skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, usually when someone parrots the "it is the amps that kill you, not voltage" line, I have to remind them that the amps depends on the volts.

A car battery is capable of hundreds of amps, but if you touch the contacts with your hands, you won't feel a thing, because the voltage is too low to overcome your body's resistance.

I imagine if you wired the leads to your tongue, your tongue would probably explode though.
Do you not encounter Amish people where you live?
> even 15-20 years ago it would have been nearly impossible to find these people who take pride in gate keeping.

This is wildly inaccurate. Especially in cooking, notions of what constitutes proper cooking, especially when evaluating women's worth as house keepers, have been extremely common in the vast majority of traditional societies, along with the toxicity.
Ask HN: IT vs. Tech? How best to focus career reboot?
After ten years teaching at the high school level, I am retiring from the classroom and looking for my next door to open.

Taking calls with people I know in and around the tech industry, I am looking into Sales, PM, and Customer Success roles; however, I am still considering priorities.

I have one acquaintance that is well established a large IT/Consulting/Sales company and is offering introductions/referrals to the head of their PM office and their Customer Success team.

Can anyone speak to the advantages/disadvantages of pursuing a career in large IT projects vs a more purely SAAS/B2B software company?
What do you serve to gain from scraping all of this information?
Wonderland passes vote to invest $25M in Sifu Vision
Japan swelters in its worst heatwave ever recorded [video]
> even had the gall to leave one of their first bottled brews at my great great grandfather's gravesite.

That's a weird thing to do. I can see wanting to steal an established brand because people are attracted to legacy, especially in the case of something like brewing.

But leaving a tribute at his grave is, honestly, just bizarre behavior. Are the obsessed or something? Do they think they have some connection to your family?

One of your family should try to work for them, maybe the company will treat them like the second coming. Or human sacrifice. But hey, worth a shot, right?
My thoughts on this are:

Billionaires like Soros have access to experts that they can call upon at a whim. An intelligent creature like Soros would know his limitations, and would either ponder deeply and thoroughly research a subject before delivering his conclusions, or he would skip to the end and regurgitate the current trendy things to say. Or a combination of both.

I agree and disagree with things Soros says and does. I'm no sycophant. But I think he's probably in a different caliber as the common celebrity.
Perhaps this is why Democrats lose. They are still playing a game where decorum and rules matter. I have no question that Republicans would not care for such pesky parliamentary rules when they inconvenience them.

Perhaps you would prefer a world where Democrats run roughshod through those rules and pass legislation. I would prefer if they didn't.
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If you want to make an argument that the contents of that email server or Joe Biden's laptop were of no interest, actually do it. I'm open to persuasion. Mocking, on the other hand, I find unconvincing.
Frozen food is very likely to be fresher than "fresh produce." Unless you're driving down to the farm and buying it on the day.

Dip into more frozen food. It's cheap and extremely tasty.
There are other glasses-based systems in development and for sale. Vusix, Google Glass, Meta's stuff, etc.
Dunno man, mine takes less then 5 minutes to get to about 150°c. I never measured it but just activating it before I take a pizza from the freezer is enough time to get it fully preheated. It really depends on the quality of the oven i think. There isn't that much more Air to heat so the wasted energy is less then you'd intuitively expect. And regular sandwich irons take at least as much energy, because it's not an enclosed space, consequently bleeding a lot of energy into the room
You keep focusing on the term “intrinsic value”, while ignoring the underlying argument. Is it that difficult to understand that the value of things such as food, real estate, stocks is something entirely different from a currency?
If you have that kind of money and you want to invest in newish tech, then you have to accept the fact that your investments will move the market and make that work in your favor. Retail can buy a share here and there but you cannot. So how to make it work in your favor? Ask yourself "who can make productive use of this much money? who needs this much money to even be viable?" And it will be really capital intensive moon-shot type stuff. Self driving cars for instance, but that might already be overcrowded now. AGI in general too, that's kind of a more uncertain bet. Europe needs a shitton of energy investment now, both for geopolitical reasons but also to charge all the electric cars they will start buying soon. Building those nukes or solar+batteries can easily absorb hundreds of billions of dollars. Then there is medicine and biotech but that might take a lot of savvy to capture the value you create by spending on r&d. But like nanobots and brain coprocessors and immortality and stuff that is something we will eventually build and it's not that out of reach. Might wanna figure out some intermediary profitable goals. In summary take a long hard look at what Musk is doing. Except maybe his twitter persona.

Edit: Might wanna take a look at Gosplan too. After all a sufficiently rich investor is indistinguishable from a plan economy planning committee.
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Not the parent poster, but there seems to be some misunderstanding. The GitHub issue creator explained that they're getting two different behaviors depending on C compile flags. That's already not "the same behavior as Go" AFAIK.

> What kind of behavior do you expect?

Defined behavior, I assume. If V uses C as an intermediate, and the generated C code invokes undefined behavior, then V can not guarantee "no UB" in that case at all. It is completely up to the C compiler what happens. Even if the compiled app behaves "properly, like Go" with the specific C compiler, with the specific flags, on that specific machine, does not mean this behavior is defined and consistent.
Not when there are people who profit from paranoia.
Oh dear... Never really bought through them, just saw them all over the internet as a payment option...
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> “What we’re learning from the hospital data is that insurers are really bad at negotiating”

Do the insurers have any incentive to negotiate well? Since their customers are not very price-sensitive (since they aren't marketing directly to patients or doctors), I would imagine they don't have a huge incentive to do anything but apply a markup to whatever prices the hospital tells them it costs.
That's not the _new_ Chinese carrier, that's the Type 002 class carrier _Shandong_[0]. Their latest carrier, the Type 003 class Fujian[1], was launched last month and has a catapult system, just like American and French carriers.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Shand...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Fujia...
Wow, this is enraging.

It's situations like these that would test how truly civil I am. I'm not sure I'd be able to keep myself from retaliating in other ways.
Using the words "right now" may have been the icing on the cake for this one.

The court ruled in Hess v. Indiana that similar speech was legal because:

> [it] "amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time."

It's still probably vague enough in specificity and context that I doubt SCOTUS would rule against it, but it's also plenty close enough that law enforcement wouldn't be out of line by following up on. It's also worth noting that this person simply got a letter, they weren't thrown in prison.
Didn't see mention of it in the release notes but did you happen to implement the ability to disable the ftp server login beep via the config file. We exchanged some email regarding this a while ago. If I forget to do so manually the beep sends my dog into a barking frenzy when I connect. You mentioned implementing for the next version.
No JavaScript Fingerprinting Experiment
So what you're saying is you don't have a source for this?
China has two based on old Soviet designs for VSTOL aircraft, and is building a "Nimitz" style CVN with apparent plans to build a significant number.
This article makes me a bit worried about 'cobra effects'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

"The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income."
The idea that insurance pays so theft doesn't cost the business anything is false. The insurance rates will be raised so you'll wind up paying the bill anyway.

Insurance is a good idea to cover catastrophic loss, but if you can self-insure for other things, you'll be way better off.
I'm not sure where I issued such a demand, but, it should be obvious that it is easier to learn to deal with the existence of negative Internet shitposting than it is to try to morally posture it into nonexistence, despite the latter feeling good.
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I'm curious if this is a first step towards hospitals being required to charge the same prices to everyone, insured or otherwise.
The information on their landing page was immediately relevant to me

https://turquoise.health/

I hope they have a good business plan and manage to stick around!
Our industry-focused products are based on knowing how much every service costs at every healthcare provider. It's the underpinning of our products.

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The parent comment is saying mirrorless are getting 20FPS and thus are better than DSLR for bird photography.
I mean I am not saying china has a right to Taiwan, but Taiwan and parts of the mainland have been under unified rule for much of history.
>It's been so long I'm afraid to ask... But what does TFA mean?

>I thought it might mean the The Fucking Article... As in "Did you read TFA? You moron." But that seems out of place for someone who wrote their edit to be "Improved my prose."

Just as RTFM == Read The [Fine|Fucking] Manual, the 'F' in TFA can mean either one.

I suppose that the quality of the article might impact how you think about it, but personally it's 'The Fine Article' to me. That can be ironic, but isn't necessarily.

As with most things, whatever works for you is just fine.
Was the discovery of the Higgs the pinnacle for high-energy physics at CERN?
And when Apple bans you.. what is your plan exactly?
This is what my Chinese-American friends say, only with much more colorful language.
Researchers create "Covid computer" [random graph ANN AI] to speed up diagnosis
I always have minced garlic on-hand. You never know when you'll open up a fresh bulb only for it to be a dud.

But I also drink Kroger-brand instant coffee happily.
> There are constructive and non-constructive ways to start a conversation about bugs in a language. One constructive way is to open Github issues. Writing an article claiming that a language fails to have those features at all is one of the least constructive ways I can imagine.

Github issues vs. articles must be a generational thing; I have never used Github's issue tracker even for FOSS projects (admittedly not because we had better alternatives). I'm not even particularly old, but I am old enough to pre-date GH issue trackers as the de facto FOSS issue tracking solution.

Certainly, I would reach out to the author of a project -- especially a personal not-for-profit FOSS project -- before putting them on alert with a highly critical blog post. Except in exceptional circumstances (eg intentional spyware or backdoors embedded into the project).

But I don't think of articles as better or worse than GH issues in terms of form.

This kind of reminds me a tame version of the "disclosure debate" in security in the 90s/00s, I guess. Just because a lot of that debate was claimed to be about protecting users but was actually often about protecting egos (and "look how smart I am" zine articles that weren't entirely written in good faith or professional ethos). Except, of course, that in this case I think a simple cultural difference could explain a lot without any ill intent on either side.

(FWIW I'm not saying either of us is right or wrong. Perception is inherently subjective and all culture is relative. But I think I better understand how this project became so controversial...)
Remove the "fuck" and it becomes TV friendly
Yup! It's actually 8% according to a recent NYTimes article about the plant https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/us/san-diego-drinking-wat...
> I'm pretty sure you are mandated to have mail in the US, or rather the mails are mandated to deliver to you. IIRC it's constitutional.

You'd be incorrect. Ask your postmaster.
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When Congress creates a government agency, they give it a specific list of jobs to do. Deciding which things are safe to put in baby food is the job of the FDA. The FDA is required to do that job, and no one else is allowed to. It would be unconstitutional for another agency to try.

In this case, the job of reducing emissions from power plants was given to the EPA. They have been doing that job for some years, but recently they decided to go beyond their authority and require operators of coal plants to produce less electricity. The operators would only be allowed to generate more electricity if they built or bought solar or wind generation capacity instead.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress never gave them the authority to do that. They can require an operator to install filters and scrubbers that reduce the amount of pollution that they produce, but they cannot require them to serve fewer customers.

Imagine if the FDA showed up at your favorite restaurant and told them that they were only allowed to serve 70% of their current customers, unless they served Hungarian borsht to the other 30%.

Now it might be a good idea to burn less coal. Coal power has killed more people than any other source, iirc. We should replace all the coal plants with nuclear, in my opinion. But Congress never gave the EPA that job. Only Congress can do that job, or decide to delegate it to an agency. The EPA cannot unilaterally decide to take on any task they want merely because it seems like a good idea. They have to do the tasks Congress gave them, and nothing else.
Firefox also has that tags feature (advertised on Bonsai’s home page) baked in too.

I used it multiple times a day as it’s ridiculously handy.
> Wonder if his next of kin will be selling it

Was my thought, hope he had put this in his estate with some reasonable transfer procedure
The tweet calls for burning down buildings and murder…I would surely hope DHS would look into such things.
The fine article?
> ” falsely assuming that he is reacting to the tone of the comments”

I think you are wrong. The assumption that he is reacting to the tone is correct. He explicitly said that he is closing comments due to personal attacks.
Great job on explaining the different podcasting APIs available and how Taddy became a need with your previous product .

Looking forward to playing around with the API soon
One doesn't need an excuse not to buy some of the ugliest cars ever made.
The sensor stuff is a common but exaggerated discussion point in online discussions about this. There's a ton of previous work. Pershing II used terrain matching of SAR images for terminal guidance ages ago. The main technology for making this work is just electrically neutral ablative heat shields, which there are a variety of companies making commercially today. Other historical examples for say visual IR use quartz windows, etc. There's complications due to the heat and related plume, but the sweeping claims about this point are usually off the mark.
The mountain lion warning signs around Silicon Valley are really terrifying. I was always secretly rooting for them, seems useful to occasionally remind chewy humans they are not top of the food chain.
Standard first amendment exceptions:

* Incitement to imminent lawless action
* True threats
* Solicitations to commit crimes

While this tweet doesn't quite meet those exceptions IMHO, it isn't an unreasonable position to take.
Step 1 - Violate the Treaty / Status Quo w violence

https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000...

Step 2 - Start a meaningless war over definitions (of colony) to muddy history

Step 3 - Turning to what's next (Taiwan)

nomnomnomnomnom
Has nothing to do with offensive/defensive capabilities (which is really a straw man). They simply are proceeding with their carrier development in an incremental fashion, learning as they go.

Almost every weapon or weapon system can be described as defensive or offensive, depending on the motives of the person discussing said systems.
The problem, as perceived by the neovim creators, was that vim wasn't moving at all. It wouldn't have taken a bit longer; after their experience, they felt like async just wasn't on Bram's radar, and the maintenance model of vim was hostile to not-Brams. They needed to please Bram to get their patch in, and he spent months saying "fix this. Ok, now fix this. Now fix this." You can tell from Thiago's last message that he's come to believe they'll never get their patch accepted because there'll always be one more thing to fix because Bram doesn't want their patch.

Stability and backwards compatibility were built into neovim from day one. I used it from the 0.1 days, never had a crash, and all my vim plugins just worked. They put incredible effort into not breaking compatibility with existing vimscript, even as they constructed a new, modern build pipeline and development model, and refactored 30% of the code out. It wasn't until they added features of their own that full compatibility was lost because Bram wasn't interested in porting their work back to vim.

This really wasn't "move fast and break things". It was "vim development is stagnant, our only choice is a fork." And now Vim and Neovim are now vastly better pieces of software than Vim 7 was. Forking Vim did wonders for Vim itself.
The question is not "how is something someone said considered free speech?"

The default is that what's said is protected.

The question should be "why is this speech not protected?" Does it incite violence if no violence occurred? Was it some kind of targeted threat or just impotent rage?
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Meta-scale CRUD is fancy, to be sure. But the craft behind it is still not on the same level as building things that can, you know, blow up on the lauchpad. Or break apart up at 46,000 with you a schoolteacher and other crew members inside. While the nation watches. Stuff like that.
Uber provides a real service. Think about what you used to do before Uber and how difficult and annoying things were.