skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say let's try again, I think before doing that it would be wise to look at why we got rid of them. I'm the UK, I know people who are doctors and teachers, they all have stories of how their unions are hurting the public.
Wait until your account has more followers before you follow additional accounts
> This isn't new...

Well, yeah, this is in the opening of the article:

> It updates a long-standing technology that never took off for electrical storage.

There is/was plant operational since 1970s in Germany[1], which looks similar to the Wired article, but different from some other solutions posted in comments. Missing some parts perhaps to be viable.

1. PDF: http://www.fze.uni-saarland.de/AKE_Archiv/AKE2003H/AKE2003H_...
That's never been a "vs", both work very well.
It's actually already present in 7.x, just opt-in.
And you should be able to hook any formatter you want, black just appear to be popular.
Isn't it a fairly common thing to not appreciate it when other people get the same reward for no contribution?

It's like when you're a kid and you win some sweets, and your parents decide you have to share them with your little brother. There may be a desire to do so, but does he get half your sweets?
So much anti-mask rhetoric here.

No mask < cloth mask < surgical mask < N95 etc < P99 etc

None of these are 100%. Does not mean they’re 0% effective.

When I cant get an entire Pizza but I can get 2 slices I don’t say ah fuck it, I’ll have none at all.

Edit: if masks weren’t working at all, we’d see a lot of medical professionals catching covid. A lot lot more than we see now.
I didn't know what you meant so I googled it. The technology is cool, but the content is ... problematic.

From urban dictionary:

"Waifu" is used to refer to a fictional girl or woman (usually in Anime, Manga, or video-games) that you have sexual attraction to, and you would even marry.

Huh.
> Having this capacity around when other sources go down means they'll be able to provide power in similar situations and so reap massive profits. Climate chaos == $$$ I guess.

I understand that people don't like when others profit from a crisis, but this is also how we solve these problems. Having more generation capacity than we otherwise would have is a good thing, even if Goldman make money on the back of it.

I'm not arguing there isn't more to be done, but when people say "greed is good" this is what they mean.
This is where capitalism goes off the rails. Instead of investing $250m into making the power grid more secure and reliable, they choose to invest in profiting off disaster.
Is there an easy way of providing commercial licences? Has anybody had experiences with this?

I've seen Super Source (https://supso.org/), which I think used to be called Supported Source (https://supportedsource.org). It seems to make providing commercial licenses easy. But their website is pretty bare. Do people usually just roll their own with Square or Stripe? I've found it hard to get search results on this at all.
I don't think proper Unicode handling is a thing that can be solved universally. Do you need it for formatting, to count characters, for currency extraction, time formatting, etc.
I've read that Henry Ford raised wages to lower turnover. Quoted text is from a Forbes article, I haven't dug for the original source.

> At the time, workers could count on about $2.25 per day, for which they worked nine-hour shifts. It was pretty good money in those days, but the toll was too much for many to bear. Ford's turnover rate was very high. In 1913, Ford hired more than 52,000 men to keep a workforce of only 14,000. New workers required a costly break-in period, making matters worse for the company. Also, some men simply walked away from the line to quit and look for a job elsewhere. Then the line stopped and production of cars halted. The increased cost and delayed production kept Ford from selling his cars at the low price he wanted. Drastic measures were necessary if he was to keep up this production.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-stor...
And then -- pedophile content is ok for you? Wow.
No they don't, Google and Bing respect robots.txt. Most websites would open it up to them because they need the traffic, so it's a type of scraping that is beneficial.

Any other scraping, especially when ignoring robots.txt, is unsolicited. And if said website takes additional advanced anti-scraping measures, and you persist in bypassing that too, then to me you're clearly unethical, even if it's technically legal.

"It's public" is a legal defense, not an ethical one. It's public for readers, not for scrapers. It's public within the original context of the website, which may include monetization.

Photographing every page of a book and then reading it that way may be legally allowed, but it's still unethical.

I have somebody in our neighborhood that instead of paying for private trash, takes tiny bags of his private trash to the park and dumps it into the public trash cans.

Legal? Yes. Parasitic behavior? Also yes.
I think that is correct, but also a much much easier said than done when it comes to the implementation.
there is lib.rs that I find much more efficient to discover crates.

Requests is currently #6 in its Web programming > HTTP client category[0]. The download counts, number of contributors, version history, and dependent crates is also prominently displayed.

[0]: https://lib.rs/web-programming/http-client
Given that Meta’s stock hasn’t dropped, I’m willing to bet either this isn’t news or it poses no real threat to Meta.
It's somewhat interesting that you're talking about low and high performers, and then and with "...and negotiation skills". Those don't seem to necessarily be related to job performance, and don't even seem to be purely a matter of skill: there's also a pretty big disparity in access to information between employee and employer.
I'd like to open a thread to discuss the optics (?) of unions as an organization, and see what you all think.

A bit of context, I come from a region in which unions are looked at fondly from the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder, as they can help avoid the meat grinder and can make shaky jobs stick for longer and have better pay/benefits. However, as you educate yourself and can land better jobs, unions start being more redundant as the jobs are the ones trying to get you to stay for longer and compete with better pay and benefits. Our labor laws are very strong so ideally you don't even need unions, just knowing what your rights are.

All that being said, unions have this undercurrent of mafia going on where politically connected unions have the power to shut down an entire sector of the economy and their leaders use this power to wring money out of big companies, you can call it union donations or extortion but its quite common around here. There's allegations of being affiliated to narco guys, ties to Venezuela and Cuba (their leaders travel there frequently, and all have been photographed with Maduro and Diaz-Canel), and some other stuff related to hiding millions of dollars in their leader's homes (why does a union have this kind of capital? 1M USD is a ridiculous amount of cash here). Some of them follow up this questionable life by straight up becoming senators, on the lists of bigger, more popular left-leaning politicians.

This worries me, it doesn't help that they all seem to look like Richard Stallman after climbing a flight of stairs and have a terrible attitude to boot.

So, you've heard me, now I want to hear you. How are unions seen in your country? Are they worth it, in your opinion?
The first one here is important. Despite the open data movement pressuring governments to provide their data in easily consumable forms, a lot of government organizations are still unable or unwilling to do so.

Political advocacy orgs rely a lot on scraping to collect political representative data that isn't available through any other means.
I wish web.archive.org had an index by someone like common crawl. There is lots of great stuff on archive.org
How common is it to have your minifier change symbol/variable names to short ones?
>> However, scientist rules that the window was broken by a branch because strong prior knowledge.

Prior knowledge doesn't stop you from forming new hypotheses, otherwise we wouldn't be going anywhere. The way it works is, you make an observation, you form a hypothesis to explain the observations based on prior knowledge and then you test your hypothesis with new observations. Ideally you look for observations that allow you to refute your hypothesis (because refutation is more secure than positive proof). If you can't find evidence to refute your hypothesis, you adopt it, provisionally, until such time as you have sufficient evidence to support it with good certainty, or until you have found evidence against it.

In your example, the initial observation is the broken window. The prior knowledge is that branches keep falling off and scratching the car. The hypothesis is that a branch fell and broke the car window. The second observation that tests the hypothesis is that there is no fallen branch around the car. This observation refutes the hypothesis. Then the scientist is free to go looking for additional observations and form a new hypothesis: the kids playing baseball nearby are the new observation. The next hypothesis is that they broke the window.

This process actually works very well in most situations where we have uncertainty and need an explanation, be it in the sciences or everyday world. I think you assume it's just some idealised version of "science" in the broad, but it's actually the most solid form of empirical reasoning we know of.
There isn't a law requiring companies to give COLA raises so most companies won't. The reason they don't need to? You're not accounting for COLA yourself, so why should a company?

Do COLA adjustments in your own job/career. That's why so many people are moving jobs in this market. That's why so many high paying engineers move jobs every couple of years. COLA baby!

I tend to move jobs every 2-3 years and receive a 25-50% raise each time. COLA baby!
It might be good to ask at an interview. "Will I be able to tell a work meeting from a party". If the answer is no, life could be interesting.
false dilemna, if you are too mediocre to study your tech you can still write more code, it's not an exclusive property of language 1
I was talking ( see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29904115 ) about the effect of vaccinating the young and healthy, I didn't mention mandates...

You then said "there are few young and healthy in parts of country where vaccination rates are low".

I'm still not understanding that statement. Across the globe - and across the USA - there are loads of unvaccinated young people, and (happily) most of them are healthy, and (happily) the data show that young healthy people are at very low risk from Covid19 even without vaccination.

What do mandates have to do with any of that?
Indeed. This blog post reads like an advertising, much like the vintage McAfee strategy of spreading fear of viruses and offering a solution.
It's a testament to how fraudulent this "trickle down" argument is. The contractors in security, the kitchen, cleaning - they get peanuts, while working in one of the most decadent centers of wealth on the planet.
These kinds of utility-run storage facilities usually buy and sell on the wholesale spot market, which swings much more than retail prices do. Somewhat similar economics to gas "peaker" plants, which only fire up when supply is tight and prices spike, making it economical to run a higher-cost generator.

The Hydrostor plant is in Ontario. Here's an archive of hourly spot-market electricity prices there (in dollars per MWh): http://reports.ieso.ca/public/PriceHOEPPredispOR/. So far in 2022, prices have been as low as $0.00/MWh (during a few hours overnight on Jan 5) and as high as $230.87/MWh (during the morning of Jan 11). In 2021, hourly average prices even exceeded $1000/MWh ($1/kWh) twice, on March 28 and October 10.
It says repurposing old mining operations. Not sure how feasible that is.
I would like more detail on the "Thermal management system" and how long it could store the heat it captures.

One of the benefits they touting is "Long duration energy storage" I would think the limiting factor would be the ability of the thermal management system to retain the energy it captured to reheat the compressed air. Am I thinking about this correctly?
Agile Principles: Technical Excellence Enhances Agility
>> This is all utter horse manure.

That's great to know. Thank you for your kind and dignified contribution.
Economic value and actual usage.
I think this developer fails to address a major concern - companies looking for industrial control software want support. From the page, it looks like your support options are two guys, one in Germany and one in Poland. That would be an immediate non-starter for our company.

The alternative would be to hire one or two developers on our own for support, and then the cost savings would be out the door. Maybe this library is more performant, but it's a (relatively) small piece of the industrial control scheme. A massive shift like this is just not something companies will take a risk on.
Interesting!...I'm not a lawyer, so the content for this piece was based on commentary in the below article. Was written by their lawyer, but would love to hear your counter point to it. Always good to get multiple viewpoints on something.

https://www.zyte.com/blog/van-buren-a-victory-for-web-scrape...
Thanks for fixing :)
> I think OP is suggesting expansion won't stop at Taiwan

Assimilation didn't stop with Hong Kong either, still a very different situation than Xinjiang.

Are you suggesting that they would have an interest in the Philippines? Which I don't think has any historical precedent?
China has historically not been imperialist in the Western sense, they have been perfectly fine with other non-Chinese countries existing which is why there is still a Korea or Vietnam.
This article mentions Ikaira. It should be noted that the diet restrictions in this region are rooted in religious fasting.
UK Government Apparently Hoping It Can Regulate E2E Encryption Out of Existence
Mostly agree, but why should negotiating skills be compensated? Should we all be taught poker?
In my experience, partially. Although I am willing to acknowledge that conditions will certainly vary from union to union and even between locals. In my experience, they add an additional layer of bureaucracy and significant cost to an organisation. They /may/ improve /some/ conditions for some workers. But they will also likely introduce other problems that affect all workers and disproportionately impact the top-performing workers to the benefit of the least performing. As has been noted, this isn't necessarily a problem with unions as a concept, but rather a problem with human nature and adding an additional layer of bureaucracy on top of another bureaucracy with conflicting interests. It will at the very least slow things down and add cost. Whether that is worthwhile probably needs a case by case analysis.
This isn't true at all. We hire remote folks sourced from LinkedIn all the time. In fact, it's one of the best ways to find global remote candidates as most folks refer people they know, which are mostly local or centered around some economic area.
I'll second this.

LinkedIn was toxic when it started..... sending spam to your email contacts saying you had invited them to join. How the fuck they gained any respectability after this is beyond me.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/07/linkedin-...
The myth they seem to be debunking is that Europe was >99% white. But what if the claim is that it was only as white as, lets say, before WWII? It would be mighty strange if Europe was at its historically unique least diverse right at the point where we start having photographic evidence.
I think scsh checks all your boxes.

https://scsh.net/
Sample size of one, but every.single.time I fly long haul, I get a cold.
Faker.js and Colors.js Sabotaged by Maker
>What happened on that day? Is there more historical details?

Not the guy but a quick search pulls up a press release for that day which was the release of Firefox v4.0 and mentions the 'new' rapid release cycle. I'm assuming it was this last that they were referring to.

Link: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2011/06/21/mozilla-deliver...
I have so much respect for everyone at Mullvad. You are the only VPN provider I trust! I have been a user for years now, and it has always been 5 dollars a month, which is quite generous. It is so cheap that even the poor can afford privacy. You guys have put a ton of effort into making your service as privacy respecting as possible. Not only that, the tech is on the bleeding edge (WireGuard, socks5, etc.) built right in. As a cybersecurity researcher, I could not be happier with the product. I hope you stay true to your mission, thanks again!
IMO "I suck at subject X ..." simply means the amount of work/time you're going to need to invest to master subject X is larger (sometimes much larger) than folks who have a knack for it.

It rarely means you're completely incapable of mastering subject X.

The real question is: is the investment worth it? If it takes you 5 years to master basic linear algebra because your brain truly isn't wired for it, how much is the 5 years you are going to spend going to pay back in the long run?

Oh, and: actually enjoying doing X is usually a tremendous help towards mastering it.
It will be fake

But Goldman Sachs can blow their money however they wish. Although no doubt governments will also throw bad money into this, but I guess if people want their government to fake their lives, so be it. It seems that's living in The Jetsons future HN idolises.

Why it is fake - "Why is adiabatic compressed air energy storage yet to become a viable energy storage option?" - https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(21)00408-9.pdf

The Australian project has no go ahead -

Hydrostor seeks clarity over compressed air-energy storage facility in Broken Hill - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-12/hyrdostor-seeks-clari...

And yes as part of this fake world, Goldman Sachs has not put 250M into this company, it's in tranches. Fake worlds built on top of fake worlds.
An N95 is the opposite. It only filters on the way in.

Which is the direction we should be going, anyway. High risk people who cannot get vaccinated should wear an N95.

Edit: As numerous people have pointed out, this is wrong. All the N95 masks I’ve seen had a valve, but apparently this is uncommon. TIL.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Now look at the M2, which didn’t change.
Air is kind of a shitty working fluid. I always kind of dismiss compressed air storage because of that.

I saw a video recently that pumped water into tanks and used used the air as a spring. Just dip a pipe down and use the air to move the water. Extracting energy from a hyrdo generator.

https://youtu.be/sBF5EnK9MPs
> Which makes me think it's an odd thing to say the police "always did this".

That's fair. My statement of 'always' referred to what's typical and standard prior to the change. I.e., what is the actual net change as a result of this program?

So far as I can tell, nothing really. Other than citizens voluntarily deciding to fill out a spreadsheet vs police needing to drive around and do it.
also not all EU coders can come to the US even to network while on a tourists visa because many can't get those either. these are correlated with extremely destitute areas of europe where earnings are much lower, but they can go to Germany.
Apparently we can no longer conceive of a website being made just for fun and not money?
People forget that wages are inflation.

It's convenient to compress a billion price changes down to a single number, but ultimately the single number is a representation, and the price changes are driven by real market phenomena. Money printing on its own does not cause inflation, there has to be a "transmission mechanism" to get it into the market. After decades of policy to prevent wage inflation, especially at the low end, it's finally escaped.
Soft cancellation (making X amount of dollar 0 percent interest) is probably politically tenable, and most conservatives i've spoken with feel that is fair. Avoids the moral hazard problem they bring up of "what about the people who paid back their loans?!". The continuing moratorium is effectively just making that the new policy.

But the only real reason it feels like the moratorium got continued is because Build Back Better failed and the Biden administration didnt want to compound that political failure with also breaking a major campaign promise. Though continuing student loans during election season also seems politically non viable as well. Especially if an astute Republican hits the drum of "make them zero interest!" to combat the issue.

The real problem is that I had heard (https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/dick-morris/302247-lo...) that provisions of Obamacare actually use student loan interest payments as source of paying for that program. So a major democratic program is reliant on Student loans. This makes it even mnore of a political vulnerability because Republicans attacking student loans also weakens Obamacare.

To put the cherry on top. The Federal Reserve probably really wants student loans to continue. People paying those again is a powerful deflationary measure and puts less liquid capital in the market. It feels like the current admin from a policy perspective REALLY wants to start them back up, but know its politically damaging to do so.
I'd guess that for the many popular scraping uses cases this is not really useful as it's usually about being quick and up to date (job postings, availability information, e-commerce, serps,...) not about having a big corpus of historic data.
Resistance to Unions in America is pretty deep. This is a 150 year old issue that previously involved hiring consultants with guns to shoot at anyone who dared to ask for an 80 hour work week. I doubt that a crew of modern consultants did much more than run up some bills on a corporate expense account.

*Note that support/opposition to Unions is often form from petty core experiences (first hand and family relations). For me it is a contest between a 2 minute promotional video, three years of my professional life, and 25 years of my uncle's work experience. Given these forces, you would be pretty hard pressed to change my thoughts on the matter in the abstract (particulars are what matter here).
Just wanted to say Thanks for this amazing project! IlBeen using it for years now and for simple debugging and peeking into data files, nothing beats IPython in convenience!
Qualc (CLI version of qualculate) and Plots

https://qalculate.github.io/

https://github.com/alexhuntley/Plots
It's not just telling you the criteria for membership, it's telling you who's in it. Again, most military age male citizens of US are in a militia, whether you like it or not.

>You might consider yourself a member of such a militia

You can consider yourself in or out the militia or not. That doesn't make it fact, from a legal perspective. For government's purposes though I would use government's law, which tells us able-bodied military age males, generally, are in a militia.

> notably to perform any military or law enforcement function - you must be under state or federal command.

Um, the thread we're both replying to was about 'every state has laws making it illegal to be a member of a private armed militia.' You're arguing about something entirely different here, that is about state laws (not under purview of DoJ) that limit uses of militia.
FB / social media is a challenge to the power of the political parties / beuraucrats / media axis. The other industries you mention aren't. That's why they are doing this. Has nothing to do with helping you. In fact, if you work in tech, it's specifically designed to hurt you.
This isn't correct. Deep mines are notoriously hot, because you're digging towards magma. Google says temps increase by 3° C for every 100m.