skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I drove all my friends crazy in Singapore (has the same switched outlet) by never, ever “switching off the socket” - whenever a housekeeper did that it would take me a long time (initially) to figure out why an appliance wasn’t working.
Having suffered under both, I'd totally spend the rest of my life developing enterprise Java if it meant systemd went away forever.
What apps or programs do you use to make your phone work as a webcam? I've tried that last year but none of the solutions in the play store seemed to work for me.
A $10k Wager on the Laws of Physics
Italian sockets are a fun one. The plugs come in a 10A and 16A versions which are slightly different sizes. Newer sockets will usually take both plugs, but older sockets take one or the other.

The size looks very similar to European Schuko sockets, and if you jam it in, then it will just about fit (without an earth). You can get adapters all over the place, which is the way you are supposed to do it, but for older sockets they don't really hold very well so often come loose. Apparently there are sockets that will take all three, Schuko, 10A and 16A but I never saw those while living there.

It's not just to trick tourists though... When you buy electrical products, sometimes they come with an Italian plug, sometimes they come with a Schuko plug.
Australia, and Argentina since then 90s, use the Y plug, which is not mentioned in the article.

Why Argentina used the same plug as Australia I have no idea, and it's not fully documented as far as know.
I think the above poster was more talking in terms of market share. I only use free software, so I don't really have an incentive to shill against Linux here, but it's worth noting that among the premiere desktop gaming platform, more people use PC VR than Linux. Linux isn't winning here, despite its better...everything, because Windows has two major advantages: It's already installed, and games are marketed to kids who more often than not probably don't have a choice in operating system!

Markets don't optimize for efficiency in computing.
Is there anyone with experience using Binance from a banned or restricted zone? Was your crypto frozen?
Usually salt is not added in the beginning when recipe has step of activating yeast. Then you don't drop pure salt into just activated yeast - kind of make sense.
Why wood has gotten so dang expensive
Habits or Tasks
I guess a generous reading of "complex" versus "complicated":

Complex - a plain adjective. It's just how the thing is.

Complicated - past tense of the verb "to complicate," used as an adjective. Somebody made this complicated.

But yeah, I still prefer thinking of inherent and accidental complexity. Expresses the actual idea directly.
I bought a couple of items there and they were great deals. Tried buying a third item and it never showed and the seller said to wait a bit longer and eventually it went over the time limit to get a refund. Seller didn’t respond after that, so I’ve learned my lesson and won’t shop there anymore.
You should post job ads like that in the "Who is hiring?" thread that gets posted on the first day of every month. You might want to familiarize yourself with the expected format beforehand: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Mechanical 7-Segment Display Uses a Single Motor
CE's play with mud. They can go to the beach, get some LEGO, or build a bridge of stones across a brook.

;-))

There are plenty of ways for CE's to "tinker" using civil and mechanical engineering statics and dynamics simulators.
The mistakes made in these comments led to process improvements. Also, the price of computing has come down substantially such that you can actually build highly available and fault tolerant systems.

New sysadmins make mistakes, sure. But they're typically not as critical because recovery processes and correct system architecture insulate the admin from making a mistake with such catastrophic results.
How does "Name: John Doe. Vaccinated (or 'Immune'): Yes" tell anyone that you, who are flaunting this pass, are the John Doe who is vaccinated? Names suck as identifiers.
Edible Cholera vaccine made of powdered rice proves safe in phase 1 human trials
Install some GFCI outlets everywhere and the risk is gone. Also you are very, very, very unlikely to be electrocuted in this way even if you do touch the metal and get voltage passed through you.

Like, it is possible, if one finger in a hand is touching the live prong, and another finger on the other hand is touching the neutral/ground prong, you'd pass current across your chest.

Or if you are touching something that is grounded, like a pipe/sink...

But actually dying this way is rather unlikely.
While this is indeed worrisome, I’m not really sure Microsoft is any better than Amazon from a pure end-user point of view.

Microsoft has been a telemetry champion and has been collecting troves of personal data through Windows 10, all the while making it almost impossible for the average user to disable it (and re-enabling it with every major update).

So if Microsoft goes the same route as Amazon (resigning every app), it’s just a matter of choice between a rock and a hard place.
On the other hand, even if they allow for the app developer to keep its signature, Microsoft is still probably very capable of gathering data and telemetry through their Android implementation.

Either way, and until it becomes illegal to collect data without explicit consent, I’m pretty sure we’re screwed…
Already here - I’ve had windows 10 auto updates re-enable it at least 3 times over the years. I’ve given up frankly. It’s really crazy they get away with it.
> ideas to create a wide-area network

Having ideas to create something is very different from actually building it.

Everything is built on existing ideas. It is meaningless to reference this.

> I see many nationalities and countries having contributed to what we ultimately call the Internet.

We aren’t talking about ‘what we ultimately call the internet’. This discussion is about the birthplace of the internet which is unequivocally the US, and which you denied.

The birthplace of the internet was the US. The birthplace of the web was Switzerland. It’s complete bullshit to pretend otherwise.
>The white sailboat outside of Michelin Group’s Swiss office doesn’t have a sail at all. Instead, it has a wing.

Ugh. A sail, most of the time, is a wing.
Sometimes the foreign-language packaging of an otherwise-familiar brand item makes this really obvious!
> Individual houses are wired to one phase of that.

Or all 3. I thought this was most common. 3x20A (or 16 or 25) 240V is the standard for detached houses in parts of Northern Europe at least.
There are good experiment/evidence based writers out there, they're just mostly drowned out by all the noise.

Harrold McGee

J Kenji Lopez Alt

Nathan Myhrvold (yes, the one and same)

As some of the other comments explain, the problem is a lot of authors use the word "caramelize" when what they actually mean is "brown." This happens on restaurant menus too, as a sort of term inflation thing to try to make things sound more dramatic than they are.
Sure, but the Edge engine, although being essentially the same as the Chromium engine behind Electron, can be built with different flags, have different set of accelerations enabled and probably even be integrated with DirectShow (and ActiveX maybe?). I don't know if it is, just speculating.
"The company plans to test the technology on a commercial freighter in 2022."
It helps to have a good teacher. My years of Atari 8 bit BASIC seemed more help than hindrance when a good high school computer teacher then taught me Pascal.
"I would expect them to follow the path of Zoom and add voice transcription thus allowing them to not only save text chats forever, but also save everything that everyone says"

It might not be transcribed, but I'd be very surprised if they didn't already save everything that everyone said (in audio format).

Some of it is probably already transcribed too. It's just that doing it for every possible accent and language is not easy without training, so they probably don't have everything transcribed, but some of it probably is and the rest is just waiting in archives for when they want to give it more attention.
Obama did try to close Guantanamo several times early on in his term.

Congress passed amendments and bills that prohibited actually transferring detainees into the mainland US, because people went full NIMBY over “terrorists” in their backyard. The President’s power is not absolute.
> tens of hundreds

Thousands?
Another junky socialist article.

Sorry to break it to you, but different individuals must be equal only before law. Elsewhere, their abilities, talents, effort, and luck makes them realize different outcomes.

Many people in the US get unjust income, not just the rich.

Material inequality isn't illegal, and isn't a problem either.
Plunder still is illegal, but that's a necessary condition for socialism so you won't write about that, will you?
another metric: independence of the direction for ground.

French sockets (https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/...) have a male pin that forces your plug one way only. This is terrible because most (if not all) of such plugs are bent and sometimes do not physically fit.

German ones (https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/...) do not have a prong and ple plugs can be rotated 180°
I think Starlink has a chance to raise the floor in rural areas.

Telcos (usually) do an OK job when there's a competing cable company, and vice versa, but when it's just one offering, there's often low reliability, low speed or both. This is most often in rural areas, where Starlink should be viable.

Some urban areas do fall into the same single provider, low quality offering, and Starlink won't be viable there.
Correct: Europe has a far more entrenched elite / patrician class than the United States with far less opportunities for someone to "break out" by creating a company. Yet we continually hear about how terrible the US's economic & social policies are... to this observer, it makes no sense.
> I know that it can be achieved without binary logs, but does any popular distribution implement compression out of the box?

Are you saying that since distros don't optimally configure a program out of the box, we should scrap and replace the whole program instead of just fixing its default configuration?
I had to come back to this comment. You seem to know a lot about this stuff. Do you have a blog or something?
the US had this local loop unbundling. anyone could build, and anyone else could access those incumbent carrier's lines to provide service at regulated wholesale rates. this was created by the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

but then fiber came along, and Verizon vs FCC (2002) slowly made it's way through courts, got to the supreme court, and the supreme court sided with Verizon, who said fiber was so fancy, so costly, so new, that they required a monopoly. the Supreme Court overruled Congress & upturned the Tecommimications Act & have fiber a local monopoly, and things in the US have been getting slowly worse ever since.
I don't think systemd requires 10 daemons for network config, isn't it only systemd-resolvd for DNS, systemd-networkd for actual network, and systemd-timesyncd for NTP?

If you only mean to say that you replace 3 bits of systemd then it would be good to say that, and to say which bits of systemd it replaces.

A lot of distros do not even use those systemd services, for example ubuntu does not use systemd-networkd by default.

I read "it weights only 1/100 of SystemD" as if it compared systemd to connman directly.
As mentioned in the sibling comment, this has been fixed by AWS a few months ago and now all S3 operations are always strongly consistent (not eventually consistent)
While I think Mqtt has its issues and http with response body streaming (as in gRPC) is a legit solution for many pub/sub use-cases I can’t see how quic fits into the „resource constrained“ category: quic is a complicated protocol and implementations have to keep a lot of state around - eg the about the State of individual streams, the connection state, tracking state which information was sent in packets and has to be acknowledged, etc.

Quic implementations usually do that via dynamic allocations - and pretty much all the libraries do a lot of them.

For resource constrained systems you usually want the opposite: no dynamic allocations to avoid the chance to run out of memory or to be subject to memory fragmentation issues. You might be able to work around this a bit with a custom allocator that is only used by one particular library, but guarantees are still on the low end.

Tcp in comparison is easier to implement with static resources. TLS is also easier, it mainly requires a full TLS frame sized buffer for sending and receiving (or at least 16kB for receiving). And still that has shown to be a big implementation hurdle for many devices.
As someone who’s spent time between California and Japan recently (2019-2020), I honestly think the differences between a Daiso in the US (Los Angeles) and a Daiso in Japan (central Tokyo) are very slight. I bought a lot of little gifts for people from Daiso when I was in Japan, and I’ve found that most of what I bought is also available in the stateside stores. Most of the everyday goods (household, serving ware, tools, cleaning, toys, stationery, etc.) are identical, with only the food and beverage section differing significantly. For instance, in Japan there is a limited stock of local brands by the register (somewhat marked up vs. the local combini). In California, it’s a very select handful of true imports, but most of it are brands who are producing a local US variant that Daiso doesn’t have to ship through customs. And interestingly, they stock some specialty Hawaiian drinks like POG that you can’t find easily in either California or Japan.
Yay, I use a point and shoot (Sony ZV-1) as Webcam. Not only it provides a stellar picture but i need to actually turn it on to do so. Win/Win.
Here in the PNW most new houses are ugly boxes with some kind of flat paneling. Quite the contrasting sitting next to far more attractive older brick houses.
To anyone who doesn't know, Radio Free Asia is a CIA cut-out and World Uyghur Congress is a CIA (NED) funded separatist group. [1]

[1] https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/05/world-uyghur-congress-us-...
Do you mean Office 365? Classic offline Office seems Okay.
The telemetry for Windows is a frequent topic here, could anyone clarify/compare the story for Mac OS?
That is probably the main concern for most people. I conference from my office and I simply don't go in there if I'm not presentable at some level. But if you're conferencing from your bedroom, especially with another person, it would be super-easy to mess up with an early morning video call.
I use Droidcam OBS with OBS on Windows/Mac and it's pretty good, especially over USB. Droidcam X is good as well but with OBS you get more control over the image quality and you can do some arranging of the scene as well.

There's also https://vdo.ninja/ (previously obs.ninja) that doesn't require any special apps. You open up a browser on your smartphone and input the link into OBS as a browser source. The performance on Chrome is superior to other Android browsers in my experience. There's a bit of delay and the quality isn't quite as good as OBS as the connection goes through the internet and isn't local, but the delay is actually surprisingly small.
From a creator perspective it makes a great place to build a stronger community, as you are on more equal ground with your followers and all your followers now have a place to talk about what they follow. Hard to be "equals" on twitter or on youtube. For github projects it depends, but it is usually tech support, but one where more often than not other users/followers will be helping other users/followers, which leaves the creator with less support work.

From a follower perspective, it is a place that usually garners like minded individuals, meaning you can often find friends/people to do stuff with.
It is also a very good way to hear news about whatever you are following, a lot of server have a ton of users but little activity because most people are there for the news.

The reason why people don't just create forum websites is mostly because it costs money and secondly because going to a website is more cumbersome than opening an app that holds all these "forums".
Just to kick the discussion off, I'm building web stuff, and ML-related back ends with some CLI tooling. Docker's in the mix, too. I liked Pipenv's clear expression of dependencies and its separate lockfile so that we could be clear about intent versus specific dependency version used.

However, lately we've had real struggles with pytorch, which admittedly is an odd participant in the Python ecosystem, in that it has a variety of installables depending on the CUDA version you want. And lately I've lost many hours trying to figure out how internal ML library A and dependent CLI tools package B can express their dependencies in ways that they can be installed as regular pip packages from where they live in our private GitHub repos.

The most recent serious comparison I've seen since March is this one: https://frostming.com/2021/03-26/pm-review-2021/

That includes pipenv, poetry, and PDM. One of our data science folks has suggested using conda. That gives me the willies, as it seems too heavy and too differently targeted, but that's not a real reason to say no.
Sock puppet?
And then update your software because you need security updates. And then disable telemetry again. And then update your software again. And then disable telemetry again. And then update software again. And then disable telemetry again. And then install Linux and never install Windows ever again.
In the Apple ecosystem you are asked once when setting up a new device if you would like to enable telemetry.
"Mumble is one of those rare solutions that works just fine on the Tor network"

How do you even set it up to use TOR?

It'd be nice if it just had a "Connect through TOR" checkbox in its preferences, but I have a feeling it's not even remotely so easy, is it?
I would imagine the masts travel through the upper deck from their base which is bolted onto the frame, rather than being bolted to the outside deck.
Metal detectorist unearths rare gold coins from Black Death period
Safety seems like a big one too. Even the shoddiest fit should never have a visible powered part.

Reliability: Fit should be good. You should be easily able to plug a heavy transformer on a downward facing socket without it falling out by gravity alone.

Lastly, compactness. The standard should be compact so fittings can be good looking and not use too much space.

The UK grounded connector fails the last criteria. The US flat-face fails the first two.
But in reality those 16k hold a very small part of the population. Them existing is not a reason you could not have fiber available for the majority of the population (and for cheap like 100mbit unlimited for $20 per month)

Here in Finland only 97 towns have over 10k population (out of 310). And this number has gotten “better” over the last couple decades as we joined a bunch of small/dying places together.

Basically for any argument about population density Finland just has a really low density. From western countries only Canada, Iceland and Australia beat us in that.

(Finland is 216 out of 250 worldwide with our 16 per km^2)
Further, the UK has twice the voltage which means twice the current will pass through you. The US 120v system is pretty safe in general. If you do something really dumb it'll kill you but 120v isn't really that concerning compared to 230-240. The cutoff for dangerous voltages is usually considered to be around 60v.
Dont touch the prongs???

34 years in the US. I have never been electrocuted when plugging/unplugging anything. I dont know anyone that has been.

Wtf are you playing at? Everywhere across the planet has to adopt things that make you comfortable because you apparently dont know how to not touch the metal bits when unplugging something? Wait no, you're the one they write, "Dont eat package" for, aren't you?
Why can’t we hardwire genes to continue growing teeth?
> H2 attempts to solve a number of problems present in HTTP 1.1 when your connection _isn't_ perfect

by multiplexing a many pseudo connections down one TCP pipe. I still don't quite understand how that was meant to improve performance over a lossy link.

It seemed to me that Http2 was meant to be a file transfer protocol, but designed by people who don't really quite understand how TCP performs in the real world (especially on mobile)
I don't think the aim is to replace motor power completely, but to offload some of the effort for long distances to reduce fuel consumption.

As regard stays, the stay needs to be at 90deg to the sail orientation. Presumably mounted on some kind of circular track to rotate with the sail.

The engineering is challenging but not inconceivable.
You said there are a "whole host of problems associated with centralized middlemen" but the only "problem" you mention is the unpredictability of the money supply in fiat currencies, which, leaving aside whether it's even a problem, it certainly isn't representative of a set of problems "associated with centralized middlemen".

And the claim that the inflation rate is unpredictable in the absence of an adaptive monetary policy is not controversial among economists, as far as I know. If you think such a claim is "plain silly" and that it "makes no sense" maybe you need to explain why.
https://archive.is/7bWFC
> There is a 240 V center tapped step down transformer for each house.

Maybe in rural areas, but in (sub)urban areas, you'll have a... ?node? step-down transformer serving many homes.

> The normal outlets in the house are wired across half the transformer, giving 120 V

Would add that homes usually balance this, so half of 120V circuits will be wired to one phase, and half to the other. So sometimes you get power failures where half the house loses power. Also means installing power-line networking may only work (well) when they're on the same half of circuits of the house, unless you add a capacitor between the two sides to bridge the gap for high frequencies. Or turn on a 240V appliance to bridge the two sides together.
Yeah and apparently a secret?
That map is pretty close to being a population map: https://xkcd.com/1138/

I think that speed by state is a pretty bad measure for conveying anything useful. Speeds vary within each state by orders of magnitude, depending on whether you can get a connection to a particular medium or not.

I bet the full data set of speeds is not a bell curve. There are probably huge peaks for each medium, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the mode and mean are significantly different.
category and topic of interest, yea, I kind of do the same thing actively, but as you mention GTD, I should stop doing the categorizing already, it's taking too much of my time

I made a comment on tab overload post previously:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27163973
Then don't use Windows.

If you aren't happy with Apple's telemetry, then use Linux.

If you aren't happy with bug reporting tools remove it.
Can we end these scams already?!
AFAIR in physics and chemistry, room temperature is a short hand for 27°C in 1 atm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_conditions_for_temper...

After checking the reference, I feel like this was probably an assumption in all the textbooks that I had to follow in school. I suppose if each standards body had their own definition, it can get frustrating.
If you think you are going to make money from a messenger, you are in for a shock.
No, because the mangled names still depend on the names ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanbird
Is there any other part in a cellphone that requires 36 V to operate? It seems quite high for being stuffed into a portable electronics device.