skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is your ISP and service really that bad?

What I can get commercially? yes. the best available to me is 14/1 ADSL. And I'm in a dense upscale urban area.
As far as I understand it, this is relatively common situation worldwide.

> If it is I think you have bigger problems you should address before working on personal projects.

What I have done is set up my own wireless link using Ubiquiti dishes to a nearby location with a 100mbps net connection. But this is hugely unusual: both to have building access to add a dish to my apartment building roof, and to have a Line-of-sight location to connect to, that also lets me set up a dish on their roof, and connect it to their network.

> I can always access my sites when I'm not home.

I used to try and do that (subject to internet quality), but then I realised I was spending $50 a month on power bills for leaving my desktop powered on 24/7. The cost of a $5 dollar VPS is far less.
more torque!
highly capable AWD
Sure, somewhat hyperbolic, but a reference to this new law that went into force this week and the parent post:

"Travellers who refuse to hand over their phone or laptop passwords to Customs officials can now be slapped with a $5000 fine."

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/367642/travellers-re...

I'm gonna have to treat that as a "hostile border", and treat it the same as the Chinese border...
> Smart people building critical systems do not run to relatively untested languages, no matter how good they may look.

Except they do, if the new untested language is qualitatively better than the old one. For example, a critical crypto algorithm in Firefox is written in F* and compiled to C: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/09/13/verified-crypto... . The new implementation is formally verified free of certain classes of bugs (like buffer overflows), and significantly faster than the hand-written C implementation.
This is what Workflow changed to?
> only
How to Build a Low-Tech Website: Software and Hardware
In the USA, it might refer to UDV (União do Vegetal) http://udvusa.org/
The RFC touches on that issue:

> In order to protect the decoder from unreasonable memory requirements, a decoder is allowed to reject a compressed frame that requests a memory size beyond the decoder's authorized range.

> For broader compatibility, decoders are recommended to support memory sizes of at least 8 MB. This is only a recommendation; each decoder is free to support higher or lower limits, depending on local limitations.

As a corollary, and in the absence of an explicit negotiation process between client and server, servers should probably avoid using a window larger than 8 MB.
Being able to parse HTTP doesn't get anywhere when you can't actually get at the contents because they're encrypted (as with all major HTTP2 implementations).
If it were me, I would want to run a dev system off the master branch and then tag versions that get the OK and are deployed to the production system. That would give the founder some sense of immediate gratification while insulating the production system from goofs. disclaimer << I am not a devops person
I saw a map two years ago that showed a break down of sales by vehicle type and zip code. Some zip codes in the South Bay EV's were over 10% of sales. Demographically they were higher middle class neighborhoods.

That to me sound like something one should take seriously because it shows that robust network effects are in play. A few people buy an EV and have no problem with them, that induces more people to consider them as a valid option.
There is a truck which is used by the government, highly visible, and perfect for EVs, which is due for replacement. Tesla should get in on this: Grumman Long Life Vehicle (LLV) AKA Mail Truck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oDVsf29tyk
I avoid the self-checkout because I don't appreciate the (perceived) atmosphere of suspicion that you're trying to steal something.
What is the point of journals if quite literally anything can be published in them? Isn't the point that they serve as a basic filter for obvious noise? Shouldn't we be critical of a peer review process that doesn't function at even the most basic level?
Can someone make the opposite and make it more like Google Inbox?
Dark matter could turn out to be a new particle or group of particles, which would surely be as satisfying to all of us as anything else.
Ask HN: What are the most enjoyable REST APIs you've used?
I want to take a look at some great REST APIs as a reference. I'm looking to see how stuff like authorization, querying, filters have been implemented etc. SimpleDNS and Stripe look nice. Anything else?
I remember I saw this once, years and years ago on someone's Mac's Finder and really liked the idea. Now I'm really annoyed to read that Dolphin had it but dropped it.
Short-term cost though, if whack's thinking is correct. Longer-term talent drains means execution risks sliding even further into mediocrity
> Unions are notorious for having well-paid administrative staff and leadership

Couldn't you say the same about corporations?
Facebook Tests Snap Map-Style Redesign of Nearby Friends
I don’t know how Verizon is doing it but sometimes the offers are structured so that they exclude “essential employees”, ie anyone they like. So, if you get the offer it’s a sign they think you’re not any good :-p
It's not, but the probiotic yogurt industry is.

A) they don't identify which bacteria is in the Yogurt.
B) Lab testing has shown that yogurt is a terrible medium for supporting probiotics so most or all of them are dead by the time you eat it.
C) Probiotics in foods don't typically establish themselves in your gut, it already is saturated with bacteria ideally suited to the environment. You would need frequent and high concentrations to disrupt that.
Yea I fully agree. In my experience the truck market is the one that is the most attached to their ICE's. I could be wrong, but Tesla will probably have a lot of trouble taking a solid portion of that market.
Companies throw a wide net in these matters to prevent lawsuits, such as age discrimination lawsuits. But then more managed process takes over on the individual level.
Ah, great that there's an official number. And does seem like incentives are aligned for servers to try to do the reasonable thing.
"In general, to be considered an “exempt” employee, you must be paid a salary (not hourly) and must perform executive, administrative or professional duties."

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/exempt-and-a-non-exempt-em...

To be honest, I'm a little surprised that these employees couldn't be considered administrative or professional without a managerial title.

Edit: reading further, this clarifies a bit: "These categories are purposefully broad to encompass many types of jobs. However, it is the tasks performed on the job, not the job title alone, which determine exempt vs. non-exempt employment status." Essentially, it's not entirely a cop-out by companies to avoid worker protections.
The car is unbelievably good coming from someone who used to drive entry-level luxury sedans. It's light years beyond anything BMW, Infiniti and Lexus have to offer.
Because of the nature of Siri Shortcuts, you actually get to decide what to say for this - it’s not up to the app developer. I’m sure he chose it because it made for a good headline though.
Yes, but it’s way more powerful and integrated now.
There are also a great number of people who have never spent more than $35k on a car who are buying a M3.
Documentation priority is inverse of volatility:

1) Why (requirements, decision points)

2) What (use cases, interactions, external APIs)

3) How (internal APIs)

4) Who (SMEs, owners, servers)

And don't waste people's time; don't document things that are obvious.
> Tesla's surge in ranking would be caused more by fleeing luxury customers

Scuttlebutt I've heard is a lot of Lux brands haven't kept up with increasing quality expectations over the last 40 years. People expect their cars to go 120-150k miles without major problems and these cars often aren't living up to that.
that’s the standard phrase
I’m not disputing it’s a better car. I love Teslas. I’m just saying that if I bought one it wouldn’t be because it had anything to do with “status”.
A Toyota Camry Hybrid will get better MPG with a 2.5 liter engine, and give more space for passengers and cargo, than the Yaris. Also it has EV-like torque.
This is an app that takes advantage of a feature of the app that was spawned from Workflow. Workflow did not have the Siri Shortcut functionality that was added in iOS 12
Verizon paid me $4k (business customer svc rep) to go away which I put towards my first startup/learning to code.

It was a fun place to work with some great people and it’s hard to beat getting paid to go away(union).
It's more like, my equations that work for everything else don't match what we observe in a few cases. But if there's something sitting on the seesaw that I can't see then it works everywhere. And there being a particle (or particles) that doesn't interact with the EM force is a testable theory. We've used particle accelerators to continually exclude areas of energy that the particles themselves would exist in, and eventually we're going to detect everything that we've predicted with the standard model or we'll find something new in an area that we didn't predict and start to know where things are actually wrong. Either in the particle side of things, or possibly the gravitational side of things. We know there's something missing or wrong between the two of them but they appear to work correctly for every case that we've found a way to test for so far, even if they don't seem to be possible to merge together.
Ubuntu Linux Performance Over the Past Six Years on an Intel Xeon Server
Something can be both opportunity and abuse. The whole point of health and safety legislation is to remove the "abuse" part.
Is this different from a regular VPN? I’m not getting it from the web site how “Team VPN” is different from a regular one.
CORS is a technical subsidy granted to (sloppy) users of cookie authentication. I’ve never worked on a project where it was anything other than an annoying hoop to jump through.
It sounds like you have a different idea of what you were hired to do than the founder does. Talk to the founder and figure out what they want you to be doing.

If your manager is a different person than the founder, your manager should be able to help you resolve this.

Often companies at some stage realize they need better devops procedures, but also realize they can't slow down their pace of progress, and there are tricky tradeoffs to be made. I encourage you to not be insulted when people have concerns - they may just be concerned that you do not yet have all the context about the company as they do, rather than critical of your experience.
I wonder if your time frame and location are heavily skewed by WW2 losses.
We built our iOS and Android apps in Java and Kotlin – one year later
There is no evidence of this at all.

The world is full of upstarts being crushed by large incumbents.

And don't remember we still have Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Amazon etc all still doing very well.
People love to cherry pick a statistic from one European city, and ask why all of the American empire can't be like that.

/s/public transportation/health care/cars/etc.
I'm super curious about the hardware deletion process.
That seems like an overly simplistic anlysis, unless an employee who quits or gets fired not on an anniversary receives a pro-rated partial share at departure.

Otherwise, a separation before the first anniversary (presumably a certainty for seasonal workers) results in losing none of the raise, at just shy of the second anniversary only one quarter of the raise.

Half the raise is an upper bound, and we'd have to know at least the average tenure of a warehouse employee to guess how much an average worker loses.
Shotguns. 12 gauge, shooting at a stationary target. Easy.
This is a direct attack on competitors, designed to enlist the help of the federal government to raise payroll and put pressure on arch nemesis Walmart and any other company that has lots of retail other jobs that are not conducive to automation.

Remember that Amazon thinks 5 years ahead, and they waited for the perfect PR and political threshold to announce these changes and capitalize on the news.
"You can use it with any kind of story" is a bad thing, not a good thing. A game's mechanics should reinforce its story or themes. Even the granddaddy of generic games, GURPS, has this in some measure in the way its mechanics reinforce a gritty, high-tension feel where every single HP and FP is precious.
Acquisitions are all well and good, but unfortunately, when an asteroid hits you, all the umbrellas in the world won't help. Tesla has been attacking the hard problems (like battery cost) for close to a decade while most others kept busy making fun of them.

When you see Tesla causing drops to the tune of 15% or even 20% to the sales of premium ICE car brands, and who knows how much more it will be in the next quarters, a hit this big and this sudden can be quite destabilizing to a company with a highly optimized supply chain. Also, these companies haven't delivered something truly new in decades, and to do so now, under the gun, would require not a product revamp, but a culture revamp. Never heard one of those being pulled off.

Innovation is hard, let's ask for government assistance: https://www.reuters.com/article/autoshow-paris-electric-sque...
Exactly, and the reason why infant mortality has gone down also has a twist to it that's usually spun for profit. It's not due to heroic advances in obstetrics, nutrition, or even medical care in general, but rather fertility demographic changes.

If you're in a metro area, go to your nearest hospital with a labor wing and ask any nurse on staff if they can describe any pattern between characteristics of a woman and how fast she delivers her offspring. The greatest predictor of risk in death of either an infant or a mother in childbirth is duration of labor. The second greatest predictor of labor death risk is age of the mother.

A growing trend in fertility for a long time by now is positive correlation with poverty, illiteracy, and religious susceptibility. There's also a very effective self-interested cultural and economical push towards _certain_ women fully embracing the (in)action of stopping their lineage either actively through choice or even passively through delay by necessity against the ticking time bomb that is menopause to receive better individual outcomes than creating children for sake of retirement insurance when now such old-age risk can now be offloaded to a pooled global society that has a huge reserve of more fertility-friendly cultures. In addition legal incentives and even unintended economic punishments push _certain_ demographics of males towards rationally opting out of procreation in order to stave off undesirable consequences for their wealth and happiness.

Tangentially, it's not something that people like to talk about in public discourse, but there has also been a very prominent trend of decreasing age in the arrival of puberty especially for girls.

All of these factors are are the outcomes of individuals, demographics, and society in general implementing changes to their reproductive strategies and over time these choices reinforce themselves through natural selection. And of course this will reflect on some opaque metrics such as "average life expectancy" if you are not able to sub-categorize the averages.
Agreed. I just commented that I remembered seeing Miller columns once, years and years ago on someone's Mac's Finder and really liked the idea. Now I'm really annoyed to read that Dolphin had it but dropped it.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=18127259
That's my gutfeel too. Seems like a very unfashionable format here in Australia. People buy SUVs, 4WDs (Pajero, Landcruiser), utes (trucks) and hatches. Sedans and "station wagons" are on the out.
> They seem more responsive to the changing nature of the industry.

Yet most of their responses so far are on paper - they will start producing electric cars, sometime in the future.
Autopsies of supercentenarians suggest that transthyretin amyloidosis and consequent heart failure is the limiting process. Since methods of removing transthyretin amyloid are somewhere in the pipeline (Covalent Bioscience, Pentraxin Therapeutics, etc), this limit won't be around a couple of decades from now.

But you are right; next to no-one cares. The thing that is driving anti-amyloid work in this case is inherited disease in which there is excessive amyloid formation at younger ages, and the growing realization that 10% or more of people who die from heart disease in the 60+ age range are doing so because of normal levels of transthyretin amyloid deposition.
Headhunted by Casper Mattresses.
> there is an opportunity for upstarts who only do electric to take on gas cars.

Sure. But the mistake everyone makes is that the drive train technology is not what differentiates a car.

It's the brand, the design, quality of interior, availability etc. Those are much harder for upstarts to get right as we've seen with Tesla.
My Prius is getting long in the tooth. Good replacement?
Tesla got almost $500 million from the Department of Energy. Yes, they paid it back, but that is not my point. My point is that Tesla would not have survived if it had not received that government money.

Maybe its more meritorious to accept and repay a government loan than to be bailed out, but from the point of view of the taxpayer (and the free market) Tesla and GM both owe their survival to taxpayer money.
Unlike Tesla, the dealer performs the maintenance for other cars. Or maybe a 3rd party shop. Do they have a kickback agreement with the manufacturer?

How much does Tesla pre-compensate for the maintenance they won't authorize others to do?
I'd also argue it encourages worst practices
Tesla Model 3 is just the new iphone. Everyone wants the new thing. new Iphone model, new computer model, its not exciting anymore. The THING everyone wants now in our consumer society is the Tesla Model 3. It is a cultural icon to own right now.
But if the unions weren't as big then they wouldn't need as many administrators, would they?
Proof of this:

http://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-05/sick-of-sedans...
Most people don't buy SUV's, they buy "crossovers" which pack the capacity of an SUV but get way way better gas mileage. As for Trucks, they have improved considerably in gas mileage as well. But the SUV is mostly false, SUVs have bitten the dust, crossovers like Rav4, Outback, etc have taken over. Even in luxury brands, I see tons of BMW, Mercedes and Jaguar crossovers. They look nice.
I'm concerned that the test uses a static wing. If you drop a fishing float directly in front of an obstacle in a river, it will be moved with the water around the obstacle, not hitting it.

Air is a lot less dense than water, but my instinct is that unless the drone hit a very narrow sweet spot it would simply be swept around the wing. And even in that sweet spot, there will be a buffer of compressed air that would substantially slow the impact.

Could someone with more knowledge of fluid dynamics comment on the applicability of static tests like this to actual aircraft damage?
I'd read that as, "The investor class has not quite yet internalized regarding the recent tax changes as their god-given birthright, so at the moment they don't squeal quite so loudly when the proles get a nickel."
That approach worked back when cars were simple, and mostly mechanical. But now the R&D cost of developing major automotive components has risen so high that smaller manufacturers just don't have the resources to go it alone any more. So they have to outsource or form partnerships in order to achieve sufficient economies of scale.
Why is Bitcoin not an option?
Simple Steps for Cutting Costs in the Cloud
Is it? In Europe we’re seeing sales shoot up like a rocket. Model 3 deliveries haven’t even started yet. With the Hyundai Kona and Kia Niro the market will grow even more, and in 2020 VW will start flooding the market with EVs.
Saw several people at work picking up this weekend. In a company of 200 there are now over 20 in the lot and this isn't the Bay Area.
I can't really think another use. None of our current treatments particularly care what your genome looks like. Deciphering interactions and drug uses, and better targeting to genes, sounds exactly like the advances that would benefit from this data.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18126808
I’m not convinced on the lower maintenance costs. Can you speak to that a bit? It seems like there’s still a lot that can go wrong and you’re stuck paying whatever tesla wants to charge you to fix it.
The dozing driver didn’t respond to any of the vehicle’s warnings, including a bell signaling the car was in manual mode and another audio alert

Even if he did respond, there's still the problem of whether he can respond in time. Driving normally requires sub-second reaction times.
Subsidies add opacity to the market, so that the true cost of something is obscured from the consumer.
So, how dense you think the black hole at the center of the milky way is? Twice the whole galaxy at least? Or just a tiny fraction?
CORS is about a lot more than just static assets. SRI does not replace CORS.
Critical Path Driven Development
Sounds pretty good to me. It's not spot on, but maybe up to 5 years off? For being predicted 20 years ago, it's basically correct.

The majority of new vehicles being fully electric will happen pretty soon. The economics of this happening are incredibly compelling, essentially inevitable. I would put this occurring before 2025, but it's hard to say. If the Chinese keep up the heavy push toward electrification, it will probably be sooner. If not, then later.
Then you wind up with a union cartel. I would bet good money on that.
Yeah... the fuel in many GA aircraft is usually inside of a relatively thin rubber bladder inside the wing. It does not self seal. If it leaks, it’s going to run down the back of the aircraft and may drain into the cabin. In some aircraft with engines mounted on the rear of the aircraft it can run towards or into the engine.

Now, on top of dealing with an emergency that has disabled control surfaces like ailerons and flaps that pass through the inside of the wing, damaged the leading edge which is critical for generating lift, and potentially having a wing come off if you hit a rough patch of air with a damaged spar, the pilot may have to deal with a fuel leak that would endanger the people in the cabin or cause a midair fire.

Not good.
This kind of mechanical device where there are more than two shafts are always cool. Classic video about differentials from 1937 (!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
More accountability for police can't hurt. In other private professions bad accountability results in loss of job, so I don't think many can complain about this.

A cool feature, maybe given attention due to the hot political climate around cop shootings. But useful nonetheless.
Since this touches on the safety of old vs new cars, I'd just like to leave this link to an "old vs new" crash test video here for anyone who might not have seen it before. https://youtu.be/C_r5UJrxcck
Similar hypotheses have been considered. The most popular (edit: AFAICT, but I'm not any kind of scientist), gravastars, would appear to have been ruled out by LIGO, as described here https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/25449/gravasta... in the article linked therein. And as my current sibling comment mentions, they're not much good for dark matter either. They would be exactly as good as black holes for dark matter and, since they are still compact enough to do gravitational lensing, are ruled out by the same test
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