skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sickening of these "unintended" consequences are that programs designed to help the poor end up being used by the rich and well-connected -- parents who "disown" their children" to make them look poor during college application, or who lie about or overemphasize their racial background to claim affirmative action rewards.
You got older. It is pretty well established that a) people are different but b) teenagers on average don't wake up early as well as adults. e.g https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170621140458.h...
You're both right.

I have worked professionally in a company that is a giant, sprawling software slum at best. Containers are huge there because they are perceived as fixing this issue even if they just make it worse in practice.
Actually as a corporate person companies are restricted in a very important way: they cannot represent themselves in court, whereas a general partnership can present a partner in court. The fact that directors are employees and only some shareholders may be members actually divided the powers innate to a real person and causes it to be impossible to present a single individual capable of acting in full cognisance and responsible liability for the incorporated company. This saves the law from unimaginable pain.
Philip Tetlock: A short course in superforecasting
To be fair, I was able to withdraw my funds - when your account gets closed you get told to withdraw everything immediately and go away.
Source?

When someone says something about mysterious unseen evil activities and Israel it raises my conspiracy theory detector to yellow alert
Please do go on
So if it were purely biological, we'd expect to see some sort of negative gradient for men's preferred ages, though not as exaggerated as the one for women's preferred ages?

I'm also unclear as to what the question was which prompted the answers from men and women, or what the motivations were. There is much more to a relationship than sex for procreation, and almost everyone seems to realize this fact. So the conclusion is that men simply find young women attractive (and the "reproductive age" evo-psych just-so story cannot justify it), or men no matter how old they are continue to want children, at the expense of a relationship with a fully developed adult.
I suppose, but then the reason's boring isn't it? They're different budgets.
This doesn't strike me as sad.

What really strikes me as sad is:

Despite understanding how inaccessibly distant alternative potentially habitable planets are, people here on earth seem utterly incapable of living sustainably on what will very likely be the only planet their species will ever comfortably inhabit.
Think you want to die at home? You might want to think twice about that
>with none of the autonomy, anonymity, or resilience

Bitcoin and Ether are autonomous.

Monero and ZCash are anonymous.

Not sure what you mean by resilience.

>Surely there's more to it than a cash grab that takes a massive amount of energy

Proof of work is not inherit to cryptocurrencies.
With only a few 100k casualties in collateral damage.
You missed both the joke and the point. But that's OK, so did everyone else.
Or tall people opt out of OKCupid because they can date offline.
But you could fix it yourself, gas was cheaper and a taurus is a bigger different car compared to a jetta.
> and all the antibiotics they're fed

To nitpick on this one, the societal problem isn't the antibiotics, per se... it's that antibiotics get used to paper over an incredibly unhealthy and unclean environment, and that in doing they so encourage the rise of 'superbug' antibiotic-resistant diseases.
this, 100%... and label them as dangerous internet entities
> Lots of Money + Lots of People =/= Guaranteed Success

I'll agree on that.

I won't agree with the rest though, I don't think DO can compete in an enterprise level.

Actually in the longrun I don't see DO ever being viable. AWS and google are going to become simpler as the time passes and they are going to take over that margin that is left on services like DO, ovh etc. I think the only viable business plan for them right now would be to focus on their simplicity and continue building on it hoping they will get bought out by the big players.
Obviously thats not good for us -> amazon and google owning everything on the web but unless there is some crazy law that limits them from doing so, they are going to do it.
Local Loop
Last Mile
CLECs
Yup I remember 1994 very well like yesterday in fact.

It was the control over individual customers that mattered not any particular market. The ‘94 act would have been quite prescient to be defending open internet access when first drafted in the early eighties.
This looks great but was there a reason for going with Postgres over something purpose built for analytics like Clickhouse? I am seriously considering building a similar tool for our platform as the cost of Mixpanel/Amplitude is cost prohibitive at our scale. We had to move off Google Analytics and run our own Matomo server, and it brings MariaDB to a grinding halt.

In any case, will be looking closer at this. Looks very interesting. Thanks.
Noticed that they've removed data from that page. You can see a version from 2017 here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170307114207/https://theblog.o...

Always found their blog posts an interesting look at the underlying data and user behavior. But now they're scrubbing them?
That's exactly it.

If I get killed by a drunk driver, my wife will at least have someone to rage at.

If I get killed because my car randomly decides to drive itself into a high up truck and I basically died because of stupid technology. I would hope that it doesn't end up killing my wife too out of rage that she's going up against a major corporation now.

That's kind of maddening.
Note that in Australia the Victorian interconnector to South Australia went down recently at the same time as a coal station outage in Victoria.

South Australia ran on 55% renewables, 65% gas, while powering the Portland aluminium smelter in Victoria for 55 days[1][2].

Also - outside solar - most Australian states gets significant power from renewables (wind and hydro). Right now as I write this roughly 30% of the power in Queensland is solar, 20% in NSW, about 10% is wind in Victoria with another 15% being solar. In South Australia about 20% is gas, with all the rest being wind and solar. Tasmania is 100% renewable (almost all hydro)[3].

[1] https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-batteries-saved-the-day...

[2] https://reneweconomy.com.au/murdoch-media-headline-shock-ren...

[3] https://reneweconomy.com.au/nem-watch/
Interesting, I think the opposite. Of course there’s the bare minimum needed to execute properly, but past that I think the idea and market are much more important in the long run.

For example, if the TAM isn’t there, you can execute as well as you want, but you can’t increase the physical limit on number of customers.
Simply because it has been a control theory challenge. Weight on the wheels change, frictions change and drivers are expected to stop the train within inches on average, and a feet at worst. That requires some R&D to implement.

Yurikamome trams in Tokyo runs in L4-L5 and Tsukuba Express runs in L2, in SDC levels term. There was also a L4 PoC in Yamanote line so that’ll probably come by the end of this decade. Elevators had been L4 for like half a century as well, by the way.
Sounds great, let us know if you have any questions! You can send your current policy to compare @ goodcover and we'd be happy to send back and apples-to-apples comparison.
No one knows what the Chinese power grid does because it is a national secret. You can have a look at the power grids of the first world, like the European, North America and Australian ones.

Europe is the only one with a true large scale interconnected grid[0] and even there the interconnects are expensive, small and marginal. With the majority of EU population being able to import or export only ~20% of the power generated locally.

The US and Australian grids are even less connected, with the project you're quoting being simply a pipe dream to steal money from idiots. I've worked in data analysis for an energy company and renewables are amazing because they make the energy markets volatile and unpredictable. They allow rent-seeking in power generation. Something that hadn't been possible for decades.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
Please send me a link of someone that watched the original Star Wars, the later trilogy and finally the last “attempt” and really appreciated it.
I even watched “Rogue One” in the biggest screen available around me, with high expectations, and I’m feeling really sad because of that.
My account was shut down for no apparent reason, but I was allowed to supply a "transfer out" address for my wallet.
The asset will eventually have to be replaced. In the long term, it doesn’t make a difference - ignoring the time value of money.

Theoretically, the only reason we have depreciation expenses at all instead of just expensing the entire cost at once (cash accounting) is that we decided that accrual accounting was more representative than cash based accounting.

I am not an accountant. I’m an MBA dropout after almost finishing.
Or alternatively/in combination with dynamic demand, smart grids, wide area transmission and overprovisioning.

I don't really get why the nuclear "base load" generation even helps. If nuclear generates 70% of our peak load, and our peak load happens on a windless, dark day - what then? We still need storage and likely CCGT as backup of last resort.
Oh bummer, but no problem, thank you for considering us!
That can be handled, either store the mattress for a year or so, or heat it up enough to kill them.
Accounting was a decade ago for me, but as I recall if you sell an item you've depreciated to $0, you will incur a "Gain on Item Sold" which is taxable.
The youth-sports thing has spread to academics, where parents "redshirt" their kids in order to get them higher GPAs and test scores which are curved against their grade-level peers not their age. College admissions committees are easily duped by this.
> Not op but my middle school had a lot of odd schedule times to avoid students memorizing when a class ended.

But wouldn't that also mean a lot of students didn't know when classes started?

I've never heard of school starting at 7:17. It was always a round number like 7 am or quarter intervals ( 7:15, 7:30, 7:45 ).

I don't think I've ever had anything like that for work meetings or interviews. If someone scheduled a meeting for 7:37, he'd get laughed at.
I just led a migration for my small team from Zeit Now to Render (https://render.com/). It has filled this need pretty well. There are some features that I wish existed but overall the simplicity has been great for our use case. They do not have auto-scaling but it's planned (https://feedback.render.com/features/p/autoscaling).
I've Applied as a Non-Profit. Who Else Did?
Who else is a non-profit applicant?
I was thinking of Eric Schmidt. A quick check shows a net worth of $14.7 billion.
> Communities would self police much better if some level of anonymity was removed from members; its less likely that “John Davidson” would post a racist rant than “xxTrump2020xx”.

A lot of Facebook users have no problem writing racist rants using their real names.
do you think an iPhone built itself? I don't. Don't tell me the only reason I say that is because I am looking for patterns.
Actually there's at least one provider (octopus) that occasionally passes the negative rate onto the consumer with their dynamic plan.
I was the same as you until about 26-27. I could operate on nearly no sleep. As a teenager and throughout my twenties i didn't really like sleeping. I'd stay up past 12 most nights and wake up around 7 as a teenager and closer to 5 or 6 from about 21 until 27-28 or so. Then I just started appreciating sleep. I started going to bed around 9:30 or 10, feeling like shit if I get less than 8 hours consistently for some time in a row and just generally preferring consistency and routine for my sleep schedule, where as before I didn't really care or think much about it.
Ask HN: How can I work against ReCaptcha?
Recaptcha by Google is preventing me from filing formal complaints on the FCC website. I firmly believe recaptcha is evil. I don't see how we've come this far.

I can't find any cause against this and I'm surely not alone, right? Is there any lobbying group (EFF maybe?) that is working against this?
My team goes home on time every night
It would be interesting to have the relative speeds of all these stars visualized as well.
He's the one asking for your data, trust, and money. A little scrutiny is warranted.
The difference is that I knew he wasn't on the level when he said it, because the NSA has been sued and it's come out they've done things that were illegal, as found by a court of law, in public. That's just one example that we know of.
Privacy is a good one. I'd be fascinated to see how ISPs assert that publishing a news article is the same as selling/publishing all your search history or all your DNS history. And if it is your records why is it most peoples reaction is horror instead of happiness? Its because privacy has value. Which is why ISPs want to sell it.

Privacy isn't dead its just being sold as a commodity now. Without realistic permission and protection.

I'd go even further: the ISPs only have this data as a result of business dealing and such data is not expected to be shared. Sharing of my history is not necessary for providing me with internet. You want to allow accounting firms to share your financial records as well?

They are only doing it because there's profit. Not because its a necessary aspect for providing internet access. Sharing your accounting data is similar. Another example: what if you go for counselling with psychologist etc? Is that protected?
Idiocracy Explained – New Study Finds Western Diet Impairs Brain Function
Love the connection between finding problems early and team member well being
We all know they're still labeling that way internally though
Many thanks! And thank you to the people that signed up to try it out.
Who said anything about “solely”? It’s entirely reasonable to have the concerns OP had.
Congress would backtrack in a hurry as soon as it affected their campaign platforms.
Stanford Seminar – Centaur Technology's Deep Learning Coprocessor
This looks like someone trying to build a story with snarky comments and funny observations to get audience interested. The parts about C sound amateurish indeed.
Who is the PEO?
That's enough for many of us to avoid it, it hardly needs regulation. GP's point is that we gladly share hotel mattresses. Bed bugs are consequently occasionally an inconvenience.
If you can solve the issue of accident fires, there are no huge security issues. It would not be any different to a normal light.

I can not see a time where a 'hacker' could light it and cause a fire but it not have the issue of accidental fire.

Skipping that, it an amazing product. Candles are for some reason important to human beings. This would sell well and it's what people want, and I think make lives a little better, actually tying abstract technology to something real.

I have no idea how you can mitigate the fire risk, if you could though you'd probably save lives given current candle deaths, but I think it's not possible.... Certainly in it's current form it will kill people through accidents.
Or it’s self reported and on average people fibbed up their height a smidge
oh joy, more soulless google-like material application design. I hate to sound like some nostalgic old fogey, but I wish microsoft had kept windows 7 alive.
What is “the party in power”? Democrats control the House and Republicans control the Senate. No laws can be passed right now without bipartisan support.
Thank you for that list.
"The issue with heat pumps is you may need far less heat at 15c when their very efficient than at -15c when their not."

My home is heated with a heat pump. I live in Canada, and just went through a period of -20C. It works great and is a fraction of the cost of heating with natural gas. It also operates as a fantastic AC in the summer.

It uses a closed loop of water to pipes in the ground, with the ground as the "sink". It is very efficient, and the ground is always 8-10C.

This conversation seems to be dominated, and moderated, by a lot of people who are in the dark, or misunderstand the fundamental physics behind how a heat pump works, or who gatekeep what "electric" means with heating (which is particularly bizarre).
Who is the PEO? Some PEOs have very stringet legal teams that would make a big fuss about this. Depending who your PEO is, you might just reach out directly to their legal department.

Source: I worked for a large PEO.
Show HN: Spring Data JPA with full dynamic usage of EntityGraph on repositories
I'm not really that concerned with tracking, but I am concerned with ads.
Sorry if this is naive, but how is this different to electronic currency? The whole difference between cryptocurrencies and electronic currency, is that cryptos are decentralised and have a public ledger.

A CBDC (central bank digital currency) does not have a public ledger, and is not distributed. If they are using a blockchain internally (an entirely pointless concept done only for the addition of a buzzword to their webpage), that doesn't make it a crypto in the currently known sense.

So I ask again: how is this different to digital/electronic currency that already exists? I can open my bank app, check the funds, send them to another person instantly. None of that involved paper, and all of it was backed and controlled by the central bank. What makes this any different?
The perverse incentives around these discontinuities is one of the worst misfeatures of programs intended to help people.

Here is a real example. My niece wound up with 3 kids, divorced, with inconsistent child support payments. So she went on food stamps. She was looking for a better job. She found one, interviewed, and they wanted to hire her. But the salary that they offered was $0.50/hour too much for her to stay on food stamps, and was less than her current job. Thanks to union regulations, the person who wanted to hire her couldn't pay her less than the standard salary. The result is that she did not take the job.

A common result when Congress takes note of perverse incentives like this is that they introduce a more complex program with specific terms that address specific problems that emerged. The problem is that by creating more brackets and more complex rules you usually create MORE cliffs with perverse incentives (though the perverse incentive at each cliff tends to be less).

Another solution is to introduce rules that attempt to identify people who are "abusing the system" and punish them. So, for example, you can only be on welfare for a limited time because people got outraged that single mothers wound up on welfare for a long time. However those single mothers were acting that was in part because they were better off on welfare looking after their own kids than they were in a low end job and paying for daycare.

Stereotypically the first type of solution is characteristic of Democrats and the second of Republicans. But the truth is that both parties do a lot of both solutions.
I looked it up and they date back to the 1960s on reel-to-reel tape recorders. The pause button was added later when companies found that they couldn't properly translate the word pause into every language. The idea is that the two bars look like the square stop button and look like a frame stopped while it is rolling to the next frame. The reasoning behind the square is that it's the play triangle without a direction; it is stopped in both directions.

This machine is apparently from 1961, so it must have been quite early in the 60s: http://www.reelprosoundguys.com/images/1962_GRUNDIG_TK_46.jp...
DO used to have referral credits. A $5 of referral credit could feed a $20 instance for a week, of the smallest instance for a month.
> The analysis you present is very misleading. The CDA doesn't say anything about retroactive moderation or pre-vetting, but grants legal immunity with no regard for moderation styles. So how do you get from here to there?

This is correct. Section 230 removes liability for user content regardless of moderation. The moderation argument is a red herring.

> What's complicated about repealing a 2-clause law? Is there another part to this process I'm not aware of?

There is tomes of case law relying on Section 230 of the CDA, and much of the internet is able to operate as it does today because of it.

Without Section 230, services that enable users to share content would be encumbered with a mountain of liability that would most likely scare off investors.

Email providers are protected by Section 230, as are messenger apps, forums, Usenet, chat in games, etc. Social media as it exists today would be risky for any entity to host that couldn't afford to vet all content before serving it to others.
Buck Henry died last month. It made me wonder how much longer Mel Brooks will last. When I saw his name cross the Hacker News ether, my heart skipped a beat. I'm glad he's still going strong.
What problem are they trying to solve really?

Seems to me that their management skills, training, hiring is the issue. If there is a perception among managers that workers are slacking or over-working, they should be able to solve the issue without invasive tracking. Moreover, if they are genuinely interested in improving productivity and reducing work-related stress, they'd communicate all of that in advance and resolve employee concerns before installing it.

Sounds like management does not have an open, healthy dialog with employees in general.
On a cashflow basis, you incur 100% of the depreciation at the moment you pay for it.
Workplace Bonding in a Digital Era
It's interesting you didn't address his two points:

- Coinbase not having records of your trades (although it's operating from a highly regulated jurisdiction)

- Coinbase not communicating why/how accounts are locked.

> Having people get locked out of their crypto is no good.

Funny thing is that crypto (Bitcoin) was made so that people could hold their own monies instead of relying on a third-party.
The wealth of nations was published in 1776. Maybe I'm not the one that needs to study history.
Absolutely. It's their job to do this.

But what should large tech companies do? Avoid hiring people from certain countries/heritages? Obviously that's not fair and not a good look. Same for putting extra monitoring on them. This is independent of Twitter apparently trying to downplay this and cover it up, which of course is wrong. It just seems like preventing this is really tough unless you state "we won't hire anyone who's lived in, was born in, or whose parents are from China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Russia", which is untenable.
Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months
It’s pretty common for people at large companies to co-author or just write articles themselves that they then pass on to be published by magazines and such
Every startup should adopt this formula for their decks.

“Juicero: it’s like if Google made Gmail for juice”
Or the same sides of different coins.
Thanks! team++
At least they are doing something (or probably the right thing to say is that they are the only country with competent measures) and because of transparency you can see what's going on almost in real time. I think their numbers look bad now, but the measures look solid and to be honest Singapore is probably the only country with adequate response. So if things go bad there, i'm pretty sure it will go bad everywhere.

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/image/12436712/0x0/3000/5883...

[2] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/image/12455138/0x0/2316/3209...

[3] https://coconuts.co/singapore/news/covid-19-heres-every-nove...

[4] https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=14y9TsLoO2Y6bLj...
On the bright side, if both companies are large, it's unlikely your manager at either will ever notice.