skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're taking a different approach in Australia (the state of Victoria specifically), and not only are we replacing bare wire overheads with buried cables [0], we are also implementing Rapid Earth Fault Current Limiter (REFCL) technology to lower the risk of bushfires due to downed wires. [1]

When powerlines come into contact with the ground or a tree, arcing can occur. If the line remains live and continues arcing, the risk of fire is quite high.

REFCL tech works by detecting the phase-to-earth faults that occur when a one of the three-phase powerlines breaks and falls to the ground. REFL instantly reduces the voltage on the fallen line, and boosts the voltage on the other two phases. REFCL will then test the faulted line after a few seconds, and if the fault was intermittent full service is restored. If not, the whole line is removed from service to prevent fires and make the line safe to work on.

On Total Fire Ban days (very high risk of fire due to weather conditions), the REFCL settings operate at increased sensitivity.

There's a requirement in Victoria that by 2023 all high risk zone substations have to install REFCL technology, and all HV customers connected to those zone subs have to be REFCL compliant (their equipment must be able to handle the over-voltages that occur during REFCL operation).

[0] https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/electricity/powerline-replacem...

[1] https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/safety-and-emergencies/powerli...
Doesn't the church teach that we are all born sinners (original sin), meaning that nobody is perfect, but that one can confess their sins, repent, and be forgiven? Doesn't that apply to priests, also? Or do they loose their priesthood if they sin? Have they treated gay priests differently than child abusing priests?
In another subthread, you're (justifiably) unhappy with how they didn't change the strict-mode default soon enough; but here you're upset that some defaults changed too fast?

Also my comment above in this subthread wasn't even about defaults. I only mentioned some features added, and you responded saying it's scary and then talking about defaults?

You don't like MySQL, I get it. Regardless of reasons, I don't think your view will change, so why enter every HN thread about MySQL just to repetitively bash MySQL? What's the purpose of this?
You appear to be relying on a working example intended as a visualization tool to go alongside some really dry reference documentation as a guide for good API design.
Prefer web, less chance of spyware/malware, easier to inject custom CSS, easier to inject custom JS to disable features/spying/telemetry you don't want.

I use Slack's web client for this reason, I don't want it to tell the other person when I'm typing.
I just watched Werner Herzog's latest documentary (with vulcanologist Clive Oppenheimer) Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds[0] (2020) about asteroids, meteorites, comets etc and their impact on the Earth and human cultures past, present and possible future. Most of it consist of interviews with experts in the subject from around the world, showing them at work, e.g. with the Hawaiians that look out for asteroids on a collision path with Earth, and found ʻOumuamua. They go to the site of the Yucatan meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, go hunting meteorites in Antarctica etc. Maybe the most amazing bit was a sequence of photographs of micro-meteorites found in Norway. I thought it was great, highly recommended!

New to Herzog? Most of the user reviews on IMDb are complaining it's not the usual impersonal science program they'd evidently expected, so please don't make that mistake. There are a few segments about meteorites in myths/religions. Herzog's documentaries all kind of feel like anthropology, no matter the topic. He's fascinated in people, and celebrates us in all our weirdness. e.g. His 2016 documentary about the internet, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World[1], was one of the best things on the subject I'd seen.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9203832

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828
Also some kinds of compensation are intended to keep you for the future, and some are for past efforts, and not all of that is about "skills".
Because the data is inside a data structure like a table or dictionary that you can output, iterate and map over however you like with the various Python and library methods or functions.
It’s one of the most successful, global, distributed databases of all time.

What’s the single point of failure?
There are disadvantages to switching too frequently as well. The big one is that you don’t develop an internal network. Jobs are both for skills as well as for building a trust network.
> and seeing Reddit involved feels like I'm watching a train wreck take place in slow motio

I have yet to see reddit takes on this as awful as the ones right here.
yea, nah. Western Australia has completely proven hard snap lockdowns work. We even had community spread of Delta from the NSW outbreak around a month ago. I'm typing this in the office without a mask because we quashed the outbreak. Our state government posted a budget surplus last FY as our economy is booming because we don't have community spread of Covid.

I'm sorry, but your take is just incorrect and worthy of downvoting.
Why would alphabetically be better? Wouldn't you want first in first out?
Mitchell was a prolific coder even when he was the CEO. The public Hashicorp repositories have his fingerprints all over them. For the recently launched Waypoint, which is delightful product, Mitchell was the lead contributor, by far.
CM is really light. As an undergrad I had more trouble reading poor quality photocopies of notes in CM that my own notes not using CM did not suffer from.

In an extreme, one of my professors presented from notes and blew up his notes' display size like crazy, and I could never get a reasonably information-dense printout of those by printing multiple pages (those sizes were so large the fonts were too slim for the printer's resolution). Granted, it is an abuse of good typesetting, but I imagine my predicament would be helped with a font that had proper contrast.
This argument reminds me why I loved windows phone so much. iPhones are computing devices that have a phone app while windows phone was a phone that happened to be a computing device.

My windows phone would get unplugged at 9am, and I’d party until the sun came up. Pretty much everything was disabled by then (by the battery saver), but I could still call a cab. Everyone’s iPhone was an expensive paperweight until someone located a charger.

I do agree with your statement today. iPhones have gotten markedly better at being a phone first and computing device second. It’s still got a ways to go, but my phone isn’t dead at 2am with battery saver on.
I’m not sure that I agree. I use a normal DPI external display (2560x1440 27”) everyday for work and will probably continue to for many years to come, and desktop apps that use icons that weren’t made with to look decent at lower DPIs look really, really bad on it. It makes the app they’re used in feel amateur.

I don’t think these monitors are uncommon, either. Especially for office and education use, normal DPI monitors still have far better bang for buck than 4K+ monitors do, and 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 in particular are popular with anybody who uses their machine to also play games because those resolutions are for more reasonable to drive than 4K+.

It’ll be great once we’re in the “HiDPI by default” era but that’s still several years out.
What is the practical benefit in assigning the variants names based on the country of first detection? What happens when a second new variant is detected in South Korea? (in reality, it seems no novel strains have yet been detected there: search "Korea" on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2)

No valuable time is wasted plucking letters out of the Greek alphabet. The names are easy to remember. As long as they are applied consistently, who cares?
“we don’t comment on ongoing litigation”
> Accompanying that has been numerous press releases, op-eds, and articles over the years attempting to sway public opinion towards U.S. intervention in Cuba.

My point is that your statement above is made incorrect by actual policy.

> was largely reversed by Trump

Again you are incorrect. Trump actually made very little changes.
ah man... big sur and above only?
> Yeah, calling the iPad a PC is very short sighted by Apple.

It's only shortsighted because they lock it down. It's got the same M1 hardware (if slightly less powerfull IIRC), and you can get an official keyboard+trackpad (and many third party ones), so the only thing that really keeps it from being a PC is their software installation policy that locks what can be run.[1]

1: Well, and also their policy of only allowing iOS to run on the hardware. This would be less of an issue if you could throw Linux, or even just Android on them. I'm sure Microsoft would be happy to ship an M1 ARM version of windows if they had hardware that would allow it to run.
Autodiff isn't even the most impressive application of non standard interpretation. The most impressive one is sparsity detection. If you have some arbitrary code that returns a matrix you can infer which elements of the matrix are guaranteed to be zero independent of input using non standard interpretation by taking all the branches of the program.

This discovered sparsity can be exploited by a lot the generic algorithms in Julia that also are able to efficiently work on sparse matrices. There is also a way of combining this with AD to get automatic sparse hessian of optimization which is huge.
If you think the Republicans care about facts I've got a bridge to sell you...

Even on HN every time the concept of misinformation online comes up the hordes of "free speech" absolutists favorite argument is some variation of "but you can't actually know what the truth is" or "how could we trust someone else to decide what the truth is".

(I'm putting free speech in scare quotes because I think this behavior is actively harmful to the actual existence of free speech and freedom in general, and at this point has just turned into a right wing dogwhistle, at least in anonymous internet discussions)
And then people wonder why there aren't enough motivated voters to get anything done...
>Fusion reactors will also require layers of heat exchangers, to isolate the tritium. They will also require very reliable parts: not because of public safety, but because fusion reactors will have so many parts in the hot area where hands-on maintenance is impossible. And this reliability will be expensive, even though the requirement for it is more to avoid a financial meltdown rather than a physical one.

All of this applies to fission. Radiation equipment is expensive, period. We pay four figures for a block of plastic. A very, very accurate piece of plastic. The components in a fission reactor are not easy to replace either; the cost of a fusion meltdown is the reactor, while the cost of a fission meltdown is the reactor + up to several square miles of the area around it, the latter being so large that we typically ignore the very expensive reactor cost!

But more simply, you're underestimating concrete. Fission facilities are critically dependent on the stuff, wall after wall, being the only material that can be assembled thick enough to guarantee the safety of radiation workers who sit in the plant all day. Lowering the intrinsic radiation burden reduces the use of concrete, which is one of the most expensive parts of nuclear plant construction:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/10/02/4-ways-t...

While some of this applies to fusion reactors, it doesn't seem appropriate to compare only the power-generating components of fusion vs. fission reactors while ignoring the safety components when the primary advantage of fusion is safety. Regardless, I've made a note to read more about it.

>Lidsky concluded DT fusion reactors would be an order of magnitude worse (in volumetric power density) compared to fission reactors. In this, he was being too generous: ARC is 40x worse than a PWR; ITER is 400x worse (and DEMO almost as bad).

If the real power densities are available, arguments about the theoretical power density are irrelevant. I can probably build a warehouse ten times the size of a nuclear reactor for a tenth the cost of said reactor. ARC's true power density -- or that of any other reactor -- must obviously be factored into any cost projections. The power density of a particular design is not usually something you need to read a paper about!
Sure, but you're assuming they follow that standard simply because they have x.y.z.
More accurately there are distributed caches, which expire on a simple timer basis, as opposed to updates being pushed immediately.

Relatively short TTLs are ubiquitous these days though.
Mitchell was a prolific coder even when he was the CEO. The public HashiCorp repositories have his fingerprints all over them. For the recently launched Waypoint, which is delightful product, Mitchell was the lead contributor, by far [0].

[0] https://github.com/hashicorp/waypoint/graphs/contributors?fr...
Locking down the entire state ensures community spread doesn't occur across state lines. It's as simple as that.
A take I don’t usually see is how it is selfish to not focus on yourself. For example, if you are consuming more than producing, why are you not focusing more on yourself in order to produce more value for the people around you?
Hacker News in the Style of Teletext
Was browsing the #hackernews tag on GitHub and came across this.
Maybe you can learn reading comprehension. In the context of a company hiring only minorities in professional roles there were effectively none.

Again, how about some evidence to the contrary?
This from Kent "need-to-know" Walker?

AKA the guy that single-handedly turned Google's culture from transparency-first to siloing-first by making looking at "need-to-know" information a fireable offense[1].

The Catch-22 here being, of course, that you don't know that you didn't need to know until you know.

That's to say, the only way to know if you have violated this policy is by violating it.

The result was, unsurprisingly, that where sharing permissions for documentation were default company-wide earlier, it quickly became "you need to know the right people to ask to get access to it".

Google, with its mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", thus made its own technical documents unsearchable in internal engines (and thus, disorganized), inaccessible, and therefore, useless.

Everything that drops from that person's mouth is toxic.

[1]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/google...
I hope he is creating a simpler Kubernetes competitor for robust container orchestration/management. Hint hint.
Looks like UK has a similar over-incarceration disparity though.

> People from BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) backgrounds constitute only 14% of the general population in England and Wales, but make up 25% of its prison population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_prison_populati...
The signal needs to be carefully aimed, so unless you get software that is able to take the reflector into account, it's just making things worse.
In my experience, a very accurate range is 70K-90K Euro (gross) for senior individual contributors. No matter if you have 5 or 20 years of experience.

More than that and you probably need to be principal engineer or something like that. Making more than 100K Euro gross in Germany (and probably in most of continental Europe, besides Switzerland) is consider top 5%.
It's up to the citizens to decide if it works out great, not up to you or I. So far they grudgingly continue with how things are but at least in Belgium it seems to me to be more about inertia and fear of change than anything else.
You can check out this entertaining video (english subs) to see the current state of things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4go1RXOBF0s
Do you mean Nomad?
thanks, this is fixed now :)
Bill Clinton said it best, "But I didn't exhale!"
There are freak accidents and then there are complete lapses is basic critical functionality that demonstrate a total lack of competence.

The article indicates that every person who updated to the latest version could not login. This is a bug that clearly presents itself, every time, in essentially every use case, and is perfectly reproducible. It affects critical functionality that any layperson can recognize is one of the most critical components of a general purpose computing system. The greatest degree of scrutiny should be applied to this system, yet what we see is the functional equivalent of a car factory forgetting to put a wheel on every car it produces.

Sure, there could be a freak accident that makes the 4th wheel robot malfunction, but other stages of the process should catch such an egregious visible failure. Any process that would allow such basic errors to occur without checking or fixing them elsewhere is terrible on its face.

If that is too abstract, imagine you hired a construction company to build a house and they forgot to put in an entire wall. Maybe you just got unlucky and you were the 1 in 1 billion person who gets such a stupid error to happen to them, but the much more likely theory is that they are grossly incompetent, or at the very least far less reliable than you were led to believe.
The Board Games That Ask You to Reenact Colonialism
You might wanna check out Rudderstack or Stitchdata:

https://rudderstack.com/guides/how-to-load-data-from-google-...

https://www.stitchdata.com/blog/google-sheets-stitch-easy-sy...

And here's a reverse path from Census as well:

https://www.getcensus.com/sync/redshift-to-google-sheets
mothers used to have kids at age 15 and only lived to their 40s - now folks have kids in their late 20s and live to their 80s
I'm not aware this ever changed under Obama. Obama's policy had to do relations to the Cuban government and not the status of refugees.
HN is /r/kotakuinaction level commentary on this. Which is not even surprising, really.
> An undercover Central Intelligence Agency officer who helped hunt down Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden was sold by Pakistani intelligence who had him and his family. There was no "hunt down": https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n10/seymour-m.-hersh/the...

What the CIA did was a fake vaccination campaign to verify the identity of the prisoner they were buying, using DNA samples, before concluding the deal. That little trick compromised the idea of vaccination in the whole region for many years to come.
In my opinion, no. Go remote instead. If you have to go, plan to make a bunch and leave after a few years.
Conversely, I am a professional programmer and I haven’t found any easier way to plot your data. What could be easier than highlight your data, insert, scatter chart?
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/06/trump-cuba-...

It still represents a reversal towards a more aggressive stance.

Also, this is worth pointing out: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094612

EDIT: I'm still not sure what you mean by "incorrect when it comes to actual policy," in case that wasn't clear. The policy of the U.S. has been to prevent Cuba from engaging in international trade as a sovereign nation for decades. That is still the case. Even during the pandemic, Cuba was not allowed to receive vaccine supplies from the international community, and had to develop their own. What is that if not an act of aggression?
> Even if we stole 10B from Bezos and gave it out equally to every US citizen... Its ~$30.

I mean, obviously it's gonna look small if we fixate on Bezos specifically. If we "stole" a flat $1B from every American billionaire and paid it out equally to every US citizen, that stimulus jumps up to $1,996.70. If we "stole" all the money from every billionaire, that'd jump up further to $12,569.61.

We can go further. The top 1% of Americans have a combined net worth of $34.2 trillion. If we "stole" all of that, the resulting stimulus would be a comfy $102,842.28.

> I did the math, it would have been something like 2.27 a week more for all the employees.

$122.58/year could very well make a considerable difference to someone barely scraping by. And again, you're fixating on one Walmart executive; what about the other executives who likely received similar bonuses? VPs? Middle managers?
> Again, this isn't how aquifers work.

Are you confusing confined aquifers and unconfined aquifers? That's exactly how unconfined aquifers work. Where I live the wells never go dry because every time it rains they are replenished.

Maybe the desert doesn't have unconfined aquifers and that's why you're so strident on this? I really don't know, but I'm curious so please elucidate if you can.
> If all you can offer is your "personal assurance" then that seems to exactly confirms the author's point.

In my post, I literally said: "I would like to know what the article's author would take as proof of this."

What, honestly, would it take? I have been thinking about what evidence I personally would want if I were in your position of incredulity. It's different when you sit next to the things and see the people passionately building them and keeping them working day in and day out, I suppose; I can see with my own eyes that there is no fraud taking place, but I can't exactly bring everyone in the world in for a lab tour.
You go back & forth defending then attacking the church then the priest. I really don't understand your issue. I'm clear, I have issue with the churches 1: priest obstinance policy and 2: gay policy; it's unrealistic with a catastrophically negative outcome.

I have a problem with people attacking gays or straights for wanting love. I don't care what your religion or organization is.

Saying 'If he had sex, he's immoral and should resign as priest and the religious order' is consciously or unconsciously issuing a homophobic attack because it was Grindr for gay sex with a man. If it was a man that had sex with an adult woman, no one would care, The Pillar wouldn't have publicized the data findings, this wouldn't be an article on arstechnica, and you wouldn't care either. Also Priesthood isn't a job you leave. It isn't a job, it's for life.

I grew up in the church. I have friends in the church. I know a lot of priests and I knew a lot of gay priests. There are a lot of good people there.

If none of that was good enough to change your tack, you will N E V E R defeat the church, and people need/want it. The're the single biggest land real-estate owners in the world with 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide as of 2019. Money is power and this scandal will blow over, they are on a long-term plan. You can help the church evolve to a kinder organization; kinder to its priests and its parishioners.

Personally, I don't like church, it's not for me. Deep down everyone knows right and wrong, and existence a god doesn't help answer any questions I have. The idea of heaven allows people to think there is something better after. There isn't.
PostreSQL has way more data types than Excel. You can have arrays, json, xml, ranges, polygons, etc. in columns (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype.html)

Because of that, chances are the natural format for a data item taking 16,384 columns in excel likely takes fewer than 16,000 columns in PostreSQL.
It would be a great experiment to ramp up sugar taxes on certain parts of the country and see weight change over the decades.
I don't think PornHub will care. The idea of Italy restricting porn ads in their country to certain companies is quite hilarious. The government says you can advertise this porn, but not this porn. Super!
Can you expand on what you mean by a "gifted" individual?
I would love to hear a theory for how the supreme court could take this case. Free exercise?
Looks like it's everywhere, but old.reddit.com still works as expected.