skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I built a Sherlock clone for the Newton (which 15 years later landed me in the middle of the Apple vs. Samsung patent lawsuit).

Please, tell us more.
You're completely misunderstanding the conversation here.

Did you see the quote about "legally, not at all"? This is easily identified as false. There are criminal charges in at least 4% of civil rights cases.

On top of that, we aren't just talking about charging some. We're talking about the idea that protection of civil rights is part of the job for police and prosecutors. This is also easy to prove. Police are required to Miranda-ize before interrogation, the agency they work for is required to investigate IAD complaints without being hostile to the complainant, etc. Prosecutors are required to maintain Guiglio lists, follow Brady for exculpatory evidence, etc. These are clearly defined examples of where the actors are in fact legally required to take steps to protect one's civil rights.

Do they sometimes violate these? Sure. The point is that it is in fact their job to ensure they are not violating people's civil rights. The reason they get away with it is that there's no real oversight, and even the civil cases are overseen by judges who are also part of the system and inevitably have biases to support the other members of that system.
Yes. It's called feathering.

In general, I prefer to unfeather my paddles. (Many good paddles can be adjusted--modula small surface area Greenland paddles.) But there's also an argument that you shouldn't change your paddle orientation so that you can do bracing and other manoeuvres by reflex.
I thought this was going to be about solar panels installed synergistically on food farms, running more efficiently because of the lower temperature, and increasing farm yield by reducing heat and water stress on the plants. (Most plants can turn only a fixed maximum of photons into sugar, daily, easily exceeded in an hour or three of full sun, with exposure after just endured.)

There is a clever form of this where the panels are mounted vertically in fencerows running north-south. The "bifacial" panels collect both morning and afternoon sun, with room between for a tractor.

Another form is to mount the panels horizontally directly above the plants, so they get sun only in morning and afternoon, and are protected from harshest noon light, and also freak hailstorms. The panels are cantilevered out from both sides of fenceposts running down a row, with the tractor driving in space between rows and running its attachments under.

In pasture you can do whatever is cheap, so long as the herd can get to grass under them. The herd might also do better with less exposure, and they keep the weeds down.

Usually there is a little less room for the plants, per acre, but possibly higher yield anyway, and the field produces saleable power year round. The panels are not as close together as in a dedicated solar farm, but dual-use land is free, so there is no need to scrimp.

It is easy to find loud complaints in England about farms that have converted 100% to solar because it makes the farmer more money than actually farming. This seems like a good compromise.
No? It’s lived experience, having seen a culture other than American, I can assure you that how most folks communicate at work is guarded, and very controlled. The folks that speak freely don’t get ahead.

Your comment is a great example actually - imagine being presumed a sexual harasser because of your attitude towards tort law! I wouldn’t want my coworkers to take such leaps. Much easier to avoid the question of loneliness in America.
Recreational paddlers generally aren't going to notice a difference at all. The issue is balancing losses from force vectors, the blades pushing and pulling towards/away from each other at the extremes of the stroke, and fluid dynamics where the larger blade has higher flat plate drag and wastes less energy as turbulence around the periphery. You can't have both without making special (wider pin spread) rigging for the boat which oddly hasn't been played around with much.....

Also of note, lightweight women through open weight men use the same blade area and very similar spread/inboard/outboard measurements. There hasn't been much interest in tailoring the rigging to athletes due to equipment expense and availability limitations, even at the Olympic level.
Google won the web standards overcomplication competition like 5-8 years ago. Embrace and overcomplicate is the motto. The bar now is to have about 2k competent C++ developers on your staff just to keep up with the standards they keep "inventing".
I think no. This one's actually got a lot of depth to it. SASSY and LOLLY use up Y which is critical to forming 5 letter words. S is pretty good too. Preserving your vowels seems to be an important concept. You want to minimize the usage of them. But if you get a single yellow value you can dance around it safely. Or if you get a single green of it and no blacks, you can go for a word using two of that vowel which hopefully doesn't prove to be correct.

WHIZZ seems like it could be a very strong opening move.

VEXED looks pretty promising too.
Thanks for the kind words!

The only caveat I'll say is that it's definitely not as mature in general as SQL clients (stuff like table, column discovery and autocomplete does not exist yet). But it is pretty convenient to use DataStation if you like being able to easily switch into Python/JavaScript/whatever without needing to look up the docs for how to connect to and run a query against every database.

> If you can add dbt integration it will be a killer product!

I haven't used dbt and my impression was that it was a glue system for copying data from one place to another. But maybe that's not correct. Is it possible to query dbt data directly? Or how would you imagine it fitting into a DataStation flow. Thank you!
90 degrees reduces the wind pushing the upper blade. Feathering the blades to 60-80 reduces wrist strain (in novice paddlers, who aren't used to the movement) but makes the top blade more susceptible to catching the wind.

And if you play canoe polo, you'll want it to be exactly 90 degrees so the ball rebounds predictably when you block the ball with the paddle.
bcantrill had a pretty good take on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
gonna pile on here so it's easy for OP to answer.

4. What contracts are in place to maintain the panel, and lease the space? What happens if the building decides to discontinue service. Will the solar panel be delivered to me (at what fee?) will the solar panel be re-placed on top of another building? (at what fee?)

5. are the devices insured against common forms of damage? (wind, hail, acts of humankind)

6. Can we implement at "DRIP" style reinvestment program where our ROI just funnels back into more?
The return, for some people, will be more than the just the money though (because they'll attribute some value to the green aspect). For them it doesn't necessarily have to beat the SP500. The sum of the money earned and their perceived green value will likely have to exceed it, I agree.
If I could offer a word of advice:

Be less quick to "fact check" anything that disagrees with the conventional wisdom.
Let me throw you a curve ball. For espresso try a 50-50 blend of gourmet and espresso from these chaps [1], it’s amazing. Elgon is also pretty good as a French press coffee. Not affiliated with them, just a fan.

1. https://www.springvalleycoffee.com/orderusa
Definitely consider it! Financially, you'll barely break even in the beginning after accounting for commuting and how much work it is to set up a course initially, but emotionally it's very rewarding. As a nice perk, sometimes students (usually the smartest ones) will ask you if you have projects for them to dig deeper, so you've got a great talent pool at your hand.
You need OAuth and not to use SAML. Saml is insecure by design: https://joonas.fi/2021/08/saml-is-insecure-by-design/
I used to be in a management role a number of years back and faced this same issue.

Thankfully I was able to convince executive management that for our several hundred employee company, running a Coke soda machine was basically the cost of 1 Tech Support headcount.

That's it.

One of the most popular in-office perks, the Coke freestyle machine was 1 tech support headcount.

That was years ago. And we still have that machine.
A few years ago, we were billing at $98/hr total comp. This was for employees at the company for total cost to the company.
I think something was wrong with your system somewhere - bad usb cable? Overloaded system?

I routinely transfer data on original arduinos at 38400, 57600 or faster. The error rate is pretty low, way smaller than 1%.
Would it be possible to build a rosetta stone for this secret language with prompts asking for labeled pictures of different categories of objects? Or prompts about teaching kids different words?
>I have to ensure that it's always easy to take anything off of Cloudflare. I love Cloudflare generally, so this is really disappointing.

This line pretty much echos my attitude to cf going forward. Come to think of it, not just CF guess its going to apply to every company I deal with going forward. Although it sounds good in theory, wonder how hard it is going to be to apply this on every situation I rely on a 3rd party company.
Which violates their registrar agreements:

> Registered Name Holders must be able to transfer their domain name registrations between Registrars

(Note that sections 3.7-3.9 do allow registrars to deny transfers, f.e. given "evidence of fraud", but given that they reinstated the domains I doubt they have evidence of fraud.)

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/transfer-policy-2016-0...
> Which is often the right thing to do unless you have very specific knowledge of that experience e.g. a referral

You're missing the forest for the trees. This is not a job interview, it's just the two of us talking, and I'm stating that many people who are not stage performers experience "stage fright" in an audition-style interview, which severely but only temporarily hinders their performance.

If you acknowledge this fact, then you have to start to wonder whether audition-style interviews are accurately measuring skill level, or whether they're mainly measuring anxiety. And you may have to reevaluate whether a flubbed interview indicates that a candidate "can't code" and is a "faker", as opposed to just freezing from stage fright.

This is not even to claim that there are zero liars out there. But you have to wonder about the percentage of liars, if there are alternative explanations for poor interview performance. The level of paranoia in hiring programmers seems totally absurd to me.

> How are you proving your skills to customers

I am making a product, as well as contracting sometimes. But nobody wants to test me. They trust my experience and aren't ultra-paranoid that I might be a faker who can't code.

> if you can't handle job interviews

This is not accurate. I can handle job interviews. I'm not good at auditions. An audition is a very specific kind of interview, and rather perverse for hiring people who mainly work sitting by themselves.

> That isn't a flaw in the interviewing process, that's the point of it!

Disagreed. It seems that coders tend not to recognize how coding test interviews are not the norm in the world for interviews. They're quite unusual. Most people don't have to audition for a job. An interview is a two-way street: both the interviewer and interviewee are trying to determine whether the job is right for them, and whether they want to work together. A test is very one-sided.
Used to listen to these guys years ago, lost track of them, glad to see they are still going.
To present an alternate point of view, I never grokked this idea of free soda, free food, catered lunches, sleeping pods, dry-cleaning, massages, ping-pong table as a way to attract talents. If I took a risk to work for a startup, I want a lean machine that pays me in ridiculous cash or ridiculous options, and obscene milestone bonuses. The only thing I think I'd really care about is "bring your dog to work" and "onsite/nearby child-care", there's no substitute or purchasing-equiv to that. A startup is an intense high-stress environment where focused work and time is invaluable; none of those "perks" directly drive the goals, if anything they seem hedonistic distractions from the goal.
I managed to figure out what the word most likely was after a few guesses (which were intended to be unlikely sets of letters but ended up narrowing the possibilities quickly), then undo a few times, then carefully made six guesses such that I never got a single green tile.
My nicer one is in the living room for end of the day games and such, but my older one is an always-on weather display.
If I had to guess, the OP's payment method is specifically what got flagged, resulting in the domain being blocked.

See https://community.cloudflare.com/t/domain-not-working-after-... where someone who appears to the be OP mentioned that CloudFlare auto-refunded some charges.

CloudFlare should still post a public postmortem as to how this user got wrongly flagged (excluding any personal info). The OP has already consented to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31574656
One of my earliest computing-adjacent exposures was going into my dad's office as a kid. Besides getting to type random things on punch-cards, we'd typically bring home these line-printer calendars with a Snoopy (or whatever) ASCII-art pic at the top.
I've found it's much cheaper to have an unrefined palate. I buy whatever (whole bean) coffee is on sale :D

Same goes for wine.
Here’s my counter argument: public high schools do it for far less. Outside of maybe 40 research institutes in the US, the rest offer about the same education as a good public high school. It’s really not unheard of to hear college grads say they got better education at their high schools vs college. Secondly, these schools are TAX EXEMPT. They use endowments to basically buy buildings all the time. A great example of this is NYU. Really a mediocre school but happens to be the biggest real estate player in one of the most expensive markets in the world.
Radio On Internet?

Joking aside, why would that be? They're creating an investment vehicle that pays 7% return subject to various conditions and taking some cut for themselves. You can't just assume that all investments are already fully sold on the market and no one can create new ones.
It sounds like I could be in the same boat. What brand of coffee did you settle on?
- Your DLLs, assets, etc comprise a complete application you can deploy anywhere.

- But that anywhere needs to be a consistent environment for you to be sure your application behaves as expected (OS versions, system libraries, file system layouts etc).

- Docker (actually containers generally) goes one step lower and provides that consistent environment by effectively running your application inside a precisely defined virtual OS that is always the same regardless of the actual hardware.

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That's all moderately simplified, so not 100% precise terminology, but in effect you can think of Docker as a lightweight virtual machine to run your app in, that always behaves the same, and that can in turn be hosted inside most 'real' servers regardless of what they themselves are running.

A bit like running a PS1 game in a PS1 emulator on Windows, but running a .Net Core app in Debian on an Azure VM (for example).

The same config can be used to run the app in Debian on a local Windows box, or your designers Mac, without changes and with guaranteed identical behaviour as all your app sees is the Debian host.

(in reality it's more lightweight and faster launching than a VM is, and it's not actually using emulation, but that's all technical detail)
> This is a very neat execution and has potential for SAAS or Cloud offering. Like "Bring your own DB" and build your own abstractions.

Definitely my goal for the future is SaaS/Cloud where you can work on projects as a team and configure hosted dashboards, recurring exports and alerts out of panels you set up in a DataStation project.
You do bring up a valid point.

One of the tricky issues is when you have other office locations based outside of the US.

There's TONS of hoops you have to follow to offer comparable benefits for employees in other locations around the world.
Well now they're discussing also teachers to require to be armed guard as well. Brilliant idea eh?
> The thing is though that the Outlander has a CHADeMO port (strangely, I can't imagine ever using it to charge).

I read that it was a requirement by the Japanese government to have Bi-di charging to prepare for situations where the grid went down due to emergencies (i.e. earthquakes). It's pretty silly for rapid charging though, since you should only add 80% to a measly 8kWh battery. I've done it just to entertain myself when I run across a CHADeMO Electrify America station.

> Benjamin Nelson has done it DIY with his iMiEV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBV9CIVN0fs ... but I can't say personally I'm eager to DIY it myself, because, well, 400V is scary.

Nifty, but yeah, I'm not messing w/ hacking 400V either.
In the EU we got legislation prohibiting the stores from passing on the credit card fees. I shit you not. Champagne corks must have been popping at the credit card companies when that happened.
Index funds are good to diversify across many different stocks, but it is also wise to diversify across asset classes. For example, stocks (with something like the S&P 500), bonds, an international fund, real estate, etc. Allocate a percentage to each and rebalance if/when things diverge too much from your percentages. Each personal allocation would be slightly different based on their goals, risk tolerance, and age.

The idea here is that when one asset class is weak, another may be strong. For example, during "the lost decade" in the US, international stocks did fairly well. By rebalancing on a scheduled basis you effectively end up buying relatively low and selling relatively high without having to time the market.
I work at a company that has similar practices to what you describe (we don’t run our services locally). While it’s hard to get used to at first, I think the silver lining is that it forces everyone to write good unit tests, since it’s the only efficient way to run their code before publishing a PR. Having worked on the opposite end (at a team where we mostly tested locally and had almost no automated tests), I much prefer this environment.
Did you get that value back in the next years or was it a complete loss?
Are people sick of ads more than they are paying?
Why is it a big deal to run your app locally? You just give each developer access to a cloud account (either one account or one per developer) with wide enough guard rails.

Heck, when I am in a place with bad internet, I spin up a Cloud 9 (Linux) or Amazon Workspace account (Windows) and do everything remotely.

I’m not wasting my time trying to use LocalStack or SAM local.
> a decision based solely on automated processing,

"this account was identified in a recent fraud review, however it appears to have been a false positive"

> which produces legal effects

Deprivation of property.
This article conveniently omits that the chair of Harvard's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was investigated, charged, and convicted of hiding their connections to the PRC's Thousand Talents Plan.
I have been listening to SomaFM for more than 15 years now. There are some real gems on it. It's a vestige of what was one of the best time for internet at the turn of the century. I often set deep space one to a 15 minutes timer before falling asleep.

The only thing I don't like is how 1 out of every 25 songs is just random noises with out of tune deep bass. Oh well, then I switch to drone zone or liquid or something :).
>Planting their orchards, the first Amazonians transformed large swaths of the river basin into something more pleasing to human beings. In a widely cited article from 1989, William Balée, the Tulane anthropologist, cautiously estimated that about 12 percent of the nonflooded Amazon forest was of anthropogenic origin—directly or indirectly created by human beings. In some circles this is now seen as a conservative position. "I basically think it's all human-created,"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30...
this is a fun hack. it would be interesting to look at some real world workloads and compare whether this sort of init once ship initialized memory image everywhere style is faster than just initializing everywhere.
If they owned multiple properties, then they needn’t move down to the river to liquidate the 2 million.
In this case cloudflare has produced a legal effect with putting the domain into pending delete because this is an ownership transfer back to the registrar (of a property they don't even own, so stupid...).

For me deleting my domain would be far worse than deleting my telephone number and significantly affect me. But yes, this is a case by case decision.

I just wanted to say something like: You have rights. Don't be afraid to use them. These companies are not above the law.
I like the idea, but it seems to have a flaw (or I missed how one should handle this). Not all events happen on the same day, especially if you work third shift. I guess you would just split it into two events (not really a fan) or just do something like 23-3, but then it kind of breaks the "one day per line" rule.
Microsoft Entra
This seems like the best answer, but I already did that switch with most people and Signal (took years to grow that network). But I do like the idea of bridges for WA and SMS (I know there is a Signal bridge too)
Worked with banking software before; it can be incredibly complicated. I worked on proof of concept infrastructure for a Websphere monolith that ran on AIX servers. It had at least 10-15 services it connected to and each one of those were huge Java monoliths, too. Some of those apps had 8+ copies of /each/ environment (8x dev, 8x test, 4-8x stage/uat, 1-2x prod) so you could do integrated tests without stepping on other people or something software (software B might have a dedicated test environment of software A)
Only 1% of the corn grown in the US is "sweet corn", i.e. corn that's meant for direct human consumption on the cob or canned. The other 99% is "field corn", and that gets used primarily in livestock feeds and ethanol (the latter being a subsidy boondoggle of the highest order), and industrial manufacturing (base starches). A sliver also gets used for corn syrup.

The error being made is assuming that corn cultivation being significant to global food supply means that corn is being cultivated primarily for food.
> And, to put a cherry on top, practically all teachers now have multiple students who actually had a parent die.

This can't possibly be the case. 67,366 adults between the ages of 18 and 49 have died (of COVID) in the US during the entire pandemic. There are 25 million children of primary school age in the US.

Why explains this discrepancy? Social media. Every teacher has seen other teachers mourning the death of parents on social media, and that feels like something that actually happens to you.

But no. It is absolutely not the case that practically all teachers have multiple students who lost parents to COVID. The math is completely off.
Severance may come with it's own difficulties: state unemployment payments, contractual obligations, bureaucratic overhead, manager pushback.

I think leadership-oriented types tend to esteem headcount the way nerds esteem CPU core count and frequency - up is fine, down is not acceptable unless you're absolutely forced. Neither is a really rational position, but they overall tend not to be too detrimental so there's no widespread change.