skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which new and hot indie startups should I list?
As demand for oil falls, it will get cheaper, making it more attractive and alternative energy less competitive. It’s a weird dynamic. We literally need to run out of the stuff or pass laws that make it much more expensive (by taking into account its real environmental cost).
I realized now, that when you are in rage there’s still ration trying to speak not to over exaggerate or burning too much of the bridge — but someone not trained to respect self/heart feeling will tend to ignore that little sound...
Ya, I think if it truly was a professional job, there would be no evidence for these cops to review.
Any longitudinal studies done would only have 6 months of data to go by. I recall reading that permanent lung damage from hypoxia is the most common problem with covid-19 but I don't remember where I read that or when. I'm trying my best to not be too alarmed, too fearful, of the unknown / uncertainty around this thing, especially when it comes to young children (I have twins that are 13 months...) but it's very, very hard not to.
Almost all develop on? lol!
Underpaid, unappreciated by many, overcrowed in classrooms, forced to pay for their own supplies. Not really surprising -- I would not last long in that situation when you add in life-threatening.

Education needs a massive reform.
If it helps, I can completely understand your feelings. It's the same for me. If there are more palpitations "than usual", I lose my concentration and start thinking whether I should pay the ER a visit. All the best to you.
Cleaning is certainly a key issue as can be seen in this article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0553-2?draft=coll...

However, there are a few complexities. Cleaning the panels continuously also causes the panels to degrade quicker. Robots for each string of panels is also a significant capital investment. Imagine an installation with hundreds of string of panels and robots for each one. In most cases panels are cleaned by human teams and not on a continual basis.
Reasons to Become a Scientist
You mean "negatively correlated"?
Definitely.

Creators do get the lion share of YouTube's gross revenue.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/03261...
Yes. I know Lucky and I knew Adrian. If Adrian wanted Lucky to assume control of his accounts I’ll eat a hat.
In case anyone is curious:

> The OMC voted this week to update our security policy [1] to include the option of us giving prenotification to companies with which we have a commercial relationship. (Edited to clarify: the vote was to allow notification to our Premium Support customers and this does not include lower support levels, sponsors, or GitHub sponsors.)

* https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2020/05/12/security-prenot...

* https://www.openssl.org/support/contracts.html#premium
That's certainly true, but we're living in a funny time, everything has evolved so quickly that there are 15yr old PHP apps rubbing shoulders with 7yr old Rails apps next to 4yr old Node apps and now React etc. Some of that represents actual progress, some fashion, but for all those legacy apps, someone has to keep the lights on (until the plug gets pulled). That said, I don't really miss PHP too much, it was much nicer than Perl for adding a little magic to html, but building anything big was not fun (I gather Laravel makes that better these days, but there are a lot of other choices if you're starting fresh).
Do you wear glasses? You could be seeing the effects of chromatic abberation.

I have fairly thick and high-refractive-index glasses and can regularly experience this phenomenon where different-colored text shifts in different directions, creating a "3D" effect. The Microsoft logo is a great example of this: if I tilt my head up the red/orange and blue squares seem to move toward each other, and the yellow and green ones away from each other, and vice versa if I tilt my head down.
It's awful but it's real.

The district attorney for New Orleans, Leon Cannizzaro, has come under fire for not only issuing "fake subpoenas" that threaten jail time, he's actually arrested the victims and kept them incarcerated until trial in some cases.

He's still DA there, somehow.
> With, like, borderless floating video (a la Firefox's floating video feature)

If your referring to Picture in Picture, it was implemented for Chrome via an official extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/picture-in-picture...
That's a good question, ideally the creator should provide as many options for support as they can, in order to capture as much revenue for their work. It's then on the consumer to decide which they're most comfortable with, whether it's advertisement, or direct support, etc.
Download a playlist to listen offline without having to download each song individually/manually :)

Edit: I'm a very, very happy new pipe user, this is literally the one feature I'm waiting for. And there is a GitHub issue being worked on for it.
Flattening the rates is a really good sign. The issue is that we're using more an more energy each year (especially in the industrialized countries). This has been super linear growth in the past, due to lots of reinforcing feedback, and so flattening this is a major undertaking.

There's still a long way to go and a lot to do, but this itself has been a hard task and is one of the important milestones. It is a small victory, but a victory nonetheless.
"If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it" --Reagan
I would vote for customized ads, but customized based on the content I'm viewing, not customized based on what they think I want or like.

If I'm reading an article about astronomy, give me a link to telescopes to buy. Don't show me the washer/dryer that I've been looking for in another context in my life.

I would even take content-customized ads with slight tweaks based on my personal profile, but still relevant to the content at hand. For example, if I'm in eastern Nebraska, give me the telescope ad from the example above. But if I'm in Philadelphia, maybe show me a link to the observatory at the Franklin Institute.
Wow I posted at basically the same time, and also mentioned the Microsoft logo. It's just a perfect test case to see this kind of thing happening, I guess.
Youtube might be the only place I actually don't mind ads. Some creators on youtube are extremely good at providing valuable content in short form - I use it primarily as a learning platform, whether I am doing wood work, learning how to fix something at home, or learning about a new topic. I would rather continue to support these creators by watching ads on their own channel than paying for a subscription that covers everything.

It's an invaluable resource and until there's something better taking the ads away takes part of their income away.
I appreciate how Web Components are not opinionated meanwhile Component libraries are free to innovate and build on the Web Component foundation.
One could argue that both you and the parent are not in disagreement.

The extreme success of Walt Disney as CEO has created a huge company that is an unfeeling monster predisposed to owning everything and chewing up human capital when needed.
Google Will Ban Ads on Sites Publishing “Debunked” Coronavirus Theories
Yep, and it's those network effects which are strengthened through using YouTube even if they aren't making revenue from ads through you.

It's similar to disliking Walmart and Amazon but still using them because they are cheap, convenient, a known factor, etc, which many do (including me, in the case of Amazon). The first step is acknowledging the trade-off you're making and being aware of it. At least then people are making a conscious choice, so if they want to re-evaluate at some point, they can do so with better facts.
Yeah, but I guess just like in soccer, we Baverians are leading the pack in sketchy political and legal affairs. Nothing to be proud of, so.
The assumption is that they're not surrounded by countries willing to pay astronomical prices for electricity 24/7.
I am one of those without a PhD, but have taken the time to the learn the math & contribute quite a bit to this area.

That being said, I also don't think deep learning itself is not really a "science". The issue I have is you can't predict if a network will learn.

We're effectively testing deep learning networks the same way the Romans used to test bridges. Send a bunch of elephants over them, if it holds it's good enough.

There's obviously some indicators of success, but on a whole the overall interaction between components is very difficult to calculate and near-impossible to predict. While I think it's important to understand how layers interact and how a given function will impact your optimization, etc. it's not fully required to have a deep understanding of the mathematics, at least for most cases.

I also personally don't view anything on arXiv worth anything. I typically will read articles/papers myself if reviewing a candidate and / or would like to see their publications at conferences or journals. Otherwise, it's essentially a blog post (which IMO is fine, but will require me to review it).
> It's sad to see that duplication of effort but it's also the force of open source

How's that a FOSS thing? Do you think there would be fewer TLS implementations running around if they were proprietary?
I know a bunch of software engineers that used to work for Disney, specifically in their online content divisions, and they universally reviled that place.

The usual bad software engineering practices with overbearing management, unrealistic deadlines, etc. but also below market pay and benefits, constant pressure to lower costs and outsource, and just generally a very cutthroat business environment.

Like other "cool" companies, they cash in on their brand cachet to treat employees badly, because they should be honored to work for such a company!

Whatever "magic" there is at Disney is all marketing.
_ph_, on this case I think it’s fair to say the aesthetic and ergonomics are the technical capability, to degrees. For example, building a custom looping control does benefit aesthetics and ergonomics. It could be viewed as 2 sides of the same coin.
Ok...but that implies these cops may be doing coke and meth on the job, since the article says that those drugs "commonly cause" it. Surely that's an even bigger problem than "excited delirium".

EDIT: I'm an idiot.
I thought yesterday that perhaps the attackers were burning an exploit they had. This makes sense only if that exploit would have been going away with the introduction of the new Twitter API, or something. Obviously this is ruled out due to what we know now.
NewPipe also has background play that only uses the audio feed. I thought I would miss the logged in experience but if you take a few minutes to subscribe through the app, the UX is actually better or at least on par with the native youtube app.
I have the exact same issue, been going on for three years now. I’ve also spoken to a psychologist, but nothing has helped so far. The feeling of chest pain is impossible to ignore. It feels hardwired.
Their "solution" just seems to be a way to introduce a trusted stub server in the middle of a DNS lookup request that can anonymize your queries.
That's identical to just trusting your initial recursive resolver to provide that service and using DNS-over-TLS. That's what most privacy focused VPN providers, Cloudflare, etc include.
So why would we break existing DNS implementation to support ODNS?
> Anyone else feel depressed to be American?

Yes, especially since getting the virus load down to a level that can be effectively managed with testing and contact tracing isn't rocket science. We were doing okay through April then just gave up (at least that's what it seems like in Texas).
I suggest you do the same. First result for “archeology near east” contained the phrase “Near East and Egypt”
Reading your comment, I realized how squarely I fall into the grumpy group. Grudgingly agreed to the first part, the second part made me giggle.
Don't forget the prosecutors who will drop the cases, too.
Just wondering, I didn't got the badge since I work on private repos mostly but I do have write access to a few public repos that got stored on the vaultg, if I commit to them now will I get the badge?
Pseudocybin!
The products that I care about actually do offer personalized ads without tracking: think podcasts (not from major networks, but podcasts like ATP or Relay FM), blogs (like Daring fireball), and YouTubers in an area of interest I have (MKBHD, Linus Tech Tips). I don't even mind sponsored content from these people because more often than not, the products are sensible, tailored to my interests, and actually appealing. Yet zero optimization or learning went into it outside of understanding what the source material is and marketing against that.

Obviously you have a bigger problem when it comes to larger sites like NY Times, but why not just let me say "hey, show me tech products because I like tech" to personalize, rather than trying to infer what I want and get it wrong? I'd be more than happy to tell every ad network ever what I actually care about, but right now all of the optimization is focused on guessing what I care about instead.
> Describing your actions as "benefitting" them by helping them see this by depriving them of revenue from you for their content is a slightly odd take though.

The claim was that creators would benefit from diversifying, not that my actions were benefiting them. I was quite clear that my motivations were related to Google.
Basecamp Is Hiring for Ops
that made me recall what I heard often: "mediocre engineers turn into managers" :)
Yep, for sure! It was a fun ride but I'm happy it's over, though I don't enjoy CSS the same these days. Could be age and all that, who knows.
SVG has the concept of re-usable components.

Maybe in 10 years we can replace HTML with SVG.

hides

I'm sure that would make it much, much harder for people with accessible needs.
+1 UltraEdit

I've kept UltraEdit around for more than 20 years now. Column editing, especially back when it was introduced, saved my bacon more than a few times.
Really am interested in how complex these "GPT-3 generated" apps can be, but I'm afraid it will stay nothing more than a (cool) gimmick until we can actually fine-tune the model. And even then I still have my doubts.

Nevertheless its a cool demo, of what maybe will be possible in a single/multiple year(s) from now.
Show HN: SpreadSheet Grid – Excel-Like JavaScript DataGrid
Hi, I wanted to share a JavaScript project that I have been working on during the quarantine period.

https://rowsncolumns.app/

It's an Excel/Google Sheets-esque Grid that can be used in your React projects. Some of the features are

1. High performance using canvas
2. Custom Cell renderers and editors
3. Windowing - Only visible cells are renderers
4. Frozen columns and rows
5. Autofilter
6. Import/Export from excel and csv files
7. Styling, Conditional formatting..

I have been working on DataGrids for the last 3 years professionally and I have always wanted to create a product around this.

Hope you like it. Would love to get some feedback :)
I was told that my city of Portland Maine had riots going on by people living 300 miles away. We had a couple hundred people laying on the ground in front of a police station. The over-exaggeration of people and sources negative towards the causes of these protests is astounding
I think what you're perceiving as happening in HN comments is a consequence of the macro social/geopolitical trend. There is a growing rift between the West and China, and especially between the U.S. and China. It has complex interactions with growing political divisions in the West (and especially the U.S.). This cluster of topics is being increasingly covered in Western media, in an increasingly polarized way. HN users are not coming to HN to talk about this stuff from a blank slate—they're coming with pre-existing views that are conditioned by whatever media and online sources they're engaged with, as well as by their own life experience, as I described above.

What all that means is that we're likely to continue to see more pro- and anti- comments on China-related topics, for reasons that are easily explained by the dynamics in our own societies. Reaching for "CCP shill" as an explanation is unnecessary, and to some extent is harmful because it reflects an assumption that no one could hold certain views in good faith, when we know for a fact that some people in fact do hold those views in good faith—again, for reasons of their own life experience.

This does not imply that we're closed to investigating claims of abuse and manipulation. On the contrary, our contract with HN users is that if someone is worried about abuse, they're always welcome to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we will always take a look. I wrote new code the other day to help with such investigations. Another part of our contract with HN users is that we will tell the truth about what we find. The truth is that we haven't found even a trace of anything like that on HN—just a lot of human beings with very different backgrounds and very strong feelings. There's more about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23839602 from a couple days ago.
As I've been saying for a while, Google is more vulnerable than at any time in the last 20 years. It no longer has much to offer. There's an opening for someone with good execution...
Can you pay to get your content added to Hacker News now?
Inside the criminal justice system in England and Wales [video]
On grids with competitive markets that still have a mixture of operational coal and combined cycle gas turbine plants, the short term coal/gas balance is strongly influenced by short term pricing trends. See for example this article, which is a few years old but still illustrative:

"Coal-to-Gas Switching: It’s All in the Price"

https://www.powermag.com/coal-to-gas-switching-its-all-in-th...

A coal-to-gas parity calculation—using current average Illinois Basin spot coal prices, current SO2 and NOx emissions costs, a $9.00/ton coal transportation cost, a $1.50/MWh average variable non-fuel O&M cost, and adjusted for the higher efficiency of a 7,500-Btu/kWh CCGT plant versus a 10,500-Btu/kWh coal plant—yields a gas floor of $4.15/MMBtu. While this gas parity calculation is broad, it indicates a move toward some potential for coal-to-gas switching for plants consuming Illinois Basin coal if actual forward delivered gas costs are in the range of those previously calculated.

A parity calculation for Powder River Basin coal using the same heat rate assumptions and emissions costs, current coal market prices, and a transportation rate of $16/ton yields a gas floor price of $2.42/MMBtu. While individual plant costs may vary, this indicates limited displacement of PRB coal in the Midwest when compared against the calculated forward gas price curve.

Depending on the coal source, it makes short term sense to displace as much coal as possible with gas at a gas price point below either $4.15/MMBtu or $2.42/MMBtu.

For comparison, current Henry Hub gas spot prices are below $1.70/MMBtu: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/rngwhhdM.htm

Gas is currently taking market share against coal up to the limits of generator capacity in any competitive market in the continental US. Part of the coal fleet still operates because there is not enough gas generator capacity yet built to replace all coal generators. Another part of the coal fleet still operates because the plants are operating as part of regulated utilities that do not have to compete with/respond to short term market incentives.

If gas prices shot up to $5/MMBtu, there would be a dramatic short term shift back toward coal. The fuel mix "floats" in the short term.

In the long term, the factors promoting gas plants in the US are more of a ratchet than a float. The median coal plant is much older than the median gas plant. Many of them are reaching end-of-life. Building a new 500 megawatt coal plant is significantly more expensive and slower than building a new 500 megawatt CCGT gas plant. Once built, coal plants require more maintenance and more employees to run than a gas plant. This makes it particularly expensive to run a coal plant if it's only needed during peak demand seasons.

As far as I can tell, Spiritwood Industrial Park was the last coal plant successfully completed in the continental US, in 2014:

https://www.gem.wiki/Spiritwood_Industrial_Park

It started construction in 2007. As of this year, it is already slated for conversion to natural gas.

I don't expect another coal plant to be built in the continental US, even if gas prices rebound.
I agree. I think it's bullshit that for me to get equity, I have to put hundreds of thousands of dollars in... But my hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of time is apparently worthless?
Indeed. Ultimately it's the (specific incarnation of the) shareholder model of capitalism that's at fault. Shareholders have ultimate control of companies, and their incentives are aligned all wrong (to the short term).
I believe that you are debating in good faith. I'm just flummoxed by your assertions.

It frustrates me to no end that things that I think should be incontrovertible are not.

The division between "left" and "right" is destroying our country and I'm desperate to try to find some way of some dialog to find common ground. I've failed consistently so far.

Edit: "political" discourse comes in different flavors -- there's the tribal/theater/personality side (where most of the ugliness lives), and there's the policy side which is entirely germane to our lives. It is the policy issue that I'm interested in.
I had this problem with getting a close-up filter for my lens. They're a cheap way to get into macro-ish photography, and suddenly everyone with a camera needs a way to keep shooting with fewer places to go. My filter just shipped after two months on backorder.
While true and pretty awful, this is a bit of a non-sequitur from OP. Disney could still have had good creative practices that we can learn from, even if they do other terrible things.
Yeah I also don’t think it’s from a state sponsored hacking group. They should be paranoid enough to not upload their training materials to servers outside their network. Maybe it’s just an average unethical hacking workshop.

Perhaps if they were positive that it’s from a state sponsored group, IBM would not go public about it until NSA take maximum advantage from these information.

But the tactics explained there aren’t necessary ineffective. You can build an army of online soldiers that aren’t really hackers or capable of doing anything complicated. They just need to know enough to help your hackers with data gathering and phishing. So they can scale up their operations.
Yes, I am more concerned about authoritarian states than individuals generally.

And yes, my passport would pose a bigger problem for me on first blush. But even for a European in Iran. Or an Iranian in Iran, apostasy is a crime and one that can be severely punished. We should decry that as a threat to freedom of thought and religion.
I don't hate Outlook at all, and the mobile app is 1000% better than the Gmail app.
if you hire someone because they are a specific race (Black, White, Hispanic, etc...) you are racist AF.
Range is solved for many uses. But in my case, I only have a single car. It needs to get me around town, as well as drive me halfway across the US to see my parents for Christmas, in addition to driving me to out-of-the-way places for hiking. Take Big Bend National Park, for instance. The nearest city is two hours away. The park itself is so large that there is a gas station within the park (also, the next gas station is an hour north). I would not expect to find a charging station within two hours of the park. And even if there is, simply replace BBNP with a less popular remote place.

If I had two cars, electric is completely doable, but for one car, it needs to work everywhere, which isn't possible yet.
I assume not since your code will not be in the vault.