skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignore the PR fodder and go run the actual numbers. The actual range/endurance/payload capability of these aircraft is a tiny tiny fraction of their Jet-A/100LL counterparts. It will eventually get better, and a lot of organizations are smart to keep that in mind, but we're not there yet and won't be for a decade at least.
I'm not sure that's relevant. Said tank was an uncontrolled and unexpected movement. Military air transports are certainly capable of doing controlled air drops of tens of thousands of pounds.
There was a time when people moving to a new place would voluntarily list their names, phone number, and residential address in a public directory.

We have lost a lot of privacy in recent decades but some expectations have actually changed towards more privacy.
In your opinion what's the problem with Docker?
We just need someone to develop an air-to-air battery replenishment system (same theory/model that you see in use with military tanker aircraft for air-to-air refueling).

I can see it now. Max weight/batteries on take off. Controller to drain batteries serially, and as each one is exhausted, chuck it out the bottom of the plane (with some kind of landing/recovery mechanism). When you start running low on batteries, re-fuel at the nearest tanker.

Obviously I'm kidding. The tanker model is ridiculously expensive. That's why you only see it used for extremely critical things (military).
>seems like something that would destroy the internet.

I too remember "the destroyed" internet of yesteryear. We're in a much better place now that 5 companies control your opinion and your access to counter opinions.

>Like why would YC take on that risk to help us maintain a space free of spam or threats of violence?

No. We're talking about legal things that the PUBLISHER just doesn't like. Illegal things are always on the table for moderation. Don't try and make the argument about spam. You know very well that the issue here is a room of "content curators" artificially removing "trending" things because of political ideology, or government requested censorship, or just whoever bought the most ads that month.
Perhaps the biggest reason that wind is mostly offshore these days is because it's much more reliable there than on land. It still varies, but not by as much as you'd expect.

There's also a saying "the wind is always blowing somewhere". A good grid reduces variability a lot.

Renewables are projected to get cheap enough that over provisioning can handle most, (but not all) of the stalls, drastically reducing the need for storage or peakers. For example, if you have enough solar to provide 3X as much power as you need on a sunny day, you get about 1X on a cloudy day.

Over-provisioning results in incredibly cheap power on sunny/windy days which can be a huge boon to industry.
If the patent has value, develop it. That's the single best way for others to learn it has value. I'm not saying it needs to be a company, with VCs and funding and what not, but develop it into something demonstrating the value. You already have the patent, so if some one “steals” the implementation without licensing you could resort to litigation. Write about it, blog it, etc.

Patents are abstract solutions to a problem.

The claims are written to be as wide and generically applicable as possible. Which means that the patent library is useless as a repository of solutions to problems. And it's a minefield if you admit in court that you reviewed a patent and determined that it did not address or solve your problem, because every IP attorney in Marshall, TX will say “See, judge? there was malicious intent to steal my client’s intellectual property!” So then no one who's ever experienced the sharp end of the patent litigation system ever looks into the patent library ever again, because treble damages are never fun.

The way things used to work was: you invent a thing, you use it to solve your own problem and/or bring it to market in a larger solution or product. In parallel you patent the invention to prevent your competitors from leveraging your invention, and in return get a limited exclusive license to market and sell your solution.

Now it seems all one needs to do is to add "by using the Internet" or "via SMS" or "with Bitcoin" to an existing patent and voila you have a new income stream and litigation cudgel.
Just to be super clear don’t use the triggers to rebuild the view every time but merely to add one to the sum’d account when a row matches — I wasn’t sure I made that clear. Good luck! And do put up a blog post or something if it works out
Your car can run past redline, it just shouldn't all the time.
Both. You've got to work with the client to get an understanding of how they want to use their CRM, guide them on best practices and then pull the levers to configure things correctly. You can niche out and focus on one of the three areas but we find solving issues end-to-end is what our customers are looking for. They want us to come to them with issues we've found, best practices on solving them(as they apply to THEIR business) and to also take the steps to put it all in place.

All of our work is remote so there's no face-to-face per se but we do come on-site or take them out to lunch every quarter or two
Not just the joysticks. A useful Apple ][ system was double or triple the cost of a similarly capable C-64. Apples were great machines, but because of their timing and price they were considered business machines. At least until IBM changed the world.
I'm more referring to individual Medium contributors (which is more analogous to Dev's model) than publications. I haven't seen a dev-oriented Medium.com article pop up on Twitter/Reddit/HN in a very long time (I've seen much less TDS too in the past year, and pretty much nothing from FCC or HN since they went independent; I probably should research that further). Admittingly, that's anecdata.

However, "the paywall in particular is very author friendly" is incorrect. If you want to monetize, sure, but the majority of people I know went to post on Medium in the first place did it to share personal knowledge with an easy-to-use UI/UX and get feedback, not to generate money.
Its mostly that elderly people can now afford to stay in their huge family homes until they die, instead of selling them and enabling the next generation of families to live in them.

Previously, elderly people would move into small houses in small towns, or into apartments, in order to free up capital and lower ongoing costs.
Viewing them is free. Printing them is not. Also, you're assuming that the public access terminal is a computer. In some places, the "terminals" are human clerks, and the turnaround for searches are days to weeks.

And only the first $15 is free, but if you spend $16, you get charged the whole $16, not $1.
> My point is that non-white non-cisgendered non-male people are already doing this in order to exist in the workplace!

I'm struggling to see how the "Don't"s in the article are associated with a particular orientation, race or sex... are you suggesting that non-white non-cisgendered non-male people can't cope with a more casual tone? Why? In my experience non-"white" people are just as casual or formal as "white" people ("white" is such a weirdly American concept, here in the UK we wouldn't want to group the Poles and the French together).
I haven't used this yet, but I thought I'd also mention RxDB and GUN that also fit in this similar space of cross client<>server db engines.

https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb

https://gun.eco/

EDIT: I'd love to see a discussion comparing localForage, BrowserFS, GUN, and RxDB :D
I like robotic conversations at work because my work is not important to me, and I don’t want to bring my “full self” to work. I like to get in, do my shit, conduct communication in a formalized manner, and get out in 6 hours and go do stuff that matters to me.
Lithium is evaporated from brine in ponds, not strip mined.
You could use an RF modulator and connect it to a TV, but it wasn't included with the system.
For the record, in the beginning Bazel does not support using auto-configured system compiler at all. The only thing it supports is using a controlled build environment and hardcode all paths (including compiler paths), or using a checked-in toolchain. But at a later stage a dumb autoconf-y "detect system toolchain and try to use it" thing was added and it became default.

This is because configuring a checked-in toolchain in Bazel needs tremendous effort and very specific knowledge about something 99.9% of developers does not know and DOES NOT WANT to know or spend their time on.
I'm assuming that the 'Plumbing Pensions scheme' is a defined benefit plan - vs. defined contribution.

Otherwise, this absolutely makes no sense.
One keeps reading things like this on the Internet or in the media, and yet the data keep pointing in the opposite direction: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo...
In general, do people recommend using libraries like this for in-browser filesystem or building it from scratch? I’m looking for something to sync files between Google Drive, IndexedDB, and which has a treeview component to display and modify files.
> staging

I'd like to see a prototype of an electric airliner which can fly forever, but every half hour or so a car-sized battery with little stubby wings flies up and docks into the back of the plane.
Can somebody explain what a cloud kitchen is? What a terrible use of the already overloaded cloud.
> I'm not sure how I'd respond

That might depend on whether or not you were worried about losing your job over it.
My Commodore was US$500 from a dead electronics discounter called Crazy Eddie. That's about US$1,500 in today money.

Because of this I didn't get a disk drive for a year.
I’ve experienced where code reviews have worked well and where they actually have been more hurting for morale than useful. The difference between the two was that how well people knew how to work with the frameworks they were using. In the failing team the participants didn’t know what their tools and code was doing and the code reviews basically became ravings about code formatting.

Another effect were it took days to do a code review because each review had to be explained in detail, instead of have a common understanding of why the changes should work or be different.

The effectively consequences of this was that people only asked reviews from other people that either accepted everything or didn’t have the adequate knowledge about tools so the code just became worse and even less aligned with what the frameworks required.

This was recognized by the management and a huge effort were put into educating the staff so the common knowledge about the tools were raised. This was really appreciated move and, although the team still struggled at least the reviews became better.

I don’t know if just respectful reviews work if you always feel, even if the reviews are kind and helpful, as the one needing a lot of explaining to commit your code, particularly if you are on a deadline and stressed out. People get fearful and defensive if you don’t get what’s wrong with your code.

It can also be the other way around, that you get loads of questions and downright wrong reviews which then has to be defended. And this is the beginning of disagreements which could cause tensions and ultimately disrespect.
Very cool actually. I like this response and how it was downvoted: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTrumpSupporters/comments/dct1be/...

Also a shame how confusing the new interface of reddit is... Yes I know I can go to old.reddit.com but still.
I think the resolution matters, as this article mentions.

Putting an ad on a bench of a district where 70% of the >100K residents belong to a certain interest group is targeted, but in a way that is obvious to anyone and fair.

Sending online or mailed ads to people who belong to the intersection of three or more groups, as identified by signals that are difficult to observe (shopping habits, search history, social media interactions) is a line I think most consider wrong to cross.
Ask HN: API to generate interesting mp4 from jpg, PNG, SVG and video source
Looking before building.
I seek an api to send media (perhaps with animation, text, compression and transition rules) and receive a complete mp4. The smarter the better. TIA
Why does everyone turn from Nuclear though? It seems like the most viable option in my opinion. I'd rather have a network of nuke power where energy reliability is weather-independent than forests of wind and farms of solar. I feel like its a much greener approach overall. What's the manufacturing breakeven in carbon costs for a windmill or a solar panel?
Colorado launched one recently as well, apparently the first US state to do it: https://mycolorado.state.co.us/

As a CO resident I haven't really found a use for it yet. There's even a disclaimer to take your physical ID with you wherever you go.
My experience (as an applicant) was similar. Google, of course, has so many qualified applicants that oddities like this don't really matter much in terms of their final pool.

I do wonder, though, if they will eventually accumulate a reputation for this sort of thing that might harm them. For myself, I no longer respond to their emails either.
Actually, buying the Quest is what made me decide to grab a Dream headset. After playing with WebVR/WebXR demos, I thought wow, I should grab a Dream headset and see what my phone can do. This was at the end of September.

Then I realized it wasn't compatible, but figured I might get a new Pixel when they launched, so I kept it just in case... Whoops.
Some languages have good alternatives to this. Examples:

* Rust has an unreachable!() macro that tells readers and static analyzers that it should be dead code; but raises an error if executed at runtime. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.unreachable.html

* Languages with pattern-matching will either crash at compile-time if the set of clauses is non-exhaustive, or at run time if a case is missing. That is, if you don't have a catch-all clause.
From the article: "Rather than being ranked with other major western democracies, the US falls lower down the list alongside countries like Kosovo and Romania."

https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com
> The founding fathers warned against that, because if one generation offloads its debt to the next, then it effectively enslaves the next against its will (deprives it of property, and taxes it without representation, among other things).

Enslaved to whom? You can’t send your labour into the past. A huge national debt ‘run up’ by a previous generation just means that the next generation becomes more unequal, as the majority are taxed to fund interest payments to the heirs of the original bondholders. I don’t really see how this is more unjust than the existence of any other law or policy established before I was born, which I had no say in. If the solution is to appropriate the wealth of bondholders, the next generation will be equally able to implement that policy.
I found not flying a better alternative.

Everybody tells me what I would have said before, that it's impossible to avoid, which is why I pointed out how the experience changed everything. It turns out many things were possible I didn't think were.
+100 to this. I’ve become a cheerleader for some projects just because the documentation was so good that it was easy to get started. It’s how I became a ZFS zealot among other things.
I didn't say anything close to that.

You said that there was "so much more to do for these people" that doesn't "waste human potential" if only we didn't "force" them to do dreary metro jobs. I'm saying that if you take away their dreary metro jobs, most of them will just wind up in dreary non-metro jobs unless we have a better situation standing by ready to receive them, which we don't.

If you want to free people from a life of drudgery, you need to offer an alternative, not just lay off all the drudges.

Edit: Or are you specifically opposed to underground jobs, not bad jobs in general?
> Believe me

It seems you like to say stuff like this, but you've given us zero reason to believe you. Show me the evidence and I might be more inclined to, but right now, you may as well just be telling us about a dream you once had.
Why on earth would you install an app provided by a nation/state?!
Google is NOT the only one that accepts this behavior and abuse. Corps hide behind staffing agencies because they don't have the head-count($$) for a full time employee, but they do for a CW. So they hire the CW to do the work a full time employee should be doing. The CW gets less pay, and less benefits all around. This is a complete abuse of the CW system that runs rampant.

How do I know? I've been a CW for the same Fortune 500 company for the last 8 years in 4 different positions.
And also one less thing to transfer to the heads of anyone else that might need/want to understand the code. (Often the author him or herself at some point in the future, right?) Though equivalent facilities are available in C++ [1][2] (and can now/soon be enforced[3]).

[1] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus/blob/master...

[2] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus/blob/master...

[3] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/scpptool
As a thought experiment if you could produce jet fuel using carbon captured from the atmosphere (and energy from zero-carbon sources) what other negative externalities would remain from burning it in planes?
> It also consumes larges amounts of memory and in the very unlikely worst case, may require 2x MAX_THREADS replicas of the sequential object.

Depending on how many threads are involved, I have a simple construction [0] that is likely to scale much better. It uses multiple copies of the data structure, but each successive copy is used only half as often, resulting in logarithmic amortized complexity.

IMO these types of constructions only make sense when reads are far more common than writes. Using this for an std::set is ridiculous — if you really want to apply one of these constructions to a mapping, you should build a whole new optimized seat structure for each write. Or maybe you could cleverly use immutable data structures to improve memory and bandwidth usage.

[0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-92221-...
I wonder if the browser can do continuous recording to disk, I know Mega (mega.nz) does some sort of magic with client-side JS so it's not the browser just writing bytes it's getting from the HTTP connection, it's writing bytes to disk given to it by the JS. If the browser doesn't know how big the HTTP download is, it just writes and writes to disk, I wonder if that's possible with the fancy HTML5 save-to-disk.
Would McDonald's (afaik by far the largest of its kind) have to advertise for its competitors on request? It seems weird to me.

Secondly, they don't really have a monopoly from my perspective. I don't know many people that use Facebook-the-product for its intended purpose, that is, social networking instead of selling household items or organising ride sharing. And I don't know anyone who uses Instagram (except for one girl on the bus who looks down only enough to make sure she's tapping the post and not some other button on her screen, but otherwise only likes every post without even glancing at it). I guess that might be different in other countries.
reminds me of what happened to crockford for "nodevember."

doug was apparently a very naughty boy, but no one would give a straight answer on what the charges were.
What kind of "value" can not be specified as a feature? Whether it's a better SLA, expertise adapting the product to the customers needs, or anything else, those are just features which some clients may want, and others may not.
The conspiracy theorist in me says that unnamed "vendor" is a 3 letter agency that had a bunch of messages drop into a dead-letter queue or similar and something caused them to all be re-processed... a la Room 641A (Yes I know in Room 641A they weren't in the middle but just saving off a copy but still).
Handheld retro PC design concept: Commodore HX-64
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This is still small enough scale that I'm sending a personally written email to them at signup asking for feedback or issues.
About 6 months ago I caught a full-swing of a stick to the right side of my mouth/jaw. Cracked my front right tooth in half and broke the next two right-most teeth at the gum-line, and cracked one of my lower teeth off at the top 1/4. Neither top teeth broken at the gum could be saved/or built up so they pulled them. I also had one of my lower teeth, left of center knocked out (yes left of center, I think the top portion of the stick blade came down and slapped that part of my mouth). I picked that one up and washed it off and stuck it back in; it seems to have re-rooted.

The work they did on the top teeth was pretty much the most painful, least fun medical I've ever had to go through. Pulling those two top teeth that were broke off at the gum-line was extremely unpleasant. At one point the dentist had to put her knee on the chair/left side of my ribs to get enough leverage to pull one of the two. My wife couldn't even watch and said it was like a scene from a movie.

This is after playing hockey since the age of 6 (I'm 52) and not wearing a cage for roughly 30 years (since I stopped playing in college).

I had a very strange desire to buy/put on a full cage a few weeks before this happened and even started to research which to buy but got interrupted and lost my traction on the whole idea.

To date this has run me over 10k and I still have to get my final implants.

And yes I do wear a cage now, and it's crazy how often I catch a stick/puck to the face now. I guess I used up all my karma and was getting lucky for years. I attribute this 'luck' mostly to playing with other ex-college and pro players whom generally know how to keep their stick down and in control.

Incidentally the person that hit me was a female defense-men in a co-ed league; she'd played high level college and was groomed for the women's Olympic team on one point, so I don't fault her, it was a freak accident mostly caused by her being tiny (just over 5ft on skates); if she was an average sized guy out there the stick would have hit me in the half-shield or top of the helmet.

Either way, yeah cage on now and I regret not making the transition sooner.

Also - I give USA Hockey Organization high marks, they have so far covered about 90% of the costs and were easy to deal with. I actually lost my previous job because of all this, I also sustained a concussion (and a partially fractured jaw), and they were not very sympathetic to my drop in production so the coverage from USA Hockey has been a huge positive in all this.
Global investment in cutting greenhouse gases fell by 11% in 2018