skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree if that were actually true, but it's not.

With large enough services there is always some acceptable level of errors due to 0.001% probability events. When there's an outage, it's not usually everything down, but even 0.1% of jobs failing ends up affecting a lot of users.

Even 10% of jobs failing still isn't "down", it's "partly down", even if you have to issue credits for SLA violations and publish a public postmortem later.
If it's not sticky and smelly like algae then be it, people will get used to it.
>That may be a bit exaggerated.
It's really not though. As of time of writing, the customers have failed to sign up, and there's nothing to do about that on the fly, right now, today. Saying you "could have done X" doesn't mean that the problem isn't happening.

"Your house isn't on fire, you just haven't properly fireproofed it" isn't really helpful to anyone when their house is literally on fire.
Lol. Im sure $150 co2 sensor will be able to detect co2 concentration in the atmosphere of our planet.

Climat is a very delicate system. Once we remove too much there might not be enough time to reverse this.
There are many ways we can improve our lives with collective action which cannot be done on the individual level. That's really bedrock to modern society. Virtually everything that you pay a tax for qualifies for this definition, and that amounts of a major fraction of total economic product.

You are others are also comparing apples and oranges. A carbon tax redistributes wealth, it does not destroy wealth, except (speculatively) in 1st or 2nd derivative effects.

If you had to pay $1,000 more per year on energy and got that much more back as a refund check, then yes, you are worse off. Presumably, you re-balance to use less energy. This leaves your spending in a more constrained state. That reduction of economic freedom might be worth -$50 to you, but not -$1,000.
Cupertino stops SB35 development by delaying permits
Seems like a get rich quick scheme.
> The next thing should preserve the immense freedom and flexibility that cars brought.

Did the car bring freedom? A car is expensive for people to purchase, maintain, and operate. In many regions individuals are also compelled to purchase insurance because they are dangerous. They also drive up the cost of living since the expensive infrastructure must be paid through taxation, construction is more expensive because a certain amount of space must be allocated to parking, land is more expensive since infrastructure reduces the supply. The cost of cars pretty much dictates a particular way of living, even before factors such as urban sprawl are even considered.

Perhaps there were elements of freedom and flexibility when the automobile first gained traction, but the social geography mutated. Workplaces became more centralized, then decentralized, as the automobile facilitated large and dedicated zoning regulations. The shifting of workplaces necessitated the shifting of shopping and recreation, typically following patterns of consolidation in a spatial and business sense. With cities no longer being walkable, there were fewer reasons for housing to stay put. It too drifted outwards, often with little consideration to schools and medical care. The end result is that people are often stuck owning a vehicle or making very serious compromises to live without one.

I didn't mean to paint such a bleak picture, and it is likely more harsh than it rightfully deserves to be, but the reality is that the family car (and, later, personal car) ended up being more of a trade-off than a liberator. It is difficult to deny that more is within reach because of it, yet it is also undeniable that less is within immediate reach.
In all fairness, we had enough warning coming into it, and it was a short enough time period, that a lot of people I know were able to adjust their commutes (or avoid them entirely) for a few weeks so the trafficpocalypse never really came to fruition.

On the flipside, ferry parking was an absolute wreck of congestion for locals and tourists alike.

also, hi Frank! :)
We are decades into pumping vastly more carbon into the atmosphere than is sustainable. We're not going to accidentally flip that problem upside down without noticing years in advance.
You can steal anything as long as you steal it with a service truck or a rollback and wear a reflective vest while you do it.
Degrees is a key word. Numbers matter. What was downtime of your telephone line over last 5 years? What was downtime of Wikipedia over last 5 years?
Really good point, scaling around existing tech has been a focus for us since day one. Of the 300+ shops that have committed to using Cloosiv, 90% of them are on Square. This makes the upfront work easier, because they can just run our merchant app in the background of their iPad.

As we scale, it'll be important for us to integrate directly into software like Square (which we're currently working on, we're partnered with them), so shops can just install the Cloosiv app from their terminal and have orders and reporting flow through the existing software in place.
Ah, ok. I truly didn't know.
Looking at this illustration (something I found via googling "REE motor wheel"):

https://imgur.com/8iAOOAG

...which was linked off of:

https://newatlas.com/ree-modular-mobility-platform/60486/

It appears that the motor and gearbox are outside of the wheel, not an integrated part. Then there's a flat plate, then the wheel (that plate also seems to limit ground clearance).

It's nice that it's an all-in-one package, I guess - but not what I was really expecting (with the motor integrated into the rim, possibly the suspension being part of the wheel via sprung spokes or something).

While it would be great to have everything "in the wheel" - leaving tons of room for occupants and/or batteries on the chassis (not to mention fewer parts to wear) - the issue has always been how to cope with "unsprung weight" - which can lead to handling issues and "bad feel".

It might be possible (as my ideas noted above) - but it would require an almost complete rethinking and design of what a wheel, suspension, and motor should be; virtually the whole unit would need to be rethought - and my guess would be that the wheel/rim would essentially be a "rotor" in some fashion composed of "sprung segments". That rotor would either be some kind of PM structure (with the drive coils on the spindle/axle the rotor/wheel would rotate around), or it would be some kind of "squirrel cage" shaded-pole AC motor or something like that. There would likely need to be gearing incorporated to increase the torque, unless the motor could be designed to take tons of voltage and current (how to dump the heat generated?).

All things well outside my knowledge area, though.
Well Instagram let the boat sale away.

Where was the ability to directly link a product you are promoting in your post? How many times have you seen people say, link is in my profile?

They could be facilitating the sale of promoted products directly and offer brands and individuals services to make it easy to go from click to sale. Additionally make sure people stay on the correct side of the law and disclosing that they are being paid. Maybe even require such payments to go via Instagram.
It's still around -

https://www.pacifict.com/WhatsNew.html
Does the sugar not attract ants?
They were coming in C++17 too.
They're coming from outside. They establish routes that are many meters long through all available seams and cracks. Use Amdro ant bait (not 'blocker') in the spring around the structure perimeter when temps get above 10C/50F, avoiding wet weather. They carry the bait back to the nest and wipe it out. Follow the directions scrupulously and be patient; it will take a week. If you have a lawn keep it thick and healthy; ants usually prefer bare ground for nests. It's possible, with good landscaping and aggressive use of a caulking gun (assuming the structure is otherwise in good condition,) to keep them out, but that is often not feasible, and some ants are more industrious than others.
Edit : NVM, it's just an old version of the front end :/

https://github.com/gabipurcaru/dedo
I also live in a city of about 400,000 - and I have thousands of neighbors. Of course I don't know them all personally - I am familiar with different groups, communities, leaders, families. I know about what's important to them, what their goals are, what they are up to in our shared community. I care about them. Do you care about the health and wellbeing of people who are not your 10 immediate neighbors?
> The centralization of power in a few studios and chains is global. In 2015, the U.S.-China Security Review Commission noted that Hollywood now obeys Chinese censors pretty much for all films, even those made and distributed solely in the West. Unless this system is restructured, it is unlikely we will see any critical depictions of Chinese government actors again, which has its parallels to the Studio System in the 1930s pandering to Nazi Germany.

> ...

> In other words, we should aim to restore open markets for content again. This means separating out the industry into production, distribution, and retailing. We should probably ban predatory pricing so Netflix isn’t dumping into the market. And we should probably begin a radical decentralization of chains and studios.

There's some interesting stuff in this article and I'm glad that I read it. But at the end of the piece, aren't we talking about the same thing we're seeing in all US industries? As the players getting larger and more wealthy and become more powerful they do their best to freeze out competitors until we end up with a weird and dysfunctional closed system.

A lot of these criticisms pre-date Netflix and Amazon: summer movies started to become an all-or-nothing bet (and thus more homogenous, dull, and less risky intellectually) when it was just the studios.

I don't know what the solution might be, I struggle to keep a positive frame of mind in this regard. I do think it's unlikely that the government will step in an break these companies up, especially when they have so much money under their control.
Indeed, one controls the most expensive property on the internet, their influence is way beyond the NYT.
Congrats on the launch. How can I see whether you are in my neighborhood without first installing the app, accepting the t&c's, creating an account (and in the process giving you my email address)?
Totally agree. Something about CORS and the resources out there makes newcomers think that it's something the client has to do differently. I thought this when first doing cross-origin stuff, and thought it was just me until my dad (programmer for 30 years) got stuck on it the exact same way.

Also, the author makes a good point that `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` is pretty dangerous. I hadn't really worried about it in the past, because "I don't care who calls my api, they aren't authenticated". But if malicious client code got a hold of a user's session (using XSS or what have you), I'd be open to them steering my user's session and doing horrible things. Definitely going to review my current projects with this in mind.

Edit: of course, if I have an XSS vulnerability, they'd be able to do that from my domain anyway, so CORS doesn't 100% fix the problem. XSS is bad.
Mine was too... HO Scale though
HTML5 validation is excellent, even better if you use JS to customise it...
i would not put it in that category but i did address how it could be construed.

how would you describe the term handicap in the form of a lack in capability specific to the disability?
If you pass a pickup truck on the highway carrying an overflowing load of bikes haphazardly strapped down you passed a professional bike thief. They are carrying a load of bikes from one town, often a college town, to another. If you've bought a bike from a Craigslist seller who turns out to have a dozen or more bikes locked to a rack, often on a college campus, you bought a bike stolen from a town down the road.

But these are very seldom expensive bikes. The bad news is that your $75 bike you think is too cheap to steal from the train station rack is exactly what this kind of bike thief is looking for. They want low risk and fast turnover.
Will orange oil and bay leaves also work on ants (or, just baking soda will)?
Not necessarily the same bot. And they're not snooping so much as brute-forcing default/common/random(?) usernames & passwords.
> it's how I've started to feel about a lot of Hacker News, especially when my employer is the topic. When people presume the absolute worst -- in spite of more reasonable (and more likely) alternatives -- there's nothing fun to read or interesting to learn. I lose reasons to keep coming back.

Couple of points from someone who survived working for the Evil Empire when the entire technology world wanted to see "M$," "Micr0Squ1sh," "MacroSloth," and many other clever puns crushed under the weight of first the Department of Justice and later Netscape/Mozilla and Apple and Google.

First, you get used to it, especially faster once you realize it's not personal. The people making the comments are just seeing your company and what you do from the outside. They don't know your personal or professional reasons and, sometimes, rationalizations for those decisions. But you still really should come back and read the words and maybe even rebut them when you feel like it. Why? Because...

Second, there's a reason people are making these comments. Are they good reasons? Maybe. Are they your customers and do they, quite literally, hold the fate of your paycheck and continued good fortune and success in your hands? Damn right. Hiding from the negative feedback is just as much a "bubble" as negative feedback is on HN. You know what sucks worse than negative words on Hacker News? Negative words spoken at friendly social gatherings by people who aren't emotionally and financially invested in the technology industry because once those happens, your company is SCREWED.

You can't stop people having the feelings they do about your employer but you can ask why those feelings exist and what you can do to change them. Sometimes there's nothing but, often, there really is something.
Exactly! In my day job, a lot of our customers are small to medium governments, and their primary decision points are around risk exposure. We've managed to set up our government to optimize for avoiding possible downsides instead of innovating and making the status quo better.
We are aware of potential issues with nickel contamination in olivine and will be testing/monitoring for it. Nickel is found in formations of olivine where nickel replaces some of the magnesium ions in their crystal lattices, however, if we do have a large reserve with high content of nickel, we have a technique available to plant nickel hyperaccumulating plants above the crushed olivine to phytomine the nickel content. It is then possible to put the plants in a furnace and get 10% ore back, which we would then sell and use to further fund operations...

"In simple laboratory tests small nickel ingots were produced from the plant ashes. Sowing these plants on appropriate soils and harvesting them at the end of the growing season makes for an environmentally friendly way of recovering nickel. Because these plants extract nickel from the olivine lattice, for every ton of nickel in the plants 330 tons of olivine must weather, equivalent to a capture of 400 tons of CO 2 . Weathering proceeds faster under vegetation. The introduction of this method could revolutionize the nickel mining industry."

See page 8-9 of the Green Cookery Book here for more in-depth information on the technique: https://projectvesta.org/science/#dflip-df_103/9/
Or see this paper specifically on the topic: Schuiling, R.D. (2013) Farming nickel from non-ore deposits, combined with CO2 sequestration.
Thunderbolt 3 controllers have a 4x link to provide one or two ports or 2x in the case of JHL6240. Additionally PCIe is designed to support backwards compatibility and link scaling. I don't see any reason why the 1x gen2 lane of the pi 4 couldn't host a Thunderbolt 3 port; it would just severely bottleneck the bandwidth of tunnelled PCIe links.

Even though it would be limited, a Thunderbolt 3 port would expand the connectivity of the Pi, and very few, if any, devices require the maximum bandwidth to operate at all.
I get what you’re saying here, but is there an alternative to “take it or leave it” policies on the internet? It’s not like a company can negotiate with each individual user and come to a meeting of the minds.

That said, it seems like the real issue is that the policies are too long and unreadable. For that, I think providing a plain language version that clearly states “this is not the official policy,” but links to the official policy, could be good enough. I don’t know how much legal exposure is involved for the company here, but it seems like a workable compromise.
Wirecutter claims that the Evo Select line is an Amazon exclusive rebranding of the Evo Plus line and that this should reduce concern about getting a fake - for that line at least. https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-microsd-card/
Skid Steer Smackdown is way better. People get into it, you have the Cats (Caterpillar) versus the Kubs (Kubota)
Reminds me of The Simpsons episode where they let Lizards get rid of the pigeons, then plan to have snakes kill the lizards, then have gorillas eat the snakes. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
Reducing forest clearance and engaging in afforestation could be enough had anthropogenic CO2 emissions started dropping significantly in the 1990s. But they have continued to rise. Forestry changes aren't nearly enough to offset anthropogenic emissions from other sectors. They may be part of the solution but additional measures are needed.

Geoengineering is on the table now not because it is an easy shortcut, but because the world has failed to do enough in other ways. It's better for patients with prediabetes to change diet than develop full blown type 2 diabetes, but if diet doesn't change fast enough it's better to prescribe insulin than just let them die. Industrial civilization has discounted decades of warnings about changing its energy "diet" and will soon need more drastic measures.

I'm a little optimistic because renewable energy has become cheaper faster than I expected. I'm pessimistic because the world still isn't reducing fossil use fast enough (or at all, really -- so far the best news is "the percentage growth rate is slowing.") Even when the economics start to favor non-combustion energy sources, legacy fossil industries have often delayed the transition by obtaining government support to resist the economic pressures. So I believe that the world can transition to low-emissions energy but I also believe that it's not happening fast enough.

Even worse, the climate perturbation from anthropogenic emissions can trigger a dangerous positive feedback loop that will release even larger quantities of GHGs from natural stores as forests burn more frequently and permafrost thaws. I think that if people get the problem under control (as opposed to just suffering the effects, with no softening of the blow), it's going to involve 3 major prongs:

- Transition to non-fossil energy sources

- Geoengineering via solar radiation management, as a temporary bandaid to prevent runaway warming feedback

- Geoengineering via enhanced silicate weathering, as a thermodynamically stable fix for the excess CO2 added to the environment

Solar radiation management can be phased out as atmospheric CO2 levels drop. But with silicate weathering alone, I fear that thawing permafrost will outpace even the most ambitious CO2 drawdown efforts.

The second two prongs are still highly controversial and advocating for them tends to get one lumped in with climate denialists. I think that most people concerned about climate are going to come around eventually, though. The IPCC already has. We clearly aren't going to avert feedback loops by 2030 via emissions-reductions alone.
LinkedIn Is Down
I'd argue that a lot of shows have fairly rough first seasons, good to excellent second and third seasons, and then start running out of ideas in the fourth season.

Four seasons is a good length for a TV show. Two is too few most of the time.

This is a very rough metric of course. Some shows peak in their first season and go downhill from there. A few manage to reinvent themselves enough each season to avoid going stale, but in general four and done is good.
FishStore: A new storage layer for fast ingestion and indexing
Thanks! It's not super obvious (working on a redesign), but you can tap on the "explore" button from the homepage to take a look at the app without creating an account.
> If a species boasts many DNA copies, it is a success, and the species flourishes. From such a perspective, 1,000 copies are always better than a hundred copies. This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.

LOL, such a succinct rebuttal-yet-affirmation of the "Paleo diet"
That's regional accent. In Moscow it would be like that, but in other parts unstressed "a" would be pronounced more like "o" instead.
makes no sense on a continent like America

Based on what metrics?

Sure, the space is there, but there are real costs to using it the way we do. It is a choice we have made as a society. But, there's no natural law that required us to choose cars or stopping us from reconsidering.

As I see it:
- cars and the sprawl they allowed made sense at the time

- entrenched interested worked to codify the car-based lifestyle

- it is likely time to reconsider the path we took, given what we now know about pollution, the time wasted in traffic, and other factors.

- those entrenched interests have done such a good job of selling the car as a fundamental (and "free") part of the American Dream that many people are unwilling to consider anything else (see sibling comments about freedom and flexibility).

Edit - a few links that discuss the costs of maintaining suburban sprawl:
1 - https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/03/05/sprawl-costs-the-publ...
2 - https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/05/quantifying-cost-spra...
3 - https://fee.org/articles/the-unbearable-truth-about-infrastr...

Plenty more to read through, if you want to spend the time.
"The West Wing" is the one that hurt me in my heart place. I stopped watching when the meteor was hurtling towards the planet and I was relieved I wasn't still watching the show when they started to bring in musical guests.

In my opinion, most shows would do better with far fewer seasons.
I don't get it. People want comprehensive details about what companies do with their information, but they also want short privacy policies. You can't have both. And if you look at Google's privacy policy, it's not legalese at all. It's mostly explanatory, since its text binds Google, not the user.

The TOU is a different matter, but, again, users and the law have forced companies into the situation where they have to explicitly spell out every detail. Even with that, Google's terms are written in what seems to me to be plain English (https://policies.google.com/terms?gl=us). What would you cut from that to make it more concise? I can see a few things, but I'm also not a lawyer, and I'm not equipped to judge what liabilities each sentence might protect Google from.

Most people never read this stuff because most people just don't care. They'll never have a dispute with Google that would be covered by the terms, and they don't care enough about privacy to find a less convenient but more privacy-sensitive alternative. Even if they do care about privacy, they probably have a pretty good idea of what kinds of information Google collects, so the privacy policy is at most a reference for cases where they are unsure. Attempting to force them to read it would be unproductive, since it contains information that is either irrelevant or else already known to potential users.