skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real nice that there is no bulk turn-off feature. Giant pain to click through a few hundred sites to block future activity. But I suppose that's the point, right? To make it as difficult as possible for users to block this kind of oh-shit creepy behavior.
I love this quote:
Hydro pumped storage is “astoundingly efficient…In this future world where we want renewables to get 20%, 30%, or 50% of our electricity generation, you need pumped hydro storage. It’s an incredible opportunity.”
– U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu in 2009. Still true today.

And actually, we think that 80-85% round trip is more accurate for our projects because we'll use the latest/greatest tech (variable-speed reversible francis style pump/generator turbines). I think the 70% from these figures is citing older projects with pump/turbines that were not quite as efficient.
I don't mind them at all. If Paul writes anything, I want to know about it. So please upvote so it gets to my attention.

Also note that Pauls blog is blazingly fast and does not have ADs/Cookie Conent/Tracking madness. I don't click Medium links anymore b/c all that bloat + crap.
With blogs like this, I am back to HN in less than 5 seconds if I don't like the content.
I liked it. Correlating the feeling of hunger vs abundant food leading to being overweight against the desire to know as much as everyone else. That worked for me, yes it's common sense, but sometimes it helps to have things spelled out clearly for you to have a small epiphany about yourself.
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Clojure's normal transducerless lazy sequences are fine for early-terminating sequences.. mostly. They're fine as long as you are ok with realizing up to 31 extra items.

http://clojure-doc.org/articles/language/laziness.html#lazy-...
I like seeing that people like pg can have the same feelings that I do, reminding me that everyone is human.
Can you not forward email from Gmail to ProtonMail?
Regardless, use them in tandem and start moving every service over one by one. That is what I did and after a few months, no more Gmail.. and I am very happy that I made the move.
An old man once told me, "Stay busy, stay happy."

So far, I've found it to be true (as long as the work can be rewarding).
That experience contradicts the EPA and Dickinson college (which had radiation monitoring equipment) who did not detect elevated levels of radioactivity.

They also sampled wildlife from the vicinity afterwards and found no evidence of radiation.
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Hmm, I don't use pi-hole, just uBlock Origin and Firefox containers, and they've only tracked three minor things, probably when I had some problems with my phone and uBlock wasn't working right.

So how were they able to track so much about you? Do you have the Facebook or Whatsapp app on your phone? Or is this just the difference that they track much more in the US than in Europe?
I built that [1] with it. Getting somehting playable was incredibly fast (but I guess that's not different from unity), and I have not hit any major roadblocks yet. Development was rather smooth. The fact that the hand tracking was supported even before it was supported in Unreal Engine (as far as I know) is also a major plus. A big shout out to Holger Dammertz who did the work on that.

[1] www.vrworkout.at
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Large farms move their crops in larger, more efficient vehicles. The efficiency offsets, to some degree, the distance.

You also are conflating organic and polyculture farming. Most organic farming is monoculture and much of it is industrial.
> While its easy to point at Facebook and say "they are so creepy" - this sounds like the type of challenge every marketing department faces. "What is the attribution of X,Y,Z ad campaigns?"

That can still be creepy. (If you're meaning that the accusation of "creepy" should be directed at modern marketing in general and not just Facebook, yes, I'd agree with that, though a good part of how we got here is large centralized aggregators like Facebook.)

I think there are plenty of non-advertising contexts where "using people's data to influence their behavior more effectively" can easily cross from normal to creepy as you start collecting more data. If you give your SO a certain flower because you remember a conversation the two of you had a while ago about that flower, that's normal and even thoughtful. If you give your SO a certain flower because you hired people to follow them before you even started dating and you got a report that they always stopped to admire a certain flower on their walk to work, that's creepy.
The last several years it seems I've encountered a lot less abrasive, condescending superior-intellect types. In the past I've worked with people with egos the size of the Sun. I've been wondering if I've just been lucky recently, or if there's just less of them out there.

Then again, it could just be that I've learned to tolerate various personalities better as I've gotten older.
Me: working full time just to make ends meet, not a lot of time for college and don't want to take on more than a year of my income as student loan debt that will take a decade or more to pay off.

Convicted criminal: all the free time, working on masters degree (possibly considerably subsidized, if not for free as there are various programs that provide college courses for free to inmates).

Good for them I guess. Rehabilitation is truly a great thing, doesn't make it sting any less though. I play by the rules and have to struggle to attempt to get ahead, they break the rules to the point of being ordered to live in a cage for a period of time and are afforded the opportunity of unlimited studying time and degree programs.

And before someone says "but their crime will make it hard for them to get a job" so does my bankruptcy from 7ish years ago. Anything dealing with money and companies won't touch you with a bankruptcy and anything requiring a security clearance wont touch you either.
I totally understand the draw. No need for equipment, and works on any platform, everywhere. Steam streaming was an interesting game-changer for me, until I gave on it, due to performance concerns. You could play it in every room, on any machine, and it worked pretty darn well; I was impressed.
I like to use the 3-2-1 rule. At least 3 copies, in at least 2 different forms (i.e. cloud and a hard drive at home), and at least 1 of which is off-site.
very successful people tend to either like what they do or at least enjoy being busy. it's not really about getting more money, although if you enjoy business, money is one of the main indicators of success.
Yup. They promised to phase coal out later and phased nuclear out today. Literalling killing a few thousand per year by air pollution while they're at it. It's a great anti-scientific tragedy of our times due to fear of radiation and inability to judge actuarial statistics correctly.
I'd really like it to be the case but that requires an indexing algorithm where usefulness as a metric is defined as an objectively quantifiable property of a page. Is there such algorithm?

None of the search engines I use can do that on every kind of content out there. Google works well for software development related stuff and last minute news. Bing is good for video search. Yandex hardly ever censors pirated content which is useful in that niche. DDG works like a lottery where sometimes it is the best among all, but sometimes it shows garbage.
Finally some common sense. I’m also somewhat impressed that it “only” took 3 years from the initial lawsuit to reaching this precedent. I expected this to go on for a lot more time.
and do what?

This is what makes him feel alive and purposeful.

If you're suggesting he sit on a beach and sip margarita, people like him can't do that for a long time without feeling the opposite of alive.
Imagine signing in the hacker news with only a username and no password... That's what credit card numbers are. Passwords / pins aren't even a good solution either: some sort of pki/cryptographic signatures are.
> writing from his climate controlled room surrounded by concrete for miles in any direction.

What does this have to do with genetic engineering?

I'm not worried about killer moths, obviously. But as we've seen in the past, eradicating a species can have surprising effects on the whole ecosystem. Take the extermination of wolves in the Yellowstone park for example: https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wolf-reintroduc...

Getting rid of the moths is only a patch on a deeper problem. Like every patch, it's only going to move the problem, and possibly create others.

The issue with GE is that we're not merely talking about concrete. Concrete doesn't move, doesn't reproduce. Living beings do so, and sometimes a lot faster than we expect.

There's already so many changes going on at the moment with climate change. Insect populations are changing, birds migrate, crustaceans' shells dissolve in the ocean. There's no telling the consequences of GE for anything. And once it starts to be a mess, there's very little we can do to control it.
>To offset this people can be paid to bring up a child that their parents cannot afford, this works great as the people who raise the other parents children are less likely to have children themselves.

You didn't think that through. They are less likely to have children because they have decided against children. A female lawyer isn't going to give up her career to take care of other people's children. She has much better options.

What may happen is that poor people get their children taken away and sent to another poor family that now gets paid for taking care of the child. It's basically a very "unorthodox" form of childcare/adoption without class mobility.
I changed careers and at 40 something I'm a noob again.

It can be frustrating not knowing and I'll go down the path of analysis paralysis and procrastination sometimes. I'm a bit prone to that as in my previous career I kinda had things down pretty solidly.

But I try to embrace it. Is this the right code here? No better way to find out than try things and see what happens....if it doesn't work, well I'm a noob, that is going to happen. (obviously these are somewhat educated / calculated risks, not just random)

I like it. There's a freedom in not worrying if you're doing it right all the time and recognizing that doing it wrong is ok provided you learn.
Will still not work for email providers who servers are located in Russia.
IANAL - but also ran afoul of LinkedIns data scraping blocks (and got a cease and desist letter) but what they said was it was a violation of the TOS.

This decision doesn’t seem to affect that?
Actual title is "Sort Pandas Dataframe and Series".

A better link for "Sorting Data with Python" is https://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting , which is the "Sorting Mini-HOW TO".
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)
Show HN: I wrote a book on Practical Evolutionary Algorithms in Python notebooks
This cluster is pretty spectacular: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=DarkFuturology

Edit: oh wow: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=Jung
it doesn't look like from this post that web scraping is authenticated to be a legal activity, it's more of what can be scraped by a bot and what cannot.
> They need to be changed often, they use lots of concrete (especially for wind turbines), they need lots of materials and have a quite low power factor (10-20%).

How many tonnes of concrete per megawatt do wind turbines use, and how many do nuclear power plants use? Solar plants used to use a lot of concrete, but they no longer do.

"Power factor" is an attribute of electrical loads, not electrical generating equipment; it describes how far the load's current consumption deviates from the perfect in-phase sine wave of, say, a resistor. Perhaps you meant "capacity factor", the ratio of average power produced to peak power produced. Typical capacity factors for wind turbines are in the vicinity of 35%, although some offshore wind farms reach 60%. Photovoltaic plants typically have a capacity factor of around 25%, though in sunny places like Arizona and California it can exceed 30%. In the US, the lowest PV capacity factors are in Maine, which averages 12%. Germany's average PV capacity factor is 10%. Natural gas peakers are around 9%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor

I've already thoroughly demolished this nonsense about "need to be changed often" in the case of photovoltaic panels. I don't know what wind turbine lifetimes are. Shorter, I imagine, but they still have a much higher ERoEI than PV or in fact any other power source.
Not to mention that the content of the blog is developer focused.

How would his techniques perform if he were writing about consumer goods such as quadcopters or coffee makers?
I think noob (short for 'new boy' where I come from) just means that you're new to an institution, like a school, or today an open source community. It doesn't imply anything to do with competence.
For those of us 9th visual impairments the larger display and ability to place that display at the correct position for our vision is crucial.

Also the portability is nice. I can keep it in a backpack and use it within a second. Laptops are not really designed for that.

Now I wish Alex would make the Pro have some Pro features like letting us decide which background apps to keep alive
I like this post. There are Socratic echoes here: "I know that I know nothing", though pg is making a different point. It seems cliche and low effort but often times deep truths ARE cliched. The older I get, the more okay I am with embracing my lack of knowledge in a domain. Now I see it more as a potential first step in future mastery.
Billionaire says a bunch of obvious shit, people lap it up as revelatory information, that’s on my corporate America bingo sheet somewhere.
related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
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Just pointing out that green tea isn't caffeine free. I don't consume caffeine, which means I can't have black, white, green teas, in addition to other stuff. Caffeine-free teas are generally herbal teas such as chamomile, peppermint, etc.
What is this? I only get a login prompt. I don't have a fb account.

Would s/o mind explaining what this is all about.
If you have played poker for 40 years, why not just stop.

What the hell is wrong with poker players? They know they can't buy more time in this life. Same with all the psycho bowlers in bowling alleys. Why not give someone else a chance Boomers?
>No, it was sarcastically reducing the argument to an absurdity.

No, it was just a snark with no point. Reductio ad absurdum is a totally different mechanism.

Besically you just shifted the goalposts from the original claim that you're locked to Apple's platforms if you use Apple TV music.

to,

[it might be available on other platforms] but it's not FOSS, haha

when it was pointed to you that your original claim is false and Apple TV is available for platforms like Roku and Samsung.

The rest, accusing the parent of trolling, is just rude. He provided a counter-argument with actual information (that Apple TV is also available in Samsung and Roku).
TLDR: content is king
The livestream comments are just fascinating. For some reason live chat brings out the worst in people.

It's also amazing how inneficient the whole construction medium is with human resources.
Everytime I see construction going I see most of people are literally doing _nothing_ and it's not like their lazy - human resource distribution just sucks.
illegal, sure. But let's say there are some very bad actors involved... would it be possible? People have been known to do illegal things in finance and have tried to cover their tracks in the past.
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
Linkedin is taking this to the Supreme Court: https://www.law360.com/articles/1237505/linkedin-will-go-to-...

No ultimate decision was ever made, and no, this doesn't make web scraping 100% legal. Wake me up when there's a new announcement because anyone interested in this already know this old news.
Wonder if this means more native apps that are harder to scrap and less websites from companies that don’t want their data scrapped.
Yep, shoot me a mail :) Or see https://ipinfo.io/corrections
I will add on to this that you can get enough vitamin D via diet, whereas exposure to sunlight is one of the primary contributors to aging.
Just insure your 1995 honda civic with 300k miles that's been stuck in the garage because you are not legally allowed to drive because of vision loss. I was amazed that they didn't care about my condition, and pushed me up to a senior warranty specialist that hung up on me when I asked " and where are you located sunny" in my oldest voice possible. Waste as much of their time as possible.
Lenny rocks. The current record in our office is 13:47 - we couldn't believe it either.
There's a great book by Truesdell, named "An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science". According to Truesdell, the initial meaning of the word "idiot" was one who does not have preconceived ideas.

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781461381877
This is how we ended up with a bunch of rich but ignorant people calling the shots.
The SSN scam has a valid callback number.
I loved the tone of this article. The parts where it says things like "Bastiaan did this, Yuri did that..." is what I always want to see in these kind of technology news.
We make sure everyone in our Scout Troop has the knowledge to find or build shelter, start and maintain a fire, and have basic wilderness survival skills in all seasons. You can relax when the zombie apocalypse comes: just look for the geeky kids wearing a necker and woggle to lead you to salvation.

Perhaps the Neanderthal had a similar organization? There's a reason why they survived longer than modern Sapiens have been around.
> Now many site owners are trying to put technical obstacles to competitors who completely copy their information that is not protected by copyright. For example, ticket prices, product lots, open user profiles, and so on. Some sites consider this information “their own”, and consider web scraping as “theft”. Legally, this is not the case, which is now officially enshrined in the US.

Does this mean we can now scrape e.g. YouTube videos, Amazon reviews, IMDB reviews, Facebook events ... ?
Is your test supposed to work on real humans too? :o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDlS6JPUtE
I think his assertion is that Newton did feel like a noob. I tend to think pg's right. He's done novel enough things that he has an informed view. My experience with novel though less significant investigation and problem solving shows the same.
There's nothing inherently preventing any of these things from working on Wayland. I mean yes, the protocol (and its implementations) are meant to disallow programs from seeing each others pixels and input events by default and/or without authorization, which isn't a stupid idea at all. But you can certainly implement screenshots, video capturing, automatic input, screen sharing and whatever in Wayland compositors. I think Sway implements most of these things, in fact.

(FWIW, X11's approach to program isolation isn't ideal for everything, either. The same things that make it so convenient to automate mouse and keyboard input make it very hard to write a good screen locker, for example.)

Whether or not we'll see free (as in freedom and beer) compositors that conveniently implement all these things is a whole different story. A lot of XFree86's (and later Xorg's) feature set was developed by well-paid teams of experienced engineers, who benefited from a lot of work done by other well-paid teams on other platforms, and the architecture and licensing of the whole thing meant that everyone could benefit from their work. That's not really the case with Wayland. There's actually a lot of work, and a lot of money being poured into Wayland compositors. Lots of car infotainment systems run one, for example, and Wayland support has been pretty much a standard requirement for virtually every BSP I've worked on in the last four years. But most of that work is very system-specific, platform-specific, and its substantial part -- the code -- never gets upstreamed, because "upstream" is just a protocol spec. A lot of the Wayland protocol has been standardized that way, but it's still up to every compositor to implement it.

There's some hope due to projects like wlroots and Drew de Vault, its lead developer, is one of those people who seem like they can pull anything off. (Oh yeah: https://drewdevault.com/donate/ ). But -- unlike twenty years ago -- there's very little commercial backing for Linux on the desktop. I don't know if the FOSS community will be able to keep up with these things.
This is only information related to Google services or approved third-party apps, no? I was hoping there was a service showing what apps communicated with my Goolge account without any explicit notification or permission.
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Thanks, I changed the title accordingly.
MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983
Maybe...still 66% every single year for 20+ years is odd. Since there's so much money involved, nothing stops funds to invest tens of billions to duplicate their success.
Do you want to know about it because he’s a billionaire that might fund your hot dog recognition app or because he’s said anything particularly revelatory?

Because I for one and sick and tired of wealth worship in this country.

The post is not interesting and shouldn’t be on the front page.
As a teenager I frequently saw the way someone did something and assumed that person was stupid, now as an adult I understand how that person's domain of expertise may be very different from mine and I'm less likely to judge.
Deceiving headline, here's the real transaction:

> Berkshire is lending Lee $576 million at a 9% annual rate for the purchase and to refinance other debt.
Good thing they're not a lawyer after all.
Yes you can scrape them, no you cannot repubilsh them. Everything you listed is protected by copyright. You cannot infringe on copyrights because of this ruling.

>hiQ argued that LinkedIn’s technical measures to block web scraping interfere with hiQ’s contracts with its own customers who rely on this data. In legal jargon, this is called” malicious interference with a contract”, which is prohibited by American law

Does this mean that Google's random recaptcha check is interference?
That's practically a tautological argument though. People who don't like expending a lot of effort on certain things will necessarily have less success at performing said things.

And people will also necessarily have different preferences on how to spend their time and energy, and different amounts of time and energy as well.

Would also like to point out that "sitting on a beach forever" is not the negation of spending all your time an energy on solving the problems that the capitalist economy rewards.

There's plenty of people out there who have a passion for things that aren't expected to earn money, but for whom the best option for actually making money is something that's quite boring.
As of 2013, at least Macy's. https://lifehacker.com/how-retail-stores-track-you-using-you...
I didn't say do what they say, or let them push you around. Just let them act how they want to act, and then go with what you know. Why does it matter to me if someone acts superior about a topic if I have my own confidence in what I know?
Anyone who wants to do this: Make sure that you also opt out your virtual card numbers (such as Apple Pay or Android Pay).

Also, the opt-out of each number is only honored for FIVE years after which you need to opt-out again.
Youtube videos are definitely protected by copyright, though.
The important thing when breaking backwards compatability is that it can be:

- automatically done

- isolated within a module

As long as these are true, the issues caused by breaking compatability are minimal.

It's really the Python model where it's all-or-nothing and you de-facto need to remain compatible with two releases as everyone transitions that's the problem.