skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things are a god-send for the auto industry in my opinion...specifically professional drivers.

as a lead automotive mechanic for a semi truck shop, I bought about 5 pi's for our techs. We use them for reading OBD diagnostics and doing resets or long-term vehicle observation for certain problems. Theyre cheaper than most of the commercial rent-seeking computer tools we use and if a tech accidentally crushes one, its cheaper than dirt to replace.

We even have a customer who keeps long term backups of log books and GPS data on a pi running off her cigar lighter, as well as her favorite audio books. Trucking companies dont care if you whine the most about your miles, but send them a ZIP file of 6 years of logs and the CEO himself will write you a pay raise. best of all, she tucks the pi in her shirt when she switches trucks. Try doing that with a qualcomm or a laptop!
So, I think the author meant that a real number is actually a sequence of approximations towards an ideal. So, 0.5 has infinite sequences like 5, 3, 2, 1, 3/4, 1/4, 3/5, 2/5, 1/2
Ask HN: Which paid apps and services do you use?
This question was asked in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7802265
I was wondering if there has been a change in the services we pay given the proliferation of monthly paid apps and services.
Corporations are part of the communities from which they hire. They have ethical, if not legal, obligations to their workers and their communities.

Also, do you think it's interesting how everyone who disagrees with you is downvoted into low-contrast?
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Bread has sugar in it to feed the yeast. You should avoid HFCS in bread but as long as sugar isn't the first thing in the ingredients list it's probably just feeding the leavening.
Well, when the alternative is watching American football...
I started this while in gradschool---left gradschool about six months ago, after seven years. It is so funny how this particular habit has stuck on me. I have found I actually enjoy cooking now [...]
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> 1. You should tax what you want less of.

You said you this matter or factly, but it's a core point in the debate between left and right political economics, at least in America.
The demotivating effects of taxes are said to be offset by the moral imperative for those with to help those without.
The amount of relative positive and negative added by each policy is difficult to quantify, confusing the already difficult philosophical argument.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/05/diesel-vs-biodie...

2012, but I don't think the economics have changed significantly. At this point, biodiesel is significantly more expensive than fossil diesel. This would be even more strongly true for synthetic diesel, which is probably economically unviable at any substantial scale.
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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

You can do a lot in the database, a lot more than most developers realise, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Let's not mention the taxes for getting married w/out children. Unless you have dependents (children) or one income (which makes one spouse the other spouse's dependent), getting married as a DINC (Dual Income, No Children) is a fiscal disaster in the US right now.
Sure, CopperheadOS the project is dead, but nothing stops him from launching a new project with the same code.
Going to bed on time, getting 8+ hours of sleep.
Deleting all social media accounts.
Turning off all notifications on smartphone.
Meeting tons of new people through my food/cocktail side gig.
Worst case? Did you read the article? That’s absolutely not the worst case.

—-

Scott Petty, 36, a 3D artist from Houston who developed video games for a living, was diagnosed with corneal ectasia six months after having Lasik surgery.

His sight has continued to deteriorate, even after he underwent a new procedure called corneal cross-linking to strengthen his cornea. He is in so much pain that he is “almost suicidal,” he said. “It’s like hot grease is in my eyes, 24-7. I pretty much have to admit my career is over.”
consider the increase in child birth rate by this outage. lives will be forever changed :-)
> Every company should have a chaos monkey.

Big companies do though they call then interns.
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This was a descriptive statement. Taxes act like friction and DO reduce the activity that they are attached to.

So if one is planning a tax regime, you should think long and hard about the first and second order effects of your planned taxes. Unfortunately too many in government and politics don't think about this.
I just went to the gym and messed around, did whatever I felt like, even for 15 or 20 minutes and then left.

A super key part of encouraging a good habit, IMO. Showing up is the hard part, and if you give yourself permission to just tool around or leave early if you're not feeling it, at least you're still cultivating the habit.
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Pros:

* Technical skills sink or swim very quickly - you'll learn vastly more in the same period of time at a startup than you will at a big company. Or you'll fail.

* You learn to accept that failure isn't as bad as high school / college would have you believe - as long as you learn from it.

* Invaluable leadership experience very early on.

* A lot more responsibility early on - if you like to take charge and see things through it's a wonderful experience.

* Startups are usually founded by intelligent, successful, driven people - based on head count you usually work closely with them and have the opportunity to soak in that knowledge and experience.

* Connections. When you're young / early in your career a startup puts you in situations to meet people you wouldn't normally be in the same room with at a large company.

Cons:

* Equity is a joke. Liquidation preferences are always against the employee no matter how early. I'm at my second startup and anytime I hear a coworker talk about taking a pay cut because they got equity I cringe.

* The pay CAN suck, it doesn't have to. It took two tries but at my second startup (current job) I'm paid fairly. Maybe slightly less than I would be making in the same role at a large company but coming here included a promotion I was 6-12 months away from at the previous large company.

Neutral:

* Transparency. Some startups keep everyone in the dark about cash on hand, burn rates, fundrasiing, etc. Do not work for one of those startups.
>But are you saying that Japanese writing is only readable if you observe the writer during the act of writing? Because that's what some stroke recognition engines do.

Not exactly, but the situation, as I understand it, is somewhat related: Japanese writing is better (and thus more readable) if the writer observes (respects) a specific stroke ordering.

So, one doesn't have to observe a writer while he is writing to be able to better read what they wrote. But the ordering of strokes can have impact on readability, even when one sees the written words after they've been completed.
>Isn't that against their business incentive to support residential solar?

Yes, but that may not matter.

I have a set of solar panels. They cost about £5k. They produce up to 25kWh/day: https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html

I'm paid £0.138 for every kWh that is generated, regardless of whether I use it or not, and I don't have net metering. This results in a cheque every few months for about £500 a year, plus the saving of a difficult-to-meter amount of electricity used locally during the day. This gives me a ten year payback (or sooner).

Entertainingly because of the way feed-in tariffs work in the UK, they could be paid by a totally different provider to the one billing me for grid electricity.
I was astonished to see that Microsoft provided this software (R) under the terms of GNU GPLv2 or GNU GPLv3 explicitly (but not any later version)[0]. May be because this is a derivative work from GNU R.

That's a good news for free software developers. Microsoft GVFS[1] was using MIT (while git itself is GNU GPLv2) + some EULA[2]. May be they chose MIT for GVFS because GNU GPL license explicitly disallows additional restrictions (ie, EULA can't be added, otherwise it will tbe a violation of GNU GPL).

Edit: I see that the package is distributed as a single binary at https://mran.microsoft.com/download Which shall include (I haven't checked the contents) Microsoft R Open under GNU GPLv2 and Intel MKL with some EULA (ie, additional restrictions). Won't that be a violation of GNU GPLv2?

[0] https://mran.microsoft.com/faq#licensing

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/blob/master/GvFlt_EULA.md
Do their employees and CEOs actually say "I want to see ads"? Nope.
I used to live downtown with my kids. The apartment was gorgeous. Southside is currently going through gentrification, that's where I lived, and is the younger area. The North Shore is where you'll find the most wealth and private schools. Lots of young families are buying homes in Highland Park and St. Elmo because they're less expensive. Again, you have to do your research.

Living downtown allows you to walk to most events - CFC (soccer team), the downtown market, block parties, restaurants, etc. The public transit isn't very good but Ubers and Lyfts are cheap. We enjoyed living downtown except for grocery shopping. It's a bit more expensive and a drive from Southside. It's not far, but you have stoplights and all of that.

All in all, I'd say 7/10. I come from a more rural, less dense area, but coming from the Bay, you'll probably feel like it's easy as pie to get around.
If I remember correctly, Denmark started teaching people about having children along with pregnancy prevention. Simply making sure people knew things led to increased birth rates.
A warm shower seems like such a big luxury to abandon.. don't know if I could do this.
The more I learn about Friedman and Hayek the more I hate them and the politicians that still cling to their hack theories in the face of overwhelming evidence that they don't work for anyone but the amassers of capital.

Their views on people as individual self-interested rational actors are so narrow and simplistic.
Did someone at NFLX point Chaos Monkey at something they shouldn't have or was this an "honest failure?"
Blutak would not work for this. If you have it in contact with body heat too long it gets ropey. It would constantly stick to your hands on contact.

I think OP was commenting that they're completely different things, with different purposes and uses. Blutack is great for sticking a poster to a wall, because its easy to put up and take off, and can be useable again. It is not for something to be permanent and used.
> The end result is a vastly simplified backend

GraphQL specs offer none to zero of the following:

- caching

- authentication, authorization and handling data access

- protections against ad-hoc arbitrarily nested and complex queries

- routing

How does this “vastly simplify the backend”? If anything, it makes the backend hideously complex (IIRC Apollo’s approach to caching is parsing requests and responses every time, do some magic, and handle caching manually).
Try, for a week, tracking the total amount of sugar you consume each day. If you live in the US, it's likely to be shockingly higher than you might have guessed. For instance, a single "protein bar" can provide 3/4 of your recommended daily sugar intake (for a man) or 100% (for a woman).

Getting in the habit of checking utrition labels also reveals some surprises and frustrations. In the average American grocery store, try to find a single cold breakfast cereal with less than 5g of sugar per serving.
"MAX PER CUSTOMER: 1"

It really doesn't matter where else they "go" until they fix that right there.

(Why? Because on my workbench right now is the pi, instead of a pi; and that makes all the difference.)
It's easy to define the number of employees within the city. How do you define the revenue?

Or do you mean global revenue?
Ah, that’s a good idea. The EU could/should mandate specifying very clearly what precisely the service is.

Of course, like another commenter mentioned about face recognition and image processing, that is hardly relevant to most kinds of advertizing.

The question is one of legal basis and also of specifying explicitly what is being done with the data.

That leads to the next question - how will things be verified? Will an entity get to audit FB algorithms in toto to sign off that they’re secretly processing facial recognition data?…that’ll be the real challenge.
Cutting back on caffeine. I've noticed that the more coffee I drink, the more coffee I drink. And suddenly I'm over-wired and it has been a factor leading to general burnout.
I actually agree. The solution is of course anarchism. No bosses, no masters, no corporations. Only workers associations that democratically decide how to control the companies.

It's laughable that we pretend to care about democracy, but most of us spend a large part of our lives in these dictatorships we call work.
>Sure thing, duuuude. Now we're holding a published interview to the high (no pun intended) standard of "college stoners". Great.

Well,

1) Most published interviews are below the standard of "college stoners" (e.g. celebrity BS) -- so it would be a higher bar if we did so.

2) "College stoner" conversations are not that low in themselves. In fact many observations and discoveries by non-stoned people start with similar what ifs and digressions...
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That is awful, but so are car accidents, and most people still think automobiles are worth it.

The question is the relative risks and the relative benefits. This procedure appears to have more benefits and less risks than most comparable procedures.
I'm not sure if this is really the case. There was already an effort underway to repeal this through a vote by the citizens. This seems more like the city council heading off the vote to save face.
It's understandable coming from Bloomberg, their MO is to drive up clicks/views. Is it technically untrue? Well, in this advanced economy with projected flat electricity demand, there isn't much growth in demand for utilities, except for replacing retiring stock like coal, nuclear, etc. It's simply a massively large industrial base that fossil fuels are leveraging day-in day-out, powering the vast majority of vehicles, airplanes, cement, steel, aluminum, plastics, and on and on. Electricity is one component of our emissions base, yes, but it's something like 25-30% of our emissions. Solar/wind/other non-fossil-fuels will take 100 years to fill all of the use-cases seen with current fossil fuels, and even then they still may be used in some niche applications.

Sadly, readers don't want to face the uncomfortable facts: we are still a fossil fuel civilization and will be for decades.
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If you ever live with anyone else you will probably have to optimize multiple commutes (or proximity to other resources). Your salary likely won't have much impact on that decision.
Sure, and ColdFire is still around to some degree. But Motorola/Freescale was not promoting this architecture for new desktop designs past the very early 90s. Yes, Apple and others continued to make machines until the mid-90s around 68k, but it was seen as dead in the water and the push was to get onto PowerPC (itself an unfortunate dead-end).

I still like the 68k. It has a very nice instruction set. It makes a great target for C compilers. I still enjoy writing assembler for it here and there. I like my Atari STs.

But for the market that Atari and Amiga were going for, I am still not convinced it was appropriate. I think Apple made the right choices with the IIgs. Except they underclocked it, overpriced it, and handicapped it in favour of promoting the Macintosh despite the II line being a big profit centre for them.
Blu-Tack doesn't harden, it stays sticky. It's used to attach posters to the wall and stuff like that. I wouldn't want to use it on the edge of a MacBook, it would just gather dust and grime, and would easily fall off.
A generic attack on politicians is orthogonal the main argument, by your logic, taken to its conclusion is that the government shouldn't be funded.
Slightly off topic - The one-per-customer policy on the PiZero and PiZeroW seems very limiting to me for someone who would like to develop more than one pi-based hobbyist project (or multi-pi projects like a cheap kubernetes cluster to play around with that stack). Does anyone know if there are plans to drop this restriction anytime soon, or do hobbyists just need to accept that to do multiple projects they need to buy the more expensive models? (Not that I can complain that $25-$35 is expensive!)
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Cheap public transit is all.

In case of food, it comes to your nearest super market. So its not just overproduction of food, its also supply chain optimization.
> citizens

Amazon.
I've watched the whole video of the Milgram experiment. People claim those who were the teachers knew it was fake, but interviews years later have people claiming they really thought they killed the person in the other room.

Not to mention his experiment was replicated by several universities around the world[1], although due to modern ethical standards, it would be impossible to reproduce ethically at most universities today[2].

I don't think Milgram falls into the same category, especially with all the work they put in at Harvard in the controls (the learner was a tape recording; so everyone heard the exact same thing. It was the same professor in the room with him; always replicating the same dialog).

This is in direct contrast with Vsauce's trolley problem experiment, which had way too small a sample size, and who forced a response for one person by changing the conditions of the experiment (there was no one outside when he tried to get help).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Replication...

[2]: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/replicating-mi...
As if the people of the United States haven't been signing blank checks to the executive branch for decades, and then just flooring the accelerator after 9/11. Your inability to get past the sideshow face of Trump's administration seems to have caused you to completely forget about, say, the free reign the administration has over its drone assassination program? They literally drop bombs on the phone numbers that Palantir spits out. Or National Security Letters that basically give them the legal machinery to completely and wholly subjugate an entity in any way they wish, with rubber-stamp "judicial approval" from a secret court and zero recourse for the victim, including requiring the victim to lie for the government to cover up its crime? Don't let the bullshit with your favorite color make you lose sight of the absolute power "the slow machinations of the legal system" has been corrupted to allow.
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If I looked up the trailer myself? No, because I already had interest in the movie and wanted to see more to decide if it's worth buying.

If I didn't ask for anything and an app/website suddenly shows me the trailer? Absolutely - that app/website is selling my attention as the product, and my middle finger suddenly rises as I close the tab or tweak my ad blocker to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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I've done a fair bit of embedded stuff with C++ and I completely agree. I've been watching Rust quite closely in the hopes that it's suitable for embedded development by the time my next round of projects comes up.
Although technically you're right, one can reasonably assume that when talking about random numbers, people mean non-rational random numbers. Like sqrt(2), e, pi, ...
That’s fine, but irrelevant. The parent described a “worst case” scenario which was clearly not even in the ballpark.
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Getting up earlier and going for a run. I have so much more energy throughout the day now, and I'm actually tired when it's time to go to bed. It's also a lot less hot outside than mid-day or evenings.
Not sure why this was flagged. Which a proper way to ask for an update on the previously asked question?
I apologize for my ignorance.
I think with most startups, even if they're successful, they don't deliver on the ownership and ROI you would expect for the time you invest.

Several years ago, I joined a Midwestern startup just before the Series A as one of the first ten employees and the first mobile FT dev. I took a pay cut to join and was explicitly promised ownership and real "skin in the game." Nine months later, when they finally devised an options pool, I found I had been granted 0.065% and left immediately. It was like they'd stolen months of my work. Today, they have over two hundred employees and are probably headed to a large equity event.

Another startup I joined raised a lot of money and paid almost market rates to some of the best developers in town. Their tech was some of the best in the city, but they pivoted and lost most of their developers when they didn't achieve product-market fit. They will probably only ever reach a tiny multiple compared to what their investors desired.
This isn’t good advise. Angular 1.X is discontinued and uses confusing patterns not used in Angular 2 , React, Preact, Vue etc. specializing in it is a very bad career move.
Yes! I do my ride early before it gets above 80F. Much nicer. And I'm smarter all day.
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But this article doesn’t say anything about power generation. It only discusses nameplate capacity. Because the sun moves in the sky, and we have clouds, and night, and dust that sticks to panels, etc., the actual generated power is far less than the nameplate capacity.

For example, one set solar panels on my roof yielded 5.2MWh in 2017. Their nameplate capacity is 5kW, so the nameplate yearly generation is 5 * 24 * 365 = 44MWh, so my yield is about 12%. The other, smaller set (better panels, better site) yielded 4MWh or 15%. Actual generation is roughly an order of magnitude smaller than nameplate suggests.

And I live in California, where we don’t get a lot of rain - these numbers could be worse.

If you look at the power that will be actually generated by this new solar capacity referenced in the article, it’s far less than the power that will be generated by the other technologies, just because solar has such a bad yield.

So it’s not even true that incremental power generation is dominated by solar.

I love solar power, but I don’t think articles like this advance the cause, because they aren’t thinking critically enough. Lazy reporting does us no favors.
Vsauce's Mind Field series replicates this experiment, in the traditional sensational way he does everything. It's still pretty interesting to actually watch the people and their facial reactions. Still, draw your own conclusions.