skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct. Saying one is vastly objectively worse should not be taken to mean that the other is without flaws.
The shock wave travels faster than the speed of sound in the medium at rest, but not faster than the speed of sound in the moving medium around the wave. Longer and better explanation:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/193323
I think the problem was actually my free tier MongoDB Atlas cluster which only allowed 500 connections at a time lol. Just upgraded it and I'm hoping it helps these damn GraphQL queries
All companies are forced to cooperate by law.

We Americans like to think we have the moral high ground against China. For some things, we do. For many others, they are just following in our footsteps.

The US has scarcely not been at war since I've been alive and the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Force has no end in sight. Wartime powers vested in the Executive Branch are far more expansive than we would like to think.

Who do you think re-routes shipments of Cisco networking hardware to the NSA TAO group? Cisco and FedEx/UPS. Same with any computing hardware and likely many other products.

Who do you think complies with National Security Letters? 99%+ of the companies that receive them. QWest tried to challenge their legality and that CEO wasted away in prison.

Patriot Act and Anti-Money Laundering statutes require that lots of industries participate with the USA government: financial, travel, hotel, telecom, etc.
Trust me, I'm well aware of both of those facts :)

Doesn't mean the syntax _can't_ change . After all, the `<>` shorthand syntax for fragments was added via cooperation with the Babel and TypeScript teams, and the work on the new `jsx()` replacement for `createElement()` is going the same way.
3 seems to be the an argument from the anthropic principle. Oxidation happens in water too, in different forms. Perhaps not as rapid. I would imagine someone from Mon Calamari would have came up with a completely "easiest" way to extract energy.
Ah, so a new challenger arrives. Good luck overcoming lock-in.
Drivers in less population-dense areas such as my own keep both the Uber and Lyft apps open in order to fill enough time. Would this still be possible if they were an employee?
That was one late bus.
I'm really curious why this got negative points.
Some APC UPSs will check battery health monthly by switching to battery, and letting them run down. You will want to disable this feature as it takes 6-8hrs to recharge to full, leaving a massive random gap in coverage. This also puts undue wear on the batteries as they are only good for a dozen or two cycles.
Nowadays, some hospitals, especially those with heating loads, are doing the opposite:

Run a combined-cycle natural gas generator 24/7, and use the grid as your backup. Gets good efficiency. Runs loops on the coolant, oil and exhaust for water/building heat, and can switch over instantly in the event of failure.

https://www.solidwastemag.com/feature/talking-bout-cogenerat...
The NSA didn't reveal any secrets that couldn't be looked up by anyone who cares about privacy. Is Thief A more trustworthy than Thief B because Thief A told you to lock your doors and windows and Thief B didn't, when both already have keys to your house?
"New and works" is used in aircraft that come off the production line today; just look at the flight deck of an A350. New avionics start out in the iPads of GA pilots, then get that 5 to 10 years proving in the flight decks of business jets, finally making it into the cockpits of jetliners.
People have a love/hate relation with SQL. I think most software engineers are OK with it, some even find it a curious case to tumble down the rabbit hole of multiple JOINs or inner SELECTs.

But for most people out there who simply want to poke at their business data, SQL, or this article's stated solution - EdgeQL are all pains in the wrong places. If you are making the life of engineers a bit easier, then you have to think of the millions of My/Pg SQL installations.

If you want to make the larger audiences' life easier (the business people who need insights), then you need to think outside of SQL altogether.
No, Diesel engines are not based on detonation but also on a controlled combustion. The combustion is triggered differently that is all.
> the median earner to own a 2,400sqft single family detached house on a quarter acre in a socioeconomically homogeneous school district

Why would that be the goal?
What's the pricing structure? Seeing no reference to it on your website makes me caught of adopting it.
In the UK, the government has taken the view that in some sense, yes, some contractors who were claiming to be self-employed were in fact employees and therefore have to pay more tax (the same tax as other employees), and can claim fewer expenses against tax (also the same as other employees). The underlying principle is equal treatment.

There is no advantage to the individuals from that decision, nor is there any intended.

So people spending 5 years working for the same company doing the same commute and same work as employees, subject to the same kind of control over their work etc., cannot maintain a claim to be self-employeed for the tax flexibility that goes with that.

However. You "writing code" as a contractor is not the same work as an employee if the manner in which you are doing it differs.

For example, if you have to purchase your own equipment, set your own hours, work on a "statement of work" basis instead of set hours, can substitute a subcontractor to do your work for you, and can and sometimes do work for multiple companies at the same time, and often switch the site at which you are working, those sorts of things signify that you are not operating as an employee would, and that it would be correct to classify you as running your own business and therefore subject to business taxation instead.

Of course every contractor wanted to claim that status for the tax benefits, which are basically less income tax and the ability to deduct more expenses. The government saw this and decided, although the law was what it was all along, people weren't applying it adequately. So they changed who does the assesment, and the tax liability if they get it wrong, from the contractor to the company hiring them. This is called the IR35 reform; IR35 is the name of the legislation that sets out what kind of working patterns must be treated as employment for tax purposes.

Although the reform will change who is liable for making the assessment, in principle it is still possible for a contractor to be retroactively assessed for their past as having been an employee all along, and have to pay back-tax. That's because you are supposed to have done the right assessment for yourself already, or perhaps your accountant should. This seems unlikely for most people now as long as the changes are followed through, but some people have been caught out by it.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Whether they intended to defraud anyone or not, they had ample warning that they were way in over their heads. After a certain point, it was criminal.
> "the company would be forced to find a rate at which they'd have enough drivers to allow for reasonably short pickup time."

Oh the humanity, how will they manage? They only have like the entire dataset of all rides ever taken plus a world class data science team plus a ton of market power. Will they be able to negotiate on equal footing rate with cab-drivers?
Rocky planets are interesting only to extreme primitives. Once you leave the nest, Oort cloud objects are the most useful. That is where to look for visitors.
Haha hug of death sounds about right. Thanks!
They view it as a success and have double down on it, while the rest of the world continued to feed them knowledge free minds across continents spent centuries to accumulate. In short, they only took the useful bits to strengthen the government's grip on the population while leaving out all those things that made the vast amount of knowledge possible. They are getting all human knowledge for free, while it it not the same for us.

Strategically, this position is untenable. The free world is defenseless until we demand reciprocity. Balkanization, be that as it may, it's not the end, but a means to an end, the end should be all open for every one.
Ask HN: Verify email by user emailing me?
Most websites send a secret link to a user's email to verify they own the email address. But this has three main issues: (1) it often requires users to complete a CAPTCHA to prevent automated registration bots, (2) emails often go to spam, and (c) users can mistype their email address.

What if users sent a secret code to a service instead of receiving one? I was told by my inbound email processing service that if DKIM is valid and/or SPF passes then I can trust that the email address wasn't spoofed. Can anyone verify that? Are there any other gotchas from a security perspective?

I understand the UX would be a little unexpected and may drive people off. My question focuses on whether there are any security pitfalls compared to the traditional method of sending users a secret link.

Thank you!
HN FACT CHECK:

IRS Common Law Rules for Determining Status:

Behavioral: Does the company control or have the right to control what the worker does and how the worker does his or her job?

Financial: Are the business aspects of the worker’s job controlled by the payer? (these include things like how worker is paid, whether expenses are reimbursed, who provides tools/supplies, etc.)

Type of Relationship: Are there written contracts or employee type benefits? Will the relationship continue and is the work performed a key aspect of the business?

Source: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

CA ABC Test:

Autonomy. The worker must be free from the control and direction of the hiring entity with regard to how the work is performed.

Business Dissimilarity. The worker’s labor or services must fall outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business.

Custom of the Worker. The worker must be customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed.

Source: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Sounds like my advanced PyTorch course (except that I didn't put as much emphasis on distributed). :)
I haven't become enchanted with moving to online yet. You ask about interactivity, and that seems to be the difficult part to me. For the exercises, I haven't found anything just like sitting in front of the same screen with my students.
> > Legally, in California, they can't do that.

> Definitely wrong.

Based on what? Were you a contractor while AB5 was in place? Everything I have seen suggests that Uber and Lyft will be legally prevented from having drivers that are classified as contractors.
The article said it was a brine ocean, so salinity or some other solute - even at Earth gravity and air pressure, highly saline water can have a freezing point as low as -20C.
I'd bet a lot of money that the next version of React will not remove Hooks.
I think they make good points. This was written May 2019: how have they fared since then?
I saw Woz at the Delta Sky Club in Madrid and gave him what was probably a too enthusiastic "Hello!" He said "hi" while trying really hard not to look at me.

I realized then that it must be exhausting to have so many people want to talk to you. It ain't easy being Woz.
> The glass damage must be horrible. Your entire home covered in tiny pieces of glass.

Watch this video at .25x to really see how glass reacts in the pressure wave.
You can see the look on the bride's face as the initial vibrations/sound reaches her. Then, you can actually see the window pane bow like a wind sail.

https://youtu.be/PUQ-QvCqDjA
The Second Wave of Japanese Desktop Publishing (2000)
The fourth contractor submits a bid above the minimum price.
Same character, but that one specifically is when she reprised it for SNL in the late 70s.
People suspected the NSA were snooping and introducing backdoors and proactively places countermeasures against that. Why should the standard be different when it comes to China?
Yes, literally just copy everything between stream/endstream for a DCTDecode image and you can save it as a JPEG. Sounds like the tool's creator didn't know about that encoding.
They've profited handsomely from Reagan's policies. That's not exclusive to Republicans either; I think dems would be quite incensed about Hunter Biden in a different political context.
It's hard to take "the other side" seriously when every last one of them complaining about mail-in voting... vote by mail themselves.

When they can't be bothered to show up to vote but have 150 days a year to golf, I'm not sure how they can tell someone working two minimum wage jobs that they should stand in line for 6+ hours to have the "priveledge" to vote.
Watch the Netflix documentary, and pay close attention to what he does after his failed festival. Either he's a scammer or Netflix is, as he seems to be running a new business where he sells tickets to events he doesn't have tickets for, and for which he has no way of getting them, and then ghosts the buyers.

I think he didn't really set out to defraud anyone, but he has an incredible ego and sense of entitlement, and he got used to living a jetsetting lifestyle and didn't want to downgrade, so he defrauded people (in his newer business, after the festival). Given how naturally he did it, I'd be surprised if he hadn't been running ticket scams on and off for years.
Yes, definitely real! Although what you're probably thinking of is nitrous oxide injection. One popular manufacturer of nitrous oxide systems is "NOS", which was featured heavily on the Fast & Furious movies.

The "scramble" button I'm talking about is for "boost", which is the amount of positive air pressure inside the intake manifold.

Both "boost" and nitrous can dramatically increase power by essentially getting more oxygen into the combustion chamber, but nitrous is a much more dramatic effect.
> would drive if they had free parking, didn’t have to pay tolls, didn’t think it was terrible for the environment, etc

So basically your argument is that people would drive if it weren't terrible in every way? By that logic, people would eat plutonium... if only it were more available, tasted good, and didn't kill you.
I see, thank you. Both your explanation and the link were illuminating.
Agreed about scaling problems, but the examples you provided illustrate that, in my experience, there are still things you should be doing from the get-go.

Building things that don't scale is often taken to the extreme where it's nothing more than a few HTML pages strung together by self-rolled crypto and javascript. This might be good for idea validation (first couple of days), but it shouldn't persist past this point.

Understanding when the inevitable problems pop up and being able to solve them in reasonable enough time not to lose your users is - to me - not a nice to have problem. It's a showstopper that will turn egg on your face problems into fatalities.

Few things I would recommend are:

* Instrumentation - You don't need to go full ELK before you find product-market fit. Hell you can log everything, and with two users you can always read all the logs. But something is key.
* Up and down scripts - How long will it take you to set up a new copy of the product? Do you have to trawl bash logs and have a team meeting to find out all the configs that need to be set up?
* Load-testing - Again, nothing fancy. Just put curl on a bash loop and see where the system starts to hiccup. Once you have real users with complex data on real hardware you'll wish you profiled things, even slightly.
* Instrumentation - I say it again because the sheer number of systems I've found on the verge of silent failure and user frustration because the errors weren't being propagated, be it from client side to server or from the logs to an alert, is massive. With modern SPAs it's easy to think everything works when all your users see is a blank page.
* Please don't roll your own crypto. Unless you're working in a language that is 2 days old you really shouldn't need to or be doing this.

In short, if you're using HPAs and Kubernetes you've gone too far. But don't choose your instance size at random, be able to set up a new instance in an hour, and have at least 60% confidence that if there is an error you will know about it.
Swarm of Salton Sea earthquakes sparks worry about the San Andreas fault
SQL is definitely not perfect but it's supported everywhere and integrates with everything, so you can augment it with other languages. That fact makes a lot of the critiques sort of moot.
I don't see why Uber couldn't offer that same flexibility to employees. I'm an employee and I have a lot of flexibility about when and how much I work - that's a matter of policy that Uber could offer if they chose to.
Frequent testing with LESS sensitive tests to alert you when you are infectious
Which core web app framework feature’s biggest 3rd party React library has been abandoned in the last few years? Or extensively rewritten to the point of seriously effecting end using programmers?

I am relatively new to React. Perhaps all of this happened 3 or more years ago.

I know React Router 4 was released in mid 2017. Perhaps I was too new when I looked over the changes between 3 and 4. It didn’t seem as drastic as the general opinion that JS changes like crazy. I looked at the migration guide again. Still doesn’t look too bad. Maybe it would be in a large code base.
There's a lot between what the US has today and eliminating roads. To start, we should have fewer motor vehicle lanes, wider sidewalks, lower speed limits, more protected bike lanes, intersections designed to minimize crossing distance for pedestrians, and centerline hardening for left turns.
This genre of comments are either intentionally disingenuous or simply significantly misguided. There has been little to suggest that Gates isn't currently trying to help make the world a bit better off. If he thought that would really solve all the world's problems than I'm fairly sure he'd give it a shot, but even you and I know it would do little to truly halt climate change on the large scale. CC is also not his only target of course.

Perhaps Gates is just a bit more thoughtful in managing his investments.
You can create isolated functions instead of nested functions wherever you want. Just pass in params instead of using closures. This is entirely up to the developer.
To be fair, you can write a lot of idiomatic code without ever using packages that use `init()` [0].

(The most common usage is importing database drivers).

I've written Go for a while, and it still feels a bit exotic, compared to its other control flow patterns.

Maybe "code smell" was the wrong word. But writing "surprising" logic in an `init()` function would definitely not be considered idiomatic.

[0]: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#init
Yeah then they won't index you at all and you lose all your traffic instantly. How about a setting to index my site without scaping my content and using it all over the place without attribution
My totally baseless assumption is that it was a cute passive way to force developers to properly support UNC Paths of all types by making something as essential as %USERPROFILE% include spaces and intentionally break all the eight-dot-three conventions.
Bullet train contractors botched a bridge project
A series of errors by contractors and consultants on the California bullet train venture caused support cables to fail on a massive bridge, triggering an order to stop work that further delayed a project already years behind schedule, the Los Angeles Times has learned
> the PSU capacitor won't have the capacity for a brownout with a Xeon-class CPU and multiple GPUs.

I'm not sure I buy that. The motherboard/GPU backplane VRMs alone should be able to buffer 20ms on these devices. Would love to see a test of this kind of thing.
Our biochemistry is based on the most frequently occurring elements in the solar system. It's the most likely biochemistry to use carbon, silicates for instance are much less likely for a number of reasons.
The GOP, not the US government.
One problem is that Postscript is Turing complete, so it can be unreliable to parse. Not a great outcome if you just want to view a document.

However, in reality I've often found it easier to write throwaway perl scripts to analyse/modify PS files rather than PDF. Writing a tool to target a set of PS files made by the same process usually isn't too hard unless there is something really unique going on - but it can be a problem generalising it to any random PS file.

PDF is more structured so it can be easier to make general purpose tools, but in my line of work we prefer version 1.4 since the later versions add bloat that isn't necessary for print. It's also usually easier to consider them append-only, it's trivial to add content but editing is a lot harder due to offsets and references.
My wife dragged me to see Arcadia in 1995 (Stage Door Theatre, San Francisco) - I was mesmerized. Reading it is good; seeing it performed is much better.
So... he bought cheap land and got mad because he didn't think the rules should apply to him. And then he was too proud to admit that he was wrong. Yeah, that sense of entitlement is a big problem with politics in America.
If by overcharging you mean billing for more hours than were in fact done, that's fraud and is a different matter entirely.

Obviously you may stop working with a person if their prices are too high or because quality of their work is shit.

However if you use this as a pretence for firing contractors, but the real reason you are firing them is because of their sex / gender / race - that would be illegal.

In the same vein, if you fire contractors for doing things that are none of your business, and it is common knowledge that you do that and exercise control you should not have over them, then a court may decide that in fact the relationship is not that of a contractor. That in fact this is nothing more than a legal fiction created for the purpose of tax avoidance or similar.
Yes, sorry, I misspoke (edit: actually, I think you misspoke in your previous comment, and then I copied the mistake).

But no, the fourth contractor did not submit a bid at a higher price. They did not submit a bid at all.
Earth-normal gravity, Earth-normal temperature, Earth-normal pressure, concentrated solar power, breathing air is buoyant, plastic and carbon fiber structural material--and breathing air and water--are convertable from atmosphere, cloud water is heavily enriched with deuterium. Way nicer than Mars.

You can operate an unshielded nuke plant tethered some distance below your balloon habitat, no worries about leaks.

We don't know whether humans can survive for long at Lunar or Martian gravity. Zero-G we know is a problem. So, Venus might be the only other notionally habitable planet.
An employee working 10 hours a week is already a thing, it's called part-time work. Part time employees have fewer benefits and exist in many industries, e.g. food service. A weekend barista at Starbucks is not an independent contractor.
Then maybe don’t build your business on a model that makes it impossible to do the right thing for your users.
Biden’s VP Guarantee
Eh, configuring SaaS stuff to be secure is not easy either.
So you're in charge of what is and isn't art, huh? That seems like quite the burden for you. Was it always just you, or was there some kind of committee that you staged a hostile takeover of?
That conflicts with HTML syntax, no? <input disabled /> is equivalent to <input disabled={true} />.
Peirce's Law
AFAIK here is a "duty of loyalty" that requires you not to compete with your employer so working for a company that directly competes with them would be out. Like working for both Waymo and Uber self driving cars at the same time "as an employee". As a contractor no such standard exists.