skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CPUC sets PG&E's profit margins so if they company can't persuade them to let them increase their profit margin then spending more on maintenance would be a good way to make more money. But of course, that would require them persuading the CPUC to let them raise rates to pay for cutting the vegetation.
Carbon ads, if your site meets their quality requirements.
For some insight to this, if they are using the salt based nicotine, that stuff is 25 mg or 50 mg, which is extremely concentrated vs "traditional" pg/vg liquid which came about first.

The highest pg/vg liquid most people can tolerate is 18 mg. Typically if someone is using a smoking device that has the large clouds, they are only using 6 or 3 mg concentrate. The issue with high nicotine concentrate in the pg/vg liquid is the taste is very bad with high mg of nicotine.

Now the tiny pods people smoke out of, do not have as large of clouds, however with the new type of salt-based liquid, you can smoke 25-50 mg and still have a pleasant taste to it.

This is why anyone smoking the salt based liquid seems to have these fiendish kinds of buzz.

Me personally, I started 4 years ago on 18 mg, after one year went to 12 mg, then 6 mg, now I'm on 3 mg. I plan on ripping the band-aid off soon and quitting cold turkey now that I've weened myself down. I am waiting for this upcoming holiday season to take a few days off, isolate myself from work and be a crappy asshole to myself for a bit and then be free of this stupid habit I picked up. (I used to smoke a pack a day or more starting when I was 18 before I transitioned to vaping)

Tl:Dr - Salt based liquids are like a shot of nicotine vs a beer when you compare the concentration of the nicotine.
I really hate how they want generic domains, like doc.new instead of googledoc.new :(

Also the price seems a bit high for a TLD :G
I wonder if anyone with sufficient experience in rockets could comment on whether that idea is at all plausible.
Mapping Data Flows: how tech companies collect, use, and share user information
Completely agree! I've been meaning to jump back into that project and try some new things (maybe pull back on some of the custom styling even). It has been quite a while since I've updated that repo...
You've linked to animated download buttons. Are you being serious?
to me, it's the Raptor engine that is the big deal. And within the Raptor, it's the alloy developed on the oxidizer side pre-burner that's the big deal. I wish i could have been there the moment that alloy was conceived and the moment it past the first round of testing. I would have poured so much tequila it would have had a budget impact.
There are other ways of deciding who gets a valuable resource, like housing in an area that a lot of people want to be in, than giving it to the person with the most money. This defeatism always can drive me nuts.
I know, that's why most of the pieces of highway still look like shit, because these companies don't actually take the time to maintain what they adopted. Which is exactly why I think it shouldn't exist and taxes should be used to keep roads clean.
And in his recent big presentation, Musk said they hoped to ultimately reach three daily flights to orbit for each Starship, and thirty per day for each first stage. He said at that rate, with ten Starships they would have a thousand times the launch capacity of the entire world right now including Falcon 9/Heavy.
Designing an intuitive user flow for inviting teammates
I should add that I'm not literally saying that we should do this. I assume smarter people than me have thought this through, and that there are good reasons why my proposal would be a bad idea. I'd be interested to know what those reasons are.
agreed; open hardware generally guarantees the possibility of open software, even if the product ships with closed software.

however; the interview is really talking about using open software to create your open hardware designs. if you've developed your schematic using proprietary software, then only people who have the same proprietary (paid) software can contribute.

another interesting point they touched on is open instruction sets (e.g. RISC-V). people are developing open hardware platforms with open software solutions but in the middle there is ARM or some other proprietary processor instruction set.
> As long as Spain's judiciary still sees it fit to hand out multi-year sentences to people peacefully following democratic principles, they seem very much an extension of the government and not an independent body.

The judiciary follows the laws, which are written by the senate, which is elected by the spanish people.

So those "people peacefully following democratic principles" being arrested is the will of the Spanish people. If they don't like it, they should have voted better.
Quite readable but it's a hell to parse. The first argument is the name of the element, but what is the second one? If it is a string or an array, it's the first child, but if it's an object, it's the attribute set?
Carbon ads? Tech space only from what I understand.
> How do you know it is their responsibility to trim trees?

Legally? Because of the massive liabilities and parole violations in their ongoing criminal parole for the San Bruno gas explosion they've racked up for their failure to do that trimming.

> I don't know anywhere in the world where a utility is responsible for events like these as CA has made PGE to be. Really makes you think. Why the sudden change when fires have been happening since the dawn of time?

Maybe the change is the same culture of neglect at PG&E that got them a number of federal felony convictions for the 2010 gas explosion manifesting through neglect of maintenance.

> Why care so much so suddenly?

Caring about fires isn't new.

Three consecutive years with major fires attributable to maintenance neglect by the same utility is new (and those starting the year after the same utility was criminally convicted for a major urban gas explosion 6 years prior isn't a great look, either.)
Degrees of separation between the genders in college keep growing
Ah, nothing in my comment was intended to imply that solar was a silver bullet, but the way I phrased it was off the cuff because I didn’t want to go into the myriad of ways and emerging technologies that will allow people and businesses to take themselves off the grid at least temporarily. That’s the key, temporarily.

You’re probably giving up AC, you’re probably going to want something like Tesla’s Powerwall. You’re probably not going to be running your washer and dryer during that time. You probably want any desktop computers you have on UPS. You probably want your appliances using as little electricity as possible even during normal operation. You probably don’t want to leave all the lights on.

And I forget the name of this one, but you will need an extra piece of equipment beyond the panels and batteries to actually take your house off the grid. Personally I’m also excited for the possibility of miniature hydrogen generators as a store of power.

> From what I’ve read here on HN, a self-sufficient solar setup is expensive enough that it will cost more than being on the grid, even when amortized over the lifespan of the setup.

That’s true today and I will not dispute it, but expect prices to come down , and with PG&E’s capriciousness, the cost of doing nothing to rise, and installation opportunities to increase. If the utility is going to behave in a capricious manner, then people will respond over time. This can be on a personal level by trying to insulate their own homes from power failures as much as possible, or even at the municipal level where cities allow new utilities to come in and replace or compete with PG&E.

We don’t need PG&E, we just need electricity. People are creative, we’ll find ways to make that happen, even with PG&E fighting tooth and nail against their own marginalization.
Hong Kong Unmasked: How the protests hit home in one neighborhood
Everything about the utility, including the rate of return to the investors, is approved by the public utility commission. If you cut off that rate of return, you have no more private investors.
Show HN: inletsctl – Fast HTTP (L7) and TCP (L4) Tunnels Written in Go
As someone who also has 20 years of experience I strongly disagree. I've never experienced the mythical person who can talk their way through the depths and details of a project but can't code. I think that concept got cargo culted at some point, but it's not nearly as big of a risk as people make it out to be.
In case this is not clear: the dataset does not include the raw audio of the songs, just extracted features.
When Persistence Is a Virtue, MRAM Is an Alternative to DRAM and SRAM
Review of NeuroImaging Data on Tool Use Observation Network
Tesla has been pushing solar and Powerwalls in California during this so maybe.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-reduces-solar-powerwall-pric...
I appreciate win32 much more than a typical HN user. But let's not fall into the trap of seeing it as the only way or that certain features haven't also been on Unix for decades.

> that Win32 has already this kind of feature since ages: Process access routines such as OpenProcess() [1] coupled with ReadProcessMemory() [2]

And Unix has had ptrace(2) for a very long time too, which will accomplish the same thing. Also you can read another process's memory through /proc. So there are multiple paths.

Also keep in mind, the most "legit" use case for this stuff is for writing a debugger. If you have used a debugger you are already relying on this functionality being there.

Edit: I am not aware of a win32 equivalent of this thing that lets you easily handle another thread's page faults in user mode though. That seems a little wacky. You can use debugger APIs to handle "STATUS_IN_PAGE_ERROR" and "STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION", which might get you there.
Tell me more.
Well, there's the matrix protocol (and separate apps like Riot.im, Quaternion, pattle, etc.)...which does incorporate - at least at a high level - some similar concepts to IRC, though with modern adaptations like encryption, etc.
i have no experience but, man, it would be so freaking noisy. where would they take off and land?
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Conversely, that's why I consider exclusive releases prima facie anticompetitive. Cultural products are to a large extent pets, or non-substitutable goods. If you want to watch Game of Thrones, you won't accept the newest Star Wars as a substitute. Exclusive deals essentially destroy competitive pressures that would otherwise apply.

(I'm aware that solving this is not as simple as straight out banning exclusive releases.)
This seems rather... useless. I've bought a few tld's mainly in just a land-grab/cover-my-bases fashion but by and large they are all useless. Every bit of traffic is coming from HN/Twitter/FB/Google. The direct traffic is low enough that it's probably coming from either me. It doesn't matter if I have an .co/.io/.com/.dev they are all the same at the end of the day.

These new TLD's strike me as just a money grab before some people realize a domain name matters FAR less than most people thing.

Maybe I'm just not the target audience but I don't ever see myself typing "gist.new" into my address bar. Anyone who knows what a gist is is going to go to github and if you don't know what a gist is then you aren't going to know to type "gist.new" into the address bar.
This probably isn't quite what you're looking, for but I wrote a post back in 2017 that might touch on these items a bit more? https://uglyduck.ca/death-of-personality/ (it's more of a "hot take" on flat design trends making for poor design in general)
Sentencing is a judges prerogative, yes? So draconian sentencing is not so inevitable as that?
This raises some serious questions for anywhere with user/volunteer based content/moderation. Sites like Reddit operate on a model very similar to Stack Exchange, and any user-moderated forum that runs ads to pay for hosting/maintenance costs would seem to have the same issues.

It also raises questions about the status of Instagram influencers, you-tube personalities, or anyone on a platform that derives it's value from those it hosts but does not treat/pay them as employees.

Even games with user-generated/managed content. If a game developer is paid for generating content, why would the create of such user-generated content not qualify?

Virtually anywhere someone is doing something that they arguably could be paid for would seem subject to a law like this.
I’m no designer, and I have lots of love for Craigslist, but ... does it qualify as ‘not an eyesore?’
> For example $100 might be pocket money for us but we do need to remember that not everyone in the world has that luxury.

We're comparing to a Mac though, so that sentiment really has no place in the conversation. The cost of more RAM in the world of Apple is much, much more than $100.
Why just moderating? In a sense, it's every action you do that adds value to the site by drawing people in or improving their experience.

When users write a comment (such as what I'm writing right now on Hacker News), they are acting as writers who generate text for people to read. When they submit a link, they are locating content for people to read. When they upvote or downvote, they are acting somewhat like editors by helping to curate content.

In traditional media (a newspaper, for example), these functions would typically be performed by paid staff. In social media, it doesn't work that way.

But then the whole point of social media is to interact with other people. And interaction is two-way. You could argue that the value users receive from interacting is the reason they come to the site. And consuming content is part of that value, but you could also argue that being heard is part of the value you receive as a user.

When I do any of any of these things, am I doing labor by giving up my valuable time in service of the business? Or am I receiving value because the site allows me to be heard? Maybe the answer is both. Probably we should look at every aspect of the transaction.

Continuing the newspaper comparison, look at letters to the editor. Does anyone argue that people who write letters to the editor are unpaid volunteers? Not that I know of, because everyone understands that people write those letters because they want their opinion to be heard. So even in traditional media there's a little precedent for this.
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Build a Messenger App with Phoenix LiveView (Reactive App Without JavaScript)
Can you imagine calling NSO tech support

Shalom and welcome to NSO, your chosen spy partner. Please hold <hold music>

<ring> Hi I'm trying to kill this journa.. PLEASE WAIT FOR AN OPERATOR
<hold music>
<ring> Hi, are you there? PLEASE HOLD ... OK What's your name Sir?
..information exchanged.
OK what are you trying to do?
We are trying to kill this journalist but we are having problems getting into his phone

Did you try rebooting?

Yes.

Please reboot and turn it off for 10 seconds ..

OK sir we were able to get into his phone remotely, he's going to be at the Istanbul consulate tomorrow at 08:00. Yes his wife will be with him, waiting outside.

Thanks!

Great, Sir, enjoy your beheadingk, is there anything else we can do to help? Would you mind, after this call, completing a 3-question survey to rate your satisfaction with this experience.
> they have been warned several times of the penal consequences

If this is a common sentiment in Spain on how to resolve such issues, I wouldn't call it a democracy. The UK has many problems, but it handled the Scottish referendum much better.
The lunar mission profiled in there takes 15 tanker launches, which is a lot.

As for in-situ resource utilization, how about this: Apollo astronauts found nearly 40% iron ore in some areas of lunar regolith. That may be unusually high, but you can do magnetic separation, then pass hydrogen gas through the ore to get iron and water. Crack the water molecules, recycle the hydrogen, and then use the oxygen to refuel "starships", where it accounts for 4/5 of the propellant mass. In the meantime you get iron by the hundreds of tons on La Luna that you can use to make pressure tanks to store that oxygen, live in, etc.

(It's been a long trope in sci-fi and speculation that a lunar economy would be an aluminium economy, and that people who seek iron will go for the asteroids, but it is very easy to get iron + oxygen as described on the moon, it is much harder to reduce other common metals on the moon.)

Here is the mass driver that Gerard K. O'Neill told you about, available off the shelf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58MmOpSm4LY

That can send a 10kg projectile at 2.5 km/s which can get to the Earth-Moon L1 or L2 points.

If you can increase the velocity to 3.1 km/s you could graze the Earth's atmosphere and deliver oxygen and other materials to LEO. Either way you need something that can soak up excess momentum at the end, but you could greatly reduce the need for tanker launches.
It's that tracking shot where it starts with spaceships we're familiar with in our own "timeline" like the Space Shuttle and works up to larger and larger vessels, including Enterprise. Suppose having the ability to ferry more and more cargo to low earth orbit means we can start creating much larger structures in space?
> If each Starship manages 300 flights per year, each carrying 150 T of cargo, then we are talking a yearly incremental cargo capacity growth of 22 million tonnes to orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

> One proposed sunshade would be composed of 16 trillion small disks at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrangian point, 1.5 million kilometers above Earth. Each disk is proposed to have a 0.6-meter diameter and a thickness of about 5 micrometers. The mass of each disk would be about a gram, adding up to a total of almost 20 million tonnes.[3] Such a group of small sunshades that blocks 2% of the sunlight, deflecting it off into space, would be enough to halt global warming, giving us ample time to cut our emissions back on earth.
I would argue that what you're seeing with bad design is not the fault of UX design as a concept but rather specific examples where it failed. UX designers are supposed to help ensure that software is usable and frustration free. If the software fails to achieve those things, then either the UX designer has failed or has been overridden by someone else. Or it's consensus design. The UX designers job us not to make things prettier or more sexy than usable, because sacrificing usability with frustrate people, which is something they should understand and apply.
What's a cohort retention curve?
> People will say it's justified because the Catalan separatists are fascists, terrorists, pedophiles, or whatever. It's not justified. The rulers of al-Andalus were no angels either, but their abuses were nothing compared to the genocidal nightmares the Inquisition concealed with its censorship.

Genocidal nightmares? I get that you are attempting to be poetic but do inform yourself about the historicity of your claims:

> The Inquisition was originally welcomed to bring order to Europe because states saw an attack on the state’s faith as an attack on the state as well.

> The Inquisition technically had jurisdiction only over those professing to be Christians.

> The courts of the Inquisition were extremely fair compared to their secular counterparts at the time.

> The Inquisition was responsible for less than 100 witch-hunt deaths, and was the first judicial body to denounce the trials in Europe.

> Though torture was commonly used in all the courts of Europe at the time, the Inquisition used torture very infrequently.

> During the 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition, between 3,000-5,000 people were sentenced to death (about 1 per month).

> The Church executed no one.

https://strangenotions.com/spanish-inquisition/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revision_of_the_Inq...
This looks interesting, thanks for sharing. I've always had good success with httprb[1], but I'll give this a look over too.

[1] https://github.com/httprb/http
AFAIK notebooks are a list of cells, each cell consisting in text, but there is no meta information within the cells, so JSON looks OK there.
New normal compared to when? Since when have republics tolerated competition?
It would, if anyone used it.

The thing about XML Schema, is that it is completely "baked into" pretty much every tool and library out there, so you can do "on-the-fly" runtime validation.

JSON is really about minimizing text. It works really well for this.

Another issue, is that JSON doesn't have comments, so it can be difficult to annotate a JSON file.
> You mention profit a lot, but do you know how a utility earns money? Rate payer might be the obvious answer, but there is another.

No, there isn't.

> Capital projects, investments into itself that make the company tick.

That doesn't make money, it reduces operating expenses and increases operating margins at the same rates. The money still comes from ratepayers. And public entities reduce operating expenses the same way, the benefits (after paying for any debt financing) just go to taxpayers, rather than private investors.
Always look at the flight attendants, if they're calm, you can be too. I was once on a flight into London on bonfire night, as we banked heavily in our approach we got an amazing view of fireworks going off all over the city. However, we then hit an air pocket, possibly from a plane in front of us, and suddenly dropped a considerable distance. I looked up at the attendants immediately and the one nearest me was barely suppressing a scream and gripping a couple of seat backs for dear life.
>Beef spikes insulin just as much as rice does.

Citation?
They also have, or used to have, their own domains and servers, but those can be blocked at the (national) ISP level rather quickly.

On the other hand by mixing their content in centralized websites, they need to send takedown requests to every single one of them, since they would block legitimate traffic otherwise[1]. It's basically a workaround for IP and TLS SNI blocking.

Of course this is all to make it simple for non-techies to access their website / application. If they required using a VPN/Tor their adoption would probably plummet.

[1] Actually they blocked an IPFS gateway before so it's more like "well-known centralized websites".
I'm curious about why the entire screen is filled with inputs. Is it because the job is complicated, and the user should be highly skilled and trained?
Do your planning wherever you like, but join the whatsapp group to share general updates.
0 $/month since they banned my account automatically when it reached the minimum quantity to retrieve the money.
Many of Hacker News visitors would probably disagree. What most of us don't seem to understand is what Hacker News says is not the common statement of most. People here tend to be on the less design side of things, most on the can I use this entirely with my keyboard. Most of the population however is not like that.

I don't see any statistics that the average user has any preference over which button to use out of the 3 examples provided. I think most users would assume buttons are supposed to look like the sites/apps they visit/use most, amazon, facebook, google, instagram, etc. If you button functions similar to those examples your users would be happy.
> Stay tuned for a planned contest to find a shiny name for the IoT edition!

Throwing a vote in for Fedora Feather