skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you're probably right about gaps remaining, for basically the reasons you have given. And for that reason I don't expect mass demolition of American gas plants in the 2030s the way there was mass demolition of American coal plants in the 2010s.

The growth of gas capacity is alarming to many environmentalists; the phrase is that we're "locking in" decades of high emissions from gas fired electrical generators. But gas plants release the vast majority of their emissions during operation, not construction. Diminishing the plant load factor of gas plants is as good from an emissions-cuts standpoint as tearing them down. What do you do when the wind isn't blowing, the batteries are discharged, and it's night time? Burn gas. But the number of hours per year where at least one of {batteries, wind, solar} can bid below gas will go up year after year, whereas that number was essentially holding steady at zero through the whole 20th century.

This brief sketch is most applicable to deregulated electricity markets. In markets with regulated utility monopolies, unfortunately, gas plants will be subject to less competition even if the cost of storage-backed renewables keeps declining steadily. The majority of US electricity consumption now takes place in deregulated states but it's far from universal.

https://www.electricchoice.com/map-deregulated-energy-market...
When a re-release gets unreleased
Can't we have better separation of interests?

E.g. Google provides hardware and software.

Mayo clinic runs the hardware and software, while Google sees none of the data?
Based on how carefully they worded it during the keynote, I'd say yes for sure.
Try asking her to elaborate on how the government would screw it up.
After only 17 years or so. The watch list was unconstitutional on its face, there were no criteria how to get on it, and no no-opaque way to get off it (violating the petition for redress of grievances clause). It was also un-American in spirit. Secret lists enforced by secret police in secret. Rubbish. George Washington would be ashamed.
Technically, that doesn't have an analog home button. Its a non-moving pressure sensor that uses the taptic engine to feel like your pressing a button.
reminds me of health care industry
I really liked my SE/30. Even had Ethernet.
Transfer Learning from RGB to Multi-Band Imagery
Idk. Here's my interpretation: People are complaining because their expectations are high and they want Apple to excite them. It doesn't have to do with assigning value to incremental improvements at all. As as aside, I think you'll find people who've taken calculus will more likely be the ones quibbling and complaining. High standards, attention to detail, yadda yadda.
That is very likely. They were brilliant engineers, not good businessmen.
Not once in their announcement did Mozilla mention VPN's.
I wonder how big a problem that really is. Folks in flats with street parking also have good access to transit. Cities will become incentivized to convert parking meters to charging stations using street light power. People often can charge at work, and for some cars, rapid charging is an option. Also autonomous driving taxis are coming, despite the challenges, and so more folks might subscribe to a car as a service, either Uber or Zipcar. So between these various changing transport options I wonder if flat dwellers parking their commuting car on the street is something soon to be viewed as an anachronism.
Because why lug around all your serious gear all the time to make videos people watch on their phone when they’re bored on the crapper? Or for insta stories?

But the part it’s really going to revolutionize is the baseline level of expected image quality. Just like Casey Neistat forced everyone to start using DSLRs for vlogging with his famed 2 or 3 year experiment.
Not really the same. More like tribal affiliations. See also laptop stickers.
> Because self driving cars, while expensive, are still significantly cheaper that employing drivers.

Are they? How much does a self driving car go for in today's market? And does your calculation include the fact that a driver comes with free car, maintenance, fuel, etc.

Even if the numbers do add up, SDVs aren't about to roll out next week. Remember how close we were to VR for about 30 years?
You can't just swap out members of a team, or add more members to a team, and expect the result to be faster execution (in short run) even if the new team members are high performers.

In the first case, you're losing team members with tribal knowledge of the system and its requirements. In the second case, you're exponentially increasing the pathways of communication. In either case, you still have the ramp-up time for new team members.
Yeah, it's local rules but also air space. I sit in the middle of like 5 airports or different sizes.

airmap.io is helpful
Two orders of magnitude are a lot of orders of magnitude. It could be the difference between using really easy off-the-shelf solutions to having to architect your own technology to solve scaling issues like Google has.
> Is Regus really pin compatible with WeWork? WeWork offers cheap 1-desk offices with Internet/utilities bundled. Last I checked, Regus offered a "1-desk office" that was much more expensive, could fit several people, and didn't include amenities like Internet bundled.

Depends on the market. Regus, as far as I know, doesn't put a lot of effort on build-out of the spaces they sublet. They take them pretty much as they are. It certainly wasn't a co-working space, but those weren't rare before WeWork either.

> There were online retailers before Amazon, too.

There certainly were online retailers before Amazon, but people didn't call them "rare" before Amazon.
If all you care about is transfer speed Wifi 6 should at least beat USB 2.0. About 85 MB/s in practice but can theoretically do even more than that. It's still way too slow for 2019 IMO.

https://nasilemaktech.com/wifi-6-speed-test/
I read this more as: oh boy, two heavily corrupt industries are forming a partnership. I'm not throwing shade at Mayo Clinic sspecifically (the research there is vital), but the healthcare industry in general. I can tell you I don't want a data mining and advertising giant focused only on revenue in an industry that can directly effect my longevity and is already focused only on revenue. Healthcare is corrupt enough, I don't want it to get worse (and it will).

Neither tech nor healthcare (pharma, insurance, and many hospitals) want anything more than money and fending off sharks is not something I want to deal with when I'm at my most vulnerable points imaginable (most will be fairly sick at some point in their life even if it's only near death).
The real answer is that we need rigorous pedestrian crash safety testing. Right now we only evaluate automotive safety based on how well occupants inside the car are protected, which is absurd.

We also need to grade vehicles on how well they protect pedestrians, cyclists, and occupants of other vehicles, and if they don't pass the tests they can't be sold.
You need a 3rd party app. I use SleepWatch, Sleep++ and AutoSleep. Since they all use the HealthKit you can use multiple apps for different visualizations.
In my past job I tested cellphone cameras for image quality. This trend of adding more cameras//lenses was beginning to take effect.

I half-joked that soon the entire back of a smartphone would surpass the "spider threshold" and eventually put a fly to shame.
In the US, you can currently get a used Chevy Spark for below 10k.
> this is retarded

The litmus test for what HN suppresses is in which topics one side (but it's only ever one) can talk like this without a stern talking to or threat of bans.
I recently got a Garmin Forerunner, 5 day battery life.
Hasn't died on me yet, only charge it 2-3 times a week while in the shower and get dressed, 20 mins top.
Only gives me call and messaging notifications which I prefer, previously had a motorola smart watch, more apps is not the way forward.
> None of their application is data heavy

Really?? They have O(thousands) of drivers in O(hundreds) of cities with the app open, sending and receiving data approximately all day.

What companies in your mind are data heavy?
Don't stress out over side projects. If you don't feel like working on them, don't. The cliche that good software devs have to sit at desks coding 20 hours a day is silly and unhealthy. Use your free time to do stuff you enjoy. Maybe you'll get inspired to work on the project, or come up with an entirely new one, but there's no point forcing it.

And I'd suggest not taking work so seriously. Don't slack off, but don't over think it, either. Most work (in every field) is crappy and boring, so just do it and get it over with and don't stress out over it.
I get that control planes and service meshes both have something to do with these issues, but I'm confused about which one does what exactly.
https://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/phones/xperia-xz2-com...
This "article" is idiotic. These batteries wont be able to store electricity generated from nuclear power?
Is harvard public or private? If it's public, you just take the first X applicants. If you don't have room for all of them, either make more room or setup a wait list.

Are we saying there's not enough room in public universities to accommodate everyone? There seems to be enough room in secondary schools, and those should have a much high operating cost per student (buses, lunches, etc).
I think the fact that all of those have been around for decades, and yet haven't gained much traction, implies that there's something wrong with them that makes them unsuitable.

If it's just a matter of marketing and failing the subjectivity of a popularity contest, that's a shame, but I wouldn't leap to assume that's the sole reason.
If you use it for personal travel, I'm pretty sure it counts as income.
I mean, my operating system itself was compromised many times, is my employer going to take that away too?
Most people buy cheap PC's, too.
Low cost EVs will indeed be what kills ICE cars, particularly in the developing world where they can double as general electricity storage.

That said:

> Just as Tesla has had its doubters among mainstream auto industry-watchers, the electric Renault Kwid has had its doubters among hardcore Tesla fans

Unmentioned is that the author of this article is decidedly in the former category, and has been writing about the imminent demise of Tesla since around 2007.
and how many countries and markets does your company operate in? Products do not just magically scale to 80+ countries.
Porsche's first electric car (1898)
It is the screen, and the discipline. I read a review that said they don't allow 3rd party watch faces that update every second, for example.

Garmin just introduced a watch with an AMOLED touchscreen, the Venu. According to the reviews I've read, it is basically the same watch as the Vivoctive 4. The Venu gets 2 days of battery life, the Vivoactive 4 gets 7.
I didn't say that. Truly. Try to copy and paste me saying that, and you'll find that I did not say it.
Wait what?
I kinda saw it coming with XR.. It’s still bad tho.

3D touch is an _amazing_ feature for power users, and one of the few that markedly differentiated the iphones from competition. Biggest thing is text editing of course, where 3D selection increases productivity _several times_, but potential was even greater if implemented more.

Ironic that they are marketing this one as pro.

I bought a X recently and plan on keeping it for years. If they software disable it with an OS update or some BS i’m gonna be so mad.

Also, I feel kinda stupid saying it but I feel like this is the sort of thing steve Jobs would have pushed harder for
> in Ada 95 I had to build dynamic length strings.

Ada95 did have dynamic strings, they were provided by Ada.Strings.Unbounded package.
PL/SQL has remained faithful to the Ada zeitgeist. I've found spotting flaws in PL/SQL during peer review to be easier than some other languages.
One thing the top end iPhone has is a better camera, and for tangentially-professional photographers, this makes a difference. ("Tangentially" meaning professionals that need photos, eg insurance claims adjuster, but that's it's not a primary focus of their job so an SLR doesn't make sense, eg wedding photographer.)
“Fortunately” we appear to be heading into a recession, so I doubt high interest rates are on the way any time soon.
A can see for some people where images are an important aspect, but not central to the work, the new cameras might come in handy - off the top of my head ...

I’m estate agent and I want to be able to photograph exteriors and interiors.

I’m a garden designer, I like to photograph my clients gardens for a portfolio.

I run a small bar, that has live music sometimes- I like to photograph and video the bands for my website.
Security, and privacy etc that derive from it.

If it's not under your physical control, it's not really your server.
The most popular flavored cigarette, menthol, wasn't banned. Cigarettes in flavors other than menthol never had the type of popularity vapes do now. Making e-juice is already a hobby/cottage industry and banning it won't make it go away.
Looks simple and neat! I can see how this could be the start of something valuable. My #1 concern is security. Are you storing data or using local storage? Can your company read someone's job list? It seems like you could probably do everything you need to do locally, without storing anyone's data, but it's not clear to me what's going on. Thanks!
My SE started overheating in May and wasn't reparable. The genius tried to sell me on a bigger, newer phone, but I declined. Before I walked out he offered me a brand new SE from the stock room for (I think) $270. Just insist that you're interested in nothing but an SE.

Hoping the new one lasts until they come out with a proper replacement. I don't care if the CPU, camera, etc. are 2-3 generations behind. There's nothing I use the phone for that the SE can't handle just fine.
They're discussing rewriting code in D or Rust? I wasn't a fan of the rename to begin with cause I thought it was trivial. But rewriting the code in impractical languages cements my skepticism.
> If it becomes at all popular then you have further ongoing overhead.

THIS is the one that comes into play. All that stuff you listed before is a slog to go through when you go to open-source, but unless you're parking the thing as a proof-of-concept/end-of-life, you're now signed up for maintaining the repo. That means triaging issues, pull requests, helping out when contributors don't understand why their build is breaking, etc.

And there's the PM aspect of it: you don't just want to develop a bunch of features without talking to your community, so communicating (in a public friendly way) what you're planning to work on, when folks might reasonably expect that, how they might be able to help out, which of their contributed features you might be able to take depending on where you're at in your lifecycle, and RESPONDING TO COMMENTS all takes way more time than just "building [closed-source] product" in a team of 5-20.

And of course, one of the hardest of all: telling people "no, we can't take that change" when they've spent hours and hours doing work for your project for free. In that regard, we're still very much iterating on a transparent design process that allows for consensus BEFORE too much work has been done (though as we all know, building prototypes is often one of the best ways to find out if a design works right or not).

If you're doing it all right, everyone involved in the project should be doing some amount of all of this every single day. There's no compartmentalizing an engineer on an OSS project as "someone who just writes feature code" vs. "someone who does the repo stuff".

So going back to OP's point: no, it doesn't literally "cost anything" (or very much) to do the basic act of open-sourcing, doing it the "right way" at scale where you're truly engaging and working with the bazaar is very expensive.

Full disclosure: I'm a PM at Microsoft working on PowerShell and was heavily involved in it being open-sourced and ported to macOS/Linux.
DemandSphere (YC S10) Is Hiring Systems Engineers / Admins – Columbus, Oh or Tokyo
Sounds like a Scunthorpe problem.
Are you implying the average student is not capable of obtaining a liberal arts degree at an average university?

Do we have to continue the traditional college model? Why can't you pay for a class, and have, say, up to a year to finish it without penalty? That would allow people to learn at their own pace. If after the first year, you're not done with your classes, then maybe college isn't for you.
Yes, so many years with the pains unravelling as you learn to cope with that loss. Children are great at handling traumatic events, but it doesn't mean it's any less traumatic. That poor kid is probably going to struggle with this for a long time.
Peloton Plots $1.2B IPO at $8B Valuation
My wife and a friend of ours only charge their Apple Watches while they're in the shower and its enough for them.

I can't because I'm a restless sleeper and I end up knocking myself in the face with my watch if I sleep while its on.
> Theres also a crazy amount of enterprise purchases who dont care about storage.

Agreed, but that's what iPhone 11 is for... There's virtually no commercial reason for 95% of enterprise users to have a Pro version.

A Pro version for most of 2020 that can shoot multiple videos at the same time in 4k, with 64gb... I don't know, doesn't sit well with me. I'm all for keeping the base model basic and as low-cost as possible to those who needn't anything more. But then either reasonably price your storage, or create a 128gb option in between, especially if you don't allow SD cards. And especially when Apple is just fine offering 128gb on the 11, but not the Pro... It's a bit much.
Regulations and criminal law are two different things.

If btc-e were part of a well-regulated financial system, they would have gone through a liquidation process and creditors would have been paid some % on the $ what they were owed.

This is what happened with BCCI when it was raided and shutdown for massive money laundering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_In...

>Just a month later, BCCI's liquidators (Deloitte, PWC) pleaded guilty to all criminal charges pending against the bank in the United States (both those lodged by the federal government and by Morgenthau), clearing the way for BCCI's formal liquidation that fall. BCCI paid $10 million in fines and forfeited all $550 million of its American assets – at the time, the largest single criminal forfeiture ever obtained by federal prosecutors. The money was used to repay losses to First American and Independence and to make restitution to BCCI's depositors.
Layoffs are always a failure of leadership, but leadership will always choose to dodge blame if given an out. Hence, "low performers."
When I see studies of this nature I always think that it is such beautiful idea to be living in a clean world. To be clear, I work in the petroleum industry; so this would most certainly be an obvious end to my line of work. I will hopefully be living in the keys by 2035.

At the rate our world population is expanding, I have to wonder if there is simply enough surface area we can turn over to power generation and lose it to things such as farming and other agriculture.

We are learning to farm land previously thought too arid for non-hearty crops.
I noticed the other day that the SE/5s screen is exactly the dimension of a standard business card.
It explicitly doesn't deal with geographic restrictions. Indeed, it guarantees that websites can implement them.
I know, at the time I posted that neither worked. The keynote said "video unavailable" and the short demo died about 1 minute in. No amount of refreshing or scrubbing would get it to play past that mark.
Flashbacks to Prof. Feldman's classes
Reid Hoffman Who Started ‘Decency Pledge’ Ran Interference for MIT over Epstein
Indeed, HP (or HPE and HP Inc.) has done many layoffs in the past few decades. I just narrowly dodged one a number of years ago. Pretty much always the goal is to simply reduce costs without reducing revenue (as much). Investors don't care how much staff you have, they just care if you are making money.
They should just replace the terror watch list with the CIA payroll list + list of foreign donors to Washington think-tanks and their extended family members.

I suspect that would increase the accuracy marvelously.
Probably not meaning to refer to the city as a whole but most of the things you might do in a city. There are parks and child care centers in a city, but there just aren't a lot of places to bring tottlers.

Swanky restaurant? Get the evil eye.
On a bus? Get the evil eye.

And if the transportation is free that doesn't always mean it's convenient. If they gave me free bus access I still wouldn't use it as many area buses are 30-60 minutes off schedule. I don't plan my day with that much freetime to spend waiting on transit.
This is the way forward for service meshes. Consul connect is doing something very similar.

The early service meshes were all built on top of Kubernetes, due to the fact that k8s/etcd is an easy platform to build control planes on top of (SD, networking, etc. already done) but very few large companies are ready to move everything over to Kubernetes.

However, the one thing that every service mesh promises is that the clients don't need to do anything. Except that they do. End users need to rip out functionality that is coupled already tightly to the application, such as authentication, "smart" routing and metrics. They need to orchestrate tracing to pass on the headers (how do you know what routes in your application were bad if all you have is a black box!). It needs to play nicely with already built in enterprise wide things.

I'm not sure that I'm sold on the universal service mesh unless you have a high level of engineering talent. The benefits are immense but don't expect to see universal service meshes* running at enterprisey companies any time soon.

* Universal means the entire company is governed under a service mesh, not the POC running on 3 servers for a random team :)
> It's diminished to the point where Google is afraid of losing it's previously dominant signal for good.

Is Google afraid of losing that signal? I don't have any data to back this up, but my guess is that Google's reliance on PageRank is greatly diminished now, and they probably use search result click-through rate and website engagement data (from Google Analytics and ads) as the primary signals for website relevance and quality.
I'd think they could buy currency futures or something to hedge against that risk.
I think the Google Pixel 3a is the best reasonably sized and reasonably priced phone for most people. Performance is good, camera is great, price is sensible.
I agree. I’ve got an SE, 5S, and 5C, and when they all die, I’m looking into Purism’s lineup. But if Apple resurrects the SE, I will probably get it.
Good riddance: it's cosmic justice for the excessive administrative staff and luxury accommodations to go away after decades of extorting students and chaining them with debt.
Did you really read it ?

> At satellite frequencies, they exhibit much less thermal noise and are capable of faster data rates.
I believe Apple claims that FaceID is more secure? More data points = more entropy.
They can see which IP addresses you go to and do a reverse lookup.
I officially lost fate in Firefox (because cloudflare can't be trusted with all the traffic)... but I have no alternative. (I have been a Firefox user since v1 and never switched to chrome)

edit: yeah, downvote me, corporate kids, welcome to the hacker prude network... and stay quiet /s
I've seen raised eyebrows and responses like "Awesome... wow, o...kay... that's great to hear"

Which I took for "What the hell is wrong with you, crazy foreigner who doesn't know how to read social cues"