skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”Why do people keep wanting to subsidize roof top solar?”

Ground-based solar has a cost in terms of the land being unavailable for other purposes, such as agriculture or housing or even just maintaining ecosystems in their natural state.

But roof-top solar is making use of a resource that is otherwise unproductive space anyway. There are also benefits to having energy production right at the point of use, since you avoid grid losses and are offsetting the retail cost of energy rather than selling into the grid at wholesale prices.
Gracie :)
That's a silly question. More stuff fits in more pixels. Even if you have to compensate for readability by scaling fonts larger to make text the same size as it was on the lower dpi screen, the end result isn't actually equivalent to the lower dpi. It still works out that the higher dpi screen is on average more functional due to more things fitting on screen. Especially on dual/triple 27" external monitors on my desk. They are large and I am close to them, and a mere 1440 vertical pixels would be tolerable but crap when better is available. I usually have 4 to 10 terminal windows open where I want to see as much code and documentation and log output as possible, not a movie.
Try not to posite a solution.

Listen, don’t speak over them.

Acknowledge, respond in a way which indicated that you empathise with their emotional state, often by mirroring language, tone, words, body language etc.

Guide, ask questions that indicate that you’re open to hearing more about their issues, sometimes worth a “It’s ok if you don’t want to say but, what happened...”

Thank them for sharing with you.

Done.
Thanks for neocities.org link!! I created a site. It was fun and refreshing.
LPR or not, it seems totally scary to me that a visa was revoked because the company committed a minor mistake in filing the notification: for all we know, the company filed the notification in a timely manner but sent a superfluous check with it that caused the document to be returned.

In what world is this something that shouldn’t be considered a minor mistake and be looked past by an immigration officer, considering that the company was in good faith? Hell, the guy didn’t even change employer, it was a simple change of address for the same company!
Merci beaucoup :D
All of statistics by wasserman, and then all of nonparametric statistics.

Since you’re also interested in the philosophy side of things, definitely suggest Judea pearl too!
Yes, but if it dramatically increases complexity for all the lower levels of the rendering stack, it ends up creating extra work for those OS/framework developers, requiring separate versions of the code targeting different displays which must be maintained separately with different sets of bugs in each, preventing them from making large-scale architectural changes they want to make, restricting some types of significant optimizations, etc.
Haven’t used ML Kit but CoreML has been very simple to setup (few lines of python + drag n drop into Xcode) and very fast on device. You can do video stream classification live
Angular has similar problems, it is dangerous to replace an array rather than replace the elements of an array for example.

Don't know how vue compares with this but for angular beginners this is a very common mistake.
Attempting take this idea seriously, I just catalogued apps I have open right now that I know/suspect have no good equivalent on Linux:

* Safari - might seem unnecessary, but it's a lot of the web
* Discord - I hear they have a Linux version in alpha, but...alpha
* iTerm - best there is after years, why the hell can't Linux win at this?!
* 1Password - guess I use the CLI? ugh.
* iTunes - largely used for watching movies
* Messages - This is surprisingly nice to have on the desktop
* Microsoft Outlook - guess you are forced to use the web client
* Xcode - heh

Stuff I didn't expect to see but was pleasantly surprised to see:

* Spotify
* Hipchat
* Zoom
* Skype

I could live without Discord, Messages, Safari, iTunes and Outlook if I got motivated (Outlook I have to have, but the web client is halfway decent). That leaves Xcode, iTerm and 1Password as dealbreakers. We know one of those isn't going to change!

I'm of course not including the apps I use less often but really like when I need them, like Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote, Excel/Numbers, OmniGraffle, Sketch, and Things.

I think Linux is safe from me, except as the system I have next to my daily driver, and which I use for Windows (when I need to look at something there) and dual boot for Tensorflow.
USB-C clearly is the way forward.
The statue of liberty was a gift from France, so also foreign made.
As I said in another comment, LPR or not, it seems totally scary to me that a visa was revoked because the company committed a minor mistake in filing the notification: for all we know, the company filed the notification in a timely manner but sent a superfluous check with it that caused the document to be returned.

In what world is this something that shouldn’t be considered a minor mistake and be looked past by an immigration officer, considering that the company was in good faith? Hell, the guy didn’t even change employer, it was a simple change of address for the same company!
Those two categories are not same. Their main goal is listening 24x7.
"Spiders float in the air using electric fields" might be a better title. I initially thought this was going to be a detailed explanation of how spiders use water's surface tension (due to water's electric dipole) to float on ponds. This article is actually about "ballooning". Here's an excerpt from the abstract:

> To disperse, spiders “balloon,” whereby they climb to the top of a prominence, let out silk, and float away. The prevailing view is that drag forces from light wind allow spiders to become airborne, yet ballooning mechanisms are not fully explained by current aerodynamic models. The global atmospheric electric circuit and the resulting atmospheric potential gradient (APG) provide an additional force that has been proposed to explain ballooning.

I've left out some of their in-line references.
Yes. Both Facebook and Twitter are blocked.
IDEs especially have a lot of panels. Those can be moved around in the window or even outside of the window.

So you can have the code window, the debug window, etc.

So what people actually want is multi-window support.
For $39/lb, it had better be awesome.

I used to buy from Luther's, but not recently.

http://jerkyusa.com

The Krave Black Cherry BBQ is good and sometimes pops up at Grocery Outlet.
> If I could flip a switch to put myself in "Learning Mode" on the fly, that would be amazing.

You definitely pay a price for a certain amount of learning ability - see people like Kim Peek ("rain man") and others. The possible reason gets explained by Jordan Peterson (essentially, autistic people lack the ability for certain abstraction in thinking): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxNg0xcadsM
Just had a conversation about Amazon facial recognition with a friend last evening.

Imagine ten years in the future: you did something to upset the local police officer. Maybe you didn't pick up a can like he ordered. In any case, imagine he takes a photo of you with his body camera and then using Amazon's machine learning, they're able to find likeness of you doing "illegal" things and immediately write you a ticket. Resist more? Maybe Amazon can dig deeper and find out the faces you are around often and dig out treasure trove about someone.

I agree. Without universal enforcement, universal surveillance is pointless. This is why I was glad to see TSA selecting old women on wheelchairs with oxygen masks for searching while boarding onto airplanes because what we had before that was not random searching at all. It was profiling.

I'm amazed nobody in New York talks about NYPD reflective vests in a car's dash. Clearly, the car owner is communicating that the car belongs to a police officer to avoid a ticket. Anyone who does this does not belong in our police force. However, people just don't care about it.
What makes “that the wage gap numbers are not as significant as they are often presented” an important conversation for you?

To me it seems like an uninteresting tautology. Like these others:

“False statements about immigration numbers are often presented in discourse about naturalization policies”

“Misleading financial figures are often presented in discourse about what stocks to buy.”

It’s like... yah. So?

All discourse is full of garbage. If you are interested in the truth, you weed through that and evaluate the numbers and, according to best practices, find a good estimate.

When you do that, you find there is a substantial gender-attributable pay gap in many countries in many industries.

Why that is and how we change it seems like a worthy discussion.

I am curious to why you think the existence of people with a poor understanding of the facts is a worthy topic of conversation.

There will always be people in “the discourse” saying wrong things. If that’s all it takes to halt the important conversation about how women get pay equity, then you have yourself a surefire tool to ensure that conversation never happens. Or at least that you never have to participate.
Marvel Comics legend, Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko found dead at 90
Face Recognition in real time
Or any GNU/Linux distribution, which actually offer a superior developer experience in my opinion.

People complaining about their Macs type posts constantly top HN. Usually the comments are filled with further moaning about how things have been so bad for so long with Apple etc., usually accompanied by threats of moving to another platform.
New book on Silicon Valley says early Atari ran on cocaine and roller skates
Works by taking only 20 photos of each person.
Uses LBHP face recogniser implemented in Python using OpenCV.
You can definitely improve your learning ability with meditation and a better environment. This "hack" is what most upper-class families use to get ahead.
Doesn't match up with what they say on the first lines of the readme file ...

"GlobaLeaks is open-source / free software intended to enable secure and anonymous whistleblowing initiatives..."
I mostly use a very long form podcast like Joe Rogen, Sam Harris, or videos hosted on Internet Archives.
Listen, no offense, but you're not going to convince me that it's cool to price people out of the homes they live in simply because they've been in them for 10 years and the market has moved that much. There's an older minority couple that live across the street from us who have been in the neighborhood for over 30 years now. Community like that is part of why we bought here. If my wife and I moving in means suddenly everyone has higher property taxes, I'd have a serious problem with that.
> On Linux i like the console font that you get when booting Debian (not sure what is called)

That's probably Unifont: http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html

The exact font used is configurable but Debian uses Unifont by default.
I have a 2015 rMBP with nVidia 750m and recently I switched from Apple Cinema Display to a 4k screen. At any of the graphical modes between the full 2x retina and 1x the whole OS gets extremely sluggish to the point of unusable.

Some people from Jetbrains have looked into it and concluded it was the font rendering in IDEA bringing down the entire system.

Do you think this change can improve this? Because it certainly sounds like it.
Again, I don't think that anonymity is a fundamental right - although if it was, you would be correct and I would agree with you. In fact, that theoretical right I don't believe in would be so distinct from freedom of speech that it might even be in opposition to it (cough right to be forgotten cough) ;).

Anonymity is an implementation detail. At the moment, it is an implementation detail that is essential. If your point is that it's not literally equivalent to free speech, then sure, definitely. We're on the same page and I agree with you.

But for all its warts and problems, if anyone wants to get rid of anonymity, then it's their job to come up with an alternative implementation. Part of supporting free speech is figuring out how to practically guarantee it in the real world, the rest is just wishful thinking.

> Speaking, in and of itself is nice, but the function that right serves is the circumscription of state power.

Quick side note, but this is a very narrow reading of free speech that I expect many people would disagree with. The function of free speech is to facilitate a person's fundamental right to share and explore ideas. Limiting the power of the government is a means to that end, not the other way around.

The idea behind a fundamental right is that it is... well, fundamental. Government doesn't give it to you, it respects that you already have it. Imagine how silly it would sound to say that freedom of religion, or racial equality, or the right to discover your own gender identity existed just so we could keep a government running smoothly :)
Cocoacasts is good... Not sure if that's what you mean though.
I so knew it! I even put a reminder in my calendar some time ago (not knowing what the next update holds) to not upgrade until I know for sure that my experience won't get worse.
This and the document @gnachman posted has me intrigued. Are you saying that subpixel AA is not just like a multichannel mask? I would expect the amount of R/G/B foreground and background color for a given pixel to be the same regardless of what those colors actually are?
I finally paid for a subscription to New Yorker. Man, the entire experience was frustrating as hell.

Old school media outlets are just so clueless about digital models
4k screens mostly run at 60hz, making them terrible for anything but watching movies. I don't like coding on a screen where I can see the refresh as I scroll.
An extensive ZFS setup on MacOS
Show HN: Testing RESTful services
You get permission from Getty to use the image.

Copyright of derivative works is additive: If you want to use an interesting photo of a sculpture, you need permission from both the photographer and from the sculptor.

In this case, Getty represents the photographer, but you still need permission from the sculptor.

Getty's license claims "Who owns the content? All of the licensed content is owned by either Getty Images or its content suppliers."

That line is wrong, of course, but every license comes with a limitation of liability so you can't sue them for being wrong: "Limitation of Liability. GETTY IMAGES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR OTHER SIMILAR DAMAGES, COSTS OR LOSSES ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN IF GETTY IMAGES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, COSTS OR LOSSES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIABILITY."

:/
GNOME is great, I personally like it as much as macOS. Try running it on Fedora. The latest Ubuntu also ships GNOME by default but I haven't tried it and I'm not sure if it's a tweaked version (if it's tweaked it's surely for the worse).
> disproportionately

Says who? If it is, who says that's wrong? Life is inherently unequal in every way. Disproportionality is not a moral argument.

> they are the only ones left with anything of value and any real disposable income

by almost every measure, now is the greatest time to be alive in all of recorded history. Additionally, as long as youre not homeless in America you are in the top 1% wealthiest people in the world.

> I mean come on if the top 10 percent are only paying 70% then they are underpaying based on the fact that they hold 77% of American wealth.

How does that make any sense? You personally have more money than millions of people with a better quality of life that they are _literally dying_ to achieve. Did you drink clean water today? could you go to an emergency room for life saving care, even if the bill would be difficult to pay? How much do you donate, since you have such a disproportionate amount of wealth - are you paying your fair share in the world?
I believe that was the implication
Interfacing with native methods on Graal VM
Looks promising
> Right - so we still need a food program for people who have personal problems that cause them to run out of money.

Plenty of private charities can exist which you can donate to if you believe your money should be helping those people. A system where some people voluntarily donate has less inequity than a system where all people are forced to donate.
In Sweden, "special rubbish trucks go around cities and pick up electronics and hazardous waste such as chemicals." (1). You can look up how that works exactly. It's Sweden's way to do the EU WEEE directive.

In Copenhagen (this probably varies across Denmark) I have a small electronics bin in the apartment building basement, with all the other bins. Officially, I think its to be used for anything that fits, with larger things taken somewhere else.

When I dispose of my desktop PC, I will take 5 minutes to unscrew the motherboard, drives, PSU etc and put them in the electronics bin. The case will go in the metal bin.

When I dispose of old elections at work, the whole lot goes in the large waste electronics container.

(1) https://sweden.se/nature/the-swedish-recycling-revolution/
If you want to use usb 3.1 gen 2 speeds, you pretty much have to use Type C. The only other alternative is a full usb type a connector or the awkward micro b connector (which is rate).
For passwords I use enpass. It stores and encrypts passwords in your own personal cloud storage account e.g. Dropbox Google drive. Desktop version is free. Mobile version has a once off fee to buy the app.

For office I use WPS office (word/excel/power point). It has tabs for documents and I have never had document compatibility issues (like I have had with libre office). I believe office 2013 runs under Wine too if you really need office.

I prefer the web clients for email anyway.

I use wavebox to integrate web based chat and email with the operating system for notifications.

Safari uses WebKit so it's very similar to the engine chrome uses - but Google forked at some point.

Deepin Terminal is an amazing terminal.

Can't help you with Xcode unless you switch programming languages :)

It would be great if Adobe released Linux versions of their products.

I don't do much video editing but I think there are good options on Linux.

Try it as a challenge I think you might be pleasantly surprised - if you use all the above apps how far Linux has come. Most of these apps work on Mac as well so you may find a few new good tools.
How to Implement Google Recapcha with VueJs and Laravel 5.6
Great comment. Seeing all the hate Angular gets I think this is the biggest mistake people do when they use angular, they try to do everything the angular-way with an angular service for everything, like you say even getting a angular-specific HTTP library, wtf?! They should have just removed the whole concept of services to not confuse people. If you instead only use it as a view layer it is actually quite nice. Same with vue and react, you should only use it as a view layer, not build your entire business logic on top or around of it!
It looks like its just chronological, could be wrong though.

Also, I'm not sure it's a scalable solution.
The dropping of /d/ is not surprising. This happens all over the place. Look at Latin "ad" becoming Spanish "a" for a simple example. (ad like the preposition built into this very word, ad + vocare)

The classical /w/ from Latin obviously became /v/ in a lot of romance languages. /b/ and /v/ merging to create [β] I think was particular to Spain and pretty old. But I think I also read that in many places vulgar Latin /b/ had a [v] allophone, but still distinct from /w/ (orthographic v) which I guess evolved into /v/ outside Iberia with the old [v] sticking around as /b/.

Here is one of the top google hits from an old saying about this: "beati hispani quibus vivere bibere est" --http://en.antiquitatem.com/felices-hispani-quibus-vivere-est... -- this seems to put the b, v merger at the first century AD and have a lot of quotes about Iberians doing it it from the ~1500s, blaming it on Basques.

By the way, in my amateur opinion the much more head-spinny Iberian sound change was the creation of modern /x/ in words like "Quijote" or "México". It would seem that the Spaniards conquered the new world with those things as [ʃ], transcribed a bunch of Mexican place names with that, then later changed the sound to [x], and brought the change back to the colonies. It is interesting to me that such a pronunciation change in relatively isolated populations can still be held on both sides of an ocean, and not have some other form just end up as one side's peculiar accent, as occurred with, say the evolution of the [θ] sound.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/05/backlash...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/technology/the-culture-wa...

https://www.google.com/search?q=James+Damore

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Because "retina" can imply pixel doubling, making it more like an extra-crisp 1920x1080. The typical 1440p screen is nice and big, and replacing it with such a setup at the same physical size would needlessly cut down on what you can fit. If you could trust non-integer scaling to work properly then 4K would resoundingly beat 1440, but that's a pipe dream right now.

You can get the best of both with a 5K-6K screen, but that's currently a very expensive price point not on most people's radar.
Do you mind writing about microservices testing with this module
Since retina I disabled it myself
Jekyll + github pages OR jekyll + gitlab pages should do. I would love to read that post.
Communicate. With. Your. Dog.
We don’t hesitate to hold the terrorist responsible either. That’s the wonderful thing about responsibility: multiple people can have it, without dilution!
El Capitan had the same issue on my mac. It was fixed in High Sierra, and came back in High Sierra.
Should I authenticate user on every request?
Isn't Cato about "a political agenda" here in the same way the same way the EFF has political agendas?

This issue is political in the sense that it's very much about social policy... and it's just possible that it's bad social policy to let people perform/offer surveillance-at-scale as a service.

(It is kindof funny to see Cato discover one significant limit of a general philosophy of private market freedoms, though.)
For the sake of argument, let’s grant that his B.A. was someone else’s fault. But the masters? After four years of undergraduate, presumably at a decent university, was he still uneducated and unable to think for himself? If yes, that degree is worth even less than I thought. We should immediately clawback the tuition from the university—-at least, it would definitely be the wrong approach to have society systematically agree to pay for such a fraudulent product.
Can you say how those make it incoherent? 3 different ways to define a function, a breaking change in the language a while back. And only their implementation run time was tied to the OS, Mono came along and provided another
Isn't it principle instead of principal? Or does principal have somekind of meaning similar to priniciple?

Non-native English speaker here.
That ought to be easy to find on Google!

New fancy TLD, the most generic name you can think off... so this is probably gonna get bought pretty fast!
Subpixel font rendering was a cool hack back in the day, but it’s no match for high dpi monitors. Personally I could never get past the color fringing artefacts. Bill Hill himself talked about it as an interim measure to get people reading on screen.

Here he is talking about the original implementation of ClearType: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Bill-Hill-Ho...

Joel Spolsky on the different sub pixel AA approaches taken by Apple and Microsoft:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/06/12/font-smoothing-ant...