skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wind power ferries. I think they tried that in the days before electrical motors.
So everyone will park in the sun and not near trees or buildings.

Garage is just one example where there is no sun.
On AWS, Cloudformation is far more reliable and lean (less LOC) than TF. No corrupted state issues, all resource properties are supported, parallel (fast) resource creation just for starters. And TF sales pitch about "multi-cloud" is nonsence, resources are too different between different clouds.
then we would all be getting paid third world rates

That’s the end goal of large corporations, yes. Why are we so eager to help them? Developers already undermine their own value by crowing to everyone who will listen “anyone can be a developer and do what we do”.

What do you think your boss thinks when he or she hears you say all these things?

(Not you in particular, devs in general)
That is in the article
what does electric engineering have to do with rotation? Generators perhaps run in circles, an inductor is a coil often enough, but a capacitor?
Mozilla increases browser privacy with encrypted DNS
How is Google's website analogous to someone's driveway?

"Explicitly going to their location" is typing their website into the address bar, and as far as I know, there is no interference by Google there.
Post Captain was the permanent rank of captain, equivalent to the modern rank of Captain RN. Post Captains in the Royal Navy commanded ships of 20 guns and up, and the rank and title were retained when on half pay without a ship. Smaller sloops were generally commanded by a Commander (with the courtesy title of Captain when commanding; equivalent to Commander RN).

Critically, promotion to Post Captain was at the discretion of the admiralty, but onward to promotion to Rear Admiral and beyond was based strictly on seniority, so the Post Captain promotion was the critical one.
Wow, this is awesome! Good job, Sarafan team :)
After getting frustrated with v8's build process, I tried dropping all the sources (+ pregen files I had generated on osx) into a new visual studio project...

Compiled with no problems at all!
That seems on the high end of a traditional commute; given traffic that takes, what, nearly two hours each way?
You're right. I can't work out what I misread to get that statement. It's not as if I could have just misplaced a multiple of 10. It's just wrong.
In a very long-winded and theatrical way you are making the point that you believe that there are no credible alternatives out there. I believe there are. I believe that, as soon as any company puts their HQ and their servers in Europe they have a credibility-advantage over cloudflare right there on the legal front and on regulatory oversight.

I also don't believe that Mozilla has the ability to greatly influence the way Cloudflare would run their service, given that they're probably not paying a lot (or anything at all; don't know the particulars), and are unlikely to be a major component of Cloudflare's revenue. Cloudflare has much more to lose by picking a fight with the U.S. government (think government surveillance) or by pissing off major advertising networks and media corporations (think surveillance capitalism) who make up the lion's share of their revenue on Cloudflare's core webcaching business.
It had force feedback. Did it have any sort of protection in the case of rapid movement of tge legs?
Lua is awful. Even JavaScript is better.
i believe there is only one way to keep a marriage alive: you need to have a common goal, and wanting to work together to achieve that goal. while working on that goal you'll be able to compromise on other things. you can demonstrate for example how photography gives you the energy needed for that goal, or you find that photography gets on the way of your common goal and you'll reduce it or stop.

without a common goal you have no reason to compromise on anything and as a result every partner will just maximize for their own benefit.
The surprise is that the definition you gave in 2. fully agrees with the definition of multiplication that comes naturally from the cartesian version of complex numbers: z = x + bi -> (x1 + b1i)(x2 + b2i) = x1x2 + x1b2i + x2b1i - b1b2

Vector multiplication has two very different forms (dot and cross), so multiplication (and by extension exponentiation) working out smoothly is neat.
Can someone shed some light onto the executives hated homepage that was discussed? Since kissmetrics is an analytics company, doing this kind of thing is their core competency. How could executives change it to a loser immediately? There must be more to the story or some kind of other side to the story.

Shooting from the hip here possible problems with the "overly optimized" homepage:

1. Long term brand damage? If people go to the site and see something not as "polished" or "professional" looking, the bounces won't leave with just a neutral impression but a straight up negative impression. Sometimes even without a conversion a landing page can sell a visitor on a company and lead to recommendations or return visits down the line.

2. Lower value conversions? Is it possible that people who would immediately sign up without a long sales page end up being less valuable? This is more easily tracked so I'm sure OP would've accounted for this but it's still hard to tell without a ton of data.
Getting those people to use a shared pool of electric cars would be a bigger win. That low utilisation means the initial environmental cost of producing the car is not amortised over nearly as many trips.
XLM is a very cool altcoin system, thanks to it there is no third party so no commissions and really low TRX cost. IBM also makes a lot of server as nodes for the Stellar network.
It's amusing to see locking something up in a safe compared with keeping KDCs running (probably for MS Windows anyhow in an "enterprise" setting). It's not as if there isn't a list of ssh mechanisms to try anyway.
An extremely simple JavaScript extension for expressing an if-else statement
The bike trainer I have tells how many watts I produce and how much is sent back to the grid, the number isn't high so is more geek stats than anything else
> I have yet to come across a designer, engineer, or marketer that intuitively understood probability on day one.

Sad but true. And it’s not even about understanding the more in depth math. It’s about having an intuition about the 80/20 rule or Venn diagrams. “If I work on this bug I can make 80% of our users happier but if I work on this bug, which affects no one but our CMO who always complains loudly...” ... is a type of discussion I’ve found happens too rarely
Man, you are so self aware. That is such a huge asset. You may have a genetic predisposition to addiction. Try not to be a "dry drunk" which is a real thing and good luck. Thanks for sharing your situation.
You can always have a long term certificate locked in a safe as a fallback to Kerberos
But it can be equally malicious to just drop generic potential shortcomings of scientific studies, without any attempt to figure out whether they apply to the specific study under discussion.
Here’s the information you’re missing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene's_recursion_theorem
if you park and drive in the sun all day. No clouds, no garages, no trees, etc.
It would usually be more sensible to put the panels on your roof, to plug your car into.
fyi, that's the heavyside function
That’s not how this works though. The same number of people are landing on your site. You aren’t getting 80 more signups as suggested.
> We plan to integrate with a ton of third parties to offer intelligence on top of your messages

You need to be real careful about how you do this, and be mindful of this not becoming a privacy leaking side channel
Speaking of universities that can afford it, did the other university in Cambridge ever complete it’s investigation into Epstein funds?
put the panels on your roof, where they are in the sun more often, and cheaper to install.
I've heard people say for CRT Royale to be truly effective you need to use it on a 4K TV. It apparently needs the additional resolution to truly shine.

Having said that, it already looks really impressive to me on a 1080p TV.
Free Will in an Algorithmic World
I really like dependent types as a concept! But they're not really in any mainstream languages, so I haven't had much opportunity to play around with them. :(
The photographer shooting a 30-year timelapse of New York's skyline
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the racist reasons the french government refuses to implement free transports nationwide. It would save them a lot of money, but the police would loose its main source of catching undocumented people.

In big cities, the police uses ticket control as an excuse to arrest migrants. The process goes like: 1. stop all black people (only those) at the exit of the metro 2. ask for ticket 3. if they don't have a ticket, ask for ID 4. if they don't have ID, take them away for ID check / deportation.

So why check for transport tickets, you may ask? Because stopping all black people on the streets would be obvious illegal discrimination. The ticket is the legal justification for the ID check.

Here's a press article from over a decade ago about those police raids (french language):

https://www.nouvelobs.com/rue89/rue89-nos-vies-connectees/20...
Well done! Looking forward to getting more news about Sarafan!
Wow, its so cool
Their own blog post says "workforce" instead of "business assets". http://hypertrack.com/blog/2019/09/09/open-sourcing-placelin...
Internet Browsers for Old Computers
Great job, guys!
Almost every company had an "unfair competitive advantage" until regulation took over. It seems the gig economy did not move on to other things fast enough and now they 've "overstayed their welcome".
Sure, but it still reads like a guy idling his Hummer so he can explain the environmental effects of someone's bicycle.
Computational and complexity theory are abstract mathematical subjects where numbers are either finite or infinite. A very large finite number is still finite. There is no meaningful notion of "so big that we can pretend it is infinity" in questions of decidability, and the limitations of the real world are irrelevant.
I mean adoption by nearly every legal system in the world is a pretty good indicator. You’d think developing economies would be trying to unchain their competitiveness by getting rid of patents, but as China outgrows its phase of stealing technology and starts the phase of developing original technology, it’s developing its patent law and providing for enforcement.
This just isn't how a majority of people find sites, though. To your normal users, google may as well be the address bar. Hell, I've watched users go to google, type facebook.com (or wherever they're going) into google, and then click on the first ad link.

So, you have this situation where typing basecamp.com into google may not bring basecamp as the first result and the people buying the ads know that.
>The misleading part in using the language of cards is that you don’t often consider a deck of size 2^64. What’s nice about the card formulation though is that it conveys how simple the problem statement really is. This is a fundamental problem that was open for a long time. Nobody knew how to deal cards.

>The first obstacle that makes the “dealing” (without replacement) hard is that the “draw” method doesn’t work. If you draw (with replacement) over and over again, ignoring cards you’ve already picked, you can simulate a deal, but you run into problems. The main one is that eventually you’re ignoring too many cards and the algorithm doesn’t finish on time (this is the coupon collector’s problem).

How is this true? If you're drawing from a deck of 2^64 cards then unless you're drawing almost all of them there's not going to be any problem with rejection. Even if you're drawing 2^63 cards you're going to be rejecting only half of your draws, so the average slowdown is just a factor of 2.

If you really want to draw more than half the deck then just randomly pick the cards that you don't want.
They look vulnerable to snowspeeders.
In Europe you can see some "forests" which are devoid of any life. I lived near one as a kid. They are simply not functioning ecosystems but dead silent wood plantations.
I'm impressed by how Brave and Mozilla are paying attention to users privacy

I'm using brave at the moment but I see so much news lately about Mozilla I'm considering switching (Apparently changing a browser is a big decision for me)
..maybe not lady gaga level zeitgeist.. nonfiction book sales and such.
Last week.

Updating DNSSEC infrastructure for a bunch of zones we manage. As part of that update I added extra DS* records at the parent zones. We were using SHA-256 and since our new signer generated SHA-384 signatures as well I included them. All nice and standard. Our tests were all good. dnsviz.net said everything was good, but... It turns out the version of Unbound that was included in older versions of Ubuntu and Redhat can't handle SHA-384 DS records and instead of ignoring them like they are supposed to simply fail validation.

Naturally those obsolete nameservers are in use by fun people like Comcast who proceeded to drop lookups for the entire zone. This particular zone was the major commercial zone for a small country ie. co.tld. Around a million subdomains.

Fortunately it this was a subdomain inside a country so we could get the SHA-384 signatures dropped at the parent quickly, but yeah tracking down the problem was ... Lets just say it was a bad day.

I wonder if I can put "I broke the internet" on my CV?

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* English for everyone who doesn't speak DNSSEC:
DNSSEC is kind of like SSL but for DNS. A DS (Delegation Signer) record is a hash that goes in the parent zone so that resolvers can verify you are using the correct DNSKEYs. Its kind of like X509 certificates in reverse.

DNSSEC is VERY complicated and brittle with many ways to hurt yourself.
“It seems be too good to be true” is a useful intuition, but it’s importantly different from “it is proven to be false”. (See also P ≠ NP.)
NBA player issues tokens backed by his future salary, so he can invest money now
I can’t speak to this group specifically, just to say that being an exec in an industry doesn’t make you an expert in that industry. When I worked in ad tech, I met plenty of execs who couldn’t run a facebook campaign to save their life. If you’re a founder of an analytics company hiring your CRO, it’d be great to find someone with an analytics background, but more than likely they’re coming in having worked in tech, but not that specific vertical.
What I find funny about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is that he is married to Kyra Sedgwick, who is the half-sister of jazz guitarist Mike Stern. Mike Stern played with Miles Davis and Miles Davis is basically the Paul Erdos or Kevin Bacon of jazz.
Then it makes even less sense, for a remote company.
Replace monopoly google with monopoly clear channel and you have exactly that problem.

Your landlord might be renting the wall next to your driveway to Clear Channel or the neighbor might own it and rent it to them. But if it can fit a billboard and be seen from the street it will have one in metro areas where that isn't illegal.

(Additionally) they* have been known to be geo-targeted on particular firms/individuals to mislead, i.e. make the purchaser believe they got better coverage. Probably the most famous example is hiding them from a target instead:

https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/the-l...

[*] To be clearer, they == "poster campaigns", I have no idea about specific roles to say they = "Clear Channel" in examples of targeted/misleading campaigns.
Not just large corporations, also small ones. I think it's a good thing - paying high wages in countries that need it most.

> their own value by crowing to everyone who will listen “anyone can be a developer and do what we do

I sincerely doubt developers believe that, or at least not experienced developers. Software is cutthroat: anything that can be automated is already automated. People who can't work beyond that are useless.
Only the wealthy have the right to longevity
My great great grandfather was born a little before 1800. But that's as close as I can get.
You can use small strings directly on the stack for massive performance gains in many scenarios, where such strings are manipulated in same context with macros or inner(called from within the current string stack context) functions.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html#Vari...
Flow, a new blockchain from the creators of CryptoKitties
I recently learned:

> It has been claimed that Euler's identity appears in his monumental work of mathematical analysis published in 1748, Introductio in analysin infinitorum. However, it is questionable whether this particular concept can be attributed to Euler himself, as he may never have expressed it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_identity

But it is still cool.

https://youtu.be/yPl64xi_ZZA
I've been a fully remote worker for almost a decade. I appreciate the fact that my compensation is on a scale implicitly tied to a higher cost of living than where I am. Nonetheless...

Companies don't set pay to be fair. They set pay to attract and retain the talent they need. Otherwise, companies that employ people in India wouldn't have a 3x pay spread for people doing the same work (hi Red Hat). Software developers in general wouldn't make more than, say, plumbers. The potential employees' perception of fairness does come into the picture a bit, but that takes a distant back seat to good old supply and demand. If a company needs to pay more to attract and retain talent in area X, they pay more. If they need to pay less to attract and retain talent in area Y, they pay less. This is just basic business. Companies pay local prices for real estate or electricity, and they pay local prices for personnel.

The only thing different about remote workers is that there's no single local standard to measure against. So you have to tailor things more specifically to the individual. But if you think that you should pay remote workers more or less because they're more or less productive, or because you're saving money by not having to provide them an office, you're forgetting the purpose of pay. Attract and retain. Supply and demand. That's it.

P.S. I'm not trying to make a moral argument here. I'm certainly no laissez-fair "markets uber alles" greed funnel. Quite the contrary. Companies are free to make their decisions on some different basis and more power to them, but there's no escaping the fact that most will cut costs wherever they can. Of the places they might cut corners, geographic salary differences are far from the worst option. If and when salary fairness gets to the top of the list, I'd start with not paying women less.
New Zealand plans further restrictions to gun ownership
No, I want AMP email to never happen. Failing that, I want the email server to un-AMP-ify incoming emails for me.
"This video is not available in your country" - I live in Australia and I have no idea why this is occurring for a video like this.
That's why it's versioned..
Webgpu could start from Vulkan 1.1 or the latest Vulkan version could be bumped to Vulkan 1.2 for marking it's the one used for webgpu.
It's closer to an hour, than it is to two.
How China Is Cornering the Lithium-Ion Cell Recycling Market
Because resources are scarce. If solar panels were free, then yeah let's plaster them everywhere. But let's start with where they make the most difference.
The post mentions that they can drastically reduce memory usage at some CPU time cost in the lite version. V8 is presumably doing the right thing for the end user here, given the in-the-field telemetry etc. It's an instance of carefully weighing different resource consumptions though, where simple benchmarks might drive you to prioritize CPU time at the cost of overall system responsiveness due to memory consumption.
Thank you, kshirokova!
> How is this true? If you're drawing from a deck of 2^64 cards then unless you're drawing almost all of them there's not going to be any problem with rejection. Even if you're drawing 2^63 card you're going to be rejecting only half of your draws, so the average slowdown is going a factor of 2.

It it though? I'm a but shoddy on my mathematics, but I'd wager from the birthday problem that you'd probably have to reject much more than half of the 'cards', and as you get to the end, you'd have to redraw several times for each card.
Thank you, Malyutin!
Thank you, golovin!
Thank you, MilenaMilena!
I am excited about this XLM Airdrop.
On the one hand the reputation of cryptocurrencies and in particular XLM will increase.
And on the other hand, Keybase also creates real life use cases for the cryptopcurrencies, away from Crypto exchanges.
Thanks for the tip. I made some changes to the source code so the one above is a bit outdated. I should probably try the two different implementations found on the website, too.

> gcc-9 is still broken and should be blacklisted everywhere.

Yes, it seems to be the case. I ran into a few peculiarities, to say the least.
Thank you, Golovin!
Not much time. I've almost naturally fallen into a rhythm of wearing the same 4 shirts to work M-Th and Friday is jeans/casual. I alternate between a few pairs of pants. So, less than a minute is spent deciding and looking for my work clothes. Going out, I tend to wear whatever is top-of-stack, weather permitting.
Those people also have their cars in multi level car parks with no sun so that doesn't work for them either. In that case they would be better having the car park have solar and the local government building solar farms. A panel on something almost always undercover makes no sense.
Björk made music’s first “VR pop album”
I never saw a country passing laws so fast and doing stuff instead of just talking like New Zealand

Amazing
how long did it take before you got enough work through referrals? and how much does your location matter to find clients? i am unable to find any local clients but i also can't easily move to anywhere else because i have a family with school-age kids which you don't move on a whim. people keep recommending upwork and similar places, but the quality of the offers there is not good either, and i end up competing with cheap labor. all the advice i find online is about how to get better leads, but not about how to get leads in the first place.
> It doesn't get around the fact that it still makes way more sense to put those panels on your house roof and charge from that.

On a car it also acts as a range extender and emergency backup (if you're out of battery and the car is engineered for, you can crawl along at the charge rate or wait a bit for a better charge). It's not great, but being to "walk" with your car might save your ass.

And if the car is designed around this idea (à la lightyear one), you can increase things further (the LY1 folks advertise a solar charge rate of up to 7.5mi/h WLTP with no A/C).
To the contrary, it is usually the people who deny the potential harms of immigration who also tend to deny the harm caused by the most problematic locals. It would be great to have a quantified discussion about who's doing the most crime, but that's politically radioactive.
I've heard that Kevin Bacon isn't actually the Kevin Bacon of the Kevin Bacon game; some researchers a few years back crunched the numbers and determined that the most-connected actor was actually Rod Steiger (having starred in a wide range of highbrow and lowbrow movies over a very long career).

Maybe somebody else has since overtaken Steiger, though. Maybe even Kevin Bacon himself!

Edit to add: ha, I see there's a calculation at The Oracle of Bacon: http://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php Not sure how frequently this is updated, but the top few names definitely sound plausible.
“We’ve received the O(pizzas); they’re in the kitchen.”