skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We added two levels of abstractions for this purpose:

- A Stream iterates over a channel

- A Channel implements: `channel.send` and `channel.__aiter__`.

- A topic is a "named" channel backed by a Kafka topic

- Further the topic is backed by a Transport

- Transport is very Kafka specific

To implement support for AMQP the idea is you only need to implement a custom channel.

If you open an issue we can consider how to best implement it.
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The jump between the 53th and 54th rips is very suspicious! Didn't you look more into it to try and explain it?
The latter, if it was the former they'd be out of business by now.
I feel worried reading this post, because it doesn't seem like you have separated impulsive emotional responses from objectivity, and when I see engineers have this behavior, I believe it masks our ability to asses technology well. For example mixing view logic with view templates, both in the view concern, (and the concept of a DSL), follow computer science principles of domain/concern separation, vs separation of technologies like ("html" and "js", which isn't even fully accurate for JSX), is not a computer science principle, and has no benefit when separated.
Production of COCO PEAT
Steele was shopping it around to media outlets extensively before the election, and Mother Jones reported on it on October 31, 2016:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gav...
One big reason for shutdown rules with home PV systems is to keep firefighters safe. If your house is on fire, the firefighters really don't want to be contending with high voltage electricity as well.
While it would seem convenient to simply switch operating systems from the popular, widespread options to...whatever i3wm is, practically speaking that is seldom possible.
That’s a pure waste of equipment. A maximum power point tracker can simply move away from the maximum power point to reduce production. Essentially every solar installation has an MPPT. The only insteresting bit is figuring out when and how much power to avoid producing, and it’s exactly the same problem as figuring out when to dump power into a dump load.

A case where a dump load is important is small scale hydroelectric power. If you try to draw less than full power from the turbine, the turbine will start spinning faster and faster. So you can use (slow and complicated) valves or mechanical brakes, or you can use a dump load.

An interesting case I don’t fully understand is how an off-grid (islanded) SolarEdge system handles a full battery. If I understand correctly, the SolarEdge modules independently track the maximum power point and produce an output voltage of P/I where I is the current drawn by the inverter. So, if the inverter draws less current, the string voltage will increase and the same power will be produced. I think SolarEdge targets 450V for the string, so, even if the modules have a maximum output voltage, there’s not a lot of head room before the string hits 600V and risks exceeding the wire insulation rating. My guess is that the inverter will turn the array off entirely when the battery is too full. Or perhaps the modules have a smallish current limit, and the inverter can reduce its effective input impedance if it needs to curtail production.
One increases social connection, and the other doesn't.
At least in Texas raising property taxes as such isn't the answer. Rather capping the amount a single owner/organization can claim in ag/etc exemptions, while making it easier for small 20 acre farms to claim the exemption. Right now what you have is the richest land owners paying the lowest rates, while owners of tiny suburban/rural lots get murdered.

For example, I give you a few pieces of the 6d ranch, located on some of the most prime real-estate in Austin Tx.

(Lot 4, 260 acres, $307 in taxes)
http://propaccess.traviscad.org/clientdb/Property.aspx?cid=1...

(Lot 2, 155 acres, $278 in taxes)
http://propaccess.traviscad.org/clientdb/Property.aspx?cid=1...

(Lot 1, ~120 acres + ~7000 sqft cottage, boat dock larger than my house, and a bunch of other stuff, $69,556 in taxes)
http://propaccess.traviscad.org/clientdb/Property.aspx?cid=1...

The $70 thousand a year in taxes seems like a lot, unless you consider that I live a few miles away and pay ~15k a year for less than .1 acre and live in a house that isn't even as nice as the boat dock on that property.

(if you google it a bit you can probably figure out who owns it, but good luck untwisting the layers of shell corps listed on the tax appraisal)
Rethinking the MacOS Font Picker
The fiction part is being able to notch the bar sufficiently precise to store any significant amount of data.
"TVs are big and bulky and have something like an 8 year replacement cycle."

Exactly. TVs are basically furniture.
yeah paste it into your plain text editor first and then do a code review and then save it to a jump drive and spin up the old backup computer that’s been wiped clean and then open up a sandboxed vm and then remove the wifi chip and then run it
that already happens, county judges and sheriffs.
This will come in handy. Thanks!
https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/public-policy-discuss...

" On average, each cash-using household pays $149 to card-using households and each card-using household receives $1,133 from cash users every year. Because credit card spending and rewards are positively correlated with household income, the payment instrument transfer also induces a regressive transfer from low-income to high-income households in general."
Unless you undersize your solar so it can never put out more power than your house uses, you need something to absorb or dissipate excess energy - either a battery and/or a STATCOM or similar device.
NPR text?
Your comment says "flying on a jet in the USA". The Asiana accident was on a jet, and was in the USA, regardless of if it was a US based airline or not.

Regarding turboprops, your comment seems to be dismissive of those accidents as if they were not as important or relevant, which I disagree with.
I3wm is a window manager you can run on any Linux distribution
> And that difference only exists to support the single player vs multiplayer dynamic

Maybe the single player vs multiplayer difference only exists to support the different tail mechanics.
Out of curiosity, what are your reasons for not using a generator?
Merchants do discriminate against card types. Some merchants will take Visa debit and not any other visa cards. Some will charge extra like Venmo and Verizon if you use anything but a Visa Debit. Some subscription merchants won't let you use non-reloadable prepaid card especially if they offer a low amount trial and its also against the merchant agreement to charge a non-reloadable prepaid card with the recurring flag which subscription merchants set to get better success rate on auths.
You're kidding about people preferring the human, right? If I have a choice between what is know is a professionally maintained fleet vehicle owned and operated by Google, or a chance of riding in some guy's f'ed up Toyota with bald tires, no windshield wipers, and one working headlight, at the same price, I know which one I'm going to choose.
First, it's a hunch so there is nothing to support its veracity. But Assange has never been caught without a backup plan and he'd be stupid to put all of his cards on the table.
That makes zero business sense and will never happen

Depends on the business model, doesn't it?
C++ is alive and well at all those companies, yet the bar chart shows zero. This immediately makes the rest of this “data” suspect.
Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order Against Making 3-D Guns
No, that’s absolutely false. It may be common among the upper class, but it is also common among larger families, strongly religious communities and many immigrant cultures, all of which are definitely not upper class signifiers.
Ask HN: Mbed or Zephyr in commercial projects?
Not a licensing question, but a developer experience question. Any pros and cons to call out ? Contributions process, commercial support, if any ?
Backfeeding isn't really a problem practically unless you're (dangerously) hacking a system together yourself without knowing what you're doing. Any inverter/charger designed to work in this kind of system either has a transfer switch built in, or interfaces to an external one that stops backfeeding when the grid is down.
Don't fall for that crap. That's the profit after their much-higher, per-item profit came in, they spent it on all kinds of stuff, and then reported the lower numbers publicly. The actual markup on non-sales items at these big retailers can easily be double or more of the cost. It varies product by product. The corporate offices of each waste tons of money on all kinds of non-production people and fancy projects. They might also do payouts like dividends. The resulting pennies on a dollar of profit in final report echo'd endlessly is basically a PR ploy to benefit them in various ways.

They do want to decrease any costs they have, though. The credit cards charging a percentage of revenue instead of retailers' profits or card companies' transaction costs + reasonable profit is ridiculous. Companies like Walmart and Kroger would love to cut that difference out. Given Kroger's growth and low-profit strategy, my initial guess is that blocking Visa would probably be a dumb move on their part. We'll see.
Thank you for the write-up. I stand corrected.
There’s no actual price charts, is there? Just the current price? What markets are you using to source the information from?
I’m sorry, we’re going to shadowban your account for excessive dad jokes ;)
If this were true we wouldn’t need entrepreneurs
Can you run recent versions of Photoshop? How about Premiere, or Final Cut?

SolidWorks? CATIA? Matlab?
Sounds about as friendly as the time I drove the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks, Alaska on a whim towards the Arctic Circle. Many times along the journey I was terrified that my 1996 Eagle Talon would get stuck in the gigantic mud ruts dug out by the maniac truckers that gleefully thundered by (apparently oblivious to the not-quite-cliffs only feet away).

I live in Texas now, which feels relatively tiny because you'll always find some sort of civilization (i.e. potable water) right around the corner. Granted, growing up in Alaska, my definition of "right around the corner" is probably a little different from those who were raised in the Lower 48.
My company sells dev tools to software companies. Whenever I have talked to a startup about their tech stack and they reveal they’re on .NET, I later find out that none of the founders are technical, and they’ve outsourced development to Eastern Europe or India.

This is not to say that a startup founded by technical people couldn’t be successful using .NET; I just haven’t seen it.
Huh. When you look at the graphics which concentrate all the urbanized land on the northeast coast, it looks like our total urban area is close to the size of Mega-City One. Cool.
It’s the licensing. It’s always been the licensing. The cost is untenable for startups (and yes I’m aware of the various bizspark and developer offerings). Those special deals are awesome in the beginning but they have nasty teeth when you’re two years in and you’ve just started to get traction and out of the blue you need to pony up for sql server or windows licenses.
I never got the why Asian Americans are so adamant about exclaiming the superiority of authentic Asian food. We get it: American Chinese food is not the same.
Fluid dynamicist who works in sprays here. No offense to the researchers, but the journalist seem to be overselling the research. I hear things like "we still know very little about how mist itself works", even in the field, but I don't think this is true at all. Actually, we know quite a lot.

Sprays generated by liquid sheets are fairly well studied, though I'm not an expert in the subject. I work in sprays generated by circular jets, not sheets. For circular jets, it's been known since the 1920s or 1930s that that they still break up in vacuum, contrary to some theories, but not all. This is somewhat similar to the phenomena mentioned in the article, and I'm not surprised by it. I'm skeptical of any particular study of this variety impacting all types of sprays. One of the researchers cited many different applications at the end of the article. But there are many different mechanisms, and their research only addresses one of them. So the overall impact is going to be limited by that.

Overall, good contribution, and I've added the paper to my reading list. But the hype isn't helping.
How sure are you that the more aggressive development program will lead to faster adoption? If you're talking about a hypothetical program where we are discussing adjusting the acceptable risk level like a slider on an RTS game, then fine, but in practice it might not be like that.

In the real world a more aggressive program might be that way not because someone carefully dialed in the optimum risk, but because of the psychology and attitude of its executives and the same factors might lead to slipshod engineering, ultimately slowing down progress

Additionally, bad press from the resultant fatalities could create a political backlash.

I don't know if this is actually the case, but Waymo comes across as one of the more careful and responsible programs and they seem to have the best engineering and have made the most progress. We don't need 'move fast and break things' in this field. I'd argue we probably don't need it in some other fields as well, but that's a different discussion.
Wait, if you want people on the lower end of the economic scale to own land, why would you want to punish them with higher property taxes?
Yeah. But I found it didn’t make sense to me, my muscle memory is for my pinky to reach up. Hitting a flat surface was less weird than hitting caps lock.
I want to get out more, it's just not the right time for me. In the future.
Here's the cuneiform scans if you're interested:

https://cdli.ucla.edu/?q=news/machine-assisted-translation-c...
No, the terms do not say that you can't sell or provide your app for free anywhere else. They say that you can't link to other distribution methods on the Microsoft app listing page. It would be similar to compare it to a product being sold on Amazon that says go to our website and get it for 10% discount. I'm sure Amazon won't allow that.
Gross margins are around 20%. Net margins are 1-2%.
Thanks!

Absolutely, there are McD's in Morocco, and again in South Africa. It's the 35,000 miles in the middle where there are none :)
"New Mexico essentially banned civil asset forfeiture in 2015, but Albuquerque argued the state law didn't apply to its own city codes and continued to seize cars."

How the fuck is a city able to just decide to ignore state laws? I don't understand...

The officials in charge at the city level and in the police department need to see some jail time for breaking the very laws they are sworn to uphold.
looks loke the api would really shine if coded with c++ constructors and destructors. maybe rvalue ref would help too.
In 2004 it was trivial to get a New In Box IBM Model M keyboards in the US from online shops. It's fascinating to me how designer keyboards became a niche hobby of its own, despite having little-to-no empirical testing on comfort or speed, in ~10 years. Back then my Model M was a weird curiosity, now it's a prize.
For the sake of those of us that will likely never be in that part of the world would you like to say what the specific volume was?
In 2008, I looked at where the market was going and decided to tie my horse to Microsoft, .Net and enterprise development. It’s been a good ride, but it’s clear that JS is eating the world. I’m slowly moving over more toward JS and Linux. I am taking a brief detour to Python and AWS though.

I’m not touching Ruby. There are jobs for it but they don’t pay well.
Weyerhaeuser owns something in the neighborhood of 12 million acres of timberland in the US, though I don't know what their largest contiguous parcel is. They are probably the largest private landowner in the US (corporate, not individual).
> Would a generator be able to supplant the grid?

Yes.

Our neighbor across the street depends on a respirator. We live in a rural Bay area location that has grid dropouts several times a year. Some last a few seconds, some more than a day.

His setup: A transfer switch operates ~ 3 seconds after grid failure, followed ~ 2 seconds later by autostart of a propane generator. His house stays on generator power until the grid comes back up for at least 5 continuous minutes. Then the transfer switch flips back to the grid and the generator shuts off.

Why propane? Because gasoline slowly degrades (polymerization) and needs to be drained, disposed of, and replaced with new (typically every year or so). Propane doesn't degrade over time.
This is basically the approach Amazon and Starbucks have taken. Every $25 card reload via the Starbucks app probably adds up to a lot of money in saved transaction fees.
Common stock dividends are not deducted from profit/profit margin in corporate accounting.
A bootstrapper's tips to other bootstrappers
SQL Server/Windows Licenses costs shouldn't really be a problem if you've factor them into your business plan and expenses. The businesses that get into trouble are the ones that naively assume software is free.
Facebook without active moderation would rapidly become unusable under all the spam and nudity.
The fact of the matter is that, broadly speaking, basic programming is a suite of cognitive processes that pretty much all come online at the same, reasonably above-average IQ, and they are irreducibly complex; they cannot be further simplified except by rote execution of formal process, at which point you should just let the computer handle it.
That headline is still a literal statement of fact even if that triggers the emotional reaction which inspired you to donate your PR skills pro bono. The article clearly explained that these were claims made in a lawsuit brought by former employees and anyone who passed a civics class knows that someone can claim anything but you should wait to see what’s upheld in court.
Homework questions from the article (feel free to offer corrections):

Q: Estimate how much it would cost to run this for a day (pick a price for electricity in dollars per kilowatt * hr).

Usage: 3.39 million Watts

Cost of electricity in Australia: $0.25 per kWh

Cost per hour: $847.50

Q: If the water fell with no air resistance, how fast would it be traveling when it hit the ground?

Height: 108 metres

Gravity 9.8m^2 m/s

velocity = sqrt(2 * gravity * distance) = sqrt(2 * 9.8 * 108) = 46 m/s

Q: Suppose you want to make this waterfall be human powered. How many humans would need to pump water if each human can maintain a power output of 50 Watts?

Usage: 3.39 million Watts

Human Output: 50 Watts

Humans required: 67,800

Q: Suppose you want to make this thing solar powered and only run while the sun is shinning. How big of a solar panel would you need? Assume the solar panel produces 500 Watts per square meter.

Usage: 3.39 million Watts

Solar Panel output: 500 Watts/square metre

Size required: 6,780 square metres (1.26 NFL football fields, 1/3rd of the MCG in Melbourne)
there are hundreds of people with perfectly fine health that they're neglecting or abusing

Let's not ignore the other option (among many) which is: people in perfectly fine health who aren't particularly fond of having the ideals and opinions of the hyper-health conscious and uber-active lifestyle types projected onto them from someone who doesn't have the letters M.D. following their surname.
> Nobody should object if you listen to an old FM pocket radio with headphones from your seat.

I believe the existing rules would forbid even the use of an FM radio onboard.
The SolarEdge system I have targets 380v.

At power up, it runs the string voltage up to 500v to test for isolation(short-to-ground) issues. It has a mode that can temporarily run the string voltage up to 1000v to meet testing requirements in some jurisdictions.

Each panel has a "Power optimizer" installed -- basically just a DC-DC converter that has active communication with the inverter. It should be able to control the power production of the entire system by limiting the current supplied by each module, though I don't know for sure that this is how it does it.
Maybe not startups per say but.

- jet.com uses F#

- stackoverflow is C#

I don't get why a startup couldn't just use .net for the application layer hooked up to a MySQL or Postgress backend. The drivers for both Db exist so someone must be doing it.
I have a 2016 touchbar MacBook Pro. I’ve been learning vim, but I agree using escape is hard with the touchbar. I ended up mapping “jj” to escape. Seems to work well and keeps my fingers on the home row.
The forest service, at least in some of the more "popular" areas in WA, CA and OR sometimes rates the road on their motor vehicle use map so you know the likelihood you'll actually be able to use it. On BLM land I've found map roads that there is little no evidence of at all.
I'm not sure why the author is surprised about Ruby. Rails was the darling of startups for years and is probably still a common choice of backend.

This data is also rife with bias: stackshare isn't representative of startups let alone companies in general.
ING in Australia used to give you 5% back on their credit card, they stopped it earlier this year.
Oh you pie people. You make me laugh. Cake will always be superior to pie. Yes, I'm sorry. For one very simple reason. FROSTING! Ya'll forgot about frosting!

- Paul F Tompkins.
This probably also depends on when the startup was founded.

A 2018 startup choosing .Net is very different from a 2005 startup choosing .Net, IMO. (I would place a higher likelihood/possibility of technical cluefulness on the latter.)
Is that...bad? I mean, the point of a startup is to start a business, not to write code, isn’t it?

I’d bet that there are many startups that don’t need technical founders, and many who have them are building technology that isn’t really differentiated. One thing that is important is obviously fine-grained control over the business, so I could see how outsourcing might make that slightly harder to manage.
Homie.com is a startup. We use .Net (C# specifically)
It was a Sam's club hamburger, but hotdogs were also available. No, I'm not kidding. The wedding was in a friend's backyard with folding chairs and tables borrowed from a church. The cake was made by a friend of a friend for about half the going rate, but we also bought a couple dozen gluten-free cupcakes. We tried to pay the cooks but they refused; the musician was family, and the officiant and the sound guy (for the dance music) were personal friends and didn't charge. It was nearly a regular BYOB backyard party but with better decorations.
huh? you just described vancouver. but the most expensive gas and shittiest salary in north america.
I don't think the MS stack is going anywhere. It's true that startups tend to avoid MS due to the (real or perceived) high upfront costs and its general lowness on the hipster curve, but once you look outside of SF/Bay Area it normalizes out, and you'll find plenty of .NET/C# jobs at tech/software companies in whatever city.
I’ve been making a living in the MS world for over 20 years. But, when I started focusing on AWS and cloud hosting in general, the Microsoft Tax becomes real. I see how much more costly Microsoft is than a Linux in terms of licensing and resource requirements.

Besides, with AWS and all of the services being hosted, the only servers you really have to manage are your own app servers.
The writing was also shoddy in that the author claimed that it’s air differing pressure around the crest and trough that causes the sheet to break apart, but then said that the same results hold true in a vacuum with zero explanation. Not a great article...
They can be problematic if your growth doesn’t exactly match what your licensing growth plan is.
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