skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a decision-maker at a large corp wants to work with you, they'll find a way to cut through the red tape.

When I consulted for a multi-national telecom company, the "paperwork" was easier to go through than for some startups. I filled out one form, sent my W-9, and configured auto-invoices to go to a designated email address.

As the scope grew and my invoices reached a certain number, they asked me to fill out one more form. That's all.
Child’s+Birthday+Hosting+Venues+Brooklyn+NYC+Childrens+Birthday+Party
Brother, I Have Some Stories to Tell
It's a natural consequence of such. The main reason is that it is a predatory practice that feeds off of other people in need.
That's fair, and your scenario is probably a good fit for a solo consultant.

Companies who have no clue what to do but have a pile of money to burn tend to bring in big blue-chip consulting firms.
Not only that but "I'm on Friended" sounds like I'm unfriended. That's a terrible name in my book of aesthetics.
"[Wind and solar are] even close to being competitive with the marginal costs of running the coal and nuclear plants we already have."

Is that still true without incentives, green grants, rebates, and tax credits? Because without all of that and with mountains of red tape nuclear still produces energy at the lowest cost, and without emitting any CO2.
> regardless of physically being in the vehicle or using summon)

Imagine you're driving along the road, see a pedestrian crossing and see a pedestrian on it. You hit the brake but brake doesn't work, because of the manufacturing flaw (later one they will issue a recall but not just yet) so you hit someone. I think it is pretty obvious that manufacturer of the car is liable in this case. Although you still get into trouble, all the investigation, courts, etc.

> Plus what happens if a third party activates summon, for example a toddler.

In Australia, in NSW, you're responsible if you didn't take the precautions necessary and someone, who's not supposed to drive your car, gains access to it.

Like if you left your windows/doors open and/or car keys in the car or engine running and someone without licenses got inside and drove it, there is a fine.
Show HN: NowLeave, an app that fines you (and your friends) for being late
But the ones we have are so horrible. It's worth pursuing if there's a chance we can get one that's not horrible.

Of course, the corollary is the suggestion that any social medium starts out good, but inevitably becomes corrupted.
I saw the same sort of effect a few years ago when I was running some IRC bots. In addition to the usual dice, 8ball, etc. one of them would respond to queries with a random aphorism from a list I put together from Googling "wise quotes" and such.

It was a big hit, and kind of spooky to watch when people got responses that sounded relevant to their question. People joked that my perl script was being influenced by the spirits. In the end I concluded that you can read deep meaning into almost anything if you work hard enough.
I thought it was our firewall...It's amazing how much I have come to rely on this site!
I'll grant you that they don't know your donations and major tax deductibles.
But your medical expenses would have to be very high before you would even report them to IRS in the first place.

Do you directly spend more than 10% of your gross income on medical expenses? No? Then you can't deduct them.

In addition, most medical expense reporting is already reported to IRS. They literally get your whole pay stub information - gross pay, withholdings, 401k, medical deductions, pre-tax expenses, etc...

PS: I ran a company in one of the "high regulation" EU countries and the amount of tax prep I do today in USA jumped from 30 min per year for myself and 3 employees to 30h per year myself! Oh... I didn't have to pay anything to file my tax documentation online and I got my estimated tax docs pre-filled by the tax authorities.
His employees negotiated their pay decades before the law changed.
> making targeted advertising illegal

how do you define targeted though? General definition would make almost all of the political ads illegal.
Yes, the dream team would be a combination of renewable and nuclear.
The problem is that you're spreading more fear around gay sex. Of course there's a higher risk of transmission of disease without a condom. It's not been my experience that anyone says, with a straight face, that you're ignorant if you want to use a condom in spite of PrEP.

But what is ignorant is to decide where other people's risk thresholds should be. You're right that no one wants to wear a condom. It's not a false sense of security to have condomless sex because of PrEP. It's real sense of security. People feel safer, and they are safer from HIV.

People are afraid of dying, and no one enjoys thinking about catching a death sentence when they have sex, especially sex that's been (and is) strongly stigmatized. If personally, you decide that extra security isn't enough, that is a great decision. If you want to think about the future, and the risk of catching a resistant strain of a bacterial infection, or some yet-understood (new kinds of) viral infection, that is totally okay! But I don't think it's okay for you to say everyone should think the same way.

It's hard to measure the "risk" of the anxiety caused by gay sex.
Having a great legal team doesn't mean you can't lose billions of dollars in court; as Monsanto/Bayer recently found out. The jury may not look favorably upon tech companies.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jury-awards-couple-2billion-mon...
This is basically the same thing as getting a seat-belt ticket because you unbuckled to get your ID before the officer arrived at your window to see you do it. I expect citations would be handed out in a similar manner.
While the Rust version does flow logically, succinctness helps a lot more than people seem to appreciate. It's one of the reasons math notation is often so inconsistent: the brevity allows for easier manipulation and scanning. (Though I would not stretch the analogy too far, as inconsistent and overy brief notation can limit understanding while reading proofs.)

Being able to fit part of a program clearly into 5 lines with fewer characters makes it easier to ensure correctness than an algorithm spread over 10 lines that is full of extra "noise". It's why there's so much syntactic sugar in so many languages.
Yes, in a clean tree that just got cloned, and the result does boot.
I could produce greater horror with c# linq.
> Interfaces between teams updated with every application change.

Dev products do not solve issues of bad architecture. It will be same struggle but in more strong form.
The time out is about 500 miles / speed of crawling ;-)
Retraction Watch – Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Too bad you have to be a billionaire to read the article
Love this explanation— clear and succinct. Thank you.
I also went through physical therapy too. I hope you're past any pain and are doing well. I know how painful things can get.

>It feels very possible that some forms of meditation may not necessarily be about utter quiet, but rather such focus that noise cannot exist.

You might already know this, but meditation is about identifying when you are and are not in the present moment, be it quiet or not.

So utter quiet isn't necessary. There are thoughts in the present moment. The present moment is when you're aware of your chosen anchor, eg the breath. There are noises sometimes. One of the first kinds of meditation I did I was told to listen to the birds outside. If my mind started taking me away from the birds, I went back to listening to the birds. The goal of meditation is to identify this transition from the present moment to away from the present moment, and back.

There are many kinds of meditation, but usually when someone says meditation they mean concentration building types like Mindfulness Meditation, which deals with learning how to identify the present moment. Absolute quiet is a misunderstanding, though it is nice when camping.

In ancient eastern practices (where meditation comes from) there is the concept of a middle ground, which isn't moderation. It's basically: do what works best in that set and setting. If amphetamines work for you right now, then that is your middle ground, but know they will not always work on everyone the same way.

Eventually if you exercise your mind, like exercising a muscle, you will need less and less of the drugs you're taking to be able do what you want to do. I have ADHD and was amphetamines too, but after I started meditating for a while, my concentration jumped up and I ended up having to take less and less meds until I stopped taking them all together. Of course, I can still take them, but it's nice that meditation lets you hack your brain and change your mental state to what you want.
>...because it fits their use cases very well and are excited about the release of a big new feature.

a bit too excited. GP isn't wrong, Go pretty much has the same thing and I have never seen so much fanboyism for a single feature ever in my career.

I don't get it, but that might be because I am a manager.
Why not just make it so that people that you don't interact with get auto-unfriended over time. If you just post, post, post and have no meaningful relationship beyond parasocial bullshit, then in no time, you'd be removed from the networking system. With something like this, the network would no longer be a personal marketing system, but would actually only keep you with people that you actually interact with in meaningful ways over time, perhaps through event scheduling, and perhaps through conversation.

If you left for a long time, you'd come back to a friendless universe, sure, but only on the network. I guess that the ultimate goal of a network like this would be to get people off of it, which would be healthy for the individual, and bad for the company.

Oh well, there goes that idea.
Exclusively? I don't believe you can have a software development career working exclusively with PHP, JS, or RoR. That's far too limited a breadth of knowledge. At best you might make some money on the side if that's all you know, but no company is going to hire you as a full-time professional developer based on just that.

I wasn't saying that learning everything you need to learn for web development is as difficult as going through med school and becoming a surgeon. What I meant was that there are a ton of different technologies and specialties in web development, and you need to know what your specialty is before you can know what technologies you'll need. There are all kinds of different surgeons too, that specialize in particular organs. You can't just say "I want to be a surgeon, which organ should I learn" because it depends on what kind of surgeon you're going to be. Also, it wouldn't just be one organ because the body is a complex system of interrelated parts, and you need to know about all of that too if you want to be a good surgeon. Web development is like that too; you may specialize in PHP, JS, or RoR, but there are a lot of other related and intertwined technologies you're also going to need to know about.
And I can appreciate that even when it's not my favorite, it can still be beautiful.

The fact is, as an artist, it's hard not to look at paintings by Picasso or Van Gogh and think, "Wow, they had such a big impact on me. I wanted to be like that."

That's part of the magic of the artist's brush — that it can so easily and effortlessly paint such a dramatic scene that you, the viewer, think you can be the same person as the artist.

As an artist, I'm very aware of how big the influence of an artist is. And as an individual, I'm extremely aware of how much an artist can influence me. That's why I'm very interested in people who can have the biggest impact on other people through their art.
You’ll get the most benefit from pre-aggregating not for a specific query but in a general way. Sum orders group by user in a view and then use triggers to update that view. That way to get the orders for a given user it’s a simple lookup and all the calculation is done. And this way you can build up meta reports from these general aggregates.
> Physics will make more progress and faster than ever before, when it finally embraces that everything is a wave...

Physicists have already embraced this position: it's called quantum field theory. The degrees of freedom in QFT are fields, with particles just various excitations of those fields.

> ...and that our perception is inseparable from the world we perceive

This statement is simultaneously too vague to be wrong and too contentious to be accepted uncritically. Maybe start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_problem
Millennials Will Get Sick and Die Faster Than the Previous Generation
What a fantastic bug. Rails routes HEAD to GET, but .get? in a HEAD handler is false. Github uses a postback to /authorize to complete OAuth, distinguishing between the original GET and the completing POST with .get?. Rails sees the HEAD request and assumes it's a POST (because it's not .get?) --- and also assumes that, because it's a POST, it's CSRF protected, which it is not, because it is not actually a POST.
Maybe this is:

http://www.fanlesstech.com/2019/10/exclusive-amds-nuc-is-com...
Wouldn't this also mean that full engine power is unavailable in the event of an emergency? Seems like this solution makes edge cases more likely to be fatal.
That sounds fine to me. Pissing in the wind is a gendered statement. Let's stop doing that. I see nothing but positives coming from that change. If you feel like you're talking in code...maybe consider WHY it's a good idea to not say things that other people find exclusionary.
Show HN: Classalog – Next.js+Firebase – find the in-person classes around you
A lot of differences:

- No eternal leaders.
- Freedom of expression
- Separation of powers that limit each other
This reminds me a lot of my most recent divorce negotiations, and indeed, I don't understand how so many people deal so well with these catastrophes.

Take it from me: Don't get overly attached to money, things, or really even people. Think of it all more as a ride that you get to enjoy for a while, and then you get off.

If you're killing yourself at your job with the thought that you'll someday retire happily or otherwise get to start a happier phase of life (or even just be thanked for your hard work), disabuse yourself of that notion. The money you're piling up can be taken from you in a flash, or become worthless to you due to more overwhelming developments.

I saw a homeless man the other day with two dogs. The dogs were obviously happy, and had no concern that they were poor and might have had a much richer life. They had their health, weren't starving, and there were interesting things to do that day. I strive to live like those dogs.
I wanna be like this...but I just don't have the energy and discipline so I have failed before I even began.
And the Commodore 128 which was only useful because you could run it as a C64.
What Is Life?
Linux Foundation publicly announces ban of conference registrant on social media
I have a train commute via the NYC subway. I also try to avoid screens... with one exception.

I mostly read paper books, if the book I am reading is comfortable to carry. If I can't read I'll listen to something - either a fun podcast or an audio course.

That said, lately I've been watching movies on the commute home. I can get ~20-30 mins in and then finish the rest after I get home. Doesn't always work well but I am experimenting with it.
I try to avoid flying as much as possible but purely because I love driving across long distances. I don't particularly dislike flying and for international trips there really is no other alternative.
Hi HN!

I realized there weren't really a platform making a good job for users when you are looking up classes (art & craft, languages, dance, etc.). You always end up visiting different website and having a hard time to compare the offering. Therefore, we launched classalog.org. First in San Francisco.

The app is using Next.js (good SEO for each page was important to us) + firebase for authentification, database and some serverless functions. Next.js is hosted on Zeit.

I'm passionate about this project because as we spend more and more time behind our screens, we also long real connections and taking in-person class is a good way to meet people. It also helps people who want to freelancer and become an instructor to find more clients.

Feel free to give it a try, and let your instructor friends now they can get more free visibility. It's far from perfect but let me know what you think as we'd appreciate helpful feedback.

Thanks, Deniz.
My experience with utility solar is it’s getting competitive but not reliably so yet: https://twitter.com/ctdonath/status/1184138472988315648?s=20
>being diligent, using memory leak detection tools and certain programming style

Thats the whole point. You need to do these things in C++, not in rust. In rust you get it for free and dont need to be an expert and use runtime detection tools or even static analyzers besides your compiler (w.r.t to memory safety and some classes of data races. These things can be useful in other domains)

People make the same assertions about dynamically typed languages at scale and how you "only" need to write tests that assert the types or "i wrote the function and know which type is passed duh" or "i write unit tests that would catch this" when a statically typed language tells you at compile time whether or not it will work. No intelligence required.
I'm sorry I don't believe you. My experience (as of 6 years ago) had been that I see students having part time jobs which aren't enough to cover much of anything other than food, partially rent, and occasional going out.

There were of course wealthy students who did all the things you talked about: going out, trips, expensive trips etc. but by no means were they the majority.
The same thing as the thousands of years prior to pensions?
Yeah, the learning curve was pretty steep for me. I've been learning some C# for my job, and it's been a lot easier after learning basic Python. SQL is kind of weird in the sense that starting out is very very very easy, but mastering it is incredibly hard. I've been writing SQL everyday for about 3 years and I'm still blown away with what the SQL experts at my company can do with the language. I see presentations at conferences that make me feel like an absolute beginner.
> since hot loops can block a whole OS thread

Asking as a beginner, what does the above mean?

Not sure what does hot loop means, and why does it block Os thread
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I have a Tesla, and summon has always scared me. I've never used it. I never plan to use this "smart summon" either.

The only thing that has made me think about enabling summon is that in order to be able to remotely open your garage door via the Tesla app, using the transceiver in the car, you must have Summon enabled. Being able to open the garage door from thousands of miles away would be quite handy in case a family member was locked out. But I still haven't done it.
"Back in the day, front end, back end, operations, and DBAs separated because they needed different skills. Now we accept that a software team needs all the skills."

If the problem domain is adequately handled by generalists that's not a problem. But in situations requiring specialized skills it means needing to rely more on specialty contractors who keep your system from crashing when you go past the complexity threshold. As a specialist contractor it's very much in my interest to promote teams with "all the skills" because it means I won't be wanting for work.
Assembly 94 was awesome :)
The House of Lords kinda throws a wrench in calling the UK a republic, IMO. I know they're technically representatives (of... someone), but the Life Peers within the Lords Temporal are Crown-appointed ("on the advice of" the PM, which sounds like Her Majesty can tell the PM to bugger off and ignore that advice, but maybe there are specific restrictions there that I ain't aware of on account of not being British), which to me sounds like monarchy with extra steps.
>Nobody wants to navigate a social minefield where everything they say can and will be used against them in a court of public opinion.

Agreed! My point is that non-white non-cisgendered non-male people are already doing this in order to exist in the workplace! Let's make the world more comfortable for everyone and stop excluding people because you don't want to lose your boys club.
If you force a check at the start, refresh token seems fine. That's much preferable than popping ux every hour or whenever the access token expires.
I was excited for this feature after playing Batman Arkham Knight game. Batman can summon is Batmobile while jumping over the rooftops and jump right into the drivers seat.
Why do we struggle to believe that we will die one day?
That’s probably a low figure but yeah
Just to clarify, do you tell them what needs to be done and do it, or only tell them what to do?
What if, you guys, what if, hear me out, you guys, what if the pun was intended?
fn is great. I'm not at all mathematical as suggested by others. When I go back to Go I find myself wondering why I have to type the extra two characters.
Is there any way to get the closest driving distance in Postgres without relying on some API?

I haven't done anything like this, bit it is possible to use the data from OpenStreetMap locally along with Postgres to e.g. sort results by shortest driving distance?

Maybe there's an extension? I'm just curious.
Are you sure about that? You should look at the fortunes of the engineering groups McDermott, CB&I, and Shaw and how the cost overruns associated with the Westinghouse contributed to so much trouble for those EPC companies and Toshiba. Nuclear has two big problems: difficulty with costs of constructing new plants and currently completely externalized storage of spent fuel. The latter is poorly defined and understood, even though some people would like to give the appearance otherwise.
Hey everyone! it's the maker here. Please let me know if you have any feedback on how to make the app better. It's mostly just for fun while I work on the real time management app, but hopefully it helps get insight
That's what the students of the day are doing. Education is so expensive so I might as well live great while doing it. An extra $10K or $15K a year in living expenses on my loan is no big deal, right? That adds up when you need to start making payments on a loan that is ~$40K higher than it could have been.
Not just for take-off, but for the possibility of finishing the take-off with one engine failure. That's quite a bit of spare capacity.

However I also wonder why, if electric motors are a solution here, there hasn't been a comparable fuel-powered extra-takeoff-engine. Why would this not have the same benefits? Or are extra engines simply too complicated mechanically unless they are motors?

(The liked article is about modifying a Dash 8, which is a turboprop, and perhaps it's easy to have oversize propellers for takeoff, and just connect a motor to the same gearbox.)
It's a one in a million chance. However there are now millions of Tesla/phone pairs on the market so one in a million translates to inevitability.
Architecting petabyte-scale analytics with Postgres and Citus
This is almost exactly the premise of the McDonalds game [1].

[1] https://molleindustria.org/mcdonalds/
Ok, I bet you are right and that was his argument. On private property you can drive however you like.

I retract my claim. Thanks.