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To the contrary, I've seen 3.8L or 3.78L written on every gallon jug for my entire lifetime. I know that conversion off the top of my head... even before I had mandatory science classes where I formally learned the same.

But even if you haven't read any of the text on a milk jug over the past half-century, surely you've seen one of these before?:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71x5rVYbJUL...
Useless use of `cat`. :)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AAngstrom

"1907 IAU definition of the Angstrom: Was it 6438.4696, or was it 6438.46963 (???)

I was wondering why I was coming up with 1553164.117 wavelengths of the cadmium red-line per 10^10 angstroms (the so-called "Cadmium meter", per the 1907 IAU definition given as 6438.46963), while virtually all internet searches were coming up with "1553164.13".

Later, I managed to trace a change in the article from 6438.4696 to 6438.46963 in an unsourced one-character edit by 146.115.127.198, all the way back to 2008.

I suspect that 6438.4696 (which yields 1553164.12459 per 10^10 (1907) angstroms) is correct (based on the printed publications which I have come across), and the error has since propagated to several other websites that have used Wikipedia as a reference. Should this ten-year-old edit be reverted, or not? DWIII (talk) 14:42, 3 September 2018 (UTC)"

After reading that, to find some who have since 2008 wrongly used that bogus constant (even in some books), search for:

"6438.46963"
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That's not really how credit works. Yes, the bank wants to make money but they also want to give money to people they know will pay them back.
And the increased structural and sealing requirements of being several PSI above ambient. That will add cost, complexity and weight.
I agree about many European products (the appliances in my house are all 20 year old European ones that still work perfectly).

But inexpensive "made in USA" stuff I tend to find (folding outdoor chairs and the like) seems to pretty much last a short time or even single use, and as has been lamented publicly, is rarely exported. Most of the everyday product purchases seem to come from SE Asia.
I don't know If the Mac App Store will bring better apps and grater for enthousiasm than it is now for Apple Store business model, but you can be sure of one thing : notarisation program will not last. The goal is to lock the platform like iOS and force force every user to get their apps through the App Store and nowhere else.

I'm pretty sur once MacOS has switched to ARM, system partition will be in read only mode, you will not be able to install app outside of the AppStore except if you jailbreak thank to a "security flaw".
The article mentsions Rent a VM in the cloud, with 64 cores and 432GB RAM, for $3.62/hour.. Does anyone have specific services they'd recommend?
I prefer Firefox's way of "moving towards a faster web" - blocking trackers.
Related interesting info:

Eating bone marrow played a key role in the evolution of the human hand

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180711105725.h...

Prehistoric humans ate bone marrow like canned soup 400,000 years ago

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191009142902.h...
There would definitely be a BAA in place between between the providers and Google. My business has one with Google for hosting our cloud data. You know those forms you sign about HIPAA when you visit a provider? One of the things they say is the provider will only share data when a BAA is in place - well that the HIPAA rule:

"The Privacy Rule allows covered providers and health plans to disclose protected health information to these “business associates” if the providers or plans obtain satisfactory assurances that the business associate will use the information only for the purposes for which it was engaged by the covered entity, will safeguard the information from misuse, and will help the covered entity comply with some of the covered entity’s duties under the Privacy Rule."

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...
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Technically background reports and credit screenings can include income (when doing them for Apartment rentals, it usually comes back with their income) but it's almost always off by some and also can come back with a big "UNKNOWN".
That looks, on it's face, like a violation of the 14th amendment equal protection clause.
Damian is a magician in the way how he teaches different subjects. His talk on calculating PI was fun too.
They are constrained by ship design and efficiently tradeoffs. It's a big space/weight/manning requirement for each system. No one is really worried about missile attacks except from on the beam and above, so mounted high and aft is a decent compromise. Personally I rather carry more ESSM reloads in the magazine than cwis rounds.
I don't think any of these are from generic terms from within their trade.
Or they wanted to spur the major ISPs to roll out fiber quicker.
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Well, it would have avoided to ask the reader to go and check which war is it about.
Excellent intro to the Kafka topic architecture
^f mmap

yeah, that's what I thought.
> We were lulled into letting him make key architecture decisions in isolation, because no one else was awake or online at the same time to discuss them.

That sounds like a process rather than schedule issues: important architectural decisions shouldn't be performed "on the spot" but only after some sort of discussion. Preferably in writing.

> If he refactored the codebase in the middle of the night to make his job easier, the other team members were all forced to work around his refactor.

Don't you do code review? People shouldn't be able to push code without another person looking over it.

These issues would also apply to remote or off-shore workers.
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Do you have a sense of how the performance would compare to chunking? My naive expectation is that loading data from disk to swapped memory involves writing that data to disk (even if it will only be read).
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Unlike most big data solutions, dask is just so convenient. I sometimes use it just to concatenate a bunch of files into a dataframe. And yet, it scales up to really large datasets, too.
>That's ok because we have compilers, the OS, and other layers to handle that for us.

This is the essence of my argument. Why can't the database API occupy a layer similar to the OS or compilers?

If I don't understand the underlying implementation of compilers and OSs' why do I need to understand the underlying implementation of my database? Why is the OS abstraction different from the DB sql abstraction? Can't we write abstractions that are zero cost?

The answer is we can, however we haven't and therefore the only solutions available to us is to use SQL and understand the lower level details of the database.

>However, even for your bog typical web dev, a database is right up there in the list of systems you need to understand in order to do your job.

I'm not talking about your responsibilities on the job. I'm questioning the current state of tech. A web developer uses an API exposed by an OS and doesn't have to understand the OS. A web developer uses an API exposed by the compiler and doesn't have to understand Assembly. A web developer uses an API exposed by a database but he MUST understand the underlying features of a database. See the difference? I'm pointing out an issue that could be improved not what you need to know for your job.

>A carpenter doesn't have to be a blacksmith, but they do need to know how a saw works.

SQL is a saw that breaks in half on every use. In order to use such a saw a carpenter must have the knowledge of a blacksmith to reforge the metal and combine the two halves of the saw into a single metal blade. A leaky abstraction. That is a proper analogy for SQL.
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> Electric planes don't have that problem which could be the secret to faster global travel.

However, to make it feasible for commercial air travel, you need much faster charging times, because airlines want to have as short of a turnaround as possible for their planes.

But I can totally see how electric planes would work for hobby piloting in the first place.
Do people seriously believe ancient humans hunted mammoths? I thought it's just a popular myth (some people even believe they rode dinosaurs, you know). Weren't there other animals handier to hunt?
Great game--I think it would a little better if you had to pay each employee a salary, just to give it something of a challenge factor.
FWIW, Apple doesn't care if apps being distributed contain code licensed under the GPL. They care whether you have the appropriate rights to distribute the app on their store under their terms - and that is asserted by you.

A previous build of VLC was pulled from the store because someone claimed they had copyright on some of the code - because they did not want VLC in the store.
Ask HN: Can we persist hide YC job postings from the same company?
Frequent job posts by YC companies prioritized on front page:

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer in SF - 1 hour ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508840)

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineers in SF - 20 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21318785)

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineers in SF and in ATX - 32 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213893)

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring 2 Full-Stack Engineers in SF - 39 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21146429)

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring 2 Full-Stack Engineers in SF - 46 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21080481)

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers in SF - 54 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21003584)

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring a Director of Engineer in SF - 75 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822555)

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers in SF - 89 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20695766)

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers in SF - 3 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20571209)

Would love a setting to turn this off, so new posts from same company are auto hidden.
What about writing (say) a masters or PhD thesis?

For many disciplines, the actual research involves field work, performing experiments, etc., and the thesis is primarily about reporting on that process and connecting it to the pre-existing body of research. For other disciplines (for example, philosophy), the text of the thesis is all there is to the research. Maybe the later is more like creative writing and the former more like technical writing??

(My uncle did a PhD in creative writing, his PhD thesis was a novel.)
Is this new? I'd be curious to know the last time it wasn't true, outside of Tesla. I'm guessing you'd have to go back to the 60s or early 70s. I actually think US cars have improved tremendously in the last decade, though.
That paragraph doesn't seem like jargon to me (though I admit I used to work in a field where "hermeneutic" was an ordinary term). But part from that perhaps uncommon term, it all seems pretty straightforward and in fact doesn't appear to use any domain-specific terms.
Germany is number 1 because of the wind... there are days when they generate more than they can take. Exporting is not really a good measure of energy security — for example, how much do you think Germany can charge for the wind it cannot use? Hint: it’s a negative number. I am a proponent of nuclear - but I wish to see newer more efficient and safer designs (ie salt). When I look at France through the same lens I look at Norway, I see one country electrifying it’s entire car fleet, all of its homes, its entire North Sea oil production, is investing in massive hectare size data centers and still has plenty left over and then I see France who will be lucky to replace its aging nuclear infrastructure just get back to what it has today. I would love to see them continue to invest in nuclear but it’s own stated goal is to drop nuclear to 50% of the overall rather than the current 75%. If the article’s author is correct, that aging nuclear designs are superior to other forms of energy, why then isn’t France keeping its production at 75%?
> I should be able to share medical history with you (individual/corporation/government/whatever) in a way that is completely granular (I decide what you see and don't), revocable, and non-transferable.

I agree 100% with the granular.

For "revocable, and non-transferable" I'm not sure how you would do that without making it not worth the trouble, but maybe I'm just not seeing something.

One thing I think solves a number of problems is what we call the "synthesize test". An EHR should be able to synthesize as many medical records as a researcher needs with 1 click. Then you could design software against lots of synthesized records, and move the compute of actual real patient records to the edge, on their devices. Maybe you could do something like that for the "revocable/non-transferable" thing. Patients submit their records to a machine with a ticking expiration, that does the training and emits the trained model and destroys the training data (assuming we can prevent leakage of sensitive info into the model).
Lack of credible information indeed can be deadly, let alone horrifying. For that exact reason propaganda is very much gladly filling in the void.

Sure there're different flavors of propaganda, but the one which is able to target masses back home is a lot more potent than the one directed at the front lines.

I doubt that the Ukrainian soldiers would be swayed by footage like this, but their mothers sure will be. Perhaps this may also be meant to convince the mothers back in Russia that that their sons are "safe" in hands of "good" COs and are facing "easy" opposition.

Being able to recognize BS is as much vital.
The Site Engagement Score might be relevant here: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/site-en...

Presumably a site that is using the dark patterns you've described would have a low SES. Although if you're interacting with the site in order to get past the ads I wonder if that would distort your SES? Then again, if the site is doing annoying things, I'd probably bail quickly, so maybe SES can work after all...

Disclosure: I work on Google Web DevRel. I don't know if there's any plans to incorporate SES into this badging initiative. I was just reminded of SES last night because Periodic Background Sync API uses it [1] and it seems relevant to this problem.

[1] https://web.dev/periodic-background-sync/#getting-this-right
YMMV. For me, background noise in general isn't the issue. Rather the issue is specifically people talking, because my mind begins following their conversation. If I can render their voice unintelligible then it won't distract me. Low volume music often works for this.
Street food has a price threshold?

In China, street food might cost 20 yuan for a dish of something. The median income for all of China’s is 18,000 yuan.

In Portland, the median income is $53,230. A street dish might cost $10.

In China, street food is actually a lot more expensive than Portland, adjusting for median income levels. Even if you bought a dish for 10¥ it is still more than twice as expensive as Portland.

Are we to say that China’s street food ain’t street food? Because that’s what you are suggesting which basically means that no street food is street food.
I see this fear in my GF's (young teen) kids who go out of their way to plug their stuff in.
If you really want to feel overwhelmed, peruse the CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape: https://landscape.cncf.io/

For our recommended path through the options, try the Cloud Native Trailmap: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cncf/trailmap/master/CNCF_...
Is there any reason future starlink satellites couldn't have similar functionality? If 1% of the planned starlink satellites also supported the 1.6GHz band which I believe iridium uses, you could blanket the earth in a similar manner with this low bandwidth service.
How impossible is it to fork Chromium and maintain a privacy friendly branch?
We chose the cheap option but don't blame us! This was entirely unexpected!
This comment could be greatly improved by some tips on how to do these things. As it stands, this comment sounds like an imperative to merely subject oneself to something and endure the discomfort of it, without any indication that the reader will build any skill.

Since changing workflow to something dramatically less-productive is also something that can disrupt a person's healthcare and housing, people are understandably going to be skeptical.
About as bad. Although, as has been pointed out, military research can have benign applications as well.
Many payloads have been launched with known issues to meet a launch window or mass specification. Notably, I think the Mars Curiosity rover had disabled hardware (microphones) on board because its mass (all 80 grams of it) had been factored into the launch vehicle and spacecraft burns and EDL maneuvers.
Interesting points - I'm skeptical about whether DBMSs will ever be too complex for DB admins. Complexity will increase, but our level of abstraction will increase to match, as with any technology. We may still find ourselves fixing DBMS problems in 50 years, but those problems will likely be on the same level of abstraction we have at that time.
I think it'd just increase stress. Instead of seeing some kind of counter going down (percentage) we'd have a vague statement that at any point in time the phone can shutdown.
I share the same name as the heads of public relations for two of the largest corporations on Earth. I love the anonymity.
I've done that. I know the reasons they say, just stating that I can't comprehend why they value those reasons more than their personal daily job safety.
Wasn't that the promise of SQL in the first place?

Lots of companies and organizations have made that promise. Even legendary game company Infocom way back in 1985. So far, none have delivered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_(software)
For America: The average commute is 16 miles. 16x2/250x54kWh = 6.912kWh/day. Most modern residential circuits are 15 or 20 amps, so we're looking at a max load of either (15A x 120V =) 1800W or (20A x 120V =) 2400W. 6.912kWh/1.8kW = 4 hours of charging.

5000 * 1.8kW = 9MW when all cars are pulling the maximum load. Mind you, they will be pulling it at night, when there is excess capacity available due to lower energy use from other appliances.
Dudes just trying to be helpful.. no need to pile on the downvotes
Underrated comment.

A lot of the reason business owners aren't more content with "small but sustainable" is because it isn't compatible with the venture capital model. It doesn't "return the fund".
It is losing weight but only very very little.
Confused. What evidence was found, to indicate these mammoths didn't just stumble into the pit? Was the pit man-made? Tool marks on the mammoth bones? Evidence of hunting implements?

One spear mark is pretty slim evidence, but that's all they mentioned.
Plenty of options in the price range/ spec range for AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

If you sign up by month it will be much cheaper too.
A tumbler may theoretically[1] help[2] you launder coins that you have received from theft, extortion, drug dealing, or other criminal activity.

It won't do anything to help you avoid paying the tax man, come April.

[1] Assuming it's not a honeypot ran by a TLA.

[2] Assuming that, by legislature, tumbled coins don't become 'tainted'.
Mac App Store apps are pure crap, for most of them. Cheap apps developed by chinese or indian developers or other coming from developping countries. A few apps are good but sell at inflated price. Games prices are outragious and sell for half the price on Steam.
> Are you using it as a proxy for a patient to be able to get their EHR records out or something else?

It's a proxy to test a lot of dimensions at once: not only how accessible the records are to the patient (facilitating care, particularly in acute settings), but also how well designed the grammar and schemas are. Well designed grammars and schemas should survive copy/pasting easily. Any errors should be quickly and readily identified with the potential for autocorrections.

VA created a very cool thing called Blue Button (https://www.va.gov/bluebutton/). It is a step toward passing the copy/paste test. Any veteran can download their complete medical history in a single file. The schema isn't there yet and parsing these things is a pain, but a step in the right direction.
This article addresses your questions:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-electric-vehicles-...

Check out the "lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions" figures. It's really interesting in how it shows how different the total emissions are depending on which country you charge your electric car in. Also, depending on which electric car model you have, the lifecycle emission improvement over a conventional one might be relatively slim, depending on where and how much you drive it.

By and large, electrics are at a substantial disadvantage due to both battery production and fuel cycle emissions, which then gets compensated over time as you drive the car.

Edit: There's also this super interesting article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_aspects_of_the_e... which is largely consistent with the Carbonbrief article.
Do you by any chance also pack light for trips? Have fairly empty pockets? Genuinely interested.
True, but still, I think there's an important point in that talking more won't necessarily make someone more of a doer. It could just make them more of a blowhard.
> The average commute is 16 miles.

That's 32-miles from home-to-work-and-back, not including grocery shopping or kids activities, or leisure activities (ball-games, bar, restaurants).

I think 50-miles is closer to reality. The average car is driving far, far, more than 16-miles per day in my experience.

32-miles just from work alone.

> max load of either (15A x 120V =) 1800W or (20A x 120V =) 2400W.

No sane person will be charging on 120V x 15A. Your 77kW-hr Tesla 3 will take 42-hours to charge on that circuit. 20A x 120V is going to take 32-hours to charge from empty. Similarly ridiculous.

Well, almost. I actually am a big proponent of hybrid-vehicles. A hybrid vehicle with 50-mile capacity will charge on a 120V x 15A circuit every night just fine (and use gasoline as a range-extender when necessary). Until power-infrastructure is better built out, I think the PHEV model is going to be friendlier to our cities and neighborhoods.

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To put it another way: 120V x 15A circuits charge your car at 7-miles (of range) per hour (of charging). For small batteries such as PHEVs (Volt, Prius Prime), this might be sufficient (20-miles of electric charge, maybe 50). For a 220+ mile Tesla 3 (or any other high-range electric vehicle), that's too slow.
Unfortunately the reduced power is still a problem at higher altitudes but for different reasons. Instead of oxygen starvation, the props will have less to push against.

This is still less of an issue as the electric motor can spin faster due to the reduced resistance. Higher speeds will create higher resistances from within the motor itself (which will in turn be increase the heat generated in the motor).

That heat will also be harder to dissipate in lower pressures, but I suppose alternative cooling could be added as well.
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