skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He already is the Theranos of solar panels. Promised a fake product (solar roof) to bailout himself and his family out of a failed company.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19939929.
Having seems the guts of a lot of different insurance technology stacks, it's possible to see how the nature of the commercial business biases the behavior of the systems. In the simplest cases, health care providers have systems that take enough time to just get going that someone who becomes very sick and after a small amount of expensive intervention dies doesn't become a cost, because that system operates as if they had recovered....leading to the sad mantra at one 'Death is proof of recovery' . Same case here effectively. If it isn't treated it can kill, if it isn't treated then costs don't accrue, if it isn't treated then other potential costs don't materialize. I have never met anyone in the technology side of insurance evil enough to do that, but have met plenty horrified by the fact that it is what their systems keep evolving to do. The goal of profit is inversely related to the goal of care, plain and simple.
I run this as a job in my build pipeline:

black --diff

black --check

The first one shows you what's different (so you have logs in your build job), the second one fails your job if there are any diffs. You could just do the second one if you're a fan of the whole brevity thing.
> In my experience, Hertz has abysmal customer service. Getting a reasonable person (or in certain cases a person at all) on the phone is near impossible.

They absolutely do. I had to rent a car, last minute (like very very last minute), and went to Hertz (I usually use Enterprise). I booked online and Uber'ed to the rental place. They had billed my (business) card for a prepaid rental...

... and then wouldn't rent the car because I "failed" their ID / etc verification, "most likely because my ID profile wasn't tied to my card" (it's a business card, this doesn't seem like anything uncommon).

And then wanted to refuse my refund because it was prepaid.

So I ask for a car, pay for it, go to get it, you won't give it to me, and then you won't give my money back to me?
Ditto for the UK. Police will revoke firearms licenses if a holder has mental health issues, and GPs have a duty to inform the police [1]. Typically a UK firearms license will only allow the holder to use a shotgun on their own land if they are a farmer, or a rifle on a certified shooting ground if the holder is a sports shooter. Some, including a friend of mine, have self certifying licenses that allow them to shoot anywhere they deem fit. Such licenses are granted to eg pest controllers who may be called in by landowners who need vermin eliminated. My friend typically drives around with his Blaser hunting rifle with telescopic sight, silencer and a box of ammo. He suffers from depression but has never sought treatment as he'd immediately lose his license.

NB many think firearms are illegal in the UK. They are not! I was surprised to discover this when I moved out of London to the countryside 10 years ago. It's very difficult to get a firearms license in an urban location. But rifles and shotguns are commonplace in rural areas. Handguns have been banned since the Dunblane massacre, and semi automatics since Hungerford. But in rural areas few dispute that shotguns and rifles are legitimate tools.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/22/uk-gun-licen...
In principle, wrongdoers always have more options available than moral people. Because being moral prevents you from using some ways that would be considered immoral, while the wrongdoers don't have those restrictions, therefore can and will weasel out. In the movies the good side wins even despite this limitation, then heroes are celebrated for their morality and bravery, but in the real life... well...
It is very easy to use statistics to paint whatever picture of the world you want. Steven Pinker highlights aggregate statistics which, intentionally or not, overlooks the negatives, which may sometimes arguably be a direct consequence of the actions that make the "good" statistics possible.
The author might be referring to the recommendation to run a program that's instrumented with Application Verifier under a debugger, which WinDbg is one of many.
Well since small government is apparently racist I'll just pack up my "the government has no business telling you what not to smoke" rhetoric and leave.

I know this might be hard to believe but some people actually believe that all of society would benefit from less government involvement in all manner of things. Calling all that racist looks like you're just trying to find an excuse to dismiss it without having to make an argument for why it won't work.
Note that source code access and FOSS are orthogonal. AFAIK in older Unix systems software you'd buy would often be in source code form. In fact at the past severa lLinux distributions had a lot of such software.

As an example Slackware distributes a shareware image viewer/manipulator called xv (which was very popular once upon a time): http://www.trilon.com/xv/

It is the license that makes something FOSS, not being able to compile/modify the source code.
$180k salary? I know they offer some ridiculous numbers for top candidates but that seems high for any new grad. That'd push them near $250k with stock.
Of course it is! Finding joy in the learning and application of knowledge - for it's own sake, and for applying it to other areas of study, learning, or practical use - that was a key part of being a "Renaissance Man" (as we term it today); making money is - or should be - secondary to those goals.
Why wait? I run black on all my new single-author projects.
Yeah, cross product is the determinant with "one strand bent back."

If you take a 3-regular planar graph and put the determinant/Levi-Civita tensor on each vertex, you get plus-or-minus the number of edge-3-colorings of that graph. The four-color theorem is merely to show this tensor contraction is always non-zero :-) (Nobody's managed to prove it this way, yet.)

Here are some notes showing how to contract two Levi-Civita symbols together graphically: https://imgur.com/HmaLSaB.png

This is in Penrose's 1971 paper ("Applications of negative-dimensional tensors"). He went on to notice that you can do a "puff-up-and-contract" construction to completely get rid of all the Levi-Civita tensors: https://imgur.com/eK9ZCkc.png

From here, he recognized that this sort of tensor network on 3-dimensional space was equivalent to an abstract tensor network on "(-2)-dimensional space", where there is an identity that let him remove all the places the strings cross https://imgur.com/65z0zov.png (This element placed at each edge in (-2)-dimensional space is known as the "second Jones-Wenzl projector for the Temperley-Lieb algebra.")

From a more recent point of view, what he did was find a graphical way to go from an SO(3) tensor network to an SL(2) tensor network (which should be possible since both Lie groups are isomorphic).
> they've given me something free

No, they haven't. They're just making you pay with a different sort of currency.

I'm not saying that's good or bad, and I'm not saying that you aren't getting value for what you're paying. I'm just saying that the notion that these things are "free" is incorrect.
Physicists studying the sun and effect on its surface use megameter as a length scale quite a bit.
Except Japan's undergoing major immigration reform over the last decade precisely because it doesn't work well.

Not that immigration to Japan even if you're rich and well positioned is such a good deal.
I've been using it for a few months now, but I don't really like it. It does remove quabbles about formatting, but I've personally never felt that as a problem and it just replaces them with constant frustration.

I think code formatting is very important for readability, and I think many (subtle) choices about how to make a piece of code more readable are very subjective. These types of tools are just incapable to make those choices because they have no concept of intention.

And some rules make this painfully obvious even in less subjective cases. Eg: black formats dictionaries into a single line if they fit one line, which makes nested structures unreadable if they combine bigger and smaller sub-dictionaries.

In the end, I don't have problems with other peoples' formatting choices; as long as they are sufficiently consistent within their own style, which they usually are, I can live just fine with them even when they go against how I'd do things.

I do have problems with tools that reduce code readability for consistency's sake and argue that these provide little benefit, and may even be detrimental to code quality.
They may or may not be evil, but Tesla is a defense contractor, too. https://dod.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article...:

”Tesla Industries Inc, New Castle, Delaware, has been awarded a maximum $17,056,347 firm-fixed-price contract for battery power supplies.”
Sure, you’d start with the presumption that the accused didn’t lead organization or that the organization didn’t commit the crime in question, then try to prove otherwise.
There are plenty of consultant surgeons and specialists practicing on Harley St in London who make way more than USD400K/annum.
Since the artificial is a subset of the natural, ML apps are natural processes often explicitly built to mimic natural processes. So it's hard to know when they're more of a metaphor or an example of natural processes.
Straw man alert. I've never heard a YIMBY argue for "build anything, anywhere." I've only ever heard them argue for exactly what the article proposes, i.e. smart, context-aware density.
> I don’t really care what the grade was on a climb if it kills me.

You shouldn't climb at all then. People die just scrambling too. Even hiking can be dangerous.

Do you wear a helmet when you drive a car? That might actually be sensible. It's probably just too 'weird' for almost anyone to seriously consider.
this makes perfect sense to me...

there really aren't many that have died, maybe a couple dozen, so not much stat to draw info from. BUT they aren't always on the hardest routes, so the law of averages would dictate that they die on "average" difficulty routes.
The server is in java, so can be run where you want really.
You can check this out: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/
Amazon now sells flight tickets in India
Taleb Says Fed Should Do 'Minimum Harm' [video]
Afterbook: Help us celebrate the dash between the dates
Lessons Learned from California’s Pioneering Microgrids
Because among people's worst traits is the pleasure in knowing someone is worse off than you, especially if they are from an identifiable group you already dislike.

Your life might be miserable due to poverty, but you might still view that as a preferable situation compared to another even poorer group getting the same universal benefit as you, even if that universal benefit would make both of you better off.
How does this compare to Spotify’s ‘Song Radio’ feature?
It seems that they're on track to get epyc into OEMs and cloud providers in quantity. They've been successfully growing the ecosystem in the server space over the last 2 years (Supermicro, dell, HPE, Lenovo all pushing epyc sku's now) so they're very well poised to capitalize on it if they can keep up with supply. The power efficiency gains on 7nm will be pretty tempting to cloud providers and colocation clients alike. If you can put 256 cores (4 epyc2 sockets) into a 1U server and keep it under 1200W that's going to be a landslide win for density and running costs. Factor in pcie 4.0 and things are looking pretty sexy.

I've read that wafer yeilds on zen2 are 70%+ which gives a huge advantage on cost and production efficiency to AMD. I think Intel's skylake yield for an equivalent 28 core die is sub-40%. If anything the limiting factor is going to be TSMCs ability to give AMD capacity on it's very crowded and in-demand 7nm fab.
Unless I'm badly misreading something, the unsalted hashes in that post were on some other (unspecified) site unrelated to Stack Overflow.
Yes. Being against anything on the Democratic Party platform is racist. You got it. If it isn't obviously racist, it's a "dog whistle." It isn't possible that anybody else could disagree with me for reasons that are fair and well reasoned because they see things from a different perspective.
I would rather see tens or hundreds of millions spent on a project that employees hundreds or thousands of people for years. Buying art is just money changing hands between rich people.
The free market, where competition is involved, produces companies that serve the interests of consumers in the most efficient way.

The current healthcare environment is not a free market, government is involved heavily at every level. Which is the main reason it sucks.
Show HN: Workspace for flexibly managing data collaboratively
I actually sent a suggestion/complaint to Google regarding their recommendations. If I start a radio station based on e.g. a 2009 indie pop song I'll mostly hear songs made around that year, usually like 2006~2013, with newer songs just absent. If I make a station based on a 2019 indie pop song, for the most part it's all the same bands as the 2009 playlist, it's just that the songs are more recent. I don't really like this because it forces me into a time capsule instead of just playing indie pop songs from any decade.
If you're giving the book away, why not release the source (LaTeX, Word, whatever) in addition to your favorite subset of {PDF,EPUB,...}? Then readers who want a different format have a better chance of being able to produce it themselves.
From that Wikipedia article:

"As the Copy Control discs do not conform to the requirements of the CD standard, they are not labeled with the CDDA logo, which is trademarked by Philips."
> Most of the homeless people in the Boardwalk area there are in exactly the same situation as my friend was in, except they’ve been trapped in it for years

Most cities & states just try to fix the symptoms of homelessness (& crime), and not the actual root of the problem. There needs to be a federal mental health program to handle this, and maybe states & cities will stop playing 'hot potato', shipping them back and forth to be someone else's problem
Starting at $5800? For 5800 I can build one hell of a threadripper or epyc system with nvme storage.

I've been seeing people try to make power architecture (ibm) servers a thing for 12+ years now, it never happens, because ordinary developers can't afford them. Compared to what you can put under your desk for a thousand bucks based on any Intel or amd, amd64 architecture system .

Or this?
https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/intro.html

$2700 and probably is outperformed by a $150 ryzen cpu on a $110 motherboard.
https://github.com/testdouble/standard
>we're working on the reference this year!

I didn't know this, it's good to hear. Thanks!
Growing up, my parents would make fun of my aunt for taking anti-depressants behind her back in front of my sister and I. When I was a kid, I didn't think much of it. Now being older and having gone through some dark times of my own, I am truly sickened by the fact that they see her in this "weakness" light. Imagine all the kids who faced the same thing but never saw the other side and wound up feeling the same way their parents did? My parents taught me a lot of great things but I am glad this was not one of them.
> we have half the suicide rate in the United States as Japan

What definition for suicide does the US use?

What definition for suicide does Japan use?

EDIT: and you don't have anything like half the rate. Comparing across countries is hard, but Japan has a rate of about 17 per 100,000 while the US has a rate of about 14 per 100,000.
How does pandoc compare to grip? I often need to render Markdown to PDF and find Grip is _ok_ but not great, and if I'm not mistaken it renders Github-side, where I'd prefer offline.
Correct. Which is why pure capitalism is broken.
While I've never been detained, I've been around police enough to know that they generally know the likely suspects immediately after many crimes (turning in a statement after an SF Mission smash-grab; talking with a friend about a -significant- tool theft from their barn). I suspect the reason this celebrity-photo thing is happening is that the police already know their primary suspect and they're looking for "modern", crappy supporting evidence. It's like the JS/PHP of police work...
I'm not sure if you're speaking from a point of naivety, but the only point at which the presumption of innocence enters into the justice process is when you step into a courtroom.

Everything prior to that - in all your interactions with police, jails, prosecutors, before your day in court, they will all presume guilt, and will treat you like the criminal scumbag that they think you are.

Oh, and most defendants never even get their day in court.
seems like a great idea. i’m not familiar enough with the domain to know how unique this implementation is.. good luck!
Glad that they've put their policies in writing. If only this could be done for other types of man-made events that are sanitized by diplomat-speak:

* Military invasion w/ 250k troops: "regime change"

* Widespread bombing campaign: "shock and awe"

* Drone attacks that kill civilians: "precision strikes"

* Societal breakdown and re-emergence of internecine conflict: "birth pangs of a new Middle East"
Vote for Medicare for All to build a more solid foundation for healthcare and health services instead of each of our single cities having to patchwork with yet more bandaids.
Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building
This might be more compelling if American unemployment wasn't at a quite low 3%.

Even if we take into account how that number is reduced in volume, the issue with these jobs is not that Americans can't find them, it's that they don't want to take them.

I don't mean to imply that Americans are being irrational or incorrect. Merely that the jobs you're referring to often aren't considered actionable by many Americans, and the numbers suggest this is a far more powerful factor.

Perhaps if we agree to a higher minimum wage and more aggressively pursue affordable housing solutions near where these jobs are, then we can see other effects.
Let me know when it's available as a Vim plugin.
Alsop: Because Uniloc’s rights flow directly from this government-conferred power to exclude, the public in turn has a strong interest in knowing the full extent of the terms and conditions involved in Uniloc’s exercise of its patent rights and in seeing the extent to which Uniloc’s exercise of the government grant affects commerce.

This is a straightforward argument. Hopefully the court in GEORGIA v PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG follows similar logic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/georgia-offic...
Bus Rapid Transit Creep
I used to agree with you. I thought merit based was the best system. Until it was pointed out to me that it's a very biased system towards wealthy people from wealthy countries.

Merit based systems are usually based on advanced college degrees. Who are the kinds of people that get advanced college degrees? Well first you have to have had access to good primary education, and then good secondary education, and then a good undergraduate education. People from poor countries tend not to have those things, even the smart people from poor countries.
A Taxonomy of NFTs
It's pretty clear it wasn't pervasive for ARM because they're climbing to ever higher performance, while Intel reached a conceptual peak in 1995 with the Pentium Pro, and in turn has used mostly Pentium superscalar based cores in their lower performance Atom line. It's implied by the dates of vulnerabilities cited by Google Project Zero I think that Intel's Meltdown original sin goes all the way back to the first Pentium Pro.
While you are right to ward off this person's paranoia and we really shouldn't be completely freaking out about light exposure from our phones and such.

I think you are minimizing the issue. We wear sunglasses when it is bright (and should as it can be harmful to our eyes), we don't stare directly at the sun, we don't have it anywhere near as close to our faces, and we don't have the sunlight at night which adds another 2-4 hours of exposure to blue light.

There would appear to be more intense blue light in an LED than coming from the sun.
This page while not a particularly good primary source has some comparisons of the intensity of the blue light in LEDs vs sunlight.
https://iristech.co/pwm-flicker/

"The use of blue light is becoming increasingly prominent in our society, and a large segment of the world population is now subjected to daily exposure (from a few minutes to several hours) of artificial light at an unusual time of the day (night). Because light has a cumulative effect and many different characteristics (e.g., wavelength, intensity, duration of the exposure, time of day), it is important to consider the spectral output of the light source to minimize the danger that may be associated with blue light exposure. Thus, LEDs with an emission peak of around 470–480 nm should be preferred to LEDs that have an emission peak below 450 nm. Although we are convinced that exposure to blue light from LEDs in the range 470–480 nm for a short to medium period (days to a few weeks) should not significantly increase the risk of development of ocular pathologies, this conclusion cannot be generalized to a long-term exposure (months to years). Finally, we believe that additional studies on the safety of long-term exposure to low levels of blue light are needed to determine the effects of blue light on the eye."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734149/

Basically, we shouldn't go out of our way to expose ourselves to excess blue light if we can help it. We don't know what it does entirely. Its not worth losing your mind over either but its not quite simple as 'the sun is blue. you'll be fine'
Is no one concerned that almost all HCP purchasing is heavily concentrated in the hands of monopolist government customers?

If almost no for-profit customer can justify the buying of those systems, it's unnecessary and wasteful.
what type of whippers are you taking? if you are setting your protection closely enough and your belayer is not leaving lots of slack, you shouldn't be falling far enough on a static rope to kill you.
i have been using the black integration with vscode and i have come to the conclusion that:

1. black is not perfect, but it is pretty great

2. vscode is a much better IDE than Atom
So me getting warnings, and my plates being in a cop's notebook / files is, to you, an acceptable price to pay for law enforcement officer productivity accountability?
We use Black in a pre-commit hook for all our python code. It makes legibility and formatting a non-issue in the team. Yes it can look strange at first if you're not used to it, but after a while it makes formatting invisible (and it's odd reading non-black python). Would recommend.
PHP scales better than Java? Java is only suited for small to medium scale? That's absurd and you are completely wrong.

Java web servers are multithreaded. Java has JIT. Java has a Hotspot VM with JIT optimizations at runtime.

This is why companies like Google and Amazon run their stacks on Java. It scales. Facebook had to write their own fork of PHP due to performance issues.
Are you sending unfortunate examples upstream? It's still beta, so it can be improved somewhat.