skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can silence the alarm by pulling the battery connection. Obviously, that's inconvenient if you want the UPS to be useful again as soon as the power comes back.

I personally like the white noise from electronics, so I can't help you there.
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It would be very nice if there was a special C compiler that could just warn about all occurrences of undefined behavior in a program. It doesn't even need to be able to generate code, it could just be a front-end that points out the places where undefined behavior is either being invoked, or could be invoked depending on the input to the program.
> Eventually the users will learn to support developers without coercion, just as they have learned to support public radio and television stations.

It's funny because users freely buy software from developers without coercion and they're coerced by the government to pay for public radio and television under threat of imprisonment.
The architecture matters to me for a number of reasons -

With Apple's history over the last few years, I don't expect the sheer amount of legacy software I use on a regular basis to be taken care of when the new architecture comes around. Under legacy I'm also including applications with a single developer that can't really go multi-architecture, applications with niche communities that Apple will take a long time (if they do) getting around to writing drivers, providing documentation and support around porting.

Now the most common rebuttal to this is either Rosetta or that this is how technology works. For Rosetta, just based on the sheer difference in instructions I don't see an easy transition here that works off the bat. IMHO Intel's compiler design also beats Apple's, and I don't see niche apps working right or complete for a long time, and I see a lot of apps being left behind.

But I do understand that this is how technology moves forward, and I think that if they can make it happen (it's still a big if in my mind but I'm aware I know very little here), it will be a big step forward. If anyone can do it today, it's probably Apple. However, I have very little doubt that the transition will be fraught with problems, especially for power users, and it's a personal choice not to live through that transition with Apple.

I'll also add that while I see the strong possibility of personal computing moving to ARM, I'm less convinced by the arguments for cloud. As I primarily develop backends and do cloud arch, I would much prefer to build as close to deploy as conveniently possible.

Now for the iPad part - and this is simply how I feel watching and living in the ecosystem for some time - I think Apple intends to turn the Macbook into the iPad, with one big happy ecosystem of apps that work on everything. While I think this is great for the general public, I'm yet to be convinced that it won't end up with a mediocre experience on everything[1] especially the Macbook. I see the value of a computer that isn't a computer (what's a computer?), but I think that (intentionally) overlooks power-users that use the computer to build things for computers and video and audio professional, to name a few.

1 - With iPad apps being available on the Mac within days of release and minimal developer intervention, I cannot see how it would not be a mediocre experience. How do you do multi-touch on a trackpad?

Again, if anyone can do it it's Apple, but I don't believe it will be an easy journey or one that's going in a direction I can join in. I do still have the option to leave, so I am.
Revenue for Uber last year was $14 billion. Divide that by 300k workers and you get $47k/year. The average full-time driver makes $36k/year (https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/education/how-muc...). So drivers are getting 75% of Uber's revenue. This matches up with other sources that say Uber's commission is 25%. Is there a reason 25% is a bad number, besides that Lyft's commission is lower (20%)?
One thing I always wonder about these home server is this. When you are leaving house for a long vacation, is it really safe to leave some electrical appliances working? Aren’t people afraid of fire hazard. What if there is a short circuit while you are away. A smelling short circuit would definitely burn something if left unattended for few days.

For once there was a high voltage fault in my neighbourhood, destroying few lights, all mobile chargers plugged in and microwave left in standby. Had I not been home, and fault lasting more than 5min, things might have gone really bad.

Now on, Whenever I leave my home for long duration, I just empty the Refrigerator and switch the house mains supply off before loving the house.
A lot of people are only socially motivated to fitness: 1) With less socialization in general, less motivation towards fitness. (The "who cares if I am a fat slob if no one sees me outside of the house?" problem.) 2) Gym tools like personal trainers are an "accountability-buddy", a big reason why they are such a common gym amenity is that some people need that "mentor that keeps me accountable" or other peer pressures of a gym environment.

You can only do so much social motivation over Zoom.
The United States could have detailed the Potsdam Declaration's demands and turned them into terms of surrender fitting the Szilárd petition. Japan may have surrendered if they did, they at least had doubts that maintaining territory was still possible.

We'll never know, as instead they demanded unconditional surrender and used atomic bombs to force acceptance.

Either way, the US was never in a scenario where their only option was nuke cities or a full scale invasion.
>> His main complaint is he bought a standby UPS where the battery failed, it turned off the UPS

As a small business network/systems admin, I've had more failed UPS's bring things down than I can count. It's very common.
For those unaware of what the different lines do:

Here is how I differentiate the APC brand:

* Back-UPS: inverter offline, expect a 15-20ms power transfer

* Smart-UPS: interactive, inverter is always online 2-5ms trasnfter

* Symmetra and above: inverter online, voltage conditioned, 0ms transfer

Most desktops will work just fine with the Back-UPS line. The processor is practically sleeping. Workstations should be on a Smart-UPS because the PSU capacitor won't have the capacity for a brownout with a Xeon-class CPU and multiple GPUs.
> they're footing the massive bill of organising, transcoding, archiving and documenting all this.

Which is done out of self interest and completely pales in comparison to the time that OSS contributors have donated.

> It's OSS, so if you want to do something similar ...

Yeah, yeah, just because you can does not make it right. See Google groups.
So far you haven't given us anything but vitriol to consider.
I think you’re completely making shit up because you can’t stand Apple yet still carry an Apple device, so sounds like we both have distaste for each other, but that distaste is not exactly relevant to the issue at hand.

That sounds like a bug. There are places to file it.
Thanks, great tool! It gave me the same results that I found with a lot of manual research so it's definitely accurate. It's even more accurate than one of the ISP's own websites (I've confirmed multiple times with them that their website is wrong and your tool is showing the right info).
Seen = seen, not visited :)

Feedback welcome, still highly experimental.

I support a bunch of sites right now, but the goal is to make it universal so you can toggle it on and off anywhere (just ajax/endless scroll will be off limits for a while).

If people use it I'll also port to Chrome (still have to tickle what elements on page scroll out of Chrome).
The paper says that the 1977 H1N1 is not identical to the 1950's strains, but very similar, and that a tree build from sequences suggests the 1977 strain is most closely related to the 1950's strains. So there are differences, and the question is, are they natural or synthetic. I do not think the technology was available to make synthetic changes.
All that I wanted to say is: not all PDF documents are created equal, some are really well and some are just awful.
Something that totally blew my mind is that octopuses seem to react to MDMA in ways similar to us - socially disinhibited, acting "cuddly": https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/20/6487881...
Imagine if Webflow and Carrd had a baby
Also relevant:

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/malicious/pape...

https://digital-forensics.sans.org/media/analyzing-malicious...

Malicious PDFs are still around, even today
Well, compare/contrast the emotional attachment a programmer has for code with the emotional attachment a parent has for their child.

No amount of money would make the emotional attachment of a parent to their child go away; I think this is his point.
I highly approve of one of the conclusions of the article:

> The first step is releasing some of the social pressure on people to go to universities. It simply no longer works for the vast majority of middle class students who are attending 2nd/3rd rate universities & amassing enormous amounts of debt.
Quantum debugger?
> You'd setup a Policy based on directory or Regex of files and organize your monorepo so that only the people that need to see the PR would. Use your tools to your advantage.

Hard to catch everything

> It really depends on your culture at your company, having open access to view and change the code from marketing to submit small PRs or possibly move to development. Or submit blog posts or spelling fixes to the marketing website can make for a great team.

I'm all for open access, but systems should have safety rails to stop people from making mistakes. This is why we have the PR process in the first place. If you have non-programmers approving PRs created by other non-programmers into repositories that have mission critical code, then you're really just asking for trouble.

> This adversarial "Critter", Developers > Marketing view makes for a very toxic workplace. Marketing is a skill-set just like development, without marketing or sales there is nothing develop, without development, there's nothing to sell.

My position actually straddles product and development, so I spend much more time with marketing types than developers these days. They're fine people, but they aren't as patient and detail oriented as developers and lack awareness of the dangers of certain actions. I've seen them do all sorts of crazy stuff that would throw the security team into an absolute fit if they found out about it.
That’s a bold claim when spending has only increased over time, not decreased.

People’s opinions of the US’ social safety net bear no resemblance to what’s actually happening on the ground.
Lol. Aircraft software running "in the cloud". Damb right it will. It will also work "in the rain" and "in the snow".
Seems like an expansion opportunity for Soylent

(Since that's a name I hadn't heard in a while, I had to check to see that they still existed)
Yeah, your first paragraph is spot on. It's pretty much exactly what I was going to reply to IanCal. Instead I'll just +1 it.

On your second paragraph, 100% agreed. This is really just a useful prioritization heuristic, not a rule, and in some cases other considerations should and will override it.

It's mainly useful just to deliberately and routinely check that instinct to go deep on whatever you're working on when there's a lot of breadth to cover that's more important to get done first.
Consider the fact that it obliterates any and all invertebrate it encounters, of course that is going to lower lower biodiversity.
> While I was away from home on a long work trip, suddenly I could no longer connect to my server and I had not received an e-mail from the server informing me of any problem. Luckily it was near the end of my trip so I was not too inconvenienced. When I arrived home I found that the UPS was sounding an alarm and was not supplying power to the server even though there was mains supply to the UPS. It transpired that the UPS battery had suddenly died without warning and could no longer hold a charge, and this had happened while there was mains supply to the UPS, i.e. there had not been a power cut while I was away. Fortunately there was no loss of data on the server; I was able to run fsck during boot-up.

And this is why professional servers have two, redundant, power supplies.

If you had two power supplies, the UPS would fail, but you'd continue to function off of mains voltage.

UPS can fail. Mains can fail. Two power supplies hooked up two both powering your server redundantly means you'll only fail if both fail simultaneously.
Any thoughts on what you love and miss about the switch? I haven't tried out i3 yet (I need to get a little more comfortable with my backups before I swing window managers around - I've been burned before!)

I think I'll definitely buy an ARM Mac (or an iPad) for media and other things, and will still recommend it to friends and family once they're done with the transition, if all goes well. The polish around the Mac ecosystem is still unmatched, if you color within the lines.
The original 8X engineers.
> What happens if I lose my phone though?

Years ago now, living in the US Virgin Islands, while drunk, I left the Ritz (great beach and bar) and requested that they get me a cab to my usual local bar that was stumbling distance to home. Upon arrival I realized I didn’t have my phone.

I’d left my laptop at the office, so I ran back there and used Find My iPhone. It was moving, so I assumed it was in the cab I’d been in. I locked it, added a display message, and used the office phone to call the Ritz and tell them... they called the cab company, and within 10 minutes the phone was back at the Ritz.

I’m positive that this was only because I’d used the cab company the Ritz contracts with and their drivers are terrified of losing a lucrative job, but it was a successful recovery in a territory not known for honesty.

Had I not had FMI enabled I probably wouldn’t have connected the dots, assumed I’d lost it on the beach, and lost my phone forever. As it was, I got my phone back and it only cost me an extra cab ride. I’ll never turn off FMI again, though.

Completely anecdotal, but my point is the system can actually work. At the very least I can lock the device and wipe its data.
I don't recall whether the 560E was susceptible to TrackPoint marks, nor pressure marks. I definitely did get both on some of my ThinkPads of that era that saw lots of carrying in backpacks.

BTW, thank you for the writeup on the 560E. It's a good little laptop, and a lot of open source work was done on it, sitting in parks and cafes. :)
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Mars's Weird Glowing Atmosphere Pulses 3 Times a Night, NASA Discovers
Yes, Southwest only flies 737s in order to simplify their maintenance logistics and to ensure that every pilot they have can fly every plane.
AFAIK at least these support JS: MuPDF, Okular, PDF-XChange, Foxit Reader, PDFium.
Great question. One answer is focus. These companies seem to be focused on small business team meetings, and we are focused on creating social environments for networking and hanging out. Another answer is around where we want to take Rally. Video applications usually focus on making sure the connection works. Little thought has been put into what happens after a user is connected. This is where we believe there is an opportunity for multi video/audio solutions to win. Rally could not only emulate a bar online, but why not emulate a concert, a lounge, a standup comedy stage etc. There is a world of online events that need more engagement and social functions and I think Rally can solve for that. Ofcourse, this is just a 5 month old company saying this!
Yes, we know how to breed animals and plants. But do we know how to breed flu viruses? Animals and plants are outbred, and provide great genetic diversity for selecting desired traits. But these viruses were virtually identical (no diversity), and it is completely unclear how one would "select" for a virus with the desired properties.
Isn't a short circuit going to just blow the relevant fuses? Also most UPSes should protect from surges as well as power outages.
Blood Meridian is an account of how we got here. If civilization falls apart to the extent that they need this resource, they'll at least presumably know how they got there and won't need a fictionalized account of societal collapse.
The right questions...
The constraints and expectations of the medium strongly influence the content.

If I had an idea and wanted to communicate it, then I did so by recorded video, by live video, by blog post, by Twitter thread, and by HN comment, the same idea would be presented in very different ways.

In the same way, a writer who publishes something by HTML (blog post, etc.) will produce a very different document than if they intend to publish it by PDF (ebook, etc.). They tailor their message to the constraint and expectations of the medium.
Get a TRX equipment and work with your body weight. I train all my muscle groups with it. It weighs about 500 grams and can fit in any backpack.
> It’s backwards to say that essentially what is a historically validated null hypothesis with 50 years of development history on its side is “a strong claim” that requires special evidence

I really don't see your point here. Are you suggesting that because people have been able to write software in C for 50 years that type systems aren't useful? Because it's not like those programs are bug free. It also doesn't take into account how much effort is need to build and maintain that software.

Also not really sure what you're getting at about strict functional programming. This post was just about type checking.

> Neither will Haskell, Rust, etc.

Rust is really in no way a functional language.
This sounds worse than Eastern Europe. My wife once had interactions with Polish authorities and the first official told her immediately what amount of bribe money will be necessary to get it done quickly, contrary to everybody involved sitting it out as long as possible.
When she asked why the bribe is so high, the government employee explained to her whom of his colleagues he has to pay himself to get it done quickly.

I respect your refusal to pay bribes, but I believe you would have already received your approval if you were willing to pay a bribe. Not sure much those delays cost you in regards of your time invested and lost opportunities.

I'd go to the first person you talked to, ask how much needs to be gifted to him personally so he/she can take care of this. Then pay half of it at the beginning and the second half once you have received your approvals.
> startupocene

You've coined a term. I love it.
Indeed, I think ICO is the only common-use format to support that (I guess JPEG "sort of" does support it but not in any usable multi-resolution way).

Mipmaps are common in video game graphics format though!
Back in the late 90s I had a PC motherboard that had a capacitor for exactly this. I could (if i was quick) change which outlet the pc was plugged into without loss of uptime
Probably he knew because none of his other electrical appliances were reset.
Apple allows you to turn off location services for system apps as well. So even if you don’t trust Apple, you have legal recourse if those terms are violated.
Yep. Only a single datapoint, but I've had more issues with flash drives and USB sticks than I've ever had with floppies.

CDRs are next level in terms of unreliability. Last year I discovered that almost none of the CDRs I'd burned in the early to mid noughties remain readable: simply had to destroy them.
I don't think we will go native anytime soon. I think we'll still focus on cross platform initially. One of the value propositions is how easy Rally is to set up and use. Forcing people to download an app might turn people off.
Kuo: iPhone Shipments Could Decline Up to 30% If Apple Forced to Remove WeChat
I deeply enjoy and root for projects like this. Combined with similar UK projects like B4RN [1] (a rural internet coop), it disproves the notion that infra spending must be grandiose or excessive to get connectivity to the most remote areas.

EDIT: Ahh, brilliant, it's even mentioned in the article:

> Inspired by an earlier initiative to set up a rural broadband network in Lancashire in north-west England called B4rn, the new mobile network relies on the willingness of the community to solve the problem themselves rather than wait for the government or the industry to sort it out.

[1] https://b4rn.org.uk/
Cheesy to admit it, but the Raymond K. Hessel scene came at a young, impressionable stage in my life. It got me to start taking my career and personal relationships seriously.

Two great quotes came from it:

"Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel's life."

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
Ah, pointers, not as clumsy as objects; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

(I know objects are actually just fancy pointers)
I wasn't making a point. I was asking a question and providing an example to explain the context of the question.
This is being written because they are worried they are losing their legal fight against forced arbitration. Because they are!
Colonialism didn't seriously arrive in India until 1750, and it took until 1800-15 for the British East India Company to consolidate it's control over the subcontinent. Before 1750, the Company was a straightforward trading company, sharing trading rights with the Portuguese, French, and the traders of the Indian Ocean rim. After 1750, they were able to seize tax-collecting rights in Bengal, one of the most prosperous areas of the Mughal Empire. They used tax revenue on agriculture in the fertile Bengal delta to fund further trading and military activities around the subcontinent. Their policy was often mercantile. They forced wages down, drove exacting standards for manufacturing textiles, and engaged in monopsonistic policy.

So, I agree - an accurate statement would be to say "English involvement in India came out of the prevailing ideology of mercantilism, and it then grew into a colonial state". The colonial state did lead to India's deindustrialization - ex: the flourishing textile industries of the subcontinent were not allowed to modernize. But counterfactuals are hard. (I still think an area of the world at the forefront of textile production for thousands of years would not have gone gently into the good night without a fight.)
If only there were non-start up companies who still wanted to hire programmers.
Healthcare is true.

But the govt is already planning to replace the $600.

The $600 is gone but employment remains.

Some people have had IT issues, but most are getting unemployment.

The contractor issue (except healthcare) is no different than other countries.
Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
Heh, interesting. Is it a specific brand or model (i.e. I get what I pay for), or this just a thing with UPSes?
The people throughput capacities seem quite low, so these don't scale - they will be expensive services for the few. At least for starters.

You could have electric buses that could travel as a "metro" in the tunnel for the longer transit or congested city centers and then on the road in the suburbs, for lower cost and better flexibility.
That's definitely the big issue, but the majority of the article focuses on this "scary" language, and the hoops others must jump through, as if to say that these warnings are a bad thing.
Tech, Financial Firms Eye Ways to Save TikTok’s U.S. Operations from Ban
They will also digitalize and centralize information so that things can be checked directly in the databases of the relevant government agency
Consider picking up a copy of Grokking Algorithms. It assumes no prior knowledge of programming and has lots of illustrations. Read it and implement the algorithms yourself.
I'm not sure the cost advantage of lead acid still holds, especially with the e.g. shipping and disposal costs included.