skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. Dinorwig[0] has the turbine hall built inside a mountain, using a lake in a disused slate quarry. Stop to maximum power in 12s or something similarly ridiculous. They do tours, which I highly recommend if you are in the UK. You go by bus (inside the mountain) to get to the interesting things.

It was also built to be able to do a black start (startup after a total grid outage).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
Man, this brings back memories. I spent many sleepless nights using it to format friends' school work.
Author here. Actually I just put this here to know about how other people approach these sort of presentations. A sort of I'll show you mine if you show me yours thing...
To find who you really are you must be in difficult situations where there are decisions to be made, and see what decisions you make, and how you feel about them afterwards.

The crisis of self-identity, if we call it that, isn’t helped by pervasive ads sure, but the root cause is easy living, the economic conditions which give rise to ads...

“All Greeks know what is right, but only the Spartans do it”
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I got my law degree at Costco.

This is the umpteenth thread where commenters are complaining about the sad state of Amazon’s retail. I hear a constant stream of complaints about counterfeit goods, fake reviews, less than great pricing, and shipping that takes longer than promised. I’ve personally experienced all of the above and cut way back on Amazon.

How many companies thrive while the quality of their core business withers?

Of course, maybe retail isn’t their core. Maybe the core is providing barely acceptable products and services at razor thin margins. In that light asset management makes perfect sense.
There's splits in the grid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_U.S._power_transmi...

So that takes care of some of it.

Anyway, synchronization is actively managed, when a generator starts up, it is synchronized to the grid adaptively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_(alternating_c...
IMO, the classic C++ book/author is still the best: Effective C++. Don't forget about the sequels, including the mostly overlooked Effective STL (which I happen to like better than the first two books). And to address the modern part of this question, I'll add that Scott Meyers has written Effective Modern C++ as well, but I'd read that last after getting the hang of C++03. No matter what people say, I tend to believe C++11 and on is not really a different language as much as it is syntactic sugar to cover up the ugliest parts of C++.
I use the cooks illustrated chocolate chip recipe, which specifically says to mix wet and dry ingredients, then let it stand for a few minutes, and repeat a few times in a row.

Apparently someone in the test kitchen was sidetracked by something, stepped away, and when they returned to finish the mix, the resulting in a better cookie.
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> I would have thought that on Hackernews of all places people would recognize the scale that is involved with a site like Amazon and recognize that fixing this problem is far from trivial.

Yes, but:)

Fixing it is far from trivial, BUT there are trivial things that would help. It's the 80/20 rule again; sure, a full solution would take years and be a massive undertaking, but even a minor effort would make a big dent in the problem.
I looked at freelancer.com for the first time yesterday. I was shocked at the lowest bid prices for hardware jobs. Though many of these are from overseas. Makes me think again about working for myself. I’m billed out at close to $400/Hr, and maybe take home about $60 of that.
Even more dishonest is not using the actual starting date.
Thank you for your kind words ... as for my personal life, I am still fighting to make things better.

I did think of adding a quick line on the main page, but never implemented it, thinking it will be self explanatory, but you are right, to have it until the site gets popular.

Yes the stack is Elixir + Phoenix. I was a rails and meteor guy prior to that. I like really like Elixir as a language, the excellent documentation helped quite a lot. Also the community around it is very eager to help. As for Phoenix, again its the community weight that shows its strength, being helpful and adding more open source libraries every week. I think if there was one feature where rails at the moment triumphs phoenix is in the number of open source libraries/packages/gems. Elixir + Phoenix sips on server memory.

Could you kindly explain more about how a pinboard archival account compares to summarybrew.

Again thanks for leaving a comment.
It seems from an article that the funding agencies were pleased with the return they got from an "ideas" portfolio. Maybe more ideas failed, but the projects that succeeded did so in more spectacular ways — a bit like a VC portfolio.

The problem, it seems to me, is similar to VC: The funding agencies can spread their risk across a pool of ideas, but the investigators generally have to commit to one or a small number of projects for some time, so they risk spending several years without much to show for it if the idea fails.
Well, that is the question, what benefit does a drag n drop shop builder get from YC? Genuinely curious here.
Aren't the large Tesla battery farms in Australia being used for that purpose? [1] Basically they use batteries and control systems to correct instead of a rotating mass. I'm not sure about the ability to push several hundreds of MW into the system but at least it gets something done.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-42190358
Bad - on the very bad side of things
There is also smart@TAN or OptiTAN. It's essentially a 5€ device with photosensitive diodes that you press on your screen and print out the TAN.

IMO it's the best option if you don't want to use HBCI and Co.
Take a Screenshot with Mac OS X
It's cool to see how it is done.
Once you've got the basics down from a tutorial (old C++ or modern C++), move on to internalizing all the lessons here:

https://isocpp.org/faq (what Marshall Cline's excellent C++ FAQ has become)

and here:

https://herbsutter.com/gotw/ (Not as organized, but Herb Sutter wrestles with the essential questions of how to deal with the tricky bits of C++)

If you've got the cash, read Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers.

Finally, if you're ready to snark at all you've learned, read the C++ FQA:

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
It's here https://github.com/Atrix256/GranularSynth. But unfortunately it does not go very deep into the detail, and there is no real motivation on why C++ would be cool to do that processing...
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> This feels kind of entitled, to be honest.

Entitled to the name perhaps, but _not_ entitled to indefinite support by the core devs.

> The core devs don't owe you indefinite support for your chosen version. Absolutely they get to decide when they want to stop supporting it (and they already gave it a ridiculously extended support lifetime!).

I agree! I said the users of Python 2 should be able to pool effort to continue to support Python 2.

Yet, there is a lot of sentiment in this thread that whether Python 2 should continue to be used should be tied to whether the Python core devs are still supporting it. Similarly, there is widespread sentiment that e.g. Linux distros should drop Python 2 and packaging Tauthon in its place doesn't even make it to the agenda.

> The PSF also owns the "Python" trademark and the whole purpose of trademarks is to prevent confusion about who made something, i.e. exactly the kind of confusion a Python 2.8 that isn't made by the same people who made Python 2.7 would have caused.

I'm well aware that the PSF is legally entitled to exclude Tauthon from being called Python 2.8. It's still not particularly nice towards the users of the language who bet on Python 2 and who'd benefit from easy discovery of Tauthon.

Imagine if Stroustrup had gone on to develop the language that's in reality called D but insisted that it be called C++ and the language everyone else knows as C++ be renamed if developed further in a backward-compatible way.

Once there is no longer a Python 2.x by the Python core devs to confuse Tauthon with, it's arguably more confusing for Python 2 and Python 3 to share a name but Python 2.x and Tauthon not to. (For clarity, the previous sentence is not a legal argument. I'm well aware that the public who could be confused about names doesn't have standing under trademark law.)

> The new name, for what it's worth, is Tauthon: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon

Thanks.
Huh. Thanks for the clarification. Have you reached out to them to clarify their thinking here?

What are the efficiency gains of burning forestry waste vs. crop residue? Also, what is the relative size of forestry waste vs crop residue, and how much more/less impact does it have on CO2 displacement by 2050?
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It really does read that way.

'They called me mad! MAD! Well I'll show them! I'll SHOW THEM ALL!'
You say this like it’s not obvious. Just because what they’re doing is OK doesn’t make it uninteresting. There are lots of posts on HN about completely sensible things.

Why does the NSA need defending this badly anyway?
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If it's mission critical then -- in Europe -- it gets the time from DCF77. It uses an atomic clock to emit a time signal (actually, it uses three and only uses their output when two out of three agrees). It is also compared to further atomic clocks and corrected as necessary.

Even many consumer grade clocks will sync to the radio signal once a day and use a quartz otherwise.
The popularity of "organic", "green" and such say otherwise.
Not sure... The Beach Boys seemed squeaky clean at the beginning of their recording career. By the time Smile and Pet Sounds came out, I think people knew about their drug taking (great albums!!!) but many who know their early work have never heard "Our Prayer" for example. I think they got their fame on the G-rated stuff and were able to push genre boundaries later. I think it's the same with The Beatles, although I'm not positive- hard to imagine a time when people were not familiar with Sgt Pepper and The White Album...
Chinese gov is building and testing their national wide DNA database[0], what do you think of that?

[0]:https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-snares-innocent-and-guilt...
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The list of ingredients can't. But the instructions/explanation and description might be (in addition to the pictures/illustrations, as you mentioned.)

https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html
That's a good question. If the answer is "yes" then maybe that's the reason for the high fee.

Currently they have insurance on their hot wallet coins, which I think is about 5% of the total. The cold wallets aren't insured, but they're paper wallets held in safe deposit boxes all over the world, so it's unlikely that a large percentage would be lost.
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If you stop using Twitter, it becomes really obviously pretty much instantly.
Lots of FicTech in my city. From friends who work for these companies. They are a mess. Amazon needs to come in revolutionize the market place. But if they did, they would get broken up.

Short term question is whether Walmart will survive, I hope they do much as I despise the company. Amazon needs competitors. Longer term is will it be Alibaba vs Amazon worldwide? Interesting times...
In my limited experience, no. All of the languages you mention put developer experience above portability, so usually require a basic runtime. C on the other hand is not interested in saving you from the machine, which allows for extremely minimal programs. Even C++ isn't great here compared to C. Then again, debugging segfaults isn't for everyone, so most are fine giving up C.
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There isn't any deeper philosophy behind what I said, it has nothing to do with how things "really are".

Just go categorize some stuff and see what happens. Is a bottle cap a "coin"? In some cases, sure that could be. In others, not at all.
Stations within the same grid are in sync, plus or minus propagation delays. When a newly started up station wants to connect to the grid, it has to get its generators in sync with the rest of the grid before being switched in. (See wikipedia entry for Synchrocope.)

Once the generators are switched in, they'll inherently maintain sync, as even if there's too little motive power being supplied by the station's turbines, the difference will be made up by the power grid itself, which will drive the generators round like an electric motor. (Typically this would happen for a brief period after coming online, after which the station would throttle up and start helping to push the generators round.)
May I ask why do you want to learn modern C++?

You should check out Rust, it aims to replace C++ and do a better job in memory management, and developer experience in general (cross-platform compatibility, package management, etc)
I had one. It was horrible, but it looks futuristic.

https://goo.gl/images/kvQzMm

Replaced it with a real keyboard the moment I could.
they had changed the instructions of how to prepare them

Is the quantity now the only difference?
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Even with the splits in the grid, the time lag is still significant, I would think. The western interconnection appears to be 3,700,000 from the corner of Arizona to the corner of British Columbia. The wikipedia article doesn't address the time lag (except perhaps implicitly).
Amazon's business model is built on predatory pricing. Their Cloud business is wholly subsidizing there monopolistic grand plan.
Because it would almost certainly diminish their offensive capabilities.
With that, "yes, you pressed it" beep.
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Read Stroustrup's blue book (The C++ Programming Language 4th edition); chapter 1 will teach you a LOT.

Then read Meyer's Effective modern C++.

And then have a local copy of cppreference.com (they provide a zip you can download) and set yourself some projects.
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>WTO sanctions needs to be implemented until China starts to respect the rules that every other country follows

Devil's advocate: those rules exist to protect the interests of Western countries, not China, and China is a nascent superpower with nuclear weapons, so why should China respect them?
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Geek Squad staff 'paid by FBI' to flag illegal imagery
My favourite story about grid frequency involves Laurence Hammond, who would go on to create the Hammond organ. He was a designer of AC electric motors, and when he formed his own company, among their first products were luxury AC-powered clocks. The trouble was that they didn't keep very good time, because of fluctuations in the grid frequency.

He solved this problem by making gifts of his clocks to executives of the local power companies, and as if by magic, the timekeeping of all his clocks soon improved.
My wife and I have a the simplest, silly "secret" recipe.

Many of her girlfriends don't work and some are really amazing cooks, but my wife who works full time doesn't feel like she has time to bake cookies or make three-bean salad or whatever. She simply knows the best places to pick those things up around town, transfers the food to plastic containers for transport, and labels it with a piece of tape that simply says something like "Paige's chocolate chip cookies".

Even though our friends by now have figured out the "secret" it still makes everyone happy. (Including me. I find cooking for others interesting, but I don't do it much anymore.)
I remember reading an old parable about a woman who always cut off the ends of her meatloaf before serving it. At one point someone asked her why she did that, and she said that her mother had always done it that way. So she went to ask her mother, and got the same answer. The two of them went to the woman’s grandmother who said that the serving plate she cooked the meatloaf was too small, so she cut off the ends to make it fit. I have many doubts that this is true, but also I think it does illustrate a good point about how these things get started.

Most of my family’s “secret” recipes come from a big Soviet cookbook, but adapted for limited availability of products (cooking in Moscow where the book was published was always very different than cooking in Soviet Ukraine).

I actually wonder how many of the Blue Apron/HelloFresh recipes will wind up being “secret family recipes” in a few years.
I'm skeptical too. Keep searching for your "true self" and you may not find anything there. Like a hurricane, it has a name, a shape, tendencies, but can appear and fade away into material substrate. While we might say the hurricane has a personality, it's affected by the conditions around it (wind, temperature, etc...). We get angry when our life is threatened and we get angry when the ego is threatened, but was that upset ego you? Or was it a reflection of shape of the comments directed at it? Who are you?
Cheers cm.

This has actually been fairly clear (if you have exposure to ad buying) since early days, but I've heard relativley little talk of it.

They put a lot of effort into making ad "ROI"easier for advertisers to track at a granual level. Micro1001 will tell you that firms spend upt to that point where marginal spend yields $0 marginal profit. In most markets this is pretty academic. Spending isn't that granual and return isn't that transparent.

In the simple economic model, the assumption is that marginal profit on the 2nd to last dollar spent is more than $0, and the dollar before that is even better. On adwords, it's typically more "efficient." Initially adwords leaned into this, with their "bid-for-ranking" approach. Pay more per click, get more clicks. You could bid to optimize for profit, profitability or volume, as you wished. An 8th place ad might cost a fraction of a 2nd ranked one.

Then, they dropped the RHS ads and focused on getting more clicks to the highest paying advertisers. This has brought adwords close to an on/off decision. There is no more "bid-for-volume" dynamic. The highest bidder takes the whole pie.

Th upshot of all this is that average roi and marginal roi are the same, approaching $0 in competitive markets.

There are a lot of markets where this is completely played out. That is, Google get a cut (anywhere from 10% to 50%) equivalent to the average margin that advertisers earn on whatever they're selling. The advertiser is whoever has the highest margin. Insurance, for example.
> 4) Funds have to pass through taxable events to customer (other than some structures which must pay the tax themselves) -- the taxation doesn't disappear because it's wrapped by another entity. Plus, the prospectus shows that the Coinbase fund will only need to rebalance once a year when it recalculates available supply on Jan 1.

Doesn't that depend on the structure? Mutual Funds pass taxable events but I don't believe Index Funds/ETFs do, since there is an incorporated entity that you own shares in that is making the trades and paying the taxes.
could you explain 5 R01's?
One motivation to learn C÷÷ could be to find a job. Rust looks interesting but C++ is still vastly more popular.
Why is that a problem? Phones have gigs of space.
Mostly because of adoption. Rust is great, but I'm not really into it (subjectively).
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Nice map. Now I understand why TeNNeT (the Dutch semi-state run power transmission/line operator) owns part of and is investing in north Germany since the wind fields basically run directly into the Dutch power grid.

North Cyprus does not surprise me but Crete apparently has no power distribution to speak of or only 50kV lines for transmission.
From Post-WW2 to 90's Gulf War Harley-Davidson built bomb parts in the same factories the bikes were built.

Why are you not outraged about this and saying things like 'Harley assisted the military in killing humans for the past 70 years with metal casings that may be used on your softail?'

I mean why stop at google? The private industry has always been supplying the government with goods and services, some of which go to the military.
I'm not sure I understand your question fully? You write documentation, like you do anything. And configure everything with code, so you can go read it (Terraform, Chef/Puppet/Ansible, etc).
I have served on dozens of NSF computer science funding panels at the small (500k), medium (1.5m), and large (3m) levels. These review panels are not blind, and decisions are based on (a) what problems are explained in the grant, and (b) prior track record and proven expertise in the area.

In my own circumstance and what I know from my colleagues, CS researchers rarely write their best ideas in grants---not because they are afraid the ideas are too bold---but rather because those ideas are often not fully worked out, and nobody wants to just give those away to a review panel full of top-rank scientists who might make connections faster than you!

The problem with "blind review" is that project proposals can rarely be anonymous because just explaining the work and citing the relevant prior work leaks a lot about the possible author. So making review blind can often be an advantage to the higher profile researcher and a disadvantage to the capable but slightly less well known one.

That said, as my own experiment, during my next NSF review, I am going to tear away the first pages of all the proposals, and make my first pass without knowing the authors to see if it makes a difference.
I'm not saying it isn't a problem, only that we need to pick and choose where our dollars go. Is this really a better investment than, say, increased funding for public broadcast programming that might discover this kind of thing in a less directed way? That way you don't end up with yet another obsolete program hanging around costing money when this problem is no longer relevant.

And I think the onus is on the suggester to provide data to prove ROI.
Reading about this for the first time, it sounds like this problem would also apply to the Synchronous grid of Continental Europe [1] discussed in the press release. This is approx 4000km across, and much more if you include Russia (I'm not clear on the extent of the grid). It does not sound like these are split into individual grids.

Maybe active synchronisation solves this, but to my (inexpert) mind the network would still suffer from interferences at various points between power plants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
I think Newsvoice (https://newsvoice.com/app) is written in flutter.
Stupid question, how well would this work on a PDF of a latex document?

This would be great for blind people, as pdfed latex is extremely non-accessable, and I have to email authors of papers to get the original latex from them, which is often lost.
You seem to just be restating the ”myth”.

I think people, especially on HN, like to think of these groups as far more professional than they are. Just look at all the talk of “tradecraft” and “threat actors”.

Empirically, it appears that hackers are simply people. These groups seem to have maybe just one or a handful of talented individuals at their core, and they all have habits they like to return to.
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> transaction costs for miners

So? We're talking about an index by an exchange. I seriously doubt it that they'd actually transact on the blockchain; and if they would, that's just plain stupid, because it only increases costs without any benefit for the investors (who still don't actually own their coins).