skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mercury uses `nbconvert` internally to convert notebooks, so you don't need to execute them manually. It also adds additional features to make it more user-friendly:

- you can add widgets (parameters) to the notebook, without rewriting the notebook,

- you can easily schedule the notebook,

- you can convert notebook to PDF with mouse click,

- you can serve interactive HTML notebooks with a Django-based server.
Yeah, I had exactly the same issue.
> If you don't like the mall, move and set up shop in a different one.

Except in a lot of (if not most) cases, you can't. I grew up in Russia and I feel blessed to live in Estonia now. Most of my fellow Russians can't, especially nowadays.

Another point is, you can set up your own mall and don't pay anybody, but good luck setting up your own state and not getting shot by your neighbour (provided you even find a little piece of terra nullius where you can do that – most of the land is claimed by one government or the other, even though it's mostly sitting there unused).
On the corp side, the bump is enough that this becomes problematic. Going from $650 to $780 for that first year is going to cause all sorts of "but what about free" conversations next week. Argh.
This seems to be a misuse of the term “endure”. I spent most of my childhood in a place that frequently got hotter than the numbers quoted in this article.
Are you describing Twitter?
> It’s not nearly that complicated unless you just outright have no idea how many days are in a given month. Not sure how many adults don’t know that answer

Please straight up ask ten people, even if your circles are on average highly educated, and see how many know an arbitrary month (not significant ones like February, or December where the 31st is new year's) without having to think about it or count knuckles. Asking about the current or an adjacent month might also be something they remember from recently seeing calendars that tell you this information.

I think it's very uncommon to have this memorized to the point where using a calendar that doesn't tell you is as easy as using one that does.
If you are that productive and doesn't feel anyone is recognizing you. I highly recommend building your own company. All the sweat you put in will be paid back.
Robot overcomes uncertainty to retrieve buried objects
Unusable Address Book. For me horizontal view is essential and now it's borked, ie. all email addresses lumped together as Email Addresses and the same for Phone Numbers and Addresses. How can this possibly be touted as an improvement? For me it's exactly the opposite. Columns are no longer resizable and the Notes section, which I rely on heavily, has been reduced in size YET AGAIN. Mozilla, there's an old adage - If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It. Switching back to 91 immediately and looking to disable updates.
A tidal disruption event coincides with production of a high-energy neutrino
can you explain?

there's no logical link here for me at all. if OP was never born and they had to build that app from scratch, and it took them 1 year and 19 engineers to do it, you wouldn't be posting the same thing.
The cheapest, lowest risk climate engineering approach imo is to just install a f-ton of solar panels in desert regions, produce gigatons of green hydrogen and substitute fossil fuels with these. If I was the king of saudi arabia, thats what I'd do. Some australian billionaires have already such plans [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/funds/australian-billionaire...
In general I think a price increase is reasonable but Jetbrains also had to fire most of its staff because of the war and development has slowed to a crawl.

I still pay because I want to support them and their stance but paying more for less leaves a bad aftertaste.
Well no, because PCI-E 6.0 or 7.0 will actually bring cost savings to consumers. What used to require 4x PCI-E lane SSD can now be done with a single lane. You save I/O die space with less lane required as well.

I thought it is worth mentioning with a dedicated Storage API and SSD on the PS5, 90+% of loading time are spent on CPU vs very little on I/O.
But was it hotter at the relative humidity numbers they state in the article (50% and 100% relative humidity?)

I also grew up in a place that routinely saw triple-digit Fahrenheit temps, but the RH was < 20%. RH has a huge impact on the evaporative cooling capacity of the human body.
"salaries usually fall within a fairly small range in any company"

I don't think so? I've heard that some top-tier talent makes $500k annually while most beginners make $50k annually. Isn't that a 10x difference which would be in line with 1x beginners vs. 10x pros?
Likely not in a 100% humidity environment.
Is your developer salary also adjusted based on country per capita? Or are you getting a mostly Western salary?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

If programmers were paid in proportion to their productivity most (maybe 80%) would starve to death. They would be better off providing data entry for minimum wage. On the other hand, those that are productive (aren't afraid to write original software) would be lavishly rewarded beyond most of our imaginations. Their output doesn't even have to be high quality.

This would resoundingly benefit everybody. People doing a job just to put an unqualified body in a seat are an economic drag. Their contributions are often a net negative purely existing to qualify their own existence. For example, does the user actually want 10mb of JS executing for 10 seconds on every page load just to put a few lines of text on the screen? Does the user care that it took a large team of software engineers to pull that off and waste their time without which those software engineers would have to do something else? No, the user won't shed a tear.

Yes, there are 10x developers. Yes, most software developers have no idea what a 10x developer is and are absolutely incapable of recognizing one even when working adjacent to one.

The only valid question is why the industry tolerates, and even infantilizes, hiring people not qualified to do this work at their own expense. The simple answer, also economically valid, is because it takes them less effort to make a knowingly bad decision than confront the risk of defining what comprises valid selection criteria.
Yeah, the English Wikipedia definitely has similar problems, though they may not be on such a grand scale as this. For instance, I know there's one user who, for at least a decade, has basically been trying to breath life into a new religious concept with a Wikipedia page for it. He's persistent enough, benefits from a relatively frequent typo for sourcing, and his the corner is obscure enough that nothing can be done (given Wikipedia's culture and his persistence).
I see it as a case of the Availability Heuristic[1] striking hard.

Say you make 100 decisions in a day, and your expertise yields an obvious, high-quality answer in 98 of them. When you think back to that day, the remaining 2 (which didn’t so yield) will dominate your memory of what happened.

In that case, it will feel like all you did was make non-rigorous, poorly-grounded guesses … but that impression is wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
I agree on that particular line, but the rest of the thread is pretty reasonable I think. Although that said it's explained like "this is a new amazing magic formula" when really it's just qualifying the work your team takes on. Most of these questions should be asked of work that's less rushed.
I took part in this trial, at Holborn Station. The escalators are very long, and few people walk. However, despite the signage, markings and announcements, when I stood on the left I still got the occasional tirade of abuse from someone attempting to walk up behind me! Most people continued to only stand on the right as a result.
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Would you say what you just wrote is yet another personal attack?

I see you enjoy insulting other people. One might even call it... hatred.
There is no single thing, it's more like death by a thousand papercuts.

But if I did have to pick "the one" (I see you trying to pull a Scott Adams, good stuff) it would be that it has the semantics of Literate Programming completely backwards.

Literate programming is about 'code' first. It should be that you have a codebase which honours code semantics first, and allows you to create a meaningful report from that code second. This guarantees that you have a codebase structure that is easy to traverse and read, while still following good software engineering practices and usable as code in itself, as well as being able to trivially create a report from it.

Jupyter notebooks is an app (not even just markup, but an app, and a clunky one at that) for writing reports first, in the form of snippets from which you may or may not be able to generate useful code or outputs later on. And ultimately, even if you do, that code is crappy and unusable in any context other than the notebook it was written for, because of the way jupyter notebooks are designed. They force the programmer to create a monolithic spaghetti structure, preventing modularity or meaningful code hierarchies to take place in the codebase, promoting imports and definitions appearing just before the point of their use rather than in reasonable scopes, promoting modifiability instead of extensibility, while preventing programmers from using a vast majority of appropriate software tools for versioning, testing, etc.

And for some bizzare reason they are becoming the de facto standard for data scientists sharing code. It's like we're encouraging people to return to "Academic Matlab" code-quality standards all over again after years and years of trying to teach academics proper software engineering practices.
It is crazy to me. Imagine being a responsible parent and advising your kids to go to trade school and have them getting their hands dirty because you correctly predict that student loans will not yield a sufficient return.

I have a cousin who refused to sit down with me to model their future cash flow, and plowed ahead with borrowing $300k between ages 18 and 27 to buy credentials that would only earn them $60k per year! I knew all this, I warned them, tried to educate them, showed them data, and they ignored me.
Graph of Federal Debt Held (6.2T) (258% increase since 2020)
If you find "I changed my mind" to be the message, then you agree with me that it is rhetoric. It is testimony of conversion.
So he is an Economics Professor, and from his experience what professors teach is mostly useless.

Ahem, with all due respect, but perhaps he is just not very good at his job...?
It wasn’t that long ago that an article making the exact opposite point was at the top of this site.
Artificial Neural Networks! Can forecast the future? Obviously not, but the past may hide patterns that are going to repeat. Neural Networks are very good at unveiling them.
> Modern IDEs really improved since then and I haven't seen a feature that emacs can do that they can't.

Easy extensibility. Read email. Run a calculator. Run Lisp …

Meanwhile, there is literally no feature any IDE has which Emacs cannot do. It's just a simple matter of programming.
> out that gmail login will only work with cookies being enabled

What are other options of having your web-based client log into your email?
Hammer.

With one, everything gets to be a nail.
> you need to weigh those risks against the enjoyment and psychological benefit

The risks are massive, and the opportunity cost miniscule.
> ...almost no student in American has made a payment in over two years.

Uhhhhh... I have been aggressively paying off my loans during this freeze. I'm not expecting the forgiveness of my debt.
Probably because they're bespoke, subject to heavier use, located in confined spaces, and are expected to run 20 hours a day for 50 years.
>> An individual with prestigious credentials prospers, but society can’t get rich simply by awarding multitudinous fancy degrees

Me learning more doesn't make you less knowledgable. Me printing money makes you poorer. This comparison of the money vs education case isn't useful.

>> colleges rarely teach new, cutting-edge skills

Do colleages teach ANY skills? Is that their purpose? I studied at the University of Glasgow in 2001, in my first programming class when i arrived, i had to land a rocket, SpaceX style, exploring the concepts of safety in the Ada language in the process. In my second year i was thrown into functional programming in Haskell.

Are these skills i could apply in the real world? Not directly, but the concepts were mind-expanding.
And you can insulate from cold with fat, but insulating against heat is difficult because you have to get rid of the waste heat from muscles and other body functions somehow.
I see everything wrong with benefiting only specific people. It is inevitable an avenue or excuse for corruption.

Why should only people of <characteristic X> get $y of help from the taxpayer funds that come from everyone?

The goal is not let the income/wealth gap get too wide, or to provide more opportunities for all people at the bottom. Giving cash to everyone involves zero politics, wastes zero time in arguing politics, and does the job.

For the record, I am against tax breaks period. If the government wants to incentivize something, it should pony up the cash to do it. This would reduce corruption, make it impossible to fudge the numbers, and increase transparency to prevent corruption.
Why does you getting something disqualify others? Your poor financial decisions do not make you special, your inability to not pay back your student loans do not make you special, and yet you want special consideration. It’s like saying I didn’t get caught for the crime so why should I be punished?
Snapchat adds paid subscription with more features for power users
I don't think that is big of an issue. I have designed a memory controller and since the SDRAM protocol is really unambiguous which party owns the dqs lanes at what point I never had a problem with this. I'm curious what problems you encountered.
The problem with that assertion is that it's so simplistic that it's meaningless.

Having more young people doesn't magically cause more violence. Those young people don't exist in a vaccuum. Adolescents generally don't have an income and are thus dependent on their families to provide for them.

Families having more children also means they have more expenses and need to allocate more time to parenting and "family time" for each child to still receive the same level of care. Additionally there are many economic and cultural factors why poorer people are more likely to have more children than wealthier families. Availability of contraception and abortion further exacerbates this. "More young people" generally means poor people having more kids. Even if the number of children increased equally across all economic categories, this would still mean more additional poor kids than more additonal rich kids because of the size of those groups (and because not-wealthy-but-not-poor families could end up poorer because of the additional expenses).

But sure, young people cause violence.
Almost (?) all life runs off chemical reactions that are temperature sensitive and produce heat. In a closed system these reactions stop, they are able to continue (and so life continues) only within a context where the heat is lost.

You can adjust the gradient so as to change the rate of heat loss, you can grow fur, shunt blood flow away from outer surfaces - or the reverse. Humans have clothes and even buildings to do this even more. Say you're losing 10K per hour and producing 5K per hour, if you cut the gradient to 50% you break even and your temperature remains viable indefinitely.

But that only works when you're losing heat. If you can't lose heat, this doesn't help. You will die.
is there any progress on combining object detection with object segmentation? So instead of boundary boxes we get the true shape of objects? I know segmentation exists, just wondering about integration with Yolo or similar.
That's probably the secret of the shoulder, it's strong(-ish) in some directions and very weak in others.
This is not serious because if you believe something you read online, you are a sucker.

I am not saying that this is funny or anything, but I feel like it's irrelevant. I assume many articles contain lies or are downright fabricated. This just confirms my assumption, and makes me think of how many things like this one are left to discover yet.
I didn’t realize “twat-waffle” was so popular.
Long answer: They're thinking about whole human cities subject to high web bulb temperatures, for (at least) many hours. Avoiding even light physical activity is not an option for everyone in a city, for any period of time.

Short answer: Next time you get DoorDash or Uber Eats, ask the delivery guy about this.
10/10 is a high bar:
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Germany is much worse than the US. Huge inflation with a microscopic salary increase and unlike FED, European central bank doesn't do anything at all to fight inflation (except increasing interest rates to laughable 0.25% - 7x lower than in US). Basically, ECB want to devaluate Euro, so that our salaries can be even lower than in China.
Elon Musk has been missing for 8 days, and no one knows why
Company aims to power the world by digging the deepest holes ever
The "How" was stripped by HN from the title. Edited and fixed it.
It was a Big Lebowski reference.
The Italian version is basically identical to this Spanish one:

Trenta giorni ha novembre
Con april, giugno e settembre;
Di ventotto ce n'è uno,
Tutti gli altri ne han trentuno.
They do if you contribute to an open source project. There's also Pycharm Community edition which is available through the package manager of most Linux distros.

https://www.jetbrains.com/community/opensource/#support
The key problem I see with the current semi-permanent student debt payment holiday is that there are no added stipulations for ensuring a finished degree will come close to a net economic benefit. Otherwise, we're executively making a very expensive fiscal policy decision and allowing tertiary education costs to balloon without anchoring those costs to the expected added value to society.
Plus if it does happen we can settle them in the newly fertile Polar regions :-)
This is so off base and irrationally elitist, you really just don't see how wrong it is.

These tools do SO MUCH more than just give you a GUI for a coding system. Code analysis, preventative suggestions, and a common look and feel for people switching languages and stacks.

Yes, a lot of it can be cobbled together with open source tooling and scripts and blah blah but I want to spend my time getting shit done, not writing code to be able to write code. The 100$ a year was well worth it for the suite I had, and even double that would still be an irrelevant amount of money to me with my engineering salary.

Time is money, saving time - not just my own, but the time of others on my team using similar tooling - is worth spending a little money and dropping snobbish elitism based on nothing stronger than "I must be smart because I know how something works".
One of those topics where the meta is richer than the actual science. I remember my Dad mentioning as a child. The public interest is interesting in itself.

Not the the science isn't interesting. Population/behavioural studies like this are quite interesting. Animal behaviour is interesting, especially group behaviours where dynamics can play out.

That said, what was he actually trying to learn? If you take the same colony, and manually removed a few hundred juveniles every week... that's basically a mouse farm.

So, we know from both logic and evidence that "overpopulation" is a thing that occurs. Organisms multiply at exponential rates, and there must be hard limits on growth somewhere. Meanwhile, rodents as especially known for boom/bust cycles. Is it surprising that behaviour gets weird during "peak mouse" events? Mice aren't cannibalistic. The colony was protected from disease. Food didn't run out. Eventually, it's so crowded and everyone is stepping on one another. Breeding becomes unsuccessful, and that's the limiting factor.

What's the alternative, that the cube becomes literally full of mice before crashing? That mouse society adopts a super slow breeding rate to stabilize populations. What happened was, ultimately, a compromise between these two.

In any case, if the goal is analogy to humans... where's the work. If it's a scientific endeavour, how do we get from insights about mice to insights about people?
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A body can burn energy to create heat. But it can't burn energy to remove heat.

That's a fundamental asymmetry.

Maybe it's also the reason why body core temperature is close to environment maximum temperature - since you can't really decrease your temperature you might as well learn to live at the upper extreme.
I get so much value out of JetBrains products that if a price increase is what is needed or them to stay on business I can accept that. (The products are paid by my employer so this only affects indirectly)

It might be an unpopular opinion but I appreciate the transparency of the post. There are other companies which products I use that I’m afraid are not financially sustainable and thus I’m afraid for an email saying that the products has been discontinued.

There’s always the possibility of open source, home brewed or whatever, but when it comes to getting stuff done sometimes paying is cheaper than the time/effort of an alternative.

Best of luck jetbrains!
It's both. Walmart is on both sides of many of the transactions, and they have allegedly been negligent on both.
YOLOv6 Interactive Demo (SOTA object detection)
They didn't fire most of their staff. They closed the Russian offices and offered relocation to everyone in Russia (and many took it).
I mean they were practically forced to close their Russian offices with the current political situation and war going on.
The relocation process is very expensive as well as opening new offices in Europe and rehiring there as CoL and salaries in Europe are much higher.
Well for digital products, the answer is usually piracy.
Faangs won a lottery in their markets once.

Now all you have to do to work there is to win faang interview lottery :)
If I was to start a social network I’d call it Universe 25. Maybe shorten to u25.
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Nuclear power can help the democratic world achieve energy independence
You should read Jay Cumming's "Proofs: A Long-Form Math Textbook" [0]. It is very well-written.

And it actually tries to teach you rather than documenting math knowledge or impressing peers.

I highly recommend it.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08T8JCVF1
What specific long delays or weird synchronization issues do you experience? I just bought the plugin but don't notice any yet with ~7000 mails.
Did you find a good alternative? I read above that using DavMail as a proxy can also work.
Because it sadly has become so normalized that almost any site tracks you to the best ability of the website creator. If people had done that from the beginning like it was heavily recommended we certainly would have less dragnet tracking.
Deceptive habits like this give ML a really bad reputation and gives me so little confidence that this technology will be used responsibly as ML becomes increasingly powerful.
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P.S. Also, I could give my speculations on the possible reasons behind lacking support for Ukraine from some of the Western politicians:

1. They get scared that Russia (in case of losing the war) gets pissed off and launches nukes all around.

2. They afraid that Russia gets internally destabilized and gets fragmented to smaller states, possibly ending up in a civil war. And that could also lead to nukes flying.

3. "Old Europe" (Germany, France, Italy) might do not want a militarily strong Ukraine, fearing that Eastern Europe (Ukraine + Baltics + Poland) will become a new "superpower" on its own upon defeating Russia. As you know, the victors make the rules.