skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some people think we're getting too many transplants and that regulating the development of new housing will somewhat curb that.

Those people are either idiots or don't care about anyone but themselves. Not everyone born and raised in California has parents who are well off enough to pass down a house to them (in fact I doubt most have parents that can). What happens when our teachers and every low paid worker get fed up with the quality of life (which includes lining their landlords' coffers instead of building equity) and decide to move elsewhere? Are the home owners suddenly going to pick up the slack and do the jobs of the 99%? "Snap decisions that sound good to my tribe but ultimately lead to long term problems for everyone" should be the motto of a certain group of people here.

It's also disconcerting that some tech people fall into that group of people because you would think tech people of all people would have basic enough skills to look beyond the first consequence of a solution.
Not in Home addition. You can set your internet connection to metered and that will only give you critical security updates, if you are lucky. But MS can choose to ignore that setting any time they want to.
I consult on Oracle ERP software who are attempting to transition customers from their legacy, on premise (EBS) system to their hosted / managed SaaS (Cloud) offering. Main issues are:

1) Lack of customization options - in Oracle's case, their Cloud offering is hardly customizable (no database access) compared to the on prem version. Thus, key functionality is lost which makes running a business difficult.

2) Cost - you basically need to re-implement your business, which is a $1MM+ affair and tons of time and risk and consultants and work for your team. Plus the Cloud solution isn't that much cheaper in the end.

3) Bugs - the Cloud software is new and still has many problems. Let someone else fight those.
If insect-resistant means tsetse fly (which was why the idea if taming zebras was briefly fasionable) then it’s worth noting that this wasn’t a problem until 1896, when the rinderpest killed all the cattle, whose grazing had kept the land grass not bush.

For the owners of said cattle, one answer is like the maize: they already had cows!

These farming and cow-herding people were busy replacing other african peoples. Why the others didn’t domesticate zebra... comes back to why weren’t they farming too? I don’t know if we have a great theory for why farming started when it did, anywhere: what kept the mesopotamians away from farming from 20000-10000 years ago?
There is a way to provide upgrade pricing for iOS. It's an ugly hack though....

2015 - you sold v1 for $5.00

2017 - you start selling v2.

You sell v1 for $5.00 but in the description tell everyone not to buy it.

You sell v2 for $5.00 but direct people who have already bought v1 to buy the bundle of v1 and v2 that you price at $8. Anyone who has already bought v1 can buy the bundle for $3.
My org uses .io - There's been some technical issues discussed in the past with io on hn which should be searchable.

However we've also encountered users being unfamiliar with what .io is/means and if it's safe. Tech companies who serve other tech companies probably don't have this issue but if your audience is to the general public it could be a problem.
Tech people are also hyper "rational" which some read as "cold".
OSGeo dot org is using Gitea, with superpowers by Sandro Santelli (strk). It's great ! popular and lightweight, does much and asks little. The graphic design is familiar and so are the functions, since it obviously originated as a clone of another G-site you may know.

the admin wiki page is here
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Gitea
Seconded on the reinstall by downloading the latest Windows 10 installation onto a USB stick.

Wayyyy faster than trying to restore from factory image.

On different laptops attempting to restore from factory image has failed, or taken more than overnight to get to current version.

So far I have had 100% success fixing Windows update issues by doing a clean install from the latest Microsoft ISO.
I must say I actually love the subscription model that is becoming the de facto standard.

If you sell a one time license to somebody there is no incentive for the seller to keep making the product better, to care keep caring for you.

With a subscription model - especially a non-annually-paid one, they have to keep working to keep you.

It's also a way more sustainable business model and probably the only thing which can replace ads in practice. If a service like facebook gets a load of money out of you per year, there's no way they would switch to a one-time fee instead. If it were to be replaced by a subscription though, then you're still a constant money flow for them, which would work much better.
Having an employee vouch for you... does this not imply they don't even know where their money is going as a company and who is valuable and who is not? I agree, that having the line worker / employee using the part's blessing is important, but surely there are more holistic top-down ways of evaluating this?
Do you mean that the usage and the monthly bill are separated in time? I don't see why the pay per article couldn't work the same way. The bag tax example was ludicrous for a different reason: namely that carrying multiple loads in your arms is more than worth five cents for all but the absolutely poorest Americans.
Right, IO does not collect the results this way. putStr for strings is declared like so:

putStr :: String -> IO ()

Here, () is the unit type, which is similar to null/nil in other languages. In other words, I/O functions like putStr etc. don't return anything. putStr internally calls lower-level functions that actually write to a file descriptor.

Some people get into Haskell thinking that functions can't have side effects because Haskell is "pure", but that's not right. Rather, as the parent commenter say, they can have all the side effects they want, and the consistency and purity of the program's execution is preserved through the use of monads.

Haskell is considered a pure functional language where everything is immutable, but that's not true, either. A lot of the GHC standard library uses mutation (e.g. with IORefs) for performance reasons. For example, putStr ends up writing to an internal byte buffer that is modified directly.
more stupid bollox pointless shitty companies wasting time while masturbating the egos of the "founders"
An excellent replacement for the sorely missed gold standard. Low liquidity. No government minting.
> Sometimes I think the adjectives to describe some situations are too harsh.

might be related to this:

> I may be the only one with zero problems on Windows 10...

Try spending hours (if not days) trying to bring your computer back to life, going through every google result for a helpful string like "0x80070422".

Seriously, just try looking at the autocomplete for "Windows 10 update 0x".

I know it's insanely difficult to do what Microsoft does, and the fact that Windows even works at all on so many different computers is nothing short of a miracle. But after a few experiences with odd Windows errors on a machine that worked fine just a minute ago can make you use some strong adjectives.
I also had that problem with my password not working after the 1803 update (until I rebooted).

By using the password reveal button, I found out that windows was not letting me enter any digits. I tried both the numpad and the number row.
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There's also the concept of the "Drift into Failure", which I believe was coined by Sydney Dekker (https://www.amazon.com/Drift-into-Failure-Components-Underst...), where small compromises in operations eventually cause very important security and reliability protections to be eroded away.
https://www.expressvpn.com/
Adding $30k to your mortgage would cost like $150 a month extra or so. It will produce about 15,000 kWh per month, which is about $150 off your electric bill.
That would be perfect! But I am not paying MS $7 a month so they can remove features. I like my kill updates solution for now. This really should be a default on business products like Dell 9550.
Could someone ELI5 how the recharge cycle works? On charging it evolves H2 gas; how does that get put back on recharge?

This is very much NOT explained by the paragraph,

> The researchers did this by re-attaching their power source to the depleted prototype, this time with the goal of inducing the manganese dioxide particles clinging to the electrode to combine with water, replenishing the manganese sulfate salt. Once this salt was restored, incoming electrons became surplus, and excess power could bubble off as hydrogen gas, in a process that can be repeated again and again and again.
But with the way that App Store economics work, you can't easily charge for upgrades but both iOS and Android have new versions yearly with new features that users expect you to implement.
> If your hydrogen is under pressure, then simple containment failure can be the “spark” required.

If the pressure is high enough[1], you don't even need to ignite the hydrogen; pressurized gas storage experiencing catastrophic failure is a bomb. An explosion is rapidly expanding gas. Normally a chemical chain reaction[2] is used to generate that gas, but rupturing high pressure gas storage has very similar effects.

Storing a lot of energy in a small space (high energy density) always includes the risk of that energy being released.

> We shouldn’t short sell just how tricky hydrogen can be.

Working with hydrogen directly is really problematic. However, an easy way to solves most of those problems is stabilizing the hydrogen by attaching it to a chain of carbon atoms.

[1] The storage pressure probably is high enough or the design would have used much cheaper low pressure parts.

[2] e.g. the common high explosives that store lots of single-bonded nitrogen as a solid and rapidly chain react into triple-bonded N2 gas and a lot of energy
Ah, so what you are saying is that with only 2000 Fisa requests they were able to get ALL that data?

I guess if you just make 1 fisa request that says "give me everything" then that's good enough, right?

At least with those other companies I have a choice to use them or not. If I don't like Google I can use duck duck go, or something else.

The government doesn't give me a choice of whether I am spied on or not.
Is roof top solar going to help anything? It's my understanding that roof top solar does little to reduce peak loads when the sun is not out. But decreases demand during the day. Meaning you need coal plants standing at the ready to catch the peak.
2018 and MS is still heavy.
Running Antergos (Arch Linux flavour) with ZFS and not looking back. Rolling updates, speedy. Everything just works.

Luckily forgot about the long hours spend on reinstalling and reinstalling Windows back then.

*Is there any form of compensation from MS for fixing computer after broken update ?

Productivity ?
Go for Mac or Linux
Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (2012)
Telsa's solar roof looks nice, though it's even more expensive...
> Sounds shocking... but having worked as a contractor for a goodly portion of my career, I'd argue that something is seriously wrong if you can't get at least one employee to vouch for you.

That sounds reasonable, although I could see a need for some exceptions. For example, I could see a company using a contractor for its front end web development and another contractor for running the web server. The first contractor would be working with employees, such as sales and marketing that decide what is supposed to go on the site, and they could vouch for that contractor. The second contractor, the one running the web server, could easily end up only interacting with the front end web contractor.
I was only aware of oil (not gas) soaked rags spontaneously combusting
Eep, I may have inadvertently been referring to information about internal trials. Suffice it to say that a public offering isn't the first step to trying out a product direction, nor is it the only way to get feedback from the market (given that a tried and failed public product incurs substantial costs).

EDIT: thanks to the downthread comment, I see that the pilot I was thinking of apparently became Contributor. This is pretty much exactly what many in this thread are talking about, with the significant difference being that there are few participating sites, and the ones on there are generally targeted at the kinds of demographics who care an unusual amount about avoiding ads. The reason there's barely any buy-in on the content provider side is because most sites know that their readers wouldn't like it.
Meta algorithm:

Any common invitation request.
This is how you build wealth as a society. Californians should be proud. The housing crisis is a separate issue. This policy decreases the TCO (cost) of housing by planting a money tree on the roof. Rooftop solar is great for consumers because it avoids the ~30% efficiency loss to heat that you otherwise pay using transmission lines. Mandating BIPV at the design/build stage improves aesthetics & resale value.
The sponsored cleanups are an interesting idea.

For the UK there's https://www.fixmystreet.com/ to report issue to your local council. I see 1 million reports. It has a different target audience and dynamic, no mobile app and no gamification (though there's a top 10 list of councils). The platform is open source.
I have no problems here either. Other than the telemetry bs, I really couldn't be happier for using Windows as a primary Linux based dev box (WSL, Docker, etc.).
I believe it's an atmospheric effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkling
I wonder whether it's the same issue I had, but with both numbers AND letters.

All I could enter were spaces until I rebooted.
The efforts to build a launch pad that is reflective of reality is millions of dollars and several months of expensive, concerted effort. And it's one-time use.
If you change the Network to Metered Connection it will only give you updates for Windows Defender and Security Updates. Doesn't seem to do any download by itself.

Also, if you are a developer LTSB edition is a non starter. You can't install Visual Studio 2017 on it :).
> I think people get too focused on any one particular solution, and cannot see that a mixture of things probably is best. Nuclear for places that can tolerate it plus wind or solar for peak times. Hydro and solar/wind for places that can't.

I agree that a mixture is necessary. With that being said, the examples you give are entirely technological, which I think is likely insufficient to solve climate change. I think we need a combination of technological, psychological, and political approaches.

For example, as a cyclist, I'm continually disappointed by the reasons people tell me they'd never be able to adopt cycling for transportation. I'm told that they wouldn't be able to do X, Y, or Z, or that they'd feel very restricted, etc. But when I tell them that most cyclists do X no problem and they could rent a car if they wanted to do Y and Z (which are done infrequently), they aren't convinced. It seems to me that many people face a false dilemma here because they see cycling as far more difficult than it actually would be. If you design your life to make cycling possible, it's perfectly acceptable, even preferable in my case because I want the exercise. Most people pick where they live based at least in part on their driving commute, so it would only be fair to do the same for a cycling commute.

Population reduction is another area which you could mention as part of a combination of solutions. In my experience those conversations are often counterproductive. But it seems clear to me that population can't keep increasing if we only have one planet, and we might prefer to have less people with a higher quality of life. (My views on population ethics are not fully formed for what it's worth.)

My view is that climate change is a lost cause, so instead I'm focusing on adaptation to the new normal.
Why isn't everyone installing then? There is a net cost somewhere.
But - what I am referring to here is more of - in the Core Processes. For example, - A Telecom company still is reluctant to bring in SaaS offering in the Network Management - A eCommerce Retailer in it's Customer Management - A Manufacturer in the core ERP

I think any company would be understandably cautious about this because that's their core business. I probably wouldn't adopt a Saas or outsource that either if I was in charge.

I think it's better for a SaaS to focus on doing well something that the business needs to do but is not replacing something along their core stack and offering.

I'm founder at Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) and the biggest hurdles I would say are around the general fears around not having an on premises solution. Some people are totally fine with this, usually those who have already adopted and are used to services like Slack, Asana, Google Docs, Trello, BaseCamp etc. Then there are also concerns about where data is stored. Usually though I think they're concerned most about the fear of embarrassment internally for introducing something that doesn't 'work' as expected or has bad support. Most people want to solve a problem but also want to cover their backs so trust is a big part, often more than the features being offered.
Exactly. And if Microsoft doesn't like users disabling updates, maybe it should stop releasing updates that break stuff.
I hope microsoft is at least paying well to fight any software resistance. These people are one terminal away from installing free software and doing there own decisions - often with good reason. This has to be stopped!

Labrat uprising in cage seven! Labrat uprising in cage seven! All personal with syringes report immediatly!
The median home across all California is up 9% last year to $537k [0]. That's a change on the order of $40k. 1.5% of a million dollars is indeed a lot of money, but in this context, you pay the same penalty for letting 6 months elapse.

[0] https://www.zillow.com/ca/home-values/
That link performs a calculation based on some fairly back-of-the-envelope physics assumptions. Its conclusion:

Roughly one-half of the solar luminosity increase occurs during the last 2 billion years but there is no evidence for a parallel increase in the Earth's mean surface temperature. Indeed, isotopic studies of the Precambrian samples by Knauth and Epstein (ref. 12) indicate that the mean surface temperature has been decreasing during this time. Clearly, there is a need for further studies of the effects of crustal movements and volcanism, biological activity, etc. on the long-term evolution of the Earth's climate. At present, it appears that the effects of solar evolution are still buried in the "noise" due to other uncertainties in paleoclimatic models.

Is there anything since 1981 with more definitive conclusions? Is there any study that has attempted to measure sun output directly or indirectly, rather than simply calculating output based on the sun's age?
Being a hard ass CEO isn't sexy, but it's what so many successful CEO's are.

> Often, it is like a Russian nesting doll of contractor, subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, etc. before you finally find someone doing actual work.

I'd also argue that these multi-level contractor setups are a major security concern. Ideally they should make it policy to have no more than one additional level between Tesla and the contractor performing the work.

Aggregate contracting will make assigning liability a difficult task and it's likely the person working for you is being underpaid as each layer takes their cut. Meanwhile you get 100% of the shit-storm from any media backlash about worker salary/conditions.
Continuously deploy a static website using GitHub and AWS
To get default index.html files to serve properly, use the http url from the static site pane in your s3 bucket setup. Don't use the bucket listed in the drop-down on cloudfront. Then it will work properly. You don't need a lambda function.
I wonder what role inhibitory control plays in the behaviors of ASD. Is it that an autistic person is unable to control their irregular behavior, or is it simply that their perception of the world is different than most neurotypical people?
"If an ICD hasn't been turned off and starts to fire, holding a magnet right over the device will temporarily disable it and keep it from delivering multiple shocks. Some hospice programs give magnets to families who are taking care of a hospice patient with an ICD at home."

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-28/health/sc-heal...
> Windows 10 puts Microsoft's needs ahead of the users.

So stop using Windows.

It's really that simple. Until people stop buying Windows, this will never change.
Yes but Marco said that only about 10% pay for subscriptions. That's why he created his own ad platform.
GOGS 的一些核心团队的动机令人担忧。
Congrats to the OP, but I am assuming that these are 1000 users who are on a 'free' account? If so, I'd be interested in hearing about strategies to convert these free accounts into paid subscriptions in the future, or monetising them in some other way. I assume that is the end goal of SiteGuru? To be profitable in some way?
oh yeah, thats smart - good idea!
I have two vanity domains with "non-traditional" TLDs: one .is and one .lol.

I do use the .is domain (gadd.is) pretty often for e-mail and the worst that happens is I sometimes have to repeat it or I get asked "That's it? There's no .com or anything?". The "personalized" e-mail addresses that I give out ("your-company@gadd.is") are more confusing to people than the domain name or TLD is.

I don't use the .lol domain for e-mail at all, except when I once created and used the e-mail address wsmith6079 AT recdep.minitrue.oceania.lol for a very specific purpose, mostly to see if any of the others would notice the reference (to 1984) but, AFAIK, no one did.
"To mimic how a wind or solar source might feed power into the battery, the researchers attached a power source to the prototype."
but name-calling makes you look bad regardless of the merits of your argument
On that note, does anyone have any idea how it might compare to Peter Allen's open source Iron Battery project? I know the latter is in a very early stage, but maybe there is already a theoretical limit that can be predicted given the properties of manganese and iron.

http://peterallenlab.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-t9a7XVoH9lDJzhUF2nyHQ
Microsoft has become very hostile. Recently I have upgraded my PC and that tripped the activation. For some reason I was unable to reactivate (I own full retail licence btw), after wasting time on Google I tried Microsoft support. For a couple of days and a number of consultants trying to force me to give them full access to my machine, asking to upload invoices for the new parts, treating me basically like a thief, they eventually generated me new license key. Now I am scared to upgrade anything in my PC again and then there is that update coming. How on earth it is possible to treat customers like this in 2018?
Sadly I use some software that only works on Windows so I have no option, but now I have separate PC only to have those apps and on all other machines I installed Linux. Fuck you Microsoft!
How many products need constant feature updates? Aside from security/compatibility there are plenty of products that already meet everything required of them (to near everyone). How many new features does a file manager need? An PDF reader?

For Facebook - I don't think forced subscription would work. People would be forced to think about how much they value the service (a less ubiquitous one at that).