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> Hopefully the US can set legislation for this kind of thing.

Surely you can see the irony in that?
“App enabled” ovens, if you read the manual, come in one of two flavors:

* Bluetooth only, no WiFi, to mandate proximity

* Manual activation steps required, like turning the knob to a “remote enable” setting, so you have to validate that nothing that’ll catch fire is in the oven.

A big reason this was done was because the UL has a real distaste for combining fire with not being present to watch the fire - and that’s in a closed space by an appliance that is purpose built for that.

So yeah, no. Absolutely not.
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This topic is surely worth a lot more discussion. It's a systemic pronlem that needs a systemic solution. I would heartily recommend "The Human Element" by Schutz. in this regards. It's worth reading because of its simplicity, effectiveness, and because it deals head-on with this subject of BS.

Among the major arguments,

* The single biggest obstacle to good teamwork (well defined therein) is rigidity on the part of individuals

* Rigid individuals are unchanging because the person's self esteem is threatened. Teams are busted by individuals who don't change behavior.

* And ultimately the biggest problem in the long run for human organizations is lack of openness.

* The book explains why this is so.

The background and impetus for this work (Schutz was Harvard trained) came out of WWII Navy experience dealing with battle conditions. The Navy realized a major impediment to better performing battle execution was that the bridge officers could resolve conflict well. It's not that conflict exists; this is intrinsic to any open ended, unconstrained problems in an evolving environment.

To respond the Navy post war completely revamped training. They chose physically fitter officers, smarter, and trained them harder. The results however under test exercises were random: sometimes teams worked and sometimes they didn't. The Navy couldn't predict when or why.

Schutz was asked to consult on this problem and through this work and in corporations subsequently this work was born.

If you work in an environment where office BS reins, and where management of teams really amounts to people tinkering with a Markov like hidden variable random process until something works, this book is for you.
I'm no ecowarrior, but perhaps I am a contradiction-warrior
... You started out saying throwing one away seemed a terrible waste, and now you, by plan and forethought, do so annually?
I doubt it would be any different. I have an SUV which I use for sport transportation stuff. I got rid of my old 2-seater. I like sports cars. But I'm not really willing to pay for them given that I'd drive them a few thousand miles a year--mostly in conditions where I wouldn't really enjoy them.
> The perverse incentives around these discontinuities is one of the worst misfeatures of programs intended to help people.

This is a key motivation for replacing many of those programs with UBI funded by progressive taxes.
This is possibly Kasaya's plan as well.
I really enjoyed the v6 version of this one for Elastic:
https://www.udemy.com/course/elasticsearch-7-and-elastic-sta...

And as for Docker, this was my favorite:
https://www.udemy.com/course/docker-and-kubernetes-the-compl...

I've watched a bunch of this guys Kafka courses too, and they were all fantastic so I would recommend any thing that he's got if it picques your interest: https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=stephane%20maarek&sr...
This doesn't strike me as sad.

Me neither. But it used to. I was a Star Trek (TOS) kid and grew up assuming I would at least visit planets in adulthood, if not have a modest spacecraft of my own. Also that the Earth's warring tribes would do away with war & poverty in some utopian approximately Federationish style.

I'm not sure which seems sillier now.

What really strikes me as sad is ...people here on earth seem utterly incapable of living sustainably

That was my post Star Trek dreams phase, which probably lasted through much of my 30's.

Beyond that I've come to accept that it was never biologically plausible that a fairly clever social primate species would (magically?) be able to extend its social/cognitive/conative/affective capacities, evolved to negotiate small group survival and interaction, to the competent management of an entire biosphere.
Mining gold from implicit models to improve likelihood-free inference
'Lego Grandma' who builds her own wheelchair ramps
I'm ignoring the legalese to make a distinction between a human and non-human person.

Corporations were granted free speech in a couple famous supreme court cases (NYT v. Sullivan, NYT vs. U.S.) and is not tied to the more recent non-human 'person' law.

The relevant question in my mind is how to protect Wikipedia and the New York Times and The Red Cross and ... from censorship by the government. There are very many organizations which speak in ways that the government would prefer they wouldn't- not all of them are traditional press, but many are.

Your proposal would allow the government to censor them all as they no longer have that protected right.
Well, at least there's breakthrough starshot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot , so, while not persons, at least something from humanity could reach another stellar system.
How much advance notice were you given? What happens if you didnt check your email in time?
Skype numbers support this (in some countries), too. I live outside the US but have a US Skype number for this very purpose.
If an employer is pressuring you into getting friends, family, etc to buy the product it means the sales pipeline is completely busted.
To actually answer this question is hard. The best answer I've seen is between 3% and 10% of total grid capacity, depending on interconnectivity and geographical diversity[1].

That's for a 100% renewable approach, which is great. Personally I think there is a role for gas fired stations - these produce about 50% of the emissions of coal stations, are cheap and quick to build (very roughly $1M for 1MW) and most importantly can ramp up and down power generation quickly and economically.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/grid-energy...
I maintain some LOB PHP5 apps, that started as PHP3 - these internal systems are over 10yr old. Just chugging along, producing value for the business. But yeah, pretty rare stuff, and everything I see is small/internal.
The original question is not intended to be considered as a rigorous argument, as its author made clear. My point of entry was to introduce a fact that answered your specific question, and as far as I can tell, it stands as such.

While the law, for obvious reasons, rarely uses 'I know it when I see it' justifications, I suspect that that is what most ethical principles ultimately depend on, and to the extent that the law tries to be ethical, the same goes for it.
Very weird... drive the market into a very non market and price to 0...but still manage it the other way.
Looks neat. Personally bummed that it goes with Tensorflow, though I guess that may be related to the course being sponsored in part by Google. Pretty much all the latest research is being published in Pytorch and even OpenAI switched to Pytorch recently.
There are many different types of recruiters. Some will, some won't. It does give you more dimensions as a person; someone with 20 years of experience and a project on GitHub is certainly more interesting thatn someone who has 20 years of experience.

That said, it's incredibly common for people to have a bunch of different things to showcase. You'll hear a lot of people who are "speaker, author, blogger, consultant" and still are just average skills with average salaries.

If you're going to do it anyway, go ahead and do it, but the return on investment is probably lower than just grinding Leetcode.
Porsche SUVs are fun.
Lightweight db(sqlite-like) on datascript,durable,timetravel to Clojure(script)
Agreed. I don't really see the point in the use of that adjective here.
Writing a 5-6 page paper in middle school never taught anyone anything, but it did take away time that could have been used constructively.

Is this seriously something that a HN user would write?

I'm sure that I could find a single example of a research paper assignment "teaching" a middle schooler something. I bet I could find a million of those examples too.
Check with an attorney (a consult is usually no cost) if "26 U.S. Code § 7213.Unauthorized disclosure of information" [1] or "26 U.S. Code § 6103.Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information" [2] applies to this situation. If applicable, your attorney may consider contacting the PEO's legal department to inform them of their violation of federal statute.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7213

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103
I like the graffiti complaining about graffiti.
Since I was effectively the CTO for a startup that cared about the security of its messaging, I think I made a reasoned judgement about the nature of the security of their product, offered a way that he could help increase my confidence that he wasn't just sending a copy of my unecrypted email (the email has to be unencrypted for their scanner to work) off wherever.

I don't really find that rude. A cloud customer certainly can go to a cloud provider, say "you know, it's possible you have rogue internal actors, I've read articles that said you've fired SREs before who snooped on user data, can I see your audits that show you deal with insider risk properly?"
That reminds me of something wrt configuration files.
What always rubbed me the wrong way, for instance in Debian were the commented out examples in config files inapplicable for the configuration of the running system. I remember this for the bootmanager, framebuffer and X when setting up a flicker free boot with the SAME video mode as early as possible, networking, and file systems.

Only Mandrake and PCLinuxOS got this right, they had nothing in /etc which wasn't applicable, because somehow generated programmatically by their installer, according to the choosen configuration.

That was CLEAN, there were no useless ##commented out things
for stuff the system didn't even had installed.

Unfortunately their package repos at the time were 'clean' (meaning lacking the stuff i needed/wanted) too.

SUSE also tried this with YAST, but got it wrong often, and felt sluggish and bloated.

I can't really remember XFree86 and later Xorg crashing on me, except when pushing its boundaries wrt multi monitor and hotplugging, i guess that depends on the used hardware and the quality of their drivers?
Slides should never be read off. Slides are good as a note to remind you on what to talk about. They're good for presenting data or diagrams that make a topic clearer.

When I was teaching computer science, I'd have slides that basically just gave a photo of a transistor, or one example of converting binary to hex. The rest would be explained in person or on a whiteboard.

A good presenter should be interactive in some form. The slides are a hook, but not the story.
Some much mass and energy to play with for the next couple eons! :-)
Hinge in particular isn’t giving me especially good matches anyway. And if I don’t swipe right, it keeps giving me the same people over and over again. I think it might be “designed to be deleted” by being too annoying to use.
Have you tried Countly then? It's a serious contender to Mixpanel/Amplitude, self hosted and backend is MongoDB (if that is something you are interested in).
Strange, because there are a LARGE number of driving fatalities caused by this exact behavior every year. The common explanations are: driver dozing or falling asleep, unexpected curve with poor visibility, driver mistaking the shoulder for another lane, and driver striking median to exit ramp by misjudging a lane change. Humans do all of these things, on a daily basis. So by human standards, accelerating and crashing into a barrier is quite commonplace.
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Fe isotope evidence for very rapid accretion and differentiation of proto-Earth
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Liquid Death Raises 9M to make canned water
> Of course now you have microservice architectures where you're basically creating programs made of containerized services. Any bets on how long it'll take to have containers-of-containers be a thing?

As soon as Kubernetes gets mature enough to have to make backwards-incompatible changes and keep old code running, we'll have to have a way of deploying clusters that were defined in the old versions. So probably a few years?
We have actually integrated Clickhouse already for this reason. We started with Postgres as it works well for smaller volumes, but we have this integration in a paid version.
It is a bit of gatekeeping that has little relation with reality.

When people say that their home is heated by natural gas, they mean that they have a supply of natural gas, and that is the consumable they use / pay for, not the specific chemical process when it is oxidized. Similarly, when people say they heat their home with electricity, whether it's a heat pump or electric radiators is just a secondary possibility. I heat my home with electricity and it's a ground-source heat pump. If someone has some weird hangup or ignorance about that, that's on them.

If someone said that they cooled their home in the winter with "electricity assistance" I think everyone would rightly laugh.
The Polish test distribution is an interesting counterexample: it demonstrates that there is _not_ a discontinuity. Instead of failing immediately at a score of 29, the graph suggests that you start failing probabilistically, with greater probability as your score drops. The bump at 30 is merely the mechanism by which this happens. Thus, this is in fact an example of a continuous threshold of the type Dan is recommending.
Satellite phones can receive standard SMS so it should be doable. They're quite bulky though, and the prices are not cheap.
> It's common to describe both debt and equity rounds as a 'raise'.

I disagree, I always interpret "raise" as equity.

> My guess is you're operating under the assumption that debt is inferior to equity because you're forced to pay it back. But, in reality, when you raise an equity round, you also have to pay back the principal + "interest"-- it just delays the repayment date til your liquidation event.

Debt and equity are two very different structures. Mainly due to whose cash moves where, and when.

Debt gets repaid from actual company cash flow on a pre-agreed timetable and at a specific interest rate. If debt isn't repaid, creditors can try and recover their debt in bankruptcy proceedings (usually second in line after unpaid wages).

Equity doesn't get "repaid" in any sense (aside from liquidation or share buy-backs, which almost never occur pre-IPO). Once raised, that money is the company's, and the equity you get in can only be bought and sold.

Raising equity means diluting your ownership stake (so its worth proportionately less of the entire value of the company). Once raised, it doesn't force the movement of cash in any direction. If there's no liquidity event, then equity holders can't force the company to cough up that money.

Note "liquidity event" is distinct from "liquidation" - the former means an opportunity for equity holders to sell down their shares, the latter means the company is bankrupt and i being dissolved, with assets sold/distributed.
Either that or a more progressive stance on socialist policies that provide basics to everyone. At least with socialist style policies there isn't the possibility of those spending their UBI on junk food or wine our whatever, but I really would prefer either to the current state of affairs.
I mean do you have a smartphone? A gaming console? You’re likely one of those people too.
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What email server do you use that automatically end to end encrypts everything using pgp?

It sounds like you're talking about encryption at rest, in which case Gmail does that already, more securely than whatever you're doing so the backwards approach to compliance is more effort and less secure in practice.
Two words: "egress cost".

Currently both AWS and GCE cost is multiple times more per gigabyte served, compared to DO. E.g. AWS S3 is $0.09 per gigabyte served, while Do Spaces is about $0.01.

For certain businesses, traffic is a major cost, and paying many tomes as much for it could make them unprofitable.

So no, a cloud provider of the DO class must be long-term viable, just in a different niche.
The Chinese power grid isn't especially secret. Data is available here[1] or a good write-up on Wikipedia[2].

I live in Australia so I know it pretty well. My state (South Australia) has multiple ~1000km interconnects with more being planned.

Australia remains badly underconnected compared to other markets. Wikipedia has good data[3], and your idea about "looking at the first world" is dramatically outdated.

Most new power generation is being done in Asia (and to some degree Africa) which is where these long distance power transmission lines are mostly being built. If you don't trust the Chinese ones (not sure why - you can go visit a lot of these installations because the hydro dams are tourist attractions, and you can see them on Google Maps) you can just look at the multiple 1000km+ installations in India[4].

[1] https://chinaenergyportal.org/en/category/stats/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects#Asia
Presumably the return policies will change once there are no more brick and mortar local mattress stores to buy from.

At that point, you'll only be able to buy online, and they won't need to offer returns. You have no choice but to have something delivered, or go without a mattress (my personal preference).
So if I want to buy a house, but don't have enough to cover 100% of the cost in a single down payment I'm just SOL?

I guess I could rent instead, except that would require a contract as well. I get the impression you haven't really thought this through.
If they had raised VC funding you wouldn’t have written this comment.

When the reality is raising debt instead of VC funding implies that capital providers think they are far more stable than the majority of VC funding is. Debt is cheaper capital precisely because the capital providers are convinced that you are a much safer bet.

I think a lot of people on HN (and Americans in general) don’t really understand debt and have just made debt = bad into a mantra, when in fact it’s one of the best ways to finance growing companies, and usually only available to profitable, or close to profitable companies.

It’s VC funding that is a sign of a lack of profitiability and no immediate possibility of profitability.
Yes, HIPAA is a good analogue to compare against here. The Maine law is the inverse of HIPAA- it applies to ISPs (hospitals) rather than the data (medical records).

Of course, Maine does not have the power to institute HIPAA like regulations for internet data and so do this instead. Nonetheless, I think the telecoms broadly have a point here.
>- Going away from nuclear and into renewables is in theory good, but the open secret is that you can never reach 100% renewables. So you need a backup, which is either gas or coal.

I am not really opposed to nuclear. But on the renewable side, for the intermittency problem, you have overprovisioning, regional transmission, short range storage with batteries, and long term storage with hydro and hydrogen gas produced from renewables. And both batteries and hydrogen gas are steadily getting cheaper.

That means when a utility is deciding to spend 10 billion or so on a nuclear plant, and it is trying to figure out future rates for the next 30 years to pay that back, it needs to take into account all these future developments, instead of assuming they will stay the same.

I have read a lot of comments from nuclear supporters, but I can't recall one that covers all that. They all seem to assume the situation for storage and interconnection will not improve in the future.
Just the opposite. Imagemaps suck because the user can't resize their browser and have the page reflow appropriately. Too many modern styled websites view that as desirable feature.
Having the East at the top of the map is very common. That’s why they call it “the orient”.
My favourite road-trip and kareoke song :-)
8 out of 1073 = 1.34125% as of 20.02.2019 [1], looks like it rises 1% per day;p but we both know that it's false assumption. And numbers we have right now doesn't matter really because it is too early to tell. Half of the world doesn't even have a capacity to test for COVID-19. And impact on developing countries will be on completely different level [2] (or maybe not, because population is much younger there)

[1] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...
In my experience, great coders make bad managers.
Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice
I got a Solokey as part of the Kickstarter and love em. USB-C + NFC in one device.

The one thing I'd love out of a security key is the ability to set up a "Twinned Pair". So I can have one key on my keychain that I use everyday and one I keep in my safe in case something happens to the primary. Yes, I know some services support multiple security keys - but setting up two is more work and not all services do support two.
Not sure how related this is, but one thing I found interesting is that the recent QuickJS by Bellard uses ref counting + cycle collection.

https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html#Garbage-collection

That is, it's the same strategy that CPython uses (although CPython's detector is generational). People seem to say that CPython's design is old or suboptimal, but a brand new interpreter made the same choices.

And as the manual says, a major reason is that the interpreter can hold pointers to values without any special consideration. In contrast, v8 has to carefully wrap everything in Handle<>, and there are a bunch of elaborations on that which seem tricky to me. Then again, doing ref counting with 100% accuracy by hand also seems tricky to me.
There was an awesome talk very recently about Sled at FOSDEM, highly recommend.

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/rust_techniques_sled/

Talk breif:

sled and rio

modern database engineering with io_uring

sled is an embedded database that takes advantage of modern lock-free indexing and flash-friendly storage. rio is a pure-rust io_uring library unlocking the linux kernel's new asynchronous IO interface. This short talk will cover techniques that have been used to take advantage of modern hardware and kernels while optimizing for long term developer happiness in a complex, correctness-critical Rust codebase.
There is no distinction, it's a red herring.
> I believe all vehicles with the bubble nose have the old MobilEye system at best (which was never intended for self-driving).

If the MobilEye system is not trustworthy then why is the vehicle accelerating based on the data it receives from it? Why doesn't Tesla update the software to stop doing that?
> They've had two of their most alert hours of the day already by then.

[citation needed]
The title doesn't quite have the same punch when that little qualifier is known.

I find it a bit deceitful, actually.
The Map Is Not the Territory. Your memory of the mental model of our local neighbors that you'd worked out is overriding the actual memories.

Something similar happens when we remember childhood houses. Spaces where there was a lot of activity seem bigger, because we've mapped those areas extensively.