skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The problem with energy efficiency is that it paradoxically tends to increase consumption."

Where's the evidence for that? Electricity consumption in most developed countries has been declining since around the mid-2000s.

Here in the UK, total electricity demand peaked in 2005 and has declined every year since, in spite of population growth (and more air conditioners!). Demand in 2017 was around 15% lower than in 2005, with about a 10% higher population.
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If you google you will find some data on this, GenX/Millennials are due to receive the largest pot of inheritance of any generation before them!
I hope so, because honestly, Tex generated PDFs are the single biggest problem with being a blind researcher (I'm not blind, but I know a blind researcher).
When I had an HSA I called doctors to get estimates and only rarely got one. The only exception is dentists. They have pretty good price lists.
Cool. I will read that. I'm trying to address the practical case of buying something, earning interest, then selling it and/or having it mature, not holding into perpetuity. Maybe I can be more clear about this in the post so after I read this I can make an update. Thanks for linking!

I added: Some readers have pointed out that over the long term there isn't a difference between building a ladder and using a similar bond fund. This strategy assumes that eventually you'll want to move your principle out of bonds and into something else like a down payment (while rates are still rising), but you don't have a well-defined timeline. If you are planning on keeping your principle invested in bonds into perpetuity then a bond fund might be a more suitable investment.

Thoughts?
My favorite bond fund is the LQD etf. Good returns, stability, medium duration, low fees
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I would be super creeped out from going into a store if some $15/hr security guard sitting behind a screen could see the associations of people currently in the store with their: Name, Gender, Spending Habits, Items Purchased, Day/Time of Visits, etc.
Voting with your money is only effective when lots of people do it. If this product is sold in a supermarket, 99.999% of people will have no idea how to even parse this article, so everyone's decision in this thread has absolutely no measureable effect on profit, certainly not enough to make a decision to remove DRM.
Remember when the Republicans were the ones complaining that net neutrality was a backdoor route by Democrats to impose political content regulation on internet channels?

Now, they just head straight for the front door themselves: “we don't like (what we perceive as) the political viewpoint on Google results, so we’re considering regulating it so that they have to say what we’d prefer”.

Short of the kind of coordinated activity with a campaign that would be an illegal contribution (which Trump should know plenty about, since he's been directly implicated in it with regard to AMI and the payoff to cover up his affair with Karen McDougal), even if Google's presentation was deliberately, partisanly, politically biased, that would be core free speech/press protected by he first Amendment.
This was the one. I still think the version in my head is better.
I don't know what you guys are doing, but for me installing proprietary Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu was just a matter of clicking a checkbox.
Yes, but milters are not much fun to write. Postfix has a way to use a sidecar MTA (like lamson/salmon) to filter. Effectively Postfix passes the mail to the external process via SMTP and then, if the process chooses to, it can re-inject the message into a queue in Postfix.

I worked on a system years ago that did this for FBL reports.
Didn't you mean "implicit" here instead of "explicit"? Because I have no trouble at all to talk explicitly about memory and computation in full-blown set theory.
People always seem to overlook this distinction... escalating admin privileges is typically one of the easier things for a hacker to do. Getting in is the harder part (ie, remote/browser exploits, etc).
i'm very left-wing, hell i'm an antifascist activist and im not a big fan of "idpol"

This is an essay with the same name from 2015:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lupus-dragonowl-agai...

and this is a politically incorrect drama about identity politics written by, err, the unabomber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-Upb4Szms
I get the feeling that the core Go team is rather against 1-character operators. Also, the Go community doesn't tend to do a lot of call chaining from a general stylistic standpoint.
Watch out, "college" in US English means "university", while "college" in French means "high school".

Your sentence "if not I guess I would have stopped after college diploma (BAC in France)" does not mean what you think it means. You meant (I believe, correct me if i'm wrong) that you would have stopped after high school (i.e. when passing the final "baccalaureate" exam).

PS: note however that the baccalaureate diploma is in fact (this is a little-known fact, even in France) a University degree in France. it's the first univ degree that exists in the French education system, it sanctions the end of high school. Weird, I know.
This is not how I usually expect a company to handle pager duty. Nice work.
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A website to read and share contents related to startup ecosystem
What about a website where people can submit and read contents related to startup ecosystem. I just came up with an idea, a website where anybody can share contents related to startup and entrepreneurial circle. And people can mark those content as HELPFUL. You know as a person if you are attached with the world of startup, business and entrepreneurship you like to read content that are related to your domain. Also many people read various blogs, websites or watch various videos which may not be possible for other person as an individual to go through. It is very much possible that we generally miss out some grate piece of content everyday. Therefore what about an idea of centralised website where other users can submit links of the articles or videos they found interesting and worth sharing. Maybe a blog or video shared by some other person could help you in some way. It's all about knowledge sharing. Here we help other users by sharing valuable piece of information, that they could not find themselves ever.
What you guys think about this concept, please share our reviews with me.
Thank you,
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This is what I do. I did reach a point in my life though where I could manage this.
Industrial level uses are much more sensitive to price. Get 1 cent/kwh electricity and your aluminum production is going to increase quite a bit, etc.
Too late edit: Actually, I just checked, xournal doesn't seem to allow pasting in images. I could have sworn I did it before but I don't see any in any of my save files.
I've been sitting here refreshing HN to see if anyone else was going to report it. I haven't been able to connect to our company's instance for close to ten minutes now. Either via the Mac client or through the web client.

Edit: https://status.slack.com/2018-08/389f96c3886d7d56
it's not just a matter of time. As stated in the article, Google actually reverted its policy on the issue and has since stopped collecting data from user email content.

There's nothing inevitable about this. Even apart from law employees can steer the direction of companies, especially in tech where businesses are so dependent on a relatively small number of them. If you think privacy practises at your place of work are bad, bring it up.
What changed? Why is the Go team finally considering this now, when it has been requested for these exact reasons by many credible developers since Go's beginning?

EDIT: Yes, something has changed. They always said "no, but maybe later" and now it's "ok how about now". That is a big change and I am just asking what's the reason for it.
Another anti-free speech nonsense article. Did you guys not read 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 in high school?

Free speech is very important, especially the one you disagree with.
Absolutely beautiful work. My childhood love for sketching and doodling grew into a love for digital art (Macromedia Flash 5 anyone?) and later generative art. Anytime I'd try my hand at with generative I spent way too long trying to get a setup or a workflow together.

Eventually they get left in the island misfit quarter-done side projects well before I've gotten to playing with images.

Any advice? Stories on workflow? Is this all in processing?
I actually have this litter box and never noticed I was being blocked by DRM. I just use the official cleaner and move on with my day.
accurate.
What the new Nvidia RTX hardware means for ray tracing, GPU rendering and V-RAY
It looks like a local privilege escalation per the comments elsewhere in the post. That's bad, but a low-ish risk to casual use of a personal device unless it's combined with some other way to get your system to execute an attacker's binary.
That would be amazing. I've switched from text based notes to pen and paper recently, and sometimes I'll switch back to a text editor when I need to move things around a lot, figure out a sequence or structure.

So I was really impressed with Write's ability to combine the best of both worlds. If this could work on e-paper, that would be incredible.
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Have they changed their policy on UAC not being considered security barrier on administrator accounts since W10? Windows was screwed for a long time[1], in practice not much better than running in SYSTEM all the time like in Windows 95 days.

[1] http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090611/uac-in-windows-7-s...
Some abstractions have stood the test of time - map, reduce, sort, those are worth having and various other collection types would be nice to see.

I agree the introduction of generics is a big worry not because of what good programmers will do with it, but because of what people more enamoured with pretty abstractions than code that does work will do with it. I don’t particularly want to live inside someone else’s creation for weeks just to understand it. The existing culture of no nonsense and minimal abstraction should help police that though.

I’m not that keen on the syntax of contracts either, but we’ll see what comes out at the end, that’s not so important - the idea of contracts looks like a good one in theory at least, but it feels like they could have used interfaces instead somehow (I’m probably missing something there).

The errors proposal is interesting as it looks like try/catch at first glance but importantly doesn’t leak that error across function/lib boundaries as exceptions do, so it’s a natural extension of the existing approach.
For hospitals which really are non-profit a) the non-profit status doesn't prevent price gouging b) even if acting as a traditional non-proft, they may do so to balance revenue against people with no insurance and no ability to pay. (a burden we load onto hospitals that we should actually be sharing much more explictly and universally across our nation).
It's just that I usually don't care about the decidability of propositions I apply LEM to, so I don't want to have to prove something first I don't care about.
Confirmed on their status page now: https://status.slack.com/
I'm sure economics played a role but I don't overall find that to be a compelling reason to not shoot for longer deals. They are any number of ways to generate the money necessary and contractually they could have structured things such that there were automatic extensions built in based on arbitrary criteria. I think Netflix took a huge bet, and knew they were doing so and thus hedged their bets. They either hoped they could re-negotiate better deals later on or were scared the service would fail leaving them with huge liabilities.
How about simply making closed-shop unions illegal? That's how things work in the UK.
MrLeap did a great job explaining this. If I were to add anything, it would be to echo the recommendation to take a class if you're really starting from nothing. Two things are really important starting out: someone who can demonstrate good technique and rapidly evaluate and give feedback on your work, and seat time. It's like learning to write, once you know what you want the result to look like, it's mostly time in the seat to build consistency and muscle memory. If you have the time, I've heard good things about community college courses. Here in Oakland, Ca, there's an industrial arts space, The Crucible, that offers condensed courses, useful if you're short on time.

I had the great fortune of working adjacent to a machine shop. I learned TIG on a work machine. A co-worker spent 15 minutes showing me setup and some example welds, then it was mostly seat time from there, with lots of YouTube and a couple of "hey, how's my weld look?" sessions.

Actually fabricating stuff can be an issue when you don't have machine shop at your disposal. Luckily, some metal shops have a CNC laser or plasma, so if you design something in CAD, you can shop out sheet metal bits and avoid the hassle. There are places that will laser cut and notch steel or alu tube so that you can sort of just hand-bend and lego your workpiece together.

One tool that's not obvious, but becomes indispensable especially to a homegamer is a portable bandsaw. Get a decent corded one-- it makes cutting tube stock etc accurate and fast. You can fabricate a stand for it and turn it into a static bandsaw as well.
> If Let's Encrypt is a malicious actor, they could MiTM a connection to your site, and present a VALID certificate to the target user, as they hold the private keys used to sign the public certificate.

I'm not sure if you're referring to CAs' ability to issue fake certificates, or if you're suggesting that the certificate issuer can directly MITM connections.

CAs' ability to issue fake certificates is a very serious concern which has led to the Certificate Transparency system where all issued certificates must be publicly disclosed (in a system outside of the issuer's control) in order to be publicly trusted. A site doesn't have to use a certificate from a particular CA in order to be vulnerable to misissuance by that CA, as in the Iranian Comodo and DigiNotar attacks, where Gmail was briefly vulnerable to MITM attacked involving misissued certificates from these CAs even though it didn't normally use certificates from either of them at all.

CAs don't have the ability to use their signing keys directly to MITM connections involving certificates that they issued, because the signing key isn't used for any cryptographic purpose other than validating that the certificate (which refers to the site's public key) was validly issued.
No, the worst case scenario is that the user gets compromised/infected and becomes part of a botnet that attacks the rest of us.
The article says they have a range of 500Miles and a flight time of 1hr - that's 500M/hr.

Do current radar systems track a plane with enough frequency/detail to observe an aircrafts performance (turn rate, climb, speed, etc)?

I ask, because they claim to be matching an aircrafts electronic signature, which is fine. But if they're not also matching their performance envelope that seems like an easy way to identify the decoys. Though it still might take enough time to be a useful tool.
Our system is an ongoing tragedy.
Relevant blog post: https://meaningness.com/metablog/post-apocalyptic-health-car...

> Hiring someone became imperative for me when coordinating my mother’s care got to be a way-more-than-full-time job. (In retrospect, I wish I had done that months earlier.)

> It could also be worthwhile in less critical cases, if no one in the family can take enough time off from work, or in which you’d simply rather pay someone else to clean up after a hospital’s paperwork pollution.

> This role has developed only recently, as systems have broken down. There’s not yet a standardized term; “health care advocate” is one among several.

> Mine specializes in gerontology and dementia. Others specialize in other disease areas; or in other aspects of the administrative nightmare, such as sorting out bogus hospital bills, which frequently include fraudulent additions.

> They are not inexpensive (mine charges $150/hour), so not an option for everyone.

> There are good and not-so-good advocates. I spoke with several before hiring one. Some were clearly clueless; the one I hired last month has seemed consistently competent.

> Since they recommend particular providers, there is an inherent principal-agent problem. Ask if they get any compensation from services they recommend. Take their recommendations with a grain of salt in any case.
Nothing changed. It wasn't off the table to begin with. See: https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
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You're right, that's unrealistic. In fact this sort of thing is why government was invented.
The very fact that so many people happily use DuckDuckGo instead of Google is proof enough that Google isn't an essential utility. The same story is true for all the rest: I'm sure you know people who have left Facebook completely behind without any ill effects--in fact, everyone I know who has left FB has heartily recommended it to anyone who will listen. No stretch of the imagination is going to put these websites on the same footing as gas, water, and electric.
Later in that correction paragraph, it says:

> In a statement, the hospital said this offer was contingent on Calver submitting his application for a discount based on his household finances. Calver disputed that he owes any additional money to St. David’s and said this situation should have been resolved long before now.

I might be misreading, but is this saying that Calver isn't going to accept even the $700 charge, just to make a statement? I obviously side with him but this seems like a crazy stand to take on principle alone.
Yeah, the docs files in the archive seems to be clean based on the multiscan results. Some AVs are already flagging the hash of the rar as an exploit.

Metadefender: https://metadefender.opswat.com/results#!/file/YTE4MDgyOHJrW...

VT: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/0c2cbb5eba3ae0765b16748912...

Edit: Fixing grammar
hahaha too funny. These guys are hilarious. Androids team playing soccer equates to the double spending problem. Nice .
It’s not a rebuttal though.

If I propose: “X is doing something bad and should stop.”

And you respond with: “Y and Z are also doing that bad thing.”

You’re neither denying X is doing the thing nor that it should stop. You’re not addressing the original proposal. I can just say “Yes, Y and Z are also doing that bad thing and should also stop.”
The funny thing is, that was once the Segway.... which was something of a huge costly joke when it was finally unveiled.

Fast forward 5-10 years (I guess cheaper batteries helped?) and it seems that these fancy electric single wheel with a fancy active control system to balance on one axis are actually starting to do pretty well...
So, pedantic question: isn't repair implicit in reduce and reuse?
Looking at the chart can you please tell me what you would consider a conservative news organization?

I'm guessing Infowars Fox Breitbart. The problem for people on the far right is that their perspective is so profoundly distorted that even moderate news articles are written off as liberal rags.

Imagine if you were a young earth creationist wouldn't you be shocked to search for fossils and find page after page of honest scientific discussion and almost no pages talking about how the devil hid them to test peoples faith?
If you owe a 6-figure amount of money because of a health issue, you don't actually have health insurance.
You can write any useful program in assembly, but compile time is dirt cheap so it's far more reasonable to automate anything that doesn't require thought and creativity. E.g., a large set of identical function bodies with similar but different types, where if I write them by hand the best I can do is not make any mistakes.
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What's magical about the stdlib?
The original version of Microsoft's WordPad was called Write.
Any concerns about trademark issues? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Write
Ask HN: What happens if you run out of option pool?
What happens if the company runs out of option pool?
I feel it's the same with music. You can't really 'tune' a Katy Perry song more to appeal a classic music lover and vice versa.

> my story just isn't compelling to people who...

Your work should tell a story, and the method of creation is secondary. I totally appreciate if you used equations I can't even grasp, but my mother shouldn't know about that at all and she can still consider it nice.

There was a guy who posted here on HN, he used machine learning to create art and his mistake was that he revealed his method, the magic was gone, since it was not obvious how it was made.

I'm not a great artist or anything, I just see a pattern that art that grabs people's attention has some kind of message or relevance to the current age.
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Lots of interesting things happening in email development recently. I would compare it with ZoneMTA that is a component in WildDuck, a full featured email server written in plain node.js (https://wildduck.email)
you want to make sure anyone thinks it would be suicidal to challenge you in order to call it deterrance

e.g. if the US Navy wasn't vastly superior, shipping routes would be constantly threatened

if you get to the point of being at actual peer level, you're past done. Look at China: they're still not there, and yet they're aggressively taking positions in the South China sea
Sorry, I don't understand this point.

If a model of the universe was completely correct, wouldn't it have equivalent complexity to the universe and hence not be a model?
Exactly this. If you can't imagine the harm in that - pretend they are injecting NAMBLA ads or Goatse-type images into your blog.
My VS Code experience became even better when I learned to drop //@ts-check in every file.

You don't have to do that if you setup a jsconfig.json file in the root of your project. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/jsconfig
I’ve been told by IT from numerous organisations that Hadoop will solve all of our team’s query inefficiencies.

Also hence why we introduce new members of the team to learn how to do efficient queries and joins. And spend time upfront to structure their problems.
I've read a few articles about the use of cell networks as distributed radar systems. One article I read postulated that such a network would defeat most modern stealth radar techniques. I know NASA is investigating using towers to track drones.

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-wants-to-track-drones-using-cell-to...
Billing "mistakes" seem to be standard practice.

I went through surgery at the Stanford Hospital, using Stanford's insurance. Prior to the surgery, they charged me $2000, the out of pocket maximum. Then, a couple of weeks post-surgery. I got another $250 bill. I had to spend the whole day on the phone first with the hospital, then the insurance, and then the hospital.

Turns out, that all I had to pay was $250, that the hospital had made a mistake in billing me $2000 at the door. I got my money back a month later.

I would normally attribute this to ineptitude. But the frequency and scale with which this happens, reeks of widespread scams.