skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heat pumps can run at greater than 100% efficiency at nearly any temperature possible outside. And they can heat water just fine.
I have hundreds of books I want to dump if I substitute the digital version on my disk. When in discard mode, I easily hit the 10/day limit of a free account. But that is what the favorites list is for, to spread things out over days.
Isn't this fundamentally describing an arpeggiator?

Using Reaper I made a simple arpeggiator extension: it takes input from one track for the chords and from another track for the notes, and it maps the notes from the notes track to the available notes from the chords track. It's like a "snap to scale" but it snaps to the current chord.

It's much better than a normal arpeggiator plugin IMHO because you don't have to program patterns in the UI of a plugin; you can do anything in the notes track and it will always work.

The limitation, as with any arpeggiator, is that it can't play notes outside of the current chord (but it's possible to have "chords" with many notes on the chords track to allow more freedom).

One way that I use it is I write a chord progression, then I play over it using the extension, and then I adjust the recording by moving notes to more interesting positions. This song was made this way: https://open.spotify.com/track/5TxVfIf9JUAhCEL3O5cWXT (It's not perfect and the sound is kind of bad, but it's a start).
You assume incorrectly that people paying for Teslas are buying luxuries "such as sound deadening". They are buying an EV, 0-60 performance, touch screen operations, over the air updates, etc.

"I don't think the new money buying these cars understands or has ever sat in an actual nice car at the same price point."

I'm not sure why you would turn your nose up at people who have different preferences. I guarantee you that there are Tesla buyers who also own other expensive cars at similar price ranges.
Thanks for fixing!

Sorry for being curious.. does Github have an office in Copenhagen? That would be cool.
Are you asking for pow(2, n)? Or for `float mkfloat(int e, int m)` which literally implements the given formula? I doubt that the notation you’re suggesting will be used in code, except for really rare bitwise cases.

The initial precision doesn’t really matter, because if you plan to use this value in a computation, it will quickly accumulate an error, which you have to deal with anyway. There are three ways to deal with it: 1) ignore it, 2) account for it, 3) use numeric methods which retain it in a decent range. You may accidentally (1)==(3), but the problem doesn’t go away in general.
Libre.Study adds “written answer” mode alongside multiple-choice
I notice in the comparison the author has the cost of scanning the digital pages.

If you have an issue with organization, OCR, and interface, it seems these issues would be 10x worse if you’re digitizing your hand written notes.

Just the process of digitizing them with a camera is cumbersome. The quality of the image isn’t really great. Tearing up your notebook and feeding it into a scanner is worse.

So the author compares the cost of the writing on a notebook and phone to the remarkable but not the convenience.
A while ago, I asked folks if PoW happened entirely off-Earth using the Sun. Predictably, that was still a problem to some people which, to me, says everything.
No, it was just the next letter in the alphabet after Nu (not used because of its similarity with Mu and the ‘Nu/New’ thing) and Xi (not used to avoid making the discussion about a political controversy rather than the variant.
> People blame the scalpers but I blame the organization for not producing enough or underpricing it. There's no "benefit to society" if people can't buy the product.

Then buy a Beaglebone?

The problem that the Beaglebone folks bumped into is that if you don't make the hardware stupid cheap (<$20, and probably <$10), people won't buy it and form a community around it.

Of course, if you make it too cheap, then you really don't want to sell all that many of them since you're losing money on each one.
From this act alone and I am on board with your explanation, but with this[0] interview from last year I'm leaning in the direction of pandering.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM
When I say eight-ten in Chinese, my mind is thinking of the singular concept '80', not 8 tens.

The same as when I say eight-y in English.
> There are many more languages that speak or read (some of) their numbers "backwards", among them Greek, Latin (both directions possible), Celtic languages etc., and of course languages that actually read right to left like Arabic, where our written numbers come from

Ironically, in Arabic numbers are written left to right, just like in the west, reflecting that they were borrowed from India, whose indigenous writing systems are also ltr. It goes to show that not only is there not a "correct" order to express numbers, but the spoken order need not reflect the written order.
At least that makes sense, telling time in Dutch switches orientation halfway through the hour, towards the closest half hour. German does the same thing, I believe.

"five past five" is 5:05, then of course "ten past five" and "quarter part five". Then comes "ten to half six" which would be 5:20. Then half six, ten past half six, quarter to six, ten to six and five to six.

It's interesting to see how Dutch and German time telling is clearly oriented at half hours while English is oriented at whole hours.

Now that the world is ruled by digital clocks, many people will just use digital (24 hour) time. "Eighteen hour four" would be the current time in this notation, which is a lot simpler. It's funny how the tool we use to tell time dictates the way we pronounce things!
No, an advanced piano roll.
It's the same in Switzerland, which makes an order of magnitude more sense IMO:

Soixante

Septante

Huitante

Nonante

Cent
From May 2021
"20 seconds to make, come back in 5 minutes" - how does that work?
Great question! I've thought about this too, in my younger days.

All of this is IMHO:

* an abstract concept like Alan Kay's OOP is not the same as programming language syntax
* your examples are programming language specific. Python, C++, Java-ish, from the looks of it
* Alan Kay's OOP, as far as I understand it, is about /disconnecting/ the sender and receiver, and have them "communicate" via messages.
* the difference between `receiver.message(params)`, `sender.message(receiver, params)`, or `sender.send(receiver, message, params)` is skin-deep. You can easily write a library that converts one to the other in almost any of the languages.
It depends what you mean by immunity. It isn’t a layer of armour that prevents the virus entering your system, it’s a boost to your immune system that helps it fight that virus once it enters your system and kill it off quickly.
So, you’re argument is that US English makes two mistakes, so it’s fine?

I think that, in some cases, some systems are objectively better than others because they are simpler. YYYY-MM-DD is such a case. Given that it hasn’t ‘won’ globally over others, it seems it is not that much better, though.

hh:mm:ss is one, too, not because no objectively better ones exist, but because none of them get used (using mixed-base base 24, base 60, base 60, plus, when using milliseconds, base 1,000 doesn’t make sense, but we didn’t manage to replace it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time), so we’re stuck with it.

That may have to do with the fact that it breaks down for larger units, anyways. We could have a 10-day week, but for months and years, it’s impossible to avoid things getting messy.
No. The post provides an artifact so that you can test it yourself on your configuration. Knowing how it performed on this particular stepping of that particular microarchitecture won't help you on yours. Yes, your mileage may vary because your mileage always varies, even when you drive from point A to point B twice.

Rant continued. I would prefer if the performance sections of papers were restricted to single paragraphs and that artifacts were required. When I'm reading papers I'm more interested in their ideas than in the third decimal place of the result on that given day on some machine I don't have. The Unix Timesharing System has no performance results. The Case For A Reduced Instruction Set Computer has no performance results. The notion that not only having results is somehow important but that providing the testing methodology and hardware configuration is also necessary is nonsense. It just lards up papers and a couple of years later the cited configuration is irrelevant.

The CRAY-1 Computer System has no performance results but its section on vector processing still rings true today. It's what the RISC-V vector extension uses.
Every time I hear it I think... I AM LRR, FROM OMICRON PERSEI 8. BRING ME THE HUMAN HORN.
> In the run-up to Black Friday, Sansec discovered a sophisticated threat that is packed with never-seen stealth techniques. This malware, dubbed “CronRAT”, hides in the Linux calendar system on February 31st. It is not recognized by other security vendors and is likely to stay undetected on critical infrastructure for the coming months.

For years I've heard people saying: "People is not as used as windows, that's why nobody is interested in writing virus for linux." Turns out that considering the number of "embedded" linux these days, linux is probably much more popular than any other OS. Consider android devices, smart tv, routers... all these are devices that are directly in touch with the end users. The fact that these have been nowhere near as annoying as windows devices is a testament to how seriously developers and vendors have been taking security and also a bit of luck and the heritage of some unix ideas.

Of course, most high profile linux use are on servers. So it is expected that these systems are preferred targets. But considering all that, if you look closely at how some linux users, distributors and vendors behave, it seems like they are in another world. Security is mostly ignored as if linux was somehow magically free from vulnerabilities simply because you're using a package manager and mostly no extra security action is taken.

Maybe linux users and sysadmins became lazy or lax for the long years of a perceived security calmness. They will probably need a few incidents before learning some lessons from the windows crowd.
Per Wikipedia [0]: “The phrase [lies, damned lies, and statistics] was popularized in the United States by Mark Twain (among others), who vaguely attributed it to the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. However, the phrase is not found in any of Disraeli's works and the earliest known appearances were years after his death. Several other people have been listed as originators of the quote, and it is often attributed to Twain himself.”

I had mistakenly believed that Twain originated this remark until I looked it up just now.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_stati...
I wondered the same thing. I imagine it's because it used to pump the water out before it became toxic from absorbing the metals.
You Inners have no idea how bad its going to be...
To be honest, it’s all a moot point if you can’t pass the interview. I would do that first.
Yes PoW is way better because miners need to constantly expend resources to maintain their right to participate. PoS validators keep their throne for life at virtually no cost.
Hypothetically, you could design a language where methods aren't defined by the thing before the dot, but by the last argument, I guess? This doesn't seem like a very sensible thing to do, though.
There isn't a lot of information on how the vaccines impact the contagion rates, and people are really afraid of numbers growing so quickly that ICUs go from mostly empty into overflowing again without time to react.

A lot of people sick but well enough that they don't need a hospital means a lot of people possibly transmitting the disease.

There is a point on the other extreme too, in that the people that get into an ICU overwhelmingly refused to vaccinate, and it isn't fair to disrupt the entire society because of them. But well, the pandemics is full of unfair situations, and refusing treatment to people with unrelated diseases because ICUs are full isn't fair either. Everybody is in a crazy game of balancing things the best possible way without full information.
People clearly don’t die immediately after infection. Consider that most people dying in North America were being kept alive on a ventilator.

Not sure why a two month lag is so hard to believe.
Show HN: Use bget to install binaries from GitHub release interactively
Consider that we can’t even truly conclusively identify true causation using scientific experiment alone. Correlations and conjectures is ultimately all we have.

Nevertheless, the fallacy is so commonplace. You will easily find a seemingly educated person selectively balking at the notion that causal relationship is ultimately a conjecture or at the notion that causal relationship is possible, depending on their pre-existing beliefs.

Being emotionally attached to purported causal relationship X->Y, they will count all correlational evidence in favor; when pointed out that the evidence is correlational, they will wave it off with more correlational evidence.

If that causal relationship does not happen to align with their world view, of course, they will be right onto you with the old correlation-does-not-imply-causation mantra.
It's frustrating that the description of the video and the first few seconds of the video both establish a narrative of "acid cooking birds from the inside out" if they spend a few hours in the water, which makes absolutley zero sense.

At no point in the entire video is that claim revisisted or explained.
Because I'm American and too dumb to realize that... I'll remove it.
Just update the latest software.
Python 3.9.5
>>> 0.1.hex()
'0x1.999999999999ap-4'
>>> 0.2.hex()
'0x1.999999999999ap-3'
>>> (0.1 + 0.2).hex()
'0x1.3333333333334p-2'
>>> 0.3.hex()
'0x1.3333333333333p-2'
>And therefore the consensus articles would say "do therapy". But they don't.

The problem is twofold. [1] There is a widespread prejudice against psychosomatic illness. and [2] There have been some mis-steps, e.g. PACE trial which put deconditioning and fear of activity front and centre. This caused a huge and predictable backlash, as clearly some fear of activity is rational with this illness.

>why wouldn't you see a tsunami of self reported or clinically measured recoveries?

We do. See for example:

https://www.recoverynorway.org/

https://cfsunravelled.com/cfs-fibro-recovery-stories/

https://www.amazon.com/Recovery-CFS-Personal-Stories-Paperba...

But due to the prejudice, most people just get on with their lives once they recover. When you put your story out there (as I have done) you get hit with a huge ton of personal attacks and abuse. People deny you had the illness in the first place and they say incredibly nasty things about you. I see this on a daily basis.

>Because you'd think the MDs that work in this space would know about it and center their care around it. Id argue it doesn't exist, it's just internet warriors making stuff up.

You do see some. Fred Friedberg. B Van Houdenhove. Wyller. etc. But most patients hate these people, or at least actively ignore them, because they simply don't believe it.
1) It was half a joke (implying I will never reach 35km/h with my legs)

2) OP was trying to go back into physical exercise, doing everything by bike is a great way to jump back. Running is amazing but your options are greatly reduced. I can use my bike to commute which means I don't have to allocate time for physical exercise. Aren't we all time constrained ?

have a good day
We can and should do both simultaneously. There are lots of humans.
I expect UPI are like Japan's Suica where it basically dominate low value transition like transport, vending machine and convenient store. While Credit Card Based transaction will continue with those who wants credit and pay later type along with big purchase.

EUR is sort of out side of these because vast majority of transactions has always been Direct Debit. Credit Card spending just isn't as much a thing. And they use Direct Debit for everything. They also have very good consumer protection in place so using a credit card for delayed payment ( in case of dispute ) doesn't happen as often compare to US.

As far as I can tell there isn't a one size fit all solution to every one in the world.
Yeah anecdotally I’ve hopped on a couple planes this year where masking is required. Normally my wife and I get sick from the plane. But since we’ve been wearing KN95s the whole time starting when we get to the airport we haven’t been getting sick at all.
* Says he has horrible handwriting and complains about the OCR

* Never looks up how to do the basic gestures

* Complains about the size, when it's comically obvious what the size is from the constant advertising.

Look, the device isn't for most, but HN really deserves a less half-assed critique than this.
Agreed. I had to read through a lot of praise to find your comment - I agree entirely.
> Everything they actually care about is on Earth and that doesn't change with a mars base.

I can see what you're saying for the first generation of people who go from Earth to Mars. I don't see that scenario for the majority of people eventually born there, and subsequent generations. Just like how I know relatively little of my European ancestors who came to the US, and I've never been there, and that's on the same planet with international travel relatively cheap compared to the first ones over. Some people will be born there and never leave or know anything other than Martian life except what they read or view on some video. Some will be able to travel back and forth. I don't think most will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surname...

It’s not even in the top 200. This is absolutely about the communist Winnie the Pooh.
...codify what counts as a "Broadway" vs an "off-Broadway" show.
I've been hearing rumors elsewhere on line that this policy was develop in response to COVID.

Just want to snuff that out: https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-pra...
That's true, but what you can't tell from this graph was that in this period we went from 10.000 tests per day to almost 200.000, so I think that might account for must of the uptick in active cases in this period. During some of our biggest spikes the infection% has hovered around 2 - 3%.

Present day we have about 430k active cases, which is almost 10% of the population, but the % is still 2.3%.
Uber One
I just wish programs would stop randomly crashing all the time. I am not sure if it's connected to the dozen memory leaks or a consequence of those.
I was talking about the consensus part. You don't need any client code to understand which is the agreed-upon chain, you verify the hash was generated using lots of energy.

For transacting indeed you need to trust the various clients, but that's easy and can be done once. With the consensus isn't being tampered with, and, more importantly that others are using other types of rules.
For me, the three book series “Tactical Barbell” are pretty much unbeatable. Pick one of the three books depending on what your current goals are.
The main sign it was going to be a success was a performance Lin-Manuel Miranda did at the White House. Listen for where the laughs are; they're not there when you see it on Broadway (and I assume The Public Theater).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE

That's important because the premise is high school cringy. Let's take a historical story and set it to rap! If it wasn't so well-executed, it would have come off as painfully gimmicky.
I've had my Remarkable 2 for 2-3 months.

I agree with some of the critiscims here (missing tags, bad typing experience, little integrability), but overall I am super happy with the tablet. I think it's just down to the usecase. It does what I most need it do to! (replace physical notebooks)

It also does some things that I didn't know I needed. It's just so amazing to have an undo for stuff you write on paper. The ability to select and move stuff around is also something I now do constantly.

I think it just comes down to what problem you're trying to solve. For me, replacing physical notebooks = solved problem.
If this affected all links, couldn’t you just monitor it with a general “does downloads of these URLs work” check? You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) monitor 404 returns to test whether downloads are working, the naive and obvious test is to actually attempt to download something.
They're more a PR organization than one driven by science at this point.
You do understand that most startups fail, right? Clearly, on aggregate, their practices are not really working or worthy of imitation. For the ones that succeed, there's a huge element of luck. Otherwise people would make guarantees about success.
Anyone got a good reference for pratical implications of floating point vs fixed point in measurement calculations (especially timing measurements)? Gotchas, rules of thumb, best practice etc?
I'm really glad they skipped a "2 character" name irrespective of why they did it. Those would be murder to try to run through search engines.

"Omicron" and all manner of misspellings are going to be way easier to search for.
I mean yes, this is exactly what I’m talking about. Use semi-colons if you want and wear a fedora if you want, but understand the image you’re putting out into the world if you do.
Awesome! Now you gotta port it to wgpu and run the simulation on the GPU!
Docusign is just one part of the process I described, namely the process of making a formal offer. To complete the transaction, you need to have a lawyer look over all the documentation and get their approval first. The lawyers also hold the funds in escrow, and release them only when all parties sign off, and the keys are handed over.

Most people will also purchase title insurance in case the current owner has liens on the property that the lawyers did not find.
There's also usually a big difference in all-cause mortality between no exercise at all vs. a tiny bit every week.
> Remarkable is advertised as an E-Ink reader as well as a writing device. In reality, this only works if you have e-pub books on your hard drive. Where can you get e-pub books? Basically nowhere

What? I'll give you that the two largest distributors, Amazon and Barnes and Nobles don't sell epub but pretty much everyone else who sells ebooks does including Google Books. Also, you can use Calibre to turn any other ebook format into an epub.

https://calibre-ebook.com/
That’s confusingly worded and not enforced. I can confirm that fully vaccinated people flying from South Africa to the Netherlands did not need negative PCR tests until this week. You’re only required to fill in a declaration of vaccination status on the South African side.

Source: I did the trip in late October, and colleagues just returned in mid-November. None of us had to have negative PCR or any other tests.
At least the average Tesla owner disagrees with you.

"With historic reliability concerns but an intensely loyal following, Tesla took the top spot for overall owner satisfaction among the 27 brands mentioned in survey responses."[0]

[0]https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...
You speak as if you have the power to lock him up if he has coronavirus. Unless he lives in Australia, you don’t.