skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I live in a place where blackouts are very infrequent (perhaps a couple per year), but occasionally the mains drops out for only a second or two. I suspect these very short dropouts occur when substation switchgear operates, but have no way of being sure. Anyway, with a server running 24/7 I obviously wanted protection against any loss of the mains supply.

> So I thought I had covered all bases, and, indeed, the UPS proved useful on several occasions. I would quite often be on a work trip and receive an e-mail from the server informing me that mains power to the UPS had been lost, then another e-mail soon after informing me that mains power to the UPS had returned. Only once did the power cut last longer than the battery capacity, and the server was shutdown automatically.

It sounds like the UPS is doing exactly what he wants it to do. This is exactly why I bought a UPS. I would have power transients sometimes and rebooting my entire network (with NAS and servers) was annoying, and I didn't want it to go out when I was gone.

His main complaint is he bought a standby UPS where the battery failed, it turned off the UPS (which is understandably frustrating), and now replaces the battery every three years. Looking at the white paper referenced, it even says to go for Line Interactive for servers. I'm also curious how the person knew that power wasn't cut when he was away?

So other than buying the wrong type of UPS (which at face value looks to be a valid complain based on research)....why isn't a UPS as useful as they'd think?
By that logic you’re subsidizing any company that takes a risk, fails and employees go on unemployment.
It might be nicer to age pages into "faded out" stage after a period of time of no edits (deliberately harder to read, low contrast, but there's a public "unfade" button if anyone cares to press it), and then "archived" stage after a bit of time faded. If you want to get a "archived" page back, you can ask the admin to re-publish it.
Generally line interactive is less preferable since they provide less protection from surges than a double conversion setup. Big price difference though so line interactive is usually a reasonable compromise.
I usually prefer HTML content, but for long-form technical documentation, I actually prefer PDF because it's always written to be read "cover to cover" rather than randomly hyperlinked. I do bail as soon as I see two-column output, though - too painful to deal with on a computer.
Every year I get an $800/month raise in September because the feds stop taking social security out of my paycheck once I have earned a certain amount.

It makes zero sense. Eliminate that one thing and it would be the single largest tax increase in history. That tells me that people making $150k/year or more can live without being social security tax free every year after earning X amount
> Maybe instead of paying their CEO and executives that much, Uber should pay their workers more?

So do we task Congress with figuring out the correct compensation for every worker in the US?

Or do we just greatly increase taxes on those high earning executives and distribute to those most in need?
I feel so relevant today, although I realize I fat fingered an extra 'i' years ago...
NAL, but IIRC it was alleged in the lawsuit that LinkedIn was making a competing product to hiQ. It also seems related to Associated Press vs Meltwater US Holdings, where the AP has developed a network to investigate and promulgate cutting news, and another company was copying parts of the news under "fair use", which was deemed infringement [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press_v._Meltwater_....
It's very hard to capture.

All they do is - keep silence. If you understand the cues and pay up yourself, your work will be done otherwise you can keep waiting forever.
A nice thing about the initial ico-format is that it can contain multiple resolutions. Nowadays you will see multi-res using separate files but that took a long time to happen.
Recursive Recipes
> evidence to be prosecuted

Just be sure to bribe the police, the judge etc.
Sure, a safety net paid for by employers, not the gov’t.
> What percentage of the HN crowd has developed something that has had (or will have) a 10, 20 or 40 year life span?

I'm also curious about the work/personal split here. I have a small handful of things at home I first wrote around 10-12 years ago that I still use and tweak, but have only been working professionally for about 9 years (and have worked on things in that time I personally fully expect to hit 20-30 years).
Crocodile tears. Stop all litigation against unionization and/or classification as employees.
This is the absolutist security perspective, where one assumes an "evil demon" threat model (i.e. every exploit will be exploited to the maximum). It's a useful theoretical model for hardening systems against known and unknown intrusion, but it doesn't realistically model the expected outcome in a world with laws and social constraints.

In practice, it's quite reasonable for a consumer to assume that the company providing them services isn't actively out to get them. In fact, we encode that assumption in law in a couple key places (to wit: if Apple is turning the camera on randomly against explicit user desire, they could be sued for invasion of privacy in the same vein as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School...)
> Was it morally questionable when the same banks did predatory lending that went bad and got bail outs from the taxpayers?

Yes.
Binary Tree Coding Practice Problems from Popular Programming Interview Qu
> 9:13, Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six I did.
Can you imagine that conversation with your neighbors?

"Tom, why are you burying fish in your yard? Don't you have better things to be doing like evacuating or collecting fire wood right now?"
I didn't say that schools, roads and hospitals are not necessities. I would say schools, roads and hospitals are necessities for the government to run a modern society. They decided and they did it. You and I paid for it.

Just on the roads point, without a government, we might all be flying personal helicopters, no roads required.
Assignments in conditionals can be handy handy, but I think it's better when there's a keyword for it. The Rust/Swift `if let` syntax is pretty nice for this.

if let userID = 0 {}

vs

if userID == 0 {}

The let syntax makes this error more obvious.
That is created using LuaTeX and I'm sure the sources behind that PDF document are carefully crafted and LuaTeX works really well. But if you would do the same document with the same amount of images in Microsoft Word and create a PDF document is would be much much bigger and it won't load that quickly.

I will take the last part back, if someone can prove that I'm wrong about Word and PDF documents.
If you're employed by someone else, you're probably not a capitalist, as in, employer of variable capital.
I wish MHTML had more recognition as well as a chance to play the role of a "portable document format". For one, it's easy to open (everyone has a browser on whatever device they're using), easy to work with either for creators or consumers and can automatically adapt the screen it's been read on.
Contrasting pattern: Ise shrine

They literally do burn it down periodically, and build another. Because they do this, and plan to do it, the knowledge of how to make it doesn't fade into history.
I wonder if India has a system where land is farmland or unused ... but is staged to be used as light industrial in the future?

At least in the US that's a thing where local communities zone areas for future / potential use ... but it isn't that zone at the moment because it is being used for something else. At least in the US those are fairly plentiful.
Is this YCombinator as a business or "Hacker News" as the community of people who hang out at the water cooler they administrate?

The wider community does not have a definite stance on any issue. It does not have an enforcement mechanism (e.g. majority rules) to decide this or that.

I think anyone who wants to speak seriously about politics should watch this Princeton video course by Ian Shapiro

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FD48CE33DFBEA7E

So far as "free speech" there is also an aspect of privacy, "the right to be let alone." All humans are besieged directly and indirectly by spam, scam, cyber attacks, harassment and malicious communications.

Arguments such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimina...

were dismissed by the Reagan era but have come back with Facebook.

"Free speech" frequently get captured by people whose business model is to (a) get paid to give a talk, (b) stage a riot, (c) get notoriety, (d) repeat at a larger scale. A certain Greek kid conned college administrators for a while this way and earned a golden ticket to talk to CPAC, a conservative PAC. They thought the kid was great because liberals hated them.

They watched the Youtube videos and they threw up.

You don't hear about him any more. Back in the 1960s there was a "Free Speech Movement" on California campuses where students had been forbidden to table for the "Freedom Riders" that put their bodies on the line to protect blacks. They faced a shocking level of violence from the police and got reformed, however, the organization itself had fallen into the hands of people who advocated for the right to say words like "shit" that many Hacker Newsers have no problem with.
The Transformation of the Fed
You are severely underestimating how few air disasters we've had lately. The DC10 had an abysmal track record.

Airplane engines literally flying off the plane during takeoff because the airlines got to do whatever they wanted for servicing it instead of the recommended method because maintenance time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191

Boeing and Airbus and CRJ/Bombadier/NowAirbus have done a -really- friggin good job in the past 2 decades.

Why the hell would they need to upgrade something as non-essential as a floppy system? To What? Why does it matter if it works? Introducing uncertainty to a system to just make it "new" is spoken like a web dev and not like an aerospace engineer (and I'm a web dev).

In node land you get blasted if you don't stay current (because something will rely on something newer and you'll get upgrade hell'd at once instead of piecemeal).

There are no new versions of GQL that people need to upgrade to. Nor is their version of node going off LTS in 2 years.
You know, given this forum’s recent experience with misinformation about Apple, I shouldn’t be surprised to read a completely false comment (and another accusing Apple of illegal behavior downthread, also known as actionable libel). And yet here I am, surprised.

Your interpretation of events is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the permissions framework functions on iOS. That you then pivoted that misunderstanding into malevolent intentions from Apple speaks to your biases. Of course, given that you’re a member of this forum, I’d expect you’d find this behavior abhorrent when it comes to things like vaccination or COVID, so I’d only challenge you to think about whether you have all the facts, just as you would with any other contentious topic. The only difference here is that you don’t realize it’s contentious for you.

iOS programs shipped by Apple do not interact with the operating system in a different way with respect to privacy. Full stop. Your entire thesis, conclusion, and argument are not even remotely defensible in their falseness. There are no exemptions carved out in the operating system. First party apps with very few, SVP-documented exceptions (and usually for technical reasons) are held to the exact same standards that third parties adhere to during app submission.

I know this because at one time in my career it was my job to know. Don’t believe me? Reverse the apps.
My land is beside a MIDC (Sangli Miraj Kupwad MIDC) which has been completely sold out. And I want to build it in Sangli because of the cheap raw material available in Sangli itself.
Frankly, provided you have error checking logic and don't store them next to a magnet... floppy disks are pretty damn bulletproof. I've had way more issues per-use reading a thumb drive or a CD/DVD-ROM than I ever did reading floppy disks.
With due respect, you're giving the OP a deliberately ungenerous reading to score a point. If I tell you "I like using Dell's servers because [reasons]" you wouldn't say, "They're YOUR servers, Dell just made them" because I said "Dell's servers" rather than "Dell servers".
Ask HN: Project ideas for hands-on year-long programming class?
I’ll be leading a non-compulsory programming course at my local high school during the next academic year. There will be around 10 eighteen-year-olds which all have one-year experience with Python (i.e. they know the basics: loops, functions, datatypes etc), most of them wanting to continue their education at a university in CS or related field. I’ll have 90 minutes per week for the course.

I think the best way for them to continue their foray into programming would be to do a large project that would help me demonstrate the more advanced programming concepts like architecture, testing, and model design, and also some of the things closely related to commom programming work, like build tools, git, and basics of command-line.

My current idea is to group them to teams of two or three people and let the teams choose a project from a small selection of related projects. During the year they’ll be working on different parts of the project, with the lectures being mostly filled with discussion about that weeks’ “task” and maybe a short presentation on the topic by me. I’d also like to give detailed feedback on the code during the year (that’s the reason I want three teams rather than 10 individuals).

Firstly, do you think it’s a good approach to a programming course? And if so, which projects do you think would fit, considering they ought to be “iterative” in nature (so that we can split them up to parts), interesting and should demonstrate some common programming patterns?
You can set the shortcut icon meta tag to point to a fairly big (256x256) png file, and all modern browsers will re-scale it for use where-ever needed.

The only place where I've seen multiple sizes needed was for SPAs on mobile phones etc. and that's a whole different set of tags.
The link is dead for me now, but I browsed it earlier, and got the impression it didn’t have instructions for the ALU, but would write data to the input pins of the ALU and read the result back from the output pins somewhat later.

If I interpret appendix C of https://www.hp9845.net/9845/downloads/manuals/Nanoprocessor.... correctly, that hunch is right.
But what about the deleting clutter? In the analogy about the kids and the toys should the children be told to throw away toys they don't want to play with?
The best summary of this was a Tweet I saw saying something like “I see a billboard that says I’m an essential worker and a paycheck that says I’m not.”
Also put in for a mortgage or mortgage refinance. What does the underwriter want to see? Two to three years of tax returns (PDF) and two months of bank statements (PDF) to prove the source of your down payment funds.
You're jumping to a pretty unsubstantiated conclusion. OP never said the were currently untaxed.
From what I can see, inside each "room" it's basically a traditional teleconference session, with the added wrinkle of having an audio feed in the room from every other room at reduced volume.

Spatial.chat and my own Calla.chat provide a completely different interaction metaphor. The room is solitary, but all audio in that room is spatialized. Spatial.chat does volume scaling, Calla.chat does full spatialization, including support for HFRT.
> Seems like a pretty good “safety net”?

Except if you haven't been able to get unemployment because, you were a contractor, say a driver for Uber.

Except for the whole "no health care" part.

Except for the fact that that $600/week is gone now and you're among the millions of people who are still unemployed.

Except if you weren't able to get unemployment because your state's unemployment office has terrible IT problems and they still haven't caught up.

No, this isn't a pretty good "safety net".
Stop looking at rates, and look at where tax revenue comes from.

There are tons of loopholes when rates were 90%. When rates were dropped, loopholes were closed.

The percentage of total taxes paid by high income earners has increased over time, not decreased.
Cambridge is not representative of reality outside of Cambridge.
Which is it? Their only option, or a non-competitive wage?

If there aren’t any buyers, $1 is a competitive offer.
With all of the recent advances in Lithium-type battery tech (e.g. 18650) it seems like a market opportunity to create a new, modern, small, smart UPS.

These low-end APC dinosaurs still use lead acid, and in my experience (with a solid utility over the past decade) outages are just as likely to be caused by battery failure than some kind of actual power outage.

If anyone wants to build something better, happy to chat further.
When people went through or analyzed their Web logs, bandwidth was expensive, and a page load was often 1 small HTML request plus maybe a GIF/JPEG or 3... the addition of these favicon requests was annoying. Also, Microsoft was widely disliked by Internet people, so this didn't help.

Another funny thing about the favicons... Sun had a template that a lot of people ended up copying, but the file format contained multiple resolutions. So it wasn't that unusual to see a Sun favicon logo on a site that wasn't Sun, because some site developer or Webmaster used Sun's template, replaced only the one for the resolution they used, so it looked good to them.
I remember reading a news story ~4 (or more?) years ago that the last manufacturer of floppy disks stopped making them. I’m not surprised to learn there’s still plenty in circulation, but I’m a little confused by “recent production”, unless my memory is just wrong...
thanks, just ditched macOS though and not looking back :)
Exactly. The creepiness is in the stalking done by advertisers, not in the accurate descriptions made about it.
Sure, a variety of references here: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/73132/did-boein...

Although to be fair my summary wasn't entirely accurate - it wasn't that a MAX was outright dynamically unstable with no control input, as I described, but rather not sufficiently stable as to cause a monotonic increase in stick force as AOA increases, which can cause the combined system of pilot + flight dynamics to be unstable since the pilot relies on stick force as an indicator.

> Most aircraft, in a "pitch up attitude" will increase their angle of attack as thrust is applied

This is both incorrect and irrelevant. Most aircraft will climb when power is applied, but will not change their AOA unless the thrust axis is off-center. To a first approximation, power controls climb rate, and stick input changes AOA. Change in behavior under different power settings has little to do with the problem with the MAX. The problem with the MAX is that at high angles of attack - i.e., when the stick is held back, causing the air to meet the wing (and the engines) at a steeper angle - the engines, which are flung forward, start producing lift of their own and produce a pitch-up moment. This means that the further the pilot pulls the stick back, the less hard they have to pull. This is a dangerous inversion that increases the control order of the system, as it breaks the usual assumption that a given stick force will result in a given AOA, more or less.
It wouldn't necessarily be a certification issue because updates to avionics bundles already require a checksumming/validation step. At worst, if it doesn't work you'd have to try again. However, adding in the USB support on some of these older devices might be a hassle.
just want to call out -

The engine literally exploded, and they made it home via the rest of the plane OK (minus the unfortunate passenger).

In the past this would have cut hydrolics (this happened with a DC10 rear engine exploding) and then losing control. Major props to the pilots and boeing (all SW planes are 737s I believe).
Wikis are the technical version of Bikeshedding.
Most people don't have leverage to negotiate a fair compensation for people to do it on their own. So you're presenting a a false dichotomy. "all of us" includes the companies that employ "some people". For better or worse, America seems to reject the idea that "all of us" means the government should help people out through taxes. That therefore leaves that companies must do it.
I don't think we'll be doing well with SETI until we have a better understanding of the animals around us. This planet is teeming with non-mammalian intelligence and mostly we either ignore it, are irritated by it, or try to eat it.
"The expatriation tax provisions under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) sections 877 and 877A apply to U.S. citizens who have renounced their citizenship and long-term residents (as defined in IRC 877(e)) who have ended their U.S. resident status for federal tax purposes."

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...
Sometimes when hackers break into a system or network, they will actually stop and PATCH the systems, to prevent others from using the same vulnerabilities or other vulnerabilities from compromising the device they now own.

Suffice to say, these attackers will already have ensured they maintain persistence even with closing their initial entry points.

Likewise, the NSA has many avenues to get into a device, or (more practically, when it concerns most of the public instead of specific users and devices they need access too) they use mechanisms that aren't affected.

As they've proven, they have a huge catalog of malware and similar, but that's for actual targets. People they already believe to be threats or targets, that they need to directly attack.

But for the majority of the public? The information will come from the companies themselves, not the user devices. Why would you spend thousands or millions on developing and maintaining an application you can put on everyone's devices, and may be removed, or even just disabled due to an upgrade (until you can patch it) when you can find and obtain data from a company that already has common apps on a device, across the public, and the public not only knows they are there, they WANT the app and will take steps to complain if access is rejected? And the companies will gather as much as they legally can (and sometimes more), put it into databases, sort it, categorize it, etc?

Why would you duplicate ALL of that, when you can just take the finished product, the sorted data that's stored, either legally and knowingly, or unknowingly from a company?

And you ensure that while you can maintain that access, either to the company or the device, you direct the users and company on how to protect themselves from random attacks, or other entities that want to target the users, often with automated software that hits the "low hanging fruit".
The first page is rendered instantly you mean. PDF, at least when generated by a sane generator, can be parsed pagewise. HTML cannot, you always have to parse everything in a page to do layout, because later objects can change or overlay earlier ones.
This is a perfect example of winning a battle, and losing the war. Out of this was born git [1] and the rest [2] is history [3].

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/131312/
[2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/131657/
[3]: https://archive.is/OnGav
The task is essential. The specific person carrying out that task is not.

The pay reflects the cost of completing the task.
As a "pro" feature, have people sign up for events that will coordinate delivery of food or beverages at the start of the event. Everyone gets doordash-ed tacos and beer at the start of the gathering.