skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right when you phrase things like that it does sound silly, but that's not what the google homepage is, nor is a literal webapp comparable to a desktop app in terms of load time (?!?).

Chromium at least is open source. Make it use less memory.
Why not call buy everything in equal amounts a neutral strategy?

Buy nothing is not even a strategy. It's like calling empty set a neutral real number
In this case, it makes sense to host the code and data in Google Drive where you can easily access it with a Colab instance.
Disclaimer: I am neither for nor against anything which might be explicitly stated or implicitly implied by this article, I merely thought it had an intereesting intellectual character, and thus it was worthy of a HN Post...

I'm guessing that points made by this article may be hotly debated by the HN Community... which is healthy...
You've failed to explain your original premise, i.e. it is energy that determines the price of gold. You've made some tautological points that get us no where.
Realistically it's between wind, solar and natural gas. Unless you're lucky in a hydro area.

Storage will happen, but it's a long way off.
What if I just want to publish a set of static pages, how this would be compared with Netlify (not in terms of pricing of course).
Clickbait title misrepresents the data, which encompasses the entire Western Hemisphere... including the Caribbean.
Ask HN: What home networking equipment are you using?
I’ve got a single Netgear RTAC66U router with a Synology DS218+.

The signal is a bit limited throughout my apartment so I was thinking of adding an access point.

What equipment are you using at home?
Ideas like HS2 pushed by the new Tories are also just making it possible to live in the north and yet still work in London . . .

I would also argue that it allows businesses and industry to operate in the north without the location penalty. In other words, it effectively brings the areas served closer together. I won't argue whether it is the best solution, but it isn't as harebrained as some of the detractors try to imply.
There's a solar bike path in Holland which did pretty well. Exceeded expected yield the first two years but then dropped back to slightly under.

https://en.solaroad.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/prf1-ENG-S...
Nuclear power has been subsidized, most still is, coal is still subsidized. So what's the problem here?
...But fast.ai is a Python library. Partially written in swift.

Validating the original point that nothing will replace python for DL applications any time soon but middleware will continue to be implemented in c++/rust/swift/whatever you fancy.

S4TF isn't the first and certainly not the last end to end non-python DL stack. It might be worth highlighting as an example if it ever reaches mindshare above the noise floor amongst those stacks.
You mean like Christmas?
The last paragraph of the article was particularly astounding on this point, in that it explains how to disable the script injection rather than purge all Kaspersky software from the computer. That seems to contradict everything that preceded it.
I mean, everyone knows if you hand a human-created model to a learning algorithm, it's going to do better.
The linked posts you're pointing to here are talking about using human intelligence to build a model for the system. I think the point in this paper is that the model is learned in a self-supervised way. And that learning environment dynamics through predicting the next frame is useful by itself. That's not as obvious
Developing Kernel Drivers with Modern C++
I'm not comparing Flash to WASM—I don't care about it, I don't use it, I'm suspicious of why people really want it. But at least WASM has a specification and independent implementations.

Regardless, that's whataboutery. Flash Player was famously riddled with security bugs. The question is [Browser + Flash Player] vs [Browser] and the answer is obvious. Removing an entire surface area—a pure subset—is always a security win.
I think the cheat sheet is made for you: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_cheat.pdf

If you have a hard time getting it to work and remember how, then it is likely that the fundamentals of GNU Parallel are not clear to you. Chapter 2 ("Learn GNU Parallel in 15 minutes") of the book should take care of that.

> a better interface

That is often a tough one. I, for one, like emacs' interface. Others despise it. So when you write 'better interface' I think it will be helpful if you were more specific.
Depends on the cost relative to other options.

I would guess that if costs keep dropping you'd get a certain amount of overbuilding for the low energy demand season so you'd have capacity there for some kind of clean gas technology.

I wish the boffins would start crunching the numbers though. If my gas boiler breaks today, should I replace it or fit a heat pump? If I replace my kitchen should I keep a gas hob or move to electric?? These are less than once a decade purchasing decisions and theres absolutely no visibility on whether gas to the home is going to be a thing in the medium term.
You are wrong about trusting Linux.

Linux would badly need AV if it was a more popular desktop OS. Right now the user base is just too small to be a valuable target.

A regular Linux distro (without SELinux or some kind of application sandboxing and a hardened setup including NOEXEC home, forbidding ptrace, ...) is very susceptible to compromise.

All it takes is somehow getting the system to execute one unprivileged shell script and your user is permanently hosed.

An attacker can spy on everything, including other applications memory, unless they prevent it. Browsers are also easily compromised by just injecting a extension that can spy on everything.

Also he lack of dynamic firewalls makes it hard to monitor/prevent unwanted network traffic. (which could often be easily circumvented, though)
I think their browser extension offer just that functionality, but I haven't used a VPN in quite a while. But I think your approach with two different browsers has an advantage too: It's much easier to differentiate by just memorizing that chrome is for VPN and Firefox isn't. You're less likely to accidentally browse to some website where you want to circumvent geoblocking without the VPN enabled. Thanks to cookies they might then perfectly know your actual location. I used to use a VPN for YouTube before they signed an agreement with GEMA and occasionally didn't enable the VPN and after a while Google tagged the static address of my VPN as German although it was in the US. Although you probably won't run into this problem when sharing the endpoint with people from all over the world.
Hanging Up My Spurs
EVblog has some great videos about how bad solar roadways are, starting in 2014, and a good recap video in 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpwx-8s1M38
There is a YC startup looking at converting CO2 and H2O into "Fossil Fuel" called Prometheus (namesake of the monitoring tool I guess!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240.
You're right, it's about prototyping, finding the right components that won't bust the BOM, stress testing, manufacturing molds and handling all the warts of production and fulfillment at scale. A broad range of engineering schools and non-eng talents are needed to bring a decent product to market and you've done that. So kudos.

I'd be curious to know why you didn't use QMK or add in the features seems like it would be a hell of a lot easier and allow for contribution. SplitCommon support has been around forever, and you can do dynamic keymaps removing the need for full board flashes. Worst case PRs, that's how Zeal does their boards for features that don't exist.

I am very biased, that is correct. I wouldn't have tried to design a modular/hackable keyboard otherwise. Sadly I'm a one man shop and busy as hell with everything involved so making gUnit 1u/2u modules and interconnect devices hasn't been given much time. If you look around hard enough you can find working trackball modules for Gergo and the interface is simple enough that you can easily bodge in gear with 15$ in prototypes off JLC.

It's very hacky, there's breakouts everywhere, members do all sorts of strange crap with their boards (look at some of the firmware for Georgi on GitHub, it's gross and beautiful colemak-dh on 2rows?), TrackPoints, balls, vibration motors and other goofy shit.

But that's the crux of it, it's _not_ a polished keyboard (I had 300$ and wanted to design a better keyboard), it's a keyboard meant for hacking on and extending with a focus on Ergonomics. If it doesn't have bodge wires flying off of it, you're doing it wrong.

For the record: A simple Y-splitter for a TRRS is all you need to get power/comms retrofitted on 95% of splits for extra modules.
It can't be a superpower because it is neither military, nor cultural power.
I wouldn't want to commit a crime and get my money in something on a transparent ledger anyone can track.
This is largely nonsense - Botswana is on average net-neutral: https://tradingeconomics.com/botswana/balance-of-trade

The poor countries more or less have to spend the dollars because they need to buy fuel and high tech. It's the rare exceptions that stockpile it, China and Norway, and they can afford to do that because they're oil-producing.

> The poorer country would be better putting people to work creating domestic infrastructure straight away and only exporting what is necessary to get needed goods and services required to create that infrastructure

Generally true, but harder to achieve than it sounds. Worked in east Asian countries, but not in Africa, largely due to corruption. And the amount that has to be imported is high.

> You have to issue liabilities against 'Other Assets' rather than 'US Treasuries'

I can't even work out what this is referring to.
> ..fossil fuels will be competing with energy storage

Since fossil fuels are energy dense, it would be interesting if we come back full circle by producing hydrocarbon fuels for energy storage by recycling atmospheric carbon using cheap renewable electrical energy.

Edit to clarify, there are more energy dense substance than hydrocarbons (ex. Hydrogen), but hydrocarbons would have advantage of having ability of being useful in existing infra (IC engines, gas pumps, storage containers, etc.)
If you take 4% of somebody’s wealth, of course you are making their fortune smaller. Perhaps what you mean is that their fortunes would normally be growing at 4% per year, so overall, they would not decrease. Maybe. I suspect that billionaire’s capital is rather mobile, though.
But looking at the comparison, do you really find GNU Parallel that much harder to understand?

parallel sh -c "echo hi; sleep 2; echo bye" -- 1 2 3

parallel echo hi";" sleep 2";" echo bye ::: 1 2 3

parallel -j 3 ufraw -o processed -- *.NEF

parallel -j 3 ufraw -o processed ::: *.NEF

parallel -j 3 -- ls df "echo hi"

parallel -j 3 ::: ls df "echo hi"

And if you are looking for the single page overview, why not link to the cheat sheet: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_cheat.pdf
Advertisements have side effects, such as bringing lightning or hiding ugliness.

Don't confuse the side effect for the desired effect: if advertisers found out how to make ads cheaper workout reducing their effectiveness, but at the expense of secondary effects, they would.

From your description, it sounds as if the city is ugly and that advertisements cover that up.

That's not a reason to long for advertisements, that is a reason to long for a nicer city.
> Can you imagine managers like that implementing the Toyota Production System? Or anything else where the workers have an individual autonomous contribution? Of course not. So that's why the remaining large car factories are foreign-owned.

I'm not convinced that what you apparently feel is a fair outcome, is an actual logical consequence. Where did manufacturing go? To SE Asia. What is the industrial relations and individual autonomous contribution like in a SE Asian sweatshop?
elastic,i-exec and sonm (maybe others too there is a lot of innovation there)
They could be desiring data (even anonymized) to assist leading edge prediction of market trends (purchasing, interest, etc) immediately as they happen. In a world of algorithmic trading and futures speculation, perhaps that matters a great deal?

It is goldman though after all, so you could be right!
In my previous workplace, all my food, drinks, coffee, water was in disposable packaging. That is 230 food boxes, 690 coffee cups, 230 porridge bowls and lids, 460 plastic wrappers, plus plastic cutlery, etc. All up 2000 items of disposable plastic per year.

At my new office, it is 100% reusable. Even my lunchtime salads are put in the reusable plastic bowl I bring from the office to the cafe.

As you say, making the switch is surprising easy, and also satisfying.
I could make the argument that London domination of the pound has had the same effect on peripheral counties of the UK. The forces are the same - money flows in to the capital, but the peripheral areas need to keep buying globally produced goods, so money flows out.
And this is the vicious cycle how we got stagflation. You don't stop deflation by cutting your spending and investing more. There is nothing to invest into because no one is buying the services and products you have invested in.
For my games, both Edge and IE9 have the fastest canvas rendering of all the browsers. Just saying.
It's not the delivery, it's the unboxing.

For a pick-up / package-hold service, the unboxing could be supervised. Delivery drivers aren't going to want to wait for recipients to remove packaging. And in many cases, the signer won't be the same person as the unboxer.
Has anyone seen this error [1] before? A user reported seeing it the other day and I can't figure out if it was an issue with Safari, his ISP, or what. It only happens for him when connected via WiFi on mobile. My SSL certs are auto-updating and I manually refreshed them, yet he still sees this a day later. Thanks in advance!

[1] https://imgur.com/j63UaIR
the wikipedia article claims that the child's illness was radiation induced but the provided source does not.

Just to give you an actual statistic rather than anecdote, among Hiroshima bomb survivors the incidence of birth defects was about 0.9%, or about 500 children in total. I'm not entirely sure how trustworthy this story is.
I have indeed given you an example, it’s called Regus. Google it, they have an international brand too. Wework now has a higher profile.

Good for them, but what’s that worth exactly? Having brand recognition is not at all the same thing as a barrier to entry of a market, or a network effect.

The market for shared or managed office has very low barriers to entry and modest network effects. Thus making the concept of a monopoly in this market more than implausible.
> In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels.

This is currently HN's title, and the article's subtitle. But the article makes no statement to prove this assertion.

It does not even make sense to me. I guess the author meant that for firms that have high energy needs. But it is stupid to imply that the electricity provided by fossil fuel can always be replaced by wind turbines. If the need is for regular bursts, high volumes on short periods, wind won't be of much use.

Moreover, the article is a digest of a report that is less emphatic. The US Department of Energy expects a slow-down of wind capacity after 2020, once the tax credit will end. For a project that would start now, there would be no tax credit, so it would be hard to reach a competitive price.
Maybe the cheat sheet is made for you: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_cheat.pdf
Hacker Made Clothes That Can Confuse Automatic License Plate Readers
As a side note, falling leaves is one of the most dreaded problem in rail transportation. Not only does it obstruct things very efficiently, including the passage of light, but it also makes the rail surface very slippery, making it sometimes impossible for trains to actually brake using mechanical means. Much much worse than snow or rain. One sympathizes.
No, you are wrong.

The ECB does not have to balance interests. It‘s independent and it‘s job is monetary stability, not economic interests.

It‘s also not widely accepted that it‘s in Germanys interest. In fact it is against it. Germans hold most of their wealth in cash. They received interest for it. That‘s hundereds of billions now gone. Germans are poorer than most other Europeans (even than Spaniards and Italians)
At the same time the southern countries have so high debt loads that they would be bankrupt without QE.

The Euro is too weak for North Europe and to strong for the South.
Even if only a small % of males manage to reproduce after mating arm removal; over time, would that not lead to the gene for surving reproduction to be selected and become more common?

Great article, and indeed confusing questions. Wish we can learn more about octopuses, specially the social octopuses.

Also interesting were recent mdma experiments on octopuses.
>Alternatively is anyone aware of a similar device (mostly closed box, rechargable internal battery, wireless accessible) that either has internal SSD storage or into which an SD card can be installed that also has a *nix filesystem underneath?

I am not sure to understand the rechargeable battery requirement.

I mean, the thingy needs to be connected to mains anyway to recharge the battery and - before or later - it will happen to exhaust the battery mid-backup.

Personally I would either get a "normal" UPS (that stays always in the office) and connect to it any of the "common" mini-pc's, sometimes called "brick pc's", like (example only) the Ibtel NUC's:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits...

But really, why do you want to carry with you BOTH the data AND the hardware?

Once upon a time those kinds of backups were made using ZIP disk, there was a "backup" machine on the network with a ZIP drive and what was carried home at night was just the ZIP disk (at the time the policy was "integral" backup every two days and there were three disks, labeled "Monday", "Wednesday" and "Friday" - and yes, all the non-replaceable data did fit into 100 MB).

Nowadays all you need is either a USB disk in a case or a "cartridge like" disk, example:

https://www.addonics.com/category/removable_drive_system.php
There’s ongoing work that’s just (this week) starting to land to improve macOS battery life via CoreAnimation. That should help in the medium term.

As for crashing on sleep, that’s not normal behaviour. Maybe try refreshing Firefox via about:support? You’ll lose extensions etc but if nothing else it could help to narrow down the problem if it comes back.
For those interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations...
Its funny when apple users talking about democracy, since apple product is less democracy and freedom
Good, you should hate it. Don't put cosmetics on it, fix the underlying true uglyness: Lack of plants, too many cars, bad architecture etc.
It would require your input not to have any special shell chars - e.g. no space.

It is definitely not something I would dare to run in production.
> the males that detach their mating arms to keep from being eaten, and generally they really can’t mate again after that (why they bother trying to avoid being cannibalized if they don’t mate again afterwards)

Nothing prevents them to mate again. Male octopuses are able to regenerate lost arms and the Hectocotylus easily. The best known species live fast and have short lives in any case.
Sometimes i get the feeling some are contrarian only for the sake of it. Advocating using windoze without av is like advocating not using condoms because it doesn't feel good.
The poster is holding a line of bash to the standard of code and is illustrating that readability should be the goal and a way of bringing bash commands to a standard of readability for something like a PR. Readability is really there to show _intent_
I would say though that if you are bringing this to the code standards of today then this should really be wrapped up in some kind of unit test (https://github.com/sstephenson/bats )for it to pass the PR. That would make the code a bit more maintainable and can be integrated as a stage in your CI/CD pipeline.

If we do that then the intent would be clarified by the input and the expected output of the test. Then then the code would at least be maintainable and the readability problem becomes less of an issue when it comes to technical debt.

I've done this plenty of times with my teams and its certainly helped.
I'm not having a problem with twitter finally finding it out, and asking the user to remove it. But isn't there a catch-22?

> As a result we've locked your account.

> What you can do:

> To unlock your account, you must do the following:

> Remove Tweets that violate our rules.

Can you actually remove tweets when your account is locked?

E.g When Google locks your account you lost everything. You certainly cannot talk to them, remove any violating content or fix things.
As it looks (unable and unwilling to test), Twitter implemented locking by just prohibiting to post new stuff, but allows you to fix stuff. Which is very fine to me, compared to Google.
Yes I was. I've posted the comment to the correct story now. I don't how that happened.
> All together, UK billionaires have 156 billion pounds [1]. Put a 4% wealth tax on that, and you'll get 6.25 billion pounds. You won't even be making their fortunes smaller, so you could take that amount for forever.

What a smart and novel idea. Taxing wealthy business owners has worked so well all over the world for years. Let's hope they will never find out about ways to move/split their assets and tax residence.
Yes but you're ignoring capital flight.

Billionaires and multi-millionaires can just up and leave to more tax friendly destinations.

There are actually tax advantaged schemes (EIS and VCT) in the UK to try and funnel money into emerging tech and new businesses. However you would only invest in them if you were extremely wealthy do too the risks involved.
Does anyone know where petrodollars fit in this picture? Do they give the US a particular economic advantage?
I've never seen such an architect in software and I'm surprised this is the top comment here.

HN has been taken over by talkers and bullshitters.
Since then I read 100 pages of the book.. then watched the first couple of hours of the videos. They cover almost the same ground, but the book explains things more concisely, accurately, while the videos feature, apart from animations of what's drawn in the book, photos and videos of the animators he's talking about, and Williams doing their funny voices and body language, telling stories, and drawing a lot of stuff on a whiteboard. Has him talking to camera as well as teaching a class. Seems like about 7 or 8 hours of video. Tip: I could hardly see what he was writing on the whiteboard half the time, but turned the video contrast and brightness down a bit and now can see everything. (There's also another torrent of mp4s, much bigger file size, but the quality seems worse than this one.) Awesome. Thanks again!
Comparison to GNU Parallel's syntax: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....
1.) I think the OP was asking where they can find the insights obtained from this failed solar road test that would allow others to save money. Not general photovoltaics stuff.

2.) Angling solar panels is a more complex problem than you might have thought: https://www.eupvsec-proceedings.com/proceedings?fulltext=mun... :)
I'm on a Lenovo X1 Thinkpad and Edge definitely doesn't feel slow to start here (it's instant), and while pages are maybe a bit slower to load than Firefox Quantum, I wouldn't call Edge slow. I can't compare against Chrome though - I don't use it because it chews through battery.

I think I have seen that disappearing mouse issue though, and mostly I use Edge when I double click on a PDF file and forget I don't have a PDF reader installed....