skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know which country has the most/largest Solar power plants in the world ? India.

This is slightly meta - but why is it that no good news about India is never news in the Anglo-Saxon world ?

We see Pulitzers being given out for coverage of 'India removing Kashmir's "independence"', USCIRF, an agency composed of Christian fundamentalists classify it in red, and then you have Britain and Europe, where the hatred is at a whole other level.

I see how China is treated with such egregious racial hatred, and it's hard not to think of this in historical terms. Perhaps a new pan-Asian movt. is necessary in this atmosphere of the West's nostalgia for brutal imperialism.
Sweden Shuts Down Its Last Coal-Fired Power Plant
What's a good business model for this kind of company?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23106043
The purpose of the lockdowns initialy was to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed, i.e. Flatten the Curve.

Are there other useful ways to use a lockdown at this point, when there are already millions of infected?

There's no precendent/evidence that anything else can be done at this point, there's too many cases.

Are you thinking that we should change the goal of the lockdown, to be eradication? Is that possible?

This thing is still spreading, even during the current lockdowns.
Mimalloc: Free List Sharding in Action (2019) [pdf]
I just had a look (in the UK), and it doesn't look possible to go higher than 16GB of RAM, which is a deal breaker for me - I regularly go above that when running VMs and containers for dev and test work.

For such an otherwise powerful machine, I don't k ow why they'd limit it?
Defining Design processes is a well trodden path for agencies.

In 20+ years, I’ve not seen a huge divergence from; discover, ideate, refine, launch.
Hmm at a glance your comment seems to have a lot of normative assumptions baked in so it's hard to argue with anyone who doesn't share your beliefs. The comment seems to boil down to:

1. These list of behaviors are good

2. This thing (UBI) does not serve those behaviors

3. Therefore UBI is not good

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First of all anyone who disagrees with one or more of the list of behaviors will probably not be convinced by the remainder of the argument. Those are normative beliefs, anyone from another culture or background/faith won't share all of them with you.

But assuming we accept all of #1, I do not see enough evidence for point #2, why does UBI violate the norms? After all plenty of Christians have been in support of UBI, like MLK and the Pope. I saw the phrase "charity by force" several times but no clear definition of what that is or isn't, for instance the "Basic incentive of working" seems sort of like forceful coercion at some level: you either work or you starve and die. What exactly do these terms mean?

With all that, I'm not convinced that point 3 is supported by what I read.
Sadf
>"What are the chances that Matten & Wiechers would have designed the Synthorma without Kraftwerk commissioning it?"

Probably pretty high given that the Roland MC-8, another 16 step analog sequencer was also available in 1977 when Trans Europe Express was released. Both Yellow Magic Orchestra and Tangerine Dream used them. Both bands would have been very much on Kraftwerk's radar at that time. Tangerine Dream aside from being another influential German electronics band was also a customer of Matten & Wiecher.
Its not about me.

The benefit comes when the community as a whole does it, there is literally no point to anyone doing it alone, unless they are vulnerable.

"What do we do next?"

Figure out the best way to treat covid, and talk about the best time to end the lockdown.

Im in NZ btw, NZ locked down hard and early. Its been six weeks and so far we have 20 deaths from covid.

"What next?" is exactly the question, and I dont think anyone knows the best answer yet.

We are likely to be mostly ending our lockdown on this wednesday. We are entering "level 2" which I believe is all businesses open and running, just some rules around congregation.

I simply do not understand the chorus of calls to end lockdown (or simply never start it) in countries where absolutely nothing is under control.

It will cause incredibly loss of life, and people are doing in a rush.

Im really struggling, on a personal level, to understand the rush in some countries to sacrifice people and not economies.

Surely the economy is there to serve us?
There were ideas for greener construction methods using more timber and less concrete, more space optimized for walking and biking instead of cars, interesting communal space arrangements to make spaces that can be heated in winter and converted to outdoor space when the weather is nice.

None of those were innovative, or Google-first. They're all things that have been in the works by cities for decades.

The problem is that people who don't watch or attend city meetings don't know it because change at that scale is slow. Unlike computer code, you can't just delete a section of a city you don't like and rebuild it. A city is a living thing, and living things take time to change.
Zoom, please do not kill Keybase, we love it
News of Zoom acquiring Keybase really makes me sad as well as many other people I spoke to, I'm afraid that they will destroy a perfectly good product. Should I be worried?
The newer Carbons and the X1 Extreme have had a rougher time than most Lenovo laptops. My T480 and T580 were pretty much perfect from the jump, but my X1 Extreme remains disappointing.
code: https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc
I have two comments on your takeaways:

> Science isn't hard, it isn't magic, it's a systematic way of looking at the world through observation and falsification. That is all science is.

Science is also being open to critique from others, and listening to what others have found. If you only focus on your own observations, you can test Newton's and Maxwell's laws, but you'll be hard pressed to discover relativity or quantum mechanics. Some discoveries are hard because they require foundational knowledge and equipment and insight.

> We were actually taught that most people need to be given only the information they need to know, because essentially they're too dumb to understand and scientists should just run things in the world.

A more charitable explanation is that it takes time to learn things, and we can't know everything. For example, you don't need to know the experimental design to use the results from an experiment, but you would if you're evaluating the experiment. It takes time and effort to do peer review. You're delegating effort to scientists so that you can use the results of multiple experiments without a large investment of time.

I totally agree with teaching everyone the tools of science though. I just think you're overestimating how well those tools will protect people against charlatans. Some claims take expertise to debunk.
Has the economics behind a universal basic income been (attempted to be) modelled?

I don't expect a perfectly representative model, but I think a lot along the lines of what made Warren Buffet famous: What is the worth of something vs. the price of that thing? And how does one bring labour into the equation?
you can use router-module if you want to do everything yourself (https://github.com/nuxt-community/router-module)
I got the 1080p low power. I get 8+ hours of full brightness Netflix!
Electricity is a private platform too, so by your argument, with enough pressure you could get a utility to cancel the power for a public platform.
As long as housing remains an investment asset the price will continue to go up.
If we would just decide that housing is meant to be lived in, not profited from, you'd see the price come down overnight because investment companies and rich people wouldn't be buying up hundreds of houses they'll never live in.
Naughty Dog Drops New, Visceral the Last of Us Part II Story Trailer
The Final of Us Part II is likely one of the most anticipated titles coming in 2020. It is also one of many video games that have been delayed indefinitely as a result of coronavirus pandemic after which reprogrammed to be launched after the leak of its ending.
Tbh, I mainly shared the example code because I was entertained by the contrast of sophisticated naming and crude approximation. Still, it illustrates that this can come in very handy if used properly.

Of course you can also cause all sorts of mayhem. Even disregarding fun such as GREEK QUESTION MARK looking like a semicolon and zero-width spaces, I probably would not use this feature in enterprise code. Too likely that some tool somewhere (e.g. an alternate compiler?) is KO'd by characters outside of basic ASCII range (which has served us well and will keep doing so).
Institutional memory is a powerful thing, and forms a part of the identity of any members of an organisation with a strong culture.
> you have to admit that without a date developers will just noodle around forever.

This seems more a statement about extrinsic motivation than dates in particular. Dates are the most obvious blunt instrument for applying extrinsic motivation, but there are others.

Intrinsic motivation is in some ways even better. You can't force someone to be intrinsically motivated to achieve something... but pushy dates and expectations can decimate any motivation that was already there.
Yes, there's the AMD PSP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...). It's an ARM core with similar concerns, but even less is known about it.
Grapes ARE rich in fiber
Oh man, I bet there's a nice market of GPS jammers out there - especially useful for the home team in any action, since they don't need help with directions. I wonder if that counts as a weapon?
At least in America, you can demand that all correspondence goes through certified mail, with big fines if they don't.
Forests Are Vanishing More Slowly, but Not Slowly Enough
> There used to be a clear difference between the look of clothes at different retailers but not as much anymore.

That's because nearly all the brands sold at places like NM have outsourced manufacturing to the same 3rd rate factories in Asia and Latin America and are riding on a name and those names these days command less premium than Supreme.
Not all Lenovo laptop work that well ... A485 support has been shitty for a long time.
Of all places that could benefit, those places seem high on the list.

I grew up in a state with tons of wind, but wind energy was hardly ever used (outside the old farmer windmills that were largely around because they looked cool). It was a great candidate for wind power but the local power companies were already heavy net exporters of power, coal, hydro electric. There just wasn't the incentive despite a lot of availability.
Science was never purely driven by falsification, or authority or anything. It was actually never pure, it was always driven by an equivalent of "hey, it works on my machine" and proven by successful application in some engineering or other practical discipline.

That broke since the late 20th century because science got much broader than any possible application.
where have you seen photos of their abuse?

There have been pictures, even cellphone video of things like public executions. Here's one recent report but people have been escaping the place and bringing evidence of abuse out for years.

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-north-korea-public-execu...
This is a nice demonstration of why exceptions, in particular untyped exceptions, are a major liability.
Could be used to solve the duck curve too. Use excess solar to pump oil in the day and then use oil for power at night.
> The Official Preppy Handbook

LOL, classic WASP literature. I haven't thought of this book since the mid-80s! It's a hilarious read.
Sure you did buddy. Sure you did. The whole idea of the SAT was an expansive control of capital when the USA grew too large for word-of-mouth recommendation systems.

But you knew that too right? You also knew that it was basically designed to keep undesirables out of the capital class too, right? Guess who those people were.
> Walk through Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Macy's, H&M, and they start to blend together.

But are any of these luxury brands? Nordstrom might be upper-tier retail but it’s hardly luxury.
I rode a motorcycle from Germany to Kazakhstan. That's the project that got me going, and the website picked up along the way. I didn't bring it up because that was paid for by my savings.

I enjoyed this trip so much that I wanted to repeat it elsewhere, but the cost of living is higher in the places I want to see. Then COVID-19 happened and it delayed my trip. I got a short work contract to save up for it, and it means I get to save for a bit longer.

I find it cool that I get to choose how much of my life I want to exchange for money. It's a massive privilege to be in this position.
Precisely -- no RF filter has a perfect "brick wall" response, and no transmitter will have a perfectly pure output either. GPS receivers already have to use some pretty crazy tricks to pull a signal out of the noise; it doesn't take a lot of interference to make that impossible.
> Are there any resources available for people who are NOT seasoned software developers to learn Git?

Is Google broken or something? There's literally thousands of resources out there, you just have to look for them. This list took me 30 seconds to put together:

[1]: https://anitacheng.com/git-for-non-developers

[2]: https://unito.io/blog/guide-to-github-for-project-managers/

[3]: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/the-non-developers-guide-to...

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWYqp7iY_Tc

[5]: https://medium.com/@williamschinonso11/understanding-git-for...

[6]: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/an-introduction-to-git-for...
My experiences with acquihires have not been good.

People went to work for this company based on the domain, the people, or the culture. With the acquihire they change the domain first, and the culture about a year in. Then the people start to leave, and it's just a job, and one you didn't even apply for.

On my worst days it felt like I was sold like cattle, and I would have seen more upside by hiring on someplace else.
Thanks - good, actionable advice there. The conspiracy theories I'm seeing shared in my feeds range from "Bill Gates did it", through to "there is no virus". Often I can't help taking the bait, and I try to share high-quality, peer-reviewed information when I can - the issue is that this pandemic has hit the perfect balancing act whereby the reasonable preventative actions are also exactly what a conspiracy theory would suggest :)
"Dolt" https://www.dolthub.com

"Gun" https://gun.js.org (Bonus points for gun-shaped logo.)
What if you buy up the debt of rich people who can, but don't want to pay?
Big Data Analysis Helps Business Respond to Covid-19
How would that allow Google to collect personal data in order to better sell advertisements?
This article presents the functionality as new, but wirelessly charged electric vehicles have been in use at small scale for many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_electric_vehicle
Looks like a joke. There is seemingly not even one configuration with a display resolution above full HD.
And if you actually read Binet, you’d know that he explicitly warned against its usage beyond what he designed it for.
Providing you pick one with intel wifi you'll have no problem. As far as I can see, that's the only real disadvantage of these AMD models.
> Basically it's a windows "feature" where if a certain ACPI table is present in the firmware, it will download and execute it.

What in the actual fuck... this seems straight off a dystopian graphic novel
Once you lower the price of a product, you can never raise it again.

I heard that on/around HN at some point and I haven't seen it proven wrong yet. There's a reason why chip bags get smaller, why new versions that seem identical to the old come out, why Tommy Hilfiger will never be a prestige brand again. And it's because customers don't tolerate raising prices.
People perform better when their brain isn't constantly buzzing from financial stress? Who'd've fucking thought...
yeah that's why I changed int* to void* in the example, but I forgot to change new to malloc
The projected dates of 2023 and 2024 for a gateway station and landing are completely unachievable. I assume it's tied into boosterism for the reelection campaign: "Look at what we're going to do in our second term." It's sad that nobody in the media is calling them out on this.
> China is an authoritarian one-party state. There might be a difference, but it's pretty slim.

China is a culture with a very long history, like all cultures, and a diasporic population, not to mention all of the Chinese people under the rule of the Republic of China on Taiwan.

Confusing the PRC with the entirety of Chinese people, Chinese culture, and China as a whole is rather similar to refusing to distinguish between Nazis and Germans, and only serves to either make criticism of the PRC impossible, since one can always accuse the critic of racism, or make defense of the Chinese people and culture impossible, since it will be taken as burnishing the PRC.
What were the demographics for the game's audience? If they skewed towards younger users, as many games do, then a high conversion rate would be par for the course, as kids aren't as discriminating on what they'll click on.
This post highlights the importance of competent technical management. The problem is not arbitrary dates, it's unreasonable dates with inappropriate feedback loops and lack of trust throughout the management chain. The example given is a strawman of a classic cigar-chomping executive whose philosophy comes largely from unskilled, fungible-labor economies.

Taking away the date is definitely not the right move. Now you've given every PM and sales guy carte blanche to throw whatever flavor-of-the-moment idea comes in their head. The team will be churning constantly to keep up with the requirements and then someone will suggest, "I know, let's do scrum!" so now we can all enjoy the stress of unreasonable deadlines on a continuous rather than waterfall basis.

To the contrary: a properly-managed date is an incredibly valuable constraint which the entire team can use to make tradeoffs against. To make it work management needs to trust the team, and engineers need to understand the larger business picture because they are the ones with the knowledge to find creative solutions that actually work and decrease time to value without compromising technical quality or long-term maintainability.
Light-induced propulsion of graphene-on-grid sails in microgravity
Zerodha is amazing thank you.
I used Azure DevOps while at NERD in 2019.
Remapping Python Opcodes
The jvm is light years ahead, but on another problem track.

I am not taking away from it's accomplishments. But, in the domain of editors, it has netbeans, eclipse, and intellij as examples. Which are all impressive in their own ways, but a culture of modifications is not included in that list. :)
I think there is a bigger picture takeaway to be made here, but I'm not sure if I can phrase it too well. The Douglas Adams "I love the whooshing noise [deadlines] make as they go by" quote is perhaps a good introduction. I think the general concept starts out in education, deliver this by date that or there's consequences. And in that moment, the consequences tend to be very real, and if you prefer a smoother ride, not something you want to deal with. What starts out as a way to teach both discipline and whatever it is you're currently learning will then go on to accompany you in your professional life.

In reality, in software development all deadlines are pretty much arbitrary. Sure, there is profit to be made if you move quicker, but there's considerably more profit to be made if you move in the right direction instead of just moving quickly. The latter tends to often be overlooked in the management style outlined in the article.

I think the healthy choice is to estimate, but not stress over the situation. Your estimate is not a promise, and make that very clear when you do give one. If your estimates are taken to be promises, it isn't probably an environment you want to work in for long.
The problem I have with your argument is that depending on one's viewpoint, this could be a feature and not a bug. Historically, humans have had some conception of reasonable ranges of rates to charge for interest and purchases to underwrite that fall inside the bounds of ethicality, and things outside of that boundary that were deemed unethical and usurious or outright slavery.

Let's take your example of student loans. We can both agree that making student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy and not owed to the government would cause the student loan market to contract. What if you think that this kind of debt, being non-asset backed, is not just unethical but unsustainable inside a functioning free market? What if you think that many institutions have made use of debt inflation to bloat their bureaucracies, facilities and other non-academic investments via a bubble that can and should pop? What if an alternative financial product should exist that forced institutions to put skin in the game towards the permanent economic future of the students that they are ostensibly responsible for and selling a product towards advancing?

I think that we need to remember that debt is primarily a mechanism for moving around value, and that the intrinsic value (liquidity) that it provides is distinctly marginal. We as a society in America should question whether it is a robust long term strategy for the country's economic future to even allow for the option of selling an education with debt-based financing without some kind of a positive outcome guarantee. Otherwise, the incentives are almost guaranteed to result in bad actors exploiting the disenfranchised. Outside of the moral hazard here, the more unavoidable hazard is the market hazard of overleveraging assets whose intrinsic value cannot support the bonds they back, causing an unnecessary macroeconomic financial shock that could be avoided with foresight.
> my users are candidates and not employers

There's your answer right there. Find remote employers who are hiring and pitch them on a paid listing with prime placement within the app.

Job boards are marketplaces. Supply = employers, demand = candidates. Charge supply for access to demand. You've built up the demand side of the marketplace first. Now you need to build the supply side. How are you pulling in listings right now?
> it doesn't make sense to update the default compiler used in an LTS release. If you want that, then you don't want LTS

This needs to be emphasized.
> None of those things require Google per se

And it never did because it was never Google, it's Sidewalk Labs, which is a separate Alphabet company who's whole job is exactly to research and develop such plans.

> Ultimately they require the community itself to take it upon themselves to do it

I really dislike this argument. "We don't need AMP to make sites fast, webdevs can just spend time hand optimizing their sites themselves". Then you wait years and 95% of websites are still slow and bloated.

Every single city and community has had the power to do this for years yet there are very few who have actually creating anything like it. Just because it's doable doesn't mean it'll happen without some incentive and help.

> economic benefit to leaving peoples wealth in their communities instead of extracting it into silos

Expect a lot of these create more value and wealth within the communities than they take. People love to blame tech companies, but without food delivery services for example, most restaurants would have no business right now. Google Maps and these other services all bring orders of magnitude more value to a city than they "extract into silos".