skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precise instructions of exquisite violin construction followed by acoustic parameters of concert halls and then hq multichannel recordings of said instruments played in set halls would indeed be an effective use of bandwidth
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I actually think "curtailment" is not throwing away electricity any more than not running a natural gas power plant 24/7 is.

The only difference is the natural gas plant has fuel costs and the solar doesn't. But both are big capital investments, so you could argue you're "throwing away" electricity you could've generated with that natural gas plant by not running it all the time.

Anyway, just my little contribution to how we think about curtailment. If you have a good grid connection and optimal storage, then you don't end up needing that much curtailment (say 30%), although some is basically always optimal. See: https://model.energy

Oh, also, under-sizing the inverter relative to the solar array DC capacity is not even close to a one-to-one curtailment example. The solar rarely makes its peak power rating, so undersizing the inverter by 25% means almost no curtailment in the real world. Effectively, you're increasing the AC capacity factor and it almost perfectly compensates (until you get very high ratios, but even then the amount actually curtailed is small). This has a bigger impact in places that have more cloudy or overcast weather. If you install more solar panels (which are a much smaller part of the total cost of the project than they used to be), you can compensate for not having as much sun without much increase in cost.
System unavailability means the messages get delivered zero times, which is not exactly once.
Isn't this common, as a warm-up for grad students? It's just hard to publish.
"For northern countries"

It's absolutely monstrous to think in terms of what's ok just for the global north, here. We've done the vast majority of this polluting, and the global south is, in fact, currently, undergoing catastrophic change because of it.
It sounds like you missed the point of GP's post.

He was talking about avoiding manual weekly data copy-paste errors by writing code to do it in a predictable format.

I think you assumed that they meant the code would never have to be changed again, when they were actually talking about being able to standardize the data update process.

I don't think they said anything about never having to change the code, just that running a software process saves each user from manually pasting data every week.
I use pivotal tracker. Not all the features of Atlassian, but I've completed several projects with it, and it doesn't get in the way.
This looks like it's mostly yes.
Are you saying that a novel airborne pathogen that killed 343,000 Americans this year should not be described as “deadly”?
Can't an advanced AI produce emergent concepts and integrate them on (and as) its own ?
> Making it harder for cities to have predictable taxes and requires higher property taxes (but only for those that have bought recently),

But property taxes for homeowners are very predictable

My concern is government always wants more money - prop 13 put a hard limit on that.

Prop tax money should be vey predictable for cities - assume no houses are sold, yearly increases around 2%, work with that

> Just seems insane that when house prices spike (see problem #1) that cities are often on the verge of bankruptcy.

What’s the correlation here? Don’t get it
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> I can't see why the majority of actual people in those places would look at the Bay Area, or Seattle, and say "yes, let's duplicate what happened to people like me in those cities".

Well, wealth gets spread around so most people will become richer (though they may not feel richer due to comparison). Additionally, home values will appreciate (along with rent) which is a positive for the 50% who own their home. I feel like the culture gripe is ultimately caused by differing value systems. The good thing about personal values is you can change them.
Indirectly it pretty much is. If software works on Apple hardware people wish to buy it.

Boycotting noncollaborating hardware vendors by FOSS is LONG overdue. In my opinion there's too much catering to companies that do not wish to be helped.

Though, we can't forget that, aarch64 support also helps other ARM vendors, open hardware, theoretically. So there's that.
I’d love to give Nim a shot, but comments like these from the author make sure I’ll never be able to take the language seriously:

(Context: gitter thread about frontend state management/immutable data structures, https://gitter.im/nim-lang/Nim?at=59722654bc46472974112028)

Araq: meh, I cannot watch these hipsters talk

Araq: as soon as I hear “business logic” I stop listening

He felt compelled to make these comments about a conference talk from Facebook, who are arguably running the largest web application in the world, regardless what you think about Facebook. Such a lack of humility does not instill confidence in project leadership.
If you define blue/red by the presidential vote, then the parent is correct. Every major city voted biden this cycle.
I looked over at some Austrian and German pages wrt new EU rules and they all mention that Mini 2 has to be insured (25-50EUR/year).
The problem is that it's hard to use as a primary language because of a lack of direct Web API access. So basically right now it's not a casual decision to say "I prefer X over JS, so I'll just use that instead because it targets WASM!" Because there's this enormous cost of crossing that API barrier (which means you'll be using some JS regardless, directly or indirectly).

So for now the value-proposition only really makes sense for a fairly narrow subset of projects: mostly ones where client-side pure-compute is a bottleneck. Theoretically API access is being worked on, but I think it's still a ways out.
Basically nightlies are just like the "preview" features in Java, .NET and C++ ecosystems, or import from future in Python.
awesome article! especially love deep dives like this into subjects where i have only rudimentary understanding.

i see that the 4-phase logic is time-based. are there similar logic systems that are voltage-based, so instead of a high and low, you had very high, high, low, and very low? (i'm thinking a decimal computer would be neat but maybe too difficult given the relative benefits.)
You should have kept reading - the employee responsible later acknowledged it was a deliberate act, although the motive remains unknown.
I see, and if you have a polymorphic type then presumably you get to know its affinity too?
It seems that philosophical discussion of assholes has become a thing, just as philosophical discussion of bullshit was big a decade ago.

The problem with the so-called "good assholes" is that they preference their own values over those of society. Yes, some -- like Rosa Parks -- really are good. But for every Rosa Parks there's someone who has decided that a Cabinet member needs to be hounded out of a restaurant because she works for an un-woke President. Or that someone's life needs to be destroyed because he or she committed an indiscretion 40 years ago which is now verboten. (Ex post facto laws are unconstitutional, but there's nothing stopping "good assholes" from committing ex post facto social justice.)
Do people really avoid companies based on their choice of administrative services?
Yeah, it values composition over inheritance (mentioned in the official tutorials) and discourages you from using methods and other OOP concepts. It's by far a procedural language. Functional style is also not preferred either, imho a good thing, fp does not result in fast code.
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Does this mean that using them in a multi-threaded context may produce duplicate ids?

Edit: To answer my own question. No, although it does seem to limit your application to a single process with at most 256 threads, if I'm reading it correctly.

> Sequence numbers are per-thread and worker numbers are chosen at startup via zookeeper (though that’s overridable via a config file). [0]

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...
How does it matter ?
It's a very different type of lock in. Chrome is based on the open source Chromium anyone can adapt ( sand said competitors, like Microsoft, do), and the vast majority of what it does is based on open standards. If tomorrow Google does something stupid with Chrome, like cutting off adblockers, you can bet your ass there are going to be at least 2 forks within a week. When Adobe did something stupid with Flash, you had and have zero options.
I have more specific problems with Jira:

1. When editing a comment, the textarea is tiny and placed in a pop-up, instead of in the page. Can't resize that to see the comment better.

2. After disabling shortcut overrides, the shortcuts are simply disabled, along with the default browser behaviour for them.

3. Refreshing a page resets scroll-status. Seriously, webdevs, stop hijacking normal browser scroll behaviour. You always make it worse, never better.

4. If your login session times out when you're writing a comment, you can't publish it, but the error message isn't clear about the reason why. There was some button in the error message that caused you to lose the entire contents of the comment you were writing. Happened to me several times after writing comments 8+ paragraphs long. It's infuriating.
> Two days later, the employee acknowledged having “intentionally removed the vaccine from refrigeration,” the hospital, Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wis., said in a statement late Wednesday.

from the article
That seems a bit unfair. I lean towards the “random technician was a little careless one day hypothesis.” I’m not looking to blame anybody. S* Happens as they say.
Phabricator is pretty good except it has pretty much zero CI integration. Kind of annoying.

You also have to pay to even comment on issues. I think that's a pretty great way of getting companies to pay for support but it's also annoying if you want to work with other freeloaders on issues.

Also it's written in PHP which means you aren't ever going to want to read or modify the code. No different to GitHub, or probably even GitLab but I can definitely imagine modifying Gogs/Gitea.
All the districted state & federal elected offices. Cities don't matter in those elections because they're all Gerrymandered not to.

Travis County (Austin) is carved into 5 congressional districts.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2018-10-05/congressiona...
It's better to use a SQS standard queue and have the consuming system provide the exactly-once processing guarantee for various reasons. You will need to introduce something like Redis, if you are not already using it, but I still think it's net superior to using an SQS FIFO queue if you want exactly-once processing.
Life is a _single_ self-propagating chemical reaction.
The way I’ve handled incoming webhooks is to run a Lambda+API Gateway to put them into an SQS queue, and the inverse, SQS to Lambda, for sending webhooks out.

This was possible only because AWS provides these services, of course. If you’re offering an infinitely scalable HTTP endpoint to soak up webhooks and allow me to query them at my leisure, or put them into a queue for me, that would be useful.

I haven’t looked into hookdeck in detail yet, will post again once I do.
Which is a proof of what?
> He's a marxist, so statements like that are grounded in a historical materialist analysis -- very basically, that the material result of policies is their reality, not whatever ideals they might aspire to.

Not a very sound way of thinking if you care about confounding variables. Presumably there are always special exemptions when not analyzing capitalism? I.e. The material result of communist policies in the USSR (total collapse) don’t apply to communism because it wasn’t true communism? If so, then we don’t really have true capitalism either so you can’t really make any assertions about capitalism.
Duty would imply a relationship of mutual obligations between the citizen and the state.

Thatcherite neoliberalism found an acolyte in Reagan, and ever since in this country, "government is the problem, not the solution". Under such a regime where the state seems to have no real obligations to its citizens, talk of duty seems rather precious.
Yes I would. See earlier in the thread where literally the first thing I mention is that Trump lies a lot.

This isn't team sports. QAnon being fake doesn't make RussiaGate real.
> The upside is that eventually the hype cycle will again turn in their favour. Hopefully they can capitalize on that once it comes.

Not necessarily. The market can stay rational much longer than they are acting solvent.
Frequently bypassing is just searching for the title to pick it up at another news site that it's syndicated to.
I'm also intrigued by the possibilities of WebAssembly. However I also have a nagging feeling "didn't we already do this with Java, 20 years ago?". Wondering what's different this time, or is this just a MySpace vs Facebook second-times-the-charm thing.
If you really need this why not add a public ID...
Folks are still working on it, yep.

I mean, Rust does have support for many microcontrollers. I do ARM stuff for work, for example. Just not AVR. It'll be nice to have it though!
Speaking for myself, I believe that some truth can be known by humans, but my faith is more about the ideal to strive for it. My Quaker faith speaks of "continuing revelation," particularly in contrast to originalism. But when I use the word "lying" I am very specific about an intentional act of deception. You don't have to get deep into philosophy or theology to figure that out, though there are always shades of whether the deceptive person believes their own lies.
I can either spend a lot of time rewriting my already tested and working code if my application scales to the point of hitting a CPU bottleneck OR I can just try using PyPy.
It's a failure in the sense it was supposed to cost $30 Billion but is estimated to be nearly $100 Billion, and was supposed to go between SF and LA with extensions to Sacramento and San Diego, but instead is only covering less than 200 miles of track between two cities nobody commutes between and have small populations which will not be able to sustain the operating costs of this railway.

It doesn't achieve any of the goals it set out to do, is way way over budget, and has been axed by the governor. That's a failure in my book...
Ask HN: Can you select all images containing a truck?
Background:
I'm on the younger side for an adult.
I was born in the US and English is my first language.
I have corrected vision, but my eye sight is not horrible.

The issue:
I haven't been able to use Craigslist for a week because I cannot select all images containing trains. I failed the hCaptcha challenge maybe 8 times in a row on a few different days. Maybe I'm not human. I'm convinced that an algorithm can likely identify a train or a truck or a motorbus in a 25x25 image better than I can. I squinted at a building thinking it was a train. I analyzed the reflection in the body paint of a vehicle wondering if those were traffic lights or railway lights. Is a garbage truck, a truck? Does just one railway car, or part of one railway car count as a train?

The ask:
Are you able to do it? Is there a better solution?

I understand this is a first world problem, but what about folks that may be differently abled than myself, especially in vision or congition? I saw there's a way to set an "accessibility cookie" but I did not go through the process yet.

P.S. Happy new year!
I haven't used JIRA recently, but as far as I remember the difference existed because they were rolling out a "new" editor, which was active when editing tickets, but wasn't available when creating new ones.

I remember this caused me some data corruption when editing a comment created with the old version of the editor using the new editor. It was a mess.
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I've never heard this term before: "black tongue comments." Wondering what's its origin?
> American people are crying out for help and dying − not from a virus with an “infection fatality rate” of 0.15-0.2% across all age groups, and 0.03 to 0.04% in those under 70 years old. (This means, 99.96% of nearly everyone who gets the virus lives.) No, the desperation and distress are in response to the government’s unprecedented mandates and lockdowns.

Yup, as common sense dictates and as highlighted in the Great Barrington Declaration ;

https://gbdeclaration.org/
The discipline of software engineering is mostly about managing change, and the most impactful ideas in the field support this from the micro level to the macro level. For example, at the micro level immutable functional programming with modern type systems allow you to refactor code more confidently. At the macro level using agile processes instead of waterfall allow you to make larger changes with the same investment by breaking the change into many smaller deliverable pieces iteratively applied with the benefit of feedback. Other examples: modern source control, modern DevOps (CI / CD), microservices, OO-style design patterns, API or protocol design (backwards & forwards compatibility guarantees), data modeling. These don't all apply to game development, but I think the comparison is instructive.

Obviously change isn't the ONLY thing, even with a static set of requirements you have to build something that makes tradeoffs between various constraints (performance, cost, etc.). But it's much more common to be working in an environment that has frequent changes than one with static, known requirements, which is why this factor has been so influential in how we develop software.

With that in mind, saying that software quality and delays come from constant changes from game designers shouldn't be surprising. If this weren't such a hard issue, we wouldn't have spent so much of our collective effort creating ways of addressing it. Just like in bridge building we put a lot more effort into understanding the physics of different ways of holding up the cars instead of, say, what bridge paint colors most reduce the risk of accident.
Will add NSQ notes. Researched it once for distributed web socket pub sub, did find it pretty interesting.
Property rights is an important part of capitalism and CO2 emissions could be modeled as property damage to everyone else.
This isn't saying anything not already covered in the material I referenced in my comment—although it does say it less precisely, so I'd argue on those grounds that all things considered this comment need not have been posted...

(In any case, I'm totally mystified about why my own comment that includes that link and corrects the untrue statement about it not being possible possible to get certificates for IPs was deemed to offend someone's sensibilities. Surely the offense, if there is one, is in the comment that makes an outright, verifiably untrue claim?)
Maybe trade secrets don't make sense, given entropy. Light-speed limitations just expose the fact that not sharing information makes no sense. Unless capitalism.
It's somewhat the same thinking, but it was a much more candid essay from an earlier part of his career. It was a frank recollection of why he went into economics as a field; he talks about the Asimov Foundation series, and a practical reflection that he was not really cut out for something like physics.

It was back when people had janky self-hosted html sites, and the like; probably written in the late '90s.
> You also have to pay to even comment on issues.

OP mentioned "non-cloud", so I assumed they wanted it self-hosted. You don't have to pay anyone for commenting in Phabricator when you're self-hosting it.
If someone's fine with heat and they want to stay in that general area of the country, I'd probably steer them towards Nevada TBH.
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They suppress competition, they can’t prevent it.

It costs more over time to undermine competitors via loss pricing than to compete.
Well, member states are free to go beyond the EU rules and add their own local ones, so it might be true in those countries. I don’t believe you need insurance for hobby activities in the UK, though I’m not an expert and open to being corrected.
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MOP = member of public.

See essay "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution":

> The new scene draws fanatics. Fanatics don’t create, but they contribute energy (time, money, adulation, organization, analysis) to support the creators.

> Creators and fanatics are both geeks.2 They totally love the New Thing, they’re fascinated with all its esoteric ins and outs, and they spend all available time either doing it or talking about it.

> If the scene is sufficiently geeky, it remains a strictly geek thing; a weird hobby, not a subculture.

> If the scene is unusually exciting, and the New Thing can be appreciated without having to get utterly geeky about details, it draws mops.3 Mops are fans, but not rabid fans like the fanatics. They show up to have a good time, and contribute as little as they reasonably can in exchange.

* https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

* 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21963626

* 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17433487

* 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9632751
Apple is clearly and deliberately using its influence to limit what a web app can do, in many cases to protect users against features that are poorly designed and harmful to privacy.
JIRA is a bit like linux. It only really sings when you have a skilled admin to set it up and maintain it.

I have used a whole bunch of ticket/project managing tools in a number of different orgs. By far the most useful is JIRA.

taiga.io comes close, but lacks the admin interface and multi project overview that jira has.

Trello is ok, but terrible for large teams, or large projects. Subtasking is a pain and there is no real concept of a sprint. its ok for replacing notes on a board, but terrible for recording state.

Some of these criticisms are valid, but compared the competition[1], I'd choose JIRA 7 times out of 10.

[1] dont get me started on the "clever" people that decided to make their own in house solution, kneecapping the entire planning ability of a 70k person org.
Dunno. My "bypass paywalls clean" Browser-add on does wonders.
32 bit microcontrollers are well-supported, and often cheaper, more power efficient and with more features than old 8-bit uCs.

https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg
This is only a simple take on the life-as-a-computer metaphor. The problem is that it's only a metaphor.
Basic manners, I'd say.
Ask HN: What have you changed your mind about?
On the internet, everyone seems so sure of their views. What did you change your mind about recently?
Rich people who don't want to be taken apart by the teleporter and reconstructed on the other side.
so... you don't want to pay for content or get ads. Enjoy your cake.
I've known several offices and high-ranked enlisted military members. This is what I was told:

Yes, the most junior of commissioned officers fresh out of academy technically outranks the most senior non-commissioned officer that's been there for 20 years. Also, you can bet that that junior officer will get a very thorough chewing out if s/he ever disrespects the experience, commitment, and knowledge that NCO rank represents.
Yes I can't look at it. It should be interesting though so I've bookmarked it to come back to. I'll use a browser plugin to 'fix' it if necessary.