skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I meant "better" from the perspective of the execs :D There's a lot wrong with external regulation, as you indicate, but it's often (sometimes? always?) the least bad option.
Their website does a pretty horrible job of selling the OS. I was interested until i saw 0 screenshots of what the OS actually looked like. None on their website or github.
This is my pet peeve with most single sign on providers. Either commercial products/services or bloated "over-engineered" solutions that are hard to customize.
Link to the article: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/7/11/2068861...
SAML is a simple enough in concept (I as SP don't know who you are, but I am configured to trust IdP, so if you can get a signed document from IdP saying "the bearer of this document is X", then I'll trust that), but XML canonicalization and signing is a pain to get right, validation has a number of gotchas, the standard has too many optional parts and is too configurable, and it's difficult to test conformance. Having implemented both SPs and IdPs before, gotten them wrong in a few subtle but dangerous ways before getting them right, and having had to test against a variety of IdPs and SPs before determining that it was mostly compatible after adding a bunch of IdP-specific configuration parameters, I don't recommend SAML 2.0 itself if it can be avoided.

OIDC isn't perfect, but it is much better. The entire assertion is a JSON Web Signature, so there's no opportunity for ambiguous extra unsigned data and the canonicalization is dead simple (UTF8 base64 URL of bytes). Fewer optional components. Smaller message sizes.

Edit: if you need a SAML IdP for your organization, I had great experiences with Okta. Ping was opaque, less flexible, and overly complex. Didn't do the configuration side of ADFS, but it wasn't particularly hard to communicate with.
One of my favorite youtube channel by 'Indy Neidell' on WW2 has been demonetized. He and his team cover WW2 week by week, one video with historical analysis/story for every week. They recently completed a series for WW1 and it was amazing.

Even as a semi serious history buff, I learn new stuff. But they have been demonetized, seriously hurting their ability to put up videos.

He put up an extensive view on this and states there is no rhythm or rhyme on what gets restricted or not.
Retrofit in reporting or delivery? That’s precisely the effect I’m interested in. Even if it doesn’t impact what you deliver to students there is still a chilling effect and possible blockers to developing novel approaches.

The juice may still be worth the squeeze for larger/funded ventures. Your efforts to translate what you do to what regulators want to see is probably worth it. However, smaller outfits might be inclined to avoid that work by following the regulatory ruts and deliver exactly what they are looking for to avoid these costs/complexities/risks.
The Zulip server uses very little CPU, but the RAM is important. (I work on Zulip.)

Here's what the docs say, for reference (excerpt of https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/maintain-s... ):

> For an organization with 100+ users, it’s important to have more than 4GB of RAM on the system. Zulip will install on a system with 2GB of RAM, but with less than 3.5GB of RAM, it will run its queue processors multithreaded to conserve memory; this creates a significant performance bottleneck.

> chat.zulip.org, with thousands of user accounts and thousands of messages sent every week, has 8GB of RAM, 4 cores, and 80GB of disk. The CPUs are essentially always idle, but the 8GB of RAM is important.

As a practical matter, I think 4GB of RAM is not a lot to ask for a service that 100+ users are actually concurrently using all day. That's a small fraction of the RAM the clients are consuming; and you can get a suitable cloud machine from Digital Ocean (simpler pricing than AWS, so good for a quick price check) for $20 USD/mo.

On the implementation side, it turns out that a lot of moving parts go into a full-featured chat app. Here's a partial architecture diagram, plus detailed exposition:
https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/architecture...
Database, plus caches, plus code for lots of features x running in a number of processes, adds up to a few gigs of memory.
That didn't stop them from working on top of each other.
Cars cost a huge amount of money upfront and require a tremendous amount of maintenance to operate, and that's before we get into insurance and accidents.

Right now, all of these are fully on the drivers. This will turn around if Uber rolls self-driving cars worldwide.
I know it should be obvious, but when I read 'Utility Scale Storage', I was thinking "Oooooooo, have they come up with an improvement to Lustre file stores? Or were they rolling their own?" Of course they're talking about energy storage :-)
Well if any of those 400 are in SF/NY, and are reading this, we're hiring for a marketing manager for my team at Square! PM me or apply here: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/743999690593237
ACLJ Obtains Obama DOJ’s Immunity Agreements with Hillary Clinton Lawyers
Great resource! Thanks!

Aside: Good God that list is cringy!
It sounds like prices should be higher. They sure appear unsubsidized in Australia.
I completely agree with the code coverage part.

A previous codebase I worked in was terrible to refactor because of the insane amount of tautological unit tests and abuse of mocking.

For new features we stopped writing tests that were too specific and started writing more integration tests. We achieved a leap in quality and ease of development.
Nearly half of private capital fund managers rely exclusively on Excel – survey
For which security?
NLP text analysis by NNs to identify features that humans can't perceive but are shared across genres that are liked by the user.

(I'm only half joking - book discovery is a pain point in my life and I fantasize about this every time looking for a new read)
At first I was worried this was something egregious like, "We require people to stand and raise their right hand to vote..." It's just that he wants to be able to phone in to meetings... and I'm not sure that's a reasonable accommodation request. If the rules are that everyone has to be present for a quorum, it's not so much asking for accommodations, as asking for the rules to be re-written. Not every job is a work-from-home job.
Even at a busy Pizza Hut a lot of the delivery drivers will help with making the pizzas, folding the boxes, and cleaning when not delivering. You can pay them X amount with fixed hours and they can stay busy the entire time.

With just delivery services there is a lot of standing around time.
Agreed. Those who think extensions are harmless clearly have their heads in the butts.
Marketing runs the world now, because we've reached a point where companies really, really have to convince people to spend their money on whatever useless product is being pushed.

Ever notice there isn't marketing for potatoes, bread, rice, etc. ? People buy those things anyway. The latest smartphone? gotta convince everyone to buy it.

At my last company engineering spent $10m installing fiber into some remote community. The marketing for that project was $15m.

So the marketing around "doing something" costs more than actually doing it.
Or, it would be low-income housing, and who wants /those/ kind of people around, anyway?
> Isn't this an example of cherry-picking outliers in an attempt to refute the overarching rule?

I don’t believe that is the case. I think all we need to do is show that a race categorization is neither necessary nor sufficient in order to demonstrate the uselessness aspect of it. And we do that by showing that there exists a non-irish person that has enough traits generally regarded as belonging to the Irish race (not necessary), and that there exist a person of Irish heritage that doesn’t nearly all of these traits (not sufficient).

But regardless of it being guilty of cherry-picking. As long as the dataset is fuzzy, I think the opposite opinion will necessarily have to be arbitrary to define which traits, how many, and how consistently they inherit in order to be defined as a race. I know the technical definition is also arbitrary (when are two populations distinct species?) but at least the arbitrariness is consistent with how we view the rest of the natural world. That is we don’t consider gray wolfs with darker coats to be a separate race from gray wolfs with lighter coats. We correctly differentiate them as belonging to separate populations. Applying this only to humans is arbitrary.
How is that relevant at all? We're talking about package management. .NET uses nuget. Let's look at the nuget site:

https://www.nuget.org/

> NuGet is the package manager for .NET.

So my point is invalid because I wrote .NET instead of C#/VB/F#? You might want to contact nuget to tell them their site is wrong too then.

My point is that finding quality packages is easier with nuget than the JS or Java package managers. And using them is usually easier too. It's a fair comparison.
https://energypost.eu/wind-solars-achilles-heel-methane-melt...

Sources in the article. There's a paper on observed leak rates at different plants too but I'm on my phone and can't find it.
To some degree, I do appreciate the fact that it was shut down just to illustrate the fact that all of these sites and services are not "real" and could disappear at any time. I think it is good that people at least keep this fact in the back of their minds, so a concrete example from time to time can be helpful.
It’s a not-for-profit Corp, owned by the community. Perhaps held in trust.

If the community voted to sell at any point, then I suppose yes, they could wind up in The Matrix. Though, most of them saw the movies, so I’d guess they’d know to void that fate.
What is the right solution:

- make all the meetings remote for anyone?

- make it a job requirement to be physically present? (like going to the office for regular employees)

- make special amendments for some people?

Are there other options?

Not sure how to look at this. I work from home part of the week because I am not interacting with almost anyone in the closest branch of my company, but I assume that going to the office is an obligation in certain cases and not being able to do it would make me unfit for that job. In this case it is not a job, but close enough for me: it is paid by taxpayers money.
Or:
4. Google accepts the risk they have to pay you out of pocket the amount you lost while you appealed their demonetization if you win.

That risk should feed into how sensitive their automated system is at automatically demonitizing things.

The only way Google cares enough to change this is if their demonetization practices cost them money when they get it wrong.
> So Gaussian curvature reuses the words "convex" and "concave" to mean things entirely different from the everyday/lens usage?

The everyday/lens usage is talking about how the surface is embedded in a higher dimensional space. Gaussian curvature is not. So you should not expect the meanings in the two cases to be the same.
Right now I would assume uncertainty being one huge risk. They have so many laws to follow, and to some certain get around - I wouldn't be surprised if they have teams of high-$$$ lawyers (on retainer) in every single country they're operating in, and probably lobbyists too.

Then there's local competition. Most countries have their own uber-like startups, which may be competitive in other areas.

And as others have mentioned, this business model doesn't scale very well. For every new country they enter, they have to hire new teams, do the marketing, put themselves into the laws of the land.

But I specifically think the law-aspect is the largest risk to them. One local ruling could basically wipe out their margins and business model, and essentially put their investments at a loss in said country.

It's not like they can enter a country with a 100% absence of established Taxi companies - wherever they go, and have gone, there have been opposition that's tried to get them classified as a regular taxi company.
"on a three-acre footprint"

Is there a reason these installations are always shown laid out very flat? Is there a disadvantage to stacking them up or at least putting them on different floors of an appropriately-reinforced building?
At this moment, at least, the CCP is mostly pro big business and friendly to the rich (as many of them are themselves now). Of course, that could change at anytime, but the interests of the rich are more closely aligned with the CCP than the protesters atm.
> Every line is documented C

Every line? Oh dear [1]:

/* Set verbose flag */
verbose++;
...
/* Set advanced flag */
advanced = 1;
...
/* Set expansion level */
expansion = atoi(argv[++i]);
...
/* Initialize game */
init_game(&my_game);

I assume the verbose flag is incremented because there's multiple levels of verbosity, whereas the advanced flag is a boolean, and i is incremented because expansion is not a command line flag (rather, an option). But I wouldn't know that from the comments! Especially useful to know if like, verbosity actually has multiple levels, like -v and -v -v or -v -v -v and so on ... instead of knowing that init_game is ... init'ing the game.

Compare all those comments to this [2], which is actually a spectacularly useful comment.

Signal to noise ratio!

[1] https://github.com/bnordli/rftg/blob/master/src/learner.c

[2] https://github.com/bnordli/rftg/blob/master/src/replay.c#L94
Great specs for a $200 laptop. Love the weight.
Your intuition is probably spot on. Dominos stock has been doing terribly and pizza delivery will likely cease to exist because it is a constant money loser.
Well I would assume they weigh a ton and moving them and/or replacing them will be less troublesome if you can just bring a crane or something similar
Are you sure it's that and not that you self-identify as being person X? Just how well do you know X apart from X's name as a brand?
Incident Response at Heroku
The power of 10 process can be represented by:

10^(x/10)

The power of 2 thing can be represented by:

(2^x)/(10^Ceiling[Log10[2^x] - 1)

This creates a curve which repeats every ~3: https://i.imgur.com/x72GsBf.png. lexicographic order is just effectively sampling what it'd look like stretching this curve to match the other curve because it doesn't repeat exactly as often as the sampling factor (i.e. it's not exactly every 3 rather every 3.0.1... meaning the samples become a different part of the curve). This stretching can more directly be represented by:

(2^(x/s))/(10^Ceiling[Log10[2^(x/s)] - 1)

Visual with stretch set to 3.01: https://i.imgur.com/T1S8qwz.png. Visual of the differences: https://i.imgur.com/0H68ZU3.png

I'm not so sure there is any particularly strong relation beyond "you've created two curves and stretched them to be as close as possible". Would love to be proven wrong though but I think the ~ 3.01 number is the "magic" here and lexicographic order was just a way to "automatically" find that by resampling enough. There could be something as to why it so quickly matches, or it could just be how quickly the process works (in general?).
NumPy 1.17.0 Released
Pure Go autotiling window manager
Are the interests of the Hong Kong rich more closely aligned with the CCP? (As for the mainland rich, I agree with you... for the moment.)
No Jail Time for “WannaCry Hero”
It shouldn't be religion. It also shouldn't be hanging out in a bar, or smoking, or some inane stadium event where people don't really mingle.

There needs to be a third place# where it's expected to have polite conversation and interactions that can lead to "being social".

In smaller communities maybe that's a town square or a park between things, but that just doesn't scale and can't cope with decentralization (which is one of the driving forces behind the tech revolution).

I don't really have an answer, but I do know that actual civic planning a re-organizing society so that we actually move towards having more free time and less "work time" will be beneficial to this and many other problems.

# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
"For the people complaining about the price/specs ratio: this phone is no standard off-the-shelve system, it had to be designed with user privacy and openness in mind while having a ridiculously small market. I'm amazed they did it so cheaply."

How does that affect the price tag? Would it be less secure if they charged less?
Comcast isn't the only one who has bad service, most carriers who offer Internet services suck in their billing departments.

I had one issue with one company that turned on service in an old house, after 90 days disconnected it for non-payment, then billed me for the 90 days of service I never ordered.

I asked where was the install order, none. I went to the BBB and found out they paid a person to just reply to my comments every day, because if I didn't reply, I lose the case after 30 days.

And phones auto-updating apps is screwing lots of older people over on bandwidth charges.
Out of curiosity, which state had the 25-pound registration?

EDIT: Whoops sorry, didn't realize my comment was submitted twice.
Lawyers are liable for professional malpractice; whether particular bad advice is malpractice and whether the other party chooses to pursue it even if it might be are issues which affects whether they are liable for bad advice.
Yes, it's more expensive. They're not normally situated where land is expensive.

You can ask the same question about car parks. Same answer. Building up or down is expensive.
Twitch is running a class on how not to speak to customers
Well, I'm the founder of BeeLine Reader[1], and our extension is used for speed reading as well as accessibility (vision impairment, dyslexia, ADHD). I don't think it breaks websites, since we let the user decide how aggressively it should try to run. There are also night mode extensions, as well as site-specific ones (like for wikipedia) that are great.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com
>All Megapacks connect to Powerhub, an advanced monitoring and control platform for large-scale utility projects and microgrids, and can also integrate with Autobidder, Tesla’s machine-learning platform for automated energy trading.

Oh. My. God.

pow(What_could_go_wrong, 2);
dont u mean a 2x2 matrix
Yes, I specifically meant the HK rich. They have lots of business interests outside of HK and inside China, so it isn’t very surprising that they are tied to the party at the hip. The same is actually true for Taiwan (rich Taiwanese are pro China even if working class Taiwanese are not).
Space isn’t an issue in the places you need to locate these things, with a few notable exceptions (eg Japan).

Building up is a lot more expensive, and there is no shortage of available land on Earth at the moment.
How much business was lost through the two summers of rotating brown-outs? Datacenter outages? Maybe Enron didn't impact America, but thanks to America's pro-business, anti-consumer laws, Enron really hurt California.
When they come to Europe (CH at least), Tesla's gonna eat up the lunch (in the ancillary services field at least) of everyone. Even more so with the new renewable capacity added every day.
Out of curiosity, which state had the 25-pound registration? And what was the average and minimum you saw?
Well, I said "almost nowhere". The Sierras and Cascades (and west of there) are the exception. If you look at the US west of the 100th meridian, though, that's still "almost nowhere".
Ask HN: What is your (modern) office like?
With the increasing presence of digital communication tools in the workplace I'm finding that people tend to gravitate towards chat rooms instead of talking.

Is that true to you and your team as well? What are your team interactions like?
This is good news! Are there competitors in this space or is Tesla going to absorb marketshare for the next few years? It seems like it could be a very big market.

I'd be happy if we end up seeing more inexpensive battery production.
> Imagine you work hard editing for a day / days. That bug just cost you X revenue. Multiply for the entire month.

Counterpoint - it didn't cost you anything, it's just lost opportunity. Imagine you work hard editing for a day / days and literally no ones watches the videos you produce. You have no cost, but also no revenue.

I understand why people want to criticize YT, but if you are using a service that will gladly pay the costs for your distribution with no upfront obligation and no on-going payment, then what do you expect?

I mean this is why unions exist. Not suggesting that unions are the right answer here. In fact, I really don't know what the solution is, but I don't think either side of the table has a solution that will solve everyone's problems unilaterally.
They make the claim the giant lithium battery grid is “cleaner” than the “dirty” natural gas “peak power” plants.

I’m curious, what’s the environmental damage of this overall? These battery packs likely degrade, lithium has to be mined, etc. Natural gas also has a cost to mine, to burn (though if I recall, the off gases are co2 and water vapor, lower levels of NO2, etc)

Looking from the outside it looks like both options honestly may pollute or have the same environmental impact long-term. One is just a cost we don’t see immediately (or is don’t me in another country)
Probably just the simple economics of cost of land vs cost of construction of a new building + ongoing maintenance.

I'm sure if they ever saw need to place this in a city they would construct a building. But for now, it's probably cheaper to just build out where land is cheap (and possibly closer to generation source) and then transport the energy to where it's being used.
>Go live in an HOA if you want to tell your neighbors how they can and can't behave on their own property.

Err, right, that's pretty much what I said in my post. Please don't run to legislators and banning HOAs.
Companies do this all the time (issue new bonds or equity). There's really not much of a difference between public and private markets, in principle.

Planned payout is, and has been the same ever since limited liability companies were invented by humanity: excessive cash flows plus liquidation value of corporate assets at end of life. Hoping on anything else is speculation (nothing wrong with that, but it is just speculation, i.e. trying to sell to the greater fool).
Given all the dodgy looking "English School" signs and graffiti I've seen in several Indian cities, I'd guess there's a lot less regulation. That might of course differ for a large foreign company, so I would still be interested in hearing from the OP on this :)
Hey! Stop using logic and real world experience! Stop! People here don't deal with municipalities to any real caliber. They don't know. Thus, you can't use real world experiences to explain to them that they need to shut their mouths about things they don't understand.

Yea, out of doing contracting work in 4 states (WA, OR, CO and FL), it's not too difficult (depending on what) to overturn some zoning laws. As long as you are being smart about it. My personal experience, zoning laws are mostly there to make sure idiots are least capable of accomplishing extreme stupidity. If you're careful and smart, you typically hate code enforcement because it's a waste of time for you. But holy shit, are they needed for a lot of contractors.

Fun joke, how do you know if someone has never been on a construction site?

They're a libertarian.
> When counsel tell you something is legal, and it isn't, there's little subjectivity.

Stating that a thing is or is not legal is making a claim about the opinion other humans in positions of authority (whose specific identity is unknown) will have on a similar question in the future.

There is always subjectivity in it, since you are literally predicting someone else's subjective opinion. The objectivity of law is a conceit, not a reality.