skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes electricity is more easily transmitted than fuel. Compare: pipeline vs electric line.

Lets do that. High voltage electricity transmission has losses about 4% per 1000 km (HVDC somewhat less, but is a point-to-point system so less flexible than the common AC transmission). By comparison the pumping power required for transporting liquid hydrocarbons is less than 1/10th of that. Also, a high voltage transmission line is an eyesore requiring about 50m wide right of way, whereas a pipeline of equivalent capacity needs a much narrower corridor.

I'm not saying we shouldn't go for electricity, but we need to be frank about the upsides and downsides. (Most experts seem to agree that in order to decarbonize our societies the basic recipe is to 1) Clean up electricity generation. 2) Electrify everything.)

I used Li-ion for the battery comparison, since that is the best rechargeable battery technology that actually exists. I'm highly skeptical that a new battery technology with two orders of magnitude better energy density is possible. It's very hard to get anywhere close to the energy density stored in the chemical bonds in fuels. Or, well, yes we do know of fuels with better energy density than chemical fuels, namely nuclear fuels.
you are finally waking up

too late to complain thought, they killed CoreRT already, and themselves on the same occasion

Microsoft is a dead company anyways
Those cockpits look intimidating to people who haven't been trained to fly those planes. But here's the thing, non-pilots can't fly glass cockpit planes either. The complexity is unavoidable.
I’m deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem so I’d have to venture that my iCloud subscription is the most central item to me. It hosts my main email address (that I have been using for seventeen years), backups of my iOS/iPadOS devices, synchronises my whole platform, and so forth. I’ve been relying on it on an ever-increasing capacity since it was called iTools, when I claimed my @mac.com address and used the iDisk functionality right on my mac’s desktop.
Have they been failing by themselves or have they been destroyed by Microsoft, e.g. [1]?

[1] http://techrights.org/2009/09/14/ms-admits-draining-to-destr...
The 'cure' of endless and pointless lockdowns is indeed proving worse than the disease, particularly when the CDC estimates overall mortality from the virus will be only 0.4%:

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/data-cd...

For reference the seasonal flu is 0.2%, for which we do... precisely nothing.
All included, still not even close. Not by a long shot. Renting bare metal from a major provider is going to be less than 20% the cost of aws and that's not even including the bandwidth which is even cheaper from bare metal vs aws.

There is no calculus that makes aws cheaper unless you need extreme variability or some of their managed services and even then, you can usually use those services in conjunction with your rented bare metals.
Then what is "self-hosted" supposed to be? What CMS are you going to use? Where's that going to run?
I replied to another comment about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319745

I think the solution is to get more creative with the cards. Use them as cues for situations, add images, etc. The notecard format is just the way Anki is designed, but SRS doesn’t necessarily need to be limited to a strict text card format.
Hong Kong's China national anthem bill aims to legislate ‘respect’
What I’m currently working on is in its earliest stages at the moment, since I’ve reclassified it as a learning exercise it has been getting less of my time at the moment. Due to this, (potential) user interviews aren’t at the top of the list now.
The premise of this article is that the US is the victim of Chinese incompetency. The opening sentence more or less tries to state that as a fact. Basically, the authors are parroting Trump here.

The reality is that Wuhan has been open for business again for two months or so after China dealt swiftly and efficiently with the pandemic while the US was still in denial about having a crisis while at the same time experiencing the crippling effects on the economy. If you want to use the word incompetence in relation to this pandemic, there's no need to look beyond Washington.

This article is the Republican narrative that this thing that happened on their watch isn't their fault at all because evil foreigners tricked them. It's a blatant deflection of any form of responsibility.

Like most of the world, the US was getting all the signals that bad shit was going down late last year, early confirmations that it was going to be really bad in January, and the rest is just plain incompetent governance, opportunistic posturing by populist morons, wishful thinking, and a generally unprecedented level of ineptness throughout layers of government that Republicans have had no small part in helping to deconstruct in the last decades. If you want to point fingers, use a mirror.
It was a part of Digitalk Smalltalk/V for DOS. It can still be found at:
https://winworldpc.com/product/digital-smalltalk/12-dos
It does run under FreeDOS.
Remember TenX? They are back? (DE)
Agreed, I’d think even if they couldn’t go driverless or automate fully, Level 4 system in Level 2 mode is great for standardizing behavior of trucks.
Switch to Napster. I did, for this reason, and I'm very happy I did.
Some times it is just curiosity. Our "monkey mind" can't resist such challenges!
(11x11-1)/12 = 10.
No arguments there, and my point was certainly overreach.
I realized after a while that any name I made up would invariably be an actual JS package, perhaps even a full fledged framework. Shibboleth is in fact v0.1.4, available via npm. https://www.npmjs.com/package/shibboleth
The frog was on their "4K" device, so the 8K one will only have 30% smaller pixels.

100% / sqrt(2)
Also, there are actual quite reasonable rules to know which 3rd declension nouns are i-stems, so it doesn't seem too right too just say "follow your gut".

Btw, I wouldn't abuse latin comparisons on an american forum, I don't think it's quite in the culture ^^
I am glad that unelected corporations are protecting us from the opinions of elected officials.
I'd rather give Youtube benefit of doubt here, given that Youtube can't profit in China and that Google has had a long history of standing up against China. A more plausible reason for this mishap is that, as I guess, Youtube's removal system is automated and considers user complaints. The propaganda machine of Chinese government, or even China's little pinks, may have figured out a way to game the system by filing lots of complaints.
I usually go for asking questions. „Is this the most plausible reasoning?“ / „wouldn’t x be way simpler/cheaper/easier?“

The sceptic guide to the universe by Steven Novella also has a short chapter on how to seed some skeptic thinking into others for them to reconsider their believe in conspiracies.
The low level stuff seems to have come from three fronts, high performance Web servers (trying to be on top results at TechEmpower), improving overall performance for Unity/MonoGame/Xenko, and given their position regarding safer languages, reducing the need to jump into C++/CLI for performance.

Project Reunion seems to be the start of long roadmap to bring UWP tech into Win32, as if Windows 8 had introduced UWP as Win32 evolution without the additional application model.

So if developers don't migrate en masse into UWP, bring UWP APIs (COM v2) to all Windows developers and in 10 years from now pretend that Windows 8.x (UAP)/W10 UWP never happened.

I used to believe in UWP despite all its issues, still think C++/CX was the closest that Microsoft ever came to having their own C++ Builder (C++/WinRT tooling is still too clunky), and .NET Native was what .NET should have been since day one.

Oh, well lets see how all of this will turn out.
(23x23-1)/12 = 44.
That's exactly what they are doing. The real resolution is 45x lower.
Why not? As long as you are comparing your total cost all in on both services. But did they even say on-prem? I was assuming colocation.
disgraceful
A large majority of people in their late thirties have already established a family, they wont show up in statistics.
Your parent specifically already covered #2 and #3. Even if they do it's better.

Secondly, patent where? If they do it to limit the use I doubt many nations would respect that patent.
Neat. That product is needed in India even more than Robinhood was needed in the U.S.

Here's the end game: a payment/retail aggregator app like Flipkart's Phonepe could buy out your business and integrate it with theirs. Acquisition would be faster than building a stock trading service internally. Paytm, their competitor, already got approval to build a stock trading platform. Diversified financial offerings cement first mover advantage and create a very profitable position in an oligopoly.

In the U.S., this space is marginally less exciting because there are multiple stock brokers with good or good enough tech platforms, reliable service, and hundreds of billions of dollars under management.

A bit of advice on the product itself.

1. Try to integrate with other Indian fintech platforms early on.

2. Learn from Chinese fintech. They created a model that can be more or less copied throughout the developing world. For example: Ant Financial followed the principles of choice architecture to save Chinese savers from making ill advised investments. They deliberately put safer as opposed to riskier stocks on their stock trading platform. They knew that even Chinese people didn't trust Chinese stocks a lot anyway, so they leaned on global offerings and partnered with Vanguard to encourage investment in diversified foreign indices. Ant Financial did a lot of fascinating and innovative things so if you're going to research Chinese fintech I would start with them.

Edit: I see what you're doing with the landing page approach, but you should gather conversion metrics. Advertise to your target market on Facebook and measure the CTR and signup rate.
DNS is not an encrypted protocol.

The people routing your DNS traffic can inspect it and even tamper it (e.g.: your ISP) even if you pick DNS servers other than the ones provided by your ISP. Your privacy is not guaranteed.

DNS over HTTPS/DNS over TLS is encrypted and may offer better privacy, if you trust them, that is.
Wouldn't any solution result in a new trick to add to the bag of tricks, and then make the symbolic programs for integral calculation surpass again?
Thanks. Will do it now ;)
Thanks for this. I was tired to do a 20 second google search
Brilliant, this news gladdens my heart. This dangerous cockwomble needs fact checking, hopefully it might make a difference to his ignorant followers. I'm really happy Twitter is starting to apply the same standards to popular accounts that it does to regular users.
No, that's a diversion. It has nothing to do with the fact people felt unheard and had to quit.

So slimy....
I feel fortunate that I have a south-facing balcony I can sunbath on during the day. Sunlight is a great antidote for many people when they're feeling blue, but this has now become inaccessible to many. Sunlight through windows just doesn't cut it; glass blocks too much UV.
Control.

With self hosting I can control the code, what it does, the cost, where it stores data, how backups are made, when new versions and updates are deployed, etc.

It’s always a trade off on control, and my comfort point is “on AWS”.

For some people they want their own servers. Some people want to own the network block. It’s just what level of comfort you have with each type of control.

I don’t know what CMS I’m going to use, that was my question. Which one operates the way I want?

It’ll run on AWS lambda or an equivalent.
I've been building CLIs with Go as part of a 52 projects in 52 weeks challenge[1] and I'm loving it so far. I released a batch renaming tool [2] just a few days ago.

[1]: https://github.com/ayoisaiah/project52
[2]: https://github.com/ayoisaiah/goname
Apple is bringing software to eliminate children's smartphone addiction
> better job than the US at taking care of it’s people (except minorities, but the US isn’t exactly a model there either).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protes...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...

What is America doing to minorities that tops all of this?
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There is actually a Squeak VM in Javascript (http://squeak.js.org) and there is at least Amber Smalltalk implemented in JS.
http://amber-lang.net. No need for WASM.
A retrospective on the 2018 rust-lang.org redesign
The best thing would be to make them expensive when the vehicle is >70% charged so it incentivizes drivers to free the charger equipped parking spot when the vehicles is full of almost full. That way the charger becomes available to others.
Baaaaahaha

0_____0‘s Law of Software Framework Names
This is great. Will you allow other "friends" to create their own directories to? I'd like to contribute.

Just found: https://www.kleptones.com/blog/2012/06/28/hectic-city-15-pat...

Thanks!
Do you want a passive income source? buy my app. I am selling its source code
Who is the best ERP implementation provider company in Saudi Arabia
I imagine the main story it tells is how I remember the buildup for the Iraq War.
I've dealt with depression and anxiety for many years. I just want to tell anyone who happens to read this: it's ok to ask for help, it's ok to go to therapy, it's ok to use antidepressants.

Find the tools that work for you and keep asking for help when you need it. (Believe me, I know how hard it is.)
>There seems to be very little news which isn’t engineered to benefit one group or another.

I'll go further and say a lot of "news" is just activism, pushing a political agenda. In some cases it's blatantly obvious, and in some cases it's not, and you have to dig a little deeper to find out. It's starting to become a problem in Denmark as well, because most american trends make their way here on a time delay - good or bad.
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Oh please, I've worked on the anti-fraud/abuse system of a large hosting/internet provider in Europe.
It was a flexible "if then scoring escalation/ticketing rules".

I'm not saying my knowledge applies to all customer support cases, but what happened here would never have happened with our system.

Just very simple tricks go a loooong way dealing with malicious people:

how old is the account of the "reporter" ?

is the "reporters" id verified?

how long has the account we're taking action against been our customer?

whitelists/blacklists -- temporary or permanent

are all complaints against a customer of the same type grouped to the same ticket type/ticket?

Just based on those simple facts, we would mmediately lock functionality/content for unverified, new customers we received complaints about, while delaying, notifying and giving verified, aged customers the chance to respond/fix issues.

I'm not saying this is easy, for the system I worked, our agents designing the rules had about 80 individual ticket types(in a hierarchy, with rule re-use for ticket category), but they used their brains and did not take any "lock X functionality of the customer" lightly.
I understand any extra data gives you an advantage, but I think I'm missing a step where they can steal a solution while simultaneously keeping that solution for themselves (assuming stealing means copying/sneaking out information others have already gathered).

Maybe a slight headstart if they throw extra research money on it.
>, yet we (well, at least you) accept it from China. Why?

because it's not my job to tell China how to run their country. This is mostly a distinction without a difference anyway because the Chinese would obviously not enjoy watching a lot of movies in which they're the bad guy and Captain America saves the day.

It's like if you make a movie that insults the Prophet Muhammad a lot of Muslims won't like it, and neither will a bunch of autocratic governments, but it doesn't really make much difference in practice. If one of said countries was on their way to become the world's largest economy that'd probably be reflected in film production over time.

The real issue here is that global consumption now more closely reflects the actual demographics of the globalised economy, which means if producers want to serve all those markets they'll have to be more sensitive to different audiences or regulations.

It's like French radio stations demanding that a quarter of all lyrics be in French. If that was a 20 trillion dollar economy you bet a lot of musicians would make more French songs
I'm confused by the downvotes on this. The comment is quoting CDC numbers, this is not some fake news report.

The 0.4% mortality for coronavirus is the CDC best estimate.

The 0.2% is from the CDC website for the 2017 flu season.

Edit: The parent comment has apparently been flag removed. But it was claiming that the reaction to coronavirus (lockdown) is worse than the damage from the virus, and used the above comparison to flu mortality to support this claim.

I'm not sure why this comment was flag removed, since it used data to support a position.
(Except for the prime numbers 2 and 3, of course.)
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I'm building something like that. My app learns based on the content you've read, to show you more relevant passages for you:

https://thinkerapp.com/
fortunately, more and more scientists and doctors are stepping up and being public about why all of this lockdown and social distancing thing is not only useless, but harmful. Unfortunately, not only they don't get much air time in mass media, as they end up being censored by YouTube. Makes you wonder why...
You are creating a false dichotomy. If you aren't a mature company like expensify that can pretty accurately predict your needs, then you can rent bare metal for nearly as cheap as buying it. Probably cheaper if you don't have any special needs and commodity hardware will do.
This is only in terms of effeciency, not in terms of accuracy of overall performance.
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WeakRef and FinalizationRegistry will ship in Chrome 84.
As the typical SysAdmin who likes to automate stuff, I have to agree. I am not experienced enough to talk about language designs. But I can say, that writing some small CLI application and deploying it onto some server is way less work with go. Simply because you can crosscompile the application and generate a standalone binary.

Everytime I deploy some Python3.7 Flask Application on RHEL7 I start to scream.

You were talking about long running applications and broken goroutines: What is the best alternative? I liked to stumble around in Elixir but I feel bad about deploying some application probably nobody at my office will ever be able to 'fix/update'. Python feels too "sluggish". Since I am no Python Pro I have often the feeling, that I am doing something wrong because the language doesn't show any borders.
I had to look it up, even though I'd seen the term before I had forgotten its meaning.
People made the issue political in USA. So instead of thinking rationally and discussing facts people just vote along the party lines. Downplaying the disease makes them think that you are right wing and hence should be down-voted.
Alternatively, disable cookies on Medium.com by clicking the lock next to the URL, clicking "cookies", and finally "block". Desktop of course, but I'm sure there's a way to disable cookies for individual sites on mobile as well. Never have to open in a private browser ever again.
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Wow. I just checked the average age of motherhood in the USA and it's 26yo. That's 6 years less than in the country I'm living; perhaps my intuitions about what it's normal in a modern society are heavily skewed (and in my social circles it's even worse, with age if motherhood around 35yo, largely due to effects caused precarious work)
that's all nice, but they will struggle to set up Wi-Fi network by themselves, if it's WiFi only tablet

kudoz for not forgetting Team Viewer or Anydesk
I think just expanding it would be more helpful. I had seen the term before and knew exactly what a Virtual Private Cloud was once being reminded what VPC actually stood for.
Can you do without an encoder for legs? Maybe attach an IMU like you do for gimbals? Or measure current?
I always assumed it was a licensing thing where they couldn't use the MFC DLL to have the same buttons.

Made it easy to spot a Delphi app.
Then try Netlify's CMS: https://www.netlifycms.org/

It's a single-file app. You can host it yourself, and it edits static files in a github/gitlab repo. The deployment after push and hosting with custom domains and CDN is already handled by Netlify. And it's all free.

If you use Jekyl then you can skip Netlify and Github will build and serve your site.
The automotive industry has plenty of OEM suppliers for various vehicle components, so there would be nothing unusual about a third party company providing self-driving hardware and software for traditional manufacturers' cars.
I've also created an "Anki Vocabulary Program", all you have to do is basically open the terminal and type "add targetWord definitionOrImageUrl" and it does the following:

1. Creates an anki card with basic word -> definition or image

2. Creates an anki card with writing exercise for the word

3. Creates an anki card with pronunciation exercise for the word (fetches audio file on fly)

4. Creates an anki card featuring a dynamic cloze exercise (fetches 250 example sentences for the word, stores it in a database, serves a random one each time an anki card requests it, a custom-made card (in Anki) hides the word in the sentence, provides the ability to request a new sentence or reveal a letter as a hint)

And adds these cards to a specified deck. It's proved very useful so far.
The home page needs to improve the message. Don't talk about the what, talk about the why. When selling, you don't talk about pasta sauce and that it goes with pasta, you tell the consumer how the pasta sauce is going to liven the taste buds and give you the nutrients to make you feel healthy.

> mail and campaign marketing
You may get this, most club owners might have an idea but most aren't thinking about marketing, they are thinking about how they can "reach people", "get announcements to members"

> social collaboration
I have no idea what this means on a practical level, it sounds like a corporate buzzword. Who would buy based on just those two words.

> subscription collection (online payments)
Oddly, this is great and then you explain it further.

> training programs and eLearning
What training? Training for the site, for me, for members, do I have to fill in training material, do I charge members for this, does it apply levels? Again, just buzzwords with no why.

> custom data
What is custom data and why would I need that?

> completely extendable via API's
Most people paying the bills will not know what an API is, you are talking about sports clubs, social clubs, etc. These people don't know or care about an API.

I know the retort might be that you click on the features page and find out more, but the average person probably won't make it that far or would have to enlist the services of a tech person to help explain.

Otherwise, good luck.
The vast majority of Google users will never need customer support, and those who do probably will mostly have easy problems.

There aren't a billion content creators on Youtube, and even fewer who would be good targets for blackmail like this.

The channel in question has 100K+ subscribers and 17M+ views. That's probably a sizable amount of profit for Google from ads. It it really so unfathomable that google could tune their ban bot from "ban this video/channel/account immediately" to "signal a human to have a look and decide on what to do, maybe after talking to the channel creator"? That's just ridiculous to me.