skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the point still stands.

If an original (used) battery is installed, it should be recognized as original and graded accordingly to its state (let's say 80% of what it should be).

The current provision doesn't prevent the use of a defective or used or sub-standard battery, it only prevents non-Apple personnel from performing a repair without triggering the (possibly unjustified) alarm.
> Svalbard’s geopolitics provide an imperfect but alternative vision of how places can be governed, whom they can accommodate, and how communities can form.

Hardly. It's a rugged community of 2300 people. That's not a model for alternative government.

> "This is not a cradle to grave society,” one of Askholt’s colleagues told me.
> That proved pretty successful for them. Now they have done it again by commoditizing "high core count" processors.

They've done much more than that. Intel's current server CPU lineup is tightly siloed into different segments to limit every feature that some customers would pay more for into it's own line priced to match. That's why they currently have Xeon Scalable {Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum}, Xeon {D, W, E} lines, with 402 different Xeon CPUs actively being sold.

In contrast, AMD has two EPYC lines, P and non-P, only differing in that P is for 1-socket servers. The models in these lines differ in that they have more/less cores and different clocks, all those features that Intel gates and segments by, are found in every AMD CPU.
One thing I've noticed is that people often don't hold the door open anymore when you're following them out of a building or room, because they're looking at their phone.

I thought the article would be focused on these sorts of things, but it seemed to be more of an advice column. Not what I was expecting.
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Apple locks new iPhone batteries to prevent third-party repair
Feedback: First time through I just pasted some JSON and wondered why it didn't format. I hadn't realised the page had instructions on it – I had assumed it was just sample JSON.

Second time through, I read the instructions, and realised that the keyboard shortcuts are Control-based – this is less common for macOS, "Cmd+Enter" feels like a more consistent shortcut to use.

I think this should probably just auto-format all the time. It's only for formatting, so that wouldn't get in the way.
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> Seriously, I haven't seen any build tools in the past 30 years that have done a great job and that were a joy to use. CMake, Ant, Gradle, make-of-the-month-club, whizzy vendor-locked tools, bespoke in-house constructions, they have all been terrible. I see little hope, entropy has won this one.

Have a look at redo[1].

[1]https://redo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Thank you. Joined the torrent.
But JavaScript's got asynchronous!
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If you had waited until now, then next year you'd be saying exactly the same thing when AMD announces the next iteration.
And there is Cassandra DB, that advices to deactivate swap. I am wondering what happens on servers, running several Java Services with Cassandra and without swap, once memory pressure gets high, even due to system caches, will it stall as well for an eternity?
>To test this, sometimes I'll write something where the first sentence is provocative, but the rest is (I hope) a solid, nuanced argument. Usually it's at -1 or -2 within a minute, and then over the next few hours slowly crawls back up to +2 or +3 as people actually read it.

I cannot but confirm this behaviour.

Also I noticed that (my guess is that there is some form of subliminal self-defense reflex by some categories) there are a few themes (not political, not social) that seem to attract downvotes.
I honestly wonder if this is satire. I feel like this is one of those situations where the reason the writer doesn't like it is solely that he doesn't understand the true use case and reasoning behind moving off-prem. It isn't just the cost of servers, it's the fact that AWS or Azure gives you a variety of simple ways to configure and integrate services, without paying an entire team of ops people for putting servers in racks. It's more efficient and reduces overhead, which saves the kind of company that spends 6 figures on AWS costs a huge sum of money too.
>There is a lot of gray area, for example is medicine a science? Many treatments or diagnoses are based on probabilistic or empirical models -- that doesn't make them worthless.

Medicine is not generally considered a science.

And never was it implied that things that aren't science are worthless.
Fair enough. Thank you for taking the time to a question that, in retrospect, sounds antagonistic (apologies for that).
Dice is one of the oldest tech focused job boards. 99% of the jobs posted there are for tech contractors (business analysts, it admin, software developers) posted by staffing agencies or Indian outsourcers like Tata who need to hire contractors. Pay for these jobs are between $25-$100 hr.
So does Twillio... not surprising at all when there's no encryption and they need to debug real phone calls routed all over the world which is not an easy task.

As long as they're only spot checking and not browsing through any one persons calls for no reason I don't see why it's a big deal. It's mostly business lines anyway.

That said, they should have some protocols and controls in place for listening to any calls, with solid paper trails. Every company like that should have a privacy manager to direct and monitor these measures. They could even document/blog about their work on privacy for marketing purposes (assuming the executives are aware of just how in-demand privacy has become these days).
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For me. I'd love to see open borders, where everyone has the freedom to move to where they can achieve their goals and dreams, rather than being restricted to the country where they happened to be born. How many Einsteins have been born in Africa, but denied the chance to make the contribution to humanity that they could have?

(And before the cynics note that open borders are incompatible with welfare states, that's not necessarily true, and the path to open borders is a long one, not a sudden change we can make without massive upheaval right now.)
From the creators of Skype: Wire provides E2E encrypted text and high-quality audio, has an open-source server and client, does not mandate disclosure of phone number or contacts, and is moving towards the IETF MLS protocol for E2E encrypted messaging.
I don't think so. If you build the next gmail with GPLv3 software, you don't have to share your code as you are not selling any binary. The Affero mandates that you share the code with clients who use the service, not just people who execute the binary.
I remember when Skype debuted and after only crackly POTS calls as a reference point, the clarity whilst speaking from the USA to a friend in Berlin was AMAZING. I am not sure of dates but at some point it started to decline not just in call quality but UI and everything really, I assume this is when it was sold but cannot be sure. I had hoped Wire would fill that void for me PLUS add encryption, since some original Skypers were involved, but it seems to be fading as well on the Personal side.
This is a really interesting discussion, and I feel it could go even deeper.

My story: after two tough "failures" and some temporary consulting for a few months, I have joined an investment firm in San Francisco as an external consultant/contractor for the last 2-3 months, with the goal of defining a long-term role after getting to know each other better.

They are now offering me a CTO position within the firm.

They want me (with a small team) to build a number of things that can be considered technology products, such as: a platform to manage a large advisory board; a system to perform a technical due diligence on large companies; a source engine to collect data and metrics with the purpose of augmenting deal-sourcing and decision-making. Other tasks include: defining and maintaining the taxonomy for the IT industry, and representing the firm as an "external" CTO (events, conferences, etc).

Given it's a quite unique and uncommon role in an investment firm, I am now working on a plan to define these things in more details.

<ask> If any of you had experiences in similar roles (perhaps at investment firms in the East coast?), or feel you can dispense good advice, I would love to grab a coffee and pick your brain on a few things. </ask>

Also, wish me luck! One bad career turn is bad, two are really tough to handle. To make a long story short: #1 was as CTO in a startup for a bit over a year, the two founders made a ton of mistakes, not my fault; #2 I was founder/CEO of a company, things didn't go well and after ~1.5 years I had to leave the company, with some important disagreements among founders, but thankfully not much drama. Before that I had two very successful roles at AWS and VMware for a total of ~8 years.
Fusion isn't even economically viable, and can't be allegedly made viable without multibillion dollar projects with high probability and history of boondoggle status?

Come on.

Steam engines clearly produced power at a huge economic benefit.

LFTR also has this characteristic, and also needs vessel engineering to become profitable and usable.

Fusion has dubious net power benefits, dubious profitability even with net-energy experimental status.

And all of that is wasted funding, that should go into battery, solar, wind, electrical transmission, and other storage means, which are beating coal (thankfully) and will hopefully beat natural gas soon.

At the rate renewables are dropping in price, fusion will NEVER CATCH UP. It's not even a matter of the old "twenty years" joke. It's not going to catch up. Ok, maybe in a hundred years when the main research curve on those has finally petered out.

If we're still here.
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Care to elaborate? Interesting to rule out all modern technology as “shitty”
Can you elaborate on how you came to the conclusion that global warming == extinction? To discuss the question of what would be "as bad" as global warming, me need to ~agree on what those bad outcomes actually are.

Im skeptical that climate change will ever make humanity extinct. Lead to highly undesirables states, yes, but extinction, no.
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I second this, I too expected this to auto-format - the only purpose of this tool is to prettify the JSON and rarely would anyone paste and then edit there.
> I've been put in the corner by dang

Same. Thanks, dang. I deeply appreciate your work here.
Not only that but it provides no social services, so there’s no government cost or burden to immigration. Similar to how the US was in its early history but contrast to how the US and Europe is now.
Thank you for your charitable interpretation of my qualifications.

But, you know, stuff happens. Somebody's machine loses the hard drive; in the process of building the new hard drive, they miss restoring the configuration for their editor. Somebody else installs a new editor, and forgets that configuration matters. A new employee gets hired, and doesn't know either how or why to configure properly. And behold, bugs get introduced invisibly.

That won't happen often. It will happen more than zero, though. And when it does, it's a headache I don't need.
Many of those in the 'doubt climate change' camp are deeply suspicious of anything any government body wants to do.

I've also widely engaged people who doubt or deny climate change, trying hard to approach in an open handed, friendly way, and mostly succeeding.

In my opinion, a big chunk of the people who doubt climate change are and will remain extremely opposed to any kind of geoengineering. Perhaps violently so.

In people's minds, there's a huge leap between trusting scientists' saying that the earth is warming fast, fucking things up in the future, and trusting scientists' saying that we need to actively change the world right now in response to climate change. And I appreciate that distinction.

In truth, I think quite a few people unconsciously push back against climate change because they are afraid of the possibility of active geoengineering in response.
Forty Seven Adtech companies have adopted sellers.json
The issue with Intel's scheduling statements now is they're highly suspect.

I feel like they would have burned a lot less goodwill if they hadn't straight up lied for multiple years about their maturity and timeline.
Rake isn't for Ruby any more than Make is for C. It comes from that ecosystem, but you can use it for anything. If you've got a system ruby installed, you've probably also got rake.
The engine has support but the language doesn't expose it?
Even more apropos of nothing: it’s also used in a famous episode of MAS*H, “Abyssinia, Henry”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssinia,_Henry
And the 1000 kilometers of sea that surrounds it.
You're a hypocrite if you don't open borders into your home for the homeless, then.
If I understand correctly, you're making scholarly CS Education arguments relative to PbD and HtDP, correct? Like, before you, the professors behind HtDP did relative to SICP (though they chose a playful academic article title, rather than a domain name :)? On that, I'll to defer to you CSE people, to investigate and debate, in the onward progress of science.

You're not, however, objecting to Racket itself, the practical programming language platform that enabled building the HtDP progessively-powerful teaching languages and their beginner IDE?
Also the lack of social services
> this is not a cradle to grave society

Specifically: if you are pregnant approaching 7-8 months, if you become seriously ill, or if you are old enough to need care, you are flown off to the mainland. You're literally not allowed to be born or die there.
> Despite the authenticity of a publication I wouldn't want to read 10 articles saying the same thing

I agree in a mundane sense, repetition is not exciting, but the sorts of large scale messages such as this one, need to be repeated across many sources of information (has Sci Am ever run an article in this before? Not the same as if Huff Post does) before it's taken seriously enough, by enough people, for something to change.
After world war II, Japan and Germany did wonders again due to scientific temperament, they were destroyed worse than Indian colonial rule. Japan and in earlier period five forces colonized parts of China. Korea from 1910-45 as Japan colony still developed after world war II due to science.

Indeed Nehru (first govt head of free India) put the foundations of scientific thinking in India. Built great institutions and foundations of IIT, BARC. But India capitulated it's advance to religion and tribal mentality.

Funny enough even today people like religion based leaders and chosen a government whose head proclaims in a science conference that before England invaded, India invented atomic bomb, aeroplane during ancient time of Lord Ram (a deity) and invitro fertilization during Mahabharata (religious book). India really needs a science revolution who can throw such leaders out and chose at least an educated one who understands science, that's the only way to bring up scientific temperament and progress. This will help avoid attacking neighbors or take religion driven populist changes to divert attention from real issues.

I understand racism in Indian context means untouchables, social class hierarchy, killing a person for transporting cows or marrying out of prescribed social order. I am not talking about it.
Not to mention, it always becomes a dumpster fire. It is going to devolve because too much emotional baggage comes in with it, I am guilty of it, and every reader on HN is guilty of it. There are plenty of other outlets to vent ones political frustrations. It just poisons the pool here and is better left out. If someone really needs that outlet, Facebook is just a click away.

It is near impossible for a group to have a rational discussion about politics or religion. So it is better to just avoid the topic on a forum that values, pleasantry and support of one another as core values.
This is great news for developers. The trend has been to combine version control and CI for years now. For a timeline see https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/08/built-in-ci-cd-version-c...

This is bad news for the CI providers that depend on GitHub, in particular CircleCI. Luckily for them (or maybe they saw this coming) they recently raised a series D https://circleci.com/blog/we-raised-a-56m-series-d-what-s-ne... and are already looking to add support for more platforms. It is hard to depend on a marketplace when it starts competing with you, from planning (Waffle.io), to dependency scanning (Gemnasium acquired by us), to CI (Travis CI layoff where especially sad).

It is interesting that a lot of the things GitHub is shipping is already part of Azure DevOps https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-... The overlap between Azure DevOps and GitHub seems to increase instead of to be reduced. I wonder what the integration story is and what will happen to Azure DevOps.
Never heard about the rxe but it looks like something I could use - thanks.
I used kotlin, golang, and ruby for multiple. not a huge sample of languages but i still like es6 javascript the best
I've been on the wait list for many months and still haven't gotten a chance to join the limited public beta.
Web Authentication API in Firefox for Android
Tangent: pet licensing data (which basically means dog licenses), particularly names and breeds, is always something I've wanted to analyze for fun, especially across jurisdictions, but always ends up being a huge data wrangling exercise. But MuckRock has a nice collection of completed public records requests for cities across America:

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?q=pet+license&status=done...

For example, Houston's data is a 90MB Excel spreadsheet with more than a million rows, and includes columns like pet color and vaccination dates:

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/houston-113/houston-tx-pet-lice...
Since this discussion I have checked to see if one of the projects I want to do, that requires OpenGL rendering inside an UI, would not be doable with electron.

Google Qt and OpenGL and you get the documentation of the appropriate widget. Google GL and electron and you get a bunch of github issues and people complaining it does not work well yet.

Nah, JS is struggling to get where Qt has been for years. I am happy that it solved its text alignment issue in 2014 though.
Tone is important. Nobody was ever convinced by being screamed at. People who argue against tone policing are mostly just using that as a way to shut down their opponents.
Yep strict moderation is required for (quasi) anonymous internet discussion sites.

Strict moderation is why olde forums like Somethingawful don't have nazis, but weak/no moderation twitter is full of them.
I agree 100% with what you say but have to point out that your last "even" is a small example of how politics creeps in. In short, what often happens is that statements that are highly opinion-based are presented as broadly-agreed-upon facts.

EDIT: to be clear, I don't think you did it intentionally, and it was a minor thing, I just found it amusing to spot it.

EDIT2: to be even clearer, I'm referring to the implied fact that WP commenters are better-informed than the other two groups (on which I don't have a strong opinion).
Many of those jobs requiring testing for safety reasons (but not all).

Are you suggesting the US isn't the land of the free because people aren't free to come to work intoxicated and potentially endanger their colleagues?
It is considered rude?
Live announcement on periscope:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/cBxOKTFkdkVPVkRPZHlwalh8MXluS09SeUFNcU...
Meanwhile, I still haven't been invited to the beta...
What is stopping those undercutting companies from facing the same fate as Uber/Lyft in a few years?
The first AMD v Intel cost Intel $10 million. The second cost $1.25 billion. A third one would be immense.

Also, Intel is operating under a consent decree and FTC supervision until October 29, 2020. The FTC would come down hard on direct violations of the decree.
Author (of Cortex and the blog post) here. AMA!
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There have been a number of laws that diminish collective bargaining. Things like "right to work" laws ostensibly give individual workers more rights, but they have a devastating effect on union membership and collective action.

Sure, you might have more "rights" if you were to tally them up. But human psychology is easily gamed, and things like this end up hurting employees on the whole.
I really want to try GitHub Actions but I signed up as soon as it was released and I am still waiting for an invite.

I am mostly just excited for it to be released so I can try it.
Traditional forums are usually strictly moderated and are not toxic. (eg. Resetera, Somethingawful)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0p96miSK8
Carbon sequestration is a necessity at this point for many emissions scenarios. BECCS (Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage) seems to be the IPCC's favored technology at the moment. It doesn't have to keep up with emissions, we need to cut emissions to the point that sequestration can bring us carbon negative.
Both navies have had incidents where nuclear powered submarines sank. That's the nature of the military, they tend to go places other ships don't.

> the only way the US Navy succeeded was by using a huge amount of resources under tight top-down control.

Everything in the military is done with tight top down control for the most part. That's not why it succeeded, though. The military is the only organization that did it since it's the only organization for which nuclear wasn't constrained by the need for profit.

There was a demonstration nuclear cargo vessel built that operated for four years, but they weren't mass produced and so weren't economically viable when oil was cheap.

However, if you combine the need for lowered emissions with the higher modern price of oil, larger scale production of nuclear civilian vessels begins to make some economic sense.

This is aided also by the fact that modern reactors could be designed to be lower cost to operate.

Security wise, nuclear powered vessels would be less vulnerable than oil powered vessels presently are because they'd be at least as fast and would need refueling less often.

They would not be a more attractive target for terrorists than other ships despite nuclear propulsion, because the reactors can be designed to be tamper proof, meaning the only thing a terrorist in possession of a nuclear ship can do is sink it with little resulting fear or hardship for the country they are trying to affect. Water blocks radiation very effectively, and ships with sunken nuclear reactors don't spread radiation around, they contain it.