skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would also vary by use-case. Some regulated industries have specific standards required for an electronic signature — and hitting those standards is typically an add-on cost for systems like Docusign.
You absolutely can ban someone because of an allegation. It's a chess club. The worst punishment they can levy is banishment. That doesn't need the kind of "beyond reasonable doubt" certainty that a court throwing you in prison needs.
It's the middle-tier private schools that destroy you. Cheap public/community college results in small car levels of debt, and extreme Ivy League can result in full ride scholarships if you can't take the financial burden, but in-between they milk you for what they can.
GP is correct, there is no path from the current Virgin Galactic launches to something that is not a very expensive space ride for rich people. They can't launch satellites, they can't make it into orbit, nothing. Only the dream of seeing earth from an altitude of ~80km while expending a tremendous amount of energy.

Also, your explanation of why GP attitude is evil is not clear at all. You can dream and still thing that this is stupid. In fact, the dream of a nice earth for all of us is a beautiful dream, much more than a 5 minute ride for a very few.

And the inclusion of nuclear power when it was not mentioned in the original post is like a GPT hallucination.
To be honest Temu sounds like someone was watching the Wish.com saga and decided it was a great idea to burn a bunch of billions. It can grow a lot while it's new but I have my doubts about longevity of this type "we only sell crap" platforms.
Author of the blog here.

Point taken. In retrospect, directfs is not a good name as it gives the impression of a new filesystem implemention. I should have named this more along the lines of "direct access mode" as some of you have pointed out.

Thanks for the feedback.
Thousands of engineers and managers and product designers who can only get promoted if they look successful, and who can only look successful if they can add features.
Is there any disagreement on who is going to support Vim moving forward?

I can see the fork maintainers going into a power struggle if the future is unclear. Maybe some will even write fluffy pieces on how much they loved Bram to gather support...
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> Probably not worth it and I'd expect 3 days to be overkill. But a community that was double our size will have a cost of about 25k per unit for 1.5 days of power - which doesn't sound too bad to me.

If you're not looking to go completely off-grid, I think you want to double it again. At basic level, battery pack is there to soak solar power during a day and give it off when the solar is down.

16 hours is enough to cover most or all of that..

I think the model could work if the local community basically "sold" the battery storage capacity to the users.

Pay few cents for kWh to store it for 24 hours, anything in excess can be sold back to residents at slightly lower than market price, producing some money for maintenance and upgrades.
Maybe not necessarily unwarranted, but certainly unhelpful.

It doesn't really add to interesting/thoughtful discussion in the spirit of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Particularly:

> Don't be snarky. Converse curiously

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

These subthreads never really go anywhere, other than fan the flames of Google hate.

Again, not necessarily saying they're not warranted, but for folks looking for interesting discussion, it can certainly add noise to the signal.
The say 55 miles here - same km.
https://www.virgingalactic.com/news/virgin-galactic-complete...
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That's absolutely true of criminal cases.

But civil cases have a far, far lower bar. 4/5 is acceptable, especially considering that sentencing can incorporate uncertainty.

Plenty of cases succeed in civil court where they would fail in criminal court.
Maybe a LEED credit (scam) thing?
This brings back memories. Every LAN group had that one friend like you. I'm sure you made up for it if, like my BSD friend, you were handy with network troubleshooting and always brought spare CAT-5.
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2.5" drives over 2TB are all SMR. It's not a good experience moving more than a few GB at once, it just pauses for tens of seconds.
Thanks for the answer. Enjoy Morocco! The Atlas mountains are my favorite part.
You’ve used the term “square” twice here seemingly with two different meanings, neither of which I understand. Can you elaborate?
I agree that they are obviously championing a social justice cause.
Part of it is licensing/permits/requirements - you can often add rooftop solar water with no additional permits or a minor one, whereas solar PV is an electrical permit at minimum, and likely plans and licensed electricians, too.
There are an unbelievable number of homes in my area that are "investor"-owned empty shells. Walking down the street on a quiet night, I can hear smoke detectors beeping low battery alarm every 3 seconds or so. I'd say about 25% of the properties are this way. These aren't massively-expensive things either. 300-500k range in TX market.
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Thought a linked article:

https://j11g.com/2023/08/07/the-legacy-of-bram-moolenaar/

By Jan van den Berg, was a better read. One quote:

"Vim is a masterpiece, the gleaming precise machining tool from which so much of modernity was crafted".

And then this link:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eX9m3g5J-XA

"7 Habits for Effective Text Editing 2.0"

1h20m - If anyone has a transcript or summary: plz. But this was funny - first comment:

"I let auto play go on while I was sleeping for 7 hours and went from Billie Eilish to this"

Life is weird but I love it :-)

Disclaimer: I'm not even user of either (Neo)vim or Emacs. As soon as I read "programmable", I'm off. I just prefer fixed-function editor that suits my taste , a few minutes of configuration & go. But that's just me, what do I know?

That said: good tools serve a purpose. Our world is a better place with good tools in it - and the ppl who made those tools. And sometimes their legacy, their philosophy, their way of doing things, lives on in the code (or the community!) they left behind. So kudoz to Bram!
So, maybe this is to ensure that foreign buyers do not compete with PE?
University employees are overwhelmingly white: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/28/black-adminis.... Over 75% in the mid level employee ranks, and over 80% in the administrator ranks.

I agree the reality hits harder than the theory. I imagined this statistical and detached balancing process, not this.
Ideally you decouple this and store the creds in a key vault or whatever, this way you have to explicitly grant access to the service principal to access the kv secret. Decoupling usually fixes other issues as well such as expiring creds from service a to service b will then get coded into terraform to refresh.
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It's not better in the book. It's just spread over more words, so that it's harder to nail down that it's weird.

About the "scapegoat" bit: Gerard says that's what was going on in Oedipus, and also with Jesus' trial. But then he says that of course they don't say that in the texts - in Oedipus and in the Gospels. So, yeah, 2000 years later this one professor has the correct interpretation, and everyone else has been misunderstanding them all these years? Not likely. It's more like Gerard is just making stuff up so it fits his theory. That's not evidence, that's fantasy.

A year (or a few) ago, someone here on HN linked to an incredible takedown of Gerard's position. Can anyone recall the link, or find the HN post?
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A certificate says “we are Some Group that Knows about This Stuff and we think that so-and-so is capable of doing pirate-y things”

You’d want a letter of marque for an endorsement of being “allowed” to do pirate-y things. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
Testimony is evidence, just not _conclusive_ evidence.

The reality is for such cases there’s basically never going to be conclusive evidence; I think that’s why they cause such a divide amongst people
Microsoft, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll build it on top of SharePoint."
> If someone is committing sexual assault why does their seem to be this avoidance of the existing legal system and a push into these opaque and what amounts to amateur alternative legal systems?

That's not a legal system, and the reason for it is (or, at least, includes) that the organizations themselves have duties that are enforceable through the actual legal system, and they would rather not fail those duties in a costly way. And those duties often include duties to both potential victims and accused, so determining the facts in order to take the correct actions to uphold those duties requires some method of resolving disputes.
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Exactly. I could give a fuck who owns the houses in an area, as long as it's lots of individuals vs a single mega-corp that can then singlehandedly influence inventory and pricing.
The Last Waltz is fantastic. Rest in peace.
> the lower class is absolutely fucked

Is it ironic that the technology is being developed and tested in poor neighborhoods? [0]

> Honghao Zheng, an analytics manager for Chicago's electric company, ComEd, described the microgrid as the seed of something bigger. Moving from a centralized energy model to a decentralized one is the goal, he said.

> Zheng said what's novel about the Bronzeville project is that this grid, unlike others, is not a "one-way street" of power — it's designed to be able to "cluster" with other microgrids, such as the one at the nearby Illinois Institute of Technology. Later this year ComEd plans to test the grids' "island" function, meaning its ability to disconnect from the larger grid.

> "This is only a starting point," Zheng said. "We are also thinking about how to expand this kind of innovative technology."

A microgrid as it's known right now disconnects itself into an island that provides power for everything inside of it when the larger grid goes down. But what they're building now is a cluster of microgrids such that one microgrid can send its excess power to neighboring microgrids so they all have power. If this all works out then the rich folks aren't simply isolating themselves, they are also providing resiliency to their less-fortunate neighbors.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/chicago-bronzeville-neighbor...
I've read a lot of good things about Google's `pytype`, which supposedly does a better job inferring types of unannotated code than `mypy`. Has anyone used `pytype` seriously, and does it compare? Is there a reason to prefer `mypy` at all, other than the fact that it's (mostly) first-party?
Hard disagree. Distro based is normally based on foo being a fork of bar either once or periodically rebasing on parent. Merely consuming the same packages is insufficient.
Bram listened to and engaged in most conversations, I think. He was very approachable.
FWIW cosmonaut isn’t Soviet era, it's the Russian term for astronaut.

Though I've never understood why in the West we use that essentially untranslated term* when we don't anglicize the Russian pronunciation of any other jobs. You won't read a news article about Russian "svarshchiks", you'd just translate that to "welder".

* And now taikonaut for Chinese astronauts!
True, America is / was known for the Jim Crow laws, public lynchings without a trial, etc. I guess it is “very American”.

That said, if you ask around, I suspect most Americans believe that is horrendous and not at all what America is. In fact, there are a lot of laws protecting the accused for this very reason.

That said, I do think the accused here should consider a civil lawsuit (if they’re innocent). It would help clear their name, because they aren’t doing so — I do suspect the claims are true, for what it’s worth.
“SJW” has become somewhat of a term that’s used pejoratively by a certain group of people. But if it aligns with wanting women to be able to exist and enjoy chess without being harassed, it’s probably a good thing.

By using it in the pejorative sense here you’re on the wrong side of history, which is your prerogative.
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You do all of that already for buildouts, you're pretending like this isn't a marginal cost question when in reality it is.

And I never said you would retain 100% of the space exactly as it is in an open plan, I said it is not wildly more expensive when you're already building out the floor.
My dwarves in DF would be much more predictable. I’m all for it. So long as the model is safely trained and constraints are in place to prevent Actor A from doing something shockingly bad to Actor B in a way that wasn’t designed.
> Every HN thread.

No, not every HN thread, but "Every Google product".

This is an entirely valid concern borne out by history. Until Google goes to extraordinary measures to prove that it will be unusually long-lived, you should assume that it will be dead in a few years.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
The only chance for it to fly among the SMB in Brazil where DocuSign and ClickSign are the major players is by adding WhatsApp to the signature workflow. Notifications via email alone won't work.
Does MIT now have a kindergarten on premises?
I don't think they're much more performant than a GUI created with performance in mind. I think they're almost by default more performant with the lowest effort/lazy approach?

TUIs can be composable as well but you are 100% correct that I overstated the case.
California, at least, treats as a change in property ownership when a more than 50% interest in the legal owner (i.e. corporation, LLC, trust, etc) changes.

The rules don't completely address the problem. For example, I think some buildings are owned by consortiums so that nobody has more than a 50% stake. But that limits their ability to easily make management decisions; there's a cost to that structure. You definitely still see buildings sold out-right, so it's not like every building in California is owned by an LLC just to avoid reassessment.
Bye bye Docusign?
I'm old and my oldest social ties go back decades now. I think it usually takes 2-5 years of consistent interaction for someone to transition from acquaintance to friend. Neighbors takes years and is just constantly pretty uncomfortable & awkward until eventually it isn't. People come and go too you just roll with it. Most of my closest friends now I didn't know ten years ago. Some of them I won't know in ten years. It's just like that.

At one point I went to a lot of tech meetups and I think they're cool for other reasons but not for forming meaningful relationships. The things that have been most fruitful in that are ones that bring people together for value-based reasons: religion, volunteering, organizing for a specific local cause or movement.

In between are activity-based things like book clubs, sports leagues or game groups. They are good for meeting people to hang out with but individuals in them tend to be transient and I haven't formed many deep friendships from them. Sometimes the line gets blurry though, like martial arts dojos & boxing gyms are activity-based but tend to form tight bonds.
>The chemicals from the tobacco (aside from additives which I'm sure they're negligible in this context as the plant is not combusted) are.. from the environment?

PFAS, phosphates, CFCs, carbon monoxide, and BPA are all "from the environment", too.
I think for people under 30, reducing social media exposure would help a lot (in general, for all ages - but many of those under 30 seem to live and breathe social media esp. girls/women)
I’d encourage the kids to aim higher than a tourist trip near space.
It's occurred to me that UK isn't lying about protecting children, but what's meant is protecting children of the royalty from peasants who will need secure communication methods to organize.
That's fair and I'm not suggesting it's perfect. Even used EVs are expensive but it no surprise given the initial cost.
Originally, that car sold for around 40k. That's a ~50% drop in 2 years and that car wasn't an outlier. Stands to reason that with advancing age and ever cheaper EVs we will see cheap used ones in your price range in a few years.
Explain more about what you see?
Find the NYC assessors office's website and dig around until you find where they're dumping scheduled exports from their ancient cores. The format might be tab-delimited ebcdic but the data will be up to date. See if you can cross-reference dark windows with anything. Or just ask a commercial real estate agent.
You see them far more than Solar PV in Denmark as well, because IIRC you get taxed per kWh consumed, no matter where it's generated, so it's more economical to use the roof space for domestic hot water instead.
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Absolutely true (civil cases are "preponderance of the evidence"), but the same principle still applies, just with lower numbers. 51% likely might be enough for a verdict against someone in a civil case and a legally enforceable monetary judgement. But if you have someone 30% likely to have done something (where the baseline should be close to 0%), that's still enough that reasonable risk-averse organizations may reasonably choose to not associate with them.

A court that can render legally enforceable judgements against someone should absolutely have a higher bar of certainty than an organization that is simply excluding someone from participation in that organization.
#2 was not clear to me from the OP. Thanks for clarifying, as I do agree with that point. With that said, my argument is that none of the options are mutually exclusive. You can have your music on Spotify and sell albums and do tours. Why rob yourself of a great marketing tool for bringing in new listeners?
They seem to want confidence that US Chess and STLCC leadership are able to handle these complaints appropriately going forward: a change of leadership would be one way. Per the intro, they're looking for scrutiny and accountability of the handling: with that the current leadership might be able to regain confidence, I guess.

Your characterisation ignores the other case, of course, but on the one you're referring to note that there were two complaints prior to the multiple ones and the ban was a secret, partial ban.

It's very likely there would be no proof, but a competent investigation can talk to those involved and come to a conclusion. Patterns of behavior can be established over time. And there may have been say CCTV that an investigation could obtain that the woman herself couldn't immediately provide.

Both of the offenders here have multiple allegations against them -- escorting one woman doesn't protect other women (and presumably ends at the edge of the venue), and escorting all women isn't a scalable solution.

Timely, competent investigations of allegations and the removal of predators is the only way. But orgs are learning this stuff, and are staffed and run by humans. Where mistakes are made they should be owned up to.
This is useless technology that goes nowhere except this specific use case
Small nit but technically OpenJS is a separate 501c6 that is currently managed by the LF, they're not "underneath" the LF in the same way that CNCF is. Not sure why that's the case, probably just historical reasons since they were independent for a long time beforehand? Doesn't seem to change much operationally as they have the normal C6 structure with corporate members, etc.
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Gee, I wonder what happened in 2014 where Ukraine suddenly needed weapons and couldn't get it from the usual sources as a former Soviet state?
Do you really want to belong to an organization that bans based on accusations? That seems like a great way for someone dishonest to avoid playing someone they know they will have a problem beating - just accuse them of sexual harassment and you don't have to worry about it.

Things like the above have been done in the past. That is why the courts have complex and slow procedures to solve problems. I hate it as well, but any alternative is at least as bad - though perhaps in a different direction.
Do famous people really choose not to speak at MIT Commencement because they won't get an honorary degree for it? You'd think "spoke at MIT Commencement" would be an equal line item for a CV given the context.
And I shudder to think of the amount of information an actual adult and politician has to willfully resist to learn to say things like: "If it's legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down, [...]".
In C# plenty of things embed IL, they just use the Reflection.Emit APIs to do that and don't have a direct embedded DSL.

An advantage to C#'s dynamic over Reflection.Emit is that it uses System.Linq.Expressions under the hood. There's a lot of cool advantages to do that, including higher level caching and sharing a lot of the same infrastructure of IQueryable (and IQbservable, the Q there is not a typo). The DLR remains an underappreciated bit of great .NET engineering. (It doesn't help that most of the Iron languages went to maintenance bitbuckets.)

(In a past life I did some amazing things with the DLR.)
I always wondered if flywheels[0] would be a good alternative to batteries to store energy. Flywheels can absorb peak current, help stabilize grid frequency[1] and can
have high efficiency.

But I haven't seen much on the topic, and a lot in chemical batteries.

What are the prices and downsides of flywheels? Does anyone have an up date comparison of commercial solutions with TeslaWall and similar?

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_storage_power_system#...
Swift was conspicuously similar to Scala, but there was no attribution of Scala as an influence...i'm not sure how they might have diverged since.
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by your logic we should go into every Show HN and say their project will be dead. historically most projects and companies die too after a few years.

but obviously that wouldn't be helpful for discussion or particularly insightful to spam, either.
"Considering the harmful potential of PM, our findings note that the filter-tipped cigarettes are not a less harmful alternative for passive smokers. Tobacco taxation should be reconsidered and non-smoking legislation enforced."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4847091/
No, but if are a large organization like USCF you probably want to have a higher bar than just an accusation.
Sounds generated.
It seems rather plausible to me what the article has to say on this exact question:

After that 2020 article, Amazon curbed a yearslong practice in which its own brands were given a boost in the search results on its site in special placements—the kind of edge other sellers could only gain by buying ads—according to the people familiar with the recent changes. That change caused many of Amazon’s brands to be buried in search results, making it harder for items to sell. The cost of warehousing all that inventory was significant for Amazon, making it a target during the cost cutting.

Doesn't mean they stopped the practice completely, but apparently it was enough to make most of their own brands unprofitable.