skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, they certainly can. Depends on whose yard I guess.
We have a solar array on the roof. It’s great. But the dc->ac converter needs the grid to be active to do its conversion, so when the power goes out no solar. (I suspect it syncs with the grids 60hz...)

If you include a battery backup in your system, you can run without grid power.

When I worked at a power monitoring start up we had a demo house that was charging an electric rav4, so it’s possible.
Gotta watch out for those 99% survival rate apocalypses. They'll getcha.
I guess we are already there then. My grandma has no problems operating an iPad while a laptop is largely too complicated.
I'm not arguing that children should be kept out of in-person school. In fact, I'm against it, and was against it even when the pandemic was raging last year. I agree with you that children have been silent victims of schoolteachers' refusal to do in-person school. I do, however, strongly support reasonable precautions including masking and physical distancing, which can be achieved with children (not very young children, but certainly 2nd grade and up) with continual reinforcement until it becomes a habit.
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I agree on lane assist, but I'm confused, how does cruise control fail?

I just set it to a speed on the highway... and the speed stays there until I brake.

Are you talking about adaptive cruise control (ACC) to follow the speed of the car in front?
Though, do bear in mind you're reading the clearly biased account of the person's son or daughter, who seems to be in denial that their father did anything much wrong in the first place.

If the father worked in finance (which seems somewhat implied here) and got imprisoned for committing a financial crime, it seems reasonable for that to be an ongoing stain on his professional reputation.
You could encourage them to keep in mind that by refusing to get vaccinated, they're likely going to be living the rest of their life under threat of contracting COVID.

It seems that those who are vaccinated can still spread it, and I don't believe we're going to be in a place where COVID is eliminated altogether anytime soon. There will continue to be outbreaks, and it's possible that those who are vaccinated will pick it up and pass it around, and the further mutations of it seem to be increasing its rate of spread.

But you're right. It is their choice.
Hope they figure it out!

I just installed Krita after getting a 2-in-1 with active pen support, hoping to get into digital painting.

I've used GIMP and Inkscape extensively over the years, and used the printing functionality a lot.

In fact, whenever I want to print something of exact size, I'd use Inkscape.
That is almost entirely the fault sugar and other shitty diet choices. Exercise is far less impactful than diet.
I have lived in SoCal for 22 adult years. I’ve lost power maybe 3 times, and for at most 6 hours. A Tesla should have enough range for a few days commute w/out recharge.

I don’t think power reliability should be a concern... except for when the big one strikes. But in that case all the freeway overpasses will collapse, so an ICE car won’t help you anyway.
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In this case, it seems quite clear that this man is not a "useless degenerate" in the absence of alcohol — in fact he is doing productive, intelligent work.

I believe it is quite apparent that alcohol/ism was the key factor in his terrible decisions. Without alcohol, he isn't behaving like a useless degenerate.

Therefore, we can quite comfortably say that alcohol is an explanation, if not an excuse, for his behaviour.
Yeah, this is a bad take from Backblaze. If ISPs had 99% profit margin you'd see it in their quarterly reports. Spoiler warning: they don't.

Also, I remember when there were only half as many tier 1s, so if they're a cartel keeping new members out they aren't doing a very good job of it.
They could, but most don't. During public safety power outages in 2019, most gas stations could not pump gas.
The F# post argues for marking OptionalStrings, but that’s bad design. There’s basically never a real distinction between string absent and string blank and if somehow your domain did have that distinction, you would need to record it as a bool or enum that clearly lays out “this is really blank and not just we don’t know it” or whatever.
And you can always use a generator to charge your ev. Or solar.
The decision to go to the pub one day is a different kettle of fish to deciding to sell secrets for example.

The difference between being poor and rich is that the poor can't recover from a bad decision, it's selection bias rather than a question of agency.
The apocalypse scenario is unlikely with the population having some resistance to the virus after vaccination even if new variants possibly render the vaccine less effective. We obviously do not have enough data yet to understand the vaccine's efficacy against these new strains but a lot of scientists are saying it will be "good enough" while we work on vaccines to handle the variants.

If this thing can basically be treated no differently than the common cold once vaccinated by most people and in the outliers something a little worse there will be no popular support to continue draconian lock down measures.

The goal is to stop the bleeding. The patient is on the floor right now and haemorrhaging liters blood. We want to stabilize the patient and let them get on with their life as quickly as possible. We cannot let perfect be the enemy of "Good Enough" here.
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This is unnecessary though. You just plug your car in every night like a cell phone and you have full charge every day. Tesla's supercharger network is plenty fast for long trips and adds a nominal amount of extra time.
> In the HN bubble lots of people have migrated to Signal with all of their contacts but outside of that bubble nothing much seems to be happening.

HN can't represent all of the 50 million new users to Signal.
11% of the EV market share, not the total market. Still impressive enough given that the Chinese EV market is extremely competitive and fragmented, but a long way from mass adoption.
It's very easy to make alcohol at home. This would only function as a nuisance for the responsible drinkers.
> it’s amazing such a wealthy area can’t even provide such a basic service as public toilets.

That's not really problem. The people needing toilets aren't particularly worried about using one. The root of the problem is sending a message that it won't be enforced, so people literally have no reason not to do it.

Amazingly enough, I think last year or the year before, SF announced they wouldn't enforce "quality of life" crimes, which include outside urination and defecation. Naturally this will be noticed by those doing it, and eventually it allows people outside to gather in large groups because they don't have to worry about how to relieve themselves.

Finding a toilet isn't impossible, but it does require holding yourself until you do find one. For people with no home, this is extra work, but we should all agree is extra work they should be forced to do, instead of treating them like animals with no agency of their own, and pretending somehow the problem doesn't include their decisions and the authorities' incentives.
Saying that people sat on their butt for 8 years is insulting now? Come on.

At the end of the day, they had anywhere from 8 to 12 years to migrate. In the tech world, that's a millennia. Most products and services will give you months when they deprecate or sunset.
Neither of those companies exist anymore so that doesn’t seem like a problem.
This person was in jail for killing two teenagers while drunk in his car, something that can happen to anybody, regardless of intelligence, and yield more than 6 months (12 to 30 years in his case).

For your dad, yeah that was a disaster and a sign that there's no small crime sadly.

But as for your situation, it has nothing to do with it (maybe you didn't intend to sound like your dad's mistake created your inability to have more than 23$ in your account).

It so happen that there's a massive amount of people who live in relative difficulty and are not homeless. Wake up and move on. I live my life knowing the baseline is coffee maker at macdonalds, and I'm fine with it. They can recruit people like your dad, no one has a life right to be rich and successful and it's fine to fall down and start again. My dad is rich enough, has a doctorate and a small business, and I spent my entire teenage years decoupling from my parents to be fully independent and ready to weather any storm. Sometimes it means finding girlfriends to share rent, having a weekend job, moving to a smaller city where university is less prestigious but nearly free, etc. When I realised taxes would take most of a meager salary in France with barely any tangible benefit, I burnt half my life savings (3 years of full time job at 2000 euros per month) emigrating to a tax-free jurisdiction...

When did this event happen to you ? When you were too young to be already split from them ? I really hope you wake up, find a stupid job, cut all debt that are not legally mandatory, and bounce back. There's no dirty job, nothing is beneath you and being independent is the only objective you should have. Having this attitude, btw, is 90% of whatever job interview you'll have to do.
Hmm I don't want to defend Tesla, but I do want to push back on this a bit!

Facebook made "move fast and break things" famous, which was Zuckerberg's way of presenting a tradeoff. Everyone company says they want to move fast, but Zuckerberg made it clear that the company should care more about velocity than stability.

I don't believe that's Tesla's attitude. Rather, I think their attitude is more "move fast and ignore regulations". It's not that things won't break, but rather that the tradeoff Tesla is making is around regulation rather than things breaking.
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The father stacked the deck against himself and his family through his criminality. This has nothing to do with being a bright person (though, one that clearly wasn't bright enough to consider the consequences from committing this crime, and like, not do it).
That's simple. Integrate or be removed. Cultures across time have dealt with attempts to supplant them with hostility. Whether you see that as a viable option is up to you.
Thanks for the reference, I’m not convinced but this is well sourced is worthy of some time and reflection.
Ask HN: A more expressive way to write code?
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." Leonardo da vinci

I would like to have some more pleasant and expressive user interface than the mouse and keyboard for programming.

Is that possible?
Less than $100 to just launch the saas, assuming technical (co)founder.

Less than $1k if you also incorporate in a standard way, e.g. stripe atlas.

Less than $10k if you also need a lawyer and/or CPA for taxes.

I can't say the cost for non-technical founders, i.e. outsourcing development. I'd guess with $10k you can already get something simple up and running.

Edit: of course I'm assuming cost of your team time = $0.
Well you could start with a SaaS-first business model. People are obsessing about Amazon, but the fact is if you publish open source software and don't build an outstanding SaaS for it, somebody else will do it for you. It can't be an afterthought.

Second, add IP on top that makes the service easy to develop applications for, secure, easy to integrate with other SaaS services, etc. Amazon gives you a service but for the most part they don't build ecosystems.

Third, make it work on multiple platforms, not just AWS.

Fourth, integrate with AWS Marketplace and get their reps working for you.
Misleading to say Israel is in the lead when the stats don't count the 4.5 million Palestinians living under their control, none of whom are being vaccinated.
How about Jeep 4XE, RAV4 Prime or Mitsubishi Outlander. PHEV options are expanding for all wheel drive.
> Habits that work aren't habits that were constructed.

You said both "habits don't work" and "habits work if they're not constructed".

In my experience you're incorrect about the former, and I don't understand the latter. All habits are constructed — they're a conscious act, especially while you're establishing them. If you're trying to build habits, haven't you already thought about why in a pretty comprehensive, introspective way?

It would be amazing if habits magically emerged from comprehensive introspection, but Thinking About X is not Doing X.
My man has the Iron Man costume on display in a glass case at spacex. And the recruiters give you a spiel about it that feels very much like you're about to join a cult.
Sure but PG&E wasn't doing these outages 10 years ago as much as it is now.

In the Bay Area, it's regularly an occurrence where people in the Santa Cruz Mountains will not have power for 2 days to a week. With little to no notice too.

You come home with a low battery to refill it at home, you might not be able to get very far. Hopefully you just drive with 50+ miles ready all the time.
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> the worst thing that would happen is it’d end up stopped in front of a traffic light, waiting

I get your overall point, but this particular statement is empirically false.
Game consoles, and back in the day most MS-DOS, Amiga and Atari Games that only used hardware directly with OS services could in retrospective be considered some form of unikernels.

Amiga games used to be written such that they would boot the computer from floppy.
What if brains aren't wired like that, and you become numb? That sounds like an aweful goal to have. Maybe a better one is to minimize misery & unhappiness (ideally, global minimization, not local)
Wait really? I live in NorCal, I lost power twice last week. That was unusual, but PG&E's safety outages are a fact of life of living in California.

That said I also remember a hurricane (Harvey?) which shut down refineries, making gasoline scarce. So it's pick your poison.
Given the multiple features added in this release (and not trivial features, either), I’m puzzled as to why this was called 4.4.2. Feels easily worth being called 4.5.0. In common (basically universal) usage, the number 4.4.2 implies a patch release with only bug fixes.
But things have literally broken.
Certainly! It was these cases I had in mind. Maybe I should have made it clear.
Cloudflare is providing the huge worldwide backbone and saying it's cheaper for them to peer where you are and transport it on their backbone as needed rather than pay Tier 1's to do it.

The difference in cost largely comes from being peering not transit though. I.e. they aren't handling traffic for 3rd parties on their backbone (well, in this case, they do offer that though), just traffic between the mutual peering entities. As a result you're never sending them something they didn't already have to pay to get.

Also it's not as simple as distance. A lot of data between 2 world class datacenters is pretty easy and cheap, the fiber is already there. A lot of data to the rest of the world is a PITA and a physical/logistical nightmare.
Even in the USA, voluntary manslaughter (murder) can bring about much less prison time.

This man got 6 years for murdering and dismembering his wife's father, at the direction of his wife, while the wife got 1 year for her role. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/No-prison-time-for...
Computer/Smartphone being addictive and time-wasting in personal level doesn't negate the value they created due to automation. That's a revolution too, even if most of value is harvested by the industrial upper class.

If people realized the value computing can give, consumer electronics will be useful for them. But they want instagram and snapchat instead.
> I’m not sure how much of it is fear of the MRNA vaccine itself, and how much is an objection to the creepy fascist context. Probably a lot of both, and maybe yes a bit too much of the former.

I don't think the two concerns are all that neatly separable. I find it impossible not to notice the relentless campaign to put forth _vaccinating everyone with an experimental jab_ as the only legitimate escape from indefinite lockdowns and distancing. Evidence piles up in favor of easy & cheap measures like vitamin D supplementation or ivermectin treatment having the potential to significantly reduce the threat of Covid and it just gets drowned out by media noise.

I view mRNA vaccines in much the same way as nuclear power: they could be an important technology to address our problems, if we could trust our institutions to adequately guard against their potentially enormous hazards or misuse. But we can't. And while I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to get the vaccine, one thing that will make me much more likely to fall into the "refuse" camp is if they decide to impose some kind of restrictions on basic freedoms and make travel or attending concerts contingent on getting a vaccine.

Even with all these concerns, if I was in my 90s, I think I would still find the danger from Covid so severe as to tilt the risk/reward balance in favor of getting the shot. But I don't find your relatives' approach absurd by any stretch.
Yeah, Krita is amazing but it's really built for digital drawing...
Agree. The key to solving the problem is data and they have it, by the bucket load. The HN crowd is pretty conservative when it comes to tech it seems.
I tried working with a gradient in Krita a couple weeks ago and it was angering and sad, so I am excited about this release!
> Well it's up to the paper

Leaving it up to the paper basically means the rich get to rewrite history but the poor don't.
If you had simply said that liberals frequently accuse conservative ideas as being racist, I'd have nodded (and not commented). But you said that liberals widely consider opposition to the ACA racist. They do not. Again: you will find someone that said that; we can play that game all night. We have to stop allowing discussions among reasonable people to be hostage to the stupidest things other people have said.
Thats just redhat deciding that for fedora though, GDB itself on other distros will still have support for guile. Not sure how to interpret that, though I guess working on shrinking gdb is understandable.
> safe refactoring ends up breaking format compatibility

I have a moderately strict rule for my teams that API objects must exist separately from normal domain objects (ie, persistence). And any APIs that have separate lifecycles (say, private webclient API vs official published API) get separate DTOs (which is what they really are).

This works fine? It's not much work, not even in Java (thanks to lombok). There's clear migration strategies for these api objects and you can refactor your domain objects without risk of breaking something.

I guess this is the "by hand" mapping that the article concludes with, but honestly it seems like a lot of words just to say "keep your API objects separate from your domain objects".

> JSON cannot directly represent cycles

It's incredibly easy to tweak JSON to allow it, and you don't even need a special parser. I wrote this five years ago: https://github.com/jsog/jsog
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I think you're being a little disingenuous. I've tried magic berries many times over the years and they aren't going to do anything to make you 'eat healthy'. Sure, it's fun to eat lemons (sweet and delicious), but it's not going to make me crave carrots. They're a party trick, nothing else.
Probably, genetic factors for health outcomes aren't exactly some tenuous link. Differential genetic composition of the various races has been shown repeatedly to affect anything from disease risk to drug response.
Yes. I definitely had the vibe of 'Get the Facts' from the Microsoft Linux-smearing campaign circa 2004 ([1]).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Linux#Criticism_b...
I really should have clarified since I was thinking of my bias view of Fort Worth where we don't have city ordinances that prevent fences over 4ft in the front yard and 9ft in back yards like Dallas.
In the Miami area after Hurricane Irma in 2017, we couldn’t find gas for our cars for about a week. I think the pumps for gas stations require electricity (which was also out) plus deliveries were disrupted by downed trees, traffic signal outages, etc.

Just an anecdote that gasoline is not always available during crises. We did have electricity at home but neighboring buildings and neighborhoods had outages for a week or more.
What issues did you have with Moonlight?
lol nice way of not betting
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The whole thing just screamed of a man with with an issue surrounded by yesmen.
Do those kind of calculations assume that the people who are vaccinated are spread fairly uniformly throughout the population, or do they take into account that people who will not take the vaccine will have a tendency to clump so that we are likely to have some cities or counties with high vaccination rates and other cities or counties with low vaccination rates?
It was a rhetorical question answered by the succeeding paragraph.

> Years long lead times. Every 200mm fab around is booked for at least 1y+ despite biggest increases in capacity in decades.

This is precisely my point. There is a need for more capacity.
Edit: ok you expanded your initial comment. So yes they aren’t providing transit and your own comment explains why this isn’t a good comparison, it appears cheaper than it really is because Cloudlfare aren’t paying transit to get your data.
Have you even listened to him talk? Every word that comes out of his mouth is poured over to make sure that it contains truth.
Would be a bit disappointing for a supposedly environmentalist company as Apple to get into automobile development. We should be trying everything we can to limit automobile development.

Of course for as environmentalist as Apple insists they are, they built a typical automobile oriented new campus with heaps of parking space...
Why not just use an email client with support for conversation threads?
(I suspect it syncs with the grids 60hz...)

Yeah, that's the actual reason. I've seen someone use a small Honda generator to generate the frequency required to trick the solar generator into going... it's a weird setup because you basically tie in your generator using a breaker, so both generator and solar can be enabled at the same time.
> This is unnecessary though.

This is presuming you can charge at home. Many of us cannot. Many of us cannot charge at work. Many of us have to rely on gas station like infrastructure for getting any kind of range. (2-3 minute pit-stops to get full range back)
> You could encourage them to keep in mind that by refusing to get vaccinated, they're likely going to be living the rest of their life under threat of contracting COVID.

I think you might be blind to how a person who values freedom more than safety, and who sees more danger to free civilization than to public health in this affair, would receive this threat. It would be an utterly awful thing to say.
> sixQuarks 2 hours ago [–]

> Anyone wanna bet me that Tesla will be first to full level 5 self driving?
Can't you just... drive to a charging station? I mean, it's not like the whole continent lost power for three days. Just go fill up and come back and park it at home.

Note that with a gas car, you can't fill it up at home ever, for any reason (unless you have a well and refinery I guess).
There are 2 edx courses based on the book too for those who prefer video instruction.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-code-simple-data

[2] https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-code-complex-data