skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trade-off here is these seem to be substantially simpler and cheaper than batteries. No fancy metals, no wear cycles, no risk of spontaneous fire. In fact, the up-front environment impacts seem significantly less than that of battery storage. These are still a good solution when the power supply you're using is in excess - as is common with most natural sources (solar, wind, hydro, etc).

Lastly, it's worth remembering that not everything is competing against an "optimal" solution. This may be a _very_ viable system for infrastructure that simply sheds excess energy. Shedding of excess energy results in 0% efficiency gains. Additionally, this type of storage potentially offsets the need to run a secondary system for peak/off-cycle loads. That in itself can be a massive energy savings.

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Finally, it seems that power plants are actually terribly inefficient at converting an energy source to electric. Coal - 33%, gas - 42%, and combined cycle - 60%.

http://needtoknow.nas.edu/energy/energy-sources/fossil-fuels....
In a congressional hearing, Sen. Cotton cited several whistleblower reports he received regarding CRT in the military, such as:

“One Marine told us that military history training session was replaced with mandatory training on police brutality, white privilege, and systemic racism. [..] Another servicemember told us that their unit was required to read White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo which claims, and this is a quote, ‘white people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white supremacist world view,'” Cotton added. - https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/06/1...

The defense secretary being questioned did not deny these assertions. But the truly motivated will find ways to call this "not evidence" as well. Only 100% incontrovertible proof counts as evidence for assertions they don't like. The bar is, of course, much lower for things they'd like to believe.
What is a “diverse founder” ?

My understanding is that the term diverse is used to describe a group. I.e. a diverse workforce or a diverse set of topics.

Is the use of the term for a singular noun grammatically incorrect?
It's good practice to have a length constraint on all text fields, just to put some cap on field sizes. You don't want somebody uploading 100MB of garbage into the `first_name` field—A 1000-char max is more than enough.

Constraints generally should be enforced both application- and database-side wherever possible. Application constraints can be more robust and have better UX, but only database constraints can offer you guarantees about what is actually in your database.
Ask HN: What tools are you a 10/10 on?
Curious what tools you use that you absolutely adore. For me I sing the praises of slack, calendly, zoom, excel, and triplebyte to anyone who will listen.
The number of people interested in paying for content not permitted by Visa/MC and who can actually figure out how to use crypto for anything other than trading on an exchange is tiny.

Not surprisingly the only resources online about porn payments and cryptocurrency are a variety of high profile CSAM stories.

Yet another of one of the many problems with crypto adoption - it’s so frequently used/cited/associated with illicit activity that (again other than gambling on an exchange) many (most?) law abiding people associate it with criminals outside of the Disneyworld playpen that is Coinbase.
Also: Open your windows at night (assuming it's cool enough) and shut them as soon after sunrise as you can. Usually the temperature starts rising at sunrise, not surprisingly. See this graph, for example:

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.751&lon=-73...

IME, temperature increases much more quickly outside than inside, and your home will stay cool. Add fans - much more energy efficient than AC - as needed. When I need AC, it's usually not until around 4pm or 5pm, even on hotter days. I cut my energy bills by ~70% using this and other measures.
I still have yet to use graphical models (in the traditional sense, not including the new age variational inference style neural networks as graphical models) in real life. Am I just completely missing something? Where do people generally find compelling uses for graphical models?
From the end of the article you linked:

> Awaiting async/await

> That's the point I made in "Taming the asynchronous beast with ES7", where I explored the ES7 async/await keywords, and how they integrate promises more deeply into the language. Instead of having to write pseudo-synchronous code (with a fake catch() method that's kinda like catch, but not really), ES7 will allow us to use the real try/catch/return keywords, just like we learned in CS 101.

> This is a huge boon to JavaScript as a language. Because in the end, these promise anti-patterns will still keep cropping up, as long as our tools don't tell us when we're making a mistake.

Async/await is extremely well-supported and reliable in the ecosystem now, and allows you to express Promise-based asynchronous flows with a much more natural syntax. I highly recommend that you take a look, as it pretty much obviates all the pain points mentioned in the linked article.
When I was in my senior year at university (1978) I took a class in dramatic structure, and one of my classmates had somehow gotten hold of a copy of the Star Wars (what we now call A New Hope) shooting script. The instructor (head of the drama department) immediately latched onto it as an example of a screenplay, while all the other reading was plays. George Lucas may not be a great writer, but the Hero's Journey structure of the story made a great study for the class.
I don't think it's very smart to bet against technology that is currently at least 50% energy efficient - end to end -, because of density, that can be improved, with thermic engine, which reach less than 30% efficiency, in the engine alone, on best scenarios.
1Password, all day every day
The most 'common' event for someone buying a gun is that the shoot it at the range a few times a year, maybe hunt with it occasionally or put it in their waistband as a means of self-defense. If you want common to the exclusion of the less common, there it is.

If you're not involved in gang banging / drugs then in the extremely uncommon chance you die by firearm, it's most likely it was a choice of suicide. In Europe and many other developed nations with harsh firearm laws, suicide via physician is an option so a more comforting and society-approved solution rather than firearm becomes more favored for suicide.
It says return to monkey island but all the scenes feature mainly melee island :) Though I do see the giant monkey head from monkey island in there.

Really looking forward to this.

Also: Murray!! I was afraid he would not be there because he was introduced in the post-Ron Gilbert era.
I think it's a weapon (projected radio, radar interference, etc.) rather than a tool for spying.
The bad thing about this is that they (BigTech) can afford to hire the next Edison and have him build CRUD apps in 60h shifts trying to pass performance reviews... And even get away with it financially (for a time at least).
So what? If you want to send someone $10 as crypto a centralized stablecoin works perfectly.
I do when I can. I wrote a tool to do some average rate of requests per second, with an exponential distribution of inter-request interval. The load fluctuates from second to second because of this, but it's probably more life-like.
And then there is this thing called “reality”.
> have an option to drop off tilapia or a lobster in the aquarium

I complain about having to mince my own garlic when I get a Blue Apron meal and you're willing to filet live fish? I don't see this working any where in the US, maybe somewhere else
Do people give you money up front to buy gifts for them? Or do you buy the gift and then sell it to the recipient? Those are the differentiators.
Facebook removed posts on abortion pills even when they didn’t break any rules
> I’m exaggerating the amount of skill that I have ... I inflate the scale of my achievements and the depth of my skillset. I even add tasks and responsibilities to historical jobs that fit your requirements. ...

> If you want better candidates filling roles, ... Check the candidate’s portfolio.

Why wouldn't a candidate's portfolio be fake too? Someone else's work, plagiarized with minor edits / refactorings to make it look unique, for example

Why would it be off limits to cheat on GitHub but ok in one's CV
The article mentions several publicised experiments that were on this mission.

Who knows what else it might be carrying or doing - anti-satellite weaponry, ICBM counter-measures, or for all we know it's been coasting about in standby mode with an empty bay all this time and the B in its name stands for "bluff" :)
it’s about to be higher than 10-15% in california!
Nope. My kid got taught about the evil Crusaders attacking the innocent Muslims.
But if transactions settle immediately with crypto shouldn't you be able to just convert to fiat or a stablecoin to avoid the volatility? Or do you mean volatility for a consumer that holds the currencies beforehand? It's just surprising it hasn't been adopted somewhere yet as this isn't a new problem facing the industry and I wonder if there are bigger barriers I'm not seeing. I think Coinbase had a payments function similar to a Stripe integration but maybe they also don't allow such use cases? https://commerce.coinbase.com/ - I'll dig into their TOS out of morbid curiousity

Edit w/update: It is indeed not allowed in their TOS, "Adult Content and Services: Pornography (including literature, imagery and other media); sites offering any sexually-related services such as prostitution, escorts, pay-per view, or adult live chat features." is under the 'Prohibited' section
Monkey Island was always heavily cartoony. Even in the days when cartoony was the only option for resolution reasons they had these woolly clouds and caricature faces and buildings. I think the style fits perfectly with the previous games.
None of that is "whites inherently evil", so we can file this under "debunked" until new evidence arrives.
It's not for you or I to dictate how much people should share within their personal relationships.

Maybe telling your partner that something isn't any of their bloody business is a perfectly valid thing to do, and an acceptable answer, even after, say, 50 years of marriage? It's a relationship, you are not a single conscienceness.

Personally, I'd argue having secrets from your partner doesn't necessarily make you dishonest. Lying to your partner makes you dishonest.

Anyway, my broader concern is I still wouldn't want my credit card company knowing my sexual preferences anymore than I'd want an ad company like Google knowing my medical status.
I'd never heard that about Gadzooks.

It was probably beyond the pale to say "Jesus Christ!" back then like we do now.
Yeah, team orders are fairly lame, but it is common enough in modern F1, and as long as it's not egregious enough to result in a blue flag, nobody really cares anymore. I'm a Valtteri Bottas fan from way back and I can assure you that it's not behavior that is unique to Red Bull.

I would have thought the way the race director restarted the race after Latifi's spin a few laps before the end, in a way that predetermined the race outcome, was what you were referring to. There was always going to be someone pissed off about that situation, although Masi went pretty far in a strange direction and managed to piss off the maximum amount of people. If he'd red flagged it immediately, that would have given a free set of new tires to everyone and blatantly handed the race to Hamilton instead of Verstappen.
I think you just fundamentally misunderstand human nature, the criminal mind, and the overall practicality of running a criminal enterprise even if you assume well-informed rational actors.

If you get burglarized, your ham radio equipment probably won't get stolen. And if it does, it's a crime of opportunity, not because someone found you in a database and somehow knew you had the good equipment.

But sometimes criminals are desperate for guns, or the quick cash that guns can bring. You don't want desperate, potentially violent criminals finding out that your house has exactly what they are desperate for.

If they want the cash, they could even prearrange a fence based on the database search. That's a little too convenient.
To give rural, conservative voters more voting power. It's pretty much that simple, and it's been that way since the constitution was ratified.
"It was designed according to ancient ziggurat mound proportions used in votive worship. Like the mounds it collects energy and recirculates it. In this case the Dome collects the Orgone energy that escapes from the crown of the human head and pushes it back into the Medulla Oblongata for increased mental energy. It's very important that you use the foam insert...or better yet, get a plastic hardhat liner, adjust it to your head size and affix it with duct tape or Super Glue to the inside of the Dome. This allows the Dome to "float" just above the cranium and thus do its job. Unfortunately, sans foam insert or hardhat liner, the recirculation of energy WILL NOT occur."
+1

this flow resulted in my immediate departure
If you're applying to 300+ companies, something is wrong. When I've gone looking for work I've talked to maybe 5-10 companies at most. Specialization and a good network of contacts makes all the difference.
Bogus content has been available in abundance online for a while and people often are credulous of it still.

But still, you have to assume that the cost of creating fake news is the primary limit to it's appearance in front of people to claim AI will seriously have an impact and that's not at all obvious.
Here is a good tracking page: https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=45606

From those numbers, a rough estimate is 159.3 million miles, 14.25 light minutes, or 1.7 AU.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282*pi*%28%286713km%29...

Orbital tracking of the earlier missions was interesting, as the vehicle can change orbits easily. There was a bit of a cat and mouse game between hobbyists and the operators IIRC.

This is the vehicle's 6th flight, so summing up all 6 missions so far gets you roughly 751 million miles traveled, or 1.12 light hours / 8 AU.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%282*pi*%28%286713km%29...
HTC builds a “Metaverse” smartphone with NFTs
> Can someone explain to me why there hasn't been a crypto payments use case that solves this?

There has - most porn sites accept payment in bitcoin.

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-pay-for-porn-with-crypto-and-w...
It sounds pretty easy to inadvertently visit a site on an old laptop with javascript enabled. Is this what counts as a profound opsec failure these days?

Remembering that you only have to make an error like that once.

And if all these high-profile people manage to get caught (It seems like pretty much everyone that isn't a nation state ends up getting found eventually!) then maybe it's not that these people are terrible at Opsec, it's maybe that it's much harder than it looks, especially when the government has access to tools that you have no idea about, and maybe it's inevitable that you make an error if you are a human operating for a long time, regardless of 'opsec' skillz.
Can you talk more about what kind of limits you hit with Scala and Spark? I definitely have my own biases, but my feeling is you get 95% of the good stuff of Haskell while avoiding most of the problems mentioned elsewhere in this thread (e.g. you get a proper IDE-integrated debugger with breakpoints/stepping/etc. that Just Works).
Well that's one stat in the world that you definitely want to know the sign of at least!
No, it is not considered abortifacient, that is just unfounded propaganda from religious extremists.

Mayo clinic on the subject:

> Plan B One-Step is a type of morning-after pill that can be used after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. Plan B One-Step contains the hormone levonorgestrel — a progestin — which can prevent ovulation, block fertilization or keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/morning-after-pi...
I wish the defense industry and government agencies paid FAANG salaries.
I find it hard to believe that one would be in more legal hot water for having checked as a matter of policy and having missed a high quality fake ID or something, than for not having checked at all.

I know an awful lot of gun owners, and I can't think of one who would sell a gun to someone they suspected wasn't permitted to own one.
Language vs dialect is a political question, not a scientific one.

There are plenty of mutually unintelligible dialects and plenty of mutually intelligible languages.
It isn't. Unless someone was operating a crazy and expensive free guns charity, you are not "handing the gun to someone else". You are _reselling_ the gun to someone else who could not legally purchase or is avoiding a paper trail in order to commit a crime.
He also wasn't quite as open-minded and forward thinking as some believe:

“I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.”
I didn't write "have to". Perhaps you are replying to someone else?
which should be treated the same as labor trafficking

the overlap with all forms of work are too numerous to point that out as if it needs a different solution

labor rights, more avenues for reporting, outreach, help, evaluation of the employer

and thats only available in a place with some form of legalized framework (which can be greatly improved even in those places)
It also looks a lot like the style of the telltale episodes
A couple of years ago I read The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio, the story of how Henry Folger got obsessed with early editions of Shakespeare and created the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. He was a high ranking executive at Standard Oil and had the money to buy up a large number of copies of the First Folio, bringing them to America. An interesting story of obsession and, let's face it, greed coming out of the Gilded Age.
Why not just buy an account from eBay or similar?
> The traditional aim of fieldwork is to produce for undocumented languages what linguists sometimes call “the holy trinity”: a grammar, which is a road map to sounds, syntax and structure; texts, which are chunks of unedited speech that reveal a language’s texture; and a dictionary.
Interesting, will they have a TOS similar to Coinbase Commerce (which bans porn as a business category) https://commerce.coinbase.com/legal/terms-of-service/
If Mark Zuckerberg spent a lifetime writing COBOL to interface with a 1972 missile silo door control panel, we'd certainly be doing well.

Bonus points if his manager is someone like Boris Johnson.
I have only one child and making sure he doesn’t feel lonely or bored when no friends are around is my biggest challenge. Raising an only brings about challenges that aren’t discussed as much as they should be. I think there is a huge difference in being a parent of one vs a parent of many.
Hubspot is a god send
> 1) Don't video deepfakes require lots of high-quality input video (which is why they were often made of Obama)? Where would an attacker get this for some rando?

I imagine that at some point, or even now, we can use transfer learning for deep fakes and just train existing models on a limited data set for "good enough" deep fakes.
I got tired in hardware development. It's a little different than software because the tech doesn't change the way frameworks do, but 95% of the effort I have spent in the last decade has been for naught. Well funded startups that got bought by big companies, the designs shelved... I made good money but I am unwilling to solve problems, even fun ones, if my work is just going to end up in the trash. Part of that is the nature of startup tech, some of it is the nature of R&D generally.

I'm currently taking my own advice and fucking off for the summer, about to start a 3000 mile mountain bike tour in a couple weeks. I don't know whether I'll return to engineering. There are infinite ways of living a human life on this planet and I intend to explore some more of them before deciding that an engineering career is really the one that will make me happy.
> The best publicly available evidence suggests that X-37B is practically useless

Got some links that we can read on that?
it used to be good, but now it seems like mostly marketing spam

I don't have a better suggestion though sorry
They are still working on it. Release is some time 2023 I think. You should check their Twitter account from time to time: https://twitter.com/oddtalesgames

I think they had to figure out a lot of stuff that hasn't been done before and they have a small team. Check this interview snippet [0].

The art of dead cells looks good!

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[0] Tim Soret in reply to a question: "-Hello Tim, I was wondering how you balance the pixel art and the visual effects in The Last Night. What steps do you guys take to decide which aspects should be pixel art and what needs to be real life looking? And how do you make sure the pixel art of the game is still prominent when viewed? Is a scene considered complete when everyone else in the team agrees to it?"

"Very good question. As the game is getting more & more 3D, for sure it looks less like a parallaxing 2D illustration, and more like a little pixel art movie set with cute props. I wish I could have continued the game like shown in 2017, but relying only on pixel artists to illustrate everything manually became impossible given the surface to cover - and we would have missed all the dynamism offered by our current tech."

"As we're a small team, we prototype using a lot of bought 3D assets (buildings, trees), and even by swapping all the shaders & textures with ours, they don't look exactly like we need them to be."
If your government had wanted to set up covid camps, who exactly would you be shooting to fix that?
Yeah, Quebec is really extreme on many things. I know they wanna protect the language, but there's a lot of things that are just not available there (or restricted) because of different legislations that some services don't want to/can't deal with.

And I think the part you quoted is related to the immigration process, as in: when you immigrate to Canada, you either go through the regular program, in which you state that you don't wanna live in Quebec (at least it was like that a few years ago), or you go through Quebec's specific immigration process.

Of course, after you actually immigrate and are living here, there's nothing preventing you from moving from one province to another, so I guess that's why Quebec is doing this sh*t.

source: I immigrated 4 years ago and researched all options I had to come here.
I'm typically pretty hard on Deno (mostly surrounding dependencies), but this is probably an extremely good use-case for it. I might have to pick this up for side projects that need fast iteration.
The WDC C compiler was originally known as Zardoz C. ORCA/C (For the Apple IIgs) was eventually ported to run on MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) and used for some SNES development as well. Apple had a C compiler (APW C) for the Apple IIgs and cross development on MPW. 2500 AD Software bought up by Avocet Systems in 1997) had a 65816 C cross compiler as well.