skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well its a lot of things, you could bend the wire beyond its specs for bending radius and in a way that would damage its ability to carry current. You could install it in a way that puts the cables too close together so they then transfer heat to each other and overload the thermal rating of the insulation, thus causing a failure there. You could damage the insulation on the cables leading to water ingress. Proper to code installations which provide plenty of margin to prevent fires are defined mostly by the NFPA 70 (National Fire Protection Act) National Electric Code

You could install the cable in a way the the heating and cooling of the cable, over time, causes it to move or shift (kind of like a snake, generally in the direction of gravity where its on a slant or hanging down) and then cause tension on connectors that wasn't there before, if you didn't properly secure the cables or design with that in mind. This one was an actual issue I know about having happened on some wind turbines.

If you have a really incompetent contractor, maybe they used the aluminum conductors instead of the copper conductors in some places (the former is far cheaper, but has less bending radius and carries less current).

There is a lot to get wrong, most of which I had no idea about until I had to think about it and know the problems in that domain of engineering. Even then, I only did that for a short time so I'm sure there is plenty I don't know.

Most of the issues I heard about though weren't engineering issues, it was poorly trained contractors who had no idea what they were doing. They used contractors especially in the Wind Industry, because of the cyclical nature of the building of power plants. Wind had a tax credit that use to not be a partisan issue, then it became one and congress couldn't get its act together which caused the sudden stop of ordering of wind turbines several times. Then there is the lack of unions in many parts of the country, and unions generally keep their workers sharp by keeping them employed even in down turns by evenly spreading out mandatory furloughs. They also go through rigorous apprenticeships and trainings.
From what little I know, it seems unlikely that climate change is driving substantial migration into the US. It seems to be mostly about messed up post-colonial political systems, and failed economic policies. Also some local-regional ecological damage, such as deforestation and soil loss. And the War on Drugs, plus training of gang members in the US prison system.

But that will likely change over the next few decades.
FWIW he is listed here

https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/
It would be honest for them to simply remove tipping from their app. You don’t tip the UPS guy who delivers packages, why should the social consensus be to tip the DoorDash guy who also delivers packages. Pay them more to make up for it.
Being a contributor and having commit permissions are technically different things. Dimitri is listed as a contributor on the appropriate wiki page https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/
> In particular, the reals mean you accept measure theory, which in one of its key results says you can build two spheres of radius x from one sphere of radius x, and no holes. The computables don't go there.

You cannot accept or reject measure theory. There are no axioms in measure theory; there are just the definition of a measure and theorems about measures.

You're actually talking about the Axiom of Choice. If AC is true, then you can construct subsets of the reals that aren't measurable, and if AC is not true, then you can have a model of set theory where all subsets of the reals actually are measurable.
Contributor != committer. Great projects need both people who are sticklers for process and code quality, and people who can focus on push the boundaries of what is possible while knowing that others have their backs on process. It appears the author is on the boundary pushing side, and that doesn’t diminish his contribution in the slightest.
Back before FB fucked it up and I actually read what my friends were posting, I simply unfollowed those that posted memes. Problem solved (for me).
I can readily believe that they may have picked up Utah and Omaha from US soldiers' casual conversation, but if Mulberry and Overlord were being bandied about with enough frequency to have made an impression, I do not suppose they were very secret.
So maybe not so precise instrument, but still, if this was 15cm ellipse the difference would be about 1mm.
> This way you don't need to worry about keeping track of size and capacity either.

The only reason you don't have to worry about this is because std::vector handles it for you, at least in the code examples provided by the author. If you choose to go with a pure C implementation (which is what I'm trying out) then you will have to keep track of these.

> The reason I suggested -1 is because when we iterate through bd->items, we need a way to know if it's a valid value or just "holed".

Yep, I was able to get an example using -1 as a sentinel working and passing fuzz testing.
> The city and state's complete failure to engineer robust infrastructure did.

No, people not leaving the city when they had ample time to do so killed them. Individuals need to take responsibility for themselves.
> stems from understated liabilities in its insurance business, misrepresentation of its cash situation, and improper accounting for its acquisition of a stake in the oil field services provider Baker Hughes.

So it stems from a dispute between the opinions of "fraud hunter" Harry Markopolos and the professionals employed by GE.

This seems to be a "Everything Everywhere Is Securities Fraud" situation.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
28 years after introduction. A bit late.
Share prices don't drop because of shorts. Tesla had a ton of people shorting them but it still didn't drop immediately in the short term. So does beyond meat. That doesn't change how beyond still surged 800% post ipo
The alternative is that Wal-Mart establishes a policy of allowing vendors to damage them for 6-figure amounts with little consequence. That’s probably not the right strategy. Kind of like Newegg spending more defending patent lawsuits than settling with the trolls. (Do they still do that?)
And imagine you lost your computer privileges if you made a bad call on what you found. Many successful activists are careful to make sure they’re right so their funds maintain their prowess, which may as well be the same thing.
One point that WSJ that NYTimes calls out too is that Markopolos is working with a hedge fund in releasing this report (that I believe is shorting GE stock). He's doing this so he can get paid up-front and not have to wait for potential whistle-blower payout (which takes years). While this doesn't mean his accusations are fake, but it's important to take these into account when evaluating the claims.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4286597-markopolos-short-re...
That seems like a rather extreme statement.
IBM is working on the beginnings to get LLVM working, but it will require lots of work and it only just began. xlC just added a second front-end (Clang's) in version 16, but it still uses their back-end.
Airbnb and Tesla surely looked at other business models for success and modified or adapted it to their own. These theories can provide a framework to help people think through the problems without reinventing the wheel. On to the irony of the post: this post is giving advice “ignore advice think for yourself”. Bs.
Ford did not declare bankruptcy because it would have taken control from the Ford family. Ford's two-tier stock structure, which goes back about a century, keeps the family in control. That would not survive a reorganization.
You have the definition of shorting right, but it doesn't mean that shorts cause a stock to drop. Beyond meat has had a crazy amount of people shorting it, but that hasn't stopped it's 800% rise
Fun fact: Tornado was created by FriendFeed, a completely unmemorable social "aggregator" that was gobbled up by Facebook during the social media craze.
Many Indian government websites are old and some of them don't even have a proper HTTPS certificate.
The thing about retirement for most HN readers is that you don't have to stop your "work". Programming, writing, these are activities you can continue to do, and make a difference. Unlike doctors, lawyers, hair stylists etc. that need another person to do their profession.

I retired at 55, and I'm learning data science and machine learning, doing some Salesforce work for a nonprofit, and I hope to contribute to the reboot of the HospitalRun project.
From what I remember from my research and readings, asyncio based python web servers are _not_ automatically faster than non-asyncio python web servers.
I have appreciated the automated notifications from GitHib for projects that have known vulnerable dependencies in my package.json(s).

I just looked up Dependabot and linked it with a repo that I already have robust testing and CI pipeline for. Preliminarily Dependabot is great!

It automatically updates by dependencies to the latest versions and submits individual PRs. Since I have TravisCI hooked up to this particular repo, I can see all the test results for each PR and can (confidently) merge the changes into master without manually firing up my personal dev machine(s) and manually performing what Dependabot just did.

Anyway, thanks for the tip!
OK, I've led a ~sheltered life, and have no personal experience with prostitutes. Or at least, women who explicitly demanded money for sex. But I have visited Amsterdam's red light district a few times, just to watch. And I've seen lots of prostitutes in movies, for whatever that's worth.

So basically, prostitutes either wear as little as they can get away with. Or they wear costumes that appeal to various fetishes. The French Maid. The Schoolgirl (or Sexy Librarian) with Big Glasses. Here are some (NSFW) stock images:

https://www.gettyimages.de/fotos/prostitute

Also, a site that's probably OK, albeit way creepy:

https://www.scarymommy.com/dress-your-daughter-as-a-whore-day/

Edit: I neglected to ask how you think prostitutes dress. Are you arguing that they dress like everyone else?

And perhaps, that it's some flavor of ...ist to even discuss it? I'm aware of that perspective, but I'm too much of a materialist geek to accept it.
Cupid and Psyche: True Love Conquers All
hahaha, yeah, I completely agree with you! I actually think it is kind of sad because this community is all about startups/emerging technology. If you are coming here to read/post then you should know that nothing is perfect in the early stages.
Managed Cassandra vs. DynamoDB
To be fair to some researchers in certain specializations, there may only be a handful of scientists publishing on the topic. Self-Citation proceeds naturally from such circumstances.
It's my understanding that they skirt around this because the DoorDash drivers are contractors, not employees. Literally, when you tip using the app, you are tipping DoorDash, the company, not the contracted driver.
Yes, I've read and it have been thinking about how to do this kind of synchronized counter reading from userspace, where it would be easier to access (even if you wanted to go the kernel route, this kernel is not publicly available).

I really like this way of displaying per-cycle information from the performance counters. Very cool.
It's an awfully big reach to assume that failure to purchase generators was directly caused by price-gouging controls.

The fact that margins on gas are slim does not mean gas stations struggle to get by. The gas is there to get people in the door to buy snacks, drinks, smokes, and lotto. Tobacco and lottery tickets alone make an absolute killing, and the station couldn't sell any of them while the power was out. The author of the article actually owns a gas station, and he figures the other owners were just short-sighted. I don't see any reason to doubt him.
Shopify, Magento or WooCommerce? Which Is Best for Your Ecommerce Needs?
Title should be adjusted to end with “by activist short sellers”
Dear u/airstrike you posted two different GE fraud articles within minutes of each other.

Please tell us how you’re connected to the situation.
Tons of lawsuits are brought for under 100k. This argument applies to all of them. The fact that Wal-Mart is a big company doesn't change anything.
1. Deliberate practice is different than merely putting in hours. So 5,000 of difficult practice could build skills more than 10,000 of mindless repetition.

2. "10,000 hours" is a necessary, not sufficient, condition. Further, some fields (like chess) can enable expert performance with fewer hours than other fields (like history) due to the difference in skills required.
It's pretty much pied piper
It’s incredible to read the casual tone of those postings. Ten years ago Github was just an amazing innovation that could just spin a service shutdown as an experiment - now everything it does is vital infrastructure for modern development.
You always hear about "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." If you can convince the market you're right, I guess there's a lot of money to be made. It's an interesting incentive to search out and call out bullshit.
I think a tool like that could be very useful! The main issue with basing it off of Git commits is that there is no guarantee that the last commit with a given version is actually a good version. Consider the case where a-1.0 depends on b-1.0 and b is updated to b-2.0 in a commit so that a is not compatible with b-2.0. Even though a-1.0 is still around, it's not going to work until we update it to a-2.0, so you need some more complex constaint solving on top of your commits to figure out what works.

I would prefer doing it based on the 6-month release channels, so you get multiple version for every 6 months. You end up with some gaps between versions, but also have more guarantees everything actually works together. Basically "nix search" with multiple channels.

I actually had to do something similar with GHC versions for a project of mine. It turns out you can run Nixpkgs all the way back to the first release in 13.10 (LC_ALL=C is needed). Obviously not that long ago right now, but it should continue to work as time goes on & give us 10+ years.

https://gist.github.com/matthewbauer/ecdb665f84b7f6100f3f6e3...
So far it seems that people use it in a very different way from docsend. Usually people just put in a Google Form of survey and share the link.

For casual use cases, it's a lot faster to share than using docsend.
Cheers!

What I find fascinating is, he was the only person in the room to understand immediately. Even today, most people (and I mean mathematicians and programmers and others who might be expected to get it) still haven't internalized Gödel.
What is it, in your eyes, that makes their job more worthy of tipping than any other job?

It’s a job, they get paid. I ordered something that cost $X including delivery, I expect that to be the final total, not $X + “step up”.

If they’re not getting paid enough, enforce a higher minimum wage (it is also a US-specific issue; tipping isn’t the norm in a lot of other developed countries and the world doesn’t end).
I think you are correct that nothing is taken away from an author when someone reads their Wikipedia article.

Perhaps what the poster above you is saying is that there is a continuum of information, some more personal and sensitive, like your current location, and some less personal, like the Wikipedia article on Elephants.

Taking data about specific humans, (or humans in general), and turning it into code that has predictive power seems like a different type of power than the knowledge given by an encyclopedia.
There is a new offensive with our military intelligence to attack these misinformation tactics from foreign lands. It will not be pretty.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/todays-headlines-and-commentary-...
Walter Bagehot: the revered Victorian who got almost everything wrong
UPS guy has a union and gets paid a living wage. DoorDash can’t afford to do the same.
No. You are completely and utterly wrong. This is definitive and final.

It is very very naive to say that all the complexity in finance is necessary. It is not. Not. at. all.

We are human and as such we build many things that are needlessly complex. Much of out software suffers from such baggage. If humans can cause such systems to be overly complex, then humans can cause such a thing to happen in the finance industry as well.

You see overcomplexity in all systems that are typically built by more than one human from tax law to software all the way to: finance.

You will note that such complexity in the things humans construct is especially prevalent in things that are abstracted away from the physical world as the physical world is bound by laws that place a huge energy cost on what a person can create. When things are abstract that cost is a magnitude lower. Software and finance are vicious examples that utterly annihilate your statement.
> That’s not protecting “money transfers as speech,” it’s striking down restrictions on speech and political expression disguised as restrictions on money transfers.

More like it legitimizes bribery as a "campaign contribution".
> I think 6th graders are much younger?

About 11-12 years old.
Clever Anti Piracy on the Super Nintendo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...

> When, therefore, this court adjudges, as it does now adjudge, that Congress cannot impose a duty or tax upon personal property... including invested personal property, bonds, stocks, and investments of all kinds...

Its unconstitutional.
Smartphone handwarmer. The general idea is to overclock a phone until it frys, and utilize a key partnership with smart phone companies to generate revenue from the bump in device replacements.
Remember the push for NoSQL on HN years ago?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Zen Naming Convention
It's amazing to think this was less than 100 years ago.
Says ChiefAlchemist? Twas Newton's chief failing, alchemy.
Don't know that its necessarily "lethal", but one thing I've learned over the years is to let the database do the calculations for you.

For example, we've had numerous places over the years where we would pull hundreds or thousands of records out of the database, and then process them on the server to get just a handful of result values. Moving the calculations down to SQL saves a ton of bandwidth and also lets the query optimizer make good choices for you.

Learning how to analyze queries and write the proper indexes to make things run fast is also a good skill.

In Postgres, learning how to use the builtin json functions is very helpful too.

Also learning about aggregate functions and things like that.

Really I've found that most of my learning happens when I come across something that people are saying is too slow, and then I read up and think about the problem and usually learn a new trick or two to make everything work a little bit happier.

Also even just the very basic things like properly setting up foreign keys, constraints, etc. can get you a long way. For a long time my coworkers were reluctant to do anything that operated on more than one table at a time. And if they did it was all using ORM magic, which is useful in a way, but also pretty handicapped as far as efficiency.
>Also the formatting in the PDF could use some work.

Reads pretty decently on a phone, so there's that, and the line numbers in code blocks seem a nice touch.
Agreed--though much of the core code is shareable between both targets.

When I first discovered the prototyping capabilities for colors/themes/samples in the Chrome dev tools, my mind was blown away b/c of how fast I could iterate. A plug-in might take that to the next level. It's hard to say without me surveying more of what's out there and in use--I get the sense that at a certain level, teams rely more on tools like Sketch, inVision studio, Framer etc. for this.
If you're not against another card, you can get 1.25 cpp for Amex points when you cash out with the Schwab. Still not as good as booking flights or hotels, but better and easier than liquidating gift cards.
I think it was page 13: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...
The fact that the response was outright hostile requires escalation either to HR or to this person's manager.

> He said it was my fault for being confused and to email him when I am.

That is definitely something I'd want on HR's radar if my manager said that to me. If you've ever worked in a large organization, this is how things tend to play out.
Of course it's a two-way street.

But the fact remains that "sexy young woman" is a hugely popular theme in US culture. Also in many other cultures. But the US seems particularly schizophrenic about it.
This also feels very much like the software engineer's desire to rewrite something they don't understand because they're sure that it's easier to rewrite than to understand. This stems from a lack of understanding that you yourself identify.
Do you mean switching the memory layout depending on runtime conditions or just changing the software interface to a constant (shape) block of memory?
No offense, but that is a lot of words typed out that do absolutely nothing to actually refute the point of the person you are replying to.
At GE's low after the report, it had fallen about 14% for a loss of $10 billion in market cap. You could interpret this as the market assigning an expected value of fraud at GE of $10 billion. The report claims $38 billion in fraud, so either market participants don't believe the accusation, or fraud was already priced in.

The stock has rebounded since, so seems like the big market voting machine thinks this report is bunk. Time will tell who is right.
IIRC PowerPC as a separate architecture doesn't exist anymore. All extensions were folded back into POWER.
Sloppily I leave it all in trello mon,tues,etc...

Each day had a check list for production.

Each Monday I reset it all.

I don’t love it but it works.
Still, "packet that lasts forever and tells nodes to send to all" sounds more like how the hero of a 70s movie kills an evil robot than something that'd cause a 37-hour infrastructure failure in 2019.
Small town businesses were destroyed by consumers who stopped shopping there.
Short selling does directly cause the stock price to move down due to increased selling pressure.

What you're seeing with BYND is not directly because of the act of short-selling, but the knock-on consequences and market dynamics. In part that has to do with the fact that BYND has very few of the total shares floated, all available shares were shorted (around 50% of float), and what little organic retail demand for their shares existed was enough to move the price materially. Eventually the market cap crossed the threshold for inclusion in the Russel 2000 index, forcing ETFs tracking the Russel to buy BYND shares too. This all caused the short-sellers to get liquidated, forcing them to buy at whatever price was available. This in turn liquidated more shorts. And so on. That was a textbook short squeeze.

IMO the reason it didn't go all the way up to the moon is that brokerages were charging 140% APR to short the shares, so we were seeing consistent turnover in the short positions.

The answer to "Who would buy BYND shares for $250" is "the trader and/or index fund who has no choice." It's worth more than 25% of the companies in the S&P 500, but only has $87M in revenues and 200 employees in a warehouse in LA with a handful of pea patties.