skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Five P Framework for Product Discovery
After many horror stories with APC UPSes:

- failed battery caused APC to stop operating even with power (just as in the original post)

- stopped charging battery even though battery was still good (blow electrolytic cap. When I into the circuit that capacitor was rated for 14V on a 12V trace, ie no guard-band. Seriously, skimping on maybe $0.01 total parts cost to leave a system at risk of fire??? Who the heck signed on on that decision???)

- couple of data center APC UPSes caught fire. On the plus side the emergency systems kicked in quickly enough that the only damage were the UPSes.

Anyway, that was a few too many stupid failures. APC is on my "never ever buying from this company ever again" list.
Another play from Tom Stoppard that I enjoyed is “Darkside”, combines Pink Floyd, Philosophy and humor.
I said nothing about China in my comment. All I said is that it is disingenuous and incorrect to call the U.S. a “liberal democracy” and use that to explain away the reasons that our surveillance state is “better” than theirs. I made no judgment about the comparison itself.
The original comment didn't include that information; that came out later in the thread. The comment implied that the notification happened after it was already owned, as an added restriction.
Do they count technical violations of the sex offenders registry or probation as re-offending? Some statistics do.

Some of the conditions imposed on sex offenders are so harsh they make them homeless. There is simply no housing a certain distance away from a school or a park. Overly harsh restrictions have been proven to not prevent crime and may well increase it by making it difficult to integrate back into society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/opinion/when-junk-science...
It was noted in an article written by the New York Times a few years ago that many statistics for sex offenders in general are grossly exaggerated.
Healthy doses of both maybe.

Compare it to lots of financial fraud like ponzi schemes - the perpetrators often don't think it will fall down all around them until it does.
Is it ho?
It was not a personal attack. Makes sense some people won’t like avatars in a world. I don’t think I’d like it either even though I wouldn’t word it like OP.

Good luck with your project.
I said nothing about China in my comment. All I said is that it is disingenuous and incorrect to call the U.S. a “liberal democracy” and use that to explain away the reasons that our surveillance state is “better” than theirs. I made no judgment about the comparison itself. Clinging to the judgment that we are the least worst, or “clothespin”, surveillance state, seems pretty grim to me.
"Bob, I wanna show you something, hang on... OK, here it is.. Remember that Fyre festival a few year ago?"

"The scam thing?"

"Yes! This... is a real Fyre merch hat!! Got it at auction."

"Huh."
The technical term for a subsonic combustion wave is deflagration.[0] A normal internal combustion engine deflagrates. If it starts pinging, that is detonation, and damages the pistons, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflagration
>They conclude that the mantle transition zone--410 to 660 km below the Earth's surface--acts as a large reservoir of water.

Sadly there will be no eyeless space whales in our basement, given that the temperature at that depth on Earth is around 2,000° Celsius.
They don't need a bomb in 1946 though, presumably nuclear power will eventually spread and suddenly it's 1963 and Israel is performing an underground test.
Ask HN: What cloud architecture did you choose and why?
Today there are a lot of different choices for setting up and deploying cloud architecture. The main ones seems to be:

1) spinning up your own VM or dedicated servers

2) using an auto-scaling service like AppEngine, Elastic Beanstalk

3) using a container service like Kubernetes

4) using an edge service Cloudflare Workers

At the end of the day, I think the common goal is to serve your users in a reasonable manner (e.g reliably & fast). What cloud architecture did you choose for your application and why?
Maybe don't try to impose your preferences on other people; a lot of people would rather have a free service with no support than pay for support. It seems incredibly entitled to expect more from a service you're paying nothing for.
Commenters are right, I had the table up-side-down. NG is better than coal.
Googie Architecture
Elizabeth: An Eliza with an easy-to-understand script notation
Interac (in Canada) is trivially simple to use, and quick.

1. Send the payment through your logged in session at the bank or credit union, or via their respective phone app.
2. Select the recipient, adding a new one if needed. They'll need a mobile # or email address.
3. Include the question and its one-word answer that the recipient has to answer to accept.
4. Hit send
5. Recipient is notified, follows the link, and answers the question. If they have it set up, it might be auto-deposited without the question/answer.

It takes minutes, and doesn't ask the sender for the recipient's banking details.
Given that rates are determined collectively by deciding whether or not it's worth your time to go online given the current level of surge. If enough drivers decide it's not worth it, the price will change. This is a pretty standard pricing mechanism in any market for an easily fungible good or service (read: commodity).
Show HN: Wedge Pattern in Technical Analysis, Rising Wedge and Falling Wedge
Yeah this basically matches with my impression. You can watch maybe 3/4 of the netflix doc and believe it's plausible they didn't intend to defraud anyone, and then you witness the behavior in the last 1/4 and it's clear there was intentional, serious criminal fraud.
Yes from a security perspective this is OK but not from a usability perspective.
Just a quick question on this, what's the best way to emulate an ide in emacs? I feel so overwhelmed by the options, and the additional tools you have to install alongside it. For example, python ide in emacs alone requires pyflakes, autopep8, jedi and so on... What's the most catchall, generic ide system where I don't have to fiddle with the config too much?
While it is true that Malaysia runs an apartheid regime that favours the Malay race (meaning a body of laws that codify preference for civil service jobs, grants, land ownership, certain licenses, language of instruction in school etc etc) as a means to secure the vote of the majority Malays - those philosophical/political differences aren't the reason why Singapore would prefer to purchase solar power from Australia rather than Malaysia.

Electricity generation in Singapore runs on natural gas which are fed from pipelines to fields in Indonesia and Malaysia. LNG ports were developed to create an international supply chain and a solar cable to Australia would be a similar geostrategic/economic strategy of diversification through multiple vendors.

Malaysia has, at any rate, sowed the harvest of their political strategy. The Malay population has crept upwards as a percentage of total population, as Indians and Chinese with any ability have left for Australia and Singapore as popular destinations. This has secured pro-Malay politics as the only way to win an election in Malaysia, but ironically the increased ground means the old monolith pro-Malay party has splintered to fight for control. Today's Malaysia sees several strong pro-Malay parties jostling for power.

Singapore would prefer nobody build a nuclear reactor anywhere near it. Even if a reactor was located 50km away outside of Singapore, any accident could divert shipping lanes away from the Malacca Strait and disrupt air travel that hubs in Singapore. A nuclear reactor strategy for Singapore is like picking pennies before a bulldozer.
God bless chargebacks.

So many worthless canceragenic corporate behemoth are hating this and the only thing they can retaliate it is with the "ban". Lol. Blow me.

That said - sometimes it's better to swallow the occasional bad service vs. filing chargeback. For example if Uber "adjusts" your past trip for a couple bucks not in your favor - it maybe better to just absorb this, otherwise filing chargeback because of $8 will get you inconveniently banned.
I think it's a plurale tantum

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

That is, it seems to be grammatically plural but not have a distinctive singular.

4. pl. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts;
as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
[1913 Webster]
Well, this specific tangent is about whether Uber drivers are like contractors in that they get to choose their jobs/rates or aren't. Specifically, I was responding to:

>>> except uber/lyft will remove you from the platform if you decline too many rides, thereby only giving the illusion of choice.

I don't see any real difference to that than to someone who was is contractor and maybe did some work, but hasn't responded in a while and the company removes them from the list of people they notify (and fast-track) for bids. If I'm at a company and I have a couple preferred contractors and one hasn't even bothered to reply to my the last few times I contacted them, maybe I'll lose faith in them being responsive while they're on the job.

Any contractor relationship is a two way street. If either side doesn't maintain the relationship, the other side may choose to alter it or cut if off entirely.
I used to use SAS macros to conditionally generate monstrous SQL queries all the time. It was a bit hacky, but man I could make a thousand lines of SAS do just about whatever I wanted however I wanted. It really feels like a powerful way to tackle messy real-life business logic.
> If rideshare drivers are employees, then there's going to be fixed overhead costs of hiring employees and drivers will not be able to set their own hours

There will be less flexibility about hours, but less risk that an hour reserved for work will be unpaid. Within the need not to overbook available business, and laws requiring payment for scheduled time even if cancelled at the lat minute, there's no inherent reason rideshare companies couldn't provide scheduling flexibility, including a notice-of-availability system for immediate call-ups.

(Optimizing decision algorithms for when to bring on additional staff becomes is a challenge that this opens up, also similar with when to accept the cost of short-noticd cancelling scheduled shifts.)

> The rideshare company would not recoup the costs of benefits for drivers that drive less than a certain number of hours per month

Nor would they be required to provide benefits for them; most benefit mandates apply only to full-time employees, not part-time employees.
Does that make it like the vapor cone that appear around aircraft and launch vehicles sometimes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_cone
In general aviation aircraft it’s quite common for there to be time limits on the highest power setting.
Reminds me that this youtuber still is profiting from these animals:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NcChbIdrdaA
> They do need an oxidiser though.

When lead azide detonates, you get elemental lead and diatomic nitrogen. So yes, the Pb++ oxidizes the azide.

When acetylene detonates, you get a mixture of organic compounds. But I don't believe that there's any redox involved. You just get various hydrocarbons with single and double carbon-carbon bonds. And just to be clear, this is when there's no oxidizing agent present.
The real ones look like they’re embroidered but you can get hats embroidered at the mall
Has to be radioactives. Mainly, though, miles of ice makes a pretty good insulator.
> I think that's case by case though. Contractors usually do finite focused projects and don't want to be employees. I myself was self-employed for 5 years doing specific contracts as a software engineer. I was "writing code" which is "the same work" as employees. Were all those companies breaking the law?

The AB5 law has only been in effect since Jan 1.

The federal rules are already very strict. Generally contractors violate them a lot. The law was pushed by IBM to eliminate competition, and the feds incorrectly thought they would get more tax money by making the software contractor industry into employees. It's a sordid tale ending in domestic terrorism and murder: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19tax.html
Getting Started with Drone Photography
I feel like a lot of these concerns are resolved in tools like R's dplyr. You use mostly the same R code, whether your data is a data.frame, or living in a SQL source. dplyr generates the SQL query for you.

By reading the queries it generates it's quick to pick up how the SQL works! Another big advantage is that you can always pull the data into R and have a ton of general purpose tools available.

dplyr is aimed at data analysis though, so may be other use-cases for edge db?
I'm not sold.

I acknowledge that these are real issues, and commend the authors for attempting to address them. However, these issues rarely cause any real friction for me - I generally find SQL among the most ergonomic languages I use (regardless of dialect).
Your photos have been NERF’ed. ;)
Ah yes, indeed I did.

I see your point too. Essentially, rather than contractors proposing prices and then clients accepting or moving on, if clients propose prices and then contractors accept or move on, it's still a market with negotiated rates.
I would say it's the equivalent of going through the process of jumping through hoops to be a contractor at a company, maybe doing some jobs (or not), and then failing to respond at all if they send some work your way. If you show yourself not responsive to their time constraints, they very well may decide it's not worth notifying you of work items, and ignoring any bids you submit.

Contract work is all about trust. If you show any behavior that makes you look less reliable, are they going to trust you with work? Flipped around, if the company doesn't respond to requests for payment, are you going to want to do work for them? It works both ways.
It is neither reliable nor guaranteed safe. I have an MSEE and can't explain to my own satisfaction why it sometimes works. The only thing I've read that makes sense is that it resets the protection circuitry after an undervoltage or other lock-out event.
i think you completely ignoring the main point i detailed out, that order matching is a tiny part of what uber does, is what is not in good faith. it's a company with 4 million workers in most countries and cities worldwide. let's say you want to start a taxi company in tokyo. find and hire about a thousand drivers. your costs are just writing an app, right? how about saudi arabia? now take those costs and multiply by 4000.

you want to compare to nyse? cool. ask them how much money it will take to trade every stock worldwide following local rules, for any country's citizen. hire 4 million workers. make sure i can use the same app for every transaction and just put it on my amex.
Oh no. I really hope the bride and groom are OK!
SQL has a lot of incidental, accidental complexity, no doubt.

Though when I reason about SQL, I think mostly in terms of functional operators over streams of data: projection, filtering, flat-map, join, fold/reduce. Obviously optimization means looking through streams and seeing tables to find indexes etc., but once you get to the execution plan, you're firmly in a concrete world of data flow and streams of tuples.

I didn't get on well with the example syntax in this write-up. It didn't mesh better with my mental model of relational algebra either at the logical or physical execution level - and the truth is you need a foot in both worlds to write good scalable SQL today.

Aside from the complexities of dynamic construction, my biggest problem with SQL is modal changes in query plans, owing to how declarative it is. It's a two-edged sword: the smart planner is great, up until it's stupid. And it usually turns stupid based on index statistics in production at random times.
> The way I see it, as employees, their employers will either give them benefits for 10 hour work, or force them to work 40 hours.

Most benefit mandates apply to full-time workers, usually triggered at somewhere between 30-35 hours/week; those that apply to part time workers at all tend to be scaled down for them based on working hours.
early-init.el is loaded before the package system is initialized (which also lets you disable the package system before it can possibly be loaded -- useful for people like me who use straight.el instead), while the normal init.el happens after package-initialize.
Please add math support, too! KaTeX is a great drop-in option! If you do, please consider "first-class" math support, like the screencaps here [1]. Both block and inline math are important, and it's important to be able to quickly add/edit math nodes. Another good option is to show the math source $\int_a^b f(x) dx$ while editing, and render it after the user commits a cell, much like Jupyter notebooks.

[1] https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math
Pentagon offers military airwaves for 5G wireless networks
Do you have examples of jobs where employees choose their own hours and can work for competitors?
I noticed there's no newsletter. Showing the desktop setting of the day would be a quick low friction email I would enjoy getting in my inbox.
Security is similar either way. The main difference is UX.

This certainly will alienate more users than you'd lose due to spam filters or typos.
We're approaching the 1.0 release; latest blog post: https://edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-1-0-alpha-4-barnard-s-star
What behavior on the worker side will being classified as an employee preclude? E.g. nurses are employees but in many cases set their own hours and take on more shifts if need be. Same for restaurant workers.
Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux
Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers
Billy McFarland was arrested for selling fake tickets to Coachella, Burning Man, The Met Gala, and The Superbowl while he was out on bail for his Fyre-related charges. That is not ineptitude.
No doubt - Start by cleaning the image.
It is, but so is the problem space, as evidenced by AWS's own clusterfuck of services.

It kinda comes with the problem space they're trying to solve: how do you efficiently run a bunch of services on a bunch of computers? Virtualization solves one problem but you still have networking and service discovery to sort out.

Oh it absolutely is complicated. The way amazon does it seems to click better with my mental model for how all of this is supposed to work though. I'm really not sure if it's right or wrong or it just depends on how you model these problems.
No other reason for Brave? Some don’t want to or care for blocking ads and others don’t do it at the browser level. Does Brave have anything at that point?
The idea that Microsoft killed NSA work on SELinux is trivially disprovable. There are NSA developers active on the SELinux and Linux Kernel mailing lists... https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/5/727

And SE for Android was first proposed by a NSA employee in 2011, well after Microsoft's whinging https://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/lss2011_slides/caseforse...
> I thought that Amazon, Google, FB et al moved away from relational databases because the sharding logic they needed to build

Note that these companies did not move away from relational DBs until long after the "NoSQL is Web Scale" video. Yes, Google invented Big Table to help power search (and others), but their revenue system, AdWords, didn't move off MySQL until like 2015. And last I checked, Facebook is still a heavy user of MySQL with sharding.

The original NoSQL software had two major value adds: you didn't have to learn a new language, and were faster (typically via disabling fsync -- the DBA equivalent of running with scissors). If you knew SQL or an ORM already, you were really just hoping mongoDB was faster magically.

These days you can even just tune pgsql to support kv store formats: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/hstore.html. Yes, you'll have to pay someone to know how to DBA pgsql, or pay AWS to pay someone, but I'm comfortable paying that price.
I've heard good things about doom emacs and spacemacs; might be worth giving one of those a try.
> Republicans shouldn't be locking out people who are eligible to vote, but at the same time Democrats shouldn't be enabling the submission of fraudulent ballots (ineligible, dead persons, etc), which common sense says is easier if you don't require ID verification at polls or if you allow mail-in ballots for all.

There's no evidence of even minor amounts of voting fraud, the current administration spent months on a commission to find the claimed millions of fraudulent votes and came up with nothing to my recollection. In fact the biggest cases I saw that came out recently was a Republican operative in North Carolina packing mail-in ballots... and he was caught without voter ID.

One is actively anti-democratic, the other is hypothetically anti-democratic. You're trying to both sides a possibility against actually anti-democratic actions and policies.

If any of the voter ID attempts came with real attempts to increase voter turn out and make sure everyone had an ID I might give them the benefit of the doubt but it never does and the only side that wants it fights tooth and nail to make it harder for voters to vote.
‘Quantum secret sharing’ scheme allows 10 parties to communicate securely
Photographer Spotlight – Nikko Mascarinas: Manifest Destiny
I am not sure what are you arguing for, are you actually claiming that colonialism was no different than any other conquests throughout history?

The entire country India was ruled by a private company, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India

The Mongoles have not redrawn borders along a line on a map the way British and French have, creating the mess we now have in the Middle East.

I can't make a complete list of criteria that defines colonialism, but to claim that it was no different than other conquests is to betray complete historical illiteracy.
Do you have a citation for the neurological disease statement? I follow this field and I have not heard that.
Woz is a good man.
> Fraudulent auction bids are presumably fairly illegal

Someone's never been on Ebay
More than just burn, 'high' explosives detonate [0], where the pressure wave itself provides the activation energy required to sustain the reaction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonation
Nurses, e.g. https://allnurses.com/working-two-hospitals-t591829/
Part of what makes this idiomatic in golang is that the compiler will refuse to compile code with unused imports floating around. It's a bit weird when importing for side effects (those imports are basically marked 'always in use'), but never having random unused imports after refactoring code is a code aroma, and enforced by the compiler. (I am not aware of tooling to handle the corner case of an import-for-side-effect library going unused after refactor.)
> there is gear that measures the time to see a light pulse reflect off of the cut end

Though not very relevant to your stories about Brazil, it's a neat technique in its own right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_time-domain_reflectome...
Got any sources? You sound like you're poorly educated on the topic.
Intended link is probably [0].

[0] http://www.philocomp.net/ai/elizabeth.htm