skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 12k in the US is not so bad for costs other than healthcare (lots of families of 3 are living on $35,000).

Lots may be doing it, but you'd be living in poverty your whole life. There's no way a family of 3 could get by on 35k a year without accumulating debt.

12k hardly covers just your rent in many places in the US
That's another interesting thing about the Lynx - it has so much RAM compared to other 8-bit game systems (the Game Boy, Master System, Game Gear and PC Engine all have 8KB, the NES has just 2KB).

Those other systems all work by memory-mapping the ROM cartridge so that it can be seen by the CPU directly, whereas the Lynx requires ROM data to be read into RAM first. In that way, its programming model is more like a system with a disc drive (either magnetic or optical) than one which takes ROM cartridges.
On the week of August 12, the Texas grid, managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) maxed out at around 75,000 MW of load. On one of the worst days, the approx. 24,000 MW nameplate capacity wind farms on that grid produced about 4,500 MW at the absolute peaks of demand. In other words, wind farms produced 18% or so of their maximum rated capacity.

This is a typical pattern during the dog days of August. Winds lull during the late afternoon, and pickup after midnight. Winds farms, on an annual basis, provide 22% of Texas electricity generation. However, during these peak demand hours, natural gas contributed about 50,000 MW, with coal and nuclear distant second and third place. If Texas wind farms are to displace the gas-fired plants, there will need to be 10-fold increase in their numbers, or somehow solar and battery storage will have to step in.

Saying that wind is going to crush gas, is only half true. Currently, the pipeline of new generators being built in Texas has slightly more wind (capacity factor ~ 40%) being installed than gas. Solar, during the next 5 years, is being built (allowing for capacity factor ~ 20%) at about the same rate (~12,000 averaged MW). You could call these technologies the 'three amigos', as they will be appearing, as new generating capacity, in (very) roughly equal amounts. Nevertheless, gas plants are a unique, and necessary part of the future, due to their dispatch ability. They can literally be called upon to deliver electricity 24/7/365.

Importantly, one hour of generation during these peak periods costs 450 times the average generator's fees for electricity. In other words, one hour of a natural gas plant's output, during these near-black-out conditions (properly termed Energy Emergency Alert), earns them as much as running those plants, non-stop, the previous 19 days. These extreme spikes haven't happened in Texas for a few years. Still, there is lots of opportunity for the gas plants to be the 'high rollers' of the Texas grid during their expected 30+ years of operation.

Peak usage week: http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/164134/August_PUC_Pre...
Energy Emergency alert: http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/164134/EEA_OnePager_F...
> Self driving cars are a case of when, not if as so much being done in the field, progress has become a hot competition and slowly getting there.

My skepticism of self driving vehicles in general is in desert climates. I really want to see a self driving taxi the day after a blizzard in Chicago (or elsewhere in the upper midwest... or even NYC when there's a good storm) where on some streets two lanes in each direction become one, and intersections can become "well, I'm not stoping because the car isn't stoping, thankfully the other drivers understand this and aren't asserting right of way when things are slippery". Some roads are closed and the smart drivers are happily driving 20 under the speed limit on the highway behind a snow plow.

Until then, self driving really strikes me as more of a California or summer time thing.

They say they're working on it ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/alphabet-... )

> Snowy conditions are a serious challenge for the laser-based Lidar and other sensors that self-driving cars use to see objects in their path. Waymo said it’ll start working to overcome weather issues in Detroit’s notoriously tough winter months.

but I'll believe it when I see it.
See [Hissp] and [Hebigo] for another attempt to drag the Python and Lisp people together.

[Hissp]: https://github.com/gilch/hissp
[Hebigo]: https://github.com/gilch/hebigo
FWIW, Instagram stores Stories, privately to the user, in its "Archive" feature indefinitely.

https://instagram-press.com/blog/2017/12/05/introducing-stor...
Yes, was a problem long before Marx came around. Since recorded history and probably even earlier then that. That’s just human history, I’m pretty sure there are types of both ants and bees that enslave other insects and make them maintain their colonies.
AllPatient is hiring product engineers to bring world-class healthcare to all
Well that's obviously not going to happen unless you live in a super high population area. There isn't enough people to support a niche market like that. But you can buy them online.
Voters care about the planet, but not enough to pay
This is 9/11 truther material. See https://www.metabunk.org/sept-3-2019-release-of-hulseys-wtc7... for debunking of the "research". Older discussion at https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-uaf-study-shows-wtc7-could...
I'm disappointed that Apple has succumbed to dark patterns in its advertised pricing over the past year or so:

> iPhone 11 is coming.

> From $16.62/mo. per month or $399 with trade-in* Pre-order yours starting at 5:00 a.m. PDT on 9.13.
Haha I found out the same thing. Has been the most impactful purchase on my personal health in the recent years.
I disagree with this conclusion pretty strongly (not sure if it's satire or not). Though social media could be considered dialog, I think Socrates was likely talking about face to face interaction being the pinnacle of knowledge sharing: nonverbal signals, back and forth, tone, etc all being key parts of this.
Bought Bitcoin, told everyone I knew to buy Bitcoin. Waited.
I wrote about this a few years ago too! https://link.medium.com/UUBEJ4ZOSZ
Yeah that broad stroke of millennials isn’t at all true.
AI now masters six-player poker
> Saying the Amazon rain forest is the Earth's lungs has lots of metaphorical applicability. It speaks to people's intuition about how forests cycle water around the planet as a quasi-respiration organs, very much like gas- and water-exchanging lungs. And with similar importance to the “organism” of Earth's biosphere.

I've always heard the metaphor accompanied tightly by the claim that it's a significant fraction of the Earth's oxygen production, and denying the metaphor seemed to me to imply nothing further than the refutation of this fact, particularly in light of the first paragraph's strong claims that avoiding deforestation is important. I just don't see why it's critical that he emphasize that point in the firm of holding up the existing metaphor. I read the article (and I think the author intended it) as a pretty classic popular-science case of "here's a common misconception", and as shallow as that may be, it has value.

At any rate, it ounds like we're on roughly the same page overall, and our remaining differences are starting to inch towards pedantry. Thanks for the conversation!
Lots of seemingly unfiltered advice. Glad it was written up, not sure what larger lessons I should take away.
Yeah, I'm not familiar enough with Mercurial to really say how they are similar or different, so I'm not much help there. Sorry!

I can still try to answer the staging question though:

So - once you create a commit, it's in the repo forever, so with staging, you can gradually build up a commit without doing it all at once (adding one file at a time, over time for example). You can also stage just part of a file (just a few changes), and create only the commit that you really want to go into the repo.

I suppose it's kind of like a "commit preview" that you build over time.

In practice, a lot of people do just add all their changes and then commit immediately though - so yeah, in that case a staging area doesn't make any difference :)
I’m on the beach right now, comfortably reading and replying to this thread with one hand on my SE. The other is shielding my eyes from the sunset.
“Perhaps the biggest issue for me personally was not providing people with real value, something I now take pride in.”

Really.
Isn’t this call keeping up with the Jones’s? If the neighbor has a new car then you want one too. This is just the cyberspace equivalent.
My impression of Ada via undergraduate exposure at Embry-Riddle was that it was like an industrial strength Pascal. I never thought later on that I needed Ada, but then I didn't go on to work with avionics or anything like that. And I always thought that Pascal+extensions was a pretty good way to develop applications and was disappointed when the Macintosh moved towards C and C++. I learned to write GUI applications with THINK Pascal, before Java existed.

In the version of Ada we had, it was DOS based, but I found out that you could use the interrupt API, allowing VGA graphics.
That exact one
Let’s Expose the Truth
Would be interesting to see what kind of paper it writes.
Does anyone do weekly news summaries? A weekly digest might be something worth paying for, even the nightly news bulletins on TV seem to assume you've watched the morning ones and won't tell you about something that happened at 3AM. Back when I was still reading newspapers even the weekend ones were pretty much only reporting the news of the day and not a weekly summary.

Annoyingly news is also stuck in the document model from newspapers, every little update has to repeat all the background information under the assumption that people didn't read the previous articles. Even worse is when they update the same articles so you have no idea of what you've read and what you haven't.

On a related note, I've removed the distraction of personal email notifications from my life recently and become more organised as a result. When I check every day or two it's at a convenient time where I can actually pay that bill or at least move it to the bills folder, or unsubscribe from that piece of spam instead of just swiping it away. Turns out one of the killer apps that made me get my first smartphone a decade ago has been making my life worse.

Edit - I did some googling of weekly news and it seems like just about everything with weekly in the title is live updating and/or not news.

Edit 2 - for Australians I found a twice daily news subscription from the ABC: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/alerts/ . It's not exactly what I wanted but with an email filter it might be workable.
As a younger guy who doesn’t have kids (yet) it’s crazy to me that parents can thrive on 2-3 hours of sleep.

How do you do it?

Does it feel like you adapted? Or are you aware of a cognitive decline?

Like, what’s the experience like?
My mx5 is 4m by 1.7m. I don't think anyone would advise if of being a large car. But the Madan is.7m longer and.3m wide and that is large by your standards?
I'm genuinely curious how WiFi + Bluetooth enabled could consume less power than WiFi alone?

The only time I use Bluetooth is for AirDrop. And that requires turning personal hotspot off.
So he openly admits selling a $3 pair of glasses for $65 (now ~$28 on the site), and use Fiverr to buy fake reviews... not sure if this post will accomplish anything good. Unless the whole revenue story is bust and this is a desperate, shameless attempt at generating traffic.
They're saving that for next year :^)
I wish they would add a CO2 sensor, so everyone can monitor the health of the world they live in
> 12k in the US is not so bad for costs other than healthcare (lots of families of 3 are living on $35,000).

Expenses do not scale down linearly with household size.
I don't understand where people are getting that they said they are "culling low performers". I didn't see that anywhere in the article.
Automatic Critical Mechanic Discovery in Video Games
I used to believe free labor markets between countries was a good idea until I realized that it also comes with a free social welfare "market". Nobody wants to let people in their country starve to death in the streets, so they're going to financially support whatever immigrants come in, and if it's really free entry, that's going to be cripplingly expensive eventually because the world's unemployable will go to wherever the most generous welfare is. Another problem is cultural replacement which could replace the open country with a closed one that's perhaps worse than it started off as once enough similarly-minded immigrants live there to determine the outcome of elections. They're not the idealists who started the open boarders thing, they're just normal self-interested people so eventually they'll want to keep what they've got for themselves and stop letting people they don't like in. Bye-bye to all the progressive ideas of tolerating gays and multiculturalism too.
I'm a Media Lab alum, sort of. There may be a master's degree with my name on it, but as I see it I basically flunked out. So I used to look back on it with bittersweet feelings of what I wasn't good enough to achieve.

Now, though, after seeing what was really going on there... 30+ years of rigged demos, high-profile failures like OLPC, and maybe one or two useful inventions among the years of pointless impractical stuff that "looks cool", all funded by the largess of child molesters. Forget about a "leadership transition", the lab is unsalvageable. Burn it to the ground and salt the earth.

Now, what to do with the two-year gap on my resume...
Hi newly ex-Uber engineers! If you’re an iOS developer And live in Southern California please reach out.
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I like social media and I’m capable of controlling my usage. I’ve developed some ground rules to ensure a good healthy experience.

To start, I have an iOS rule that prevents more than 7 minutes of each social media app per day. I pretty much only use Facebook. After the timer is up that’s it for the day.

I honestly enjoy seeing picture of my friends, their kids, their vacations, and the fun things they are doing. I don’t have FOMO and I’m not depressed seeing people doing something more fun than I am in that exact moment. In some cases I’m inspired to go somewhere or do something because I know my family or I would enjoy it. I rarely post myself, even if I’m doing something FOMO worthy (okay, maybe sometimes). I’ll share some photos from big occasions like birthdays or weddings since I think other people may want to see them, especially if they are in the photos.

I generally use social media when I’m waiting for a train, sitting in a doctors office, or going to the bathroom. I never itch for it during the day and rarely find myself reaching for the app robotically. One thing that’s definitely help to curb constant dopamine hits and addiction is disabling all social media notifications. I’m never pushed content, I only pull it. Actually, I’ve disabled almost every single notification on my phone with the exception of imessage, slack, citizen, and photos. My phone never buzzes from email, social media, or anything else that I find distracting.

One thing I’ve always wanted to do but never do is clean up my Facebook friend list so it’s only the people I care about. For what it’s worth Facebook seems to do a decent job of filtering it. But one day I’ll do it right.
Plutocracy = Dystopia; the rest of the equation is noise.
It didn't help that the event tag was "By Innovation only"
If you haven't played poker, this is significant.

Unlike Chess, Go and almost all board games, poker is a game of incomplete information. You don't know what cards your opponents are holding.

Plus, there are multiple opponents.

This computer program, named Pluribus, beat 6 players who at that time had won over a million dollars.
We used to wake up, read the paper, see all the terrible things in the world and say “oh well, at least my life is better than those poor slobs.” But now it’s the opposite. Social media tells you everyone is having more fun, with more toys and more friends than you. They’re always in Saint Kitts having Mai Tais at sunset while you’re in Canoga Park selling your plasma at dusk. Yolo!

Before Instagram, you could be a loser but not feel it because the winners weren’t always in your face. Even the most mundane post of avocado toast in a hipster coffee shop sends the message “I’m having fun and you’re not.”
It isn't more complicated than printf, which is also close to being a generic.

PutLine("The number is " & num);

printf("The number is %zu\n", num);
The thing I was 100% hoping for but did not expect at all was a new haptic feedback engine. I think the next big thing Apple could improve would be localized feedback. I want to be able to feel a button when I drag a finger across the screen, for example.

There were zero rumors of this, it was just wishful thinking, but man if I didn't dream...
It's very valuable but not worth acquiring for most developers. I write relatively lot of C, I don't enjoy the familiarity, it just gets the job done for me in 90% less time because the tooling is there, the IDE is there, the documentation and support is good, the libraries are there - it matters a lot in what languages I find tolerable I've noticed. I like PLPGSQL, it's also has all that I've listed, I didn't like Ada and it doesn't have what I listed, because I had to "invent the wheel" so much. In the end, why spend 50-90
% more time to get that last x% of some foggy benefit?
why will we need such service? If we have to include the detailed IP address in the URL, why not direct access use IP address itself?
Given the apparent admission of Amazon-related fraud in the form of purchased counterfeit reviews, I'd take their word for it.
Sounds like a good way to sand a hole in your pants.
What about sensitive information on compilations that were hidden in the old tap to wake up screen mode from before?

Imagine a calendar event entry on the watch face you didn’t want the world to see but now that it’s always on it will be shown.
Apple quietly introduces U1 chip to let new iPhones find other devices
> Since every Canadian with a bank account has an Interac card, one common option for indies is to accept only cash and debit.

Except I hate using my Interac card for... well, anything... because if it gets compromised, it's my own chequing account that gets locked with the missing money.
Hm. Is that to suppress a particular set of ideas, do you think, or just cynically pandering to controversy-phobic advertisers? Not that either one is good, but that latter at least seems even-handed, I guess.
It's already pretty true for many types of resources. Electronics, software, music, plastic parts. All sorts of things cost practically zero today compared to, say, 100 years ago when they required much more labor to produce or didn't even exist.

I recently bought a flat-screen TV for half the price of a McDonald's meal. That's as good as free.
This. Many people do not realise that CF can see inside encrypted HTTPS traffic. Your logins, passwords and keys.
Look at the history of CPU performance over the past decade. If we were to get a 20% IPC increase in desktop processors it would be a big deal.
We came to the same conclusion at Kubos, and moved from C to Rust for most of our flight segment/application code (embedded Linux on the satellite OBC).

https://www.kubos.com/
Euruko 2019: How Netflix Is Using Ruby on Rails
Very candid and detailed description on how to become a modern-day hustle-porn con artist.
As someone who does I promise you: no you don't
Worked for Crane Currency a year ago...left after only a year there just after the acquisition by Crane Co.

The company has facilities in Tumba, Sweden as well as their new production facility in Malta.

There are some very talented engineers, scientists, designers and artists on staff there.

Hopefully Crane Co will be good stewards of what they have purchased, because Crane Currency provides an essential service for many countries around the world, but I’ll just say that I was not inspired nor impressed by the new acquirers and I hope the new ownership doesn’t drive too many more people away.
Every device I've bought in the last couple of years has USB-C. Most devices powered externally today, in the tech field have gone to USB-C. I'm not sure what airports you traverse but I've yet to be in an airport in the last two years that doesn't sell some sort of USB-C charger. That and since most all of my devices charge via that method that's what I mainly carry.

What I mean by Lightning tax is the literal Lightning tax. Lightning is a proprietary connector that needs to be licensed by Apple and of which Apple makes revenue from. [0] So by Apple keeping it around on their flagship device Apple continues to profit from accessories continuing to be made.

I'm curious why you think it's great for Apple buyers that tote MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and iPhone to need two types of cable for charging and connectivity?

Remember FireWire? It was great for it's time but saw it's day well before Apple finally dropped it. Lightning has seen it's fate. A flagship phone, with the price Apple commands, should have a current generation port.

[0] https://mfi.apple.com/MFiWeb/getFAQ.action
He was against writing... in 370 BC. Although, having seen the blank faces of students in lecture halls mindlessly taking notes, I know there's some truth to it. When a good professor lectures, there's a lot of information expressed as pace, stress, and so on. It's like when I read Shakespeare's plays for the first time and thought the world was really crazy to put such high value on seemingly nonsensical words, but then I saw an actor speak them and the performance added the additional emotional overtones which decoded how the words were meant to be understood. That extra layer on top of words is surprisingly neglected.
Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool, free project management platform
A terror watch list or a no-fly list isn't irrational at all. It's sensible in principle, if you don't value civil rights that much.
It's a "nice to have" feature. The problem, I think, is that the 11 Pro still has its very high asking price and is missing a bunch of "nice to haves". Things I was hoping for:

- USB-C charging

- 5G (for futureproofing, more than anything)

- High refresh rate screen

- Refreshed/less dated looking design (that notch has aged very poorly, regardless of the tech they squeeze into it)

- Larger default storage

- No touch ID/in screen fingerprint reader

None of those missing features are deal breakers, but without all of them it makes this phone seem iterative and a difficult sell - especially since it seems likely/is rumoured that a lot of them will come next year.
I believe it's a matter of internal controls. Debit cards are typically allowed to do more things than credit cards, especially if you disable cash advances on the credit card.
Reasonably well-written dialog needs neither emoticons nor tags -- really! ;)
I used to need over 9 hours of sleep, preferably 10. Now in my late 20s I make do with 7-8 hours with some impact on mental sharpness and likely physical health as well but otherwise able to function. Does wonders for my work life balance since I actually have time in the evening for hobbies / activities / relaxing.
I don't understand why so many are saying that sleep tracking is a problem? My series 4 taking up 10-20% over night. Then I charge it for a bit in the morning before going to work.
I don't know, I quote this[1] all the time, and it's a great scene.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3RNsZvdYZQ
> I used to want the new product they announced as soon as they showed it off.

Maybe you’ve grown up some since then? New phones are fun gadgets, but in the end, it’s just a phone.
>"they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."

What a fantastically prescient depiction of social media.