skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what you armchair accountant aces don't know is, years ago top PG&E management found a way to take out a lot of capital and capital gains from PG&E, even though PG&E is tightly regulated. New top-level holding companies were formed. They were using this top-level capital structure to purchase other financially performing assets, like power plants in other parts of the US. This was uncovered during the ENRON blackout response.

I believe that many US companies have made distinct fortunes based just on capital asset valuations, along with some strategic sales and trades here and there. PG&E is in the center of that, being a massive landowner for its infrastructure. Second fun-fact, when California State regulators requested inventory details for things like transmission facilities, the response was "trade secret" or "homeland security" or "you will sell this info" .. basically deny, delay and deprive. So even the agencies tasked to regulate PG&E did not have complete asset inventories to refer to..

If anyone has info on the current court-ordered restructuring since the criminal negligence conviction, don't be shy !
Fading a comment helps to signal that it has already been downvoted enough. This is to avoid going -100 because no one can see how far you're down already.
Wow, I had no idea. We're planning to switch domains soon [https://hotglue.io] – thanks for the heads up.
Humans have been around 6M years. The Earth has been around 4.5B years. I find the idea “we” will adapt because of humans’ success in adapting over a minute fraction of the Earth’s existence remarkably laughable.

People are also concerned about quality of life, not just survival.
I never expected a study.

The neat 100x value, the lack of context, it sounds more a saying from grandma, which is wise, but not to take at face value.

Sometimes (rarely) it is actually cheaper to fix in production, sometimes, it is way more than 100x. I had a coworker who worked with IC cards and fixing a bug in production meant scrapping a whole batch of cards (can be millions).
Two 14 year olds, seven 15 year olds, eight 16 year olds, sixteen 17 year olds. I wasn't counting folks eighteen and over.

He killed 33 children.
Oh hey, the "growth consultant" thinks we shouldn't have privacy. It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
chroot existed, but could only be run as the root user. It was that way to prevent things like this (old actual exploit for Ultrix):

$ mkdir /tmp/etc
$ echo root::0:0::/:/bin/sh > /tmp/etc/passwd
$ mkdir /tmp/bin
$ cp /bin/sh /tmp/bin/sh
$ cp /bin/chmod /tmp/bin/chmod
$ chroot /tmp /bin/login
# whoami
root
# chmod 4700 /bin/sh
now, log out of the chroot and use your newly minted setuid shell

Since they now have the "NO_NEW_PRIVS" protection, they can let regular users safely use chroot.
I am curious how long Startlink will remain in beta. Looking at FSD at Tesla it has always been in beta and will probably never leave beta. The next question is if it is acceptable to sell a product to customers that will never be what it was promised to be. So in essence I sell a promise of a product but never really deliver since you know, it's still beta.
1. It was the uninstaller, not the installer.

2. That is not at all what happened. Bungie never went bankrupt.
Slot 1, or slot 2 for Xeons. AMD had slot A for a hot second in the early Athlon days, before they went back to a PGA.

It's weird, yeah, but is it worse than aligning an expensive bunch of easily bent metal pins into a grid of small holes?
“In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.” Or is it?
For context Karl Popper's quote on the paradox of tolerance:

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant." [0]

[0] K. Popper (1945) 'The Open Society and Its Enemies'
> It's like invoking "80/20 principle"

Power law dynamics are empirically demonstrable. There are lots of conventions experts collect around that evidence later proves to be false.
The paradox of Tolerance says to actually tolerate intolerance unless it’s violent.
Yeah; it is kinda weird because in a normal context the wording is okay and makes sense. The problem is really that exfiltration means something specific in computer security. So if you are a security person, you look at the title and you are thinking "oh no" (at least that is what I did).
Wow, and to think most university labs will just give it away if you know hot to ask.
What connotation does green have? Where can I find the land of green people?
Great question! We see a digital product as anything that can be delivered online.

This is generally subdivided into 4 different types:

1. A file which you can download, for example an eBook.

2. A text-based product, such as a game key or license code.

3. An online service, like creating a logo for someone.

4. A dynamic delivery which lets you programmatically perform certain actions once a payment is successfully processed. A good example is automatically upgrading someone's account on your forum (or Discord channel)
The companies are being criticized for not protecting the drivers, but I think the problem is part of a general increase in lawlessness, as evidenced by the spike in murder. Female drivers should be allowed to restrict themselves to female passengers, at least at certain times of the day (and I say this as a male).
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That can still be done locally, no? You don't have to open an email for the phone to retrieve its contents.
https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/topics

this is a really good resource
You should list your side projects if they've been influential in some significant way, e.g., if they've developed a large user base, become a dependency of some other noteworthy project, or changed how other people approach similar problems. If you're merely proud of the code, then don't list them directly; instead, pin those repos on your GitHub profile and link to it from your résumé.
On Facebook, quoting 'Dune' gets you suspended
You say that right now, the numbers are overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines. I disagree, but even if you're right, that's only right now. Until we know more about their long-term effects, we don't know. I'm in the age group that has higher risk of blood clots from the vaccines.

Also, according to some estimates, 60-90% of people have had COVID, so I could have had it.
I can certainly relate. I grew up a few hours away from Yosemite. I went there many times growing up as a kid in the 90s.

I moved away from California back in 2010. On a trip back home a couple of years ago, I visited Yosemite for the first time in many years.

I felt the same and couldn't believe what it was like. The valley filled to the brim with hours-long traffic jams—everything filled with smoke.

It was all very different from how I remembered it.
Wait, the idea that the cost of a power plant structure is proportional to its size seems very remarkable to me even within a single technology like light water reactors or gas turbines. My understanding is that generally there's some most efficient size to a reactor or turbine or such because of non-linearities and if you want to increase the power generation of a plant you replicate these most efficiently sized structures rather than scaling them up.

The idea that you could apply the same linear scale to both fusion and fission reactors seems frankly incredible on the face of it. Do you have any details on why this should be so? I don't seem to have access to the second source you listed and the first just made this assertion without explanation. All this isn't to say that I'm sure fusion reactors would have to be less expensive per cubic meter than fission reactors, the opposite seems like it could be a possibility. It's just the idea that we should expect the price to be the same in both cases that I'm finding hard to swallow.
Do you have a lot of unwanted things in your twitter feed? Sure during major events some things creep into mine but it's rare that I get a lot of political talk because I don't follow that many people who tweet political things. You can also use lists to curate this. I'm sure there are great twitter knitting lists that wouldnt have political tweet in them.

The lists are less used than reddits subreddits but they function in a similar way.
Exactly. We'll survive, as a species, even if many will suffer - droughts, famine, mass migrations, conflicts stemming from both, extreme hot and cold weather in houses designed for more temperate climates for people used to temperate climates.

Or to put it more harshly, the wealthy will be able to adapt. A lot of people will suffer and/or die.
I like the name! I don't know how commonly used "spritz" is outside of Europe (and I guess Canada?).

I like the idea of the hero image being the happy customers rather than pictures of cleaning. Although the people could look a bit happier.

On my desktop screen if you scroll the main page down you get to a blank area thats the full height of the screen.

> The Best Cleaners in One Place

It took me a second to parse this tagline. I wasn't sure if "One Place" meant the geographic region or your service.

The 'Back' and 'Next' buttons on the 3-step component should be different colors with 'Next' as the primary color, maybe Back as gray and Next as green.

It recommended 4.5 hours of cleaning for a 1000sq house which seems like a lot.

For the date picker: You may want to autoselect today or tomorrow, whatever you think the most common choice is. Most date pickers also have a quick link to "today" as a little extra button when thats a common choice.

When the app displayed the grid of cleaners I noticed some cleaners had zero time slots. Thats confusing, I just would filter those cleaners out of the results or gray out their box. If the user wants a specific cleaner you could show that cleaners availability on other days.

Overall the flow is short and simple which is good. You may want to have some more information up front on the landing page to help convince the user to go through the flow. You could show average prices, photos of cleaners, etc.

If you have time to checkout my project, see my top level comment about knotend. Thanks.
But you can ssh into a container.

You just need to install sshd and launch it. You also need to create a user and set a password if you want to actually log in.

Why? Because containers aren't a single process. It's a group of processes sharing a namespace.

And you can totally use a container as a light-weight VM. While most containers have bash or a your application as pid 1, there is nothing stopping you launching a proper initrd as pid 1 and it will act much like a proper OS.

Though, just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
pssst, look up. waaay up. that thing that just flew over your head. that was a joke.
> When the simulator shows a previously unseen object, it must first simulate all its history accounting for all effects to ensure that the shown state is legit and doesn't expose the conspiracy

The simulation only needs to produce observations that are consistent with the knowledge of the first observer. Sometimes bit even that, as I describe in the blog post, because eyewitness testimony is known to be quite unreliable.

I'm not sure what sort of history you're thinking of specifically.
I think this is the correct take. Engineers are in the business of solving problems.

So if the question is "How do I make something go up and NOT come down?" or "How do I make something come down differently?" then the obvious take isn't as useful.
Time Travel Movies of All Time
From time to time I come across amazing things made with seemingly advanced type system of typescript (eg. sql engine). What is the trail I should follow if I want learn how to do such things?
You don’t have to dig up the entire line to find a break. This is a common misconception. Signal reflection can be used to determine the distance to a break.

see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain_reflectometer
In specific to Tesla: they have found that this exact business model works astonishingly well with their customer base, so I can't imagine they'll have any reason to stop without some kind of backlash to their bottom line.

RE: the problem in general, I don't have any specific answer, but this also relates directly to the "Early Access" program that Steam and games in general have, along with the whole "Day 1 DLC" that may or may not be there for you. It's becoming pretty endemic to our society and I do think it's just because _it works incredibly well_ on us.
Humans break sometimes and get violent.

Just the other day a 16 year old student in Singapore used an axe to kill a 13 year old in a bathroom at school. They had never met.
I’ll take this like I take every psychological study done on college students - with a massive grain of salt.

How’s that reproducibility problem coming along these days?
I think that Python's type checkers do this sort of thing now, e.g. via TypeGuard (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0647/)
> Youtube was, is and will forever be for cat videos, not for serious information - or so at least the moderation policy makes it out to be.

The problem isn't the moderation policy, it's the medium. It encourages easy passive absorption of anything presented in a slick matter by people who barely know what they're talking about.

Take for instance this slick video talking about VHS capture by Technology Connections, which I used to have vaguely positive feelings about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY

The people on a forum with really deep knowledge on the subject have poor things to say about it: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/video-capture/10059-modern-a.... They say he only has a poor gasp of the subject, and half the time sounds like he's just reading off of Wikipedia.

> There are plenty of alternative video distribution channels out there which don't have this problem, the only thing which needs to be solved is video discovery.

No, those "alternative video distribution channels" are usually far worse, precisely because of that lack of moderation. Except in a very few cases (specifically some gun videos, and Serikzhan Bilash), most of the original content that has to flee to them is garbage.
Ethnonationalism (or at least ethnocentrism) is as old as time, and probably the 'default' mindset. Lack of any other force, especially when combined with the 'nation' part i.e. organized nation state, it might get out of hand, which is why it can come to be a problem, but nominally, it's not. It's probably a defining feature of how we organize ourselves.

So the very existence of most of our nations, is a form of 'Tolerance' of it.

If you look at the borders of Europe and how they flop around over time, it becomes clear that the 'delineating' factor is mostly ethnicity, at least crudely. Sometimes, a political dynasty can force those lines (i.e. Habsburg) but those don't last. What were the chances that Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia etc. were going to stay organized under one House?

Even highly authoritarian ideological secular organizations i.e. USSR failed. Napoleon failed outside his borders whereas within France, it might have just worked for him.

Religious Empires aka Arabic conquest, have some lasting impact but that didn't change borders in any lasting way mostly (although maybe in SE Europe).

Despite a degree of 'multi-culture' in China, the CCP authoritarianism hinges on Han ethnocentricism without which it probably would not hold together.

Where those 'ethnic lines' are drawn poorly, we see trouble.

Belgium is almost a 'failed political state' (literally 100's of days in a row without a government) and the 'division' is 100% because of Flemish/Walloon divide.

Canada has the 'Quebec' factor which has really fundamentally affected things and has a profound effect.

The 'Long Straight Lines in the Desert' in the Middle East were arguably drawn poorly after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and a lot of people tend to point at that as an existential source of instability and why we see problems to this day. Iraq is not a functional state as the Kurds have de-facto independence, and the primary source of instability is the Shia/Sunni divide, unfortunately inflamed by neighbouring parties for their own gain.

The 'New World' aka US, Canada, Australia, Brazil represent something different surely, but even there, it's hard to ignore strong ethnic foundations of the colonizing powers.

Greece is still Greece today after 2500 years, the borders are similar. Also note their 'primary antagonists' i.e. 'Persians' are also something very roughly resembling a state today.

Of course for every 'long lived state' there are 10 that don't exist anymore, but there seems to be resiliency in culture more than anything else.

So I think it's a matter of keeping 'true extremists' (aka not vast government spying and overreach) under wraps as individuals, not so much thinking about specific kinds of movements.

I also believe that these kinds of people would just as easy fall under some other cultural/religious/ideological/extremist umbrella.

I don't think there's much difference between 'XXX extremist' and 'YYY extremist' even if they are ostensibly opposed to one another.
The blank check has a lot of research available to back it up, and the fact that vaccines are the most successful medical advance in human history having wiped out entire diseases like polio that had horrific consequences. There is also the non-negligible 600k deaths in the US alone directly due to covid with none attributable to the vaccine so far and a very clear decrease in hospitalization and deaths in vaccinated populations.

What is mind boggling is the callousness of people questioning vaccination because they think their personal risk is low when so many have died, and a belief in some unproven hypothetical risk when so many facts are weighing in favor of vaccination.
Before Gmail, it used to be common to have an email account through one's ISP. No need for Google.

IIRC, when Zuckerberg was testifying before Congress, one senator said his terms of service "sucked". Was he wrong.
Yes, no one focuses on or is sad that Tupac, John Lennon, Kafka, Percy Bysshe Shelley or John Keats died young...
Yes - I think when 50% of the members of the organization are with the Feds it's now a Fed org.

Love how that rarely gets more than a passing mention :p
Amazing. I've been on a GDC binge lately (some highlights: Ultima Online, Breath of the Wild). Thanks for those links, looks like I have loads more content to watch x)
We need universal basic income (UBI)! Period. I believe that in a country like US every working adult (18 - 64) should get a minimum of 5k a month for paying basic expenses. Furthermore, Payflow should be integrated with the government UBI program so that anyone can withdraw money against it similar to what is being done now. This will go a long way in solving the Payday problems/worker exploitation issues as mentioned above.