skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably still an improvement, though. I haven't seen it happen often, but I've certainly seen cases of BCG instillation backtrack into the central circulation (my first case of this actually seeded his bone marrow with it), and then you've got a case of TB. If there's less morbidity if that happens here, and I presume there is, that's still better.
If memory serves me correct Toyota Prius was really the first to push the Hybrid/EV concept mainstream. That isn't to say that Tesla didn't have an impact but there were EV initiatives underway well before them.
> There’s a reason that category of thinking exists.

What's the reason?

> But since GraphQL libs are now busy implementing caching

What are you referring to? You mean like https://github.com/graphql/dataloader ?

> in top of non-cacheable POST requests, this argument is lost on them.

I think caching/serving HTTP results is a bad paradigm. It makes sense if you're serving HTML for a content site or something like that, but doesn't make sense when you're serving an API.
The submitted title was "Zebra Mussels Colonised Lake Erie, So Polluted It Caught Fire". We changed it to try to represent the article more clearly.
I think you might be misinterpreting the parent.

When they refer to education reducing potential, they mean higher education levels generally correspond with a lower birth rate, for a variety of reasons. So smart parents having smart children does seem to fit with that.

Or am I misunderstanding what you're getting at?
Partial bypass of #483774 with Blind XXE on HTTPS://duckduckgo.com
One of my friends is in a similar situation. It ended up being easier just to mail him a check.
Deep Work: Focus Without Distraction
Our bodies are not perfect, you know? That's why cutting out a mostly useless part of it, the appendix, can actually save someone's life. Our bodies overreact and take bad decisions all the time.
Yeah, I’m surprised that anybody thinks that DNS blocking is sufficient for anything save ad blocking.
what was the name of your car share platform?
The full title is "As young mother dies after refusing chemotherapy, how social media is fuelling the rise of fake cancer cures" which is too long for HN.
Wildfires and insect infestations will be an issue, and they are very difficult to model. Canada has a lot of trees, but they emit more Carbon than they absorb. [1]

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-forests-carbon...
yeah forget it, 3kW is small house scale

the best bet with solar panel AC... is to cover all windows with them so sunlight doesn't heat the inside of the car when parked. :cough:
>The World’s First Autonomously Animated Digital Influencer

Influencers are people who plug products on their Instagram/YouTube/Twitter pages. They're the TV pitchmen of this century. Now that real humans are no longer required for this task, we can say we've finally reached a point where the archetypal "soulless corporate automation" can be an actual soulless corporate automation.
Big fan of the auto start and countdown stuff you’re doing — there’s a lot of value in the “pomodoro method” which this could approach or help automate.

It’s not for everyone, but the idea is to trigger a kind of competitiveness/relentlessness with your todos that helps focus and flow.
My solution to this is just a mod for being able to interact with anything on the screen, and another for being able to move through all the gaps in structures you can't normally squeeze through. I think they are "Long Reach" and "Squeak Through", respectively. You still end up having to move around, but its much closer to what you're looking for, especially once you start getting player speed upgrades.
If they can make them as cheap as silicon then obviously people will buy them instead, but it's not clear to me that panel efficiency is a relevant factor in the economics of commercial solar power.
This would be good if only we knew that they wouldn't be treated as though they're more reliable than they actually are.
Not non-sense. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100427/1437179198.shtml
Literally the largest automotive company by volume, as of 2017 lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manufacturers_by_motor...
I can see the value, but I think it may well be limited... it takes a fair amount of work to setup a GraphQL data source for an application. That effort may or may not be worth the return, and will vary case by case. I can definitely see why Facebook and Netflix use it.
Did mostly the same, went to Taste of the Wild and the food helped but not entirely. Vet recommended Apoquel and it does a much better job of controlling itching. It does have a usual list of major and minor side effects but so far, so good.
PayPal owes me $200.

Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19773036
The Met prefers a metric where adding an arbitrarily large number of clown faces to the database significantly increases their performance metric.
just keep doing it... one day it'll come down to 75%
hmm, gets me wondering if that's why my car can't climb hills when on AC.
Probably true that white or reflective coating would be better, but even with black there would be much less green house effect inside the car. The windows would heat up though and would be cooled by the air outside.
They can claim it all they want. When I go to a water-involved activity, my phone goes into a zipper-lock plastic bag that is ostensibly for pills, but is exactly the size required for my phone. Then that bag goes opening-end first into another zippered plastic bag. A capacitative touch screen still works through two layers of plastic water resistance. It's usually the direct sunlight that makes it unusable.

Even if I wasn't worried about the water, what about beach sand?

If an advertisement told me my phone was bulletproof, and showed a video of one getting shot, I would take extra precautions to ensure that it never came into contact with loose bullets, and to store it well away from ammunition or containers that previously held ammunition. That is how much I proactively mistrust ad content.
Yeah, this issue is not a big deal imo. It is an inconvenience, that may piss people off, but it is not a showstopper. I’m sure a minor revision will be made and most of us will not even remember this.

I hope this issue doesn’t delay preorders, because I don’t even care if my unit has this issue.
The National Forest is one such organisation.

https://www.nationalforest.org/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Forest_(England...
Hey, would you please not post in the flamewar style to Hacker News? It's quite against the spirit of the site and its rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The idea here is to exchange information thoughtfully and to treat others kindly even when they are ignorant or wrong. If you know more, share some of what you know in a way that the rest of us can learn from. Don't post comments to put others down or bash their views.

We don't have these rules for ethical reasons or because we think it's good to be wrong. It's just that we want this place to stay interesting, and when internet users flame each other, that destroys the forum and causes smart people to leave. We want to avoid that scorched-earth outcome.
May I suggest that you up whatever success metrics you have because a 19% success rate is abysmal. I swear we have no quality standards in our industry, let alone strong ethics.
Is there any good local DNS proxy server that transforms classic DNS to DNS-over-HTTPS, for applications that don't implement it natively (such as Desktop Chromium) ?
Nope. The account isn't deleted, it's locked. And if they did need to delete the data they could easily delete everything from when they were under age.
I believe that "something" was meant to be a contribution to a large scale, disruptive, political movement, not an individualist act of changing diet or similar. So yes, "do something" but not if what you do is ineffective.
I feel like saying “its correct 99.9%” of the time should only said for real sample sets of input data.
I have yet to work with a commercial facial recognition product that produced a reasonable number of false positives or negatives when dealing with 'live' data like that of a security feed of a crowd. Is there a facial recognition model or tool out there that actually works in that use case? It seems like the Met's police got sold some technological snake oil that wasn't close to ready.
For context on "is FreeBSD any good?" > FreeBSD foundation has a list of testimonials from users of FreeBSD including Netflix, Whatsapp etc. Many security focused and trusted companies.

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/testimonials/
I remember years ago I frequented a popular vanilla Minecraft server with a few hundred regular players. The world boundaries were somewhat tighter than they needed to be. The first resource to be exhausted wasn't ore, or trees, but sand.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll stop recommending this.
Lookyloo: scrape a website and displays a tree of domains calling each other
This also looks painful: https://community.rstudio.com/t/magrittr-inside-a-package/20...
If you’re a coder, what about github pages?
If technology isn't the problem, it isn't the solution
This is a horrible idea, California doesn't have the ability to enforce such a law, and hackers would simple operate from outside California

Bad idea
Even on constant full blast with the smallest battery Tesla sells, it's only gonna use ~2-3% per hour. Over 8 hours that would be 44 miles off the 220 mile range.

> but it is probably the only reason I'm considering a Tesla if it ever comes to my city

Hmm, Telsa should be pretty reachable. Perth and El Paso look like some of the only neglected hot cities.
2015 and later variants of the Prius already have this via the solar roof option: https://www.jpauleytoyota.com/blog/how-does-the-toyota-prius...

“If you want to activate the solar powered ventilation system before you get out of the vehicle it is a simple process. On the left side of the steering column, you will find a small square button with a car and fan on it. Press this button before you turn off your vehicle and you are all set. Next time you get in your Toyota Prius it will be nice and cool.”

Edit: apparently it’s limited to running the fan, there’s also a remote a/c option that’ll run for a few minutes off of battery before you get to the car.
My personal page has a front end font size range in 30s and 40s.

ive done that because mobile reading the page would see microdots instead of characters at 14 pt font.

i read and access at the ass end, the front is for mobies
i havnt wanted to use JS to check and set font as i really dont want to build a JS site.
Interview with Aidan Harper of 4 Day Week Campaign
I wrote this article a couple of months ago and didn't expect it to appear on my news feed all of the sudden. Thanks for the love everyone. Any questions are welcome of course!
Electric flight could take off for short-haul flights by 2022
How does this compare to humans? If you have a human police officer watching a crowd and singling out "suspects", what percentage of those are innocent?
Yeah. I remember the Chevy Volt (Electric w/ gas reserve) was decently covered/had decent popularity back in the early 2010's. I think there was another notable pure electric one as well.
I wish if something similar was available for binary data, im not aware of any.
I wonder if you can expand on why you think it will take decades to build out the charging infrastructure. I've seen it suggested that technology adoption S curves have been getting faster and faster over the last hundred years. The power grid exists everywhere you'd want to charge a car already. It seems a petty simple job to go the last hundred feet to the parking space. My perception was that the liming factor is the price of batteries more than anything else. It's widely expected that once batteries reach $100/kWh, electric cars will cost less than an ICE car. At that point, I'd expect these cars to really take off quickly.
The created technology is totally unfit for it's purpose, so no, it does not count as an "achievement."

If they wanted to spend money on something that doesn't work, they should have purchased darkpuma™ brand divination rods.
it'd be a great way to donate solar panels to local teens
https://www.solar-electric.com/me-sbc.html These are nice and I like weatherproofing them rather than buying a pricier marine-grade solution

Power HARVESTING and having a downtime/idle hours is key in my experience.

I like the Banana Pi Pro because it has onboard wireless and two camera channels built in. People often get third party bolt-ons that further complicate power consumption issues.
Personally, I use Jaxx Liberty on my iPhone.

I have the backup phrase in a safe.

I do not have a lot of value invested in crypto assets. If you intend to store larger amounts, I wouldn’t recommend this set-up.
It would help but the glass windows (greenhouse effect) are probably a bigger factor.
Block Access to Particular IP Address on Mac
For distributed data stores, with collectives of data across different databases/clusters it starts to make more sense.

If you're using a column store structure for most data, you're mainly doing individual lookups based on a single key, graph data in another key/keys, and related keys looked up separately. Each optimized for the single record(s).

Especially since distributed/collectively this data will be accessed faster than a single rdbms would be able to manage.

That said, if your application can/does use a single sql datastore, and you don't need that much scale, the effort to setup/configure GQL may not be worth it in a given instance.
There are quite a few of these things (Dahl, Jsonnet, etc).
and I've always thought it would be impossible to get a large enough team to learn them.

At a pervious organization I worked I wrote a Kubernetes manager (docker build + kube config generation + blue/green deploy) that was essentially TOML + Jinja (we we're a python shop). A django + pg + redis app would look like [1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/pnegahdar/1e90f42c1686009e1ff9392b79...

There were definitely some limitations to doing this (some good, like reduced kubernetes surface) but in the end I think we got a large percent of the team writing kubernetes configs through cargo-culting while having generally sane defaults, environment isolation, etc.

I wonder how organizations get people to use these things in a broad way? I'd still be hesitant to write what was described above in something like jsonnet even though it would be much more semantically correct -- I can't imagine getting anyone outside of the ops team to use it!

Generally though, TOML works really well with templating languages (jinja, golang templates, etc) if you include some helper funcs. You can even pass the toml to itself on rendering til you hit a fixed point for references and such.
I am a feverent user of data.table and try to avoid dplyr when ever possible. I have colleagues who are exactly the opposite. No one cares.

If you want efficient code, try not to use dplyr. If you want readable code, data.table isn't the best answer. If you want speed, there are better languages than R to choose from, even with Rcpp.

If you want to get something done, go with whatever you know best and will do the job.

Avoid Stata.
Yeah, but nearly every other HN comment is either

1) wringing its hands about a problem that probably has less of an impact on construction prices than a single NIMBY catching a cold and missing the next zoning meeting

2) suggesting an alternative that would charitably be 1000x the current market clearing price, ignoring the fact that there are probably alternatives at 1.2x, 1.3x, and 1.8x the current price that will kick in long before the 1000x solution would become relevant

.

There are many things that markets handle poorly, but this is not one of them, and the stupidity on display in this comments section is a stark reminder why markets are a good default choice for coordinating human activity.
There's a project management lesson here.

Raspberry Pi 4 was planned for 2020, but the Broadcom SOC went final much sooner than expected, so they shipped the Pi 4 this year.

This sounds like a great thing, but the earlier release meant that the board as a whole spent less time being used internally before release, and they didn't have the time to shake out bugs like this.

The lesson: when you move to a faster release cadence, you need to be more rigorous about QA because you have less time to find problems before release.
Languages with a garbage collector will be able to avoid some of the worst memory errors.
> Reforestation BY ITSELF cannot be enough.

Of course it's not. That's stated very clearly in the article.
>With Cue, I personally think it is uglier than TOML and Dhall and only slightly less reader-ambiguous than YAML

I think you're missing the main point of these languages.

YAML, TOML, JSON are all basically the same thing modulo syntactic differences, which are largely a matter of taste.

Dhall, Cue, Jsonnet, BCL, etc. are in a different league - they allow you to express some computations with data in your config. It helps you to eliminate boilerplate and duplication in your config, avoid copy-paste mistakes, make configs more concise, express some complex abstractions specific to your domain. They're miniature programming languages for your configuration data.

If all you have is a few dozen key/value pairs to specify, it doesn't really matter which you choose, just a matter of taste. But as your config files suddenly span thousands LoC, duplicate same things over and over, need to configure dozens of different things (e.g. with jsonnet out of a single jsonnet source you can generate multiple configs for basically anything json/yaml/ini driven), get edited by multiple teams and you start looking for better ways to structure this mess, that's when these more advanced config languages come in to rescue your sanity.
I know the feeling (of feeling something in the comments that maybe isn't there).
I don't live in the US, as far as I'm aware there's only one Tesla store in my country and it's nowhere near me.
The EV is the new iphone and everyone is struggling to create the next android.
But you still need that "anyone" doing their job in order for superstars to function. So, you need a team in place in order to produce some value. Admittedly some members of the team are easier to replace and paid accordingly, but saying that just a few specialists produce "all the value" while others are just sitting there and using up the oxygen is just plain wrong.
We won’t control Libra, promises Facebook’s blockchain boss
Are there any videos of these presses? The process sounds interesting: the entire industrial capacity of the world to produce these is only a dozen a year? How many are there, and how long does each one take? Surely not that long...
I don't understand what you mean exactly.
Wow, so there may be an upside to the fact that I get colds so damned easily? Cool!
I've not written a site from scratch in a few years (3 or 4) until recently, CSS has got a lot more complex (and yet also slightly easier as most of the core is the same across 98% of in-use browsers).

I hadn't done flexbox or css grid, didn't know what rem was, hadn't used calc(), or media queries that target based on viewport size.

Just spin-up a Wordpress instance sounds easy but most people will need/want a few plugins and things start getting complicated fast.

Before long you're handling passing special headers by modifying .htaccess and looking at Leaflet.js source code ... just to stick up a simple WordPress site.

And you still missed a million 'basics' like resizing media appropriately and adding aria-labels, and your site is not SEO friendly, and you didn't handle backups yet, ...
Ah but this is government procurement, so the fact its running at all makes it a success, and only 2 years late and 3x over budget.
The corrosive effect of misallocated inherited wealth. For context, BMW's biggest shareholders are the Quandt/Klatten family.

Through the entire supply chain, hundreds of thousands of jobs and massive impact on the wider economy, electrification, competitive effects in the energy market, and climate change, all depending on a handful of people.

People who (in this particular context) have no particular motivation for..really anything, with virtually infinite inherited wealth. Especially not to rock the boat or drive any vision forward.

That, in a nutshell, is why Germany's car industry is dying long-term. VW ownership same thing via Porsche SE.

I find this incredibly interesting, how entire economies ultimately lag and long-term may fail on the bottleneck of a few randomly selected people. Interestingly, there seems to be no good way out because disowning individuals for the collective good is a path that historically does not tend to work well for innovation either.
They have definitely been getting things done though. What have you done? Or what other group is there? Insisting on perfection while doing nothing better is really unhelpful and actually works against the cause.
Uh oh. I was planning to set up my new home server with FreeBSD next week, but after reading this I’m a bit concerned...

It would have been interesting to have some more info on this part too:

>It does not go in depth about changing FreeBSD's more serious low-level problems that require code changes.

Does anyone have any resources to read up on this? I’ve been reading “The design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system” by the way.
Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites
I believe that was a novel by Richard Matheson, author of Twilight Zone episodes, I am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson
Even though this is true, I actually think I agree with the premise that Tesla was a big deal here. For all that is wrong with Tesla, they made electric cars really cool, even to car people. I think that step was an important but incredibly difficult step.

The Prius is fine. Practical vehicles. Probably still a more reasonable choice for many. But, Tesla made electric cars look like the future, even to the average person.

I must add that I am not really a Tesla zealot. I drive a Civic, Teslas seem too expensive (not necessarily over priced, just too expensive for me) and have their fair share of issues. But what they did for the perception of EVs is different than what anyone else has done imo.
London police’s face recognition system gets it wrong 81% of the time
Indeed. And considering the hundreds of millions[1] of people who pass through london’s stations each year, that would means hundreds of thousands of false positives.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_London_Under...
Servers are expensive, and if you do it all on the server, you spend more scaling. Clients connecting have their own compute resources that are effectively free in terms of growth of a system as a whole.

GQL allows for the client UI/UX to describe what it needs, and the backend delivers that, within the context of well defined data structures that can then be distributed.

There's a cost to setting this up, but in the case of Facebook or Netflix, absolutely worth taking on. For a few hundred users, not so much.
As a kid the differences between Canadian and American grocery stores was amazing. Especially chocolate bars.

Not so different anymore, aside from the prevalence of corn based sweeteners.
There aren’t any other medications that we give for the cold. I think you are thinking of antivirals given to people with early stage influenza. Different disease, with different treatments.
Regarding the English referendum vote to leave the European Union, Corbyn is part of Labour leave, which is a left wing organization.
https://www.newstatesman.com/2016/04/piers-corbyn-interview-...
Thanks for the wikipedia mention, I hadn't realized he'd had a publicly listed business which essentially gambled on near term climate predictions based on his methodology.
As a climate hysteria fence sitter, I find his allegations and claims interesting.