skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me tell you a story.

I bought a Prius once because I thought I was clever and I was going to get a great car with great gas mileage. I read on the Internet that despite what everyone says about the battery that it is actually very rare for it to die. Well... turns out either that's not true or I got unlucky. My battery died. Not only did it die, but it died an hour and a half way from my house... So during the height of rush our in stop and go traffic my Prius, while it would still run, would take forever to accelerate. I wound up just driving home with my hazard lights on.

When I finally made it home the first thing I did is look it up to see how much it would cost to replace the battery on my car. Well, turns out that when I was trying to replace it (was a few years ago) that the only people authorized to change it was the Toyota dealer. The Toyota dealer would only replace the entire battery though, and that battery was $3,000 to replace. There was no freakin way I was going to pay that.

So after some Internet sleuthing and lots of research I discovered that it is actually possible to replace an individual module in the battery(The battery is actually wired in series of 18 modules). Granted, you would have to replace another one soon if the battery modules weren't balanced with each other. To balance the battery modules though you had to use some funky looking third party charger that wasn't really designed for it and in order to do it in a reasonable amount of time it would cost about $500 because you would have to buy multiple chargers, plus the cost of however many dead modules you had. Then you had to ensure that you could safely remove a 250lbs battery, without shocking yourself with 3,000 volts of electricity. I wound up just replacing the one cell to see how long it would take for the battery to give up on me. That saved my recharging the modules, but the rest of the work I had to do still.

So $34 and 6 months later and I was still driving it. It was only when my wife actually didn't change the oil in the car that it wound up dying (a story for another day).

Which leads me to my point. Toyota had engineered the car so that if there was any battery failure there was no ability for the user to really upgrade it without risking serious injury of death, unless you know... they spend two weeks reading about it and learnings in the ins and outs (which I did). Considering that the battery was ALREADY modular it would have cost them a tiny bit of effort to ensure that users could easily do this themselves. Not only that, but they insisted that the entire battery needed to be replaced because they were also too afraid to allow even their technicians to touch it. All of this could have been prevented if a law like the above existed.

So yeah... I think this is a great idea.
Open it up, take the PCB out, figure out how the dial sensor works (the dial is probably just repeatedly nudging a contact out of the way), and thennn... program an Arduino to be a giant input buffer (that slowly replays), and wire the Arduino between the dial and the rest of the machine. :D

Caveat: said Arduino may need to sit between the rest of the buttons as well, in case inputs must be given in sequence.

Possible benefit: switch the Arduino for something from the ESP family, and you could feed instructions to the machine over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. (Which could take the form of a dedicated wireless button panel above the machine with macros for frequently-used options.)

(Hmm. I can tell there's some over-optimization in here, but I'm not sure _where_.)
A couple hundred years isn’t exactly cherry-picking wrt capitalism...
For me, Facebook is unquestionably a net positive value. I get to keep tabs on friends without actively having to reach out. So people don't become strangers over time. I can discover events around me and expand my social circle. I can be start a business with a free web presence and attract customers.

The downsides that are mentioned are deteriorating discourse, misinformation, false expectations and social pressure etc. I like to think I have avoided these.

That's 1 data point against. I'll have to see more thorough evidence to concede FB is a net negative.
> He's visiting a conference not immigrating.

Crazy thought: perhaps the visa folks are thinking that he already missed the conference and they have stacks of other work to do.
I am surprised at how few people understand this basic bit of economics - perhaps marketers are to blame for the obvious being inconceivable.

Just because you are paying more doesn't mean you will get more for it. If you go with a niche specialization you may well pay through the nose for very expensive lies. See Spectrum, the HIV-AIDS Denialism magazine that went defunct after all editors died of AIDS for an example.
I can confirm it was about 6 month - before Covid. Since then some parts of the government slowed down, and processing might take much longer. For a step that should typically have taken up to 6 weeks I had to wait 4 month.

But since things normalize it might now be getting better again.
It sounds like it’s not mandatory if you don’t bring a bag or an iPhone into the store. I wonder whether they could keep a whitelist of Bluetooth IDs for employee-owned iPhones.
"excluding" may have been more appropriate than "without"
My average wait time was less than a minute.. though on a few years days i'd wait 5 minutes or more. I don't disagree with you... Just curious where people think the line is drawn. I personally look at this from the other side -- if we were more accepting of remote work, would cities be so large? Traffic so bad?

But obviously, that's not today... So should the Starbucks employee be paid for their commute time? Is it their choice to drive 45 minutes to work? Or is that a mandated job function by applying? What if they were transferred? It's no longer the employee choice, but a business requirement to work there.

Like I said, thought experiment. I agree, paying for the time created incentive, probably a good thing.
Always amazing to see how things are decided by tiny reading of the English language. The law states…

Hours worked’ means the time during which an employee is subject to the control of an employer, and includes all the time the employee is suffered or permitted to work, whether or not required to do so

The lower court read that as "hours worked is the time under employer control where the employee can work whether they do it or not". The supremes cut that into two statements at the ", and" and made "subject to the control of the employer" stand alone in addition to when they could be made to work.

By definition the supremes are correct, but the judges that ruled the other way are also very experienced judges.

Also important… Apple (probably accidentally) forfeited the "de minimis" argument which says employees don't have to be paid for small, incidental periods of time off the clock. I was expecting this case to be a declaration on reasonable "de minimis" requirements. Instead we got a sentence diagramming exercise.
Does it strike anyone else as absurd that a $2 trillion company has spent 5 years and untold millions arguing over whether it must compensate employees for the 15 minutes it takes for a company-mandated frisk?

In fact, Apple lawyers argued before the California Supreme Court that the time was not mandated since employees could waltz just opt to ‘not bring things with them’. How insane is that - the search is not technically ‘required’ since people don’t technically ‘need’ to bring things with them when they come to work? Who doesn’t need to bring a purse/phone/backpack to work?

The whole thing feels straight out of some alternative (dystopian?) future America like Infinite Jest.
Is there an implementation on github of this?
Doesn't GitHub cache fetched images?
Any tricks required to get GitHub to refresh the image?
They are intended to replace small coal plants out West where coal is the only viable option for baseline load.
> While allowing competition for batteries is a good idea, I fear that it'll go the way of printer ink cartridges or the Keurig.

That came to mind also, though "OEMs to sell batteries separately or with subscription models" might just of covered that aspect.

Batteries are already standard cell sizes, it's the packaging of those cells that makes things interesting. Now will they end up standardising that aspect across cars is the crux here. Certainly be interesting how this all pans out.
This. Embracing level of argument. Lets ignore the fact also that the US had a 50+ year standing relationship with China and it encouraged its companies to work there, including China in the WTO and so on.
A toolset that answers some of your questions is grafeas- a metadata store at https://github.com/grafeas/grafeas- and kritis, a policy engine at https://github.com/grafeas/kritis.

Cheers.
>Does it strike anyone else as absurd that a $2 trillion company has spent 5 years and untold millions arguing over whether it must compensate employees for the 15 minutes it takes for a company-mandated frisk?

As an Amazon employee, no, it does not.
Wouldn’t be particularly helpful for power generation since the salt needs to be cooled by water to create the steam to make the power.
How Technology is Hijacking your Mind
Cool idea. I wonder what recovery options it offers. If the phone/computer dies, it would be disappointing to lose access to your data completely. Hopefully there is a paper backup code available or something like that.
>cat likes to knock over your breakable things just cause it likes to see them smash

Depends on the cat. One of my cats would walk super carefully as not to throw anything.
To me, it's the equivalent of yelling "fire" in a theater crowded with 300 million people, all of whom are on fire.
It's actually a big problem and anything but common sense.

Do all C programmers know what strict aliasing means?

How about pointer provenance?

Have they memorized integer promotion rules?

These are all potential sources of undefined behavior that can lead to catastrophic results.

I bet most experienced C programmers with decades under their belt would fail one or more of these tests.
Subjective I guess. For me it’s just a reduction in noise and I prefer to read code with significant white space. Perfectly ok writing HTML, but given the option, and if it doesn’t screw with others, I prefer not too.
Here is an interesting article I found a while ago on this subject by a vintage watch collector who took some measurements of his radium dial watches using a Geiger counter:

https://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/luminous.php

The dose rates that he measured varied considerably depending on the watch. One very radioactive one was about ~30 times the background dose rate with the glass off and in very close proximity. Probably not something you'd want to wear on your wrist every day...
ACSC Annual Cyber Threat Report, July 2019 to June 2020
I'm like this as a user too. It's hard to find low potency flower across the USA, there is a big pull from retail stores for flower over 20% (which leads to those bogus test results I mentioned elsewhere).

I know of only a few vendors that sell "medium" flower - and retailers only let them in because they have some hi-test product too.
I worked in a call center where we were explicitly not paid to do those things. You were expected to have already done all of that by the time your shift started, otherwise you were considered late.

Apple isn't alone here, but they're obviously a fun big target for it.
Perhaps you're trying to make a point, but the command should work with /usr/sbin/service or prefaced by sudo. If you run `whereis service` you can see that the binary is located in /usr/sbin (at least on Debian/Ubuntu systems) which is typically placed in the PATH of root but not normal users. However --status-all doesn't require elevated permissions so the command works if you provide the full path.
How do you feel about "employee parking" being an extra minute or two away? That time adds up to... And it's virtually the same thing -- ”company policy mandatees you ___"...

I agree with everything you're staying, but add I said, this is a thought experiment... What would be a good line to draw?
Sure, and the point of simulation in the first place is often to understand how the system in question will behave, in advance. The distinction I meant to make is precisely that some processes may not be computable in this way; that they cannot be simulated any faster than the real thing, in other words. That is what is meant by computational irreducibility, AFAIK. Determining which systems this is true of is very valuable, imo
For most use cases, like for CI badges, setting cache-control and etag headers will suffice, but GitHub still caches it (just for a shorter time? I don't know the specifics). Luckily, you can request that they purge their cache for a specific file [0] so I've got a goroutine that calls it once per second [1]

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/a...

[1] https://github.com/veggiedefender/typing/blob/0ed7c9c17970d6...
In the Prius III (the only one I personally worked on) there is a safety plug which cuts the voltage. It's actually pretty simple once you start to understand how the system works.
GP is making points that go against the common narrative, this is guaranteed to get downvotes.

Might be a shill, but more likely just a contrarian who isn’t being well treated on HN.
Presumably that depends on maximum PCIe bandwidth consumption before your workload bottlenecks elsewhere? A 2018 benchmark (https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/PCIe-X16-vs-X8-with-4-...) seems to indicate that x8 isn't generally a bottleneck for common (at the time) workloads. x8 is a far cry from the claimed gigabit ethernet though!
It's almost like the big corps are in collusion to keep wages down, whether they employ tons of low-wager workers or only a few.
Goal met in 10 minutes by turning it into a language war! I wonder if there's something in that, a service for charity fundraising that lets people donate to vote on their favorite X?.
This is basically the problem with jumping to conclusions based on some guy's claim, because the guy then retracts his claim but most people will still believe that covid causes myocarditis.

> Key quote: "at this time, there have been no cases of myocarditis in COVID-19 positive student-athletes at Penn State."
Ask HN: Based on your personal experience, how bad is the Covid-19 pandemic?
The asian country I live in has very few cases due to lockdowns plus quarantines for visitors. Watching the news in Europe and the US, it is hard for me to get a sense of how bad it is. Do you know many people who have died? Who have gotten seriously ill? Are you afraid? Do you think the response in your own location is too little or too much?
Question. From my experience, GitHub uses the `github-amo` bot to fetch the data when the page is rendered. How did you prevent it from cacheing on GitHub's servers?
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> You get a scratch in USA: here's some morphine

No you don't. If you want to criticize something, do it, but don't make stuff up to make your point.

> Pain is a good signal... Tells you to take a rest and recover properly.

A small amount is good. An excessive amount can cause lifelong PTSD.
And even then, they can still get an exception, it’s just a good idea to get it in advance through an immigration lawyer. It’s called a TRP:

https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=152...
It's the only direct democracy in the world, where the people really vote on issues instead of on representatives. For example, we don't really have a president. Laws written by parliament are put to quarterly nation-wide ballots.

I get to vote on what I believe is right on every issue, instead of getting tricked by politicians who have positions that they later compromise on.
I always thought the real point was that there was more to maximization than calculus really leads you to. It is trivial to attempt simple maximization, but very hard when you want to find maximized profits given social pressure, preparedness for the future, risk tolerance and a whole host of other issues. Maximizing profits don't necessarily need to be a simplistic mathematical approach to a very complex and atuo-correlated system.
> Our lives are lived in the present, locally.

Meaningless nonsense.

> You interact with people in your community thousands of times more than people you read about thousands of miles away.

So? How does that invalidate your civic obligation to be aware of the decisions made in the centers of power outside your community? This whole dichotomy between the "local interactions" / socializing vs. governance that happens "thousands of miles away" has no basis.

> Be where your feet are.

Try living in a real hell hole and see if you find self-help phrases like this useful.
Empire State Building for example, was built in 1930 and finished a year or so later. NYC predates the nimby movement but not the industrial revolution.
Registering donotreply.com sounds like the kind of shenanigans Chet Faliszek (of Old Man Murray, Portal of Evil, and Portal (video game) fame) would get up to.
I've seen many enthusias folks keep a notebook for ideas. I do too.

Most of the ideas I'll never see again. It's just nice though
Coursera: “employees can continue to work remotely until January 1, 2022”
OUTSTANDING comment; excellent questions. Bookmarked. Thanks for this concise high-level infosec punchlist.
If you see this, a video of that would be interesting to see. (I'm not entirely certain where would be a good spot to post it in a support context though...)
Well there is your problem - you are literally treating a large collection of very different people like a single person or hive mind.

Seriously pause and reflect since that usually comes up with very severe bigots and is pretty far down the dehumanization ladder.
The practice of obtaining warrants with artificial but believable evidentiary basis to conceal the illicit means by which the basis was actually obtained is called "parallel construction", and the intentional practice or facilitation of it should be a felony with a maximum penalty of imprisonment of up to 50 years (2.5x evidence tampering, and I'd be fine with a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years). It is a heinous perversion of the public trust, knowingly undertaken by unchecked law enforcement personnel to wilfully conceal unconstitutional acts. Parallel construction is a stain upon the very fabric of our nation... Or, you know, business as usual.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Besides vitamin D, sunlight exposure also stimulates production of nitric oxide and thus lowers blood pressure. We also know that high blood pressure is a risk factor for COVID-19 so it seems plausible that there could be a connection.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5593895/
What do you mean by lefty if you are not against capitalism?
How to Smize (Smile with Your Eyes) When You’re Wearing a Mask
Our company (bottomless, YC W19) actually sends emails from yesreply@bottomless.com.

It’s crazy for companies to discourage replies and force customers to find a different channel when the email itself has all relevant context.
Off topic: after a long day including a report of some high-level client seeing rendering issues in an old version of Internet Explorer, the fixed-width layout of old news sites seems so simple in comparison. Coming across this article was a breath of… well, certainly not "fresh" air, but it was at least bittersweet. I noticed that my browser window resized instantly, with zero lag, and nothing got hot and no fans spun.

All-in-all, it wasn't better— especially when Internet Explorer enters the discussion— but I always appreciate the opportunity to see these "old" news sites. I'm glad that they're archived in their original form, instead of the content being pulled from an old database into a new layout.
I will say, you are the perfect user/customer to have for media companies. Given the moral duty you ascribe to information consumption from these sites, I'd imagine it'd take a lot to lose you as a user.

As a user researcher, I'm really curious on how you think about what matters/what doesn't matter in terms of your news consumption. Obviously, there is a near infinite amount of things that happen every day/week/month/year/decade, but we all have a very finite amount of attention we can give to all of the information & potential news.

What issues/information/stories do you think matter? Is there a strong correlation between what you think matters and what NYT, WaPo, etc. are producing? Did you independently come up with the topics that most matter and then you track news on them, or you decide what matters after consuming news on the news sites?
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From the article: "In the event of any runaway reactor event, NuScale says, the reactor quenches itself in its pool, making it 'passively safe.'”

So what happens when an earthquake causes a rupture of the pool barrier and all the water leaks out?
The Myth of the Overnight Marketing Success
Unless the company policy mandates that you drive to work, and further mandates that you then use their parking, then that sounds a lot like commute time to me. If the hypothetical company decided to not offer parking to its employees, and they had to park a 15 minute walk away on the street, that would certainly be commute time.
While correct, it’s not clear at what level Daniel has been “banned“. He was denied an ESTA and told to get a visa, but that hasn’t been denied (yet?). Canadians need neither, so he might be cool if he showed up at a PoE, or maybe not.

And a visa/ESTA isn’t required for most Europeans arriving at a land Port of Entry, so who knows what would happen then. But they do ask more questions when you don’t have an ESTA.

I guess if the USA wanted to arrest him, they would’ve been very fast at granting a visa.
One classic example of this was Michael Jordan.

In his prime he was considered overweight. BMI is way too simplistic for taller athletes.

https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/how-accurate-body-mass-i...
I could not watch the video but found a better detailed explaination on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgK1Zl9asIQ
One thing that helped my allergies a lot was getting a robot vacuum that cleans up the hair a few times a week. I'm definitely not taking the time to vacuum the whole place three times a week so it's awesome (bobsweep pethair vision)

Also, I noticed that I get used to a new cat after about 6-12 months which is pretty interesting.
Which examples and which left-leaning reporters?
If there's only one post, and there is low immediate probability to change that anytime soon, "can add additional posts" feels like premature specialization, and I'd probably go have fun with a custom design instead.

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Totally agree! We need to reorient our mindsets to sharing knowledge instead of locking it away under the banner of capitalism.
Pretty incredulous position to take when a company offering free stuff makes adjustments to their free stuff
Maybe I have it backwards? I know in permaculture it is said that a more diverse system is stronger.

Eg. Mixed planting vs Monoculture.