skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even think this would work without disconnecting from the main source via your breaker, so workers down stream are perfectly safe.

And I don't see how putting 10-15 amps through a cord, plug, and outlet that routinely handle 15 amps downstream everyday causes a fire risk. My house doesn't freak out when I operate a space heater, and I don't see why it would freak out if I push a space heaters power through that exact same setup.

The cord is dangerous, in the sense that you could get shocked by your generator. You can get shocked by the thousands of rusted, rewired, half functioning generators on Craigslist without every using a cord like this.
It's not a price, it's what enables it. Without the damper, the building would have to be shorter.
I saw a breakdown of how the X11 protocol over a network works (IIRC It was by one of the wayland proponents who also was a an xorg maintainer so he knew what he was talking about).

The protocol was very poorly designed everything needed essentially several trips back and forth between the client and server. That applies also if you're using Athena or motif widgets, it just becomes much worse with QT or gtk because they also transmit bitmaps, because otherwise they can't guarantee the look.

So it's latency not bandwidth which kills the performance. If you need 3 or 4 roundtrips just moving a window around, that's fine on your home network where you have a ping of 10ms, over the Internet with 100ms latency 3 roundtrips become 300ms so just a cursor move becomes painful.
The bulky 25 pin fell out of favor because some of its pins function was implemented in SW (new SW appeared which used SW flow control).
Hmm, this was proposed 10 years ago by David Keith: https://mashable.com/archive/arctic-global-warming

I wonder what has changed, apart from going from $8 billion to $11 billion.
> Grit gained a great deal of attention thanks to Dr. Duckworth’s provocative claims that it "beats the pants off I.Q., SAT scores," and other traditional measures of potential in determining "which individuals will be successful in some situations." Subsequent research has showed this to be an undeniable overstatement, in some cases a massive one. While some studies have found that grit might be useful for predicting achievement in certain narrow contexts, the first grit study conducted on a large, representative sample of Americans, published last year, found that "intelligence contributes 48-90 times more than grit to educational success and 13 times more to job-market success."

Source [0].

I've recently been reading the book that the author of this article wrote, called The Quick Fix, which looks to debunk popular psychology concepts such as grit. Companies may want gritty people but if the underlying concept is false, they're not going to get the kinds of people they want. But perhaps they use "gritty" as simply a marketing term for "persevering."

Aside, I see you also saw the Flexport ad asking for "gritty" people to apply. I was a bit turned off the company as well once I started reading the book above.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-false-promise-of-quick-fix-...
Why would you try to evacuate people from the 80+ floor during an earthquake? What good cut realistically come from that under what scenario?
> The whole "You need link a library and draw your own decorations" is, put simply, ludicrous.

Isn't that simply because of GNOME, where they refuse to support server side decorations[1]?

[1] -- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217
They were using a ThinkPad from 2000, therefore I was guessing RS232 and not RS-424 or other industrial ports. A laptop for that age would also have a parallel port, so in theory it could be some bespoke parallel protocol, but pretty unlikely.

> It's easy to assume that this would be a simple rewrite, but real engineering

I said - "If all they are using the DOS software for, is to get a log-file from the train, then its probably easy".

The system is from the 70'ies so its very possible that they originally hooked up dumb terminals. Those are even harder to come by today and had no real way of getting data out of (hard-copy of what was on the screen to line-printer perhaps). Old terminal are also very clunky to haul around compared to even an old laptop. So the DOS program could very well just be a VT05 emulator, without any actual program logic built into it.

So no I was not suggesting a rewrite but rather hack something together like some of us old greybeards here on hackernews like to do.
There's a mapping of various chemical identifiers/name to PubChem compound id at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/Compound/Extras/ . Quoting
Quoting README-Extras in the that directory there are three files you might look at:

SID-Synonym.gz:

This is a listing of all (live) SIDs with their depositor
provided synonyms (one per line). It is a gzipped text file with
SID, tab, synonym on each line.

CID-Synonym-filtered.gz:
CID-Synonym-unfiltered.gz:

These are listings of all names associated with a CID. The
unfiltered list are names aggregated from all SIDs whose
standardized form is that CID, sorted by weight with the "best"
names first. The filtered list has some names removed that are
considered inconsistent with the structure. Both are gzipped text
files with CID, tab, and name on each line. Note that the
names may be composed of more than one word, separated by spaces.

A similar list may be available from ChemSpider or eMolecules - I don't know.

https://wikipedia.cheminfo.org/smiles.txt is a mapping from Wikipedia title to SMILES, done using the chemical infobox.

> We can all manage it as an open source governing community and use tools to declare whether these chemicals are safe or not for general use.

Yeah, that's not going to happen.

You're in for a world of hurt if you try to crowdsource this list and find lots of contributors.

As the old phrase goes, "The dose makes the poison". Oxygen can be toxic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity .

The California Prop 65 list ("Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986") includes "Ethyl alcohol in alcoholic beverages" as a chemical "known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm" - https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/chemicals/ethyl-alcohol-...

Opinions vary, sometimes with strong emotions. In this project, who has the final say on if thiomersal is safe or not for general use? (For the matter, what does "general use" mean?)
I think I'm locked in at the old price, thankfully.

The Daily Notes are essential, especially with templates.
Hence Apple narrative is around Steve Jobs - great product manager, great marketing person, decisive; company elevating ordinary ('oldish' tech) to extraordinary using power of design,... etc. Apple is not about inventing new tech.

Whereas this blog somewhat smells of “History is Written by Victors."
I kinda read it as some sort of passive aggressive dig at whatever not-gritty previous hire that was so soft as to not pass muster.

The other thing that pops into my head is a hiring manager that is really into buzzwords. Either way, it’s a signal not to take the company seriously.
Google isn’t being threatened by a search competitor they’re being threatened by attention competitors. The fact that Google provides search results is very much secondary to the fact that they deliver advertisements to eyeballs.
The big problem with analog is power - we have 40 years of building gates that are on or off and use virtually no power in those states because no current flows - the problem with analog is ohm's law you need to have current flowing to make analog work
Even if they were on the ground floor I would stay in. Outside they might get hit by stuff falling off the building even under conditions where the building itself survives. If the building collapse, they won't be safe at all even outside the building unless they get pretty far away.
Well this is ironic https://i.imgur.com/93CAN9f.png
All Advertising works. It's just a question of ROI!

Of course you have to qualify Advertising as being a persuasive Ad' shown to an audience that may purchase your product at some point!

What constitutes an Ad' is also open to some debate, but you get the general idea!
> the preferred way would be for me to search for a product / indicate my need

Yes and then AI to find the best matches for me.

But there are also things that would benefit me that I don't even know exist, so I can not ask for them.
"you often need to seem nice and likable to wealthy people" is a very important point.

Part of it is ... sort of generically true in any chosen power structure in the world (easier for powerful people to do things for you if they like you, in theory). But because so much of this dealmaking and the like, and the completely capricious nature of VC funding in particular, means that if you're wanting to fundraise your job ends up being "be friends with the people with money".

And because it's so informal and based on friendships, each generation of money is... well, it's replicating culture from the previous generation. At least in more formal power structures there are exams or something to stop it from _just_ being about hiring people you like talking to.

The silver lining is I bet there's a huge untapped market in helping fund people in environments that don't require you to listen to a VC talk about how BTC is about taking power away from oppressive governments or whatever.

I bet there are loads of people who are interested in funding, in seriousness, and not necessarily looking for more drinking partners.
The US could if it wanted 51% attack bitcoin with less than 10% of the yearly DoD budget.
The CEOs are protecting the reputations of the people under them at the expense of their own.

They could blame the people who got laid off for not "correctly" implementing the vision. Future employers would potentially not look favorably upon them.

They could blame the market, which just makes the company as a whole look worse as they likely learned nothing if that were the case, and would still potentially reflect poorly upon the people let go.

Instead, the CEO is saying "I made a decision, but it didn't bear out, and for the company to be healthy again we need to make some drastic changes. These people aren't at fault"

Does that mean the CEO needs to resign? Maybe, maybe not. Was the decision obviously bad at the time, or only wrong in hindsight? Would a different CEO be better or worse give the company's current circumstances?
First Adobe lost digital product designers a decade ago. First to Sketch, and then to Figma. Photoshop/Illustrator wasn't really made for designing digital products. Photoshop's most features are built around photos, bitmaps and pixels, and the industry moved from pixels assets to vectors or rendered UI. Adobe didn't really have tool dedicated to digital products. They bought Fireworks in 2005 but then kind of killed it. They finally woke up in 2016 and introduced Adobe XD but it was too late and it product was meh. Also many designers also hate Adobe and their creative cloud to the Adobe brand didn't help either.

Sketch came along with a tool for designing digital products, like websites, mobile apps etc. It was really good, but it was a native Mac application that dealt with local .sketch files. To share the design the person would need to send them the sketch file and they would generally the same major Sketch version installed on their Mac. They also were operating an "indie" team in the Netherlands and were kind of removed how Silicon Valley teams design and build products.

When Figma came along, they were bit behind of Sketch in terms performance and design features, but they had the cloud/browser first architecture where there is no local files. There is no files on anyone computers, everyone in the company has access to all the files. There generally no versions, you edit the latest file. They also listened what product design teams actually needed. For example they came to the Airbnb design team to ask about what we would need for the design system and components, and then they basically built that (I assume they also talked to other teams). They also built simple prototyping tools which then killed Invision and the cottage industry of other prototyping tools. The web sharing and basic handoff tools kind of made Zeplin and Abstract obsolete.

So in the end what Figma built was a design tool that product designers and the product teams needed. It had the cloud, collaboration and the features that work in a way that make sense how things are designed and built today.

It's little bit like you can run your own git server and setup, but what Github build was the workflow and the tools for teams or groups of people to build things together. Adobe still operates in the world where they sell these specialized git clients for specific types of users for but there are no workflows or really a way to do anything together.
Arm has something a bit similar with scalable vector extension (SVE)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster_Cogburn_(character)
I head an AWS Senior employee say to a full room that if we ran into a serious problem during sales and needed help they would “shoot that Eskimo” for us.

Replace that last word with any other group and you can get why the whole room of sales folks gasped.
Passive mass dampers are used for wind, not earthquakes. their performance for earthquake is so bad that researchers don't even bother studying it.

If you use google scholars, the only results you get are researchers mentioning in their intro that passive systems don't work for seismic and then they propose an active (ei. with motors, pumps, etc.) system or a semi-active system (ef. fluid dampers with electronically controlled valves).

Passive mass dampers (ei. no valves, motors, etc.) like the one in Taipei 101 require too long to resonate with the earthquake and dissipate energy. by the time they start doing work, the earthquake is over.

This subject is like airplane lift explanations, the misinformation gets repeated so much that it even make its way into college textbooks.
There is no concrete value. Water has no value in a desert if nobody lives there.
A Simple Guide to Public Transport Safety
You could propably return it as defective. At least in EU there is a regulation about maximal standby power usage.
Don't forget to check power usage after a few minutes. My old Panasonic TV from 2007 would switch to a pre-standby state initially, then to a "deep standby" after about 60 seconds when the power usage dropped below 1 watt.

Regarding Sony, I found them the worst offender for standby power in my home stereo equipment which I've now replaced.
This doesn’t resonate with me at all about Palo Alto. From Sheraton, it is an easy walk to University Ave, and you are greeted by the cult coffee shop Verve which is at the very end of the strip. You also have Evvia one block away, numerous other restaurants, West Elm, RH, Real Real, a giant Apple store, the Nobu hotel, a huge Blue Bottle Coffee, Indian classic Rooh. So not sure what you were looking at. I also find Caltrain to be quite nice - clean modern stations with clean quiet ride.
On the flip side, if you enjoy something. The market will try to pay you as little as possible. See: teachers, musicians
It took me a while ti realize what the edges even meant. I didn’t find it obvious at all. After a few trial movements and staring at the screen in disbelief, I got it.

One thing that I would definitely change is getting stuck. There shouldn’t be a state that you can’t get out of.
But there are some features only available on a Blockchain right?

Do you agree that there are any features at all, ever, that are only on a Blockchain?

If so, then whatever features that you think are only available on a Blockchain is what I am talking about.
You would be shocked to learn how many of your coworkers use their paycheck to buy drugs.
I can’t say that my first reaction to a major earthquake would be “let’s go up to the 89th floor and see what that 1.5 million pound ball is doing!”
I think you should add 2020 in the title
> "so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens".

It's like saying they applied an anti-oppression lens when they went for a walk in a park. What did they actually do help fight oppression here, or are they just throwing an unrelated phrase in to get extra points and more sympathy. "Hey, you can't criticize us, we said we applied the lens!".
RISC-V has better code density with its compressed instructions.
It is written at the level of a daytime soap. Plot is full of holes. Characters are shielded by unbelievable plot armor. Acting is wooden.

Still attracts a dedicated audience just like daytime soaps. Notice that the people who like the show don't really address the issues covered in the article. They don't care.

I do care and it is almost painful to watch.

How does the creature not understand the question of their name but understand the question of where they are from? Oops?

Why did the orcs return the elf's bow and arrow? How else will the elf rescue the boy.

Who swims with a full gown? Gotta
keep it PG-13.

How can an elf who lives hundreds of years not learn any diplomacy? How the fuck would I know?

How can the orcs chase the boy out into the sun without any effects yet later burn in the sun? How did it become dark as night yet become sunny a short time later? Gotta reuse the orc sunlight device to let him escape.

A wheelbarrow of food is enough to feed how many people? Have they invented the horse drawn carriage?

BTW, where are the horses or horse like animals?

If you flee to a tower, you must have a plan for defense? Do you?

Does the actress playing Galadriel have any emotion other than anger and that freeze frame uncanny valley smile?

How did Galadriel get to the king again? One would think that her escaping once would result in many more guards to prevent a second escape.
Might be valuable to call out in title here that this is from 2020
I think quite the opposite happened, just not on X11 level. The web browser is essentially a thin client nowadays. The fact that you have full client-side scripting is one thing that was IMHO a bit underdeveloped in classical thin-client systems because with that you can mask network latency much easier (though, admitted, I don't know a lot about how X11 handles this).
Or how skates work on ice.
Could you, for the sake of sport, counter the core argument? It's compelling to me and I'd like to hear good counterarguments to it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273247
I think currently we have compositors that are monolithic and due "it all". Sounds like we'd need a separate process to maintain window state, that the compositor interfaces with. is this recreating some of the problems of X11?
Not naming names but have seen people who have viewed source of proprietary UNIX from last century be superstitious about contributing to GPL UNIX projects like the Linux kernel.
There are bullies and is anti-intellectual sentiment in "good" schools as well.
Microsoft built a 3 trillion dollar company in the back of their productivity suite. Reaching 10% market share there is easily worth 10 billion.

YouTube is making 10s of billions a year profit. Its margins on absolutely bonkers.
What a nightmare. My previous two jobs had me use macOS, specifically Macbook Pros, and it was a nightmare. Slow, difficult to even use the computer due to all sorts of hidden behaviors and blocks, and a terrible mess when it came to my external monitor, webcam, keyboard, and mouse (from major brands in Dell and Logitech). I got to choose for my new job and chose Windows, and it's night and day in terms of productivity.
Implementing a Terraform state backend on Cloudflare Workers
When a manager asks for something that is very vague, like “grit”, it allows them to create their own little cult of personality. Because guess who gets to decide who has the “grit”/“moxie”/“chutzpah”/“X Factor”…? The manager does! It allows him to bucket his employees into favorites and sound more objective than he is being.
I don't think most parts and equipment are swappable anyhow. Maybe tracks
themselves. But as far as the trains are concerned, you're pretty much
buying all of the trains bespoke from the manufacturer.

No you're not. Caltrain has plenty of secondhand rolling stock. Some of the newer coaches came from MetroLink, some of the older ones came from a railway in Virginia. Locomotives came from Southern Pacific and Amtrak.

Muni runs all sorts of heritage equipment from around the world on the F, but the PCCs which make up the majority of the fleet were designed as a standard car.

If SF used standard gauge rail, it's not like they could just buy some surplus
rail cars, put some seats in them, and call it a day. Subways are generally lower
to the ground because it improves stability and reduces roll. They corner better.
I'm not sure that any subway system uses regular old heavy rail train cars.

After the PCC of the 50s the feds tried for a next generation. In the end only Boston and SF bought the cars. They were utter crap in large part because (much like BART) it was mostly a pork project for defense contractors. In this case Boeing's new helicopter division (Boeing-Vertol) thought that trains were basically upside down helicopters and would be easy enough to build.

Muni's current trams are based on an off-the-shelf Siemens design. The problem with BART isn't just the axles, it's the entire propulsion system, it's the wacky loading gauge, etc. BART can't even get away with a modified off-the-shelf system.

And besides, if you're ordering thousands of cars for replacement from bombardier
(or whomever), you can order spare parts while you're at it.

Aside from the obvious problems with single sourcing things, that strategy only works as long as you can get spares. BART had huge problems finding thyristors a few years back because they use a non-standard voltage.
Construction costs (for buildings or tunnels) in NYC are also many times higher than anyplace else in the world, largely due to corruption.
alternatively also http://0x01000001
I did read the article. Your dismissive comment is typically what I get in these threads

> Some people actually believe that Bitcoin is “thermodynamically backed”. This is utter nonsense. There's no such thing. BTC is backed by demand just like everything else in the world. Remove the demand and price falls.

How am I so far off? Author is talking about value measured by price and the effect on that value by demand.
Why are only 10 of Japan's 33 operable reactors currently running?
The article takes the hashrate and cost of electricity as a proxy of the cost of maintaining the bitcoin network, but there is no need for a proxy because the cost of maintaining the network is, by definition the block reward and the transaction fees. No wonder that the two estimates are about the same, because the hashrate directly depends on the rewards and the price of bitcoin and electricity.
I sometimes want it to work more on me.

There was a promotion like 25% off on Thermomix. For a week only. I wanted one, but I naturally distrust campaigns that urges yoi to buy in a short time.

Now it is like 25% more expensive.
... so did he get in on the seed round or not?!
Right wing sites/blogs/forums are saying that this implies white people, probably white straight men, will be more likely to be laid off because it is supposedly harder for minority group members of various types to replace their job than it is a white male.

Idk if this is true, but that's how the right is reading this.
What would be the impact of making _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 a Fedora-specific Make default (which doesn't apply to CMake or Ninja because those are different defaults, which are for GCC not LLVM/Clang anyway)?
This is it.
There’s a real shortage in tech of people that are willing to try before asking. (I’m not in the US)
I bought my TV in part based on reviews for audio quality. And while that’s certainly part of the equation, this has just been getting worse the last few years.