skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect to PG&E and the CPUC, no, they did not.

The best practice is to install substation equipment that prevents enormous current from flowing through a phase-to-ground fault. Petersen coils and similar devices do this, and they appear to be reasonably widespread in Europe.

Heck, suppose PG&E turns off power during high wind events. Do they even have the required equipment to avoid starting a fire if a line fell and is still on the ground after the wind stops when they turn power back on? This type of equipment exists.
The whole movie is made by Blender? What was the pitfall? Is there any dev blog I can read?
Keep in mind that this salary for the US do not count in healthcare and pension that the UK nurse is entitled to. I know it may feel like a nitpick, but it does make a huge difference when you add that cost of living.
I think the larger point still stands. It's my understanding that most fruit you eat these days is clones of the exact same source.

In fact, many varieties of apples are completely unable to reproduce by seed, only by clone. It's cool that we've made these cool hybrids, but it seems like nobody is thinking about the systemic environmental risk.
> This happens in India all the time with King Cobras and I know they can't afford 46,000.

Your larger point notwithstanding, it's important to remember that overall cost of living in India is lower as well. So hospitals are inherently cheaper to run.
Well, the license to the publisher may have, but the license from the publisher to the consumer is perpetual, and subject to the first sale doctrine.
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hate to be so nitpicking, but the whole idea of GUI had been around before Xerox and articulated by folks like Jef Raskin who later started the Mac project at Apple[1]:

> "My thesis in Computer Science, published in 1967, argued that computers should be all-graphic, that we should eliminate character generators and create characters graphically and in various fonts, that what you see on the screen should be what you get, and that the human interface was more important than mere considerations of algorithmic efficiency and compactness. This was heretical in 1967, half a decade before PARC started. Many of the basic principles of the Mac were firmly entrenched in my psyche. By the way, the name of my thesis was the "Quick-Draw Graphics System", which became the name of (and part of the inspiration for) Atkinson's graphics package for the Mac."

so yeah, Jobs might have seen the demonstration of it for the first time in his 1979 visit to PARC, but the creator of the Mac Raskin who was already working on Macintosh had already published such "heretic" idea as early as 1967. So no, it's not similar to what Huawei does.

[1] https://apple-history.com/gui_raskin1
> 30-something years

28 years. It is supposed to be 50 years from the handover in 1997.
I didn't do any history research on the subject but my own conspiracy theory suggests that the whole "humans have soul, animals don't" thing was invented to justify the natural world destruction.
your nurses are grossly underpaid
I think is was the Sea Shepherd group that was confronting the whaling ships and spoiling the meat. They had a TV show on Discovery called Whale Wars which documented the confrontations. The founder of Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson, was one of the founders of Green Peace but parted ways due to his beliefs that active measures should be taken to stop whaling.
I think people overestimate Amazon's ability to truly disrupt markets. Not saying they aren't going to be a big player in pharmacy, but size - no matter how good you are - inhibits total domination.

Also, this year at the BK conference, Warren didn't seem super optimistic that Haven was going to make any real impact in the near future.
Statistically speaking software development is extremely risky from the point of view that n units of work will create x units of deliverables.

If you are not a software shop you really would like to outsource those risks.

Hence, they pay the capital cost to get a fixed, known deliverable.

Developing new software is hard and risky. Sure, if you can get the right team for the job it can work out wonderfully but this just creates another level of risk - you need to find the right developers.
That's it, exactly. I wouldn't read an American paper too often but I'd like to have the option when there's a big American story. Ditto Australia or even foreign language papers. I'm never going to take out a sub to them but this way they'd make a little from me sometimes.
1. Incredibly aggressive salespeople

2. A constant stream of new small business owners

3. A good story (pay us and we'll make you more money)
> Distributed systems and write arbitration on the same file are still terra incognita.

That's far too aggressive a response for someone who's being sloppy with terminology themselves. "Distributed" covers many different scales. You also use "clustering filesystem" as though it's a synonym, which it very much is not. Among those who have actually built both, like me, distributed and cluster filesystems are very different things. It's fine if you think "true" distributed systems means global scale, but if you're not even explicit (let alone correct) about it you should hardly be condemning others for using definitions closer to general usage. And you definitely shouldn't be pretending to read people's minds with claims about what they "gave no thought" to or "have no idea" about.

P.S. Since I can't reply to your comment below which was quite rightly flagged into oblivion, no, I didn't have anything to do with GFS.
http://weathermap.ovh.net/

https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/rechenzentrum/
Excellent example of strawman click-bait:

1 take a newsy subject involving something many people like
2 choose an aspect of it about which to adopt the "sober skeptic" stance
3 write the article as though this aspect is the only part of the newsy subject that's worth discussing

The move made in 3 is the trick. It's at least disingenuous, and may even be cynically mercenary.
This is genius tactic, and should become a coordinated movement.
Reasons I’d eat (more) vegetarian

1. Climate

2. Ethics

...

10. Nutrition/Health
At the same time I've seen non-fallen lines drop sparks to ground level because of a hot spot in the line.
If you let ruminant livestock graze in a carefully managed pattern instead of feeding them grain (grown and transported from miles away), it improves the land and reduces the amount of pollution:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

Cattle are not very efficient at converting grain to protein. It’s about 7:1. Pork is 2:1, in comparison. Poultry is close to 1:1.
> We’ve Gone Way Past 1984

> From Putin to Trump, We Are Being Told to "reject the evidence of your eyes and ears."

Every time I see statements like this, I wish someone presented a deeper historical and cultural analysis. Is the level of official lies any different than during Cold War, WWII, WWI, Crimean war, etc.? Is the offence of asking from people to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears any different than what various religions and cults have done to their followers for millennia?

Sure, the capabilities to surveil the population and to reach masses with a message have reached historically unprecedented levels; but other than that, have there been any substantial shifts?

I know Yuval Harari has expressed his skepticism on this point; but he never really undertook a task of comparing the present and the past as regards to the levels of lying.

As an aside: I am also a bit surprised by the role attributed to Aleksandr Dugin in some of the narratives of Putin’s Russia (e.g. "Inspired by the fascist thinker Aleksandr Dugin, he called it Eurasia" in this article). I am not sure whether there is any concrete evidence of Dugin’s direct influence on the thinking of top Russian politicians. This is probably a question for historians and literary scholars to assess that.
As it is, everyone accepts that if you want lots of money and no quality of life, be a doctor. There should be a middle option like in other careers where they can be moderately well off with only moderate commitment.
Don't forget "serverless"
I wish journalists would actually get with state of the art. Current out-of-the-lab state-of-the-art cell efficiency for SJ-monocrystalline cells runs 25%. So for every kWh of sunlight, we're now generating .25kWh of power.

And this specific degradation is almost not fixable, because the exact same issue happens with silicon-based LEDs, the Auger/watercooler effect. You need PERFECT junction deposition and PERFECT wafers and PERFECT finger lines and much much more. This is nowhere near as simple as the article makes it out to be.
90% of the ads right now, but its trivial to design adtech so its only possible to block a tiny percentage of everything with only 50k rules.

(register 50k domains, use 50k different subpath/subdomains and mix content+ads on something like youtube where you cant wholesale block youtube, etc)
Why hasn't this caught on for watching TV together, online ?
What’s the enterprise cost per month?
Filmmaker Errol Morris adapted a teleprompter to achieve eye contact with interview subjects. The screen is horizontal, below and in front of the camera, an inclined 2-way mirror moves the screen image in front of the camera.

http://www.whiterabbitdesigncompany.com/uploads/1/4/1/3/1413...

His non-patented "Interrotron" inspired the patented "Eyedirect". Other variations may be possible for small batch manufacturing.
Maybe this is just another sign that people should stop building in the wildland urban interface. Not that they will. We as a country feel quite entitled to build in unsafe places.
It really does. I have 6 family members in healthcare some on provider side and some on admin side. The provider side always talking about lack of resources and longer hours. Staff leaving and not being replaced. But then talk to the admin side and they talk about reimbursement being so bad taking on some patients are a money pit. Seems like the exploitation is the only way the admin side knows how to keep the wheels from falling off.
The scariest thing about quitting a job you are deeply unhappy with is what to do about health insurance. I totally agree.
That is unreasonably cynical. Charitable efforts for poor people are unparalleled in today's world. I can agree however that nothing will happen and disagree on the question of 'why'.
rot8000[1][2][3] is a similar idea.

[1] - http://rot8000.com

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495518

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6659687
Joel Salatin, perhaps?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Salatin
That's what they do to contribute financially to software development. It's called buying a license.

Sure, sometimes they buy closed sourcr licenses, but as a corporation providing services to a third party you don't care about the license - you care very much the software adds the value to the output of the employee who uses it.
I hadn’t heard of blueprint before. What has been your experience?
Thank you so much for your extremely helpful responses and support.
Are you implying that nitrogen depletion in the soil is a non-issue?
Darn, it's not available in the UK :(
A Farewell for iTunes
This reminds me of someone I used to play with on Starcraft Broodwar. When victory when inevitable, he would always quit the game to give himself a loss. He considered it better to have mostly losses on his record so other players cannot gauge his skill level.
This. The American urge to compare only base salaries (because that's all you have in America) is why Americans don't understand what they're missing. It's not in the salary! Its in the alleviation of $1000/month medical insurance premiums, in addition to $4000 ER visits (inclusive of said insurance), and pensions.

And before someone bemoans the taxes, let me clarify that those medical premiums and ER visits are AFTER-TAX dollars, so add an additional 15-30% on top.
Then the "most motivated users" could release their build scripts, and the project would become fragmented.
The point of the precautionary principle is we don't know the mechanism. And that's the correct approach -- because our understanding of human health, the environment, and the ecosystem is still in its infancy.

That's why we do testing in most areas. That's the point of the FDA -- EVERY new drug must be presumed unsafe and tested. Such an attitude would serve us well if it were applied to widespread environmental concerns. Otherwise it'll be self-interested corporations with a damning track record (e.g. DuPont) making the calls[1].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont_(1802%E2%80%932017)#Con...
There are various "AWS Costs Cheatsheet" posts but I couldn't find a comprehensive _and_ updated one. Any suggestions?
Published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in:

at least 25 times more sentient animals being killed per kilogram of useable protein

more environmental damage, and

a great deal more animal cruelty than does farming red meat.

http://theconversation.com/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-ther...
> University education isn't about the destination/exam it's about the journey.

Showing up for lectures is by far the least important part of the journey. It's a passive activity that usually adds zero value versus watching lessons on YouTube or reading the textbook.

The real learning (IMO) is in doing the assignments, networking with people in your residence, social activities, internships, etc.
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Except the unknown? This is the main reason for me as well.

It's like a stranger coming to you with a pill: eat that. I'm sure I won't "just because" its unknown and there is a real chance it might go wrong. If I can't even estimate this chance its worse, it does mean I can not responsibly take the action.
I will be retiring soon, and I am so glad that I am a disabled vet so I don't have to worry about healthcare...I have the VA...
What changed to 2.8 to make it compare favorably to commercial alternatives? Is it just the UI?
Petersen coils, “ground fault neutralizers,” and similar devices could help considerably.

Underground lines have their own set of issues, primarily that they have dramatically increased capacitive current. This is manageable, I believe.
For my education, is this pension provided by the employer, or is this a state-provided pension?
While I think that's true for many people, I would like to have actual data about whether the wide public is more swayed by environmental/ethical or health concerns. Many companies are marketing this from a health angle, and they may know more than you and me. (Another possibility, which I'm not discounting, is that they think everyone is as cynical as they are.)
How do you turn seaweed into liquid fuel efficiently?
The end game could be to have millions of low quality (possibly single-pixel) cameras in your screen, with software combining the images into a single one from a location that can be (somewhat) controlled in software.

IIRC, that’s what was proposed in Starfire, in 1992. (https://www.asktog.com/starfire/), where they could also use those tiny cameras as a scanner (place a paper on top of the screen, and read out all the pinhole cameras)
Most CS students aren't developers and haven't yet been bitten hard enough by bad licensing, in fact, they likely hope to profit greatly creating proprietary software. If you believe in something, embrace it, if you're right, time will bring people around. When it comes to "libre", the need for such a distinction is supported by thousands of real life examples, over decades, of users getting burned hard by bad licensing, even "open source" ones.
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Burying is more expensive, but you eventually earn the money back. Density is so low in the country it could be 50+ years before you pay it off.

This is part of the trillion dollar sprawl problem we have. We have built a massive amount of infrastructure as cheap as possible, and now we cant afford to built it correctly. People would have never built houses in many places if they had to pay the actual costs.
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Haven is attempting to cover so many lives, from the onset, that I think they can't treat it like a true startup.

The whole "move fast and break things" mantra isn't as applicable to healthcare, where the consequences of failure can be more dire.
Exactly. The "French Way" thing is an affect that's frequently mocked on other forums, see https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/le
2.8 is a big step forward for the new user experience.

https://www.blender.org/2-8/#user-interface

They’re also finally switching the default to left click select. Having to select with right click was one of the big things that made the UI feel really alien for anyone who hasn’t used it a lot.
Subject for negotiation. But it's going to be in the ballpark of many $k/mo
What about a microphone array ?

Have you tried putting that both on your and your parents' locations ?

And what kind of internet you two are using ? and are the devices using wifi , or are wired ?
Here’s some info I found: https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-pr...

Looks like a good movie. And Netflix dubbed it to Swedish! Will probably watch it with my kids some time.
Yup. Where there's an actual fire, a fire alarm is a good idea.

Putting toxins into the atmosphere is rather different than putting a natural and necessary-for-life substance into the air.
Securing Local Storage for Dapps
We are talking about incorporated townships, though.

So, more like an organized group of users in the middle of nowhere, but do have rights as a recognized municipality of the state.
Every language has its quirks. French doesn't distinguish between ape and monkey (singe) -- the famous French novel "La Planète des singes" known from the various American movies in the original and remade "Planet of the Apes" series could just as well be translated as "Planet of the Monkeys". Similarly, German doesn't really distinguish between science and other academic subjects -- "Wissenschaft" can mean science, but also includes much of what people in English call the humanities.
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Ask HN: Are experience developers too busy for big freelance projects
I have a couple of freelance projects that i need experienced developers to work on.
For example, one of the project will be paying about $20,000, or higher than that, but i need engineers from companies like FAANG to work on them.

Will they be too busy to work on it?
Will engineers like this be interested?
Oh wow, "full stack" is now not only unfashionable, but considered so ridiculous as to be laughable? "Cloud" I get, it has always been a nonsensical marketing term, but "full stack" at least has honest roots in the term LAMP.

I still provision my own Linux (VPS) servers, administer MariaDB on them and string it all together with PHP and sprinkle in non-trivial Javascrpt for UI and graphing. My company is profitable, customers are happy, and my software feeds 2 families well.

My methods are antiquated, sure, but if me telling people I'm a full stack developer is laughable/wrong, then I'm truly lost.
Speaking as an American, that's exactly what I first thought too.
> ...a clear violation of the platform’s Terms of Service.

What can Yelp do to you if you invite their worst punishment as a badge of honor?

This is brilliant.
Well, how do you see that China has been stable? In the 20th century it's been conquered in an invasion, then went through a communist revolution and fought a civil war that split itself in two. The governments have been replaced repeatedly. It has such severe racial and civil unrest in its western regions the PRC built huge concentration camps and 'disappeared' millions of people into them as the only way to keep the peace. That doesn't sound very stable to me!

Compare that to Britain which has had continuous revolution-free government for hundreds of years, has not split, has had no civil wars for centuries and doesn't disappear its own citizens. It looks pretty stable in comparison.

I think maybe your view of China is coloured by PRC propaganda. They love to claim thousands of years of history, that the PRC is the source of all stability and harmony in China, etc. But a cold reading of history makes it look a bit different.

I voted for Brexit, because the best countries are universally the most democratic countries. That's how I guessed your poor view of democracy might be related to it. We can say these views are stereotypes, but I met a lot of Brexit voters who just didn't like the EU institutions or the way they treat the country, and none (so far) that didn't like immigrants. I'm sure such people do exist, they just don't seem to be prevalent in the circles I move in. Unfortunately I have met a lot of Remain voters who seem unfortunately keen on dictatorship - I guess that's why Leave arguments about democracy are only ever met with irrelevant counterarguments like "racism! xenophobia!". The lack of democracy in the EU is one of the things that appeals to them about it!
It's not just code, and it's not always obvious. AWS' tools (as robust as they seem at first) may not give you the low-level insight that you need to understand where you can really cut down on expenses. I just reduced my AWS bill from about $5.5k/mo to $3k/mo. The rise in price was only slightly outpacing the app growth for a while, and it was very gradual. When the forecasted bill was $6k it became a major priority.
I am so happy I'm not alone with this.

I'm totally with you. This is insane and REALLY scary...

Now I'm wondering why to be surprised if bigcorps don't care about others future when the individuals don't really care (~=want to make sure everything will be fine and not just assuming things won't break).

WDYT, what can we do about that issue? I'm totally staggered.
Speaking as somebody who does enjoy a vegan boiger - 'health' and 'nutrition' are not things I'm looking at when I want a burger.

This whole debate is one big straw-man. I'm a vegan. I don't need burgers. I might want burgers, but they don't form a part of a standard diet just in the same way any kind of burger probably shouldn't form part of anybody's regular diet.

If you're eating processed food - there's a considerable chance that whatever it is you're eating - vegan or otherwise - is neither nutritious nor healthy. It probably tastes good though, which is why you want it in the first place.

Ultimately it boils down to this: if I'm eating a burger, then nutrition and health are more or less irrelevant - I'm after taste. I think the lives of animals are more important than my taste-buds, so I eat plant-based burgers. It's not really any more complicated than that.
GPL-licensed projects can't link against non-GPL code. This provision is extended to cover plugins and functional extensions of interpreted environments. That's why a lot of people don't like the GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPlugins

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL
A lot of startups focus solely on exponential growth. It's probably only a matter of time before they resort to extortionist tactics like this and somehow justify it as a l perfectly valid strategy.
Sure, if a term becomes mainstream it's use is obvious. If you need to explain the connotations of a word in a lengthy forum post it's a pretty good indicator the use of the word is not adviced unless you are a tredn setter. If Elon Musk started to use the word libre software it might become a common enough term. If I use the word libre software I would have to first explain the word 90% of the time and become embarrased for an awkward and pointless use of an obscure term 85% of the time.