skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy to compete with ChargePoint. Most of them are in expensive garages, and charge more on top of the parking fee (and more than gas would cost for the same mileage, to boot). And frequently they’re out of order, or in use, or the guy on the other side steals the cable while you’re charging. And it’s slow, but you’d better be back when charging is complete, or you’ll be charged an extra penalty. - A Dissatisfied Customer
This is about diversifying and getting out of the oil business the writing is now on the wall for oil and gas as growth will die out in the next few years. And seeing that investments in oil gas will decrease which will result less production higher prices and fewer people will use it because of higher prices the cycle of people getting off oil will get faster.
What is March 2020? Marijuana was legalized in CA well before then.
Who would build our furniture and make our clothes then?
Depends. Who is "we"?

Presumably this will be good for the foundries and makers of industrial semiconductor machinery, and bad for fabless companies. Hard to know the time horizon, however.
There are other options, e.g. Microsoft, some large multi-nationals or even national research organisations. In the latter, it might be possible to start in a technician role and then progress to a PhD part-time.
Not sure why everyone is so obsessed with the federal elections. Things take time and often bubble up via states.

The US needs more decentralization if it want's progress on a realistic timeline (ie, one that reflects the populace). It also helps weeds out the more radical emotion-driven stuff.
We're obviously not in an efficient market, because supply is limited and market entry is nigh-impossible for truly new suppliers, and also because scalpers are viewed as evil and explicitly acted against.
Too many Evangelicals in his coalition, unfortunately. And they vote.
There is power at gas stations already, there is in fact power at the pumps. They also let you drive your car up to the pump, use your cell phone, and wear clothing that generates static electricity.
I'm not an electrical engineer, but from watching this video [0], there seem to be about a million and a half different mechanisms to prevent sparks from chargers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxB7zA-e4Y
What are you talking about? Aren't scalpers doing exactly what efficient market hypothesis would suggest by buying products that are underpriced (graphics cards, consoles) relative to demand and selling them at the highest price people are willing to pay?
franchising agreements can force people to add new products like the McRib, or charging stations or lose supply.
Is not 100%, but enough to nourish homegrown player.
As we have seen from the tech war and Twitter mass bans, having a homegrown viable ecosystem is very important.
Why every free market force works against you, without data analysis of a lot of buildings and skyscrapers, you can't really know if its really good.

- The tenant will ALWAYS up-sell the place, they don't want to lose potential buyers.

- The other tenants will ALWAYS up-sell the place, they don't want future valuations of their apartments going down.

- The real estate agency will always show the apartment during low usage / low wind times.

Making an informed decision is gonna be real tough.
Except you can skip steps because volunteers have already tested the vaccine for safety and at the end of the story there’s a vaccine that you can make as much as you want of. Instead of a vaccine controlled by a single company that, surprise surprise, has production issues that according to them surely can’t be overcome by using production capacity at other facilities.
When I saw the title I immediately flashed on Beavis and Butthead: "I am Cornholio! ..."
Because federal laws can throw a LOT of cold water onto state legalization, if the federal government wanted to. Hence why elections matter.
I didn't initially, but if you're reading that far in the comments I guess it can't be avoided. People need to know what CoinLab is trying to do.
See South Dakota, where a constitutional amendment passed on the ballot but the asshole governor is still trying to block it in court. One of her main reasons? Setting up the new licensing laws would cost ~$4 million dollars and the predicted tax revenue of $10 million a year won't come in til 2022 at the earliest. How they can make that argument with a straight face is beyond me.
Why they deleted your playlist? Copyright issues?
Nordics succed with Statoil and speed up the EV market.

Yeah.. good domains on sun & light ;)
> the metallic mirror will oxidize after a few years and the disk will become impossible to read.

I think NIST or somesuch did accelerated decay studies and found even moderately decent storage conditions for plain DVD-/+R was 30 years, with BD-R in the same conditions being vastly longer than that. I do know that i have 20+ year old CD-R backups* that still work, and as far as i can tell all of my DVD backups from 2002 and on still work. I recently got some 100GB BD-R but haven't written them yet, my laptop doesn't have enough storage for windows to do its thing, and i have 0 idea how to do a bd-r "files" backup on linux. Every google result is "how to back up your blu-ray movies" which is explicitly not what i want to do.

* I also had a DVD-RAM drive in 1998/1999, with the "caddy" cartridge, and probably still have a couple of those discs, unsure if they work/if i can read them.
Wouldn't it just take one person and a single piece of hardware to confirm? And yet not anyone has confirmed it?
I know it feels weird. But M$ has been behaving more like the Google we know and love while Google had been behaving more like the M$ we hate.
Your argument may be too strong - you're suggesting that big companies or the professional class of responsible people always does things better. But HN is founded on many examples of that not being true.

i.e. if your argument applies word for word against Semmelweis (who advocated hand-washing) or doubters against other earlier amateur vaccines, it it will fall victim to what we now know about those older cases, when the at-the-time experts were wrong.

In this case I wouldn't say that the reason this kind of research is valuable is anything related to medicine per se - but more that it can show the value of the much lower liability level he operates in, and how it means that amateurs can make massive cuts in preparing and defending from lawsuits. Example: if a company realized that only food-quality ingredients were required, not lab-quality, would it be worth it for them to justify that to the FDA and spend millions on it? probably not. My hypothesis for what's going on in general in medicine is this effect times a thousand, at every stage of development.
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> * There are solutions to these but they are not widely known or used.*

Do you have any links?
> The 'victim', Ellsberg, would seem to agree.

I don't recall the documentary I watched, but the impression I got was that Ellsberg needed or wanted Sheehan to make the call that he couldn't bring himself to make.
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DNS _is_ arcane ("understood by few; mysterious") for the majority of developers, who've never had to directly interact with it. Whereas I'd bet good money that 99% of developers who've worked on web services for more than a year know how to use curl to hit a url.

Don't mistake "simple" for "widely-known".
Experts are usually mired in procedure and politics (sometimes for good reason, sometimes not). A smart outsider who isn't constrained in the same way often has a pretty good shot at beating out the established experts. That's not hubris; it's just a viable strategy.
I don't know about other parts of the country, but the chargers in my building are operated by the local power utility and gets charged to my power bill. I've lived in other buildings where this isn't the case, but at least in my city the utility is making an effort to do that.
Are you all in on PSTH?
I've always wanted to build a mesh network with small nodes like this scattered around a city or forest. I'd love to see them build a battery and solar module for these units.
The more we see news like this, the less pretext law enforcement has for engaging in routine activities that escalate the chance of needless violence.
There are multiple different types of secure DNS. DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, DNSCrypt, DNSCurve, DNSSEC. Some of them don't even protect the client's traffic (you at a coffee shop). DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) has been getting a lot of publicity lately since Chrome and Firefox started supporting it, but it's only activated sometimes. Many people don't like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22414912

Another thing: even if your browser is using DoH 100% of the time, that's not good enough. Other things can use the public suffix list, such as a commandline go program that makes http requests[1]. If that program isn't using DoH then it's now vulnerable. Most programs use the DNS resolution capabilities provided by your operating system. I don't think any operating systems by default use DoH.

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/cookiejar/#PublicSuffixList
This is no longer venture capital, this is moving into private equity territory.
Choosing my job title after being Data Scientist
My manager gave me the chance to think to the Job Title that bet fits me. I shared in this post some thoughts I went through while deciding
This strikes me as a very on-point answer. Other people have noted that "Annual Report" and "10-K" aren't precisely the same thing: the 10-K is the annual SEC filing, akin to the 10-Q filed quarterly. The annual report is what's sent to investors. It can just be the 10-K, but I've definitely seen many companies in the past that did what amount to full-color brochures. I'm pretty sure the phone company I worked at in the late 90s had very pretty ones, although not as witty as Netflix's.
The latest k is also still under active development by Arthur and colleagues under Shakti. There are frequent releases to play with.
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Just curious - have you ever lived in a rural area? There's quite a lot of desperation, obesity, addiction, linking, etc. in rural areas too.
Sure, even if it's a merely a fraction of the prison population, the sheer human cost of those remaining in prison is incalculable. Still, from a public policy point of view at some point it sort of becomes indistinguishable from the background population of those unjustly incarcerated for myriad other reasons, and trotting out rare examples of long-term marijuana possession prisoners confuses the debate.

We're like 15 years into marijuana decriminalization--actual decriminalization at the state and even Federal level, not simple advocacy. It became a mostly bipartisan endeavor, at least on the national level since at least 2015 when Paul Ryan became Speaker. Though for various reasons most of the GOP remain non-committal, and will only tacitly support passive decriminalization.

Nonetheless, that's at least 15 years of slowly emptying our prisons of not only marijuana offenders, but drug offenders generally. The state of affairs today is nothing like the numbers that advocates were throwing around 15 years ago (and what most people still believe is the case), and even then they were exaggerated. There's still a ton more that needs to be done, and some reforms even need to be walked back or reverted because it turns out decriminalization alone exposes some serious problems and deficiencies elsewhere in the system. But if everybody's empathy is focused on the de minimis incarceration problem it's difficult to regroup and shift efforts.
I offered to foot the bill for a transfer to the Us from Canada (US employer) and they still said no.
Sure, but if I wish to use the same partition for both OSes.
The question is more about what format can serve as a general storage format that is safe/acceptable enough and can be accesses/used from different OSes ?
Because slow startup time is obnoxious for any command-line script. There's no reason to start up an entire scripting virtual machine just to make an HTTP request. No one should be writing serious CLI tools in an interpreted language.
In my world it would not be rare for people to not have a gun

It should be obvious that I wouldn’t know with concealed carry

But on the legal concealed carry side, getting that approved is extremely rare. All the densely populated counties are like that, in the whole country.
Maybe this will somehow stop the insanity of premature obsolesence. A 6 year old Android tablet is hardware wise in great condition. Some games that happen to install work great.

However, the last software update was about 4 years ago.

The tablet has storage expansion, but due to artificial limitations in the Android system, only a fraction of software will utilize the sd card.

These are only minor examples.

I could rant for hours on the ”who cares, it’ll be garbage in a year attitude” that has invaded much of the tech world, but others have done a better job. I my self am some times party to this attitude.

It all results in a lot of waste of all kinds and also bad user experience.

To look at the silver lining, maybe this scarcity and some other trends will result in a small corrective trends in engineering and management.

In the meanwhile I’ll keep dreaming of a new gaming PC for a year or two.
"For pure productivity performance, Intel’s testing eschews typical benchmarks. Sure, it used Principled Technologies' WebXPRT 3, but the Microsoft Office 365 tests appear to be based on Intel's internal RUG (real-world usage guideline) tests" (see linked Article)

"Principled Technologies"

Oh really! Only this time it's not directed at AMD but at Apple's M1!
The vector is like a mosquito, attack vector. Here software updating infrastructure is a kind of that, connected with your emulator and PC via the Internet.
Historically politics changes surprisingly quickly. Events like 911 shape a generation, yet that was before some voters in the last election where born. Give it say another 40 years and heavy handed TSA regulations will just seem like a silly waste of cash to the overwhelming majority of voters.

I could go into actual flip flops, but people get very defensive when their party changes stances on an issue.
There is no dialogue here about drug issues, its all "Drug war bad! Drugs are good!" It gets monotonous and I honestly don't see why it should be discussed here; there is nothing to spark curiosity about this subject like dang likes to go on about when reminding people to be civil. You either repeat the tired old "yay, unjust laws gone!" or do what?

I think marijuana is a pointless drug that makes you stupider when you use it. If people are willing to risk jail over something so useless to the point where we need to legalize stupidity, well that doesn't say much about us, does it?
Many firms prefer to stay private because being listed publically has advantages but has many downsides.

You usually go public to raise money. Going public also costs money and changes your focus and gives away information to competitors.
I for one am totally on board with writing atrocious grep/sed/awk pipeline mashups, doing whatever it takes to get a one-off job done with as little programming as possible. Sometimes the important parameter to optimize is brain cycles spent, or time to result, not CPU time or optimal usage of network resources.
I'm not familiar with Linux version numbers, so apologies if this is a stupid question. How often do version numbers increment that any portion would overflow 8 bits? None of the software I've ever worked on would even come close to it.
They wanted all of Punjab to be theirs, no? Not sharing a capital with Haryana. I would think they were settling, if they got a more compact state. What I will say is that Sikhs I met in USA were not happy with say splitting Chandigarh.

>Punjab and Haryana have different dominant languages

A lot of Punjabi-speaking Hindus "chose" Hindi for that to be true IIRC.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but California is the US's highest spending state [0] with a budget of around 200 billion. Its entire budget is smaller than the US Federal government's deficit (measured in single digit trillions).

The reason everyone cares about federal elections is because there are earth-shattering amounts of money involved. The resources that get consumed have to come from somewhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets
What if he hits a zero?
This is trivial for most bots to bypass nowadays with headless browsers and such.
> Underneath this post is the assumption that the author is so much smarter than everybody else because they are Rational with a capital R and can therefore harness the power of science to make a vaccine

I didn't get this from the post at all -- they didn't invent the vaccine, they're just trying a protocol put together by some other biologists they seem to trust.

The certifications and testing is not for show, and no one serious is claiming that. Asking an entire population to vaccinate is a huge responsibility; if you're making claims to the public that an injection is safe you'd better be as sure as you can reasonably be that it's true.

If you're just experimenting on yourself, the bar is lower: as here, you just need to convince yourself that your risk of adverse outcomes is very low.

An individual may be willing to accept a 0.1% risk of severe adverse outcome. A society that asks 300 million people to take that risk will experience 300,000 severe adverse outcomes.
Pffft, could just pull a Linus instead and rename all current releases by adding one in front of the major version and resetting the patch number. 4.4.256 becomes 14.4.0.

As a bonus, that would stop Linux's long-time lame lag behind Windows and MacOS, who were on 10 for years already and now 11.

Surely this is better than breaking userspace. GKH just invites another Linus' rant on the topic.
Depends on the supermajor. I know BP for sure has a retail arm where they own gas stations in addition to franchises. Same for shell.
Ask HN: Why are monitors matte and laptops glossy and not the other way around?
It boggles my mind why the thing that's meant to sit in one dark spot is protected from glare and the thing that's meant to be carried around is not. Is there any reason for this?

I understand that mobile phones have glossy screens to be more scratch resistant (although I'd still prefer a matte phone), but why laptops? Even MacBook Pro used to have a matte screen option 10 years ago but now all you can do is either buy an ugly screen protector or hide from the light.
And at the same time admitting that perfection is impossible. Brilliant.

P.S. on my screen your pi symbol π looks too much like n, I was confused for a moment.
> I heard many bad things about ExFat, that is not safe and invitation for failures?

This is very generic. The main issue is that it doesn't support journaling so crashes / power loss could affect it. I'd use it for a shared internal drive, but if your point is to have it as an external/portable one, it could lead to consistency issues.

If you're happy to spend some money, there's always extfs support https://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-mac/# or NTFS which is well supported on Linux and has a commercial driver from Paragon: https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
Because I have been around a long time and know lots of other people in the software world who have had similar experiences.
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That's great.

Thanks for your feedback.
So all laws are good? Is that what you would say to someone who broke Jim Crow?
RIP - Better Place (2007 - 2013)

Yet another case study of being right but at the wrong time

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...
this is almost as good as the tacocopter
Tungsten lamp filaments are double coiled wire. According to wikipedia, there are 22 inches of wire in a typical 60 watt bulb. This decorative bulb, because it is cold, has a low resistance, likely only a few ohms, but the effective length is likely to be quite substantial, perhaps 40 feet or more.

Thus, this lamp is effectively an inductively loaded whip. As long as you keep the power down, otherwise it'll become a resistive load

Tungsten is paramagnetic, which I believe means it only weakly increases the inductance of a coil made from it.
That could work , but actually I was trying to move away from hfs+ looking for something better and reliable.

I had a big crush with hfs+ and when I was digging into the specs I was shocked to discover how unreliable and easy to kill it can be .
I understand. Apologies if I came off as confrontational. You make good points.
I am the last person to ask for a citation, but you are responding to a comment which provided one, so your lack thereof does hurt your credibility.

I would be very interested to know what the numbers are for each of the instances you claim, as well as how many of those people were only charged with marajuana offences. It is very common for people to be charged with drug and violent crimes, but 'plead out' of the violent crimes; these people would likely have been jailed/imprisoned for the latter crimes alone (though perhaps for less time).
Okay, that makes sense. I'd probably get it if I'd ever played minecraft.
Congrats on the launch!

I like the idea of bringing subsystems into fully separated products. First comment boxes and now notifications.

Believe it or not, I was drafting this exact idea this in my notes for the last couple of weeks, haha.
Crossdresser -> transgender
But what about employees? Those would not be considered "rich people", so how can they operate on this market, as described in TFA, without infringing?
There are plenty of folks who would fail a marijuana drug test who I'd have no problem in childcare. Your concern is like, "We should test to ensure that someone has had zero alcohol. You don't want your day care provider showing up drunk."
AFAICT, the 600k figure comes the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. And the author of that tweet is a criminal law and criminal justice scholar, currently a professor at Fordham University. I don't remember reading any of his works specifically, but I have read plenty of scholarship on the issue. This summary, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/10/how-we-misunde..., of his latest book seems consonant with everything I've read.

Criminal justice reform advocates created, or at least found themselves with, a particular narrative around the drug wars that heavily emphasized and even exaggerated aspects such as incarceration. That narrative helped to generate support for reform, but it wasn't very accurate. The truth is more complex, but no less in need of addressing. But if you don't have an accurate understanding of the underlying dynamics (e.g. not just that the system is racist, but why and how--those are vary important details) you're not going to be able to remediate it very well.
Glad to see you liked it.

You could search for any categories already.
Wasn't it useful?
Edit and continue in C# is like magic. Paired with ability to move the execution-pointer or unwind the stack and rerun the function you can write a whole algorithm without ever stopping the debugger. Oops - something went wrong, just change the code, reassign the variable in the watch-window and drag up the execution pointer to previous line. Really powerful!

If only more environments had similar tools. Once you've worked with this other tools feel rather primitive.
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The best analogy I could give you is the Mormons in the 1830s, or Jews for Jesus if the Orthodox Jews were in charge of enforcing penalties on the books for "epikoros"
Even take it at face value .1% of 2.3 million people incarcerated is 2000 people. Then you have to consider the number of people who get criminal charges on the record and face employment issues in the future because of it