skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
27x 20ft shipping containers combine to form a 5mw vanadium flow battery buffering a 50mw lithium battery. Which is interesting but the fact it's not 100% flow battery suggest lithium must still be sufficiently cheaper to overcome its shorter life.
Apple Employee Blows Whistle on Illegal Spying and Toxic Working Conditions
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be investigating whistleblower retaliation complaints concerning Sunnyvale Apple office building built on superfund site.
Hi everyone, this is an old project that is finally becoming public. Back when I was deep into experimenting with neural networks I created this game and put an neural network to play it (so it could learn how to shoot a target). The mechanics are very basic, no air resistance, the enemy is always on the same spot but, the neural network is fresh each game, it only learns while playing against you.
On desktops arrows left and right rotate the cannon, up and down increase and decrease the strength of the bullet. Spacebar shoots.

On mobiles (better on landscape orientation) dragging your finger up or down controls both things, but if you're dragging of the left side of the screen it controls the strength, and on the right side, the angle. Taping on the screen shoots.

By the way, you are the gray one.

Let me know what you think.
re: Quickbooks. It has now basically bifurcated into an online version and a desktop version, with somewhat different features. QB will in fact walk you through an optional setup interview to ask about what your general type of business is (service, retail, etc) and will create a default chart of accounts, which takes care of part of your need (how to categorize expenses). It becomes more complicated when the whole optional layer of "items" used to create invoices and bills gets added in. There is a fixed asset function, but QB is not really designed to calculate depreciation, rather it is normally handled with an annual journal entry based on output from the tax return.

It does have some frequent traps for new users, who for example often don't understand "undeposited funds" and end up double-counting their revenue. Or, they don't realize that when they transfer money from say checking to savings, the entry made in one account register is automatically reflected in the other.
Interesting that Google hasn't taken this down yet or at least blur out the map tile.
I pay about 12c/kWh (total, residential rate) in TX
Unfortunately, a few bad apples ruin it for the good ones. In our neighborhood recently, there has been a series of car break ins/thefts especially at night and quite a few perps have been caught due to cameras like ring etc on a neighbor's home. In fact, Ring has this whole thing where you can see people reporting suspect behavior all the time. Sometimes, they are false positives for sure and it is unfortunate but honestly, as a homeowner myself, I would rather have those cameras than not in today's world. A price we have to pay for safety.
250k in London is an extreme outlier, I can only guess you work in finance? Most adverts I see are offering 50-80k.
why? miles seem like the natural denominator to me. I don't hop in my car to drive 20 minutes and see where I end up. my goal is to drive to a specific location n miles away.
Prob 40% ish. I think 8 million coins have moved in the last 2 years. There is about 1.3M on exchanges, losing <100k a month. 1 more year until no more left to sell on exchanges.
>> If language were a major barrier; then, how does one explain the US doing well in the EU?

By the time US companies reach the EU they are already big, worth billions.

That being said I believe the main issue in EU is funding.
Yeah, I agree with you and would push that point a little further to say that social interaction at work is necessary for a subset of humans. I know it is for me and I love having at least 1 or 2 days of social interaction that I don't even get hanging with my family.
You aren't the only one.

https://youtu.be/znQk_yBHre4
Also, don't use WordPress. It sucks.
Our society is crashing in slow motion. I'll try to stick to tech here since there is plenty of other places to talk about that.
yes, we've been writing a lot of Dart over the last couple of years and also enjoy it quite a lot. interested in hearing what issues GP faced.
This, though it's public transit for me. Absolute waste of 2-3+ hours every day commuting to and from Manhattan. Multiply that by the number of my fellow Manhattan commuters* and that is a gargantuan waste of collective time for everybody.

* (I've observed the vast majority of people that work in Manhattan do not live in Manhattan)
That's an amendment, the original constitution and other legal statutes ( e.g. 3/5 compromise) explicitly allow it and discuss it.

Furthermore, did you miss the except part in that 13th amendement? Slavery is still legal in the US, that has to be the only country that is considered developed and still does that.
> Despite the high speeds, the Interstate Highway System is more than twice as safe per mile as almost any other type of road.

I wonder how that compares to be speeding ticket issued per hour of driving. I always think of the classic pull over scene being on the interstate.
No such thing as “artifical intelligence”
I mean even a doubly-linked list is a cyclic data structure...
the person hogging the left lane does not make our roads better, instead they make them slower and less enjoyable. If you're in the left lane and somebody's behind you, just be decent and go to the right once it's clear to do so. Then you can go back into the left lane
"I will clear myself up: people should be able to steal and shoplift as much as they want, there is no doubt in my mind that any shoplifter is the victim of far more injustice than anything they could ever accomplish themselves."

This has to be a troll, right? I like how you assumed the person was privileged, got corrected and then doubled down like this.

Clearly the folks doing the shop lifting are on the lower end of the economic spectrum. This does not give them the right to steal. Every society in history has had rules against theft. We want to live in a society where we don't have to bolt everything down to the ground and cover it in chains/fences.

Not every store is a faceless evil mega corp. The small timers are getting hurt by these flash mob robberies as well. Small stores in Oakland are getting hit multiple times.

I know somebody that sold shoes at a flea market. A very humble business. Somebody followed him home one night and stole his truck filled with $20k of shoes. This was a massive financial setback for him. Do you think the people that stole his truck has the right to take his livelihood away from him? Actually don't even bother answering....
They're not dumb, but their interests are misaligned with yours.
It's true. Under MacOS, one of my displays flickers 3 times when I turn it on, the other one twice. Somewhere along the way, we made a wrong turn.
There are stainless steel rebar and epoxy coated rebar for structures exposed to the elements. Stainless steel rebar appears to be kind of expensive so its use is limited.
> You can access a corporation's Form 10-K by going to the Investor Relations section of the corporation's website[1]

Shameless plug: you can try https://Last10K.com to get 10-K annual reports aggregated in one site. This includes all financial statements (ex.Balance Sheets) broken out so you don't have to find them in a lengthy 10-K.

[1] https://www.accountingcoach.com/balance-sheet-new/explanatio...
i like the idea, but many questions don't seem to have the answers listed and mark every reponse as correct. something like return a list of all anagram pairs seems like could be done in different ways and formats and is a little unclear.

I love the concept though and will be working my way through it.
And if the team members don't live near that satellite what then? Centralized offices at least minimize the expected commute for workers randomly scattered around the metro. Satellite offices could lead to even longer commute times.
I was just directly told that I was specifically hired to do this project that is behind schedule and important and they have no idea how to make it go faster (because they are bugging me) so they don't have another person that could do my job and they can't afford delay it even further to look for a person to replace me.

If there's a better moment to negotiate, I don't know what it might be.

Would hearing this be distracting for me? Sure it would be. But it's not me who would get to pay for my distractions. So it's 100% of protecting higher ups not developers.
>Smith was eager to find a place she could afford on her monthly Social Security income of $1,388

The way Americans treat their elders is just despicable. $1,388/mo. could hardly sustain a minimal living in a distant rural area in the middle of the country for a healthy young person. How could anyone think it’s OK to expect senior citizens to pull that off?
In other words, megacorps should buy up / produce all the housing so that the employees can't become home owners?
That's like saying there's no housing crisis because landlords and property developers are making tons of money.
Not that you’re wrong, but there seems to be this implicit assumption on hn of unbounded potential for innovation, when it stands to reason that most things are going to hit asymptotic growth at some point.
Yes, exactly, this was my question as well. I understand their explanation for how they're using it, but it seems like the economics would be much better if configured differently.
A lot of professions split into separate job categories for white collar/blue collar or "formally educated"/"on the job learning". Lawyer/paralegal, Doctor/RN/Nurse Practitioner, etc.

I don't know if that is something that software could use, but it certainly is a known option, and might help. In some ways software already has bespoke versions of those career paths, but there's no standardization from company to company and that's part of what makes interviewing hard because even career paths mean different things to different companies.
Google to end support for OnHub routers in 2022
By now they are so big that engineering is not as important. But 10/15 years ago, engineering was definitely number one
1.5% merit increase minus 6.2% inflation = 4.7% lower value this year vs last year.
Last I checked there are ~700 people being charged (or already convicted). How is that "very few", what are we comparing against?

I don't get what the rest of your comment is about, you'll have to spell it out for me. The feds _should_ be targetting these far-right extremists. They've shown themselves to be violent threats to society and democracy.
> Smart summon on a M3

M3 = BMW M3

Model 3 = what you're talking bout
I never said it should be mandatory, just something employers offer and maybe encourage. Companies have a history of putting people into "corporate housing", which is expensive. You may not like it, but others might.
This is probably true, because I know many Europeans that come to America and start their startups. So it may not be that there are few European startups, just few startups targeting that market.
Experience doesn't necessarily equal to wisdom or smartness. I have been working remote for the last 5 years, after working in offices for a decade. Guess what advantage the office gave me? Nothing. Everything good I did in office I do at home, just more efficiently.

Also, you're assuming those "experienced" managers are taking a position that is beneficial to everyone. At least in my experience, this is not often true. They're doing what they need to do, to further their own careers (not faulting them, just pointing it out).

I didn't call the managers dumb, I called their meetings dumb. One can be super smart and still force dumb meetings, if that helps his/her career.
There were a lot of issues with custom widgets when we first launched the feature, we've deployed several fixes since then. But there's still more to do on our end to make it clear what errors you're getting. Thanks for the suggestion!
> and something to change the pixel traversal order on the input.

I could see a variety of space filling curves working for that.
AHA Programming
…and on the hit lists of high-tax nations…
I don't know how it compares to actual rebar reinforced concrete, but we do use fiberglass reinforced concrete.
Economics does not work with specific comparisons for me, I.e. not in comparisons between this and that person. In your theoretical comparison, both are able to contribute given the proper opportunities, as a country you have the resources to give them both opportunities. The blocker as far as I can tell from an outsider’s perspective is that the society is conditioned against supporting each other.

I am myself a highly skilled immigrant (different country). It is convenient to be able to pick and choose, but this can end up in a kind of immigrant monoculture. I know of less skilled at the time of entry immigrants that have achieved more than me, by sheer passion and entrepreneurial spirit. Education is a good indicator but not the end all. Finally, this selection will work for first generation, what you get from the following generations is correlated perhaps, but not defined, and statistically as per my previous answer, the US got pretty good outcomes with minimal controls at the point of entry and with a pure aspirational system of values that self-selected success (big discussion now that we move on this and it’s relationship with generational poverty).
In the same way most people on reddit and hackernews preach working completely from home. It's a spectrum and everyone needs a different approach. I think the hybrid approach fits everyone with minimal disruption to each person's preferences.
> Meanwhile I have yet to meet a coworker in real life that prefers or even likes this trend, personally I hate it.

I just don't believe this. I would say a good 2/3rd of employee's at every job I've worked at preferred the open floor plan. The only way I could possibly see not a single, not even one, person you've worked with preferring it is if you front run the conversation with such a vicious condemnation of it that they didn't feel comfortable sharing with you.

> Similarly I believe that homeoffice has probably sensitized many people to terrible workplace environments.

I'll take a guess that you have extra space and no kids or some combination? The feedback I've seen is the exact opposite with people realizing how poorly their home setup is and how little ability they have to make better.
I believe organized retail crime in general is already a felony in most states, and the violent breaking-n-entering of the current "crisis" certainly is.
Be careful what you wish for. The alternatives to the two party system are:

1. Less internally democratic parties with more side-show parties like the UK. You'd probably end up with 3 or 4 parties with name recognition, one of which acted as a kind of protest vote and occasionally came near enough to winning to be interesting, but which in reality never did. It would mean giving up things like presidential primaries.

2. PR. Look at European politics closely before deciding you want that. It's a recipe for not having a functioning/elected government for months or even a year+ after an election. In a system with elections every 4 years that'd lead to a situation where most of the time there wasn't actually any legitimate government at all and power would shift even more decisively to the civil service. There'd also be frequent collapses of government, and changes in government unconnected to any election.

3. Totalitarianism. The less said about this the better.

The US has a two party system because both Democrat and Republican parties are extremely broad and loose coalitions, so it basically never makes sense to try creating a new party instead of taking over one of the existing ones. Hence people like Trump, Bernie Sanders, etc who aren't even really connected to their host parties at all. Americans like to complain about the two party system but also like to complain about primary elections getting fixed by the party machine. Well, get rid of your current system and you're going to just formalize and institutionalize that party machine, in return for a couple more parties that most people won't vote for.

The US system has its flaws but it's not obviously worse than the alternatives. It's different, but both UK style Parliamentary systems and European style PR systems create different problems.
The size is not really an issue for any compression algorithm. I've seen quite a few small XML parsers that don't bother with the full spec and only implement a subset.
That seems... extreme. I'm fully remote but I love getting together with peers (both co-workers and otherwise), quite a few of whom are genuine personal friends to greater or lesser degrees, at occasional company meetings and at events.
Easy: the couple wouldn't have to live on the campus.

But I can ask you this: what happens to the significant others of people in the military?
> 27x 20ft shipping containers combine to form a 5mw [it's 5MWh, not 5MW] vanadium flow battery

This seems like a LOT of space required for such a low capacity. For a 5MWh flow battery, I wonder what the peak power output actually is from the system? for LiIon, you would see about ~1MW peak power from such a small reserve of energy. Flow batteries are longer lasting, so I assume this battery is less peak output. I am pretty sure that the LiIon battery will be doing the heavy lifting here, sized as it is. This isn't a huge leap forward.
Great Barrier Reef could face another mass bleaching by end of January
You should feel upset. It’s basic courtesy to say “we don’t want you”. This is not dating it’s literally a massive corporation it costs them nothing to send a rejection email instead of leaving you in purgatory
Many such studies referenced here:
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/21/2/87
Was once pulled over for doing 65mph in the left lane of a two lane stretch of the Mass Pike, creating a minor traffic bottleneck in the process. (I was 17 and didn't know any better.)
I really believe in consulting if you are bootstrapping a business - the income gives you runway.

However, take care to not let the consulting income misdirect your incentives (founder or business). A common trap is to chase good consulting income, and ignore the recurring SaaS income that creates a stellar business.

Consulting income: 1. leads to highly variable income, 2. is often dependent on you or a few star employees, 3. creates tiny businesses that get sold for small amounts, 4. misdirects the product direction, 5. strongly misdirects the sales team if they get a commission on consulting fees.

SaaS income requires discipline to chase, but often creates a business with far more long term value (yearly dividends, and market value, hopefully plus a $$$ growth rate bonus).
Local smaller coworking spaces could be a good middle ground
As I understand, lower class/cast Indians have to win a lottery to get a decent education.
You can't post like this to HN—it's egregiously against the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do it. If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules in the future, we'd be grateful. Don't miss this one:

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If you want explanation as to why we have this rule, there is many years' worth at this link:

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also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398725

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 (<-- Mini-FAQ)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397695
If you've ever worked as a software developer in a small company you might have found yourself being both a developer and directly reporting to what constitutes upper management at a small company, often the owner or president of the company. I was in this situation early on in my career and managing the business side absolutely becomes a whole job, but also I think I did my best work and had a bigger impact of any job I had after because I was directly owning the outcomes of software I was writing. (Of course doing both well is incredibly challenging and often ends up resulting in poor software quality, or poor engagement with management) But it's pretty exhilarating if you can pull it off and maintain a high standard of quality.
> How will this look in different browsers? Let's test!

obviously different font widths for rendering of SVG text in different browsers/font stacks

> That didn't go as expected. I thought that at least both files on my Linux machine look the same, but it seems like Firefox doesn't like the font-size specification, while Chrome and Edge do.

I asked the Render-A-Webpage-As-An-SVG-framework guy about this last week. He claimed over multiple years he hasn't had a single report of broken text rendering from users of his framework.

So what's the deal? Are OP and me the only devs who have ever hit up against this issue in practice?
Did the Romans really know that using certain volcanic rocks would make their concrete structures last longer? Or did they mostly just use whatever aggregate was convenient and the structures that have survived are the ones that used the right rocks? The latter sounds more plausible to me.

Of course we can still learn valuable lessons from these surviving structures.
Details: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

There were plenty of alternative ways to accomplish my scenario but they ended up being pretty clunky and overly expressive for what I was trying to do at the time.

It seems like the Swift language designers have no qualms about removing language features and breaking old code as a result - which is certainly their prerogative but it’s not something I’m accustomed to.
In the UK. My company's dropped a lot of our office space, because we have no use for it any more - we've done very well in 2020 and 2021 full-remote. But meetings have their place, and some teams do better in the office, that's fine. So we renovated the space as largely for meetings of various sizes.

So when techies were called into our shiny new meetings-office (which is very nice, actually - happy to come in ... maybe every couple of months), they were immediately asking "so commute time is work time, right?" and "who's paying for my train ticket?"

The UK has absolutely proven that work from home is just fine and companies can still do super-well.

The big push over here for going back to the office is not from the companies - it's from commercial landlords, putting puff pieces in the newspapers. The actual companies can do arithmetic just fine, and realise that offices on the scale they were are just a losing proposition.
This is an extreme example of what can happen in a
"company town". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View_massacre
Is crime going up pretty uniformly across the US? (Violent crime seems to be, last year and this, but I've seen claims that it is only rising in the larger cities that had race riots last year.) Is crime anywhere near where it was in 2000, much less 1990?
Ok, I didn't say it should be mandatory.

A lot of people also don't care about owning a house (at least right now). A lot of people care about forming good relationships, but don't have good ways to do so.
We have those laws because we had already decided that was a Not Ok business decision. That was true before the laws came into effect, and would hold even if we didn't manage to pass the laws at all. Moreover passing laws is not the only way to express a shared moral judgment. Anyway, I was very explicit about it not being exactly the same situation.