skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, at least on my country most solar power plants use single-axis trackers. The increase in capacity factor makes it worthwhile: on the 12 months up to this September, the highest average capacity factor for fixed solar power plants was barely above 20%, while for single-axis trackers it got to nearly 30% (source: ONS monthly solar generation report).
Just use Ubuntu not them hipster os’ no one heard of supports
Google uses it on their TPUs [0]. If you're interested in how it would effect the numerical stability of an algorithm you want to use, there is a Julia package that makes prototyping linear algebra over this datatype pretty straightforward [1].

[0] https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture

[1] https://github.com/JuliaComputing/BFloat16s.jl
How Secure Are Corporations Inside? My Story
I agree that that is definitely how they run Singapore, corporatism combined with "Anti-Non-Chinese" identity.

When I think of what the USA does in terms of preventing migration, I say to myself, "wow, it probably can't be much worse than this". But then I think of Singapore, and realize I'm wrong-- wow, it can be worse than this!

At least in the USA and indeed many countries all over the world, marriage = right to reside. But not in Singapore.

If you are Malay, then the government sees you as a threat to the "delicate harmonious balance of races" in Singapore, and they will do a lot to prevent you from permanently residing and working.
It's interesting to consider how many details on our online maps might be there because of submissions from random people who may or may not be submitting official names or details. When you zoom in to see these minute details, there's no way that Google or Apple can fact check every suggested change, so they have to assume that most submissions are truthful in order to hopefully provide details down to the most local zoom level.
Apologies on the slow response.

Python is claiming to be easier to read and faster to develop. Often (always?), without data. Notebooks are pushing something close to a live coding session, but having to recreate so much to get there.

And if you had ever used other environments, it is frustrating to see people lauding and making progress and tons of press, all while pushing bad practices.

That is, it isn't that nobody could or had done these things. If you care about productionizing, you just need a more formalized environment. You needa more pluggable setup. Just hitting "play all" again on a notebook is good, but is a very low bar. Or puts more effort on parts that don't matter. Often both.

So, I meant all of that at a personal level. I feel like the entire industry is trying to sell me something on faith. Or appeals to the impressive products of people that likely could have used any tool. It hits many of my "don't trust me" vibes.
> Good on Alphabet for ... 2) not continuing the experiment for publicity purposes.

They announced that they were starting their project for publicity purposes! Typically scientists announce their results, not getting a grant.
10s of billions with plans for more is not small amounts even for Bill. Also he does not hide most of his wealth offshore. He got his wealth from stocks in Microsoft a publicly traded company and that is where most of his wealth is. Many rich people manipulate offshore accounts to hide money but that doesn't really make sense for Bill Gates. Please don't make up things.
South Carolina's declaration makes it clear what it's all about while kind of torpedoing the idea that they were champions of "states' rights" as it's presented today, a struggle of smaller states against a dominant central power. They wanted very much for the states, the Northern states in particular, to obey the federal power. They just wanted the federal power to reflect their priorities. No bonus points for guessing what type of disobedience they found particularly troublesome.

The same article of the Constitution stipulates also for rendition by the several States of fugitives from justice from the other States.

The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.
The Mobile Passport app serves as a replacement for the form that US Citizens fill out as they reenter the USA. If you don't use the app, you use a kiosk at the major ports of reentry to accomplish the same task.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/apc

People entering the USA that are not citizens fill out a different set of immigration and customs forms, because their entry process is different.
And the taliban didn't finance or plan the attack on the US, they merely wouldn't give up those who did. Even if the Saudi government isn't directly financing salafist or wahhabist terrorism (and it's not clear that they aren't [1]), they certainly aren't doing anything meaningful to stop the massive amount of it that is coming out of their borders or out of the madrasas they've been funding all over the world. Afghanistan never had a strong diplomatic/business relationship with the US, so they get the hammer at the slightest malfeasance. As I said before, the diplomatic/business relationship with SA is more important than American lives.

[1] https://nypost.com/2017/09/09/saudi-government-allegedly-fun...
I read in a book somewhere (I think it was about Facebook) that when the recession hit in 2008 a lot of people moved from wall street to silicon valley, because that's where money was still made. Could it be they took a bad culture with them?
I mean to order all slaves free in the southern states while keeping slavery legal and active in the north for 5 years is pure hypocrisy that proves it was not about the moral issue of slavery. It was a federal takeover and we are still reeling from the results. As long as everyone believes the south was just a bunch of evil racists we can't talk about the true effects of the war and the path it sent the nation down.
I haven't read the book, but have heard of such solutions.

Basically: given that anxiety about sleeping prevents sleeping, the solution is necessarily to remove anxiety about sleeping. How? By realizing that peaceful rest, while awake, is also restful, and will suffice. So spend the time in bed peacefully resting and if that happens all night, it'll do.

Anecdotally, I have had extreme insomnia, not sleeping for days in a row, at the times in my life when I had the most extreme anxiety, and when the anxiety was removed it went away instantly.
On Firefox (locale is English): I speak Whatever, I want read Whatever else. Choose any book. Voice is English. The only exception is if I choose I want to read Spanish, but this is because I have installed a particular Spanish voice in my system, and that's the one that's used.

On Vivaldi (browser's locale is Spanish): Anything is read with a Spanish voice, unless I choose I want to read English, then an English voice is used.
0 C = frozen, be careful

10 C = you need a jacket

15-25 C = great outdoors temperatures

20 C = good house temperature in the winter

25 C = good house temperature in the summer

30 C = too hot to go out doing physical activity, good for a picnic or a day at the beach

35 C = too hot to go out, period

40 C = hot bath

100 C = boiling water
AI video synthesis
Absolutely. I've installed Linux on quite a number of computers, and I've yet to run into a missing driver. It just works. Whereas I've also installed Windows on a lot of computers, and that's far more likely to have issues with drivers...
I use back to top heavily on 4chan for very long threads.

However, I would prefer the site just be minimally designed, so one fast flick of the screen returns to top.
Wintergatan Marble Machine (musical instrument with 2K marbles)
Getting Google’s attention: Silicon Valley teens create smart wildfire sensor
this may seem like a coherent view of history if you view it as a series of decisions made by great men based solely on their personal beliefs, as opposed to protracted contests over resources & power by organized groups, like the radical abolitionists who waged a generational liberation struggle on every front to force concessions from the institutions of the day.
Great work! If I can run the golang file server on a bunch of heterogeneous nodes it would allow programmatic control of dumping / syncing / etc. I think the hardest part now is just locating all the hidden private media directories on all my mobile devices ;)

WebRTC was drafted as peer to peer network technology. But it's building layers on top of that peer mesh that will lead to interesting decentralized applications. This is a very rich area for developers!
His sit-down with Trump was pretty bizarre. Here's an excerpt:

"I was connected with a neuropsychologist that works with athletes in the NBA and the NFL, and he looked at my brain, equal on three parts. I'm going to go ahead, drop some bombs for you, 98 percentile IQ test. I have a 75 percentile of all human beings, whether was counting, eight numbers backwards off to the things, I'm going to work on that one.

The other one, 98% (INAUDIBLE). We can empower the pharmaceuticals and make more money. That's one thing, I've never stepped into a situation where I didn't make people more money. So this one right here is the iPlane 1. It's a hydrogen powered airplane and this is what our President should be flying in. Would I need Saturday Night Live to improve on or I need the liberals to improve on, if he don't look good, we don't look good. This is our President."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/11/acd.01.html
In the specific case of code, it is worth noting that runs are typically not independent, because of caching.

It is very common for the first run to be slower. It means that by "random chance" slow-slow-slow-fast-fast-fast is more likely than fast-fast-fast-slow-slow-slow. I personally tend to discard first runs as outliers when profiling.
This is already true -- tauthon is a updated, patched Python 2 fork. https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
They're just spamming heavily and hoping you maybe know someone who knows someone :)
The Great Smog of London (1952)
Even after they hit 35? Easy to not have a dl when you are young and no kids.
My HP Pavilion laptop did this perfectly several years ago, at which point I didn't even know how "lucky" I was that it all worked. Fedora/KDE was the distro.
7 bit mantissa doesn't sound like a lot, 2^-7 is 0.0078125... shouldn't there be at least 9 bits for the mantissa?
Any news on native support for fragments?
What is the replication factor on these objects? 0.1% objects unavailable is a worrisome number as it suggests a meaningful number of objects are under-replicated and the cluster is poorly configured. I hope DO speaks to the durability of Spaces in a meaningful fashion after this is sorted out. Multiple days of having a large amount of data unavailable should shake the confidence of anyone considering Spaces for object storage. Are objects stored with 3 replicas? Are they on heavily striped volumes? What is going on that could cause this failure mode and what's stopping a much larger failure? Lastly, nowhere in their status updates are they saying "don't worry, no data-loss, just unavailable for a bit" - which I read as "we hope to not lose any data, but no promises"
Definitely.

http://lifehacker.com/5903288/i-learned-to-speak-four-langua...

Start with that article. Follow the advice about building core vocab to get a baseline set of words under your belt. I highly recommend Anki, but you can obviously use whatever tool fits our needs; although spaced repetition is something I'd definitely look for.

For the early stages, I'd recommend Pimsleur. It's roughly 30 audio lessons per unit. They're about 30 minutes each. They'll familiarize you with basic travel phrases and help you to start getting a feel for the mechanics of the language.

You can take Pimsleur all the way through the 4-5 units that are provided, but it's pretty narrow (travel/business Spanish), and it's VERY formal, so not a great long-term resource.

I'd supplement Pimsleur with something like Destinos (telenova online for learning Spanish) to get some variety into your practice.

Your real goal is getting to the point where you can consume level-appropriate media to make learning less of a chore and more fun.

If you're serious about making progress, find language partners and a teacher (or two) on italki.com. I can't emphasize how helpful this has been.

Look for podcasts that are geared towards Spanish learning. Notes in Spanish is pretty good, but it's Castillian, so I avoided it for that reason. Españolistos isn't terrible if you can handle the husband's terrible Spanish accent (he's a gringo from Texas).

Both of those would be in the intermediate phase. The intermediate phase is a LONG journey to get towards advanced, so that's where most folks fall off. You can make some tremendous early gains just by getting some basic vocab and travel phrases, and that kind of learning is pretty intoxicating; however, really learning a language is just a matter of discipline (practicing every day), and grinding it out.

Duolingo has a good introductory podcast for folks that are earlier on in their learning. I recommend duolingo to learn basic vocab, but don't expect any miracles to happen regarding "fluency" with ANY app.

Clozemaster is good once you're further along for drilling the mechanics of sentence structure into your brain via thousands of "reps" (yes, sometimes it really just feels like physical exercise for your brain).

Also, get yourself a decent book that explains grammar, and a book will all the conjugations of the main verbs. Spanishdict.com is an amazing resource for contextual sentences and conjugations, but books are nice for laying in bed and reviewing stuff.

"Easy Spanish - Step by Step" is a pretty good introduction to the basic language mechanics. I read it from cover to cover (and did the exercises), and it was pretty helpful.

Barron's 501 Spanish Verbs seems like its the standard verb conjugation reference. SO much of learning the language is just knowing how to conjugate properly. The explanations of the tenses at the beginning of the Barron's book have been indispensable in my understanding of how each tense works.

I wish you luck. Feel free to email me if you want any additional pointers (tinymountain [at] gmail).
If HN's voting system wasn't trash, I'd upvote this.
But are middle class families getting second and third cars at higher rates? It's a plausible explantion if true, but I haven't seen any evidence of it.
I think it would be faster than that. Normal luminosity is roughly one kilowatt per square meter. This would be roughly 3.5e17 W/m^s. The largest nuclear bomb ever detonated was around 2e16 joules, so it would be like getting a Tsar Bomba to the face ten times a second.
> However, I can see how this could be misused. People could put themselves at risk for serious injury, in order to get back to work sooner. It's rather the norm for professional athletes, sadly enough. And for many others who do manual labor.

Sadly, I see some office workers surrounding me who would happily recieve a shot of permanent painkiller for their backs, necks and wrists to continue their 60+ hour work week race toward promotion, bonuses, reputation and other carrots.
Wood shingled roofs are currently against code. The wood shingle example was from 1980. Current code even disallows wood decks.

My childhood home burned in the Oakland hills fire - and it had a tile roof -- so roofing material is not enough. Having a defensible space also seems key.

On a related note - I watched a youtube video on a woman driving up and down the streets of Paradise to show people if their homes survived. The homes that survived all seem to be surrounded by a watered lawn. This reinforces maintaining a defensible space is key to survival.
Google News update will help publishers more easily find their sites
Shoe dog by Phil Knight. It's a memoir by the co-founder of Nike. This is one of my favorite books till now. The biggest reason being that it's a perfect combo of personal and business story of company that started with $50 and is now selling over $30B of goods annually. It's motivational, lucid, and keeps you on your toes. Phil is a great story-teller and I almost felt as if I was part of the story. A definite 5/5.
It's hard now when Google have their market position. For Google it was easy to grab the low hanging fruit.

I wonder if former competitors like Altavista just never though of spying on their users and selling the info or if they assumed it would be illegal and didn't do it?
Managing asyncio tasks, the trio way
Trio is a new way of writing asynchronous code in python3. It's elegant, with its nurseries and scopes, and allows to manage tasks in a sane way, compared with asyncio.

Except it's an incompatible alternative of asyncio, so if you're already in an asyncio project, using asyncio libraries, you can't use trio... And what if you like asyncio???

There are discussions about adding a similar concept of "supervisor" in asyncio in a future version of python3, but for now we already need something to help, and in fact if you are using asyncio, you are probably already handling tasks and cleanup, more or less manually...

"Traio" (as some kind of Trio on top of asyncio) is an experiment on trying to bring a bit of scoping for coroutines and a cleaner way of managing (understand: cancel, join) tasks, while still using pure asyncio.

Please comment! It's very young, but at the same time we hope it can help making asyncio an even better library!
Another definition is that intelligence is the ability to manipulate abstractions. We have to do that in order to predict, plan, etc. First we need to hold the abstraction in our minds, and then we can play some manipulations on it to predict what would happen.

It could be also our brain is a bit of a story teller. It tells several stories to see what would be more likely to happen.
FreeBSD 12 Release Engineering Branch Created
As other people are mentioning it depends what country in Scandinavia. Sweden is not super expensive. Norway is very expensive but on the other hand they have excellent subsidies for electric cars: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jul/02/norway-electri...
> I suspect that only a minority of people in metric-using countries -- those with basic chemistry knowledge fresh in their mind -- know that "one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade".

They taught us that in 4th grade in cooking classes. Then they made us remember that in physics and chemistry classes 2 years later.
Baby-Sitting the Economy (1998)
Scrolling experience (I am on iPhone) on your site is absolutely horrible
You're talking absolute rubbish. I'm sorry you had a bad experience but that is no excuse to fabricate bs. Get yourself together.
Yeah, I'm still using unity 7 on 18.04. I see that it is still working in 18.10 and quite likely on 19.04. Hopefully, it'll last another LTS cycle. Technically, it should continue to work as long as xorg isn't dropped, which probably won't happen anytime soon. The only downside is that unity7 is so closely tied to ubuntu that you can't use it with any other distro. I generally like Fedora/RHEL like setups for servers, but I can't use anything other than unity (right now) for laptops.
If you feel like you have absolutely no future at the Series B, talk with Series F secretly.

If you feel like there is any hope of a future at Series B, respond to Series F with "thank you for reaching out! I appreciate all networking requests. Let's revisit this in the future as now is not the best time for me to consider new ventures."
I've had the same experience installing the KDE Plasma spin of Fedora, minus the girlfriend.
Amazon Web Services makes it harder to leave your cloud storage buckets unlocked
Argentina Submarine: ARA San Juan Found
I don't think there is a qualitative difference between what's going on in a human brain and a self driving car.
FYI it takes 5.16 seconds to download the 5 megabytes of vendor JavaScript needed to view your landing page from a cold cache (and 2 for your app itself), not to mention the 6 seemingly needless Firebase API calls or the fact you're running the development version of the Firebase SDK.

No matter how awesome you think whatever framework is, this is a terrible, terrible experience.
A fake criminal organization. But yeah, definitely not in the spirit of the law, even though it could be technically legal.
The format optimizes for dynamic range over precision.
Boy, bye.
Then the question becomes, should all application developers become kernel developers/debuggers? Wouldn't that impose a significant barrier to adoption?
Ubuntu 18.04 will get a 10-year support lifespan
Yeah, that's not really useful though: "if magic, then problem solved" is pretty much the definition of handwaving.
Bought noise cancelling headphones so I can avoid all the fricking Christmas music at Big Box stores . . . .
Which makes no sense, because there are distributions that have packages. In other words, it's not what I'd call a massive effort - it's already been done.
At a pH of ~8, the majority of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) exists as bicarbonate. Inorganic removal of a mole of HCO3- from surface seawater via precipitation of CaCO3 yields a mole of CO2 back to the atmosphere. Easier to fix CO2 via the classic silicate weathering reaction, which grabs 2 moles of CO2 per mole of silicate weathered (using CaSiO3 as a trivial example). This is the essential feedback from continental weathering: the Earth's thermostat.
The main limit in EU countries is the road space. There's very few areas designed to take as many cars as the US.
There's an existing standardized 16-bit float with 10 bits mantissa¹, that graphics people are fond of. This one is for machine learning [drink].

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_...
Probably, but that wasn't my point at all. Yes, it's unlikely that something like tobacco or cotton tariffs would have escalated to war, but they _could_ have. As with anything in history it's helpful to have a broader picture and not simply focus on one aspect.

Eliminating the states' rights aspect entirely leaves you without valuable context when you're looking at modern day political debates and makes it easier to view the entire thing from an absolutist standpoint that simply demonizes the south - everyone in the south was evil because they did this thing that was wrong, but that would clearly never happen to _us_.
My view is that he is simply promoting himself. Any press is good press.

Agent will say, you're slipping, you have to do something to get in the papers.

His wife Kim Kardashian is self promotion and little else.
The picture is somewhat misleading, as you can only see the 4 connectors in the front. The other 5 are out of view. https://www.stemmer-imaging.com/media/cache/gallery_preview_...
Occam’s razor says he just admires Donald Trump.
provided you believe this Theory in the post, then anything that happened since June would just be a continuation and not out of character.
Probably (hopefully) no more than having a standard library forces you to be a "standard library debugger". That is to say, a little bit, but you can easily ignore the parts you don't care about.
Build a GraphQL API on Alibaba Function Compute and API Gateway
Is FDA ‘Shadow Ban’ Causing Kratom Shortages?
The point is, normal users will rarely/never need an application not in the repos. And installing something from a repo is simpler than installing something on Windows.