skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most reactor downtime is actually for maintenance during refueling windows. As I mentioned in another comment, there is experience doing refuelling-only outages in <10 days. If everything goes well, you can startup a PWR from cold shutdown to hot full power in 3 12 hour shifts
I don't understand why people are calling these tactics "medieval". The same tactics were also widely used in XX century, e.g. in siege of Leningrad, during the pacification of Warsaw Uprising or in Jugoslavia war in 1990s. They're part of the "total war" package that is and always was on the table for leaders determined to win at all costs (or are just seeking revenge - let's not forget that the Alies burned hundreds of thousands of civilians to death during bombings near the end of WWII).
It is mechanically a hard game. DS1 has some truly awful hitboxes, provided virtually no actual in-game explanation of rather important mechanics surrounding needing certain kinds of weapons in the tomb of the giants, entire stats that basically don't work so you can accidentally stick all of your souls into a wasted build, and more.

The primary system for making it easier (summoning phantoms) also encourages the community to send people to just gank you and waste your time.

"All you need is patience" is not true. There is no way in hell my dad would make it through DS1 even though he is retired and doesn't have anything to do all day.
Why don't you open source your work? Can you contact me otherwise, maybe I can take over this work on couchdb; we have to do it anyway and we would open source it.
I've often thought of using git/github as a document store to replace google drive. I might experiment with this and rsync to see if that makes it possible.
Rocket launches, if you're a rideshare are not soft deadlines. You don't get your payload delivered on time, you lose. Even if you're the only payload, you have hard deadlines - there may be a few windows to launch in but if you miss those the next opportunity might not be for another 26 months. Someone will lose their job over that.
I think you're misinterpreting the parent comment. By "gaming the system" and "tragedy of the commons" they mean that features they release to help can hurt the drivers and the passengers. Tragedy of the commons is when people individually following their self interests make themselves worse off.

Eg, if you aren't careful with heat maps, drivers flock to the busy area and then can't get enough fares and passengers elsewhere can't get drivers.
Isn't there already a good way to push computation closer to the data?

GmailFS and pyfilesystem (userspace FUSE) and rclone are neat as well.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/how-to-use-git-a... explains about the `git push` step that git-remote-dropbox enables:
https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox
From which I conclude that unless they make the mistake at looking at one of the explosions, in which case they'll be blinded (probably temporarily, but I'm not sure) or they're injured by flying glass, Seattle residents will not be immediately killed in an attack on Kitsap, but if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction or it rains at the wrong time they could easily be killed by the fallout.
Does that suggest that one plant will satisfy 36% of the country's electricity demand?
>making predictability of legal interpretation difficult.

Welp... I guess Saudi Arabia is off my bucket list
That's exactly my point. Fukuyama is extremely misunderstood in popular media, he never said that the fall of the soviet union implied continued existence of liberal democracy. If you had actually read the book (and specifically the last chapter) you would know that he wrote that the threat of authoritarianism will always be present and (some) democracies will (at times) fall back into autocratic states from time to time.
I don't see this.

I ordered something from Amazon today and a full description of the item I bought, including size and price, is in purchase confirmation email...
Disclaimer: I work in a bank and have worked closely with the customer support team.

Here's the thing: retail banking margin is actually quite low and customer support is expensive.

If you are someone who routinely calls your bank then your long-term value (LTV) is going to take a huge hit, so, of course banks want to keep everything as "low-touch" as possible.

A small anecdote: there were plenty of elderly people who were calling customer support every day to ask for their balance, because they did not trust the digital app. At some point, their calls started being routed to some chat-bot.

Customer support is also "embarrassingly outsource-able". The first layer of contact is usually done by someone who does not, in fact, work for "The Bank". They are actually employed by some huge contact center company who happens to have access to the bank's Salesforce CRM, and are instructed on how to solve most of complaints. It's only when they are faced with a very specific issue, that the ticket is then escalated to the in-bank operations team.

IIRC, we actually divide tickets in four categories: "L1, L2, L3 and L4". L1 and L2 are done by outsourced teams, L3 is usually the bank's operations squad, and L4 is the tech team with read-access to the database.
If they will manage to get recognized and get a UN membership they will instantly have a ton of ways of making money.

Flag of convenience for ships and airplanes -- millions and millions annually. Mongolia has a huge merchant fleet. Thousands of commercial airplanes are registered in Bermudas.

Own top-level domain name -- if they will get creative naming their country they may land a popular domain.

Driving licenses -- Would love to pass all the rigorous tests to get an extra drivers license which I could use when traveling abroad.

Passports -- assuming they will implement all the necessary measures to filter out crooks, they can start offering 2nd citizenship. Second passport is super valuable to those who travel a lot.

Orbits and space in general -- valuable resource!

WTO quotas and re-export -- uh, oh!

Etc., etc., etc.

Becoming a recognized country opens a lot of opportunities.

They just need to crowdsource a few more billions and persuade neighboring countries to recognize them.
The definition of occult nails HP to me, the authors leanings notwithstanding:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/occult

- of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.

- beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or understanding; mysterious.

- secret; disclosed or communicated only to the initiated.
Definitely depends on your deliverables. My recent deliverables were campaigns for CES and Superbowl. I can't say lets schedule for next week for those. On the other hand, I think if I screwed up I won't get fired, either...maybe someone up the management chain :)
Seems fair game to me considering the West is supplying Ukraine with sophisticated NLAW missiles, anti-aircraft weapons, and presumably military intelligence too considering spy planes that are constantly flying over Romania and Poland.

It proves that anything Chinese-made shouldn't be used by any military... drones, tyres, etc
What things are supposed to be learned alongside said degree?

I graduated years ago and I still have yet to see what these other points are.
You can take a look at the pathfinding of e.g. warzone2100 (https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100/blob/master/src/f..., battle for wesnoth (https://wiki.wesnoth.org/LuaAPI/wesnoth/paths) or 0ad (https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/source/simulation2/he...)
is strawman so non inclusive and offensive in the US?
Regardless of whether you're self taught or minted from a program, the lesson to learn here is that your colleagues can get rid of you if your work doesn't conform to their expectations.

It's just as possible that Bob's colleagues were anally retentive simpletons that couldn't handle the truth of his code, as it is that Bob is a loosy-goosy house of cards coder whose results were always C- material (I've worked with both.)

Point being, if you want to keep your job you should aspire to be a good 'culture fit' and if you want to be a good developer then work with great people and read more source code than you write.
Honestly I agree only very partially: in some context seeing others in a room, full body is indeed very useful, but that's not the case most of the time. Giving a remote lecture is painful because it's almost impossible to feel the class, discussing serious business is similar, but daily work, at least most of daily works do not really have, or can be designed not to, such needs.

The real issue is being really able to separate work and life, or have a local social activity in person, in the physical world, while have a secondary and separated working life in a "virtual" world. This is hard IME, we tend to make friends where we are most active, then it's hard to separate remotes people from work to real physical and human world, for that I still have to find a real solution but meeting each others sometimes while keeping WFH for the rest again suffice in most cases. Having a local physical life separated from the work it's not that hard, at least if we do not live in a desert/very remote areas.

The main issue I see in practice are mostly due to the lack of "social interest" in many remote workers who actually prefer to be remote just to avoid working with their colleagues, so they do not interact as needed, they do not try to communicate what's needed etc, the lack of habit and organization where most people simply start from scratch just like child doing their first experience "in the wild" without real experience, but those issues can be solved just with trials and errors in few years: for the system part we need to rediscover really remote work vs working on the shoulders of giants on their platforms, for the human part simply learning to develop a kind of "remote sociability" for work and a healthy local sociability where we physically live.

"Remote sociability" is hard, but not that hard IF we learn it, of course we (society) have to really try to learn...
>Unless you are planing on weekly trips to the mechanic?

What? To install nightly builds? I think not.

I wouldn't put software into production (or even beta) that required weekly updates. And that's just for software to make a website or other app go, with no risk of injury or death.

Why would anyone want to be driven around in a vehicle by software that's so buggy it needs weekly updates?

How often do you update the firmware in production systems? And a commercial self-driving car definitely needs to be production quality, no?
i do that too...folks seem surprised, but it's handy
There are worst things than death, and everyone should consider what the alternative here is. I am absolutely against execution, but I also have zero agency over what Saudi Arabia is going to do to its prisoners, and when I consider the alternative, this is to me the preferable outcome.
In some recent musical-to-film adaptations they recorded the voices ON THE SET during filming, often with no backing track or metronome, and then forced the music director, post-filming, to conduct the orchestra along with whatever the hell the actor was filmed doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikqU6G6Xgs
Is fish style autosuggestion possible or planned in murex? Thanks!
was about to comment this. Now I have to find ridiculous things to run on uefi.
This is great. Too bad it doesn't allow you any control over the individual sounds, at least as far as I can see.
There is another way. Some companies offer this as a service. They have offices everywhere around Europe. A first-party can hire you through one of these services, and you would have all the benefits of the destination country.
The article says it's cutting some perks but increasing their wellness stipend, so at first I thought it seemed like a bit of penny-wise and pound foolish penny-pinching, but after I saw that it seems more like it's just Meta giving their employees more control over their benefits and perks.

Personally speaking, I'd say that Meta should tread carefully with how it treats its employees. You can't expect people to sell their soul for 30 pieces of silver and then not give them that.
I had the same reaction, but from context, I think what he meant was "cases where the conflict is due to the stupidity of the parent instead of the stupidity of the kid". The base case is that kids are stupid, because kids are supposed to be stupid.
Finland has 5 million people. I am pretty sure there are existing plants in the world that could satisfy the entire country if moved to Finland. There are 10ish dams that produce over 10k MW
I just installed the x86 version on a used (ebay) Dell Optiplex 790 with a quad 1gbe ethernet card, total was about $80. It's far faster than any off-the-shelf wifi router, and will let me easily upgrade to 10gbit when Frontier FIOS rolls that out (it's in their roadmap). I still use my same wifi routers but now only for wifi. Also, total power consumption is about 18 watts at idle, so it's not going to cost me much more on my electric bill.
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The same in The Netherlands. However from what I understand in the EU it’s a lot easier. For example between France and The Netherlands the company doesn’t need a full office. You just need to register with the countries tax office and pay taxes.

In a lot of cases the taxes are mostly the same just paid to the employees country instead of the companies one.

It’s mostly knowns in administration what companies seems scared of
> I don’t think it ever struck any of us that if we failed to study for an exam that it was anyone’s fault but our own.

This is interesting to me. If you’re noting working through problems how do you get the feedback to even know if you really understand the material? Generally assigned homework was nice because a professor will know the key ideas and can efficiently assign work covering those parts.

Right now I’m self studying real analysis and I wish I had someone to pick problems for me because otherwise I’m just trying to do them all to ensure that if I don’t know something critical it will come out when I can solve some particular problem.

On the other side of the same coin. How does a teacher know if their teaching is effective without frequency feedback until he form of students grades? I feel like waiting several weeks to determine if you need to change course is doing a great disservice to the students.
I might be very wrong, but in my humble opinion Uber drivers are their workers as much as iOS app developers could be considered Apple employees or Youtubers could be considered Google employees. Just because you provide a service through someone's platform doesn't mean you're automatically their worker.
Is this also sarcasm? So you're saying that building this plant has increase the chance Finland will try to acquire Nuclear weapons? And Russia has nukes purely due to political and military reasons, they'd still have more than enough of them if they mostly started closing/stopped building new plants after Chernobyl.
> assuming everyone uses the same amount of power globally as the average person in Finland which - why shouldn't they be able to

Finland's climate is an outlier:

One-third of energy consumption in housing was electricity in 2018. [...] 47% of electricity was used to heat indoor areas and 36% to household appliances. The remainder of electricity was used to heat domestic water and saunas.

https://www.thenomadtoday.com/articulo/finland/energy-consum...
It’s not that extraordinary. For example, one power plant in Poland provides 20% of all electricity consumed in Poland. Sadly, it’s a coal plant, one of the biggest in the world. It also burns lignite, which makes it even worse.
That's an understandable perspective. But if someone can't reliably self-host HTTPS with certbot, I'd advise them not to self-host anything, as they likely don't have sufficient sysadmin skill to keep their servers safe.

Just use Heroku, Netlify etc.
What is the point of thinking this way? My due process could be if your name starts with an F, you get beheaded, otherwise you get a pardon. That's stupid, and not deserving of respect. Due process based on religion ending in BEHEADING is likewise stupid. The only way we improve is if some du process is more deserving of respect than others...
Can there be such a thing as a national water grid ala the electric grid? I'm curious if this has been fleshed out in any developed sense.

The desert southwest is truly huge and gets plenty of sun. So "just adding water" makes a lot of things viable.
>If you put millions of cars on local networks with significant range you'll get tons of untargeted hacking.

Right. Which is another reason not to allow access to the "make it go" software unless you have physical access and authorization.
Maybe not that big a coincidence. I think a lot of people, including me, became curious about his story after seeing him on the Olympics commercials.
>Do you have a source for this?

I don't have sources, but the list is very similar to the list I would write. I have no work experience in the field, but since the end of the cold war, my probability of nuclear war has always been much higher than most English-language commentators, so I've been keeping an ear out for information.

I would add that runways over 7000 feet would be such a high priority that even straight stretches of highway longer than that (which can be used as improvised runways) will probably be targeted (and some sections of the US interstate highway system built in the 1950s were made straight precisely so that they could be used as runways during a war).

Also, it is at least possible that they would attack the US, but not with everything they got (at least at first) and if they do that, then oil refineries would be much higher on my list than on the list in the grandparent comment because if they do decide to attack, it is probably because they (the leaders of Russia's security apparatus) are about to lose power in which case it is likely that they blame the sanctions the West has just imposed on them as the primary cause of their immanent loss of power -- and their attacking our oil refineries will have an effect on the US much like very severe sanctions would.
>Studying calculus in particular makes little sens for compsci.

yeah it makes little sense if you don't want to be able to write programs that solve the world's major problems

so if you are content with writing cat picture apps, skip calculus
Balkanization worked because former Jugoslavia actually consisted of multiple very different ethnic and religious groups.
eh it's pretty light on details really. Not much to cite. I think this particular article's best for his overall audience. Not meant to be a standalone policy brief.
> Not really sure what Uber can do about this, tbh.

I don't see why Uber can't show the pick up location and drop off location before choosing to accept the job.

That is the fundamental of being an independent contractor. You have to know what the job is.

From your comment, now I know why Uber will never solve this problem. Uber employees don't want to solve it, basically.
Two general approaches:

1. A pi-hole on my local network for most devices. I configured my router to forcibly capture all (unencrypted) DNS queries and forward them to my pi-hole, which then forwards them upstream to Cloudflare's DNS (over TLS).

2. I wrote a simple DNS forwarder (over TLS) that uses a 'shotgun' approach to ensure timely query responses, among other performance-sensitive features. I use this on all my Linux machines. It runs as a service and never fails, mean latency is much lower than other forwarders I've tried, including systemd-resolved, unbound, etc.
Can't really tell, but also emails where decentralized and designed in a way to be as open as possible to ensure interoperability, so is DNS etc. Essentially all "classic" networked things are born decentralized, even the most classic Xerox Star Office System, probably not to be anti-censorship but just to be flexible leaving anyone free to do whatever he/she want remaining fully able to interact with the rest of the world and for fault tolerance, both things we need today...
…or maybe a censorship resistant peer 2 peer cash that could also subsidise these plants
If you want to read it more as a historical piece of art I wouldn't object; if you want to actually get some mathematical insight out of it on the other hand, this would be a good starting point:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/845288/has-any-erro...
The Finnish customer paid 5,5 billion euros price for it.

Rest was covered by Areva, since the cost overruns were of their own failure.
By "shit together" you mean dependent on Russia for energy?

> Germany imports more than half of its energy . The country largely imports its oil from Russia, Norway and the United Kingdom. Germany is also the world's largest importer of natural gas. The largest gas imports come from the Netherlands, Norway, and Russia via the Nord Stream.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany
If you have 7 of these and you find a flaw in its design you have to take down the power for the entire country. Something similar happened in France recently: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/saf...
I’m surprised by how expensive chicken was. 8 for beef, 60 for chicken?
Right, but OP said that if you drive over 100km/h OUTSIDE of Netherlands, you won't be covered by your insurance, which is obviously complete nonsense.
Unfortunately ZFS scrubs are not as complete as fsck on a regular filesystem. ZFS scrubs only verify that checksums are intact. They don't verify that filesystem level metadata is correct (although they do verify ZFS structural metadata as part of walking everything, which isn't the same thing). For example, a ZFS scrub will not detect that a filesystem inode has certain sorts of crazy or invalid contents, or damaged ACLs. It doesn't even necessarily verify that the filesystem directory structure is correct and intact.

For more on this, see https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSScrubLim...

(The tl;dr is that a fsck on an ordinary filesystem has to walk the directory tree to find everything. However, ZFS maintains a separate list of active inodes and a scrub can just walk over them and check the checksums of all of their data blocks. It doesn't have to, for example, read a directory's contents to find further files to scrub.)
In Poland you pay 12.5% flat revenue tax as a contractor vs 17/%32% income tax as an employee, it's a no-brainer especially since you need to pay for health insurance anyway and you are never going to see the money taken from FTEs by the government for retirement. Unlike in Germany there is also no enforcement of false employment.