skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> conductor for clearing ground faults and isn’t connected to earth.

> Marvelous explanation.

It might be Marvelous, but it's not actually true. The ground wire IS connected to the earth!

I don't want to be rude, but I think the OP should take this post down, it has a LOT of mistakes.
It seems strange to say that "scientific consensus is that these fears are unsubstantiated" (i.e. it's okay to inject Thiomersal into the body), when in the same wikipedia article, it says: "Thiomersal is very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and in contact with skin (EC hazard symbol T+), with a danger of cumulative effects."

Anyone else's BS detector going off over this?
This just struck me as the same reason UBI is a great policy for governments. Just distribute the cash people, you’re too big to allocate it well!
I feel like the best strategy to combat this would be to create lightweight virtualization and automation tools that could be easily deployed by anyone, thereby destroying any company that comes up with these stupid strategies. Just burn the whole system down to the ground, salt the earth, and leave it to be a weird blip in internet history.

EDIT: I'm a guy who builds thing and occasionally takes a chance at trying to promote those things. I've been on the receiving end of a fair amount of ad-fraud. The tech press is full of stories of people who say they just "put a few ads out" and then took off with their products. It's almost a meme. But it's a filthy lie. It's a lie that you can navigate the ad-tech industry without making it your full-time job. It's a lie that the ad-tech industry is a good way to get attention for your projects. It's a lie that the ad-tech industry is interested in doing anything about fraud. I've dealt with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon, and in each case at least half of the money I've spent has evaporated away to ad fraud. And then, when you bring it up on HN, you get the replies, "lol, that's just the cost of doing business." No. No no no no no.

The Amazon one was particularly bad, because it lead to me getting a ton of fake followers on Twitter, killing my ranking in their timeline view, requiring me to spend about as much as a total working week on block/unblocking people to kick them out of my followers list, just to get back to a good state. For $50 of advertising, I had to spend around $2000 of my time to fix the issue and got nothing real out of it.
I was guessing that the OP meant literally looking over your shoulder. If you fill out the ballot at home, it is feasible you could be coerced to vote a particular way.

I don't think this is currently happening, so I don't think it is a major issue.
A World in a Bottle of Water
Wait, is it really true that "ease-out" is intended/best for animating elements moving IN from off screen, and "ease-in" for animating elements moving OUT of screen from on screen?

I've been using them opposite/wrong (as their names led me to) all along?
Well at lest she had the good sense and empathy for that cougar to not play anything from the St. Anger album.
Tech Companies Say It's Too Hard to Hire High-Skilled Immigrants in the U.S.
Also motive isn't a global immutable state. One person saying something one time, doesn't make everything that person does in every situation fall into the same context. Maybe its because I hang out in programming nerd circles, but I've seen otherwise intelligent people fall into this trap of using some kind of propositional logic to "prove" things.
Ooops, that's my misread of the forum posting from the AutoTrader team. They have 2 sites, one public, the other is a portal for car dealers to post cars in which they stated does not serve ads. The problem they were having though is that the ad blocker was affecting popup menus within their site.

https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=43148&sid=e0edf...
Yep, although I'm not sure if the virtual floppy disk is the same thing as is being discussed here.

It even had a catchy name "VENOM", https://venom.crowdstrike.com/
Just 2 and a half years ago I was running the kernel 4.10 on such equipment - AMD K6-2 300MHz, 3DFx Banshee (AGP2x), Trident 9440 (PCI), television card bt878, sound card Maestro, SoundBlaster Creative.
Everything worked. I am sure that it would also move under the latest 5.3-rc2.
A bigger problem is with the right (ready) userland (i486, i586) than using old hardware with the latest kernel.
> “Obviously, there are laws to protect people’s privacy and we are respectful of all those laws,” Hartman said. “We also understand the importance of operating in an ethical way as it relates to further protecting people’s privacy.”

They are tracking my car and thus my movement. If this is deployed 24/7, they can recreate every location I visit.

How is this respecting my privacy?
Facebook open-sources image and video algorithms it uses to fight abuse
I believe this illustrates the point:

https://youtu.be/meiU6TxysCg
If there are two independent clauses, why not keep it 2 sentences? I personally use it to connect two separate thoughts that have a related subject.
Manhattan feels like really one of the best cases for trees outside of rural areas. A large percentage of the residential neighborhoods are in walking distance of a big forest... even other boroughs of NYC are mostly worse for that. Some other cities have better weekend access to forests, e.g. in L.A. you can drive to the mountains, but there aren't many with better large forests actually in the city. Maybe DC with Rock Creek Park.
Doesn't seem likely: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/accepted-ebooks

> Types of eBooks we don't accept

> ...

> * Non-English-language books. Translations to English are, of course, OK.

I don't see any rationale for it on the mailing list, only a message from Alex Cabal two years ago stating "not at the moment": https://groups.google.com/d/msg/standardebooks/JdVpCm3ckGg/i...

Alex explicitly does not want the "Standard Ebooks" name or mailing list used to coordinate similar projects elsewhere (including other primarily English-language nations), due to copyright issues: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/standardebooks/qRDTb-hHMxk/z...

Nor is Alex aware of any other similar projects: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/standardebooks/ikg07cqkABY/Q...
Archive.org has digital borrowing concept. I don't like digital renting though. If you are paying, better just to buy DRM-free and keep your copy.
Not if you just mow it and let whatever grows grow.
“It’s crazy that more people don’t know about this,” said Marty Kratky-Katz, the founder of Blockthrough, which lets publishers monetize using Adblock Plus’s Acceptable Ads program. “I don’t think they mean any harm or have any malicious intentions. But it’s not like they were experts in balancing publisher monetization, or like they were elected. They’re just four dudes.”

Reading the article, "balancing publisher monetization" provoked an immediate visceral vocal response from me. Truly hilarious.
Quite on the contrary, Chinese students usually become way more nationalistic after being abroad and having seen for themselves that the western, developed, free and democratic countries aren't that much better after all.

Those who have never lived in the west can't draw comparisons from their own experience so they tend to be more skeptical of Chinese government and fantasize about the west.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-many-Chinese-become-much-more-n...
Absolutely! Yes!

First, NEVER work anything hot. There is no such thing as a safe voltage to work energized. Even a simple home receptacle circuit can easily kill you (and it happens with alarming regularity).

That said, ALWAYS work something AS IF it were hot (for the exact reason you said, accidents happen). This means connecting the safety measures first. The safest order to connect wires is: ground, neutral, hot. The safest order to disconnect wires is the opposite: hot, neutral, ground.
^This.. I don't see why people thinking hoarding cash when capital is cheap is a bad strategy. It totally ignores the fact that ease of raising and cost of capital is time dependent. If you had a war chest of cash in 2008/2009, that'd be insanely valuable.
Reading the proposal, it seems like they want to replace it because the ZooKeeper API is causing some issues for them, so even if ZooKeeper has perfect consensus, Kafka itself won't necessarily. From the "Metadata as an Event Log" section

> although ZooKeeper is the store of record, the state in ZooKeeper often doesn't match the state that is held in memory in the controller

Maybe it would be better to put the effort in to changing ZooKeeper instead of writing their own consensus system in Kafka, but I would assume they know that tradeoff better than us since they work so closely with ZooKeeper.
+1 This is really solid advice and what I inadvertently did.

I'm in my 30s and spent a couple years at a no-name shop out of college. I was getting 0 recruiters calling me. Once I realized it was a dead end I switched over to working at a Unicorn for a few years and have since switched again to big tech. Now recruiters are interested in me for senior dev roles.
It's "usq", with a long S: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s - so it's an abbrevation for "usque".
>Every rotation around the sun my opinion is solidified that we're all just wingin' it, no matter the age and success can happen whenever.

One of the most impactful realizations I've had in my entire life is that, with _incredibly_ few exceptions, everyone is fumbling. All the time. Regardless of age. Some people are just better at hiding it than others.

After I was able to fully internalize that, life got easier. I stopped putting so much pressure on myself. It became "okay" if I didn't know how to deal with a situation, or felt completely overwhelmed. I'm still fumbling, but I've come to terms with it and I feel much better as a result.

If I ever feel really confident I've "figured out" life, that's when I'll get really worried.
This is just an FYI type of comment. with zookeeper, one needs an odd number of machines, usually not greater than seven. Servers are indexed from 1 to n. They’re replaced one for one, so the server id matches. Scaling it up and down is a bit of a pita because every server needs to know all other servers. Changing the ensemble members requires restarting every zookeeper instance because zookeeper doesn’t support config reload.

Zookeeper does expect a single “host” for every server but it runs perfectly fine with docker. But that’s no different from consul or etcd.
Can't wait to watch John interview on Joe Rogan https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1155906881954729985
It's "usq"; that's a medial S (ſ) rather than an f. It's short for "usque", meaning "up to" or "as far as".

A rough translation of the sentence would be "The experience teaches you as far as it can; the author can't say beyond what they've been given to speak."
I grew up in the city. Urban and rural is great but suburban is depressing. Socially isolating an fake nature with fewer trees in particular. Worst of both worlds.
Yep, agreed. Fair enough.
> You seem especially vitriolic in defending the status quo.

I'm vitriolic towards any law that gives one group preferential treatment under the law. The entire premise of American democracy is majority rule within limits. The founding fathers already gave us ways to protect the minority's rights via the judicial system and the constitution. You cannot legislate status quo because it is derived from the sentiment of the population. If you want to change the sentiment you need to halt the division. You cannot pass a bill forcing black to love white, you can only pass bills that make the distinction irrelevant.

> I think most decent-minded folks can see where this is leading.

Hopefully to a world where people are judged by the content of their character and not by some physical attribute or thing they identify as.
The only one I know of is http://projectoadamastor.org in Portuguese. I can't tell whether it uses the same tooling, but the project generally predates Standard Ebooks.
Joel Whitney has done a lot of research on the CIA's remarkable involvement with writers and artists. His book on it is https://www.amazon.com/Finks-C-I-Tricked-Worlds-Writers/dp/1.... There are good interviews with him about it online. It's amazing how extensive these involvements were and how major the writers were.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10116113 from 2015 is on this topic, but not that great a thread.
This is the best comment here
“Five Eyes” Nations Want Access to Encrypted Messages
I don't think that's relevant or true about "his books" in general, as (for instance) the digital versions of TAOCP look great (and use vector fonts). Obviously the publishers will use their own workflow; in that case it's not as if Knuth prepared a PDF for you to download (as he did here). Maybe the publishers just botched up the electronic version of Concrete Mathematics (as the reviews say), or you bought a copy that's defective somehow.
It is not the same thing, no, but it highlights that having privileged code that is not frequently exercised or thought to be running can lead to bad times. Most users who were vulnerable to that one were likely not frequently thinking of the floppy device.
Taxes could go down by the same amount as the subsidies for all of the tax-payers, corporations, and investors involved allowing for a positive overall return to the economy if you include all of the inefficiencies avoided by having our government involved in these subsidies.
In 2009, I was at university, majoring in physics. The curriculum for experimental physics contained a series of lab courses. One of these used an old-but-reliable specialized measuring device for which only a DOS driver was available. (The DOS box next to it probably came with the device.) It was still working flawlessly, but of course, DOS can only write to floppy disks.

This wasn't a problem before because the result data could just be copied to a USB drive using one of the several workstations in the experimental physics department. However, when I did the lab course, the dept had been outfitted with all-new workstations just a few days prior. And of course the new workstations did not have floppy disk drives anymore. It took the instructor a while to locate a PC that still had one.

I wonder if that DOS box is still in use.
Eh, I'm sure there's a phone app for that.
There is not one solution for Global Warming and CO2 emissions. No silver bullet, just as in software. This is one more tool, which needs to be used when appropriate. But we also need better legislation, technological improvements, and changes in consumption behavior, locally and worldwide. If we look at each of those things and do the math, the answer will be "it's not enough" or "it's too expensive". We mustn't let that be a showstopper. Of course some solutions are really not viable at all and should be ignored in favor of others, but every solution that helps enough (for some definition of enough) needs to be pursued.
> This could lead to an injury if someone flipped the breaker on and I accidentally touched hot to myself or the case because the breaker wouldn't trip.

Half right, half wrong. It would not short if it touched the metal box, and would not trip the breaker. That part is right.

However if it touched YOU not having the ground wire connected actually helps you. It means the electricity does not have as a good of a path back to the box, and you'll get a weaker shock.

With the ground wire you'll get a much higher shock, but it won't trip the breaker!! Humans have too high resistance to trip breakers, you'll just keep getting shocked.

So it's kind of a wash - with the ground, it's more likely to just short against the box and trip.

Best is just to always wire things as if they are live. Only touch the wire if you have to, always use insulated tools, even if the power is off.
Love finding a whole new rabbit hole to burrow down. :)
1. Don't use Windows

2. Don't use Word
The roots of this are probably in Western PBM gaming back in the 1980s. Flying Buffalo ran several popular computer-moderated wargames in this format, but companies like Schubel & Son ran human moderated games such as Tribes of Crane.
No, contrary to the sibling comments I would disagree that consensus is difficult. The theory can be somewhat daunting, and ZooKeeper's consensus protocol is complex. The most advanced consensus protocol today, Paxos (and its variations), is notoriously hard to understand.

But then we got the Raft paper, which has single-handedly essentially managed to commoditize distributed consensus. Raft is an elegant and simple protocol that has been implemented in many languages. To implement primitives like leader election and consistent, distributed reads/writes, you can grab an off-the-shelf library like Hashicorp's Raft library, which does all the heavy lifting as long as you implement the state storage yourself. It's absurdly trivial to turn a single-node app into a replicated, fully redundant one.

Of course, a project like Kafka might have particular requirements (I wouldn't know) that would mean Raft would not be a suitable solution for them, or would require modifications to the protocol. CockroachDB, for example, had to modify Raft ("MultiRaft") in order to achieve the scalability they needed within Raft's paradigm. Raft is a starting point more than a finished solution.
One of the older ones was the daily wtf, still around but not nearly as good as it used to be. There's a subreddit /r/talesfromtechsupport that has become my go-to for that now.
You should only animate GPU-accelerated properties (transform, opacity) if you care about performance and responsiveness, or in the worst case some properties that trigger paint (color, backgroundColor, etc.).
You don't need SIM cards to do this.

I used to be a phone farmer back when I was school a few years ago (didn't know it was called that or that there was even a community around it). Any device with a WiFi connection worked at that point. Not sure if that's changed but I doubt it.

Also in the article they mentioned people virtualizing the process. It apparently is possible, but the farmers don't think it's worth it.
You'd be surprised. Had a BBQ at my neighbour's a few months ago. He runs a few dental clinics,so at least financially, he's miles ahead of me. He did a pretty big renovation project on his house. The builders conned him left and right. This was in the UK.
Back in Lithuania,where I'm from,some years ago, the government started a scheme,which encourages flat owners to insulate their buildings.Many blocks of flats were insulated,new cladding added, windows changed,etc. At some point,this thing came to the town,where I'm from. Local contractor hired some Ukrainians to do the work on the roof. There were disputes over the pay,etc. The end result? Many flats flooded,because the guys drilled some holes in the roof before leaving,which was fine during the summer,but so much,when heavy snowing started in winter.So the Ukrainians went back howe, the contractor is facing massive bills+ potential court cases and the residents are simply screwed. I worked in construction industry long enough not to jist hear but to see shit that won't fit any framework.
Implementing a Keras layer with the new 2.0 API
I'm not sure about system's motivation though. There are 2 "systems" - the one which pays and the other one, which receives the payment for the care, and this one probably wants him alive for as long as possible. They mentioned it cost 4 million, it's around 20k a month. For a person that takes up one bed in a corner of a room densely filled with people like him. Ignacio would be lucky to earn 2k per month from back-breaking labor if the incident didn't happen, and yet now he generates much larger amount for the system just laying on the bed.
I'm wondering if this could be applied for zero-knowledge training of AI, ensuring complete privacy while training a model.
> A group of adventurers believe so, and will try to prove their theory by embarking on a similar journey in reverse.

That is a major fallacy. Just because something is technically possible does not mean it actually happened!

Thor Heyerdahl made some impressive boat trips in order to prove some crackpot theories. E.g. he sailed from Peru to Polynesia to support his theory that Polynesia was settled by people sailing west from South America. But all evidence, including recent DNA evidence, points to Polynesia was settled by people sailing east from Asia.
IQ is a vanity measure at best. Look at a site as brainstats this would imply if you control for IQ it would rule out people from whole continents.

https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html
Congrats on creating a side hustle while completing grad school. This UX is far superior to MTurk, but as others have suggested, the price point is definitely higher. A few questions:

1)"You can easily invite participants for follow-up studies at no extra cost." So, I can re-contact them through your platform OR I gain access to their contact info?

2) What % of customers are repeat buyers (multiple surveys)?

3) What if I want to recruit childless individuals? The current audience-checker doesn't seem to offer zero as an option.

4) How automated is this process for you? What % of customers require a touchpoint or multiple touchpoints?
Hey dang,
thanks for pointing that out.

I'll take the opportunity for two quick comments:

1) When posting a link, it would be useful if HN would tell me that it has already been posted - besides what already happens when someone posted it recently.

2) Is there a guideline on how frequently can something be posted and discussed, and what's an "appropriate" time to wait before reposting something that has already been discussed in the past?

Thanks!
On Debian (and derivatives), check out https://github.com/Debian/pk4 for this purpose!
Yep. Check out https://www.choiceofgames.com/.
Also that the article talked about the colon as having a longer pause than a semicolon (different to how it is used today).
To each their own. There are those of us that would die of boredom and depression in a rural or suburban environment. To us the city is where is at, especially a place like NYC.
I don't have a specific question, but can you recommend a good, authoritative resource on learning to work with household electrical installations correctly, both theory and actual installation? Something like The Art of Electronics and Learning the Art of Electronics, but for general household electrical.

I do quite a bit of DIY electrical in my home, both because I enjoy tinkering and because I live in a developing country where most of the electricians you can hire is better described as "practiced amateur" rather than "professional," and I've gotten by with online resources (and the fact that my house is made from non-combustible materials) but as you point out in that post, there's a lot of conflicting or downright wrong information.

I don't want to become an actual electrician, but aside from just being interested in the topic, I'd at least want to know for sure that what I'm doing is safe and to be able to check the work of anyone I hire for obvious faults. I'm planning a solar installation in the near future, so I'd like to be well informed on how everything is supposed to work.
I do find that statement really confusing. That implies they could have errors in the code handling the consensus? Hard to believe but otoh, they’re not really saying anything about zookeeper causing problems.

Maybe the correct solution is to understand why the states don’t match in the first place?
I just want to say that I appreciate all the effort.

I've finally gotten around to reading many of the classics using your ePub files.
Ask HN: Which programming language do you think offers the best support for SQL?
I find that a language as Go feels really tedious working with SQL, Java on the other end of the spectrum has many options but they feel pretty bulky. Whats your language of choice for a relatively simple CRUD app which uses SQL?