skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they could be running a sharpening algorithm. Normally you have something between nearest-neighbor resampling and a smooth gradient. But you can plug any function in there if you think it looks good. Bicubic makes nicer smooth areas, sinc can preserve sharp edges. But you can't add information to an image. It's all basically guessing which transitions between pixel values should be smooth and which should be sharp. It's possible to oversharpen an image and generate extra lines out of thin air.

(I don't think pinch-to-zoom adds sharpening, but it's something that could use an expert to double check.)
You don't need large amounts of storage for nuclear-based power grid, only enough to provide frequency maintenance buffer while you change power output on the plant.

You need huge storage amounts for renewables just to make sure you don't have rolling blackouts (undersupply vs. nuclear's oversupply) or, what happens in reality, fossil fuel backup.

There is an equivalent of small village with fully renewable power grid (ok, maybe 99%, I think they had an oil generator or two). You have to deal with low limits of power you can draw, react in time to alerts to curtail your usage (or face disconnection), etc. etc. Forget about things like electric heating or charging BEVs, you have to worry if you can run the washing machine.

The typical "village invests $30k in renewables" hides a ton of externalities taken up elsewhere due to how random the introduced supply power is.
Not exactly, the issue is the ML is unlikely to be trained on normal people in the clothing, but instead on clothing models that the sizes fit perfectly on. So The deep fake try-on app will never reveal that actually the sleeves are too long and or the thing is weirdly fitting if one isn’t 6’2” with a 31” waist.
Why do you post links here then?
I swear I’ve seen photos of an EV that was hacked that way like 5 years ago. Maybe an early model S?
You are conflating physically and politically hard problems. It's hard to beat physics, but we absolutely should be talking about, considering and demanding practical yet politically hard solutions. All we have to do is ask, and the alternative is to quietly sink into an abyss.
You just have to drive around the SE for an hour or two to realise it's everywhere - massive developments in some places, virtually whole new towns, and where this is not permitted creeping development of every single tiny postage stamp of land on which planning permission can be gained. It breaks my heart. I remember when there used to be hedgehogs everywhere. These days, it's remarkable. Absolutely tragic. If the woke mob in this country genuinely cared about the environment (as opposed to merely using it as part of their 'nice totalitarianism' agenda e.g. BLM/eco/trans etc.) they would be fiercely anti-immigration. The fact they are not tells you all you need to know about the true agenda.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/rittenhouse-tria...
Definitely possible. The O-1 standard isn't as high as the black letter language of the regulations suggests.
Personal:

- Time spent reading daily: my min goal is 30 minutes.
- Time spent on social media: trying to lower this to as close to 0 as possible, currently limiting to about 20 minutes per day.
- Amount of sleep

Professional:

- Average ranking position for all keyword targets (I'm an SEO/digital marketer)
- Amount of work hours invested (I'm a remoter, so I want to make sure I hit AT LEAST 8). PS - this is never a problem LOL.
Do folks in your circles talk about the meta of US immigration? Is there any expectation that as the US workforce ages and the tax base declines, that worker immigrants will be allowed in more freely over the next decade or so?
Docker Desktop for Mac runs Docker in a VM. It has poor disk I/O compared to native, and IIRC it is not as capable as native from a networking perspective (perhaps not a big issue). Also, as of recently it costs money to use Docker Desktop for Mac for work purposes.

So the advantage is you get better container performance, all the capability you would normally get with container workloads on their native platform (Linux), and you wouldn't have to use the Docker Desktop product anymore.
As a real reply -

I can copy code marked up with parens and brackets from basically any source (no matter how it's indented or how whitespace is handled) and my linter will automatically understand and format it nicely.

In an indentation language - If I copy a chunk of code that's nested more or less deeply than the section I'm currently working on, I have to manually replace whitespace everywhere. Sometimes the linter is smart enough, sometimes it's not.
If that were the case, would you expect another civilization on some rock in different galaxy to arrive at entirely different concepts, or ones isomorphic to our own?
I mean ... I know that and you know that ...
I kinda think of them as 'orthogonal' numbers.
I agree with most of your points. Although It may be matter of a time to grow that niche. IMO Pople who value it are willing to take sacrifice of less functional outputs.

Privacy is most effective selling point when working with sensitive information.
It should also be pointed out that the lawyer who runs decoded.legal is very much a tech savvie lawyer that enjoys playing with tech.

Something which I am led to believe is not a character trait typically attributable to our learned friends.
It's a popular buzz-topic right now
I have a whoop and the recovery metric it tracks (which is a 0-100 number of what seems to be 5-6 parameters in the current version and 8-9 in the upcoming one) is surprisingly good. I too was very skeptical of a single-dimension value but even when I don't have a "reason" to get tired early in the day it's still a good indicator of how the day is going to go.
I know it's not completely related to the thread - but how is Rails vs Django in terms of performance? I'm getting subjective information that Rails is much faster for APIs in terms of response times, serialization speed etc. although I have been using django for the past 7-8 years and have to say that the best response times was 200-300ms w/o caching for some heavy json responses. And something that should be blazing <100ms, still takes 200ms to respond.
Are there any comparable non-Apple laptops which are well supported by Linux? I'd hate to pay the Apple tax, only to run Linux on the bare metal. Plus, I'm assuming "Apple care" goes out the window once you wipe out MacOS?
What a rude and unhelpful comment
Wrenches found so far: they changed some hardware blocks to scale up to ~2TB of RAM (up from 32GB theoretical max on the M1) and better support more CPU cores and multi-die setups (future product?). And they moved some fuse bits around.

Seems pretty reasonable to me.
Ruby manages to do this. The default implementations of all the methods you want are on the enumerable module, so if you implement the “each” method you get everything, including the ability to get an enumerator object that you can pass round and use for anything else you want.
> Then the function should not use the global variable at all without explicitly indicating it

Generally you use `global` to handle this.

> I do find it humorous that the global variable is semi-protected in python, while the variable type is not.

It's not, there are no differences between them. Bindings (names) are captured like most other languages, and you're free to overwrite them if you wish.

In your example you bind a new string to an existing name. I think it's pretty expected that this wouldn't suddenly change the global object to a local one, that would be madness.

But you're free to update the object _referenced_ if it's mutable:

def f():
thing.append(1)
thing = []
f()
print(thing)
Not financial advice, but in times of high inflation companies need to find ways to pass on costs to consumers in order to protect their margins. Companies that have strong pricing power like chemicals, materials, etc. will undoubtedly be able to pass costs onto other consumer facing companies. I dont know if Hershey's will sell more candy, but I know they have to buy sweetener.
Is there an objective way to measure code quality?

We barely understand the systems we’re writing code for - I don’t see how you could objectively judge the code to manage those systems without fully understanding the systems first.

You could have wave some metrics like number of bugs or test coverage, but I can’t think of any (aforementioned included) that aren’t subject to tons of confounding variables.
1/ Do you what countries are allowing third country nationals to get an H1B visa stamp?

2/ When will Canada and Mexico allow that?

PS: It seems impossible to get an appointment in my home country.
I’m not 100% sure I’m understanding but if the idea is to implement a “traditional”/synchronous RPC mechanism you can do that using the PubSub functionality trivially and I’m not sure which additional moving parts it adds unless you’re in a situation where you have to cluster Redis (which has a reputation for being a PITA but isn’t that hard honestly).

The only use case that really jumps out is when you don’t want a broker because you don’t want a single point of failure but now you’re embedding a Redis server implementation in every one of the services in your mesh and I’m not convinced that’s much better but I can see where it might be helpful.
Oh, I'm aware of that concern but I was wondering how many benchmarks show a significant win. After you consider the impacts on the processor caches, and the fraction of apps which are performance sensitive but still end up limited on cache-unfriendly random memory access, it seems like it could be an increasingly niche concern where most of the code people run either isn't performance sensitive or has gotten better about memory access patterns after decades of hardware trending in that direction.

Apple's highly-competitive performance with processors which don't support SMT suggests that this is not such a clear win, especially given the non-trivial cost of the security mitigations.
I think this is a perfect scenario for some subsidized Federal infrastructure spending. I revel in the knee jerk bristling conservatives experienced as they read my first sentence. Much like turnpike service centers that you see in the East, EV service centers could be built along the interstates and could offer charging, basic vehicle services, restrooms, and even convenience stores. They could be expansions upon existing rest areas, and would be open for all vehicles. Would be nice if Tesla didn't have to do it all themselves, since they currently basically plop chargers into lots and provide zero services. It is luck of the draw whether you can actually use a bathroom or wash your windshield while charging your Tesla.
If you scale the image to add more pixels, you have to decide what the value of those new pixels are in some way. I do not know the methods used by the tools in question. However, the relevant docs for GIMP are here: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tools-transform.html#gimp-tool...
The focus on profitability seems strange given that gas stations aren't profitable from gas sales either. Gas stations make their money off of their convenience items.

You buy a franchise not to sell gas, but to lure customers to your convenience store.

Until charging times come down significantly, cafes and restaurants seem like natural partners for charging parks.
read a blog claim that asyncio does not faster than normal python code. so why async?
+1. The police in the U.S. only kill about 1000 people a year, out of 330,000,000. That's 0.000303%. To put it in perspective, there are about 50,000 suicides, 35,000 car crash deaths, and 30,000 people die from just falling down.
Except everybody thinks this way. When I was house hunting a few years ago houses that needed work on great property sold at basically 0% discount compared to houses that didn't need work. I saw bidding wars resulting in fixer-uppers going for literally more than houses that didn't need work. The only exception where houses that needed serious structural work, and even then the discount was nowhere near enough to make it really worth it.
One thing to keep in mind is that while there is indeed plenty of speculation, there's also plenty of healthy criticism of the current valuations as well as outright doomsday talk from fairly well known investors.

What this means is that for now the market continues to self correct and we haven't reached peak positive sentiment yet. Historically, massive selloffs happen because of unexpected sudden changes in sentiment (2000, 2008) or due to black swan events (2020). Given that we just went through a black swan and the markets aren't overly optimistic, I wouldn't expect a large crash in the immediate future.
By coincidence, Nick Maggiuli wrote yesterday about it in a text titled "How to Invest Your Money When Inflation is High" [0]

[0] https://ofdollarsanddata.com/how-to-invest-your-money-when-i...
Slight tangent, but does anyone know of a website that acts as a decent, up-to-date clearing house for what we do/don't know about COVID?

I sometimes see articles providing new (perhaps preliminary) info about how effective masks are in different circumstances, how vaccine efficacy changes over time, potential for vaccinated persons to spread the virus, etc. I'd love to see a single website that tracks and reconciles all of those developments into a current summary.

Just for context, my personal use case is trying to estimate the riskiness of having my family participate in various social activities in the next few months.
This is a fair point but it's not as if knowing with items are actually good is something that should only be available to power users. The real goal ought to be: making sure your customers get access to actually good things. Not merely satisfying what might be some customers' naive intuition that things with higher average ratings are actually better.

I think there's better approaches that can be taken here to address possible confusion. E.g., if the Wilson score rating ever places an item below ones with higher average rating, put a little tooltip next to that item's rating that says something like "This item has fewer reviews than ones higher up in the list." You don't need to understand the full statistical model to have the intuition that things with only a few ratings aren't as "safe".
https://nocamels.com/2012/06/new-cleantech-co-to-power-cars-...

An example of a pourable variant.
Do you have "show whitespace" enabled on your IDE?

I think it really helps being able to see the characters properly. (Also helps avoiding mixing tabs and spaces like some bloody animal.)

While there is some value in whitespace-insensitive syntax, I think using whitespace is a neat and human friendly way to keep things separated and to show structure. We are good at spatial thinking

For example this text is using whitespace between words to tell you where which words starts and ends. It uses paragraphs to further split up certain ideas. (Same with math notation which also uses whitespace)

{[Do; you; think; that; this; is; easier; to; read; ?][Does; it; feel; more; comfortable;?]}

Getting used to new syntax is not as hard as people pretend it is. Never understood the aversion of some people. For Python being whitespace sensitive is a great choice as it helps the pseudocode look of it and is often used as a beginner language. You want beginners to learn how to properly indent code and to suffer if they mix tabs and spaces. (Though maybe now that we have automatic code formatting in many languages, maybe less so.)
> Another great resource I use is https://inflationchart.com

Thank you for the great resource! However I have a small comment.

What the site is using is actually M2 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S

The real M3 money supply report was discontinued - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M3

See here for the ShadowStats estimation of M3: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/money-supply-chart...
Also the plants are getting old and refurbishing them is extremely expensive.
I looked at it and the study doesn't account for anything. For example, if a certain demographic were 2x more likely to die in an encounter, but 4x more likely to respond to a benign pullover with violence, then they're actually 2x more likely to be treated with less force than their actions require.

This is basic, the study (at least on my glance) appears to not account for anything like this at all.

Also the source isn't everything but its political leanings are somewhat-important as this type of misdirection that I've just showed here is used all the time to craft narratives around statistics, so even when you're crafting leans in a certain direction and you still can't tell the story you'd like, it's a strong indicator that the data more distinctly show certain patterns.
> But other than that, all you'll get is a load of entitled users complaining about bugs, usually filling low quality bug reports, and very few actual meaningful contributions.

I agree that entitled users can be a real problem. I have had my share of dealing with entitled and impolite users complaining about "issues" that eventually turn out to be something that is already easily addressed by the README. Interacting with such users can indeed be disappointing.

However, except for the occasional discourteous user, most users of my tiny projects have been quite supportive. Most of them are polite while submitting bug reports. Some even leave comments to express their appreciation for the project![1] So it's not all bad!

> Most people are just like you and want THEIR PROJECT to be popular, not to contribute almost anonymously to some other random guy's popular project.

Wanting one's own project to be popular and contributing to other projects need not be mutually exclusive. Many people write their own projects as well as contribute to other projects. For example, I got into open source first by contributing[2][3] to other projects before I began publishing my own projects.

[1] https://github.com/susam/uncap/issues/9

[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-559

[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-601
I'll pass your note to him. Thanks so much for your contributions to HN and advise. Appreciate it.
Yep. It's a PR stunt to make artificially imposed scarcity for the sake of corporate profits seem cool.

In the future VR metaverse, remember people, that it costs nothing for everyone to have the nicest beachfront house and drive the nicest VR cars.
I'd like to mention that most people in the San Joaquin valley don't really consider Sacramento to be in the valley, and certainly the weather is different. More rain in sac, and no matter how hot it is in Sacramento, you can look forward to the evening's Delta Breeze.

and yeah, I was specifically talking about Visalia, Hanford, Fresno,
In my opinion it doesn’t matter which language you use as long as it’s the right tool for the job . Usually this goes for familiarity of either who you can hire and or you.

Python has some obvious syntax weirdness and Ruby looks like it encourages more DSL and that might make it closer to lisp.

But, Python has so many more libraries and a good editor can help you manage the white space indentation . Also Python scales well too.

To be honest I rather have some kind of different framing of this. Instead of an argument it could have been a comparison but that doesn’t get people to click the link.
Lower the precision by adding random noise.
The article is short and relatively dense with information, so it does not really need an abridgement. Nonetheless, there are some interesting details to be highlighted, including the mention of a proposal for using the "replication transcription complex" as a target for a vaccine against all coronaviruses.

> ...the authors examined blood samples collected in the first weeks of the pandemic from nearly 60 UK [hospital] health-care workers ... [who] never tested positive or produced any antibodies to the virus for four months after enrolling in the study. ... In 20 of these ‘seronegative’ participants, T cells had multiplied [together with other markers which] are evidence for ‘abortive infections’

> A far higher proportion of the seronegative participants had T cells that recognize [and disable viral proteins called the replication transcription complex, which helps the virus to reproduce] than did health-care workers who got COVID-19

> Most existing COVID-19 vaccines target SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein ... Spike proteins vary considerably between different coronaviruses. But replication complexes are similar across multiple types of coronavirus, making this part of the virus a promising target for a ‘pan-coronavirus’ vaccine
The slowing isn't using gas - its not like they put the plane in reverse to slow it down. They're descending and trading potential energy for energy to maneuver at low altitudes. The thrust is near idle.
I'm not aware of any machines with comparable performance/efficiency from any other vendor.

Apple officially supports running your own kernels on these machines. This isn't a jailbreak, it's an official feature of the hardware and firmware design that Apple added, and which their EULA allows you to use in this way.

These machines are also not brickable, you can always do a DFU restore from macOS or (soon; Monterey needs some stuff I already figured out but haven't implemented yet, but it works for older versions on the M1s) Linux using idevicerestore, no matter how much you wipe or screw up.

(That said, I wouldn't recommend wiping macOS at this stage; we expect most users to have a dual-boot setup.)
The transmission lines are designed to minimize the H-field radiation, so they're actively working against you trying to couple via the H-field.
> I can see a name and match that to an import and match that to a package.

I like this too, but... I don't find dynamic languages to be very explicit.

Given that Python is a dynamic language, I only going to know what I can do with (or what is true about) the arguments to some function if I have worked with the codebase previously (or have sufficiently good documentation, and unit test coverage).
This article is horrible. It fails to discuss the benefits of using proof of work as a consensus protocol. It uses chips, it doesn't waste chips.
It's making the correct argument that handling HTTP is costly, and you don't always need it.
People use it because it's really easy to get something up and running with HTTP short term, but long term there are better ways of doing server-server communication.
One of the few that still in there making money without giving IP. Not sure it is good or bad.
I was a TA for a physics lab that used python (3 months)

This came up nearly 100+ times in those 3 months, just in the classes I TA'd for.

Making invisible characters carry significant meaning really throws non-programmers for a loop at times: It's so easy, right until they break it and don't understand how.
Yep it has its origins in the cypherpunk movement which is anarchist.

If you're interested you might want to check out projects like Aragon (https://aragon.org/) to get a glimpse of how this type of thing could work.

I imagine far in the future you'd be a member of one or more DAOs governed by some sort of smart-contract based system. These groups could use tools like Aragon or w/e to vote, hold court, etc.
Not AFAIK. There are contrived PoCs of browser based Specter exploits, but no practical examples have been discovered.
I don't think this is anything to do with Redis server, you are simply using the Redis wire protocol/parser? I could be wrong...