skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rule of thumb in game making is you can /either/ make and awesome game /or/ an awesome game engine... Unless you're John Carmack.

Likewise, in music you can either make cool music or make cool instruments.
> You are free to run your own website

I am, but that doesn’t solve the problem with Twitter manipulating our elections, does it?
Googling shows gains of 25-35%. Dual tracking adds another 5-10%. I can really see how just placing more of these simple flat ones would be more economical than a complicated racking and tracking system.

https://news.energysage.com/solar-trackers-everything-need-k...
I think it's important to know what crazy ideas your elected representatives try to push forward, no matter how unlikely they are to actually pass. It helps you identify the crazies.
It's all about the cosine of the angle between the panel's normal and the direction toward the sun. If that angle is 0, the cosine is 1 and you get maximum efficiency.

The error angle has to increase to 60 degrees before the cosine decreases to 0.5. Meaning you can tolerate a lot of slop before you lose half your output.

Trackers were a big deal when PV panels were 10x or 20x more expensive than they are now. Back then every bit of added efficiency was worthwhile. Not so much now.

Edit: It's more complicated than this: You have to compute two cosines (azimuth and elevation) and average over both days and seasons, but the basic point is still true.
In this modern age we should be able to offer something like "micro-stocks" to customers. Like a "our product isn't there all the way there, but you use us because you believe in us so we promise that if we are successful we'll pay back the people that believed in us".

Even if the fractions are so small that it only amounts to cents, early supporters now have every incentive to tell ALL their friends about it and root for you however they can

As a customer you also get the piece of mind that later price changes won't be unfair to you. You know that you were somehow compensated for your early commitments. In fact you even stand to benefit from all the new customers price drops could be bringing in
The Legal System Is Completely Unprepared for Apple AirTag Stalking
A GPU-accelerated computing library for physics simulations
Run a proper high-load high-availability architecture instead. You'd need it anyways and it will turn out cheaper in the end.
Should the gov't do this? No. Should many parents restrict what their kids from social media, yes.

Yes I realize has no chance of passing. But lots of social media is toxic for adults maybe more so for kids.
Signal requires all contributors to license their work to the company [1]

So they are able to offer Twitter a non-APGL license. Usually for a sizeable fee.

[1] https://signal.org/cla/
Trust, but verify: introducing user verification – Jitsi
Every other line of the IM transcript would be grammatically incorrect in any English-speaking country I’m aware of.

“All hotel and booking has been made and trips has been plnanned”

“Is this how you want to be difficult”

“I will send you later”

Where is any of that considered correct English? If my manager sent any of those message I’d be worried about a stroke.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33923685.

Also, proposed bills rarely go anywhere, especially when they're this sensational. Because of that, they aren't really on topic for HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I really miss Atom. I'll enumerate some items here, since you asked, but all of them really just boil down to personal preference:

* Atom was hackable from the ground-up. I use a VS Code extension called Customize UI that allows me to write custom CSS, but Atom supported custom CSS as a first-class feature.

* Nostalgia: Atom was the first text editor I used, and so it has a certain friendliness than other editors can't match.

* Atom One Dark and Atom One Light are the best pair of dark and light code themes I've ever used. I use ports of these themes in other editors, but you can't beat them in their original context.

* I don't love VS Code's whole design language (straight-thin lines and sharp angles, except for some corners, which are curved). But that's probably very much tinged by my other points.

* Atom, of course, matched VS Code on language support and plugin support at one point. You could find extensions for just about any language. (Something that wasn't ever true for Sublime or Textmate, for example.)

* Being truly open source (I would describe VS Code as more open-core).

* Not being the most popular editor. I love supporting the underdog in my software choices as a way of encouraging innovation and variety in the ecosystem. So if Microsoft makes VS Code so good that no editor can complete with it, I would use VS Code (VSCodium), but I would not be happy about it.

All that said; Atom's dead. Since the Microsoft acquisition, development has stalled. Atom's gotten increasingly buggy and many many packages were abandoned. As I understand it, there are architectural issues that make it very difficult to fork or maintain. Atom is upstream of Electron (not downstream of it), for example, since Electron was originally extracted from Atom's code, so that makes integrating Electron updates difficult. CoffeeScript (which a lot of Atom is written in) never really caught on. You have a bunch of existing packages, but as mentioned, most of them are unmaintained, so you'd have to rewrite them and it's not clear which ones. Tree-sitter was originally developed for use with Atom, but after most popular programming languages had packages, and they never got rewritten with tree-sitter.

I've been following Lapce. I think they're doing interesting work. Right now the editor is too buggy for me to consider as a daily driver. I've been using Emacs for the past couple of weeks. It exceeds Atom's hackability, but there are still a lot of rough edges in the UI, for someone used to GUI editors.

I didn't mean to write this much. Atom is obviously something that I care about and that I've been thinking about ever since the acquisition.

TL;DR: Some people don't like VS Code, as a personal preference, and other options for GUI text editors are good.
Great job figuring out it was a scam but honestly, it’s crazy that these things still work on anyone all the way in 2022. You would think that by now every human being that walks the earth would know that whenever someone you don’t know sends you “money” and then requests you send it back (or to another party) in a different form, it’s always a scam. There should be some ceremony whenever someone turns 16 or something, where you just get taught this and that’s the end of this scam. Insane that people still fall for this!

Same for the gift card scams. No legit business or government on earth in any industry asks for gift cards as payment! This is like an absolute ironclad fact of the universe. But so many people still fall for it!
Writing and publishing a 16K character guide in 3 days with the help of ChatGPT
We pay for stuff by check all the time; as a Canadian business with vendors in the US, it tends to be the most convenient and inexpensive way to make payments of significant size. Our bank in the US has a feature where it will mail a check to anyone in the US from your account, free of charge (aside from the funds being sent, obviously). Certainly seems bizarre that sending a physical piece of paper through the mail is free whereas moving some bits around is expensive, but that's how it is!
Clojure Web Apps 101
Supreme Court takes Coinbase appeal over crypto lawsuits
Singapore branches out into Internet of Trees
Does it void insurance? AFAIK as long as you have correct rated tires its legal.
I don't know, I've had a couple of bosses who were native English speakers and they would dash off emails so fast obviously without reading them that it took me multiple reads to parse what they might be trying to say. If it were just punctuation or spelling errors I would have been happy.

I suspect they wrote to their bosses much more carefully.

But something as sketchy as this setup would have my antenna twitching anyway, so these kinds of mistakes would probably be red flags given that context, otherwise maybe not
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: There are STILL lots of real UX issues with touchscreens.

- Answer the phone without looking at it

- Start sending a text message without looking at it

- BLIND PEOPLE

Etc, real concerns do exist.
> The somewhat read flag is "kindly" (likely Indian?) with "Marc" (likely not Indian) but it's common for people with a name that's difficult for Americans to understand/spell to use an Americanized name.

This is usually a Chinese thing, though. Indian people tend to just use their own names. Even then, a Chinese person would incorporate some of their name e.g. Mark Li.

I’m not blaming OP here, of course. As he said, he was tired and it takes real bravery to put your hand up and say “I was nearly scammed!”
Openness for me. Stable diffusion runs on a machine that sits 5 feet away from me and delivers good quality results in under 3 seconds per image. I don't have to shy away from politically (or otherwise) questionable prompts, or in the case of business applications, potentially leaking sensitive data, because I know that they aren't being recorded forever on a remote server somewhere. I can also tinker with the code, which has helped me add a bunch of features that really synergize with my workflow.

As others have noted, getting good results from SD is very much a numbers and parameters game. I've witnessed first hand how some people get frustrated easily and quit tinkering because their initial approaches don't work right away. Prompt and parameter engineering really is a skill that you have to grow, and it makes a world of difference. img2img is also much finickier than text2img.
Related:

The Remains of the US Airmail Beacon System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24961102 - Nov 2020 (14 comments)
10 years is long, so yes.

But looking at the last 2 years - hardly written any cheques (checks).

But I do receive checks. From mortgage refinancing company, from escrow, from FSA/HSA (probably could get it electronic, but I have failed twice to get this set up, and now I do not even bother), and recently some ROTH conversions since the company refused to do bank transfers any more so they make me receive and deposit checks.
But tilted panels will collect from a larger area than the ground area they occupy (collecting from the area of the shadow they cast)
Russia invaded Ukraine twice (once in 2014, once this year), Chechnya twice (1994 and 1999), and Georgia once (in 2008).
I'm not grokking this. You're saying that you see other people's blogs and they look nice. Why edit the theme? Just use the theme you like.

Basically every modern blog engine or CMS has a theme directory, either 1st party by the developers or run by the community.
The whole "Manifest V3" (what an opaque name --- again, likely a deliberate choice) push was ostensibly about privacy and security, but they're just excuses to further Google's control.
False.

"Do you track the check"
"I will send you later"
"A IT director Lead from the company..."
"...by purchasing the home office equipments..."
"Immediately the funds are available, you will be directed..."

That's not even mentioning the smorgasbord of run-on sentences, weird capitalizations, etc. Yes, there's a lot of non American English. But it's presented as coming from an American given that the job listing is all US and that name is an American (or at least Anglo) name.
I've received refund cheques from big companies. I assume they expect some not to get cashed since they were happy to take my earlier payments online.
We have nothing but deep respect for Japan and the Japanese language. However, HN is an English-language site, so posts here need to be in English. (It's hard enough to get people to read the articles, even when they are.) I suppose the thing to do is to wait until this story is reported in English somewhere, and then post that. I'm sorry!
No problem thanks for checking us out!
I have monetized ~50 of my unused domains via a tool I created called Newsy

https://www.newsy.co

All the domains I've purchased over the years, I haven't had time to develop them, but also didn't like the traditional parking pages. Newsy generates a content-aggregation site for given set of keywords related to your domains. It's automated and you can add your own ads.
Using ChatGPT to write Stable Diffusion prompts
According to that page, Duolingo classes is "going away" on January 18.
Sadly, my daughter got scammed earlier this year. She is a recent college grad from a liberal arts school, and had been working six months doing retail work after graduation.

Looking to make use of her degree, she was excited to get a job offer doing remote work as an office coordinator. She has a dog so working from home was a plus, and $25/hr instead of $16/hr doing retail was a big raise.

She not only lost $3000 from the scam check, she also lost her old job, having given two weeks notice and didn't realize it was a scam until she was gone. The thing that pained her the most was the shame of having been scammed.

Although some red flags were there, her main blind spot was the disbelief that scammers would go to so much effort to (a) set up an entire website for the fake company, (b) were willing to spend hours in the fake interview, and (c) having her do two weeks of "training" courses while they waited for the laptop and other things she bought made it it cross country into their hands.
Saying that you're cool isn't cool.
Yo-Yo Relationship Patterns
Microsoft is ending support for Authenticator on WatchOS
"In the upcoming Authenticator release in January 2023 for iOS, there will be no companion app for watchOS due to it being incompatible with Authenticator security features. This means you won't be able to install or use Authenticator on Apple Watch. We therefore recommend that you delete Authenticator from your Apple Watch."
They've already lobbied plenty of web developers into making sites Chrome-only. It certainly shows how powerful their propaganda is.
More plastic to potentially leech out into the drink? I don't know. I'm not a chemist.
But if only a thin layer is needed it probably doesn't ablate much.

Also, less plastic used means less plastic that has to be disposed of somehow.
I want to try VSCodium so much but the fact they use self signed certs leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I know it’s probably a whole lot of nothing, but if I install it on my work computer and something happens because of it I would be in a massive pickle.
FDA Authorizes Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccines for Children Down to 6 Months of Age
Very interesting.

Even with the lights having to just trust that you will spot the next light sometime soon and wait for it to appear seems like a nightmare.

Reminds me of the Brazilian flight that among a series of errors decided to follow a river to their destination, but it wasn’t the river they thought it was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_254
ADP May have been HACKED
I am still not 100% certain about what's going on, but this is the second pay period in a row where my Routing# and Account# have been updated on ADP's website without my consent. Luckily I caught it the first time, and basically just made it out to be a temporary glitch. Now I know something fishy is going on now that it's been the second pay period in a row where my direct deposit info has been updated to the SAME ACCOUNT as last time.

This is the (alleged) hacker's account info where my most recent paycheck was deposited today:

Bank of America
Routing#: 121000358
Account#: 325026596833
We can never know how many people Covid killed in America, because the rubric in the US is to count as a Covid "death" any death where the deceased tested positive for covid. In that group might be someone who would have not died had they not had Covid, but it also includes many people who would have died regardless of Covid positivity.

It is also to count as a Covid hospitalization, anyone hospitalized who tests positive for Covid in the hospital.

In both cases, all we can say is that somewhere between none and all of them are actually in that condition because of Covid.
I wonder how many people who think that everyone would be better if they worked half the hours were laughing at Elon Musk for laying off what he though was deadweight and having to rehire them.
Hey I went to that conference, met you, met Devine, drank choco wine. Highlight of my year!
Why is that not sold as a specific bird droppings cleaning product yet?
By an hour or two, maybe. But since the last version of the OS? No.
Buses Shouldn't Be Free
PDF, although it can resemble PostScript, is not PostScript. PostScript is a Forth-derived Turing-complete programming language that, in an era of generic printer drivers, offers little benefit anymore since it’s unlikely that an OS printer interface would take advantage of its capabilities. In the old days of programs managing printer output directly, it was handy to be able to do things like decompress TeX PK font bitmaps on the printer (or even more dramatically to send binary data for illustrations to be decoded and decompressed on the printer), but the set of printer primitives that are supported by OS printer APIs is constrained enough that nobody will do these sorts of things anymore. PDF is now essentially the lingua Franca of print interfaces and the programmability of PostScript is more a liability than a benefit.
What a very appealing tale. Perhaps because it doesn't involve tech, much of which is so sterile by comparison. Or perhaps to me because I had related interests in my youth - I did a lot of wildlife & macro photography, spent countless hours out on cold nights etc. I kind of let go of it for very accidental reasons, so your story has a kind of stochastic butterfly wing flavor to me. I ended up the opposite way - late 50's, poorer than ever, without $$ and on the verge of homelessness. But I take genuine vicarious pleasure in your trajectory.

> I’m probably just a lucky fool.

Lucky, probably. Fool, less likely. But in any case, "luck" falls where it will, and better to a photographer of bats and voles than a fintech spiv or arms dealer or .. many other things.
No, but it has been distilled. The energy needed for that has an associated cost. I wonder what of the waste liquid was in the source to begin with? If you remove pure water from water with impurities you'll be left with concentrated impurities.
AT&T "Long Distance", 1941 [1] From short distance to long distance.

AT&T "The Far Sound", 1961 [2] From tubes to ... magnetic bubbles? This one shows the microwave network.

[1] https://archive.org/details/long_distance

[2] https://archive.org/details/44084thefarsoundvwr
deleto
Yeah. In the US some companies are able to do direct debits via the ACH system. That's how Venmo works under the hood for checking accounts.
In Defence of Recipes
Can't tell from their website but I really hope they're not using per-panel "solar inverters" at all. The whole ground-touching array should be DC with no electronics whatsoever (except maybe for diodes, and with no significant shadows they might not even need those).

Any inverters present should be large, few, and in their own weatherproof housings above the ground.

I think per-panel inverters are a stupid idea, especially for large utility-scale installations. Sorry if I misinterpreted your comment and you meant something else.
Any molecule that can fool your tastebuds, can also fool some of the other receptors in your body that will then respond similarly than they would when encountering sucrose/fructose. Probably not all, but probably some. The insulin response seems like a good candidate and studies have shown people gain weight on diet sodas kind of the same as they do on sugared-sodas, so it is not out of the question that artificial sweeteners are not benign.
I've had a similar experience with Spanish. But I learned another language, Mandarin, in a more formal way, so I alread had experience throwing myself out there and immersing without fear for years. That experience made it much easier to try speaking broken Spanish without hesitation when I finally had the opportunity. In other words, if you already know how to learn languages, Duolingo is a great way to build grammar, vocab, and pronunciation for when you do get a chance to practice, but may not be great for first timers.

If I was younger and without a family I'd still consider in-person courses full time instead though.
I sold my last side gig when it got too busy. Land clearing and forestry with heavy equipment- the last year we grossed 250k and 50% profit. Sold the company for 1x annual profit plus assets.
Now I mine Bitcoin. Have iterated through a lot of the challenges mid-size miners face. I’m going to build an online course for others who want to build mining operations at my scale.
"I want to see what this nonce has on his hard drive!"

The guy is notorious for blackmail, trafficking, and CP. I don't think you really want to see what's on his hard drive
If you actually watch the debate, you can see the audience shift from their initial position to their final one. I don't buy your premise that the outcome is predetermined based on the political bias you've implied with your comments.
IANAL, but the mail fraud laws in the US includes interstate delivery via private carriers, so if they catch the scammers it's still a felony. It seems likely that USPIS wouldn't be involved though.
I'm not a biologist but that doesn't sound that complex for a science paper. Your average CS paper would have a similar level of complexity (if not worse)
Frat House for Jesus
I was a long time duo user (1000+ day streak) learning german. I wanted to be able to read german (books etc) rather than being able to converse in german. The streak system and the gold->diamond tier system kept me going but after a while I realized I had plateaued and I felt like I was forgetting more than I was learning.

Then I realized, I had got to the point where I was good at answering what duo wanted to get the daily requirements rather than learning.

One day I just stopped and let it go
Honestly, this isn’t surprising. Typically external process change struggles to take root because the person isn’t there long enough to really understand the team, the problems, the culture, etc.

I don’t think this is the consultant’s fault, either. Usually the company doesn’t want to pay the money or time to do this.
Someone needs to invite a malicious homeserver to the group.

So what’s the scenario here? You have an encrypted group chat with so many members that some rando nefarious user can slip in? And then the big deal is that the E2E breaks down, so the home server that they probably own can read the messages that they are already reading?
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