skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's complicated. Nuclear fission generates a load of by-products, and some of those are known as fission "poisons", mainly Iodine-135 decays to Xenon-135, which very easily absorbs neutrons and inhibits fission. During normal operation, there are plenty of neutrons flying around, so there are enough for some to be absorbed by Xenon-135, and the rest to continue the fission reaction. However, when the power output is reduced, the Xenon-135 can inhibit the nuclear reaction. This can make it less safe to restart the reactor, because the operator would need to increase the reactivity of the system - if they increase it enough to overcome the inhibition caused by the Xenon-135, then the increased nuclear activity can burn off the Xenon-135, and then you have excessive reactivity and the reactor could go out of control. For that reason, when a reactor is shut down, you typically need to wait several hours for the Xenon-135 to decay by itself - this is called the "Xenon dead time". Failure to do this was partially the cause of the Chernobyl disaster.
Here's a trick. Whenever someone discusses the quadratic formula, do a quick search on "discriminant". If it's not mentioned, move on.
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This has all the intrigue of a middle school slap fight. I cannot wait until all these folks get over themselves and stop screaming in public.
You know it'd break the cartel-like control companies have over employees if a law were made that all jobs must payout within the salary range posted for the job.

That prevents people from negotiating higher pay than is advertised publicly, so employers would have to tell everyone what their maximum salary could be. Employers would have an incentive to post high maximums rather than miss out on quality candidates.
In many scenarios, you can anticipate power going out and so make sure to charge up before that.

I do a similar thing with my ICE car. We don't get a lot of snow here, but every few years we'll get a storm that leaves up to a foot on the ground. Significant snow like that is rare enough that the cities and county don't keep a large fleet of snow removal equipment, so they only clear the bigger streets.

I'm on a long dead end street that won't get plowed for quite a while, if at all. People with the bigger trucks and SUVs can still get through, and there are enough of those further up the street from me that usually in a day they'll have made enough trips that my smaller SUV can get out.

When it looks like we might get one of those storms, I top off my car. If I lose power, and my house cools off enough that even with a sweater and jacket it gets too cold to stay in, I can move to my car. A full tank of gas will run the engine idling just enough to power the heater and radio and phone charger for about 24 hours.

Power would almost certainly be restored by the time I'd be running out of gas.
What I mean is, they'd probably change the cell design to use a different cement for the sake of recycling :)
The very story tells upfront that he only needs money to pay college living expenses. This kid was almost certainly taken advantage of and used as a "weapon" against whatever company was making this software.

The company that made the software obviously felt that whatever they charged was the correct price for them to afford to live and continue doing business and pay their employees. This was more money than what this guy charged him, though its not stated exactly how much(that by the way is a clue). Also that they guy didn't offer him money but made him "choose" his price because he knows a young college kid is going to choose some random round number $100,$1000 ect. Which is less than a company needs to stay in business.

I've done plenty of tech business over the years and while I cannot prove it I know from experience this kid screwed over this company that was almost certainly getting nickle-and-dime'd by this man from the story. The writer says he was exactly stereotypical of a car sales guy, would you trust a car salesman?. They probably already did work he never paid for(again knowledge from past experiences). This guys description fits that behavior to a "T"
Motorcycles and busses are more dangerous for pedestrians than trucks.

"Compared with cars, buses were 11.85 times and motorcycles were 3.77 times more likely per mile to kill children 0–14 years old. Buses were 16.70 times more likely to kill adults age 85 or older than were cars."

https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/11/4/232
Version 4 accepted my version 3 license purchased in january 2019. Yay me!
Just because you live in a city, does not mean the city was "made for" you. Cities are a side effect of many people clustering around key resource points. Resources are almost always much more valuable in trade than they are remaining at a stationary point, which requires transport infrastructure and vehicles. The fact that you don't want to live in a city in which people drive vehicles is your problem, not society's.
Hi Andrew, thanks for participating in the comments here.

Will you consider disclosing the terms under which you purchased freenode? PDFs of executed documents, ideally?
Is there a site where I can practice relatively simple css challenges. For example for this html, center the text and align text in all three boxes, etc. Css battle is great but there are only finished answers not explanations.

W3schools have some but they are too simplistic.
I had the opportunity to talk with the Journey team a few weeks ago, and I really appreciate their product and approach.

We're going to be using Journey as an augmentation to our pitch process for investors who want tailored/detailed data than is usually available in your standard pitch deck.

Keep up the great work, Journey Team!
IMHO, the problem is that the incentives are not aligned towards improvements but merely to follow the letter of the law without considering its spirit. For example, there's a ban on plastic straws here in California, and the workaround Starbucks found for cold drinks was to provide a sippy plastic lid. So the plastic is still very much there (and never mind that the cup itself is still made of plastic). Paper containers aren't necessarily much better either if they're plastic coated (for example pringles canisters are basically unrecyclable even though they are "made with recyclable materials").

By targeting specific low hanging fruits, legislation ensures that the industry finds workarounds that continue to be cheap and environment-unfriendly, but in ways that have too complex details for an average joe to understand _why_ something that is labeled environment-friendly isn't quite so in practice. It's the environment equivalent of overprescribing antibiotics (shortsighted legislations) only to find years later you've inadvertently created superbugs (industries that produce things whose unrecyclability is extremely misleading and resilient to the level of understanding legislators have).
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I was cut off from the domains 2 days after tomaw asked me to give him ownership. So I was asking to revert a change not make a new one.
Every single person involved in this screwup should lose their job but they won't.
Anyone still old enough to remember this [1] and this [2] ?

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2003/01/29/buy_a_piece_of_net/

[2] https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=189470&cid=15603568

Back in the days :-)
This just muddies the waters further.

Let's get concrete:
What assets does Freenode have, and who legally owns them?
Bush v Gore was about a legitimate issue, deciding how a ballot should be evaluated when it is ambiguous who the person intended to vote for, and how long the process for recounting should go. Comparing it to the 2020 election controversy or the Obama birtherism conspiracy just goes to show how far apart the modern conservative and liberal movements in the US are.

To be really clear here, if you think arguing over how to count an improperly bunched out ballot is the same thing as alleging without proof that China sent thousands of fake ballots to the US are equivalent, then you really need to stop and reflect.
Thanks! to be clear I believe accessibility is hugely important but also that such accessibility is beneficial to everyone. I am super excited to allow videos to have transcripts for example. I think the lack of investment in accessibility is a miss for everyone, not just those that require it.

(Seems like we have some short term basic tech stuff to improve too!)
the formation of Christel's corporation did effectively make her* the owner. any court would see a service she is involved in operating by his company's trademark, as belonging to that company. sad.
Please no more of the personal responsibility bullcrap. “Don’t make a mistake and you won’t make a mistake” is a pretty useless statement.

When designing mass manufactured items, it is a responsibility of manufacturers to ensure that their products are as safe as they can be.
I think it depends. Anecdotally, I personally feel very unanchored and semi-anxious when someone just dives in to the explanation of "how we do it" without the context of why we do it this way and how we got here.

I find it similar to the use of acronyms. When an explanation introduces domain-specific acronyms I always ask what the acronym stands for. It's important to me because just memorizing key "ABC" and associating it with some kind of outcome forms a very weak bond in my brain. If I know what the acronym stands for, the bond is far stronger and larger pieces of the picture are revealed. Interestingly, I find that when I ask an explainer what an acronym stands for there's a couple classes of responses. In my experience, most are simply that the explainer doesn't know. And among those explainers, most don't care. But some will be curious and look it up. A few will know and you can tell that they find it important too. Fewer yet, will explain the definition when introducing the acronym and maybe even comment about its origins.

I'm guessing that these classes of people would also correlate closely to those who prefer turn-by-turn directions vs a route on a map with the full context of other routes in the area.
That is out of date, yes. It was turned on in bug 1701977.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701977

Edit: Actually this is a little incomplete. It is still turned off with XWayland in late beta and release. So unless the MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 environment variable is set, you won't get WebRender by default. I will need to review why we didn't ship with XWayland yet -- there were a couple of bugs (e.g. bug 1635186) but I don't know the status of them offhand. Expect to see movement here within the next few releases I would say.
> the dirac delta is a tempered distribution not a function

Nah, it's a measure :)

Joking aside your point is a good one. Notation is a necessary but flawed tool to communicate the details with minimal confusion.
Hi Ben

When will ST4 show up on Homebrew?

https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/sublime-text

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions
Thanks Andrew, and very good that you prepared enough evidences to counter those issues raised by drama queens. All the free software is protected by copyrights, foundations, and so is the infrastructure. Somebody has to pay for it. Somebody does have assets, be it foundation or private individual or a group of individuals, but somebody is always considered owner of the assets and those assets have to be protected.

Thanks for doing the work, and I kind of feel it unfair and totally unjust to you as a protector and supporter of the IRC network. It is free because of people like you and others.

IMHO, all that drama was staged, planned.

The reason why such networks have to be held under legal entities is funding number one, as to keep networks financed by sponsors, and protection number two. Legal entities are formed under country's laws and in case of trouble it is legitimate to use laws to protect assets. You have not done nothing wrong in doing so.

Keep doing well!
Come to southwest Montana -- you'd be signaling "I like to blend in to the crowd" :)

While nationally Subraru marketing emphasizes being different by owning a Subaru, around here its far and away the most common car. You exit Costco, look at the parking lot and ask "which of these 10 gray Outbacks is mine?".
This is why you need to organize and self report salaries. Like the game devs from a few days back or leverage sites like levels.fyi
I know Swedish, so my comment is that English frequently feels imprecise. If you want to make sure a sentence will be interpreted unambiguously, you have to pile on a lot of extra verbiage, which people don't normally do because precision is not that important in most cases. By contrast, Swedish normally leaves less room for multiple interpretations, which makes brevity easier to achieve.
The aggravating thing is that often, having demanded the feature, they discover that they didn't really want it in the first place.

I try not to argue with a customer, because they do know their business better than I do. But I know the software better than they do, including its intended use model. The former usually takes precedence over the latter, if for no other reason than that they have the money and I don't. But if they're not paying for it directly, and want me to do it on spec... hard decisions get made.
Then they'd have to add extra hardware to detect whether it's there or not, and change the interface accordingly. And for what? I can't imagine an actual use case to justify it.
People have traveled and moved extensively to Florida as well as TX from NY and CA, so any high-spread virus would spread to Florida and CA then spread within them.

If masks and other strict lockdown measures were effective then by now open states such as Florida and NYC would see much higher death as well as covid case rates. See other comment I made in parent thread showing its about the same.
Other than a lack of originality[0], what is it that we're supposed to take away from the title of his blog?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conscience_of_a_Conservati...
The supercab F150 has serviceable back seats. There is no need to gimp the bed with an oversized crew cab.
Unfortunately, as I'm sure you've discovered, "good transcripts" don't exist unless someone puts in the effort. :(

I don't mind audio, but I definitely don't understand the value of "talking head" style videos. They're, if not the worst possible information density possible, pretty darn close. A couple hundred megabytes to see someone speaking a few dozen kilobytes of text, and I still can't search it or skim it to see if it covers what I want.
Who sent them first, and why?
It's a shame we are drawn to the ugly. Create a set of equations which determine the speed of light from empty space based on material properties of nothing. Advance the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to start the unification of space and time for highly accurate models. *crickets* Throw the word "demon" in front of it. Birds start chirping.
I've happily carried plenty of lumber and even full sheets of plywood/drywall with my Civic. It fits 10' lengths inside, and sheets on the roof. What it lacks is capacity, and convenience for sheet stock. Recently I've gotten into towing trailers (on a light SUV), which seems like a great capability for the times that I need to transport more at once. If you're transporting large things frequently, I get the utility of a truck. But most truck owners aren't hauling anywhere near that much.

FWIW after reading the other thread specifically about home backup power, I was thinking this new F-150 sounds interesting. But then reading this whole product page and coming to "automatic software updates" I remembered why new vehicles are non-starters for me. I'd rather keep dealing with gasoline than resigning myself to surveillance culture.
I dislike pickups in cities because they are too big. Many times I've been stuck behind pickup truck driver trying to squeeze into a parking lot, waiting... I've got nothing against pickup trucks in rural areas where I grew up
Be that as it may in your case, are you arguing that most people will act contrary to their own best interests?

That seems a shaky foundation to build policy on.
It's funny, I view buying a truck for the machismo as one of the primary emotions/feelings/identity actually means buying it for whatever the opposite of machismo is.
It is weird, like if you own a house, having a truck is perfect. I bought a tacoma 1 year ago and have used it countless times. Getting mulch, buying lumber for shelving projects, moving couches, chairs etc. Literally the perfect vehicle for me. Also it is very versatile. You can get hard tops, soft tops etc. Great for camping etc. Having a separate trailer (and storing it somewhere) or always having to rent a truck or whatever just sounds like a hassle.
We decided almost a century ago that universal telephone service was something that we wanted to have. We need to make that decision about the internet now.

YES!
>wholesome" tall tales of those rich white kids would have ended very differently for poor Black "youths"

That was pretty much my point. This kid undermined someones livelihood by doing what he did. The only reason he was able to do that was coming from a place of privilege and depressing naivety. He was weaponized in a battle of these two companies for a pittance.
> With the total cases being about the same so this does not support your conclusion

I didn’t offer any conclusion except that the upthread claim that California had a much higher rate of COVID cases than FL/TX was bunk. To actually tease out the effects of mask use from jurisdictional case statistics, you’d also have to (1) have stats on mask use, which (despite people making claims about it in coordination with blatantly false claims about cases), I haven’t seen, and (2) have good stats for the other things that would reasonably be expected to contribute to differences in infection spread, (3) either have enough a priori knowledge of the contribution of the items in 2 to control for their effect in 1:1 comparisons, or have data from enough different places to do an analysis that determines the contributions of different factors.

Even with good mask stats, a head to head comparison of a couple states case numbers with mask stats wouldn’t otherwise be useful for anything.
The UI standards mess goes all go back to when Microsoft needed Windows to look more like Mac OS. They didn't want to "copy" Apple, so they reversed the order of UI elements like dialog and window buttons.

This was fine when the platforms were separate, but it made it impossible for websites to have a uniform standard. At best, consumer websites follow Apple guidelines while enterprise, government, and SAAS sites follow Microsoft.
yeah show me where you can buy a ups delivery van type vehicle lol
The same could be said of sports cars - most people don't race them or push them anywhere near their potential.

But selling cars has always been the business of selling a story as much as it has been about selling a transportation technology. This goes back to the earliest days when cars were hulking machines owned by the uber-wealthy.

> or lumberjacks.

Hah, I bet a puny pickup truck isn't very useful for lumberjacks' actual work. I think they use giant tree felling machines and specialized trucks instead. Pickups seem more like small support vehicles for them.
As a contrasting anecdote: I work with IT people, about 20% of the parking lot is pickup trucks.

So while there might be pushback from the "salt of the earth"-type, I suspect a lot of urban truck owners are very far removed from that. The gas/long bed/bench seat base model may continue to sell for the rest of my life to farmers and construction crews, but most people buying a truck likely don't need a truck: It is just a utilitarian general vehicle that may haul gardening supplies, camping gear, and dump runs every so often.

So you likely are correct, it just may not matter for the more common demography for trucks in 2021+.
As someone who doesn't own a truck, I always find it funny when people bring up "big and virile" type lines about truck owners. "They're compensating for something..." These people need to get their minds out of the gutter, stop thinking everything is about penis. Trucks are functional vehicles, like a giant tool for transporting bulky stuff, and I remember this every time I think about asking a friend if I can use his truck for anything.

No insult intended here: I assume people who have never had this thought have also never done things like replacing their kitchen cabinets or some other simple home improvement project. That's fine, but it's also quite relatable to many people, and it has nothing to do with penis.
> it's more about gaining support for progressive policies such as free high-quality daycare, schools, health care for everybody

I haven’t heard the left talk much about these things for a long time.

These days it’s about defunding the police, blaming billionaires and tech, gun control etc.
That information is confidential in nature. That said tomaw has seen it and has handed freenode back over if that helps to understand what it’s content may have.

I really apologize for the inconvenience.
the only relevant information is what's in the contract that "sold" freenode to Lee

which has conveniently been omitted

without that this looks like gaslighting
"Wind turbines were a factor, but only a small one. Wind in Texas doesn’t produce as much power in the winter, and regulators don’t typically rely on wind turbines to provide significant amounts of power. Instead, regulators anticipated that natural gas and coal power plants would meet demand."

This is a key paragraph that the author waves over without elaboration. Wind power makes up 25% of the power grid. When winter storm hit wind production collapsed and the load all shifted to natural gas which couldn't sustain the load.

Here is a thought experiment, if that 25% of the grid had been coal power plants instead of wind would the grid have still failed?
https://youtu.be/E5tc1LVYiyA?t=66
It is IRC network, people who like free software chat there freely and help each other, it is like support for anything related to free software projects. See here:https://freenode.net/ and connect by using IRC chat client.
Ford also hasn't sold that many EVs (yet), so it's still eligible for the US $7500 federal tax rebate (unlike Tesla).

(BTW: It seems like such an arbitrary and ultimately bad decision to cap rebates by manufacturer. Rebate caps for expensive luxury cars? Sure. But penalize a manufacturer for making _too many_ of the thing you're incentivizing doesn't seem right).