malo 20 years earlier.

Pont roulant de Saint-Malo à Saint-Servan:

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_roulant_de_Saint-Malo_à...