skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think state and federal subsidy is a big part of it too. Texas invested a lot of money in power transmission infrastructure to get that wind energy to major cities: https://www.texastribune.org/2013/10/14/7-billion-crez-proje...
The worry was that gusts would blow the trains off the track when crossing the Golden Gate. The trains were made wider for stability. The line across the Golden Gate was never built.
Three Hours with John Hempton of Bronte Capital
> We have ensured that failovers for this cluster may only be initiated during rare, scheduled downtime, when there will be no impact on customers.

I hope all their hardware crashes are also scheduled when there will be no impact... This seems a bit backwards - unless you constantly exercise the instantaneous failover, how do you know it works?

Edit: Actually it's worse - if you don't test the instant failover under a full load, how do you know it's still instant then?
Yes, fires are one of the main problems that a safe deposit box protects against. But Bucephalus355 seemed to be ignoring them already by considering just having a safe onsite.
Why is it that when we see the unintended yet predictable and easily understood consequences of a policy, in this case monetary policy, all the blame goes to those whose decisions were influenced by that ill-advised policy in that predictable and easily understood way? This doesn't strike me as a good way to avoid bad policy in the future.
I also had an early accidental contact with HyperCard, and sort of learned the basics without knowing it. I was looking for something equivalent to show my 12 year old, who is into Minecraft and generally open minded about learning geeky stuff (they've had Sketch and electronics basics in school, likes to plays with LEDs, 3d print, etc). I found Sketch a bit too limited, despite a few attempts, it didn't work out for me.

I don't know much about game programming, but we ended up exploring Unity 3D. There are tons of videos online, it works well under Linux, and you can do lots of different things with limited programming. Probably not perfect, it's just for playing around, but curious to hear other experiences.
I find the logic here really interesting. When you participate in a buy-one-get-one-free offer, you "leave with things you didn't pay for". So imagine these scenarios:

You go to a greengrocers. The lady at the checkout sees you basket of 27 grapefruit and can't be bothered to do the maths, says "let's call it 5 [relevant currency]". You know you have something in the region of 7 relevant currency, but she insists she won't take a button more.

You go to the supermarket. The tills are misconfigured, a 10[currency] box of chocolates is coming up as 0.1[currency] [1]. You're buying 5 of them. The cashier has no facility to charge you more - whatever the system says is a divine edict as far as the company is concerned.

You go to the supermarket. You're walking by the main doors with your trolley when a fire alarm goes off; smoke is billowing from the back of the store, sprinklers are activated. In the blind panic, you - and your trolley - are pushed outside. After half an hour, they announce that the store will not be reopening. You tell security that you have not paid for your shopping, they gruffly request that you take it home and make use of it rather than litter the car park with rapidly defrosting frozen items, as nobody is allowed back in the building.

In most of these cases, you could probably pay the correct amount by queueing at another till, at another time, date, at your own time and cost. For the benefit of someone who doesn't care enough about the profit margin to worry.

These are much closer than your employer-theft analogy - I don't think that the parent poster's moral standpoint is at all far away from any of the above. In fact, the only difference is that because it's a technical "glitch" with no humans involved, you clearly feel you're supposed to go the extra mile to rectify the seller's mistakes, caused by the seller failing to invest sufficiently in the system.

I certainly wouldn't judge someone making any of these calls, regardless whether I personally would go that extra thankless mile.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/money-sa...
I agree. Google nowadays show real SEO results below a huge amount of links. My entire blog is listing on 2nd pages, having the 100/100 pagespeed, best practices and 20 year domain record. Still I see the threshold around the 2nd/3rd page. Who goes there?
It doesn't make a lot of sense to discuss things that are totally subjective and can't be defined with a certain specifity.

- What is the definition of rudeness?

- How can rudeness be quantified and measured?

- What did the interviewee perceive as rudeness?

- Is the shown behavior correctly observed and classified as rudeness?
Right, but the difference is the last time all the major runtimes already supported Intel, due to it being the predominate architecture, so the software was ready and there was no performance cliff. You may need to hang on to your old Intel MacBook for a while if the software you have performance requirements for isn't available for ARM yet.
New paper points to soil pore structure as key to carbon storage
Dogs are happy no matter what. Poor things can lose their sight, hearing or/and ability to walk but they would still hapily wiggle their tails when pet

Most "cute" dogs out there are deformities that are breeded into a race
if those people who you work with are not performing why does your companies management keep the around?

I'm asking this question presently as a team lead.

We have a contributor who is a drain on just about every aspect of our team's operations. They frequently miss meetings, they don't seem to take instruction well (example I brought up once to another team member, this person will ask for help, cut you off constantly, suggest their way is better, or do the direct opposite of whatever recommendation you offer and spend days on a problem set delaying sprints), have delayed multiple projects, caused numerous production outages so on and so forth.

All of this combined has made trying to train this person or help them improve difficult and frustrating--very few on the team wants to work with them anymore.

It's not a secret among the team that this person just is not the contributor we need, and it's pretty evident from his reactions a few times that our department head is not pleased either, but he doesn't seem interested in letting this person go--none of us are quite sure how to have that talk with our leader that we think this person should be cut loose and a replacement found.

Suggestions on broaching that topic?
That sounds like it would be bulky, and I'd be worried about leaks. I also wonder how long such a (presumably) small quantity of water would stay cool for - do you have any more info or links about this?
At the bottom of the comments, a member of the Hypercard team said it was killed in 92, before Jobs returned.

There still is no free development tool out there that matches what Hypercard did in terms of power and ease of use. We're still coding with languages designed for constraints that disappeared decades ago.
Your question sort of misses the bigger problem: if you're a developer over a certain age (35? 40?) you're completely unemployable in many areas. If you expect to hang on for 10 years you are also expected to move up to management, otherwise employers assume there is something wrong with you and you will never get interviews.

Then you get the elites and the children of the elites who assume that everyone who didn't make a billion dollars by the time they turned 30 has some defect with them. These people will never hire old developers either.

It's a horrible attitude, but very pervasive in tech. Expect to move on from development by some point, figure out what else you want to do after that and start reading more books.
PHP dependency management (composer and packagist) got many things right, such as namespaces packages, lock files, proper autoloading, etc.
>I have to wonder what types of ailments Border Collies are prone to due to the inevitable inbreeding

The Wikipedia's page about Border Collies has a section about their common health problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Collie#Common_health_pr...
> I find it baffling how everyone talks as if inflation is some incomprehensible force of nature out of anyone's control, even though it's actually trivial to cause inflation by printing money and buying assets.

But that is literally the mystery about the contemporary economy. The Fed has been printing money like mad with "quantitative easing", with extremely low interest rates, and Congress helping them along with massive tax cuts, but this is having basically 0 impact on inflation rates. We're printing money like mad and it's seemingly having no effect on prices.
I could imagine Playgrounds app turning into such a thing
sharecropping strikes again, its basically a guarantee that if you make significant amounts of money off a platform, the platform is going to try to muscle you out.
I Launched a Product and Landed a Deal with Walmart
"Of the five cropping systems, only the two with high plant diversity resulted in higher levels of soil carbon."
Working breeds are, by and large.

Moreover, most animals are smarter than people assume.
"We've detected that you are not willing to execute arbitrary code we hand you. Would you like to proceed to legacy Twitter?"

[Yes]
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Thanks!!

My use-case was a bit different...

I am running Lambda functions on AWS that on some rules needed to run containers in specific geographical locations Amazon didn't have data centers, like in Israel.

Defining docker-machine (as you mentioned) requires some work.
Also it's not easily reproducible if I need to reinstall the machine and many other minor offsets.

To be honest, I heard about Portainer after I had my DockerServer running, but it has a lot of UI functionality I will never use and it's way heavier.

DockerServer is the lightest wrapper there is for running docker containers from remote over simple HTTP(S) and also I got A+ score on LGTM :)
Woah, 28C is way too hot, even if I'm naked!

For me, 21-22C is comfortable, but anything more than that will have me sweating and affect my productivity.

But even if I'm an outlier (I don't think I am?), 28C is surely too hot for most?
Premise 1: Pennywise The Dancing Clown is defined as the scariest clown that could possibly exist ("that for which no greater horror can be conceived" EDIT: "that clown for which no more horrifying clown could be conceived").

("Pennywise the Dancing Clown" is usually defined as "the clown from It". I'm repurposing the name for the sake of this argument. We need a name for "scariest possible clown"; I'm choosing "Pennywise".)

Premise 2: real things are scarier than imaginary things.

We can imagine Pennywise The Dancing Clown (he exists in understanding---you're welcome). A real Pennywise is scarier than an imaginary Pennywise (2).

Then, if Pennywise The Dancing Clown does not exist, we can conceive a scarier clown (a real Pennywise). This leads to a contradiction with respect to (1). Therefore by proof of contradiction, Pennywise the Dancing Clown must exist.

Where's the flaw in this argument? Does the same flaw apply in the theological argument?
How would you handle ci/cd with docker compose on an ec2 instance?
Survival in chessland [pdf]
At high school back in 1984, my year 9 math teacher (Larry Doolan) read us excerpts from "Stories about Sets" by N. Ya. Vilenkin (1968) [0].

The book's first story is about a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. It is fully booked, then one new guest arrives. Fortunately a solution is found. Then an infinite number of new guests arrive. After some head-scratching, a clever solution is found. Finally an infinity of infinite numbers of new guests arrive. And a lot of head-scratching, an even cleverer solution is still found!

[0] https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Stories_About_Sets.ht...
> why do we need to find a reason?

A reason for what?
Depends on the currency. If you can get hold of €500 notes, you can fit quite a lot of money in a small space:

> Tests by the Serious Organised Crime Agency found it was possible to carry €25,000 in €500 notes in a cigarette packet, €300,000 in a cereal box – £1 million in banknotes weighed 50kg while its equivalent in €500 notes only 2kg.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/the-500-note-a-...

Note that having that much in €500s may raise some questions.
Walmart helped to innovate the space. They did it mostly as a form of leverage, so they could apply pressure to brands that constantly seek to raise prices. Walmart will add or pull various Great Value products depending on if they want to punch a brand downward on price. So if Kraft insists on $2.50 for a box of Velveeta Shells, Walmart introduces a generic version of the same product at $1.10 and puts it right next to the Kraft product. They do the same thing throughout their store, not primarily targeting high margin products (of which they have few in their entire store), rather using it as a lid on pricing power for brands. Walmart makes very little on the Great Value brand products, however it helps them counter the exclusivity leverage that huge brands like Coke, Pepsi, Kraft, Mondelez, et al. have over them.

Amazon does seem to be using their basics system in a very different manner, from observing what products they're pushing and the prices they're charging.
How did you manage to separate it? I've been remote 2 years now, and I'm just now starting to become aware of how big of a problem this is.
Also, please have a look at how I use DockerServer:

https://github.com/freaker2k7/dockerserver#examples
Sure but then it becomes much more morally/ethically easy to justify running ad blockers (while allowing <ad/> through).

Hell at that stage Mozilla could probably justify rolling ad blocking lists in as a default as long as they allow the labeled ads through.

As you say the game will go on but maybe it the will be a more pleasant one to play.
No More Ransom started out with three founding partners -- Dutch Police [...]

Ironical since the Netherlands is a major source of dirty hosting. Bulletproof hosts love that country.
Even 10x this is still a drop in the bucket of the entire market...
If we take "extremely hot" as an example (let's say 40C), I actually find dry heat to be more unbearable than humid heat. I don't think I have any weird issues around sweating, and logically what you say makes a kind of sense, so I wonder why that might be?
What happens with Fargate if you need to SSH into the underlying instance? I haven't used it myself, and I'm not sure that it truly abstracts away the EC2 instance, but the description of Fargate always made me assume that to be the case.
Works for me? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why does the benchmark suite need so much RAM ?

I would expect benchmarks to match typical usage, if PyPy can't run in a couple of GB then choose a better language.
I'll cyte my brother who is a Phd currently teaching in top 5 Technical University in my country:

- "Listen, your year was pretty stupid, but you did manage"

- "Now, students are so bad they cannot even do a simple diff.."

I'm not afraid about the future. We are lacking here 50 000 software developers and this number will only grow because less and less finish studies or represent a decent skill level either way.
The author seems to attribute malice to the death of Hypercard, something akin to "programmers only stand to lose value if users can help themselves".

I think a far simpler explanation is not that control to the ability to program has been intentionally deprived from users, but rather that the vast majority of users have no wish to have such a tool, and that Steve Jobs recognized this.

I think that some proof of this exists: Excel, Visual Basic (and its formbuilder), Applescript, Autohotkey, etc all exist.

Those tools are all intentionally approachable, as was hypercard, and yet the vast majority of iphone users would not wish to deal with those tools or ecosystems. They would much prefer a company do something called "software development" and give them a working specialized application.

It seems more likely to me that Hypercard was eventually seen as a dead-end, not as a threat to the existence of selling apple software. Sure, you could spend significant effort on building a tool that is powerful for novice users (letting beginners create basic automation and forms easily), but less powerful for experts (providing less powerful design, abstraction, and programming features than more typical programming languages).
Visual Basic. (The non-.NET versions)
There are options. Scratch comes to mind. Stacksmith is well on its way.
confirmed back up
Worse: You got 17%, but inflation was 14%, and you had to pay taxes on the 17%. So even at 17%, you were still losing money.
Not really, brexit has been a very difficult discussion that has been taking too much time and not enjoyable for any politician because they have to take a side, which 50% of people will disagree.

Climate is something no one will disagree, so there's only one side, and it looks good to talk about it.
Surprising “Stranger Things” Facts
The refund for the amount you paid for the library is on its way.

Once again I'm reminded about that sentence someone once said. With random open-source libraries you're dealing with something someone else put out there just because they wanted to, having any kinds of expectations that someone will or won't do something is seriously short-sighted and even pretentious. Do you go around running random .exe-s you find from the internet? Why do you do so with the dependencies for your projects and expect a better end result? You may not like to hear this but it's true.

There's two solutions here, either you start reviewing the libraries you use, every release, or sign a support contract that obliges the maintainer to do something you want.
I deal with this by calculating the average sales per day and std deviation of each product and using that to pull products that might go out of stock in the next day.

The hard case is a slow moving product with 1 unit, you want to list it because it might be weeks before it sells, but you can’t predict when/where it will sell.
I'm not convinced corrosion under water is any problem at all. Typically problem is fouling from marine growth. That's what toxic anti-fouling paint is for.

Corrosion under water can't really happen as not enough oxygen is there. Over the waterline (and across the ship) - it's different story.
Unfettered capitalism tends towards collusion and consolidation, not competition.
I find it noteworthy that the author seems to be extremely confident that he’s right.
One should understand the concept of "yellow journalism:"

-scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news

- lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings

-use of faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudoscience, and a parade of false learning from so-called experts

-emphasis on full-color Sunday supplements, usually with comic strips

-dramatic sympathy with the "underdog" against the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

It emerged with discussing collectivism vs. individualism. We know who lost (i.e. 1989). Some people want to forget and rehash this stupidity. It's not clear if they understand that these ideas mean "war." When I retire in ~15 years I just want to catch fish with barb-less hooks, but the lunatics are making that prospect unlikely.
The article doesn't say the items weren't insured. Shame on you for victim-blaming.

It did talk about the sentimental value of a lifetime of collecting one-of-a-kind timepieces. That can't be replaced by an insurance payout.
Don't want to be rude (nor rehash old topics) but is pypy used that much to be considered important? People with performance goals go to C, whether its a library or some Cython.

Don't get me wrong, i love pypy and the rpython jit.
As team lead are you the persons manager? If so you should have every right to go to hr to either terminate or start a performance improvement plan.

If your a team lead with no hire/fire power you need to go to your department head (and rally those whoa agree with you to do the same) and be blunt. "X is is not performing to expectations on top of that the way X is not performing is disrupting, impeding, and alienating other members of the team and its now become not just a performance issue but one of employee attrition".

This makes it about X vs the rest of the team/department and allows him to clearly see what is actually at risk. Its very unlikely 1 person is so valued that a manager would accept major turnover in their department.
That is not Godel's ontological argument, that's Saint Anselm's.
PICO-8 might be worth investigating. It attempts to capture the experience of hacking on an 8-bit computer rather than something higher level. Also, it's cheap but not free.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
Not exactly. The methods to achieve these things in real time are new and evolving. It's not just a matter of hardware. Sure, you knew how to get the same end effect with raytracing ages ago, but the path from A to B is extremely different.
In the context of a thread about the precision of quantitative language, I feel obligated to raise an eyebrow (and type a comment about the raising of said eyebrow) at your use of "astronomical".
No, I am right, because I didn't say Apache Groovy didn't have lambdas, I said it still didn't have the Java 8 lambda syntax in response to the comment that Groovy was so "ruthlessly" Java-syntax compatible. So you are wrong about me being wrong.

> Netflix used Groovy

Does Netflix still use Groovy? You make it sound like they no longer use it for new coding projects. If they do, you should have written "Netflix uses Groovy" and said what they still use it for.
Um, pants suits for women are a thing. And skirt suits are SUITs. With jackets and shirts and everything.
How does the Dunning-Kruger effect affect people with imposter syndrome?
> Not sure if the green is original or added now to make the writings visible.

I'd bet on the "added now", possibly by 'shopping the image ...
In the article they state that it's potentially less economically productive to clear-cut due to all the other benefits the forest provides. Maybe they're talking about an idealistic economy where true costs are incorporated but is there any viability in paying people to NOT do their job?
There are kernels running in almost every piece of peripheral hardware you own. If you have a modern WiFi chipset, LTE baseband, or GPU it's certainly running an RTOS kernel. Once you switch to a packet-based protocol with multiple concurrent tasks (decode, packet receive, link negotiation, etc.), it just makes sense - either you're implementing timeslicing / scheduling on your own or you can let someone else do it.

The issue that causes poor video quality isn't that Apple chose to run XNU or use an SoC for their adapter, it's that they chose to use H.264 at a low bitrate due to hardware support constraints rather than another encoding scheme which could offer less lossy video.
Telegram's $1.7B Problem Coming in October – KYC/AML on Gram Tokens
(Of which 1,000,000 are slight variations of leftpad.)
> I contacted them via their support website, because there is obviously no number to call or an actual person to contact

That's weird, when I'm logged in I have the option to have Amazon call me. Perhaps only on consumer accounts not business accounts?

Did you try doing that, then asking to be transferred to the business team?
Had a Scottish Border Collie, was a fantastic dog. I remember the first week after I got my dog we took him near a field and the instinct immediately kicked in when he saw the sheep. Straight to the ground, eyes giving the wolf stare and ears alert.

Taught my dog to count to 4 with visual cues (fingers or chews).

Would love another Collie but sadly most work places in the UK aren't dog friendly.