skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father in law developed a nasty necrotic wound that everyone assumed was a brown recluse bite. But it kept getting worse and worse no matter what treatment options they tried. Turned out he had leishmaniasis. Of course no one considered that because they were blinded by the common explanation.

Now, you could argue that maybe had the doctors known more about leishmaniasis he would have received a diagnosis faster. However, I imagine the situation played out about as well as one should hope. Certainly in Bolivia (where he picked up the disease) they should be more aware of the common causes of things than the uncommon. They should not be inspecting for brown recluse bites when there are rarely any just as we should not look at every necrotizing wound and investigate it as an uncommon case of leishmaniasis.
I was responding to the fault-deflection in the previous comment. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

If its not exactly what NTS is then lets use some other phrase that better captures "Lets continue to apologize for the failure to implement the agile manifesto effectively in many situations". An effective business practice has to be able to be put into practice. Without a large potential-energy-hill of retraining and right-think and group buyin. I don't think agile is that thing. I'm sure some small groups have successfully done something they call agile (not yet convinced its by simply adhering to the manifesto), that's great for all who succeeded.

But the war stories of failure are pervasive.
>We're going to need platforms that support group encryption and better security for apps.

Definitely. Though I also feel we need to give a shock to public awareness of just how evil people can be with this data. My perception is that people are trending towards "vaguely uncomfortable" with the news of foreign interference with targeted ads, election hacking, and so on, but we've a ways to go yet before most will give up supremely-engineered convenience in exchange for security.

As long as the modern world is democratic and the voting populace is subjecting itself to targeted manipulation by data-armed bad actors, we have a problem of not just national security, but international security.

Thanks for being one of the good guys.
How does this compare to TimescaleDB?

Are they solving the same problem in different ways or are they complementary projects? If it's the latter, what would that look like?
I remember Ingres but was too stupid to make the connection when Postgres came out. That is awesome.
More importantly, if my local device dies I'm going to want to restore from backup. Now what?
Functions and data structures are objects in Python.
This kind of donation could cause the existing in-house manpower to focus on one's company needs, thus decreasing effort for other important work.

By donating actual manpower, efforts that were already there aren't impacted.
For sure, heard a lot of good things about the Lua source code. I just checked Lua source code quick. It looks well documented,
and the size of the project is very manageable. Added to my todo list. Thanks for the recommendation.
Cheapest V8: https://www.gmperformancemotor.com/parts/88869602.html develops both more torque and more horsepower than that 4 cylinder.
By that logic the gasoline engine has not yet arrived either.
Depends. I would pay more for a non human being to do so.

It means I can leave my dirty underwear on the floor without being judged.
A couple of weeks ago, I heard on the radio a program, something like, "The Frugal DJ", wherein all of the music played came off of records that the host had obtained for cheap. Like, $1 albums at garage sales.

It was interesting.
To the degree it has no good definition, then its even easier to apologize when it fails, right? That's exactly when No True Scotsman seems to rear its head.
"Dillon started DragonFly in the belief that the techniques adopted for threading and symmetric multiprocessing in FreeBSD 5[4] would lead to poor performance and maintenance problems."

So whether he contributed to the OS or just learned something at Amiga from those who did, Amiga's key concerns live on. Not to mention that the compiler isn't exactly remote from multiprocessor concerns; its value was that it adapted closely to what the Amiga hardware made possible, obviously.
It's way cheaper to have competent software engineers than to add layers of analysts, managers, scrum masters or architects (who copy well known patterns). Most SEs are highly qualified not only on the technical side but also on the business side and possess quite a bit of domain knowledge. Besides that, most of enterprise IT is not rocket science, is it? ;-)
Amazon Pushes ICE to Buy Its Face Recognition Surveillance Tech
Sounds awful

Sounds better than bustin' ass for 60 hours/week for my base salary. Your friend is getting paid 1.5X for every hour over 40. And, yes, it is not uncommon over the years. My dad would seemingly work every overtime hour given. And at time-and-a-half, so would I.
> I’m sure that you can find a way to describe that as an entanglement with something else, but there is no need to do so.

That depends on your goals. If all you care about is making correct predictions of experimental results, then yes, one point of view is as good as another.

But if you care about actually understanding what is going on then explaining measurement in terms of entanglement is progress.

> when Alice measures a photon in an entangled pair the entanglement is broken

No. The entanglement remains, and is incorporated into a (much) larger system of mutually entangled particles, including Alice herself. As part of this process, decoherence happens, which makes the original entanglement impossible to detect as a practical matter. But it doesn't go away.

> Hopefully you will agree that Alice’s photon is now in a pure state.

No, I will not agree. When Alice measures the photon, the photon must be absorbed by some detector, and so can longer be said to exist at all in any meaningful sense.
Maybe it's my fault, but I haven't found "easily accessible data" on the quality of elementary and middle school education, which is something a lot of people seem to be ignoring in this discussion.

Sure, people might be motivated to immigrate here by your universities. Even when I was a teenager growing up in an Eastern European country, I had heard of MIT and dreamed of studying there. But there's a long road to go down before you arrive at your university's doors.

Another thing I would like to point out is that an important aspect of an education system is the access to it. It's kind of like your health care: some of the most advanced treatments are available here, but there's a huge inequality preventing vast numbers of people from having access to those treatments.

Bottom line is that the overall quality of your education system should not only be measured by the quality and prestige of your universities, but a myriad of other factors that influence the final outcome -- that outcome being an apparent shortage of your own skilled citizens.
And not only technologies, but sustainable solutions that will impact about everyone in the planet with the cut in CO2 emissions.
The Edison (E26/7, circa-1900) base isn't the best choice for light bulbs.

But it is good enough.

And now we're plugging high-powered LED bulbs into them. Technology finds a way. Be first!
Looks like you need to know about the 'sleep' command...
Just a heads up. Make sure you get both solar and powerwall at the same time if you don’t yet already have solar. I learned the hard way about the additional cost associated with replacing the ac inverter.

Here we’re mandated by the city to be connected to the grid at ~$10 a month, which (along with net metering) pretty much disincentives a powerwall.
There can be tax benefits when gifting non-cash (things like appreciated stock) to non-profits that benefit the non-profit [1]. I do not know if that is the case here since tax law can be complicated.

[1] https://www.kahnlitwin.com/blogs/tax-blog/is-it-better-to-do...
> too stupid

being a little bit hard on yourself there
a) such as?
b) no one donates unless you have a)

a) always assumes people are writing to sell something - do we not like creative writing, journalism and such?

Adblocks also tend to block patreon and kickstarter buttons/links as well...
The actual key is stored at the destination inside the repository, encrypted by a password that you have to enter (doesn't matter the device). So don't lose the password. Technically there are a few keys in play: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/100_references.html#...

Anyway, if you know your encryption password, you can perform a restore from any device with access to the destination.
The article stated that the updates negatively impacted devices as early as 1 generation old. I don't consider that working properly. Either they tested this scenario and intentionally ignored that it made the product worse or they didn't test it.
I never thought of it that way. Framing it that way is ingenious.
As I commented in another post, I don't think this is an actual problem in postgres. But assuming it would be, the difference is that control of central decision making structures allows control over other companies work, whereas having a company's employees contribute doesn't do so to to a significant degree.
Scientists look to new technologies to make food safer
Lumping in a lot of categories without defining who these people all isn't helpful: "‘undesirable’ — immigrants, people of color, the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated, activists, and others," There is a humanitarian crisis in Mexico with the drug war and cartels. People are going legally or not.
I had the same reaction as you. I think MOOCs are lacking in more than just this area. I'll use myself as an example:

I used MOOCs to learn various programming languages, simple database queries (insert, update, select with join, etc.) and how to use APIs with JSON. Lots of fun stuff. But when I came to university I started being taught all kinds of math and CS stuff through difficult assignments and tight deadlines that I never would have done on my own.

Yes, you technically can learn a lot of math and other things through MOOCs but it's not always as fun. The advantage of university is that they give you a set of required courses for a major and you have to take them, whether they're fun or not. Sometimes the courses which are the least fun turn out to be extremely valuable later on.
As long as your backup isn't stored on the same device that died -- i.e. if you have access to the destination/repository -- you can restore by accessing it with the encryption password (which only you know).
Not to mention the pneumatic tire on asphalt road.
Both are very different creatures. Lets say broadly that Recluse has an acid attak, will melt tissue. Recluse will not kill you normally but can leave a scar.

Black widows instead have an attack of, lets say, electric type. Will 'electrocute' you. Black widow will not kill you normally. But if you collaborate with the black widow work, you will kill yourself instead
Microsoft Earnings Release FY19 Q1
How long do you think the current Supercharger network will be a large competitive advantage?

I agree with Benedict Evan's point that electric charging will become a commodity: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/8/29/tesla-soft...
It's the frequency illusion (also known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon).

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
All commercial encryption software uses the same public ciphers. Do you really think nearly 20 years after the fact I'm trying to impress anyone? But, they were impressed at the time about my user interface which wrapped the ciphers, and they later had a group visit me in California about some internal uses of that same UX; but nothing came of it in the end.
Around here, tree farms replant by hiring people who plant hundreds to thousands trees per day per person and are paid for piece-work, a fraction of a dollar (~$0.20?) per treelet planted.

Given that you need to do this once every 25-40 years (maturity cycle of the tree), is doing it with drones really that big a win?
Cities could continue to modernize and add density if zoning would allow hybrid architecture additions similar to several buildings in Toronto. The outside facade and interior remains while larger, modern and dense buildings are added around and above the older landmarks. A good example of this is the current hockey hall of fame.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/01/01/saving_torontos_...
Could you expand on why you think SolarCity is a disappointment? To be sure, they're slow developing and rolling out their product in volume, but your last sentence points out the massive strategic disadvantage a lot of utilities might have in a few years.

To me, this seems very promising for a company developing tech that can be used, to a significant degree even through software/policy changes, to greatly reduce grid dependency. If utilities keep squeezing adopters of renewable energy by charging ridiculous connection fees, there's a significant risk they will have a nasty surprise once storage adoption is high enough.
It appears Tesla shorts have lost.

* Free cash flow of $881M for the quarter equates to $3.5B annualized. Current market cap is around $50B, so Tesla is trading for $50B / $3.5B = 14.3x annualized free cash flow. Even if this figure is not sustainable in the short to medium term, Tesla no longer looks that expensive.

* $3.0B of cash and cash equivalents at quarter-end, increasing by $731M during the quarter -- consistent with reported free cash flow. Tesla no longer seems to be facing a cash crunch in the near term.

Very impressive.

It remains to be seen whether this kind of profitability is sustainable, especially as more competition enters the market for EVs... but for now, Musk, his team, and his shareholders are looking like big winners.
I agree that it's daft! Not the title I submitted.
There may be a distinction between music that is intended to stir you as you listen to it and music that is intended to stir you as you sing it.
They're simplifying the Model X interior choices, that's a lower-volume model. Model 3's only interior option is color, black or white.

Tesla is not planning to get on par with manufacturers that outsource a lot more than Tesla does. In fact their new Chinese factory is planned to be even worse, because it will produce battery cells and car motors in-house.
Proto encoding makes the unfortunate choice of more-bit variable-length numbers which are hard to decode. JavaScript engines and browser all have very well optimized decoders for the unary length-prefixed variable-length numbers (i.e. UTF-8). So you can imagine how an encoding very much like proto but with the proper style of varints can be faster.

Generated code size is a huge problem of all protobuf-supporting languages, not just js. Code size issues on Android have constrained development of the official (google) protobuf libraries in various ways over the years.
From an engineering perspective it's suboptimal since they have small surface area relative to volume. That's probably why Telsa went with the 2170 instead of the 26650, which has a larger diameter.

Despite this disadvantage the Telsa battery cost, power density, cost per kwh, peak power, and longevity are unmatched. Especially as measure by real people driving real cars on real roads.

So sure in theory batteries with more surface area would have greater package efficiencies. So far nobody has managed to.
diy is great, out is okay, sci is horrible
(5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea.

Ignored by every technical RFC on L2/3 networking published after this document
Does anyone pay for those and do you think the web could survive on paid content?

BTW, these aren't "Dark patterns" - they're industry standards - whether we like it or not. Are users interested in preserving independent media or are they mostly fine just getting what facebook and google think they should get?

I think what a lot of people are ignoring is that users support these terrible sites and that the good ones that don't join these patterns eventually just fade to oblivion

web "Surfers" need to change their behaviors just as much as content creators... if not more so - because the industry is just following the what the readers actually do...
It could be that, by searching for it, you're more likely to find it ;) Had you not searched for it, maybe this article wouldn't have been noticed.

I think there's a name for this effect, but i can't recall it.
Until other companies step up and install DCFC stations everywhere

Disclaimer: I am long TSLA

I hightly doubt other car companies are gonna do this in a reaonable time frame (3-4 years). They will rely on the dealer network to build out the chargers and suck up the setup cost. Now dealers can potentially finance this with debt and get this done, but I doubt GM or any car company will be able to get consensus from the dealers and roll this ouut fast.
How is DigitalOcean's resilience to DDoS attacks? After Linode's giant DDoS-related outages a couple of years ago, I moved everything to AWS on the theory that they (along with Google and Azure) would be better at mitigating similar attacks. Would be nice to have DO as an option.
Thanks for including Remarkbox.

Could you update your blog post to explain that the Free Remarkbox plan does include the ability to moderate comments? This is a change I made a few months back.
What are "adjusted" earnings?
I did try it with gridgenerator[0]. A painting application to create geometric patterns and shapes. I tried to have users, people loved it but didn't feel they were the target audience. Tried to get some b2b partnerships afterwards which failed for various reasons. I have a few debts to pay now (because I was using my pension money for it) and a large amount of bugs to fix when my willpower comes back up again.

Today no one uses it. I had to shut down the export server, and got about 40 followers on instagram with some of the works I managed to do with it[1].

[0] https://gridgenerator.com/
[1] https://www.instagram.com/gridgenerator/

Now i work at a web company trying to slave my way to pay the debt and in another 10 years try it again. Does it entitle me to say "been there done that" ?
To me, food preparation is the big void in automation. A few companies are trying it here and there, but being able to prepare a decent-tasting meal (even if you have to do the cleaning yourself) would change some lives dramatically.

These aren't things that necessarily require advanced AI or sensors or anything; the basic elements of cooking are relatively simple. The real issue is the vast diversity of cooking/compilation methods. In other words, automating meals could be done, but automating all meals would require something monumental.

But consider simple baked meals, which comprise thousands of recipes.

There are people in the space, but I think a commercial grade Cookbot is a holy grail for home automation.
I think carton and plenv can do just that, but it seems from the comments that there are other just as popular solutions too.
New Caledonian crows can create compound tools
Planet is Medium Resolution, not high res like in Google Earth. Plant is roughly 4m resolution where google is sub meter resolution. But yes, planet now has access to 100% earth's landmass daily.
gRPC is lightweight, highly performant, difficult to debug, difficult to detect breaking schema changes, lots of magic going on to learn compared to REST or GraphQL.

GraphQL is much heavier, easier to test and debug and has some performance optimisations like data loader and is better for multiple clients to consume. I’d say it’s easier to manage schema changes but it’s probably not empirical. I guess huge overheads by comparison to gRPC but I’m guessing data over the wire is a much larger piece of the pie.

Personally think GraphQL is far superior for web clients and I think gRPC for services in general can be a pretty large overhead for most teams... at least initially you are going to get things done much faster with restful services.
Sounds like fun, but I think there are other ways to achieve a similar workflow without an extra tool. For example, I like to use a tmux session with two panes. On the one side there is a `vim myscript.sh` and on the other side there is a `watch myscript.sh`.

Very similar result and using rm is not that dangerous as you can finish writing your code and it gets executed as soon as you save the file (if you don't like the watch delay you can use one of the many inotify based watch tools or set -n 0.1 or something that suits your needs).
Hi, the CO2 expenditure of the whole operation, including mining, milling, and transport, has been calculated to be about 4% of the amount of CO2 that is captured by the olivine.

We are not planning to do any new mining for the first allotments of olivine, as there are literally "tons" of piles of olivine-rich rock sitting as "tailings" on the property of old mines.

This already excavated rock was mined in the pursuit of the mineral deposits below it and are considered "waste" by these mines. Kind of like buying a used car instead of having a new one created, that rock's CO2 is already accounted for. So, in this case, we do not have to mine it, only transport (ideally in an efficient manner like a train) and then mill it and spread it on the beach.

Check this paper for more details on the calculations: https://climitigation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Olivine...
>> What's your career path?

Programmer/sysadmin type, the aerial surveying was for fun in my 20's.
Unless I'm ignorant, no one does that in science. We cite where data or even a quote comes from. Seems perverse not to do so.
He's right.

Apple's schtick has long been "technology without the bullshit"- and well, the behavioral data gold rush is basically bullshit for consumers, so sure, they're on the privacy bandwagon in the interests of their own company and it's market strategy.

Regardless, it does not make him any less right.
Does gasoline engines receive subsidies? I just bought a brand new ICE vehicle, and I'd sure like to know when my check arrives...
When I was a kid I used to visit the Michigan Central Depot in Detroit with my dad. When I was in college I actually took a train from Lansing one Thanksgiving into the grand old station. In it's day it matched Grand Central Station for its beauty.

But for the past forty years it sat empty, lots of graffiti and broken windows. You've probably seen it in pictures of Detroit, it frequently is used to highlight the ruin of the city.

Ford announced they bought it to headquarter their autonomous car research efforts. They're planning on filling the ground floor with shops and are giving money away to community groups in the neighborhood.

I can't wait for the rehab to be finished, along with the old Packard plant which is also being rebuilt there will be far fewer examples of what the locals call 'ruin porn' for the press to use to write the Detroit story. In fact the old depot can in the future be used to write the story of Detroit's rebirth.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/20...
Please read the excellent comment of xg15 elsewhere in this thread. It basically suggests that publishers deliberately make the user experience as annoying as possible, as a way of protesting against the cookie and GDPR laws.
First GDPR now this. Is the EU trying to become a new age China?
Thanks for that link! I keep getting stuck on the "needs a dedicated tap" problem but I will investigate further.