skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Solar panels produce ~300x more waste than nuclear reactors when providing the same amount of energy."

Didn't know it was so much better. That's awesome.
I'm happy to read recent developments in the approval for small nuclear reactors. Hope to see this stuff become more popular.
I was already on the verge of switching because Spotify was handing millions to a Joe Rogan so he can keep poisoning the discussions around trans people we apparently must have. This sealed the deal. This is just Spotify outright saying that if someone is not fully convinced Spotify is the right place for them, it needs to to be much much less convenient for them to leave.
Why Renewables Aren't the Reason for California Blackouts: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/08/why-renew...

LCOE of various energy sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

https://neon.energy/Hirth-Ueckerdt-Edenhofer-2015-Integratio... suggests that wind energy has up to 50% higher "real" cost than typical LCOE measurements because of variability, however, this still puts the costs for nuclear (118-192) a lot higher than wind (28-54) and solar (32-42).
Go back to Reddit. Between the technical incompetence of commenters on here and the substance of dumb comments like these I’m ready to take a break from HN.
<aside> is from the era from about a decade ago when semantic HTML was all the rage along with <article>, <main>, <footer>, <header>, <figure>, etc...

Nowadays I've noticed the focus has greatly shifted onto parts of HTML that are relevant to web application development.
> The only issue with Python is speed, but if you use Numpy properly, even that isn't a big issue.

Numpy leaves a couple of orders of magnitude of performance on the table, especially if you use small arrays and a lot of intermediary computation. It is terrible in terms of memory allocation overhead. Cython or @tensorflow.function fix much of that, but then you are not really using python anymore.

> They often don't make use of that out of a sense of pride and not invented here.

This is a lazy and rather hurtful accusation.
IANAL but seems like you could get a case against you thrown out if it was found facial recognition was involved in your identification.
I feel they could have included a clause that would let a designated third party access the extracted data on the requester's behalf in an automated way.

I think it could have worked pretty well to keep it as vague as that. (The auth aspects would need more detail, obviously.)

I don't think data format fragmentation is a big issue (just implement adapters for the top five competitors in your market...), but rather the impossibility of doing it in a quick and seamless manner on behalf of someone wanting to migrate their data to your service from some other service.
Investing outside your region leads to currency risk. Currency hedged funds tend to incur slightly higher costs. I don't know if there are additional tax implications as well.

Not only is historical performance no guarantee of future performance, 10 years is a pretty short time span to look back - it doesn't even take you back to the '08 recession. The US did well in the 1990s and 2010s, but both ex-US developed markets and emerging markets did better in the 2000s: https://www.ishares.com/us/strategies/international-etfs

It's good to diversify internationally, and that probably does mean holding some US equities ETF even if you're in Europe. As for what else to buy, this may be a good starting point: https://www.lynalden.com/best-etfs/
all floats are equally boring.
> Why can't people just settle on some tech

Because underlying assumptions change.

Python still has an enormous amount of baggage from its single-threaded and fully-interpreted past (and present, really -- but I'd expect fans to argue). Should we live with the kludgey, limited workarounds? Or switch to an ecosystem built on a more modern foundation? Only time will tell -- but I won't shed any tears for python if we decide on the second option.
5-Hour Rule: Spending 5 hours per week learning
"I'd love to see the proof you have that these websites were bannering "death to America" across their websites."

???

'Death to America' is a common refrain used by officials of the Iranian Revolution.

Literally here is the Ayatollah's justification for it [1], as if a dark comedy come to life.

That anyone would ask for 'evidence', heyzeus.

Also, here's Amnesty International's assessment on the regimes arbitrary murder of 300 dissidents during a minor uprising recently. [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/03/ayatollah-kham...

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/iran-details-...
So you're using once stance to deny the totality of everything? Everything you read will contain both truths and lies (just watch CNN/MSNBC, which are pretty much corporate and political propaganda on the level of RT today).

The CIA did cause a revolution against a democratically elected government in Iran, replacing it with the Shaw. The Iranian-Contra situation is a travesty against the Iranian people.

The world is more complex that A is true and B is false. You have to take everything you read and examine if it's true or not. There are literally no trustable media today.
I use the word "english" but really my argument is language agnostic. Choose the language relative to the audience is my moto.

>I have in my day job some code we got from Korea. I'm told by those who have spent the time to understand it that it is good code. But since it was written in Korean it is a level harder to figure out.

Exactly this is my point. Abbreviations, lack of verbosity in naming and shortcuts might as well be Korean for the reader. It really doesn't matter how good the code is.... the understandability of your naming is by far more important.

Totally agreed.
Do the security/police of European universities and colleges have MRAPs?

* https://reason.com/2013/09/19/ohio-state-university-gets-arm...

* https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/ohio-state-university-ar...

Do European towns, with populations of 9000, have EUR/USD 1'000'000 vehicles that can stop 50-caliber rounds of ammunition?

* https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/police-tan...

Larger municipalities having specialized units (marine, SWAT) is one thing; the question is why is having vehicles that can handle IEDs necessary, especially if they're smaller communities.

Also: why do some officers (in the US) go out on patrol in camouflage patterns? What kind of department allows that? What kind of mindset does a person have to be in to do that versus the 'traditional' all-blue that many people identify with police uniforms?
I thought the post was about how the 32-bit space could be exhausted in minutes with common hardware in the year 2014. Which means that any problem I have which is in the 32-bit space is a candidate for brute force.

Given the advances in computers over the past few years: exhausting the 64-bit (or 2x 32-bit) space is "reasonable" for the year 2020. At least, reasonable for people who are willing to wait a month (on one GPU), or willing to buy a cluster of GPUs.
Revisiting: Visited
Did nobody including this writer read the policy?
Yes, using timing
Yes, there's a choice. Again, the police don't need military gear. You keep talking about what everyone "needs" in your posts; what the police "need" is fewer opportunities to be assholes.

The police need to be trained in how to de-escalate; they need to be trained not to "dominate" every situation they're involved in. The need to be demilitarized, and SWAT units need to be expanded slightly to deal with the small number of cases every year that demand real firepower.
I'm not talking about extinction. I'm talking about suffering and death on a large scale only because of cosmetics.
In terms of fatalities, they'd be considered a huge failure.
That looks awesome. I’m going to check it out. I’ve never really liked the slack app on Mac. I also like that it’s not a subscription. That’s a breath of fresh air. I wish more developers would just charge me for good software.
Floor has nothing to do with decimal.
>This 24-year old mother was killed for arguing with BLM supporters

That's a very biased description of this altercation. Regardless, it's clear from the sparse and strained examples given in replies to the parent question (ELF, Weather Underground, BLM, antifa) that the difference is stark. The closest thing to contrary evidence is the individual you mentioned retaliating against the police, and yet even that most extreme example still illustrates the difference. The groups the president encourages are much more exclusively motivated by simpler, more irrational, ideologically-rooted hatred, and, critically, are organized around that tenet. They aren't just angry protestors lashing out unproductively in response to an enormous injustice - they want to beat/kill/expel people for being liberal or minorities or immigrants or Muslim. They're an explicit threat to society itself.
Yeah, and doing away with qualified immunity.
Corporate wokeness has been around a long time but only recently are normies catching on to its economic and political dynamics. Part of the problem is that class consciousness has been eradicated.
'Rapid evolution' means humans now being born without wisdom teeth
What about factoring real time traffic data into route planning?

OSM Data/Routing engines alone don't address that side of the problem.
.com is managed by VeriSign, a US company. For better or worse, that is the world we live in.

But to be honest, with all the new TLDs, there's no longer anything really special about the .com/net/org domains anymore.
Yes resonances are a fun thing. For very little vibration input, you could get exceptionally large acoustic output.
this kind of property grab reminds me of the Guano Islands Act of 1856
I'm curious what you've seen in your friends that would make them seem massively better. I've thought of trying out supermemo, so I'd like to hear how it's helped you.
Since Script tags are blocking, you can do a undefined check then if that fails, inject a new script tag either local or a secondary CDN.

Link for reference. .Net Core has this built in as a tag helper too! https://www.hanselman.com/blog/cdns-fail-but-your-scripts-do...
Worth it if your function is acutely fundamental to the operation of your software because your software runs everyone else's software. You buy some time on a compute cluster with 1024 cores and 4TB of ram, and off you go, after making sure you understand your own code and reduce that number back down to "no it isn't, because two arguments in a given space for fundamental maths operations, taken together, almost certainly don't require combinatorial testing" =)
Except if you run exp, log, sqrt, sin, cos etc. Then you immediately leave the rationals.
Since you posted a picture of a German team I think it’s worth pointing out some differences:

- With very few exceptions (AFAIK only Stuttgart and Frankfurt) all armed police is only provided by the state and not municipalities

- This means special units, including technical units but also SWAT teams, serve a wide area. Often a whole state, in bigger state sizable portion of it

- The idea of a small town - or a college - police having their own SWAT team is completely foreign

- Normal police is already much more intensively trained than in the US. SWAT adds to this. SWAT is treated as expensive specialists, not a part time duty a cop can do on the side

As an example, I studied in Aachen. Aachen has no SWAT team. When one was needed it would come from Cologne (usually) or Düsseldorf. Both an hour drive away.

Now there are many structural differences between the US and Germany that you can‘t lift-and-ship the German approach to policing to the US but it’s disingenuous to imply German police is as militarized as American police because it also have SWAT teams.
Yea you'd surely be surprised. Our marketing department started using clickguard 6 months ago and we were simply shocked to discover how much of our budget was being wasted on Google ads.
I found the flickering at 60HZ unbearable, but at 75HZ it was barely noticeable. My sweet spot wast at 80-85HZ. I tried until 90HZ, but you had to sacrifice resolution and past 90HZ, I didn't notice much difference.

I think for today's LCD/OLEDs 90-120hz should be the sweet spot, especially for gaming and motion. More than that is a waste of computing. (there are monitors that offer 144-200Hz refresh rates, but that is mostly a waste).
The only high fidelity mantra in testing is a bit misguided. If you only test your system in as close to production state as possible, you are never going to encounter stress states that would only very rarely appear in production. Seeing how your components independently deal with less ideal components in the system can tell you a lot about how they might handle rare but bad cases in production, and allow you to over engineer them a bit more to avoid that.

> which makes it even more likely that introducing never-used-in-production behaviour unexpectedly perturbs the system.

Isn’t that a good thing? Isn’t the goal to deal with the unexpected in the first case?
Don’t get me started on Java performance!

Java made things fast at the macro level by making threading possible. Remember trying to do any kind of portable multi core in C/C++ in 2000? It was no surprise JVM languages took over and became what we’ve built Big Data on (Hadoop, Hive, spark, etc)

But they leave so much on the table for micro performance! Take a CSV or JSON parser for example - likely spends all its time extracting string objects!

Now the Big Data community mostly doesn’t notice; for example, the Parquet code is about 5x slower than the Orc code, apparently, but we all adopt Parquet anyhow.

I’ve been going through my java codebases doing the basic stuff like “let’s write a simple fast json parser that doesn’t make a lot of garbage” and you can easily half the number of boxes you need etc. sometimes order of magnitude improvements by writing java code that is more like C.

But there’s this level you cannot reach. You look longingly at the raw mechanical sympathy C enabled.

Perhaps Rust is the future? I expect we’ll just keep using more cores than necessary though.
I think the USA is sort of the same, my experience is layperson so I don't know if this is typical or normal: the company itself pays a fee to the vendor to maintain your 401k account under whatever the 401k legalities are (taxes being deferred etc.). A lot of time the funds available to choose from are the "institutional" kind that us mere mortals can't buy, only large vendors. So our money is pool-leveraged at scale using techniques and funds we individuals cannot access.

When you leave that employer, you can leave your 401k at that vendor but after awhile the old company starts to bug you about moving it as it's costing them money to maintain an account for an ex-employee. I missed that subtle point you noted - most companies (? all?) only match contributions to their vendor 401k, so there's our internal-company incentive to get you onto their plan to get those sweet, sweet matching dollars.
Yes, and that has happened... One time. N=1. The police need less gear, and if confronted with a crazy dude in Level 4 body armor with an automatic, their job is to call SWAT, then clear all civilians out of the area.
If we're going to do nuclear there are better arguments needed. This is not an honest evaluation

> nuclear waste isn’t a glowing toxic ooze

That's irrelevant, whether true or false waste has to be handled. So far it's not been done well, and language like that is appeal to emotion, not facts.

The comment of 300 times waste from solar panels than nuclear doesn't reflect the different waste types.

I'm not actually against nuclear intrinsically but pieces like this are not honest nor therefore, useless.
It was a hypothetical...
It used to be CC0 on Unsplash but some time ago they moved from that to a custom license with some special restrictons, which makes it impossible to use in other Creative Commons work: https://unsplash.com/license
This also happened to a lot of other similar photo sites unfortunately.

Preferred for the feed would be RSS I’d say, but maybe Twitter is good on top for promo.

Thank you!
I always though a screwdriver would be more effective for stabbing people and much less conspicuous...
They can and exercise a lot of discretion in not doing so. It has nothing to do with the legal authority, which they can also rationalize, feel free to come to the US and appeal in court.

The internet being administered by US corporations makes them easily compellable and any property they steward can be seized despite being for the benefit of foreign citizens and non-residents.
> Unless you have some special knowledge about the situation I don't, I think we can safely say we don't know if any of the accusations the US is making about these websites are even true.

Just read the article and scan some of the websites in a cache.

Reading your comment, after reading the US's claim in the article, and looking at the websites, leads me to believe your comment is straight disinformation.

US claim, "Today, we successfully seized 92 domains involved in a disinformation campaign conducted by Iran-based actors to promote pro-Iranian propaganda."

Looking at a cross-section of the domains in archive.org, shows them to contain one-sided and incomplete information.
I don't see what you base your claims of unquestionably better results for the costs and risks on?
Current nuclear energy production is quite expensive, it's on par with the costs for offshore wind iirc.
The risks, well... Privately insuring a nuclear power plant is pretty much impossible from a cost perspective. That's why governments, the tax payers in other words, have to assume the full risk in case something goes wrong.
Yes, my two first names are missing on the list.
According to Spotify’s own site [0], their users have

> ...the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transmit that personal data for use in another party’s service...

[0] https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/#s3

Why can’t a transfer service just use that file?

Perhaps, it doesn’t include playlists or liked artists/albums/songs?
AQI: PurpleAir Map Widget for iOS
The script wouldn't have to be from a CDN to track people using the browser cache. I could infer whether you've visited a site that doesn't use CDNs or trackers by asking you to load something from that site and inferring whether you have that resource cached by the time it took you to load it.
I agree, but why set up a false dichotomy? Nuclear energy should be part of a "Green New Deal", which shouldn't just be about energy, but pragmatic environmentalism in all fields.
Totally different type of waste.
> "It’s time to use the password reset link again, which at this point is basically your login button."

No. Just use a password manager. It's not that hard.

Also, calling 2FA "bulletproof" is just asking someone to hack it.
Today I learned! That's an interesting turn of events.
Bout to say the same thing. It's mind blowing how little restriction there is for them.
Show HN: Self-hosted alternative to Hotjar and Google Analytics
Hi HN friends!

Over the last 8 years I worked on userTrack.net as a side-project.
userTrack is a self-hosted analytics platform that provides multiple tools to understand what visitors are doing on your site.

It initially started as a heatmap/session-recording tool but since October 2019 I started working on it full-time and managed to add more features such as stats/graphs, segments and a way to easily A/B test copy on a landing page.
I would say that it can now be used as a replacement for both Hotjar and Google Analytics, thus eliminating the need of relying on 3rd parties for analytics.

I think the platform most similar to userTrack is Matomo, as it has a similar feature set and it is also self-hosted.
The biggest difference between userTrack and Matomo is how modern/friendly/fast the dashboards are and the pricing structure (as far as I know, Matomo only provides heatmaps/session-recordings for their cloud-only subscriptions).

I have been regularly released updates (see changelog at the bottom) and improved userTrack based on existing customer feedback (2000+ webmasters). In total I earned from it about $60k in 8 years of being a side-project (which is only around $6k/year, but enough to keep me going).

My bigger goal is to make self-hosting in general a lot more appealing for non-technical users or small businesses who can't afford sys admins and they have to rely on "free" services that affect the privacy of their users and even of their own data.
I think this is not only possible, but the expected future. We just have to create useful products that can be self-hosted AND find an easy way to allow users to install/use them.

I am glad to answer any questions about userTrack, the tech stack, its history or myself.

Demo (automatic login): https://dashboard.usertrack.net/server/demoLogin.php

Changelog: https://docs.usertrack.net/changelog

Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/z4HCNb15/usertrack-roadmap
The West Wing is definitely an idealized version of 00’s-era Democrat politics. I think largely because Democrats envision their ideal government and presidency as a bunch of clever, earnest staffers running around outsmarting everyone else.

Conservatives during the 00’s more strongly identified with 24, a universe where politicians and bureaucrats were sometimes virtuous, sometimes corrupt, and sometimes evil, but the hero was Jack Bauer, one of the rough men who stands ready to do violence on our behalf as we sleep soundly in our beds, usually in a very literal sense.
Sounds like an enhanced XtraNormal. I can't wait to see the "MongoDB is Web Scale" expanded universe on the silver screen.
DMS Integrated with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Would you think that the waste type from solar panels is comparable to the waste type from nuclear?
Would you like to point to the Oklahoma City bombing equivalent of the left?
Why do some people engage in straw man?
HackerNoon: Do you procrastinate? you're working hard but no results?
Same reason the funded Firefox. Speculation on HN was to avoid a true monopoly and then this targeted breakup.
"Our data is a mess!" is such a common problem with "NoSQL" / "Data lakes"
Yes.

(Matomo is your friend.)