jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Man. This smells of techie overkill. The utility can make an announcement via radio or broadcast or sms to let you know if the supply is under pressure. Then switch off non essential appliances normally.

I live in a country with a struggling national power grid as people have come online faster than the utility could service old and build new powerstations. The blackouts or load shedding are not as frequent as a decade ago but we've learned to live energy cheap.
I mean... I agree with you. I like Norway's model... Please don't be so confrontational.
Supply and demand is great, but calling it “battery” is a huuuge stretch. Batteries manage supply, pricing helps manage demand. You need both.

Gas prices at the pump is pretty bad example. Varying electricity prices are build on shifting demand by few hours. Gas prices are unpredictable and you cannot really shift demand much, and prices swings can last years.
In Sweden all employees have these protections and I feel our system works mostly fine. The employer is by default on the hook for all damages caused by employees. There are of course some exceptions like gross negligence, but in general all employees have qualified immunity here.
I'm just here for the nuanced comments.
> I didn't come up with the solution of having a SPOF redis node with a full key scan every 10 minutes acting as an intermediate data store before transferring to postgres.

Obviously that is bad architecture smell.

But if you didn't already know; redis supports high availability through "sentinel"[0].

[0]: https://medium.com/@amila922/redis-sentinel-high-availabilit....
Is this much different from what Pinterest and Google images do?
As a European I must say, American universities are weird places...
For the most detailed info about x86 CPUs (only) I run cpuid.
A lot of comments here seem to be missing what the post was intending to communicate (IMO.)

It's not about whether starting from scratch is okay or not. It's not about whether mixing various technologies to get to something that works is okay or not.

It's about aligning business needs with the execution plan and the resources available.
As a freelancer, I get to work directly with sales reps and franchise owners, so I am making a SaSS for them and so they will be my early adopters. I've already interviewed a dozen or so of my clients and am confident my service will be well received. At least the Beta will not be overly complex so I can tweak it in the right direction during Beta review. Here's hoping.
Thanks for the Strang link. For some reason never noticed this text and lecture videos. He's definitely a treasure in the realm of math education.
I bet they'd move faster if they could. I'm guessing for takeoff there's a good amount of analysis to do beforehand. Terrain, weather, system checks, whatever.

I don't know the actual list, but it's not hard to guess why they couldn't do everything, including ejecting it from the main rover and getting the main rover out of the way, in the ~12-14 hours a day that they have to do stuff.
Careful[1812] now :-)

[1812] https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-W...
It's a mistake to think of states and law as these neat, clearly defined things.

Nowadays law is generally a tool used by a group of people to make coexistence and societal processes smoother.

On the grander scale might makes right and whoever has the ability and will to make and enforce law will do so.

If however there are no laws, there can be no crime, by definition, and thus there is no crime going unpunished.

Does it matter right now? No. Will it in 50 years? Probably not still. Looking at our planet what we understand as modern law has generally only emerged in large groups of people. It's debatable whether any small group truly needs it.
Ad hominem is a logical fallacy for Aristotelian argumentation.

For common-law legal fact-finding, calling the source's reputation into question is extremely fair. Aristotelian argumentation is grounded on premises both sides can accept; in legal examination, people lie and distort all the time.
The conspiracies are bad but the denialism is worse. Honoring the "heroes" and "patriots".

But on the subject at hand, I can't imagine a platform that was required to carry Trump's content that I would want to be a part of.
In case you didn't notice, there are already anti-trust lawsuits against Google; I'm happy that such inspection of big tech is happening. Even so, that's a separate issue
For those interested, the relevant search term for United States law is "compelled speech".
- how does this library handles accents and other strange characters?

Should be unicode throughout.

- how much of it is multiplatform?

All of it, with the exception perhaps of the fuse support, which requires support on the platform.

- can it handle files in the internet (aside from the S3 that I've seen it does)?

There's an ftp filesystem, and a XMLRPC server/client filesystem

- hows the exception handling/reliability?

Care is taken so that the filesystem implementations only throw exceptions derived from FSError. Generally you can also retrieve the original exception from the FSError instance...
How can I forget? The spam level is through the roof - every company I have ever done business with is exhorting me to buy one of their wares "for Dad".

I realise there is some good intent around many of these special "appreciation" days, but I am starting to hate them with a passion.

People, if you like your parents, call them once a week through the year. Don't ignore them and then once a year send them an iPod.
>> ublock [...] is being sold to most has an ad blocker, but really it blocks everything.

> It's not "being sold".

See definition #7 here of "sold": http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sold

"to cause to be accepted, especially generally or widely"

And it is, especially when all comparisons are with AdBlock Plus -- people are being told by you that uBlock is a faster, more efficient alternative to ABP:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-...
I use this everyday and it's absolutely first class.
I have been waiting for this move for a long time, but, badly, doesn't support iOS yet :-S
Who decided to name it a "lesser panda"? And of the alternative names for a red panda, firefox, or red cat-bear why would someone choose "lesser panda"?
I argue that http://xkcd.com/949/ is the exact criticism.
I don't remember Andrew Ng's coursera class giving a satisfying introductory mathematical treatment. I remember frequent handwaving away of the calculus intuition in favor of just dropping the "shovel-ready" equations into our laps so that we could do the homeworks. If you wanted a better treatment you had to dig it up for yourself (which wasn't too hard if you visited the forums but still).

Has it been supplemented since then?
> Even the Model 3 is expensive compared to its peers at $35k.

I thought I read around a track, the Model 3 gives a BMW M3 (which is $60k-$80k) a run for its money.
http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

Still spot on today :)
From the videos (which have not been removed, despite what the headline suggests) it appears the person is following police officers around on the street, trying to provoke reactions while he films, and posting the videos with police names to his Instagram accounts where he sells anti-police merch.

I don’t condone the police behavior, but it’s clear that the person recording is not a hero or even blameless. He’s running a business that profits from anti-police sentiment and promoting it with these videos.
Which trackball did you use? I have tried almost every different kind of ergonomic keyboard / mouse alleviate my pain, but I haven't tried trackballs yet.
I wonder if there is cap minus side... Maybe not local side, but on global...
Ok, we've changed the title to use a more precise phrase from the article abstract.

I think it's important to understand that "universal basic income" has two usages now: the more precise definition that everyone on HN is familiar with, but also more generally the concept of giving money to poor people with no strings attached. That idea is gradually getting more research and the research has been producing interesting results for some time now.

Of course it's an oxymoron to use "UBI" to refer to the latter. The word 'universal' already contradicts it, as does 'basic income' arguably. But language does not spread by precision, and there are more interesting things to discuss here than terminology.
To be fair, it does link to the paper in literally the first words, which is in some sense the most important thing. But let's go ahead and record the name here since the article takes its time: the solver is Hao Huang.
“We’ll all get rich sticking it to the hedge funds” was comically naïve given that the entire strategy was to hold no matter what and never sell. Every time it would go higher the narrative just adjusted the target price upwards. “$1000 is not a meme” et al. As if the price would go up to infinity dollars.

If you don’t have an actual exit strategy—especially on a time-dependent play like a short squeeze—you’re the sucker who’s losing their investment.
Punish police from playing music? Seriously, a flesh wound? Let's call this a catastrophic decapitation that demands immediate jail time without possibility for parole like human trafficking and serial-arson.
I was hoping this was a resuscitation of Open Clip Art. I used to use it so much with Inkscape -- rarely I'd use anything as is, but it was great to have a bunch of different shapes at my finger-tips for tracing, rapid prototyping of graphics, etc. Everything was public domain which made licensing a non-issue.

But on the front page: "Most icons and vectors useable for your commercial projects without any royalties" -- This worries me, as it makes it sound like some of these ARE NOT under free licenses, and I'll have to check each one. Is there a "PD only" view?
I had the impression, design systems were things designers come up with and then get used by many projects/companies.

Like Google's Material Design or Ant Design etc.
They were not incited by him.
This is true, but what's strange is the curve bends back. There are so few 3 or 4BR apartments, that the per sq foot goes higher with bigger apartments. (Before leaving, we were paying ~6 per sf for a 2BR in the UWS zoned for a crappy school)
> They're sheeple languages (made with the worker in mind) to control employees,

Total nonsense.

> and not languages to empower and liberate the programmer

Also nonsense.
Best of luck. Awesome to be studying this stuff at only 14. If I could help I would but I only touched on those subjects 15 years ago so you probably already know more than me!
Ahh, that's probably it. Thanks!
You're very lucky in that regard. For me, a context switch, especially when I'm working from home, not only throws me off for a few minutes, but also takes away my motivation that has a more than few-minute impact.

Of course, I'm actively working on that, but interruptions don't help. And the more they happen, the more demoralizing they become and it's a vicious cycle.
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For some it will make sense. Try iterating on your board designs in CA - I mean like testing your pcb antennas, component swap out etc during development and spend weeks waiting around for you pcbs. Being in shenzhen you can get 1 or 2 day turn around... Even if you don't manufacture there, development is pretty awesome
Don't forget to add shake you down for cash vs hit a button on your phone.
not at all.

you make the government the source of all evil. blame regulation, blame the people working in government, don't pay them well. what happens? public service will suck. no one qualified wants to work there. a self fulfilling prophecy.

the people get the government they are willing to pay for, they deserve.

the whole starving the beast rhetoric of the GOP, etc in the US is what ultimately makes the government dysfunctional - outside of Defense of course, the holy cow. if the DoD would be in charge of healthcare and public infrastructure, maybe then there would be progress in the US.
exactly. I was hoping for more content, but it ended without connecting between algo trading and computerized record
Much of the misunderstanding, I imagine, is that people who have never worked in a lab, such as these TSA employees, think that 'swabbed positive' means 'touched explosives'.

These quick tests just use a reagent that reacts with a part of a molecule. In the case of an explosives test, I imagine it responds to molecules with a -NO2 group. That could be TNT or any of a thousand perfectly innocent, harmless substances. A test that tests for the whole molecule, with a smaller (but still non zero) chance of a false positive, would be too expensive and take too long for a situation like this.

If you're just testing average people, the chance of a false positive is orders of magnitude more likely than a real positive.
Yep, it seems like 90% or more of "their" products are simply open-source code with a web-based front-end that they've slapped on (which is why I refuse to give them any money).
TI might not be focused on phones and multimedia devices anymore, but their DSP chips are extremely well regarded, and some of their other chips are popular for industrial automation.

I don’t think “rentseeking on their analog dominance” is a fair characterization.
The the idea of simplicity in software engineering is one of those hand wavy stuff that the conventional wisdom is full of.

The simplicity (or the complexity) depends on what you want to do (requirements). If the requirements themselves are complex then expecting the code to be simple just doesn't make sense. Also piece of code would look simple to a person who has been working on it for long time and has the background knowledge vs a person who is new to the system.

Another thing to remember is that software systems are built incrementally i.e for each new requirement the developer have to figure out "how to implement this new requirement in this given code base with minimal changes" and this eventually will lead to complexity (unless you want to do big refactor on each new requirement).
If she was able to get the MRI at a reasonable cost, doesn't that suggest that the system isn't that broken? As far as I can tell almost nothing comes at a reasonable cost in the US.
Looks good. I'd like this for Asian languages, like Korean and Malay/Indonesian.
This was precisely the kind of thing I was looking for. I've done AOC for a few years, and did OK this year (got 2 stars on all but 3 days, and one star on all but 2), but being able to compare my ramshackle, simplistic code to something like this is the project for a month - break down one a day.... I'll do this in february, so thanks for posting that, OP!
Not really, because the nuclear fuel would naturally degrade into much the same materials anyway, just over a longer time frame. Nuclear reactors just speed up the process.

Yes that means higher concentrations of those decay products to deal with in the short term, but these mostly have quite short half lives in the grand scheme of things, in the order of years or decades.

The environmental impacts of nuclear energy are often grossly overestimated, this is why so many environmentalists are advocating for nuclear energy.
I agree with the premise, but the problem is that it gets ethically, uh 'interesting', if you replace 'tall' with say, 'black', in your argument.
The problem is that in trying to distinguish between the two groups you'll inevitably fuck it up and ruin the lives of people who could otherwise have turned it around.
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Bad article. Noone is just an expert in one thing and can't do anything else. What actually happens is by becoming an expert at something you also learn things that will help you elsewhere, which means you can pick up other things more quickly. So the choice is either between someone who is an expert in a one thing and knows a bunch of other things, or someone who just knows of bunch of things.
I use a yubikey, but I suppose the Solo will be similar.

> - Are drivers for this already installed as part of desktop Ubuntu 20.10/Windows 10? Any driver installation will absolutely make this a no-go for family members.

On windows10, yes. I haven't tried it on Ubuntu 20.10 yet, but I think FIDO/WebAuthN will Just Work. (PIV will likely need custom software, but if you're using PIV, you probably know what you're doing).

> - Is additional software required for anything non-techies might reasonably want to do with this device, including resetting it

I mean, you rarely want to reset your key to start with, but at least for the yubikey, this requires external software last I checked. Maybe there's a button hidden in the chrome browser UI, but I've never found it. You need yubikey manager (which is yubikey's tool for doing various operations on the yubikey, like configuring what the touch button does, etc...).

> adding an entry

This is done entirely through your browser when setting up 2FA for a website that supports FIDO/WebAuthN. This is done entirely transparently for the user.

> or checking which entries are already on the device?

I don't think you even can do this. I'm not entirely sure how FIDO works, but I think the key is basically derived from some kind of "master" key combined with the domain you're connecting to. So the key doesn't actually have any memory of which servers it ever connected to.

> - Is there anything else which would likely stop non-techies from using this for basically everything they care about?

Well, technically, I don't think there's anything. WebAuthN is rock solid and the UX is really as good as it gets, IMO. The problem is, for many people 2FA is a hassle they don't want to go through. They don't see the need for it. And TBF, for many people, they might be right: they might not need it. So why go through the hassle?
They aren't clueless.

This kind of tactics has been used since the beginning of time.

There was no way to produce a hard evidence, and everyone knew that.
I am saying you can be highly skilled in multiple technologies. Do you disagree with that?
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Good for you and good luck. Here's my thinking on an approach:

What can happen? a) No one responds b) you get harshed on c) people communicate interest. You can't control b) so ignoreit, a) is the same result as not publishing anything but at least now you have a story. Put the effort into to making it easy for c).

In terms of interest, what specifically are you looking for in response to putting the project forward? A response to the idea, or a response to the effort?

In terms of the idea, tell your audience:
- Who is "it" for, what's it for? If it's for you, generalize to people like you, eg "developers who are trying to keep track of their ideas"
- What's the bet you are making? eg "it uses clustering to group ideas that you can then label as themes"
- What would you like to know? eg "would this help you?, or how do you organize your notes and ideas now?"

In terms of the storytelling, lead with a demo or example that shows it doing something. If the code's not all there yet, mock that up. Above all, show what it does.

In terms of the effort, it's telling us the idea plus:
- How does it work? eg "I used X Y and Z. It does A B and C".
- How I solved it: eg" The hard part was designing A, where I first tried this, and then that, and what worked was this other thing".
- What I don't know how to solve yet. This last thing the may be what gets you the most feedback, so don't bury that.
No not really but he was aware of the beneficial effects of the drugs for his lungs, and for his rheumatoid arthritis. But near the end he was also on morphine to help his breathing which was great but it's a terrible drug for causing constipation!

His mind was clear up until the last two months because he was in the hospital and then palliative care. So that was not unexpected to be said since he'd never be home again.

It was quick really only about a month until he died once in palliative care. Although I could tell he was putting on a brave face. Dad died by my side in his sleep in palliative care but he was clear of mind two days before. He was never alone at home, in the hospital, or in palliative care I was always there.

Anyway I could ramble on about it more but really my family is lucky to live in a country with socialized medical system. I'm also thankful for drugs there are some amazingly helpful drugs can ease suffering of many people.
A) A good hunk of the article is dedicated to arguing that the people Twitter don’t understand why their algorithm chooses one tweet over another.

B) Even if they do release the entirety of the algorithm, that doesn’t mean anything is going to get better. Likely it will get worse. The scourge of SEO optimization is already having detrimental impacts on finding good information. Imagine the kind of garbage we’ll have to sift through if the people gaming the system are able to see exactly what the system is.
GMD only has 44 interceptors. I'm pretty sure I'd be hit.

>goofy attitude

Just a little gallows humor. As for planning, I have enough canned food and bottled water in my closet to last about a week. But that's more a plan for lockdowns/etc than for a nuclear war. As long as I live here, I earnestly don't think there is much sense in planning for that.
Not being willing to negotiate in good faith is a sign of poor business acumen and low emotional intelligence. Clearly stating you can't go any lower/higher and 'take it or leave it' is fine -- getting offended or reneging the offer purely because someone has the balls to negotiate is just childish.
If we go back to 19th/20th century tech it'll be a problem because all the resources which are easy to extract have already been got. Much of the resource extraction done today is only possible because modern technology enables it. We may not ever be able to get back to where we're at now if we have a setback like that.
Yeah, I definitely thought of this. It's kindof a chicken or the egg thing. Some of my friends had the suggestion of a weekly digest or something like that.

In the end, I opted for this since, from my perspective, there's a sort of solace knowing that I'm only "expected" to write at most once a week.
I agree, there are many people working on their own open-source operating systems. I would put in the effort to learn and contribute if only I knew what the state of the art was. Maybe linux kernel == S.O.T.A ?