skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems aren't unique to PG&E. Any company for which profit is the primary motive, they will seek to minimize costs. And safety is very expensive. Which is why PG&E has been directly implicated in the deaths of over 120 people and made homeless tens of thousands of people only in the last 2 years. I needn't get into why open markets aren't viable for many industries e.g. roads, utilities, water treatment.

Eliminate the profit motive, and the service will be cheaper, safer, and directly accountable to the people. The utility can operate at cost and not jack up rates to pay shareholders or an $8M CEO salary. If there are any profits, they will be funneled directly back into the utility.
In my first visit to Los Angeles, I was amazed to see oil pumps. I had no idea that that was a thing.
On MIPS32, there's a couple fixed RWE mappings in the higher half that the kernel runs out of.
> but APL with some nice little extensions that I dream up at the moment but would never think of implementing.

Does this mean APL without extensions is quite limiting?
Estas interese, ke je Hacker News ĉi tiu afiŝo atingis.

La parolantojn de aliaj lingvoj, preciple la angla-parolantojn mi ne plu kuraĝigas por Esperanton lerni. Estas malŝparo de energio. Anstataŭe, la lingvon mi uzas sen tiu celo.

Bedaŭrinde, mi ne certas se bonan diskuton pri tiu temo ni povas havi ĉi tie. Se estas parolantoj ĉi tie, mi anticipas ke la nivelo malaltas. Espereble, pli fortan diskuton mi povas havi aŭ vidi.

Kompreneble, mi povas konsenti ke fortas Esperanto. Min mem mi farigis kavio. Mi volis scii, se fakte utilas tiu lingvo. Post preskaŭ kvar monatoj, mi konsciis, ke mi pravis. Jes, fakte funkcias Esperanto. Jes, eĉ la plej bizarajn ideojn mi povas esprimi Esperante. Jes, la lingvon mi subtenos en miaj restantaj jaroj.
> Well, actually, if you look up Sex on Wikipedia[1], you’ll see that biologists define sex based on the size of the gametes an organism produces.

Size of the gametes? No. The type of gamete.

> So we technically don’t turn male or female until puberty!

Simply not true. Females are born with their eggs. Males produce sperm at puberty. Also, females don't stop being female at menopause. I'm puzzled by your assertion here.

> But seriously, if you’re going to be correcting folks on the internet using the word “scientifically”, you ought to be a little more accurate about, you know... science.

I thought I was? What about my specific claims do you have a problem with? I just simply stated that we don't all start out as females. Your link and your reply seems to indicate you actually agree with me.

> Unlike a lot of folks’ opinions, the scientific consensus is mostly informed by the real world, so it turns out it’s pretty nuanced.

Yes. I agree. I genuinely confused here. Are you agreeing with me or disagreeing?

> You don’t have to sign up for a Tumblr account to understand that no, male/female does not “scientifically” mean XY/XX.

What?

Listen. All I said was simply that the assertion that "we all start out as female" is scientifically wrong. Either you misread my comment or you misread your wikipedia article, because your article says we don't start out as female.
I think this points to the central idea Hofstadter was trying to communicate. In order to "solve" the puzzle, you have to exit what he calls the "mechanical (m) mode" and think about the puzzle on a different level, the "intelligent (i) mode." The goal was for the reader to try and solve it by realizing blindly applying axioms of the system got nowhere. Proving the puzzle is impossible requires a mode of thinking analogous to Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
As a New Zealander I like the sound of this. But wounder why the others would be interested. While we are safe New Zealand is such a small place with such a small population I doubt having easy movement here would be on the radar of many in the U.K. or Canada and Australian's already have a pretty easy path over here.
In my opinion, the internet did develop into a weird place. There's a plethora of [1] weird communities and people are still [2] experimenting and chucking stuff up on the internet to see what others think.

It doesn't seem that weird anymore, because people have clustered into major sites like Youtube, Reddit, Facebook .... but this was inevitable as people would rather be part of a large community than fracture off into isolated forums like the old days.

It's not that hard to find something weird online ...

[1] http://boards.4chan.org/b/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/show
The state taking over anything eliminates all incentives. That's often worse than just attempting to fix the misaligned incentives with harsher fines.
Reverse engineering modern CPUs
What language do you believe can live on both sides of the hill? Haskel?
Yes. Those are all processes that are “embarrassingly parallel” workloads. You can just point lambda to a queue for instance and it will automatically scale based on workload. When nothing is in the queue, you’re not paying for resources just to poll an empty queue.
What solved it for me was my partner. She wanted a kid (I was 41, she was 36), I just kind of went with it - screaming inside - but when she was born everything changed. That was a few years ago now and I'm still coming to terms with it. Just let it happen.

I never thought I'd have kids, but the right woman will overrule you. It's a much better experience than I thought, and sure, there are days when I think - this wasn't a great idea - but once your child is born, you're programmed to care for it - and it's nowhere as bad as I thought it would be.
> Rust, not being an object-oriented language, doesn't quite do inheritence like the others. In C++ or Java, subclasses extend superclasses. In Rust, structs implement traits.

I wouldn't say that Rust isn't object oriented. It just takes a different approach to some things. Inheritance isn't really a strictly required feature of the object oriented code design. Many for instance pointed out, that composition is preferable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance
Sufficiently amplified hubris is indistinguishable from malice.
Iron / Vitamin D / and maybe Magnesium (this one is still new for me and I can't find a good way to get it. What's a good brand for this?) is always my first check for whenever I fall into a slump.

If you are depressed/whatever always check your stats if you haven't already (i.e., take a blood test, check your vitamins). Maybe it won't help, but better get that out of the way because those things can make a dramatic difference.

I'm continually amazed at how many people on a host of antidepressants never done any kind of test with their GP.
Exactly my thoughts. Lately I've been using the intoxication metaphor because most people can relate to it. I use it by asking... "Could you explain the feeling of severe intoxication to someone who's never experienced it?" Would they truly understand?

Of course not. It's impossible.

The same is true of severe depression. Your entire state of mind is altered in a way you have very little control over. It's impossible to relate to it unless you've been there.

Along the same lines, you can't tell a depressed person to "just be positive" any more than you can tell a drunk person to "just sober up". I mean you can, and they can superficially appear to do so, but it's unsustainable in any meaningful way.
I read it in art school (swiped from my then-girlfriend's bookshelf), and it was nice to have a connection between my school of art weirdos and putting myself through the same school by teaching myself software engineering. I distinctly remembering writing a Perl script to highlight that the Mu puzzle is unsolvable.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my %tried = ();

main();

sub main {

my @rules = (
\&rule_one,
\&rule_two,
\&rule_three,
\&rule_four,
);

my $axiom = 'MI';

my @path;
my @tries;

solve($axiom, \@rules);
}

sub solve {

my @app;

my ($axiom, $rules) = @_;
my $i = 0;

foreach(@$rules){
my $tmp = $_->($axiom);
push(@app, $tmp) if $tmp;
}

foreach(@app){

next if $tried{$_};
next unless (length($_) < 1000);

print $_ . "\n";

$tried{$_} = 1;

if($_ eq 'MU'){
print "YES!\n\n\n";
exit;
}
solve($_, $rules);
}

}

sub rule_one {
# If any string ends in I, you can append U

my $str = shift;

if ($str =~ m/I$/){
return $str . 'U';
}else{
return undef;
}
}

sub rule_two {
# If any string begins with M,
# you can duplicate the string after M,

my $str = shift;

if($str =~ /^M/){
return 'M' . substr($str, 1) . substr($str, 1);
}else{
return undef;
}
}

sub rule_three {
# If any string contains III,
# you can replace the III with U

my $str = shift;
if($str =~ /III/){
$str =~ s/III/U/g;
return $str;
}else{
return undef;
}
}

sub rule_four {
#If any string contains UU,
# you can delete the UU

my $str = shift;

if($str =~ /UU/){
$str =~ s/UU//g;
return $str;
}else{
return undef;
}
}
The modern terms for these is "direct democracy" and "representative democracy". Furthermore, insofar as the ability to decide things by voting is constrained by the constitution, it's a "constitutional democracy".

There are many countries in the world that fulfill all these criteria without being republics. Canada would be the closest example - they have a constitution that limits democratic decision making, and they have people elect representatives rather than deciding on issues directly. But they're not a republic, solely because they have a monarch.
Donald Trump is President of the USA, a dead pimp was elected to the Nevada state senate, and there is a red sportscar in a cometary solar orbit. Based on data points like these I predict DOGE will become the one world global currency. The singLOLarity (the point at which silliness goes to infinty) is near.
Well part of it is also that any X-linked traits are more likely to tend dominant with the back-up copy. Look at colorblindness for one. Women would need a 'bad' gene on both Xs. A man would lack a backup copy on the Y and thus only needs one for it to express.
The unlearning myth is nonsense. Anyone in any sort of state-of-the-art field learns new things constantly, and the more you learn, the broader and better you are. The question isn’t one of order, but of what you should go deep into. With limited time, you can only go deep into two or three things in CS. This is, of course, partly a matter of taste and partly a practical matter, but I don’t believe that python wouldn’t be on anyone’s list for wasting time in depth.
>they will seek to minimize costs. And safety is very expensive

If that were true, we wouldn't have private airlines because planes would be falling out of the sky every day and nobody would fly.

Increase fines for negligence or make sure they can be sued (IIRC California makes it difficult to sue PGE) if you want to fix the problem. Don't do something as stupid as making it government run so it either becomes extremely expensive, extremely unstable, and/or a tax burden for the state.

>Eliminate the profit motive, and the service will be cheaper, safer, and directly accountable to the people.

Eliminate the profit motive and nobody will be incentivized to improve anything. This will likely make it much more expensive in the long term. The military has no profit motive either and they spend money like it grows on trees.
If you rewrote [3] to use cleaner variable naming, perhaps the readability would improve?
We call it "representative democracy".

But it's usually redundant, because all modern democracies are representative. Some have more direct democracy features than others (e.g. Switzerland, or some western US states with their public initiative process), but they're still fundamentally representative.
Cool! I have been pretty ignorant about this history and didn't realize that the Infocom z-machine was working from prior art (the UCSD p-machine).
I'm guessing that this wouldn't have unfolded the way it did had they not greased the necessary palms from the outset.
Oddly, the US airline industry is regulated, safe, and makes a good profit. These things are not at odds with each other.
Until there is direct DOM access within WebAssembly, the overhead of calling back and forth to JS will prevent wider adoption and ditching JS for Web development.
Another important distinction is that, under the law, accounts can be either a demand deposit account (typical bank accounts like checking or savings) or a brokerage account. They can't be both. As the name suggests, Financial institutions _must_ allow customers to withdrawal some or all of the funds in a demand deposit account at any time, without penalty and without requiring prior notice. Because of the time it takes for the settlement of securities transactions brokerage accounts don't have the same obligations. If you put $100 in a traditional checking account and you need it today you have the right to access it immediately (assuming the bank is open). If you put $100 in a Robinhood account and you need it today you might have to wait three.

When Robinhood calls a product a "checking" account that fundamental concept of immediate access to your money is implied to consumers but looking at their site there are all kinds of restrictions around dollar amount and frequency of withdrawals.
Yes, it is unjust and simply bad economic policy to allow a company to privatize profits yet socialize losses.
> > Can you give a cold war example of America effecting who ran russia that is as dramatic as the Trump story in the other direction?

> Yelzin.

That's...not a Cold War example.
Being in the company of your child's family is indispensable in late old age(part of life when one is physically and mentally incapable of excising things OP mentioned). Joy that old folks gets by spending time with grandchildren is irreplaceable. Witnessing the daily life of child's family and being part of it is excellent for psychological health, helps mind stay in present and not drift back to past or other unnecessary worries.

What your child feels about you staying with them is something that you inculcate in them when they are young. If you didn't bother sharing space with your parents in the time of there need then your child won't either.
Everything old is new again after everything new becomes old again
>In only a few billion years, half the planet may be gone.

Is that really record speed?
As noted by @asanwal[0] this can be seen as both deceptive and smart. Here's the reality - when you get a $6B valuation, you are accepting VC-fueled growth fate, which means you are on a tightrope to grow at all costs. It's a gamble, but if executed successfully will lead to exponential growth and thus outsized investment returns.

Here's my personal problem - there is much needed punitive damages for this type of behavior. Until we have people in power that understand why these situations (deceptive advertising) are problems, then, well, let's be honest, we're gonna see the Wild West flourish full of cowboys and Indians.

[0] - https://twitter.com/asanwal/status/1073945507100270592
Curious, how did you reconcile your peripatetic lifestyle with having children? Schooling and making friends would seem to be a challenge?
the quote is from the mid-90s
And full of such amazing utility, such as:

"
CLSRSC-00009: No value passed as OLR locations

Cause: No value was passed as OLR locations.

Action: None
"
Then you’ve superficially answered the literal questions without actually getting at the underlying point.

The point is this: if I help them, how can I ensure that this help goes towards things like preventing other countries from obtaining nuclear weapons, and not blowing up weddings?
Wow, we don't quite know what autism is (don't know if it is a spectrum or a set of separate conditions) therefore it becomes possible to assign the label to almost every condition. I think that's amazing.
Microtik has a “bugfix” security update channel that can be selected in their routers mgmt interface. They also provide a “current/stable” channel which delivers new features.
The Sword and the Shield
Ask HN: Must a company be a Corporation to award equity?
Are the only types of corporate structures that allow equity allocation Corporations? Or would this type of offer work with LLCs?
Give swimming a shot? Low impact, highly technical (which makes it fun), and a great workout.
No human is perfect and people inevitably make mistakes. Including big mistakes.

Imagine this scenario. You created something very complicated that you're proud of. You spent a lot of time on it and your integrity and reputation rely on this thing you built.

Little did you know that what you built could be done in a way that is easier and 10x better. The foundation of your reputation is in shambles. What would you do?

I can tell you what I've seen from experience. The very people who tell you that bias doesn't affect them or complain about how politics always trumps technical problems are the very people who will FOLD when the same problem hits them in the face. No one is perfect and there will be a time that this happens to most people... a time when that person will be utterly and completely wrong about something they've advocated for so long.

It's trivial, easy and immature to advertise and complain about the weaknesses in other people. I want to see a blogpost about a programmer coming to terms with their own grave mistakes... their own imperfection.

Once you realize how hard is to do that, then you will know know what to do when this problem infects your work place. First and foremost you must introduce change without hurting peoples' pride. You must be empathetic and take into consideration how other people will feel if you try to pick them apart. If you take steps to do that, people will return the favor in kind. If you attack the scaffolds supporting the reputation of your peers, expect everything that you've built to be attacked as well. Remember. No one is perfect.

The original poster is as responsible for creating a toxic work place as the people he's complaining about. I'd bet he'd react the same way if the tables were turned.
When May worked at Intel, the IC's would encounter unexplained state changes from time to time.

He looked into it - and eventually realized the problem was the ceramic/clay semiconductor packaging was slightly radioactive, causing single event upsets. Intel switched to less alpha-heavy packaging, plastic, and the problem went away. That's impressive debugging!

I knew him more from his cryptography and privacy work (and his curmudgeonly Usenet posts on how downtown Santa Cruz was going down the drain, in his opinion), but this feat always impressed me.
Turn Down for What Solved with Python
> If you are actually taking advantage of all of the features of sql server or Oracle

I doubt any real world application comes anywhere close to doing that. Heck, I’d be mildly surprised if any real world enterprise, considering all their apps together, does that for either SQL Server or Oracle.
Maybe better titled "JVM's Forgotten Forebear"
Hotmail was FreeBSD on the front end until it switched to Windows IIS in an ISAPI filter. The back end was Sun E4500 with T3 purple storage. Then they switched to HP with some terrible RAID crap.

Messenger was borne from the Net Meeting team in an informal weekend hackathon (before that was a thing). Backend stored the buddy lists and was 3 Hotmail ustores (Sun E4500 with EMC clariion storage). Front ends started out as Sun 420R then switched to Windows bit by bit (DP, SB, and then CS and PS). The Messenger HTTP gateway always ran in IIS.
As explained to you in another HN post. HN makes their money via their margin accounts aka Robinhood Gold, and by selling their order flow, like many other brokerages do. It results in better execution for the clients (like myself) and a tighter spread. If it means I get a better price and someone else gets first dibs at the buy or sell side, I honestly don't care. You can use limits if you worry about getting "ripped off by the man".
Sun Tries to Jump on iPhone Bandwagon with JPhone (2007)
https://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/how_to_explain_the_kgbs_ama...
> there is much needed punitive damages for this type of behavior

I'm a fan of Robinhood. But this calls for more than a slap on the wrist. Not punishing someone misrepresenting their FDIC or SIPC insurance status is a horrible precedent. Not only does it show a green light to scammers. It also corrodes the protective, anti-run value these programs provide to depositors and investors.
> I think I read someone claim that the early JVM was very close to the p-machine

Looking at P-code descriptions, I can't say it resembles JVM bytecode all that much. It seems to be somewhat more low-level.

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/pascal/book/10pcode.html
Major brand or company pivots that were successful
After “Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón Went Home to Make “Roma”
Between their enormous scandal in South Africa, the rather reprehensible work in Saudi Arabia that likely got some dissidents killed and all of this, it does feel like many shoes are yet to drop. The article details some pretty obvious conflicts of interest that are simply not viewed as such:

"McKinsey says it has no knowledge of any collusion between China and Mr. Najib. It said that of course it would discuss China’s sweeping Belt and Road plans but rejected the notion that, by representing both sides involved in the project, the company had a conflict of interest in any way."

As with Silicon Valley, their model requires recruiting reasonably talented and intelligent people on a regular basis. I suspect that, if anything, may be the most at risk from the behavior these articles are highlighting.
Not affiliated in anyway, just a happy customer.

I buy quite a few things from iherb.com, their shipping from California to Tasmania is quite swift, and they sell a brand called Now Foods which seem to consistently have what I want at the best price.

Any of the magnesium glycinate, citrate, orotate, here https://www.iherb.com/c/Magnesium should be okay. You just want to avoid magnesium oxide, it's poorly absorbed and causes water retention in the guy, possibly leading to loose bowels.

Here in Australia we're lucky to have a few brands that do good magnesium gylcinate / citrate / orotate powders with cofactors - a few B vitamins, but especially B6, folate, B12.

One good way to lose yourself in this is to start with The Nutrient Bible by Henry Osiecki.
Uhhh...malicious website?
Has Robinhood here slipped up multiple times like this? I'm asking as someone who's only heard of the product, never tried it, doesn't look remarkably interesting to me/doesn't fill a financial need I have, never gave it much thought aside from this latest fuss.
Janet Airline – the highly classified passenger fleet operated for the USAF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4
But when he started that 29 year journey it was commonly accepted that the pension would be there.

The problem simply stated is that after WW-2 with our competitors countries destroyed we were in a bubble for 29 years. But no one realized we were in a bubble, it was just assumed that's how it would always be.

I graduated from university in 1974 just as it hit. There have been peaks since then but the overall trend has been down at least in the Midwest.

One of the reasons I became an entrepreneur was that I alone was responsible for my success or failure not some outside force.
Yes, Java was a whole product, and that was a great thing. Also: helpful error messages.

But was your choice to learn Java somehow related to it being popular in industry?

More so in the past, portability - meaning not being locked-in to a specific vendor who could then screw you - was a big deal in industry. Today, there's much less heterogeneity (x86, ARM and...?).

Part of Oracle's pitch for their database was that they ported it to different machines, so users weren't locked in (even if they didn't actually use it on different machines).