skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I think your post fell victim to that.

My post raised a question and wasn't based on the papers you mentioned but based on what I was told by wind farm engineers (e.g., that many farms are not green positive when accounting for everything even when accounting for futures years of exploitation). After working in academia for years, I believe that there is a much higher likelihood of a paper being rejected if it shows that large wind farms harm local environment. It is basically $1T of interests and "green-greeen!" people against people who will figure out what happens only years later.
This post shows how smart Amazon's Prime strategy is. We have someone probably spending thousands of dollars with Amazon (and Amazon taking a good chunk of that in commission) bragging about getting some free ebooks.
He did something. He is doing something now.
Greta Thunberg Catches Lift to UN COP25 with Australian Sailing Couple
We optimized our Google Crawl Budget by removing 72% of indexed URLs
I've run across a few places on the web that use photos of high end products to advertise with, with luxury sounding names and legitimate look ads, but googling the "company" shows low quality ripoffs and enraged customers.

From what I've read, they're pretty much immune from any legal action too.
Thanks, I like the convenience of amazon but will be cancelling my membership this weekend and just use walmart or something else.

It is $120 a year and I'm tired of it. I have seen cases where my pricing was higher than non-prime members for the same item/seller, going to same address.
So right.. big up!
You could stand one up and your parents join it? Yes, not everyone can stand up their own self hosted stuff. In fact few of us can. There's a huge missing gap between your phone/desktop applications and just installing and running hosted applications, but I digress.

I stood up a Mastodon instance and invited a bunch of my friends. Only like 3 of us use it, but it's up and connected to the greater Fediverse.
History is written by the victors, and unfortunately Sanger decided to instead focus on Nupedia, which was more focused on "experts" writing the articles. Ultimately it seems that Sanger didn't truly believe in the core underlying idea of Wikipedia, which is that allowing anyone to write/edit without any reputation or credentials (or even an account!) eventually leads to a good outcome. It's counter-intuitive to some degree that the noise of allowing the "unwashed masses" to contribute is outweighed by the ease of attracting new contributors combined with the decentralized, crowd-sourced corrections of the community.
> Which isn't a problem we should be avoiding

I believe we're actually arguing the same thing.

Anonymous functions aren't the end of the world, but self-documenting code is better.

In the JS/JQuery world, breaking away from anonymous functions would represent such a fundamental shift in practice, I'm not going to do it on my own, but in Angular, I stay away from anonymous functions.
I like the idea, but even with a one-time code, the post office has a record of the reference number which could be linked back to the transaction.

Along with some form of digital cash analogue (i'm not sure existing crypto is it), we'd be getting close to restoring some privacy in online transactions.
Yeah, the headline scared the heck out of me, since I had lasik done about 10 years ago, but (at least in the article) there's no way to tell if the people who are having problems wouldn't have had problems if they hadn't gotten lasik in the first place.
The number of people who have ever watched/listened to a business meeting after it occurred is vanishingly small.
A search for "slang dictionary" gives me your site as Nr.1 result. For "slang words" you are somewhere on page 4 or 5.

A Google demotion looks different. What do you expect? Ranking on the first page for every slang word?
> and network costs can only go up

I would assume they'll go down. Do you mean because traffic will increase, or do you think cost per byte will increase?
This isn't really any different than most cases. Think Elon Musk started Tesla or SpaceX? Nope, he bought in just like Jimmy.
For the past 2 years, most of my work has been in porting some fairly simple legacy message forwarding and conversion programs from C to Java. So on our test servers I can swap out the C programs for drop-in replacements in Java and watch them (via log files) working -- or not. If my programs fail I can either observe crashes and stack trace or the message receiving programs will crash or loudly object to bad data from me. Usually one day's worth of traffic will exercise enough of my program's logic that failure to fail for a day constitutes a successful end-to-end test.

Yes, this is kid stuff. My current work is about as sophisticated as typical undergrad Computer Science projects. We can't all be doing rocket science!

I used to write automated test setups for my programs, providing streams of pre-canned messages and such. That worked out OK. I suppose it's great to have test suites to avoid regression and such, but I ended up regretting all the effort I sunk into testing. So far it's been my experience that I would sink a lot of time into creating a test suite that could exercise my programs as thoroughly as simple exposure to real-world message traffic.

I hope my attempt to be brief didn't come across as derogatory when I wrote "strange." Here's an example: I like to make a lot of my fields and methods private. It's handy that my IDE warns me when fields and methods aren't used, or when final fields aren't initialized. Obviously, for "classic" unit tests I'd have to at least expose my methods at the package level to call them from out of class. Another example: my apps rely on a fair bit of configuration data and some embarrassingly tight coupling between my classes. A JUnit-friendly program would call for a lot of mockups, as well as a lot more coding to interfaces rather than concrete classes, probably a lot more reliance on design patterns. My coding style for these projects yields a small number of compact classes but is very hostile to unit testing.

To be clear: For many other projects, your mileage may vary dramatically. I've successfully done TDD in other projects where that made a lot more sense.
Dealers can take the money, fix the damage and still sell the car as brand new - if it hasn’t been titled yet, body work doesn’t need to be disclosed to the buyer. Dealers usually have in house body shops or relationships with body shops and pay labor + supplies in the repairs. A bigger issue is the backlog of work that quickly accumulates in the aftermath of a hailstorm.
I live in Michigan and I've spent a bit of time in northern Indiana. My observation is that it was one of the most impoverished, destitute, and hopeless places I've ever visited, and I've also spent considerable time in sub-Saharan Africa.

I've never lived there though, so I'm curious to hear how far off the mark you consider me to be.
All the more to my point. You’d have a pretty crisp answer if I asked you in a 1:1, what motivates you. No need for the introspection.

But, you can’t expect your manager or anyone to know that about you unless you’re willing to share it. A good manager will understand this is demotivating and work within those boundaries. But, unfortunately managers aren’t clairvoyant, so we do need to hear it from you :)
I signed up and it seems usable without payment. I wonder if it's region dependent.
That was my first tought.

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Alibaba and maybe the rest of the small cloud providers.
People point at this all the time, but there's also another AI effect. People use traditional techniques to solve modern problems and label it "AI." Calling it a traditional technique despite the modern application doesn't mean it's moving the goalposts.
render.com are trying to compete.
I'd actually hate to reinforce that stereotype. Certainly not my intent, but I can see how what I wrote certainly could paint that picture. I'll do better next time to clarify my thoughts and learn from this.

Our entertainment options are crazy addictive today compared to the past. Our standard of living has also increased significantly post-WWII. If we do in fact value entertainment over education, it's not a knock on our society.

We're just comfortable. When you get comfortable while being a dominate superpower, it's only a matter of time that another country will take your place.
Humans don't live in a vacuum. I don't believe "victimless crimes" exist. There is always a victim even if it is yourself.
Exactly to the point! It's a recent phenomenon, I still remember I could find anything of a decent quality on Amazon like 5 years ago, but not anymore. Review system is now totally broken, most products are cheap crap. I don't even try anymore. Amazon is good only for books and probably cables.
Here are some relevant quotes from the FDA study for you.

In each of the PROWL studies, less than 1 percent of patients experienced difficulty performing their usual activities following LASIK surgery due to any one symptom.

...

* Up to 46 percent of participants, who had no visual symptoms before surgery, reported at least one visual symptom at three months after surgery.

* Participants who developed new visual symptoms after surgery, most often developed halos. Up to 40 percent of participants with no halos before LASIK had halos three months following surgery.

* Up to 28 percent of participants with no symptoms of dry eyes before LASIK, reported dry eye symptoms at three months after their surgery. This is consistent with previous studies.

* Less than 1 percent of study participants experienced "a lot of difficulty" with or inability to do usual activities without corrective lenses because of any one visual symptom (starbursts, ghosting, halos, glare) after LASIK surgery.

* More than 95% of participants were satisfied with their vision following LASIK surgery.
Participants were more than twice as likely to report their visual symptoms on a questionnaire than to tell them to their health care provider

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/lasik/lasik-quality-life...
I second Anker. Their stuff is pretty top notch.

I tend to buy a lot of Arduino and RasPi stuff (plus all the fiddly bits) off Amazon, so there are a few sellers on there that I trust to get good "maker" electronics.

Finally - if you're looking for low-cost but good quality DC gear motors - look into TSINY motors. They're a Chinese manufacturer. They have various vendors on Ebay and Amazon; some are almost (or seem like) "direct from the manufacturer", while others are "further down the chain". I can't vouch for any of them - only for the manufacturer itself (I wouldn't have any qualms with dealing direct with them for a large purchase - but I'm just a hobbyist, so that won't happen).
A good leader can put a twist on that - "Let's improve the accuracy of ad targeting so small businesses can reduce their spend but attract customers and grow" or "Let's connect the world. Let's help unite lost friends."
PDF: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Enhanced%20Vettin...
That’s originally what I said, if you define “success” as the original investors being able to pawn a money losing company off on the public market, it could be successful.

But if you define success as a company that can actually turn a profit consistently, Dropbox is not a success.
Exactly. Why does it matter?
Checkout51 of News America Marketing Is Hiring a Senior iOS Developer in Toronto
I went to university at 16. It was like a wonderful playground, so many subjects and areas and it was a great time.
I ended up liking it so much, I spent 9 years there drifting to 300+ credits :-b

I cannot imagine going at 14. That must have been pretty weird. At 16 I was fine and the biggest issue was the dating and (underage) drinking mismatch.

For me going at 16 was an incredible relief. I was incredibly, incredibly bored and unchallenged in school until that point. I wish there wasn't such a stigma about it because I imagine there are lots of other people who had the same level of terrible frustration.
No need to go that far. Maybe one HNer even does that or even wants to do it.
Yes, starting at $5000 per month...
You could summarize and say "edicts cause unintended consequences". Nature (and by extension, humanity) doesn't operate on booleans, and it's lazy to assume so. It takes work to identify positive behaviors and incentivize them, and identify negative behaviors and disincentive them. Treating the symptoms with an edict will almost always result in new and interesting things that you never knew you didn't want. Your example is great.
Designing and Building Chatbots the Intuit Way
Ah, the lone voice of reason!
Keep in mind the United States only fails so spectacularly at socialized system implementation because the power of the socialized service to negotiate is defanged to prop up the excesses of the private sector.

Let the government flex its muscles without artificial constraint, and watch how fast the market has to rein itself in to remain competitive.

The reason Medicare is loathed, is because Medicare has a mandate to not excessively spend, and it's pricing is actually determined by people with the public interest in mind first and foremost, as well as having its pricing accessible as a matter of public record instead of being hidden away in a locked filing cabinet somewhere.

The combination of those two factors are a powerful tool for shaping an industry away from "make as much money as possible while providing a service" to "provide as much service as possible while the money holds out".

It is a subtle, yet important difference.
Is community policing tied to fewer arrests? I haven't ever seen hard numbers on this. According to Derecka Purnell and Marbre Stahly-Butts[0]:

> Community policing is an empty phrase. A Washington Post report showed that law enforcement use of force in half of police departments with consent decrees. Asking police officers to strengthen community relationships — including by doing things like playing football with children or handing out ice cream — does not reduce their power to harm anyone.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/opinion/the-police-cant-s...
I was on Mastodon for more than a year and loved it: great conversation that reminded me of the hope and promise of the Internet in the late 90's. Then my instance admin went AWOL, the site crashed, and all of my data and social graph were lost. I still can't get the admin to respond to emails. I could host my own server but who really has the technical know-how and time to do that kind of work? Mastodon has got to solve the reliability and/or portability problem. If I could have recovered my social graph on another instance, I would still be on the network.
A lot of people have been throwing up Mastodon/Pleroma/Fediverse on this thread and I think, like TikTok, you're going after a different segment: randos you don't know.

Mastodon/Fediverse instances feel like a nice big random AOL chat room, or Reddit threads in the Twitter format. It won't connect you to your current social groups (except the very few who are like 'Yea I'm on that. Here, follow me), but rather help you exchange ideas with a bunch of randos. Which is something that was pretty damn cool about the early Internet really.
Oh Geez. Turo Is Sharing a Rick and Morty Mortymobile
This is a dangerous perspective on the issue. Why should the FDA approve an elective procedure that has the possibility of ruining your life? Lots of perfectly healthy people people who had a bad outcome have committed suicide due to the unbearable pain and suffering.

If this was a life-saving procedure with a 50/50 chance of working with no alternatives, then that's different. But an elective procedure where a perfectly healthy person sees an advertisement one day, and has their life ruined the next is not something that should be acceptable.
There was some hype around something called "Freedom Box" [1] a while ago, but it seemed to have gone quiet. Things like this pop up every now and then, and then tend to disappear.

[1] https://freedombox.org/
There's a reason why Wikipedia is one of the largest and most useful websites on the internet meanwhile Citizendium barely lasted, and that reason had little to do with ideas being stolen or porn profits being redirected. Jimmy is just a good businessman and made something people want / need with the proper marketing and leadership. It's as simple as that.
There are alternatives. Cloud 66 is essentially Heroku on your own servers/cloud instances. Dokku is an open source alternative that leverages Heroku buildpacks.
I wonder if we'll someday launch a Voyager 3 & 4.
Isn't the real question "how satisfied are you after a decade" when discussing the claims in the article?
Breaking free of datacenter legacy thinking
Wind Turbines Just Keep Getting Bigger, but There’s a Limit
I can see the future:

"Are you on Facebook?"

"My mom setup an account for me when I was 5, but I never use it. I don't even think I installed it on this phone..."
I know, I said as much in my last sentence. I just meant it was less impactful on them than it is on PayPal. There is still some impact of course.
The 'Dark Side' of Citizenship
Musk didn't found Tesla and is (somewhat inappropriately) labeled as a cofounder, but joined in Series A as an investor.

But he very much did build SpaceX from nothing (well, his Paypal money), and his unconventional approach is responsible for their success.
Association of EGLN1 Gene with High VO2max of Peruvian Quechua at High Altitude
Would you be OK with this kind of flex arrangement if it meant that the hotel couldn't guarantee the state of the room or bathroom when you check in?

Hotel management needs time to send cleaners to change the sheets and such after all. If booking is on an hour-by-hour basis like say a hotel meeting room, it isn't feasible to clean the place in between every booking.
DeepMind Research Lead Doina Precup on Reinforcement Learning
This is the thought crossing my head. The best version of this is find a way for the young brilliant kids to have time together so they at least have some sort of peer group, instead of always being the weird little kid among college students or the like. Although it could still lead to some issues since ONLY dealing with brilliant people isn't the most real-world experience in the long run.

There really needs to be some method for giving them the chance to excel to their maximum (without unfairly pushing them because we can) while also having a chance to experience more general social settings.
One of my Amazon orders was just re-ordered from Wallmart under my name and shipped by Wallmart to my address. I even got the Walmart receipt with the cheaper price in the package.

I was not happy about that, esp. that some stranger is entering my shipping info to some other retailers DB. It is also clearly against Amazon ToS. I have contacted Amazon, citing the ToS violation and concern about my personal data and the only thing they said was that they are sorry and will notify the seller bout this. Nothing happened.

Also, my honest review about this was taken down.
From

> hillary clinton emails

to

> is hillary clinton still controlled by the jews

Nice try.
One caution: I don’t know if it is still a thing, but inkjets used to dry out pretty badly if you left them idle for too long. Sometimes a thorough cleaning would work, but sometimes not. I push non-technical family members to get cheap laser printers.
I like the book "Data Science from Scratch" (2019) by Joel Grus, now in its 2nd edition, which implements algorithms in Python. But I wish the author used Numpy and implemented his own array classes, which I think is taking "from scratch" too far.

What is a good book or blog for machine learning Python algorithms building up from Numpy? The site mentioned in this post or something else?
> if the code is trying to do a single thing

What is a single thing? Login? Initialize db? One line of code, 3 lines of code, ...

If you have 100 lines of code and 6 nestings, even if none of that is or, as far as you can tell, should ever be re-used, you should break that into smaller, digestible chunks of DoSubThingA, etc.

It's kind of an aside, but you mentioned e.g. `DoThingD` got changed or "some other dev WILL come along" -- if some other dev comes along and doesn't bother to check where and in what context `DoThingD` is being used, and changes it in a way that breaks `DoThingC` or `DoThingE`, they aren't doing their job. Particularly, if `DoThingD` wasn't written to be re-used, and they just use re-write it and use, particularly in a way that breaks its original invariance... I would be having strong words with that developer.
I’m personally not excited for banks to come up with crappy, less secure versions of Apple Pay, to be honest.
That actually does look like exactly what I need. Beautiful. Thank you! Great work.
I usually donate to Wikimedia every year, and I was a donator for WikiTribune and followed it closely as it rolled out. I personally think that Wikipedia is one of the most valuable resources on the internet.

Watching WikiTribune flounder in its early days left me feeling disillusioned. It quickly began to seem like a project lacking clear product vision (or else a team that could execute on such a vision). I eventually gave up waiting for the service to become useful as a daily news source and wrote it off.

Glancing at WikiTribune now, it seems like wt.social is a pivot for the service (https://www.wikitribune.com/wt/news/article/101868/). I hope it turns out well, because I strongly believe that the service Jimmy Wales initially described as WikiTribune is a good idea and something the internet needs. But, I think I'll wait on the sidelines this time around before getting too invested in the idea.
> It's easy to poke fun but this seems like a 100% reasonable response when the alternative is changing the entire schedule of the entire team based on the feedback of a single person

So, it's meant to be an amusing anecdote on HN; I haven't told the entire story of the project :) The PM had heard this from several other team members alread, several times. The difference is I was tech lead, so he listened a bit more to me, and I was also quite adamant this time (I'd tried to tell him more politely numerous times).

> And it doesn't seem like any one person should be attending all of these meetings

Bingo, this was the biggest problem - the project manager in particular was bad for telling irrelevant people to join meetings.
Open an Adsense account and click your own ads. Though I'd think these days it just bans you from the Adsense program.
Pssh be quiet. The normally quiet Google employees will arrive, calling for stronger attacks on the ytdl.
You might find the following helpful, I followed a similar guide for testing on an old laptop a few years back:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/remotely-access-intel-amt-kvm-...
The insect apocalypse is coming. Here's what you can do about it
Asking from a cultural standpoint, but curious about the technical approach to an “audit” when the same people who biased the training data are ostensibly influencing the audit. Basically, who decides what’s “just” and how could that be reflected in a change to the algorithm?
It's a good first effort, but I'd still give Intel the lead for now:

* No Thunderbolt (so forget about extending with eGPU) or even Type C.

* No HDMI.

* I wonder about the cooling. 90W is close to the high end in this form factor. Have had cases where older i7 NUCs shut down when the temp got too high. Did they get it right first time with AMD?

On the plus side, it comes with 2 NICs!