skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many people make appeals to ‘science’ as if it’s some big monolith hanging in the sky. This is the first article I’ve come across that isn’t just a qualitative piece of propaganda designed to scare me. I appreciate actual statistics and ‘science’ that I can investigate. I’m a trained scientist and I’m struggling to find proper analyses that I can read with regards to this vaccine. Every time I hear a politician tell me “you have to be vaccinated because you have to be vaccinated” it just pisses me off so much. I try to be rational, and I can’t make a decision just because I’m scared. Give me the science and statistics please leaders!
You do have imports and functions so you can reuse what you want.

The doc is also quite clear and rich, but the way it's organized means I have to read it entirely before writting my first CUE file. It also lacks IRL examples so trials and errors were my best friends.

It can be discouraging.
That would be nearly enough to power the world; not just the US. Powering the world would take a bit over 115000 square miles, apparently. About 3% of the US landmass.
Personally I'm rather glad my neighbor can't turn his property into an industrial hog farm.
Cosmo Kramer:
They're trying to screw with your head.

Jerry:
Now why would a junior high school want to screw with my head?

Cosmo Kramer:
Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgfaYKoQxzQ
First-class support for parallelism as a prerequisite for performance. Seems to exclude python, but pymc is great.
BrainTool creator here. BT is very much a private and local first application, see the philosophy statement[1].

I use the absolute minimal permissions required to do the job. 'Browsing history' means I get access to the urls that tabs have open, there's no way to help you categorize them without that! Google Drive access is optional and only needed if you want to sync your data to a text file on your GDrive. BrainTool passes you to Google Auth and asks for permission to read and write the file on your behalf. It does not have access to any other information from your Google account.

The code is open sourced on my github[2]. Not sure what else you want to know about me, maybe my LinkedIn[3]?

I'm very much soliciting input from all sources RN, so if it looks interesting do give it a try and LMK what you think.

[1] https://braintool.org/overview.html
[2] https://github.com/tconfrey?tab=repositories
[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/tconfrey/
It makes me sad every time a mineral, chemical, or species is named after some arbitrary human (or worse) because the name is arbitrary, telling you nothing about the thing itself or diagnostic differences from similar things.

It’s even worse when the name sounds stupid. “Dave”?! After somebody’s nickname, who wasn’t even a “David”?!

Thanks for making science even harder!
I would love to read more on queue theory + web applications - is there anything out there worth reading for a more in-depth understanding (applied to applications) but with key takeways/rules of thumb presented like in this article?
Though, if the solar panels absorb more energy than the ground, due to the ground reflecting more of the light, that’s still a little bit of difference, right?

(Not a knock on solar panels, I’m just being pedantic)
The new MacBook Pro: Why did Apple backtrack on everything?
As not a Python programmer, I'm struggling to understand the issue.

Your (or blogger's) claim is that GitHub misparses the YAML actions config when it comes specifically to Python? Or that YAML is inherently inadequate to the task of representing Python's necessary actions?
This shouldn't really matter for the JSON5 use case - config files - which are usually small enough.

For machine-to-machine generated payloads JSON is good enough.
A new MasterCard design is meant to make life easier for visually impaired users
>But the solutions to solar's limitations seem to be in their infancy (new types of storage), hard to scale (battery storage), not really helpful (just build more coal and gas peakers!) or not considered at all. Which does not inspire confidence.

You're not wrong, but also not right. We have renewables that run at night (wind, water, geo-thermal heat pumps), we have some storage solutions/"batteries" as well, such as pumping stations or water-based heat storage. And even peakers that burn fuel are not that bad for the environment if you only run them a limited time. Coal/gas peakers that only run when needed would not kill the environment if the main sources of energy production are renewable - a coal plant burning only some nights is still a lot better than one burning 24/7 - and peakers can be fueled by renewable sources as well, not just stuff you dig out of the ground, making them carbon neutral over the grow-burn circle.

The problem right now is that switching over to such a mixed energy production requires a lot of investment and construction, and we have a lot of infrastructure (especially housing) that cannot be easily retrofitted. E.g. right now, be it in the US, be it in Germany where I live, be it in other places, solar and wind deployment is severely hampered by the lack of transmission lines. This isn't a problem of high investment cost either, it's "locals" fighting tooth and nail against new transmission lines being build in the vicinity of where they live because "it ruins the view".
> sell information about button presses.

Well that's obviously a different thing isn't it.
I suspect the public would be on board with these type of policies if the cost to the poor and middle class were subsidized.

Any legislation that increases cost of energy will impact poorest the most, but for some reason cost of energy to the poor is not brought up much in climate discussions.

And of course China is the biggest emitter by far, so something special needs to be done there. Likely first world countries would have to subsidize third world country energy costs.
When you miss a quote or a brace in JSON, the JSON fails to parse. When you make a similar minor mistake in YAML, you often end up with a valid but nonsensical document with completely incorrect structure.

I don't want the language to be flexible enough that simple common errors go unnoticed - I WANT the parser to tell me at parse time if I screwed something up. It's a similar dynamic to dynamic/static typing.
Not really, json schema validation is applied after json parsing on already parsed json.
It seems to me that this is an uphill battle seeing how quickly additive metal printing is going. With each year it's getting easier for an amateur to make their own effective firearm from scratch and and a design downloaded from the Internet.
Perhaps, but all the vulnerability is in using IE5; there's nothing the site can do to make an IE5-compatible connection secure.
It that Maps functionality, or OS functionality? Can it be remapped in Keyboard Shortcuts?

And most importantly, what the actual fuck?..
A lot of times, one's proximity to work, friends, family has a non-trivial cost associated with it. Not everyone can be mobile. That said, the other side of the coin with regard to homelessness - some fall in the above; some follow to where the services/ease of access to one's vice/tolerance (also known as compassion) is.

With regard to moving to a smaller town. The median income in the county in CA I live in is ~40k/year. The average house price has essentially doubled in the last 5ish years. Income, hasn't changed so much. I bought my place ~5.5 years ago and it's basically doubled and is a condo. Same issues around a lack of affordable housing in this rural mountain red county is mirrored by some of the bay area counties I moved from.
Question: I'm not in the academic world, but I assume the idea of the APC is that the individual author won't be paying it, and it's not expensive enough that the institutions they're affiliated with will balk at the cost, right? So, in that respect it's sort of like that pricing sweet spot that results in $50/user/mo software licenses, $3000 2-day conference tickets, etc.

Not to say that $1700 (roughly the number they list in their FAQ) is an unreasonable amount given the work that goes into reviewing, editing, and publishing an article. Indeed, I wonder if they couldn't raise the cost a bit.
Pieces are missing! I scrolled around everywhere and couldn’t find them. Yes I differentiated between scrolling the canvas versus the pieces versus the completed portion. If this is how the demo works, it’s kind of off putting since it punishes you for just trying it out. Even if I was interested I would not sign up for a site that does this. At least there should be a warning up front before you waste time on the demo: “You will not be able to fully complete the demo puzzles.”
I used to program in Smalltalk and as it faded from popularity I wondered why. It seemed so much better in many ways.

Now I think the problem with the image-based programming is that while it is easy for a single programmer it makes collaboration more difficult. Why? Because it is very difficult or impossible to "merge" two or more images.

My changes might work when added to a default virgin image, but there is no such thing as virgin default image when every Smalltalk provider has their own and multiple versions of them. Any image is as good as any other.

The ability to change anything in the image really means the ability to depend on any fact about the current image. If you apply your changes in an environment/image where any one of those facts no longer holds you will get unpredictable results.
the funny thing is that json doesn't even need commas, they essentially act as whitespace, any amount or no amount would make no difference in the meaning of the document.

Arrays with hole are a JS-only feature
I have been working on a knowledge base for things I'm leaning about bike parts. Notes on compatibility, part weights, bookmarks to helpful links, etc

A big challenge I have is when I add a new tag, I'll want to apply it to relevant content I already have. But this takes a long time and until it happens the relevant data can't be retrieved by the tag.

I am curious how the semantic hash is implemented in a conceptarium. If I could focus on adding content and it can drive relationships automatically, that is awesome.
I'm not a big fan of this. If I want to see a device's status, I look at it. Or in the case of certain devices, I listen for a specific hum. This requires no setup and no maintenance. I can check the status of my washing machine, as can anyone else in the house.
Modest proposal - The real problem I see with JSON is it's not rich enough.
Not a problem if you're using EDN

https://github.com/edn-format/edn
Philip K. Dick
Yes and no. Open source is built on trust, something we're starting to feel the backsides of today, where npm modules sometimes gets compromised, but people also get shared responsibility over shared resources like reusable libraries.

I'm torn if it's good or bad really. I feel like our tools should do more to protect us, but until we get there, maybe we do need to be more careful with who we're giving our trust to?
> 100% agree, I've been saying this for years. I've joked with friends that I'd call it Dumb Inc.

The problem is that — in a not so distant future, where every company makes a large slice of its profit from selling user data — Dumb Inc. products will be a lot more expensive than the competition. As people in general are not technically competent to assess the consequences of their digital actions, they will chose the cheaper option. So, perhaps Dumb Inc. won't have mass market appeal, but I guess it could still sell to the techo elite. :)
Running prettier (https://prettier.io) on each save will fix trailing commas for you. If you accidentally have one, it will just sneakily remove it and turn your document into one that is valid.
I get that it’s insane to open a business here and the 200k ice cream shop thing was ridiculous but in this case they asked them to put in a hood and some sinks which appears pretty reasonable.
I do end up with more knowledge than I want when I add links to a long file.

It’s important to look a second time to remove the noise. For me, I prune every other week and usually takes 10 mins tops.

If nothing else, my brain gets a second chance to add the idea to memory.
Especially since the post title doesn't match the linked article's heading.
DV ISTR is something like 25 megabits a second, 50 if its one of the pro varieties.
> Every person that generates their own electricity stops paying their fair share of maintaining the grid,

Nope. Not in California- even if solar covers 100% of your usage, PG&E is collecting money from you. You don’t pay any energy production costs, but you’ll pay ‘your fair share’.
Unfortunately no. Possibly email the author?

http://www.algorithmsilluminated.org/
There has been opposition to greenfield developments on environmental concerns, much harder to oppose a dual use installation over farmland.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-03/the-mo...
Of course it won't be distributed evenly, that is the point. Just like always, energy cost increases harm poor people the most.

If you are in USA, has the government absorbed the increase in energy prices? Of course not. It costs everyone more to pay their heating bill or buy gasoline than just a year ago. Wealthy people can afford it. Poor people cannot. And the energy spikes also contribute to the huge inflation in food and everyday goods, once again hurting poor people the most.

That's the most basic of examples. Reality hits in many ways. Poor people generally have to travel much further to work every day. No matter whether they take public or private transportation, when fuel costs go up, maintenance drops... routes get cancelled, cars break down, tolls go up, whatever.

Or employment goes away entirely. Are mines, factories, construction projects still profitable when energy costs spike? Some yes, some no.
Yes, I get that. "Reverse ground effect" was how the OP phrased it. What exactly do you think would happen in that case? Suppose the available air were "cut off" by the overpass (it wouldn't be, but let's suspend disbelief for a moment). What would be the result?
The "Optane" that Intel released as their 3DXPoint NVMe brand, (and quietly withdrew it recently) isn't the same Optane as their byte-addressable non-volatile storage+RAM combo. It isn't Flash memory with blocks/pages, it really is byte-addressable: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3357526.3357568

"true" Optane hasn't taken over the scene because, to my knowledge, there's no commercially supported OS that's built around a unified memory model (heck, why not have a single memory-space?) for both storage and memory.

We can't even write software that can just reanimate itself from a process image that would be automagically persisted in the unified storage model. We've got a long way to go before we'll see operating systems and applications that take advantage of it.
I like to believe that those who spam this postal code end up on the naughty list
But, GitHub, specifically has very specific guidelines on what to write and how to format it, and will give pretty detailed error messages if it's badly formatted. Not to mention tooling to format and highlight. I'm not seeing how the proposed NestedText is inherently free from those same issues: the need for tooling, guidance, error messages. Is the claim that it's easier?
Yeah, but what I meant above was that if you only have an x4 slot electrically, sticking in an x16 -> 4x M.2 riser isn't going to do a whole lot, because the 12 lanes of 3 out of 4 slots aren't hooked up to anything. So in this scenario you'd really want a riser with a switch in it instead (which are more expensive than almost all motherboards).

So on the consumer platforms that give you two PEGs best you could do while still having a GPU is stick that riser in the second PEG and use the x8/x8 split. Now the question becomes whether the UEFI allows you to use the x8/x8 bifurcation meant for dual GPU or similar use in an x8/(x4+x4) triple bifurcation kind of setup.

Realistically this entire thing just doesn't make a lot of sense on the consumer platforms because they just don't have enough PCIe lanes out of the CPU. Intel used to be slightly worse here with 20 (of which 4 are reserved for the PCH but you know that), while AM4 has 28 (4 for the I/O hub again). On an HEDT platform with 40+ lanes though...

(When I say bifurcation I meant bifurcation of a slot on the mainboard, not the various ways the slots and ports on the board itself can be configured, though that's technically bifurcation as well (or even switching protocols)
What are you talking about? The car left the factory faulty as it is, there is no excuse, chip shortages or not. There is no way I am buying a Tesla now or in the future.
This is a place where Tcl excels. You can easily create restricted sub-interpreters that can't do anything dangerous. If you need more power for trusted scripts you just reenable selected commands.
The choice of location is rarely as clear cut or stark as the choice between simply community vs homelessness.

For many people, the choice of location involves weighing many competing and hard-to-quantify intangibles and opportunity costs.
An Online Community of People with Microchip Implants
Mine is like that. Looks better, IMHO. There's a red light that's projected on the ground to tell you if it is running or not.
Those others saw a way to cope with their own powerlessness (for having healthy IRL relationships, eg. to set boundaries, and so on).

(At least this was my experience on other forums.)
https://www.softbankrobotics.com/emea/en/pepper

Don't pretend to be something you are not. You are far from the first humanoid robot. You sound foolish, or insincere claiming to be the first.
Names are just names, after a while you'll get used to it. Not sure how you can claim that Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao was not named "Dave", you get the name you claim to have, so in my mind, Dave is indeed named Dave.

I for one think it's nice that we still pay tribute to people by naming newly discovered things after them, they are immortalized that way.

By the way, the mineral is named davemaoite, both Dave and Mao is from their name, not just "Dave".
I've recently ordered this book which I believe deals with the topic of your question: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651/subprimeattenti...

Haven't read it yet, looking forwards to it!
Why is it better to unbundle them? I don't see why a business or person would want the extra hassle of paying for parking separately. Like paying for event parking is one thing but paying to shop at a store is beyond silly. What is next paying to use the drive through?
Or in my case "I just have my German phone number" (when I'm in Canada).
Typically you would pay for it out of grant money. So Dr. Smith doesn’t pay the APC, Stanvard University doesn’t pay, the NSF pays. Or to cut a long story short, the taxpayer.
It is my understanding that a single dose of the Janssen vaccine is still recognized until 2021-01-02 [0]. After that, you need to have an additional dose of any EMA-approved vaccine.

I assume you would be able to get a booster off-label in the Netherlands.

[0] https://gruenerpass.gv.at/geimpft/ "03. Jänner 2022 ist das Impfzertifikat einer einmaligen Janssen Impfung nicht mehr gültig."
Using a premium‐rate phone number doesn’t help anything though. Like the parent mentioned, it’s not like the retailer ever actually calls the number. The problem is that advertisers use the number to correlate one person’s activity across multiple retailers and services.
The atrocious English makes me question this Wiki entry.
Then how would they sell their headphones?
This reminds me of all the QR code menus that rely on everyone having a data connection. International tourists also eat in restaurants.
Even Hollywood movies often show civilian casualties.

It's a war - it's chaotic by nature.
What am I supposed to tell them? That they chose to be in a risky business (or their parents chose for them to be in a risky business) and in risky businesses there is a chance to get hurt?
Acquaintance bought some used minDV tapes off ebay; decided to look at a couple to see if there was anything on them...

Veterinary Endoscope videos.

the story was worth more than the tapes
Unfortunately, true. We humans are still just scary, tribal apes who have brains big enough to feel the need to build elaborate rationalizations for brutish, reprehensible behavior
I like INI. It's simple it's readable and it leaves the data types up to the application to interpret. It's also really easy to parse, I can work out how to do it and JSON is beyond me.

I like CSV (and similar delimited files) it's less verbose than anything else for tabular data.

I like JSON for data transfer, you know the data types, it's succinct, and readable.

I personally don't need anything else.
Chasing Phillis Wheatley: Uncovering other possibilities from the past
Off-topic, I emailed the NewYorker once telling them that there are some easy methods to bypass their paywall, their response was:

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I guess they know and they don't care.
I've been talking to Anthony since about forever, I repair DX-7's to keep them in play and we both had a partial disassembly of the DX-7 ROM (mine SER version and his the regular one). We compared notes, I mentioned I have a dead board sitting here and then we asked Ken if he would be interested in taking a look at the chips.
Queueing theory-- my notes for programmers:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues. We use queueing theory in our software development, for purposes such as project management kanban boards, inter-process communication message queues, and devops continuous deployment pipelines.
There literally are some impracticalities, though. For a Blu-ray player to support 60fps at 1080p, it's got to support level 4.2 of the AVC specification. Many (most?) players do not do this (and in fact some older models supported only 4.0), because it's more costly to include a decoding chip that can handle the bitrate needed for the uncompressed video stream.

Furthermore, much of home entertainment is streamed these days. I imagine introducing 60 fps on top of 4k would increase bandwidth requirements beyond what many consumers have access to. It may also be more than Netflix et al want to pay for, so one imagines they'll want to tack on a surcharge as they did for UHD.
Kompozit
Kompozit death
> Why is it better to unbundle them?

Better... for who? I don't know if it's better for either business or society, but it's better for me because I walk to the grocery store and never take my car. If the price of parking is unbundled from the price of food, then I don't have to pay for something I'm not using.
Sorry. You’re going to have to move. Owning is for investors, banks, and other financial entities. /s

The best part is that if things go upside down in a few years we get to bail them out.