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Does the sand stick to the panels? Could the panels be tipped?
The impact on the travel industry isn't short term. A few months of furloughs won't solve this problem.
>They could be one of the biggest solar players in the world

And what would they do with that? They can't package solar-harvested energy and export it to China. They can provide regional power during daytime - but probably for more money than oil/gas ... and they will still need to rely on oil/gas for base-load, mornings, evenings and night-time.
You might like "journey into the microcosmos": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g

It really reveals a lot of the "small stuff".
One more reason to use nextdns on iOS or adaway/nextdns on Android.
Same here (and same browser/OS), it seems like some font is missing?
The report you link says the same thing:

> Emissions trends for 2019 suggest clean energy transitions are underway, led by the power sector.
Agreed. Parsons Technology sold some software in early PC days with great success. They ran on the founder's charisma. He'd stroll through offices telling folks they were doing well and that he'd always find a place for them and do right by them.

One day he got offered big money for a buyout. Took it, ran, left employees to be laid off etc.

But the kicker: the ex-employees still talk of him as a great guy. They brag about how the big man told them he'd always take care of them. Even though he actually screwed them and left them to rot.

So no, I'm not a 'family company' kind of guy. Because I think its emotional leverage and not professional. I understand some folks thrive on that, and not for financial reasons. They seem to need the emotional connection to be happy. Whatever works for them.
here's the ft link containing all their wirecard coverage:
https://www.ft.com/wirecard

i think some articles there are free to read.

for example:
https://www.ft.com/content/284fb1ad-ddc0-45df-a075-0709b3686...
> BaFin ("Germany's SEC" as the headline states) makes the risible excuse that he didn't apply proper oversight to them because they are arguably a "technology company"

Given that they've been deeply involved in regulating cryptocurrencies in the last years, that's a bullshit excuse if I've ever seen one.
Microsoft Open-Sources Haystack - An Indexing Subsystem for Apache Spark
In 13 years at 5 companies, I have literally never had the experience you're describing. Workplaces were always mainly adversarial and extractive with a thin veneer of "we're a family" and "I work with the most amazing people" BS spread on top. I think my coworkers have all generally been fine and competent people, it's just that the workplace is a hostile environment where everyone is either trying to swim with the big fish or at least keep from drowning. My parents are retired now, but describe the work place in your terms of real human connection. I can't help but feel that world is gone. One of their older friends was shocked that I worked from home and couldn't understand why I'd want to separate myself from people like that and forgoe all the friendships. But again, I think that world is mostly gone, chewed up by toxic businesses culture which is why so many people would rather sit at home than deal with it.
I was also waaay more limited. All those clever hacks to get equal height columns, "sliding doors", workarounds for IE5/6/7…
My communications should have made that more clear. It’s probably a common and dangerous interpretation.
I also have VESs (among other things), and I can confirm that they indeed feel quite nasty. In my experience, the heart seems to have a direct connection to the lower-level emotion-regulating parts of the brain, and any physical symptoms can trigger an overwhelming sense of imminent doom that completely bypasses the filters of my rational mind.

But I can also tell you that you eventually get used to it, and it just becomes a part of life. Feel free to drop me a line if you want to talk about it sometime (my username over at the big email provider with a G)
> Basically any decent Windows experience — 2000, XP, 7 or 10 — would be far ahead of the current big players for the 99% use case.

I see more and more people - and not just hardcore devs - using Linux.

For me, Linux has been a better desktop experience since around 2005 sometime: faster, easier to configure to my exact liking, easier to install, less hassle to maintain. (Except the time when KDE 4 was new and Ubuntu changed to Unity.)

For a long time I even though it was just a matter of time before everyone would realize but now I have realized that people are just different. Some people actually like Mac and Windows. Some people are driven mad by inconsistencies in my favorite DE (KDE) that I cannot even spot after someone tried to point them out. I however can't stand CMD-tab on Mac but Mac users - like me with the alignment issues on KDE - cannot see how it can be a problem.

Summary: it is not like any of them are way ahead in general. I see more and more people using Linux and expect numbers to rise a few percentage points more.
Medium exists...
The ruling:

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/30721390/WhatsApp_I...

> U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton on Thursday denied NSO’s request to dismiss the lawsuit. NSO unsuccessfully argued the court lacked jurisdiction because the company was immune to legal action as a contractor of foreign governments. NSO is an agent of the Kingdom of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Mexico, according to Facebook’s complaint.

> Hamilton did, however, grant NSO’s request to dismiss a claim that NSO wrongfully interfered with WhatsApp servers.

> The case is WhatsApp Inc. v. NSO Group Technologies Limited, 19-cv-07123, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (Oakland).
Wirecard as a whole does not hold a banking license, only their banking subsidiary does. They were actually properly regulated by the BaFin, but everything else had much more loose oversight.
Initiated by what? They decided to review the terminology prior to a mob existing? I'm not sure if you're purposefully ignoring the context that all of this is unfolding under.
Completely irrelevant info is a failure, sure. But slightly less detailed info on a significantly better page is probably better than slightly more detailed info on a page that's a pain to deal with. There's a balance to be struck; a fast-loading, uncluttered page is not the be all and end all, but it's not nothing either. (And frankly those tend to be the pages with the best information anyway).
The compiler’s representation of an uninitialized lvalue might not be observable as the article describes, but an uninitialized heap allocation from the OS (i.e. malloc()) is observable by design.

Of course a language and its clever implementation can make reading unintialized values from malloc()‘d objects UB with all that implies, but that’s a spec choice.

So I believe you could define what’s returned by malloc() as safely castable to one or more “fully mapped types”, which would solve the problem for vectors at least of those types.
It's not an anti-pattern though.

It's a part of security, along with other multi-faceted authentication routes.
More descriptive title: "Hyperspace, an indexing subsystem for Apache Spark™, is now open source"
Back in April I spotted a Cessna 182 doing some late night touch-and-gos...at Chicago ORD.

https://imgur.com/a/dIWXfij
A Brief History of Term Sheets
This was addressed here: https://github.com/shoelace-style/shoelace/issues/103

Just tested with Firefox 78 and verified it's working now. You may have an older cache.
So tilt the solar panels a little so the sand falls off?

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about solar panel farms or desert sand.
At a high-level, Hyperspace offers users the ability to:

- Build indexes on your data (e.g., CSV, JSON, Parquet).

- Maintain the indexes through a multi-user concurrency model.

- Leverage these indexes automatically, within your Spark workloads, without any changes to your application code for query/workload acceleration.

GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/hyperspace
Spark + AI Summit 2020 presentation: https://databricks.com/session_na20/hyperspace-an-indexing-s...
Agree with your premise of not being able to ship it cheaply, but base-load does not exist for 10+ years anymore in most modern energy grids (at least not the way described by people who are saying we are badly reliant on fossils). And if you have this much space, at least for domestic energy, power storages would suffice for the night/non-sun periods.
IANAL

What if MS retracted its promise? Would the retraction be retroactive? A license is usually perpetual and non-revocable, with causes for revocation being written into the license itself (side note: RMS is not infallible, and my zeal for making everything Copyleft has mellowed, but I still find the wording of the GPL to be pure genius).

Has a "patent promise" been tested in court? The GPL has been tested and upheld in some jurisdictions, perhaps most notably in the BusyBox cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox#GPL_lawsuits
You seem to be trivializing css as something static you just have to deal with. This maybe true for 99% of websites but css has had more innovation in the last few years than anything else. And much of it hasn’t reached textbooks. For example css3 functions and now being able to mix these new techniques in undiscovered ways. CSS requires a very nimble and creative mindset. That maybe why backend devs usually are very dismissive of it. By the way I became a frontend developer after I spent many years as a backend dev. My background is in Php and Perl.
FWIW on ext4 I benchmarked adding millions of files to a folder and compared with `xx/...` and `x/x/x/x/...` and found the performance to be basically identical between the options and didn't degrade with the file count.

The one thing that I did find is that deleting folders with many files was very slow. I guess that path wasn't well optimized. However even then you could deleted hundreds of files a second so for regular mail usage it likely isn't a major issue.
The peer review system is so broken, especially with the number of submissions that the top journals get in ML now, that I don't even pay attention to what's accepted where anymore. It's all the same as arXiv to me. The best way to figure out what's useful and what's not is to wait and see which papers pass the test of time. But if you're an academic you don't necessarily have that luxury.
To study history and culture. And who knows, there may well be algorithms we came up with but which no one ever re-discovered.
And here's a new one that seems very interesting, just out: Bit Player [0] (about Claude Shannon and his work)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7WmMSAxq8s
US fossil fuel consumption has been dropping for a while, with per person emissions peaked in the 70’s. Population growth offset that, but total US CO2 emissions peaked in 2007. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb...

Globally population and economic growth has hidden the trends, but kg per PPP $ of GDP shows very steady improvements. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD

This goes beyond simple efficiency gains, fossil fuels are inherently limited in what they can provide and we are moving past them.
Thank you for the well written and thought out response. I do agree with you that there are users who would post that in good faith, and I think your 4 categories of people make sense.

My concern was based on intuition which in turn was based on the fact that I have seen a lot more pro ccp comments in recent months on HN, as well as seeing that people who openly question the ccp in ways such as their human rights records, diversity, IP theft, etc be downvoted when raising these points. Although this may be anecdotal and is definitely not proof of interference, I thought it would be wise to finally raise the issue with you.

Thank you for taking a look at this, and for all the work you do on keeping HN a healthy environment.
People seem to have a naïve view of what “cured” means: someone “gets sick”, is treated, and then returns to the status quo ante. Thus there is little concern about catching the disease (or any disease) when you are not in an “at risk” group.

But hospital discharge just means the treatment you get stops being worth the time/money. Ideally you finish convalescing at home. But any consequential damage isn’t ignored, as if you just had had a dented panel replaced on your car.

Once I understood this error some of the discussion about dealing with the virus made sense.
The "real math" comes in when you're debugging a huge network that occasionally emits NaNs deep in the reverse pass. At that point, you need to understand the details of gradient descent and a whole lot more practical analytic theory.
> Cardiac activity can be divided into two phases: systole, when the heart muscle contracts and pumps out blood, followed by diastole, when it relaxes and refills with blood.

Respiration, acting through the sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system (breathing in) and the parasympathetic (feed and breed) nervous system (breathing out) also impacts the heart as measured through Heart Rate Variability. Like many systems in biology, I suspect there is a network of feedback loops at play and they act in both directions.
It's tough today but there are paths to solutions. E.g. hydrogen storage

If it was easy, there would be no debate, and probably no opportunity.
I actually live near Schitt's Creek, and have been there many times.

Mind you, that's not the town's real name, and it's actually parts of a couple of towns northeast of Toronto. Anyone who goes on motorcycle rides to Port Perry, or takes a trip to the famous Richter's Herbs, tend to drive through them, even unintentionally or unknowingly.
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The one project that attempted this with lofty goals, ended up with around 1% of the energy they claimed. Dust covering panels, abrasion, wind damage. Total fail.

Also, I'm surprised at the blasé way folks dismiss the total obliteration of the delicate desert ecosystem. Its like strip mining on a massive scale, to install square miles of solar panels. But everybody is on board for some reason.
Samsung 6G white paper [pdf]
It's all relative. You can use gravity assists to get closer to the sun, but there are a lot more planets above our orbit than below it (and mercury is too small to be useful). ...so timing gravity assisted deceleration orbits is not just hard, but it takes forever and the only reasonable solution is a very eccentric orbit.
> I'm not sure anybody really wants a number of unidentified flying objects (in their literal sense) in the air at night with noone knowing where they came from or what they might be doing.

I do.

I also want unidentified cars driving on dirt roads in the middle of nowhere. At night. And unidentified boats on remote lakes and in remote parts of the ocean. At night. And unidentified pedestrians, swimmers, skydivers, bicyclists, kites, campers, photographers, robots, lawn mowers.
Yes, uses WebTorrent trackers for signalling
I responded to that, and then grandparent just reverted to a blank assertion. It's more like:

"Bob is the last sheep"

"But I see all these four-legged ruminants wandering around eating grass, what about them?"

"Those are goats"

"We're shearing them and gathering wool from them; doesn't that make them sheep?"

"Bob is the last sheep"

"You don't seem to have engaged with the discussion..."
Is NLP finally coming of age?
What does this mean for the future of work?
....most of which are mild, and which accompany any virus:

”According to Segura, who co-authored the study, the most common symptoms experienced by coronavirus patients were myalgia, headaches and dizziness.”

And the truly killer quote:

”Another large-scale study...showed that 90% of cases simultaneously experienced changes to, or the loss of, the sense of smell and taste. In most of these cases, these changes were the only clinical expression of coronavirus or were accompanied by other minor symptoms.”
Thank you for the stories! I study in Worcester, MA but haven't lived there for very long so I'm not too aware of the local history. I'll have some fun looking into this.
> They can't package solar-harvested energy and export it to China

Yes, they can. Bulk industrial chemicals are portable and extremely energy intensive [1].

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/industry.p...
We’ve had riots, inaction by mayors, and ridiculous decisions by leaders in large metro areas for the past month. Nobody in their right mind is staying in cities, especially after the insane selective application of laws and ordinances the last 5-6 weeks.

Who would buy a nice place in, for example, St. Louis right now?!
They couldn't deliver on their promises and got tangled up in the 2016 Hillary email/podesta/Russia debacle as well as the Volkswagen diesel scandal and imploded soon after. They just couldn't compete with cheap gasoline, and their claims about how much they could produce per acre of land were dubious .

https://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2017/07/18/heat-death...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/09/01/how-biofuel-...
And the Mediterranian Lingua Franca also faded away. I tend to agree with the person you're replying to, 95+% of my email is automated things sending it, it's rare that I have an email conversation with anybody these days. I don't like this trend, because I value open standards etc., hell I still use IRC regularly. But its use as a person-to-person communication mechanism is definitely falling, in my experience. Also, most mailing lists I'm on have been steadily drying up for a several years now.
What a blast from the past!
Logo was my first exposure to programming in elementary school (1981-1986). This was fun to play with and the tutorial is well done. I was surprised by the lack of any kind of "run" button, but I think this was a good choice for this kind of learning environment. Neat!
World's longest submarine energy cable to connect UK and Denmark
How many years took them to realize this?... As someone who spend like 6 months job hunting and doing more than 20 interviews(including Google, Microsoft, etc), this was pretty evident. Yeah, I forgot to code that weird problem which implies the use of dynamic programming in a white board, but hey... what about all those years of experience and evident code skills. It is ridiculous.
Come for the network, pay for the tool
One feature that I can't live without that is surprisingly rare is the ability to view full threads. In Thunderbird you can Right Click -> View Conversation (or something like that) and it will show you the entire tree of messages. This is invaluable for trying to understand messages in a long discussion.

But when I tried kmail I did like it other than that. However for now Thunderbird seems like the least-bad client in my testing.
Was thinking what a fabulous method to generate publicity in lead up to a motion picture. Perform this event multiple times across the country before a reveal when a trailer is dropped; would be good for any dystopian future or alien invasion movie
I'm aware of the case, hence "quite unique". While ugly, it has nothing to do with corruption whatsoever.
What's amazing is how strongly people believe their own and others' speculation without any evidence. Look at what happened after the Boston Marathon bombing.
> Does this mean Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations will go bankrupt after their state sponsored funding dries up?

Yes.

> All I can see from this is more instability in the Middle-East which means more bad news in the years to come...

No. I predict more stability. There is less financing for violence, and less wealth to fight over.

> Perhaps Turkey will take up a bigger role in the future for policing the Middle East as they have a more diversified economy?

Too expensive. Also the fact that they are after Libya means they are not imaginative enough for a post-oil economy. So probably no.
I'll make the mandatory comment about how this is a case typically better served by a good library than a DSL.

This language is very niche, it will never get good support, tooling, doc, and maintenance.

I know making languages are fun, but unless fun is the main goal and adoption is not, craft a good lib with a clean and simple API.

Adopting this DSL would not be reasonable on the long run.
Well that definitely speaks more to the field in general and not necessarily to "beginners" who tune a pretrained model and post the results to arXiv. There's massive incentives to post papers with incremental progress when there's potentially billions of dollars of Grants and VC money for folks with their names on those papers.
If you delete the first 3600 tweets, the next 3600 should now be the latest posted.
> Nobody in their right mind is staying in cities

You sound like a boomer who just wants confirmation bias.

Everyone wants to live in cities. The protests were a great thing.
Maybe I don't understand the bug but I'm pretty sure Thunderbird has this. I can see the folders, messages and message all on the same screen.
CSS is way easier now when it was 15-20 years ago (source: 24 years with frontend, 22 professionaly). Alas, that's probably one of the reasons why people do not spend any effort learning it.
I'd argue that 15 years ago was the golden age for CSS innovation and web standards in general. Technologies are much more powerfull now, but the attitude of those using them could use some improvement.
OAuth is how you get the token. Facebook uses OAuth just like Twitter does.
Reminds me of people who were arrested and convicted of "resisting arrest" and no other charges. That should not be a thing. If you're being arrested and the charges are never laid, or are later dropped, resisting arrest should be dropped too.
What about legal adoption as part of onboarding?
Modern CSS technologies such as grid are convenient for laying out webpages. But there can be no “high quality PDF renderer” from HTML/CSS. The result will always look as crude as a web page. In order to produce a high quality document, you need a sophisticated line breaking algorithm such as that deployed by TeX or some other software.
Evidently, they were: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/7/21250689/facebook-sdk-bug-...
There’s a lot of desert. If a few lizards and cacti get their habitat fucked so that humans belch less CO2 in the air affecting every species on Earth it’s a tradeoff I support.
Techradar will hijack your browser history in an attempt to trap you in their site, if you’re on a mobile OS.

No thanks.
wow, did not know this, great that I can use it without the "old" DDD.
Yep, but that’s how you get press and get funded. I’m not being cynical or joking.
It doesn't mean that these politicians are untouchable.

If a politician is being caught stealing (e.g. embezzlement), criminal charges W I L L be put forward and immunity will be stripped from them.

The problem here is that unethical behaviour and gross incompetence simply aren't criminal offences.

Are they to be tolerated? No! But that's a question of changing laws and legislation accordingly, not one of being "untouchable" - because even politicians aren't and that's the point.

There's a difference between conflict of interests/unethical behaviour/incompetence and criminal actions.

The consequence of scandals like this should be a call for tighter laws, increased responsibility of all involved parties and better financial supervision in both politics and private enterprise.

Simply getting out the pitchforks, shouting that all politicians are corrupt criminals and demanding heads to roll doesn't change anything and isn't constructive.