skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but that's just a dumb comparison. For one, solar farms don't use land the same way nuclear power plants do, in terms of effects on the environment/ecosystem (you potentially can even do agriculture on the same land ...). Then, you can't install nuclear power plants on rooftops, but you can put solar panels there, thus using no land at all. And finally, you avoid a lot of losses and don't need as much distribution infrastructure when you have solar panels within the city where the energy is being used.

Also, I don't see how you could build sufficient nuclear capacity in time to sufficiently reduce carbon emissions without compromising safety (after all, nuclear energy is inherently extremely dangerous--the fact that we so far have been able to operate it very safely does not mean that that is an inherent property of the technology that we could maintain if we tried building hundreds of gigawatts in a decade). Nuclear (fission) energy might have been a sensible route in the past, but it doesn't seem so right now.
Join a club or get a hobby that is social outside from religion, or play a sport instead of lifting weights all the time. It’s definitely harder to make friends as you get older but shared interests and repeated interactions are the key, IMO.
This is despicable behavior on insurers part to kick people down when they are in need.

It should be illegal to drop a person's coverage if a clear diagnosis was not made prior to an incident that required medical intervention and cemented a diagnosis on paper.
> I keep assuming that as jobs are automated away that we are going to have more people who can do work like visiting elderly people.

You are much more optimistic than I am. On the contrary, I see the shift towards much more automation and "task outsourcing" as a huge factor when it comes to increasing social isolation. We no longer have to lean on our friends, neighbors and even random social acquaintances for help and support, and with all of the various delivery services it's much easier to be a shut-in than in the past.

I'd actually be curious to hear from folks younger than 25 or so: When I was a young adult, helping friends move was a common occurrence. Nobody really liked the task of moving, but it really did build a camaraderie and bonding between friends. These days, though, with the ubiquity of things like Task Rabbit and Thumbtack, it's a lot easier to just pay someone a small amount to help out. I'm curious if young adults these days have a lot fewer "help friends move" experiences because of this.
I guess no one has used Power BI for reporting... Link the data source, save the view that "Manager A" wants every week or month, setup on premesis gateway, and your new reports are there before your are asked for them again. Always up to date. Then share your dashboard.
Also, you guys should be ashamed of yourselves. "not sure who does the reports, maybe finance?" Eceryone should know how to make their own reports.
I agree with all your suggestions, but want to expand on a couple points:
1) The shared IP pool at cheaper providers like Sendgrid, SES, and MailGun will have lower reputation versus a platform with a guarded (via cost, but also on-boarding mechanisms) platforms like MailChimp, simply due to customer pool and quality of emails sent. I have been hearing from my (BigMailer.io) customers about having deliverability issues with platforms like SendInBlue and MailGun frequently in the last year or so.
2) If the bulk sending practices are healthy and engagement is good, then it's better to use the same sender/domain for both bulk and transactional email.

I would recommend to NOT send different email types from different providers, like use SendGrid or SES for transactional emails and then some other platform for marketing emails, especially using the same sender domain. That's because email header signature and tracking links will be different and email box providers like Gmail can find it suspicious and send emails to Spam. And then there is the issue of processing and syncing bounces/unsubscribes/complaints data.

Keeping all email campaign types in a single platform allows for centralized processing of bounces/unsubscribes/complaints date and protects future campaign engagement + sender reputation.
Fair 'nuff -- thanks for the reply!
> Isn't it equally bad if someone sends a request to your CORS-broken local webcam as it is if they send a request to your CORS-broken bank account?

This comes from the same line of thinking as "shouldn't every device have a routable IP?". Yes, in theory, but a long history of not having one has made people more lax about local systems and securing services. And until the vast majority of local services address their security issues, we shouldn't make them accessible.

> Or does SOP not apply to local addresses?

It should, but that's not the world we have. Yes, we should fix the million local devices with CSRF/CORS/etc issues. We should also have an extra layer of protection in web browsers to prevent this. Defense in depth. (And note that many local devices do this intentionally, to give a website more permissions, as in the case of Zoom. The local web server wants to make itself accessible to the Internet; browsers should prevent that.)
That's a boil the oceans solution, though - it's doesn't do anything useful until you've converted a large percentage of all roads, and it's very expensive.
I think it's because the connection to one's home has been devalued. That there is no legitimacy in wanting to live where one grew up. That it's somehow entitled to expect to stay without paying for it - 'it' being taxes, since the house was already paid for.
I've got this impression too, you're not alone. I think one reason it might be that way is because of American culture.

Americans stereotypically love to share their thoughts and opinions, even unprompted with strangers. It might be that mentally ill Americans simply share more of their mental illness-influensed thoughts with the world, while people from other places deal with their mental illness more privately, like they're used to doing with normal thoughts.

The other comments here are also likely accurate, America probably also simply has more people with untreated mental health issues due to their laws and their (lacking) health care system.
Who will vote the same way that they did when they lived in California, can’t wait.
I disagree with this. 233U is part of the Th cycle. You definitely get transuranic elements out, though admittedly less. There is an advantage though, you can produce power and pull out enriched uranium while doing that; an enticement plant that generates power. (Note: we already use reactors that have low plutonium yields)

The real reason that we don't have thorium reactors is that it's difficult. All the kinks aren't worked out. Compound that with that it's hard to implement new reactor designs and the process becomes really slow to work out those kinks.

The answer, unsurprisingly is extremely complicated but certainly isn't just because it doesn't produce Pu, or rather creates low yields. This myth needs to die.
Awesome! Inform7 is intriguing. You can learn more about it here: http://inform7.com/

What is very unusual about it is that it creates a programming language for interactive fiction that looks very much like natural language. Its tools are very friendly for new users.

If you're curious about what the language looks like, you could look at my tiny game Accuse https://dwheeler.com/accuse/
and in particular read its source code:
https://dwheeler.com/accuse/source.html
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. This obviously limits the number of products and vendors that can participate in the market, although it isn't at all clear that it will reduce uptake by non-smokers.
>...Yet we are supposed to believe that open plans lead to increased collaboration and sharing of ideas.

Yea the research shows that open offices lower collaboration:

>...Contrary to common belief, the volume of face-to-face interaction decreased significantly (approx. 70%) in both cases, with an associated increase in electronic interaction. In short, rather than prompting increasingly vibrant face-to-face collaboration, open architecture appeared to trigger a natural human response to socially withdraw from officemates and interact instead over email and IM.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201...
> The fact that they were jumping through hoops tells me that the users don't care, they want their crap fixed _right now_.

Surely what that tells you is that Mozilla thinks that users don't care, and want their crap fixed; in which case the policy might as well say "These policies will be applied unless their abrogation is necessary to fix your crap", or some appropriately dignified re-wording.
Ahh, but the “income” your rooftop solar generates (by offsetting your utility bill) is not taxed. At least not unless you declare it, which nobody does...

If your marginal tax rate is high, rooftop solar pays off just like utility scale solar.
One way of dealing with this is regular drills. My employer has a cross-cutting rotation that exercises stuff like this weekly.
Even with the cost of insulation upgrades added to the rent, that's still cheaper total.
This is the key that people forget. Not all power source work equally as well in all areas. There is a need for a diversified energy portfolio.

I do want to follow this up saying that I fully support building as much solar and wind as we can. Not doing so is kinda dumb. Just saying it isn't a cure all.
Yes, this is one of the regexp engines the post discusses switching to as a mitigation.
> even the Tesla Model 3 0-60 isn't anything magical. It's...mundane to riders (who aren't on Harleys). The P100D ludicrous mode, however, is objectively insane.

Clearly you weren't in the Model 3 Performance. While not quick as fast as the P100DL's 2.4 second 0-60 time, it still does it in 3.2 seconds, which is only a hair off from the 565 horsepower Nissan GT-R.

> ...NOISE...offensively loud engines...

See, I actually prefer the quiet of an EV for one reason:

When I flex the acceleration of an EV, I like the stealth. Specifically, I like that it doesn't announce to every cop within a 1 mile radius that I'm gunning it.

Also, only other car guys are impressed by your noise. Everyone else rolls their eyes, especially when it's some sub-200 horsepower shitbox that isn't even flooring it. There are too many car enthusiasts that delete their muffler and then talk about how good their car sounds because they equate simply being loud with being good.

Yeah, I currently drive a Subaru BRZ. I love its handling, and shifting the gears is fun, but my next car is going to be a performance EV. Fuel economy plays a part in my choice. I considered a Nissan GT-R for my next car, but I'm only going to own 1 car, and I don't want to have something that gets 20 mpg as my daily driver.
Why not in the OS's keyring?
I think one issue is that they can’t know for certain when they became compromised. So they may be able to get data back but can’t know that that data has integrity, unless they’ve hashed it since the beginning of time.
Lol, that’s a fantastic criticism of redux. I’m also using redux and agree on all points.

I’d be curious what your thoughts are on (off-topic) using something like InversifyJS to accomplish IOC/DI in Typescript? I accidentally went down that rabbit-hole this week before realizing maybe the only thing I’m good at is creating a damn awful mess with overcomplicated frameworks and design patterns.
Sounds like you have a good and established sender reputation, which is a big factor. When people start fresh (new sender identity) they tend to run into deliverability issues.

Also, the quality and size of the starting list matters too because a large list (like the OPs) or unengaged list can have a high bounce and low engagement rate, which factors into future deliverability.
> Posts that assume everyone considers certain changes to Firefox "anti-features" aren't going to win everyone over, either.

This seems like a bad faith characterisation. The discussion was about ars's activities, and I think it is reasonable to assume silversconfused was guessing at ars's opinions on these changes, not at "everyone's" opinions.
Men are at greater risk than women of dying soon after their spouse. My opinion: This is partly because women do most of "the women's work" of buying groceries, cooking and cleaning.

In many older couples, the wife is the one who keeps track of everyone's dietary restrictions. Older men often don't really know how to feed themselves properly. It's not their responsibility to keep track of the myriad types of info involved in that.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/the-widowho...
Yeah, that’s why I said mm 5G. Curious... what is the sub-6 speed increases in 5G over LTE?
Looks like it’s decidedly not open https://github.com/ganelson
DNS Rebinding with Robert RSnake Hansen
You can pretty easily crop your Strava activities when you leave your recording on longer than intended.
> 6. If you are in Cairo, then there are no elephants in Africa (other than the one you placed there).

Or, perhaps, other elephants already in Cairo ….
I'm not sure they would even know / bother to check.

I've regularly worked for companies located far from where I bought a home. The topic never came up outside of income.

Feel free to ask a mortgage broker or rep from the mortgage company, they are happy to answer questions.
PM in this industry. Yes, IP-based access control is by a large margin the most common method for controlling access to academic resources.

The ease of implementation and the anonymity it gives individual academic users are the driving factors. Of course, the sheer inertia and tradition of this solution is virtually impossible to alter, despite all the problems it obviously causes.

Others on this thread mentioned OpenAthens, which is more common in Europe, but not the US. But OpenAthens is a full blown identity provider, which is obviously more complex to set up than simple IP auth.
Developer utilities for motion and spatial computing
This comment is really missing the point about zoning and housing, which the comment right below it really gets: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=20422459&goto=item%3Fi...
"It's nearly there: I'm only a few momths [sic] away, and the next public release will certainly be in 2019. Simultanously [sic] with the next public release, the Github repositories will all be made public."
Google sheets (and other google docs) can be programmed in "serverless" JavaScript that runs in the cloud somewhere. It's hellishly slow making sheets API calls, though. Feels like some kind of remote procedure call. (Slower than driving Excel via OLE Automation even, and that's saying something!) Then it times out on a wall clock (not cpu time) limit, and breaks if you take too long.

A CS grad student friend of mine was in a programming language class, and the instructor was lecturing about visual programming languages, and claimed that there weren't any widely used visual programming languages. (This was in the late 80's, but some people are still under the same impression.)

He raised his hand and pointed out that spreadsheets qualified as visual programming languages, and were pretty darn common.

They're quite visual and popular because of their 2D spatial nature, relative and absolute 2D addressing modes, declarative functions and constraints, visual presentation of live directly manipulatable data, fonts, text attributes, background and foreground colors, lines, patterns, etc. Some even support procedural scripting languages whose statements are written in columns of cells.
Hi! Thank you for the reply :-)

I stumbled across Bento - the fact that it was based off a central deposit system means we need a high degree of liquidity 7 days in advance?

We are interested in a way to acquire and spend customer funds in near real-time. If Bento had a service that masked customer card information with a virtual card and charged something like 1% with a cap, that would be ideal!
Yeah started monitoring those. Haven't find much .net startups yet but definitely a place to start
Thank you!
Thanks, very small but led me to jump to complete misunderstandings about bpg, png, and libpng
No matter the tool I use these days for plotting, I export it as a .tex file to use PGFPlots. matlab2tikz, matplotlib2tikz, and the savefig function in Plots.jl all do the job (with the pgfplots backend). This way you can tweak the figure in the final document, which I prefer. You can adjust all of the properties of the plot in Latex.
This is highly disingenuous. They had no source code access and are just looking at whatever their static analyzer tool is spitting out, with looking at optimized assembly for these specific functions.

Counting references to libc functions then suggesting these are "unsafe" because they are not calls to the exactly as unsafe Microsoft _s incompatibility functions is the definition of stupidity.
Prices have changed in many parts of the world. People now buy solar with the expectation that it will pay for itself in under a decade, and any lifetime beyond that is profit. Financially you are not better off paying utility rates vs. other low risk investments like cash or bonds. Adoption has been driven by economics for a number of years, even now government subsidies are drying up in many (most?) regions.
I'd say tools like Notion [1] have brought wikis more into fashion for internal documentation than ever.

[1] https://www.notion.so/
Kizz Daniel Shut Vanguard Newspaper with N100M Lawsuit
But you claimed that protesters demanding a solution were a problem, or that they were unjustified because they couldn't offer a solution. Why would people have to present a solution in order to demand for their future to not be destroyed?

After all, "solving climate change" is technologically a solved problem. Humanity has all the technological knowledge to switch to carbon-free energy production. The problem are the costs of that switch based on current technology. But if we can't reduce the costs further, that still does not invalidate the demand of protesters who don't want to be stuck with paying the massive price of having to deal with a broken ecosystem later. It's still a perfectly justified demand that current generations pay in order to avoid costs for future generations.
Hard work, math, learning and hard work again. Definitely not by drinking at various networking and social events as some people think. :)
The tobacco industry is pivoting hard to ecigs (in the developed world at least, in more corrupt and less regulated countries they are still happily pushing it on teenagers and lobbying to take down anti-tobacco laws and education drives).

It's disgusting. In the US, you've got a massive spike in the number of 12th grade smokers, for the first time in decades. Because ecigs aren't regulated, it's a free for all. The same techniques that worked so well to them in the "golden era" of cigarettes, they're out in force again but for ecigs, amplified even more through the power of social media marketing. The playbook remains the same though: make it appealing, make it "cool" (kids love that), and target the crucial teenage demographic. Make them addicted for life.
There is no "but you're good enough for the grant if you're good enough for the core" or "lose the 15k" or whatever. It's not there to be an independent program, it's there so they can cover bets they otherwise lack the space to engage.

Think about it in terms of logistics.

They go over applications, which are attached to core program applications, so they decide who to accept, then they grab the pile that was good but couldn't fit and award grants to some of those that sent the auxiliary application for a grant. Then they send award letters for both.

After they've sent letters, whose grant do you propose they retroactively deny to make room for someone who got the main prize but changed their mind about accepting it and just wants money?

They could hypothetically set it up so you could pick one, but that adds a bunch of extra work to administer it, plus you'd get people trying to game the process by sending in core program apps they don't intend to follow through on. So it doesn't make any sense for them to do it that way.
Peak demand for energy. But peak demand for electricity is during peak AC season just like California.

I don't think anyone is saying we're replacing natural gas to cook and heat with.

(At least I hope not, cooking with gas is an indulgence I partake of regularly.)
The simple solution there seems to be making e-cigs available via a prescription as a smoking cessation/avoidance device.
Microsoft is behind AWS in being certified for the relevant government workloads, but is diligently working to catch up.

I would expect we see another contract and oh, wouldn't you know, the other company that bothered to build their own DCs, get certified for secure workloads, and then not flinch to employee pressure about government workloads will also get a contract, though not quite as big.

And then the third round, it'll be a real competition.
This isn't true of most hardware devices at least - there are emergency shutdown procedures etc. But, to the original question, there isn't an "emergency override" that would let me change the dose or override the interlocks on received dose.

There are sometimes calibration modes or research keys that let you do odd things to, say, imaging machines. But there are also processes in place to disallow clinical use.
Worse: we think we have high resolution outside of that point, but it's actually our brain making up the details it thinks are there. We don't even really have colour outside a narrow field, and all of that is obfuscated by blood vessels dropped in front of core parts of our visual field.
Given the lengths that Aaron Swartz was willing to go to liberate JSTOR journals, I would assume that there is a decent number of people who are willing to provide access to Scihub voluntarily. There's clearly a culture in universities that isn't too fond of these publishers.
I'm someone who chose the predictable suburban values, and I still say amen to your analysis (especially the final sentence). It's like people have no sense of what real character (in a person or place) is actually comprised of. And let's be honest, even the food and beer in these places are frequently mediocre.
I'm not sure how this works - do you have to be there for the birthday party and playdate too?
What's this based on? It's funny to me that you draw a "Southern" line when Denver and most of the west is as car dependent as Austin. I agree with my sibling's (twalla) comment, by the way.
I don't see many people particularly
keen on dropping out, and getting
onto the free ride bus.

I don't either - but maybe those people just don't hang out on Hacker News.
The HN frontpage is just a long list of postmortems right now.
I think it's a bit more nuanced than just "don't depend entirely on third party APIs," rather make sure that your API provider benefits from your use of their services expanding. [1] Issues only arise when your success comes at the expense of the API provider, whether thats by poaching a potential audience or otherwise.

[1] https://mkwng.substack.com/p/whose-problem-is-this
MIT studies suggest that deeply decarbonizing is actually cheaper when you do some nuclear alongside your variable renewables + storage [1]. The cost of filling those seasonal solar gaps and 10-day wind gaps gets pretty large without nukes.

[1] https://energy.mit.edu/research/future-nuclear-energy-carbon...
also can be embedded in a microcontroller
>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Thursday sent a letter to President Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, asking the White House to delay the contract over concerns the procurement process has been unfair and biased toward Amazon.

A pork barrel military may not be a good idea. One that punishes political critics might even be worse.
ConcussionTech, Yes That Is a Thing