skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Underground lines are subject to animals burrowing through them, backhoes digging them up, etc.

If the power is transmitted AC, then the insulation gets heated up as the alternating current interacts with the surrounding ground. If the ground is below the water table, the losses get high. The underground power cables in our neighborhood are in wet ground, and recently had to be dug up because the insulation failed.

In Norway, they use DC to transmit power out to oil platforms as it does not have this problem.
Scientists Found New Antibiotic Molecules–Right in the Human Microbiome
Not sure how to edit, but for those who don't understand this comment, Zoffix was a key Perl6 contributor who recently left because the community and Larry Wall wouldn't change the name to something else like "Raku" among other things I guess. Now that they have made this change, I'm curious if he'd ever come back and start running the test suites again.
Matt Levine is the man.
100+ 9.7 iPads,20+ iPad Pros, and about a bakers dozen of iPad Minis less less than 6 months old all have reported a 33 to 50% shorter battery life. Fucking wonderful iPadOS, same old apple bull shit.
This is why I kind of admire the biblical myths; their selective details and smoky metaphors have proven incredibly resilient to new truths, and invite so much speculation.

The garden of eden could be in some far flung galaxy, from which we “life”, were expelled as microbes, thanks to the sins of relatives we wouldn’t recognize. The rib of Adam could symbolize the arbitrary evolution of sexual reproduction from asexual origins. The forbidden fruit could represent some inevitable nuclear holocaust spurred on by some intra-species conflict, which prompted life to be cast out and begin on another planet. Something unique about our shape of life means that we’re stuck in a cycle of destructive evolution that cannot be saved from itself, excepting for the divine intervention of some less imperfect shape of life.

Anyways, I’m rambling! I hope this sparks somebody’s theological-scifi bug and produces a mildly entertaining narrative in somebody else’s head. :)
Yes, you should have a DR scenario.

No, you should not need to use it because an aws product is a piece of shit.
I lived in California and Michigan. In most of the ways that matter it's not that different.
I think that if one were to draw the line between tolerant and intolerant ideologies, that line shouldn't be drawn based on the content of the ideology but rather how that ideology spreads. Specifically, based on this quote

> they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols

The only ideology, the only Belief, that should not be tolerated is the belief that ideology must spread through violent means.

That in and of itself is a belief, but it is a belief that can be discussed through rational argument, and only calls upon violence when all else fails.
Wait, are you proposing that we go from "call their 800 hotline, sit on hold for 30 minutes," to "your account has been permanently disabled for violating Facebook’s Terms. We will not reactivate it for any reason. This will be our last email regarding your account."[0] ?

This does not make sense. Looks like even your credit card is vastly more trustworthy than Facebook!

[0] http://www.optimizationtoday.com/what-i-learned-when-faceboo...
I disagree. I watched a movie.
Question for all of y'all: what would happen if an Olympic athlete expressed or signalled a strong political view (beyond just "my country good, your country bad") during an official Olympic ceremony?
No yes, I know is necessary. BuzzFeed News [1] is a well-respected award-winning investigative journalism outlet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News
The equal protections clause of 14th amendment prohibits unequal application of the law. The business next door can do anything they please with their building lawfully, but the protected landmark building is prohibited by law from doing the same things. There's literally a set of separate set of much more restrictive laws the owner of a protected landmark has to follow that a business not similarly affected does not.

Obviously much less is at stake here than having a separate set of laws for whites vs blacks, but it's the same principal.
Interviewing, recruiting and mentoring are good work. If you want to be nerd in a corner, stay junior.
This paper is rather biased, in that the downsides to stackless coroutines are not mentioned, namely a more complicated control flow and associated increased difficulty of debugging.
You can set this preference by going to the Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts. Select the account you want to adjust on the left, and in the first "Account Information" tab, there should be a pop-up for Download Attachments: [All, Recent, None]. The default for newly added accounts is "Recent".
Wish bigwigs would keep it brief and to the point. This was all I need to
hear:

> official broadcasts [should] remain focused on the game and are not a
> platform for divisive social or political views.

Same goes with NFL and the kneeling. Just say "hey, we're a business" and
leave it at that. Hate all the moralizing.
I feel like smartphones make people coordinate, not plan.
domain fronting basically transfers the burden of availability to another player. It wont last long. China blocked the whole IP block of Google, FB and Twitter. And AWS IPs are actively blacklisted.
I've been laid-off a couple times (and in one case was on the verge of possibly being laid off, but thankfully found employment elsewhere before that had a chance of happening). I "bounced back" with a combination of persistence, patience, a decent support network, networking, unemployment benefits, and a hell of a lot of luck.

I will say that it absolutely sucks all around. The longer you go without finding a new job, the harder it becomes to get past the suspicious-looking gap in your employment history. Unemployment benefits only cover a portion of your previous pay, and they take awhile to start flowing in (if they're ever approved at all). It's easy to blame yourself (and I still do blame myself). You're left feeling like a complete failure.

I managed to squeeze by thanks to family and being able to take odd-jobs here and there to pay the bills. It's at least slightly easier to justify those gaps if you can claim that you were "freelancing" instead, so that's exactly what I did, in the meantime sending applications and résumés everywhere I could only to get rejections (or - worse - no response at all).

Even now, having had my current job for awhile now, it still weirds me out when I actually get praise. Every time I'm pulled into some one-on-one with my boss I get a sinking feeling of "welp, time's up, better polish off the ol' curriculum vitæ" only for those fears to be unfounded. I guess "impostor syndrome" is a thing, but my brain at this point is trained to believe that I actually am an impostor and am pretending to have impostor syndrome to rationalize my incompetence.

So I guess objectively-speaking I "bounced back", but it sure as hell doesn't feel that way.
Reads like a typical corporate response. Sanitized by lawyers, PR, and executives. It says nothing substantial. It's trying to ride the middle ground but it's just flat out contradictory in the face of their actions these past few days.

Very sad. Whatever piece of the original Blizzard may have been left in Irvine is surely on life support from the beating that Activision has been giving it for the last decade(s).
> no fundamental philosophical or existential questions would be resolved

If you don't consider "does life exist on other planets?" to be a fundamental, existential question, can you share an example of what you do think is such a fundamental question?

Finding life on Mars wouldn't necessarily resolve any fundamental questions, but it would open up a whole new realm of questions. Is it similar to life on Earth? How similar? Is there evidence for or against some form of panspermia? (at its most extreme, life arriving on Earth from outside the solar system, but this could also be life arising on Earth and being transported to Mars via impact ejecta, or vice versa)

Also, lots of worthwhile science is done even though it doesn't have an immediate and obvious impact on everyday life. I can't think of any particular way in which the discovery of gravitational waves has changed my life, for example - but I recognize that the work that's gone into it has advanced human knowledge, and probably will indirectly benefit my life (or my descendants' lives) in ways I can't predict.
> Who is going to define that line?

It will be defined through rational argument.
I live close to an airport that has a lot of commuter/short-haul routes. The Dash 8 is popular. Once you look at the Twin Otter and the Dash 8 side-by-side, you can't ever unsee the similarities! Now I just see these giant Twin Otters coming through every day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-6_Twin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_Dash_8
Used to work in AWS. ES was always a bad org with crazy attrition, none of this surprises me.
I recommend MacKinnon's The Once and Future World, which talks about the world before our population exploded and overtook the world. It's shocking how much more untouched nature there was, or however I should describe it.

Fish were so dense in the ocean that boats would come to a halt in the middle of the Atlantic. Coral reefs several stories high and miles long. Lions roaming North America larger than in Africa. Armadillo-like animals the size of cars. Plenty more.

I did a couple video essays on it:

- http://joshuaspodek.com/your-daily-environment-009-the-once-...

- http://joshuaspodek.com/your-daily-environment-010-the-once-...
Because the false positive rates are still rather high as there's no universal and foolproof definition of what behavior reliably tags people as bots.
Just to be clear the comment you’re replying to is an intentional invocation of the so-called “14 words” : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
You mean like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salu... ?
> can Telegram just give back $1B to all american participants of the project and continue the process?

That’s called disgorgement of proceeds. There are also usually fines and agreements not to break the rules again.

In this case, however, it would be tough to ensure no future buyer of these securities is American. (To say nothing of Telegram having raised U.S. dollars and so falling under U.S. jurisdiction.)
Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'
That response would unequivocally make the situation worse.
Empty Day: A day of social media silence happening tomorrow
It is - the book of Matthew, specifically.
Can we get a slim version that still fits on regular CD? I'm not going to need all that shit for a recovery CD
If it were organic, we would not know if that life evolved independently from life on earth though. So, again finding non-intelligent organic life elsewhere doesn't answer the question of where did we come from.

Simply verifying distance between two similar things isn't a sufficient variable to answer questions about distinctiveness of origin.
No surprise. The revolution will not be international clearing housed.
Please don't post here again.
> For some reason

Giving you the other side of this: Podcasts was essentially a disk-space-leak made app, if you subscribed to any podcasts that you never actually listened to (but still listened to others, and therefore regularly opened the app.) It would just pile up new unplayed episodes forever, eventually taking up tens of GBs of space, on a device that doesn't have all that much space to spare.
The point of landmark status is that they can't do stuff like that. The planning will get turned down.
Thank you for sharing this. That is... What an incredible thing to think about. For > 6 years, the CCP may have been using _WoW_ to _literally spy_ on it's citizens and Blizzard would've been _completely complicit_. What's maybe most surprising to me, sitting here today with the benefit of hindsight, is how much that simple comment says about the rest of the 2010 decade that proceeded it. How it all _looks_ true and how the veil seems to be lifting so quickly (on how far reaching the CCPs influence is).
Whats the common origin of organic life again?
Since the site isn't that clear, the protocol is narrow-channel 802.11n on the amateur 5.9 GHz band. I wonder if the net throughput or range are any better than using the unlicensed 5.8 GHz band.
One of the very awkward things about things you can't say is they often come in opposite pairs.

So for example, you can't say that physicists are on the whole clearly working with more intellectual horsepower than literature majors. You also can't say that STEM folks tend to be some of the most blindly religious (though not about "religion") and closed-minded folks in the academy, with some of the most strongly held unexamined beliefs at the core of their epistemology and personal identity. Despite being unsayable, both these things are true.

Skepticism, self-awareness and self-doubt, leading to contemplation, thoughtful uncertainty, wisdom or enlightenment... it may be just as possible to find all these things through pure mathematics or physics as through comparative religion, literature, or philosophy, but it surely isn't as common. Regardless, wherever you look, they will be rare.
because it is a mail "app" and not a mail "service" that has access to my emails and sells my data.
Yes. It's hypocritical. It's very easy to see through.
Is this really good news? Are we safer for it or less safe? I'm not sure we even know the answer to that because the tech is so young. I hate to see immature tech banned before it gets refined into something useful, because version one of something always sucks.

I know that people here have a knee-jerk privacy big-brother is watching reaction, and I have that too. But beyond that I want to think if it was something that could have been beneficial to society or not.
Just look at all the comments that got turned to grey. I bet there are patterns, and if looked over a long period of time, would seem like fashions too.
the decision will be made through rational argument. if you are not willing to debate or argue then your position is forfeit (I.E. you are the one with the intolerant philosophy).
That's not any way to calculate Kolmogorov complexity. That's comparing the length of the two shortest programs that you could write to do digit multiplication and pathfinding in Starcraft.
Nope, there's not enough work to go around for that many rats.
It's harder to take pride in that kind of citizenship work when your company keeps making these kinds of top-down decisions.
1. That line would still be hard to draw

2. I know many ideologies that most people would consider "intolerant" but would fall under the "tolerant" umbrella because there's a rationalization for its intolerance. In fact, any ideology, as violent as it might be, can be rationalized.

While it is also technically possible to discover the underlying, hidden 'intolerance' of an ideology, society at large is not capable of doing that, simply because moral issues are some of the most complicated questions in the world.

We would never achieve a consensus about the underlying tolerance/intolerance of ideologies, because if we could do that, we would have already done it and we wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
To the author: Have you tried Linux? It's not a rental OS like those other ones, you actually own it! It's great, give it a shot and be amazed!
The link between birdsong and language
RedHat Dismisses CFO
I agree, it's harmful, there should be other career paths that don't require it. But from the perspective of the employer, it's way more economically valuable. I think that's when you know it's time to go to a smaller company.
I don't know if we can call this "sharing core western values" without diminishing what it really is. From what I've read and what I've been told by people who lived there for a few months, I believe man/woman equality is much more important in Rojava than it is in Europe or in the US. Maybe not in principle but clearly in practice.
Managing expenses is only a pain because my company doesn’t trust me when I tell them I spent $20 on a meal. And have to give them both a digital, and then physical (signed!) receipt.
I havent tried E series - might be worth hitting think pad subreddit (or something equivalent) and asking about it. The ones I mentioned are from personal exp so I'm pretty confident about those.
> I live in a socialist state

I would bet you do not, but out of curiosity, what state is that?
Keep an eye out for an EU distributor of ours -- probably sometime late this month / early next if all goes well...
> Everybody intolerant thinks of themselves as a fundamentally tolerant person, whose hand has regrettably been forced by the unforgivable actions of the enemy tribe.

This is 100% not true.
Oof! Thanks for the warning. I care about my podcast archives and I suppose this means I should figure some alternative out. I think most podcast apps don’t bother keeping the downloads around long-term.
> If this had been the opposing viewpoint delivered in the same divisive and deliberate way, we would have felt and acted the same.

So now some Chinese player should make a statement praising China and condemning Hong Kong.

(But I've already said it: with Blizzard controlling a huge money market in WoW and China being big on farming that gold all day every day, there's zero chance Blizzard would give that up.)
What, no mention of ALH84001? I was mesmerized by the live TV press conference by a large group of NASA scientists back in 1996 of evidence of life on Mars from the analysis of a meteorite:

"Scientists headed by David McKay of the JohnsonSpaceCenter in Houston found that the rock, called ALH84001, had a peculiar chemical makeup. It contained a combination of minerals and carbon compounds that on Earth are created by microbes. It also had crystals of magnetic iron oxide, called magnetite, which some bacteria produce. Moreover, McKay presented to the crowd an electron microscope view of the rock showing chains of globules that bore a striking resemblance to chains that some bacteria form on Earth. “We believe that these are indeed microfossils from Mars”"[1]

I was disappointed that the story fizzled out. One microbiologist concluded that bacteria from Earth had "contaminated the Mars meteorite. Other scientists pointed out that nonliving processes on Mars also could have created the globules and magnetite clumps." But I don't think life is ruled out. This meteorite is hanging in as a "just maybe" like the Viking mission discovery.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/life-on-mars-7...
The Paradox of Tolerance is just a rephrasing of the Paradox of Pacifism. I'm not convinced it brings anything ideologically new to the table.

I'm not a pacifist, and by extension, I don't believe we should tolerate everything. I agree with Karl. But I still get very suspicious of people who bring this quote up, because they're arguing about something very basic that pretty much everybody already knows, and they're not answering the more important question: which things should we violently oppose, and how should we oppose them?

Most people already don't believe that we should tolerate 100% of literally everything, and the people who do are not going to be convinced by an argument they've already heard 1,000 times. I promise that pacifists already know how sometimes violent people kill pacifists. Advocates for universal tolerance already know that their philosophy can be abused. This argument was around for thousands of years, even before Karl Popper was born.

So ignoring the pacifists that will all just roll their eyes when they hear this quote, and assuming that someone isn't a pacifist (ie, the vast majority of people) the more useful followup questions are:

- How do we define the intolerant? Is it literally people who fight against tolerance, or is it about causing harm, intentionally or incidentally?

- Is (in)tolerance fungible? If someone tolerates an intolerant person, should they be treated like a similar liability? How many degrees of fungibility should we go down?

- How long should we wait before we decide that suppression is necessary? Is it justifiable for us to preemptively suppress a community that is likely to become violent in the future?

- What means are acceptable during suppression of intolerant ideas? Are there lines we can't cross? Are we forbidden from using stuff like propaganda?

There are tons of smart people who have smart, interesting takes on those questions. And if you go through history or even current-day events and look at different communities, you'll find that they all kind of come up with their own answers.

So when people pull out this quote, it's like walking up to two people debating whether we should ever assassinate a dictator and saying, "sometimes wars are justified." Well, yeah, but we knew that. Is this particular war justified?
It's not necessarily that the child was trafficked as a child. It could be that the child went missing/ran away, lived on the street or in some other bad situation for a while, and then at some point was trafficked. Or it could even be that the child was sent to a relative in another country to grow up there, the relative never took any pictures of them, they grew up there, and then were conned into some trafficking situation as an adult.

Either way, the goal would still be to identify an adult victim of trafficking by the last available picture of them, which was of them as a child.
> The very, very poor tradesman blames the tool.

But a good tradesman will not use inferior tools.
I agree that it is time to leave.
You could volunteer at Salvation Army, which does a lot of good work, and piss off the cancel culture jerks.
I'm not necessarily a fan of the OO in those either :)

I try to use OO sparingly when possible, and in Perl that generally just means I've been using a hash and decide it'd be more convenient that it keep some functions to itself rather than pass it around to other functions.

I will say in Perl's defense, the bare implementation really made me appreciate what OO actually is under the hood. I felt like I understood it much better, especially since it takes a mixed approach (rather than 'everything must be an object, including Program.cs' which I never really enjoyed).
It’s extremely irresponsible for blizzard to host a massive platform for speech and pretend that platform exists in a vacuum outside of current events. (Read: politics.) In the same way that public platforms are dangerous when used for hate speech, they’re also dangerous when those advocating for positive change are banned from them.

Whatever Blizzard set out to do, it’s exceptionally naive not to acknowledge that demand changes a public technology.

… but of course we know what this is about. We know it’s about not wanting to cut off a large revenue stream.
For those who have not followed Mir, they apparently rebranded from "display manager" to "Wayload compositor" back in 2018 [0]. I am surprised I did not hear anything about it, but I guess everyone has forgotten about it long time ago..

[0] https://github.com/MirServer/mir/commit/1503db92821767aecd5d...
You wouldn't see anything like that at, say, Theranos, or (to a lesser degree) at WeWork, which was about to be a superhot IPO a few weeks ago and is now struggling to survive.

Defrauding investors in an IPO is still defrauding investors.
Brack's statement is close to 1,000 words. My tiny brain gets indignant when it has to focus that long on something so mealy-mouthed.