jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Preface: I know very little about power grids, but had a couple thoughts.

In the UK, there is a system of load shedding that is tied to the grid frequency. My understanding is that some industrial users agree terms where they get cheaper rates but if the demand outstrips supply, they are first to be cut. This load shedding is implemented by components that monitor the grid frequency, and if it drops below a fixed value, it disconnects. It seemed a nice system to me as in theory it operates just based on the principles of an AC power supply.

Secondly, the UK has its own grid but is linked up to the EU grid with asynchronous HVDC connectors. We get a lot of our energy though those. Is this inefficient?
Fox News has a slogan 'fair and balanced' underneath their logo. It doesn't change my opinion.
It's a pity that it's an obvious empty threat. No more Instagram? Sounds like a great improvement.

Although unfortunately, people would just move to some other similar network to post their fake perfect lives or get depressed about the others'.
It makes me smile that the EU, which so many Brexiteers wrote off as a bloated bureaucracy, is currently going toe to toe with Facebook all while avoiding regulatory capture.
I understand that people can call art whatever they like.

One can argue that doing an exact copy of a photograph with the end result being indistinguishable from the original photo is some kind of "meta" art and the lack of creativity actually puts focus on the technical skill and the effort of the artist, as a kind of "anti-creativity statement" type of art, "there is no artist just paint and effort".

But my non-artistic brain would still rate this lower compared to the original in terms of creativity, insight, originality.

Yes you can raise a skill to the level of an art, but then wouldn't the actual performance of the skill be the artwork? And the resulting picture just an artifact that has no artistic value without the original side by side + a description/video describing/showing the actual effort?

On that note, I think I'll stop. I feel I'm getting high just from all the meta-ideas I'm writing, lol.
I'm curious how this will unfold, something similar happened with Google News in Spain[1], and Deliveroo [2], of course we are talking about the whole EU and neither of examples had as many customers as Facebook.

- [1] https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9609...

- [2] https://deliveroo.es/en/
At work when at my desk. If every device in the office were on Wifi, things would be a mess
Agree about private keys, but I see the problem a little differently.

Combustion engines are dangerous and frankly beyond the comprehension of the average person, but cars put such a heavy layer of abstraction on top of them that anyone can get a ton of utility from the combustion engine.

Software and smart contracts like key escrow services will solve this problem I bet.

Volatility, I don't agree with. Look at DAI, it's completely decentralized and has done a great job pegging to the dollar. With DAI you can participate in DeFi / smart contracts without ETH volatility.
The USPS does not deliver mail to every household. Nor do they deliver universally six days a week.

Where I live, USPS doesn't deliver to any household, but UPS and FedEx do.

But that is beside the point. Any party that contracted with the USPS would be obligated to meet the terms of the contract.

You might be surprised at who lines up to deliver mail up the Adirondacks. One of the virtues of a free market is the amazing ingenuity of entrepreneurs to meet market demand in the most efficient ways. The free market provides the motivation for such ingenuity whereas non-profit single-player monopolies often don't.

But still this misses my interest in this discussion. I think there is an optimum balance for publicly-owned infrastructure and privately-owned service providers. But that balance is not always obvious and usually not stable. I think there is great benefit in continuous discussion of the pros and cons to monitor and adjust how we leverage the strengths of both sides of the equation.

I like the idea of "build more rail lines." But it takes more that four words to make this happen. If you are just trying to replace the pork of military spending, then perhaps the details don't matter. Just trade one corruption for another. Let the power brokers beat each other up clamoring for the money.

But if you're making such radical changes to the redistribution of wealth, why not have some thoughtful discussion that people can reference for the next 100s of years. Who are the Lockes and Keynes of 2021? I know they exist. Let's bring them out in public discussion.
Yeah, I chose not to templatize and add dismiss() mostly to make it fit better in a comment.

But like I said at some point, if it gets complicated, then probably the value should be properly wrapped, with actual owner semantics rather than defers.
I'm down to one, too. And for what it's worth, I've used it about 5 times since I got my M1 in December: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B085ZQZXFX

If "using it on your lap, without something hanging" matters to you (like the parent) and you wanted something more 'rigid', things like this exist: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/product/B07PCP5J4Z
Totally agree. Niches make riches.
It is pretty far fetched. Think about the value proposition vs the risk of exposure of such a scheme. Blackmail is a major felony, and deliberately choosing not to report illegal content of this nature is as well. Why would Facebook do this when they are already swimming in ad revenue?
There is a RFC (4180) for CSV, but the truth of the matter is that there are thousands of parsers written to whatever spec the author thought up.

In the real world the entire spec is contained in its three word name.

In the end I think the simplicity was also a weakness. Because the spec is so minimal a programmer goes "Oh, I'll just write my own, no problem", where a more complex protocol would have necessitated finding some exisiting library instead. Whatever the author of that library did would become the defacto standard and there would be less incompatibility between files.
Several cities in Indian have added sexual orientation as a protected class. This law effectively overrides that if the person doing the discrimination claims it is for religious reasons.

In other jurisdictions when their RFRA laws conflicted with their anti-discrimination laws, the anti-discrimination laws have tended to win. The anti-discrimination laws won because the RFRA laws were interpreted as prohibiting government action that burdened the exercise of religion. They did not provide a defense when a person was sued under an anti-discrimination law by a person claiming to have been discriminated against, because government was not a party to the lawsuit.

The Indiana law contains specific language that says it applies to lawsuits even if no government entity is a party.
The current model Subaru already has this feature for it's "adaptive cruise control". It has 4 presets for distance it will follow the car in front.

It's obviously only appropriate on the freeway of course. On my commute I will have it set at the second shortest distance because it's frankly a little disconcerting when the person in front of you stops in a hurry. It does, however, mean that people merge in front of you... but somehow, with adaptive cruise, I no longer care.
Er, okay, anyone care to explain why they downvoted this?

I participated in this contest and was blown away by a lot of the ingenuity the other contestants demonstrated. The judges clearly did not have an easy time picking the winners, but I think they did a very good job at being fair about it.
Palo Alto Networks - Lots of openings - H1B VISA and REMOTE are possible

We do network and endpoint security. I can't sell the company better than our founder, so here's Nir Zuk:

http://youtu.be/EKdzB75aewk?t=19m19s

And here's an example of the kinds of things we work on (feature selection and machine learning models for malicious PDF detection, in this case):

http://www.virusbtn.com/pdf/conference_slides/2012/Xu-etal-V...

Our policy is to hire awesome people whether there's an opening or not. For the "official" list, see:

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/careers/openings.ht...

We're very much an international organization, so don't let location stop you from checking us out. And feel free to get in touch with me directly -- email's in my profile.
> Lately I've been trying to puzzle out why there's been this outbreak of seemingly absurd and ridiculous nail biting over artificial intelligence in and around Silicon Valley circles. Rationally it makes little sense.

From my observation, there's a huge confusion generated by people (mostly journalists) who have no knowledge whatsoever about the research of AIs as existential risks, but who write texts comparing AIs to science fiction movies people know. Rational basis for "fear of AI" is actually quite simple - a mind is a strong optimization system; if we somehow create one that is as powerful as our own, there is no reason to assume it will automagically share our values - and any strong optimization that does not share our values (note: we don't really know what they are anyway) will most likely destroy us. All the talk about "terminators" and "rise of the machines", etc. is just muddying the waters.
MS SQL Server: who else has such easy and varied ways to cluster/mirror/replicate?
Someone can check the math, but in my head I got about ten year crossover to about one sig fig (unless I really messed up it'll be between 2 and 20 years), so it would be far more economical in terms of wasted lifetimes with those made up stats to take the slower route.
"Building 1,500 kilometres (900 miles) of "2+1" roads—where each lane of traffic takes turns to use a middle lane for overtaking—is reckoned to have saved around 145 lives over the first decade of Vision Zero."

I'm no expert in roads, but can anyone explain how that shared middle lane is not the recipe for disaster?
Native English speakers who get annoyed by mistakes made by non-native speakers deserve to be.
I've found that interactive tutorials/courses, like those that KataCoda seems to offer are a pretty interesting approach: https://www.katacoda.com/ (someone once linked one of their Kubernetes courses, it was pretty nice; seems to be locked behind a signup now)

There was a site that also helps you learn Git in a really nice visual way: https://learngitbranching.js.org/

On a slightly unrelated note, i think that it's also important to figure out what to learn in the first place. Therefore, i think that this site is pretty useful for seeing some of the common technologies or practices: https://roadmap.sh/
My girlfriend was diagnosed with bipolar in her childhood and her whole life was a cycle of new prescription drugs and stop taking them when she realized they change her way to much without helping a lot.

I basically diagnosed her with ADHD (no specialist) we found out someone else already did before me but they never looked into it (mostly because you can barely mix meds for bipolar and adhs)

So essentially we got her a ADHS specialist who confirmed my idea and gave her ritalin.

Totally new person. It's 100% her, not 30-50% her depending on the day. They just started to even stop other medications to focus on ADHD more.

Point is: Yes it's somewhat new, and yes it likely would help a lot of people.

I too have ADD but I don't like amphetamines so often. I essentially went the way to turn my life upside down to build my own environment I enjoy to work in.
Tooling. It's the same thing that sunk Scala in industry.
> in addition to that you have a collaborative 3D environment with positional audio where you can script, make games or do other stuff.

Well, I see no significant benefit here over a simple list.

Not saying that there is none but I am not convinced to do anything with it until I see some actual use for it (and FB is not involved in any way whatsoever).
I'd say because there were more experienced British, Russian, French and other allied generals involved too. (Or are we giving the sole credit for WW2 to the USA?)

And second, except perhaps for Vietnam, US strategy has shifted to deliberately create hotspots and unrest in all the major continents to keep other powers bogged down and uniting against the US / west. It's an extension of the old British divide-and-rule policy that America has expanded upon (the British only used to create unrest, the Americans have expanded on that to also use these hotspots to provide fertile, live ground for training new recruits to warfare while also testing new weapons). That's why the Jews were deliberately sent to middle-east, creating conflict in the middle-east, while India was partitioned because the west rightly assessed that India would not be a blind ally of the west against Russia.
Would the ISS have had enough fuel to match the shuttles orbit? I wonder if that was considered?
You can use this as well: http://visualping.io/. We're still working on doing more frequent checks on gowatchtower.com
I don't believe it's pedantic to see a difference between the words "reduce" and "remove". We think we can design top down systems that are error free. We are wrong. Systems are never error free and thinking they could be is actually quite bad for us. By doing everything we can to remove errors completely, we actually just ensure that the errors that remain will be much worse in scope. Far better to build a redundant system that is prepared for the errors instead of building an efficient system expecting no errors.

It is certainly a worthy goal to reduce errors. To not do so would be silly. But expecting errors to go to zero is not a worthy goal because there are always errors.
- Adding visual diffs would be very cool.

- Some sort of visual timeline would also be great, i.e. the ability to flip through screenshots with a javascript slider or something

- Export to gifs of video might be useful

- The ability to tag information to certain screenshots would be useful for noting changes and milestones (like in Google Analytics)
While I understand the concern about tracking peoples presence with phones, I don't feel like this is new. The cellular companies can track location, and it's already happening.
Perhaps a better example of the Microsoft strategy would be Windows itself. For many years and several major versions, they went to extraordinary lengths to ensure backward compatibility and stability, so software that ran on Windows from the mid-1990s would still have a reasonable chance of running acceptably on Windows in the late-2000s.

We had almost reached the point where, notwithstanding any commercial licensing barriers, you could either still run application software natively, or it was so old that you could host a virtual machine containing the old OS within the new one. That's a great situation to be in if you rely on the software, and it's also a very nice situation if you write software, because it basically means that once you've got software that works it works forever. A firm foundation keeps everyone safe.

It's regrettable that under Ballmer and now Nadella they seem to have been pushing hard in IMHO the wrong direction with increasingly rapid updates and more reliance on inherently unstable on-line services, instead of playing to those traditional strengths. This makes Windows just as unlikely a prospect for long term stability as anything from Apple or the Linux world these days.

Personally, all I want is a system that I can buy today to do useful work and reasonably expect to still be doing useful work more than a year or two later. It's disturbingly difficult to find software that meets that apparently simple requirement any more.
Looks interesting but how is this related to PHP? All I see in the archive is jar files and a shell script.
Are you sure you want to own your MacBook for 3 years?

The depreciation on Apple laptops is low enough that you can resell it and trade up to the latest refresh once a year for the same cost as trading up once every 3 years. If you're interested in the best bang-for-your-buck and can put up with the hassle, you should definitely think about it.
You should install ubuntu-11.04-dekstop-amd64. There was never a notebook version of Ubuntu. For a while, they had a separate "netbook remix" that you could download and install, but that has been discontinued.
More than 175.000 things have been flattred almost half a million times

This implies that every item has been flattred, on average, just under 3 times. Does this seem a little low to anyone else? I suppose the real question is how many things the average user flattrs, and hopefully that's one of the numbers they have up their sleeve.
Would love to chat, drop me a note (email in profile).

Yeah, I'm not certain if auctioning your time will really work, but once people start using the system, I'll know better. It is a fairly interesting problem, and lots of things you can do.
I've never had a problem with a Debian in-place upgrade; I've got servers that have been upgraded from woody through to squeeze without a hitch. Where I've had problems with Ubuntu, it's been around the desktop, and udev/hotplug integration.

That being said, I've not given it a fair try for a few releases, so it's possible that in-place upgrades are better tested now, but I don't see the point of taking the risk. If it goes wrong, I'll end up reimaging anyway, so why waste the time?
The older Mac Pro machines might well see additional and continued usage as members of a distributed build farm using distcc via 10 GbE or gigabit network.
I haven't seen any examples of Node paired with jQuery. Do most people just use vanilla JS with Node?
randomPoly[n_, x_, {a_, b_}] :=
x^Range[0, n].RandomVariate[CauchyDistribution[2, 1], n + 1];
Show[Graphics[
Point[{Re[x], Im[x]}] /. NSolve[randomPoly[300, x, {27, 42}], x],
Axes -> True]]

http://imgur.com/a/52oEs#0

The unit circle is still present, but it now seems to be getting a few uniform outliers, a sort of halo.

I think that the explanations given in the responses are not correct. Even for the unit circle, they account for why you don't seem many points outside of the interval, but fail to explain why you rarely see points inside of the unit circle. The argument essentially is that inside the unit circle the equation reduces to

a1*x+a0 = 0

But the distribution for this (randomly picking a1 and a0 when you generate the poly) indicates you'd expect the occasional circle that had a point that was about .3 away from the radius. If you generated the circle 10 times, you don't. You rarely get as far as 0.1 .
You never know. What's happening right now might be a memory in the computer's brain.
I'm not really concerned about whether Linux will run 'fine' on less hardware, I'd just want to be able to purchase the higher-end (hardware-wise) version.

I'm not going to buy the high-end version if it requires me to buy the prepackaged Windows license however.
People with ptsd will find many comments or behaviors aggressive. All the training in the world won't take away that persons pain. Sadly, the people with ptsd will still have it even if a hundred people are punished after interacting with them.
Personally I stay out of the fray but lately "NFT" has been really misused and misunderstood.

There are some interesting uses for non-fungible tokens that aren't based around selling a SHA256 hash of a piece of art.

The Ethereum Name Service uses the concept for domain name resolution.

https://ens.domains
Personally, I like Telegram's cryptocurrency idea more, which was disclosed some years ago. It's a shame it blocked by the government though.
There must be some folks from Criteo lurking here. I'm an ex-Criteo'er and if memory serves we had something on the order of 10K nodes running mesos/marathon. We did all kinds of silly things to it, like running very CPU intensive .NET/Core apps.

I dug this post up showing a service performing an internal auction of up to 530M advertising campaigns/sec on 88K CPUs in Mesos: https://medium.com/criteo-engineering/migrating-arbitrage-to...

We also ran HiveServer2 and the Hive Metastore in Mesos, though that wasn't super CPU intensive (that was a pain, but mostly due to our Kerberos deployment).

The general use case of Mesos/Marathon always worked for us just fine (self-executable JVM apps), though there was plenty of Mesos hate at Criteo (and eventually Kubernetes spun up, though I left about a year ago and don't know its footprint).

PS, Hi Greg S! Hi Maxime B! <-- if you're reading :).
Thankfully this getting flagged is still routine. Can you imagine how sickening a place this would be if this kind of post didn’t get flagged? It’s horrific, yet parading around as if it was merely legit discourse that is snubbed unfairly by the left.
It’s hard to say. I think it will depend on the group social pressure. Encouraged = at least give it a decent try. But if it sucks for you and damages your life then stay home. Nobody wants to be around a sour puss.
Having spent some part of my career rewriting COBOL into Java (1.4, so, you know, not cutting edge) I don't really have much good to say about COBOL but I have found the coverage of COBOL so weird in the media.

As you very rightly pointed out, no one ever goes, "The networking stack in your smartphone is written in C, a nearly 50 year old programming language" but governments underfund their IT infrastructure and then go, "Welp, nothing we could do, COBOL is sooooo old."

The amount of mismanagement that gets deflected away by pointing at COBOL and tapping into the largely justified distaste the development community has for COBOL is a real convenient out for the people responsible for that mismanagement.
Exactly. They’re unwilling to adapt or understand that their sphere of influence will be diminished.
> The hardest part of talking about malignant trends on the broad left is that, well, you’re not allowed to talk about them. It’s no exaggeration to say that criticism has become fully conflated with violence. If you attempt to engage critically with a left-liberal writer–regardless of how thorough and respectful you may be, and regardless of how powerful, public, or insulated the subject of the criticism–you will be accused of dismissing and erasing the writer, of inciting violence against the writer, and of committing some form of genocide against whichever identity groups the writer belongs to.

Such boogyman victim complex that also only singles out only one particular ideology, showing it's colors, most likely.

Yes, I've certainly engaged those too absorbed in politics to be able to handle criticism, whatever the political allegiance might be, but most persons are far more reasonable than what the article makes anything out to be.

A minority of persons does what the article describes, and this certainly isn't isolated to this so-called “broad left”. — that the writer singles out that alone is reason to be suspicious.

> You’d think a group that obsesses over power differentials and their own marginalization would have some grasp of this. Regardless of which side you fall into with this particular culture war, it should fucking terrify you that a movement that’s been tasked with addressing pressing social problems is designed in such a way that any substantial criticism is met with aggressive punishment.

Many groups obsess over power differentials and everyone who argues politics from such “groups” seems to consider himself the victim and oppressed. They all have their cherry picked statistics to show it, and they all ignore the statistics of the other side and the statistics deal with matters that are so divergent from one another that it's really impossible to tell who has it “worse”, but all are convinced it is they.

This isn't isolated to the so-called “broad left”; this is a function of special interest group politics.

Also, it has to be said, I estimate a 95% chance this article is both written by someone inside of the U.S.A., who also failed to even consider that a world outside of the U.S.A. exists when writing it. — it carries the stench of this style.