skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar panels on new homes seems like a relatively low priority - considering they can always be added at any time, and it's not even necessarily the best strategy for all home/living situations. Not to mention CA has plenty of desert land to cover with PV panels.

California should instead be focusing on things like requiring rentals to provide EV charging for all tenants.

Nearly half of CA residents don't own their homes. Until some initiative forces their landlords to install EV infrastructure, the majority of these people won't even consider buying an EV at their next car purchase.

It strikes me as an urgent priority to remove all barriers to people owning EVs en masse, especially considering how long automobiles last. A major selling point of EVs is always finding your vehicle at 100% in the morning. Tenants who have to find places away from home to charge their vehicles for 1+ hours will rarely buy one.
Alas, I'm completely unable to get the soft token to work (after enabling it in config:about). It even fail on https://u2f.bin.coffee/ which seems to claim it should work.

It's a usability trade off; I have a physical key, but I'm asked to authenticate 20+ times a day which make it a pain on my port-limited MacBook Pro.
I believe section 150.1(c)14 of ...

http://docketpublic.energy.ca.gov/PublicDocuments/17-BSTD-02...

... actually specifies the requirements.
Hitask (https://hitask.com) does everything, has Google Calendar sync and Chrome extension. iOS, Android apps, team sharing and many more.
Negligible energy consumption. I wrote a desktop timelapse wallpaper app for Mac that creates a below-the-desktop window containing a movie player and then plays the movie stretched over 24 hrs. Energy impact was small, something like 0.1 in Activity Monitor.
It would be remarkable if biological neural networks don't use gradient descent. They very likely do even if it is a highly approximate gradient. Neurons are optimizing for some objective, and the gradient is usually a very efficient way to do that optimization. It would be remarkable if evolution missed out on such a thing. Even simple Hebbian learning can be viewed as a gradient descent technique.

Gradients can be calculated in remarkably simple ways. Look at Hinton's recirculation networks for example.

I think you meant to say backprop.
This is already happening and with testing in Dubai. http://www.ehang.com/ehang184

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/art...

No idea why I have been downvotes above. Great to see intelligent conversations is rewarded with down votes here.
I think they made the distinction with the question “what if the deadline slips?”

If you don’t finish your costume in time for a con, you miss it. No big deal.

If you miss delivering a costume for client for a con, very big deal.
1.5 years. The Nexus 5X was still sold by Google 1.5 years ago.

And all the alternatives are significantly more expensive.

I’m building open source apps.

If I put ads in my apps or track my users I’d make thousands and could buy a phone easily.

But I’m trying to do the right thing, and have a monthly budget of $6 (current donation level via Patreon).

If you sell me a phone with Android P for one year of my app income (aka 72€), I’d take it. I’ll even put some of my own money on top, 250€, as I paid for the Nexus 5X, I am willing to pay.
Did Lewis Carroll write you?
I think I'm the only one who rarely look at my desktop. Most of the time, it's been covered by windows/apps.
Me: I would ride the bus if it was available more than once every 30 minutes. At this point it's faster for me to Uber.

City councilmember: why should we allocate even more funds to the busses? Nobody's riding them!
Wow, that's seriously unprofessional (of her).
And passive empathy without action is pointless. How much data needs to be gathered before an action becomes clear? Should we all not take any action until then?
You would normally want to limit their input to a few form fields so the data can be analysed, rather than letting them have a conversation. Look at the ultimatum game for example.
Butterick has Strong Opinions™ about Kindle typography that led him to that position. I largely share those opinions, to be fair, although I think it's a bit of a quixotic enterprise for many books; offline is more important than beauty. (And, really, the Kindle could do most of these tricks if Amazon gave a rat's ass; Apple's iBooks can do nearly everything that any other WebKit browser can with regards to typography.)

Having said that, though, this is a book that I'd argue is better in the browser than on the Kindle or as a PDF. I want to be able to read this with a code editor open, and the book side-by-side in a separate window. PDF books don't reflow, and in my experience Kindle just isn't particularly good for tech books.
Net metering isn't compatible with this mandate.
Language Interoperability from the Ground Up
I agree. There's a whole world where I imagine businesses with stickers like the Visa accepted here stickers, except something like "Siri accepted here" or "Siri works here", whatever the wording. That way you would know that you could use Siri to interact with that business on your behalf. That takes away part of the resistance to phone bots by people that answer phones, them expecting those calls.
The only way to change that- is to actually pretend alternatives are not used- meaning they have to mimick the output exactly- even the flaws. Then after 5 years or so- the department anounces- oh- and by the way, we completely replaced xyz.
Supercomputers are driving a revolution in hurricane forecasting
I'm definitely never working for a company that uses this product. Any employer that feels the need to constantly review screenshots of my work is an employer that I don't want to work for.
In Portland, OR, the light rail does 'train bunching', with the exact same consequences (inconsistent schedule, overcrowded trains followed closely by empty ones, etc).
I've recently been entranced by the late works of Wayne Thiebaud[1], to the point of checking out his collections at the library and meticulously scanning them in at home. Reading about the context and inspiration behind some of his pieces was illuminating, sure; but I still get the same feeling looking at his art even with this new information as I did when it first caught my eye at SFMOMA.

To me, the aesthetic and emotional impact of the art comes first, and everything else is just a value-add.

[1]: http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2010/11/wayne-thiebaud-cityscap...
The Chinese banking system does this. With regards to not losing money on underperforming loans, the government just prints up money and bails out the banks for all their mistakes. To keep moral hazard from getting out of hand, financial fraud or even rule breaking is punished severely with the worst frauds leading to executions and the banks are micromanaged to the point of being partially privatized central planning.
I don't understand your objection. As you've quoted, from that decision, the judgment refers to an "ambiguous and equivocal reference to a 'lawyer dog,'" which pretty plainly suggests that the judge has deemed "lawyer-dog" a lexical unit rather than interpreting "dog" as a sobriquet. At best you could say it was only part of his reasoning; either way, in my mind, it goes beyond cultural bias to be a patently absurd reading.
I wonder if there's any thought within American Samoa of leaving US administration and re-unifying with Samoa itself. Samoa has several banks, ANZ being the largest. It would make sense and form a country of > 250k rather than having one country of under 200k and another of under 100k.
The raspberry pi has done a lot to improve the Raspberry Pi Linux ecosystem, with some effects for the ARM Linux ecosystem, but the fact that there's a difference between the two ecosystems is the problem with the ARM Linux ecosystem.
"Sole proprietor" is what I've used.
Through experience, engineers in Portugal do not have the same output in terms of speed and quality as engineers in high CoL areas.
> TFA explicitly states TWU wants to keep safety improvements. That's literally the job I would expect for a union. Safety is already worse in NYC than other areas.

You're actually going to accept the reasoning they give uncritically and at face value?

Of course they'll frame nearly everything in rhetoric of safety, because politically that's the equivalent "but think of the kids".

Of course, when you actually look at it, it's obvious that the TWU has spent the last several decades fighting actual safety improvements (including those that are SOP at the other Big Four systems), because their only interest is in protecting their members' jobs.

As linked elsewhere in this article, if the MTA tries to introduce newer and safer machinery, the TWU actually extracts a "technological advancement" fee to compensate them for the missed job opportunities, in an attempt to disincentive them from adopting new technology.

The TWU is literally putting passengers' lives at risk because their only goal is to extract as much money as possible from the MTA, and they don't actually care about the end state of the subway system.
I think you're referring to this paper:

"Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural networks to perform spatial localization". https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07770

It appears to be from Columbia vs DeepMind with different authors.
It's a Canadian invention, and to this day quite localized to Canada, where it's nearly the standard for carpentry (at least, every deck screw I've ever seen here is Robertson drive). It's good that it's catching on, it has a few distinct advantages over Phillips, my favourite being that you can mount a screw on the driver and it will stay on the driver due to an interference fit, freeing your other hand to secure, support, or stabilize.
I'm almost sure they charge OEMs but they charge less than they use to for low end computers to compete with Chrome OS and people are keeping computers longer. They also gave Windows 10 away to anyone who had at least Windows 7.
Good point. I emailed an article author at a respected paper (WaPo?) noting this, and his reply was basically, "I didn't write the headline." I'm somewhat sympathetic, but it did sound a bit like "I was just following orders."

If journalism is to survive as a respected discipline, this sort of thing needs to be purged.
Such blather just gives people a guaranteed argument in favor of their opinion. If the majority is in agreement, great--majority rules. If the majority isn't in agreement, great--they are suckers for fascists.
I wouldn't call it time tracking software.

IMO, what they do is very evil practice, it leaves employees no personal space at their workplace. Imagine receiving a highly personal message via skype or email, and a manager seeing it. It leads to employees hating their job and wanting to leave their workplace as soon as possible.
sure, but you can put yourself into a different market virtually. Just because you and your employer are not in the same physical location doesnt mean you aren't in the same market.
> You think DC should be running the risk of accidents which kill riders because of trains that lurch into stations?

DOT estimates the cost of a human life at about $6 million. Times 9 is $54 million. Let's say such an event happens once every 10 years, so $5.4 million per year. The D.C. metro has 180 million rides per year. That works out to 3 cents per ride. Do you think people would pay 3 cents for a smoother, ATO-controlled Metro ride? I bet they would. (That's not even counting all the delays caused be forgoing automated control.)

As to the switches and sensors--Metro already replaced the track circuits (per the NTSB's recommendation): https://wamu.org/story/17/04/06/metro-shelves-plans-bring-ba....
Things this technology will not be good at:

- making reservations etc on your behalf

Things this technology will be good at:

- automatically calling lots of businesses and individuals to extract data from them: from opening hours to voting preferences, scam calls to political campaigning with personalised campaign messages, large-scale cold call automated advertising, crowd sourcing information, surveys, and the most profitable - replacing call centres and firing staff.

I assume Google are well aware of this...
That's not really what I was getting at. Most of the guys are just like you described. We usually can't even settle on a video game to play. However, even with the one thing in common with the whole group (slight interest in board games) we just didn't hit off. And it's not like a singular attempt or case either. It's like there is a cultural divide. Now that's not the case with everyone, my example is anecdotal. I have female friends that dig board games and some video games and there's no divide there but just in the workplace, that is not the case. From my current experience and environment it seems very unlikely I'll ever meet someone like that though.
What exactly are people doing with XRP? Honest question.
but at $10/month you need most people to not even go to 1 movie a month to even have a chance of breaking even.
That's why basically every carbon tax scheme ever proposed involves remitting the revenue back to people on a per capita basis.
you lost me at "I’ve been writing code with Mustache"
I can confirm that this is true for Danish too except it is 'luftpudebåd', not 'luftputebåt'. Yes, Danish and Norwegian are very similar.

So luftpudebåd is the proper Danish word and hovercraft is the anglicism that is creeping into our language.

However, I tried to search for both words on Google limiting the results to the Danish top-level domain and apparently there are three times as many results for hovercraft. This may not be the best statistic for linguistics but it's all I have.

I also looked up both words in a Danish encyclopedia (http://denstoredanske.dk). There is no article for 'luftpudebåd' and the article for 'hovercraft' has no mention of the word 'luftpudebåd'.

So perhaps I'm stuck in the past when I claim that the proper Danish word is luftpudebåd...
This is more of a criticism of modern web development, and not specific to React. A modern web developer has to install node, webpack, babel/typescript, react, redux, sass/less just to write HTML, Javascript and CSS. It's especially frustrating for newbies since ES6/JSX and React always seem to "travel together." But you can write non-ES6 and non-JSX React.

- https://reactjs.org/docs/react-without-es6.html

- https://reactjs.org/docs/react-without-jsx.html

This is what all the JSX and ES6 compile down to. It's just not as fun.

But React at its core is very simple: Same props always render same UI. Different props always render different UI.

add(1, 2) -> 3
add(2, 1) -> 3
add(2, 2) -> 4

That's the core principle. And it is the drive to organise your code into declared props that naturally drive how your React code is organised.

add({'num1': 1, 'num2': 2}) -> 3
add({'num2': 2, 'num1': 1}) -> 3
add({'num1': 2, 'num2': 2}) -> 4

It's a reaction to the unpredictable nature of "typical" jquery code where data and actions flow in both direction and it became difficult to pinpoint why something changed. If you clean up how you use jquery and are disciplined about it, you will eventually build something like React. There's no magic to React. The virtual DOM is not React. It's just an optimisation.

Same with Redux. When you eventually start writing large React applications, you will eventually end up re-inventing something similar to Redux.
PG&E customers can already purchase 100% of their electricity from solar sources. What's the rationale to force people to generate their own solar?

[1] https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/solar-and-vehicles/opt...
gym memberships lock you into a commitment... MoviePass is currently month to month.
can you explain this further?
Why should an SF company worry if their hiring someone in Kenya with a wage proportionate to the value they receive raise the overall wages of the Kenya market to stabilize with the SF market? It's better for Kenya overall if one of their markets increases in value, so don't worry, Kenya won't mind. ;)
Remitting on a per capita basis doesn't change the regressive nature. You can only fix the regressive nature if you return it based on income. And even then, the poorest people don't have the float necessary to pay for the bill now and get a tax refund later.
I'm thankful that state funding for large solar and wind farms is not going to happen, because there's little that could guarantee a worse or less efficient long-term result.

As long as carbon costs can't be priced into the market, the solutions are going to be short-sighted, politically motivated/maintained, and inefficient.
The ones we had were super great
It depends on what you mean by not much lower latency though...

At Redis speeds the network latency can quite often be the bottleneck.
If anyone is interested in playing with GAIA data, I created a simple interactive visualization using WebGL. Here's the source: https://github.com/typpo/gaia
Evolution of creepiness:

2018: saying that men are primarily interested in women for sex

2019: saying oceans are made of water

Can't wait for 2020 when saying Hello to an unknown person will so creepy it would be called a micro-agression. Oh wait...! https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4txyh4
That reminds me — I need to get my hands on some scans of these older maps! https://www.wired.com/2013/08/prelinger-library-rare-maps/?p...
The bus system has to make pretty aggressive tradeoffs in order to be useful to commuters. You can't make it stop at every block in order to make it take less walking to get to the bus stop. Similarly, you can't have parallel lines a block apart. You have to limit the service area so that you can afford to run busses every 5-10 minutes. And you'll want to improve streets so that busses can run down the center and pick up passengers from protected islands, rather than fighting with parking and turning traffic for space.

Like, I take the BART every day into work. It's fantastic. I walk for five to ten minutes to get to the station, a train comes every 5 minutes so I don't have to worry about the train schedule, then I walk another five to ten minutes to get to the office. If the bus experience could match that, it'd take over a lot of commuting.
Yup!

The fix is to prioritize trains over all other street traffic, especially cars. (I suppose you could do this with buses, too, but people don't really see it that way because they have rubber wheels just like cars...)
From the docs:

Basic Tier: Provides a standalone Redis instance. Use this tier for applications that require a simple Redis cache.

If you were only reallocating replicas you'd expect no downtime. But turning on replication isn't seamless.
It wouldn't surprise me that both angles are true: that the divide exists by ~elementary school, but still for the same reasons commonly cited (social pressures / etc).

Sorry that happened to you, though. In my school we had 1 girl in our nerd group. I like to think we weren't exclusive; there just weren't many people interested. But I was 10 so I dunno.
If you don’t understand JavaScript, why is it a surprise that you don’t understand one of its libraries?
eBook reader typography - my experience is drawn from using a Kobo with various EPUB & PDF from multiple publishers - is almost always terrible.

Among other things, code listings tend to be a mess. It's frustrating when technical publishers release digital versions of their works, and the code snippets (for example) turn out to be PNG files. That works great for a PDF intended to be printed on paper, but doesn't scale well to an ebook reader.
> As of now, I have still yet to see a JS framework that made any sense to me.

The basic issue with the DOM is that it makes state management a pain in the arse.

So you have written a DOM widget and you want to incorporate it in a bigger widget, so you have to have some kind of "composite" API with a widget life-cycle that pumps data and dumps custom events from/to somewhere. It's not that hard to code, but by the time you are finished coding a library that handles all that you have created you own front-end framework basically.

Web Components help a bit by it doesn't seem that Google, Mozilla or Microsoft and co are doing a very good job at promoting them, pushing them in their browsers or even education people about them. It looks like it is one of that spec browser vendors don't like for whatever reason :

https://caniuse.com/#search=web%20component

Vue.js actually retains most of the philosophy of Web Components like Polymer so I went with that instead of React,Angular and co. Front-end development is all about state management.
Tree of life jewellery
I don’t know, I think it’s better to just dive straight into what you’re trying to learn, otherwise you’re basically procrastinating.
Me too — hence the "Show Desktop" shortcut by right-clicking the menu bar icon.
And now I feel like a heel for picking on your spelling. :-<
Heh it's incredible hearing about someone _trying_ to do this one Windows (and Mac) - I have very vivid memories of Active Desktop on Windows 98 that let you set an HTML page as your 'wallpaper'/on your desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
> A true hobby is something that you don't do for money and that has no deadlines attached.

I think that's a little too specific and doesn't fit a lot of hobbies. People do often make a little money from their hobbies: fixing up and reselling old cars, thrifting and selling on eBay, refinishing furniture, putting up videos on YouTube.

Also, many hobbies have time-critical components. Even all-American pastimes like sports require you to not miss the game.

I'd crystalize it like so: A hobby is something you sink time into where failure has no negative consequences.

Since people like to pick nits here, that probably needs a couple of qualifiers. The sunk time itself can be considered a negative consequence. And the failure may have negative consequences within the hobby — if you accidentally crush your ship in a bottle, you aren't gonna be happy.

But the negative consequences of failure don't bleed out into anything else in your life. You have no need to succeed. That encapsulation of failure is what I think makes hobbies safe and thus encourage fun and a sense of play.

The reason it's so often disastrous to turn your hobby into a job is exactly because of that reason: it means you are now adding real stakes to the game. If you failed frequently and safely when it was a hobby, that was fine and you might still love the hobby. Once those failures matter, it can upend the whole cost/benefit calculation.
Org mode is my goto tool for:

- taking any sorts of notes

- agenda stuff

- word processing (through export to latex)

- todo lists, long-term shopping lists

- literate programming (my .emacs is in org mode, also many scripts in my notes)

- bookmarking (I have links to gnus threads to look at later, links to related documents in agenda entries or notes, links to servers I ssh into, links to some commands I run often, etc..)

and probably other things I don't remember ATM. Incredibly useful tool.