skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of negotiation room with solar installs. I paid just shy of $7K AUD for a 8.2kW Fronius inverter with 9kW worth of Suntech panels. The solar credit scheme contributes quite a lot of money to the installers so subsidise the setup. I checked wholesalers and I think the materials were worth more than the $7K AUD.
Why the Selenium Framework has gained popularity for automation testing
Only 3-4c in my case, with some losses in USB data transfer rate.
I feel less lonely when I play Dragon Quest Builders 2
The stock has taken a beating over the past 6 months. Its a classic buy the rumor sell the fact, but in reverse.
I should have mentioned: this is in Sweden.
>Here’s another way to say it: the biggest FTC fine in United States history increased Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth.

What a garbage conclusion. The article even draws attention to the market being aware of an upcoming fine, and makes no argument for Zuckerberg's net worth being higher than if this fine was never on the table.
zfsonlinux: Linux 5.0 compat: SIMD compatibility
NRT is also used to treat people suffering (and I do mean suffering, it's a horrid burden) from ulcerative colitis. Maybe don't spend too much energy shitting on one of the only forms of relief available to them?
I don't particularly like that essay because the author seems focused on the idea that "your brain is a computer" is a metaphor rather than a theory (see [1] for a more nuanced discussion).

The author correctly points out that past eras developed metaphors to explain how the mind might work based on the technological innovations they were familiar with, but I think there's a lot more nuance in the computational theory of the mind.

Namely that the notion of computation is much more abstract, and potentially more portable across disciplines, than some of the historical examples that the author of that Aeon piece brings up.

Anyway, obviously I don't have any real answers but for whatever reason the brain-as-a-computer theory rings pretty true for me and I've enjoyed reading essays and watching talks about the topic [2] [3].

[1] https://medium.com/the-spike/how-to-find-out-if-your-brain-i...

[2] https://medium.com/the-spike/yes-the-brain-is-a-computer-11f...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKQ0yaEJjok

^-- This is the first part in an ongoing series of lectures that Joscha Bach has been giving at the Chaos Communication Congress; if you watch it and find it interesting you should check out the proceeding installments.
Almost everything you said is precisely opposite from the truth.

Ethanol is less corrosive to metals than even pure water, although (like gasoline) there are some plastics that it can dissolve; some of these plastics were used decades ago in some cars, including in their fuel systems, when blending ethanol with gasoline was uncommon. Its hygroscopic (not "hydroscopic") nature is a reason that people have been adding it to their gas tanks for many decades, to safely get the water out ("HEET" is a common brand name in the US), although it's true that each teaspoon of ethanol can only dissolve a small amount of water before becoming immiscible with gasoline. It's very chemically stable, unlike gasoline, which can polymerize into "varnish," and it's easier and safer to store than gasoline, although it does need to be stored without access to too much air so it doesn't absorb water. It's so nontoxic that people drink it recreationally, which is a major industry in most countries, although this doesn't seem appealing to me. And, unlike gasoline, diesel fuel, or biodiesel, you can put out ethanol files with water. These are some of the reasons it's been used as a fuel alone, as well as blended, for centuries, and many cars in countries like Brazil are able to run on pure ethanol, despite its lower energy density.
Glad to hear it - feel free to shoot me a note with any questions - tpg (at) cloosiv dot com
I can't stop cringe laughing at this. He's apparently one of the top VCs in India. Clearly a great comedian too.
Can't you just add comments to the actual code saying those things? I've seen code comments saying those exact things.
At a constant 2014 level of ~35 gigatons CO2 per year this would slow down the process by 7 years. Better than nothing but this is still far from a cure.
There aren't really any negative words in the comment though. It's correlating individualism with "atomized," "alone" and shallow family ties. To the extent that one fits into this so-called "rugged individualist" trope (which I agree is a little hackneyed, but also not totally unfounded), I would think those would all be and sound like positives. Because every friend, every relative - everyone you could possibly get into any kind of mutually non-hatred-based relationship with - is someone you have to please. You're no longer doing whatever you want; you're balancing that against what the other person wants, or what you might owe them, or what you might someday want from them (Golden Rule) etc. Relationships survive on mutual interest and mutual aid. It's about cooperating with people and doesn't have much to do with freedom. [Because hey, you're free to abandon those relationships. You can completely ignore those people and their concerns, desires and interests. But they'll soon start ignoring yours, and there you go, the units that were joined are now separate, but since they can't themselves be divided they are how do I say this, atomized.]
The idea is that the fix itself is being tested. If you knew your 'rollback' will work for certain, then you'd just deploy it to everyone asap. But since you don't, you test it and as a potential outcome of your test is no fix or making things worse, you don't test it on your highest-value customers. Imagine what your postmortem would read like if your fix made an even bigger mess.
Speed trap data likely to be coming from waze, crowdsourced.

No comment on the rest of the comment you made.
No, it's not baffling. It's white-washing and blame-shifting.

"it turns out to be more complicated" = It's even worse than you probably imagined. We knew the certificate was going to expire and willingly let it happen because we don't know how our own product works. Also look at this new update mechanism and the other problems we caused! Forget about the fact that none of this makes any sense and please don't fire me for gross incompetence.

This was always a no-win situation for the people responsible. Allowing a certificate to expire has no reasonable justifications possible. It was always just going to be a question of if anyone would actually be held accountable for negligence or if they would excuse and blame-shift their way out of it.

I don't mean to be so negative about it. The silver lining could have been setting an example of doing a real investigation, finding that people were negligent, and holding those negligent people accountable, but I don't see that happening here because the people doing the investigating are the ones responsible.

The "it turns out to be more complicated" quote reminds me of Russ Roberts from Econ Talk. He has a number of interesting mannerisms that clearly signals his personal opinion on things. He doesn't come out and say "That's a terrible idea and I disagree!". Instead he whines "Well I'm not so sure." And when some study or evidence goes against his preconceived ideas or biases he says "Well, it's complicated".
Interesting! So even if the demand would justify paying $12000/MWh, ERCOT just permits brownouts or blackouts instead of paying that much? (I can't load the article you linked.)
The city probably reached out to an IT security company and they did it.
I looked, California utility rates come in a number of plans, which are recent. Some are "tiered", meaning the more you use the more you pay. This doesn't help with the battery problem.

There seems to be an increasing use of Time of Use plans, which will help with the battery problem. But they're a poor match, still being fixed rates for fixed times.
Are you selling your side project ? (website or app)
I am looking to purchase a website. Let me know.
thanks,
alex
A Genetic Test That Reveals Alzheimer's Risk Can Be Cathartic or Distressing
I don't know enough about storage costs to calculate them well, although several recent low-priced PV power-purchase agreements have included storage components, including the one we're talking about here. I look forward to seeing your calculations!
Realistically a price higher than that wouldn't really have any effect on incentivizing generators any more, since there is a limit to how fast they can ramp up, how much spinning reserve capacity they have etc. So, it mostly just serves to protect the market from falling off the rails. The grid operation itself is actually largely disconnected from the market - the ISO primarily calls the shots with scheduling regardless of what the market is doing.
The largest reserves of thorium exist in India and China - two of the most energy hungry and polluting economies. One is on the UN Security Council and the other has a unique waiver from the US Congress on proliferation - so fissile material production is not the primary concern.

Both India and China have massive deployments of renewable energy, yet the demand for energy is outstripping projected build-out. LTFR is going to be one of the best answers if it can be made safe.
Then ceramic coil ftw
The quote tweets are very good: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fski...
Sounds awesome. You’re a good teacher.
The original one would match "==", your suggestion would not. To get a clean regex they should switch to

.*=.*

I don't think they should spend any time contemplating whether a regex will backtrack, because it's hard. Instead they should (and are planning to) simply switch to a better regex library that never backtracks.
That's the dirty little secret about the compassion-first, anti-law-and-order homeless strategy: it makes residents of neighbourhoods where the homeless services are provided feel unsafe, especially women, and especially at night.
First tech job: started out as cubicle work. Got in at 9, hour break for lunch with coworkers, then completely focused with extremely few social interactions for the rest of the day.

On occasion, I would meet 1-on-1 with a coworker in their cube for an extended period of time to discuss some large technical design I wanted to sort out.

A year into this, the company redid the building into open-office space (but where everyone still had their own L-shaped desks and they were only packed maybe 20% more densely than the cubes. Now you never talk with someone at their desk for more than a minute, because while you talk you’re distracting everyone. So even less collaboration.

Second tech job: this one has always been open office. It’s packed much tighter: I have a person four feet to my left and four feet to my right, more in front and more in back. At any moment, one of them might just pipe up a relatively simple question to me (“where do I look in the codebase to find X functionality”): something he could find out on his own, but asking me saves 5-10 minutes. The 5 people around me are on my team. The people behind me are on a different team. There’s conversation across the teams at least hourly, an even split between jokes/banter and technical talk. If you overhear a conversation, you’re totally welcome to insert yourself into it, and doing so is the norm.

In this open office, collaboration is more of a real thing. If someone left feedback on your code change, half the time the discussion on how specifically to address it is done in person without leaving your desk. I’m able to identify topics that are raised frequently and recognize where the real organizational issues are, because it’s all discussed right there in the open. And I’m exposed to a diverse range of ideas and solutions just by choosing to listen. A few times a week I might even pair program with one of my teammates and learn something (vim commands I didn’t know about, a new way to use one of our in-house tools, or just practice).

The difference between these two is stunning. And jarring: I’ve gone about a year now without reaching a state of flow at work. I’m not even sure if half the people I work with have ever experienced it in their life (while programming). But I’m learning to adapt. I tend to work in short bursts of productivity throughout the day which leaves me with more energy at the end than being heads down at my desk for 8 hours. The code I write is far more reliable than what I used to write —— undoubtedly because of the collaboration.

Not all offices of a particular style are equal. I think it’s silly to label open offices as either universally good or universally evil: the ideal work environment depends on the execution, the context of the work, and the individual.
Eek! Missing Salesforce!!!
YouTube Blocks Popular MP3 Stream-Ripping Sites
And maybe Pushbullet
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I did that too when I was young, but I think it would kill me now.

Having painful experiences can either help you be more empathetic to others with the same kind of pain, or less. Why not try for more?
Apps like Tinder seem to helped broker your market worth really well. However in the era of IRC you had to build rapport first. Similarly it’s much easier to fall in love with colleague purely because you spend so much time talking together. Sadly you don’t get that depth in dating apps.
So SNS?
> Because ecigs aren't regulated, it's a free for all.

They're still restricted in sale to >18 year olds, exactly the same as the definitely-worse cigarettes. The FDA approval process doesn't change who they can be sold to.
I certainly understand where you're going with this. It would seem to be most cost effective to put the housing somewhere where land and buildings are less expensive.

I think this can be problematic for several reasons:

It feels like just pushing the problem to other places/other people. If there's the right commitments and programs in place, maybe it can work. But where in the bay area is going to be happy to host a SF sponsored housing for homeless facility? And will it be less expensive enough to justify?

If people have some connections to service providers or family or social connections, moving them far enough away to save costs is going to make it really hard to keep those up.
That is not entirely true. Update: https://git.io/fjXLJ
Where I live they're socially and legally treated exactly like any other form of smoked tobacco.
Man, not sure how it showed up here, but I can relate to this piece. I spent some time unexpectedly unemployed in the same regional area, and fishing was my escape hatch too.

It was outdoors, physical, and cheap. It was art and science, and a moment where skill and control could lead to accomplishment. It was solitude, and a moment away from the internal stress of thinking of what you were going to do next, how you were going to cover bills, or even worse; talking to wife/parents/friends about those same things.

In the end I was fine, and in some ways I am grateful for that time. It gave me a healthy dose of perspective, and a certain amount of self confidence that I now know how to find additional work/clients if I need to. Getting knocked down sucks, but looking back after a successful climb back up is something I wish everyone could experience.
>Complex chemical plant

This is not a disadvantage for all MSRs. Only breeders need chemical plant. Not fair to compare a solid-fuel burner to liquid-fuel breeder.

Let us compare liquid fuel breeder vs. solid-fuel breeder: Reprocessing solid-fuel involves more complex chemical plant with physical mechanisms to declad and convert solid-fuel to a processable liquid. Fabricate processed liquid to solid-fuel and put it back in the reactor. Solid fuel breeders have additional physical and chemical processes/steps.
I think I already adequately covered the fact that they weren't intending to scam anyone.

But I'm a social creature and, among other things, I have had a college class in Negotiation and Conflict Management. People very often make deals for reasons not explicitly spelled out in the contract and not enforceable under the law.

The original owners considered this to be a "passion project." They could have sold it for more money to someone else and didn't. That's part of why this non-profit got the building.

It's almost certainly not enforceable in a court of law, but it sounds very much like there was an unstated expectation that the artists would get to stay and that was part of why they got the building at all.

I also quoted the part about how tax codes are putting pressure on them that they didn't anticipate. Perhaps they could have found some other solution to the problem or perhaps not. I have no idea what options were reasonable viable alternatives, if any.

But based on what I read in this article, I strongly suspect they wouldn't have gotten the building at all had there not be an implicit expectation that they would let the artists stay.

Also, the representative of the non-profit in question may not be doing a very good job of making it clear why they had no real choice. Running a thing and being a good PR person aren't outright mutually exclusive skills, but they frequently are different roles in the same organization.
+1 for Bitwarden
Bug fixed early today -- you may have a cached copy. Try shift-reload.
GPT-2 – Ticker-Tape Method for Idea Generation
From what I have seen where I live, printed passwords on things like home routers and VDSL/Fiber modems provided by major ISP's are for 802.11 stuff (WiFi passwords) and not for the devices management interface. This may have changed since I last looked into it a few years ago though. There was also the whole Netgear router "backdoor" port thingy (a device shipped by a major ISP) which I actually had to exploit to recover my password after forgetting it once, which was kind of amusing.
Yes, but some types of smoke are much more carcinogenic than others.
I have lived in Seattle since 1995. It is now a shi-shi techtropolis fully of 300k+ tech bros, of which I am an aged version. There is zero reason for tech (and god I hate hate this term) should be clustered in a locale. It is absurd, my locality has never played into anything I have done. It isn't like someone opened the yellow pages and looked for a data gravity consultant.

How about for one year, we all put our incomes into a pot and split it 1/population of america. Just for funsies.
The elephant in the room with any kind of fission reactor is that they are going to need a lot of security. Even when the fuel and waste product is not weapons grade uranium, it's still highly radioactive and a great source of material for a dirty bomb. Basically anything that goes boom combined with small amounts of radioactive material and a bit of wind is a great way to depopulate e.g. large cities. So, having lots of small molten salt reactors all over the planet, which seems like the key selling point, is not a great idea from that point of view. Having them in or near any kind of conflict zone would be super risky. And according to this article there is actually some weapons grade uranium being produced as well which makes this even more problematic.

The security aspect would make this a lot more expensive than it already is and cost is already on the high side even before you consider that. This is a problem with traditional reactors as well but they have the advantage that they are huge facilities and that there are only a handful of them; so securing them is relatively easy.

People are suggesting this as complementing renewables but the cold hard truth is that renewables are already dirt cheap and on track to continue to drop in price by magnitudes for the next decades. That includes battery storage as well. Already quite cheap, also dropping in price, and typically already factored into e.g. new solar bids that are killing competing bids for coal and gas plants (or in some cases shutting them down prematurely).

Even at the current prices, that's a problem for any kind of nuclear solutions being contemplated right now. At the low end of the spectrum, we are talking 2 cents per kwh currently. Imagine this dropping to something like half a cent or even less. At those prices, the security alone would make nuclear too expensive probably. A 1 mw facility would have basically be generating only about 500-2000$ worth of energy per hour but only at peak demand. There's no guarantee prices won't drop way below that either. Any kind of operational overhead would be a problem. Needing 24x7 intense security would be very undesirable.
Ask HN: Do you prefer reading or listening?
- Do you prefer reading or listening?

- In which context would you prefer one instead of the other?

- Why?
The first half is the clearest, most concise map generation algorithm I've seen.

The visual map generation is not as clear to me, but the results are gorgeous.
My mother is an immigrant and this has helped me sidestep a lot of the pitfalls that are currently a significant burden for far too many Americans.

The fact that some people can manage to make things work for them here in no way changes the fact that the system has substantial issues that are in urgent need of remedy.
> 2. Tolerance for those who are illegally present

I don't think this is true in any other country than USA, and it is only true in USA due to States not being allowed to enact their own immigration laws. California is very tolerant of illegal immigrants since according to them they are not really illegal.

In most countries it works like this: People arrive to a country, as soon as it is noticed that they are illegal they get contacted by authorities and they get to seek asylum etc. If they don't then they are not tolerated. If they do then during the asylum process they are not illegal any longer, and hence tolerated. As soon as a decision is made to deport them they are illegal if they stay and will not be tolerated no matter what they do.
Autistic Londoners issued with 'autism alert' cards by police
In one paragraph:

>85 percent of workers worldwide hate their jobs

>Anything that restores hope becomes worth the exercise.

In other words: Many may hate their livelihoods, but liberation can be scary.

Personally, I was once of the benefit of having mediocre tech skills and an employer who paid ridiculously well for them. But when I started having problems with stalking, break-ins and intentional ill will, they told me to just leave. Obviously, a nightmare situation in life.

The journey since has led me around the world on experiences I'd never have had being stuck in office buildings and airports, and I actually wouldn't trade them. And while I wouldn't wish tyranny on anyone else, with a certain mindset you can look evil and misfortune in the face and decide you are not going to have your fate decided by it. I suspect that even without living on the receiving end of psychopathy, this is still the worst part of unemployment for many: the hopelessness in having your fate be determined by what can seem like external forces.
I don't understand this logic at all, it baffles me.

Malware can do a lot of things, but I never heard of common software being designed under the assumption that malware has taken over the PC. The software I use is designed under the assumption that the user is intelligent enough to keep the computer malware free. Only the OS or explicit security software is designed to keep me from malware, but not my text editor, office software or browser.

It is a terrible excuse for ignoring user intent.

What's next? Disallowing to change the startpage from google.com because malware can change it? Disallowing downloads because users could download malware? Going that route would essentially take away the entire software in the end. Maybe at one point Firefox is only allowed to operate from within the cloud, where employees make sure it is 100% safe?

Also others have already said that one could add admin privilege to certain settings.
May be it does.