skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An added benefit for a renewable operator is that you get to use the grid connection for a longer period of time. The cable/power line can be very expensive to build and under-utilized due to the intermittent nature of wind. That is probably driving this kind of co-location more than the precence of the wind farm. The batteries could just as easily be located hundreds of miles away and perform exactly the same role, but without being able to share the grid connection.
I know my area fairly well enough to be able to roughly figure out what the fair should be and can tell if a taxi driver is fucking around trying to take a longer route. I tend to plan my fairs with a decent tip in mind. If there's any unnecessary deviations from the ideal route, I just subtract the time from whatever tip I was going to leave. It's only happened once or twice and every time it's worked out i've given around the same amount of money I was going to anyway, they just receive no tip out of it. I imagine this strategy would fail in a different city.

Honestly though, 99% of taxis i've ever taken where there's more than one route, the driver usually asks which route i'd like to take. I've never used lyft or uber or any of those so I can't really comment on them.
Are they serving the same market as Google? It seems as though the two are serving different use cases, both of which need data viz. Salesforce gives you a sales database and a front end out of the box, and you can tweak it and add to it with add ons. Google gives you compute and storage, but the application logic is all owned by you.
>There were enough GIs who played

Generally speaking, as far as rural entertainment goes, many houses had pianos and people played for entertainment and etc.
Large defense contracts tend to span large numbers of Congressional Districts in order to enable the sort of economic protectionism that keeps the F-35 and JTRS funded to the tune of billions of dollars, in spite of cost overruns and schedule deficiencies.

I would be shocked if this lead to significant site consolidation due to the backlash that this would cause from Congress. If anything, this will enable Raytheon (the company with more defense content) to use United Technologies facilities to create a larger network of appreciative Congressmen for large projects.
> Or is he just against paying people for their time?

He definitely has no problem collecting speaker fees from conferences and universities all over the world.
> - Safe search off by default

> - No predefined search engines

> - No predefined start page

These in particular are bad ideas. Default settings should always target the average user, not the power user.

Having Google as the default search/start option doesn't harm you or me at all and takes only a few seconds to change, but not having it adds significant friction and frustration for the average user.
Right, of course. But I think the larger point still stands.
From the link- "In the current early stage of the project, GrapheneOS provides production releases for the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. It will support other devices in the future, but devices are carefully chosen based on their merits rather than the project aiming to have broad device support. Broad device support is counter to the aims of the project, and the project will eventually be engaging in hardware and firmware level improvements rather than only offering suggestions and bug reports upstream for those areas."
One item mentioned in the article that matches my personal experience is the importance of sleep consistency or regularity. Waking up at the same time and sleeping at the same time each night has been beneficial, even if those regular times are shifted from what the article suggests. There was a study that touched on this [0].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03171-4
Spacemacs is that broken. The problem is that Spacemacs tries to impose its own shortcuts onto other emacs packages that may or may not know about spacemacs. For modes that perform extensive customization of their own, spacemacs alterations to emacs can result in some very weird behavior. For example, markdown-mode's highlighting, will, for mysterious reasons break when used with spacemacs [1].

The other problem with spacemacs is that if you're trying to use another emacs package, now you have to look up two sets of documentation. You have to look up the package's documentation to find the command that you want to execute, and then you have to look up the documentation for the relevant spacemacs layer to figure out what spacemacs has remapped the command to.

I tried to use spacemacs as a transition path from vim to emacs, but I found that I had much more success by just "ripping off the bandaid", remapping caps-lock to ctrl and spending a weekend forcing myself to relearn how to perform my most commonly used vim commands in emacs.

[1]: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/11790
TLDR for comments: use rclone and/or restic
Micropayments-for-news pioneer Blendle is pivoting from micropayments
Evgeny Morozov on the exaggerated fears over digital warfare
Funny coincidence: I was reading about you in relation to Mattermark, then found your blog post on Meltano, and now I find your comment on HN. You're everywhere! :)

Would it be possible to chat with you about your past experience at Mattermark? I am trying to answer a few questions (not related to the company, but related to VCs and investing). If so, my HN username @ gmail. Thanks!
I keep expecting it to eventually ask me to "click on the pictures of terrorists" and them using it to train automatic drone targeting software.
I see, I think that link is referring to this project? https://www.dinletbane.dk/in-english/stations-and-trains/ In which case, looks like it won't open until 2025 and it's now up to $920 million. But yeah I certainly agree that construction in most of the rich world is dramatically cheaper than most rich US cities.
Weird flex but OK.
We know UAC definitely establishes a mars colony :D
Humans as a species at one point in time spawned the conditions that made the US military seem like a good decision to enough people that it happened and is still happening. Although that is just humans proclivity for war in general.
Amazon has been doing this for years, and Facebook does it too. There is one team that provides the overall "boxes" but then each team writes their own frontend for their own part of the box (and their own micro service behind it too).

I'm glad to see it getting more traction, but just like microservices, it's not for everyone. You need to be at some minimum scale for this to make sense, because just like microservices, there will be an engineering overhead for managing it.
Dude, it is fast! wuh?
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What happened? The spambot algorithms have gotten better and can now defeat the simple tasks. It's a perpetual arms race of you vs. the spambot developers.
I have always read that as "The good people are paralyzed by doubt (right now)" - a bad thing for them and for us. The context is a list of ways the world is falling apart.
The Git documentation refers to everything Nicely Shaped that is tacked on to the core git functionality as "porcelain" [0]. (Pretty much everything that we normally use when interacting with git counts as porcelain.)

0: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Po...
How do you build a piano to be airdropped?
Taxi drivers in the US are generally pretty sensitive to people's perception that they are racking up the fare. If you know a little about the geography they are generally pretty happy to discuss the route and use your preference if you say you'd like to go that way.

if you can learn a little about the streets up front, and use a map application during the ride... just talk to your cabby

maybe someone should pitch the 'human interaction' app, which just completely abstracts all social and retail interaction instead of just chipping away at it bit by bit
> Google has 80% of the search market. Facebook controls 70% of social media.

Wrong way to think about this. If you talk about advertising monopoly, sure. But you'd be hard-pressed to make an argument on a monopoly of free products.

> Netflix put Blockbuster and every other movie rental store out of business.

That's because Blockbuster was, quite frankly, shit. They failed to adapt to the internet. So what? Times move on. Netflix is far far better for consumers.

Something isn't a monopoly just because it's popular.
What wireless hardware are you using? 60 ghz?
As a third party observer of this exchange who did not hold opinions on molyneux before encountering it:

* honestly you’ve completely convinced me that molyneux is a racist piece of shit, fuck this guy!!

* but you haven’t convinced me he’s a literal white supremacist because he just doesn’t seem to be quoted anywhere asserting the supremacy of white people.

I think you did an incredibly good job proving that he is for sure “white supremacy-adjacent,” and also a fuckin weirdo d-bag. But compared to explicitly self-identifying white supremacists like Richard Spencer, Molyneux does not seem like a white supremacist.

All that said, fuck him. Those quotes you posted are insane.
How is that interesting?
Few if any institutional investors are looking at CRM on a P/E basis. They're valuing the company usually on EV/Sales and EV/FCF.
That'll be SpaceX or Blue Origin.
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>research done by Koopman

Good overview of the research:

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/roses/dsn04/koopman04_crc...

Optimal CRC polynomials:

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/crc/index.html

Note that the best CRC depends on the length of the message it's protecting.
RDBMS = data silo
Cormac McCarthy's Polysemous Monster
If you find this, please let me know.
Disastrous roll-out of UK's digital welfare system is harming those most in need
The prices I gave were the starting prices in 1990, so I think it's reasonable to compare them to the starting prices in 2019.
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The longer you have to hold inventory, the more markup you should apply. Books probably have a fantastically long tail if you sort each one by rate of books sold per month or per year. Some books may sit on the shelves for several years before someone comes along and buys it.
Why did you post a fake news article an then also post the debunk?
Are you referring to APM/infrastructure monitoring, etc.? I was curious to find out if you're thinking BI capabilities need to be just as powerful at the backend as these frontend tools.
I didn't encounter "sequel" until some years after I encountered "ess-queue-ell" - had no idea what the person was on about to start with.

I guess it's one of those things that native English speakers don't even know they know. Like "Fewer tests means Less data", rather than "less tests means fewer data", or "six charming small new round green plastic tables" rather than "six plastic charming green round new small tables".
Sure, but with a leader key in vim set to 'f', I can save with f-s (that is, press the f key and then the s key), which after a month is next to automatic
What is the larger point, then?
For screenshots of current *nix desktops from enthusiasts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn
And as we all know, insurance companies never do illegal things
Documentation is great here and super readable. Will definitely play around with Perl again.
Imagine that an entity knows your worst fears, deepest desires, biggest perversions, most sensitive insecurities, the people you love, the people you hate, the things you covet.

Now let's pretend that they know how to use this information to change your opinion. And not just your opinion, but the opinion of however many people fit their targeted persuasion campaign. Then understand that the moment the data is sold to another group, they have the same power. The new group might want to do things more sinister than sell you designer jeans.

Finally, realize that the information will last longer than you will. It'll probably be your legacy.
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>Did no one notice that the lottery always lost huge sums of money during the Rolldown draws, while it gained money on normal draws (as it should always be the case)?

The state never "loses." In this case, for example, the MIT group "17 and $18 million ... over a seven-year period, earning at least $3.5 million in profits," yet the state made $120 million. Even if the state noticed, why would they care? Pay out $3.5 million to make $120 million? Why not. The problem is that it :"sounds" rigged.

>No one noticed that certain convenience stores suddenly sold hundreds of thousands worth of tickets in these draws, while most other stores sold a normal amount?

Someone noticed, because they tipped off the Boston Globe that "in certain Massachussetts locations, Cash Winfall tickets were being sold at an extraordinary volume." Again, it "sounds" rigged.

The average person is not going to think that a lottery has a "loophole" in it. The average person thinks something like that can't happen.
Your comment is correct, Firefox now blocks trackers and it's probably, and hopefully, blocking whatever recaptcha uses to determine you're not a robot. So using firefox you get the harder recaptcha because it's blocking Google from spying on you.
"Your data is worthless, everyone's data is priceless."

Taxes are unrelated, and people at your coffee shop recognizing you is nothing compared to the lengths Facebook and Google go to for vacuuming up any and all personal data.
It’s not just SF. 85% of the Bay Area lives outside SF. The area’s key industry is not only outside SF, but mostly scattered among random suburban office parks in the South Bay. Densifying SF won’t do it. You have to get the jobs out from the big suburban office parks into downtown, or at least in transit accessible locations in a handful of South Bay cities.
Silicon Valley's Van-Dwellers [audio]
Google and Facebook tend to do it as a matter of policy, and while they say it's to protect privacy and prevent abuse, it also furthers the "walled garden" effect.
Laziness/cost. It would be more difficult to build app syncing, installing apps from your web browser, counting installs and reviews without spam, purchasing and licensing, etc. without being able to assume there is an associated account to tie it all together. They could partially disable some features, but that would be also be a little more work and still not stop the complaints from people who don't want to sign in.
You would think that they wouldn't block search. But Google kept throwing me at captcha when I was in FF and not signed in. The biggest pain so far has been the lack of map integration.
Probably not. From his comment I doubt he's even used Tableau (and I say this as a programmer who worked on something similar - https://perspective.finos.org - and yet I still find myself turning to tableau pretty often).
Could we just not let anyone use our personal data? I don't need, neither do I want to lease my personal data to google or facebook. I very much want that they don't use my personal data.

Note that I use neither google searcj nor facebook, but both google and facebook do collect my personal data, for example from my use of whatsapp, my Android phone and the google play store, etc. That really has to stop.
Or like at my (giant) employer - aim for the Big Bang, ship nothing, frustrate everyone.
Ok, but while unwinding a try/except block, the interpreter might need some extra memory, I suppose, depending on the code in the except clause.
There is no way Mozilla can remain a corporate entity and simultaneously make me feel like they deserve my money. It would require a complete clean break with Google, with the understanding that if they can't make it on their own, with their users, then it needs to be just a community project. If it makes money for Google, I don't trust it. If it supports Google, I don't trust it. And right now, Firefox does both.
Yeah, Tableau is very expensive. Way more than a few weeks of dev time.
E.g “Spot the fire hydrant” - oh, it’s those things that cops drive over in Hollywood movies. I don’t know if other counties have them too but it seems distinctly American and this capatcha is oddly common
If you increase user friction enough, subtly, eventually the affected user is going to look for something else, and now there's only one real something else - especially for non-techie users.
April story.
> the most populous country in the world

The United Nations estimates the current population of China around 50,000 more than the population of India. Given the uncertainty of these numbers, I can't exclude that India already has the most numerous population.
What's the guarantee of payoff for that level of investment? LFTR always seemed much more likely to produce such a payoff if given sufficient investment.

But I doubt either can beat what solar and wind are poised to produce. They are cheaper than installed coal now, and are targeting installed natural gas.

Battery will handle the rest of storage/load needs.
> Why give the platform all that seo.

Because the business-person gets something valuable in return. It's a fine tradeoff to make if you make it explicitly and have a strategy.
journalists actually find + report facts, and check them. Without journalists, there would be far fewer facts! Pick up any newspaper - in every article, in every paragraph, you will most likely find a newly minted fact produced and edited by a knowledgeable professional.
Then at that point paying a couple of dollars for them to maintain inventory at a physical location in a strip mall is probably razor thin. Retail space typically costs significantly more than equivalently sized warehouse space.
are militaries in general just producing lots of toxic things (not surprising), and the US has the biggest footprint because it has the biggest military? or, is the us just particularly bad on a per unit basis
If it can be statistically proven that this is occurring more on Firefox than Chrome then Google has a really, really big problem. The burden to make sure it isn’t is on them, most especially in the EU. Google is facing a very real future where they will have no web browser and possibly no operating system.
I agree with you re: keeping them alive, but the US is very much perpetually at war:

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

Almost so much so, that it seems like a reason to keep them alive.
To put a finer point on it, they'll pay a lot of money for tools that require less-skilled labor to operate. They will gladly spend a lot of money on Tableau to avoid paying the salary premium to have "those who program" build them an analytics system. It costs much less to hire business analysts who don't program (aside from SQL).
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The flipside is of course that some of those games were near impossible without some kind of hint. The old Hitchhiker's Guide game is the one that comes to mind for me. I read all of the books multiple times as a kid but never got more than halfway through the game. It was just plain cruel to the player.
I don't agree that's it.

... it really doesn't make it that much more expensive for bots, it's just a short delay. In fact, I doubt it makes a difference at all.

But it makes things really annoying for humans.

So I don't see any advantage in that trade-off.
Do websites get paid to run reCAPTCHA?

I keep seeing reCAPTCHA installed on very low security sites that don't seem like targets for automated bots. I'm wondering if they have some external incentive to install it.
There's an adverse selection issue. Let's say you make $10/month/user from ads, and offer the option to pay $10/month to not have ads. Users with less money are less likely to take you up on that, and are also less valuable as an advertising audience, so you start bringing in much less per month per ads-only user.

Advertising effectively allows a company to charge richer users more, which you lose when you switch to a flat fee.
American storefronts are always an interesting guesswork for me. "Is this a rundown shack or an actual store?"
Toward Dataflow Automation
Strange how someone in the field doesn't seem to know how the Fed works. It's a consortium of 12 PRIVATE banks, given limited oversight in exchange for the power to "print" money out of thin air.

This "warning" about usurping authority comes about 80 years too late, and is far too vague, though Henry Ford wasn't much more explicit, "It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Defending users by actively lying about battery usage is not acceptable.
Battery meter in 8 was accurate and flagged battery eating apps accordingly. This new thing is actively lying when you don't use Firebase, as if nobody can ever correctly implement push notifications.