skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, which is why your battery needs to be large enough to supply power during your worst-case scenario for bad weather (or have back up systems like wind/thermal like you mention). You also definitely want a plan for cutting consumption to only essentials during such a blackout. A toaster / blender really doesn't take that much energy; sure they're 500 W or so, but you don't typically operate them for long periods of time. The majority of energy usage in most homes is devoted to heating and cooling, which are high power and run for long periods of time.

My point was that it's important to distinguish that long blackouts with severe inclement weather are extreme events, and on average a solar power system should be fairly stable as long as your usage is kept to essentials. I completely agree with OP that you really do have to cut back on power-hungry luxuries for solar-only to be really viable, but you should be able to at least keep the lights on for quite a while. In terms of holding out during more extreme events, yes... relying on any single energy source leaves you vulnerable in that respect.
How do you spend time with a child and not teach them?
If anyone can find a good book about this (heavy on detail, not just a single anecdotal heist story), I'd love to hear about it. In fact, I'd love even more something super academical and theoretical. Sounds like an interesting change of pace.
Returned or sold back ?
I found SoaNM interesting because I worked on Data General minis, both the 16-bit ones and the 32-bit ones. You might find it interesting to go back and look at the assumptions Data General worked on in light of what happened within a few years. The design team originally wanted something VAX-like, e.g. with an instruction set designed to make assembly coding easy--RISC made that unfashionable. I also found it interesting that the need to preserve the original instruction set within the new meant that the 32-bit minis were stuck with four general-purpose registers and no register-relative byte addressing.

As far as I know, all that was left of DG was bought up by EMC for the sake of DG's Clariion SANs.
Just occurred to me, as "heat waves" become the norm for longer periods of time, I'm sure there will be people arguing for the cost-savings of not having to cool the school buildings during the summer.
There’s a difference, namely that you can say “Kent State” and look it up online, read about it in textbooks, see the newspaper articles, and discuss it online without fear.

Try that with the Tiananmen Square massacre in China.

Another difference is that four civilians died in Kent state, while 1022 died in Tiananmen Square. That’s three orders of magnitude difference, and why Kent State is typically called “Kent State Shootings” while Tiananmen Square was a “Massacre”. In fact an order of magnitude more policemen and military died in Tiananmen than overall fatalities at Kent State.

They are not comparable. I’m fact more people died in Tiananmen than died protesting the entire Vietnam War in the US.
If you compromise the machine, you can attack anything on that machine. If the keys are in the home dir on the network, you can attack the network. If the keys are in the home dir on unencrypted local disk, you can attack the disk. If the keys are in a user namespace, you can attack the user namespace (which includes processes and mounts).

If the keys are in a thumbdrive and in a keyring, you can only attack two things: 1) the user namespace, 2) the thumbdrive's mounted contents while it is inserted _and unlocked_. This limits the scope of attacks. When the keys in the keyring expire ("-t life" option to ssh-agent), you can't even attack that.
Ask HN: Are there any good Android/iOS games that don't collect personal data?
I love playing Solitaire on my phone while on the bus, but I'm tired of using apps that request permission to my darn phone log and may send all types of data back to the developers.

Are there any Android/iOS games -- paid or otherwise -- which require minimal permissions, have strong privacy policies, and don't treat users as the product?

Edit: The only one I've found so far is Fiz, a really awesome brewery management simulation (it still has some odd permissions, but nothing terribly out of the ordinary).
That’s a very fancy appeal to advocate for usury.

The credit building is a little much... not sure what >30% interest builds.
Hi! I work on Cake.

This is fair criticism. Cake currently only allows one photo per post, so splitting the story across multiple posts is one way people can tell a story with multiple photos. We have more advanced multi-image support on our roadmap, we just haven't gotten to it yet.
data cow.

thank you
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An open source website that lets you print a map with every single road on a mug
The title is incorrect. It's not a general partial differential equation solver. The paper doesn't even claim it to be. The issue is that not all, not even most, PDEs can be discretized to a linear system of equations. Normally these need to be discretized to either a nonlinear rootfinding problem G(x)=0 find x, or a stiff ODE (normally solved by an implicit method, but not necessarily).

However, both of those problems do include a subproblem which is solving linear systems (when the ODE is solved implicitly), and so PDE solvers which take these routes will generally be able to be accelerated by an improved linear equation solver. Thus it's not an be all and end all algorithm, but when combined with the tools that exist for PDEs in something like PETSc or Julia then this can be used to give a more efficient algorithm for most PDEs (though there are still other PDEs where linear solving is entirely avoided, for example with exponential integrators or Runge-Kutta Chebyshev methods, which can be more efficient depending on the problem).
OK, nice anecdote, but if you follow my link you can see that if we just blindly take the average of all drivers and accidents per mile driven and then compare it to AI performance AI is nowhere near average, let alone the 95th percentile. Here is another example of what I'm complaining about: an argument that simply takes as its premise something not yet proven to be true.
As a consumer, you don't need an account to use it. I have a Google account for Android and Gmail but my YouTube account is deleted. I "subscribe" to channels with RSS. If producers make their content feed available elsewhere (and they should, even if it happens to only link to YouTube for now) I use that feed instead. If producers only publish to YouTube, that's really their dependency problem. You can download an store anything you find worthy of archiving. Use an ad blocker to avoid supporting the platform. Producers should be selling their own native ads if they need to make a living off the videos, like pod casters do.
Most places cap interest at 25-35%, that’s too low for high default customers.
Bing video shows youtube and other sources without showing ads. Literally costs youtube money on one hand, but still legitimizes them as a content repository on another. I have complex emotions about using it.
Anyone have a suggestion for a good online course in linear algebra?
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Sorry, I was using Brazilians and "they" in the context of the thread. I was not attempting to make assertions, but carry them through the conversation.

Sorry that it came across that way, and for any offense!
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Pardon the personal anecdote, but as I grew up and went into the highest education level I could I thought I'd have some kind of beauty in my job. When I first hit the IT world I was shocked by the similarity with lowest wages employees. You're a cog. One from a little rare material but still a cog. I felt no difference between this or being a cashier.
I wish I could upvote your comment more than once. We need to recognize companies like Facebook and Google for what they really are, ad companies. I fear that Microsoft might start taking a similar path with what has happened with Windows 10.

I wonder if the products that Google and Facebook offer would actually be of better quality if they actually charged a certain amount to access their services. They have become so essential that I believe in most markets they could charge $5 to $10 a month and still retain a significant amount of users.

Then again, it gives them an excuse to not have to actually have a decent support staff.
At some point the ruling class becomes so small and so powerful that they suddenly lose all their power as the majority decide that things aren't working out anymore and revolt. A new more fair order is installed which slowly trends back toward too much power. Rinse repeat
Everybody has a certain messaging app on their phone: it's called SMS. Add one more, that's already two.
Except in this particular case each post was barely a minute apart.
One downside I see at many companies is that they have no internal jobs like this, to use as a test period for new employees. If you used to use the mailroom clerk (or whatever) position as a test bed to find out things like, does this person have a good work ethic? that cannot be determined in an interview or a resume, then outsourcing those positions is a problem.
So, what IS a good alternative to Gmail? Are any of the self-hosted alternatives actually better?
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Exactly. I’m pretty confused about the excerpt, it struck me as strange as soon as I read it - maybe it’s a typo?
I wonder if that is why they opened up their API to Twilio.
Twilio can now pay Whatsapp whatever it has to pay the carriers to send/receive SMS.
Google Building Censored Search Engine for Chinese Market
> a) is it really accurate that a smart person can't legitimately learn and be sensitive to life experiences from others

There's are a lot of subtleties that lived experience can reveal. Even the smartest person might miss some knock-on effect, etc.

> b) why can't they hire people to advise them while still managing the project themselves?

So, you're saying... diversity of thought might be useful?
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That seems... short-sighted.

There's a huge amount of 'interesting' things one can do which are illegal, immoral, depraved and worse. (I'd argue that stealing is generally at the very least illegal and immoral, but opinion may vary depending on who the 'injured' party is.)
Hi Marek, Any chance to get feedback on the old job application? :)
Huh. I used it with my wife - she was the only one willing to give it a try.
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I'll be keeping an eye, thanks for dropping in. There are more "conversations" on the homepage and for most the format and extra engagement from the community works great.
Indeed. The format is so horrible in fact that I left the web page confused, not realising that there is more to read until I read this comment.
I just switched back to Google.com from DDG yesterday. I told my girlfriend, “well, I tried that other search engine, and it’s just not good enough”.

“Exact same thing you said two years ago”, she said. :-/ I’ll probably try in another two.

DDG just always left me wondering. If the result wasn’t there, it felt like it should have been ... so, !g I go, crawling back like a fool. What’s the point?

For anything location specific — here in Australia — forget it. Google dominates.
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Not really. The only planning apparent is "had an escape vehicle", which does not meet the requirements for "not morons".

> In 2013, a crown and sceptre used in the funeral of Sweden’s 16th-century King Johan III were stolen from Västerås, another city on the shore of Lake Mälaren. They turned up a few days later in two large rubbish bags at the side of a highway after a tip-off to police.
I'd love to look into the alternate universe in which for $REASON the web never developed the ability to have cross-domain requests. I'm sure advertising would still develop, but it would at least be more difficult. Or one where for $EVEN_WEIRDER_REASON advertising-supported websites were banned; either be free or take money. Not because I think it would be a paradise per se, but just, I'd like to study how it developed differently.
> That means we'll be discussing how many vacations should be paid for.

If people don't have work to do then they are already, practically by definition, on vacation.

If you mean going on package tours and the like, there's no more reason to discuss those as a Basic Income "entitlement" than there is with social security payments.
If this story is true it is a sad day for freedom. There will come a day that China is a free and democratic nation. Those that enabled the dictators should not be allowed to operate in the ensuing free and open market.
Ye I got that. But in my experience EVERYONE should write a book. If deluding yourself that it will be a best seller helps, then do it. I imagined many scenes in my book as movie scenes. People are allowed to dream. For all those failures like me out there, that's all we get.
My friends fall roughly into three groups:

- People who have at least 4+ messenger apps installed (these are the tiniest minority, and we mostly chat on Riot.im)

- FB Messenger users who only have Messenger installed (these are a dwindling minority—I communicate with them through the web interface or SMS)

- Whatsapp users who only have WhatsApp installed (this is basically almost everyone)
Dropbox cannot cross reference your personal photos with your email, your YouTube preferences, your fetishes extracted from your searches, your purchases, your entire location history, etc.

That said Dropbox is another poor choice for privacy. I'm searching for alternatives, but the alternatives don't seem to be that competent, except for the peer to peer solutions like Resilio Sync and Syncthing. My only consolation at this point, until I settle on an alternative, is that Dropbox isn't Google.
Time is running out for dieselgate Volkswagen owners to get their money
Thousands of corporations have survived without having to worry about markets that don't have disposable income. You don't see Apple hurting because they aren't successful in the poorest areas in the world.

It may sound cruel, but is it crueler than saying "Since you can't afford to pay, just give us access to your emails and private messages"?
I feel like you just reinforced the parent's point? In a distorted macroeconomic environment (as has been the case for a decade plus in the US), banks are generally loathe to have false negatives, which makes a loan denial a fairly strong indicator of untrustworthiness.
No one claimed they were identical. Kent State is a simple counter example to the claim made in the parent comment.
Argh. I hate to play devils advocate on this issue.

Here goes: it seems like that model doesn’t work anymore. People look for what it costs on paper. You already here people talking about Apple as if it’s some impossible luxury standard. Can you imagine if computers became £5,000 for the base model again? I can’t imagine anyone paying for email in this day and age. And I certainly can’t imagine people paying for operating systems. Windows only has market dominance because it comes pre-installed and is effectively free.

That’s the issue. If you’re competing in this market; then you’re competing with “free” from the consumers eyes.
XMPP, Matrix, SMS, email.
I've made a couple of reddit accounts in the last 1-2 years and it was always explicit that an email was optional. Is this all since the recent redesign?
US P2P platforms seem like a great way -- as a borrower -- to convert your non-dischargeable debt (credit cards, student loans) into unsecured debt.

So: great for borrowers, terrible for lenders.
Totally happy DDG user here. Never had any issues using it and the results usually seem to be pretty spot on - in the very rare occasion where it doesn't you just put !g in the query and it goes to Google.

Now with modern Firefox (+ uBlock and privacy badger) you can do a lot of your standard web browsing without using Chrome or Google search or Google AdWords servers