skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why it's in quotes. I'm sure there are still a good chunk of people that believe in miracles by that definition, but for those that don't, they have to take it to mean "beat the nearly impossible odds", otherwise they have to get into another pointless argument about words with parents that are just glad their child beat cancer for the 8th time.
Apple is showing a willingness to provide security and bug fix upgrades far longer than they offer OS upgrades.
No, his plan was allow the cable companies to do what ever they felt like doing
I think this is a really interesting point, and am curious about how the shade from the panels will change the ecosystem underneath them. If the natural habitat is mostly low brush having soil that is fully shaded for a large fraction of the day would advantage different types of plants.
not sure of the details but heard that the chinese govt is incentivizing rice farmers to install solar aerators and convert the rice paddies to fish ponds

(and this may be as part of a hybrid fish/rice farm with nitrogen exchange)
The majority of cases in the US never get a jury trial.
I love this, I am going to discover so much new music!
> now can open nearly any fridge

You'll get much better results with room temperature eggs. Straight from the fridge they take longer to cook and the bottom layer might be overcooked by the time the top is done.
Because at the bottom it says this: "Principal contributor: Mark Morey"

If you're going to write something, it's nice to have it read by an audience. In the grand scheme of anything alarmist (especially these days), this headline is fairly benign. Still, I'm sure the author likes to have their contributed content read, paid attention to, like any normal person would. So you come up with a headline that differentiates, stands out in some manner, even if it's reaching a bit.
> WCAG has been around for over a decade

Following the WCAG won’t stop you getting sued (or more likely, getting a letter threatening a lawsuit unless you pay a ‘settlement’).
For how long though? It will gain its own App Store this year, with standalone apps.
otherwise-useless desert land

This is a phrase you should remove from your vocabulary. Just because the desert hasn't been paved over doesn't make it useless.

Source: Lived in the desert.
A major force driving this is the employers who choose to conduct interviews in this way.

I'm a developer with about 6 years experience in full stack web app development (Rails & Django mostly), and I recently got my ass absolutely kicked during a couple of live coding challenges that were very heavy on theory (also worth mentioning that I'm a self-taught dev without a CS degree).

I started talking to some former coworkers about my experience, and I got 2 main responses: A) it's imperative to have a CS foundation regardless of your degree if you want to advance in your career, and B) employers only consider prior experience to certain degree.

The two interviews that I bombed involved heavily contrived coding challenges that tested CS fundamentals in ways that I've never encountered in a professional environment, so it doesn't surprise me at all to see services like this popping up.
Is this a GraphQL alternative or more for accessing DBs in the backend?
Really? You should attend some local government meetings, when only small dollar amounts, and ego is at stake.
That’s not how monopolies work. In that case all of the console makers are “monopolies”.
You're making the same class of mistake made by people who support (for instance) the death penalty against criminals in group X because their loved one was a victim of one of those criminals.

I empathize with you and understand that your experience must have been very difficult. That said, there are fundamental freedoms that must be defended even when the group in question is distasteful. Freedom to speak your mind -- and possibly propagate dumb conspiracies -- is one of them.
Juliana should speak Mixtec to him. She might speak Spanish more in the last 15 years, but Ignacio is more 17 year old kid than anything else.
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> I'm concerned that any shiny object near a roadway needs to be carefully aimed not to blind drivers

We seem to deal with driving near the ocean and other bodies of water just fine.
This is pretty awesome - I like how simple yet informative the design is. Do you have a license on the underlying code?
thanks - was trying to figure out how to get it to the bottom! IMHO, it should be default bottom!
Specifically groundwater use with poor drainage leads to salt accumulation over time as the water evaporates and the trace amounts of salt present in the "fresh" water are left behind.
Yeah that goes against the trends of urbanization and zero pop growth.

There are other places around the world where increasing human populations will affect nature and wildlife, but it’s not East Asia or Europe.
My guess is it’s not really constrained at either end, there actually is no such thing as big or small, the universe is scale-free and everything is relative.

Roger Penrose has suggested as the universe spreads out and you get a very large, boring, empty universe it will eventually become equivalent mathematically to a very small, dense universe and another “Big Bang” will occur, not because the universe got small but because the big started looking the same as the small.

Or something.
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Panel cleaning requires toxic substances like soap, which contaminates farmland. “Rests the land”? Ha, more like “making the land unusable”.
Consumer electricity is expensive. In some ways it's good because it drives the economics behind efficiency, but in other ways, it's unfortunate that energy is such a large part of the average American's monthly budget (electricity, oil, natural gas, and gasoline).

Cheap energy is an extraordinary economic driver. Cheap green energy is a double win.
Opinion pieces like this always strike me as more about their individual definition of the phrase.

To me "Be Yourself" doesn't meant to blurt out everything in your head it means don't try to be something you're not.

In my experience people can subconsciously pick up on authenticity and if you're trying to be something you're not you're just going to fall flat on your face.

To put it simply to be yourself is to always strive for genuine connections and goals which truly interest and excite you, in work, love or whatever
I’ve had experience with “pretty decent” Android phones like the Moto G. It was nowhere near as performant as my iPhone 6s that was three years older. I bought a Moto G for my son. He was glad to “upgrade” to a phone that was three years older.
Kind of.

Using fancy frameworks and scripts can certainly break things unnecessarily, but there are some things that require significant labor to make accessible no matter what you do.

Suppose I want to put my vacation photos on my personal website. I took a thousand of them. But a blind person can't see photographs; do I have to sit there and caption them all now? That's going to take hours. If that's required I'm just not going to post them.

You get the same sort of problem with universities posting course lecture videos. Recording the class costs almost nothing on top of not recording it (just station a camera in the back of the room), but having someone sit there and closed caption all the lectures would add a full time employee who does nothing else. When they're posting the videos for free use of the public, some schools are just going to choose to stop publishing them instead of picking up that level of expense in exchange for no compensation from anyone.

And if you want to suggest speech to text software as a solution, isn't that better accomplished by building it into the client rather than the website, so that it works everywhere? But then we shouldn't have laws that mandate it the other way.
not to mention risky. remember Knight Capital, the kings of HFT?

on August 1 no less, their new software deployment essentially annihilated half a billion dollars, all due to - you guessed it - a refactored command line flag! can't make this stuff up.
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> There is of course some thermodynamic limit to the amount of power we can use before over heating

The benefit of solar is that no new energy is produced this way. You consume what hits the Earth anyway.

Things might change if and when we cover so much ground with panels, we change the global albedo significantly. But we're a long ways off from that.
You are not free to ruin someone's life with lies, that is not how freedom of speech works. These are not dumb conspiracies they are psychological abuse. Look at QAnon, they basically convinced a guy to go shoot up a pizza parlor because of that kind of rhetoric.
Googling <statistical decision theory> might help you out. My opinion is the Wikipedia page for decision theory could use a good rewrite. Someday I may get around to it.

Also, madhadron didn't quite say that Bayesian and frequentist statistics are rendered irrelevant by decision theory. Rather, statistical decision theory includes Bayesian and frequentist statistics as possible statistical decision rules. You might want to not use Bayesian or frequentist rules and instead use minimax regret or something else.

I do think that it is fine that people argue about Bayes vs frequentist. I wish they'd consider everything else though.
The artist search is very picky. E.g., "cat ctevens" does not work. "yusuf" does not work. But "yusuf / cat stevens" works.

Some of the genre memberships seem odd. Barry McGuire is bubblegum pop? As is Zager & Evans? Roy Orbison? That whole category seems to be a weird mashup of what I'd expect in bubblegum pop plus a random dump of '60s rock.

For artists that appear in more than one genre, it seems to use the same sample clip for all of them, so don't be put off from checking out an artist in a genre you like because the sample doesn't fit.
It was probably from that stack exchange answer about China a couple weeks ago, about converting traditional fish ponds that used waste from silk worms? to a method using solar panels.
Is this always going to need Mopidy?
How would TeX render that sentence with a long link in a small column?
Sounds like liberalism.
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You're probably looking for the Who Is Hiring thread:
I tried to use https://rtccopy.com/ for file transfers but it appears to be broken... any alternatives? (using firefox)
You could run a smallish linear model on 2kb easily. Definitely not a deep net though.
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Yes and no - if the function operates on a balanced tree, you might need some way of encoding the constraints the tree follows, and even just describing what “n” is. But if you’re doing merge sort, the function may take n as an integer, and recurse with n/2 and n-n/2, and that is tractable. But generally, no.
wow. this an incredibly moving story... so bittersweet.
Connecting the dots? That’s fine.

Making up new dots? That’s not.
There has been some research on this:

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/...
> Cats on the other hand see a human as just another cat.

Except that cats rarely (if ever) meow at each other, mostly just other humans.

https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/cat-care/common-cat-behavior-...
I get and agree with what you're saying, but not with how I think you're suggesting it be applied. If you have a screwy design, you can't learn anything. Garbage in, garbage out. However, some methodologies are more susceptible to erroneously thinking you can learn something from garbage.

When power analyses are more motivated by funding feasibility and 80% conventions than prior belief, decision theory isn't going to help.
What makes distress calls public data?
They’re asking for the tightest upper bound.
So, instead of building a few reservoirs (or just covering the aqueducts!!!), California is going to convert irreplaceable crop land to solar farms that could be put on top of much less scarce / valuable land. (eg: desert in New Mexico, the Salton Sea, etc).

facepalm
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Same problem in Australia. Massive groundwater and surface water problems, with a power issue around coal. If we paid farmers to take land out of direct production or to reduced intensity, (income stream) and therefore reduce water consumption (groundwater restored) and rest land (reduced soil erosion) its a big upside.

And thats two economies, California and Australia. You think there are no other places facing tensions around land use, water and farmer income?
> The FCC action was spurred partly by an Oregon state Supreme Court decision that upheld a 7% "telecommunications" license fee the city of Eugene imposed on Comcast. The FCC's Republican majority says the court got the law wrong.

So Congress passed a law. A state Supreme Court interpreted the law. And then a Federal Regulator, tasked with devising rules to implement the law, decided that the court got it wrong and just writes a new rule? That's not really how it's supposed to work. If the Oregon state Supreme Court actually "got it wrong" then SCOTUS or Congress can correct it, not the FCC.
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Modern panels are wired so that they're not quite so devastated by having an edge of the panel occluded. You can observe this with newer folding panels as well; they're often wired such that only a half or quarter of the panel being exposed leads to a linear reduction in output as opposed to a catastrophic failure.

Besides, it's not like farming is human-labor free. It's certainly comparable human labor to imagine keeping solar panels relatively dust free compared to growing strawberries.
http://archive.is/5srXe
Well that was as close as I could get to a dead planet without describing something like the demise of Vulcan in the Star Trek reboot, which seemed like a bit much even in the realm of hyperbolic descriptions.
The maker-manager dilemma is real - which is something we try to address with the prominent Focus mode. At the same time, a big reason we show the app status is so that the "business owners" can hopefully take cues and minimize their interruptiveness. For example, as a product manager, I will often decide not to bother my co-founder Tim because I see he's in a coding editor (and thus in deep-focus).
why don't they use reverse osmosis? because they move the farm when the soil is contaminated? CA is messed up when it comes to agriculture
Not sure on this, but it is said the Fermat's Last Theorme proof involved most every area of modern mathematics.

Andrew Wiles was so productive he dribbled out older results to hide the fact he was 100% on the Fermat problem for years.

Huang and Knuth are pretty smart as well it seems like.
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I live in the bay area atmospheric river and I still get a ton of juice out of my solar panels. I definitely have down seasons and the local laws with respect to off-grid power are frustrating, but I don't regret it.

You might say, "You have not recouped the cost." This is difficult to measure; my home has power during power outages. We have them regularly around here. What is the price on having uninterrupted power in your home when no one else can deliver it? Surely quite high, by comparison, no?
A small thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8007134
The premises here range from true to arguable.

1) AI/ML is a dual use technology, one with both civilian and military uses...plausible. Worth noting that ITAR* already restricts transfer of a variety of technologies to others. Maybe AI/ML should count?
2) China is the enemy of the US...debatable
3) Google's presence in China gives it government greater access to these tech's than it otherwise would have...plausible

Seems like a generic opinion piece to me.

*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
Gta vs. Free Limited Offer
> Making up new dots? That’s not.

To clarify: does the FBI get to say which dots have been fabricated?
Love this. People like to think they can't do anything as they get older. That mental state will be a self fulfilling prophecy!
https://web.archive.org/web/20190802021553/https://www.silen...
How about “they’re a minority with a long history of being enslaved, impoverished, disparaged, denied basic rights, denied access, denied the ballot box, denied representation, denied life itself”? Would that make any difference in your judgment on the matter?

Although comex’s answer is, probably, more important.
They’re doing this to avoid irrigation.

I suspect they haven’t thought about what this will do to the topsoil.

Even ignoring the ecological catastrophe of destroying the topsoil, getting the dust it produces off those panels during the summer is going to be expensive.

Planting native pollinator friendly stuff under the solar panels would address my concerns though.
You have this curious idea that "a few reservoirs" are going to preserve the usability of this land for farming?

You're just wrong. Climate change is going to make certain parts of California much more expensive (in terms of energy and water) to farm. These areas are probably irreparable, not irreplaceable.

P.S., The Salton Sea is not a place we should send humans to work. It's an industrial disaster, not a resource.
Its a thumb rule of sort!

https://globalsolaratlas.info/

The red area in the map is the most productive part for Solar and Orange is partially good.

Solar is very geographically dependent, also high altitude is good, that is why Tibet/Colorado is in dark red. Precipitation is a problem for Solar, that is why Florida is OK but not great place for it.
Vegetation management is an ongoing task for solar farms. Herbicides can be used to keep weeds and vines from growing on the panels, and grasses should be mowed to keep down pollen which dusts the panels and reduces efficiency.