skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drop what to 80%?

Our economy works really well because electricity is 100% dispatchable. You flip the switch at any time, things work. If you go below that, the economy will follow the weather, which I guess is just a different way to operate. But it's not so fun. I have some friends in South Africa where power rationing is in place. You basically have a few dead hours every day because the grid isn't run well and they haven't built enough capacity. They hate it. You're cooking a nice pie for grandma and then BAM, powers out. You're on your treadmill, and BAM - you hit the wall. You're playing CoD, and BAM. Sucks to suck.
Did you mean to post on a different thread?
To add to that, Spree Commerce: https://github.com/spree/spree
Tears of a Cop: The Storm That Wrecked Bernie Kerik (2005)
It also stays at "looks very interesting", it's not a usable OS on a normal machine for everyday tasks.
Not validate discs, but one of the issues is Blu-ray discs have Java apps on them, and some of the Java apps on the discs are, uh... buggy. So pushing out updates to compensate for said discs is often necessary.
I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but usually, holding shift while right clicking enables the context menu in Firefox.
Part of the problem here is the very nature of Blu-ray, where you have Java running on a disc and updates needed for that.
Okay, please, go ahead and investigate these issues. What have you found? I am summarizing a well-understood consensus position, not exploring some novel theory. You can research the issue as much as you like, and find as many spurious "unpleasant" correlations as you like; this does not dislodge the fact that race is a social and cultural construction rather than some genetic reality.

I do not want to shut down research, but I do want to point out that the research which contradicts Hsu is already done and the theories which explain why he is wrong are already understood.
Maybe the responsiveness? In a real use case I think you'd want to have a set grid size so responsiveness seems like an odd goal.
This reminds me of Linus Åkesson's chipophone:

https://www.linusakesson.net/chipophone/making.php
> I'd truly encourage you to go engage with the literature and experts on this subject. You might find that your "100x" expectation is wildly inaccurate.

Funny thing is, for the people asking that question (and IIRC literally the case that led to this discussion, which was an on-the-street-interview) they aren't looking at the academic literature - they're reading Vox, or watching CNN, or Fox, or reading the NYTimes. And I think that 100x is pretty accurate there.

> Because they are easy to find for people who are interested and spending time navigating the literature for people engaged in an intellectual denial of service attack is a waste of time. Same reason I stopped engaging with quacks causing trouble in my field of expertise.

"This is easy, and people ask me to do it often, but instead of doing it once and saving the results I just say 'educate thyself' and walk away"

Things that are easy for you - a person evidently up-to-date with the literature here - might be extremely difficult/impossible for someone who's not familiar, or who doesn't have free journal access.
> - have stats about the meeting (who was actively participating, maybe via gaze tracking or seeing whether the tab is in view). We're they speaking aggressively, friendly, etc.

This is one's dangerous. I'm actually finding it hard to think of a use case for this where it isn't abusive and oppressive.
I've never thought of him as a failure at all. He did something significant for himself and left a legacy.
Sorry for my ignorance, according to the source, Wirecard hired KPMG last year to conduct an independent audit to address allegations by FT.

Why would anyone who run the fraud hired an auditor to expose their fraud? Do they think they can get away with it? Why not just ignore the allegations?
Municipal law, spending, etc. seems to me like a ripe avenue for software being used to improve society. Here's why: most people don't even know what things are happening in their area, much less do the math to see the full picture. There's an enormous gap between what information is technically available to the public and how that information is put on people's radar so it can influence voting and activism. I feel like I've also read that, for this exact reason, municipal governments are some of the most corrupt parts of our system.
100% guarantee a new billionaire will come out of these early "Robinhood Days"
My parents live within 15 minute drive from the “Silicon Valley of Canada” aka Kanata. It is a major telco equipment hub.

They don’t have internet service available.
Less than 0.5% of US electrical generation comes from oil. Perhaps you meant natural gas?

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
To tell the truth, there is json-schema[1], and a number of implementations of it which work pretty well.

You can use it to validate your JSON inputs, much like you would with XSD (I've used both).

There is OpenAPI, née Swagger [2], which allows you to describe your API in human- and machine-readable form and generate code for it [3].

But validation is but one step. A robust API needs rate-limiting, injection protection (does your language has tainted strings?), easy enough authz/authn story, etc, etc, all different and non-trivial things.

[1]: http://json-schema.org/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAPI_Specification
[3]: https://openapi-generator.tech/
I was inclined to believe it's normal, but you never know unless you ask!

I remember seeing the guy who can calculate a bunch of digits of pi on the discovery channel as well. He also had synesthesia. I always wondered if there was a trick to what he was doing...
I bought panels from https://www.santansolar.com/. Enphase micros and Ironridge racking from https://tandem-solar-systems.com/. Then I made permits using https://get.solardesigntool.com/.

All-in-all, it was fun and easy.
Show HN: Squally – A PC Game to Teach x86/X64 ASM [Major Update]
https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/770200/view/2458350973567416367

Squally is a game I've been working on for over 2 years now. It's designed to teach the basics of x86/x64 assembly and other low level topics like binary, hex, binary operations, etc.

I started working on this game to solve the problem I had when I first started getting into game hacking -- the learning resources for low-level computer science are terrible.

For those interested in game hacking, I also have a YouTube course (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj4rhfnikVs) that teaches PC game hacking from the ground up, with absolutely no prerequisites.
Woocommerce. Can you elaborate more on "ideological reasons"?

I'm genuinely curious why you don't feel ok to pay less than $1/sale to shopify to keep your store up & running but are ok paying much more on fulfillment/shipping.
Revealed: The true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group
Read carefully:

> In 2006, at the time of PS3’s launch, each console was sold at a loss of around US $240 per console

That would be a loss leader if the plan was you sell those launch consoles and then exit or move on to a new product having lost $240 per console.

But that was never the plan, the plan was you sell millions more consoles over many years and so overall they're profitable.

It's not razors and razor blades, Gillette sent me a free razor when I was a teenager because that's a razors and razor blades model. Sony doesn't give away consoles because they make money selling the console. They didn't make money on the first few million, which doesn't matter because they sold over a hundred million after that.

The reason they don't do razors and razor blades is because the attachment rate is much lower than most owners imagine unlike for razor blades. It's typically going to be 5-6 games per console. PS4 actually hit 8 games per console but that's a fantastically successful machine nearing the end of its life.

So, if you're losing $240 per console but you hope you can shift six games per console that is $40 per game you need to recoup to break even.

If you go out to a third party developer and you say "We want $40 per sale" they are going to laugh in your face. This isn't Apple strong-arming independent developers, the big games publishers (most obviously Take Two and Activision) absolutely are powerful enough to walk away from such a deal knowing that their competitors will do the same and then the console is dead.
The Mistakes I Made as a Beginner Programmer (2018)
"It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, to the Middle Ages. One of its characteristics was that "reasoning by analogy" was rampant; another characteristic was almost total intellectual stagnation, and we now see why the two go together. A reason for mentioning this is to point out that, by developing a keen ear for unwarranted analogies, one can detect a lot of medieval thinking today."

I think the problem is that people like the parent comment don't believe there is any thing such as personal freedom, not true personal freedom. That is, freedoms that are not only the ones we are prescribed by society at large.
Decentrailzed, encrypted data store. This will be the base on which next generation of applications will be written on - users want privacy and the ability to own their data.
I had to get the seeds out of Google Authenticator several years ago. The seeds were stored in an SQLite database file in the app directory. I think I used another app to read the DB file and export the seeds to plain text, but you could also conceivably copy the file to a computer and work from there, though you might need root access either way.
Schemaverse: Space-based strategy game implemented entirely within PostgreSQL
Instead of dispatchability payments, why not demand response? Thermostats, electric cars, water heaters, dryers, smelters, and data centers can all turn on a dime if an incentive is there.

Also, what's wrong with policy wonks?
The subsidized console increases the total user base by lowering the up front price hurdle. So you’re comparing a world with a small TAM, expensive consoles, cheaper games, vs a world with a large a TAM, artificially cheap consoles, and more expensive games.

I think both game devs and console makers prefer the big-TAM world.
Well, by posting on HN I suspect he's seeking more social currency via upvotes. That is judgment in a sense.

EDIT: Forgot 'posting'
IMAP might do it via the "All Mail" folder? (Just a guess.)

Also, anyone who still can should print out Google backup codes and store them somewhere safe. Google Authenticator is not enough, because phones break eventually. A Yubikey is not enough, because they can break too.
Coincidentally, they both run on Ruby on Rails it seem.

Gonna check out these two they seem cool.
> Are there cases where Apple has retaliated against developers that do speak out privately?

Do you mean publicly?

How would you determine if a developer was retaliated because they spoke out? I don't think Apple would ever issue a press release saying "yeah, we banned developer X from our platform because we didn't like his New York Times interview."

The thing with Apple is, app store rules are vague and arbitrary, and Apple is the judge, jury, and executioner. They interpret and apply the rules inconsistently. They have utmost plausible deniability. How would you prove that you were removed, not for violating a vague rule that thousands of other apps violate in the same way, but for speaking out?

Even if someone thinks about raising a stink after getting banned, they probably won't go through with it. As we have seen on HN, Apple is so well loved that when a developer speaks out against Apple, most people side with Apple and attribute the developers complaints to not following rules, sour grapes, greed, hating users, etc.
Brainstorming can be a chatroom; this is a better meeting because note-taking is automated.

However that should generate a list of items to follow-up on, and there need to be chances for validating, correcting, and following up on that process.
You can use it inside a browser. Look at https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web but I agree that something like playing with curl would be impossible. I once even stumbled upon a golang project that can generates a RESTful API from your gRPC API without any modifications on your server side.
He claimed the puts he bought, and the shares sold “should have cancelled out” but in hindsight, he said he had “no clue” what he was doing.

For anyone reading this, please hedge your puts by trading stock the same way. Buy put, buy stock. Sell put, sell stock. For example, if you buy a 40-delta put and you want to hedge the delta, buy 40 shares of stock against it.

If you don't know what "delta" is, then you probably shouldn't be trading options until you learn about the greeks. The bible for options trading is Options Volatility and Pricing by Sheldon Natenberg.
When I listen to music sometimes I start to taste a tanginess or sweetness in my mouth. Much the same way my mouth starts to salivate and feel strange when I imagine eating a sour lemon. I think that's pretty common? Is that related to to synesthesia or am I just hungry?
Headline says: "US can reach 90 percent clean electricity by 2035" and you gave your analysis.

GP is asking how your analysis would change if we drop the target to "US reaching 80 percent clean electricity by 2035".
Yeah, and I bet it won't get made into a movie either. Or have people still discussing it years later. Not worth telling at all.

I think people judge his effort by their own interpretation of success. It could just be that some people "get" him and some don't.
UX Design Rules for Devs
I dislike the monthly fee for Shopify apps so I go with WooCommerce most the time. I like designing in Elementor, but the Storefront theme is free and decent out of the box.

If it's for a site I want to get up fast I'll go with Shopify.
I recommend checking out the "Don't F$#k with Paste" extension which allows you to essentially control the setting per site: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-pas...

There is also a version for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-pas...

EDIT: Made the link locale independent and censored the name better.
The Runtime of Sampling from a Distribution
I still run an old not-updated version of Adblock (https://adblockios.com) that created a vpn at 127.0.0.1 and would block specific traffic.

Then apple changed the rules and now it appears to be a crippled safari "content blocker".
It's the taxpayer's choice to rescue these people right?

Meanwhile taxpayers somehow don't always make it their literal business to get every citizen out of harm's way when they're kidnapped abroad. Something that member of society actually should always be rescued from.
The article and book are worth reading. The book is not particularly long. And/or the movie is fine.
Well, nc +tar +compression is likely faster. If you compress your SSH connections, scp or piping over SSH is likely much faster for files that aren't tiny, I would imagine.

You aren't necessarily wrong, but there's a whole world of distinction you're glossing over. Netcat is part of a set of tools you can use to construct a somewhat equivalent tool to scp without encryption, but nc by itself without tar and gzip (or whatever) match only the simplest possibly use case of scp, which is copying one file, without compression, and ignoring all permissions and ownership info.

This is also ignoring that you might not even have an open port on one side that the other can reach to have netcat listen on.
Will the development community do the same? Is it already happening? I’m asking out of curiosity.
Even if you replace coal with natural gas, you're doing the environment a favor.
I recently saw a comment here about this. I don't remember the specifics, but basically the argument was based on trustworthy long-term hosting of obscure material.
Being awed at any beneficial hallucination sounds appropriate to me. It seems awe-some. Clearly, it enriches the lives of whoever has it.
MongoDB Query Perf. Understanding the Query Planner and Advanced Index Types
Ah, crypto and fraud, peas in a pod.
Solar storms are a greater threat to the satellite system we currently have. EMPs are over rated.
Does anyone find it unfortunate that they abandoned optimistic concurrency control as default because it is less compatible with MySQL?
Ask HN: I feel like a complete failure. I need a friend. What to do?
tl;dr: I need a friend. Please send an email to yb9z35ko@protonmail.com
If you're in Vancouver, BC, I'd also like to meet in person if you're ok with that.

Hello HN,

I'm feeling like a complete failure, and aside from my parents who are thousands of miles away, I have literally no friends and social contacts. I don't know why I'm posting this here, but you're the only community that has managed to keep me engaged throughout the years.

I moved to Vancouver, BC to work at a Big N company. I moved alone, because my SO was still finishing college. The plan was to stay in Vancouver for ~2 years, then move to the US under an H-1B or L-1 visa. When I was about to move, my SO got an offer to work in Vancouver at the same company. A remote relationship wasn't working well, and I decided to give up on moving to the US to stay with her in Vancouver for 2 more years, at which point we'd move together to the US.

I quit that job for a 50% pay increase at another Big N company. I "lost" every friend I had - all of them moved to the US. It wasn't an issue for me, because my SO provided me all the social/emotional support I needed, and she kept in touch with my friends anyway.

After over 7 years, we decided to break up. She wanted a polyamorous relationship (I was ok with the occasional hookup, but she wants another real relationship now), and I felt insecure about that. We couldn't reach an agreement, so we're now parting ways.

Also for the past 5 years I've been trying to work on side projects, something that could allow me to work on my own. I'm still in Canada on a work permit, which forces me to work for my current employer, or leave Canada when it expires. I'm unsatisfied with my job, been overworking and haven't got the recognition I wanted.

I feel like I lost everything. I'm still grateful I have a job, but I just don't have anything else going on in my life. I really need a friend right now.
Could it be an issue with surpassed time relative to when it was initially built? A bunch of people mentioned their hardware is roughly 2 years old: 86400(seconds) * 365(days) * 2(years) = 63,072,000
To me, the logical compromise would be to require upfront payment of a bond that is (a) forfeited if you need rescue, and (b) doubled if you don't follow basic precautions before heading out.

Liberty can't be unconditional when your actions affect others. I see no philosophical objection to saying "you're free to do X, but you're the one paying the cost if it backfires."
Blu-ray has java?
I see what you're saying, but if you're arguing for advancement of civilization, then carbon should be priced accordingly.

End-of-life for solar is still a young field, but maturing rapidly. Regulations are already being formed in the US at a federal level. I guess gas plants can just close the well. But worst case,solar panels are small and can be buried (after we deal with the cadmium telluride)

I agree with end-of-life for wind though, not sure how it's gonna paly out.

What gets my goat is people don't bat an eye for granite countertops at home for 20-25k, but then solar roofs or battery storage is considered an expense.
The question isn't what he should or shouldn't have done. That part is crystal clear. The question is why do people feel entitled to moral indignation on account of someone hiking out alone into the wilderness. The arguments so far have not been convincing - it costs money to fly them out, it puts SAR in danger.
How about stagnant and declining real wages and decreasing income security for most people?

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45090.pdf
There is plenty of space in "space" or more like in the earth orbit. Trash is a problem because it may be hard to track or even have unknown trajectory, space isn't. It need global coordination ofc but its not like with planes where everything can changes within minutes due to whether or some kind of emergency. and there is no need for high vehicle density like around an airport.
I too think it’s a poor response from the head of the App Store but we shouldn’t pretend to think we know the “actual” reason that much better because we are given a link to the ever-changing App Store regulations webpage.
Debuggers from scratch (2017): using the ptrace system call
I will say this is a surprisingly powerful comment from gruber, who has generally been extremely forgiving of apple.
No excess deaths anymore from COVID-19 in the USA:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

The excess deaths from COVID can be mostly explained by us having no flu season in 2019 or 2020

We can resume completely normal activity.
Not trying to be snarky, but did the bank actually employ you as a computer scientist? It seems now likely that you were doing software development. If it was the former I'd be interested to hear what types of things they had you working on.
Here I thought step six was going to be something like short circuit the wire with ten thousand amps and let it solder itself.
Haskell still has sort of a way to emulate dependent types in many practical cases, without a ton of work or a huge performance hit [1].

Direct support could be nice, though.

[1]: http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/lightweight-static-guarante...
Personally I was pretty happy to see Risk. Not many people seem interested in playing large strategy board games.
> Dogs vision is about 20/200 in general

I'd be careful with this one. I thought the same when I got a puppy, I'd heard similar repeated (often 20/75 is mentioned as well), and especially that they're not supposed to see well in the dark. After his adolescence my Texas Heeler seems to have excellent vision. He regularly spots small birds, piglets, humans, etc at a distance of 1/4 mile through our window (that's as far as the view goes, but many of the objects he sees rival in size what a human can see at a similar distance). Nighttime does not seem to effect this much. I'm sure his vision is at least 20/40, probably even better than 20/30.

He also seems to have more aggressive pattern recognition through partially obscured sightlines. e.g. seeing a deer or human from just a tiny visual sample viewable through dense trees/brush. However, while this seems to have higher sensitivity than humans (sees the deer when humans dont) it also seems to have somewhat lower specificity (occasionally he thinks something is there when it really isn't).

While this could be due to some Dingo genetics not found in other dogs (unique to Australian Cattle Dogs), it's worth noting that Icelandic Sheepdogs were bred partly to defend unusually small icelandic sheep/goats from unusually large birds of prey that eat them (the white-tailed eagle). Therefore they bark at everything that flies, and some owners have noted that they sometimes bark at birds or airplanes that are quite difficult for humans to see.

My personal hypothesis is that there is wider individual variation in canine sight acuity than is acknowledged by the typical rules of thumb.
Why is he using gradient descent? There's a closed form expression for the coefficients.
That’s a great idea when people are arguing in good faith. It’s kind of pointless when people don’t. “Report is Berkeley and GridLab, mostly policy wonks”

When people start with ad hominem attacks it just doesn’t stop. Making a host of unsubstantiated arguments without support and a few trigger points to deflect rational arguments is the core of effective trolling.