skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ill sit here and explain that the whole process can be faked. (Just for laughs)

Joe is in the business of selling large amounts of dubious goods and services. Jim makes a lot of money from his bar but on the side he does dubious business with Joe. One day Joe gives Jim a painting he made. It is one hell of a horrible work! Joe explains that Jim is no longer buying dubious goods, he gets those for free now! With the painting. More buddies join the network and paintings change hands frequently. Then one day Joe invites the buddy network to a public auction. Everyone bids on the paintings knowing exactly which dubious goods they represent. Slowly but steadily outsiders join in on the bidding. The price of the dubious goods goes though the roof! Jim goes to Joe and complaints about how expensive his services have become. Joe answers: But you have 100 paintings of mine? Why not just sell some of them for uhhh market value? I give you 2 million for the stack. Everyone lives happily ever after.
I’ve long used GrandPerspective (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/) for this. It shows you how big each file and folder is visually, so you can more easily estimate the impact of deleting those files.
Ask HN: Why do VoIP vendors hate their customers?
I was trying to get control of my digital life back from Verizon, Skype, etc.

I got an account with Twilio and have gone through at least five different softphone programs, none of them really work correctly.

Some of those programs (e.g. Zoiper 5) suggest a list of sketchy-looking vendors, maybe they work better than Twilio, but the domain names look scary, the web sites 404, etc.

Why is that anything based on open standards seems designed to exclude people?
Steve Jobs' diet and eating habits were extremely unusual and we simply do not know if they were viable or not.
You can, yes. But the developer working on the codebase you’re going to inherit might not. Class components are usefully opinionated in that way.
That blog is an amazing insight into internet operations + culture from that time frame. Windows Media for streaming! URLS with perl/script.pl in them! AIM/ICQ! It helps the writer has a bit of a flair for storytelling.

Very good read!
> I work in a similar space and it is significantly complex and expensive to do this.

Hmmm. Could have sworn Google promotes itself as being "best in class" at solving complex problems. ;)
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That's a recloser operating.

Initially, there's a fault, say, a tree contacting a wire. This conducts a bunch of current to ground, the voltage in part of the network sags a fair bit, and a protective relay senses the overcurrent and opens the circuit. This happens in a second or two, and your power goes out. You may notice lights dimming or flickering in the instant beforehand.

But, many faults are transient. Perhaps that tree branch finished falling, and is no longer against the wire. So the protective relay performs a "reclose" operation, where it turns the power back on for a moment and measures the current. There's normally a huge starting inrush as motor-driven appliances restart, so it waits a moment before sampling the current, and this is the period when the power comes back on for a few seconds. (It's probably pretty nasty power during this interval, too.)

If things are good, hey, you're good! A brief outage while waiting for the fault to clear itself, and then everything's back. The operation will be reported to the dispatch center, and someone may come out to inspect the area in case there's damage.

But if the fault is still there, and after a moment the current is still way higher than it should be, the recloser opens again, and this time it stays open. Gonna need a crew to move that tree, and then they'll manually try again.
Ted Codd designed the Relational Calculus as a clean relational-query language. It looks mathematical (scary?) and a little like a set-comprehension. But I think the big mistake is its use of non-ascii chars like ∃ ∈ ∀.

Here's an example from http://arwan.lecture.ub.ac.id/files/2013/10/4.-relationalcal... :

SQL:

SELECT DISTINCT F.Name
FROM FACULTY F
WHERE NOT EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM CLASS C
WHERE F.Id=C.InstructorId AND C.Year=2002)

Relational Calculus:

{F.Name | FACULTY( F) AND NOT
(∃C ∈ CLASS( F.Id=C.InstructorId AND C.Year=2002))}
That neutron star story is wild. Hard recommendation to read.

One point I have with Baxter is that his premises are just bananas, but the people acting in them are pretty recognizable. To be fair, if the characters were also nutter-butter, no one would read it, as it wouldn't be a story anymore, just a strangely formatted research paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(novel)
Seems fitting, XKCD - Standards: https://xkcd.com/927/

The post has weird self faults in its complaints - lack of consistency, and poor system cohesion.

Lack of consistency isn't with the SQL standard, it's with the implementation (this is recognize this later in the post too). Like browsers and the HTML spec - everyone implements the standard SLIGHTLY but non-trivially differently.

poor system cohesion - Being able to integrate/inter-op with every other language literally means poor system cohesion. They're mutually exclusive ideas. This is is why ORMs exist, so there is strong cohesion with a given language.

I'm sad because there's so much work put in here by extremely smart people, but this is a tool looking for a problem. SQL has its shortcomings for sure, but simply replacing it with a slightly cleaner language is not the answer. The benefits do not outweigh the huge amounts of drawbacks that would be required to adopt something like this.

I don't know much about EdgeDB and hopefully there's a lot more benefit I'm not aware of, but purely on the post itself, too many drawbacks.
It's easy to cut yourself on Hanlon's razor.

Billy McFarland has a long history of exploiting the benefit of the doubt. It would be self-destructive for society to continue extending it without taking that into account.
Agreed that Woz U has been quite the failure.

That being said, what online education institution hasn't had a huge amount of blowback, either due to poor instruction or lying about results?

Not saying two wrongs make a right. Just saying it's all quite predatory and built on promises of tomorrow, most of which will go unfulfilled.
My dad still has a ton of Netscape, Novell, and mp3.com branded gear from when he worked there in the 90s. The last time I went home I saw it just laying around in the garage with his bootleg cassettes and my childhood beach toys.

Now some of it makes an awesome talk piece at the office, or at least it did when we still had one. :)
ideally the hospital’s generator control system or transfer switch is able to start and synchronize the generators and turn up the throttle until no power is being imported from the utility prior to opening the utility feed, thereby transferring the load from the utility to the generators. This test is only performed when there are no surgeries scheduled and it is cancelled if there are any emergencies coming in all of the sudden. If the test is already in progress incoming ambulances with patients requiring surgery are diverted to another hospital.
To finish the test the hospital is synchronized to the utility, the throttle on the generators turned down until no power is flowing through the generator breaker which is then opened.

I’ve built and programmed control systems that do all this with multiple generators, multiple utility feeds, and multiple tiers of loads of different priorities.
> Public servants are paid well
> So Bribery in india is mostly a cultural problem.

Apparently not well enough. When it's a few here and there you can argue that it's a character issue. When it's pervasive, there's a problem with the incentive structure.

I also wouldn't be so quick to condemn the culture, and I'm not so sure you can disentangle the cultural from the economic anyway.
I love this annotating idea on pictures. Solid work, and great presentation!
> Would setting up another company that would employ drivers and provide services to Uber do the legal trick?

That is exactly how software development contract jobs are handled in the US. They are called contract companies (and many other names) but essentially find talent, place them at a contract position, then bill the company for that contractor. They pay the contractor directly, with or without benefits (W-2 vs 1099). And in most cases, the contractor gets to choose contract or employee status with the contract company, although at different pay.
Spoken like a person who is nowhere near 60 years old.
It sounds like someone working for Amazon directly is abusing your account.
From your link

> Uber was always less efficient than the traditional taxis it drove out of business

This is patent nonsense. I suspect he never rode taxis often before Uber appeared.

Also Uber’s core ride business was profitable before corona hit. Lots of businesses are hemorrhaging money right now, especially ones in travel.
While reading it I kept wondering how it would be staged, especially near the end, with the characters from different periods in the scene together. It seemed to me it would be really difficult to produce, but could be a wonderful theater experience if it were pulled off.
Wow, you can really see in the glass reflections, the arrival of the ground compression (?) waves fractions of a second before the air pressure wave hits. And the wife notices it before the husband does.
Another way to restore a minimized wondow would be to use Ctrl+F3 to focus the dock (Ctrl+F1 to enable that shortcut), press Up repeatedly until the minimized window is selected, then press Return to open it.
FWIW the app for my ING bank account in the Netherlands allowed me to move up the slider allows me to move up the slider for daily transfers up to 50k euros. A little scary, but thought it could be handy if I need to move money around one day. Probably a different regulatory context, though.
I mean, you joke, but if we all took a more active role in forming educated opinions and voting, we'd all be better off. There isn't much of a reason to not find the time to familiarize with local laws and send a letter to representatives, vote on policy over party, have more nuanced conversation with family and friends, etc.
You can, the whole point is verifying the domain in O365 by modifying the PTR record and CNAME so that the o365 panel will see it is yours.

Support should've been able to remove it, I know I was able to do it on escalation cases when I was on Fast Track.

I know that the "ambassadors" are really next to worthless, and if you do not have premier or a TAM on your account, you are really SOL on O365/M365/Microsoft products, you need to email the ambassadors managers, continually, and then go up the ladder, if needbe, to the product manager of that support team and just keep doing it.

It really sucks.

But the reason you couldn't add your domain is 99% most likely someone added and verified it. There are tools on the backend (most easiest Viewpoint) and then billing (CMAT) that can verify if domain is added.
Thanks. I'm going to dig in a bit more. I've been sold by the above and the homepage.. :)
Loved the idea, I am a fan of using spreadsheets to make things easier for the end user.

You might want to think about a next tier, and grow with your larger customers. I get the point that you want to make it easy to start off with, but you also want to attract larger users (who have their own domain).

There is no harm in a "coming soon" higher tier.

Also showcase the process of setting up a store, basically how easy it is via Spry, just add products to a sheet to get started, I think you can do it in a 30 second video too.
Category 1 can be further subdivided into

1.1. Languages where people have written full parsers and analysers in Emacs Lisp.

1.2. Languages where the Emacs support relies on external programs to provide intelligence.

Only very few languages (e.g. JavaScript) fall in subcategory 1.1.
Gadgets to simplify Time Blocking, your routine and improve productivity
Not so obvious alternative uses to certain gadgets to improve productivity
That is a good way to test the generator without interruption, but at some point you still need to test the ATS under real world circumstances: unstable or suddenly missing utility power. Throwing the main covers one of those, and the other requires a little more planning and resources.
What are the specific pain points? Is it a limitation of lsp? This is one of the things that has felt magical in Emacs for near the past decade for me. So much "just works" if local or remote.

Now... Now that I am on 4g internet... I admit things can feel slow wicket than I'd care for. :(
Now all an agitator needs to do now is to send a few obviously dq'ed ballots to influence how people view the election.
Is the sound faster than the shockwave or same speed? I think same speed. Might have been a previous explosion that triggered the look before the main one.
Would the contractor be an employee of the contracting agency in this scenario?
Ah that’s a good idea! If I have time I’ll try to set that up
Lol. Yeah he never reformed, he just got better at brand management.
I would choose Asm or perhaps even raw machine code.
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I’d try eglot with pyls for python. (The pyls server is using Jedi).
The second one was from Sacramento, which isn’t the Bay Area... and the first one suggest two places they were born that are on the east coast.
Ask HN:Advice for a Recent BootCamp Grad?
Finished about a month ago, having a hard time finding a paid role anywhere, just wondering if those taking a similar path had some advice? or even those not taking a similar path but have relative valid advice?
Give Brave a try, it is open source and should perform better than chrome on your hardware.

Plus it has great inbuilt ad filtering and privacy features.
Ever worked with an enterprise company?

I've worked on a project (in a peripheral role, fortunately) where the entirety of the CIO's mandate was to "use AI", full stop. So the team was tasked with putting together a data warehouse that would collect random logs and app metrics, and then sprinkle AI fairy dust of their choice onto it to generate Insights(tm).

This kind of thing happens all. the time. in large companies where everybody involved wants either money or bullet points for their resume, and the actual outcome is nearly irrelevant.
The reason these votes were thrown out was because of (1) user error (2) signature difficulties (3) "other" of which a tiny amount is going to be fraud. Ballots getting sent to the wrong place isn't the problem here.

For this to be an effective attack surface, a significant number of people who get someone else's ballot would have to be willing to commit felony fraud to cast one lousy extra vote. On my ballot, it even says that you will go to jail for X number of years if it isn't you. I just don't believe people are doing this en masse and the data we have on voter fraud supports the idea that it's incredibly rare.

I also want to improve our elections, but the scary thing is that we're talking about fraud and not poor ballot UX which is what the article shows is the vast majority of the problem. If I was in charge then I would start there. The reason it's scary is that we have a sitting president who has been claiming against all facts that the last election was rigged and that voter fraud was rampant and that he would have had a landslide victory otherwise. His faction has been spreading misinformation about the current election and polticizing voter fraud (which seems to only happen in the states that don't support him...).

In addition, instead of doing anything about all of this alleged fraud, he has appointed a political postmaster to gut the USPS before a historic mail in election. My ballot application is taking twice as long to go in this year conpared to the last. That is scary! How is any of that OK?

It's pretty clear what is happening here and we're being set up and narratives written so that if Trump loses in November he can blame it on fraud. That is terrifying. It is literally the core of our democracy being attacked. Whatever happens this November is not going to be good and Trump is driving a lot of that.
I think you're hearing/seeing the difference between the speed of sound through the ground, and through the air.
Yeah, you can't install new Halon 1211 systems, but it's still out there. New systems are usually FM-200 or Inergen, which I believe can use the same plumbing as Halon.

Older systems, before Halon was invented, are typically CO2 or Argon. They require a lot more agent to accomplish the job, but they're very simple.

I worked briefly in a CO2 datacenter. It dated from the mainframe era, and had some gorgeous mementos on the walls. There were SCBA packs in the hallway outside, and everyone got a brief safety lecture before being allowed into the facility. The point I remember was basically "The alarm will sound intermittently for twenty seconds, then go solid for five, before discharge. If it goes off, do not stop to save your files, just run for the door. If you're not outside yet when the solid tone sounds, hold your breath and run on what's in your lungs."

Apparently the CO2 is considerably nastier than Halon to get a lung-full of...
I wonder if either of them could have been happy being the other.
Counterfeiting a hat of a fake music festival and pretending that it's genuine has a certain pleasing symmetry.
How do we accelerate this process?
Google auth UX is quite hostile. For example, if your group admin enables 2A requirement, you can't login if it your account doesn't already have 2A, and you can't set up 2A if you are not logged in, of course. So the workflow goes like this: enable 2A requirement. Wait for people to scream, disable 2A, let them log in and hopefully enable 2A. Enable again, let the next group of people whose sessions by now expired to discover they can't log in, disable. Etc. until hopefully everybody enables it. That seems to be the officially endorsed process: https://support.google.com/a/thread/6090262

Sane approach would be to let people log in and immediately require them to set up 2A and then continue with their logged in lives, but I guess that was too hard.
> I thought that Amazon, Google, FB et al moved away from relational databases

Surprisingly, Spanner has tables with columns and you can run SQL on top of it.
There was this marvelous Coverity article (that I can’t find now) that amplified on what you are saying. The title of the article was something like “There is no such thing as the C language”. Customers would demand support for their idiosyncratic code.
1 in 10 voters didn't commit fraud. The article is very explicit about that.
This sounds like an avenue for miscreants to potentially hold domains hostage. :(

eg: Register likely target business domains for G Suite, O365, etc trials to lock them out.

Then blackmail/bribe/whatever the legit owner if they want access.

Doesn't sound like there'd be any workaround either, at least for the first few years. :(

Maybe the "Police contacting Google/MS" which would eventually happen could get it stopped at some point.
> We built Repl.it to make it easy to explore and learn languages and programming paradigms. We were, however, surprised by how slow-moving the programming language space seems to be.

But also: You have to build a REPL.

If I'm constrained to a 60s (50s?) interaction model with my language, how am I gonna build an innovate language? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZipJOan54&t=394s for my take on PL innovation - can't happen in repl.

That said, this is great, I'm all for encouraging experimentation.
You’re referring to the tip to drag the Finder folder onto the Terminal window. There’s another way that is easier if you don’t already have a Terminal window open:

Install the app “cd to…” (https://github.com/jbtule/cdto) and add it to your Finder toolbar. Now clicking that icon will open a new Terminal (or iTerm) window within the selected folder.
I always say 2x of my target salary, and later add a note that I could accept a 50% pay cut. You'd be surprised how often it works.
There are some people I can admire for their success, some people I can admire for their generosity, some people I can admire for their passions, etc. etc. Woz, for me, is the person I can admire for all of those qualities at once. He's just a great person overall. I'm excited for this event! It sounds super fun.
I've had generally good experiences with spacemacs. JackOfSome on YouTube has good tutorials including one on using it for Python.
I know who the author is and I'm fairly sure you're misreading my comment. Something can be wrong without being disingenuous.
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Both EdgeQL and SQL disregard the RM proscription about duplicate tuples for practical reasons:

1. Elimination of duplicates from every projection is prohibitively expensive.

2. Sometimes you actually _want_ duplicates to show up without injecting a synthetic key into every projection.

3. There's DISTINCT.
A different couple
No you don't have to. Build a web experience or GUI. Repl.it supports both environments.
That works for TOTP 2FA on your phone. But most hardware tokens have an internal seed that's immutable.
Can they

1. Work for the competitors

2. work as much or as little as they want

3. Take as much vacation time as they want

4. Leave with zero advance notice

Also, should Twitch streamers and Youtube creators also become employees? What about Etsy/Ebay sellers or AirBnB hosts?
Free until the end of Aug. Custom pricing if it's a one off event. If you wanted a recurring use case, lets chat? ali@rally.video
For offline job I always take a break to do a detailed research about local market, median/max salary, cost of living. Here I often withdraw my candidature due to unsatisfactory Software Engineers compensation in the region. If I decide to proceed, I put myself in highest 20% of distribution.
For online it's much easier, I use rates of top Upwork contractors and Toptal (which are already top) and ready to negotiate 10-15% as usually it's fulltime
why is it weird? it's told from 2 different perspectives. every story has at least as many sides as there are people involved.
> What I don't get is the suggestion that PDF should be replaced by HTML

If it is a limited subset, I am okay with it. With increasing ubiquity of mobile devices, reflowing PDF is hard. I rather like EPUB these days. Which consists of XHTML. And reader support is also fairly ubiquitous with many Open Source software supporting Epub.
I will share my father's impression of Woz.

He didn't work at Apple, but had a lot to do with
them for a while in the early days.

He thought that Woz was a true intuitive genius.
One of the best he had ever met.
He did in a short amount of time what would take
a team of others a long time.

He had such a creative mind about how things could
be done differently, more efficiently more elegant.

He was far away from being a businessman.
My dad thought that was a sign of sanity.

He got increasingly disillusioned with the financial
aspect and seeing how it impacted other people at Apple
(or did not)

He decided to get out it.
He had lots of money already. (He did).

Dad thought that Woz would have preferred to give
exciting solutions away and see what became of them.

He followed his heart and has (I think) enjoyed his
life a lot more than most who just keep chasing more
and more of it.

I am sure he was happy his Apple stock kept incrasing
in value :)
California gets more stupid by the day, I have no words for how stupid this is.
I was going to remark on that ugly URL, only to discover that using en-dashes, which have to be percent-encoded in URLs, is official Wikipedia policy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dash... How unbelivably braindead.
The staging I saw had it happen in one room, with a window into the yard.