skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides debugging, I don't know that I've ever used the arguments parameter to do anything useful. I've leaned on underscore/lodash/ramda when doing anything involving clever involving partial application, shuffling arguments, etc. As I mentioned, though, I like/d `arguments` (I don't write much JS these days) because it gives you lots of debugging information with a simple call to `console.log(arguments);` -- made even simpler courtesy of a Vim abbreviation (`autocmd FileType javascript iabbrev adebugger console.log(arguments)`).
This is discussed in this headline article on carbon capture developments on the BBC today. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47638586
AWS Outposts, Snowball: Precursors of AWS Region-as-a-Service?
Not supposed to do this, but I'll spend those upvotes: lol.
Sort of. All flights in U.S. territory, and by U.S. airlines anywhere in the world, are banned. Non-passenger flights can be authorized but they require either a Special Flight Permit (a specific process for authorizing ferry flights of any non-airworthy aircraft) or an Experimental Airworthiness Certificate (which you may know of from homebuilts, but in this case it's for testing design changes).[1]

1. https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/Emergency_Order.pdf
Then nobody cares if you support or defend the Second Amendment in terms of your being a "true american" or whatever.
>greenwashed

lol? so you consider using your own bags instead of plastic bags greenwashing?

and as to that list, i don't think this strawman needs attention. The issue we are talking about here is using plastic bags, if you want to start a different discussion on these things, feel free to dm me.
To point that while the threat that they'll hold you might not be real, they can still fuck you over in some ways...
It just depends on the cost of a mistake, you don't need people trained at that level for web dev. I can do data science coding, but I wouldn't trust myself to write
Anything where failure could kill someone.
The body of `Crypto_Symmetric_AES_multiply` is unambiguous to you?
Former Mozilla CTO was detained at US border and threatened with false charges
That's actually an interesting point, they may have to stop offering any corporate partnerships over this refusal to some customers. Bear in mind that this is a service they provide, even though Wall Street execs can still independently purchase vests they are being deprived of a portion of their service due to their past actions. Additionally this derivates from the baker a bit because the couple involved was a natural person rather than a corporation, this may actually cause a legal distinction.

I doubt Wall Street would push the point because they'd be flayed in the court of public opinion though.
Gmail is likely there to stay. Nevertheless you should always use your own domain (is this still possible for free with Gmail?). I made the move and left Gmail for most things, except an Android account. Missing the most: Decent search

What is bad about Webmail in general: Webmail is not email. Public Wifi Spots, even Internet providers are more and more blocking ports.
>You don't think Linus should reflect on his behavior from time to time and maybe change it if he no longer feels that it's a good idea for him personally or professionally?

He should, only if he is truly care about that.
There is a rather odd overlap between people who advocate for data ownership and people who dislike intellectual property enforcement.
> If you are seeing toxic content in your feed, it's because your friends put it there.

Not really. Facebook put it there for me. Time and again it shows me items like "[Friend] replied to a comment on [toxic thing]", where the thing gets a prominent preview etc. I haven't seen a real update from [Friend] in my feed for months, yet there are plenty when I visit their profile. Even if the friend is fighting the good fight and has commented to correct some misconceptions, it's clear that this particular action was selected for my feed because it's related to a controversial item.
Ask HN: Rails in 2019?
I've finally started learning to code, but it's about 10 years later than I wanted to (life gets in the way sometimes). When I first started learning I loved the ruby community and rails with it. But Whenever I talk to colleagues or other students about thinking I want to learn it I'm only met with blank stares or confusion about why I would want to ("why not node?" they say). I try to explain that I still think it's used a lot, that I liked the community or what I remember of it and that it's great for making things quickly (especially proof of concepts). I don't think I was very convincing though because I don't really know enough yet.

So I guess my question is, is it worth learning still? I have a curiosity toward it but I don't want to learn an outdated stack. Also what would be similar, what communities feel like ruby did in 2011? Any resources to learn that are good today? I'm open to possibilities here.

Thanks all.
It's still just one definition: A paper map relates a point on a the piece of paper to a point in some other space (topography, subway stops, interstate routes, etc). And if you relax the "carto" part of "cartography" (e.g. someone working on OSM or Google Maps is still doing cartography), then I think cartography as "the practice of constructing maps" is still an unambiguous and non-overloaded meaning, which applies to mapping infrastructure just as well.

But, words are just words.
While I like a lot of the ideas described on the website, I don’t like how they’re written in the present tense and like Cone can currently do all these things when in fact they’re just aspirations and aren’t even designed in detail. I had to go to a file in the Github to figure out what actually exists.

I support your quest but actually implementing the language is the hard part. Languages like Rust don’t even mention features on their websites even when they have working implementations that just aren’t stable yet, it would be nice if Cone’s gave a clear picture of what exists and what’s an aspiration.
The really interesting stats will come when the affordable (Standard Range) Model 3 will be available in Europe in a few months. I'm sure a lot of people in Norway are waiting for it.
"That's impossible!", say a whole lot of people who prefer their beliefs to measurable, objective reality.
I never see intermittency addressed sufficiently. Early this year, I noted the US was almost entirely covered with clouds for a week. Will these renewables really have enough battery (or other) storage capacity for prolonged solar/wind insufficiency? There's a lot of "well, with enough batteries or smart grids..." but not enough even back-of-napkin calculations for what such cases would require, likely cost, and consequences of outlier environmental happenings.

It's easy/cheap to pile up coal, or fill giant buckets with oil, but batteries are expensive .
Haven't read this article yet - but I studied the picture at the top of the link carefully.

Not only was Bolt a mile ahead of his competitors and not only did he turn to face the crowd as he was crossing the finish line... Usain Bolt's shoelace was untied...
"the average user doesn't want to be empowered when it comes to data harvesting"

I think this is an extremely presumptuous statement that writes off how little empowerement the average user has by conflating the ignorance about data privacy and ownership, and the lack of user friendly options they have around understanding their data and how it can be owned/migrated and who has access to what, with carelessness or otherwise now in tech known as "consent" or "accept and agree with the fineprint or don't use this platform required for work, modern day life, etc" or "allow this app that is in no way shape or form related to pictures, social networks or social communication access to your pictures, phonecalls, all stored data on your phone and access to your contact otherwise don't download"

I think the news shows it's pretty clear most people are not happy about how companies like facebook and others are using it, now that they know. They have not known for a while, and furthermore what alternatives do they have?

This idea is very similar to telling a person because they never knew this was being done to them, and that because also in addition they have no other options currently if they do know about it, that this equates to consent or carelessness/lack of wanting to be empowered. This is just false, and furthermore, a dangerous trajectory of thought to apply to any situation.
Strategy discussion aside, a 4% risk of ruin is not “low” by any means. A sophisticated investor would never accept.
The Sokal Affair
Which single entity can be trusted? None beyond the US federal government exists today, and they don't want to do the job.

I suppose in theory all of the industry players could get together and establish a joint venture or nonprofit company specifically for the purpose of creating and maintaining an accurate database of provider contact information. But that seems a lot more complex.
A lot of comic strips are a product of their time, as they are a commentary on current events. Some are more timeless than others, but I've found that many things that were funny at the time I saw them just aren't now. Or, they are only entertaining because I lived through the events they refer to.

A good example is going back to old SNL episodes, or Tonight Show monologues. Stuff that I remember laughing about back in the day, feels like when someone tells you a joke that you don't get, then explains the context. You then "get" the joke, but it isn't as funny.
There are more that did and stopped than do. And to your own point of the ones that do, the vast majority do so via intermediary like bitpay because they dont want BTC they just want money. The trajectory of acceptance has a negative slope. Even Overstock doesn't accept BTC on mobile according to their help page.

Further, since you've got to foot the transaction fee (~$1.50) instead of the merchant and the merchant has already padded their prices for a 3% credit card fee, you're getting royally screwed. I pay with my 2% cash back credit card, get all sorts of warranties and protections, and you pay 3% + $1.50 and get nothing but losing your ability to file your taxes with TurboTax because they dont support crypto on Form 8949.
General rule is at least 1/1000th of viewers are buyers. A youtube videos with hundreds of thousands of views have sold hundreds bikinis.

And as a general rule, each bikini sold nets the affiliate about 10¢. So with 100,000 views, that's ten bucks.

After deducting standard business expenses, travel, food, etc... (since "influencers" almost always have to pay their own way), you make about -$4,000 per trip.

I think this explains why so many "influencers" are riding on their parents' money.
Define industrial heating?

Low grade heat can be got from heat pumps. It can be topped up to a higher temperature with resistive heating.

You can also lower demand for heat with heat exchangers, insulation and such.

So a chemical process that required 50c would be fairly easy to do. Smelting metals gets harder.
They weren't doing nothing. They've been working on a software fix since the Lion Air crash, but it wasn't ready by the time of the Ethiopian crash. The plan was to update some checklists as a stopgap and get new software ASAP. Obviously in hindsight they should have grounded the fleet until the new software was ready. At the time that would have been a very difficult decision to make internally at Boeing, given that the 737MAX has $250 Billion worth of orders, and arguably at the time, the updated checklists made a crash unlikely. This is the situation where an independent regulatory body is most important. The commercial pressure to keep flying was almost irresistable, and you need someone without those commercial pressures to put the brakes on.
Tools for Working on the Cloud
It probably also helps that they allow people to load at both the front and back of the bus, and they check tickets while the bus is in motion. Buses in the US generally have people load one at a time through the front door and everyone's ticket has to be checked or (even worse) they have to feed dollar bills through the machine. This greatly increases per-person load times, and exacerbates the bunching effect.
For new builds, I think we're beginning to see accelerating encroachment of renewable + storage on the low capacity factor natural gas plants. For short timeframes it looks like the existing cost reduction curves for PV, wind, and Lithium storage seem likely to grow to completely knock out the competition for hours to days level of intermittent supply.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/record-low-sola...

For longer time periods, and comparisons vs existing plants, I agree that the economic changeover point will be less clear except that turbine tech is basically on the matured portion of a manufacturing S-curve, while PV, wind, storage are riding the downslope.
That's good for now. I live in WI and the blowback is rising. I'm guessing one reason for that is because of the low population density there. Once they start creeping into more dense areas, or less dense but more ecologically sensitive areas, it could get interesting.

Also MN is a pretty blue state. I seem to remember that as soon as you crossed the red SD line, the forest vanished. Maybe that will change, but it's definitely a potential headwind.
Not everyone has ability to figure things out on their own.

Why do you see people as possessing equal problem solving abilities and resources?

What will society benefit the most from? Teaching the people at bottom and bringing them to average or teaching the top ones and moving them to edge?
Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)

That virus was running around the internet for years; kept alive by the "most secure operating system ever".

In the immortal words of the virus: "billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!"
I'm not but Zuck isn't winning any popularity contests in congress or among the general public these days. Odd time for him to publish this piece IMO.
This is absolutely brilliantly cool!
> No idea why the FAA allowed them to do this.

Because Boeing essentially is the FAA.

> The FAA, citing lack of funding and resources, has over the years delegated increasing authority to Boeing to take on more of the work of certifying the safety of its own airplanes.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
By that standard you could claim that the Honda Civic has no competitors because no other vehicle has its particular combination of features.
FDA proposes new fluoride standard, but some say too high
...don't use a bag? i can't see an alternative for things like snap peas, where the item count is very high and the items are small, but tomatoes don't need to be put into a bag.

and if you're worried about the germs it gets when put on the belt or when the cashier handles it or in your cart...well trigger warning: your food travels from a farm to the grocery store and is handled by at least 10 people before it gets put on the shelf.
Hmmm, you assume everyone understands that fn means function and that a void function is the same as a procedure. Everybody and their grandma can read Pascal and Ada, but abbreviated keywords and magical symbol require foreknowledge. And the more abbreviated, the more you will have to continuously look up things in the reference manual until they get cemented.

> Not if you support variant types and the like.

Not sure what you mean here - discriminant unions? classes?
Only for fields where a not null constraint makes sense of course. But NULL represents the absence of a value - which is very often a valid choice in a database.
I'd be interested how well electric cars faired in Norway as I would expect the colder months would impact the battery performance (reduce range). Which makes me wonder if manufacturers do any country adaptations for the local climate.
Not at all; they'd be responsible for bundling that data in a well-defined format into a blob of some kind that the user can request be exfiltrated (after providing their credentials to authenticate the request). The third-party would then have to digest said blob. Users assume trust of the third-party regarding responsibility for data misuse when they feed the third-party the blob (same as if they'd hand-entered the data via a regular GUI). Google already offers a functional model of this via https://takeout.google.com

Putting control in the hands of the user is quite different from allowing third parties to exfiltrate data on a user without their consent.

(It is worth noting that this approach is still exploitable---third party convinces users to cough up their authentication codes, then acts as the user and makes the request for the whole kingdom themselves. But user education on the amount of power handed to someone when you literally give them your passwords is a separate issue).
I was thinking about this very problem the other day and I think it actually may be the best reason why residential storage batteries (as opposed to grid-scale) make sense. It might be easier to keep your transmission system and then trickle charge a whole bunch of small batteries to power end uses.
Curiously the duel died out. There is a field in Gloucestershire where the last UK duel was held and it was a very long time go. I don't think the law was the reason for the demise of 'the duel', I also wonder if it loomed larger in literature than in life.

Although a 'bit silly' I think there is also something to be said for 'the duel'. Participants have 'skin in the game'. Plus there is conduct and rules that you don't get in a street gang fight.

If I was a rich man I would like an antique set of duelling pistols, matched and in their antique case, there as 'art'.
Deep Neural Networks Improve Radiologists' Performance in Breast Cancer Scan
No. The most toxic content is often comments, which are shown to me even when I don't want to see them.

If it weren't for comments from non-friends, Facebook would have no toxic content for me at all.
>Keep in mind that "FOSS development model" does not equal "bazaar-style" development. Case in point: the BSDs follow a more cathedral-style development model.*

I think it does (equal "bazaar-style" development).

Else it's not a product with a "FOSS development model", but merely a product with a "FOSS license".

But he talks of "FOSS development model" (as opposed to "FOSS license" or "FOSS business model").

>Reusing my previous example, BSDs are shipped as operating systems, not a kernel and a hodge podge of packages.

For their core (kernel + userland) yes. But on top they are still as much "a hodge podge of packages", with uncoordinated development and releases as Linux (e.g. the desktop environments, applications, window managers, compilers, app servers, etc -- it's just the kernel and basic UNIX userland that's coherent in BSDs).
You can’t see the big button that says restart required? I’m confused. Don’t people complain that Windows updates nags too often that it needs a restart? I feel like Windows updates have just become a boogeyman for some people, I don’t get the hate.
> The biggest users of electricity are things with motors or heaters

I'd guess it's something industrial. Chemicals, in particular, are energy-intensive processes.
I think he was referring to Plex being non-free
Also, keep in mind the extremely high salaries in Norway. Italy or Greece could decide to offer the same tax benefits, but still very few people would be able to afford a Tesla.
Can you elaborate on Webmail? any email service opened via browser is - Webmail ?
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On a team, I would prefer the former over the latter.

As a single contributor that's trying to hack together an idea, the second option is not so bad; however, it will probably need to be changed far off in the future.

I think named block parameters are cool in the sense that they enable some expressiveness but bad in the sense that they lose some readability. I won't know how I truly feel until I have to maintain/read a large codebase where they are used.
Storage at nation-state levels is largely solved by pump-storage hydro[1]. Yes, its expensive, especially if you lack natural reservoirs to convert into pump basins, but the economics of it are well known, the technology is mature, and implementations already exist. The real barrier is the chicken and egg problem that until there is urgent need for such storage it won't be built and building it will be time consuming and centralized-cost expensive to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Nash said "the same way", not the "the same voice":

“the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.” - Sylvia Nasar, "A Beautiful Mind"
You can't plead guilty to (what sounds like) a trafficking charge and then claim to be innocent and expect to be freely admitted to other countries. Canada has no way of knowing you're innocent so your logic is that they should just let you in anyways? I think countries have very good reasons to keep people with drug convictions from entering regardless of whether or not you believe drugs should be decriminalized or legal.
For the US, at least, land efficiency is not a huge deal since the places with greatest solar intensities are largely also the areas with the fewest other uses (i.e. desert).

For most other countries it's a much harder problem. Northern africa may be fairly close geographically to Europe, but the political climate is such that Europe probably won't want to rely on power coming from Africa.

What seems to make the most sense currently as far as solar goes for places that don't have cheap sunny land is distributed PV plus large scale concentrated solar. CSP is about twice the power density of traditional PV in terms of land use, but typically requires a much higher capex.

If battery storage continues to improve at the rate it has for the past 10 years, the storage problem will solve itself fairly quickly, though the economics are hard to figure: if NG becomes used only for peaking, then the price of NG will probably drop substantially making the target for battery pricing much lower than todays costs of NG generation. If NG keeps being used for heating (which seems likely in the near-to-medium term in the US), then that will help to keep the costs of NG up.
Ask HN: Is Short Sellers' Borrowing Interest (Against Stock) Public Information?
If it's not, how are some companies getting the data, and how accurate is that data, if it's not public information?

Context: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/hedge-funds-are-loading-up-to-bet-against-lyft.html

The story says

> Short sellers have borrowed $455 million worth of Lyft shares, or 6.61 million shares, according to IHS Markit.

How does IHS Markit know the total amount (and # of shares) of LYFT borrowed? If this is not public information, then how accurate could that number be?

Asking because Hedge Funds are notoriously secretive, so it's unlikely that they are going out of their way to tell some market data firm like IHS Markit about their short selling strategy, so if the info is not public (EX: submitted to SEC by Law?) how reliable is all this information?

If it is public, then where can I find it?
I disagree, a language is merely a standard defined by reference documentation and sometimes certified by ANSI and the like. The fact that things are documented means thought has been put into the design, but... yea unimplemented things should be labeled