skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate where you get the 6% number from? At least for me the energy transport cost is separated out (as the energy production and energy distribution are separate companies/services) and comes out to something like 40% of pre-tax electricity cost.

6% is in the ballpark of electricity loss during transmission (and even that is on the low end - depending on how the last mile delivery is done, the lower voltage cables and transformers near the consumer can easily push it up to 10%+), but that isn't the main part of the cost, that is dominated by the cost of building and maintaining the delivery infrastructure.
“so do I get to make sweeping generalization about those states based on that”

If you did, that would be just as meaningless. Why do you want to make sweeping generalizations?

What’s your point? There exists an island nation of ~5 million is better run than many parts America but worse than the best parts?

What generalization do you seriously think you can make from that?
How about self hosted enterprise GitHub?
Even if you presume the FOSS versions were functionally equivalent, there is large cost to rolling your own (admin, backups, debugging). It’s precisely the 3 person teams where SaaS makes most sense. Larger orgs can amortize the relatively fixed cost over a larger user base.
> That makes sense. Doesn’t that then seem like a perfect problem for a neural net type system to solve?

In theory. However if you change the balance then the mega game will change as well and you have to throw away the training data and start anew.

Also it’s very important to not change too many stats at the same time because then it will be hard to learn the game and the new meta will take too long to emerge.
Yep. No guarantees. I had a friend that that fried his brain on it.

It's a powerful tool that has been unfairly demonized.
The lack thereof. And in that light, it seems eerily relevant.
The issue is the transaction fees at the lower, faster end (i.e. I might be able to use Bitcoin to buy a car, but I can't use bitcoin to buy a coffee).
I’m shocked how bad the site is every time I use it. Both in terms of the user interface and the tone and content of all the default subs. I’m not sure what the exact demographics are but god help us if Reddit users represent the way human beings are going.
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I won’t sign up for medium to view this (let alone download another app!), does anyone have a different link?
If you think Systems Design is bullshit, you haven't played enough Factorio.
Having just gone through and looked up a bunch of articles criticizing Jordan Peterson (Most of them seem to be written by Matt McManus, so I guess he's trying to make some sort of name for himself by association), it seems to me that basically the people who like Peterson like him for his life advice and the people that don't like him don't like him because of his political and philosophical views.

I guess it seems completely unremarkable that someone would have useful things to say in one regard while having less useful things to say in another.

Also I guess I view him in the context of a university professor who wrote a book and has some lectures online, not in the context of the mega-celebrity he became. I think being catapulted to fame like that is bound to mess up pretty well everyone and probably also muddy their message quite a bit.

I mean, at its core none of the things Peterson has to say are really all that revolutionary, they are pretty basic life advice. "Take responsibility for your life", etc.

Obviously there is an unmet need for that basic life advice because people (particularly young men) ate it up.

One article complained about him relaying a story of getting a kid to eat. My only conclusion is the person that was complaining doesn't have kids, because his story was extremely relatable, and I'd guess basically universal among parents.

Anyway, yes if you try putting Jordan Peterson up on a pedestal, he'll probably fall off it. If you view him as someone that maybe could give some good advice while you'd otherwise just be killing time anyway, I guess I think he holds up to that metric pretty well.
Can we, please, make a rule that you cannot post paywalled links- or, alternatively, should provide a text copy in comments?
People upvote submissions without reading, comment without reading, etc.
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Also, I am very skeptical about the content, jugding just by the clickbaity title alone.
Imo under the new regulation (from 2021) this could actually be completely legal without any waivers depending on where was the pilot, if there was a spotter (very likely) and if the surfers can be considered involved persons (notified and consented etc.). Under my current local rules (not Portugal) this would require to be a certified pilot (theory + practical exam, although if you do this commercially it is a must anyway) and a risk assessment submitted to Civil Aviation Agency.

P.S. I believe the first shot of the video wouldn't fall under any regulation as it is not using airspace.
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The supply of housing isn't impacted by monetary policy. If people were free to built, then demand for housing could be satisfied rather than seeing these increases in price. Increases in money supply don't increase prices if output rises, only if more money chases the same amounts of goods. Which again, is not happening as born out by data.

>Does that mean you are sure the government won't use interest rates as a mean for controlling the economy?

The central bank, which acts independently, and not the government, uses interest rates to control the economy, but that's the point. It's a good thing, not a bad thing. If we had the digital currency in question and the central bank can send everyone two thousand bucks during a pandemic induced depression to stabilize demand rather than completely sound policy being held hostage by politics we would all be better off. We are right now literally living through a situation that shows what the benefit of such tools would be.
...I think that’s just fine for almost all searches
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I find it interesting that, in one aspect, ARM went into the opposite direction with its newer 64-bit ISA. Like with RISC-V, the designers of the 64-bit ARM ISA "knew about instruction compression and macro-ops fusion when they began designing their ISA" (32-bit ARM already had the alternative compressed ISAs Thumb/Thumb2/ThumbEE); however, they chose to use fixed-size 32-bit instructions without any compressed format. I suspect that they did it expecting that, once compatibility with the 32-bit ARM ISAs is removed on newer processors, the fixed-size instructions would allow for very wide decoders, like we've seen with Apple M1 (which can decode 8 instructions in parallel). It remains to be seen whether the RISC-V choice (the first two bits of every instruction are enough to determine the instruction length) will allow for a similarly wide decoder.
> Mass Mutual’s $100 million investment isn’t “speculation”

Of course it is speculation - in fact it is pretty much the book definition of speculation (The purchase of an asset with the hope that it will become more valuable in the near future).

There are no dividends and there is no interest and any RoI is solely derived from the asset value increasing - so if it's not speculation then what is it?
If you think it is, give yourself a pat on the back. If not, then give yourself another pat on your back with your other hand. I suppose its up to the individual to decide what they believe is sarcasm. It could be one telling the truth.
Apple's Design Awards has snubbed Mac apps for the last three years and in those years the majority of the awards went to mobile games.
Naval - "how to get rich" is truly a masterpiece. https://youtu.be/1-TZqOsVCNM.

Transcript: https://nav.al/rich
From GitHub usage policy:

“ (for example, don't use Actions as a content delivery network or as part of a serverless application, but a low benefit Action could be ok if it’s also low burden); or”

I think this would qualify as serverless application...
Why do I do open source?
Yeah it’s about units. It is also however important to balance the game at most skill points.

For example if a strategy that is easy to implement and relatively strong emerges, then you will have very boring games at low level and the only way to get out of the low rank would be to learn to counter one specific strategy. (This is for example what happened in the beginning of SC1 with Zerg rush and SC2 and M&Ms)
Depends on your risk tolerance and level of management.

The easiest option is to exit the stock market entirely. Just hold cash. Spread it across multiple banks and accounts.

Next easiest option is to change your stock/bond ratio. Make sure the bond ETF you use is diversified.

Next easiest option is to keep a static portfolio but put more than a stock ETF and a bond ETF in it. There's a nice set of "lazy" portfolios here [0].

Next easiest option is to build a static portfolio for a particular level of risk. There's a handy tool here [1] that can spit out the optimal balance given a goal and a set of assets to choose from (I'd choose a selection of ETFs). If you're risk-averse, your goal is probably to minimize variance.

Next easiest option is to switch to a dynamically-weighted portfolio that changes the balance of assets in your portfolio based on market conditions. This can be the same as the previous option but you'd recalculate the portfolio month-to-month.

And finally, there's playing with derivatives. You can "insure" whatever portfolio you like using options and/or futures.

I would strongly advise against anything "crypto". Either the financial system is still functioning and you'll benefit from regulated financial markets, or it isn't, and your cryptocoins will be useless, because they're difficult enough to use today, why would it be any easier when the world is crumbling?

And this all assumes the US financial system is still functional. If that's not the case, I'd focus less on finance and more on doomsday prepping.

[0]: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Lazy_portfolios

[1]: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/optimize-portfolio
That actually sounds pretty difficult to me.

Is your position here that the police should not visit the RV’s owner?

They haven’t said he’s a suspect it that he did anything and the initial tip that the police was investigating him came from a neighbor.
It's funny that in SC2 high-level competitive play, the roles tend to be reversed, now: the Zerg usually turtles up until the mid-to-late game and the Terran usually harasses very early on. Zerg tends to be the defensive, macro-heavy race and Terran tends to be the offensive, scrappy race.

Though some Zerg players like Reynor are starting to buck this trend a bit and are known for more aggressive, agile approaches.

(Or at least this was all the case as of about a year ago; haven't followed the game much this year.)
Shhh...you can do most things with some other less perfect tool. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

For Gmail, docs and drive, G Suite is an absolute bargain. The user experience you describe above (committing Libre office files to git? have you used Libre office) makes me shudder.
I don't disagree. But, that isn't a recommendation.

So, what is the recommendation?
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So that previous video was not showing the start of the explosion, it was showing the end of the explosion. Labeling the end of the explosion "source" is misleading. It's possible when the RV exploded, some of the flammable material was forced across the street, and that's why there is fire across the street.

The first frame with an explosion has the explosion centered closer to the RV than to the other side of the street. I downloaded the video with youtube-dl and stepped through frame by frame with MPC-HC.
Either Gsuite or Office 365 with the Web/mobile apps costs around $5/month/user, and includes Email. Just sayin.
I am really curious about the content of that article.
I work closely with different embedded CPU architectures and in most of our multi-expert evalutions of RISC-V (from different suppliers) it could not compete with commercial offerings (avoiding names).
Amusing alternative: for model-as-a-service kind of things there could be blacklist or another neural network to handle the banned cases.

"I'm afraid I cannot tell you that, Dave"
Here is another example of some gratitude supplied to someone who wrote a useful python library for a very painful exercise in bioinformatics [0]. Scroll to the comments to see the thankyou notes left by grateful scientists. I have personally used this because I found the other tools available to be a bit fickle about the files they needed while this simple python script was a breeze to use for me (since I know python already).

Github page is here [1] for those who need to remap an arbitrary list of human genome coordinates and don't want to bother with the UCSC tool.

0. http://fouryears.eu/2013/02/25/the-curse-of-genomic-coordina...
1. https://github.com/konstantint/pyliftover
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One limitation of their approach seems to be that it must be published in a public Github repo - it can't be a private repo.

This means it might not be so suitable for internal, or local apps - only public facing websites.

I wonder how difficult it'd be to make a mode for Upptime, that used say, local agents, and posted the results to a local webserver, rather than to public Github Pages.
If ~$200/month materially effects your runway, what you're saying is true, but even super duper early stage bootstrapped startups have that kind of cash, in my (admittedly limited) experience.

And it's not like you don't need what these services are providing, you'd just then have to do it yourself, and honestly I'm finding time to be more valuable than money right this very moment in the startup I'm working at...
But RTG losses ain't the only emissions of pollutants into the oceans.

Fukushima is leaking into the Pacific to this day even with Tepco collecting vast amounts of it to store in tanks. The US is dumping the majority of its PFAS into the Atlantic completely untreated, large parts of the world use the oceans as their dumpster, for agricultural, industrial, plastic and all kinds of other waste, to such a degree that we are running out of great coral reefs but instead have great garbage patches.

Yet for the longest time we only worried about oil spills, which are also an still on-going issue in addition to all the aforementioned ones, old ones like the vast amounts of munitions dumped into it, which also includes chemical weapons [0] and possibly upcoming ones like deep-sea mining.

It's mind-boggling to me how we as a collective species can be so unbelievably short-sighted to only recognize these problems once they've already run so far away from us that any attempts at solving them are borderline impossible.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decaying-weapo...
(1) the panels have a lifespan of 25 years, far below the desirable value for the lifetime of any house, but we have barely begun to figure out how to recycle them

(2) the level of battery usage this would imply has tremendous, mostly negative implications. A large chunk of contemporary batteries is just packaging (i.e. does not contribute to energy storage), and this would replicated across every house. While more easily recycled (in theory) than PV, we're still talking about a gigantic increase in highly distributed tricky-to-recycle material. That doesn't even get to the resources required to store sufficient energy for contemporary western/US lifestyles when solar or wind is unavailable.

p.s. I live in a net-zero-PV-powered house, grid tied.
It's telling that 20+ years later Netscape/Mozilla is still the go-to example of why rewrites are a bad idea. That gives us basically three possibilities:

1. Nobody is doing rewrites from scratch anymore. That's just not the case.

2. Nobody is talking about all the failing rewrites causing entire companies to collapse. I don't think anyone is convinced by this argument, it's basically several big conspiracies in one.

3. People have learned how to avoid the same traps, by reading about the Netscape/Mozilla fuck-up.

Basically, the problem isn't rewrites. It's badly managed rewrites.
Microsoft QuickBASIC was fully statically typed.

Its successor, Visual Basic, had a VARIANT type. Then VBScript was derived from that, and it was fully dynamically typed.
The website already earns enough. Donations wouldn't make a big difference, so I don't feel comfortable directly asking for them. Nonetheless, I'll give it a try. Thank you for the suggestion!
yes, but when he gets fed up of it, that project can be forked and the cycle can continue.
I'm not sure to follow your comment: are you doubting the model? or the results?
> I personally prefer null and exceptions over Option types and Results.

Personal preferences and all, I feel the comparison between Result and exceptions is somewhere between misguided and miopic. The Result type and exceptions do not serve the same purpose. Exceptions are not intended to handle control flow, and the Result type is not intended to handle exceptional behavior. Moreover, they are not mutually exclusive.

To provide an example, a Result type would be returned by a database query, and it would return Ok if an element was found or return a Fail if either an element didn't existed or was not valid. Meanwhile an exception would be thrown if a memory allocation error happened somewhere.
What are they really losing there? the stripe fee? they are paying themselves 10 dollars minus the fee... surely it's worth the 60¢/month it costs for absolute certainty that your integrations work for real?
Bayadera is much, much, faster, but it's not a probabilistic language. It's for data analysis with hierarchical Bayesian models.
First episode is really good but the second time he was on lex podcast was even better in my opinion:
https://youtu.be/_L3gNaAVjQ4
To an extent. As I become more generous with my compliments, I find that even a genuine compliment might be too much sometimes. That being said, I never miss a chance to praise people's work. As long as you don't make a big scene out of it, it's always appreciated.
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This is an issue solvable with better provenance / data lineage, which has come up in recent HN discussions.
I have personally experienced this. My otherwise really good manager had a monthly vote for the best worker in our small team where each vote was publicly announced. I, and another coworker, never got a vote while others got several. Really great way to make some of your workers feel really left out!
There's appears to be a mismatch between their costs and their billing, which either is true and someone will take advantage eventually which will force a restructuring of billing, or it's not actually a mismatch and we're all judging a situation with not enough information.
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> That is because it is his opinion. Most people that complain about something, don't fully understand it.

I'm convinced a person like Walter Bright knows a thing or two about software development in general and creating and implementing programming languages in particular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
By defense I meant patch or mitigation. When using the sysadmin hat, I don't care when the bug was discovered or disclosed, I only care about when was it fixed, or how can it be mitigated.

Sorry my reply came so late.
> Restic doesn't compress

I didn't actually know that, that's kinda weird. It doesn't seem to be vital to deduplication, looking at https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2441, they just didn't originally implement it and are now wondering how to best introduce this breaking change (can be forwards compatible, but of course not backwards), trying to get it right in one try, keeping the format "robust", adding other breaking changes while they're at it... wonder if this will happen any time soon.

To be honest, though, 98% of the time large files (anything over a few hundred kilobytes) is in a format that compresses to a certain extent. Pictures, audio, even text documents and spreadsheets are compressed these days. One person mentions huge XML files which sounds like they really should have been using a different tool (not a text file for starters, if you're not going to read through those gigabytes of text anyway), but there are other use cases like somewhat sparse database tables or disk images or so. Then again, if you have the space for those original files, doubling the space for a reserve copy is usually not a deal breaker, and Restic also deduplicates within and between files so if something were to be very redundant and compressible it is also likely to be caught by that algorithm.

I'm not against increasing the complexity to add it, and breaking compatibility of course---it's a clear downside of Restic to not have this---but I also don't really get anyone who considers it a deal breaker (and only to an extent those that find it a big deal).

Either way, thanks for pointing this out, I didn't know (and made an incorrect assumption since it seems so standard) and it's good to know about.
Realistically, it does not matter whether you apply for citizenship for not. All the same regulations will apply to you, including the exit tax, as a green card holder.
The depends on the country, but as for the US since you mention DMCA, ML using copyrighted work is probably legal. There just is not really much case law. Talk to a lawyer though, but depending on how risk averse you want to be there are definitely ways to avoid issues, but ensuring you can use such copyrighted works ect... Although, making a very large curated data set can be expensive.
https://github.com/sponsors

Github launched Github Sponsors in 2019. It does basically everything you described aside from the "thanks" part.
Since I do most of my reading on my phone, I find this iOS shortcut someone posted on HN a few months back of great use for bypassing almost every paywall I have come across.

I extended it to also work on Medium by using Twitter as the referrer.

Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/95928cdef80a46d892d05a58a88...
> they should have been able to find its VIN

I don't think that's as certain as "should" suggests. Some vehicles have the VIN on the engine block or various highly recognizable part of the frame. Did this one? I don't know what's normal for an RV. If it was like a lot of vehicles and only had it on the front corner of the dash, it might be hard to find among that many pieces over that large an area. And that's not even counting the possibility that the perpetrator deliberately removed it.
Ask HN: Best books for dealing with workplace politics and dishonesty?
Like many places, my job values dishonest harmony over honest conflict. The priority is always compromise and getting along, which results in design by committee, tons of wasted time, and generally low quality output. Of course, they don't say this explicitly, but actions speak louder than words.

I'm not in a place where I can leave my current job, and I realize that this is prevalent basically everywhere.

The issue is, I find myself essentially constantly walking on eggshells, unsure of when the situation calls for directness vs. being agreeable at all costs. This constantly delays projects and saps my energy, which negatively impacts the company, my career, and my happiness.

Are there any books HN can recommend that discuss this at high level? I'm not expecting a solution — but I'm hoping there is reading material out there that will help me understand and navigate this better.