skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are all underestimating the level of fluctuation in energy requirement caused by a slight weather change. If the system were to have capacity comparable to max possible usage, the rates would be sky high. This is not like storing water and even that we can’t store beyond a certain point. See what happens with flood and drought patterns. The power company will sell it to someone cheap, we just don’t store it

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/03/14/The-last-episode-of-...
> It always amazes me how quick people are to needlessly take away freedoms and fuck others over as a knee-jerk reaction.

What freedoms? We're talking about tax advantaged investment accounts intended for a very specific public purpose, which are already restricted in many ways because of that.

If you don't like restrictions, we could also solve this problem by abolishing IRAs then. Does that sound better to you?
Another way to word it is that an unbiased AI will never be able to perform better than humans at many tasks. Statistically accurate bias isn't a bug, it is a feature. Sometimes you want to avoid it for other reasons, like it feels wrong to assume traits are correlated with race etc, but by default the AI Should always be biased except for a few special cases.
Most officers will be placed on paid leave while they are being investigated for whatever crime they’re accused of. So it’s more like they have their vacation time adjusted to reflect their mandatory vacation.
Apparently not.

As psychologists worry that the coronavirus pandemic is triggering a loneliness epidemic, new Harvard research suggests feelings of social isolation are on the rise and that those hardest hit are older teens and young adults.

In the recently released results of a study conducted last October by researchers at Making Caring Common, 36 percent of respondents to a national survey of approximately 950 Americans reported feeling lonely “frequently” or “almost all the time or all the time” in the prior four weeks, compared with 25 percent who recalled experiencing serious issues in the two months prior to the pandemic. Perhaps most striking is that 61 percent of those aged 18 to 25 reported high levels.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/young-adults-...

I'm excited to go back to work in-person. Working with my colleagues gives me a great deal of joy throughout the day.
They're out publishing[1] and out spending everyone else[2], I asked Jack Clack from OpenAI that question a few years ago and he said he didn't really know exactly how far ahead they are, just that more people and more money is being applied in a more organized fashion.

[1]https://hbr.org/2021/02/is-china-emerging-as-the-global-lead...

[2]https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/12/05/65019/china-us-a...
from what i have read so far, Chinese's facial recognition is really good and probably is leading in this area.
pip is older than go lol
That describes it perfectly - I am on leave right now after a major case of burnout and it's like my brain just turned off my motivation towards my job as a defense mechanism to protect my mental and emotional health.
Yeah. Though I'd say broken things are the exception, not the rule now. It mostly works most of the time. And the list of broken / awkward interactions is much smaller than the list of stuff that just works out of the box.
If you have gnupg installed, emacs can just open foo.org.gpg files directly. It decrypts on load and re-encrypts on save.

Probably you would get better answers about Emacs on https://emacs.stackexchange.com/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/ .
At this point the files you're referencing are 10 years old or so. I would imagine it's a completely different playing field. I would also note that the documents you're referencing (not sure of a specific document) as a whole only touch specific projects and teams and aren't 100% visibility into the Govt. Organizations they purport to be from.
Lovely project.

Something that jumped out to me as I browsed around Edinburgh is the app highlighting Japanese Knotweed as a "very rare" tree. It's actually a very invasive species that's almost impossible to get rid of.
I don't think it's a problem to make this robot wider and longer if there will be demand
I think it has more to do with how the kind of data collected from those mass screenings could be used to build predictive disease models that would put a lot of the guys making >= $300K to do a very poor job of keeping people healthy out of business.
It’s hard to make friends as an adult. Especially:

1) If you don’t have kids (socializing with other parents).

2) Don’t go to church/synagogue/etc (church attendance in decline)

3) Do not live where you grew up. (People chase opportunities in other cities.)

4) Aren’t in school any more.

Neighbor friends are also possible, but it can take many years for people to become comfortable enough to be friends, and due to #3, there’s often not enough time for that to happen before people move.

Half my friends are from work and half are parents. They’re not super shallow friendships but also not soul-level deep, either. Deep friendships were left behind from college days.
Yep. Never had much hope for Star Citizen and only moderate interest as a consequence, but my particular remembrance is some random line in one of the dev updates a while back. It mentioned how environment humidity would affect character endurance. Coming on top of many, many similar lines, that was pretty much the "yeah, this isn't going to work out" moment for me. It's stuck in my mind as a one-liner memento mori of sorts ever since.
Yes, but also no: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528625

Also: do you care if it’s Bing? If it works as well as it does it could be a hacked up version of the old AltaVista code for all I care.
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
While many here are commenting on the abstract general population, most are speaking about themselves with variations of "must be nice!"

When you fly, the emergency briefing tells you to put on your own mask before helping others. In lifeguard training, you're taught to keep yourself afloat before the victim.

If you don't have your own finances in order, your opinion on others' finances is just noise and about as valuable.
> No effort is made to allow you to move out of that ecosystem

That's an understatement. They actively deny you the possibility of moving out of their ecosystem. They disallow mentioning alternative payment systems in applications, FFS. If that isn't anti-competitive, I don't know what is.

I got Apple devices, and I've been worried the past 10+ years that macOS (or Mac OS X as it was called) is moving towards the closed down iOS platform. Slowly but surely, its getting done. But remember: go sloooowwwww. They won't notice it then, less resistance.
I believe the current understanding of GAN copyright is that the "minimum degree of creativity" happens when a human chooses the inputs/outputs and copyright is assigned to the human at that point. Drawing the input image for GauGAN probably suffices.

Fully automated outputs (like pulling an image at random from thispersondoesnotexist.com) would be public domain since non-humans cannot hold copyrights and no creativity was applied.

This is analogous to the "creativity" of a photo being the settings and framing done by the person who set up the shot and is why the famous "monkey selfie" fell under public domain[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
My Book Live: Older version of My Cloud.
Show HN: Botwars.io – Battle robots with your favourite programming language
Also, E-ink as a company in general is apparently quite nasty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
NATO forces kill the most innocent people around the world right now.
So it will be exactly one major version that supports both the new and old ways, as I read it? Sounds tight for such a significant change. I'd give it at least 2.I don't see the rush.
I like working in an office, I just don't like that it takes me 40 minutes to get there. In a better world I could live _in_ that downtown core, a short walk or bike ride away from work.
In most cases, a breaking tooling change should only impact the root project (e.g., they need to change their readme from `go get` to `go install`), so there's only one codebase to fix and it's in the control of the person upgrading the tooling.

Whereas, a breaking language change could impact transitive dependencies of the root project, which a developer doesn't have control over.
Squadron 42 was supposed to be a stand alone game that was part of it, still not ready https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/28/22203055/star-citizen-squ...
I prefer this change. ‘go get $PKG’ will now only bring in source code. To install the related binary if $PKG is a tool, use ‘go install $PKG’. Honestly, that is honestly how I already operated and I didn’t like that you might auto-install a tool when all you wanted was its source. Never remembered the flags.
For me, playing with tech is part of the reason I have a backyard farm. So far I've just played with very basic things like sunken hose irrigation with timers hooked up to a rain gauge so it only waters when there's no rain, but I'd love to have the time to look more into the robotics side of things.

For those of us who sling CRUD sites all day long, the opportunity to dig into more machine/computer interaction is just fun.
Fantastic opportunity for more automation and labor saving software innovation.

Also fantastic opportunity to make more money for those who continue to work. Salaries for them could be higher.

Great for offshore workers especially in tourism countries that suffered big decline too!

Not against the guys who want to take a break at all.

It’s just a good opportunity. Just as it was during the pandemic when people took the time to learn new stuff.
"A recent study published by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines, and University of Massachusetts-Amherst asserted that minority areas were over four times as likely to suffer from an energy blackout than white-majority areas."

That's a problem.
Platforms that are not willing to deprecate parts of themselves in order to spur innovation and keep complexity low, eventually get deprecated as a whole.

Look at Java, the king of BC, even they've started deprecating packages in the JDK for removal.

It's inevitable. Otherwise it's like a brain that can't forget even the most useless piece of information. About an organism that just eats, but can't expel the waste.

There's a way to do change slowly, gradually and reasonably, but change is inevitable. If you don't want small changes, big changes will come for you.
Are they just deprecating it, or removing it? Removing it goes against the backwards compatibility thing they're proud of. I have no objections if they choose to remove it for go 2.
yeah, great, let's start a few more wars to foster progress and inventions ...

/s
As vaccines are not 100% effective at saving individuals but "herd immunity" can eliminate viruses despite that if vaccination is widespread, the people killed by anti-vaxxers are often not anti-vaxxers or even anti-vaxxers' kids. Especially not with a virus like Covid.
Technically the gullible and mendacious killing the vulnerable is natural selection, but you'll have a tough job convincing me the right of morons to an mass audience on certain websites takes precedence over the right of older people to live
Yeah I usually see YAGNI as a response to some specific feature or idea a programmer has. Where as the idea that you should start by building opinionated rather than very general software is much more about what you're building in the first instance and has implications outside of the resulting code. YAGNI boils up and "opinionated software" bubbles down.

They're complementary though.
What for? Metrics for metrics sake are a waste of time. The solution is to avoid wasting time on metrics, which is precisely what happened here.
I am trying to find the unethical part of this, care to enlighten us?
And that - no matter who good the test, and no matter how early - leads to a decrease in positive patient outcomes.

You keep writing comments in absolute terms and talking about evidence, but how do you reconcile your position with the results of successful screening programmes like cervical smear testing? Detecting and treating high risk HPV before it causes changes that can turn into cervical cancer has dramatically reduced the harm caused by cervical cancer itself at a population level. Routine screening of this type isn't normally recommended for young women, but it becomes increasingly effective with age and screening programmes operate accordingly.
This is everything wrong with modern languages/toolsets. Constantly changing everything, pulling the rug out from people who just want to get work done and wasting everyone's time who googles how to do something and has to go through 3 outdated answers to figure out the current way to do something. Deprecation and breaking changes should be an absolute last resort in the face of overwhelming necessity, not something done on a whimsy to please the aesthetic preferences of some new project manager who needs to feel important.
What specifically are you arguing against?

Roth IRAs are not some bizarre tax loophole. They're an extremely common vehicle for people planning for retirement - unless their income is too high, that is. Many companies even offer Roth 401(k)s or other Roth vehicles for retirement as well. And taxes are indeed paid when the money is put in.

If someone follows the rules and is extremely successful with their investment strategy with money in a Roth IRA, then what's the problem?

Seems the law is working as intended.
come ask on libera in #emacs
I'll wager a guess that a lot of those other "under 30" cases were people living with 3 other jerk roommates who used to just come home to sleep but now had to put up with each other for a whole year.
Only tangentially related, but one of the best decision I've taken in the last years was to only work four days a week. Not sure how realistic this is in the US as a dev, but in Germany it's been fairly easy (third job where I'm doing this now) and it's made me 1) more motivated 2) less stressed, and on top (I think) I'm essentially as productive as I'd be working full-time :)
Is detailing an euphemism for cleaning?

Seriously curious : not a native speaker.
I use a bookmarklet that deletes all fixed elements. I seem to be using it on half of the pages I visit these days, because of “front end engineers”. I don’t remember where I got this, but it works well:

javascript:let i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *'); for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if(getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'sticky'){ elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]); } }
I think there was some medium post by a guru where he claimed the best way to get experience was to submit as many spelling error pull request as possible.
That way he can throw in his resume that he's contributed to a dozen or so open source projects. Given how broken the hiring process is, it wouldn't surprise me if this works
> I wasn't able to just update the docs and recommend `go install` because it doesn't work with old Go versions

I don't think your documentation has to be backwards compatible in this case. If you must split it into two sets of instructions based on Go versions, you can. But unlike many other ecosystems, in Go it's quite common to expect the developer to have moved to a somewhat recent version.

I will say I had projects using dep and/or relying on a GOPATH-style directory layout with my build scripts, but that ship has sailed with just about any new libraries one might depend on. I don't think anyone would blame you for your library moving on too.
Outsourcing is not exclusive to India. What if they outsource to Italy? Spain? Ukraine? Greece? Hell even Germany.

All of those places have salaries that are a fraction of the typical US salary. US salaries are incredibly ridiculous on the global stage. And all of those places with actually good developers
The government can't possibly put out perfect legislation in every area, no. But it's ridiculous to assume that everything is inherently corrupted and that there's never any hope. I mean, sure, if every member of Congress is shady on web policy but shares your views on more important issues, then web policy falls behind. But that's just your cynicism speaking - you've got no reason to think that web policy is automatically lacking support.

The other fault in your model is that Congress actually delegates the vast amount of lawmaking to administrative agencies, who are equipped to deal with the less important issues. The FTC, the CFPB, or the FCC could all credibly claim some authority over dark pattern regulation, though I don't know enough admin law to know who would be most appropriate. Agency rulemaking isn't a perfect process either, but it doesn't have the concentrated power problem you're describing and it deals with tons of lower-priority topics. Go read the Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/
Well, who says they're going to send you a newsletter? It could be used by sales to contact you directly to ask why you didn't proceed. Instantly, that is what I assumed the email was for.
Would you be willing to provide a few references for this? My professional work has skirted around the discussion at times, and I would be fantastically interested in learning more.
The answer, of course, is yes because the world has always applied different rules to Jews. Antisemitism is pervasive, structural, global, and insidious. Notice, the people you're arguing with here keep saying "Zionist" instead of "Jewish" because they don't want to perceive themselves (or be perceived) as racist, even as they say racist things.
That sounds about right. I was interviewed for a fairly well known company on contract a number of years ago. I was told the product was top secret and it was going to be amazing etc etc.

So roll in on first day after signing up to fuck knows what and it was a ticket touting company. I listened to their pitch which lasted until lunch, went and got myself a sandwich, sat on a bench and thought “fuck it, this is wrong” and just went home.

When I told the agent he went crazy at me because I’d burned his commission. Gave them the finger too. In some places it’s bastards all the way down.

Next time someone pulled that on me, I cut the interview off and only worked for predefined work for a number of years. If something is off grid on your contract, no is the answer.
If that is the case then it should be done as an extension. And why would Mozilla use its brand capital on this?
Mobile electric fencing is your friend, here. No need for guns.
If his team is anything like the one I work for, the backlog isn't prioritized until the day before the sprint starts... something we're trying to change, but still a long way away from.
I knew it was optional. I didn’t know GOPATH was deprecated !
Speaking from the perspective of someone with a fair bit of exposure to packaging and shipping software in the Python world, I don't thinking leaving these matters to "the community" results in a satisfactory outcome.

In more practical terms, I expect this tooling is provided and evolved as a first class affair because Google needs it internally to build their golang projects.
> most are speaking about themselves with variations of "must be nice!"

Not necessarily. It's called empathy. And your lifeguard story makes no sense.
AWS acquires Wickr
The knee-jerk reaction is running to the government to try to make whatever you don't like illegal. Which is getting more and more common. On college campuses it's getting more common for kids to call the police when they see something that offends them, including speech that offends them. They just assume that they have a right to a higher government power to make illegal whatever is bad in the world. That is the knee jerk reaction here.

The idea that software patterns can be made illegal is just absurd, and goes against the early vision of the free software movement which recognized the most important thing was the freedom to write software, rather than the freedom to get a job writing exactly the software you think you should be writing, and the right to throw employers in jail if they fire you for not doing what you're told on the job.
Tertill is cool and all, but for a new garden, you still have to weed until the payplants are big enough to trigger "collisions". There's no magic in sensing: It just kills new growth.
You're getting downvoted while being right. A dark pattern is tricking the user. Not saving the data they enter. But most people around here call anything that is distasteful a dark pattern.
GDPR is successful because they hand out fines but every website is in violation of it? I would think that a successful law results in compliance.

As someone who has worked with HIPAA data, I have personally seen the data treated with a great deal of thought around compliance. I think the numbers you cite are a result of that, not in spite of it. As your source points out, many of those complaints aren't eligible for enforcement. This isn't because HIPAA isn't enforced, it's because many of the people who are complaining don't know what HIPAA does.

But the US needs their own general privacy law too, GDPR is not enough, as it isn't applicable to a lot of software built in the US.
According to [1], version 0.2 of pip was released 2008-10-29. The 1.0 release which added Python 3 support was 2011-04-04 (which is what Wikipedia lists).

The earliest release I can find for Go at [2] is 2009-12-09, with 1.0 being released 2012-03-28.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/pip/#history

[2] https://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly
It was good clickbait. The title made me think something similar to the recent security issue with the University of Minnesota[1] was happening again, but from Huawei this time

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
Nope

> Initial release: 4 April 2011 (10 years ago)

Source: Wikipedia, pip (package manager).
Mozilla strikes me as an organisation with too many resources for its own good. They keep pursuing these random side gigs with limited unifying theme other than an excuse to spend money.
I suspect that, with their bet on cloud in particular, they're hiring in many places where ads don't matter. Even in the mobile OS world, where ads is eventually where they make some of the money, they have a clear adoption challenge first...
> It correctly identified when cancer was present in 51.5% of cases, across all stages of the disease, and wrongly detected cancer in only 0.5% of cases.

If all 300 million Americans get blood tested each year, that is 1 and a half MILLION people who are falsely told they have CANCER. One and a half MILLION people whose life gets turned upside down, WRONGLY, due to a blood test -- at least, until they take a second one. Or a third one. Or maybe they get unlucky never learn they don't have cancer, and mess up their life treating a disease they don't have.

Now, OBVIOUSLY not all 300 million Americans are going to get tested each year. But you are completely ignoring the ethical concerns surrounding telling literally .5% of those who don't have cancer that they have cancer, and the non-insignificant proportion of people who will never learn they don't have cancer (we NEED to consider even the "miniscule" probabilities at this scale), and that makes you seem like somebody who "think[s] they know better".
Audiodub, a simple automatic video dubbing service
Do we need to keep linking to these marketing pages for DDG? I think by now this audience has heard of DDG.