skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some processes where equipment lifetime is more determined by total usage than by start-stop cycles. Those processes can more or less seamlessly transition to intermittent renewables as long as the time value of money isn't very high. Given persistently low inflation rates despite years of QE, I think we might be there already. EDIT: actually, even if the processes are tolerant of frequent stop-start, the associated labor scheduling may not be. Not knowing when you'll have a shift scheduled sucks for workers. Not knowing if your regularly-scheduled workers will have favorable weather to do useful work when they show up at the plant would suck for employers.

Other processes are intolerant of complete shutdown/startup cycles. Modern aluminum smelting is one of them. If everything freezes up in the production cells because of too little power for too long, it causes damage and it takes a long time to start up again. To make aluminum smelting more cycling-tolerant would require rethinking the whole plant design. Even then the cost savings from cheap but non-dispatchable renewables may not be enough to compete with existing plants powered with dispatchable electricity.
It is similar to let var=..... in exp from ML languages.
never. Sleep is important physically and mentally and I've never had a legitimate reason to skip on sleep. (There are some cases where it would be unavoidable, they're just rare) There are times where I'd like to stay up all night to work on something I'm enjoying, but I force myself to stop and go to bed.
Multiple profiles are such a pain. You don't even get the common history and autocomplete that comes with having a single profile. I've used them for a while with Chrome and they're just too annoying to use. This looks like it could turn out really great.

EDIT: It seems I was unclear in what I was trying to say. I wasn't criticizing multiple profiles in general; I was criticizing using multiple profiles as a replacement for containers. The way I see it, they don't substitute for each other, and they both have their own great use cases.
I'd go for the normal size, 8 plus is just that bit to big. My partner has one.

Or I'd wait for the x, which has a bigger screen than plus but same size body as 8 (?).
So impressed with Purism's hard work and ethics. I'm so glad it looks like this will reach it's funding goal.

I'm very surprised that the phone will have an open GPU. I've been looking for a laptop replacement for ages that has an open CPU and GPU. While I can avoid Intel like the plague and go straight for an ARM CPU, the GPU always tends to be a closed source binary blog.

If Purism can crack this and get a full open source phone, I hope they build a lightweight laptop using the same sort of specs. This could mean avoiding the whole ME cleaner requirement for their Librem laptop range, removing the spyware [1] from all Intel chips.

1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
What is considered a paper in CS is different than in many other fields. That is not to say the content is not worthy of publication, just that they tend to be shorter and often are more focused on a single issue. There are also publications in conference proceedings that are usually an easier review process. Looking at his top 10 by citation count on google scholar shows most in proceedings and under 10 pages. Arguably it is more intellectual work, but the process is less arduous so the rate isn't that insane.
The Great Wikipedia[0] says "power must not be interrupted for more than 4-5 hours, since the pots have to be repaired at significant cost if the liquid metal solidifies."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting
>You can have as many repositories as you want, but the total for your personal repositories can't exceed 100GB.

Maybe this applies only for the git?
Once or twice a year when I get caught up in a really good book at bedtime. Never for work.
There's Yandex which operates Russia's largest search engine (65% market share) which also runs Yandex Translate [0]. There's also Microsoft Translator [1], and Microsoft owns Bing, though MS Translator is a little different than Google Translate / Yandex Translate.

[0] https://translate.yandex.com/

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/translator/home.aspx
I guess I don't understand what GitHub/GitLab does that makes branches different from Git itself (which seemed to be the claim I was replying to).
Chrome does give you this option. It's called "incognito mode"
How does someone dies of "natural causes" at 25? This sounds more like an unknown health condition.
I would like to have an incognito container so I dont have to open a new window in private mode.
Australias $50B NBN downgrades Internet speeds to slower than Kenya
It also works reasonably well for academic papers as PDF. Equations get butchered, of course, but overall it's not bad (you can set PDF margins so that headers/footers are not read out aloud on every page). I use it to proof-read my own writing, it helps you spot things that spelling/grammer checkers miss.
How did they validate that retention period?
IMHO, the point of i3 is having tiled windows. As a stacking window manager it's quite bad because it has no compositor.

That's why it's fast, but badly coded applications can be less stable.
It's hard to disagree too strongly with a characterization like Russian Shill when you describe a donation to the Clinton Foundation[0] as 'her husband's "gift"'. Perhaps you'd prefer intentionally deceptive?

0: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-foundation/c...
Google Launched Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL – Specs, Price, Features and More
Our elementary school has no bus and the trip there is about two miles, mostly down a street with fast traffic and poor walkability. The drop off process is at least 30 minutes each morning on average in my experience, even longer if there are multiple kids and they don't go to the same school.

The school isn't built like a sports arena, so traffic flow around it is fine throughout the rest of the day, but morning dropoff in particular is very congested because the volume of traffic spikes for a single 15 minute period each day.

Coupled with general morning rush hour traffic, this ripples out to long left-turn waits (no turning arrow), congestion, angry drivers trying to cut down residential streets, parking problems, and so on. Then depending on how far away you had to park, you have to walk that distance with young kids.

Pick up time is easier, especially with after school programs, because the spike is diffused out over a wider range of time.
The paper makes several claims about SGX, but the part I quoted says it uses it to hide the attack from the operating system. The "DoS a cloud by making a hang" aspect is different.
> What was novel about Satoshi's vision was POW races over the commit rights with enough smarts around how folks would accept blocks. But even then that's a game theoretical way to build the consensus.

Like i said, people think of different things when they say blockchain so I don't blame you or anyone. I'm just pointing out the phenomenon. Even the most passionate cryptocurrency evangelists seem to have different ideas on what they think "blockchain" is when you watch their speeches.

As you pointed out, the PoW approach to commit rights to a canonical ledger that's distributed is what's novel about this. Some people think this "canonical ledger" concept is not part of what blockchain is, some people do. No one is right or wrong because it's just semantics.

When you compare Git to blockchain you are comparing just the data structure aspect, and I'm trying to point out that some people define blockchain as the distributed ledger network itself, which is where the confusion comes from.
> but you wouldn't need to replace them any more frequently than other headphones

Except that the batteries will eventually stop holding a charge. This is not a problem with wired headphones. I can plug a 40 year old pair of headphones my Dad got in college into my phone and they work the same now as they did then. You can't do that with wireless headphones.
Bloomberg is also the publication that claimed Apple had multiple standing ovations at the iPhone X launch event.

There were none. It was REALLY easy to check that. There was a video anyone can watch.

If they misuse it why jot either quote it (to make it clear it’s kind of dubious) or use a correct term?
The point is there's a warning either way. Pack the structure, and you get warnings. Don't pack the structure, get warnings. To me, that's being needlessly pedantic.
I wish Rust had such fantastic support you claim.

There is no support for integrated debugging, across languages on Android Studio and Visual Studio.

No support for COM or UWP and Win32 is WIP.

Not sure how much NDK APIs are actually wrapped.
Even if the odds favor you on each event, if they are < 100% success and you play long enough, you will eventually lose everything. Gambler's Ruin always wins.
The "minimum 3 years support" for the Pixel 2 and the 4 years 10 months actual support for the iPhone 4S / 5 are not comparable numbers, exactly because one is the minimum they're promising (so it will apply from the date that the phone is discontinued) and the other is the maximum achieved (so it was measured from the model release date).

Anyone who bought an iPhone 4S at the end of its run only got 2 years of support. The iPhone 5 did much better though - 3 years 10 months.

For the the iPhone 5S to reach a minimum of 3 years support, it'll have to continue to get updates for another 17 months.
> I'm not sure where you are getting it from, but according to ETSI IPR Guide, Section 1.11

That’s not a definition of FRAND, legal or otherwise. This is a statement of the ESTIs view on IP rights. The only reference to FRAND in that section is at the end, where it talks about non-FRAND IP.

> Conclusion: Apple's own witness testified that Samsung is under no obligation to make a FRAND "initial offer." Apple and their own expert clearly knew about it.

You literally just quoted an expert witness who says that there’s no definition of FRAND in that doc: Apple's witness on ETSI policy and practice testified the ETSI IPR Policy document has "no precise definition of FRAND"

You’ve provided no evidence for your claims about FRAND and I’m very uninterested in discussing whether Apple is playing dumb, because I really don’t care.
Only Pixel Buds will work. You can read this comment chain by someone who worked on the project to learn more about why they made that decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15404395
Life is so precious. To think any one of us reading this could be gone tomorrow.
I thought the Nexus 5 was the best phone I ever owned (I've owned many Android phones, across the spectrum, as well as several iPhones). It was a really great phone, for a while. After about 10 months the battery starting dying at 15% without warning, then eventually 20%, 30%, and finally 50% mid-run when I decided to put it out of it's misery. You could write it off as a one-time known flaw with the battery used by Huawei in this model, but this type of story is consistently my experience with Android products.

The applications are generally less polished, the hardware is better on paper yet fails to hold up in real life, and the battery life is abysmal within a year or less. It use to be the case that some of the sacrifices were worth it because flagship Android phones were considerably cheaper than their Apple counterparts, but that is no longer true either.

I'll be going back to Apple for the first time since the iPhone 4, now that they've finally killed the hideous 1980's CRT style bezel.
> "I don't want my money going to $theOther" it's hard not to think that selfishness is part of the problem as well.

I think the selfishness is just expressed differently.

Where do you think the massive taxes on cigarettes and alcohol in most first world countries comes from? The calls for taxes on fatty foods? Requirements for extra insurance to do certain extreme sports?

It's the way they say we don't want to pay for your life choices.
>> Blockchain does not build distributed consensus, it's a totally different thing: document timestamping service.

> i think you missed the part where i said "I think this is because people mean different things when they talk about "blockchains"."

Oh? So you say that they don't mean a cryptographically linked list of
blocks, like Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain) describes?
Because that's exactly how timestamping works: unmodifiable list of documents,
from which you can tell which document was issued earlier. Then what else do
they mean?
It's a "feature", too optimistic bidders always get the bid as they give the best price. That's part of the reason this sort of bids go wrong so often.
I don't think there's the concept of first author in theoretical CS? All the papers I've seen there follow the same practice as in Math, where authors are just alphabetical.
No it doesn't. I have many of my git repos in Dropbox but I'm not using Dropbox for sharing. Having those in Dropbox means I get automatic backup and that they are available when I switch to a different computer, which I do, but not frequently. As only I use my Dropbox account, I'm aware of the potential sync problem, but it's never been a problem. I do run fsck & gc more frequently than most, but I probably don't need to.

EDIT: I should emphasize that this model is way more convenient than manually having to remember to push and pull all the time. Now push is only for publishing outside as it should be.
As a user, I do not care at all whose fault it is that my phone gets no updates after three years.
You can use honeybadger.io (I’m a cofounder) to catch your exceptions and link the lines in the stacktrace to the corresponding file in the Github UI.
>>> Because you get the enjoyment of marriage and an expanded family now

You already raised 4 generations of humans by now or you can still do the same thing because you're not even half way your life. Why would you want to do it now when your "teenage" years last 50 years and your "twenties" 100. You can experience everything, just for longer.

>>> If immortals stop caring about life because it is long lasting, we'll just find the first members of the immortal generation do worse than their mortal peers in all respects.

500 year life expectancy vs immortality is another discussion.

>>> Practically though, I doubt immortality is within the grasp of this current generation.

Yeah, I know. It's all hypothetical for us
I don’t see much of a disconnect with the idea of living much longer, though if that were really possible, I understand that it would have repercussions on everyone else on a larger scale.

I work in areas that look at suffering and alleviating that (in ways most people on the planet don’t) but I also wonder and wish if I could live much longer than currently possible (longer life without tackling aging is pointless, IMO). The main reason for me is that I’m so utterly fascinated and awed by everything humans have accomplished and continue to accomplish (even though there are vast areas of improvement), and I really, really want to see humans going to another planet, setting up a colony, etc., among many other things. Life itself is such a wonder and seemingly miraculous (without assigning any supernatural motives).
1) If you can't disable Secure Boot you might not be able to boot an alternative non-Windows operating system.

2) Some tablets use a 32-bit UEFI while supporting a 64-bit operating system. Nobody supports that. You're stuck with Windows again.

3) Can you turn on Wake On Lan features on the desktop? I played with geoproximity on my phone to send wake up packets when I got within 200m of home.

4) Can you disable Intel's Trusted Platform on your computer? Many people don't trust having an undocumented system in total control of their computer.
> There are also publications in conference proceedings that are usually an easier review process.

The big CS conferences are around 20% acceptance rate, Science and Nature are around 7%. So while easier than Science, that is still quite an accomplishment!
My thanks to the keybase crew, I've waited for a practical PGP solution for nearly 20 years. Keybase delivers, thank you!
so basically having kids makes you stupid, more prone to heart attack, etc etc
I don't think that is (currently) illegal. Morally wrong? Yea, probably, but that's beside the point.. and honestly this is all a red herring since it's just Congress trying to treat the symptom and not the disease.
Yes, about ISIS. I do agree the US has no place bombing people but that wasn't about regime change.

And what can I say, there's not much to expect from campaign talk, but when there are millions of lives at stake you may not want to go with mrs. "We came, we saw, he died".
Replace ChromeOS with a free Linux distro!
They just rebooted the SDK once more by going .NET Core with Xamarin.Forms.
Yeah, I’m definitely not endorsing them, only noting that this isn’t a new issue Pai came up with recently. Gruber’s theory certainly sounds plausible and I’d assume that if this was doable in software one of the jail breaking teams would have done it by now since that community loves to find cases where they remove Apple’s limitations.
We need to remember that this process probably started months ago before the hack. Also, remember that Equifax (while not really loved) was not really thought about as being a really bad company.
I'm (unfortunately, at times) intimately familiar with what big corporate IT departments look for in terms of features, authentication, RBAC, auditing, etc., etc. in "Enterprise" products and if you need it I'd be willing to help you understand what we look for and why. Feel free to drop me a line. Either way, I love what you're doing and I hope you nail it.
Hunter gatherer societies also weren't paying for cell phones, and internet, and mortgages/rent. I'm sure you could get by working part time for 15 hours a week if you gave up all of your modern conveniences and lived outdoors in a tent, but it wouldn't be very enjoyable.
The simple fact of the matter is that you cannot ban firearms in the US. There are too many of them and too many people who would choose violent confrontation over compliance should it come to that.

Forget "politically", gun confiscation cannot be successful on a practical level.
No I'm not misunderstanding Smalltalk, that Smalltalk now has a git plugin to be able to expose itself in that manner is exactly the kind of jumping through hoops I was referring to, it's taken many years for that to become stable and most of us still don't use it, we use Monticello. And both of those are for sharing code, not for developing, we don't work on those st files, we export them.

Don't tell me what I'm thinking and because of who, I make my living with Smalltalk (Squeak and now Pharo) and have for well over a decade and have done hundreds of millions in revenue through my Smalltalk apps.

> .st source files are text files.

I didn't say they weren't, they're still a plain text serialization format that is not directly what Smalltalk looks like and we still don't work on code by editing those files.

> You are confusing them with the image files.

No I'm not, if you actually read what I wrote, you'd see that.

Lisp is not Smalltalk, do not confuse how Lisp does image based development with how Smalltalk does it; they are not the same. When you have a few years experience actually working with Smalltalk doing production level stuff, then come talk to me, right now you're repeating nonsense that you're inferring based on apparently some light reading and no actual experience in the culture of and use of an actual Smalltalk.
As proven by Windows Phone, WebOS, FirefoxOS, Jolla, Blackberry,....
dying from a disease is still a natural cause. Unnatural would be getting killed, suicide, accidents etc.
> An organization, particularly one based on volunteering and donations, on the other hand, can and should choose a narrow set of goals and pursue them without taking any more sides than necessary.

First, even given a narrow set of goals you can end up with other organizations that are aligned with your organization on some but not all of those goals.

Second, my point is that when someone _is_ aligned with your organization on its narrow set of goals, they may be worth working with even if you may disagree with other goals they have. The devil is, as usual, in the details.
Someone really should test the content on device there are ways things you miss otherwise.
Love the app, but did you really need to apply PornHub's look and feel?
Canary is charging for services that used to be free, and everyone is mad
C'mon. Why didn't they just call it "brohammer"
New York has had about 5% compliance with the registration requirement of their "SAFE Act".
No, that's a misunderstanding of what hypercomputation is.

If you can write down or talk yourself through a proof of why a program will halt, you have solved a computable problem. By definition. When you say "we can decide a whole lot of programs halt", you're talking about plain Jane computation.

If you have knowledge that any program that I give you will or will not halt, then you're a hypercomputing oracle for the halting problem, and you can do magic, basically.

There's a world of difference between the two situations. And I'm fairly sure (but not positive) that there's no way for you to prove in finite space and time that you are an oracle for the halting problem.

Edit: for more on that last bit, see https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/19f9/0c34cdda43efdcf0831b2f...
More rough napkin math...

A second of 4k60 video is ~7MB, but we'll overestimate to 8MB (though I'm using really rough metrics here). At 690GB (230 x 3), that's ~86,000 seconds. Or, more familiarly, about 24 hours of 4k60 video (holy cannoli, Batman!). I guess that's about an hour's worth of video recording every day over a three-week period. Understandable, and more doable, though still really excessive.
Has anyone seen a security audit of the Keybase platform? I love the product from a usability perspective, but have no idea if it's actually a safe repository for my team's key material.
Preexisting congenital conditions. There is always one or two young people in any given year that decide to do some endurance event and simply drop dead from what looks like a heart attack.
I don't mean to be coy (just trying to be respectful), but you should ask your doctor this.
I actually did last year, after wondering what my risks were.
I'm not convinced this helps much with lock in. Assuming you want to do things like deployments, scheduled backups, monitoring, etc, you're either:

a) Using "lock in" features like Cloud Formation, Lamba, Cloudwatch, etc, to do so, such that you use some of the "value" of the cloud.

==or==

b) Rolling your own solutions for these peripheral functions (deployment, backup, monitoring, etc) and running them on the bare VPS instances. In which case...why are you on this expensive cloud? You can get a VPS with lower bandwidth costs elsewhere.

Basically being sort of "half in" on the cloud, where you use it as a glorified VPS makes no sense to me. Either be all the way in, or all the way out.
On #2, when he mispresents fields that have addressed the effect he is discussing routinely for decades as not merely addressing it inadequately but of missing it entirely, he's either being self-aggrandizingly hyperbolic or stunningly ignorant. Or maybe its a rhetorical trick to get the reader to pay attention because they are getting a nugget of secret wisdom.
But certainly plenty of other writers don't play that kind of dishonest game.
Does that mean you have to retain it beyond the initial check?
Getting a paper into high-impact conferences are definitely still an incredible accomplishment, but comparing these acceptance rates is a bit misleading. Those CS conferences have a very narrow scope, while Science and Nature literally cover any topic pertaining to science and nature... including CS :).
Open Web is Oxymoron