skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very little in electricity generation has virtually zero risk.

Nuclear tends to have a higher capacity factor than most other baseload generators, but it also has unplanned outages.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45176

The biggest risk I've seen is that unanticipated events (including financial events) will completely shutter a unit, like San Onofre and Indian Point 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_...
>In the end I gave him a location where he could upload the document and told him to just make sure inputs and outputs were always in the same predefined cells. Then we used Java and Apache POI to load the Excel document and run the actual calculations on the website. Best decision ever.

This is the kind of simple and effective solution that programmers who think they know everything would scoff at.

Love it.
-The whales which were killed in this incident are not an endangered species; while I think killing animals for fun is ethically dubious at best, culling a healthy population for food hardly makes my ethic-o-meter needle wiggle.

(That being said, it would appear they overdid this one, what with there being some 40-50,000 Faroese or so, all told - that would be an awful lot of whale to digest per capita.)

Full disclosure: I happily eat minke whale and even seal whenever I come across it. Norwegian.
The article is pretty clear on that point:

> In warrants authorizing the search and seizure of all “business equipment” at U.S. Private Vaults, U.S. Magistrate Steven Kim placed strict limits on the government, explicitly barring federal agents from searching the contents of each box for evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Yeah, you either build a pipeline that generates/updates excels that get emailed or self-service downloaded, or you teach them how to use powerquery to get the data from the enterprise db.
Banking officials promised us this doesn’t happen.
If am I reading this correctly, it seems one of the patchers was named "James Bond"?

This reminds me of the 1992 candidate for the Vice Presidency. He spent 7 years in a POW camp in Vietnam before becoming Ross Perot's 3rd Party running mate that year (and garnering 19% of the popular vote). Admiral James Bond Stockdale.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale
> a Harvard squash player / hedge fund guy as far as I remember.

you might be thinking of Victor Niederhoffer.
I know some people with small businesses who use quality 'virtual assistant' services to answer calls when they can't.

Obviously, they're not "first line support" solving people's problems - instead, they are "the CEO's personal assistant" scheduling a call back.

After all, if you're an accountant or an architect or a lawyer or a dentist, there's no embarrassment in running a business that's just you and a secretary.
In NL there is current proposal to prohibit cash transactions > 3k.

A EU wide rule may follow, but maybe a bit higher.
Is this like California making it okay to steal stuff up to a certain amount and then claiming theft is down? Lol
Might as well `drop db religion` :)
Toyota announces hybrid Tundra pickup truck
Many Russians supporting him believe that he re-asserted Russia's influence in the world, and see Donbass and Georgia in a positive light. My grandfather is one of them. (Although he has soured on Putin himself, over the past few years. Reminds him too much of Stalin.)

I'd like to take a moment to point out that the people of any empire often see it's imperial ambitions in a positive light.

Dig just a bit, and you'll find Americans who thought Vietnam was a good idea, Frenchmen who thought Algiers was a good idea, Brits with Ireland and India, Argentinians with the Falklands, etc, etc, etc. They've all got a list of excuses as long as your arm for why they think so, and so do the Russians.
Appears to be suffering from a partial hug of death atm, but is pretty cool. Was surprised how few jumps needed for many things. (E.g. 3 jumps from “metric tensor” to “Ronald Reagan” along many possible paths)
I can't see how "doesn't cover absolutely all corner cases" equals "extremely simplistic". I'm fairly sure that in broad terms, "left / right" covers the political spectrum the absolute majority of people inhabit. Your objection feels like futile quibbling to me.
Yes, but you don't have to be convicted. An arrest, with or without charge, is a black mark to many, many people. (This attitude is at its worst when considering prison conditions. No-one is dehumanized more than a prison inmate in this country.)
> But for me personally, almost no joke is too far.

That is very rare, unfortunately.
Oh man, I had to sit through something like this one time. I was at a resort in the Pacific with my spouse. It was on a tiny island, and there were 2 restaurants that were the only places you could eat. One was a moderately priced restaurant you'd go on most nights, and the other was a very fancy restaurant that only sat 8 people at one large table, so you had to book it the day you got to the resort as it always filled up. The chef made the food right in front of you and you got to meet and interact with a few other couples at the resort.

The chef was a young woman of color, and the resort manager, and older white woman who was everyone's boss was from the country that had colonized the island. The boss decided to insert herself into the dinner because some friends of hers were staying at the resort and were at the restaurant that night. She dominated the conversation the entire night, and repeatedly made jokes about firing the chef. It was incredibly awkward and made an otherwise fantastic meal horrible. We wrote a letter to the resort about how awful the experience was. I don't know what eventually became of it, but I hope it made some sort of difference.
Corn raised for feed is not the same as corn raised for human food. You could probably eat it wafted some form of processing. But judging by our slow response to the pandemic, I doubt we could pivot fast enough before it rotted.
French Pianist Has Been Playing for 102 Years and Just Released a New Album
That probably correlates with intelligence. It is a waste of intelligence, but it certainly requires it.
I do wonder how much our gas import from Russia is helping us keep the peace.

I'm really afraid that high gas prices would be the tipping point when US and EU would turn from funding internal revolution in Russia (figures like Navalny) to a hot war.

Europe always needed and wanted our resources. Just read German documents from WWII: only part of it was hatred and desire to genocide Russians. The most serious motivation was to plunder Russian natural resources.

We don't need Europe. We have the largest country on Earth. We have all the natural resources we need. I'm tired of all this EU/US bullshit of "Russian aggression". Especially coming from a country that is eternally at war with all the world (USA).
I think the real advantage is scripting with a REPL in your IDE. Whipping up a script becomes trivial because you can test every data transformation (heck, every expression!) with a keystroke. There's no great way to do this in a language without s-expressions.
Somewhere around half of American men have an arrest record. Not sure about convictions. Certainly half of the Black men, particularly those who grew up in a large city, have been arrested. Not sure about convictions. The other half seems to live in ignorance.
> Whoops... Six Degrees of Wikipedia is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in a few seconds.

HN hug of death?
Yes! This was a huge lesson I learned as well. You can spend days going back and forth over email with a customer trying to figure out wtf they're doing. They get irritated that you're not getting it, you get irritated that they're not explaining things right. All can be solved with a quick phone call or screen sharing. But younger folks new to support are often really hesitant to pick up the phone. Just pick up the phone!
crypto people are very generous. many made insane gains and are willing to donate to good causes.
Apple Releases iOS 15 and iPadOS 15
Likely because Muslims are very prickly.
In school, we used to have "wiki races" when we were bored (I later googled this and we were far from the only ones). Pick a start and end article and race to see who got there first, verification via the back button on your browser. For speed purposes, it was usually easiest to just bubble up to the biggest unit of geography in common and then narrow back down.

In college we made a site that represented each wikipedia page as a graph, with sections and links serving as nodes and leafs. It was a pretty fun visualization but we fell short of our ill-defined goal to page rank Wikipedia.

This is pretty neat! And it reinforces my belief that bubbling up is the way to go. In the example it gave me, only a few of the 35 paths didn't immediately jump to a very general concept. One of those was "leet" though :)
yeah this one bothers me about my interaction with some women who take the "never respond" approach to expressing disinterest, I don't even know if they made it home okay and I'm not even sure if I'm in the place to ask
Even if it's sitting in a safety deposit box?
Those two examples are innovative sister projects (the EPRs) which are infamous in the nuclear community for having gone far overboard regarding both delays and over budget, and are much more representative of France fucking up its industrial know-how than anything else. Prices of more conventional designs (https://www.synapse-energy.com/sites/default/files/SynapsePa...) stand in the aforementioned mentioned ballpark.
When McDonalds Came to Denmark
Not always, with Telstra the MAC address was also responsible for authentication.

Though I believe it's since changed, my last interaction with DOCSIS was 4-5 years ago. I seem to recall there's a captive portal involved now but previously it was solely MAC.
I submitted the text link but it’s worth clicking through to the full site for the photos.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/20/1036622670/107-year-old-frenc...
It is quite reasonable for it to be proprietary as developed by a small team that still needs to see return on its investment. Last thing they need is someone with a pile of cash and/or reach taking their engine and launching a new browser with it, stealing their thunder.

Monetizing a browser is not easy if you are not in the data-monetization game.
I found this same hacker spirit in the FOSS world. Windows just struggles so much to be independent from its user, that I realized that I have to give up. I hope that many did the same and now nurture their talent where at least they don't have to swim dead against the current.
It appears that this is quite similar to Google's Depthwise Separable Convolution from 2019.

In a normal CNN network, the kernel has a spatial width and height and a certain number of input and output channels. Their MLP blocks are effectively a convolution where things are mixed up spatially (but channels remain the same) followed by a convolution where channels are mixed up (but only within one spatial block).

The obvious advantage of this architecture is that the weights for remixing channels can be shared regardless of where in the image it occurs. So one would expect this to be more translation-invariant than a typical CNN architecture. But for other tasks - such as image reconstruction - that loss of spatial information might actually hurt performance.

To me, this looks like an approach that isn't really that new and isn't performing better, but mainly it's just different from what people usually use.
Index Rebalancing and Why It Matters
The Microsoft Graph APIs in Microsoft 365/Office 365 give you pretty much all of the Excel execution engine as REST endpoints "in the Cloud" if you just store your Excel files in SharePoint.

It's not surprising the number of turducken business applications being built exactly this way. With Named Cells you don't even have to hard-code cell numbers, just tell them to name them specific things, and Excel users are very happy with the amount of flexibility to rewrite the spreadsheets at will.

It's not necessarily the sanest approach to building software, but no one ever accused most enterprise software development of being sane.
> Students should be able to enter med school straight out of HS. This is how it's done in Europe

I had no idea about this, but it seems brilliant. Immediately immersing them in medicine instead of all the non-medical education you would be forced to complete(and pay for) in the US sounds like a win.
4th way is to just package it yourself and use pkgs.callPackage to add it. Overlays are nice for the whole system or if you're still using nix-env, but I find it more clear to use callPackage directly when I'm explicitly building an environment.
Ah yes, status-boosting Luxury Beliefs the consequences of which the weakest have to endure. A pattern that repeats itself since decades.
[IANAL] i think there is the "in plain view" exception. So, if say the box accidentally fell and opened (or it made sound like there is a ton of illegal cash inside), its content becomes fair game. Without observers the police can open and close a lot of boxes and declare the accident only on the ones which have interesting content.

>The FBI also said a dog had smelled unspecified drugs on Ruiz’s cash.

that works too. Especially given that most, or something like this, cash in US has traces of drugs on it.
Myth Busting on Stellar Forge (Elite Dangerous)
I'd say that it is the internet in general that has a spam/scam problem. Due to bandwidth costs, which apparently only Google is able and willing to subsidize, YouTube is basically the internet for videos. Many opinions I read about YouTube do not consider this point and treat it as just another website. But for me, making Google responsible for whatever is posted on YouTube is akin to making ISPs responsible for whatever is going through their switches.

YouTube has a lot of problems, but I personally have no doubt that its existence is a net benefit to humanity. Calls for tighter regulation (or breaking Google down), which appear to be more and more common these days, make me wonder if would even have an alternative if YouTube went down. It is easy to take it for granted.
Todo or Die – Python Edition
I don't have time to re-research it all ATM, but a quick Google search, I think this is the thread -

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32839785-AT-T-Fiber-Gatewa...
Can you give me one or twoo examples for such missing low-level stuff Ruby libraries, please?
Maybe they mean that since there are many different feed readers a person could use, a blog can't have a "Click here to subscribe via RSS" link? Most feed readers will have a bookmarklet for 1-click subscribing, but the blog owner doesn't have the ability to make a prominent "call to action"-style button.
That's fair demonization. But we in the West have no issue looking past assassinations, electoral interference, coups d'états, and invasions far past what even Putin has done.

That being said, I still think Putin is an evil man. I just don't think he's really worse than, say, Bush, and I can understand while I massively disagree why so many Russians like him.
> Stealing art for money, he says, is stupid. Money can be made with far less risk. But stealing for love, Breitwieser knows, is ecstatic.

Wow.
Yeah, the motivation is pretty easy if you consider that much of software engineering is the same process (e.g., performance tuning), and on top of that you get prestige and do some math on the side. It’s basically a research version of test-driven development.
For example, Interest rates are so low that the traditional alternatives of stock investments are no longer present. Traditionally, a bond would include a rate that is beyond inflation. Nowadays, government bonds return rates below inflation. This is artificially low and creates a bubble in the stock market (and other assets like real estate) since the traditional option to put money in bonds has been artificially devalued.
Falling wind power is likely one major culprit

https://www.reuters.com/article/europe-electricity-idUSL8N2K...
Free will can also just be a psychological illusion - even if we objectively believe it doesn’t exist we can’t shake it off even if we tried; or at least as I have tried.
Flirting with Georgia O'Keeffe
"Balance of Power"

I've heard of this 80s game time and time again. Often times, its called the first computer strategy game. A cold-war era video game about cold-war era politics, it was immediately relevant back then and taken as a historical lesson today... and also one of the major inspirations for 90s-era strategy games.

Maybe one day, I'll put forth the effort to find it and play it. For now, I'm satisfied with an old version of Hearts of Iron 3.

Given how many times this game pops up in 1980s-era computer discussion threads, I feel like I'm missing something each time its brought up.

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In the realm of "process intensity", the crunch-to-bit ratio of Factorio, OpenTTD, and now my current game (Hearts of Iron 3) is pretty high. In Factorio: all mistakes are correctable: just order your bots to deconstruct everything, and place everything down again. Once you have your defense system automated, you can continuously update your designs to more-and-more optimized results.

Hearts of Iron 3 is similar though punishing instead. You spend an inordinate amount of time looking through your commanders's skills, experience, and organizing brigades / divisions / corps / armies / groups / theaters, and the commanders of each stage of the hierarchy. You consider production, and which groups the weapons will go towards.

Then you unpause the game, and hope for the best. Hopefully your organization was good and your commanders / troops can do their thing. If not, you restart the game, or accept the results as you get strategically bombed or whatever.
To reassign crops for feedstock to human consumption is not as easy as it sounds. If Covid-19 has taught us anything, is that our global food supply chain is a complex beast.

Also, just a reminder to those lucky enough to survive this pandemic: a marginal increase in food prices (plus inflation) due to supply chain disruption might leave poor people with less foods on their tables.

https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/food-suppl...

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/food-se...
> In an ideal world, seizures should be escrowed until a proof comes to light.

What?? In an ideal world a proof should be produced before anything is seized!
In France nuclear + water + wind + solar, all low marginal cost, cover the consumption at 99%+ timestep in the day-ahead market, but there is like 18GW of interconnect, so gas + fuel + coal are running to power our neighbours, in the electricity market the last called capacity in the cost curve set the same price for the whole time step (with some provision for interconnect capacities). Without interconnect French day ahead power price would be at like 17€/MWh, but thanks to our neighbours it is at 150. But still the day ahead market doesn't set the price paid by the consumer, there is long term futures, and 100TWh/year of nuclear offered at 42€.
https://web.archive.org/web/19980613012744/http://www.mae.ap...

MAE is 68k macintosh emulator with some OS/toolbox parts handled with native code.
Hogwarts Is a Trade School
From your granddaughter Sara about Math homework (2009)
> nobody gives a damn that I know English and can use a mouse and keyboard

If you think they don’t, behave as if you can’t for a day.
Nuclear is in an awkward place. All of the proven last gen designs are considered too risky to build new now. But it also seems that the next gen designs are not proven at all in terms of construction timelines or buildability. For example, many next gen US nuclear projects were canceled after continuous schedule and budget overshoots. The completed next gen French reactor in China, for example is showing unexpected behavior and has been temporarily taken offline for review, and other next gen French design builds are, like the US designs and projects, behind schedule and over budget.

That's just the direct industry. The support industry for nuclear plant construction materials has also lost maturity and scale between first gen and new gen, as evidenced by the failure of upgrade materials in the So Cal Edison San Onofre plant. This is after decades of investment.

Because its so much less complicated to scale, my bet is on storage before any next round of new nuclear plants are built at scale. But we don't even need that much storage in the next decade, we mostly need far more renewable energy acceleration in very proven and fast, reliable rollouts.
In my example the could matter, or not. I see this all the times. In your example, can you make the order matter? In my example, after each selection, you can limit or expand the further options.
Large quantities of energy (e.g. from Nuclear) are bought in advance (between countries, and less often between companies), and with multiple years contracts. That's why you don't see a huge difference.
Are you referring to the color gradients in text made popular by BeeLine Reader?
How to Play Games and Earn Crypto with Womplay
The greater the risk the better the laugh.

Depends on what you are going for.
How do I earn by playing games? Womplay is built on Wombat, which accesses the Telos and EOS blockchain. By playing any game you find in Womplay, you'll accumulate Wombucks. If you play regularly, you'll be able to cash out all the Wombucks you've accumulated for the week into EOS tokens.
The elite units Grenadiers is a 16/17th century formalisation of infantry units that threw bombs/grenades.

That was extra dangerous job as early bombs were not reliable, and had a chance to explode too soon.

But throwing a ball of metal with blackpowder is much older.
Source? I see 1/3rd but that depends on your definition. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/18/andrew-cuo...