skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the technical merits are overshadowed by the elephant in the room: modern sites are slow because to render a 10 KiB article, they're loaded with 5 MiB of Javascript libraries, 85 separate resource requests, offsite ad network and affiliate link requests, streaming video popup players, and on and on. In light of that, is it really that important to eg compress HTTP headers?

We should definitely still improve upon HTTP, no question, but I hope that we don't end up having HTTP/1.x force-deprecated through tactics like search page derankings. HTTP/1.x is a workhorse. Even if you really shouldn't, there's something to be said about being able to create a client or server for it in ~100 lines of code that'll work in 99% of non-edge cases. I'd hate for us to lose that as an option for simpler applications.
Wealthy people are likely to invest any cash received immediately which would be invested or loaned out to businesses that purchase things and pay salaries.

They don't take their extra $100K and stick it under a mattress.
Depends on the drug. Maybe not cocaine, but LSD is typically potent enough to be profitably haulable by avian logistics systems.
If you look at fees and costs as negative then interest rates on mortgages have always been negative? You have to add them to calculate the effective interest rate paid on a loan.
Hey, author here. I'm using WebStorm with Material theme.
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How hard would it be to run large hvdc lines across time zones and pipe energy between areas with complimenting renewables?
My reaction is pretty much the opposite. This looks like what I've wanted the web to be for years now. It's the best parts of RSS, Gopher, and the web.

What's terrible about the modern web? Mountains of JavaScript, for trackers, and advertisements, and custom UI so every page acts differently (and slowly) even though they're 99% the same. This appears to cut through that crap, and just give me easy access to articles and comments.

I want just a 'web browser'. What we've got today are network-native application runtimes that happen to run over the web. There are some cases where that's good, but for "reading an article", it's somewhere between "a waste" and "a channel ripe for abuse".

You talk about bookmarks, tabs, history, etc. I rarely use those for articles I see on HN. I use web browsers for a few very distinct use cases. (They just all happen to be delivered over the web because, I don't know, nobody wants to write applications any more.) "Reading an article" doesn't require bookmarks/tabs/history. I read it, and then I'm done. I mostly read HN in Private Browsing specifically so it doesn't litter up my history with some article I only want to see once. I mostly use Reader Mode, when possible, because I don't want any other junk besides the article. A full 2019 web browser for reading an article is a liability, not a feature. I rarely follow any links from them.

Saying that one needs to "configure an ad blocker" to read articles on the internet almost sounds like an admission of failure.

There shouldn't be an "inexorable" drive to make this into a full web browser, any more than there is for an email program. Email programs display HTML and let you click links, too. They are specific to one type of data, and display it using native controls. Nobody is browsing the web in Mail.app. They are browsing the web in their regular browsers, for the types of online experiences that require that.
Doesn't seem reasonable to suggest that someone who just bought $10K in durable consumer good for cash has a negative net worth.
The original "paperclip maximizer" was powered by runaway capitalism(aka invisible hand of the free market).
All the bells and whistles of AI were tuned towards maximizing profit at all cost.
Also, the game where you can play it:
http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
That’s what happens in markets with a lot of wind generation,

South Australia saw a 14000/mwh price for 5 hours earlier this year (Due to a 48 Celsius heat wave).

Hot days and wind generation are not correlated unfortunately.
The author here. If you look at the contributions, the only ones were a change to the readme, adding prettier and git hooks for linting, fixing typos, and few CSS one-liners. If the project had major contributions it would definitely be a shitty move.
Same thing as AI vs Algorithm.
I just realized that, although the only thing I knew about this story was the headline, I already assumed the driver was black.
> most of the 8-bit microprocessors only had single-bit shift/rotate instructions

Yes, they don't have a barrel shifter because they don't have variable shift instructions. But unfortunately, you didn't answer the actual question: Why didn't they have it then? As I've already asked, Was it technical/cost limitations? Or was it simply the lack of demand/commercial reasons to add one?
Full bodycam video of the interaction is at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7j-Ijo2TYw&t=1295s

Courtesy of 'PoliceActivity' channel. I am not related to teh channel in any way, just a subscriber.
fwiw: I've found it a fair bit easier to hear others with earplugs in (when it's noisy around). especially the concert-goer ones, at least in part since they usually reduce volume less (normal foam ones reduce 30db or so, which is quite a bit).
Cash you get (loan amount) minus cash you give (payments + fees) will give you a net interest rate.

With negative mortgage interest rates you might borrow $200K and only pay back $190K, but if there are $10K in fees, then you're net interest rate is 0%.
The Dasani cans.
I do the same with glass soda bottles. Unfortunately not as useful since you can't reseal it, but handy for having water at my desk at home and at work.
Most (I assume) residential consumers pay a fixed price, so that cost falls to the energy providers. Events like these have caused smaller Retail Energy Providers to have to go bankrupt due to not being able to pay for the demand of their customers.
Only if you’re black in America.
Works for me in Firefox 68.0.1 in Win10, kinda slow tho but it might be because of my hardware setup.
This doesn't mean that TSA will be checking serial numbers. It means that people will be scared and consider checking if they need a recall, and completing it, instead of delaying.

It does mean that if you bring a laptop for which the recall applies onto a plane, you could be found at fault if it crashes. Assuming you live and they're able to read the serial number from it, anyways. I assume that comes with some sort of financial liability, which at the (iirc) ~$12mil/person cost of life used by the USgov + the cost an entire plane, seems a bit much to risk.

Battery recalls are risk-of-death recalls. Do not put off repairs.
All police departments should shut down for a day for racial bias training.
>The problems with this industry aren't technology problems, they're people (political) problems

This is an underappreciated insight. I am working on something in a related field and I appreciate your insight here. I'd like to discuss with you at your convenience, but don't see any contact info in your profile. If you're up for more detail, can you please drop me a note via email in profile? Thanks!
It's a pretty good commercial honestly.
Is it an African or European pigeon?
"This visualization doesn't work right on Firefox+Linux, sorry! You could try Chrome/Chromium instead."

No Thanks.
I think most people use their phone before putting on their outfit, not their computers. Generally I agree that more things should be mobile-friendly websites, but in this case I think an app is a good idea.
Sorry for the late reply.

To clarify, when I say "training dataset" I mean the entire dataset used for training. Not the training partition in a cross-validation training/test split.

Neural nets can interpolate between the data points in their training dataset, but cannot extrapolate to cover data points outside this dataset. This is not a matter of architecture. DNNs are no exception. Neural nets are just very bad at generalising.

This lack of generalisation ability is why neural nets need to be trained with huge amounts of data, the more the better. Because they can't generalise, the only way to get them to recognise more instances of a class is to show them more examples of that class.

Here's a longer discussion of this:

https://blog.keras.io/the-limitations-of-deep-learning.html
So, a landline phone number that theoretically changes so frequently and without notice to you such that you are encouraged to keep looking it up again everyday. Except you are not expected to perform or monitor that process. Instead it is automated and hidden from you. Imagine this creates risk of fraud by someone pretending to be the bank employee, so then you rely on a third party to "validate" the number you obtain for the bank employee.
A lot of people are commenting how hard this will be to enforce/easy to avoid.

That's not the right way to look at it. If someone now takes one of these laptops onto a flight and it burns mid-flight that person is now criminally liable. At the very least they will have to pay for the emergency landing etc..
Most drones can compensate to account for issues. My drone has hit a tree a few times, self-balanced and continued flight. It's flown fine through heavy wind/rain with cracked propellers (that I've replaced after noticing). There's a video out there of someone throwing cushions at, or suspending weights from, a consumer drone and it takes the hits and re-stabilises.

High-end drones have battery redundancy, six props to account for failures, parachute systems, etc.
I have a hard time believing that this is all just to point the finger after a plane crashes.

Sure the logistics of enforcing it are difficult, but this does have the effect of telling the public not to do it.
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Are stocks still the best asset during negative rates and contracting growth?
A friend of mine who works from home was trying to get me to switch to Griddy which offers pass-through market prices at 15 minute increments. Today his electric bill was $9 and that was after he turned off literally everything except his fridge. He even turned off his hot water heater.

We only had 3% capacity left in the system, yet out in the Permian Basin operators are flaring off excess gas because they have no access to pipelines or choose not to pay for it. *1

Until the Texas Railroad Commission stops allowing flaring permits and forces operators to connect the energy of all that gas is wasted, which is a damn shame.

We could definitely use that gas (after processing) to run peakers until better storage comes online. But how do you sell the idea of investment to flatten energy prices in an unregulated market?

(1) https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Gas-Flaring-Running-...
"Omega tau" made a really nice podcast a while ago about how Planet Labs is approaching Earth observation. That podcast goes into the details how the company and the satellite constellation came to be and what novel approaches they're using. Definitely worth listening: http://omegataupodcast.net/204-earth-observation-at-planet-l...
Check out: https://medium.com/planet-stories/earths-wonders-like-you-ve...
I think they’ll need a lot more than a day
How hard is it to pump water out of a tank that's a mile underwater? How does one do that?
I can't believe I've never wondered this before, but I wonder how possible it is to deliberately create a satellite-blocking cloud above one's own property. What height and size it would have to be, etc.
Adrenal fatigue is indeed pseudoscience. There is no scientific basis for the existence of adrenal fatigue, and the term should not be confused with a number of actual forms of adrenal dysfunction such as adrenal insufficiency or Addison's disease.

Sources:
1. Shah R, Greenberger PA (2012). "Unproved and controversial methods and theories in allergy-immunology". Allergy Asthma Proc. 33 Suppl 1 (3): S100–2. doi:10.2500/aap.2012.33.3562. PMID 22794702. Quote: "There is no scientific basis for the existence of this disorder and no conclusive method for diagnosis."

2. "Adrenal Fatigue: Is It Real?". WebMD. Metcalf, Eric. Retrieved 2014-03-19..
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Especially for rich people and for consumption (not investment) it looks obvious to me that they have negative time preference for consumption. Why? They could choose to consume all their money today to whatever they want (business jets, charity, space travel etc) and live rest of their lives in poverty if they face negative interest rates on their assets. That's what a positive time preference looks like. Of course, even when rates are negative, the rich people choose to live comfortably also in the future, even if their total consumption is slightly smaller. And as the wealth has been concentrating during the last decades more and more to the wealthy ones, the interest rate needs to reflect more and more the time preference of the wealthy ones. You want to get higher interest rates, you need to reverse the wealth concentration.

(All of the above is completely without source or further arguments or detailed analysis available, just my thoughts.)
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How does this compare to Metaparticle (https://metaparticle.io/about/)?
I'm more concerned that the flare implies some instability that could presage a much more energetic event. I have extremely limited knowledge of space and astronomical phenomena, but super massive black holes seem like they may have enough mass/energy to cause problems for us in a worst possible case.
God forbid we might get associated with SJWs and actually admit that black people are treated fundamentally worse and more suspicious by authorities in the United States. And it's being encouraged from the top.
That's over ~$750 for the power stored in a single Tesla battery pack. Not that the cars are capable of back-feeding the grid (V2G), unfortunately, nor is the infrastructure in place to pull from them in times like this...

It sure seems like if we're going to have millions of these 100kWh batteries plugged in, all nicely geographically distributed and internet connected, it would be swell if the owners could set a price at which they would be willing to sell their energy. It would just add another way that EVs are better than ICE cars.
We could solve the skyscraper-to-skyscraper problem much more effectively with a series of ziplines.
There is at least one known exception: neutrinos from a supernova. (Don't get too excited, this doesn't contradict Einstein, as we'll see.) In the hot, dense core of a supernova, photons will scatter around for a while before escaping. Neutrinos, which interact much less often than photons, and travel also more or less at the speed of light, get out basically right away. The difference can be as much as a few hours! Of course it's the high-energy photons that are more dangerous, so the neutrinos are really more like an early-warning system.

See e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A
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Looks like they can arrest the crows now that they've got probable caws.
If you're starting from zero, a reasonable curriculum might be to work through these courses:

1. Learn python 3 the hard way (book by Zed Shaw) as mentioned by trcarney)
2. Build a saas app with flask (Nick Janetakis, on Udemy or his own site)

Use these resources to look up things and get more context:
- real python
- stack overflow

After finishing #2, try to build a different saas project from scratch, using what you learned.

If your interest is ML/DS, then replace #2 with something like 'deep learning for coders' parts 1 and 2. Or work through pandas exercises.
Because I, too, put my extremely expensive product, which is a fine powder, on the outside of my moving vehicle.
Interesting. I know CloudFlare's neural policy but never thought about its effects on ranking. It explains a lot.
Texas has an independent power grid unlike the rest of the US.

It's an odd choice, it helps then in some ways, but hurts in others.
Stateless is what I imagine REST to feel like. You do everything with just an API key or token. There's no need to keep trading credentials with the server.
Amsterdam Airport (Schiphol) allows you to bring a full waterbottle (openend and unopenend) through security. Also you don't have to unpack your bag anymore. Just take it of your back and it will go right through the machine.

I am not sure what changed because I haven't seen this before. Even modern airports like Changi (Singapore) required me to empty my bottle. If anyone knows what changed, always interesting to read!

Source: flew from Schiphol 3 times in the last few months.
If you could track the satellite could you not shine a laser, or bright light (maybe a mirror reflecting the sun) directly at the camera to mess up the imaging while over your region?
My first computer, and something that is often referenced in the UK, or amongst people of the right kind of age.

The Spectrum was insanely popular, though the development of a new machine also coincided with difficult times. (The Sam Coupe.)
I wonder what the lowest-priced chip you can pick up with a reasonable toolchain that is accessible to hobbyists?
A 1500W microwave at 10 cents/kWh will cost 15 cents per hour. A 65" TV might use 100W, 2 hours a day would cost you $6 a year.

A refrigerator will get you because it's running 10 hours a day. Much bigger, is the giant heat sink that is your water heater.
> He said it took several miles before Werts agreed to pull over. Werts said he was only looking for a lighted spot and called 911 to let them know that's why he wasn't pulling over immediately.

That's a very smart move, to position yourself in a safe place and notify dispatch of your intent in the moment. This is nearly the picture-perfect example of protecting yourself from police, and yet Werts was still jailed on shoddy cause.

Policing in America still needs a reckoning, now. Crime is middle-high in cities, and small municipal and state police are trying so hard to justify their cost increases with COMPSTAT figures. And if you're trying to rock the boat the least, go for young black men. It's a miscarriage on a terrible scale.
Awhile ago I heard they wouldn't enforce it between specific destinations where it's legal (even though federally it's still illegal). More recently they've decided it's best to spend their resources elsewhere and generally stop spending time on it.
Usually board politics and the ones that manage such people in also get their bank account share, and that is all that they care about
I don't think having oil makes any difference at all. There are plenty of African countries with regimes that violate human rights. As long as a country keeps the abuse below a threshold that forces intervention then nothing much happens. For example, the Rwanda genocide reached a level that forced international action. But the 'disappeared' in Chile never reached a level that forced action.
AC Propulsion was touting "vehicle-to-grid" as a feature way back in the 2000. At the time it seemed crazy with car batteries having cycle lives in the low hundreds, but it's looking better and better now...
> We only had 3% capacity left in the system, yet out in the Permian Basin operators are flaring off excess gas.

That has nothing to do with the problem (except extremely indirectly via global warming). There isn’t a shortage of fuels — there’s a shortage of generation capacity. No amount of extra natural gas would make the slightest difference.
Android Pie is directly addressing this: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0...

Notably: "Android 9 limits the ability for background apps to access user input and sensor data. If your app is running in the background on a device running Android 9, the system applies the following restrictions to your app: Your app cannot access the microphone or camera."
> Google has a policy against scraping their results, but their whole business model is predicated off scraping other sites and making money off the content

Yea a couple days ago I was checking the Places API, which they’ve built off user-generated content and scraping Yelp and others. They charge $17 / 1000 calls for certain items and don’t you dare cache anything for too long.

Great way to build a business: get data for free, wall it off and put a hefty price tag on it, then put your best lawyers around the moat for good measure!
> While wind and solar are great

I think they actually just need more solar power - try to keep the two technologies approx even.

To a first approximation they are complementary and generate power at opposite time periods (stormy windy weather has clouds, hot dry weather has no wind but does have lots of sun).
Works on Firefox/Android too v68.0
As an aside, what a horrible website to read an article. Weird things were highlighted and it suddenly switched to a full screen ad.
Thats a bit unfair though. Do you think most people will know if their laptop if affected? This is the first I've heard of it and honestly can't remember what year my MBP is.
I was indicating mercaptan, specifically. I thought the Methanethiol page was the relevant one at Wikipeida for it, though "mercaptan" itself redirects to "Thiol" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiol).

I'm a shitty chemist.

The broader point was about smells, sensitivity, oderising alarms, and a bit of safety history.
True and for a period we will have to pay to avoid the externalities of coal that were never priced in.
Take the portion you want to protect with least risk, divide it into $250K chunks (the FDIC limit) and put each in a savings account with a different bank. You'll make a small interest rate and you'll have FDIC insurance covering the entire amount. That's safer than any of the Treasury securities since you will still have the backing of the US government, you can use it to rebalance your portfolio at any time, and you don't have interest rate risk. This is one area where you have an advantage over the big players like Pimco, who can't protect themselves with FDIC insurance.
Good point, I did think about the latency after I posted the comment. (Apparently about 13ms between photons hitting the eyes and the brain recognizing it.)

Would the statement stand if it were updated to say, "The (presentMoment - latency) is the only thing we can observe"?

Perhaps "experience" instead of "observe" would have fit better - although, experience by definition is only in the present, otherwise it would be a memory.

Then a counter argument might be: everything is memory, even the current moment being experienced. I suppose that sliver of "now" might be infinitesmal, approaching zero..
You might want to look into "phase velocity" and "group velocity", for example on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_velocity#Relation_to_gro... .
The goal was to compete with Dubai and create a new trade hub on a well chosen place.

It had a thousand ways to fail, but it did mostly because of Kashogi's murder.
Won’t even get that far, because it’s alternating current. It changes direction a hundred times a second.
Most skyscrapers don't have a safe space to land on the roof due to weight restrictions, antennas, HVAC equipment, etc. Modifications to allow flight operations would be expensive. Only a few existing skyscrapers have helipads.
I had my battery replaced under this program. Can I bring it on the plane now?
This... Is a prison recipe :). Fish, chip coating, cook in the chip bag in microwave.

Not saying it's bad, I've done it. Chips are a great substitute for bread crumbs.
The South Australia battery is profitable because it solves the problem of changes in demand over a period of seconds or minutes, filling the gaps while a larger fossil fuel plant manually ramps up to take over the load.

It’s critically important and far more costly to do in other ways.
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