skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With physical energy storage you also don’t need to worry about the environmental effects of lithium nor do you need to worry about charge cycles sure some maintance is required but the majority of the cost is going to be in the reservoir and that can stand for centuries.
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The reason is that I only want features that are supported by the most package managers. Sometimes you get a message that the package manager does not support this (especially chromebrew). I don't want to add features that only works with 2 or 3 package managers. I only want features that should work with every package manager. At the moment there are only essential tools. However I will try to add as many as possible.
There are plenty of examples of ethical foreign military actions as well.

The US stopping genocide in Europe with the Kosovo war, for example, was ethical. If a people or nation can't defend itself from an aggressor (eg the UNC & South Korea vs China & North Korea), it's more than reasonable that a stronger power step in to help with that defense if it's willing to do so. The first Gulf War was also an ethical intervention of 30 nations vs Iraq, to push them back out of Kuwait.
There's research suggesting it's not pseudoscience. E.g. https://www.medicaldaily.com/facial-features-predict-iq-men-..., https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-face-for... and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/1.... Unless those studies are extremely flawed, it seems possible to predict IQ, sexuality and political affiliation to some degree of accuracy from a person's face.
I guess to be eat my comment was intended as a "good riddance" regardless of the truth of his firing. Clearly with you I failed to deliver that message, so sorry about that.
Lithium batteries are considerably less carbon neutral than physical energy storage when you account for all the energy needed to mine, produce and repurpose them after they fail.

While dams have failed in the past if built right they can last for centuries.

Also unlike batteries where the majority of the cost sunk is in the batteries themselves with physical storage like this the majority of the cost will be in the construction itself which means that as better pumps and turbines become available you can upgrade your system at a marginal cost.
I’m talking about development tasks. They are never predictable in a useful way, and the reasons why estimation is not useful have nothing to do with the technical details (usually). It is about sociological blockers in resources, IT blockers, unknown legacy code issues.

It’s so rare to have tasks without these blockers that estimation generally is unhelpful. Whereas measurement (beginning work and alerting people to blockers) is much more useful.
What's the value of a less extreme nationalist press, except to espouse the same values but make them more palatable to moderates and lead them down the slippery slope to extremism? For better or worse the "ideal" world of nationalists would be a massive, traumatic revision of the current state of affairs, aimed at ethnic minorities and vulnerable people for benefit of white people. It seems like an inherently extreme and racist philosophy.
Really? Can you provide an answer for any of these answered by philosophy? On the contrary, it is the sciences that provide answers to these questions, to the extent they are meaningful or the answers are known.
Linguistically, articles are the exception rather than the rule. Grammatical words are always derived from concrete words and 'the' is just a degeneration of 'that'.
"Asserted" is a past-tense verb, which implies a process of checking that it's valid at a certain moment in time, before proceeding some some work that requires it to be so. If I understand correctly (and I may not), the case is rather that the bits are always set, in which case I might call them "pinned" to 1 or "fixed" to 1 - meaning they cannot change, rather than should not change. It might also be that they are set to these values automatically during boot, but can be changed by the firmware - in which case "initialized" could be better.

Or at least that's the source of confusion for me, maybe the terminology is different at this level.
Even at large companies this can happen. Architects and high level engineers can simply go out of touch with current engineering practices simply because it's not their job anymore.
I use it for linking to comments on my site. Users can copy a link to a particular comment, and the link directs people to the appropriate topic and location on the page.

I'm assuming that using X-Frame-Options to prevent the page from appearing in a frame prevents this type of attack.
I'm also leaning towards Bloomberg being wrong, but I can't help but feel that's partly wishful thinking.

Let's say Bloomberg was correct. Considering the tension between 'the West' and China, and considering how much it's been escalated recently, the consequences of all this are unpredictably catastrophic.

I don't find it difficult to believe that even just to maintain stability for now, various governments would instruct their corporations to lie in a way they haven't done previously.

It's important to keep in mind that for the first time in a while, there's serious tension between China and the West. On top of that, the idea of having China manufacture crucial infrastructure has probably been a concern for quite a while. Making assumptions based on recent history probably doesn't serve us well when predicting our current reality or the future.

So while I'm still inclined to think Bloomberg got things (mostly) wrong, many of my reasons for believing this are based on a 'status quo' that I don't think is the case currently.
Your comment brings to mind a fascinating short story that follows this idea: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

I am pretty sure I found it on HN a few years ago.
The problem is that its inconsistent. For every ethical action out there how many dozens of other wars are completely ignored by the same powers? That is what makes the ethical stance highly doubtful.
Median is better than mean though. Preferably, the people with the data would release median, mean, and quintiles or deciles, and the actual data itself for better analysis.
It has been adopted also flywheel energy storage at scale is by far more common than lithium batteries are today it’s also cheaper and more reliable.
Exactly! Development tasks where the within-task technical software issues are the determinant of time estimation are so fleetingly rare that estimation is not useful as a general practice.

In fact I might even _define_ “senior engineer” as someone who has been around long enough to know this and has come up with some way to pacify managers with meaningless estimates in a way that protects the team so it can actually still do work.
It took me about 15 years to get my BPD2 diagnosis. I was diagnosed with unipolar depression in college. I don't remember how many different depression meds I tried. SSRIs, SNRIs, tricyclics, etc. I was often noncompliant for all the standard reasons, but mostly because I was an independent contractor prior to Obamacare. Insurance was a luxury then.

I was off medication for about 5 years before another bad depressive episode occurred. I was given Zoloft and that sent me into a noticeable hypomanic episode (3 days of being awake, productive and partially agitated). I was seeing a nurse practitioner who was fantastic. Eventually we settled on lamotrigine, which I've been on for about 4-5 years with no real issues. I've had 2 minor bouts of depression in the winter since starting on it. No manic episodes. It's really a bitch of a condition to treat.
This goes against most of the rigorous studies in the industry which have consistently found, going on 50 years that no estimation techniques have high degrees of accuracy.

The only systems that do have high degrees of accuracy tend to throw out a big chunk of the work to get there (for instance some systems don’t estimate how long a proof of concept will take & only estimate post that).

I’d love to hear what your mechanism is for estimation that is repeatedly accurate & how to implement it at scale because otherwise it’s an open problem in the industry.
Well it has existed throughout history.

We haven't discovered great ways of winning wars or building empire without being inefficient and treating people like pawns.

Our history books don't spend time making us think about the morale of the front line soldiers in Alexander/Genghis Khan/Napolean/Stalin's armies. Instead we have entire shelves of books devoted to the mindlessly ambitious guys at the top of the food chain.

We make Edison an icon and give Marconi a Nobel, but if you know your history, these guys ended up at the top of the food chain because they were ruthless. It hardly mattered what Oppenheimer/Einstein/Feynman thought about the nuclear bomb. Because they were the "factory".

Much like the "factory" of people at the pentagon/wall st/google/facebook etc.

We still haven't figured out a good way to keep "factories" running or expand/defend empires without propping up mindlessly ambitious people. The inequality rates suggest our faith in them is at an all time high.

Our current default method much like the cold war or a chimp troupe, is to keep mindlessly ambitious people at the top of the food chain constantly paranoid about each other. Ofcourse we can do better. But the agency isn't there yet. For example, Facebook could turn into a Wikipedia type entity by tomorrow if the "factory" of workers revolt.
There are so many individual pieces of HTML and JS that I wish I could do this with. Mostly web APIs. On a URL-by-URL basis.
It's not a package management issue. A lot of vendors use drivers developed by their suppliers, and the internal API of the kernel is known for not being really stable. So if you want to update the kernel, you need to update the driver - which a supplier may be not really keen to do. :)
> almost everything in the world has a use

Do you routinely read far-left news sources like Current Affairs and Jacobin to make sure you're getting the full picture?
English is written how it was pronounced

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

We just changed how we pronounced
That's not a "Wikipedia" thing though...that's standard practice with any encyclopedia.
I just want to hear why you think it's true. If you're making a claim, the burden of proof rests upon you, so please tell us what evidence you're considering.

If you aren't willing to spell that out, we're not having a meaningful conversation.
Yes, many of them are mentally ill, which is pretty obvious if you would actually care to check out their comments on Breitbart, which I have done.

I stand by my word, everything I've said about Breitbart is true, whether you like it or not. You can downvote me as much as you want, fact is that Breitbart is a hate speech site that also happens to copy & pastes news from other sources in order to disguise their real purpose. Anyone who thinks there could be a "news site" with a more right wing bias than Fox News is seriously deluded, because the primary goal of news reporting is not to politically influence the public towards radical anti-democratic world views and create chaos.

Just to make this clear, I'm not a US citizen and couldn't care less about Breitbart's fake news if Bannon hadn't recently announced that he wants to invest money to focus his propaganda efforts on the EU with the goal of disrupting the European Union and instigate chaos in Europe. There is no need to write indirect slurs about Breitbart, the truth suffices to discredit this site.

But if you want a real slur, no problem. Yes, the people who run Breitbart are absolutely despicable scum.

Would you read an ISIS "news site" to get your "news"? If the answer is no, then you also shouldn't read utter crap like Beitbart.
Never finds the stuff I search :/
I would have thought Chrome's site isolation would prevent this. Not enabled in the author's chromium build, or not helping for some reason?
While I am firmly in the open borders camp, I'm willing to consider nationalist arguments. I can see why people see value in national sovereignity or cultural preservation. I agree there's a very thin line separating it from racist drivel. That is where I draw the line - nationalist: can debate, nativist: not worth my time.
Yup that’s the one :)
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they seem to be focusable with tab navigation, but there is no indication (dashed outline) of which element is selected. I was able to tab through and toggle the switches with the spacebar in Firefox.
A similar example - San Luis Reservoir in California consists entirely of pumped water. Its main purpose is to act as a regulator supply for the state's aqueduct, but to offset costs the operators do the same trick of generating electricity during the day, and replenishing the reservoir at night.

There are times when this is not practical, but when it is it helps to defray operating costs.
Test more, iterate faster–why you should be remote playtesting your mobile game
I'm not sure. My friends and I know that we are all vicious backstabbers in Catan, and never trust each other.
Once a month, I find myself wishing Clojure had static typing, before dramatically rediscovering why not having it can be such a relief. The reasons for this are expressed much more articulately than I can here: https://lispcast.com/clojure-and-types/ ... Personally, for the kind of work that I do, I've found clojure's compromises make my life on net easier, and my code, on net, more reasonable.
Yes that's very much my point.
It seems unhelpful to write off Breitbart readers as unaware of reality. They may be uncritical readers of the news, and they may have deplorable beliefs, but many sane, rational people believe terrible things. Or they're willing to associate with people who believe terrible things to further their own agenda, and be complicit in those terrible things.
Its fairly easy to find 3 sources for any story because most articles are just reworded from other articles.
I have been curious about this as well especially since Michael Pollan's book "How to change your mind" came out. How did your experience go? I am not by any means a recreational drug user so have no idea where I can get DMT or mushrooms.
That’s a bit of a cop out though. First you are throwing a big chunk of the part of a system that can take high variance time (the analysis) out of your estimation accuracy. Second no rigorous studies have shown that breaking down tasks into smaller chunks for estimation purposes changes the accuracy rate of the broader actual ask.

Anecdotally what happens when you do the breaking down into smaller tasks thing you are either just putting off giving the broader estimate (in systems that only estimate the currently workable tasks) or you are likely missing small tasks from your broader goal that will impact your estimate later leading to standard estimate overruns.
Sort of. Usually "regulation" in these areas ends up being a messy compromise between ideologues, with any economic subtlety left by the wayside.

Edit: in the case of education and medical, administrative costs are growing tremendously. Not sure if that's because of excessive government regulation but it would be interesting if someone could untangle that.
I agree that there is a vandalism problem with such a service but that has also a lot to do with the users. I first noticed these bikes not because of their bright colors or because I heard about them but because they repeatedly blocked my pedestrian walkway. We have a lot of bikes around here but none of them are parked like these bikes that the last customer just wanted to get rid of and I more than once got the feeling that I should just throw that bike down into the water to get rid of the obstacle (and what kept me from doing that was only that than the city would still have to get rid of it). However, I have never had any problems with any of the bike-sharing services that offer fixed stations were you get and return your bike and I think a lot of people do so. So in my perspective, it has nothing to do with "universal naughtiness", just that some of these companies are ass-hole, law ignoring ponzi schemes.
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"Off-label" does not mean "no proven efficacy."

Some off label uses have little to no research behind them, but some are well studied.
Did they have hookups? Water/electricity.
Chrome isolation is partial. Several unrelated tabs can share the same process.
> Except they never have?

And neither have Windows paths ever actually pretended to be UTF-16, that's my point.
>If anything, we just need to spend a bit more time talking to folks about the possible side effects of the medications.

What exactly shows us this?

>This is demonstrated in the present each time there is an external threat too.

Can you list some examples?

I'm not trying to be difficult, but this thread is full of assertions and scant on arguments.

I'm genuinely interested, here, but someone has yet to make a substantive argument.
Why is it unreasonable that some facial chareteristics can be used as heuristics to determine underlying genetic conditions?

I mean it’s pretty clear that people with Down syndrome have a very unique look and this is not the only genetic disorder that has very defined an unique facial charetarisrics.
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Excellent job there. Thanks.
Wind power makes the ground warmer even as it cools the planet
I think many people, myself included, will downvote duplicate comments without too much thought. It might seem harsh, and perhaps it shouldn't be done so thoughtlessly, but at least based on my personal experience it's not meant to be harsh.
Book V of the Wealth of Nations has a long passage about the ill effects of the division of labor (or more specifically, of the constant repetition of simple tasks) on the workers.

Here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/... (search for "In the progress of the division of labour")
Hmm alternatively you could take a break from things like Facebook and instagram and shit like that. Spend that time enjoying the culture :)
Hey,

I’m Roland, creator of Goalee and I want to write a few words about the app.

The idea behind Goalee is that all the annoyances, conflicts or so-called problems we face in our everyday lives pale in comparison with our true goals in life.

The issue I faced, as many others, is that I tend to lose track of what I desire most, exactly because of problems here and there.

I started by writing down my goals on a sheet of paper, but that wasn’t quite enough. I eventually started overlooking them.

I then tried using to-do apps, or habit tracking apps for this. But this isn’t something to be checked off, nor a habit to build; it’s a mindset change, if you will. So I ended up building Goalee to add long/mid-term goals and remind myself about them on a daily/weekly basis.

Don’t lose focus; don’t forget what you desire most; or it will end up forgotten in the sea of daily struggles.
> To me, the point of philosophy is to examine those aspects of existence that cannot be examined by other sciences, especially because the measurement or experimental methods or the resources to do so do not (yet) exist.

Not at all. Philosophy is about fundamental questions that fall outside the scope of the set of questions that can be settled by empirical validation. For example: "what is science?", "how can we know something?", "what does it mean for something to exist?", "why is there something rather than nothing?", "what is good and evil?", etc.

One important branch of philosophy is that of epistemology, concerned with the nature and acquisition of knowledge itself. You expressed two rather extreme epistemological views (extreme in relation to the positions of most non-naive philosophers on these topics):

-> That one can only judge knowledge on the basis of its applications;

-> That given good enough instruments and enough resources, science could answer all questions worth being asked.

Maybe the example questions above can convince you to think deeper about these positions.
The USA is not a Commonwealth country - they formally lost that membership when they declared independence (and informally when they dumped a shipment of tea into a harbour).
I see. I think you have never listened a lecture of a good philosopher. I really like Leonard Peikoff. Take for example his lecture called "The American School: Why Johnny Can't Think?" [0]. It has a higher overview than any other science is capable of, reach the essence of the problem and suggest a solution.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4BJ-21EhY8
ah i see your point. here asserted defines a state and not a way of ensuring a certain condition is met (as in higher level languages). yes "initialised to 1" would also convey same meaning. i hope it's clearer now. the term asserted is often used in electronics and i can see how it can be misleading.
Not sure I follow your logic. So if the US doesn't intervene to stop genocide in the Sudan, it is unethical for them to stop genocide anywhere else?

If the US was to get involved in a war every time they thought something unethical was happening would that be good? If the US made a policy to never intervene anywhere, even if trivial intervention could improve the lives of millions, would that be good?

I find that people have strong opinions about war and are happy to share them, but often don't seem to have thought them through at all. Why should either war everywhere or war nowhere make sense? Is there any room for good judgment, to weigh ethics, ability and consequences, and have a different approach in different situations?

There is an entire field of philosophy and ethics around this that has been developed in the Western world and continues to be researched and debated, called just warfare. It is actually used, at least in the US, to inform decisions about rules of engagement and legal or illegal tools and tactics. In fact it is required learning for future officers in the US military, at least in the Air Force.
Really? We have spike tickets all the time to go and explore a problem and see what edge cases we can find, explore possible solutions, and stuff like that. We usually scope spikes to a day or so. But we've had a couple where we were given almost a full week. The minimum I've spent was an afternoon and that was mostly because I actually found a lot of info a lot faster than expected.
Why does the RSS link on that website link to feedly.com instead of the feed directly? Weird.
> We are not our genes.

Indeed, it's much worse than that. We are just a tool to help in survival of those genes. We are one tool among many for those genes and not nearly as important everybody seems to think we are.
Vice is generally in the same category as Breitbart, only on the left.

The 'article' cites such sources as splinternews to back up its various unsupported claims an innuendo.
The difference between "meet customers at a Kubernetes CRD" and "meet customers at an OSBAPI broker" is small enough that it's not worth paying strategy tax to crimp the latter, especially since these customer groups will be overlapping but not equivalent sets (this is how enterprise software grows so vast).

Rephrasing: AWS are smart to have a bob each way.
To the best of my knowledge, the Archive has it's own machines to store data. It is an Archive and one of the principles was to have the know how to preserve data even if the cloud providers disappear.
Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?
Hello,

I'm going to set up my own VPN on some cloud hosting provider, and I'm toying with the idea of turning it into a small business.

Is there anything I need to know beforehand? Is it really that easy, or are there legal issues I need to handle?

Cheers

EDIT:

I should note that I know this is an extremely saturated market - I'm not aiming to build a hyper successful business, but moreso to manage a small public VPN as an ideological side-project. Anything above breaking even I'd consider a bonus.