skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of that study.

It suggests there may be an opportunity for a company to push rooftop solar for big strip malls and other large footprint single owner buildings - they aren't utility scale, but the install efficiencies make them pretty competitive.

The incentives would be tricky, since the owners are less likely to be paying for utilities than the leaseholders...
I haven't found a good replacement for Excel, maybe its because I learned all my shortcuts in it and anytime I go to something else it just feels "off". I would say the learning curve wasn't to bad for short documents or non-technical stuff I would say word has the edge because its east to just open a new document and type away. For my thesis I chose to use LaTeX because anytime I would try to insert a figure or a table into word it would destroy the whole pages formatting , and equations in word are just awful to format. I saw a picture once that showed exactly how I feel about LaTeX's difficulty I'll see if I can find it.

edit: here it is
http://blog.adnanmasood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mikte...
That's not what Palantir Gotham does. It's much closer to a sophisticated database and Tableau than some sort of big-brother invasive nightmare.
Kind of curious what the incentive is for the individual members to keep their costs low other than group identification?
Fascinating. The page manages to bypass uBlock Origin and pop up an ad window in the right bottom corner to start paying heavy (which my computer and connection can barely handle) video with sound (!) automatically.
Agreed, Golden Cheetah is incredible. I stopped using TrainingPeaks and SportTracks when I found it
You is you. The user.
I do not control the zoom local server, and I do not control what the zoom server answer as the cors header.
Having cors enabled in my browser do not save me from anything in this case.
It seems to me that if a logic programming language with nondeterministic search and residuation were used to implement a compiler, the question of how many "passes" it has could be as moot and unimportant as counting the "number of stack frames" used in an imperative program. That is, I do not see why things could not be organized so that all the (pieces of) transformations are like actors in an actor model, and either act immediately or wait on data. In turn, whether their output is processed in another batch (layer) or immediately is just an optimization choice of the compiler compiler optimizer.
Given the enormous amount of cerosine burned while keeping these helicopters in air, I wonder why operating an armada of drones isn't cheaper. This could even solve the satellite issue (the orbital distance gives the signal valuable milliseconds delay) by spawning some long range wireless network.
>I also dearly miss when IT was in the data center and not accessible to the general office staff.

If you ever find such a magical place again, please let me know if they're hiring!
He didn't say anything about big companies being exclusive to disasters.
The turning point is quite rapid. I like to get my updates on renewable energy from oilprice.com, because I don't think it has the "rah-rah" excessively optimistic bias on renewables that some other online new sources can. If "oilprice.com" tells you renewable is starting to displace coal, it is likely true.

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Ren...
There are to this day computer science researchers having conniptions about the impossibility of massively parallel lock-free architectures based on eventual consistency. Yet literally all they must do is open their eyes and see the truth!
I'm unsure how I feel about this ethically. I don't disrespect anyone doing it, but the situation feels wrong. The discounted end price should have been the first price, or you've transferred costs into a real world loss for the system overall against your payment, and some imputed cost gap.

Overall I think a NHS is better.
I'm not sure it would remain a partisan issue if a national ID were used, assuming that there were also good mechanisms in place to make sure everyone can easily get their ID card for free.

The reasons attempts to require voter ID at polling places is currently a partisan issue include:

1. The level of voter fraud is very low, and what little there is almost always would not be prevented by voter ID at the polling place. It usually takes place by absentee ballots, or is based on registering people to vote who should not be eligible (which can be addressed someone by ID requirement--but at registration, not at the polls).

2. When deciding what forms of ID are acceptable, there has been a remarkable correlation between whether a given form is allowed, and whether or not a significantly larger fraction of white voters have that form of ID than do black or Hispanic voters.

3. The same people that pass these voter ID laws have also, in many states, cut the budgets of the state agencies that issue IDs, generally be closing offices that can issue IDs and reducing the hours of those that remain. The closures have tended to be of offices that serve largely black or Hispanic populations, and the cutbacks in hours of the remaining offices have tended to eliminate weekend and evening service. I've read several stories about people who to get an ID had to take a two hour bus ride to reach one of the remaining offices, and had to take a day off work to do it, which was quite a hardship for them.

In short, the current push for voter ID has almost nothing to do with insuring the integrity of the election process. It's about trying to make it harder for to vote for groups of voters that have historically voted against the party that is pushing for voter ID laws.

If we had a national ID, issued by the Federal government rather than state governments, with a strong commitment to make sure everyone who was eligible received their card, and a Federal law that said any state voter ID check must accept the national ID card, it could probably be done in a way that avoids #2 and #3.
Zoom did control the localhost server, you did not.

If zoom made the localhost server answer the cors header with '*', what you can do?
> Is there a way to know definitively if an address is "local" rather than "wide"?

If the routing table entry for the address is a single interface entry, then it's 'local', if it has a gateway hop it's probably 'wide'.
Whataboutism and glossing over the huge sacrifices in freedom of expression and democracy that both countries would lose if they were to be taken over, well Taiwan at least. HK is already lost mostly. The people of both countries do not want it.

And you're entirely wrong about China being unwilling to use violence. 30 years ago they committed an atrocity in order to silence protest. They just don't think the risk-reward is worth it.
> For example, my anthropologist parents used Access for analyzing their manually gathered census data for a small rural village.

That's surprising. Most of the time, this is what Excel & Wordpress are used for by non-techies, since both FileMaker and Access feel daunting to most of them. Maybe this is exclusive to museums? This is anecdotal, but I've worked in a lot of different industries, and in all of them everyone maintaining FileMaker or Access were also knowledgeable enough to code in those platforms ie. they were techies before they started using FM or Access
You are overreacting and protecting your preferred people. What is HN running on again?

If this is a personal attack, there are literally 10-50 of these per day in arbitrary threads.
The Streaming Wars: Its Models, Surprises, and Remaining Opportunities
> [Warning] [blocked] The page at https://wybiral.github.io/localtoast/ was not allowed to display insecure content from http://127.0.0.1/. (index.js, line 172)

You sure about your claims? Your own website exhibits a countering argument.
> The major browsers I've tested — Safari, Chrome, Firefox — all allow web pages to send requests not only to localhost but also to any IP address on your Local Area Network! Can you believe that? I'm both astonished and horrified.

I'm sorry but WtF who is this guy, every web developer will know this, and every developer should expect it since it's just an extension of basic networking knowledge applied to web browsers. It's not horrifying, it's basics, a great many things have depended on this fact to function for a very long time.

Yes functionality can work against you when abused, no this is not a special case.
Why do you want him to? Why do you support the CCP? Why the new account?
Stylus can often undo that by styling the popup elements as "display: none !important;"
If a moderate sized location goes out of business would solar panels have decent resale value?
And this is how you end up with 12 branches in a reducer, 4 in render, 4 state types, 4 action types, 4 action creators, plus the mapDispatchToProps definitions, all to handle a simple network call that could have been:

const App : React.FunctionComponent = () => {
const { loading, data, error } = useMagicFetch(...);

if (error) return <Error error={error} />;
if (loading) return <Loader />;

return <DataList data={data} />;
}

But then you lose the benefits of serializable / replayable / shared state. Mind you, I've built multiple apps that ended up not too far from this, and am eagerly looking for alternatives.
The implied distinction is that adherence to principle is what distinguishes Mozilla from Google. If Mozilla is willing to sell out its principles on this instance, then when else will it be willing to sell out its principles?
It isn’t housing first, I’ve never agreed with that name for their approach, it is disingenuous at best. The policies, as described in any “housing first” policies I’ve encountered, are more reasonably described as “supportive housing first”.

If you place a chronically homeless, bi-polar, heroin addict into an apartment they will not get better, they will continue their previous life until they’ve broken their lease and are evicted; none of the “housing first” programs aimed at the “visibly homeless” we’re talking about do this, they provide housing along with a robust support system to get these people medical and mental healthcare as well as addiction recovery. It is a good model but I’ve too frequently seen them mischaracterized as just providing free rent, that isn’t what they do and that would fail. They are essentially just a reimagined mental health institute with far more freedom for the patients.
Sounds like this is being done on purpose to sell more support services and to hinder international migration of specialists.
In case anybody knows, what will happen to those batteries? Can they be recycled in any way?
A default password and hardcoding a private key are two very different things.
Thanks for this and filing the github issue as well. I put together a tutorial to walk through usage in more detail: https://github.com/firestuff/architype/blob/master/TUTORIAL....
A muggle's guide to Awk arrays: 2
Sure you can probably port your code over just fine, but it's going to take 3 years for another cloud provider to build an entire airgapped datacenter and launch each internal service in it. Considering the CIAs 600 million dollar contract got an entire one dedicated for them, I wouldn't be surprised if this contract which goes up to 10 billion dollars ended up involving multiple new regions. As I said, another cloud provider won't be able to simply just take over those datacenters and install their software, they'll probably have to build their own airgapped datacenters which will take years.

So no, there is no way it's going to be easy for them to port over to another cloud provider.
So putting the other hospital patients and nurses at risk? Western State Hospital has regular assaults against the staff and other patients.
Protiens? Every particle in every atom is solving exponential-time problems constantly, in parallel. That's the quantum chemistry perspective. :)
$5b is a record fine for this... I’m sure they agonised and struggled to get it this high. It’s not even been ratified yet.

Can you really see a headline of a $10/20/50b fine for Facebook?
It might be worth considering that when the problem is "How do we help the mentally ill and destitute among us?" and the answer is "Fundamentally reformulate how Americans relate to their government", some might see a measure of disconnection between the two. Certainly it's a big ask that offers little in the way of obvious gradual steps.
I suppose the word "system" is doing the bulk of the work here. An ID as a platonic thing is just something that uniquely identifies me, and we have an infinity of integers that would work just fine for that, SSNs being a subset of the integers too. As part of a system, though, this ID should not just only identify me and only me, but no one should be able to identify themselves with any other ID. You can probably classify this into a complete system as a form of authorization to identify, or a process of authentication to be done on ID usage, or a process of verifying an ID or ID derivative (like a signature) which may or may not require authentication.

There are many ways of implementing this from photos to fingerprints to passwords to (my preference) smartcards that never expose the real ID and rely on asymmetrical encryption.
Cloudflare lets their customers write their own WAF regex rules right?

And those rules still get run on every box on cloudflares edge network with HTTP requests from strangers on the internet right?

So how come this didn't get triggered by a customer first?

Perhaps it did get triggered by a customer first, but that customer didn't get too much traffic of the URL which triggers the issue, and that box got one thread stuck executing that regex for a few minutes till a health check killed it...? Does this imply that cloudflare runs with random failing health checks across the fleet and there isn't someone looking at core dumps of such failures?

That would align with my experience with seeing occasional "502 bad gateway" errors from cloudflare over the past few years. It also seems likely considering the incident where cloudflare servers leaked sensitive memory contents into HTTP responses which happened so frequently they got cached by google search. Hard to leak arbitrary memory contents without occasional SIGSEGV's...

If the above conjecture is true, it reflects very badly on engineering culture at Cloudflare. The core issue had been seen across the fleet sporadically for a long time, but was ignored, and even during the postmortem process, which should be a very thorough investigation, the telltale pre-warning signs of the issue were still missed.
Yes, and in both cases the language should provide tools so you don't have to deal directly with those edge cases. For example in Julia, for modular arithmetic with 1-based indexing there is mod1 [1], and for iterating in Julia you should use eachindex which will always work for both 0 or 1 indexed arrays.

[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/math/#Base.mod1

[2] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/arrays/index.html#Base...
I'm inclined to agree. That being said, having been prescribed zyprexa for type 1 bipolar, anything that leads treatment away from the standard trope of what in my opinion is nothing other than a strong off-label tranquilizer for these symptoms is a positive thing in some regard.
Frankly I don't get why people install solar except in consistently sunny places like Hawaii, Arizona and some parts of California. Financially you're pretty much always better off paying utility rates. If you _really_ care about the environment, there's currently no cleaner tech than nuclear, even after you factor in things like nuclear waste and a couple of major disasters. If you only "woke" care about the environment but not really, utility renewables are much better both in the short and the long run, so again, just pay your utility for electricity and vote in the lawmakers who will set up the incentive structure to make that happen. You'll be paying twice as much for electricity (as Germans are now finding out), but I'm sure it's worth it to some.
This. My mom emails me once a day, as a heartbeat sort of thing, since she lives alone with her cat. She started this when she read a cat started feeding on her owner after she died.

However, it is often the start of a conversation, and I also call her on the way to work 2-3 times a week. I think it has really kept her mood up, compared to before we did this. She's 80.
5 billion is a truck load of cash and any company with the least competitive capacity will be willing to spend up to 4.999.999.999 to avoid paying it.
Example of the US being treated differently:

> Choose your area

> Include the USA or exclude it. It’s that simple.

> Area 1 – Worldwide

> Area 2 – Worldwide, excluding the USA

Adding the US nearly doubles the cost:

Foundation: £1,121.86 -> £2,042.96

(other policies omitted - difference is roughly proportional)

Prestige: £4,838.85 -> £8,707.48

Prestige + Dental: £5,208.19 -> £9,380.09

Prestige Plus: £5,856.55 -> £10,560.74

(basic quote - 1 person, ordinarily resident in the UK)

https://www.axaglobalhealthcare.com/en/international-health-...
The lack of national unity makes something like the Apollo program impossible today. Every presidential administration I have memory of living through has announced grandious plans with congress eventually pulling the plug on it just after the planning stage. What national motivation is there to retake old ground? Or to go to mars which many believe is practically a biological impossibility? Nasa vets have all seen this time and time again. Morale must be pretty bad. Apollo was canceled because congress did not think it was worth the funds to keep it going. It is not going to be either cheap or easy to go back. Besides we don't even have a working human spaceflight program and have not for years.
The Zoom bug and this resulting blog pos is going to escalate things massively in the White/black hat communities.

Scary times.
Not sure if it's still the largest, but this plant is a few hours drive away from where I live in Phoenix:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2014/04/29/behold-th...

That's 2400 acres and it's up and running - so I assume permitted and connected to the grid. But I don't know the the total cost to compare things - I'd assume rather cheap, because Yuma is...not a "destination" (outside of maybe a stopover for the dunes).
There is also Ragel [0], but I think that in this context deploying regexes as strings is safer than generating code and deploying that code (unless Ragel could generate webassembly).

[0]: http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
the Firefox QA plan didn’t incorporate
testing for certificate expiration (or
generalized testing of how the browser
will behave at future dates) and
therefore the problem wasn’t detected

A few years ago I tried to find a VM or something similar that would let me test software with clock offsets applied. At the time, most of the VMs I looked at had prioritized the much more common requirement of not having the guest OS clock become inaccurate.

Does anyone know the state of the art in integration testing software for future dates?
Europe didn't get the opioid crisis. It is a "uniquely American problem" that we created by over-prescribing highly addictive opioids and then kicking them off the prescriptions once it became clear that they were addictive. That drove many people onto illegal drugs like heroin.
Is there a greater causation or correlation for mental illness and drug adddiction than poverty?
I'm somewhat amazed how many people on here seem to be happy that large tech companies are forced to pay giant fines to the government when their salaries are paid or propped up by the market created by these same companies.

I'm not saying FB has done no wrong, but is it really 100 times worse than Equifax, Wall Street banks and a host of other more malicious corporate offenders that got a slap on the wrist and a small 1-2 digit fine?
Yikes. This case study isn't in any way conclusive, but it also doesn't claim to be. You need a better reason than that to write it off as "garbage".

I have bipolar disorder. My uncle had schizophrenia. YEARS without an episode AND without medication is an exciting prospect for many people, including myself. I don't understand why you are so negative towards preliminary findings that may point to a route of treatment that doesn't require neuroleptics, which as you correctly point out, can cause cognitive impairment.
>> What measuring profit does, which many people hate, is reveal what people actually value.

IDK. there are non-profits helping women and children who suffered domestic violence, and some of those activities are state supported.

People don't really donate and cover those expenses out of their free will.

Still, helping those women and children is objectively a very valuable thing.

So maybe, people shouldn't be the only ones determining what's valuable ? And hence, maybe profit shouldn't be the only thing determining what's valuable ?
Sounds like what some model checkers do. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_model_checker for example.

Spin homepage http://spinroot.com/spin/whatispin.html

SPIN's language Promela is very odd, like stripped down basic from the 1980s but even more reduced after that.

Edit: a bit more from the spin site FYI "[spin] checks the logical consistency of a specification and reports on deadlocks, race conditions, different types of incompleteness, and unwarranted assumptions about the relative speeds of processes"

I wish so much I had reason to use it. I so much wish my programming career wasn't the daily, usually boring, straightforward business support. I'd love to work with TLA, formal methods, this and more but there seems no way to do get a job doing this. Any thoughts welcome. Been trying to learn hoare logic but it all seems so abstract, and it's easy to misunderstand things with no-one to ask. Anyway, sorry for the whinge.
The problem is 15/20% gets into scary headlines that nobody wants to be behind
This Bull Run Is Fundamentally Different Than the Previous One. Here’s Why
Really interested in this, can you provide some more depth/links to articles about how this works?
COBRA prices are exactly what the company + the employee pay, plus 3% for administrative overhead. What it illuminates is just exactly how much health care costs combined, even when the number the employee is paying is large, but manageable.

Employers now document their insurance costs for each employee on their W-2 forms, in case you want to see how much yours is paying for you.
They very likely have continuous deployment. So each change could potentially be released as a separate deploy. If the changes have changed to the data model, they gotta run a migration. So hundreds seems reasonable to me.
Who's ginning up that terror? Where there's an irrational fear, there's usually a vested interest involved.
Pretty much everyone involved in the infosec community has known and understood this for the past 20 years or more. I'm not sure how this can make things any worse. If anything it will make things better because now more people are learning how the web is actually designed, right?
The title seems way overblown. The actual paper observes that cloud cover went down at the same time as temperature went up over the last few decades, and so perhaps the temperature went up because cloud cover went down rather than because of anything humans did. The IPCC has one correction factor for clouds, but they argue for another.

It doesn't ask the question "why did cloud cover go down?" Perhaps they are both anthropogenic.
Addressing the causes of that being a high-cost housing market, or even just walking through the though exercise of why it is that and what might change the situation, is recommended.