skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would any rational investor purchase dog crap knowingly for the good of society, by spending that society's money on dog crap. Instead, buy the dog, discounted by the amount of dog crap it has, and squeezed by how desperate the seller is of what is left.

I don't think you understand how TARP worked if you think that's even remotely applicable as an analogy

> This is how capitalism is supposed to work.

Maybe you should learn a little more about the system you claim to be critiquing, so your criticisms don't fall so completely flat.
I remember when Chrome launched, it came out of nowhere. And it was launched with a comic. The comic was pretty good, the chapter on V8 starts at page 12:

https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_00.html
Back of the napkin calculation

Ice is 18% efficient at the wheels. So the energy spent on propelling the car is 46*0.18 = 8.28MJ/Kg

Let's say efficiency of electric car is 60%, 8.28/0.6 = 13.8 MJ/kg.

In order to have batteries occupying the same amount of space as gas tank they need to be almost 7 times as energy dense.

But then it's possible to get rid of a lot of other systems that support ICE engine, like transmission, cooling, lubrication, led acid batteries engine itself is a lot smaller.
R and Python in Azure HDInsight
How to Win Friends & Influence People is a good book with practical advice. The title is a bit cheesy but a well-written book nevertheless.
How to use the hacker news effectively (what is your idea?)
How to use this site for business or for some other purpose ?
Awesome! What does Apple use Clojure for?
Why? This is a serious question, not an snarky quip. Why should we try to build a civilization that lasts a very very long time (i.e. thousands of years)?
To your first point.

The goal of TOR is to subvert local attempts to control internet access. Generally this takes the form of censoring pro-western internet views as the internet in its more open access form the internet is a product of the western hegemony and its filled with praises for the western hegemony's polices and its propaganda.

Attempts made by Governments to censor the external internet, and attempts made by those outside of the government cannot escape the political elements of their actions. The goal is either the preservation of the current regime, or the change/overthrow of the regime/party/structure all political actions boil down this.

In light of these facts. The diplomatic relationships effectively serve as a short term tools, while projects like TOR are long term tools. The former exists for PR, and making concrete treaties. The later exists for building political divisions over longer periods of time which can trigger national instability and crises. See: Arab Spring.

How do you gauge the support for censorship within non
democracies like North Korea especially when opposition to
censorship may be brutally punished?

DPRK regularly has multi-party elections so I think we could gauge how the people vote?
My bank's (Lloyds TSB) idea of extra security beyond a password is ... yet another password, but one that you have to select 3 random digits of, in dropdown boxes.

I asked them for TOTP 2FA, but never got a response...

Why is it always banks who have some of the worst security posture out there? I fully expect my bank to eventually implement 2FA ... by SMS! Thinking that it's a good idea!

sigh
Is it really unreasonable to advise a country not to adopt a type of currency that has been known to swing 20% in a week?
yep. wishing Flash to be gone is misguided.
Wow! I've seen artists who hand draw in Tolkien's style (https://www.middleearthsmaps.com/) but I never would have thought it could be done so well automatically!
As a programmer I have the ability to be selective with the jobs that I take. The first 7 interviewers did not convince me that Apple was a good place to work. The last interviewer convinced me that I didn't want to work with them or people like them.

Of course, things change. It would be difficult for Apple to change my mind about working there, but it is not impossible. Ask me again in 10 years :)
I mean cryptography.
Great idea. I worked on a contract doing pole replacement surveying for a few months and it was incredibly monotonous - full-fledged engineers walking and driving around neighborhoods taking photos of power lines and estimating measurements with a rangefinder. There's a ton of room for automating and eliminating hazardous jobs, and millions if not billions to be made. Good luck!
That's also my experience. I'm in Ireland, ordering (mostly books) through amazon.co.uk (since 2000) so Prime never made sense for me either, but delivery times from the UK have definitely slipped over the past two years. In-stock items 'sold & fulfilled by Amazon' used to ship within 24 hours, but now regularly take 5 days or more to ship. The result is that I shop elsewhere.
This is...something.
> Sorry but you don't seem to have any idea what you are talking about.

Personal swipes like that will get you banned here, so please don't post those. Your comment would be fine without that bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is also a page from the would be Sov operators https://www.sov.global/

saying they have solutions for AML:

>The Yokwe Protocol brings modern blockchain technology inline with international banking and regulatory standards, enabling users to answer the two most common questions asked by banks: “who are you” and “what is the source of your funds?”

>To send SOV from a wallet, a user must first have an identity token provided by a pre-selected, reputable Know-Your-Customer (KYC) company. This way money always flows between identified accounts.
Majority of new websites dont have big performance problem, at least those I visit.

It seem to me that these debates are happening in alternative universe where all programmers work in well organized companies, withoit deadlines, have time to prototype multiple technologies for all projects and are also all seniors in everything.

In real world, programmers work in chaotic companies with little organization, have short deadlines, have short time to decide which tech, make decision based in what allows them to reach result fast or reliably, are often inexperienced and even experiences seniors don't know everything.

That is how it happens, to the extend there is a problem which author did not managed to convince me of.
UPS doubles down on its shift to electric vehicles
> 99 percent of the garbage in a website could be turned off with a single blocker, all without impacting anything necessary

I was there and I remember no such thing. On the contrary, I remember people building whole sites in Flash. Killing that off is a Good Thing.

I think the problem with the web is too much freedom given by tools for free, which leads to such maddening abuse as Flash was in the past, and modern web development is today. Publishers have too much capability, and too much control over the rendering of content.
Angry New Yorkers Now Have Two Venues That Are All the Rage
lots of ways..

at the network: ipsec, openvpn, wireguard

tcp proxy before the application: stunnel, spiped

mongo protocol is http right?

http tls proxy: haproxy, nginx, etc
Even more, electric engines don't use any fuel at idle, so I for city driving batteries can be even less dense.
I liked flash too, but it being owned by Adobe killed it. If it was open, I'd be a lot more sad about it dying.
This is no different than agile. I have to define DONE. And I will probaly end of with several degrees of done
Or Bitcoin mining...
> the cat litter I just purchased is $17.89 at Amazon, $13.49 at Walmart. Last week I bought a chair mat for $21.95 on Ebay - identical item on Amazon was $33.95 (both including free shipping but Amazon came with an additional 8.25% sales tax).

> They can do that because so many people don't price compare anymore before going to Amazon.

"Alexa, reorder cat litter"

So, no, I disagree with your premise here. They can demand a higher price by way of providing a better overall service, end to end, by way of innovation and hard work. Sure, some of it is in fact laziness like you say, when viewed one way. Viewed another, I am willingly paying for that convenience.

Not to be tautological, but in a free market, this works as long as it works. Cheaper alternatives exist, no surprise there. But you need to take into account value, which is more than just price.

"Alexa, set 11 minute pasta timer."
Remediation strategies for continuous delivery of microservices
Could there also be a thing where you go out of your way to praise? It seems that the combination of carrot and stick seems to be good for persuasion.
A few dideferent platforms. AlphaVantage, Interactive Brokers, other data platforms too.
It has some code from strongtalk. V8 has (some) developer who worked on smalltalk vms
It is definitely a risk. I think the first six months of the company we grew headcount probably too aggressively, and then the second six months of the company we did a lot of things to go back and fix some of the resulting cultural tensions (things like create company values collaboratively, figure out job roles better, etc). I'm pleased to say that we have made amazing progress there though (mostly due to the team, not me!).

Unlikely we grow beyond 2x headcount in the upcoming year.
> Even though the President appoints the Fed Chairman and it has the word "Federal" in its name it is not a Government organization. If you don't believe me, try getting information from the Fed via the Freedom of Information Act.

The Fed's own page on the FOIA indicates that the Fed thinks it's a federal agency covered by FOIA.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/about_foia.htm
Then stop using certificates. Have a website where retailers can check if the supplier is certified. Using signed pieces of paper as evidence is inferior to just querying the certifier directly.
I'd forgotten about Robot & Frank, such a great movie.
I would say the format of hacker news is pretty clean and it gets out of the way. So you can at the least check the front page every couple of hours to find cool new stuff.

You could also post stuff and ask questions. Among the answers to the questions asked on here you can find a lot of gems and you can usually expect the same if you ask one yourself.
These are beautiful I cannot help but nitpick the mountains in California. Those mountains bordering NV and CA are majestic, and their tallest peaks are not at the delta near Sacramento, but south of there, closer to Visalia and Fresno. The Blueridge and Appalchian mountains appear majestic in these maps, but these do not really compare in height (e.g. tallest peak 4,000 ft compared to 14,505 in Sierra Nevada), although they do have a greater length.
https://www.ducksters.com/geography/us_states/us_mountain_ra...
There is a work in progress patch (https://commitfest.postgresql.org/19/1734/) which you can help out with by reviewing and testing it.
Thanks for the book recommendation. What about a intermediate level? Any recommendations?
Neat concept, but there's no cost to running your own internal CA and having MongoDB trust that instead. Since you're already likely going to be running automated tools to deploy MongoDB (I assume), you can generate your own certificate/key pair then. This is how we do it where I work.

One of the big issues with generating the Let's Encrypt cert on demand is that if the LE API servers are ever down, you won't be able to create a cert.
Well I think you can make opportunities through persistence and sacrifice and for a given level of intelligence and time, all skills can be learnt.

However the will to do it requires a good enough why... and if you have more pressing whys than you just won't start.

Best I can do for the time being is vote.
I think Adobe Illustrator would be an excellent IDE. I think Adobe gave up on the coding business too soon after ColdFusion didn't work out so well.
Awesome news. Hope they are not regulated into oblivion.
For those dismissing this as a yet another lab breakthrough without substance, the article is about this company getting quite substantial funding for what looks like a pretty nice series A funding round.

It looks like there are some serious investors involved that clearly believe that these guys know what they are doing. They presumably did their due diligence. That generally means this company used some seed funding to do proof of concepts and prototypes that are showing some promise.

In any case, 20M is nice but clearly nowhere near enough for mass producing stuff like this. So, what this means is this company just received funding to do more R&D from a nice consortium of investors that would clearly benefit from having a stake in a company like that if it had at all any chance of succeeding. Presumably there are still some hard problems left to work on otherwise, we'd be reading about some company investing billions to actually build the factories to mass produce this.

Since there are now several companies working on solid state batteries, the chances seem pretty good that one of them will eventually come up with viable products that can be produced at a quality, scale and cost that is interesting.

IMHO that will likely happen second half of the next decade or so. One application where this stuff might be applied early might be electric planes. That's a use case where improved energy density and safety is so valuable that even a very expensive solid state battery might still be interesting.
Sitting in stop and go traffic in Southern California freeways every day of the week did it for me...
There's a hardware device doing the same.

The moment it is plugged in, a udev rule will immediately lock the screen:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=7212...

That's IMHO the right approach. If you want to keep your system from entering standby, just use an inhibition lock:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-inh...
Part 0: Comprehensive Guide to Reinforcement Learning
Paint 3D would be the clear winner for enterprise-grade software.
Really informative + thorough guide to reinforcement learning, specifically its mathematical basis. Written by Luca Palmieri, data scientist at Headstart AI, who comes from a math background.

This post is just one of the series
Does lithium-ion itself count? The first practical chemistry was developed in 1979, the first commercial battery was shipped in 1991 and they went pretty mainstream between 2000 and 2005.

That's a long time if you are talking about announcements made today but there's been lots of announcements in between and there is considerably more investment now than 30 years ago.
Quantum mechanics defies causal order, experiment confirms
What are you going to do with your AJAX result without client side coding? I don't buy this argument at all. You could ditch AJAX and do everything server-side like the old days (and it might even perform better given how heavy modern sites seem to be!)
Ask HN: How does your company account for things that are hard to measure?
There were a bunch of good comments in the recent article about Amazon stuffing search results with ads around how ad revenue is easy to measure, while long term potentially negative impact to your brand is hard to measure.

I'm curious if other people have experiences with how to account for some of these hard to measure, but important factors for business success, especially in a world where metric analysis and constant A/B testing is the norm. Do you actually try to measure it? Use a fudge factor to account for it?
Coal-Killing Energy Storage Grows by 200%%20In US (
Why must California feel that regulating everything to shit makes it better.
Well if I have EDN or JSON on the wire, and have the same portable Clojure library running on both sides, doesn't that pretty much accomplish the same thing as serializing actual object instances? Or is that what you meant all along?
> Not a single quote from any normal person on the street and whether they think its a good idea or even know what's going on.

I never really expect to hear normal, man-on-street, type folk queried about international monetary policy.

Personally, I don't think my few semesters of economics qualify me to discuss the economic impact of a US Federal Reserve decision. In a democratic government, we have to trust that the powers which we elect, have placed suitably expert people into the bureaucracy and act accordingly to their advice.
@breck -

I'm working on some projects that are tangential to this on both sided and I'd love to hear your thoughts on connecting healthcare IT to bio-research. What kind of healthcare data would you be looking to receive on the bio-research side? and what features of "modern software updates" are most important to you (regularly scheduled like MS Patch Tuesday? seamless in the background like SaaS products?)? do you think of this data as inputs to your research or living next to your research?

Thanks!
> they close a $20 million series A round of financing

> ...

> Solid Power said that it plans to use the funds from its Series A investment to “scale-up production via a multi-MWh roll-to-roll facility, which will be fully constructed and installed by the end of 2018 and fully operational in 2019.”

Is $20M enough for "multi-MWh roll-to-roll facility" ?
Which is why the solution is government intervention.
Except the article doesn't answer it at all.

Why did America lose its love... when other countries (e.g. rich European countries) continue to buy majority stick?

All of the reasons given for the US presumably apply to e.g. Germany too, no? Except no transformation there...
Well, 8 year old I think. That's when I learned to drive the truck on the farm, and it was surely a manual. My sister taught me.
I've tried lots of autos and CVTs and still haven't found one that isn't terribly confused about what gearing I want. The worst is when you floor it and it thinks for two seconds before actually downshifting, it can be outright dangerous. And if you're in a powerful car an unexpected upshift that shifts the weight around in bizarre ways, cuts power, and kicks the traction control into overdrive while cornering is a pretty terrifying experience as well.

Some of the paddle shifters seem decent but I often like to change up where I grip the wheel on track days and on sharp turns in mountain driving, so I often can't choose my gearing at all with them.

I can see the appeal of the autos in high traffic tedious commuting situations where you're in some underpowered econobox, which is zero percent of my driving, so I'm sticking with a manual as long as I can keep finding them.
I honestly think that's why companies stay in California because it's just so hard to actually enter the market.
Veeam inadvertently exposed marketing DB with hundreds of millions of records
Throwback to the greatest debate of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPDdRrMVEnA
Norway is a small country, and in the 90s had very little exposure elsewhere. What you are implying is a meltdown of global assets, to prove a point.
Thanks, that's an interesting bit of history, I hadn't noticed that before.

Off-topic but ultimately related, here's another "fun" Hank Paulson moment as he talks about inequality with Robert Rubin and Sheryl Sandberg (and I believe Tim Geithner is just off-camera to the left):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln33wtom1Ow
You clearly did not read the article. This isn't youtube comments; these comments are supposed to be for informed discussion. Please read the article before commenting next time so we can all have a solid place to discuss these issues.
Easy to say from the position of thinking you can't lose your license or have the financial means to deal with such a loss.

For a majority of those living in the US the places they live and work have been so fundamentally designed around cars that no alternative form of transit is usable. Busses might run once a day, no sidewalks, no bike lanes amidst 5 layer highways. Even getting out of ones housing development via anything but a car can be challenging if its a fenced in community with winding lane and a half roads parked full of cars.

I'd naturally much prefer more strict licensing and more frequent license revocation - if for no other reason than it would demonstrably save many lives - but only after we solve the car sprawl hellscape that is a majority of settled US territory.
I just want it to go faster when I press the gas. I'm not interested in shifting gears necessarily, just like I'm not interested in instructing the computer how much power to draw from the battery at any given moment. Just let me use the thing
That's like saying we shouldn't pay attention to the lessons of the great depression because it was in the 1930s.
They haven't even released the charger they announced last year
Most modern DCTs are wet clutch which should last more or less forever. Ford/Volvo's dry clutch DCTs probably still require regular clutch plate replacements. Torque converters pretty much last forever on infrequent fluid changes or the whole unit fails.
well techically it talks about the beginning and the means. In any case how can we be sure it's not the first ?
I don't know from what I can tell we are heavily blurring the distinctions, smearing Bio into healthcare (including health IT)

I partly work on this project [0] which is not playing by the rules.

Case in point.
If you are in Bio or Health or CS or web development have chops and expect large government grant applications to be boring please attempt to get through this (expired) one [1] it was a cool million for a number of different groups.

[0] https://ncats.nih.gov/translator

[1] https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-TR-17-0...
> History repeats itself, companies rise and fall

Except the tech companies are massive conglomerates which will insulate themselves by delving into every industry they can.

They are also approaching too big to fail status.
Okay... request information on the ownership structure of each of the Fed banks (i.e. share register) and see how far you get.

I know it sounds crazy but the Fed is simply not a Government organization if it is privately owned.
That study does not prove those women "act like men". They still act like women normally act without anything unnatural in play, despite your misuse of statistics. It is perfectly within normal female behavior. They also act like pepole in leadership position because that is what is effective. Really.

So no. Neuroticism is as unrelated as a guy on spectrum throwing autistic temper tamtrum, because both types are failures at getting into leaderahip position, politics and anything where you make decisions under pressure.
Now only if audio.preservesPitch = false was implemented... ;)
Great explanation .... thank you JobsandJobs
JSON Schema draft 07 release notes
U.S. officials suspect Russia in mystery 'attacks' on diplomats in Cuba, China
I was commenting on the patent cycle in general, not the dry water patent in particular.
My automatic is terrible and has had several software recalls. I wish I’d chosen manual.
Would this be useful for terraforming Venus?
> "What if you were a Google engineer, and you had to solve this problem, what would you do?"

Well... I might ask one of the other people on the team (or in the company) for some help. Because I'm probably going to ask one of them for a review (or someone else will review it anyway). No man is an island, etc.

What did Sergey and Larry do to solve these problems? They hired more people!