skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK are you able to straight up create a gambling website/app? As an example, could I create a blackjack app and accept/payout money using, say, paypal or stripe? No other hoops to jump through?
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I've been using them for a while for a side project email that sends/receives through a free Gmail account and it works well.

I've worked with email for a while and was surprised by how easy it was to set up.
I really loved reading Ubik. I seriously had trouble putting it down. But when I got to the ending. Well... I don't want to spoil anything but, is it just me or does it not make any sense if you really think about it? I did some research into the ending and the most satisfying conclusion I found was that was just the PKD surrealist style? Ubik is the only book I've read by him.
> It is hard to fathom the devastation a total shutdown would have wreaked. […] “What my team and the folks at the utilities in Texas would be doing is an exercise called ‘black start,’ ” he said. A black start would have required carefully rebooting a few power plants at a time and using them to jump-start others, thereby restoring the grid piece by piece. […] No one knows how long that process would take, because no one has ever needed to do it. Magness said it would have been weeks at least.

Why weeks? I “survived” the “great” northeast blackout and most areas were back up in 16-48 hours. And that involved a bigger network across multiple jurisdictions.
Robots rise to meet the challenge of caring for old people
The startup sequence first depends on manually switching circuits across the region because no power can be assumed, so trucks are rolling to hundreds of substations and generator switchyards. Then, coordinating with emergency phones and radios as available, manually switching in loads and self-startable generators into electrical islands in a careful balance to not re-trip everything again due to voltage collapse or frequency excursions.

When a single generator synchronizes to a normally operating wide area grid, the relative power balance is so huge that if the generator is not close enough to matching the phasors it will get pulled into sync as long as it's close enough to not trip offline again to avoid damage. With only a few generators on line, and very narrow extra capacity and loads, the margin of error is much smaller. This must be done methodically and carefully for every generator in the black start plan, and it must be done with the majority of the region not having power so transportation, communication, possibly fuel services for the generators, and basic services like food and water and toilets are also impacted. Everything is going to be slow.

Some plants also have ramp up and startup cycles that can take most of a day to produce close to their nameplate capacity, and most of them require a significant external power source to run. Coal plants require lots of moving machines that load and process and pulverize the coal and complex steam pressure control systems that don't go from 0 to 100 at a whim; Nuclear plant cooldowns after a trip can be days, and startup again may require another day or two as well. Modern combined cycle gas plants are relatively easy by comparison but still require several hundred KW of available station servicing external power to start the unit and usually take a few hours of careful checks to go from cold to ready to sync.

It would probably only take a few days to get most of the ERCOT region back on line, but a full restoration would definitely take weeks as much of the work can't even begin until the big generators in key locations are all up and stable, and most of the efforts can't realistically proceed until the cause of the blackout has been resolved, e.g. no pumps for the gas lines, those generators can't start anyway.
There's a crazy detail in here that I don't get. A big part of this article is about the price gouging which led to a windfall for gas companies and huge debts for Texans.

> In the hours after the blackouts, ERCOT tried to shore up electricity reserves to stabilize the grid. The computer system that runs the market, though, interpreted this as an oversupply (in the middle of blackouts!) and dropped prices. When ERCOT and the PUC realized what was happening, officials decided to bypass the market and, on Monday evening, manually set prices at the maximum of $9,000 per megawatt hour. (By comparison, the average hourly price in 2020 was $25.73.)

So, ERCOT officials decided to basically input a fake number to short-circuit the broken market, and now everybody is on the hook to pay that price for real? Am I understanding this correctly? It sounds completely insane.
Good to know that you can just say you're ineligible to get fined for breaking rules because you weren't going to follow them anyway. Like at least create a government incentive program for being prepared for winter weather other than lost profits during downtime. Why would I, as a power company, want to spend any money on hardening systems against the cold when the only downside is a potential small financial hit? It's like a consumer product recall, how much does it cost to do nothing versus how much does it cost to fix the problem?
The former Prime Minister Gerhard Schröder, started the phaseout of nuclear energy.

Now he’s the chairman of the board of Rosneft and the chairman of the shareholders committee of Nord Stream. You figure it out.
I’ve got the same mid-2014 mbp. I had to get the battery replaced, but otherwise it’s been the longest lived laptop I’ve had that still gets regular use.

I had a nexus 6, too. I was doing some mobile development at the time and figured that a flagship product would be a good introduction to android ecosystem. It wasn’t a bad phone, but I was surprised that the build materials weren’t on par with anything Apple had at the time. The screen was good and responsive, but seemed plasticky and 2nd rate compared to the glass that both high-end Samsungs and Apple used.

Similar experience with the nexus 9 tablet. Good idea, meh execution.

Maybe things have changed, but the nexus line, considering it is (was?) a flagship product, didn’t seem to live up to expectations.
still on version 6.8, so far so good on Mac Monterey
Nuclear energy plants are dangerous especially if you think about who is going to build them.

The same people who built the Berlin airport would also build the power plants.
Discord is terrible for privacy though. No sane parent should encourage use of Discord for that reason alone. They collect literally everything they can get their hands on.
Data point: A large fraction of my social life is on Discord, and if any gamer culture has leaked in, I haven't noticed.
Font Awesome replaces 'male' and 'female' with 'person' in version 6
Font awesome gets extremely political and decides that male and female no longer exist. What do you think? Is this the right direction for them? It's even weirder for them considering that they're in Bentonville, Arkansas.
This is a weird article?
First the headline - what does it mean?
Then the illogical notion that antibiotic resistance causes death. What kind of thinking is this?
Bacteria cause illness and death - you can't blame it on ineffective antibiotics.
The article is piffle.
You can write an init file to perform all the required loading and configuration if that happens often.

Or create a custom top level if for some reasons you prefer the extra modules to not be distinct files.
Then you can't talk to non-iPhone users?
It's weird because it's Wired.
If you like this, have a look at some issues of the Ansible fanzine - https://news.ansible.uk/ - in particular the section titled Thog's Masterclass.

The latest issue has this sterling example : "I nodded at her and walked toward the suite door, feeling her eyes like ice cubes sliding down my back all the way out."
Just a side note that mine wasn't about skipping grades, it was a gifted program with other kids my own age. No idea how it would've played out years down the line, but that was how it worked early on where I was.
I agree with you on all points, but I will say that the thread topic is specifically about headlines 75 years from now rather than what current authorities claim today...

So naturally, every correct answer would be controversial in the present.

The truth eventually wins. It is no soy for my family.
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> I personally don't know any iPhone user who doesn't also have an alternate messaging app installed on their device.

90% of the people I know with iPhones don't have any messaging apps other than iMessage. I've tried to get them on Signal or WhatsApp, complete refusal.
Knowing what was intended to be said is great, and subtitles, for whatever reason, seem to convey this better than dubbing. Also, I feel like I can hear the emotion in the original actors' voices better with subtitles and no dubbing, despite being incapable of understanding the language. In that way, I agree it preserves the original performances.

However, moving pictures will always be an artform that are heavily reliant upon the picture part. With subtitles, I lose my ability to focus on minor but important details in film. During dialogue, this includes subtle facial expressions. I also pay less attention to all other visuals, which I find difficult to do without subtitles off entirely. I feel like I miss out on a lot of potential beauty in cinematography with subtitles enabled. (Although, to be fair, there is usually less dialogue in parts that emphasize on cinematography / setting.)

Anyway, just throwing in my two cents. I used to think people who disliked subtitles were expressing some broader dislike of foreign films, so I found their opinion perplexing or even stupid. But I've come to that side of the aisle myself, not because I dislike foreign films, but because I realize that reading a small bar of text at the bottom of the screen will always handicap my ability to take in the original experience as intended by the director of the film (in 99.9% of cases).
I tried to fix my wireless earbuds. It did not go well
The book in particular really opened my mind to the idea that illicit drug economies and anti-drug police activity are ultimately symbiotic, forming a system that consumes lives. And nothing else that I've read has conveyed so vividly the confusion and powerlessness one can feel in a life of addiction to hard drugs, caught up in that system.
IIRC the article said that producers could exempt themselves by attesting that they weren't prepared to stay operational and paying a $150 filing fee.
I am not sure about Lingala but Swahili absolutely spread through coercion in colonial times and post independence. In Tanzania the Germans and later the British heavily promoted Swahili as a lingua franca.

Nowadays Swahili is the first language of most Tanzanians but in the past it was mainly limited to coastal areas formerly controlled by the Sultanate of Oman. The government of Tanzania promotes Swahili to this day, and many native languages in the interior of the country are declining.
This would be interesting if it worked - I recently re-watched The Expanse in German with subtitles on but it wasn’t very helpful as a lot of the time they simply gave up and used the English terms. Some are a bear to translate - try saying “donkey balls” in German, “eseleier”? The captions reverted to English and I didn’t really pick up what the voice track said but wasn’t even close.

I had much better luck with Star Trek TOS, very little deviation between the English and German dialog, and the subtitles matched up well with the spoken dialog. Much better for learning - though “er ist tot Jim” doesn’t quite have the same punch IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOtx4Jk-OaQ
https://archive.is/UNFqv
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Ah yes. Another great proposal from the people who came up with the idea you must accept cookies from websites.
I don't, I just spent 2½ hours reading Wikipedia. The history of philosophy is super interesting.
Yup, that’s exactly what it was.
So it's all a big conspiracy of the elite against the masses ?
I miss nntp
This comment is disaster porn for doomers, preppers, and second comers. Being the 2nd largest manufacturer isn't good enough? Having history's most powerful military isn't good enough? Having $63k gdp per capita during a pandemic year isn't good enough?

>You'll look back on the plague years, and remember them as the calm before the storm.

There's zero evidence this will be true. If anything we'll see this as the dawn of chasing fascism out of the country and a rise of class consciousness for workers and what work life means and how wealth disparity hurts us all. I find the doomers of the world fear exactly this and pray for a collapse than see a leftward swing as millennials and gen-z take power from the doomer-friendly ultra-conservatism so many in the USA accept uncritically.
The threat of the law and their own shame is enough of a theft deterrent for "most people" even when the law is visibly ineffective, but the thieves could not exist without buyers. Since we're picking on SF as the example, honestly lol if you think anybody buys the stuff off the street around 16th–24th/Mission without knowing exactly how it got there https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/New-S-F-proposal-woul...
try bootloop
This is really interesting, as I've not heard many people say this. I wonder how common your experience is. Perhaps some people have a more narrow field of vision, or I wonder what else might cause it.

I can only say that I absolutely prefer subtitles 100% of the time because the original performance is usually better. Good voice actors are not cheap, besides the fact that the sounds don't match the lips when it's a different language speaking.
The 5G Snafu Was Avoidable
Anyone can summarize for layman?
$20/mo. is for their enterprise std version. They have plans starting at $6/mo. and $12/mo. provides 2TB of storage per user which is plenty for most users and a much better deal than O365 IMO.
I spent a couple of days with Zig. Thought the language was great but the tooling (on Windows) just killed it for me. I hope that gets better 'cos I'd like to give it another go
When their whitepaper is written in Microsoft Word and has citations to news articles, be wary!
You got one thing wrong. Not gonna send my kids off to the next war that Washington starts up.
well.. to report back there are minor nits in the docs about "how to do it" but I succeeded in getting DKIM/SPF done, and google and pobox both honoured it for delivery which is something. (I used the google postmaster doorway to prove control of the domain)

I think this approach may be viable.
That sounds to me like you're conceding it is true but you just don't like the way I worded it. Which is horrifying.

But are you saying they don't even want to offer calculus in high school now? Holy crap, that is also horrifying.
The technical term for this is "victim blaming".
By being inclusive they are effectively excluding the large majority that is actually identifying themselves as male or female.
Airing 1 or 2 episodes a week gives maximum opportunity for a show to be successful, esp if it's a smaller show that doesn't have a built in audience (ie. if it's not a Marvel/Disney show or returning seasons of successful shows). Airing weekly means that there is an ongoing conversation around your show (if it's any good) and each media outlet is potentially writing about your show n times as opposed to writing about your show 1 time reviewing the entire thing, that results in more chances for the audience finding your show. The cancelling the service thing is at best a secondary concern. Moreover creators of many show prefer that their show be consumed on a week to week basis as opposed to binged in 1 sitting with little opportunity for the audience to reflect on it.

HBO has mastered that art of "1 episode a week to maximize the audience and buzz of what appears to be a niche show" even on their streaming service and as a result have found unconventional hits like Euphoria, The White Lotus, Succession, The Leftovers which would otherwise have been lost in the glut of peak tv abyss if they were just dropped in one night.
Right, for 2x single stream sequential read throughput + redundancy I guess you need somehing like Linux f2 RAID10 mode. Otherwise reading every other stripe per disk would kill you due to seeks or 50% wasted readahead.
I read it, but I don't understand it - at all.

So... it's a short story about a man recounting a book he read that claims aliens are invading the earth while describing a selfless alien woman who donates her body-parts to other people and the story ends with him playing Monopoly... I don't see a story here.

I know Philip K. Dick is a celebrated author, so I assume my not-getting-it problem is all-me - can someone please explain it to me?
I want to use my name to build a brand.but i can't use my name as account to post on facebook,instagram,amazon,whatsapp,so i made some web apps that to build my consistent brand.
https://www.alovez.com alternative to facebook.
https://www.snapfeel.com alternative to instagram.
my name as account:
https://www.alovez.com/bing
https://www.snapfeel.com/bing
A $100,000 daily fine is a pittance compared to the $9000/MWh prices of electricity during the grid failures. Even a small generator could have been making millions during that time.

Perhaps a tiny stick is more motivation than a much larger carrot for operators that were so unsophisticated as to miss that initial carrot, however.
Taking care of a baby is not like this.
> My mistake for assuming you were talking about the thing being talked about

I said buying it is "fine". Even if that was directed specifically to this service, that doesn't mean I want it.

> there's also no one person who knows a definitive answer

Then don't be so insistent that the price is good.

> Like, software companies have gone with your reality, and before 10 years passes up and you feel like it's time to upgrade... they're gone!

I'm not saying they have to do it that way, I just think it's a reasonable way to calculate the price of the functionality.

If they want a steadier income that's fine, but wanting a full retail paycheck every single year is going too far.

> It's not just $3 for passwords, it's $3 so I have confidence I'm not relying on 1password having indefinite growth to have people work there.

On the other hand, worrying about whether companies will be around for the long term is a big reason I dislike subscriptions.

That $3 doesn't guarantee they'll still be around. And for a simple product like this, the more ambitious they get the more worried I get.

Also this company is an order of magnitude or two bigger than "sustainable". The only way they would stop selling a password manager is because of bad management or because they choose to pivot into a different market. They're not going to have insufficient money to pay the staff of their core product.
They aren't exactly cresting some novel wave of gender policy thinking here. It's more like their direction is moving into alignment with the pack, no?
I understand this is only tangentially related, but you can understand with the background of some of the medical profession, that some people are anti-vax (with respect to covid-19). To be clear, I'm very pro-vax - but yeah
“When Doctors Recommended Smoking As A Science-Based Health Practice”

FTFY.
printf exists in Java. Because its so bloody useful.
I persist in remembering The Zap Gun as being about a gun that, when the trigger is pulled, makes whatever it points at never to have existed. No one ever knows why they just used it.

But I also believe that isn't what it was at all, but cannot bring to mind what it really did.
thinking it’s a flex is missing the interesting point. Which I believe would be that PTO should be progressive and be accrued by hours worked. There shouldn’t be a requirement to be a “full time” employee before PTO is accrued because businesses can easily have people work slightly less than 40hrs/week with minimal loss to operational efficiency. If PTO accrued over hours worked regardless of full time status, businesses would have much less incentive to circumvent the system.

Let’s say we have a system where 40 hours worked = 1 day PTO:

- the business may choose to split the 40 hours among 4 employees working 10 hours each.

- however, needing to hire more employees to cover the same 40 hours (which one person alone could have handled in the legacy system) increases training and recruiting costs 4x (worst case hopefully) for each role.

- instead of circumventing the PTO “cost” altogether, the businesses would be forced to budget for it no matter how creative they get with staffing.

- budget-wise, the increased cost of PTO would effectively also be increasing the hourly wage. Further forcing businesses to scrutinize the roles they offer and question if it is really necessary to have a human being perform that function.
The inspections are only occurring at facilities that voluntarily declared themselves as critical infrastructure... {https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/28/texas-power-grid-loo...}

If you notice the ERCOT press release, "321/324 facilities" passed inspection. Last February over 1,000 generating units failed, and over 600 of these were gas generators. So 320ish generators passed inspection -- it's unclear how many of those were in the 600 that failed last year or how many total there are in the state (e.g. the 320 that passed could have already been winterized?).

And the daily fines are for "repeat offenders" who don't "remedy within a reasonable period of time" deficiencies that are reported to the commission. It's basically toothless because "reasonable" isn't defined anywhere and it's all at the discretion of the PUC.

Obviously things will be directionally better now, and likely even more so in the future, I just wouldn't want to be in Texas during a cold streak in the next couple years.
> Well... I don't want to spoil anything but, is it just me or does it not make any sense if you really think about it?

That's essentially the point of the ending, yeah. Well, less so that "it doesn't make sense" and more "actually, it's entirely unclear what is even going on".

Reality is slippery -- at the very moment you think you've got a grip on what's going on, it jumps out of your hands.

You'll see this same theme reflected in many of his other books, if you end up reading and more.
Maybe a little more power than you need but Lightworks is a pretty straight forward NLE. Used it to edit my own wedding video recently. I have a background with Premiere and Lightworks had enough analogous that the learning curve was real shallow.
Having used Microsoft Outlook for personal use and Gmail for work, the UI for Google is so much better. Much less clutter IMO.
Are we really supposed to be surprised that the most populous state in the nation has the most people moving out of it? The next most populous state is Texas, lagging at a "mere" 29 million compared to California's population of 39 million (stats as of 2020 via https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data...).
I only wish their iOS app worked offline
Putin lost a big chunk of popularity. Support index dropped from 57% in 2018 to 32% in 2021.
Not true in Japan. Everyone eat soy based foods like tofu without worrying.
There have been a lot of online commentators trying to make the case that California is some kind of dystopia and people are desperate to leave there and go to a paradise like Texas. I’m not sure what the motivation is but a lot of the comments I’ve seen seem to make very similarly worded posts.
Your capacity planning is off. If a few people out of hundreds are out sick, this should in no way affect the others as a whole.
That's exactly what I was going to say. I think they're just following the pack too, but it seems like a genuinely dangerous move, especially considering how big Font Awesome is.
US releases video of Afghanistan drone strike that killed 10 civilians