skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last mile is loads more efficient with online shopping, but all the miles before that are worse -- rather than stores buying densely packed pallets you have a monumental amount of additional packaging being added, and the items are optimized in trucks as best they can be given upwards of 90% empty space in their boxes. Since truck fuel economy is only weakly dependent on weight this winds up using a ton more energy.

I don't have hard numbers though, which makes it hard to answer questions like "do the last-mile efficiencies outweigh other inefficiencies?"
well yeah anything you can do with NN you can do chaining enough functions

what NN allows is to test millions of permutations of thousands these functions to find the one that works

if your problem is intractably hard to figure out functions for, NN provide a larger hammer to brute-force an approximate solution.
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Thank you for your compliments and encouragement, I really appreciate them.

While there is a graphical element to my site, I consider it to be "text first, graphically enhanced", meaning the graphics are a non-essential and optional part of it.

If you switch the site to Light Mode (aka Compatibility Mode, aka Accessibility Mode), all non-essential HTML will be stripped, and it will take on the appearance of a regular, nearly-unformatted, primarily-text website.

This mode can also be enabled by default.
I hate the ISP router thing.

AT&T pushed an update that added an "Application Statistics" page to the router which keeps track of ports and sites visited and is basically hostile to privacy.

thing is - this is a rented router, so what can the customer do?

Also every time they push an update wifi turns itself back on. So I go in and disable it and then I get a giant warning email "AT&T wifi gateway settings updated".
How is this not machine learning? I guess because there is no gradient descent to pick the parameters, just random space exploration?
Funny nobody complains about the energy consumed by actual banks and other services Bitcoin would replace, which is much higher. In those circumstances they can understand it's not a waste at all, but a cost of providing a valuable service.

I don't think POS is an adequate replacement. POW was an intentional design choice because of the highly competitive environment that it creates.
Comparison of seven commercial SARS-CoV-2 rapid Point-of-Care Antigen tests
Of course, but there is also the valuable information you have to extract yourself, which is not the case for this "news sites"
There's a comment in the twitter thread that helps to explain why there are multiple color versions of the comics: From the Wikipedia page on Paws Inc:

In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the Garfield comic strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature Syndicate, although United still holds the original black-and-white daily strips and original color Sunday strips. The full-color daily strips and recolored Sunday strips are copyrighted to Paws as they are considered a different product.

So maybe it's down to copyright law that the strips have differing colors (and that the coloring is chosen to be completely over the top to ensure it can be claimed to be different enough from the other versions owned by other companies?)
> IHP is full of magic, this is both good and bad.

I find that not true. Scaffolding is not magic. IHP has little magic compared to big names like Rails and Spring Boot.

What I find that IHP is full of: type safety saving my ass from runtime drama.

Totally agree on the docs remark, the community is very friendly though.
I live in Oslo and have to say it is pretty great if you are able bodied. If you have trouble walking for any reason, it is really hard because cars have a hard time getting to many places you might need to go. As someone who is periodically in and out of crutches, I have a love-hate relationship with the city.

Anyway, this is 2019 data. It should be noted that there was a tragic accident in early 2020 when a 2-year-old was struck and killed. If there were others this year, I have not heard about it, but I don't know for sure.

So, it still happens. But, it is rare enough that it is really big news when it does.
Well done! You have discovered part 1 of The Secret! Congratulations!!

Clues to Part 2 of The Secret can be found in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Stakes are high! At the end of the trail of clues, the Council of Immortal Wizards will ask you to join their ranks, at which time they will confer immortality upon you. There are only 10E100-1 steps to go!

Good luck!
A conspiracy...
Virtual desktops: end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one
This patently isn’t true (and if it were then the foundation of capitalism as a theory would be broken). Also all the deep south states would do a lot better in Gini co-efficient rankings. So there’s a reason why people evoke surprise when learning Utah has such low income inequality.

The surprise subsides when they learn about the average age of the population (a young population hasn’t had time to accumulate wealth yet). The propensity for large socialist structures in the state (families) also helps.
while we're at it, you might also enjoy https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
Because there was no tax on kerosene (for planes mostly used by rich people, for leisure) while Macron wanted to tax the commute of poor people who had no chance but to go to work by car. Macron's policies keep ignoring how much the rich pollute and yet he significantly reduce tax on the top 1% (flat tax on capital is now well below their marginal tax rate).
who is mark?
Some states have exceptions to the 2 party rule in general, such as if you think a crime may be committed, or a crime from a specific list. This can apply to everyone, not just police.

I think it would be hard to argue that a conversation with a CCW applicant in which you ask for stuff in exchange for issung a CCW isn't acting in an official capacity. The only person who can issue it is the person holding that office. Not to mention, the calendar/schedule/sign-in book should have a memo a out the purpose of the visit (the pretext he was called down to the station).
We Can Stop the Spread of Covid-19 by Christmas
Reading the Sunday morning color comics was one of the highlights of my week growing up.

While many things are better, I feel that we’ve lost something in the modern world, in that each day pretty much feels the same as any other.

If we want special times in our lives, we now have to make that for ourselves. The world no longer provides much in the way of those intrinsic demarcations.

And I rather doubt printed newspapers will even exist by the time my future kids would be of age to read them.
Intellectual Influences (Books)
That’s a gray area, but in this case (200 iPads worth about $75,000 versus a company that has a net income of over a hundred million a day, thousands of employees (even disregarding those working in their stores) and top-level execs that, probably, make over $75,000 net every week), I think it’s a safe bet it didn’t go really high up the chain.

Of course, that can change if it turns out Tim Cook knew about this. That would surprise me a lot, though.
Just for another anecdata I must have clicked two other articles hosted by Medium at some point today so I also can't see it - cheers for the alternate link!
At ZudVPN (https://zudvpn.com) we use Caddy to retrieve certificates for subdomain.zudvpn.com where they are later used for VPN connections instead of web server. This makes us be able to issue personal VPNs secured with SSL/TLS on any major Cloud Providers. I would thank both Caddy and Let's Encrypt that opens endless opportunities around secure connection.
For Go check out bubbletea: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
Use your audience’s language, not yours
I could not understand convolution in the beginning partly because the book sucked and my professor was derisive with bad middle eastern accent. I wish resources like these existed back in the 90's so we would not waste time learning stuff.
For me right now, only porpoise's and one of hemmert's comments are lacking the dot. Interesting...
But isn't that an important part of the value of neural networks? Mathematicians are expensive so we'd like a computer to make a model for us, just like drivers are expensive so we want self-driving cars.
And the Doctors. You have to consider that $500 for a 15 minute visit at the doctor is ridiculously cheap, given the reduction in pain / the increase in productivity you usually gain from following their advice! /s

Yes, some stuff seems to be unreasonably cheap or expensive in some context. But it's the market that prices it, and collusion is always bad for everyone (except the conspirators).
Yes this is precisely the issue. I don't mind various types of currency, but when you buy 50 of the ~100M ethereum you expect it to remain somewhat proportional in value.

That didn't happen, mere years after its launch they blew through the cap and are already 15% over.
This seems to be a standard pattern. Most comics seem to do this, in some way.

I suspect that it's a trick to help keep the reader engaged.
Blockchains have a few problems that I think make them unsuitable for internet money, I know more about Bitcoin but I think this applies to Ethereum also:

- Early adapter become extremely rich (Developers)

- Transaction costs O(n) network complexity

- Every operation in the network result in no more than O(polylog(n))

- Energy Issues (Proof of Work)

- Speculative markets making the coins not usefull for day to day shopping

- Scams

- More Scams

- Pseudo Decentralization (centralize around Ethereum Foundation... Blockstream, Miners, Dev environments (Github), ISPs)

- Scams
Anecdotal, but I have had 3 separate friends who are not techie/finance at all come to me with an amazing investment opportunity someone has shown them. An article[1] on how XRP is going to become the reserve currency for the world is going around the get rich quick circles. In short its being pumped by scammers.

[1]https://medium.com/@mark_91397/xrp-will-be-a-world-reserve-c...
I currently have a case where a trooper lied to a judge to conceal exculpatory evidence and it is documented. I emailed a few firms for a free consultation. So far I have not found a civil lawyer willing to take it. Decided to email the ACLU too, so we'll see if we hear back from them.
And you didn't mention anything wrong?

Btw I believe these posts are against the mod rules.
Hmm, wonder if this has fewer transistors than an LGP-21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGP-30#LGP-21
That kinda rules out templating bugs I suppose
Show HN: A SRFI-64 runner to ease Test Driven Development practice in Scheme
School Supplies, Loop Pedals, and Tips for Zoom Open-Mic Nights
The biochar step has the advantage of giving you back a bit of energy while you're doing it.
...and that was the day Hacker News gazed so deeply into its own navel that it collapsed into a singularity.
I worked in government for 5 years. I don't think it can be fixed.
It makes little sens to make driving more expensive if it's still a necessity to work, if we don't tax the most polluting activities that are mostly used for leisure (private jets flying just for a weekend trip). The emotions you're referring too come for a feeling of a lack of social justice. If we can manage to apply the same or stricter rule to the most privileged, then a carbon tax might be acceptable. Macron is perceived as the "president des riches" for good reasons.
I like monero, but these are complete different use cases. Ethereum wants to be a database, monero wants to be a currency.
>The endgame is that all energy companies will primarily be Bitcoin mining companies, feeding their excess renewable energy into the grid to power homes, etc.

Wow. This is beyond delusional.
Don’t forget there are other kinds of benefits you could offer. For example, anything related to work life balance: 4 day work week, more generous PTO, reduced summer or winter hours. Get creative with it.
That random wikipedia link is awesome. Didn’t know you could do that.
What about Deep Learning?
:)
Code Signing, a Trust and Integrity Control for AWS Lambda
Another reason why urls (still) matter: SEO.
Is that ripping them off though? I'd say Audiophiles want to pay over the odds for things that might not even really make a difference if you actually measured it. It's part of the enjoyment for them.
Hey HN,

My name is Peter and me and my coworkers created Estimake.it to generate pretty quotes for our customers.

One common issue we've had is that lots of people will request quotes/estimates for work while very few of them will consider paying for the time it takes to estimate the efforts required to develop their software. So we decided to make something that will help speed up that process.
This is a helpful compilation, thanks!
Photoshop's Sky Replacement Makes Photography Something It's Not
This is my whole experience in Europe. People complaining about their "late" [impeccable] trains.

I'm like eehhh, okay, wait till you see the United States!

The only culture shock to me is that union strikes can actually have an affect on convenience or quality of life, they're more like mosquitos buzzing in your ear if a protest has gone on for over a week in the US. I don't have an opinion, and that's part of the privilege!
> gun possession in the public square is not a right, it is a privilege, one that can be revoked as seen fit by the government.

I'm not sure what you think "bear" means in "the right to keep and bear arms."

The Constitutional right to own a firearm doesn't mean much if you're not allowed to have it outside of your home.
Bank bailouts happen because people don't want to lose their bank accounts and the money within them. Yes you can claim insurance but since everyone is doing that you can expect to wait months until you get your money back.
>>Following from that, they will be SUV-sized, because hybrids add lots of extra drivetrain components and weight

Not sure if I follow this, Golf GTe, Audi A3 e-tron and similar are hybrids and not exactly SUV-sized
> The purpose of science is not prediction.

The only purpose of science is prediction. The rest is bottle-washing and button-pushing.
> One would expect that after VW dieselgate there would be very close and frequent testing by all possible cars by regulatory bodies (or even competition). What a fail.

The governments were more interested in keeping their car industries chugging happily (and keeping voters' jobs, and probably their own political jobs), so they preferred to keep the easy emissions test: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-franc...
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What's the name of the effect that when you click on something random you still end up on something related to you and you think "it's not that random". Because I got that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbridge
What's 111111111*111111111?
> at the time it didn't support the Haskell language server

It does now:

https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/editors.html#notes-on...
Thanks! We'll improve the documentation on the points you've mentioned :) Created https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp/issues/570 to keep track of it.

For custom URLs check this: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/routing.html#custom-r...
For JSON check this: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/view.html#json
Looking forward to getting my hands on one :-) Next time you speak to the RPi folks, feel free to name-drop. Getting into the "RPi alpha tester club" would be very helpful for writing tutorials like this.
https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/vision/ for those who like me need an explainer what Eth2 is.
Society is scratching the surface on toxic power dynamics. Right now we're talking about Mormons.
I think of migraines as a signal that says, "you're doing something seriously wrong, on the regular, and I need you to stop".

It is a signal beyond the normal subtle communication we get from our bodies that must be listened for to be heard, the stuff yogis talk about.

For people in my family, including myself, it means avoiding certain contaminated food products, such as processed food including white flour.

For me personally, it is also avoidance of synthetic products such as VOCs, which cause me much suffering when I'm exposed to them. For example, furniture will off-gas that stuff for months and years after manufacture.

Another common source of pollutants is regular household "cleaning" products -- look up "indoor air pollution".

This stuff is rarely acknowledged in mainstream information sources, and it is certainly not easy to get away from. It requires a conscious effort, basically becoming your own EPA and FDA, and being much more strict than them.

I think it is worth considering for anyone suffering from migraines to try eliminating all this stuff from their life and seeing if it helps before trying to suppress the signal with drugs.

An easy way to try is to camp out in a clean outdoors area, bringing only clean food with you, while also avoiding new camping products, and any "sprays".
Nobody might be able to put it back together but it is certainly possible to smash it into smaller pieces and make things worse.
Battery Day:A closer look at technology that makes portable electronics possible
> It might be a good short term solution but long term it certainly isn't.

It is only a temporary solution - unless it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY7nx5Z6Kzo
I've been playing with the console improvements in Windows 10. I've hacked up a Win32 compiled version of the venerable VTTEST[1] and run it in the Windows 10 (Build 2004) standard console, and 90%+ of the ANSI escape sequences now work exactly as they should.

As such, I'm not sure what a framework like this adds, other than abstracting away the ESC sequences?

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[1] https://invisible-island.net/vttest/
This is the reason why I am exited about GraalVM and its support for polyglot programming[1] (via the Truffle framework).

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/polyglot-programmin...
It's incredible that C10K was achieved in 1999. http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
I used Racket at some point alongside SICP ~10y ago. I always considered it being a pure educational/experimental/research language.

While this is likely a primary focus of Racket, it seems to be there is a ton to be gained from diving deeper into it, so thank you for these resources.
You're replying to a comment with item id 25196754, and your link has item id 25196874, which comes later.
Maybe. In the middle scenario where most first-to-recursive DNS calls are DPRIVE but the authoritatives overwhelmingly aren't you get free security by just checking the "use DNSSEC" box and so browsers may just begin doing that, maybe gradually or maybe as a result of a headline making incident. See also the curious case of TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV. (Basically if you don't implement SCSV then unsafe fallbacks are too dangerous to attempt, but anybody implementing SCSV doesn't need an unsafe fallback anyway, so, forget this new protocol feature just never do unsafe fallbacks, duh)

Once you're checking that box, DANE is almost free. Egos involved may determine that it's important to never technically do DANE, so as to save face, see also why TLS 1.3 isn't just named SSL 3.4 or SSL 4.0 even though that's what it "is" in some sense. But the effect, yes. If that scenario plays out it's what will happen.

One blocker for DNSSEC and thus DANE was deployability difficulties facing middleboxes. But middleboxes have choked so much else since that today "defeat middleboxes" is just table stakes. It was needed for TLS 1.3 and it's needed for QUIC and for HTTPS DNS records and... if you're defeating middleboxes anyway you might as well have DNSSEC.
Let me chime in also here. Besides racket, which is a great choice when liking lisp syntax and dynamically typed code, there is also Java which has python-like syntax and allows for amazing DSLs that are typesafe but still easy to use. Probably the best language for DSLs in production, especially if typesafety is important.
Yeah, over the life of my Volt I’ve averaged almost 100mpg since charging covers my whole commute. That includes a number of long road trips on gas, so one car fills both the electric commuting niche and my occasional long distance ICE needs.
It's a problem that is solved much better in many other similarly-wealthy countries (see Norway, Switzerland) or pretty much all the other first world countries.

It does not have to be perfect, it only has to be better.
> I also wish this wouldn't so political,

Every project is political. If it doesn't question the status quo, it is condoning it tacitly. That is in itself a political action. This fetish with not being "political" is generally a dogwhistle for (extreme) right-wing thoughts, which may or may not be something you want to espouse.
Different files / functions / methods / views (pick your name) on the server rendering timestamps in a different way?
Android 6.0+ is not that much better than future Let's Encrypt's Android 7.1+

It seems that there is no real alternative... Let's Encrypt's move is going to obsolete a huge lot of devices :-/
Interesting point, at one point old cars will be un-roadworthy (because e.g. they'd have to have a bit of electric powertrain), so no one will even be able to buy them used (unless to export so they can keep polluting in poorer countries, but hey, climate saved! /s).

But didn't California have this in the last decades with their tough emissions standards?
Most off-the-shelf hardware isn't going to pass EN50121. Your hardware might be buggy and user unfriendly, but a 8KV chassis discharge isn't going to take it out.
Yes, it was a smart pr move. It wasn't FUD, however, which is the classic Intel/Microsoft strategy.
Build vs. buy your admin panel during YC
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Forest Admin (https://www.forestadmin.com) and we provide a SaaS admin panel solution.

3 months at Y Combinator is a short amount of time to build both a customer facing app as well as the admin panel that will support your business at scale. Who would prefer relying on an off-the-shelf (or low code) solution to save time?
This has been analyzed to death here on HN, but I'll highlight one of the many problems with that position. Amazon products (whether maliciously or not) capture far more audio than they need to do their job, they send it to Amazon, and Amazon sends it to third-party contractors to analze by hand as a step in building their NLP models and whatnot. Echoes are marketed as AI magic, and a reasonable consumer would not expect that hours of sensitive conversations are being listened to by anyone, much less an unknown third party that Amazon has little control over. In my mind, that scenario is qualitatively different from and worse than shipping small amounts of pertinent data to a machine which can't be bribed or manipulated.
> and at least from an outsider's point of view their society seems to work pretty well.

Narrator: It doesn't and is heavily subsidized, simultaneously making non-compliance harder to reconcile.

It is impossible to discern if someone is making a satire of their religion, is an actual Mormon, or is an actual Mormon questioning the absurdities of their society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
I used to put my iPad on the passenger dash at night and watch a movie on the windshield while I drove. I was driving across the country, for many hours a day. The trick is not to focus on the movie unless something is happening that requires being looked at (hinted by the music).

This kept me awake, and I’d hardly have called it a distraction unless you would rather me pass out at the wheel.
Republican politicians appealed personally to Zuckerberg over fact checks on right wing disinformation and bans of right wing trolls and they agreed to not hold those people to the ToS.