skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything above 0% is atypical for a company in the financial position that PG&E claimed to be in. Paying dividends is something that profitable companies do.
Where are you getting this 10mph number? There's a wind advisory in effect with gusts peaking between 35-45mph this morning[1].

> NWS forecasts call for winds to be slightly weaker Thursday throughout the Sacramento Valley than they were Wednesday, but a wind advisory remains in effect through 6 p.m. as gusts between 40 and 55 mph remain possible.

[1] https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article23595593...
I've opened your GP comment for editing if you'd like to make an appropriate adjustment.

Account deletion is a separate question, of course. On HN we try hard to balance individual interests, such as for privacy, with community interest, such as other people's comments not losing the context they were replying to. To judge by the reactions we hear from users, we're able to care of nearly everything that nearly everyone needs. But it does require emailing us, rather than using some mechanical feature that would just erase everything an account had ever posted.
It was this time last year that an entire town got wiped off the California map and 80+ people died because of fires sparked by PG&E's horribly-maintained power lines. You think they want that to happen again?
Thanks.

> Now, in a paper published Sept. 23 in the journal Nature Physics, an international team of researchers has caused molecule made up of up to 2,000 atoms to occupy two places at the same time.

That wasn't there when I read it.
And still Apple hasn't even begun to migrate off from Chinese manufacturers while Samsung has shut down most of its factories in China and heavily invested into Vietnam supply chains. The only meaningful explanation is that Apple still gains a significant chunk of its margin from the China market while Samsung has lost almost all of its market share there. I'm pretty sure that Apple had a clear understanding of this kind of political risks and was willing to take it in pursuit of profit maximization.
25 is not very many on AMO, there are only a few that seem relevant and most are unmaintained. The only one that really seems usable is the webscraper.io one. Maybe ScrapeMate but the author has left and is working on the Python/cloud ScrapingHub. Similarly Chrome has Web Scraper Plus w/ poor maintenance and the rest are wrappers/helpers for various websites.

The extensions market isn't particularly lucrative, they're like mobile apps but with only 33% of users even knowing they exist. The SaaS companies don't have a growth limitation hence their success. But if you want an extension for a resume item or something getting a few thousand AMO users or Chrome reviews shouldn't be hard.
>in order to nationalize their power they would first need to be a nation

A nation is a social construct that California could certainly fit into. Hell, Jerry Brown called it one. Examples of nations: Palestine, the Kurdish nation, Tibet.

The legal construct is called statehood. States can bind themselves into larger legal entities by giving up some of their own rights. Examples include: the US federal government, the European Union, and the United Kingdom.
> However, Apple has not to date lied about what they are doing and we do not yet have a reason to doubt their representations about the security of their encryption.

Did you read the original link, or the memo it linked to?

"the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present."

This was written by Tim Cook, speaking for Apple. That is Apple lying about what they are doing.
What's being photographed in this one?
Concrete absorbs carbon from co2 in the air. If you were interested in co2 levels you might be able to deduce something from that.

I seem to recall that the biosphere 2 project had problems with the fresh concrete absorbing too much co2 inside the sealed structure.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/cement-soaks-greenho...
Yet another anecdotal data point:
I pulled my first all-nighter at age nine. That was July 1969, Armstrong on the Moon, which in Europe was a nighttime event. Stayed up for the rerun next morning and day. Tired, of course, and everything slightly unreal, mostly from all the agitation and the ghostly tv images, I think.
Since then, have not infrequently skipped nights - because of night shifts of physical labor, because of coding and inability to call it a day, because of travelling, because of childbirth, because of sudden insomnia, because of new, exciting girlfriend or - rarely - because of partying.
Generally, once I get a normal night of sleep, I'm fine, no residual effects that I'm aware of. 'A normal night of sleep' means 7 - 8 hours in the dark part of the year, 5 - 6 during summer.
Just entered my sixties, and healthwise doing just fine. Working in a job with a higly varying time schedule and actually enjoying it, whereas regular hours Monday through Friday eventually always push me into torpor and quasi-depression.
I rarely take naps, but will go to bed and fall asleep no problem at five or six in the afternoon if that's what my schedule dictates.
Andy Rubin’s Essential Gem Isn’t Just a New Phone
Spoiler, ish:

The last time I measured ImageNet JPEGs with EXIF orientation metadata, the number of affected images was actually quite small (< 100, out of a dataset of 1.28M).
There are also some duplicates, but altogether it seems fairly "clean."
I'm a huge fan of Adrian's opencv blog. His tutorials are awesome and go deeper than most. I highly recommend his book too.
I'm not sure how to word this, so please don't take it the wrong way, but have you been screened for mental health problems? Periods of extended bouts of energy + productivity followed by sleep sounds like it something that could be associated with certain forms of bipolar disorder.

Just curious what your personal opinion is of your mental health (and why you might not fit those typical diagnoses), since I'm sure you've come across similar information when googling your own symptoms.
My comment was about Qt, which is a C++ project. Of course CMake doesn’t have any market share outside of C++, but in the C++ world it has become the main build tool for open source projects. Even Microsoft is now spending their time supporting CMake via both Visual Studio and vcpkg.
> Desktop Linux (even on standard desktop computers, not just specialized laptops) is far from perfect. Getting everything to work is a lot of effort, and then mysteriously something will stop working.

For a counterpoint:

I have had less issues with my Linux setups than with Windows for 15 or so years and I use both for the same:

- development

- mail, timesheets, documents

- small amounts of gaming once in a while (mostly causual matches on CS:GO)

I believe that others have problems with Linux but generally it has a highter tendency to work well out of the box than Windows has.

Also, as mentioned elsewhere, the most annoying thing about Windows is how it "stops the world". It is only milliseconds but for me it is maddening to wait for a high end 2019 PC to respond to keyboard input.

Usually it is driver issues and usually I get it sorted after a few weeks or months but it should be unneccessary for a stock Dell or HP machine. (Protip: don't ever use consumer or prosumer editions, not even XPS, always go for the the pro models.)
All war is bad war. War is mass killing for profit and control based on lies. All of it.

It's amazing that people continuously by into the bullshit propaganda they keep making up.

The wars are about the same thing they have been for thousands of years. Why is there really conflict in places like Syria and between the US and Iran? It's the same thing as the Roman-Persian wars. Or the Crusades. It's about control of resources and territory.
Can Eliud Kipchoge run a sub-2hr marathon?
I haven't had issues with anxiety/depression since I was a teenager, thankfully. I'm very peaceful even when I can't sleep. When I was younger that was a big source of frustration and stress (especially during school), but I've accepted it many years ago. This is who I am and nothing can really change about that. :)

I've also never gotten into the habit of drinking caffeine. The only time I'll drink coffee is if my friends who are into that kind of stuff bring back some rare coffee from a trip and invite me to try some. I also don't drink soda or energy drinks.

It's possible that being on the sleep medications for extended periods of time changed my brain chemistry, but I think my condition is different from most people. This was something I was legitimately born with and can remember struggling with even as a very young child (3-4 years old). My parents have similar recollections. No one else in my family has this issue - I just see it as an unlucky mutation.

I'm glad you mentioned diet. I think that is probably something that helps me. I've been on keto for most of my adult life and since graduating college and starting working I've been on one meal a day (lunch) aside from the few month stretches where I tried to gain weight for weightlifting. Thankfully my parents were amazing cooks growing up and were also too poor to avoid keeping snacks in the house so I never got into the habit of eating candy or junk food. I definitely notice that I struggle to sleep even more on occasions where I go out and eat with friends late at night and eat carb heavy meals that I wouldn't eat otherwise.
I would counter by saying that Apple put itself in this position by not 2nd and 3rd sourcing contract manufacturers. Tim understood the risks, but he chose to profit rather than de-risk.
PRISM doesn't work the way you've described it. It ingests data from the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit, which handles court ordered wiretaps on individual accounts from Internet communications services. You can see this in the slide Snowden leaked.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...

https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/how-to-talk-about-prism-and-...
Amazing to see so many Luddites here on HN. Backup cameras have become standard and incredibly reliable on all new cars. Sure, snow can cover a camera, but as someone who has spent lots of time scraping ice off a side view mirror, a camera seems a lot simpler to clear debris from. Mirrors win from KISS, but KISS is not what sells cars. Safety, reliability, and performance do. If the automotive industry can make cameras as safe, reliable, and performant as mirrors, then the benefits will be obvious and the feature will win.
If you are multiplying (or using any other t-function) for mixing, you generally want the higher bits, rather than the lower bits.
I have been using this system for a few months now. I keep my notes organized as markdown files in one directory.

My experience has been positive, and my zettelkasten rewards later visits with serendipitous connections. It's like how one often makes/discovers these connections while conversing with a friend -- except, in this case, the "friend" is a snapshot of your own thoughts at a different point in time.
I think we often emphasize the importance of exercise and diet for healthy living which are definitely essential, but sleep should also be added to that list.
I tried a whole slew of them. Zaleplon was actually the one that worked the best for me and the one I took for the longest. The tolerance would reset after a few months break, but it would always get back to the point where it was ineffective. I've also never noticed melatonin to have any effect, even when taken correctly.
The intensity of these blackouts is driven not just by weather, but by a major change in risk assessment by the utilities. PG&E, the utility that services most of northern California, was sued by a number of insurance entities after it was found that their equipment was the cause of several major wildfires over the last few years. Most notably the 2018 Camp Fire, which was the deadliest and most expensive wildfire in California history.

But most importantly, it's what didn't happen: the state of California did not bail out or grant PG&E immunity from these lawsuits. PG&E settled with the insurance entities and has since filed for bankruptcy protection, since the possible liability is larger than their market cap.

The blackouts are a way to minimize further risk and liability. But I would also guess that the intensity of blackouts is a not so subtle middle finger by the utilities to the state government for its resigned treatment of these issues.
No one has pointed to the Hong Kong law this app is supposed to be violating, including the Hong Kong authorities, who when asked basically said "go ask Apple".

Couple that with the fact that no officers have been targeted individually in Hong Kong protests since they began, and you begin to see that the whole thing sounds fishy.

What is the law being broken that no one knows about, and the cases of violence no one has heard of?
The problem is that wars are moralized by propaganda which is outright lies designed to provide a false moral basis for war.

Wars are about control and resources.
Your correction reminds me on Monty Python Life of Brian, ROMANES EUNT DOMUS.
I just think leaders should die first.
We've been doing it since Vietnam.
4 or 5 days? I'm not convinced a healthy person could make it that long. I've asked hundreds of classmates and grad students over the years for their records and have yet to meet anyone that claimed over 72 hours. Personally my body was almost completely non functional around 65 ish hours -- stumbling and slurring words, no concept of time, incapable of focusing. The only reason I was awake long enough to reach that point is because it took hours to finally fall asleep. Honestly I'd love to hear what happens if someone could get to 72+ hours.
> Seems to me your making a lot of claims about bazel without having used it

I lost literally weeks of my life to make Bazel work in external build systems for tensorflow and others. And I am apparently not the only one : https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/how_to_make_p...

Then I don't allow you to tell me "not having used it".

All the answers you gave are "fixes" that have been made after the community complained. Fixes that were sometimes not even documented.
Simply put then....

As an American citizen, you should run a Chinese iPhone so YOUR messages go to a hostile foreign government.

As a Chinese citizen, you should run an American iPhone so YOUR messages go to a hostile foreign government.

:)
Personal experience spanning across my time at Twitter and Facebook, DPDK is definitely faster but it is (/was) a pain in the butt to program and share the NIC with the host. XDP allows you to reuse very many packet parsing / handling capabilities in the kernel while in DPDK world you’re shipping a tiny stack with your app.

Re: Virtual Switch implemented in BPF: see Cilium’s work to connect containers with their BPF based connectors.
This is the part of Cook's email that is harder to swallow. I doubt that reports from actual users (rather than Chinese cutouts) even exist.

The Hong Kong police force is not a credible source of information, given that it is the chief antagonist in the Hong Kong protests, and that a core demand of the millions demonstrating is an independent investigation of its conduct.
> Gallows humor is a coping mechanism. I'd be more worried if they acted like everything is normal.

False dichotomies are a sophistry mechanism.

I'm noting what Hannah Arendt said also applies to a lot of people with money, or people in the military, plenty of positions of supposed power.

> So stop listening. You wouldn't eavesdrop on teenager's at the local food court, would you?

Did you seriously compare talking in a less than fawning way about insignia of soldiers in a military conducting wars of aggression, that were posted here as "cool and interesting", with snooping on minors? Wow.

We're both "snooping" in that sense, I just am not fawning over their conversation, that is all. Why can't the people who disagree with, but neither want to refute nore expand on my comment, simply ignore it? They are not the target audience, after all.

> I'd only start worrying once the inside jokes become agitprop, bumper stickers, or campaign slogans.

I'm not "worrying", I'm simply totally unimpressed, have been for ages, by anything in that bucket, and the Arendt quote is a good summary of why. I would guess that the worst things are regularly perpetrated by the utterly bland, not by those who call themselves deathlords of hellfire or whatever, but nonetheless, I think it's the opposite of "cool", it's unintentionally derpy.
Cool as it may be for the intellectual challenge of tight coding, to run on a minimum of resources, it also makes things more vulnerable to DDoS, slashdot effect, and less than ethical people running abusive scraping tools that don't respect robots.txt. As a person who is on the receiving end of the very rare 3am phone call for networking related emergencies, I try to provision a sufficient amount of resources above "the bare minimum" to ensure that I'm not woken up by some asshat with a misconfigured mass http mirroring tool.

RAM is so cheap now for small sized things that you can afford to trivially have an entire db cached at all times, with only very rare disk I/O.

As an example we have a request tracker ticket database for a fairly large sized isp which is a grand total of under 40GB and lives in RAM. It's dozens of thousands of tickets with attachments and full body text search enabled. For those not familiar with RT4 it's a convoluted mess of Perl binary scripts.

I could probably run my primary authoritative master DNS on bind9 on Debian-stablr on a 15 year old Pentium 4 with 256MB of RAM, but I don't...
I get it, for some people it doesn’t matter. There is zero difference between xfce (Gnome, Windows, etc) and MacOS.

But for some people, they have used MacOS since OS X 1.0 (or for me, System 7) and there is a particular "Mac" way of doing things. There are expectations and standards for how the system and user interface should work and respond.

Perhaps you could attribute this to baby duck syndrome. You could also attribute it to people having different mental models for the world, there are clean desks and messy desks, different cataloging systems. There is something for everybody. For people who like Macs, everything else seems like a clumsy intolerable mess.

There are themes and hacks to make systems "look" like MacOS, but they fall short of even remotely functioning like it.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Uh, the Chinese state media journalist is speaking on behalf of the government. Do you think the journalists there build their career by being a maverick known for investigative journalism?
I can’t charge my phone with the Nintendo Switch charger, it switches on and off repeatedly and doesn't charge. And my other USB-C chargers don't negotiate the power needed with the Switch so it charges very slowly if you don't use the included charger.
> Permanent removal from China would probably be worse for freedom in China over 20 years,

Huh?

> No company should be expected to back or foment a revolution somewhere, from my perspective they're looking out for their own beet interest and the best interest of their customers.

Profit is not an adequate moral compass. I deeply disagree that by forming a corporation, individuals who would otherwise have ethical obligations are somehow no longer obligated to behave ethically. You're literally claiming that it's okay to enable the violation of human rights for profit.
“0.29c kWh”

WHAT?

Here in France I pay 0.138c (€, thus 0.15c in $) for 100% renewable elec. That's like twice as much in CA... for what I guess is not environment-friendly by a long shot?

I'd really have thought with the USA fracking their soil like it's apocalypse tomorrow, and pulling out of any carbon commitment on top of that, at the very least it would yield considerable short-term domestic advantages, i.e. cheap elec. I'd have thought you guys paid like 5 or 10c kWh. Next thing you're gonna tell me you pay more than $1.2/L ($4.6/gal) of diesel fuel.

Actually just checked, diesel fuel is $3/gal, regular petrol slightly less in general (~$2.5) but more in CA.

Still baffled at the cost of electricity.
I was reading https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/pge-cuts-power-to-millions-i..., particularly this bit: "
Wara said a forecast Tuesday night showed winds in Mt. Tamalpais, a nearby mountain, were less than 10 mph (16 kph). “There is zero wind where I live,” Wara said. “PG&E is required to shut down based on observed conditions, not forecast conditions.”"

The article goes on to mention forecasts of 35-45mph gusts. I'll edit my original post. My point stands: whether we're talking about 10mph winds or 45mph winds, we're talking about weather within the normal range of variation and conditions that electricity grids elsewhere handle admirably.
Let us clear up the terms we're using: They are both monopolies. But PG&E is investor owned, publicly traded. Their incentive is money, followed by quality of service.

A government entity in terms of public services tends to have "getting their job done right" at the top of the list, albeit at a lower cost when possible.
I've never heard Apple referred to as paying software engineers top dollar.
Another thing not mentioned, which I'd noticed recently after a couple of very poor nights, was feeling very dehydrated. Drinking a lot of water didn't seem to help, and it all went straight through. Some surface level research indicated that it could be a lack of vasopressin, so it makes me wonder if taking a small amount of desmopressin (with sufficient hydration electrolytes) would help take the unpleasant edge off the next day.
My wife bought me six carts earlier this week. I play for a few hours at least every other week.

Most games are very playable because they were designed to be good to play, not to be flashy for Twitch and VC money.

The best part is that the games that you couldn't afford to buy back when they were new are $3 used, or $0 emulated. So you can play anything you want.
Does it literally translated to soul carrying machine, or am i completely wrong
MIPS is almost literally everywhere, its in most IoT devices...

NetBSD for Sparc has existed since 1993 or so.

OpenSPARC has existed since 2005 and multiple operating systems have run on Sparc since the 90s.

Linux gained adoption the same way OSX did.
Google Lens
In 1999 the SGI was much more stable, but most people still turned their desktops on/off every day :)
Google Kubernetes Engine Incident #19009
I'm far from perfect, but I don't purchase products from a company that has dictatorial control over the software installed on my phone, so I'm not complicit in handing over that power to corporations (and in turn the CCP), iPhone users are. Their actions helped lead to this.
Surely, PG&E will learn their lesson during this outage and send crews across the state to trim brush along the transmission lines? Strengthen the towers?

Uncharacteristic edit: Why the downvotes? It must be because you took the comment seriously and think the sentiment grossly naive, or heard the skepticism and thought it unwarranted?
That's the exact reason why we should have beds at work and not have regular working hours. People should just work and sleep whenever they want as long as they make meetings and project deadlines.