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But the dilemma is, that the privatization of social services in favor of UBI might increase the costs for those services (We’ve observed over the past that unregulated competition doesn’t lead to more competitive prices and rather monopolization and exploitation), up to the point that people who really need those services wouldn’t afford it even with UBI. That is why I think UBI should be done in adjunction to existing public social services (such as healthcare).
> To succeed in programming, you have to work well in a business. You can't be Linus Torvalds, walking around with a big ego, unless you're so important it's hard to get rid of you.

I keep running into the inverse of that at companies. People who put on a smile and a nice demeanor, but then fail to do any actual work and subsequently lie and politic to cover that up, leaving the rest of the group to play cleanup and cover. I've always loved working with the Torvalds, you do your work and all is well.
We ridicule Milton Waddams, but at least he could appreciate the value of sitting by the window and watching the married squirrels.
I'm not trying to be argumentative but you are misinformed. "Floating" means that the system is not connected to ground. That is, there is no system/main bonding jumper. There is no connection to a grounding electrode conductor. This has nothing to do with the Equipment Grounding Conductor, though. I don't know what you mean by a "floating EGC".

The entire purpose of the EGC is to bond all normally non-current carrying conductive parts together to provide a ground-fault current path back to the source of the circuit. If the EGC is not connected to some non-current carrying conductive part, then it is not installed correctly, is against code, and is a safety hazard. If the EGC is bonded to everything properly and there is a fault (say an ungrounded wire touches a metal box), then the current will flow through the ungrounded conductor, through the metal box, through the EGC (which is bonded to the box), back to the source (usually a transformer), across the windings, and eventually back to the breaker that controls the circuit. This will build up enough current (usually VERY fast, like milliseconds) and the breaker will open. The Earth has nothing to do with this.
I'm confused by that as well. The green wire needs to touch the earth, whether by being bonded to neutral at the distribution point or simply by touching the earth somewhere, even through a concrete wall.

I've seen houses where the earth wiring is completely independent and terminated in a metal rod buried outside. Seemed to be up to local code, breakers worked as they should.
anyone knows what "ufq" means in the latin page?
Relegated to the parts bin. Usefulness perhaps in a second life... https://hackaday.com/tag/amazon-dash-button/
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Apparently someone interested to creat a proper ebook within the project's production standards volunteered to create one.
This is the perfect Friday evening thread!
It's time to drop cmd and use powershell, cd is an alias of set-location which handles this fine:

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The USFS [1] page on Paulownia tomentosa cites a lot of research suggesting that it’s a “transient” invader that rapidly settles harsh or disturbed (e.g. by fire) environments, but is highly shade intolerant and gets outcompetes in the long run. So it seems to me a good strategy is to use it to rapidly colonize non-forested areas, sequester that biomass, and eventually cultivate more diverse species (or something like that).

>”...thus, princesstree frequently establishes and spreads after disturbances that create these conditions, such as fire, windstorms, pestilence, floods, landslides, and anthropogenic disturbances such as construction, cultivation, mining, and logging”

> “Hu suggests that by the time Paulownia grows to maturity, the seeds it produces likely cannot survive within the same habitat as the parent plant because the succeeding vegetation has ‘modified the physical environment so much that no new Paulownia has any chance to get established’. Thus, princesstree may not alter the successional pathways of some native ecosystems.“

[1] https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/pautom/all.h...
In the days before hosted Kafka implementations were readily available, I tried to set up Kafka in our AWS infrastructure. Getting Zookeeper working in a world based on autoscaling groups was a nightmare. It felt like it was built for the days where each server was a special snowflake.

Looking forward to seeing if this gains traction.
I disagree. I hold an unusual opinion that all congress members should be required to take an economics class before assuming office because they literally are the ones running our economy. Learning economics helps your thought process in many ways and makes you a better decision maker when it comes to deciding on micro and macroeconomic policies. Weighing benefits, negative externalities, and costs when making investments or policies is exactly what economics trains you best for. Our brains are not designed for decision making involving large numbers of people or large sums of money and by default we fall back on making emotional decisions based on anecdotal experiences. The teaching of Economics helps keep your logic side front and center and allows you to make better, more efficient, and more impactful decisions at lower social and economic costs than would be arrived at by default. Are you able to understand the implications and effects of taxes and government spending when there are 2 trillion dollar deficits instead of 2 billion dollar deficits?

Economics-style thinking is very valuable. If you weren't blessed to have had a great economics professor in your high-school and college years, I recommend reading Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. It was a required reading for my AP economics course and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it cover-to-cover.
The reason for having ground is simply because if an electrician makes a mistake and reverses the hot and neutral, and you plug something in, the body of the device will now be connected to hot, and you'll get a shock.

By having a separate ground, it's harder to mess that up, and devices can connect the body of the device to that.

Inside the electrical box (mains) the neutral and ground are connected together, and are at the same potential.

The only reason they run separate wires is in case of of mistakes.
No, at least not for the purposes of this particular study.

> The researchers report that living in areas where 30 percent or more of the outdoor space is dominated by tree canopy was associated with 31 percent lower odds of psychological distress, compared to people living in areas with 0 to 9 percent tree canopy.
> Are these corrections going to make it upstream to Gutenberg?

It's an issue worth raising to the team. In the spirit of GPL, I think reporting any instances of clear typos in the source text upstream would be a good idea.

The problem is that so much work is done to the text as part of StandardEbook production that we can't exactly just submit a single patch or diff. It would be difficult to identify the textual corrections from stylistic changes in an automatic way, unless we were to enforce typo corrections to occur in a single commit. We're currently encouraged to use an [Editorial] tag when modernizing spelling such as "any one" -> "anyone", so perhaps we should see about a [Transcription Error] tag for obvious typos.

The upshot is that all of the books' sources are hosted on GH. So an interested party could, in theory, review the commit history and pull out what look to be typo corrections. See, for example:

https://github.com/standardebooks/emile-gaboriau_the-lerouge...

Failing that, the contributor could simply manually keep track of any typos they fix and report them to GP.
That's my favorite thing about flying back into Atlanta--seeing the tree coverage.
Medieval people bathed regularly
Yes instinctivly it wasn't making sense as I knew the circuit needs to be "completed". So if that's the case then what is the point of the ground rod that the neutral bar/wires in your breaker box are connected to?
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I use iOS/macOS Notes now.

I also liked Microsoft OneNote iOS/macOS, but Notes seems even better.
I guess you would be trading a carbon problem for mass extinction.
The typography on the scanned 1494 page is beautiful. I also remember seeing the ancient Roman grave stones with the very nice letters, but I admire how they developed the types for printing.
A similar project for books in french (french books and books translated to french) : https://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ebooks.php
Not to mention that ZooKeeper passed Jepsen (on the first try IIRC). Don't replace something so extraordinarily dependable just because it's a dependency.
I always find the posthumous vindication of Hemingway to be interesting because people want to say justified paranoia, or ironically accurate paranoia

But shouldn’t we just change the word to describe Hemingway? Paranoia means unjustified suspicion/distrust and encroaches on mental health issues. It should say people thought he was paranoid about a thing that turned out to be true. So in reality Hemingway was suspicious of shitty spies.
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As a witter person that I put it, "code ages like milk, not like wine".
> However, without the green wire, if either the red or black shorts to something, the breaker will not open and you have an enormous potential to harm someone or burn your house down.

This is not true. First of all only the red is hot, if the black shorts to something nothing will happen.

Second if there is a short strong enough to "burn your house down", the breaker most definitely will open.
Manhattan has Central Park, which is a forest. Compare vs the suburban sprawl of modern design where it's an ocean of tract housing with stunted little fresh-planted trees and I'd say the reverse is generally true. I can see the argument for rural living, but not for modern suburbia.
Reading about American atrocities doesn't make me hate my country, it makes me want my country to do better.
As an operator, having fewer dependencies I have to deploy and worry about is a boon to my productivity.

If you were building a kafka like system in house for private use only, then yes I agree with your sentiment. If you are building something to be used by hundreds or thousands of organizations then the cost benefit tradeoffs shift to where it probably makes sense to pull the consensus logic into the primary application itself.
stars! (old 4x ) had native play by email, it was a blast in the nineties, it wasn't easy to play with actual strangers back then and to have internet friends was something weirdos did here in Italy. cables were unheard of so modem sessions had to be short not to interfere with calls. pbm games where perfect for us who lived in this side of the "digital divide"
Useless article is useless, there is no point in emphasising the maintainers are men.
No one is preventing 4 women or LGBTQ+ from starting a list with a better end user experience. But I guess their end goal is "balancing publisher monetization" which is too optimistic, no one would want to see slower pages with crap wherever they go.
I am only drawing from job offers in Wisconsin. I'd recommend searching around Taiwanese job websites for other jobs with Hon Hai and its subsidiaries -- they're a huge company so they're bound to have some openings in one of their Taiwan sites. There should be some openings in the Shenzhen Longhua location too. Fii (富士康工业互联网) seems to have the most focus on AI right now and is HQ'd in the mainland.
What you say is that for you all those benefits outweigh the actual fact of sitting in front of computer all day. It's hard to give them all up, that's true.
A Netflix for books, you say?

http://www.johnnywander.com/comic/a-netflix-for-books
Nix aims to fix this.

https://nixos.org/
I have a stack of 8" floppies sitting on my desk. Also have the old Wang computer they go to laying around. I have not been able to find the actual disk drive though.
Can they produce an app you can run on a server (or localhost) of your own?
> This is screening for specific domain knowledge (text processing) not general programming aptitude. That's ok if you want specific kinds of prior knowledge on Day 1 but it is not a way to hire generally smart people.

Not really, the domain knowledge here is much more the bibliometrics stuff, which we don't need usually. What I do need is someone who knows that they can't just take any data source they find and throw the latest deep learning hotness at it and call it a day because the F score is over some random threshold.

You can absolutely use this to hire generally smart people, what you are right about is I won't be hiring people who are generally smart but have no basic understanding of any of the types of solutions they'll need to work on and with. Based on team size and where we are, that's completely fine for me right now.

I think this helps find people that:

1. Are able to talk through a problem

2. Understand the kinds of issues they may face, and discuss how to go with that (including business level work, when to / not to use humans, etc)

3. Have experience working on the kinds of problems they are going to face

The tfidf+svm example was not intended as "ah yes, they said the algorithm I wanted" but as a springboard into a further discussion. Maybe they talk about word vectors, whatever, can they explain what the pros and cons are? Where might it fail, or more importantly what would they want to test? Where do we get training data, how long might that take for reasonable quality, how do you measure that, etc.

> This is exactly how most algorithm interview questions work.

The puzzles I think they're talking about are "here is a theoretical problem, find the optimal solution". Like "you have X eggs and need to find the highest floor you can drop them from without them breaking" or the classic "implement a doubly linked list with a single pointer" despite the fact _almost nobody_ would actually implement that.

I'm talking about giving an actual issue they're likely to face and talking through it. Maybe that's "how would you implement user flow for X, given that we've got institutional customers with multiple clients" or "we need to do rate limiting and have X servers, how would you go about that?". For the latter that might go into a discussion on what the problems are with different approaches in complexity, what the cost is of letting someone exceed their rate, of cutting someone off early, etc. Those aren't really my field so maybe the questions are a bit off, but the point is can they contribute to a discussion on the way forwards on a problem which represents something they will realistically face.
Yep, you could punch holes in them and put them into binders. Their size was just right for this. Supposedly, it was a perfect way to keep them organized.
So I think you should define what you mean by "green wire". The NEC allows EGCs, GECs, MBJs, and SBJs to all use green wire. They all serve different purposes, and only the GEC is connected to the Earth. Whether or not the GEC is present the EGC and MBJ/SBJ is what allows breakers to work properly.

The MBJ/SBJ is what bonds the neutral. This doesn't have anything to do with the Earth. This bonding has to be done anywhere between the origination of the circuit and the first overcurrent protective device.

The GEC is what connects to the Earth. This is used to stabilize voltage and to eliminate a difference in potential between metal parts during a high frequency event (like a nearby lightning strike or a transformer blowing up). This has nothing to do with the operation of breakers.
It's remarkable how closely this fits with a system at my company. Without close attention, things can spiral out of control faster than you can imagine.
I don’t think the pics in the article show a fully grown tree. According to the Wiki picture, this thing is an absolute unit (for a 8-10 year old plant): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia_tomentosa#/media/F...
The article doesn't really have enough examples or analysis to justify its categorization of network effects. It deserves a more clickbaity title like "6 runaway startups you won't see coming".
Maybe this is where the oil came from In the first place. A desperate attempt to dump co2 by a doomed civilisation in the deep past. Obviously not, but could make a good short story :)
More significantly, you can probably do things that no amount of entry-level engineers could do. The question is usually whether your (prospective) employer benefits from any of those things, whether they realise it or not.
Man thats just how things are now
Asymmetric encryption is great, but it means that all rebasing/transforming of edits has to be done client side. Having a homomorphic system would allow us to do some of this work server-side without revealing the documents themselves.
I agree, but the problem is when 1) those people have large enough numbers to be politically powerful, and even worse 2) when those people have convinced those people they've oppressed that they should be oppressed, so those victims join them in upholding the oppression. When #2 happens in sufficient numbers, I'm not really sure what the answer is, except to lead by example.
hahah, they piss me off sometimes though
Is there any way to download them all? Ebooks are very small so it shouldn't be a problem to make an archive, or at least have a way to use curl/wget to download them all from a directory.
Yeah, that's a jab at Sage Sharp, who accused Linus on LKML of "advocating violence" when he said something like "Greg [Kroah-Hartman] is a giant and might squish you".
Finding the Golden Ratio with Python
Amazon Doesn’t Give a Shit, Huh?
I have written a Raft implementation in Java. If anyone from the Kafka project wants it, please contact me. It's not open source, but I own it and could make it so.
Same with the area around Golden Gate Park in SF, being close to so much well-maintained and curated nature is delightful. The place is a real treasure.
> Or as an unnecessary end of statement character to clutter up your code with.

To the benefit of compiler writers, in detriment of everyone else.
It's important to note that what they really mean is most cash-rich of companies for which public information is available. There are some state owned enterprises around the world that might be able to beat this amount of money even if they don't have the name recognition of Google or Apple.

Saudi Aramco may soon be publicly traded, so we have some information on them, but what is interesting is that while we know they are more profitable than Alphabet, we aren't sure exactly where they are putting all their money. It could be going to a holding scheme that could very well top Alphabet in terms of cash on hand.

There is probably a Russian entity that gives Alphabet a run for its money as well.
When it comes to AC (even discontinuous DC), closed loops are not necessary for current flow. A basic example is a capacitor, which can permit current while it builds up an electric field between is plates. A related example is an antenna, where AC radiates energy that can vibrate electrons in a far away antenna. (Radio telescopes are proof an antenna doesn't need a ground or a closed circuit to receive.)
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> This is how Project Gutenberg is able to publish all these science fiction stories from the 50s and 60s.

Interesting. I was wondering how Project Gutenberg put Robert Sheckley's stories on-line (and why only some and not all of them): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2960

It also highlights again, how crazy copyright term has become, and that it needs a serious rollback to sane levels.
The required holding period for qualified dividends in the US is typically 60 days, not 1 year.

(It's 90 days for preferred shares.)
I think you are on to something. I grew up in west Texas and while there was no canopy there were/are vast untouched lands of native grasses. I still get the benefits described when I go out there.
He's right and you are not.

If you don't bond neutral and ground at the main, it's still bound at the transformer.

> then the current will flow through the ungrounded conductor,

No, it will flow through the grounded conductor.

> back to the source (usually a transformer), across the windings, and eventually back to the breaker that controls the circuit

The flow of power is the same via ground as it is via neutral.

> This will build up enough current (usually VERY fast, like milliseconds)

There is no such thing as "build up enough current", current does not "build up".

The milliseconds has to do with built in time delays at breakers, it's not a function of the electricity.

> The Earth has nothing to do with this

The actual Earth is used as a conductor, so yes, it definitely has something to do with this.
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I hate when journalists confuse correlation with causation. It's one of the most basic things you have to know to be be capable of writing about science and the fact that they failed the first step tells me they shouldn't be journalists.
Finally somebody said it. Yes it is hard. Zookeeper is time tested and I don't think there is anything revolutionary to keep state less than 2n nodes. Either Kafka will compromise on consistency or give a solution which is as performant as Zookeeper. May be they are looking for something which is more specific to Kafka and can be done in a much easier algorithm than Zab?
The three wires in any typical household circuit are your Ungrounded Conductor (hot wire), Grounded Conductor (neutral wire), and Equipment Grounding Conductor (EGC/Ground Wire). The hot and neutral are what actually makes the circuit work. The EGC/ground is a safety measure that creates a ground fault current path which enables overcurrent protective devices (like breakers and fuses) to operate.

As far as learning common electrical, I'm sure local organizations in your area will have some kind of classes. Probably local hardware stores? I don't know. I learned through trade school and on-the-job training. As an electrician, I will self-servingly tell you that you should always hire a licensed electrician.
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His motive is fair game when we're discussing his credibility as a source or information.