skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know what kind of issues black people in the UK face because I do not live there. But as someone who has lived in Brooklyn, NY for decades, I know about the biggest problems that black people in the US face because I see it all around me.

Out of any demographic group here in the US, African-Americans have by far the highest teen pregnancy rate, the highest high school dropout rate, and the highest homicide rate. On the last point, according the CDC the leading cause of death amongst African-American males is homicide. (Black men killing other black men.) Almost none of the black youth here have any kind of relationship with their fathers. This is especially dangerous for males. A male who grows up poor without a father is much more likely to end up becoming a criminal.

The thing is, lecturing white people about their privilege won’t fix any of this because these are not things that are done TO the black community by whites. This is what the black community does to itself.

I’m not denying that racism exists or that terrible things have been done to black people historically. But that doesn’t account for all or even most of the top issues facing African-Americans today. When it comes to racism and the sins of the past (slavery, Jim Crow, etc.) some of us white people have more sympathy than others. (And to be sure, some of us very little). But it’s hard to listen to the same grievances over and over when there is no accountability for the mistakes that are constantly made by the community itself.
I'm assuming that your citation is meant to refer to this paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/EE/C7EE0...

It says that 3 weeks of power storage would be required in total absence of a serious overhaul in transmission capabilities. I had assumed that was a clear, if unspoken, assumption when I was discussion continent scale entities.

Also, the poster you originally responded to was discussing the literal dozens of installations that singlehandedly meet the 100 MWh mark. HN guidelines require that I assume this was a simple failure of reading comprehension.
Pretty clever :)
As an individual yes but i’m not aware of companies having this problem. Does Google treats all its creators as people (i.e income tax) only or does it have the ability to recognise companies?

I guess i can close this with the disbelief that content creators setup companies and then use Youtube as themselves. What kind of accounting shenanigans would be required to be a company and content creator on youtube? I am genuinely interested.
> Reading chat logs is probably like attempting to read the transcript of your family holiday dinner. It would be nonsense. You’d have no sense of time, no sense of delay, no sense of conversational flurry, etc.

This reminds me of a private virtual event I put on a few years ago which was done entirely over real-time text. There were a few people who wanted to be there, but wound up having a time conflict, so I set up to make a recording of the event—including timestamps, and providing a way to play it back correctly timed (optionally modulated by a speed control). It seemed to get a good reception.
“Tech Addiction” Is the New Reefer Madness
Signal doesn't store the keys on their servers, nor do they know who is talking to whom. You should read up their protocol.
I was a customer of theirs for years and he would respond on Twitter to random customers (me included, a couple times). Seemed like a really great leader.
Another cachelty
Teams fixed this mostly by removing the text box in groups and replaced it with a button “New Conversation”
This would bother me a bit but 2 points:

a)i'm not on t-mobile

and b) they've already been hacked, your data is out there regardless.
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire

What it comes down to in my opinion is that these jobs are ultimately not really that different, except for how they pay. (Put another way, the main difference between jobs I've had in my career is how much they paid. The other stuff was basically the same; pay radically different.)

And if we're at the point of working tech jobs then guess what, Mr Agassiz, we're already wasting our time. The way we waste less of our time is by making our money and getting the hell out. So we can waste our time however we like.

But if you like, you can instead console yourself with, wow my boss is such a nice guy or whatever
This is just my experience but these days I read 50ish books year - back in school I would do everything possible to avoid assigned reading. None of them spoke to me, I wasn't particularly interested in figuring out a books underlying theme.

Out of my friends, none of us enjoyed this. All my teachers were always women and I have to wonder if the curriculum was designed by someone more like us would we have gotten more from it? I honestly don't know.
Oh yeah! Tried this on several specific topics I've looked at recently (2 years ago, 7ya, and 150ya) and the results were fast and on the mark. I'll certainly favor using Scholar over IA searches. Congratulations!
We do require an injury waiver for all users to agree to before accepting to hearing coaching advice
I'm not sure what your point is. I agree that all of your examples are just further cases where being sloppy about innate vs. learned differences results in bad policy.

The statement "men do worse here because of patriarchal social norms that ultimately end up hurting them" doesn't imply men are responsible for their own misfortune; this seems to misunderstand how society affects its members. In the context of violent crime, an example hypothesis would be that boys are taught by their families, movies, etc. that violence is a valuable part of being male, and because of this social norm, more men end up committing violent crimes. It seems crazy to suggest that a man affected by these cultural norms could have chosen to be brought up in a different environment; I don't know that people are suggesting this when they claim that patriarchal social norms are a problem.
FYI, on MacOS, it is a property of the partition, so you can reformat and have a case-sensitive filesystem. Applications may subtly break if they weren't tested on such a filesystem, but I had used one for several years without too many issues.
it would be interesting to see what the potential causality would be for this (vitamins/minerals? hormones from the meat? fats?)
A lot of this is not true. The majority of women accused (in the UK) were accused by other women, not these all powerful male brewers - around 500 people (men included) were found guilty of witchcraft in the UK during this period, out of roughly 2000 accused.

This is biased material promoting a political ideal and not factual.
Who says it's a week? Also, there's no guarantee that you will get the job. You have a much better chance of getting an even higher paying job if you go to med school.
RSS is great. I use it every day.

Monetization is an issue due to the general lack of ads and tracking, but there are some possible solutions, like Ars Technica’s model of $50/yr for access to the full-text RSS feed.
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> It's one of MacOS's more-egregious crimes against Unix.

Nah. Using a file system means putting up with its semantics. HFS+ was case-insensitive; they were deploying an upgrade to millions of existing filesystems.

If you mount, say, an NFS volume, MacOS does the expected thing.
Original?? Who remembers the glory days of MU!
For at least the last couple of years I ignore them entirely. I just have zero faith in any of them anymore.

The problem some ten-ish years ago were bogus computer-generated reviews. But now the bogus reviews are written by humans and are smart enough to sound balanced.

I don't know what to do. But for now, I subscribe to Consumer Reports and use price as a proxy for quality.
I'd also be much happier if LSPs were in Thrift or gRPC (something more generic with existing client/server generators).

Would make documenting, updating, and understanding the protocol much easier.
That’s the same as Windows, but Windows enables making directories case sensitive on a directory by directory basis.
What's an example of one that's cheaper than nuclear?
If you can't clone and then verify the code, a lot of things get much harder.
I'm not going through the hassle of buying a new phone just to create another centralized chat account. I have email (with GPG if you don't mind that,) a jabber account with OMEMO enabled clients, and SMS. Two people have bothered to ask if I want to use signal and everyone just uses SMS.
Is it just me or are Israel related threads getting brigaded recently?
This should work on windows - I'm not sure about Macs: you press and hold the ALT key, then right-click the Excel icon in the Windows taskbar and click the Excel icon above the taskbar, but keep holding ALT down. It should pop up a window saying "do you want to start a new instance of Excel". You can then open your (same named) file in the new instance.
It's quite disingenuous to project Chernobyl and Fukushima to modern reactors. When you hear about them, always remember that they were designed in 60s and represent the second generation of nuclear reactors. The nuclear technology came a LONG way since then and modern reactors are counted as generation 3+.

After Fukushima safety requirements for reactor designs have been revisited and what do you know? Modern VVER reactors satisfies them without any changes! I suspect other modern designs have performed similarly in this regard.

Also when you hear about issues with construction time/cost or about nuclear waste storage, examples are usually US-specific. There is also Olkiluoto plant, but its issues are more about building a new reactor design using an Agile-like methodology. Nuclear waste problem can be more or less solved with "burner" reactors and fuel recycling, the field in which Russia and France have promising advancements.

Should the old reactors be retired? Yes! Should we abandon the nuclear energy for fashionable renewables? Absolutely, no! At the very least until the storage problem will be properly solved.
>It's because humans ultimately can't be trusted with

You can already see what effect nuclear has when the safety is not done well (Chernobyl and Fukusima). But even those cases kill less people than coal done well.
This is nice !! I even tried a friends conference call and it was great quality and fun seating experience . Would definitely recommend.
The logic for detecting a table is to get rid of everything but vertical lines over a certain length, save that in one image, then get rid of everything but horizontal lines of a certain length, save that image. Then overlay the two and take the bounding rectangle. So you don't need the table to have a border as long as you have vertical and horizontal lines and they extend far enough to encompass all the data you need.
No, I’m going to give them full kudos here, not the cynical “they have to be careful because reasons” type of kudos, but the full-bodied rich in flavor type of kudos. I created my account in 2007 and would regularly check the privacy settings every time they made a change of any kind up to the point I stopped using and later removed the account over a decade later.

Not one privacy setting that I exerted manual control over ever changed out from under me. Whatever controversies they came under in that time with all the additional accompanying scrutiny, this aspect never changed. Perhaps there are counter examples out there, but that’s how it was for me.
Thanks! I was just going to point out that Elixir/Phoenix + Libcluster + K8s is like a match made in heaven. I haven't tried Horde yet but I'm quite intrigued now.
In windows, the underlying ntfs is still case sensitive, and that gets made use of with the WSL 1.0 stuff.
Every single one of my credit/debit cards has an annual privacy notice. Every time I sign up for a card I call the line and opt-out of the sharing that they are required to let me opt-out of. The setting is retained and while the notices get sent every year, I don't have to opt-out again. Where was the notice even sent for this? Was there one? When I initially saw this reporting I figured 'Ah, they are expanding sales for earlier opted-in customers, better remind others to opt out that care about this'

I share your anger.
Because teacher on previous lesson tried to teach the class e.g about using derivatives to find extremas, and now he's testing whether you managed to learn it.

his job is mainly to teach you stuff.

Of course there are also tests where you can use anything you want as long as it is formally correct e.g leaving school exams, end of semester exams and many more...

It's not the greatest approach but I guess it scales?
Snap Developer Ecosystem
same here - I had to disable them again.

The last time I checked this was ~2 years ago when it was brought up in another forum (reddit:/r/tmobile).

So I am curious how long my lines have been sending data to tmobile's data warehouse
1) US securities laws are very focused on disclosure and filling out the correct forms. Hertz did say the stock was (likely) worthless when they filled out the correct form to sell some stock.

2) People were buying (and selling) Hertz stock every day, before, during, and after Hertz's brief offering. If it should be illegal for Hertz to sell the stock, why should it be legal for anyone else to sell the stock? (The obvious reason is "well, what if Hertz had information nobody else did?", but in this case, they didn't. And they were required to disclose that they didn't.) In a pretty real sense, the victims of Hertz selling stock is not the people who bought it (they would have done so regardless), but the other sellers who might have lost out on a sale (or more likely, made the sale, but for a fraction of a penny less than they otherwise would have done) to a sucker who ended up buying from Hertz instead. And it's hard to feel too sorry for people offloading worthless stock to suckers, no?

(Of course, note that nobody who bought the stock from Hertz will have seen those disclosures. It was an at the money offering; the purchasers won't have any idea who they bought their shares from or how old those shares were. But again, US securities law is extremely focused on disclosure to the exclusion of all else...even if the disclosure won't be seen by anyone.)
Specifically, this is trying to downsample a chart while only using points from the original time series. Something like an FFT would generate a new series of points which would most likely not be in the original dataset, though they might visually represent them well.
> Now you're in a position where you sold $5 Billion worth of shares on a company that (by all fair evaluations) is only worth $1 Billion after the capital raise.

That's entirely reasonable if you think that by keeping the company alive you can build it back up until the point that it's worth more than $5B. This is indeed what every CEO thinks -- that they can make the company worth more next year than it's worth this year.
No, I actually do not swear at all.
Solar panels don't need rare earth elements.

Some wind turbine generators use rare earth element permanent magnets, but they only account for 21% of the market. The rest use electromagnets. See Figure 37 in this report:

"IRENA Future of Wind (2019)"

https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication...
> As a (hypothetical) SAAS company, I don't get an SLA from my customers that their webhook consumer endpoints won't go down

Really? I thought this would be covered under most SLAs.

> It seems to me that people saying your service is also potentially unreliable are missing the point a bit.

The reason I (and _I guess_ other people) are thinking of this is that I read not having to invest significant engineering resources into building a robust failure resistant system as one of the main, if not the main selling point and I don't see how that is possible if I have to build it for Diahook in the first place. I understand Diahook has a great SLA and promises to be up as much as possible but things will always go wrong and there are so many points of failure outside of Diahooks control. So as a service maintainer, I still need to invest the same amount of engineering in the component that calls the webhooks.

SLA is a business thing, not a technical one. When I evaluate multiple services and compare their SLAs, I see the probability of one service causing less disruptions to my business than the other. I don't see that as a reason to not write fault tolerant code. Engineers cannot rely on a higher SLA as a reason to throw fault tolerance out of the window. That's my main issue with using a service like this. However, there can be other features that could still make me sign up. Not having to write fault tolerant code just isn't one and anyone buying into that is shooting themselves in the foot.
It’s more similar to Linktree - basically a link you put in your social media profile, and then from there you link to other things. A bit like boook.link (but that’s only for books)
On Amazon, they could just make the refund/returns rate for a product public. That would probably be a pretty good quality indicator for physical goods.
I agree, purchasing it was not the hard part. It was the cost changing by state, specifically for Illinois.

I was previously employed by a company in the state of Michigan, and to match the same coverage was not even possible on healthcare.gov. The closest thing was nearly double the price, and when you're going through your first pregnancy, you take a ton of other factors into account.

In hindsight we probably didn't need the advance plan that we had, but it was (and still is) a major portion of our expenses.
T-Mobile will start automatically enrolling customers in an ad targeting program
Lots of people sold Hertz stock knowing it was going to be worthless, why should Hertz be singled out?
Interesting. I don't have any kids myself, but I know that my nieces (6 years old and under) really like the whole Frozen franchise. Their parents and grandparents have bought them Elsa dresses, toy microphones that let you sing along with one of the songs from Frozen 2, and I don't know what else. So the consumerism is definitely still there. Then again, my nieces and nephew watch a lot of YouTube in addition to paid streaming, and I've been told that when they watch YouTube, the adults in the room have to be careful that the kids don't watch lots of videos that are just promotions for products. I guess what I would prefer is that the kids spent more time creating or at least playing rather than watching. But then, they're not my kids.
Mine probably got flagged, but not because of curse words or ALL CAPS because, as far as I remember, it didn't have either of them.

Edit: I just checked, and the name of the business, which I quoted in my review, is ALL CAPS, so maybe that was it?
That's pretty neat.
Remember that sweet time when marketing departments of (aspiring to be) trendy companies where rushing to create their "digital presence" in Second Life... Yes, we will interview candidates, meet our business partners, talk to our customers in there, etc. We had a good laugh.
The program runs with Python and Tesseract. It is quite fast (less than one second for a table of 100 numbers) though I never tested it with larger tables.
It detects numbers from an image of a table, which is supposed not to be rotated and also cropped : only the table is visible on the image. So, in order to process multiple tables per image, one needs to create an image for each table.
This program is rather simple I must say. ;-)

As for the handwriting, I think Tesseract can handle the recognition if the writing is good, but the table needs to fullfil the expected hypothesis. Also the pre-processing can't get rid of a lot of noise so it can be a problem too !
Top US commander fears Chinese invasion of Taiwan by 2027
This is incorrect. The new shares were of the same class as the existing publicly traded shares.
Can you look up emails or listen to phone calls of a high ranked politicians or the rich elite? You can't because they think it's none of your business and have power to do their business in secrecy. There's a lot of shady people doing some large scale crime.
We do offer an On-Demand option if you'd like to see what it's like on your own!

If you're someone who prefers running by themselves, this may be the best of both worlds. You can see what a live run would be like, without needing to think about the live aspect.
> The minimum wage hasn't budged in decades

That doesn't appear to be true: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart. Additionally many states have their own higher minimum wages.

> in general wages have not remotely kept up with increases in productivity and revenues.

Isn't this because of globalization?

> There's a lot of paranoia about possible negative impacts of wage increases, but it's been tested in many municipalities at this point with no major issues, and virtually every other western country has a much higher minimum than us.

I don't think this is true? I'm pretty sure when we raise wages, jobs move overseas except for those jobs that are fundamentally local (fast-food employees, agricultural workers, construction, sanitation, etc). I'm not opposed to raising wages, but I think we also need to keep jobs from flowing overseas.
> HN is not mature enough to hold a discussion related to gender issues.

underrated comment from the old thread
Report on an Unidentified Space Station (1982)
>Feelings are more important than facts to many people nowadays.

is it good or bad in your opinion?
>...I would have expected that the ratio would be much higher.

And you are right - the land needed to actually generate the power is much different than that ratio.

The strata report is also counting the land use for transmission lines which is a big part of the land use for any power source and makes the land use for different power sources look much more similar than they are.

From the report:

>...Because nuclear energy accounted for 19.55 percent of the nation’s electricity production in 2015, approximately 938,388 acres of land were used to transmit nuclear energy in 2015, or 10.312 acres per megawatt.

So of the 12 acres they attribute per megawatt for nuclear, 10 acres of that is for transmission lines which are going to be needed no matter the source of power.

The report gives an example later:

>...The Arkansas Nuclear One Station requires only 1,100 acres (1.7 square miles) to produce 1,800 megawatts operating at a 90 percent capacity factor. A study by Entergy Arkansas estimates that for modern wind and solar plants operating at the same capacity, they would require 108,000 acres (169 square miles) and 13,320 acres (21 square miles) of land respectively to produce the same amount of power.

https://www.strata.org/pdf/2017/footprints-full.pdf

As another data point, in a report on the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, PG&E reported:

>...To build the equivalent of a 1,000-Mw nuclear plant, a solar park would require 11,000 acres of PV solar panels and a wind farm would need 50,000 acres of wind turbines. By contrast, Diablo Canyon is able to produce twice as much power (2300 Mw) in a footprint of approximately 545 acres.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph240/hyman1/docs/may...

(Land use isn't the only factor obviously, but it is a factor.)
> Increasingly, the "if you're not paying then you're the product" saying is bunk

It was always bunk, even for free services. Just because a company offers something for free doesn't mean they should get a free pass to abuse users.

It's in this weird corporate apologetic vein where people try to find ways to blame users for a company's wrong doings.

But here we are. We collectively said it's cool to do if the product is free. And that shifted the privacy overton window.