skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because the power losses due to occlusion are significant and can make a system non-viable and non-economic

That depends on how large the individual cells are and how they're wired up. There are panels that have a pass-through if they're occluded too much to avoid them limiting the output of other cells. It's possible that these panels had compensation mechanisms built-in.

> I'm not sure why they didn't hire an experienced engineer for this multi-million Euro project.

This isn't a few amateurs getting a construction grant and slapping the cheapest off-the-shelf panels they could find onto the pavement.

The panels were built by a French company called Wattway, a subsidiary of Colas, a large French street construction corporation. The parent company also did the construction work of actually putting these things on the street.

Apparently the "Institut National de l'Energie Solaire" was involved in this project as well, which is a public research facility (co-run by a university and the CEA, which has a budget of more than 5 billion Euros, and has a staff of 19k employees and 1200 grad + post-grad students).

That "solar road" might have been part of a research grant for all kinds of PV developments and they had to deliver it as a demonstration. That would also explain to me why they give up so easily. From the article: "Wattway [...] told Le Monde that it would not be going to market."
Sure, but bonds are often resold, so it's not like the value is lost.
I was a vi person, then I tried Emacs, then I went full-Emacs (even for email, and sometimes Web), and released some of my extensions.[1]

Then I decided to try to be in less of an Emacs OS, and intentionally moved things like email out of it, even though the non-Emacs stuff in some ways didn't work as well.

Lately, I've been moving some new things to Emacs, like calendar/todo, and it's much more effective than the GUI tools I had going for that. I'm tempted to move email back, as well (but will probably write a new MUA instead, in Rust or Scheme).

[1] https://www.neilvandyke.org/emacs/
Unless I missed something, the "completely reasonable reason" appears to be that horses live a lot longer than dogs.
Not every hand is a winner in poker. Best big or get out and hold but don't always do only one.
Any discussion about GNU Parallel inevitably degrades into complaints about the requirements for "--will-cite".

Removing that requirement is a two line patch:

4723,4724d4722
< 1
< or
Well I had never heard of httpie before now so thanks for casually dropping that endorsement. Never realized how much I wanted something like this.
The most significant difference in this context are the separate hierarchies—programs need to be recompiled to work when made available under the /ro mount point.

I don’t see a way to avoid having two versions of a package when you want to support distri-style package management and traditional-style package management.
Except now post GDPR implementation it is now illegal to be that incompetent.

Not that I expect Virgin Media to change. They are a massive company with probably a million legacy systems from their NTL, Cable&Wireless and 50 other merges that they will never touch.
SICP still
Make Something People Want Background
Black: https://ibb.co/8KMMWP4

White: https://ibb.co/DQ6XHnD
If you're playing a video, which is the use case in the article, it wouldn't make sense keep anything in RAM. A minute buffer in either direction seems logical. I am expecting the implementation to be something like that.
PowerShell can do that first part for PS cmdlets rather than general man pages; Get-Command searches for available functions, loaded module exports and executables in the path. It takes a parameter -Module which limits that to things exported by just one module. You can use Get-Help to find out about just that parameter, e.g.:

PS C:\> Get-Help -Name Get-Command -Parameter Module

-Module <String[]>
Specifies an array of modules. This cmdlet gets the commands that came from the specified modules or snap-ins.
Enter the names of modules or snap-ins, or enter snap-in or module objects.

This parameter takes string values, but the value of this parameter can also be a PSModuleInfo or PSSnapinInfo
object, such as the objects that the Get-Module, Get-PSSnapin, and Import-PSSession cmdlets return.

You can refer to this parameter by its name, Module , or by its alias, PSSnapin . The parameter name that you
choose has no effect on the command output.

Required? false
Position? named
Default value None
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Accept wildcard characters? false

Or in a shorter version, help gcm -param mod*

> I would love to have a shell that can show me (intellisense?) the most common flags and options commands are run with.

It can do some of that for PS cmdlets as well, intellisense can look into the cmdlets, find the names of exported parameters and show them all to you (not in most common order) and then for some commands you can do get-executionpolicy -Scope {tab} and it will cycle through the three available scopes. That autocomplete can be extended to do things like interrogate a database engine and complete table names, by the author, or wrapped by the user to do that. Again not really for system commands unless you wrap around them.
insider trading offers the best rewards/risk ratio.
Or just pass another law forbidding the 'depriving [any] passengers of the flight experience that they bought and paid for'. I see no compelling reason for taxes to subsidize companies just to help them follow the law, i get no subsidies to help me not steal things or to obey traffic lights. And I'm not posting millions in profits.
If Medicare For All were passed it would be a massive increase in fiscal spending and a lot of it would be financed with debt. After that supply and demand will take care of the yield the market expects for risk-free assets.

The reason why Germany has negative yielding sovereign debt is because they have a political aversion to any kind of deficit spending, and that's a detriment to growth all across Europe as well as to their own people.
There's a difference between getting help, and getting enabled.

People with mental illness often make terrible decisions, but there's a trend to say we have to tolerate these terrible decisions because that's helping them, when it might do the opposite.

OK, so service animals might be effective. But for a non-permanent disability, couldn't travelling without one be a milestone to work towards, rather than an unalienable right? Obviously it depends on individual circumstances, but who should make the call?
Vframe: Open-source computer vision tools for human rights investigations
The part that that had always intrigued me is how data aggregators seem to really enjoy the fight when someone wants their data removed. If it were really just about marketing - why waste time and money peddling to people who don’t want to be peddled to? I think at some level it’s more about being able to cause people discomfort and annoyance without repercussions, and I think there is a significant population of disempowered people that appeals to. Like some variant of the Stanford prison experiment perhaps?
I routinely use it for casual tasks and I've never read the manual. Don't confuse complexity with difficulty.
A priori, the most believable thesis to me would be that Finding Dory increased both interest in keeping blue tang fish as pets and generic internet searches about them.

It's also misleading to conflate keeping members of a species as pets with damaging the wild population. This is something that is obviously related in some cases (e.g. giant pandas) and obviously unrelated in others (e.g
dogs). I don't know much about the ecosystem in which blue tang live, but I'd expect most aquarium fish to be more like dogs than pandas in this comparison.
Just last week I was wishing exactly this existed. There are so many businesses where the main hurdle to get over is the basic institutional knowledge.

I wonder how cheaply it could be done for 1 customer (my parents house has terrible wireless internet and I'd like to move home and try doing a startup)
I didn't downvote you, but I'm quite surprised by that remark. Say what you will about HN, but it seems to me it's damn near the only medium in the world that mostly doesn't use censorship to control the Overton window, that is genuinely quite open to contrarian views. (As seen in this discussion, where there is vigorous debate going on.)
It was easy to apply for a personal loan
It was easy to apply for a personal loan with WESTERN LOAN FINANCE and they were quick to respond. They made the process seamless and were very helpful. I am happy I chose them. I would highly recommend.
For everyone that don't like this one, they publish a big list of alternative

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....
About how much money should you be prepared to spend if you were to follow this guide exactly?
Legally, the lower receiver of a firearm is the piece that’s subject to background checks and other firearm-related laws. Presumably that’s all that would be technically needed.
I always wanted to have an open access RADIUS server so that I can resell my unused Internet. I personally think this should be allowed.
At the interactive shell, the verbosity collapses:

ipcsv $src|group column8|%{$_.group|epcsv "$dstdir\$($_.name).csv" -noty -e ascii -v}

The bad part is when writing "good" powershell the verbosity is exponentially worse and it turns into

try
{
if (-not [string]::IsNullOrEmpty($_.Column8))
{

$fullPathName = Join-Path -Path $dstDir -ChildPath $_.Column8
$pathTestResult = test-path -LiteralPath $fullPathName -ErrorAction Stop

# This is a hashtable of the parameters to a cmdlet
# the only purpose of this 'splatting' is that
# powershell commands get too long
# and can't be line-wrapped in any good way

$exportParams = @{
Encoding = 'ASCII'
NoTypeInformation = $true
Append = $true
LiteralPath = $fullPathName
Verbose = $true
}

Export-Csv $exportParams
}
}
catch [whatever]
{

}

and on and on and on, ugh.
We use a Palak-based Saag that has a mix of other green leaves as well.
I love the simplicity of this!
indexing is not random but a bet on the market as a whole.

Random is random. In a way picking more varieties may offer protection in a downcycle.

Most stocks go up but bigger stocks push indexes. Betting on bigger players is different than betting on any player to go up.
Angband 4.2.0 Release
"Lie" might be a more appropriate word than "myth".

The packaging/garbage manufacturing industry needs people to believe in recycling, otherwise they'll start asking "why the heck is the packaging industry spewing an infinite, never ending flow of garbage?". So far they have hidden behind the lie of recycling so people feel like it's not actually the problem it is.

The only true solution is a small range of standardised returnable/washable/reusable containers - this is a huge business opportunity for whoever really nails it. Reusable/returnable containers for food, for e-commerce goods shipping, and also reusable containers just for buying stuff off the supermarket shelves. Think of the size of the market for a true solution for that.

Why, for example, does Amazon not have a standard set of shipping box sizes which it not only delivers, but re-collects via the same logistics network?
Sorry outdoor billboards typically mounted on T bar structures.
> those ascribing malice or depraved indifference

Yeah I agree. The bridge I was on had two lookouts and a watch crew, I'm sure that they would attempt to avoid a whale if it were possible. But the truth is that a gigantic ship moving at 20 knots can only has so much maneuverability, so accidents will happen.
They're apparently calmer, require less social contact, and cause fewer allergy problems, in addition to the lifespan benefit, which is considerable. And, as the article mentions, if you need mobility/stability assistance, a horse can be more helpful than a dog.

Really, once you learn that there people who could reasonably prefer mini-horses to dogs, the article has answered the question it sets out to.
He forgets about the forthcoming GE bankruptcy (see latest news), and maybe even Boing.
It needs just a spark to ignite a fire.
In New Zealand it is easy to see the effects after countries stopped accepting our rubbish.

We have a few landfill, but they are slowly piling up now. And NZ has always been popular for its green landscapes.

So now the gov, councils, and local businesses started prohibiting some types of plastics.

But it is still at early stages. Supermarkets have banned single use plastic bags, but pretty much everthing you buy still has plastic that goes to the landfill.

Recycling here is also different from latin america. In latam normally you have multiple recycling bins... one for glass, one for plastic, one for paper, etc.

Here we have a single container for plastic. Some times you find multiple bins, but that's still rare.

In my company, there is one huge bin for cardboard only downstairs. One for paper (but only for confidential docs to be properly destroyed), and the bins in the kitchen areas, where you are supposed to throw only milk packages.

I looked around where I could dispose oil, and a restaurant owner told me to just dump in the sink. He said there is a company that goes around the CBD collecting used oil, but only from businesses that pay for that.

There is a place that collects electronics waste. But the collection places and dates are sparse, and I see a lot getting dumped in the normal waste.

We still have a long way to go. At least the council here reports on landfills and is doing their part trying to promote green ideas https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/building-and-consents/ty...
A human-curated list would be significantly shorter today, with the way the Web has centralized.
We've all become too PC and the stains of that culture are bursting out the sides in unexpected and colorful ways. It's oppressive to be PC and we haven't acknowledged that side of it well enough. (Oppressive to the person constantly censoring themselves in the name of PC)
Sure man, we'll just cancel civilization for a season to make way for the whales.
RAM _capacity_ has a direct effect on energy, usage not nearly much if at all.

Hardware has been around to selectively put banks into low power saving mode, but I've never heard of any commodity OS that supported anything like that. It'd require active organization of physical pages to take advantage of, if common controllers even supported it
This article talks about “the crypto industry” and mentions things like “institutional investment in crypto” and so on.

It’s odd that in an article so detailed there’s just no mention of the fact that there are no fundamentals whatsoever to any of these things, and they’ve been used almost entirely for speculation since inception.

Where’s the actual industry? In what are these institutions investing?
Compared to the relative stability of the 1990s and early 2000s, the current political and economic situation does seem somewhat absurd.

But history is littered with turbulent times, and compared to those times the present is a pleasant dream. Whether it turns nightmarish remains to be seen.
The reporter said Firewall. When I read that, I don't think of a WAF, rather a more traditional firewall that separates internet from intranet. If others, including the reporter, generally think of WAFs when they read firewall, then my criticism on this particular point is unfair.

For example, if someone listed 2 years of experience with firewall rules, I'd automatically think routing and not WAF rules configuration.
I'm not sure where the sentiment came from (I probably read the article to quickly?)
It sounds as if coinbase now had a larger share because a major company switch moved their existing assets.
This is why I love Arch Linux. You can already do this with Chrome, Firefox or other browsers:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Profile-sync-daemon

Impact is pretty good but not as significant as I had hoped.
There is also checkinstall, which replaces the 'make install' step in building from source and outputs a native package.
If it's that sure of a thing, then let's all work to solve the problem by shorting the price all the way to zero.
The four stages of technology:

- innovation

- productization

- marketing

- milking IP
I see this post come around every once in a while, and while the idea seems alluring, the fact is if you’re not in the right location and market, this kind of business will be unsustainable.

Maybe you can start your own ISP, but do not assume it will be in the same place you live. Analyze the country and find the pockets where you can thrive and grow a successful business, otherwise don’t even bother. Also bring a decent amount of cash and a good credit line.
Very nice, I'd love the black one as a T-shirt.

Here are clickable links:

https://i.ibb.co/BzLLXTK/black.png

https://i.ibb.co/ZxwspC6/white.png

Was curious and checked the Y Combinator site - the motto in the footer uses the font "Avenir Heavy". I wonder if the lowercase might be a friendlier look than all caps?
Tech Interview Handbook
I'll second that resilience is one of the most useful traits, especially if it's honed from experience.
The statement posted by Dave Gibson is quite moving: https://www.gibsonsbakeryandcandy.com/

Hopefully, Oberlin ceases their dispute as soon as possible.
You could put those clauses in but the legal entity would simply go bankrupt. You'd need something to go after the principals to make this stick.
Title: "“The Nemo effect” is untrue: animal movies promote awareness, not harm"

Justification: "Results from scientists at the University of Oxford published in the journal Ambio today, show that the links between consumer-demand for wildlife and blockbuster movies are largely unfounded"

Better title: "A single research, which just got published, and could be non-reproducible, p-hacking, utterly crap, and/or demolished in subsequent papers says animal movies promote awareness, not harm".
Releasing Packem v0.2-pre-alpha
Finally, Packem v0.2 is released! Leveraging a compiled context mechanism for bundling your source code.
Must be a while ago then - it's 12 characters upper, lower and digits. Pretty reasonable.
It’s a JSON parser?
Expose Instagram Influencers Fake Followers
I haven’t tested it but it parses all my JSON just fine
The advantage of Linux packaging for distros like Arch become apparent when you actually want to create a package, and realize how easy it is.
If anybody is disappointed here then they have only themselves to blame. This was dead obvious to anybody with half a working brain and a basic idea of the concepts of road construction, photo-voltaics and general power infrastructure. Doomed to fail and should not have passed the first phase of review for feasibility.

Many of the projects that have not seen the light of day are in that state because they were dumb, not because nobody thought of them before.
A few months ago, I wanted a recipe with a nice photo of a "salty croissants with tallow" (medialuna de grasa, they are popular here in Argentina, sorry for the horrible translation).

https://www.google.com/search?q=medialuna+de+grasa&tbm=isch

This looks nice: https://www.johaprato.com/receta/medialunas-de-grasa

Autotranslation: https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?oe&um=1&ie=UTF-8&h...

I don't get ads neither in the image search nor in the normal search. The results look quite organic. Most of them are from professional or semiprofesional cooking blogs.
The state of bits in RAM has zero effect on energy usage. Caching things in memory allows for lower power consumption, though, by preventing duplication of effort by the CPU.

Edit: Originally said "zero effect on memory usage", which makes very little sense!
> if you sued Apple for that, your suit would be dismissed because Apple's statement was "mere puffery"

Agreed. The example was facetious.

The underlying point, that a company producing a useful product can still commit fraud, to customers and/or to investors, stands.
Sounds like a good idea that r/keto would love to hear.

The thing with keto is that you have to stick to it. Current price at $12 feels more expensive. I appreciate the delivery, packaging, and other costs, but I think people would appreciate a better value over time.

I think Blue Apron has nailed this. There are bigger variants to pick from, often cheaper, and appeals to keto and other dieters alike.
Update: The IETF version is a bit more explicit. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8259#section-6

> This specification allows implementations to set limits on the range
and precision of numbers accepted. Since software that implements
IEEE 754 binary64 (double precision) numbers [IEEE754] is generally
available and widely used, good interoperability can be achieved by
implementations that expect no more precision or range than these
provide, in the sense that implementations will approximate JSON
numbers within the expected precision. A JSON number such as 1E400
or 3.141592653589793238462643383279 may indicate potential
interoperability problems, since it suggests that the software that
created it expects receiving software to have greater capabilities
for numeric magnitude and precision than is widely available.

> Note that when such software is used, numbers that are integers and
are in the range [-(2^53)+1, (2^53)-1] are interoperable in the
sense that implementations will agree exactly on their numeric
values.

Or to paraphrase: if you pretend that every JSON number is a JavaScript number (double-precision float), you will generally be fine. If you don’t, you are responsible for the inevitable interpoperability problems you’ll have with most current JSON parsers.
The fact that someone needs to say that for it to be apparent is somewhat unsettling.
It sounds like they removed both ads AND business signs attached to the actual businesses. I can understand doing the former, but for the latter, those signs are actually useful.
Even the turbo fish is consistent with other languages’ syntax: :: for scopes, <> for type parameters. Regardless, you almost never need to write the turbofish, so I think it also falls under niche syntax.