skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Putting solar panels on roofs doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Per kWh, rooftop domestic PV costs can be u[p]to 10 times more expensive on a levelized cost basis

Yeah an idea I've had kicking around for a bit: if my roof is a good place for solar, it should make some kind of sense to lease it out to someone else who owns the panels and their output. I've never heard of anyone making that arrangement. There are people near me who own property with no water rights who are able to lease that land out to solar utilities.

I'm not against solar and I do think that we need to have every available square inch of the world making energy if we're to survive the next century. I'm just saying that the current incentives kind of don't support it.
I do too.. and have similar opinions. I wrote my own tool years back for pipelines because it was always frustrating (started roughly around the same time as Nextflow).

Allowing for files to be marked as transient (temp) and re-running from arbitrary time points are definitely one of the things I support... as is conditional logic within the pipeline for job definition and resource usage. For me though, one of the biggest things is that I like having composable pipelines, so each part of the larger workflow can be developed independently. They can interact with each other (DAG) and use existing dependencies, but they don't have to exist in the same document/script. I work on large WGS datasets, so 1000's of jobs per patient isn't uncommon.

Happy to talk more if you're interested.

https://github.com/compgen-io/cgpipe

And yes, you can dry run the entire thing. It will write out a bash script if you want to see exactly what is going to run without submitting jobs. It's a full language for pipelines, but heavily inspired by Makefiles (with conditional logic).
Alleged Superconductor LK-99 Might Need 'Doping' to Work
Hmm... The "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways"? Started around 1956.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_highway
By "we", The Verge really means "the rest of the media". They've generally done a good job of covering Musk and Twitter; Nilay and crew are smart people writing for an audience of people who know what's up.
Suddenly I need a pirate certificate in my life
This is a fluff piece. We've known for decades that the thymus is an important part of the immune system. It's not an organ that's been believed to be vestigial, like the appendix.

> For the study, Kooshesh mined data from 1,146 adult patients who had undergone thymus removal, alongside demographically matched control patients who had undergone similar surgeries but kept their thymus

Sure, you can demographically match all you want, but I don't think this is a research question that can be answered with a retrospective analysis. The problem is that you haven't controlled for why surgeons decided to remove the thymus in some cases and not in others. Was the disease more severe in patients who got thymectomies? Was it differences in training between the surgeons? Was it just an arbitrary decision on the part of the surgeons? This is a critical confounder regardless of whether you've matched the demographics. You really need a randomized control study to answer this sort of question.

> Although the risk of autoimmune disease did not differ substantially between the groups in the overall primary cohort (relative risk, 1.1; 95% CI, 0.8 to 1.4), a difference was found when patients with preoperative infection, cancer, or autoimmune disease were excluded from the analysis (12.3% vs. 7.9%; relative risk, 1.5; 95% CI, 1.02 to 2.2)

What? What is this? Was this subgroup analysis preregistered, or did they just go fishing when their primary hypothesis didn't pan out?

I'd categorize this study as mildly interesting, but not groundbreaking the way the press statement is selling it.
How you model the data at rest does not need to match the GraphQL specification. The GraphQL specification should be similar to your REST entities but they have traversable edges to other entities.
Do you not consider that China retaliating by arresting arbitrary civilians from a totally different country and ransoming them back for their criminal executive is wrong?
Article doesn't indicate how close this measurement is to any specific theoretical value, and, therefore, doesn't hint at whether this experiment is expected to actually challenge a standing Standard Model calculation.

I suspect that's because

> ... a new experimental measurement of the data that feeds into the prediction and a new calculation based on a different theoretical approach — lattice gauge theory — are in tension with the 2020 calculation

> Scientists of the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative aim to have a new, improved prediction available in the next couple of years that considers both theoretical approaches.

Sounds like the theorists are lagging behind.
Dewpoint and relative humidity are huge factors in how temperature is felt. 110F in Arizona might still feel more comfortable than 90F in eastern regions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_meridian_west

>In the United States, this meridian roughly marks the boundary between the semi-arid climate in the west and the humid continental and humid subtropical climates in the east and is used as shorthand to refer to that arid-humid boundary.
https://archive.is/BR8Tq
Citation please. Literally nothing you wrote is correct in the United States.
Totally understandable. I used up2date, too.

It's pretty subtle. Ubuntu packages, maybe not all DEBs, like to prompt for input on how to proceed with new configs.

For servers at scale with varying packages, levels, and requirements - this gets painful. Some config hackery can help, but creates a bit of a circular problem.

RPM systems (by default) will trust the administrator. They don't prompt, and provide the new config file as a reference - without messing with what's already been deployed.

Apt also likes to get hamstrung on previous transactions. If they broke for the reason I just mentioned [or any other], installing new/completely unrelated things is blocked.

I can pretty much trust my RPM systems to do what they want/have been told... but not the DEB.

Granted, my experience with DEB has mostly been limited to Ubuntu - so it could be that/Canonical.
As someone on the other end of the spectrum, I have an awful memory, and don't remember most of my life aside from really wide, sweeping generalizations and maybe a couple hundred very specific memories. My way of existence is also very sad, and it makes me feel like I've not really lived.
> Ownership in the US is diffuse in comparison to the traditional Marxist scenarios, where you have someone like Andrew Carnegie who controls a business by virtue of owning it.

It's unclear why you even mentioned the US specifically. The so-called "modern corporation" and "the traditional Marxist scenario" are both US. Although Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland, he emigrated to the US at age 12, and Carnegie Steel was a US company.

> In a modern corporation, ownership is much more diffuse. A big blue chip like JP Morgan is mostly owned by people outside the top 1%.

This definitely makes a lot more sense than "Ownership of wealth in America is relatively diffuse. The top 1% owns only 32% of the wealth."

Of course, I'm just quibbling here. I don't disagree with your main point:

> Harvard and similar elite schools gatekeeps entry into this class of “non-owner managers who run everything.”
some people don't want to be studied or tested.
It's funny, this is exactly what I was wondering.
Kiwifarms arguably violates hurricane electric's acceptable use policy:
https://www.he.net/aup.html

For example, Kiwifarms sometimes may cross the line here:
>Harassment - use of Hurricane's network to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person is prohibited.

Kiwifarms frequently violates the latter part of this clause (and on occasion the former part):
>Advocacy of violence against a specific person or class of people is prohibited.

Advocacy for violence against transgender people as a whole is relatively common, and on occasion advocacy for violence against specific individuals is seen.
limiting ai seems stupid and just ripe for being a trap (inviting debate over exactly what was used). Instead it should prohibit impersonation/fake content no matter how its created. Content that isn't fake shouldn't be prohibited based on how its created, and the FEC might slam its face into constitutional problems if its overly prescriptive with mechanisms, since any of its rules on the speech of candidates ought to be subject to strict scrutiny.
Lineworkers: Keeping America's Lights On
VBin – A Simple Alternative to Pastebin
Yes...up to a point. And there's the similar/related issue of extreme drought. If the wells and pipes run dry, the local population density tends to plummet.
> What information does Applite track?

> None.

Absolutely love this part of the page---we need more software with this philosophy. Kudos.
Was it made of paper? :)
There's currently no oxygen left for a Netflix 2 to emerge. Netflix came out in a vacuum of streaming options and being the first to gain global adoption, everyone wanted their content on Netflix.
I don't think earth tubes are ideal for such direct plumbing into living spaces.

My understanding is that they tend to develop mold and stagnant moisture will pool in the underground portion. Imagine a hot and humid day, the humid air will condense on the cool walls while passing through the underground section of the tube. Do you really want that to be your fresh air duct?

But it seems like a useful mechanism for delivering ground-coupled outdoor air to an outdoor application, which could be a heat exchanger participating in regulating indoor temperatures.
I’ve cooked on both and prefer gas. For pots with curvature (woks), induction doesn’t work well. Induction is nice for boiling water/soups, but frying is better with gas. Gas is also more user friendly as a broiler in the oven for toasting than a slow to heat electric element.
You do have to provide novel input though, otherwise it's just a vending machine for motel art. Everybody is capable of generating the same generic crap by default, but if you're sufficiently creative in your prompt, it's no different than an artist having an assistant.

The real problem is the long tail. You found a unique form of expression? Your work gets trained on and you get cut out of your own agency.

I fully expect deliberately-bad art will become a thing, because it would be ruinous to datasets to be trained on, will stand out in a sea of KincaidDiffusions, and go generally unexamined by AI crawlers. Lomography was ahead of its time.
That's an incredibly stupid Turing test, and you know it.
PDF-spec is a ridiculous 'baku' [0]

[0] A Japanese creature with the head of an elephant, the ears of a rhinoceros, the legs of a tiger, the body of a bear, and the tail of a cow.
I agree. AI is a tool. A hammer. Those who do not wish to use the hammer and go on strike because the hammer workers are faster or better, will be left behind.
I see. I have no consolation to offer you. No amount of money or prestige will satisfy you. Someone will be wealthier than you no matter how much you acquire. And old money families look down at new money.

How is your social life? Do you consider most people around you beneath you?
It’s very much possible to keep your backend data model from leaking too much into your GraphQL schema, it’s just more work than for example using some kind of generator that creates a GraphQL schema from your database schema.

The harder thing in my experience is to make a GraphQL API that is performant across all edge cases and properly cost-limited. That takes an enormous amount of internal analytics infrastructure and work and is often not worth the effort.

And after all that effort, integrators don’t usually want to take the trouble to learn enough GraphQL to actually use the API.

I’ve come to the conclusion that GraphQL is a pretty good system for internal APIs for web and mobile, but a pretty poor one for public-facing APIs.
Temu is basically using the de minimis import rule to avoid import taxes. There's a longer report linked at the bottom of this page that goes into more detail: https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releas...
This would make sense if only it wasn't faster to run AES_GCM or some other AEAD, than whatever they did there.
Related: Palm Pilot helps run the IMAX projector

https://www.theverge.com/23801118/imax-movie-palm-pilot-oppe...
According to the Chrome Developers page on the Page Lifecycle API [1], and the MDN page [2], it seems `beforeunload` is still OK to use.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/page-lifecycle-api/#event-...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/befo...

Both sites emphasize that it should be used only minimally, to attach and remove an event listener as needed, i.e., when there are unsaved changes.

---

> ..On Firefox, the beforeunload event is not compatible with the back/forward cache (bfcache): that is, Firefox will not place pages in the bfcache if they have `beforeunload` listeners, and this is bad for performance.

> However, unlike the `unload` event, there is a legitimate use case for the `beforeunload` event: the scenario where the user has entered unsaved data that will be lost if the page is unloaded.

> It is recommended that developers listen for `beforeunload` only in this scenario, and only when they actually have unsaved changes, so as to minimize the effect on performance.
Cruft is left around from caches and old program data all the time. A clean install handles that, and lets me verify my configs are still good and think about way to change them. Clean installs also let me do full-drive SSD trims. I do OS reinstalls maybe 1-2 times a month unless I'm testing something, and can re-deploy my personalized set-up in less than an hour.

I'd rather nuke from orbit and rebuild than duct-tape holes :p If my system became unbootable for some reason, I'd fix it and ideally find out what happened, backup stuff, and reinstall. Best-case, everything is fine (although I'd change distros if it ever broke because of a clearly untested updated). Worst-case, the system becomes unbootable again because of the same issue and I can report it upstream with more confidence.
I have heard grok used tremendously more frequently in the past year or two and I find it annoying because they're using it as a replacement for the word "understand" for reasons I don't "grok"
1) They are actually quite cheap now, with incentives in multiple states you can get them for under 17k.
2) They have way lower cost of ownership. They are definitely not expensive. The model 3 is close to the same price as a Honda accord, which is anything but a luxury vehicle.
3) "His rockets are a folly for the super-wealthy." His rockets are now providing some of the most remote people on the planet with internet for the first time and opening up opportunities for learning and otherwise that were just unthinkable prior to this.
4) The rockets are saving tax payers an enormous amount of money that they were burning on far more expensive offerings from others.
5) The fact that the FDA has approved human trials should be evidence that they are moving forward.

You have an extremely pessimistic view towards virtually everything that Musk does, which is absolutely comical. I'd love to see what type of person you look up to. Stalin maybe?
this was discussed here in comment several times, and opposite opinion is that kotlin added enough creatives and opinionated constructs which make it more innovative and less simple.

I think the closest thing is if someone would create linter for java which would allow only essential structures and library API. Java has very good foundational core.
Combine the two and capture prize ships from horseback: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_Dutch_fleet_at_... ?
VBin was created by John Leider who is behind the popular Vuejs material design library Vuetify.js
> I'd be nervous owning property in a market like that.

A major reason for living in the HTX suburbs is to make the cost of the home so irrelevant that you don't worry much about the surrounding market conditions. If you are 100% WFH tech employee and your employer isn't a raging asshole, this is tantamount to turning on economic cheat codes.

When a home is so cheap to start with, you can start saving for the next step much sooner. Even if I lost half the value in this home, I would be fine. I'd be pissed, but it wouldn't dramatically alter the strategic path I have planned on.
Greatest live album of all time IMHO
Tell me about it: I'm a grown man and legit broke down into a sobbing fit after visiting the house I grew up in a few years ago and it was pretty much gone. Roof gone, siding gone, even the fir tree in front of the house is gone. I may not have had a stellar childhood but... That was my home for most of my life, you know? We knew it likely wouldn't last since we couldn't afford to take care of the house the way it needed when we lived there but that doesn't make it hurt any less.

The only house still left on my block in Brightmoor is my neighbor's house and his house looks like it's falling down, too. He's still living in it as well because all of us were just barely making it.

I wish I made FAANG money. After taking care of my own debts I wanted to buy our build as many houses for my block as I could and then just let people stay in them no matter how much it costed me ("a fool and his gold are easily separated" and whatnot). I know it's stupid but the one thing I always wanted growing up was just for someone- anyone- to come in and say "we can't treat people like this" and help without considering the business value of helping. So many people spend so much time thinking about how to help (rightfully so) that nobody ACTUALLY ends up helping.
I explicitly said that I don't mind calling it "art". I meant that things like "AI songwriting" should be given a different name than "songwriting" like "photography" has a different name than "painting", even though all of these things are considered "art". The name could be just "AI songwriting", or it could be some fancier name (like "photography" has a fancy name).

Giving it a different name would also imply that you shouldn't submit AI songs to a songwriting competition, much like you wouldn't submit a photograph to a painting competition, but you could have separate competitions for AI songs, and separate competitions that accept anything, and so on.
Yeah, but the money paid by that small fraction of the student body is colossal.

They're not numerous enough to change any GPA/SAT averages, but they likely pay many times more in tuition & donations than the rest of their class put together. That's why they're the main focus of these places, even if their numbers are small.
what is the legal name for "monopoly company requires ID and location to view common document" ?
Amazing findings! Really admire your effort here

Btw. If you're building a GraphQL API using TypeScript, you should take a look at garph (https://garph.dev) which helps you to create type-safe GraphQL APIs without code-gen
> Like Mercury, Dragon was designed and built with input and strict oversight from NASA, including a contingent permanently on-site with the contractor. NASA always had total visibility and the final say on everything.

I think that's not a contradiction to the Dragon being designed by a private company in a different, organizationally, way than Mercury was designed by a private company.
Yeah. If you actually take a step back and look at the trend from the HUD data, apartment vacancy rates have dropped down to about half of what they were during 2009, and homeowner vacancy rates are a third.

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/current/index.html

This is just a "gotcha" data trick to distract from the fact that we are dealing with real supply constraints.
We have a 10TB database we switched from Aurora to Postgres and it cut out bill by 80%. However, there are some differences in our schema such as now using native partitions so it's hard to tell how much $ is due to the switch and how much due to our table and query design.

We have a similar story with DynamoDB too.
there's an unsubstantiated rumor that Temu is a Chinese money laundering operation - burning a bunch of billions to legitimize a lot of other billions
Something about CORS and Origin header.
A US Congressman (from Texas, naturally) introduced a bill to grant letters of marque to be used against Russian oligarchs’ property early last year, just after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Alas, it did not pass. But letters of marque are still explicitly enumerated as a power granted in the US Constitution, and notably the United States was not one of the signatories to the 1856 treaty that mostly banned them.

And that treaty was the Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law, which came about at the end of a war for…Crimea.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6869
> I consider it selfish to the degree of evil to have children

(How) Do you communicate this consideration with people that made children recently?

I have the same feeling but humans have a strong paternal/maternal instinct (which is great), conversation suffers as a result.
How is OOM not a concern in case of C++, python?
Java’s List is much more ergonomic that arrays.

Also, I really don’t understand your last example - that’s literally available in java returning a List of lines. If you add a .stream().collect(joining(“\n”)), you get the whole string in one go.
Everything You Need to Know About GPTBot – OpenAI's New Web Crawler
You haven't really said anything for me to dismiss. It looks to me that the only assertion of fact that you've made is "Computers are built these days mainly to talk to other computers", which I didn't comment on at all. I will here, though -- that assertion is untrue by being overly broad. Many are built with that in mind, but many are not.

Everything else you've said is asking me for details about my opinion and stating that you disagree with my opinions. Which is totally fair, but I'm not sure what response you expect from me about that aside from "I disagree".

> you find it important to ape the "pro privacy" line, as that's what you see others do online.

Another personal attack.
It really boggles my mind though why these 'peasants' (not my word) keep voting for the Tories. They basically represent the top 1% which in a normal democracy is a non-starter to get a majority.

Britain now has a whole ruling class where even labour leaders have gone to rich private schools.

Ps: here in Holland it's not much better but I understand better why people vote for the party that doesn't actually represent their interests. With Britain I'm too far away to understand this.
Archive link for people outside of the US: https://archive.li/1gGb7

I wonder if they received the funding for replacing it?
doesn’t really apply to the court of public opinion

i strongly disagree with that. allowing public opinion to judge people without proof leads to mob rule. any rumor can destroy someones life. as a society we must not allow that to happen.

innocent until proven guilty should apply to every interaction we have with any human being. if there are suspicions it is ok to take precautions, and obviously those who are victims should be able to seek and get support even if they can't prove what happened. but any actions against the accused must not be irreversible until a verdict has been reached.

part of the reason this is necessary is because as a society we are not doing well with forgiveness especially in cases where someone has been wrongfully accused. to many times their life has been destroyed anyways.
I can assure you that the hosting costs alone make these very different animals. A gig of storage gets you 20 minutes of hi-def video or 200 songs. There are also a LOT more people who have to get paid in order to make a TV show vs an album.