skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post above yours is actually correct. I didn't read it as rude either although maybe a little dismissive. If you work in this space, you quickly realize just how complex everything is as the electric grid is the largest most complex machine on planet earth. The legal, economic, regulatory, and engineering aspects of it go pretty deep.

Utilities typically own generation plants as well as the high voltage transmission lines that transport electricity to consumers which then have their voltage lowered (think of a transformer as a device that lowers pressure) before going over smaller distribution lines into your house. Long ago, competition was fierce, so utilities went to the government and asked to be regulated. This caused forced consolidation and they began to effectively serve as monopolies and make a modest return on investment each year. In those days demand was fairly easy to forecast. The utility would make sure they always had enough generation online plus some extra to cover any emergencies like a unit tripping offline. The grid worked like this for decades and costs were fairly cheap. If the utility needed to build a new nuclear plant (example) they would have to go to the state commission and get them to approve raising the rates. Now, although rates were fairly cheap, there was a push to deregulate things. In theory, markets are less efficient in some ways, but more in others such as incentivizing new and more efficient technology. Remember the regulated utility doesn't make any more money by doing research and risking new technology.

With deregulation, we moved to the RTO/ISO model where lots of utilities band together and work with an RTO/ISO. The RTO/ISO chooses which units run via optimization. It wants to find a way to serve all the customers in the region, plus provide backup power, and do it very cheaply. Remember how the utility has to keep extra units online in case one trips? By banding together into what is known as a "pool" you can save lots of money as far fewer units need to be online as backup. The RTO/ISO does this as well. It also knows the cost of each unit and chooses the cheapest ones. This is slowly forcing more costly fossil fuels to retire as they simply aren't as economical. This causes an issue as even though wind/solar is awesome, it isn't as reliable as a massive coal plant with months of fuel waiting to be used. Making sure there are no blackouts is VERY important to grid operators. The industry is scrambling to address these issues as fast as possible, but it is a tough issue. Deregulation is a weird word as utilities are still regulated, but there are now market forces coupled into it as well helping push progress forwards. I hope that helps a bit!
So little to go on, but the big challenge will be how to get value from the inevitably idiotic questions people will ask.
This is a massive problem on Google Maps, it's inundated with questions that are either:

1.answered in the place description that questioners clicked right past

2. not suited to crowd sourcing, such as things that require a rep from the business to approve ("Can I get a children's cot put into room 643?")

And there's the Amazon Q&A issue with answers too: so many responses with "no, I don't know how to answer that", because people don't think enough to realise that not answering is a more appropriate response when you don't know on sites like that!
This should get cert.
Don't forget "born secret" Restricted Data.
A New Level of Security on Your Business Trip
People are still using tablets?
Entertainment is great.

But it's also meaningless. Ephemeral. Fading.

If you're improving someone else's life, that's a bit more tangible.

I know people who would have died if they hadn't discovered that helping other people makes them feel like life is worth living.

So, maybe if you vlog stuff that helps people, that might make it more satisfying.

Just a thought.
They lost 66 million as recently as 2016.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188574
Spoofing geolocation is possible too.
I see the push to publish frequently has turned YouTube into a perfect hamster wheel :D

Another funny consequence of algorithmic optimization. Seems like people that came up with it weren't as smart as they thought. Hint: if 99.99% of your users are consumers and 0.01% are creative producers, from whose only 1/1000 can consistently perform, you wouldn't want to drive them to the ground. Also, pushing increased frequency inevitable lowers quality and increases noise of your platform and prevents unique but occasional hits from being properly rewarded. Is that really good for advertisement?
I mean, think about it, right? No one says life is about being happy, at all!

There's no guarantee to that - no universal right.

Dunno, I fell into Existentialism before I dropped out of whatever pointless liberal arts state university I was needlessly going to. They had a good library, so I guess I owe them that.
This is not a serious solution at the time I tried this several months ago.

Most of the apps I downloaded for Android were not optimized well for a Chromebook with text/window sizing, prevented resizing of the windows and were downright buggy(not registering presses and sometimes would even crash.)
My cheap Allwinner based Chinese tablets do just fine next to the iPad my son uses on almost everything except when he wants us to play Roblox together. So basically anything that doesn't require high 3D performance. I'm sure I could find other things if I tried, but my experience is that I don't see much need to upgrade my tablets for performance. What's driven my upgrades for tablets have been improving screens / resolution.

That makes me think you have a point with screens. Resolution also plays in - e.g. I read comics on my phone a lot, and it made a huge difference when I got a phone with a 1920x1080 screen - e.g. I'd less often need to zoom in. And as my phones have pushed up towards 6", I went from 7"-8" tablets up to 10", but at the same time my usage probably dropped. My tablet has supplanted a little bit of my laptop use with the larger screen (and it has a magnetically attachable keyboard, but that gets little use), but I use my phone for a lot more things that I'd previously use my tablet for.

In general I replace my phone maybe once a year or once every 18 months on average, while my tablets easily live for 2-3 years or more.
...except anyone can leave and get a new job, at any moment.

The "slave" analogy is completely flawed.
The iPad Mini (2012) and iPad Air (2013) and all iPads since have stereo speakers on either side of the bottom edge. They're laid out for portrait though, since Apple treats that as the standard orientation. Not ideal for watching movies.

The Pro versions have four speakers in the corners and adjust which pair are left vs right depending on whether you're in portrait or landscape.
I admit that I haven't paid much attention. But the whole revamp of the UI framework into Fragments was precisely to let app developers support both phones and tablets.

Why do you say older versions of Android had better support for tablets?
You also get convention. jQuery didn't offer much of that once you started gluing its functions together...

I can usually jump into someone's react code and get what's going on pretty quickly unless they did something really gnarly with incredibly nested props. Even then, at least I still know where to drill down. With jQuery soup, you didn't get that luxury.

Being able to have an entire team know how to build components and provide them with functionality is an incredible advantage. I don't love everything about react either, but the ecosystem, somewhat enforced convention, tooling, etc - it's worth it (so far).

I love some things about Vue, but it isn't a silver bullet either. Brad seems to be pretty butt hurt about react. If you've worked on a large team without something like react, then worked on one with react, it really shines. It's a major productivity booster.

It's not perfect, but it's very good.
> I think a more plausible reason for sales numbers falling is that people don't need or want tablets as much as they thought they did

That probably is part of the explanation. For me, I bought a "New iPad" on 2012. Some months ago I bought a new model, as iOS is not updated anymore. That is the main reason to upgrade and this is another topic for discussion. It has been six years between tablets. And the need for an upgrade is slightly artificial.

A 6-year-old tablet will still be able to run the latest version of Chrome and I can play casual 2D games without a problem. If Apple has not stopped supporting it I will continue using it.

When I was a teenager, I was changing computers every two years and a half. If you were a gamer it was a must do. For office applications, browsing the internet and playing casual games the live of computers is getting longer. Even my gaming computing is getting old, it supports VR and an extra wide 4K screen without a problem.
I wonder if there have actually been 15M 256GB microSD cards even manufactured at this stage.
Apple would charge $100/yr and require Safari for access to Github. Updates will come once per year.
The idea that the tablet is dead is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. It is probably the most useful form-factor there is -- at least ultimately. But it hasn't come to full fruition yet. Stylus writing is really necessary, and lighter weights will be a big deal. Ultimately the tablet will be ubiquitous, and therefore must necessarily become dirt cheap. There is little to no profit margin. Revenue will have to come from software. Which makes it really disappointing that Google has bowed out as they are probably in the best position to pull that off. But instead it looks like Amazon is going to own the tablet market too, generating revenue via eBooks.
Creator here.

As someone with a development background it took me a long time to get up to speed with all of the mechanics of actually operating AWS.

VPCs and networking were a massive black box not to mention navigating Organizations and account structures.

If you're on the dev side of devops I'd love to talk.
In Unix Version 7 (and it might also have been like this in previous versions), the home directory for each user was in /usr, so the home directory for a user named "david" would be /usr/david. The home directory for the "root" user was /.
but that's because you have a crap government and don't hold them to high enough standards - vote in a better one and complain until they do a better job - a democratic govt is supposed to be accountable to the people, not the other way around, I don't think many Americans understand this
>Citizen[s] in WY have roughly 3x the voting power as citizen in CA

Which is the point, so as to prevent high population urban centers from dictating everything to the rest of American that doesn't share their values.

>due in large part to a system designed to appease slave-holding states 200 years ago.

I assume you're referring to the 3/5 Compromise here. While true that this was a consideration, the underlying reasoning is still sound. It makes no more sense for San Francisco to rule over Sac City Iowa than Sac City Iowa to rule over San Francisco. That's the beauty of the system the Founders designed. Otherwise you just drift further and further toward Direct Democracy, which is a euphemism for "chaos".
Nor will they ever be, at least at that high level. The standards are very strict about what is allowed in the code and Qt is coded in a way that is fundamentally incompatible with that.

But that is okay. Isolating the core components that have the highest safety requirement and developing the rest to a lower standard is accepted and good practice. You also need to have an operating system that enforces the separation and a design that guarantees that the safety critical part cannot be disrupted by failures in the rest of the system.

For example, a fancy navigation map display is not safety critical at all and developing that to ASIL standards would be madness. Icon ovelays for engine or braking system failures are quite important, on the other hand. Separating then out into a different process and making sure that it cannot be affected by a misbehaving navigation system is just common sense. So even with the current limits, this is very useful.
We're talking about two totally different programming paradigms here. The end product might be the same but it's more of a question about how you arrive there.

With JQuery you're signing up for manual DOM manipulation. It's a challenge to scale that for what's now considered table-stakes for web apps.
> Emacs is in a race, not against Vim, but against VS Code and Atom for which editor can be more easily customized. In the long run, it doesn't look good for Emacs.

I use Emacs as my daily driver. Your comment feels very much like from someone who hasn't realized the true powers of Emacs-Lisp. Even if someone doesn't hack in Elisp, once they discover power packages like Org mode or Magit, they will know right away that there's no competition for those out there (vim, Atom, VS Code, etc).

> For years, James Gosling, author of the first version of Emacs that ran on Unix (the ancestor of GNU Emacs), has been begging people to stop using Emacs.

Even if that's the case, what's the point he's trying to make? Why? How does that matter to folks who are using Emacs today, and know it first hand that it's the best hackable text buffer engine out there?
So ChromeOS with android apps it is, hopefully Google improves the android capabilities of ChromeOS; but I wonder whether the android on chromeOS will ever be nearly equal to a standalone version.

As of now Google NaCL severly limits background services (for good?) of android apps, so you are required to keep it in foreground (above browser) for long operations.

It's possible that, even threads are limited; as I noticed that some android apps which are heavily multi-threaded slows down on the Chromebook 11 N7 (Acer).

Maybe this is Chromebook hardware specific, can anyone with a Pixelbook comment how good the android app performance is on their hardware?
I hope its Greece so we can all be as transparent as possible about the real issue here...

(Democracy)
It’s only a matter of time since the device has been completely hacked now. Check for updates on the related subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/switchhaxing

Might want to pick one up in the near future though. Nintendo has a hardware update in the works to remedy the unpatcheable tegra exploit in current models.
Show HN: Cellular Automata Sheet Calculating Integer Sequences-Published on OEIS
Ethereum is bigger than Bitcoin already
If airplane ticket search sites reported the seat dimensions (Google, you can do this. Do good?) and let you filter on them, then the airlines might have some motivation to have larger spaces for passengers. Since price is almost the only thing one can easily understand about the flight, that gets the focus. With my build I touch the seat in front of me on most seat configurations. I'd pay at least $20/hr for an extra inch.

This is also what is causing flight times to go up. Airlines are flying slower to save fuel and I bet only 1% of people know that.
I'd actually go in the opposite direction, and making voting more difficult.

I'd much prefer a system where you have to "earn" your say in government. This would, I think, show a deeper commitment to the system.

Edit: if you’re downvoting me, irony aside, please detail why making voters more committed to the government they’re informing is a bad idea. Seems fairly reasonable to me.
...but also, "Thx 1138" is basically perfect cinema and my life was better for it. Thank you, Mr. Lucas.
Vice: high quality journalism.
I lived in Brussels for almost eight years. I know that when I traveled to France on occasion, they would usually look at me like I was a total moron, and I never understood why.

I'm sure part of it was that I was a classic "dumb American" in Paris, but Belgian natives also explained to me that they speak French much more quickly down there, and anyone who speaks it more slowly (as is done in Brussels and virtually all other Francophone places in the world, including most of the rest of France), likewise get treated like they are morons.

So, the Belgians certainly noticed that French has changed over time and it has changed more quickly in Paris over the other parts of the world, and they were helpful enough to share this information with me.
Aviation has their own standards. But all of these standards are quite similar in their requirements. So reaching the first certification is the hardest part.
Lots of Android system UI and first party apps had better tablet interfaces in ICS than they do in Nougat or Oreo.
jQuery had a lot of convention, for both it and it's plugins.

jQuery + co. have very consistent "look and feel"
And you'll still be driving a Tesla.
> In its 15-year run, MiniBooNE has registered a few hundred more electron neutrinos than expected.

Wow. How could this be significant? (Not arguing).
That doesn't quite ring any bell.. Have you used edebug? I haven't seen that level of code introspection and debbugability in any other tool, even a development environment.

Emacs allows you to look into and debug any function or variable, be it internal that shipped with its core, or one that you wrote.
It's a fact, not a question, that US life expectancies have declined. The way the decline has happened, suicide and drug overdoses compensating for medical advances that normally provide a slow, steady increase in life expectancy in most countries, give a strong indication that life in the US has also gotten worse for a significant fraction of the population.
> No, it's not, you cannot wire it unless the recipient is a Chinese national.

I’ve wired money from my Chinese account to my overseas account plenty of times. I’m most definitely not a Chinese National. I’ve also had money wired to my Chinese account before. Still, if you don’t want to wait in line, don’t go to BOC (or ICBC).

I still have a Chinese phone number also. Passport + resident permit was good enough in my case for both account and phone number. But it could have changed since I got those a few years ago.

BOC and China mobile see the worst companies to deal with. CMB (China merchant bank) isn’t an SOE so their customer service is better. Also, Unicom is better than China Mobile for foreigners.
Good point. I can no longer edit my post. Even still, $30k per year is too much for the majority of people.
This is somewhat strange. I thought tablets killed the PC market. My wife is a primary school teacher and it's very difficult to teach children to use a mouse because they all have tablets at home.

I know Android tablets haven't been selling well, but that's because people like me have been desperately waiting for a decent device to be released. iPads are absolutely everywhere.

What's the proposed alternative for media consumption? In particular reading, but even watching videos and playing "board" games etc.
Somewhat common pattern for (C) is using names like foosrv45.hide.example.com if you don't want to register another domain for that purposes. For convenience of the DevOps team it even makes sense for such hostnames to be publicly resolvable (to your internal IPs).

One issue with doing this is that it tends to break in various wonderful ways when you internally use Windows and Active Directory.
To be fair, I bought a cheap shitty tablet to act as a display for my wifi camera to monitor the baby. Works well for a single purpose, and I don't use it for anything else.

I sold my Nexus 7 some time ago because it was gathering dust.
To be clear, you didnt do it bc you had the GI bill so dont claim you did.
It still requires you to terminate the connection on HAProxy. None of the things I mentioned are affected (you lose source IP without proxy protocol, return traffic must pass thru HAProxy, you can do TLS).
HEPA filters only do particulates, no independent 3rd parties have tested Tesla's system for toxic gases, benzene, dioxin,a whole slew of organic solvents, ozone, H2S, Phosgene, Saran, etc.
Have you ever watched a cat walk up to something and smell it? They purse their lips to use the smell receptors in their mouth.
Politics is bad because it runs on people. We are shitty hardware for being nice to one another.
Isn’t this system equivalent to vote your disapprovals only, the person with the least disapprovals wins?
> … a handwritten message in the middle of the elevator doors that said, “Out of service!” This was the first time that I learned about dark patterns.

It’s confusing, because he literally says it’s a dark pattern. But it was really just better design for that particular problem.
Nope, https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/25/tablets-are-dead/?guccount...
Despite Don mentioning gravity along with deltaV he is obviously attempting to describe the classic rocket equation without scaring people away with the math.
JerryRigEverything reveals a ridiculous flaw in a $100 crowdfunded smart lock
No but they are infamous for missing opportunities
I have developed a personal theory that evolution is basically horrible software that has been tested so long it works reliably. It might even be literal when you consider DNA.
He wasn't jailed for "speaking about potential child grooming", he was jailed for jeopardising a trial. If you are speaking out against child grooming, doing so in a way that jeopardises trials is counter to your cause.

Furthermore, he had already received a suspended sentence for doing the same thing. He wasn't immediately jailed without warning.
Location: Los Angeles, CA or Orange County, CA

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Note: Many items (usually those in bold) are links to further information. Try hovering to see which!

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I'm not opinionated, although I do have opinions and preferences. I'm happy to embrace the fun challenge of adapting to the given situation. I love to learn different technologies out of a genuine interest in gaining different perspectives on software development, both to help me keep an open mind and to be mindful of the variety of different approaches that can be taken to solve a problem. You can get a sampling of this in the link above to my notes.
Who will own the data? Google or the community?
I still use my Nexus 7 (2nd gen) as my main tablet. That thing is a trooper. It's my book reader, Chromecast runner, Sonos controller, etc. It's big enough to comfortably watch Twitch on. It fits in my back jeans pocket so I can easily bring it with me, which lots of tablets including the ipad mini don't. I'd love to find a modern replacement for it, ideally just a little bit bigger.
A large murder of crows had become a problem near where I live. The group seemed to get larger by the year. They'd turn clusters of trees black, and were incredibly loud. During a certain time of year when they showed up, they'd terrorize areas with vast amounts of shit. The local government poisoned a bunch of them (took several years to get approval). The crows got the hint and never came back again.