skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't miss it in practice because US society isn't built around it in practice.

There's something great about being able to print something at home on A4, see how it looks, and know that it's going to be exactly the same (no stretching or cutting required) when you go to a print shop for an A1 or A0 print.

And yes there is a lot of legacy network effects around Letter size, which is why the switching costs are very high to make switching impractical.
Can you explain what you mean by "wavelength energy" or "energy of the wavelength"? I can't find any useful hits on Google.

Admittedly I only have a high-school level knowledge of this, but my understanding is that (as the parent said) higher frequency = higher energy = lower wavelength. Hence visible light has more energy than any sort of microwave.
rofl :

> “What am I going to do with guys like that in a place like Afghanistan?” said the leader. “A guy who can do 100 pull-ups but can’t make an ethical decision?”

is joining the US military an ethical decision ?

have the navy seals ever fought in US soil ?
> All the private money in the world isnt convincing land owners in San Francisco to demolish and build apartment blocks to accomodate demand.

This has nothing to do with tax. Just change the laws. smh.

Plenty of people want to develop their land in San Francisco. Here's one example: https://reason.com/2018/02/21/san-francisco-man-has-spent-4-...

Again, private money already wants to develop. Taxation is not necessary. Remove the red tape. Government involvement is the problem not the solution.
Looks like this isn't available yet.

Here's a great free resource--
https://web.archive.org/web/20160308080311/http://www.databa...
The difference between my comment and yours is that the meritocracy trap is a real thing that has been the subject of scholarly works. Also, I speak not from a place of disappointments, but rather from a place of great privilege. I am extremely lucky to be where I am (and yes, I worked hard for it too).

For an overview and references, see:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Meritocracy_trap
I love driving manual transmission cars but I really don't like this. It's like cosplay for cars. The simulated experience makes it very uncool. I'd rather just let the manual transmission have one last dignified drive into the sunset.
Sure, but, however weird I feel saying this, this person wasn’t particularly important - he was a clerk, just a better paid one. It’s not like we lost some scientist, or artist. He wasn’t even a celebrity.
In the last 2-3 years, it certainly seems to now equal “success”.

Founders at least are offloading so much equity in every round that every raise essentially becomes an “exit”.

I’m very surprised by this change. When I first started in this world, it wad drilled into my head that founder equity must be controlled at all costs. But now, the prevailing wisdom seems to be to sell off as much as you can with every round.
Some don't even feature on https://ycombinator.com/companies
> Interesting to see the comment thread digging into all sorts of criticism of the article (is it 2 kWh / fridge? Or 1.1? Should the author discuss renewable?)

Hear hear. The point is, for those of us living in developed countries, is that all wealth is energy wealth. The western way of life is totally dependent on an abundance of cheap energy. When energy runs out, or becomes significantly more expensive, it's game over for developed countries. That's why Europeans are currently terrified.

For those wishing to go a bit further than nitpicking the article, look up the following two concepts:

- Peak oil [1]
- Energy returned on energy invested [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment
Bells have zero effect on pedestrians. Bells are required where I live and I repeat that experiment a lot.
Well, there's a circular dependency here - or if you're more optimistic, a virtuous cycle.

People who have to fetch water by hand and wash clothes manually don't have time to read books on nuclear power plant design.

And societies with poor education can't build and maintain complex power infrastructure like nuclear power plants.
Also even here and Europe when price of energy goes up poor people swich to burning wood or coal.
This is bad for enviroment and the air qualit in their house causing disease.

Alot of the policy decisions are made by people least affected by them. This also explains rise of Trump and populisim.

Here in Canada, in our 5 party system, Trudue was voted in by the margin of office workers in Toronto.
And proceeded locked down hard, responding to their hypochondriac fears. Their suffering of laptop work from home and food delivert to their door was so bad that many wanted to extend the lockdowns indefinetly.
No, it doesn't. That's the kind of attitude that ignores perfectly good science that proves something you don't like just because you didn't like the authors or what they stand for.

What drives the science is irrelevant in the question of whether it's still science. As long as the data and methodology are sound, science was done. It's when either or both are compromised in order to make false claims that something ceases to be science.
Yup. No one wants to talk about this though. We need to get cheap reliable energy to as many people as quickly as possible to help prevent this. Everything should be on the table, natural gas, fracking, nuclear.
How do you get 150$ per hour contract in Canada ?
Even as a power user I dislike PWAs. Give me a native app that is buttery smooth instead of 200m of JavaScript.
Wouldn't that just put the journals in control of what studies get performed (as well as what gets published)? Seems weird to give all that power to the journals.
> This simply makes no sense

It makes total sense, if you understand what a defrost cycle is. In the LG sheet I have in front of me its quite clearly reflected in the effective power output: a dip around zero.
I agree with your point, but FWIW, it didn't come through clearly in the original comment. Poe's Law strikes again!
Access to electricity is a major driver of educational attainment.

1. Access to lighting at night means students can actually do their homework.

2. Access to internet also boosts students attainment.

3. Having access to electricity means you are able to retain the best teachers as they won’t stay for long without all the mod cons.

We’re trying solve both problems at the same by teaching kids electronics by building a solar charge controller:

https://energymakers.academy/
> ...the business required a degree of enterprise sales that my skills weren't suited for.

10mins isn't enough time and their judgement is likely to be off (it is also mostly also down to the interviewee / founders to sell themselves in whatever time they have). I've heard this similar "no skill" story before from another start-up (which isn't doing as good... yet).

> It's now worth $350m (on paper at least).

YC's bar is $10b exits. I hope you get there!
You can be poor while easily meeting your energy needs. A classic example is remote rural areas where virtually all inhabitants own some plot of land. Even if they are poor they can feed their fireplace with some wood, for free.
Never pushing me to conform to their idea of what I should be.

Taught me how to be self-reliant.

Showed me the power of compound growth and moderation.
They're trading with these speakers...implying they're outsiders.
And the rumor continues.
"I've had it with them, I've had it with you, I've had it with ALL THIS - I want ROOM SERVICE! I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker!"
https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t
I think your description is a pretty accurate description of most of our users: they are struggling to write Python in a Jupyter Notebook, and can install some basic packages (albeit it with some struggles -- see our Discord install help channel). The ML code part, you're right, def more rare :)

Python code helps these users do a variety of tasks that aren't possible in other analytics tools like PowerQuery/M. Many of these tasks are specific to the company/existing infrastructures, as I mentioned above.

A super concrete example: the head of data strategy at a life-sciences company made the transition to Python primarily because the rest of his (2 person) team uses Python. They primarily communicate about new datasets using Mito generated code (e.g. here are the steps to clean this data) - but he's not great at Python - so in practice he uses Mito for 9/10 analyses he does to generate this code he sends to his colleagues!

Can give a few more if you'd like -- let me know!
I got a call from a recruiter some years ago to take over yahoo mail as a manager. In theory this would have been a huge step in career. I noped out of that hard. Did not want to oversee a declining product.
We do have the energy.

The US spends enough energy on transportation that the entire world could have refrigeration.

The US spends 28% of total energy consumption on transportation. 93.33 Quadrillion BTUs x .28 / 3142 (BTUs per kWh) / 365 (days per year) = 22.8B kWh per day.

BEV vehicles are 5x more efficient than ICE vehicles.

We could have the same standard of living and just not use gas-powered vehicles and save ~22.8B kWh per day.

If I'm doing my math right, that's more than enough energy for 3B households to have refrigeration.

The problem isn't that we don't have enough energy.

The problem is that most of the world is really poor.

In the simplest of terms - you can't get much cheaper energy at scale than $0.10 per kWh. A lot of households are living on $2 per day. They can maybe afford 5% for refrigeration - but a refrigerator only lasts 7 years or so and costs $200+. That's another $0.08 per day. That's pushing 10% for refrigeration. I don't think they can afford it.

And when you're that poor - you're probably not going to be able to get electricity reliably for $0.10 per kWh...

When you're that poor, $0.18 = close to half the calories you need for the day. I don't think you can just shift that to refrigeration. What are you going to refrigerate anyway?
Yes, unacceptable.

Would you agree that that it is also a conflict of interest if you are head of a scientific establishment in charge of making decisions that impact millions, and that the person responsible for judging the ethical dimensions of your actions, is your wife?

cough Fauci cough
Ah, live and learn. Fun to share here, but as another commenter pointed out I don't want to spend too much time on it or burn bridges.

They did great with Coinbase, but by and large missed crypto due to that attitude. Maybe they'll reflect on that now that Garry is back.
Only marginally related but sometimes useful for modeling database schemas, too:

https://schema.org/
Keanu Reeves just fits in such movies.
I worked at MS during the launch of outlook.com, got some good email addresses without numbers on it, and used them for years. This and other issues caused me to give up and change to a different provided within the last few months.

The Outlook teams are weird. They all have their own special feedback mechanisms that are different from the rest of Office, and they for the most part ignore them.

Earlier this year, for some reason the SMTP servers were changed from smtp.live.com to smtp.office365.com, breaking a number of my workflows and integration with other tools. This is meaningless pain that served no point - you could just point the DNS records for smtp.live.com to the exact same servers smtp.office365.com points to. Combined with other things Microsoft has done (breaking decades of links to MSDN blogs and support pages without providing redirects) I have no faith in the stability of the product in the future.

Their web view generally sucks. It doesn't play nicely with the back button - selections are lost, search results are bypassed. It gets randomly stuck where it won't load or will load the wrong CSS for hours at a time on multiple of my machines.

The Android and iOS apps have largely not changed since they used to be Accompli. I can't name a new feature in the last decade.

Why, in the left nav bar, is there an icon with an envelope and a plus button that is "connect a GMail account"? That icon suggests "write a new mail", which is a function I would do quite often. I never want to connect a GMail account - much less have it take up a dedicated button that's always present in the UI.

Outlook on Android has its section buttons (mail, calendar, etc.) on the bottom. Mail for Windows has them on the bottom. Outlook 2016 and 2019 have them in the lower left. Outlook.com for many years had them in the lower left (if vertical). At some point they've moved to the upper-left, which is inconsistent with every other Microsoft-provided way that I check my mail and a regular source of frustration when I throw my mouse and eyes to the lower left corner and find nothing there.

I could go on and on (my favorite bug is that they removed the Send Feedback button that their docs refer to so I can't tell them any of this). I was an Outlook fan for several years, but I could have written most of this feedback in 2015 and nothing's changed; at this point I would encourage anyone still using it to just forward their mail to some other provider and be done with it.
They are records with user info, which are different from user records. Mostly likely just user activities.

Cabinet = jigui in Chinese. It looks like something for operation tracking. Just look at the table names.
If it wasnt clear in my reply, I agree with you.

But as an aside, don't let this site get to you too much. There's a lot of arguing for sport that goes on here.
> The author is saying we should do all those things, that they need done, that the total amount of energy humanity uses should grow not shrink

Well...yea.

It's unbelievably naive how some believe humanity should somehow start using _less_ energy. If they actually got their way, we would see a recession/depression that would be the most painful of our lifetime.

We should be focused on raising the standard of living for ALL people. We can work towards that goal by generating as much energy as possible with the caveat of doing so intelligently and responsibly.
Once you have a DOI (from crossref or otherwise) you can get a legal download link simply by putting 'https://doi.org/' in front of it (though it will often go to a summary/login page rather than the PDF) and a SciHub PDF link by prepending 'https://sci-hub.ru/'. Or am I missing something?
Not probably, certainly. Way more people die from cold than from heat, it’s not even close. There is no dispute the data is very clear here.
Adobe really wanted it to be used for serious stuff. There was AIR, a Flash desktop runtime. They started integrating
Flash into their tools, I recall a few Illustrator palettes that would make my computer’s fans come on just by opening them because they would make the Flash runtime wake up and start busy-waiting for input on them.

They had the same vision for it that Sun had for Java, with the same flaws that would become apparent when that vision was finally manifested in Electron: write once, run anywhere, and be hideously inefficient compared to native code.
I am amused by the optimism of these responses. Nobody is concerned that if we end up with cheap nuclear fusion that humanity won’t use a lot more of it? Would humans stop building resorts in deserts?
It’s exactly the same thing: penalizing people in the name of religion. There are no examples in the other direction, ie penalizing people in the name of atheism.
I'm agitating against vaccination? Give me a break. My unvaccinated brother in law almost died from covid.

consider nuance, bud.
Also, a large portion of crops go on to feed animals. There’s no way in hell they’re not aligned. Meat production is inextricably linked to agriculture.
Yes and you only need two dishes of it to get a chicken breast's worth.
I've looked into this a little bit and as far as actual surveillance cameras I could not find anything with a decent sized battery or solar panel for continuous video.

In my case a middle of the road compromise was to use solar+battery game hunting cameras, sometimes referred to as trail cameras. They can use both lithium non rechargeable batteries and have a built in rechargeable battery connecting to a small solar panel. They are configurable to do short videos of movement and/or pictures and work in low light. That met my needs. Some of them have bluetooth/wifi for monitoring from a short distance but I have never tried using that feature.

If you look for these on Amazon, use care. Some of the sellers are paying people for 5 star reviews.
Russia Privately Warns of Deep and Prolonged Economic Damage
The friction of getting started with Mito is something we spend a lot of time focusing on. For example, when it comes to the installation process, not only do users install Mito through a CLI, but because JupyterLab 2, JupyterLab 3, and Jupyter notebooks all support extensions in different ways, there are different installation commands that users need to run to get it working for their specific environment. Initially, we just gave users instructions in our docs about which commands to install for which environment. Now we've built a completely new Python package, the mitoinstaller package, that handles the entire installation process. It downloads Jupyter if they don't have it, detects which version of Jupyter they have installed, runs the installation commands for their JupyterLab version and Jupyter notebooks, and finally starts up the Jupyter server with a tutorial notebook. In the success case, users run two commands and then 2 minutes later have already imported data into their first Mito spreadsheet.

That initial friction reduction is important to our target users, who I would describe in two buckets:

1. Target open source adopters. These users are beginner to intermediate Python users that want to / need to write Python for data analysis. Most of the open source users that adopt Mito are already on their Python journey -- we're not teaching them what Python is or what a notebook is in the vast majority of cases. Many of them have gone through Kaggle courses, taken a couple data science classes at school, or are particularly enginuitive. For those beginner users, and even for people like me who have written pandas code for a few years, some things are just much easier to do in a spreadsheet interface, like creating a pivot table or graph (two of our most popular features)

2. Decision makers at large enterprises responsible for moving their company from Excel to Python. Much like us, these decision makers think a ton about the friction of getting employees started with Python. In most cases, they set up JupyterHub (https://jupyter.org/hub) so users don't need to go through any installation processes themselves, and they control things like version controlling, turning notebooks into reports, etc. They generally also offer/require Python training courses, provide template notebooks, and have data scientists available to help the business end users when they get stuck.
Agreed! Would be nice to reverse the tide on that stuff though. C'est la vie.
Bloody hell. Well I'm glad you're okay.
I can't help thinking of the 'Milton Friedman' quote

'If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand'

expanded out to the giant unelected global bureaucracies some people would appear to want to give permission to run energy supplies.
I was curious and looked it up - Nobel prizes cannot be retracted.
> Spotify also puts me in a really bad mood when they decide certain content is no longer permitted for playback.

As far as I know, this is rarely Spotify's choice; usually this is done by an artist, or more commonly their distributor, intentionally pulling their music from platforms.
Yes, something like that
This map shows the average annual low temperature (in zones divided by 10 degrees F). It's designed for plants but should give you a good idea of where it reaches freezing temperature (like, all of Florida until you get to Palm Bay or Tampa but only on the coast, for example; and all of Texas except the tip by Brownsville, and the coast by Corpus Christi). https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/
A lot of scientific communication reads very stilted. Keep in mind those are subject matter experts, not authors of prose or user manuals. Writing doesn't necessarily come easy to them and they might be inexperienced and insecure in it. Unlike many software engineers, researchers (at least in academia) rarely have access to a department of tech writers.
There's so much regulatory burden that it's not worth it. The point of VC is to get funding other than debt without taking on the burden of offering a public security. That comes with a bunch of caveats, like raising at a discount, only offering to accredited investors, etc.

What you're talking about would probably be illegal in the United States unless you restricted it in certain ways.
bikes honestly should follow pedestrians, a bike is not a car and the person who will be the most amount of injured will be the person on the bike over the person of the car. so maybe have both car and bike be able to see each other in bike lanes, and keep the sidewalks to the cars. there really should be an initiative to expand the shoulders in rural america. lost of places in america are not even walking friendly. america decided to be different and make cars the main focus which is killing us (toxic gas fumes everywhere)
50M+ ARR is insane! Congratulations on the exit, btw.
That is not Europe's energy problem today. Their current problem is that a significant amount of their energy infrastructure relies on continuous imports; but a major exported has decided to stop selling to them for reasons that have nothing to do with technology. This dynamic has been a defining feature of geopolitics for the past half century or so. Whenever you hear talk about "energy independence" you are hearing talk about mitigating a problem that is almost exclusive to fossil fuels.
That circuit uses CMOS gates, which is good to keep current draw minimal since it's battery powered, but their high input impedance make them sensitive to static discharges and other electrical noises that in digital appliances are everywhere. There would be some risk of of false positives.

If I had to implement such a protection, I would use a switch in series with a micro step relay that uses a couple of NC contacts in series with its coil so it disconnects itself as soon as it's activated, preventing further activations. This way the power requirement to keep its state is zero. Step relays can be really compact; I've used in the past one whose coil was rated only 2V and it was as large and just a bit taller than a 8 pin DIL integrated circuit.
There are also step relays containing two different coils, one for activation and one for deactivation, so a single momentary switch in series with the coil can effectively work as non resettable indicator.
I think what the Republicans want is to strip power from the Federal government to prevent it from acting as a check against the Supreme Court, and the ability of Southern states to pass extremist laws in the wake of its recent decisions. That or an Amendment banning abortion and gay marriage altogether, but I don't think that's likely to pass muster.
That's not the case? The big issue in europe is that electricity is expensive, not unreliable. With more renewables the current price spikes in fossil energy wouldn't hurt so much (or, admittedly, more local production capability of fossil energy).
I’ve long thought an easy solution to this would be to block sending to a mailing list over a certain size (say 1k, but may depend on context) to only admins of that list.