skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are fabulously wealthy that you can [have a latte each morning], let alone [buy it at Starbucks], you can afford [an additional tax on your latte for the peasant that got the coffee beans.]
Curious, where are you pulling that "80% chance of divorce" statistic from?
VW is currently working on this through the Audi eFuels programm. The goal is the synthesis of disel and gasolene from atmospheric CO2. iirc they have recently produced 60l of synthetic gasolene for testing purposes.
12 years ago, I was getting quoted for $100k/ injection mold in Colorado, and $50K in China.
This is not an “Ask HN” post.

You’re in the wrong category.
There’s a difference though. Previously the version you ended up with was the one at the end of the year of updates. In the current model you have to reinstall the old version of the time of purchase, undoing the updates you got. It’s actually quite clever since you immediately notice what you’re missing by not paying.
Storage will only get cheaper, it's only a matter of how quickly [1] [2]. Based on historical renewable generation and storage rapid cost declines, you will be able to be self sufficient faster than utilities will be able to put you over the barrel by moving peak pricing away from the solar "duck curve" [3].

[1] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-storage... (Lazard Levelized Cost of Storage 2017)

[2] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2017/08/03/lithium-ion-batteries... (Lithium-ion batteries below $200/kWh by 2019 will drive rapid storage uptake, finds IHS Markit)

[3] https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/confronting-duck-curve-...
If I judge correctly from your words "concern trolling", you've made assumptions about my political beliefs. You think that I care neither for the slaves on the Thai fishing boat nor for the Amazon workers, and that I'm pretending to care about the first in order to minimize the situation of the second.

So, you think all of this is fake. You don't think I believe anything I'm saying, so you feel no need to engage with it. If you did, then you'd be falling for my trick. So, better just to tell me--tersely--how bad I am and move on. Am I right?

I'm a stranger on the Internet. You know nothing about me. You don't know what experiences I've had in my life. By attacking me instead of engaging, you've abandoned any chance to find common ground. (Maybe you think I'm too far gone, hopeless, evil, Republican. Are you sure? Why?) So the world is dangerously polarized already, and it gets a tiny quantum worse.

If you want to discuss, then I've asked many questions. You could answer, or even just explain what makes one so "amazingly stupid". You might convince me of something, or I might convince you. (Have you ever changed someone's mind? What kind of language, arguments did you use? Maybe it would work this time?)

If you want to do that, I'm here. Otherwise, I'm out.

Oh, and you got me--I'm writing because I can manage a polite, constructive discussion with almost everyone I meet, even when we disagree. So, this thread nags at me. I'll see how it goes.
Maps that always rotate with you are the bane of my existence. I don't understand why would anyone want such a catastrophe. Luckily, you can lock north on top in most apps.
Building a React application that reads from a Google Sheet
It's more like thread cancellation than an interrupt.

Few languages do cancellation well. Either it doesn't work right, or it does something overly elaborate like LISP breaks.
I think it depends who your audience is. Everyone I work with is more than happy to install the Slack electron app, but none of them read HN.

If your intended audience is a 'Show HN' expect to be damned for it. If your audience spans say Windows and Mac and are technical but perhaps less technical than HN readers it can be an easy way to extend your web app onto the desktop.

Also it might depend on whether your app needs to always run in the background or not. For example I use Pencil [0] for UX mockups, it doesn't bother me that it's an electron app because I only need it for a few days a month. However the persistent RAM use of Slack eventually annoyed me enough that I uninstalled it.

[0]: http://pencil.evolus.vn/
> It seems like the response to historical CO2 levels is to change the topic.

How does a detailed discussion about CO2 levels 100m years ago help push us toward drastically cutting emissions now?
Haha Thanks. I had already made my mind when I posted it.
Sure I will definitely add your feedback to our priority list.
Anyways coming back to the question you asked.

Q. What would make people buy from us instead of online retailers?

A. We are focused on optimising pricing, delivery and experience.

A person would have to worry less when they buy from us, we are not a seller platform but rather a retail outlet. We have very strict operating procedures on customer service, delivery/order handling and RMA, Refunds processing.

I am positive that in few months we will have our own niche customer base and then we will follow our roadmap to grow the revenue and add stability to business operations.
Seems weird to call Apple out for planned obsolescence considering their devices are generally supported by the manufacturer for considerably longer than the alternatives.
Discord, Slack and other chat apps are the perfect example of when not to use electron. They should just be webapps.
Utility scale batteries optimize for energy/$, not energy density or weight etc.

Your comparisons are totally irrelevant.
You're missing the point that the current tech push is largely to get computers that can run the standardised testing bloatware being pushed down from the top of the system. Education possibilities are only a side benefit; testing is the goal.
Because you can still have a "backend" hosted on the user's computer, it just doesn't have to be node.js, could be something more efficient or powerful or whatever is needed.
Seeing red when Delta Air debited me twice for plane tickets
If that kind of thinking worked, we wouldn't need OSHA. This comes to mind: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/government-paying-billions...
A house in California costs ~4 orders of magnitude more than a Starbucks coffee every morning. Wildly different values of “fabulously wealthy” here.
The odds are good that it will "always" exist, not really always of course but long enough that we don't care. However, Amazon may come to the decision that it's not worth keeping this low spending tier of customer and price them out of the service.

Hopefully, it's a good enough of a hook to get you started on AWS that it is worth it to keep it cheap like it is now.
In many places in America, you do not have to be anything close to wealthy to live in a house. Unfortunately the market in SV is so skewed that everyone who lives in a house is "the rich," who we don't mind making things more expensive for - without realizing that we're actually adding to the gigantic stack of unnecessary distance between ourselves and home ownership. Instead of moving home ownership from "fabulously wealthy" to "wealthy beyond compare," we should pursue policies that move it away from there.
I think it just means kindergarten to year 13. At least, Ontario (Canada) used to have a 13th year, but they phased that out 2 decades ago into just K-12 as well.
Ok, let me rephrase that, if you like to run the JVM do it :)
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17007600
I seem to recall a command on the Commodore 128 that was like PLAY “FFGEFG” to play musical notes.
Note that this is only on 1-3 story buildings. This will raise the cost of low-density housing. The point of 827 was to incentivize higher density construction, and what is essentially a new tax on single-family homes should also have the effect of incentivizing higher density.
If this passes, Tesla is going to make a killing on solar roofs:

https://www.tesla.com/solarroof
For one thing, the ability to search (code or issues).
Specifying how to go about it ensures that the lobyists, former termed-out reps on the Energy Commission, and state political parties all get their appropriate kickback.
A sailing vessel with a single sail still has two foils for generating lift. The other 'wing' is the boats keel. It is net force from both that propels a sailing boat forward.
Did we know those elves were elves at the time?
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted here, as this is a pretty solid argument. Maybe not so much in California, but just look to the natural disaster in Puerto Rico. Folks who had branched out with solar panels were suddenly the only ones with power at all in their neighborhoods. California may have a better built infrastructure, but it's no stranger to natural disasters.

There's certainly efficiency to be gained from pooling our resources into a centralized power grid, but I think redundancy and protection from grid failures are also perfectly valid goals.
Usually this happens when someone gets too close to a refrigerator; once in a Prius.

That the device survived a lightning strike is pretty awesome. I would MRI her head to make sure that there was no unintended ablation from the extra current through the implanted electrodes, however.

*edit - I guess she was not struck by lightning, but her house was.
I like how comment authors employ real critical thinking, unlike places like reddit where all the top comments echo each other. So fresh perspectives helps me learn from people with different viewpoints who aren't afraid to question others when they're wrong/BSing.
http://pinboard.in/ offers a paid archiving service. Also Refjar has a somewhat similar interface to Pinboard.
In Portugal solar water heaters are mandatory for new houses also.
I work on database software too, so I know it should be there. plus fuck databases, they are such a pain :-)
There are multiple tracking issues on the gitea tracker for federated features, so hopefully gitea will provide features like that.
If China can pull this off it would be amazing, however people will still have the challenge of finding meaning in everyday life.
I think your framing of the question is very fair and absolutely how the topic should be considered. But at the same time, I think you're assuming much more from the average person than is realistic when you state that whether Earth (and implicitly humanity) will survive or not, is not the question. People are becoming radicalized in everything. And radicalism tends to be intrinsically connected with ignorance.

See the top of this thread (well currently at least) for a line of discussion where somebody not only thinks climate will imminently lead to earth becoming uninhabitable but wondering how and where people could survive [away from Earth] until the planet does become habitable again. Or consider the fact that the comment you're responding to, though factually accurate and contextually relevant, is being downvoted for stating facts that mitigate this sort of hysteria. Sure, it's a sample of one - but I'm sure a survey of the views in this thread will show the question is indeed far more elementary than the nuanced and accurate view you're discussing!
The Medtronic device is designed to shut off if it thinks it is delivering enough current to go past a certain charge density in brain tissue (calculated/assumed)
Due to stellar evolution, the solar constant is at its highest on a geological timescale.

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19820009158

Back in the Mesozoic Era, the Sun was about 2% cooler than it is today. The extra CO2 back then added a helpful (for most life) greenhouse effect. Now, both the relatively high CO2 level and the rapid rate of increase are unhelpful.
Just a heads up that according to the React devtools extension, it looks like Peg.gy is running the development build of React in production. It should be easy to fix: https://reactjs.org/docs/optimizing-performance.html#use-the...
> But I can count on the finger of one hand the number of times I was contacted by someone

Different strokes for different folks. I usually fill the fingers on one hand counting the folks reaching out each week. Rarely are they interesting (like a lot of my stuff on GitHub) positions, but still tons of unsolicited offers.
Gitea is awesome. I have been using it for few months and it doesn't need a lot of RAM.
Not long ago (year or two) a far more in depth piece about this particular currency was posted on HN. The article as well as the subsequent comment chain was delightful and informative. Does anyone remember either, and would they be so kind as to post links? I have tried searching and come up short on both counts. Any help, as well as any other interesting links related to this topic, would be great appreciated.
No, the beta distribution BetaDist[a, b] is only defined for a, b strictly > 0.

When a or b is very large and the other is zero, you can treat it as 1 and get a decent approximation, but it'll be a an estimate that biases towards the center.
Typical politics. Increase the costs of building homes in a housing poor area while claiming to help the environment. The increased new development costs is likely the entire motivation(i.e. market manipulation).
It sounds like the sort of thing that would be amenable to a greasemonkey type script? hm. sounds like an interesting project.
You can extend it to Twitter too, Arxiv Sanity has a 'Top Hype' section [0].

[0]: http://arxiv-sanity.com/toptwtr
That and the "we're in beta" not just being able to sign up for it in a straightforward way makes it a non-starter for me (and I would expect for most consumers).
People are concerned mainly about how CO2 will affect humans + our current ecosystem. On that measure, 800,000 years is a relevant timeframe: it covers when our civilizatiom arose, when humans left africa, etc

I do think it would be good if people knew that CO2 was even higher in the past. But, that doesn't make this article wrong. An article can't cover every single topic, and earlier CO2 in the non-human era is just tangentially related.
Regarding bag tax, I have trouble believing this is more than your own anecdotal observations, do you have any sources to back up that claim? Most cities in Europe charge a lot more than 0.05 per bag (Austrian supermarkets generally charge between 0.25-1€) yet most people just bring their own. I buy the more expensive variant (cloth material) which survive about a year.
From the most productive ways to keep-up with news and a nice place to hear comments from knowledgeable people about these news.
I learn about new technologies, and sometimes comments from people help me decide next language or technology to explore next.
It depends on what you are trying to make. The numbers are more illustration than globally applicable to all things. Clearly, a mold for a pen isn't going to be $100k.

The situation I'm talking about is definitely reflective of reality though.
> to prevent back-flow into the grid that could injure linemen working to repair outages

Surely they can't entirely rely on this for safety?
How to look and sound more confident
So does Trump, who lies more often and more egregiously. That doesn't change the fact that the NSA did not lie about its data collection practices.
When cable networks reject your show for misogyny there's always Twitter
digital arts

Doing some demoscene-ish things might fit... and be more likely to inspire curiosity and self-learning. As the sibling comment here notes, "you can play games once you make them" can be a powerful motivator.
I'm not a network engineer, rather a security-focused guy, and I'm also very interested in this topic because the basis for a secure network is a well managed network without any unknown/undocumented assets (network equipment incl. layer 2 as well as network participants).
Few months ago I attended a talk of Ivan Pepelnjak, the author of a network engineering blog called ipspace. He talked a lot on network automation and enumerated some success story. I remember he talked about people setting up several data centers in a relatively short amount of time by using a lot of network automation / configuration management.

http://blog.ipspace.net/2018/03/presentation-and-video-real-...
I have posted a video talking about this briefly on our YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/VdFx-OU31Hs
I think the publication of these are offering others the opportunity to be introspective of their management styles. While the document I wrote isn't necessarily covering anything I don't already tell and re-affirm to my direct reports, it was a great exercise in thinking through my management style and what it means to me. I hope that the more popular these things become, further conversations can happen in the community to figure out how to help those managers that might need that help, and help organizations identify potential problem areas in their org structures.
>(to prevent back-flow into the grid that could injure linemen working to repair outages)

Back-flows from generators, solar and other home power sources are not really an issue. It takes a specific set of circumstances where there's both equipment failure and the utility worker fails to check if lines are live.

Basically, the resistance of the entire neighborhood is indistinguishable to a short from the perspective of the breakers on your power generation equipment.

Still, you shouldn't back feed because we live in a society where everyone must play by the rules of idiots regardless of whether or not they can prove themselves to be otherwise. Therefore you cannot be trusted to flip switches properly yourself and I must advise you to use a proper transfer switch.
A more interesting question to discuss might be why Africans were never able to accidentally domesticate zebras as useful insect-resistant beasts of burden when Europeans/Asians/Americans were accidentally domesticating all sorts of species left and right, such as horses.

What hypothesizes might you suggest?
Good idea, less theft.
The best example I have right now is with music... I am ALWAYS going to want to be able to listen to my library, it's not really fair to assume I should have to pay monthly for it for the rest of my life, but for every day I don't buy the album and I listen to it on AM or Spotify, I'm in effect paying for a redundant service.

I get the difficulty finding ways to make money, but we are pigeonholing ourselves into a model that is against the best interest of the users.
A latte is $3.65. If you made your own cup at home, you would spend $0.05. Starbucks is 73x. I believe you need to stop buying lattes from Starbucks and start making your own coffee at home like I do. Stop being such an elitist. Get to work.
It was easier to price software like a physical good when the distribution method was identical to other physical goods. You'd go to the store and give them $50 to leave with a box that contained a disk. When you wanted vN+1, you'd repeat this process. It all made sense to the user. That model is collapsing as digital distribution takes over.

Also, Adobe's tools have always been among the most pirated software out there. People who needed to do occasional work wanted Photoshop but there was just no way they were going to drop $700 on it. Nowadays, Adobe just charges them an $11/mo fee. That makes it much easier and I know several instances where this newer model has resulted in real income for Adobe, from what would've otherwise been pirate installs.

People are much more willing to pay a small fee several times than a massive fee once. The subscription makes them feel like they have more control and they can cancel when they don't need the product anymore (not always true because some of Adobe's subscriptions have annual lock-ins). It reduces the friction from "figure out how to pay us more than your car payment" to "just send us the cost of a trip to Starbucks, it will only take a couple of minutes and you'll be merrily on your way".

This dramatically changes the incentives re: piracy. Instead of spending hours trying to find a cracked build from a site that won't pwn your PC so that you can save hundreds of dollars, you just pay a few bucks and speed through with a known-good version (plus a clean conscience).

It's almost a side benefit that subscriptions frequently represent additional lifetime value v. a "pay once" model.
> In many places in America

I think constraining this discussion to California might be more appropriate, since this is CA legislation.
For those interested in moving to Waterloo - looking for roommate
>Only if you are off grid are you insulated from the power companies.

You can be "off grid" by throwing a switch.
It’s structurally impossible for house ownership to be affordable in a place this popular and geographically constrained. Affordability will require multifamily development.

The regulatory environment currently has its thumb on the scales in favor of single-family homes. Shifting the pendulum the other way, even a little bit, is a good thing. We shouldn’t be building anything less than 4 stories tall, and if we do, costs like this can and should be spread across several tenants.
Exactly, that's not the question you're answering, but it is the question that is being asked in this context: what is the probability of rapid unplanned disassembly of SpaceX rockets.
This was a great post, and I learned several things. Thank you for sharing. Just a brief note that it should be “lots” not “lot’s.”
Windows 10 1803 Update Failure
Makes me wonder why they didn't think of this before or what challenges have they overcome this time.
When I see the title of this article, I expected to see sharks on the list. Am I mistaken?
The Computer Nonsense Guide (rc3)
I wonder if a device could be built to generate power from earthquakes. Apparently southern California has 27 earthquakes every day. If a device could be built to harness that it could be useful. I know they're not all in the same place each day but 27 per day in such a small area may be enough.
I found this article slightly frustrating in the way it described high-functioning autism. The term is normally not used to describe higher than average IQ in the general population but higher than the average amongst people with autism. If that is made explicit then the usefulness of the term seems more obvious.

What the article also didn't consider a widely used definition of the term high-functioning autism. It is often defined in terms of capacity to live autonomously at a level close to someone without autism with minimal support.

If we think of the condition in these terms I believe it's usefulness as a diagnosis becomes far more apparent. It would also allow for explicit recognition that the way people experience autism can significantly change when they are given support that nurtures independence and effective strategies to live.

I personally think that the people coming up with diagnostic frameworks could learn a lot from the The Capability Approach to well-being that has gained some prominence in recent philosophical discussions of the topic. Reading articles on diagnostics that do not seem to take into account the existence of such positions is frustrating because they seem to be missing an obvious way of being more effective in helping people as well as more descriptive.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capability-approach/
The sad truth is nobody actually knows what's going to happen. We can only read the signs.
> 5% to 30% chance that humanity kills itself in the next 300 years

I'm 42.69% angered at this comment, and 50% disappointed.