skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a huge difference between “here is GPS data, let’s see if somebody remembers seeing that guy” and “somebody reported seeing that guy, let’s see if his GPS data confirms that.”

In this case, it was the latter. An unusual sighting was corroborated after the fact by hard data.

Less circumstantial and less suggestive than “here’s some hard data, let’s ask people if they can remember something.”

Somebody better at stastitcs can probably prove this with some Bayesian formula.
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B12 deficiency doesn't cause pernicious anemia, pernicious anemia is a cause of B12 deficiency, its a GI absorptive disorder (lack if intrinsic factor).
I would love to contribute to these kind of things, but unless I was missing something on that website, there were no links to jobs/careers. Do you happen to know of a list of companies that hiring for climate change related fields?

Outside of the obvious Telsa/Solar City, I don't really hear about many companies that I could work for as a software developer who are tackling this kind of stuff (though I am sure they are out there).
The failure modes I consider most probable at my home are a whole-house power surge, and a loss of structure (fire, natural disaster). With a 1 Gbps (synchronous) FTTH connection, and a Backblaze subscription, that's about all the peace of mind I need!
Probably a bot auto posting.
I guess that's a legitimate reason, though the tradeoff still doesn't seem worth it unless you have massive amounts of data
No, "oneof" increases type safety. "oneof" describes mutually exclusive fields. For example:

message Filter {
oneof kind {
Tags tags = 1;
IPRange ipRange = 2;
}
}

With this in place, a client has to check the type of the filter in order to access the actual filter:

switch t := f.Kind.(type) {
case *Tags:
// ...
case *IPRange:
// ...
}

Without it, you can get into a situation where it's possible to create invalid combinations:

message Filter {
string type = 1;
Tags tags = 2;
IPRange ipRange = 3;
}

Now you can accidentally end up with code like this:

f = Filter{}
f.Type = FilterType_Tags
f.IPRange = IPRange{}

or:

if f.Type == FilterType_Tags {
useFilter(f.IPRange)
}
Well, it looks like all clearance iPhones are gone.
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wait... `/>` and `|>` are python operators?
> I only have websites for clients, which most are no longer up; or businesses I have worked for as an employee.

This is the worst and contributed to me doing different things, for me it was apps whose API servers were no longer responding.

It is very hard to keep your portfolio up to date, when you aren't able to show even the public facing side of it.
How do people get new ideas (Asimov, article dated 2014)
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depth of field issues are non existent if you use an aperature disk. if you can afford a fibre optic device you can create the pinhole lens system with aperatures, no glass required.
if you want to go to these lengths then you probably work with or for some alphabet soup federal agency.
The only reason I think the Delorean is cool is because it’s made of stainless steel.
Rise of the useless class
I'm not sure why you'd want PFS for backups. The idea of backups is that you have a history (not just a simple mirror) and so having PFS intentionally renders older backups unusable (unless you're storing all the keys -- in which case you have somewhat defeated the point of PFS).

Now, PFS would allow you to handle key compromise by making future backups unreadable. But there are other solutions for this (such as upgradeable encryption).
Of note is that large tech companies are becoming prestige careers too.
The 5s/SE is less than 5% of mobile traffic at our site.
Maybe we are the universe dreaming it’s not the universe
The article mentions that it's RAID 5:

> My Synology has 4 x 1TB disks in a RAID 5
Nah, what they really need are crappy fisher-price laptops, one per child.
If you have Windows-only software, you can always just be a "pirate", flip Microsoft off and block all updates, telemetry and whatnot. Use what you want, give nothing back heh
It's too early to expect real-world applications of anti-realism. Instead I would redirect your attention to a similar pattern in the foundations of mathematics.

Mathematical foundations were once very shaky, but real-world mathematicians didn't care in practice. Bertrand Russell showed that an early mathematical foundation attempt was inconsistent. At the time, to a working mathematician, this would have been about as airy-fairy as anti-realism seems to us today. A mathematician back then could well and rightly have said: "Proofs, equations, solutions, these are valuable things. But Russell's paradox? I challenge anyone to tell me something useful that has come from the study of Russell's paradox." Indeed, the paradox was actually known to Zermelo before Russell, and Zermelo didn't consider it important enough to make a fuss about!

Now in hindsight, we know that foundational work DID pay off in practical ways. It was a crucial step toward the development of, for example, automated proof verification software like COQ, which has extremely important real-world applications and whose importance will only grow in the future.

Here's my speculation: things like anti-realism are equivalent to Russell's Paradoxes which seem like navel-gazing today. In a hundred years' time, they might have proven to be a crucial step toward formal science verification software. Just like fixing mathematical foundations was a crucial step toward formal mathematical verification software.
I am glad cooler heads were able to prevail, and I'm heartened at the long list of countries that voted NO.
My dream phone is a “military grade” SE. Slightly larger battery, rugged phone. I know it would be thicker, I’d be good with that.
Hmm, I interpreted what he said as referring to the improved quality of life for the people who use the products/services that the programmer worked on. I'm not sure which interpretation is correct.
Ah, that makes sense. I'd have said that note on velocity 0 would have made most sense as a single choice because of running status, but I didn't know that release velocity had any practical significance.

That said, I'm sure I've seen cheap controllers send note off messages though I doubt they supported release velocity.
Is there a reason you don't eat fortified foods?
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>all of them are capable of being overprovisioned.

Do you think the voters of any major city would agree that it is too easy to get from place to place?

>Mobility can be much more efficiently provisioned to the public with transit.

I think this is at least sometimes true, depending on factors like geography, density, labor costs, etc. But it's orthogonal to whether there is too much or too little mobility. You could take the efficiencies of public transport and deliver better overall mobility with the same budget. That's an easier sell for the public than "that extra hour with your kids after work is unsustainable and you don't really need it" or "having your own house in the suburbs is wasteful, share an apartment with 3 other families in the center instead."
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If you have 4TB of data saved at home you are a hoarder. Why do you have that much stuff. I don't have any data at home that I would miss very much if I lost it.
> Back-end API devs have a much simpler job for most apps too. We as back-end devs like to pretend otherwise even though our app runs on just one machine.

I don't see how you could possibly say this in such general terms. Every app is so different. Even simple crud apps of any size are not running on "just one machine." Even most small backends have at least an API server and a job server, plus database(s) and queue(s) for communicating, plus DNS, TLS certs, etc.

Sometimes the front end is much more complicated, sometimes it's not. There's really no way to generally compare without being wrong 50% of the time.
As with all car analogies, this is NOT about cars - it's telling a story about wealth creation...
I get the sentiment but if you want to be able to point to things that you built years ago software is probably the worst career to take. We shutdown, delete, replace, and rewrite our work all the time.

The small amount stuff that lasts over five years gets called legacy and is made fun of.
Not gonna mention what the chosen alternative is? Ok...
This metaphor really has nothing to do with car restoration. He assumes in the example the car would be worth more.
Nope. There have consistently been instruments which are indistinguishable or better for roughly 100 years.
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Very unlikely. You'll see more of a merger where client-side solutions are leveraged in very specific ways to address web requirements -- similar to next.js and gatsby.js.
Doesn't that benefit public investors though when the company is public? Better than the company staying private through it all, right?
"Click here to surrender your privacy so you can see pictures of cats."

->click<-

People will click the button ever time.

I think human nature needs to change.

Or else we need to work our asses off to invent better technology, but we're nowhere close.
That's kind of baked in no matter what though, isn't it?
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Nice! Writing a Forth in 8086 assembly was how I got into programming as a teenager too (my Dad had been into Forth as a hobby for a long time). It was a great way to start -- a Forth compiler/system is relatively simple to build yourself from the ground up. https://github.com/benhoyt/third
Yeah, but who would do that? There's no such thing as a pirate; those are stories to scare little children and media company executives.
I've always thought of a NAS as high speed local storage with a little redundancy in raid, but I'd never treat it as a backup solution. Only because then all my data is under one roof. Fire, earthquake, flood or other local event that's big enough and all my data is gone. I'm lazy so I haven't setup anything fancy but backblaze and dropbox do all my off site backup for me. It's very cheap. 10 years of backblaze would be cheaper than a NAS.
Before iphones got big, I used to regularly see iphone owners mocking large android phones, saying that large phones are inconvenient, unnecessary, uncomfortable, etc.

Perhaps those people were serious, and now feel like they've been left out in the cold.
I am an SE fan. I used mine until the XS was released. I wish the XS was just a tad smaller.
I think you’re correct. It’s an easy-to-grasp metaphor, but cracks appear when you look harder, especially with the specific detail of “restoring to pristine condition”. Illustrative as a fable of value-add, though.
I actually tried this out once when I noticed floor lamps of similar quality and make being sold for $100 on Amazon were being sold for $40 on Walmart. I then realized why more people didn't arbitrage large items when I tried to fit 10 floor lamps in my car.
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I had gone through a similar thought process a number of years ago. The best move I thought to make was to work at a startup promoting culture, arts, and fashion (this last one I wasn't so keen on). Ultimately the startup failed but I kept on working at startups always being mindful of what it produces which has recently been online photo sharing and mobile communication (not social media). Doesn't seem like much but it was a step up from ad-ops or forex.

I was also wondering about volunteering on the side with my skillset and there didn't seem to be a way to do this. Most orgs just want donations and they'll get the work done rather than interact with ad-hoc part time help. Interested to see what other options this thread gets.
VHS tapes in 2010-2011?????
Sucks to be you, I guess? But really, what is being suggested is that you can do something you find enjoyable when you are not working; in your case I would assume this would be trying to correct these injustices you see around you...
So, knowing the way technology works, one has to figure older legacy systems are painful to deal with. Not always, but usually.

Knowing that most code deployments for server side software cannot claim the benefits of total rewrite from scratch, many of us would love to get a chance at trying exactly that.

What would this assessment look like for a nuke-to-nuke replacement, instead of nuke-to-wind/solar?

In other words, if they abruptly terminated use of all the aging nuclear plants today, and immediately started building totally new, highly modern nuclear power facilities, how would that stack up against this research favoring renewables?
Family photos and videos can take up a lot of space. Also it sounds like the authors work is backed up to this NAS as well.

I wouldn't have that much to backup but some do, depending on their hobbies and work.
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I've been coding for 30 years and I can't count the number of times my stuff has just disappeared into the ether. All the CP/M apps I wrote, the DOS apps, the risc/OS and the Windows and OS/2 apps, the BeOS stuff, the Linux stuff, the iOS and Android apps which no longer work yet will never be updated to 64-bit "just because", etc.

The industry doesn't promote longevity - and neither do its participants, who graduate from wherever they learned a career skill to enter the market and make waves - by writing new shit that will change everything, and guarantee that the work that was there before they came will become irrelevant and archaic "ASAP".

You need not blame yourself. This is normal.
I loved the OS compared to Android. It was very performant which made cheap hardware seem fast. The OS was incredibly consistent, and it never badgered me with useless notifications.
:) I don't open huge files, finally found a good SFTP plugin, php-debug hooks with xdebug.

Really it took me many months of tweaking to get Atom to be a daily driver - I don't want to do it again soon
Great wisdom you have.

*

Of course one may add other may be unnecessary concerns - whether the world we live in are better for our kids than we do. We have enjoyed no world hot conflict for decades. Environment can be used and within our life time ... ba la ba la. Are our kids better ?

Or many things happened in the last several years challenge all our knowledge of society - trump and Brexit and the raise of communist china etc. We live in interesting time.

Just relearn swift (forget quit a bit after my iOS app on app story in 2015).
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If you create an app that makes some annoying task take half the time, you can potentially save literal lifetimes of frustration for your users. The value created for the founders is a small fraction of the value created for the users.
> In other words, if they abruptly terminated use of all the aging nuclear plants today, and immediately started building totally new, highly modern nuclear power facilities, how would that stack up against this research favoring renewables?

Probably not well.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-... (China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/17/hitachi-set... (Hitachi scraps £16bn nuclear power station in Wales)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/climate/nuclear-power-pro... (U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are Abandoned)

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hinkley-point-managemen... (Hinkley Point management is the perfect illustration of how not to conduct a modern energy policy)

https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/trigaux-abando... (Trigaux: Abandoning another nuclear project, Duke Energy mimics its failed Levy plant)

https://www.wfae.org/post/duke-cancels-florida-nuclear-proje... (Duke Cancels Florida Nuclear Project, Plans Solar Expansion)

Shutting existing nuclear without ramping renewables would be catastrophic. Best case scenario is extending their operating licenses 10-15 years in the future until generation capacity has been replaced. It only takes about a year to replace the generating capacity (including capacity factor) of a nuclear generator (which takes ~10 years to build) with renewables.

In the US, there are 65 pressurized water reactors (PWRs) with a combined capacity of about 65 GWe and 33 boiling water reactors (BWRs) with a combined capacity of about 34 GWe – for a total capacity of 99,221 MWe. ~50% more than this amount of generating capacity is coming online as utility scale solar over the next five years in the US. Five years! Replace the entire nuclear fleet with replacement nuclear in five years? Never.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/01/01/solar-tsunami/ (Developers have applied to build 139 GWac of large-scale solar projects in the territory of six grid operators – around five times what is currently online across the country – and that figure doesn’t even cover the entire United States. By any metric, we are looking at an unprecedented boom in solar development over the next five years.)

To really get a good idea why this is the case, check out the maps on the right side of https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/#tabs_unit-4, and compare the maps between generating units coming online in the next 12 months to the map of generating unit retirements in the next 12 months. All new generation is solar, wind, and natural gas. All retired generation is primarily coal or nuclear.

To be blunt, no further commercial nuclear generation will be built. Maybe we subsidize renewables more? That'd be swank.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/mark-jacobson-d...

Looks like an idiot to me.
This solution is great because of its simplicity. Keeping a second drive on your desk at work is also great if mom is too far away.
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...unless you just want to drive an older car instead of buying a new replacement for the old clunker.

I've never restored a car to pristine condition but have kept quite a few on the road as daily drivers and they were certainly cheaper than buying a new car every three years or so by a huge margin. My current "clunker" is an '87 Goldwing that should be on the road in perfect driving condition with a few hundred invested in parts once I get around to working on it. Heck, might even get the neighbor to give it new paint since he offered "a good deal" a while back and still be ahead on resale value.
Latency could be an advantage. The New iridium terminals for the higher speed data are larger than BGAN though, at least the couple that I've seen specs on.
I wrote my first commercial software at 13, in 1983. That has been relevant all my career - it explains what kind of computer interests I have, and relays clues about my motivation for continuing to work in the industry. I see nothing wrong with this - in the 80's, a heck of a lot of good programmers were teenagers. So? It is still the case, and in my opinion one of the positives of the industry...
There are many sorts of things that we as a society agree to control in such a way that individuals are not given the option to be special case consenters to them.

Toxic substances, willful enslavement, extreme firearms, explosives, biological weapons. Or even simpler, choosing to operate a personal vehicle without insurance (even if you assert you’re willing to bear the financial risks it entails). The list is probably a lot longer than this.

What we’re just waking up to is that wealth centers are capable of degrees of engineering for behavioral tracking to support a scope of privacy intrusion that average citizens (or even coalitions of fairly sophisticated citizens) are absolutely nowhere close to being able to understand or cope with.

There is simply no decision making framework that exists today in which we can possibly understand how a person consenting to this data collection would be at risk in the future, how their friends or children who possibly did not consent might be at risk by extension, and so on.

Just as a libertarian extreme notion of simply letting free parties consent to a transaction falls apart when you’re talking about buying or selling a supervirus, so too does it fall apart when you’re talking about letting people “opt in” to having their entire sensory trail of generated behavioral data be commercialized.
But define 'plain file system' - is that NTFS? ext4? ZFS? FAT32? HFS? UFS? ISO9660? TAR? cpio? Some of these are more complicated than others, and all of them have catastrophic failure modes...
Safebrowsing is censorship by another name.
the baked in aspect is a GET request to DL a black hashlist. either block the GET or alter the hash of the site, and google nanny wont have any say over what site you can visit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ahfc8k/firefox_foc...
Judge the math, not the man.
3-2-1 Backup should always be in your mind.

3 Copies

2 different Media (or vendors)

1 Offsite / Offline

There are all kinds of things I could think of that may cause problems with your dropbox plans but what would keep me up at night is all the ways I could not think of

never trust a single vendor, a single NAS, a single anything... NEVER
>We compare the cost of maintaining a proposed subsidy for New York's three upstate nuclear power plants with the cost of replacing the plants with renewable technologies from 2016 to 2050

Is operating the plants until 2050 really something people consider? From a brief google search those nuclear power plants were all built in the 70s-80s. Power plants are usually designed for 30-40 years of operation. Operating them for 70-80 years seems ill advised from an economic and safety standpoint.
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Are they including the cost of storing power for peak demand and low generation times?
We can't even integration test all our team's portion of the system on one machine with kafka and datastores mocked out. Production is up in the thousands; I added about a dozen for the weekend just for a backfill.
Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs
But if it does not work he should have a better example.

Still remember the paper about the externality of bee farm and apple farm. Obvious issue of apple not paid the bee farm but no such issue - all paid and in fact have contract what kind of bees etc.

A bad economic example is bad example.
This is like a story you would read on https://dumbrunner.com/ .
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> Do HN readers have an unusual like for ‘small’ phones or is it just an unserved market?

My wife wants a phone that can fit into her jean pockets. Requiring handbags just to carry a phone around is absurd, and untenable for many people.
I use Synology cloud software to backup to both Google Photos and Backblaze. Way faster than Glacier, and costs me <$5 month (haven't reached 1TB yet).
Huh! I’ve read pretty much all his output and loved Wonder Boys most - it is hilarious. Moonglow was also great.. I think Kavalier and Clay was my least fave.
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Initial seeding of your offsite backup over the Internet would be a pain, but most people's valuable data change rate isn't high enough to significantly tax modern broadband connections. I sync a few gigs of data a week and I never even notice it happen.
Good idea, they do often say if Einstein didn't discover relativity, someone else would have within the decade, due to the spread of ideas/inspirations. Taking in the field is likely the best way to discover a 'theme' to which a new innovation will be involved with, however narrow or broad that theme.