skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a great teacher try to explain thusly:

The grid is a heavy rope that you are trying to keep tension on so that it doesn't touch the ground. One side of the rope is the power station, the other end splits and frays into individual strands that connect to every meter on that grid.

Strands are continually, almost randomly, disconnected (let go), reconnected (picked up), and the amount of "pull" on the rope each strand creates will vary (usage fluctuations). This means the power station needs to continually be adjusting how much it "pulls" on the rope to maintain tension and keep it from dropping.

I like this one because it not only avoids water and pipes and cuts to the core of the balance issue that is going on. It's not "thing A flows from point B to point C" but rather "this is an active system and careful balancing act".

That being said I recognize that the water pipe models are well studied, even in how they successfully model some aspects (and fail to capture others) of electrical grids.
Teams are weird as fuck.

They're relatively decent, but their chat is so shitty that student could rewrite it in a week and it'd work better,

simply because s/he wouldnt come with an idea of pasting text's font too.

I haven't found it to be useful over like two years of using Teams, but it creates problems very often.

Discord's chat is times better and more reliable because on Teams sometimes you cannot escape from `` block
This would of course rely on the data flowing from Amazon being true and correct.

My experience is that it's often wrong or incomplete e.g. a product with USA listed as country of origin often turns out to be Made in China. This is not limited to Amazon either.
> police very deliberately kill members of racial minorities

This is an inflammatory statement which demands some evidence. "Very deliberately" implies a knowledge of police state of mind. Do you have such knowledge?

AFAIK, studies of police shootings are pretty inconclusive in that respect. Do you have support for your statement?
So in your scenario, it’s reasonable to subject monkeys to suffering in order to test new anti-histamines that humans have decided they don’t care about enough to test?

If we can deliver a potential 1% improvement to the effectiveness of anti-histamines but it requires a dozen monkeys suffering through testing along the way, is that okay… because it’s monkeys?

Your argument is much more applicable to testing on poor people than mine — after all, we need to make progress.
That’s not true. You can signup without Twitter, Google or Facebook accounts. I signed up with just my email

https://www.tiktok.com/signup

Also just because they use Twitter to sign in, it doesn’t mean they have access to any private data.
I laughed thank you. Then it got me thinking. If it were the case, hypothetically, ... These would be terrible. It would mean they'd have wings, they'd need air for landing, otherwise it wouldn't be a strip, it'd be just a pad.

Unless, their vehicle is somehow oblong, which is a possibility. However, some of those sights are shown on mountain slopes, what a terrible place to land.

Unless, being that old, those mountains slopes weren't slopes back then.

Finally, why wouldn't there be any wreckage of any type of vehicle from back then? Shouldn't there be at least one ounce of evidence of a past crash?

Unless, their vehicles were made of goat skulls, bones and rocks?

... A $5 Amazon ebook that writes itself. All hail the Ori!
Note this move, crappy as it is, wouldn't turn the game into "vaporware".

I think you actually mean "abandonware". But it wouldn't, either. I was part of the abandonware community for decades -- ah, good old Home of the Underdogs -- and the sad reality is that abandonware is not a legal term, and the legal owners of games long abandoned and forgotten are sometimes petty enough to actively prevent them from being made available or playable again.

It must also be said that other authors and publishers kindly make them available for free, or at least don't interfere with preservation efforts. But abandonware, as such, is not a legal thing and nobody is entitled to playing abandoned games :(
This seems like such a good idea, and has been known for 50+ years...

Yet it's never taken off. People don't want to pay a few more bucks for their paint to save thousands on their air conditioning systems. I just don't understand why.
Thanks! Glad you enjoy it!
"I won’t use Uber. It’s terrible and far worse than my experience with taxis."

Is Lyft any better?
> it is based on a simple idea - people will happily give away their data and privacy if you consistently entertain them.

there’s the individual-level view, and the state-level view.

i, as an individual, don’t really care if China has my location data or shopping data. what are they going to do with it? they can exert soft power over me: propaganda; distort my worldview a bit.

meanwhile, if my own government has access to this same data, i suffer direct consequences. my odds of getting arrested for nonviolent crime (e.g. political activism; buying drugs online) go way up when my govt surveils me: far less so when it’s a foreign govt doing this.

it doesn’t have so much to do with individuals making foolish tradeoffs over their own interests IMO: the way espionage plays into this is as an alignment gap between individual and state interests.
Well if it's as laggy as your homepage then that's not saying much. On my phone I can't even scroll down without lagging.
The Uber propanaganda is always insane on HN.

Where do you think these people work?

TLDR; Their parents are proud of them, let's not fuck that up for them.
Actually, one issue insurance agencies are having is that it almost takes an electrical engineering degree to fix an electric vehicle.

They would love it if you could fix a vehicle instead of having to replace the entire thing, which is what the OEMs want.
>Yes. China and Russia are the biggest geopolitical threats to the world.
It is surprisingly that simple.

You may want to consult the so called 'global south' on that question who represents the majority of people on the planet and seems to have quite a different impression. Undoing America's 'rule based order' isn't a geopolitical threat to the world, it's a geopolitical threat to the US. Why would billions of people on earth be afraid of living in a world where their countries have actual influence? You may want to get used to the fact that you're not going to get to define what's 'sane' for everyone for much longer.
Thanks! This happens to work for me, but the root of the problem is the same: there's no guarantee that the handle will still be in that register when the function returns; my compiler just happens to not be clobbering that register.

Anyway, this is probably good enough as a bpf demonstration and it definitely has made its impact looking at other comments here. That's probably all that matters.
"2. Another benefit for me is that when some remote DNS service does down (this has happened several times), I can still use the www without interruption. I already have the DNS data I need. Meanwhile the self-proclaimed "experts" go into panic mode."

Above are the specific claims that were called "BS". One has to do with enabling me to use the www without interruption if DNS stops working.^1 The other has to do with "experts" going into panic mode.^2

Neither claim relates to something being "meaningfully faster."

1. Because I use stored DNS data.

2. Because none of them advise anyone to store DNS data, let alone use it. They opt to promote and support a system that relies on DNS to work 100% of the time.
they weren't paying the benefits required by law
We've had recent threads here that almost universally condemn working in the chip design space. The deadline pressure is insane, without compensation to match. If someone wants to offer a job in that space that is strictly a defined set of hours, with hard guarantees of work / life balance and reasonable compensation.. they might be able to attract talent.

I doubt that will happen... instead we'll get the Sturm und Drang of ''we can't find qualified workers''* -- Workers stupid enough to take our lowball offer
Interesting theory. Though I would also stress that given the high prevalence of religiosity in these countries it would be inaccurate to assume a lifestyle difference between supporters of religious politics and secular politics.

Right now fertility rates in India most closely map to development of the region and social class, not political beliefs.
Same with "ultra" and "hyper" cars
This appears to be talking about Cisco enterprise drives; where do you see anything about HP laptops?

Edit: If it's a problem in Cisco's upstream vendor then it could affect others, but probably still just enterprise stuff.
That's not how it went down. The EU overruled the French law. Valve's argument was rejected by French courts and then upheld by the European courts.

>"This French ruling flies in the face of established EU law which recognises the need to protect digital downloads from the ease of reproduction allowed by the Internet," said CEO Simon Little in a statement.
This is only useful when headcount exceeds available office space (cubicles / desks). If that isn’t the case I agree it’s infantilizing
UAH scientists brave curses, anomalies to unravel secrets at Skinwalker Ranch
Ftl means there's one global reference frame most likely the cmbr one.

The reason relativity predicts weird effects like time travel is because it doesn't allow ftl as an assumption, so the only way to hack ftl into it is negative time. It's baffling how many people seriously argue about consequences of something that completely disproves the theory itself while still using it to generate predictions.
Only one: Susan Sto-Helit Duchess of Sto-Helit.
Got it. Thank you very much!
Those terms could be invalidated by a court of law, if a court case were to reach a judge.
I see lots of people here from different countries describing very different experiences and wondering why they don't align.
Yeah going from Amiga to a shitty 286 was a hell of an eye opener.

It took years for the pc game industry to become as good as the 8bit era.

Doom changed everything of course.
"The rich don’t owe society, exactly the opposite"

This is precisely wrong. The rich do indeed owe society. They owe their wealth to the workers working for them. To the education system that educated their workers and made them productive, the roads that brought them to work and the health system that keeps them at work.

This is obvious from the number of millionaires produced by healthy, educated, stable societies vs others. Other countries produce fewer and then only natural resource millionaires in the favour of the ruling elites. But they can't do so without labour and the resources owned by those societies. The rich owe almost everything not produced by their own hands.

And comparing the figures of corruption in those countries to that of charities generally is so absurd it's laughable.
For cpan stuff, carton works perfectly for me (it's like bundler for Perl). I also prefer plenv for specifying the specific and most up to date version of Perl.
Naming six presidents to "span the entire history of the country" is oversimplifying to say the least.

But to stay on topic, I believe it was Churchill that said democracy was the absolute worst form of government. Except for all the others.
> if you can’t immediately taste a bitter almond

If I trust the article's claim that the distinctive smell IS the poison compounds themselves, then wouldn't that mean I'd first have to encounter raw untreated bitter almonds, which are seldom sold precisely due to safety concerns?

Bitter almonds that have been treated (boiling, roasting) are more common, but in that case the poisonous compounds have been removed (or massively reduced) in which case how do you know you're not smell-remembering some other distinctive compound?
I haven't seen it described in such severe terms but yeah that's another issue. I'm not sure how much it's from actually releasing CO2, or just not absorbing as much of our emissions as it used to.
Got it, yes, I see now. Will think about it. Thank you!
I will adjust this analogy by 70 years in the future, just for you.
This is factually wrong.
Special effects is a trade.

And people will always need stuff that snuck into shot rotoscoping out. Don’t worry.
> Maybe having these games available is costing them some money

Do you mean in the sense of "people are still playing this game instead of buying my new game?". Probably. I would guess this is probably false though -- that people keep buying games for companies they perceive as consumer-friendly.

Or do you mean they lose money by providing customer support? They could just add a warning notice the game is no longer supported, and that you buy it (or play it) at your own risk.

It wouldn't be the first time companies make short-sighted decisions, though.
You’ve got a lot of stones to make this claim. I can’t fathom this furlong, though I’m admittedly a pennyweight.
Selling managed software is definitely a hard problem that game studios don’t have expertise in. It’s cool that the community reverse engineered Quake’s server, but that doesn’t mean it’s trivial for all studios to offer server software for their titles.

Implementation aside, I think it’s primarily a money thing—the studios don’t care about this because the numbers say they shouldn’t.
But you can find smart people with acceptable incomes on any ol' dating app. People already allude to their professions all the time, and you can pretty easily suss out intelligence -- all that without narrowing your dating pool to "devs who for some reason aren't on the bigger dating sites".

And if you're a hetero woman dev, chances are your network is already filled with hordes of eligible bachelors a degree or two away -- if you even want to date in that pool.

I think that's the biggest "if" here... "devs" are not really a sexy stereotype in the way that date-an-athlete or date-a-doctor or date-a-rapper would be, I don't think. If anything, it probably hurts your chances. I certainly wouldn't go around throwing, "Hey babe, ever been with a dev?" Lol.
School group work doesn't have to be bad.

We had a semester-spanning 6-person group project during my software engineering study. Long story short, by the fourth and final semester project, I cooked up a recipe that solved some of these problems. I had re-invented having a manager.

Because I was good at coding, and by this semester this was known so people trusted me to not just idle around, I could propose on day 1 that I'd just be the 'manager' with no assigned share of the work. I'd be the solver of problems as they popped up, the person that goes around making sure nobody is stuck and everyone can work. And also that everyone does work, which turned out to be important because the notorious Joel was assigned to us and, indeed, he barely showed up and didn't do work at home either. After some conversations, going back-and-forth, and spending time on this, I managed to convince the teachers to officially kick him out after about three weeks (into a ~half-year semester). The rest of the semester, I spent most of the project time helping with problems that others were stuck on. (Not that I was a superbly amazing coder, but two know more than one and this really helped our pace.)

It's a real shame that was the last semester of that study because the setup worked like a dream. Two of the group members weren't so strong in coding and we were one person down with roughly the same workload (though for this, too, I had some time to spend on 'lobbying', and we got a slight reduction), but by juggling tasks correctly and sitting together when necessary, it ended up working really well. One guy in particular I remember wasn't too good at the job, but he would always work hard and, once unstuck, make good progress for the day. Great guy, always in good spirits, fun to work with and I'd hire him today if he applied despite the mediocre skills. I think knowing his strengths and weaknesses (knowing what tasks to assign and do some pair programming) is all you need to have a great colleague in him that cheers up five others and is still a net-positive in the amount of work done.
Because if they do, the next time they sell a remastered anything, people will think "I don't need to buy this because I'll get it anyway when the servers for the original version run out," costing them sales.
‘He Presented Another Path’: Actors and Directors on Peter Brook
'Sanctions imposed on Russia prior to this war' were a direct answer to 2014 Crimea invasion. You are repeating 'US made me do it' bullshit rhetorics, invalidated by putin himself when he got honest for once

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/russia-ukraine-war-put...

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-adm...
You don’t need an app, just

- be attractive

- be good at talking

- be respectful to women

- have a manic episode

- tell her how you feel, to her face

- tell her she’s attractive

Then once your mood stabilizes, if she didn’t report you to HR, you can probably escalate to cocktails.
>Meanwhile, there are many smaller groups who have a far brighter future, due to high birth rates and low attrition rates, but they are coming up from such a low base, it is going to take them many decades, even centuries, to overtake the incumbents.

I would like to point out the fastest growing religious movement in the world was Pentecostalism. A movement that was limited to a few working class American churches in the early 20th century that has since exploded to 500 million followers across the globe, though this explosion is generally masked since Pentecostals are officially a sect of Protestantism and highly diffuse.

The growth is best scene in Central America where countries that were almost universally Catholic two generations ago can be as much as 40% Protestant, which is almost entirely thanks to conversion to churches of the Pentecostal-Evangelical variety.
You've got a lot of videos of people messing with cops. In any of them, did the fact that someone was recording, as opposed to any other crimes they may have committed, make the officers' job harder?

This law is much, much more about removing accountability than police safety.
This college is charging $15k/year for a 3 year school. I dunno how that compares to others, but it sounds pretty affordable? I’ve been in the job market for quite a while, so my knowledge of tuition costs is very outdated.
Simple relational networks benefit from transitivity: friends of friends are more likely to know each other. Signed sentiment networks do not: the enemy of my enemy is not always my friend. And things get even more complicated when you want to reason along paths where the edges have a deep taxonomy: if paper A disagrees with paper B, and paper B views C as foundational, can we say anything about A -> C?

This is a deep problem because real networks are rarely fully observed. Even if you can accurately map all citations, you are not observing all the opinion relations with which you would be labeling the edges. Most network analysis methods lean heavily on simple, transitive relations that diffuse information over paths, in part because it helps compensate for missing and noisy data.

Interestingly, taking signed networks and treating them as simple relational networks often yields useful predictive results. Hate is not the opposite of love! Squishing both into a "feels strongly about" can't answer all the same questions, but it can answer some interesting ones.
I had to adapt a bit:

sudo pacman -S gsmartcontrol
sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1p4 | grep -e "Power On"

Im at only 2727 hours
Good. It's a more satisfying life for the Last Man than to be an intellectually neutered, woke, and subordinate dependent.
Their service is not revolutionary if you're trans: https://xtramagazine.com/power/uber-trans-drivers-discrimina...

Their service is not revolutionary if you're non-white and a driver: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58831373

Their service is not revolutionary if you're handicapped. The TNCs charge wait time fees which end up discriminating against handicapped passengers who take longer to get from their home to the waiting vehicle, and to get into the vehicle. In fact, they were sued over this, more specifically for not making accommodations: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-uber-... and https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-10/uber-sued...

The TNCs are not required to operate a minimum number of paratransit vehicles like taxi fleets are. Uber has been sued for not providing paratransit vehicles https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/18/uber-accessibility-lawsuit...

The TNCs and local regulators have done nothing to address widespread problems of drivers refusing to provide service to the handicapped. I remember being shocked at the posts in TNC driver subreddits and web forums regarding handicapped passengers. Many drivers see someone in a wheelchair and just bolt - using various methods to cancel/reject the ride - because they see picking up such a passenger to be time consuming, a risk, or annoying.

The service is not revolutionary if you live in the "wrong" part of town. I lived in a "not quite wrong, not quite right" neighborhood where there was plenty of wealthy young people but it was also close to the "wrong" part of town...and when I tried using the service, it'd be 20 minutes to get a ride and usually at least one cancellation. In the "right" part of town? A quarter of the wait, and never a canceled pickup.
Firepower is a good start, although for different reasons.
Exactly this. I try to avoid any software that requires an internet connection to work or continue working, unless an internet connection is obviously necessary. Taking perfectly good software and ruining it by making an internet connection mandatory for DRM purposes does not constitute "obviously necessary."

Looking at you Microsoft Office, Quickbooks, and every Adobe product.
I actually have something to contribute here! I had found myself using my phone too much earlier this year. So I wrote a tasker script that loads (randomly) one of 9 different apps. None of them social media.
1-4 are apps like Anki, Duolingo, and such to remind me/ force me to do some chinese review
5-8 are book reading apps Kindle (2x) , Moonreader, and Libby.
9 is my camera.
It enables Do Not Disturb while those apps are running as well. My own rule is that I have to spend doing a minimum of 5 min review/reading on any of the apps. And if by chance the camera opens, I have 30 seconds to set up and take a shot.

99% of the time I'm done with all these little interruptions, I don't want to look at social media anymore.

My mental health has improved tremendously after setting this up. Would recommend 10/10
I'm currently living the dictatorship in Venezuela. Ask me if you think Ciro's opinion is not valid, for whatever reason. (Don't know him btw. Epale Ciro!)
None of these countries are actively trying to erase another country from the map right now.

The US is a democratic country so far, Russia is not.

It’s incredibly childish, stupid and dangerous to pretend that these countries are all equally evil.
Lol. Look a westerner giving us a lecture on how to behave again. There has not no empire more evil than western imperialism.
Cool pov. Take my upvote. But of course never going to happen. Tribal instincts, schizmogenisis etc
If a pay for a title I shouldn't have to crack it to play it.
https://archive.ph/ZcyYY
The USA have ~800 military bases over 85 different countries. Russia has 21, all in neighbouring countries. China has only 1 foreign base in Djibouti.

Who's acting outside of their borders again?
Somewhat unrelated, but I recently had a motherboard fried by power instability which has given me a healthy respect for the difference between spinning rust and SSD's.

My SSD's were scragged. my HDD's were just fine. I guess it's time to figure out how to get a realistic write-through cache setup going, because from now on, if it ain't on spinnin' rust it ain't hard enough yet.