skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the economics of this look like, and how do they intended to get back the investment. If its to buy low when wind/solar production is high and sell when production is low, what will the cost per watt be? If its subsidies, how much will this cost the government?

The article seem to mostly describe this as a technology project to test the technology at scale, but they do also mention profits. Is the basic premise of buy low sell high, exclusively on renewables, enough to offset the cost from energy conversion, building, staff and other costs, and if so, by what degree compared to other method to produce energy? When is it estimated to have paid its initial investment?
Two days ago at least Whole Foods here (SE Portland) was pretty messed up. No meat, almost no butter, produce bins were cleared out, some brands of yogurt were gone, etc.

New Seasons was better, so maybe just an Amazon thing. But that’s at least one screwed up supply chain
>Unless you’re planning to compel workers back to their jobs at the end of a gun, we’re probably not going back to the version normal we had in 2019 ever again.

Maybe another version of OWS is coming, hopefully one that actually results in change and doesn't get co-opted by stupid identity politics this time around.
What Is Google Doing with Blockchain? (article is 3 months old)
I wonder what is the loss/recovery %age.
As someone with difficulties telling left and right apart, using Either isn't particularly straight forward. This plus the left and right variant become meaningless on their own.

Ie, if I wanted an enum of either a string or an integer, it becomes "Either<&str, i64>".

But what I wanted is that it's either a string identifier or the database Id of something to be later referenced, which might be better described as "enum IdentOrDbId { Ident(String), DbId(i64) }".

This is of course a much simplified example of things I've faced.
>Even spidermonkey, the javascript engine, is never reused as v8.

GNOME and Cinnamon desktops use it, MongoDB uses it, polkit, etc. It's obviously not embedded nearly as much as V8 but it does have a few.
This just in, mainstream media and cable news also a major conduit of fake news, fact checkers don't want to admit.
Which regulations and applying to which sectors?
"Professional employees whose work is merit-based don't need labor unions."

You're living in a dream world, Neo.
KF94 masks have been a good trade-off between protection and comfort. They don't filter to the same degree as N95, but they are a hell of a lot more comfortable to wear, and therefore more likely to be worn consistently.
No one needs a $95000 f150 with a 4 foot bed. This was made for urban hipsters to transport yoga equipment.
Beekeeper Studio 3.0 – workspaces, cloud storage for queries and connections
> The "95" in N95 represents the filtration effectiveness.

> So _any_ leakage means the mask fails in it purpose of filtration.

What do you mean by that? The "95" is just a statement of its performance characteristics, which literally every well-engineered thing has quantified (and are always less than "perfect").

Now if you want an N95 to meet its specifications, it has to be tightly fitted. However it's a spectrum of effectiveness, and unless the fit is ridiculously bad, the protection factor is still going to be better than a cloth mask, e.g.:

poorly well-
cloth or fitted fitted
No mask surgical mask N95 N95 Perfect
|O-------------------------O---------------------------------------------------O--------------O--------O|

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
How is this nonsense the top comment?

OP's been doing a poor job of "following Mullvad for a long time" and apparently has never used Mullvad or visited its website. Heck, it's on their Wikipedia page[1].

If they had, it would be immediately apparent that Mullvad has servers all over the world. They have for many years -- perhaps since it's inception. It takes a bare minimum of effort to learn that.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad#Service
What if most soup at that time was underseasoned? Tasting beforehand wastes time. Edison again proves he was just a hack.
She's on HN, curious what her thoughts are: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DaniFong
Ok, so unions aren't designed to make companies not be evil. They're designed to increase comp. So since you have stated that Google pays lots of money, what's the point of a union.
Inheritance isn't normally a corrupt practice, and the best way to get lots of money is to start with lots of money and accrue it.
Agree and this depends on the union also. The RMT in the UK is famously militant. When a new General Secretary was voted in a few years ago (before the current one I think), he didn't promise to "represent his members" but instead promised "that the RMT would remain militant", which doesn't sound great.

Another railway union, the TSSA had a generally "no strike" policy but would still provide support for any disagreements with management.

I guess, as always, be careful for what you wish for, you might not be able to afford to go on strike for something you don't feel very strongly about because the union says so and if you don't strike, well, good luck continuing to work there.
That's actually more or less how DRY is described in The Pragmatic Programmer (20th anniversary edition):

> Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.

Further on:

> Dry is about the duplication of knowledge, of intent. It's about expressing the same thing in two different places, possibly in two totally different ways. [emphasis in original]

And the next paragraph:

> Here's the acid test: when some single facet of the code has to change, do you find yourself making that change in multiple places, and in multiple different formats? Do you have to change code and documentation, or a database schema and a structure that holds it, or...? If so, your code isn't DRY.
Avoid Accidental Library Functions
Why didn't the lack of competition result in higher prices before COVID?

I don't know, but it seems like farmers negotiate contracts in advance, so if futures prices are driven up by speculators using easy money then there will be a period of time where farmers are selling for less than they otherwise could because they negotiated futures contracts. Isn't the whole point of the futures market to provide farmers with stable prices, not optimal prices?
Because a lot of us learned the hard way that inheritance can very easily lead to a dark place. Changing behaviour on a grandparent object in specific circumstances related to the implementation of a child object gets really nasty.
> I think you do need to pay some living stipend to translators and core authors

I agree. Institutions like MIT have the monetary resources to support things like this, but they just don't want to. Universities have still not figured out a great model to hire people from industry to help them with their problems. Some places, like the Broad Institute have.
This is 100% my coding strategy in every context where it makes sense. Code to an imagined ideal API that makes what I'm currently writing clear and concise. Once I have that written, I just repeat the process from the next level of abstraction down. This strategy has served me well over the years.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...
Should we tell them that they can get a job doing this?
Should just be 1 per customer per year. End of problem.
You are getting sidetracked by appearances.
Do not confuse threatening bodily harm to a person with free speech - they are very different.
At most, it's good information to have for those particularly vulnerable to COVID. Depending on one's vulnerability profile, N95 masks, or masks of any kind, can be wasteful and even harmful to the environment. For myself, my chance of getting seriously ill or death from COVID-19 is effectively 0%. SARS-CoV-2 is endemic, and I've had it twice, so I'm not gonna keep forking over my money for masks, especially N95s.

But yeah, if we didn't have sufficient research on the effectiveness on masks by now, then the medical establishment has failed at its job. The CDC is supposed to control diseases, and yet masks were somehow a mystery decades after their inception? Wow.

Why exactly should anyone have faith in these people?
Def liking my new kf94’s
What are you missing? I don't know. I'm assuming this is a US thing? Because we've had this in Belgium for at least as long as I've been alive. My pay automatically went up by ~3.5% this month. It's required by law (mostly, it's complicated). The actual percentage depends on a number of factors, as does the frequency, but for people in tech it tends to be an an annual affair.

It's not a perfect system, but it works reasonably well, even if it does somewhat disadvantage people with lower wages.
> The article makes it sound like Taiwan is unreasonable for "unilaterally" not wanting be invaded by a country with overwhelming military superiority and a totalitarian regime.

The article really focuses on the US foreign policy, not Taiwan's. It's just questioning the US's NeoLiberal Foreign Policy strategy & the cost of interventions; like in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...
I’ve always assumed the virus can enter the body through the eyes, who’s tear ducts lead to the nasal passages.
In the phone case, they would obviously put out a wiretap order: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/EN/Buerger/Inhalte/Nachrichtendiens...
And def don't run `(new wordle.bundle.GameApp()).solution` in your browser console; you'll only be cheating yourself.
This applies in America as well, at least for the IRS. One can only run a money-losing business for a few years before they stop considering you a business and instead a hobbyist.
Meaning, the grain could have been imported?
Totally out of my depth here, but does cooling the gas down have the added benefit that it'll be heated by the earth whilst stored?
Chainlink fence stop sand?
I suspect that this is going to change soon. As an industry we are now optimizing for the same set of functional interview questions across all companies while ignoring past engineer performance.

An interview is only one day with a candidate, and we’re well past the point where our functional questions are contrived to the point of selecting for interview training rather than job skills.

Consider that 8 years ago asking to reverse a singly linked list in o(1) memory and o(n) time was the difficulty bar for FB. These days you’d likely get asked to implement an optimal multidimensional DP + dfs/bfs/bsearch.
I highly doubt that, first because you can just look back in time 100 years and observe people living in the country to see how hard they worked.

Secondly, ancient humans did everything themselves. Their clothes, food, bedding, house, roof, EVERYTHING. There was no global supply chain, there was no clothing industry, there was just you, your farm, and your two hands.
+1 for Rule Of 3
They should do free ice maker on the other end.
I read an article in a woodworking magazine about how one Amish woodworking shop was built to avoid using electricity. The whole shop ran off a stationary diesel engine driving a shaft in a floor trench and belt drove the larger stationary machinery like band saws, table saws, planers, drill presses, joiners and so on. But what about hand tools? A large belt driven air compressor off the diesel engine handled a myriad of air power tools like drills, orbital sanders, buffers and all that. Really neat setup.
I think (but I maybe wrong) it is a "protection" against selling product under it's price.
He was a handful’ – Hunter S Thompson’s PA and photographer relives her wild job
There is a lot of monopolistic control in the food industry, allowing them the ability to increase prices indiscriminately in response to increase salary (not necessarily more demand)
More fool you. It's not even the crime, it's the lying. You trust liars.
Are there any affordable development platforms for those cameras right now? Paying 100 € for a second hand Raspberry Pi and another 25 € for the Camera seems like a bad idea when I could get a USB GPIO adapter and a smartphone with a better camera and touchscreen for less.
How will the EU regulate the tech giants?
https://github.com/gvlsq/palettize how about this approach?
This feels... Unlikely to be a thing of unions. Seems just as likely, if you saw promotions that were unwarranted, that there was incentive for management to get more promotions. Indeed, it is often to grade managers on how many promotions they have overseen. Not shocking that measuring that would cause them to happen unwarranted sometime.

Which is just too say that a healthy organization is hard. There are no panaceas.

I'm mixed on unions, all told. I don't like the dichotomy they enforce between management and workers. This often exists anyway, so I can't blame unions. And it is also true that individuals don't have the leverage for negotiation that groups do, such that it makes sense on why they can get better conditions when just between company and group.
One of the reasons high inflation is bad is that wages always lag the inflation.

They can't really help but do otherwise. Companies certainly aren't going to be able to proactively raise salaries based on future inflation expectations, and precisely matching inflation isn't an option when salaries are generally adjusted once a year. So lag it is.

Plus, with non-trivial inflation, things get complicated. Dollars cease to be fungible, and you have to consider how close to the "inflation sources" your company is. It is difficult to pay you an inflated salary if they still haven't gotten inflated prices for their own sales yet because they're "downstream" of the inflation. Or if they have to pay you with money from six months ago while you want a salary in current inflated dollars. Non-trivial inflation breaks a lot of casual expectations you may have about money under normal circumstances.
It's crazy to expect an 18-22 year old to know the market fit for their major when they've never had a job anywhere near that field. I researched my choice of major using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' data before I graduated high school, but I'm pretty sure I was the only one of my peers that did that.
The pascal thing has its own advantages/disadvantages. Finding people with pascal experience is going to be difficult, but i'm not sure this is really any worse than some of the web/framework wars. Pick a framework and likely in 5 years your going to have problems finding people who are experts in it because they have all moved to something else (although maybe that is settling down angular/react are still around). OTOH, Pascal is a far simpler language than JS, for sure it has fewer gochas than JS does at this point, and it supports proper threading if you happen to need that among other things. Its definitely stagnated, but that's probably a good thing if you plan on building a long term business around it. I'm not sure I would consider editor features like auto completion very high on my technology selection, particularly since you can 1. fix it, 2. use a different editor.

I would worry about hidpi support with Lazarus, and how well the android/ios/mac bindings actually work. Maybe a few other things too, basically things that are going to be so large a work item that fixing them is going to outweigh any advantages of picking the tool. I think electron has at least a dozen of these, and that would push me away from it. From where I stand, electron is closer to java in the long term results.
Why would the impact be larger than people reading newspapers, or using disposable napkins/serviettes/tissues? It almost surely is small compared to transport, fashion, agriculture, etc.
> of being viral when modifying and distributing the project as is

That's not what "viral" means. MPLv2 cannot "infect" your own code like the GPL can just by virtue of using the library.

The only condition is if you want to make modifications to MPLv2 licensed code files, you do have to retain the license on all contributions.
Does that account for shrinkflation?

Personally I have noticed I now alter the foods I choose to buy because of the high prices. I am buying more staples and trying to cut costs because the price of seemingly everything besides dairy and chicken(when you can find wings that is) has gone up.
None of what you mentioned is the fault of the language. Turkish isn't a bad language, you are bad at Turkish.
room versions are incompatible naturally and room takeovers were a bug. So saying it's the cause for these things, is misleading.

At this time there are 9 room versions. Once the room version had to be incremented because of a bug in the consensus algorithm, which required a new algorithm, i.e. room version.

That's it. Bugs happen when you create new tech...

> Except of course for censorship-resilient public rooms where it shines, which goes back to my point that "decentralized rooms" as an XMPP extension would have made sense.

There are many more reasons for wanting decentralized rooms, e.g. autonomy, reliability, availability, anti-takeover - and it works for private rooms as well.
Prospectively, it enables things like P2P and multi homing

I would never want to go back to the XMPP like it is today. And XMPP today is not Matrix, even if you could turn it to Matrix, but what is the point of doing that? Matrix is already there!

If you want Matrix to be an XMPP extension, I suggest creating a new XEP pointing to spec.matrix.org and call it XMPP v2. No idea what you would gain from it though.
What is your favourite calculator?
I'm trying to find a calculator as good as my old Texas Instrument TI-89. I liked it so much that I continued to use it for many years on my smartphone with an emulator from F-Droid, also by laziness to find something better and more modern.

But I recently switched from Android to iOS and you can't find a TI-89 emulator on iOS. You have a few web based online but they are not very nice to use.

I got the WolframAlpha app as it is often recommended, but it is super slow and cloud based. And you need to reformulate some queries a lot before it does what you want. However, the Apple app store is full of calculators that all look relatively nice. I havn't found yet one as powerful as the old TI 89 or the Voyage 200, but I guess it does exist.

The closest modern match I found so far is the Numworks emulator app, but it's not as nice.

So what's your favourite calculator ? You may prefer GNU bc in a shell, or a mechanical calculator.

https://cloudflare.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.Bisha.TI89EmuDonation/
https://www.wolframalpha.com
https://www.numworks.com
Forbade N95 in public transportation? Why is that?
> It's not unethical, it's more like being a "fellow traveler" or in clearer terms, a useful idiot.

I mean, the line between a useful idiot and a scab is so thin it barely exists.

> Permissive open source only really makes sense as charity[1], or for libraries you as a developer want to be able to use at future companies[2] or as a component for a corporation's grand strategy.

Edit: nah, I think "as charity" it's bad (takes away from others, corporations don't need your charity), case 2 is at best misguided (just charge them, don't do this for free, please), and only 3 makes sense, as in "language bindings for our product are permissive."
Here's another example that you might be more familiar with : let's say that year N there is a specific laptop available for sale for $1200. Year N+3 you can still find for sale that laptop which still costs $1200 but which has improved guts and is twice as fast as before. Has the price of laptops stayed the same or gone down ? From the point of view of CPI calculation, it has gone down.
I don't think goroutines / channels is a clear win or even that relevant for data-oriented gameplay code. I go into this more in-depth in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/r2795t/i_wrote_a_si... (it addresses a bunch of points)

This is what the game code looks like: https://gist.github.com/nikki93/0425d9ead9eb7810075434d006f3... -- I don't think CSP helps much to improve on that while keeping serializability of state.
>The point is obviously harm reduction, not harm elimination.

Or the point is theater.

If you're going to have indoor dining--and most places have made that decision--people can't wear masks when they're eating and drinking. And the relatively small number of times I've been eating inside it's pretty obvious that wearing a mask between the door and your table almost certainly makes a negligible difference in risk.
Agree, I said starting point assuming that he has some basic knowledge as he is struggling so he must know something.

For more advanced linear algebra I would recommend the class from Prof. Gilbert at MIT.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7DDD91010BC51F8

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...

What is your recommendation?
> I’m amazed at the number of people I see wearing N95s or KN95s with a clear gap at the top. Why bother?

Uncharitably: People think it's a magical talisman; wear this mask and be protected. There's no grasp of the mechanism, so "wearing" the mask can be arbitrary.

Charitably: If people grasp how masks work, it's easy to forget, or not think of it, or not check that it's (still) on correctly.

(Bluntly, I think the former option more likely, but I try to think of charitable options)
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Unions aren't just for compensation - it's about having a say in your work.
The thing that BLS measures is measured precisely and accurately. The question is how well this tracks with what gets called 'inflation'.

It's like IQ tests. They're measuring something that may or may not be what some people think it measures.
This is all utter horse manure.

> We have very strong prior knowledge that diseases arise naturally

Correct. We also have very strong prior knowledge that existing diseases can be manipulated and produced by means of unnatural selection.

We also have strong prior knowledge that this particular lab have done a fair amount of that. With coronaviruses. With bats. 5 minutes with wikipedia would tell you that.

It's a bit like saying "We have very strong prior knowledge that coins can land heads-up, so this coin could never be showing tails".

> not observations that caused the hypothesis to be proposed in the first place

Please cite your sources. Otherwise, you're just showing bias against the people proposing the theory in the first place.

And let's be fair, conspiracy theorists are more often wrong than right, so I understand your distrust of them.

But also let's be fair:

- if it was true that Covid-19 originated in that lab, I don't think anyone is saying "oh no, China would never cover something like this up"

- the geographical coincidence is a compelling coincidence.

> Solid reasoning needs observations to precede a hypothesis, not the other way around.

This is dodgy ground, and shows a serious misunderstanding of the applicability - and even the process - of the scientific method. Observations like "viruses rarely jump between species like this" and "virology labs can produce viruses" are valid outcomes of pre-hypothesis research. Tests such as "If the WHO try to investigate, the Chinese government will attempt to restrict investigators" might be problematic (write it up in your analysis!), but are nonetheless valid. There are very few easily measured predictions in this.

If you want to go scientific method on this, by all means share your hypotheses and tests. "Lots of clever people have said this" or "I trust this source more than that source" is not a valid test when the waters are so muddied.

So no, this is not false objectivity at all. This is your opinion masquerading as fact. In all the data gathering I've done, I've seen nothing to compel me to take one opinion over another. If you want to actually try, using real arguments, please feel free.