skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell this to EDF, they recently sent a letter warning of a price increase and gave an example where if you have £1000 bill it will go up to £1200
I cannot go into detail. However, I can tell you that reading about other people's experiences online, places like Quora, Glassdoor, etc, did help take away much of the mystery
One harsh truth that must be swallowed before we (the Hacker News community) makes progress on this problem:

We live in the land of Startups. All good technology innovation we're used to over the last 20 years has come from the Startup/VC world, when the internet was fresh and nobody knew what would work. Over the coming decades, we'll need vehicles for technology innovation that go beyond the "take over the world & prayer" model, assuming that silicon valley's vehicle of ultragrowth monoliths will eventually align with civic values. They won't.

To illustrate this, let's say you want to improve some problem with Facebook/Google/etc. To even begin, you need $50 million and a minimum of 3-5 years building a userbase. By then, you have payroll, growth obligations, & investor pressure & are forced to monetize, usually in a way that compromises longer-term values.

We can solve this with smarter internet infrastructure. If you could share social graphs between applications, for instance, you eliminate an incredible amount of overhead in developing and experimenting with new social applications. There's a number of great initiatives trying versions of this (IPFS, Urbit, Blockstack -- I'm tracking a number of popular ones over at http://decentralize.tech).

The community needs more organization and more funding around these problems, especially in the field of developing new business models that work for software that don't involve selling out user priorities to global ad networks. I'm in San Francisco and working on this problem full-time if anyone wants to meet up and discuss solutions; Email's in profile.
Read an introduction to proofs oriented book such as Book of Proof or my personal favorite:

https://www.amazon.ca/Mathematical-Proofs-Transition-Advance...
They aren't backing any of these companies financially. It is hard to tell what is in it for them yet. The only way this makes sense is if it is a pre-filter for their application funnel to increase the quality of their selections. Contrary to this, they originally claimed that startup school would not give you any leg up in the application process.
I think it's really unfortunate that you're more interested in a witch hunt than in actually engaging in the points raised in the discussion. I don't play on those terms. I see no need to prove to you or anyone else that I pass some litmus test that the direct point I was making is not contingent on.

Explanations of reality are not neatly divided into two camps. One can believe that anthropogenic climate change is a major issue worth addressing with vigor, and also believe that the most recent attempts to reach an international accord to that end are terrible for the long term economic and political interests of the West.
Why would it be inefficient to charge your car battery at night? And storing coolness in a masonry slab doesn't sound inefficient to me. Pumping water uphill and running it back through a turbine is pretty inefficient.
What is fun is that x86-64 ended up having CPU vendor dependent things like SYSENTER vs SYSCALL (and even SYSCALL ended up having a bunch of vendor dependent things about it too). Win10 had to add INT 2E to the 64-bit kernel for 32-bit system calls.
There doesn't seem to be much information obviously available about the underlying technologies here -- is this based on chromium?

How do users know what your lag will be behind chrome for pushing out new security updates?
Kinda weird. I envisage robotics as being the next gigantic thing in technology so its a bit hard to understand why Google don't want this any more.
The Oldest Human Fossils Ever Discovered Have Stories to Tell
How to Make Date Positive and Avoid Silences
The 8088 was designed in Israel so interestingly the IBM PC CPU even back then was "Israeli."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088
Unless you can influence an organisation at a pretty high level it is often impossible to write a useful CSP.

To take a really degenerate example, media sites tend to have so many third-party JS integrations (maps, multiple analytics providers, ad systems etc etc) that you can't write a useful, security-improving CSP :/

Which means talking to marketing about their preferred analytics tool, asking the business if they really want these ad networks etc etc.
I went to Delhi to learn more about tourist touts. It was enlightening watching the guys work. They worked hard, they were good at what they were about and at the end I made their time worth their while, though not as much as they might hope.

I don't know that I would recommend it as a hobby though, one might find themselves in some serious danger.
There are many times when I don't have an internal monologue. I can't imagine what it would be like to have one all the time.
I think that's just something we tell each other so the children can sleep at night.

Of course we exacerbate information asymmetries. That's what we do. That's why the neanderthals are in our museums, instead of the other way around.

Saying we shouldn't is like saying birds shouldn't fly, because it's not fair to the fish.
Hmm well Shinetsu probably supplies some wafers upstream.

Mitsubishi heavy industries would be the other prime candidate for aerospace...
> There are no other accessible alternatives which we can practically select between as consumers of agriculture.

I'm not talking about consumers of agriculture. The vast majority of consumers will choose whatever is cheapest and looks good. I'm talking about best practices for farming as it relates to yield and environmental impact. If the truly best practice happens to be a hybrid method and that becomes the standard, well then consumers will be forced to support that best practice and won't have to think anymore.

> your argument is very general "hybrid would be best"

I never said that. I said it's quite possible that it is since there's research to suggest this and you must consider a lot of factors, one of which is yield. If organic had the lowest environmental impact on an area but yielded way less produce, thereby requiring more land to be used, which had a larger overall environmental impact - that's sensible to question and study. Do you not agree?

We have a lot of farms already using some organic best practices alongside conventional methods. There's examples in the podcast I posted that use a hybrid approach.

> You can support organic standards and production, or focus on research critical of it.

Or, you could throw your agenda aside and support finding out the optimal way to farm these days and treat it as an ongoing process just like we usually do with technology.

Bottom line: there's nothing preventing the new best practice from being a hybrid approach which includes organic and conventional methods.
K8s – proper local development workflow
Jive has become acceptable in that context and is commonly used that way now (although technically you are correct).
Not sure why you're being voted down. The Boring Company is what he actually wants to call it. I love that name.

http://www.teslarati.com/boring-company-secures-city-tunneli...
RE: You Are Not Google (but you could be)
AI and automation will unlock that era. For now it gets shelved.
Since most people responding here have some sort of technical job, what sort of stuff are you working on? All of the bootcamps I'm aware of focus on web development. Do you still do strictly web stuff? Frontend or backend? Anything else?
SoftBank also acquired Aldebaran a few years ago, who's Pepper robot appears to be a toy next to the Boston Dynamics stuff.
I have been working on a visual programming language for Haskell: https://github.com/rgleichman/glance Currently, it uses Diagrams and Graphviz to visualize Haskell programs. Please email me since I think there is a lot we could discuss.
Yes, but aluminium smelting has certain constraints - namely, the molten metal cannot solidify[1]. This restricts your ability to quickly spin up and down smelters, but they are still potentially a very useful part of an energy smoothing strategy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting
Any word on when this will get rolled out?
HN was saying that Google acquired Boston Dynamics specifically to dismantle it.

Thoughts?

This was more than a random HN comment. There seemed to be several persuasive reasons why Google would do something like that.

Note that three years ago, the general sentiment was that Boston Dynamics was pretty scary: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=boston%20dynamics%20google&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7103433

"Technically, since their acquisition Boston Dynamics, Google is indeed in the business of war robots: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/google-buys-major-military... "

Is there a chance that Google stayed ahead of the curve and prevented Boston Dynamics from pursuing that?
Interesting! Thank you. Surprising to me to see RFID tags mentioned in the context of a system-wide transition -- I'll have to look into whether that was successfully completed.
You also need one where you're given significant environmental carte blanche. These types of projects are similar to dam projects in the scope and scale of the amount of the environment that they destroy, times two as you need upper/lower ponds.
Why wouldn't people willing to install an ad blocker just use Google's and another?
Sure! Email me; I’ll send you a PDF, ePub, HTML, or something. Thanks for your interest!
just look at the number of 'zombies' on the streets

Get used to the zombies...they are going to become far more prevalent. When Neuralink or whatever technologies converge to directly project experiences mind-to-mind, people will not be broadcasting selfies...they will be broadcasting self, as in their current, total sensate experience. People will tune in and live the most exciting virtual life that they need...while their physical sits decaying with saliva dripping from their half-opened mouths. The drug wars will come nowhere near as close to the holo-virtual experience tune-out that's rather near.
A law prohibiting employers from asking questions is much easier to enforce than anti-discrimination laws. I would still be willing to compromise by limiting anti-discrimination laws to manual labor jobs though.
It seems weird to assume that people will continue not caring about this 50 years from now, given the power conferred and stakes at hand for democracies to function.
I would be interested in seeing some links to tutorials about this. In the book Kubernetes in Action, the author provides a very good example of accomplishing this with the Kubeadm tool.
Indeed. There are many ways to the same goal. Much of practice is simply discovering what works best for you.
That resonates well with myself (similar) experience.

The very same omnifocus problem solution:

* shorterm for migration: omnifocus on ipad

* longterm: trello - it will be slightly different, and you have to come with your own GTD system for it, BUT surprisingly the differences allow me to get fresh and new approach to GTD. it's worth.

as a bonus: you can check taskwarrior instead.

I tried every other software, but it sucked, meaning got some problems. IMO only trello or taskwarrior _might_ (still in the process) do.
Uber in talks to acquire engineering team behind Luxe Valet
Do you think there's a solution?
The process of registering the domain behind the scenes might be a bit magic but buying one and pointing it at a hosting provider certainly isn't.
It would provide a fast, grid-like interpolation for any 2D data: think geospatial, GIS, etc. If I understand correctly, could also be used recursively to provide a lazy (but inefficient) way to calculate locations to an arbitrary precision.
Netsukuku – P2P mesh routing
Probably the mask writing companies.
Mostly because it was a rushed and not totally thought out acquisition - Boston Dynamics never wanted to leave Boston and has always been about legged locomotion, Google wanted them to change and they didn't.
Accessibility testing tools are lying to you
It might also help to think and talk in another language. There was a study showing that thinking in a foreign language makes you think more logically.

English is not my native tongue, but honestly it has helped me convey some meanings to myself that I just couldn't do in my native language. I'm starting to wonder what my thoughts would be like if I learn Japanese or Chinese.
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Thanks! What are some things that you did to challenge yourself? or do you have any suggestions about how I can challenge myself?
I maintain a website for a small nonprofit in my town. We did our best to get our name out there directly but 90% of our hits came from Facebook. For worse the site has serious levels of engagement.
I remember reading that in aluminum smelting, compared to other industrial processes, the energy cost is an especially large part of the overall costs. So when energy costs are abnormally low, smelting aluminum could go from bad to OK to wildly profitable.
I have watched hours of youtube, heard hundreds of metaphors, I've read countless articles and followed even more tutorials. I am beginning to think grokking the Monad is beyond me.
what are your thoughts on all-women coding bootcamps (ie hackbright in sf and grace hopper in nyc)?
My current company's CEO is a bit of an icon in the startup world, and his fans can be...intense. If we leave the office door unlocked during work hours, people can (and have) just waltzed in hoping to meet him. People also send all sorts of weird gifts.

Since we were basically working out of a house for the longest time, whoever was on hand would have to deal with the unwanted guest. If you're alone in the office and some big dude comes in saying "Well I won't leave until I meet your founder!", that can be scary.

As Gustomaximus puts it, it is to keep potential lunatics away.
> everyone can agree on

People don't even agree which direction the sun comes up.
I don't remember that sentiment.

It sounds like general fud against google but back then people had less to worry about.

Given the current political climate I would actually welcome a robot dystopia. as long as the robots were running it. not the politicians.
o_O !!!!!

Talk about overkill. Holy cow.

These guys did a 50MHz 6502 back on a Cyclone II:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/classes/2013/4840/repor...

It looks like they're going for an FPGA that has 512K+ of RAM directly on board. That's really expensive and I note that even the Altera stuff is in the same range of price. That's a poor design decision.

4Mb SRAMs are something like $10 with a 10nS access time.

Clearly some inexperienced hardware designers.
You don't understand why Google doesn't want to keep a company that works on military robots?
Actually a pretty interesting theory, though it seems a bit like a futile pursuit since another company can just spring up to take their place, or their employees can simply leave.

It seems more likely that when Andy Rubin was placed in charge of Google's hardware, he made a string of robotics acquisitions in a long term bet on a household robot of some sort. In a short period of time, Google acquired 8 robotics companies, many of which specialized in various forms of locomotion which could be explored in parallel to find an optimal form of movement through unstructured environments.

These startups seemed to go nowhere since Rubin left not too long after the acquisitions were made. Hard to say why Rubin left at the time for sure.

So it seems more like Boston Dynamics were acquired for their incredible robotic locomotion, and Google's ambition to make a household robot (code named replicant, which is the term for an android in Blade Runner. By now I assume Rubin is a big fan), would fit with the fact that Boston dynamics adapted a lot of their previous efforts into designing lightweight low range robots suitable for navigating indoor unstructured environments.
"Intel’s dynamic x86 ISA, and Intel will maintain its vigilance to protect its innovations and investments."

You do realize that your ISA is literally one of the worst things about your processors, right Intel?
Azure CosmosDB: RU/min Savings
Sure. But the thermal mass of an in-use pot is significant, and that buys you time. You can read more about the details here:

http://www.aluminiumtoday.com/contentimages/features/Oyeweb....

It's a well-done summary, I think you'll find it interesting. The tl;dr is that power interruptions up to ~4-5 hours do not cause significant trouble.
SoftBank is interesting to say the least. Google it and Saudi funding.

They even have a cute (kawaii) mascot. So cyberpunk.
Hardware/Software Tipping Point: Is Custom HW Making a Comeback
Ask HN: Do you market your side project?
Why or why not? I see a number of amazing projects on here every week that would grow if given a bit more publicity outside of an HN comment. But, I also understand the desire to want to build vs sell. If you could partner with someone to help market your side project with an equity or rev split, would you?
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They probably won't, but could by using a distributed pay to host service like filecoin https://filecoin.io/
Yes. I did this for my last client, much easier.
Any course that had lecture videos in the "electrical engineering and computer science" department. Patrick H. Winston is phenomenal. Also any Erik Demaine lecture, including his grad work in paper folding. Watch some lectures under the Mathematics and Physics department as well. Particularly Herbert Gross is memorable. Convert as many solutions into code as you can.

I always watch lectures speed up to 1.2x speed and watch them in order. If topics were particularly beautiful or interesting, I'll watch multiple times. If I don't get something, rewind, hear it over and over until I get it. Still don't get it? Google it. Find other explanations. Don't move on until you get it. Can't get it? Then accept the content is too advanced at this moment, and you simply need to work your way up to it. Very important to remember: don't get upset with yourself.

I did psets maybe half the time. Always took notes. Flashcards. Flashcards. Flashcards. Flashcards. Also flashcard apps too. Definitely did recitations when available. Did research on all the textbooks and read maybe half, just the ones that have been deemed "classics" and great literature. I usually purchase physical copy books or kindle.
Zuck looks pretty happy about it http://imgur.com/a/UL7HX
I don't understand why we don't negotiate a fixed rate and spec for each project, with financial incentives for early completion. The contractor takes some risk, but the risk can be mitigated with better research and uncertainty factored into the bid.
I don't have a problem with 4 layer boards. It's not worth wasting the brainpower (and debugging time) anymore to route something with 2 layers when you can have great ground and power planes for a really marginal increase in cost.

The issue seems to be keeping all the RAM in the FPGA. That's pretty expensive.

Chalk it up to inexperienced hardware designers.
Noflux released, the new Simple, stupid state management for React
If you don't need your ${purchase you'd like to keep private} to be optimally produced, you could register demand for a facility that allows you to select from an assortment of goods effectively anonymously, i.e. a shop. The demand would then be tracked on the aggregate level. Of course this is assuming that the selection includes what you want, otherwise you will have to be more open about your desires to have them satisfied.
Either everyone is crazy or I am -- does a site that's used by less than 100 users really need to outsource their auth?

If you're part of a school don't you have student accounts in some central place like LDAP/AD/IdM?
Yes it seems that a determined advertiser could find out quite a bit about people who saw its Google ads...
The very neat part about firmForth is that if you compile the firmForth JIT with cparser (libfirm compiler), it can inline C functions into the JITted code.
I came up with a solution, but then read further that he gave the answer away. Anyways, here it is: http://imgur.com/a/dzRyZ
Also see a website I made: https://spa.mnesty.com/
There are many ways to store energy. Molten salt has been used in Spain and Arizon USA, but not at huge scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Molten_...
yes its a great loss for Google.

but they have plenty of things going on this is just another distraction from there core product groups.
Most of the people I bootcamped with do not religiously read HN, but of those who do, most of us have solid jobs.

This is obviously an anecdote, but I think it's logical those who had bad experiences and did not end up developers most likely do not read HN.
I think of inner & outer joins like AND & OR. An inner join will only return a result if the value of key that the join is on exists in both tables. An outer join will give rows for all key values in both tables even if values are only in one or the other table with null results in the row for the columns of the opposite table. Inner joins are the default as you are generally interested in what matches between tables but you have the option of outer if you need to get the full messy picture or if you are doing ETL and want to ensure no badish records are missing.
Hi Aaron. I didn't know you were part of that committee. Cool!
Ask HN: Startup advice for k9s?
Yeea, been working the long hours, and I've fallen into the trap - and comfort - of low maintenance. In the absence of better cleansing pattern my k9s have been dulling at a frightening rate.

Biggest concern is that I'll never be able savor that $Xk success steak, no matter how soon we go unicorn.

Any biohack tips for a cleaner self?
Show HN: Tifuhash - Tiny Fast Universal Hash, using 64-bit continued fractions
Introspection nails it, I think.

I remember a woman volunteering to give me a reading. The question I wanted divined was about "relationships", the answer she interpreted from the lay of the cards was "work".

I leaned back and thought, "Perhaps the relationship thing will take it's own course, I should be thinking about getting my financial house in order."

And so it did and so I did.
http://www.greenarraychips.com/ is his current company, mostly notable for extremely low-power chips using asynchronous circuits (i.e. there's no central clock). IIRC he develops the CAD software he uses to design chips on his own chips.
Apache Spark Cluster Monitoring with Databricks and Datadog
Maybe Google and Facebook shouldn't be lumped together.

Google (however big they are) provides a lot of value to my world at least. Just for search alone. Sure, there are other search engines but none nearly as good. Making it easy to find relevant information is of huge benefit and really does "change the world". I consider this enhancing.

Facebook is like the owner of a seedy bar. Preying on people's need to socialize and serving rotgut. Profiting from degradation rather than enhancement. (IMOP).

People should stop drinking rotgut. That's the way to stop Facebook. Rotgut is cheap anyway. You can even make your own in the basement. But if you want to stop Google you need to build a better search engine. Best of luck with that (seriously, I'd use it, no loyalty but so far Google has some truly useful products).
Unless I'm missing something, this looks like it ends up sprinkling all of your passwords into your .bash_history file. Maybe saving a credential should be a prompted action:

$ kbsecret new login gmail "foo@example.com"
Please enter the password: barbazquux