skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, to a point. I played violin for about ten years from a wee lad to about 16. Was pretty good and even made first chair at one point, but got bored and stopped.

In my adult life I kinda do regret not keeping up with it and have tried to pick it up more than a couple times. Each time though, it dawns on me just how absurdly time consuming it would be to get back to the point of being even remotely decent. Getting good is a different story and is existentially exhausting!

Saying this as someone who picked up drumming in my adult life with many hundreds of hours of intentional practice. So I'm not shy to continuously improving playing an instrument.

That said, I think if you keep your expectations reasonable, it can be a great experience!
I've never seen a hotel with a "pet friendly" section, usually hotels that allow pets allow them pretty much anywhere.
hence the "we haven’t been able to track down yet", I'd imagine
Correct. Basically all the gimbal is doing is minimizing the cosine loss. This is, literally, the simplest loss function possible. Even if you don't know where the sun is, damped gradient descent will solve this problem every time, with no learning required (albeit with some jitter because you're having to estimate the gradient by moving the panel around). If you treat it as an iterative learning control (ILC) problem, though, you can learn the correct trajectory for the panel in just a couple of iterations and take the jitter out.
> It's ludicrous to suggest that the human race's survival depends on children routinely flying commercial to go on vacations.

True. Its not at all necessary to go on vacations. Required is a strong word, but I would say ability to move freely is somewhat of a basic human right. In the modern world, air travel is important given families are spread out, which necessitates air travel to allow families to see each other. Modern business requirements also often require air travel, and (speaking for myself) I have sometimes brought my daughter on business trips out of necessity or convenience.

I also wasn't saying the human race would end if people didn't go on family vacations, strictly that it would end if people didn't reproduce. so I'm saying, people should try to be ok with reproduction/kids (and therefore kids crying) if they care about the future of the human race.

The right of people with kids to travel with their kids is separate, but I think it follows.
Yeah man, but I'm not talking about the proof. I'm talking about the statement that has to be proved.
My general approach is if we're not doing X and it sure seems like we could simply do X, we probably cannot simply do X.
That's awesome. Get a law named after yourself by taking an old paper and just saying "nuh-uh, the naive analysis is better".
Civility is a really bad way of deciding who to keep. The transphobe sounds perfectly civil when saying "it's all in their heads" when it's incredibly incivil
My experience has been very different. People have been quite happy to chat about their experience using the product and the pain-points uncovered were consistent across users.

In a nutshell, what we did was email users asking for a 30-45 minute remote interview in exchange for $50 gift card. We started the meetings letting the user know that there are no wrong answers, that it's quite informal and they can leave at any time. We then spent the first half of the interview finding out who the user is, what they do and how they use the product. The second half was spent uncovering pain-points and maybe even asking users to share their screen and show us.

We'd take notes during the interviews and then once we've done a few we'll collate the notes at which point the improvements to make to the product would become obvious.
Some energy markets are already hitting saturation periods for renewables. This creates diminishing returns, where more and more of the energy generated from an intermittent source isn't actually used. We were promised that storage would be made cheap enough to capture this excess energy and release it during hours of under-production. But so far nothing has delivered storage at competitive costs.

Furthermore, renewable generation varies a lot by region. Solar's cost per watt is way different in California or Hawaii than it is in Massachusetts. This is both in terms of less sunlight (inclination of the Earth, plus weather) but also land costs. This could be ameliorated by long-distance transmission, but that has its own problems even within small states [1]. And we'd have to increase the net-cost of deployments to match.

There's none of these asterisks and hand-waving with nuclear. Heat water, spin a turbine. Energy where you want it, when you want it.

1. https://www.vox.com/videos/22685707/climate-change-clean-ene...
Actually you can run the newest OS on your 2009 MacBook, its not official, but it is possible and runs OK. Same as running Windows 11 on older unsupported hardware.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

I'm running OS 10.13 on a 2008 MacBook right now (officially supports 10.11). Using: http://dosdude1.com/software.html It runs great, beyond 10.13 the OS seems to run slower tho.

It's not necessary at this point, because every App I use still supports 10.11 (including VS code). But knowing I can get several more years out of this Machine is nice.
I think if pets are only in one part of the plane it should not be a problem. Planes filter the air more than just about any other environment. I have pretty severe cat allergies and don't think it would be a problem for me unless it is in the same row.
This is in the same vein as the advice I give to the overachiever junior/mid level engineers I mentor. They're constantly searching for the next big project or optimization. In the same way you need to sleep at night to process the day, you need a few weeks off every now and again to process your life/career.
I've been porn-free for 1 year now, after a 20-year-long addiction. I feel more intimate with my wife and have a higher self-esteem generally after quitting.

After trying to quit and failing countless times, what finally worked for me was praying -- specifically, the Rosary. I'm not saying that's the only way by any means, but that's what worked for me.
Yeah but then you're allocating 4 GB on app startup. Now sure, most of that memory will be unused and so the OS has potential to keep the memory "unallocated" until you write to a particular page, but this depends on the OS and architecture's implementation of paging. In embedded systems where the system is being used for only a single thing (or mostly a single thing), arena allocation is common. In desktop applications where the user can run heterogeneous workloads or long-lived network applications where the application could be allocating memory on every request, you run up against memory limits quite fast. If you squint closely, you can see that Java's NIO libraries basically sidestep the Java GC altogether and manage buffers in "native memory" which are essentially small arena allocators. There's certainly room for more than just "yes GC" or "no GC".

Regardless it's good to know about arena allocation because it's one of many effective techniques in a toolbelt. If you find yourself writing a CLI utility in an unmanaged language, it's often simplest to just allocate and never deallocate, because the application will only run for a small amount of time and the OS will deallocate resources on app exit.
>low altitude

Low latitude?
The obvious one is increasing the number of workers.

You have a thousand acres of farm farmed by your family and another say - ten workers in total.

The government builds a rail line and highway along one side of your farm and suddenly a portion of the thousand acres is better used as a small town - which now houses tens of families and perhaps a hundred workers.

Even if your personal income didn’t raise, the income of the area did.
"You have the flexibility to live and work in 170 countries for up to 90 days a year in each location"

I wonder how much of a headache this creates for taxes. One of the biggest factors that keeps me from venturing abroad (and my company from allowing it) in my remote role is the complicated tax situation that arises.

Anyone have experience with this?
Can you? how much will you charge to build one for me? Do you offer warranty support?
Fair points. A direct comparison here (https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-ultra-vs-amd-...) with the M1 Ultra has them pretty much neck-and-neck, not considering power. Considering power, the M1 Ultra is a clear winner.
In the vein of recreating old games, but open sourced: OpenTTD is a remake of transport tycoon delux, and is a great logistics sim.
https://www.openttd.org/
But only small dogs that can fit in an underseat carrier -- most airlines allow this.

I'd pay for a first-class seat for my 40 lb dog if he was allowed on the plane. But no airlines allow that as far as I know so we generally drive anywhere we travel. At least domestically.
I'm more and more convinced of this. Control theory appears to be like lightsabers, "a refined weapon for a more civilized age". It's really unfortunately that the controls literature is so opaque.
Missing support for characters beyond U+FFFF is the main problem caused by surrogates (their existence, even if indirect)—it normally comes of some kind of UCS-2/UTF-16 confusion. It’s not fair to disqualify them. The only (class of) case that I’m aware of for a long time where it’s not linked to that is with MySQL’s idiotic utf8 → utf8mb3 type.

You may not have encountered such bugs, but I’m very familiar with surrogate-related bugs, because I use a Compose key extensively. I haven’t been using Windows for the last year, but from time to time I would definitely encounter bugs that are certainly due to surrogates. On the web, I found bugs a few times, all but once in Rust WebAssembly things, such as https://github.com/Pauan/rust-dominator/issues/10. And even now I’m back on Linux, I know of one almost certainly surrogate-related bug: I can’t type astral plane characters in Zoom at all; pretty sure I had this problem back on Windows, too. Copy and paste, sure, but type, no, they become REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.

The history is unfortunate but I strongly refute that they had not much choice. UCS-2 should have been abandoned as a failed experiment. Certainly there had been significant investment into it in the last few years, but with the benefit of hindsight, switching to UTF-8 (which was invented before they decided on surrogates) would have made everyone’s life much easier, especially given its ASCII-compatibility, which would have allowed the Windows API to retire the misbegotten A/W split and return to sanity a few decades early.

Ah, BOMs. Haven’t seen one in years. Good riddance.
In the AF447 case, the lack of feedback/linkage of the Pilot Flying / Nonflying sidesticks was a big contributing factor. It is true that the Pitot tubes froze up. But the Pilot was roused from his sleep, entered the cockpit, and correctly pointed out that the plane was actually in a dive. It's just that the guys flying were making opposite inputs over an extended period, and it was too late to recover, which doomed AF447. Overall, Airbus and its delinked sidesticks was a factor in the accident.

I thought Boeing did not have sidesticks, and the yokes/control columns are linked to give actual feedback (to emulate most airplanes, which do this with mechanical controls). Is that not the case?
Early US patents weren't like this. The major problems we're dealing with today didn't appear until later.
While I agree the USPTO should be better funded and examiners should have more time, what I find problematic is the attitude of the current approach, and of your solutions. That there is a torrent of bad patents, and the USPTO needs enough resources to fight them off, or they'll break through.

No! The USPTO is not a defending army trying to keep out barbarians. It grants patents. If it does not have time, or resources, then it does not grant patents. If the patent examiner feels they don't have enough time, the patent is denied - too bad. You can re-file, paying a fee for extended examination.

I feel any reform which does not change this approach will have only limited effectiveness, as patents will simply increase their complexity to make them more difficult to examine, until junk makes it through again. The USPTO must have the ability to say no.

P.S.: I feel I should bring up non-obviousness - prior-art is not the only disqualifier. It should disqualify all of these "do specific but obvious thing, on a computer" "inventions", prior-art or not. Perhaps the filer could be required to explain why their invention is non-obvious, saving the examiner some time.
Sorry for a throwaway but this is a little awkward. It sounds like you're more concerned about what doing the pornography is doing to its performers, than what it's doing to you. That's fair. I don't personally believe it's automatically harmful to the viewer in small doses, and I still watch a bit of it. Maybe I'm just still hooked on it.

Anyway. I got myself in a pickle with porn. Watched a bunch of fetish porn involving acts I have conflicted feelings over. Simple gross factor, rather than anything ethical. It was a new kind of experience, orgasming to something that's simultaneously disturbing and erotic, and you can end up cyclically chasing that. Dissociative, almost.

It's extraordinarily hard to resolve the fantasies and images in my mind with an actual human being I talk to. They are disjointed, two different worlds that don't mesh. It was affecting my sexual performance. When I was with a partner, I would have intrusive images of the fetish act in my mind and it made it hard to engage with them. Having a person as a fetish object and as a lover at the same time, does not work in my experience.

So I stopped watching it. I watched other more "normal" sexual acts. I still respond to those. And I exercised my imagination. Honestly for the first time since my teenage years. What did I think about when it wasn't being presented to me? It took more than a month. But the intrusive disjunctive images while having sexual relations slowly decreased over time. I feel more sexually confident. But still not like before.

We do know that simple reward conditioning works on humans, a little bit, sometimes. And orgasms are a powerful reward. Be careful with that.
It's partial pressure not concentration. Air is toxic if you have 60 m of water above your head, but nowhere on earth do you have oxygen at 1.4 atm of partial pressure.

(Oxygen toxicity is really the one thing in recreational scuba diving training where they tell you "do this and you will positively die").
My wife said she'd be happy to do that if it meant she could travel with the dog, she refuses to let him fly as unaccompanied cargo.
If it’s not hardware (panels, inverters, brackets, etc) it is considered a soft cost.

NREL’s model puts soft costs at 44% for a 100MW fixed-tilt utility-scale plant in 2021:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/80694.pdf

The percentage goes up as the installation size goes down, but it is not 70%
The author does not really present an argument that clarifies how Google is related to the ads. Should a search engine rank sites that present mostly ads and almost no content lower than sites that don't? Depending on whether I need to see the content hidden behind the ads and no other site has a recipe that is this good, I'm not so sure...
Super excited to see this. There's plenty of demand for flying with a pet. Especially given the removal of all ESA stuff and the current cost of kennels being so high.
Just go with Debian bro. Saves you the hassle and it’s the same thing with less Conanical.
Huh? Punching down has never been considered classy.
Did anyone honestly not expect Elon to make significant changes, including personnel?

I love Twitter but you have to imagine the pivot that he wants will involve restructuring
I can reliably say that the more I abstain from porn, the better sex feels with my partner. If I'm regularly fapping and watching porn (the two pretty much go together for me), sex just isn't as good. It feels boring and mechanical. When I abstain, it is way more pleasurable. I notice the increase in pleasure even after just a week or so from abstaining. I'm more horny for my partner and looking forward to having sex.
It's clear from the context of this post and subsequent comments that the power to levy income taxes itself is not at issue. What is at issue is California's levying of taxes on non-residents without limit of jurisdiction. That's taxation without representation. It may not be fully-fledged slavery in technical terms, but OP's plight is nothing less than attempted dispossession by the Franchise Board.

I'd also like to note that the term "slavery", in a colloquial or non-rigorous sense, has been applied to serious topics both on and off HN.

e.g. wage slavery [1], overwork of graduate students, unpaid internships, medical residency practices, etc.

I'm quite sure we still have a shared language despite the lack of rigor in those cases.

[1] Applied strictly, the term is self-contradictory
Arguably the whole point of the tax is to convince those homeowners who’s land would be better valued as condos to convert to condos.

You already see this in areas that don’t prop 13 tax rates - as land values rise the land gets redeveloped.
I seem to have bragged before about studying with Paul Halmos:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

He seemed a bit formal and intimidating at first, but he turned out to be a warm, considerate person. He and his wife had me and several other students over to their house for dinner a couple of times, and he enjoyed talking with us about whatever youthful nerdish topics we were interested in.

I was about twenty years old then. I just realized that he was in his early sixties, a couple of years younger than I am now.
I hadn't heard of this until someone linked me to a thread on /g/ years back. I honestly think the crossover between desktop screenshot threads and that board is quite large, so I'm not surprised that their lingo has caught on. I really wish there was some alternative term that captured the sentiment of superfluous customization without the racial connotations.
> When you think about it, how many people can say with certainty that the plans they had as a teenager were what they ended up doing?

Sure, not many.

But at some point they have to realize a degree in French Romantic Literature is going to lead to zero job prospects and maybe doubling down with a masters is a really bad decision.

Like me, all I knew when I got out of the army at 20 was I didn’t want to live in a hole in the ground getting woken by arty and chemical alarms with the occasional trips to go out hunting fellow humans. Not that I was super successful at that goal as I went back to Iraq two more times during Gulf War II because I got bored and joined the army reserve pre-9/11 but I spent my college years working on not having to do that ever again.

I’m sure if that one fateful day when I calculated out the classes I’d have to take to switch my major to fisheries and realize it would be three years instead of three semesters (which turned into four because I failed a class on purpose to stay an extra semester since financial aid was already set up) and the GI Bill would be up by then. So I stayed the course and received a degree no job in the world cared about instead of training for a job I probably would have been good at — or at least not gotten fired like I have a couple times in my current career because I kind of hate the work.

There’s probably a point in there between the rambling along the lines of “follow your dreams all the way to a shit job so you can be the poster boy for whatever TFA is selling”.
Agreed. I loved watching their dev logs back in high school because they were doing things in physics and combat that no one else was. But it never got over that hump that separates "cool physics engine" from "interesting game concept".

But my optimistic hope is that David Rosen walked for someone else to fly. Like Infiniminer -> Minecraft.
How else are they going to handle the inflation?
> 2. You can move anywhere in the country, like from San Francisco to Nashville, and your compensation won't change

This is confusing. If I work in Nashville is my start compensation the same as if I live in San Francisco? Does San Francisco market-rate determine national salary bands - or are they still different based on location? Cost of living is a thing no matter how you cut it.
"I have the airplane" or "my airplane" is an established practice, but over and above that, the stick/yoke/rudder pedals all actually give you feedback when the other guy is also handling them. That feedback gives the fliers another level of protection.
I'm not sure how to account for darker skin _may_ be less attractive to humans on a genetic level. It's a question science can't answer, so I don't know how we could control for it. i.e, it could be the truth that the lighter your skin is the more attractive you are. How do we rule that out?
I am the co-founder of a connected fitness startup and our particular consumer electronics product brings to the table a range of software & hardware problems such as mechatronics, manufacturing, low-latency sensors/processing, consumer safety, content production, content delivery network, fleet management, hell even optics... which already take 100% of the brains of our engineers & developers (if not more)... Even if we all know that down the line, what ultimately is going to make or break us is how much our user base likes our experience how good we get as a company at fine-tuning said experience to create something viral.
To that aim, getting, storing and visualizing usage is paramount, but we paradoxically have very little bandwidth to invest in making it happen. Plus I have seen other early stages companies trying to implement their analytics platform... and fail miserably at doing so. I have to personally plead guilty for having implemented some custom ELK-based over VPN telemetry madness in the past... Complete failure.

On top of being labor-intensive, most analytics tool solutions out there are strongly biased towards the app/webapp SaaS paradigm and do not fit our use case very well, and that’s when they run at all on our custom Linux platform (options tend to get scarce when you leave the Android / iOS ecosystems, API is the way to go for us).

Glad to see Kraftful finally tackling these issues, the IoT and larger hardware scene really needs a tool like this.
I do appreciate the humor of blaming everyone but the people actually setting cars on fire.
I specifically wrote that the comment is so harsh it reads like spam/bot. Wasn't sarcastic or trying to bash any humans, sincerely.
Tin whiskers are absolutely not "ironed out" and there still is not a good answer besides alloying with either lead, or antimony, both of which are toxic.

But it's a tradeoff, because without the lead or the antimony, tin whiskers will eventually form. There is no known way to stop them, on a long enough timescale they will 100% certainly grow whiskers and eventually that will cause a failure.

Conformal coatings can reduce the rate of growth, but they don't stop it, and the conformal coating can itself cause failure as the tin whisker still grows and will exert mechanical pressure as it does.
Lots of people complain about kids on the plane, but I've had very few problems (and I spent a few years where I was flying 2 - 4 times a week). I've had the occasional problem with the child behind me kicking my seat, but generally asking the parents nicely to not let him do that is sufficient to stop it. Kids cry sometimes, but earplugs or headphones reduces that to a tolerable level. I had one inquisitive 6 year old that was very interested in what I was working on on my computer, I indulged his questions.