skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the reason PG&E is turning off the power is not because they are concerned about their lines starting fires, but that they are being scapegoated by the state of California for damage resulting from poor public policy relating to fire dangers?

The predictions of a future with large amounts of fires go back quite a ways, and there is some evidence to suggest that native Indians took measures to limit the spread of wildfires. Even if it is assumed that PG&E equipment starts a fire, the exceptional damage caused by the fire is the result of the poor management policies.

I've drifted around on my opinions on this whole matter, but currently I find that PG&E is working to steer clear of lawsuits, nothing else.
Then expect rates to go up 15% in risky areas. You can't have the current rates, 99.99% reliable power, and fire prevention in the near term.
Given the success of the Python numerical computing stack (numpy, scipy, etc) it would probably be a good idea to do just that. Of course you’d profile the library and move some of the performance-critical bits to C / C++ / Rust. Thankfully Python has some well-trodden paths to that solution.
I'm actually kind of going to agree with you.

First of all, I don't like the term "bland", because it implies a judgement. I think a better word is "sparse".

But now, the question, and the thing the researchers got fatally wrong is: does sparseness really mean less complexity? When you phrase it like that, it sounds obviously silly, to me at least. You wouldn't judge say Picasso for not using enough colors, and complain about it being so bland. To continue on that path, Picasso only works because you know what things actually look like. Instead of having to painfully spell out every last facial hair, he relies on you knowing what a human looks like, and uses the space gained to express his intent more clearly. In comparison, older art might seem boring and predictable. I already know what a face looks like, why waste space showing me?

Modern music works on a similar principle. The sparseness of modern music is enabled by listeners familiarity with other music, which enables composers to simply sufficiently imply their intent, letting our brains fill in the rest, making space to innovate in other areas of the music.
This is true, but Rob Pike has his own independent connections to Oberon. Acme and other parts of Plan 9's mouse-driven UI were greatly "inspired" by the Oberon system.

Go is the secret child of Oberon-the-language and C. Before Go, Plan 9 was conceived as the secret child of Oberon-the-system and Unix.
I'm assuming backup power is a diesel generator, though, right? My experience with long-term WA outages is that the diesel runs out in a few days, and no one comes to refill it.

Amateur radio license: if my wife can pass the test, anyone on HN ought to be able to.
Imagine driving a car over Skype
I fully agree with this statement. My work is generally for the web, and HTML has the same issues. It's amazing how much removing a single tag in a nested tree can mess up VSCode's parsing engine. Just modifying the tags usually works on both open and close though.
Yeah, some of it is just familiarity but I do think GH truly nailed UI to quickly evaluate a project while also being good for working in long-term, at least on desktop—I have complaints about their mobile UI, but when I'm using that it's usually because I'm just curious and messing around anyway, so it's not a big deal. It's also nice and snappy.

[EDIT] I also assume a higher likelihood that key persons on the project are the contrarian-for-contrary's-sake sort if they're not on GH. Not that it's certain, mind, but that it's a bit more likely.
I wonder if this letter is truly from Guardia Civil or is it from someone else impersonating it. The content reads amateurish, such as the claim "Tsunami Democratic's main goal is coordinating these riots and terrorist actions by using any possible mean" without refearing to any specific actions or events. The assertion that Tsunami Democratic has been declared a terrorist organisation by National High Court is simply not true, and no official communicate would reference the media as a source.
I wonder if this is the reason why the content is still available on Github (at least from Norway)
The problem is that he has to constantly look for someone new. Why? Not paying decent salary or short term contracts.
this depends on your personality, and how you make friends. i lived a year in latvia, and i had no trouble despite speaking neither latvian, nor russian. i made friends through the local linux community and other communities i was part of. i also have no problems in china. yes, some things are more difficult. eg. calling a plumber needs the help of a friend who speaks the local language. but for every day stuff, i was actually surprised how easy it is.
Clearly his statement is predicated on the kind of work he does. Dont be obtuse.
no skin in the game for the remote driver
> The UK allowed a referendum because it has to. Spain voted its constitution in 1978, that means most of the voters are still alive and it got ratified in every community including Barcelona. So there are people protesting now that the constitution does not imminently allow a referendum that voted in favour of that clause being there 40 years ago.

You mean the same vote where people could chose whether to apply that constitution or continue living in a dictatorship? Ah yes, if that's not democracy I don't know what is!
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is poem one syllable or two? I'll remove "so"
Q:"So if the job is writing test scripts in Perl, why do you require Haskell ?"
A:"We've found we get better resumes that way."
> more than a few hours notice of impending blackouts

I'm not sure if weather is predicable enough to do this in the micro sense. Obviously, warning that Sept-Nov might have blackouts is easy.
That first one was commissioned by Harvard University's BioVisions project and is directed at Cellular Biology students, utilizing in Harvard's words "rigorous scientific models of how biological processes occur".

http://biovisions.mcb.harvard.edu/

It was produced with the oversight of cellular biologists and lead by Dr. Robert A. Lue. (https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/directory/robert-lue/) Yet you say it is a fantasy, misleading, and cherry picked.

Since you consider Harvard University's cellular biologists incompetent and misleading, could you direct us to some accurate videos and name some more competent universities that are not backwater Monty Python loony bins like you consider Harvard? Also would be great if you could provide a critique of all the deficiencies in Dr. Lue's training and background that provided the substrate of total incompetence and ignorance you have discovered in his animations that you assess as "bold and bald faced lies". Thank you!

Also if you have a chance, what sort of egregious errors led to Harvard being ranked the #1 University in the world for Molecular Biology and the only one with a subject ranking of 100?

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/mo...
The IRS expects payment by Tax Day if you owe, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. This necessarily involves doing the work you’d do anyway, so why not just mail that info and allow you to return it with a box checked saying “I agree that this is correct”?
Banning vape products will just lead to this happening again and again with black market vape products. It needs to be regulated and meet health & safety standards. The concept of vaping nicotine oil exists now, it is not going to go away. We get to choose whether people do it illegally, with greater health risk, or legally with less health risk (if we regulate it properly).
I used your theme for a blog I ran for a few months last year:

https://blog.spaceduck.io/

Thanks for creating it!
In 1999, Google Web Search optimised for ~100 million users.

In 2019, Google Web Search optimised for ~10 billion users.

Expanding self-selected elite groups rarely sustains intelligence and skill levels.

This isn't a swipe at general intelligence, it's just a flat fact of mass media, one that's been widely recognised (though often lamented on a moral basis) for well over a century.

I've labled this "the tyranny of the minimum viable user".

The other factor is that manipulating the medium has become increasingly attractive. That's not just old-school SEO (black or white), but propaganda, psyops, and similar activities. Google are very much part of this battleground, and seem to have taken considerable time coming up to speed with even grasping this. I suspect they're now aware, if not sufficiently competent.

A friend, Woozle, has described this as a fundamental epistemic paradox as systems grow -- what was previously useful for a few becomes increasingly attractive to manipulators. Though Shoshana Zuboff's Three Laws predate their observations by about 30 years.
Those weren't referendums. The Spanish law doesn't allow independence referendums, that's why the Spanish courts handed a 100 year sentence on the Catalan politicians that allowed one. They were consultations with no tied outcomes. Again, the Spanish law today does not allow a referendum about independence. It could if the Spanish government allowed it, but they won't, after many years of asking. A large majority a catalans supports having a referendum, many wanting to vote against independence.

The 9N consultation came out with what, 80% support for independence?
I assume you are referring to "technical debt", unless you were being ironic and I didn't catch your irony emoji.
(Is there an ironic emoji?)
NFC Beaming Bypasses Security Controls in Android [CVE-2019-2114]
Snake Game in the Web Inspector
> it's not a language that can be everything to everyone.

Unlike say, for example...?
Right. Why on earth would I want a twitter account?
Having the state (or even local municipalities) buy them out and turning the utility into a publicly-owned utility is one popular opinion I keep hearing. They might have more money to start burying lines if they didn't need to answer to investors.
Employee bonuses are dividends.
It depends on the mandate provided to the agency.

Regulators at the federal level have be de-fanged because of the increasing reactionary forces controlling pursestrings in Congress. It became obvious with OSHA and now even the FAA is a wimp in the face of pressure from Boeing. That's part of a strategy by certain people who want to erode trust in government.

It's possible to structure things in a way that limits politicalization.
I meant it's not a "generic top-level domain" like .com or .org so its semantic meaning is the "domain name for websites for St Helena." This is similar to the situation for .io, which was really intended for the British Indian Ocean territory but has been appropriated by the tech industry. I'm in favor of using generic TLDs if at all possible. I believe google also treat generic TLDs differently than country-specific TLDs.
All laws start out as simple concepts. Then they need to be applied to reality, where very few situations are simple.
Spanish telecommunications operators also blocked access to the Tsunami Democràtic website a few days ago.

In both cases due to an ongoing investigation, not based on any conviction.
> the worker's revolutions that have happened

Which ones are you thinking of?
As best as I can tell from this thread, if you make use of any service in any way that could be interpreted as unintended by the service provider, you're a criminal.

It makes me wonder if using 1.1.1.1 on my network is a crime. Sure my ISP is letting my DNS queries through, but think of all the analytics that they're missing about me.
Why is that bad? Alternative is burning trees adding to pollution or people living in dark. You could offset the green coverage elsewhere in the state or country.
But it's only people who live (and think) in clean room environs like computing that imagine biology is amenable to engineering. It's really not.

Unlike every kind of engineering and physical science, biology is wildly more complex and modulated by almost innumerable variables that are interdependent. I work in a large pharma, and one of the comments I hear often is "I'm amazed that any drug actually works as intended".

With 90% of validated compounds still failing after introduction into the human body (and the thousands of candidates new molecular entity candidate compounds that failed in vitro before that), the track record of human biology to engineered solutions is extremely poor and likely to remain so indefinitely. Just because new techniques are arising to manipulate the assembly language of the body does not mean they will have any better success in setting the right dials to the right settings among the myriad invisible gotchas of disease that inhabit that black box we call 'me'.

Until we can better know what's actually going on inside biology's many black box(es), no amount of engineering, no matter how precise, will reliably (and profitably) improve health outcomes. You can't engineer systems that you don't understand.
Hi,
I cursorily tried out openfl.org Just to open a demo, it had to download a lot of stuff, took a long time and I just gave up.
Basically hiccup: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
Rapid ocean acidification and protracted Earth recovery after Chicxulub impact
Penn State Li-ion battery design could charge an EV in 10 minutes
If trends keep going and warmer oceans finally kill off most of the coral reefs, there's your lost biodiversity right there.
That's a good point ... the original argument only holds water when the mortgage isn't underwater ;)
It would be cool to see ground-effect seaplanes (ekranoplan) used to that effect. I bet they could quickly transport a full starship payload... But that's an engineering problem for an other day (and they require calm weather).
But intuition is not something fixed like an extra toe or even ingrained through a lifetime like a sexual fetish. The core of what humans do is acquire new abstractions in such a way that what was previously convoluted is now intuitive.

"Intuitive" is a word for "stuff I already know". Symplectic geometry is unintuitive until you learn it. Learn stuff.
Wasn't the request sent to Microsoft Spain? And Microsoft Spain is under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Government.
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stack underflow.
Guido seems to have been incredibly good on the mentoring front, particularly with getting women into the community. I wonder if he'll continue doing that at all even after he goes into "retirement". It seems like a great asset to the community.
What are the other ways?
I think we hit a pretty good local maximum for website usability in the few years when "leftnav column, header, content" layouts all looked and worked basically the same and were the standard look for lots of sites. Granted they weren't mobile friendly ("what's mobile?") but at least you could figure out how a site worked pretty fast if they stuck to that.
You could add more generators over an area to make grid more self sustaining but many people don't want power plants in their backyard and it is costly as you are paying for generating capacity that you don't use(often)
Intersting that they have banned you while you didn't force your visitors to click on ads. And here is an app that asks their users to click on ads and is still not banned

https://redd.it/bjl5qs
Building a Barcode Scanner in Swift on iOS
It's terrible. People use deliberate crypticness to flex on everyone who hasn't seen x subniche of programming style before. They designed it to be like this to be the gatekeeper at their organization.
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You'll feel better though.
Some areas only have one transmission line feeding them power, so there is no way to reroute. If that transmission line goes through an area with high fire risk, PG&E will cut the line and then everything fed by that line loses power.
Lol, looks like google engineers forgot about their entire g suite customer base.
Or have a propane refrigerator/freezer. That doesn't replace having a big electric fridge but you can keep a subset of things in there that will spoil easily and/or are expensive.

So long as you're in a climate where furnace/air conditioning isn't critical, not having electricity for a few days isn't really that big a deal modulo having young kids, elderly, medical issues, etc.
Questions made in bad faith tend to be downvoted. Is this really a suprise?
What does TLA stand for?

Also: Mythical Man-Month -- great book. I recommend it to anyone, especially programmers and project managers. Not too technical. Fairly light read. Good content.
Arresting journalists is not a good look.

It doesn't justify an arrest or intimidation, but: supporting the Maduro regime is not a good look either.
Same as every other industry.

Being a CADD person, I had a lot of contact with A/E/C, facilities management, space planning, etc.

Seems like everyone suffers legacy, neglects maintenance, prefers do overs.

Cultural? Misaligned incentives? Bad accounting? Complexity catastrophe (when cost of any change outweighs benefits)?

If someone knows, please tell.
I use Fedora Server for exactly that. It comes with Cockpit [0] out of the box, which I find to be a great management interface.

[0] https://cockpit-project.org/
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Cyber attack on Indian nuclear plant confirmed
I'm spitballin' here, but a couple of the standard Hondas (EU2000s?) will give you, say, 3000W. The onboard charger on our Leaf is 3300W (first-gen). It takes seven hours from empty to full. I'll leave the extrapolation to a Tesla as an exercise for the reader. Oh, wait a minute, I don't recall that a Honda will have a 240V plug into which you'll plug the Level 2 charger. So you're stuck with Level 1, and then you might as well just shut down that second generator.

So, it would take however long it takes to charge a Tesla using a 120V outlet. Unless I'm wrong about the 240V plug part.
Yes I know. My point is that for profit, publicly owned companies are ran for profit where their ultimate goal is to maximize shareholder wealth. The parent seemed to imply that it may not be the case for Elon Musk's companies.
> Lisp is a bad language to write an OS in

Beg to differ. Lisp machines were huge, back in the day, and there are still hobbyist projects like https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
I quit vaping after 2 years and found the hardest part was the ritual aspect of it, not so much the nicotine. I used to sit at my computer, code, and blow big vape clouds into the air. It was extremely relaxing and took a bit of time to get over it. I used 0 mg liquid for a while to help, but I would recommend tossing out your vape & any oils you have when you feel you're ready. Having them around is just a temptation.
Actually CLU and Mesa were the ones introducing exceptions. :)

However what many that bash Java's checked exceptions aren't aware of, is that they actually came from Modula-3. Not sure if this is what you mean.
What's incredible is that a police order is enough to take down an app or website, without any court intervention.

Not that Spanish courts are to be trusted on matters like this, but still...
The Zig is Up.
Yes, this. Also if I’m in a low value area where “dropping by 60%” means going from $150k to 60k it has a totally different impact than $1.5m to $600k.
> which despite Samsung's belief hardly anyone wants

Which is why nobody is buying ipad pros or surface pros and Wacom is bankrupt /s.

Having a pen in addition to capacitive touch is great. Having only a pen was not. Though the resistive screens in the Nokia N900 or the Nintendo DS for example were not bad.
Show HN: Force beauty industry to stop BS’ing consumers
https://whatsinmyjar.com/

Consumers spend over 130 B usd annually on skincare products. That’s a lot of hard-earned money. Many of these consumers feel insecure about their appearance (acne, first wrinkles, skin not as smooth as the butt of an Instagram influencer) and literally want to buy a “hope in a jar”. Exploiting insecure consumers with overblown marketing claims is just not nice, but beauty companies do it all the time. Some of them literally call their product a “Magic Cream”.

Time we use some data and science to put an end to it. At What’s In My Jar we developed an algorithm that evaluates skincare products based on whether or not the product works to deliver what it promises. We are on a mission to bring transparency into the market, helping people make more effective and economical skincare choices. Check us out and let us know what you think! https://whatsinmyjar.com/
BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface
Are there GitLab instances in neutral countries which are only accessible by Tor? I realize that won't be the most user friendly way of distributing info/apps but could be a start.
Across the Board, Scores Drop in Math and Reading for U.S. Students
People can and do change their minds about where they want to live and how much they will pay, but they don't do it just because there are laws saying they should. You can legislate prices, but if they don't match what people want then someone will end up rationing desirable things in some other way.

You can't legislate what people value, but you can change things so they value them more or less. I think the most promising thing would be to convince companies to create jobs in places where the cost of housing is lower.
> How come so many people try to use code to show how smart they are?

Writing clever code doesn't mean it's being done for that reason. As the article notes, Guido himself agreed that in the early stages of developing a piece of software, such as in an early stage startup, it probably makes sense to write clever code, because you can get it done faster and therefore iterate faster on improving the code to meet user needs. At this stage very few people are working on the code (often just one), so communicating with other developers is not a big issue.

The need for making it maintainable comes later, when the product is mature and many more people are working on the code, so the need for clear communication becomes much stronger.
Those weren't "referendums", those where "enquirys" which is not the same. The result of an "enquiry" has no legal obligations, for example, in the first enquiry, independentist won by far (81%), but there was no independence. It some way of knowing what people/society thinks about an issue.

As I said in my previous comment, there haven`t been any referendums about independence in Spain (I live in Spain so I think I know about what I'm talking), basically because the spanish goverment doesn't want to, and on the other hand, the so called "rigth to choose or decide" with a referendum is one of the things Catalonians (and also Basks) want.
Is simple majority enough to split a country, change the constitution, and change the citizenship of millions of citizens? Some people think it would require a qualified majority for such a change. How big? Maybe a 70%, and 80%? A referendum when we are in the 50%-50% is a dangerous proposition, and against the law, and definitely will make the things worse.
Connectivity in general. You need a 100% reliable, low latency, high bandwidth connection. Milliseconds matter in an emergency.
there almost is, an irony mark or percontation point "⸮" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
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Honestly, I would not rule out the Guardia Civil from writing amateurish content.
> abusing antiterrorist laws

No “abuse” necessary: this has been the plan all along. It’s taken a little longer than expected, but things are finally falling into place now.
https://danluu.com/

Works fine.
I can only dream of a panel or a TED talk with those computing sages! (I guess they are all alive right)