skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the challenges I had as a farmer wanting more automation is that I had trouble convincing people that we need to go towards small-medium sized autonomous field equipment because economies of scale will evaporate with large equipment/massive operations and maintainability/repairs need to be manageable.

This study somewhat validates what I had been saying all along. The future is smaller farms(sub 500 in the USA on medium size and sub 100 for small size equipment)supported by fleets of automated machinery.

I see automation in farming happening only if we switch to small/medium sized operations patchworked as a network with fleets/swarms of Ag bots.
Or it is under ideal conditions/weight, if you use a smaller example rider but users tend to be heavier (maybe scooter riders don't like walking as much?) then that would lead to reduced mileage, pure speculation of course.
I suggest you check out the rules for Show HN and try posting it as a Show HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/show
The issue is prison is about "doing time".
If someone doesn't want to "get better" then that is the thing you treat.

I didn't watch the video mostly because I don't know what it contains and I have kids around.
Making the assumption that it's about people who want to be homeless, honestly that's fine. There's nothing inherently wrong about being homeless if that's what you want. The problem is people causing public health issues because they defecate in public areas, tear apart trash bins, or cause other issues like attacking other people... none of which is acceptable to society.
These people may not want to be part of society, but they are living where society exists.
I wonder why there is no timestamping used on the binaries.

If I sign a binary with Authenticode on Windows and I use a timestamp server, Windows still considers the binary signature valid, even if the certificate expired because it can verify that at the time of signing the certificate was valid.

If you don't use a timestamp server when signing the binary, after certificate expiration the binary is considered invalid.
Not the op, but I believe your statement is also a massive oversimplification.

Increasing taxes raises the cost to the individual, but it also raises costs for all their neighbors, and results in community improvement (ideally).

Is investing an attack on your financial interests?
I remember using Opera coupled with a Java program which repeatedly took screenshots to create rudimentary online streaming. This was back before Twitch.tv, when web streaming was low-quality. The screenshot stream allowed me to clearly read the text chat and monitor enemy player activity in an MMORPG running at home, from school computers.

Good times
If the window is in the sun, your major problem is unlikely to be window insulation. It’s solar heat gain. Sunlight carries a lot of power — about 1 kW per square meter. If your window lets all of that power in, then your AC needs to consume a couple hundred watts to send it back out again. What you need are windows with low solar heat gain coefficients (SHGC), which is mostly independent of insulation. Or you can get window treatments that are shiny on the side facing the window.
In my case I would’ve received treatment for a serious neurological issue sooner but for the fact that the hospital did not extend to me an honest price for the treatment. I think this kind of thing effectively amounts to denying some patients treatment and should be treated as such.

We went in the ER and I was admitted. The five day course of treatment on admission we were told would run in the vicinity of $20,000. Something I could afford given the extreme circumstances if insurance were to deny it (longer story there).

But the next day we were told that insurance would deny and the total would now end up around $100,000 for the full treatment. Not something we could afford. And I was not in the state of mind or ability to handle this smartly or know I could get a lawyer or try to start some negotiation with them as people might suggest.

So we had to be discharged without completing the treatment. A month later I had been relocated across country to change insurance to a provider that covered it and was able to start treatment. Now we could see that an insurance company was only paying $16,000 for the full course.

This effectively denied me treatment (amongst other things) and caused pretty significant harm.

(This is not ignoring that I am lucky to be in a position to afford a $16,000 treatment bill and many aren’t, but this is to say that when the hospital jacks up the price 7 fold in a situation like this they’re effectively saying “go away we won’t treat you”. They could’ve just as easily given me the real pricing and then I would’ve been able to be treated.)
I just use /etc/aliases to avoid spam
> The classic example is getting the last element of an array.

Good point, in Python I don't notice that the last element is arr[len(arr)-1] because Python provides arr[-1]. I think in general your point is that it's natural for the nth element to be arr[n].

> The reason for zero indexing is historical, related to pointer offsets.

There is that, but Dijkstra's paper makes the case from first-principles that the closed, open interval of [0,n) for sequences is the most appropriate.

> with 1-indexing I can multiply numbers by arrays... 3 x 1 is three...

Sorry, I don't understand this. It makes sense that the point I don't understand is probably most-related to why Julia chose its indexing scheme and why Matlab et al. do the same.

> One nice this about 0-indexing is that I can slice a list in half with the same midpoint.

Yeah, arr[0:index] + arr[index:len(arr)] is the full list. And to your point earlier ("if I take the first nth elements of a list"), len(arr[:n]) == n seems natural.

Edit: I've been trying to formalize why Python's indexing scheme, along with its negative-indexing, is optimal (slight pseudocode):

l = ['a','b','c']
n = len(l)
i = -n
while i < n:
print(l[i++])

prints "a b c a b c". That code makes no reference to any bound but 'n', nor any constants (1,0) or offsets, yet it iterates over the list twice through its range (first negative indices then positive).
Maryland addresses this by setting prices state wide that are the same for all payers. There is an independent commission that sets the prices. https://hscrc.state.md.us/Pages/default.aspx
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I used to work as a network engineer for awhile, now do web development. I worked with a number of cloud providers and you always have to roll out any fix carefully even if you're 100% sure (you're never 100% sure) that you've got the fix.

I honestly just assumed that when customer's chose where they would try things outside their lab, it was lower level customers, less busy part of the network, anywhere the impact isn't as serious. That's where the lowest risk is.

Some customers would discuss their own customer's by name as far as "Should we try this change on Customer Y?" And the discussion would work along those lines.

When I started deploying my own software, I just assumed anything that I was deploying to for free was a sort of "lab light" for them. I also don't mind, it seems fair.

ANY change outside a lab... is its own experiment.
According to the docs, all of the relevant commands accept the password as an argument to the binary itself.

https://help.bitwarden.com/article/cli/
What is this chart even saying?
It's a product tons of people do/will use in every city in the US that doesn't require physical presence, aside from chargers on contract.

How many products can you say that about?

There are only a few things nearly everyone wants: food, housing, transportation, utilities, sex, clothing, medical care, hair cuts, google search.

Nearly all of those require constant in person staff and/or have a ton of regulations. The exception here is Google, which is why they are killing it. Google search-and software in general-makes money while people sleep and doesn't require linear addition of staff to scale.

Other stuff that people buy: e.g. video games, movies, trinkets, rock climbing gym memberships come down to people's personal taste and they might even want some variety (e.g. making a sequel). Everyone wants transportation though and they're OK with the same thing every day, as long as it works.

This is a case where they are taking something with absurd demand and looking for the profit second.
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Yes, it’s quite simple. You just export your data from 1Password and import it into Bitwarden. Don’t forget to delete the plaintext export file after your import process is done.
That's reductive. If I have a choice between a job that offers health insurance and one that doesn't, all other things being equal, I'm definitely taking the former. That's also surely a large part of why it continues to exist.
I think even beyond that, I didn't see a link to any docs in the readme. It may be cool, but I can't use it if there's nothing to tell me how.
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Politicians talk big on health care reform and do nothing. And California’s assembly is over 2/3 Democrat; no Republicans to be the fall guy.
If if you can do this, the fact that the documentation encourages you to do otherwise is extremely worrisome. Securely-written tools shouldn't even allow you to do this in the first place, much less promote it.

https://help.bitwarden.com/article/cli/
We have an old house and the energy auditor was selling us hard on attic air sealing and insulation. Claim was that windows weren’t gonna make as big of an impact given the stack effect. (They’re also historic “wavy glass” windows, and we’d like to keep them.)

Do you think attic air sealing, or more effective attic insulation would have a big impact? It does feel like the roof turns into a radiant heater in the summer.

(The only energy auditor available in the area is also in the business of providing the insulation, which is why I’m skeptical.)
Probably has more to do with the charging people than any bird plan. Was chatting with someone who does that a while back and they go out and collect as many as they can find since they get paid per scooter.

Also there's apparently people out there who both charge and ride the same scooter so they get some VC funded free transportation.
Yes. Web Application Firewall.
the latest shipping update is still Q3 2019 (so 2-5 months away) and yet the marketing page still has a lot of hardware that is TBD: memory, cameras, and battery.

who wants to bet it will be pushed back to 2020?
Those in the near- and medium- future are already lamenting our lack of concern for them :(
Definitely. A lot of our houses were built when a/c wasn’t necessary so you actually wanted to let heat in. The average summer high in LA was in the mid 70s during the 1950s. Now it’s in the high 80s and sometimes hits 100+.

The house my dad grew up in he no a/c. We had to install it in the 1980s. Now it would be unlivable without.

But the thermal profile is terrible. It’s designed to bring heat inside year round.
That isn't just misleading, it's completely wrong.
We're offering a (mostly) closed source solution. You can evaluate the source for the web app, and the browser extensions. If your argument is that folks shouldn't ever consider using something closed source then obviously 1Password is probably not going to be a good fit and we're at a bit of an impasse.

> Edit: also there seems to be a lot of this:

Some, yes. I'm not sure I'd say 'a lot', but yes, it is a work in progress. Our security team should be able to elaborate on any points that we have yet to detail, though, if you're interested.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Performance_Certifica...

The article says UK but it's actually EU.

As with most things, make it a legal requirement.
A bike's wheel has a considerably larger diameter than a typical scooter's. It should be able to handle cracks and potholes much better, since the ratio of pothole-depth to wheel size means it can essentially climb out of the hole, whereas to a scooter, it's like hitting a wall (that the higher center-of-gravity human is then going to be flung over).

That's not to say there's aren't potholes large enough to take out bikes, just that there are a set of potholes that bikes can ignore and scooters cannot. Nor is the above point that bike's don't have danger associated with them. (Largely, idiots in cars.)
ultimately it boils down to strava didn't like it so they found reasons to shut them down. it doesn't matter how bad the reasons are. this is how bully companies operate and it will not change unless users demand the right to control data they generate and push for laws to unlock their data from private silos.
Ahn, so sorry, but that's a very flawed argument.

Arcane knowledge will be an issue with magical spreadsheets, as it is with any software (and I could argue that with custom software you have this legacy knowledge over both code AND ui, which is worse than just a spreadsheet).

The last paragraph is key, though - auditing and access control are tough ones for excel, and there are many tasks that require this functionality.

The trade-off is customizability - any excel can be changed to your specific need whereas that nice and shiny enterprise software you build may lack one or two things which you will never be able to change.
I guess if you only ever use the mobile app, but still there's a desktop app and the browser extension to practice your memory.

The pin thing is a big time saver because typing on mobile still sucks, and I'd have to re-type the master everytime I switch between an app and 1Pass. I certainly wouldn't qualify it as a bad feature.
StackExchange.
I wonder if the editors at Yahoo Finance saw any irony in their publishing of this article.
The government should enforce energy efficient building standards and tax those who don’t comply.
> It's user's data but Strava isn't obligated to serve an API to anyone.

Arguably, it should be. Siloing data and controlling API access is the cornerstone of user-abusive business model.
I, for one, don't miss it. Linux Desktop evangelists are horrifically annoying people to deal with because they look down on everyone, believing themselves superior for using it. Tell them Linux doesn't work for what you're doing and they'll say you should change what you're doing, tell them it is missing essential functionality for you and they'll insist you don't need it, tell them you don't like the way parts of the system work and they'll list a dozen reasons you're wrong. Then, after roundly dismissing all criticism, they'll gaze into the heavens and shout "why won't more people use the Linux Desktop? Is it not pretty enough!?". In short, they're condescending assholes and I'm glad they aren't nearly as prevalent as they used to be.
Any solid arguments in there are just lost with the slant. You could replace "Indian" contractors with "Floridian" contractors and you have the same problem. It's not what they're paid (cause we all know developers are more less equal around the world - right?) it's that they are outside the company and communication adds overhead and potential for error.

Using subcontractors is a hard problem for any complex endeavor. Even the best companies struggle with it.
The hate for Oracle is more about Oracle. Their tech has always been weak, their sales force rabid jerks who manage to be even more annoying that IBM's, and they have always taken an adversarial stance towards their own customers.

The best strategy to pursue with Oracle is never speak to them.
I literally LOLed.
A rollback without understanding is definitely risky. An uninformed rollback is one of the factors that killed Knight Capital Group in 2012. For those not familiar, the actual problem was they failed to update one of a cluster of eight servers, and the server on the old version was making bad trades. They attempted to mitigate with a rollback, which made all eight servers start to make bad trades. In the end they lost $460 million over the course of about 45 minutes.

The full report is here if you're curious: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf
Had a friend get stabbed on Muni three times when he tried to help a woman being sexually assaulted by a homeless man.
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Imagine our energy is solar 90%, don't we lose some risks diversification here just in the case if the state of affairs with the global sunlight conditions will change drastically?
InfluxDB+Chronograf as a shared Node.js logger across services
Perhaps one more option: Lower the standard for involuntarily forcing them into mental health treatment.

Look, the standard needs to be fairly high. But don't these people need to be in treatment for long enough that it actually changes things for them? Is anything else going to work?

Or do we say that their right to not be forced into something they don't want supercedes both their need and the need of society?
You request administrative rights to store the configuration change. With root access malware can just replace Firefox.

Even with signature checks enabled malware can trick users by pointing Firefox shortcuts to a patched browser, changing shortcuts doesn't require root access.
Like that time Banqiao dam burst and killed 100,000 people...
If I have to paraphrase and use a popular dialogue, the first rule of the standalone license is you don’t talk about the standalone license. You won’t find anything in the website. You’d have to email support to figure out how to buy it. It’s that big a secret.
Balance billing is a total scam. One time I broke my hand while in another city. I went to a clinic and they told me they could perform the surgery on site in about an hour and that they would talk to my insurance company. I got a voicemail from the clinic 2 days before my surgery saying they talked with my insurance company and everything was all set. My surgery went fine and took an hour as expected.

My insurance company calculated that the average cost of the surgery should be about 10k and that's what they were willing to pay. 6 months later I got a bill for $150,000 even for the surgery. First, what are the chances that a bill that large is perfectly even? It's an obvious scam that these places will literally try to charge as much as they think they can get away with. They ask for huge numbers hoping to settle above market rate. At no point during this process was I told anything other than you're covered and with a broken hand, it's not exactly easy to do research.
There's no reason for local software to stop working when a remote server is unavailable, reconfigured, neglected, or your clock is wrong. They are doomed if they think this is sustainable.
> Peak solar power output and peak air conditioning load line up pretty well, so that doesn't need storage.

In general, yes, but if you look for a term called the duck curve which characterizes that frequently the load comes up after peak output, or even after sunset. For coastal CA wind often helps fill that offset as winds frequently come up near sunset, but it's not always a guaranteed thing.

So there does need to be some sort of offsetting storage - even if it's fairly short term. But, that gives us a nice set of market niches for renewable storage to grow up though with early smaller uses growing to larger uses. ie. peak offsetting for daily variation at small capacity, to larger uses of multi-day/weekly variation compensation, maybe extended weather variation offset, to massive uses for scales like seasonal offset.

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

PS: and oddly enough, some of the old recommendations for efficiency are backwards for a newer renewable grid: e.g. getting a thermostat that schedules lower temperatures into the evening can push power use to later, vs pre-cooling during the day when you might consume the electric coming off panels w/o the need to store it in a battery.
Too many CA Republicans I guess.
First, I think this is right and that websites shouldn't be able to hit any localhost or private address spaces.

But this leads to a bigger question, what makes private address space special? Not really all that much. Running an internal network using public addresses isn't super common these days but isn't uncommon by any stretch. Does it make any sense that any website on the internet is allowed to hit any other site accessible by your machine that uses a public address? There is definitely a security boundary being crossed here.

Say for example I run a web service that's private to my work's office. So spin up a machine on my VPS account, give it a public address, and lock down the firewall to my office's address range. Someone running Spotify in browser shouldn't have to worry about a malicious page hitting a potentially sensitive internal service.

Does it make any sense for me have to establish a VPN connection to my VPS for the sole purpose of giving it a private address so browsers will block it? Ew. I could also configure a CORS policy but we're talking about a service that used a trick to bypass this protection -- and plus nobody knows how to set that up right anyway.
Isn't this pretty much a proxy, and like how nearly production environment on the web works? I don't see how this is any different than using Nginx or Apache in-front of your "server."

IMHO, if the application is waiting for request to be initiated by a client, and then fulfills the request to the client, it's a server. The networking topology is really something totally different...
Pretty sure you're describing DAT/Beaker browser. I'm not super familiar with it though so could be wrong.
Not ROCs, it's ROCm. AMD's GPU compute libraries. It won't make NVidia better, but will provide an alternative to those who are stuck with NVidia for doing tensorflow, PyTorch stuff.

https://rocm.github.io/
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>>The average summer high in LA was in the mid 70s during the 1950s. Now it’s in the high 80s and sometimes hits 100+.

10 degrees plus in changes over a few decades?
“Medical facilities are forced to artificially inflate bills.”

I don’t think it forces them. I would say it gives them an excuse to do so.
Maybe we don't need the batteries if the synthetic fuel tech becomes good enough (there are companies working on this such as Prometheus and Carbon Engineering). Could it be possible for California to become a major oil producer state with extremely cheap solar? Cover the Mojave desert with solar and convert the excess power into oil? It seems definitely possible if there was a carbon tax (which should exclude such synthetic fuel from the tax since it's carbon neutral when it's burned). Without such a tax, maybe it's possible but much more difficult to compete with fossil oil.
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