skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using "understood" as "can apply in an unseen context". For example if you a human student understood a math concept it means they were able to use it in a new context and have not just memorized how to solve a specific problem.

I think the more interesting question is the definition of meaning. I am thinking about meaning here as the relationship between symbols. So if you can explain what a words means, you can give a definition in terms of other words. If you "understood" what a word means, you have not just memorized the definition but can apply the word in unseen contexts.
No accounted needed for me.
I've never been compelled to ask questions on SO. Often, I find a question similar enough to mine, but it wasn't answered, or the answer is clearly wrong, or sadly outdated. If I would ask, I would expect the same result, plus I'd have to wait around for it.

Usually, I can just dig in and find the answer myself, but I was trying to get a solution quicker with search.

Of course, I've only answered one question too, so maybe it's just not my kind of site.
> okay let’s pass laws against net neutrality

This is a weird take. Do you think net neutrality isn't a government regulation?

How can anyone look at the early Bell systems regulations, telephone breakups, forced network compatibility with 3rd-party answering phones and network devices and think, "now that's a market that thrived without the government?"

The entire history of the Internet and the tech industry, from regulations around smart-phone unlocking and number porting, to net neutrality itself is a giant example of how forcing the market to be competitive against its will is sometimes really good for both consumers and for innovation.
I think your "values" are leading you to believe blatant racist and victim-blaming tropes like "black people have disparate outcomes because... they're worse parents".
How about we instead start by closing the 23 billion school funding gap. Or would you consider that to be a "handout".
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/696794821/why-white-school-di...
Extraordinary; she puts Woz to shame.

And of course ARM helped to fuel Apple's extraordinary success in the 2000s-2010s with the iPod, iPhone, and iPad ...and non-success in the 1990s with the Newton and eMate.
Pakistan and PayPal is really a special case. It has nothing to with the telecoms infrastructure and everything do with a legal dispute between the government of Pakistan and PayPal. PayPal is not available in Turkey, either, for similar reasons.
Yes, it is like tor. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P, https://geti2p.net/en/about/intro, https://geti2p.net/en/faq, and https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor.
Which is good news, because thanks to the exponential growth of solar, panels manufactured in the bad old days may as well not exist.

The vast majority of solar panels were manufactured in the last ten years: they are largely free of toxic atoms, and built to a higher standard of power delivery and reliability.

In short, the article is clickbait.
> This is a great observation. I think that every business looking at option 1 would run away in terror, as that would mean competing directly with Amazon.

I don't think pivoting online is a suicidal move for many business, but it takes a different type of mindset to make it work. I'd like to highlight heatonist.com as an example of someone doing it right. It's a NYC based hot sauce boutique with a web presence. They create quality web content and use it as advertising (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAzrgbu8gEMIIK3r4Se1d...). Their inventory is a curated list of high quality products. Their web reviews are all from people in the same tribe of hot sauce fans. Their website and shipping practices are all _good enough_.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24254844
This is why I work as a “prototype engineer” :)
Is it plausible that someone would use a different account to ask questions?
2FA works well in many instances if your email gets hacked
> one is to move the core retail business online, and the other is to create experiences people will keep coming back for.

Agree

I think that's the reason why IKEA stores are so popular

You get the full experience of living in a house and can have a feeling of the different setups

The furniture per sé are not great, but the experience is way more satisfying than the average furniture store, at least in Italy
The amount of waste is miniscule and it's only government regulations keeping us from extracting more enemy form the "waste".
All of these are very clean compared to coal.

Solar thermal is vulnerable to attacks from media articles about dead birds and the fact that some of them have to burn natural gas to start the plant in the morning. You can find both varieties of article courtesy of Fox News:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/taxpayer-backed-solar-plant...

https://www.foxnews.com/science/emerging-solar-plants-scorch...

Solar thermal does have one huge advantage over PV: the plants contain their own short-term energy storage and keep running well after dark. Unfortunately due to market forces solar thermal is currently dead in America. All planned plants have been canceled.
> Game theory. If people vote for the party promising policies closest to (using whatever metric) their ideals, and there are only two parties, optimal strategy for each party is to move as close to the center as possible.

This theory requires either ignoring that voters may have a threshold at which they become disaffected or ignoring that political opinion may not be unimodal; if you consider both of those factors, that strategy ceases to be dominant.

In the real world, voters can become disaffected and abstain, and political opinion is often not unimodal (in the US it's closer to bimodal.)
What if you have a BS job, but want to raise your income? You need to put in the effort to get those promotions.
Oh man I could really go for another big tech cold war, they've all been playing nicely for a while.
It seems like they're out of indoor sensors by the way I ordered one and they printed a shipping label then canceled it.
I wonder how that compares to white painted or even reflective roofs?

The paint solutions don't require a gardener at least.
> A: Solar panel wastes include heavy metals such as silver, copper, lead, arsenic, cadmium, selenium that at certain levels may be classified as hazardous wastes.

Note that this is grouping together ALL kinds of cells, particularly cadmium telluride. These cells -especially gallium-based cells- are a small or tiny minority of solar panels.

The vast majority of solar panels do not contain any of these except copper and lead. Lead is actively in the process of removal, but the plan is to do so over the next decade or so. Regardless roughly 2000x more lead is used to make car batteries:

https://www.freeingenergy.com/are-solar-panels-really-full-o...
To Test the Dangers of Live Music, These Scientists Put on a Concert
Yes, you can create great interfaces using embedded browser panes; check out the Forex Smart Tools suite for some I've helped author. But don't discount a solution like Lazarus: sure, Object Pascal is old school now, but it's easy to create fully native applications that can be cross-compiled for Linux, MacOS and Windows.
While it takes significant extra effort, it’s more robust to carefully decompose patterns into exact lists of files that can be reviewed (or use "find"), and this has saved me a couple of times.

For example, expand wildcards into a separate list of files that can become controlled commands ("rm -f A/file1", "rm -f A/file2", "rmdir A", ... instead of "rm -Rf ..."). This way, if directory "A" contains anything you didn’t expect, the "rmdir" fails at the end; and, someone can review the list of proposed files to be deleted before you run. Oh, and instead of having that sinking feeling of "rm" taking “too long” to run, your command is merely in the process of constructing a list of 1000 unexpected files instead of blowing away half your disk with shocking efficiency.

Also, file lists are pretty useful when you need to make minor edits (e.g. sometimes it’s a lot easier to find and exclude a few files from a list that you don’t want to touch, as opposed to describing those in a wildcard or search).

Depending on the task (and assuming no filesystem caching) it can be faster to gather up a list once and pass the composed list in to a whole series of commands. This is also good if you technically want the list to remain frozen even if the filesystem is changing underneath you, e.g. new files being added somewhere in the tree.
I think we're like crabs in a bucket, got to pull each other down if we see someone close to getting what they want.
If you have a plot of land, why not make a few extra bucks?
My impression was that running 10 Electron apps would be like having 10 separate installations of Chromium running at the same time (with no shared memory). But running 10 WebView apps would be like having one browser with 10 tabs open, but where a lot of the the browser resources are shared.

In that case, I would expect a large difference in memory footprint, although both options would be bad in terms of having a non-native user interface and user experience.

Is this incorrect?
Financialized, high output agriculture drives that, not farming in general.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24251297.
Current price for the R7 3700X on amazon is $289.99. That is one thing about AMD's prices, they fall over time.

I know this because I bought a 3700X recently. I debated buying online vs getting a 3700X for 269.99 in-store in Microcenter.
P.S the company that recycles mono-si cells: http://www.wurisolar.com/
What if we could have services encrypt their emails sent to us via pgp? eg Twitter (or anything else) asks for your public key and then sends all future emails using it.
I've found http://www.airnow.gov very helpful and faster to load than the Purple Air map. They also have a simple but efficient app.

Airnow's map is slow to load, but shows smoke, air monitors (including the Purple Air ones^[footnote]), and fires all at once: https://fire.airnow.gov/?lat=37.40&lng=-122.077&zoom=10#

A less detailed, fast, static map for the SF Bay Area is available at http://www.baaqmd.gov.

Last, but not least, there is a forecast of surface-level smoke available at https://hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov/smoke/. I found it from https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea, which is a good source of news for the Bay Area.

[footnote]: To make the numbers match, I had to set PurpleAir to show One-Hour Averages with the LRAPA scoring. See https://imgur.com/a/d6yFtow.
Police forcing people to do drugs. People that can't refuse it. Is revolting and insane, and distroys any possibility of fair defense of course. What would be next, escopolamine by default in any declaration?
GP said the median, not the roadway itself.
defund the border patrol. seriously
When I refer to consumer welfare I'm referring to the "consumer welfare standard" that is relevant to antitrust cases. Epic's breach doesn't actually aid them in demonstrating that Apple has harmed consumer welfare. The same holds true for Spotify when they charged more on iOS to cover Apple's commission.
Exactly how many people does Epic have to sue before you'd be satisfied?

It is perfectly fine for Epic to focus on suing the companies that are causing them the most trouble right now. Given their relative size compared to these companies, it would be stupid for them to take on everyone at once. They don't have the resources to sue every major player in the entire games industry.
Apple, Google, Epic and the Sherman act, An explainer
There's effectively zero chance that the vaccine kills 1% of those vaccinated. They would have caught that in the Phase II, and probably the Phase I since they do also track adverse events short of death.

The risk is e.g. that the vaccine has unforeseen side effects that kill or seriously injure one person in 10^4 or 10^5. That could still be a highly favorable tradeoff for society; but if AstraZeneca gets no credit for the people their vaccine saved and pays out normal rates--potentially billions of dollars--for the people their vaccine injured, then it's a terrible tradeoff for AstraZeneca.

All vaccines present some version of this problem, and that's why the American government takes liability for vaccine injuries. I'd guess that Europe has been able to avoid that (so far) only because their socialized health care reduces the need for injured patients to sue to recover their medical expenses, and because of their less litigious society in general.
I watched the videos of Elliot Roger, and I had a strong feeling that he didn't even want to have a girlfriend. It was just that he wanted to be admired, noticed that having an attractive girlfriend is considered a success, and resented that he didn't have this specific mark of success.

His entire strategy was whining: "Hey, I am so awesome, why don't the attractive girls approach me?!" I don't remember hearing about any specific step he made to approach girls, not even saying "hello". He was just a guy addressing other guys, expecting that he should somehow magically obtain a girlfriend without even trying, insisting that he deserves it.

I strongly suspect he was a gay in denial. Before anyone gets performatively offended, no, this isn't a statement about gays in general, this is a statement about Elliot Roger specifically. Watch the videos to understand what I mean. His only reason to get a girlfriend was to impress other guys. Incels are bitter about not being attractive and not having sex. Elliot Roger was bitter about being so awesome and yet not having any girlfriend; there was never a hint of any sexual desire towards the hypothetical girlfriend or women in general, no hint of any specific activity he would want to do with the hypothetical girlfriend.
Belgian here, used to work for big pharma. The current procedures for clinical trials (very long, very expensive) were put in place after Thalidomide (google it).

Pharma companies are terrified of this happening again, especially in a situation like this one where all eyes are on them. They follow FDA / EMEA rules to the letter and cutting corners is something nobody wants to do. I'd say those "shocked experts" aren't really experts at all.

Some side effects simply can't be manifested during clinical trials since it will only occur once every 50 - 100.000 patients. If you test your vaccine on 5000 people and then proceed to vaccinate 4 million, there's a remote possibility that some of those (or worse, their offspring) will suffer serious side effects and it's totally normal they don't want to be held on the line for that simply because they had to hurry up.

In the world of software development we know that having to hurry up never leads to anything good, now imagine there's a pandemic, people's lives are at stake and you're to be held liable for possible bugs - no thanks.

(Anecdote: Pharmacovigilance is the practise of monitoring a drug basically forever. Quite recently it was discovered that domperidone (an OTC drug against nausea) led to an increased chance of serious heart problems and it lost its OTC status. This was after several decades of widespread use.)
Initial configuration/management for the device in question.
For anyone passing by, my flagged comment said:

"Agents of the state randomly jumping you, beating you up because of their unilateral and arbitrary determination that you are resisting being randomly jumped, and then injecting you with a sedative and psychoactive so powerful that you die?
No, that's a distinctly American version of civil rights.

They might also arbitrarily take your property, while everyone gaslights you into thinking that this is a staple of non-American marxist regimes."

This was an accurate and a substantive comment which is only guilty of bruising a few egos.
But can’t they just deny you entry? I mean you can have all the rights but if they can just let you in (especially if you live in the US), that’s still a pretty big lever.
The paper you cited shows that 1.5x overproduction can get the US to 75% of electricity from solar and wind without building any storage.

Every big construction project is cheaper in China than in the US. China can build a solar farm for $0.83/watt [1], half the cost I cited up-thread for an American solar farm. But I don't think that $0.83/watt is a credible construction cost for a solar farm in the US in 2020. Nor is $3.17/watt a credible cost for constructing a nuclear plant in the US in 2020.

I am weary of hearing about how the next reactor design is going to be affordable and take only 5 years to build. That's what I heard from Westinghouse and Areva/EDF when the AP1000 and EPR were still theoretical reactors. I believed it for a while. I don't believe it any more in 2020. I don't believe it about molten salt reactors, traveling wave reactors, or whatever theoretical reactor is currently cherished by Ted Talkers. I'm willing to start believing it again after a reactor design has entered commercial operation in the United States or European Union and lived up to its claims.

I don't want to write off nuclear power entirely. It's much safer than fossil power, both in terms of acute human health risks and climate risks. I still couldn't advise any American utility that new nuclear plants are a fiscally prudent part of decarbonization planning for the next decade.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-26/china-s-b...
I take issue with those sections too; you completely ignored that often customers won't know exactly what they want, importance of browsing, and the expert service provided that is the salesperson giving book suggestions and advice to customers.

Your points about alternative revenue streams by providing alternative services are directly covered in 20 year old tv show (black books) where a 'dysfunctional' bookstore either has them already implemented or trials them. For example, coffee is about keeping the customers in the store and browsing, people leave if they get hungry or thirsty. If you're actually deriving substantial profit from your hot drinks, then you're running a niche cafe, and you're in competition against legitimate baristas with fancier machines. It also takes up a large amount of space, and can cause volume issues otherwise.

Most secondhand bookstores are small, and items have a large volume-time footprint i.e. the turnover of any individual item is low. Get rid of all the low margin books for dining, and you ruin the browsing experience in multiple ways. You're just suggesting the secondhand bookstore should ditch it's secondhand books, and instead sell only high turnover popular stuff i.e. compete with modern normal bookstores, which are already doing beyond what you've suggested.
What social policies are low-hanging fruit in the US?
Read 'Sheldon 2.0' and got excited.
I mean, both of those qualities describe the current President, so at least it's clear which is the lesser evil.
This vaccine was developed by Oxford University. AstraZeneca stepped in to produce it rapidly. They don't normally produce vaccines at all, but they do have very capable production facilities and people. In this case they committed to ramp up production several months in advance of the stage 2/3 results, because production ramp-up takes a long time and we really need a vaccine quickly. Yes, seems odd for big pharma to commit production resources with no prospect of big returns, but that's what they've done. Probably some of those production facilities were running under capacity anyway, as cancer treatments, etc have been postponed this year. I guess if it works, it will at least be a huge PR win, especially for their CEO who's gone out on a limb to make this happen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52917118
isn't there wordpress devs that don't code and make (for now) slow loading websites?

I think low-code is basically just graphical programming. If you want it more powerful/universal you need to code just the same. There might just be more or less big library helpers/blocks. Maybe it's just the next step of being "high-level" and now is indeed the time for it.

Also if you manage to write something as a nice XML/yaml/json you might as well put a nice UI on it.
I found this interactive map compelling: https://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=69fc...
Would be good for a robot you can ssh in to at home and still connect when out in the field.
> Instead of blocking custom domain email addresses outright, the site could require a secondary recovery email address from an approved provider when an email with a custom domain is used to create the account.

Great, if we do this, we've done to e-mail addresses (and domains) what we've done to phone numbers. Some phone numbers, because of the carrier serving them, are "less than" others out of some (mistaken) idea that it's easier to get a bulk-load of phone numbers from some kinds of carriers and not others.

And then, what do you do when a new provider wants to join the scene? It already takes a year of process and documentation for a new certificate authority to get into most browsers and even then the adoption will be years in the making because most devices don't get root certificate updates. What's the process like for e-mail in your hypothetical? Does Hey.com not even bother because getting buy-off from even the top 50 account-based web sites takes forever?

> Good practice for users in general is to use email services like gmail as thier login/account email and add thier custom domain emails in thier bio.

Absolutely not. The entire point for using my own domain is so my identity is not irrevocably tied to Google. When Google can, and does, nuke my account from orbit on a whim due to some perceived slight, I have no recourse. I can't even sue because of the mandatory arbitration clause they slapped in their several-thousand-word terms of service.
"Dirt grass and a goat get you a LEED point - does the dirt grass and a goat make it work better? No! But you do feel better about yourself! Dirt is not insulation it's just freaking dirt"

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lstiburek (https://youtu.be/iHBYvqr2_io?t=2224)

Gotta love greenwashing. A real forward thinker would also start a second startup simultaneously to undo the damage green roofs will cause down the line to a building. :)

Edit: In case somebody misses the point the video from which the quote is sourced is well worth watching if you are curios about building science.

tl;dw - What is efficient and good for the environment is counterintuitive. Green roofs often cause more harm than good because reasons.
OP you should consider writing something similar for finding and using alternative data, given that you work at Rakuten. That could also help you pivot from sell-side to buy-side if that's your eventual goal.

Personally I wouldn't recommend Yahoo Finance price data for trading strategies, but the 10Q and 10K data is good. There are semi-professional and entry-level professional sources like IQFeed which are higher quality and more flexible. You tend to get what you pay for when it comes to financial data (and alternative data as well).
>A commercial heavy-load carrier flying a Hong Kong flag recently supported a Chinese naval exercise, functioning as a base for at least two army helicopters.

According to every comment on here about HK, HK isn't China. Guess they give ships away now.
not necessarily. Dismantling a nuclear plant or in this case waste clearage itself is a gargantuan effort. Scrapping ordinary nuclear plants already costs billions.
My wife and I started up a small reselling business, based on our name. The dotcom for it was previously owned, but they let the domain lapse, but they still have the Twitter account (that has the web address we now own in their profile; they haven't posted since 2016). I tried an approach similar to the article, but they apparently used Gmail to set it up. (I reached out to them to buy it to no response; I assume that Twitter account has been orphaned)