skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO people, even experts, still hugely underestimate the importance of solar to long term storage. Utility solar is very uncommon in snowy parts of the US, but it's the only place you can reasonably generate winter power.

The optimum winter angle in Massachusetts is just 24 degrees from vertical! That angle is so crazy steep that it can't possibly collect snow, but it generates several times more power than the rooftop panels that make up ~80% of MA solar. Since the total sunlight is 3.5x weaker in winter and demand is much higher, that's hugely important.

The darkest winter months between October to February (~4 months total where insolation is ~1/2 annual average) would mean virtually no solar if MA does not build utility scale plants. Nuclear and wind would be flat out the only ways to supply that without emitting CO2. However, if panels are angled for winter use they can easily outcompete nuclear. Nuclear running 4 months per year would cost 3x as much as normal. Overbuilding solar by 3x and angling it at 24 degrees would cost over 3x as much and generate less than the nuclear (because of cloudy days), but all that power would be available year-round at no extra cost. The amount of storage required would be almost the same, since it only needs to account for the shorter length of the day.
> People in the US have a close attachment to their university, they would like their children to go there and they donate a lot of money

Why link first two to the last?

Pride in one’s alma mater, and encouragement towards one’s children to attend, can remain without a codified edge in admissions.

There are numerous advantages a parent familiar with the process and people at an institution can give their kids. Adding to that edge is superfluous.
There are the various graph layout algorithms I've heard of, Sugiyama, KIELER, ELK - these can be used for trees of course, although I'm not sure they have highly constrained vertical levels like the article depicts.
This is very useful to me, thank you for sharing.
If you do that, you quickly run into the feasible depth limit for what you can show in a fixed space. Especially for sparse trees. Consider something like family trees, where you generally don't know anything about certain lines, but may have 20 generations or more on selected lines. No way could you show 2^20 nodes in a fixed format rendering, but you can make something kinda pretty by eliminating the empty space and organizing things to fill it intelligently.
> Due to Taylor’s theorem, any differentiable real-valued function may be approximated by polynomials so Cauchy’s method is applicable to any function that is differentiable.

Sorry, what? Pretty sure this is not Taylor's theorem (and it's false)?
LISP I Programmer's Manual (1960) [pdf]
Sebastian Lague did a video that includes some tree generation that was fun to watch

EDIT wrong kind of tree :D

https://youtu.be/--GB9qyZJqg
Were talking about motorcycles
Depends on the campus. At the University of Pittsburgh, campus police are an accredited law enforcement agency with jurisdiction within so many hundreds of feet of University property. Ditto for our transit police.
The only thing scarier to me than a government or a corporation performing surveillance is when they do it together.
+1 For Roam. I'm a long-time Org Mode user, but was always waiting for something like Roam to take its place. Roam is a great example of how getting a few key features right can launch a tool into a league of its own.

Implementing the Zettelkasten is an explicit use-case for Roam, as documented here: https://roamresearch.com/#/v8/help/page/VURQiVZQR
Have you looked into cybersecurity in a non-engineering role? I’ve transitioned from a web development background towards penetration testing specializing in web applications. While I don’t get to code as much as before I still get to retain some of that knowledge through coding small proof-of-concepts every now and then.
They're often not state police, but a small police department.
Turning JavaScript into a probabilistic programming language
About Face (Recognition)
Really happy to hear this. As someone who went to Hopkins I would fully encourage my children to apply (I had a great time and got an amazing education). But the idea that I spent a few years of my life there 40 years ago feels irrelevant to the admissions process. Any advantage given would be counterproductive in several ways:

1. It would coddle the child at a time in their life when it's essential to learn independence. This can't be good for the values they are developing.

2. It has no correlation to their success at the school. Getting admitted to a tough school like Hopkins if they are not prepared would be incredibly stressful and would probably be negatively correlated to their future success. I saw a few students who got special admissions crash and burn their freshman year and transfer out.

3. The article goes into this a lot, but it's not good for equality and encourages stratification. This isn't good for society. And it decreases diversity which is probably bad for the university.
If you think that's insulting you need to grow some thicker skin.

I get a giggle at Californian's persecution complex. See, that's insulting.
I was an M247 colo customer in Manchester for approx 5 years. I went to their primary DC many times, interacted with their staff. They're a hosting company. The colo racks are full of servers with lots of little labels with different company names. The managed (and hence vps) racks are numerous and anonymous, which is what you'd expect. I'm not sure what you think is going on. They're cheap. They have excess capacity. So bottom-feeding race-to-the-bottom operators like VPN providers are buying from them. It doesn't seem too surprising.
The ultimate crime
Look at Hitchock's "Dial M for Murder". That's a perfect 3D (real 3D) movie.
Launchpad.net
Fantastic explanation, thanks.
20% fewer graduates might not be quite so beneficial though...
Instead of a lottery, have an auction.

I live near a Big Ten university that's on an urban campus, so there's a lot of demand for parking in the area. It's a residential college, but with a lot of employees and grad students. So parking is at a premium.

Faculty / staff parking is priced by convenience. The best spots cost the most.

There's a relatively cheap lot at the edge of campus that's served by a shuttle bus. The city bus service is free for employees and students. And the town is relatively bike friendly. I ride my bike to work. One friend of mine keeps a bike on the back of his car and uses it for "last mile" to avoid paying for the expensive parking.

The places where I went to college and graduate school, parking and housing were both cheaper, but land was also cheaper.
For those who were online in 1993, did you ever think we would see websites with over a billion pages. That billions of people would login to one website, run by someone they do not know or do business with, every day as a means to communicate.

Or were you thinking someday the web would have billions of websites. As I remember it, the size of the web (cf. internet) was always measured in number of websites not pages.

The obsession with "scaling" seem to presume that the web is not destined to be billions of low-traffic websites, each with its own login.
DDG returns nothing for this apart from it relating to property purchases.

Is this something you made up?
Your point is correct and fair based on then way I wrote the comment but it wasn’t my intention to mislead. I need to learn how to ragetype better.

I do think it’s super interesting that the additional gambling site bans happened reasonably quiet last week.

I say reasonably as I play poker, and care if poker is banned, but agree banning gambling is a net positive. Even then I didn’t hear about the ban until 4 days after it happened.
This is the way of traveling thru Channel Tunnel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurotunnel_Shuttle

But one needs to plan and book a travel in advance. There are also capacity limits.
I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'm interested in hearing the actual differences between Lux and Clojure, as you see it.
Endowments and reputation fading is a good thing. One of the things that drives up cost of college is the competition among universities. If we are going to publicly subsidize higher education, through loans or otherwise, we need to reduce differentiation. Obviously there will be better or worse ones still, but going across the country to attend a “top 50 school” is not something we should be encouraging. (And that phenomenon is much less common in Europe, where going to a local school is typical even for good students.)
I think “making the developer liable” is jumping to a conclusion that isn’t certain quite yet.
Self driving trains would probably be easier. Aren't there already some airport shuttle trains and metro transit that's fully automated?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_syst...
The Brand-Confused World of IMAX and “LieMAX”
Definitely. If it was clear that external beacons were necessary, you would have the Tesla beacons, you'd have the European manufacturer associated beacons, you'd have the Japanese manufacturers associated beacons... installed at manufacturer's cost (or as a partnership), leading to duplication some places, total absence in others, and exclusivity in the rest. And the EU would do better than the rest of the world, having cars with different receivers (manufactured only for the EU market, of course)
Are you scraping these headlines? Talk a bit on the development. I wanted to make something similar for a science based subject and I was simply going to use rss.
I can't answer your question (I don't use that part of Seamonkey), but I have the feeling they are unfortunately following the same steps as the main Mozilla product, just with some (appreciable) delay: they dropped GTK2 support in last version, and they are dropping ALSA support soon (I thought in this release, but I don't see it written in this page), both things I need on my Linux setup. Another user said he was happy to see this new release for his XP laptop; well, they are supposed to drop XP in this release too :-(
There are already some startups working on this, including Pivot Bio (nitrogen-fixing for corn using microbiomes in the soil): https://www.pivotbio.com/
If cars could assemble into close convoy trains on multi-lane highways / motorways / autoroutes / whatever, then it would probably also solve electric car range for many people - you only care about range on relatively long distance journeys, and you're likely to be doing those on major multi-lane carriageways. If you could split the air resistance between a bunch of other vehicles then you'd add considerably to the range. I similarly don't understand why we're not trying to solve that instead. As you say, it seems easy compared to full autonomous driving.
It would suffice here to run a strap of webbing across your windshield, through the doors and tie the ends together on the inside. You don't need it to be tight, won't damage the paint.
Is there a lock delay? What's the drop speed? How fast are soft drops?

There's dozens of Tetris variants, all with tiny little differences at this level, and they all contribute to different strategies.
Berlin Artist Jonas Jödicke Speaks Up About Aaron Carter Art Fiasco
They don't lump together small in-app payments, so you get billed only larger amounts?
That's neat. It's perhaps worth mentioning that this trick is only needed when your computer understands complex numbers (1,i) but not dual numbers (1,ε), where i^2 = -1 but ε^2 = 0.
Things could change though when you look at the landscape of computer languages today:

- OOP is trending downward, and for good reasons, look at Java and C#, too verbose, too top-down.

- dynamic languages are not efficient enough, especially in the cloud where they require 10 VM to do the work that could be done on a single machine with lower level languages.

- c/c++ are too low-level, hard to master/difficult to maintain.

- Rust is a mess, too verbose, too complex.

- In the FP universe, which is trending up, Haskell is too complex, F# is good but the libraries (.NET) are OOP mainly so the integration sucks. Clojure, not sure, didn't play with it but my guess is it suffers the same problem than F#.

So, personally, and not trying to convince anyone here, lisp, and especially Common Lisp with its large number of available libraries and its good development environments (emacs/slime), is getting more interesting every day.
For as many low quality freelancers as their are, there's an equal amount of clients who want the next Facebook and can pay you $250. A site for specialists freelancers/more complex projects would be great, although at that point they're usually called consultants.
If Scaleway moved into North America I'd move more VPSes to them in a heartbeat.
I've never heard of the term "deadware," especially not applied to an active project.

That being said the custom (non-commercial) license can't be helping adoption!
It would definitely be interesting to know if the Tesla 'saw' the black car at any point (and what it was identified as), or if it just looked like another piece of tarmac and kerb. I'm still pretty skeptical we'll ever see safe full autonomous driving other than on motorways, and even then probably with some additional road infrastructure.
With free trades (now in everywhere) and fractional share purchases(robinhood), I think buying your own S&P500 fund would be possible with little capital ($1000?), and easy if your broker set up the software on their system to do that. I would not be surprised if robinhood already has this feature.
London, the most famous example of a surveillance city, sees far more crime than similar, privacy-conscious cities such as Berlin or Vancouver or Paris.

So surveillance is certainly no silver bullet. If you check the literature, you'll find that it tends to have modest benefits mostly on property crime, but some of that is simply moved to other areas.

Violent crime is decidedly rare these days. I guarantee you there is no city or town in the US today that is not far safer now than the US average in the 70s.

Of the remaining violence, murders are rarely committed by strangers. Just 11% in the US in 2016, for example. And those tend to be either mass shootings or otherwise psychologically disturbed individuals, who rarely care about capture.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/nyregion/killed-by-a-stra...
It seems difficult to crack down on removing the things. It sounds like they're easy enough to detach that even people who aren't the owner might steal them, or at least break into them for the unlimited SIM card.
No, actually that track record is not nearly as consistent as you seem to think. Many government projects throughout history have and continue to be very effective.
He talks about difference between level 4 and level 5 (4 - attainable, 5 - may never happen). This is a strange proposition in my book: level 4 is already good enough to bring a lot of value (taxis in a big city are level 4 afaiu), level 5 - ideal but who cares?
Not sure what you mean, tbh.
I expect private companies will be the ones providing the infrastructure for self driving cars, and your car will have to subscribe to a "awareness service provider", much the same way that your phone needs to subscribe to a carrier.
I am not denying that men have a stronger body than women (endurance is more debatable though). Part of this difference is biological (as noted by the table cited in the previous message, which, as you noted rightly, indeed underestimate the difference by focusing only on body size while it is true that men's bodies have more muscle than women's), and part of it is cultural (men do more physical works, more sports, etc).

Physical specialization is obvious to everyone and an "uncomfortable truth" to no one.

What makes me uncomfortable is how some men use these largely obsolete differences inherited from a time where childbearing was constraining our species so much more than today's world where this is a solved problem (like feeding or keeping ourselves warm) to justify that men with such stronger muscles must also have a better reasoning and therefore be better in STEM positions, or leading positions, at taking decisions, at leading people starting with heading a family, and so on. There is no evidence of this, neither factual nor anecdotal (actually, anecdotal evidence suggest a negative correlation between development of muscles and that of brain). This is just patriarchy, plain and old, aka the ideology behind which men hide their domination. A domination that is not justified by men having a better brain but merely by men trying to control women in order to control their body that they are so dependent of. And this is the real controversial topic in my opinion.

I'm not comfortable with this ideology despite being a man not only because I'm ashamed of it, but also as a father of a daughter whom I hope won't be limited in how she will experience life because the other half of the species try hard to maintain an obsolete domination, and I sincerely hope she will kick the ass of all ape-like men thinking that it is "absolutely undeniable" that more muscles means better brain.
> for someone continuing to use and maintain a Win XP Thinkpad T60, this is really cool news.

Less cool news: "SeaMonkey 2.49.5 will be the last version supporting Windows XP/Server 2003 and Vista/Server 2008." (https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/legacy)

Yep, the "let's drop everything which has been stabilised and working fine for 15 years" frenzy has reached them too :-(
Amazon decrypts them all to DRM-free files at the eleventh hour. Then individuals don't have a backup habit and so later end up losing their files anyway.
> This is better and more easily addressed by car sharing services like car2go than autonomous cars.

This is not the conclusion I would draw from car2go failing out of North America. They still had the problem that you are required to find a legal parking spot and there's no guarantee that there will be a car available anywhere near you. Taxis and private vehicles solve the latter and former respectively but they all suffer from the inefficiencies inherent to the system design.
What difference does the implementation language make?
I do not law enforcement should have a monopoly, I believe it should have access to communications in the same way it has access to someone's home or personal property: with a search warrant.

Thus one has privacy, except in specific circumstances.

In the same way, I believe people cannot own specific classes of weaponry, as is the legal case today. Is this a violation of the 2nd amendment? No rights are absolute. So yes it violates some absolutist conception of the Right, but this is necessary and unavoidable.

Everything must be balanced. Privacy, the right to bear Arms, free speech, all these are shaped by other interests.
If you'd build a genuinely smart city completely from scratch, the most elegant way would be to completely remove the need for own cars. But that's obviously not going to happen when its a project designed and financed by an automaker.
That's the point though, the Waymo car doesn't rely on gps, it's has HD maps on board. Plus is has dead reckoning because it's touching the ground, so it knows where it's moving.
how do you see insurance working? why would drivers be responsible to have insurance when the car is completely controlled by bigcorp programmers?
Caltech doesn't have legacy admits. They have a top notch reputation while Harvard somewhat unfairly has a reputation of being easy.
All of this discussion on smart infrastructure is moot, imho, because it won't be guaranteed to be there on all roads and cars will have to be designed to work even when the smart infrastructure breaks down.

So this means that self-driving cars will have to safely handle these cases and that also means that it is likely that cars will have to still be able to be driven manually.

Bottom line: self-driving cars will have to handle absence of smart infrastructure (in which case do we really need that infrastructure? I think we'll still need it, though, to guide and improve traffic)) and/or cars will continue to be driven manually at least some of the time.
Computer illiterate gets ripped off. News at 11.
That game has been around for decades. Patrick Bedard wrote about it in CARandDRIVER magazine once, it's called Mirror Tag.
The Unexpected Diversity of Pain
For the rest of the world this is a good thing.

Why would the United States be the one to decide if Germany is allowed to build a pipeline to Russia or not?

Image if it was Germany that used sanctions to prevent the US from building a pipeline to Mexico. Would you be ok with that?
Like some others in this thread I'll throw in my own shameless plug for `serve`: https://github.com/philippgille/serve

It's similar to the others mentioned here, with the nice extras that there's optional basic auth, optional HTTPS with automatic creation and use of a self-signed certificate, there are installers for most popular OS's package managers (snap, homebrew, scoop, chocolatey), tiny 2-5 MB zero-dependency binary and some other features.

I've had plans to add automatic Let's Encrypt certs, Onion service creation and reverse SSH functionality (either using one's own SSH server or one of the public ones) for a while and hope I'll get to them soon. Does anyone have any specific preferences for one of those or another feature specifically for the use case of serving files to another person as quickly as possible?
I would argue that signing beacon messages with a PKI infrastructure would migate that issue.
Umm, that is is point though - with autonomy the cars presumably won't break the law and stop where it's technically illegal for 30s to pick you up. They will presumably need to find somewhere legal to park to do so.
That's your opinion but anyway a Leaf will still emit when it's moving. Indirectly with the production of the energy, which can be very low in countries such as France or Norway, and directly with brakes dust even though the electric regen reduces that a lot, and particles from the tires.
Your brokerage software could make this easy. E-Trade could have a feature where you can buy/sell the S&P500, Russel2000, or total US index. You put in the total amount to invest and it does the rest.
Isn't this (grandfathering tactic) gaming the system? Like borderline fraud?
The article does say what Ton-That did violates most sites' TOS. It's now up to the sites to take legal action against him.
The car has GPS so surely knows what road it is driving on. Why can drivers even activate AP on any road besides highways?
For what it's worth you can find out a bit of background about UK companies - directors, submitted accounts etc - by using the website of Companies House. You can generally just search for "Company Name Companies House" and it'll bring up the company you're looking for.

Here's M247: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04968341

There's a reasonable amount of information about the company in their full accounts from March 2018 (PDF, 650K): https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04968341/filing-h...
They will just pick it up from whichever end is the drive side wheel, or they will 'break' into your car and put it in neutral. Depends on the tow business though, around me they only have flat bed haulers so they will just cable your car up and drag it on. Ideally also in neutral, but they would have no problem doing it even with a locked 4 wheel drive vehicle since the cable is lifting a bit up and the tow truck is many times heavier than any consumer vehicle and it isn't enough force at low speed to cause any damage.
Still better than humans, humans kill 3000 people using vehicles every day, and most of those aren't even trying
I've run drops to any place where I have a static device (a couple desktops, several Chromecasts, etc).