skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the USA, there's no green wire between the service panel and the ground rod. The green wires end at the ground bus in the panel, which is bonded to the panel case. A heavy, bare copper wire leads from the ground bus to the ground rod.

The neutral bus is either bonded to the case with a green grounding screw or is integral with the ground bus.
Web app: Django+Postgres+Bootstrap locally done with Docker, deployed with Heroku.

With Django you get a lot straight out of the box, including: user management, admin dashboards. For an 1 or 2 person built MVP I wouldn't even bother with a JS frontend, just Django forms & Bootstrap templates and full HTTP/POST forms. It simplifies everything and removes a point of failure.

You can get a solid functional system working very, very quickly. Which you can deploy to Heroku for $0 while you iterate, which can be converted to production ready system for as under $50/month depending on what you need.

Desktop: Python+Qt - but thats old and probably bad advice in 2019.
Fort Worth Escorts
What a fun watch. I was a member of CiA, the “Creators of intense Art” and my handle at the time shows up in the video. I wasn’t an ANSI artist though — mostly worked on VGAs using Photoshop and 3D Studio R4 on my 386DX with the math coprocessor. Rendering frames was painfully slow, but there was a big push each month to pull together a collection of ANSI, VGA, RIP, and Lit to release and highlight our skills.

I’m still in touch with a few of the guys I knew from the group. Most were people I’d never met in person —- only spoke to on phone bridges or on IRC.

Such a fun and formative time where everything was still so new and unexplored.

One of the more interesting things to come out of the ANSI scene, as the web began to emerge, was a website called tiles.ice.org which gave each artist just the edge pixels of a square of artwork from what another artist had created. From there, the artist on the receiving end, could create their own square of the overall composition. Only when all of the squares had been created could you see the end product with the combined imagery created from the imaginations of artists who expanded upon the edge pixels from another artist.

Thanks for posting this. I remember those days very fondly.
How much friction is there really in adding “toilet paper” to your shopping list and grabbing it during the next grocery run? It really feels like a solution in search of a problem.
Tesla is facing a lawsuit (well, many lawsuits). They obviously aren't going to put out any sort of public statement that would show there's a chance Tesla is at fault. This is PR for PR's sake.
Is it Autopilot's standard behavior to decelerate/pump the brakes when it detects a vehicle at an intersection? Yes, I agree 10 seconds should be more than enough time for AP to begin preliminary evasive/mitigating maneuvers, but according to what u/zaroth posted [0], the preliminary findings do no not indicate this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20597980
Well you could’ve move in with your partner, and meet your friend somewhere. I get what you are saying but London is damn expensive so living out a bit makes sense for many people.
So almost like a store or using your phone anyway.
> Ideally, everything one says should be sincere, so your idea sounds weird to me.

This is an extremely characteristic HN/engineer comment.

People use irony in communication. It's part of the human repertoire. Saying "oh great" in response to bad news, for example. The notion that ideally there would be no irony in textual communication isn't a practical or desirable possibility. It's in the same Zuckerbergian category as beliefs in the transparency of communication or the sacred integrity of having a single online identity.

The thing that really kills the "sincerity mark" is that there's no reason why it can't be abused and lose its meaning, as has happened with the word "literally".
I take your point about icons without text but I would guess for 90% of people all the buttons on the microwave are blank except the time keypad, the start button, and maybe the power level setting. No one reads the manual.
The parent commenter referred to food items, not to the retail outlets where those items are purchased.
I'll openly admit that until now, I thought kudzu was just the name of a Red Hat Linux command used to detect and configure new hardware....
The only way to do what you suggest is...you know. That's the only thing that will roll it back even a little. I'm available whenever, but I have no misconceptions about how brutal it will be.

Just locally where I live I've watched the total state moving forward. Police are moving in unmarked/low marked vehicles a la Gestapo, intersections all suddenly have cameras, I've read articles about how LE have tracked people via their cell phones--there is a "digital fence" that the police automatically get notified if someone prohibited enters with their phone. Is that not total surveillance state? When you can't even move around without someone tracking you? Granted, they can turn off the phone or put it in a Faraday bag, but the point is, we should not have to!

Slippery slope may be a fallacy, but damn, it sure doesn't seem like it when all the dots start getting connected.

I'm not on board with any of it. I am not some kind of serf, peon, or resource to be exploited. If some shit has to burn down to make that point, well, that's what will have to happen.
Sure, but until then, we should phase out useless coinage. I avoid cash largely because I have having a pocket full of coins. Eliminating the penny (and preferably the nickel and dime as well) would encourage me to use cash again.
Also see slides[0] from a recent course at SIGGRAPH2019 that Steven De Keninck and Charles Gunn held.

[0]: https://slides.com/enkimute/siggraph/
I'm dealing with an insurance mess right now. I got a physical at a in-network doctor a month ago and they sent my blood sample to an out-of-network lab. My insurer sent me a statement last week saying that $444 of the $954 bill is eligible for payment. However since I hadn't met my deductible for out-of-network spending yet, I would have to pay that entire $444 on top of the $510 that they wouldn't cover even if the sample had been sent to a in-network lab.

I believe/am hopeful that since I live in New York, which prohibits out-of-network providers from surprise billing patients without the patient's informed and explicit consent that the procedure would be considered out-of-network [0], that I ultimately won't be held liable for the bill.

Fortunately as a software engineer, I can trivially afford to pay the bill in the worst case. But I shudder to think of the consequences for someone in a much less privileged circumstance.

[0]: https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/health_insurance/surprise_m...
Medieval is usually used as a name for a period of Europe's (and periphery) history, not a global time period.

E.g. while one might write about "Medieval China", the actual periods of history of China is better described in terms of dynasties (Han, Ming, etc.) -- and of course it doesn't come with the same connotations the term "medieval", "dark ages" comes from in Europe, nor there is a subsequent "renaissance" or "age of reason", etc with the same connotations as Europe (there is a period often referenced as renaissance, but it's about a new "golden age", prosperity etc.)
Defense in depth is always a nice thing to have but it hardly seems like a requirement since the reason you lock down services behind a firewall is supposed to be because they're aren't hardened enough to be on the public internet. I don't think that would describe the Atlassian suite who probably has better SecOps than most of their customers.
Lawsuit filed against GitHub in wake of Capital One data breach
There makes up part of one of the BBC Human Planet episodes. An absolute must-watch show.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00llpvp/episodes/guide
I remember a lot of them setting up 3 year contracts and giving an instant $400 on a new computer in exchange for signing up. Aol and Prodigy both had them and i'm pretty sure a few others did as well.

Then there was the whole NetZero hacking to disable the ads (that ate half the bandwidth). Those were the days in deed.
Babies
I’m not saying Autopilot should have handled this. I’m saying the driver should have seen the potential threat sometime before engaging the system, and realized it was not a safe time to let it run unassisted. (It’s never truly safe in the current incarnation, but there are degrees.)
Pre money Kevin Rose's neighbor.. these were great.
The information here is fascinating. But the delivery... I don't even know how to describe it. Is it bro, or ?, or everything-ass-cool? At first it's fun, but then it becomes overdone. Skatergnome did this well, with a measured approach that was such that it didn't become tiresome - https://everquest.fandom.com/wiki/Skater_Gnome_Stories .

Anyway, "cool story bro".
> EGC (which is bonded to the box), back to the source (usually a transformer)

EGC is bonded to the panel enclosure at the ground bus. The neutral bus is also bonded to the enclosure with a ground screw. So, the EGC is directly connected to the neutral bus and a fault between hot and a bonded enclosure is routed via the EGC to neutral, tripping the breaker.
CCP Makes a pretty good case regarding livestock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk

America did offer a new disease that ravaged Europe. Syphillis.
> The only reason they run separate wires is in case of of mistakes.

Erm no.

1. In case the neutral gets disconnected, so the frame isn't at the potential of the hot (no voltage drop across the device)

2. So the return voltage drop in the white wire isn't on the body of the device. ~20 volts between adjacent high-current appliances on different phases probably wouldn't be terribly dangerous to most people, but it is sloppy.

3. For GFCI/RCD, it separates bona fide return currents from "accidental" return currents. With only two wires, dropping a toaster into a (PVC-drain) bathtub wouldn't trip. (Erm, I just realized most toasters are actually only two wires. Well uh, don't do that).
>Romans did have soap but they mostly used it to clean clothes not themselves.

Which is the same as not having bathing soap...
FAKE news - she's a climate catastrophist - this happens every year particularly in mid Summer ....what a surprise. Have a look at Tony Heller's factual summary published to day Cherry Picking Season in Greenland
https://youtu.be/N7wrRmJ8n5w
That's my first thought as well. What's next? Amazon credit card with discount on Amazon and minimum spend for even cheaper rent?
It's already off the front page.
Can you buy from yourself?
3D Printing: Overview, Impacts, and the Federal Role
Because (in theory) the Atlassian stack is sufficiently hardened and can be safely run over the public internet.

The idea that everything must be behind a VPN at all times and you must hit the exact same login form twice to do anything is silly and why most office staff love off-prem services.
There is at least one disease that traveled in the opposite direction. Syphilis came from the Americas and it was really devastating when it first appeared.
I have a family member who is a doctor, and he and his friends regularly get together to figure out how to bill the most money.

I'd be fine with it if it wasn't healthcare. He doesn't even like being a doctor. Something is broken.
Is it garbage logic?

Dev: "The compiler's automatic error checking didn't catch the array overrun in my code, resulting in a costly security breach!"

Compiler Vendor: "Our data shows that compiler diagnostics, when used by a skilled and conscientious programmer who is prepared to review and test his or her code, reduce software defects compared to no diagnostics, making software development safer."
Hey jcwayne,

Refinery Co-founder here! You bring up a good point -- we should probably have an About page that describes our backgrounds a bit more.

Refinery was started by a colleague/friend and myself. He wrote up a super hacky prototype for himself (to automate his side projects) and he showed it to a bunch of his friends (including me). We started working on it together as a side-project while we had full-time gigs and then eventually realized that enough people were interested that we should turn it into a business.

The current version of the app is a re-write of the original prototype and we've been grinding on it full time for a while now. Made a lot of progress and we have a big roadmap of stuff we'd like to add!

One of the primary reasons we ask for a Credit Card on signup is to combat fraud. Under-the-hood we actually mint an AWS sub-account for your account on signup. So any compute you use... We pay AWS for. The small base fee per month (after the first month) covers the running servers that we keep online per account (because of the AWS sub-account sandboxing, there are zero shared resources between accounts).

Hopefully that makes sense. We just launched a demo version of the app that you can use here[0].

Let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to email us too at support at refinery.io with any thoughts or continued questions. We're hungry for feedback right now and we're trying to build a product that people actually want to use. :)

Cheers,

- Free

0: https://app.refinery.io/import?q=td5zpsp5s7gw
The proposed Nintendo/Sony CD-ROM was also caddy based.
Malpractice costs are a relatively small proportion of the total costs for healthcare[1]. Probably around 3%. Doctors love to complain about being sued and about the high cost of premiums, but being able to sue for malpractice is the only recourse a patient has when a doctor or medical practice screws up.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048809/
They managed to abolish slavery, which is quite an achievement improving life significantly for a large part of the population.
3” discs could take an eye out.
If it were the other way around, I guarantee someone would be on this thread arguing that obviously this means that older people don't have enough mental stamina and energy for fast-moving companies and startups. After all, if two people walked a mile, and one of them was more tired at the end of it, that person's probably less physically fit -- why wouldn't mental jobs be the same?

A lot of biases work this way. People look at a result and then come up with a plausible explanation that just happens to already fit their worldview.

It's a very subtle trap that's very, very easy for people to fall into -- I have my own fair share of embarrassing moments where I've done this. I think it's important to be very careful when interpreting results that can have multiple different causes, particularly when they're not linked to a previous prediction.
> government, law enforcement

The thing is when it gets cheap enough, other players start enter the game too. Companies. Criminal gangs. Or even private individuals.

A situation of "if surveillance is outlawed, only outlaws will have surveillance" should be taken into account.
A more wild and outlandish thought experiment: would you become infinitely indebted for infinite reward? Imagining some cyberpunk wasteland where every commodity, pastime, medication, and media content is wildly expensive but offset by huge subsidies from complicated conglomeration of other corporations and government entities. Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically complex and intractable balance sheet of funny money, credits, discounts, loopholes, taxes, rebates, free services, restrictions, obligations.

Watch Spider-Man 87 for $1,340,233 but receive free Chex-mix for life, $3000 off each gas purchase at qualifying locations, in-home massages, the ability to use highway 37 from 11:30-3:30 without charge from Nov 23rd 2043 to Oct 18 2067, increased inspections from police, tutoring for your next born child, and 34 trees are planted in your name in Nigeria.

This obviously grows necessarily from an economy focused on increasing GDP and maximizing the effectiveness of financial instruments :)
The JVMS was around 20 years ago, and had a lot of great hints. And then there was the smalltalk 80 book which talked about how it’s interpreter was implemented. Actually, I’m kind of depressed we haven’t advanced very much from methods in use 40 years ago.
Dunno if that's strictly true.

A story. Emergency room visit for moi (super high BP plus PVC that appeared out of nowhere). They hook up an EKG machine, wait an hour, tell me to see my doctor. Since it was a heart thing, I got bumped to the head of the line but forget to fork over my insurance card.

Bill #1 $10k from hospital $2.5k from ER physician

Bill #2 $4k if I pay it right away in cash

Bill #3 $500 (deductible cost) once the insurance people are brought into the picture.
I wish I could have the ANSI logos I made for my group. Such intense and exciting times. It was truely the edge of things at the time.
I don't like creepy, polluting, malevolent people in my home.

A creepy, polluting, malevolent non-human entity would be doubly unwelcome.
Duct tape is a hack.

Low-tech hack, but a hack nonetheless.
With the right circumstances, I would actually accept such a deal.

Those circumstances would have to include clauses such as:

1. reasonably low purchasing quotas (i.e. well under a few hundred dollars per month)

2. reasonably substantial rent discounts

3. Amazon maintains its competitive pricing

4. the "subsidized" rent has to be meaningfully cheaper than a comparable "unsubsidized" competitor while maintaining substantially equivalent quality

However balancing #1 and #2 cannot actually be possible in reality in my view.
Russians thought so to, that's why they have 9 of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker#Rus...
Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully switched from tech to construction?
I am recently became more interested in tangible objects and am interested in making a career change. Does anyone who has done this or knows someone who has done this have any feedback on whether it was a good move for them?
So, the point is that they have a ton of cash. You hold cash because you want to invest in your own company. Implicitly, by not paying it out as dividends or buying back stock with that money, Alphabet is saying to the market "Trust us, we'll put that money to better use than you would. We'll make you a lot more money with this money"

To look at it from another perspective: if it's cheap for you to innovate, ok great! That means you can innovate a bunch more! Spend all that cash innovating away! Oh, you can't spend it all? That means you don't have a bottomless supply of ideas that you haven't been able to try out, it means you're already innovated out and should just buy back the stock to give the money back to investors
Tree First Aid After a Storm
Anecdotal, but I worked with a guy who didn't bathe due to religious reasons. The body odor from him did _not_ fade.
I discussed the funding in my comment above, in that medicare funding is only part of the problem. Nothing would stop a hospital from paying for resident training so long as the ACGME gave their blessing.
Hm. Is it that bad?

The data would seem to at least falsify the warfare hypothesis: if they were mostly prisoners-of-war, you'd expect a few localities & demographics to be overrepresented (as they are from the usual enemy city-states, or a burst of young male sacrifices from a victorious battle with many prisoners).

And a gradual dispersion of victims falling off steadily with distance yet with a long tail of very remote origins sounds to me like what you'd get from a mature long-distance network of slave traders.
There is also the matter of unanticipated leakage current between hot and the equipment enclosure. The EGC/green wire keeps the enclosure close to ground potential.
I hope so. When I read that steam came out of my ears. All I could think was the Hulk Hogan got $140M for.. cheating (yeah I know it's more complicated than that) and here we have this poor family that is only going to get $15k. Just... not sure where this world is heading.
Sure he shows some info, but it seems he also cherry picks hot years in the past too. Doesn't talk much on averages, just a few old newspaper articles.
I’m really glad my wife and I are on the same page about “smart” speakers, in that we know never to get one of these devices for the other as a gift or otherwise. She is not at all a techie, but finds the technology creepy from a privacy perspective. Knowing that people outside of our circles are uncomfortable with it makes me a little more hopeful for the future.
That's how I remember it.
> Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically complex and intractable balance sheet of funny money, credits, discounts, loopholes, taxes, rebates, free services, restrictions, obligations.

Sounds like buying an airline ticket. No thanks.
There’s an excellent RadioLab episode about Persistent Surveillance. The anti-crime powers it brings to a city are compelling, only overshadowed by the powers for abuse.

Worth a listen IMHO: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/eye-sky
Reading this makes me realize programming editors should have an optional search flag to skip comments. It shouldn’t be that difficult.
> I can't believe how stupid the "Hacker" "News" community is--commenting on things that don't matter, then shutting up for matters of grave importance.

Topics like mass surveillance are considered by HN moderators to be "political" and any commentary about them is considered the equivalent of graffiti that defaces the site for everyone else.

As hackers we have a social responsibility to participate in important political issues that we have insight about.

People's political beliefs are typically quite different when the issue is something they actually know about. Most HN content is technology focused and so there is (in my opinion) a desirable kind of political discussion that is backed up by experience and knowledge.

Surely one of the mods will chime in that my comment is a flame, which is their special word for comments that discuss content they wish to censor. My comments are always polite and respectful, so obviously the issue is content and not tone.

> ... this currently has a 36:1 vote-to-comment ratio.

HN is becoming the sort of benign, bland environment the mods want it to be.
1. Forbid different pricing for different payers.

2. All prices have to be posted on your website.

3. Patient has to agree on the bill beforehand.

(ER is the exception obviously)
You know what? You might be joking, but I wouldn't exclude that something along these lines could be put into law.
I just moved and now have a refrigerator that promises to make ice and dispense it.

Well, it didn't make ice. Since it would dispense water, the water line WAS connected and working.

Well, the front door has lots of buttons. They didn't help.

Finally the solution: Look in the freezer. At the top pull out a complicated plastic piece of unknown utility. For me, bend down, look up, look at the back wall of the freezer in the upper left corner, and see a switch, ON-OFF. It was OFF. Now it's on, and the ice maker is working!

I needed a manual and didn't have one.

The documentation I mentioned is important, for microwave ovens, fancy refrigerators, and certainly for the user interface of high end software that can have disasters such as in the OP.
The Metallica cover version?
The tweet I posted is a purely factual statement with zero spin:

This is a roaring glacial melt, under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland where it's 22C today and Danish officials say 12 billions tons of ice melted in 24 hours, yesterday.

Plus a cool video.

I'm an environmental studies major who pretty often preaches "It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine."

Lots of people hate me for that, but it has the upside that I can state unequivocally that I did not post this to say "The sky is falling!" and then run screaming across the stage flailing my arms like Kermit the frog.