skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s that dumb.

Exhibit A:

“These steady, guaranteed, market beating returns that have no risk are safe because Madoff wouldn’t risk life in prison running a fraud. Plus, it’s registered with the SEC”

is roughly equivalent to:

“This 350’ drop and metal capsule with no parachute are safe because Branson is here. Plus, I’m on a TV show so I’m sure they have a safety crew.”

These examples show just how much we trust others and how easily we can be persuaded into taking huge, unnecessary risk when a prize is dangled in front of us.

There are people who refused to invest in Madoff while their friends or competitors were getting rich. And there are people who would refuse to press that button. They’re incredibly rare, but that’s what you’re looking for when you want someone making billion dollar decisions that affect tons of jobs/livelihoods.

If you bet alongside Branson 100% of the time, you’d do really well in life. But he wouldn’t gain any value.

But to him, you are a tool that helps him get better. You playing the odds and agreeing with him doesn’t help him. You calling bullshit the 0.01% of the time when he’s dead wrong is what he needs. You’re not his next billion dollar idea. You’re his bankruptcy / financial death safety net. He doesn’t want someone making a prisoner’s dilemma (we’ll sink or swim together) / “no one got fired for choosing IBM” (no one got fired for agreeing with Branson) kind of decision. He wants you to say “Knowing what I know, I can’t go along with this.”

So it’s a very theatrical way of seeing if you have the courage to save him from himself, in a way that makes for a good 10 second TV teaser for non-business folks.
It's not a bad a piece, but too much exposition and not enough analysis. I think it is a psycho-analytical lens, because the most interesting observation to me is when the author assigns Ferris Bueller's id to Cameron's ego. This should've been the main thesis. And this bit: "By definition, the adults in a Hughes film are beyond hope of transformation" obviously doesn't apply to Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
> ... and grounding to plumbing used to be permitted
>
> Do you have a citation for this?

You could look it up yourself. It's not hard.

Here's a guide to the 1981 National Electrical Code.
See page 297. section 250-23, grounding for alternating current systems:

"grounding electrode conductor ... which runs to building steel and/or water pipe or driven ground rod".

Page 299, "water pipe and/or other suitable electrode" as grounding point for neutral.

Page 365, section 250-81 goes into water pipes as ground in more detail. It usually can't be the only ground. That's in 250-81(a). But back then, there was an assumption that water pipes were a path to ground.

By 2011, use of a water pipe as ground was more restricted. It's still allowed, but you have to attach directly to the metal pipe where it comes out of the ground. See[2], page 238, section 250-51, "Grounding electrodes". (You're allowed 5 feet of pipe from building entrance). Also see 250-53(D)(2), where the risk of future replacement of a metal water pipe with plastic is discussed. Water pipes are now valid grounds only if they meet the general ground rod criterion - six feet of conductor buried in earth. (3m for pipes.) You can see the general progression from "pipes are grounds" to "only grounding rods driven in the ground can be trusted." Which is reasonable enough, given that most new pipe is plastic. At this point, grounding pipes is more about preventing them from becoming energized if something shorts to a pipe. Just as all electrical boxes must be grounded.

[1] https://archive.org/details/mcgrawhillsnatio00mcpa/page/296/...

[2] https://archive.org/details/nationalelectric0000unse_d8w8/pa...
In Californian cities, we mostly eat tacos instead of pizza.
Of course even if you don't use a bytecoded language, your object code is interpreted by a program, the micromachine, in your CPU (unless you are running something VERY simple like a Z80 or small AVR, which implements the machine code in hardware).

One of the nice perspective insights from 3Lisp, which of course was very high level!
https://youtu.be/bOMQiMxh5Bc?t=430

relevant listen is about 2min long
The argument kind of falls flat when we can't get Americans to go work on a farm to raise food for any thing. We have no reason to believe that poor urban people would/could flock to the Free land in the countryside and successfully start some sort of farming Utopia.
This is awesome. I think ppl should def share anything they made. As long as its not low-effort shilling... and your contributions are anything but!
> mediator.views is for business domain (e.g. your API)
> job.views could be for more low-level internal tooling

That's very interesting. I'm mostly following the architecture from: https://phalt.github.io/django-api-domains/styleguide/

I knew this was going to be a large project, about 19 apps, supporting a trucking and inventory web/mobile app, and I wanted a sane/organized way to deal with all of the models and relations.

Do you know of some blog posts or books that go into the way you normally organize things?

> if you can't reason about load without job, and can't reason about job without load

There is a lot of interaction between all of the parts of the app, but particularly between Jobs, Loads, Inventory, Stages, and Drivers. In the future I might start with one app, and then add another if I absolutely have to.
I said addition, not finishing a basement. But if your basement had a wall that wasn't up to code and it was part of your finishing, you'd have to bring that wall up.
My 2 cents: My home has a buried power cable from the late 60's. It's size can only handle up to 100 amps, my original main breaker was only 75 amp, we upgraded.(In my state all new houses have to have at least a 200 amp main.)

The electrical trade is very rewarding, but very dangerous. You typically have to rely on co-workers to be responsible and safe, if they are distracted, life changing and/or ending results can occur.

Before considering an electrical career, attend an arc-flash class to get an idea about what your are signing up for.

If you are a detail person, it's a great trade. If you like working in all sorts of environments both in and outdoors, it's a great trade. It will take a long term toll on your body because of the mechanics of the jobs.
No, you forget that a governed society has no right to exist. It only gains its legitimacy when it’s preferable to an ungoverned society and other achievable alternatives. In an ungoverned society, it’s rather trivial to build yourself a decent shelter and gather food (if you’re able-bodied).

What’s not possible in ungoverned society is gathering more resources than you can personally protect.
My circle is 00.0% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
I believe so, so far we only know of two
What's this new ruling?
breads
I wonder how it affects women. I've often read that part of the gender gap is because women tend to be less aggressive in negotiating an offer.

Based on that it'd make sense that they would ask for fewer days off.
No Office?

Is the storage so cheap because they feed all your documents to OpenAI? Will the next version of Word write bullshit documents so that you don't have to?
G$ - > gigadollar. Not exactly standard, but I like it.
When I have been unhappy in my life, it was never about the past or future. It always had to do with the present.
> The original idea behind NaN-tagging is to overlap pointer representation with 64-bit floats.

And that's why this is 'another NaN-based tagging strategy'.
> Basic thesis is by using tech, you can dramatically lower the labor costs of forwarding, and since freight forwarding has huge returns to scale, the benefits compound

Is this remotely true though? Aren't the main costs of forwarding simply fuel?

At some point I was importing goods from China (really small volume though) and I did ask them for a quote, and they were twice the price what the Chinese factory could get me from their own forwarder.
??? What sounds sinister?

A tax, but where the tax money goes directly to everyone instead of being allocated by a government.
Amazing what can turn up when you look under the couch cushions.
One is an objective thing (boomers are those born between 1945 and 1962) and the other is subjective (Williamsburg, Billyburg, Hipster Doofus Land) labeling.

The first isn't the case (I was born after 1962) and the second is a matter of opinion.[0]

But please. Do continue to pile on. I don't want to take away one of your few pleasures in life.

Toodles!

[0] Here's another one for you: If you can't put New York, NY after your address, you don't live in New York.[1] Have at that one too, friend.

[1] As a NYC native, I note that I've lived in every borough except Stagnant Island (for obvious reasons) over the past 50+ years. As such (no Dunning-Kruger[2] effect necessary, can you make such a statement?), I am entitled to make such pronouncements.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Neurons the size of galaxies, even if one stipulates them magically coming into existence as early as possible, couldn't have hardly thought "hello" to themselves since the universe began. In the meantime, on that time scale, incredible violence has occurred througout the universe. Round trip times of millions of years for the simplest communications are not feasible in this era of spacetime. You'll need to be waiting many tens or hundreds more billions of years before that is conceivable, in the long quiet dark before heat death.

The snowflake hypothesis is at least in the range of the "things we can't disprove", at least if by "snowflake" you mean neutron star surfaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg Of course, one must consider that I'm citing a science fiction book, with all understanding of what that means. But that is at least one hypothesis I don't think we can disprove at the current time, unlike most other ideas put forth. I'd still call it an absolute long shot, and an even longer shot that such beings could leave their star.
Check out the GSF if you care about this: https://greensoftware.foundation
I would not make such a claim. Outside of lunchtime it's hard to find a shop with a decent slice that hasn't been sitting for too long. Even then, lots are mediocre some, if not all of the time. You will find yourself constantly browsing the case for the least crappy pizza because the one you really want isn't going to be good.
Follow the money. What an attention-funded company calls "suspicious" behavior is what the phone company calls "revenue-generating" behavior. That's why my carrier seems to be utterly unable to stop spam callers (who generate revenue for them), whereas it's been nearly 20 years since I've had an email spam problem, thanks to Gmail and the businesses that pay Google to support it.
I still don't get the bit where you say 2 high is standard. It's not. Though US port infrastructure is special, it's very outdated/inefficient compared to pretty much the rest of the world.
This is so awesome. Congrats Steve and team on this launch!

I'm excited to see what people build here.
It's a beautiful dream but we can barely manage upkeep in our existing road network, which is mostly just layers of dirt and asphalt. If we need to maintain tunnel systems I imagine the maintenance goes up by at least an order of magnitude.
I haven't used Chisel yet but looking at the home page it looks like it generates surprisingly readable Verilog with source mapping.

Also there's a project called FireSim that can do cycle accurate simulation of Chisel on cloud FPGAs apparently at 10-100MHz which is pretty crazy!
Yeah it's an interesting thought. Credit card scams, phishing, etc. have made new ways of stealing possible.

It's 'safer' as in I think you can claim muggings or burglaries (or losses to these) have reduced because people just don't carry as much cash anymore.
I think you're spot-on. Naturally, people from NY are going to have their favorite spots (just like everyone else, everywhere, for anything). Those preferences, though, come from many experiences over time. For an out-of-towner who isn't a NYC pizza connoisseur, practically any spot is going to give you a solid experience representative of the NYC pizza scene. The overall consistency of quality in the city is something that you just don't find in most places.

I'd go as for to say that looking for "the best" NYC pizza is not what you want to do (at least, not for your first NY pizza slice!). Experience just how good an average slice is; if you're not blown-away, at least it's not "the best" and the disappointment won't be as great.

One last point is that "the best" might refer to something very specific. Atop many "best pizza (in the US)" lists is Frank Pepe's in New Haven, CT. While their pizza is very good, nearly every writeup is specifically talking about their white clam pie.
Wrong. Even if there were no property rights, there simply isn't enough food for 8B people to survive through hunting and gathering. So unless we want to kill off 90% of the population then we need large-scale agriculture. And strong property rights are absolutely necessary in order to maximize agricultural productivity.
Page 116/117, to be precise ;-)
THIS!

Whole building GFCI - that is just nuts!

There are many ordinary motors that will leak just a bit to ground, enough to trip the GFCI, but no hazard exists — this would mean disabling the whole building, computers, refrigeration, water pumping, etc. just turning on that device. I've actually got one in a treadmill, and also a wood router tool - they trip the garage GFCI every time. At first I was concerned and "what's wrong with these things?". but as far as I could read, there is no issue, just an issue with certain types of motors that is no hazard, but a basic incompatibility.

And yes, being able to kill the entire power to the house merely by plugging a device into one of the outside outlets would be an insane vulnerability, not just by the contractor's accident you mentioned, but also by deliberate action - great way to start a burglary or home invasion, don't even need to find a wire to cut.

Yikes!
The growing use of Debit and Credit Cards eliminating the need to carry a hundred or so with you at all times for spending/errand purposes without requiring the merchant to take the risk of taking personal cheques was a huge revolution made possible by mass computerisation in the finance industry. This includes the current discussions many governments are currently having about simply not issuing cash money any longer.
It's a good thing we have plenty of needed jobs, even when the everyday person doesn't understand reasons for those jobs, to the point of confusing their own ignorance with misguided malice to the workers doing jobs they don't understand.

It's the modern equivalent of tribespeople throwing rocks at the moon.

A good place to learn in life is when you don't understand why something exists or how it works, instead of immediately writing it off with intellectually lazy hatred and dismissiveness, spend some time understanding what came before, what problems the current solution solves, and why things are as they are. You'll be amazed and the nuance and insights generations of clever people solving problems have passed on for situations you currently don't see or understand.

You'll end up happier and have a better understanding of the world.
This is a bit of a non-article. It barely makes any point, and I'm not even sure who the target audience is.

> But encryption may not be silver bullet we often treat it as. An encryption algorithm like AES doesn’t know if the file it’s concealing holds a wedding photo, a recipe, or a list of all your passwords.

How's that a bad thing?
The best slice in the Boston area ("the city that always sleeps") was the one you could get at 2am. It had a loose connection to HN-style hackers.

Hi-Fi Pizza and Subs was a rare place that would serve the Central Square clubgoers around last call, as well as the people walking home in the cold from a late night at MIT.

There'd be a welcoming warm light from the somewhat gritty street, and a fast moving line. You'd get to the front of the line, say something like "slice of mushroom, please", they'd always say "2.10, please", you pay and take it, and step to the side, to quickly shake the container of grated parmesan. Then you walk the rest of the way home (or back to the lab), munching the slice, soul recharged by warm tasty cheese and crust.

(Sadly, Hi-Fi closed years ago. https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/cambridge-chronicle-tab/20... I was very cross when it was quickly replaced by a vegetarian food startup, and I'm vegetarian. A couple weeks ago, the even more MIT-beloved food place, Mary Chung (which I first heard of as a kid, in stories of MIT hackers), also shut down. https://www.boston.com/community/restaurants/mary-chung-rest... )
https://web.archive.org/web/20230111211739/https://rvspace.o...
Fridges are fine during loadshedding...just need to be careful not to open them - they hold temp long enough. The compressors in them don't always like generators though fyi.

I would suggest bringing a decent powerbank though to keep the phone charged.
Those people with IQs below 70 are already uneconomical. I don't know where the line is for "we can find productive work for this idiot", but it's definitely higher than "cannot tie/Velcro shoes"
Agreed on AFCI circuit breakers! They are now mandatory for all 15-20 amp light and plug circuits on new construction where I live - although breakers for large appliances do not require them. But I have several portable tools (eg a carpet cleaner) which will make an AFCI breaker trip every time. AFCI circuit breakers seem to be more fragile (read the box: much smaller range of acceptable heat and limited number of duty cycles) - I apparently killed one just by tripping it repeatedly. And while a regular 15 amp breaker is a few bucks, the CAFCI breaker I'm supposed to use is $45...
High voltage and radiation equipment here. Our products are sleek, or prototypes you literally would not touch with a 10ft pole. Jank is part of the game. If we can run a bunch of sketchy tests for $100s to find a path forward, and do pre production on the order of $1k to $10k, we might justify that $100k purchase down the track. On the other hand, we might find our own method that means the $100k solution is never required. We fail fast when we can and learn what we can.
It's from the article last time this came around [1]
"For instance, Petersen says, local zoning rules prevented the owner of truck yards in Long Beach from storing containers more than two high"

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/11/03/1051773672/a-look-at-whats-ca...
moving to single threaded business organizations

What does that even mean? They are only able to do one thing at a time? Doesn't sound like a recipe for business success to me...
Not since I stopped using Microsoft Windows.
It does not. The concrete evidence of this is relatively recent; theoretically nobody has expected that it would for a long time, but it has been theory.

But yes, we've coordinated detections between LIGO and radar astronomy now, and there's no reason to believe gravity travels FTL. As always, there are error bars, but they're tight enough not to get excited about. That is, who cares if gravity travels at 1.00000000000001 the speed of light? (The theoreticians would go absolutely ballistic, but pragmatically that would mean nothing.)
Does this have anything to do with conc trees?
I think there's an important question here. There's been a huge uptick in articles in the US decrying gas stoves, but there doesn't seem to have been an uptick in actual issues being caused by gas stoves, or in research showing risks that were not previously known to a substantial degree. Why is this happening?

In terms of energy, the amount of fossil fuel utilization of gas stoves in the US falls greatly below that of space heating or water heaters, and in nearly all homes is trivial compared with automotive gasoline or fossil fuel usage for HVAC, water heaters or clothes dryers.

The basic risks of gas stoves have been known for years. We're all taught to ensure gas stoves are turned off as children, and gas stoves are far safer than they were in prior generations - we've all heard of "sticking your head into a (gas) oven" to kill one's self, which isn't possible with today's gas supply or stoves.

The articles about the dangers of gas stoves have to do with various pollutant levels caused by cooking, but those are roughly similar even with electric stoves - pollutants are generated simply through the process of cooking food, and ventilation is necessary for literally any stove, gas, wood or even electric.

There is literally no new risk in terms of gas stoves that has not been the case for centuries. So what exactly is going on here?
Image here: https://imgur.com/a/auDF9qh
Fellow uWSGI fan here. Unfortunately uWSGI is now in maintenance mode, not because is complete which would've been fine, but because the maintainers are not able to dedicate time to it[0]
Incorrect. The 1984-1991 Ferrari Testarossa was the peak. Source: poster in my bedroom.
I have one of these hanging in my living room, they're beautiful!
What does 'visit' mean to you?

While I find it unlikely that aliens have travelled to our solar system specifically to visit humans, I find it incredibly unlikely that human activity have not been detected by a Sentinel probe and that this probe has not relayed this info to its creators.
Eh, not so long ago you used to be able to get a decent bacon egg and cheese from a bodega for $3
I believe in aliens from a statistical standpoint.

But I don't believe in interstellar travel at all. I don't think people grasp the distances between stars. The longest distance a human has traveled through space is to the moon. If, for scale, this was about 2 millimeters, then the nearest star would be another 200 kilometers/124 miles away. Here's a great video to illustrate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCSIXLIzhzk

IMO Oumuamua was a rock.

However, it's fun to think about it being alien, and it's remarkably similar to Arthur Clarke's Rama story.

Presumably the speed and trajectory of Oumuamua is known? Has this been traced back to give a potential origin if it is fro another star system?

"Two of NASA's space telescopes (Hubble and Spitzer) tracked the object traveling about 85,700 miles per hour (38.3 kilometers per second) relative to the Sun. Its outbound path is about 20 degrees above the plane of planets that orbit the Sun." https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/co...

If the distance to the nearest star is 40,208,000,000,000 then:

40,208,000,000,000 / 38 (km per second) / 3600 seconds per hour / 24 hours per day 365 days per year = 33552 years if it had come from closest star

Do I have those numbers right? Maths isn't a strength.
Yes, this already exists
Thank you so much, that makes perfect sense!
Not only is it kinda cool, it's also why it's particularly annoying we didn't get better data while it was near enough to do so. We missed what may have been quite an exceptional opportunity.
I've got about as good a home pizza game as one can have without a modded or specialty oven, and can confirm, cast iron pan pizza is the perfect place for a newbie to start. The transfer from peel to cook surface is the most likely thing to go catastrophically wrong for someone starting out—pan pizza eliminates that step. No special equipment needed whatsoever—no peel, no stone, don't even need farina or coarse cornmeal on-hand. You can just cut it with a chef's knife or a cleaver (those are better than those stupid round-blade spinning cutters, anyway, and they're not that much worse than the long rocking-blade variety). About the only way to ruin it beyond fixing is to forget about it in the oven. It's an almost fool-proof dish, and great for building confidence that you can make good pizza at home.