skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PGE has been fucking consumers forever. The fact that it's a publicly traded company is disgusting. It should be siezed by the state and provide service at break even.they have a history of public boondoggles going back to the hetch hetchy free water for copper deal..
My employer paid for part of my graduate school tuition. They structured it as a deferred loan, and then forgave the principal after I stayed for two years.
The limiting factor contributing to the total amount of fire is the growth of trees. Naturally it'll happen due to lightning. If that's less often than human triggers, the fires will be bigger.
I'm basically pro-universal healthcare at this point in some way, shape or form, but the one thing I don't understand is the role of private insurance companies in the aftermath.

They can't really just... disappear. People have jobs there, and stockholders own investments in these companies. You'd have to answer to a significant amount of people.

I feel like we've effectively enmeshed private interests so deeply into the US healthcare system that I don't know what it would look like without it.

>My personal opinion is that people are too selfish (I guess?) to even consider free healthcare as an option.

I believe that a significant amount of people in the US are too selfish to pay their taxes, let alone for universal healthcare, no matter what long-term figures you show them, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And 5 ½ years later, I'm still waiting for a paper or at least a video recording of the talk[1].

Maybe he did manage to "unify the twin geometries (Riemannian and Ehresmannian) thought to ground the two most fundamental physical theories (General Relativity and the so-called Standard Model of particle theory respectively)" [2] - he does have the necessary mathematical background; but making grand claims while keeping silent about the actual content makes you look like a fraud or an ass...

[1] https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/339742655296716800

[2] https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/eweinstein
I carefully chose a phone supporting NFC as well. But then installed LineageOS and, as it turns out, it now does not pass Google's SafetyNet test and Google Pay refuses to work.

Does the phone need to pass SafetyNet to use a Yubikey over NFC with it?
Without protection function pointers themselves, this only covers a small part of the issue.

I'm more interested in seeing how CPI and CPS pans out in the end:

https://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/cpi.pdf
Tangential to this discussion, but given that you're a Fitbit employee...

Do you have any particular insight as to why Fitbit still doesn't support the Apple Watch at all?

I've made my choice of wearable (mostly due to forgetting to take my Charge HR off when going swimming) and don't particularly want to be in a fitness-tracker-akimbo situation again.

The primary value proposition of the Fitbit app (to me) is the social/competition aspect. MobileTrack clocks in anywhere between 2000-9000 steps/day short compared to my watch or my old Fitbit (as I don't carry my phone everywhere I go).

I guess this might not be totally tangential to the sibling thread that followed, as I guess the reason is my activity data isn't valuable enough to Fitbit as a business, which relies primarily on equipment sales?

Eitherway, I'd love to keep using the Fitbit app. The competitions, the badges, they're all great, and way better than the Apple Watch's social/competition functions. Unfortunately, the rest of the product lineup no longer appeals now that I have the AW.
Wow! Same. Replaced a Mac book pro with a Pixel book use for development and could not be happier. Also use Crostini.

Ultimately the cloud is gnu/linux and OS x is close but not the same.
Using Neon Wallet with Ledger Nano S
I ask because I can't find anything about the "money for nothing" aspect. From the contemporaneous news articles, I see there was a lawsuit with Illinois over merger conditions. Governments don't typically give "money for nothing" for a merger in a regulated industry--regulatory bodies basically have veto authority over the merger (they can blow the whole thing up by denying transfer of various licenses) and use that power to extract various concessions.

I mean it could be some other program, of course. I'm just trying to figure out the history.
Bringing email back to life, I love that! I’ve been using email since it came out and nowadays everywhere I go i see kids chatting and liking and commenting and snapchatting… I feel like a dinosaur when i’m with my students. I don’t think they will use it though, but I must say the concept sounds great if it allows me to still use email but also chat with others. And I agree - email is not going away. Every item that is official or ‘formal’ still needs to be sent over email as a proof of reference and it's good to see someone is thinking about changing it instead of replacing it.
Reprogrammed Stem Cells Implanted into Patient with Parkinson's Disease
Research into vessel liners is ongoing and promising. 7-X is getting carbon-carbon, JET has an upgrade going in about now. It's a materials-engineering challenge, but not a showstopper.
You think there’s an infinite number of people who have dropped out? Otherwise it’s still limited isn’t it?
Discovered Slate last night while evaluating Draft.js for building the rich text editing experience of our WYSIWYG editor.

After running into some issues with Draft.js’ [1] Flow types, and going deep into the GitHub repo looking for solutions, I concluded that the project wasn’t receiving enough support from Facebook to invest in it. [2][3]

After discovering Slate from one of the issues, I was extremely impressed with its documentation and well designed API. The plugin system is so good it even gives me some ideas on how to design our WYSIWYG’s API.

And for people that don’t use React, while there aren’t any official plugins for other libraries yet, the source [4] is so readable that making one wouldn’t be hard at all. I’m sure contributions would be accepted for a Vue plugin, Angular plugin, or even a vanilla plugin. In the React plugin there’s a DOM plugin used already! [5]

Ian did an amazing job! Thought it was worth sharing.

[1] https://draftjs.org

[2] https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/1193

[3] https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/tree/master/meta/meetin...

[4] https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/tree/master/packages...

[5] https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/blob/master/packages...
Japan's cybersecurity minister has never used computer
Ask HN: My employer wants to use my side-project in a tender. What should I do?
Over the last couple of months, I have worked on a side-project that my employer seems to like so much that they want to develop it further and use it in a public tender.

From a product perspective, this sounds great: more resources will be invested what could result in a better end-product.

However, I already put a lot of work into this project so I am not sure how to proceed.

Should I sell the project to them? This would mean that I wont have ownership anymore. Or should I make the project open-source, so I can still benefit from the added resources in case the tender fails?
Behind the Tech: How Does Siri, Alexa or Google Home Respond to Your Questions?
Bridging the gap between Python and Jupyter
It sounds cool, but hard to picture and more people are hesitant to install extensions these days for security reasons.

I bet if you added a really short video that showed a couple operations being done, you could pick up a lot more mind share and interest, even if the video were only 15 seconds or so, like a quick screen capture.

Someone mentioned https://pagemagic.io, i’m not much familiar with them either, but they have a good example of this kind of video on their homepage.

They seem more productized, while this seems more is more of a project, but you get the same effect of reducing friction to get people taking a deeper look, by only taking a few minutes of your time.
I think it's weird in this case that the methodology on each side is so drastically different. IMHO, the missing piece is clear rules on how to compare large crappy properties that only warehouse stores are interested in... Everyone used to agree on methodology but now the large chains are changing their minds.

Similar to the Amazon HQ2 saga, providing tax breaks to these companies isn't worth it in the long run; that practice should probably cease.
Nah. The irony is that while staying private, being combative with governments and relying on independent contractors to operate their business allowed them to reach this size, it also prevents them from having any leverage to ask for a bailout. No jobs to save. No retail investors to protect. No switching costs. No feel-good story for a politician to get behind.

If Uber fails it'll get parceled up by the remaining players in a heartbeat, either by selling parts of itself (at best) or everyone just switching.
Funny typo, I think you mean exacerbated.
In Germany, the ratio is about 16:1 (https://m.phys.org/news/2009-01-men-higher-women-chess-biolo...). But even with these odds, the chance of picking 20 men in a row is quite small, about 20%.

So that leaves us with the more controversial answers. I havent done any research, so I couldnt tell you which it is, bias or genetics. If I had to guess, I would say genetics. I mean, its a game about spatial patterns.

But I dont know why people still consider chess to be a good measure of general intelligence. Its not. The newest bot learned how to be better than our centuries of chess knowledge in about 30 mins, but the robot isnt at all intelligent in any general sense.
I tried WebAssembly for the first time and here are my thoughts
That 99PI episode was one of their best. The image of a mudslide happening because of denuded mountains was terrifying.

I’m reading antifragile right now and he’s talking about systems which improve with a certain amount of volatility and stress. It seems forests are “antifragile” on their own, and our efforts may in fact introduce fragility.
This is a problem.
It looks like silicon valley is colluding to keep out competition.
It wouldn't surprise me either, remember the wage fixing
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/80014970-132.html
Who exactly is performing the "sabotage" here? The CIA? Microsoft? SJWs?
Most higher-level languages simply perform bounds checks rather than relying on canaries for safety. Although they can be combined, if your canaries are hit it means your HLL isn’t doing a good enough job of enforcing bounds.
What’s in a Name? The Potential for Students to Self-Advocate
So typically burying a cable at HV or EHV is an order of magnitude more expensive than overheads. Underground cables are also prone to thermal issues (ironically) so I don't know that you'd be reducing fire risk as much as you'd think.

Much of the ignition risk comes from transformer explosions, air-insulated CB arcs, and line-to-tree arcs.

Transformer explosions are inherently harder to isolate from flammable material in the American distribution system design than they would be in a European 240v system, that's because the US system has to keep LV (110v) runs short so has extensive HV networks with pole-mounted transformers feeding a small number of properties each. 240v systems can tolerate longer LV runs and use larger pad-mounted distribution transformers with about 20x the power rating of American style pole-mount transformers.

In the Euro configuration, you therefore have many fewer transformers which have a least a fence around them with regular vegetation control within it. You can also put these transformers within enclosures. A typical UK rural/suburban arrangement has the transformer air cooled and outside within a fence with breakers and distribution boards inside a brick or GRP hut inside the fence. In urban areas the whole thing is enclosed in its own structure or in the basement of a building.

Anyway you can't do that with American transformers as there are more of them. These will therefore always be an ignition risk. Yes you can step up planned replacement of older models, be more aggressive about keeping the load per transformer down to lengthen lifetime and reduce fault risk but fundamentally they are a risk.

You can replace air insulated CBs with gas-insulated models at significant expense, that will reduce that risk.

Burying cables as I said is horrifically expensive but you could increase the size of the vegetation-cleared right of way around the overheads and step up the clearance schedule.

None of these will remove every source of ignition.
>Finally a respected economist

Also the guy who ran the bank/AIG bailout program.
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This exactly is what's likely to happen.

Note also: PG&E is already being sued for allegedly causing last fall's devastating fires in northern California. That plus damages for this year's fires is very likely to force them into bankruptcy.

Hence a plunging stock price as everyone rushes to get out while they still can.
There's always a tradeoff between convenience and security, but I'm relatively unworried about someone, say, breaking into my bank compared to someone spoofing my phone number.
Profits over country.
I remember seeing "leaders" in the Vancouver tech industry talk about a labour shortage and thought the same thing [1]. Given the cost of housing and the salaries Vancouver companies are willing to pay, it's not a mystery why there is an exodus from Van. Pay up buttercup.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/bc-technology-lea...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta is open to customers
PG&E apparently[1] has a project to improve the infrastructure in some areas. They are replacing the existing 12kVA lines with insulated 15kVA lines that still carry 12kVA service. This should provide a larger margin for transient problems and protect against some types of arcing. They are also retrofitting some poles so they hold the individual cables farther apart.

However, the real problem is trees/etc growing too close to the lines, compounded by the extra dry drought conditions throughout CA. Regardless of the type of cable or other technical safety features, power lines are always going to be a fire hazard if they don't receive regular inspection and maintenance. The lesson from these fires is that the existing maintenance schedule is severely inadequate.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2nWuZ8J0Go
That should read, “It’s literally impossible to say that Google doesn’t try to control or limit...”

(It’s too late for me to edit my comment.)
> This is not some trivial web application, it's a federated social network

To be fair, its cousin Pleroma is comparatively easy to install
It happened where I did some work - the wiley employees said 'fine, but then you also cannot retrench us in the same period.'

The policy was quietly dropped.
Link please.

But yes, of the housing available in the market, tiny. But there's plenty of housing held off the market.
The company will pay for nothing. Its a powerco not a mint. Their only significant revenue stream is electric bills (pole rental for telco fiber optics, pole rental for cable TV cables, all small amounts of money)

What we have here is a decision between one group of accountants getting electricity users to pay, vs a different group of accountants getting taxpayers to pay. The fraction of the population that are net positive taxpayers is much smaller than the fraction of the population that uses electricity, so in a democracy it would be surprising NOT to see the people deciding the few people who are net positive taxpayers will get the bill. The large chunk of the population that pay electric bills while being net negative taxpayers are not going to volunteer to pay more.
"When elephants dance, the grass gets trampled."—African proverb
> why didn't rationality kill off this debate?

Because half of the world has an IQ under 100 and it takes about an IQ of 120 to have a small chance of thinking about these ideas rationally.

There are still people who are way smarter than that who believe Zombie Jesus was real and thus being gay is evil. So progress is hard.
Confirming what sane people already knew - that the reflex answer of "Russian hackers" has always been bogus.
It's a shame because of the topic seems fascinating but I couldn't read past the first paragraph. Maybe it's because I'm on my phone and somewhat distracted but the article seems very badly written.
That book was a wake up call, for sure.
HRE's 3D-printed titanium wheels are basically witchcraft
You're off by at least a factor of 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens#Age_and_speciatio...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169128/

Abstract

Women remain significantly underrepresented in the science, engineering, and technology workforce. Some have argued that spatial ability differences, which represent the most persistent gender differences in the cognitive literature, are partly responsible for this gap. The underlying forces at work shaping the observed spatial ability differences revolve naturally around the relative roles of nature and nurture. Although these forces remain among the most hotly debated in all of the sciences, the evidence for nurture is tenuous, because it is difficult to compare gender differences among biologically similar groups with distinct nurture. In this study, we use a large-scale incentivized experiment with nearly 1,300 participants to show that the gender gap in spatial abilities, measured by time to solve a puzzle, disappears when we move from a patrilineal society to an adjoining matrilineal society. We also show that about one-third of the effect can be explained by differences in education. Given that none of our participants have experience with puzzle solving and that villagers from both societies have the same means of subsistence and shared genetic background, we argue that these results show the role of nurture in the gender gap in cognitive abilities.

Conclusion

Our paper shows that the gender gap in spatial abilities in the task that we study interacts with culture. In the matrilineal society, we observe no gender difference in this task. These results show that nurture plays an important role in the gender gap in spatial abilities. Our results also indicate that providing equal education and improving treatment of women at the family level may make a difference; however, this implication should be taken with a grain of salt, because causality cannot be ascertained. Nevertheless, the implications for both policymakers and ordinary people interested in reducing the gender gap cannot be overstated: reducing the gender gap in spatial abilities may reduce the gender gap in the science, engineering, and technology workforce. It is worth mentioning that our results do not provide evidence against the role of nature.
Ssh'ing into China AWS boxes is like 300 baud modem days born again. I work across from people trying to setup AWS China infrastructure and the curse words fly with alacrity and frequency.
A counterpoint might be that binding private enterprise by strict liability rules might coerce it to be extra cautious not to cut corners that lead to fires -- as opposed to a state owned company which might have less to fear from lax practices.

Although, it's debatable how avoidable starting fires is in the bone-dry tinderbox of 21st-century California, even if you stick closely to best practices.
Become a Digital Nomad in Bali
Toronto (and Canada overall) is also in the midst of housing bubble. Both location Amazon picked are cheaper - ponder this for a moment. Source: live in Toronto and looking at moving south due to housing. Not willing to buy a dump for 1 million, Toronto is not THAT good.
If they're walking 2 or 3 miles daily or most days they're more active than most in their age group.
I too learned of Wain due to the alleged madness pics - I've also read (no sources handy) that the theory's been pretty hardily debunked.

Found some interesting things about him, though, he organized a supper for the London Cat's Meat Men (that was an actual job in old London). I think there's actually audio or film of him as well.
I know you say this statement in sarcasm but I'd like to explore this world.

If minimum wage was $35/hr I bet quite a few things would happen.

Entrenched, successful businesses would support the change. Their competition struggle to afford competing. Businesses will close down, further entrenching the competition.

Jobs will disappear. Just like how the wage hike for New York car washers displaced workers though automation, many businesses will have an even higher economic incentive to replace workers with automation solutions.

Some jobs just won't pull in enough to make it worth it. Why pay someone $74,000/yr to take orders at a restaurant when you can pay for a $50,000 and ~$20,000/yr in maintenance.

Young workers will be out competed by older workers. If you're paying $35/hr, you want the best bang for your buck. Why take a risk on some 16 year old when you have retired 56 year olds who would be willing to pay for their medication working fast food. Or heck, why go into engineering when a basic job gets you above average pay? Where will the younger generation get a chance to develop the soft skillset that allows for future success in their careers?

Naturally, I'm failing to consider the long term economic effects. For example; harder earned skillsets will be paid much more than low skillsets. If the supply chain is paying massively for a work force, then the price of goods & services will go up dramatically. It's harder to puzzle this sort of stuff out!
Completely agree. 'Climate change' is just something thrown around now for people and their political units to abdicate responsibility for their own actions. 'Climate change' didn't force people to build housing in California forests and right on Florida beaches, local land-use, urban planning and transportation decisions did.
> And they get up with the sun because it tends to set pretty sharply after 12 hours.

exactly, tropical sun makes you rise early too, which is quite nice. We're really animals tied to sun cycles etc.

Also being around nature makes you lock in its rhythm too. Rain, insects, animals.. it's such a different feeling I can't really describe it. It has no meaning, just tree waving, rivers flowing but you feel happy moving along.

I can't say I could live all year long on an island, because I was born and raised near Paris so.. if pains me a little not to see it. But I know I feel very different on this island.
Alpha Micro (a 68K platform with a strong DEC influence common in certain vertical markets in the 80s and 90s) systems did this as well. Some of their systems could even boot from VHS.

https://ampm.floodgap.com/
That’s obvious and also completely unrelated to what I was saying.

The optimizer can convert a library type to a builtin type if it still behaves as specified in the standard.
Absolutely nothing, and both the city and the department have refused to release his name (though it's gone public regardless) or discuss him at all. IIRC, the police chief's statement made it clear that neither the officer nor the department was to blame for anything.

Which means this is going to keep happening. There's no incentive to change behavior on the individual level, or training on the department level.
"Simple logic dictates..."

Ahhh, but you assume the legislative body governing 30M people can resort to simple logic :)
VA’s $16B E-Health Record Overhaul Is Already $350M Over Budget
And there, as here, the police refused to accept any responsibility for their actions.
Articles on Bloomberg about this already on who pays if they are found liable for huge amounts of damages, ratepayers, shareholders, taxpayers or bondholders. Likely to be a combination of all four in some amount, if the worse comes to happen.
Until they're outsourced.
In short, not even enough for a pilot study. Why did they even bother publishing it?