skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Municipal broadband is accountable to its local citizens or stakeholders, depending on the model used to develop it (government owned or non-profit owned). If it languishes, it will only do so because its citizens or users allow it to.

I don't find this comforting. Citizens regularly allow public services to languish, through a combination of a myopic focus on cutting costs/taxes and lack of accountability. When I lived in Wilmington, Delaware, bus drivers would straight up quit 20 minutes early, putting up their "out of service sign" and skipping their last several stops. I drive all the way into work even though there is an Orange-line Metro stop 20 minutes from my house and 5 minutes from my office. The scheduled 36-minute trip is almost never under 40 minutes, and during commuting times approaches 50 minutes. That's without unexpected delays.

One of the things the environmental law clinic at Northwestern does is identify municipal water/sewer systems that are not in compliance with the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. There are many such systems, and invariably they remain out of compliance because citizens are unwilling to raise water/sewer rates to fix the infrastructure.
Indeed, of all the tech company swag I've seen and collected, from a pure nerdiness metric, I'd wager Wolfram's remains one of the coolest by far.
Hmm, this is what I thought as well. Just like if I have a splitter plugged into the wall and two USB cables attached I can charge those two devices as fast as if there was one item plugged in. So why wouldn't this be faster?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15607399

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> You, the ISP, rent the fiber from them.

This was the plan for Australia's NBN (National Broadband Network). FTTH for the country, with ISPs hooking in at the head ends.

Of course, that wasn't business friendly so the Liberal Party (who are actually conservative, synonymous with Republican) torpedoed it into a sad shell of the promise it offered.
The report examined UX issues but didn't identify the side sticks as a significant factor. You can keep insisting that they were a factor if you like, but you haven't actually provided any evidence in support of that contention.
No it's not. User-level threads are currently not supported in Java.
I don't think it's Kumail's fault how this got published. I got the impression this was a report on comments he made not any intention of an exhaustive essay on the state of computing. I mean I am professionally in the industry so let me say: I agree that computing across the board lacks an ethical framework and when I talk about this I usually am met with similar responses: apathy or ignorance.
and you're now doing something useful with that energy you were turning into heat anyway.

Is it useful? My (limited) understanding is that most of the work is just arbitrarily difficult number guessing for the sole purpose of being throttled...
Try the Alexa skill. "Alexa, start SoundHelix and play song 46".
As someone who has worked in the telcom regulation space, what would your suggestion be? I find my options more palatable than a duopoly (if you're lucky!) that exists to squeeze consumers for as many dollars as possible. It all boils down to accountability and the tools at your disposal to enforce that accountability. Unless the FCC is going to turn the screws on major internet providers (unlikely under the current administration), local governance is one of the few options left available.

> One of the things the environmental law clinic at Northwestern does is identify municipal water/sewer systems that are not in compliance with the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. There are many such systems, and invariably they remain out of compliance because citizens are unwilling to raise water/sewer rates to fix the infrastructure.

I agree this is a problem that takes a lot of effort on the part of elected officials to be honest with citizens about why money must be spent to maintain infrastructure, while ensuring that collected tax revenue is spent in a transparent and effective manner. Letting infrastructure go is simply robbing from the future; the bills come due eventually.
I think "run it's course" is a little needlessly pessimistic when there are still major strides being made each year in that area.
Anyone have a link without a paywall?
Yeah, I think there's a ton of room for FT8 if it can break out of the auto-programmed sequence, I hate that part too. I really wish it would do progressive decoding, it's possible in theory.

Over in the SOTA community we're looking at a few potential solutions. There's nothing in the core FT8 spec that mandates the standard QSO exchange and there's support for free messages(at a max of 13 chars).

As someone with a KX3 I think anyone running more than 10W is at a huge advantage ;). You're right though, the right way is to split the awards by mode/type. That said I find the content stuff just as impersonal and find the relaxed atmosphere of SOTA much more appealing.

That's what makes ham radio so awesome though, it's all fair game. I just hate to see people try to squash things just because it's not the "old way". That part seems really counter to the experimental nature of the hobby.
I'm still on the fence about whether this is a great phone or not because I use every one of my phones a significant amount when not directly looking at it.

But this hardware is absolutely incredible. I wish there was a clear casing to the phone. Apple has always done a great job design the internals and clearly this is no exception.
>"it" appears to be that they were fighting over control of the airplane.

"it" was meant to be that the plane was stalled.

(My fault for ambiguous phrasing.)
> Power management IC (surprising that Apple is doing Analog IC design too!)

Have you seen the tear down of the old MacBook power bricks? Check it out if you haven’t. There’s a lot of tech in there to improve efficiency (ie keep that tiny brick from melting)
It's amazing we've not had a major incident because of our recklessness.
World of Warcraft Classic
> There is _massive_ evolutionary pressure going against this. To the extent that not wanting to have children is at all genetic, it will disappear from the gene pool within a few generations.

This is only the case if the selection pressures which humans in the developed world are facing stay the same. Since they seem to be tied to our technological development, I think there is a good argument to be made that these selection pressures will intensify as we breed resistance to them. My personal theory is that the increasing addictiveness (see the PG essay on this[0]) of modern life is why people are having less children. I don't see that trend changing.

I do think there's a good chance that technological renunciation and voluntary cultural isolation of some sort are the best solution to this problem for people who are naturally susceptible to the addictiveness of modern life.

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
Are inverters costing more because of increased demand at the current production rate, or is there monopoly / price gouging happening?
> Unfortunately, no.

Explanation as to why this isn't the case:

TL;DR - putting the cells in parallel without changing their C-rating does nothing for charging them faster. You're limited by the C-rating of the cells, which is usually determined by the quality of components and the anode/cathode design.

Putting batteries in parallel maintains the voltage of one cell but multiplies the current by the number of cells in the pack.

E.g. if you have two Lithium Polymer cells in parallel, the nominal voltage will be 3.8V. At 5W, the current would be ~1.3A

Putting batteries in series adds the cell voltages while keeping current the same for the pack.

e.g. if you have two Lithium Polymer cells in series, the nominal voltage of the pack would be 7.6V and at 5W the current would be ~0.66A. Notice compared to the parallel example: voltage is doubled, current is halved.

What you need to compare here is the so-called "C-rating" (capacity rating) of the cell. All the C-rating means is that if you provide this much current, the cell is full in an hour. A C.10 rating would be the current over 10 hours. C.20 current over 20 hours, etc.

e.g. you have a 3.8V LiPo cell that's 2000mAh. A C-rating of 1 means you charge or discharge at 2A and it's full/dead in an hour.

So, putting batteries in parallel keeps their voltage the same but "doubles" the current.

However this entire time we've been talking about current, when we should be talking about power.

If your 2000mAh battery has a C-rating of 1, meaning you can charge it at maximum at the capacity of the battery, then in parallel you have 4000mAh (2x2000mAh) at 3.8V, meaning you can safely charge it at 4000mAx3.8V = ~15W

Put the same two cells in series. Now you have 2000mAh at 7.6V. How fast can you charge it? 2000mAx7.6V = ~15W.

Consumer electronics don't need a high C-rating because the cells don't need to charge/discharge at extremely high rates (as they would in a quadcopter, for example).

The main benefit of putting cells in series is that you raise the voltage, which lowers the current and thus means you can use smaller (and cheaper) wires to carry the same power.

Putting the cells in parallel would increase the current for the same power, but it does not change the C-rating and thus the amount of power you can safely put into the cells.
I'd also like to add that not everyone (cough cough) uses or wants to use Twitter. Please, please, please also include a plain email address or a contact form so that everyone can get in touch with you if necessary.
I 100% agree. Being disciplined at work is a personal issue. I find I work much more efficiently at home than in an office. People who are lazy are lazy because they haven't developed the rights habits and motivation to work properly and efficiently. I saw more slacking off in offices than anywhere else in my entire life.
where the 'proof of work' actually contributes to humanity

Wouldn't a cheaper throttle be easier?
>Obviously heat pumps are more efficient - that's kinda beside the point though.

Only obvious if you know what a heat pump is!

Plenty of people will hear "Electrical heating is 100% efficient" and interpret that to mean it's the ideal solution, when in a lot of cases it's just about the worst.

But yes, if you have electrical heating, you could throw in some CPUs or ASICs instead and they'll work just as well. The return on investment for cryptocurrency may drop off a cliff when the next silicon process comes out and mines more for the same energy, it's hard to see people wanting to keep upgrading their baseboard heaters on the same cycle that computers get replaced.

Whether it's money positive vs resistive heating will depend on A) price of your electronics relative to a cheap electric heater, B) how it stacks up vs future electronics if the payoff doesn't happen while it's new, and C) how insane the cryptocurrency markets get.
One way to theorize about that experience is to note that the important argument for reuse is that changes only have to be made once to take effect everywhere. The classic change being the bugfix.

But the buried assumption there is that you actually want the change to happen everywhere. A hard thing to decide without hindsight.
That's a very simplistic view of the way work is distributed in a small company .
My browser rendered it as a long list, so it doesn't even respect the canonical table format :'(
What is Neologicism? (2006) [pdf]
To be fair, that wouldn't stop Steve from claiming it was his idea.
When Napoleon Ventured East
Calling the argument contrived is really rather immature. It's not contrived, it's very real and important. Please stop being so quick to dismiss those that you disagree with as it's childish at best.

You speak of cargo cult, but your entire comment reeks of it. Ok, we understand, you like being able to isolate yourself. That's nice, and I'm glad you found a niche, but it's not the same for the vast majority of jobs and people. You call other people lazy, but I think perhaps that's just you. Social interaction and moving above an intermediate level where you can isolate yourself is hard work. Don't be so dismissive of others that strive for more.

Working remotely is great for the unambitious and the antisocial. Please stop trying to put those who do more down though.
Do psychopaths really make better leaders?
> Even if Ukraine had nukes, would it have threatened and actually have the will to use it over the lost of the Crimea?

Over a conventional invasion by a neighboring nation-state with massive conventional superiority with a paper-thin cover story?

Probably. I mean, that’s why the USSR didn't pull that stunt against any of the NATO countries bordering its satellites, ever, even though they did similar things to other neighbors. And those bordering states were merely allies of the nuclear powers, not nuclear powers themselves.
AI Is Favored by CIOs Over Blockchain, as It Shows and ROI in Applications
AvE is awesome!
People used to bitch about why people thought the MacBook was so cool when it was “only” 5mm thinner than anything else on the market.

The low end doesn’t understand why people pay so much more for fit and finish.

Except automobiles. Everyone seems to accept and even approve of the high end for cars.
Ironically, most Koreans I've seen hate the new (America-like) street number system. The problem is that these streets are either (1) really long (say, five kilometers, which covers a lot in a dense city) or (2) one of the several hundred small lanes that branches off these long roads, all named like "XXX street 138-lane"

In the previous system, at least the address tells you which township ("dong") it belongs to, which is usually a walkable distance. (So, for example, you'd have a pretty good idea which subway station to use.) In the new system, it could be anywhere along a busy street running through several districts.
Show HN: Daizii, analyze your day's good/bad events yourself or get feedback
I think the CFAA statute is appropriate, but as to whether it would be a sex crime, I think it would have to depend on the context.

If a vibrator was hacked and messed with but nobody was using it, then it's just hacking.

But if someone was using it, then I think a sex crime charge is fair, especially if the hacker knows its being used intimately, which would be akin to being a peeping Tom, but creepily closer.
Sometimes you just Robin Hood your VCs to build something wonderful to give to the world.
As the application becomes polished over time and as there are refinements to increase performance, reduce complexity, and trim some fat many of the dependencies will go away.

Do you find that many teams have the discipline to do this? The cynic in me says that software far more often gets slower, more complicated, fat and dependency ridden over time.

More constructively I could ask: what is it that gives a team or project the discipline to do this work of improvement. How could I encourage such a virtue in my own environment?
On my last project since I was a one-man team, I erred way over on the side of dependencies. Thought I was being clever and organized for the first time, by encapsulating related things in related places and being a stickler about it. But in the quest to do that, I ended up with a large group of tightly-coupled trash cans!
Easily one of his best bits and he did it on a talk show.
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I'm a visually and scientifically literate programmer specializing in data analysis, visualization, and Node apps. I've written and shipped code for games, desktop apps, and phone apps. As a freelancer, I've worked with clients on data dashboards and APIs, bringing products to market as well as just making proof-of-concepts.

Most-used tools:

* Python data science stack: pandas, matplotlib, scikit, sklearn, basemap

* Javascript stack: Node.js, ES6, React, D3.js

* Node app stack: Node, React Native, Electron

A few of my projects:

Node apps shipped: http://gochip.com/apps

Map with D3.js: http://dovinmu.github.io/cascadia-maps/washington.html

Python data viz: https://github.com/dovinmu/python-viz-notebooks/

Gmail: rowan.copley
just clarifying that there are many ways to incorporate Bayesian approaches in ML besides probabilistic graphical models
I'll enthusiastically second the recommendation. I won't ruin too much, but their policy of not allowing mobile phones while you are in the museum to prevent you from searching anything up really helps to preserve the atmosphere.
The solution implemented roughly a year into my position was to liberally spread cans of wet-cleaning-wipes. It was such as obvious solution and it helped tremendously.

Alternative keyboards weren't an option in those Sun 3 days, but I've brought my own chair, keyboard, and mouse to work for decades now.
> Further the book, at one point, talks about America's position on Russia and the attempts to keep them from getting "the bomb". It is exactly what has played out and will continue to play out with North Korea and Iran. History is repeating itself and we sure haven't learned from it.

Is it actually similar, though?

The US got the bomb in 1945.

The Russians got theirs in 1949.

Given the size of the Soviet Union, how far it is from the United States, the available spying and reconnaissance technology (no satellites, no stealth aircraft), and that the US was only four years out of World War II, I don't think there is any way the US could have made a creditable threat to use military force to stop the Russians.

Also, China and Russia were still on good terms back then. China might not have stayed out of it if the US attacked their ally and neighbor.

Compare to North Korea and Iran. In both cases the US can make a creditable military threat. From a purely military point of view, the US could easily wipe either (or both) of them out.

Furthermore, neither has any powerful allies who want them to get nukes.

With North Korea, their only powerful ally is China and I don't think China actually cares if North Korea gets destroyed as long as (1) it doesn't send a lot of refugees across the Chinese border, and (2) whatever replaces it continues to function as a buffer zone between them and South Korea because they do not want a US ally right on their border.
This will revolutionize greenhouses and aquaculture. Now you can optimize everything based on plant growth rate. Just need a few million data points and we can sic the AI on it.
Comcast should have been allowed to vertically integrate the way they have.
> I'd love to learn more Haskell but for my primary domain (games and VR) it's not a terribly practical option.

Oh, sure, Haskell has lots of defects. (Chiefly among those, being lazy.) I only said that it has something that's essentially concepts, except it has been designed, implemented and used since ages ago.

> This seems to be more an issue of encapsulation than support for ADTs.

The whole point to ADTs is that clients don't get to manipulate the internal representation! What exactly is that, if not encapsulation?

> most of the time with concrete representations visible (and this helps with performance which is important in my domain).

ADTs are about hiding the representation from abstraction clients (other programmers), not from the compiler, of course! In fact, a compiler writer could use ADTs solely for type-checking purposes, and from then onwards proceed as if ADTs didn't exist. So I don't see how using (proper) ADTs must have any adverse effect on performance.

> I do see the value in something like Go interfaces although it's not a problem I encounter that frequently in my domain.

I have to agree, I don't use objects with dynamically dispatched methods much either. My original point was just that C++ classes are neither good ADTs nor good object builders. They're at an uncomfortable point at the middle, with the disadvantages of both, and the advantages of neither.
Plus another 20% for product development, and some other fuzzy categories like outreach
You can beat lead acid on lifetime. I looked into that for a remote installation instead of a half ton of lead acid every 8 years. I elected to do lead acid once more and then hope for a suitable lithium solution. I swear that half ton feels heavier every 8 years.
The "jelly roll" is just one packing technique. You can pack flat sheets, so in theory can create an L shape.

Another guess is with an L shaped battery, thermal expansion makes it tricky because the L shaped compartment has a sharp inner corner which runs this risk of stressing the battery when it expands. A square compartment does not have that issue.

In any event, Apple knows how to produce weird shaped batteries. Just look at the Macbook. But it's in a nicely shape space.
Neugram Design Principles
A mail from the CEO of a start up being ignored? A dangerous career proposition...
It's useful if you like money and the setup using the mining rig has a lower net cost than other heating.
That's true for generic keyword/retargeting ads, not premium placements.
> Also, I wonder how serious Broadcom is about competing with Intel, and whether or not they would consider purchasing AMD, too, to aid in them in that effort. AMD's market cap is now only 1/10 of the price they intend to pay for Qualcomm, so it's almost a matter of "throwing some extra money on the table" at this point.

AMD effectively cannot be bought. There is a termination clause in the cross licensing of patents between AMD and Intel for x86/x86_64 in the event either company is sold. [0]

Anyone who bought AMD would immediately cause a huge issue for any company manufacturing x86 CPUs. AMD wouldn't be allowed to manufacture x86-based CPUs anymore, and Intel wouldn't be allowed to manufacture x86_64 CPUs. The only people who would conceivably benefit from such a situation would be patent lawyers who are probably already salivating at the mere thought of litigating that.

[0] https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/amd-clar...
This is exactly what I am talking about: a set of infrequent, mandatory meetings with most/all other comms on a high latency async channel.

It takes significantly more discipline for a PM to run things this way, but the reward is often better productivity and happier, less frazzled developers.
No, they don't serve the same purpose. Try running a Microsoft Exchange in a Docker container on a Linux server. Then try running it in a Windows VM on a Linux server.
I find it overwhelming. I don't know how to get over that.
What if you're wrong? I mean I don't see any of the evidence that you see, just a bunch of computer models that fit a curve.
That API has been flakey since months ago. You can still get quotes from Yahoo Finance in other ways just fine though.
How the Democrats Are Failing the Resistance
I think this personification of companies as people is misleading. Whose "focus?"

Do you mean you think that the same people within Apple are working on both hardware and software, and are focusing more on hardware? Or that you think many people who write software have been re-educated, re-assigned, and are now working on hardware?

I assume that the size of Apple's teams working on iPhone are limited by more than resources, and the recruitment pools are totally separate, so it's not like they're spending too much on hardware engineers and can't afford enough software engineers, right?

I just don't really know how you can conceive of such a massive company as having an obviously zero-sum "focus" like a person has.
You can relate to those who think Rambo movies have no political agenda when they clearly do.