skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who said anything about impressing anyone? Why do you feel the need to attack me and put words in my mouth?

If I couldn't care less, how can someone have power over me?
Note that diesel generators have the counter intuitive property of using more fuel at 50% of max load than at 80% of max load. Most other power generations have some variation of this where operating a 80-90% of max power is where they are more fuel efficient. Thus even for conventional generation battery backup on the grid has the potential to save money.
Hopefully at a higher rate to make up for lost $$?
Is this your talk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiIoE8ArACs

It was great, if so!
Please do some more research before you keep throwing out hypothetical complaints about something that didn't happen.

Motel 6 didn't just go along with ICE's request, per the complaint, Motel6 actually trained their employees to turn over such information even before ICE came calling.

The reason? Motel 6 is owned by the Blackstone Group. Most of the directors and executives of the Blackstone Group are die-hard Trump supporters and have espoused hard-line views on immigration. The benefit to themselves was supporting their president's policies.
A backdated warrant? Surely that's not legal.
I can't see exactly what you are offering in the "compliance" space. Does this handle paying/withholding taxes for international workers? Or is this just a dashboard showing you sent them money?
Did you link to the right graph? That one shows most of the 60s still safer than the 00s.
I want to congratulate you for being the only person in this thread to like the redesign. I'd go as far to say that you're brave for outing yourself like this
It has gotta be very expensive.

Yeah, known resources are still very significant compared to our use profile.

And that means we have them for necessary uses.

Too much consumption is bad. We know that now.

Good news is we did bootstrap appropriate tech. No reason not to use it, and frankly the cost does not concern me. (Those externalities are simply huge)

What I see is another bootstrap effort. Lots of jobs, economic activity.

Many people need that too.

Game on.
Ask HN: What development/design tasks require a high powered desktop machine?
Hey!

I'm curious what kind of development or design tasks actually require a high powered CPU, high amounts of RAM or a heavy duty GPU.

I know the obvious cases of building applications and 3D graphics rendering, but I was wondering if what are the common consumer level tasks that would be done.
Life has a funny way of pulling the rug just to prove you wrong when it comes to security.

You are not your bank account.
Gov. Polis is about to sign a Colorado net neutrality bill
"Buying yourself nice things" and "saving enough for retirement" aren't mutually exclusive for a lot of people. IMO, the way to go is to start off by figuring out how much you need to save, setting up your accounts to save that automatically, and then spending the rest guilt-free on whatever you want.
Inflation is a symptom, not a disease.

It arises out of a recognition that the basis of prior financial obligations on expected return was false.

Options are debt repudiation, inflation, debasement, or collapse.
Tesla Board Probed Allegation That Elon Musk Pushed Employee
immediacy

for some it is purely impulse renting. do not confuse the immediacy of the experience with the ability to find something to stream, it is a whole different experience
> It's no different than if they stole it.

It's extremely different.

Law enforcement can ask to search in cases where they don't have a warrant or other legal reasons to insist on a search. If you say "yes", the results are admissible. People mess this up all the time when cops pull them over or knock on the door.
They seem to be asking for:

"permissions": [
"activeTab",
"fileBrowserHandler",
"webRequest",
"webRequestBlocking",
"webNavigation",
"<all_urls>",
"storage",
"tabs",
"tabCapture",
"cookies",
"http://localhost:8500/rest/v1/capture/trigger",
"contextMenus",
"unlimitedStorage",
"declarativeContent",
"idle",
"storage"
],

I think <all_urls> is the scary one that lets it read and change all data on any website you visit.
I based the statement on a vague memory of her putting the hot iron tongs to CEOs during on-stage interviews, in a way that suggested she was nobody's fool. But I don't have a specific example; I hope other people chime in.
1945 is so recent though.
The Making of “Carmen Sandiego: The Crown Jewels Caper” in Google Earth
I assume that wouldn't retroactively exonerate Motel 6, right?
Postmortem of Recent Squarespace Outage
You might be right here. In an ideal world, limitations on unpaid overtime would already protect these workers, and then there would be little or no perceived benefit for the unions they are talking about.
I walked by a tv at work, and CNN was scrolling "BREAKING NEWS", with Trump talking, and I thought "What has he broken this time?"

But I don't think the current distrust of media is about the inaccuracy of journalism. "Breaking news" isn't fully investigated at the moment because it's breaking news. We'll learn why the plane crashed later; we don't need to wait until the root cause analysis is done to tell people a plane crashed.

Rather, the distrust of media is being fueled by the tendency to live in online echo chambers that reinforce preconceptions and ideology. When news happens that doesn't fit our echo-chamber worldview, it gets dubbed "fake news". And, since none of us are always right, sooner or later news is going to happen that contradicts our beliefs. We can adjust our beliefs about the message, or we can adjust our beliefs about the messenger. People choose the latter, because they're self-centered fools. Yes, even us.

Clever politicians have really learned to play this. "You can't trust the media, but you can trust me" turns into a systematic enforcement of blind loyalty. This isn't about any one figure - I see it happening on both the right and the left. Reality gets rejected by command of King Echo.
Swisher peaked from Yahoo's downfall. Until there's blood in the water she won't be snapping out of it anytime soon.
Purely anecdotally, it seems like things are the other way around and that young people are very discerning about online news consumption and fact vs fiction; and it's older people who tend to do most of the sharing of viral misinformation and sensationalist journalism.

It's also not at all obvious that a world where we have access to any number of sources of information and claim and counterclaim is worse than one where the cultural narrative happened and was controlled through the same four or five very large media outlets.

As a simple fact of life too, young people are more malleable and given to respond well to 'actually you're wrong about that' or 'that article is misleading' than olds. Olds are more set in their ways and liable to double down.
This kind of deferential attitude towards authority is extremely troubling.
Same here, once wanted to view some old Frontline from the 80's. Nope.
Trevor Marshall! I had one of his antennas, namely the omnidirectional 15dbi, 1.7m tall. I had an open access point setup for a while. I remember people connecting from so many places and sending me emails to say hello. Fascinating!
Hyperspace, User Manual
> OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them.

This seems to be Kay's key point. The description of object orientation is very unlike any modern system I've used, and he mentions elsewhere that even modern Smalltalks fail to live up to it.

My problem with this vision of OOP is that it would seem to take a great deal more support from the programming environment to make it work, compared to FP. Or perhaps the problem is that this "true" OOP is so much harder to grasp that it's impossible for me to approximate it in another language, where with FP I can obtain some of the benefits just by writing pure functions in an otherwise imperative language.
seriously, when I saw who the author was, I just rolled my eyes. Kara Swisher, a tech addict? who would have guessed??
Writing a database is a good exercise I could recommend to everybody.

Writing a general purpose database is very difficult. On the other hand, if you know what kind of load you can expect and when you have an idea of performance and consistency requirements it may become much simpler.

I have rolled out my own transactional database for a commercial project. This was a decade ago, the device had at most 1MB of memory budget for compiled code, stack, heap, and database storage. The database was to be stored on a non-wear-leveled flash requiring precise control of which bytes and how frequently were erased. We required ability to store small objects (tens to few hundreds of bytes at most) of varying size and be able to record changes to multiple objects at the same time, transactionally (think modifying two accounts). The requirement was that the database stayed consistent no matter what happened, regardless of any application error or power cycles. These devices were operated by hundreds of thousands of customers and power cycled liberally whenever anything didn't work.

The database run in constant memory. It allowed the application to register hooks to calculate deltas between two versions of records and to apply delta to base version to produce result version. The database didn't care how the data was encoded, this was application detail.

The database was stored as transaction log. During operation, all writes were directed to the end of the log. When the log reached half of the available memory, all live records would be coalesced and written to the other half of the space and the original space would be erased.

The read algorithmic complexity was horrible with some algorithms being cubic(!) complexity. This was absolutely ok, since there could never be enough records that would make it a problem. Having extremely simple algorithms allowed for the entire code to be very simple and compact. Everything fit about 200 lines or so lines of code.

I really enjoyed the project.
Not according to Trump
They have 1st party connections to their users through both apps and websites and will always know who the person is. ITP does nothing to stop them. Amazon will be the 3rd major adtech company soon and ISPs will also be unaffected as they're starting to build up more adtech businesses themselves.

ITP is mostly a PR play for Apple's "privacy" marketing push that again hurts publishers and smaller independent internet companies.
The state of the industry is so widely publicised...

The people ensnared & abused the most, genearlly seem to be very young developers, fresh out of college or high school. That age group is, through no fault of their own, never particularly worldly or in touch with current working conditions.
As a Canadian, I agree with what you say....except for the shitting rainbows part. That totally happens up here.
The history of battery tech has been a very steady drum beat of small, slow improvements in battery capacity of a few percent per year, slowly working in the opposite direction of inflation.

The bad news of that 'law' is that you're not going to get a device with 2x battery time next year. The last time I remember Apple pulling off a 2x it was due to a 30% larger battery with 30% higher power density (itself a combination of smaller packaging and better power density) with OS improvements to reduce average power draw.

The good news is that eventually there will be a battery that stores 2x as much charge for the same price. So if storage batteries can be profit neutral now, in 5 years you could be looking at a 25% reduction in material costs. And if you can improve labor and installation overhead you might be looking at a profit margin you can sell.
Whoops! Nazis. Time to think about Nazis. And the holocaust!
Kids know when they're not getting a good education - it usually comes out in unexplained bad behavior, withdrawal, refusal to do the work because it's bullshit, etc. If you're lucky they might even tell you as such.

It's up to the adults in their life to listen.
>In my experience new releases have long waiting lists at libraries.

True, but libraries are more my goto for things that aren't on streaming. For example I wanted to watch "Reanimator" and none of my steaming services had it but the local library had a DVD.

For new stuff I'm willing to pay a dollar or two on Amazon. (Especially since you can earn that easily by picking a slowing shipping speed on nonessential items... so order a dvd the library doesn't have, get a credit for a current release, and rent an old favorite to tide you over.)

It's not perfect, but in my experience you're often paying for convenience, and being willing to be slightly inconvenienced pays dividends.
> If the labor market is so robust why aren't people joining the workforce?

Because they don't need to work. They're not applying for unemployment and they're not taking jobs. So, logically, they're using their time on non-work-related activity. They're having fun, or otherwise doing stuff that they would rather do than work.

The media has this terrible tendency to promote work as the primary marker of life success, which is a valid opinion, for sure, but it's not a universal one. Some people step out of the workforce because they can, and good for them. I expect the wealthier our society becomes, the more people will have this opportunity.
Someone should do a study on the effects of telling people they have no agency over decisions in their life.
Students aren't the customers, they don't write the checks and make the decisions. A charter school can provide a bad education and convince parents to fund them anyways - touting religious stuff seems like the easiest path for this.
Also you might die without any of the minor joy that a coffee might give you, and none of the benefit of the savings.
That's good to hear. I think making it open source is already a step in the right direction. City planners who were critical of SimCity at the time often pointed to the game being a black box, so you couldn't examine, much less tweak, the assumptions built into the simulation.
I would like to see those numbers. Even if it's evened out with I'd be curious if there's more churn now, which anecdotally seems to be the case.
Fewer people come here illegally than come here legally and stay illegally.

Most of your "illegal immigrants" are legitimate visitors who overstay their visa.
> they [Yoshua Bengio] don’t realize ... simple economics.

Really?
Honestly the replies here are the most meta discussions I have ever seen. So toxic and rude!
That is FUD.

> Mary Hutzler, senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research in Washington D.C., said that solar panels are manufactured using hazardous materials — including sulfuric acid and phosphine gas — making them difficult to recycle. They also contain toxic metals like lead, chromium, and cadmium, which can be harmful to humans and are likely to leak from electronic waste dumps into drinking water supplies.

Chromium is only in CIGS, which is 0% of the market, Cadmium is only in CdTe, which is a few percent of the market and only manufactured in the US by First Solar. Lead is just in the solder, which is the same issue as with all electronics. How does the use of chemicals purely as part of the manufacturing process make the panel more difficult to recycle, if the material is not in the finished product? IER is a Koch funded nonsense.
A Growing Trend with Men, Vasectomy Procedure Plans
At the moment, I queue to batch insert real time data at ~5 second intervals. It seems less wasteful of resources, but quite frankly is probably not needed.
> Their web player has also started to have stuttering and frame dropping issues for me.

I never understood the appeal of watching Netflix in a browser?

Why let DRM infect your browser? Why not use closed media services in dedicated, closed-source apps for such things and keep your browser clean?

To date I’ve honestly never seen anyone access Netflix through a browser. It’s all native apps.

What’s the appeal?
the best/easiest way is still use opengl/directx/etc but draw your texture in software, and then draw the texture full screen.

This is the approach I used to teach software rendering in gameswithgo.org we make a putpixel function as in the old days, and use it to build up a texture, which we draw each frame. The texture becomes what used to be the framebuffer.
Main reason is that SQLite is embedded with my application. There isn't a second, third or fourth "microservice" to spin up. I know Terraform/Docker, love them, but the gymnastics I need to orchestrate for my particular situation is not worth it.
So for the tradeoff of complexity for functionality, SQLite hits a very good sweet spot for me.
If your situation is seriously rural, it might be a few days
between trips into town (or to your P.O. box), so while you
could get different media at Redbox on every trip, you
would have to plan to overlap returns and requests on Netflix
(perhaps with multiple accounts?) to get new content on every trip.

I am extrapolating from seeing a number of battered rancher
pickup trucks whose occupants are clustered around Redbox kiosks in small towns in the western US.
> After starting college I soon learned of the trials and tribulations of software engineers in the gaming industry.

Graphics is used well beyond the games industry! Anecdotally (talking to friends, getting recruiter emails, etc) Apple, Facebook, NVidia, and Google have been hiring like crazy for non-games graphics-related positions.
One of the problems with CS education today
I enrolled in a Coursera's online CS degree program. I have am an EE interested in a CS degree in AI/ML.

I have decades of software engineering under my belt and transferable academic credit (C programming, elementary to advanced). I have worked on embedded systems, FPGA's, web and mobile software and hardware dev. I have developed software in assembley, C, Forth, Lisp, C++, JS, Python, Objective-C and more. Also HDL's: Verilog and VHDL.

What's the problem?

They requires all students to take the following courses:

Intro to Programming 1 and 2
How Computers Work
Web Development

This will consume somewhere between 1 and 1.5 years.

Yes, someone who knows little to nothing should take these modules.

What about someone who has years of experience and some relevant academic work?

These programs do not have a sensible assessment test one could take in order to demonstrate capability.

I think this is a serious problem.

At the very least this does not respect student's time and prior accomplishments. Forcing someone to devote two semesters to "Intro to Programming" when they know the material inside-out is silly at best.

A further problem is that it seems none of the organizations have any interest in addressing this issue. Repeated pleads at the highest levels have resulted in nothing.

And so someone like me is facing the reality of having to spend a year+ "learning" how computers work, how to write a "for" loop and use arrays when hardware I designed that has flown in space and I have designed and programmed embedded computers from scratch --like 8080, 6502, MC86K, 8085, R65F11, C8051F100, PIC and other processors and published mobile apps.

This isn't necessarily about money but that is likely a factor as well.

You ought to be able to prove what you know through a well designed test and enter these kinds of programs at the appropriate academic level.
> Yet the elegance of booting from a floppy is indisputable -- your OS can't be hacked, the floppy is write protected

What percentage of floppy disk readers actually implement the write protection in hardware?
Your comment reminded me of the little 10 MW nuclear reactors that Toshiba was developing. The idea was that you bury them around neighborhoods and they work for some decently long time. I wonder what happened to that idea? Is there any hope of small/safe/cheap nuclear power?
I Got Tenure, but Science Is Still Broken
I came to say just this. Back in 1999 I was so excited when tech magazines were giving out the specs of the up and coming new video format. I never got a true DVD player back then, but used a Playstation 2. The first time I rented a DVD from the store (blockbuster?) wasn't a grand experience either. You had to pay extra for the DVD vs the VCR. Yea the picture was slightly better on the fuzzy CRT, but what was immediately apparent was the screwy dynamic audio range. Every time we watched a DVD someone had to always have the TV remote in hand, constantly turning up the volume in the quite spots and quickly turning it down before some super loud stuff happened.

That's still an issue today for me. I've been told that using a true 5.1 surround system will fix that, but I've never been a fan of the extra speakers. Plus most of the people I know that actually have a surround receiver have all 5 speakers just sitting right next to the TV anyway.

Then there's the screwy menu navigation and forced commercials. My mom struggles to get through those, slowly hen pecking buttons or staring at the remote wondering if you hit the "Ok/Enter" button or the play button. My grandparents never have figured it out, I have to do it for them every time.

I'm not a movie buff at all. I only recently started buying movies now that I have kids but the DVD format natively is just too painful. I tried initially to rip DVDs to an mp4 but that just takes too long. What I do now just so I can be somewhat "legit" is buy some $3 "as is" used DVD off of ebay. Right when I get it in the mail, I throw it into a junk drawer and then grab a torrent of it. 10 minutes later I've got it on my hard drive and if I'm feeling fancy I'll ffmpeg it to wav format and normalize the audio then copy it back. From there I shoot it over to my media box in the living room for the kids to enjoy their new "freshly ripped" DVD. I don't even tell my wife the truth.
well you can't assume who is downvoting

but the mods will tell you that it is "noisy" at the beginning and that you can't glean anything from it

they'll also tell you that you can't talk about voting (an interpretation of their site guidelines, when convenient), so you can't complain about it or even talk about it as that will also attract downvotes

and they'll also simultaneously believe that it is accurate for downvoted people to be rate-limited for hours on end, preventing them from even responding to a thread that could change how people view their original downvoted message, until any message that doesn't currently have consensus is censored completely and the "noise maker" is shadowbanned

there aren't that many mods here. would be nice if this was a little more holistic
Ahhh, no worries.

Just remembering a friend recently telling me about someone who was killed at a work place. Apparently that person walked in front of the main radar array (defense related I think) while it was in operation and just dropped dead instantly. :(
Except uploading my own music and the library. I found a lot of "unavailable" songs in Spotify and ditched them.
Fairly prophetic that. He (and his anti semitic sister) were kind of popular with the Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_and_reception_of_Fri...
For stationary purposes, why wouldn't Lead-Acid batteries work for distributed power storage?

I'm aware that those batteries should not be deep-discharged, but you can just add more to compensate.

Lead is toxic but those batteries seem to be very recyclable.

Any comments?