skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember right, China has been the leading largest manufacturers of Solar Panels in the world for sometime now. And they are not famous for quality. I wonder if they did a comparison based on that factor too?

If this is not just an issue with Chinese solar panels, then it is bad news for the industry. Solar power generation at home will not be economically viable if the solar panels don't perform and last to the 10 years or so that they currently guarantee. Especially when they are already hampered by high battery costs (which needs to be replaced every 3-5 years).
Rule 0 of software is this: People. Will. Not. Read. Anything.

Error messages? Nope. Popup boxes? Nope. Documentation? Nope. Emails? Nope. Jira descriptions and reproduction steps? Nope. Example code? Nope.

One person out of a hundred will bother to read anything. Ninety nine will click through or hurriedly scan, and then steal your time to answer questions answered in the first sentence. Or to make you Google things for them.
This information may encourage more purchases of their insurance product. It's a conflict that is worth stating when considering the information they're providing.
I'm not suggesting that we don't need more freedom for hardware most people use. I just say that if you want to support freedom, consider abandoning Apple and choosing other phones.
There is something on YouTube. They are very profitable, machine learning, filtering and stuff. No trading.
Partial sums of blsi and blsmsk
Yea I guess that's true, I feel like it only matters the first time you do it though. Like if year 1 you do $1T of debt, your debt burden after 1 year is $1T. In year 2, you inflate 50%, but need to borrow $2T. Your debt is now, in year 1 dollars, effectively (1 + 2) * .50 = $1.5T. Year 3 you do it again and take $3T in debt. Now effective debt load (in year 1 dollars) is (1.5 + 3) * .50 = $2.25T. So effective debt continues to increase despite the inflation.
You can't detect if WebGL's turned on/off if JS is turned off. You need JS turned on to detect WebGL's presence
Not only that, but they offer the Solar Revenue Put.

https://www.kwhanalytics.com/solarrevenueput

It’s frustrating to see nonsense like this associated with seemingly every industry.
We (the USA) barely live in a democracy. Between inequal Senate representation, gerrymandering in state legislatures and the House, a broken, corrupt campaign finance system, and an underfunded election system primarily built to disenfranchise voters of color, it's hard to make the argument that any government in the US represents the will of its constituents.

A majority of Americans support the right to choose [1], a path to amnesty for undocumented persons [2], restrictions on firearm purchase and ownership [3], moving off of fossil fuels and treating climate change like the threat it is [4], a wealth tax on people with a net worth of over $50m [5], the expanded voting rights in HR 1 [6], etc. etc. etc.

Sorry I know I'm overreacting, but I think a lot of people are unaware of how dire the situation really is. If we truly lived in a democracy, we'd be moving towards at least some of these things.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/06/about-six-i...

[2]: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000177-d4f4-dd7d-ab77-fcfd4...

[3]: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000178-cfbd-d112-a97e-ffbde...

[4]: https://morningconsult.com/2021/04/27/paris-agreement-climat...

[5]: https://www.businessinsider.com/over-half-americans-see-weal...

[6]: https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2021/4/dfp-vox-hr-...
"Car, please take me to locke's cafe to meet friends"

"Payment processed, welcome. Please scan your vaccination passport"

"It looks like your records have not been updated for the gamma-omega-second-230 strain."

"Sit back and enjoy the ride while I taxi you to the nearest vaccination clinic."
The first few months of covid for me was getting the massive backlog of things I needed to do done at home. It was fantastic to feel like I actually had a balance in my work and home life for once.
No actual specifications about precision of computations, operations supported, etc., just impressive I/O numbers.
I’ve been in the startup scenario where the most power-hungry developers successfully rebelled against the CTO and had him resign; “Lord of the Flies” is exactly how I described the maturity-vacuum period that followed.
Our SAAS has to calculate sales tax on the fly for purchases in the US. We don't charge credit cards but invoice the customer later. However, the tax calc is the same. We use an API [1] from a company called Strikeiron that was purchased by Informatica. We pay about $75 per month for tens of thousands of sales tax lookups by city/state/zip.

If we were taking credit cards, we'd look at Stripe's solution. It would be much less expensive than what we are doing today.

[1] https://www.informatica.com/products/data-quality/data-as-a-...
Honest question: can somebody enlighten me about Stripe's appeal? I am not an user (until recently they weren't even available in my country) but I used ShareIt (now Digital River) 20 years ago and Avangate (now 2checkout soon Verifone) in the past 15 years and they both:

- had a much larger international presence, with localizations and everything

- had sales taxes, VATs etc computed from day one

- had cart (not sure about ShareIt though) & API

- integrated countless payment gateways: from credit cards to purchase orders, wire transfers and even PayPal

How comes Stripe won even if they arrived much later on the market? I believe their pricing structure was not very far from the competition. What did they offer to attract users even though they lacked such important features?

I want to learn.
Isn't medrxiv a pre-print server? Does that imply that this study has not been peer-reviewed yet and should therefore been treated with a certain measure of skepticism?

Also, the Washington Examiner explicitly bill themselves as an ideologically biased media outlet "The Conservative Source Americans Deserve" or whatever. That doesn't directly mean anything in this article is wrong but it does lead one to consider that there may be deep rooted biases and spin at play here.
Unfortunately, almost everything you're talking about there is about selling physical goods. The rules for electronic sales have been completely different for quite a few years now and are a labyrinthine mess that makes even professional accountants frustrated and national tax authorities screw up the most basic processes. In most cases, they also don't have any minimum thresholds at all, and the few concessions that have been made are quite recent.
Another solution is no phones (chargers) in the bedroom. Have your "charging station" in the living room
I outright deleted Facebook and Twitter (or at least, my established profiles on 'em, to the best of my ability). Also ditched Instagram while I was at it, as I felt like I 'should' post stuff to it, not because the things I saw there were bothering me.

I made a twitter account specifically to not have any friends and not do anything, and treat it the same way you're treating it.

Same reaction: it's been a massive improvement. I wouldn't go back. Looking at that stuff from the outside now, it feels like a trap. Amazing how they can turn making you miserable, into an addictive behavior.

We are apparently, as a species, more driven by panic than pleasure, and the algorithm optimizes for this.
Do insurance companies advertise?

If they do, then spreading viral stories about the need for their kind of insurance is probably a valid strategy too.
Because for some teams it's easier to write tests in plain C# with NUnit/xUnit libs.
Small correction: Rental prices in a few, big cities are falling. On the whole, in most cities, rental prices are through the roof. Almost exactly 20% higher for a SFH rental YOY. I know because I checked what the house I moved out of was relisted for.
> Humans drive correctly 99.99999% of the time. We can't can't even keep a computer up and running that well, never mind driving perfectly.

This comparison doesn't make any sense. You're comparing _continuous_ operation with the aggregate of the average human's bouts of driving. Even robotaxis aren't going to run constantly. A sensible analogue would be something like aircraft software, which I'd guess does have near the reliability of human drivers (and can last much longer continuously than humans do).
Nothing stops them sharing but they aren't big enough (and in some cases not interested in) changing the web standards.

Think about it like in this oversimplified/stupid example: A "fix" or change is implemented in Chromium. In the long run (intended or otherwise) it turns out it moves pixels slightly differently than the way Firefox does it. If almost all your visitors use Chrome you have to design your site to be perfect in chrome and you might do so in Firefox. Now you have sites that look as intended in Chrome but maybe look as it should in Firefox. This make Firefox users use Chrome more.

Now Brave et. al. is part of the problem, helping drive the only real competition out of market (and killing their only way out should they some day need to change engine).

In extremely complex code this is very hard to not be a part of and a company like Brave is way too small to fork Chromium for long if at all.
How is it a conflict of interest?

They could be exaggerating their findings - fear and anxiety are excellent motivators used by advertisers since the dawn of capitalism.
JBS Paid Hackers $11M as Part of Ransomware Attack
I used to think that given enough time, more people would also learn that there are no substantial differences between supervised and unsupervised learning. However, I have come to believe that this might not happen any time soon. The supposed difference between supervised and unsupervised can be easily explained (label / no label -- duh?!). It is much harder to explain, why that distinction is ultimately a mirage. Couple this with a million low quality blog posts on SEO steroids by data grand wizards and machine learning architects, I doubt that even a good text book jointly written by Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun would convince the ML hype train otherwise. But there is always hope!
As someone who has used APL professionally to maintain a legacy codebase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_language

Anyway, I like reduce, shape, membership, find, and/or, and ceiling/floor. I actually like dealing with arrays in this way.

IMO, that is why numpy/matlab is so much better than APL.
It could probably be done with Cesium for Unreal, although I question weather it's a good idea to provide shooter games in real locations. Perhaps a less violent sandbox game would be a better idea.

https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-for-unreal/
Just Five Cops Face Serious Penalties After NYPD Misconduct During Protests
Real world incentives are truly perverse and don't align with the idealized version from this blog post.
In fact, I think this was written by a manager that was burned by a critical person leaving.
In the real world I've seen too many times the jerks, the firefighter types that create fires that only they can extinguish to get recognition and privileges while making everyone's else life miserable.
Same could be said for a manager.. or a manager that gets bad devs or devs that get a bad manager. This is the value of a hands-on ceo that does not have their head in the sand.
Hacker News is not readable for me. Text is too small, the button for folding the comment tree is impossible to hit on mobile. I'm reading this website with 150% zoom and the browser window that is 50% the width of my screen.

Nevermind 16 or 12, fixed size is to be avoided, from 2010: https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size
There are AI models that are too big to effectively run on smaller hardware. The performance benefit of a monolithic system like this vs distributed GPU based systems can be orders of magnitude.
> You literally have both, and more.

Seriously.

When I was a kid I would have killed to have had easy access to things like Raspberry Pi's, microcontrollers, SGI workstations (which is what the Mac is these days), and a zillion free programming languages.

Instead, while I had full access to the family's PC and could learn C and assembly language programming on it (btw I had to pay for those compilers), and learned all about interrupts and writing to VGA registers, I still couldn't do anything super low-level like muck around with the boot sector because my dad needed it for work, the phone system was so locked down that you'd go to jail for "exploring" it, and I had barely any idea how to get started playing around with logic chips because there was nothing like Sparkfun, Adafruit, Hackaday, etc, and Radio Shack in the mid-90s really wasn't much help.

There is still room for improvement - yes it would be nice if all the tech we used was both hackable and secure - but geeks who want to tinker are living in a land of plenty right now.
banks don't care in the fashion that you imply, they're making money off of interest rate spreads, which doesn't change as the value of nominal amounts fluctuate.
Not to rag on your dream, but this is exactly what GP was worried about, and concerns me as well. With a self driving RV you are going to spend even more time driving around, because why not? Many other people will also be willing to commute 2 hours each way to work in Santa Monica and live in Fontana. But that comes with a large cost to the environment and makes traffic worse for everyone.
Completely disagree. Many of the patterns contain interesting ideas. My house, property, relations with my neighbors and civic volunteer work is different because I read it. I also build software to enable different things, and in general, see details with more scrutiny as well as awareness of the benefit of compromise to aid the whole effort. It is a deeply insightful book into the way humans relate to each other.

I do second the recommendation to read the other works as well. If pairing one book with Pattern, I would choose The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth because it most clearly portrays the process of taking Alexander’s thinking into the real world and overcoming its perverse incentives to impose ugliness and financial difficulty. I gave a talk for a bunch of developers immediately after reading it because it mapped so well to what we do and struggle with.
Attacking peoples' food preference is a red herring and is just a way for vegans to feel morally superior. Everyone could go vegan in the US tomorrow and it would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a few percentage points. Go after overall food waste instead. We throw away something like 40% of food produced.

Also, let's question why people need to live in such an inhospitable climate such as the desert.
Utterly unrealistic, on political, logistical and sociological grounds.
What’s done with all these almonds?! Seems like a pretty niche crop.
Got a server error trying a few examples from the shown tutorial:

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No, it is not. It is panic and fear of something harmful just out of sight. That drives WAY more engagement than 'friendship'.
If APL interests you, I worked through (most of) Mastering Dyalog APL [0] a while back. It is very well paced and organized. The vast majority of it also works with GNU APL, though not all.

[0] https://www.dyalog.com/mastering-dyalog-apl.htm
Julia solves this very gracefully with LaTeX-like input, ie. you type \lambda<TAB> which expands to λ
Will Swift Concurrency deploy back to older OSS?
Yeah, I did a few (several years ago) and got "stiffed" once.

I always just looked at it as a gift - something given freely and willingly without any demand for anything in return.

Sure, I was bummed because I love seeing what people send me, but I didn't get bent out of shape over it. I signed up because at the time I was financially stable and wanted to do something nice and fun for someone. Mission success.
China Got Rich
>>Wealthy people are the debt holders. Don't be their bag carrier.

Source for this? Wealthy people invest in assets that also go up with inflation. Sure they may have some debt assets but I bet that is not the large part of their portfolio

however neither of you are really correct. Inflation hurts the middle class the most.

Wealthy have diverse portfolio's that factor in inflation, the poor are most likely debt ridden and live paycheck to paycheck, with inflation your debt becomes less expensive

The middle class however often have the most cash assets in traditional savings accounts, they also are in that sweet spot of not living paycheck to paycheck but not really having enough money to have a large diverse investment portfolio

Inflation is a tax on savings, anyone that has savings is hurt by inflation that normally is the Middle Class
I'm surprised this isn't more of a thing. From what I understand this is coming to Android 11 though https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/20/android-11-tweaks-h...
> Year-over-year comparisons reflect the abysmal economic conditions during the pandemic.

We can instead look at the growth over 12 months from May and compare it to that of April. If anything, I'd expect a more pronounced effect for April's YoY because it starts nearer to the bottom of the market. But instead, May's YoY looks slightly higher than April's.
A post three days ago highlighted comments here that had the phrase "why not simply": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27415725
Everything here is pretty easily accomplished using vanilla Python (numpy counts as vanilla at this point). I'm having trouble seeing what the advantage is of an "array-based" language over a well-designed array library like numpy.

import numpy as np
from collections import Counter

print(2+2)
print(np.array([4,2,3]) + np.array([8,5,7]))
print(np.arange(1,11))
print(np.arange(1,100001).sum())
print(np.arange(1,11).prod())

avg = lambda x: x.sum() / x.shape[0]
print(avg(np.array([1, 6, 3, 4])))

throws = np.random.randint(1, 7, size=(10000,))
print((throws == 1).sum())
print(Counter(throws))

print(Counter("Mississippi"))
How do they keep track of who you are? I presume you need a VAT ID of some form? (From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAT_identification_number#VAT_..., it looks like they’ve crafted it so that many countries’ business numbers can be turned into VAT IDs painlessly, e.g. Canada’s work direct, Australia’s you prefix with a two-digit checksum. I note the conspicuous absence of the USA from the list. I have no idea about US tax.)
TLA+ is a language for modeling concurrent and distributed programs and systems
With ZFS allowing for very robust data integrity on disk, the weak point in most budget NAS setups these days is going to be memory errors. It’s unfortunate that there are so few low-end options with any kind of ECC. The PCEngines APU2 has an ECC option, but it does not have the appropriate I/O for redundant storage.
/r/MachineLearning discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/nplhy3/r_r...

I'm with most of the comments there. This paper is ridiculously hand-wavey.
Oh, I knew I'd recognized your username from somewhere :-D. fclones is actually my favourite dupe finding tool!

In my experience the underlying model is what determines these things. That's not always under one's control. Sometimes you can't meaningfully trace ownership, or the development model (short iterations by a large team) make it hard to keep it in sync. I know of non-trivial programs that rarely (if ever) use runtime-checked borrowing but runtime-checked borrowing is, nonetheless, a thing. Some developers need it.
Back when I used to use Twitter is found it funny. I used to get cranks and hustlers with the occasional “Why is this random personal tweet promoted?” experience mixed in.
This is the umpteenth time I've seen this "But we don't know anything about it!" argument, and besides surprising me it's beginning to piss me off. We know quite a bit. Why do people keep claiming we don't -- just too lazy to read the thread where this stuff is repeatedly linked, or trying to promote some agenda?

https://twitter.com/SarahBelleLin/status/1370071520953835520

https://archive.is/Z55Oe
My system-wide adblocker works fine on the mobile app. I just hate having a dedicated app with related permissions/notifications to manage just to access a website.
The parent is sensationalizing, to put it mildly, when they say "most." The figure is closer to 3%-5% of US households that are severely upside down on rent payments.

The total sum estimates range widely from around $10 billion to $50 billion. Nobody seems to have a great handle on the figure, landlords don't report this information cleanly to a single source such that we can put it all together easily. You'll see Bloomberg, Reuters, housing organizations, et al. reporting (speculating) in that $10b to $50b range across the past 6-8 months of time (they largely forward speculate based on when the financial hammer has been expected to fall, or begin falling).

There are around 123 million households in the US. 3% of that figure is 3.7 million households. That's $9,459 per household in that group in back rent if the sum is $35 billion. That's in the right universe in terms of making sense.
Because you don't need legislative approval to stop a pipeline from being built. If you're looking to make money but the executive pendulum swing will consistently block you, eventually you'll stop being able to push your behavior that people don't approve of because it isn't worth it. People lost money on Keystone XL. That's a good thing. That's the system working.
Lego: The Building Blocks of Design
Unfortunately, I’m also prone to this. I don’t even notice when I click skip on the time limit setting.

But unfortunately it is a human problem (exploited by apps, but still a human one), and anything done by another app is just treating the symptoms without treating the underlying issue.

I recommend the book titled Atomic Habits. For short term “solution” you may try rearranging app icons like reddit, fb to some obscure position to make it just a bit harder to find them (do not totally hide them since you will just revert it), and I read that turning on grayscale also deceases the “joy” we get from addictive apps. But I found the last one way too limiting on usability.
Can you provide a link to those cases?
Doesn't matter, changes nothing.

It is a waste of time and energy to advocate for a privacy standard that can only ever be opt-in. Doesn't matter what Microsoft's motivations are, doesn't matter what they're doing elsewhere. A privacy standard that gets abandoned if it's ever defaulted to "on" for new users is worthless.

It's not Microsoft's fault that DNT went away, DNT was always going to go away the moment a sizable portion of the population started using it.

If Microsoft had asked users when starting up their computers whether they wanted to turn on DNT, and if a majority of users had turned it on, the advertising industry would still have had a meltdown and rejected the standard. We know this because that's exactly their reaction to iOS's changes, which are not turned on by default but force the user to make a deliberate choice when opening the app.
Where do you think all those next-gen deep learning models for autonomous weapons are going to be trained? For more civil applications, imagine GPT3.
If you haven't read it, Peter Watts wrote "The Things" from the alien's perspective, and it's really good: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
Stimulus checks are not debt - that’s helicopter money. And the “loans” made to businesses do not need to be repaid, or have 0% interest and are automatically forgiven after N years.