skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a lot of hope for people changing their behaviour based on time of day pricing. Sure aluminum smelters etc might have to flag it for a day once every 5 years but they do that currently because there isn't enough power for everyone so please help us out and shutdown for a day instead cause we are going to dump you anyway because we have to decide between giving you power or this other major load such as a big city. Perhaps there is some gradient to this and it is achieved with price signals - but basically the forecast has to be 1000+ $/MWH for a whole day instead of just a couple high prices intervals or hours, and it has to be order of magnitude higher $/MWH not just $200/MWH instead of $80.

If it is a low-wind evening and prices on the grid are higher than normal what fraction of people are going leave their electric cars with depleted batteries instead of charging them? Say a charge takes say 8 hours, there isn't a lot of room overnight to shift the load around. How many people will refrain from charging because it is going to cost you $50 instead of $10? I think the answer to that can be seen from how much people refrain from driving when fuel costs go up. Given that traffic never gets better I would say none!

1) electricity is cheap. it will have to get a lot more expensive for anyone to care enough to change the way they are using it
2) a lot of the demand is inflexible, regardless of price. lights are going to be on, dinner is going to be made when kids are hungry, car is going to be charged overnight because must go to work tomorrow.

there is going to come a point where all wind and solar must have a certain amount of firm capacity - say it has to be able to deliver 50% of nameplate rating for 5 days straight - and this is going to significantly add to the $/MWH cost of renewables. Then after 5 cloudy days in a row (unthinkable!) the output of the solar farm is 10% of nameplate until it is sunny again.
Thank you for these future-forward words. I am definetly looking forward to this time as well.
iPhone has this too if you lightly tap on the home button.

For the iPhone X it's also there: https://mashable.com/2017/10/31/how-to-use-iphone-x-reachabi...

Not exactly convenient though.
At this point why not just give people a real overlapping window manager?
The iPhone 11 isn't actually shown in the link. It's the successor to the XR. It lacks the telephoto camera and the screen looks to be about the same. So if you liked the XR you'll like this one.

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
Oops, my mistake. I meant to link two articles, left off the second. This is the one I was referring to with my final para. Will edit my comment above if I can

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
The sensors may have stayed the same, but isn't it taking 3 photos now instead of 1? We don't yet know whether it automatically saves the telephoto, wide, and ultra-wide photos separately, but from the rumors I'd heard it retains them all. Perhaps this is a setting that can be changed, but it means that if you want to use the phone to it's capability, you're going to have a lot more photo storage than before.
The woman on the video in the story states several facts very authoritatively however there is nothing that she points to to substantiate what she is saying. It's close to pure speculation (at least as presented). An example is stating the age of some wood on the wall. Another is saying that where a very common basement steps are located is where the tunnel used to be. Unclear how that can be stated as certain without any supporting evidence. (I have owned buildings with similar steps. The existence of old artifacts such as the corn husker (or whatever it was) is not support for what is being claimed in any way.

I grew up in and around old buildings like this. There were always rumors as far as the buildings being used for slaves.
I have a Xiaomi Amazfit. Cost me 55€, and the battery lasts 15 days with an always on display. It has included GPS, compass, pressure meter, heart rate monitor and sleep monitoring.

Sincerely, other than looks (and I woild still not bring an Apple phone to more formal occasions just like I don't bring my Amazfit) I can't understand why anyone would pay 10x more for an iWatch not can I stand that I would have to charge it everyday.
I mean one company prints money, and the other has some of the biggest losses in tech industry. What do you expect?

If anything, Uber has invested in too much tech for the sake of being tech heavy, which may not be best suited for their business (outside self-driving, which needs heavy tech investment).
I feel like you're wilfully ignoring the fact that there is actually a wide range of scholastic aptitude among highschool grads, and more generally among students at any level of education. should the curriculum at every college in the country be watered down until most high school graduates can also matriculate from college?
It's possible. People wouldn't like it.

Mandate that all software - everywhere - is written in Java or Rust with no unsafe blocks (but, oops, you can't realistically do that in Rust).

Make it illegal to use web apps to administer infrastructure. Desktop GUIs all the way (no XSS there ...).

Then mandate that this infrastructure can't be administered from Windows, but only some locked down new OS that required iOS style code signing from top to bottom.

Then forbid the use of passwords for authenticating to anything, no matter how trivial.

Think many geeks would get excited about that? People write insecure software because they can't/won't accept the fact that they enjoy building software in ways that are very insecure. For a lot of coders you'll prise C out of their cold dead hands, and they'll continue making hackable IoT devices until you do.
>market cap

You mean their private unicorn valuation? Kodak is publicly traded, WeWork is not, so you can't compare them. WeWork isn't that different from most failing unicorns.
It's been clear for quite some time that terms like "Extreme", "Pro" and "Max" are marketing terms. They are not accurate classifications of how they will be used.

If people feel strongly enough that the name is not accurate, they will have to buy a competing product that fulfills their needs at the price they are willing to pay.

I suppose what would be interesting, but highly proprietary, would be Apple's marketing research information on how the "Pro" marketing term is received by their target consumers.

All that being said, I personally have never bought from Apple, and think the $150 upgrade cost is ridiculous (not to mention the $300 jump from the XR, which is still $300 more than I paid for my Pixel)! So I could say the "Pro" marketing isn't working on me! But overall, they aren't hurting for customers.
Timers in .js are fuzzed. Good luck getting accurate timings.
It's incredibly silly to want to insert Rust into every discussion and suggest every article written about something that Rust (sort of) does should mention it. It's not a good look for people not yet into Rust that this stuff is still happening, IMO.
It's unfortunate when people resort to stereotypes. It means the vast majority of businesses that aren't doing something shady get penalised for the actions of the relatively few that are.
Damn, it doesn't seem to support gifs.

Edit: No, it does, just not links to other areas of the site which contain gifs.
I'm sorry I've heard these claims but I'm strongly sceptical. WeWork source their office space on long term contracts and lease them on short term contracts. So in order for them to make more money during a recession there needs to be an increase in demand for office rental space during a recession. Even if that does occur, a competitor could come in and rent some of the office space freed up by the recession and out-compete wework by having lower costs. That's best case. In reality, in a recession companies look to lower their cost - the first people they'll get rid of is the high cost wework spaces, consolidating employees into larger regional offices (which traditionally has the side benefit of lowering headcount). No one is increasing their high cost offices during a recession.

In a bull period, you're right, CFOs will be willing to spend a little more on high risk projects to allow them to mitigate the risks of long term contracts, but that's not what happens during a recession. During a recession they're overwhelmingly looking to demonstrate a lean, low cost company to shareholders.

Like many of the wework stories, it'd be nice if it were true, but it's just simply not very likely.
I mean we collectively did this to ourselves by letting browsers be super permissive about invalid markup.

The only reason that Google is able to do this is because things that don’t know what rel=“usg” means will silently ignore it.
4K60 is 400 MB per minute. 24GB/hr.
Before you get to batteries, having a greater portion of load being interruptible would be the cheapest thing to do.

As heavy industry has declined in the West though, we have less of that than we used to.

This was the idea of "smart grids", which we seem to hear rather less about than a few years ago now.
Someone that I am hiring to perform a specific task, who is working remotely, who I will not be on-boarding, who will not be working closely with many employees, and who is paid upon completion of that task and then goes away, should be a contractor, even if they are doing work that is central to my business, and even if I closely monitor or specify how the work is to be completed.

Right, they would probably be treated as a contractor under the ABC test and the new law.

You're hung up on the "central to business" part of the test without paying attention to the nuance. Laws aren't black and white, they're many shades of grey.

If you're in the business of doing X, say programming widgets, then if you hire someone to do X (i.e, program widgets) for you, then that person will be an employee for all purposes of this law. Because they should be. They're literally doing your business activity for you, and there are plenty of legal reasons that you should be liable for their work--you're passing off their work as your own to the end customer.

OTOH, if you hire a contractor to program your back end, that guy wouldn't become an employee under the test, because you're not in the business of programming back ends. That back end may still be central to your business, but it's not your primary business activity (i.e., it's not your revenue-generating activity).

even if I closely monitor or specify how the work is to be completed.

This is the most misunderstood part of the ABC test. The ABC test doesn't require that the contractors have free reign to do whatever. It simply provides that a contractor should have free reign to accomplish the work unless the manner in which the project is completed is a relevant part of the contractual requirements. For example, specifying that a contractor program your backend in Node, with spaces instead of tabs, use git, and make use of specific AWS APIs, to match your standard coding practices in the rest of the project would be fine. Another example: telling a designer they must use Illustrator and specific design tools within Illustrator to match the processes or products of other designer work is also fine.

Monitoring work for purposes of quality assurance or quality control is also acceptable under the ABC test and is indeed even expected by the courts--not conducting QA/QC has been used as a factor indicating that the worker is an employee.
I'm more skeptical. I worry that energy demand will rise to the level of supply, more akin to road use than to phone access. As an example, you're going to have to deal with crypto miners and grow-ops.
This article promotes a popular misconception of the programming situation for defense projects in the 1970s. There may have been "hundreds of specialized programming languages" in existence that could be used, but just a handful actually predominated. Most aeronautical projects were done in JOVIAL.

I've talked about this history with engineers from the 1960s-70s. They did not regard the introduction of Ada as a good thing. The JOVIAL language had been developed by engineers and modified through experience over several years to become something they were quite happy with. The impetus that led to Ada came from management and implementation was done by academics.
I believe this kind of technological breakthrough is the main point of Diamandis' book Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. That would be a liberating event -- the key would be then getting the energy technology to societies in need - mainly a technological leap frogging, like mobile phones in developing nations did.

> https://www.diamandis.com/abundance
I'd rather they make the back uniform thickness so the camera bump is eliminated. Take the extra space for a larger battery. No one is asking for thinner phones but quite a lot of people would love phones with better battery life.
To be fair, most people wouldn’t be able to pull all of that off but Travis did.
Nofollow has and it's interpretation have always been interesting. Professional SEO's analyze sites as to their "link profile" the number of nofollow, follow, anchor'd, raw etc. type URLs that point to your site.

Consider a super-spammy site that eschews any like but a "follow", well that's weird - that may be an indication they're a spammer.

So while this (quite likely correctly) states that "nofollow" links have not search rank weight, it's not the entire story.
They have no idea. Even data from continuous glucose monitors (most commonly used in type 1 diabetes) are directly shared with insurance companies, where certain patients with diabetes are "flagged" as "problem patients": https://type1tennis.blogspot.com/2016/05/when-data-fluxes-co...

I have 2 rare diseases, and one of which was discovered via NIH funds at the Mayo Clinic in the early 2000s. I also have type 1 diabetes, and I can attest to the veracity of the claims made on the blog post.

For somebody like me, the situation is unwinnable, if I want to live. HIPAA is a joke because it is perfectly legal to combine other data with the HIPAA anonymized source to identify the individual. Every day, leaving the US looks better.
I back my phone up locally, just like I always have. It's the only way to get a full backup of all app states and data. iCloud only backs up certain data.
I guess we have different ideas of pro users. I'll take the cloud storage / backup any day of the week. If you're really doing the math on $3 a month you probably shouldn't be looking at a $1000 phone regardless of storage capacity.
Now do Hacker News ;)
No realalizable intelligence perhaps, but AIXI is pretty bloody general and pretty damn smart.
Drink some beer
>At some point your family is not so much the people you were born to or grew up with, but the people you've chosen to be with, build a live together...

Point still holds though. Your "made" family (marriage, heck, even kids) might turn up not to be all that great either. Happens to millions...

>Also, if I had to guess, no one has ever looked back on their life and said 'I wish I had spent more time being deliberately obtuse on the Internet' either.

Those are people who die with regrets though, so perhaps not the best people to listen to what to do not to have regrets! Their "I should have actually done that instead" deathbed choice might be equally bad as the original choice they made...
Comprehensive and Practical Inferential Statistics Guide for Data Science
> I'm curious, does anyone with more knowledge know how Garmin are able to get so much more battery life out of their watches?

Yes, I can.

I have a Garmin 5 Plus and the reason it can get such great battery life is it's ####ing massive, with most of the volume devoted to battery. It also doesn't do a bunch of the stuff that the Apple Watch does, with all wireless connectivity requiring Bluetooth sync to your phone.

It's fairly rugged and a decent enough watch but, unless you're outdoors all the time, I wouldn't recommend it: it's bulky and somewhat ugly. I've stopped wearing it because I didn't find it that motivating in terms of keeping fit: ironically I did better before I got it, and am doing better again now I've stopped wearing it.

Also, that battery life tanks the moment you switch on GPS: then you'll be down to about 24 hours.

Overall I'd describe Garmin smartwatches as highly overrated.
Maybe they are shifting headcount away from the Bay Area?
I know. But at least I won't have to pay $1k to have a semi-decent phone.

Simple commodity device...
I think they might lose some loyals users here.
I've been an iOS user since 2007.
>11 Pro Max 512GB - $1449
For my fellow Canadians, this is $1,905 CAD before taxes, and about $2,152 after taxes. I think this is the first time I've seen a phone go over $2K, at least in my neck of the woods.
Adapters to plugin in iPhones in to Mac Books... Its hilariously incompetent.
I guess I wasn't clear. The calculation you need to do is:

NumberOfCustomers * RevenuePerCustomerPerMonth >= MoneyINeedPerMonth

Then you need to back out the product and marketing from this equation. For example, for your TODO app:

NumberOfCustomers * $3/customer/month >= 2000

So at $3/customer/month, you will need ~670 customers.

Next you figure out: where the hell am I going to get 670 customers? I've been running one business for over 10 years and I think I have only 1500 customers in total. Finding customers isn't easy.

What I suggest is:

NumberOfCustomers = 10
MoneyINeedPerMonth = 2000

Create a product that 10 people will pay you $200/month for.

Now, no one is going to pay you $200/month for your TODO app as-is. But... What can you change to make it so useful that 10 people just throw money at you?

This is how I develop my ideas that are profitable from day one. There is a new software product I've recently created that I designed to make me $15K/day.

And it's working. Sometimes. But still, it's working, sometimes.

Edit: the worst thing you can possibly do is slap a price on what you've done. The reason is that you're just slapping a price on it, not because you've investigated the value added. If you really wanted to add a price of $3/month to people who are already using it, then add something that's useful to them. Perhaps integrate with Google Calendar as a pro feature. But now, you need to find 670 people who want your Google Calendar integration and need your particular TODO app. Not easy by any stretch.
VeoLuz: Generative art toy that visualizes photon paths, built in rust+reasonml
The problem is that you're setting up a bit of a reverse Zeno's paradox. Every iteration gets the "oh, it's hardly noticeable", but at some point it will be. I already find the iPhone 8 to be larger than I'd like, but I've come to terms with the size. The X was noticeably larger than that to me, but I realized that I was going to deal with it. And now it's even larger.
Sync to local storage, drag and drop, sync happens to other cloud.
If nothing else, at least they have cleaned up their product names.
I learned something! I had no idea Amex did a guarantee.

I routinely order multiple employee cards with nothing more than employee names. Sometimes they use last 4 digits or DOB to allow employee to authenticate for online access - you can use any 4 digits though you want (ie, employee ID works fine). No personal guarantee. Oddly, I'd never heard of a corporate card requiring an employee guarantee though I guess Amex is one of them.

This stripe card is a corporate card in the "normal" sense for me - no personal guarantee. This makes getting them (usually) very easy, just upload a list of 20 names and the cards come. I even do things like "Office Manager" for the name on non-stripe cards - works fine.
AND they are associated with a lotto computer scam: https://neural-lotto.net/index.php/en/kga6
I'll wait for my SpideyCam - 500 micro cams :D
Isn’t the SE screen size the same as a 2x assistive size on the larger phone?

So by developing apps compatible with the SE, it’s also helping the visually impaired.
And you know that because...?
Article about that California legislation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20927466
wouldn't medical data be covered under HIPAA? (I really don't know - it's possible anonymized data etc. might get around those restrictions). I would hope that when it comes to medical data laws would prevent some of the usual privacy concerns around googles data collection.
Or at least almost the same size. It looks like the 11 Pro is slightly larger than the X, although thanks for pointing this out as I would not have otherwise guessed that.
Apple has stated that it is part of their plan to have the longest possible useful life of their devices.

This is good for their business.
(Devved) Dev.to Top List
I thought it was a pretty good feature although it worked better when it was new and apple were more invested in it.

In particular the three best common uses were moving the cursor for the keyboard, selecting things, and previewing web pages.

1. Felt like they made it slightly worse at some point but still good (though it fails on some websites which try to do weird hacks things)

2. This was great. Selecting things outside the keyboard was broken by a software update a few years ago but the keyboard was still good. (A hidden feature is that if you select a word then press shift, the keyboard recommends capitalising/uppercasing the word. I wish this worked for larger selections, downcasing, quotes and brackets (and I guess ¿? too))

3. Was handy to see what a link had without wasting time (going there then back wasn’t perfect for buggy websites like twitter which break navigation). It also helped unbreak webpages that did weird things with navigation (the pop up was a “new” page which the JS didn’t see as a link click and if you pressed harder then navigation would be successful). It was I think always broken for urls with an anchor (I.e. ending in #foo) and would either not scroll on pop up or lose its place if you opened/new tabbed the page. In a recent version it breaks with high probability by laying out pages with a width of 0 so one cannot see the contents of the page in the pop up.
I honestly was not expecting that.
Probably some reality shaking out. Uber's engineering team puts out some impressive stuff, often as OSS. Their engineering blogs are regularly on HN. I've been genuinely surprised that they churn out some of these things and release them for free given their relatively extreme financial situation.

In contrast to companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon etc. that have mountains of their own money to burn (rather than investors') on research and OSS side-projects, it always seemed to me that Uber was trying to play the same game, but far too early. Paying lavish SF engineer salaries to generate cool, but not revenue generating, software is probably excellent for morale, culture and recruiting, but a dubious use of resources when you are losing money seemingly faster than it would be logistically possible to literally burn it.

Saying they're ~ "culling the low performers" can be entirely true, but it is also a Silicon Valley, meritocracy-culture-friendly way of saying "we're losing far too much money to pay bloated growth-stage poaching-game salaries to engineers, so if you're not working on something that generates revenue, glhf"
Improved stargazing and no more blackout curtains? Sign me up. :-)
Often people consider 50-70 years to be a long time. I think the point is that we will get there, and it will seem like it had always been this way.
Yes, he handled his experience wrong in my opinion.
Will the three cameras allow taking pictures with weird 3D or color effects? IE take a picture with all three of the cameras and interlace them to get trinocular vision or make RGB filters (red on camera 1 etc). You could even do it in video maybe?

That would be cool. I mostly dont care about a bigger screen or better battery.
I really hope they aren't making them in mice.