skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that many workers in the UK are really not that bothered about work. They'll actually turn down work if they don't feel they'll get enough money for it. Just the other day I was in the garage and they were convincing me not to get work done on my car. At that time there were two mechanics just sitting in the shop doing nothing. My theory is these workers are relatively happy with what they get currently, but the next step up is just so far away that they don't even bother going for it.

I wouldn't say the financial industry sucks up the best. In my experience it sucks up the most qualified and pays them too much. But none of the smartest people I know stayed in finance for long.
Windows with its built-in Windows Defender and your Common Sense 2019 Computer Professional Edition is going to be enough nowadays.
The new censors – The global gag on free speech is tightening
The Virgin brand means two things: the company is paying 1% of annual turnover to Virgin Group and Branson himself is happy for the company to carry the brand.

Nothing else links the various Virgin companies. By this stage the brand is basically a convenient way for companies to outsource branding while they get on with whatever their business is.

The problem there is that Virgin used to mean something but it's less meaningful now.
Fair enough. There are probably some that liked the other way. I find Tokyo city centre amazing with all the ads/signs/etc.
I don't fully understand why everyone gets upset over browser leaks when in private mode - most websites interested in tracking private sessions will just associate private and non-private sessions by IP address.

If you're paranoid enough to use a VPN for 'private' traffic, you should probably be running such sessions in a VM using something like the tails live CD.
> ..If the need is for regular bursts, high volumes on short periods, wind won't be of much use.

Just on this point, the article talks about curtailment:

At times, strong winds can cause wind farms to produce an excess of power relative to demand, causing a farm's output to be reduced. This process, called curtailment, remained a small factor, with only two percent of the potential generation lost this way. Put differently, if the curtailed electricity had been used, it would have only raised the average capacity factor by 0.7 percentage points.

It sounds like 'short bursts' is really not a problem.
Yeah, quoting redirection is a bitch, but as long as you know GNU Parallel is just a program and not part of the shell, you can usually deduct which parts will be interpreted by the shell before GNU Parallel gets it.

I often create bash functions to avoid that shit, and then call the bash functions from GNU Parallel instead.
Another good point, re quality of life. In london the quality of life is quite low, despite high salaries. I am wondering if toronto can do something different and learn from mistakes made by other tech boom cities. I.e. how to avoid congestion, how to keep house process at an affordable level, etc. It would be interesting to have tech companies located outside the city centre as a starting point. Of course there is the solution of not welcoming these companies and immigrants, but is there a way their presence can be leveraged for the greater good, by learning from mistakes made by others?
Pretty sure the only people who wanted solar roads were people who wanted roads and wanted to avoid protests from environmentalists.

A road is only the 2nd worst place to put solar panels after a cave.
True. Though there’s nothing to suggest the a for profit like brave should be users’ first option in the fight for user privacy online... what’s their record? If anything this man in the middle concept is even worse because it creates an illusion of safety where there’s non. Sort of like Adblock and it’s symbiotic relationship with advertisers. They’re part of the same ecosystem and Mozilla is definitely not part of.
“It is always safer to know the size you must allocate ahead of time instead of dynamically growing a buffer until the text stream is terminated.”

And then you go on to give examples of said scenarios of how this is true while saying I’m wrong? Anytime you have an unknown payload you have to make a determination of how long you’re going to wait, how much you’re going to accept, buffer, etc before it’s become a drain on the system
Update on August 2019 Texas Cyber Incident
Does anyone know at what point fossil fuels will start to feel the shrinking economies of scale, ie when fossil will get more expensive because there is less scale? Does this point exist at all, or doesn't it matter any more because we have the tech developed already anyway?
Adaptive Energy-Efficient Routing for Autonomous Vehicles
> This thread you have been commenting on is talking about efficiency...

Yes, but this kind of raw input efficiency isn't the only consideration when it comes to food. There would still be plant-based products that are more efficient to grow than other plant-based products. Apples are cheaper to grow than Oranges, which is exactly what this comparison of food for livestock against food for people is.

Beef production is 100% efficient at producing beef. Milk production is 100% efficient at producing milk.

You just claim these alternatives are "more efficient", yet they are more expensive, they do not taste quite like beef, nor do they have the same nutritional profile. They're more efficient on some metrics, some of which are irrelevant to us.

> You say, ignoring that the opposite is happening

It's not clear that the opposite is happening. There's a lot of media buzz around Beyond Meat or Impossible Burger (and their IPOs). Their initial output was tiny, so naturally it can currently grow fast. This is the hype phase. We'll see how it works out in a few years.

> It's still currently expensive because of the sunk cost of R&D.

I doubt that. Those companies are in their growth phase and they're burning lots of capital. This is not the time to pay back on R&D.

It's rather that their processes are not mature, that they're simply trying to figure out their markup, and/or that they have lots of other overhead that beef producers do not have. For instance, would you not count the marketing budget as an "inefficiency"?

> Your arguments are weak.

Well, alright. I think your "efficiency" argument is weak. It's pretty much irrelevant to our economy. Just look at how cheap beef is. Shockingly cheap, in fact. It could easily tolerate price increases. Even if plant-based meat replacements were significantly cheaper, they probably wouldn't displace a lot of demand for beef. Rather, they'd displace demand for vegetarian/vegan products.

Those countries where meat is relatively more expensive, where efficiency is more important, those already have a rich cuisine based on plant-based products. They already have their own "fake meat" made out of for example Tofu. In my experience, that stuff is already superior to crappy Western products made for vegetarians.
You don't have to read it.
Prof. Wolff may be a Marxist and outsider in "economics circles", but this does not discredit him. Just read on him here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Wolff

Macroeconomics is not exact science, all theories there are quite weak when compared to exact sciences. Given the increasing inequality and wage stagnation in the West and life quality increase in China in last four decades, I think listening to him is not a waste of time.
Artists make art. Academics write papers about artists who make art.

Some of those papers are interesting. Most of them are irrelevant to anyone who isn't also an academic.

I would be surprised if that didn't apply here.

There's a kind of stock liberal arts academic curriculum - a bit of feminism, a bit of Critical Theory, a bit of Marxism (but not much), stock mentions of Adorno, Horkheimer, Barthes, Baudrillard, maybe Kristeva and others - that passes for academic arts criticism these days.

To an outsider, it's more of a cargo cult where you gain entry by rather robotically quoting from set texts and authorities and adopting certain standard rhetorical techniques, than a convincing philosophical movement.

Given his comments, I would guess that he wants artists to learn some basic coding, and he also wants developers to have some familiarity with that kind of academic thinking.

Well - no. I don't see anything useful on the table there.

I'm hardly apolitical, but the reality is that some bedrock elements in politics are defined by the absolute worst elements in human nature, and by people who personify those elements - sometimes with plain old brutality, but sometimes also in sophisticated and complex ways.

There is nothing in mainstream liberal arts academia that even acknowledges this, never mind offers a solution to it. So I have no faith that his idea of "political theory" is going to do much to make the next Facebook less likely, or the current Facebook (etc) less dominant and manipulative.
There’s no reason strings cant be sent like binary if you do a size header first. The problem is trying to send binary like a string where your data might have 0s that could be interpreted by the receiver as string terminations. Typically base64 is used to address this issue
Does that also apply to platforms where you as a consultant for hire does not have access to a C compiler for that given platform?

It used to be an issue that non-free UNIXes did not include a C-compiler by default, and then C would really not help. I am not sure if that is the case anymore.
A no-nonsense title like "building and operating wind farms is cheaper than building and operating natural gas plants" wouldn't have been clickbait-ish enough.
Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
It's not possible to discuss the cost of generating a kWh without also discussing availability aspects. Comparisons must be made like for like.

For example, certainly for solar the cost and practicality of storage must be taken into account.

There are similar constraints with wind.

Overall, renewables can be used a lot these days but still have limitations.
It's Paul Thurrott. If somebody high up at Microsoft takes a particularly satisfying dump, Thurrott will have a blog post about it.
Just a counterpoint here - I spent 2 weeks in Sao Paulo and loved it. Never found it aesthetically unpleasing. Many areas look just as modern as NYC (where I lived prior to this) - but cleaner and less crowded. And they have some neighborhoods with a lot of beautiful street art. My only disappointment was the Little Tokyo - not much there, and marked only by fake looking street lanterns.

I didn't even know they had banned outdoor advertising until I read this article. I certainly never thought "you know what, this city needs more outdoor advertising." Readers - if you've never visited Sao Paulo, please don't take these negative accounts to heart and go see it for yourself.
It's been submitted before, but it's come to hand again, and I'm reminded once more just how much of a fantastic read this is:

"A fluorine-aluminum fire is something to see - from a safe distance"

"Everyone who uses a computer has, from time to time, a mad urge to attack the precocious abacus with an axe."

"... a fearsome cutting torch burning powdered aluminum with gaseous flourine"

I have to admit that:

"What if I replace a hydroxide
group with flourine"

is a question I've never asked myself.
Thread on bridging Bitcoin to other chains
I know how to uninstall software. I probably wouldn't know where to disable a particular feature or that I could disable it at all.
The whole protein, protein, protein, thing is because it's supposed to make you feel fuller, so you don't overeat. Plus, you know, carbs are bad, so protein!
How did you get the list of pages to download? Or was this spidering from some starting set?

One hour on that connection means a maximum of 18GB of data, which seems surprisingly small for a whole country's internet (not that I have any point of comparison), small enough that you could easily do interesting analysis of the whole lot.
Let's try to remember that people with medically unexplained pain will be experiencing real, actual pain.

They're not inventing the pain. We can put them through fMRI and see the same bits of the brain light up.

The public have 3 incorrect beliefs about pain treatment.

1) Opioids work

2) The only acceptable outcome for pain treatment is elimination of all pain

3) Pain is either real (with a physical cause) or not real (psychologic, or made up).

It seems plenty of doctors believe (3) too.

Patients reject treatments that don't fit these beliefs.

As you know opioids are a good choice for some types of pain, but they're a poor choice for others. The patient will end up with an opioid addiction, and all the side effects from the opioid meds, and they'll still be in pain because they've got a tolerance to the meds.

So pain treatment now will try to eliminate pain if possible, but some people that's just not possible, and so HCPs will look at function. How well can the person live their life, even if they're in pain?

This leads to a multi-disciplinary approach to pain management, including physiotherapy but also importantly including a psychological treatment.

If this was a standard approach for all pain, obviously being tailored for different types of pain, patients would be less likely to reject it. Your "nuts" (a fucking horrible way to describe patients and incompatible with a professional registration in England) would be less likely to reject psychological treatments for pain if they knew that it was also being offered to cancer patients.
I want to pay more tax to help benefit the society that let me get to where I'm going

Well, you can do that anytime you like. Just make a donation to your local hospital, they’ll be more than happy to accept it.
In this thread the goebbels of the earth, who in theire meetings deride the people as stupid animals to be manipulated by the cynic mentally superior at will, writting for theire lifelihood.
If not sign of change, at least a nice inversion of power.
Won't we have to do that anyway for air (and space) travel?
Your problem actually is a good illustration of the whiteboard test problems.

I just tried it, and it was trivial to do in a minute or two on my laptop. However, I did took note of two syntax mistakes that I made in the python REPL that were immediately obvious there and took seconds to fix, but which I most likely would not have noticed on a whiteboard.

So there's quite a bunch of problems where if the acceptable "format" of the answer is "hey, I'll just pull out my laptop from the backpack and push the solution to github in 15 minutes" then it'd be okay, but it'd be hard to do it while 'whiteboarding' without access to immediate feedback and easily accessible API documentation.

For example, I work in many languages, and for many APIs I can't remember whether in this particular language the same thing is called add or append or something else; e.g. I've worked on Java code for a dozen years and would be a quite productive Java developer, but since I haven't written any new code in Java for quite some time recently, I can't remember off of my head what's the right boilerplate to open a text file for reading in Java - it's something that a Java tutorial might have in the first pages right after Hello world, but I'd still have to look up the incantation to pass the encoding properly - there's like three Reader classes to instantiate and I don't recall their names off the top of my head.
Why not simply do as GNU Parallel suggests in the message:

Run 'parallel --citation' ONCE and have the notice silenced.

I never understood the complaint: Is it because people do not _read_ the message?
> ... considered gold extremely valuable for use as jewelry. That’s what intrinsic value means, people value it for what it actually is.

Oh. So that's why most gold in the world was made into jewlery and is held by jewlery afficiandos. /s

Yes. Gold has some intrinsic value but to determine how much that intrinsic value influences the price it is enough to look at how much of gold is used for its intrinsic value.

Intrinsic value of bitcoin is its ability to transfer value to any place on earth through internet in reasonable time at affordable price without trusted third party.

You can see how much value of bitcoin comes from that by looking at how much bitcoin is used for this purpose. The rest comes from the same place that the rest of gold value comes from, scarcity and durability.
Hi there, this article has already been discussed, you can find the original thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904
As a rare windows user (two or free times a year) i never trust a machine without an av. maybe things changed, but i see windows as so unsafe that i would not even login with to regular email, let alone make online payments. I simply see that os as a vulnerability by default.
Unfortunately common sense is not very common
Show HN: Benchmarking C++ Mathematical Expression Parsers
> I can say that I've never regretted a hire I said yes to, so the method works to my satisfaction.

You think this is a claim about how good your hiring practice is, but the only way I can think to read this is as a point about how little hiring you do or how little evaluation of hires you do. In the real world, perfection isn't possible, so claims of it are a sign of inexperience or naivete.
Yes but the real aim should be to produce totally clean, renewable zero carbon power cuts.
Correct, in that the degredation is to about 80% of original rated life. Actually, checking on NREL's site, it looks as if there's been some improvement, with 25 years a more accurate estimate. https://www.nrel.gov/pv/lifetime.html

However the point remains that 20-25 years is the standard rated lifetime for planning and estimating purposes.

https://www.nrel.gov/pv/lifetime.html

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51664.pdf
There is something so charming about the attached video [0]. It's very reminiscent of the original APL demonstration [1] from 1975. I love it!

0.https://youtube.com/watch?v=jTeENcpUZdM

1.https://youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA
I found it in one of the many HN threads where alternatives were being advertised left and right just as Reader's death was being announced ;) theoldreader is another one I remember from back then.
For one, interviewing requires extremely short term knowledge. Almost everybody I know who plays the interviewing game learns just enough to pass the interviews, then immediately forgets it until the next time. So it's not really comparable to learning and refining a difficult topic over the course of a few years, as in the case of software development practices.

Also, it's two completely different skillsets! There's something very weird about interviewing for X but then demanding Y. I don't ask my primary care physician how good he is at surgery, then be like "he knows how to learn difficult tasks, so we're good".
Why not save some quoting:

parallel --slf input_file_here -j16 --nonall echo 'Matrix has you'
There's 3 fundamental gaps between Numpy and NN libraries (other commenters have jointly mentioned 2/3)

1. Numpy doesn't run on GPU.

2. Numpy isn't high level enough for NN building.

3. Numpy doesn't have auto differentiation.

Other options solve some of these - Autograd solves 3, Jax solves 1 and 3, etc.

But if you want all 3 then you want to use Pytorch.
(I just made a clarification edit without looking at this reply)

Yes, but the point as mentioned in my edit is for usage of renewable energy without much modifying existing infra.
> a bit of an unfair generalisation... There are plenty of employers out there that don't want to suck their employees dry.

I think I generalised it correctly. I agree with this point - that it's often not the most profitable to suck your employees dry, as you say.

Your employer is not on your side, even if your goals temporarily align with their long term vision. That is almost the best you can hope for in employment.

If business has a time of crisis, for whatever reason, then it becomes a risk-minimising strategy to exploit staff - at least until the crisis is over or the business collapses.
Web Application Vulnerability Scans for GKE and Compute Engine
Just because fast.ai has some investment in Swift does not mean that S4TF has attracted mind share. The bulk of fast.ai is still taught on Pytorch.
A concentrating system isn't going to reduce the overall degradation -- yes, there's less critical surface, but it's weathered about the same as a nonconcentrating surface, and affects proportionately more generating capacity.

Or at least that's the theory.

NREL conduct longevity / degradation studies for numerous specific PV panel designs and products. Degredation ranges between about 0.5% and 0.8% per year, with an effective lifetime of 20-30 years.

Rough number, and actual results depend on specific siting characteristics and events. A tornado passing overhead, sandstorm, or very severe hail, may significantly negatively affect experienced lifetime.
Yes, and I am saying that we can't prove it works. So we cannot know that it works.
I think AV vendors used to do browser addons to provide some functionality. But since browser extensions in all popular browser are now effectively neutered versions of their former selves, they are probably resorting to stuff like this. It can be hard to even get a browser addon installed as a third party program without resorting to hacks (thanks to browsers having taken measures after the toolbar hell).
WASM can't magically make memory-unsafe languages memory-safe. You can still have memory leaks and buffer overflows, but (assuming a correct WASM implementation) a buffer overflow can not result in memory access outside the WASM instance's memory space - unless you provide it with the facilities to do so.
You could probably say the same about Apple - iAd was pretty intrusive in terms of the amount of data it collected, especially compared to what Apple allowed from third-party ad platforms at the time, but they failed to make a business out of it.
Netlify started out by allowing you to host static sites, so this is easy to do. Anything additional that you might find useful requires extra steps, and is not as simple as it could be.

One example is selecting a particular region to deploy. With us it's as simple as selecting the region you want to deploy to from a drop down menu.

Other stuff like our detailed uptime/status monitor and the ability to roll back to a previously deployed state are also worth mentioning.

Unubo uses one flow for each deployment type, so in case you wanted to deploy something else in the future, you have the option to do so - and are already accustomed to do it.
Aren't you kind of mixing engineering with science?

We still have plenty of opportunity for optimization of scientific discoveries in biology, what we don't have plenty of is new scientific discoveries.

I am just asking, maybe I am missing something but read like that to me.
How important are batteries to windmill success? Good batteries are very recent.
You don't see an issue with this? The people have an obvious vested interest in ensuring people aren't driving impaired. This is why we effectively are able to justify effectively searching your body for things that we have justifiable reason to believe may exist and might cause you to accidentally murder your fellow citizen with your car.

Absent the motive of impairment how do we justify such a search when we wouldn't allow such a thing in your house or on the sidewalk? Presumably Australia does because its notions of civil rights are about as interesting as Alabama's notion of reproductive freedom but do you?
Mindful Musings – The Lightness of Being [Present] – Aparna Nayyar – Medium
I'm in Bucharest, and on UPS. Since I'm from the UK, frankly, the price and quality (speed, uptime, etc.) are a continuing marvel to me.
Differences between traditional and software engineering