skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Netherlands (my country) this is interpreted as that you have a right to a functional product for the usual lifespan of a product. After the two years guarantee you're supposed to share the repair costs proportionally. The boxes of bulbs state the expected lifespan (most home appliances do not) so that's an easy starting point. Plus I guess my local DIY-shop just doesn't want to haggle with me and just gives me the replacement each and every time since I'm the only one asking. I'm unsure about how my online LED-supplier will react if in 3-5 years my LEDs burn out, but I've tried to choose a respectable brand and supplier.
Why should people be allowed to act so selfishly? It would stop the practice dead in its tracks, and from then a non issue. I dare say that makes it worth it.

Furthermore making it strictly illegal to perform the work would assist.
I don't get this at all. Does it apply when you do a refund or only when the customer requests it?
Oh, look, the question got edited to replace “female” with “woman”. Thank you.
One could say that while some have a platform strategy, others merely have an aggregator strategy

https://stratechery.com/2018/techs-two-philosophies/
They use AMP to get ranked higher by Google. We need to stop using Google Search if we want sites to stop using AMP.
I very much appreciate the approach! While I wouldn't say I was scared per se, I definitely ran up against the learning curve. I'll get going with org mode again asap.
Does Ecobee have a local API option? I thought it was cloud based as well ...
They were even thinking about requesting blockchain rollback (that possibly means making fork and paying to miners to follow that fork instead). If that would pass, that would really doom bitcoin as is.
I use "foo.local" as a drop-in replacement, haven't had problems...
Thanks a lot for your great work!
I installed mathics locally and the translate/sierpinski examples from the gallery don't seem to work. Do you have an idea why?
iOS vs. Android Development: Which One Is Best for Your App
While each operating system has their pros and cons yet both (android & iOS) are highly favoured platforms when it comes to mobile app development. Choosing the right operating system to build your app depends on many factors that we have discussed here in the blog. Always pick a platform that takes your business to the next level with great success.
But this could easily be replaced by an increase in salary right ? It is not really part of the workplace (unlike coworkers, location, size, etc.)
How does electronic voting solve any of those?

- With electronic voting the identification problem is at least as hard as with paper ballots, so Voter ID is at least as hard (an honestly, I've never heard of any problem of this kind outside of the US)

- Electronic ballots could be simpler than paper ballots, but they can also be a lot more complicated. Under the assumption that voter suppression is taking place we have to assume that the electronic ballot would be more complicated than the paper equivalent

- Electronic voting still requires voting booths, meaning you can still overload polling stations. Voting from home is equivalent to mail voting (already a thing) and has a lot of problems if it's how the majority votes

Also all these problems have common sense solutions already:

- If the nation for some reason doesn't have a ubiquitous national identity system the government should take some of that tax money and hand out free Voter ID cards (perferably delivered by certified mail or similar)

- Designing ballots that are not complicated is a solved problem in most of the Western World

- Have enough polling stations that queue times never exceed 10 minutes. If queues are too long take note to make that polling station bigger in the next election.
This one seems odd. If this weren’t explicitly allowed, it could rather easily stop most aerial operations. While it is nice for pilots, it seems to cancel out the potential to just make sending pilots on military runs in feasible in the first place.
$200 to $325/month if you maintain the horse yourself.

If you let someone else board the horse it's another $260/month on average. Assuming $10/hour that's 26 hours, or about an hour a day to maintain your horse.

How much time do you spend maintaining your car per day?
>Were I black or gay or trans or a woman and American reactionaries are threatened by me for existing, it is not a choice.

Everyone else is at risk, but white men are some homogeneous group that bands together to hold everyone else back. Do I have that right?
"HVDC transmission losses are quoted as less than 3% per 1,000 km"
You should configure your Rails application correctly for production. Right now it seems like it's considering all requests as local and returning the Rails exception page to me.
My Reasons to Consider Go Coming from Java
The only thing I gleaned from this piece is "be rich; don't be poor"
LED streetlights are terrible. Sure, they look nice, but they don't provide much light.

They're always underspecced so you get a little square of light directly under the street lamp, but that's about it. Looks like early 3D videogame lighting.
I'm going through the exampleas and apart from some minor issues it looks like it's doing what it's supposed to do.
I got a Venstar recently. Not as slick but has a local API and has worked well with hassio.
After years of depression, I'm sure my personality is one of the cause of me still being depressed. And if I went to therapy, I'd expect and want it to change. But change is scary, and I suppose that's why some depressed persons don't want to seek help. There's sometimes comfort in suffering.
Another reason is that the not-desesperate me feels shallow and boring. But there's probably a hopeful me that's not. I haven't found it yet, it requires more effort.
There isn't really a hard limit, the longer the cable, the bigger the losses. You can mitigate that somewhat by increasing the voltage, which is what they're doing.

So basically the distance is determined by economics. If China could install solar and cables cheaply enough, then they could compete with domestic European and American electricity. I find that doubtful though.
Ah, "hackers", of course.
That was not intended. If I could edit my original comment I'd say it was a great hack and the humor in the FAQ is appreciated.
>> the platform 'art' there does anything noteworthy but hide the brickwork behind.

Too true. I guess the value of the platform "art" might be equivalent to the financial cost of actually fixing the hole, which in this case, could be millions if you factor hiring the hole fixers and the lost of revenue due to closing of the tube station.
Filippo Valsorda said nothing about keys. Xe did not mention them at all.
> China is the global test bed for ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission lines, a technology that can carry electricity across vast distances with much greater efficiency than the high voltage lines that you’re probably used to seeing.

> Since 2006, it’s built 19 of these multi-billion-dollar lines, stretching almost 30,000 kilometres and supplying 4% of national electricity demand. For comparison, no other country has a single UHV line in full commercial operation.

> But China’s enthusiasm for UHV is waning. The technology is beset by conflicts of interest between grid companies and central and local governments. The lines themselves are underperforming, and more recent projects are coming online amid a period of electricity generation overcapacity.

> This means that approvals for new lines have slowed, and grid companies are unlikely to meet their targets for new ones.

https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/10376-S...
Flexibility.

Being able to work remote if I don't feel like going into the office.

Take a vacation whenever.

Never worrying if I can't get a day off to go see a doctor.

I get my job done and do it to a high degree which frees my time up to do other things. You couldn't give me name a price to me right now that would make me give that up.
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> It's been fun watching this line be repeated for 30 years without getting more correct.

The average user can comfortably use a 5 year old pc even today, ofcourse with an SSD upgrade.
Thanks for this insight. Never thought about this. I'm still on old-fashioned gas so in my case the only difference is one of gas being cheaper per joule even after the (in-)efficiency of burning than electricity. But indeed in the heat pump world you get more joules in heating than you put in in Wh of electricity. Still you should amortize the cost of pump per joule of heating. Bulbs were _cheap_.
The interesting thing about bitcoin exchanges is that the exchange effectively has a position in the market too, unlike traditional exchanges like the NYSE. They have to buy bitcoin from other exchanges, and if they get hacked they can lose it permanently.

Edit because I’m throttled and can’t reply anymore: the “buying from other exchanges” is really not the lynchpin of my argument. The point is that these exchanges hold inventory and are vulnerable to bank runs and theft makes them much less stable than traditional exchanges.
At what sort of electricity cost do you expect to produce the fuel at same price as current petrol?

( I am pretty sure even if it was 30% more expensive at Retail consumer will still be willing to paid for Clean Petrol, and that 30% could be your profits. )
It doesn’t help that the Binance founder was shouting about FUD on twitter before announcing the hack.
You must be using an unconventional definition of punish and corrective action.

Microsoft was steamrolling over the huge community battling it, including Apple, Netscape, Sun and Linux.

United States vs. Microsoft Corp forced them to behave, otherwise that huge community would have had to battle them from beyond the grave.

Facebook is a very profitable behemoth. Where exactly is the punishment? Oh, they have to improve their company ethics.
Fateman was (is?) one of the main contributors!to maxima. Quite a helpful guy, also.
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Hvdc can go a very very long way; thousands of miles economically.

500kv a.c. @ 60z starts to become impractical above 1000 miles if I recall correctly. I'll not sure how 50hz power is more or less affected on transmission, but it requires larger transformers, making each conversion step more expensive from a fixed cost perspective.

Edit:
I didn't recall correctly, looks like hvac is not very effective above 700mi, and in underground and underwater applications, far less.
Now that video forgery is easy [1], I think the mountain of video footage will make learning history in a few hundred years painful and difficult.

How would you have any idea what happened and what didn't, from the 21st century on?

Yes, historians worked without video or photography for centuries, but most people aren't as rigorous as a historian, and it's going to take a long time for our cultural norms to adjust to video being "default untrusted".

Furthermore, the written word and eyewitness testimony aren't nearly as important in our culture as they used to be, precisely because of the "pics/video or it didn't happen" mindset. Again, that's what historians have relied on for centuries, but it's considered unacceptable now in favor of technology that's just become completely untrustable. There won't be trustable records for people studying our near-future.

Finally, since we've all given up on "primitive" technology like dead trees, most information is stored digitally now. That's great for convenience but terrible for long-term archives [2]. Digital information will vanish if not tended actively and carefully, and historians have long relied on physical artifacts like letters that largely don't exist any more.

Our culture is a nightmare for future historians.

Edit: expanded on why it will be hard to study history in a few centuries

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake
2: http://howicode.nateeag.com/data-preservation.html
can you send me an example of your request?
> What realistic difference is there between "The States" and the federal government?

It's huge! The power to drive international trade and warfare, for starters! Also, the ability to create laws that don't reflect people in your area/community.

Also wrt this thread, states don't (generally) enforce searches at their borders, because states aren't fighting for domination with nation-states. States are only trying to control their geographic area.

Thank you for the references, I'll check them out.
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And only if Windows would stop spying on me would I give this more than a passing glance.

How can I be expected to trust a computer/OS that I can't fully configure.
Is the electoral roll not publicly available information where you are.
> - Be sure that you understand the concept of HSTS! Simply copy/pasting the example from this article will completely break subdomains that are not HTTPS enabled and preloading will break it permanently. I wish the authors made that more clear. Don't use includesubdomains and preload unless you know what you are doing. Scott Helme also did a great article about this.

Great point that is even more important than people might realize at first when reading your comment, because it doesn't cover only your web properties; it covers all subdomains even those you forget you use and don't associate with your web presence.

You have a nas at nas.exemple.com, a webmail at mail.exemple.com, a third party cdn/similar routing at cdn.exemple.com, a printer interface at printer.office.exemple.com and other internals things at internally routed path, like that custom old dashboard written 15 years ago ? Include subdomain covers it, and preloading means you can't disable it once you realize you shouldn't have done it.

Seen a few small non-IT companies hit by that, and then asking for urgent consultancy to fix it.
> PayPal has said that anyone who disagrees with any of their new terms is free to close their account.

And this is why we cannot have monopolies.
I honestly thinks you never drove a car where the throttle was directly linked to the butterfly valve.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throttle#Internal_combustion_e...):

Historically, the throttle pedal or lever acts via a direct mechanical linkage. Technically it means, that the butterfly valve of the throttle is operated by means of an arm piece, loaded by a spring. This arm is usually directly linked to the accelerator cable, and operates in accordance with the driver, who hits it. The further the pedal is pushed, the wider the throttle valve opens.

Modern engines of both types (gas and diesel) are commonly drive-by-wire systems where sensors monitor the driver controls and in response a computerized system controls the flow of fuel and air. This means that the operator does not have direct control over the flow of fuel and air; the Engine Control Unit (ECU) can achieve better control in order to reduce emissions, maximize performance and adjust the engine idle to ...
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/03/28/w...
Bad argument, since 'they' as in the state came pretty often in Europe. I don't give anything on patriotism, but I admire the US for their freedom and I understand the need to have it for the society they are.

Yeah, the security paranoia of the US in the last 20 years is abhorrent, dangerous, costly, infantile and probably against their own values, no further explanation needed.

But I don't think there are better countries concerning civil rights. No European state comes close. Not Sweden, not Norway, Switzerland maybe for some people...

I live in Europe and regularly think about working in the US. Wouldn't want to go to Silicon Valley though.
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I encountered this issue a year or two ago on the Netflix CDN nodes when running with 100K TCP connections or more. We have metrics collectors that need to report how many TCP connections are open, and what state they are in (ESTABLISHED, TIME_WAIT, etc). Until recently, the only way to do this was to ask the FreeBSD kernel to copy out the entire TCP hash table to userspace, where an application can examine it & count connections. The problem with that is that the thread wanting a copy of the table had to take an rlock on the table while it was being copied. As the author points out, this blocks any writers, which in turn blocks more readers. So we'd see latency spikes when this script was running.

The problem has been fixed twice: by moving the top-level locking for that table to epoch (FreeBSD RCU equivalent), and also by using per-cpu counters to track the number of TCP connections in every state. So now the user-space collector just needs to fetch a small array of tcp states from the kernel.
A maybe more horrible idea, but also more fun, would be to deliver not an HTML that infinitely loads, but an mjpeg like webcam monitoring software does. Server-side rendering taken to the extreme.
if you try this https://feedi.me/search/entries?q=SEO&page=2 you receive an exception because Total are 10. I must improve exception management
Which is why we have organizations that fight hard to try to keep those as open as possible.
This is China, a huge, rapidly developing country so we need to keep in mind that the overall energy production and consumption will also seriously increase during that period.

In addition, currently it is not feasible to rely only on wind and solar because these are unpredictable sources. Which also means that a target (15%) here is probably an average and that the installed capacity has thus to be much higher.
That's not accurate. They don't buy bitcoin from other exchanges.

Why would it be any different to traditional exchanges?

They hold funds on behalf of customers, and if they get hacked they can lose it permanently, that's true. But it doesn't mean the exchange itself needs to have a position in the market.
Which bit was fast? My wife's MacBook sounded like a jet engine whenever she would play the Facebook flash-based Scrabble. Eventually the machine died of fan failure and I had to spend an entire afternoon doing brain surgery on it. I wasn't surprised when Jobs subsequently banned it from the iPhone!
Mozilla fixes the lapsed Certificate issue that affected Firefox extensions
I don't think I understand what feedback loop we are talking about?

Everyone who wants to be on the ballot registers a few months in advance, which is usually a short enough time. Since people are usually voted into a job they have to do for 4-6 years you don't want hasty decisions anyways.

Getting poll results while the voting stations are open is usually not a desired feature because of how it influences voters.

The delay for counting the votes measures in days, which is a tiny amount in a feedback loop where one iteration takes 4-6 years. Other steps, like forming a government, routinely take an order of magnitude more time in many nations.
>Lots of businesses are desperate for cross platform mobile dev

I would expand that to mobile AND desktop. It annoys me that multi-platform development typically means only iOS and Android.
You don't agree that you need to provide a way for your customers to replace the Qt libraries? (because that is a fact of LGPL3, read the anti tivoization clause).

Do you see any possible security problems with the above?

Because in reality it means that you give your customers the possibility to run their own code on your hardware. That is a problem for many companies and products.
Thank you: that was definitely the part that I expected HN to react to.
Very efficient. There are over 2000 km distances (1200 miles) in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
I would never describe someone respectable as 'the woman over there'.

Most words have 'a connotation', it's not a reason not to use them. Offense at 'lady' and preference for 'woman' is baffling.

Like most similar baffling things on HN, I'll assume this is an American (or even region within) thing.
Thats why i wrote "experts" they weren't experts they were just pretending to know what they were doing pointing to all sorts of academic research which turned out to be wrong.

Trump is running the country on gut-feel about a lot of things. His way of doing it which all the experts scream "dont" about.

And not the experts didn't know it would come as they believed in globalism and had no problem exchanging american workers for it.
Google was over for me when they shutdown Reader. I was using that service everyday. Lots of people did too. They just don't care.
Despite being shocked (maybe it's not the right word) by the keyboardless use, I just want to add that for mobile users there is orgzly which allows you to access your org files.
5% seems very very low. I do no think it includes the wire heat waste that are common to coal and nuclear, because according to this: https://blog.schneider-electric.com/energy-management-energy... "The overall losses between the power plant and consumers is then in the range between 8 and 15%." (I do not think the numbers have changed that much in 6 years).
I wish they'd picked an original name. So confusing: https://github.com/search?q=evergreen
Fair enough, although I imagine it is only a matter of Kotlin/Native maturity.
The UK has the "fit for purpose" clause in the Distance Selling Act and I think you can return the product at any time. I'd highly encourage anyone who is inconvenienced by this to exercise such laws.
> These novels feature a (male) character who studies and writes about Bergson, and I wondered whether he was supposed to be a widely recognised subject of the time.

He kind of was pretty popular in the 1920s and the 1930s, at least in francophile countries and on the European continent generally speaking (I suppose Egypt's intelligentsia from back in the day was heavily influenced by what was popular in mainland Europe). For example Emil Cioran [1] had his graduation thesis on Bergson.

I'm mentioning Cioran because I myself am Romanian and whenever I visit any bookstores outside of the country I usually check the philosophy shelves for Cioran's books, because I'm curious about his reception. Well, he's basically considered as one of their own in France, he's also pretty popular in Spain and in Italy (I mean, as popular as a guy writing about nothingness can be), I think I also found his books in Austria, but in London he is virtually unknown. I remember reading an interview in the Financial Times with a French billionaire, with the billionaire citing Cioran and with the interviewer (I suppose he was British) asking who that was.

What I'm trying to say it's that I find very interesting this distinction between mainland Europe vs UK + USA when it comes to books and the so-called "high culture". You'd think that 70+ years of mass consumption and Western mono-culture would have totally erased any differences by now but there are still some hold-outs.

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