skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So all this study actually did was estimate roof coverage in Switzerland using a new method?

The figure is pretty easy to estimate anyway, but they used the Machine Learning OMG method?

> What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity?

What would be interesting if someone did some work and actually worked this out, no?

How would infrastructure change?
What backups would be needed?
Could surplus, if any, be used for anything?
Could you connect to other countries in new ways?
How would employment be effected?
Supply chains for materials?
Reflected and absorbed energy would change city heat sinks how?
Would smog change at all?
Adding capacity doesn't cause demand. "Induced" demand is just latent demand that became measurable when we reduced the backpressure in the system, and it ends as soon as we adequately serve all the latent demand we have. But that probably costs more per capita than a car, so we aren't voting to do it.
Aw, I quite liked the simple design of the old version.
Great article all around, worth reading as it's one of the only I've seen that are actually talking about disease progression and timeline. Some key info from the article:

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Caixin: Based on your clinical experience, what's the disease progression of the new coronavirus?

Peng: Lately I've been spending the daytime seeing patients in the ICU, then doing some research in the evenings. I just wrote a thesis. I drew on data from 138 cases that South Central Hospital had from Jan 7 to Jan 28 and attempted to summarise some patterns of the novel coronavirus.

A lot of viruses will die off on their own after a certain amount of time. We call these self-limited diseases.

I've observed that the breakout period of the novel coronavirus tends to be three weeks, from the onset of symptoms to developing difficulties breathing. Basically going from mild to severe symptoms takes about a week. There are all sorts of mild symptoms: feebleness, shortness of breath, some people have fevers, some don't. Based on studies of our 138 cases, the most common symptoms in the first stage are fever (98.6 per cent of cases), feebleness (69.6 per cent), cough (59.4 per cent), muscle pains (34.8 per cent), difficulties breathing (31.2%), while less common symptoms include headaches, dizziness, stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting.

But some patients who enter the second week will suddenly get worse. At this stage, people should go to the hospital. The elderly with underlying conditions may develop complications; some may need machine-assisted respiration. When the body's other organs start to fail, that's when it becomes severe, while those with strong immune systems see their symptoms decrease in severity at this stage and gradually recover. So the second week is what determines whether the illness becomes critical.

The third week determines whether critical illness leads to death. Some in critical condition who receive treatment can raise their level of lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, and see an improvement in their immune systems, and have been brought back, so to speak. But those whose lymphocyte numbers continue to decline, those whose immune systems are destroyed in the end, experience multiple organ failure and die.

For most, the illness is over in two weeks, whereas for those for whom the illness becomes severe, if they can survive three weeks, they're good. Those that can't will die in three weeks.

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Whole thing is worth reading.
First, you shouldn't set the time manually. There's sntp/NTP and whatever windows protocol is.

Second, you should never leave the certificate replacement till the last moment. Even the 3-months certs should be rotated a month before expiry for safety. If your clock is a month off, that's not something the website can help with.
The https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/puzmZFQGRTiiquwLa6tT-g/confere...

article linked by someone above is quite a good antidote to the worries
The fed is also responsible for making ghidra. Not everyone working for the fed is a lawyer.
That's fair. Is it, inequitable of me, to expect someone to describe something that excites them?
The story that I always remember is that TMNT is based roughly on Daredevil

In Daredevil, Matt Murdoch pushes an old man out of the way of a truck that contains chemicals that blind him but give him superhuman abilities. He is then trained by his mentor Stick the fight against The Hand.

In TMNT, there is an incident that involves chemicals getting into a sewer that transforms the turtles as well as the rat that is with them. That rat is named Splinter, and he trains the turtles to fight against The Foot.

Also no particular point aside from my own amusement!
We're you staying in Long Beach? That line was down for 9 months for a complete renovation.
The issue isn't finding more engineers, the issue would be the sudden loss of institutional knowledge, the paralysis while trying to maintain basic functionality, and the distinct possibility of critical, catastrophic failure due to broken processes from missing people. What's the chances that the 20% of employees who don't show up include everyone needed to prevent a failure of Google's entire Ads product?

When say, the teachers go on strike in Chicago, it's not that it's impossible to hire new teachers, it's that someone in the meantime of negotiation has to watch over (and ideally educate) all of the kids that those teachers are responsible for teaching.

Wherever you work, try to imagine a random 1 out of every 5 employees missing one day. How likely are you (and everyone else still there) likely to run into problems conducting your general work. And imagine that that is going to continue until your company manages to interview, vet, hire, onboard, and train all of those people back.

...Or, the corporation could just capitulate to demands. Collective action is incredibly powerful.
NYC could probably do that if the state and federal governments would fund it. But taking the bus example: NYC Transit is broke and cutting service every year. Currently a good chunk of the buses in service are 30+ years old. Replacing the entire fleet in 5 years? Fuhgeddaboudit.
Try Caixin https://www.caixinglobal.com/news/ the english version.

I have closed friend work there and speak highly about the integrtity of their reporting and the content I am reading seems aligned to that.
so now you have to install a specific python version for your script to work?
What phone? If they don’t have the parts, what do you expect them to do?
You don't escape the minotaur, you slay it.
It doesn't fail on 72.0.2 which is the latest stable.

Do you mean on nightly?
Ever consider that she gets higher ratings because shes a woman?
Boeing's botched Starliner test flirted with 'catastrophic' failure, NASA finds
Shameless self-plug: I blog about React, interaction/animation, and remote work. It's a bit of a pot pourri, but people seem to like it!

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/
Delhi faces a water crisis. Its residents have turned to the mafia and murder
The bodies are all being incinerated.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/chi...
Culver City to Santa movie is 15 to 20 min by rail.

Santa Monica is 45 to 55 min from downtown by rail, depending on game traffic.
https://www.staticfire.site
Apple has made this mistake about seven different times, the earliest being with Sherlock on OS9. Mixing local file search with Internet search solves no problem and causes chaos. The use cases for the two kinds of search are very different and users prefer using different tools for these jobs. Just stop doing this, Apple and Microsoft.
I started posting weeknotes a few months ago and it's really helped me get back into the habit of posting at least once a week: https://simonwillison.net/

Weeknotes archive here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/weeknotes/
Metro rail runs at a much lower voltage afaik.
Tell HN: EasyPrivacy list claims to block all tracking but has many exceptions
They firewalled 123 but not 80? I’m not a cybersecurity authority, but that seems insane.
> kids are an entirely deterministic and preventable outcome.

You may not want kids, but you can't choose not to want kids.
Why did it work on Bing then?
You're being down voted by people with no actual experience using LA metro rail.

It does take a long time to get from Santa Monica to Pasadena by rail due to the multiple transfers. They're working to make that a single transfer and the new line alignments should start in 2 to 3 years.
View from the Top: Craig Federighi [video]
> Please try to be charitable online

I do. I think you misread the comment you replied to in an uncharitable way if you arrived at the conclusion that your subsequent reply was responsive.

> Nobody can give 100% of the context needed to satisfy everyone that might be reading it.

That was never the criticism. Your response is a non sequitur.
PRoot: A user-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc
I also assumed that the death rate was lower due to under-diagnosis of mild cases -- until a few hours ago when I asked a few questions to someone with connections to Wuhan.

The response indicated that the deaths were likely significantly under-reported, as in: not counting the people dying while waiting to get into the hospital, or who never make it there. Plausible since there is both no incentive to report higher rates than confirmed, and not a lot of spare bandwidth to test cases already lost.

The real question now is which is more under-reported, cases or deaths. Either way, reading here details of the mechanism of death, it is far too virulent and deadly for complacency.

Looks like the prevailing approach is a very healthy Normalcy Bias.
Containers marked in liters are very common in America, but every once in a while you'll run into some loud-mouthed boomer who starts feigning metric ignorance in a bizarre quasi-patriotic display, often while badmouthing the French. I believe that avoiding this nuisance is the primary reason why imperial volume units are still used at all.
Facial Recognition Moves into a New Front: Schools
I’ve noticed this as well. Searching for Iowa caucus for instance gave me a ton of news sites, twitter hits, ads and then far down the page the Iowa Democrats site, still not even the caucus results page. Good for as revenue, bad for searching for data.
Because companies aren't spending millions of dollars, hiring specialists and tweaking their content in every which way to get to the front page of Bing.com results.
The delay is entirely due to private businesses that failed to properly disclose active utility lines. The work to reroute those lines resulted in a 2 year delay.
It says my mac is off by nearly a full second, and sntp from the command line agrees.

2020-02-07 20:49:08.720955 (+0800) +0.949762 +/- 0.732397 pool.ntp.org 108.59.2.24 s2 no-leap

Why is the clock discipline on macos so bad?

ETA: my local linux box by contrast is off by 1ms.

2020-02-07 20:54:23.770052 (+0800) +0.000570 +/- 0.019234 pool.ntp.org 50.205.244.108 s2 no-leap
Californians were conserving because the state government told them to everywhere, higher rates were their reward for listening. All so the state could have an easier time dealing out water to big business. The state is basically a bunch of rich interests surfing on a wave of gullibility.
As I stated in my original post I understand the musician not knowing the difference; however, a professional reporter not knowing the difference or being able to do enough journalistic research to discover the difference is unacceptable.

I didn't say that the musician faked the damage to his instrument. That is something you read into my comments.

It is the reporters job to do actual journalism and discover the complete story as best they can. If a reporter can't even figure out which agencies are involved how can I trust that they have done anything to accurately reflect the whole story.
Read it as one would read italics. It helps, most of the time. Unless the person is really cuckoo, then it just makes it sillier.
There are some other kind of servers that someone may wish to install, with or without RPN, such as:

- Mail server

- NNTP server

- Gopher server

- HTTP server

- IRC server

I don't know what the reverse proxy network is capable of.
But it is also plausible that if an indefinite strike was on the agenda only 1% of them had joined the walkout instead of 20%, making them easier to let go.
I dunno if "technology [will] solve it"... We'll have droughts, famine, and 16k 8g streaming VR porn.

We already have the capability to solve it (we created it), it's just not profitable enough to start trying yet. Or at least it will be unfathomably more profitable when people are faced with life or death situations.
A New Nonprofit Is Betting on Psychedelic Therapy
Oh wow no ads. This by itself is good enough for me to switch.
This seems like an American persecution complex more than anything else. Americans and their corporations seem to think that regulation is persecution.
Except that in the 90's you didn't have hardware from 15 years prior that was still generally usable for baseline tasks. Nobody was running Linux on their old ZX Spectrums or Commodore PET's! In fact, running an up-to-date Linux with mainstream features (GUI) was only for relatively high-class hardware.
Joey Hess: http://joeyh.name/

Lives out in the sticks and codes embedded stuff in Haskell, usually to automate his life in the backwoods of East Tennessee.
> If I’m troubleshooting by logging into EC2 instances, there is something wrong with my logging infrastructure.

I suppose it's possible to build enough logging to account for an interactive SSH session for debugging problems...but that would be massive.

I ran out of disk space. Why?
He gave another example which I think is more illustrative -- Overwatch. There it's clear he's referring to 95%ile of people who play Overwatch, not any video games, and even less so everyone on Earth. My guess is, though, that he would include the people who play the casual modes in Overwatch, not just the competitive modes.
How are you solving the travel problem in the 1m scenario? I’m assuming airports are the last place you want to be.
> It's what an inch is in metric, rounded down.

I'm pretty sure your parent was asking: why that particular height? 1 inch seems wildly arbitrary.

And if the height is arbitrary, why the hate for the Vaporfly? What is the technical reason for setting the limit so as to exclude the shoe?
I do get rid of my own things from time to time, but I also get new things much less frequently than she does.
Would be interesting to see something ala https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes in regards to the variations on recipes on standard recipe “tropes” like Mac and cheese.

Not sure the mediawiki format is great for this however.
You can disrupt ecosystems without ending the world ("life finds a way").

The logic in your linked article is a bit specious; certain species eat mosquito larvae, so without mosquitoes they won't have food, and the species eating them won't have food, and so on. But nothing is actually static, there would be some dynamic adjustment (arguably, hard to predict). Species will find something else to snack on.

In fact you could argue that those species eating mosquito larvae are detrimental to mosquitoes! Maybe they're preventing something else from happening by eating them before they develop.
‘Dark Arts’ and ‘Codebreaker’: The Origins of the Houston Astros Cheating Scheme
I think the government has the right to identify someone and know their citizenship status.

There are tragic consequences to unlawful entry. If one of these people were to get sick, who is the next of kin? Do they contact the consulate for their country?

Well - it's offensive to even ask for citizenship. But proper procedure would be to reach out to the consulate in their country for help.

Having the surveillance tools and infrastructure in place is analogous to having fire hydrants. We don't use them all the time, but they're there when it counts. However:

> doesn’t include cellular phone tower data, is not ingested in bulk and doesn’t include the individual user’s identity,”

> People familiar with some of the efforts say it is used to generate investigative leads about possible illegal border crossings and for detecting or tracking migrant groups.

The thing I'm a bit concerned about is people tend to view turning their head from illegal border crossings as if it's a form of charity or humanity. Asylum are supposed to go to the port of entry and declare asylum and begin their process in immigration court.

Here's why I'm skeptical of illegal border crossers being assumed asylum seekers:

If it were me and I were in a dangerous situation in South America/anywhere else seeking asylum in US, I'd be going to the US embassy closest to me and giving them a dossier about myself, my life, my hopes and dreams and fears, my passport, about how I love love love USA, baseball and Tom Cruise (heh), family photos, my DNA sample and fingerprints, my birth certificate. I am there to demonstrate I am waiting in line, I am who I am, and at the very least, you know me. I'd let them know to expect me at X date, at X port, And I'd arrive at port of entry in USA.

It's not known for the unlawful entrant is - a terrorist, spy, drug trafficker, carrying prohibited wildlife / plants / etc. or someone just dodging a custom fee. What other choice does the gov have? What are they supposed to think? How can it be done better?
My Windows 10 was off by 3.3sec and just checked when it was last sync (12hours ago).

Did the resync and now just off by 0.08sec
I was quoting the article, but I agree with your point.
It probably isn't the salesperson's fault. Many managers harangue their staff into selling all those "add-ons" as that is where the profit is. Most managers get a bonus for reaching profit targets.
Not OP, but I wrote a book for Packt.

1) They had very aggressive deadlines that I missed consistently without consequence.

2) Their editors were not native speakers of English, and introduced a ton of grammatical errors that people complained about to me.

3) They published the wrong version of a chapter.

4) They randomly decided one day to stop paying me royalties "because PayPal takes too much commission" or something.

It wasn't all bad, though. They did give me a pretty reasonable advance (at least compared to just writing documentation for free), and they did get good technical reviewers.

This was ~10 years ago, so things might have changed.
The Danger of Befriending Celebrities
These are known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_coordinates and are a pretty old technique. Although the wiki lists process control as one of the major users, their history has them as dormant until revived in their modern form in the 1960s, which doesn't quite match your timeline. Perhaps the discrepancy is resolved by whether parallel axes were used as a equation solving aid versus a visualization aid?

They're also not outdated, you can find them in many libraries, like highcharts here: https://www.highcharts.com/docs/chart-and-series-types/paral...

Excellent technical coverage is: Parallel Coordinates for Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Geometry, from 1987 at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-4-431-68057-4_...

Wikipedia links to this 1880 chart: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3...
Regarding the Pain of Oprah
It goes both ways. If someone is not hired because they aren’t good enough, it’s always possible to say it was ageism.
Several weeks already. How long does this super highly infectious disease take to spread outside of China? You have to wonder the claims made on transmission at this stage.
That was always my impression of the flu, until this year. My husband, infant daughter, and myself all came down with the flu within 3 days of each other. The infant had been vaccinated, while my husband and I were not. The infant and husband were confirmed via a nose swab to have the flu, while we just inferred that I got it since we all had classic flu symptoms.

Despite not being vaccinated, my husband was feeling 80% better within three days and fully recovered within four days. He was miserable for the first two days, but still not the level of ‘got hit by a truck’ that I remember from previous cases. I took five days to recover and also had relatively mild symptoms - it was undeniably different from a common cold (muscle soreness, chills and night sweats, fatigue) but I wouldn’t have thought it was the flu if the rest of my family wasn’t infected. My daughter seemed to be recovered within 48 hours, though she later contracted pneumonia. Even that was managed within 24 hours of starting amoxicillin and a nebulizer.

This post has gotten pretty long, but my point is that, for whatever reason, we came down with a flu that wasn’t nearly as bad as the norm. Even the doctors were skeptical until the test results came back.
MIN()imum Failure: EMFI Attacks Against USB Stacks [pdf]
Downtown, Santa Monica, Culver City, Pasadena, long Beach, and Hollywood. So the important 2%.
I noticed that too. I think it's because the buses are 3 stripes long instead of 4.

After I changed the "--bus" CSS variable from 30px to 40px, I got the stepping effect.
Re EU data sovereignty can't the London devs just ssh to a server in Europe rather than somewhere else? Server location these days seems mostly just a matter of clicking some button when you set the thing up.
Fair enough! I meant there are not many options other than Thinkpads and some business models from Dell or HP. Even an expensive consumer grade laptop will have all sorts of driver issues.
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9430838
Its been several weeks already people are infected in several countries. Yet no sign of pandemic outside of China. I dont know what other facts you need.
The Poke Paradox
I expect any process to be "honest."

Apple is not fundamentally honest.
Your body weight should be supported by your hamstrings, not your lower back. You should feel a little strain in your thighs.
All those extras are how they make a profit.

After doing my research I often end up buying "bargains" at those types of stores. The hassle is the inconvenience I endure in order to get the loss leaders. Of course, I don't take it personally and politely decline.

It seems to me that the salespersons in those types of stores are minimum wage, untrained staff subjected to draconian managers.
Money Is an Iron: Oscar Movies, 2020
I used to read Joel's Joel on Software a lot. Also, Graham's . Another hidden jewel is the Elias Daler's blog.

Edit: I have to add Steve Corona's blog to the list. He's more on the motivation and guidance side. Everyone gonna hear and read stories about people getting straight out of their college with a six-figure job, working for SV startups. But the truth is, you're more likely to struggle, a lot, specially if you live outside of the developed world. Instead of success, Steve's story is of one who dropped out of the college at 19 and had to sleep in his car for while.
It uses a (slightly modified) Linux kernel, yes, although its user land is decidedly not GNU or particularly Unix-like.
I Used Dark Web Ransomware to Sabotage My Boss
Well now I have to watch Gleaming The Cube.
I definitely don’t know as much about batteries as you clearly do but yes, the phone will return to normal clock speed after a battery change. It keeps being reported as “older phones” but it’s really more like older batteries.
It is not lawful to refuse a Congressional subpoena [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress-subpoe...
It only requires thread-safety for stuff that's actually being shared across threads. Which is even more important since it means you're not paying for thread safety via reduced performance where it isn't needed.