skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately I've been annoyed with the content that shows up on Medium - or the fact that an interesting sounding article is pay-walled and I'm not willing to pull out my wallet for Medium.

But, I enjoyed reading this.

>how long you work does not equal how much work you get done

This is, in my opinion, undeniably true. The problem comes down to implementation and, importantly, perceived fairness. It's difficult to have two employees produce the same quality and quantity of work, for the same pay, but one is only required to work for 30 hours and the other is required to work 40. Is it fair? Personally, I think so - if you work faster than me but have the same quality of work, I'll be asking you how you do it! But I know, because I've encountered them, there are people who take this as an insult and would rather see their colleague sit idle for 10 hours so that they put in an equal amount of time.

>People have a million different circadian rhythms and lifestyles. The idea of 9am shoehorns the entire population into one of them.

This resonates. I think there is a problem in that lots of jobs need 24/7 coverage and shift work is an effective way of handling that. Also, we have an expectation of the "business day" - everyone has an idea of what time period and days that covers. But I would be in a much better place if I could work according to my bodies sleep cycle, not my bosses.

>You’re the best person to set your own goals, and your peers will measure you based on how well you achieve those goals.

Love the sentiment, but I disagree - in a work setting. This is great advice for personal growth, personal well-being, personal XYZ. But, personal goals and work goals don't always align, or as an employee I may not know all of the specific goals for the companies roadmap. Being an adult means we should have a conversation about our separate goals and how we can align them, not avoiding corporate goals altogether. After-all, I need you to stay in business so I can keep myself afloat. I think a good boss/corp would focus on setting realistic goals in consultation with their employee, rather than expecting their employee to have the same goals as them, and execute them in the same way.
MRIs and most imaging is a huge profit center. Manufacturers will approach providers to form an "imaging group", promising recoupment within 18 months for the highest end machines.

And is been shown that doctors who belong to such are more than 2.8 times more likely to refer patients for imaging.
This is what’s keeping me living at home with my parents. I tried to move out a few years ago, found an apartment that was $1,100 a month and plenty of parking.

6 months after moving in, after having multiple bad experiences with tenants, I realized I moved in to a “subsidized housing” apartment. There was lots of parking available because 90% of the tenants weren’t allowed to drive.

It hurts to work all day to pay for stuff, only to come home to half your neighbors lazing about drunk and stoned getting a free ride. It fucking sucks, I could never escape the thought that I could just quit my job and smoke weed all day and live pretty much the same as I was.

If I wanted to live in a condo, which doesn’t have subsidized housing, I’d have to pay rents upwards of $2,200. So I moved back in with my folks until I can buy something.
Love to hear it.
cheap land can still be expensive. For the rooftop it is a sunk cost and so "free."
FWIW IIRC he does have a sysadmin as well who has been mentioned on Twitter before.
Ideally you want to replace the most kilometers per year by electric ones. This means short trips. Who cares if you drive a thousand on the single long vacation trip per year if you drive cumulatively ten thousand on short ones.

So a plugin hybrid makes a lot of sense from CO2 and city air quality sense, as well as from fuel savings sense. They wouldn't need a huge combustion engine or anything. I don't know why they are so rare or why they tend to have extra complicated big twin turbo combustion engines etc. As far as I know, the BMW i3 with REX (Range ExtendeR) is the only one in this category, and it hasn't been updated since 2013. For example the Huyndai Ioniq plug in hybrid has a 1.6 liter 105 kilowatt gasoline engine and a full sized gearbox. Is that necessary?

The car sales sites suck at ordering cars by the relevant feature which is pure electric range. The manufacturers have always been hopeless with their web sites. Tesla is probably the only one worth going to and that is only because they have so few models and options. With others the best option is to download the pdf:s with prices.
Is that actually true? I just can't believe it is, when there is no backup source of power for overcast/windless days. can you show that this is actually accurate?

I can see where places with bad power supply currently, with the rolling brown and blackouts, might move to renewables, especially if 1st world countries subsidize it. "Oh, these are flaky and power is intermittent? So business as usual?"

But is coal really being moved out in the 1st world? Still the largest source of power in Germany.

The pie chart here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption shows that over 54% of the world's energy came from carbon. AFAICT as primary energy, that excludes motor vehicles (the graph above has oil higher than coal). I'm not sure if a reduction of 10% from carbon sources would represent a decrease in total carbon, given the rate of growth of energy usage world wide which https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#/medi... demonstrates.

In any case, is it true that, globally, "non-carbon energy sources will, faster than most of the world currently thinks, force carbon energy sources off the market"?
That's what I thought, it's up to the server to define what is and isn't allowed, so servers on the local network need to set their cors correctly
I know you are being a little tongue-in-cheek here, but I remember there was an Alvy-Ray Smith paper submitted about sampling scenes in time-and-space (and then filtering semi-super-sampled inputs), and it wasn't just the top comment. EVERYBODY knew better than ARS. Without having any DSP background. It was both amusing and sad.
I doubt the app will matter long-term. Mapping and transportation will be dominated by Google, Apple, and maybe Uber. City bikes, scooters, ride hailing, and any other alt transit options will eventually be forced to completely integrate into those apps and be forced to operate as a commodity.
I suspect it’s convenience that has a side effect of being strategic. Research is always interested in what is only just now possible with the newest available hardware. The fact that it encourages you to pay for the most recent hardware motivates funding the research.
How does it work in Amsterdam? The climate is similar to Seattle there is good welfare and homeless support.

There are literally no homeless people visible on a typical walk through the city.

There is freedom of movement in the EU.

How does it work? To what extent is homelessness cultural?
I'm not talking about what happened today, but the long term effect.

Yes it was priced into the stock and that price is about equal to the price of FB a year ago.

I want that price, the long term price not the intraday reaction, I want the long term price to be down more than 10%.
Oracle poached a lot of AWS employees when it was first getting its cloud offering off the ground.

Looks like cargo-culting has its limits.
A major convenience of ownership is that, most of the time, a working vehicle will be available when you need it.

To get that with a bike share program, bike share companies likely need to accept that their bikes get used less than once a day, on average. That means that users must pay for more than one bicycle. That, in turn, would make ownership cheaper than bikeshare programs.
I mean, one thing it could have is generating videos of your ride that integrate photos and video you take.
IR35 has been around for twenty years. All this change does is make the employer liable if they hire a contractor and treat them like an employee.

That was the original design but it was changed by lobbying from the professions to avoid IR35 hitting them.

Ultimately it is a matter of power in negotiation. If the hirer needs the skills they’ll either alter the way the task is done or just pay the tax.

The impact will be in aggregate. Any tax reduces the overall number of transactions. That’s sort of the point of it.
I would argue that the natural state of things is variable levels of dumpster fire.
Meh. This is how networks work.
> they buy power at about $0.02/kWh but then they sell it to the residential consumer for up to $0.32.

This is the most important factor in the whole discussion.

The electricity retailers, which consist of a call centre and a two billing systems, accounts payable and accounts receivable, buy electricity for virtually nothing, $1.00 buys them 50kWh, that's about double what my houses uses per day with two adults. edit to add: per day

I'm guessing the electricity retailers aren't making a lot of money after expenses, otherwise investors would flood the market.

How would a reduction in wholesale electricity price translate to a reduction in residential retail price given the wholesale price is already almost at zero.
In that case you would probably still roll back to prevent further data corruption and restore the corrupted records from backups.

OK, but then what if it's new data being stored in real time, so there isn't any previous backup with the data in the intended form? In this case, we're talking about Stripe, which is presumably processing a high volume of financial transactions even in just a few minutes. Obviously there is no good option if your choice is between preventing some or all of your new transactions or losing data about some of your previous transactions, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to do at least some cursory checking about whether you're about to cause the latter effect before you roll back.
I’m constantly baffled by the way people hold that paper up as some sort of objective proof that 0 based indexing is superior.
Oh okay. I think I misunderstood what you were saying slightly.

Some of the SNES/NES emulators require a lot of resources (relatively) to run accurately. I wondered if it was the same situation. So yeah it appears the GPU isn't capable.

I do wonder what the performance numbers of the Nintendo Switch vs the RPi 4 would be.
I have long felt that errant bills should be inverted, not simply gotten rid of. You legitimately owe $100, they bill you for $300. Now they owe you $200.

There are far too many such mistakes for it to be pure chance. Some of it certainly is carelessness but they don't care if they make such mistakes. (For example, once my wife got back to the exam room before it was realized that the appointment shouldn't have ever existed--she was sent home without anything being done. Many months later they bill for the co-pay for that visit. Obviously some auditing procedure noted the "visit" and the lack of a corresponding bill and "fixed" it.)
I'm a relatively novice regex user. Could anyone explain to me why someone might use an expression like `.(?:.=.*)` ? What is the meaning of the group if it's boundary could be placed in any number of places? Hope that makes sense.
That's really cool. I like seeing other off grid solutions.

I live in a bus with 1800W of solar. I still burn a lot of diesel driving around but very rarely have to run a generator or plug in for electric, even when I run my AC.

I love being off the electric grid. There's something so satisfying about using electric power and knowing it incurs no additional negative environmental cost. I never think twice about using power, assuming I have enough available.

When I finally buy some real estate I'd love to be off grid but still have fiber internet. I don't think that'll happen but I can dream.
Some examples here:

https://twitter.com/afsofia_/status/1105913438650486784
Fascinating, I'm glad it's worked out well!

> I also didn't think that a decade later, there would be more than 5200 commits

Did you originally not plan on working on it for quite so long?
I imagine that it would take a fair number of new workers to help burn that $4.5T. They wouldn't work for oil companies, but they might still be involved in energy production.

Besides, it's not like we have some choice here. We can either decarbonize our world economy or perish. I'm awful sick of the 'but the jobs' arguments. We don't need jobs in outdated, polluting industries. That is outright theft of healthy ecosystems from future generations for short term gain, if you can call it that.
Nothing to worry about, I just didn't feel there is much to lift off the story beyond its literary value. It is a bunch of small stories about ordinary folks told from the point of view of a foreigner.
> Mirth hasn't been released. I found it and decided to share it.

So you are actually doing it a disservice. Perhaps the author intended a larger release with better docs and examples (or no release at all if it’s a toy project).

But now it will be yet another “ah, one of those languages with no documentation or viable use cases”.

Languages are a dime a dozen, there are several of then on HN each weak. “How dare you demand something from something made for free” is not a credible defence for anything.
I read "10 minutes"
I think that history has taught us that the best way to get existing languages to improve is to demonstrate the value of a paradigm or feature out-of-band in some other language, possibly a new one.
By default, browsers do block sites from doing dangerous things to other sites, like sending authenticated API requests; they only let by stuff that is supposed to be harmless, like hotlinking images. And then they have a mechanism called CORS that lets those services say "this particular site can make API requests and such".

The problem is that Zoom, since they didn't understand CORS, and yet did want to allow their site to make API requests, turned what should have been an harmless action (GET an image) into a dangerous one.

Browsers could block everything, but all I think would happen is that Zoom would just find some other silly (and potentially more dangerous) way of doing the same thing, because they want the site to be able to talk to the service.

If you're writing your own service to be used on an internal network, you don't need a VPN or anything. Just don't accept unauthenticated requests that make changes, and ignore CORS.
Carnegie Mellon and Facebook AI Beats Professionals in Six-Player Poker
Scary.

It's not obvious to me that I should trust the government more than a big corporation with a reputation to defend. If Google was found to be leaking credit card details, for example, it would at least cost them a ton of business (and maybe do much more harm than that). They have the wherewithal to avoid it. The incentives for long-term investment in security infrastructure are weaker in government.
Umm... what?? Democrats are and have always been the big business party.

The Republicans are a mix of coal and gas, evangelicals, and constitutionalists.

Edit: both parties are pro military
A professor (taught mathematics) of mine once said, that "it needs to go through the hand at least once" and I used to think of that being an annoying attitude, but now I am more or less sure he was right.

Taking notes by hand is probably often a good idea. But you can still afterwards make them very clean in a document, also thinking about them again while doing that, so there is also a bit of additional learning in that activity.
Tour de France Pelotons Governed by Sight, Not Aerodynamics
Don't be a snowflake

Agreed. Be a cog in the machine. Everyone's interchangeable, and you don't get to choose your tasks, peasant.
How is it wrong?
there are an awful lot of academics and students that think sci-hub is not only useful but ideologically agreeable. i deeply doubt they would need to resort to hacked credentials.
If you don't mind, I'd be curious to hear your take on the controversy around whether the west-coast homelessness problem is aggravated by people moving there from other places with colder climates and less 'support'. I'd also be curious to hear what you think about the degree to which the worst of this is a drug abuse problem vs. something else.
> It would be interesting to see something using WASM to run a web server in the browser.

You could possibly get one going on top of something like this: https://browsix.org/
The browser doesn't know by default what websites should be accessed. They don't know that l337haxor.dev doesn't have access to api.bank.com but bank.com does.

Instead it's the server at api.bank.com 's responsibility to tell the browser it only accepts requests from bank.com.
As others have pointed out, wholesale energy cost is only about $0.02 per KW/H, yet retail is usually over $0.2 KW/H.

Even if the wholesale cost of energy drops to $0, you are only dropping about 10% of the total cost of energy.

Of course, this brings up another interesting question that has been a hot button issue; if power companies are supplying less and less power (since more and more people are getting their own power from solar), the economic model of paying for power infrastructure by paying a premium for kw/hours isn't going to work. The infrastructure cost is fixed, even if everyone is generating their own power (assuming people still want to be connected to the grid, and even people with solar generally want that). How do we pay for that infrastructure?

Power companies have tried to introduce surcharges for solar users, but that has gotten a lot of pushback because it seems to be punishing people doing the right thing. However, the alternative is to push more of the cost onto non-solar users, which doesn't seem fair either, especially since solar users still get the benefits of the grid.

It is not an easy question to answer.
Blaming Burnout on Me, Myself and I
That blow up is quadratic, not exponential: "This is not classic catastrophic backtracking (talk on backtracking) (performance is O(n²), not exponential, in length), but it was enough."
Sony Xperia X2A Ultra. $285 new, from a guy in Florida. Sick, sick 23.5MP camera. First thing I did was disable almost everything, and install Firefox. So right now it just does phone, messaging, and web browsing. Battery charge lasts 8 days :) Bought a black Tudia case which is very nice and grippy; I've never dropped it.
Same. I read things like this all the time here and on reddit and shrug every time. Homeless problem in Seattle is certainly worse than the midwestern suburb I transplanted from but come on, statistics are at play here; it’s definitely going to be worse than the suburbs by virtue of their being more people.
> The fact that you bought your own for $2500 means their business model is a failure.

Rubbish: they can be successful because not everyone wants to buy a scooter. Also commenter still probably uses Bird, for example one way trips or when it is just more convenient.
Can't believe all the comments so far and no one feels the need to justify their opinion with numbers. Drives me nuts.

You are correct, according to National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), rooftop solar is over twice as expensive as utility scale solar[0]. The NREL estimate is helpful in that it details the components of the cost. And, as you would expect, the hardware and labor costs are lower for utility scale because of, well, scale, but the dominating difference is soft costs (land, marketing, profit, overhead, etc). Its worth noting, soft costs for residential solar are significantly lower elsewhere in the developed world (DE, AU) mainly because permitting and marketing are much easier.

[0] https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2018/costs-continue-to-dec...
I worked at 3rd and Pine McDonald’s as a college student in the mid 90s (while commuting from the Ave to boot). It’s always been like this (as far as I can remember in the late 70s), but way worse these days.

I was recently trying to convince my wife that we should live in Seattle rather than downtown Bellevue, but for the kid it’s still a no go.
Except Nvidia is selling to me. I use cuda. At the end of the day a higher performing GPU is (MUCH) more important than running displays. There's lots of legacy code using cuda as well, so there's some lock in (AMD is tackling this issue but that's to be seen. We also use data parallel primitives - good for portability between super computers and things with different architectures - for many things but not everything, so when ROCm comes around this may not be an issue at all). But as of right now I'm locked in, at least with my priorities.

So please just stop telling us to get AMDs. That trades a small issue for a bigger one. Nvidia is selling is 90% of what we want and we're annoyed that they just don't care about that other 10%.
Bird works very well here in Tel Aviv! I use them every day. However, I've never seem them work well in other places.

I see more electric scooters in the bicycle lanes by the boardwalk than bicycles, by a factor of 2x or 3x.

I'm not sure the Bird model will work everywhere, but in "beach towns" or college campuses, etc, it's a good model. It's probably overvalued, but the concept of a "ride share dockless scooter" isn't always bad in some places.
I want the internet to be a little more punk rock again. Where are the UIs?
The financial benefit to the end consumer is that their electricity bill goes down since the panels generate electricity on their own.
Even if they don't increase the fines, $5 billion fines on a routine basis start to severely piss off shareholders. No shareholder likes to watch a quarter of a company's profit regularly getting vaporized. That is especially true when your sales and earnings growth rates have plunged as in the case of Facebook (increasingly a mature business).

Now why does any of that matter when Zuckerberg is nearly impossible to remove? Because it risks suppressing the share value, which will (further) harm Facebook's ability to attract the best talent. SV companies like Facebook universally believe they sink or swim by the talent they retain and can recruit.

If Facebook becomes enough of a mess, everyone turns on Zuckerberg, and he's done. The trust entirely goes, the belief in his leadership goes, the board relationships sour, talent doesn't want to work for him, executives don't want to work for him. It means in real terms he can no longer actually lead the company (morally, functionally), regardless of his voting position.
I love the syntax.

Does anyone know how Github chooses which languages to adopt in their language detector?
It was fun for Ward to work on. What other idea does there have to be?
I wasn't arguing so much that it was "objective proof", but that in contrast to "The reason for zero indexing is historical, related to pointer offsets. I don’t think anyone chose them to be easier for people.", I was pointing out that there are arguments for it as well. It's not just because "the address of an array is also the address of its first element in C".
It's reflection plus air flow. Sunlight is blocked from reaching and warming the roof, while warm air rising at the top of the roof will pull in cooler air from the bottom, leading to surface cooling (sort of an accidental half-assed solar chimney). So, it's a couple of different mechanisms at work.
I know that. But Tesla, Hyundai, Kia and Nissan and others have managed it. Why give VW a pass for talking the talk for six years and still having not much to show for it.
Haven't read this yet, but it reminded me of a very interesting RT Documentary on the life of an Egyptian garbage collector a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0s7WsoC528
On the major exchanges, electricity is basically free or in some cases even carries a negative price during the day, so there's no money to be made with solar alone. This will get worse as more people install solar at home.
Good luck. Hope you get there soon.