skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really... Solar panel farms are spread out and huge. And oil refinery are much smaller and have some very valuable parts you can specifically target.

Any drone big enough to carry 'small cluster sub-munitions' to do any sort of serious damage to a solar farm will be big enough to get noticed immediately by the military. Couldn't even dent 1% of the panels with what was used in Saudi Arabia.
Sylacauga, AL in the US also has very cheap housing and municipal internet. This is just an FYI as we looked there when we were looking to move to facilitate remote work.
None. Those are private companies that do this. It's the same in Germany. I have a 7 euros/month unlimited calls cell plan but only 500 mb data, which is enough for me. I pay around 25 Euros month for Internet at home. It's fast enough for Steam/Streaming, I don't even know the speed because I stopped caring a while ago.
Yes and the typical household is going to download movies from torrent sites and use VLC.
Two types of legacy system seniors: The Lord and The Reformer
This is what confuses me about the current conversation around streaming services. It seems like everyone just wants cable again.
Why baby boomers’ grandchildren will hate them
F-1 Opt? Create Startup Then Claim Eligibility for H-1B Cap Exemption
Have you been to Flint where there's no drinking water?
And me please
The selfie app ImageNet Roulette seemed fun – until it called me a racist slur
Federal Reserve sees demand for cash after money market jolt
SPARQL is not as easy to read.

I can show SQL or Cypher to some of my product managers who have experience with Excel, and they actually sort of get it. That’s not the case with SPARQL.
He's not in it. It's just nicely illustrative of the level of discourse we're dealing with. Have the correct opinion, or we will loudly remind you what a piece of shit you are.
Yev here -> we HAVE to be cash-flow positive since we're not VC-funded. When we started the company it was bootstrapped, so "making enough money to survive" has always been a part of the equation!
Because it is professionally run and delivers to people what they want to read. In my view US cultural domination comes from actually caring about their customers and not some idealized abstraction of art.
Enhancing Bandaid Load Balancing at Dropbox
Would have been nice if it was exactly 1.21 Gigawatt!
AgileFall is coming!
Ya, I've been doing figure-eights around folk and they haven't really reacted.
The Laundry Files don't sound Yank at all. They sound exactly like someone who might write for (or comment on) The Register, to the point that I ended up googling to see if Charles Stross had anything to do with the BOFH. It's very close version of a cynical British tech geek.

The books focusing on his wife are more American, but then she IS American, so...
Seriously? Any font that only separates the line from the dot with 1 or 2 pixels. Especially if you're only glancing long enough that a c could be mistaken for an l.
Oh I see. I assumed the rates had spiked in the federal funds market, which also uses repos.
> I can’t tell you why, but ...
What does the fact that other vendors don't support the feature have to do with whether you implemented the feature correctly?
I run a Plex server and several of my friends do too. If you're OK with the defaults it's really easy to run.
I'm also very unaware of actual papers coming out of the field but it does seem like it'll serve similar purposes to FPGA type work, where if you need to optimize a certain workload and you have the budget, you'll probably offload some code paths to a quantum computer / expansion-card. I do get the feeling that the "regular developer" won't have to deal with it or think about it any time soon.
Clearbit combines their B2B data with your startups' customer data
Yev here - wow, good eye! I'll get it fixed!
*Edit -> interestingly, that $5 is there to make a point and isn't really talking about prices, but I changed the text to say "for one license" - which still works. Good catch!
There has been media backlash because this app can output blatantly racist class predictions; classes that were present in the original ImageNet dataset, which this project was intended to highlight. It went horribly right.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/heres-how...
There is almost no diversity in Colorado when compared with the large coastal cities. You may still be welcomed but don’t expect to see many Asians or Asian restaurants and stores.
I agree our understanding of the social nuances of the internet is in infancy; though the human tendency to enact mob "justice" is relatively better understood. The internet has enabled that ugly tendency of humanity to a scary degree. Especially coupled with the strong profit motive of sites like Vice and other so called media outlets, which stand to benefit greatly from whipping up such smear campaigns.
Quantum computing won't be relevant to most regular developers, in the same way machine learning isn't relevant to most regular developers. Quantum computing might end up being useful for certain niche use-cases, such as heavy number crunching that can be made faster via quantum algorithms.

As to whether it will be usable within 20 years, time will tell.
Gremlin is not a failure, it is supported by far more databases (e.g the latest one from Microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/graph-intro... ) and has far more users than opencypher.
It is far faster on average.

It's imperative while Cypher is declarative.
Mostly: if you want the most performant and expressive langage: choose gremlin.
If you want the easiest one and what you implement is standard and not very complex, then use Cypher.
> This time he didn't do anything wrong, other than pointing out what everybody in their right mind think: a dead person who cannot defend himself anymore was being falsely accused of child rape but the evidence just proved that he did no such thing and that, anyway, admitting there was sex involved, it wasn't pedophilia.

Nothing has been proven. It hasn't even entered a court of law yet. Yet here you are willing to accept any and all internet rumors. Aren't you a smart individual.

> But I don't want you to be fired because of it.

I absolutely would lose my job if I was holding a high leadership, PR position at my company for making idiotic statements. You would too.

> I don't care what people think.

There you go. No one cares about your sentiment. Literally I don't care about what it is you have to say at all. Why should anyone care about what YOU, some no-name internet user has to say. The fact of the matter is that people care about what high profile individuals think whether you agree with this or not (once again no one cares about your silly opinions). And someone spoke with their foot in their mouth. Is it technically wrong to state that more people die from medical errors than mass shootings as Neil Degrasse Tyson so eloquently put it? No it's not wrong. You and RMS are so insistent on being right that you can't even understand what context means. You guys are the type of people to get mad at the world and can't understand why you're hated by everyone. So by all means live this way. But no one else does. And don't whine because you're not liked.

And just for the record,

> But he's not a PR. He has never been.

is actually completely wrong. RMS by his own account hasn't written actual code in decades now. What does he actually do with his time on FSF besides go around and do talks? Nothing. What is that? Oh wait... it's literally PR for FSF's values. He does do some things now that I think about it. He writes his silly opinions on CSAIL mailing lists when many thought he wasn't even a part of CSAIL anymore. So he had that going for him as well.
Maybe... But a single drone could much more easily put a coal, oil, or natural gas power plant out of commission. How is this relevant?
The Plex server is basically OK, the trouble you have is with the Plex clients.

I bought an Xbox One instead of a PS4 even though I like the anime games on the PS4 because the Xbox One has a perfect Plex client and the PS4 client is known to be "janky"

I struggled with cheap Android TV devices and broke down and bought a NVIDIA Shield TV because it has a perfect Plex client too with adequate hardware.
Ah yes, the famous Aphex Twin chiptune demake

(joking, joking. There is no Windowlicker 8-bit cover as far as I can tell. Somewhat surprising, actually)
Tilting Toward Windmills – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
We could have "all the content" on several different platforms. It's like going to different supermarkets, they'll have the same products. Still, you might prefer one or the other for any other reason. Instead, we're going 100% on the other direction...
More recently, the US had a good number of German speakers too. Then WWI happened and people didn't want to be associated with Germany any more.
I think the cloud times renews the need for standards. Ten years ago devs in the linux/BSD world had the vast majority of the code that would make up our stack, from OS kernel to the front end (with perhaps some proprietary driver or external API call here or there).

The code was the standard, which traded easy readability for complete accuracy and transparency.
Hey, no bad tactics, only bad targets.
Note that most KaiOS devices can be flashed with GerdaOS[1], which claims to be more privacy focused.

1: https://gerda.tech/
I think your understanding is correct. The relevant quote:

> As long as the JSON string is only evaluated once, the JSON.parse approach is much faster compared to the JavaScript object literal, especially for cold loads.
Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them
It's probably less vulnerable than any other concentrated form of power generation. Hands up those who'd like to see Egypt finish their nuclear program and build a nuclear reactor within drone range?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Egypt
Consumption isn't intrinsically good, that's a fallacy. There's a certain percentage of people who basically don't get more productive regardless of how well funded they are. More transactions in a somewhat dematerialized world does not necessarily translate like it used to into quality of life. Velocity won't be an issue if inflation stays high. Distribution is of questionable value, the best people seem to break through even if from completely off the grid of modern life. Sundar Pichai, etc.
"quits" vs. "asked to resign" - these two carry very different interpretations.
> Snowden sacrificed his extremely lucrative career, his access and his ability to live in his own country to expose the illegal and unconstitutional conduct being carried out by the NSA. He put himself in extreme legal jeopardy to expose this illicit government activity and the lies of government officials like James Clapper, who perjured himself before the Senate when asked directly about these activities.

Certainly. Never claimed otherwise.

> In direct contrast to Snowden and his unselfish, principled actions are people like you, who spread blatant falsehoods, such as your suggestion that Snowden gave the Russian government intel.

That's kinda making a massive leap to call someone selfish and unprincipled simply for pointing out what came out in a Congressional report. Some people think Snowden is a hero, some think he's a traitor, but I don't attack the character of people simply for having either view point.

Snowden clearly exposed programs that used dodgy interpretations of the law to justify illegal surveillance. But that doesn't mean that he didn't cause other collateral damage, it's all but certain he did. And by his own admission he didn't read the documents he handed over to journalists, so he couldn't have known the full impact of what he was leaking.

So while he can be lauded for exposing illegal surveillance, there are some problems with what he did and how he did, and some open questions about his actions in this affair.
A Reflection on the Departure of RMS
Kodi plus an add-on is actually easier to navigate than a lot of paid services. And it's not torrenting so no worries about a copyright infringement notice.

I go paid services first but many times it's so janky i say fuck it and launch the add-on and it works.
> Maybe I am wrong in my understanding

No, not at all. Just maybe a little... narrow?

> observations from testing or using is fed back quite quickly so that fixes can be included in the next sprint.

Quite quickly, yes.

The next sprint...maybe? Not necessarily.

Sure, you'll stick it in the backlog. But whether you'll start working on this improvement immediately is a separate matter. If that's the best course of action, sure, do it. But maybe you have more pressing matters, and the present implementation will do for now.
Or... it's not possible to attack it in the next sprint, because a new board needs to be spun, and that takes preparation. Then it'll be slated for the appropriate time, by necessity. That doesn't mean you forego an agile approach -- it just looks different, because the landscape is different.

> Especially true when the project gets closer to start of mass production.

Sure. Which is why being able to make, and find, and correct your mistakes early, when it's not so dramatic yet, is the goal of that whole Agile song and dance.

As you're intimately familiar of course, surprises in engineering are usually the bad kind, and the later they come, the worse they catch you. So, have as much feedback as you can, as early as you can (and with as much fidelity as you can).
I subscribe to a few services, but I travel for work and half of them don’t work abroad. Haven’t yet gone back to torrenting, but I do sympathise with those that do.
Not all instructions are required by IEEE-758 to return the exact same result between platforms.

Though I guess the errors might be too small to notice for most object in this game.
We're agreed on that.
ah I totally missed that! It's a link to their other benchmarks under the main graph; easy to miss:

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/json-parse-benchmark
It takes time to gain the management skills needed to be a really good manager. Just think how much time you took to reached your technical skills.

The book written by Camille Fournier to be quite a guide to understanding the path.

https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...

At the end of the day, and if money is not a motivating factor, I would recommend you to go where you are most happy now and in the future.
I feel for you.

I'm not saying those project managers don't exist, but I wish people wouldn't compare perfect agile against pathological waterfall.
> agilefall and waterfall don't really mean anything

That's the problem, though - they should. (And, actually, they do, but they've been twisted around and used incorrectly so often that they've come to mean nothing).
If fossil fuel companies stop getting new investments then they can't explore new sources of fossil fuels.

And keeping the fossil fuels that are still in the ground there is one of the top priorities for fighting climate change. Every billion ton of coal we mine turns into three billion tons of CO₂ and that adds another 0.5 ppm of CO₂ to the atmosphere.
I have used Gremlex (Gremlin in Elixir) for querying a DB that supports Gremlin (Neptune) and found it really pleasant.

https://github.com/Revmaker/gremlex
pirate. I keep seeing people use the word steal in this comment section.
Anything where you need transitive closure, that is, you need all the nodes that are reachable from a given starting node.

You can do it in SQL dialects that support recursive common table expressions.

In a previous job, I dealt with Bill of Materials data, which basically a parts list for a hardware product. Parts contain other parts, which contain other parts, and so on, recursively.

The data was in SQL Server. I could have moved the data to Neo4j and gotten a much more concise and convenient syntax for traversing the parent-child relationships. But I decided it wasn't worth the trouble of moving data, so I bit the bullet and just wrote the recursive CTE in SQL.

That's the biggest problem with graph databases. If your data's already in a SQL database, it often isn't worth it to _move all your data_ just to get a better query syntax.
"The fans are so adorant of their object that they often overlook glaringly evil deeds."

This verges on the tautological though, given that "fan" is short for "fanatic"; you're complaining that fanatics are fanatics. Well... yeah, but so? I don't think you can directly impute the behavior of the fans on to the target of their fandom. (You can draw some indirect conclusions, but it involves at least a few steps of lower reliability and propositions people will find debatable.)
I only got past the first 1/3 of the book.

Extended use of the noble savage trope mixed with iconoclastic views on brands like Nike might make the reader feel like they’ve entered a fresh new world. And yet I found zero value for someone who wants to improve his capacity as a runner/athlete.

The author is a good storyteller but that’s where it ends.

If one is interested in tearing down current sporty world views, might I suggest going after the HIT fad?
It depends on the number of qubits they will achieve. The larger the count, more relevant will it be. But if it stays low, the impact will be low...
In Russia, 1gbps may be from $3 to $10 per month depending on the place, and it works as such at least throughout Russia maybe falling to 200-300mbps to far off places like the U.S.

In Lithuania, i paid 15 EUR a month for 500/500 and it worked perfectly too.

U.S. prices are super high - mostly a consequence of most people living in detached houses - long distances and high complexity of wiring. In Russia and Lithuania, most live in Soviet-style apartment blocks - high user density.
TripAdvisor has some of the most consistently over-inflated reviews of all user-driven review services. I've been burned as well and now when I end up in a country that only has TA I'll do the physical legwork to find what I'm looking for, or search for independent blogs or better curated local resources.
You could say the same about car accidents... it is rarely a mechanical failure, it is usually a driver not paying attention or doing something wrong.

Why does it matter, though? Whether it is negligent or accidental, it is out of my control and has a chance to happen. Whether I accidentally or negligently get shot by a cop, I am just as dead.
this does not stop one from having their own dns server and resolving what they like. the protocol itself has no owner, just a specified way of functioning. one can choose what dns server to use, and how to configure that to respond.

building some sort of overlay network on top of the internet has been done before (.onion anyone?).

How would this improve upon such a scheme for example? I really don't think it adds anything but the word 'blockchain' to the equation, and i honestly don't think that adds anything in the way of security.

additionally, to revoke ones domain name to say, resolve to another host, changing hosting provider for example, would seem impossible in an immutable blockchain. Would that result in forks or in namespace pollution?
My phone is always on WiFi unless I am in my car driving from place to place. I use under 2GB a month, closer to 1GB most months. I can't even comprehend how you would use 100GB of data on a mobile device in a month. My primary internet consumption is sitting at a computer all day long, or a laptop on the couch. The mobile data is just for traffic, slack, email, and news. All my podcasts are downloaded on WiFi, all my music is as well. There is just no reason for me to use any real amount of data while not on WiFi.
Do you think if there were more German language books being written, an audience for those books would develop? Is it just a chicken and egg problem?
The deep Sahara isn't really like the typical American Sonoran desert -- where there are cacti, hawks, scub-grass, etc.

Large parts of the deep Sahara is just... sand, and a few rock outcroppings. I'm sure there's some tiny microbiome I'm missing, but it ties anywhere on earth (except maybe the deep Antarctic ice sheets) for "completely devoid of life."

Any infrastructure requires some trade-off... but this really is a pretty good one.
I recently got the same phone! Mine doesn't crash, but what amazes me is how slow it is -- The flip phone(s) from circa '05-'08 that I had been using weren't fast, but this Alcatel / KaiOS feels like it's running an interpreter in a virtual machine and waiting for network roundtrips on every keystroke ... I mean i'm exaggerating but the lag for all my actions is a real bummer.
My favorite is "locking the account after x number of password attempts".

Ever want to annoy the hell out of someone? Try their username or email a bunch of times and lock them out of their accounts. Bonus points if it's one of those super duper ultra secure banks that does password resets via snail mail.

/s [I don't condone doxing anyone. My point is that an attacker should not be able to modify the state of a system he's unauthorized to access]
You can't really compare sticker prices here. US percapita GDP is about 6 times higher. The average salary is about 8 times higher. So as a proportion of those things, cost is fairly similar.
It helps to establish the software as state-of-the-art, even of particular issue is not addressed yet.
Several sites have regular articles on what's leaving Netflix. e.g. https://netflixupdate.com/leaving-netflix/

Edit: I don't think this is a positive thing for Netflix. And trying to keep up with it probably would just give customers anxiety. But it's a constant reminder that you don't really get to watch what you want with Netflix, which I think is useful to be reminded of now and then.
Yeah I was impressed that they had a fleet of quantum computers this size. Turns out I'm well over a decade behind on my sense of how many qubits one should have...
What a cool site, any documentation on other operators?
I think if the authors of the tests say you failed the tests, then you failed the tests.

'Jepsen tested' is a clever dark-patterny choice of technically correct but entirely misleading language here.
Garry Kasparov: “Deep Thinking” – Talks at Google
It recognised Chuck Schumer as an "appointee" which is correct (I guess), but Nancy Pelosi as a member of an "extinct North American Indian people"

Prediction:
https://i.imgur.com/v66bHVM.png

Source:
https://i.imgur.com/v236tmA.jpg
> I feel like there's a business opportunity for a meta-service that automatically manages monthly subscriptions for you on different services

The better model would be to have all video providers make streaming available thru a common standard API, and let other companies compete on front-end/store and features instead of having ever single provider re-inventing the wheel behind walled gardens over and over again.
someone just told me that in pub :'), so honestly i have no clue of its correctness. but the guy who told me programmed for reason at some point so i kind of assumed he knew what he was talking about.
Seems to me like everybody here is out of touch. It's not the 2000s anymore. Torrenting isn't the only option, or even the best option anymore. There's a crazy amount of great non-legit streaming sites where you have access to probably every movie or series you'd ever want to watch. No need to subscribe to 5 different services for 50€, I can go to one site and watch everything for free in a convenient, simple way. Everybody I know does it, especially now that Netflix is a husk of what it used to be content-wise and how terrible it's become usability-wise.