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Be Elon:

> Tesla factory unlikely to lose power even if most of Fremont does because of agreement with PG&E

https://twitter.com/PBRStreetGang7/status/118178393541343641...

( disclaimer: might be usual twitter humbug https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/the-crowd-sourced-so... )
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It says this at the end: "This story was first published in The Conversation", but does not provide a link, usually required for content reposted from The Conversation. A search found it [1]

[1] https://theconversation.com/robots-guarded-buddhas-relics-in...
This. I just want a small light laptop with a good keyboard that wasn't made in the 00s.
Given how hard it is to track accurate nutritional data, I wonder if sleep research just as evasive to study since it is very difficult/expensive to define a “control” group. I’d have to imagine you’d have to have subjects sleep alone in a controlled environment for a while before you could observe real patterns. This, we’re left with extreme cases to observe, not really normal ones.
Given that sleep provides you with HGH, sleep definitely has a massive effect on strength and muscle (of course, a caloric surplus is also necessary).
This happens to me too for as long as I can remember. It's an endless thought-loop of abstract reasoning with a dream-like quality and coherence, never actually quite focusing in on the problem but disruptive to the goal of restful sleep.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
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Yes (IMHO). PG&E was found responsible for the biggest/worst fire(s) in recent history, and has since declared bankruptcy. They're giving us Californians a big middle finger. I mean really, suppose a fire were to start on the Berkeley campus -- that would not trigger a forest fire miles away.
Aren't foreign companies not allowed to operate in China without partnering with local companies? I think most (if not all) companies that sell services and digital products (online games, etc) operate this way.
Fuck your fiduciary duty. I cannot think of two words that have done more damage to humanity than those two.
For academic scientists, it's not always up to us. Just going out and renting a generator and hooking that up to our instrumentation ourselves may be technically possible (plus or minus various building code and safety issues), but by that time the damage is probably already done, so backup power really needs to be formally installed. We can beg the facilities and maintenance dept to install proper backup power, but unless we managed to get that written into our startup budget at the time of hiring, the money is probably not going to appear.
So, be corrupt? There’s no other way to describe a deal that a large company can make with the electricity company to keep its electricity running when the electricity company shuts off everyone else’s power.
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Read differently your comment is essentially "We must tolerate intolerance"

No, we most certainly do not.
The default Synaptics driver works well enough for Palm Rejection. In the beginning I had some outlier registered touches while typing but disabling touch-to-click seemed to completely mitigate that. Drivers might have gotten better since then but I don't really know since for about a year I set the touchpad to disable when I use my M570 Wireless Trackball.
The majority of web servers that serve all the web content that you use are Linux based.

Some of the most popular video games that have massive markets and revenues behind them (CounterStrike and moba games) have all started out as free mods to existing games.

The largest share of the worlds smartphones run Linux.

Twitch streamers, some of which make extremely high salaries, use open source broadcasting software

Python is now becoming the de-facto language of scientific computing, with all the major libraries available for free.

You are greatly discounting how much open source software has affected, and more importantly changed the direction of bought software.
Or even just a remotely competent group of people running the electricity grid.
Remember Britain started its colonialism through commerce.
> I can understand director Wray’s frustration.

The surveillance state is growing daily, cell-phones and license plates and faces are getting increasingly tracked, and even with encryption, they'll have access to all the metadata of who contacted who, when, and how often (based on which the US military say they kill), so I really don't see what he has to be frustrated about. Even without message content, he has vastly more data available than at any point in history, including under the Stasi!

Of course I'm assuming once there is not an epidemic of terrorism and child molestation after Facebook implements encryption, all of these intelligence agencies will apologize and stop pushing for more surveillance powers.
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PG&E has a government-granted monopoly to provide its utilities to its coverage region. That makes it indistinguishable from a state-owner enterprise, except that there are probably even more people reducing efficiency by extracting value for themselves.
They are easy to acquire, as long as everyone else doesn’t need one at the same time. Heck even just securing a diesel delivery during a widespread event can be impossible, which is why you need some onsite for multiple days (if possible).

Sadly you need to plan for these well in advance and be willing to sink significant resources.
If I travel to China does that mean my iCloud data will sync to Chinese iCloud?
Yup. The two real things adults would do is a retraining order and weapons. Kids get neither. (And, yes, sometimes it rises to that level. There was one incident in grade school where firearms would have been an appropriate response.)

I don't think most of the adults knowingly look the other way. They try some little measure, the problem appears to go away (the victim got a beating and is afraid to talk) so they think it worked.
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What would be the effectiveness and the cost of placing a geostationary solar sail like device (shadecloth if you will) out in space between the sun and the earth with thrusters for repositioning ? I assume the farther out away from earth can reduce the size needed - - up to a point.
Perhaps as it was during the 2013 period when US security agencies were in the spotlight. Here is Jon Stewart Daily Show on this exact logo.[1] (US-only video, here is the NSFW-ish punchline [2]).

NROL-10 launched in 2000 with an almost Miyazaki-esque logo designed by school children.[3] Most of the mission logos seem to be in jest, or more recently Marvel Avengers-based.

[1] http://www.cc.com/video-clips/wnciaf/the-daily-show-with-jon...

[2] https://kotaku.com/john-stewart-claims-responsibility-for-pe...

[3] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NROL-10_Mission_Pa...
Very interesting. Any additional info? Info that is maybe not public?
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That sort of thing will help with the minor stuff, it won't deal with the serious stuff.
Through practice and experience you can reduce the amount of time it takes to make routine actions and decisions. But the bottleneck is making good decisions about matters that are not routine, and every new project has plenty of those.
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I suspect in most cases, those prices assume that demand is pretty low. When you have a regional power outage, it seems likely that limited supply will raise the price of these backup power.
They do plan accordingly, but not for this kind of extended outage. Labs with critical equipment always have backup UPS or two (or 3!), but only enough to last for hours or possibly a day. The UC-Berkeley campus is going on day 3 without power, and PG&E has said it may be 5 days.
One day I could not compile something. After fighting it several hours I decided to go sleep. A few minutes before waking up I dreamed that the solution was to set an environment variable. I even saw the specific variable and which value I had to set. I woke up and immediately tried it. It worked.
We don't have meaningful treatment.
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It’s not the campus, it’s the transmission lines connecting to it.
Are you me? 95% of my diet is broccoli, zucchini, spinah, chicken, beef, walnuts and peanuts.

I'll usually indulge in a carb/sugar binge once a week. Any more than that, I feel rubbish physically - bloated, sluggish, hungry, irritable.
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I guess I have a historical enough view that I'm not so unshakably sure that the good old USA is absolutely right in every policy. Which from your tone, you sound like you are. I'm not pro China. But I'm not die hard pro USA either.

For example, I'm not sure that the US approach to free speech or commercial regulation is the most reasonable, or even the most representative. Plenty of other countries that you probably don't criticize in general impose forms of restriction on free speech that you'd object to (if you knew).

Germany has strict censorship laws on several kinds of racially oriented speech. Singapore does too, regarding religion. Yet those are admired democracies.

And while we criticize China here for imposing restrictions that impact US companies, I might ask, where were you (or HN) when it had to do with Chinese companies? Where are all the stories about those infringements, which go on every day?

So, is the principle here that you truly object to China imposing speech regulations? Or just when it extends to an American company?

Hence my philosophical ambivalence about whether we have the right to be so indignant after becoming 10 minute experts on the subject...
I never understood this obsession with Amazon. Their online store does not offer particularly good value apart from fast shipping for commodity items. It’s convenient, but there’s plenty of competition: you can get many of the same goods on AliExpress or eBay for a lot cheaper. And when you need something more specific like audio equipment, electronics components or even a Raspberry Pi, you’ll need to go to a specialised online store as it’s unlikely to be available on Amazon, and if it is it won’t be Prime and will have a massive mark-up.

Their cloud offering are the real money-maker, although I’m not personally a fan due to their high price and non-intuitive interface.
Then you should not do it. It is a calculated risk and you have not be able to afford it, not doing it or accept the consequence. Frankly cannot have 99.9999 power in any case. Too expensive in the power company side. Average and the special issue.
I thought buycott would have this as a trending campaign but I couldn't find it.
Maybe its because I haven't got much experience with PyTorch but I find Tensorflow's API much simpler to understand. Do you think putting time to learning PyTorch will change my mind?
I can't imagine how pissed off I'd be if I survived a nuclear winter and traveled hundreds of miles to read the prophesied guidestones that could save us all, only to find out that they had several weird eugenicist rules but zero information about like, water purification or animal husbandry.
$1B for me is a life changing amount of money. $1B for Apple is less than .4% of their revenue.

I imagine you're a software engineer earning 100k per year. Would you take away a tool a group of people are using to try and fight for their freedom for $400?
I honestly don't care when Apple complies with local law a la iCloud China. I think that is disappointing but completely reasonable, whether we agree with the law or not.

However, Hong Kong is a special administration region, and has historically enjoyed high level of judicial independence. When Apple takes the clue from a Chinese government newspaper - not even a legal request - and do the CCP's bidding proactively, it crosses a line. This is not compliance. This is self-censor.

You can argue that Hong Kong is part of China, and therefore Apple's operation in Hong Kong should comply with Chinese law. But what is next? China also claims sovereignty over Taiwan, will Apple self-censor Taiwanese App Store soon? Will Apple removes the Taiwanese flag from Taiwanese iOS users if China government demands so [1]?

It's also sad to see Apple pushes back on US government requests because they can, and kowtows to the Chinese governments without their having to even sending a take-down request! If one day Apple fires some employee because the Chinese government thinks he/she "hurt Chinese people's feeling" in a personal tweet [2], I will not be surprised!

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/09/apple-removes-taiwan-fla...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nba/nba-statement-diff...
This is something like the fourth or fifth unrelated company with the Atari name, but at least the previous ones actually made games. This one just looks like the Infinium Phantom redux.
Actually, “Zettelkästen” is the plural form; the singular would be simply “Zettelkasten.”
Most countries that experience rolling blackouts have certain levels of corruption in a socialized government.

All because of a law suit. Great job California.
How do you avoid the Intel chips in networking? Intel has often-used Ethernet and WiFi chips.
Google just tests the living Jesus out of everything, and only versions a few core packages such as protobufs, grpc, and other packages used by pretty much everybody (this is called the "crust").

Everything else is tip of tree, and things are automatically re-tested using checked-in tests if they are affected by your changelist. You basically can't submit if you break anything. So in a way, Google doesn't need "versioning". Whatever is currently checked in is good to go.

Tests are required, of course, and a Google reviewer won't let you submit anything if your tests suck. This, obviously, precludes the use of such a set-up in, shall we say, "more agile" orgs which don't have good test coverage.

Blaze (at Google) is also not just a build system, but also an interface to a much larger distributed build and test backend, which lets you rebuild everything from the kernel upwards in seconds (by caching petabytes of build products at thousands of possible revisions), serves up source code views for developer workstations (code is not stored there either), and sustains the scale of distributed testing needed for this setup to work. As a result, nobody builds or tests on their own workstation, and there's close to zero (or maybe even zero, period) binaries checked into Google3 monorepo. If you need a Haskell compiler and nobody used it in a while, it'll be rebuilt from source and cached for future use. :-)

Fundamentally, I think Google got things very, very right with Blaze. Bazel is but a pale shadow of what Blaze is, but even in its present state it is better than most (all?) other build systems.
Extraction of value means increased efficiency is incentivized. Obvious caveats about cutting corners with brush removal but also the shared responsibility of homes built in dangerous places apply.
"Self-censorship" happens every day. I'm allowed to say whatever I want but I'm not allowed to force someone to give me a platform for my speech. This is not a violation of free speech in any way.
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Thanks for the thoughtful (and quick) response! That was sadly what I was afraid of. Normally I wouldn't bother but I'm going back to school, and sadly the Novena I have just isn't supported anymore (I tried updating u-boot/kernel myself for a while, ended up not being worth the hassle).
I'm an amateur musician. Somehow all my best musical ideas pop into my brain right when I'm about to fall asleep.

Lots of other musicians I've spoken to say the same thing.

Why is that?
PG&E has been doing blackouts and brownouts more than basically any other electric company I’ve ever experienced anywhere in the world since I was a little kid. These blackouts may be bigger, but if you’re an institution the size of a university, you should have significant disaster preparedness infrastructure. I mean US universities run police forces! I’m sure they could find a way of designing redundant power into their systems. They might even save money in the long run, and wouldn’t need to worry about campus hospitals or public safety going down in an outage (I’m sure some of that is already taken care of, but why not go all the way).
thank you! It’s still new and has bugs. Let me know your experience and any issues. I will fix ASAP!
Nix is good for inter-package dependencies, while Bazel is good for internal dependencies. You could use Bazel to build your packages for Nix, and import your other projects into your BUILD files with https://github.com/tweag/rules_nixpkgs.
I agree with you, we should not tolerate intolerance. Why should Blizzard have to tolerate someone else's views? They are perfectly within their right to deny someone an association or a platform whose views that they do not agree with.
yup, firefox is supported! Though not distributed through the webstore - I'm planning to move it to the store sometimes soon.
Hey, this is my field. It's not as easy as you've laid it out.

A lot of SEO marketers try to get links into articles. This is part of what they do.

Many of them are legit.

Enough are not legit.

This causes links to get pointed to shady websites. It also happens that legit websites get taken over and re-built as shady websites.

This has gotten to the point where many newsmedia organizations or publishers have set blanket policies that NO ONE is to be linked to, or at the least no one receive will receive do-follow link.
Amazon is only unstoppable if we let them be. The world would be a much more interesting place for founders and employees if amazon were limited to being 1/100th its size.
Just as one data point, I personally hate the Apple logo and am heartily sick of seeing it everywhere and I loathe the way they feature it so prominently on their laptop lids so that I do keep seeing it continually.

So yeah, these things are subjective.
I didn't "justify" anything. I said that your hyperbole is hyperbole, and you didn't care when the politicians you liked were in charge, which suggests you really don't care at all and are simply part of the outrage machine that spins up when someone tells them to.

If you had convictions, you'd have had them when the last administration was doing this. You didn't then, you don't now.

BTW, the "specific examples" you talk about are not accurate. You're quoting talking points. People who cross the border illegally and then pretend to be "asylum seekers" when they get caught are not "legal asylum seekers", they have committed a crime. Nobody is arresting people who legally present to a border crossing and request asylum, because they haven't committed a crime to be arrested for.
The OP prompted me to check on Shanhui Fan's group[1], which had done some sub-ambient radiative cooling in sunlight[2], and I stumbled on this recent work:

A dual-mode textile for human body radiative heating and cooling[3]

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/
[2] https://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/publication/Goldstein_Nat...
[3] https://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/publication/Hsu_ScienceAd...
Not really: I was recently in Juticalpa, Honduras (it's a major city, like SF) and we did not have light for three days. Similar experience in Rio Dulce, Guatemala. In the third world, doing science is very difficult, because the infrastructure is just not there.
:::erm::: The State Gov and PG&E. Do you think there isn't corruption right there? The more regulation, the more opportunity for extraction/corruption.

Who's doing the inspections, who gets contracted to clear brush, who gets power, who doesn't, etc.

It's kinda like MUNI, just not quite there, but I don't doubt Sacramento can get them to EDELCA.
Embedded systems are entirely event driven, often using a large number of callbacks as c function pointers. Really not much different actually.
Maybe this would be a good time for college campuses and large companies to consider installing solar and batteries.

What ever happened with Bloom Energy? they don’t get much press.
https://www.bloomenergy.com/
>you have [to] be able to afford it, not [do] it or accept the consequence

What 4th option are you criticising? Unless you're saying that if they don't immediately throw up their hands, try to do nothing, and go home when the power goes out, they're not "accepting the consequences"?
If USB-C has finally come into its own, why is it still impossible to find a dual USB-C power adapter or battery? Still have to use hacky USB-C to USB-A cables connected to a low-amp USB-A port for all but one device. USB-C will have come into its own when I can travel without any extra cables or adapters to work with the older standard.
PG&E is the poster child for regulatory capture. They're only in this mess because they've dragged their feet for so long on making critical upgrades and fixes.
Also I don't think most people consider what portion "time" was of the purchase price. You think about buying gas or eating out and it's the price of "gas" or "eating takeout" that costs a lot of money. Everyone is aware there are a lot of people employed by those industries but their time isn't what usually comes to mind. Take this logic to an extreme case like custom creative work and you're bound to have a clash of mentality with reality and that is bound to go far when most don't understand why exactly it takes so much time to end up with the piece you were going to use.
Where would that incentive come from? Not from the threat of competitors, because no competitors are allowed to exist. There would perhaps be some slight incentive due to the slight elasticity of demand for electricity (i.e. people can probably reduce their energy usage in response to higher prices), but I imagine that elasticity is quite low indeed.

It’s more likely that the more significant incentives would be other things, like, oh, not maintaining equipment and eventually causing wildfires.
Why is this automatically corruption? They're no doubt paying for the privilege.
My best recommendation might be a bit odd, but here goes...

Can you put a POWER "base station" of sorts in your dorm / apartment and use a low power secure terminal, like a corebooted C201, to access it over an encrypted link?

I've done something like this when I had to travel last -- was able to maintain a stable link back to one of my POWER machines so the lack of local computing power on the laptop didn't matter. Really hate that Chromebook touchpad though. ;)
Sorry i have a job and can not sit on HN news all day...

As to examples, it is clear by your comments you do not want actual examples but rather just want to move the goal posts

Cancel Culture is very real, people are terminated from jobs all the time based on their personal posts on twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc, or other comments online that "offend" a certain segment of the population that is perpetually offended at everything and then pressure employers to fire those people.

Happens every day, across this nation
Isn't sager more like an alternative to system76, also a rebadged clevo?
No, I very much think there is vast corruption all the way up and back.
Do we really want everyone on diesel backup generators?
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So, it is much easier to judge others (Apple and whoever) and avoid acknowledging that for sufficient amount of money most of the righteous commenters here would be willing to sheepishly sacrifice their beliefs.
No, it is based on the account itself. There is no sync between the two sets of servers so that wouldn't work for them to base it on the physical location of the device.