skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there really nothing that we could do with this excess energy? Couldn't we purify water or run simulations or something similar?
I would like to make a tribology joke here, but I can't because it's from the Greek τρίβω, tribo, "I rub".
I'm perfectly willing to wait a second for the page to be reloaded from solid-state storage, if I haven't visited the page for an hour or more.

Some people might say I shouldn't keep hundreds of tabs open for weeks. But I'm an old guy, and by my standards my laptop is a freakin supercomputer, so in my mind it should be able to handle all the web pages I can manually throw at it.
This is a problem that's inherent to many recommendation systems. Viewing history feeds into recommendations, and recommendations drive viewing habits -- so there's a feedback loop. Depending on how the recommendation engine is tuned, this can result either in recommendations that drift (e.g, leading users to "the weird side of Youtube"), or ones that hyperfocus on one topic (as described in this article).
The state from which they launched (presumably with permits) is fully responsible for the damages. I.e. if they allow smallcorp inc. to launch a tiny cubesat; if that cubesat hits something important and causes $1 billion in damages, then that country is liable for the full amount, no matter if they can recover that money from the (likely bankrupt) company or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Liability_Convention
if like me, you're an avid user of vim, the vimium [0] plugin was a game changer in my productivity.

[0]: https://vimium.github.io/
Emacs, Org mode, magit, Alfred.
Bullet journaling.

If you scrape off the layer of Tumblr or pinterest types who spend their time on calligraphy and washi tape, underneath is a really great system for productivity and dumping your brain to an analog medium.

Bonus: it's just a book and a pen, so it's "cross platform", and I never have to worry about XaaS providers going under, or Google killing a project and losing all my notes.
Oh, interesting! Perhaps Bach wrote it for lute in g minor and Williams plays it in a minor on guitar? I didn't think of that.

Wikipedia seems to agree with you on the key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite_in_G_minor,_BWV_995
Simple and Easy to Use Mongo Migration Tool – Script in Python
They've been offered a sinecure by politically aligned allies in the Federal government, which makes sense since P Thiel's strategy for innovation boils down to rent-seeking.
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I used Workflowy for a couple years and loved it. But I craved something a _little_ more robust and found https://checkvist.com. It is similar to WF in terms of concept and UI but it has a lot of handy extras.
I'd suggest the main challenge is in breaking out of echo chambers. It's healthy to engage with people you (respectfully) disagree with. Not doing so can easily lead to misinformation being spread amongst like-minded people.
MRA is a few good points wrapped in a seven layer dip of paranoia, sexual entitlement, harassment, and misogyny.

It's 'not radical' in the same way that hang-all-the-bourgies anarcho-communism is not radical - that is, not at all.
How often do you find yourself either keeping to that seven minute limit or going past it? Also, do you flip it over at the end if you go past the seven minutes? How do you decide when to start it?
Western society already went through this. Precursors of copyright law were spurred by the invention of the printing press. People who might use the press to spread unapproved politics or theology were to be denied access to the new technology.

The authoritarians lost.
I used Arch for years and years, and it would just break sometimes on regular package updates. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with a live CD, but still annoying.
As a concrete example, there was a BuzzFeed article a while back with a video of Karp heavily criticizing Trump: https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/video-shows-palantir-c...
IITs don't really 'look' for any traits with the exception of the ability to crack the entrance examination. For undergrad, there isn't even an interview.
I don't know. Lazy is a pretty good description, but then it's also a combination of not knowing how to study, and not understanding that studying is a skill, something you have to do. Just suddenly finding that you don't immediately understand something, and having nowhere to go to remedy it.
In California, yes, PG&E is being required to use non-fossil fuel resources for peaker functionality.

But, battery storage is cheap enough to start replacing peakers nationwide [1]. GE also laid off 12k people from their gas turbine generator business due to dropping demand [2]. Also, "Major CEOs of power companies have also suggested, in a much more aggressive time frame, that peaker plants will go away entirely by 2020 in the USA." [3]

Batteries will never get more expensive. Renewables will continue their aggressive cost decline curve. Ergo, peakers are stranded assets, and energy storage + renewable will continue their march down the electric generator market vertical (peakers->load following->base load).

[1] https://electrek.co/2017/12/13/solar-batteries-to-take-10gw-...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-07/ge-is-sai...

[3] https://twitter.com/jburwen/status/940635406697160704
vim,tmux,i3,taskwarrior and redmine
I guess I think it's a bit of a tragedy that the most successful game since Doom was a copycat.

It's also a shame that really creative game-makers, like ToadyOne or Zach, tend to not do that well - while Notch, who basically copied an entire game, presumably having even read the source code, is now made out of money.

I've no idea about the exact mechanics of the copying - whether he just copied the idea, or copied the implementation from the source, or indeed used parts of the source in his game - but I think these are largely small differences. The real problem I have is it seems like this is basically how our society works - somebody thinks of something cool, then somebody else gets rich / famous / tenure off it, while the person who did most of the work is lucky to get a footnote.
The clipboard manager in Alfred
It doesn't help. All the passwords can be enumerated using the OS API.

It would actually be a lot easier to gather passwords if all applications used the OS store.
WWWBrowser, a browser written in Haskell in 1994
It's not a naive question.
She was on the verge of re-inventing Keynesian Economics, which ended the Great Depression.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/keynesianeconomics.asp
Cryptocurrent miners have a strong incentive to locate in places where the $ per kWh rate is consistently low 24x7x365, not just for peaks. Such as near a hydroelectric dam in east Wenatchee WA. Mining also requires very little in the way of network connectivity, maybe 10Mbps at most, so it can be located just about anywhere.
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It's not, if you can tell the difference between implementing something and using/instantiating something.
I'm all for this. We desperately need carbon-free sources of energy, and even though there are challenges associated with nuclear it really is a powerful technology and I think the risks are generally worth it. Even better if the partnerships formed here can produce reactors that remove or reduce some of the negatives.

And before anyone even says it, I strongly support work into solar, wind, and other non-carbon sources as well. I believe it should be all hands on deck to solve climate change and I see no problem with supporting all of these technologies.
Even in this case. The country from where they launched is fully liable; and the fact whether they can recover the money from the company (i.e. whether it exists or not) is irrelevant. If they didn't prevent the launch and didn't acquire appropriate safeguards or insurance (which would be feasible) it's their problem.
What I know of Karp that suggests that he's left is that studied under Habermas of the Frankfurt School, whose social theses is about as academically left wing as you can get.

The Frankfurt School's critiques had once been very popular in the US where it was imported as critical theory.

Horkheimer and Ardono of the Frankfurt School criticized the consumerization of culture that is present everywhere in US society: recall that before mass communications popular culture was pretty much local, handmade, diverse and free, but these days it is mediated by big companies that produce flashy, generic products: think Disney, Hollywood and Hallmark; already in the 1930s this US tendency to commercialize was present to those continential Europeans. They saw that this commercial culture was soft propaganda for a capitalist society, distracting people from the reality of their situation; in this manner, unjust societies like capitalism can maintain their division of power.

Unfortunately I'm even less familiar with Habermas's work.

In any case, it seems to me that the Anglosphere is not very receptive of the Frankfurt School. Most of their works seem to suffer from an overemphasis in engaging in a dialectic with previous philosophers and reinterpreting old theories, rather than actually doing fieldwork and find if there is evidence that those theories (and their own) are good explanations or summaries of reality. (Less kind people would say that all this is a charade at seeming intellectual without doing any good science or philosophy)
But you still need to unlock the keychain to get those... so what’s the difference?

If anything, the new iMac pro has a Secure Enclave, which means we can soon expect in some number of years that most computers will as well.
Isn't infiniminer just a computerized copy of Lego.

As the old saying goes, "If you could have invented Facebook, you would have invented Facebook". Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything.
FWIW, there was also enqueue app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/enqueue/id493119959?mt=12 (not maintained since 2012, but still there) which was inspired by foobar2000
Presumably they purposefully hired those VR engineers in the first place in which case they should have just hired more Security engineers.
Not really what article talks about, but I don't understand why browsers while they copied some nice Opera[1] features (Chrome first then FF out of Chrome) none bothered to copy Wand.

The way current browsers operate, makes it really inconvenient to use a master password, because each time you visit a page for which a password is stored, it will prompt you to enter a master password. This way you can't have a feature where master password is forgotten after for example 10 minutes of not using it.

Such behavior makes one either to not use master password at all, or enter it and be in memory for the entire time a browser is running.

Also pressing Command+Enter or Ctrl+Enter log in to a website was so much faster and convenient than the current way.

[1] Note I'm talking about actual Opera browser which sadly no longer exists, the current Opera browser is just a Chrome with a different skin.
What if you use your mobile phone to receive a million texts per day and the sender uses a different service provider. Your service provider has to pay for all that data moving through its network one way or another...
If the "hydrogen economy" people ever figure out a way to make the equipment and fuel cells economical, cracking hydrogen from water at times when power is $0.00 per kWh could be one method. Takes a massive amount of amperage. Store it in tanks and use as needed through giant fuel cells.
Do I think there's anything wrong with the current hype cycle for VR? No. The way I see it, If someone knows they're being sold to, then they can assess that sales pitch accordingly.

What's more interesting to me is that you're implying that this hype (a.k.a. advertising) is having a negative impact on you, even if you don't intend to buy the product yourself. What's the worst case scenario here? That some investors make a bad investment?
Ask HN: What's the best modern Java web app stack and tooling?
Background: for the past few years I've been mostly Ruby on Rails, some iOS, and some JS/React. Would like to start building some simple web apps with Java–most likely with React on the frontend.

What's the best modern stack for this? What are the equivalents of rbenv, gems/bundler, Sinatra, Rails, and AR/sequel in Java-land?

TIA!
They are subject to American minimum wage laws which (currently) don't require them to pay foreign employees a minimum wage. For a counterpoint, USA citizens are subject to USA income taxes even if they aren't in USA and possibly have never earned a single cent in USA ever.
> In October 2008, Barclays was saved from collapse thanks to a $12 billion investment led by Qatar’s government. As part of the transaction, Barclays paid Qatar a secret $452 million fee for “advisory services” and loaned the country an additional $3 billion. To the SFO, the fee looked like a bribe and the loan an attempt by Barclays to illegally fund a purchase of its own shares. (The executives and the bank deny wrongdoing.)

Preventing stuff like this is essential to a working stock market. How can anyone invest in any company, if he has to fear that the companies assets he supposedly owns a share of, are given away in exchange for buying stock, so that the managers can get a bonus for the rising stock price, instead of the company getting raided and the managers replaced with better ones?

There's no detail about the other cases, but at least in this case it's clear that there's no dichotomy at all between the UK's economic interest, jobs, the free market and ethics, but rather between those things and the upper management of a single company.

> Bankers who manipulate markets ought to be charged, he said, but “simply ratcheting up ever-larger fines that just penalize shareholders, erode capital reserves, and diminish the lending potential of the economy is not, in the end, a long-term answer.”

"penalize shareholders" Shareholders are supposed to invest in sound businesses. There's nothing wrong with them being "penalized" by fines, anymore then there's anything wrong with them being "penalized" if a companies new product fails.
How's the responsiveness/latency? I have a Hue setup with the old circular bridge and can't stand how unpredictable the delay is between sending a command and the lights responding.
And to rip off the abstract “We show that despite the weakness of gravity, the phase evolution induced by the gravitational interaction of two micron size test masses in adjacent matter-wave interferometers can detectably entangle them even when they are placed far apart enough to keep Casimir-Polder forces at bay. We provide a prescription for witnessing this entanglement, which certifies gravity as a quantum coherent mediator, through simple spin correlation measurements.”
Another favorite American-perspective truth about Britain I enjoy is when towns in Essex are described as London suburbs. It's inconceivable to me (I lived in Chelmsford for a few years as a teenager) but quite true.
There are not enough geniuses for the top universities to be filled with them. As someone who went to a “top” university (but not as top as those you mentioned) I think only a small percentage of students are really blindingly bright. Most are just significantly above average, get their work done, have at least adequate social skills, and come from wealthy families that pushed them towards selective universities. From there most students fall into “buckets” such as being an athlete, coming from a specific high school with highly wealthy students, playing a certain instrument, etc. Only a small portion get in from pure brains
I use a bunch of IDEs from https://www.jetbrains.com/ (mainly Idea) and it is hands down the most important thing for my productivity. Been using them for over 10 years, super worth it.
use the tool ps_mem.py which tells you both the 'private' memory and the 'resident' memory chrome used, those memory are indeed taken, not just malloc-ed in a VSZ area waiting to be used.
Comprehensive handling of Android back button in Ionic 2 and ionic 3
Most people's radical view is simply a view different from their own.
Most large aluminum plants are located very near giant hydroelectric dams, but I do not know of a single one that actually owns the dam.
Hasn't it been tested? It applied (only) once, but in that one case the responsible country (USSR) paid out the damages.
Have you seen how much sunlight a place like Kennewick, WA gets in one year? Yes it is considerably north of CA, not as much kWh production in December, but it is a sunny, dry, desert climate.
I generally agree. To be honest, I wasn't so much making a general moral judgement about copying. Hamlet was a copy. Bach was a music kleptomaniac. Execution is way more important. I just find minecraft a particularly uncreative copy, and personally like zachatronics - so I 'don't like that he ripped it off'. Which he did. I don't think this dislike could or should extend to other copied pieces of work, games or otherwise.
> just like json and yaml are more readable than XML

Not sure this is true for every case. JSON and YAML often shine for cases where data is primarily lists of key-value pairs (with some of the values also being kvps).

If I'm dealing with a larger potential space that needs to allow for data that's mixed-media long-valued and arbitrarily structured, my experience is that markup often reads better.
Not correct. Unless you're specifically talking about some stuff by Apple.

Do you know that windows has had password stores for many decades?
The article isn't very clear on this, but it sounds like "Google's AI" is just Tensorflow, possibly with a pretrained object detection model.
Ah, I see that this is by the terrible "The School of Life".

They constantly produce videos that claim to have distilled philosophical works into something practical for everyday life. They often give bad advice alongside comforting you that those grapes you couldn't reach were sour anyways. There are many critiques of this company, but I've linked a critique here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0uKnF_6E0Q
There's reason to think there's a bit more to it than just money. As the small plasmas people the startups (General Fusion, Tri-Alpha, Helion) are working with now scale up there tend to be strange and difficult plasma instabilities that have a long history of rearing their heads. For instance, magnetic mirrors had the leakage out the ends which was fixed with a modification but that led to a show-stopping instability at practical powers. And the really big ITER-style things have scalability problems just from the sheer amount of superconducting magnets and materials they need.
Does it? If the orbits intersect, a large object is almost as likely to be hit by a flake of paint as a cubesat; and by a cubesat vs something twice as big. The difference is that a flake of paint will likely be just a dent, and a cubesat will destroy whatever it hits.
For the last 40 years, fusion has always been one small technical problem away from being solved. Well, 40 years and millions and maybe billions of dollars later, we really are no closer to having solved the fusion puzzle (i.e. containing and sustaining a fusion reaction as to be useful). I personally do not see this being solved before 2100.
Pale imitation of http://www.underhanded-c.org/
and https://www.ioccc.org/ (Obfuscated C Competition)
where you find the true rings of power.
Seconded. I've used RubyMine for years (at home and at work), just getting into Go, and finding GoLand by them is fantastic.

Also tmux.
Evernote and VSCode have both been gigantic productivity boosts for me.
Ditto, indispensable utility within a must-have mac OS utility. I look forward to one day having the option to increase the font size of the clipboard.
As a person who also has way too manu tabs open at all times, I've had success with the great suspender [0]. It "suspends" pages after a timeout so they use less memory.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...
You are so wrong. Check here http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

these are gaming, most powerful PCs people are using. 8gb is 44% of all users.
It was faster to do this than reading the content the way it was intended. Because they were using random selection you'd have to click 370 times to have a 90% chance of seeing all 59. It is nearly impossible (like 7 nines impossible) to see all of them in under 120 clicks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/ge...

According to this Washington Post article, he filed for Chapter 11 a number of times. You argue that being super rich doesn’t count as failing, quite from the article “Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts filed for bankruptcy again in 2004, after accruing about $1.8 billion in debt.“, which sounds like a failure to me. Trump seems to be good at wiping out other people’s money while protecting his own.
The Minnesota report [1] discussed in your links is much more nuanced than just the graph excerpt. It suggests that a judicious use of federal investment credits and future anticipated cost decreases might make storage combined with solar generation a competitive or cheaper option than natgas peakers by 2023, but also proposes that Minnesota is well-positioned to start early, and learn by example.

While this may presage an industry trend, it's a long way away from the raw, unsubsidized numbers of storage-only timeshift solutions fully being cheaper than peakers. Battery storage isn't booming because it's that good right now; it's about to start expanding because of smart players taking advantage of subsidies, and betting on long-term trends.

[1] http://energytransition.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/W...
Figma.com (a browser based Sketch) for me.

I am able to quickly prototype out ideas. I used to use Slides or OneNote for jotting down ideas, now I just sketch them out and wire them up as a quick prototype. Now I have all of my quick sparks sketched and drawn out without getting lost.
Yes, it is a design fault.
I have ADHD-PI (previously called ADD).

The two things that have helped me most are (1) ritalin and (2) pair programming. Between the two of them I can stay mostly on task. I am able to use less ritalin when I am pairing, which I like, because at higher doses I get uncomfortable muscle tension.

Coming third, a fair way back, is a calendar program. Any one of them will do, so long as I can program multiple reminders.

Everything else is negotiable. I'd scribble code by hand before giving up ritalin.
Senior designers VS Junior Designers
Not being able to buy or sell equity sounds like a crippling problem for coops. One coop cannot even invest in another coop.
Nicely done, I was thinking you had created your own list, but it's all here. https://tiiiny.com/js/index.js

What about a way to crowdsource this so other people can add their own ideas. That would blow this away.
To reiterate what you're saying, a fork in this instance could be nothing more than setting up a new remote on another provider and pushing to that.

Most providers have a concept of imports that work much like a fork would. Gitlab specifically will import the repo, wiki, issues, and likely other bits. Everything is treated as a snapshot in time but since the repository and wiki are both git, you can merge upstream changes later. There's also the concept of mirroring that'll automatically push or pull changes from other providers.

I haven't done an import/fork to Github to know how that experience is but I've done a good few with Gitlab to know that it works rather well.
off topic, but; before clicking the link I guess I was kinda surprised the Atlantic would get in on a story like this but then I saw that its a reprint from Quanta Magazine. Anyone know what their partnership is?
He did and 100MB sounds about tight for a shitty static page.
Chrome is a memory hog.
To a non-British ear, Shoeburyness is what sounds weird ;)