skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More likely that the huge storm sweeping the south of england is the cause
original article: https://news.rice.edu/2019/07/12/rice-device-channels-heat-i...

Sounds like 80% is a theoretical prediction for this method, not an experimental result:

Naik said adding the emitters to standard solar cells could boost their efficiency from the current peak of about 22%. “By squeezing all the wasted thermal energy into a small spectral region, we can turn it into electricity very efficiently,” he said. “The theoretical prediction is that we can get 80% efficiency.”
Maybe European regulators should have considered that before writing this law.
The headline (which has since been updated on the BBC) is somewhat misleading, in that the power outage has affected a large area of the UK and is not specifically affecting transport infrastructure.
I’m wondering if you or someone else can point me to some data about the relative difference in risk from allergic reactions to peanuts vs dogs (for example). We certainly hear a lot more about anaphylaxis from food / medicine allergies than we do about dogs or cats. And at the extreme, it seems like everyone I know is mildly allergic to dozens of kinds of tree pollen, but nobody ever freaks out about that. My intuition leads me to believe that some allergies are super popular and not that severe, while others might be more rare and wildly severe.
Yes, that's an option, we have local companies that handle private data protection issues for other companies, that was a thing already pre-GDPR with the earlier data protection legislation but it's now a larger business as the scope has increased.

What they do is somewhat similar to consulting and audit companies - they'll go over your internal processes and/or suggest standard procedures if you don't have any; they'll generally consult with the local data protection authority on particular interpretations and apply them to all their customers, etc. Creating/adapting a procedure for answering customer requests for their data (including the identity verification) would be part of the service; another common service is doing GDPR-policy training for e.g. call center employees. So a thing like that already exists; they won't take over your liability or your processes but they'll review your processes and hand-hold you through any adjustments needed.
Jail Inmates Play in International Online Chess Tournament
> Mr. Zhang can’t seem to get paid on time. He is now accepting the financial equivalent of i.o.u.s from as many as one-third of his clients instead of cash.

> “It wasn’t like this before,” he said. But, he added, “it’s better than nothing.”

Dude is crazy/stupid. These papers are completely worthless. How is that "better than nothing"?

When he goes grocery shopping to feed his family, do they take these i.o.u's?
Is there a tool or something to check this ? Like for example what language to look out for in employment contracts ?
Quote from article:

> Ivan Porto Carrero, who oversaw a team of engineers at One Concern, said he was fired in June after speaking out against what he viewed as a company culture of dishonesty. He said the usual start-up attitude of “fail fast and try something new” was inappropriate to apply to disaster response because, “If you fail fast, people die.”
The first one is a find and replace nightmare on any sufficiently large project and akin to inline styling. The second negates the point of utility classes.
Or completely expected, if the broader narrative of a legal system that has ceded to lawlessness is true. Law enforcement is on the literal front-lines in dealing with violent repeat offenders as described here.
That really needs some editing, it reads like gibberish.

Just go to the source: https://news.rice.edu/2019/07/12/rice-device-channels-heat-i...
> It really makes it sound like it was primarily racially motivated

Were most lynchings? The numbers and history sure make it sound that way.

'rolltiide also has a point, that to take things as one giant pile of numbers masks regional variations. That and I don't know why people need to shoe-horn race relations into every article they can. It's not as if lynching is a long untold story, though maybe I'm slanted having spent time in the south where it is a well known facet of history.
counter to that, I was looking at flights yesterday and Google Flights and compared it directly to the airlines prices on their site. I saved nearly a grand.
I gather the Dutch company behind DigID, digidentity, is also one of the companies behind UK's "Verify" (used on gov.uk).

Barclays, Post Office Ltd, and Experian are the other options -- if memory serves these 3 all had major security breaches.

I recently had to apply for a criminal records check ("DBS") and the government's DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) required me to give up all my ID to one of those companies "to identify me" before I could apply; in case someone who was not me was applying for the information.

Aside, it seems they could have allowed anyone to apply (and pay the £25 fee) but only sent the response to a known address, which they could cross check from my tax record and driving license, and ... which details have to be kept current by law.
That's a great question that I wish I had a clear answer to.
I would (hesitantly) assume that it would be the location which you are accessing the website from. I base this on the assumption that it would be similar to GDPR laws, where US companies serving EU customers must comply with EU laws (or non-California companies serving Californians having to comply with CCPA). Sorry I can't be of more help - it might be worth asking r/legaladvice or somewhere similar with a higher concentration of lawyers.
And I thought our Cineplex chain was expensive. For That price in CAD you can see the IMAX version.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know the statute of limitations on "computer hacking" crimes? When can people start telling their fun BlackHat/DefCon stories?
That'd be great! I saw some todos, but you'll have the best perspective on what's important. I'm https://github.com/Gandalf-
Basically every country needs to run their own PKI for its citizens to even have any hope to legally prove they are who they are. I've so far seen a single well-working solution to the authentication and authorization problem and that is the Estonian ID-card PKI, others are trying to implement it (Finland, Latvia, actually even the EU) but they're basically nearly two decades behind.
You must know a thing or two about that, how bizarrely off topic.
People don't read books anyways anymore. It's all audio books and videos now.

However, people like to claim that what I said above is reading a book.
I think that makes sense on plans that are using a proper coordinate system and have sub-metre accuracy. But removing digits further just causes confusion. You are just using the grid ref as a proxy for something else, like a circle or square which represents the error. Except in these examples it doesn't matter. No one actually needs the data to be super accurate. The coordinate length is just a style thing.

Are you working with plans that show decimal degrees at a specific precision? I am curious what domain that is.
Any algo that does this will know what noise is.
A similar incident from 2005: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_at_W%C5%82odowo
While this is a very interesting and ingenious development, what's needed for greater deployment are lower costs per unit of energy. Increasing efficiency will reduce the cost of land, but land isn't typically a huge factor in solar deployments. In this NREL analysis, land acquisition gets put into "Other Soft Costs" along with permitting, inspection, interconnection, sales tax, engineering, procurement, construction, developer overhead, and net profit:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/68925.pdf

And that broad category is ~25% of costs.
What is braves advertising based business model? I've been using it since it came out and haven't seen a single brave ad.
Researcher Exploits GDPR to Obtain Private Data
This reminds me of the following joke:

A sales representative is advertising his company's invention, a shaving machine. "You put your head in a box", he says, "and two razor sharp knives swoosh down and cut your beard."

"Don't people have different head shapes?", an audience member interjects.

"Only for the first time."
Honestly it's more about not forgetting them.

The Amazon wishlist has honestly helped me a lot here, I can also annotate and sort it in case I come across a book again.

Plus it helps people buy gifts for me on holidays really easily.

Sorry for turning this into an Amazon ad but it's a great feature
It sounds like you read the word "dark matter" and didn't do any research beyond that. It's not just that we can't see dark matter, it's that it interacts very weakly with the electromagnetic field. It doesn't even react with itself very much. At the risk of suggesting other leaps based on the name, a better layman's term would be "ghost matter".
I meant more from the refusing to witness side. people deciding as a community not to witness a killing seems like a similar kind of thing to a group of jurors (drawn from the community) deciding to acquit someone they believe is guilty.

in both cases, it's an opportunity for the community to make a decision that falls somewhat outside the letter of the law. jury nullification has been used for both noble and quite ugly ends in the US.
“Neither of you were wrong”

So you also think the original comment was “helplessly racist” lol?
Physics already acknowledges that there is no universal truth. Maybe not with those words.

All physical models depend on a "frame of reference". The most common one being the inertial frame of reference.

They do that because it all depends on how and from where you look at something, which is just another way of saying that the models depend on an observer.

Alternatively you could interpret that as there actually being some sort of universal truth, but then the experience of it is different for every single observer.

And then again, you are the one picking an interpretation or belief over another.
I think it's just a symptom what happens when the rule of law fails
I have never found it offensive.
Depends on the course, same practical internship are pretty much of the level of unskilled work. Still not okay without at least a decent pay if you ask me.
Wait, what? I've never seen popup ads on my desktop from Brave. I'm on Mac and linux. Is this a Windows thing? Are you on Windows?
Or to put it another way: people who were dumb enough to use an app to cheat on their spouse were also dumb enough to get caught cheating in other aspects of their life.

They got their data from the Ashley Maddison hack and then cross referenced that with police records of people who got caught. I'm not sure this is a very valid study.
I'm American and I'm also aware that once you're old enough you're expected to retire, but since american healthcare is tied to employment you also lose your good healthcare...

Which leaves you medicare/medicaid, but there are limits to what they will cover also.
That's ridiculous, if they had an AI that could accurately predict prices, they would quickly become one of the largest, most powerful corporations in the world.

Uh, wait ...
Sexual Taboos and the Law Today is a good intro but you need to know Freud well. The problem is very few know Freud and Marx.
Photos of Real People
the point wasn't that retraining is "the answer" (or appointing of jobs) but that owners/managers/leaders should talk to the people involved to find solutions. it's otherwise patronizing and arrogant to bestow solutions from on high.

also, on people's intrinsic motivations: people don't want money in and of itself. people want esteem (e.g., status) and influence (e.g., power). jobs and careers provide those things; handouts do not.
> We have been programming CSS for a long time wrong.

Have we though? I firmly disagree with the premise. I agree that like anything else, css can be abused and misused, and the example cited of Newspapers fits the narrative perfectly. I've worked at a major regional Newspaper in the past and their website was one of the worst sites I've seen. The lead developer at that time (10 years ago) switched to using a functional/semantic css pattern much like tailwind/UCSS, and I found it to be terrible.

Any experienced FE developer should and will know css, whereas they will not know some random css framework dsl, nor should they have to learn it.

Most modern js frameworks are moving towards web-components and scope css to a component, which eliminates much of the past structural ambiguity and reasons for seeing e.g. !important (if implemented properly).

The argument about file size is not strong imo. You are trading css file size for html file size. How many modern web apps are slow due to their css file size? I doubt many. The Newspaper websites were always slow due to churn & many people touching the code, often with lower experience, leading to spaghetti.

If it works for a team then more power to them, but I'm sticking with css :)
Sadly 99% of the code that's written nowadays can be directly thrown away. I propose another challenge: Learn the actual meaningful stuff. E.g. how to code in lisp. Really learn it. You will never code lisp in your job. Promised. But in almost every task you will find that you reuse what you learned.

Or learn the architecture of git. How many people write bullshit around git because they don't understand that git can already do 100x of what their shell script or UI tool or plugin can do....

Don't waste your time with what is hip and instead learn how things really work. Real things. Don't learn the latest javascript framework, but learn the difference between class based inheritance and prototypal inheritance. Don't learn the hippest UI IDE, learn vim or emacs. Really learn it, e.g. how to solve almost all problems in vim without any plugins.

And one last point about "read all the content your team created". Not sure how big your teams are, but in many companies that's impossible. If you spend 12h of reading 7 days a week you can't read all the content that is created in that week. But you know that the cool_library that replaces the AwesomeLibrary is just as bad at solving the problem and both actually don't even know what the problem is.
This was a mob execution.
That was a brutal read.
The nice thing about Haskell from a readability standpoint is to unpack what code does at any point, you only have to perform substitution (i.e. beta reduction) over and over. This is a key difference from most other programming languages, which require you to have a little VM in your head. "Localized reasoning" is what Haskellers call this.

To read it quickly, you do have to learn & internalize abstractions. Both a common set of them (the usual type classes) & abstractions custom-built in your project. Abstractions in Haskell tend to be true abstractions & not encapsulations. You don't necessarily need to know the internals to understand the abstraction. I've seen this put off systems programmers before (people used to writing C etc and understanding the assembly).

I wouldn't expect someone with no Haskell knowledge to understand Haskell code. I've seen higher-level people (e.g. VPE-level) get upset by this and knee-jerk decide Haskell is problematic. I'm of the opinion that such knee-jerks aren't worth listening to..I don't care about opinions of people who haven't met (or honestly tried to meet) the prerequisites.

Regardless, I will say as someone who has learned Haskell: Once you learn it, it becomes so stupid easy to do everything. I feel like I can solve more complex problems faster & better in Haskell than other programming languages I have comparable (or more!) experience in.
If you run your sprints right then no, nothing's set in stone. If something comes up in the middle of the sprint that takes priority, you address it. You don't mindlessly stick to the schedule set (that would be a "tiny waterfall.")
The victims have already "asked nicely" for people to support their cause. Tupac explains this well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0XMJMphPT4
Trump, Fascism, and the Failure of the Press
I suppose I meant: what was the first shot that failed in Dune?
Or, more cynically, people struggle with it because they have literally no education in philosophy - so reading Adorno is sort of like reading Knuth before you've written a single program.
72 years on from Independence; the Vale of Kashmir truly returns home
Can anyone elaborate on what this is? I've read the article, but have no idea what gact is.
Controversial opinion: LinkedIn is a useful tool for networking, market research, and recruitment. If you don’t need it for those right now, I recommend maintaining it anyway and actively expanding your network. It’ll pay off down the line if/when you need to do the above.
Symantec Announces Sale of Ent. Security Assets for $10.7B to Broadcom
It's the Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Username+PW is obsolete and insecure at least 20 years now.
probably too late but we should never give up.
But it could be fun to find similar signals with public data and use that to target those folks in their roles for further scrutiny. Insider risk management sort of thing, before it turns into securities fraud.
A Canticle for Smalltalk
This will abuse the airline's other customers as well. Nobody likes prices that jump around wildly for no reason.
is the actual study paywalled?
Grotesque but the fact is that these public square hangings were done since medieval times and probably earlier. From the Salem witch trials to the San Francisco vigilantes, it happened in many town squares, and it was believed to be justified: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-lynching/2/
Basically morally/ethically compromised folks will cheat everywhere they can.
I saw a custom license plate a few months ago that was A8C0EF6 which, if not reading carefully, looked just like ABCDEFG
What is a good Forth implementation to follow along with this book?
I'm not sure why you'd think learning a little about widely-used JS libraries wouldn't make you "a more knowledgeable JavaScript developer".
Educational Entities Can Do Some Learning About IT Infrastructure
So they found that people that exhibit lower ethical and/or moral standards behave with lower ethical or moral standards, which is hardly surprising but it's interesting to see the correlation show up in actual data.
SSN should be just an unique number per person, nothing more, nothing less, never used for identification, only for having an unique number per person. It's impossible to ensure such a number doesn't leak so there also must be 0 consequences in that happening. That would require major legislative change.
Well, the original comment seems to imply that the only reason people care about TFA is because the man was white and allegedly did something which is, at best, needlessly provocative, some might say race-baiting.

One could have trivially found another way to bring up the history of lynching as relates to this instance of mob "justice."
Midwesterner here: Skidmore, MO, is not in The Midwest. It is on The Prairie. Which is the easternmost part of The West.

The Midwest starts west of the the line between Fort Duquesne in Pittsburgh to the southwest corner of New York. It is north of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. St. Paul is Midwest. Minneapolis is Prairie.

St. Louis is "the Gateway to the West", not "the Gateway to More of the Midwest".
Oh yeah that Ashley Madison hack is a gold mine for people who want to blackmail others. So if anything the take away from this should be to check and make sure that if any of your employees have important company data, see if they were in that hack.
Time Series Management Systems: A Survey
We shouldn't discourage progress just because it doesn't fit exactly into todays model of the world.
Lots of infosec and cybersecurity professionals go. I assume they make up the largest group of attendees.
How VCs Win Deals: Comic Books, Big Meals and Diapers
Curious to hear if anyone else has any outlandish VC experiences like the ones shared in our latest story.
Fair enough. Although waterfalls usually weren't really set in stone either in my experience. Which had both good and bad points. (It's good to be adaptable but changing requirements all the time is also a good way to make a project late.)
Facebook has taken MySQL scaling to extremes well beyond what Vitess offers.

Not sure if that's a good thing.
Yes, fixed. Thanks.

Edit: Apparently I can't edit it.
> You will never code lisp in your job. Promised.

I believed this too, but then Clojure happened. It's not my ideal Lisp, but I can get paid to write it at a mainstream company.
Finally an open source license I can get behind
Study Shows Grass is Green
I use non-specific terms like "they" as often as I can, largely because I don't want my audience to be tripped up with superficial distractions. I don't read into other people's wordings with contempt unless I know for certain they're being malicious. I think the saying goes something like... Don't attribute malice where ignorance would suffice...
Thank you, it did work for me on firefox too
Hi, yes, the premise is a bit sensationalist. But any FE experienced will not work for too long on the projects. The projects I've surveyed and work for, changed personnel all the time. I didn't choose the projects to fit my narrative, I did it because most projects die within 5-10 years. Few projects live longer than that, and newspapers are great example for the research. The codebase is really hard to maintain as business grows. That's why I firmly believe, it is not the developer, it's the metodologies they use: they force you to do technical debt, bad arquitectures, etc.

Of course functional CSS is not the solution to all, there are situations where, componetize everything will make more sense. But the more you work on, the more useful you see it becomes.

The file size is strong for one reason: most connections to CSS resources are blocked by the queue of priorities, HTML files are downloaded between 12ms-100ms range and that means it's already done, plus, if you use reactive HTML, things speed up even more. Most of the CSS made with BEM or other metodologies don't end up with that much HTML saving too, they're quite verbose. You cannot control the verbosity since it's human made. With UCSS or other funcional frameworks, you can control the verbosity of the outputs, etc.
Perhaps then

python -c 'import os; os.mknod("/tmp/yow", 0060000, 2048); os.chmod("/tmp/yow", 0777)'

But clearly your point is right that a Unix environment could still prevent someone with root access from accessing the raw disk device, including at the kernel level.
In Dubai, you can get one for 5AED ($1)
Wait until the dover-calais power grid interconnector goes down on nov 1st.
There's the matter of the well attributed 2016 US election interference operation, generally the hundreds of billions they spend on their military, and stuff like https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A. There is lots of documentation of Russian state interference in the Brexit referendum that is publicly available. There long standing interest in disrupting NATO and the EU are just basic common sense.
I certainly didn't mean to discourage this at all!

But I think it's important to point out that even though people often disparage solar photovoltaic for having low "efficiency," that metric is not an impediment to its broad deployment or great utility to us.
Would you mind sharing that list? :)
will the world be better off replacing barbers and stylists with machines?