jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The high stresses of racing exhaust batteries within a few laps.

Formula E races run for 45 minutes plus 1 lap. They are street circuits though which helps the cars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUd-C2DJyk

> Perhaps some racing R&D will help solve this major EV issue.

Ultra-capacitors for fast in-race charging is a way forward. Nawa is trying to get their capacitors into Formula E:

https://newatlas.com/nawa-technologies-carbon-ultra-capacito...
> That's a stumbling block according to Mozilla's flawed logic

No, it doesn't have anything to do with Mozilla or NoSQL. The basis of internet standards is and has always been to have multiple compatible independent implementations. Things that don't manage to rise to that bar don't and shouldn't become internet standards, because the point of standardizing the spec is to permit compatible independent reimplementations.

Nothing is stopping WebKit from continuing to offer SQLite to JavaScript (whether in the form of WebSQL or in some improved form that supports async I/O). Except that they apparently don't want to, because they don't want to be responsible for it.
That's too bad. I liked Netflix's UI better on the Wii than on any other platform I've used it on.
> These are highly questionable under GDPR

How many fines has GDPR resulted in?
It seems like that is starting to happen with California's new data privacy law. I'm starting to get a lot of privacy policy update emails like I did when GDPR took effect.
Nature's 'Scientific Reports' journal does indeed have a different editorial priority than other journals. The peer reviewers are instructed to evaluate scientific validity, not their own idea of importance. This is seen as advantageous by many scientists, who perhaps want to avoid getting stuck in the dice-roll crapshoot of peer review politics.

It seems like an incorrect mischaracterization to say they are all fatally flawed throwaway papers, no?

It's a commonly used journal, and a reasonable impact factor of 4. It's not like this is a predatory journal or a complete bullshit journal.

Do you have more information on why you don't like SR?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Reports
It's not cursive Yiddish
i did not know micro blogs that had actual information in them existed.
i thought microblogs are like tweet style.
i agree that there is a difference but the Cambridge Analytica scandal told a different story regarding how much your data is safe within Facebook
I'm interested in learning more about the ISO 8601 format issue. Can I read more about that anywhere?
kinda: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/hp88jb/is_there_any_ap...
May I ask you what municipality or general district?
There are a few lessons here:

1. Use IAM roles. AWS keys should only have access to the specific functionality they need. Best practice is to never use your root credentials for anything; always use IAM users and use unique keys for each use case, so that you can invalidate and replace them easily. Every time documentation or a tutorial asks you to insert AWS keys, your response should be "let me go create a role for that" rather than "let me go look those up".

2. More importantly, if you ever accidentally publish or leak credentials, don't try to clean it up by deleting those commits. Invalidate the credentials immediately and re-issue them.

3. Always, always `git diff HEAD` before committing. Know what you're about to push up. This isn't just a security concern - the number of small, stupid things you'll catch that you'd otherwise end up fixing 15 seconds later is substantial. As a bonus, this incentivizes you to keep your commits small and atomic.

You might talk to Amazon directly - they've been known to forgive debts like these in these kinds of circumstances.
The 1:1 comparison is, as your parent points out, ultimatly irrelevant because the reality is not 1:1. So I'm not worried about the 1:1 comparison.
Also, if you ever accidentally leak your keys... CHANGE THEM!
I don't think he got the retina MacBook. I got the retina macbook and have never had heat issues or noise issues, the fans are super quiet. That said, I'm on my second battery-upper shell combo, and my third screen-hinge combo, so take it for what it's worth.
What's easier for one person to do if they believe sea-level rise threatens their life?

1. Coordinate global action among 200+ countries to immedietely end the use of carbon emissive activities

2. Rent a u-haul and sign an apartment lease in a couple hundreds miles away
It is said ML languages are good for compilers. I would say more broadly that they are perfect for anything symbolic.
Lot of talk, not a lot of action. I avoid people who talk big and don't execute.

Just do whatever it is you want to do, stop talking about it.
I'm mainly writing essays, but didn't want the specificity of that to limit the possible responses I get.

But re what I want to get out of it, that is a great question. Took it for granted, but I can now see that figuring that out would change a lot.

Thanks!
> leads to identity issues and confusion

I was going to agree with you, but what do you define as identity here? Aren't people really a collection of hundreds of thousands of various spirits they have encountered and chosen to imitate? Most primarily their parents/siblings and beyond that spirits from friendships, books, religious study, movies/TV, music, etc. All of these are mini alter egos and shape an overall dynamic.

At the core one could argue there's that baseline "chooser" identity which is fairly set in stone and has predisposed traits based on some initial nature/nurture settings.
Wow, no more 6-3 — that seems more significant!

I chuckled at “6-2 (old)”. The 6-2 label was recycled some time in the last 25 years (since I graduated, at least). It was previously (until sometime in the 1960s I believe) power transmission systems.
Can you elaborate on how easy it is? I’m ignorant about the space, but global coordination (agreeing to reduce carbon emission) of any kind seems quite challenging.
I played around with VRML in college.

My biggest learning was how loading/rendering times impact overall user experience.

My second biggest learning was in how quickly a new tech can completely vanish and take all your work with it.
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I'd say the Nexus 6 has much better definition than the iPhone6, but I think I prefer the warmer colours of the iPhone.

The only photo that seems strange is the last group (Santa against the wall), where it seems the Nexus 6 has less definition. You can't see the texture of the plaster, vs the iPhone, where the texture is quite noticeable.
An interesting thought experiment is to consider how differently this would be perceived if they branded this as something like "remote disable" rather than using the politically charged term "kill switch."

I suspect a lot of the dissenters would disappear.
Sounds like the Administration/ Pentagon wants some sort of "SpaceX is good" certification, which is pretty much counter to everything military procurement is designed to do. The process is designed to be resistant to outside political pressure. In this case it is bad, as SpaceX most likely has the technological ability to compete with incumbents. But I think we could all easily imagine opposite cases where caving to political pressure is bad.

Of course the system isn't perfect, and politics still plays a major in role in program funding. But it could be worse.
I just posted more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844833

But no, just speculation.
The one I worked in (in Scotland) did.
2 big problems: "relavent to a crime" is a very low standard.
"if(num_cypher_bytes<100000)// or num_bytes"

If num_bytes << num_cypher_bytes (and even more if we know the key length) then the encryption leaks information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_cipher Otherwise this is a stream cipher and it is really secure but it's inconvenient :)

But it is a good starting point for anybody who's interested in crypto.
This is very useful - thanks! I've got a project that I could use this in - so I'll be spending this week getting familiar with this codebase .. see you on github!
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I have a M.Sc. (CompSci) with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction. I enjoy data visualization (e.g. d3.js), have worked in Medical Imaging and 3D/CGI. But server-side code, databases, and algorithms also excite me. I'm good at understanding complex problems and working with people to turn them into manageable solutions. I'm running a profitable web startup but I'm always looking for something exciting to work on. So I'm available as a freelancer, part-time.

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Two things. First, you have a live key set up on this page, which seems like it's problematic if you're not actually providing anything. This should be a test key.

Second, I can manipulate how much I'm paying by changing the HTML. I understand that this is a very simple backend but it's also very open to manipulation. You should, at the very least, add some sort of param signing.
> especially XORing strings and calling that "almost perfect encryption".

If the key size is at least as large as the plaintext AND the key is truly random then it actually is a perfect encryption, because every single bit in the output is going to be random. It is called 'one time pad' -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
Is there good reason to think that optimizing resumes will help with the job searching process?

I've heard that many resume screens are automated these days, which has led to my hearing stories of people trying to game this by cramming keywords in invisible font and other things like that.

Can anyone with experience in recruiting shed some light on this matter?
I always noticed that when I used the brita filters I would get stomach aches. This explains why perhaps
I expect the bigger legal pushback would be the other way around. I definitely heard some grumbling early in the pandemic when some still saw office closures as an over-reaction. The complaint was that companies were making a unilateral change to the working conditions agreed-upon when they were hired.
I'm thinking post-covid, with the glut of vacant spaces in the coming quarters, there will be many commercial real estate companies offering "flexible office space with short notice and minimal commitment". It quite probably will become one of the standard contracts in the "new normal".
In my experience all the common helm charts and docker images are regularly updated. If you don't update your installation of them then you also wouldn't update a docker compose or LXD.
I used to run quite a bit but my knees can't take it anymore, biking (so far) is fine. Based on family history, there's probably knee surgery in my future, but for now I'm fine with biking.
The topic at hand - the subject at the top - is unionization and Amazon. Your reply seems to forget this with a focus on me. And we're talking about how wokism (I know what I'm doing, what is that supposed to mean?) is embraced by corporations. Several commenters said that the woke stuff is compatible with capitalism, and I supported that view by contrasting the historical (anti-corporate) worker's movement with the current, very recent pro-corporate woke movement. The point is this - companies like Amazon want us to worry about race and gender quotas because that's an easier way to appear to be ethical than the other criticisms we can throw at them.

I don't know why I am responding, but I'll continue with another one, Nike. Nike has for decades been the subject of human rights criticisms of their factories abroad. That's bad PR. So they went woke by taking public stands on racial stuff within the U.S. That's good PR.

You can say I know what I'm doing (which is arguably a personal attack implying nefarious motives). But you don't seem to understand the point, not at all!

Please, please do a little reading on the labor movement and don't put woke in scare quotes like it is not a thing. A local politician here has a pin, Stay Woke. It's a real term.
Good point. It took me years to learn software well enough to be able to understand, fix, and anticipate those kinds of issues. Even now that I write software professionally it still happens at a more technical level (for example, I’ve been tripped up by esoteric aspects of how networking in data centers works).

Modern computer systems are just very very complicated which makes teaching them challenging: nobody, even very very good programmers, knows how all software works from top to bottom. So being productive writing software requires a self-starting, deductive approach to solving problems, which is much harder to teach than basic syntax.
Actually he claims they used to be ghost cities: "Below are five new cities in China that have advanced through the ghost city phase and have come to life."
I'm a fan of this - elegant and simple way to make markdown more accessible to those who would otherwise shy away from it's learning curve
Ok, I understand who you are, but it's not fair saying the problems was on OrientDB product: we have a lot of clients running in production without such problems.

You used experimental parts like ETL (was still in development) and you guys were aware of this. Furthermore your roadmap was completely unreal, specially managing a new technology that nobody in your company was skilled on. If I was the CTO of your company I'd hire somebody skilled on OrientDB if this would become the foundation of my infrastructure. And you guys didn't model a Graph, but just kept the old model trying hard to let it working with OrientDB.

Last but not least, you never paid the renewal and in order to help you we provided support for FREE for 2 months. Sorry, but the main problem there wasn't the product, but the person that worked on this migration.

Maybe you lost your job because you wasn't able to do this migration, but please don't put mud on OrientDB.
Life is not [just/only] full of joys, but of obligations, troubles, and pain. Those who enjoy life are doubtless scared of losing it - it's foolish to assume that everyone does though. Nor can such a position be swept away as illness or irrationality. It is neither.

If someone gave me a way out right now that caused nobody for whom I care any pain, I'd take it. If I am honest I reckon I'd probably wonder about "what's next" for a good few minutes before saying yes...
kickpay amazes me: is it available outside the US?
Maybe the others are credible, but SAMHSA is staffed entirely with consumer/survivor-movement flunkies who believe psychiatrists are the enemy and consistently ignore the input from medical professionals on their advisory board. If they're right about a program, it's a stopped-clock-twice-a-day kind of right.
Agreed. It would be highly inappropriate to introduce a TV news story about a fatal crash with "Happy Monday!" and that's not because wishing people a good day is invasive. It's just not appropriate for that story.
Good news? Thhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat's grrRRRREATTT!!!
I am not an astrophysicist, but I suggest that you, as an astrophysicist, use a mathematics engine that is a bit more robust. Might I suggest Wolfram Alpha:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=171%21
How about 6 balloons then?
I remember an interview (will try to find a source) where they told an anecdotal story about Petrov.

Some years after the incident, Petrov told he believed that the system at his station was showing a false alarm and wanted to wait for a confirmation from other stations. He is cited with not wanting to sting a bee-hive.

After being introduced the information present at the other stations (most if not all were seeing the same false-alarm) he told the interviewer that if he would have had this "information" at the time of the incident he'd probably decided otherwise.
For the speculative future sake of humanity, if you ever work on the GUI for one of those things, make sure it has an elevation indicator.

More than 1m below the detector, show a downward-pointing triangle. More than 1m above it, show an upward-pointing triangle. Within 1m, show a square. Change the relative size of the icon according to the size of the moving object. Add telltale lines extending from the center of the icon in a contrast color to show direction of motion and speed.

I realize that the shortcomings of the device UI were critical to the dramatic tension, but whenever I see that scene in Aliens, I can't help but sympathetically think about the poor military-industrial-complex gadget developer who wasn't even allowed to think about the user experience, because the requirements were determined by someone who would likely never use it, and cast in concrete long before anyone was hired to implement them.

And the thing that really kills me is that the person who created those requirements probably based them on a device seen in a sci-fi movie. This is why it is so important for film directors to employ technical consultants whenever they include gadgets and computer monitors. Anything seen on the big screen will have an ongoing and possibly unintended future influence on design.
He's saying that as new data arrives, it has to adjust both ways, not only toward the correct answer.

(If that wasn't the case, you could just figure out which was the only direction it would move and then stop collecting data. You've already got your answer)
I was thinking the same thing. I've built manys a website in pretty much every front-end language imaginable and I would struggle to answer many of these. Yet I feel little shame in saying that I believe myself to be a very competent programmer. What is the significance of having memorized a bunch of arbitrary terms? If you don't know what the difference is between <script> and <script defer> that doesn't mean you aren't a competent developer. It means you've never needed to know that to this point to successfully build a web app to meet a business need. If I'm hiring somebody I'm much more interested in whether they can actually build shit in a smart way when asked to do so, and with minimal guidance. We live in an age with ample internet access and a plethora of on-demand information resources. Why must we pretend that we don't?

As Colonel Frank Slade says in Scent of a Woman when asked by his nephew why he always gets his job title wrong- "Because it's not important for me to get it right."
Exactly. I still use plastic even when btc is an option. Credit cards are simply better for the consumer (instantaneous transaction, chargeback/dispute and points)
Can you make changes in the underlying OS image, and those changes are directly visible in the application images, without restarting said applications?
I think it's Symbian, series 30+.
"I don't really get what your problem is?"

It isn't my problem, it is Parallels problem, and the problem of their customers. Though, it becomes my problem when our customers come to us for help due to Parallels failure.

You say it is working as designed, I say that design is broken. Those are not mutually exclusive assertions.

"You can't really blame OpenVZ if the users or sysadmins are unaware that the container has hard limits and that you're able to see if you've run into them using /proc/user_beancounters."

It is not the "hard" limit that is the problem...it is the "soft limit" which is arbitrary and can be unallocate-able, with the user having no way to know that it will be unallocate-able until it causes a service to exit. So-called "burst" RAM in VZ containers would better be called Schrödinger's RAM, and it has no place in a server.

Further, it doesn't even seem to exclusively be a problem of "burst" RAM. We've had support requests show up on systems that had, say, 1 GB of "guaranteed" RAM and 2 GB of "burst" RAM, but still behave as though it has significantly less than 1 GB of allocate-able RAM. I've addressed that in my comment above, but I didn't give an example. Perhaps this is more clear?

Regardless, the behavior of VZ containers even when they are working as designed is so user-hostile that I just can't recommend it. Our products support OpenVZ containers, because we had a number of customers tied to the platform from before their were better alternatives, but I've never been fond of them.

If it works for you, and you don't share your system with anyone else, go ahead and do what makes you happy. But, from my perspective, as someone supporting probably more web hosting server users than anyone else I know (except maybe some friends who work at large hosting providers and a friend who works at our largest direct competitor), I know that VZ containers cause a lot of confusion.
The new Nokia model numbers keep getting smaller, along with the shrinking feature set and capabilities. They really are aiming for the low end/budget demographic. Although I wonder if the subsidies will help or hurt sales in the low end though. Its got the retro Nokia look which probably helps sales. Since it has only 8MB of RAM, it's no surprise that Microsoft didn't put WinPhone on it.
For start, that would significantly increase the barrier to registration and almost certainly put a lot of potential customers off.
1) 2G does not provide much in the way of usable Internet these days 2) Many countries are working to actively decommission their 2G networks - which is a good thing because the sooner they do this the bands can be re-used for LTE
why no whatsapp?
Timely read
Sitting in front of a fire can feel cosy, but being set on fire is generally unwelcome.

Unfortunately Earth's climate is one of those complex systems where a single temperature in a single location at a specific time doesn't give much information about how desirable conditions will be for humanity generally in future years.
Okay, but saying there should be more tax incentives for childcare is different to saying you should be able to deduct all your workers' payroll taxes (which could equally apply to someone in a mansion whose staff includes a cook, a butler, and a pilot who flies them to Bora Bora every year).

You actually can deduct some childcare costs with a Dependent Care Flexible Savings Account. It's only up to 5k a year though which is lower than the cost of even the cheapest daycares in many areas.