skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the right take. Home projects are not like, say, Uber where the primary quality criterion is essentially getting a person to point B in a reasonable time frame, so easily measurable.

Brokering this kind of work is much tougher, with far more variables for quality/success and more room for subjectivity along with some lag time between the work and ability to fully measure quality. I suspect the founders here will find that the very reasons it's a problem for customers are the reasons it will be a problem for them. There is no shortage of bad contractors willing to charge for their work, and the good ones don't need to share their cut to get work.

So, they've absolutely identified a significant homeowner challenge, but their solution seems a bit naive. As another example, auditing photos for quality is unreliable and doesn't scale with project complexity. Yet, if you start to go further in auditing (e.g. on-site auditors) or otherwise guaranteeing and allocating work, then you've essentially re-invented subcontracting (perhaps even more akin to employment). I think they are also vastly underestimating their exposure in guaranteeing this type of work, especially for a small firm. Just arbitrating disputes alone can be a massive resource drain, and that doesn't include the actual remedy (and who pays for that remedy?).

And, of course, the Home Depots and Lowe's of the world already do something similar, with variable results. Hard to see where the real value-added differentiator is here, outside of the lack of brick and mortar.

I do hope they have an epiphany on their journey that leads them to a solution.
For anyone wanting to add to their perspective how some younger generations are bringing in their thoughts on freedom/authority:

- https://thisrupt.co

- https://thestandard.co/homepage/ (Thai language only, but you can attempt to Google Translate)
I'm a user of a couple of your services, specifically those that will be affected by a domain change.

The founder is Jonah Aragon right? He used to run an OpenNIC TLD if I'm correct and abandoned that for some reason a long time ago.
There were attempts back in the day, like Ripterm, and CGI interfaces that worked in almost any language. Things like Compuserve and AOL came in proprietary and then pivoted to internet as we know it. Netscape and WinTCP became common and now we have webkit, gecko and chromium.
Obligatory: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sa...
Raspberry Pi OS == Linux
Craig's "Yes Minister" article used pseudonyms and a comic style to lay out his opinion that the accusations against Salmond were false and the result of a politically motivated conspiracy using the anonymity convention to protect the conspirators from facing repercussion.

Although this accusation seems to have sufficient merit, given the verdicts, to justify further investigation it does not take away from the fact the the Yes Minister article can easily be used to deduce the identities of two of the accusers.

It was not this article but a mainstream one by Dani Garavelli that allowed me to jigsaw identify one of the accusers and the fact that her article remains visible and Garavelli has faced no similar consequences does speak volumes about the selectivity used.

However Garavelli's article required one Google search to cross check names from a different source, Murray's Yes Minister article allows for immediate identification from common knowledge (if you follow Scottish Politics).

Craig's article was published before the anonymity order was issued and he should have taken it down when that order was made and certainly shouldn't have directed attention to the fact this article could be used for jigsaw identification.

Although his courthouse reporting of what the defence said is invaluable and though the conspiracy he points to merits further investigation, be was an idiot to publish the Yes Minister article and acted with foolish hubris not to take it down sooner.
Here is a fun suggestion: Imagine each of those was an entirely separate institution with its own properly named tax and its own elections. i.e. We all pay education tax, the elected board makes a budget within the boundaries of its charter.

We replace the dinosaur one time election with a "change your vote whenever you like" system something like a coalition needs 51% to be eligible to take office and less than 40% to lose it.

Salaries should be glorious and the officials shall be [financially] accountable beyond death.

People will not care much and not modify their vote very often until things get bad enough.

The military [for example] can go to war without the usual bribing of senile old men but if you take the country to war you probably wont be in charge of the war effort and if people really don't want the war they will rappidly cycle though different formations until they are rid of it.
(also frustrated)
re: adboys and girls, the problem (at least in the US) is that vaccines are political, so persuading people to get them is seen as dangerously close to subverting democratic society. Same thing as taking action to counter foreign influence campaigns.

see also: the leaks to project veritas about Facebook's counter vaccine hesitancy program.
> That's just a bad fire department. There are procedures to put out lithium-ion fires that aren't just "let it burn".

That's what they're supposed to do, though, according to Tesla[1]. The firefighters are there to pour water on the fire to cool it down and wait for the battery to burn and release its energy. This is what Tesla's manuals[1] say:

> If the high voltage battery becomes involved in fire or is bent, twisted, damaged, or breached in any way, or if you suspect that the battery is heating, use large amounts of water to cool the battery. DO NOT extinguish fire with a small amount of water. Always establish or request an additional water supply.

> Battery fires can take up to 24 hours to fully extinguish. Consider allowing the vehicle to burn while protecting exposures.

EV battery fires and their risk to firefighers are a national problem[2].

Also, you're expecting a lot from what are often volunteers who have little to no funding. I lived in a place where over $20 million was spent on police salaries each year, but firefighters and EMTs were all volunteers.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20805805-2014_model_...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/federal-regulators-wa...
It works through at least Big Sur on Intel. Maybe it was previously documented and they pulled the docs around Catalina's release, but this would be the first I've heard of that in at least a year of active interest in the topic, and that makes it difficult to credit on pure assertion. There are almost a hundred comments in this thread, and it's close to midnight here; do you mind linking those to which you refer?
Governments lie and lies (masks don't work, just two weeks, how dare you not wear a mask, social distancing is important unless you're a politician, you'll get your freedom back once your vaccinated, etc), but then anyone who questions them is "anti-science".
One more market for starlink to sell
This is a good one:

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

From a book perspective, I adored A History of Thailand by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit.
I have never hired a contractor based on anything online or ads, reviews, etc. It's always word of mouth, talking to neighbors and friends, talking to contractors I've been happy with (even if they are in a different trade than I need for the next job, they know people and they can make referrals).

Also in my experience, contractors loathe technology. They work by phone calls and texts at the most.
bcuz a lot of hacker news readers have no sense of humor or sarcasm detection
This trilogy features long sections from the perspective of the Trisolarans without any humans around and their motivations are central to the plot.
Sorbet works well with .rbs files! (The Sorbet team helped the Ruby Core team define the syntax).

I agree it's too bad that Sorbet's syntax choices weren't adopted "officially" by Ruby Core – I think matz had some unfortunate strong opinions about types never appearing in normal .rb files – but I wouldn't be too disheartened a Rubyist as long as the community adopts Sorbet anyway, which it seems to be doing.

(disclaimer: former Stripe, former Rubyist)
Can Removing Urban Highways Improve the Health of American Cities?
> The founder is Jonah Aragon right?

No, he's the system administrator, the founder was Burung Hantu. https://privacytools.io/about/
The one that plans to print much shorter strings, but accepts arbitrary strings.
The remarks supposedly uttered by Trump on this topic [0] are one of the truer things he said: "Taiwan is like two feet from China. We are eight thousand miles away. If they invade, there isn’t a fucking thing we can do about it."

There's a lot of talk about standing up to China, but in concrete terms, what does that mean? It's hard to see how any "kinetic" action doesn't go nuclear. I think we should just stop poking the hornet's nest; the Chinese would be quite happy leaving the 1992 Consensus alone.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vpqb/trump-wasnt-going-to-...
How about guitar-driven percussion[1]?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXq1rvuN_lI
I didn't mean to make equivocations to any modern or historically violent regimes, though perhaps I was too flippant in using the term "secret police". I'm well aware that Tunisia (now and even years ago) has a much stronger civil society than most if not all of the Arab world, and in many respects comparable to Europe. It's no coincidence that it was the first (and arguably only) country to transition to democracy during the Arab Spring.

My point was just that if you're worried about the consequences of your country slipping back into authoritarianism, obviously you'll want to 1) be more prudent about what you say, and 2) be more rigorous in practicing trust & verify--both regarding the trustworthiness of the person purporting to speak with you, and that they're actually that person, much like if a bank or journalist contacted me. (I always try to verify both, with varying degrees of rigor depending on consequences. And I'll never provide personal information, confidential or otherwise, over an incoming phone call; I always ask for a callback number that I can verify.)

Suffice it to say, even in robust democracies you can be interrogated by police for making innocuous statements online. A couple Muslim friends experienced exactly that (repeatedly) in the aftermath of 9/11. That was wrong and harmful, but there was never any threat or perceived threat of physical harm. I didn't mean to denigrate Tunisia by suggesting it would be so quick to descend into a thoroughly repressive and violent dictatorship. The world is much more complex than as portrayed in Hollywood and pulp history.

To the extent my comment made a caricature of Tunisia, I apologize.
I didn't actually believe you, until I saw that you can spec it with 1.5TB of memory. So yeah, that's where most of the cost comes in.
And we also want the corrupt incompetent bloated government to disarm the citizens and censor all offensive speech. Because the corrupt incompetent government is surely not going to do some bad things ever.
Wouldn't "fully stimulat[ing] an immune response in the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract" be indistinguishable from having a bad cold?
The Sorbet compiler will work with most Ruby code as-is (if not all). Crystal works with very little, or no Ruby code as-is.
I can agree, A History of Thailand is an excellent recommendation.
I am not deeply read up on this case, but it seems rather high compared to the recent Jan 6th capital attackers sentence of eight months.
>the private sector was angry at the Crown that they couldn't commit as much atrocities and steal as much land from the natives as they wanted to.

Never heard that one. Sources?
Only if tools like Tor had greater visibility. And communication without exchange of value is pointless (since any real movement needs exchange of $$ to organize), so throw Monero in there too.
Supposedly expensive cultural institutions (art museums, symphony, ballet) play this role because they have events for their major donors to hang out with each other, as well as tastefully publicizing who their major donors are. If you donate enough money to a cultural institution, you can get your name mentioned somewhere and also get a couple of high-end party invitations. (Maybe not during COVID?)

Maybe you should get some kind of style consultation / makeover before attempting that so people there don't think you look that weird?

More concretely, we might ask what your goals are in meeting other very rich people. There isn't just one kind of rich person and there isn't just one social circle of rich people. You could also take up hobbies that you find you genuinely enjoy; if they're expensive hobbies, maybe you'll find that some other people involved in them are also pretty well off.

Also, if you start donating to charities, you could have some frank conversations with the donor relations people about your interests -- at the high end they probably have some individual relationship with, or at least some substantive knowledge of, their other major donors. So you could ask the people receiving your donations about your interests, whether framed socially or in terms of wanting to develop your philanthropy by talking to like-minded donors.
Oh boy, if I am the best in the whole world at my discipline, and my performance has been broadcasted to everybody, and there's billions here and there made because of it. For sure I want my damn medal to be pure gold.
> Doesn't sound like a great plan really. If I were you I'd work harder with the domain owner to get control. It sounds like he's just hard to reach, not obstructive as such.

For context, we did bring this up with Burung Hantu, when he was around about 6 months ago. We offered to buy the domain.

The exact details were discussed more here:

https://old.reddit.com/comments/osvuf9/comment/h6rnkyt/

https://old.reddit.com/comments/osvuf9/comment/h6rrbf4/
It's almost like when a parent is in denial about their spouse abusing others. They turn a blind eye to it.
> and sending them over to massacre people - also indiscriminately.

That doesn’t follow, if the private sector decides to do something of it’s own volition then that’s on the private sector.
Actually there was IMHO another class of directors in CSSR than idealists/hardliners and pragmatists - the totally corrupt ones. :P

Those knew how to play the system and how to get ridd of the others while being untouchable due to being representatives of the regime.
So - I guess ticket shaming on HN works?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...
great for cheating on the SATs.
> It should really remain not for profit if you want to be taken seriously at what you do. At least make it a foundation if it needs a legal entity :) And be really careful who you take money from and under which conditions.

That is the intention, and it says that in the blog article :).

> Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. This will take some careful planning and time to get right, but we’re confident we can prevent this from ever happening again, and keep us independent of any one team member.

Just to clarify, we plan to become a 501(c)(3) organization.

This was another thing Burung Hantu wasn't interested in.
So fire was the first meme?
Are these actually lithium ion batteries? I kind of assume so given the fire. Why not use something like LFP instead, for a grid-scale installation where weight doesn't matter so much? Along the same lines, is the Tesla Powerwall a lithium ion battery? Most DIY equivalents are LFP, that I'm familiar with. This seems like a sensible choice.
At my previous gig (all remote, a startup) we had plenty of creative and productive random discussions. They'd start on slack and then progress to zoom.

So it's possible, but it certainly _felt_ different than the random discussions I'd had at in-person companies.

I can't quite put my finger on it, though. With the remote startup, there was no choice...?
Wife of Dave Mirra, discusses his last weeks, legacy and CTE (2016)
they should have made a rule that a counter attack point wouldn't count if the attack was initiated within the first say 3-5 seconds after the signal.
It's a really great rule change that has made top tier epee fencing a lot more interesting to watch.
Not OP, but I subbed to Premium as soon as it was available.

Money well spent!
No.

> Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. This will take some careful planning and time to get right, but we’re confident we can prevent this from ever happening again, and keep us independent of any one team member.

Just to clarify, we plan to become a 501(c)(3) organization.

The site will remain run in the same way, it's just we won't have someone at the very top who is never around, never contributes and owns the domain.

Funding is transparently listed:

https://opencollective.com/privacytools

https://blog.privacytools.io/privacytools-io-joins-the-open-...
More or less. The current vaccines are excellent at helping the body stop the virus as it progresses into the lungs and further (thus the massive reduction in severe illness and deaths). But it still means that there's a period of a few days after initial infection when a vaccinated person has a relatively naive immune response (while the virus is mostly just in the nose/throat). This would then result in the person still being pretty contagious.
> From all the things I have seen and read from experts over the past ten or so years there isn't really anything we can actually do so that things are less fucked in our lifetimes.

While that's what we once thought, the latest science says it's not true. If we stopped emitting carbon immediately, warming would halt (not reverse but halt) within a few decades:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/07/global-h...

So there's absolutely something we could do, today, to lessen how much the future is fucked in our lifetimes.

We just refuse to do it.
I find that most wikipedia pages I'd want to look at are utterly unintelligible with communication conventions youd need to look up separately to understand the article.

I can't use an offline Wikipedia without that coursework
Inter is an overhyped project and a mediocre font design. Sorry, but somebody had to say it.
Hey Slim, nice work, "Mass Gmail Phishing in Tunisia" you got them by the balls, but why the same brutal policing everywhere, who trained them thugs?
https://advox.globalvoices.org/2010/07/05/mass-gmail-phishin...
Apple account is not the same as login with Apple. IAPs have always been tied to the Apple account. It’s a pain in the ass to handle all the cases. It’s not any easier on Android either.
Python has become 50% more popular than R for Data Science
Python has moved from being 20% more popular for data science to being 50% more popular over the past two years.

The figures are found by comparing the number of data scientist job listings posted on Australia's main jobs website during the 2020 and 2021 financial years (i.e. July 2019 through June 2021).

Full source: https://www.kaggle.com/nomilk/exploring-2-years-of-data-scie...

Raw data: https://www.kaggle.com/nomilk/data-science-job-listings-aust...
> What can an American citizen do at that point?

They can elect someone that can give the agencies a hard time. I guess every time that happens though, we get a one term or less president.
This is helpful, thanks. I actually know a decent number of very rich people but they are just business associates / acquaintances. I will start working that network.

I believe very much in charity and non-profits, and I will analyze the ones I previously donated to closely. Thanks for that advice.
or to keep burning which might damage concrete structure
Really? You can layer classes or even use IDs for something super specific. The only time I use overrides/in lines are when I’m testing/troubleshooting.
If you follow the link at the bottom of this comment it will lead you to $20 shoes from Target. They usually have the option to get it shipped to the store of your choice within several days. You can do a similar thing for other goods you need.

There are also discount/used clothing stores like TJ Maxx which have cheaper clothes.

Relatively speaking, it's not difficult to buy things not from Amazon.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=mens+shoes+target
The private sector doesn’t have the monopoly of violence to enforce its views.

Linking to a private company that was killing for the government isn’t really a great example.
You might just as well say that the drone strikes are the fault of the individual operators. If a private operator does something in their capacity as a government contractor, then that's the government's responsibility.
> There was no deep state/intelligence community/media conspiracy against him

I mean, if it was successful, you wouldn't even know.
For conventional cars you might still have a chance to put out the fire using fire extinguishers as the highly combustive materials, mainly fuels, are actually contained and they will not be a problem until vital structures compromised and such deterioration can be avoided by routine services. But there is not much you can do for Li-Ion batteries. Lithium spikes grow each time you charge the battery and eventually those spikes will penetrate membrane between electrodes, beyond which point the explosion will be inevitable: the process needs no air and will not stop until energy stored in the cell fully discharged. For small batteries we can prevent situation from deteriorating by putting them in water. But there is not much can be done for the size in a Tesla. I've seen video footages of two accidently involving those, one was a couple of years ago in the car park of a Shanghai apartment. Started with just a little bit smoke, but in just around 10 seconds, the Tesla was beyond redemption. Luckily there was no casualties. The other one was a tragedy. A guy brought a e-bike in to a lift and just when the lift door was about to close the battery started to burn. Unfortunately they missed the vital second that could stopped the lift door from closing. It turned several people severely burnt, including a baby.
If you are working for shitty companies like this then you are a piece of shit.
If he'd gone through the official channels first, he wouldn't have gotten the chance to do it another way when inevitably official channels did nothing.

They'll ruin your life either way, at least this way the info makes a splash.
Well, be specific.
then is there any issue? it means workers find better opportunities or better conditions elsewhere.
Thats much to deep for this forum.
What was that like, going from log tables to instant calculations?
Sure, but I am addressing a more general issue that always comes up in these discussions. There's another thread above where the specifics of the Thai context are being discussed in depth.
Unrelated. The Wikimedia Foundation has actually documented the wprov query parameter. It's used to track the source of a link; "sfti1" is "Share a Fact on iOS for text shares, feature version 1".

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Provenance
The music videos & commentary were the show. The animated short were just filler.

All these years later, the music videos are what I and folks I know of my age remember. Not the shorts themselves.