skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused, what exactly is the allegation of illegal spying? The article just says:

> Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who were organizing employee protests, then firing two of them, according to a complaint to be filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today.

And then talks about the circumstances around the firing of those employees.

> “This week the NLRB issued a complaint on my behalf. They found that I was illegally terminated for trying to help my colleagues,” Spiers said.

This also doesn't refer to spying.

Is this title/article just clickbait or is there any substantiation or further information around the "spied on workers" claim? I've done a quick bit of reading on other news sites and can't find any mention of spying elsewhere.
> a new tech stack - designed from scratch to make decentralized networked computing easier

It's important to emphasize how very deeply from scratch it is, renaming absolutely everything, even the most basic concepts, with lots of abstractions.

For. Some reason.
> CA wholesale power prices are very low globally, while retail prices are sky high b/c PG&E is a monopoly combined with an inadvertent domestic terrorist organization.

What "inadvertent domestic terrorist organization"? BTW, PG&E prices are set by California government.
John Stuart Mill explains why you can never win an argument on internet (1869)
That is a great project, how can Lombok be used on ORM?
Vacuum Airship
> I wonder how communities like the Amish fit into the larger scheme of things. It seems like they've decided to ignore anything later than the 1700's technology.

No, the Amish specifically have decided to carefully review new technology on a moral cost/benefit level before deciding whether and how to allow it in their communities. They don't ignore technology, and don't have any "cut-off date".
Ignorant of decades of studies involving social and economic mobility as they relate to race, ethnicity, and gender?

Yes.
It's on http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...

Also available to play using Flashpoint (https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/) if you don't want to try to install flash on your regular browser.
Modern physics from an elementary point of view [1970]
Is it really a black box though? The majority of these companies have spreadsheets where people share their salaries, and from what I've seen, it's a fairly basic formula based on 3 factors: Level, rating and location. Yes, there's maybe a few % of wiggle in there, but generally it's fairly consistent from what I've seen.

You could argue that the way you get a rating, or even the way you get promoted are a black box, but compared to most non-tech companies, it actually tends to be quite a bit better.
Maybe it’s because your devices are all newer? I’m using the series 6 watch and an iPhone 6s, it’d probably work better if I upgraded.
Discovery says new streaming service can rival Netflix and Disney+
What has led you to conclude the UK hasn't been more efficient with the data?

The head of the regulatory agency refers to a "rolling review". Perhaps they are confident enough so far that they are willing to roll this out to the most vulnerable, if they've found that their risk of side effects (even with high error bars) is lower than their risk of getting coronavirus.

That would then buy more data which will inform continued rollout to the less at-risk population.
I would rather slit my wrist than using AnGuLaRr. Google is notorious for over engineering problems, great for search, horrible for UI/UX stuff. Keep it simple stupid.

Death to SPA (Angular, React)
Long live SPA (Mithril, Vue)
http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...

It’s also part of the “ZACH-LIKE” anthology on Steam.
True, but it’s random enough to make analysis difficult.

I’d be more worried about lack of transparency and poor controls on the part of the game administration. The secretive organization that runs one of the big lotteries requires NDAs for everything and is super secretive, but lacked internal controls to prevent an insider from rigging the game.
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Same reason behind most tech acquisitions: the users
Most people who consider the expected value of a ticket choose not to buy in the first place...
Medium was really good a while ago. I posted there a lot. I got a lot of traffic, it loaded fast, there was no paywall etc.

I have since abandoned it like many others, but it's still a low friction way to get writing and traffic.
An average Chinese citizen is only aware of income tax, they don’t realize that they are paying taxes and fees for something say when buying a bag of sugar or salt.
Here's a comparison: https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/energy-storage-2019

Electrolysis isn't very efficient without nasty electrolytes. For massive scale, pumped water/air is still probably the most feasible in a reasonable timeframe and cost.
I wish there was a reboot of that on ios.
Generative Color Harmonies
ObjectiveSql is the best ORM framework in Java
Imagine if Nintendo did something for competitive Smash
> PG&E is a monopoly combined with an inadvertent domestic terrorist organization.

You can't be an inadvertent terrorist organization. Not everyone who is responsible for multiple lethal felonies is a terrorist.
Yeah, I'm grasping at straws because I don't really understand what your position is from the things you said in this thread.
Yeah, this is why I’ve concentrated on learning different kinds of languages in my free time, rather than learning the latest thing: if I know Python, Ruby is relatively easy to learn but Haskell is more difficult. So, it’s worth my time to learn Haskell rather than Ruby.
Microsoft Solitaire was written by a summer intern, on their own time
Code size: Closing the gap between RISC-V and Arm for embedded applications
I'd also add their insistence on using the same branding approach for experimental apps as their core offerings. A new app named `Google $RandomNoun` has a really high chance of being killed a few years from now, while `Google Search` and `Google Maps` don't. I'm sure the company wants to use the same structure to give new products an initial boost, but they seem weirdly indifferent to the long term damage it's doing to the overall brand.
> I don't think having this property implies normality, but I don't know either way.

Having this property cannot imply normality. Imagine an irrational number z which has this property, and another number z' constructed from z by taking the first 1 digit of z, appending 1 "2", appending the first 2 digits of z, appending 2 "2"s, appending the first 3 digits of z, appending 3 "2"s, and so on.

Using e as an example, our z' would begin 2.7 2 71 22 718 222 7182 2222 71828 22222...

z' is irrational and shares the property that every sequence of digits can be found in its decimal expansion. But it is obviously not normal; over half of its digits are "2".
My daughter almost always asks Google Home to play songs with made up words for titles. Google almost always responds with hip hop, almost always super inappropriate. I love it.
Dear EU, you don't get to tell us what to do anymore!
The world has always been too complex for any human to understand. Any time we thought it wasn't it was just an illusion.

The only difference is that now we have more information and information moves a lot faster than before.

So the time we have to digest and filter out the noise is much less, so we feel confused, worrying about things that should be of no concern to us, since we cannot possibly do anything about them.

I think we collectively worry too much.

Before there were gods and kings whose job was to take the worry away, we don't have that anymore.
We call this society "Thunderdome"
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I'm not sure on how many level this statement is off. Sure, if its file where you don't care about your privacy, the kind of files you don't mind posting on facebook, then sure put in G Drive. But don't think for a second that those files in the cloud is yours. It is NOT! Especially when we are talking about FANNG here. You will have NO legal protection!

Stop using cloud, usb is fine.
Oh sweet, thanks for the heads up. We're using Webflow for it so we're not owning the CSS. I'll go in and tweak it though!
It's basically inevitable at this point, regardless of what Germany does.
All great questions.

When I look at the "Worldwide growth of photovoltaics" plot at the top of the page you linked, I see the "Green" (European) color dominate from 2008-2013 (maybe 80%+ of installs). Germany purchases, peaking in 2011, where in the heart of when solar price declines occurred. By the same chart, deployments in the rest of the world explode post 2014, after the big price declines.

Here's an article from 2011 (concurrent with German deployments) showing the immense price falls at that time: https://rameznaam.com/2011/03/17/expis-moores-law-really-a-f...

Yes, there's a huge 'chicken' v 'egg' question here: deployment vs. price declines from tech learning rates. Someone had to kick-start this process by for huge deployments when it was uneconomical, to then drive scaling in production. Germany footed the bill. Global deployments then soured after those purchases and price declines.

Perhaps someone else would have done this later, but I don't really care about the historical counterfactual, I care about who's balance sheet the uneconomic debt, to kickstart the virtuous cycle, sits on. So I credit Germany.

Yes, I am attributing a success to the Energiewende that was not part of the initial plan. But I do think it's an important success. Here's reference: https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-4-energiewende/

My understanding of the Energiewende, is that it was never focused on climate. Rather is was a plan to create economic energy independence at a time of very high and rising oil prices (e.g. 2008-2014).

So from 2020, the plan looks like a failure b/c 1) the twin tech. breakthroughs of low priced renewables and fracking have "slayed" the monster of rising high hydrocarbon prices 2) we now view climate change as a far bigger issue. If energy prices had stayed high, I think we'd view the Energiewende as achieving it's stated goals. The situation has changed.

Though, I'll be the first person to say the CO2 goals of the energy transition are more important than what the Energiewende focused on.
As a language i enjoy Python and Javascript a lot more than PHP. Especially the major PHP frameworks and libraries tend to be too complicated and Java-esque for my liking. There are some nice simpler alternatives, but they tend to get abandoned in favour of the larger projects.

But when looking at PHP in terms of deployment and making traditional SQL-based websites/API's it's unmatched. Just reading up on deploying Python code using uWSGI, or connecting to a SQL database gives me headaches, and the confusing package management and versioning system makes things even worse. Running Node feels unpredictable, with the server crashing because you forgot to catch an exception somewhere or having some weird state.

With PHP it's just: write the code, copy the files to a server and stuff (usually) just works. That's why i keep using it. Not that pretty, but it always gets the job done.
If company wants to have your time outside work then should they pay for 24h instead of just 9-5? I find it fascinating that employees are okay with it. After 5 it shouldn't be employer business what employee do. Some even forbid you from having a second job.
There are several listed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_generator

You might be thinking of the Wimshurst Machine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimshurst_machine

https://www.instructables.com/Small-Wimshurst-generator-from...

There are also mechanical variations on the Kelvin Water Dropper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_water_dropper

I remember designing and building a machine that uses the principles of the Kelvin Water Dropper, but uses a belt instead of flowing water, and rearranges things to get asingle circle of motion instead of a "bowtie" or "figure of eight".

But I expect you're thinking of the Wimshurst machine.
Seconding this. I'm a big fan of the NEC P462. The port selection is really diverse. DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, S-Video, Component, Composite... the list goes on. (some adapters from BNC are needed) It also supports sync-on-green. It feels like I could hook up anything to it. I suspect if you go much newer than this model, you'll lose some legacy ports.
The remote is also way cooler than a normal TV remote. Inputs have dedicated buttons. I can switch between DisplayPort and HDMI without using a menu. You can also mute the speakers and have headphones plugged into an aux jack for sound.

I found it at an auction by chance and have looked for them occasionally since. I recently got a second one for around $100.
In a competitive market, the surplus resulting from reduction in wholesale cost of electricity would fall mostly on consumer side: market would buy wind at $2/kWh, but the retail consumer prices would also fall correspondingly. Alas, utilities are rarely competitive markets, so the electricity retailers have more ability to capture some of the surplus.
Something like making invalid states unrepresentable—if you do that, then any state that's representable must be valid.
"glitch" aka someone was running the testbench rather than the production code...
> PHP is faster than Ruby.

It's not helpful to be faster than the language that the parent implied wasn't fast enough.

I think the parent's point was that if the startup's raison d'etre involves "chew[ing] through TBs of data every hour", then choosing a language that can do that 10x faster than another might have a tremendous impact on cost and so the company's value. It might be the difference between successful or not.

More generally, "it depends".
I'm not sure that graph contradicts OP's narrative. It clearly shows European PV capacity rapidly growing from almost nothing to near-present levels from 2006 to 2012, with the rest of the world accounting for only a tiny fraction. This corresponds to a time period when solar prices dropped dramatically: https://samsetproject.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/fall-in-so...

Then, once PV prices were cheap, the rest of the world bought a ton of cheap PV capacity.

Now, this doesn't prove that the reduction in price was caused by European PV spending, but the data certainly is strongly compatible with that claim.
"Hey Larry"
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are global threat–oak surfaces might thwart growth
The Chrome Root Program
Thanks, this link seems quite comprehensive and the answer author tries to write in a neutral voice - appreciated!
OCI container images and Docker images aren't the same.
Yet another project with no clear explanation of what it does. Some sort of conversion proxy I guess?
A minor point: siteswap "co-developer" Bruce Tiemann, mentioned in the article, is the younger brother of Michael Tiemann, G++ developer, Cygnus co founder and now Open Source Affairs VP at Red Hat.
So, I can't find the reference googling it now, but apparently Jeff Bezos really wanted Alexa to be called "Amazon" (pretty similar to Ok Google).

I think he didn't want to dilute the brand, and have the association front of mind or something, but the people on the alexa project managed to convince him to go with alexa instead (as it's confusing, and arguably a better name).

I think that's part of the reason for the different wake words, one of which is amazon (though the confusion with people called alexa is likely a much bigger one. It's probably why they have amazon in that list at least).
There are arguably three to six types, depending on how deep one wants to get into the etymology of it! On the higher count, two categories missing are (1) phonetic (false) loans where another character was arbitrarily adopted for a different meaning due to pronunciation similarities, forcing the original word to be reinvented to disambiguate, and (2) derivative cognates, where a common ancestor character may have branched out over time into multiple characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati...
Lots of http 418 discussions here already:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=418
You mean the delicious barbequed fish with fatty meat that melts in your mouth doesnt seem like it should be popular? Its like fois gras of the sea.
The best language has an appropriate ecosystem as well - everybody hates PHP, but it's damn easy to plug in payments and <insert hot startup widget>.
Since I dabbled in wanting to learn Prolog for the umteenth time a few days ago, I can't help but notice that this looks like something which could be a nice challenge to implement in Prolog.

I also envy jugglers for this simple notation. I am into flow arts, in particular Poi, and would love to have a simple notation like this.
Concept reminds me of the hacking minigame from ‘Enter the Matrix’ on PlayStation 2. The game presented you with a DOS prompt and a few simple commands; you had to unlock new commands and uncover hidden information by exploring the file structure and inferring from the output of commands available to you.

Made a very positive impression on a much younger me. The DOS prompt on my parents’ PC had always been a bit scary, since I didn’t really know what I was doing and was worried I might mess something up. The game was a (very limited) sandbox in which I could mess around without consequences:

https://www.ign.com/wikis/enter-the-matrix/Hacking
As someone who (finally) went from employee to small business owner, I wouldn't wait for "someday". Start the process while you're still working now. Take the time to learn everything you can to make this happen over the next couple of years.

"Free and clear" stops a lot of people, but it's not as important as knowing how to scale up and down so your cash flow is always above paying your debts. There will be balancing acts whether you own the building or not. Figure out the minimum sales you need to survive, and plan the maximum size you can grow to. You can start toward "free and clear" by negotiating a "lease with the option to buy". Considering recent situations, hire a lawyer to put contingencies on rent in case of government mandated shutdowns or reductions.

If this is truly a dream of yours, don't wait. Start looking at locations and gathering information.
>Suicide rates by country in 2016 (per 100 000 people, age-adjusted)

>List by other sources and years (1985–2018)

BTW 2020 is not over, so it should be clear that those numbers are not out ATM
We're Ready for One GPU – Two OSs. Intel Xe, SR-IOV and Thoughts on VMs
A CDMA less phone would not be eligible for Verizon.
Some liberals, sure, but the Liberal Establishment knows who their donor base is.
Optimum in NYC. It was a while ago so I'm not hundred percent on NC but iirc it was Spectrum
This reads like some "noble savage" rubbish about how the Japanese are better than us evil capitalists, but how exactly does one maintain a business in a steady-state for 1000 years when the neighbourhood around you gets gentrified, or the zoning changes, or your city made pension promises it can't keep for council employees so your land tax doubles every 5 years?
I got excited when I saw the title, then checked the URL and it is a software simulation / game of building a computer. I'm not denying this can be interesting, but I've been thinking for a while to get my hands dirty with hardware as a side project. (I'm a software eng by profession). I haven't really done a lot of research on this yet, but does anyone have any recommended guides/books/tutorials on how to get started designing and building my own computer? (extra points it it's a mobile/embedded computer)
A thousand software developers is definitely not a small company by any stretch.
Potential employees asking for special provisions in employment contracts would be a red flag. Nobody deals with tracking every employee and the slight differences in the terms they agreed to.
"OK, Sirotta"? :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol#Etymology
The bottom drawer is a reminder for the top drawer lock, the top drawer is for the computer.
> The documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi has a poignant commentary on this. Jiro's oldest son is expected to eventually take over Jiro's sushi place, so as a result essentially is toiling for his father into old age. On the other hand, somewhat ironically Jiro's younger son actually has more freedom, so he strikes out on his own pretty early and has his own very successful sushi joint.

IIRC, that's wrong. The documentary said that Japanese tradition is that the eldest son inherits the father's business. Jiro has two sons, so he created a clone of his business for the second. They're literally exactly the same layout except mirror images of each other.

The poignant thing that I remember is that the person who actually made the sushi for the reviewer who made the restaurant famous was not Jiro, but his son. And the wondrous thing was that the enterprise wasn't about chasing fame or fortune, but about being dedicated to excelling at a craft.
You seem like you have not had a lot of real job experience.
No doubt, but this is entirely besides the point. My point is still valid.
The T-Mobile and AT&T carrier sold iPhones did not come with CDMA support, not sure about current models.
I've worked at PHP shops - working on a PHP project for a consultancy right now - and there's 0 issues about 'shortcomings of the language'.

"past mistakes" are almost inevitable problems - I've been on both sides of this - creating things which likely caused someone else problems (learning to be better at tests and docs) - and inheriting problems created by someone see ( learning to demand better tests and docs from others when possible).

"past mistakes" have little to do with the language. Recently worked with a large Java codebase spanning back more than a decade. There's plenty of mistakes that have been made. And... there's plenty of 'language shortcomings' around Java too (go back to Java from 15 years ago, lots of shortcomings).

I was on a team that picked node for a project; the whole thing failed. Should I blame it on the language, or the people who made bad choices?

Perhaps the issue is mostly around people/teams that either aren't very good or more to the point don't have a structure in place to guide them and help them get better.
Wow, glad you got to draw attention to yourself through needless digressions about charged topics. I'm so glad you brought up the concept of gamlbing addiction. No one in all of history has thought of or mentioned it before. You're so amazing.

Or, rather, kindly take your clickbaity comments and shove them 'you know where'
Personal anecdote - my house has two sets of solar panels on the roof - the first was installed in 2017, the second was just installed last month.

In 2017 my 6kw system cost $24,000 before any incentives (by SolarCity).

In 2020 my 7.8kw system cost $15,000 before any incentives (by Tesla).

Of that $15k, $4.3k was for the panels themselves, $2k for the inverter, $1k for mounting hardware, and $8k for installation.

It's pretty shocking to me that in just 3 years the price per watt was basically halved, all in. Because looking at the breakdown, half the cost is in installation and presumably marketing and sales costs. Even if the panels themselves cost half as much, it would be a relatively small decrease in the total cost of the system.

I wonder what the practical bottom is - even if the panels were free, there's a floor on the labor cost.
Doesn't appear so: https://thepointsguy.com/2017/05/refund-when-airline-changes...
have you guys seen Naomi Klein new documentary. Renewable energy is a joke, just another way to squeeze money out of normal people by using a taxation system.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/09/17/the-green-new-deal-...
1% of PPP Borrowers Got 25% of Total Loan Money