skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me like this person is making a mountain out of a molehill. The functionality of the icons can be learned quickly and they look aesthetically better than text.

You can’t make an icon that is naturally unambiguous to everyone, everywhere.
We monitor your infrastructure (out of band, where possible) and let you know when things go wrong and how to fix it. When the fixing requires physical intervention, we guide you through that. Similarly for installations, where we teach you how to do them and you (or your employees or contractors) perform the physical installation. We'll help you more generally with the business as well, and share advice on how to effectively run an ISP.

Let us know if you speak with them--we're interested in having an existing ISP in the batch.
Data breakdown:
https://imgur.com/qdSltlM

Looks like a perfect normal distribution. Did not expect that, oddly enough.

Feel free to keep taking the quiz, and we'll see if the answer gets different over time (I will subtract data up to now from future data)
Didn't see anybody mention "miller" yet ... pipe/grep/cut/awk etc for CSV files, really rocks.
I deleted my twitter account a while ago but this is a new level of forgetting history. If I remember correctly Twitterrific/Iconfactory were the first folks to actually use the verb 'tweet', and absolutely provided the first iteration of the interface to twitter that we all expect today. It took acquiring Tweetie, which literally invented 'pull to refresh', before they had their own native app 3 years after Twitterrific had been released.

Twitter's success is directly attributable to a fantastic native app ecosystem on mobile platforms. If there's a lesson to be learned here, I guess it's "don't make apps for platforms you don't control because they'll drop you like it's hot the moment investors want an exit"...

As an aside, Tweetie/Twitter for iPad's column based interface was one of the absolute best interfaces I'd ever seen and used on a tablet, and one I have yet to see reimplemented in a use-friendly way to this day.
https://joinmastodon.org/
It's the protection plans from Walmart, the coverages when you buy a car, the countless times big purchases become gigantic impulse buys because you're made to feel you can't afford not to roll the dice. It's not all insurance, but this concept of insurance pervades so much of the economic world. It just sickens me.
How Netlify migrated to a fully multi-cloud infrastructure
So now they have a cache invalidation problem, right? When do they move power to the flywheel (friction expires the electrons) and when do they allow for cache misses to hit their connection with the power company?
reSolve – Build Reactive Apps with Functional JavaScript, CQRS & Event Sourcing
The English allow sports betting, don't they?
Generally mommy-blogs are sketchy (people pay or give free product for great reviews), and this is a literal mommy blog, but I read the whole thing and it seems pretty legit. She even reviewed the ozone cleaning device and revealed how much of a scam it was.

There’s really no recommendation for a specific brand except the norwex+lysol combo, which she wasn’t able to explain why it worked.
You're right, it's most likely our fault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=8PavA4rUypE
Fix Group Policy Error user and computer accounts are in the same forest
Net Neutrality has expired but remember it's on the senate floor this week to bring it back. If you are for net neutrality, contact your senator. (You can find their contact information in the upper left hand corner at https://senate.gov )

Despite that, I'm glad to see that you're doing this even if net neutrality does come back. I remember the days of Earthlink and Mindspring. Now the ISP companies have become "too big to fail" and I'd like to see alternatives.
Thats like saying you are helping people start a taxi business because they get confused when it comes to warranty options on buying their first car. If they don't have the fortitude to work out a transit contract, the ISP business might not be for them.

I think it would be better to frame your business as a franchise opportunity. At the end of the day it really sounds like your customers are a capital source.
Experts think they’ve finally solved the mystery of the MH370
This might happen more if the owner of man-pages entered the 21st century and took Github pull requests instead of maintaining a convoluted email patch mailing process [1].

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/patches.html
Some readers are asking what's the point since germs are everywhere? I was actually quite interested in this. As a practitioner of BJJ, a common rule among schools/dojos is to not allow you to train with dirty gis, and a lot recommend washing it as soon as possible after sessions. Staph is an ever-present (though not incredibly common) concern with all the sweat, rolling around, and close contact. A bit grossed out to read that washing doesn't do all too much to reduce germs and therefore chances of staph.
By 1944, this wasn't much of a risk. Even if you assume it was, it would be a violation of the Quebec Agreement that was signed in 1943. Violating that part of the agreement casts doubt over which other parts of the agreement that they would violate. The US post war strategy was always a concern, more so during what was an election year.

Great Britain's outrage is understandable.
I take the article to dispute the incel premise that a majority of women only have sex with a minority of men. My impression is that this asymmetry is crucial, because it underwrites the narrative that sexlessness is largely a problem for men and not women; and that women are in some sense blameworthy for this state of affairs. Maybe incels are right about there being a minimum threshold of attractiveness, but that only matters to their sense of aggrievement if the threshold is higher for men than for women.
As Elon Musk quipped, in a few years this thing will move so fast you’ll need a strobe to see it. It’s not subject to the human reaction time or mechanical constraints.
Definitely agree. Happy to see YC throw money at this to see what sticks.

Worst case scenario, the core gets gutted and replaced.
Wouldn't you expect to see some states to not comply then?

Interesting case law the above poster is referencing I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Dole

Notably one of the dissenting judges said this: "establishment of a minimum drinking age of 21 is not sufficiently related to interstate highway construction to justify so conditioning funds appropriated for that purpose."

It did however pass the supreme court at 7-2.
Scrum is like a failed communist state that equalizes by spreading poverty
>You also need uninterruptible power supply to maintain safety and control systems when grid power is unavailable since you've still gotten a huge spinning mass that you can't slow down without somewhere to send the energy (it's possible to use braking resistors, but it's another cost).

The braking resistors are however a much lower cost, which for this (infrequently used) application is mostly what matters.

It seems like spending >10x more on a contingency system just to save a few hundred kWh (costing a few tens of dollars) every few years seems suboptimal. Especially since those batteries could be in a daily cycling installation, so the opportunity cost (compared to using those batteries elsewhere) is very high.

Why buy X kWh of batteries to sit idle 24/7/364, plus X kWh of flywheel storage? Why not A) eliminate the flywheel, use the battery, and be done with it? Or B) use the braking resistor? It seems like either A or B should always be preferable to a "hybrid" given reasonable assumptions.

Favoring energy recapture over resistor heat dump seems like very suboptimal high-level design coming from a flywheel storage engineer, so what am I missing here?
To my lay reading, that law says "separation of gambling and state", akin to the First Amendment on religion. It doesn't ban gambling, it bans the states governments from getting involved in gambling. It seems that unregulated gambling is allowed (or would be, if not for other provisions that grandfathered the existing anti-gambling laws of every state?)

Either way, it looks pretty clearly unconstitutional, since it's making a "constitution-level" rule about how State governments operate.
Now I just want a God of War game with Steve as Kratos and John as Atreus.
The issue is that companies carrying the disease often grow and "prosper" while companies which do not get left in the dust.

I'm sure that happens sometimes, but I don't think it's been demonstrated - not do I think it's true - that companies prosper because they do this kind of stuff. In fact, I'd argue that it's actually self-defeating over a sufficiently long time-scale.

And this is where we, as a community of hackers, need to put energy into doing the "stuff" that makes that sort of behavior self-defeating. We need to be the ones figuring out more clever ways to decentralize things and use all this cool tech we've created to allow individuals greater autonomy, and more ability to proper without requiring the trappings of the big enterprise.

If Coase[1] was right[2], then the main reason "firms" exist is to reduce transaction costs. So the question becomes - how can we use tech to make reduce those same transaction costs, allowing smaller firms (down to the level of the individual, ideally) to proper just as well, without needing to build some byzantine, bureaucratic, behemoth?

The only way to solve this is regulation.

Regulation is just another disease, which is arguably a more dangerous variation of the first. Regulation leads to regulatory capture, franchise agreements, taxpayer subsidized firms that can out compete the unsubsidized ones, ginormous military/industrial contracts, the F-35 debacle, Navy destroyers running Windows, all manners of corruption and artificial monopolies, etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
IIRC a major part of cold reading is asking leading questions, building rapport, and generally relying on your mark to inadvertently leak information to you during this process.

Like, the "Q" prediction of a "liquidity event"? That's vague enough so as to be applicable to almost anything post-hoc. Dropping "clues", requiring audience participation and effort, claiming you see the truth but can't quite see the truth 100% clearly without the help of your mark? That's cold reading, man.

If I had to put money on a psyop though, it'd be an anti-Trump op, not a pro-Trump op. The Qanon Choose Your Own Adventure™ scam has tarpitted so many Trumpists into days and days of conspiratorial nonsense that their advocacy is ceasing to be effective.
Synthetic fibers haven't been around long from an evolutionary point of view. Are you sure they don't encourage a novel pattern of bacteria growth that could be harmful to some humans? Anecdotally, synthetic fibers are known to easily start smelling bad. I often clean things with synthetic microfiber cloths, and I occasionally wash them in diluted bleach, because I noticed they can start to smell bad if I don't.
Sessionization for bot and cluster detection
There are a ton of batteries used for this application already -- regenerative brakes combined with a small battery is a "mild hybrid".
Is the Right to Be Forgotten a Real Problem for Blockchain?
Except that the players are the ones who get screwed - see much of the controversy about the NCAA.
There is an interesting documentary about how Britain dealt with nuclear materials despite not having remote locations like the US. It may be "Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster", but I'm sorry if that's the wrong title.
Sure, they totally haven't been wrong on predicting a countless number of major events in the past and still have credibility to spare /s
“How my lame joke saw me fall foul of the campus zealots”
Nothing, assuming states pass laws legalizing sports wagering in which Draft Kings and the like operate.

The major problem I see is that while the current DK business model must be extremely profitable (just hosting contests that you don't have a stake in and taking a rake), running a sportsbook is an entirely different business. One that typically brings minimal profits and can sometimes bring enormous losses because now they are taking the action themselves. Sportsbooks are not typically profit centers for casinos but loss-leaders to bring in people to buy drinks and gamble on more profitable games.

I'm sure they must have been worried about this happening but probably will try and get out in front of it to become an online bookmaker. My own hot take is that this cannot be viewed as anything but a negative for them. I have to believe it would be very difficult to compete with huge casinos that can build their own platforms and bundle betting with their rewards programs. I also agree with the OP's assumption that most people currently using daily fantasy sites would much prefer to simply bet on games.
hg.mozilla.org architecture
Eminent physicist Sudarshan dead
It's still clearly bad law, a ruling that's more based in the power politics of Legistative vs Judiciary, and Federal vs State, than it is about logic of Constitutional analysis.
Yeah sure, just send me your full name, address, phone number, credit card info and picture of your driving license then I'll mail the dollars to you!
Wow, looks like the financialization of education is almost complete. That graph literally looks like a nightmare.
Favstar was useful back in the day when you didn't get notifications about favs, etc. Not so much anymore. I also used it to read the most liked tweets of certain users, but these greedy fucks want you to pay to read the top one (which you can bypass with Inspect Element) and to read more than the top 10 or so. So, good riddance.
This is why "discoverability" sucks. I've used Android for 9 years, and I'm aware of long-pressing but I didn't know it was a substitute for mouse-hovering. Is this standard? I thought it was a substitute for right click.
I thought it was common knowledge to sanitize your wash machine every month with a bleach load to kill germs and whatever. Sadly though, none of the coin laundry shops I go to do that. When I ask they are like, "it does 3 cycles, there are no germs". Then people throw dog beds encrusted with feces

"If you wash a load of just underwear, there will be about 100 million E. coli in the wash water, and they can be transmitted to the next load of laundry," Gerba said.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/washing-machines-load...

"Bacterial Exchange in Household Washing Machines"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4672060/
I think the main difference between that Newspeak example and them is that the Newspeak version has some intentional formulation in order to be simpler to pronounce whereas the 'incel' term seems like something that a 4channer would conjure while on a creative night filled with desolation, and then just picked up organically by those that would love to use it for shaming purposes first, maybe later in a self-parodizing way by the people it originally pertained to? Then somebody takes it way too seriously and the rest of us are left facepalming, wondering what has just happened?
New Findings Indicate Multiverse Would Support Life
You're in every thread about Twitter spamming Mastodon.
I wasn't saying I think the information is necessarily bad, just that it's sort of in the "grain of salt" category, as many sites along these lines are peddling all kinds of quackery.
Ask HN: What cities are or becoming health tech startup hubs?
I'll be going back to school this autumn to learn CS and will be looking to work in the health tech sector once I graduate. Which cities around the world are growing hubs for health tech startups?
It is, and there is actually a really neat passive and stable solution to this (circular Halbach array with compensation coils running from one side to the other).
Doubtful it was either. The fact that everyone washed their hands, the sick and immunologically compromised didn't prepare food or partake in regular group activities, and those working manual labor (ie- hands covered in bacteria) didn't handle the food was probably 80% of the reason for their longevity.

Hygiene, lower alcohol consumption, and the regular access to an extensive support system were probably the top 3 factors. Less uncertainty, less stress, fewer serious health/mental issues being ignored - all good things in the long run. I'd expect alcohol to be a major contributor to illness at the time (compromised immune system in an already filthy environment and less social pressure to drink in moderation), so the fact that they didn't drink in excess was probably pretty significant

The article mentions 'meat' three times per week, but then implies that eggs and fish were not considered 'meat', which leads me to think they also didn't consider poultry 'meat' either. No special spices or bizarre rituals, so their diet was probably very similar to the old food pyramid, and less so the new food plate thing. The wealthy saw a very minimal increase in lifespan, which was probably not caused by the addition of spices and honey but living in cleaner, less cramped, and more isolated living conditions.

The only thing surprising about the article was that how NOT special their diet was.
Verizon stealthily launched a startup offering $40-per-month unlimited plan
Does Gates and Ballmer seeking to screw Paul Allen out of his equity in Microsoft because Allen was distracted while in cancer treatment ring a bell?
Ripple (XRP) Network Stats
Would it be possible to self-host this without AWS services?
Hospitals as well. That's called 'ride through'.
I have a hard time buying the idea that if you are going to catch stomach flu, it will be from germs from "clean" laundry. Most germs just get washed away, and you can't completely eliminate germs elsewhere in the environment, so that seems like one of the least likely vectors.

Sorry, but this just seems like OCD disguised by a bit of science.
I agree we don't need to optimize for characters typed, and needing to memorize/lookup formatting directives is a time sink.

What I _do_ want to see optimized for is readability - and this often is related to more compact representations. This is not hard-and-fast, and there's tradeoffs in both directions. This tradeoff becomes more tricky as you need to express finer grained control over formatting.

Consider

%{year}-%{month}-%{date}
%{year-4-digit}-%{month-2-digit}-%{date-2-digit}
%YYYY-%MM-%DD

Or, outside the context of dates,

Computed %u records in %u seconds (%0.3f MB/s)
Computed %{unsigned int} records in %{unsigned int} seconds (%{float-precision-3} MB/s)
Computed %{correctlyProcessedRecordsCount} in %{totalProcessingTime as seconds} (%{processingRate as megabytes-per-second with 3 digits precision} MB/s)

I don't have a great solution here, I just want to point out that the verbose cases can also get ungainly. I think, if we try to optimize for "format strings read approximately like the text they output", that probably gets close to the best middle ground.
> My sister Christy has an older top loader (not HE). She washed this laundry on hot and added the 1/2 cup chlorine bleach directly to the wash water and it was very, very clean. She measured the temperature of her wash water when the tank filled up using her meat thermometer and it was 130 degrees F. She used Sam's club detergent. Her laundry was perfectly clean (to the limits of my detection abilities).

So, 130F is just under 60C - what's usually the minimum considered to kill bacteria. While I haven't measured the actual temperature, my aging, second hand washer have three "white" programs: "hot" is 90 C, and there are two rated 60C. I'd never assume any of the other programs had a sterilising effect.

If "hot" is just 60C, and often not that - I can see a need to use bleach for some loads (or other means of killing off bacteria) if the norm is to use warm (not hot) water for washing.

Would be interesting to see similar test with just water (no soap, bleach) and a 90C degree program.

I'd guess the results would be "dotted middleground" like many of the test here.

Also would be nice to see how hanging in the sun would effect otherwise clean clothes (airborne bacteria vs uv death ray stand-off - might be meaningless without checking for type of bacteria).
Fuck that. Emailing patches is a great way of collaboration. The time it'd take you to get your head out of the GitHub clouds and learn how to use email for patches (you even found a guide!) would be less than the amount of time the article author spent on both of their articles.
You just have to measure your interpupillary distance with an accurate ruler. It's very easy with either a mirror or a friend's help.
I live in St Louis, we have Centene, Express Scripts, Mercy and some Allscripts branches
Some people seem to think putting their clothes (especially denim) in the freezer will kill the bacteria that stinks. It doesn't, at least not for long.
> I always laugh when a recruiter reaches out looking for people and asking if I know of anyone. LOL! No, all the ones I know I currently work with, and I try not to know them past that.

I love how they get snippy when you tell them you don't know anyone. "Well! I guess EVERYONE you know already has a job!"
Yuck, I would never throw something poopy in the wash— hand scrub it at the laundry sink beforehand for sure.
Here's a brief outline of the requirements: https://plugins.qgis.org/ they advertise a 2 weeks review time maximum.
> Too bad you have terrible disk IO and problems when your code expects that it has a normal Posix filesystem and logs into the overlay system.

It depends I suppose.

I run Docker for Windows on a 4 year old computer with an SSD and those 50,000 line Rails apps have plenty of speed in development.

Rails picks up code changes in about 100ms. Basically it takes longer for me to move my eyes to my browser and hit reload than it does for a Dockerized Rails app to reload the code changes.

Flask, Phoenix and Node apps are similarly fast.

In production this is a non-issue because the code isn't mounted.
The article seems to miss UV/direct sunlight. Don’t leave strong colours like red out too long, but it nukes washing. I’ve had a search but can’t any decent measures of what sunlight does.
You can get perfectly fine, durable, non-dorky plastic frames for $10.
Is software developer fatigue a thing?
<emailed mods>, thanks tptacek.
Because someone submitted it to HN, and then the HN community found it interesting enough to vote it up.
Is Android One designed for low-end devices? I thought that was their certification for "The manufacturer hasn't fucked the OS up with customizations that make it take 6 months to ship software updates."
What is up with this bs... cant you guys read the content and decipher if the candidate is intervewable*. Whats up with american psycho business card routine

I have education , and job history ... im succinct with tech info and explain any management responsibilities. What does it matter if that is monospaced or in tex?