skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GFCIs have a simple and well defined function. What is the current through one lead? What is the current through the other lead? Do they differ by more than x amount? If so, trip.

AFCIs are a whole different thing - the plug is trying to predict when arcing is happening somewhere downstream of it and it has very little in the way of 'processing' power to do it, so generally there is a classical filter that is designed to detect the characteristic harmonics of the current waveform that are inherent to an arcing condition. When you experience a sharp upward or downward step in power draw you introduce harmonics, when you have capacitive coupling between SMPS you introduce harmonics, motors often introduce harmonics, etc.

There's like a zillion things that can create AFCI trip conditions and cause spurious trips and frustration for users, and there's very few documented cases of them doing the thing they're supposed to do. I think it's a case of someone being well intentioned but releasing regulatory guidance to use a product that isn't quite there in terms of technology maturity.
I have an electric stove at home, but a family member has gas. I was surprised that it's so much easier to cook an omelette on a gas stove.
Anti-fraud is all about increasing the cost of the (ab)user so that there's less of it.

Requring a payment method on file that at least superficially works (charge a dollar and it doesn't fail immediately) is very effective because most people don't have access to many payment methods. You do have to be careful though, because prople with access to stolen payment methods are always looking for ways to validate them, and you don't want to reduce abuse of your actual service while promoting abuse of your payment service.

It also shows ability to pay, which is useful too. It's painful to provide a trial and get a user interested only to find out they don't have a way to pay you; perhaps better to narrow the funnel earlier and only pay the cost of the trial for users that can pay.
Not asking.
"Language evolves" is a good reason for why we stop using archaic words, and why new words enter the vocabulary. Nobody says "whichsoever" anymore, but people do say "microwave" because language evolves.

When someone confuses one word for another (they're vs. there vs. their), that's not language evolving. It's someone making a mistake and confusing one word for another.
> Semi-related: As an average consumer I'm disappointed that nearly a decade of the "makerspace" has seemingly failed to produce any sort of meaningful Renaissance in small-scale US manufacturing.

I don't think this was ever any kind of real goal. Way more emphasis was put on education and removing barriers of entry around design than anything to do with manufacturing.
Any performance comparisons with Raspberry Pi boards? How does this RISC-V CPU stack up against them?
Yes. USA GFCI's are like RCD's, but trip at 5mA. Thats why they false trip pretty often.
SQLite WASM in the Browser Backed by the Origin Private File System
The answer is simple: copy cat behavior. /s
Bloody hell I love it. You're never going to forget how to clean a gun now.
Machining metal in general and, to an even greater degree, mold-making in particular is time and labor-intensive.

Consumers are used to buying injection molded parts at $1/kilogram, with the mold costs largely ignored (by virtue of being <$20K amortized across >500K parts).

They're not used to paying $1-2 per part for just the short-run "soft" mold for a run of a few thousand parts.
Oh it gets even funnier then that.

So I took quick look into what it would actually take to upgrade the main circuit breaker in the house assuming a 100A to 200A upgrade is needed to accommodate both an EV and a heat pump. I thought it was $5000 or so.

As it turns out, $5000 is for pole mounted service. It's range is actually around $15,000 to $25,000 for underground service, as it requires digging the line from the street to the house. Unknown how much cost there if too many houses here need to upgrade as well which would necessitate upgrading transformers feeding this area (most houses here are 100A AFAIK).
Quick: 2, 8, 18, 32, ?? ?
Well, you can make 50M or more per year in the USA, so there's no point in working if you're only taking home 20M. You're financially better off working in the US, saving some money, and then being an unemployed hikikomori in Japan for a few years (which is pretty much my plan at this point, haha)
Depends on the reason you need to request gender, but for in-app pronoun purposes, I'd do:

[ ] male
[ ] female
[ ] non-binary
[text box for other]

And use "they" pronouns for the last two options.

(Ideally you'd allow the user to specify the pronouns themselves, but even among people who use non-conventional pronouns, getting them to correctly enter the subject/object/possessive cases of their choice is heavily hit or miss)
My company tried that two years ago, but not everyone got it. The only thing I know is that someone took six weeks of PTO and never came back. They finally let him go but apparently he had went on PTO and then got another job. I never found out exactly how long my company paid him but it sounds like he got a few months of pay on top of his new job.
Andrej: thank you!

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To the mod (dang): IMHO Andrej's comment should probably be at the top of the page, not my comment. UPDATE: Looks like that's done. Thank you :-)
Well, if you use a scalable SaaS like Cloud Spanner, do you then comfort yourself with the idea that you avoided microservices? Because that seems a little hard to defend on the facts.
The simplest answer for everyone is that asking for gender should be, as a rule, now allowed.

Unless the information is important (health) or being used analytically (improving participation, etc) then there is no reason for it.
Concur. I have an electrical engineering degree, and a copy of the NEC. However, in many situations I end up deciding that it will take me so long to figure out the correct interpretation of the code for my situation that I may as well pay someone who takes one look and says "ok this needs to be done like that...".
Computers have been working with superimposed states since fuzzy logics were invented.
We have to think and work through the limitations of SSH. We will cover whatever is possible. Thank you for the pointer!!
I don't think they ever were true synonyms.

Eg, take the concept of grammatical gender. "Ventana" ("window" in Spanish) has a feminine grammatical gender in Spanish. I don't think it has ovaries, at least mine doesn't.

When a form asks for gender, it's typically concerned with the grammatical sort. It wants to know whether to welcome me with "Bienvenido" or "Bienvenida", not anything having to do with my biology.
A working credit card is harder to acquire than an email address. It lets you outsource some of your anti-fraud to an ecosystem that continually deals with fraud.
Would like to see stainless steel as a more common option.
TBH I wished these sorts of dropdowns simply asked for pronouns and title for most sites. If I'm Dr. PuppyTailWags, he/him pronouns, that's all most companies need from me. I'm sure some exceptions exist: of course my doctor should know if I go by he/him but have a uterus, of course my dating profile should specify who I want to date. But say, my meal delivery service shouldn't care lol.
Very cool project! I'll try to remember it the next time I'm looking for a specific image. I noticed that repeated appearances of the search term are ranked higher, which isn't necessarily productive. Also, some kind of duplicate detection would be nice. Searching for "SpongeBob" yields many copies of the same images that mentions "SpongeBob" several times.
I'm not advocating for vanilla CSS and I agree BEM isn't really a solution.

But CSS in JS, SCSS/SASS etc. take the things that work about CSS and add variables etc. to give you something that's useful in the modern world while also giving you a way to keep things maintainable.

I worry Tailwind is kind of like the 'fast food' for styling. Tastes good in the moment and satisfies the need for quick calories but ain't gonna be healthy in the long term especially if you do too much of it.
Most of the time it does NOT mean skin color. Otherwise 'caucasian' wouldn't be there, a lot of latinos (or at least Brazilians) would be 'white' too, my wife (who basically reflects light) and myself included.
It's an open textbox, they just give examples. I'm sure you could put in child, or child of sibling, grandchild is already neutral, foster child, etc.
There is a lot of secondary information that could allow unconscious or conscious bias to slip into the hiring process, e.g. Name discrimination [1]

Ideally the race information you input would only be given to HR and not shown to anyone involved in the hiring process. It would then be used to identify anomalies indicative of bias occurring.

[1] https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/08/18/name-discriminati...
British MP loses whip for tweeting that NHS crisis is caused by Covid vax injury
It is comparable- uBlock is a great tool. I wanted to create a more intuitive UI and user experience than what uBlock currently offers. There's also free reporting on my tool that allows you to see the differences in blocked content between each site.

Brave is good, but doesn't have market share. I wanted to build a product for browsers with the largest market share to help preserve privacy at scale.
I really must chime in that Ferris Bueller's Day Off is not even close to even 1% of all the ways to arrive at Fight Club.

Sure, but:

That's why Fight Club relates to way more people and persists in a much more significant way.

That doesn’t logically follow.

(And besides that, I disagree! Both have their fans. I’d guess yourself are more familiar with Fight Club and you’re projecting from that.)
What if it's asking about their sex rather than their gender identity?
It means that you know that you don't have zero.

If you have zero, and you're big enough to be collecting data, there's a good chance that something is wrong.
Is there a crypto exchange that do this correctly? Isn't the idea of an ideal exchange go against the philosophy of decentralization? If exchanges are not regulated, what incentive do they have to handle assets correctly anyways? And finally, if regulation is inevitable, why not just go with the traditional financial system for better safety and security?
"Visa holders get one 30-minute paid consultation with an immigration attorney" wow
ToolJet should be added to https://sso.tax/.
For instance, consider how the average dissipated energy density by a human being is roughly an order of magnitude larger than by the Sun !
Yes, there are also requirements for example that kitchens have an outlet every N feet (I forget the exact number) in order that the short cords supplied on toasters, kettles etc can reach every part of the counter surface without an extension.
I'm glad to hear this! This didn't exist when I got out, but there was talk about it. Makes too much sense not to do.
Yeah, it sucks man. I tried explaining this to her, but she's still scared to drive and spending most of her time alone

At this point I'm basically a nampa weirdo, hitting on all the Japanese housewives I come across to get their LINE info and try to arrange playdates for the wife
you still did not learn that if you want to show off your work, you dont ask for signing up or any of that BS. it's 2023
How Tinder Changed Everything
I would only prompt someone for their gender when it's really necessary, and then use the reasoning for that necessity to form the prompt. For instance, how we ask someone to selecting a character trait in a video game should probably differ from how we ask them a similar question on a medical form. Gender can surprisingly tricky, and I don't believe there's a good "one size fits all" approach to this question.
Some of these look like broken CSV parsing. Which has been incessant across my 13+ yr career.

Perhaps we can evolve from a 1970s tech to something less flaky?
"The thing I'm actively stopping right now by concern trolling is being stopped for some reason"

Must be because the even less popular option of a nuclear refurb is the only option.

There couldn't possibly be a much better option

https://swedishwindenergy.com/external-news/plans-for-50-gw-...
They are extremely expensive for PPC. But if you don't play that game with them, the reviews etc are worthless because it won't get much views. We use them for our business and even though we have decent number of reviews with a 4.9 rating in our B2B category, we get pushed to page 2 or later if we stop paying. That's the game.
I like this site, shows how even 'simple' things can get complicated, in many cases you can see the logic that got them there.

The Canadian Decathlon one is here (go to the filter) - https://www.decathlon.ca/en/c/22252/sports - and you can see the train of thought that it makes sense to put a filter in as sportswear comes in male/female. Those filters probably make a bit more sense when filtering a specific category too but I can see how that would all get in without someone considering how absurd it'd look when filtering all products.
> Because then malware will either call that new API,

As soon as malware is running, you have already lost.

This is for when the user has downloaded TotallyNotAVirus.exe from a dodgy website and tries to double click it.
The US requires employers provide "Equal Opportunity" across races. Legal departments have interpreted this to mean "we will ask everyone about their race to collect data to prove we aren't racist"

Note that the tracking is desired because a seemingly neutral policy can still be illegal; the EEOC gives the following example:

> An employer has a "no-beard" rule, which disproportionately excludes African American men because they have a higher incidence of pseudofolliculitis barbae, an inflammatory skin condition caused by shaving. The employer must be able to demonstrate that beards affect job performance or safety. Also, there must be no alternatives to a strict "no-beard" rule that would meet the employer's business or safety needs.

Those forms (nearly?) always include a "prefer not to say" option.
Not great; VisionFive appears to be significantly less performant.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/17159543?baseli...
Maybe electrical companies should be the ones funding that infrastructure, basically give us roof space for modest discount on electricity
That is great, now other developers have a chance to use Kandria as an example for their own projects!
> That it devolved into ad-rotten mess is different topic.

I'll bite. Can you take take screenshots from some sample searches to prove this point? Because I don't find it an ad-rotten mess. It's still extremely functional, and fairly clean.
> Are urls expected to be a good UX these days? What's the big deal?

I think they are. If I want to go back to some page I was looking at earlier, it's really nice to be able to find that page in my history. That Yahoo URL is going to be hard to differentiate if you looked at a few stocks.

It's also handy if the URL's are predictable enough that I can hit one directly rather than having to go through search. Good for me because I don't wait on page load, good for them because they don't have to serve my search request.

It's pretty low on my list of UX annoyances, but it is there.
Looks like they are not ruling it out too.

“There’s been no direct evidence or indication of that, but we are also not going rule that out until we have a clear and better understanding of what’s taken place,” Buttigieg said in an interview with CNN.
Usually true for resistance electric heating, but much less often true for heat pumps.
Will Eisner drew for the PS series, so you're in good company!

https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A16992

[Edit: apparently the Army had anticipated, by a good half century:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi...

the SMBC theory of pedagogy:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/real-life-3 ]
Self-Documenting Software
What’s your non-sarcastic explanation?
2.5 months severance is pretty low compared to the other layoffs that have happened recently.
I think it’s fair that clerks shouldn’t go after shoplifters because that’s unnecessary risk. But, don’t stores usually have security guards that take that role? That’s how it is in my country.
Here's a page from Google App Engine https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/payment-ins...

It didn't use to require a payment method/billing account and the change appears both for compatibility reasons, as the deployment method now relies on a service that does require a payment method, and for fraud reduction which they claim they have evidence for when requiring a payment method.

The way this works with Google App Engine is that they will issue a charge of $0 that you authorize on your credit/debit card mobile application, so it's not just a Luhn credit card number check.

I do not have evidence of how effective it is but, intuitively, it may increase the effort for fraudulent use. It is "KYC by proxy". It is also harder to get a credit card than it is to create a bogus email address in case you have free quotas, and in case there's a pattern of fraudulent usage from an account, they can use the credit card number as a selector to see which accounts are linked to that number and block them, which is harder to do only by email for you have to use more sleuthing and selectors to link accounts to an entity.

If you think of acquiring good users/making a sale as a conversion process in which you try to prevent people dropping off the process or abandoning a cart and you try to increase the conversion percentage at every step, you can think of this effort as an "anti-conversion" process in which you try to reduce the percentage of fraudulent users making it to the next step, you weed out and filter as many as you can at every step of the process.

There will be people who will make it, but they'll leave additional trail and pieces of information you can use later to find them.

One unrelated anecdote from a mistake Reddit made at some point was that they stored passwords in plain text. From a security perspective, this was bad, but the anecdote was that they used this to find and weed out a lot of fake accounts because they all used the same exact password.
I'm not sure I follow, but I am glad you are not my manager.
That's not the same thing at all. That measures power flowing through a USB cable, which is still useful, but doesn't tell you anything about the capabilities of the cable.
Within reason, yeah. Like if they chose to add a new "island" function and my geographics software broke, that's clearly the spec's fault, not mine, even though technically I'm violating spec. I'd even argue any "is.*" function is probably too late to add to the spec at this point in time.
It's insane to me that the automatic conclusion from the above is that organisation B is racist.
Apple gives small businesses a direct link to its listings
As a "Hot Bread" myself, it was nice to be included as well.
This is my perspective as well. Using Salesforce as an example(having cut 10% of their workforce just a week ago).

Their Q3 2022 results
- “We had a solid quarter with revenue of $7.84 billion, up 14% year-over-year or 19% growth in constant currency, and record operating margin,” said Marc Benioff, Chair & Co-CEO, Salesforce.

- “We delivered another quarter of double-digit top and bottom line growth,” said Amy Weaver, President and CFO, Salesforce.

In my opinion, they're laying folks off because they can conveniently get away with it without too much blowback.

And best of all, their stock is up 6% in the past five days so the folks they're really catering to are happy as a clam.
One big difference with POSIX/UNIX is the lack of multiple users. My understanding is Haiku is working to add support for multi-user/privilege separation of some kind, but at least for BeOS this was a fairly big difference.
Wondering if this is just standard aging infrastructure embarrassment or could involve a cyberattack? Cause if I were a state actor with a beef this is exactly the sort of soft-but-expensive injury I'd want to inflict: extremely disruptive, but also hard to assess or explain to the public.
As an immigrant who got laid off this year, I am hating on every company that doesn't offer to keep you on payroll with the severance money
In german, grammatical genders matter a lot. And, well, that extends to people as well.
A kid cannot get or hold a job without parental permission.
I hear you. I took many electronics classes over the years and never seemed to be able to build much intuition. I've often joked that 80% of my engineering training came from YouTube, and it seems to line up.

I found Ben Eater's 8-bit breadboard computer project[1]incredibly helpful in grokking both low-level computers and the electronic theory. https://eater.net/

I also highly recommend the channels bigclive [2], ave [3], eebvlog [4], Louis Rossman [5], and electroboom [6].

For podcasts, I've found The Amp Hour [7] and Embedded.fm [8] to be invaluable. There's also Contextual Electronics [9] if you want a more Udemy-style experience.

As a fun toy, I recently picked up Spintronics [10], which provides an excellent way to grok oscillators and transistors mechanically. If you're just looking to build intuition, this is a great place to start.

The best training I got, though, was sitting next to an EE as he troubleshot his own designs. Anything you can do to get in a room with electronics guys- meetups, conferences, HAM events, etc. is absolute gold.

Best of luck in your adventures pushing electrons around!

[1] https://eater.net

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom

[3] https://www.youtube.com/@arduinoversusevil2025

[4] https://www.eevblog.com/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup

[6] https://www.youtube.com/electroboom

[7] https://theamphour.com/

[8] https://embedded.fm/

[9] https://contextualelectronics.com/

[10] https://upperstory.com/spintronics/
Yeah, I wonder how people would feel having to choose between "Caucasian, Mongoloid, or Negroid" on an employment form...
Can you add some info on what consumer GPU would be needed for this? Would a 3080 be able to handle this?
Just as an example. Like I said, you should be totally unfazed by the NYP saying "we won't enforce any crimes against Chinatown businesses" if you truly believe that New York isn't providing any social services.
Ah, https://www.fallenlondon.com

Good to see that great game here, and be reminded of its great sister game https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/
Fully Managed Infrastructure
I'm partial to Male, Female, Hardcore
The problem is actually somewhat different. In the casino case you need to compare every person to a relatively small set of "targets". In this case you need to identify people who are breaking the law, then you can save that clip and you need to identify it against all know people. The casino case doesn't know if a person is "interesting" until they perform the match. In this case they know that someone is "interesting" right away. Then they can take more time and effort to perform the match, including falling back to humans.

It probably still isn't easy. You will still have "unknown offenders" that are not matched, but that probably isn't a big deal as they are effectively a false-negative which probably isn't a major issue in this context.
No, the Civil Rights Act does not compel collection of this data. It's not an "automatic bad sign" if a company doesn't collect it. In fact, it can work against you in the case of a lawsuit.

You are correct that the government has started asking contractors and large employers for some of this data. But it is only a requirement for the business itself, not for their customers.
Well, I'm of the same opinion as the guy that wrote this short piece in 2018:

https://oprearocks.medium.com/blasphemy-multiple-microservic...

Insisting on always having a separate db for each service is not a pattern, it's pure madness.