skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the author sort of neglected to state whether the device was charging at the time, which makes a difference. No doubt it wasn’t always charging but it would be fair to clarify when it was. The OS has some activities like checking for updates that it is more likely to do if tethered to power.

Also some of the activity can be related to measures that actually save power. For example, before attempting to do a heavy download of data provided by apps that implement background data downloading, it makes sense to first check the quality of the network connection.

I’d suggest everyone just chill and realize there can be good reasons for things, not just bad reasons. And consider the possibility that Apple is not stupid when it comes to power management.
What benefit would a captive portal derive from hiding from Apple's captive portal detector?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
Exactly the same happens with a four way stop. It needs 4 sign posts with stop written on
> Both Newegg and ASI were in on the scheme, the banks say, because Moneual priced the computers that were supposedly ordered at 300 times their actual market value.

If true, this does sound pretty bad, though depending on the percentage of the order its possible newegg could claim typo. I do have to wonder why the banks didn't notice this during the loan check. Unless the contents of orders is typically kept secret in loan checks like this?
A bit of both, IMO. RAII is a design pattern, not a language feature. However, it’s a pattern made possible by the semantics of destructors and object lifetimes in C++. The creator of C++ (Stroustrup) developed RAII within the first few years of the language’s existence.
No, my cites relate to the parent comment:

Cost plus percentage gives a very clear incentive to raise costs

Compare the original winning bid for the STS with the actual costs; I think they rose more than tenfold (and the per-flight cost rose more than that), IIRC.

And had the competing team won, the Challenger disaster never would have happened, because the solid-rocket boosters would have been manufactured as units and transported to the Cape by barge rather than having to be broken into small enough components to fit on rail cars.
I would say its place is more in a computer engineering or an "applied computer science" discipline. Similarly, a chemistry student doesn't especially need to learn about how to plan a safe and cost-effective end industrial synthesis process, which would fall squarely in the domain of chemical engineering.
But that is missing the main point of the network time checks. Even if computers were perfect at telling time you still need to check network time for security reasons, especially if local users can change the device time. There are crypto attacks that rely on changing the time, and checking that the time matches another somewhat reliable source helps make those attacks harder to pull off.
BTW, I'm not opposed to this mechanism if the retailer is matching customer contributions.
I imagine that "death from sitting too long" and "death from heroin overdose" differ a lot on the preferability spectrum.
"Just like IMF "loans" many of these are given with the understanding that the receiving country will never be able to pay it back."

No way.

The IMF is a benevolent entity, with benevolent principles.

Because African leaders grab 15% off the top, and then squander the rest, does not make it a failing, directly of the IMF.

Why do we point fingers at 'Westerners' when Africans are failed and corrupt?

Yes - a pragmatic/cynical person might have 'expected' that the nation would not be able to pay it off, because they understand what's going on.

Also, there are some firms trying to 'cook the books' to get in on the major deals, even when they fully well know it's not possible ...

BUT - the IMF is not intentionally a weapon of economic power in this regard.

America wants South Americans to be consumers of their products - not perpetually broke and unable to even make repayment loans.

Nobody really wins when those IMF deals go black, other than some warlords and some dam/energy plant builders.

Edit: The 'IMF Agent' mythology is one of the worst of the conspiratorial issues to be popularized by the illiterati over the last few decades - and consistent with other economic conspiracy theories: because there are definitely 'bad actors' (on all sides) that have come to be revealed, conspiracists assume that there are these nefarious overlords.

Siemens bribing a surveyor to fudge data to make an investment look better does not make the IMF evil.

African leaders pocketing the cash does not make the IMF evil.

Their inability to actually complete the project on budget/time does not make the IMF evil.

Even when projections were 'altered' - it still worked out for the better. The electricity requirements for Indonesia were fudged overstated when they were taking on loans to build electricity generation facilities. Corruption? Well, maybe. But in fact, actual electricity usage far outpaced the 'higher, fudged' numbers in the first place, thus obviating the nature of the fudge.

Anyone who thinks that the IMF are evil actors should go around and hang out with some of them and see what kind of people they are.

2cnd Edit:

The most obvious evidence against the 'evil IMF' claims is that the economic argument doesn't add up: making low-interest loans that are very risk in terms of default, and other things like political risk - has to be 'the worst' kind of investment one could possibly make.

Make a $500M loan at lower interest than you can elsewhere, with a 25% chance you won't get paid back and a 50% chance the deal will go whacky at some point and have to be re-financed?

Nobody would be willing make that investment.
Some mobile networks do a decent job of providing the time, some do a poor job, and some don't provide time at all (saw this when I was overseas). I would accept the time from the mobile network as a starting point, but prefer to get it from IP networks I trust, or from global positioning.
I sort of hate to impose, but since it came up in a parent post… can you translate a joke from your 3 million person language into English which is not funny in English? I promise to use it as an example in conversation and preserve it!
I think the class size is a detriment to asking questions.. My high school had ~30 max to a class.. In either case, a smart person asking a question is sometimes good because it's often a question others have but don't want to ask. Same thing in business; sometimes people will ask questions just so others can hear the answers.
> Can I build/use future Godot releases without any mono/microsoft dependencies?

Yes, the standard build doesn't make use of the C# module.
It's true, yet I don't feel we should change that, e.g. by putting "mod" beside our names. There's a downside to that sort of thing too, and for HN, I think it's the greater downside.

I'd rather trust the community to figure things out, which it does extraordinarily well.
The phrasing is confusing, but I think it means the boy knew he would be late if he helped, and the consequences of being late, but chose to act anyway.
Or in other words...price discrimination as a service
For this I use godaddy and a custom script running in a cron job https://github.com/ibizaman/mFPN-organizer/blob/master/netwo...
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card counting is about a few percentage points advantage wrung out over hundreds of hands, you would never get a jackpot moment like that if you are doing it correctly.
For sure. I don't know how you overcome the inertia of our societies structure to head towards something that would likely be better for the majority of citizens. Which is a problem in many more domains that just civil works auctions.

I can see how the recommendation you mooted would improve incentives in some procurement domains. Large civil works isn't one of them however.
>A major factor in language death is parents choosing not to speak the language to their children.

And this happens with even major languages. I have a coworker who's grandparents immigrated to the US from Spain. Her parents knew Spanish, but didn't speak it to her. Now she has no way to communicate with her grandparents because she only knows English.
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Device: Am I on a captive portal? Nonce.

Apple server: No. Same Nonce. Cryptographic signature.

If different response: Captive portal. If no response: No internet.
I know you mean well, but China is a relatively rich country, it doesn't have 500 million of the world's poorest people, those distinctions go to India (poorer than china at 1 billion) and Africa (most of which is poorer than India).

China has been the richest country in the world at many points in world history, heck, even at its worse, it has always been self sufficient. They never got global aid like say Ethiopia did. At best, they had some Russian technical help before the sino soviet split.
The public also benefit if municipalities can charge fair market prices and use the income to fund projects that more directly benefit residents, or lower taxes. Forcing local governments to charge below market rates is little more than corporate welfare for the telecom industry.
I speak a tiny language and used to be of the opinion that we should just document it while we can and then expedite its death while moving to English instead.

This is a very easy and naive stance to take. However I have completely abandoned it!

With the years I have come to unravel some of the incredible knowledge encoded in the structure of my language. It is amazing how idioms and structural qualities of languages can define a culture through their influence on the way people think. Now I have gotten very curious about learning some exotic languages and I suspect I will need to dedicate a portion of my life to that pursuit :)

Trying to preserve this through translation is never going to work for many reasons, mainly because turning meaning from something continuous into discrete words is done differently in different cultures so a words true meaning can be hiding between several words of the language you wish to translate to. Therefore some things become hard to say which used to be common phrases. This has obvious consequences for culture but it also means that often when you as an individual move from one language to another you unlock more of your innate assumptions and see how your language defined your approach to problems in some ways. Gaining understanding of these assumptions gives more 'room to move in', perspective wise, I find.
China starts from a huge deficit in environmental protection that can't really be compared to the USA. They are being aggressive today because 500+ 2.5pm is unlivable.
Yes it’s a cloud connected device, it is going to connect to the cloud. I don’t see why you are surprised.

If you think there is an issue, instead of breathlessly declaring you’ve discovered a disturbing pattern in a system you couldn’t possibly have an informed perspective on, the correct way to handle it is to file a radar at https://bugreport.apple.com/ then come back here tell us your radar number so we can dupe it and add any of our own data that might help with the (perceived, in this case, I would say) issue.
*presuming that Satoshi is not Hal Finney, who is dead.
Language is not knowledge or culture. It is merely a tool for communication.

I deliberately chose not to teach my children my or my wife's fairly obscure and mutually completely unintelligible languages.

On the other hand, I ensured that they studied Latin, Italian, French and Sanskrit in addition to their L1 ( English )

I am a polyglot and know around a dozen languages to various levels, including several semi-obscure minority languages.
I think it's fair to note that they edited that part in after I wrote my comment using that exact same wording, but failed to mention they edited it. It's not that their wording didn't stop me from replying, its that their wording did not exist when I replied.

It's a scummy argument tactic, which you've proven is highly effective.
I hardly think the Normans invading England and forcing their language onto the Britons hardly qualifies as stealing (and of course before the Normans, the Germanic Angle and Saxon tribes invaded and forced their language on the peoples). When something is forced onto you, would you say that thing was stolen?
Oh, that's really interesting, thanks!
This is already a problem. A company I worked for submitted a bid for an IT infrastructure project several years ago. We were rejected for not having completed a similar project for a government agency before.

Our bid was 1/3rd of the "winning" bid.
Exactly, we don't even want to give Puerto Ricans the support they need, so what's the chance Trump won't drop some bombs, declare victory, then leave millions to rot?
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I don't understand what you mean by "non-standard SVD implementations." No SVD implementation is going to compute more singular vectors than you ask it to. It is neither cubic time, as you first said, nor quadratic time, as you now say. The dimension-dependence is linear.
I have recently learnt it is same with energy companies. My monthly contract prices were hiked up to get more out of heating bill for energy company. I was left disgusted since we live in a relatively warm house and energy bills are minimal. After spending an hour with support - it became clear that prices are tailor made for postcode - read each individual home.
> So a travel agent.

Travel agents were never on the side of the consumer. If you asked travel agents who they perceived they were working for, they'd tell you it's the airlines. This is not just my opinion; in travel industry magazines, articles, etc., this definitely was their stance. They'd choose flights for you that were most profitable for themselves and/or the airlines (and those two factors coincide nicely). Even pre-web, I almost always found a better prices by phoning the airlines directly if I wanted to spend the time.
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For the past 10+ years I was working professionally on a Visual Smalltalk application, maintaining and enhancing it over time.

Visual Smalltalk is no longer commercially available but in terms of memory requirements it was highly efficient because it was designed to run on PCs of 20 years ago.
But it is possible to apply Occam's Razor to a scientific hypothesis. Is it too much to ask to require people to read? And draw their own conclusions?
Certainly, but at the end of the day, they'll say: "well if we don't get $x then we will have to cut the force. If we don't pay our officers, they are just going to leave."
What do you do then? You can fire people you hold accountable, but that isn't going to fix your budget situation: if you don't fund the PD, the services are going to be cut, and taxpayers are going to be impacted.
I want to mention that I think it's incredibly disingenuous to edit your comment to argue against my reply without mentioning that you've edited what I was arguing against. It's even more so when you use the exact same wording I did, making it look like I'm arguing something that was explicitly stated in your post, when it wasn't there at the time I wrote my reply.

I am seriously disappointed in this level of discourse. If you want anyone to take you seriously, you'll stop pulling shit like that in the future.

Shame on you.
There is a balance requiring both hard work and luck. I believe it was Louis Pasteur who said "fortune favors the prepared mind" in the mid-19th century.

Jason Roberts of TechZing captured this idea with the catchy phrase "luck surface area", explaining that both doing & telling combine to multiply opportunities.

http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...

> In other words, you make your own luck.
Small point first… eating the same amount but exercising more equals a caloric deficit in the same way that exercising the same amount but eating less does. I am not following your point about muscles specifically but I think we can let that go provided you agree that being in a caloric deficit needn’t mean you eat fewer calories. That is all I was trying to say regarding exercise.

Second point… confusion is not the same as controversy. Even though people might be confused how the mechanisms and pathways work doesn’t mean they are controversial. Hormones dictate weight gain and weight loss. See pregnancy or puberty or menopause. (You even mentioned Thyroidism.) It’s not controversial. Calling it pseudoscience seems over the top. See the green house effect (first argued in 1824) for an analog.

Third point… my claims pertain to the biology not to the marketing behind certain diets. I don’t believe that the atkins diet is ketogenic… nor do I think the Voedingscentrum is correct in saying the diet has a ‘varied and full-bodied eating pattern’, but I also don’t care. As you say… it is hype. But if your counter-examples have no explanatory power, then they are just as worthless. More on this below. In the very least don’t equate the hormone hypothesis with an endorsement for Atkins.

Fourth point… I concede that my rhetoric is not iron clad. Since science is a process and certainty is always a question… it is hard to ever win an argument about this stuff… as Katan points out doing double-blind studies is near impossible so that makes claims in nutrition science doubly fraught. Having admitted that… I stand by my statement that the hormone hypothesis is not controversial. Yes the lipid hypothesis had sway in American culture in the mid 20th century but evidence to back it up was never produced. If any controversy existed, I would say it lay with the lipid hypothesis not with the endocrine one.

As to the bonfides for sugar induced obesity I would point to Jean Anthelme Brilliat-Savarin (writing in 1825), Alfred Moore (writing in 1860), John Harvey (writing in 1861) , and William Banting (1863). Their accounts were accepted by medical schools in the US and the UK, with varied levels of understanding, through to the 20th century… where Thomas Cleave and John Yudkin were their antecedents. Does that make my 200 year claim iron clad? Not really but I think it is good enough for arguments sake.

Last point… you haven’t made a case for an alternative to the hormone hypothesis. The links you included don’t do it. Your examples don’t do it. The Katan article doesn’t say that low carb doesn’t work… let alone provide an alternative mechanism for losing weight. As I wrote above… caloric reduction is a associated with instances of losing weight… but it doesnt CAUSE you to lose weight. Hormones do.
I don't think your reasoning is correct.

The entire lure of gambling is that some players can make money. The house always plays that up.

But if the house always wins, that hope they're selling disappears.
It works, see for example smörgåsbord -> smorgasbord. They have exactly the same meaning.
In your logs why don’t you also log whether each device is connected to power and what preferences each user has set on a per app basis for push notifications, background data fetch, background downloads (distinct from background data fetch), as well as their do not disturb settings and timeframe, whether they are on a cell network or wifi, whether the wifi is exposing a networked backed by a cell network, the current battery level at each time, whether the device is changing location, whether the user is moving the device, whether the screen is locked, whether any app is in the foreground, whether any currently installed apps have code that gets invoked when geographic regions change, whether they have any code that is invoked when specific locations are visited, whether they have code that gets invoked when non-specific locations are arrived at or departed from, whether the user has recently changed networks, whether the user has recently plugged or unplugged the power, etc., etc., etc...

Don’t have all this data? Then maybe don’t jump to premature conclusions about what your network activity is telling you.
My car loses about 3 minutes per month, and it has no ability to query NTP. Oddly enough my SUV gains about a minute per month.
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You must be seeing something different than I am. I don't see anything animated on that page, with no ad or content blockers running.
Climate change is nothing to do with PM2.5. That's a very short term (falls out of the air in days) local issue. They're emitting less CO2 per capita than the US.
But this is data for an INDIVIDUAL person!
Depending on when scarface replied, that last paragraph did not exist in the original post.
Tram tracks last about 35 years here in Zurich, but some of the hotspots have to be redone every 8 years. It also heavily depends on the type of trams you‘re running.
Consider multiple transmitters operating at the same time, in the same room. Even if no signal transmitter is dumping high output into that part of the spectrum, isn’t bandwidth saturation one of the reasons for poor reception and lower bars?

Would that not provide bonuses to absorbed effective wattage? There’s probably some constructive interference producing fortuitous signals, no?
Especially with all of the baby boomers getting old and needing care. If I was in college I'd figure out what kind of health care old people need the most and go into that. At least, that's what I would do if I was in it for the money. I studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies in college, so obviously I wasn't in it for the money ;-)
> The further we get into the future, the more I think, what if our data-crunching approach to AI is simply the best thing there is?

Technically speaking, as long as we equate "AI" with "machine learning", it's a downright trivial statement. The important thing in ML isn't just the presence of "data-crunching", it's the quantity of training data relative to the size and complexity of the hypothesis class.

As long as "intelligence" requires dealing with ambiguous sensorimotor data, it will involve some statistical component, and will therefore involve a "data-crunching approach" somewhere in it.

>But these foretold "general" intelligences, who don't need excessive data,

Hierarchical generative models already do phenomenally well at one-shot and small-sample learning against basically all previous ML methods. Yes, this includes deep learning.
iOS offers a slideover view that gets dismissed once absence of captive portal is detected. That way you can’t redirect people forcibly to your website after auth is done in a way that persists.

But if you force people to use a browser rather than auto disappearing modal view, the bounce rate is much lower once you force them to visit your website after captive portal login.
Slightly related. I regret not having taken a screenshot to prove it, but oh well. A friend and I both open google.com and type weather. We are on the same Wifi, both using chrome, both signed in, and we each get our very own current temperature for the exact same city. Different by a few degrees that is. We hard refresh, we sign out, we clear cookies, still different on each machine.

With personalisation I wonder if they go as far as telling you how hot it feels for me as opposed to how hot it is.
I was explaining travel agents to my kid the other day. The service of the agent was more than just booking you a flight, you were paying for their knowledge and experience with traveling in particular regions.

Resources like Zagat were helpful but could only get you so far.

In pre internet days if you were flying to far away places like India or Vietnam where your local airline didn't offer service, you would have no resources available for finding or arranging flights, hotels, or other transport. That's where a travel agent was helpful.
May have already been said, but what about Bellevue? It's the Microsoft equivalent. I lived on Mercer Island in the early 90's and only thing Bellevue had going for it was the mall. Was bland. Today it's a dynamic area.

Better these cities are in demand than decay. In the words of Neil Young, "you're either dying or growing"