skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wind is tricky depending on where you live. In the US there are surprisingly few places where smaller consumer-grade windmills make sense. Its been a while so this may be off, but I want to say you need a consistent wind of something like 10-15mph for most turbines to be of any real use

Even then, a 3000W turbine is usually best on something like a 30-50' tall pole

In certain areas wind can be efficient, in most areas (at least in the US) solar is much easier to deal with and more reliable
> There is some fair arguments to make that mixing kids of different backgrounds together improves outcomes, if you take 1 kid from a poor background and surround that kid with a culture of success, there is a very large chance the kid will pick up on that culture of success and start doing better.

My understanding is research shows this "evens" outcomes. The worst students do better (Teacher has more time to pay attention to them), the best students do worse (can not get into the really hard stuff, get bored).

If you are in the bottom 25%, you WANT integrated classrooms of all levels.

If you are in the top 25%, you WANT an elite classroom with ramped up work and less distractions.
A Pi Zero can go down to 0.5W idle.
The Pi Zero 2W should also be good, but is very hard to obtain right now.
It doesn't hold a monopoly on the concept of a federation, but it does (as far as I know) hold a monopoly on the association of "fed" = (federal) police in people's minds.
Matt Taibbi is hardly “far left,” and Twitter has implemented arbitrary suppression on his content because Twitter’s owner didn’t like something he said.

Twitter went from a business that moderated content based on policies, to a business that moderates content based on the day-to-day whims of an easily distracted Elon Musk. The idea that it’s somehow more open for balanced conversations now is directly contradicted by how it is actually operating.

Capricious, malicious, and selfish moderation is poisonous to a business that depends on free user-generated content.
If you use a language with diacritics (like Polish), you can type without them and SwiftKey will do The Right Thing most of the time. It's a BIG DEAL.
12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields
Is "synthetic phonics" not a rather narrow subset of "phonics-centric reading"?

In any case, the issue in the linked article seems to be a classic case of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

Which is to say, phonics is very important, and a great tool in a balanced approach to learning to read for fun and profit... However, it's not so great to focus on phonics as a lonely and narrow target in a national reading programme, or to justify Departmental failures.
GPL2.0 History
Obligatory thanks to King Sejong and Park Chung-hee for making the language readable.
> Yeah the .NET ecosystem (...) is horrible

:-)

That's how it felt when I was developing for it. But that's because I was interested in cool new things, not decade-old, establish enterprise stuff.

I suppose it has changed a bit in recent years, but it still doesn't exactly follow trends very enthusiastically. Which can be a good thing. But also means tooling around legitimately useful new things can be quite lacking.
https://www.pedagogynongrata.com/a-response-to
> I'm not very familiar with the field, unfortunately, but it is my understanding that there is not much of a scientific method applied to teaching theories. As in, not just armchair theorizing, but more like A/B testing. I know, it's a hard problem, but so are many science problems, and Rome doesn't have to be build in one day. But where is the progress?

My father's job was to visit primary school teachers to evaluate them, give them advice and organize teacher's continuous education. That was in France, so it's most likely a different system than the US. He regularly bemoaned that education was way too politicised, any new minister of education would try to make their mark by grabbing a new fad with no regards to the scientific validity behind that fad and would ask people like my father to organise classes for primary school teachers who would then be told to follow that fad.

This happened for reading methods (luckily the whole language phenomenon known as "méthode globale" didn't last very long in France), the debate on constructivism, etc...
> EST & PST are the most common.

Which is maddening because most of the year it’s EDT & PDT but people still reference them wrong, even in marketing and corporate communications where they really should know better.
It isn't about trusting the quality, but about knowing what sort things are normal in foods and treating food safely. You simply cannot avoid certain things, but you can do things that cut down or eliminate risks.

And one of those things is to simply not eat raw meat. It isn't about 'trust' but reality. You aren't going to know about the parasites, and the risk is mitigated through cooking. A lot of food-born pathogens are like this.

Put in another light: We pasteurize milk. Despite our best practices, raw milk will always pose a risk of severe food-born illness. The prudent answer isn't to 'find milk you trust' - it is all like this. The prudent answer is to drink pasteurized milk.

Same with meat. Properly cook your meat. Don't eat wild salmon raw if it hasn't been frozen. And so on. You can apply the same stuff to all food - none of it is 100% safe, and you simply won't be able to verify where it all came from. You won't be able to tell by looking or how much you trust the farmer that grew it.
> * Built-in integration with external KMS service

The first thing I notice is that Tink doesn't support Azure Key Vault.
> this site is ready to be disrupted.

Do a Kagi search for "hotels in (region)" and you can book directly with the hotels from their website, or contact them directly.

But some hotels don't let you book through their website, and some hotels don't have enough information on their web site, some hotels don't have a website only a social media account, and some hotels don't have any of that.

Well, if they - who have the most to win - are not ready to disrupt booking.com, then who is?

A hotel owner will save thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per year in booking.com fees, if they only invest one week and a few hundred dollars into their own web site. But many would never in their life do such a thing. Not to mention AirBnB, who is worse than booking.com for both customers and hosts.
Have you cycled in the rain or snow? If yes how many times?

Periodically I see colleagues trying to come at work by bicycle. The longest lasting record is one and half year. All the others didn't last after the summer.

Fwiw it would take me 1h of walking to go to work or about 1h20 if I take a couple buses.
Or I can take the car and be done in less than 10 minutes.
EU only. Not in the land of the free.
> Being able to collapse a comment thread, or upvote a comment, or post a reply, without reloading the page, means the website is dynamic. Static only means that nothing changes without a page reload, which is thankfully long gone.

No! That is interactive!

Dynamic means hot loading content without refreshing the page. I’ve been doing web dev since web 1.0 so again, no.
Who do you tell your GPA to? I stopped listing GPA after my first job. When I get a resume from someone that went to college 10 years ago and lists a 3.245 GPA, I laugh.
First I disagree with using per capita numbers, that is in improper way to judge this type of thing.

However even if we look at the percapita number, the US out spend all other nato nations. Between January 24 and November 20, 2022, NATO members committed at least 75.2 billion euros of that 47.8 came from the US.

Per Capita for that period breaks down as

US: 142 Euros / citizen

UK: 117 Euros / Citizen

Canada: 96 Euros / Citizen

Germany: 70 Euros / Citizen

France: 21 Euros / Citizen

Germany would have to 2 double their per capita contributions just to match the US.
I think it's a cool idea. What would be even cooler would be if it would do a content based search of your browser history, and suggest the most relevant pages for the thing you want to link. So, ideally it would be finding the pages you actually looked at. (Although, in practice it becomes difficult when you use all kinds of different devices to browse with, plus whether there's enough information to search with to retrieve the page. But I imagine something could be thrown together that does work a decent percentage of the time.)
What was the explanation if this wasn't it? The sort of "layman's-explanation" I was given was basically that insects fly in such a way that the light stays fixed in their view - so basically in the same facet(s) of an insect eye during flight, and that this causes them to circle around the lights. This seems to just scientifically confirm the hypothesis we were always told.
Maybe our monkey cousins carrying their offspring on their back? But yeah it's a very slight pressure.
I think some areas do better than others - you'll still want to cook it well if you don't know the regulations.

You get similar differences with chickens: Not all areas require salmonella vaccines, and areas that don't have more cases.
They can always say GPT-like. Or miniaturized GPT-like LLM.
The unstated goal of the phonics test with the nonsense words is to make it impossible for teachers to cheat by having students rote-learn a bunch of high-frequency words. They can only pass by actually learning the grapheme-phoneme correspondances. It's a good thing.
except it didn't in practice because the little guy has no ability to enforce even these poisonous licences.

in reality your licence is only as strong as your ability to enforce it.
genius work
Agent GPT – AutoGPT Alternative
Yes, it's apparently just that, if you click through to the actual home page:

https://crablang.org
Well, unless you live in Fargo or Moorehead, Minnesota. Anyway, I presume that the IRS office is staffed in proportion to the local population.
Working (!) source code should absolutely be required BUT there should also be a requirement that it not be unnecessarily complicated or obfuscated. Otherwise malicious compliance would be common.
But is it safe to inhale the gases?
Google will reportedly release new AI powered search tools next month
There might be a point where they get cost low enough to trade some of those savings for things like simplifying engineering and increasing launch cadence.
Microsoft Continues Building Out Its Linux Distribution with More Packages
What's the actual reason for real mode still being supported on modern processors in this day in age? Why didn't it die with the advent of AMD64 (aka x86-64)? Why didn't AMD skip real mode and boot directly into something more modern?
The child of the professors has the parents who are supposedly smart and teach him or her all the time at home, how exactly do you make this available to children from those inner city areas?
This really isn't the same. If you're just building up objects/data structures in your host language, and calling functions/methods on them, then you're not creating a language. It doesn't matter how slick/fluent or whatever else your API is, you're just working in the host language.

To have a reasonable claim that you're writing a language, you'd need to write something with a different syntax and/or model of execution, and somehow embed it in your language. Arguably regexes and SQL count, though the perennial problem there is that to the host language, they're just opaque strings.

None of this is to say your APIs are bad. Embedding one language in another is hard--that's why they're so often just opaque strings. Beyond that, as this article points out, embedding a new language gives anyone working with your code a significant obstacle. For most things, little languages aren't the right tool--standard imperative/functional programming goes a really long way.
> ... we also felt that letting our kids learn to read at school was leaving too much to chance.

That's both the quietest and the most brutal condemnation of the public education system that I've ever heard.
I, too, am not optimistic but I hope a day comes when my Iphone does not need to be jailbroken..
you can run Windows in VM and passthrough your videocard to it.
So it's basically a native gaming (3-5% cost) w/o reboots.
Look for VFIO.
People don't do this.
I quit using booking after finding out it's usually much cheaper to book with the host directly. It's not always possible and some convenience that booking.com provides is gone, but I usually prefer to use the saving for included breakfast.
MPS has a thing where mistakes written in the DSL are caught in the implementation layer and then translated back into terms related to the DSL before they're reported to the programmer. Looked good in a talk one of their developers gives. I'd have written this off as "can't be done" without that existence proof.
I just want first class PWAs.
Holy crap! If this has image to text, and can run on a CPU, even with 16 GB RAM, one could hook up an NVDA addon, straight Python so it shouldn't be too hard, and have AI read whatever the user wants. Pictures, video frames, UI's, and if it can break the UI down into something the screen reader can understand, boom!
How will that geofencing be enforced?

Is this EU feature dependent to the place you purchased your device or to the location registered on your Apple account?

If you change your location in or out of the EU does it then apply or revert the feature?
On the other hand, I did not learn to read at home, I learned to read in school, in the early 80s, starting with basic alphabet in kindergarden (not before), and serious reading in first grade, which was standard then -- and by third grade was a huge nerd spending many hours a week reading recreationally, and reading "adult" novels like George Orwell.

Your story is a good reminder that there may be more than one way to do it, I often think the way I learned to read (in school, in first grade) is clearly the right way to do it, since it had such good results. (In particular, i still think that earlier than kindergarden is too early for reading).

On the other hand, the thing we had in common was the family culture of reading, everyone in my family were big readers. And my parents read to me a lot before I could read.
Well if you made 5 mil with this and payed 900k fine you still made 4 mil, so yeah.
Effect of coverstock, core and layout on ball motion[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_ball#Effect_of_coverst...
at some point someone makes a service where you can let AI take over your computer directly. Easier that way! Curling straight to shell taken to next level.
> From the top my head, most power is dissipated in switching, then leakage (for that we would actually need higher resistance in the transistors) and only then resistive losses in powerlines.

Interesting, I stand corrected then!
I think this is due to Cucumber's syntax and culture, not because the idea itself is a fantasy. The syntax simply doesn't allow for complex representations of specifications and doesn't have anything resembling inheritance (e.g. add employee story->depends on admin logged in story).

I built this tool/DSL on the basis that a more flexible language combined with templated doc generation would bridge the gap better: https://github.com/hitchdev/examples/
With regards to the wasted energy that is potentially made by the panel but unused, that doesn't offset any other power production since the power wasn't going to be used anyway
It has to be asymmetrical because of the holes that will be drilled. And it is bullet shaped because of the "draft angles" of the mould (to make demolding easier)
Maybe it depends on what you learned with but to me, modern cordless tools are much more convenient than air tools even if you're not wandering around.
Depends on your needs. In terms of functionality, JS has everything you might want, even the ability to execute itself. Viewed as a platform, not just a language, it offers WebAssembly, soon WebGPU. I don't see anything else that comes even close as a target platform!
> I would personally eat food that passes UK regulations (but not EU regulations), or EU regulations (but not UK regulations).

The food has not passed either UK or EU standards checks. EU health and customs bodies do not check food destined for the UK market. And neither do the UK equivalents.

Here is the newspaper report where the spot check was carried out: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/uk-risks-food-safety...

So yes, there is evidence that the food is dangerous.
Another issue to keep in mind is how different capacitors are affected by DC bias. Some lose a lot of effective capacitance close to the rated voltage.

Here's a shortish video I found useful on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7aPb585Y6k&t=189s
There was some bad science that pushed teachers (really administrators) away from teaching phonics as part of the reading curriculum.

I have a daughter in third grade who struggled a little with reading (horrible timing too COVID hit at the end of kindergarten so she lost about a third of that year)

She fortunately goes to an independent school who, as a result of some of this reporting quickly turned back on “phonics” teaching for reading but I’m not sure the rest of the schools have pivoted as quickly.
Wow, he waits until halfway through the article to mention A New Kind of Science. Usually he works it into the first couple of paragraphs!
Georgia National Guard to Use Geolocation to Recruit High Schoolers
I don't agree with that at all. For example, if I refer to violinists like [Oscar Shumsky] and [Yehudi Menuhin], and I create links from their names to relevant articles about them, I don't think you'd have any trouble figuring out what it's about. I think this article did a good job of that, linking from relevant text that clearly indicates the topic of the destination, except maybe for "Writing consistently…".
tldr; "Core dynamics" and shapes change the hooking potential of a bowling ball

Here's a decent explainer:

https://youtu.be/qdY97ym_2Jc
Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of
Why do you think the Pi is powered via the inverter? I can't see mention of this, and the picture of their setup shows the Pi being powered by a step-down from 12 V.
Somewhat silly example: given a plane in 3 dimensions defined by x+y+z=1, we have ∂x/∂y * ∂y/∂z * ∂z/∂x = -1.
I also believe these were the original philosophies, since MySQL emerged from practical issues and Postgresql has more academic origins. But nowadays, I'm not sure MySQL is generally faster. In my experience, the main differences are that many simple things are simpler with MySQL, but Postgres is much more rigorous and complete.

For instance, a major upgrade of a MySQL server is usually painless (Debian even upgrades automatically). My last upgrade from Pg12 to 14 was not that easy. Replication has been easier with MySQL, though I've heard Pg has recently matured on this side. The last time I used a Pg DB that was queried by a web app, PgPool was installed because Pg could not handle many concurrent connections, but I've also heard this may not be required with recent Pg.

Client side, in many cases, a "poor man's search" with LIKE is enough or even suitable. With MySQL, I can declare `description TEXT collate utf8mb4_general_ci`, and then `LIKE '%de toutes façons%'` will match `De toutes facons`. Obtaining the same result with Postgres requires much more work.

Now for the bad side of MySQL: it has so many footguns, like the various compatibility modes (silent truncation when inserting is still the default behavior, I think), or the transactions breaking when a DDL starts. Support of complex types (arrays, JSON, specialized types like ISBN...) is also years ahead in Postgresql, and so are many advanced features.
Walmart sells Bonobos at a steep loss
> I'm not very familiar with the field, unfortunately, but it is my understanding that there is not much of a scientific method applied to teaching theories.

My impression from [1] is that a great many studies, reviews and independent reports about teaching children to read.

Of course, no matter how careful your study is, the results will be controversial when parents find they don't understand their child's school work any more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics
I don't get it. Lockheed and Martin were different companies in WW II.
The big question is: will there be some kind of "program" the user and/or developer needs to get into to be able to sideload/distribute independent apps?

The ideal status quo would be one where developers can make native apps, and users download and run them, without entering into a contractual relationship with Apple period. (Beyond the iOS EULA, which stands on legally shaky ground)
It's more like gardening:

1. plant seed
2. ...wait a very long time...
3. observe completely unexpected but cool result

The unexpected part of step 3 is what makes this very different from any kind of engineering, even webdev.

Of course, there is a lot of engineering involved in good ML, but that is more comparable to agricultural engineering in the sense that it's just a lot of dumb plumbing that any engineer can do without knowledge of the actual application.
English actually has this one backwards. Just think about the concept of a question mark. You're already specifying at the end of your sentences "the preceding was a question". Some languages have a literal spoken grammatical word that functions just like a question mark at the end of a sentence. In Chinese this word is "ma" (specific to yes/no questions). Also in Chinese, the way to pose a more general question mirrors the answer you are trying to get. You just substitute the information you don't have with the question words who/what/when/where/why. Eg "The bathroom is where?" "The bathroom is out back". When you stop and think about it, its actually kind of strange for English to pull the question words to the front, completely changing its sentence grammar for this one particular use case. I can't think of any other context where you can pull the verb to the front, violating the usual SVO ordering. English is weird, they aren't being timid (I think), you're projecting an interpretation of how they phrase things which actually has a simple linguistic explanation.
Engagement on Mastodon is simply higher quality IME as well.

Whether it's an "Eternal September" thing or not that Mastodon hasn't hit yet remains to be seen. It really reminds me of modern social media meets older school internet (IRC & web forums days).
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hmmm, IMHO, traffic for video and everything else ought to separated into 2 classes. Video obvious takes much much more bandwidth than other stuff. It would be good to allow none video, smaller assets that are needed to to make a website function to have priority over video files.