skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is shutting these lines down not feasible when PG&E regularly does it as part of their "public safety power shutdowns"
Yes, I know it is in gcc. But compared to the AdaCore version, there are way too many bugs (at least when I played with it in 2018). And for any commercial endeavour (even if just a small company, say one or two developers) you really need the support contract (for fast bug fixing the compiler etc.). That's from my experience.
Remember, it was about widespread adoption. With the above described small shop situation, there is no pricing that is payable by those shops. And the GPL 3 version does not help here. At least I haven't seen a solo developer going from "I created this amazing thing with the GPL version" to "I can now afford the commercial license of 20000€ per seat".
Space Force confirms Space Based Infrared System detected missile attack in Jan
This. I work on an Android app written in Java. We were thinking about migrating to Kotlin years ago, but our blessed tool - Fortify - only just released a technical preview for Kotlin 1.3.50 in Fortify 20.1.0, and already Kotlin 1.4.10 is out.
Thanks! qj is fine
Isn't that the whole point of puzzles?
The vast majority of the world's population live in places with power outages and flaky internet connectivity. It's extremely commonplace. I live in London and my upstream internet connection is going down multiple times a day at the moment which is extremely frustrating.
This is explained in more detail here: https://www.justinpinkney.com/toonify-yourself/

Specifically, there's this snippet:
"These StyleGAN face models can produce a huge diversity of faces and it’s actually possible to find basically any face inside the model. It’s actually a straight forward process to search for any image of a face in the model. So given an example image you want to find you can find a “code” (aka latent vector) which, when given as an input to the model, will produce an output which looks almost exactly like the face you’re looking for."

So it seems like they first generate an image that is similar to yours with one model, and then translate that too its more cartoony counterpart.
I'm not sure if i get it but normally internal traffic across AZs should be included?

It was also not clear to me after reading their issue page.
You previously said "the specs are the same or better for $400 less", but the A13 in the SE blows away the Snapdragon 730 in the Pixel 4a and the price difference is only $50.
Honestly, I respect Cory Doctorow for sticking to his principles and doing something that is sure to hurt financially. Unfortunately, like many other people, I only ever listen to audiobooks on Audible, and if something isn't there - I won't listen to it. This is rare enough that it almost never happens - and my list of books to read is long enough that I will never ever run out of things I want to read.

I've actually never read Cory Doctorow's books (yet!), so I'm obviously not the people he imagines as the prime market for this in any case.
Point 10. Cancer

“We replaced all damaged wood with treated timber and soaked it in creosote for good measure.”

Please, don’t do that. It’s a high suspect for cancer. Already some paints and most of the wood agglomerate glues are bad for health, but this!

Good luck still with your house, it’s vital to have a livable place for balance and creativity.
Tackling modern PHP bug classes
No need for security scanner any more. Splunk SIEM can do this job now
I don't understand your analogy. It was the tower that was abandoned for "50 years". The transmission tower has an inbuilt failure that triggers after 100 years (the failed hook = the incendiary) except it wasn't some asshole that added the incendiary, it was the group (PG&E) responsible for constructing and maintaining the tower. The tower hasn't been maintained by PG&E for around 100 years (close to your 50 years) so all the trees trapped near or under the transmission tower die in a wild fire. You have picked your analogy in such a way that it is extremely confusing. Even after reading "To me, PG&E is the driver here." it still felt extremely forced because the entire "twitter article" is about the failure of PG&E to maintain their infrastructure. That also includes cutting down trees near power lines.
Not surprisingly, underground house wasn't such a great idea, our predecessors learned this lesson when they abandoned caves, burrows and mud huts ages ago.
It’s a felony in Europe too.
Sorry but that doesn't address the issue at all. I got the majority of money through working, and that was at weekends and holidays, I wasn't in a position to work full time, which i am assuming the people in the article are. The university hardship funds were a bit of extra money, but not a huge amount. No one has explained what has gotten so expensive that a full time low wage job can't support it.
I've wondered plenty about it and I think Yes, we should.
The income:price ratio would be better if you only consider NYC/SF prices. If you also take in account the vastly lower prices in other regions, suddenly the ratio would become a lot more favorable in those other regions.
at 1h 19 minutes: Michael Abrash talks about research in AR/VR including AR glasses
Not OP, and don't even have an alternative, but I find it disappointing that kubernetes basically seems to be the only answer for 'running containers in production'. Docker and its tooling is pretty development focused, and Kubernetes is probably too complex for 95% of use cases, which makes me think there's gotta be something in the middle ground that reaps the benefits of containers, wraps them with good tooling, reproducibility, reliability, and observability, and avoids the complexity of k8s.
This is a lesson in being innovative. Pushing boundaries has costs. You can explore new ideas, rid yourself of legacy assumptions and arrive at some valuable things. But, you forgo the (often hidden) benefits of past mistakes and standard techniques that have all the kinks ironed out.

The problem with houses is that iteration is expensive. A lot of architectural innovations are actually a version 2. There's another building where the architect/builder learned from mistakes.
Why would you think it would go away?

Its literaly the best option currently for what it is doing.

It has an unprecedented support behind it as well.

Multiply Vendors support it through a certificate k8s managed service.

It solves really problems out ouf the box like load balancing, ingress, cert management, autoscaling, health checks, autorepair.

It allows for simple IaaC.

Is it young? Yes. Do we need more people with more expierence? yes.

Is this a problem? No.
Nahh... it was really hard work^W fun to get them ;-)
> I will say there is no state currently where you can afford an apartment by yourself making minimum wage.

Neither could I which is why I shared. Is that something that isn't expected any more?
I also found it bizarre that your average go-kart track (not to mention aviation) has the presence of mind to safety wire everything but a multi billion dollar utility company didn't
Ah okay. It seems that my re-adds were failing on arrays that don't have a bitmap. I was testing it on small arrays that don't get a bitmap by default.
Using Matomo as a privacy-conscious alternative for user analytics on iOS
I think the point is PG&E should be blamed for negligence but not for the fire[1]. They could follow all regulation to the letter and there will still be a non-negligible chance that their infra will cause a fire simply because existing regulation is not suitable for the environment their infra stands at.

[1] Although I think the thread is rather vague as to the damages assigned to PG&E no?
A firewall with deep packet inspection and a shared database among people who block ads would be easier.
> > Terrorists and Nuts would love nothing more than use a surface-to-air missile against a launch

> Please reference: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire[0]

> The author argues that the US is creating the "terrorists and nuts" that the US is then protecting itself from.

I suspect that the terrorists and nuts most interested in firing a SAM at a NASA launch would be of the domestic varieties.
I too have heard this but looking at brain waves on wikipedia:

Delta wave – (0.5 – 3 Hz)
Theta wave – (4 – 7 Hz)
Alpha wave – (7 – 15 Hz)
Mu wave – (7.5 – 12.5 Hz)
SMR wave – (12.5 – 15.5 Hz)
Beta wave – (15 – 30 Hz)
Gamma wave – (>30 Hz)

Based on the wide frequency range on any of those it's hard to justify a range as tight as 135-140BPM, "137 heaven" notwithstanding

There's definitely some interesting cognitive science in what makes a good tune though. I sketched out some informal ideas here
https://omnisplore.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/kolmogorov-compl...

I used to write the odd bit of psytrance back when I had enough time in my life, hope it's not too rude to link some here :) https://oscillicraft.bandcamp.com/album/dreampsyker
The Four Kinds of Side Hustles
Docker from the crust to the core, what and how it Works
Ok, I will give you that London prices are silly, but it isn't the norm as far as the UK goes. And again I shared a flat, why does no one under 30 expect to do this any more?
Yeah Android has some features and apps in this space. This iOS mode is an accessibility feature. I guess for some people a pure red screen helps them see it better?

This feature is not intended as a "night mode", it's very extreme. It also makes anything that has no red channel in its color disappear (although this is rare). I found it's a better night mode than actual night modes. But it's best if you're just reading text, for video or games it's probably too extreme.
Because businesses buy in bulk. Regular users have to make up the difference by trading in personal data.
In the uncommon event I need to write a loop from scratch, and I need it to be really fast, I just rewrite that one jupyter cell in cython or numba. But that is a small piece of my codebase.

I agree that Julia code is aesthetically superior to a long chain of Pandas code. But at this point I’m used to reading a bunch of chained pandas code. Often I think of myself as more of a Pandas programmer than a Python programmer.
Isn't a paper book also kind of DRMed? It's pretty difficult to copy? You could put it on a photo copier, but then I guess you could also tape record an audible book to copy it.

I respect that he wants his books to be available without DRM, but why not simply offer a way for audible shoppers to download a DRM free copy from another source?
Australian air carrier’s seven-hour scenic ‘flight to nowhere’ sells out
So, what I understand is that hidden services can easily be deanonymized. People using tor only as a proxy are safe, provided they do not download big files (who want to do that anyway, given how slow it is?).

As a Tor user, I'm quite glad to read that, actually. Tor hidden services are the reason why Tor has this ugly and well-deserved reputation of being a tool for everything illegal and morally unacceptable. As someone who just want strong privacy, I see hidden services as problematic neighbors and I would be glad to see them go.
Just make a separate/dummy Facebook account. That's what I use.
My experience with using general purpose languages for things like configuration or build systems has not been great. You always seem to end up with building a bunch of abstractions on top of that language, which culminates in another in-house configuration/build DSL, for which no public info is available.

It is also very hard to prevent people from using the escape hatch of the general purpose language to "fix a problem quickly", while introducing unpredictable side effects.

Scons (using Python) and Gradle (using Groovy / Kotlin) are 2 cases where I have seen this go very wrong, very quickly. I now strongly prefer Maven, even with its warts and XML verbosity.

On the other hand, configuration languages also often suck, the abomination that is HCL (e.g used in Terraform) comes to mind (especially in its early days). Turns out it is really hard to make a good language, and a bad configuration language is even worse than using a general purpose language.

I do like Dhall though: sufficiently powerful so you never have to repeat yourself, while also preventing you from doing fancy stuff you will later regret, all with a very readable syntax, and the type system helps to catch typos / mistakes early. I now use it to generate all config files for tools that consume json/yaml, and often for other text based config files as well (where you can use it as a powerful type-safe template engine)
I think people also tend to misjudge tempo depending on the content of the music (also discussed in my link above)
The first clue that you're going to have water problems are the steps leading down to your front door. You built a catch basin to live in.

Second clue is it is made from concrete. Concrete by itself is not water tight. It can be made water tight but some significant effort is required. Just ask anyone who has ever built a basement.
You know the rules, I'll never say Good bye
Touché. I do desperately miss macOS's emacs bindings across the board and the wonderful Cmd that leaves Ctrl alone. I constantly look for a Linux distro that actually "get it", but so far all I've seen are efforts to make it _look_ like macOS, without making it _feel_ like it.

TL;DR: I cope, begrudgingly.
Wooden houses are a mistake. They burn. Unless... Unless you're good at making wooden houses that aren't likely to burn.

A failure isn't generally a proof that the main idea is wrong. Most failure are execution failures. I imagine that if they built this house again, they'de solve those problems.

In any case, the "ancestor" of mine that abandoned the mud hut he was born in was my grandfather, Tom... who (incidentally) was a builder. That specific style of mud hut (dob walls, thatched roof) is now making a comeback, with modern conveniences like floors. It's funny how a 20th century house, a hobbit hole and Denisova cave all fall into the same "ancestral" bucket.
It seems to me that the reason note taking is complex, and so fractured, is because of lack of label support in OS's. Data is mismanaged at the data level, and we are looking for solutions to that problem with applications rather than at the OS level where it belongs.

The file tree idea, where a file exists in only one place in the hierarchy is wrong. I'd rather all my notes/files were in one big bucket, but that I could label each, and then sort by labels.

I may want to label a file as 'software', 'tech-architecture' and 'finance' - all of them. When I look up any one of those labels, I want to get all the related content. I shouldn't need to guess which bucket I put a note into. So, I say labels should be data associated to files like modified date, or author.

To fix the problem of 'no label' as part of the data, I try to use a note taking that applies labels for me. But then an app developer is going to want to do all sorts of extra stuff.

I understand that having tons of label data on the file could become ridiculous though. Perhaps the real answer would be to have a hidden metadata file associated with the data itself (eg 'mytext.txt.meta') - labels and any other metadata would go in here, separate to the note 'mytext.txt' itself.

So, I think OS's enforce a data organisational structure on us that is unnatural to the way we think and work. And we seek to fix it with apps. And we will never get satisfaction that way :(
>>I think for a utility the risk should be very very close to zero

They can lower the risk by a lot, but are you ready to pay 65 cents (or whatever) a KW ? PG&E, with all its faults, has been put in an impossible position: one fire (that is bound to happen no matter what because wires fail) can bankrupt them since it can burn hundreds of thousand of acres, thousands of homes, untold deaths and other property destruction.

You can't really blame them for everything. Manage forests, stop building a town in the middle of the freaking forest and raise electricity rates for a complete audit of all the lines. Otherwise, nothing can be done, just talk.
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You can use the Quest to play PC games, too.
Good to know, I wanted to buy some AirPods but I'm another one that can only fit BOSE IEMs. I guess I'll pass.

Does anybody else with "wrong" ears used to get awful outside ear pain with the old all plastic iPhone earbuds? I physically cringe in pain just looking at them.
If you look at the two graphs in the link I posted we have passed the second peak of infections more than 21 days ago, so we should have expected the spike in deaths already. The graphs don't show that.
I doubt this was a “vanity project”. Blogger is ossified: it rarely ever changes significantly, but Google won’t kill it because it still generates significant amount of content on which they get a degree of control. It’s long looked like nobody really wanted to touch it. After all, behind the scenes it was (originally, at least) an awkward static-site generator - it cannot be much fun to hack on.

It’s more likely that someone somewhere was told to drag the UI forward for some internal-corporate-governance reason. Blogger had a bunch of features that were clearly built in different “eras” and looked terribly mismatched, they’ve probably realigned some of them too.
Juggling Algorithm for Array Rotation
Apple found out people were using SD cards to expand the storage on their Macbooks in stead of buying the higher storage options... few years later the SD card slot is dropped entirely.

Even the immense photo and video/graphics userbase of Apple wasn't enough to stop the SD card slot removal. :-(
As far as commercial products go, we've had luck with home chemistry kits. Also, optics (projectors with little slides, binoculars, magnifying glasses). And home insect kits (caterpillars to butterflies, keeping ladybirds and feeding them aphids) went down extremely well.

Otherwise, I just take my chances when I can. When there's some interest in some random thing, I just try and run with it and encourage further scrutiny.
Yes, but doubling from practically none is still a low number, compared to the peak a few months back.
A Handwritten Math Parser in 100 lines of Python
Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
That's a second example, literally next door to the flat I rented in 2007 in Tunbridge Wells for £800pcm
Oculus Link uses USB-C
People already know Google exists and whether or not they want to work there. For most people (projecting here) the only recruiting Google has to do basically comes down to: We think you're good enough to have a chance.

For 99.9% of the companies this is not the case.

For example I like working at my current employer and enjoy the challenges compared to earlier employments. But looking at the job postings, I can't see that. It's generic crap about competitive compensation, challenging problems, modern technologies, a flat organization, etc.

If this job posting landed in my mailbox I would skip it. The only reason I applied for this job is because I was jobless and desperate at that time.
Objectively, why intervene? We are life that came from this planet, and this is unfortunately the "natural" course of life of this planet right now :)

It's true, that they might be into "gardening" and want to shape the planet they pass by to their aesthetics and values, but it's hard to guess what they are, and it's not objective.

I appreciate the discussion of this.
Why is Ubuntu the best open-source OS?
An even better analogy is Jenga. California's uncontrolled fuel load was going to result in massive fires at some point. Yes, PG&E could have reduced the chance of it being them, which would be great for PG&E, but would make no difference to California.
Hey there, I've been on the lookout for a self-hosted, privacy-conscious user analytics solution to track mobile apps. This is my experience of using Matomo for that very purpose. I'd love to know if anyone has experience with it as well!
> Mathematicians later calculated that there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways to arrange the squares, but just one of those combinations is correct.

This is only true for cubes that have pictures printed on their faces. Color-only cubes have permutations that can be identical, and therefore correct. See http://www.alchemistmatt.com/cube/rubikcenter.html for algorithms solving these.
You'd better get in touch with the person you want and ask directly.

I would speak for free, if needed :P
So the government has to spend more, look more inefficient, and then when a private corporation and runs it dangerously at minimum cost, it plays right into the "private companies are more efficient, we should privatise more" lobby.
Nova is pretty, i liked the synthwave neon mode (probably would not use it for an extended amount of time though). Markdown preview was not great. App crashed when I attempted a git commit. I think I'll wait for a little while before trying it again.
Of course. Games like go can help reduce the effects of Alzheimer[1]. I'm sure there are studies for chess too.

Sports are games with obvious health, mental and social benefits.

On a more intuitive level (aka I don't know if it's been researched), I would be surprised if most board games don't improve, at least a bit, the analytical thinking useful for many engineering fields (or even day to day life).

Challenges is a term too broad, you can imagine countless ones that have practical benefits. Learning-to-play-an-instrument-in-a-month challenge for example. 100 push-ups a day for a month. Read one book a month.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4548213/
Thats because web as we know it has been evolving pretty fast, while the architechtures that generally use C or C++ have remained stable for a long time.
> It's definitely anticonsumer.

If you assign the value lost to piracy as $0 (i.e pirates wouldn't buy) or you assume any extra money earned by less piracy is never going to benefit consumers in lower prices, then your argument holds.

If twice as many paying customers means half the prices, then there is a benefit to consumers.
The truth is somewhere between these two extremes of course.

But yes - once the DRM is completely cracked, the game should at least be patched to remove the DRM. That would give a window of N days without making the game worse forever.
What is up with all the deaths of people that cross this house? The realtor, the contractor giving an estimate..
> We filed a claim with Pepco for damages, citing the previous incident 2 years ago as evidence they knew the transformer was failing but they denied the claim with no explanation.

I don't know how it works in the US but in the UK you'd put in a claim with your insurance company, and tell them that you'd told Pepco about the problem sometime ago and Pepco hadn't fixed it. Your insurance company has lots of lawyers and knows how to extract money from power companies.
Indeed somehow I missed that. Scanned right past it, even though I took a minute to play with the stars. I guess I registered the "buy now" link and then went right into the content section.

Clearly my bad, looking at it now obviously it's a prominent call to action.
The iOS / Android fanboi schism is a plague. It replicates the worst of 2-party politics, put at the service of the wealthiest corporations on the planet.
Boy, this sucks. It’s absolutely correct and you can see it coming, though it didn’t occur to me before reading. Oof.
> A bit more intuition about non-commutative transforms

Most (almost all?) state machines one encounters in software are non-commutative. Cosets and conjugation are cromulent CS concepts.

Edit: Grand Corps non Commutatif https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXHoWwBcDc
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