skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fishing is such a relief from the world, it really is. I've never fully understood why it of all things had such a powerful draw and effect. As a kid it kept me away from the things that tend to trouble you as a kid. Deep in the woods on a river bank, digging through the stones to see what's hatching, tying knots, whittling while your bobber whirls in an eddy. It's an escape.

As an adult I've turned to spearfishing as well. It's an even more immersive escape, loaded with all of its own techniques, tricks, wonders, surprises, and challenges. Getting in the wetsuit is a hassle but no worse than hooking up a boat and getting it in the water. Really, once you spend your first comfortable moments 10-20 meters under water you might wish you never had to come out.

I've always thoroughly enjoyed reading about the satisfaction and joy others get from fishing as well. I guess it's a mix of vicarious experience and a sense of belonging or familiarity.

As for the unemployment... I don't envy anyone for having time away from work due to not having work. It's the worst, and hard to handle if you have a family when it happens. As a developer I've been incredibly fortunate due to work being so readily available, but 2 brief layoffs are probably the most stressful work related experiences I've had. It just feels terrible.

I wish I went fishing when it happened, haha.
‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi
> If you banned insurance discounts and insurance had to pay the same dollar to dollar cash price (without kickbacks/incentives), it would help the uninsured, it would help re-align patient/insurer motivations (i.e. both demanding low cash prices), it would make price transparency actually meaningful, and it would eliminate insurance networks.

An alternative approach would be to limit how much higher th e price could be compared to the median insurance re-imbursement for a particular procedure. If you set the limit low enough, then going out of network would not be much more expensive. And the total cost of having insurance and using them may be more than just paying out-of-pocket.
Gday

Has anyone actually released info to the public domain or open source to create your own DIY battery

from scratch and diy solar panel from scratch

or is this tech like so much in business/corporations and chinas hands and out of the ability for the average person to make yourself
> Lesson learnt, don’t depend entirely on third party APIs.

What's funny is that Relive doesn't have to depend on Strava. When I knew about the service months ago I signed up expecting to be able to upload a GPX file and get a video back. But no, they want to get those files via Strava (or other cloud services) so I closed my account.

I understand that 1) it removes a lot of friction, 2) it's what the users of Strava are used to and 3) they can get all those juicy data instead of a few files. However it's risky and Strava eventually cut them off.

I wonder if they'll implement a file upload, just live with the other services, or close the business.
Yes, it is. I'm just pointing out that defaul password was a common practice couple of years ago, and one of the companies caught with hardcoded private key is Cisco. If we treated them all like Huawei, we wouldn't have much of the infrastructure left. Which means the whole affair around Huawei is blown out of proportions.
Why would they do that? Amazon is no match for the US government and military complex and pissing them off is the worst business move they could make.
Though post-processing from neural nets seems to close this gap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcZFQ3f26pA
How to brand your rental marketplace in social media
There are private clinics in Europe (and I suspect Canada too) to splurge on, it's not a unique American feature
While I don't like what Microsoft's PAC is doing, and I agree that probably many employees don't really know where exactly the money goes to (OTOH, I'm sure some employees explicitly agree with its political aims!), I also consider it harassment to contact others about their donations.

These are co-workers, for god's sake! The people going around pestering donators aren't some randos on Twitter that you just block. They are people you can reasonably expect to meet in an "official setting" later. They are people some of which you can reasonably expect to be higher up in the hierarchy.

HR is totally right to shut that down, hard.

The activists should do what Maciej is doing here: create publicity. And certainly not contact any of their co-workers directly.
I'm just describing what I think the sequence in the postmortem is. They were already in the poop and wanted to test their fix in a real but low-impact way.
I agree with Chamath Palihapitiya. VC money is like taking steriods. You get the muscles, but it will disappear once you stop taking them.

I have come to the realization that VCs are really bad at distributing resource. For all these pedigrees to show for, they all seems to be playing musical chairs.

Part of the problem I see is that most VCs don't have a founder background and most of them you meet are pretty arrogant.
But, but...when do you get to actually use all these awesome languages?

> Forth, Haskell, Idris, Rust, Lisp.

All great. I would do anything to find a shop that actually uses any one of these instead of the usual boring stuff.

Seriously, how would one proceed to find such places?
Information Security: When Competence Prevails Joachim Schmitz
Some discussion from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19352920
I believe WAF is a feature customers enable, not all customers have it enabled. So some customers are already open, and in theory wouldn't need to be affected by a WAF outage.
A thread about the 2014 edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750354
What do you mean they don't want it? Because there's something lacking?
That description reminds me of: https://youtube.com/watch?v=J1p5zOM96f0
Relive actually does support GPX upload and touts it as a way to still integrate with Strava, albeit by manually downloading the gpx from strava and uploading to relive:
https://support.relive.cc/article/18-import-old-activity
The article says that even lazy matches can have catastrophic backtracking.
What's hydrogen supposed to add? It's just a type of storage, and probably not even the cheapest one.
I'm getting awfully sick of the gov. fucking around with tobacco laws. First, they raise the legal age to 21 in Virginia, and now I have to go to NC to get my stuff. Then Juul pulls all their flavors. What the fuck now? Just leave me alone, please.
Facebook $5B U.S. Privacy Settlement Approved by FTC
True, but greenshifting, cya driven development and derailment by metrics come natural with a multilayered middlemanager organization.
It may not. Just because these people disappear does not mean we fixed the cause. It may simply be that they are housed out of sight in jail or prison.

Also there are many cities that don't have housing affordability crises so no I'm not talking exclusively about rural areas.
I followed your links and ended up in this rather excellent essay:

https://medium.com/the-spike/your-cortex-contains-17-billion...

One of the final points the author makes is that the brain might be a neural network made up of as many as 89 million neural networks.

That's a staggering concept.

If true, I wonder how anyone stays sane with that level of entropy in the system!
Are you suggesting that variable renewables plus batteries will approach prices that are... too cheap to meter?

Looking at current cost VRE trends, when variable sources contribute up to 4% of world energy, and surrounded by massive amounts of cheap but high-carbon natural gas, and assuming that the trends will just continue exponentially downward without serious complication, is optimistic.

Cost of integration of variable sources plus batteries is expected in many studies and somewhat intuitively to skyrocket as market penetration increases. When you have enough VRE to cover 100% including the big evening peak with batteries during a clear summer day, the extra generation you build to fill the other gaps gets curtailed. But you have to fill daily and then seasonal gaps, worldwide, including heat in winter and worldwide transportation (not just electricity). Buying that battery that is only even needed at all every third day is 3x the price, yet we prefer if the power doesn't brownout with this frequency. This is difficult. Already we're seeing NIBMYism in large solar installations in california and with transmissions lines. That gets worse with scale.

Nuclear today is a hedge against the possibility that deeply carbonizing with variable renewables + storage at world scale will be harder than we all think and hope it will be.

That said, nuclear certainly needs to drop capital and O&M cost dramatically if it wants to play the game. And security is indeed a big factor in this. Its competition in the small-footprint dispatchable world is natural gas with full CCS, which is also looking pretty cheap.
Using your computing resources well is for old people, get with the times!
My friend's brother in law is a pediatrician, BIL talks about e-cig stories a lot. How young teen are using e-cig and cases where these high school boys are losing their sex drive (getting ED).

I'm not advocating for a ban but there should be independent studies conducted on the effect of e-cig and also more awareness for younger children. I'd like a long term studies on the effect of e-cig.
I doubt nicotine is good for you, though. It's not like it's some micronutrient and the FDA says you should get 10mg of nicotine a day.
Ah yes, I'm glad it's not just me. Thanks for posting, very helpful.
Everything old is new again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes

But in all seriousness we've got half a dozen use cases for this just off the top of my head.
I lived on 2nd and Pike for 2 years, walking to work at Marion every day along the 2nd. It was nothing like this for me - no dangerous incidents, no needles. Agree on panhandlers tho.

I actually quite enjoyed it - the waterfront, fresh produce at the market, my favorite cafes. What drove me away was noise and air pollution.
It would be important for the Firefox team to allow a discussion with third-party developers about the exact threat model and reasoning behind forcing signature checks, and disallowing an escape hatch.

There are indications [1] that not even Mozilla employees have a good understanding of the threat model and the current solution, and that leaves one wondering how could alternative solutions be possibly explored if the topic isn't even properly understood.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20423747
Manta ray filmed seeking help from divers in remarkable underwater encounter
HK: Real baby formula and real vaccines stem from democracy and the rule of law
Libtard spotted
1. Pick one of those langs.

2. Build a product.

3. ???

4. Profit.
Can you explain what you mean by residuation here?

But anyway, what you describe is maybe not entirely unlike equality saturation: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ross/publications/eqsat/

The idea is to apply a whole bunch of optimizations in parallel, but in a non-destructive fashion. So instead of changing "x * 5" to "x << 2 + x" or whatever, you just note that both are equivalent ways of expressing the same. Then you go on applying optimizations to both variants. At some point you stop and end up with a soup that contains many many different computations that all do the same thing. Then you apply a solver once to pick out an optimal variant.

The trick is to make this scale.
>Tritium production: If lithium is used in the salt, tritium will be produced,

Not a disadvantage for all MSRs. Both lithium and beryllium can be avoided. FLiBe is required for efficient MSRs and MSBR.

>Mobile fission products

It is the only disadvantage common to all molten-salt reactors and all fluid-fuel reactors. Pumps and pipes have to handle a hot radioactive liquid.

> Material Degradation

Common to all nuclear reactors, solar, coal boiler tubes, etc. Components used in reactor core do not last long. MSRs dispose nickel tubes and LWRs dispose zirconium tubes and uranium.

>Proliferation...The problem with MSRs, then, is that the fuel is already completely cut open and melted.
>it will be difficult for the IAEA to distinguish plate-out losses from actual proliferative losses.

The fuel salt loop can be sealed tamper-proof. The entire fuel salt loop is analogous to a fuel assembly. Weigh the entire fuel salt loop. Vapor pressure of actinide-halide salt is very low at operating temperatures. Actinides don't move out of this loop.
In Nigeria, your genetic makeup can decide if you get a second date
Also you can also molten salt with the sun, which is done with way fewer moving parts.
> I think the main hurdle is that you have to take a huge pile of money and light it on fire as a sacrifice to the FDA.

While the FDA is not perfect, such as medical devices regulation was in limbo and theranos, it did prevent many harmful drugs from enter market.

When I was interning at FDA NCTR, the director then was very proud that they've prevented thalidomide, that causes deformities in newly born babies, from entering market.
Flesh-eating bacteria in New Jersey reveal possible climate change effect; study
I loved yahoo pipes. Wonder why it never took off. You could do SQL style query on dozens of different services.
1. Done

2. Done

3. ???

4. It's open source (damn it!)
I don't think it's extremely worrisome. The arguments are in brackets a.k.a. they are optional. If a user doesn't know that they probably shouldn't be using the command line tool in the first place. Besides, if you run help on the cli tool the first example it suggests is "bw login" (without the arguments).
Man charged in Alaska for killing a polar bear and burning the body
Somehow I doubt that where you live, those "two ton death boxes" are often driven on a sidewalk.

If scooters keep to the road, they are perfectly fine. When they drive on sidewalks, eventually one of them will be biting my elbow.
Why would we not want to move them elsewhere?
Also keep in mind that the Uranium cycle is SIGNIFICANTLY easier. I'd argue that that played a major role. But I'm also not denying that weapons didn't play a role.
Rich people could help save the planet from climate change
Wealthy part of the richest country in the world cannot home it's citizens because NIMBY property prices?
Sounds like the kind of thing that will break all the edge cases of your application! Unless you have perfect test coverage... But that's unlikely.

Imagine you have an application that processes images and this tool decides to drop GIF format support. How will it really know what you need or don't need? The answer is likely that it just won't.
Men have lower life expectacies and also generally older than their spouses. Imo that would be a better explanation
agree, I'm just talking about the flexibility to build & deploy a workload in any device (cloud / edge). Think of it like "building your own buildroot image" vs. "docker build" based on busybox or alpine. In the first case you'll end up with exactly what you want, but you'll spend quite some time building it; in the latter case you'll have to mix & match various other stuff, but you'll end up executing the actual application a lot faster.
Oh, man. Uh... I'll try and dig it up tomorrow.
> There are many mechanisms you could use to hedge your risk here.

Do you even hear yourself? We started from very easy to use and now we are at hedging strategies...
The Boat the Internet Built
I think you’re mostly right, but there’s more nuance to it. I think traditional dating sites like match.com started to plateau around then, in part due to lack of innovation, but also due to the rising popularity of social networking eating into the market. Then in the later 2000s you start to get more innovative sites in the space like OkCupid, as well as, more niche-catered sites, and as a result people started moving back into more explicitly dating oriented sites. Finally, post 2010 you start to see the proliferation of mobile-oriented dating apps (and mobile social apps in general) which is why you see things really take off then.
I'm wondering... For the most efficient lossless audio format in existence now, is it still inefficient with respect to what a human can actually hear? For example, can it store frequencies above what a human can hear (20 kHz)? Are there opportunities to make it more efficient, assuming that we only care about humans? Can a FLAC file store a sound that only a dog could hear? If so, maybe the bandwidth is even lower than 50KB/s.

Or going in the opposite direction - do our hearing neurons transmit data that the brain throws away? If so, then the bandwidth goes higher than 50KB/s.
I really like your link [2]:

> A dose-dependent relationship was found between smoking and protection from schizophrenia. This is really interesting.

The study found smoking protects against schizophrenia. The blog author skewers later science for completely misrepresenting this study in their review.

Nicotine is sort of similar to niacin/niacinamide (vitamin b3), which is probably why it protects against schizophrenia. I recommended niacinamide to a young woman who’d just quit smoking, “again”. She says the vitamin is great, is still taking it 1.5 years later and recommends it to all her coworkers who want to quit smoking.

And it calmed down some of her “personalities”.
caijing and ft are the top resources for china insight. aljazeera was until their main jounalist was driven out. cnn might not output much but have had the same guy in beijing for 30+ years. dare i say it, reddit's chinacirclejerk also.
That's what insurance is, no matter how you get it.
I don't know the calculation either, and have been trying to get hard numbers on various potential large scale storage such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage and Lithium ion, as well as some sort of learning curve for costs. So far I've found a pretty compelling and well backed case for solar, but the storage component is always hand waved.
So how to handle China? I've noticed that the default Hacker News answer to operating in problematic markets is: keep operating and increased living standards and the exchange with liberal capitalism will bring about change. Seems this strategy does not apply well to China.

Žižek says[1]:

> I claim if we do nothing we will gradually approach a kind of a new type of authoritarian society. Here I see the world historical importance of what is happening today in China. Until now there was one good argument for capitalism: sooner or later it brought a demand for democracy... What I'm afraid of is with this capitalism with Asian values, we get a capitalism much more efficient and dynamic than our western capitalism. But I don't share the hope of my liberal friends - give them ten years, [and there will be] another Tiananmen Square demonstration - no, the marriage between capitalism and democracy is over."

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2011/10/2...
IIRC, about 90% of the time, when someone's spouse dies, it is a woman's husband.

Your stats are an excellent explanation for that statistic. But I can't see how it relates to a gender-based percentage difference in outcomes for the "widowhood effect."
Wow, what was your price per W? At ~$2.5/W before tax breaks, and a 5% yearly discounting rate, I calculated my TCO was about $0.08/KWh after tax breaks using a spreadsheet to calculate the net present value of the future electricity.

Usually the salesmen will quote you a cost per KWh based on the total energy generated over 25 years divided by the cost of the system. This is usually very far off (in their favor) for two reasons:

- Time discounting: at a generous 5%/year, discounting makes electricity in 20 years only worth 37.6% as much as electricity now.

- Risk: presumably, future increases in panel efficiency and manufacturing techniques will make electricity even cheaper than it is now. By signing a contract or buying a system, you're buying future electricity flows without knowing how much they'll be worth yet.
Why would you need cold fusion? Simply net-positive energy output from a (hot) fusion reactor would do the trick.

Of course, there is a risk there that we will hit some fundamental efficiency limitation that simply makes it not worth it. But st least it's not known to be a physical impossibility, like cold fusion is believed to be.

In fact, more than cold fusion, I think there is a reason to hope for warm superconductors at some point in the future.
It probably makes more sense to use the energy to make Methane, or charge batteries.
> Musk said fully autonomous vehicles in 2015

Quoting Musk is probably the worst example you can give. His track record for prediction isn't great.

You're right that it is hard to predict how long R&D takes, but governments are different than companies. Companies have a lifespan in decades, possibly a few centuries (if you're REALLY really lucky and pivot a lot). Profits are focused at the yearly level and long shots are decades out. Governments on the other hand generally have much longer lifespans. Decades are short periods of time for them. Investing in things that will pay off in a century is great business here (lots of science and math falls into this category). This is the problem. People are comparing how companies operate to how governments operate. They have completely different agendas, priorities, and operate at completely different time scales.
It does. In fact, when you --help in the cli tool the first example it suggests is to login with "bw login" command which is the default way.
In the North, AC will simply not show up on your energy footprint. Heating will most definitely. So yeah, electric heating is is. I hate electric heating as a user, but nearly every apartment here in France has it. And since France is most nuclear, that's actually not bad in terms of CO2. For cooking there's induction, which easily competes with gas in terms of convenience IMHO, but yeah, for heating I'd like better solutions.
The "peak" price they're talking about on that page is the average spot price over the peak electricity consumption time (7AM to 10PM weekdays).

It's not the highest spot price seen in the market. This time of year the east coast electricity market seldom spikes, but if you go to the historical data page you can see that in January this year the 30 minute spot price in Tasmania spiked above $2000/MWh four times (22-Jan 17:00, 23-Jan 12:30, 23-Jan 13:30 and 30-Jan 16:00).
Yeah, they get some points for admitting WAF rule updates bypass canary deployments so that they can be applied ASAP. But still.

Recursion attacks against Regex are extremely well known. The only reason I can fathom for not having an execution time watchdog is that Nginx Lua runtime doesn't allow it. I assume the scripts run during a single request cycle on one thread due to Nginx async IO (one thread per core only).

That's still no excuse. They admit to running THOUSANDS of Regex rules in custom Lua scripts embedded in Nginx. This sounds like a bad idea to anyone that knows anything about software because it is.

My previous employer embedded way too much Lua script inside Nginx plugins for the same reasons (it's easy). Even at our "scale" (50 requests/second) we had constant issues. To think they run ~10% of internet traffic on such a rube Goldberg machine is proof you can use just about anything in prod (until it inevitably explodes at least)
Auto Configure Firefox to Use Tor Socks Proxy
In Taiwan, the garbage collector also knows everything.
Yeah, I also thought of IFTT when I saw this:
https://ifttt.com/services