skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
R has a few advantages over Python for data science work, but Python has a big one: it's also widely used by software engineers who are not data scientists.

I found it easy to jump from the software side of things to the data side of things because I already knew the quirks and tricks of Python. Having to learn a new language would have made this transition harder.
You talked about bank account, but people usually have much less money in their bank account than what they earn in salary. And with a deflationary currency, the value of your work declines year after year in that currency, meaning that your employer will be willing to pay you less and less every year!

As long as inflation is low enough, people don't really care about it in general because there salary increases as much (and given than the average American has much more debt than saving, the inflation is actually a gift to them).

So I talked about workers, but how about investors and entrepreneurs? Say I have $10 million today sitting in a bank account. I can either let it sit idle, losing value to inflation every year, or invest it somewhere where it can create value. Now if the value of my $10 million increases in real terms (meaning that my purchasing power will naturally increase when time passes) the most rational thing to do is not to invest that money. It's actually unlikely that my investment will pay off anyway, because the amount of money spent by people will decrease year after year (because that's what deflation means).
The benefit of being sighted is being able to use accessibility features while also being sighted.

Take a peek at those technologies sometimes, those things improve work comfort for everyone.
You missed the entire point of my comment, which is that Google Maps is far more than a maps app, and until competitors realize that, they're bound to fail.
But OP didn't tell us if the students worked on the project, and how they found it, and how long it took them!
Owning and tinkering with retro computers makes you part of the retro computing fan community, which exists online and offline.
Good customer service huh? Well, prepare for that to go away now that an American startup now owns them!
This is a solid set of productivity, gaming and power consumption tests, showing the M1 Pro in comparison to the best 35W and 45W laptop CPUs from Intel and AMD.

The short take is that it is competitive in productivity, still falling short in gaming (mostly due to a lack of support), and amazing in efficiency. Which we pretty much already knew. But it also shows that it is competitive with these laptop CPUs, while not destroying them in performance, though it is well ahead in some tasks like code compilation.

The efficiency is beyond compare, though. And anyone who could buy this for anything other than gaming, and get cutting edge performance. This is one of the few comparisons I've seen that focused on comparing the Macbook Pro to Intel/AMD rather than just past Intel-based Macbook Pros, though it does include a relatively comparable CPU (to Intel-based Macbooks) in the tests as well.

They also have a written version of the article for those that prefer to read rather than watch.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2357-apple-m1-pro/
When The “R” Goes Missing From R&D
You are absolutely correct of course. It is interesting that Senator Nelson would throw Blue Origin under the bus like that, it isn't normal for NASA to pass the buck, especially when it is blatantly untrue.

It is actually quite hilarious that Blue Origin pissed off so many people that Nelson knew he could get away with it, and even though everyone knows it isn't true, probably no one will bother to say anything.
Gadgets, TV etc are the biggest enemies of sleep for me. I used to have exactly same issue and then made few changes that helped a lot.

- Have a fixed time to go to bed.
- No caffeine at least 4 hours before going to bed.
- No gadgets and TV at least 1 hour before going to bed.
- Eat clean, and have your last meal at least 3 hours before going to bed. (It's even longer for me due to multiple gastric issues.)
- Intense physical activity of at least 30 mins in the later afternoon/evening, i.e. running, playing tennis. Morning exercise only makes me tired and I can't do anything else the whole day.
Hey Datkiri,

Quentin from WeWeb here.

Notion's current API is still hard to play with. We were thinking about bringing a first connector to let users fetch data from their Notion databases for now, as formatting and fetching page's content is still hard to do.

Would that be a good enough use-case for you?
Luckily the internet is a big place, and it's easy to run experiments where you show half the people one version of the site and half the people the other version, and see who buys more.
Thank you julienchr!
AMD EPYC 7003 Series Performance Across Autumn 2021 Linux Distributions
Hacking the Sony Playstation 5
Anyone can with enough self-confidence and elan, but, uh, no one can win!
Power plants have giant flywheels and batteries (vanadium redox) that can help peak demand. Hydroelectric can also be managed for this.
> it's still relatively safe, since not only were there kids out trick-or-treating by themselves, they felt comfortable getting in a verbal argument with someone who threatened to shoot them and they stuck around the area for 30-45 minutes. You don't do that in an area where shootings are particularly commonplace.

I think you might be underestimating how common this is in areas like where the shooting took place. Kids talking shit, kids being out by themselves, people shooting, threatening to shoot each other...
I assure you it's generally illegal in the US as well.
You guessed correctly!
Sorry for your experience. I do use Airbnb occasionally as a guest but would never consider hosting. It's just too dangerous, insurance or not, and not worth it IMHO.

> Airbnb doesn't have anyone who can come out because it isn't a real company

This part is especially infuriating. Google, Amazon, Airbnb, etc. they're all the same. They play a numbers game. At one point they may run out of people to trample though.
A couple of reasons.

Eye trackers are an incredibly common tool for research. They're obviously useful for studying eye movements themselves. This may sound niche, but eye movements are tightly integrated with perception and attention. Eye tracking can thus tell you about the features or cues that help (say) hit a baseball, read some text, or find a tumor. Experts in a field often make different patterns of eye movements than novices, so there are some nascent efforts at using eye tracking to help training (e.g., "no, keep your eye on the ball").

On the application side, they have potential as an interface device too: you can make eye movements incredibly quickly (80-100ms, under some conditions) and accurately. This persists even in some neurodegenerative conditions.

Foveated rendering is another neat idea. The fovea, the "high resolution" part of your retina, is surprisingly small: it captures a thumbnail (at arms' length) sized region of the world around the point of gaze in color and detail. Outside that region, the visual input is increasingly blurry and colorless. It doesn't seem that way because your brain assembles percepts by making many eye movements (2-4 per second) stitching the input together. One popular idea is to exploit this when rendering images (e.g., for VR): spend most of your cycles making the point of gaze pretty and provide just enough elsewhere to complete the illusion. Doing this obviously requires knowing exactly where a person is looking, and thus, an eye tracker.
What, like https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/import/index.html ?
Hi,

usually grep saves the day. I will check your tool, but what I need is for a terminal command that can recognize the meta fields from a log record and put them on a line separated from the main message. Also, it must be installed everywhere I work, which is not so easy. Putting logs in a table with filtering capabilities might be best, but this means web access to the location of the logs which is again tricky.
Yes. The use of a car in Uber service is extracting value from the car. My point was that the rate of that extraction goes down over time and distance, partially (perhaps more than) offsetting the increase in repair costs over time and distance.
Consider the same theory applied to video game modding tools. In the 90s and early 2000's the freedom to work outside the scope of the authorized system created plenty of low quality maps and mods, but it also created things like Counter Strike, DOTA 2, Galactic Conquest (now Battlefront).

When is the last time good content was made in gaming? All the mods that were made with passion are now soulless DLC and pop culture referencing micro transactions. Everything is just remakes because no one has the courage to innovate. Anonymity is an inherent good. If you don't like your anonymous peers, then perhaps gatekeeping is also good too.
I don't have a ton of knowledge about Yellow Pages, but something makes me thing that them being in print prevented them from changing the meta at a moment's notice, and therefore being able to destroy any section of businesses at a moment's notice.
In my current experience, clients are mostly non-technical and have no idea of the importance of documentation, what is an automated test, or what a CI/CD pipeline is for.

You can perfectly develop software without these things. Just test things manually, deploy from your computer, and memorize a few commands to develop locally. I'm also not saying fixed-fee will result on complete garbage software, it's just that there's no incentive to go beyond mediocre.

It is going to make things worse for the next freelancer or whoever maintains the code, not you.
Been working a lot with WeWeb for the past year, the experience is getting better and better! One you use it, there's no way back. Keep going guys!
I don't know if you've ever worked in a warehouse before, but they aren't exactly places where there's a lot of intellectual thought happening (or any thought sometimes). It's moving stuff and repetitive tasks and relatively little human interaction. So yes, they probably are more susceptible to propaganda than say, a group of knowledge workers.
Why Heat Pumps May Not Be the Future
You seem to be complaining that users/stakeholders have actual needs that may not be captured by their initial naive statement of the problem/solution/requirements.

Indeed, they almost always do. Most users/stakeholders aren't good at technical specification of a solution that will meet their problem. It's part of our job to elucidate that in interaction with them.

And then, even when you are good at technical specification, sometimes it's hard even for domain-expert developers to fully understand the problem up front, without iterating. This is one of the useful observations attributed to "agile" (but of course not unique to it).

These are some of the reasons that projects often take longer than initially estimated, sure. You can complain about them, or complain about users being bad at specifying their problem/solution, but it's just a fact of reality, complaining about these facts won't make them go away, and part of doing a professional job is dealing with them.

Which means being very careful about assuming a feature/task is "easy", and remembering to do more investigation of the problem/domain/requirements than just taking a naive "easy" mission from stakeholders at face value -- which is what OP is about.
Consider many rural populations are self isolating since the beginning of time, and not so much as the Amish but 99% in that direction when compared to the city centers.
> what the Huffington Post called “a totalizing police regime beyond any of Kafka’s ghastliest nightmares.”

Regardless of how terrible the situation became, I think we can all agree it's still better than waking up as a literal fly. Reminds me why I actively avoid HuffPo.

Still, this is incredible,

> In 2013 this figure was a staggering 35,975, roughly 1.5 warrants per person in the city.

Staggering lack of leadership in city government.
How do you know that? And what is a “serious” crime here. Anecdotally, it seems like every white lawyer Ive gotten to know has had dui, hard drugs, and more resulting in warnings rather than arrests.
I don't get all of the hostility against GNOME. If you don't like it... use something else? System 76 has been trying to have their cake and eat it too, using GNOME but not jumping through all of the GNOME hoops.

I guess the latest new is they're going to get away from GNOME and make their own DE, which is great news for all involved.
ASCII is the standard for code for good reason. Everyone can type it. Put whatever you want in comments, but you shouldn't make people have to copy/paste your variable names.
I don't really follow your assumptions; surely it might be that the same people influenced by this are also people who would never have converted or always have converted? In which case the measured effect is not relevant to any actual business decision?
> flak they might receive

But they don't get "flak". They get a community of people misrepresenting the facts making it look like they're racist. And that turns into a national news story. And that turns into them being told to resign because the people above them don't want the political heat.

I get that there are police officers that are, indeed, racially biased. But calling what the ones doing the right thing "flak" and dismissing it does a disservice to the good ones. It can be VERY hard to do the right thing, especially when it means it's the last thing you get to do (before you lose your job).
that's a properly horrible idea from security point of view, even when ignoring 9/11 example
My guess is that because relatively few people are interested in using them (due to ~90% of Australia's population having cell phones) it means if they charged money and somebody didn't have a phone they'd likely just ask someone to borrow theirs for a second. Plus with VOIP calls are nearly free and they already have an internet uplink right there for the 5G.

I figure the only people that would choose to use them nowadays are likely in some type of "emergency" and can't use their cell - whether it's they left their phone at home, battery is dead, etc.
Weird analogy since Google killed the yellow pages.
Even though this looks like a huge appreciation of value, buying the apple stock would've made you much more money in that time frame. Plus it's easier to store and secure.

Apple-2: 1976 666$, 2021 400K$, x600

AAPL: 1980 10¢, 2021 150$, x1500
Interesting idea. I thought I'd just try searching for something that I might be looking up - 'java convert int[] to Integer array'

DDG gives me an example from SO in the results which is one of the main reasons I continue to use it. No one else manages to do this and it seems that you.com can't either.

However, it does give me Code Complete which is interesting but doesn't cover Java and for some reason is below images.

I just tried with a python query - 'size of array python'. That worked much better. Got an example at the top. I might try this search out when I'm not working with Java.
You can find a bunch of alternatives here - https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho....

If you want features such as facial recognition, you might try taking a closer look at PhotoPrism/LibrePhotos. I did try them about a year ago, but in the end just went with the desktop app digiKam (https://www.digikam.org/)
Get them use Grammarly. 80% of the issues you mentioned will be fixed, and rest 20% will be either not a big deal or getting their writeup reviewed by an editor will greatly help them overcome the deficiencies shortly.
It wouldn't be particularly hard for a trained person to block their thoughts to a brain implant, if the police were trying to read their mind.
Booleanism
This is already in production in Portugal.
Similar tech was used during the rescue of the boys out of a cave in Thailand back in 2018

https://bcra.org.uk/creg/heyphone/
https://hackaday.com/tag/heyphone/
>When did the Guardian become a tabloid?

2018.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/13/guardian-and-o...
> I like flutter and would definitely pick it if I had to make a mobile app, but if you have to write a conditional at every step to pick the right component for each platform, I don't see the point of keeping one codebase any more.

I agree that wrapping every single UI widget in conditionals and writing it twice is not a good practice, but I'd still want one codebase.

Any reasonable application architecture will separate UI presentation code from application logic code. You'd still benefit from a single, shared backend to the codebase.

I managed a dual-platform software project a few years ago. I made the call to build native apps for each because our use case didn't work well with the cross-platform tools.

Writing the UI code on each platform was not difficult, but it was surprisingly challenging to make sure the application logic behaved the same on both platforms for every possible edge case. It's easy in a small app, but as complexity grows so do the edge cases. Having a shared codebase, even if the UI code had to be special-cased, wouldn't be too bad.

That said: The app in the article appears to have equivalent layouts for most screens on Mac and Windows. It seems that a single UI library could be constructed to handle both without special-casing every single thing. I'd much rather have a library that made a best-effort guess at the right thing for either platform and then add platform-specific exceptions.
I've encountered a bunch of the old red telephone boxes in villages being used as mini-libraries/book-exchange these days, which I thought was a pretty neat idea.

https://minitravellers.co.uk/phone-box-libraries-in-the-uk/

... although I've yet to find any interesting books in them yet :D maybe I should make a deposit.
On a similar note, if you want to test your REST APIs for weird characters, I built a tool for this: (https://github.com/Endava/cats#leadingcontrolcharsinfieldstr...)
Sorry, I looked for it but I couldn't find it. But the conference was nervesconf.

Edit: protip go to the GitHub of the training person: https://github.com/jjcarstens/nervesconf2021_training
Actually $500k
"The article was updated to reflect the auctioneers' official recorded auction price of $500,000, rather than the earlier reported price of $400,000. The $500,000 total price includes the buyer's premium."
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/10/rare-apple-1-computer-a...
Chimney Services or New Slate Roof in Hamilton? Prefer Experts
There are many beautiful roofing materials available, but most homeowners would agree that slate roof in GTA is the choice of their dreams. But exactly, what is a slate roof? To be on the safe side, we want you to have all of the knowledge you need to make this important decision, and to help you with this.
Yeah, if only those stupid warehouse workers would listen to me, the enlightened tech worker who is making many multiples of what they are. I know what is best for you!

You realize how disgustingly patronizing you sound?
"There are 6 other people looking at this item right now."

This has been forbidden by the EU in the context of hotel rooms (booking.com)

And rightfully so.
> The real challenge though comes when the customer doesn’t know their requirements

Which, of course, is true 80-90% of the time.
Well, you would hope so.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-powered-a...

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8680110)
It is not a violation. Third Party Doctrine. You waive 4th Amendment once you share something with someone else. This is the same legal phenomena that pretty much guarantees LE will get access to card based financial activity, and telephone metadata.

They'll need a warrant for a wiretap, but tracing contact graph has been open season for as long as I've been around.
Honestly just isn't in their interest to do so anymore, and that's messed up.
Top Digital Skills in Demand in 2022
I'm really surprised ELF are not commonly used for this. Even a simple single-frequency CW transmitter for emergencies.

I wonder if audio frequencies below 20KHz can be used to make a cheaper system.
The LG a9 processor found in newer LG TVs supports it. Mediatek, Amlogic, Broadcom and Rockchip all have SOCs which play in this space and support AV1 decode.
I think Safari is now the only big non-evergreen browser remaining out there, and I think it's really holding it back. On both security fixes and features.

I hope some point in the future Apple untie Safari from macOS and iOS so they can be updated independently without having to wait months to operating system updates to come out..
Top UK court blocks legal action against Google over internet tracking
For successful network design anticipating as many failure modes as possible isn't just a clever mental hack, it's absolutely essential. I suspect this is true for many engineering disciplines.

What I hadn't considered is applying this technique to more general (non-technical) life problems/optimizations.
Having many browser tabs open (for research) is part of the 'actual work'.
Bipartisan bill aims to reduce sway of “opaque algorithms” on tech platforms
It boggles my mind that people use tabs like bookmarks. Not only does this usually destroy your available RAM, but its just not the right tool for the job. You are using a hammer like a screwdriver.

To each their own, I guess. Just don't get mad when your browser crashes from overloading with tabs, or when you clear your history and it triggers the expected behavior of closing them. It would be a huge privacy concern if your open tabs didn't close when you clear the browser history.
Explanatory note from UK Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.uk/press-summary/uksc-2019-0213.htm...
This is cool, but I’m not seeing how this could be useful in unattended application. It will need relaunching on a regular basis, and will wear a lot. Even string wears Internally just flying in the wind.

My guess is that except in some specific applications like winter use in polar regions, solar power will end up producing more energy for the same investment over time.

Cheap solar is hard to beat, and the new printable panels promise to make it even harder.

Solar is just a lot of energy compared it to kinetic sources. It’s counterintuitive.

A typical single solar cell from a panel (5 watts) does the work of lifting a 5kg weight 300m high every hour. It’s kinda mind blowing.
The tool is useless you dont need it at all. Someone even wrote an GitHub issue about that but the owner deleted it.
MS has detailed steps on the official website how you can install or update on unsupported hardware. They dont prevent anyone from running windows 11. They simply wont provide support if you run it on older hardware. Beside that they didn not drop support for "tons of systems" quiet the opposite they committed to provide updates to windows 10 for almost 5 years (likely to be extended). By then hardware not officially supported by windows 11 will be at least 7 years old.

>For a lot of people, to "upgrade" to Windows 11 means "buy a whole new PC." This drives additional sales of Windows 11 PCs (of which MS will take a cut).

How so? You dont need to upgrade nor buy a new hardware. If you want to that's entirely on you and has nothing to do with windows 11. The only reason to buy new hardware is if the old does not work for your use-case anymore or if support runs out in 5 years but chances are you replaced the hardware due to age long before that.