skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is surprising to me that windmills seem to have such a large structural headroom with this "50 year gust". Farms of windmills around me of 1000's of units have had zero collapses. When your business is offshore wind farms, why not remove all the headroom, make the structure far cheaper and lighter, and aim for say 25% of windmills to collapse around 30 years? The cheaper capital costs will surely pay for increased decommissioning costs of collapsed windmills and loss of production 30 years later after compounded cost of capital.
First, I'd like to thank you for your participation in this thread. As a long time PIA customer (until recently), I trusted (and still continue to trust) the current staff. All of my hesitation is with Kape and I truly hope at the end of the day they don't end up steamrolling you.

That being said, if the company was profitable, why even entertain this merger? I simply don't see how getting into bed with a company with such a sordid past is worth it if you were able to make it on your own.
> You think the post I replied to doesn't break (at the very least) that rule?

I'm not sure whether it did or not - quick responses (which surely we all make at least sometimes?) aren't always very carefully considered. I'm pretty sure though if challenged I would typically try and make my response to the challenge more thoughtful than my first attempt. I take it this is at least part of the point of the rule: escalation avoidance.

I had no snarky intent, but I can see my expression was (at least) ambiguous. This:

> it wouldn't occur to me however to use my own experience to make a sweeping judgement about what Google does in the large

was intended as a counter to this:

> It's pretty obvious from my ...

ie. I'm saying that what appears 'obvious' from my experience is no guide to what's actually true about the intentions & practises of an enormous and (unhelpfully) opaque organisation like Google. In my haste I didn't express that particularly well, so I'm happy to acknowledge a mea culpa on that score.
I mentioned the Mu because it has a folding UK plug. Small chargers lose much of their smallness when using a standard UK plug.
I think the takeaway here is not that some corners of Go are not performant (and should be swapped for C++/D etc.), but that there are tools in the Go ecosystem that help you figure out what the issue is.

Until Twitch hit the bottleneck with their service, they were reaping multi-year benefits of faster development using memory-safe language (huge gain for security).

Their short- (or mid-) term solution seems decent and more importantly Go core team is working on addressing this particular issue (which given the Go 1.x backward compatibility promise makes it really easy to reap all the benefits with each Go release).
Ask HN: How is the Eiffel tower blue light beam implemented?
How is the Eiffel tower blue light beam implemented?

https://www.toureiffel.paris/sites/default/files/styles/600x728/public/paragraphe/image_texte/img/Tour%20Eiffel%20illumine%CC%81e%20depuis%20Champs%20de%20Mars%20%C2%A9%20E.Li%20%283%29_0.JPEG?itok=xpWQLb4V
Typing this on my x395 (with 3700u) and can confirm these are really well made laptops.

Linux support is excellent. Openbsd is good but doesn't support this generation of wireless cards yet, which is quite inconvenient; next version perhaps.
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Obviously we don't know who wrote the code, so we can't ask him, but did he even know the consequences of what he was writing? Was he even aware of the potential lethality?

The very fact that we don't know who wrote the code is exactly why it doesn't matter. The complete lack of traceability and accountability is what caused these deaths.

There's so many things that went wrong in order for Therac 25 to kill people that it's irrelevant who wrote the code. It could've just as easily been you or me.
Can you not use the question mark operator inside the .map() callback to return a Result, something like this answer?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/26370894/49485

(Not a Rust expert.)
The example is super confusing because they define the alternative coordinate system (i', j') in the previous paragraph, but then proceed to use i and j (unprimed) in the code example, presumably because C does not allow for primes in variable names. p and q would have been better.

But, note that if you execute the inner loop for two consecutive values, j' and j' + 1, then you get the following computations:

a[i' - j'][j'] <- a[i' - j' - 1][j' ] + a[i' - j' ][j' - 1]

a[i' - j' - 1][j' + 1] <- a[i' - j' - 2][j' + 1] + a[i' - j' - 1][j']

You can see from the above that the left hand side of the first line does not actually appear on the right hand side of the second. This is because both indexes into a vary as j' changes.

It's a cool optimization, but I think the article fails to clearly explain the general method of how a compiler would arrive there.

Edit: I completely screwed up the indices in my initial post. They should be fixed now.
I'm a big fan of vanilla WordPress, especially the new block editor, but the plugin ecosystem is a total mess. Almost all popular plugins come with a free version that spams you to upgrade to "pro". They add menu items to the admin panel with different colours so you find it harder to ignore them. They add messages to the dashboard. The look and feel of their settings pages don't match WordPress core. And, even if you pay for an upgrade, that usually means removing the plugin provided and automatically updated by WordPress.org and replacing it with a manually uploaded zip. Crazy.

The garbage user experience with most plugins led me to collect together a bunch of ideas from plugins I used and rewrite almost all of them entirely into one spam-free plugin. I did it for my own sanity as a user of my own plugin but I'd like to see more " old fashioned" plugins that are providing high quality code for everyone's free benefit.
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Of course it is not zero-sum game. Everyone will lose at the same time.

No mention of piracy and torrents in the article. That is the "seventh player" which will win along with cheap VPN services.
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I don't think true hacking is dead, its just lost in a sea of non-hacking.

The number of students who could write code in my high school of 2000 was perhaps 35. Those 35 were amazing because they had to work to get access to a computer, so we had already eliminated everyone who was just "oh that's too hard". Of the 35 perhaps a dozen kept at it beyond one class in BASIC.

In my daughter's similarly sized highschool 400 to 500 of the students had some proficiency in writing code, and perhaps 200 had the motivation to keep at it on a serious level after graduation. Of those, perhaps a dozen were people who I would equate to the 'hackers' that we had at my high school.

This led me to conclude that its a small fraction of the population that has what I think of as the 'compulsive puzzle' gene. That is they find themselves driven to solve puzzles which they understand must have a solution.

There are ways to identify them. If you have the ability to give puzzles, leave some around to be found. Watch for the ones who solve them.

In the world where 'everyone is a coder' though it is super easy to not see them.
Except nuclear energy is the safest form of power: https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy

As for Fukushima, more died as a result from it being shut down than in the disaster: https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/11/07/was-shutting-japan...

Furthermore, it lead to a surge in imports of dirty fuels. More coal and oil.
It's pretty simple. Exclusives are bad for the user, period.

Exclusives might still work, if the store that's offering them is selling something. I.e. you can buy something exclusive, and while it's annoying that you are forced to use only specific store for it, at least you pay just for what you bought.

Exclusivity isn't compatible with renting, or it least it won't scale. How many renting services will users be paying for? I bet not many. So let them start selling video, and preferably without any exclusivity.
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Why call it minix backdoor? It puts some blame on minix, yet minix is blameless here.

Minix is an excellent FOSS microkernel multiserver OS with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.

The way Intel is using it just isn't nice.
Probably copyright takedowns, considering how poorly the Trump campaign has tracked those over the course of the campaign(s).
I'm German and that is highly exaggerated.

While doctors here are in fact very careful and conversative with opiates, if you need them, you get them. Almost all of the people with chronic pain I know get opiates, or cannabis.
Australia should be ashamed that a third world non democratic country like mine (Morocco) is doing much better when it comes to renewable energy.
Get your shit together Australia.
Nick Johnson from the Ethereum Foundation tweets what he thought the guy was doing - Virgil Grififth seriously, literally, thought that he personally could, singlehandedly, through the power of his own intellect, bring peace between North and South Korea ... if only those dum-dums in the US Government would let him apply ENOUGH BLOCKCHAIN.

https://twitter.com/nicksdjohnson/status/1201212127945605122
Interesting, curious as to who.
I think so. If you really try to understand how people become evil you will often find that they do it with good intentions. There's the extremely old adage that I'm sure has earlier origin than the following well known one (anyone know an earlier example?). "The path to Hell is paved with good intentions."

I think we'd agree that there are a large amount of people that do not do great things, momentarily or as a way of being. But how many people see themselves as bad? Very few. You can find tons of psych studies on this. Where people doing evil things justify it for many different reasons. "Just this one time", "for the greater good", "I have no other choice", "because _they_ are cheating", "the system is rigged against me", "fight fire with fire", etc. We all know these things. We've done them ourselves (to some extent or another).

I think a good example is politics. I think a lot of westerners like democracy (vague term). But how many imagine that if we were dictator for a day how we could just fix everything? Besides being naive and overestimating our intellectual prowess, it goes against the fundamental idea of a democracy. I'd argue that a lot of authoritarians see themselves in this way (there's good evidence to support this). That it is for the greater good. I'm sure you can think of at least two examples today that think that they have to control their countries because the people they rule over are not smart/civilized enough to know what is best for themselves.

Is this malice? I think that depends on the perspective. And that's really what Hanlon's Razor is about, perspective. Understanding the mind of the actor.
Vodafone runs a large vpn, and I know from the people who sell them logging services they are obligated by the governments of multiple nations to keep url logs for a number of months that vary depending on the target's information retaining laws.
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> the person that Apple designs it's computers nowadays for

I develop software in Apple's programming language using Apple's frameworks and Apple's own IDE, and power usage is through the roof. 50W while typing (and auto-complete is doing it's job) and 80W while building.

I think it's odd and quite rude that you dismiss anyone who has higher computing than just typing some basic text and browsing the web to be "a YouTube influencer". If all you need is the computing power of an Eee PC then yeah, I don't think you are Apple's target market.
> "Truly sorry"

I'd prefer it if CEOs would rather say "we got too greedy and clearly the market didn't like it" rather than disingenuous apologies.
Thank you for taking time to explain your position. I can appreciate the need for resources and why you think this deal is the right thing to do for your company. I've trusted you company enough to use it for years and buy a multi-year subscription. Unfortunately, given the track record of Kape, I can't trust the bundle of Kape+PIA the way I trusted PIA alone. Maybe in the following years this trust will be accumulated, but right now, due to Kape history, it's below zero, drugged down by Kape's past. I understand all about new management and stuff, but adware alone is a business shady enough that steering clear of it in matters like VPN seems to be a basic prudence. And when malware added to the mix... as I said, trust level becomes negative. Good luck in your future work, hopefully your new combined company will accumulate the trust again, but I'll be using some other solution for now.
>As far as I'm concerned, automattic should revoke their wordpress.org plugin hosting until this has been addressed

Unfortunately Automattic only contributes to WordPress.org [0]. Automattic actually owns WordPress.com [1] which is a separate-ish entity, and does not have any authority over plugins hosted on WordPress.org.

[0] https://automattic.com/

[1] https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
The think is we dont need them in spoken English, we understand what people mean. Theres no reason why we need them when we write
What sort of queueing mechanism do you use? I’ve bee trying to get into OpenResty but there are few documented examples of that kind of thing, and anything that does Dataflow is interesting to me.
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There's also the 4xxx series on the same socket due sometime next year. The talk for zen3 is 15% ipc uplift and 10% higher clocks.
Sure the 3900x will carry you until then.
> I'm just as guilty as everyone else, I don't have a good answer...

BitTorrent and VLC.
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I read it in the list, at first, as bitcoin, and had to do a double take.
> It hasn't happened yet, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it did

That's what we call confirmation bias.
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sadly persistent...
The argument for Solar always sounds a lot like terra nullius, that was used to dispossess indigenous Australians of their land, and later their land rights.

Australia is a MASSIVE country, that is largely uninhabitable by humans. It is estimated that 75% of the species on the continent are undiscovered: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-07/75-per-cent-of-specie...

Large scale solar is likely to cause problems for large numbers of native species. YMMV in how important you find that, but to me personally it is a huge issue.
The difference between plural and possessive can matter greatly, e.g. decade's (belonging to the particular decade discussed) and decades (more than one decade), etc.
Hardly the first time Yoast have been forced into an embarrassing climb-down.

In the early days of mass Wordpress adoption they got a lot of traction by offering a plug-in that made few basic seo improvements and that early success went to their heads. Every iteration since has been a bloated mess of features, most of which are entirely unnecessary.
Clarity or confusion? George Bernard Shaw back in 1900 promoted the same idea and his writing was full of its (the abbreviation) and Ives and cant. It still hasn't happened for good reason and most people follow the rules.

With some expressions, those who don't, against the grain, force their readers to double check the parsing. The cost may be only a millisecond or two but it is nevertheless a tiny distraction incurred because someone can't be bothered to follow a simple rule taught in primary school. In the glorious future envisaged in the comment, everyone will ignore the apostrophe so all of us will have to do a bit of extra scanning. What's superior about that?

Is it really that difficult to remember that the apostrophe in it's (for instance), is always without exception used as an abbreviation for 'it is' or 'it has', not an indication of possession and thus your's is wrong.
It feels like the word "hacking" is losing more and more meaning over time.

In the beginning it was a word only people heavily into computers used. Then around the time of War Games it became a more commonly-known word, and connotated breaking in. Over the last couple decades more people became aware that hacking sometimes refers to building technical projects. But it still has a heavy connotation of breaking into a system or program.

Hacking became cool once hackers started getting rich and gaining prominence in society. My son is 8, and many of his friends think they're hackers when they use a cheat code on a game. Most of them know they're not writing code and really changing the game, but they all want to think of themselves as hackers so they say they're hacking their games. Very few of them even really know what a line of code looks like yet.

Any notion of "true" hacking is bound to be about putting walls up to say who's in and who's out. In reality, there are always people building new things, and there are always people trying to break into systems and programs.
But you don't need to write every stock the Mutual Fund invested in - just the Mutual Fund itself, so this makes it even clearer.
Given SSC, its subreddit and its (Scott-recommended) offshoot /r/themotte, this is a case of the beam in one's own eye.

Same problem with LessWrong - the best of Yudkowsky refutes the typical of Yudkowsky.
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I could not find any through a quick search. Maybe it is convoluted search terms. I got a degree in physics and was pretty close to the math department. This is just stuff that I've heard from both departments and seen in a few documentaries. I had seen a direct source on Nash (IIRC someone upset about the Nobel), but that was years ago and I can't find it easily.

I did try to give a bunch of side notes to downplay and justify it in ways that may be conceited, but also reasonably human. I don't know if these stories I heard were a single person (I'd be surprised if there weren't at least one person!) or a larger group. I wouldn't be surprised if a ridiculous voice got amplified (can't think of any times that happened in modern times.....)
Yeah, that's the HDFury. They're about $300 though. Many of the HDMI 1080p switchers/strippers left out a chip or circuitry to re-enable HDCP on the output.
> because I don’t pay any extra for it with my Prime subscription.

I see their advertising is effective. The price of Prime was even increased recently to help fund video production.
'Since Wordpress is such "crapware" out-of-the-box, you can easily create a Yoast replacement plugin ...'

The cynic in me wonders why such basics are not already included by now?
Does this mean using one of the bigger brick 15in MacBook Pro charger on a 11in MacBook (both USB c) is bad for the smaller MacBooks charger? My gf always uses mind when she can’t find hers...
> I'm not making any accusations of malice.

Sorry then, I read "hustling" as with intent. It definitely has negative connotation. Since it many times is seen as an act of fraud. Though strictly by definition this could be over zealousness and not malice, but it definitely has that connotation in vernacular use.
No but it will generate some sweet delicious outrage that can be used by the media to divert an important issue.
I don't think we have, I think the problem has gotten worse.

Let me try to make an example. Let's say there's one popular streaming platform, that is $5/mo. They mostly just aggregate and license content. Later on, content owners want to skip the middleman so they start making their own streaming services. So now you have 3 streaming services, which are each $5/mo.

So you are now paying 3x as much. But you don't watch 3x as much. You pay 3x as much for the privilege of being able to watch a wider variety of things. This is actually pretty similar to the problem of cable, just split in a completely different way. You still can't get the stuff you want 'a la carte,' but now you have to pay three different entities anyways.

Of course content owners will end up making out well because they make money whether on an aggregator or on their own platform, and because people now pay much more per month on average.
Wait, that is actually in there. What the hell does this even mean?
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Wow I hope you are never on a jury. You get both completely reversed. For uber the worthless lady who was hired to sit behind the wheel to take over as needed was texting. The death is entirely attributable to her failing to perform her job duties. The person who wrote the code for this is last person you'd blame, not the first. Programmers go in and do work asked of them. In the therac situation it would be the company at fault. If an uber self driving car really did kill someone (it hasn't, it was the lady), the company would be at fault. The only way you could blame an engineer is if they lied about meeting the requirements they were asked to do.
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Traditional power plants are perfectly able to adapt to weather patterns. Weather forecasts on a time scale of 12 hours or a day are very accurate. For very shorts fluctuations you can always buffer into batteries.

The real problem is that fossil fuel plants are designed to be profitable at high load factors. Building a coal plant and only running it at 50% load is not profitable.
Is the 3950x compatible with the same x570 mobos/ram as 3900x, ie drop in replacement?
The Title should have been "Apostrophe Society Shut's Down..."
Decentralized systems like blogosphere are the way to tackle censorship
I am feeling a little bit of guilt and stress from working on a side project over Thanksgiving instead of on coursework. :P
How do you handle situations like that: multiple dvelopers added merge requests to queue, the changes they made are mutually exclusive (automatic rebase wont work). What happens when the first branch gets merged to master and next 10 are still in the queue ? How do you mitigate that to decrease development cycle ?

Lets just say in my company it also takes 30m to run tests and 4h to run them on merge pipeline with FATs and CORE tests.. Its way too long and highly cripples productivity.
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Or they have a better working relationships because they same similar goals.

Conservatives aren't evil bogeymen who want to destroy the environment wholesale, they want to find a realistic solution to the problem. Add to the fact that Ontario has a history of failed green projects in wind power that have eaten billions of dollars. If these conservative premiers can throw some money together, cut some red tape and get projects moving in the right direction, we should all be applauding.
This may surprise you, but tests only help you find breaking changes. They don't guarantee it. To guarantee anything costs a lot.
Ah, but would the lay person have been allowed into them? Also, wouldn't most of the volumes in the libraries have been written in Latin and thus unreadable outside of the Church.

If I recall correctly, most early libraries were situated inside monasteries.
I don’t know anything about the industry, but my guess is that being a big VPN company puts a target on your back. Everyone pretends they care enough about privacy to use a VPN, but the vast majority of users commingle environments and identities to the point that, IMO, they can be tracked across VPNs.

VPNs are mainly for piracy and it’s only a matter of time until big media takes a shot at suing someone. No one wants to be that someone, so selling to anyone becomes attractive. I doubt there’s a lineup to buy a company who’s main talent is under assessing risk.