skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in higher up positions like yourself will rarely be subjected to testing with tools like this. You are basically trying to remove the human from equation and industrialize the whole process.
Not Like That, Zuck
The moving parts of solar panels are the dust and the cleaning equipment needed to remove it.
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>None of the vaccines prevent transmission - they were never even tested for that.

The popular narrative being told to people from all sources was that vaccines were to prevent transmission which was quietly toned down when it turned out not to be true and then people now say things like "we never said that" when nobody mentioned it at all in the beginning that vaccines quite possibly weren't going to prevent disease or transmission.

People just move goal posts, fail to outline risks that don't align with their advice before those risks are undeniable, and generally always pretend they were right all along.
It can go one of two ways. Inventory continues its years long downward trend as people stop selling due to the price drops. Or, the increased rates combined with price drops trigger a wave of foreclosures and the market crashes hard. I think the former is more likely.
I look forward to citing this in formal writing. Thanks.
If you find a new job via the LinkedIn app on your phone, Apple is going to want 30% of your salary. It's only fair.
> most people tend to find a way to monetize their activity

I don't think that's true, not even just for bias towards the US, and not even if we correct for bias towards just the subset of people who are on Twitter/ social media.

As to "monetize their activity", really we have to define what that is and isn't.
Say someone does ice-skating and spends ~$1000/yr on it and posts things with affiliate links where they get a tiny amount of revenue, well is that "monetizing their activity" or not? Most would say it isn't. Not compared to old-school "monetizing" like teaching ice-skating classes for $20 cash to kids. And definitely not compared to sponsored Olympic hopefuls who need to get $30++K/yr from their teens, just to stay in the game.

In the last decade I started meeting lots of wannabe influencers and affiliates, most with small followings and near-zero revenues. Is that "monetizing"? I'd say no.

> on the internet, most people are looking to make big bucks

No they're not. Mystified at this claim. Lotta people talk about it, very few achieve it (again depends on how you define it, e.g. "enough to quit the day job and live comfortably purely off internet-based revenues"). Noone audits their claims, right? And they have huge incentives to make false or exaggerated claims.

I don't even think you can clearly define which subset of people is "on the internet" and which isn't; for example, realtors, car dealers, even yoga instructors, tree-surgeons and vets often have websites (and social media), are they doing business "on the internet"? Most would say not really.

I think hard data would help prove/disprove this claim. For example, how many full-time arbitrageurs (resellers) are there on eBay, Amazon zShops and couponing sites? as opposed to just doing it as a side-hustle?

I strongly suspect there's a severe bias towards influencers talking about stuff that doesn't happen (think: Douglas Adams novels), just like the majority of people who claim to be realtors (at the end of every boom cycle, hundreds of thousands of hopefuls get an RE license) have never sold a property, or come close to selling a property. I guess realty is the ultimate 0/1 outcome, and it's easy to ask a wannabe realtor for a list of properties they've sold, hence it's easy to verify 80+% of them have no sales.

I agree with thiago_fm that the OP needs to spend time off "the internet" (more specifically: the influencer side of social media), all the hype and bragging and people relentlessly talking about themselves and unverified claims will pollute your thought process and sense of calm and adequacy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33344573
Except maybe the surreal numbers ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number those are smaller than "as small as you want" :P
So a bit of downtime while spare parts are installed, or older tech put back in use... A major disruption, maybe, but not the end of the world.
This article reports why: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/fed-leaves-rates-unchanged.h...
I'd imagine once per year or two, any consumables (grease, maybe occasional bearing replacement) would be cheap so you really would be mostly paying for time of someone proficient to do it.
How much did you owe after the properties were sold?
Swift Regex Deep Dive
I think there is a hybrid future coming - and I suspect farmers will be at the forefront of this - hills with steps full of these built in, marginal fields providing pv-solar.

I can smell a new industry I just cannot understand the leverage points
That said, making the process worse for your good candidates is a horrible solution.

I feel for that employer, but making the application process more onerous would be a red flag for me, as a candidate.

They are going to potentially hurt themselves if not careful.
Let's say you have a facility where chips/semiconductors/electronic components are produced.
Supplying this facility with green electricity only is pretty easy. Sign contract with energy company, done.

All the raw material inputs needed to produce the components, that's where it gets interesting. I kind of doubt you'll find a copper (or whatever) mine where green electricity powered dump trucks drive around (which .. in turn would need to have been produced sustainably, otherwise they add CO2 to the BOM).

And good luck trying to first build the factories for the production of components from exclusively decarbonized materials. Steel? Concrete? Plastics?
I've been fascinated by roof ridgetop fans. They capture the air being funnel up and over the roof to increase their efficiency without increasing their size. The startup RidgeBlade uses a simple ducted squirrel cage fan along the ridgeline, and their studies show a 2.2x efficiency increase on 45deg slope roof. They also work well with solar.

https://thepowercollective.ca/products/rb1/
There is no transparency nor accountability for the "condo commandos" who rule some HOA boards like the girls in Mean Girls. I've ended up on 2 separate condo boards and each time I swear "never again!". Maybe this time I mean it.
Cliff was almost definitely falling slower than Vesna though because he had the partially deployed parachute providing extra drag.
I don't understand how you can say ads aren't affected and then in the next sentence say this only affects certain types of ads.
The extent varies, but courts do see in a very bad light companies applying too many resources against people they clearly harmed. When those people are employees, the view gets worse.

That doesn't mean that suing is easy or cheap, but only that things are way more balanced than your comment makes it look like.
I'm waiting for Vortex Bladeless: https://vortexbladeless.com/
It's an interesting scenario. Sort of like a mega-tiktok.

Your image seems apropos; I'm reminded of David Foster Wallace, as well, with his whole obsession w/ entertaining ourselves to death...
I can understand a small time house investor not renting out the house, and I see that all around me, in a very very tight housing market. Small time owners of 2-3 houses, especially those who have paid off the mortgage, avoid the hassle of renting because they have limited time to seek out tenants and deal with them, or limited tolerance for risk from a bad tenant.

But I can not for one moment understand a cooperate buyer not renting it out; they have more than enough capacity to rent out homes, they can spread risk across lots of properties, and any time not spent renting is merely money left on the table, which would come back to bite any manager that is leaving a lot of money on the table.
People seem to look at aggregate housing, and pretend that every buyer's experience will be "about average".

Buying a house is akin to putting your retirement into the stock of a single company. In that situation, it doesn't matter what the S&P500 tends to do on a long enough timeline.
> Most of the people I speak to who locked in <3.5% are not planning on selling in the next 10 years or more.

If this keeps supply low, why does anybody have hope housing prices will fall in a meaningful way over the next 3 years? (aka, people on the sidelines waiting for a pullback)
Are you just saying things or have you actually looked?

Average home price in 1965 was $21k.

Average home price in 2020 was $514k.

Long term after every drop the prices have surpassed ATH.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS
Ask HN: Why are we so fragmented in databases options?
Hello grumpy friends!

I have 22 years of experience in the area and I always had a huge difficulty when starting a new project: choosing a database. There are tens of thousands of options out there and every single day a new one appears here on HN. And still I can't choose a suitable one for my case.

This huge fragmentation in database is much worse than the fragmentation of code languages. This fragmentation makes it difficult: migrations, common knowledge base, integration, union and selection of data, and countless other issues.

I imagine that the minimum qualities of a database are: immutable, ease of use in any language, performance, ease of querying and manipulating data, easy to configure, maintain and scale, lightweight, among others. Every time I go to choose a db I always come across some critical problem.

Why isn't out there an ultimate general-purpose database? Which fits well for 90% of cases at least? I know my grumpy friends will tell that every case is a case. But if it had a widely used database, everyone's lives would be easier.

In your opinion, is there an "ultimate" database? If yes, which one? If not, why?
Oh good point. For some reason my mind was fixated on submarines lol.
I'd at least speak to a lawyer to see how "easy" a case is.

One attorney may be all you need if the evidence is grossly in your favor. No point denying yourself the opportunity, especially if you can afford the consultation fees.

If its a difficult case, then a good lawyer will tell you ahead of time that they don't think they can win and that you probably shouldn't pursue the case. If its borderline, they'll probably accept the case but you gotta pay them.

If its ridiculously easy, they'll take the case for free on their dime / contingency (because they're so confident they're gonna win).
It's absurd. People are forced into them if they want to buy a house, and part of the agreement is if you sell the house, you can only sell it to a person that agrees to sign. It _should_ be illegal, especially given the racist history that HOAs were designed for.
wrong, loading drivers requires admin.
It's absolutely insane that _this_ is what it takes to get IME fully disabled.
Print free paper (technical paper)
This was my first thought as well.

I think the use-case for this is when the customer has not or is unwilling to upgrade from a "working version".

Having the ability to take ownership of that "working version" for their business continuity reasons can be invaluable.

Not sure how reliable this statistic[1] is, but a quick search yielded jQuery still has 11% of the market share. Interestingly, "websites added" > "websites dropped"!!!

[1] https://www.slintel.com/tech/programming-framework/jquery-ma...

PS: I have nothing but praise for jQuery and it's positive impact in the web world. However, given its age, seemed like a good example to illustrate the point.
Barely. Once the sun goes down the wind usually stops.
I’ve seen a bunch of people talking about how you need to install solar this year because the subsidies are going away. The whole goal of the subsidy is to get enough of an installed base to get costs down so you don’t need the subsidy. Even if the midterms give us a better Congress, you can’t count on these forever.
I didn't mean to imply it's free as in no effort goes into. Just that the underlying library provides it so it's less effort on top of the already significant effort going into DataFusion itself.
I feel most "at home" in Common Lisp, though I agree that Scheme is more elegant. Speaking of elegant I recently had some fun playing around with Janet (https://janet-lang.org) and I have to say it is quite nice.

If I had to pick a language to stay in forever and I had the time to really grow it into what I wanted using C extensions I'd probably choose Janet (or make my own similar lisp).

Like most people, though, I have a day job and until I decide to retire I won't have time to reinvent an entire personal programming system for myself. For pure "get in there and have fun" sessions after work Common Lisp gets my vote despite its clunkiness. And besides... it's a lisp! If something's too clunky I'll just fix it.
I'd imagine cos it's easier to produce one size unit and just install multiple of them
You mean HN user or letter author?
>Say someone does ice-skating and spends ~$1000/yr on it and posts things with affiliate links where they get a tiny amount of revenue, well is that "monetizing their activity" or not? Most would say it isn't.

I doubt that's true. I certainly would.
Wonder if the funding will come from those that support solar panels like Sunrun, Sunpower.. or new lending sector will form that specialize on lending + insurance for wind equip
Flat rooftops are very common in SoCal, and luxury homes are large. Seems like a potentially good market for them, but yeah, maybe it isn't a big enough market in their calculus.
Caliptra – First Open-Source Silicon Going into All Datacenter Chips
This is so sad but so true!
More details on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-d...

The ending is sad -- that intrepid recovery mostly didn't end up used:

And then, some months later, Pixar rewrote the film from almost the ground up, and we made Toy Story 2 again. That rewritten film was the one you saw in theatres and that you can watch now on Blu-Ray.
> So GNSS systems have their own representation of time and the protocols that most network equipment uses is called PTP.

It's not so much that (Ethernet?) network equipment uses PTP, but rather to get the accuracies desired (±nanoseconds) there needs to be hardware involved, and that makes baking it into chips necessary. It's an IEEE standard so gets rolled into Ethernet.

Applications for PTP are things like electrical grid and cell network timings. Most day-to-day PC and server applications don't need that much accuracy.

Most office and DC servers generally configure NTP, which gives millisecond (10^-3) or tens/hunderds-microsecond (10^-6) accuracy. Logging onto most switches and routers you'll probably see NTP configured.

To get the most out PTP (10^-9) you need to generally run a specialized-hardware master clock.
That n-Body simulation is a bad case for Python today in that you loop over the differential equation solver in Python. (It's like the very branchy semantic web and old AI stuff that I do for fun... I am migrating a lot of that to Java, PyPy helps a great deal but Java does a lot better.)

If you are doing heavy matrix math, numpy runs at FORTRAN speed, tools like scikit-learn and Tensorflow also get high performance by doing the heavy lifting outside Python.
It only takes a few seconds to spin up with the larger motor on it. As far as dust collection - the tables are open, so I had originally fit a wedge underneath with a 4" port on the outfeed side, but according to my friend, it's not necessary and he just has a 4" open pipe on the floor near the outfeed side that he sweeps up once a month or so.

That's a wild coincidence! Was that the October edition? I would like to see those articles. This was a project, and I can tell you that learning from someone else would've been super helpful when moving that much cast iron around.

The hardest part was re-leveling and ensuring the tables were co-planar when re-assembling it. You have 8 level screws, and something like 60 set screws for the blades. It was a fiddly process!
I’ve got loads of activities I enjoy doing that I’m too terrible at to make money doing, so I’ve got a bunch.

Never ruin a perfectly good hobby by making it a job.
This reminds me: I’m really looking forward to SQLite blob I/O being added to the Golang library. There is an open PR to add it. It will enable a lot of interesting use cases revolving around streaming of blobs rather than storing them in memory.
Thanos – open-source, highly available Prometheus setup
As far as I know, almost everybody gets cold sores. But Alzheimers is much, much rarer than that.
No they can’t. It’s illegal for an HOA to block solar: https://aurorasolar.com/blog/how-to-get-hoa-solar-approval-t...
Does it include a fully bootable OS? Or does it include a libc? Or does it include a compiler and necessary libraries? Does the disk need a specific OS to read it?

I guess I'm asking what happens when you "connect" "a computer" to "the disk".
We’re only about 60-70 years into the age of computing and have no idea how long legacy software systems will truly last. Also imagine uses cases like exploratory or orbiting spacecraft which might have useful shelf lives into the triple digits.
Ah, that makes sense. Since those are private schools they don't need to comply with Title IX.
TL;DR

Oracle plans to contribute the most applicable portions of the GraalVM just-in-time (JIT) compiler and Native Image. Oracle does not currently intend to contribute the polyglot technologies supporting other languages such as Python, Ruby, R, and JavaScript.
If most people don't sell and there is high demand, then the few properties that will be on the market will be gone quickly and people will compete, driving up the prices.

So it really depends on how large the amount of people who don't want to but have to sell is compared to the amount of people who are looking to buy.
> "just correcting the record"

If that phrase isn't triggering your alarm bells, I don't know what to tell you...

> "If there's a threat to profits, an industry and corporation will usually attempt to prevent or attack it regardless of any connection to the truth."

Oh okay, you do get it lol.

The thing is though, it doesn't have to be like this. We allow it to be at our own mortal peril, and that isn't even remotely hyperbole.
"Human resources" is the thing they manage. The department itself is an AI tasked with minimizing legal risks and employment costs.
Completed the first challenge and it was a lot of fun - spoiler I've never had to use the 'lsof' command before.
That movement with that shape is reminding me of something else.
Net worth is not public, "only" your taxable income.
Price per kWh?
Skipping or smearing leap seconds means conversion to/from civil time is simple ... as long as you only want an accuracy of +-1 second.

If you need better conversion, you have to know how the system chose to handle leap seconds. If it smears, you have to know and implement the smear algorithm, if it doesn't then some unix timestamps will map to two different points in civil time (second 59 and 60 in any hour with a leap second).

For 99.9% of applications, it's not a bad tradeoff. But if we're willing to fudge time by up to a second, recording time in TAI (just count a second every second) and living with future dates sometimes being off by a couple seconds when converted to UTC isn't that different in terms of utility/usability tradeoff, and conceptually simpler.
Interestingly, I was one of those "geniuses" that had a perfect ACT score but a horrible GPA (long story). I got rejected by every college I applied to except for the local state school, so that's where I ended up going. In the end I dropped out in my final semester and just went to work, but that's besides the point. I was more than qualified to academically excel at any university I wanted to attend, and I maintained a 3.9 GPA in college up until I dropped out.

The problem with using just GPA is that GPA can easily be manipulated by school authorities who dislike you, test scores cannot.
If there is a liberty to expose innocent people to potentially deadly diseases I don't want it for myself or others.

If that's a step towards hell then God is not good.
We can't see the alternative world where another company or entity ended up being at the helm of the personal computer revolution. Since you mentioned the winner take all aspect that should orient the way we think about these companies.
I don't understand how a corporate purchaser is worse than any other investor; I live in an area with almost only single family homes, and a huge fraction of them are investor owned and rented out. The small time land lords have a huge variance in how well they behave, but I'm not sure why corporate landlords are worse.
Will InfluxDB IOx eventually replace InfluxDB v2?
The value proposition for a UPS is not "run through a power outage" (most don't store enough energy for that purpose). The value proposition is both of these items below:

1) enough time to do a controlled shutdown instead of a hard power cut when a full power outage occurs;

2) the ability to ride through small 1-2 second power flickers that would otherwise result in a hard power cut for the computer.
Coke had Coca-Cola Life which was roughly half sugar and half Stevia, and I remember somewhat liking it. They discontinued it due to low sales.

It surprises me nobody has developed a sugar substitute yet that actually tastes like sugar with no aftertaste. I know nothing about chemical/food engineering but it must be a tough nut to crack.
I guess fortunately for the economy 90% of loans are fixed-rate. There might be some deals to be had if the high rate is sustained for a few years.
My bad, I'm from Europe. I think here is vice versa.
Oh, I know, I'm just pointing out that a self-hosted compiler is a different ballgame than a runtime being written in the language that runs on it. Without some degree of AOT compilation (usually of a subset or dialect of the language compiled in a different fashion), it's not really possible. The GP seemed to miss that the discussion was about the JVM, not javac.

With Graal, it's possible to write a JVM in Java, but the JVM doesn't depend on another JVM to run, and the way it runs bytecode isn't the way it was compiled in the first place. It's not really self-hosted in the same way that a compiler can be.
Exactly. Stadia being killed off and now Colab moving to a credit system is the final nail in the coffin for my trust with Google. Google is just an ad company with cool toy projects.
BTW how do you test a personal workstation backup? I don’t have backup workstations to rotate between by backing one up, restoring on the other, working and then cycling between them in this manner. How do you test the restore procedure without risking destruction of the original?
If i am not mistaken, that's one of the larger selling points in Favour of Zig, isn't it?

I am pretty sure the C/C++ capabilities will stay in the Zig toolchain for a very long time :)
That's kinda nice use case for the WASM machine/linux emulators, then you just need to provide image and user can run it in the browser

> You might instead want to have a smaller pool of (larger) servers that you run co-resident VMs on with https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/. That will avoid account limits and also keep your AWS costs more predictable.

I'd imagine (still waiting for it to load lmao) most of it could be containers too.