skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were cheaper to pay back the principal and interest on your solar installation than continue paying your present electricity costs, then it would be profitable to take out the loan and you'd do it. Lenders would be willing to make this loan... they'd make money here versus utility companies.

"Bundling it into construction" as in whoever builds the house pays the upfront cost of the solar installation? This would inevitably pass the cost on through increasing the value of the home. So homes in CA will be harder to afford and mortgages will carry larger payments.

Sure electricity costs will go down some amount to marginally offset the increased mortgage payment. But to definitively claim they will go down _more_ than mortgage payments rise is a ridiculous claim in my opinion because implicit in that claim is the assumption that everyone is missing out on this way to save money and needs the government to impose this mandate for them to realize it.
Sure. There is also the reflection: how we think about and treat AI, or any other sentient species speak as muc about how we understand what it is to be human.
How useful is this book for a Clojure programmer? I always wonder if there is cross-over in practices between the Lisps.
You're gonna get flagged for pointing out that HN is a pretty extreme echo chamber.
Ad hominem attacks are sometimes good.

Only in that they reveal the intellectually dishonest.
C# has null because all new memory is initialized as all zeros. The constraint is that any object or struct needs to be valid if it's in-memory content is all zero. Thus, null must be supported for object references because the pointer has to support zero.

Value types can work without null because 0 is valid.

Could the language designers implement object types without null? It would be very difficult for fields, especially in structs, because it's nearly impossible to force memory initialization. You couldn't do "default (StructType)" if it had a not null object as a field.
But I wouldn’t mind having a bank account, credit card, health insurance / healthcare or prescription drugs from a place that did this.
Why is null in Go unsafe?
> the downsides in dealing with women

Between that and "skip the females" this account has gone beyond garden-variety flamewar into uglier incivility and I'm going to ban it. Twice in one thread is more than a slip.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and email us a reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
No need to bring up such horrible historical events such as the destruction of TechTV.
The Chinese government would likely gladly subsidize the company just to screw the US.
If IE received monthly updates and had one of the fastest JavaScript engines around, it would still be the dominant browser.
Just browsed it real quick. They claim you can locate something in 3D with 4 sensors, but as configured they can't differentiate between any positive Z distance and any negative Z distance.
You'll have to explain to me how new residents pay for retired public employees. Our public employees are either on a state or local pension plan they payed into, had that money invested, and are now drawing from, or they have a 457 plan. Currently working employees pay a portion of their salary into the plan to keep it going. The city's pension obligations to retired employees are almost nil.

I also take issue with your use of the term "shared infrastructure". If you view all infrastructure as shared, then the existing infrastructure is being used "for free" by new residents, its costs having been payed for by previous residents. In your proposal the costs are loaded onto existing residents who payed for both old and new infrastructure, as opposed to new residents who only pay for the new. This would seem to balance out whatever new residents are paying in for "things they never used".

EDIT: I should address your point about urban sprawl. I would think that as long as it is cheap to build new, the incentive to infill cities is low. Developers and buyers will prefer new, and that creates a number of negative externalities beyond housing shortages. New construction is obviously necessary, but we need to find ways to align the incentives of developers and communities. I actually think we're off the mark here talking about new residents, since only residents that buy new are saddled with the extra burden. New residents that opt to infill existing neighborhoods do not. Perhaps the better option is to place the burden on the developers, but offer residents other incentives (such as property tax relief on new construction).
Headline Smasher: Fake headlines created by smashing up real headlines
Sure, you can't throw an unlimited amount of funding at anything and have its productivity scale accordingly.

The difference here is that we're at the point of straight up denying that there's a problem and removing all funding from important programs.
As kibwen has commented, in Mozilla's official statement (which is legally binding), they say that they don't collect anything, so yeah.
AFAIK, Dan Goldin once ordered calculations for return to the Moon on the cheap. The bottom price was about $1B to bring humans to the Moon surface again (and safely return them back) using then-dirt-cheap Proton launchers.

Congress could apply its force in a few different ways here. For one Congress may decide not to spend on the Moon program because it's too expensive. For comparison the NASA annual budget is about $20B, so the Moon has to be expensive related to that. For another Congress may insist to use pretty expensive but politically convenient means, like SLS, for that. Big total budget will require delays, so the program will move slowly.
Thank you, I wasn't willing to watch for 45 minutes.
This cryovac solo guy really knows his stuff.
The margin of error on this system, running on mobile devices with inconsistent and unpredictable OS and network latency/overhead must limit its usefulness.

It's cool though, and nice to see another .space in the wild.
Citizens United can certainly be argued as intellectually consistent. But ugh, it is simultaneously so effective at disempowering citizens who don't control major corporate entities.

Thousands and thousands of us can so easily be shouted down by massive corporations showering money on our representatives.
I wonder if we couldn't have a "business class" option. When I took Muni in SF every day I'd have happily paid a little extra for some more comfort and less likelihood of a homeless person who smells like urine nearby. That money could even be used to subsidize the economy tickets. Maybe it might even work out that we could have a freemium model.
and in 6 months they can turn around and claim they will save 30% of their hosting costs by migrating to bare metal.

It's just a game to keep VC's and other people happy.

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Hey ma! look I cut our costs by 25%
We just paid for mulesoft, can confirm very expensive. But they worked with us and came down to what we could afford for what it's worth.
Presumably because there’s no language-level way to guarantee a pointer to be non-nil at compile time, combined with nil dereferencing being a crash. Not unsafe in the security sense, but definitely unsafe in the “can I count on my program to run” sense.
If they were serious they would stop selling in China.
Owning your data would mean that you as a user could opt into the social graphs that you want to be a part of, and pull that data out whenever you like. It would also mean that competitors could build more privacy-focused alternatives, perhaps a stripped down social media experience that doesn't allow sharing of articles for example. Maybe your friends still like to share memes, and they opt into the full DecentraFacebook edition but you don't want to see that crap, so you opt in to DecentraFacebook: Meme Free edition. You're still able to see friends 'direct posts'. No auto-play videos, no ads, etc.
If you venture to the extremes, what comes to mind immediately for me are folks who believe in naturopathy, rejection of vaccines, "wifi will rot your brain", and I'm sure there are others. I've come across these folks at 'hippie resorts' in the PNW, Big Sur, and other similar areas.

Interestingly enough, there's some overlap in these 'ideologies' between some extreme left and some extreme right folks (and probably some folks in between).
People don't need a lot of water. It's the lawns that need all the water. Why relocate millions of people when all you have to do is get rid of the stupid fucking lawns?
I still can't believe that the movement to kill net neutrality was (is?) called "restoring internet freedom". I guess it's a shortening of "restoring internet service providers' freedom"? But the longer form isn't as catchy.
Click the triple dot underneath and to the right of (almost?) any video on youtube, click "Open transcript" and read.
I could see that. Homes that don't have this requirement will be more valuable over time.
It's very hard to be more unhealthy than cigarettes.
Well, I think it may not just be Hebbian learning but likely Balanced Amplification learning [1] as well which propagates quite a bit faster. Promising paper came out recently echoing this phenomena globally with a model of visual perception in the macaque brain[2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2667957/
[2] https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30152-1?
This is really interesting. Would you mind sharing a link?
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Sold to the Japanese parent of Indeed.
Reflowed the transcript to 80 characters: https://pastebin.com/aQmKc0WQ
I've never been able to understand this. I read from screens nearly all day and I've read books for many hours in a row on normal tablets. I have to wonder if this is nothing but a nocebo that will stop being a "thing" once screen reading is more common, like alleged motion sickness from normal television.
We need to start planning cities and towns in terms of foot traffic and stop assuming the need for other forms of transportation.
> I find myself tabbing through half of a dozen tabs to get where I'm going

Why are you tabbing at all? If you type "* foo" in the url bar (without hitting enter), you will get a list of tabs whose url or title includes "foo". You can select one to jump to it. Much faster than linearly going through tabs.
And, partly as a result, NoDak sailed through the recent recession pretty much scar-free. As a result of legislation by the Nonpartisan League.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_League

As that article puts it: "On behalf of small farmers and merchants, the Nonpartisan League advocated state control of mills, grain elevators, banks and other farm-related industries in order to reduce the power of corporate political interests"

Oh my.
Fair question. 150 years ago we were walking. Now we land robots on other planets that run for 10 years. Where will we be after 100 years of Gaia/James Webb?
> As far as what you should listen to, I’d recommend something without vocals.

I highly recommend "Drone Zone" on http://soma.fm

"Deep Space One" and "Space Station Soma" work too.
I respect that. It doesn't work for me but it's an interesting thought. Props on being able to arrange it successfully. Says some positive things about you by extension.

I only keep bookmarks that are really important or used often, the latter which doesn't really make sense but when I want food I open up my Food folder and looking at places around me helps me pick something.
Adaptive Streaming with Piper
I've seen programs that crash given a none. Often explicitly called out with a message saying that a value must be supplied. So, a good thing in those cases.

I'm not optimistic enough to think it would always be a good thing, though. I've actually seen some where the lack of a value was not noticed because people just mapped over the optional and did not code for the missing case. Effectively coercing the value to whatever the zero was.

Now, I can't claim empirically that these would outnumber null pointers. I just also can't claim they don't exist.
Systemd is still a mess.

I've currently one machine that hangs on reboots because systemd is unable to shut down some service and another that gets its journals corrupted periodically.
Powell Has a Plan: FOMC Board Members Contemplating Next Decision
Unfortunately it seems the Chinese government has figured out how to get high growth, investment, and scientific/technological progress without increasing political freedoms. I'd like to be wrong about that, but it seems pretty clear that it's the case.

I used to think that as more Chinese people entered the middle class, they would demand more political rights. It's generally the bourgeoisie that does this -- they aren't poor anymore and they want respect, they resent being looked down on and the monopoly on political power held by the entrenched aristocracy (which in China would be the powerful families in the party), and so on. But that hasn't happened as far as I can tell. Maybe it's because the people in a position to successfully demand political reform aren't staying in China.
If you live in Arkansas, Louisiana, or Ohio, call your senators and urge them to vote in favor of net neutrality!
> If nobody uses it, how are you supposed to figure out how to improve it so they will?

- They could survey their actual customers. (Businesses I deal with ask me for feedback all the time.)

- They could conduct focus groups, where they pay customers to come in and give feedback directly to the product team.

- They could do A/B testing.

I think customers would be more likely to provide negative feedback about a product than employees. Employees might be wary of offending the decisions of powerful people in the company.

And in any case, some employees will voluntarily use the company's product. Just don't force people to use it if they don't want to.

> It's an employer telling employees to do something while they're at work, on company time and company premises!

- It involves the employee consenting to hook up their personal financial account to the company-owned payment account, which is a rather personal and intrusive thing for an employer to ask.

- It exposes all the employee's purchases to their employer, which is a privacy issue. What if I don't want my employer to know that I drink six cans of diet Coke every day?

Just because the employee is on the clock doesn't mean the company owns them. Would you think it's OK for the employer to force the employee to eat certain foods or read non-work-related political literature just because they're on the clock?
> The essay is conflating 2 different concepts of "null."

I'd take it a step further, and posit that The Fine Article's rage comes from its author not grokking the distinction, or even recognizing there is one.

Of course null is going to seem frustratingly and dangerously wrong if that's your concept of it.
Rightly so. At this point seems China has all the condition but a necessary kick in the butt.
The last third of the talk where he actually discusses work that could be considered to regard generative agents appears to be a deep learning version of the Bayesian model presented three years ago accompanying the initial release of the Omniglot dataset.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332.full

Pdf can be found free by googling the paper title
I think they've removed some app permissions on access to the clipboard in Firefox. LastPass seems to be notoriously bad with copy-pasting and empty-page loads.
> And decreases the energy bill by a very similar amount of what an increase in the mortgage would be

Sure, this is true iff a) the home has a nice south-facing roof, b) without trees in the way and c) under the current tariff design in most of California.

Some homes are built in wooded areas. Deciduous trees on the south side of the house (in the northern hemisphere) 1) shade in the summer, 2) allow the sun to warm in the winter are 3) are attractive.

Finally, regulated-monopoly utilities will continue to pass their costs to their customers. They will change the designs of their rates to continue to recoup their costs. So what might be saved in utilities costs today won't necessarily be saved over the life of the mortgage.
Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
Yeah, bubble days were wild, but that’s also not your run of the mill real estate. If anything the bubble period should be an object lesson in what happens when you allow this kind of unchecked investment (ie it destroys your entire economy).
Some cities I've lived in have a star model. In Munich I'd take the subway downtown, change trains and head into a different suburb. Because the train was quick and the stops reasonable spaced resulting in a decent experience. In Portland the MAX stops so frequently downtown that taking it for example from the west side to the airport is way too slow. You spend way too much time just slogging through downtown. It starts to suffer from the same problem like most US buses that stop every fucking block. What's up with that insanity?! The T-Line in SF suffered from the same problem and I ultimately stopped taking it in favor of a kick scooter.
Do you think we should pass a law forcing every online community to not have content guidelines?

Content guidelines are fine. But the way they are currently used -- where they can be so vague as to mean anything, and where things can change so dramatically after the fact -- isn't acceptable for any platform that basically constitutes a broad reach medium. It basically just devolves into a pretext for censorship in a broad reach medium. Get to a certain level of reach, and your content guideline means something very different than some little web forum tucked away somewhere.

So my answer would be this: It's disingenuous for someone to invoke "show you the door" if you're the only shop in town. If you're the only bakery in town, it's pretty crappy if you're not going to bake someone a wedding cake.

It's all contingent on reach. Buy one radio station, and only play fundamentalist Christian content? I think that's fine. But if you've bought 90% of all radio stations in the country? Yeah, I think the government might be doing us a favor if they called shenanigans on that.
Sorry for the late response.

I live in near the Spokane/CDA region. Spokane is the major city, an hour from where I live, as I live in a rural area. Boise is also nice and would offer the same.
IDEO's Human Centred AI Machines
And here's a worked example of applying this approach, in this case to the domain of video editing: Super 8 Languages for Making Movies (Functional Pearl)
https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/icfp17-acf.pdf
As a warning, this transcript was auto-generated. I had better luck turning on closed captions and following along at 2x speed.
The home values depreciate very quickly, but the land values are very high.
If you're utterly terrified that cross-gender interaction will end badly for you, then maybe it's not best for you to take the lead on outreach.

There are lots of other people who don't feel such an extreme level of fear and discomfort, yet who probably could do more in terms of inclusion. Those are the people I hope the author of this article reaches.

I hope the many commenters on this article who feel so uncomfortable with female colleagues do find some way to improve their situation though -- their alienation is bad for them, bad for women, bad for all of us collectively.
Yeah the desktop web version is a massively better experience (though not stellar either, tbh). It says something that it's still a good tool despite those shortcomings
Are we still talking about Apple in China? I don't know which customer was killed, or which employee was declared a criminal..

No, I switched contexts to the satellite Internet service developer I mentioned. They are on track to deploy a significant LEO constellation over the next few years. If they succeed, they will effectively be the Internet for a large chunk of the world. So if they don't make arrangements to accommodate various countries' censorship regulations, then citizens of places like China, Iran or North Korea who are caught with their receivers will be in a great deal of trouble, and the company's executives will not be able to travel to those regions without fearing arrest.
I had to stop using FF on windows when it tanked because I disabled hardware acceleration (to force google maps to stuff their stupid 3d satellite images in the can). Look at the your rendering settings would be my random guess.
Well binary logs seem to be a good enough reason for me.

I use FreeBSD and Devuan feels like I am in control.
Some commercial software won't work on FreeBSD so I have to use some Linux.

I also use Alpine because it uses OpenRC.
With gLibc missing it is tough to compile some software.

Compared, Devuan seems to be very software compatible and offers the familiarity of Debian.

Over at FreeBSD we have loads of new users thanks to systemd.

Keep up the great work RedHat.
That's because the "BMR" here is cross-subsidized by employment and much of it is for people making above the median income. This is not a solution to the housing shortage.

https://sf.curbed.com/2016/2/3/10942390/inside-the-fuzzy-mat...
Can someone explain why it's so common for buses in the US to stop every damn block? In SF even some subway lines do this. This seems like the surest way to render the mode of transportation entirely useless.
Download each tab to preserve contents and enable offline access. Your local directory's `file:///` URI can be used as an index view to avoid the need for a file manager
I know lots of really smart women, many whose careers pay less than software. When I asked if they ever thought about coding all but one basically said they weren't interested.

The one who was interested said she didn't pursue coding(is a PM instead) because during her first year of college she felt behind because some of her fellow students had 5-6 years of coding experience and she'd only had 1-2. So she switched to MIS.
But only if the current design of utility rates remains the same. But it won't, because utilities are regulated monopolies which are permitted to recoup the costs of their investments. So, they will lower the price of power during the day, and raise it during the night.
Mostly it was Mubarak implementing a bizarre corrupt version of land reform that took land from farmers whose families had owned it back to antiquity and gave it to cronies with no farming experience. [0]

[0] https://www.marketplace.org/2011/12/12/sustainability/food-9...
Shameless plug: https://www.npmjs.com/package/safely-nested

Nothing special, glom just reminded me of it.
> But AI promises you don't need employees and that is something owners would invest.

Also no owners. Or at least, no management.
Edit: I am embarrassed to have linked to such a publication, but will not modify my original words.

No, don't be. Don't be swayed by guilt by association. That is a tool of oppressors. Evaluate information and arguments on their merits. You can't keep ideologies honest if you're not allowed to evaluate and possibly "fire" them and seek alternatives.

Are you wedded to the "flag" or "label" or to the principles represented by them?
Googling indicates that beIN has started using ASiD which seems to be the state-of-the-art in digital watermarking at the point of receiving (the beIN set-top box). I wonder if beIN is still being pirated effectively with this new deterrence.

> ASiD is a true step change in the fight against video piracy. Its combination of discrete identifying symbols, fractional second display and sophisticated placement, and interpretation algorithms make it impossible to obscure or mask with zero impact on the consumer experience.
Yep, you can bridge Matrix with a lot of stuff.
It’s also an inevitable consequence.

Truth be told, I distrust the part of government that supports “net neutrality” and I distrust the part of government that is against it. Make no mistake, the government is itching to dictate content and tax data transfer.
Devuan is serving a need. It is not trolling.