skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Renewables will never be competitive in a market that they dominate because they are intermittent and you can't just turn a city off because it's cloudy and calm. Nuclear power is the only solution but decades of delusion have made it impossible to build anywhere.

This is simply wrong.

Firstly, renewables plus transmission reduce the intermittentcy problem enormously. China has multiple 2000km+ transmission lines already working, and preliminary work has started on a 3800km transmission line from Australia to Singapore[1].

Combine that with comparatively small amounts of short term storage (eg, batteries), as much long term storage (eg pump hydro) as possible and fill the rest with gas generation (around 30% of the CO2 output of coal or oil) and you have a generation mix that is very quick to build, competitive with coal on price and dramatically cheaper than nuclear.

[1] https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/singapore-power-retaile...
Yeah, one is objective, the other is so subjective it depends not only who you ask but when and how you ask it.
Hopefully I understand your problem correctly...

You can use window functions to do things like dense rank, rank, percentiles, etc on each parameter in order to normalize the data. E.g., this one is at the 63rd percentile in size, 20th in distance, etc. This doesn't work so well if you have lots of 0s in your data.

Or you can find the min and max of each and divide by the max. This one is 42% of max, etc.

In each case you're trying to normalize diff parameters to represent something comparable (x/max, percentile, etc) so you can combine them. You can also do intermediate operations like take the logs or take the z score if you're trying to muffle the effects of outliers.
> I am talking about the threat model that a person have if they work with information that by law they need to keep secret

Then PGP is irrelevant, you don't email that data around. And even if you are, then you aren't dealing with security, you're dealing with compliance, compliance with legal obligations has nothing to do with, and is often in direct action against, actual security.

> Using gmail without encryption in those cases is a security issue and illegal.

This, almost certainly, isn't true, given that Gmail is a GDPR compliant store. You might need to use enterprise gmail, for the legal requirements, but that's still entirely beside the point. "Use enterprise Gmail" is the solution here, not "fail to use PGP".
Households don't need to expend wages. Ever heard of savings?

People in 1985 BCE were consuming baskets of goods akin to us in 2020. The entire CPI metric is extremely sensitive to both the extremely narrow size of the basket and also to the relatively short period of time on which the metric has been measured.

Go buy a burger. Tell me it's not more expensive than it used to be. But ask the burger-flipper and he'll tell you that he has the same rule of thumb, 3x or 3.5x or 4x the cost of the raw ingredients, rounded up, as he did a decade ago or two decades ago. I have had slices of pizza at the same place as my father, at the same hole-in-the-wall pizzeria that he ate at when he was at university in the 70s. That same slice of pizza hasn't changed in quality, but it certainly costs quite a bit more than it used to. All that cost-disease theory can tell us is that we're paying the employees more.

Good work on your cherry-picking for housing numbers. After adjusting for the bubble, though, with a chart like [0], we see that home prices still climbed about 50%, by your own numbers from the Census, and that's just from the 90s.

You wanna know what hasn't gone up? Minimum wage [1]. We aren't putting cash into peoples' hands, and that is what is squeezing them the worst.

> The minimum wage would be $11 in 2016 if its real value had remained at the 1968 level.

Healthcare costs are driven by the existence of HMOs and their protected status under federal law. If you want healthcare costs to stop ballooning, undo the 1973 HMO Act; if you want healthcare to be affordable, get on Bernie's bus and support Medicare For All.

To hear your "story of the incredible consumer growth" one would think that you've never actually seen the crushing poverty that grips so many folks in the USA. We are not in a healthier economy than we were in the 80s, let alone the 60s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...
Can you do solar preheat as a retrofit to an existing electric (or natural gas) hot water heater? Coil some flexible water line in a plywood box, spray paint it all black, put a plexiglass lid on, caulk it up, and lay it out in the sun. Feed cold water through it before it hits your hot water heater.

It probably would not be as efficient as a commercial solution, but it would be very cheap.

Don't forget about water safety, backflow valves, or local plumbing and building codes. Or winter - would want a bypass valve for flushing and draining it.
At least to me, the discontinuities in things like TANF, Medicaid, CHIP, etc. are some of the greatest signs of political dysfunction.

There's nothing remotely partisan about these being a bad thing. _Everyone_ should agree that these make no sense and mis-incentivize behavior. Yet these flaws remain for decades despite being known and discussed for approximately the entirety of their existence.
Major nitpick: Dopamine isn't the "feel good" chemical.

Endorphins are more accurately "feel good" chemicals.

Dopamine is involved in motivation through reward reinforcement, movement, and cognition in the human nervous system.

Another nitpick: L-DOPA isn't a building block of dopamine. It's dopamine with an extra molecule attached to it that makes it "inactive." This molecule gets snapped off by the AADC enzyme, which "activates" it. L-DOPA is the precursor to dopamine.

Third nitpick: We can understand how these gut flora affect ingestion of L-DOPA, and neurotransmitter precursors, by looking at how it's used in medical treatments. Most notably, Parkinson's patients. Suffice to say, it really makes no fucking difference, and orally-administered L-DOPA (with a dehydroxylaze inhibitor) is effective.

Whatever L-DOPA is stolen by gut-flora, can be augmented with a higher dosage. If for some strange reason, the converted L-DOPA -> Dopamine gets released into the digestive tract, and absorbed by the body, it's readily broken down in the blood. L-DOPA converts to dopamine in the blood-stream anyway, so it makes absolutely no difference.

I wanted this paper to be novel, but after reading it, it's not.

Gut flora have AADC-like enzymes, cool?
You mean with tax-payer dollars? Through a federal government which is currently $21+ Trillion in debt running deficits of around a trillion dollars annually? Would this funding involve new taxes or borrowing since it is new spending, requiring either current or future taxpayers to finance the program?

Meanwhile, small donor fundraising has become much easier and much more successful than in the past, and imho, the entire problem revolves completely around the amount of power that has been centralized and expanded to the Federal Government. Part of the whole idea behind, you know, the principle of limited government... is to limit the amount of power that could be bought in the first place and therefore limit the incentive to corrupt the process, but obviously that ship has sailed a long time ago...

I would think that in a free society, people are not forced to give their money to support political activity they would otherwise not support. For me, it’s that simple. As Thomas Jefferson put it, “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical.”
At least in Europe most furniture uses fire retardant materials. But the chipboard that lots of things are made of will burn ok if you get it hot enough
Verisign: ICANN drawing attention to comment period distorted process
Renewables plus transmission plus storage plus gas generation is easily as reliable as the generation mix we have now.
> Verisign’s letter suggests that domain name registrars and investors (or “speculators,” in its words) have “distorted and undermined the multistakeholder process by”…wait for it…

> > Encouraging people to comment during the comment period.
I saw it. They're awesome. That they have dinner and watch TV together regularly and haven't murdered each other yet gives me hope for humanity. The rest of humanity needs to learn how to get along too; especially in the Western world, where loneliness and friendlessness is growing to epidemic proportions.
This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963

I did a ctrl + f on both pages of comments for "yubi" with no results. Sorry if I've missed something obvious.
Risky is right. Even wooden furniture is treated with chemicals (flame retardants, anti-fungals, etc.) that are noxious when burned.
Open ssl has be audited and fips validated for some versions
Yes, but the parent commenter explicitly said the plan was to keep it if they loved it, and they loved it, but they didn't keep it because it was too expensive.
Thank you for the links. Only the last seems to speak to the statistic I'm interested in, which is per capita consumption changes over time.

In short, it sounds like change for the US is rather small, and actually negative for Europe. Given that, once might theorize that more people are drinking heavily, etc. (which might be covered in these links, but I haven't looked closely yet)

Here's part of the last page:

At the global level, the team found that the total volume of alcohol consumed per year increased by as much as 70% between 1990 and 2017, from 20,999 million liters per year to 35,676 million liters per year.

“Before 1990, most alcohol was consumed in high-income countries, with the highest use levels recorded in Europe. However, this pattern has changed substantially, with large reductions across Eastern Europe and vast increases in several middle-income countries, such as China, India, and Vietnam,” explains Manthey.

Moreover, he adds, “This trend is forecast to continue up to 2030, when Europe is no longer predicted to have the highest level of alcohol use.”

In Europe, alcohol consumption — among adults, per capita, per year — decreased by 12%, from 11.2 liters to 9.8 liters between 2010 and 2017. The same figure increased by 34% in Southeast Asian countries, from 3.5 liters to 4.7 liters.

Over the same time period, alcohol consumption saw a small increase, from 9.3 liters to 9.8 liters, in the United States, and from 7.1 liters to 7.4 liters in China, though it decreased in the United Kingdom, from 12.3 liters to 11.4 liters.

The researchers also observe that in most of the countries that they studied, the volume of alcohol consumed seemed to increase at a faster rate than the number of drinkers, suggesting that the average volume of alcohol intake per individual is set to rise.

More specifically, alcohol consumption per capita is likely to increase from 5.9 liters of pure alcohol per year in 1990 to 7.6 liters in 2030.
Likely none.

The paper describes finding an enzyme that can cleave catecholamine precursors. OK? There's literally only one catecholamine precursor that's used medically, and that's L-DOPA.

We know Parkinson's medications work, and very effectively. L-DOPA is used effectively, despite being metabolized by gut flora.
Urine is recorded to being used for whitening teeth since at least ancient Egypt. I always thought they used something like a swab for it though, but you can be sure someone out there had the idea to use it as mouthwash lol.
> When you hear a company talk about the promises of synthetic data, you should run far far away. The fundamental problem is that in order for synthetic data to be useful for model training the generative synthetic model must have already solved the problem at hand.

I've heard this group is pretty good, and they seem to be proud enough of their synthetic data to publish papers on it:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/02/generating-diverse-synthet...

Illuminate me, why are they wrong?
Nice one. Given all the genuine love for Metabase here in the comments, I will get it featured on SaaSHub. That should bring you some love more ;)
Ask HN: Why do we not observe 2D objects in our 3D world?
If we are in fact living in a higher than 3 dimensional world as 3D creatures, why is it we do not observe lower dimensional objects? Would make sense that lower dimensional creatures can not comprehend higher dimensional space, but as 3D creatures shouldn’t we be able to observe and comprehend lower dimensional space? And the stuff that’s in it?
Sounds like Area_1
Ask HN: Logging infra usefulness on public cloud
Dev/Sec/Ops here. Small-sized MSP using GCP & AWS across multi-cloud regions, and using AWS CloudWatch & CloudTrail logs, Stackdriver for logging, alerting, errors, etc. We're finding limited usefulness of this logging infrastructure. Wondering if its just me!

As DevOps, I really find StackDriver logging UI not much useful to scroll through. For one thing, it is really slow. Secondly, I find service name & service acronyms very annoying. Not just StackDriver, but AWS too.

- Other than debugging, what purpose do logging serve?

- What are some tools that you use to dice & slice logging data to make some meaning?

- How do you extract actual errors while alerting?
Twice

They tried this back in 2017 too
What's eye-opening is the author's point about _how_ many people go about ditching some income at the last minute -- by buying a particular type of financial product whose value is likely to go to zero.

Which has the effect of transferring their wealth to someone else (the vendor of the financial product) who just sold something that was effectively worth nothing, for a great deal of money.

It's the most bizarre sort of wealth redistribution I've ever heard of.
Given that the Chinese government uses coercion (esp. threats to family back home) on foreign workers in the US, every Chinese national working at any company in the US can be a potential mole. Think about that.

"If these contractors can't breach a target, intelligence officers assigned to specific cases come into action. They operate on the ground, near targets, by recruiting company insiders, or even coercing Chinese employees to aide their hacking efforts using blackmail or threats against families living at home." [1]

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-is-investigating-more-than...
Tarantino is proof that you can use as many "nig* * * *" words as you want, in the context of a film.
Airports in the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Public Policy Consulting Firm Warns of All-Out Strike Against US Tech
why do you take at face value that with enough propaganda that people wouldn’t all of the sudden classify their own neighbors as “them”? Isn’t that just what happened in Rwanda?

Isn’t that the definition of a civil war?

But if you are convinced that the military would turn on its own people, doesn’t that still make the whole “we need guns to protect ourself from a potential fascist government and we are going to run around in the woods and prepare” silly?

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A quasi-religious belief in the virtue of work, ably summarized here: https://www.chron.com/life/houston-belief/article/Protestant...
NGTS-10b: shortest period (18-hour-year) hot Jupiter yet discovered
Well Structure Node.js Application
It’s the stated goal of the party in power to throw as many kids off food assistance as possible. If the program has quirks that is by design.
who expect the dating and sexual marketplace to be some sort of meritocracy, or equality to be exhibited

Why/how would people come to think that way? As the parent comment says, this is fundamentally a biological thing.
It could (many films use the "nig---" word repeatedly, look no further than tarantino) and honestly it should. Racism in the USA was brutal and still continues to this day. We should not try to whitewash it because the word, of all things, offends us.

That sort of mentality is what leads people to try to ban Huckleberry Finn from school libraries, because the depiction itself offends their sensibilities, regardless of the underlying message.
IKEA for example sells a lot of mattresses under 150$. Under that you can just by foam pads, but the biggest savings is simply avoiding mattress stores or companies.

If you like pillow tops or those egg shell foam pads you can also just buy them separately.
The right answer is zero time, of course. A renewable smart grid includes long distance transmission lines, short term storage (batteries) and long term storage (pumped hydro). It's never been just about the panels and wind turbines.
What do you mean? Why do you see this as a red flag?
Earlier go to bed times are associated with more sleep and better performance.
We’d love to do more quick deploy buttons.

We’ve seen 500k events work with the hobby dev dyno and database which is $14/month. Depending on how much data history you want to keep you could upgrade to standard-0 on Heroku or spin up an RDS instance which is cheaper.
Hacker Test History
Forcing Functions
then there must be some computational cost for the client
I don’t fully get this. They could just employ different computers to render different parts of their cave. It seems more like a cost savings thing than a technical limitation.

And I’m not sure why you’d skimp on a few PC’s if you’re already building a humongous led wall, so maybe there’s something I’m missing.
Great, but we don't have the transmission, storage or gas generation currently.

So we need to spend trillions to build a system that still produces enough CO2 to make a mass extinction inevitable by 2100.

Am I the only one that sees a problem with this?
> “It’s like if Google made Gmail for bitcoin,” says Chris Dixon, an Andreessen partner who serves on the Coinbase board. “And that’s literally the way they described it.”

One of the most painful startup analogies I've heard.
We’ve released our branched versioning system for data at http://dvid.io. It’s entirely open source and uses a science HTTP API with pluggable data types and a versioned key-value backend. I’m currently developing a new backend for it: DAGStore, a lower-level ordered key-value store that will have an explicit immutable store and is tailored for distributed versioning of big data.
I'd look unhinged keying someone's car because they did a thumbs down emoji on my pull request? Please, do tell me more. :P

Word it in whatever way you want, that was just an off the top of my head example.
Not counting depreciation as part of your loss in a business is about like all of the Uber drivers who don’t take into account the wear and tear on their cars when calculating how much money they are making. Depreciation is a real expense. If you depreciate an asset down from $1000 to $0 in 3 years, you’re accounting for the fact that in three years you are going to have to replace it.

There is a reason we have GAAP, to keep crap like WeWork’s “Community Adjusted Ebitda” and Uber from saying that their financials really aren’t as bad as they look if you ignore a dozen expenses.
Prophesee’s Event-Based Camera Reaches High Resolution
I think you have way too much faith in human-based image tracking, and their ability to interpolate situations while listening to the radio. As for https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8021567/Tesl...

Reading the article:

> ‘It is worth noting that this is seemingly only possible on the first implementation of TACC when the driver double taps the lever, engaging TACC.’

It isn't a strict self driving situation, but makes for great click bait. I can't imagine that this isn't an easy fix (Tesla's are also easy to update collectively via software update, try doing that to human beings).
You'd have to bulk order from China most likely or build your own mattress... or just order something cheap on Amazon where it is a race to the bottom. IKEA is also ok. I prefer Costco b/c of the return policy itself. Maybe you might find a hotel liquidator.

The fact that we all sleep in hotels though shows you that the mattress resale laws are kind of weird or antiquated .. e.g. maybe last century. It seems like there should be a rehab process that allows a mattress to be resold "used" but clean. I am guessing the reason is health and safety but given craigslist where mattress change hands ad infinitum I am not sure how big the risk is. The fire risk is obviously a bigger deal.
The Pig/Chimp hybrid human origin theory
The death rate doesn't mean anything unless we are looking at the "infected and recovered" number... so the death rate should only go up from there.
You can't necessarily do it last minute. You have to realize the loss by the end of the tax year (Dec 31), which may be months away from the day you file taxes.

On the other hand, if you can deduct traditional IRA contributions, you can make prior-year contributions up until the tax filing deadline, and keep your money. If you're eligible for an HSA or solo 401k, you can also use those to similar effect.
Any idea on how this compares with the other deep learning intro courses available?
Okay - So reading through that I get two impressions. They can't release source code because they use proprietary hardware. Secondly they believe that security through obscurity is better than publishing the code for everyone to see.
I wonder how much that 1985 worker paid for smart phones, cable or streaming tv, and modern entertainment.

I think today's standard of living is simply higher. You could live on 1985 wages, but your family wouldn't be happy.
Code rarely last decades without maintenance and complete rewrites over time - unless you’re the government.
It is. Testing is simply automation with assertions.
What, you never heard of the tres comas club?
> Was my mattress so cheaply-made that the manufacturer could afford to give them away

It's a combination of huge markup on retail prices, acceptable losses due to returns, and mostly just having VC money to burn through.
... and you can still return it if you’re not satisfied! Plus you get to grab a few $.50 hot dogs while you’re there.
FWIW, my main mattress is also foam (Leesa) and seems to have good edge support. But the Leesa was a lot more expensive than the Amazon mattress, and I wanted to spend less since it was a guest room.
Or that a bunch of other professions dropped out by a huge amount.
You can simultaneously love something and find it not worth the price.
>Did coinbase call forbes to "commission" an article? Did the writer/forbes call coinbase?

Well it's forbes, and based on the url you can tell it's written by one of their "contributors" (aka. glorified blogger).
The reason is surely bedbug infestations. It is just too risky to buy a mattress second hand, even from legitimate sources.
I will leave detailed explanations to domain experts. An example I'd hold up would be when Leonardo DiCaprio catches flak, loudly and publicly, for consistently dating women only in their early to mid 20s [1] [2] [3]. Is it biological? Yes. Is it legal? Absolutely. Do people still vocally decry it? Very much so.

[1] https://www.insider.com/leonardo-dicaprio-girlfriends-reddit...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/azjti7/leo...

[3] https://youtu.be/LCNdTLHZAeo?t=308
I can't see any problems with this; those are tiny fibers and they don't make a big difference except over years. It doesn't affect the weave that much.
... and it's still kind of sad that we (or anything like us) will actually, realistically never ever venture far enough to even reach the nearest star to us.

I genuinely think it is sad, but it is what it is. Interstellar space is so unimaginably huge (insert HGoG reference or excerpt here). At least you won't be alive to experience the time when the expansion just overtakes everything and leaves "us" a lone galaxy pondering why here is no light from others like us.

Hit #subscribe for more depressing space-facts! :|
There are two levels of AWS Shield, "Standard" and "Advanced". You are correct that all instances receive "Standard" protection from Shield by default.

https://aws.amazon.com/shield/