skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm only considering utility-scale power. Those are ground-level, not rooftop installations.

If you want to include all forms of "home" power generation, including heating and cooking, then wood fireplaces are mass-murderers, killing tens of thousands due to particulate pollution and carbon monoxide poisoning. Not to mention homes burning down and killing the occupants.
Thanks for sharing. This is indeed genius and so simple. Brilliant.
Alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia
I do all of these things living in a city
Why Go So Fast
They do in UWP, macOS, ChromeOS sandboxes, to different levels of detail, but so far most developers have resisted to them thus users can't get to use them.
yet

> no one from the city government has been criminally charged for the attack
Knocking Down a Featurestein
58 total deaths for the SF Bay Area in 2020, out of about 4 million people.

The positive rate for 2020 of all tests is 3%, but it really appears that whatever tests they're using are just wrong - California had daily flights from Wuhan.

The one logical conclusion from this thread is that if ships, hospitals and nursing homes have high rates of infection, and California homes don't, turn off your central AC and heating in NY, etc.
Anna Karenina is a classical novel that follows classical literary conventions. It's heavy and will give your understanding of Russian naming a workout, but it's still basically readable.

Ulysses, on the other hand, is hundreds and hundreds of pages of modernist stream of consciousness, from the point of view of many characters who don't believe in providing context, where every sentence is packed full of complicated wordplay and obscure allusions, and everything happens at a snail's pace. If the idea of reading a book where you literally can't understand half of it gives you pause, Ulysses is probably not the book for you.

For what it's worth, Joyce is commenting on Finnegans Wake, which goes 10x on everything above and is basically entirely incomprehensible.
How to sell your idea, such that people listen
I assume OP meant the securing side, not the RE side.
Android (2010)
He had to answer a small questionnaire/set of affirmative responses to be able to trade these option strategies. If he lied on them that is not their responsibility anymore (unfortunately).
Good point, I should use relative links for the images, I definitely want to keep the ring open for HTTP, I'm only of those crazies that still takes his Windows 95 for a surf once in a while :D
At this point, I treat Chrome like a Huawei phone: never secure and only to be used at work for those sweet sweet dev tools.
I don't like Slack that much, as a matter of fact I try to avoid it as much as I can, still I must admit is a far more comprehensive service for communicating with a team compared to Zoom, which essentially is just a video chat. So the price difference seems quite reasonable to me.
Just keep in mind that Bootstrap ist not fully accessible by default on purpose [1]. I really hope this changes in v5, because accessibility shouldn't be opt-in.

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/getting-started/accessibil...
The front page has an article about a processor from 42 years ago. What's your point?
There is a similar project for german audiobooks: https://www.vorleser.net/
Power control for serious power was really hard until about 30 years ago, when power MOSFETs and IGBTs got good. There were a long series of not very good devices from 1900 on. Ward-Leonard drives, dynamotors, magnetic amplifiers, motors with multiple switchable windings, thyatrons, ignitrons, silicon-controlled rectifiers... People needed smooth control of high power, but it wasn't easy to get.

Now you can get IGBT modules able to handle the power for a locomotive motor. They're not that big - you can hold one in your hand. The next thing seems to be going back to MOSFETs, but in silicon carbide. Tesla switched from IGBTs to SIC MOSFETs. At last, high power control is a solved problem.
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Not worth celebrating.

It's ridiculous they've been dancing around this for so long.
I wonder if these extensions are so hard to spot because spying is a core feature of Google Chrome, and most top extensions do this.

For example, the extraordinarily popular extension Honey phones home about your purchases, shopping habits and other data without adequately disclosing that fact.

It's hard to see why Google would care when Chrome was always a trojan horse to co-opt web standards for their own purposes and to prevent measures taken against invasive tracking and data collection in the first place.

Tracking is built directly into Chrome's source. Chrome will send "X-Client-Data" headers with a low-entropy identifier on every request to DoubleClick, an advertising agency owned by Google. DoubleClick's hostname is explicitly whitelisted in Chrome source code.

Chrome was always meant for massive spying, and any "crackdowns" are only a reaction to media pressure.
How can one apply ?
I wasn't speaking specifically of being on the board of directors - my point was that plenty of things happen because of "culture" that are simply unacceptable - like FGM. You cannot allow something to keep happening just because that's how it's been done, and yes, I would argue that not being mutilated is a basic human right. Thankfully Japan doesn't practice FGM, but being on the scale of "Bad shit" at "Discriminating against women" instead of "Horrifically mutilating them" doesn't earn them congratulations and a pat on the back.

It was American culture to not let women vote, to keep them as stay at home parents, to load them up with children constantly to build our families. That doesn't mean that that treatment was right.

But, as for the board of directors, women have been working full time in professional roles in Japan for decades now. Japan, to this day, still has famously sexist workplace culture. More than half of all adult women in Japan are employed, yet even those with college degrees have a hard time finding full time employment, compared to men with the same degrees from the same schools. Women are not treated equally in the workplace in Japan. 2nd highest gender pay gap in the OECD, behind only Korea.

"Be sexist towards women" isn't something you get a pass on just because it's your culture. This isn't moral relativism. Human beings are human beings, and shouldn't be discriminated against because of their gender, skin color, etc. Unless you want to argue that women are biologically less suited for being members of a companies board?

This requirement tells Japanese companies they need to do one of three things, if they want foreign investment: They need to either find qualified women within their company and promote them and bring them onto the board as they should have been doing all along, find qualified candidates from outside, or begin actually hiring and developing women in their company if they have not been doing so.
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Thanks for the link, it is an interesting read. But it is about interaction between Henry James and H.G.Wells, not between James Joyce and Wells.
Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM
It works on my machine. The layout is fairly vertical, but I think it's meant to look like that. (And what warning message?)
let's get this straight --

You're doing the thing you love most in all the world, surrounded by people who feel the same way.

You've gotten every perk known to man from ping pong to free booze.

You're getting paid handsomely, more than any other humans on the planet.

You've created a buffer zone between yourself and the client that could withstand a rocket blast from a scud missile

And you are allowed to wear whatever adolescent threads you choose up to and including socks, sandals cargo shorts and a spiderman T shirt ..

Yet you're not having fun and you still call it a job?

CydeWays honestly what more could anyone wish for? Isn't it enough that you've bucked every professional convention? Aren't you satisfied with the greatest free lunch in the history of human enterprise?

Could it be that all these enticements are what's actually robbing you of the fun you so certainly deserve?

Who knows maybe I've read one too many Aesop's fables.
Which is why 98% of the desktop and mobile users don't care about Linux.

That is the price to pay when only technical minded users are the target group.
But, say, 250m will achieve nothing for true moonshots (like the ones mentioned on the site) without political will? Honestly, the example moonshots listed on the site NEED political will to succeed at all.
This kind of antimodern sentiment is typical for US architecture art-historians. Of course the argument is entirely flawed.

Old architecture with history has more owners and more tastes that a modern building stemming from a single vision. Beauty is not a mischmasch of different tastes and addons, beauty comes from a coherent and elegant design. You can have that in older buildings also, but generally it's the definition modern architecture which aligns with our definition of beauty. Which mostly contradicts the historical practice of postmodern architecture, a Mischmasch of envogue old styles, if baroque, renaissance, gothic, classic and so on to name the most prominent. With most buildings and cities having all these styles mixed together. In the end you end up with perl6 or C++. Everybody wants to add a new pretty corner there, and a new balcony there, and you need to say yes.

This is not beauty, beauty is Lisp or Forth, of Mies Van der Rohe. Modernism is the definition of beauty, postmodernism is the definition of warts. But you need to know and understand the concepts, or you dont get it.
On lower dpi monitors I use bitmap fonts with no smoothing for coding, they are crisp. See http://upperbounds.net/index.php?menu=download for a bunch of these fonts (I use Proggy Clean with slashed zeroes and bold punctuation). Note that you may have to play with your font size and turn off any antialiasing in your editor to get it looking right.
It is illegal to provide investment advice and sell investment products without license for a reason. This young man is exactly that reason. People are stupid and they trust other stupid people.
Ever since I saw that picture of Linus writing code on a shitty 90s laptop on his mom's kitchen table I feel like I don't deserve any trifle creature comforts.
Exactly. Things with R0 < 1 will fizzle. Herd immunity is 0.
Little mathematical exercise. For Massachusetts:

a) Take the number of deaths per day, divide it by the total number of deaths. f'/f.

b) Take a look at this in a log-chart. Use 7 day averages for f' and f to get a cleaner picture.

You will see that f'/f falls down exponentially since pretty much the beginning.

c) determine the exponent by estimating the derivative ln(f'/f)'.

d) Now use that to calculate the function f.

e) Calculate an enddate when it will fizzle.
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Circuit Breakers in Microservices
Giant Magellen and Thirty Meter Telescope are both $billion+ projects.

So, no.
Bill upfront and credit back on return. Amazon shouldn't be responsible for the stealing happening in your neighbourhood.
Librivox rocks dude. I volunteered and must await verification :D
it starts all with application devs and distribution package maintainers. users shouldn't even have to know about these things.

- things could be improved if (userland)application maintainers (NOT packaging maintainers) actually bothered to ship apparmor (and/or SElinux) profiles and also properly maintain them for all packages. This will only happen if distributions make them mandatory instead of relying on some 3rd party maintainers.

- it seems that QA in general (and test coverage especially) within Linux distributions isn't very strict (I'm only familiar with Debian/Ubuntu here).

- Haven't seen many services make use of the systemd.exec[1] restrictions in unit files. should be mandatory for all system services to implement these (has to be done by devs not distribution packaging maintainers).

- While it's nice that Debian claims that apparmor is enabled by default now it hides an ugly truth that becomes visible when running `ps auxZ | grep '^unconfined'` ... most applications don't even have a profile and even when you install apparmor-profiles-extra there are only a handful.[2]

- firejail is cool but most people never even heard of it (there is also an overlap in some functionality between apparmor/firejail - and even systemd.exec)

There is always going to be a trade-off between strictness/QA and integrating changes/new packages. but raising the bar can only be possible by having developers maintain these things better and holding them accountable during the distribution packaging. We can't expect the user to figure out what system-calls a process makes so that they can whitelist it themselves.

If Linux on the desktop is ever to compete from a security pov with Apple/Windows then this needs to be done under the hood. While many of my family (including my 70 yro auntie) uses Linux successfully they should never have to know what apparmor/SElinux/etc even is.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exe...

[2] The Debian wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/AppArmor/HowToUse#Enabling_profiles) states: "Beware though: many profiles are not up-to-date and will break functionality in enforce mode, be ready to debug!" <- this shifts the effort to the user (in other words security is available only if one is prepared to implement it by themselves).
It is just me that I used to find CRT monitors much more soothing and soft to my eyes. I feel the LCD monitors to have a very synthetic contrast, brightness and colors which I find harsh to my eyes.
Given that they're the engine now, does anyone know if Microsoft Edge is better than Chrome for for privacy?
> I mean sure HDR is impressive, but for me it's always like 3D movies.. nice for 5 minutes and then you see the flaws

I mean, it basically "just works" on OLEDs. I've watched thousands of hours of HDR content now and maybe 2-3 hours of it was poorly done and distracting. vs. 3D, which I can never sit through at home. (Though, I don't mind well done 3D in the theater)

>But OLED has insane problems with burn-in. They officially don't exist but there are endless reports of this happening. Although I can't speak with high confidence about that.

I've got two OLED TVs, one four years old, the other two. Neither have had any noticeable burn in, though the older one does sometimes have temporary image retention if I've an extended amount of time playing a game, or watching a channel with a static logo, etc.

I am not one of those people that sits there with MSNBC or CNN or Fox or whatever on all day every day with the logo in the same place, though. My OLED usage goes Movies > TV shows > Twitch > Youtube > everything else.

Until a better tech comes out, I'm all in for OLED, even for computer monitors. You won't see me purchase another standalone LCD screen for anything that I'll be caring about picture quality on.
Unless they're the type of janitor who "really cleans up" when called in to "do a job" at the office overnight.
More broadly, even in systems such as Windows, arbitrary programs have way too much access to the system, especially the filesystem. A lot of effort is put into patching exploits that allow for a program to gain root, yet this is largely irrelevant for desktop users [1]. If malware takes over system files, the operating system can just be reinstalled. The relevant threat is malware encrypting or stealing personal files (which every program can access), such as pictures, documents, browsing history, etc. Currently, all it takes is a single sketchy freeware utility without admin access to destroy/steal all of your personal data.

I would envision a whitelist system where programs by default can only access files in their own directories, but the file explorer would mediate access to files opened in the program. So if a file is double clicked in explorer, the corresponding program gains access to that file. Likewise, the "Open" feature in the program would have to call the explorer API for the file selection dialog, which would also give it permission. There are certainly lots of edge-cases that would have to be ironed-out.

Another nobrainer is to put permission for network access on a whitelist, in addition to other permissions. It could work similarly to the permissions found on mobile, but it should be possible to install the program anyway without granting it permissions, so that developers don't simply ask for everything as is standard on mobile. Of course, this system would introduce UX headaches for non-technical people which would need to be worked on, but it should at least be an option for security-conscious people.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1200/
The excerpt PDF is from Stripe's new edition of Richard Hamming's book - The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Link: https://press.stripe.com/#the-art-of-doing-science-and-engin...

Notes:

Richard Hamming inspired a generation of engineers, scientists, and researchers in 1986 with "You and Your Research"—an exhortation to seek out important problems, establish comfort with ambiguity, and be unapologetic in the pursuit of excellence. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is the full expression of what "You and Your Research" outlined. It's a book about thinking; more specifically, a style of thinking by which great ideas are conceived. Adapted from a course that Hamming taught at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and with a new forward by Bret Victor, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is a reminder that a childlike capacity for learning and creativity are accessible to everyone.
I used Tcl for that in the past. Allows for some pretty powerful configuration.

For pure "serialization", this is a bit overkill, of course.
Opening and scripting IDA Pro databases without IDA Pro itself
Having spent way too much years in java I’d have to say that the build systems are really the weakest part of java. We have „maven“ (wtf) and „gradle“ (powerful but yikes) oh and “ant” (dead now)

Wrt gradle: While it’s super easy to get started, any slight modification is a major pain.

Note to other tooling guys for other languages:

- I don’t want to write in a new language just for my build system

- I don’t want freaking xml hell like maven

And don’t get me even started with Maven as a package manager. But to be honest... it’s at least better than NPM :-)
My 2018 joke has been implemented.

> Or Gocker, an implementation of Docker in go...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119842
There is some limited public imagery of radiation injuries sustained by the firefighters. Its no where near the pepperoni pizza shown in the show but if you got it badly enough it is a three dimensional sunburn that kills you from the inside and waits for your body to catch up. I don't think there is any publicly available photography of the way acute radiation affects the skin but the phenomenon has been written about.

In true Soviet fashion some libraries had all material on radiation removed after the accident.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident (famous story which has become something of a creepypasta but does contain)

If you drink the FSB tea, I'd suggest finding a tall building.
Except for the last paragraph? You really don't know what "Law and Order President", the "Silent Majority", what these dog-whistles are about?

And for the rest, I think you underestimate the number of people in this country who would rather have no black people than free black people. Sure, they'd rather have slaves, but if not, they're ok with genocide.

And if you think that there couldn't be enough people to hold such beliefs, let alone successfully carry them out, then you've forgotten about the last century entirely and the very recent white supremacy marches.

And on that note: look at these guys! This is what white supremacy looks like. Certainly doesn't look like your Senator, your chief of police, your sheriff. No, white supremacy dresses up like a comic book villain for you all to see. There couldn't possibly be die hard racists in power! And sure, well if there are, its really that they are economic opportunists. Sure they're evil, but they don't actually want black people to die, right? I mean, they need them to work in the prisons!

Again. Wake the fuck up. And stop denying their existence.

The same thing happens with demonizing immigrant farm labor. Think about what it's like to negotiate for a better living when the President of the country you are in is calling you all rapists and killers. You think that the white people have forgotten how great it was to have zero cost labor, and how effective terror is? You think that just because, on paper, people are "free" that they are in a position to stand up to this? These are people, we just learned, are actually essential workers! Where are the H1Bs for these guys? No? Of course, not, because then they could get a better job and we wouldn't have slaves to pick what needs picking.
There is a web intelligence company in Israel that is known to buy popular browser extensions like “Web of Trust” and use them to exfiltrate browsing data (with tons of sensitive and personal information). They have been called out for this several times already and some of their extensions got removed from the store, they invariably turn back up again after a few weeks though (good connections to Google/Mozilla I guess). Firefox isn’t better than Chrome in that regard btw as it also turns a blind eye on this kind of data collection.

Extensions are ideal to exfiltrate data from browsers as they bypass all security measures and can literally see everything you do on every single page you visit. It still boggles my mind how you can call a browser secure and privacy-friendly (in the case of Firefox) and at the same time allow such blatant abuse for years and years. Me and other people have been pointing this out since at least 2016 and demanded better security controls for plugins / extensions but I’m getting really tired of it.
It's really the 1850's when you think about it.

Transformers were all there was before the Edison Effect was discovered and vacuum tubes were developed.

A lot can be accomplished with just copper and iron and its always been expensive and heavy, sometimes like a baseline for cost.

By comparison alternative systems can be much more complex with way more points of failure if they can just beat that cost to a certain extent.

There's more proven technology on the trailing edge than the leading edge can be expected to provide.

In one person's lifetime there always exists more forgotten technologies of the ages than truly novel technologies that can be developed over a single career.

It could be worthwhile to try and balance the creation of new technologies with the preservation of technologies at risk of loss.
funny letter. "You have turned your back on common men—on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence, and... you have elaborated.
I use Firefox’s tools. The console as a tiny editor is cool. I think Chrome has a better network timeline/waterfall and performance monitor thing. But I only use those occasionally.
I'd say most such issues with extensions could be solved if they were "read-only", i.e. were prevented from inserting data into documents, making or adding data into outbound requests.
"Moreover, I don’t think many people have even thought of slavery when referring to “master” in CS context before it was brought up in this manner."

That's probably true, and it's probably people who didn't have grandparents that were slaves. It's closer in mind to some more than others. And if we want to have CS be more open to the black community, then being sensitive to how words can turn people off is important.