skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear or fossil whatever. Just go renewable the future is already here!!!
Germany is already 40% renewable, no one believed that they would came that far in just 20years! Wait another 20 and they are 100% renewable.
No need for nuclear anymore!
Considering that QuantNet ranks Baruch's Financial Eng program #2 (behind Princeton's) and that MIT ranks #10, I'd say you may be jumping to conclusions...

https://quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/
It’s not like urban areas are not associated with mental health issues: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/feb/25/city-stress-m...
The way to combine hash functions for collision resistance is not composition (as with encryption) but concatenation: H'(file) = (H1(file), H2(file)). Now to have a collision on H' you need to collide both H1 and H2. But now pre-image resistance suffers.
InsightFinder get $2M seed to automate outage prevention
What Went Well This Year?
Genuine question from someone who probably (given your choices) agrees with you politically most of the time: do any of these strike you as acceptable news (i.e. non-editorial) sources? If so, why?
"Great" as in "prolific and influential" not as in "good."

Kissinger engineered our foreign policy for three decades, either directly, through mentorship, or through his writing and teaching. His voice is a powerful one, and if you are interested in contemporary geopolitics you should read his books and listen to his speeches. World Order is a fantastic text.

You don't have to agree with him.
They did the same thing in Israel. It's PACKED with Eucalyptus trees. They say it was important to "drain swamps and fight malaria", but since then it has spread literally everywhere.
"Once fusion is cracked" is almost on par with "once perpetual motion machines are cracked." It presupposes that fusion being "cracked" is a reasonable thing to expect.
> I spent a month of the year just flossing 1 tooth each night (ridiculous, I know!), then 5 months just flossing 1 row (better!)

Was this because you hated it so much that you couldn't bring yourself to do more than one at a time, or is it important to effective habit building that you intentionall hold yourself back? (I can't imagine getting as far as remembering to do it, getting out the floss, tearing off a piece, flossing one tooth and then not saying, eh, I'm already here, might as well do more.)
I wanted to purchase a few of the Wyze cameras for my house because of the price ~$20 each. At first, I thought this price could be a loss-leader strategy for more lucrative services (premium or longer cloud storage), kind of like Ring but with much cheaper hardware. Alas, when I found out that the cloud storage is free for 30 days I was skeptical. How would you make money from this sale?

I'm not a paranoid person. I do have Ring doorbell, a P.O.S Samsung camera and Alexa in my house. My rationale is that since those cameras are for outside of my home, I wouldn't care about being spied upon. But if the Wyzes are used by the CCP for surveillance foreign territories, this could spell a lot of trouble. For example, a week prior to the Pearl Harbor event, the imperial Japan phoned Japanese-American in Hawaii to ask about the weather, troop movement, military vehicles movement. I can't imagine if those outside cameras are used for the purpose, the intelligence gathered is paramount.

You could argue that since everybody is carrying a smartphone with camera nowadays, it wouldn't take much effort to "spy" foreign territories simply by checking social media uploaded. While it is true, would it be more devastating if they can see every thing anytime/anywhere they want?
I believe the OPs point wasn’t that that’s what we need—it’s that that’s a bad idea. It’s insecure and bound to break things eventually.
Steve Carell is already planning a sitcom based on the "Space Force". FWIW

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9612516/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force
Yeah, I've seen people who use small wind turbines to generate electricity far north. Seems like the best way to do it.
In general pretty nice idea. I made a couple of Github issues with some nitpicks that can help cause less confusion for you over time (env varibles) and one that should cut down the image size (cut down dependencies)
These upvotes prove that there is opportunity for products to be clever, but not simple. For every windows like product, there is an opportunity for command line tool.
Thank you for reminding me of this weird word hah. Been a while since I’ve heard about MAGTF
Zero information from that link
It's not necessarily easier to run your own web servers... It's more costly than ever, and with the collapse of Net Neutrality going on (legal or not) and Google's stranglehold on search results and browsers, your likelihood of being seen are next to nil unless you have serious amounts of operational cash... This is also why brilliant people in school aren't inventing the next Twitter or Facebook. Big industry has stepped in to carve the Internet to suit it's profit needs and to put up walls for those who aren't accepted into the fraternity. Now company employees are encouraged to develop their ideas on company time, so instead of having to buy companies for a billion dollars, they get the same innovation (in house) for just a few annual salaries. Share holder driven companies are not our friends... The Internet how we knew it is indeed dead, and everyone was warned long ago, several times. :/
Tax avoidance != anything can be justified.

You do want clear rules. An extreme case of vagueness would be: pay whatever taxes you want, but we will criticize and punish you until we think you've paid enough. That would be neither efficient nor fair.

In video game terms, maybe there should be a convention of not taking advantage of exploits, but it's often unclear what's the intention of a tax rule, so fixing the exploit is better.
I like some of the channel's older content. The newer stuff is a bit opinionated for my taste.
As I said in my post, the bluetooth is optional. It's just a stereo amp so it has inputs for line level and phono. Buletooth is convenient for ad-hoc playlists.
Yes, I agree. But none of that changes the fact that when something shifts to being for-profit, that thing usually gets worse.
The worst tech of the last 10 years
Hint: that’s the problem. People take drinking = binge drinking. Especially in the military.
Indigenous Australians used to start big fires, so it's quite possible they've seen a few bad ones too.
BBC has nice info-graphic comparing different Australian fires.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/ECEF/production/...

article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50951043

As you can see from the graph, other fires came much later in the season. If only the weather can stop the fires, there is still long way to go.
You need a big gov to pull this off. And again people on HN are not exactly fans of big government.
> the court documents [about Justina] are all available on PACER

Let's try to find and read them. My guess is that this story will be reposted in a few day, and perhaps we can discuss the backstory part of this with more data.

Note: Perhaps I was not clear, but I agree with most of your initial comment. I just specially agree with your last sentence.
Regardless of what’s technically correct, I see “nm” way more often than “NM” in aviation contexts.
> It is important to know what's happening in the world.

The dose makes the poison. If it's important, you'll hear about it. 99% of what you think of as important you will have forgotten in ten years. Look at old newspapers, old news magazines and it will give you a healthy dose of perspective.

I disagree with the Twitter part but the rest is great advice. You can fill your life with consuming (even if it feels important, like today's news) or you can fill your life with creating. The choice is yours.
In my area the eucalyptus was primarily used to create wind breaks and and shaded areas in otherwise wide open barren landscapes. I think maybe there were multiple uses, but agriculture / soil-erosion and sun protection were definitely one of the early ones.
I think you could build a panel of TECs and just set it up near your wood stove. The radient hear from the stove would be enough to keep the TECs at high temp on one side and room temp (maybe with some heatsink) on the other side.

You could adjust the distance from the stove to keep things within operating range.
In the US pubicly held corporations have a legal obligation to act in the interests of their shareholders. Not always, but typically this means maximizing revenue as that's how the company provides value to it's owners.
First ty TF for your work.

Is Torrentfreak getting their legal fee's back for these baseless claims? The courts dont seem to like FRCP rule 11 against lawyers as it makes the whole system bad. Perjury is a slap on the write imho. These claims just clog the legal system with more shenanigans. There needs to be some accountability for this baseless claims.
Top UN Official Accuses US of Torturing Chelsea Manning
> It's always been a derelection of duty of governments when these loopholes exist in the first place. So it's great news that with enough publicity, democratically elected lawmakers felt the pressure from voters to fix this.

This sort of rhetoric does not help. Tax law is very logical, and these "loopholes" are often quite intentional and have a rational basis. Here, for example, the "double Irish" takes advantage of Irish tax provisions that encourage companies to relocate not only IP, but skilled workers to Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Republi...

> Ireland's corporate BEPS tools emphasise job creation (either of Irish employees or of foreign employees to Ireland). To use Irish BEPS tools, and their ETRs of 0–2.5%, the multinational must meet conditions on the intellectual property ("IP") they will be using as part of their Irish BEPS tool. This is outlined in the Irish Finance Acts particular to each scheme, but in summary, the multinational must:

> Prove they are carrying out a "relevant trade" on the IP in Ireland (i.e. Ireland is not just an "empty shell" through which IP passes en route to another tax haven);

> Prove the level of Irish employment doing the "relevant activities" on the IP is consistent with the Irish tax relief being claimed (the ratio has never been disclosed);

> Show that the average wages of the Irish employees are consistent with such a "relevant trade" (i.e. must be "high-value" jobs earning +€60,000–€90,000 per annum);
The book you refer to is really kind of system design for applications which handle large data volumes. OTOH, the book I refer to talks about how database software can be developed from ground up thus helping you understand the internals.
This isn't meant as an ad hominem attack but a general moan about moans about the media: not enough people distinguish between news reporting and opinion and analysis pieces.

RTE, The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Economist, The Financial Times have fairly good, fairly trustworthy reporting on a wide range of topics.

All have their strengths and weaknesses, to be sure, and the selection in an of itself shows my own biases and worldview to an extent.

I generally don't want to read through a newspaper and agree with everything in it, because then either the content has been dull to the point of tedium, or I've just created an echo chamber for myself where I learn nothing new and I'm not challenged enough about the downsides of whatever opinion I hold.

The Economist has some of the best reporting I've seen on Central Asia, for example, but I often disagree with the more libertarian editorial lines they take on many issues. I'm not nearly as left wing as the Guardian, but they do great work highlighting social injustices that I might otherwise ignore if I'm mainly reading business news.
Languages like this belong to a group called Fungeoids:

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Fungeoid

While many esolangs simply have a bizarre, embellished, or minimalistic syntax wrapped around very familiar semantics, the most interesting ones create new models with new problems and idioms to discover. For example, Fungeoids bring us the Wire-Crossing Problem, an interesting connection between computational models and topology:

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Wire-crossing_problem
>There was a Golden Age when Google would actually return results for interesting small sites on a regular basis. This was before they declared defeat in the Great Webspam War and (apparently) just upranked major sites and downranked minor ones ('08 or '09?), giving up on usefully indexing the "lesser" parts of the web. Also back when content that wasn't frequently updated didn't suffer badly in search results, so niche "evergreen" content on small sites could actually be found by search pretty often.

This is useful for things like research or product reviews, but less of a thing for the sorts of current events and opinion pieces that blogging was used for (and then got moved to "social media").

But yeah, prioritizing stuff that's updated often has really killed the ability of sites to actually be useful repositories of knowledge and has probably intensified the trend towards opinion, editorial, and hot-takes of everything rather than well-researched articles about how to do useful/practical stuff.
FWIW, the dangerous part of wake turbulence is from the wing vortices, not the engines.
The most important to simply get started, the others make you a better developer.
I'm more worried about technological and legal chokeholds on free expression like GDPR, whose main effect was to nag users with a popup about cookies on every major website.

To me, it feels like the original possibility of inventing something, posting it online and earning a passive income is all but dead today. Too many hurdles now must be overcome. You pretty much have to learn a programming language, containerization, the various layers of HTML/Javascript/CSS deployment, amoral stuff like SEO and bribing influencers, to even have a chance at making more than $10 per month.

When I think of every major innovation in web dev since 2000, almost all of it has gone the opposite direction from how I would have done it. Instead of autoscaling distributed servers, programming languages and databases, we ended up with "bare hands" tools like Kubernetes, async-await and sharding on proprietary monopolies like AWS locked into physical regions. My description of what's wrong is fuzzy at best, but I feel it deep down, that this trend away from computer science to application has all but halted progress.

I could write at length (seriously dozens/hundreds of pages) about better ways of doing all of this. I already have to some degree. But nobody cares, and nobody listens to me since I never built anything that made any appreciable money. So what's the point? There isn't one. That's the internet today. Late-stage capitalism, pretty people, and divisive political discourse. Dystopia.
Are you asking if it violates the 2nd law? Of course not.

It's just a heat engine like any other electrical generator so it's not going to have fundamentally new kinds of applications.

Don't forget you can also use the waste heat from a device (like a computer) to run a mechanical heat engine to generate power to help run the device. But only partially. I guess we don't do that much because it's probably not economically feasible. That's kind of what turbochargers in cars do though.
It's important to know what's happening in the world. It's not important to project what you know (or what you think you know) on blast via social media. I think that's where the unhealthy obsession people have with politics has been coming from lately.
Same goes with “for”, which you sometimes hear in readbacks like “leaving 4000 for 3000”. It should be something unambiguous like “4000 descending 3000” instead.
This is pretty clever and I admire the author for coming up with an elegant way to show the mapping of week days to dates. I'd be particularly interested to see the algorithm behind it. Date computations are very tricky.

A few years ago I made script to generate a one page calendar because the ones they hand out at work are particularly ugly. In addition to showing the date<->weekday mapping I also wanted it to show holidays and pay periods. This is one of the (few) things stuck on my wall.

https://intrepidhero.gitlab.io/mkcal/cal2020.html

https://gitlab.com/intrepidhero/mkcal
I'm well aware of that, sadly. But often, part of "maintaining" a valuable repository of information (especially one that has reached stability and is not seeing ongoing updates) is uploading it to the Archive yourself. The Internet Archive has "trouble" dealing with information in the gigabytes and terabytes (which is why donations to them are valuable) but retrocomputing stuff is not like that.
It’s frustrating because it’s based on anecdotal evidence and preconceptions. It also defaults to the assumption that all change is bad.

I know plenty of kids these days who read books, lots of them in fact. Often reading fiction and literature especially.
Maybe helpful: scrot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrot
I read a quote last night that went "don't complain about growing old, it's a privilege denied to many". That really stuck with me.
On the other hand, I use things learned during my university education on a regular basis.

If a person goes into jobs that don't require the use of their education, well, the college did not send out their job applications, the person did.
I'm more concerned about dissolved plastic residues than the bigger plastic particles. The particles have more of a chance of passing through your body untouched. The unstudied plastic residues dissolved in your hot coffee are much more likely going to be absorbed into your body.
This came up between Trump and Clinton during the 2016 debates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RogUJp69YE4
Ghislaine Maxwell Scoffing at Law Thanks to “Serious Dirt” on Powerful People
Well, fine, you've convinced me: if I'm wronged, it's perfectly OK to kill someone tangentially involved. As long as someone else involved did something that I consider worse, all's fair. /s

Complicated systems made out of many humans and policies break down and result in deaths. We try and make the systems better and deaths less, and look-- commercial aviation is safer than ever. But decisions made in this type of environment do not have a nice predictable cause and effect relationship like stabbing someone does.
Telegram Reproducible Builds
Australia is about 1% of global CO2 emissions. I'm not arguing for being careless, of course, but either way it's not going to change much.
I use RSS for Twitter, YouTube, Blogs, News, HN, and Reddit. It’s my main way of keeping up with goings on these days.

As a plug: I run Pine.blog. A feed reader and blogging app. It’s basically a Social Network built on RSS and Blogging. If anyone is interested, I’d love feedback on it. It hasn’t gotten much HN attention in the past.

https://pine.blog
Not sure why you are down voted. Buffet’s reasoning here is incredibly weak and he deserves to be criticized for it.

It’s “difficult to assess” whether or not an investment will produce a financial return but he doesn’t apply that argument to criticize those who pursue investments with the goal of growing their personal wealth.

I think this is the worst quote I’ve ever read from warren buffet and it makes me very much dislike him.
Key practices for achieving large professional goals
(Very) Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
The problem is that unlike a blood test, neural networks are not transparent at all. So when an imaging test comes back with "possible malignancy" with red circle around the highlighted area, a GP doesn't have the experience to agree or disagree with the result. So every time that happens the next step will be to send the image to a specialist.

And in the case where the machine learning algorithms don't find anything suspicious, the GP again won't have the training or experience to confirm those results. Now if the person was otherwise healthy and this was just a screening that might be enough, but if the GP was suspicious enough to order the test in the first place, it won't be.

What will probably happens is that this kind of technology increases productivity for radiologists, and maybe increases the number of screenings done on healthy people. But it's not going to reduce the demand for radiologists.

Basically the problem is that to be able to interpret the output of a neural network you need to be an expert. What we need is AI that can present a fully formed argument that is easy for a non expert to follow and validate, but we are nowhere near that in most cases.
So are you saying that you believe YouTube will also perish because it's now mostly spam, albeit sanctioned spam? Not a facetious comment, I genuinely wonder. It'd be a wonderful twist, in a way.
> the major Texas cities are going through similar growing pains

They're growing, so they're going through growing pains, sure. But it's different pains!

SF has decided to not grow. It's pains come from having to force a resident to move out for each new worker moving in.
This very small pdsh clone: https://github.com/michaelkarlcoleman/ssssh
Pulitzer winning article explaining the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich”

"How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes" 'Funneling Earnings to Low-Tax Regions' New York Times, April 29, 2012, Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewski

https://www.pulitzer.org/files/2013/explanatory-reporting/04...
You are right although as I understood it, the MS standard is exceedingly complicated, some would say in an attempt to "obfuscate" it.

In any case, this specific excel template states that it requires Excel 2007 and might misbehave if using any other program such as OpenOffice or Google Sheets:

> Please note that Microsoft Excel 2007 or newer is required. Other software like Open Office, Google Docs, and Numbers may import the Excel spreadsheet, but due to differences in the way they handle dates you should double-check that the calendars are correct.
The internet is dead. Long live the internet.

I don't know if I agree with your unstated premise that none of these iterations are inherently better or worse than what came before or what will come after. I think there has been a phase change from participation to consumption. The internet has become TV for most users. Not just in the sense of the viewer passively watching, but in the sense of the content itself being highly centralized. There's no more "you" in youtube. The main content feed is high production costs and celebrities, not random clever people.
I am going go out on a limb and say that fusion is never going to be competitive with solar and batteries.
> Often people who are homeless had jobs right up until the time they became homeless, and have marketable skills, but not ones that can pay for a median rent price

And, while I believe it's a minority, in the US a shockingly high percentage of homeless people remain employed.
Yes I hated it and yes I’m exceptionally stubborn :)
AFAIK DMCA notices don't go through the courts. They're just sent to the site owner, who must comply or file a counter notice. Also, AFAIK there haven't been any prosecutions for people abusing DMCA notices.
> Corporations are supposed to maximize profits.

I think the last 60 years has proven Milton Friedman was inarguably wrong. Both with the idea that trickle down economics is a valid fiscal policy and that it is always in a corporations best interests to prioritize maximizing profits.

The fact we’ve just gotten to a place where we consider it a fact of life is concerning.
Not only that but also the security implications.

I always though that is was really crazy that people are just willing to download megabytes of arbitrary code from sometimes unknown sources without doing any security audit whatsoever.

And when people are doing audits, they most often just clone the repository without checking if the archive on whatever package manager is matching the source code.

It’s a disaster waiting to happen.
Good book, just read it, thank you!