skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The PC Mag article seems mostly pretty accurate - however, I’d argue that the web isn’t classic client/server, since the server sends the code to the client just in time. Classic client/server had a totally different code deployment mechanism. It was a full app installation every time - often via sneaker network, since few corporate networks had enough bandwidth to deploy new apps over their network. And installation software infrastructure was almost non-existent. Version control systems? Seldom. Netscape was one of the very first apps that was entirely network delivered at really large scale.

If I had to describe the web to a time traveller from the 1980s, I might say the modern web browser is something like a super smart and capable 3270 terminal, while the cloud is the mainframe.
The most competitive universities in Canada, like McGill and UBC have 46% and 52% acceptance rates. Canada has more of a culture of going to college in the province you grew up. To compare that to Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc. that have sub-10% admittance rates and have to review tens of thousands of applications is failing to realize the scope of the problem these schools face in selecting students.
Why Elixir Is the Programming Language You Should Learn (or consider) in 2020
> The data: For the hundreds of Nikola trips with an average speed of 60 mph, the actual MPGe was about 102. Once you get up to a 75 MPH average trip speed, the MPGe drops to 94. And by 80 MPH the MPGe drops to 77. (avg over all Tesla types)

My (non-Tesla) EV only gives me trip watt-hour per mile (Wh/mi)

Using an mpge to Wh/mi converter [1], 102 mgpe = about 330 Wh/mi, 94 = 385 Wh/mi and 77 = 437 Wh/mi.

My car (Ford Focus EV) gives about 275 (conservative driving) to 350 Wh/mi. It usually gives me about 80 - 130 miles range, and the stated average is 110. I get the 80 during the colder months in a warmer clime. When I was commuting into the office (pre-COVID) I was usually doing about 70-80mph.
Unfortunately I'm struggling to find a source, so take it with a grain of salt. My memory is that the highway speed test for one of the modes had it running in first gear (of two).

But regardless of the reason, its EPA range proportional to WLTP and real world driving is very low compared to other EVs. It doesn't point to poor efficiency, just a corner case of EPA testing.

While extrapolated from 100 miles, this Car and Driver test [1] puts a 6% gap between the 2020 Model S and Taycan, compared to a 70% difference in EPA range. Extrapolation sucks as a method, but there's no way it would mask a true 70% range difference - the Porsche would be close to empty at the end of the test.

Considering the Tesla costs just over half as much, it's still a home run for Tesla. They're the ones to beat and by all accounts are likely to stay that way.

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a307994...
You shouldn’t be pinning to your leaf certs, which is the only reason LE certs would be a problem here.
Why are they bad ideas? I took the SAT and GRE for undergraduate and graduate schools respectively and neither was worthwhile preparation for anything I studied. If we want to put up barriers to entry then I think we can find better and more predictive ways than measuring general pattern matching skills with the SAT and GRE.
I forgot to mention the myriad ways that flash would interact with the browser and the operating system, with swfs often designed to interact with browser javascript in particular, in platform and browser specific ways. the various network protocols, RTMP streaming, prioprietary video codecs, ALPHA MASKED video, the CSS parser and styling engine! the API has everything but the kitchen sink. You can have a look at the sorts of challenges you're in for by looking at Shumway's issues register here:

https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/issues
It’s less contradictory in my mind if I don’t frame it as “penalizing” the drafters of Title 7. To me - especially when read together - it says “Congress gives us no choice but to apply the law in a broad fashion, because they explicitly chose not to limit it; and it’s not our fault if this results in unintended consequences.” With an implied wink and a nudge to Congress saying “you can fix this if you’re really all that bothered, you know.” :)

Or maybe put another way: sure, they didn’t and couldn’t possibly have listed all exceptions to the law. But they didn’t really try; rather they listed one exception for everything (churches, basically) and didn’t bother with any other exceptions. And in light of that, the court didn’t consider it appropriate to read in exceptions when Congress very clearly wrote an extremely broad law. Essentially Congress gave no signal it wasn’t supposed to be broad.
Imagine accidentally taking the same acid that Jerry Garcia might have taken 60 years ago. That's wild.
No, they aren't. The retail market for business ownership is not a debt obligation, it is equity. Basic definitions
There are also dedicated servers for a fraction of the price. The choice isn't AWS or own datacenter, there's a lot in between.
I would just like to say how pleased I am that Hacker News is the kind of place where you can have a conversation about drugs and not a single person refers to themselves as SWIM.
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and I've had tabs of acid wrapped in tinfoil inside a small ziploc inside a filing cabinet with questionable temperature stability work just fine after several years. Some of that acid, if I remember right, was taken into a rave, lived in my pocket for a few hours inside... foil or a ziploc, I forget, and then came home to rest in that filing cabinet.
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If you charge overnight on your garage, you never need to visit a supercharger unless you take road trips. Last time I visited a supercharger was 4 months ago.
Family, friends, former coworkers/ bosses, local business networking groups, meetup groups (especially the non-tech ones), volunteering, sports clubs, IRC/ slack channels in your stack, hackernews, etc.

Chances are if there is person you can think of that's "successful" they would happily talk to you about a project or point in the direction of one of their friends that needs a hand.

Hell you could probably cold email some of the people from indie hackers if all the rest wasn't working.
That's why Go will supersede Python. All the new cool and secure small shit is being done in Go.
>how is it in any way reassuring to other countries in its vicinity

Because Russia's nuclear base, that had been there for decades, is still in Russia's hands and was not taken over by Ukraine fascists.

I mean, that's as good a reason as any. I don't see America invading other countries to protect its nuclear bases.
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The latest versions of RHEL/CentOS 6 use coreutils version 8.4, so I assume their shuf defaults to insecure. I imagine that RHEL 5 ELS must have the same issue. I don't know of any other currently-supported Linux or BSD versions that might be a problem.
no, every broker has a lovely warning about the nature of sec regulations and financial instruments risk of losing value. Negligence is in the investors lack of due diligence. Its why publicly traded companies must publish financials and why cooking the books is illegal and fraudulent
I'm curious about your reasons for objecting.
Do it like Amazon, have two pizza teams.
I'm very familiar with the scope of the admissions challenge and it's not really an issue of number of applicants. Most universities already have an understanding of different high schools (though often biased to wealthier communities). As for Canada, specific programs at Canadian schools can be quite selective - for example EngSci at the University of Toronto has a ~10% admission rate. Other programs are more like state schools in the US. Most elite schools in the US are still pretty regional heavy. For example 35% of Stanford undergrads are from CA and something like 30-40% of Harvard undergrads are from New England and the mid-atlantic.
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Datadog left a bad taste in my mouth (different story for a different time, but it's more of a business practice thing than the product), but they can charge what they want. My point is startups/MVPs need to watch costs, so Datadog's value prop may mean it's not be the best use of capital.
> much easier

Well, that's relative ;) It still takes hundreds of highly-sensitive detectors and many tons of hyperpure water to detect neutrino reactions.
I think this is what caused the problems with the MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) I use. I noticed today that calling and texting weren't working on our phones. Our MVNO uses T-Mobile as its network, so this kind of explains everything.

Luckily I use Google Voice as my primary # and it rang on my computer but I didn't understand why it wasn't ringing on my cell phone. Now I know :)
Yup, I use this one as well, and it's fantastic. The developer is a nice chap as well, and can give you an invoice for your donation.
Oh yeah, The leaf was scarey on the freeway. It would burn so much battery and was pretty loud. I try to keep it below 60MPH in which things get uncomfortable. In the city it was very compliant and very efficient. I could go through two weeks without charging my now half degraded battery.
In the Tesla it loves going to about 70mph. After that you start getting wind noise.
Two very different animals. But both great cars. Never going back to ICE.
The test is absolutely insane and it totally makes sense why EPA estimates can vary so much from real world numbers. It would practically ignore the effects of aerodynamics and I'm not even sure weight plays a role given both of those are supposedly accounted for by a simulated drag on the rollers.
I've been reading the backblaze report since it started coming out (thanks to the backblaze team as always for being so transparent!). It become obvious to me as far back as 2015 that WD was a brand to avoid... and it seems by the end of 2019 backblaze had phased them almost completely out... for a reason.
Thanks. Does one always have to pay (Adobe Animate is trialware) to do Actionscript programming? Probably thats where I got stuck last time (wasnt looking too hard into paid solutions)
One thing to note is Haskell is exceptionally good at inlining that explicit dictionary away.

Haskell isn't 0-cost-abstraction like Rust ofc, but it is definitely a minimize-the-cost-of-abstraction. And the control over said minimization is getting better with each release.
48mph was easily doable during moderate traffic on my commutes back home. Some days I'd be lucky to get that.

So it's a bit more honest in that regard... Those days where I got to go 80mph the entire freeway segment and get home really quickly my mpge suffered a lot.
I think it's a bad idea. There are people who grew up in poverty that still do well on the SAT, in fact that's exactly what the SAT is for - to identify those people, who might not be informed about math competitions or intel science fairs, or have connections at local universities, but have good potential.
Come to think of it seems like telecomm companies have been elevated to the national security level of importance. I'm not sure if it has always been true, but with more and more reliance on tech that depends on these companies the danger is escalating. Does anyone know if these companies are vetted and inspected on any regular basis by government agencies the same way airlines for example are? A trivial mistake by one of these carriers can have dire ramifications for the entire nation as it seems to have been the cause of the current outage.
I'm sorry you feel offended by the term coloured person. I meant to say "everyone who is not white". In my country the words don't come over as hard but I see that this not the case in English language and foreign culture.
My memory (and I don't have a citation for this) is that if the manufacturer gives you multiple range modes (like Eco and Sport) EPA tests in both, then averages them together somehow.
I’m a PM at a startup and have to quickly spin up integration mvps. I’ve found pipedream very handy!
http://pipedream.com/
I'm not sure I want to google what SWIM stands for.
There are plenty of former Soviet bases all around Eastern Europe. What if Russia suddenly decides that it wants them back?
I don't get it, aren't most colleges non-profits? Why do they seek such high tuition fees if they're not profiting? Or are they, somehow?
Disagree strongly. Hills most definitely impact mpg/mpge. If you're going near speed limit (due to flow of traffic) then your regen isn't going to recapture as much as if you let it coast.
Haha, it's not even that DMSO is just a solvent, that garlicky stuff is a magic potion for turning things into transdermals.

Testosterone ester crystals? Not bioavailable at all, but put it in some DMSO and lather on and you're in business. It works for, astoundingly, most anything.

And if there's any man you're to trust on the pharmacokinetics of psychedelics, it would be Nichols, our co-founding father of all modern phenethylamine, tryptamine and lysergamide knowledge.

Complete hoopla I say.
"not me personally but a guy i know"
I'm glad the hacker is ok. Getting dosed is no joke, especially with no previous experience. It can cause long-lasting psychological effects. Context is key. Fortunately, the hacker recognized what was happening.
Attitudes have changed, and the HN posting crowd is much more insulated from the vagaries of law enforcement. The veneer of plausible deniability just isn't needed here as much I think.
Some people are busy raising a family and just need a paycheck.

It's not me either but I get it.
Now give us a truck that doesn’t resemble late 1990s video games with these long range innovations, and I would put in a reserve for a Tesla.

Right now I’m leaning towards Rivian, but they are currently unproven and would like to ideally wait out a few generations.
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To quote Scott Aaronson:

Admissions to the top US universities—and hence, most chances for social advancement in the US—will henceforth be based entirely on shifting and nebulous criteria that rich, well-connected kids and their parents spend most of their lives figuring out, rather than merely mostly based on such criteria. The last side door for smart noncomformist kids is now being slammed shut.
Hi Peter :-)

Antti from aito.ai here (https://aito.ai)

What do you think about Aito and the predictive databases?

We believe that the predictive databases can be a thing both in the database and the ML space, which is quite exciting.

I also feel that the 'smart databases' like Aito or BayesDB form an interesting database category, which will emerge as an everyday softwarw component once the technology matures. According to our internal benchmarks, it is already mature accuracy & performance wise for many applications.

- Antti & Aito
Lately I've been thinking of the ethics of buying Apple iOS devices compared to more opened devices - most, yet, not all Android devices. In the long term, iOS device are doomed to become unserviceable my users/enthusiasts dues to its closed nature, while many Android devices seem to have it's usefulness extended in time by efforts such as postmarketOS.

Is there an inherent quality of iOS devices that make them unsupportable.

Any given gen of iOS device has, arguably, more devices than any given flavor of Android devices (more fragmentation in Android platform) so in theory it would be more fruitful and impactful to extend the use of iOS devices (if at all possible) yet, this is not what we see. Leading me to think that Apple deliberately makes iOS devices unthinkerable.

This, to me, leads to the conclusion that buying iOS devices is unethical as the only long term alternative for iOS device is to have it recycled while android devices may retain the chance for reuse into the future.
Is the Boogaloo starting? The only question left now is which aloha shirt to wear.
Shouldn't we change git to something else? It's a derogatory term offensive to males.
#1 is really solid advice.
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I'd be cautious about this advice. Many times even though the company in general might be a feature factory [0], there might very well be a human who actually meets customers, or at least tried meeting them and failed for some reason.

So a much better and safer idea might be first to figure if there were any attempts in the past, or is there any ongoing similar initiative right now, find the participants if there was any and then to proceed.

By the way if all the PMs at FAANG are like you, that might be a terrible place to work at.

[0] https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-...
SWIM is "Someone Who Isn't Me". People use it instead of "I" as in "I committed the crime" becomes "SWIM committed the crime."

Presumably people really believe that this is some sort of legitimate infosec behavior. I like that it makes infosec important, but it might trick people into thinking infosec is as easy as just using an acronym.
I'm confused. In that example, what's wrong with `Vec<Box<dyn EventHandler>>`?
Love how the repair guy didn't respond to the guy's confusion over it being Windows 7 and him only having like five windows open at a time.

After years of helping people with 'computery' stuff, I've just stopped explaining things (when I can) if I notice there's no way they'll get it.
Hi Luc,

What's your perspective on predictive databases like https://aito.ai?

I'm one of the Aito.ai founders. If you would like to hear more, I'm happy to talk one-to-one.

Regards,
Antti
This looks like an exact clone of https://stdlib.com
So, not a SaaS itself, but I am working on a JavaScript SaaS starter kit, if you're looking for another tool to have in your belt. Instead of writing all the common code (user authentication/management, subscriptions, build systems, design systems) for your app yourself, Nodewood (https://nodewood.com) starts you off with all that written by someone for whom it is the main focus, not a secondary one.

Perhaps closer to your original ask, here's the SaaS tools I tend to lean on:

- For hosting, I like Linode (https://www.linode.com/). Decent VPS prices and they keep increasing the value you get for the same price.

- For analytics, I like Clicky (https://clicky.com/). Less intrusive than Google Analytics and a simpler interface.

- For email, Mailgun (https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/). They're more focused on transactional email, not marketing email, which is a subtle difference, but can be worth it depending on what you're doing.

- Stripe (https://stripe.com/) is still king for payments. Their API sets the standard.
If someone offered me AI that drove me to work while I slept or watched movies, or AI that filled out my expense reports, I'd ask if the AI is able to scan the receipts by itself.
Awesome resources, thanks a lot for sharing.
This makes sense: Harvard has a huge issue with discrimination against Asian Americans, who are not represented according to their ACT/SAT score distribution. If Harvard could waive away these scores, they can continue their admissions policy that favor students from wealthy families who pay full price, and are likely to be institutional givers after graduation by focusing on admission factors that are much less accountable, like "personality".

Student's for Fair Admissions is in the process of suing Harvard over discrimination, and their website (with legal filings) is probably the single best source of information on Ivy League admissions: https://studentsforfairadmissions.org/updates/
On the one hand that sounds weird and AWS could just offer any discount, on the other if they can get done the same on less resources, others can rent the freed up resources at a premium
Check your facts buddy!

I remember reading that and concluding it was the app store, so I'm pretty sure it already existed.

A quick search on wikipedia: "The App Store was opened on July 10, 2008, with an initial 500 applications available."

The article is dated 2010! If you can count that is 2 years!

Completely false...tsssss...
Give us a try if you need text to speech:

https://narrationbox.com
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffengebrauch_der_Polizei_in_... This page is a good intro if you use Google Translate. The main keyword is "Final and Fatal Shot" (Finaler Rettungsschuss) which is what the police is trained for to only use as a last resort and gets schooled on when it's legally acceptable.

<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finaler_Rettungsschuss> Details this a bit better; most shots fired by the german police aim to incapacitate an opponent or are fired in a perceived or real emergency situation, the prevention of crimes and prevention of getaway.

The difference between the mentioned cases and the "final and fatal shot" is that the later is used by the police officer with the express and only intent to kill. There are various requirements, mainly that it must be the only viable way to prevent lethal or extensive harm to others.

Please note that the english pages are not as extensive or talk about the US situation so they're less useful.
it sounds like there may have been a separate issue with facebook? https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/25104746959112...
Non habit forming? Let me take you to a bush doof.
Tesla has big batteries but many other cars have large batteries too. Like the Jaguar ipace, the Audi étron, the Mercedes EQC, or the hyundai kona...

About the size of the motors, the Tesla one are actually not that big. Which is a good thing.
That might look good in the short term, but there are many companies and roles which require you to show the actual number of users, or the load of the service that you worked on. Also many technically challenging issues only come out under load, and actually working on challenging things are very different from reading about them. Just my 2 cents.
And to quote someone on HN:

Colleges, as insitutions, care about progressive, equality of opportunity values. Those nebulous criteria will coalesce to produce roughly the same outcomes that they currently do.
I've used it with SH4 on Windows CE.
Even if Google’s prices were half that of Amazon’s, it’s really hard to quantify the savings since the platform offerings are not identical, plus engineering switching costs could easily outstrip a company’s yearly cloud costs.
Some feedback: the signup process is difficult. I signed up, 32-char password, but it doesn't have a special character, so I had to regen. Ok fine, whatever. Then a captcha. At least it's not one of the ones that shows a new picture each time you click so you're endlessly clicking buses or manhole covers for 45 seconds. But I get captcha, whatever.

Ok, so I sign up, and now I have to confirm my email. But...it's not a link I can just click, it's a code. So I switch back to the postbag tab, log in again, and it asks me for the code. I switch to email tab, copy the code, switch back to the postbag tab, put in the code. All a bit obstuse, but ok whatever...I'm done, right?

Nope, now I have to log in again after my account is verified.

That said, this looks really interesting and I'm excited to try it out. Thanks for posting!
I am hard pressed to think of better methods to fairly and uniformly measure if person A is more qualified for college than person B. There has to be something to differentiate, as objectively as possible, between candidates. And, while not perfect, standardized tests fit the bill.

I, for one, find standardized tests far more stomach-able as barriers to entry to a university than the exclusive whims of administrators attempting to gauge the qualities of applicants.

Universities just need to do a good job of weighting the exams - I had lackluster LSAT scores, though not awful, but wrote an amazing law school entry essay and had a unique background: AmeriCorps, ski bum, tutor, etc... that catapulted me in to law school.

Entirely removing any type of exam from the college entry process just seems antithetical to what college is about.

Edit: a word.