skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As is usually the case, it's complicated.

The government has actually taken steps to push us down that road by mandating that all generation is renewable by 2045. Of course that's easy to say and harder to do, but I'm not sure it should be up to the government on how we get there.

The entity with the most responsibility to get there is HECO, which has a bit of a mixed record.

On one hand they have been pretty good about encouraging customer generation with net metering, and later grid supply options. Unfortunately there is a bit of an engineering problem there as we have pretty much reached the saturation of customer solar such that in the middle of cold sunny days, there is more electricity being produced than consumed (see duck/nessie curve). This would sound like a good thing, but with an extremely old grid and no utility level storage, it's kind of not.

A more reactive utility perhaps would have done a better job upgrading the grid to allow for distributed generation, but HECO spent the better part of the last 5 years trying to get themselves sold to a mainland utility to drive returns to shareholders instead of placing institutional focus on solving current or future problems for ratepayers. Serving two masters, etc.

Kauai has a much more interesting situation as their utility went through that whole sale to the mainland thing in the 90's, which failed and provided the opportunity for the ratepayers to buy the owners out and created a cooperative utility. I don't live there but from the outside looking in it looks like they are being much more proactive about renewables and more importantly, storage.

Absent some kind of massive game changer in wave or wind generation, the whole game is really storage. I know a lot of people who would love to install solar, but HECO is already at max capacity absent a way to store electricity at scale.

Finally the part that gets talked about the least is economic inequality. Hawaii's real estate is expensive, but it is driven by investment from outside the state, making it almost impossible for people who live here to afford homes. That interacts with the energy piece because you have to be a homeowner to benefit from solar, so solar contributes to wealth inequality as people who are fortunate enough to own homes also reap the benefits of government subsidies and cheap electricity, while people too poor to own homes are left paying the retail rates. And this is before we even get into the distortions of behavior that net metering encourages when you treat a kwh of solar in the day as equal to a kwh of petroleum at night.
You're not thinking of the pizza worker in SA who told porkies, are you? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/21/south-australi...
Yeah, Pinterest is almost always disappointing as a result: their account requirements are annoying and it tends to obfuscate the source of the image or information you’re looking for.
SoulCycle Lost Its Soul
> Why should there be difference? 'Distraction' is a question of applications, not monitor type.

Distraction is a question of colors and rate of change.

While it's a copout way to address black and white displays, most people who turn their backlit monitors black and white report a noticeable difference in focus. At least for the first week or so.

> Bluelight - regular LCD has LED backlight that passes through LCD, with eink there is an external LED light, reflected by eink back. The source of light is the same (well, depends on specific type of dides in LED backlight vs LED light).

By external LED light you mean the lightbulbs in your home? This is not backlit or frontlit or any kind of lit if you put it in a dark room.
Sadly, the Pokemon series is stuck in a situation where it doesn't 'need' to innovate or do anything ambitious to sell well/get good reviews, so its creators basically don't bother and coast along without trying too hard. It's kinda like YouTube under Google to be honest.

Extremely high levels of popularity + no competition + unambitious creators that are out of touch with their audience/userbase can equal a mediocre product or series that just ticks along without any attempt to live up to its own promise.
That's problem, DDG works nearly exactly the same (except a bit worse imo). DDG channels a lot of Bing, which virtually clones Google which makes it not much of an alternative at all.
My first VGA monitor was a bit of an oddity in that it was completely grayscale (a very nice white too). I don't remember the circumstances of how I got it but I didn't spend as much time on the computer at home back then. So it didn't really matter as much.

When VGA itself improved enough to buy my first color VGA monitor, it was a bit of a let down in that the sharpness was a definite step down from that monitor.
The Visionect one is around the same price as this but substantially larger - https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-32/ - I think this is what the person used the other day

It's essentially plug-and-play - no major technical skill required to use it
Game Pass has streaming for Android. It's coming to more platforms in 2021.
Copy Taiwan.

No country has been dealing better with Covid than Taiwan. No lockdown, and > 200 days without new Covid case [1]. Taipei had daily direct flights from Wuhan, and the Diamond Princess mooring near Taipei. They told the world early on [2] how they did it. Summary: Border closure, contract tracing, testing and controlled quarantine for those testing positive. It's worth reading [2] to realise how swiftly, decisively and rationally Taiwan reacted, and compare it with other countries. It probably helped having had an epidemiologist as vice-president [3].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/29/taiwan-domesti...

[2] C. Y. Wang, C. Y. Ng, R. H. Brook, Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan: Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Chien-jen
> considering Todoist have a Windows app but not a Linux one

Todoist does have a Linux app, although it's effectively an electron wrapper around the web app. Having said that, I don't think this is unique to the linux version though? https://todoist.com/downloads/linux
Good luck getting your next job when your resume has a 6 year blank spot.
I am in the same boat, I am loving it. Granted I bought a new PC recently so I can play the game at Ultra settings, but I find visual and narrative design are outstanding.
It's missing a single feature. That's a really low bar for old being new again.
Politically Homeless: How I Kept My Soul in 2020
I like color in my code. I suppose different font weights and shades of grey can make up for it if the resolution is high enough.
Framework for Luck
STUMPY faithfully reproduces the matrix profile work (https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/MatrixProfile.html) in a user friendly and scalable Python package. At the end of the day, there is no silver bullet but, now, you can quickly and easily compute matrix profiles (using distributed CPUs and multi-GPUs) and compare the results with your favorite time series analysis approach. That way, you can choose the right tool for the right data/right job.
Thanks for doing it. Liked the strategy and style of marketing.
Mousing around at even 30 fps can be a struggle. So I am guessing this is better for people who are keyboard-centric.
Brave nightly
China banned all ivory trade at the end of 2017 and by all accounts (see WWF and NG sources cited in the tweet) it's been working quite well.

https://www.twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/13397828106309...
Waiting for the Vulkan backend and the dolphin port.
I've done it a few times, and it worked perfectly well each time. Here [0] for instance, a couple repos had evolved to be codependent, and so we combined them into one.

But it's something that you only have to do rarely. Projects merging is far from the normal PR after all, and it makes sense to give a warning in such a situation.

0: https://github.com/replicatedhq/kots/pull/511
Figure out how to run away from the EU. It's getting hot here.
Imagine starring at a book for 8 hours vs starring at a light bulb for 8 hours. What is better for the long term health of your eyes ?
Who determines what is the best ranking? Who was defining what was "good"? There isn't some abstract, mathematically verifiable best ranking, a platonic ideal that all search engines should aspire to. Google has always made choices about how to rank that trade off the interests of various groups of users, from the very beginning. The complaints that you and I have about pinterest being ranked so highly come because Google has decided that our desires for how the results should look are not important enough compared to how other, perhaps larger, groups of users want them to look. Maybe Google deranks pinterest tomorrow, but they've made the choice to keep it as such for a couple years now. Whether it's because they think they have better ways to spend their time or because they like it the way it is, it's not really possible for us to know without somebody leaking that information. But, I imagine, there would be a group of people who would be as disappointed as we are elated if Google were to change this.
GNOME has an app called Planner:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner

Planner is packaged in many distros, e.g.:

- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/planner/

- https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/planner

- https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/planner

There's this unspoken rule of open-source project naming etiquette where you try to not use names used by projects once they reach certain level of popularity.
A CISA made tool to detect compromised accounts on Azure
That was this one (Medium Paywall)
https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b40...
Someone has to clean up the mess.

Here's the Barber Beach Rake, a similar smoother, for beaches.[1] That's how all the beer bottles and cigarettes are scraped up.

[1] https://youtu.be/0UWN447xuck
And OLEDs themselves might be on their way out before they manage to get mass adoption.

Samsung yet again made a breakthrough in LEDs, now, inorganic.
OK. Specific Sentinel integration might be optional (or not even possible), not too sure. But the only way we'd be compliant with the Sentinel policies is if I can use the pre-designed modules in TFE.
How do these sort of ports for niche systems get made?
> "But why", I hear from the back. Having Linux available makes it easier to port emulators and fb or console games.

> Most importantly, because I can.

Good. All I can say is at least it is something different to what I keep seeing on HN. (React, Rust, Kubernetes, JAMstack, JavaScript, etc.)

Probably present this somewhere in a conference (CCC, FOSDEM, etc). Who knows who could be looking at this.
Sorry if my comment didn't sound appreciative. It's just that over the years you see many such "added benefit" services added on top of MaxMind, most of them promising to eventually build their own database. And most of them disappear again after some time. It seems to be a tough market. We've looked into this ourselves actually in a project, and it is far from trivial to get to the "accuracy" of MaxMind, with everything they do to enrich and improve their data.

Timezones, currency, etc, might be an added value, and there might be a market for the convenience you add. Your timing might be better than others, who knows.

I also understand you must have put in considerable effort in what I would still call a "frontend". I wish you best of luck!
The Competitive Programmer's Handbook by Antti Laaksonen (pllk) [0] presents an alternative formulation which seems fairly intuitive to derive. The idea is to take a "normal" for-loop iterating through the entire array (a constant step size of 1), and instead use a large initial step size (n/2) which halves at each iteration.

[0] https://cses.fi/book/index.php
You'd be better off becoming a Lord or Lady of Sealand:
https://sealandgov.org/shop/become-a-lord-lady-baron-or-baro...

The Principality of Sealand is a micronation off the coast of England. Its territory comprises a single ex-WW2 sea fort, ruled over by Prince Michael.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
> By external LED light you mean the lightbulbs in your home?

Yes
It's a novelty gift, like land on the Moon or naming a star.
Refresh rate: 750 ms (4 bit full screen) / 100 ms (1 bit partial)

Doesn't seem to be in the same league if we factor in refresh rates. Doesn't seem to be usable as a monitor.

But it would perfectly work for refreshing a newspaper every hour. :)
I don't mind security updates.

I DO mind updates which install increasing amount of Microsoft spyware and adware. Windows 10 wants to track my every motion, direct me to content, up-sell me crappy games and apps, or try to pressure me to do things in the Microsoft cloud.

I'd like it to be my computer. If I wanted my computer to be a lease from a corporation, I'd get a Chromebook.
Should be pretty simple to make a browser addin that adds “-pinterest” to search queries (I very often add that and search again, if I get a Pinterest result at the top).
>Soo hard to get a ticket. I was there for 35c3. Worst part is that since you don't know if you will get a ticket or not and you book hotels/flights only after you nab a ticket, you are paying increased prices vs booking far in advance.

Which is why you join one of the manymany assemblies and get into the voucher rounds.

>I just wish it was cheaper to make it to Leipzig from the US but I understand that they are stretched to the gills in terms of capacity.

My only recommendation here is to fly into Berlin and take the hourly train down to Leipzig. It' somewhat cheaper to fly into and the train ride is a nice ride.

>I heard a rumor that they have already maxed out capacity at Leipzig and there is no bigger place in all of Germany?

There is place for more people in leipzig, but AFAIK there are internal discussions how large they want it. Hamburg could be used, but not everyone can fit into the CCH. Heard rumors about them considering going for CCH and the large halls nearby. But I'm not privy to orga details so these are all rumors.
The only downside of Ruby, IMO, is it isn't installed everywhere by default, whereas python is.

It also isn't hip anymore, and many of the brains from years past have moved onto Go and Rust based on my casual observation.
Honestly, that’s amazingly good.
Salmon spawning in the upper Columbia River, first in 80 years
The study says that model doesn't fit as well as other ones. The model isn't an assumption, it's testing possibilities. The same as any use of statistics involves testing a model.
Lol, because 95% of the time HN is a joke.
Wow, thanks for the help! I'll try these techniques out and see if it helps.
it's a linked list of utf codepoints. It's actually a terrible representation for most purposes. More modern parts of the BEAM (e.g. tcp/udp) typically give the option to emit a "binary", which is a immutable contiguous memory region of bytes, and Elixir, which also runs on the BEAM defaults to using "Strings" (cap S) which are "binary"s, but semantically interpreted to contain UTF-8 encoded utf codepoints.

For some things, though lists are REALLY good. BEAM languages constructs are generally immutable, so if you pass your string (or String), to a function that then changes the contents, it doesn't affect the value seen by the original function after it returns. This is a GOOD thing as it reduces the cognitive burden.

Conversely, performance of binaries in this immutability regime can get hairy because as you start concatenating them or editing them you have to make tons of immutable copies of stuff, which is no fun for anyone. (Literally last month we had a problem in prod because megabytes-sized JSON strings were being copied around after minor appends).

The middleground is something that erlang calls an "iolist" which is a (list of (iolist or binaries or utf codepoints)). Elixir has "iodata" which is (iolist or binary) This is nice, because you have o(1) append, o(1) prepend, and for long stretches that aren't going to change, you can use binaries instead of awkward utf codepoint list structures.
> But COVID-19 also has a _very_ large incidence of asymptomatic transmission

Does it? Meta-analysis concluding secondary attack rate in households from asymptomatic transmission around 0.7%.

> Household secondary attack rates were increased from symptomatic index cases (18.0%; 95% CI, 14.2%-22.1%) than from asymptomatic index cases (0.7%; 95% CI, 0%-4.9%)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
No, I don't think so. According to RFC 6066, Section 8 "Certificate Status Request" (a.k.a OCSP Stapling)...

> In order to indicate their desire to receive certificate status information, clients MAY include an extension of type "status_request" in the (extended) client hello. Servers that receive a client hello containing the "status_request" extension MAY return a suitable certificate status response to the client along with their certificate.

And in a TLS handshake, the procedure is ClientHello, ServerHello, Server Certificate, CertificateRequest, Client Certificate. But "Certificate Status Request" is only specified in ClientHello, not CertificateRequest, so it's not possible for a server to request OCSP status from the client.

Hence, OCSP Stapling strictly a service provided to the clients, not vice versa - unfortunately, reliable revocation of client certificate is a still a problem. But I guess it's much easier to blacklist the offended client certificates on your own server, perhaps still problematic in a big organization, but certainly easier than blacklisting every leaked certificate on the Internet.

Disclamer: I don't have any experience on managing systems that use client verification. I did my best to RTMF and fact-check myself, but corrections are welcomed.
>> Check HN 1-2 / week.

>> Each time, I scan through pages 1-10 opening any links that seem relevant by their title (~30-60 open tabs).

I then scan through the opened tabs:
1) Closing the ones that are not relevant or are mere updates (~60%)
2) Reading the ones that are super relevant immediately (~20%)
3) Saving the ones that are 'resources' for ongoing or future projects (~20%)

Hardest to keep up with #2. Reading text articles is time consuming: 3 mins / link on average.
And a lamp. For all they shortcomings emissive screens carry their own lighting. A reflective screen has the same problems a book page has. We would need a lamp to read it well in a dark room or inside in a cloudy day. Maybe more than one lamp (left and right) especially for a large screen.
You might be interested in this:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/waveshares-e-paper-displays-work-...
If the light bulb has the same intensity as the light reflecting from the book then i do not see much difference. Monitors have brightness setting.
I was really excited to sponsor the actual elephant you linked in 2/3, until I realized it was pictures from 2014 :(

I’ll have to find another cute one now, I suppose.
I never had a relationship with the N64. After the Super Nintendo I was deep into computers and programming. The place I used to go to rent video games also started to rent CD ROMS. I went down there one time to rent a CD ROM and saw the N64. Back then video games stores also worked as an arcade, where you could play a system for 30 minutes paying a small fee. So I decided to try this new system, the N64. The game I choose was Mario 64, or course. I did not know where to go, how to play, what my goals were... I remember back then feeling that I outgrew video games. This was around the year 2000. Wasn't until 2009 that I decided to play with video games again, I bought a used xbox 360 from a friend. I had played Mario Paper 64, but on an emulator, and way after the game was released. Cool project thought, thanks for sharing.
If Google decided tomorrow that Quora and Pinterest is spam and should basically never be in the top 10 results pages, couldn’t they just fix it? What’s the worst that could happen?
Exactly how many Indian extended families have you dealt with? You need to act like Giuliani dealing with the mob if you want to preserve your independence (leverage over their assets, reputations, businesses etc) because they think they own everything. I jest, but not by much.
Note that here we're not talking about a single mutation but 17 non-synonymous (they change the protein) mutations with 3-4 with known effects on the interactions of the resulting proteins
-site:pinterest.* (there's supposed to be an asterisk at the end, but I have to type something after the asterisk for it to show up)
That is exactly how installing an application in MacOS always works. When you run an installer for a native app, and it goes into /Applications, it's owned by the user who installed it. What Homebrew is doing isn't functionally different, other than /usr/local is in your PATH I guess?
IIRC the vaccine does nothing to curtail the spread of the virus, just eases symptoms once infected.

I don't know when people started substituting with taking a vaccine = immune to covid/spreading.
Google: we need your personal information so we can improve your experience

User: -pinterest

Google: we need your personal information so we can improve your experience

User: -pinterest!!

et cetera, ad infinitum ...
The purpose is to standardize web pages and get page size down to an absolute minimum. This is for a service that only has a few kilobits per second of download speed.
> 8 hours

That seems weird, to be kind. Source?
Without the "getter syntactic sugar":

let lea = {
name:"Lea verou",
getId:function() { return this.name.toLowerCase().replace(/\W+/g, "-");}
};
lea.getId() // lea-verou
lea.getId=function() { return this.name; }
lea.getId() // Lea Verou

"syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" -- A. Perlis

That said, I don't use JS and I agree it still looks like a bad idea, although this is not too heretic in a prototype-based-like language.
Thanks! I was constrained by the talk length but intended it to be a starting point for future conversations if people are curious about details.
Zach Bintliff has a reinvent talk in January going over some details of how we did deployments at Disney+ if you'd like some specific details about that part of the stack.

The QR code was intended to be functional and worked in editing but I never got it to work after uploading to youtube. It was just a link to justinplus.com
Yes, there are a certain small number of usernames here whose submissions are generated by AI, this is clearly one.
Perhaps one of the existing color e-ink readers can be hacked to meet your needs: https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/these-are-al...
Any new precedent for completely closing borders between developed nations for any reason is bad. Because it creates a “we did this before.”

Even if the scale or details of circumstance are different—such as Clinton’s pardoning of his brother in minimizing Trump’s choices.

Another reason is exceptions cause outrage. And there may be many instances of diplomatic or other government travel that needs to happen or happen in the slipstream of limited public travel.
Agree 100%. I can’t see any alternative hypothesis that explains the UK sequencing data. Here’s a good graph from a seemingly reliable source: https://twitter.com/mugecevik/status/1341094871822680067?s=2...

What could explain that data other than increased transmissibility...?
Show HN: Fine in Kube and Docker
Hey everyone, I make animated doodles and games that use ASCII and Unicode sprites so that they work on the CLI. Here's my latest which is a dog in a burning room: https://github.com/pdevine/thisisfine

You can try it out on your kube cluster by using the command: `kubectl run -it --rm --image=ghcr.io/pdevine/thisisfine tif`, or in docker with the command: `docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/pdevine/thisisfine`.

If you want to check out the library, it's called Go-AsciiSprite and can be found here: https://github.com/pdevine/go-asciisprite