skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aside: it is generally considered safer to have the outlets ("receptacles") installed with the ground at the top, but we don't tend to do this in NA because ground at the bottom makes it look like a little face and humans like faces.

I'm not sure there's any basis for this. See this article for example:

https://www.archtoolbox.com/materials-systems/electrical/gro...

The real reason why this was done historically was perhaps due to this:

> Back in those days, there were very few plastic faceplates on AC receptacles and switches. They were almost all made of metal. All that holds a faceplate in position is one short screw for an AC receptacle. If the screw loosens and falls out, the faceplate will drop down and short out the two power prongs on anything that is plugged into that outlet. Such accidents used to be commonplace which is why power receptacles were put in upside down.

With plastic faceplates it no longer applies. Which is why most newer medical facilities have them in regularly facing. It was done for a reason, but people forgot what that reason is, then myth turned into legend and people kept doing it cargo cult style without knowing why it started ("safer" requires an explanation). The whole "drop a metal tool" justification was likely a rationalization to a practice people didn't understand, but doesn't actually make sense.

That all being said, it isn't less safe to put them "upside down." It just might interfere with some consumer electronics that assume a certain orientation (like those plugged in perfume bottles, smart home sensors, or similar).
Isn't Zen 2 a new architecture??
they are identities, and it's not clear at all if they are anonymous or not. either way, the names don't really add to the story, so why take the risk?
Disagree with "disagree"

...see where that leads us? Please actually voice reasons how it's not cleaner, as it's most definitely less verbose,
And having less clutter is generally seen as cleaner
"Some of the chaos was deliberately engineered mischief. One evening in Wyoming, Eisenhower convinced the soldiers that their camp was vulnerable to attack by Native American warriors."

Possibly the ultimate "Oh man this guy..." moment for the soldiers ;)

The guy who discharged his weapon later maybe thought "Ok fine let's play along and put an end to this..."
Pretty sure that was 1945.
At least give me a diff-in-diff, guys.

To be fair, they acknowledge their limitations and the fact that they can't make a causal interpretation. (Bad hospitals -> nurses leave?) But why the hell design the study this way?
"Finite-field" is the operative phrase in that sentence. I wouldn't tell you to use IES, as in the thing where you do g^xy mod p. I would tell you to use libsodium's box, which is a specific implementation of something sorta like ECIES, though.

The confusion is that IES/ElGamal sometimes means a family of systems and sometimes someone literally means FFDH + AESCTR or something. The abstract concept is fine, but you should use a hardened implementation.
> I recently remodeled a house (in the US), and installed every receptacle with the ground at the top, because of that.

Have you run into any appliances or devices that are "optimized" for a ground-down configuration?
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> yet it can run out and cause entire nations to go into chaos. Since it is literally a sociological experiment, are we going to get to the point where we fine tune the allotment such that we disable down-turns?

Yes. Money comes into existence ex nihilo. There are trillions of USD in existence today, but the dollar has only existed since 1792. They came into existence by the power of the government printing press. We can "run out" in the sense that we don't have sufficient dollars in circulation, which is a very severe problem, but the solution can be summarized in a simple way: have the government create more money.

And how does the government create more money? By spending it into existence.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/16/18251646/modern...
It definitely doesn't work for me. I'll ask the store. Thanks.
> The statement is predicated on the entire system being ungrounded (i.e., everything on your side of the transformer).

This is not possible for AC due to capacitive coupling between everything. In a large-ish ungrounded AC distribution system, a fault from one phase to ground will carry a large amount of current due to capacitive coupling from the other phases to ground. To reduce this current, an inductor can be installed from neutral to ground [0].

Even for use within a single room, a safe isolated AC system is complicated [1]. If you’re doing benchtop AC experiments, you should not use an isolation transformer — you should use a GFCI.

[0] https://circuitglobe.com/peterson-coil-grounding.html
[1] https://www.pglifelink.com/line-isolated-monitors
Well, the source said the following: The lady looked impressive all over, far more realistic than other games even attempted. Complete realism wasn't possible, of course, and Gard intended Lara to have somewhat exaggerated dimensions from the start. While making test adjustments to her girlish figure, a slip of his mouse turned an intended 50% increase to her breast size into a 150% gain. It met with instant approval from the team before he could correct it.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/03/01/ign-presents-the-his...
https://youtu.be/Op-rzboJ_1Q?t=2750

Q: Will any part of Cisco's AV1 encoder be released as open source?
A: Not in the immediate future. Maybe in the far future we will do something like OpenH.264. We'll also have to see what the adoption pattern looks like.

So for practical purposes their encoder isn't available and you can't point people to it.

Also low-latency high-bandwidth encoding is different from the typical use case where you just want smaller video files, so again kind of misleading.
I suppose it would take a fully coded example really explain it. I cannot provide one at this time.
Reminds me of the conversations between Pan American's Juan Trippe and Boeing's Bill Allen described in Skygods [0] (don't have exact quote but this blog [1] is close enough).

> With the head of Boeing as captive audience, Trippe laid out his vision for an airliner that would multiply the astounding success of Boeing’s 707 by adding capacity for more than twice as many passengers. Allen, already sitting on the substantive plans of Boeing’s proposal for the USAF CX-Heavy Lift System (soon to be won by the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy), was more than interested.

> The meeting is supposed to have concluded with his famous line ‘If you’ll buy it, I’ll build it.’ To which Trippe replied ‘If you build it, I’ll buy it’.

> And the seed of the Boeing 747 was planted.

[0] https://airscapemag.com/2018/09/25/if-you-build-it/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Skygods-Fall-Pan-Robert-Gandt/dp/0615...
As the article explains, we aren’t talking about that original insulin. We are talking about the new fast acting forms with fewer complications.
Markets are not places where locals and tourists go for the same reasons. There's little overlap in what a tourist would buy compared to a local: most tourists aren't interested in deals on toilet paper and dish soap, and locals aren't interested in City Name Tchotchkes. Most locals find supermarkets and malls to be far superior places to shop.
When open source projects get VC funding, it makes me trust them less. Eventually, the investors are going to want their money back with a profit. When that happens, the companies are going to try to monetize their offering often in ways that are detrimental to the open source project.
> Technically we could simply stop all of this IT stuff, re-allocate the world so everyone gets an acre and dissolve the government. No one would work more than a few hours per day

Well, apart from all the people who would be dead; the diabetics, many of the elderly, and those with various other chronic conditions. The gradual reintroduction of fatal measles would kill from the other end of life. Women would probably be extremely upset about the end of access to contraception, especially as the maternal mortality rate crept back above 1/100.
>I'm not convinced that a fuse belongs in a plug, either, especially if it's invisible, and the plug has to be completely disassembled with a screwdriver to access it.

Moulded plugs generally use a clip-in fuseholder that can be opened with any pointed object; rewireable plugs can be opened to replace the fuse by loosening one captive combination Philips/flat screw. It's usually far easier than replacing a fuse in the appliance, which is often on a PCB-mounted holder buried within the guts of the appliance.
MS seems to push Python these days, but I doubt it will happen for Excel: they rewrote a lot of it in JS, so it makes more sense for them to provide a JS binding. Besides, making Python decently works on the Web version of Office would be a huge challenge.
This is extremely passive. Cool you think that, but do you want them to do anything about it?

Maybe "please align the variable definitions."
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You mistakenly equate effort with value.
The global new cities “epidemic”
1. The consumers aren’t really choosing, their prescribers are, with a lot of friction required to change against their initial decision.

2. While they still had the patent on the regular tamsulosin formulation, they stopped making it. Effectively forcing everyone onto the XR formulation unless they wanted to change molecules entirely.

The data showed little difference as I recall in terms of effectiveness because the half life was long enough to take once daily, regardless of formulation.
In that case we could just say: "Pascal was not a failure; currently it is incarnated as C". :)
Who says we can't make San Francisco affordable?
Funny, having kids around seniors is the reason that the UK doesn't vaccinate kids for chicken pox by default. The reason being that constant exposure means that the adults are less likely to get shingles.
There was plenty of hostility in 1996, too. By 2000, certainly some people decided something needed to be done about the hostility, but I don't recall "core talent" leaving over it.
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It actually might. You can write Elixir for years without learning Erlang syntax, but if you’re a perfectionist, you’re gonna notice bugs in your Erlang deps just as much as in your Elixir deps, and you’re gonna want to submit PRs for them, and that leads you to learning Erlang.

Also, IMHO, if you want to have a solid foundation when learning Elixir, it’s simpler to learn Erlang/OTP as a cohesive whole (from e.g. ferd’s Learn You Some Erlang book) and then “chase it” with an Elixir book; rather than trying to understand OTP through the lens of how it’s exposed in Elixir. Everyone in the elixir-lang Slack that asks how to get started learning Elixir, I tell them to learn Erlang first. So “being a simpler jumping-off point to Elixir knowledge” is also kind of a killer app.

I would guess that this is only true in cases where there are killer apps for a secondary language on a runtime, but no killer apps for the primary language. Like, I wouldn’t say that Clojure is a killer app for Java. But then, is that because Java is already popular? Or is that because Clojure developers don’t necessarily end up knowing Java as well as Elixir developers end up knowing Erlang?
Before CF was CF, they were a group of blackhats running honeypots. I was part of that community. It turned out, building a distributed CDN had potential to make money. And here we are. They built a great CDN. I would use them over Akamai any day. They have very talented hackers. That said, consolidating all DNS lookups to one central company guarantees they will have non stop pressure (if not already) to give warrant-less access to the data. This is very valuable data.

I never take privacy statements on a website seriously. A company can say one thing and do another. HN crowd knows this better than anyone.
The battery is excellent, the phone is water resistant, it's just not rated as water proof, I'm a large person and I don't need my phones to be as thin as paper, I don't mind large phones. It's not thick at all.
Link to full Whitepaper https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016b-a5a1-d241-adff-fdf90...
Transcript: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
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Sure, but not everyone agrees on what's "readable" or "maintainable", and no organization has hashed out all the design patterns and coding style that it would deem appropriate. Even if there's a "better" way of doing something, not everyone might agree that it's worth the effort. A lot of "elegant" patterns are less readable. (e.g. object-oriented abstractions vs a functional approach)

I'm not advocating for flimsy or convoluted code, yet I don't advocate for perfection. If a reasonable person can understand the code in front of them, and there's nothing objectively wrong with the code, then there should be a clear point where the review is considered done, the code is merged, and any further notes from the review are used to generate new tickets that may get handled by anyone on the team.
"sudo su" is "launch su with superuser privileges", which is eh... weird to say the least. You probably wanted "sudo -i".
Awesome. It looks like the scale model discussed in the video is free to visit at the Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausilito.
I signed up thinking it would be A good idea to diversify outside of eBay. The barrage of notification spam made me uninstall right away.
The fuse is located in the plug, rather than the device, because one of the most likely ways to be exposed to live wire is a damaged/frayed power lead. If the fuse is located in the device, it does not protect the upstream part of the system.
> As far as voltage is concerned, there's a very good reason why most of the world uses about 240 volts for "normal" outlets.

If North America would ever decide to start using 240V for appliances (through a transition period), what style of plug should be used? UK-style (Type G)? Europlug? Other?

* https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/
These examples posted so far all seem to fall into the "What You Can't Say" heresy camp, rather than actual overt racism. I can't speak for his character in general, but the stuff here comes off entirely as him having different political beliefs, a lack of tact, and the nerve to speak about his beliefs publicly.
Damn, thanks though.

Presumably it's a client support thing, as in if you use a third-party client with Fastmail/Tutanova that does support it, they won't mangle the headers?

I'll get around to testing it I suppose, just not something I thought of or realised I'd lose when I switched away from Gmail.
Ugh, and they're all using M2Crypto, which is terrible and broken anyway. I had huge issues with encrypting things with it and being able to decrypt or verify signatures with other libraries.

I switched to PyPi RSA. It took a little bit of digging, but it seems to use a sane exponent by default:

https://github.com/sybrenstuvel/python-rsa/blob/11bf33264c62...
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As I mentioned in another comment this is probably PR fluffery for the IPO that should eventually happen[0]. I don't know when that IPO might happen and I really, really wish I did :)

I'll also add that a lot of your complaints have been around for a while. I personally always disliked parties (and I know I wasn't the only person in Poshmark who disliked them, both in and outside of eng). Overhauling My Size was one of those "we really need to do it but it's a huge engineering commitment nobody wants to make" type of situations. Returns, BTW, don't really fit the business model, unfortunately.

Poshmark definitely has flaws, but it's impressive how much it has succeeded in spite of them. Not the least of which is that the space is pretty crowded; there's depop, mecari, TheRealReal, ThredUp, etc, etc. Never mind EBay! But something is working right to get the kind of user base they have. And a lot of people are ferociously loyal to it.

[0]: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/fashion-resale-marketplace-...
I used that on C code before Lisp: jump from { to } or vice versa, while reindenting.

Whether you get this alignment:

(oper args
blah blah)

or this one:

(fun arg arg
arg arg)

depends on one very simple configuration: the lispwords variable. All the identifiers listed in lispwords are given the former treatment.

Then there are minor squabbles like what happens with the t clause in cond.

A lot of the time I just use visual select and =.

Also, in Vim, when you reindent multiple lines, it basically assumes that the first one is indented right; it will not move it relative to it predecessors.

You often have to hit == on the first line to get it into alignment, and then %= (or whatever) to reindent the range below it. E.g.:

(let ((x y))
(blah ;; here we type ==
blah blah
(foo bar
boo))

(let ((x y))
(blah ;; now %=
blah blah
(foo bar
boo))

(let ((x y))
(blah
blah blah
(foo bar
boo))
Koblitz and Menenez took a long look at that - they believe it's possible, but not necessarily likely: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf
"Shipping [your] product"? How do I, for example, make money off of libsodium?

The point of the article is all the ways RSA blows up. libsodium addresses that style of problem. Saying there are other problems ("how do we agree on a key") may be true, but isn't responsive to the discussion.
Ah yeah, posix doesn't require -n to do anything in particular. For most use cases, strict adherence to posix compatibility isn't important, but sometimes it really really is.
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A big issue I remember from my last time reading about this system was that the printed paper ballot it prints out isn't similar to scantron; instead, it prints out your choices and then also has a barcode for the tallying machine to use.

The issue is that this barcode can't be easily deciphered by the voter. Nothing is stopping the machine from being hacked to print out a barcode that's marked [candidate 1] while the paper otherwise says they voted [candidate 2] (who the voter actually voted for).

---

One thing I'd really like to ask is why no big SV companies have came in to provide a "this is actually secure" solution. Is it really impossible to make an 'unhackable' physical machine? iPads (with guided access/MDM/etc) for DIY-ordering stations seem to be secure enough for PCI use, so why aren't they considered for elections?
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I played over 20 hours of assassins creed through chrome during the stadia beta and I couldn't notice any latency. While it might not work for games like cs go, AR, or bad networks, they 100% have a working product today for assassins creed.
The article is just the title stretched out into a few paragraphs. Signal to noise ratio is close to zero.
Why cant everybody just learn Linux ? Why cant microsoft just invest the same amount of money it does for Excel for Linux ?
I misunderstood that part during my first read, so I would like to add a few clarifications:

> > Are you saying that the DC voltage difference is always 0 VDC?
> Measured across the only connection between two otherwise isolated systems, yes.

The systems are isolated, so there is no fixed potential between them, their "DC" potential difference is therefore random (unknown quantity of excess/missing electrons) before they are connected, and you can have charge transfer if you connect both, that will balance the extra electrons on both sides. Electrons will flow in a way that the resulting density is uniform, like repulsing magnets. Therefore, there is no potential difference between any point in these two systems (barring local differences -- like a battery--, or at the very least, no potential difference across the connecting cable).

An analogy that could or could not help is trough gravitational potential energy: take two water buckets, isolated. The potential across them is the height difference between their water lines. We didn't specify where we left the buckets, so it is random. Now if we connect the bottom of the buckets, the system will find its way to the "ground state", or lowest energy state: the water line in both buckets will align (Communicating vessels), and you therefore have no DC potential across those: connect an extra piece of tubing, nothing will flow.

This analogy is quite powerful and can be used for capacitors, diodes, etc. (as most flux/potential analogies). It has its limits, though.
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W can be constant, in which case there is no contradiction. Of course then V=IR means I need to change R as well. However this is all math. You can choose to hold any one factor constant and change the others to fix your needs.

In the real world V is a constant outside your control (120 in the US, 220 elsewhere), and A is limited by local wiring conventions (which means realistically the amount of watts you can get is different - but this is not a factor of voltage). The only factor you can change is R, which turns out to be easy enough (in this application).
Well the article is certainly informative why not to self-implement RSA, but the conclusion to just use libsodium seems stupid. I don't really know cryptography, but I'm sure there are libraries that implement RSA correctly and could be easily used instead.
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Medical doctors have given me ignorant, incoherent or harmful advice many times.

When someone says something that doesn’t make sense to you, do you just put whatever they’ve handed you into your mouth without asking questions?
Apple controls the CA; it's pretty straight forward for them to check contents.

iMessage really could have been something great (despite apple controlling CA) if they had just opened it up for more devices. Instead WhatsApp wiped the floor with them.
Well he still didn't admit it was a bad move, putting other people in danger. If it's abandoned, mark it abandoned, let others fork it. So simple.
The final volume in Teixeira's series (at least, that published on the US side of the pond, and available online) appears to be the Life of the Scorpion (https://archive.org/details/lifeofscorpion00fabr/) which unfortunately does not have his name attached in the metadata. It is also lacking a translator's note (as he died in 1921, and published 1923, that's not entirely surprising.).

The list of translations at the beginning of Life of the Scorpion, however, appears to be the best aggregation for my above question. Note that 'More Hunting Wasps' also does not appear with Teixeira's name attached in archive.org.

Florence Bicknell also translated what appears to be a rather excellent series on science and natural philosophy by J.H. Fabre, which is freely available: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Bicknell%2..., though these lack the fine illustrations in the OP.
My comment was a bit rude as well, I apologize. The website seems to be a little argumentative and it rubbed me the wrong way.
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i had similar thoughts. what would a modern terminal look like? one where positions and cursor movements are not defined by obscure escape codes but by a proper API.