skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is solar just a stopgap tech? Like, do they still require fossil fuel energy to create, not to mention maintain and rebuild? And I know we’re now strip mining the ocean for battery metals. I don’t yet sense the sustainability in this amid all this economic hand-waving of “it’s getting cheaper”. (forgive my tone, i have a hard time of making sense of the big picture of renewables, hoping to eventually see how it actually fits into a utopic idea of a “closed-loop economy”)

I’m reminded here a bit of Ted Chiang’s short story, Exhalation, where the people devise clever ways to try to put air back in the ground without using more than they’re sequestering. I hope our situation is better than that.
felt the urge :-)
That wouldn't surprise me. There are probably entire companies working on nothing else but to reduce his taxes.
I'm stuck on a small island in St. Vincent & the Grenadines after narrowing escaping the nationwide lockdown in Venezuela, so I've been learning to kitesurf.

I'm also rebuilding my website with Hugo. Feedback welcomed: https://www.voska.org
Maybe because it bring more money by emphasizing good. So if they doing it for money, it make sense to emphasizing good.
That's super cute, but it's your distinction and not the definition used by the world.

If you buy and sell stock, you're a stock trader. And Buffet is a stock trader.
In this scenario, if your adversary produced or had control over your entire military supply chain, do you think that would give them less leverage or more leverage? Would it make them less hostile, or more hostile? Leverage is everything, in trade, war, and peace.
How does code hidden behind a flag become less risky if it's deployed in increments?

You will only find out when you allow it to run.
Men face the same difficulties you describe when starting a career and getting paid for the value they provide. Simply because 1% of men do not face that due to networking or luck does not mean that the vast majority are in some privileged position.
We raised a SEAL round led by Earnest Capital in 2019. We gave up no board seats or equity, and we remained an LLC. If we were to raise a subsequent round or sell the company, they’d be able to participate per their Equity Basis.

Under a SEAL, an exit isn’t the only way for investors to realize ROI — we can run a profitable business and distribute Shared Earnings.

FWIW, the mentorship and cohort of similar founders has been valuable to us so far.
Unnamed SFU – One-to-many videoconferencing for teaching and conferences
Covid Statistics I'm interested in: https://jupp0r.github.io/covid-stats. Very unfinished, just getting started.
i drew one and it said "be more persuasive." i guess it wants more.
As a gay poor woman, get over yourself. If you don't have a blog, start one. If you have one, write off topic thoughts there. No one is silencing you by not engaging in whatever you want to talk about in threads about specific articles. A lack of engagement and attention doesn't make you a victim. I don't go into a retirement home trying to sell skateboards and get upset because I think the world owes me something.
> once the next implementation of Arc is ready

A nice example of how using the wrong programming language for your project impedes your progress/feature delivery.
Energy is cheap, power is expensive - you can already get energy for free sometimes on the intraday market, but you still pay if you need delivery at a certain time and the grid fees for peak power consumption stay expensive. I am looking forward to Tesla's million-mile battery!
I understand, I think, that life has certainly been unkind in many areas for you.

This is another bs dismissal of my criticisms.

I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leader board. Between my two handles, I have over 50k karma, which would put me respectably high on the leader board if it were one handle.

You are "anecdotally" acting like this is some personal problem for me as an individual. If I'm just some loser that life has kicked in the teeth having nothing to do with my gender, where are the many other openly female members who are on the leader board and/or obviously making bank through their participation here?
Since it seems to be about morals and free speech, I wrote some hate speech next to my penis. I wonder if they'll need to censor anyway just like Google does.
Does PWM generate weird phase artifacts when switching between low and high amplitudes? Much like Doppler distortion in earbuds?
Huh. Turns out drawing a penis is kinda hard using the pointer nipple on my laptop's keyboard.
Another aspect of this is the cost of the physical solar cells have dropped low enough that other costs have become significant. This is pushing companies to increase efficiency which opens the door for other applications.

A hypothetical cheap ~30% efficient solar panel could add something like 40 miles of range per day to a car in ideal conditions. That starts to look actually useful vs a simple gimmick.
Golang's garbage collection system isn't just NOT state-of-the-art; it brings you back to the 1970s. A big pain point there.
Not really, many countries share languages but not regulations. In addition to that, many people move from one country to another, while staying in touch with their old friends.

Facebook has also been working hard on their translation features to reduce language barriers.
Cool project someone built with Pion WebRTC! Just saw this email and wanted to share. It seems like most telecommunications software just grows forever, so interested to see more focused solutions.

-----

Dear colleagues,

A friend of mine just did a three-hour first-year lecture over my unnamed
SFU with 12 students. The students didn't switch on their camera (except
during the break), the lecturer was streaming three flows: audio, video,
and lecture slides.

The total amount of network traffic oscillated between 4Mbps and 10Mbps
(380kps to 800kbps for each receiver), which indicates that the congestion
control algorithm is working as designed. The CPU load oscillated between
10% and 20% (of a $5/month VPS), which is more than in previous tests,
I suspect that the CPU accounting of the VPS I'm renting is not accurate.

Neither the lecturer nor the students (first years, non-STEM) had any
problems with the software. One student reported problems with the video,
which went away after a while. The students initially complained about the
primitive UI (« au début, ça fait un peu peur »), then got used to it
(« mais après, ça va »).

I think the software is ready for a test at larger scale, say, a seminar
with a hundred listeners or so. If anyone is organising a seminar and is
willing to take the risk, please let me know. (You are welcome to forward
this mail.) https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/sfu/

Best,

-- Juliusz
Do we really need a “2020” by the title?
The most lawless place in America
What data does the sensor collect? How visible is the data it sends back to the platform?
Millennials value convenience a lot. I think they would consume more IKEA, and more furniture/decor in general, if there was an IKEA downtown. IKEA would really have to narrow down its SKUs for that to work though. Alternatively, they can take the approach you suggested (near suburb) but also use that IKEA as a warehouse-like hub for cheaper and faster deliveries to Chicago with a greater selection.
A few random questions.. hopefully a person more knowledgable in the topic can help me out:

- from what I understand Akka (Scala) heavily borrows from
Erlang/OTP - is this correct? What would be the biggest similarities/differences?

- to what extent OTP is unique to Erlang and to what extent it can be implemented in another language?

- any articles/materials out there showing the most valuable bits of OTP applied in JavaScript/NodeJS?
That works...right up until someone else in Denver is willing to do the same work for less.

The salary needed to afford the median home in San Francisco is about $183,000. In Denver, the salary needed to afford the median home is about $87,000 [1].

What happens when another Denver software engineer is willing to accept what they would have accepted working for a firm in Denver, because it affords them a satisfactory standard of living?

[1] https://www.hsh.com/finance/mortgage/salary-home-buying-25-c...
I don't mind the little badge trinkets you get on reddit right now to pay for a reward for someones post you like. This isn't that at all this will suck. There will be a ridiculous amount of farming / shilling / astroturfing.
I mean, I guess it'd be cool if it worked. But it did not flag a single attempt.
Super interesting - thanks for sharing :)

I'd definitely be trying this out when its ready!
i tried to draw the sun (with rays, kindergarten style), it said it was a helicopter.
I think it just limits the amount of lines so the first ones get erased if you draw too many.
> All the mean while try to do as much immersion as possible diving into native materials straight away and just enjoy the language in every way you can.

Then you have already parallelized the process, have you not?

> I usually batch pronunciation, then writing system, then grammar, then vocab.

How does that ordering work in practice? I can imagine learning to pronounce each individual sound in isolation, and learning to write and pronounce each letter in the writing system before you know any words, but how do you learn about grammar without vocabulary to apply the grammar to?

> There are a lot of different paths through language learning. They all work. But they don't all work for everyone. You just gotta try a bunch of different things and really find which path works for you.

Agreed.
Congrats on your new career in furry porn. Please link to your patreon.
Things you're assuming:

1. Consumers use OnlyFans as a poor substitute to an in-person relationship.

2. It's always better to be in a romantic relationship than not.

How is camgirling and pornography so different from other performance? What about comedians? They do the same thing as friends: tell jokes, laugh, entertain. A lot of them explicitly try to connect with the audience by asking questions and having short chats. But most people realize comedians aren't a substitute for friends.

The only real difference is your other assumption:

3. Sexuality outside romantic relationships is immoral.

You can argue that point. Personally, I'd be uncomfortable watching or interacting with a live person this way (I really didn't enjoy my only visit to a strip club). But I'm not going to generalize my psyche across others.
I'm actually quite shocked at how much energy is produced by solar, especially when compared to residential wind turbines. Panels are efficient, and when it's sunny, you're juicing.

The real challenge is of course bringing down cost of storage, which is the key to make solar systems efficient (not just cheap).
Priorities change. In 2019 people were buying into the Tesla bullshit and it wasn't a quesiton of "Will we get to driverless cars" it was "Will your driverless car be able ot make you a martini". Okay, more realistically completely autonomous driving vs autonomous busses on specific journeys etc.

It's thinking in terms of plentiful resources, versus thinkin in terms of the minimum required. You can get rid of all those guys working on the automated fur slippers, but you might want to hire a few more guys working on the automated bus doors.
Telling people not to do something is very acceptable in a company. If it is users doing something with a product, that's different, but technical decisions matter.
I thought it was part of the game.
The rumour a decade ago was that Adobe was the biggest producer of Adobe cracks. The idea was that it'd get people using it for free so it was the goto tool and then they could slam anyone using it commercially.
Another tech thing it occurred to me to add to the garden. Some computer vision and a water sprayer to keep the squirrels off my corn and sunflowers.

That will actually be quite hard. I'll do the drip lines first.
I was in an accident that resulted in the same L5-S1 area being injured, and spent several months recovering. Honestly, the thing that got me back on track was losing weight (I weighed around 220-230 at the time, and dropped to 180-190 and stayed there for several years). The pain periodically recurred, but nothing like the initial period. I took up walking, which turned into running (I played rec soccer, but that was the extent of my exercise prior to the accident). That may be out of reach depending on the extent of your issues (or other physical issues), but cycling, swimming, and rowing are great alternatives. I later took up BJJ, wrestling, and a conditioning course (meant to help with endurance in those other two). That did a ton to eliminate the pain. I learned what I couldn't do in BJJ and wrestling because of my back, but the gym I was at was great (a lot of 30+ participants, and a fair number over 40 and even 50) so I just partnered with people who understood my issues and we worked around it.

The main thing for me, with getting into running, was that I did it 3 days a week and it was in the US south, so I was able to go out almost all year. There were a couple ponds I'd run by so it was a great way to get out of the work zone and clear my head. When I started having knee problems I'd take my bike to the same area and make three laps (15k) a few times a week (low traffic, only had one near-accident when an asshole passed me while I was about to make a left turn).

I've moved, the weather was bad, and I didn't have access to a gym (and now I don't have access to a gym) so the weight started coming back and so did the back pain. I've got the bike fixed up now and the weather is better, so once I find some good routes here (I hate riding on roads with lots of traffic) I hope to shed this weight and get back on track.
> Ampere has been on NVidia's roadmap for the better part of a decade.

Not publicly, at least, since rumors of the "Ampere" naming surfaced around late 2017. https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wil...
I discovered https://github.com/solo-io/packer-builder-arm-image recently. The doc mention RPi/raspbian a lot but it works well for armbian on other devices for example. I use it to build images for my SBCs with ansible packer provisioner. Pretty cool.
I'm not sure about the resource costs of solar in particular but the question is a very salient one. Vaclav Smil has a
great piece on this. "What I see when I see a wind turbine"

"the quest for renewable electricity generation. And yet, although they exploit the wind, which is as free and as green as energy can be, the machines themselves are pure embodiments of fossil fuels. • Large trucks bring steel and other raw materials to the site, earth-moving equipment beats a path to otherwise inaccessible high ground, large cranes erect the structures, and all these machines burn diesel fuel. So do the freight trains and cargo ships that convey the materials needed for the production of cement, steel, and plastics. For a 5-megawatt turbine, the steel alone averages 150 metric tons for the reinforced concrete foundations, 250 metric tons for the rotor hubs and nacelles (which house the gearbox and generator), and 500 metric tons for the towers.[...]
For a long time to come—until all energies used to produce wind turbines and photovoltaic cells come from renewable energy sources—modern civilization will remain fundamentally dependent on fossil fuels."

http://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/15.WINDTURBINE.pdf
It was too small.
Eric Raymond wrote about this, in relation to his reposurgeon project, here:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8161

Basically, what he found is that for programs that work with large graphs of objects (as opposed to arrays of numbers, which are the domain of numpy and friends), Python isn't all that fast. I don't know how it compares to Ruby though.
I use temporary containers and I installed your add-on. I just checked the box that removes empty containers and it works great!

Your extension has already changed my life and I only installed it last night.

Thank you!
Doubt must have always the biggest seat at the table, but we also need to take special attention to the models showing the most predictive power against the facts. If not, we can fall in the extreme postmodernist trap (every "narrative" is equal). Of course, a model with many fulfilled predictions can be falsy too, maybe there is only just a very lucky astrologer behind the predictions highlighted by survivorship bias. But is worth to look closer to these models for (maybe) grains of truth.

Many think marxism/historical materialism is only pseudoscience with no predictive and analytic power at all because we aren't living yet in fully automated luxury communism. But dig on it and there are pearls, for example, Trotsky predicting in the thirties the URSS bureaucracy restoring capitalism and becoming a new bourgeois. That was an historical prediction of the highest caliber against forecasts of all kinds (from the capitalist and the stalinist camp). The capital concentration process predicted by Marx is another, enduring many years. There are many more.

And there is also the analytic power. Suppose you aren't making any prediction, you can really say an historical materialistic class-based analysis of the French revolution is entirely pseudoscience?
Filecoin Testnet Phase 2 is Here
I definitely did, thanks. Can you imagine if Ajit Pai were in charge of all consumer protection? Yikes.
More important than simple probability is the “expectancy value”, which is roughly spoken (and cumulatively) the probability multiplied by the effect when the probability comes to pass.
I think that's as accurate of a description as I can imagine.

Most CEOs are nerdy business men trying to be cool. Jensen comes across more like a cool nerd trying to be business-y.
I'm not sure what you're implying, but it doesn't seem positive. Forgive me if I'm mis-interpreting things.

We were in separate departments and hierarchy was not an issue. We've been together so long for love, nothing else...
AKS introduces optional uptime SLA up to 99.95% in addition to free tier
There aren't any self driving cars on the road that don't have a safety driver, and the ones that are out there get confused all the time. The Uber one had a software dev turn off the lidar sensor to test the computer vision at night and it ended up killing a woman crossing the street.
Yes there's a psychological principle at work there, when you ask a serious of "softball" questions that are intended to get the respondent to agree, blatantly so, the respondent's "radar goes up", so to speak.
I've heard someone give this approach -- and its unintended consequence -- a name, but currently it escapes me. And yes, the gentlemen I'm thinking of was in sales, technical sales actually.
The forecasts from the IEA are my favourites, predicting a decline in PV expansion every year.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/11/20/iea-versus-solar-pv-r...
I thought asparagus was its joke way of saying penis. It seems to always classify mine as asparagus and make some witty comment like "we are certain about your good intentions".
Yes I realized after posting, that most of it is probably self-censorship of Google, Facebook and co.

But as I understand it public access television is quite heavily regulated in terms of profanity and nudity and you will get fined for violations

https://www.fcc.gov/general/obscenity-indecency-and-profanit...

E.g. The 2004 Superbowl where Janet Jackson flashed her nipples. Viacom paid out US$3.5 million to settle indecency complaints and got fined 500k which got later overruled because it was only "fleeting" indecency. It sounds to me that ruling could have gone either way.

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

But don't know how much of that extends to others forms of media than tv.
process substitution might help you avoid an explicit fifo; it should work for this example but in general handling stdin can be tricky when using process substitutions.

age -i <(age -d key.dat) -d input > output

if you're using gnu pass to store private keys, you could do something like

age -i <(pass age-key-personal) -d input > output
"I tried drawing ╰⋃╯ and it seem to detect it."

Kilroy was here.
To put it another way, there is a lot of money to be made with confirmation bias.
More precisely, Lisp

... without cons,

without arbitrary precision integers, fixed precision integers, rationals and complex numbers,

without image-based development,

without the conditions-restart system,

without CLOS,

etc.

It's interesting to note, since Janet is a bytecode interpreter, that we've have had a full Common Lisp implementation for years (CLISP) that provides all the features above (plus many many others) with a download size (1.8MB) just slightly bigge than to Janet's.
Perhaps it wasn't recognized because it was in the wrong place
Vue.js Dashboard Library
I created a library: http://github.com/SebastienBtr/vue-dashboard to easily create a dashboard app, my motivations for this library is that I didn't want to use a big dashboard template that you can find online, where you always have to do some refactor and remove all the things you don't need. Instead my library just give you a vue component to have a dashboard layout setup. Feedback would be appreciated, and of course, a star if you think it's great :)
Well, for example, say you were adding a new preference page. First, I'd do a deploy of the new database table(s), even though they aren't used. Then, I'd add a link to the page in the UI and put that behind a flag, maybe with a small non-functional UI so that the designer could play with it. Then, I'd implement the basic functionality and open it up to my team to start playing with it. Then, I'd ship other deploys for things like tests, more edge cases, UI tweaks, etc.

At some point in there, I'd open that page up to my beta customers, trial customers, or whoever is less risk-adverse. Once I'm happy with it, I'd do a percentage rollout to ensure any issues don't affect all customers at once. Just an example, but the idea is to reduce risk of each step and make each step easily reversable/hidden if something comes up.
> Romans at the time wouldn't have known about a "fall."

The sack of Rome in 410 came as a giant shock to the Roman world, and led to debate among Romans about the cause of the crisis of the Empire. Augustine's "City of God" was written to defend Christianity from the accusation that it was the cause of Rome's decline. The Western Roman Empire did not disappear overnight after the sack of Rome, but that was clearly a sign that the Empire was badly weakened. By the late 5th Century, the Western Roman Empire had been completely taken over and divided up by rather barbarous Germans, and it would have been obvious to any Roman that the Empire was extinct in the West.

The idea of a "transformation" of the Roman Empire in the West, as opposed to a collapse, really isn't tenable, in my opinion.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_God
That's funny! Did you try it? I find it impossible to get any useful information out of it.

Literally the first ad that Facebook shows on my "newsfeed" is by "Jellop", but when I search for Jellop in their ad library, I get no results. In fact, I can't seem to get any results at all, regardless of what I search for, or what I select as the country.
Hong Kong immigration procedure (including Covid-19 testing)
If the manufacturing facility that makes the panels is itself powered by solar, then the true cost is mostly the materials and what it takes to source them.

As for batteries, not every dollar application needs metal or chemical batteries. There are other options as low tech as pumping water uphill, heating water, compressing air, etc.