skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is irrelevant for the Rust interpreter written in Python. The interpreter will likely already be precompiled into bytecode when you run it on a Rust program.
I love my wife, which isn’t entirely dissimilar :)
I know a few teams that do "daily" two times a week, but longer than the usual 10 minutes, so that there is some time for team-wide discussion and people are not feeling like the meeting is there to pressure them. I'd say it works good.
I live in a city that uses pressure sensors to detect if a car passed red lights. It’s still not outdated over 10 years later.
You don’t need smart roads you just need to make roads visible for self driving cars. They shouldn’t need to be fit into acting like humans. Your dystopian vision is a very narrow and biased assumption, it doesn’t need electronics, it’s simple as using covered bridges, machine readable signs and powered rails like streetcars. China did exactly what I mentioned by using high speed rails rather than focusing on fitting self driving cars and bypasses the pedestrian and transponders you focused on avoiding.
Have you ever spent a few months trying to solve a wide variety problems using GA as a formalism, or tried teaching it to e.g. undergraduates? If not, you are speculating beyond your experience.
> debunks some quite important myths.

How so? The chart suggesting Volcker "saved" the US from inflation seems to suggest otherwise. The Fed was already trending towards what the "Volcker Fed" did. The "list of significant deregulations" on Wikipedia is actually listed as "Related legislation". Reagan had a greater number of deregulation legislation listed as directly related to Reagan's administration rather than in the "Related legislation" so there is some game playing going on as far as the significance of each administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation
Huh, the touchpad on my Precision 7540 is absolutely my favorite touchapd I've used in _years_.

Three (!) real, hardware buttons that I can feel _without_ activating. Sensitive area a bit larger than I can cover moving fingers without moving my wrist. Even barely-configured libinput drivers in Linux (I think I might have turned up the sensitivity a bit) haven't had any palm detection errors, moves-interperted-as-taps, taps-interpreted-as-moves, or any of the other behaviors that drive me nuts with big Apple-style clickpads.
> This actually points at a central problem with modern democracy

One explanation of why we should prefer democracy that I quite like goes like this:

Democracy is rooted in the belief that more than half the people are right more than half the time

It doesn't have to rely on everyone being smart, or even thinking. It only has to rely on the statistical likelihood that, even with all the errors and noise and lack of thinking and even stupidity that might manifest in any individual, if more than half the voters agree on something, there's a better chance that it's the right choice than the wrong one.

THere are all kinds of holes that can be poked in this approach, and I sometimes do that, but fundamentally I stand by the basic conception that this describes.
Yes, and until looking into the subject I didn't realize how close it came. Wikipedia says it took only minutes, but definitely later on inauguration day. They just didn't bother back then I guess. Cable news didn't yet exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis#Release
I agree with you. I wondered if it was maybe one of those things where I don't know what I don't know, but Ngrams suggests that's not the case:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=theme%2Ccolorw...
https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/

It is clearly out of order.
The title is the other way ‘round, aren’t these Instagram Previews for Twitter?
That is not a rabbit hole, it's child's play.

To use your own words: I wrote native American and not Native American, didn't I? Do you know what "native" with a lowercase lettee means, don't you?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/native

As a side note, an unrequested advice: As you said, you probably didn't mean it this way but you sound detestable.

Cheers and thank you.
Sideloading is a cyber criminal’s best friend
Please don't be snarky and assume the weakest possible interpretation of what someone says (I already talked about faraday bags near residences and workplaces). Repeatedly calling another's argument delusional without substantive discussion isn't helpful and it's not what people use HN for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It seems you didn't read the article.

"The company plans to automatically enable two-step verification for accounts that have been configured correctly."
But nobody speaks like that. Nobody even thinks like that. A normal human would have said "you can now change your browser's colour scheme, which we think is kinda nice".
Exactly, in fact, I'm glad a software hue finally takes on the hard task of setting the meaning of my life right.

All those futile things about people, spirituality and creating stuff were exhaustively complicated.
Asking them seems to be useless
Sheesh, this reads like an Onion article. Isn't this just color themes? E.g. a standard feature before the UI/UX gods decided that taking features away from users is a good thing?
Basically this: https://voltaicsystems.com/arc20w-kit/. It's a bit on the expensive side, I'm sure you can find cheaper kits. I like that the battery has a USB-C port, so I can charge the MacBook directly. To be truly off-grid, you need something bigger though. 20W is ok for basic work, but if you're compiling or doing other heavy work you need more power. If it's a bit cloudy then the battery won't fully charge with that panel, I'd recommend at least 50-100W. But with that size you're also less mobile. I had a car so mobility wasn't that important for me. The only important thing for me is that I can take the gear onto an airplane when traveling.

I need to investigate if USB-C car charger adapters can charge a MacBook. When traveling with a car and the sun doesn't shine, it would be a nice backup solution. I was basically living in a car + tent for four weeks, traveling and working.
Mobileye released a demo some time ago that shows their system driving in NYC: https://youtu.be/50NPqEla0CQ
Scihub, libgen, datasets, etc... as much data as possible.

My personal data is probably less than 1TB at this point, but a way to store it long term would be nice.
In particular, when the Polish government asked Gorbachev for for help in putting down Solidarity, thinking they'd get a Soviet tank brigade like HUngary in 1956, Gorbachev said nyet, and Soviet control of the Eastern bloc unzipped pretty quick.

The disastrous response to Chernobyl also gave a boost to independence movements in Ukraine and the Baltics. Gorbachev has always been in denial about how his policies helped hasten the collapse.
Chinese social media users think Elon Musk should join the Communist Party
Why is it FUD?

Oracle has a long history of suing customers etc. It's a pretty litigious company. It also tends to include nuanced details in their license agreements e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oracle-java-release-17-now-fr...

I'm not anti-Oracle. I worked there (worked at Sun which was acquired), so I understand the mentality. I use GraalVM and it's pretty nice. But whenever I pick an Oracle product I always make sure I can dump it in a second if they decide they want to monetize me aggressively.
Ha. If you think unemployment goes a long way to "living a life of leisure" you're nuts. Not everyone is renting, so if you have a mortgage and you're on unemployment, it's just a matter of time til you get foreclosed on. Or your car repo'd.

Also, the franchise I mentioned was McDonalds, and throughout the region, this was the common way of "coping" with min wage increases.
Maintaining a regulated voltage with input voltage changes is a primary feature of a DC-DC converter, like a boost converter. With a buck-boost converter, you can maintain a regulated voltage when the input voltage goes above or below the output voltage.
He's in Australia which uses 240v mains power. He's using an inverter to connect his regular old laptop charger plug.
Regarding the cold war and military spending... Everyone in the 80s thought Reagan was nuts because he wanted to build "Star Wars" a system that would shoot down all the Soviet Nukes. So the Soviets wasted money trying to compete with it. So at least in some cases, it wasn't about us spending more on the military... it was about tricking them into spending more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
I suspect this is a reflection of availability bias; the only snowstorms you hear about from the people you know in Boston are the ones that are catastrophic and shut down life (which do happen occasionally, but the same could be said of hurricanes in Florida).
Hope this helps people! I bet it will!
In that case the obvious solution is just to disable networking to get fully-autonumous murderbots.
Well, that was the local Socialists' idea of how to implement "a new society", not much to do with the USSR. It couldn't scale for obvious reasons, and their own descendants abandoned this almost entirely.
I too am disappointed by the unimaginative naming.
The spring paradox is a neat example of this: https://youtu.be/Cg73j3QYRJc

The shortest route only remains the shortest if a minority take it.
For (some startups) it makes sense, especially if you onlu want a code monkey (for which I would recomend recriuters to go to colleges) but their teams (or they themselves) impose this stupid "minimum X years of experience". I've known golks with years and years of experience who know no shit, so if anything those years prove they are willing to suck it up bit no muvh more; as I have also knows some fresh college graduates who are a fucking bomb.

Now saying its a numbers game also makes sence yet they (recriuters) are ignorimg the fact that each one of those "numbers" they turn into an interview will require 2 or 3 hours from the developers who will actually serve as a filter... I (personally) am tired of having to interview people who from the first 10 minutes I know won't be a good fit just because the recruiter is playing the "numbers game"
There are tons of spelling errors in this article. I feel compelled to criticize something because I hate Noah Smith on a personal level, but am chagrinned to find that I generally agree with most of the arguments that he makes here along with his interpretation of the history. The only thing deficient here was that he could have improved his argument by extending it backwards a bit to the malignant continuity between JFK (you'll really trigger the boomers with that one), LBJ, and Nixon in terms of creating long-term fiscal problems for the US.

To throw a bone to a side that I usually disagree with, Smith could have also productively contrasted that latter century bipartisan fiscal irresponsibility with the relative sobriety of the New Deal just in terms of deficits and long term sustainability. It may seem weird on the face of it given how the New Deal tends to be portrayed in contemporary times by both the left and the right, but FDR might have been the last real fiscal conservative of the 20th century both in terms of rhetoric and policy until Bill Clinton closed out the millennium. Despite what seemed to be bitter acrimony during the Clinton administration, the Reagan-Clinton years were probably the last ones in which there was a productive competitive dynamic between both parties. It was also the last time in my memory that there was serious discussion of entitlement reform: that was really wiped out from public debate after 9/11. Back then, you could credibly argue that the competition between the parties resulted in better policy thinking on both sides. In contemporary times the competition seems more to result in more aggressive stupidity on both sides: they both tend to make each other dumber to own the cons/libs at the expense of the public.

Gives me a bad taste in my mouth to have to say something nice about a Noah Smith article.
I meant crazy as in "tortured genius" not "a criminal".

Assaulting someone is a crime, don't call HR, call the damn police.
Maybe it is hard to someone to imagine, but yes. There are some of as who like 3D borders, brutalist semi-modern, semi-retro look dancing on the border of ugly and beautiful. This is what I look just now on my screen, as well as for many years ago.

I had to learn that people exits who like flat gray on dark gray non-intuitive, sick and depressively looking "modern" interfaces with huge visual and thematic choices: usually called "light" and "dark" - all this wierdness in 2021.

So yes, we can try to exterminate each other, or learn to live with this fact about differencies, and let other live.

De gustibus non est disputandum.
As someone who has been working remotely for almost a decade at this point, I will say straight out that a built-in camera on a recent laptop is mostly just fine. What you need to concern yourself with is /position/ of the camera and /lighting/.

Do these three simple things to make your video better:

1. Get a laptop stand that raises your laptop so your eye level is towards the center of the screen. Not only does this improve ergonomics, it improves the positioning of the camera for video.

2. Get a lamp that you can move the head on and point it at the wall behind the laptop (assuming it's white-ish in color) to provide reflected back light at your face from behind the camera, and then add as much ambient light as possible in the room emanating from the corners (smaller rooms are easier to light). You don't need anything fancy, although yes a ring-light is probably "better" you can get by with cheap floor lamps from Walmart and some "daylight" color temperature bulbs.

3. Make sure all the lightbulbs in the room are the /same/ color temperature, whatever that happens to be, but preferring "daylight" if you can.

Just these changes will MASSIVELY improve video quality on conferences, and for most people wouldn't even necessarily require buying anything additional except possibly light bulbs (you can makeshift a laptop stand, and move lamps from other rooms if it's an especially important meeting / interview you are preparing for).

For audio, nothing beats a microphone on a boom, but any good quality USB headset with a built-in boom microphone will get pretty close, so don't sweat this so much. The main thing is that you should NEVER be taking a call using the built-in speakers and microphone in your laptop... it sounds horrible and picks up a lot of noise.

The only laptops I would never use the camera on are Dell laptops that inexplicably chose to put the camera near the keyboard so it's staring up the person's nose the entire time.
All I've learned from this entire escapade is that the next time someone finds a major vulnerability in a Missouri state website, they will know that the best path forward is to sell it to criminals.

They make some money and they don't have the Governor attacking their reputation.
Meta's trademark application's Goods and Services description
Yeah NYC is crazy. One thing I saw this summer is streets in Little Italy and Chinatown with exactly one lane, and restaurant boxes on BOTH sides in the parking spots.

So if there was a delivery truck that parked to unload, and there were, literally entire blocks of traffic would have to wait behind it.

Sometimes a parking spot would open up between the restaurant boxes. The truck can pull in there a tiny bit but not all the way.

Then maybe there is room for the driver behind to pass. They are scraping by with literally 1 to 3 inches of room, negotiating the space manually.

I can't even see a remote driver handling this situation!

I also think this "testing" won't lead to much concrete in the next 5-10 years. There will be data gathering and spinning of wheels. After all I think by 2016 they were also "testing" in a bunch of places, and 5 years later it's barely deployed.
LOL, Github has made more impact on the world than Elon.
> Not being able to get to your account when you lose the phone

Really? There are scratch codes for that. Or you can use an app that backs up your TOTP key for you, like Authy. Or you can store your TOTP key manually. Or you can have multiple devices. Or...

> having to run extra software

Oh, come on. Are you really complaining about having to compute an HMAC?

> I just don't trust Google to implement this correctly, given their track record.

Huh? You do know "The day Google forgot to check passwords" was fictional?
I for one enjoyed trying out the different color schemes to see what looks good.

Now what they mean by "limited time only", I have no idea. Are the colours going to suddenly revert with a new version of the browser? If so, why?
The FOMO marketing BS definitely puts a damper on the whole thing.
The value of fiat could go to zero.
PEP 672 – Unicode-Related Security Considerations for Python
Like most other readers here, my initial reaction is "Thanks, I hate it." I especially hate the assertion that they're increasing customization when in reality they've steadily been removing/hiding real customization options (e.g. compact theme, UrlBar.preventClickSelectsAll).

But, on further consideration I see the value. This feature isn't for power users. The goal of this feature is to increase chances that normal everyday users will make Firefox their daily-driver browser. For many people, having a custom colored browser will be a deciding factor to keep them using Firefox. This is why they didn't call it "themes", which is a techy word that would cause many people to gloss-over and ignore it altogether.

And, in reality, Firefox is still the most customizable browser for power-users. This feature doesn't remove userChrome.css, it doesn't stop users from editing thousands of options via about:config. It doesn't prevent hardcore power users from editing omni.ja to restore preventClickSelectsAll functionality.

So frankly, I hope this feature can help increase Firefox's market share by even a little bit. The more people using Firefox - even if they're not power-users - the better for the future of the open web.
And they really shouldn't. If you're not pissing off your power users you're not moving fast enough. The only user-stories that mass-market browser makers should care about are casual users browsing the web and software developers publishing to to the web.

Power users are a completely different market segment and have totally different needs and expectations from causal users.
Can you give an example of a problem that might appear in an undergraduate physics or math course, whose solution is lengthy and tedious by "usual methods" but dramatically simplified by the use of GA?

I have seen examples proposed before and been distinctly unimpressed. Any serious simplifications in solutions are usually due to some notation-agnostic insight.
Github is one of the biggest CI players around, I think. https://github.com/features/actions

At Notion we use Actions to build our iOS and Android nightly apps and deploy our client and server releases to production.
Yes but "themes" is used extensively in the tech world to describe changing the color of user interface patterns.

It's sort of odd to use shoe-industry lingo instead of tech-industry lingo when you are a web browser company.
It should be noted though, supportive evidence (or lack of) for any proposition does not necessarily lead one to the correct answer.
It’s very unlikely that the name change will require any substantial technical changes within Facebook. I can’t imagine renaming configuration files, services, and so on just to reflect the parent company’s name changing. This is just making work.
what's GS
I think TimescaleDB is amazing piece of technology but I think you're making arguments much broader than they can be made based on the facts.

The results which TimescaleDB showed to me seems to show what it is better than ClickHouse in TSBS benchmark (or particular configuration) not for Time Series workloads in general.

In my experience "Time Series" workloads can be defined very broadly (by casual user) and querying log of events can be often seen as such
I haven't used ClickHouse nor TimescaleDB, but I thought TimescaleDB was competing with the likes of InfluxDB, QuestDB & Prometheus. I guess I'm not surprised that it looses to an OLAP database on OLAP queries.

Are people using ClickHouse as their timeseries backend? IIRC, Clickhouse doesn't perform all that well with millions of tiny inserts.
PUC-Rio's Lua doesn't take contributions anyway, right? It's open source but it's not an open project. Similar to.. uh.. nethack, at least how it used to be :)

https://www.lua.org/community.html
He's using a household solar inverter designed to convert low voltage DC to AC at standard wall socket voltage. It's not the most efficient approach, as noted in other comments, but it's an easy approach since these inverters are common and a laptop's power supply is already set up to plug into a wall socket.
no don't shrink it

the macbook trackpad is phenomenal, three finger drag (hidden in the accesibility menu) is a must have

I switched to linux since the macos is so crappy and invasive now, and the only thing I miss is the awesome mac trackpad with the gestures (I always set it at maximum sensivity as well)
Is NY hydro largely generated at Niagara Falls?
Some appear to be coming back up for some people, but Twitter confirms this was widespread across all apps at one point.
It doesn't help that they used a Soviet method of denying shortcomings in hopes that fantasy will overrule reality. What can you do when you have limited resources to make your situation worse? Punish people who are helping you for free.
Oh this is much worse than that. They can't (in theory) buy any US software or hardware.

That's essentially everything. Including mainstream x86 and ARM implementations. And Linux. And Windows. and iOS. And most foreign software, since nearly everything includes various libraries, which have Americans writing code for them.

This is the same list Huawei was added to.
San Francisco's homelessness is a humanitarian crisis
I was confused about the "doing it" part. I see that they have all the materials and got some numbers like average power consumption, but they didn't seem to actually set it up and see how it worked?
When I started working from home, AOL Instant Messenger was still the hot new thing and long distance charges would kill you. Residential bandwidth simply wasn't there for calls. For all intents and purposes, it was textual communication or nothing.

It was glorious. Having record of all conversations for easy reference really did help build better software, as far as I am concerned. These days, everyone wants to do video conferencing, it seems, and half the time the job doesn't get done right because someone misheard something or forget what was said. It makes no sense to me.

I can only imagine that those who think voice communication is the best communication haven't tried anything else.
Maybe resting it there was the wrong way to put it. It's more like I think I'm going to want to move the cursor in the next few seconds, so I put my finger down there.

Sure, I could train myself to not do that if I really needed to, but the thing is that I don't need to since I can turn off tap to click.

I'm not sure why phones are different here though. This isn't something I've been conscious of. Maybe it's because the thumb's natural position when holding a phone is to actually hover above the screen? Or maybe touches just register differently enough on a phone that it's not a problem?
> It's playing great with his constituents

Doubtful.

This is absolutely one of those cases where public attention and pressure can spare someone from getting lost in the legal system. Burying the story only helps those abusing their power.