skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there's certain things that native apps make a lot more sense for (e.g. messaging apps like Facebook Messenger where you want notifications to come up similar to text messages), but certain things really don't need anything more than the mobile website you look at (for example, at least for some people, mobile Wikipedia over the app).
I'm amused by the implication here, that it's obvious $500 million a year isn't enough to run a website where people send short messages to each other.
The issue is that companies carrying the disease often grow and "prosper" while companies which do not get left in the dust. Thus the trend goes towards every company becoming diseased.

The only way to solve this is regulation. If you don't impose non-negotiable standards on everybody, the ones most willing to bend laws and morals succeed.
Amazon.com’s support is so terrible, even for those easy consumer questions I sometimes have. Their AWS support is amazing though.
AI-powered ‘Nudge’ respond reminders rolling out to the new Gmail
> Cheaper than regular

FES is currently as expensive or more expensive than battery, and while it could go down faster than batteries that's unlikely considering how old FES tech is.

If you want to store lots of power in a flywheel, you need big flywheels spinning very fast without spinning out of control and blowing themselves up (because then all the power they stored remains kinetic but stops being contained).

They've got plenty of advantages over battery (inert materials, less affected by temperature variations, potentially infinite lifespan for magnetic bearings in vacuum-sealed enclosures) but safe large-scale flywheels are not cheap.

Neither Beacon Power nor Amber Kinetics provide any pricing information on their pages, despite specs in the same range as battery storage: a Powerwall 2 is 13.5kWh/5kW, an Amber Kinetics M32 is 32kWh/8kW. The M32 is also ~4.5 tons.

The M32 does have the advantage of an estimated 30 years lifespan, and no health danger outside of the rather immediate effects of a containment breach,
I will not try to convince you otherwise then. It may however interest you that Tolkien himself said "'The Lord of the Rings' is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision." (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/s...) - but the statements of an author about their own work should of course not always be taken at face values.
There is no substitute for you, the person reading these words, to stop accepting plastic bags and as much similar things -- coffee cups, utensils, etc.

Each reduction makes the next easier and simpler. Eventually you work up to fewer cars and bigger reductions.

Most importantly, you find the reductions improve your life. Most Americans could probably cut 75% with zero problem. More likely increased self-awareness, community, savings, health.

I cut out about 95% of packaged food about 3 years ago. The last time I had to empty my trash was June 2017.

More importantly, I've never eaten more delicious (nor saved as much time and money). The success led to reductions in other areas and I keep finding more because I look because it improves my life. There's nothing special about me. Anyone can do the same.
It's kinetic energy if you consider rotation around the center of the flywheel (I * omega^2/2), but only potential energy to move around and destroy stuff (m * v^2/2). If you let the flywheel loose, it becomes just a wheel and it's not potential energy anymore. :-)
Support is something you pay extra for, usually some fixed percentage of the total cost of service.
I like that "antifa" just gets sliced in there, ignoring that the phrase and meaning is explicitly "anti-fascist", and it's only gained renewed visibility because there are actual fascists openly demonstrating and threatening people in the US.

You've always had a right to free speech, you sure as hell have never had a right not to be criticized for what you say.
Active Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17066941
Tightwads don't lease a new car every 6 months (and an expensive one at that). Also, the registration fees would have literally been a rounding error compared to state income+property taxes he was already paying. I think you could easily be right on the asshole vs legend thing but I'm having a hard time seeing how this example supports that opinion.
Tooltips do come up but you have to put your mouse on the icon itself, if your mouse is on the enclosing button and the button is highlighted, the tooltip won't come up until you move the mouse to the icon itself.
It is the same today... Catholics in my pueblo do not eat carne on Fridays (during Lent) which is to say no air breathing animal. Tuna fish salad is a very popular meal on Fridays if you have a house full of Catholics during Lent.
https://fxxk.app works for me
That doesn't hold as much water when victim is the same party that would be paying for the recall. With social issues like crime society is both the victim and paying for the settlements/recall. Resources are not infinite (eventually you run out of other people's money). I want society to spend the resources I have to give it as effectively as possible. If that means paying settlements then I'm all for paying settlements.
There are a lot of different types of people that require different levels of management. Some may require just a direction to point them in, some may require a lot of hand-holding and close watching. Lazy management decides that everyone is the same and applies the same thing for everybody. Nothing makes the 'point in a direction' types leave quicker than that...
It actually went up, somehow.
I think you're under-estimating how disruptive prison is to one's life. I'd definitely choose lashes over prison. Heck, I'd probably take lashes + prison in order to get a felony reduced to a misdemeanor. It would suck less than the effects on my life from losing my job.
I'm with you. Given that flywheels are a relatively old tech, I've got to think there's a reason we don't do this. Maybe they require too much space or are too dangerous? I'd like to hear from someone who knows something about the subject.
That's religious quackery (pardon the redundancy).
You can only do that if you're Steve Jobs. The chances of someone ever working on a product that's going to define an industry are infinitesimal.

If I got a chance to work on the iPhone in 2006, yeah I might put up with a lot of crap. If all I'm doing is writing yet another software as a service CRUD app and I have an insufferable manager - I'll jump ship so fast it will make their head spin.

On second thought, thier head won't spin, they will put out a rec the day I submit my letter of resignation and forget I existed in three months.
So, I've never been able to figure this out. If you pay for single-seat G-suite (using my personal @gmail.com address) does it also eliminate ads in gmail, etc (obviously not on search)?
>> Did they live longer because of their diet or because of their reliable access to food?

Nah, they lived longer because of reduced stress. "They were not permitted even to speak to women."
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I once applied for a job that I thought was doing security engineering type stuff, and that's what the posting certainly described, but in the interview it quickly became a bait and switch, and they started explaining in detail about how their product monitors employees network usage in detail and the lengths they go through to make sure it is hidden on phones and workstations so employees don't know.

Nobody who worked there seemed to have a problem with it. I ended the interview early which apparently infuriated much of the company. Threats were made, but thankfully I never heard from them again.

You can say no to making bad things. Even if you work at Google, you can say no.
Watch out - you're about to receive a hot-desking initiative. See obviously only 80% of the workforce is in the building at any given time, so you don't really need to provision desk-space for all of them. There will definitely be no on-going productivity issues from all the time people spend trying to find somewhere to sit, or forcing people to setup their whole workspace every single day they come in.
Lenovo teases a slick, all-screen smartphone that doesn’t have a notch
> or ambivalent to this problem

It's not a 'problem' for Instagram if it results in increased revenues from the increase engagement, even if it is from falsely inflated follower numbers, posts, comments, activity etc.

> In other words, Fuelgram creates fake engagement from real Instagram accounts. And it's quite effective. Fuelgram makes posts appear more popular than they are, tricking Instagram's algorithm into spreading them further, sometimes right into the service's high-profile Explore tab.
It may not be a huge innovation, but it's an interesting potential business model. And as an investor, I'd be looking at financial potential, not "innovation".
They could do that with a fingerprint reader if that were the point. In that case you would get a choice in whether it were read or not, instead of it being read automatically whenever you're nearby.
Have you seen the Slaughterbots video? They seem potentially more dangerous and the hardware is much simpler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
You can now try Smart Compose in the new Gmail
The two that I know of are:

http://zennioptical.com (which I've used for years)

https://www.glassesshop.com/ (which I learned of recently)
All that's necessary in order to forge a transaction is routing & checking account number. Similarly, with credit card numbers. This is why cryptographically signed transactions make so much more sense and are much more secure.
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Wouldn't this cause the US to just end up subsidizing medicines for other countries?
Like so? https://imgur.com/gallery/YiwxQKy
‘Offline First’ is more than a Download button
In my limited experience PIPs are an HR process to document why they are firing you, not any real stab at recovery / rehabilitation.
My wife (then girlfriend) got John Carmack to email me for my birthday in college.
Debugging by David J. Agans. It's about 206 pages and the information is pretty high level, but it taught me to systematically debug problems instead of blindly changing random code.
I would add to that:

- Don't try to recruit me for the company I work for

- Don't constantly ask me for referrals for a $500 bonus from your $20k fee
> took the West's plastic

Does it have to be the west's?

Why do so many people blame the west solely, because other countries can't help it, or because other countries export to the west, or because the west exports an amount of trash to other countries? Not even a Billion people in the west, those other 6 had nothing to do with it?
It seems like many here are making excuses why only the west is at fault. While most trash going in the ocean happens not in the west.
> I don't know if Carmack has FU money

He most definitely has. Heck, spent some of that on founding a rocket company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_Aerospace
That may well be more effective.
If all programmers get fired for bugs that make it into production ... well you know.
By the time you're considering building a concrete bunker, it's clearly better to give up on flywheels and stick with chemical batteries. A bunker will cost a lot more to construct than a few Powerwalls.
I'm surprised none of them mentioned the abominable "culture match". I've heard repeated complaints that it's much more important to be a brogrammer who likes craft beers, than it is to be any good at the actual programming.
Harper's had a terrific piece on workplace monitoring a few years ago: https://harpers.org/archive/2015/03/the-spy-who-fired-me/?si...

One of the common themes is the unintended consequences. For example, UPS drivers who get scolded because the truck records that it was sometimes in motion without them wearing their seat belt. Regardless of the circumstances before the scolding (there are lots of situations where it would be reasonable to make such a judgment call, esp on private property like a parking lot), afterward they would simply clip the seatbelt empty and sit on top of it. Then the truck registers 100% seatbelt compliance and they are far less safe since they're never wearing it.
What's "basic textual and photo information"? You have already installed one called the browser, to get some information.
Where does everyone else's trash go?
Dumb question: couldn’t a vacuum chamber and magnetic bearings overcome those issues?
I’d rather someone read another book than an article. It’s too easy to write glibly about the Middle Ages in a short piece of comment and they’re not well enough understood to fill in the context correctly. Most of the readers in this thread will benefit from reading the entire book and then returning to the linked article. The article on its own would not lead to a better understanding of history, just a few new lines to repeat.
Orwell's definition of patriotism is fairly specific, and he mentions how hard it is to understand what anyone means when they say "patriotism" or "nationalism." Because of that, most things called patriotism barely try to fit Orwell's definition, but I can try again...

The Bush rhetoric about the necessity of the war on terror was presented in a very patriotic light by Orwell's definition. They brought up a seemingly constant risk to all American homes, and the often repeated line about the "terrorists hate our freedom" seemed to threaten and belittle the cultural values core to American patriotism. An appeal to patriotic feelings to justify nationalist actions.

If that doesn't work for you, I don't know what will. I'd guess you're using different definitions of the terms, as even my most cynical views on Israel would be nationalist.
It was already common enough in the US, but it's downright rare compared to how common it is in the UK or other places where it's legal. Hull, Stoke, West Ham, and Manchester City come to mind -- all big soccer teams who have/had bookmakers emblazoned on their uniforms as the main sponsor.

I'm sure that if the US makes sports betting legal we'll see a huge influx of betting companies, apps, etc. Like you said, most of it was handled by foreign companies, but now they'll be able to advertise and grow in the US in earnest.
Worth noting that it isn't available yet.

> Initially, Google One will only be available on a limited basis. If you have a paid Drive storage plan, you’ll be automatically upgraded to Google One over the coming months.
Look out for an email with details on your new benefits.
I agree. And I think the branding here of "Google One" implies that this could be the start of a large change of course, since it's not specific to any one product.

While gmail support is notoriously awful, I've been extremely impressed with my call-in support for my Google Fi, Nexus phones, and Pixel buds. So when you pay for the product, they do (/can) support it well.

I would love a general paid-Google (a la Amazon Prime) plan, which aligns incentives a little better.
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Other than anonymity, non-repudiation is a possibility. I may not want the recipient of my messages to be able to undeniably prove what I said to them. This case is important if I'm saying unflattering things about a mutual friend, or my messages could be read as admitting a crime, etc.

(Though note that the vulnerability here still applies to signed messages too: https://efail.de/#will-signatures)
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I would absolutely love to see a thoughtful 'what engineers want from technical recruiters' post.
> How will bitcoin insulate you from something like the 07 recession, it won't make finding a job easier.

Obviously you're not 100% protected, but you're more protected from anything that doesn't affect the entire world.

Or do you think that holding dollars exposes you to an Amazon bankruptcy just as much as holding Amazon gift cards?

> BTC instantly becomes worthless without widespread internet access. Without network access, what value is in a blockchain?

Have you looked around at the world you live in? If network access ceases to exist the entire economy will collapse, I don't think Bitcoin is your biggest worry there.
Pro Apple users standards are now so low that we'll be delighted and thrilled if/when they release a MacBook Pro with a keyboard that reliably works, and that has an escape key and function row again.

Several of my colleagues and friends gave up on waiting and jumped to Lenovo or system76. I personally went with a refurb 2015 MacBook Pro and am keeping my fingers crossed, and know a large number of others who are doing the same.
> Most electric batteries can accept much more current than commercial electricity drops can provide.

Just how much headroom is there? I'm under the impression that avoiding excessive heat is the key to battery longevity, so the question is whether or not this extra current increases heat levels to degrees that will have a measurable negative impact on the long-term capacity of the battery.
You seriously think that the various branches of the US government aren't in a constant power struggle? Such conflict underpins the very American concept of checks and balances. As I said in another post: This isn't about allowing people to gamble or not. This is isn't even about deciding who has the power to regulate gambling as both levels of government can if they want. This is the court reminding everyone who gets to referee in this game.
Apple scraps $1B data center
Complex CAD parts can have complex construction to get things like symmetry and parametric sizing to work correctly. It's much more involved than word processing, for example. If you watch an experienced CAD technician work, they will often wipe the entire part and start over so that the right operators are applied at the right part in the construction sequence.

So CAD part design is a lot like programming, so why not use an actual programming language? That way you get the editing and version control of a programming language.

OpenScad works fairly well for 3D printing, but isn't very good for CNC. It's internal engine understands volume occupied, but not surface shape. This means it can't output standard CAD file formats like STEP or IGES.

CadQuery uses the same engine that's in FreeCad to output STEP and IGES files. It's Python based, so you don't have to learn another language to use it. FreeCad or other CAD programs can then do analysis or generate CNC profiles, for example.
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In case you haven’t found this lead yet, Microsoft has had a number of funding initiatives in the past looking to encourage startups to provide better connectivity to underserved markets. The first link google found on the initiative [0] is fairly old but I’m pretty sure this was/is a multi-year effort that is likely still active and if not probably still has significant advocates within the company that are worth finding if underserved markets are relevant to Necto.

Full disclosure: co-founder of a Seattle-based startup that was invited into the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator and found it an incredibly valuable experience

[0] http://fortune.com/2015/11/16/microsoft-cheap-internet/
Disclosure: I'm what most would consider "white collar". Also , this is tangential to your post.

One of my closest friends has been an automotive tech in the dealership world for the past 12 or so years and has mastertech certifications for 2 manufacturers.

I never cease to be amazed at how fucked that industry/line of work can be, even for someone who is firmly at the top of their game. The incentive structure seems totally out of whack to me, such that it's no wonder that people assume the worst when they are faced with having to take their vehicle in for service.
mining power doesn't let you break the Bitcoin consensus rules, like the limit of 21M BTC.
https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-go... currently says 6 years 20 days and 1 hour since Google claimed a Linux client is coming.
I wonder what they mean by Google experts. Will there be an actual human being or some hybrid solution at the end of the line? Not that it matters to me as long as it's efficient.
"Many institutions boasted, in the admission season just ended, that they had received record numbers of applications. What most very carefully didn’t say was that record numbers of applicants are lining up to be accepted."

I read this like 3 times, then the article, then again, but I can't parse it. What is it really saying here?
Ya. When they named it jQuery was the new hotness.
To be fair to Stephen Crothers, these are slides, and he bolded some of his conclusions for emphasis. I think it is unfair to raise the issue of crackpotism because he bolded some sentences. You can see in the video that he does not yell at all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCmEyK4YLdI&t=2s

But I personally believe that no evidence can ever disprove Special Relativity or General Relativity. They are so entrenched in academic physics that physicists will call any contradicting evidence "an anomaly", name it with a clever name and make it an academic field of study on its own without ever discontinuing SP. But for any anti-Einstein idea to be taken seriously a very high ranking and prominent physicist need to write papers on the topic. But no physicist will ever question Einstein. For them this is textbok stuff. Physicists can only test Einstein to prove him right one more time :) An outsider has no chance even if, as you say, he comes with experimental evidence.
Is it conceivable that the same type of battery could be used in cars as well, or would the capacity/falloff/external forces be too limiting?
I can tell you from personal experience that while it feels good and like the moral high ground, punching upward doesn’t work out much better.
I would say the unsafe thing here is `new CartID`, which allows you to turn an arbitrary string into a `CartID`. That shouldn't be possible outside of a small, encapsulated module somewhere, which exposes only safe usages (e.g. wrappers around database calls).

One way to do this is via a module system, like in Racket, ML, Haskell, etc. I'm not sure if Java et al. allow private constructors, but if so we could use those and provide the safe wrappers as static methods.

An alternative/complementary approach is to make `CartID` abstract, e.g. an existential type in ML or an interface in Java. This way our code is forced to be generic, working for any possible implementation of `CartID`. We specialise it to some sort of `StringCartID` implementation once, at the top-level.
Not live yet.
Safety concerns raised... since the maximum amount of power the flywheel can be expected to store is a known quantity, and the amount of kinetic energy that can be stopped by concrete or metal shielding is a known quantity, it's just a matter of burying the flywheel underground, with enough concrete/metal around it (particularly above it) to prevent shrapnel from penetrating to the surface. Easy peasy. It's just a cost problem.

We keep those levels of potential energy in underground gas tanks at every gas station, and no one freaks out about that.

edit: For perspective, a typical gas station has 12,000 to 24,000 gallons of gasoline storage underground. A gallon of gas is about 120 megajoules of potential energy. So there are billions of joules sitting there - much more than these flywheels. Of course, without air, gasoline isn't dangerous. But a 90% empty tank has a lot of air in it, a lot of potential boom.