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"That commitment requires China to build and install 800 gigawatts to 1,000 gigawatts of new wind, solar, NUCLEAR, and other renewable energy generation facilities by 2030"

Nuclear green and renewable?
But Ok, this sentence you can understand in another way but not together with:

"China has committed to build a renewables-only system that is equivalent to the entire U.S. electricity system by 2030. This nonfossil fuel target is the deepest hook in China’s Paris commitments. It is already creating massive demand for new clean energy technologies"

All talking about green, renewable energy and specifically in the context of the 1000 GW from before, what INCLUDES nuclear.

And even though I prefer (proper) nuclear plants over coal, I think you can't really put wind and solar energy together with nucleaer in the same bag and label it as green and renewable. So the article is either intentionally missleading, or dumb.
Intel has been sorta/kinda comprimising every single computer containing their chipsets for quite some time now.

The Intel Management Engine will make a lot of tinfoil hats tingle: http://hackaday.com/2016/11/28/neutralizing-intels-managemen...

Libre-boot and coreboot promote a kind of transparency where you know what your system is booting and why.

It's much better than having this proprietary walled garden with astounding amounts of power/control inaccessible to anyone but Intel in your machine.

Intel would of course argue that this is necessary for good crypto and it's for the users, not against them. Which may hold true a little bit....until it's compromised by someone.
MIT had a short, week-long 'Intro to Deep Learning' course that had some labs in Tensorflow.

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To be honest, I would not feel comfortable at all with a manager that thinks interrupting or slouching are a firing offence.
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Is there some (longer) article with more context in it? I would like to read more about it.

Anyway, this is why free speech is important.
In finance we call the driver of this "survivorship bias."

IOW, your contention is true/truthy if you ignore the fact that there is a large selective pressure weeding out the "not better" new things.
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The current state of human rights in China, and its utter, utter lack of admonition by world leaders due to their dependence on their economy is to me one of the greatest tragedies of today.

I truly don't know what could be done to help free speech prosper there as it should.
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What kind of maintenance does a solar panel require?

Another: What's the average lifetime of a modern battery, is there any graph with its capacity decay over time/cycles?
I will answer your question with a question... Is Donald Trump President of the United States? Anyone has the numbers on how much 500k fake snapchat followers cost? ^^
Open source "BIOS" and insanely fast (some times <1 sec) time to GRUB menu from power on. More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot
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Where was that, if I may ask?
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Sadly, it doesn't seem like jq will read an environment setting to always specific -C
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In the mid-90s, I was 16 and had just started my very first job at a local ISP after having dropped out of high school (his needing a job with some urgency). It was right around the time that everyone and their mother started to check out this information superhighway thing, and mom and pop ISPs were sprouting up everywhere.

When I interviewed for a job, the owner, who we'll call Frank, seemed like a pretty decent guy. He was definitely quite smart, and knew what he was doing on the telco side. I got the job after like 5 minutes of interview and started the next day.

What Frank failed to tell me in the interview was that he was a completely batshit crazy sociopath. Within a couple of days, there was a fair bit of yelling and swearing about my mistakes, then progressively more and more, followed by genuine emotional abuse and even flipping lit cigarettes at us and throwing other things when we screwed something up.

I'm only 16 and an idiotic 16 year old at that, so I actually stay there like 6 months before I start to realize this isn't normal. One day, a few of us just get up and walk out. About a month later, I heard (and saw evidence as I was walking by) from a friend who was still there, that after hours, someone had shot up the back windows of the office (4th story office in Chicago, so it's pretty unlikely it was random).

Anyway, I manage to forget about it and move on with my life. 20 years later, I look him up to find he had served 3 years in the federal pokey for threatening a judge who had ruled against him in a tax case. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Pro tip: you don't get a warning when you threaten to kill a federal judge via email. You go straight to prison. Do. To pass go; do not collect $200.
> If you see iPads as a hindrance to education, you are a terrible teacher.

Personal attacks are frowned upon here.
I'm going to guess that was Faronics Deepfreeze. I was a big fan of it as a student and later as a part-time admin, simply because it seemed a better relationship between administrator and user.
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Can you code (and teach how to code) on an iPad in an efficient and effortless way? The "terrible teacher" didn't just bash on the device, they listed some use cases for which it is clearly not the best tool around.
Unix was under assault from various sides.

The vendors were fighting amongst themselves for supremacy. Take a look at Larry McVoy's "Free Unix" whitepaper.

https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/unix/srcos.html

IBM had developed OS/2, but was unable to effectively market it, in large part due to the intransigence of its development partner, Microsoft, who had other designs.

Microsoft was of course pushing Windows NT as the full and total replacement for Unix at the mid-server level. I'd actually bought that as my own first personal computer OS, and found it utterly and totally inadequate. Installing Redhat from a bookstore CD started me on my path (though I'd previously used Unix at uni and various jobs).

AT&T were busily suing the crap out of BSD over 1-800-ITS-UNIX, and losing, but setting back both commercial and BSD Unix by about 4-5 years.

Linux emerged during this period under constant FUD assaults by Microsoft, most of the mainstream Unix vendors, and pretty much everyone else.

And Apple was very much in its Dark Age, with OSX (Now MacOS) not due for release until 2002.

Unix was in use, especially in technical shops: scientific, software design, areospace, chips, etc. But it was deprecated in much of the corporate world over mainframes, minis (I cut my professional teeth on VMS), and early Microsoft variants. AS/400 was more an industrial and controls system.

And yes, proliferation of somewhat incompatible Unix variants (and how and/or where you installed the GNU toolchain on same) was another question.
"They basically said that there is a sociopathic kind of leader who actually derives much of their feeling of success from being "above" their workers.

...there's actually a type of person that derives their self-worth from being "alpha" and will even act against the interests of their company in the pursuit of this feeling."

I was a senior BA (contract) on a govt project for about $22 million (not a big deal in the scheme of things). The tech lead, looking back, was the classic narcissist (CN) and probably on the sociopathic scale - incompetent, bullying when questioned, believed his crap and had got away with it for years. One unfortunate day I deigned to question this guy's pronouncement of take all the low hanging fruit from the design and do them first. There was no thought of future impact to infrastructure or scale. And disappointingly, the PM, BA, Dev & Test teams didn't stand up to him - only bitched behind his back.

Cut a long story short, from then on he ghosted me in meetings and after spitting my coffee (in what I discovered was my last meeting) at more of his bs, I was told on the Friday I had 'negative feedback' and had to work my two weeks notice and finish up. I asked his pet PM how that worked as they obviously had no confidence and crickets followed - I never returned.

The project failed and made a couple of paragraphs in the papers, I was interviewed by the minister's team months down the track, explained why the project failed and watched the carpet get lifted up and $22 million of tax payers cash get swept under it.

CN is still there as it's next to impossible to fire govt employees in this country, but apparently he has little or no responsibility now. Small mercies for the tax payer I guess.

I have many other stories from two decades in this game, but this is the most recent and the first where I didn't finish my contracted time.
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I like this, it's like Spreadsheets++

After you get enough traction and start to squeeze out patterns of the usages that you see, it would be great to further enhance the product with visualizations etc tailored to those
That's how business choices work. You gain x for y. If you value no lock-in more than other gain, then that's your choice to make.

(There are multiple services providing S3 interfaces BTW)
You need to double the size of the index. You now need an index with punctuation and without punctuation.

Previously if a document contained "(hello" it would just be stored in the index once: as "hello". With this change, it needs to be stored in the index twice, as "(hello" and "hello", so that people searching either term can find it.
None of that has changed. Docker is still targeted explicitly at your use case. I believe your project would have been just fine. Docker EE was shaped by requirements very similar to your own. But I can't seem to convince you of that... Sorry if I'm not being clear. Maybe we can discuss in person one of these days :)
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I worked in a ~10 person dev office about 30 minutes away from the company headquarters. We pretty much had free reign down there to do as we please. But with that meant that our boss had free reign to do as he pleased.

I saw him berate a coworker whose mom lost her job at the main office because she "wasn't doing her job." I personally have no opinion on whether it was an acceptable firing, just that an unrelated divisions boss shouldn't have that conversation and much less in front of his coworkers. Who would argue with him?

We had a full-time keg in the office which of course we all enjoyed in copious amounts. But you couldn't quit drinking there if you tried. He would constantly pressure employees into drinking with him at 11am when he showed up with bloody mary mixes.

He was more than happy to tell you about why we shouldn't let immigrants into this country because they are fundamentally flawed compared to US citizens. His argument was that bribery was an innate part of them and their culture. Once again, who would argue with their boss over this?

He would brag about the loaded gun he keeps in his desk drawer at the office. This may have been part of the culture, there were at least 4 people with concealed carries at a 10 person office.

Once, while discussing the hire of a female intern (we were an all male office) he "joked" that it didn't work out and that we would find some diversity someday. He followed that up with maybe we could even hire a nr.

On a business trip he disclosed medications that a coworker was taking in an effort to discredit him with me. He also claimed to be reading that employee's text messages on a company phone. I still don't know if this was true or not, only that he wanted me to believe it was true so that I would trust what he was saying.
Hmm let's see. I've had hot pans thrown at me, I've seen an apprenticeship knives thrown on the floor - tip first.

Pans left empty on a active gas jet, heating the handles up deliberately.

Casual sexisim in relation to wait staff.

Of course homophobia as well.

Screaming at new workers(always young), for not having something perfect when they were improperly shown.

Luckily I'm experienced enough now that I run the kitchen and can fire those idiots.
So successful that people have to wear smog masks in the cities.
The whole 'it's fine for me therefore it's fine for everyone' rationale is somewhat a short-sighted, 'I've got mine' attitude.

There's been quite a few high profile incidents where people who've already been granted legal rights to enter/live in the US are being harassed at the border for. In this age of security theatre, one is too many frankly.
A couple of years ago both Intel and AMD started developing their own solutions that allows them to offload some the functionality that used to happen on the main processor to another co-processor placed inside the chipset on the motherboard, functionalities like power management, secure booting, USB handling..etc

The problem is not only that this co-processor is running it's own operating system with full unrestricted access to the systems main memory and network interface, but also that the main processor can't actually tell what the co-processor is doing with this data or when does it access it, on top of that both Intel and AMD delivers you the software running on the co-processor as a binary blob so we can't really be sure if it's secure, has backdoors, spying on you, etc..

LibreBoot/Coreboot are projects to write an open-source BIOS for x86 hardware, and since a big part of the BIOS is running on this co-processor you only have a choice of either using the binary blob provided by Intel/AMD or lose the functionality provided.
The point is that you don't need to write the types down anymore. The program is still typed, but the compiler can figure out what the type of variables (in a well typed program) needs to be. As said, this has previously been a hard problem. If you're familiar with the `auto` keyword, think of that - but everywhere.
To admonish, you'd have to
1) Stop buying Chinese made products
2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)

Frankly, without doing this, you'd never be able to admonish and have it carry any real weight with Chinese policy makers. They'd just see a black pot calling out the kettle.
Uber is a despisable company but to think the other big corps are not acting the same would be foolish. Uber is just not pretending that much as the others.

I am very scared of the future (which is already here) of mega corps
> They ended up being picture books on a computer, with silly animations and sound effects on mouse hover added on top.

They did not just end up that was; they also started that way.
No offense, but you should RTFM. You can move and delete and go to folder. As with many Apple UIs these "advanced" features are not easily discovered.
That's nice but basically kotlin already implemented that thing before an academic paper showed us it was possible.

We all knew that and no one cared.

My thinking was that we now need very high resolution thinking about what types mean, for example, "do they come from functions which have these constraints as output", but that's just as ... well, it's unrealistic. How do you annotate the world?

If your output range was obvious to the compiler, that was never a problem to anyone.
I would have used the "up tack" [^1] (or \bot for LaTeX users) to signify "null".

Empty set could lead to ambiguities imho.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_tack
I don't think it's a value statement.

While I wouldn't equate the two in what I perceive as value, I think conceptually the two are the same. Oprah has been around much longer and reached people through TV. For young people now it's social media. That they may not carry any relevant interviews, social discussions, philantropy, etc is unfortunately secondary.
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Yeah, if you only worry about the "core" of what your job is, you're not going anywhere

Why are you not testing your algorithm in your computer? Load pictures, make it run through your functions, see the result there. That's why you have ifdefs. Then you can use libraries, malloc, to get to the point where you can test it

Why are you automating anything in bash? In python? yeah

Doing parallel projects help
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> 2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
This does match my usual experience of IT philosophy in educational institutions that says that the easiest way to maintain infrastructure is to not let people use it. That it defeats the whole raison d'être of that infrastructure is apparently beyond their care.

It's like a city would give a company a long-term contract for repairs to a stretch of important road, and the company started by locking it down and deciding that they'll profit more and work less if the road is not used and thus won't require so much repairs.
It seems Apple is not to interested in any special market. What I am reading they are losing their strong position in Audio and Video creation too.

They are living too well with their generic phones, tablets and laptops.

Never have really used one of each.. but why is a Chromebook more limited than a iPad ?

The Chromebook has USB Ports, it has a Keyboard, you can add a mouse easily. In my experience tablets are just good for passive media consumption, light web browsing and light gaming.
It is more limited than a PC, but more versatile than an iPad.
Building awareness ?

Sharing experience with others, realize that what you're going through didn't work for others, or is not commonly viewed as acceptable. Humans have very strong abilities to build justifications for what they are going through, in an effort to cope with bad things. However, sometimes, acceptance is detrimental.

Sharing such stories and discussing with people out of the company is an efficient way to prevent toxic cultures from emerging or continuing.
I was talking about the part itself, not the price.
Well it's a true statement, even if made in an irascible way. If you're going to insult the guy, at least wait until he makes a false statement.
Not the same thing at all
Is invoked in EVERY China-related thread on HN pretty much without exceptions.
I've heard similar stories. Before the hazard of smoking was known as common knowledge runners used to smoke for their training. They thought that it would increase their lung capacity. It was their idea of a performance enhancing drug. Some drank rat poison as well.
On free rights: There was one time - one student was curious about other things like religious belief etc. The short conversion went like this:
He:"Are you a Buddhist?"
Me:"No, I'm Hindu .. but I like Buddhism more."
He:"??"
Me:"What , I don't understand your question"
He:"Why you do that?"
Me:"Do what?"
He:"Like Buddhism? while being Hindu"
Me:"Nothing wrong in it, I like teaching of Buddha"
He:"Lucky, you choose what you want. Here we can't openly tell we follow religion."
Me:"Why?"
He:"Our govt, won't allow such things."

we know Chinese communist party has strong influence in people way of life,but hugely disappointed to hear people can't even decide which religion to follow,if one wants to?
I agree, every country has its own issue, but free speech and free rights are important. For ex, If social media like Facebook/google etc banned in other countries, there will be huge uproar by people in the name of free speech. Even the one who never used social media, will be against govt decision.

Sincerely hope common people from world's most largest population will have these rights in future.
You're better off just backing up to the cloud and wiping. Having hidden data can be compromising if they discover the presence of it.
I would expand coding to include general computer use. Sure, you can teach biology or physics or English using whatever device is most convenient. But if you're trying to teach the workings and use of computers (i.e. what most people will have on computer classes), using iPads and Chromebooks is teaching them lies that come from user-hostile pseudoabstractions.
You a very much mistaken in your assessment.

System76 is neither OEM nor ODM. In fact, they are not a manufacturer at all - they assemble and ship systems designed by others.
> I am very scared of the future (which is already here) of mega corps

Mega corps, to me are just continuations of previous entities like the Dutch and Anglo East India Companies which in their heyday exhibited much of the same activities (trying to control journalists, controlling politicians/legislators, moving perpetrators of crimes around in their organizations). Yes, I've been watching Taboo, a very interesting TV series about the Anglo East India Company. Then before them, were the large religious organizations. Some even to this day, still exhibit this pattern of investigating victims to find dirt or investigating journalists for the same reason. Example from last week, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3462087/Catholic-Chu...
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I would also say a camera that uses it's full resolution to take the photo instead of just taking a screenshot... For a camera company, they sure do have a shitty camera/product
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That escalated quickly enough. :))
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Not that I think the subject is not important, but is this really topical for HN?

On the other hand, it has 100+ votes, so perhaps HN demographics is changing.
What you claim is very concerning and I do not wish to discount it but do you have any evidence?
How is it successful? :-?
I have to agree. This is business as usual. It is also our common business to act as a check on this kind of behaviour.
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