skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How accurate is PirateWeather? I see it uses NOAA data.

I've been relying on AccuWeather as of late, and it's been pretty reliable.
Seeing my father at the end of his military career and some of my brothers at the beginning of theirs, I’m convinced at this point much of military is a messy bureaucracy no better or worse than the DMV or any other government agencies people can’t stand.
unless i'm missing something I've been able to see the precipitation timelines for some time now in their weather app and widget, at least an hour out. (e.g. "Light rain is expected to stop in 17 min")

this was one of my favorite features too but afaict they integrated it (i'm on ios 16.3)
Yes they did, I'm looking at it right now.
Ah, right, missed that.
I’m fascinated by how well they managed to reinvent the character Kratos as well as God of war the game. Incredible feat. Imo this transition has really solidified Kratos as one of the all time greatest video game characters.

I can highly recommend the documentary “Raising Kratos” which gives a great behind the scenes look of the whole process. Very interesting and at times even pretty emotional.
It’s extremely hard to quit HN.

Quitting HN is easy. I've done it loads of times.
Banning crypto would probably be self-defeating, but applying existing regulations to crypto would take care of most issues.

If we could collectively stop pretending that a financial instrument is unprecedented just because it's done on a computer, we could leverage existing laws. It's not like we have to ban a new kind of murder every time someone synthesizes a new poison.
The only two things of his I know is the map and this bathroom both of which strike me as practical. Whether were plumbers against it or not you have supplied no evidence. Occasionally it turns out a conspiracy is not a conspiracy...
Thanks!

The book is 'Computer Coding Games for Kids: A unique step-by-step visual guide, from binary code to building games' by Carol Vorderman
Rc, Cell & RefCell are suppose to be rare. For example I've got 2,000 line Rust program in front of me and I've used Arc 3 times and RWLock 1 time, that's all.

You need to structure your program as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), with things interacting only with the things below them in the graph.

Then occasionally you might need to break the DAG structure by using Rc, Cell & RefCell, etc...
Category theory [1] bit ligher read than application of formal logic to data science/cs [2]
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[1] category theory : https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

[2] : https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/types-tokens/#toc

https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Rent control is, I regret to inform you, also NIMBY; it benefits current residents at the expense of future ones.
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All you need to know about the universe. And mankind.
Companies like Apple always scratch their own itch. Cupertino doesn’t really have alot of weather variance. It tells you about rain.
Because the USA isn't a "foreign country". Its my country.

1. We have a worker shortage.

2. Immigrants are the kinds of people who drive new businesses. They're innately calculated risk-takers, as they've already passed the gauntlet of "Leave everyone I know to live somewhere else", and on the average benefit our economy greatly.

3. Sending these people home not only is terrible for their lives, its terrible for the USA. We have these visa processes because we've all agreed its better for us _AND_ them for them to stay around.

4. I'm sure the Twitter H1B workers were productive before this asshole bought out the company. I don't think our visa system / H1B system was designed for this scenario.
No walk through with these folks. Just got the key at the leasing office and I was off.

Yes, I could have avoided their abusive nonsense by protecting myself more carefully. But that's fucking awful. People shouldn't need to enter adversarial relationships with their landlords on day one.
Landlords might not want to maximize income by lowering rents since they might have to write down their property values and thus prefer "temporary" vacancies.
The meaning of the Mandarin and 6 other Japanese New Year traditions explained
This echoes critiques I hear elsewhere, and so gets the same response: so what? What about that statement (1) doesn't apply to another election system and (2) isn't expected as part of a normal experience when voting among multiple candidates? Only one person will win anyway, so disappointment about the outcome actually seems like the wrong focus vs eg satisfaction that you got to represent your preferences fairly.

This also is addressed by the point that what you describe is the most complicated part of approval voting. But I'd argue that that is way less of an issue than the current spoiler effects we see in FPTP and RCV, since that is the limit of how complicated your choice can get in practice, whereas with other systems there's much deeper dynamics with respect to tactical voting.
Problem is, the incentives seem hopelessly misaligned to let that happen.

The military-industrial complex seems perfectly designed to go after very large and expensive projects. They’re great for creating jobs, keeping the politicians happy. Shareholders love it. And the military is far from innocent: I’ve heard that a common sentiment held by career officers is that you want to always attach yourself to the new, big project, as that’s how you advance up the ranks. Commanding a drone squad doesn’t make you a general.
You mean the clear/rainy/cloudy linear viz?

There is a hourly precipitation graph available since iOS16 but that may not be what you're looking for.
Looks nice. Interestingly i opened the app and it lists "Dark Sky" as the source.. does that mean this app's functionality will decline when Dark Sky dies?

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34198682 has my answer
>Leaving a well paid job because toilet paper seems very poor capability to deal with frustration in a reasonable way.

The toilet paper thing would be anecdotical taken in isolation but the reasonable thing at this point is to leave as soon as you secure another similar paying job, even if it's 1/3 less of salary.

Contrary to a lot of people I truly think that Musk has quite a lot of merit in the things he has accomplished. Just the fact of trying hard things should be acknowledged. But he has been unstable for a while, in a very obvious way. Who knows if there is some kind of medical condition behind. I know first hand of similar cases were erratic behavior was later found to be caused by some illness. Maybe it's just pressure or whatever.

Anyway, my bet is that most people that remain at Twitter are interviewing like crazy.
The chatbots are coming for Google
Man, I would love to get a Fairphone, but they won't sell it to the US, and even if I spent an exorbitant amount having it imported, the modem inside isn't programmed for US frequencies so network compatibility will be flaky or non-existent. But it just seems like the perfect phone to me...
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Category theory [1] bit ligher read than application of formal logic to data science/cs [2]

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[1] category theory : https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

[2] : https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/types-tokens/#toc

https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
many of the electronic voting machines just print out paper ballots, and the counting is a totally separate issue altogether.
> These ableist teaching practices also serve to alienate and marginalize disabled and chronically ill students (Hales 2020) and may be partially responsible for disabled students and scholars exiting the field, along with noninclusive teaching/ researching practices (Laurentino et al. 2021). The proportion of disabled evolutionary biologists is far below the population average (Rushworth et al. 2021; 10.8% vs. 26% overall), as is the proportion of doctorate recipients who are disabled (8.1% of life sciences PhD recipients in 2020 vs. the same 26% of the population; NCSES 2021), although this is very hard to study quantitatively given small sample sizes in present studies (Wanelik et al. 2020).

This seems to be pretty much in line with the US national average of abled vs. diasbled people with at least a Bachelor's degree. [0] I'm sure there are still barriers that exclude disabled people from higher learning that we can and should work on deconstructing, but there's also a fundamental issue of some disabilities making people less able to perform academic work.

And this to me seems to be the crux: I have the bad suspicion that people talking about ableism have the goal of fundamentally disavowing disucssion about ableness. But this is from my point of view pretty fundamental to how I view the world, and it seems basically delusional to me to deny the differences in ableness we have as humans.

This article has given me a lot to think about, and I should read more on the topic, any suggestions very welcome!

[0] https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/people-with-a-disability-l...
Last year:

> For years now I've been kinda-sorta working on a plan involving making funky peripherals, small toy computers, and large flying machines based on cellular kites and the Magnus effect. I think this is the year to really buckle down and get it done.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746344#29755793

Progress: Not much. I'm not sure where the year went.

This year: the same resolution "to really buckle down and get it done."

There's one big difference this year: I have about $10k to spend on it. :) So that's nice.

I have a mailing list: https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas
It's a stub about the 3nm technology which is going into production (weak original title), and an odd piece about reassurances that the Island of Taiwan will remain central in chip production ("the 2nm factories will be placed in the middle and north").

A few hours ago the Financial Times, in the predictions for 2023, was skeptic about the possibility of an invasion but did not exclude that of a naval blockade.
It’s all there, but the app is designed in the modern Apple framework where the top 5 things are front and center, but features that aren’t in the top 5 are buried in awkward, undiscoverable places.
downloadmoreram.tk was a classic around 2004
TIL! Looks super useful. I will try it now
I'm no expert either, so blind replying to the blind haha. Underwater stuff is at serious risk of being detected with modem satellite surveillance technologies. None I've seen, but none I'd expect to see either. So it's impossible to tell if it's just science fiction. Aircraft carriers rely on projected air power, and in the event of hypersonic missles, I guess lots of cwis in a carrier group?
Perhaps a bit longer than that [1]

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/?amp=1
Landlords virtually always hire maintenance companies to maintain the property - and you're paying for it via your rent. You could hire the same maintenance companies if you owned it yourself.
> What am I going to do, pick the next President based on their attitude about ship maintenance?

I mean, you could.

I stopped paying attention to politics when it became obvious that the two-party system is killing actual democracy.

But... If a candidate said they were going to prioritize rebuilding our failing infrastructure, to include roads, bridges, power generation and transmission, communications, and defense assets, they would certainly have my attention.
Lucas Beyer on Twitter: “How Good of a Bert Can One Get in One Day on One GPU?
"Will it be supported within the arduino IDE?"

Well it's just a RISCV core which you can compile code with GCC, so I guess adding support to the Arduino IDE will be pretty easy. The wifi part is probably binary like other chips, but that did not prevent ESP8266/32 support in Arduino IDE.
They’re getting more popular every day. Mac OS is immutable.
It will also find ASCII characters in UTF-8. That's a common situation because delimiting characters are often in the ASCII range.

We can make a more complicated example that nevertheless uses recursion and essentially the same way, which looks for a UTF-8 character. We can examine and decode a prefix of the string as a UTF-8. If there are bad bytes or the character doesn't match then we recurse.

We can also write a wide character (wchar_t) version of the function which looks the same. That will handle all of Unicode on sane platforms, and the basic multilingual plane (BMP) on Windows.
I said try to leave the ground. Planes that never leave the gate are generally rather safe.
The billionaires like the game—it gives them power!
I think there's more to a 'dying empire' than losing territory or capability. The US is more politically polarized today, the National Debt is at 31 T, we're currently in a recession with no signs of easing, and China is making waves around the world - the culmination is daunting. I worry for the future.
Fascinating that this same scenario seems to happen in corporate america, too.
If I'm reading it correctly the free version is just a wrapper around Dark Sky API, which will continue working for three more months (end of March).

A whole bunch of weather apps are just a different frontend behind Dark Sky's API. WeatherKit[0] is supposed to be its replacement, but I don't know how it compares.

0 - https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/
A potential lesson here (i.e. I am applying confirmation bias to retroactively view this article as justification for a strongly held opinion, lol):

Unless you are gonna benchmark something, for details like this you should pretty much always just trust the damn compiler and write the code in the most maintainable way.

This comes up in code review a LOT at my work:

- "you can write this simpler with XYZ"

- "but that will be slower because it's a copy/a function call/an indirect branch/a channel send/a shared memory access/some other combination of assumptions about what the compiler will generate and what is slow on a CPU"

I always ask them to either prove it or write the simple thing. If the code in question isn't hot enough to bother benchmarking it, the performance benefits probably aren't worth it _even if they exist_.
Really cool idea.

The Statue of Liberty glyph for NYC is extremely difficult to make out (on mobile, at any rate). I would much prefer NYC. Also not sure why NYC has to be special, I would have thought UTC would the special one.
First TV Image of Mars: Interplanetary color by numbers (2016)
As can be seen in any online forum, being somewhat indifferent to knowing the facts is normal in ordinary conversation. This is how rumor, gossip, and speculation work. If you're going to call that lying, most people are lying most of the time.

It's only in some formal writing that you go out of your way to check everything.
It rejected traditional empires. But is basically leader of the world.

If aliens came to earth no matter where they land. Really they ought to go see the US president.

Russia was always a counterpoint to that but while obviously a super power it didn't have the same military and political power as the US does.

They achieve that through multiple means mostly cash cash money money. But also creating organisations and influencing participants to make the decisions it wants.

Stuff like getting everyone to agree to using dollar under Bretton woods system.

It's copyright beliefs, it's war on drugs etc.
It's not irrelevant. I think the point you're missing is that there are not enough young able-bodied people to take care of the lonely old people. There is a numbers issue.

Like in your solution you assume that people exist will be people who are young and have energy and have resources. These people do not exist. Not enough to take care of the massive number of old and sick people being created anyway.

Here's an illustration: https://ourworldindata.org/global-population-pyramid

This is referred to as an inverted population pyramid but really it ends up looking more like a bell. The world used to have lots of young people and not many old people. The flattening of the peak which has happened in only 30 years is stunning! This will keep getting worse until the end of the century.

Korea's population pyramid looks way worse than the one I linked above by the way. From age 60 down it actually is inverted. Again, there are no young people left to do the caretaking you envision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Korea#/m...
They do extensively employ civillian "yard birds" to do maintenance. In WWII era, they had minority sailors and conscripts on government payroll to do chipping and painting. Since then, they have been steadily outsourcing an increasing amount of this work to civillian contractors.
>>>In a hot war with a capable near-peer, the carriers will be sunk right away (possibility every single one of them).

The USN has plans to limit the risk to the carriers, but most of those also limit the usefulness extensively. Even still, a maneuvering and properly-escorted CVN is not an easy target.

>>Seems like the focus should be on the stealthy underwater stuff that can pop up and deliver payloads like missiles and drones but what do I know.

I fully expect our submarine force to do most of the heavy lifting, especially in the critical early months of a hot war with China. But the problem is their limited ordnance. USS Ohio after her SSGN conversion only carries ~150 Tomahawks @$2 MILLION per missile for Block V versions. So that's 150 targets, max, before she has to slink away from the conflict zone and find a resupply ship or port. A Nimitz has a sustained sortie generation rate of ~80 sorties per day, and while I can't say what their typical ammo stores are, the carrier air wing should have more than enough bombs and guided munitions to strike 150 targets, and many targets can be prosecuted with fairly cheap JDAMs, SDBs, Mavericks, etc...
well..lets hear your genius idea then. Idea that isn't people voting to bring down their own property values.
Er, an LVT doesn't tax the house at all, that's precisely the point. It only taxes the land... It's literally just a property tax that doesn't tax the house.
That seems like a flawed assumption. Has our military ever really stopped a battle or war because they thought it might be unethical? Do they ever even pause to ask that question? Does any military?
Very interesting to see movement but personally I found the debug_handler route picked by axum to be easier to understand and work with.

Transpiling means you end up with two codebases and having to think about more abstractions.

I sincerely hate transpiling from all the work I've done in node.js / babel and other similar devilish spawns
Because Southwest's business model, especially back then, is short haul flights between cities that are just far enough from each other to make driving inconvenient. Guess what else is a good and way more convenient transportation method for that?
It’s not an either or though right?. Don’t you need to do masks AND vaccines?

AFAIK countries that effectively masked and distanced until they had a vaccine flattened the curve significantly and their medical system was never overwhelmed. The US is a terrible example because they failed to follow their own pandemic guidelines (Africa did and fared better if I recall correctly).

With vaccines you can be more cavalier with masks - even if you don’t wear it and are near someone with COVID you’re less likely to get it. And when you do, you weather it significantly better. Even ignoring problems of comfort and fit that continue to plague although the “duck” masks with over head loops instead of over ear I’ve found to be reasonably comfortable. Masks are challenging logistically in various environments like dining and just from a social bonding / nicety.

It’s also important to remember that there’s a significant anti-vax movement in the States so no. We’re not fully vaccinated. And the virus mutates like the flu. So you need to keep up to date with shots. Yes. It’s not 100% effective. But it’s an added security measure because perfect masking just doesn’t happen and logistically isn’t possible. With a pandemic (now epidemic) like this you have to deploy multiple measures (masks, vaccines, social distancing), not just one I think - multi pronged battle. The interesting part is that people are reverting to pre-COVID behaviors which makes sense since pre-COVID is the same as post-Spanish flu so COVID is here to stay permanent I think.
That's no guarantee either, especially with increasing consolidation of land under larger corporate umbrellas. I recently moved away from Columbus after getting on the bad side of an investment group that seems to own nearly all of the publicly-listed apartments in the area within my price bracket, and are still actively buying up more. Said bracket is fairly low, granted, but it's all I can afford on even a decent full-time income, especially with other expenses spiking as of late.

Columbus has recently found itself to be the new largest city and center of economic growth in the state, and changed rapidly and radically over the past couple of decades. As a result, it's nowhere near as seasoned and well-established as many other major metros, and the massive influx of new monied interests into the area quickly cornered their respective markets.

Moving back to the Cleveland area, which was quite the boom town a century ago but has infamously been in near-perpetual decline ever since (with many residents, like I had, migrating to Columbus), has much healthier competition in the rental market.

Perhaps in a few decades as new assets are built and today's ones slosh around the economy, Columbus will have healthier, more diverse competition and see your point ring true. It's certainly healthy in other sectors—one of my favorite things about living there was the great wealth of hole-in-the-wall bodegas, ethnic grocers, restaurants, and food trucks around me that meant even on my last dime I could always try new cuisines—but at least for those of us for whom even a high five-figure income is a distant dream, options are very limited.
Americans, by and large, don't own their homes. If you disagree, stop paying your property taxes and see what happens to your ownership.

There's a reason "real" estate derives from the term for "royalty".
The fact that this wasn’t done at the beginning is mind boggling. We already dealt with this problem with Unix passwords using crypt, which was solved exactly this way decades ago. This should be standard for any system using hash algorithms.
i'm not sure many people would describe phoenix or tampa as suburban
Been using Dark Sky here in the UK for a few years. Open app, see all you need. Fantastic app.

Apple Weather is mediocre at best.
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Gripes with RSS after one week
How is not “maintaining the same level of naval readiness “ not a “loss in capability”? I guess the grapes were sour anyway?
> And the repression of some of these in modern humans causes considerable psychological distress and anxiety.

Literally pure conjecture, as there's no conclusive evidence of this claim, which is the whole point of this article.

Furthermore, the only change we're discussing is eliminating a specific type of co-sleeping. All of the other behaviours common to all mammals remain the same. The odds of this one change being significantly damaging are small, and considering we see no strong signal in the data we do have, I don't see this claim standing the test of time.
They simply meant from that era, relax McCarthy.
They didn’t bring over all the functionality.

Dark sky has hour by hour by percent probability as well as projected precipitation.

Apple has a rounded percent in two hour blocks. And its numbers are different. For example, Apple shows the moon and stars icon for 6pm; DS shows 28% and .01 inch/hour.

Apple consistently has less information and I’ll miss DarkSky. I paid $5 and don’t usually buy apps.

I think Apple’s purchase is a negative for users.
This is what happens when you "run government like a business"