skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I found that part the most concerning. Basically RWE don't have any clue why they tripped even more than a month on from the event, and apparently have to wait for their next scheduled outage to make progress? That's not good.

There also seem to be multiple faults at once that they don't know anything about. Turbine trip? No clue, could be bad sensors, could have been some actual physical problem in the turbine. Overpressure in the condenser? No clue, could be anything. Second generator tripped? Dunno boss.

Implies that don't have enough sensor coverage and are hoping to literally eyeball something wrong when they next open it up. Also implies they can't shut down their own plant to diagnose apparent faults in anything like a reasonable timeframe? Not good.

Also worth noting - Newcastle Airport were totally fine on their UPS but demanded to be considered a priority customer anyway, and that request was granted? Why? They clearly don't need to be, they have a working UPS!

Honestly I'd be sending this report back for more work if I were the boss guy receiving it. It's not good. Filled with repetition, bad grammar, missing information (why did London Underground shut down, what was this 'internal traction issue') and most seriously it leaves a gaping hole around Little Barford.
> Without JS, this page is blank.

Works fine in Dillo, which has no JS capability. Doesn't work in FF with NoScript.
How would you compare grid reliability to reliability of huge networks such as Google's or Facebook's? Scale might be comparable.
ShapeBots Simulator
Wait what? If you are a senior software engineer at a good company in Banglore you can easily make 40k - 60k USD an year. After taxes and expenses it becames equalent or better than salaries in most places except for San Francisco(USA), London and Singapore. USA is super hard for an Indian software engineer to immigrate. London is doable but for most of them it's not worth all the travel and staying away from family. People immigrate only if they makes way too much salary abroad compared to India which is hardly the case. Nobody is going to immigrate if they will save a few hundred dollars more a month. So good software engineers mostly immigrate for reasons other than salary (Like living in Europe etc).

Edit: Looks like even London don't offer good enough salary for a good software engineer when compared to cost of living.
It's one of the many, many sources of microplastics. Others include:

Anything made of plastic, because it deteriorates over time.

Tires with synthetic threads, as another HN poster mentioned recently.

Plastic shoes (most shoes in western world)

Glitter and car paint
It sounds like a ridiculous and misleading analogy.

I don't employ my waiter. The restaurant employs my waiter.

I would be perfectly fine with a restaurant paying a waiter slightly more in return for happier waiters - especially if it meant that I didn't need to feel that my tips were keeping food on the waiter's table, instead of the restaurant's pay.

But imagine this - suppose a waiter at a restaurant discovered the restaurant was making millions for the owners, while their pay was so low they could barely cover rent and other basics?

Does that sound reasonable to you?

That is exactly the situation many workers in the US and UK are in today.

Essentially there are two kinds of people - those who understand that this is a real problem, and those who don't.

The economy is run by those who don't - and it's much the worse for it.
Stallman did not defend any of Epstein's acts. He referred to Epstein as a "serial rapist", just not a pedophile.

RMS is a very literal thinker and he lacks tact for sure, but a defender of sexual predators he is not.
Is it possible Indeed is only counting base salary, and not stock and bonus?
I came across this simulator while doing research for my Weekly Robotics project[1] and found it very satisfying to watch. If you'd like to learn more about the project then here is the link to the publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03372 and a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPaof0kKdM

[1] https://weeklyrobotics.com/
They came in many flavours, but Cube Defense is fairly representative.

It's a bit like Tetris, in that the game proceeds in levels. Each level, a wave of enemies would run from their spawn point to the centre of the map. All you can do is build defense towers to kill them off as they run through your build area.

Most waves are ground units, and you can arrange your towers in such a way that those units must spend more time walking through your area, which means each of your towers can fire more times. Every so often there would be an air unit round, and this maze approach doesn't work. Some towers have special attributes, like slowing an enemy unit with cold damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeJ7IrE7aFA
Yeah, that one took me way back, too. Descent was the first time I'd ever done multiplayer gaming on a computer. I was maybe 12 or 13 and a guy in my neighborhood was some kind of software developer who would take me and my friend to his office on the weekends sometimes to play it on their networked computers.

Good times!
Here I am, still writing code every day after 45 years. One day, I'll figure out how to do it right, and so get promoted to incompetence.
Quite an ugly language syntactically. I like some of the features like support for literals of any base. But ES2019 is pretty awesome without adding much extra transpiling - I recommend the Elvis operator!

https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-proposal-optional-ch...
Check sheet.
Control chart.
Stratification (alternatively, flow chart or run chart)
Pareto chart.
Histogram.
Cause-and-effect diagram (also known as the "fishbone diagram" or Ishikawa diagram)
Scatter diagram.
BB paywalls can be bypassed by simply disabling JS (temporarily).
Most people underestimate the usefulness of location data. Do you can use location data to compute accurate credit scores? (better than what banks achieve). To predict health state?
Exactly. I commonly enroll in Coursera classes just to get access to the video lectures for later perusal for information relevant to my work and interests.
> It's like when people write entire programming languages for free. The job is so enjoyable that it lowers the salary to zero.

Dang, I thing you nailed it!

(I'd work on rocket engines for free, too!)
I would love a managed Kubernetes Deployment/Job/StatefulSet. Forget managing the cluster or the node, just allow me to "apply" a Deployment config with associated Service straight to the cloud. I will tell you my resource limits bill me accordingly.

I hope Google Cloud or AWS is working on that. That would have a much wider impact then Fargate.
I've directly found two jobs through HN, so already that's a massive benefit for me. Aside from that, I feel it's given me a much better grasp of both the breadth and depth of the tech industry.
Astronauts make cement in space for the first time
Asynchronous Generators and the Unix-like async piping pattern
Did they not lose you as soon as you read "blockchain"?

Their blockchain neither has block nor chain as I seem to recall. If the company is already lying in their whitepaper, what exactly are you expecting from the real thing?
Also in AU it's not often used to avoid copycats.

Generally news reports state "there were no suspicious circumstances" followed by a footer with phone numbers to crisis / help lines.
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I don't understand why number of shares would be useful. levels.fyi asks for stock grant value, not stock vest value.
Well you get all kind of software Engineers in India. Software engineers that make less than 8kUSD per year to software engineers that make more than 70k an year. You get what you paid for. And most of the times foreign companies pay lower than what a McDonald's employee make an hour in USA and expect back services of a software engineer that gets paid 100K+ USD in USA.
Religion should be taught in schools (debate)
hmm, i think that should only happens with moderator intervention. if it happens they'll see that your response was requested, so as long as it doesn't contain any rants or attacks it should be fine.
It's elitest to only learn about one religion - the one we are born into - and that too, in bits and pieces.

Okay, so my point is - the current methods via which we learn about religion are limiting and biased. All of us learn about only one religion - the one we are born into - and that too, in bits and pieces. Thus, we are a.) equipped with half-knowledge about our religion, and b.) criticize other religions without any knowledge about them. A deadly combination!

If religions would be taught in schools, everybody can realize that moral lessons are common across all religions. Just knowing this one fact will remove the elitist mindset that most of us grow up with.

The hypothesis is instead of teaching one religion to a kid, if he/she is taught about all religions and then asked which religion he/she would like to choose, chances are they will choose not to choose any one religion. And a generation later, we'll have a world free of religion-based hatred.
Comparing US salaries to Indian salaries or anywhere else for that matter is like comparing apples to oranges. $50k equates to 35 lakh rupee per annum which is considered a great salary in Indian standards.

I know of many good developers in India who earn less than this figure but are generally very content in their life. Stop trying to look at everything through the lens of silicon valley.
It us not. I programmed Accu controller. The best way is to track the enery coming in and out. Using only voltage is imprecise bevause the voltage/charge graph look a bit logarihmic, so the more charge you have, the more presision you need to have while measuring charge.This graph as well as total possible energy capacity and ability to Charge depend on Temperature. Also you normally have multiple cells that age differently.
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> i was only responding to your question whether there is any difference between the two beside the port number used which there is, in a significant way. You can not point a DoH client to a DNS over TLS server or vice versa. That said there is no reason a DoH server could not be recursive or consult a traditional (probably recursive) resolver for its response.

> I think the only benefit of DoH is that is unlikely to be blocked. Otherwise it feels more like a hack and at least i am not concerned about OSI models ;)

Thanks for the response, but I'm still a little confused. If you live in the DoH stack you must stay there sure, but the same apparently applies to the DNS over TLS. What to you exactly is hacky about the DoH method if you don't care about the layering violations?
Indeed. In apps lazy loading is something you add when you need it. But for kernels, it’s the first problem you tackle: how to pick yourself up with your bootstraps.
Booting is tricky now, and it always has been. Right back to the early machines that were booted by manually entering machine code via switches.

Interestingly AWS virtual machines still boot in 16-bit mode, then bootstrap up through 32 and then 64 bit modes, last I heard.
That example gif at the top - the way faces blend between reminds me of camouflage effect from "A Scanner Darkly" film
“Hello, world” from scratch with a microprocessor [video]
Z performs coercion, but it's coercion rules make more sense than JavaScript's:

"9" + 2 # ==> 11
"9" ++ 2 # ==> "92"

Yeah, that just doesn't make things better
You are assuming that everyone hires only the best or need only best programmers. Starting with "good" and then in the middle you go with "best".

Stop rolling this lie about "only the best", there is a place for less skilled people. There is also no measure of "the best developers". Because of this lie, hiring in IT is broken, because people who belive that and are recruiting, shit on people who want to find a job.
Ah, but then I can learn R2 by simply sending F enough R1, no?
I think it's something I could tolerate sacrificing if the storage gains were substantial.
yup, aggression is common two strange adult cats meet, not to mention when the new cat talks in a different dialect like bengals do.

With five cats, he will need six computers at least. I wonder if bengals are so warm lovers as the common african domestic cat.
You hit the nail on the head and I'm going to shamelessly steal the last sentence because it's a great turn of phrase.

Imagine you ran a class with 90% casual users wherein 80% of serious users finished and 10% of casuals. Out of 1000 users 170 would finish or 17%.

Charging increasing amounts of money would drive away increasingly large number of casual users while increasing completion rates.

By the time you get rid of all your casual users you will have an 80% competition rate while halving the number of people who take the class to completion and decreasing the number who learn something by 90%.

Maybe we can measure the relative preparation of incoming students who participated in moocs vs those who did not to better understand how much people benefit?
While Lambda is sold as “functions as a service” I have on several occasions made the particular function being served the router for a Ruby web application - with the Ruby runtime there’s really nothing stopping you running a complete Rails app in Lambda other than size limitations once you add a few too many gems.
How I learned to cycle like a Dutchman
Quoting from the section that you linked to:

> When a bank issues a loan of $1000 to a customer, they debit the customer's loan account with $1000 and at the same time they credit the customer's deposit account with $1000, ready for using. The bank now has a new asset of $1000 and a new liability of $1000.

So ... do you have a source that supports your claim rather than mine?
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Wrong.

The relevant law (art. 3 WZG[0]) requires persons to accept all banknotes (and up to 100 coins per transaction) as payment, but this only applies after a contract has been formed. It's perfectly legal for any store to indicate to customers that it will not accept large-denomination notes or cards[1]. If the customer is not willing or capable to pay using the accepted means of payment, no contract is formed, and the chewing gum remains with the store.

[0] https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/19994336/...

[1] https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/geschaefte...
How about making all the content viewable without signing up for the class instead of a checkbox.
Agree with you with the necessity of diversification.
The issue is not Facebook issuing its own crypto but rather the potential control we let it take over.
I believe that the same reason related to control that an entity can people on people (combined with the new technology) helped to originate bitcoin.
The need to ensure no one ( including governments) deciding people's life by manipulating own belongings (by tax or rates manipulation).
That's a the same anarcho- libertarian logic approach here. Anyone should be able to decide whether or not putting your eggs in the same basket.
The Houthis only control the northwestern part of Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia. Though that represents a lot of the population, stabilizing control over the entire country is difficult when fighting on two fronts and being bombed, as they’ve been for more than four years, and with Saudi Arabian support to their opposition readily available over the border. The Saudi bombing/blockade/invasion operation “Decisive Storm“ in 2015 failed, but the followup “Restoring Hope” operation is ongoing.

Also, the Houthis had launched around 200 previous drone attacks against Saudi in retaliation; this one was just significantly more successful, as opposed to a new campaign.

In 2015, when the Saudi’s intervened, a UN assessment asserted that there was no evidence of Iran having any “command and control” over the Houthis at the time.

If intervening in the Yemeni civil war on the side of a losing faction and bombing indiscriminately earned Saudi Arabia the Houthi’s enmity, pushed them closer to Iran, and resulted in an effective reprisal, the moral of the story would seem to be that actions have consequences and rashly attempting regional hegemony carries risk.
Is the main difference between dnscrypt vs DoH/DNS over TLS (ignoring layering choices) that dnscrypt uses a web of trust approach whereas the others piggy back on regular PKI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCrypt#Protocol
As I understand in the US a purchase is not the same thing as a debt, i.e. nobody has to accept any particular type of currency for a purchase, only for a debt. Is Switzerland really different here?
Single blade is relatively common, it's tracking across which isn't.
Does cubic poo help the wombat in any way?

Does it use poo cubes to build things?

Edit:. A quick internet search suggests they poop in high up places to mark territory, and presumably the more typical round poop would fall off high up rocks and be a bad marker.
The measure of wealth is time
Stallman never made that point.

If I am wrong, please quote how Stallman's writings support your statement.

He wrote:

> I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it is absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation.

This is wrong because there are many jurisdictions where "sexual assault" is the correct accusation, as defined specifically by law.

The best argument he could make is that "sexual assault" doesn't apply here, not that is it "absolutely wrong". (I think he's wrong, which I will get to in a moment.)

That is my point. It is not absolutely wrong. It has a legal definition which is about as well understood as "copyright."

Remember, he specifically rejected your argument that we need to look to a specific jurisdiction:

> “I think it is morally absurd to define “rape” in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”

I have looked for, but failed, to find what "sexual assault" means in the context of US VI law. It is used in the law but not defined.

However, it is defined in US law as "any nonconsensual sexual act proscribed by Federal, tribal, or State law, including when the victim lacks capacity to consent." - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/34/12291#a_27 (34 U.S. Code § 12291 (29)).

Second degree rape with a minor who is under the age of consent is therefore correctly characterized as "sexual assault".

I regard sex with a sex slave to also be sex with someone who cannot consent. However, I have not looked up that law.

For your argument to be true - as I understand it, you mean that Stallman is specifically writing about US VI law - do you not assume that Stallman consulted those legal sources first, before writing his email?

Because I don't believe he did, as what he wrote shows he has no clue about what "sexual assault" means, both in the general US context and specifically in the US VI context.

I believe I have cited my sources, both with respect to Stallman and the relevant US law. Please do the same now and show how your interpretation of Stallman is backed up by his statements.

On top of that, Stallman presumes the 17 year old was "entirely willing". However, the law prohibits willingness from being a consideration when determining some sorts of sexual assault, including second degree rape of a minor.

For his argument to have merit, he must show that the woman was meaningfully able to grant consent, and could grant consent. He did not do that, which supports my belief that he does not understand the relevant law in the way he would have to be able to make the argument you seem to suggest he's making.
In every thread: people finding reasons to simply bash Indians and looking down on them.

Just because of your interactions with few Indians and had a bad experience from those working in mega service companies like Infosys, Wipro doesn't mean everyone's a worthless engineer
We’re working on this at my workplace as a pre-requisite to a widespread deployment of Fargate, its the only blocker on moving out of Heroku for a large distributed system.

The approach I’m going with is to have an EC2 host attached to the ECS cluster which people can schedule interactive tasks on. Coupled with some scripting (maybe a Lambda function if I decide to get fancy) we can then start a task for any given service on the instance with the same environment and IAM role, but with a command like /bin/yes just to keep it alive. Once that’s running users can SSH to the host instance and docker exec into the container for whatever command they actually wanted to run.

It’s quite a bit more involved than Heroku’s run command, but initial prototypes seem to indicate it’ll work once we wrap it in some tooling.
Agreed, I would want some additional criteria for consideration for a number of these, for example when it comes to news I would want interview transcripts or links to such things to affect ranking, similarly links to scientific papers. Avoiding certain a number of common reasoning errors (such as equivocation) or stats errors (such as not considering biased sampling or even not considering sampling size at all when making points) should also be required for top quality.
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Religion is taught in school here in the UK.

It certainly not about converting people or asking them which one they want to choose (that would be scandalous) but to foster cultural knowledge and understanding.

Moreover, certainly we don't all have a religion, it would be quite unacceptable to assume that we have.

The gripe I have with it in the UK is that they start too really, as it starts in primary school, at a time when many children are not even clear whether Santa or unicorns, etc are real or not.

It would be better to wait a bit and to teach children reasoning, critical thinking, and science first.
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The creepiness factor this could enable would be out of this world ... you could set this up to point out people who you’d swiped on Tinder, cam girls you were planning to harass, people who’d been doxxed and you wanted to confront, etc etc etc. Brave new world.
Not to mention the benefits that comes from a government job in India.
The Constitution limits what the government can do, not private citizens or corporations.
I have done research on moocs. I think this article is a relic of it's time (2014). While some people are still focused on completion rates, I think many researchers have moved on to instead focus on other topics.
Lage der Nation had a really good summary of Libra and summarized a lot of the concerns, especially on why this is not a case where you can let them do their thing, and regulate afterwards, when you've gathered some experience:

https://www.kuechenstud.io/lagedernation/2019/07/26/ldn150-p...

Of particular concern is the scale to which this can be bootstrapped by having the tech giants involved.
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Thank you for sharing -- these are great. I'm always impressed with this style of tutorial which distills a useful lesson into a single image or GIF. These are very clear, interesting, and informative!

There is another game studio that I've been following which does a good job with this tutorial technique as well (Couch Game Crafters). One great example of their work demonstrates creating a shader for animating the visual effect of a toaster moving through a cartoonish pipe [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/CouchGameCraft/status/100797028441722470...
That's just what free means, isn't it? The cost is separate from money.

I don't think it's hidden that you have to study in order to learn.
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Dominos’ taste varies between country. Far better than the grease in a box from Pizza Hut, and the local pizza place is horrible.

Had a dominos in Singapore, it was awful compared to the UK. I’ve not had one in the US