skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to align daily routines on it

That's not necessary. The utility can make the current price available via an internet API. The water heater can be connected to the internet and can read that data. Heat the water to 130 or so when electricity is cheap, heat it only to 100 or so when it is expensive. From personal experience, the water remains hot enough for a comfortable shower 3 days after the power goes out. This is more than a workable system. The hot water itself becomes the "battery".

And that's only the hot water heater. You can do it with the HVAC system (the thermal mass of the house becomes the "battery"), and with charging your car.

Right there it's a huge chunk of one's electricity consumption, all without needing grid storage batteries.
Problem I see with nuclear, and gas and oil pipelines is the real risk of a complete default on it's bonds. Plant will either not get built or the plant may get shutdown[1] before paying off it's bonds. I think San Onofre was shutdown because it's brand new replacement steam generators showed excessive wear. And new nuclear plants seems to be costing more over time not less.

Vs solar or wind farms where default is much more likely to be 'soft'. Maybe the plant defaults on it bonds, but it still produces power. Which is preferable to both defaulting and shutting down.
First they came for the associates of child rapists, and I did not speak up because I did not associate with people who rape children.
Nah, that is about Uber Pool, not UberX.
Send Me Sfmoma (2017)
And why would the members of such a society not choose to damage the global environment if the local benefits outweighed the losses? That's the carbon emissions problem, after all.

Regarding 'good faith' - I think you might be arguing in good faith, but I don't see how you'd think that argument is the best path to take to convince people to either support the environment or to abandon our current economic systems for yours.

Personally I think we need major geoengineering to preserve the current temperature range, and that our current economic system tends towards a failure mode with extremely concentrated wealth. I don't think those are connected, though. In fact, an argument can be made that concentrating much of the world's wealth in one person would also be good for the environment, since the required changes would have a smaller impact on their wealth than on their personal wellbeing. Basically, the theory goes that $10T + nice environment to live in > $100T + dead environment, so the hypothetical multitrillionaire would spend $90T to improve things based purely on self interest. This isn't to suggest that giving Jeff Bezos absolutely everything would be a good idea, or that doing such is necessary - just that there might be other routes than 'some flavor of socialism'.
The way to compensate for this is to realize the perception bias you're applying to yourself.

If you have 52 friends on Facebook, and each of them takes a vacation for one week out of the year, then every week you see someone broadcasting how they're having a more awesome time than you.

That doesn't mean they're doing any better than you. You just don't see the 52 reactions for the one week that you've got the vacation 'advantage' over them. You only notice the comparison when you're on the worse side of it.
Hey! Maybe there should be unions in tech! Just a thought!
Best quote: “And if alive today, Socrates would probably be a prolific email, IM, forum, Facebook, and Twitter user.”
I think its more related to authoritarianism than communism, as same could be said for dictatorships. Authoritarianism gifts both a reason for dissent and the ability to purge it.

Compare and contrast with a parlimentary democracy running a heavily capitalist economic system. While it gives plenty of reason for dissent it also provides little opportunity to purge. This give and take leads to less extremes and more stability in general.
By all accounts the phones are amazing and the new video shooting modes are a big step forward. That said after going back to the iPhone se recently I realise that it's the sweet spot phone for me. It does everything I want my phone to do and doesn't feel bloated by loads of amazing tech I'll never use once the novelty wears off.
Git confuses me - a lot. Like, what's the point of staging? You write:

> Why have a dedicated staging area?

> So that you can choose and review which files and changes to commit before committing.

Mercurial doesn't have a dedicated staging area, and I don't think I'm missing anything important by not having it, so this explanation doesn't seem to add anything.

But, looking now I see there are a number of resources along the lines of "git for Mercurial users", so perhaps think of me as not your target audience.
yes - close minded.

if you want performance -
you want performance however you get it.

if someone makes a performant cvt, you want that.
if they don't, you dont.

someone bound up in performance==x will not buy 'y', period.
they wrote that fancy blog post but couldn't scale ejabberd to 50k users? Whatsapp managed to scale ejabberd into whatsapp so..
And 99% were non the wiser or cared.
Android is better than iOS, a thought-piece
Make sure to give Apple the feedback directly: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Not likely it will change any strategic direction, but more official feedback might sway things a tiny bit.
Well, the colloquial understanding of a “layoff” is that it is not based on underperformers, but based on changing business conditions.

For example, closing a plant, or getting out of a line of business. If Uber decides not to have anything more to do with self-driving vehicles, they might lay off everyone in its division.

That would have nothing to do with poor performance on the part of individuals.

On the other hand, there is “These people are underperformers,” which is part of Uber’s allegation as they throw their former employees under the bus rather than take responsibility for their management choices.

I contend that if people are underperformers, a constant trickle of letting such people go is not bad for morale. It’s perfectly normal.

“Did you hear they let Dave go?” “Yeah. What took them so long?” That’s the usual talk.

Whereas, “Did you hear that they shut down ML?” “Yeah, and it was half the database tuning group last month, who’ll be next?” “I dunno, but I’m not hanging around to find out...” is the thing you are describing.

Long story short, I agree that a trickle of layoffs is not good, but I suggest that this is true when the people being let go are not thought of as holding the company back.

I disagree that it doesn’t matter who it is. If they are underperforming in the sense of being bottom 10% but still carrying their costs, I agree with you about trickle, but then we can’t claim that letting them go makes the company stronger.

But if they are underperforming to the extent that letting them go makes the engineering group more effective, then management should have identified them earlier, done everything in its power to make them perform, and let them go if they didn’t improve.

Ignoring net negative employees, or being blind to whether they are net negative, or keeping them around even though they are known to be net negative is bad for the company’s bottom line and bad for its morale.
Yeah, this is a true statement. I live in east Asia and travel to Japan a few times a year. They have self-checkout, but there is always someone there to help. I have seen these people help everyone at the self-checkout every time I went to the stores that have them.

Automation is nice, but it's not smart enough. Not yet at least.
I sleep about 6 hours or less. But this transition happened suddenly sometime in my mid-twenties. I don't know if I'm suffering from insomnia or if I'm still good.

Definitely do not feel as super rested as I use too.
"Uber Chat -- because that's one thing you didn't know you needed!"
So let me get this straight: the author admits Apple doesn't need to do this for business reasons, but is asking them to be nice and do it for other reasons? And the option of, you know, using one's market power to give Apple an incentive to do it for business reasons isn't on the table?

Does the term "self-inflicted wound" ring a bell?
A new chat app or mattermost with customization?
It should still be coming soon as code was found for it in the OS. It will display a red, IT (horror movie) style, floating red balloon where your lost item is.
I live in Portland. Last time I toured Bonneville, no turbines were operating on the East side. The ranger told us there was sufficient solar and wind at the time and they shutdown to protect aquatic life.

Assuming that's true, I assume they'd also shutdown to protect thier pocket book.
You’re welcome.

Sounds like fun might be the go-to motivator then. Try finding ways to provide fun at the end of every task or sprint.
OpenVSP 3.18.0 released for NASA's OpenVSP Workshop 2019
On top of that they 100% can read your private messages
Contrast ratio is just the comparison between the brightest white and the darkest black. All OLED, by virtue of having pure black darks, have infinite contrast ratio. Doesn't matter if it's a good OLED or a shitty one, they all universally have perfect contrast ratio.
Honestly, I would have never actually noticed if someone had not told me. Perhaps I'm just getting old.
And I am simply arguing that that is not always the case and the original statement, that it is a privilege to be able to unplug from news and social media, may be true given that I as an LGBTQ person often feel the need to keep abreast of new and rarely-covered updates to local and federal policy that are associated with LGBTQ issues. For example, the department of labor moving through fairly recently to make it legal for federal contractors to fire LGBTQ or unmarried pregnant women on the grounds of religious beliefs.
Unfortunately many people lose close family members, even parents, in tragic, horrible, unfair circumstances that never see justice all the time. Most of them - I would wager almost absolutely all of them - do not commit mass murder afterwards. I vehemently disagree with your opinion about what I would have done in his place and register my unease with how you raise it as an obvious general norm.
This seems like a classic case of you projecting your value system on your peers. The reality of the situation is that is that there are a ton of ways to live a fulfilling life. Not all of them require strong family values, and there isn't any legal pressure to adopt family values as far as I can tell. I would actually put the onus on you to learn to work with colleagues who value work over family. If you can't live harmoniously with your values and your employer, you should find another job.
Possibly; I don't work for Boeing or their subcontractor. But I was getting at more of the general sense that as aircraft become more and more computerized we need more rigour and standardization of the sort that gave rise to Ada, and less of the aerospace equivalent of hacking things together in perl.
Unexpected condition.
Lightning tax? Have you tried finding charging options for USB-C after forgetting yours in an airport yet?
> Edit: It's pretty clear from the following comment that this is not a "VPN service", as most people understand it. So Mozilla is being extremely disingenuous in calling it one.

I couldn't find "vpn" anywhere in the article. I don't think they are calling it one.
> Swanky restaurant? Get the evil eye. On a bus? Get the evil eye.

I'm very curious which city that is.

I bring my kids on public transit all the time, and rarely get the evil eye. I take the kids to a couple of the nicest restaurants in our neighborhood on a fairly regular basis. The staff know their names and people who aren't even serving us that time stop to talk to them. And yeah, one of them is a toddler.

Buses. . . I don't know LA that well, but NYC and Chicago are both "buses every 10 minutes" cities. If they're more than 10 minutes off schedule, it's because something happened. In some smaller cities I've lived, on the other hand. . . it's true, buses could get pretty late.
I feel like Hackernews is more distracting to be honest, it's like crack, I just cannot stop looking through all these interesting posts.
Has anyone actually done this kind of thing before? That would break rewards and benefits offered directly by Visa/MC.
I did it for a year too!
deleted fb/insta/twitter accounts for a year.

a lot of good things happened.
1. Never bothered about taking photos for everyshit I did.
2. A lot of white space and time I got, to be empty. Not sure if I used them enough. But white space yes! 100%
3. I never grazed useless info off the feed.

in the middle of the year, i tried an experiment. created a twitter/fb accounts and followed some of the useful accounts. browsed for 1 hour. and then closed twitter/fb and tried to recollect all the info I gathered in this 1 hour. And trustme, it was huge. really huge.

X got married. Y had a job change. Z disappointment about something. A's vacation. B's witty remark on C.

then i immedietly deleted my account, coz none of these were useful for me. I was never interested in what other poeple's life about.

Another 6 months passed.
I realized only thing I missed was the option for events, and groups where u can post.

coz i play fifa on xbox one. to find teammates.. ofcourse the best place is on fb. To sell something. Even to reach out to somebody for help at sometime, fb is the best.

so finally after 1 year, I created twitter/fb accounts.
and I never posted any photos or my personal stuff.

Just add 30 friends in fb. the most important ones. u know.. and no more. but i can unfollow some of them. ANd posted all info in groups, and got teammates right away for Fifa.

and also, if I want to reach out someone, its just one step away.

Twitter, follow all useful ppl mostly tech/football/humor

and now i dont feel overwhelmed at all.

Everytime i open fb, i ll not get enough updates.

The key idea, how to be in it and not get overwhelmed. How to be in it an use it the way u want it.

P.S Insta -> never felt like going back. absolutely boring and useless for me personally.
Have you looked at the Xiaomi Mi Bands? They do sleep tracking, are fairly low profile and easy to find on Amazon for under $30. I switched my mom over from a buggy Fitbit to one last year and it's been better in every way. Given the cost of most of its competitors, it kinda boggles my mind that I don't see more of them.
iPhone 6 (Plus) was when it was realized that people care a lot about the camera. Folks bought iPhone 6 Plus phones they didn’t want for stabilization.

Apple prioritized camera over thickness at that point. Battery is lower on the list and is mostly addressed by CPU improvements.

IMO it’s frustrating that they are so conservative with a mature product. We waited over a decade for basic waterproofing. Apple has an incredible supply chain, but Samsung can deliver better/more diverse form factors. Example: ruggedish phones.

Apple’s focus is both amazing and frustrating to me. They had and lost an opportunity to break Microsoft clients in business.
> According to Epyx, Sega still got it wrong and produced a crappy design in comparison. To be fair, the Lynx was a far more capable system.

Making the Game Gear more-or-less a portable Master System was probably the right decision though. It enabled easy porting of existing Master System games, and development of new games to run on both platforms. Although the SMS was dead in Japan and North America before the Game Gear's release, it was still going strong in Europe and other markets.

It also made possible the Game Gear's SMS mode, in which the machine behaves exactly like a Master System. This allowed backwards compatibility with existing SMS games via an adapter (which seems to have been important to Sega - the Genesis has a similar capability), and enabled an even simpler method of porting SMS games: a few Game Gear games [1] are really SMS games with a built-in adapter.

The Game Gear therefore had a stronger software library than the Lynx, despite being technically inferior. And, ultimately, the overwhelming success of the Game Boy showed that it is the games (and battery life) that really matter.

[1] http://www.smspower.org/Tags/SMS-GG
An Uber can't pick up a new passenger without cancelling their current pickup or picking up their current passenger and finishing the ride. Either way, the passenger both can see if they're coming to pick them up, and are made aware immediately if the driver cancels.

With cabs, you're expecting a cabby to call to dispatch that they're not picking you up. A cabby can easily be on the way to pick you up, find someone on the way and never let you know. That's a big difference in both what's possible, and what the reality is: cabbies never let you know if they're not coming in my experience. That said, many cab companies have an app now.
> It's not some software bug caused by Ada.

This is not correct. It was, in fact, "some software bug caused by Ada", in the sense that in most other programming languages, the error that did in fact happen would have been harmless.

For those who are interested, the full report is at
http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold//disasters/ariane5rep..... There is no need to "guess" when a fairly detailed public analysis is available, particularly when the issue is one that comes up repeatedly. It is true that the problem was that a horizontal velocity variable ("horizontal bias", BH in the code) overflowed, although it was not the ordinary kind of integer overflow, but rather a floating-point-to-integer-conversion overflow, which does not produce an exception in any commonly-used programming language.

The missing piece of the explanation is that the variable in question was no longer being used at that point in the flight, so if the failure had been allowed to pass silently rather than shutting down the SRI ("inertial reference system"), the rocket would not have been destroyed.

Of course, under some circumstances, allowing variables to have grossly incorrect values in your inertial reference system could have been equally disastrous — that's what you assumed happened. The system was designed in the way it was because the assumption was that such errors would almost surely stem from hardware failures rather than software bugs; perhaps that is a "domain issue caused by a failure in management and testing".

But in some sense, you can argue that any organizational failure is a "failure in management", since management's job is to look to windward and steer the organization clear of failures by any means necessary. But in fact the particular failure in management that happened was for the software to be inadequately thought out, such that one of Ada's hidden pitfalls caused Ariane 5's maiden flight to fail.
> But not the same rare disease.

Obviously. Clearly you do not understand what it means to have a rare disease and that rare diseases play by a totally different set of rules than common health conditions.

> AI can be order or orders of magnitude more accurate than doctors when evaluating x-rays, or scans, or other diagnostics

Rare diseases manifest much more dynamically than something that can be trained to an objective via AI.

There are huge ethical issues involved.

> If all healthcare and healthcare research were socialized, maybe the expensive treatments wouldn't exist at all.

I do not know what you mean by socialized. Most of the groundbreaking research in general occurs via grants from governments. If that is what you mean by socialized, then I support that.
Triple digit? Like, a hundred dollars?
It's more insidious than that though. The most damaging aspect of it is that these anxieties are evoked 24/7 thanks to social media companies trying their best to get their userbase addicted to their product to maximize user engagement.

Back in the day, you might have felt those social pressures, but only in limited settings and ultimately you could control the situation by removing yourself from anxiety invoking situations. There was ample room for getting a mental break from these situations.

But social media completely destroys any respite anyone could possibly have. They exploit the FOMO feeling as best they can to essentially guilt their users to constantly "engage" on their platform, which leaves the end user pretty helpless in being able to seek respite from these negative social pressures. I'm only 35 and I haven't used social media in any meaningful way for 5+ years and it has been the best decision ever. I don't really miss out on much and I definitely am much happier than when I had to wade through all the crap people post on social media just to keep up appearances in the social media rat race.
Living with family is fantastic and should be strongly encouraged.
Yeah. This is the day that I miss Jobs and his opinionatedness.
> I'm still on my iPhone 6, and I am not going to get the 11 either

The cost of going from a 6 year upgrade cycle to a 5 year upgrade cycle is something like 12 cents per day. Even if you're not entirely happy with the current phones, at some point waiting to upgrade is a net negative if you actually cost it out and compare it rationally to your utility curve.
He made the resolution this month?
Poring, not pouring.
Clued in to?

And that was just in the first few paragraphs.
I believe in voting with my dollars.

I will be waiting for a smaller size phone that doesn't compromise on hardware and features, and if Apple doesn't make it within a year or so, then I'll start to look at alternatives. People talk about how Tim Cook is a logistics master, so it shouldn't be difficult to do a smaller sized phone. I don't want a cheaper, lower quality phone, I just want an iPhone XS that's smaller.
Actually 20% cpu improvement would also be a who cares in processors too. 2x is worthy of note maybe.
Did you change anything about your behavior immediately when you found that out?

I’m saying the high proportion of button-pushing click-bait and the low probability that I need any particular info in real time means i’ll be better off getting news through other sources.

You don’t win a war by maximizing fear, outrage, and low quality info on your own side (which, IMO, social media does).

YMMV, obviously. What do I know?
The noprocrast setting is really helpful, personally. I wish every site had this.
Uber eats, for example, gives a guess of when your order arrives based on past data.

Uber gives estimates of when your ride will show up.

They do lots of stuff in fairly real time with that data and a lot of it is probably compute intense.

Not at all comparable to Instagram.
> In the general population, enabling bluetooth is not a battery drain. Quite the contrary; having it turned off tends to result in worse battery life.

Having bluetooth turned off results in _worse_ battery life? How so?
If I wanted something super reactive, truly concurrent and real-time there are many better options than Node - Elixir, Golang and Clojure to name a few. I just don't get the Node hype - it's not the best tool for anything other than allowing JS devs to pass themselves off as back-end experts.
If you're going to say that Western society was built with white males as the presumed default, you might want to also mention who the builders were.

And as a broader point, it also might be worth considering how Western society stacks up against all other societies to ever exist.
I don’t have hard stats to back this up, but with the new watchOS 6 it recently improved quite a bit for me, also on Watch Series 4. It’s particularly improved with workouts, though I would still love to have a feature that can “Undo” pausing a workout or vice versa, undo a workout that ran 20 hours longer than it was supposed to. Don’t get me wrong, great watch, great improvements, just... not perfect. Also, being able to track my activity between sleeping periods instead of only midnight to midnight would also be nice to have.
> 2000000:1 contrast ratio came in 2017.

That came a hell of a lot longer ago than that. OLED has been on the market since 2010.