skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The push for extra capacity and small scale distributed energy storage increases redundancy / eliminates large single points of failure. Whereas the status quo is a huge power plant serving a city and when a blackout/brownout occurs, it's darkness and blinking lights and chaos all over.

Unfortunately most systems are "anti-islanding"; if they lose a link or go outside parameters, they shut down. A brownout is rarely because the nearest plant has gone down and more likely due to a transmission system fault.

The recent UK large outage postmortem is interesting reading: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/investigat...
For comparison, I set up pi-hole today on an original (non-plus) Model 3B and it’s sitting pretty at between 44 and 46 degrees Celsius - no case at the moment. Ambient temperature is controlled at around 20 degrees Celsius.
Likewise for Scheveningen (Dutch/German)
Building a Backlink Checker in Java
The people of Belarus know they don't live in democracy while the citizens of many other countries think they do.
I'm 47 and have just started learning some serious math.

Born in a developing country, without any formal education, around the age of 15 I began teaching myself English. Worked in medical transcription for about 18 years. When I was 42, as a hobby I began teaching myself programming. At the age of 45, I got a job as a Sr. software engineer/data analyst at a company ranked below 10 on the 2019 Fortune 500, and about 10 months into the job, they made me part of a team working on ML projects. Last month, I lost my job because of visual impairment (I'm extremely myopic).

Now I've decided to take a break and then begin putting myself back on track again.
This is the stereotypical speculation that comes with diet claims.
>I like this guy. He has great insight

I'm sure customer service people and healthcare professionals love people coming on premises and throwing their weight around with exaggerations and half-truths.

The people I know would put you on the bottom of the list.
Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting)
> I'm not an Englishman so have no idea what's the deal with ‘Derry’ is

I had to look it up too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry/Londonderry_name_dispute
Ah, yes, sorry. I didn't realize this article talks about dark matter, not dark energy.
Well, those are historical facts. Not sure about the russians you've met, but they surely have read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_route_from_the_Varangian... at least. Not to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik_dynasty

And you can't really have any talk about Russian state over here without mentioning that 'Russia is still a Byzantine Empire descendant'. Even newspapers usualy mention that: https://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2016/05/30_e_8271917.shtml (in russian, obviously)

Anyway, this topic has lots of material if one is interested.
> What basis do you have for saying that Gandhi was a 'horrible individual'

I'm surprised this is not more well known.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezj3km/gandhi-was-a-racis...

> you see yourself as a far finer human being, is that right

Yes. I do as I believe most people are better than Gandhi, simply by virtue of not abusing children the way Gandhi did, and numerous other crimes that he committed.
They are not unsubstantiated comments. They are well based in fact. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezj3km/gandhi-was-a-racis...
CVE-2019-16869: Reactor Netty Consumes a Vulnerable Version of Netty
I’m here in Shenzhen now, after being in the US all summer. Not really feeling any anti-western feelings so far, though I was worried about that given everything that’s going on with the trade war and Hong Kong. I’ve also only been in Shenzhen a day, and prior to that was insulated in a factory up north shooting for a week, and didn’t really see much of the regularly world outside the factory and hotel.

We’ll see. I’m here for the next few weeks. But right now it feels surprisingly like the Shenzhen and China I’ve gotten to know and love, with all the good and the bad.

That being said, whether I want to really double down on a life in Shenzhen is on my mind right now. It’s difficult being a foreigner here, for lots of different reasons. Everything is harder if you’re not a Chinese citizen and don’t have a chinese id card. There’s no path to being allowed to stay in China permanently, so the rug could be pulled out from underneath you at any moment. There’s also just simple quality of life things. It’s harder to eat healthy food here. Shenzhen, like San Francisco, is a place people come to seek their fortune. Which makes it very transient, and a hard place to build long term friendships.

But yeah, so far, my read is that there a lot of what’s said about leaving China because of anti-western feelings is made up for views, and that folks left for other reasons. It’s apparently trendy to bash China right now.
Our Planet May Be Barreling Toward a Tipping Point
Kind of thinking the same thing, I once did a back of the napkin estimate of the amount of energy entering the system just from global warming. Even if we could use it effectively it completely dwarfs the amount of energy we use globally. It really is astounding how little our current energy needs are in the grand scheme of things.
Is China’s Crackdown on Fentanyl Enough to End the U.S. Epidemic?
180 words of crossbar memory apparently (a word being 69 bits), not 128 bytes as the name of the computer make me think at first
Private details of Palo Alto Networks employees leaked online
Finding old accounts that one forgot to delete.
The coding is just like a Japanese abacus!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soroban
Turkish dam to flood one of the oldest continuously settled places on Earth
> If you wake up in the desert, unsure how you got there, you’ll be fine so long as you remember your Urbit ID and passkey.

https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/urbit-id/
The eroding life for the Batek of Kuala Koh, Malaysia’s last hunter-gatherers
Introduction to Pyspark Join Types
In the Wikipedia quote where he is described as far right, as I clearly indicated.
There are a lot of details that are needed in the proof. You need to define a first order logic and prove arithmetic theorems on top of PA to even start a rigorous proof.

That said it can be fully covered in a single semester of undergraduate study, so its not that hard. There are many theorems that couldn't be fully proved in a semester.
Rich people are worried and seeking old-fashioned security
In this case the two are hard go separate because the originator of urbit pretty explicitly wrote his politics into the system.
CVE-2019-18276 bash: wh EFF UID is = 2 its real UID the sav UID is not dropped
It becomes a way to endure difficulties which should not be there in the first place.
Secret sauce to get 10x performance increase in expression evaluation
The Shocking Rise of Prescription Drug Prices
'We Wanted Our Patrons Back': Public Libraries Scrap Fines to Alleviate Inequity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

Also Shoshin, "beginner's mind":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
One of the fun, easily missed little things in the original Deus Ex is correspondence with ”The Oracle” found on a couple of computers if you hack into them.

https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Oracle
Yes, it seems to me that they really thought they would fight that war.

At the tractor-engineering level, isn't it partly that they didn't iterate many times? What Ford was making in the 50s was not so different. But they junked the whole factory several times since then, or rather were forced to do so by competitors... it's easy to see how hard it would be to persuade even a well-meaning bureaucrat that you want to close down and replace a factory whose tractors worked just fine last year.

I have read (but am not completely sure) that every factory had a second purpose ready to go, e.g. your tractor factory had the tank blueprints ready, and made sure their machines could work for both. If true this must have been another enormous incentive not to change... if your plan for switching to lighter more fuel-efficient tractors means you can't make all the tank components you were supposed to, then you aren't going to get permission.
It's funny that everywhere we see the discussion of weight loss, there's so much insistence that this "one way is the only valid way" because of "this irrefutable process that science proves is real". Yet millions of people have used any number of ways to lose weight. I've used three ways successfully and they all have one thing in common: I consumed fewer calories than I burn. And the one weight-loss method that actually prepared me for the long-term weight maintenance that must come after we reach our goal is the method that wasn't some form of dietary ostracization: eating fewer calories than the number that made me fat.
Basically, the museum's defenses are:

1. In Germany, photographs of public-domain art are copyrightable. They assert that this extends to 3D scans, which are similar in nature, and that the scans are not in the public domain.

The situation on this is very clear in the US (copies of public domain art are always public domain), but not so in Germany, where no such law exists. Article 14 of the new EU Copyright Directive will fix this, but this has not yet made its way into German law. EU Directives are basically templates for national law, but are not laws themselves, and the process can and usually does take years.

The article mentions that it's not yet implemented, but then goes on to claim that the institution might commit "copy fraud", which cannot be the case if it's not yet the law.

Perhaps this is why the museum caved in so quickly?

2. Most German institutions that are funded by tax payer money have an obligation to generate profits where they can, to reduce the taxpayer burden. They cite an example of €2M of profits from their commercial picture licensing deals. Without being able to copyright their pictures, this would be taxpayer money spent, or a cut in funding. Obviously, there's an argument to be made that this would be a very good use of taxpayer money, but it's a valid point to make.

The foundation is a non-profit entity - any money they make will go towards conservation efforts.

There are other similar examples - the German national weather service does not make its high-resolution Cosmo-D2 weather model available for free, and neither does the national land survey office publish all of its maps or its millimeter-resolution AGPS data feed for free. The reason is that those are worth a lot of money to commercial weather forecasting services or survey companies and licensing the data funds the data collection efforts.

The weather service (DWD) actually used to publish its high-resolution weather forecast for free as a smartphone app (DWD WarnWetter) and got sued by a free ad-supported online weather service (WetterOnline) on antitrust grounds and was forced to discontinue its free service - this lawsuit is still going on[1].

> The scary language has real-world consequences. These 3D scans could be used by people who want to 3D-print a replica for a classroom, integrate the 3D model into an art piece, or allow people to hold the piece in a virtual reality world.

The Creative Commons license in question is widely used and not scary at all - many artists use it themselves, and given how widespread and accepted it is, it's the exact opposite of a "keep out" sign.

Very interesting situation, and great work by the activist who made it happen and the German professor supporting him. The article could have used a little less exaggeration.

Personally, as a German tax payer, I'm happy about my tax money being put to good use by making such copies public domain in the future, and I hope that the new law will not deter such 3D scanning efforts in the future.

[1]: http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/doc...
Thats just china. Lifting billions out of poverty.
I guess it's more that I didn't want to write any posts and then not publish them, because if I've written it I'd rather have it out there than just sitting around, but have felt over the month I need to be careful in case I don't have things to write about?

(posted at https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2019/12/bnzsc/)
With Waters Rising and Its Population Falling, What Is Venice's Future
Face Recognition Using KNN and OpenCV
If your main goal is to get a more distributed power grid, it's great.

If your main goal is to decarbonize our grid before climate change wrecks civilization, then anything that makes that more expensive is bad. We're way behind in that race already.
it doesn't really matter what style you assign to each class of text - it only matters that they are different.
Nvidia’s GeForce Now Makes a Mockery of Google Stadia
I recommend the new "Our Machinery" blog [1], where they write about a new engine development. Bitsquid was sold to Autodesk, rebranded Stingray and as of now seems to be discontinued [2].

[1] https://ourmachinery.com/post/
[2] https://www.autodesk.com/products/stingray/overview
Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10
CVE-2019-10212 Undertow: DEBUG log leaks credentials to log files
"patio"? I assumed you meant Patois, but I'm not sure now.
I just read urbit.org's introduction that sounds like a FSF or EFF release on how we are going to take back computers. You seem to be saying this is sleazy Astroturfing (a .org manifesto) by a company that wants to compete in the system it just condemned.
Objective Development – Black Friday Discounts
شرح لغتي للصف الخامس الفصل الدراسي الأول
Number 7 Legal-Doc-to-Google-Form is being done by Axdraft (YC W19)

Disclaimer: I'm friends with one of the cofounders.
Didn't Lukashenka travel to Brussels recently? Or us going to, soon?
This is because people will "forget" that their flash is on. "Oops"! Easier to just ban it altogether.
patio as in @patio11, as in the author of that thread.
As I pointed out, if they violate the charter, which explicitly says that shareholder returns is the purpose of the corporation, then they are liable to be sued by either shareholders or state’s attorneys. That charter is a legally binding obligation. The requirement to disburse profits, have shareholders approve executive pay, etc which is also in the charter also becomes a legal obligation. It’s not a question of preferences but rather contracts that are heavily regulated.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/consequences-violating-corpo...

“ State laws require the board of directors to act in the best interest of the corporation and its shareholders. Part of that responsibility is managing the affairs of the business according to certain legal standards. Once a director takes a seat on the board, he has various duties as the representative of the shareholders that the law places upon him, such as the duty of care and loyalty, that determine if he's doing his job properly. Even if your small corporation has few shareholders and all of them also sit on the board of directors, the shareholders in their capacity as directors must take action and make decisions that comply with the law and the corporation's governing documents, including the bylaws.”
The Org is already doing this (https://theorg.com/)
Books great
Tree-sitter: new incremental parsing system for programming tools (2018) [video]
Problem is new issues will keep cropping up every 2 days. And govt regulators have to keep reacting.

Putting pressure on Google requires seriously increasing competition.

Let the local units rebrand and compete against each other. Maybe even auction them off to other big players. Whatever needs to be done to even the playing field. Google need a nice kick in the ass for their own good health.
So when this guy is dealing with a doctor. He pretends to be a doctor himself? I assume the doctor would notice the guy is acting like a weird asshole for some reason but not mention it.

I guess the tweeter thinks hes being cool and 'hacking' his interactions with people, but I reckon he's just acting like a weird asshole and people are having to deal with it.

This is just quite funny imo.
For someone who doesn't already know curl it might seem easier to use this, but otherwise it doesn't seem so useful.

Commands are a bit shorter (as it assumes json apparently) but, when working on the terminal, once I wrote my curl command I just keep repeating it anyway or just changing one parameter.
Ukraine liberalized its economy and it pretty much destroyed the place.

The whole GDP growth fetish is a lot of horse shit; some measure needs to be taken that the increase in GDP doesn't destroy the lives of some large swathe of the population like it did in Russia. Belarus may be led by a repressive dictator, but the fact that it didn't experience the absurd declines in life expectancy and quality of life in the 90s that Russia did will keep him popular, even if they do have to pay more for oil.
I don’t really see how the law could not allow for wind farms to never have to pay for energy they generate to subsidise their existence.
Right. The main thing is that the recovery.bin and piupdate files are on the boot partition.

I updated 4 RPi4's recently by just inserting the card; renaming recovery.000 to recovery.bin; and repeating for each device.
The Constitution is/was a governing document amongst how multiple States would collectively operate. The republic has been lost. State governments no longer have representation in the federal government.
I don't believe that the beta has USB boot support - isn't it just network boot at the moment?
You cant lose 10kg in 9 days.. a normal person barely consume 300g fat a day.
Adobe Magento Marketplace Exposed User Info in Data Breach
I'm also on the left and found your comment very useful and informative. Again tho, my reference to mud-slinging is in the Wikipedia quote I replied to; I've no idea why you would think I might categorise your comment equally.

As for his categorisation as far right; I've already acknowledged he might be (I haven't read much by him), but being prepared to discuss right wing ideas and challenge mainstream thinking should not mean either him or his technological projects are classed as not to be dealt with.
Objectivity is a lie. I want to do a video about this at some point, but in learning to make videos, I’ve learned there’s no way to tell an unbiased story.

That being said, I’ll be the first to admit my videos are biased.

There’s tons of China bashing in the world. Some of it deserved, a lot of it not. There are a lot of very lazy journalists in the world that follow very old narratives about China because they’re too lazy and overworked to go find new ones.

I could choose to follow these narratives and give viewers what they expect to hear about China. But I think it’s far more interesting and useful to the world to talk about the parts people _haven’t_ heard yet. The parts that I think are cool and amazing and exciting. All of that is real and genuine.

I’m also definitely afraid of angering the CCP gods. I’m also careful to not put anyone in harms way because of something I showed in one of my videos. And I don’t think it’s fair to shit all over a factory who has invited me in as their guest.

I feel like I walk a very fine line with what I show. I think there’s more value to be had by continuing to have access to show an authentic view of what China and Chinese factories are like, even if I can’t always directly comment on it.

The alternative is potentially showing one or two really critical things that are already being covered well by more traditional outlets, and then never being allowed back. Which seems like a huge waste of an opportunity to create some good in the world.

As for factories sponsoring videos, I turn down far more than I accept. Those videos are intended to be about how things are made and how factories work, not reviews or advertisements of a given factory. I could make that same video at a number of factories. They offer to pay to be the factory in shoot it at because it gets them a lot of useful visibility. I insist on having full creative control over the video. The only input they have is what’s confidential that I can’t show on camera (usually just customer designs or logos). If a factory is bad, or makes a bad product, I won’t accept the sponsorship. But I’m not going to go to a factory, sponsored or not, and then badmouth them. That’s rude, and would quickly mean I wouldn’t be invited to other factories to make the educational content I’m so excited to make.
I don't know mCRL2 at all, but SCADE and Simulink are niche tools (excellent at what they're for). TLA+ is completely general-purpose because it can describe a system at arbitrary levels of abstraction (and link the levels). You could hypothetically describe the same system at the level of logic gates or at the level of human interaction. Now, it is not true that TLA+ makes no attempt to directly link to the implementation, but it makes no particular attempt to do so. Its ability to do so stems directly from its power to describe a system at truly arbitrary levels. You want to describe your system at your code level so that you can verify your actual code? You can do that. But here's where things get interesting. If you want to verify a specification using any sound tool -- be it a model-checker or deductive proof -- the size of the specification becomes very limited. We can verify about 3000-6000 lines of a specification. It can be this number of lines of a low-level specification, i.e. code, or of a high-level specification. So this means that if we want to verify our actual implementation, our program must be tiny. But TLA+ gives you the option to specify and verify, say, a 2000-line high-level specification of a 2MLOC program to find problems at that level, and that's what people in general-purpose software need most.

If your tool -- any tool -- links directly to the implementation, we know that the verified implementation will be very limited in size. It is TLA+'s ability to choose arbitrary levels of detail that gives it the power to help design large system. Such designs, however, cannot be formally (i.e. mechanically) linked to the implementation. If they could, we'd know how to fully verify large systems, but we don't.
I made a friend in the accounts department when we had to reconcile our credit cards. He was manually copying and pasting stuff into excel for reports for his boss.

Needless to say I whipped up some easy to use scripts that did the job for him. It changed my relationship with that department.

You become visible and friendly. You're not just someone making work for them.
Specifically, Judges 12:4-6:

4 Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.” 5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he replied, “No,” 6 they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.’” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.
whot?? this is some kind of a new thing? i do everything in this fashion for years
I think it would be even better if in order for bills to pass, a majority of the House must pass and a majority of States, via both Senators from a given State, must pass the bill too.

We shouldn't talk about Senator John For voted for or against bill Y, but rather California voted for or against bill Y. The individuals ought not matter except to their State's governments/legislatures.
They are preserving and restoring those artifacts, and making them available to scientific research. It's more nuanced than that.
I stopped reading here: "My TV is “smart”, but I’m not insane enough to ever let it go on the interwebs." Anyone can give me a TLDR?