skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cost: 1.4 billion Euros Lifetime: 20 years Power: 350 MW Max. capacity: 0.4 (40%) Price at the electricity stock exchange Leipzig: 36 Euro/MWh

Because wind farms have 0 fuel costs, they will operate at any price above a few eurocents per MWH. Which means once a critical mass of wind farms is operating in an area, the price frequently dives all the way to near 0. Sucks if you operate wind farms. Sucks less if you ALSO operate natural gas generators which you can then idle. And sucks a lot less if you're a consumer with dispatch able loads.
The GP of the OP I responded to was talking about his profession and every post I have made in this thread was about professional users and their ability to do their jobs. How you can walk away from this conversation thinking that I was talking about personal use is beyond me.
Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang wants your data to be your property
Both of those things work against the use-case of these cameras, which is to prevent crimes against the car and its owner.
> Delete recordings in a few minutes if nothing bad was detected

The car doesn't detect if 'something bad' happens. If someone keys the car or spray paints it, it might be hours before the driver comes back and notices it.

> ensure these recordings aren't uploaded to the internet (similar to SD-backed dash cams)

The recordings are recorded to an SD drive (USB drive, actually - https://www.tesla.com/blog/sentry-mode-guarding-your-tesla)
In the worst case, you could set up brick and mortar shops for getting dollar bills in and out.
UBS and other bankers catering to major drug cartel money though... crickets and maybe a small percentage fine.
The point wasn't to cause inflation but to stop deflation.

This is a mistake that people almost always make with economics: failing to understand the decision contemporaneously.

By the metrics under which it was conceived, it had the intended effect (although some unfortunate side-effects...as ever).
That's the principle reason for teaching economics as an objective truth, "positive" rather than "normative" (a set of distinctions I always have to look up).

If what you're teaching is simply "natural law", then "it is what it is". If it's a moral discipline (which was what Adam Smith rooted his study in), it's ... rather something else.

There are some useful bits to economics. There's a lot of cruft in it as well. A huge part of the value of studying the field isn't the knowledge you gain about the world, but of the delusions of many of those who claim to understand it, or know what should be done for it.
Btw: Since we needed to interface to SATA reliably via USB (from a raspi CM.)

We ended up identifying a particular Taiwan-designed JMicron-based SATA/USB2 controller that worked really reliably with Linux, unlike, say every single PRC-designed SATA/USB2 controller chip we tested. It was a pretty painful experience going through all of that testing.

We bought 120 retail packages of that JMicron-based product, directly from the Taiwanese producer, just to be sure, to guarantee our first-gen production run.

I think many RasPi users want a reliably high-speed, low-cost storage device. It doesn't make much sense for all of these users to have go through this very annoying process. It should just work. Since the chip cost for this by now is likely very small in the raspi kind of volume, why not?
> Actually that's the behavior of python 2, it works fine, until you send invalid characters then it blows up.

Not always. As far as I can tell writing garbage bytes to various APIs works fine unless they explicitly try to handle encoding issues. First time I noticed encoding issues in my code was when writing an xml structure failed on windows, all because of an umlaut in an error message I couldn't care less about. The solution was to simply kill any non ascii character in the string, not a nice or clean solution but the issue wasn't worth more effort.

> In python 3 it always blows up when you mix bytes with text so you can catch the issue early on.

That is nice if your job involves dealing with unicode issues. My job doesn't, any time I have to deal with it despite that is time wasted.
Sneak Peek of PineTime Smart Watch and Why It’s Perfect for Teaching IoT
It's not true for any random sample of numbers. Spin up a Jupyter notebook and paste the following:

%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import seaborn as sns
sns.set_context('poster', font_scale=1.3)

n_values = 10000
lower_bound = 1
upper_bound = 100000
nums = np.array(
[int(str(x)[0]) for x in np.random.randint(lower_bound, upper_bound, size=n_values)]
)

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 8))
sns.distplot(nums, kde=False, bins=list(range(1, 11)), ax=ax)
ax.set_xticks(list(range(1, 11)))
fig.tight_layout()

And you'll see it's essentially a uniform distribution of leading digits.
Then the ultimate valuation of FB is 5%, or a little less, of current. That's perfectly fine. They would have found an appropriate level in the marketplace.
I doubt it's moral choices and more fraud and dispute levels, ie the cost to service a customer.
> Rust is going to take credibility hits if more people do this

I disagree on that. Rust also took a credibility hit for people advertising exactly the opposite: To rewrite things from scratch. While that approach certainly helps with getting idiomatic code right from the start, years of feature development will get lost, and the chances for introducing non memory related bugs are still there.

The ability to transfer a project to Rust in 1 step, and then to gradually improve it seems like a big plus to me. Of course it would not be great if projects are just auto-translated and then kept that way. But I don't think that is the intention of most authors who do that.
sorry to shock you, but almost every western cultural artifact you listen or watch is derivative of that art. so i guess u hate music too
You're stat is technically close to correct, but the implication is wrong for many HN readers.

Around 68% of the global pollution have lactose malabsorbtion, but only 36% of people in the US have lactose malabsorbtion. Not everyone with lactose malabsorbtion is lactose intolerant.

> You are more likely to have lactose intolerance if you are from, or your family is from, a part of the world where lactose malabsorption is more common. In the United States, the following ethnic and racial groups are more likely to have lactose malabsorption:

> African Americans

> American Indians

> Asian Americans

> Hispanics/Latinos

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-disea...
And the dental posts that hold crowns? Or the metal pins that screw implants into jaws?

>> Projectile Accidents: This is the scariest type of interaction, in which the MRI’s magnetic field literally pulls a restoration out of the mouth. The projectile restoration can injure the person with the restoration or, possibly, others nearby.

>> Damaged or Dislodged Restorations: Magnetic fields may not interact strongly enough to actually remove a restoration. But they may still be strong enough to move, break, or deform restorations.

https://www.topdowndental.com/blog/mri-safety-with-dental-cr...
Not sure what you're talking about here, been ages since I watched the film. You might have inspired me to read the books, thanks :)
I take a "Manufacturing Consent"-style approach to reading economics :)
I bought 1Password years ago but balked at a subscription (I pay for tons of subscription software products - this one just didn't feel worth it). Now I pretty much just use MacOS keychain. What am I missing that would lure me back?
In fairness here, we're not talking about data that doesn't match some world view or some such nonsense. This is diagnostic imaging. The data just doesn't have any world views. It's a tumor, or not. It's malignant, or not. The stenosis calculation is what it is. None of these things are liberal or conservatives. They don't have a narrative.

So when we're evaluating these systems, (again, systems that always fail due to bias), our only concern from a diagnostic viewpoint are patient-centric metrics. The most important being improving outcomes.

By way of illustration, let's suppose a woman goes for a mammogram. Now a radiologist and these AI's can all identify tumors in the resultant DX study at about the same point in said tumor's development. This leads to our current 2 and 5 year survivability rates. Consider thoughtfully here, the name of the game is not liberalism, or conservatism, the object in our game is to improve those survivability metrics.

Here's the thing though, due to the fact that the AI is biased towards things we already know, using it doesn't allow us to identify problems any earlier. Being able to spot issues earlier would improve 2 and 5 year survivability metrics, but current state of the art AI's won't do that. This is the problem in a nutshell.

The problem is not that the resultant data does not fit the "narratives" of our radiologists.

I'm not certain you understand that this is not a political argument. The AI's that vendors are attempting to apply towards problems in this domain simply don't improve healthcare outcomes. If they did, we would aid in deploying them. Without hesitation.

Now my assertion is that these AI's fail to improve healthcare outcomes due to the bias inherent in the data they use to train on. Again, that's not a political statement. It's just fact. The AI's seem mostly trained to internalize, and replicate as output, all of the well known patterns in the data. This is why these AI's are of severely limited use.
From what I've read, they often don't make enough to even cover their increased vehicle expenses. And then there's insurance exposure.

Also, TFA notes that classification of drivers as employees would increase costs by over 20%. If that's true, someone here is getting screwed. Drivers, governments, or both.

But still, I value freedom highly. So I do get the argument that people ought to have the right to work how they want. Even if they're getting screwed.
I can’t see how this comment is substantiated. Personally I’ve always considered large media corporations to be quite untrustworthy. Anecdotally I’ve noticed that other people have been sharing that view more than before (perhaps I’m wrong about that, but that’s the way it looks to me). But let’s say less people trust Fox News or CNN less than they used to, how does that harm society exactly? To me that sounds like people are treating information with increased skepticism, and are likely consulting a more diverse set of sources than they used to. If that’s true then those self-regulating mechanisms of trust and reputation that you mentioned are in fact protecting society from the outcome you described.
This is a real opportunity for the new cohort of challenger banks like the Cash App, Chime, N26 and Monzo. You could probably win a lot of businesses and their customers by agreeing to process payments for businesses that PayPal won't. Combine that with the fact that the Venmo-like P2P payments these startups provide are fast and free and you've got another reason for merchants to switch.
Pornhub already runs a marketplace. You can send money to a "verified" model through the site.

The main difference between pornhub and Backpage is that pornhub is for videos but Backpage was for live meetups (Backpage facilitated the sexual acts; pornhub only monetizes them).
I think you have your stats reversed.

Fivethirtyeight says about 2/3 of gun deaths are suicides. Around 1/3 are homicides. A surprisingly small percentage (to me) are classified as accidents.[0]

[0]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/
Ask HN: Why do so many online businesses talk about entrepreneurship?
What's the difference between setting your own rate and being offered a rate that you can choose to accept or decline? Is it the marketplace function of Uber (determining a price point between riders and drivers) that makes it different? Does being a contractor really require the ability to set a rate that no one is willing to pay?
If you are criticising economics for the lack of "clean experimental results", the problem is with your expectations.

Everything depends on context. That means that results won't apply 100% of the time.

It doesn't mean that economics is useless, medicines don't work the same way with every patient, but it does mean that you have to humble about what you know and be prepared to change your mind.
> No one really knows why it's true.

Any distribution of numbers that is "scale free" follows Benford's Law. This is extremely well understood.

The distribution of the areas of lakes, heights of trees, the proportion of the answers that start with the digit "1" should be the same no matter what units you use. You can measure heights in barleycorns, metres, inches, or cubits, the proportion of answers that start with the digit "1" should remain constant across those different units. Grind through the sums and Benford's Law pops out.

And Benford's Law is not Zipf's Law. Zipf's Law is also well-understood when you look at coding theory, and how we would expect language (and mutable codes in general) to change so that more frequently used "atoms" are "shorter.

So I don't really know what you're claiming here, but on the surface of it, with things I've studied, your comment seems mostly wrong.
They so stuff for people to look at at sometimes copy. That's modelling.
I honestly don't get these network arguments. The market isn't for seats on buses, it's for timely transportation.

The quality of the transportation affects the value. Which in the case of buses, more buses equals a better, more frequent and readily available product. The number of seats isn't the limiting factor. It's just a side effect of somewhat standardized bus sizes.

Am I missing something?
Motorola T250 Talkabout Walkie-Talkies
That depends on if the bank in question is subject to the federal regulations.
Wasn't clear from the headline, but this applies to their UK workers. Maybe some US workers also, but not those in California where noncompetes aren't upheld.
The Magical Cubes with AR
There are a variety of factors that the courts use to determine employment status. Single source of income isn't one

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/how-we-will-help/templates-and-g...
Disney+, so far is messy, unreliable, and riddled with bugs
The answer to all of your questions is..."Are you a platform?" [0]

If so, you must accept, by law, all customers/participants/users without prejudice or discrimination, and you may only deny or limit service to same after a written order from a court of law instructing you to do so. Furthermore, this rule supersedes any Terms of Service that a company may wish to enforce.

That's not what we have in the US today—but we should. My money is on the EU crafting legislation to that effect first. I'd normally expect California to implement this kind of legislation first, but given the amount of money donated by the big tech companies, I doubt it'll happen.

[0] A "platform" is any business with a userbase that exceeds 1% of the population (for non-commercial customers, e.g. YouTube/Twitter/Facebook), or in the case of a business-oriented marketplace (such as Amazon's Seller Central), 10% of the specific market the business is targeting with their platform.
Being deplatformed by a bank is less of an issue because there are thousands of banks in the US. If you just need a checking account for your adult business, you're likely to find a bank that doesn't mind. Then you're on the ACH network and should be good to go as far as bitcoin goes. The only ones who could truly deplatform you off the banking system are the government, by making it illegal / highly burdensome to service you.

But the credit card industry is an oligopoly. If Visa or Mastercard don't like you, you're completely screwed as far as online payments go.
It's weird when people think this sort of reasoning would ever impress a regulator or judge.
Who are you referencing here?
I have the fan shin on mine, set it up so it clicks over a certain temp, and it’s been working great for me.
It seems very common, and I see it with businesses whose customers would be unlikely to care about such musings.

Why do saas owners, startups etc. talk about their own "entrepreneurial journeys" and entrepreneurship in general rather than talk and blog about things their customers are interested in?
That's a lot of area to cover with art and it's unlikely it would really fill up most of the space. Also art itself is subjective and people aren't going to like graffiti everywhere either. Things will look more plain, that's just how it is.
Porn doesn't need a paid lobby for it's popularity. It has a billion avid fans. Mormon home state Utah has the most active commercial porn user base in USA.
What amazes me is this, from Wikipedia:

"Replacing the 15 year old ISE with Vivado Design Suite took 1000 person-years and cost US $200 million.[12]"
Not wanting to deal with spam and abuse originating from their service, most likely. Similar to most services which "require some form of identification" - and an underappreciated hurdle for any sort of reliable anonymity!
Your algorithm is incorrect.
Boss TU-12 Guitar Tuner
If there was a network of such living accommodations you could stay at all around the world with the flexibility to book at a moment's notice, that might be compelling.

I would pay $1-2k/mo to have the ability to stay in any major city in the world. I wouldn't even sell my condo. This would be an extra luxury.
dependency rot is a more general problem. in my work we deal with lots of seldomly used applications, and I've found that reducing external dependencies tends to keep life happier
My favorite living tech critic has a newsletter, The Convivial Society[1], based on the title of this book and Ellul’s The Technological Society. Highly recommend it for people who want serious philosophical context to current events.

[1]:https://tinyletter.com/lmsacasas/archive
"Fun" is not the adjective that leaps first to my mind to describe this fact.
Well... it's true that macroeconomics is always influenced by politics. It's not true, though, that "all of macroeconomics is really just politics". There's a bit more to macroeconomics than just "here's my politics, therefore here's my economics".
Build Your Own Translation Service
Solid take. I'd add that performance was worse for a number of releases, and there were significant warts and incompatibilities in versions before 3.4.

Personally, asyncio and type annotations are a big turnoff. I know this is a bit contrarian, but I've always favored the greenlet/gevent approach to doing cooperative multi-tasking. Asyncio (neé twisted) had a large number of detractors, but now that the red/blue approach has been blessed, it seems like many are just swallowing their bile and using it.

Type annotations really chafe because they seem so unpythonic. I like using python for it's dynamicity, and for the clean, simple code. Type annotations feel like an alien invader, and make code much more tedious to try and read. If I want static typing, I'll use a statically typed language.
I believe the preferred nomenclature is "flop house."
Germany vs France

Full research http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2019/7299-system-costs.pdf

Short https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/05...

Nuclear safer, cheaper (in short and long term) and produce less carbon emission
celebrity arises from the perceived superiority of those people to everyone else. In an increasingly connected world, there are fewer celebritis, not more, as the human brain has a limited capacity for meaningful social connections.
Not Many People at Google Do the ‘20% Project’ in Practice
The "right to free speech" is more a prohibition (via the first amendment) on Congress passing laws that abridges speech, and not a granting of rights to this or that entity.
Airbnb and hotels? No?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
Yes, it's a bit weird. OTOH, if real, this would be on the same order of magnitude as the Pineapple Fund bitcoin donations, which ultimately disbursed around $55M.
Seems like it could be interesting in theory, but I'm not sure very many people are seriously working on it, and it doesn't look like there's been an update for a year and a half.
Advertising is zero sum. It doesn't create value, it just redistributes it. And even worse it redistributes it through psychological manipulation. Modern advertising is an arms race of capital to rob the poor of their time and money through the most aggressive manipulation they can.

In the absence of abusive advertising people would not suddenly stop spending money. They might even be more inclined to seek out new experiences without a constant mental assault by the largest corporations with the deepest coffers to bury them in their ads. Regardless of the way it goes, advertising is absolutely a net deficit to a small business - they don't have the capital resources or scale to permeate culture the way large corporations can. And if they are expending their limited resources trying to participate in the rat race they are sacrificing value to their existing customers and shortchanging their own growth for what is effectively an extortion of participation - if everyone else is deluged in manipulation to rob them and you don't participate there will be no money left over once the wallet has been rung dry by as many emotional vectors as possible for them to find you.
Thats fine and all but there's some things the windows app just doesn't do or do well at all compared to mac. Searching is one of them, along with being able to use 1pass x with the desktop app for auth.

I'm just amazed that they have so many employees yet their window and browser apps are still really lacking.

Side nitpick: it's annoying that they're moving to 1Password X. I really don't want to run the desktop app AND an independent version in my browser. It's not as bad on mac since it can communicate with the desktop app to unlock, but on windows... ugh.
looks like Uber's most central innovation, avoiding employer duties and regulation, finally comes to an end. Thank God.
Hi guys, I came across a tutorial for using Google Translate in Spreadsheet. I decided to use that to put together a translation service for my own app.

Let me know what you think :)
hmm the ultimate valuation is exactly the same, perhaps a bit higher because of the lowered negative press?
If you're an independent contractor here you're expected to pay into the pools yourself, yes.
>and it never gets spent on consumer goods

It doesn't need to be spent on consumer goods to cause inflation. It can also be spend on economic investment ie. new capital (new factories, new equipment, infrastructure inventory, supplies, training, R&D, real estate, mining operation etc. etc.). The money will quickly flow to employees and then to everything else.

Only if the rich keep all the new money in cash form would it not cause inflation but this would usually be a very risky and unstable situation for the money hoarders as some of the money on the sidelines can start moving at any time which would cause inflation to spike and the rest of the stockpile to lose value quickly.
You got my updoot.
At some point both higher latencies and deeper cache hierarchies seem inevitable: http://www.ilikebigbits.com/2014_04_21_myth_of_ram_1.html

Though, perhaps 3D integration can stave that off for many more generations.