skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same experience here. Sleeping with a notebook on my bedside table has helped somewhat--I can write down thoughts as I'm trying to fall asleep and not "worry" about forgetting them in the middle of the night.

But I do resort to sleeping pills after a few of those nights in a row.
> Push yourself longer than a few days without sleep, and the effects can be lethal.

The above statement in the article links to a story on Reuters about one case of an intern who stayed up for 72 hours and died for unknown reasons. Hardly proof.

This is so overblow. Many people have stayed awake for more than 72 hours and not died. In fact, there is no evidence that sleep deprivation causes death in humans. If you don't agree with that statement please falsify it with proof.

I recently stayed awake for 72 hours as an experiment. It was hard. I had all of the temporary effects described in the article except for hallucination but it was all temporary. After 14 hours of sleep I was perfectly fine. That's one data point.

Don't drive, operate machinery or perform surgery when sleep deprived but it's not some terrifying dangerous thing to go with out sleep for a few days.
This seems like a perfect opportunity for Apple to allow apps to be installed outside of the App Store (like macOS).

I was absolutely shocked that Apple rejected the Gab app. Their rules are arbitrary and constricting.
Common refrain: let’s upgrade the systems. Ok! We charge users more. No, can’t do that, only the wealthy should pay for the changes. ... Nothing gets done
If you compromise, at least be frank about it.
Sure! In the little tour it gives you, when it's describing the play button, I couldn't click Next or Finish because they were hidden behind the little tag input area. I just zoomed out on the page with CTRL + minus and was able to click.

I imagine you didn't notice this due to it being specific to my screen size (I'm on a macbook, I'm guessing you're using something else?)
Yes of course, I just would have assumed the cost of that is pretty minor compared to the cost of the (apparently) 26 megawatt cogeneration plant
Persistent and organized resistance? Not even the Native Americans and First Nations could manage that. There were a couple attempts to organize that were cut tragically short. I wouldn’t expect whales to be better at this than humans.
Or if you didn't miss one of the malicious compliant story on reddit.

Hiring (transferring) stupid in for the time when the department is trimmed per order.
Apple may have not, GCBD have.
I don't think anybody is doubting about the huge impact of open source in science and technology, is more that maybe linux is still not a substitute for some commercial products
You might find the last section "Sleep spindles and intelligence" in https://www.tuck.com/sleep-spindles/ interesting.
I'm glad I live in the city of Santa Clara, where I am served by Silicon Valley Power, one of few exceptions to the PG&E monopoly in northern California.

Silicon Valley Power serves many homes in addition to large companies including Intel and Nvidia, and they do so with lower prices and better quality of service than PG&E. I will be very unhappy going back to PG&E if I move to another city.

Electrical utilities don't need to be a government-granted monopoly like PG&E, which combines the worst aspects of government-run and private-sector business. Silicon Valley Power proves there are better ways to run electrical utilities.
Seemed like it should be fairly common. Saw in a different comment that maybe there is some issue with being able to switch over to only being powered by that plant.

Seems odd though, since one of the things I thought was always touted about our municipal power plant growing up was that they could power the town if external power got cut off (But didn't normally because our generators were more expensive to run)
To be frank most people with sleep apnea aren't.
The reliability of the grid is a combination of the technical reliability of the grid and the social ability to reliably coordinate the resources needed to operate the grid. You need both systems to work in order for electricity to flow. As you point out, there's nothing wrong with the grid on a technical level. But the social element failed, so electricity stopped flowing. When the electricity stops,
it doesn't really matter whether the power is off because of a technical or a human problem. The lights go off either way.

The wind that shut grid blew at 10MPH. (Granted, it was forecast at up to 45MPH.) Did we not see winds of this strength during the 120 years* that we didn't shut down the grid over human coordination failures? If PG&E had to shut down the grid to avoid fire in light to moderate winds, it was because the people operating the grid were unable to coordinate the resources needed to operate safely under these conditions. What we've seen here is a breakdown of human systems that used to work reliably. We used to be able to operate an electricity grid reliably in moderately windy conditions. Now we can't. That should worry everyone.

* Yes, I know about Enron. That we've had two grid failures in 20 years due to human-coordination breakdown is a huge red flag.

Edit: phrasing, note that the winds were forecast to be stronger than what we ended up seeing
>When I described this to Amy, she responded with a magnificent rant that was something like “this is a romanticized utopian ideal about a thing that was inhabited by socially inhibited, white male nerds who consider themselves too smart to be misogynistic but, well, often are.”

This kind of thinking is itself a major cause and component of the Miasma.
It really blows my mind how people are willing to potentially cause long term damage to their brain to try to be more performant at work (or sports).

You only live once, you only have one brain. Please be careful with Snake Oil until really proven by science...
Well, in order to nationalize their power they would first need to be a nation. To be honest I don't know why one giant utility for an entire state is a desirable thing. In most places I've lived in, each community runs their own utility company. I've had cooperatives, city owned utilities, and private utilities. The best experience by far was the co-op. Since the customers owned the utility, we would get the profits back as credits on our bills usually during the middle of summer when power usage is highest in Florida.
You lost me at” Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau“, Tim
Cocaine would be a better choice than chronic sleep deprivation to achieve that. Just saying.
probably a typo here, the "robots" are referred as "bhuta vahana yanta". "Yanta" is not a word in sanskrit, it should be "Yantra" which means machine.

Edit : My bad, it does means machine in pali which is the defacto language of the early buddhist sect.
Pretty sure most of the people who wanted those already bought them. Sales will increase on gas generators, not Powerwalls.
Udacity will offer 100k free programming classes as part of the ‘Pledge’
Escort forums in Italy and the Netherlands hacked, user data put up for sale
Bizarre 'nesting doll' diamond found inside another diamond
BingBot Migrates to Using Chromium Based Microsoft Edge
Spyware is also found in iOS in China via iMessage so what’s your point?
Yeah obesity is definitely associated with obstructive sleep apnea, no doubt. But what if they just have a thick neck and are otherwise healthy? I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt
> - they didn’t need any peripherals outside of screens, keyboards and mices. We had to use a usb dongle to project into videoconf room at a client, I have no hope it would have worked on linux.

You can actually buy Linux laptops with not just USB-C, but also USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet ports, etc. As someone with a Linux laptop who has never run into a peripheral issue and has coworkers with peripheral issues with their MacBooks, I'm not super convinced that the grass is greener on the Mac side of this one.
The issue at hand is dry brush and trees being blown across live wires and sparking wild fires. The blackouts are targeted at the areas where this is most likely to occur. Namely, not heavy urban areas.

Although not as widely reported, SoCal Edison is also doing rolling blackouts in at-risk areas
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-10/l-a-face...
Alternating Recurrent Dialog Model with Large-Scale Pre-Trained Language Models
> If this is true, then the people imposing those two constraints have only themselves to blame for the blackouts.

This is not true. PG&E have been returning phenominal divideds. They have chosen to prefer to dump their asset management budget into dividends.
> Maybe they want to get stuff done, other than
puttering around in the tooling.

You mean like that crufty thing called homebrew?

Or the default versions of software shipped are out of date by maybe a long, long time?

https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/393oqv/why_is_the_ver...
Brazil blaze and bazel, someone should tell the story
I switched to a T480 Lenovo running Fedora.
Prior to this I've never really ran a Linux machine for my personal laptop and only ever in the capacity of a desktop for work (usually running some old RHEL).

I don't think I ever want to go back to OSX.
Fedora has been such a pleasure to work on
Sure thunderbird is meh -- but overall my output and joy from running the system has been returned 10x
I go to UC Berkeley. My midterms were postponed so I feel like even though I should be complaining, I really can't. PG&E basically gave me a week extra to study.
I can add my anecdata to your own: I will probably buy a Powerwall because of this incident.
I was banging my head on a brick wall for an hour or so yesterday trying to figure out how a simple obvious thing wasn't working. The (also simple but slightly less obvious) setting that I'd forgotten to update came to me just as I was drifting off to sleep. This happens all the time.
Here's POWER's training code for DDR4:

https://git.raptorcs.com/git/talos-hostboot/tree/src/import/...

pgeorgi has a valid point in that if you go for the cheapest off the shelf building block type DDR4 solution for your silicon design (won't name names here, but it's a widely known vendor in the silicon block space), those controllers come with mandated binary-only firmware. IBM (and apparently Marvell?) both didn't use that cheap off the shelf solution and also decided to release their training code. Kudos to both companies for bucking the trend here!
{

:Wise => Architect that actually writes code

:Brave => The guy who refactor old code

:Covetous => Project manager

:Stupid => Count as -1 head because it take half an engineers time to help him and another half to refactor any code he's written.

}
Revenge Pornographer Social Justice Warrior Is Confronted with the Truth
When did he stand up to the CIA? As far as standing up to the FBI, the impetus behind that was to cover up another lie. Apple had told customers "it's not technically feasible" for Apple to respond to data requests and got a mountain of free press for it. The FBI showed a method by which Apple could obtain the encrypted data on those devices. Soon after, that claim disappeared from Apple's "Privacy" marketing page. https://gizmodo.com/apple-wont-turn-over-your-phones-data-to...

Complying with the data request would have given users who had their data obtained standing to sue Apple, so Apple's willingness to litigate the issue went so far as the cost of the lawsuits it wanted to avoid. The FBI dropped the case not because it didn't think it could win but because it could access the data more quickly using another vendor's data extraction service.
To be clear, I mean accusing tobacco companies of marketing to children because they have "bright colors" etc. is a proven strategy to extract big settlements from tobacco companies.
> We've definitely lost something, although it's hard to pin down exactly what.

The notion of collective good. The government may not have been drowned in the bathtub yet, but the idea that there's any higher purpose to humanity than maximized profit extraction for the rentier class appears to have won.
Ubuntu 18 on carbon x1 extreme. Really smooth, until I do anything special.

Never got external monitor working. Just had issues with my wifi yesterday that persisted through reboots and randomly worked after I booted back into windows and then linux again (dual boot). Lost hours of my life trying to get any combination of browser + smartcard reader to work with two different card readers.

Sleep/Hibernate still don't work properly all the time. Sometimes my laptop decides to do the right thing, and I pray it doesn't undo itself and drain the battery in my backpack.
Ah, yes, good and experienced engineers can do that.
> > Isn't the entire idea of "being mean" an abstract and intellectual idea?

> Not really, it boils down to harm prevention.

Ask the fish whom that seal will subsequently eat how much harm is being prevented.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I edited it with a disclaimer as soon as I realized.

You're welcome to continue retracing my steps to correct me though.
I don't get it - the nerds were misogynistic, therefore his memory and experience are invalid?
So anyone providing a platform owes you "free speech"?
Also interesting to see him on Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
Just two years ago my laptop struggled to run posture detection even with an NVIDIA. Now this runs smoothly in my mobile browser, the progress is certainly quick.
The miasma works by provoking the human minds it contacts to produce more miasma. It's self-replicating, and its most potent constituents operate on the human need to chant their own team's fight chant whenever an opportunity arises, and especially when someone else's chant is heard. The guy who writes Slate Star Codex would call that an example of the blue tribe, and you can bet that every other tribe that hears it will spread a little of their own color of miasma back to get even. In the end, you get the brown miasma, that is toxic to everybody, and provokes its own production.
I’ve had my oryx pro for a year now with no problems. I’m not supper easy on hardware. It’s build quality is decent ( my work machine is a 13 in Mac book pro, which is better built, but the oryx isn’t bad.). It even able to run the unreal engine dev kit.
This is a common trend for being second in market, when we see Pytorch and TensorFlow 2.0, TF 2.0 was created to compete directly with Pytorch pythonic implementation (Keras based, Eager execution). Facebook at least on Pytorch has been delivering a quality product. Although for us running production pipelines TF is still ahead in many areas (GPU, TPU implementation, TensorRT, TFX and other pipeline tools) I can see Pytorch catching up on the next couple of years which by my prediction many companies will be running serious and advanced workflows and we may be able to see a winner there.
They were nationalized, once, and were privatized by the electorate something like 20 years ago. I remember people debating it as a kid

edit - I'm looking this up and having trouble finding evidence of this outside of AB 1980 (proposition to break the state-sanctioned monopoly and allow competition among energy suppliers), which was from 1996
Asteroid may collide with Earth, ESA warns: 'Non-zero probability'
Revenge Pornographer and Social Justice Warrior Is Confronted with the Truth #2
Lawsuits are filed by individuals who lost everything in wildfire. It is not the state who filed it.
If the alternative were to lose manufacturing capacity, it wouldn’t be “...compromising immediately when $$$ is at stake.”. What’s at stake then is the future of the company — everyone’s jobs, industries that have come to rely on Macs, the consumers that have come to rely on iPhones. Just folding up and losing the $$$ isn’t the path of courage here.
2016 IS very recently. Three years ago does not count as "many years ago". Richard Stallman is 66 years old. To have only realized that pedophilia is bad at age 63, only when other people had to convince him..welp.
Before we even cover salary, I have to ask if you have experience developing games in your own time?

Its all well and good to play games but it is a massive undertaking to build your own. I have been working as web developer for 5 years now and I decided to make a game in my spare time just over a year ago now. As the games development ramped up and took up more of my time, I realised that developing games will only ever be a hobby for me.

Its a really tough industry to be in, salaries aren't typically that high, hits are difficult to come by and the time investment is massive.
You're correct, but it's a completely different incentive. If you hold out and everyone around you improves their property, your taxes go up almost as much anyway! It punishes speculation and rewards productive use.

So a virtuous feedback cycle is created, where everyone is incentivized to improve and develop their property to the point where they're best taking advantage of the land it sits on -- or to sell it to someone who will.

I'm familiar with stamp duty -- it has a lot of problems, mainly around the fact that it discourages people from moving. It seems significantly worse than a land tax, to me.
Fun fact: Two days before to the camp fire PG&E sent notices to customers that they may turn off power due to a forecast of high winds and low humidity as indicated by a NWS red flag warning. PG&E decided not to do so. The weather came, as predicted, and contributed to the fire. Shutting down the power like it was announced would likely have prevented it.

I'm not sure if public outcry was a factor in their decision to not follow through with the shutdown before, but you can bet that it isn't going to be a factor now.

The current outages are being triggered by similar weather conditions, https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fire_wx/fwdy1.html
I have no idea why this shutdown was initiated. It had been much warmer and drier earlier in the summer. It is actually quite pleasant and cold these days, with morning dew. And no winds. I have no idea why these conditions warrant power shutoff
It’s refreshing to see a different alternative to current trend of SPA’s frameworks.
Ask HN: Should I take a Data/ML job at a startup that doesn't yet have data
After 7 years of frontend web app experience, I'm switching careers to ML/DataScience and looking for that first job to get my foot in the door. I recently spoke to a founder of a very early-stage startup. (I don't have any experience working with startups either.) They seem to have their frontend work outsourced to a team in another country but their core product will eventually depend entirely on a recommendation engine that will need to be built by new people. If I take the job, I'll be the first Data person, but also the first in-house tech guy so I might end up with leadership responsibilites later on.

My question is whether it makes sense at all to join as a "Data person" when the data will likely be insufficient for the next 12+ months. They won't even launch the app until January.

I worry that I will get caught up in mostly doing urgent frontend work and putting out fires and it will be at least a year before I even begin to look at the data.

Thanks for any advice and for pointing out my naivete!
Did you forget to accept the new iCloud ToS?
Hard to say, as you haven't mentioned why they are interested in a sophomore from a small college.
Oh, yeah. Prop 13 is like an order of magnitude worse than just taxing property + land vs a higher rate on land.
Australian National University Data Breach Incident Report [pdf]
Self-Driving Taxis Tested in London
In US law, you aren't supposed to be able to trademark or copyright things that are functional to the product, which I'd strongly contend applies to their word list and their algorithm, though who knows how it would play out if some interested party were to try pushing back.

That's what patents are for, but then they'd have to disclose it.
It's not "totally unrelated" or "unconnected", it's the container these stickers are made in. You failing to see that doesn't change it, and "seems pretty bad" is just saying nothing.
But isn't that just because of legislation? As far as I can tell the system could just as easily throw a switch, test to make sure the switch was thrown, and then safely power locally. I know in California this is law, but I have never heard of a very good reason why it is technically difficult or inherently more dangerous to "air gap" your local power at the building rather than at the battery/power source.
Hosted on Github...

If Github/Microsoft gets added to the list, will it cause an infinite loop?
You alluded to taking benzos + z-drugs for 10+ years (you weren't very specific, so I could be off base) on 6-9 month cycles with 3 month tolerance break, and that you've been clean off benzo/x-drugs for a year now.

I've seen cases of benzo/z-drug withdrawal (after a short 1-2 years of daily use) requiring 3 months to even notice relief from the side effects of the withdrawal (most notably, horrible insomnia). And then another 6-12 months of abstinence to reach a place where the withdrawal effects are no longer top of mind, or subtly present but not overwhelming.

If you were on benzo/z-drug for very many consecutive years (even with short tolerance breaks), especially if those years were before age 25, it's very possible that your brain has never had a chance to function in the way a "normal" (non-altered) brain functions that hasn't been exposed to long term benzo/z-drug therapy.

The scary part about benzo/z-drugs is that they can, over time, change the structure and chemistry of your brain through upregulation and downregulation of receptors in response to the presence of drugs. With benzos in particular, the amount of time it takes to reverse the drug-induced changes seems to be incredibly long (not weeks, barely months, maybe years -- obviously depending on the length of time of initial exposure).

This is all to say that, if indeed you were on ultra long-term benzo/z-drugs for an extended amount of time (2-5+ years), 1 year of abstinence may not be enough to fully recover back to a normal state.

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And I assume you do all the basic sleep hygiene stuff for insomnia: no caffeine (at all, not even in the morning), no stimulants even if prescribed, intense exercise in the morning but not at night, not eating within 3 hours of sleep, no electronics within 2 hours of sleep.

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If you think the first part of my comment is BS, and if you've already done everything in the 2nd part of the comment, I'd highly recommend trying a dramatic diet change: something like going strict vegan and cutting out all processed sugars (and processed foods in general),

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And if that too fails, think deeply about what triggers anxiety / emotional discord in your life, and try to eliminate the source of that completely. This is the hardest advice to follow through with, since for many people it means quitting jobs, ending marriages, disowning family, moving to another country... you get the point.
> This odd mood of angry, passive resignation is disturbing.

This seems to be the hindrance for most progressive changes in California. Housing is quite similar. I almost feel like some people are intentionally making the situation worse so as to provoke a far more radical change rather than allowing problems to be solved.