skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The power grid is in fact a graph, not a tree, and not a grid. It is automatically able to route around failures, and it does route around the failures. These failures happen every day, but people almost never notice. Almost.

The trouble is that the power grid just operates on the electrical principle of electricity following the path of least resistance. So if there's low resistance but low capacity line between generation and usage, the electricity will flow through it, and there is no QoS on the line that can limit how much power goes through it, besides on/off.

The on/off nature of the interconnections is what makes the power grid fragile. If a interconnection has a rating of 100MW or whatever, and the grid attempts to pump 110MW through it, you either leave it on and hope it doesn't break or shut it off and pump 0MW. The grid will then automatically route that 110MW through other interconnects. If there is a nearby 500MW interconnect that is currently pumping 350MW, you're fine, but if it's pumping 475MW, you're probably not. This can lead to cascading failures.

The grid does have the ability to shut down usage if there's a danger of a cascading failure. For instance, if your 100MW rated interconnect has 101MW coursing through it, you can shut down a neighborhood that's using 10MW or whatever, and keep the 100MW interconnect online with just 91MW running through it. This is what brownouts and rolling blackouts are.

The grid can have major failures, but these major failures don't happen unless there are multiple overlapping minor failures. Similarly, if your 737 MAX has 2 MCAS sensors and 1 manual MCAS override button, and both your sensors and your manual override all fail, you're going to have a bad time. Look at the sequence of events of the 2003 Northeast blackout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003#Seq... There are at least half a dozen failures between the initial problem at 12:15pm and until the point of no return failure at 4:05pm that if handled properly would have averted the crisis and turned it into a minor inconvenience. At least half a dozen instances of human error plus multiple instances of equipment failures. If an aircraft had that many things go wrong all at once, the plane's going down.

Note that the Texas power outage last year wasn't like this at all. The grid actually kept working fine, the problem is that there were lots of generators that failed as a result of the cold, mostly due to impure natural gas freezing. The generation capacity of the grid was cut to a fraction of its capacity, and as a result, they shut down a bunch of cities to reduce load. For whatever reason, they just left power off in several cities for days instead of doing rolling blackouts. I don't know enough about the circumstances to speculate on what the reason for that is.
> You cant embed material (images, scripts, fonts, video, etc) from any external site at all

Of course you can, as long as that other site is in EU or 14 other countries and obeys the GDPR as well.
The post checkout future is delivery from robotic warehouses with ordering systems that predicts your weekly shop. I have hardly been to a grocery store for years, and some weeks I don't bother logging in to adjust my order.
Would you mind sharing any names? I don’t mind whatever ratio limits exist for new accounts, but I deeply miss finding music through staff picks and the forums
To get India onboard, you need to export weapons to them and compete with Russia.

China has it's own goal with this, they won't get onboard.
As recent as a month ago, they made a deal on gas settled in euro.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-russia-...

Doesn't that say something about them not trusting each others currency?

Would you trust the yuan? Chinese people can't exchange to other currencies freely, or transfer money abroad. It's effectively held up by a captive audience (subjugated people).
A few months back I was talking to a manager at [huge established software company]. He was making the case that obviously anyone who has moved away from the Bay Area should have their pay cut. He personally has not been in the office for a single day since spring 2020, but since he telecommutes from Berkeley rather than Omaha, he sees no reason to cut his own pay.

Later that same day I spoke to someone who's managing at [online payment processing company]. Shortly after bragging that he frequently spends only 2 hours a day actually working, he expressed that full-time remote work will never work out because you can't tell if someone is actually contributing. I refrained from pointing out that ICs actually have targets to meet and code to produce, and that you can put them on a PIP if they fail to meet expectations, while he's busy proving that management can apparently get by just phoning in to the occasional meeting.

edit: company names changed because it feels a little weird to call them out like that, I dunno
"A website has to go out of its way to mess this up."

I know it's supposed to be easier, but I keep seeing teams mess this up.
Yes, but again how likely is a land war to come into the picture? If they're going after, say, airbases they're not doing that with a march from the border.
I had a very similar experience there. A mysterious 4 letter acronym that made no sense even if you knew what it stood for. "Multi-billion dollar market!". Wouldn't tell me what it was until I joined. Above average team from internal transfers ("our hiring standards are way above Amazon's regular bar!") and external hires. I even got smugly booted from a team meeting where I had presented some code I had written, after some SDE 2 realized I hadn't yet signed the NDA or whatever.

It ended up being Kindle ads for Amazon Local, the now defunct Groupon clone. So anti-climactic after all the cloak and daggers theatrics. At least Amazon Go is a much bigger deal with interesting tech behind it.
In a way, desktop apps themselves declined - right now, besides the browser I'm using, I only have an IDE and an email client open (and I'm a bit of an oddball for not using the webmail client as well). Most of the corporate desktop apps that would have been written in Java in the 90's have long since been migrated to the web.
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> developer convenience

This is really, really important though.
It's exponentially better at it.
> have to click 5 or buttons/menus and then wait for data to load, then click again, and more data.

How is that any different from SSR? Waiting for a full page reload is fine, but incremental loading is not?
The Netflix DVD recommendation system was fantastic. Massive selection of films, rankings based on what you liked, nothing seemed to be actively pushed at you. I certainly liked it better than the way they have their streaming site laid out.
They call their users "Hubbers"?
There's also a strong component of enforcing the right not to be offended. That's always existed to some degree but lately there's a much stronger sense of it.
What problem?

I'm full remote with teammates in various states across the US. We have no problems to speak of related to our locations.

I refuse to ever work in an office again assuming my role doesn't require me to physically be at a location for reasons other than 'we want you to be'.
>why you see videos of unarmed civilians not being immediately run over by trucks.

starting to see videos of explosives being lobbed at unarmed people. These do not seem like crowd-control munitions: https://twitter.com/aldin_ww/status/1499059624250646538

On a more historic note, it took the Soviets a couple of days before they ran over people with tanks during the January Events in Vilnius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events_(Lithuania)#Tim... note how they also claimed it was acting against a "nationalist" (equivalent to "nazi" in the USSR) government.
I don't remember it. It sounds like Lindows. A paid Linux distrobution that was promising windows compatibility through Wine.

Lindows got sued by Microsoft and renamed Linspire, and never offered much more that the ability to run a few popular Wine compatible apps.
I'm going to strangle my wife and kids if I have to stay in my apartment with them another two years.
In a league in which most billionaire owners use teams as cash cows or long term investments he was different. A classic case of being the best of the worst.
That's good to be back in the office. For me it's only a week to start feeling bad. Loneliness, the same walls I live with family, no colleagues around to talk to. That's not for me. Sometimes I prefer to work from home, because I need to run some errands, from home I have better control. Everybody should have an option, or possibility to work from home some days in a week. But nothing replace morning coffee in the kitchen with colleagues!
"Swedish defence minister calls Russian violation of airspace 'unacceptable', followed by accepting it."
Do you know how such officers are chosen? I was speculating that these are relatively quiet, cushy postings. Or perhaps such postings are boring, and reserved for punishment? In any event, what are the odds that either a) a verified order from Putin is ignored, or b) that a field officer would launch based on loss of contact with C&C?

I get into such detail because it is my guess that Putin won't back down, and will escalate until he gives a launch order, and it will be up to these field officers to reject a first launch order (or question the veracity of a retaliatory launch order).
The perks are great, as is getting to chat with people face to face.

But the open office is just fucking terrible for getting actual work done.
Made my move to permanent remote last Fall, when it was becoming pretty clear that return to office was on the horizon. Sure enough, we're going back company wide starting this week. Really glad I did it while I could. I will never go back to a 9-5 daily commute ever again.
Are they the most influential country? Their media exports are extremely small and their cultural influence doesn't extend globally. They don't gather respect by creating peace, they don't gather respect through charity.

Militarily they are not the most advance or spend to that level.

China isn't the largest economy yet. They say they could overtake the US by 2030
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I hope you don't mean the entire hospital has gone remote. I'd not be happy if my surgeon was working from home.
I think it's unreasonable to argue that China isn't a regional power since it's bullying its way through the South China Sea without any local resistance - I think the fact that the US isn't opposing China in this in any sort of meaningful way sort of reinforces the argument that they may be a super power. However, I find the strongest argument as to their super-power-ness to be their extreme infrastructure investments in south asia (Gwadar Port in particular but also their various investments in Ceylon and the Red Sea) and Africa. China is working hard to establish a monopoly on rare earth mineral extraction.

However, due to the astronomical amount of military spending the US continues to commit to I think it's fair to argue the point. China might have been a super power in the 80 with this level of global investment - but the US is just going into orbit.
Because artists don't get paid when you download their music for free from Soulseek.
I used to complain about my subway commute, but when it stopped I found I missed reading books for 30m twice a day, or alternatively running to work. These activities formed a clear boundary to each workday that I have found hard to replace without a commute.
I thought only Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria have MiGs? Due to that article where they were considering giving them to Ukraine.
I never made an assumption about the author and certainly never said that the tool wasn't useful. You can feel free to move along yourself, though.
I'm only really familiar with RED (I know there are others) but it didn't bounce back even close to What, unfortunately. Perhaps others did significantly better, but I think without a dump of the catalog, it's going to be next to impossible to ever get back everything that What had.

Also FTR I'm a heavy Bandcamp user and I'm disappointed by this acquisition.
Different people have different priorities. It's usually the younger employees who prioritize free meals and ping pong over flexible work schedules and spending more time with family.
Personally, 5120x2880 27" running at 2x is perfect (well, except that it's 16:9 instead of 16:10, but one can't have everything I suppose). Anything lower (e.g. 1.75x or 1.5x) would make UI elements unusably small for me.

I don't own one of those LG's, but I do have an iMac that uses the same display panel and it's by far the best desktop class display I've ever used in every regard but refresh rate. The only problem is that it's tied to the iMac with the integrated Intel hardware aging like milk. The LG display has myriad issues which make it a terrible purchase for the money, so it's not a good alternative.

For me the awkward point are 4k 27" displays: not high resolution enough to run at 2x, too high resolution to use at 1x, and smudgy text at any fractional scale. I really wish that 5k 27" would replace 4k 27" entirely in the market.
One is none, two is coincidence, three is enemy action, let's not get ahead of things here. Older MIGs are not the most reliable craft and single engine jets are always at risk of some kind of mishap. These planes are now flying many more sorties than they have made in years.
Who approved that application? Your old manager?
If it's 2022 and someone is _still_ saving plaintext in a non-Unicode encoding where going with Unicode is a perfectly viable option, I will personally ensure that (figuratively) they are burnt at the stake.

In addition to UTF-8, my language happens to have ~2 additional code pages/Latin based encodings. Some websites still serve (or very recently used to serve) text files in such broken encodings, so I have to convert such files before use. It's deeply unpleasant. Windows has supported UTF-8 in some fashion for over 15 years, get with the program people.

(I would make an exception for preserving historical non-UTF-8 files in their original byte-exact form, for the same reason that I wouldn't digitise an analogue photograph and then burn the original - but let's be real, all such files have been created by now)
Yes. Also image aspect ratio and the relationship between horizontal and vertical is complex. Our eyes themselves move reasonably comfortably 15 degrees in all directions (maybe a little less up), but peripheral vision is greater in width than height and we are used to turning our heads to see objects in horizontal field of view more than vertical.
The grid actually does route around failures.

Load is simply distributed among the working parts of the grid.

However the issue is that the grid doesn’t cut off a part of itself for the sake of survival.

I think the issue is: at some point you have to shed off some of your customers and choose the ones that still get power.

Who makes that call? Where do you even draw the lines? And how do you do this quickly in a few minutes?
Ask HN: Audio Oversaturation Detection
Does anyone know of any tools for detecting audio oversaturation? This is like when audio "goes into the red" (i.e., on old-school meters). I find my ears are very sensitive to this, and I can detect it. Meanwhile, I frequently encounter others who cannot hear it at all - they just hear "loud", and they like it. It would be nice to have some kind of tool that can give some kind of reading on this. It may not be perfect -- based on machine learning, but at least it's a repeatable reading for a given segment of digital audio.
I'm not sure why I'm not seeing more of this sort of thing:

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/...

There are plenty of trees to create abatis, log obstacles, post formations, etc. Even civilians could do a lot of it. Get ahead of the curve, and you can do a lot to slow the advance of armored vehicles.

Similarly, for cities...

https://mobile.twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/1497583307504...

Of course, I'm not there, nor privy to everything that is going on.
For a while I thought GTK was great hope for a good toolkit. I remember about this time period in this article (early 2000's) messing around with Perl/GTK to write simple desktop apps.

Unfortunately had issues with new version breaking backwards compatibility etc. which killed it.

QT also had similar hype but never took off.
Resonate has been around for a long time and hasn't gained any kind of traction, even with independent artists and labels. Would love to see them succeed but their identity/reason for existence seems to change regularly.
It feels very different when you have to pay for your own snacks. I definitely substantially moderated my consumption during remote work (and it's not like the amount they were spending on snacks gets paid to you either). It definitely improved my eating habits but I also miss free Diet Coke and protein shakes.

If I was getting paid the snack amount in cash then I'd probably be ok but as is free breakfast+lunch+snacks saves me on the order of $500/mo. And as someone who is pretty mediocre at cooking the quality of food is better as well.
The problem isn't taking the photo, but that the size you are viewing the photo at is simply too small and flat. Human field of view is somewhere around 200x130°, you are not going to capture that on a tiny flat bit of paper which might just be 40x30°. Reaching the 200° isn't even possible with a flat photo. You can try to make it aesthetically pleasing, but you can't make it accurate without making it bigger and curved.

When you enlarge the photo and display it at the field of view it was captured at, as you can do in VR, the whole problem disappears and the photo just looks like the real world. Use two cameras and it'll even be in 3D.
Which they ended not doing, for reasons unknown.
"Barren nuclear winter wasteland" is not a likely outcome of even a major nuclear war.
> But that's why a shortwave radio is important to have…

As would be a faraday cage/box/bag to keep the radio in until it is needed. An electromagnetic pulse would render the electronics inside a modern radio useless.
The level of Node/Vue isn't padding your resume in this industry, it's having a resume. Padding your resume would be... I don't know, Elm?
https://hollyelmore.substack.com/p/i-believed-the-hype-and-d... talks about some results of meditating seriously that are causing its author considerable distress. She also talks about some positive results.
“Increasingly few,” too, has kept my mind in an uncollapsed state for a short while.
Does it create an inline dataurl for each image even if they're the same?
Thank you. Ok, I guess have heard of them then. I played Unreal! And I've heard many mentions of the Unreal engine.

> but most of their previous aquisitions are hands-off

Thanks.

Given the immediate negative reactions that people have to this news (see the countless "what is a bandcamp alternative?" posts going around right now), I wonder how it will impact one of Bandcamp's most important assets: their Daily blog. From what I can tell, the blog posts are largely written by independent music journalists. The topics are all over the place (in a good way), and they are fun, personal ways to discover music. Will we see some of these core writers leave (on their own volition)? Likewise, will the direction of what is highlighted in these posts shift to align with other Epic assets?

On the technical end, there are plenty of legitimate complaints about Bandcamp's app. I would imagine Epic = more resources for the app, for better or for worse.
> You can cache rendered views

Sort of. There's been no shortage of vulnerabilities where user data has been exposed when an authenticated users request was cached and re-used for subsequent users. It's been my experience that most SSR apps disable caching for authenticated users, or rely on more explicit control of components for partial caching where possible.
Weather: An invasion that begins in January or February would have the advantage of frozen ground to support the cross-country movement of a large mechanized force. It would also mean operating in conditions of freezing cold and limited visibility. January is usually the coldest and snowiest month of the year in Ukraine, averaging 8.5 hours of daylight during the month and increasing to 10 hours by February.8 This would put a premium on night fighting capabilities to keep an advance moving forward. Should fighting continue into March, mechanized forces would have to deal with the infamous Rasputitsa, or thaw. In October, Rasputitsa turns firm ground into mud. In March, the frozen steppes thaw, and the land again becomes at best a bog, and at worst a sea of mud. Winter weather is also less than optimal for reliable close air support operations. From: https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-possible-invasion-ukra...
The mentions on this thread are a pretty good list. It's been a while since I read though. I just took a couple off my shelf to re-read.
If they do a thorough and genuine review of themselves and find themselves without fault, that's one thing :)

Can't know what you don't measure and evaluate, though; and ultra-wide salary bands for a single title is a smell worth investigating.
Some interesting stuff in here. Some of it could even be useful for "normal" things, like the pump information.

I do wonder how much is outdated and that there are likely newer tech and designs that could work for some things.

I also wonder how much warning the government would give the people in order to seek shelter. I guess they do an OK job of it in HI (false alarms). But I wonder if they would even bother telling the highly populated east coast in a full scale event due to the panic and subsequent issues for the survivors.
Yes and no.
1) Slava Ukraini
2) Muddy fields/roads means that Russian armor has to stick to hard ball roads which in turn means longer and stretched out convoys which in turn means harder to defend supply lines, etc.

Tanks and such are maintenance nightmares, and need a lot of material support in order to be effective.
Not to laser in too much on something that's not key to your point but, are you saying that it's notable that as a conservative he was in those places, or to indicate a significant gulf between the political leanings of the Washington Post and NPR? Because I, and I think most people, would slot both outlets in a pretty similar place.
Finally, some information about the technical specifics of the hack