skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java's photocopy of .NET's Linq in the form of "Streams" is usable.
> If you included 24 hours of storage in the LCOE then solar and wind probably stop looking quite so cheap. But if you ignore the biggest innate trade-off then they become the cheapest energy around.

But this is the basic disconnect in the way that renewables are discussed. You can't ignore the intermittent nature of the renewables, which means you need other power generation on the grid to make up the difference, which means you have to include the costs of the backup or storage system in your analysis.

It is easy to make things look cheap if you pretend the expensive parts aren't needed.
I want to know what "assumptions" are being made to denote pricing. If it assumes wind and solar can produce constantly and consistently that is wrong. The solar power suffers greatly from the fact that the panels need to be at a specific angle to the sun and that the highest production can only occur for maybe 6 hours of the day.
I can already tell yhe lifetime use of both wind and solar are not calculated correctly. And as one person said wind and solar cannot produce on demand.
There is a civil war erupting at SandiaLabs
Cache sizes are nowhere near the size where a O(log n) factor is significant.
In 1TB ram you can fit at most 2^36 entries (64-bit key to 64-bit value without additional datastructures). A factor of 36 is easily dominated by CPU-cache behaviour.
This analysis should not be done with time complexities but with deeper tools.

While binary heaps are notorious for bad CPU-cache behaviour, improvements exist. Thus only benchmarks will convince me.
Sued by sharks. Exemption for startups for independent contractors is needed
Hi All,
I'm an entrepreneur that recently got sued for misclassifying independent contractors. Don't most startups do this anyway? How do I get rid of aggressive attorneys if I have no money? Defending lawsuit would put me out of business. However, the person suing me is a crook that was stealing from me. So, not wild about just handing them $100,000 -- it's essentially extortion. How do they benefit if I just leave the state and blow the money on a big law firm? I would think they would get nothing so I do not understand their motivation. I realize that Uber/Lyft have a way to get out of this on the ballot -- why not extend that to startups as well? Surely other entrepreneurs also are going through the same thing.
> I understand that your products were designed to depict the body parts of mythological and fantastical creatures, and we have indicated this to our banking partners in an effort to advocate for continuing to support your business here on Stripe.

I'm crying. This is so ridiculous it crossed the line from appalling into hilarious.

You haven't sued over this which is a shame. Think of the comical email threads that would've been unearthed during the discovery process!
This well-stated argument shows how you're forcing other's social responsibility to protect themselves on me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290681
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Boox are GPL violators though.
> How do you prevent a website from faking the address bar?

Well, my suggestion was to add additional URL(s) into the same address bar that already exists at the top. (Hence the breadcrumb widget.)

My original motivation was to not wreck the layout of pages that are currently counting on the inside of the iframe to be big enough to hold all the expected content.

But it also protects the additional URL(s) from being drawn over because you already can't draw over the address bar.

That mobile address bar hiding hack is pretty scary, though.
Ask HN: Which apps are on your phone?
I don't really understand the motivation behind this puritanism. I get why respectable institutions don't want to touch things like selling weed or prostitution since that's not legal everywhere and they could get in trouble. But sex toys? Who cares? Like, that's not a rhetorical question, literally "who cares?"

Are people going to stop using Wells Fargo because they very indirectly help in the commerce of sex toys?
> because you just feel like it

Not sure where you got this idea from.
>I also received an email from what appears to be an MRAsian... It's sadly not uncommon to see Asian men upholding white supremacy and targeting Asian women for living our damn lives.

This is a bit fishy. The email sender was asking her opinion on certain matters related to racial politics, and our dear author just accused him/them of "upholding white supremacy". This makes me lose sympathy for the author here.
It's a beautiful app, but personally I don't see the need for a subscription service, if it's a standalone app (no mention of cloud hosting or back-end servers to maintain) and would expect a bit more detail before paying $100 USD/y.
lmao Bella Thorne is not a "20yo nobody". She had tens of millions of followers before joining OnlyFans.
That doesn't sound right. My app redirects to my website store and Apple never had a problem with that, even after I specifically removed IAP.
there's no way they 'll make the premiums they have with software. There isn't even content with such margins.
Tesla employee foregoes $1M payment, works with FBI to thwart attack
“You need to store the difference between your daily production peak and your daily demand peak”

Firstly, I would think the difference between production and demand on a single day is a better indicator than the difference between your daily production peak and your daily demand peak, which could be months away from the day production peaks.

Even that isn’t correct, though. Such a reserve buffer would be depleted after that worst-case day, so if the day after that day also has demand outstrip production, you’re in trouble.
I'd be skeptical of a safe-for-life Internet for one reason: safety. Experian, Target, OPM... we've seen countless times that very entities the average person does business with [un]voluntarily can't be trusted with a person's details or credentials. All it would take is for one corporation to mess up and someone else would own a person's one and only safe-for-life identity which, as you noted, means they'd own their victim online entirely. Even if there's an appeal process, since the safe-for-life ID would have to be worldwide, ostensibly it'd be even more difficult for victims than it is to get a new SSN. It's a nice thought, but I wouldn't be willing to trust anyone, especially an organization like Experian that I can't even opt out of, with the safety of what amounts to my professional and a fair amount of my personal online life.
I’m glad to see [developer] excitement around this device, and look forward to ReMarkable 3 when all this new feedback is implemented into a new product.

Seriously, genuinely excited to use something like this as a consumer once the kinks have been sorted
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My favorite Stephenson book (thus far, I haven't read all of them yet) Anathem (2008) seems to directly capture this assumptions about the power of isolation on mental ability. Anathem describes a society of monks (the avout) that are isolated from the outside world, and also other monks. Their isolation basically allows them to cultivate mental superpowers in math, science, and philosophy, relative to people media-addled people on the outside.

When I was reading it, I had this romantic notion that the avout are kind of like our scholars in universities, isolated to pursue some narrow specialization without attention from the outside world. But, it's kind of depressing to realize how much even academics are pressured to play the social media game. There was even that paper (posted here on HN) that showed that researchers that tweeted more got more citations on their paper.
While on the subject of people creating user-hostile experiences, try disabling "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" in Firefox. Now instead of a different set of fonts for every single website because of some misguided form-over-content design wankery I can read things with one less distraction.
You don't think with all of today's technology there could be a solution where the driver sets charging thresholds and time windows reflecting their needs?
"Banned", while technically accurate, gives the wrong connotation. More precisely, it wasn't selected as one of the languages for the project. That is, Fuchsia has a set of technical challenges, and it is a reasonable engineering practice to select a minimal set of languages to tackle those challenges. Go's doesn't have a unique niche or a dominate strength in an important area when it comes to Fuchsia, so they're not using it. (As I understand that having read your link previously.)
>> 3. Infinite canvas - bring this in. How to deal with it spatially was solved decades ago.

Definitely best idea here IMO.
A way to greatly mitigate the mismatch between supply&demand is with variable pricing. An awful lot of major electricity use, like HVAC, hot water, and electric car battery charging and be easily time-shifted.

A fixed 24/7 electricity rate is thoroughly obsolete and has got to go.
A criminal defending a criminal?
Siri is an exclusive feature of iPhones, that's how it's "monetized". This is unlike GA which is available on iOS [0]. So unless this search engine is exclusive to iPhone users as a way of "keeping their privacy intact", I don't see how they can justify running a free search engine for everyone.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/google-assistant/id1220976145
Yeah - it's not clear at all.
I'm guessing it would be negotiated terms between all three parties. Onlyfans ensures in their contract that they only route non-adult payments to Stripe, Stripe tells Wells Fargo to chill. Maybe some audits along the way to keep WF happy.
> You explain in detail what it would take to compete with Apple, but you’re trying to make the point that this is impossible to do, when in fact many smartphone manufacturers have done precisely that.

You say "many smartphone manufacturers" but in practice there aren't actually that many smartphone manufacturers. Moreover, there is only really one -- Google -- which has actually done it. All the others license their software stack from Google. Even Microsoft made a serious attempt to do this and failed.

Your claim is that an individual app developer who wants to compete with an Apple app on iOS could feasibly do this?
> It’s an especially prevalent view in the USA that bad politics is a law of physics and the only solutions are madly technological. It’s not true as many other parts of the world prove. You can just have a not-insane ISP/telco regulatory system if you so choose. (see also healthcare, food/agricultural standards, water quality, online privacy... all choices).

I agree. However it's going to be a tough nut to crack because that belief is self-reinforcing. People who believe the government can't do anything right also seem to advocate policies that make the government more ineffective, which provides false confirmation of the initial belief.
I really appreciate the idea of a place where code and paper can be intertwined, it's a cool idea for a journal! I also really enjoy journals doing weird unusually things! I just have a penchant for people defining novel terms and not fully exploring existing literature in a field. In my opinion, it creates a very disorienting effect where those who have useful tools to contribute (typically neural network researchers) immediately start on the worst footing.

Everyone is constantly playing catch-up in understanding and can't follow the evolution of an idea/methodology over time.

I was under the impression that Distill was funded by Google, is this not the case?
Plenty of projects that are actually fine blow up linters.

If you to want to add a linter you can either add one rule at a time or make it part of your process that the number of warnings goes down with every merge.
From watching chemistry videos on YouTube, burning them seems like the way to go. I'm guessing you'd burn them in a purpose-made furnace to melt and concentrate the metals, then put the result into safe storage.
Apparently asbestos has been used since at least 5000 years ago[0]. I wonder what prevented large scale extraction between then and the 19th century.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=eYHEEWhye94C&pg=PA449#v=on...
> It's undeniably true when political power is distributed to the masses, and less and less true when it concentrates.

In other words, it's only "undeniably true" in a direct democracy, where the people vote to decide on everything. Otherwise, you have the same centralization of power (a representative by definition has more power than their constituent), and you have to hope that they will act in the public good. I'm not sure that you can reasonably claim that every person in Congress today is virtuous.

> economic self-interest is fundamentally alienating

That's for sure a popular claim, but it's not really backed by any evidence other than the way a handful of people feel. And that's largely driven by ideology rather than mass empirical evidence. The entire developed/industrialized world largely operates on economic self-interest, and life in the 21st century is, by pretty much all measures, better than life at any other time in the past.
This is being studied in the US, there is some detail about it in this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/how-tru...

The Pacific DC Intertie supplies power to Los Angeles from hydro dams in the PNW over HVDC lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie
It's pretty obvious, however I'm gonna say it anyway - they probably don't target people that are active here.

They could add all of that, though thatd be disrupting their intended Apple-like presentation of the product.
Ask HN: GPT-3 AI powered eslint for JavaScript coding?
Ask HN : Potential of Gpt3 AI powered eslint for JavaScript coding ? (ex in comments)
The Modus themes are built into Emacs
You're certainly right. It takes quite a commitment to write a good newsletter.

I started writing one last year myself. I have always been passionate about investing. And having grown up working in the tech and venture world, I've always had this theory that approaching stocks like Venture Capital can outperform the market, so I decided to write about it. It's been an interesting journey.

Time goes into 4 areas:
1) Research (figuring out what to write about...in my case, investment ideas and philosophy)
2) Writing (developing your writing style, actually putting your thoughts down on paper, and simplifying the topic as much as possible)
3) Outreach (actually finding the people who will find your writing interesting)
4) Discussion (email, dms, zoom calls with readers can be insightful, fun and motivating, but take time as well)

That's in addition to a full time job (if you do it on the side).

Best of Luck if you decide to start one :)

Here's a link to mine:
https://playingfordoubles.substack.com/
still too expensive in many cases.

Putting solar on our house over 20yrs can reach an economic return of $10K. That is really weak value proposition, factoring in the work involved getting it installed and then uninstalled for roof work.
I'm not sure the mounds of discarded paper are that bad..
Maybe they can now launch more space telescopes.
This is a phenomenal question! I would love if someone could provide a concrete answer.

I also tried to find out more about it, during the last year since I am making a mobile app which would also sell users the ability to buy ads just like Facebook does, and I spent DAYS trying to find any sort of information regarding it.

There was none, no one speaks about it, like it is buried deep down, if you were to apply Apple's arbitary rules then you would expect that Facebook also pays the 30% mafia tax, but somehow I doubt it, since that amount would just be enormous.

I'm honestly excited and curious to follow this thread and see what the results are going to be.
As someone who's marketed consumer apps to iOS users (with in-app purchases) - you speak the truth.

One freemium iOS app I worked on did nearly 5X the revenue compared to its Android counterpart (others were at varied-but-similar multiples). I imagine the ad-supported business would reflect the same - the iOS audience is just too lucrative for advertisers to ignore.

edit to adjust multiple. I went back and looked it up.
Hi everyone , what is your opinion on gpt3 powered eslint in JavaScript coding , i.e enhanced potential issues detecting using gpt3. For example , in react redux connect if a person has passed ownprops in their mapstate to props however are not using it in returned values ,then it still causes a calling of the function on every render. Example:

connect(mapstateToProps, (dispatch,ownProps) => {
console.log(ownProps)
return {}
}

// normal eslint check for unused variable will fail here

But with gpt3 it can detect that ownProps is not used in the returned object hence can flag it as potential issue

What other eslint rules can gpt3 enhance ?
But there's no consumer-facing or technical difference between a games streaming platform and a video streaming platform that would make it logical for one to be treated fundamentally different than the other in terms of pricing, right?

It's very obvious that the reason why Apple chose the largely meaningless difference between a video and a game to make this category is because they were negotiating with Amazon, and that was a convenient distinction to build a category around.

To extend from your argument, everyone also in fact makes a distinction between striped shirts vs solid shirts, and buzzcuts vs crewcuts, and green eyes vs blue eyes. Everyone would agree that those are different things.

So does that mean giving a discount to my friend Tim is totally fine, and I'm not carving out special exceptions that are designed to target him specifically?
Does this have any advantage against Boox Note 10.1?
I'm not saying their contents are interchangeable. I'm just saying there are more diverse and deeper contents on YouTube and I should be spending more time on YouTube if the recommendation system's execution was more on point.

i.e. I'm disagreeing with the GP that the app has no moat. The app idea is a simple one but the execution isn't that trivial to copy.
Other than the default Google apps, I use a dozen.

Currently, I have discord, vivaldi, screen recorder, fasthub, home workout, cardio, wireguard, bitwarden, boost, Amazon music/audible/store, signal, pharmacy apps, and nextdns.

The rest are one off that I forgot to install or have limited purpose such as instaclean for removing spam mails.
I feel this is like internet disrupting a lot of things, maybe space photography needs to also evolve with the new landscape
They don't need DDG for that. They can just use the Bing API like DDG does.
Intel 7nm doesn’t exist, and TSMC 5nm chips have been in production for months now.
Not to the people who view it as an asset.
Voter Advocacy Orgs Sue Trump for Executive Order Threatening Social Media
Article about Google Maps usage on phones in the UK collapsing as soon as Apple Maps was launched - from 2013.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/26/apple-map...

Apple Maps used on iOS 3x as often as Google Maps, from 2015.

https://9to5mac.com/2015/12/07/apple-maps-usage-numbers/

I can’t source the 80% but it’s probably not far off that on iOS these days. Even so, Google Maps still has about 2/3 market share overall. It dominates on Android, and a significant number of iPhone users still use it. However for Apple Maps on iOS if it’s the default, it just has to be good enough and most people will stick with it.
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Samuel Woolley and the Reality Game
> it's not like other resources that can be easily stockpiled (even with batteries)

HVAC usage can be stockpiled in the thermal mass of the house. The same with the electric water heater - the thermal mass of the water in the tank. This is where variable electric rates come in, and smart HVAC/heater systems that run mostly when electricity is cheap.
Does the ReMarkable have an ePub reader? My existing ebook collection is mostly DRM-free ePubs.
I think it looks pretty interesting and I will definitely give it a try. If I find it useful I don't have any problem with the price.

I have several projects where something like this, done "right" (whatever that means for me) could be a big help: starting a newsletter; moving to a new city; writing a book; maybe also building an app.

I wonder, though, how is it not "just" an interactive Mood Board?

So I can put in some screenshots and links and add some text and sketch on it, this by itself could be good for research... but how do I connect things? Is there some kind of hierarchy I can apply? Will it give me some kind of insight after the fact or do I just play with my Boards and then, I dunno, export them when I'm done?

I found the Handbook pretty helpful but I would suggest having a couple videos available on the landing page so I can easily get a sense of what you can do with the app. And at least one of them should be a power-user example.

Good luck with it! I like the idea of the single-app business with a small team; I hope it works out for you.
SpaceX has just implemented sun Visors on the latest batch of satellites, so why aren’t you aware of that?

In space infrared detectors are the most effective way of searching for dangerous NEOs, and SpaceX has made them far cheaper to launch. How come you don’t know that?

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasem_r...
Other comments here have said that both rsync and scp work.
I think there's a diet and exercise regiment that is thought to stop and possibly reverse the calcification of arteries (and I assume valves). This probably isn't an option if his calcification is acute, which is usually the case because people only find out about it after a major event.

I think it goes without saying - do your own research and consult a physician. PubMed is a great resource.
For example, the memorable time I was letting my boss know I was running late because of what Siri chose to transcribe as "sick cunts".

(It was my children who were unwell.)
Agree. Pay once and make well defined versions. Versions can definitely be done as in app purchases. Knowing I’m creating content I could lose access to if i cancel the subscription is a great reason to not purchase in the first place.
Would suggest avoiding the Scottish Wikipedia page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24292506

As for fish? Freshly caught and just off the boats, battered and deep-fried. Delicious. Properly smoked salmon.

For authorative links on food try
https://www.scotlandinfo.eu/scottish-food/
https://flavorverse.com/traditional-scottish-foods/

For decor take a look at
https://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/drink/5-of-the-oldest-pubs...

As for Sushi - There are some TripAdvisor reviews. HTH.
I'm a little surprised that Apple hasn't bought DuckDuckGo. Their privacy goals seem to mostly overlap and DuckDuckGo has really gotten good. Lately I've found them to be as good or better than Google for most technical or informational searches. The results are accurate and they seem to have less of a problem with bogus results from content scraping sites.

Google really does shine at location based searches though. If I'm looking for a physical place in any location or region, Google can be scary good (even when I misspell something).