skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, he's right.

It's perception.

If you have an ugly bottle it doesn't matter if your wine is good, because most people won't get to try it.
Or Wikipedia, which has similar numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Sweden

Note that this is the production. Consumption is a bit different because Nordic countries share the electricity market and the grids are connected. Consumption could use hydroelectric from Norway or wind from Denmark or nuclear from Finland, or from Russia via Finland.

For a picture of the market just now, look:
http://www.statnett.no/en/market-and-operations/data-from-th...
A decade ago Toshiba used to make stellar portables. Nowadays they're just crap.
Seems to me like they should reword the title. From reading the post, it's more likely they meant "Growing Concern".
I have a 16GB iPhone 6 and the Facebook app was the first I culled from my phone ~2.5 years ago. At that time I was getting annoyed that the app had slowly creeped up in size from between ~60MB and ~80MB to over 100MB. I have no intention of ever installing it again as I don't think FB have any interest in reducing the size back down to that level.
>all features and edge casss should have a test.

Yeah, but the interesting problem is what happens next. Let's say a test case reveals that there's a flaw in the next-gen system. You fix it. It later turns out that the same flaw exists in the legacy system. What do you do?

Do you revert the fix, or leave it in place?
> Unless they are burned

Won't burning the tress will change the stored carbon in the tree to carbon dioxide?
Yes, but that's very different from "killing the planet". If what you care about is the future of human civilization, then that's what you ought to be talking about. Bringing up "killing the planet" just invites eye rolls.

Personally, I care more about the future of consciousness than about the future of humanity, per se.
Might still be a good decision: the corporate politics get so much harder, once you have in-house teams. And: that company would probably fail at writing in-house software---most of them do.
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How does one go about getting a 500 meter wide asteroid back to Earth's surface? It seems like there is a non-zero chance of accidentally creating Chicxulub v2.

Or do you just leave it in low earth orbit and build a space factory?
I'll try to physicalize countability.

Start counting the naturals: 1, 2, 3, ...

At future timelike infinity you'll reach infinity.

Now for the reals. Your goal is to step from 0 to 1, by way of 0.1, 0.01, and so forth.

0
0.0........

At future timelike infinity you still haven't stopped adding in zeroes to the right of the decimal point.

In the first case, at any finite time before \breve{i}^+ you will have counted out some finite natural number. In the second case, you will not yet have counted out your first nonzero real.

This survives across changes of positional counting systems, and almost certainly survives arbitrary choices of non-lossy notation, as long as you start with a finite representation of 0.
I think it's wishful thinking that you can build a business and not have dependencies on things outside of your control. It's just a fact a life. Not all things are equally risky, but you can't do everything in house.
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> Architects/Developers can also be their own worst enemy - chosing a new stack over the existing stack

Or doubling down on existing tech (and technical debt) instead of keeping their options open.

One of the problems with agile development processes is that they're not paired with agile design principles.
It's probably why Tesla wants to sell people the power wall despite its own shortcomings. Why give that power back to the grid operators who are going to screw you over? Just get a battery storage solution that also charges your car and maybe covers some of the power consumption in the home? I think in the long term this is the only viable option or until the grid operators and other concerns outlaw usage of battery tech that stores power in advance of daily usage.
Google is willing to hire anybody who can solve a few basic algorithmic problems.
3 Essentials of CRO and How to Optimize Them to Boost Conversions
> I think you'd be hard pressed to find a time in history when life was better than it is today.

That's nice and dandy but what good is it if we can only sustain that maybe another 50 years if we're lucky?
Just be aware that SMS 2FA isn't considered secure anymore:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/nist_is_no_lo...

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/hey-stop-using-texts-two-facto...

http://blog.kraken.com/post/153209105847/security-advisory-m...
> critical business function without a test suite or requirements documentation

Even in the world of standard consumer webapps, this is a real challenge.
Really cool.

The only problem I have with material design is that lots of apps just look the same, and some people _do_ confuse Google stuff with apps that use material design, thinking they're from Google.

Much better than all apps looking like Bootstrap's default theme, though, which is a popular alternative to loading a material design theme with a palette you picked.
> ...because I don't believe it's in my rational self-interest.

Can I politely suggest you uncurl from the solipsistic ball you've tucked yourself into? It's nice out here...
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What's wrong with posting here?

Please don't do ad hominem; it is not conducive to a healthy discussion.
Though if you really wanted, you could provide contraception without providing abortion services (it's a policy that these two are often combined, not logistical or economic or any other necessity.)
I don't see how thats relevant? The point is that the codemod tool doesn't work on TypeScript. So you still have to fix the warnings manually.

I don't think its too bad, just saying that the tool doesn't solve the problem for everyone.
> asynchronous stand ups in a chat client

I've been thinking this is actually the perfect standup. People don't tend to write novels in chat clients anyway (and to the extent they do, you can move the text to a README or wiki and just link it).

Does anyone have any experience with this? Any pros and cons worth mentioning?
In order to do well at weather forecasting you really need 3D information (at a minimum), 4D is preferable (3D + Time). Using satellite images, at best, you may be able to predict future cloud cover (but you're still missing the fact that clouds often exist at multiple levels in the atmosphere).
There's more money in real estate.

The state owns much of the real estate around campuses across the state.

Give away the content, make your money back on rent and living fees.

Similar to their StartUP NY program which offers income tax relief in exchange for leasing state owned office space.
It is now also a bank. I own one Boursorama bank and I have account credit card...
In other words: suffer from NIH and DIY because you are so butthurt that someone makes money with you in a symbiotic relationship.

yeah, this is how I see it:

Most of the time when you write something, it's because you are either promoting something (directly or indirectly), building a brand (your or your company's) or because it makes you feel good to "spread the word" on something. Whatever the reason, you gain some value out of this.

Platforms provide you with tools and audience so that you can create that value. In return, they want something too. Is this really so bad?

I'm a quite a capable web developer, but I'm not going to host or build my own blog. That time is better spent on actually figuring out what to write (and writing it).
Ask HN: Best budget Linux laptop for a developer?
I am looking for a laptop to use for Linux development. There have been a number of "Ask HN" topics about this, but this one is a little different - I am not looking for a brand-new, top-end machine, but rather something to use alongside my MacBook Pro (which runs macOS and Windows via Boot Camp). My budget for this machine is only around $300.

If I spend the money on another MacBook (Air or 13" Pro) I am probably looking at a machine of 2011/2012 vintage. Unfortunately I'm not sure the Air machines will be sufficiently powerful for my needs (low-voltage CPUs, only 4GB non-upgradable RAM). Also, all of the the pre-retina MacBooks seem to be let down by their screens: glossy, TN panels with (except for the 13" Air) at most 800 vertical pixels.

Another option is a Lenovo ThinkPad, again probably from around 2012 (with the traditional 7-row ThinkPad keyboard). The ThinkPad X220 seems good, but is let down by its poor quality "clickpad" and, again, poor screen resolution (but at least IPS is an option). The T420s has a more traditional ThinkPad trackpad and better screen resolution, but no IPS and inferior battery life.

So, all of these machines have downsides. For my needs, I think the T420s is probably the best compromise.

Would you recommend (for or against) a ThinkPad T420s for use with Linux?

Is there another machine available for around $300 that I should consider?
I agree with the parent comment, but also agree that "soul" could come from writing, voice talent, assets, etc. Deus Ex and Mass Effect are two games I can think of that offer an amazing experience, despite the actual programmed game being fairly shallow. They were unique and well written, which was enough.
I'm 90% sure this is intentional, but "kuga" is pronounced the same as "cougar" which is slang for a certain type of middle-aged woman, at whom I'm pretty certain the car is marketed.
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If there is no air to breathe?
Having a GUI that is easy to setup is definitely a plus. My experience is that along with setting up, we also would like to add some monitoring capabilities that would send us some alerts about the disk failures or usage threshold stats. I have been part of the team that built ElastiStor (ZFS on FreeBSD), http://www.cloudbyte.com/.
And probably Going with Growing.
And a custom button is certainly not the worst offender, though it's probably the most commonly cited example. A blind friend just needed sighted help to complete a purchase, because the process included a custom checkbox with no ARIA support. At least with a button that's not identified as such, the user can figure out that it's a button from the name and context, and use their screen reader's ability to simulate a mouse click. Unless the buttons are implemented using spans rather than divs, and there's more than one of them in the same block element.
It is all a matter of mindset, but you are blindly ignoring the fact that it takes effort to learn a new mindset. Maybe it went smoothly for you and that's fine (though I suspect you're just not remembering it, perhaps willfully). In fact it went relatively smoothly for me as well.

The point is claiming it's easy dismisses the very real obstacles that exist for others, and does worse than nothing at convincing people to try Rust. So I second dbaupp's sibling comment here- your comments embody the aspect of the Rust community that turns people away.

Please, just slow down in your advocacy. It's not helping.
related but off-topic:
Would it be nice if we could just go meta and share newsletters as "self-updating" bookmarks on something like pinboard(just a happy user here)? Next step - implementing machine-learning so that we have consistent static types. Tags are great but after a while I feel users forget them after a while and personally its a cognitive load on my side to make data structures of tags in my head. The second layer could be personal tags so that we have a more dynamic view. Is there something like this?
Ok, so why not to end it right now, it does not matter, right?
Any idea where this awkward phrase came from? I can't find any history of its origin.
AWS now lets you migrate MongoDB databases to DynamoDB
I believe the title was suppose to be "Toshiba Warns of Its Inability to Continue as Growing Concern".
The real problem is not with type of tech we're using to power our devices, but with how many of these devices we have, and how efficiently we're using them. From the they we're born we are molded into customers who will want m0re stuff.

The other problem with our worlds is that our economies are ponzi schemes that can't grow forever.
To keep our economies viable we need to increase our production by few % every year. While 1-4% does not seem too much, in reality for economies at current scales this is enormous amount of stuff that needs to be produced just to support our current employment rates. To support that increase we need more energy, and since that energy comes at a higher and higher cost (environmentally, economically and energetically) we need to add more generation capabilities every year.

This broken system needs to be changed, not because it's unfair, wasteful, and plain stupid but simply because it's physically impossible to grow at a 3% rate forever.
I don't agree. I find their Portege models are still brilliant.
Thomas Was Alone is on the same level of expression as tumblr pics of Mona Lisa with cat face. But the difference is that Thomas Was Alone creators are confident that they've created Masterpiece Of Serious Museum-Grade Art. Just by reskinning Lode Runner with filled rectangles.
I just can't believe they couldn't find a volunteer to make their next flight free. disgusting.
VWs used to be named after trade winds:
Golf, Scirocco, Jetta...[1] Though now its a mixed bag.

And BMWs use a model series, engine size.
325i. = 3 series, 2.5 l engine. Unless its the sporty version then its just M+series (EG M3)

I have a honda element, I have no idea how it was named, but leads to bad jokes about being in my ______.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~felsche/Bernd/trivia/vwcars.htm...
I always talk to everybody. But then, I've only ever been an employee, not a consultant, and I picked my employers accordingly.
The discussion really helps me understand the problem. Real numbers are infinity in disguise. Because infinity is not really defined, real numbers are not really defined. Just saying infinity is not finite does not make much sense (in the sense of adding anything helpful). Any real number that you can finitely describe can be included in a finitely described counting scheme. Let's use the counting schemes of rational numbers, I'll hit arbitrary numbers to arbitrary precisions. Taking a limit, it is not clear that I miss any numbers (including pi). To defeat this scheme, the adversary has to keep adding digits to his real number, as well as keep shrinking his allowed precision infinitely. Now both the number (that is being infinitely being described) and my counting process is infinite, we didn't and can't prove anything. There is simply no conclusions to be drawn.
Fourier series (and transforms) are probably my most favorite mathematical tool in physics

It has the power to transform nasty or complicated operators into something more manageable: derivatives turn into multiplication by the wavevector, linear differential equations turn into finding the roots of a polynomial, integration over all of space turn into an (infinite) sum over all wavevectors, convolutions turn into pointwise multiplications, ...

Later you learn that Fourier series are just one example of an application of the linear algebra concept of decomposing a vector onto an orthogonal basis, with the vectors in this case being functions, but the original will always have a special place in my heart
War of the Machines: PVS-Studio vs. Google TensorFlow
I don't think you need to learn an "ancient technology". There is plenty of work in traditional corporations. You just need to find one that has legs so you can ride it out for the next 30 years. A steady job, 5 weeks of vacation after 15 years, benefits. If your lucky you can become a number and slowly disappear, spending more time doing your own thing. Long lunches, nap in the car, run some errands, etc.

Eventually everyone runs out of piss and vinegar. It's not so bad.
Agreed, violence as a response to disobeying law enforcement has been normalized in the US, regardless of context/circumstances.

De-escalation and common sense are more often replaced by brute force.
Prod database deleted again? ;)

Bit of a shame to happen so close to the last one.
Awesome explanation! I have to think about this organism / selection idea a bit more.

It's amazing how much I have learned and how many different perspectives people have told me since I first gave that talk...
You can try to sugar coat it if you like, and I know the industry isn't to blame, but ~9 billion in losses from investing in nuclear power is not something you can close you eye and pretend isn't happening (despite Toshiba clearly trying to do so).

I'm willing to bet we see a big change in the nuclear industry come out of this.
The study is available here[0]. The gist is that an app can launder a request it isn't privileged to make through another app that is privileged and doesn't correctly check the intent sender. There are examples in Section 4.3.

[0] : http://people.cs.vt.edu/danfeng/papers/AsiaCCS-17-Yao.pdf
If they were voting in city council it would be. As I've said before, we now vote very rarely once in a blue moon, and leave everything else up to the market.

So you never confront each other about their opinions directly, you just let the market mediate for you.
Holy crap: "In October 2013 the Government agreed a deal with the French state-owned energy giant to guarantee it a price of £92.50, index-linked to inflation, for every megawatt-hour of electricity the £18bn nuclear plant would produce over a 35 year period."

That's madness. The same madness, IMHO, inherent to most 'targeted' energy generation subsidies. Although, it's a little hilarious that they've managed to get themselves into a situation where their own subsidies will be competing with one another (i.e. subsidising some other non-nuclear generator will reduce wholesale electricity prices, forcing them to pay out more because of their guaranteed 'strike-price' for Hinkley).

However, just reading that Guardian article, there's some pretty questionable thinking going on at the NOA if their quoted statements are representative:

Supporting early new nuclear projects could lead to higher costs in the short term than continuing to support wind and solar. The cost competitiveness of nuclear power is weakening as wind and solar become more established,” according to the report, titled Nuclear Power in the UK.

I don't understand this fixation on short-term costs (and yes I do understand that money has a time-value). Given climate change is a long-term problem, and we're probably going to be generating electricity well into the future, why are short-term costs in any way relevant? Also, despite being depressingly common, weasel phrases like 'the cost competitiveness of nuclear power is weakening' really have no place in a government report on a matter of this importance. Is the financial case presently stronger or weaker for nuclear? And which option maximises net social welfare? Those are the only relevant questions in my mind.

“The decision to proceed with support for nuclear power therefore relies more on strategic than financial grounds: nuclear power is needed in the supply mix to complement the intermittent nature of wind and solar,” it added.

Meaning it is a financial issue? No matter how you choose to solve the intermittancy problem, they all cost money. Very sizeable amounts of money. Pumped-hydro plants and HVDC lines don't exactly grow on trees.
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Many predictions of the futuristic sci-fi movies of 90’s from Hollywood are coming true. With 6th sense technologies such as Internet of Things and beacons, the future is here. Whether it is automating the coffee percolator to get freshly brewed decoction in the right consistency poured at the exact time as you enter the kitchen, or the lights and air conditioning being controlled by once presence, every form of automation imaginable is being executed.

See More: https://www.solutionanalysts.com/blog/iot-home-automation-solutions-with-ibeacons-future-is-here/
The person who posted this seems to only have submissions and no comments. I've never seen an account like that! The majority of the submissions are from Bloomberg, with others from NYT/Economist etc.

Edit: Although the title itself makes sense once you realise that "Going Concern" is a thing.
Trees would be great. Right now we're deforesting at massive scale. So first we have to stop doing that, then maybe we can reforest and pull down some carbon, and preserve some biodiversity while we're at it. We probably have to get this done soon, because drought, heat stress, disease, and forest fires are starting to turn some forests into net carbon emitters.

But there are also technologies in development that can remove about a thousand times as much CO2 from the air as trees, for a given land area.
As a broad simplification, the cosine transforms use sinusoids, and wavelets tend to use square waves (or other funny shaped waves that is not a sinusoid)....
This question, or variants of it, comes up on electronics.stackexchange a LOT. It's rather hard to explain in a compact way. You can either start with metaphors (which collapse under examination) or the maths (which most readers find impenetrable).

Current is measured in amperes, which have two definitions:

"a unit of electric current equal to a flow of one coulomb per second"

"that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed 1 meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 x 10-7 newton per meter of length"

Right away one of those definitions mentions charge (coulombs) and the other one doesn't. This is actually a better approach because while charge is usually carried by electrons, this is not always the case. Charge in semiconductors may be carried by "holes". Charge in batteries is carried by ions. Capacitors are usually considered to have a "displacement current" flow between the plates that has no carrier at all.

HOWEVER! For the purposes of the question here, we can skip all that and focus on the electrons in your appliances. Specifically, we can see that there's a complete loop between them and the substation/pole transformer feeding your house. You have no direct connection to the HV lines.

Perhaps you could say "the power company causes a magnetic force which moves the electrons in their transformer back and forth, which by electrostatics pushes the full loop of electrons in their and your wiring back and forth, which does useful work in your house".

Simple.
Building on someone's platform is a risk. But then again all new businesses have lots of risks, including the risk that they don't find enough customers for their product or service. I've hear about startups failing that way far more often.

Lots of companies make tons of money building on platforms like facebook, the iOS App Store, and so on. The question was never if that was a risk free move (nothing is), by whether the potential gain outweigh the risks.
Not knowing Norwegian but knowing Google Translate, I am guessing that it sounds similar to "fitte"
No, "going concern" is a standard term of art in accounting and corporate governance.
I remember trying yacy years ago – do you know how they compare?