skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent is specifically talking about Django, and I'm not sure if there is anything comparable to Django in the Elixir ecosystem. So, if there is an absolute necessity for time-to-release at all costs, I reckon Django would probably have some advantage over Elixir.
That's why pilot are mandated to do simulation tests every few months
I disagree with you. I have regularly had my ID scanned, in some bars systematically (all customers). Although only in the UK.
> Because covid was an incredibly hard period for all of us and we as humans need a break.

Ok. Then let's give one to the essential workers who didn't get a break and had to risk their health going in to work every day, delivering food to the WFH crowd, dealing with anti-maskers, delivering packages to the WFH crowd, etc.
All of your comments are just spamming this library that nobody uses.
> becomes a monumental task

Even ignoring the fact that fertility treatments exist...

1 in 4 healthy women in their 20s and 30s will get pregnant in any single menstrual cycle. (The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, 2018)

1 in 10 healthy women in their 40s will get pregnant in any single menstrual cycle. (The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, 2018)

hardly monumental
SpaceX doesn't certify to FAA/EASA, and also doesn't have to work for 30 years.
I can only offer you must best guess as I don't work for Microsoft.

The modern UI framework that you use to create Windows Store apps cannot create a treeview suitable for an explorer type of application.

Since Windows 8 how many apps have you seen that features a treeview with tons of nodes? Zero?

So my guess it that the visual guidelines makes it impossible to modernize the UI of explorer.
At least it's possible to write COM in a measurable time.
I did it in C++ although that was a pain.
It became much easier in .NET.

CORBA - I did not even finish reading "Introduction to CORBA". A book of 500+ pages.
I thought Intentional Programming would be big by now : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming
There is an assumption too for the long term that you will pick the right market and time it right. Things looked amazing in Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit for places to invest if you bought in the 50s. Same with New York City. If you had to unload your property in the late 70s, it didnt seem like a great investment. If you could buy and hold in the 70s, and unload 2006, looks good :)
In short, the holding by SCOTUS is that the appointment of the "judges" was correct, but the legal provision shielding their decisions from review by the Director of the PTO (or any other Principal Officer confirmed by the Senate) is unconstitutional.

The Constitutional issue is that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board was established without any oversight of their key task: invalidating patents. Their decisions are not subject to review, and they cannot be removed from their appointments as a consequence of any decision that they deliver. They are wielding the power of Principal Officers regarding the rights of the people, but they are appointed through a procedure for Inferior Officers, without confirmation by the Senate. If the IOs were answerable to a PO (i.e., PTO Director or Secretary of Commerce), who is answerable in turn to the President, this exercise would be fine, but they answer to nobody; there is no arrangement for anybody in the Executive Branch to review this Board's decisions.

The Government and another concerned party had argued that the Director had the power to choose which judges sat on any panel, thereby effectively removing "wrong" judges from making decisions, thereby effectively exercising control over the Board. The Federal Circuit held that this arrangement was insufficient, but could be remedied by allowing the Director to formally and completely remove judges from the Board if he took issue with their decisions. The Supreme Court agreed with the Circuit that the arrangement, as specified by law, is unconstitutional, but disagreed with the proposed remedy, preferring instead to merely invalidate the one provision of the law that shields the Board's decisions from review by the Director. SCOTUS vacated the Federal Circuit's decision (the decision that had been appealed to them) and remanded the case (i.e., the actual patent dispute, not the Constitutional issue surrounding it, which they have just resolved) down to the Director of the PTO, whom they have just decided has the authority to review the dispute.
> And you do have to be careful not to grab too low a gear and/or don't let the clutch out too fast, or you can mechanically overrev the engine.

A.k.a. the "money shift" as it results in spending lots of money, typically from grabbing 2nd instead of 4th (each being relatively down and to the left).
I have a history of health issues that are relevant here, and I evaluate risk based on those health issues. Not every circumstance is the same, and while I do understand that the risk is low, and while I have drastically lowered the precautions I take, I still take this seriously, especially considering the current vaccination rates (they're pretty low).

> As a unvaccinated individual I never took any precaution

That's your right as an individual; however, that does not reflect the recommendations of most health professionals, nor does it reflect the reality of the global situation.

Of course not everyone that skips precautions will get sick, but don't misinterpret your good fortune / luck as an indicator that the behavior was/is safe.
somewhen around '98, i was thinking the line reality-vs-computing in the what-people-deal-with graph will move towards computing, i.e. more people doing with more reality stuff, i.e. much more (business) analysts and similar much-higher-order programming, and much less coding monkeys. Instead, coding ate the reality part, now everyone and his brother is a combo analyst-and-coder in some primitive language-based-on-some-mathematical-concepts, and only very few companies really still employ domain/business analysts. Domain languages (DSLs) didn't get the attention they should have.. there are still no tools/practical-support for making them - so instead, one has to code them into some common primitive language of choice, putting the "why" knowledge into comments.
(dont get me wrong, i am talking python/javascript, which although much higher level languages than e.g. C-et-al, but are still rather primitive comparing to even simplified domains of anything real)
have fun
Gravitational waves confirm a black hole law predicted by Stephen Hawking
https://archive.is/79AXn
Do write it. It is easier then it sounds and quite pleasant programming task.
My plan to generate 100k monthly visits and sell
Using your own bike with the Peloton class never appealed to me as you don't get your power numbers, so there is no competing with others in the room.

I hear the Wahoo Kikr is great for cyclists: https://www.wahoofitness.com/devices/bike-trainers/kickr/buy
No producer can predict with absolute accuracy the number of items they are going to sell. If you produce too many items that you don't end up selling, you overspend on production costs. If you produce too few, you cut your revenue. Optimizing the balance between these two extremes is part of running a successful business.
Can't say I'm surprised to see the Biden admin go this route. For all of Trump's faults at least he tried to stand up to the CCP. Biden folds like a cheap suit when confronted with any tough stance against the Russians or Chinese.
Sorry to hear PCR tests are so expensive there! They're like that in NL normally if you go to a private lab in order to get a certificate for travel. If you get a government one then there's no certificate for it normally.

>Time limited is how long? I'm guessing 48 hours? So, even if free, you need to take an hour or two out of your life, every two days to be able to go to the cinema/footbal match/concert?

Certainly not saying it is seamless or not a total pain in the ass, but in reference to the OP it is wrong to characterize this as young people suffering, locked at home at the expense of old people who are free to do everything.
Half agree, half disagree.

Businesses want to pay as little as possible, but are in competition with each other for labour who want as much as possible, so it doesn’t feel like it’s merely “at the expense of” workers to me (that said: trade union effectiveness is not a constant).

Also, while freedom of movement for workers is clearly less than freedom of movement for businesses and goods — and the difference favours businesses over workers — I’m not clear how much of that is anti-migrant sentiment rather than globalisation.

Regarding slavery: you’re right, that isn’t what I mean. I am of the opinion that forced labour in USA prisons counts as slavery, and I oppose this unequivocally and do not expect its immediate and permanent termination to cause any problems for the slave-prisoners.

When it comes to “mere” poor working conditions and low pay, that’s when it gets more complicated, because that’s when shutting down the relevant business can have non-zero negative consequences for the workers. And, as you say, even then I would prefer to uplift the conditions rather than shrug and say it’s just how things are. Likewise a carbon tax on imports.
There isn't, it's just that western governments needed an excuse in form of a 'pandemic' to implement the same measures.
Very cool! Koreans also do something similar with mung beans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindae-tteok

I'm going to have to give pesarattu a try. I love how crispy it looks, and some of the recipes I've found with added ginger, chilies, and hing sound like a delight.
We actually used to do a lot of it even in the US. Compare San Francisco or Boston to their original boundaries.

(I also think we should resume: https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-more-land)
Pay for a subscription.

Good luck getting unbiased non-clickbait news when journalists only source of revenue is directly tied to advertisment in an article.
The report would be a lot more useful if there were some context for this data. How many items do comparable places like Wal Mart warehouses destroy each week?

Not content with them going to the trouble of infiltrating Amazon to publish this report, you now insist on them doing the same to another company on a different continent, because without this context, the report isn’t very useful?

Get over yourself!
> People told me everything would be outsourced to India

I'm not sure that this ever amounted to more than a urban legend. When you actually looked into the supposed outsourcing "trend", all you heard about was TheDailyWTF-grade horror stories.
> Inflation hysteria.

And it doesn’t help that there is a strong financial incentive in spreading inflation fears now.
Ignore them. Nice work as usual, Travis.
I sure as fuck didn't think we'd see a flood of "SEEKING COBOL DEVELOPER" posts. But... as all those old guys fade out of the business, someone still has to maintain the mainframes. These massive mission-critical systems have struggled to migrate to the cloud. Realizing that a lot of the old machines are equal parts software and hardware... it's pretty crazy. I'm sure I'd want to die, but the rates for COBOL devs blow my mind.

Wish someone had told me, "Startups are fun, but look at how few of them make a buck. Be a dev, but focus on enterprise and public sector services..." As someone who likes making money, probably just as much if not more than solving problems... like happy for successes with startups in my 20s but I don't think it's something anyone should count on. Look for a nice fat enterprise / government contract. Buy yourself nice toys. Don't waste your time on projects that can't self-fund day 1.
I love that quote. :) Thanks for sharing.
With technological help like guns, obviously the man wins. Without technology but with enough preparation, humans probably still win because they could rig up traps and whatnot. Straight up the giraffe would wreck a humans because they can kick really hard with their long legs.
The annotation style is really incredibly intuitive to read!
I graduated in 1990 with triple major in CompSci, Political Science, and Psychologywhi l it data science!) these gave me the domain and technical knowledge. Fast forward to today, and my biggest regret is either: a) not going directly on to get a PhD in Psychology, which would have been very beneficial now; or, b) not going back and taking over the family farm, which would see me truly working for myself at something which has true meaning and not creating TPS reports.
If the computer solves problems and we know what it's doing, that's software engineering
If the computer solves problems and we don't know what it's doing, that's AI
If the computer doesn't solve problems and we don't know what it's doing, that's Friday afternoon
A lot of what gets returned is plastic garbage that doesn’t even do what it says it does
Yeah, you'd think they'd have moved to the cloud by now.
Good, the difference is your government(s) actually make laws to stop this stuff. The US doesn't seem to give a shit.
Qt, wxWidgets, hell even Java's UI toolkits were all cross-platform long before Electron crawled out of the swamp.

Even GTK is cross platform!
You Can’t Create Permanent Inflation from Artificial Growth
Time machine.

In the 70s if you were under 10 and crossing the Atlantic, the co-pilot would proactively invite you to the cockpit, show you everything, then give you a model toy plane and a lapel pin.
Paywalls with workarounds are the only type of paywalls allowed on HN. Asking for a workaround is an acceptable practice.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...
$64bn exports…

Why handicap yourself if it’s not necessary.
Given the somewhat clickbaity headline, this piece is straight to the point and surprisingly sober.

I found this to be the central thesis:

> If anything, crypto is more likely to hurt the currencies of countries that are doing very poorly, such as Venezuela. Fiat currency won’t just go away, so over the long run crypto could actually boost the value of the dollar by stifling the rise of potential competitors.

...and the author is absolutely correct: much of the crypto crowd, whether or not they understand this, seems wont to ignore it.

I view blockchain tech - and even crypto assets - as a wonderful, peaceful, transformative technology in the long-term. But I also think that the need for calm analysis, thinking about much, much longer timeframes, is sorely needed in the 'crypto crowd' today.

> A second point, oft neglected in the crypto community, is that crypto prices won’t continue to go up forever at high rates. It doesn’t matter whether money supply deflation is built into a crypto system, or that new and valuable uses will be discovered each year.

Here I again I agree, but I do want to add something important:

New and valuable uses are very important right now. I work at NuCypher, and we are very proud of having deployed proxy re-encryption as an access management tool. But nobody is using it, for two reasons: 1) gas prices, 2) there are no other "new and valuable uses" which make access management worthwhile at the moment.

Whether or not you see a rich future for blockchain tech, I hope we can all agree that solid uses - especially those which advantage groups marginalized by yesterday's internet - are the real driver of the eventual equilibrium the author describes here.
First of all, "130K" is a meaningless number except as a percentage of items sold/returned. Curiously, the article neglects to mention this. Plus, you need to compare that percentage with other retailers.

Second, this happens with any business.

For new products, it's stuff Amazon has determined simply isn't selling and is unprofitable to continue storing in the limited warehouse space. Better to chuck it and make space for products that are actually selling.

While for returns, they're going to be items that are similarly unprofitable to sell. "Amazon Warehouse" is the seller on Amazon that sells returned items -- and they resell a ton of the returns -- but there isn't always a price point that is both low enough that people are willing to buy the cheaper returned item, but still high enough that it's profitable for Amazon to continuing stocking it and ship it.

Now a lot of businesses (e.g. BestBuy I'm assuming) sell certain types of returned items, particularly electronics, in bulk to eBay resellers. That's where you can people selling things like a single model of webcam in "open box" condition for ~50% off retail, they've got 100 units for sale that "may have cosmetic scratches but 100% functional" and the photograph is "representative". Which is great. But since Amazon has its own internal "Amazon Warehouse" reseller, I'm not sure it ever does this.
The avionics bay ("server room") is pressurized. Just like the cargo area. The small hatch and door he went through don't hold any pressure.
The author waiting for you to laugh at their title is also a Moray

https://cdn.imgy.org/1zVQ.jpg
But they do so in a highly-sandboxed environment which has constantly evolving mitigations to counter exactly this threat.
That helps. Thanks for clarifying!
Chill out! Wow. I think he's just asking as a baseline. You see reports that "Costco spills 1000 gallons a day of water" but if you don't have any reference point, how do you know if that's low, average, or high. lol
This is a common misconception. They don't drop onto you from trees.

https://thehikingauthority.com/do-ticks-fall-down-from-trees...
> Neither Ukraine, nor Russia have declared a state of war on other

Nobody declares war anymore. And a formal declaration of war isn't a prerequisite for being in a state of war. (By that definition, the United States has been at peace since WWII.)
I based my bachelor's graduation project on Setahres' work.

The one thing I wish we could find is the drum version of this. As in instead of starting from a string (which leads to harmonic series), start from a circular membrane (which leads to a very complicated mathematical result based on bessel functions ircc).
The hardware is all generic. That leaves the software, and in the EU, software "as such" is not patentable. It would be (is?) a travesty if patents applied regardless, rendering that patent restriction meaningless.
This seems like it ignores condominiums? Instead of building one house at 1200 sqft, you can build a house with 2+ units and sell them individually.

(The graph they have lines up quite well with condos becoming a thing)
Thank you for the book recommendation. I don't know if it is still as relevant, when it was written in 2014. The situation changed dramatically, the International Energy Agency (IEA) writes in the report https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2020?mode=o... "Supportive policies and maturing technologies are enabling very cheap access to capital in leading markets. With sharp cost reductions over the past decade, solar PV is consistently cheaper than new coal- or gasfired power plants in most countries, and solar projects now offer some of the lowest cost electricity ever seen." The agency even reconsidered estimates for the future, estimating more usage of solar, because it trends cheaper than previously thought.

The Internation Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) supports these findings: https://www.irena.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2020/Jun/Renewa...

Certainly the electric grid in the USA is in an unfortunate position because it is not so well connected, looking quite island-like. There is a great need for much higher long distance energy transfer capacity and better interconnects.

We know, that the wind doesn't blow constantly and can quite reliably predict it days in advance/ can also apply statistics. It is a factor in planing from the start, else you cannot calculate the return on investment and will not get financing. With storage or enough transmission capacity, you can work around this problems and flatten the peaks and valleys in production or demand. The central limit theorem is your friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem if you have enough independent sources (which you create by having long distance transmission capacity or vast storage capacity basically).

Also, in some rather remote parts of the world, solar and wind (and perhaps micro dams) is the only way you can generate electricity economically. This doesn't only concern islands and "third world" countries but also remote parts in the USA.
Is the California state QR code compatible?
There are ALSO a lot of old cell phones and raspberry Pis and things around. These computers use very little power and are still quite capable. There's NOTHING preventing them from being useful for a wide range of tasks except for software bloat, or closed platforms. It would not be hard conceptually to build computers to prioritize power consumption, it's simply just not a priority.
Next - we should all grow food underwater.
Charging more for waste disposal results in illegal dumping.
That is the SAP/T-Systems repository. It contains the implementation.

The main EU project is part of the eHealth Network and can be found here:

https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/

Disclaimer: I'm working on it as part of the Dutch team, mainly contributing to the schema but have also helped get the gateway up and running.
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I started briefly reading about ATM in the past months.
Nothing much and mostly superficial stuff, but it’s probably one of the more bizarre network protocols I’ve seen.

I’ve been meaning to pick up some ATM switches and other equipment to see if I can toy with it and create my own little network. I already did this with ISDN.
Hey HN!

Spark Bible is a free app I built for iOS & Android. The idea is that many millions of people read the Bible regularly and want it to impact their lives for good. However, the Bible is also quite difficult to understand.

There is a lot of foundational knowledge people only get through graduate education in theology or biblical studies (e.g., understanding the differences between ancient near eastern cultures vs today’s cultures). My goal is for Spark Bible to make that type of knowledge and learning more accessible to the average Bible reader.
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Super hero comics were a small slice of the overall pie in 1940. Now they're the largest genre and saturate all media. Something changed.
Interesting though, that for the author FOSS is neither disenchanted nor has any magic lost.
Most people in crypto do not understand anything about economics. They understand ponzi/ greater fool theory and how to obfuscate to the public and regulators to pull the wool over someone's eyes.
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Walmart isn’t willingly going to publish reliable bad information about themselves, just like Amazon don’t. Discovering it will be a lot of effort, but the OP demands it!