skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They look a lot like Sunpower's all black panels. I wonder how efficient they are? In Sunpower's case, the all-black ones are lower wattage and less efficient then their traditional looking ones, but also cheaper.
I don't know why no one linked https://peekier.com in the comments yet.
Nice task keep going.
It's not really about benefit. UK police, like most european police, have no expectation that anyone they encounter might be in possession of a firearm.
You have no idea how much I want what you write to be true. Trust me, I LIKE driving fast and burning gas and building stuff. It's fun!

However, peddling this without very, very good sources is harmful. Yours are dubious at best, and come from a political organization (the Reason Foundation), not a scientific one.
Barreleye Fish
A bit to the side: I don't subscribe to any lists at the moment. Should I start? Is it better than just checking the sites I care about once in a while? How do you personally use it?
I always read iOS Dev Weekly - https://iosdevweekly.com/.
And i'm not even an iOS developer!
Maybe I don't give the rewriters enough credit, but in all honesty, I'd be surprised if they bothered to look that deep into the code and tests before it's already too late. Too often, there's just some handwaving and proclaiming you "don't to it like that in today's software".
Good.
I am also using 2 tools:
http://designspiration.net/
http://paletton.com/
It was supposed to be a joyous trip to one of France’s gastro palaces (Le Cinq)
Adding sines is the basis of additive synthesis, you are correct about the ratio, i have made a visual additive synth which is just adding alot of sinewaves (Y axis represent frequencies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBg3DnElfHk
Tachyons, a light-weight, responsive, functional css framework
Lost our servers on SFO2 a few hours ago. Seems to be back now, but at the moment, control panel is down in all areas, and the servers are still reporting problems (no metrics etc.)

Probably the worst outage on DO in the 2 years that I have been using them... Hope they get it fixed up soon, and I dearly hope it wasn't an itchy sysadmin finger that did something (ala the recent AWS S3 outage).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
Don't be so sure. Layers of middle management, all with their own (often selfish) priorities between you and other teams working on systems you need to collaborate with will destroy any possibility of agility.
Even better, kangaroos (I know, I know, poor skippy...). Their digestive systems don't produce methane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo#Absence_of_digestive_...

And I'm less sure of this, but I've heard that they cause far less soil erosion compared to cows, as their weight is spread out over a much larger area (i.e. they have big feet). Their populations in some parts of Australia have also reached unsustainable starvation levels, to the point where some State-level governments have initiated culling (i.e. licensed shooting of kangaroos, in a country with very tight gun-control laws).
Hey, thanks for linking hndigest! We're in the process of rebuilding hndigest from scratch. If you'd like to sign up now, I suggest using the beta version which has improved looks and robustness (and upcoming new features):
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(If you're an old subscriber, you'll be moved to the new version in the upcoming days/weeks. Don't fret, if you don't like the look of the new version you can still select the old-style look).
Personally, I don't. I pay for maximum bandwidth, and if there's a spike it will just throttle. This has its own set of problems of course but at least I don't get surprised by the bill.

They do have "flexible" schemes where the bandwidth can increase as demands grow (of course, you pay accordingly), but that's not the default.

(I'm hosted by https://www.gandi.net/)
Are you disciplining yourself enough, whilst you post here?
The biggest problem is that no system can withstand such huge alternations in amounts of generated power. Solar and wind energy isn't available 24/7 and generation can't be rapidly changed to compensate for changes in consumption.
Thanks! I was completely unaware of Boardreader; if done right it could solve the problem Google created when they stupidly removed the discussion search filter.
I know what you mean. I'm not saying that weight training is not good for females.

But because of the hormone testostore, men create muscle faster and with that, loose weight faster because of the higher calorie requirements. I'm not saying it's impossible for women. I'm saying it's harder to have fast results with weight training.

For women, cardio is normally a faster way to get lean fast. I suggest to read the book: Burn the fat, feed the muscle which has really learned me a lot about "the body", metabolism and losing weight
Sounds like you should start an "enterprise expert" consultancy that knows what it's doing. Seems like a good opportunity.
Complex numbers are (isomorphic to) a certain subset of linear operators on a 2-dimensional Euclidean vector space which rotate and/or scale the vectors in the plane without skewing or anisotropically stretching them. (We usually also include a zero operator here; depending on use case we sometimes omit it (the “punctured plane”), or sometimes add a point at infinity (the “Riemann sphere”).)

If you want you can write them down as matrices acting on vectors in an orthonormal basis by matrix multiplication:

[a -b]
[b a]

Or if you prefer you can consider i to be a unit bivector in the plane, with a complex a + bi acting on vectors by Clifford’s geometric product.

Or if you want you can write them using a length and an angle measure, and use high school trigonometry to figure out how they apply to vectors.

The difference between the real plane and the complex numbers is that for two vectors in the plane, the product is not a vector. (Indeed, if you use Clifford’s geometric product, then the product of two vectors is a complex number (scalar + bivector).)
The full title reads "Tesla unveils its new ‘sleek and low-profile’ exclusive solar panel made by Panasonic". From the sources it references, it also appears that Panasonic is manufacturing Tesla's batteries.

Does anyone know how much of this is Tesla's technology, and how much Panasonic's? If it's mostly the latter, what would stop Panasonic from providing the same technology to other parties?
Are you part the Startup School class? What is your company? How has the experience been so far?
Dubai Diamonds
Appears to be 'fat finger' syndrome yet again ?!?

https://m.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/11/database_deletion_dow...
Or you could use plain old self discipline and not touch electronic devices past x PM.
Foxconn factory workers have a lower suicide rate than the average Chinese.
WIT Conferences Is Hosting an International Conference on Water and Society
In a twisted kind of way, I'd call that a feature.

If you're aware you don't know what you're doing, but still want to do it, that's kind of ok. Problem is when you're not even aware you're about to jump into some pretty hot water.
Samsung Electronics Decides Not to Sell Its Digital Cameras Anymore
I also assumed that from first click; but this library is also very interesting :)
> A more valid wording for this comment would be "I wonder how they altered the design to accommodate for the siphon effect the gap generated," instead of implying they have no idea what they're doing.

If you want a rewording that's closer to my original meaning, it'd be more like "I bet these were made with a cold climate, like that in the northern USA, in mind. They'd lose 10-20% efficiency in summer where I live."

Edit: Although that may not be a terrible thing, if they're overprovisioned compared with the inverter's maximum output so as to keep the inverter at full power for a larger proportion of the time. Depending on climate, you could probably balance out losses due to summer heat with losses due to reduced winter daylight, at least to a degree, giving more reliable year-round power.
Yes, that's what I meant. Proscribe opiates => patient stops complaining. Cost is $20/mo instead of many $thousands.
>>Don't you have a kanban board or equivalent where you can see what everyone's been up to and what their upcoming tasks are?

Not where I am now, and in places where we have had various boards it was still useful to have the quick verbal communication - "Oh, I have a script that deals with some of that, it might be a useful guide, let's talk afterwards"

>> Do you need to know what's holding them up if it's not you?

The same thing may bite me soon so I need to know, or I may have a simple
workaround and can offer to help them out.

I find the line in the article about it being unnecessary if the team is functioning and communicating well quite weird - the stand-up, in my experience, has been a part of that and has also been a way of saving other communication time.
[Feedback-needed] Open list of remote developers available for job interviews
great idea. Or an expert network as many are self employed.
Thanks for mentioning Ecosia. I was actually working for them over a year ago.

They're a bunch of really good people on a great mission.
Even ignoring the speed of the electrons, this ignores that several steps of that route will almost certainly be done over fibre anyway, and at that point there is clearly no transfer or electrons from the "seller" to the "buyer". Although I have no idea whether or not this is relevant to the legal question at hand…
My mailing lists include:

# avc.com

# Ben Evans

# azeem azhar

# social capital

# aeon

# farnam street

# nautilus

# Axios's pro rata

# mattermark

# delancey place

# quanta magazine
Scientific Techniques: How to Read 100 Books a Month
Chickens. Many chickens.
(!i takes you straight to Google Images)
It must have been $1000 and somehow a zero was lost.

Financial insustry? Short term work? Specialist competence systems? There is no way it's $100.
> nine out of ten products fail

Nah, not even close. I mean, not unless you include every random app store game made by some teenager.

Obviously the big companies almost always do well, but there are a ton of small and medium-sized companies which have been ticking along for years, releasing game after game with at least modest success.

Failure isn't random either. You have good designers and good management, you're probably not going to release a bad game. A company's track record is often surprisingly consistent, in either way.
I wasn't aware of how terrible they were and I won't be flying with them anymore, and I will be flying in the USA a lot in the next 12 months. But every airline I've tried here has been impossibly terrible, so...
While targeted at one programming language community, The Scala Times consistently delivers quite high quality content. It's one of the only newsletters I'm still subscribed to.

http://scalatimes.com/
Toshiba warns it may not be able to continue as a going concern
The Last Frontier in Java GC: The No-Op Garbage Collector
According to what I've heard from public sources, the machines and tech are Panasonic, but the factory lay-out and product design is Tesla.

I think you can think of Tesla as "Standard Lithium" - like Standard Oil in the past, they built a giant refinery (The GigaFactory) to give economies of scale and built many channels of distribution to sell it all + compliments: cars, battery packs, solar, etc.
Standups are a complete waste of time. Whoever floated that idea and made it popular should be ashamed of themselves.

I was sick of "circle time" and "show and tell" when I was in kindergarten. I don't need to deal with that as an adult when I have work to do.
Jiren vs Hit Dragon Ball Super La Pelea Mas Esperada
I figured it out. You have to click the 'Primary', 'Secondary' boxes in the bottom right.
Yes, got accepted into the current stream. My company is HR Partner (https://hrpartner.io).

Only the first week of the course so far, but it has been good. We seem to be in a good group with a great mentor who has excellent communication skills. Had our first 'office hours' meetup this morning that went well. Really looking forward to diving in a bit more and getting some questions answered on how we can best measure KPIs and market more effectively.

Honestly, I didn't know about the bonuses from AWS etc. until my co-founder let me know today, thus my application to Amazon, which will really help us out as we run a lot of services with them already.
>Consider: all of environment protection legislation that we take for granted now was once "hippie bullshit".

No, all the environmental damage we now defend and wish we could take for granted was once, and remains, valid science. Bio-time, bio-space, and the folding and unfolding of DNA across the ages are in fact hippie bullshit.
> I don't really understand the 'feeling inadequate because of my cousin's baby pictures' thing

I concur. I've never understood this, and tbh haven't met anyone who does.

> For me, the problem with social media is a fundamental lack of self control...

I find this interesting because as a very frequent Facebook user, I don't really encounter this there, I guess due to the whole filter-bubble kind of effect of social circles. Facebook discussion are all reinforcing rather than combative, so the question of good faith debate rarely even comes into it at all. The echo chamber has it's own reputation for being "bad for you" for other reasons however.

> I mostly have left other mediums with these sorts of unfufilling conversations

I've definitely engaged in one or two of these on HN, but generally they're in a tiny minority. As an alternate example though, while I don't really tweet, and I figure Twitter is a more likely medium for those sorts of "unfulfilling conversations", it seems to offer a lot of value to counter-balance that aspect.
The depreciation is mostly because of the vast volumes of company leases ending.

Despite the fairly high reliability of thwir thinkpads, you can easily get good deals on second hand models.
The question is, "How did he get Windows 10 for free on a custom machine?"
> Many C-level executives want "true business agility" for their company: They want to be able to react quickly when circumstances change.

True, and this isn't a bad goal in and of itself, but what they don't realise is that these 'quick reactions' (aka fundamental low level changes in the product) may require orders of magnitude more work than said executives expect (and in fact, probably the work required is at least linear in the age of the company).

> (they do not have a war chest yet, so those that were not able to react quickly do not exist anymore)

I'd argue that having a 'war chest' is actually detrimental to agility (if you're thinking of agility as 'the ability to perform at our current level in a different field'). Small new companies can pivot extremely fast because even if it means throwing away their whole codebase, they've only lost a few months' work.
All books written and will be written (in finite time) - yes, rational.

All possible questions (infinitely many) - no, that would be a non-terminating non-periodic binary, right. From the article:

> 2.4 Borel’s know-it-all number

> The idea of being able to list or enumerate all possible texts in a language is an extremely powerful one, and it was exploited by Borel in 1927 [Tasi ́c, 2001, Borel, 1950] in order to define a real number that can answer every possible yes/no question!

> You simply write this real in binary, and use the nth bit of its binary expansion to answer the nth question in French.

> Borel speaks about this real number ironically. He insinuates that it’s illegitimate, unnatural, artificial, and that it’s an “unreal” real number, one that there is no reason to believe in.
Reviews of Jumperoo and Exersaucer for Your Baby
They can't get data on what goes through peoples heads before clicking an action, only if it was clicked or not.
> Moving off core systems (z/i/p) isn't simple mostly because of the amount of data combined with all the custom applications.

I wonder if someone could get away with selling a z/i/p emulator, akin to Wine. (Or perhaps more appropos, Mame, since the machine architecture would differ as well.)
So basically, Musk-oil infused off the shelf products? This could be the "rounded corners" of energy, cue the Samsung jokes.

There have been different levels of awareness for the visual quality of photovoltaic installations before, this one does not strike me as a particularly large jump. Maybe the baseline standard in the US is particularly low so this is relevant? Or do these aesthetics skirt a common HOA threshold?

But in the end it does not matter much. Even if it's all just hype, if the hype leads to installations that would not have happened otherwise it must be a net positive.
Looking back, I can think of one or two professionally-done textbooks I used that were really good. (The Campbell biology books in particular were stellar.)
The amount of work that must have gone in to their creation was enormous, and I am thankful for them.

But there were not enough of them. For every worth-the-purchase, there were a dozen of middling to genuine crap quality, and every single one was painfully expensive.

I genuinely feel for the good folks that I know are stuck in the system. But the current model can't die fast enough.
No, that was my point. The exact value that affiliate marketers are supposed to provide, RTMN does very little, and probably none at all. They are a complete failure in delivering on the affiliate value proposition.
I find this resource especially useful. https://blog.acolyer.org/
Show HN: Type and Shoot – Letters
> Like, shit man, sometimes it takes me more than 3 minutes to reply on Slack because I'm doing shit. Go do some stretches or something ...

Amen. Especially when the only proper response is a LMGTFY.
On a related note, NASA's Worldview makes images from Earth observation satellites available in near real time (a few hours): https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
I was wondering if someone was going to make the comparison to movies as movies are almost entirely crewed by contractors.

The difference might be that the contractors in the film and TV industry are all union.
I'm using the google books api, then indexing my results in a database for referencing etc. It's working pretty well so far.
The problem with sugar is, IMO, glycemic index. With glucose being an index of 100, no sugar being an index of 0, and something that takes a moderate amount of time to convert from starches/etc to sugar being 50, things that are higher than 50-60 tend to spike your blood sugar and cause insulin to scavenge the sugar out and store it in fat. Doing that often causes things like insulin resistance and obesity as you get hungry again when your blood sugar drops.

Fruits have a surprisingly low glycemic index because they aren't processed and you have to get through fiber and digest the cells before having access to all of the sugar. I've changed my diet to avoid sugar and notice that I very rarely feel actively hungry/crashy vs. before, and most fruit is just fine.

http://www.glycemicedge.com/glycemic-index-chart/
Your statement that the green movement would be embraced by everyone if they understood tradeoffs and economics doesn't take into account the opposition from entrenched interests and capital.

Your argument makes it sound like most people actually have an option to participate in progress or not (they don't realistically) or that the people making the decisions on tradeoffs are doing so in a rational way that benefits everyone. (They aren't.)

If you view progress as some kind of struggle of the species, like a force of nature, then yes it is indeed grand. If you view progress in the light of power struggle between factions in the species, then most progress actually benefits very few people.

I mean, despite the fact that people have known that plumbing is awesome for several thousand years most people still defecate in a hole in the ground.

I get it. That "captain-planet-mother-gaia" bullshit gets on my nerves too. But so does "economics is a science like physics". While the former is obnoxious, the latter is dangerous.
well said. feeling it exactly same. i'm convicted that next generations will despise today's lifestyle.
Why? We can just keep solving problems. If we really wanted to, we could be carbon neutral in a few years and even pay for carbon sequestration. (Basically, just run the whole global economy on nuclear for example.)

Not gonna happen, of course, because it's a huge and expensive undertaking---and there's no(t enough) political will nor even any consensus. But the problem is not our lifestyle per se, nor is competition.
> Chances are, you picked the alphanumeric names as the luxury cars and the name-names as mass-market cars. You did this even though there are at least two cars in there you’ve never heard of, because I just made them up.

The tagline totally ruins the effect of this. "How a jumble of numbers and letters came to convey fanciness, while cute names came to mean value." Kind of gives the game away, even if I didn't recognize any of the cars.

(As it happens, I only recognize Yaris and Fiesta. I might have guessed based on those.)
I don't understand why more isn't done to implement large-scale carbon capture and storage technologies. There are quite well-understood and proven technologies to do this, but they don't seem to be on anybody's agenda.

Trying to bring down CO2 concentration by convincing people to give up cars, food and planes is obviously a losing strategy.

If we're serious about preventing climate change we're going to have to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere. But nobody seems interested.
I'm still trying to understand the convolution of two functions. Every God damn text ist only about how useful the Fourier series are - that's it.
(Math student)
That's confusing branding with functionality.
The author implies that it's sort of hidden at the end.
That's one type of article. Clearly there's a world of difference between "10 ways to improve your SEO" and "Britain at War". If we only write articles in the event of the latter, it will be a strange world.
The Haskell Cafe is quite interesting.
only very few people contribute to human progress. most of the population are selfish consumers.
Yes, and it would be enough to have one set of styleguides to cover all apps. In fact, I would very much prefer that. All the 'cool' looking stuff can be extremely confusing because you need to re-learn at least that part of the UI over and over again. It's a kind of mental form of lock-in.
I definitely agree with some of these points—like the round mouse and the G4 cube—but it's kind of hard to take a comment seriously when it includes the word "trashintosh".
Kevin Rose's monthly "The Journal" (http://www.thejournal.email/) is quite good.
I still have an iPhone, but I'm (by choice) on a contract that has 500Mb of data per month and then a very expensive per Gb cost after that. Being aware of what percentage of my 500Mb I've used makes me very careful about wasting time on the phone. Works well for me and keeps me productive.
So Lua to Go, and Go to Javascript. I wonder how well that works..
Or you can internalise costs that normally get externalised. For instance, the government could make people pay a fixed-fee (i.e. a tax) for every tonne of co2 they emit. You then just set the fee at a level commensurate with the total damage caused by emitting a tonne of co2 and then sit back and let people's natural self-interest do the rest of the work.

I think it's noble and commendable to act ethically, and promote ethical behaviour. However, I don't think "people acting ethically" is the thing we want to be relying on when we're trying to avoid self-extinction. By a large margin, people are usually selfish and will act in a self-interested manner, so it's probably safer to harness this particular aspect of humanity. I'm not saying it's pretty, but it sure beats self-extinction.
I'm not convinced it's their ultimate goal, or even one of their goals at all, since poor implementations could water down their branding. But it is definitely a side effect.