skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean "twice in 20 years"?

2019:

"California’s largest utility is under severe scrutiny by state regulators and customers over its rolling blackouts that have left millions of people without power.

Just two weeks after a massive power shut-off that the company acknowledged it mishandled, Pacific Gas & Electric announced on Wednesday that it will cut electricity to 179,000 customers in California in the face of a new wildfire threat. Southern California Edison, the state’s second-largest investor-owned utility, also warned on Wednesday of power outages to 308,000 customers."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/pge-rebuked-over-imposing-bl...

That's at least 1 and possibly 3 power cutoffs (not outages, deliberate cuts) just in 2019.

Several days so far in 2020, with millions affected.

https://www.vox.com/2020/8/15/21370128/california-blackouts-...

And the year is still young.

And of course the energy crisis in 2000-2001 caused many, many blackouts over the course of two years, it's not the single incident you are implying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis

> far shorter than the Berlin outage

Shifting goal posts. This was a single outage affecting 30K people. Just the one Chicago outage affected 800K people, that's 26x more people. This isn't comparing Apples and Oranges, this is comparing Apples and Aircraft Carriers.

And most of the others are over 100K people. And there are multiple ones per city. Per year. And I stopped looking after it was clear that many cities were affected by much larger outages multiple times a year. My guess is that outages affecting only 30K people just didn't make the news.

> The grid can't target perfect reliability

Yes, being resilient against construction workers cutting the cable is difficult. However, being resilient against storms, storms that occur just about every year should be something you can expect, and in non-third-world countries is something that you actually can expect. That doesn't mean there never is storm damage, just that power isn't routinely cut when there's a storm as seems to be the case. Or when the weather is hot.

Austria has much worse snow storms and ice than what we saw that winter in Detroit, every year. And avalanches. Yet I've never seen or experienced anything like that power outage. And it doesn't look like anything substantial has changed. The US has been under-investing in infrastructure for many decades, and it shows.

If you don't believe it, visit other places.

> reliability will be higher with lower population density

New York has a low population density? Chicago? The Bay Area?
It runs very well on ESP32.
Thank you for a considered response, SpicyLemonZest. When I posted that question I half expected to be howled down as a troll, a naysayer, or off-topic. I'm glad you did none of that and answered by sharing your thoughts. As humans in the community of HN, we are richer for it.

> most experts do seem to agree that GPT can't scale to general human-level intelligence.

What is it about human-level intelligence that's unreachable by machines, even machines as advanced as V42 of GPT, would you consider? Can you put your finger on it, or make a little start?
Essentially a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164470
Just a reminder that such an issue of erased history would not have happened with SVN..
This is great!

Also check out LanguageLearningWithNetflix [0] which lets you watch videos with two subs in different languages, displays the subs as HTML so select/copy/define will work (and it has a built-in dictionary too). It also allows you to quickly jump to the beginning of each sentence so you can hear it multiple times, which helps improve your listening skills. For me, it has been a fun way to improve my German.

On a side-note, please notice how none of these great features are available to mobile users. iOS for example, is technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility, but the App Store model limits it to a few narrow and specific use-cases.

[0] https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com
Odd to frame this as a story about the 1920s when one of the quartet, Wittgenstein, spent the decade in philosophical exile. He finished the Tractatus in 1919 and didn't return to Cambridge until 1929.
Armbian – Linux for ARM development boards (TV boxes, ARM netbooks etc.)
Use Pulumi or Terraform.
I can foresee that one of the consequences of the pandemic will be a permanent change in the way that society views transmissible diseases. Prior to March, it was okay to gather in large groups and just get sick a few times a year. After the pandemic, I’m not sure people will be okay with that anymore.
I actually don't know, you are right. I have some trust in AWS but I would never put a real secret in AWS in clear text.
I know it isn't possible. Half measures are attractive short term but can serve to normalize failure, as is currently happening. Most people I know view Purism favorably and think it has actually made ME irrelevant. It hasn't, all the hardware is still there and can be enabled. You still are not the de facto owner of the machine.
The 2000XL is nearly 25 years old. No idea how recently you tried one but I can see someone familiar/comfortable with some sort of DAW workflow not being able to easily adjust to one. Just sample load time or dealing with floppies (or zip disks!) in 2020 is kind of a non-starter for me. That said, it's still very hard for me to write these things off when you can go on YouTube and see people create absolute magic.
Your parent's comment is out of date, but what you said isn't a fair representation either.

The 1.5% tax they're talking was the 1.5% payroll tax that SF had in place until 2012 [1]. Payroll tax isn't quite the same as an income tax because the onus isn't on the employee to figure it out like state and federal, but it still did cost most businesses in SF an extra 1.5% on every employee's salary to be there.

Prop E shifted most of this to a gross receipts tax instead (although there's still a 0.38% payroll expense tax in place [2]). Again, the numbers your parent is talking about are out of date, but the spirit of it is right in that it does just fundamentally cost a company quite a bit more to have an employee in SF.

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[1] https://sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/gross-receipts-t...

[2] https://sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/payroll-expense-...
"Turing-complete text editor can do anything" :)

To be fair, I dont actually know what percentage of editors have that feature, my impression is just that many people arent aware of the idea. Maybe Im wrong though.
> But it could be argued that given an opportunity, an engineer should have the skills and ability to build these systems.

Having the skills and ability to build these systems doesn't mean you can regurgitate all the algorithms required to build them on a whiteboard in 30-60 minutes. It means you have to ability to search for algorithms and apply them to your problem at hand over the course of several days, weeks, or even months.

Do you really think anyone building these systems spent only 60 minutes both deciding upon, and coding ANY of their algorithms and called it a day because they obviously chose the best one?
Your suggestions mostly hit it. When you're used to constantly meeting friends in the city, it's a drastic social life change. I think also many people who enjoy cities like high levels of stimulation, and the suburbs simply don't offer as much. I'm thinking museums and events and the like. So even in the city, people will still struggle on that end. So basically yeah, I suspect lack of things to do in those cases.

FWIW, I'm actually not interacting much with neighbors but I'm glad to hear you are and would not be surprised to find a macro increase in that right now. Interesting to see how people are adapting in different ways!
Same technological challenges, but the rendering of past historical figures' ethnographic features has much higher social stakes and is a considerably more politically sensitive issue than how a T-Rex is rendered.
I wonder if the pandemic is going to decimate the housing markets even more in those remote mountain towns. I have two coworkers who just moved to Bozeman, MT to be closer to skiing and fishing. I would think places like Kalispell, Coeur d'Alene, Jackson Hole, Taos and Bend are all going to see a large influx of remote workers who like outdoor lifestyles.
The point is that both were called smartphones.
Those are the highest figures I've seen for Firefox Android anywhere. I'm shocked, but proud.
Lunarcrush: Discover how social media impacts cryptocurrency markets
If you use the TinyCC/tcc back end then compiling is nearly instant (I use the "tcc mob branch" all the time). You can even put a shebang at the top of your file (#!/usr/bin/nim r) and have an edit-run cycle similar to scripting languages, just a tiny edit toward "nim c -d:danger foo.nim" the file to get a production/deployment performance self-contained binary.
How the World’s Largest Garbage Dump Evolved into a Green Oasis
Interesting that I was wrong - another data point in the "it's more complicated than you think it is" column. I always thought you were supposed to drop them (because I was explicitly told so by a French engineer I worked with in the 90s, talking about one particular poster, and many years later still assume that one hallway conversation was enough to make that THE OFFICIAL RULE without bothering to actually check...)
Take the same energy and apply it to learning to build testable and understandable code. If you can go from nothing to smoking an algo interview in months you’re a fast learner. You’ll be fine.
Property taxes in TX are generally higher but the lower average home price sort of negates that. Regardless, I'm looking forward to competing with even _more_ cash offers over listing price within 24 hours of a listing going up.
ME hasn't been removed at all. The hardware is still on the machine.
Great so now in order to create a performant embedded app i need to write everything in two languages.

We should make Rust compile to Arduino and other embedded devices and be done with it.
Strava for Health
Cancel culture claims another victim.

Social media and its consequences have been a disaster for nerds. Introverted nerds and intellectuals created the technology that enables social media to exist. That same technology is being used to exclude nerds from the internet.

What's left for nerds in the modern world? Nothing.

I don't use C++ right now but I might want to later and I don't like seeing its creator ostracized.
The Bolsheviks still had the complete case of "missing the goddamned point" and beligerence such that they put totaltiarians in power. I am afraid that "more interested in the appearance of change" applied to them as well. Hell they fit the exact same framework of "fanatical hatred for those with more minute policy distinctions". Their most damning flaw was that they were in the end more interested in killing anyone better off as a scapegoat and dogma policing than them than doing anything to make life better.

They aren't the same (thank god - the original Bolsheviks were psychotics!) but plenty of resemblences. There is still the absurd supply-and-demand denialism common to both the area and the self-proclaimed left-wing. Then there is the whole "fight new higher density housing as gentrification" making everyone worse off as the supply doesn't rise but rents do anyway.
>there are two distinct groups of people here, and these trends can/will counteract eachother: the ones that are in the city for work, and the ones that are in the city because they love cities. COVID creates an exodus of one, but people in the latter category are also moving into cities as well as prices drop and they are no longer priced out.

I don't think it's as simple as one group replacing another so it's a wash. I don't know if the WSJ article dives into it but cities seem to care what type of workers they attract because higher-salaried employees (e.g. tech workers) provide a higher tax base. This was demonstrated by various cities falling over themselves trying to attract Amazon's HQ2 with the promise of high tech jobs. Cities aren't on a public campaign to attract more bohemian artists. It's the high tech workers that are currently more desirable.

If tech workers exodus of San Francisco is a real sustained phenomenon, are the replacement workers' taxable income higher/lower/same? Since you envisioned lower prices for housing, doesn't that mean it would be caused by lower income workers?
Out of curiosity I tried on my phone:
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So my phone doesn't have that yet!
One reason for example can be providing better reliability to the customers who were using certain application on premises and need/want to continue doing so. I've observed how our solution switched from monolithic blob of cpp code which crashed everything upon major failures; to the several modules - now your monitoring may crash and restart but hopefully service won't be interrupted, but when performance part crashed - all service stopped, and maintenance time was long; to the k8s - when all parts are split into separate containers and performance part is split into smaller chunks completely redundant, so when one crashes it is a) restarted without affecting 99% of other users, b) it is restarted much quicker, ten times quicker, meaning less down time to 1% affected users.

But k8s introduced non trivial amount of complexity and its own bugs and maintenance cost, meaning new separate engineers to maintain and develop just k8s tooling. And we had to rewrite a lot of legacy code. But the trade off is much better for a big project. Cutting downtimes by an order of magnitude and being able to boast it to the board - apparently priceless :) .
I noticed the same error you did, and I agree the OP article doesn't tell us much about why this result is important, but I actually thought the OP article did a better job of explaining complexity classes at an extremely elementary level (not relying on what a polynomial is) than other articles I've seen
Honestly, it seems like we never successfully replicated the AOL/Prodigy era chat room paradigm. My family still has friends we met in late-90s AOL chat rooms, and we honestly ended up stuck on their dialup for years longer than would have been sane due to wanting to stick to that community (at the time, I think the bring-your-own-connection service was still an extra fee, so we'd have to pay $15 to a local ISP plus $15 for AOL or whatever, versus paying them $25 in the first place."

There's IRC, which tends to have a much higher technical barrier to entry though, and a lack of centralization makes for a more difficult discovery and user experience.

I also wonder if by tying it to a paid service in the first place gave a bit more ammunition for moderators to handle the "obnoxious 12-year-old" class of troll.
Newegg commingles inventory so you don’t know whose inventory you will be buying from. See section 4.1:

https://promotions.newegg.com/marketplace/PDF/SBNTermsAndCon...
You think you're alone?
Letters to a New Developer – Interview with Dan Moore [audio]
The problem with Amazon is counterfeits. Counterfeits go against the idea of a free market. You almost certainly can’t know that the “Apple 5W wall plug charger” is legitimate until you receive it. It says “Apple” on it, but it’s not genuine. Why is that the consumer’s fault?
Last year sometime - I'm about due another look.

Main problems were cryptic errors in the REPL, super slow start-up and first run times (JIT issue I seem to recall reading was being improved), and a generally very poor third-party package management system.

On the last issue, I'd say Python is not perfect but pip and various virtualenv management systems are "good enough". Having something like the Rust/Cargo setup is what I would prefer.
Hm. I've used image-screenshot [1] in the past together with html2canvas to get CSS filter support in screenshots. Don't know if it would work in your scenario though.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/image-screenshot
It's still unclear whether the algorithm the verifier uses has actually been identified or has only been proven to exist.
I've done quite a few firmware development projects (they're commercial type and deployed in fitness industry, police vehicles, etc). They type of thing they do, I have a hard time imagining doing it in Python.
Grocery stores are closed for a few months and everybody forgets about Steely Dan.
I am trying to resist cynicism, but I too am thinking that after my upcoming sabbatical if I want to get top dollar I should just invest in power-grinding at the leetcode gym.

Still hoping to find a friendly startup though, since some of the MegaCorps are lifestyle-incompatible and I'm already used to making a lot less than Googlebucks.
My biggest question about quantum computers is will they ever be generalized or is that a fundamental impossibility? A hundred years from now are computers going to have a normal processor for 95% of their workload and a quantum modules for the other five percent?
PyThong: You're one typo away from internet gems
For a really interesting, semi-true story about a Japanese warplane engineer in WWII, I highly recommend watching *The Wind Rises&. Probably one of Miyazaki's finest works (although that's just my opinion).

It gives you some sense of the sense of the nationalistic feelings in Japan as they entered WWII, and the tremendous pressures their country faced to prove themselves.
I think lots of people will, but some people won’t and will attempt to dictate how everyone else lives their lives, according to their priorities. How successful will they be?
The power to promote is just as dangerous if not more dangerous than the power to suppress because it is much harder to make a case against it but can have the exact same effect.
We tried to use Upstart properly in Fedora. We spent three Fedora releases trying to do that (Fedora 9, Fedora 10, Fedora 11, and Fedora 12). We gave up by Fedora 13.
Great question. If someone gets a good job they won't be jealous of me. Most violent crime is by poor people, so I have an interest in there being no poor people.
The joke was about raiding the place because Area 51 is, in popular consciousness, a securely guarded place with unfathomable secrets inside, and thus inaccessible unless a very very large number of people attempted to storm the place with bullet-defying Naruto running. Where do you get that mass of people? Why the internet of course, which is also a terrible place to organize an invasion, which makes it all that more ironic.

It should also be noted that at the gathering no violence broke out, because everyone there was for fun. There wasn't even an instance of someone present mentally unstable or too ideologically fanatic actually trying to make a run for it. By all accounts the partiers and the security forces got along amiably. It was indeed a positive, if eccentric, social event.

This debate is going nowhere because it requires the participants to have a working grasp of both pop culture and humor.
And I'm saying doing stuff with numpy counts as doing stuff in python. Just because numpy is mostly implemented in c doesn't prevent me from writing ML in python.
I'm glad that I am not alone. I've done mostly non-UI C++/C#/Java/Python stuff, mostly business level rules and devops and evangelizing good practices such as CI and clean code and git (you would be surprised how many people don't even know how what it is or how to squash and rebase). Having studied computer engineering we did not really focus on algorithm but more on lower level stuff and signal processing.

I do not really fit any of the "standard" interviews. I've done the TripleByte interview and other top 100 corporation interviews and they all seem to assume a computer science formation or if not than assume you are a web dev. So yeah, I know how to implement most algorithms efficiently, I just can't remember how to describe exactly Dijkstra's from memory or how to balance a tree on a whiteboard under stress. I've seen them, I learned them, but 7 years after not using them I forgot (and frankly don't care).
I’m hoping my cat’s vet and others will stop looking at me like a monster for skipping most vaccines. A cat that no longer goes outside and occupants that don’t interact with other cats basically means the cat is under total isolation.
He’s nobody to me. Also his writing is very poor and full of histrionics. He should take a class somewhere.
Probably not. Why not utilise ECS/ Fargate and attach managed services, rather then tending a whole now flock of things?
Dont know, google found this as a possible interpretation. Courier services usually have this somewhere in ToS, plus customs will confiscate it and you end up on the hook.
It lowercased the 'show this as emoji' variation selector to zero width joiner?
>What are the sanctions?

There are none right now, that's my point. But if PRC is going to co-opt US companies as they implement other strategies to become global hegemon in 10 years time, it's perfectly appropriate to ask questions about whether or not American companies should play party to this - and whether or not the American government should do anything to stop or reverse the trend.

>What do you mean by different understanding of the rules?

>Who are these corresponding to China and US?

I'm not really convinced you're arguing in good faith if your null position is that the US and China are behaving the same way in international markets. There's mountains of evidence to the contrary, going back 30 years.
I’m not avidly opposed to k8s by any means, but you can get these same properties from any of a variety of easier-to-use schedulers such as Fargate, Heroku, or even EC2 autoscaling groups. Of course, there are probably Kubernetes distributions that lower the threshold of using Kubernetes (and if there aren’t, there really should be) by providing solutions for logging, monitoring, certificate management, Functions (a la AWS Lambda), load balancing / ingress, state management (databases as a service), etc preconfigured out of the box (similar to what you get with AWS or Heroku).
FWIW, my answer was not meant to be trashing nim. I like and use nim.

And to be perfectly transparent, I know relatively little of Go. My impression is that nim has more features in general, which could be considered to make it more complex. That can be a good and/or bad thing depending on perspective.
> We choose Intel CPUs that do not have vPro

The Wikipedia article they link about vPro says:

> Intel vPro technology ... [includes] VT-x, VT-d...

Does this mean that Purism hardware won't support virtualization extensions? Seems like that would be a big downside, and would make it a non-starter for a lot of people (including myself).
Yeah fair. There will be all kinds of audits which would be hard if they couldn't do that
Ha! On my worst days, I'll admit I'm in the group who would binge watch youtube over filling out a spreadsheet. I've struggled keeping a good routine during wfh, there are some days where I'm not as productive as in the office.
I suppose it might depend on the domain / industry. Biotech sounds like it has the potential to be interesting, but I currently work for a large non-tech company and have worked in government and don't like the being considered the cost center or having to deal with the seemingly unending layers of bureaucracy.
I suppose it's also extremely reasonable to not want to live in close quarters with too many roommates you don't actually know all that well who may or may not be adhering to the same level of safety as you want to.

But if that was it, why isn't NYC seeing the same? Are apartments actually bigger there or more commonly single occupant or something?
I think the order is for masks outdoors when distance cannot be maintained. So almost never outdoors.