skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone sees wild berries growing next to the road and takes some, are they stealing? Perhaps technically yes, but not rising to a level where invoking the concept is worthwhile. If enough people do this that it bothers the owner so they put up a sign, only then does that paradigm start to matter.

We're in this small-scale realm when talking about access_logs and friends' lunch routes. For the hotdog vendor scenario, we've developed informal social ways of dealing with this that don't revolve around fundamentalist-style ownership and access control. "Hey, I just saw your friend! He was headed to the park" vs "That other guy is always inviting himself to lunch with me and I really just want to read, so if he comes asking can you pretend I wasn't here" (which is only necessary if the "friend" hasn't responded to the first round of social hints to stop inviting himself to your lunch).

But the small scale is not what we're talking about! In the berries analogy, what Google et al are doing is each sending around a crew at night to harvest a few "free" berries from each bush. Many bush owners put up signs (Do not track), but the companies keep right on harvesting under a theory that they're just doing the same thing as a hungry person taking berries for personal consumption.

But the total revenue and business model of the companies paint a much different picture. And that's what we're dealing with here - something that on a small scale appears worthless, but in aggregate is quite valuable. In fact, that's basically just the fundamental thesis of "big data". Myopically focusing on each individual fact in isolation is simply not an appropriate way to analyze society-level surveillance.
In addition to the other replies to you, my understanding- low prices come from a glut, simple as that. If the wind is blowing strongly at night, or the sun is shining especially brightly, there can be an excess of power, so much that there isn't enough demand to remove that power from the grid (which would damage it).

Fossil fuels have input costs, but wind & solar have zero or nearly zero operating cost, and shutting them down incurs cost. So while fossil fuel is hurting, they are happy to sell power for $0 for a few hours if that's what it takes to get someone to take it off their hands.

IMO it basically looks like what you'd expect to see in a market in need of storage operations to perform arbitrage & smooth the price curve.
Short of spending a million dollars right then and there, you can use historical market data. Or datasets provided by the person you're trying to prove it to. Keep in mind that after a certain volume, your model would start influencing the market itself.
While I did take upper level math courses in Uni, this is still beyond me. It does remind me of my PhD work and the approach we took.

The problem, Symbolic Regression, search all math formulas for good solutions.

The space, all math formulas, a graph of trees

The search, like djikstra, but explore from multiple points in parallel

The relation, decomposing / reducing the space by combinatorial factors. For example, a+b=b+a (assoc & community props). Eliminate bad choices over trying to make best choice. Using combinatorics to reduce wasted effort.
I think there's an opportunity to name variables after their invariant.

For example, in the typical sum example, the mutated variable is usually called "sum" or "total". But you could also call it sum_from_0_to_i, and then a reader can immediately see that the result is the full sum because i equals the array length. It's like a proof-by-variable-name.

The same trick tends to work as well with less trivial invariants. You get long variable names, but not horribly so.

You can do the same for the accumulator in a reduce/fold operation. Way too often variables in reduce calls (and other recursive functions) have horrible names, making the entire reduce needlessly hard to understand. Naming the accumulator properly solves this:

Eg

const total = array.reduce(
(totalUptoPrevious, current) => totalUptoPrevious + current,
0
);

So much easier to follow! I've often had to look up, when reading a reduce, which argument is the accumulator in this particular language or library. When you use the invariant for the accumulator name, you fix this entirely.
Started by who? Early pre-iPhone Android prototypes were modeled after the BlackBerry and RIM was preaching the need for keyboards long after the iPhone was introduced. Microsoft was also aiming phones at businesses.
"Silencing people we don’t like will make it easier for others to silence the people we do."

I think this is the entire message of this article, and its one I wholeheartedly agree with too - suppression of speech, be it governmental or by internet mobs is detrimental to a free society.
What are the "amazing benefits" of publishing on Medium?

I've heard Medium authors boast that they got 50 views on a
Medium article and I tell them I've gotten 50,000 views on
a blog post.

Medium is just a bad neighborhood where content marketers who weren't smart enough to make it as content marketers 5 years ago write marketing messages to other content marketers. Real people see the stupid sign-up pop in and hit the back button.
If you're interested in playing around with loop invariants for non-trivial programs, I recommend the Dafny programming language which can automatically verify the invariants using SMT solvers. (Dafny is much more convenient that messing around with operational semantics in Coq.)

There's a tutorial + web interface at: https://rise4fun.com/Dafny/tutorial/Guide. The official repository is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/dafny -- you might want to switch to a local installation once the online tutorial whets your appetite. A good initial challenge, once you've gotten past the baby stuff in the tutorial, is implementing insertion and deletion on a binary search tree with appropriate pre- and post-conditions.
There's no need to "regulate the internet", we only need to regulate social network operators. Regulation should look like this :

* no ban of any user whatsoever
* obligation to provide a public unlimited read only acess to standardized api for all the data
* no private messaging

and let a million better Facebooks emerge. The content policing problem will solve itself
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Very cool demo. Great idea to build on top of VSCode distribution channel/platform, but I'm curious on how you plan on enforcing payment?

edit: Also curious how you'll be implementing "find source" - just doing a string lookup for id/classname/attibutes? Will you be able to handle generated identifiers, e.g. css modules classnames?
Those boards are ~$1000 each. High level tournaments use them, but low level tournaments don't unless some rich person has bought the club a bunch. Most tournaments are low level and are designed not to turn a profit: the entry fees either pay for the room rent, or go to the prize winnings: the more people who enter the more prize money there is.
Kind of hard to make sense of his position:

>I actually think Spielberg would be ok with not allowing Apple, either. Years ago, when iTunes and iPod video started getting films, Spielberg said something like, "I didn't create these movies to be viewed on a tiny screen."

So, in future movies he required a rider on the studio contract that they'd never be released on mobile phone or tablet platforms? He restricted himself to indie movies where he could ensure this artistic purity now that he has unlimited wealth to rest on?
Wikipedia has a decent article:

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

At least this one seems to be commercially viable:

https://www.solarthermalworld.org/content/denmark-52500-m2-a...

And here seem to be some numbers:

https://www.gsenergy.eu/central-solar-heating/

To me these numbers are a bit confusing, though, it seems like they are production and not storage numbers.

Anyway, heat storage capacity goes on third power of the size of the storage size while heat losses go only on second power. So after some point the heat losses are small enough. And as an order of magnitude, storage of tens of GWh seems to be in the commercially viable range. Today, that is.
> This is recommendations working as intended. If all people got was recommendations to what they already watch them they're no chance for new creators to get recommended.

The problem wasn't that I got recommendations for videos that I hadn't watched, it's that I got recommendations for videos on topics that I had shown no interest at all in, and even worse, expressly denied interest in. Maybe after I've told the system that I'm not interested in watching a feminist getting rekt by Jordan Peterson for the tenth time the recommendation system can figure out that I don't care for the topic at all instead of just continuing to recommend Jordan Peterson videos from the seemingly thousands of other channels that post them.
Your post doesn't discuss demand response. How would you refute the claims of someone like Jigar Shah who often states that cheap renewables will not need batteries if flexible demand is implemented, examples being heating and cooling electrification and demand flexibility...if the sun and wind are providing extra, use it to super heat or super cool preemptively before the weather shifts.
How is this any different from a baker deciding what kinds of customers can buy his wedding cakes?

(I think these kinds of corporate decisions are foolish! I will sell to anyone who operates within the laws of my country.)
> Did data ownership ever work like that in the physical world?

Insider trading is a crime in which someone takes an action based on data they had no right to. (Trading on corporate secrets, or data that belongs to the corporation and not the individual profiting.)

If a student finds a copy of the answers to a test, even if the student finds the data in a completely legitimate way, it is considered academically dishonest for the student to take the test after learning this information.

In many games learning certain information is considered cheating. For example, in Poker it is cheating to know another players cards expect after a player folds and chooses to show their cards.

Until very recently it was illegal to make a copy of "Happy Birthday" in the form of a live performance at restaurants in the United States.

Yes, in the real world data has owners and it can be illegal/restricted to provide copies of the data or to perform certain actions with the data.
I wish them the best of luck, but this seems like a difficult market to enter. Lots of existing players and momentum towards containers and K8s. I'm interested to see what their better mousetrap is.
Yes, go on LinkedIn, there's a bunch of recruiters hawking jobs at funds. Generally they want a Sharpe ratio above 2.5, $10M profits a year.

And you need to know what machinery you'll need too. Capital requirements, counterparty agreements, access to stock lending, cost requirements, IT requirements, everything.

Some of the newer shops say you can keep your own IP. Haven't checked whether it's true, but most people I know are sceptical.
The reason financial transactions don't scale is volume - your $100 trade can move a penny stock to $.02 from $.0002 a share if there is no volume.

Some markets can absorb an enormous amount of volume, such as the FOREX market.

Now, when you start making good trades in a "big" market, intelligent players can mimic / play off of them, so it is hard to prove in that regard.

At a minimum though, you could prove that it works on assets that are not volume-dependent.
What are they even trying to find on your phone?
If you ever do get it working, I think it'll be fun to push it to over-recognize chess games everywhere, like the deepdream stuff over-recognizing animals (or whatever) everywhere.
Similar story about US Nuclear Test Site in Nevada - https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-health...
LG had a touch screen it didn’t have a full OS that allowed it to do the things that the iPhone could do.

LG would have never built an entire ecosystem.

Apple was AT&T only in the US.
> replace virtually all of that coal power with a mix of solar, wind, storage, and flexible demand

In the linked document I did not find any guarantees how flexible the demand has to be in worst case. It’s easy to run on renewables when you can just shut down everything.
> We are receiving many messages regarding collaborations with influencers, Instagram influencers. We kindly would like to announce that White Banana is not interested to “collaborate” with self-proclaimed “influencers.” And we would like to suggest to try another way to eat, drink, or sleep for free.

> Or try to actually work.

Love this quote from the Owner.
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I don't think you addressed what the previous comment asked:

> How does making your family deal with extra bullshit from the awful parts of the internet make facebook suffer?

Assuming this is your real account with your real friends/family (which seems to be what you're saying, since you're convinced this would give real people a bad feed) then you're just exposing people who trust you to trolls.

I could text your friends/family with spam, and since it's coming from someone they know, they might click it. I could ask them for personal details. I could just straight out insult them out of the blue and hurt their feelings, or send awful things their way.

I really hope nobody did and in general would like to think people here wouldn't— but this is a public site and the internet is a big place.

I doubt for your friends this would register as "their feed becoming useless"— it'd mostly just register as you being awful out of the blue, until you explain you were hacked. In any case, creating no content and letting people know you are only reachable through other services is probably a more effective way of making the Facebook less useful for the people you know. You could also just post noise yourself if you were committed to do so.
Thanks, I strongly believe this is the only rational vacation policy for a company to have. Overworking destroys productivity, so preventing it is better for the employee and the company!
I can give you more details if you email me.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Day_2005_sparrow
They weren't proclaiming superior morals, rather quoting a rather relevant portion of (what a quick Google search determines as) the Christian Bible.

I won't comment on the second half but it only toxifies conversation to assume the worst in others.
Evidence that you're coming to Canada to stay and perhaps work, rather than visit temporarily.
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> I don't think that's quite the right energy balance for heat pumps ;)

It's exactly right. A good heat pump will have a coefficient of performance (COP) of 5, which means for every watt of electricity put in, 5 watts of heat is moved from outside to inside - effectively an efficiency of 500%. While resistance electric heat and fossil fuel can never give more heat than the energy put in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Performance_consider...
Is there a list of all the countries and their practices somewhere?
For a service that does this https://ba.net/adblockvpn

Disclosure: it's my day job
I posted a lot of crap on Usenet. While nothing that could be held against me, there were definitely a number of nerd wars I engaged in back in 1992.
"Influencers" (what a crock of a term, by the way) who try to do this are essentially beggars and/or fraudsters, who likely needs to get his/her ego in check.
>at the cost of increasing the possibility of pilots not really knowing how to handle the planes

not excusing Boeing here, just extrapolating the situation to where there are so many automated systems doing so much and such complicated stuff that handover to pilot is just not an option (especially if plane is designed to fully utilize the automated systems capabilities). Like F-16 which just can't flown manually, or autonomous vehicles (Uber/Tesla/ect.) where handover to human driver in reality is absolutely not option. I mean, look how we completely lost the ability to stick-shift the cars.
Which doesn’t help if anyone replied to them.
Because work is being sold as something you get to do, while raising children as something you have to do.
That may be covered in the book.

... or not? Stay tuned :)
I feel pretty caught between two extremes. Loudmouths still exist and bother me from time to time, but it's also getting easier and easier to accidentally run afoul of SJWs.

I wish people would just relax, but I don't think mass-communication works this way. In a small group, people negotiate the morals and the social values of a group. (and then, of course, push those boundaries and re-negotiate values, etc) I've often felt that this process breaks down in larger groups. Moral values are seldom "settled," since the group is too large and disperse for any given values to really propagate. The outrage and accusations don't stop, they simply aren't resolved. There's more to it than this, but it's a bit like getting angry at someone in a road rage incident. You're never going to meet that person again. Even if you "won" the debate and "taught" them a lesson, you won't ever encounter them again. It's possible you've modified their behavior, but you'll never be able to notice a difference in the environment. The scale is too big for your anger to have been useful.

Of course, even this poor example is pretty optimistic. Often the conflict makes things worse, and not better, whether or not you could measure the difference of your singular action.
Research: https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak
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That is an excellent point, and very difficult to model.

Maybe more importantly, the supply curve for natural gas is also very difficult to model. In Europe NG is expensive, but as the demand drops the price will likely decline sharply (the infrastructure is mostly built, and the current costs are highly skewed towards amortizing investment capital). There are also geopolitical concerns which may play out very differently than expected.
> The very definition of a citizen was one who was active in politics (the inverse being someone preoccupied with their own private matters, an "idiotis" in Ancient Greek, and the etymology for "idiot").

Um, OK... but not everything is a political act. It's just a ridiculous meme I see now and again.
I don’t see the harm in the “influencers” asking. For some places it’s probably worth it to get the cheap promotion.
https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann19018/

The posted date worries me, but I doubt ESO would make a prank on something that significant.
> I despise the anti-SJW stance. I think it's about time loud-mouth, offensive people

At the end of your post you tell people to be kind, but yet here you’re calling people names and using very strong language like “despise”.

And recent history shows that plenty on your side are doing the things you claim they aren’t / only the other side is doing.

> If we're all kind to one another what is it we need to be afraid of exactly?

Define “kind”. Your argument amounts to “if you’ve done nothing wrong what do you have to hide”. Well, define “wrong”. There are tons of people who legitimately have conniptions at the slightest of “microaggressions”. Thank God for the anti-SJWs otherwise we’d be living in hell.
> It's even worse.

Agreed. I personally view Daylight Savings as being horrid for mental health reasons, and I have plenty of friends and family that feel the same. There is no hope for any of us to change that. So from my view point, if we can't discuss an issue as simple as Daylight Savings, then there's little hope for bigger issues.

Also, from a "peasants" view, we want to change, but getting that translated to actual change through the system seems impossible. It doesn't help there are legitimate differences on what solutions even looks like.
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But Google search and aws are both profitable and legitimate business models?
They literally have a list [0]

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/u-s-officials-m...
How do you do industrial heating without natural gas? Last I heard heating with electricity was ridiculously expensive.
> I have a feeling the majority of people would disagree with me anymore, but then again, my mindset and attitude were largely set by the military long ago, so I like strong leaders who don't brook BS.

So how do you reconcile this opinion with the fact that Linus thinks this new approach makes him a better leader?

Indeed

> "So I'll still call out people (and particularly companies) for doing dumb things, but now I have to do it knowing that it's news, and me giving some company the finger will be remembered for a decade afterwards. Whether deserved or not, it might not be worth it."

"it might not be worth it" is pretty damning. That approach you admire doesn't necessarily have the effects you want it to.
> With a ~20% learning curve, that is ~5 doublings from today, so more than net electricity demand

Just to pick up on that point, electricity demand will have to be a lot higher in future, because we're going to need to electrify transport and heating. That would be worth perhaps another doubling or more in electricity demand. And road transport at least looks like it's locked in to happen over the course of 2-3 decades through pure market forces.
Define authoritative source.

When speaking to the uninitiated, anti-stall system gets the point across.

When speaking reguspeak, and actual aerodynamics, MCAS is a compensatory system that is meant to allow the plane to be certified airworthy. It is the same class of system as a mechanical stick-pusher (though even less effective since all it does is changes the yoke pressure required to bring the plane to a stall).

It's not a meme sadly, which makes this all the more tragic in hindsight. Sibling poster has quoted the CFR.
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Remember getting Finnish reception on the Swedish shore opposite Åland.
Drobo looks cool. That is the idea with gaia. Right now our master branch allows you to docker-compose-up and use the admin api calls to configure "disk" to however you want.

The main motivation here was regardless of what images were deployed on optional cloud host providers, the default was set to local disk to support users actually owning this data locally.

Additionally, we support a variety of other drivers, like azure blobs, etc.

It is nice that the hubs are set up to interact with an API where developers by default are storing data in this decentralized way.

I will check out Drobo more.

"Slowly, but it worked!" making things work is important! haha
Wall street isn't a protected class.
Opera and Brave are integrating ENS (ethereum name service) into the browser so you can resolve .eth domains. There is no fundamental reason why this couldn't happen for handshake (cool project btw).
You lose all static analysis with that including Typescript checking/inference.
But them making a decision to benefit themselves is not necessarily mutually exclusive to a decision that benefits other developers and the OSS community. Your point is valid, but just want to clarify that it isn't necessarily all negative.
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Contracts, or at least clauses within contracts, which require a party to break the law are not valid.
>You used to have the power to offend whomever you wanted and now you don't.

If people are not allowed to offend, being offended becomes a weapon.

Further, polite language does not prevent oppression or racism etc.. It only makes it secret.
Several?

Besides UI programming and not requiring users to install anything, what other advantages are there?