skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this is supposed to be the first in a series on moving from continuous to discrete optimization, but the EE in me can’t help but point out what I would do in this scenario. It also connects with other interesting aspects of physics.

Looking at the governing equations, you can clearly see that if R1 << R2, then the duty cycle is close to 50%.

With that done, I also would have fixed the cap to something that is available. Ignoring R1 for the moment (because I just need to ensure R2 is bigger), I solve for R2 in the frequency equation. It is approximately 72 kOhms.

I notice that a nonzero value of R1 is really there to tune the frequency. As long as R1 is much smaller than R2, then the frequency equation is more sensitive to changes in R1 than the duty cycle equation. So I can play with different small values of R1 to tune my frequency to get closer.

Finally, since I know that I’m likely using imprecise resistor tolerances, I know that I can pass if I just get close, so I might not need to be picky about R1.

In my opinion, this chain of reasoning (effective modeling, function sensitivity wrt parameters, tolerance specs) is what the lab experiment is actually about. Developing circuits that are tolerant to parameter variation is the key to real hardware products. That gives you so much flexibility in price and manufacturer and requires the designer to keep this kind of reasoning frontmost.
SAGE is missing. Tactical information displays are missing.
A friend of mine sells wind turbines and said it's a nightmare to sell these things in Germany. All the land owners hate them.

It's like the anti-vax crowd.
You can be from Russia without being in it
There have been accidents and scandals with fuel reprocessing in Japan that do not conform with Japan's image of competent management.
It depends what the expected value of the loss is. Based on the story above, I assume they are looking at a minimum of 6 figures, possibly even 7 figures. At that point, it could be about livelihoods, and the risk tolerances get much smaller.

If I am the person whose house was burned down, even with an apology, I am not going to be lenient on replacing what I lost, which is at least 6 figures worth. If the insurance company is involved, they are definitely not going to care about apologies, just getting all of their costs covered.

Edit: ignore everything I wrote. I thought the OP had lost their home due to the neighbor burning stuff on their land. I lazily missed the word “almost”, in which case, since there are no large damages for the negligent neighbor to worry about, I agree that an apology is at least warranted.
USG information is distributed via several media including twitter. i would agree with you if twitter was the only medium carrying official USG info (but it's not.)

i do, however, agree restrictions on viewing tweets are annoying.
If you are top few percent of software engineers in terms of talent then it wont be much work to get into FAANG. Top few percent doesn't seem like a lot of people, but this is a big forum, and people who are good at something are more likely to respond to a question than those who aren't.
D was initially designed (around 2000) to be agnostic about UTF8, UTF16, and UTF32. The language has full support for all three.

But it gradually became clear that UTF8 predominates.

D best practice now is to do all processing in UTF8. When encountering UTF16 or UTF32, promptly convert it to UTF8, do the processing, and then convert to UTF16 or UTF32 on output. In practice, the only time this is needed is to interface with Windows.

All the D standard library code that interfaces with Windows converts to/from UTF8 to UTF16.

If I was doing a do-over for D, there wouldn't be core language support for UTF16 or UTF32, only library support.
> which still hasn't caught up to modern trends (static types, asynchronism, etc...)

Ignoring the fact that your modern trends aren't modern. I don't think any of these statements really are true for Lisp as a family of languages:

For example Racket has typed Racket.
https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/

For asynchronicity Clojure has clojure.async
https://github.com/clojure/core.async

> and with a very poor tooling (lack of IDE's)

Lisps have fantastic support in Emacs and VSCode and are in general simple enough languages that often the heavyweight of an IDE is not needed. But if you want IDEs there are:

Dr. Racket - https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/index.html

Cursive - https://cursive-ide.com/

Emacs/Cider - https://docs.cider.mx/cider/index.html

> and library ecosystem (building websites, parallelism, GUI, etc...)

Websites - Reagent, a ClojureScript wrapper for React https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent

GUIs - Clojure has the entirety of Java to steal GUIs from - Ex: https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx

Just because the Lisp family is old and has a simple syntax does not mean it's an antiquated language or that there are not new developments going on there.
Horrible insurance kerfuffle gone good
I had a hunch we were on this timeline.
Rust's Arc is an atomic reference counter. But, as the article describes, those aren't free.
> making these marks without following the appropriate tightening procedure

If you didn't torque the bolt tight enough then it will come loose sooner, and the lines won't line up. I'm sure there are situations where the torque of the bolt is critical for handling peak load on the system, but for a lot of situations where a torque wrench keeps you from damaging by over-tightening, and makes sure you got it tight enough that it stays tight.

I should say there's one other failure mode a torque wrench can test that that the paint doesn't by itself, and that's a failing bolt. If you've ever seen a broken bolt, and the entire surface isn't uniformly shiny, then you've seen a bolt that cracked a long time ago and then failed recently. That crack is going to show up as less torque. So if the bolt hasn't spun but the torque has dropped, you might have a problem, rather than having a freak incident where the nut spun exactly 360° since you checked it last.

I could see an argument for using paint and smartbolts for fasteners with epic failure modes, like people dying or generators exploding.
What an amazing age she reached, few do. I grew up watching Golden Girls way back, it seemed like she didn't age from then. Rest in peace, you'll be missed but you warmed people's hearts for a good time.
Belatedly, here's a stream of updates from the Boulder County Office of Emergency Management: https://www.boulderoem.com/emergency-status/
Unfortunately fear is often the primary motivator for alot of irrational decisions & behaviour.
> Yet I can't seem to fully rekindle the same energy of my younger self.

IMO, don't try to do this. Move forward and focus on what you're interested in without self-critique (as much as possible). Looking backwards and comparing your present state with previous states will only distract you from making the most of the only time you can actually do anything in (the present).
Because the taxi industry is being propped up by the government and the special treatment lasts only as long and people find the service useful and worth paying for in price and regulation.

“Burning down” my personal possessions makes no sense because I’m not asking for society to bare the cost of my existence by giving me special treatment.
Yes, it almost sounds like Agassi sort of showed his father was right to force him to play tennis. If I suddenly "chose tennis", it wouldn't do me much good because becoming a world class tennis player requires decades of training starting from a young age.
2) I think this is a bit like asking, "Why isn't there a comprehensive guide to art"

Infra is massively complicated. Not only do you have competing frameworks/modules, you also have these change in different releases of Linux. Some of these are simpler, some are more comprehensive. Some are really hard to use but powerful/well-maintained, others are simple but might not be so good. Some perform well at a cost, others might perform relatively less well but are easier. Sometimes it is worth the effort setting up ufw on a server, sometimes it isn't.

BY the time you got to something that was simple enough to create a guide from, and which didn't change each week when some vendor renames a configuration option, it would be very high-level and possibly not very useful.
As far as I can determine, once you are vaccinated, the risk of serious illness drops down considerably. So much so that (from what I can assess), you are effectively back in range of "its just the flu". No?
Let's approximate the cost of that.
The energy consumption of my country (the Netherlands) was 3157 PJ in 2017.
This was 980 kwh per person per week.
Solar batteries cost a bit more than $1000 per kwh.
So at these prices this plan costs approximately $1 million per person.
Solar batteries last 5-15 years.
If we say that they last 20 years, then the energy storage costs are $130 per person per day per week's worth of storage.
This plan sounds feasible if costs come down by factor of 10.
Have you bought airpods without iphone? You can't even see the battery level reliably without third party apps, which don't even consistently work? I'm an android user and had them for a couple of weeks, before returning them, they're already part of a closed ecosystem
Scepticism is fine but is pointing out bugs in crypto really so interesting 10% of the top page is almost always related to that topic?
- Betty White celebrates yet another birthday, Ryan Reynolds still smitten.

Well, that prediction has failed surprisingly quickly . . .
He does say that there hasn’t been time for evidence of the long term dangers to become apparent.
Solar and wind mean you need batteries (can’t do off-peak without it). This means you still need peaker plants. Even if you accelerated battery technology drastically (which I’d say is already at max R&D speed mostly), you’re looking at some fundamental challenges getting the precious materials (total volume/cost and also energy required to do the mining). Finally, my understanding is that solar and wind can’t actually be used in some energy-intensive industrial processes because they can’t generate enough heat. This means those power needs are still powered by traditional fossil fuel power plants (and too expensive to use just for the industrial purpose so it’s actually part of the energy mix for good).

Solar and wind are important parts of the energy mix and.OF COURSE we need them. Nuclear is where the bulk of the focus needs to go though to actually decarbonize because it can handle literally every use case that fossil fuels do but cheaper, safer and less polluting.
In-person account recovery is tough. A friend of mine runs a branch of a major bank. She regularly meets with customers who need to recover their account identity. A sizable fraction of the people who show up trying to do that are attempting something scammy.

If there were some way I could have my bank verify my identity to my email provider

Major banks can do their end of that. They will notarize documents and provide signature guarantees for established customers. Now, having obtained a notarized statement guaranteed by a major bank that you own your identity, how do you submit that to Gmail?

Banks don't really want to be in the authentication business anyway. It's an unprofitable sideline, and takes up a lot of staff time.
There may be a third category for those with technical know-how, that tend to be like the early internet, since they apply the same selection bias. I'm thinking of things like Gemini and SSB. If SSB could work out the challenges that make it hard to implement in non-JS, I think it could become something like email in its ubiquity.
> If you need to do stuff that's not covered by the standard library, like interfacing with GTK or X11 you are in a world of pain [...] If you suffer through this, you have an exe that works on your version of Ubuntu, maybe on other versions of Ubuntu or possibly other Debian-based distros. If you want it to also work on Fedora, it's back to tinkering.

GTK is known to break their ABI across major versions (GTK1->GTK2, GTK2->GTK3, GTK3->GTK4) but as a C ABI it should be compatible between minor versions and everything can be assumed to have GTK2 and GTK3 available anyway. X11 as a protocol has always been backwards compatible and Xlib on Linux pretty much never broke the ABI since the 90s. Here is a screenshot with a toolkit i'm working on now and then running the exact same binary (built with dynamic linking - ie. it uses the system's C and X libraries) in 1997 Red Hat in a VM and 2018 Debian (i took that shot some time ago - btw the brown colors is because the VM runs in 4bit VGA mode and i haven't implemented colormap use - it also looks weird in modern X if you run your server at 30bpp/10bpc mode)[0].

Of course that doesn't mean other libraries wont be broken and what you need to do (at least the easy way to do it) is to build on the oldest version of Linux you plan on supporting so that any references are to those versions (there are ways around that), but you can stick with libraries that do not break their ABI. You can use ABI Laboratory's tracker to check that[1]. For example notice how the 3.x branch of Gtk+ was always compatible[2] (there is only a minor change marked as breaking from 3.4.4 to 3.6.0[3] but if you check the actual report it is because two internal functions - that you shouldn't have been using anyway - were removed).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/YxGNB7h.png

[1] https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=abi-tracker

[2] https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=timeline&l=gtk%2B

[3] https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=objects_report&l=g...
Yeah, seems someone is conflating "200% pay increase" and "200% pay". Not clear which one is right from the article.
Sounds like Monopoly to me.
Then it's truly an aberration and not nearly the slam dunk you think it is. Because it was so odd, they specifically looked into it.
Now that is the end of an era. RIP.
It‘s a pity that tech inflation doesn’t reduce tech debt.
> Given the removal of the need to move to a High-COL area to work for a FAANG-type or FAANG-aspiring company

I don't really like nor understand this Col thing.

Most of what's used to derive such metric is the cost of housing... except when you buy a house you are also building equity in it (and you get the cash value plus capital gain when you sell). It's just disguised compensation.
Do they track it down to the actual problem point in the code? Or do you just see that maybe there’s a problem and then experimenting with changes to figure out what needs to be fixed?
i believe our 70+ year old law makers know exactly what they are doing with regards to CD230.
Headline thinks 200% + base pay. Even the line you cite supports that view. That sentence is ambiguous anyway. One can read it as 200% pay (including the base pay) or as bonus.
If the party suffering harm is insured, it doesn’t really matter because the insurance company will do whatever it can to recover it’s loss.
I've always wondered how much this affects shared cloud instances (for example, a single c5.small instance). Can your neighbor, who shares your L3 cache, be using memory so much more aggressively than you that it causes you to evict your L2/L1 cache? Or is cache coherency maintained if the core that evicted your L3 cache is known to be living in a different memory space?
Knowledge is not binary. Knowledge is a subset of science. If you draw from outside of science you can't have any knowlegde. An can't make any predictions or even evaluations of the present better than chance.
This sounds more and more like running a blog.
Start a new blog living in raspberry pi under my desk, optimize old blog for more discovery and help to people suffering from mental illnesses, read more Russian classics, take a walk everyday, use social media to spread news not to consume them, be happy with everything, maybe use a 2-3w full RGB laser projector for a very small show for a bystanders without any advertising or warning, get my drivers license back, pirate more, keep doing what I'm - running i2p exit point, freenet, configure a bridge of TOR for russian users, try to convince my family that I need a second internet line :)
I'll leave that to the professionals.

You want to draw conclusions based on it when the publisher explicitly said to not do that.
Whether or not you classify it as “easy” isn’t relevant. You hit the nail on the head in the prior sentence: “time” is the issue, and you’re asking someone to trade their time for a pittance.

FWIW I’d charge way more than $100/hr for this work.
That fact that people look at Fukushima and say, "see this is why nuclear power is safe!" absolutely blows my mind.

The outcome we had for Fukushima was not the only one possible. It could have been better, much better, and it could have been worse, much worse. That fact that one of the most advanced and earthquake prepared nations in the world even got close to having a Fukushima event, let alone actually had one, should paint a clear picture of pitfalls of nuclear power.

We need power the scales for the world. The most urgent need for clean power is in developing countries, which are actually not the countries who would have the best chance to run a safe nuclear power plant.

Solar is already scaling, it's already safe, it's already cost effective. Utility-scale storage is already more than on the way and is dropping in price quickly, and it's not even a problem with solar until solar penetrates a larger percentage of the grid anyways. Do I think that nuclear plants in modern countries should be shutting down: No. But the real justification to supporting nuclear over solar for the future of our power grid is to be a contrarian or because you think nuclear power is cool.
> And so there's a "ventilator farm" industry, one that maintains a very low public profile.

This sounds like an interesting rabbit hole to go down. Unfortuantely I could not find any websites/articles on this topic. Do you have any links?
I have a dumb question that keeps nagging me, and wonder if someone here has a good answer. What does Web3 necessarily have to do with the web? Couldn't an iOS app which uses blockchain technology as a decentralized database be just as good an example of what Web3 is trying to achieve? Or a technically oriented command line app for finance using a blockchain which does not involve a web browser?

Are Web3 people just using "web" as a stand-in for the internet?
They probably didn’t expect as much backlash to Stream and expected people to just use that or buy RHEL. I’m sure the amount of users they expected to lose to new forks was part of their risk analysis, they just blew it IMO.
I don't have an opinion about the average intelligence of software developers and you've clearly thought a lot more about this than I care to.

But the person made a pretty straightforward assertion about us being, in aggregate, normal. And you pretty much went straight for the calipers, which I just don't think was helpful or necessary.

That's all that's happening here, I'm not trying to formally debate you about the truth of these different statements. Just pointing out that software devs are overall a pretty normal group of people.
> You are absolutely free to drop out of the "rat race", aka the evolutionary process,

Modern American Education is not ‘the evolutionary process’. If anything it is quite the opposite. More like forced domestication.
We still have Keith Richards, and will always have him.
I just got an email today telling me my Model 3 is impacted. First time I’ll have to bring it in during the three years of owning it (rotated tires myself, otherwise no maintenance). I know because it’s Tesla it makes news, but I’ve had to bring in my previous Audi multiple times for recall or air bag fixes and same with our Chrysler. All that to say it’s kind of part of owning a vehicle, Tesla isn’t more special than other car companies.

I wonder if anyone else heard people saying that you shouldn’t buy a car within the first two years of it getting a remake? Let them work out the kinks? Or maybe some nonsense my family used to say.
Docker-compose, not k8s. Set up a cron job to run a script to update the OS, pull all your containers and reboot after hours once a week or once a day. Make sure the script specifies non interactive. Set up alerting for low disk space, see https://netdata.cloud or use your own tool. Set up firewall. Use SSL if you can, wireguard if you can't. Even internal networks should use http.

I have something very similar set up to run a few Game Servers and provide a file and container management user interface.

It's been running for a few years whenever I hear about a security incident I go check and it's always updated this far.

Theoretically you should be able to do something very similar by using aws cloud formation. Every time you go to update you would create a new image, install your dependencies, save it, put an instance of the new image up, divert new traffic to the new instance, shut down and delete the old instance.
https://rekt.news articles dive into most hacks to describes how the relevant contracts/crypto/logic works, what's the suspect code, and which parts in the architecture were abused. This is on-brand for "Hacker News" and intellectually stimulating.

But this submission got nuked. It went to #4 in an hour, and then disappeared. Maybe we need decentralized HN!
So convenient that they still have to pay taxes :-/
Those would be games you play with your mind in deep concentration. In Buddhism deep concentration is tool not a goal itself. The bliss you get from deep concentration was the only distraction that can be beneficial. Doing some specific exercises is sometimes called as "games".

Any flow state you can get into with games is not very interesting compared to fiddling with your own mind.
I highly recommend HuggingFace/Transformers if you are at all interested in NLP
> But here, normalization caused this issue.

Nope, the lack of normalization on both accounts by the SMB server caused the issue. It could have normalized before emitting but it definitely should have normalized on receiving for comparison.
Another vote for CBT.

I had two painful periods of my life that lead to depressions. The first one I dealt with more or less on my own -- basically waiting it out. Eventually I got better and moved on but it took a while.

The second time I went to a therapist almost immediately and the duration was much shorter. More importantly, the therapist helped unpack a lot of stuff for me and gave me a lot of tools for dealing with events and their associated emotions. I think CBT would work particularly well for this crowd since a lot of it is reasoning based. The basic idea, to me at least, is that our emotional responses can be reasoned with or about. If others are like me, I think some of us might harbor mistaken notions that we are more rational than average and thus don't have any misguided tendencies or thinking. CBT was a revelation to me. I learned to better observe my own emotions and also my own "thinking traps", etc. It has helped me better "manage" myself and prevent me from letting events drag me into another depression.

Someone else mentioned forgiveness and that helped me a lot in my own recovery as well. Forgiveness can be applied to others and ourselves. It's ultimately a very enlightening practice.

Best of luck to the OP and others dealing with pain. Closing a chapter on life is very hard but it can also be liberating and a path to other great things in life.
The post truth period.
126? 110 (other comment)? By that token betamax was a successful format in 1975 before VHS launched.

35mm was the top selling film since the 1960s until digital took over.

You went to any drugstore and you found 35mm. Maybe a box or two of APS. Maybe some medium format. But you could find 35mm in every drugstore, gas station, street vendor in a tourist trap without fail.

Professionals used 35mm because it was snaller than MF and for many things good enough. Otherwise it was considered consumer grade.