skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need smart-gridness to reduce our dependency on idle fossil-burning power plants as a safety net to balance the now much less predictable grid. Strictly ecologically speaking, this seems problematic.
You cannot change the basic dimensionalities after the fact. Electric current was chosen at the time, rather than charge, hence it has been defined in terms of electron's charge.
Yeah, coming to the point where it's never completely finished. You just always anticipate on going back.
A lot of the windows UI code is ancient by software standards, some of it written before desktop GUI frameworks even existed. And much of that code is still being used across versions.

Rewriting in a way that is 100% backwards compatible (any less compatible is unacceptable) would be a massive endeavor and very hard to justify given the cost.
Power imbalances don't 'suck.' They evolved to provide advantages. In The Cohesive Foragers: Human and Chimpanzee, Margaret Power writes:

"The charismatic-dependent relationship is adaptive toward keeping subgroups together as they range, foraging. If all members of a subgroup were equally self-assured, there would be more of a tendency for each individual to go it’s own way, and a lone animal or human is usually more vulnerable to attack.

"The more nervous, easily aroused, dependent chimpanzees, through their quick response to disturbance in the group or to danger from without, act to alert the less easily aroused, less observant, charismatic members. One or more of the confident individuals then respond to the situation, backed by the support of the more dependent members. Thus the response is more by group consensus than leader-initiated."
Here in Oxbridge there's pretty generous funding for hiring software engineers to maintain some biotech software, and much lower pressure to publish. I know many open positions. And they tend to fund you for very long time. I know people working on said positions for more than a decade. Sometimes 20 years.

The problem is more pay gap with industry. Even though they tend to pay well by academic standards (e.g. no PhD required, yet pay is much higher than a senior postdoc), the salary is still way below what industry in London or Oxbridge offers.

Furthermore, you tend to be surrounded by non-technical people which may be tough in the long term. Nobody appreciates what you do. Not even your boss, who may know zero about computers.

The bottom line is that positions end up being vacant for long time and tend to be filled by biologists with a bit of coding experience, underqualified IT people or, rarely, really competent individuals that want a break from industry.
P.S. A friend pointed out that the migration of non-hackers away from IRC is like a reverse Eternal September, which sounds great

I was a part of the original Eternal September in the 1980's as the Internet was opened up to undergrads. The idea of a "Reverse Eternal September" sounds super awesome! I wonder how it can be implemented? (In a limited context, not across the whole of the Internet, of course.)
New evidence that some comatose people do understand
No worries, thanks for giving me the chance to explore this.
Yeah they do, here are 3 papers on convnets:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02252

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02767

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04313

But it seems like lately they focus more on RL for robotics.
Because the standards are made for people who makes measurement devices. It is much easier to measure electric current than charge.

They also did make charge more fundamental, as they derive the Ampere by fixing the charge of an electron.
Back in 1980, Kirkpatrick Sale wrote a great book called "Human Scale" about how things (government, business, infrastructure) in society are built beyond what humans can comprehend and manage. He pointed to studies that found that if we were to start over and build small 50,000 people towns 15-20 miles apart, each of these towns would have enough people and trades to support those towns. Scholars such as Plato and thinkers like da Vinci also believed that smaller towns of that size contributed to the overall well-being of citizens.
But the quality of the fake is irrelevant.

According to whom?

Falwell involved an absolutely perfect fake

If that were true, written accounts would be as video when used as evidence in a court of law. You may be surprised to learn that this is not in fact the case.
I'd have defined a bouncer as something that also speaks IRC to the client.
This is unrelated to the Georgia Tech hack but shows the fragility of state govt IT infrastructure.

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Lots of reasons:

1. Marketing management is full of idiots.

2. The coder's estimate is used to tell the CEO when a product will be rolled out. Who then questions why it didn't get rolled out on time.

3. Marketing gets a bonus for rolling out ad campaigns on time.

4. Marketing is using this for their big trade show coming up and wants to make a big announcement for maximum impact.

Why do you assume management is always competent?
Something about networks from the hardware to layer 7 protocols.
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> I'm slowly starting to suspect that maybe having human-readable names for domains is a mistake.

Not sure given how successful busineses have been with their web identities how you can say that.

> There would be some awful challenges if we got rid of the human-readable part of domains but the benefits of moving to something like a unique hash or key instead

I don't get the point of making a statement like that. It's like saying 'get rid of cars and the benefits will be'.

You know it's a complete non starter because given how things are it can't happen in the short future. We can't even get rid of spam phone calls for god sake. That is almost simple by comparison to 'eliminating human readable parts of domains'
Think of Charge as a collection of Amperage across a period of Time, or a supply of Charge that can yield a particular Amperage of current for a sustained amount of Time.

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/23449/why-is...
It is basically an alpha test of new scientific instrumentation. It's obviously very common to see non-blackbox instrumentation in research labs.
Because if they launch on the original schedule with Partner X they get Massive Benefit Y that could make or break the product. For example.
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> I thought we had freedom of speech in the US.

Because thanks to some puritanical supreme court rulings over the past century or so, freedom of speech doesn't cover things considered 'obscene'. This has been variously interpreted to include pornography, information on birth control and abortion, and a variety of other things.
Guix is a tool for declarative and reproducible software deployment. You can view it as a package manager, but it's also an OS configuration management tool, a container image provisioning tool, and more.

Guix 1.0 was released just two months ago. The announcement summarizes what it can do for you in these areas: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.0-released/ .
"Command based on charisma, formidable personalities, and cliques" describes every structured, hierarchical business I've ever worked for. If there's one that's not, I've never even heard of it.
What are existential generics? I searched Google but couldn't find the meaning of the term.
> Every time an organization claims to be flat and non-hierarchical, it is actually hierarchical, but the chain of command is invisible and based on the personal charisma of particular people, or sometimes based on their ability to bully and manipulate others. An organization without a formal structure will have an informal structure made up of various cliques

This is true, but what is less frequently mentioned is that the same thing is invariably also true of organizations with formal heirarchies, and the actual structure based on personal charisma, manipulation, and bullying will often be significantly different than the formal heirarchy (which influences the actual heirarchy because position in the for heirarchy—especially when people believe in it—influences the ability to manipulate and bully, but never fully determines the actual heirarchy.)
I think this is part of why I love games that have a constant stream of user-made levels. Many of my favorite experiences in Halo are when I'm playing a match on a Forge (user-created) level that no one in the match has seen before and I'm trying to adapt to it faster than the enemies. Super Mario Maker (which just had a release on the Switch!) is similarly good since it gives you a constant stream of new levels.
I think this comes down to the idea that estimates are really for coordination.

At least, I think that’s the best reason for using estimates. I wrote something about this here:
https://riskfirst.org/Estimates
Probably, depending on the industry - it’s called mail screening - the Royal Mail provides this as a service for companies in the UK. I’m a little surprised but the USPS doesn’t seem to.
Discussed already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20311071
Yeah, picking up undergrads (or even grad students) from the CS department is not a surefire way to end up code that follows best practices, is well maintained/documented, etc. and I'd probably argue if your team leader doesn't have that experience, you're more likely to end up with something that doesn't follow great practices (especially with regards to any sort of test suite).
> Scientists writing open-source software often lack formal training in software engineering

I'm at an institute of computational biology and that is precisely the problem we are tackling right now. We have a lot of clever people doing a lot of clever things, but a large part of effective software development is developing some good habits that those without training have often never heard of (e.g. how to write clean code, defensive programming, etc.)

As one of the more experienced "developers" (a.k.a. self-taught programmers) on our team, I've been writing up what I consider to be the basic principles of good software development for computational scientists. (https://terranostra.one/posts/Principles-of-Software-Develop..., if you're interested.) Later this week, we're going to have a group meeting to discuss what would be a good method of teaching these principles to new members of the institute. Excited to see what will come of that discussion ;-)
Yeah I also buy into this idea, and don't think this should be read into as much as other people ITT are. Even the article doesn't try to stir up much drama, which seems to be unusual for reporting these days.
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It does stop attacks. It just doesn’t stop all attacks. Just because a security measure, by itself, isn’t perfect doesn’t mean it isn’t worth implementing.
Ask HN: Why not prohibit Google/Facebook from having more data than necessary?
Wouldn't that solve almost all problems that we face today with these giant social media and web giants at once?

It would basically remove the possibility of targeted advertising which is the root of most evil as far as I can see. + no privacy issues + mass manipulation much more difficult
The point is that it is an obviously badly thought out law. We have hate speech laws in the UK and they are causing havok, comedians are getting investigated by the police for jokes (Jo Brand a feminist comedian was investigate last month for a what was obviously a joke because people claimed it was a call to violence). Teenage girls are being arrested for posting rap lyrics on facebook (Chelsea Russell case).

People taking the mickey (which isn't harassment) out of someone by making a deepfake (there are Deep Fakes of Jordan Peterson having sex with a flesh light in a chair) will be caught under this law probably.

It will be a mess. Will photoshops of celebrities faces on pornstars be part of this? some are quite convincing.
Industrial controls at least work most of the time. Can't quite say that about consumer gear.
I'm a weirdo but I kinda like the archaeological deep dive-type feelings I get, seeing two decades of OS history rewind as I'm reaching further into the guts of the beast.

My only gripe with the old school is accessibility (scaling in particular, ugh), but even that's not so bad.

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If it needs to exist in the raw database for technical reasons, that's one thing, but it shouldn't be visible to anyone including the administrator.
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Common processes for making sarin have diisopropyl methylphosphonate (DIMP) as a by-product, which is not very deadly[0]. You can buy it on Fisher Scientific for 30$. Not sure if biochem screens are matching for this compound, but it's still in the vein of what the parent comment was suggesting.

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My phone’s not dumb, it just looks it
At what temperature does the human body rest? ~100F. At what temperature is frostbite a concern to uncovered skin? ~0F. I feel like these benchmarks are more useful in my day to day life than water temps.
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I know Google does the same
What Should a Proper Alerting Tree Look Like?
https://twitter.com/timsimlol/status/1145790451129167872 seems like a problem, but I'm not familiar with this visualization.
This is exactly what is done in practice. Critical systems (i.e. control room software and hardware) are air gapped and operate in a DMZ.

The only real vector one has into such a system (assuming you can't physically access it) is by attacking the 'inputs' to the SCADA network.

Attack vectors like stuxnet or petya require physical access to these systems (i.e. a usb key getting plugged into an operation terminal).
Discussed 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315973
Which is probably what happened in this exact case. The senior engineers were being replaced with junior ones; exactly the kind of people who don't know to say "no".
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It’s both. If there was a way to state the law in such a way that it was always clear when and how to apply it, there would be no need for courts and judges.
Why are you reading something if you're not going to take action based on that data? Reads are de-facto writes elsewhere, so they need to be authenticated.
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Charge of an electron is a concrete fact, unlike infinitely long imaginary wires inducing an electromagnetic pull.
But it's so curious how it works well, unless you link directly. Here it says this page doesn't exist.
What is Ruby meant to be used for, if not production software?
Another Dead Cyclist in the City
'Volcano' on gulf sea floor: Containing the longest known offshore oil spill
One of the things that doesn't appear to have any real innovation is luggage space and the speed of loading. Get on any long-distance train or Eurostar service and you can wait minutes for people to drag 4 suitcases, trying to find space. Even on the Eurostar where you would expect most people to have a lot of luggage, there is often not much room at all.

We used to have luggage vans back in the olden days!
Tim Cook disputes 'absurd' reports about Jony Ive's departure from Apple
Don't you think that weight (or, pedantically, mass) generally makes more sense for many ingredients? 100g of flour is a well-defined quantity, one cup of flour can vary significantly depending on how tightly packed the flour is.
> So I'm glad they fixed the problems of depending on kilogram sample object for anything, but the definitions are now bizarre if you want to learn them in reference to real-world things. How will they be taught now?

This hasn't changed, really.

The kilogram started as the mass of one litre of water (under defined conditions, etc). Since every time people reproduce this they will get a slightly different measurement because of the various experimental errors they changed to a physical artefact, which isn't ideal either.

So now we have a definition purely based on fundamental constants.

The best way to represent and approximate it in daily life is still 1 litre of water. 1 litre is also very simple to visualise if you don't have a measuring jug or bottle handy since that's a cube with 10cm edges.

For teaching purposes that also looks much less random than an artefact.
Learning to predict the cosmological structure formation
Let them know to avoid freelancer and elance.

Also what I have been trying: building stuff, waiting clients. Doesn't work.
The irc userbase is pretty technical and maybe forgiving of glitches. So perhaps that is more OK there.

For the general population, the user may not know to doubt reliability, nor do I think they ought to. So I think there is value in higher reliability of delivery.
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>we've seen zero-days compromising servers and numerous other threats that could affect you indirectly. If your machine was Lenovo, it quite possibly came with malware. If you've used Sennheiser's setup app, your root certificate store may be poisoned. Further back, if you put Sony BMG music CDs into your machine, they may have given you a rootkit.

>But I think it's valuable to have something that keeps up with the history of other known screwups to help protect me against other, stranger threat vectors.

I don't think antiviruses protect you against 0days. If the attacker is going through the trouble of using a 0day, they're probably going to make their payload FUD as well. As for rest, I don't think they'll get picked up either, or at least, they'll only get picked up after a massive media shitstorm. Most
Thats ok, I'm safe, I use IRC.
Usually breaking changes are highlighted in your update cycle and if something is added or slightly modified you might find a *.conf.rpmnew or similar. rpmconf [1] helps with those sorts of updates.

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Back on topic: Horse and cart is pretty eco friendly tho :)
What is the suggested solution for Greenfield development?