skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is simply not true. Harassment is not the same as calling out harassment. Saying "hey, I have a right to exist and be included, stop your exclusionary actions" is fundamentally different from actions to exclude someone in the first place. It is the difference between "we welcome your contributions if you stop attacking others" and "you're not welcome here, leave."

I'm afraid it is true. "Calling out harassment" as you call it is incredibly vague, and harassment and trolling could easily be framed in those terms. But, even so, they don't even make that distinction. They simply say that you can essentially do no wrong if you make the unverified claim of being a "marginalized person".

Look at these terms:

* ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”
* Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
* Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/107#issuec...

If you are labeled as "oppressive", your trolls get immunity. And who defines what "oppressive" means? Simply expressing gentle disagreement or criticism of a "marginalized persons" pull request can be considered oppressive. Even not sufficiently affirming or validating someone can get you labeled this way.

And trolls DO use this. Trolls absolutely make a game of turning communities against each other. I've seen it happen.

> If you believe that anyone seeks to harass you on the basis of being white.

Gonna have to stop you right there. You don't know anything about my ethnicity, and it does not matter. You need to be able to make a point without falling back on that.

> No one can do it for you. You have to have an open mind, be willing to explore uncomfortable topics, and be willing to come to the conclusion that you've behaved poorly in the past out of ignorance. You know, take the rational approach to one's own ignorance.

These condescending platitudes are not helpful, and say more about you than anyone else.
I bought a house in CA a few years ago and had to assume the previous owner’s SunRun lease. I didn’t really want to but even if it ends up costing me slightly more in the long term (for now it’s unclear) it’s very minor in the land of $1.5 million housing. This article seems to be making a huge deal over a minor $30/month cost.
Oh, good point! I will tell my coworkers that are in that situation.
Fume events are usually described as smelling like dirty socks or a wet dog. There was a fume event a few years ago that ended up going very badly for one of the pilots:

http://avherald.com/h?article=4b6eb830&opt=1024

The fuel smell at the beginning of the flight might just be happening because the engines and/or APU are ingesting the exhaust of the aircraft in front of you while on the taxiway, and some of that exhaust smell ends up in the bleed air that eventually enters the cabin.
The old seems to be new again. Advancements in hardware are dusting off the ANN genre, making it shiny and bright, and sparking reinventions an order of magnitude greater than the previous revolution circa the 80's.

https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/3901/umi-umd-...
Open source commission-free trading app
We built Alpaca Dashboard to be an extremely minimal skeleton app for hackers to change things around by adding features and refining the designs so that s/he can build his/her own commission-free trading app. The app connects to the API-first commission-free stock brokerage, Alpaca.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/alpaca-dashboard
I think that it's not new that the "Pythagoras Theorem" was not discovered by Pythagoras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#History

The interesting part of this work is that they could interpret this table after a long time, and they discovered it is a "trigonometrical table". It's more a list of Pythagorean triplets (i.e. solution), ordered by angle. It's not a table of the sin and cos for each angle.

Also, the claim that base 60 makes it more precise than base 10 is an exaggeration.
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I suppose the answer, like all db answers are..it depends :)

My take on it is if the structure of "c" isn't likely to vary wildly over different entries and you have use cases that need queries like:

get rows where c.ca == x and/or c.<some other field> == x

...and either the frequency or table size makes it unfeasible to scan through all entries, I'd opt for using a relational storage solution and chuck "c" into its own table with a foreign key entry in the original data structure.

Otherwise a non-relational structure could suite it better, in which case you can still use Postgres or SQLServer or any other relational DBMS that supports json. I'd make the deciding factor in that case more about what do I forsee myself using for other use cases, e.g. if I'm already using a RDBMS for other models in the same app then just keep using it, but if not and all my data are arbitrary blobs of JSON then use any ol document store ¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯
> One thing that always bothered me about the field was that the whole premise behind using logic as the basis for AI seemed to me to be obviously flawed because neither the inputs to nor the outputs from my brain were logical propositions

Well, calculus is a bunch of logic propositions and it explains physics pretty well. So clearly some good things can be achieved by formal logic alone.

Decision trees are very much "logic" and they work pretty well.

Logic-based AI is pretty cool and would be great for fixing a lot of current problems in software engineering. Too bad it's mostly abandoned.
Which is likely a deliberate editing choice. Billy was paid to do the interview and then the director showed all that awkwardness to illustrate the depth of the grift.
I noticed GraphQL is spelled GRapqHL in the article.
Depending on price I would be interested in an English version. I run a professional services firm in Shanghai assisting young people by creating English resumes, LinkedIn Profiles and interview coaching. Also corporate workshops on similar topics. Always looking to educate myself better on Wechat universe (marketing, promotion, serving existing clients). Thank you!
Because I do not consent to pay you in exchange for nothing.
In this case, `lsof` is a relatively lightweight parser for /proc. The /proc filesystem API is amazingly stable. The unstable ABI is internal to the kernel itself; the interaction with userspace is where backwards compat is held as the highest guiding principle (see Linus's remarks about breaking userspace).

By contrast, lsof can change output at any time. I've not done enough parsing of lsof to be familar with past changes, but have seen meaningful changes in the default output of lsblk, df, and other core CLI tools that wrap system information.
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To each their own, but I appreciated the cultural knowledge of the Jains, a group I wasn't familiar with before this, and it dovetails with the topic quite well.
> Chernobyl and Fukushima represses pretty much the worst case...

No, they do not. Each of these could have been much worse.

And yet, even now people are still trying to piece together the scope of the damage that was done. These accidents were already incalculable in the harm they've done.
> Up front means no one is responsible for maintenance except you.

Ok? That is standard practice when you own a home. You are responsible for all the maintenance on your home. What is scary about solar panel maintenance? I assume they have to be cleaned every so often. Anything else? Maybe you have an electrician come and retorque the connections once a year? It's not like they have a lot of moving parts assuming it's not doing anything fancy like sun-tracking.
Is Wellington home to a new biodiversity hotspot?
I think Apple’s skill is to see innovation and find the right moment when it can be packaged into a very good package. They did that with the Mac and with the iPhone. All compenents were there but nobody had packaged them as well as Apple.
Right, it is not a bijection.

Expert -> (implies) 10,000 hours spent

10,000 hours spent does not imply Expert
> These texts are read as literal truth by the people where I live (rural Texas) and used to justify some pretty heinous things.

As a European who is pretty naive on this issue, I am slowly realizing how controversial my original post was as I am reading the responses here. I now regret writing it.
Ask HN: Standardized Colorblind Safe Colors for Error, Warning, OK Conditions?
I've seen several tools to view your web site using various colorblind filters. However, I was wondering if there are standard colors that can be used for Critical (Red), warning (Yellow), and OK (Green) conditions? For example I believe that many stop lights have a slightly bluish shade of green, and a red that isn't quite red.
- definition #3: "talent" is an inherent property of ability and maximum potential. "born with it", "gifted", "a natural" etc. That determines how much effort it takes to learn a skill for #1 and your maximum possible rank / whether you should bother trying in #2.

I don't like this definition, but it is definitely one of them. If it is accurate I think it is in the fact that training / practice from a young age can give an edge that is difficult to overcome later in life. But this would only apply to the top of the top.

In sports even physical attributes can determine peak talent.
Right - how do you document some subgroup without one one trying to make it into a generalizable truth about something.
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It's fairly common for the troll to then start a meta-argument about the code of conduct, or, to accuse others of violating the code of conduct. Eventually the notion of "don't be an asshole" tends to win the argument, but it can take a while.
For SQL optimization, learn to use window functions and/or Common Table Expressions if available in your variant of SQL. For joins, others have mentioned EXPLAIN: you can use that command to see the "query plan" for any query, which is sort of the equivalent of assembly code. You should learn which of your SQL variant's "join algorithms" at the query plan level are the most performant, and aim to use those types of joins in your queries.
Do not argue that Usain Bolt’s success is the result of genes unless you can cite specifically which genes and which configurations of those genes might be responsible. The genome has been sequenced, so you should have a reasonable starting point.

Come on, I’m waiting...

Does he have better collagen? Better distribution of hyaluronic acid in his joints? Or maybe it’s mitochondrial DNA? Huh?

No? So you invoke words like “genes” and “gifted” and “talent” but you have absolutely no idea what, specifically, that might mean.

Show me, or take your thinly-disguised eugenics and shove it where the light don’t shine.
And the huge issue is that if it's a back-heavy payment scheme: A future buyer will only see the heavier portion. Which makes your house less attractive to a buyer, and devalues your home, which also hurts any potential cost savings.
What about chrome, firefox, vlc, qbittorrent, gvim, abiword, maya, sublime, sumatra pdf, obs ...
Not particularly. They're all in fixed known orbits so each satellite would know at any given time where all the other satellites in it's constellation will be so it can know what satellites will have the best signal between it and the downlink. With that all you really need is for the phones to ping the satellites every couple minutes while on to update the what satellites are over head of phone X. (You could even be clever and cheat a little by figuring out the rough coordinates of each handset and then figure out roughly what satellites would be near overhead too since handsets generally don't move very quickly.)
Eddie from the DigitalOcean DevRel team here. Over the moon to get this in everyone's hands. Here to answer what I can.
You are talking about the definition of harassment so lets explore that with a few examples:

Is it harassment to treat someone badly because they voted for the wrong political party?

Is it harassment to treat someone badly because they voiced a political opinion with someone else?

Is it harassment to treat someone badly because something they did in private with someone else?

Is it harassment to treat someone badly because they have membership in an other group?

Those are some of the issues that people have with code of conducts.
After reading this thread yesterday, I had a nightmare in which I called 911 but was required to answer an endless stream of personal verification questions, never able to report the problem.
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It’s always seemed so obvious to me: electronics depreciate at a rapid rate, solar panels are electronics, do not finance electronics over 20 years and think it’s going to work.

For a 20 year lease, do you really want to be using a 19 year old system stuck on your roof ? Big clunky, weathered with spiderwebs. What does that look like?
Why don't you read the Wikipedia notability guidelines, or look at the history of the 13 year old page you just linked and find out?
Undirected innovation can aid the business if the business follows the innovation, rather than expecting the innovation to follow the business.
I have noticed this too. I've switched to DuckDuckGo for everything and I haven't changed my habits. Started getting more captchas a couple weeks ago and I know I answered several of them correctly (I'd get tested 3 times in a row).

Possible fingerprinting?
>Well, calculus is a bunch of logic propositions and it explains physics pretty well. So clearly some good things can be achieved by formal logic alone.

The idea to use logical rules to infer things about nature was arrived at through the non-logical "gestures and senses" methods that the parent was talking about. If all you had was logic you'd have no way to choose your axioms, or even your rules of inference. The axioms and rules of inference were, ultimately, selected from the vast sea of alternative options based on our observations, which rest on our senses.
I have rescinded the GPL from a number of people
This is actually some of the best news I could have received. I’m a recovering NoSQL user who’s currently working on an app that I hope to eventually grow to scale... I just don’t have experience managing clusters manually, so I’d honestly be more than willing to pay for auto-management.
Your class was correct (I just had to go through this very scenario this week, albeit not for solar, with a local title company transferring some property).

Never take action that is going to jeopardize free and clear title on your real estate.
It's unclear what point you're trying to make here and whether you understood my story. I have already read Frankl, but thank you for the suggestion anyway. Everyone should read it.
I will recommend the book "How to lie with statistics." Problem solving starts with understanding what's important. This book goes into the ways that people routinely use numbers to mislead, whether intentionally or not, and how to suss out what actually matters.
>I just don't understand where the tax money is going in the USA at both federal and state levels.

You can find it online with a simple Google search. Pensions, medicare and social security are the bulk of the spending.
"...or to prepay the lease and leave the hardware on the roof for the next owner to use. I’ve been kicking myself ever since I learned about this latter option. It would have saved the estate around $12,000 and allowed us to support solar and get “free” electricity, even as Sunrun remained responsible for maintenance and repairs."

Wouldn't the author have been able to take the price of buying out the lease off their taxes?
At least Illinois sends its corrupt governors to jail.

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-blogs/long-list-of-illinois-...

Since moving to Alabama, I learned that the county sheriffs get an "allowance" for feeding prisoners in their jails, with little accounting. It should come as no surprise that they buy the cheapest food they can find, without regard to nutrition or foodborne illnesses, and pocket the rest for their private beach-house fund.
Not the derail the topic too much, but was that film great? It looked like an incredible piece of work and a beautiful use of technology.
Except that the frequency of those flights matters on shorthauls.

Delta/AA/B6/UA fly virtually hourly shuttle flights from NYC to BOS, DC, ORD, LAX because business travellers want choice of departure and arrival - not because they don't have bigger planes.

Taking 10 daily flights and turning it into 5 isn't optimal from a passenger perspective on business routes where it means I have 2 hours to kill because my meeting is timed wrong.

It also means if my meeting ends early, I have a chance on hopping on an earlier flight.
Reading the article, the problem is that they used one of those companies with annoying business models to finance the solar panels somehow and you get some, but not all, of the benefits. People in the community I live in are pushing those models pretty hard.

Running the numbers, if you are privileged enough to have the money to just buy the damn panels and get them installed outright, you're way, way better off. I don't know if there's still good tax credits, but when I looked, they got you a good chunk of change right there. After that, solar panels pay for themselves in a pretty short amount of time if your electricity usage is high enough to take full advantage of them (eg: if you have a central hvac system or something), or have someone who will buy the surplus from you.

In my building, our power usage is way higher than we can get even if we covered the entire roof with panels, so it's pretty easy: put panels, reduce electricity cost, make up the money in a couple of years, don't deal with any third party aside for the installation.
The author is an MS student in statistics. Seems that Unix is well-represented in STEM university fields.

Old-timey Unix (as opposed to things like Plan 9) won. When does widespread ’70s/’80s computing stop being impressive? You say “unknown” as if we were talking about some research software, or some old and largely forgotten software. Unix shell programming doesn’t have hipster cred.
All the Small Things (learning coding by doing some operations automation tasks)
The essence of this is that humans aren't blank slates. We have 500 million years of ancestors helping us tune our functioning in a world that contains large moving self willed discrete lifeforms that are pertinent to our survival.
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Is there any indication the only chemical they were exposed to was Glyphosate (which seems unlikely)?
Thanks for the feedback. I agree with the site.

I am not so sure about the less whitespace on the application. There is an "accordion" feature at those lists you saw that - I believe - fit well with taller rows. A lot of space to click is good. But maybe cutting 2px might help indeed
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This looks pretty sweet.

With that said, I seriously think they're missing an opportunity by not offering GPUs. If DO offered a product similar to PaperSpace, basically a dead-simple GPU to connect to your notebook, I don't think small teams would need to look anywhere else for their cloud computing needs.
macOS, with its BSD roots, doesn't have a proc filesystem.
1. (Edit: In most cases) Never pay for premium PV panels. The 10-20% premium only nets you an additional 1-2% in generation output.

2. Always get at least three quotes, using energysage: https://www.energysage.com

3. As a residential customer, never sign a PPA. Either pay cash or get a loan

4. Tesla solar customer service is wildly inconsistent. Even as a Tesla investor, I do not recommend them for solar.

Sorry for your poor Solar City experience.
And, for anyone who has experience with Satellite 6.0/6.1... it has gotten much, much, much better since then.
Are the SSDs on these located in the servers that the DBs run on, or do they live on a separate SAN?

I ask, as at a previous job, we used to run our Postgres DBs on raw Droplets, and we'd get awesome performance on disk bandwidth (which we really needed), so much so that if we'd have moved to AWS we'd have had to pay very significant $$$ for provisioned IOPS to get the same bandwidth.

It'd be awesome if that same performance/price ratio was available with these new managed DBs.
Not quite sure but Quora suggests

>[slow]...This is because the entire database was locked every time someone viewed the page because it contained updates/inserts.

So avoid loads of inserts I guess https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54998/how-scalable-is-sq...
I really love seeing what DO is doing.

We use a lot of providers, and seeing DO making this available while immediately making the API available is really impressive.

A company that thinks about API first when enabling a new service (like Amazon) enables real developers.

In comparison, we use CircleCI and often you wait for months for features to be available through the API.
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Singapore is in many ways the anti-America: it's a tiny low-freedom centrally planned one-party state. It earns a good deal of its money from transhipment and being a commercial hub. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32028693

Russia is a petro-state run by the Mafia.
Take that $30, stick it in a savings or investment. When solar prices go down, or utility prices go up, take the money you've saved up and then put it towards the purchase.

There's no point in throwing away money on a losing proposition, since in this case the homeowner wouldn't be the one to get the credit. As an additional bonus, your home will have newer, more efficient panels with a longer remaining estimated lifetime, so if you do end selling the house they'll add more value.

A solar install in a reasonably sunny climate can pay for itself over its lifespan, but you need to actually stay there the whole time, or hope that the added value to your house makes up for whatever your investment was.
To go on about sports, hasn't there been some research done about slow twitch and fast twitch muscles and their importance for being a fast sprinter? I think Usain Bolt has a much higher number of fast-twitch muscle cells than normal. That could be called talent.
Next time I'm building out observability again I will definitely do that :)
I take it they found the advice incomprehensible, not the article itself. Like when someone says "always use the right tool for the job" but consistently fails to say what tool is right for what job and what makes it so. It's hedging so severe that you may as well say "I have no opinion."
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Two out of the three of those are deferred compensation and linked to earlier wage deductions.
We'll introduce graphql to backend cloud feature and that will be our business.
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> We did not vote in the EU commisioners who are the only ones who can initiate legislation, nor can we vote to get rid of them.

And that is fine, because bad laws, in theory, can be stopped by those who we did vote for.

The unfortunately scenario when both groups are mainly from the same interest groups, which very much looks like the case now; these two groups - commissioners vs MEPs - should always be opposition to eachother for this to work.
Where’s the HN crowd demanding to know why JP Morgan didn’t just use git?
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